Although the sudden sigh was very weak, it reached his ears clearly.

It was just a slight sigh, which was heard more clearly in Li Xiuyuan's ears, as if a thunder sounded in the summer and struck heavily on the top of his head.

Deep in the vast Yushan Mountains of the prehistoric world, this place has been isolated from the outside world for who knows how many years.

He had not seen a human monk since he met Old Turtle in the mountains, so in his guess, the abyss under Jade Mountain should also be a place of death, and there could be no human monks practicing here.

Along the way, there were only bones everywhere. Who would have thought that there were still people alive here!

The shocked Li Xiuyuan quickly retreated a few feet, took out the bow and arrow as quickly as possible, then attached a talisman arrow and aimed it at the cave wall illuminated by the beam of sunlight.

At a glance, I saw an old man sitting quietly on a huge stone slab.

Under a ray of faint sunlight, he could see the old man's face clearly.

A white beard fluttered on his chest, his jagged bones were like dead branches in the mountains and forests, and his sunken eye sockets were like two black holes, giving him a terrifying feeling.

If it weren't for that sigh, the old man in front of him would be no different from the bones he saw before.

In Li Xiuyuan's eyes, if the old man hadn't sighed, he would have been sitting on a stone wall for thousands of years.

"Who are you?"

The bowstring in Li Xiuyuan's hand was aimed at the old man who was as tall as a stone wall and as dry as a bone, with an unusually nervous look on his face.

If the old man who can practice hard here is not an ancient beast like Lao Gui, then he is the god and demon of the past.

Since entering Jade Mountain, he has never seen a monk from the prehistoric world. Moreover, this is a cave under the abyss. The old man sitting in meditation under the stone wall really shocked him.

The old man was as thin as a withered bone but still alive, which was beyond his understanding of the ancient world, because the old turtle once told him that the gods and demons in the ancient legends either ascended and left, or turned into a pile of loess.

"who I am?"

The silent old man opened his eyes, and the moment he raised his head, there was a clanging sound.

It was only then that Li Xiuyuan noticed that there was a silver chain ringing from the old man's body.

A silver iron chain passed through the old man's sternum, and the other end was unknown whether it was under the stone wall as hard as iron or under the stone slab under the old man's body.

I don't know if it's been a hundred years or a thousand years, but the part of the black chain that connects to the old man's body has long turned into silver. You don't have to think about it. This is the result of the old man's unwillingness to polish it.

The iron chain rang for a while, causing a trace of pain to appear on the old man's skinny face, and a trace of unwillingness to pass through his sunken eyes.

After a moment of silence, the old man showed a bitter smile and murmured to himself: "I am a criminal imprisoned here by my master."

Li Xiuyuan was stunned, thinking that he didn't know whether it was thousands of years or tens of thousands of years in the prehistoric world. How could he know who your master was?

"I tried to steal... and lost one of the master's treasures, so he imprisoned me here and asked me to spend thousands of years to atone for my sins."

The sound of iron chains sounded, and even a small movement of the old man would affect the iron chains on his chest, making him appear extremely painful.

A weak voice sounded, making Li Xiuyuan understand that the old man's master was a more terrifying person back then.

Li Xiuyuan asked in confusion: "What treasure?"

The iron chains jingled again. The old man, who was as skinny as a ghost, looked at the young man not far away from him with a smile, stretched out his withered hands like ghost claws, and reached somewhere in the air.

Just for a moment, there was a flapping sound, and a screaming pheasant appeared in the old man's hand.

The old man bit into the pheasant's neck and drank its blood like drinking from a sweet spring. Only when the pheasant stopped flapping did the old man let out a long sigh.

He said quietly: "One piece of jade disc fragment for sale." "Jade disc fragment?"

With a bang, there was a thunder above Li Xiuyuan's head, and he subconsciously took a few steps back. He didn't stop until he had the cold stone wall behind his back!

In ancient times, there was another fragment of a jade dish!

Li Xiuyuan looked at the old man under the stone wall and was speechless.

If it weren't for the old man's words, he almost forgot what the old Taoist priest told him. During this trip, he would still have to spend time looking for the fragments of the jade dish that was lost in the ancient world.

He didn't know whether the old man in front of him was a human or a demon, because the old Taoist priest also imprisoned his delusion-destroying eyes.

In the eyes of any monk, he is just a young man with no spiritual veins and only the strength of his physical body.

Leaning against the hard cave wall, Li Xiuyuan tried to calm down his mood.

Just because the old man showed him a trick to prey in space, in the eyes of other monks, he might think it was just a little trick, but Li Xiuyuan knew that it was the law of space.

At this moment, he finally understood why the old man was imprisoned here and could live for thousands of years.

Because the old man has practiced the law of space.

The old man did not pay attention to his reaction, but said calmly: "I have been with the master since I was a child and learned a lot of skills from him. However, because I couldn't stand the temptation, I stole the master's jade plate when I ascended.

....This is my sin."

Li Xiuyuan understood half of it, but did not understand all the truth. Could it be that you set up a formation here to tell the monks in the world that there is a treasure here, and then failed to save you, so he became a dead soul under your sword?

"I don't understand. Since you have ascended, why are you still here?" Li Xiuyuan asked, shaking his head.

The old man sighed leisurely and said with a sad face: "When I was ascending, my master discovered that I had stolen his jade plate, and then he caught me back in anger..."

Li Xiuyuan was deeply shocked again. He didn't expect that the old man had already ascended and could be captured and locked up here. Wouldn't the old man's master be the same as the old Taoist priest?

Otherwise, who can allow a monk who has perfected his practice to continue to stay in the ancient world?

"What about the fragments of the jade dish?" Li Xiuyuan was more concerned about the disappearance of the jade dish.

The old man sighed softly and said: "I encountered an accident when I ascended. The jade dish was swallowed by a sudden black hole. The owner couldn't find the fragments, so he imprisoned me here..."

Then he looked at Li Xiuyuan and said in confusion: "Little guy, where are you from? Who is the ruler of the prehistoric world now? Are Donghuang and Nuwa still there?"

Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said in a condensed voice: "I don't know... I'm just a passerby here..."

Understanding the tip of the iceberg of the old man's past, and experiencing the endless bones in the darkness, Li Xiuyuan instantly cheered up. He didn't want to become a pile of bones in front of the old man.

The old man waved his hand, and there was a flame burning in front of him. As he skillfully started roasting the pheasant, he couldn't help but sigh again.

He said leisurely: "I sit here and don't know the passage of time. When I open my eyes again, I don't expect that we have welcomed guests from another world."

Li Xiuyuan knew that he was definitely no match for the old man in front of him. In his opinion, the old man was trapped here not only because of an iron chain, but also because of an ancient magic circle.

Who is the old man in front of me?

Is it possible that he is really a powerful servant from ancient times?

Thinking of this, he remembered what he had learned from Old Turtle about the ancient wizard who controlled space and speed, the great wizard of Dijiang who had gone nowhere long ago.

Could it be that the old man in front of me stole the great witch's jade plate and was swept away by the black hole when he ascended?

Then the jade dish flew away with the black hole, and was finally left on the top of the Tianhuang Mountain in Xuanwu Penglu?

In the end... was he put away as a whetstone?

Is everything such a coincidence? Since there was no chance here, and there were no jade disc fragments, Li Xiuyuan immediately had the idea of ​​​​leaving.

While roasting the pheasant in his hand, the old man asked: "Do you have any wine? Do you want a piece?"

Li Xiuyuan shook his head, reached for half a jar of unfinished spirit wine, threw it over, and said, "I'm not hungry."

The old man stretched out his hand to catch the wine jar, patted it open and poured it into his mouth, like a cow drinking wine. It could be seen that he had not drank good wine for thousands of years, if not tens of thousands of years.

It wasn't until his belly swelled slightly that the old man sighed.

Said: "I have drunk a lot of fine wine with my master in my life, and I have seen the ups and downs of the world, but if I think about it carefully, the thing I am most proud of is that I have learned some of your master's skills..."

Li Xiudi didn't say anything. Isn't the mind the law of time and space?

But when he said it, Cheng changed his meaning: "Is it possible that the seniors have taken the magic medicine that has been used for ten thousand years? After these ten thousand years, the gods and demons in the prehistoric era will either leave or return to dust."

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The old man was stunned for a moment, and his expression turned pitiful. He murmured: "My master has earth-shattering abilities, but I have only scratched the surface... I have taken quite a few of the miraculous medicines of ten thousand years."

"When the master first imprisoned me here, I still used the Ten Thousand Years Miracle Medicine as a snack. Later, when the master left, I no longer had the source... Do you have it with you?"

Li Xiuyuan shook his head and replied: "I came here to find the ten thousand-year miracle medicine. Do you think I have it?"

The old man looked at him and shook his head, and said with a bitter smile: "I'm sorry, in order to survive hard, I have eaten up all the ten-thousand-year miracle medicines around here... It's not surprising that you can't find it!"

Li Xiuyuan sighed silently. He thought of Zhu Yan, the big man who disappeared, who was also the one who caused harm to the magic medicine.

However, he didn't expect to get news about the miracle medicine from the old man's mouth.

Now that the old man has mastered the laws of space, he has long since destroyed all the magic medicine in the mountains and forests.

Shaking his head, Li Xiuyuan said quietly: "Senior, I am sitting here in meditation not knowing the passage of time. I wonder if I have become a Buddha? Or have entered the devil's way?"

In his opinion, the evil old man in the jade plate he obtained from Tianhuang Mountain is the shadow of the old man in front of him.

Only when the master has entered the devil's path will the shadow follow him involuntarily...

He couldn't figure it out in front of Lao Gui. It wasn't until he saw the seemingly kind and simple old man in front of him that he suddenly understood the truth.

Appearance comes from the heart, no matter how much the old man hides it, he can't hide the greedy look in the corner of his eyes.

The old man was stunned, looked at him and sighed and said: "Demons are born from the heart and are everywhere like spring rain. Anyone can become a demon as long as a thought arises..."

Li Xiuyuan, who has been studying Buddhism since he was a child, understood this truth and sighed softly: "In my opinion, the senior had already entered the devil's way before stealing the jade plate from his owner..."

The old man shook his head and said with a gentle expression: "I have never practiced magic. I just hope that after ascending, I can still have the master's powerful laws, just like you are in the dark night and long for someone to light a bright lamp for you."

Li Xiuyuan was startled and said: "When you have a thought, you have already entered the devil's way."

Hearing Li Xiuyuan's words, the old man laughed, and his smile gradually turned into a look of indifference.

Looking at him, he said quietly: "Yes, when I took away the jade plate from the master, I was already possessed..."

Li Xiuyuan sighed, looked at the beam of sunlight under the wine at the entrance of the cave, and said leisurely: "However, the jade plate is just a dead object, and it is not enough to make senior possessed."

When the old man heard this, he immediately fell silent, as if he knew he was in the wrong.
Chapter completed!