The snowstorm became extremely fierce in the next two days. Even the door of the cabin was blocked by thick snow and could not be opened. Ling Ning and Zhuo La tried their best to prevent the doors and windows from being blocked by the heavy snow. The two of them braved the snowstorm to cut firewood in the nearby woods. Fortunately, there was still plenty of food stored, otherwise they would not know where to get food in this environment where everything was withered.
On the sixth day, the weather improved and the snowstorm became much lighter. Tomorrow is the last day of the blizzard, and it is also the last chance to leave. Although I have made plans to wait for the blizzard to stop before finding a way out, I can't help but feel uneasy at the critical moment.
Ling Ning thought in her mind: "Do I really have to force Zora to snatch the Blazing Fire Jade and kill her only relative in order to leave here smoothly? If this is really the case, how can I be so cruel?"
He didn't go out all day, but tried to calm down his mood. Maybe it was because he had adapted to the life here, maybe because he was familiar with Zora, or maybe because he was exhausted after experiencing too many lives and deaths, but the short-term peace here actually gave him a feeling that he couldn't bear to break. Sometimes I think about it, it seems good if I really stay here for the rest of my life. But this thought only passed by in a flash. There were too many concerns in the outside world that he couldn't let go of.
He had a dream at night, in which he stabbed Grandpa Zora's chest with a dagger and held the Blazing Jade in his hand. Zora rushed towards him crazily, tearing and biting him, hoping to tear him into pieces. When he pointed the dagger at Zora, he woke up suddenly and found that his clothes were soaked with sweat.
Panting heavily, he got up and went to the main room to pour a glass of water and drank it in one gulp. The light in Grandpa Zora's room was still on. He unconsciously walked to the door and hesitated for a moment, as if he was still thinking about the dream just now. Suddenly he heard Grandpa Zora say from inside: "Outsider, come in."
Ling Ning was startled. She pushed the door open and found that Zora was there. Her eyes were red and there were tears on her cheeks. She had obviously cried just now.
"What happened?" Ling Ning asked.
Grandpa Zora shook his head, called him closer, and said: "Outsider, if I hand over the Blazing Fire Jade to you, are you willing to take Zora out of here and return to the real world?"
Ling Ning was stunned and said, "Grandpa, what do you mean?"
Grandpa Zora said: "That's the literal meaning. I never told you that there are actually two exits in the mountain temple. These two exits will only be opened when there is a snowstorm. One leads to the place where the Xuanyuan Sword is. The other one leads to the outside world. Only two people can enter the mountain temple at most, and only the entrants who choose the same exit can lead to the next location. If they choose different ones, they will stay here forever, and there is only one chance. "
Ling Ning suddenly felt dazed. He didn't expect that the terminally ill old man in front of him would know so much.
"Only two people can enter, then you..."
Grandpa Zora smiled slightly and said: "I am tired of this lonely world, but my granddaughter still has a great life to live, and I don't want her to live here forever, in this forgotten world. Outsider, take her away, I hope you can help me take good care of her in the real world."
"Grandpa!" Zora threw herself on her grandfather and cried uncontrollably, while Grandpa Zora slowly patted her vest and comforted her.
"Don't cry, don't cry, I hope this is the last time you cry... You should face your own life bravely instead of staying here. Go, don't be afraid, grandpa will always be watching you in the sky. "
Ling Ning couldn't bear to separate them and said, "Maybe there will be other ways to go out after the storm stops..."
Grandpa Zora shook his head and said: "It won't happen, outsider, you are too naive. The only chance to go out here is to the mountain temple during the snowstorm, and nothing else."
Ling Ning fell silent. He bowed solemnly to Grandpa Zhuola, and then silently retreated, leaving the grandson and grandson to spend the last time together.
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It was dawn, but the blizzard still hadn't stopped. Ling Ning and Zora had already embarked on the journey to the mountain temple. The lights in the cabin were still on, but they knew they could never go back. Zora spoke very little along the way. Perhaps she had not yet come out of her sadness. Saying goodbye to her relatives who depended on each other was not something that a young girl could face calmly. No amount of tears can express the sadness in their hearts, and no amount of snowstorm can stop them.
Along the way, Ling Ning had been disoriented by the white flowers in front of him. He didn't know where he was going, so he could only lower his head and follow Zora. The mountain road was not only steep but also winding, coupled with the ubiquitous blizzards, he would not have been able to reach the mountain temple without Zora's experienced guide.
The blizzard got bigger as they went up, and the two of them supported each other and finally arrived in front of the mountain temple before it got completely dark. Looking at this ancient temple, Ling Ning was about to push open the heavy stone door, but Zhuo La pulled his sleeve and said: "Xiao Ning, I... I still have something to ask you."
Ling Ning asked in confusion: "What are you talking about?"
"Do you really want to give up Xuanyuan Sword? Do you really want to leave here with me?"
"Of course, I promised your grandpa."
"Actually... you can go in by yourself and go to the location of Xuanyuan Sword."
"how about you?"
"Me? I will stay here, and then..." She looked at the gray sky with a sad tone, "and then stay in this world forever."
Ling Ning looked at her seriously and saw that she didn't seem to be joking. She said seriously: "Don't be stupid. Have you forgotten your grandfather's instructions? You must live bravely."
"I know this is what he expected, but..." She looked at Ling Ning, "But... I don't seem to have the courage to step into the real world, do you understand? I just belong here, and the outside world is to me A complete stranger. Maybe I should be annihilated with this world..."
"That's enough!" Ling Ning interrupted her decisively, "Zora, I will accompany you to face the new world, so you don't have to be afraid. Let's go! Leave here and don't say anything about giving up again, otherwise, your Grandpa died in vain.”
Zora was obviously touched by his eyes, and finally nodded heavily, and the two of them pushed open the stone door together!
"What direction did you choose?"
A voice sounded in the ears of the two people in the white light.
"Get out! We have to leave here and go to the outside world!"
"So, have you chosen to give up Xuanyuan Sword?"
"Yes, I choose to give up!"
Following Ling Ning's voice, the white light in front of him began to quickly turn into darkness, as if he had fallen into a tunnel, but he was not sure whether the end of this tunnel was the outside world.
When he came to his senses, he was already in a rain forest. The humid air, the hazy sky, and the earthy smell of dead trees and rotten leaves all reminded him that this world seemed unreal.
He was stunned for a moment, and when he came to his senses he couldn't help but murmur to himself: "Why am I here? What kind of place is this? Did I make the wrong choice? I clearly said I wanted to leave... Zora! Zora !Where are you?"
His shout startled a group of sensitive birds in the forest, but received no response from Zora. I tried to circulate the true energy in my body, but it was still empty.
The surrounding layers of broad-leaved trees blocked his sight, so he had to climb up the tallest tree nearby. As he expected, he was surrounded by a sea of trees, and the farthest edge was obscured by a thick white fog, making it impossible to see anything.
"Damn, why is this happening?"
He didn't understand why he clearly said he wanted to leave here, but he didn't do it? He began to worry about Zora, fearing that Zora's grandfather died in vain. Maybe Zora and her tribe could not leave the Valley of Spring at all. Otherwise, why had no one come out of the Valley of Spring been seen outside?
He didn't dare to think about it anymore, he was really afraid of letting Grandpa Zora down.
At this time, a flock of birds started flying in the forest, and then there were bursts of rumbling sounds, as if someone was fighting. Ling Ning's heart moved and she sneaked towards the direction of the sound. The sound sounded close, but it was far away. It took him about half an hour to find the place where the battle took place. I saw a mess within a hundred meters nearby, with more than a dozen large trees lying scattered on the ground, and the weeds and vines above were crushed, as if there were traces left by some giant crawling. His mind immediately thought of the giant python he had encountered in the "Earth Dragon Blessed Land". If he had the cultivation level, he could naturally deal with it calmly, but now if he encounters such a monster, he is afraid that it will be the same. Hitting a stone with an egg.
He was about to leave quietly when he suddenly heard a woman's cry for help not far away. He didn't have time to think about it and looked in the direction of the sound. He saw a woman lying on the ground in a suddenly clear space, with a look of fear on her face and shouting for help. The woman's face was familiar and she was actually fighting side by side with him in the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons. Ruoxue, a member of the Shangqing sect who has passed the test!
And the monster in front of her was just as he expected, it was a huge python!
The python's body is covered with golden vertical stripes and large clouded leopard-like spots, and its abdomen is a mixture of brown and grass yellow. It raised its huge body, three meters high! The golden pupils stared at Ruoxue, the purple-black letters kept spitting out, and the whole body was like a tight bow, ready to launch a fatal attack at any time!
Ling Ning was startled, and when she touched her waist there was only a sickle for breaking ice. In desperation, she pulled out the sickle, pointed it at the python's eye, and threw it out!
This time, the accuracy was poor, and the knife hit the python's nose, leaving only a small trace of blood before being bounced away by the python's hard scales. But this has successfully attracted the attention of the giant python, which turned its head and rushed towards him suddenly!
Ling Ning couldn't help but turned around and rushed into the forest. He only heard a crackling sound behind him, and then there was a pungent fishy smell, as if a giant python opened its bloody mouth behind him and wanted to kill him in one bite. He swallows it! He was so frightened that he didn't even dare to stop and ran away crazily. Suddenly he heard someone talking in the jungle in front of him. He rushed over and saw three monks walking in the forest. He didn't even see their faces clearly, so he lowered his head and passed between them. Before the three of them had time to react, they were knocked to the ground by the giant python following closely behind them, and then there was a sound of shouting and fighting.
Ling Ning secretly screamed in shame and saw the giant python behind him fighting endlessly with the three of them, so he quickly sneaked back to the open space. Ruoxue was still moaning in pain on the ground. Seeing this, he quickly stepped forward and asked, "How are you? Are you injured anywhere?"
Ruoxue was shocked when she saw that the person in front of her was Ling Ning, whom she had been in trouble with before. She thought she was dreaming. It was not until Ling Ning said it a second time that she replied: "The leg...the leg bone is broken... …”
Ling Ning checked her leg and found that it was indeed broken. He first found the sickle that was lost nearby, then cut two pieces of wood and fixed them on her leg with a belt.
"We need to leave here quickly, you..."
Just by looking at Ruoxue's weak look, he knew that she couldn't move. He picked her up without any explanation and ran into the jungle amidst her screams. After a while, the two of them settled next to a stream. He placed Ruoxue on a rock and fed her some of the flowing stream water with a large leaf unique to the rainforest.
Ruoxue felt much clearer after drinking it, and she truly believed that the person in front of her was Ling Ning, who had disappeared after the Grand Canyon.
"You...why are you here? I remember that among the people who entered the secret realm...there was...not you."
"It's a long story. Are you feeling uncomfortable anywhere else?"
"It's okay, but I'm still a little dizzy."
"This must be because it has absorbed too much miasma in the rainforest. The ventilation here is better. If you blow it for a while, you should be fine."
"Um."
Ruoxue obviously relaxed a lot after seeing him. She closed her eyes and seemed to fall asleep.
Ling Ning saw that she was dressed in pink clothes. The clothes were so thin that she could see her snow-white skin. For a moment, she couldn't bear to look away. But in a dangerous situation, he could only use the greatest perseverance to force himself to take action and build a temporary shelter first. He collected branches and huge leaves, and built a simple small shed at the branch of the strongest tree. Although it was not comfortable, it was far away from the ground, avoided the miasma, and was enough to provide shelter from wind and rain.
After doing all this, the sky had darkened. He carefully carried Ruoxue into the shed, but he woke her up. The surroundings had fallen into darkness, and unknown noises kept coming, as if there were some creatures moving in the jungle.
Ruoxue's voice trembled slightly as she said, "Xiao Ning, are you still there?"
Ling Ning leaned towards her and said, "I'm here."
Ruoxue was relieved and said: "That...that's good, I really almost thought I was still dreaming..."
Although the surroundings were pitch black, Ling Ning could still see things with her eyes. Suddenly she found a black thing on her neck, which seemed to be moving when she looked closely.
"Ruoxue, you...don't move, there seems to be something on your neck..."
"Ah? What is it?" Ruoxue is her daughter's family after all, her face changed slightly when she heard this.
Ling Ning lifted her body up a little and blew on the fire stick she carried with her. Under the light of the fire, Ruoxue's fair skin was dyed with an alluring red glow. She turned her head away slightly with a shy expression, which made her even more shy. Especially the virgin scent of her body made him fascinated.
I didn't have time to appreciate her charming look, so I gently lifted up the clothes on her back, and saw seven or eight black insects crawling on her white back! Ling Ning took a breath, knowing that these were leeches that suck human blood in the rain forest, he calmly said: "Ruoxue, you have a few wounds on your back. You lie down and I will help you take care of them."
It was really embarrassing for a man to see all the skin on her back in this deserted night. Just when Ling Ning thought that she would definitely refuse and curse him as a pervert, she just hesitated slightly and nodded and lay down obediently, which was beyond his expectation.
"I'm going to take off some of the clothes on your back. Don't worry, I will never take advantage of you."
Ruoxue snorted slightly and said, "Didn't you already take advantage of it during the Night Parade of Hundred Ghosts?"
Ling Ning recalled that he had helped bandage the wounds on her "private" parts, and then turned his back and hugged her. It was indeed a "skin-to-skin relationship". Although it could not be said that he had taken advantage of her intentionally, the result was that he had taken advantage of her, and she couldn't help but blush. .
"Why don't you take action?" Ruoxue, on the other hand, didn't act so shy.
Ling Ning coughed lightly and started to slowly pull down the clothes on her back. Ruoxue's touching hum came to her ears immediately. After he calmed down, he concentrated on taking care of the leech on her back. He pointed the fire stick at the leeches and burned them one by one. After a while, the leeches fell off one by one. A few gasps could be heard in his ears from time to time, which added a lot of "difficulty" to this task. After everything was taken care of, he reluctantly glanced at her white back before pulling her clothes back up. He helped her up, looking like a "gentleman".
"Sorry, I just lied to you. In fact, there are a lot of leeches on your back. For your own health, you should check if there are any leeches in other parts of your body. I'll give you the Huozhezi. Use it to roast the leech's back. It will be gone in a while. If it falls off, don’t pull it hard with your hands, as this can easily cause infection!”
Ruoxue was obviously afraid of this kind of bugs. Her face turned pale when she heard this and she quickly checked her body.
"You...you're still looking! Why don't you turn around!" Seeing Ling Ning staring at her like a "goose", she couldn't help but feel her heart beat faster.
"Oh! Sorry! I...I'll go under the tree!"
Ling Ning jumped down from the tree to check if there were any leeches on his body. Because the rain forest was too humid and hot, he had already taken off his animal clothing and was only wearing a white cloth robe. After some inspection, he found that there were no leeches on his body. Normally, he should not be immune, but why were there no leeches on his body? Thinking of this, he caught a few leeches that had just been thrown off the tree and put them on his arms. Unexpectedly, the leeches twisted on his arms but did not suck blood. It suddenly dawned on him that it must be due to his physical force.
You must know that his body has experienced repeated beatings from the "God Transformation Art", and its strength is no less than that of Zi Chen, who has the blood of a divine beast. Naturally, this mere leech cannot hurt him at all. In comparison, a fairy-like figure like Ruoxue would never intentionally temper her body at ordinary times, so she was naturally not as tyrannical as him.
He suddenly felt a chill in his heart and thought: "No! Since the physical strength will be preserved, then why did I get frostbite in the Valley of Spring? How could a mere wind and snow do anything to me?"
An unreal and fleshless feeling suddenly emerged in his heart. He didn't know if he was in an illusion now, or if everything in Spring Valley was an illusion and he was real now.
After thinking for a while, he still couldn't figure it out. At this time, Ruoxue called him up. She had already finished checking and put on her clothes. The two of them were leaning against the tree, not knowing what to say. It started to rain. Ling Ning's position was leaking, and the rain dripped on his shoulders. The small shed was cramped, and he had no place to take shelter from the rain. He was secretly having trouble when he suddenly heard Ruoxue say: "You...is there a leak over there?"
"Well, yes, maybe it's not paved on top..."
Ruoxue hesitated for a moment and said: "You...come closer, there is no rain here."
Ling Ning was stunned and said: "Is this...is this good?"
Although the two of them already have some "skin-to-skin contact", it was a "force majeure" that occurred under special circumstances. In this case, does being too close to one another lead to suspicion of "unholy intentions"?
Ling Ning hesitated in her heart, but Ruoxue hummed: "If you like to get wet in the rain, that's up to you. I didn't expect that a grown man like you is also a mother-in-law!"
Now that she said that, Ling Ning was not polite and turned around to lean against her. Their shoulders were close together, and he could clearly feel the heat radiating from the other's skin, and he could even smell the faint fragrance of virginity on her nose.
"It smells so good." Ling Ning couldn't help but say.
Ruoxue trembled and said displeasedly: "You...what are you talking about?"
Ling Ning couldn't see the expression on her face, and she didn't know where she had offended this young lady. She could only scratch her head and said, "I... I'm just telling the truth... Do I want to say that you stink?"
"You...you are the stinky man! You don't have a good word in your mouth! It's better for me to stay away from you!" Although Ruoxue's mouth was unforgiving, she still let him lean on her without moving.
Ling Ning quietly made a face in the dark and didn't respond to her. The two of them listened to the continuous sound of rain. After a while, Ruoxue said: "Hey, are you asleep?"
"No."
"Well...I haven't asked you yet, how did you get here?"
Ling Ning was also about to ask her, and the two of them started chatting. After chatting, Ling Ning found out that after Ruoxue entered the secret realm, she found herself in a valley called "Winter Valley" , although this valley is called "Winter Valley", it is extremely hot, as if it is about to catch fire. She unexpectedly met a girl named "Zora" and her grandfather. They each wore an "ice jade". Like the blazing jade, this ice jade leads to the mountain god. The key to the temple is that the jade has disappeared since the two came to the rainforest.
It can be said that except for the fact that the two people were in an environment of ice and fire, the other encounters were similar, which shocked Ling Ning. Ruoxue was not so surprised by this. She came to the rainforest one day earlier than him. She happened to meet her fellow apprentices, and after chatting, she found out that they also experienced the same thing, but one of them was in "Spring Valley", one is in "Summer Valley", whether spring or summer, their environment is the extreme antonym of spring and summer.
"Why is this happening? Is everything we have experienced an illusion?" Ling Ning was puzzled by this.
"I don't know about this. I guess this is the first trial of the secret realm. Only those who pass it can come here."
"You...did you take action against Zora? To snatch that piece of ice jade?"
"Of course not, but now think about it, should I take action as soon as possible? When I came, many monks had already arrived here in advance. If I came earlier, I might be able to get clues about Xuanyuan Sword earlier. Maybe someone has found it now. The whereabouts of Xuanyuan Sword."
"But why design such a trial? Do you want to test something?"
"I don't know either. It is said that the content of each secret realm opening is different, and there is no rule to follow."
If the Valley of Spring was a trial, then he might not have failed Grandpa Zora. In this case, he could finally feel relieved, but when he thought of Zora's lonely eyes, he couldn't help but doubt that all this was really just an illusion. ?
The rain gradually stopped. Although the heat and humidity in the rain forest were unbearable, the encounter during the day still consumed a lot of energy from the two of them, and they fell asleep unconsciously.
"boom!"
A loud thunder-like sound rang in their ears, and they both woke up and looked at the sky. A dazzling ball of light floated in the originally dark sky. At the same time, a voice suddenly sounded: "This scene will be closed in two hours. Please gather at the center."
The two looked at each other and knew that the second trial had begun!
