At night, Shen Luo sat alone in front of the guest room window. A dim oil lamp was lit on the table next to the window, and a purple talisman paper and three green talisman papers were placed on the table.

The runes of the broken armor talisman were drawn on the purple talisman, and the three green frost papers were drawn on the thunder talismans, all of which were already made into talismans, all of which were drawn on the road when they came to Yuzhou.

Among them, the thunderfall talisman is not bad. Although the talisman yield is not high, it consumes all the green frost paper, but the pieces of the broken armor talisman consume more precious purple cloud paper.

Although Chen Luo had the experience of drawing talismans in his dreams and practiced thousands of times on white and yellow talismans, when he actually drew, he still consumed all the purple cloud paper he bought with his savings, and finally became such a piece of talisman.

He stared at the sky covered by clouds outside the window, and could only see a blurry light hidden in the clouds, and the sinkhole below was pitch black and could not see anything clearly.

According to the travel notes, the blue-eyed golden toad is the blood vessel of the Yu Toad in the Moon Palace. It is born to absorb the moon soul through the practice of looking at the moon, so the extremely pure moon soul essence is accumulated in the body.

However, this creature is timid and cautious in nature and is dormant underground all year round, which is difficult for ordinary monks to discover.

Only during the rainy season every year, the sky is covered by clouds for a long time, and the moonlight cannot be sprinkled on the earth, and the golden toad cannot absorb the moon spirit. Therefore, during this period, it will fall into a dormant period.

When the rainy season passes, a thunder will fall, and the golden toad will wake up again and boldly leave the hiding place, exposing it to the moonlight to replenish the previously consumed moon soul.

And this time is the best time to capture it. Once you miss it, you have to wait at least another year.

This is also an important reason why Chen Luo decided to find this thing first.

After watching for a while, Shen Luo put the talisman paper on the table into his sleeve, blew out the oil lamp on the table, returned to the bed and sat cross-legged, and continued to practice. Although his practice was not fast at the moment, he could not stop.

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The next morning, Chen Luo pushed open the window and looked at the sky covered by the clouds. He frowned for a moment. Suddenly, he supported the desktop facing the window with one hand. He frowned skillfully and jumped out of the window and flew outside.

Outside the window was close to the cliff of the sinkhole, and there was not even a place to settle down, and his figure fell directly into the sinkhole.

It was not until it fell more than ten feet that he grabbed a raised rock with one hand and hung himself on the cliff.

He fell and twisted his body, and saw that there was a row of towering ancient trees more than ten feet away from him.

He then let go of his hands holding the stone wall, kicked the cliff with both legs, and turned over a semicircle in the air, and fell silently towards the ancient treetops not far away.

As he approached, he stretched out his arms and grabbed the top of an ancient tree, squeezed the falling force, and then slid skillfully towards the branches below. After a few repetitions, he fell steadily to the ground.

After landing, he did not rush to set off, but took out a mountain talisman from his sleeve and swayed around him. After seeing that there was nothing unusual on it, he put it back in his arms.

The sinkhole in the early morning was quite quiet. Apart from the sound of insects, there was only the "rustling" sound of wind passing through the forest.

Chen Luo remembers that the travel notes mentioned that the place where the golden toad was captured was next to a crescent-shaped lake in the center of the sinkhole. He did not stop and went straight to the center through the dense forest.

Walking in the dense forest, I found that the temperature at the bottom of the sinkhole was much lower than outside, and there was a thin layer of white frost on the branches and leaves of the grass and trees beside the road.

He picked a leaf petal and rubbed it gently, and the frost on it melted away.

Chen Luo frowned slightly, threw down the leaf petals in his hand, wrapped his hands in his sleeves, and walked slowly forward.

His mind was leisurely, and he looked left and right along the way, and it seemed like he was visiting the mountains and rivers.

Soon, he came to the center of the sinkhole and saw the lake shaped like a crescent moon from afar.

The water quality on the lake is clear and the color is clear, reflecting the clouds in the sky.

Next to the lake, there was a familiar figure bent down and scooping a handful of water from the lake, and taking a sip to his mouth.

"Brother Ao..." Chen Luo exclaimed softly and walked quickly towards the man.

"Brother Chen, it's so early." Ao Hong, who was standing by the lake, was not surprised at all, stood up and smiled and greeted Chen Luo.

But his eyes looked at the sinking fall, and in a trance seemed to have passed him and looked at the dense forest further behind.

Chen Luo noticed something, but still pretended to have found nothing.

In fact, when he picked the leaf petal, he had already noticed someone was following him secretly.

He made a few polite words with Ao Hong, and the two walked side by side, chatting while walking towards the other side of the sinkhole.

The cliff wall on the other side of the sinkhole is convex and concave. From a distance, it looks like a naturally formed eaves, covered with smooth green moss.

Looking from a distance, I saw three ropes hanging down from the cliff, three figures hanging above, each with a huge bamboo basket tied around my waist, hanging under the raised flying rocks on the cliff.

The three of them were the swallow pickers who had been sitting in the inn lobby yesterday, and the masked woman was missing.

The three of them fell down on the cliff, adjusting their postures and positions up and down, and skillfully peeling off the next bird's nests that were as white as bowls from the cliff.

Chen Luo and the other two stopped under the cliff, looked up at the movements of the three of them.

The short-bearded old man among the three seemed to have a sense of emotion. He looked down at the two people under the cliff, and greeted with a smile: "The two young men are so elegant. They come here to enjoy the scenery early in the morning."

"Looking at the bird's nests skillfully, I feel very pleasing to the eye." Chen Luo smiled.

After all, the few people were not really familiar with each other. After a few greetings, Chen Luo and the others said goodbye and left.

After returning to the inn from the stone stairs on the cliff, Ao Hong went back to his room first, and Chen Luo had breakfast in the lobby before going back.

After returning to the house, I sat back in front of the table, and was about to close the window and start meditating and practicing, but suddenly I saw a note two fingers wide on the table from the corner of my eye.

His eyes were slightly condensed, and he swept the note, with eight big words written on it: "Don't be greedy for the golden toad, for fear of harming his life."

Shen Luo raised his eyebrows and showed a look of hesitation on his face.

This sentence looks like a reminder or a threat. He can't figure out who left it for a moment.

"Is it Ao Hong? I saw that I was also searching for the sinkhole today. I wanted to stop it but it was inconvenient to say it clearly, so I left a letter to persuade me?" Chen Luo was puzzled and shook his head and pondered.

He didn't touch it with his hands, but just swept it casually, and the note flew into the air and was crushed by a stream of water.

"Is it the masked woman? She should have been the one who secretly followed me in the forest before, but why did she leave me a letter?" Chen Luo rubbed his chin and thought again.

After a while, he couldn't think of any reason, so he had to give up.
Chapter completed!