There was no need to search for it in vain. The person who spoke was sitting cross-legged on the stone platform more than ten feet in front of him.
It turned out to be a young woman in a black dress and a wooden hairpin on her head.
This young woman had a beautiful appearance, but her face was pale, and her eyes were flowing and shining, with a layer of gleam covering her face. But what surprised Bai Ran was that half of her sleeves were empty, and she was actually a person with a missing arm.
Before Bai Ran could speak, the young woman couldn't help but let out a surprised sound when she saw that he had released the magic weapon.
"It turns out that your Excellency is not a junior in the Qi Refining Stage, but a monk in the Pill Formation Stage. Tsk tsk, your Qi-condensing technique is very good. I was almost deceived." The young woman chuckled and said with flowing eyes.
And above her knees where she was sitting cross-legged, the Snow Cloud Fox was curled up on the woman's legs very comfortably, looking at Bai Ran with curious eyes, full of intelligence.
"It turns out that this is the place where seniors are cultivating. Bai is rude." Bai Ran's heart trembled after he glanced at the other party with his spiritual consciousness.
The place where the other person was was like transparent air, and his spiritual consciousness easily penetrated through the other person's body, but no spiritual energy fluctuations were found.
This means that either the other party has some exotic treasure that obscures his cultivation level, or that his cultivation level is too high. And judging from the opponent's tone and the method he just used, it really doesn't look like the former.
Bai Ran became very vigilant.
"Looking at how young you are, you have already reached the late stage of elixir formation. It's really rare." While Bai Ran was thinking about countermeasures, the young woman raised a wrist as white as jade and gently stroked the snow cloud on her leg.
Fox, said leisurely.
"Senior, I have already told you. I am just lucky enough to have reached this level of cultivation. But I don't know your senior's surname?" Bai Ran let out a breath and asked calmly.
"There's nothing much to say about my name. Even if I did, you wouldn't know it. In fact, not to mention you, not many of the Nascent Soul Stage monks of your generation would recognize me anymore." The young woman sighed slightly and said.
Hearing this, Bai Ran was startled for a moment, and then his mouth felt bitter.
Could it be that this young woman is really an old monster who has never been born in a hermit?
He felt slightly cold, but there was no look of panic on his face.
After all, as he improves his cultivation and masters more and more secret techniques, Bai Ran is no longer as afraid of Yuanying Stage monks as before. Especially the "Blood Shadow Escape" he just learned recently makes him even more courageous.
few.
If he takes action, he will be defeated at his own risk, but he can still escape in one breath. However, the consequences of the heavy loss of essence and blood will definitely require him to practice hard in seclusion for several years afterwards.
Having said that, such a mysterious figure is actually hiding under the eyes of the three sects. I don't know what his intentions are. He is just like him, he just took a fancy to the thick aura here and sneaked in here specially.
Thinking of this, Bai Ran glanced around the stone chamber, and felt surprised for a while.
This stone room in the mountain is so alone, with no other connecting doors, and except for the stone platform under the young woman, there are no tables and chairs. The whole room is extremely empty. It gives people a sense of
Cool and refreshing feeling.
Bai Ran also carefully discovered that the four walls of these stone chambers were extremely rough. They were not smooth and neatly cut by flying swords or magic weapons like ordinary monks' caves. Instead, they seemed to have been chopped away by giant axes from east to west.
Extremely uneven.
As soon as these details came into view, a strange color flashed in Bai Ran's eyes.
Seemingly sensing Bai Ran's doubts, the young woman suddenly chuckled and said:
"Since my fellow Taoist is confused, why not touch the stone walls around so that you can clear up your confusion."
When Bai Ran heard this, his heart moved.
"Since the senior has said so, you're welcome, junior." Bai Ran was indeed a little curious. He had just used his spiritual sense to detect it, and found nothing strange. It looked no different from ordinary bluestone.
He slowly walked towards the stone wall on his left.
However, for the sake of caution, Bai Ran never relaxed and used his consciousness to monitor the young woman beside him, for fear that the other party would suddenly attack him if he got too excited.
Although the other party has not shown any malice so far, but after so many years of ups and downs, he is far more cautious than anyone else.
When he arrived at the stone wall, Bai Ran touched it with his hand and found nothing strange.
Then, after thinking for a while, he stretched out a finger, a green light flashed on it, and several inches of green sword light appeared at the fingertip.
Bai Ran stabbed him with his backhand, and a shocking scene appeared.
After the sword light made a crackling impact on the blue stone wall, it was blocked and failed to leave any trace on the stone wall.
Bai Ran couldn't help but feel horrified, but at the same time he felt a little unbelieving.
Suddenly, with a surge of spiritual energy, the sword light suddenly grew to about a foot long and slashed hard against the wall.
The stone wall was in good condition, with no scratches at all.
Without saying a word, Bai Ran showed a strange expression and pointed at the flying sword hovering above his head. The sword turned into a green light and stabbed down, then flew back with a clear chant.
As a result, a shallow hole, only an inch deep, appeared on the stone wall, and it was slowly smoothed out immediately, and disappeared without a trace after a while.
"What is this? How can it be repaired automatically? Could it be that the senior has cast some forbidden method on it?" Bai Ran took a breath and turned around with a shocked look on his face.
"You think too highly of me when you cast forbidden spells. This is lapis lazuli, also known as spiritual absorbing stone. It is a very rare weapon refining material. In addition to being able to destroy it with great force, the spiritual power of any magic weapon can be destroyed by it.
It’s ineffective.” The young woman said calmly.
"Lapis lazuli? I am ignorant and have never heard of this kind of material." Bai Ran frowned slightly, turned away from the stone wall, returned to his original position, and said slowly.
"Hehe, fellow Taoists naturally don't know about this thing. This thing was very rare even in the wilderness. Now there are probably not many people who know about it." The young woman said nonchalantly.
Bai Ran was a little surprised after hearing this. Just when he was about to say something else, the young woman smiled sweetly and said:
"Although your Taoist cultivation has almost reached the stage of fake infants, I think your qualifications don't seem to be very good. No, it should be said that they are completely bad. To be able to cultivate to this level, it seems that there must have been something."
Opportunity. Otherwise, no matter how hard it is, it will only reach the foundation-building stage. You can be considered a destined person to meet me here. If you don't dislike it, I have a treasure that can help you."
"Borrow this junior's treasure?" Bai Ran was startled after hearing this, and then a strange expression appeared on his face.
"Of course I do this with conditions. First of all, this thing is just a temporary loan to you. It will be returned in its original form later. Secondly, after you take this treasure, you have to do something for me. This is considered a loan.
Bao's reward." The young woman seemed to notice Bai Ran's suspicion, her face darkened, and she said coldly.
Then she groped around in her arms, and a square jade box appeared in her hands.
This jade box is dark in color and is only about the size of a fist. The surface is a bit rough and rough, with some black and yellow tints, and it seems to have been aged for many years.
Bai Ran looked at the young woman's expression and then at the black box. She didn't say anything about agreeing or rejecting, and her face became uncertain.
After pondering for a while, he asked solemnly:
"Senior, can you first tell me what this treasure is? Then I, my junior, can think about it later, how about it?"
Seeing Bai Ran's hesitation, the young woman in black showed a look of impatience on her face, pointed at the black box with a raised eyebrow and said:
"You must know about the Spiritual Eye Stone. What I have in this box is the "Spiritual Eye Jade", the highest existence among the Spiritual Eye Stones. With the aura provided by this thing, at least for a period of time before you have a baby,
It can make the state of the false baby more stable by three points. When the time comes to condense the Nascent Soul, I will naturally feel relaxed. This treasure has been with me for many years. If it weren't for my current cultivation, I couldn't improve it just by practicing hard, and I wouldn't.
I borrowed it from you so easily."
As soon as the young woman finished saying this, she touched the black jade box with her bare hands, a look of reluctance on her face.
"The Jade of Spiritual Eyes!" Bai Ran's expression changed several times. With this object, the time it took him to cultivate to a fake baby could be shortened by at least one-third. The words that he wanted to reject out of his mouth, he swallowed back.
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"I don't know what the senior wants the junior to do. If the senior can't do it with his cultivation, how can the junior help!" Bai Ran hesitated for a moment and then said with a sigh.
"Don't worry! I'm not asking you to kill people or set fire. I just want you to run a few errands. Although I have a very high level of cultivation, for some reasons, I can't leave this stone room for half a step. But there is a letter that I need you to deliver.
Leave it to someone." When the young woman saw that Bai Ran finally agreed, a look of joy suddenly appeared on her face.
"Just sending a letter?" These words surprised Bai Ran.
"Of course, do you really think that I am asking you to kill people and set fires?" The young woman in black covered her lips, pursed her lips and chuckled, full of charm for a moment.
Bai Ran's face turned slightly red after hearing this.
"If it's just a letter, I will agree to it." He would naturally not refuse this kind of thing that could be done with a little effort.
The young woman seemed very happy after hearing this. She raised her hand without saying anything more, and the black box was held by a ball of green light and flew smoothly towards Bai Ran.
Bai Ran reached out and took the black box, and when he glanced at it with his spiritual consciousness, he found that it was full of spiritual energy, and it seemed to be a jade with spiritual eyes.
With his cautious nature, he naturally wanted to inspect it with his own eyes before accepting it.
So with a flash of blue light on his hand, he lightly tapped the lid of the box, and the black box opened automatically.
Inside the box was a vast expanse of white, and a pure spiritual energy instantly filled the entire stone chamber.
Bai Ran's heart moved, and she looked into the box suspiciously.
In the soft white light, there was a piece of white jade several inches in size, flickering in the light.
What surprised Bai Ran was that at a glance, he saw a green calf as big as a thumb in the translucent jade, moving its head and tail in the jade, looking very alive.
Looking at this, Bai Ran had a look of shock on his face.
"How about it? My spiritual eye jade is a treasure that can quickly give birth to transformed objects. Those ordinary spiritual eye stones can't compare with it. If you practice with this object, you can definitely get twice the result with half the effort." The young woman looked at it.
Seeing Bai Ran's shocked look, a strange look flashed in his bright eyes, but then he said with a chuckle.
"Yes, if there is such a thing, this junior will be able to enter the realm of fake babies in just over ten years without having to work for decades at all." Bai Ran took a second look at the jade of spiritual eyes in the jade box, and finally opened the box.
He put the lid back on, raised his head and said calmly.
At this time, he suddenly realized. It turned out that the Snow Cloud Fox was actually contaminated with the aura of the Spiritual Eye Jade, so it had a faint aura of pure spirit. I am afraid that its ability to evolve into a demon fox has something to do with this treasure.
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Bai Ran looked calm, but the young woman was slightly startled, feeling a little surprised, and couldn't help but take a deep look at Bai Ran.
"Okay, the treasure has been given to you. Take this jade slip. In addition, behind the stone platform under me, there is another jade box. There is a sealed talisman on the box. You can tear off the talisman, and then
Just hand me the jade box. There is a token in this box, and I want you to take it with you." The young woman raised her hand to gently pull down the black hair from her forehead, and said in a light tone, seemingly casually.
"Let the juniors get the seniors' things?" When Bai Ran heard this, he was stunned for a moment, then a trace of doubt appeared on his face, and he became a little wary.
"Humph! Are you afraid that my old age will harm you? If I could take it myself, I would ask you to help me." Upon hearing this, the young woman sneered unhappily. Then she raised her hand and pulled off the long skirt below her knees.
He started flirting all at once.
As a result, after Bai Ran came into view, the expression on his face changed drastically.
Two skinny legs, only as thick as a baby's arms, sat cross-crossed there. Apart from the dry skin, there was no trace of flesh and blood, making them look ferocious and terrifying. But what made Bai Ran's expression change even more was that between these two
On the useless leg, there were actually several thin silver-white crystal chains wrapped around it. One end passed directly through the bone, and the other end was buried deep under the stone platform.
Bai Ran licked her lips and looked up at the young woman. Although her face was full of surprise, she didn't ask anything.
He knew that the other party would definitely explain something.
Sure enough, although the young woman's face was covered with frost, she still said dryly after putting down her dress:
"I will build a stone chamber made of lapis lazuli in this stone mountain, and trap my own feet with these traps, just to trap myself."
"Trapped yourself?" Bai Ran was stunned for a moment, a little confused.
"Yes, the "Youxia Jue" that I major in is different from ordinary exercises. Although this method is surprisingly fast to practice and surprisingly powerful, there is a fatal flaw in this method. That is, once you practice it,
After it is completed, the cultivator will easily lose his mind and become bloodthirsty. Because I had an adventure back then, I believed that my mind and consciousness were far superior to monks of the same level.
, so he practiced this technique regardless of other people's advice. As a result, after the technique was completed, he entered the Nascent Soul stage and finally began to kill without restraint. The world of immortality at that time was in turmoil for a while. More results
I made a lot of enemies. As a result, I was eventually entangled with several Nascent Soul stage monks and was seriously injured, even losing one of my arms."
The young woman turned her head and looked at the empty space on the other side of her body, her face expressionless.
"Later, after the injury healed, I thought hard. If I still can't control myself and go out, I will die sooner or later. So I asked my relatives and friends to build a 'Celestial Fire God Chain' and this lapis lazuli house.
I trapped myself here alive because I was afraid that I would endure
I couldn't help being lonely, and suddenly I regretted untying the chain and running out. So I gave the key to the Sky Fire God Chain to a close friend. I made an agreement with him to come and take a look at mine every once in a while.
Has the situation improved? If so, then I can be released."
When she said this, the young woman's face began to darken.
"But what I didn't expect was that after my good friend came a few times, he suddenly disappeared. There was no news anymore. I don't know if something happened to him or something else happened. But then,
I have really been trapped here alive to this day. Because the house is made of lapis lazuli, so even if I reach the middle stage of Nascent Soul, my consciousness can only reach a few hundred feet outside the house. Even if I reach the middle stage of Yuanying.
want to
It is impossible to find someone to call for help. This Tianhuo Shenlian used a very strange mental ritual, which is connected with my soul. Although I can barely use it after my cultivation has greatly improved.
Real fire breaks it. But when this chain is broken, it is also the moment of my death. Now that fellow Taoist can come here by chance, it is really an eye-opener from heaven. I finally no longer have to spend my life in this stone room.
It’s coming.”
The young woman in black said these words in one breath, and told Bai Ran her approximate origins to dispel Bai Ran's worries.
After hearing what the other party said, Bai Ran was a little stunned.
If what the other party said is true, the other party's experience is really incredible.
But after thinking about it for a moment, he still asked with hesitation.
"Senior, could it be that you want me to deliver a letter to your best friend? But now so many years have passed. The possibility of that senior still living in the world is not high!"
"Yes, I am sending a message to this person. Asking him to bring the key to the Sky Vulcan Chain. As for whether the other person is dead? Don't worry about that. I have made an appointment with him. If anything happens, he will
I gave this thing to future generations for safekeeping in advance. If you can't find this good friend of mine, you can find his descendants in the same way." The young woman sighed and showed a wry smile.
After hearing this, Bai Ran thought about it again and felt that it was reasonable and there seemed to be no flaws.
So, he took a few steps forward without any more nonsense, and walked in a circle until he reached behind the stone platform, and there was indeed a deep hole there.
Bai Ran carefully probed it with his spiritual consciousness, then raised his eyebrows, stretched out his hand, and took out a jade box.
This jade box is antique, slightly yellowish, with a strange flame pattern carved on its surface, and there is a human figure standing faintly in the flames, seemingly roaring into the sky.
On the front of the jade box, there was a golden talisman attached, which faintly exuded an aura that made Bai Ran uncomfortable.
He couldn't help but frowned subconsciously.
"This is it. Fellow Taoist Bai, just tear open the talisman and give me the box." When the young woman in black saw the jade box in Bai Ran's hand, she couldn't help but get excited and started to urge her.
Bai Ran was originally ready to tear off the talisman and put his palm on the jade box. But when he heard the young woman's voice, he was trembling slightly and seemed impatient. An inexplicable uneasiness suddenly arose in his heart.
He hesitated, pulled back his outstretched palm, and instead raised his head to look at the young woman.
The resulting situation made Bai Ran's heart skip a beat.
The opponent's eyes became abnormally green, and his face was slightly distorted, giving people an extremely fierce feeling. How could he still have the masterful demeanor of his predecessor just now!
When the young woman saw Bai Ran, she raised her head to look at him. After being startled, she immediately realized something. The green light in her eyes and the fierceness on her face disappeared without a trace in an instant, and she said in a slow tone:
"Fellow Taoist Bai, what do you think I'm doing? Why don't you tear off the talisman so that you can hand the jade box to me. Don't forget, I gave the Jade of Spiritual Eyes, a rare treasure in the world, to you first. Fellow Taoist, why should you hesitate?"
Bai Ran looked at the young woman in black, then lowered his head at the jade box that was tightly sealed by the golden talisman. He didn't say anything. Instead, he narrowed his eyes, suddenly held up the jade box with one hand, and walked towards the young woman slowly. Walk slowly.
"Fellow Daoist Bai! What are you going to do? Stop! Don't come over..." When the young woman who was originally calm and calm saw Bai Ran walking over with a jade box with a golden talisman, her expression immediately changed, and she shouted to stop, and exposed her face. The look of panic came.