Both worlds are like dreams

"It's raining." Xue Huang shouted. After that, she quickly pulled Gu Qinglan to the nearest tree to hide from the rain. There was thunder in the sky, and she didn't dare to take him into the woods, so she could only stay on the side.

But the branches of the pine tree were very sparse and did not help much. When we went out, we did not expect it to rain, so we did not bring an umbrella.

Xue Huang glanced at the people who were soaked and looked rather embarrassed, and suddenly used her inner strength to press her palms against the tree. The cold air spread rapidly, and soon a thin layer of ice dome formed above their heads, like a big umbrella over their heads, blocking the big raindrops.

Gu Qinglan was quite surprised, "I didn't expect your Xuanbing Curse has improved so much."

Xue Huang smiled. She had said in front of Rong Yu and Wei Yunzhou that she would cultivate to the last level of the Mysterious Ice Curse within five years and try to defeat Lan Ruofeng. So she practiced hard every day for the past three years. With Rong Yu's guidance, she was already close to the last level of the Frozen Realm in three years.

In this generation of young people, she is no longer an unknown figure. It is said that there is a new trend of ranking heroes in the martial arts world. I wonder where she will rank.

"I also saw your swordsmanship in my hallucination. Although it was just an illusion, I believe it has improved compared to before. But the sword in your hand doesn't seem to be suitable for you."

Gu Qinglan glanced at the sword in his hand. After his sword was broken by Lan Ruofeng in the battle at Xuanyuantai three years ago, he had not found a suitable one since then.

Xu Yao said, "Swords also have spirits. A true famous sword will choose its master."

"I think the sword in your hand is also unusual." Xue Huang said.

"The name of this sword is Zhaoxue." There was a hint of sadness in Xu Yao's tone.

The injustice has been redressed. Xue Huang sighed in his heart. He never forgot that he bore the blood feud of the Beiyuan royal family, and even the sword in his hand was so sad.

Everyone was silent, only the sound of raindrops echoing in the night of Qingsong Mountain.

Gu Qinglan took off his outer robe and put it on Xue Huang, "Don't catch a cold."

Xue Huang smiled and nodded, then sat next to him on the rock, listening to the sound of the rain.

She shook her head, not daring to close her eyes and sleep. The poisonous gas called Weird Dream was so strong that it made them enter the illusion without knowing it. She was afraid that if she fell asleep, she would encounter a big snake or something.

In the second half of the night, the rain began to gradually subside.

The forest became increasingly quiet, and there seemed to be no danger. Xue Huang leaned directly on Gu Qinglan and took a short nap.

When she woke up, it was already the next morning.

The sky was slightly red, and the sun peeked out from the thick clouds, illuminating the mountains. Xue Huang rubbed her sleepy eyes, stretched, and felt the warm sunshine.

She opened her eyes comfortably, but the next moment she suddenly screamed: "Ah..."

The deafening cry resounded through the sky, startling the birds in the forest so much that they flapped their wings and flew far away.

Gu Qinglan, Xu Yao and the others were all awakened and drew their swords to fight, but they found that what caused Xue Huang to scream was a big black spider in front of her.

Gu Qinglan used a sword to pick up the spider, looked into her slightly frightened eyes, and comforted her: "Are you okay?"

Xue Huang made a bitter face, "Is this an illusion?"

Lin Yu said, "Not really."

Xue Huang immediately moved away from the tree, fearing that a few more big spiders would fall from it.

Xuyao frowned slightly under his mask, and asked in confusion: "You screamed so early in the morning, are you afraid of spiders?"

Xue Huang glared at him, "Is it not possible?"

Xu Yao sneered, as if mocking her. In the illusion, she saw the giant snake that looked like a dragon and rushed forward without blinking an eye. Now she is afraid of this tiny spider? "You are not afraid of the giant snake, but you are afraid of this?"

Seeing that she looked unhappy, Gu Qinglan stepped forward and patted her shoulder, "It's okay, it's just a small spider."

"I know it's just a normal spider, but I get scared when I see it."

"It's not surprising that everyone is afraid of it," said Gu Qinglan.

"There is a reason for this," Xue Huang frowned, "It's all my grandfather's fault. Whenever I cried when I was a kid, he would scare me by saying a spider would fall into my mouth. As a result, one time when I was crying under a tree, a palm-sized spider really fell in front of me. I was so scared that I wanted to cry but didn't dare to. So spiders were my childhood nightmare."

Gu Qinglan and the other two were silent for a while, and Lin Yu couldn't hold it in anymore and burst out laughing.

"Ahem..." He covered it up, "Spiders are not poisonous."

Xu Yao’s expression couldn’t be seen clearly under the mask, but he turned and walked away.

Xue Huang looked at Gu Qinglan and said angrily: "You are laughing at me too?"

"I'm not laughing at you," Gu Qinglan said with a smile, "but I didn't expect Mr. Guigu to use this method to scare you."

"Yeah, who would have thought that he, the dignified Master of Guigu Valley, would use this method to deceive a child like me." Xue Huang twitched her mouth. To this day, whenever she thinks of this incident or sees a spider, she can't help but want to pull out all her grandfather's beard.

How could she lie to a child? She was so fearless that she could beat a bear and make it cry, but she was afraid of spiders. How shameful!

"Okay," Gu Qinglan said with a smile, "You won't be able to see it if you move away from the tree."

Xue Huang nodded and returned Gu Qinglan's clothes to him. Seeing that Xu Yao and Lin Yu had already walked away, she said, "Let's go. Let's continue on our journey."

The four people soon came to a waterfall, but there were cliffs on both sides and there seemed to be no way out.

Xue Huang looked towards the top of the mountain. Even if they were very skilled in Qinggong, they couldn't climb up the steep mountain road. But if they went around it, it would probably take three days and three nights to complete the journey.

"Strange." Lin Yu was puzzled. "The strange dream was deliberately released by someone, which means we are close to the Poison Valley where the heir of the Sword Tomb is. Why is there no road here?"

"Did we go in the wrong direction?" Xue Huang asked.

"There is only one way to enter the Poison Valley of Qingsong Mountain." Lin Yu said.

"Could there be any mechanism?" Xue Huang looked around. She grew up among the mountains and rivers of Guigu, where there were many mechanisms and traps set up by Mr. Guigu to defend against foreign invasions. But she looked around and found nothing. The rocks were in pieces and there was no way they could be moved.

Her gaze slowly fell on the waterfall, and Gu Qinglan also looked there. Then the two of them looked at each other and came to the edge of the waterfall.

Gu Qinglan stretched out his hand close to the water, and saw his sleeves fluttering slowly.

"There's wind behind the waterfall, this should be the entrance."

"Let me do it." Xue Huang gathered cold air in her palm and struck out at the edge of the waterfall. The rushing water instantly condensed and extended toward the inside of the mountain. She created a hole as wide as a person.

Four people entered one after another, and saw that there was indeed a different world behind the waterfall.