Zhang Xun started the expedition alone, of course, mainly to find some auxiliary materials needed to arrange the flowing clouds and rain arrays, and to investigate the best location for the deployment.

The mountain forest located in the south is the largest area in the core area of the secret realm, occupying an area of three layers of the core area. Walking slowly along the path to the foot of Nanshan, entering the forest, and walking a short distance, Zhang Xun began to be on guard. It turned out that Zhang Xun felt an extremely cold aura nearby, presumably it should be a snake demon beast. Although only the most mid-foundation building monks or demon beasts are allowed to exist in this secret realm, Zhang Xun never despises his opponents, and his cultivation sometimes doesn't mean anything. What's more, Zhang Xun has been cultivating behind closed doors since he started to cultivate the truth, and all kinds of methods for cultivators and demon beasts are still in books, so how dare he be careless if he is afraid of it!

Zhang Xun didn't find any trace of the demon snake, but saw from a distance that there were several tablets-sized stones under a big tree five meters away from him, with irregularly arranged holes. Zhang Xun smiled, these stones were the rain piercing stones, one of the several array materials he was looking for. Rain through the stone is not a rare thing, but it is just a natural phenomenon that witnesses the water drop stone wearing, which can be used by Zhang Xun to arrange the flowing clouds and rain showers that simulate the changes of clouds and rain, and stimulate the sense of rain and rain. Since there is rain piercing the stone here, Zhang Xun knows that the demon snake that has not yet shown a trace can only be the Xuanbing snake, which should be hidden behind the rain piercing the stone, thinking that he is ready to attack at this moment, waiting for himself to come forward before suddenly attacking. Due to the dripping and infiltration of rain for many years, the rain piercing stone contains a far-reaching and deep cold atmosphere, which has a natural attraction to cold demon beasts such as the Xuanbing Snake. And the secret realm space's restrictions on the cultivation of cultivator demon beasts make this demon beast only a first-level and second-level demon beast equivalent to a monk from the late stage of qi refining to the middle stage of foundation building, and it is destined to only be a Xuanbing snake.

Zhang Xun thought that since this Xuanbing snake was going to play the trick of guarding the plant and waiting for the rabbit, then he would simply come to a trick to scare the snake. If you can't even play this Xuanbing Snake, let alone say that you are really incapable of cultivation, the books are all in vain. Zhang Xun first took out a cold pill refined by Xin Lan and took it, then picked up a handful of gravel on the ground and threw it towards those few rain piercing stones. The gravel roared through the rain against the stone, and the Xuanbing snake was naturally alarmed and appeared. Opening his mouth to Zhang Xun is breath of Xuanbing cold breath was exhaled, but unfortunately it had no effect. Zhang Xun himself has a high resistance to poison, and he has taken the cold pill, where would he be afraid of this low-level cold poison. Seeing the lines on the skin of this Xuanbing Snake snake, it was just a first-level high-level demon beast, Zhang Xun solved this Xuanbing Snake in three moves. This is still considering that the whole body of the snake is a treasure, and it would be a pity to destroy it, and the reason why Shi Zhao has scruples. Throw the snake carcass and five good-sized Rain Piercing Stones into the storage ring, and proceed.

After half an hour of walking along the path, the view opens up to a valley with stunning scenery. Looking from afar, there is still a group of monkeys living there in the center of the valley, which makes Zhang Xun think of the legendary monkey wine comparable to fairy wine.

Slowly approaching the center of the Spirit Monkey Valley, Zhang Xun became more and more cautious, trying not to make any noise. He didn't want to alarm this group of monkeys, there were originally two or three hundred monkeys, and they were still spirit monkeys, and the monkey king couldn't say that they were still second-level and intermediate. Monkey wine is hard to find, and it would be a pity to return empty-handed. I don't know, Zhang Xun didn't expect that he still had the talent to be a thief, and he sneaked into the cave where monkey wine was brewed without knowing it. took out the jade gourd and sucked sharply at the wine pool, until the liquid level of the wine dropped by a third of the height.

Passing through the Spirit Monkey Valley, there was a small lake in front of it, and the water quality was very good, but it made Zhang Xun feel very strange, so he didn't get close to the lake. It turned out that the surface of the lake was too calm, and there was not a single ripple, which was definitely not normal. Zhang Xun picked up a fist-sized stone on the ground and threw it at the surface of the lake to test the depth, but the next scene stunned him. The stone was bounced away by a mysterious force when it was a few centimeters away from the surface of the lake, and Zhang Xun was puzzled after being shocked. What kind of existence is there under the lake? Do you let go of this lake to search for other places, or do you venture down to the lake to find out? In the midst of the struggle, a kitten runs quickly from the forest next to the lake to the surface of the lake and drinks the lake's water. Zhang Xun took a few big steps forward to take a closer look, where is this cat! It is a newborn second-level demon beast stepping clouded leopard. No wonder it was so fast! The young clouded leopard drank enough water from the lake and went back into the forest. Zhang Xun said with a smile: "I was actually ignored by a newborn leopard, hehe! "Since living creatures can touch the surface of the lake normally, then dive down to see what secrets lie beneath the lake.

Dive to the bottom of the lake, the water is only five or six meters deep, and Zhang Xun only realized that something was wrong at the bottom of the lake. Zhang Xun is the spiritual root of the five elements, but Zhang Xun only feels the breath of water at the bottom of the lake, and the other four elements of gold, wood, fire and earth have no sense. You must know that water is the most inclusive, and it benefits all things without fighting! Why is there a phenomenon of exclusion here? Is this the miracle of the water gods working together? Only in this way can it be explained. Zhang Xun searched carefully, but fortunately, the water was very clear, and it was very convenient to see it at a glance.

It turned out to be a bead doing a trick, a water source bead in the five element beads. Not to mention the exclusion of the other four elements, it is not even tolerated by the dirty water and bad water in this industry. The water source bead is the essence of water formed by the water source produced by the five elements at the beginning of life, which has undergone at least 1,000 years of evolution and merged with other clean waters. Zhang Xun didn't take the water source bead at the moment, anyway, there were no outsiders in the secret realm.

Since this lake has water source beads and clear water quality, it is called Qingyuan Lake. There is no better place to arrange flowing clouds and rain showers than on the shores of Qingyuan Lake. The lake was originally just a depression, and it was the existence of water source beads that absorbed thousands of years of rainfall to form the lake. Zhang Xun took out the tent from the storage ring and set it up by the lake, as his residence here. Zhang Xun no longer has to go elsewhere to look for array materials, the five elements are still changes in yin and yang in the final analysis, with his understanding of yin and yang, it is enough to just imitate the clouds and rain and have a formation flag. In less than an hour, the rain was set up.

Zhang Xun began to practice his sword in the formation every day, with clouds, fog and drizzle, not affected by the real weather, so that three months passed, the sword intent of the flowing clouds and the sword intent of the drifting rain have reached the end of the day. There is a water source bead, and this lakeside is a treasure place for cultivating the Flowing Cloud Drifting Rain Sword, and the speed is naturally not to be said.

Zhang Xun began to practice the fifth move, and he had accumulated experience in practicing the first four moves, and he practiced it for a month to become a big success. Then the last move, sure enough, the clouds and rain dispersed, and it was also practiced in January to achieve great success. For Zhang Xun, the last difficulty in practicing the Flowing Cloud and Rain Sword is to integrate the full set of swordsmanship, so as to refine the sword intent to perfection and form a sword realm. Zhang Xun searched for demon beasts everywhere in the mountains and forests, and when he found it, he only used the strength of the fourth layer of qi refining to cast a sword against the enemy, and used the demon beasts to hone his Flowing Cloud Drifting Rain Sword. Another three months passed, and Zhang Xun finally used the strength of the fourth layer of qi refining to kill the demon beast equivalent to the middle stage of foundation building by relying on the Flowing Cloud Drifting Rain Sword, and the sword intent reached perfection, and he could form a sword realm just by chance.

Out of the mountains and forests, I returned to Xingwen Academy, asked Du Wenli, and knew that none of my four wives were out of the customs, so Zhang Xun went to Qindao Pavilion. Zhang Xun felt that if he wanted to perfectly integrate the perfect Flowing Cloud Sword Intent and the Drifting Rain Sword Intent, so as to form the Flowing Cloud Drifting Rain Sword Realm, it seemed that he still had to work the Qin Sword and Ming, and Bihe's Qin Dao could also break through with this. So Zhang Xun began to create the score of "Flowing Clouds and Rain" in the Qindao Pavilion, this time it was not just a sword move compared to the last two times, but the artistic conception of the flowing clouds and rain was played out with the piano music, and the difficulty increased by a hundred times. Zhang Xun didn't want to think that it was already rare for him to master the sword intent just during the qi refining period, the sword realm was only started by the Yuanying Ancestor, and those who were successful in the sword realm were generally Venerables in the distraction period. If it weren't for the fact that Zhang Xun found another way to live in the sword and the qin, and secondly, he had formed a yin and yang Dao heart in the middle of the carefree house, which was very rare, and he couldn't touch the edge of the sword realm.

In just two months, Zhang Xun was exhausted and full of gray hair, but even a third of the score of "Flowing Clouds and Rain" was not completed. There are too many feelings that can only be understood but not expressed, not to mention, on the third day of the beginning of his creation, he was punished by God. In order to expose King Qin's conspiracy before the martial arts conference a few years ago, he had to say about the secret realm. The rivers and lakes were bloody and bloody, contrary to the harmony of the heavens, and it took three years for the King of Qin to raise troops before the rivers and lakes were calm again. The punishment fell on Zhang Xun and made him die for thirty years. Zhang Xun was not discouraged, let alone regretted, and still devoted himself to creation.

Since meditating on the Flowing Clouds and Raining Sword has little effect, let's find a way. Zhang Xun went through what he had learned in his mind, and finally reminded him of the Grandmaster of Painting given by the Temple of Literature on his clothes. So two months later, a long scroll "Seeking the Heart and Asking the Sword" was painted. Zhang Xun began to play the guqin in front of this heart-seeking sword picture. Half a year later, Zhang Xun finally created the score of "Drifting Clouds and Rain", which was nearly a year of creation Zhang Xun has been supported by faith, and as soon as the score came out, Zhang Xun fainted when he was relieved.

When I woke up, three days and three nights had passed, but my spirit had finally recovered. After taking a bath, changing into clean clothes, I went to the Heqin House where Bihe was located again. Seeing Zhang Xun's white hair, Bihe couldn't help but step forward and leaned against her husband's chest and cried loudly. She is no longer a Xiaobai, she knows that this is a curse, and Zhang Xun can't help it, his current appearance is completely an ancient old man, and Kong Ming in Wuzhang Yuan has a fight. After a long time, Bihe stopped crying and left from her husband's chest, the two did not speak, Bihe picked up the piano sheet and walked to the piano case, Zhang Xun drew his sword and came out, accompanied by Qin Wujian.