Purple Mansion Grotto Heaven.

The sun was shining brightly, and a gentle breeze was blowing.

Qin Luo appeared on a boundless grassland, a place teeming with life and filled with rich energy.

"What a huge space."

The Purple Mansion Cave is larger than White Cloud Town.

Qin Luo looked around, then closed his eyes to sense the world around him. In the middle of the grassland stood a magnificent palace surrounded by a deep blue lake. To the left of the palace was a garden, to the right a medicinal herb garden, and behind it a spacious training ground.

The Purple Mansion Grotto is a veritable paradise on earth. Qin Luo prefers tranquility, but he doesn't like this place. Living here alone, he would probably lose all his emotions and desires, which would be so boring.

Qin Luo walked to the vicinity of the lake. The lake water was clear and contained a large amount of spiritual substances.

"Why do I feel like I'm being watched?"

Qin Luo looked up and saw the 'sun' in the sky, the scorching 'sun' staring at him.

The 'sun' in the Purple Mansion Grotto is a huge vertical eye, comparable to a star, radiating intense light.

"To refine the eyes of a ferocious beast into the sun, what a grand scheme." Qin Luo was slightly surprised; the pressure emanating from that vertical eye was even stronger than that of the Mirror Lake Dragon Girl.

There was no spiritual fluctuation in the vertical eye, indicating that it had been refined into a supreme treasure. Qin Luo saw intricate patterns in the vertical eye, which concealed a killing array, presumably designed to deal with outsiders.

Qin Luo confronted the vertical-eyed man.

The Purple Mansion Cave was eerily quiet.

That vertical eye possesses world-destroying power.

Qin Luo remained composed, unmoved even if Mount Tai collapsed before him, and without blinking an eye even if a deer ran past to his left.

Shuyan suddenly closed his eyes.

It dared not look Qin Luo in the eye.

The once sunny Purple Mansion Grotto-heaven turned into night in an instant, and the sky was filled with stars.

Those starlight points are not real stars, but are made up of countless luminous gems.

Qin Luo thought of the ancient legend, "Open eyes are day, closed eyes are night, could this be the eye of the Candle Dragon?"

"The powerful beings who opened up the Purple Mansion Cave Heaven were very strong, but such powerful beings have disappeared without a trace."

Qin Luo originally intended to go to the palace on the other side of the lake, but he suddenly noticed the strangeness of the lake water and immediately plucked a light green grass from the shore and threw it into the lake.

The green grass sank rapidly into the lake.

The lake wasn't deep, and the green grass disappeared without a trace after it fell. Qin Luo could see clearly that the green grass hadn't disappeared, but had been decomposed and turned into part of the lake.

"No wonder there are no fish or shrimp in the lake. If a cultivator were to step into the lake, there probably wouldn't even be any trace left."

The Purple Mansion Grotto appears tranquil, but it harbors hidden dangers. The vertical eye above and the lake in front of the palace would surely cause ordinary cultivators to be annihilated if they came here.

Qin Luo's eyes gleamed with golden light. He saw that there were special rules in the middle of the lake, which prevented the use of magic. If a cultivator were to rashly take to the air, they would definitely fall into the middle of the lake.

"interesting."

Qin Luo crouched down and cast a spell. He pressed his five fingers into the ground, and stone pillars kept emerging from the ground beside him. The stone pillars grew taller and taller, even longer than the lake.

When the stone pillar fell.

A stone bridge appeared.

Qin Luo crossed the stone bridge and arrived in front of the palace. The area around the palace was very clean, without a speck of dust. The palace was decorated with magnificent gold and jade, but it seemed particularly deserted.

Any item in the palace would be priceless, but Qin Luo wasn't interested in them. He went to the deepest room in the palace, where a white jade altar was placed in the center, and a golden incense burner was placed next to it.

A jade pendant was placed on the white jade platform.

Qin Luo walked closer, but instead of touching the jade pendant, he used his divine sense to detect if there was anything wrong with it.

There was a spiritual fluctuation within the jade pendant. Qin Luo saw a tall, slender figure with long, flowing purple hair cascading over his shoulders. "Fated one, the Purple Mansion Grotto-Heaven will be yours from now on."

"Senior, don't you want the Purple Mansion Grotto-Heaven?"

"I'm not coming back."

“Senior, I can help you take care of the Purple Mansion Grotto-heaven. If you come back, the Purple Mansion Grotto-heaven will still be yours.”

"Alright."

The preciousness of this blessed land is self-evident; the fact that he wouldn't even accept it for free amused the purple-haired fairy.

Qin Luo could only see the purple-haired fairy's back, not her true face. "May I ask how you are addressed, senior?"

“My real name is related to cause and effect; even if you silently recite it in your heart, you may suffer misfortune.”

Qin Luo was shocked. If the purple-clad fairy in front of him were still alive, she might be even stronger than his master.

"I am Qin Luo, from Longhu Temple on Luoxia Peak."

"The lineage of Longhu Temple has not been broken."

"Senior, do you know about the Dragon Tiger Temple?"

"The founder of Longhu Temple was a disciple of the Taoist Ancestor. He perished in that earth-shattering battle. I thought Longhu Temple would disappear, but I never expected it to be passed down to this day."

It turns out that Longhu Temple has such a great background. Qin Luo used to think that his master's words were unreliable, but now he realized that his master was so low-key that he never told him such stories.

Is it a battle of gods?

"good."

"Then who are you fighting for, senior?"

Not for anyone else.

The purple-haired fairy said softly, "All living beings suffer. We are all struggling to cross the river. We can barely save ourselves, so who else can we help?"

Qin Luo seemed to be deep in thought. He recalled Jiang Qingxue saying something similar: the world is a cage, and the physical body is a shackle, both of which are imprisoned here. "Senior wants to escape this world."

"As expected of cultivators from Longhu Temple, perhaps we will meet again on the path to immortality."

The purple-haired fairy's laughter was clear and melodious.

Qin Luo seemed to understand but not quite. He cupped his hands in greeting and said, "Senior, I won't disturb your rest any longer."

"Wait a minute."

"Keep the jade pendant on your person."

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