Back at Baiyun Villa, Chu Xun thought about it for four or five days, and decided to give it a go.

Now that he decided to practice this skill, he must first find the Hell's golden krait that resides in the icy hell.

What is the Ice Hell? Where is its location? Chu Xun found the answer on the bookshelf in Muxiangting.

It is recorded in the book that the Ice Hell, as the name suggests, is a hell where the cold wind is used to freeze and punish sins.

Chu Xun secretly said: "It seems that if you want to go to the ice hell to find the hell golden ring snake, you have to get your soul out of your body before you can go to the underworld."

When a person is struggling on the verge of death, a near-death experience will occur. When the near-death person is unconscious, he will feel that he has left his body and floated up, which is an out-of-body experience.

Chu Xun didn't hesitate any longer, because time was really tight. After the Spring Festival, he was already 15 years old, and September next year would be the time of catastrophe.

He set his target on the night of April [-]th. While people were sleeping, he slipped to the ice lake behind Jiuhua Mountain to soak overnight. The cold air invaded and froze him.

The reason why this day was chosen was because at the beginning of each month, Shen Qingxuan would give public lectures in the Temple of Wushen, and both female and male cultivators could come to the hall to listen to the lectures.

Shen Qingxuan's public classes are often overcrowded. On this day, the monks get up very early, and they have to squeeze their heads into the Temple of No God. Of course, they have no time to care whether others are present or not.

When the sky turned pale, and the monks rushed to the Temple of No God with books between them, every inch of Chu Xun's skin and every strand of hair was stiff, and he had completely lost consciousness.

Sure enough, the soul left the body and floated ashore, wandering into the underworld, but he must return to the underworld before dark, otherwise the body will be completely frozen and useless.

There are patrol ghosts everywhere in the underworld, but he has his own way. Before his soul goes to hell, he borrowed some money from Zhao Yihuan and bought paper money at the market. Seeing that money is open, these ghosts accepted his bribe , of course willing to let go.

Chu Xun believed the saying that money can make ghosts grind.

Crossing the Ghost Gate Pass, Naihe Bridge, Egou Ridge... It took half a day to finally come to the Ice Hell where not a single blade of grass grows, but this Ice Hell is the Eight Cold Hell, and he has to find the Hell Golden Ring Snake one by one in the Eight Cold Hells .

The first one to enter is one of the Eight Cold Hells, Blistering Hell. The sentient beings in this prison are frozen in the bone-chilling wind and have blisters on their bodies. Countless creatures are locked in the ice prison, lying on the icicles and congealed. Ghosts and wolves howled on the prison door.

Every time he met a ghost messenger, he would send a smiling face, and then send a wad of paper money into their hands.

"May I ask this ghost, is the hell golden ring snake here?" Chu Xun smiled.

The ghost guard glanced at the bulging money bag at his waist, put it close to his ear, and said in a low voice, "What are you looking for with those poisons?"

"It has its own magical effect." Chu Xun said, then reached into the money bag and took out a stack of white paper money.

Seeing the money in his hand, Yin Cha's eyes shone brightly, squinted, and said strangely, "Those poisons are locked up in Qinglian Hell, and I won't tell him about ordinary people."

"Thank you."

Chu Xun handed the paper money to the ghost messenger, and was about to leave, when the ghost messenger stretched out his hand to hold him by the arm, "Little brother, it's not that I'm greedy for money, although there are many hell golden ring snakes here, they can't be given away in vain, right?" ?”

As soon as Chu Xun heard it, he immediately understood the meaning, so he took off the money bag on his waist and threw it to him directly.

After wandering around for nearly two hours, I finally found the Qinglian Hell. Looking around, the Qinglian Hell is covered with ice for thousands of miles, and the snow is drifting for thousands of miles.

He stepped on the ice and searched for the hell krait in the corners. He searched around to no avail. He was anxious when he suddenly found a crevice in the ice overflowing with golden light. He walked quickly and saw a hell krait curled up in the corner. In the crack, it is not frozen like other creatures.

Sure enough, the snake lives up to its name. The Hell’s krait is about 30 inches long. The whole body is covered with black and yellow circular stripes evenly around its body. is a triangle.

The golden krait raised its head just to face him, and after looking at him for a few seconds, it lowered its head and closed its eyes.

Chu Xun thought to himself, this hell krait is the same as other krait snakes, it moves slowly and doesn't like to attack humans.

He took out the snake-grabbing pliers that he carried with him, picked up the middle of the snake's body, held the snake's body with his right hand and gently grasped it, and withdrew the hook from between his hand and the snake's body with his left hand while lifting it.

The hell krait was disturbed, and immediately revealed its true colors. While twisting and struggling, it opened its mouth to reveal its fangs.With sharp eyes and quick hands, Chu Xun threw it into the black cloth pocket prepared in advance, and tied the mouth of the pocket.

It was evening when he left the icy hell with the bag and his soul returned from the underworld to the underworld.

When his soul floated to the ice lake behind Mount Jiuhua to look for his body, the body was nowhere to be seen. He searched around and found nothing. Could it be that he was snatched away?

He was dejected, and with the last ray of hope, he drifted into Baiyun Villa, only to see his fellow disciples with nervous expressions, going in and out of No. [-] dormitory from time to time.

He followed a monk into the No. [-] dormitory, and among the crowded crowd, he finally saw his own body covered with icy stubble.

Shen Qingxuan was sitting cross-legged on the bed, putting his hands on his back, thawing him out.

Seeing that Shen Qingxuan's face was getting paler and paler, he hurried past the crowd, hid the snake bag under the bed, his soul returned to his body, and soon his body softened.

"Master, Chu Xun has opened his eyes! Open his eyes!" Zhao Yihuan suddenly shouted excitedly.

Shen Qingxuan collected his spiritual power, put on his boots and got out of bed, helped him to lie down on the bed, then tucked in the quilt, turned to Han Xiao and asked, "Is the ginger soup ready?"

Han Xiao nodded, "It's done."

"Go and bring it."

Han Xiao quickly brought the ginger soup. Shen Qingxuan took the bowl, lowered his head and blew on the hot air surrounding the bowl, picked up a spoon, scooped up a small spoonful, and brought it to his mouth. He opened his mouth and obediently drank the ginger soup. , Warm currents all over the body.

The sky was completely dark, his body softened completely, his face was flushed with blood, and his limbs could finally move freely.

"What did you do today?" Shen Qingxuan asked.

"I..." Chu Xun lay on his back on the bed, hesitating.

"Master, he must have slipped out of the villa to play in the frozen lake because he didn't want to attend the class." Zhao Yihuan interjected.

Shen Qingxuan stared at him, "Really?"

Chu Xun blinked and nodded.

"Is my class so difficult to understand?"

"Master misunderstood." Chu Xun leaned half of his body, and quickly shook his head, "I just have a cold and a fever, and I wanted to take a dip in the ice lake to cool down. Who would have thought that I would be frozen in the ice lake and couldn't move."

Shen Qingxuan seemed to believe it or not, but his complexion was obviously much prettier than before.

"Tell me when you get sick in the future, you are not allowed to go to the frozen lake to cool down again. If Zixiao hadn't discovered it early today, you would have died!" Shen Qingxuan reprimanded.

Chu Xun nodded his chin, lowered his eyelids and muttered, "Master, disciple... I won't dare again in the future."

In the middle of the night, when Shen Qingxuan left the dormitory, Han Xiao and Zhao Yihuan also put out the candles and went to bed because he had been busy all day, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

Chu Xun lifted the quilt and got off the bed, took out the cloth bag containing the snake and half a candle from under the bed in the dark, then put on a robe, went to the door, took off the latch, and went out quietly.

When I came to Xuemei Pavilion, which was the most neglected in the backyard, the surroundings were silent, with occasional insects chirping.

He lit a candle, put the cloth bag on the ground, took out the cage that had been tied up with wire from the nearby grass, and transferred the Hell krait into the cage as quickly as possible.

Luckily, the Hell Golden Ring Snake was not suffocated to death, instead it bumped around in the cage, and after several attempts to no avail, it gradually calmed down.

He hid the cage in the knee-high grass nearby, and went to the dining hall to steal some food for it to eat. He had to calm the little thing, after all, he would fight side by side with it in the future.

Next, it is a soup made from taking Wushi powder and Aesculus aesculus every day.

The next morning, he got up early and went to the market to buy five stone powder.

In the market in the early morning, the fireworks are very strong.

The meat buns just out of the cage, the steaming white and fat steamed buns, Xiaoer set up a small table in front of the stall, and the people who rushed to the morning market sat in front of the table, asking for two meat buns, and drinking a bowl of steaming wontons, with a smile on their faces face.

Chu Xun still had a penny of money on him, and Zhao Yihuan was not short of money, so when he asked to borrow it, Zhao Yihuan casually threw him two pennies, claiming that he had the money to pay back, but he didn't have the money to pull it down.

Chu Xun walked around and walked into a drugstore that had just opened. The boss with a beard saw him and said with a smile, "Little brother, what kind of medicine are you grabbing?"

"Five stones scattered."

When the boss heard this, his face changed, "You are a child, why are you grabbing five stone powder?"

"I bought it for my father," Chu Xun said.

"your dad?"

"Ah."

"Where's your mother?"

"died."

The boss stroked his beard and said thoughtfully, "No wonder."

Chu Xun returned to the dormitory with the Wushisan in his arms, and hid the Wushisan in his closet while Han Xiao and Zhao Yihuan were away for breakfast.

What exactly is Wushi San for? He didn't know at all, but judging by the look of the pharmacy owner, it shouldn't be some common medicinal material, so he went to Muxiang Pavilion, rummaged on the shelves for a long time, and finally found it in an inconspicuous corner. A book about medicinal materials.

After searching through the catalog for a long time, Chu Xun finally found the record about Wushisan on the last page. After scanning it, he couldn't help but gasped.

It is recorded in the book: "The five stones in Wushi Powder are cinnabar, realgar, alum, Zengqing, and Cishi. Many long-term users died of poisoning.

He hurriedly searched for the detailed note of Aesculus chinensis: "Aescinus chinensis is bitter in taste, cold in nature, has a strong heat-clearing and detoxifying effect, and can cure poisonous snake bites."

He put the book back to its original place, frowned and walked around the Muxiang Pavilion for a long time, when he suddenly understood, the wordless book mentioned taking Wushi powder, could it be the legendary "fighting poison with poison"?

Hell's golden krait itself is very poisonous, if he lets it suck his own blood, then his blood will blend with the snake's venom, and taking Wushi powder can counteract it, and a seven-leaf flower can also relieve the snake's venom, and it lasts forever , he can adapt to the snake venom, and he will be able to practice the golden ring snake venom palm just around the corner.

At present, the Hell's golden krait and the five stones are all there, and the only thing missing is a seven leaf and a flower.

Speaking of Aescin, which can cure diseases, Chu Xun immediately thought of the spiritual flower planted in front of Shen Qingxuan’s gate. Hundreds of flowers bloom all year round, competing for splendor. Logically, there should be Aesculus.

However, if you want to pick this flower, you have to wait for Shen Qingxuan to rest at night.

After breakfast, it was time for the monks to study, with Bai Yuxian teaching in the Orchid and Bamboo Hall.

The Orchid and Bamboo Hall is spacious and spacious, with only one table, one chair and one ruler. There are several low tables and meditation mats. The monks all sit on the meditation mats and listen carefully to Bai Yuxian's lecture.

"There are only two ways to practice Taoism: one is to practice in silence, and the other is to practice according to circumstances. Sitting or standing in meditation at Maoshi and Haishi every day, the time starts from half an hour and gradually increases to two hours..."

Chu Xun was sitting in the last row, his eyelids drooped as he listened, and he felt drowsy. He had been spinning around for the past few days, even if his body was made of iron, he couldn't bear it.

"Chu Xun?"

"Chu Xun?"

"..."

The monk at the side pushed him, and he opened his eyes suddenly, only to see that everyone was looking at him in unison, and Bai Yuxian walked over holding a ruler.

"How do beginners practice Taoism correctly? Tell me." Bai Yuxian's voice was cold.

Chu Xun rubbed his eyes, stood up from the Zen mat, and his brain was working rapidly. Just when Bai Yuxian was about to lose his temper, he replied, "The first step is to clarify your ambition. The second step is to exercise your body. The third step is to Read wisely."

Bai Yuxian listened, nodded, told him to sit down, and returned to the lecture hall with the ruler in hand.

After school was over in the morning, Su Yi was supposed to be teaching in the afternoon, and if something happened, Shen Qingxuan was asked to help him lead a class.

After lunch, when everyone heard that Shen Qingxuan was coming to Shengwu Hall to give lectures, they flew up excitedly.

When Shen Qingxuan walked into the Holy Martial Hall, there were already monks standing on both sides, and dozens of weapons were placed on the long table in the middle of the hall.

"Today, I will teach on behalf of Hall Master Su, and teach everyone how to use various weapons." Shen Qingxuan stood in the classroom, and with a slight flick of his sleeves, the fan on the table in the center of the hall was in his hand, "This section, I will teach you all first. Let me demonstrate how to use a fan as a weapon."

As soon as he finished speaking, the snow-white fan in his hand swung open, and the brown fan handle cleverly flipped back and forth a few times in his hand, a row of silver needles flew out from the fan, rushing in all directions.

Everyone backed away in alarm, Shen Qingxuan only said: "Close," the silver needles from all directions quickly gathered together, and were tightly attached to the fan, and he closed the fan with a "shua", the whole movement was smooth and smooth.

"Those who want to learn fan skills need to strengthen their internal skills before they can use the fan as a weapon." Shen Qingxuan said while pushing the fan back on the table.

Everyone was still in shock, Su Yi appeared at the door and called Shen Qingxuan to go out, Shen Qingxuan did not come back after going out, and Su Yi continued to teach.

Chu Xun stood in the corner and scanned the crowd, everyone was obviously much less interested.

After finally waiting for school to end, Chu Xun hurriedly grabbed a few mouthfuls of food, went to the grass to catch grasshoppers and crickets, and sent them to the hell golden krait in the cage.

The snake stared at him viciously, watching him bring his favorite food, but Gao Leng Fan'er disappeared immediately, and started to eat with relish.

Chu Xun waited quietly for late at night, and when Shen Qingxuan fell asleep, he went to steal a fresh seven-leaf flower, and then boiled it with Wushisan to make soup. After drinking it, he could let the poisonous snake suck his own blood .

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