Journey to the head

The telescope flashed with a soft light, and the scene on the other side gradually emerged.

Behind a layer of white gauze, a hazy, graceful figure appeared, and then Ji Yunrou's lazy, slightly hoarse voice came out: "What wind brought Master Lu here? Before, I invited him repeatedly, but Master Lu refused to talk to me face to face, always across from me through this cold mirror. Today, he took the initiative to come to your house, but he got tired of playing with Sister Qingfeng, so he remembered that there is still a poor person like me."

It looked as if the telescope was placed by her in the corner of a stone chamber, and at this moment it was reflecting the entire picture of the stone chamber, as well as Ji Yunrou who was hidden behind the white gauze and could not be seen clearly.

Thinking of this, Lu Qian hasn't been underground in Qianlongjian for nearly ten years.

The last time he came here was because the Xuanwei Sect was searching this place. Lu Qian was worried, so after the Xuanwei Sect monks withdrew, he went underground to meet Ji Yunrou.

Fortunately, the underground water system of Qianlongjian is interconnected, stretching for an unknown distance, unfathomable, and impossible to fully explore. Ji Yunrou was also very cautious and did not leave any traces of life, so Xuanwei Sect did not notice anything unusual.

After that, Lu Qian would only go to Qianlongjian once a year to talk to Ji Yunrou through a telescope to confirm that she was in good condition. He never went underground to visit her again.

It was because Ji Yunrou's methods were so powerful that Lu Qian found it difficult to resist. Moreover, she was real and fake, fake and real. Lu Qian could not figure out her sincerity. He could only stay away from such a person who could use her body as a weapon to travel the world, so as not to fall into her trap and be taken advantage of.

But now, Ji Yunrou still doesn't know that she has passed the heavenly tribulation and achieved the golden elixir. After achieving the golden elixir, Lu Qian's confidence naturally doubled and he was fearless, so he decided to meet Ji Yunrou this time to see how her cultivation has been over the years.

Lu Qian had always been somewhat skeptical about her claim that she sought a strand of true dragon blood in order to restore her life span by 50 years, thus having a chance to transcend the calamity and form an elixir, thereby increasing her life span and escaping the fate of death due to old age. Naturally, now was a good time to investigate.

After hearing Ji Yunrou's resentful words, Lu Qian remained unmoved and said calmly: "This time, there is an important matter. I think it is better to talk about it in person."

Ji Yunrou snorted softly, "Important things, important things. Why are there so many important things? Even if there is something very important, I will go into the underground river. Except for the true immortals, who can find me? Since you are not here to see me, please turn back, Master Lu."

Lu Qian was a little surprised. Over the years, Ji Yunrou had always tried her best to let him in. He didn't expect that this time when he really wanted to go in, he would be turned away.

This actually aroused Lu Qian's interest, and he said with a smile: "It's business, but I'm here to visit you, otherwise why would I run to this ruin in the middle of the night?"

Under the bright moonlight, Lu Qian was standing in a shallow beach, stepping lightly on the rippling water, his boots free of water and dust.

After the great battle with Master Mengchi, Qianlong Gorge was completely destroyed and its landform was completely changed. The cliffs on both sides collapsed, and countless boulders fell, turning the once deep and gentle stream into a stream flowing through the cracks in the rocks.

Nature is a magical workmanship. After twenty years of natural evolution, the stream has spread everywhere and turned into a large mudflat-like landform. Although the water surface is shallow, the area is wide, and there are many small fish and shrimps living in the puddles, which adds a unique wild charm.

As for the spiritual vein of Qianlongjian, it was originally in the belly of the mountain. Now that the mountain has collapsed, it is directly exposed to the air, spreading rippling spiritual mist in all directions.

Although the Mingyu Sword Sect did not repair this place, it did not completely ignore it. Every now and then they would send disciples to patrol here and drive away or detain suspicious people. Otherwise, this place would have been occupied by independent cultivators who heard the news.

Even so, Lu Qian could still see some traces of life and residence on the relatively flat stone surfaces, which were basically left by the monks who had stayed here. Fortunately, today was a coincidence, and when he scanned the area with his spiritual sense, there was no trace of anyone.

After receiving Lu Qian's reply, Ji Yunrou seemed very satisfied and chuckled a few times: "Then please enter through waterway number four, Master Lu. I will send my servants to meet you."

Serve? Lu Qian raised his eyebrows, responded, and then immediately disconnected the communication.

He took a few glances and found a half-collapsed boulder that looked shaky and was covering a rippling water wave.

Lu Qian walked to the huge rock, used a water-avoiding technique, sank his body, and dived into the water under the rock.

The body of Jindan Zhenren is leak-free, so naturally he no longer needs to breathe outside the body. He still breathes every day just out of habit. As long as his mind moves, he can enter the state of fetal breathing and internal circulation, and it doesn't matter how long he stays underwater.

As for water-based magic, although Lu Qian did not specialize in it, he had the dual spiritual roots of gold and water, and he also practiced the top-level water-attributed fundamental magic "Taishang Xuanling Zhenhai Shengong", so diving deep into the water was naturally a problem for him.

When you dive underwater at this moment, you will see rubble all over the ground, and holes of varying sizes everywhere between the rocks. Each one is dark and deep, which makes people feel frightened, as if some monster will pop out of the hole at the next moment.

Lu Qian swept his spiritual sense and followed the passage in his memory, found a triangular hole, and continued to go deeper.

The further downstream he went, the darker the light became. Lu Qian simply closed his eyes, and his surging spiritual consciousness surged out from the Niwan Palace, like a huge silk net probing forward. No tiny change could escape his keen perception.

Although this is not my first time here, I am still amazed by the complex and twisted landforms here. The further down this waterway goes, the more tortuous it becomes, and there are frequent forks in the road.

Diving hundreds of feet deep, there are dark undercurrents, holes where you can't tell the direction, and underwater fish that panic and bump into you from time to time.
If Lu Qian did not have an excellent memory and would never have remembered the wrong way, and if he was not very confident in his own cultivation, he would probably have panicked and lost his mind at this time.

After diving in this complex underground water network for nearly an incense stick of time, and not knowing how deep or far he had come to the bottom of the abyss, a faint light finally appeared in front of him. Lu Qian's figure flashed and rushed forward, and the next moment he broke through the water and stepped into a slanted stone path.

Only here did we arrive at the door of Ji Yunrou's hiding place.

She has several hiding places, and this one is the deepest and farthest one, having long been out of the range of the Qianlongjian spiritual vein. It is not a place for cultivation, but simply a hiding place.

This is a naturally formed cavity deep underground in a complex water network. The interior is also intricate and the passages are connected in series. Hiding here, it is almost impossible to find her.

The stone path was inlaid with round beads of different sizes, emitting a faint light, allowing people to barely see their feet. Lu Qian shook himself lightly, and the moisture on his body instantly evaporated and drained away, and his whole body became dry again.

He gathered his spiritual power and was looking around when suddenly the sound of footsteps came from the stone path.

A little girl dressed strangely appeared in the stone path. She was pale and covered with messy, faintly glowing wrappings. What made people feel cold was that she had no eyes on her face! Where the eyes should have been, there were only two shallow pits with nothing inside, just pale skin.

Lu Qian's consciousness moved slightly and he sensed it immediately.

This girl is not a human, but a phantom monster, which is equivalent to the foundation-building cultivation of humans!
Is this the servant that Ji Yunrou recruited from?
It seems that a lot of things that I don’t know about have happened in the past ten years.

"Guest." The little demon seemed to be ignorant of etiquette and said indifferently, "The Saint sent me to pick you up, come with me."

Saint? Lu Qian was stunned for a moment, then nodded and followed.

The cavity in this underground water network is very large and the routes are complicated. Ji Yunrou changes positions frequently, so she really cannot do it without someone to lead her.

With all kinds of doubts, Lu Qian followed the little demon and tried to talk to him along the way, but the little demon was very rude and didn't say a word.

Lu Qian couldn't help but feel a little annoyed, but for Ji Yunrou's sake, he didn't get angry. He just shut up and followed behind her.

After winding around in various forks in the road and spending a cup of tea, we arrived at a huge stone chamber.

This stone chamber had obvious traces of chiseling, and was dozens of feet high and wide, making people look insignificant inside it. Lu Qian was looking around when suddenly his spiritual consciousness moved, and his spiritual power surged. He turned his head and saw a huge gray python poking its head out of a dark hole beside him, and swallowed him in one gulp!

There was a sudden clanging sound, and a cyan-gold chain as thick as a bowl emerged from the void, tightly gripping the giant python's upper and lower jaws, making it unable to move at all. Lu Qian stretched out his hand and lightly tapped, and a ball of dark lightning sank into the giant python's throat. A low, crackling sound resounded through the passage, and the black lightning surged instantly, completely engulfing the huge snake head.

The headless snake corpse collapsed in the hole, and the smelly blood gushed out, but it couldn't get within three feet of Lu Qian's body.

The little demon then turned around and before he could say halfway "stop" the gray python was easily killed by Lu Qian.

Lu Qian was not interested in this gray python which was also at the foundation-building stage, but he was puzzled as to why snake demons would suddenly attack him in Ji Yunrou's territory, and where did these snake demons come from?
Using his spiritual power, the spiritual pressure on Lu Qian's body began to rise. The overwhelming pressure made the little demon leading the way in front of him scream and crawl away: "You are in the Jindan realm, a human Jindan master!"

Lu Qian was stunned, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

It turns out that you, little devil, have been so rude along the way because you don’t even know who I am.

The body of the golden elixir is perfect and flawless. So you think I am a mortal? Including this gray python, so you dare to attack me brazenly?
This is even more strange, how could these monsters be so ignorant?

While he was thinking about it, suddenly there was a rustling sound coming from all directions. One after another huge pythons poked their heads out of the holes, their tongues flickering, and all aimed in the direction of Lu Qian.

Every one of them was eyeless, and where the eyeballs should be, there were pits covered with scales.

Lu Qian's heart moved. It seemed that they had been multiplying underground for thousands of years, so their eyesight had deteriorated and even their eyeballs had disappeared.

How did Ji Yunrou get involved with these strange blind snakes?
Before Lu Qian could ask, the little demon had already shouted: "Even if you are a golden elixir, you will not be able to leave alive today if you kill our people!"

The giant pythons raised their heads and their huge roars echoed underground.

Immediately afterwards, there were several loud bangs, and the rock wall suddenly shattered. Several increasingly huge figures rushed into the stone chamber, standing out among these strange pythons in the foundation-building stage.

That is a python monster in the Jindan stage!

Lu Qian's expression became serious, and the white crane feather cloak on his body spread out silently. The feathers rubbed against each other and made a clear sound. His left hand, which was gathered in his sleeves, tightly grasped the golden branch, and the five-colored light from his right hand began to bloom slightly.

"Ji Yunrou!" he shouted, "What the hell are you doing?"

The python monster had surrounded Lu Qian, its foul and poisonous breath filling the entire stone chamber, and it was about to pounce on him in the next moment. The formation diagram in Lu Qian's arms had been unfolded, and the five-color formation area instantly covered the area.

The next moment, a sweet laugh was heard: "Oh, it's all a misunderstanding. We are all family. Don't hurt the harmony."

The ground shook, the walls of the stone chamber collapsed, and a huge white snake head rose up. Ji Yunrou's figure was standing on the snake head.

But at this moment Lu Qian had no time to look at Ji Yunrou. His face changed, he stretched out his hand and waved, the formation unfolded, and five-colored light continued to surge in the air.

That gigantic white snake has the cultivation level of Nascent Soul!
"Master Lu, please quickly retract your magical powers." Ji Yunrou's voice became serious, "Otherwise I can't help you anymore."

Lu Qian was silent for a while. With a quick glance of his spiritual sense, he determined that there were forty-three foundation-building snake monsters, four golden elixir snake monsters, and one Yuanying monster!
A chill ran through my heart. If a conflict really came out, I was afraid that I would not be able to leave this place alive!
A feeling of fear that I hadn't felt in a long time surged into my heart, accompanied by a strong sense of regret.

After entering the Jindan realm, I first surrounded and killed Qiming Lingjun, and then killed Sikong Heng, who was in the late Jindan stage. I was looked at differently by Miaomiao Xuanjun, and was wooed and recruited by the Lingshou Sect and "Wild Fox Zen". I also swallowed up Junle County. When I gave an order, millions of mortals would move, and tens of thousands of cultivators would be at my command.

With great power in hand, and with it comes fame that spreads all around.
I actually became a little cocky, thinking I could look down on my peers. I lost my sense of awe and lacked caution!

As a result, he didn't take any precautions today, and just relied on old impressions and blind self-confidence to go deep into the bottom of Qianlong Abyss. As a result, he was surrounded here, and his life and death were in the hands of others!
If I die here, it would be a disgrace and a laughing stock!
At the critical moment of life and death, Lu Qian's consciousness started to work rapidly, and he was trying his best to find a way to survive.

Suddenly the white python spoke: "Saint, is this your friend?" (End of this chapter)