The wilderness of the Arctic is a place of great white night that is almost permanent.

The colorful aurora lights illuminate the royal blue starry sky overhead, and the huge glaciers stretching for thousands of miles in the pale white frozen soil look both barren and romantic.

A bitter cold wind whistled and blew, and there was no trace of life in this land since ancient times.

Under the glacier, in a huge ice cave formed by the condensation of white and blue ice crystals, Nan Ling stood on top of an ice cliff with star-like eyes, all looking solemnly at the calm mirror-like cold pool a hundred meters below.

The pure white cold air around him covered his slender back, and he was silent, slowly hanging one foot in the air.

After a moment, without the slightest hesitation, he let himself lose his center of gravity, relaxed his body and planted downward, he fell sharply to the surface of the water, and at the moment of contact, a white splash of water splashed on the quiet cold pool, like a small ripple of smashed glass, and after a while it was quiet again.

The icy steel-blue pool water embraced Nan Ling, and a strange warmth kissed his whole body.

He likes it.

Following the faint glow of the water, Nan Ling swam to the top of the shiny pure white forest at the bottom of the cold pool.

It was a large area of primeval forest that was frozen in an instant by the cold of the Arctic tens of thousands of years ago. Every leaf, every tree, has turned into indestructible pure white ice crystals. Due to the movement of the earth's crust, this forest is deep under a cold pool, as if it were as dazzling as crystal.

Nan Ling's feet lightly touched the ground, like a dexterous elf moving lightly in this underwater ice crystal forest.

Not far away, there was a glimmer of light, and it was a huge giant tree of ice crystals.

The roots of the giant tree crisscrossed and were incomparably huge, entangled with a beautiful woman. Her long silver-white hair swayed slightly at the bottom of the pool, and her posture was graceful, as if she was lying lazily on her side, her eyes were closed, her face was pale and serene, and her long black eyelashes were visible.

The woman's white forehead is inlaid with a round blood-red bead, crystal clear, and the red light faintly flows inside, which is very eye-catching.

Nan Ling's feet touched the ground and he stood still, looking at the strange woman with complicated eyes.

What should come is to come.

Beyond the cave, the highest peak of the glacier.

A handsome man with his long hair neatly tied up looked like a sage of the desolate wilderness who had left behind him, standing calmly, looking at the thick rain clouds churning above the glacier and the bright blue thunderstorm roaring in a low rage, the corners of his mouth were straight, and his eyes were deep and long.

One of his empty sleeves was blown by the wind, and the other hand was proudly behind him, with the extraordinary temperament of a fairy wind bone, even if the hundred miles of wind on the glacier were more piercing than a steel knife, he had to pay three points to him.

In the middle of the sound, he closed his deep eyes, and in the extreme wind and cold, his voice was quite lazy: "Ling'er, during the time that the teacher left, how was the situation in the ice cave?"

Among them, there is also a trace of calm that sees through the red dust.

Nan Ling knelt on one knee behind the man, clasped his hands into fists, and replied in a deep voice: "Master Hui, everything is as usual." Just ......."

The man paused, as if he understood something, and continued to speak: "How is the divine separation bead in front of her ....... forehead?"

"As the master said, the light is indeed more intense than the previous days. ”

The man was silent for a long time, his gaze slightly solemn.

"For the teacher to know, go down. ”

The conversation is so simple, yet it exudes an unusual heaviness.

Nan Ling's eyes flickered, he stood with his fists clenched, kowtowed slightly, and disappeared into the wind with a flash.

After Nan Ling left, the man looked up at the bright and gorgeous white night, as if he had taken off his guard, his eyes were a little sad, and his voice was slightly hoarse, and he muttered in a slightly hoarse voice: "After a thousand years of seclusion, you can't escape ........ after all."

A few days later.

Today, the night sky in the Arctic wilderness is clearer than ever.

There is no snow in the endless tundra wasteland, and the wind is much lighter, and for Nanling, who has lived here since childhood, today is a rare good weather.

According to the master's instructions, after finishing today's morning class, the exercises were run and vomited, the cold pool was cleaned, and breakfast was prepared, Nan Ling came to the door of the master's cave, lifted his shirt and knelt down: "Master, it's time to eat." ”

The pure white cold air in the cave lingers, like a dream.

There was a long silence.

Nan Ling said respectfully again: "Master, it's time for you to eat." ”

The thousand-year-old icicles on the top of the cave shone with crystal clear light, and the bedding on the huge ice bed had never been disassembled, and was neatly stacked there, and the entire cave was empty.

Nan Ling quietly poked his head into the door: "Master........."

Seeing that it was empty, Nan Ling sighed.

Since the things sealed under the cold pool have moved, and this is the case with the master.

During this time, he either stood alone on the edge of the cold pond and talked to himself, or ran to the top of the mountain to blow the wind and was stunned. I don't think about tea and dinner, and I can't sleep day and night.

Nanling saw it all.

He slowly walked out of the cave and looked up at the top of the glacier hidden by large rain clouds, as if he saw the lonely shadow of the master.

In the five hundred years since following the master, it was the first time that Nanling had seen the master like this.

For as long as he can remember, Nanling has followed his master to live in the deserted North Pole.

The master is his only relative, for 500 years, this gentle one-armed man loved him very much, and taught him to read and write, taught him exercises, and taught him to understand the philosophy of the world, and to understand the laws of the operation of all things in the universe.

However, in 500 years, he has never been allowed to step out of the vast land.

In the almost eternal white night of the Arctic wilderness, he had seen the sun five times. Nanling has no concept of the outside world, only knows that the south side of the North Pole is the sea, and at the end of the sea is a place called Zhongzhou.

And one of his favorite things is to sit on the cliffs at the southern end of the Arctic wilderness and look out at the sparkling sea.

If it weren't for the endless blue that could be seen, Nanling's world would be only black and white most of the time.

He never thought that he would leave the North Pole one day, nor did he think about why there would be a mysterious man who cultivated himself like this, there was only a master in Nanling's world, but then again, he didn't even know what the real name of the master was.

"Is it necessary to know the name, code name, if you have to ask, no. ”

Whenever Nan Ling asked curiously, the master still remembered the way he answered slowly and methodically with the book in his hand.

The wild snowstorms of the Arctic are non-stop every day, and the brilliant white night seems to be a permanent symbol. The days went on like this, day by day, uneventful.

Ten years ago, the master suddenly proposed to take Nanling to a forbidden place thousands of meters deep under the Wanli Glacier. When he was a child, Nanling was very naughty and always liked to run around, so the master set up many forbidden places for him.

Most of these forbidden places are dangerous places, and if you break in, you can break in, as long as you don't get hurt, it's nothing. Only the ice cave behind the master's cave under this glacier is not allowed for Nan Ling to step into half a step, and there is not only a very powerful enchantment prohibition in the ice cave, but also a psychic formation set up by the master, if Nan Ling "accidentally" breaks in, the master will know immediately.

This ice cave has always been a very mysterious place in Nan Ling's eyes, and he once imagined what might be hidden in the ice cave - some magic weapons, secret books, etc., or the love letters written by the master when he was young.

But when the master took him in personally, he never expected that there was a person hidden in this ice cave.

"Ling'er, I've seen my wife. ”

In the depths of that ice crystal forest, the master smiled softly and looked at the woman under the tree.

The master said that the reason why the master is here is to seal a thing.

That is enough to change the fate of the land of Shenzhou.

"Ling'er, come here. ”

That day, after coming out of the ice cave, the master summoned Nan Ling to his side.

"How have you been practicing lately?"

Nan Ling replied respectfully: "Master Hui, Ling Er dare not disobey your teachings, and he has never fallen behind in his cultivation for a day. ”

The master smiled with satisfaction: "Very good, very good." ”

"Is there anything you don't understand?"

"I don't understand one or two places, but I've been practicing a lot lately, so I ask the master to give me advice for a ....... or two" That afternoon, it was also a pretty sunny day. The master carefully and meticulously answered Nanling's doubts, and the master and apprentice sat down and talked on a whim, talking like clouds and water, until the golden sun crawled out, and Nanling Fangjue had already passed the night.

"Ling'er, today is the sunrise of the Arctic wilderness once in a hundred years. ”

The golden sunlight of the early morning poured in from the side, and the master's smile was warm and bright.

"Yes, master, this is the fifth time Ling Er has seen the sunrise. Nanling smiled gently.

The master looked at Nan Ling for a moment, as if it was the first time he had seen him.

"Ling'er, you have to leave for a while as a teacher, and you have to take care of your master. ”

The master paused and continued: "During this time, every seven days at the third watch, you will go to the inner room of my cave mansion, dig out a jade altar, and worship it in front of my master. In addition, after the third watch, you must not enter the ice cave before the fifth watch, so you must remember. ”