[The seventy-first year of the Great Qiankang Dynasty, the second day of the fourth month, the future, the foot of Jinding Mountain, the shore of Xianghu Lake]

On the second day of the first month of April, Xu Ke, as usual, came to Tsing Yi Wei to be on duty.

Xu Ke, as the Tsing Yi Guard, inspected thousands of households, and his duty was to assist the Governor and act as the health affairs of the various departments of the Tsing Yi Guard. Every day, there are a large number of official documents submitted from various departments, although Xu Ke does not like to review these cases every day, but he has to do so when his duty lies.

He sat in his official room, signed the papers, reviewed the case, and felt that he had not yet drunk a few sips of tea, and hurried by all morning......

Although the emperor ordered Xu Ke to hold the cat demon within three days, but at this time, there was a vast sea of people, where was the demon? He simply didn't think about catching the demon, just did his job well.

At noon, he had lunch in Tsing Yi Wei.

He had just finished lunch, and the guards came to report that King Zhao Chitose had arrived!

Xu Ke hurriedly got up and ran to the door to greet him, only to see that Zhao Wang Li Yi had walked in like a wind, and he was still followed by Yiqing.

When Li Yi saw Xu Ke, the first thing he said was: "Go!"

"Where?"

"Go hunt demons!"

"Where is the demon?"

"Don't ask so much, follow me first!"

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More than half an hour later, the three of them had arrived at the shore of Xianghu Lake in the southern suburbs of Chang'an.

Since Yiqing couldn't ride a horse, the three of them had to perform their own light skills and walk all the way, and when they arrived at Xianghu, it was already less than three minutes.

Xu Ke saw that his senior brother had brought him here again, and he was puzzled, so he asked:

"Senior brother, didn't you go to Xianghu Lake a few days ago? We didn't find anything that time, so why bother coming here today?"

Li Yi stared at the lake, thought to himself for a long time, and said:

"I always feel that this fragrant lake must be unusual! This time, I will go down to the bottom of the lake to see what is going on no matter what!"

Yiqing smelled the lush aroma wafting from the lake and asked:

"Brother Li, how deep is this Xianghu Lake?"

Li Yiluo frowned slightly and said, "I'm afraid it's more than two hundred zhang!"

Yiqing was surprised: "More than two hundred zhang, then how do you go down?"

Li Yi looked up at the vicinity, this place was within the radius of Jinding Mountain, and he saw that there were all kinds of large and small rocks scattered around, so he said:

"I'm going to carry a big rock, tie it around my waist, and it should sink to the bottom of the lake!"

"This can't be done!" Yi Qing hurriedly waved his hand to stop: "Brother Li, it's too dangerous to do this! More than two hundred zhang underwater, unless it is a dragon clan, otherwise, with the body of a mortal like us, it will be difficult to the end! Even if you have a big stone tied around your waist and can sink to the bottom of the lake, if you hold your breath for too long, your lungs and intestines will definitely not be able to bear it!"

Xu Ke also said: "Senior brother, there may not be monsters hidden under the Xianghu Lake, why do you have to go down?"

"Nonsense!" Li Yi glared at Xu Ke, and said reproachfully: "You put yourself in to save people yesterday! If we don't think about catching the cat demon as soon as possible, do you really want to stay in the edict prison?!"

"But ......" Xu Ke scratched his forehead, and said in his heart, even if he wants to catch the cat demon, why do he have to sink to the bottom of this fragrant lake to catch it?

Yi Qing hurriedly explained: "Brother Li said that Xuandu Guan Li Zhenren has no last resort, and every calculation must be successful! Li Guan said that the monster is hiding near Jinding Mountain, and the monster must be hiding here. Is it because Brother Li wants to think about it, or does he want to find out the whereabouts of the cat demon from under this fragrant lake......"

Yiqing said again: "Near this Jinding Mountain, last time I and Murong Gongzi, Sister Xiaoyan, and Princess Xiaoqi, the four of us have been looking for a day, except for the bottom of this fragrant lake, there is no possibility nearby!"

At this time, Li Yi suddenly remembered that Xu Ke had said before that his second brother had a Dragon Palace treasure on his body, which could divide the water, so he hurriedly asked:

"No disease, you said you have a 'water bead' there, did you find it?"

Xu Ke scratched his forehead again, and said ashamedly: "Senior brother, I asked my second brother, and he said that he had returned the bead to the third princess......"

"Third princess, which third princess?" Li Yi wondered.

Xu Ke didn't hide it, and immediately replied: "The third princess's surname is Ao Mingying, and she is the beloved daughter of Ao Guang, the Dragon King of the East China Sea!"

"I see!" Li Yi couldn't help but be amazed in his heart, and secretly said that this second brother of my junior brother, who is it, how can he know the daughter of the Dragon King when he looks so demented? However, right now, Li Yi only remembers the matter of catching demons in his heart, and has no time to think about anything else. He heard that Xu Ke couldn't find the water droplets, so he had to sigh:

"Well, there's no other way to think of it!"

Li Yi randomly picked up a large stone more than half a person high from the side, and planned to pull a few more rattans to tie the stone to himself. Seeing this, Yiqing and Xu Ke hurriedly stopped it.

The three of them were arguing with themselves, and Yiqing suddenly slapped his head and said loudly:

"I remembered! Brother Li, you don't have to go down!"

Li Yi looked at Yiqing and said in his heart, I don't have to go down, do you have a way to go down?

"You can let the sick wood go down!"

"I ?......" Xu Ke looked at the bottomless lake, and thought, at the bottom of the lake of more than 200 zhang, even if I try my best, I can't go down!

"That's right!" Yi Qingxi said:

"Didn't my Taishi Uncle pass on your 'Taiyi Self-cultivation Technique'? There is one of the 'Breath-Holding Tips', have you forgotten?"

"Breath-holding formula? No!" Xu Ke tried to think about it, but he couldn't find the formula taught by "Yulu Weng" that contained the trick of "holding his breath".

"Oh! Say you're sick wood, but you're really a stupid piece of wood! How profound and subtle is my Taishi's ancestor's Dao method! His old man's 'Taiyi Self-cultivation Technique' is all covered by one! Although it is the way of self-cultivation and qi cultivation, there is also a method of holding one's breath!"

Seeing Xu Kewu scratching his forehead, although he was thinking about it, he seemed to have failed to comprehend it at all. So, Yiqing simply told Xu Ke about how to touch Zhenyuan and close his lips to breathe in his "Taiyi Self-cultivation Technique".

"You are calm, you have a dantian, and after the sea of qi is full, you will practice the true yuan in the Taiyin lung veins, guide the innate qi, and distribute it in the 'Su Ji', 'Yingxiang', 'Water Ditch' and 'Cheng Pulp'. Then, the lips are closed, the tongue is against the palate, the mind is returned to the door of nature, and the divine consciousness is illuminated in the life element, at this time it can be seen that the five aggregates are empty, the mind is clear, and then the qi is filled with emptiness, and the mind is rested, so that although the outer breath is closed, the inner breath is feasible and ......"

Yiqing was on the shore of this fragrant lake, and Xu Ke tirelessly talked about the method of holding his breath several times. It turned out that when she was studying art in Mount Emei, she often heard her master and sisters talk about the mysteries of the Taoist method of Shushan, which is really mysterious and mysterious, and among them, there is the method of holding your breath. However, although she comprehended the method of holding her breath, she failed to practice the most authentic and mysterious Taoism of Shu Mountain. At this moment, although she knows the method of holding her breath, she does not have the most profound internal strength of Shu Mountain, and she can only "look at the ocean and sigh" against that large area of lake!

Xu Ke's heart was originally smart, and after Yiqing's point, he immediately realized it. At that moment, he sat cross-legged on the lakeside, according to Yiqing's indication, closed his eyes, eliminated distracting thoughts, saw the nature of his heart, and kept his dantian, and when the sea of qi gradually filled, he would practice the true yuan in the Taiyin lung veins, guide the innate pure yang qi, and distribute it in the 'Su Ji', 'Yingxiang', 'Water Ditch', 'Cheng Pulp' and so on......

After a moment, Xu Ke's eyes opened, he already had a stream of internal breath in his body, although his lips were closed, but his breathing was not hindered.

Xu Ke then nodded to Li Yi and Yiqing, jumped lightly with both feet, and plunged into the water.

"Senior brother (sick wood), be careful!"

Li Yi and Yiqing shouted almost at the same time.

After Xu Ke dived into the water, he was a little uncomfortable at first, but he gradually became normal. He grew up in Jiangnan since he was a child, and he was originally good at water, but at this time he learned the method of holding his breath, so he no longer needs to rely on external breathing, and he is even more comfortable in the water.

He secretly used his internal strength, and as soon as his feet sank, he dived straight to the bottom of the lake.

This fragrant lake does not look very large, but I didn't expect that the bottom of the lake was unusually deep. Xu Ke dived straight down to a depth of three hundred zhang, but still failed to reach the end.

The bottom of the lake is not as cold as the surface of the lake, but the water is not only deep and cold, but also the light is not visible, and it is already dark when you look out. Xu Ke only felt a suffocation in his chest, he had to slow down the speed of diving, and in this lake where there is no sky above and no bottom to the bottom, he meditated cross-legged and performed Kunlun magic skills. His eyes were closed, and with the power of True Yuan, he slowly attracted his inner breath...... After two moments, gradually, he felt that his breath was unimpeded, and the chill on the surface of his body had dissipated.

Xu Ke shook his spirits and continued to sink, the light in front of him was getting darker and darker, until he couldn't see his five fingers......

Finally, when he could barely see with his eyes, he suddenly saw a bright light coming from in front of him. Xu Ke was overjoyed in his heart, so he swam forward and moved towards that glimmer of light.

Xu Ke dived and moved forward, and he didn't know how long he had been struggling to swim, only to see the light in front of him faintly and in a trance at first, and then gradually brightened and became clear, as if he was rising towards the lake. However, Xu Ke was at this time, and his feet were struggling to go down.

Finally, Xu Ke paused, his feet had already stepped on a solid ground, and at this moment, there was enough light beside him, as if he had entered another cave.

Xu Ke raised his eyes and looked around, only to see that the surrounding area was full of clean and clear lake, and under his feet were soft and loose sand and stones, and from time to time there were a few big fish more than one person long swimming past him. Those big fish are not afraid of people, and they do not escape until Xu Ke comes closer.

At this time, Xu Ke couldn't guess how deep the bottom of this fragrant lake was. When he saw that the light in the east seemed to be more abundant, he walked eastward.

Once there was solid ground under his feet, Xu Ke's speed of progress was greatly accelerated. After he had strode eastward for a moment, he saw that the bottom of the water in front of him had gradually become steeper, as if the bottom of the lake had become a slope.

Xu Ke then continued to climb up the slope, fortunately he had the magic skill of protecting the body, at this time, with a long internal breath, although he was at the bottom of the lake, but his feet did not stop, not only was there no obstacles, but he ran fast, as if he was on flat ground......

After walking for about half an hour, Xu Ke saw that the light in front of him was getting stronger and stronger, and in the end, almost like on the ground, he secretly took a breath of true breath and jumped up suddenly, and sure enough, he had jumped high above the lake!

Xu Ke landed on his feet and looked around, only to see that he was standing outside a cave, and a huge waterfall above his head was sloping down, and the clear jasper-like water was all hitting the surface of the lake, stirring up layers of water waves.

The waterfall is like the Milky Way hanging upside down, endlessly tilting down, the water splashes are like silver light, rushing and trembling one after another, this scene of the wonder of the world, only to see Xu Ke couldn't help but be stunned.

Unexpectedly, he sank to the bottom of the Xianghu Lake, climbed eastward for more than half an hour, and came to such a blessed place!

Xu Ke raised his head and saw that there were three ancient characters engraved on the stone wall at the top of the cave, and he vaguely remembered that those three words should be "Water Curtain Cave".

"Water Curtain Cave?"

Xu Ke repeatedly recited the name of the cave, and then he looked around, only to see that all around were unclimbable cliffs, and the bright sunlight was shining directly from the cliffs. And the infinite huge waterfall also poured down from a certain cliff, impartially, and happened to fall on the periphery of the cave entrance, and its shape was just like a curtain of water......

This scene, he always felt, seemed to have experienced somewhere.

He looked at the towering cliff beside him, and thought to himself that even if he had a pair of Roc wings, he would not be able to fly up. At this moment, he had nowhere to go except the lake behind him and the cave in front of him.

So, he walked over the waterfall and into the water curtain cave.