Do not die

The entrance to Nuanyun Valley looks like it is on the edge of a cliff from a distance.

After entering, you can see a winding mountain road going down.

It is said to be a mountain road, but there are almost no steps in the ordinary sense. Many places are separated by three to five meters, and there is a void in the middle. If you can't see many monks rushing back and forth, novices will not think that this is a road.

To ordinary people, this is a chasm, but to practitioners, this is just one step.

Meng Zhou followed this special mountain road all the way down. As he got closer and closer to the bottom of the valley, Meng Zhou felt that his body and mind gradually became happy.

Feeling the increasingly dense aura around him, Meng Zhou was like a fish that had been out of water for too long and returned to the water again.

Following the memory of his former master, Meng Zhou ignored the others and walked quickly to a certain place while the sky was not completely dark.

Nuanyun Valley is nearly two hundred miles long, and the widest part is twenty or thirty miles, while some narrow places are only three to five miles, or even less than one mile. The existence of these narrow areas makes the entire Nuanyun Valley look like a section. sausages are skewered together.

The place where Meng Zhou is now is a narrow section nearly two miles wide.

In the center is a body of water, with six hot underground hot springs spraying high into the sky, and then spreading out like six water curtain umbrellas, filling the air with steaming, humid water vapor.

There are many stone chambers carved layer upon layer on the mountain walls on both sides. More than 80% of these stone chambers are covered with a layer of flowing white mist.

According to the memory of the former master, Meng Zhou knew that this was a formation adapted to local conditions. The white mist not only had the effect of isolating the inside and outside, but also had good protective power because it was connected to the heat and undercurrents of the ground. If it was not done right, even if It is also very difficult to force your way into the later stages of Qi training.

And because it is connected to the underground heat and undercurrent, unless it is defeated instantly with absolute force, the continuous inefficient attacks are useless.

The existence of this layer of fog shows that these stone chambers have owners and someone is using them.

Meng Zhou followed the signs on the roadside and came to a three-story attic building in front of the water.

"Zi Wangguan."

Meng Zhou looked at a stone tablet standing in front of the attic and stepped inside.

The spacious hall on the first floor was empty at the moment, with not many people.

The person closest to Meng Zhou looked up at him and asked, "What's the matter with you?"

Meng Zhou asked: "Is there any spare stone room?"

The man nodded: "Yes, what specifications do you need?"

"What are they?"

"The third class of water and fire rooms and the third class of ordinary rooms are all available..."

Meng Zhou listened to the other party's introduction, and memories related to the previous master also appeared in his mind.

The so-called water and fire chamber, to put it more directly, is a stone chamber that can be used to refine elixirs and weapons.

Because of the characteristics of Nuanyun Valley's spiritual veins, it can use formations to trigger the earth's fire to burn forever for the purpose of refining elixirs and refining weapons.

However, this method of directly using earth fire to refine alchemy and refining weapons requires very high technical skills from the user, and it often fails. With the financial resources of casual cultivators, they simply cannot bear too many failures.

So someone used Nuanyun Valley's spiritual veins to design a more reliable plan. Not only was the firepower more gentle, the entire refining process was more controllable, and the probability of failure would be much smaller. Even if it failed, as long as it was handled properly, There can be some gains.

It sounds a bit unflattering, but according to Meng Zhou's understanding, it is actually a special "water bath method."

It has many advantages. It can control temperature changes more stably during the refining process, allowing the Qi alchemist/weapon master to achieve a higher rate of elixir/weapon completion, and the entire process is more controllable.

But the shortcomings are also obvious. It is like providing a walker for a baby who has not yet learned to walk. It does save a lot of things at the time, but it also leaves the alchemist/refiner without real training, even if the road goes crooked. Self-aware.

However, for the casual cultivators in Nuanyun Valley, this shortcoming is somewhat as inappropriate as going to poor areas to promote healthy and green dietary concepts, eating large amounts of fish and meat, heavy oil and salt, and easily getting high.

The ordinary room is really an ordinary stone room, but it is also divided into three levels according to the richness of the spiritual energy.

The other party briefly introduced the conditions of each stone chamber, and finally looked at Meng Zhou and pointed out:

"According to our agreement with all parties in the valley, Zaowanguan does not provide short-term rentals. One period is three months, and payment is made first before moving in."

Meng Zhou nodded, indicating that he had no objection to this. But he asked:

"Can I change rooms and upgrade during the trip?"

Hearing this, the other party looked at Meng Zhou again, nodded happily and said: "Yes, but the premise is that there is a spare stone room for you at that time, and you need to make up the price difference, starting from the day of promotion."

Meng Zhou nodded: "Then I have no problem."

What he is showing now is the sixth level of Qi training, and using a medium stone chamber is just right.

But if he succeeds in seclusion and wants to break through from the middle stage of Qi training to the late stage of Qi training, it is of course more appropriate to use a high-grade stone chamber with more abundant spiritual energy.

The price difference between a medium stone chamber and a high-grade stone chamber is doubled. Meng Zhou's careful calculation is a very common trait in Qi training and casual cultivation.

Therefore, the other party was not surprised at all when he specifically mentioned this point.

Moreover, I also gained a lot of useful information from his short message.

And this is also one of Meng Zhou's goals.

In the end, Meng Zhou paid forty low-grade spiritual stones and obtained the right to use a medium-grade stone room for ninety days.

While paying out the spirit stones, Meng Zhou received a waist card.

This is not only a certificate for him to enter and exit the stone chamber, but also a necessary thing to activate the formation.

It is also an identity card. Only with a similar identity card can he stay in Nuanyun Valley for a long time. Otherwise, he will be expelled or even killed as a thief who steals the spiritual energy of this place.

The former owner also traveled to many places, and the biggest feeling was that without the spiritual stone, it would be difficult to move forward.

There is no spiritual vein or spiritual energy that has no threshold and is open to all casual cultivators unconditionally and free of charge.

But Meng Zhou just took the badge and looked at it, then went straight to the stone room that would belong to him within the next three months.

He had so many more pressing things to deal with right now that he had no time to pay attention to them right now.

Entering the stone chamber with his belt card, Meng Zhou took a look around. The interior space was very spacious and divided into three rooms, the central living room, the quiet room and bedroom on the left, and the study on the right. If it is the water and fire room, it is the room for alchemy and weapon refining. .

If we only count the average daily unit price, it is much cheaper than Baiyue Bay Hotel.

However, the spiritual energy in the room is very thin, and this "medium" seems to be a bit undeserved.

Meng Zhou knew what was going on. He inserted his waist badge into a groove in the wall of the door and heard a low muffled sound, like a suppressed roar of an animal moving quickly in the narrow corridor.

Looking around, there was a hidden hole in the corner of the wall, from which a stream of water as thick as an arm shot out. Soon, it flowed through three rooms along a water tank attached to the wall, and rich spiritual energy emanated from it.

After a while, the spiritual energy in the room was as rich as a first-level medium spiritual land.

This flowing water flows out of the stone chamber and forms a mist covering the outside of the stone chamber. It not only blocks outside prying eyes, but also provides good defense.

Seeing this, Meng Zhou went straight into the quiet room on the left, sat cross-legged on the bed, and immediately closed his eyes to practice.

As the Water Nourishing Body Technique moved Zhou Tian through his body, his cultivation that had been stagnant for many days finally moved forward again. Meng Zhou was so comfortable that he almost groaned out.

It's not easy, it's really not easy.

When a full twenty weeks of transportation was completed, Meng Zhou opened his eyes with unfulfilled thoughts.

[Name: Meng Zhou]

[Life span: 51/67 years] (+1)

[Status: Sub-health]

[Realm: Fourth level of Qi training: 24/100]

[Exercise: Water Nourishing and Moisturizing Technique Dacheng: 229/600]

【Skill:

Martial skills: perfect water crossing step, perfect finger sword and palm knife, perfect turtle and snake strength, perfect crane control hand, perfect magic step and dragon movement, perfect master of Wanli Shenhang: 530/640, master of left and right fighting: 490 /640, Master of Thousand Hands: 490/640, Grandmaster of Sudden Rain and Wind Sword: 490/640

Spell: Breath Condensation Technique Perfection]

[Contract Oath: Rope Spirit Level 1: 0/100]

I originally coded a chapter last night, but it felt inappropriate, so I abandoned it (the painting style was too strange, and it didn’t feel suitable). I reorganized the protagonist’s growth line in Nuanyun Valley. The next chapter will be tonight Fill