C6

The inside of the Soul Refining Sect was pitch black, and she couldn't see anything. Mu Xiaoling originally wanted to enter the cave to see the situation, but she didn't expect that the cave would actually go straight up and down.

She felt nothing beneath her feet, and she fell straight down.

What she saw was pitch-black, and she could only hear silence in her ears. It was as if she was the only one left in the world.

However, after falling for so long, she still couldn't see the bottom.

"Bottomless Pit?"

Mu Xiaoling muttered to herself, then her eyes became stern and she said coldly: "I do not believe that there is a bottomless pit in this world."

Closing her eyes, she emptied her mind and heart. She carefully listened for any movements around her, neither hurried nor slow.

Suddenly, an extremely weak sound of the wind was heard!

Left!

Mu Xiaoling suddenly opened her eyes and quickly turned around to the left. Her hands stretched forward, and she touched a protruding rock.

When she touched the rock, she actually retreated backwards. A beam of light shot down from above and the surroundings immediately changed. It was no longer the bottomless pit but a low pit. Looking up, one could faintly see the light entering the cave.

However, when she tried to jump on it, she seemed to discover that a strand of energy was preventing her from channeling the True Essence in her body.

The stone wall was smooth, and without the True Essence's support, it was impossible for her to climb up.

Since she couldn't go up, she could only take a look inside. Waiting for death wasn't her style.

Mu Xiaoling set her gaze on the only entrance and stepped inside.

This distance of one step was like two different worlds. The outside was simple and crude, but the inside was paved with white jade, while the inside was a wall of gold. It was so luxurious that it was rarely seen in the world.

Mu Xiaoling was secretly on guard as she walked carefully through the long corridor, arriving at a stone room. The stone room was even more extravagant, filled with treasures, the bed was made from warm jade sculptures, and boxes of gold and elixirs were piled up in the corner. Only a grey praying mat laid on the ground, which was especially eye-catching when compared to the extravagance on the floor.

Mu Xiaoling sneered and glanced around, but she was clear in his heart. As the saying goes, wealth moved the heart, this Soul Refining Cave was just using these as choices, to let people sit on prayer mats and face the temptation of wealth resisting.

To put it bluntly, it was better to give you two choices, one being the wrong one and the other being the right one.

"Why should I, Mu Xiaoling, be manipulated by you? I would rather die than choose anything." Mu Xiaoling muttered. She walked into the stone room and directly went to the side of the warm jade bed.

She had just discovered that there was a strange carving of a beast at the head of the bed. It was actually facing upwards.

She pushed the animal's head up, and the bed flipped over, revealing a passage that led straight down into the darkness.

Mu Xiaoling looked around and saw a burning candle not far from the bed. She pulled it and lit it up, then went down the stairs.

At that moment, countless silver spiders flooded in from outside, leaving behind a charred area. In the blink of an eye, they had arrived at the center of the stone chamber.

"What a poisonous spider!" Mu Xiaoling was shocked, she quickly went down the stairs and ran down.

Spider followed her down the passage.

The spider's speed became faster and faster, in the blink of an eye, it was about to touch her feet. Mu Xiaoling bit her lips, covered her head with her hands, and rolled downwards with her momentum.

At the bottom of the stairs was a huge underground cave. The chilly wind mixed with water vapor blew across her body, bringing with it a bone-piercing coldness.

Mu Xiaoling could not care about the bruises on her body, once she reached the bottom, she immediately rolled and stood up, then quickly ran forward, her movements was fluid and smooth, without any sluggishness.

However, what she did not notice was that the spider swarm seemed to have felt an immense threat the moment they touched the ground, and retreated like a receding tide.

Mu Xiaoling did not know how long she had been running for, she was only limping, and even though her speed had gradually decreased, but if one looked carefully, they would notice that her every step was the same, there was no difference at all. Her expression was still firm, as if the body that was filled with wounds was not hers.

The further they went, the colder it became. It was as if the cold was trying to blow away anyone who approached it.

However, in this sort of situation, if one did not advance, then only death awaited them. Perhaps, there would still be some hope for survival in front of them.

Mu Xiaoling had never been one to give up. Even though her eyebrows and lips were covered with a layer of white frost, and her black hair was snow-white, even though her blood had almost frozen solid, she still continued to move forward step by step.

In front of him was a vast expanse of underground ice, without any end in sight. It was as if he couldn't see any hope.

Mu Xiaoling had already reached her limit.

Suddenly, a low sigh inexplicably sounded in his ears. Following that, a deep and gorgeous male voice suddenly sounded out, sounding confused. "Little girl, why are you so persistent?"

"Who is it!" Mu Xiaoling suddenly turned her head, the surroundings were completely empty, only she was left.

The man's voice was silent for a moment: "You don't need to know who I am. Answer my question."

Mu Xiaoling said: "Why should I return it to you?"

The man said, "How about I tell you the way to get out?"

Mu Xiaoling scoffed, "If it's just this kind of attitude, there's no need, I can do it myself."

The man seemed to find it funny. "You look like you're going to freeze to death. Do you really not need it?"

Mu Xiaoling didn't mind: "Did you know that there is a type of magic called transforming into a rabbit?"

"Magic?" The man had never heard the term before. "What's that?"

"A technique." Mu Xiaoling was too lazy to explain too much.

"The magician put the rabbit in a box, and when he opened it, the rabbit was gone. In fact, the rabbit wasn't really missing, but because there was a layer inside the box. It was like a mirror that separated the inside from the outside."

As she spoke, she took two steps forward. "I was curious as to why the icicles on the ground and the fracture appear to be the same. I just changed my direction."

Mu Xiaoling pursed her lips: "That's because this is the mirror that isolate rabbits, which is also why you only stopped me from coming out after following me for so long." After being stared at for such a long time, how could she not feel anything? It was just that she could not find him, so she pretended to not know anything.

After saying that, without waiting for the man to speak, she used all the strength she had left and punched in front of her. With a crisp sound, thin pieces of ice scattered in all directions, revealing the scene behind them.

It was a patch of Merlin.

Merlin, who was in the ice plains, saw bright red petals as white as snow falling slowly, as if they were on fire. In the depths of Merlin was an ice coffin, and inside the ice coffin was a man, a very handsome man who seemed to have walked out from a painting.

He wore a robe with golden cloud patterns, and had a jade crown on his head. His facial features were as perfect as a knife. Even though he was already a dead man, he still exuded an awe-inspiring aura, making people unable to look at him directly.