At night, Shen Luo sat alone in front of the window of the guest room, with a dim oil lamp lit on the table near the window, and a purple rune paper and three cyan rune papers on the table.

The purple rune paper is painted with runes of broken armor runes, and on the three pieces of green frost paper, the thunder runes are drawn, all of which have been completed, all of which were drawn on the road when Shen Luo came to Yuzhou.

Among them, the thunder talisman is okay, although the success rate is not high, but all the pieces consumed are green frost paper, but the broken armor talisman consumes more precious purple cloud paper.

Although Shen Luo had the experience of drawing talismans in his dreams, and had practiced thousands of times on white paper and yellow talisman paper, when he actually went to draw, he still consumed all the purple cloud paper he had spent all his savings to buy, and finally became such a talisman.

He stared out the window at the cloudy sky, and could only see a vague light hidden in the clouds, and the sinkhole below was pitch black, making it impossible to see anything clearly.

According to the records in the travelogue, the blue-eyed golden toad is the bloodline remnant of the Moon Palace Jade Toad, and it is born to absorb the moon spirit through the cultivation of the moon, so it has an extremely pure moon spirit essence accumulated in the body.

However, this creature is timid and cautious by nature, and it lies dormant underground all year round, making it difficult for ordinary monks to find it.

Only during the rainy season every year, when the sky is obscured by clouds for a long time, the moonlight cannot spill on the earth, and the golden toad cannot absorb the moon, so during this time, it will fall into a dormant period.

When the rainy season passes, a thunderclap falls, at which point the golden toad will reawaken and boldly leave its hiding place, exposed to the moonlight to replenish the previously consumed moon.

And this is the best time to catch it, and if you miss it, you have to wait at least another year.

This is also an important reason why Shen Luo decided to come to find this thing first.

After looking at it for a while, Shen Luo put the rune paper on the table into his sleeve, blew out the oil lamp on the table, returned to the bed and meditated cross-legged, and continued to cultivate.

......

In the early morning of the second day, Shen Luo pushed open the window, looked at the cloudy sky, frowned slightly for a moment, and suddenly supported the desktop near the window with one hand, and with a dexterous flip, he jumped out of the window and flew down.

Outside his window, he was close to the cliff of the sinkhole, and there was not even a place to stay, and his figure fell directly into the sinkhole.

It wasn't until he had fallen more than ten feet that he grabbed a raised rock with one hand and hung himself on the cliff.

Shen Luo's figure twisted, and he caught a glimpse of a row of towering ancient trees more than ten zhang away from him.

He then let go of his grip on the stone wall, kicked the cliff with his legs, and his body rolled over a semicircle in mid-air, and fell silently to the tops of the ancient trees not far away.

When he was near, he grabbed the top of an ancient tree, cushioned the force of the fall a little, and then slid deftly towards the branches below, and after a few repetitions, he fell smoothly to the ground.

After landing, he did not rush to move, but took out a mountain talisman from his sleeve, shook it around, and saw that there was nothing unusual on it, and then put it back into his arms.

The sinkhole in the early morning is quite quiet, and in addition to the sound of insects chirping one after another, there is only the sound of "rustling" through the forest.

Shen Luo remembered that the travelogue mentioned that the place to catch the golden toad was next to a crescent-shaped lake in the center of the sinkhole, so he didn't stop and went straight to the center through the dense forest.

Walking in the dense forest, Shen Luo found that the temperature at the bottom of the sinkhole was much lower than outside, and there was a thin layer of hoarfrost on the branches and leaves of the grass and trees beside the road.

He plucked a leaf petal and rubbed it gently, and the frost melted on it.

Shen Luo frowned slightly, threw down the leaf petal in his hand, wrapped his hands in his sleeves, and walked forward slowly.

His attitude is relaxed, looking left and right along the way, it seems that he is really coming to enjoy the mountains and rivers.

After a short time, he came to the center of the sinkhole, and saw the lake shaped like a crescent moon in the distance.

The water on the surface of the lake is clear and blue, reflecting the clouds in the sky.

And beside the lake, there is a familiar figure, bending down to pick up a handful of water from the lake, bringing it to his mouth and taking a sip.

"Brother Ao......" Shen Luo let out a soft cry and walked towards the man quickly.

"Brother Shen, it's early. Ao Hong, who was standing by the lake, did not have the slightest surprise, straightened up and greeted Shen Luo with a smile.

It's just that his gaze when he looked at Shen Luo seemed to have crossed him in a trance, and looked at the dense forest farther behind.

Shen Luo noticed something, but he still pretended not to find anything.

In fact, when he had taken off the leaf flap earlier, he had already noticed that someone was secretly following him.

He exchanged a few polite words with Ao Hong, and the two walked side by side, chatting while walking towards the other side of the sinkhole.

The cliff on the other side of the sinkhole is convex and concave, and from a distance it looks like a naturally formed eaves, covered with slippery green moss.

Shen Luo looked from afar, and saw that there were three ropes hanging upside down on the cliff wall, and three figures were hanging on them, each with a huge bamboo basket tied around their waists, hanging under the raised flying rock of the cliff wall.

The three of them were the swallow pickers they had seen in the lobby of the inn yesterday, and the masked woman was missing.

The three of them fell together on the cliff, adjusting their posture and position up and down, and skillfully peeling off the bird's nests from the cliff that were white and shaped like bowls.

Shen Luo and the two stopped at the foot of the cliff and looked up at the movements of the three of them.

The short-bearded old man among the three seemed to have a sense in his heart, looked down at the two people under the cliff, and greeted with a smile: "The two sons are so elegant, they came here early in the morning to enjoy the scenery." ”

"It is also very pleasing to the eye to watch a few skillful bird's nest picking. Shen Luo said with a smile.

After all, a few people were not really familiar with each other, and after a few words of greeting, Shen Luo and the two said goodbye and left.

After returning to the inn from the stone staircase on the cliff, Ao Hong went back to his room first, while Shen Luo had breakfast in the lobby before going back.

After returning to the house, Shen Luo sat back in front of the table, and was about to close the window and start meditating and practicing, when out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a two-finger-wide note on the table.

His eyes were slightly condensed, and he swept towards the note, on which were written eight big characters: "Don't be greedy for gold toad, I'm afraid of hurting my life." ”

Shen Luo raised his eyebrows, and his face showed hesitation.

This sentence seemed like a reminder and a threat, and he couldn't figure out who left it for a while.

"Could it be Ao Hong? I saw that I also went to the sinkhole to search today, and it was inconvenient to say anything if I wanted to stop it, so I left a book to admonish him?" Shen Luo was puzzled, shaking his head and groaning.

He didn't touch it with his hand, but just swept it, and the note flew into the air, crumpled by a stream of water.

"Could it be the masked woman? she should have been the one who secretly followed me in the forest before, but why did she leave me a letter?" Shen Luo rubbed his chin and thought again.

After a while, he couldn't think of a reason, so he had to give up.

In short, no matter who it is, whether it is a well-intentioned persuasion or a malicious warning, it is impossible for him to give up.