"It's really unfortunate that Ma Liang's predecessors had left Jianye the day before yesterday, and when they parted, they didn't say when they would return, they only said that they would see each other again. Shen Luo hesitated for a moment and said.

Of course, he knew that the Bai family had a heart for recruiting Ma Mian, but after all, he was the Yin God of the Underworld, so it was naturally impossible to agree.

"It's a pity like that......" Hakuhecheng said with some regret.

Shen Luo talked with him for a while, then took his leave and left.

At night, Shen Luo packed up, took the stone box and left his forest courtyard, and went to the secret room at the bottom of the lake.

When he closed the courtyard door, he suddenly felt a chill on his neck, and looked up at the sky, but saw scattered white snow flakes falling from the cumulus clouds, and before he knew it, it was already early winter.

Shen Luo came to the lake, opened the secret passage of the mechanism, and walked into the bottom of the lake.

After showing the token to the elder sitting at the bottom of the lake, he chose a secret room in the deepest part and walked in.

After the stone door of the secret room was closed, Shen Luo came to the futon and sat down cross-legged.

He didn't rush to start cultivating, but while closing his eyes and pranayama, he silently recalled in his heart the scene when he was cultivating in his dreams, and some of his past insights began to return to the sea of consciousness.

He opened the stone box, stretched out two fingers and gently pinched it, and took out a white jade bottle several inches high.

Shen Luo shook it lightly and pulled the cork off.

As soon as the mouth of the bottle was opened, a wisp of rich water spirit power floated out of the bottle, instantly overflowing the entire secret room.

Shen Luo took a deep breath and carefully tilted the bottle slightly, and a drop of crystal clear water like dew immediately rolled out of the bottle mouth and fell into the palm of his hand.

The water droplets fell on the palm of his hand, and Shen Luo immediately felt a cool feeling seeping into his body, and the mana in his dantian was eager to rush out without him urging it.

Shen Luo was overjoyed, and while silently reciting the nameless Heavenly Book three-layer exercise mantra in his heart, his hands immediately lit up with a blue light, and wisps of mana began to gather in it, refining that drop of three-element true water.

To his surprise, the three-element true water seemed to fit very well with the Nameless Exercise, and he easily integrated the water droplets into his mana, and then transferred them back into his body, quickly running in the veins around his body.

However, after a few breaths, his mana had already been running in his body for a long time, and although this speed was slower than that he came in the dream realm, it was many times faster than the original cultivation.

"What a good thing!"

Shen Luo said secretly, and immediately urged the mana with all his strength, and ran Zhou Tian according to the three-layer exercise mantra, and soon immersed himself in it.

At the same time, the magic circles engraved on the four walls of the secret room also lit up one after another, ingesting the spiritual energy from the lake above and transporting it towards this secret room, and finally following the lines on the ground, it gathered around Shen Luo's body.

The blue light surging under his whole body, as if he was floating on a blue wave, leisurely.

......

Winter goes to spring, autumn rain is bleak, and time quickly passes a year.

Shen Luo retreated several times intermittently, and with the blessing of his cultivation experience in his dreams, with the assistance of the three-element true water, his cultivation grew steadily, and he actually rose three layers in a row in more than half a year, until he reached the tenth layer of the Qi refining period, and he was only one step away from breaking through to the Bigu stage.

However, it has been half a year since he last entered the retreat at the bottom of the lake, and he has never come out, so that many people in the White Mansion are speculating that his retreat has failed.

After all, the breakthrough from the Qi Refining Period to the Bigu Period is a major bottleneck on the path of cultivation, and it is not easy to make mana from Qi Condensation, and many people are stuck at this level and have never been able to pass.

At this moment, in the study room of White Crane City, three generations of the Bai family are gathering.

"Shen Luo's retreat time this time is really too long, after all, he is not yet in the Bigu period, and he has not brought the Bigu Dan, so if he doesn't come out for so long, I'm afraid something will go wrong. Bai Jiangfeng, who was short in stature, said with a sad face.

"It's been a bit long, and even if a normal person fails to break through, it's time to come out. Bai Hecheng thought for a moment, and said a little worriedly.

"Third grandfather, father, what do you mean by this?" Bai Xiaoyun on the side also looked nervous when he heard this.

He was also in retreat and cultivating, and this morning he had just broken through to the third layer of the Qi refining period, and he was going to share the joy with Shen Luo, but he heard that Shen Luo had not been in retreat for half a year, so he immediately ran to ask his father Bai Hecheng.

"Shen Luo's cultivation was too smooth for most of the previous half a year, and he cultivated directly from the seventh layer of the Qi Refining Period to the tenth layer of the Qi Refining Period, at that time, we were only happy for him, but we didn't expect that there might be hidden worries here, he has not been out of the customs for half a year now, I am afraid that something has gone ......wrong in his cultivation," Bai Hecheng muttered.

"Could it be that you have gone mad?" Bai Xiaoyun blurted out.

Although this kind of thing rarely happens, it is not without precedent, and it is really strange that Shen Luo has not been out of the customs for half a year. Bai Jiangfeng sighed and said.

"Then what are you waiting for, let's go open the secret room and rescue him immediately!" Bai Xiaoyun said hurriedly.

"Xiaoyun, you calm down for me, what kind of system is it to panic! Whether Shen Luo can succeed this time is of great significance to our Bai family, and we must treat it carefully. Seeing this, Bai Hecheng frowned and reprimanded in a low voice.

"Isn't it because of that incident, it was originally our own negligence, how could we let Brother Shen take the risk?" Bai Xiaoyun was dissatisfied when he heard this, and said with a stiff neck.

"Bastard, I thought you understood something, but I didn't expect to be so ignorant. When White Crane City heard this, he immediately said angrily.

"Xiaoyun, going mad is just a guess, there is also a hint of possibility, he is on the verge of breaking through the realm, if we trespass without permission, it is very likely that it will damage his Taoism, but instead prompt him to go mad. Bai Jiangfeng also discouraged.

"It can't be saved, and it can't be saved if it is not saved, so what should I do?" Bai Xiaoyun asked.

"If you don't have to wait for three days, if there is no movement, we will force the secret room to open, and then it will be a blessing or a curse to depend on his own luck. Bai Jiangfeng and Bai Hecheng glanced at each other and hesitated.

"That's all there is to it. Bai Hecheng thought for a moment and nodded.

As soon as his words fell, his expression suddenly changed, and he hurriedly walked to the door, opened the door, and looked away at the sky in the distance with a frown.

Bai Jiangfeng also quickly sensed that something was wrong, and hurriedly followed, also looking into the distance.

Bai Xiaoyun didn't know what was happening, and looked into the distance in confusion, only to see that there was a backlog of lead clouds in the sky, and there was nothing special.

"Third Grandpa, what's wrong, what are you looking at?" Bai Xiaoyun looked puzzled and couldn't help but ask.

"This movement is on the side of Jinghu in the backyard, can it be ......" Bai Jiangfeng did not answer, but said with a hesitant face.

"Let's go, let's see. ”

Bai Hecheng let out a low shout, jumped out of the door first, and swept away in the direction of the backyard with a straight body, Bai Jiangfeng followed closely behind, and also quickly chased after him.