A long and narrow lake stretches before your eyes. There is a pavilion in the middle of the lake, connected to the land opposite by a bamboo bridge.
There is a stretch of buildings on the land, that is where the real Mo residence is located.
If you want to get through, you have to pass through the lake in front of you.
There are several lotus leaves the size of washbasins floating on the lake, and stone pillars are distributed on the shore. These stone pillars seem to be disorderly, but they are actually arranged in a certain order.
Another formation.
To be honest, these formations of the Mo family were too simple for Xue Huan. Asking her to crack them was like asking a college student to solve kindergarten problems. She could know the answers at a glance.
Xue Huan walked over and kicked one of the stone pillars. A series of clicking sounds were heard on the lake, as if some mechanism had been activated.
A stone bridge appeared on the lake.
Just as Xue Huan was about to step on it, a flash of silver suddenly appeared before her eyes. Upon closer inspection, she saw that the top of the stone bridge was densely crisscrossed with silver threads as thin as spider silk. Those silver threads were transparent and difficult to detect.
If the light hadn't refracted just now, she wouldn't have been able to notice it.
She picked up a stone and threw it over. The stone hit the silver wire and was cut into several pieces. The hard stone was as fragile as tofu in front of these silver wires.
The man's skin and flesh were even more vulnerable.
If she had just bumped into it without realizing it—
Even though her current physical strength is far beyond that of ordinary people, it is not as hard as stone, so you can imagine what her end will be.
The formations in the bamboo forest before could be considered a test for her, but what about now? This stone bridge covered with sharp silver lines before her was filled with malice, aimed at taking her life.
Xue Huan waved the snowflake knife and cut the silver threads in two or three strokes.
After discovering the black iron stone, she re-melted the Snowflake Knife and added black iron to it. Now the Snowflake Knife has become sharper, and when these silver threads touch it, they become as fragile as real spider silk.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Xue Huan cut as she went along, unstoppable and unstoppable.
Since Mo Shiqi is not polite, don't expect her to remain calm. If he wants to use these silver threads to reap her life, then she will cut all these silver threads!
After crossing the stone bridge, Xue Huan did not step into the pavilion rashly. Who knows what kind of mechanisms and formations are hidden in it?
With a sweep of her spiritual sense, she discovered the key point and decided to take advantage of the situation.
The moment he stepped into the pavilion, the sound of mechanical movement was heard, and iron plates quickly fell from the top and all four sides of the pavilion, fitting together with the iron plates at the bottom of the pavilion, forming a tightly fitting iron box that trapped Xue Huan inside.
At first she thought Mo Shiqi wanted to trap her to death in the iron box, but she soon discovered that he was far more vicious than she had imagined.
A feeling of weightlessness suddenly came over her, and the iron box that trapped her fell down and crashed heavily into the water. At this time, she found that there was a small round hole on the top of the iron box, and the lake water continued to pour in through this small hole.
The front, back, left, right and bottom were all tightly sealed. Xue Huan tried it and found that the iron plate was very thick and could not be broken with her current strength. There was only a small hole left at the top, but this hole was used to release water.
The water level in the box continued to rise, and the people trapped inside could only watch in despair as they were drowned little by little, struggling in vain, and finally their whole bodies were immersed in water.
The average person can only hold their breath underwater for five or six minutes at most, which means the trapped person is left watching death approach.
Death is not scary, what is scary is the process of waiting to die.
This kind of situation with nowhere to escape will drive people crazy, right?
On the shore, two women walked slowly. One was wearing a blue dress and was about sixteen or seventeen years old. She had an oval face, willow-shaped eyebrows, and a pair of big watery eyes with a little red at the corners, just like rabbit eyes. She looked pure and fragile, which could arouse people's desire to protect her.
The other one was wearing red, about eighteen or nineteen years old, with a bright appearance and a high spirit.
"Sister Mo, is this not a good idea? What if Zhao Yu dies?" Liu Jirou, the woman in blue, asked worriedly.
The sister Mo she was referring to was the woman in red beside her, Mo Xuefei. She and Mo Shiqi were siblings from the same mother. They had grown bored at the Mo family home, so they came to play with their brother.
"Let him die. He is just a flatterer seeking favor. Do you think Pei Ji dares to cause trouble for my Mo family for him?" Mo Xuefei said in an arrogant tone.
As the most favored granddaughter of the Mo family, she doesn't even take the crown prince Pei Ji seriously.
The only ones she cared about were the young talents from other aristocratic families, such as Hua Junxiu from the Hua family, Sun Youxuan from the Sun family, and Ji Zhonglun from the Ji family.
What good does it matter if people in the secular world are powerful? At most, they will die in their sixties or seventies. However, the people of these major families have mastered the cultivation methods passed down from ancient times. As long as they practice successfully, living to a hundred years old is not a problem at all, and two hundred years is also possible.
If I had the help of some magical medicine, maybe I could live even longer!
Even if the emperor of the mortal world is rich, he cannot get the elixir. Only a few families like them with ancient heritage can refine it.
Those Taoist priests who claim to be able to create miraculous elixirs are nothing but charlatans! It's a pity that the current emperor actually believes them. It's so stupid that it's laughable.
She has this attitude towards the emperor Mo Xuefei in the secular world, and she is even more dismissive of other mortals. So how did she get together with Liu Jirou?
This brings us to the purpose of Mo Xuefei's coming down the mountain this time. On the one hand, she came to play with her brother, and on the other hand, she was entrusted with an important task by her family - to find someone with spiritual roots.
Among the five major families, for example the Mohist family, not every member has spiritual roots. It can even be said that the vast majority do not have spiritual roots.
As the family is passed down from generation to generation, the bloodline is constantly diluted, the proportion of ordinary people among the descendants is getting higher and higher, and the number of people with spiritual roots is getting smaller and smaller.
Spiritual roots are the prerequisite for a person to cultivate immortality. Only with this prerequisite can one embark on this path.
This condition alone excludes 99.999% of people, and only a very small number of people are lucky enough to embark on the path to immortality.
If both parents have spiritual roots, then the child born is more likely to have spiritual roots. This probably involves issues of genetic inheritance.
In order to increase the chances of having descendants with spiritual roots in the family and to enhance the strength of the family, several major families would go to the secular world every once in a while to select people with spiritual roots to bring back to the family and reproduce offspring for the clan.
If you are lucky enough to give birth to a child with spiritual roots, your status will be improved, and you may even be taught the art of cultivation and become the immortal that ordinary people dream of; if you are unlucky... you will become a tool for reproduction and have a miserable end.
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