Not long after I walked out of Fuzhou, there was heavy snow in the sky.

"Senior Brother Lu, how did you know Yan San Gongzi?" asked Zhu Xiaomin.

Lu Baifeng smiled faintly: "Do you remember when I was in Hanzhou, I went to the tasteless house on Mengxiang Street to drink? At that time, I met Yan Sangongzi, and they were both good drinkers, so they drank a few pots together. However, names were not exchanged. When I saw him today, I knew that he was the third son of Yan. ”

"No wonder, he praised his senior brother for being hearty and open-minded, and he must have been shocked by your extravagant drinking. Tang Junhe said with a smile.

"Heh, thanks to him this time, a conflict was avoided and we were saved a lot of trouble. Since he came back from Muzhou, let's go to Muzhou first. Lu Baifeng said.

Muzhou is about a two-month walk from Fuzhou, and it took only two days for the group to fly to Baizhou and then turn to walking, and it was a week after arriving in Muzhou. At this time, Muzhou is fragrant, and all kinds of delicious dried fish smell fills every corner of the city. While savoring the enticing aroma, everyone admired the unique food customs of this place. After settling down at the Xueqing Inn, Zhu Xiaomin couldn't wait to go to the restaurant to taste the delicious dried fish, Tianxiao, Tianyao and Hua Qingyu accompanied her, and the remaining four stayed in the inn to discuss the plan to find the boulder.

Lu Baifeng bought two maps from the street, one was a map of Qianlong County, and the other was a detailed map of Muzhou's territory. Unfolding the map of Muzhou, he said: "You see, Muzhou is located in the northeast corner of Qianlong County, a few miles north of the city is the boundary of the ice field, and the east of the city is the north end of the Wuling Mountains, and not far east to the East China Sea, we will start from the East China Sea, and within sixty miles to the north of the ice field, there are a total of eight of us, I and Senior Brother Han are responsible for ten miles, Senior Sister Tang and Senior Sister Xiao are each responsible for eight miles, and the remaining twenty-four miles will be divided equally by the other four, how about it?"

Han Mingfei asked, "It's okay to divide it like this, but what is the way to find the boulder?

"Yes. Senior Lu carefully explained that the boulder is in the sea below the ice surface, and we will open a hole every twenty miles all the way to the west, so that nothing goes wrong. ”

"Senior brother, a few of us are okay, Tianxiao, Tianyao and Xiaomin have not yet reached the realm of Yuanying, and Qingyu has just recovered Yuanying, so I feel a little reluctant to ask them to endure the cold of the sea for a long time. Tang Junhe was slightly worried. Immortal cultivators must stimulate the spiritual power in their bodies to resist the cold of the outside world, so the more full of spiritual power, the easier it is for people to resist.

Lu Baifeng said: "It's okay, don't forget that we have another purpose for this trip to consolidate the realm. Depleting the spiritual power in the body and supporting it to the limit is the best way to exercise. Besides, if you can't stand the cold at all, you can't stand their first-class bones. After days of traveling, we will all have a good rest today, and start looking for the boulder early tomorrow morning according to the plan. ”

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The next day, the group headed east out of Muzhou City, and when they reached a sparsely populated place, Edgeworth flew northeast. When you get to the East China Sea, turn to fly north. After crossing the ice field boundary for three miles, he let go of Zhu Xiaomin, and after another six miles, he let go of Tianyao, followed by Tianxiao, Hua Qingyu, Xiao Liying, Tang Junhe, Han Mingfei, and finally Lu Baifeng flew alone for ten miles and then fell.

Lu Baifeng pulled out the big sword Rong An, jumped high, and stabbed the blade of the big sword downwards and stabbed it hard at the ice. With a loud "boom", ice slag splashed everywhere, and a large pit appeared on the ice, Rong An's sword was deeply inserted at the bottom of the pit, and several thick cracks extended in all directions with the center of the sword body.

"It's so hard ...... frozen," he muttered to himself. After struggling to pull out Rong An's sword, he jumped again, but this time he changed his move and used a slash. The force of the chop is much greater than that of the poke, but the disadvantage is that the force is more dispersed, unlike the point of the poke sword.

There was another loud bang, accompanied by a "crunch" of cracking the ice, and a deeper pit appeared at the bottom of the pit. Lu Baifeng jumped and slashed one after another, and after Rong An's sword fell on the ice, he easily drew two more horizontally and vertically, and an hour later, with the last loud bang, he finally smashed through the ice with a sword and fell into the sea. Emerging from the water, Lu Baifeng looked up, the highest part of the ice was a mile away from the water!

"The ice is so thick, it looks like they're going to have a hard time, huh. Lu Baifeng plunged headlong into the deep blue water.

After diving for about five miles, Lu Baifeng touched the bottom of the sea. Breaking the ice is difficult, but finding the stones is easy. The bottom of the sea was empty, and there was nothing but sand under your feet. If you look around, you can see if there are any boulders. Within a radius of twenty miles, Lu Baifeng searched for it in less than an hour, and met Han Mingfei on the way, the two exchanged a gesture that they didn't find, and swam away from each other.

According to the plan, after finding a place, another hole will be opened twenty miles to the west, and Lu Baifeng, Han Mingfei and Tang Junhe will fly south first to bring the three people who can't use the sword to the west. Starting from the morning to the end of the evening, a total of eight hours, you can find the width of more than 100 miles from east to west.

Although the ice under Zhu Xiaomin's feet is the thinnest, she suffers the most. She had the least spiritual power, and by the afternoon she was almost unable to support it. She only felt colder and colder, the cold water seemed to freeze her, and her eyes were pierced. But every time she surfaced, she was greeted by Tang Junhe's encouraging smile, and she kept reminding herself that this was a grind and she must persevere.

As the spiritual power was exhausted little by little, Zhu Xiaomin began to use his body to resist the coldness around him, his teeth were constantly chattering, and the paddling movements of his limbs became more and more stiff, and the remaining trace of spiritual power was condensed in the dantian, providing the last trace of warmth to the body.

Even so, she didn't do anything perfunctory, she understood the importance of finding the boulder, and the trust handed over by Lu Hailong must not be disconnected from her own side. She clenched her fists and gritted her teeth, and finally searched the last area, rising towards the water.

Out of the water, Tang Junhe was already waiting there, and Zhu Xiaomin stretched out his hands to her tremblingly. Tang Junhe pulled Zhu Xiaomin, whose lips were purple and shivering from the cold, onto the fairy sword and flew upward.

After flying to the ice, Zhu Xiaomin found that everyone was waiting for him. Lu Baifeng used spiritual power to dry her robe, Han Mingfei handed over a hot pill that replenished spiritual power, and Hua Qingyu put a thick blanket on her and also draped it

Tianxiao and Tianyao, who were shivering in blankets, did not forget to give her a thumbs up. Zhu Xiaomin smiled weakly, and suddenly felt that her eyelids were as heavy as a mountain, and a wave of dizziness hit, and she fell softly into Tang Junhe's arms.

"Xiaomin!" Tang Junhe exclaimed.

Lu Baifeng hurriedly pinched Zhu Xiaomin's wrist, and after a moment, he said, "Don't worry." It's just that the spiritual power is exhausted and the fatigue is excessive, so it's okay to have a good night's rest. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

The night was already very deep, the moonlight was bright, and the starry sky was extraordinarily bright, and everyone had no intention of appreciating the beautiful night, but only wanted to go back to the inn and have a good rest.

In the middle of the night, Zhu Xiaomin, who had fainted, woke up, and after taking another pill, he began to meditate. Also in meditation, Tianxiao's heart is full of thoughts. In the course of today's stone search, he discovered something unusual in his body.

In the last seawater, when the spiritual power was exhausted, Tian Xiao had a whim, what would happen if he ran the Xuan Li Zhou Tian? So he urged the Xuan Li in his body to swim and run in the meridians in his body in the opposite direction of the spiritual power, and his body was immediately not cold. Tianxiao was surprised and delighted at first, although the mysterious power is different from the spiritual power, but the effect of resisting the cold is the same, isn't this equivalent to having double the spiritual power of others in the body?

But on second thought, it didn't do much use. Dancing swords can't exert the effect of Xuan power, and spiritual power is also not suitable for wielding swords, so will he have to change his blade when he fights for a long time in the future? Besides, in the Qinglong Continent, where he cultivates immortals with swords, he doesn't dare to fight with Xuan power.

After thinking about it for a moment, Tianxiao still blocked the operation of Xuanli. Although running Xuanli can make you suffer a little less, the purpose of honing yourself will not be achieved.

What made Tianxiao uneasy was that his realm had already reached the bottleneck stage of the late stage of harmony, and he was only one step away from the final breakthrough. After tempering, he felt that the spiritual power had a faint tendency to gather in the dantian. Could it be that he was about to break through? What about the Xuan Power in his body? He was full of doubts in his heart, but he couldn't ask a few senior brothers and sisters.

In this way, after thinking about it until dawn, Tianxiao finally made a bold decision to use Xuan power instead of spiritual power to resist the cold today.

After being separated from several senior brothers and sisters, Tianxiao stood alone on the ice field, staring at the ice under his feet.

"Today, let me try your power!" Tianxiao said silently in his heart. With a flick of his wrist, a long black knife appeared in his hand, a splitting blade! The moment he grasped the hilt, he seemed to feel a joyful tremor coming from the blade.

"I'm sorry to hide you for too long. Tianxiao looked at the Sky Splitting Knife and smiled slightly.

In the past, it was the middle of the night when I practiced the knife, and the light was very dark. Today can finally use the Sky Splitting Knife during the day, Tianxiao can't help but take a closer look.

The swarthy blade is made of some material, and even the blade is black.

"So you're so inconspicuous. Tianxiao held the knife in front of his chest, closed his eyes, and silently recited the mantra in the Xeon Sword Dictionary "Yu Tian" in his heart, urging the mysterious power in his body, suddenly opened his eyes suddenly, shouted, and slashed down with a knife, first with a loud "bang", and then the ice made a piercing and weird "squeak" sound, and several cracks quickly scattered from under his feet.

"What, this is not as powerful as when I used the Loose Striped Sword yesterday!" Tianxiao was very dissatisfied with the performance of the Sky Splitting Knife.

Suddenly, with a "bang", the ice surface actually shattered into ice powder, and it fluttered away, leaving only a deep huge pit. Before Tianxiao could react to what was going on, he fell to the bottom of the pit, and the white powder falling from the sky gently floated on his surprised face, cold, and felt great.

"Wow......" Tianxiao just lay in the pit, looking at the Sky Splitting Knife in his hand in surprise, "Amazing, really powerful! Hahaha! Such an amazing power, how can it be compared to the Loose Pattern Sword? The blade of the Black Sword Ancestor is really extraordinary." Suddenly, a sentence that the Black Knife Patriarch had said flashed in his mind: "There is a ban on the knife that I left behind, and it will gradually be lifted with your realm cultivation, showing its true power." ”

"My realm of demon cultivation is only in the late stage of harmony, and the power of the Sky Splitting Knife is already so strong. After that, when you cultivate into a Sword Demon, a Sword Venerable, or even a Sword God, how powerful it should be!" Tianxiao admired the Sky Splitting Divine Sword in his heart, and he loved it more and more.

With the assistance of the Sky Splitting Knife, the speed of Tianxiao's ice-breaking has almost doubled, and compared to the consumption of spiritual power, the consumption of Xuan Power has been reduced by as much as half. When he poked his head out of the water after searching for the area he was responsible for, Lu Baifeng, who was in charge of picking him up, had not yet arrived!

Unable to soak in the water all the time, Tianxiao used the Sky Splitting Knife to cut a gap in the ice wall, and then climbed it with his hands, and so on, and climbed to the ice by himself. Worried that Lu Baifeng, Han Mingfei or Tang Junhe would see it, as soon as his hand touched the ice, he immediately withdrew the Sky Splitting Knife into his body.

After meditating on the ice for a while, Han Mingfei and Tang Junhe appeared in the sky.

"Senior Brother, Second Senior Sister!" Tianxiao stood up and waved his hand to the two from afar.

The two of them flew in front of Tianxiao, and Han Mingfei said in surprise: "Senior Brother Tianxiao, you did well today, and you finished looking for it so quickly." How did you get here?"

"Hehe," Tianxiao grinned, "cut through the ice crack with his sword, and climb up little by little." ”

The two were even more surprised, Tang Junhe said: "Then how fast should you break the ice?" Suddenly her face sank: "To be honest, when you were looking for stones underwater, were you lazy?"

"Don't worry, Second Senior Sister, I can guarantee that there will be absolutely no boulders in this area. ”

"Senior sister, you are too careful, I believe that the third junior brother is a person who can endure hardships. Besides, breaking the ice is the hardest, even the ice is broken, and the rest is simple, there is no reason to be lazy. Han Mingfei said, his gaze turned to the terrifying pit behind Tianxiao. "Tsk, Tianxiao, your skills seem to have grown a lot, it seems that this training has been very beneficial to you. Han Mingfei praised, "Wait a minute, Senior Brother Lu is behind, Junhe and I have to pick up Tianyao and Xiaomin, go first." ”

After seeing the two of them disappear into the sky, Tian Xiao looked at the big pit cut by the Sky Splitting Knife, and thought, "It seems that it will be a little lighter when using the Sky Splitting Knife in the future, let."

It's not good to be suspicious. ”

Not long after, Lu Baifeng came to the sword, and when he saw Tianxiao's "masterpiece", he couldn't help but praise it again.

It was another hard day, not only Tianxiao improved, Tianyao and Zhu Xiaomin's performance was also much better, not only did it end earlier than the day before, but no one fainted anymore.

After the group returned to Muzhou exhausted, Zhu Xiaomin's activity was one more than the previous day's tasting of dried Baiwei fish. The shopkeeper of the Xueqing Inn had already prepared a sumptuous meal to welcome everyone back. Zhu Xiaomin, who didn't know what hunger was like for a long time, chewed a lot, and that night she didn't take the pill to restore her spiritual power, but recovered naturally through meditation.

Day 3, Day 4...... On the seventh day, they finally explored the ice sheet from Muzhou to the East China Sea, but found nothing.

In the territory west of Muzhou, the number of state cities and villages and towns gradually increased, so everyone changed places to stay every day, saving a lot of time to go back and forth. However, this also made Zhu Xiaomin very dissatisfied, because everywhere she went, she had no time to taste the local food, so she had to rush to other places.

The task of finding the boulder was proceeding in an orderly manner, but these outstanding disciples of the Taiqing Sect did not know that during the time they left the sect, a major event had happened in the sect.

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Early the next morning after quietly sending Lu Baifeng and his party away, Lu Hailong was meditating in the room, when suddenly a disciple came to report in a panic: "Senior, no, a fierce woman in white has come to the door!"

Many people gathered in front of the mountain gate, and when they saw Lu Hailong coming, they all made a way. Lu Hailong stepped out of the gate and found that Li Yuanxiao and several elders had arrived.

Not far away, there stood a woman in white with her hair scattered, her face was extremely pale, and her lips were terrifyingly black and purple. She was holding a white serpentine fairy sword, blood dripping from the blade, and at her feet, there were several broken corpses.

"'Bone Spirit White Demon' Song Xinrong!" Lu Hailong said sharply.

"Finally, someone is a little more powerful, I expect how the dignified Taiqing Sect can be so cowardly and send some useless people to come up and send them to death!" Song Xinrong's face was gloomy, like a ghost.

"Demon girl, you killed several disciples of my Taiqing Sect, this debt will definitely be paid by you with blood!" Li Yuanxiao roared angrily.

Song Xinrong snorted coldly: "If you have the guts, you can come out and fight me, I'll see how you make me pay for my blood debts, don't dare to shout at will just by relying on the Great Sect Protector Array, I have my own way to break this formation!"

The Taiqing Sect's Protector Array has two layers, the inner and the outer layer, which covers the entire Tiandao Mountain, but it does not have the ability to defend itself, it just makes people unable to resist the sword. What is really useful is the inner layer, the range only covers the entire Taiqing Sect, when there is an invasion of foreign enemies, you only need to activate the large array to resist the attack. But no matter how powerful the defensive array is, it is also a magic circle, and all magic circles have a limit to withstand attacks, and in the face of attacks that exceed the limit, any magic circle is a floating cloud.

Lu Hailong had heard Miao Haoshang and Jiang Huangu say that the "Blood Spirit Black Demon" Wan Yuxian was already cultivating in the middle of the Tribulation, so presumably Song Xinrong in front of him was not much different. However, the dignified Taiqing Sect's Sect Protector Array had no problem withstanding the attack of just one mid-tribulation master, and I didn't know where Song Xinrong's confidence in breaking the formation came from.

Miao Haoshang, Jiang Huangu and Helian Xin also appeared beside Lu Hailong, and all the elders were much more determined. They didn't know Song Xinrong's strength, in their eyes, the two Tribulation Realm masters and the two Mahayana Realm people joined forces, and they would definitely be invincible. Then, Shi Chongyin and Liu Yinyin also arrived.

Just by looking at the momentum of this group of people and the reverence in the eyes of the elders when they looked at them, Song Xinrong knew that they were the masters of the Taiqing Sect. When she saw the Chengying Immortal Sword in Helian Xin's hand, she smiled slightly: "Immortal Sword Chengying, it seems that you are the number one master of the Taiqing Sect? ”

Helian Xin snorted coldly: "Joke, Wan Yuxian wants to kill us, and he is not allowed to fight back?"

"Then you admit it. In that case, go out and fight with me. Song Xinrong said.

Helian Xin was just about to respond, when suddenly Lu Hailong's voice sounded in her heart: "Don't fight her, delay time first!"

Although Helian Xin didn't know what Lu Hailong was going to do, he must have his reasons. She simply withdrew the Chengying Immortal Sword and said with a smile: "If you have the ability, come in and fight." ”

Song Xinrong said viciously: "It turns out that the Taiqing Sect is all a of the head and tail, and it is vainly called the famous sect of cultivating immortals!, ahhahaha!" The poignant and rampant laughter echoed between the mountains. It can be said that she didn't plan to forcibly break through the Great Protector Array at all, not only would it consume too much spiritual power, but also Helian Xin's realm was unknown, and she had the Chengying Immortal Sword in her hand, so it was too risky.

She has her own other methods, and she can also force out the people in the formation!

She kept laughing wildly in her head, her voice sharp and piercing, shaking everyone's ears. Suddenly, a disciple by the gate rushed out with a red face and stumbled, facing Song Xinrong. Song Xinrong raised her right hand holding the sword, stretched out two fingers, and slammed it into the disciple's eyes, and then pulled it out, and the two eyeballs were actually gouged out! The strange thing was that although the disciple was bleeding all over his face, he didn't say a word, as if he was being tortured by Song Xinrong.

"Xiaojun!" cried out an elder who was his beloved disciple.

The elder's shout was immediately muffled by another burst of Song Xinrong's wild laughter, and then, another disciple staggered out of the big formation as if he was drunk. Song Xinrong gently swung out a few swords, and the two disciples suddenly shattered into several pieces.

"Demon girl, dare to use demon methods!" Li Yuanxiao was shocked, the two disciples must have been bewitched by Song Xinrong's poignant laughter.

Miao Haoshang and Jiang Huangu hurriedly pushed the rest of the disciples into the sect, and closed the door tightly, and the two of them stood by the door.

Song Xinrong's laughter became louder and louder, and even Lu Hailong felt a tingling in his scalp, and hurriedly urged his spiritual power to resist the demonic sound. In this case, even if you fight, you can't make a smooth move, I can't imagine that Song Xinrong still has such a terrible means!