At the beginning, there was a fake eunuch, holding a dragon whip and torturing the empress until she

After Empress Jiu Xuan left, the old woman sat down and stared at Lin Chen for a long time before she said, "Lin Chen, do you know that Jiu Xuan is my disciple, so logically speaking, she is your sister-in-law!"

Lin Chen was stunned. How could he know this? Moreover, he would not admit it at all. He shook his head and said, "Senior, you have misunderstood. Jiu Xuan and I are just friends."

The old woman was startled for a moment, anger appeared on her face, and said: "Nonsense! Don't you like Ah Jiu? Why don't you marry her! How can a woman in the class be worthy of you! Do you still expect her to bring you something What kind of help? There is no way her talent can match Ah Jiu’s!”

After hearing this, Lin Chen felt annoyed and said coldly: "Senior, don't forget, she is my wife! I will not allow anyone to insult her! If you say such things again, don't blame me for falling out!"

"snort!"

Seeing that Lin Chen was angry, the old woman's face changed slightly and she snorted coldly.

The old woman nodded and said, "Since you don't like each other, it saves you the trouble. I will help you resolve this engagement."

After saying that, she disappeared from the same place, as if she had never appeared from the beginning to the end.

Lin Chen breathed a sigh of relief, finally getting rid of this trouble. However, another kind of melancholy arose in his heart. He and Empress Jiuxuan were destined to be unable to get married, but he did not resent each other in his heart.

After all, his appearance was also accidental.

The identity of the Jiu Xuan Empress also destined her life to be beyond his control, and even if they were truly married, they might not be happy.

"Hey, let's take it one step at a time." Lin Chen felt helpless. He felt that his level was improving too slowly.

Today, he is also the top being in the entire ascetic alliance. However, compared with the powerful transcendent realms such as the Jiuxuan Empress and the old woman, he is still as small as an ant.

"My strength is still too low." Lin Chen shook his head.

"Are you considering how to break through to the fifth level of the golden body now, or are you preparing to break through to the sixth level of the golden body?" Empress Jiuxuan suddenly asked.

"Breakthrough to the sixth level of the golden body."

Lin Chen didn't hide anything and directly told his current situation.

Empress Jiuxuan said: "You have reached the barrier between the fourth and fifth turns of the golden body. What you lack now is spiritual energy. You need to absorb a large amount of spiritual stones or elixirs to break through the bottleneck."

Lin Chen smiled bitterly and said: "I know, but unless I am willing, no one can absorb the spiritual energy contained in the cold pond water."

"I know you are afraid of being discovered practicing "Ice Silk Armor", but don't worry, since I dare to let you in, I won't harm you. At the bottom of my cold pool, in addition to the water of the cold pool, there is There are some extremely rare training materials.”

Empress Jiuxuan said: "You are lucky. I happened to have collected several thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum at the bottom of this cold pool. If you take it, you can break through to the fifth level of the Golden Body in a short time."

At this point, she paused and continued: "But you have to remember, don't be greedy for shortcuts. If you are eager for quick success, it may lead to instability in the realm, and even lead to the danger of explosion and death."

Lin Chen hurriedly said: "Senior, please don't worry, I understand!"

Next, Empress Jiuxuan took out a black bead from the Qiankun Ring. This bead was the size of a table tennis ball, extremely dark, emitting a strange light, and appeared extremely mysterious.

Empress Jiuxuan handed it to Lin Chen: "This is the 'Black Meteor Bead', which I got from a historical monument."

"Black Meteor Bead" is the black crystal core that Lin Chen once obtained, but now it has turned into a round bead. However, it is not dead.

Under the control of Empress Jiuxuan, the "Black Meteor Pearl" floated in front of Lin Chen.

Empress Jiuxuan said calmly: "There is a wisp of soul essence sealed in this black meteor bead. You can swallow it and use it to temper your soul. There should be some unexpected benefits."

"Soul essence?"

Lin Chen had a look of confusion on his face. He had never heard of such a thing.

He took the bead and felt it was cold and extremely hard, like iron. There was an eerie and terrifying wave inside.

Empress Jiuxuan said: "This black meteor bead is a high-grade treasure-level weapon. There is a ghost sealed inside. Although it is not a powerful ghost, its power is comparable to the existence of the eighth level of the extraordinary. This black meteor bead is also mine. I worked hard to get it, but I was also injured because of it. However, as long as you agree not to be with Ah Jiu, then it’s okay to give this black meteor bead to you.”

Hearing her words, Lin Chen was surprised. He could sense that the level of the Black Meteorite Pearl was definitely far above that of high-grade treasures.

And Empress Jiuxuan even gave a treasure to herself for her own sake!

This was simply incomprehensible to Lin Chen.

"Lin Chen, I wanted to give this black meteor bead to you a long time ago, but I never had the chance. Now that you are leaving here, just stay with Ah Jiu! Although Ah Jiu has a bit of a venomous mouth, But she is a good girl." Empress Jiuxuan sighed.

Lin Chen hesitated for a moment, but finally shook his head and refused: "Thank you for your kindness. I'm not suitable to stay here now, and I don't have enough ability to help you now. It's better to leave here first."

The Empress Jiuxuan heard this and showed disappointment on her face. She said, "Lin Chen, I... I don't dislike your background, but you can see that my identity means that I can never live a peaceful life with ordinary people. Even if I want to, my father won't allow it. I just hope that you can be with me, even if you don't, we can still be friends."

Lin Chen nodded and said, "I understand, so I will work hard to become stronger and protect you for the rest of your life!"

He showed determination in his eyes and spoke sincerely.

The Empress Jiuxuan was slightly startled, and then a bright smile bloomed on her face. She knew that Lin Chen was serious and she was very satisfied with this answer.

"In that case, I won't force you. I'll send you away from here!"

"Okay."

Lin Chen nodded in agreement. Although he liked the Empress Jiuxuan very much, he knew clearly that he and she were not the same kind of people at all.

And his dream was just to take revenge and find his grandfather, so the two of them were not the same kind of people at all.

Boom!

Suddenly, there was a loud noise, followed by a violent tremor, as if the sky was falling.

Lin Chen looked up at the depths of the cave and saw cracks on the top of the cave, followed by rubble rolling down, and the entire cold pond began to shake.

"What's going on?"

Lin Chen's face changed in shock, and he quickly helped the Nine Mysterious Empress to dodge to the side.

Crack, crack, crack...

The rocks under Lin Chen's feet began to crack, and then collapsed with a loud bang!

"Ah!"

Lin Chen was startled and flew backwards holding the Nine Mysterious Empress.

Boom!

The next moment, the cave collapsed completely, and Lin Chen and the Nine Mysterious Empress fell into a groove.

He hugged the Nine Mysterious Empress, and said with concern on his face: "Are you okay?"

The Nine Mysterious Empress shook her head and said: "I'm fine."

At this time, she suddenly pointed to the open space in front of her and exclaimed: "Lin Chen, look what that is?"

Looking in the direction of her finger, Lin Chen's pupils suddenly shrank, and he said in horror: "This is..."

His pupils shrank to the size of a needle tip, his eyes widened, and he looked like he had seen a ghost.

At this moment, the original pit had disappeared.

What appeared in front of Lin Chen and the Nine Mysterious Empress was a dead skeleton.

The dead skeleton sat cross-legged on the ground, and it was surrounded by weeds and various mosses. However, if you look closely, you can still see that the dead skeleton is completely white jade, like a jade sculpture.

On the right palm of the white jade dead skeleton, there is a purple gourd, which looks about the size of a palm and has a light red luster.

"Spiritual fire! That's spiritual fire, and at least it's Samadhi True Fire!"

A thought came to Lin Chen's mind, and his eyes were fixed on the gourd in the skeleton's palm. He had seen a Samadhi True Fire before.

Although it was the suppressed Samadhi True Fire, it was a spiritual fire after all, the king of flames!

At this time, Lin Chen could feel that the "Burning Code" in his body was running on its own, madly absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy.

"Could it be that the practice method that this skeleton practiced before his death was the "Burning Code"? "

Lin Chen looked at it for a while, and became more and more convinced. A surge of excitement surged in his heart. The spiritual fire in the purple gourd in the hand of the skeleton was definitely extraordinary.

If he could absorb the spiritual fire, then his strength would definitely increase dramatically, and he could even step into the Golden Core Realm!

Thinking of this, Lin Chen's eyes showed excitement and greed.

"Lin Chen, do you want to snatch the spiritual fire?"

The Nine Mysterious Empress looked around, then glanced at the purple gourd on the white bone's palm, frowned and said: "The purple gourd is a treasure, but if we approach it rashly, it will cause trouble. You should leave quickly, let's run away separately, so that we can be safe!"

Lin Chen nodded and was about to speak.

Suddenly, the white bone's left arm turned into a sharp claw and stretched out towards Lin Chen.

Swish!

Lin Chen reacted very quickly and dodged in an instant.

Boom!

The next second, the withered bone kicked out with its right leg and kicked hard on the rock wall, and the mountain wall exploded in an instant.

Lin Chen could see that the white bone was extremely terrifying when he was alive, worthy of being a Jindan-level existence.

He was puzzled in his heart. He had already dodged, but the other party would still attack, as if he was deliberately attacking him.

However, he was concerned about the safety of the Nine Mysterious Empress at this moment, and did not dare to stay any longer. He pulled the Nine Mysterious Empress into the depths of the cave, and disappeared in a few blinks of an eye.

"Damn it!"

In the deep cave, in a spacious tunnel, an old woman in a black robe and long black hair looked angry.

"That little beast actually ran away, damn it!" The old woman cursed fiercely.

She looked like she was about 70 or 80 years old, with loose skin, wrinkles on her face, and gray hair, but she gave people a gloomy and weird feeling.

She was the master of this ice field, the fifth elder of the Netherworld Sect, and the junior sister of the Netherworld Sect leader. Her cultivation had reached the Nascent Soul stage.

Before, she had been hiding here to wait for the Nine Mysterious Empress. She believed that once the Nine Mysterious Empress came, she would enter this snow valley.

Who knew that she waited for a long time, but she did not see the Nine Mysterious Empress appear, but instead waited for Lin Chen, an uninvited guest!

At this time, Lin Chen had left the cave with the Nine Mysterious Empress and arrived at another place.

This place is very remote. There are many houses not far away, but they are all dilapidated at the moment. It is obvious that no one has lived there for a long time.

Lin Chen took the Nine Mysterious Queen and hid in a corner.

The Nine Mysterious Queen was a little curious and asked, "How do you know that skeleton?"