The next morning, a sliver of white in the east had not yet appeared on the top of the mountain.
On the streets of Rongcheng, there were already handymen hired by the city lord's palace, cleaning the roads paved with bluestone slabs.
Fan Yi got up. He first asked his personal servant to pick out a tall horse from the stable and wait at the side door of Fan's mansion.
Fan Yi put on a green military uniform embroidered with black tigers, tied his wrists and trousers with a belt, and walked straight towards the side door.
Fan Yi mounted his white horse and ran all the way towards the gate of Rongcheng. It took him a while to reach the gate.
I saw a tall young man sitting on the saddle of a big brown horse. He had a dragon spear in his arms, with a little irritation in his eyes.
Fan Yi saw Li Bai from a distance and shouted:
"Brother Li Bai has been waiting for a long time!"
Hearing this, Li Bai turned to look at the city gate, and when he saw Fan Yi finally appeared, the impatience in his eyes gradually receded.
Li Bai held the dragon spear with one hand, held the reins tightly with the other hand, and shouted:
"Walk!"
The words fell.
Li Bailer picked up the reins and ran out to the main road outside the city first. Fan Yi also raised his riding whip and followed him.
After a while, the white horse caught up with the big brown horse and continued to run forward, kicking up countless dust with its iron hoofs.
The Li family's Lingshi mining area is not too far from Rongcheng. It only takes two hours of riding on horseback and half an hour of driving around the Yunze Lingshi Mountains to reach it.
Along the way, warriors from Martial Arts Rongcheng could also be seen. Six or seven of them formed a small team, escorting the box-pressing carriage, returning from the Yunze Lingkuang Mountains to Rongcheng.
The leading warriors who knew Li Bai and Fan Yi would take the initiative to stop walking and stand on both sides of the road to say hello to them.
Gradually, the sun was already high in the sky, and the two of them had just turned into the entrance of the mountain range.
Li Bai stopped Dama and looked at Fan Yi with a smile and said:
"Brother Fan, we will arrive at my mining area soon. We can go to the barracks to eat first, and then we can go see the secret place after we are full and drunk."
Fan Yi nodded, and the two rode horses again.
The Li family barracks is very conspicuous, built with thick timber on the top of a small hill.
And this hill is surrounded by mountains that are more than a thousand feet high, which happens to surround this hill in the center.
When the two came to the top of the hill.
I saw an old man with a white beard standing at the door of the barracks, seemingly waiting.
Li Bai and Fan Yi got off their horses together, and two young men came over and took the reins, pulling the horses to the stable next to the barracks for feeding.
The old man with the white beard said respectfully:
"Young Master, your food has been prepared. Please come with me."
Li Bai replied to the old man with a white beard:
"Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Bai. After dinner, you don't have to worry about us. I'll take Fan Yi around."
The old man with the white beard smiled and nodded.
Fan Yi looked around and felt that the place was surrounded by mountains like an iron barrel.
Standing on the top of the hill, although the sun is shining brightly, the air blown by the wind is still extremely cool.
At the foot of the mountain, there are lanes pressed out by the wheels of carriages, leading to caves.
And at the entrances of those caves, miners and warriors were constantly coming in and out.
It seems that the spiritual stone comes from the heart of the mountain, so it is not easy to mine.
Speaking of this spiritual stone, the spiritual stone is naturally formed, but it contains the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
It can be swallowed directly by monks for replenishment, or it can be boiled into a decoction like Fan Yi did.
Of course, after reaching the Fourth Realm, once a monk opens a Qi Palace, he can directly put it in his hand and run the Qi Palace to absorb spiritual energy.
It's just that monks can't consume spiritual stones all the time to improve their cultivation level.
On the one hand, although this thing is not scarce, it is still precious. On the other hand, monks cannot devour too much.
Because Lingshi is also a special kind of medicinal material, the medicine is always poisonous, and I am worried that it will damage the cultivation Qi and physical body.
Therefore, Yin Yang White Lotus is needed for reconciliation, which is more about tempering the body rather than improving the realm.
Yin Yang White Lotus is not something that ordinary people can obtain casually.
The old man with a white beard prepared fine wine and delicacies for Li Bai and Fan Yi, and when they were full of food and wine.
Li Bai said to the old man with a white beard:
"Lao Bai, just go and do whatever you need to do. Fan Yi and I will go into the mountain to have a look."
The old man with a white beard smiled and said:
"Okay young master, it's just that some of the mines are dark and damp and are considered abandoned. It's best not to go in."
"If you encounter danger after entering the mine, pull the rope immediately. When I hear the bell ringing, I will lead people in to find you."
Li Bai waved his hand and said:
"Don't worry, Mr. Bai, we will be careful."
With that said, the old man with the white beard took two red candle lanterns from the barracks and handed them to Li Bai and Fan Yi respectively.
Originally, too many open flames were not allowed in the mines in the heart of the mountain. Because there will be some special gases in the mine, when there are many people and there are too many open flames, gas explosions will easily occur.
The Li family has dedicated monks who will go deep into the cave at a fixed time and use spiritual power to replace the gas inside, so as to reduce the occurrence of gas explosions.
Li Bai pointed to a mountain stream in the distance, and just to the left of the mountain stream, there was an abandoned mine that was overgrown with weeds. The vegetation almost covered the entrance of the cave.
Li Bai said:
"The secret realm is inside the abandoned mine. You don't have to go too deep before you can see a stone gate."
"I asked Mr. Bai quietly before, and he said he didn't know there was a stone gate there. Do you think it's strange?"
Fan Yi thought for a moment, but without answering Li Bai's question, he already walked towards the entrance of the cave.
The two of them walked down a path of pines and cypresses.
The abandoned mine seemed very close, but actually it was quite far away.
They walked for two full sticks of incense before arriving at the entrance of the cave.
The entrance to the cave is about one foot high and one and a half feet wide. It is covered by vegetation hanging down from the hillside.
However, when Fan Yi just approached the entrance of the cave.
Suddenly, I felt waves of cold seeping out of the cave. The cold seemed to corrode one's heart and spleen, and even breathing was affected.
Not only that, there was also a different feeling in the cold that made people feel palpitated. It seemed that something was opening its eyes wide and peering at the person at the entrance of the cave.
Li Bai looked at Fan Yi and said:
"How's it going? I'm right, right? There must be something inside. Do you want to go in and have a look?"
Hear the words.
Fan Yi had already walked in first.
That's because Xiao Shengdou, who had been silent for the past few days, suddenly sent a message to Fan Yi:
"Go in and take a look. There should be a little demon inside. If there is any danger, I can take you two out."
When Li Bai saw that Fan Yi had already walked in, he followed him with the dragon gun in hand.
Sure enough, after the two of them walked two hundred meters, they saw that there was really a stone door on the wall of the cave.
This stone door is not big. The door is covered with mud stains, which must have been washed out by the water flowing in the mountain.
Fan Yi raised the lantern and illuminated it again, and saw a row of small characters carved on the stone door.
The two of them were stunned for a moment.
It says: There is a big demon here!
