I followed Murong Zhi aimlessly in the cave without any sense of direction, the winter sun in the sky was like a fox fur covering my body, warm and comfortable.

The world here is unexpectedly large, and we have walked for half a day, and I am already convinced that the world of the cave cannot be measured by the number of steps, but by the unit of "li".

The blue sky is clear and cloudless, and the mountains and rivers are covered in silver makeup. I also found abandoned birds' nests, animal tracks, and droppings in the open open forest, and I tried to break the thin ice of the forest river, the stream was crystal clear, and the figures of Murong Zhi and me were reflected like mirrors, and the fish disturbed by the sound of broken ice approached us curiously, and they swam in the water like birds flying in the wind.

-- It's like the landscape in an ancient painting, and there are plants, trees, birds, and beasts, but there are no fireworks rising from people's homes.

I followed Murong Zhi into a valley with dense bamboo cultivation, and the mountain was shrouded in mist, and there was a faint stone bridge in it. With a thought, I pulled her into the fog. There are no traces of axes and chisels on the stone bridge, and it cannot be ruled out that there is such a wonderful natural creation between heaven and earth. On the other side of the stone bridge, there was a hot spring, and my body was a little itchy, so I turned around the idea of taking a comfortable bath in the hot spring, and thought that I would have to chase the dust insects, so I finally pressed the idea.

My flickering eyes met Murong Zhi, and I quickly changed the topic:

"This cave world is too different from what I imagined, I thought that after the Zhumen was opened, it would be a huge cave, and we would just need to loot the treasures of the caves one by one. I didn't expect the sun to shine all over here - I don't know how many years and months it will take to search the whole cave. You say, is the Zhumen just a passage? We went to the five continents, or even to a certain immortal mountain in the Three Realms?"

"In the past few months, you have read all the books about Dongtian in the library. ”

Murong Zhi searched around the hot springs, complaining.

-- She got the situation wrong, and I didn't read it in vain, but I barely read it.

"Dongtian is a small world of its own, and a small world can accommodate a large universe into seemingly small things. In fact, the vows used by cultivators to store things are made of fragments of the small world, and the vows in your and my hands are both, but there is no circulation of aura in them. The entrance to the cave can take many forms - the entrance to the cave, a portal...... There are also strange gourds, the mouths of spirit beasts, fish bellies, orbs, and even a grain of sand...... Since the great revival of Xiuzhen, there are no wonders in the five continents and three realms, and this Zhumen Cave Mansion is just the most normal kind. ”

"Then I think the sun above us is also exclusive to this cave, right?" I deliberately made a ridiculous assumption.

"Guess right, there are five big suns in the big world outside that shine on a large continent, and there is a small sun in this cave that shines on the cave sky, and it goes around the cave for twelve hours, rising from the small Ying Sea in the east, setting in the small Ying Sea in the west, and then passing through the small yellow spring under Guò to return to the east at dawn the next day. ”

I took a deep breath,

"Is it true that the little sun here only serves as a light, and how does the alternation of cold here do it?"

"Imagine the circulation of the true qi in your body, and the changes in the cold and heat here are also the flow regulation of the five spiritual qi of the Tongguò Cave Mansion, achieving a temporal change that is the same as that of the outside world, just like the little heavenly sounds plucked by the strings of the five pianos. The plants, trees, birds, and beasts in the cave have multiplied for thousands of years, isn't it also good?"

"They're put in?"

"The dojo at the core of the cave is the place where cultivators cultivate the Dao and refine the pill, and the outer part is the mountain forest where the spirit beasts are raised and the garden where medicinal herbs are planted. Depending on the situation, a cultivator can create feng shui in a cave that nourishes different kinds of spirit animals and elixirs. It seems that Ren Pingchao is just a hasty business here, and casually put some ordinary birds and beasts as seeds, we have not found such powerful spirits as Tengjiao and Qingluan, but I want to remind you that ordinary foxes have been here for thousands of years, and they may become sperm - the chance is much better than that of the white dolphin. There are many birds and beasts here, although most of them are hibernating, in case a mountain king such as a tiger spirit suddenly appears, you can't be careless. ”

"If there is a tiger spirit, it will be wrapped around me!"

――I thought for a moment, I can deal with the monster of the dust eater in five or five by myself, and if I deal with a tiger that only has a spirit, I can kill it without an electric spear.

"Now I can handle it too. Murong Zhi smiled and pointed out to me a hidden cave due south of a hot spring.

"Look, there should be a transfer formation connecting to the core dojo! ”

The entrance to the cave was sealed with a large stone, and the leaking void was carefully filled with grass and mud, and it was neatly repaired.

I smelled the faint smell of beasts and glanced at Murong Zhi.

"Probably a spirit hibernating nest, so disturb it a little. ”

"Boom"

I threw a straight punch with "Gang" attached to it, and the two-man high boulder was torn apart. The heat and body odor of the beast smoked our noses, and I could hear deafening snoring. In the depths of the cave, a giant black and white bear two feet tall hugged it into a ball and buried it in the backlight, sleeping so sweetly. The punch I struck at the rock didn't wake it up in the slightest.

The bear's white furry face was covered with two black halos, as if it had been painted with ink by a mischievous schoolchild. Putting aside the inevitable smell of big beasts, black and white bears are actually generally clean and cute. The bear also had a nest of honey in a muddy jar as big as a water urn. There was no one here, and it seemed that the mud jar was made by the bear hand himself. - This is a psychic black and white bear, that is, a bear spirit with human intelligence.

"It's better not to kill it, just drag it away from the pressed formation. "Murong Zhi told me.

"I thought you were thinking about what kind of herbs this bear could make?"

"I'm not without a little bit of love for things. Such a cute little beast, it's fun to catch and ride it!"

The first time I saw her smile so brightly, probably girls naturally like this kind of stupid and demented beast as a pet, my mother also recalled that she raised a little fox in the imperial capital when she was a girl, and it seems that even Murong Zhi is no exception. However, Murong Zhi's taste is just the opposite of when I was a girl, she likes big beasts, and the white dolphin is also that type.

Half of my vitality has been restored for a long time, and I scratched the itch of the black and white bear a few times, but it can't stand my tricks when it sleeps, and it can't stand my tricks, and it closes its eyes and says the dream words of the bear, and impatiently stretches out its legs and kicks people, and stretches out its body as a ball. It has the power to open the golden cracking stone with its casual flying kicks, as a bear spirit, it is indeed much stronger than mortals, and without cultivation, its strength is comparable to that of a foundation-building warrior like Lu Kewu.

However, this beast that does not know anything about martial arts does not stop there.

I easily let go of its few kicks, put my hand on the ankle of the black and white bear and twisted it with "soft", the black and white bear screamed, the whole body vibrated with pain, and its muscles were infiltrated by my strength, twisting and twisting. Such a great pain bear must not have been forbidden to endure it normally, and I relaxed my strength, and its steely muscles softened, and I pulled it out without resistance.

On the rock originally covered by the bear's body, the engraved formation was also revealed.

I glanced at Murong Zhi, she nodded,

"It's the transfer formation I'm looking for. We can go to the core dojo of the cave. ”

The bear barked,

"Don't eat me!"

The bear spoke in the Central Plains, and it was fully awake.

"You can speak the Central Plains, why are you worried that we will eat you?" Murong Zhi asked with a strange smile - her attitude towards the big beast was much better than that of me.

"Because...... Because you are cultivators! I saw the light coming from you! My mother said that when she saw a glowing bipedal beast like you, she would beg you for mercy in this language. Otherwise, small hands ...... Feet...... They will all be cut down and stewed in soup by you. ”

"You can run away now, huh?"

"No, my mother said that you can't run away when you encounter a two-legged monster like you, and if you do, your body will be cut into pieces of meat. You are even more powerful than Shanjun! Shanjun has eaten my mother, and I can't escape from your words...... Also, it's cold outside, and I want to sleep after a few steps, but if I do, I'm going to freeze to death...... Don't kick me out of the cave. Please. ”

The black and white bear kowtows to us like a human, but it is so clumsy that it almost bows to us.

"Why can it see our qi?" I whispered to Murong Zhi,

"It is recorded in ancient books that the black and white bear, a rui beast, has yin and yang eyes. Just as a ghost can see the essence released by a skilled martial artist, it probably sees the qi you just released. Don't kill it, give me a pet. ”

I nodded and asked the black and white bear,

"It's best to be able to speak the original dialect and ask you questions. I won't kill you if I'm honest. ”

"Every word I say is as sincere as the honey in my stomach. ”

Murong Zhi laughed,

"As long as every sentence is as sweet as honey. ”

I started asking questions.

"How old are you? ”

"Eighteen years old. Little Bear"

"Lie! A hundred years old ordinary beast will become a spirit. I'm going to eat you!" I grimaced.

"I didn't lie!" the bear was so frightened that he cried out, tears welling up, "because my mother is a bear spirit, so I was born a bear spirit." I'm the only bear in this world now, and I'm the only bear. ”

Most of what he said is true -- ordinary beasts are contaminated by the aura of heaven and earth, and it takes a hundred years for them to become spiritual, but since the spirits have been psychic, their descendants must be spirits, just as the children of our human race must have spiritual intelligence. In a sense, the spirits have transcended the beasts and can be regarded as an ignorant race that has not yet been civilized, while the demons are the cultivators among the spirits. ”

I was still skeptical of Murong Zhi's words, and the black and white bear seemed to have found a life-saving straw and began to hold her ass.

"Big sister, you have to protect me, I am the most understanding! I will be your rider in the future!"

"I can't see that you are such a spineless bear, I will be your master in the future, your name is Fengmeng. ”

"What is the backbone, can you eat it?" the black and white bear muttered, grabbed the honey he collected, flashed to Murong Zhi's side, and the bear stared at me threateningly, "What do I call that male two-legged beast, the master's servant?"

-- I'd love to flatten it.

"It's your man, and in the future, my orders will come first, and his orders will come second. We can kill you at any time, and if you don't want to be skinned and cramped, you have to be filial to us like your mother. ”

"Yes!"

The black and white bear is full of promises.

According to Fengmeng's confession of the ancestral legend of the black and white bear and his own experience, the Falling Star Cave is the size of a county in our Central Plains, and it is an isolated island surrounded by the sea on all sides. We are three days walk from the centre of the island. It is said that there is a fairy palace left by cultivators in the heart of the island, but it has been greatly prohibited, and no living beings can approach it.

Most of the birds and beasts in the Falling Star Cave are Rui beasts with a lifespan of more than 50 years, and there are four kinds of spirit beasts that have become spirits: tigers, bears, foxes, and deer. The bear only has the black and white bear newly acquired by Murong Zhi, the families of Linghu and Linglu each have dozens of them, but the king who dominates an island is a tiger spirit who is almost five hundred years old, and Fengmeng's mother bear died when she was fighting with the tiger spirit for hegemony on the island.

These spirit beasts can all be traced back to some of the beasts that the cultivators (that is, Ren Pingchao) brought from other immortal mountains when they ran the cave, and the Central Plains language was also taught to the beast spirits by the cultivators. Fengmeng's Central Plains language is transmitted by her mother, and her mother got it from her parents, and her parents got it from Ren Pingchao.

After explaining what he knew, the black and white bear ate honey to himself, and bamboo and honey were the stupid bear's favorites.

"Why does this cave have to be made into a ring-shaped island?" I asked Murong Zhi.

"On the one hand, the periphery of the cave is full of pastures and medicinal fields for spirit beasts and elixirs, and a variety of feng shui is needed, and the small Yinghai that surrounds the whole island can hide the big fish of the spirit dragon, and on the other hand, it can also facilitate the reincarnation of the sun and the moon - if you want to dig a road on the ground for the little sun and moon to enter and exit, I don't know how much work it will take to drive the Dao soldiers. ”

She thought for a moment and said,

"In fact, in the world, powerful cultivators will also fence the island with abundant spiritual energy and transform it into the scale of a cave sky. It was as if those islands had disappeared from the world - they were called circle islands, and they were a big deal. Baiyun Township uses a pseudo-encirclement island method to cover up this real cave. ”

I remembered the cruel words released when Ren Pingchao's residual thoughts dissipated, and sighed,

"I'm sorry, I said a little more when I was about to get it, leaving such a big hidden danger of revenge by such a powerful character. ”

"It's okay, the ability of the Yuan Infant Cultivator is far beyond our understanding, and you have done too much for me. I'm actually worried about you, stealing other top-secret supernatural powers is a big taboo, it seems that the origin of the General Outline of the Heavenly Thunder Law is very big, I don't know what you did in your previous life. We will work hard to improve our strength, not only for the sake of restoring the country, but also for your safety. Star...... It must be a terrible person, I don't want anything to happen to you. ”

- My mother must have foreseen something when she told me not to reveal that I knew these three spells, but now I can't ask her any more.

Murong Zhi suddenly leaned against me and kissed me.

My mind was nervous, for fear that I would think about the tengu demon in the delusional realm like I did when I was in Yongdao.

But she held my tongue unrelentingly.

"My second wish is to not let you be killed by anyone else. ”

Finally, I was still entangled with Murong Zhi's tongue for a while, and my moist lips separated from hers and lingered around her neck for a long time. In the end, it was finally separated.

After fighting with Ren Pingchao's thoughts, my control of the delusional realm of thoughts and thoughts has become much stronger, and I can barely hold back my manic thoughts, but I am still panting and inevitably turbid. I noticed that the black and white bear's eyes were staring at us in a daze, not knowing what was going on in the bear's head. I threatened,

"Dare to look at it again in the future, gouge out your eyeballs!"

Feng Meng was so panicked that he clenched his palms with palm leaves, "No, no, no, no...... Don't gouge out my eyes!"

"What are you talking about with such a cute beast? ”

I listened to Murong Zhi's words, cleaned up the rock face of the engraved transfer circle, and pulled Murong Zhi to stand on it, but the transfer circle did not respond.

"Why is that?" I wondered.

"It's that Ren Pingchao's thoughts are still attached to the magic circle, and we can't activate the formation for the time being. Murong Zhi said suddenly.

"Why do you still have thoughts!" I nervous, and I couldn't resist the appearance of another clone of him.

Murong Zhi's dagger swept over the formation and explained,

"It's not the kind of thought clone on the Zhumen, the thought clone can be separated from the activities of the deity and have an independent consciousness of connecting with the deity, at least composed of more than 3,000 thoughts. There are only a few thoughts attached to this magic circle to prevent others from using them, I don't think there are more than a few dozen, and they can't form a body, and they are much less than the thoughts of you and me - all the thoughts of our foundation builders are between 1,000 and 3,000, which is much stronger than that on the magic circle. ”

I breathed a sigh of relief,

"But do we have a way to erase the thoughts above? This formation is not a fire dragon, and I can't strip the thoughts above into my own thoughts and destroy them. ”

"Give me the ring you scavenged in the outer hall, and I'll test it." She shook her dagger.

I pouted, feeling that Murong Zhi was taking advantage of me again, in case the alfonsino collapsed the space that Lao Tzu had worked so hard to find, wouldn't I lose my capital?

Forget it, I'll give her a ring that I scavenged from the finger bones of a dead man in Jindan.

The golden-eyed snapper touched the ring, the dagger groaned, and the blade body became as golden as the thought clone that absorbed the remnants of Ren Pingchao at that time.

"The idea of three hundred golden pills was sucked away by this divine soldier. ”

Murong Zhi stunned for a moment, and then rubbed the ring—dozens of gourds containing pills, a few flying swords that had not been cast, and several books...... Constantly pouring out from the inside. Her alfonson touched these objects again, and with each touch, another golden light poured into the dagger, only much smaller than when she first opened the ring.

"These are all thoughts that Jindan cultivators attach to items, and after absorbing them, we will be able to use these items as we wish - but we don't know how to seal our own things with divine thoughts like cultivators, and now we use alfonsino to absorb thoughts is equivalent to forcibly picking locks, and we can't put our own locks on things. Although it can open the door, it will not be attached. ”

"Let's talk about it in the future, haven't we gained a few books of cultivation classics, and we can learn to use our thoughts in the future. There are also ten Na rings, it seems that we can also open them, so it is very good not to bother outsiders. ”

I'm also glad that the eleven precepts alone are a big gain, especially the exercises inside. Once we've occupied the core of the dojo, let's take a closer look.

Murong Zhi nodded, and then turned back to the transfer circle,

"Now let's go to the core of the dojo!"

The golden-eyed snapper sighed, and the idea of the transfer formation being in charge of Pingchao was absorbed again, and the dagger flashed with a dazzling golden light, and it took a while to fade (that is, it was digested by the dagger). -- Just a thought of a primordial baby, she sued me.

Suddenly the light of the Transit Circle rose and covered us. Murong Zhi motioned for Feng Meng to climb into the formation as well.

My mind and body swirled for a while, and the two of us seemed to turn into three rays of light, projecting into an unknown and mysterious place.