() In the middle of winter, the mountains are pale green, mixed with plum blossoms, which is pleasing to the eye.

The six of them were on their way down the mountain. The three people led by Lu Hailong, Miao Haoshang, and Jiang Huangu were followed by He Tianxiao, He Tianyao, and Zhu Xiaomin. Lu Hailong had already planned that this time he would go down the mountain to practice in a group of two people.

The Heyin Immortal Sword on Miao Haoshang's back was really too big, attracting the attention of Tianxiao and Tianyao, but Zhu Xiaomin was quite interested in the slender and long Luyan Immortal Sword on Jiang Huangu's back.

"What, little girl, do you like my Luyan Sword?" Jiang Huangu noticed Zhu Xiaomin's gaze.

"Senior Jiang, you ...... is so strong, how could he choose such a light immortal sword?" Zhu Xiaomin was puzzled.

"My master once told me that the sword moves should be as fast as lightning, the body should be as agile as the wind, the sword should be as powerful as thunder, and the steps should be as light as clouds. Just imagine, with the speed of lightning and fire, the power of thunder to attack the enemy, he will be able to attack him in a hurry, overwhelmed, even if he encounters a counterattack, with his vigorous skills will definitely be able to dodge the past, this is my way to defeat the enemy. ”

"Oh, I see, it's fast to be fast, isn't it?"

"Not bad!" Jiang Huangu smiled.

Tianyao said: "Xiaomin, your style is somewhat similar to Jiang's predecessors." ”

"Yes, I'm a girl's family, and the big opening and closing, powerful and heavy moves are not suitable for me......" Zhu Xiaomin responded thoughtfully, as if he suddenly remembered something, and said to Jiang Huangu, "Senior Jiang, you can guide me in this cultivation." ”

"Yes, but I will definitely be strict in all aspects, I don't care if you are a girl or not. ”

"No problem, I'm not afraid of hardship. I heard that your predecessor's 'Butterfly Shadow Trace' is well-known in the immortal cultivation world, and I want to learn that. ”

"Okay! Not only the 'Butterfly Shadow Trace', but also my 'A Drop in the Ocean' swordsmanship can also be taught to you. "For the self-motivated juniors, Jiang Huangu naturally likes it very much.

Lu Hailong, who was walking in the front, turned his head: "This time I walked with the two brothers Miao and Jiang, just to guide a few of you separately, Xiaomin followed Brother Jiang, so who followed Brother Miao?"

"Me!" Tian Xiao said, "I just like domineering moves, and Senior Miao's style is exactly what I want." ”

"Good. I will guide you that day. Lu Hailong said.

Tianyao nodded excitedly, and then he looked at the two sword sets on Lu Hailong's back and asked, "Senior, the slightly longer fairy sword on your back, isn't it...... Seven stars?"

"Exactly. The prohibition left by the Chenguang Sword Immortal has long been resolved by our department, but the sword intent has not yet had time to be fully comprehended. This cultivation is not just for the three of you, the three of us also need to cultivate. Because of the matter of the demon beast and the Five Douxing Cave, it has been delayed for too long. ”

"Senior, I don't know where our trip is going?" asked Zhu Xiaomin.

"There's no need to ask, you just have to work hard to cultivate. In the two years from today, your cultivation will be extremely hard, and after two years, I will watch you return to the sect with your own sword!" Lu Hailong said solemnly.

After walking down the six thousand steps of Tiandao Mountain, Lu, Miao, and Jiang each took one of them and flew towards the northwest at high speed.

Tianyao, who was standing behind Lu Hailong, suddenly asked, "Senior Lu, what if someone else sees the Seven Star Sword in the past two years?"

Lu Hailong smiled faintly: "It doesn't matter. We don't go to noisy places. Besides, with my cultivation in the Tribulation Realm, it is no problem to protect a peerless immortal sword. ”

Tianyao nodded, and his gaze turned back to the scenery of the mountains and rivers that were speeding under his feet.

Zhu Xiaomin next to him was complaining: "Senior Jiang, this sword is too thin, I always feel that I am going to fall." ”

Jiang Huangu said: "That's because you don't practice enough. Look at me, how many laps is my body bigger than yours, and I can't still stand firm?"

"Haha, who asked you to choose him to guide your cultivation? Look at how shrewd Tianxiao is. Miao Haoshang laughed. His Heyin Immortal Sword was about five inches wide, and Tianxiao was sitting on it sideways, very leisurely.

"Alas......" Zhu Xiaomin couldn't help but sigh and retracted his gaze.

"Little girl, this is lightness. The cultivation has started now, give me a good life to stand, don't wander!" Jiang Huangu said loudly.

"Yes!" Zhu Xiaomin pouted.

After flying like this for several days, the six of them came to the bottom of the Night Crying Valley in the western part of Qianlong County.

"Alright, this is it. Lu Hailong withdrew the fairy sword.

Tianyao raised his neck, looked at the line of sky above his head, and exclaimed: "The crying valley is so deep this night, no wonder you can't see the bottom from above." ”

"The aura at the bottom of the valley is a little thin!" Tianxiao was closing his eyes and feeling it carefully.

"Night Wailing Valley is a great place to rejuvenate. The aura is thin, the recovery speed of the spiritual power will be slightly slower, and all the hardships must be borne by the body. Lu Hailong said.

"Refining the body, senior, shouldn't you focus on soul refining after building the foundation?" asked Zhu Xiaomin.

"That's right. Lu Hailong said, "On weekdays, cultivation is mainly soul refining, and soul refining is secondary, and that is because soul refining is easier than soul refining. However, in the past two years, you have to use spirit crystals to rapidly improve your cultivation, so you must first improve your physical fitness to the necessary level. It doesn't matter if your physique is higher, if your physical strength is not strong enough to withstand the huge spiritual power, what will happen?"

The three of them looked at each other and replied in unison: "Exploded and died!"

Lu Hailong nodded.

Tianyao asked again: "Senior, I still have something to understand." In the cultivation process, no matter how fast the spiritual power grows, it is also a gradual process, if the physical strength is not enough, at most it only restricts the growth of spiritual power, how can it reach the point where it is not enough to bear?"

Lu Hailong said with a smile: "If you rely on your own cultivation, you only need to find a place with abundant spiritual energy, then it is better to stay in the Taiqing Sect." Besides, even with the help of spirit crystals

It is not easy for you to cultivate to the Yuanying realm within two years just by yourself. Therefore, the three of us want to help you enter the spiritual power, forcibly widen the meridians in your body, strengthen the dantian, and then refine the soul to improve the spiritual power, so as to achieve the purpose of rapidly deepening the cultivation realm. You say, "If you don't have a good body, can you bear it?"

The three of them were speechless when they heard this, and Zhu Xiaomin exclaimed: "Forcibly widen the meridians? Wouldn't this method soon allow a large number of disciples to enter the Yuanying realm or even higher?"

Miao Haoshang and Jiang Huangu suddenly laughed, Lu Hailong knocked Zhu Xiaomin's head, and said with a smile: "Return to the Void Realm, why don't you let me help you ascend to the Tribulation Realm?

Zhu Xiaomin smiled: "Isn't that okay?"

Lu Hailong said: "Of course not. You must have heard countless times that there is no shortcut to the path of cultivating immortals. This method can only be used at the first level, and it is very dangerous to forcibly widen the meridians and strengthen the dantian after the realm is high, and it has extremely high requirements for the control and spiritual power of the person who casts the spiritual power, and the slightest carelessness will cause the bad consequences of the injury of the caster and the death of the spirit, at least in my current realm. Another point is that although this method has increased the speed of your cultivation, the pain and hardship you have to endure are also several times greater than that of other people, in other words, I didn't save you the hard work of cultivation, but just compressed the time. ”

Jiang Huangu added: "You also need to have the assistance of heaven and earth spirit treasures like spirit crystals. ”

Lu Hailong said: "That's right, you all know the preciousness of the spirit crystal. In addition, after the three of us broaden our meridians and strengthen our dantians for you, we will definitely lose a lot of spiritual power, which is also a test for us. In this process, the control of the strength and amount of spiritual power must be extremely precise, and if you miss the slightest bit, your small life will not be guaranteed, so if you do not reach the late Mahayana realm, you will not be able to use this method at all. ”

Looking at the worried expressions of the three of them, Miao Haoshang comforted: "Don't worry, the three of you are the hope of our Taiqing Sect in the future, and we will definitely not let you have an accident." ”

"Then how do we refine our bodies?" asked Tianxiao.

"It's very simple," Lu Hailong stretched out his hand and pointed upward, "climb from here to the top every day, and then climb down, repeating thirty times." ”

The three of them suddenly gasped in fright, Zhu Xiaomin stretched out three fingers, and said exaggeratedly: "Thirty times! Ten times is enough to choke ......."

"Forget what I just said? If your cultivation speed is faster than others, then you must have to endure more hardships than others. I've estimated the time, thirty times is exactly right!" Lu Hailong said sternly.

Tianxiao said softly: "If you have to suffer hardship, you will become a master." ”

Zhu Xiaomin scratched his head, looked at the cliff on the side, and said helplessly: "No way." Thirty times a day, we'll do something else. Climb it!"

The three of them rushed to the side of the mountain wall, climbed through the crevices in the rocks, and climbed upward.

Lu Hailong held his hands, looked at the backs of the three of them with a smile, and said to the other two: "Let's also go to cultivate, it is not easy to broaden the meridians, we have to be prepared." The three of them then walked together into the depths of the Valley of the Night Cry.

The cliff wall of the Valley of Night Cry is slightly sloping, and there are many abrupt rocks and caves, but you don't have to worry about the place to stay and stay. Tianxiao, Tianyao and Xiaomin jumped and quickly climbed upward.

"Look at the rocks over there, doesn't it look like a rooster?" Tianxiao said suddenly.

Tianyao looked at it and said with a smile: "It's really like!"

"Do you still have time to enjoy the scenery, beware of falling!" Zhu Xiaomin reminded the two.

"Xiaomin, thirty times a day, don't you want to die of boredom if you don't get distracted?" Tianxiao quipped, "Look at the stones over there, does it look like a rabbit?"

"Rabbit?" At this time, Zhu Xiaomin was also curious, turned his head to look, and sure enough, a few feet away from the oblique top, there was indeed a large protruding stone that looked like a rabbit, and the wonderful thing was that two lilac grasses actually stretched out from the cracks in the rocks, and the small grass blades were densely grown on both sides of the grass stalks, and there were two small blue flowers at the top of the grass stalks, and the two long grasses happened to constitute the long ears of the "rabbit".

"Those two grasses are so beautiful!" Zhu Xiaomin admired in surprise, his left foot was forced, and his body jumped up diagonally, "I'm going to pick it down." ”

After only one step in the middle, Zhu Xiaomin stepped on the "rabbit" stone, and she looked carefully at the two grasses in front of her. Tianxiao and Tianyao also jumped up, the rock was very large, and it was more than enough for the three of them to stand on it.

The grass is very long, enough for a person to be tall, Zhu Xiaomin wants to smell the fragrance of the small flowers on the top of the grass, and has to tiptoe slightly.

"It's a special scent, you come and smell it. ”

The position of the flower reached the tip of Tianxiao's nose, he stepped forward and sniffed it, a quiet fragrance wafted in, and he suddenly felt a sense of coolness. "Does this flower also have the function of refreshing the mind?"

"It seems that I felt refreshed after smelling it just now. Zhu Xiaomin said, standing on tiptoe again.

"Why are you so troublesome, wouldn't it be nice to pull it down?" Tianyao reached out and grabbed the grass stalk and pulled it down.

"Hiss" He gasped, his hand immediately retracted, and when he opened it, he saw that the palm of his palm was actually cut by blades of grass, and blood oozed out.

"This blade of grass is so sharp!" Tianxiao was taken aback, staring at the tiny leaves.

"It's still hard, like a piece of iron. Tianyao took out a sweat towel and wrapped it around his hand.

Zhu Xiaomin said: "These two grasses are born on the cliffs of the deep valleys that are inaccessible, and they are so special, maybe they are some rare things." Let's pick it up and show it to our seniors. She pulled out the Shadow Fairy Sword, trying to cut off the grassroots.

Just as the sword shadow fell on the mysterious strange grass, a white light shot quickly, which happened to hit Zhu Xiaomin's wrist, and as soon as her palm loosened, the fairy sword fell at her feet

"Who?" Tianxiao and Tianyao shouted in unison, looking around. is so accurate, it must be a hidden weapon shot by someone.

Zhu Xiaomin raised his wrist, there was no wound on it, there was no black green, and it didn't hurt at all.

"Don't look for it, it's definitely a master. Zhu Xiaomin said calmly.

"The master will still hurt people with a hidden weapon?" Tianxiao said loudly.

"It's not a hidden weapon, I'm not hurt at all. Zhu Xiaomin shook his head, "The strength is just right, it just made me loosen the fairy sword." Isn't this kind of subtle control a master?"

Tianyao squatted down, picked up a small transparent object on the stone, and put it on the palm of his hand, a wisp of extremely light mist floated from his palm, and the little thing gradually melted into a puddle of water. "Ice, it's ice!" Tianyao exclaimed.

Not only Tianyao, Tianxiao and Zhu Xiaomin were all surprised, this place belongs to the south of the Night Crying Valley, it is close to the foothills of the evening mountain, although the bottom of the valley is a little cool, but it is not to the extent of freezing, not to mention that there is not even water on the cliff, how can there be ice?

The three of them looked around, but they couldn't see anything.

"Could it be that the seniors are staring at us and not letting us be lazy?" Tianxiao wondered.

"How is that possible? Didn't we see our seniors go deep into the valley?" Zhu Xiaomin said, "Besides, if we don't let us be lazy, we should make a move when we step on this rock." ”

Tianyao thought for a moment and glanced at the purple mysterious grass: "There must be someone who doesn't want us to destroy these two grasses." He controlled his strength so precisely that he didn't want to hurt Xiaomin. Since this master has no malice and doesn't want to show his face, let's not look for it. These two grasses, let them continue to grow here. ”

Both of them felt that this was justified.

"I don't know which senior it is, the younger generation doesn't know what these two grasses are, it's just curiosity. Please forgive the younger generation for unintentional mistakes. Zhu Xiaomin shouted loudly and bowed towards the secluded deep valley.

The three of them jumped away from this "rabbit head rock".

In the darkness, a voice smiled softly: "It's quite polite." ”

After reaching the top of the cliff, according to the depth of the valley bottom, Tianyao estimated it slightly, and exclaimed: "It's miserable, at this rate, it will take at least thirteen hours to go back and forth, and one day is not enough at all." We don't have time to rest, we just delayed a lot of work on the 'Rabbit Head Rock', now we have to hurry!"

Tianxiao sat on the ground, his elbows propped up on the ground, and his eyes squinted at Tianyao.

Zhu Xiaomin didn't speak, sitting still and didn't move.

Tianyao, who was preparing to go down to the valley on the edge of the cliff, was anxious: "You guys are not in a hurry?"

Zhu Xiaomin "fluttered" for a while: "Brother Tianyao, you are really confused." How can you estimate the speed of the upward climb by the standard? It's much easier to go down than to go up!"

Tianyao touched his head in embarrassment: "That's what I said, I forgot it." ”

Indeed, the process of going down to the valley was much easier. Look at the location and distance of the protruding rock, and you can drop a distance of three or four feet with a slight jump. It didn't take long for the trio to descend to the bottom, more than twice as fast as they had gone up. It was easy to go down the valley, so there was no need to rest, and the three of them immediately began the process of climbing upwards again.

However, there is another thing they did not estimate, and that is the physical problem. As the number of times they went up and down increased, the three of them became more and more tired, and they had to stay for a few breaths each time they climbed up, and their speed became slower and slower. In the end, the three of them didn't dare to speak casually, for fear of wasting their remaining physical strength, just panting, and kept going up, up.

"Do you feel that the valley is getting colder and colder?" Zhu Xiaomin couldn't help it and asked.

"It's normal to run out of spiritual power, lose physical strength, and be cold. "Tianyao said.

"How can the cold here compare to the ice fields of the far north? We can hold on there, what is the point here? Don't talk, it's important to save effort. "Heaven is good.

From the initial sunrise in the east, until the sun wanes, and then to the dark night, the three of them finally completed thirty round trips, and in the last jump, the three of them fell directly to the ground and couldn't get up.

"Have you been lazy and climbed a few times?" Miao Haoshang's joking voice sounded.

Tianxiao looked up and saw that Lu Hailong, Miao Haoshang and Jiang Huangu were standing in front with a smile.

Tianxiao raised his hand weakly: "Senior, don't wronged us." Thirty times, not a single one!"

Tianyao lay on his back to the sky, closed his eyes and said, "I'm already dizzy and about to fall apart, senior, give some Dan to eat." ”

"Two men, why are they so useless? Look at Xiaomin, there are no complaints. Jiang Huangu said with a smile.

Zhu Xiaomin was sitting cross-legged, staring blankly at his right wrist. She wondered in her heart, after a day's hard work, her joints were sore and painful, but her right wrist was still flexible. She thought about it carefully, whenever her right wrist climbed with force, she could always faintly feel a faint warmth gushing out of the wrist joint, at first she didn't care, thinking it was the result of force, but when the body was sore, the special feature of the wrist was obvious. "Could it be ......," she suddenly remembered the piece of ice that had hit her wrist.

"Xiaomin, what's wrong with you?" Lu Hailong noticed something strange about her.

"Senior, it's very strange......" Zhu Xiaomin recounted the whole story in detail along with his own guesses.

"Oh?" Lu Hailong grabbed Zhu Xiaomin's wrist and looked at it carefully, Tianxiao and Tianyao also sat up.

"Where is the grass you are talking about?" Lu Hailong asked anxiously.

"About fifty zhang above the ground, on a rock that looks like a rabbit's head, two pieces of comfrey are exactly the ears of a rabbit, and they are so long that they can be easily seen. ”

Lu Hailong put down Zhu Xiaomin's wrist, immediately raised his sword, and quickly flew upward.