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"Yes, Master Wife."

Then, Su Ru waved her hand, and the mist under her feet condensed into the shape of a sword. After she stepped on it with Ling Yi, the cloud sword made a sharp "swoosh" sound, and the two of them turned into a soft white light that pierced the sky and flew towards Xiaozhu Peak. The mist was blown away by the light breeze, but it soon returned to the misty palace.

Soon, they arrived at the bamboo forest behind Xiaozhu Peak.

Xiaozhu Peak looks particularly peaceful, and only the rustling sound of bamboo can express the sorrow of this sea of tearful bamboos.

As Su Ru and Ling Yi landed on the ground, the cloud sword disappeared into the bamboo forest.

Because of some regulations of Xiaozhufeng.

Male disciples were forbidden to enter the main hall at the front peak, so Su Ru could only take her disciple Ling Yi to the bamboo forest at the back of Xiaozhu Peak.

The overall layout of Xiaozhu Peak is similar to that of Dazhu Peak.

The front peak is a residential area, and the back mountain is a bamboo forest, with the bamboo being tear bamboo.

When Su Ru brought Ling Yi to the Tear Bamboo Forest in the back mountain, she sent a message to her senior sister Shui Yue, asking her to come to the back mountain for a chat.

The two of them just waited for a moment, and soon, a figure flew from the air and landed in front of the bamboo forest.

When Ling Yi saw the person coming, he knew that the other person was Master Shuiyue and couldn't help but take a look at her.

Master Shuiyue is very beautiful.

Even though it is only dressed in white, it still cannot hide its towering silhouette in front.

Her face is as white as a picture and as delicate as jade, her eyebrows are as clear as willow leaves, and the skin on her face is delicate, white and tender, with a hint of pink.

She has an oval face, a small cherry mouth, a nose like a hanging gall bladder, and a hint of indifference in her eyes.

This is a stunningly beautiful woman whose face has not been stained by the passage of time. She is as stunningly beautiful as Master's Wife Su Ru, but her temperament is slightly different from Master's Wife's.

According to Ling Yi's understanding, Master Shuiyue liked Wan Jianyi when he was young, but he was not able to get his wish and has been single ever since.

She looked like a person with a cold and serious temperament, but in fact she cared a lot about her apprentice and understood his thoughts very well.

It can be said that this is a woman with a sharp tongue but a soft heart.

"Junior sister, is she the Ling Yi you mentioned?" As soon as Master Shuiyue arrived, his eyes fell on Ling Yi who was beside Su Ru.

Su Ru had already told Master Shuiyue about Ling Yi before, and Shuiyue already knew about the matter of bringing him here today to ask for the Nine Heavens Strange Iron.

"Yes, Senior Sister." Su Ru smiled and nodded, then said to Ling Yi: "Yier, this is the head master Shuiyue of Xiaozhu Peak, and also the senior sister of Master's wife and the junior sister of your master. You can call her Uncle Shuiyue."

"Greetings, Uncle Shuiyue." Ling Yi bowed and greeted him.

If Tian Buyi brought him here, Ling Yi would be more suitable to call her uncle-master, but now that Su Ru is here, it is obviously more appropriate to call him uncle-master.

"Yes." Shuiyue nodded, her eyes fell on him and she soon showed surprise, "He is indeed a rare genius. He has reached the fourth level of Yuqing Realm at such a young age. His future is limitless."

Master Shuiyue now knows exactly when Ling Yi joined Dazhu Peak and when he started practicing.

The other party cultivated to the fourth level of Jade Purity Realm in just over a month, which had never been seen before in the entire Qingyun Sect.

Even her disciple Xueqi can't compare to her.

Chapter 16: Conversation between Senior Sister and Junior Sister in the Bamboo Forest

How far will such a talented person go in the future?

Shuiyue looked at Ling Yi, not knowing what she was thinking, and was absent-minded for a moment.

"Senior Sister, about the matter of the strange iron?" Su Ru saw that Senior Sister Shuiyue was distracted and quickly reminded her.

"Junior sister, I think you should know about the strange iron. It has been taken away by the master into a closed-door retreat. Even I can't find it." Master Shuiyue said after coming to his senses.

At that time, their master brought some things, including the Nine Heavens Strange Iron, into the illusion array deep in the Tear Bamboo Forest to practice in seclusion, striving to break through to the highest level of Tai Chi Xuan Qing Dao.

And this retreat is a kind of retreat that lasts for a lifetime.

Who would have thought that he would never come back, and it has been many years now.

Although many people had tried to break through the illusion array deep in the Tear Bamboo Forest before, trying to find the strange iron and refine it into a magic weapon, no one had succeeded.

Even she, the head of Xiaozhu Peak, was still like this.

She couldn't even find the place where her master was in seclusion.

But now, she can only open the illusion array.

If she could find that piece of strange iron, she wouldn't mind giving it to Su Ru's disciple Ling Yi. After all, she was her junior sister, and they had a very good relationship in private.

Su Ru nodded when she heard this. She naturally knew about the strange iron.

"As long as Senior Sister agrees to open the magic array and let Yi'er in, it will be fine. As for whether he can find it or not, it depends on his chance."

Then, Su Ru and her disciple Ling Yi talked about how their master took the piece of strange iron and went into seclusion in an illusion array deep in the Tear Bamboo Forest, and never came out again.

Now, Master Shuiyue agreed to let Ling Yi go in and look for it for the sake of his junior sister Su Ru. Whether he can find it depends on himself.

As for danger, that's not the case.

That magic array was mainly set up to protect the tombs of the successive heads of Xiaozhu Peak, in order to prevent destruction or tomb robbery by others. At most, it would only make people get lost in it.

If Ling Yi really gets lost in there later, everything will be fine as long as Shuiyue guides him out.

"Master's Wife, Master Shuiyue, I am willing to try." Ling Yi looked at the beautiful Master Shuiyue with a firm gaze.

"In that case, then follow me."

Shuiyue didn't say much and walked towards the depths of the tear bamboo forest.

Ling Yi followed his master's wife Su Ru and went in together.

The deeper you go into the tear bamboo forest of Xiaozhu Peak, the more remote it becomes.

There are only tear bamboos and weeds all around, and even the small winding road has only left faint traces as time goes by. If you don't take a close look, it would be hard to find that anyone has ever been here.

Ling Yi followed his master's wife and looked around. There were countless thin bamboos in the tear bamboo forest, and the bamboos were covered with white spots of "tears".

Soon, they came to a stone with the word "forbidden area" written on it deep in the tear bamboo forest and stopped.

Behind the "stone", there is a cobblestone path leading to the depths, but it is filled with fog and the bottom cannot be seen.

"Going in from here is the 'Mist Array'. Your master's wife and I will wait for you outside for an hour. Whether you can find that thing will be your chance. Now you can go in." Master Shuiyue pointed inside the cobblestone path.

"Yes, Uncle Shuiyue." Ling Yi responded and walked towards the cobblestone path without any hesitation.

Soon he disappeared.

After Ling Yi went in, Master Shuiyue started chatting about some things with his junior sister Su Ru outside while waiting for Ling Yi to come out.

"Junior sister, has anything good happened to you recently?" Shuiyue asked, looking at Su Ru's increasingly beautiful face.

"Senior Sister, why would you ask that?" Su Ru was a little confused.

"Senior sister, I see that your face is glowing and radiant, and you look much younger. If nothing good has happened, how could this happen?" Shuiyue's somewhat cold face showed a rare smile, and she teased her junior sister.

In the eyes of many people in Qingyun Sect and Xiaozhu Peak, she has always been a serious and even cold woman.

However, when facing her junior sister Su Ru, she was friendly and gentle as a senior sister, and was able to put aside her status and joke with her.

When Su Ru heard this, she thought about what had happened to her in the past two days, her disciple's huge "bamboo shoot" going in and out of her "Peach Blossom Cave", bursting out those "proteins", and a hint of red appeared on her face, which became more and more attractive.

"It's not what you said, Senior Sister. It's just that having Ling Yi as a disciple makes me happier."

"Is it really just that?" Master Shuiyue was obviously a little unconvinced.

"Of course, Senior Sister, don't think too much. But Senior Sister, I heard that Xueqi has been training with you and her strength is very strong now?"

Su Ru didn't dare to continue talking about herself with her senior sister, for fear of making a fool of herself, so she quickly changed the subject and brought the topic back to Shuiyue.

Shuiyue nodded: "Well, that girl is indeed good. I have planned to pass Tianya to her and train her as the head of Xiaozhu Peak."

"Really? I've seen that girl, she's really good. If Yi'er is lucky enough to find that piece of special iron, do you plan to let Yi'er exchange ideas with her?"

The Tianya Sword was passed to Lu Xueqi. If Ling Yi could find the remaining iron and refine it into a magic weapon, combined with their relationship, the two could communicate with each other and grow together.

This is what Su Ru thought.

However, Shuiyue became more cautious.

She felt that her junior sister's words seemed to be a matchmaking between her own apprentice and her disciple.

The two sisters continued chatting.

At the same time.

After entering the illusion array, Ling Yi found that there was still a bamboo forest around him and nothing unusual. He searched for a long time but did not find the so-called strange iron, nor did he find the tombs of the successive heads of Xiaozhu Peak.

This made him frown.

When he was about to continue searching, he suddenly noticed that the sound of bamboo leaves slowly stopped, and the sound of bells rang in Ling Yi's ears.

"Ding Dong" sound, first there was a slight sound, like a needle falling on the smooth marble floor, a thin crisp sound, and then a series of ding-ding-dong sounds.

When Ling Yi heard these voices, he felt something was wrong, so he immediately started practicing his skills, strengthened his five senses, and followed the direction of the voices.

Soon, he came to a rock and the sound of the bell stopped.

He looked at the rock and found nothing unusual.

Then he knocked again, and unexpectedly there was a loud "crack" sound. The huge rock slid backwards flexibly, and a round hole of unknown depth appeared on the ground. You could feel the cold wind coming from inside.

Ling Yi was stunned for a moment and just wanted to step back, but he was a step too late and his body fell inside.

Then the rock closed up automatically as if it had a spirit, leaving no gap and no trace of the round hole. It was hard to imagine that there was a bottomless black hole hidden under the rock.

Ling Yi, who fell down, circulated his spiritual power and did not suffer any harm.

He didn't know how long it had been before he felt a faint blue light under his feet, but the air was full of coldness, which made people shiver when their skin touched it closely.

It became clear when we arrived at the cave.

The entire view of the cave was within sight. Under the cave was actually a world of ice. The thick ice on the ground had been there for who knows how many centuries. People's reflections could actually be seen on it, just like an ice mirror.

He saw that inside the cave was a world of ice, which was very large.

Is this man-made? Or is it a work of nature?

When Ling Yi saw the icy and snowy scenery in the cave, his face was shocked and he was amazed in his heart.

The sharp icicles rose from the ground, and on the thick ice soil grew ice stalagmites, ice stalactites, ice vortices, ice flowers, ice grapes, and ice crystals.

He discovered that although the thickness of the ice varied, all the ice was attached to the rocks, silently emitting cold air. The height of the entire ice cave was almost twenty feet.

The ice wall has tightly covered the exposed rock wall with a thin layer of ice flakes, which looks breakable with one blow. There is no trace of artificial polishing on the smooth ground. People walking on it can feel the cold air rising from the soles of their feet. The icicles around are divided on both sides, and neat rows of icicles are spewing cold air towards a long path in the middle. It is very cold, and water drops turn into ice and breath turns into frost.

"Could this be the place where Master's wife and her master were in seclusion?"

With doubts, Ling Yi walked forward.

As he walked on the ice track, he could feel the cold air constantly looking for opportunities to erode him.

Fortunately, he had made great progress in his cultivation and was not bothered by ordinary cold or heat. However, this ice ignored the barrier of his cultivation and went straight into his body, causing trouble.

Soon they reached the end of the ice road. In front of them was a stone gate more than three meters high and two and a half meters wide. There were no fancy sculptures, only traces left by time and ice.

Ling Yi went forward to check it out, and when he found no danger, he tried to push the stone door open. Unexpectedly, he pushed it open directly.

He seriously doubted it.

The sound of those bells just now was intended to lead him to this place.

But now that I'm here, I can't stop.

If we go in and find out, we might be able to find the place where our master and his wife are in seclusion.

Maybe, it is possible that the other party is not dead.

After passing through the stone gate, a cold fog gradually engulfed his figure, leaving only a thin layer of cold fog that refused to dissipate.

When he walked through the cold fog and entered, a chill that penetrated his heart hit him in the face, and a thin layer of frost froze on his clothes. He shook his arms and his body at the same time, and the frost on his body melted away and turned into mist.

Ling Yi continued to move forward, walking on the icy ground and passing through the long and winding tunnel. A small bright spot appeared in front of him, which was the end of the cave.

Ling Yi came to the end of the cave, and what came into view was a boudoir where a woman lived.

As soon as he got close, a faint fragrance rushed into Ling Yi's nostrils, slid into his heart, and nourished his heart that had been frozen by the ice.

Chapter 17: Sleeping Beauty in the Ice Coffin

The layout and furnishings here were just like his master's wife's boudoir, with three chairs on each side, a throne in the middle, and some coffee tables beside them. There were no cups on them, only a few unwithered wild flowers as decoration.