Chapter 227 What was it for?
As evening approached, Murong Ji found a nearby village to stay.

After the three fell into the woods, they walked onto the official road. At this time of year, there were many pedestrians on the road.

When I accidentally saw Zhang Xiaofan's distraught look, I roughly understood what he was thinking.

"Snapped"

Murong Ji slapped him on the shoulder and said, "Don't think about it. You can't figure it out for a while. It's better to write down the doubts in your heart and verify and solve them step by step."

Zhang Xiaofan nodded, then continued to lower his head, absent-minded.

Seeing this, Murong Ji knew that his words were in vain.

When you walk to the entrance of the town, you will see a standing stone tablet: Xiaochi Town.

"It's actually here?!" Murong Ji was a little surprised. He didn't expect that they would actually get here. He thought they would not pass by here.

Lu Xueqi and Zhang Xiaofan both looked over, somewhat curious.

"Seventh Senior Brother, have you been here before?"

"No, I just heard about it." Then, Murong Ji had an idea to see if he could revive the relationship between him and Lu Xueqi.

"There is an ancient well here, the Full Moon Ancient Well. According to legend, when the moon is full, if people look down, they will see their favorite person or thing." After saying that, Murong Ji looked at the two of them.

I saw Lu Xueqi and Zhang Xiaofan were listening carefully.

Murong Ji raised the corner of his mouth slightly. Although nothing could be seen from Lu Xueqi's cold face, she was very confused in her heart.

Murong Ji exhaled slowly and began to think about how to make the Full Moon Ancient Well reveal his appearance.

Lu Xueqi is young and lacks experience. Although she is smart, she cannot withstand such a deep trap.

Xiaochi Town is peaceful and prosperous.

As it was getting dark, Murong Ji and his two companions booked a room at the inn. After ordering a banquet, Murong Ji told the waiter, "Waiter, remember to prepare hot water."

"Okay, sir." The waiter was about to turn around and leave, but he seemed to remember something, turned around and said, "Dear guests, the town has been in turmoil recently, so... don't go out at night."

Murong Ji understood in his heart that the three-tailed fox demon was starting to cause trouble here.

Zhang Xiaofan was curious, so he asked, "Little Second Brother, what happened? Why is it so uneasy? I think Xiaochi Town is pretty good."

The waiter smiled bitterly and said, "Sir, you may not know that two months ago, a fox demon moved into the Black Stone Cave ten miles away."

"After that, chickens and ducks started to disappear from the town, and later cattle and sheep began to disappear. I don't know when the fox demon will start to eat people."

Zhang Xiaofan was startled, and glanced at Murong Ji, remembering the method he taught him, and said, "It is indeed the fox demon who is wrong. Has he ever hurt anyone?"

"No, I was trying to steal chickens and ducks, and someone bumped into me, but I didn't hurt anyone."

Murong Ji smiled and watched Zhang Xiaofan inquire carefully. From the look of him, he seemed to want to resolve the matter.

Suddenly, he remembered the six-tailed demon fox and the Xuanhuojian was still in his possession.

After the waiter left, Zhang Xiaofan looked at Murong Ji, seeming to want to say something but hesitant. After thinking for a long time, he never opened his mouth.

Seeing this, Lu Xueqi frowned and said impatiently: "It is our duty to eliminate demons and defend the Way. Why should we hesitate?"

Zhang Xiaofan waved his hands quickly, "No, no, no, I'm not hesitating, but Senior Brother Seven is thinking about something and can't be disturbed. If you interrupt his train of thought, he will be in pain."

Lu Xueqi frowned and watched Murong Ji's distraction, somewhat confused. Since when did distraction become so important?
When Murong Ji came back to his senses, he said without waiting for Zhang Xiaofan to speak, "Let's go meet the fox demon and take a look at the Full Moon Ancient Well."

Zhang Xiaofan looked out the window of the inn. The moon had just risen. He said with some embarrassment, "Seventh Senior Brother, there are still more than ten days before the full moon. Should we wait here?"

Murong Ji turned to look at Lu Xueqi, wanting to see what she meant.

Lu Xueqi stared at the dish that had just been served and murmured, "Wait a minute." Her heart was disturbed and she had never calmed down.

These days, she couldn't even concentrate on her cultivation. She needed to give herself a result.

Murong Ji stopped the waiter who was delivering the dishes and asked, "Waiter, I heard that you have a lot of black stones here, which is a good treasure of the immortals. Is it true?"

Speaking of black stone, the waiter's expression became a little excited, "Of course it's true, black stone has been mined for hundreds of years."

"The mine is bottomless. The deeper it is, the better the quality of the black stone mined. You don't know that the black stone at the deepest part requires those immortals to use some kind of magic weapon to cut it."

“Otherwise, don’t even think about picking it. But…” When he said this, the waiter looked a little terrified.

"It's just that the mine tunnel opened up a cave. The cave is full of strange creatures. The older generation said that they were ancient species. I don't know what ancient species are."

Murong Ji was thinking a lot as he looked at Zhang Xiaofan, secretly sighing at how lucky this guy was as he encountered all the good places.

I thought of the pattern for refining a storage ring. The hardness of the material required for this thing is extremely abnormal. I just don’t know if the black stone can do it.

After dinner, Murong Ji waited for everyone to fall asleep, then quietly flew out on his sword, and under the moonlight, he searched most of the mountain before finding the ancient well.

The area around the ancient well is flat for thirty or forty meters. Further out, there are dense forests and even towering ancient trees.

Murong Ji landed on the edge of the ancient well, frowned and looked around. This was a formation!
Standing here, it seems that the moonlight is a little brighter than anywhere else. This formation is slowly gathering the moonlight.

Murong Ji squatted down and slowly stroked the edge of the well, "Wow, the history of this well is probably even older than that of Qingyun Sect." Standing at the edge of the well and looking inside, he saw nothing except his own shadow.

After thinking for a while, Murong Ji turned over and went down. As soon as he entered the well water, he felt a bone-chilling coldness that made him sober instantly. After a few breaths, he began to shiver.

[It's really rare that the water is so cold and yet it hasn't frozen yet. ]

You have to know that he is a cultivator of the seventh level of Jade Purity. The temperature must be very low to freeze him.

Circulate your Qi to clear the coldness from your body.

The crystal was a little narrow, just enough for turning around. A stronger person would probably be stuck.

The water was not deep, just up to his waist. Murong Ji turned slowly to explore the situation in the well.

The walls of the well were covered with tiny mosses. Murong Ji removed the moss, revealing ancient bricks that were tens of thousands of years old.

It is really difficult to determine which period the ancient well was built from.

Slowly inject the true qi into it, and the true qi will follow a specific pattern. [With the pattern of an instrument, this is already a magic weapon. ]

Draw the patterns inside the well, get out of the well, dive headfirst into the well, and explore the bottom of the water.

The situation at the bottom of the well was rather strange. There was a black stone underneath. The surface of the stone was as smooth as a mirror, reflecting Murong Ji's current appearance with incredible clarity.

Exploring the patterns, we found that they were quite complex.

After leaving the well, Murong Ji leaned against the well and sorted out the patterns on the vessel. He was a little disappointed. The Full Moon Well was a little useless.

How to say it, someone used all sorts of means to nurture a magic weapon, but who would have thought that he would nurture a magic weapon that could only reflect what he thought in his mind.

First, it cannot assist in spiritual practice, and second, it cannot attack and kill powerful enemies.

"However, the formation method of that big guy is still worth learning."

He spent half the night to wave down the surrounding formations, print his own image on a copper plate, and placed it at the bottom of the well.

He practiced here for a while using the Gathering Immortals Banner to attract the moonlight, and then flew away on his sword.

He quietly opened the door and walked into the room. He was stunned to see a person in his room.

Lu Xueqi.

Lu Xueqi half leaned against the window, looking out quietly. The moonlight sprinkled on her, like silver and water, as if she was a fairy from the Moon Palace who had secretly come down to earth.

Murong Ji couldn't recover from what he saw for a long time.

"What have you been doing?"

Lu Xueqi's voice was still cold, but there was an emotion in her tone that Murong Ji couldn't understand.

"I'm going to practice."

Lu Xueqi frowned slightly, said nothing, stood up and walked out of the house.

Passing by Murong Ji, the two brushed shoulders. Murong Ji's heart tightened, and he suddenly grabbed her, "Xueqi, I really went to practice."

He didn't lie, he had indeed been practicing in the mountains and forests for quite some time.

As he spoke, he shook open the Juxian Banner, and instantly a billowing gray mist spread out. "This Juxian Banner was made to gather spiritual energy, mix evil spirits, and assist in cultivation. Look."

The Gathering Immortals Banner in his hand started to work instantly, and the spiritual energy and evil spirits gathered together and surged forward. After passing through the Gathering Immortals Banner, they turned into a gray mist.

Lu Xueqi frowned and gathered a handful of grey mist. This mist had the gentleness of spiritual energy, but also lacked the coldness and fierceness of evil spirit.

"I see."

He broke free from Murong Ji's hand and turned to leave the room.

Murong Ji felt a little disappointed and sat dejectedly in Lu Xueqi's original seat.

Suddenly, I was startled. When did I become so worried about a woman?

[Why did I pursue Lu Xueqi in the first place? 】

The next morning, the three of them had breakfast.

Murong Ji and his companions went straight towards the Black Stone Cave ten miles away.

[I didn’t look carefully when I came here at night, but the Full Moon Ancient Well is not far from the Black Stone Cave.]

This place is still deep in the mountains and old forests, with only one road leading into the mountains, which was built by villagers to collect black stones.

It took a long time to hike up the mountain, and it was already noon. It was not in vain, as there were many herbs along the way. Zhang Xiaofan transformed into a rattan basket and helped Murong Ji load the herbs.

Lu Xueqi quietly watched her two fellow apprentices busying themselves, not in a hurry, doing what she could.

The scorching sunlight shines through the gaps between the dense leaves, and is cut into tiny pieces of light that shine on the ground and dance continuously with the swaying of the leaves.

(End of this chapter)