Chapter 15: Adventure in the Cave
Xie Zimo immediately began to practice according to the exercise route map. After a while, he felt the difference and was overjoyed. Now that he had achieved success in his practice, why would he still be afraid of those people's plots?
"Prince, where is Mr. Gu?" Ying Qi asked when he came back and didn't see Gu Shihan.
"Let's go!" Xie Zimo suppressed the joy in his heart and said in a calm voice.
"Prince, how could you let him go? If you keep him by your side, your safety will be much better guaranteed. Today, I seem to have seen people following him outside again. They should not have given up on the assassination."
"I understand, Yingqi, you and Yingyi keep a close eye on the outside world. I'm going to find a secret room to meditate for a few days. Don't disturb me for anything!" After Xie Zimo said this, he went to the secret room. This house was also Xie Zimo's property.
Not to mention Xie Zimo who was in seclusion for cultivation, Gu Shihan left Hua Town and went straight to the border. She planned to sneak into the Western Jin Dynasty through the Canaan Mountains.
In fact, the Canaan Mountains are a boundary separating the Western Jin Dynasty and Dong'an. The Western Jin Dynasty and Dong'an are adjacent to each other for more than 3,000 miles, and the Canaan Mountains occupy half of it.
However, the inner area of the Canaan Mountains is quite complex. Basically no one can cross it from Dong'an, and of course no one can cross it from Western Jin Dynasty. This is a natural barrier between the two countries.
After entering the Canaan Mountains, Gu Shihan felt something a little different, as if there was an extremely thin spiritual energy.
"Xingbai, do you think the Canaan Mountains are a little different?"
"Maybe. I haven't felt much difference yet, Hanhan. There is indeed some spiritual energy in the sparsely populated mountains and forests. It's not surprising." Xingbai said after feeling it.
The man and the beast shuttled through the jungle. The further they went, the more difficult it became. From time to time, they would encounter wild wolves, poisonous snakes, poisonous insects and the like.
Before entering the mountain, Gu Shihan changed into the robes and boots in the space, and also put on a curtain on his head to protect himself from snakes and insects.
Now that Gu Shihan is a cultivator at the seventh level of Qi training, some ordinary beasts are no threat to her at all.
"Hanhan, have we reached the center area? It's really strange here. There are several spiritual herbs." Xingbai looked around.
"Xingbai, since there are immortal cultivators in this world, it's not surprising that there are special places. Should we stay for a few days and check it out?"
"Okay! Hanhan, look, there is a cave over there. We can stay there."
The man and the beast settled down like this. The man and the beast came to the cave and said, "Hanhan, I'm afraid this cave is a little different."
"Hmm? What do you mean? I don't see any difference?!"
"Your cultivation is still low, and your understanding of formations is too shallow. Look, there are traces of formations here, but over time, the formations have lost their aura and are useless!"
"Traces of formations? Does that mean there are traces left by immortal cultivators in this cave? Xingbai, I'll go check it out."
"Hanhan, you are right, let's go in now!" Xingbai said and was about to run into the cave.
Shi Han grabbed Xing Bai and said, "Xing Bai, don't be so reckless. Since the formation of this cave is broken, there is no guarantee that there are no wild animals hiding in it. It is better to be careful."
"That's right. I forgot about it because I was so happy. Hanhan, I don't feel any danger. Please use your spiritual sense to check."
Gu Shihan smiled and nodded, and probed his spiritual sense into the cave. "Hey, something is blocking my exploration. It seems that there is something blocking my spiritual sense. It seems that there is something strange about this cave."
Shi Han suddenly became interested and took Xing Bai into the cave. After walking for about a quarter of an hour, they were blocked by a stone door.
"It is this thing that prevents my spiritual sense from probing. Xingbai, do you know what is on this stone door?"
"Let me see!"
Xing Bai came to the stone door and pushed it with his little paw, "Hanhan, there is a formation on the door that blocks divine sense detection. It's strange, how come this formation is still well preserved?"
"Can it be cracked?" Shi Han also came over, "It seems that the formation must be learned."
"Okay, but it will take some time!"
"As long as we can break it, we have plenty of time, no need to rush." The man and the fox began to study carefully, looking for a point to break the formation.
Three days passed, the formation was broken, and the stone door was gently pushed open by Shi Han.
What is behind the stone gate is very simple, just a stone house, a stone table, a stone chair and a stone bed.
There was a dry skeleton sitting on the stone bed. The moment the stone door opened, the dry skeleton quickly turned into a pile of dust and scattered on the stone door.
With two soft "ding-dang-dang" sounds, a black bead and a storage ring rolled out.
Gu Shihan did not step forward. However, she had seen records of people being reborn through possessing another's body, and she might be one of them.
Since I'm alive, I don't want to be possessed by someone else. Wouldn't I be at a loss if I did that?
"Hanhan, I'll go pick it up, you take care of yourself!" Xingbai walked towards the black beads and the storage ring.
The black bead rolled a few times, and a wisp of white floated out from it, slowly gathering into a very faint human figure.
The shadow said helplessly: "My friend, you are cautious enough. Don't worry, I will not take over your body, because my soul power is too low, and it will dissipate with just a little effort.
The fact that you can come here means that we are destined to meet. I am the second son of the Gu family in the spiritual world. After my parents passed away, I should have been the elder brother to take over the position of the clan leader.
We two brothers were besieged because of the rebellion of our tribe and had to escape. We never expected that our two closest relatives not only wanted the position of tribe leader, but also our lives.
We had no choice but to use forbidden techniques to escape. I didn’t want to fall into this mundane world. Without spiritual energy to heal my wounds, I struggled for decades but still died from my injuries.”
"Are you from the spiritual world? Are we really in the mortal world? Is there a way to the spiritual world?" Gu Shihan became interested as soon as he heard it and asked.
“Yes, there is a ladder in the center of Wushan Mountain. Only the native cultivators can climb this ladder. There are also regulations on cultivation level. That is, only cultivators below the foundation-building stage can hope to climb the ladder to the spirit world.
Alas, I wanted to go check it out, but I didn’t want to be too seriously injured to leave the mountains,…”
"Senior, you said that you fell with your brother, do you know where he is?" Shi Han asked with a gleam in his eyes.
"I don't know. I just know that he should have been alive at that time. Later, I became weaker and weaker and it was even harder to detect him." There was pain in the shadow's eyes, and it didn't seem fake.
"My dear friend, your coming here shows that we are destined to be together. I can see that you have a feeling of attachment in your heart. Your last name is Gu. Can you test our bloodline?"
"Blood test? Senior, I'm sure I have no blood relationship with you." Shi Han was stunned and quickly denied it.
"My friend, there is not much harm in taking a test. There is a blood test plate in the storage ring. All you have to do is drop a drop of blood into it. If there is a reaction, then you have a blood relationship. Otherwise, you don't."
(End of this chapter)
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