Qiu Yutong opened his eyes in a daze and looked at the dark ceiling of the cave: “…Huh?”
He seemed to have gone out just now, how did he return to the cave?
Lu Xiao was packing his things, “Shizun, are you awake? It’s too cold outside. I saw that you were asleep, so I didn’t wake you up and I carried you in.”
“Oh.” Qiu Yutong was a little embarrassed; he rubbed his eyes and got up, “Why is it so noisy outside?”
Lu Xiao said with a smile, “In the morning, City Lord Xie agreed to accept Xu Dongqing as his disciple. He just did the apprentice ceremony outside the cave and was making a fuss.”
“Really? That’s great.” Qiu Yutong was refreshed and got up.
He was about to go out to take a look, only to hear a bustling sound at the entrance of the cave, Xu Dongqing was pushing Xie Wanting’s wheelchair, and the group of people from North Snow City walked through the cave in a lively manner.
Sang Lingxi smiled and said, “Yo, little junior brother, are you finally getting up?”
Xie Wanting glanced at Qiu Yutong, then frowned, “Yutong, you already stay in bed every day in North Snow City, why do you still stay in bed every day when you are outside? “
“Cough cough, I haven’t woken up yet at that time.” Qiu Yutong smiled in embarrassment, ruffled his messy hair, and pulled Lu Xiao to use him as a shield, “Sect Leader, can you help me look at my apprentice’s condition? “
“What happened to your apprentice?”
“His spiritual veins seem to be blocked, and I can’t see what’s going on. I want to ask the Sect Leader to help him take a look. Xiao-er, reach out and let the Sect Leader have a look at your condition.”
“En,” Lu Xiao lowered his eyes, took a deep breath, and finally extended his hand slowly. His hand was even trembling slightly as he controlled the internal energy in his body… He could not be discovered…
“I’ll have a look at your condition, don’t be nervous.” Xie Wanting said in a friendly manner, and then lightly placed two fingers on Lu Xiao’s pulse and started murmuring.
After a while, the calm City Lord from North Snow City finally showed a bit of surprise, “You have… Heavenly Veins?”
Lu Xiao heaved a sigh of relief, “En.”
Qiu Yutong couldn’t help but be very disappointed, “Sect Leader, is it really the Heavenly Vein? But Doctor Xu said that his pulse is a bit strange, it doesn’t look like the Heavenly Vein.”
“His eight veins are all blocked, and it is a natural Heavenly Vein. Maybe Doctor Xu didn’t want to disappoint you too much, that’s why he said that.”
“Is that so?” Qiu Yutong was silent for a moment, then glanced at Lu Xiao worriedly, “Xiao-er?”
Lu Xiao lowered his eyes and said lightly, “Shizun once said that cultivation of the mind is cultivation, and everything does not have to be forced. I have come to accept the fact that I have Heavenly Veins.”
“Ah, but…” Qiu Yutong sighed softly, and then rubbed Lu Xiao’s hair comfortingly, “When there is a chance in the future, I will think of a solution for you. “
“En.”
While the two were talking, everyone had already packed up and was ready to go.
“Hanyuan, are you ready?” Xie Wanting looked at Bai Hanyuan. Bai Hanyuan nodded, and brandished out his sword – “Beheading Wind and Snow”. This snow-white spirit sword, driven by the master’s spiritual power, quickly grew larger and longer, and finally became more than two feet wide and several dozen feet long, like a long, narrow, and flat ship.
“Come up,” Bai Hanyuan said lightly.
Everyone stepped onto the spirit sword. Qiu Yutong also pulled Lu Xiao up, and the disciples in North Snow City had become accustomed to it. Xu Dongqing was a little restrained, but Yan Ran touched and chatting everywhere.
“Qi–” Following Bai Hanyuan’s command, “Beheading Wind and Snow” instantly rose from the ground.
“Hanyuan, slow down a little, I’m afraid Yutong’s little apprentice, and my new little apprentice won’t be able to bear it,” Xie Wanting said softly.
“Young men don’t need to be pampered,” Bai Hanyuan said in disapproval, but the spirit sword slowed down.
“Hanyuan, your bark is worse than your bite… Well, here is the map.” Xie Wanting shook his head with a smile and took out the tortoiseshell from his arms.
Everyone gathered around and stared at the small tortoiseshell with bated breath. Under dozens of curious eyes, Xie Wanting slowly put his hand on top.
With the input of pure spiritual power, the complicated and small lines on the turtle shell gradually lighted up. One of the lines became brighter and brighter, and finally turned a bright crimson.
“Hanyuan, this is the way,” Xie Wanting said slowly.
Bai Hanyuan took a careful look at the blood-red pattern, nodded slightly, and the huge spirit sword quickly made a circle and flew away in the direction indicated by the tortoiseshell!
……
In less than two hours, the spirit sword gradually slowed down and slowly descended from the high clouds. Everyone looked down and exclaimed, “What a big lake!”
Qiu Yutong also looked down, and saw a huge lake on the vast and barren yellow land, the size of thousands of hectares. The hazy white fog, like a huge cold green jade, was held in the palm of the hand and breathed out a sigh of warm air.
Xie Wanting murmured, “Cuiwei Cold Pool.”
Bai Hanyuan held the spirit sword and slowly fell down beside the cold pool.
Everyone stood next to the cold pool and looked at it, the green and cold water surface was covered with a layer of mist, and it was endless. It gave off a bone-chilling coldness. It really lived up to the word “cold pool”.
Xie Wanting looked at the huge cold pool and said softly, “Tianzhao Yunhai, and the devil core should be below.”
Xu Dongqing pushed the wheelchair carefully, and couldn’t help but say, “Sect Leader, this cold pool is so big, it looks deep and cold, how can I go down to find something?”
“Let me try it!” Sang Lingxi was the most impulsive and the most courageous, and immediately jumped in lightly, “Whoa–” With a soft sound, he jumped in!
“Lingxi, wait…”
Before Xie Wanting could finish speaking, Sang Lingxi slammed up through the water! He was drenched and floating on the water, staring blankly at the people on the shore with a pair of peach eyes, “I, why am I back?”
Lu Xiao said softly, “There is a seal.”
Qiu Yutong nodded and raised his voice, “Third Senior Brother, there is…”
Before Qiu Yutong finished speaking, Sang Lingxi acted like he couldn’t believe it, and bravely jumped in again!
Then, with a “crash”, he returned to the surface of the water!
After doing this over and over again, Sang Lingxi finally couldn’t help collapsing on the shore of the cold pool, “What kind of evil thing is this, every time I go in, I will just come out!”
Xie Wanting shook his head helplessly, “This is the place where Immortal Qingheng used his life to seal, and where Tianzhao Yunhai was left behind. How can it be so easy to get in?”
“Then what should we do?” Sang Lingxi sighed.
Xie Wanting pondered for a moment, then only shook his head, “I don’t have any good ideas either.”
At this moment, Qiu Yutong didn’t pay attention to what they were saying at all and just stared blankly at the green pool filled with mist; he felt his heart beating fast. Just now, there was something that summoned him from under the water… That was an extremely important thing, very, very important…
Lu Xiao said softly, “Shizun, what’s wrong?”
Qiu Yutong came back to his senses and shook his head vigorously, dispelling that weird feeling, “It’s nothing.”
He thought about it and said to Xie Wanting, “Sect Leader, why don’t you let me try?”
Xie Wanting hesitated, “You? Your body now…”
Qiu Yutong said seriously: “Although I have changed my body, my soul is still the soul of an innate sword body. Immortal Qingheng has fallen, and the seal of Cuiwei Cold Pool is naturally suppressed by his sword, Tianzhao Yunhai. Perhaps with my innate sword body, I can resist the pressure of Tianzhao Yunhai and enter the cold pool.”
Xie Wanting hesitated for a long time before he slowly nodded, “Then… then try it. In short, be careful and don’t force it.”
“Well, Sect Leader, don’t worry, I will be careful.” Qiu Yutong nodded, turned, and walked towards the cold pool, but his hand was grabbed tightly.
He looked back and saw that Lu Xiao was holding his hand tightly. He spoke in a trembling voice, “Shizun, do you want to go down to the cold pool?”
Qiu Yutong patted the back of his little apprentice’s hand comfortingly, “It’s alright. Maybe, like Third Senior Brother, I’ll be back soon.”
He softly coaxed a few more words. Lu Xiao hesitated for a long time, then finally slowly let go of Qiu Yutong’s hand.
Qiu Yutong smiled reassuringly at him again, then slowly stepped into the water.
The water in Cuiwei Cold Pool was icy cold… The cold water gradually spread over his insteps, knees, waist, chest… until he was nowhere to be seen.
He dived several feet down yet he still was not ejected by the seal.
Qiu Yutong felt a little joy in his heart, pinched another water-avoidance talisman again, and a small bubble immediately appeared beside him, covering him in it.
He took a deep breath and was about to rouse his spiritual power and dive to the bottom of the dark and deep pool, but suddenly there was a sound of water above his head.
Qiu Yutong looked up and said in surprise, “Xiao-er? Why did you come down?”
Lu Xiao tried his best to dive, pursing his lips tightly all the way, his face turning red. Qiu Yutong didn’t have time to think about anything, and quickly pulled him into the small bubble. Lu Xiao was soaking wet, and hugged him in exhaustion, “You didn’t come up, I thought…”
Qiu Yutong felt both angry and amused, “I didn’t come up, naturally because I have an innate sword body, and Tianzhao Yunhai allowed me to enter the pool. I am an adult, will I still drown? Why are you following…”
Speaking of this, he couldn’t help but pause for a moment, and blinked in confusion, “Yes, how can you come down? Didn’t the seal send you back?”
Lu Xiao shook his head in confusion, “I don’t know either.”
Qiu Yutong thought about it for a while, but couldn’t think of a reason, so he simply gave up and controlled the small bubble, and the two slowly dived to the bottom of the pool.
The two of them dived deeper and deeper, it couldn’t be longer than the time taken to brew a cup of tea, yet they had already dived hundreds of feet, and the pool around them gradually became dark. By the end, they could barely see their fingers, yet it wasn’t the end.
“Why hasn’t it ended yet?” Qiu Yutong couldn’t help complaining.
Before he could finish his words, his whole body suddenly became lighter, and the bubble entered another space, With a “pop!” the bubble burst!
Before Qiu Yutong could exclaim, he had stepped on the soft ground, then he looked around in surprise, “What is this place?”
Lu Xiao also frowned, “How can there be a bamboo forest at the bottom of this cold pool?”
The place they were in was a large lush green bamboo forest with a thick layer of dead bamboo leaves under their feet.
Lu Xiao murmured: “Cangshan Green Jade Bamboo Sea, Moonlight Ceramic Glazed Terrace… Perhaps, this is the cultivation place of Immortal Qingheng, Cangshan Green Jade Bamboo Sea?”
“The Green Jade Bamboo Sea at the bottom of the pool?” Qiu Yutong wondered.
While speaking, suddenly a “rustling” sound moved closer. The two immediately looked up and saw nearby, a man in white brushing away the bamboo branches and walking lightly along the cobblestone path in the bamboo forest.
“Someone is here!” Qiu Yutong was slightly startled, and couldn’t help clutching Lu Xiao’s hand.
But the man in white didn’t seem to see them at all and walked straight to the glade. He sat on top of a big rock in the middle of the clearing; he closed his eyes and meditated.
Qiu Yutong was stunned for a moment, then looked intently. He saw this man with black hair and snow skin, with a very beautiful complexion. His long black hair was not pulled up, and the waterfall fell to his feet. He was dressed in a casual plain white robe, his feet were also bare, and he looked very relaxed.
Qiu Yutong couldn’t help but envy him for a while. When he was in North Snow City, he always wanted to show off his bare feet, but every time he was scolded by the Sect Leader so he finally had to comb his hair and put on shoes every day.
Lu Xiao whispered, “This bamboo forest seems to be an illusion, this person is just a virtual image.”
Qiu Yutong nodded, “This was probably the Immortal Qingheng back then.”
“Well, I think so too.”
Immortal Qingheng sat on the boulder for a while and finally opened his eyes. He stretched out very comfortably, took out a small packet of pine nut candies from his arms, and ate it with great pleasure.
Qiu Yutong: “…”
Why, why could this person eat pine nut candies out in the open when he was cultivating?! When he was cultivating, as long as he pilfered food, he would be lectured, despised, and laughed at by the three senior brothers?!
Immortal Qingheng ate a pine nut candy, and paused for a moment yet he couldn’t help but eat another, then suddenly frowned and raised his head vigilantly, “Who’s there?”
Had they been discovered? But, isn’t this an illusion?
Qiu Yutong was stunned for a moment, and just as he was about to go out, Lu Xiao gently pulled him, “Could it be my… There is something in the woods.”
Sure enough, Immortal Qingheng stared at a large clump of bamboo in front of him, and after a while, something rustled out from behind the bamboo.
“A snake?” Qiu Yutong’s eyes widened in surprise, “No, it’s a dragon!”
It was a very small dragon, only one foot long, with the thickness of a thumb, and it did not even have its horns. Its scales were not golden, but a strange dark red, like embers after burning flames. It looked at Immortal Qingheng timidly, and its small claws gently scratched the ground, when suddenly it fell down.
Immortal Qingheng was stunned for a while, then screamed: “It’s on fire!”
He jumped down from the boulder suddenly, threw out his sleeves, and wiped away the burning dead leaves near the dragon. He then grabbed the dragon, and immediately threw it back, exclaiming, “Ow, it’s so hot!”
“What are you? You dare to set fire to my green jade bamboo forest ?” Immortal Qing Heng asked while wrapping his hands with his sleeve, and then carefully pinched the tip of the dragon’s tail and lifted it upside down.
The dragon was pitifully shaken by his tail. It tried hard to curl up, but it was always unsuccessful; its dark golden eyes were wet, and it was extremely pitiful.
Qiu Yutong said softly, “It’s so small… But, it’s still cute.”
Lu Xiao frowned and said, “Extremely ugly.”
Immortal Qingheng held the dragon and looked at it carefully for a long time, and suddenly touched its chin, “Although it’s dirty, it looks quite cute.”
Qiu Yutong couldn’t help but glance at Lu Xiao proudly. Little apprentice, did you see it, among the powerful cultivators, great minds think alike.
Immortal Qingheng carried the little dragon, sat back on the big rock, put the little dragon on his lap again, and touched it carefully from beginning to end, not even letting go of the little paw which was the size of a fingernail: “Tsk tsk, the injury is not light. Who is so cruel to hurt you for such a small dragon? Be honest, did you set fire to someone else’s house before you were beaten?”
As if his injury was touched, the dragon couldn’t help sobbing.
That voice was thin, weak, and pitiful, almost like a mouse, and a million miles apart from the legendary dragon roar; Qiu Yutong couldn’t help but burst out laughing.
“Yo, you know how to roar.” Immortal Qingheng over there couldn’t help laughing, and then picked up the dragon’s tail, “Let’s go, go back to the Ceramic Glazed Terrace with me.”
“It’s so cute, I want one too…” Qiu Yutong stared at the little dragon eagerly, and the scene in front of him suddenly distorted.
They didn’t know how long it took until everything finally became clear. The two were no longer in the bamboo forest, but stood in a bamboo building. This bamboo building was very strange, each bamboo was transparent glass, radiant and beautiful.
Qiu Yutong whispered, “The Ceramic Glazed Terrace?”
Lu Xiao nodded, “I think so.”
Immortal Qingheng was standing beside a glass table, holding a small jar of sweet wine, and smelled it carefully, his expression was very intoxicated. He suddenly heard something and suddenly raised his head, face changing, “Don’t come in!”
“Bang, bang!” There seemed to be something huge outside, slamming against the door lightly. Even the light from the window was blocked, and the room became pitch-dark.
“I said, don’t come in!”
There was a whimper of grievance outside the door, and Immortal Qingheng said angrily, “You are already grown up, coming in directly will ruin the house! Didn’t I teach you to transform?”
The thing outside was silent for a moment and seemed to turn unwillingly, gradually getting smaller, and light returned to the room.
Then, the door creaked softly, and a tall young man in black walked in with a sullen mouth, “Qingheng…”
His voice was very aggrieved, but his appearance was extremely handsome. His eyes were a dark golden color full of oppression, and the ends of his eyes were long and narrow. There was a blood-red pattern in the shape of a flame on his left cheek, which looked very strange.
“Don’t call me Qingheng! How many times have I said it, you have to call me Immortal! Do you understand? I will be embarrassed if you call me this and it’s heard by other cultivators,” Immortal Qingheng looked very displeased. “Reputation, do you understand reputation? Oh, forget it, what can you understand as a dragon…”
“Wu.” The young man stared at the ground aggrieved, and after a while, he walked behind Immortal Qingheng, hugged him fiercely, and buried his nose into his long black hair, “Wu… wu wu… It smells nice…”
Immortal Qingheng was hugged by him and almost spilled the wine. He couldn’t help but give the young man a smack on his forehead, “Why, you can’t even speak human words after transforming back into your original state? Also, when you’re a dragon, you like to mess with people. When you are a human, you are not allowed to entangle and hug blindly. Be polite! Sigh, since I raised you, I feel like my mental state has reversed…”
The young man was beaten violently and touched his forehead innocently, looking confused and pitiful, “Wu.”
Qiu Yutong looked at the ignorant young man, his heart softened inexplicably, and his eyes softened, “According to a dragon’s age, he should be quite young and not very sensible… Sigh, he looks pitiful. “
Lu Xiao said coldly, “That’s not pitiful, that’s stupid.”
