In the capital city of Daqi, south of the ancient city of Qingye, more than three hundred miles away, there is a small mountain range that is not too large in area.
Although the mountain range is not big, there is a peak in it that is thousands of feet high.
This peak is also surrounded by an oval lake.
Therefore, this place can also be called an island in the middle of the lake.
On a relatively gentle spot halfway up the peak in the center of the lake, there is a rock formation made of various colorful rocks.
At the very center of the stone formation, there is a small hole that is extremely cleverly hidden.
The entrance of the cave is covered by a huge orange rock. If someone enters along this path, after walking hundreds of steps, they will find that there is a cave inside.
Here, it turned out to be a cave opened by practitioners with great magic power.
In the cave, in a secret room specially used for cultivation, an old man with a thin face and a short gray beard was sitting cross-legged.
This person is none other than Fatty Bai's grandfather, Li Fuchuan, one of the most powerful late-stage Crystal Realm monks in Daqi Kingdom.
The old man closed his eyes tightly, sat cross-legged on the ground, and breathed evenly. White mist condensed from spiritual energy appeared in and out of his mouth and nose.
Around him, there was a whole circle of discarded spiritual stones that had lost their luster because their spiritual power had been drained away.
After an unknown amount of time, the old man's tightly closed eyes trembled slightly for a few times, and then suddenly opened.
A ray of divine light flashed through his eyes, he let out a breath of turbid air, then slowly spoke, lowered his head and muttered to himself:
"Although if you want to break through from the crystal realm to the golden elixir realm, you only need to have enough spiritual energy accumulation, and you don't need to understand the principles of heaven and earth..."
"However, breaking through this level is still several times more difficult than I thought before..."
"Now, nearly half of the 50,000 spirit stones that I have hoarded specifically to break through this level have been used up. However, this level still shows no sign of being shaken."
Having said this, the old man's expression darkened.
"Could it be that...I am really going to stop at the crystallization realm in this life..."
"I clearly felt an opportunity for a breakthrough last time, but I didn't expect it was just a mirror image, going round and round, and back to the starting point..."
Li Fuchuan was silent for a while, and then suddenly sighed.
"Forget it... I can't continue thinking about it. The more I think about it, the more confused my mind will be and the more distracting thoughts will become. If this continues, I really have no hope of advancing."
After he said this, he took a few deep breaths slowly to calm down, and then waved his hand to sweep aside the circle of discarded spiritual stones surrounding him.
Then, he took out a small pile of brand new spirit stones from his storage jade bracelet and placed them beside him.
After doing this, the old man closed his eyes again, breathed evenly, and prepared to enter the state of cultivation again.
After a moment, his eyes suddenly opened again, and his brows furrowed.
"What's going on... Why did my heart suddenly become so chaotic..."
The old man looked puzzled and puzzled.
He thought for a moment, then turned and looked behind him. There was a small stone table with several soul lamps placed on it.
The most conspicuous soul lamp in the center, but at some point, the soul fire that should have been swaying on it turned out to be extinct.
Seeing this scene, the old man's expression suddenly changed.
"No...it's Zong'er's soul lamp. Something happened to him!"
Seeing that the soul lamp of his most beloved grandson was extinguished, the old man no longer had any thoughts of seclusion.
He stood up straight away. He didn't even have time to take back the spirit stone he had just taken out of the jade bracelet. He touched the ground with his toes and jumped several feet out of thin air, heading straight for the exit of the cave.
The old man smashed the orange boulder blocking the entrance of the cave with one palm, and the next second his figure appeared outside.
He casually activated the formation he had arranged near the cave, and at the same time took out his gourd-shaped flying magic weapon from the storage jade bracelet. After eagerly jumping on it, he headed towards the capital of Daqi at an extremely fast speed. Speed away.
In an instant, the sea of clouds outside the peak in the center of the lake was split into two sides by an invisible force.
In the strong wind, Li Fuchuan stood on the gourd instrument, leaning forward slightly. His expression at this time was extremely ugly.
He took out the communication crystal that could contact his grandson from his storage jade bracelet, and immediately injected his own spiritual power into it, trying to contact the other party.
Although he knew that there was not much hope that his grandson would still be alive at this moment, he still wanted to give it a try.
However, the old man waited patiently for several breaths, but did not receive any response.
At this point, he finally gave up the unrealistic thoughts in his mind.
The old man's eyes showed sadness. After lowering his head and being silent for a long time, this sadness slowly turned into a kind of anger.
He thought for a while and took out another communication crystal from the storage jade bracelet.
This one is used to contact his disciple Wan Guiming.
A few years ago, he left Zong'er in the care of his most trusted disciple.
But I didn't expect that what I got in the end was such a result.
Now, I must ask myself carefully what happened!
When he thought of this, the anger in Li Fuchuan's heart began to surge.
He took a deep breath and injected a little bit of his spiritual power into it.
However, just like the situation when contacting his grandson, several breaths passed without any response.
When the old man saw this, his expression changed drastically again.
what happened?
Could it be that... even he suffered a serious blow?
No... Before I came out, I clearly saw that the soul lamp he left in the cave was burning extremely steadily.
When this happens, there are only two possibilities.
The first is that he is trapped at the moment and cannot receive my message.
The second one... is that he betrayed himself!
No matter which possibility it is, it is not good news for myself.
Thinking of this, Li Fuchuan's face turned completely gloomy.
He stopped injecting spiritual power into the communication crystal and put it back into his storage jade bracelet. At the same time, he speeded up his journey again.
Now, only after going to that place in person can we know what the situation is.
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On the other side, Wan Guiming stepped on a leaf-shaped flying magic weapon and galloped through the air.
His expression at this time, like his teacher's, was extremely gloomy.
Just a few breaths ago, he felt the trembling and buzzing of the communication crystal in his storage jade bracelet that contacted his teacher.
Seeing this, he took it out without saying a word and crushed it into pieces.
The purpose of doing this was because he suddenly remembered that the communication crystal that the other party left for him had a position-tracking circle attached to it.
If it is not destroyed, his location will definitely be traced.
After doing this, Wan Guiming thought about it carefully while running away frantically, and confirmed that there was no other similar thing on his body. Then he breathed a sigh of relief and continued to run away with peace of mind.
