There are not many types of plants in this thorny land, but most of them are thorny.

Although Xia Xiyue tried her best to land next to her target, she was still caught by the protruding spikes when she turned around.

She had no choice but to stop and carefully rescue the dress from the thorn.Afterwards, she blocked the sunlight with her hands, looked forward, and her eyes quickly fell on a huge rock several people high in the middle of the fire thorns.

——Compared to "rock", this is actually more like a cave protruding from the ground.

But at this time, the entrance of the cave was sealed by a stone slab like a door, and the "door" was painted with complicated patterns.

Xia Xiyue looked left and right, and found that apart from this rock, there was no other place that was more like a "mansion" around, so she guessed that the place of retreat that Ling Chen said was probably inside this rock.

Unexpectedly, the practitioners of the fire spiritual root, even the place of retreat is so unique...Xia Xiyue looked up at the rock that was constantly emitting huge heat, and for some reason, a delicious word suddenly popped up in her mind - beggar chicken.

Xia Xiyue: "..."

She shook her head nonchalantly, pushing the strange thought out of her mind.

Then he pretended that he hadn't made any mistakes in his head just now, walked to the stone cave, raised his finger and knocked politely on the stone door, and tentatively called: "Senior brother?"

Xia Xiyue in this small world, like Ling Chen, was brought up by the head of the Yinxian Sect, and all her skills were also taught by the head.

It's just that before meeting Xia Xiyue, the head of the sect once made a heavy oath of "no longer accepting disciples".So a while ago, in order for her to be enshrined in the jade ultimatum of her own disciple and succeed the peak master, Xia Xiyue was recorded under Ling Chen's sect.

Except for the jade certificate handed down from the time when the sect was established, Yinxian sect didn't care much about the order of seniority at other times.After Xia Xiyue descended to the realm, she followed the previous address of "Xia Xiyue" and habitually called Senior Brother Ling Chen.

...

The stone door in front of her was extremely thick, and the sound of knocking on it was muffled, which made Xia Xiyue wonder whether people inside could hear the shouts from the outside world.

Xia Xiyue knocked for a long time, but no one answered.

While trying to contact Ling Chen with her spiritual sense, she sniffed the scorched earth around her.

After a while, a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared: How about repeating the old trick and digging in from the ground?

As soon as this idea popped up, Xia Xiyue's eyes instinctively moved down to the ground.

Unexpectedly, when he looked at it like this, he happened to catch a glimpse of an extra shadow at his feet - there was an extra person nearby at some point!

She turned her head back quickly, looking at the sky diagonally above.

He saw Ling Chen who should have been hiding in the stone as a beggar, but now he was stepping on the flying sword, hovering in the air, dressed in spotless white clothes, and was also looking down at her.

Ling Chen saw Xia Xiyue's fingers that were a little red when she knocked on the door, and glanced at the stone door in front of which was engraved with complicated formations. His eyes, which were originally calm, became a little more complicated: "What are you doing?"?”

"I'm looking for you." Xia Xiyue looked at Ling Chen, then turned to look at Shimen, and said in surprise, "You haven't retreated."

Ling Chen lowered the flying sword and landed beside her.

He glanced at the cave in front of him, and said lightly: "This is a tomb, you were knocking on someone else's monument just now."

Xia Xiyue's fingers stiffened: "..."

...The tomb should be properly buried, why should it be made in such a way that it is easy to get in and out of?

The tips of her ears turned red, and she glanced at "Shimen" apologetically, but for the sake of face, she whispered: "I, I'm not knocking, but I haven't seen the pattern on it. I accidentally saw it when I was looking for you. I can't help it."Stay close and take a closer look..."

Halfway through the conversation, Xia Xiyue herself didn't quite believe it.

In the end, she had no choice but to look away and change the topic: "The flowers around are blooming really well."

"Of course." Ling Chen looked at the blooming flowers among the thorns, and vaguely felt that his subordinates had a unique aesthetic, "Whenever someone here fails to cross the tribulation and is smashed by the thunder, their aura will escape.Spread out and nourish this land—this is how most of the 'treasure lands' on the mountain are formed, which are left by the predecessors to the younger generations..."

Before the words fell, there was a sudden "clang—" sound of drawing a sword beside him.

Ling Chen was startled, and turned his head to look.

I saw Xia Xiyue hugging the hem of her skirt and quickly climbing up Feijian.She floated up a little carefully, let herself hang in the air, and at the same time secretly clasped her hands together, looking down: "...the dead rest in peace, no offense intended."

"..."

Ling Chen flicked his sleeve and slapped the person down. He also retracted his sword and fell to the ground.

Then, he made a short and powerful summary of the situation just now: "You have a lot to do."

...

Ling Chen passed by his subordinates who were thrashing among the thorns, walked to the "tomb" protruding from the ground, and raised his hand to gently caress the pattern engraved on it.

The majestic spiritual power gushed out from his body, poured all of it into the formation along the jade-like fingertips.

Xia Xiyue took off the small thorns hanging on her clothes, and approached silently, staring at Ling Chen's moving hands - it could be seen that she was quite curious about "why did the boss open other people's tombs", butAfraid of disturbing the big event, he didn't dare to speak.

The patterns on the stone gate were quickly activated in a certain order.Where the pattern intersects, dots of bright spots gradually emerge, fluctuating with the spiritual power, like a piece of tulle covering the entrance of the cave.

"This is the entrance to the 'Place of Detention'." Ling Chen reminded her of something, following his spiritual sense, "Remember the opening sequence, I don't always 'exit' by chance."

"Okay." Xia Xiyue responded.

Although when her boss reminded her to "remember the order", she had already finished drawing the pattern very smoothly... But fortunately, it wasn't the first time Xia Xiyue went on a mission with Ling Chen, and she already had experience in this.Before Ling Chen opened his mouth, she was already memorizing seriously, and by the way, secretly replaying it in her mind.

Next to it, Ling Chen stretched out his hand and gently pushed on the stone door.

The originally solid door was quietly separated from the middle, revealing a winding passage behind it.

Ling Chen withdrew his hand and walked in.

Xia Xiyue glanced at the secluded cave, and after a short hesitation, she quickly followed him, closely following him.

She was a little nervous at first.

But after walking for a while, gradually felt strange again.

After a while, Xia Xiyue couldn't help catching up with Ling Chen, tugged at her boss's wide sleeves, and whispered as if afraid of disturbing something: "Why are there no bones here?"

...Didn't you say that this is the "tomb".

"You probably didn't understand what I meant." Ling Chen obviously had a deeper understanding of the Yinxian sect's fire spiritual root seniors, and he shook his head lightly, "What I said about 'failing to cross the tribulation and being split into pieces' is notIt refers to the broken bones, but the whole body turned into dust—that's why the thorns grow so well here."

"..." Xia Xiyue glanced at the scorched marks on the cave wall, and shuddered silently, "Is human cultivation so cruel?"

Ling Chen was slightly taken aback when he heard these words, and suddenly remembered that there was a fox next to him.

...canidae.

The painful memory of being chased and bitten when he was young emerged, and he suddenly didn't want to chat with Xia Xiyue anymore, so he pulled back his sleeves and walked in front without a word.

...

Xia Xiyue didn't know anything about her boss's mental journey, and thought that his mood suddenly became heavy because he was mourning those who failed to ascend.

So she didn't speak any more, and the two of them walked in this gloomy cave, one behind the other.

They passed through countless forks, and recorded countless attacks, illusions, or confusing formations... When Xia Xiyue gradually felt that her memory had reached its limit and wanted to touch a jade slip to take notes, Ling Chen walkeda meal.

——They finally came to the last stone gate.

Going down from here, and going a few more miles, you will really enter the ground veins at the bottom of the Yinxian sect.

That's where Nan Xian was imprisoned.

...

This time, Ling Chen finished drawing the formation to open the door, but did not push the door open.

He stopped, turned around and looked at Xia Xiyue: "Have you written it all down?"

Xia Xiyue nodded.Fortunately, at this point, she really can't remember any more.

Ling Chen moved closer to her, and switched to voice transmission with spiritual consciousness:

"After entering the door, whenever you encounter a fork in the road, go to the one with the least aura. If you encounter a mechanism used to block it, it means that you are going in the wrong direction. If you continue like this, you will be able to reach where he is.

"When leaving, remember not to return the same way. After exiting this door, go to the corresponding other side. The formation and route on the way are exactly the opposite of those you wrote down just now."

After a pause, Ling Chen said again: "Recently, I will try to avoid appearing in front of Nan Xian as much as possible - the closer I get to him, the stronger the sense of peeping from Heaven.

"You have just been here not long ago, and there was no abnormality in the last life, so it is not easy to be targeted by that thing. Nan Xian doesn't know much about 'Xia Xiyue'. I will not go through the next part of the journey,You go by yourself."

Xia Xiyue also replied to him from her consciousness.

Then she turned to the tall stone door in front of her, feeling a little apprehensive, but she quickly pushed it open with force.

The stone door slowly slid open.Xia Xiyue stepped into it, feeling the heavy door closing behind her, she didn't look back, and walked all the way to the deepest part below.

...

Underground, in the middle of countless staggered shackles.

Nan Xian gritted his teeth, ignoring the fire poison that was slowly seeping into his body and causing him severe pain, and kept pushing the spiritual power to let it run continuously along the few meridians that were still stagnant.

The spiritual power that was clear and pure a few days ago has completely become dirty, like a dirty swamp.But the power contained in it is no longer as vain as before, but has a thicker texture.

——Two days ago, Nan Xian actually woke up.

It was different from what Xia Xiyue and Xiao Lingniao predicted.He is not the "young Nan Xian" who is as clean as a piece of white paper.Instead, it has the memory before the reset.

After a brief assessment of his physical condition, he found that it was no worse than the same period in his previous life.Nan Xian quickly came to his senses, and began to forcibly absorb the spiritual power floating around him, and practiced.