It is always late in winter.

But at 7 o'clock, it was already bright at night. The first snow stopped last night. To be precise, it stopped when I woke up at around 5 o'clock in the morning, but it didn't stop the night. The forest put on a new white dress.

The snow stopped, and the wind became gentle on such a morning.

I squinted my eyes and felt the tenderness brought by the breeze, without the faint warmth of the spring breeze, but the coldness in it was easy to make people feel refreshed.

In fact, I woke up from around 5 o'clock and stopped sleeping anymore.

But I am in good spirits. I am very surprised. I only have 8 hours of awakening every day and I slept intermittently on the way I came. Why did I not only break through this shackles when I arrived at the mountain gate, but I even slept less than ordinary people?

Just like yourself in a normal state.

Am I better? This may make me feel very happy. I punched a set of punches in the snow, and it was so hot that my sweat was getting hot. When Brother Zhengchuan came out of the bear hole, he happened to see me squinted his eyes and blowing the wind. He looked a little funny and couldn't help but call me: "Are you thinking about how to hit the Tianma Meteor Fist?"

I am obsessed with cartoons. When I was a child, I often imagined it like this. I always felt that if I worked hard enough, I would definitely be able to learn the moves of the characters in the cartoons.

For this reason, Brother Zhengchuan has made fun of me.

Before I opened my eyes, I smiled first. When I opened my eyes, I saw Brother Zhengchuan grabbing a handful of snow to wash my face. I quickly squatted beside Brother Zhengchuan and did the same.

Just like when I was a child, I always like to get together with him for brushing my teeth and washing my face.

The cold snow rubs the warm face twice. As long as you can resist the initial coldness of the snow melting, a comfortable feeling will always come out from your face.

I sighed with satisfaction, grabbed the water that had been poured into the thermos pot last night, and took a big sip.

After midnight, the water in the kettle had turned into warm water. Just eat it with the dry cake. Brother Masahiro also took a dry cake. While biting it, he looked at me and asked, "Why didn't you ask me to get up last night?"

"I fell asleep outside myself and woke up at around 5 o'clock, so I thought about letting you sleep for a while." I said vaguely while swallowing the dry cakes, the morning was the time when I was the hungry. In a blink of an eye, I had finished eating one of the dry cakes. I took another one and didn't feel at ease about it.

Brother Zhengchuan nodded and said, "Well, you have limited time to wake up every day now, and you have been sleeping intermittently on the road these two days. It is normal to fall asleep yesterday."

I originally wanted to tell Brother Masahiro that I had done it, but the dry cakes were choking in my mouth. I didn't have time to say it, so I could only grab the water and take a bite.

But I didn't expect that Brother Zhengchuan discovered the problem himself, and suddenly turned to look at me and asked, "No, you didn't sleep all day yesterday and you were Zhengling again at night. Is that true?"

"Yes? Haha." I couldn't hide my joy.

Brother Zhengchuan's face suddenly became ugly. He put down the dry cake in his hand, pulled me up, and said to me: "Let's go, let's go back to the mountain gate quickly."

"Is something happened?" I wondered, why did Brother Zhengchuan see such a serious view?

Brother Zhengchuan said with an extremely serious expression: "Your soul was damaged, but the mountain is full of spiritual energy. You gave him an excited potion. What are the consequences? The abnormal performance in a short period of time will make the weak person even weaker! Why did I forget this? I am afraid there is no cure."

I was stunned. After thinking about it carefully, this is indeed the case. But can I cure this situation when I go back to the mountain gate? If Brother Zhengchuan really has a solution, according to my understanding of him, I would probably ask Zhuang Jing to use various reasons to cure me when I was injured.

But at this time, Brother Zhengchuan was already packing his luggage with a serious expression. I didn't ask too much, so I could only pack my luggage with Brother Zhengchuan.

Soon, we left here and set out again towards the mountain gate.

Brother Zhengchuan walked in front and I walked behind because of the snow all night, the two of us were left with deep and shallow footprints on the ground. When I grew up on the mountain, I had already developed the habit of walking with my head down. This would make it easier to discover the footprints of various old medicines and wild animals in the forest. It is also quite interesting to see the footprints of two people printed in the snow.

But when I turned out of the small forest where the bear cave was, I stopped and then frowned.

Because it is not new to have a broken dead branch on the edge of this small forest, there are more dead branches in the forest for various reasons.

The key is that there are half a clear footprints on this dead branch.

I remembered the sound of dead branches being trampled in the early morning. At that time, I thought it was my illusion, so how do you explain this half footprint?

And I couldn't help but squat down and gestured to the footprint with my palm.

This half footprint is half the size of my palm. I believe that if it is complete, it is also a small foot. If such a foot belongs to a man, it would be too nonsense. This should be the foot of a woman.

If it is a man, I can also understand it as someone who is trapped in the deep mountains to collect herbs or hunt.

This explanation is actually not much. In the past, the mountain where the mountain gate is located is dangerous and there are not many dangers. If you go deep into the cultivator's ability, it is nothing, you can deal with it.

Besides, there are not necessarily specialties on this mountain that one person can penetrate into this realm, which is actually unreasonable.

What about that woman? How do you explain it? What about other footprints? Could it be that they are from Wangxian Village?

As soon as I got into thinking, I forgot about time until Brother Zhengchuan called me, and I came to my senses and thought about it. I was afraid that this kind of thing should not be hidden from Brother Zhengchuan, so I called Brother Zhengchuan over.

"This is" Brother Zhengchuan also saw the key to the problem at a glance.

At this time, I also told Brother Masahiro that I heard in the early morning of this day, and then asked: "Can they be from Wangxian Village?"

"If it were someone from Wangxian Village, do you think you would choose to leave silently? What's the reason to see you and still walk away like this?" Brother Zhengchuan dispelled this possibility with just one sentence, and then stood up and looked around to see if there were any other footprints.

Strangely, except for this half footprint, no other traces were left on the scene.

Brother Zhengchuan looked up at the big tree around him, and then found another trace that seemed to be left by friction, and then said to me: "Walking on the tree."

"Who is it?" A bad premonition surged in my heart.

Brother Zhengchuan smiled bitterly and said, "The peaceful days on this mountain are probably over. In fact, after you left, my master and I have received two groups of "guests". These are just temptations."

As he spoke, Brother Masahiro stroked the wound on his face.

In fact, the wound had already grown, and there was no scar left. It was just that it was cracked, and the skin color inside was lighter than the normal skin color and was not obvious.

I looked at it but felt a little confused. I looked up and asked Brother Zhengchuan: "Is it the demon of the demon clan?"

"Um." Brother Masakawa did not answer me positively, but said vaguely: "Third brother, do you think normal people can come and go freely on the trees at night?"

The answer is clear.

And I felt that my life seemed to be in a mess, and then I could figure out something clearly, and other things followed one after another, which made people feel like they couldn't breathe.

With such a heavy mood, Brother Zhengchuan and I continued to move forward silently all the way to the mountain.

Yesterday, the remaining distance was nothing. Before noon, Brother Zhengchuan and I had already arrived at that cliff-like place, which was the real entrance to the mountain gate.

When he arrived here, Brother Zhengchuan seemed to be very careful and took me back and forth several times. After confirming that no one was following, he carefully opened the formation of the mountain gate and led me into the mountain gate.

"Zhengling, the master has made adjustments to the formation here. He has opened the second level of the formation. You follow me closely and must not have any deviation. Master, he is no longer here. With my current ability, if something happens to you, I will never be able to rescue you from the formation of the second level of the formation." Brother Zhengchuan looked serious.

My mood was originally in a state of great excitement. After more than 5 years, I was finally able to return to the mountain gate again. But my mood became serious.

As far as I know, the mountain gate formation originally had three levels. Among the records of the mountain gate, there seemed to be very few things that could open the second major formation. As for the third major formation? It seemed to have been opened, but there seemed to be no record of that paragraph, and it seemed that someone deliberately erased it.

Now, in this seemingly peaceful day, the second major formation has been opened. What happened?
Chapter completed!