"Qingxi, the Xiao family's Demon Heart Pool has been around for too long and cannot accommodate too many people practicing at the same time. I won't go in with you. You should be careful." Xiao Ningyuan put away his spells, showed a stiff smile on his face, and said to Gu Qingxi.
It's not because he was unwilling to let outsiders go to the Demon Heart Pool to practice, but because he got Gu Qingxi's promise yesterday, the old man laughed all night, even when he was sleeping.
So when he got up in the morning, his mouth started to cramp, and it hasn't recovered yet.
Isn't it just hugging a big thick leg? He's an elder of the family. Look how happy you are. Beside him, Xiao Yutang couldn't help but curl his lips.
But he completely forgot that when he heard Gu Qingxi's words yesterday, he was also in a state of ups and downs, and couldn't calm down for a long time. He still has two big dark circles under his eyes.
"Elder Xiao, we will be careful." Gu Qingxi nodded, and stepped into the hall with Xiao Yutang.
Behind them, the heavy door of the hall slowly closed.
Xiao Ningyuan and the head of the family certainly would not stay outside all the time. After seeing that there was nothing else to do, they left.
Outside the hall, there were only a few young disciples who took turns to guard the Demon Heart Hall, and Xiao Yujin's young confidant was among them.
The so-called Demon Heart Pool is actually not a pool, but a huge rock with a radius of nearly ten feet. The entire Demon Heart Hall was built around this huge rock.
After billions of years of wind and rain erosion, the surface of the rock is uneven, and the abrupt edges and corners present a variety of shapes, some like monsters howling to the sky, and some like fairy birds spreading their wings and flying high.
This is called Kunyuan Stone. In terms of texture and use, it is not even the lowest level of spiritual crystal, but it can imprint the laws of heaven and earth from the changes of heaven and earth, and integrate the killing intentions of the powerful demon cultivators into it.
Since ancient times, the demon cultivators and sects in the cultivation world have used this characteristic of Kunyuan Stone to build the Demon Heart Pool.
However, the texture of Kunyuan Stone itself is too fragile to withstand too strong killing intent, so there are very few demon cultivation families and sects in Tiancang Continent that have Demon Heart Pool.
Although Xiao Yutang is a direct descendant of the Xiao family and has received the unremitting support of the great elder, it is still the first time for him to come to the Demon Heart Pool for training.
As far as he knows, even Xiao Yujin was just promoted to the God Transformation Realm. In order to show encouragement, the head of the family specially opened the Demon Heart Hall and let him come in to practice for a long time.
"Qingxi, are we going to start practicing now?" Xiao Yutang said to Gu Qingxi impatiently.
At the moment when the door of the hall was closed, a series of ethereal and fantastic lights diffused from the strange rocks, which contained the killing intent left by the ancestors of the Xiao family.
These killing intentions are somewhat similar to the thousands of sword intentions that Gu Qingxi comprehended in the Jiuli Mingxu Realm, but because they come from the magic cultivator, they are more pure and can help future magic cultivators greatly consolidate their magic hearts. The effect is more than ten or a hundred times stronger than other natural treasures or elixirs.
"Wait, don't worry." Gu Qingxi said cautiously, concentrating his consciousness and carefully checking the hall and the Kunyuan Stone under his feet.
Xiao Yutang was so anxious that his mouth was about to blister, but after hearing what Gu Qingxi said, he suppressed his excitement.
Seeing her solemn expression, she still held the hilt of the sword and was carefully alert.
The facts that had happened before have proved to him countless times that he believed Gu Qingxi would not be wrong. Especially if he was in danger and wanted to survive, he believed that Gu Qingxi would not be wrong.
As a loyal brain-dead fan, Xiao Yutang's belief would never waver.
But this time, Gu Qingxi seemed to have guessed something wrong. She explored again and again with her consciousness, but she never found anything unusual.
"Qingxi, what happened?" Xiao Yutang finally couldn't help asking.
Sure enough, the crazy fans are crazy fans. They know nothing, but their beliefs are still very firm.
"I have some doubts. Xiao Yuquan's strength, Xiao Yujin's talismans and formations are all related to the Devil Heart Pool. Elder Xiao was infected with the foreign demonic energy some time ago, which may also be related to the Devil Heart Pool." Gu Qingxi certainly would not hide anything from Xiao Yutang, and said frankly.
"What?" Xiao Yutang was shocked and his hand on the hilt of the sword tightened.
"Then did you find anything?" Without waiting for Gu Qingxi to say more, he asked nervously.
"No, I have repeatedly checked it many times and found nothing unusual." Gu Qingxi shook his head and said.
"Then, could it be that I guessed wrong? In addition to the Devil Heart Pool, our Xiao family also has several other blessed places for cultivation, which are also forbidden places for ordinary Xiao family members." Xiao Yutang reminded.
In fact, he did not doubt Gu Qingxi's guess, but the Devil Heart Pool was too important to the Xiao family, and he really didn't want to see anything go wrong with the Devil Heart Pool. Such a reminder was more of a self-consolation.
Gu Qingxi's heart moved: That's right, a family of cultivators like the Xiao family often has more than one blessed place for cultivation. The improvement of Xiao Yujin and Xiao Yuquan's strength, as well as Xiao Ningyuan's immersion in the foreign demonic energy, may not be related to the Devil Heart Pool.
"Gua..." Just as I thought of this, I suddenly heard a tooth-grinding cry in my ears.
A blood-colored flying bird seemed to appear out of thin air behind Xiao Yutang, flying towards him like a sharp arrow.
The distance was too close, and the blood-colored flying bird appeared too suddenly, without any signs in advance, so even Gu Qingxi was caught off guard. Although he drew out his long sword, he had no time to stop it.
Fortunately, at the critical moment, Xiao Yutang's usual brain-deadness came in handy. Although he reminded Gu Qingxi with his mouth, he remained vigilant in his heart, and his hand kept holding the long sword tightly.
Hearing the strange bird cry behind him, he turned around almost instinctively and swung his sword.
Gu Qingxi's "careful guidance" for a month and the sword skills given by Shen Mengli also came in handy. This sword was as fast as a meteor, and even Gu Qingxi couldn't help but secretly marvel.
"Ding!" The blood bird was chopped back by Xiao Yutang's sword.
However, with his cultivation in the early stage of transformation, he failed to kill it. The long sword chopped under the blood-red wings, and a streak of sparks splashed, making a crisp sound like the sound of metal clashing. After
retreating only ten feet away, the blood bird flapped its wings quickly and flew towards Xiao Yutang again.
Xiao Yutang's sword just now was beyond his level, and his spiritual power was almost consumed in an instant. How could he resist its attack this time? Seeing this, he felt cold, as if he fell into a thousand-foot ice cave.
But Gu Qingxi had already taken action at this time. The long sword in his right hand chopped towards the blood bird head-on, and his left hand quickly played more than a dozen spiritual talismans.
The rune exploded, and the blood bird's figure that was flying forward suddenly froze, as if it was trapped in an endless swamp. At the same time, the sword light fell.
"Chi!" This time there was no accident, the blood bird was split in half by the sword and fell to the ground.
Xiao Yutang finally breathed a sigh of relief. It's a long story, but from the appearance of the blood bird to Gu Qingxi's attack, it was just a blink of an eye.
In this blink of an eye, he walked back and forth twice.
"What kind of monster is this?" Xiao Yutang asked with lingering fear, looking at the blood bird that was split in half under his feet.
The blood bird is not big, about the same size as a wild goose. But its feathers are dazzling red, as if it had just been fished out of a pool of blood, giving people a gloomy and weird feeling.
The bird's beak, which is almost half the length of its body, is as sharp as a knife, and there are sharp teeth on it that flash with cold light. One can imagine with one's toes what the result would be if the bird's beak had stabbed the vitals just now.
"Blood crow." Gu Qingxi replied.
Xiao Yutang sucked in a breath of cold air, and his face changed again.
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