Qi Refining Level 3000, Accepting The Empress As A Disciple At The Beginning

"Why did it have to be like this!"

As many hands as there were, that's how many cultivators were cruelly murdered here.

Without hands, their path to cultivation was severed.

Killing people and crushing their spirits.

So, this Xuan Yuan Mountain, which never allowed outsiders, actually carries so many evil consequences.

But why did you have to let me know? Right now, I'm just a small elder to be manipulated at will, with only the empty title of elder, nothing more than an ordinary person.

"Master! Master! Are you alright?"

Qing Long shouted loudly.

Ye Kong lay motionless on the water's surface. Could he have been ambushed?

"Master, say something!" Qing Long was so anxious he was about to cry.

Seeing that Ye Kong was unmoved, Qing Long on the shore finally couldn't bear it any longer. He plunged into the water, cautiously struggling with his limbs, and just as he was about to get close to Ye Kong, his body suddenly felt heavy, and he sank into the water.

The river water poured in from all directions.

Qing Long struggled and thrashed, constantly calling out for his master, which finally startled Ye Kong.

Ye Kong turned around and directly pulled Qing Long out of the water.

"It's so dangerous in the water, what are you doing here?" Ye Kong's words carried anger.

Qing Long didn't dare to argue and could only smile, "Then Master, let's go back to the shore."

Qing Long held out his hand, with a speck of mud lying in his palm.

"Look at you, always grabbing things randomly." Ye Kong reached out to take the speck of mud from Qing Long's hand, about to throw it into the water.

Wait, this feeling.

Ye Kong squeezed the speck of mud hard, then took it back over. The speck of mud was gone, replaced by a small, golden bean.

"This is?" Qing Long looked at Ye Kong's hand and, after confirming it several times, said, "This is gold! I'm not mistaken, am I? There's actually gold in this river?"

Ye Kong pinched the gold and looked back again, understanding in his heart. He held the small gold bean in one hand and grabbed Qing Long with the other, pulling him out of the river.

The two returned to the shore. Qing Long took the small gold bean from Ye Kong's hand and bit it with his teeth, confirming it this time.

It really was gold!

Qing Long's excited heart and trembling hands were beyond words.

No way, is this a blessing or a curse? He actually stumbled upon such a good thing.

Suddenly, he thought of a past event.

So, this was also one of the main reasons for wanting to come to the Teng Yun Sect back then.

Qing Long returned the small gold bean to Ye Kong, "Master, since there's gold at the bottom of this river, we might as well..."

Pull off a big heist!

"What are you thinking!" Ye Kong poked his head, "Don't forget how those thousands of severed hands at the bottom of this river came to be."

"Then we're really not going to do anything about it?" Qing Long looked at Ye Kong, "Maybe there's a huge gold mine hidden at the bottom of this river!"

"Even if there's a gold mine, it has nothing to do with you. You have to be able to leave Xuan Yuan Mountain alive first," Ye Kong reminded him.

"Besides, do you know how these hands were severed?"

Qing Long immediately fell silent.

"Let's go, hurry up and find your Senior Brother Xu Zhang. Any later, and he might already be gone!" Ye Kong said, while quietly stuffing the small gold bean into his brocade pouch.

The two continued to walk upstream along the river. Strangely, there wasn't a single footprint along the way, clean to the point of being eerie.

If Xu Zhang fell from the cliff, then he would definitely have to take this road. How could there be no traces at all?

The pitch-black bottom of the cliff, with occasional sounds, made Qing Long jump. Qing Long clung tightly to Ye Kong's back, "Master, could Senior Brother Xu Zhang not be at the bottom of the cliff? Could he have been washed away by the river?"

"Possibly," Ye Kong analyzed, "Let's walk along the river for a while and see if there are any other exits."

The two walked along the way, not knowing how long they walked, but the river in front of them still had no end in sight.

Just as Ye Kong and Qing Long were aimlessly walking forward, the Flower Fresh Fruit that Ye Kong had been longing for for so long suddenly appeared on a cliff face ahead.

It swayed its bright petals, dancing in the wind. Getting closer, Ye Kong could even smell its fragrance.

Ye Kong quickened his pace. The Flower Fresh Fruit was already within reach.

Ye Kong reached out his hand, but the moment his hand landed, only a phantom image remained.

The Flower Fresh Fruit was still high up on the cliff face.

However, the two had focused all their attention on the Flower Fresh Fruit, and hadn't noticed that the river beside them had disappeared at some unknown time.

By the time Ye Kong reacted, the two had already arrived on a grassland.

The grassland was covered in green grass, dotted with wildflowers, and occasionally a few spiritual herbs popped up, but they were nothing significant.

What a strange place this is!

Ye Kong exclaimed.

"It's probably difficult to find your Senior Brother Xu Zhang now, and now we have no sense of direction at all. We don't even know where we are."

Hearing this, Qing Long took out a map from his bosom, fiddled with it, and studied it for a while. Suddenly, he said loudly, "Master, we're in this place now!"

Ye Kong looked at the place Qing Long was pointing at, which was clearly marked.

Punishment Field Four (Medicine Field).

Ye Kong took the map and carefully looked at it from both sides, then pointed to the entrance marked at the bottom and asked.

"So you're saying that we jumped down from the cliff at the entrance, which is half the height of the entire Teng Yun Sect, but we ended up halfway up the mountain?"

Qing Long took the map and repeatedly confirmed it several times before answering, "According to the map, that's how it is."

Ye Kong laughed, "Hahaha, am I upside down or is Xuan Yuan Mountain upside down? This is the first time I've heard of a mountain growing upside down."

Qing Long took a few steps forward and pointed to the sign above, saying, "This is indeed a medicine field."

Ye Kong didn't argue, just said oh.

The truth was already very clear.

It seems that every disciple punished to Xuan Yuan Mountain must first take a cliff jump before receiving their punishment.

Thinking about it this way, this Teng Yun Sect is crazy enough.

Now that they had a map, and the direction was discernible, the rest was simple. Ye Kong didn't need to think to know that those disciples must be diligently doing their tasks. They just needed to go to the places marked on the map to find them.

With a plan in mind, their pace quickened.

Passing through these few medicine fields, there was no time to marvel at the competence of the Teng Yun Sect disciples.

Soon, Ye Kong and Qing Long saw the first figure.

The man was holding a thick tree trunk, poking it into the bushes as he walked.

When he saw Ye Kong and Qing Long appear, the figure immediately asked vigilantly, "Who's there?"

"Ye Kong."

Ye Kong slowly spoke.

The next moment, Ye Kong heard the sound of the tree trunk falling to the ground, and a huge figure rushed towards him, then stopped, with emotions such as excitement, disbelief, and ecstasy in his eyes.

It was Chun Xiao.

"Ye Kong! You, how did you get in here?"

Chun Xiao's eyes were red. If it weren't for the fact that there were other people present, she might have rushed into Ye Kong's arms and cried.

Chun Xiao felt wronged, but Chun Xiao didn't say it.