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"Our journey here is difficult and dangerous, and there is nothing interesting to do. Why are you joining in the fun?

Could it be that at the age of sixteen or seventeen, you are already anxious to seek immortality?"

Zhong Ling shook his head and said to Meng Xiuyuan with a bitter face:

"No, Brother Meng, I really can't stay at home any longer.

Since the last time Prince Duan came to my home, my father would get drunk and quarrel with my mother all day long. When the quarrel got serious, he would always come into my room, grab my hand, and loudly ask me who I was.

Not his daughter.

My mother didn't care when she saw it. She just hid in the room and cried all day long. Her eyes were swollen from crying and her voice was hoarse from crying. She wouldn't listen no matter how I tried to persuade her.

Alas, Brother Meng, please save me, just take me with you."

When Meng Xiuyuan heard what Zhong Ling said, he couldn't help but feel uncomfortable. He felt that the scene was as vivid as before his eyes.

Looking at this little girl, she is obviously only sixteen or seventeen years old, but she is involved in these things. No wonder she doesn't want to stay at home for too long and always wants to run outside.

Thinking of this, Meng Xiuyuan only felt that Zhong Ling was really pitiful, so he felt soft in his heart and nodded, agreeing to let her go with him.

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Everyone headed north from Dali City, which was considered very smooth at first.

Although Lord Batian Shiba held a high position, he was very polite to Meng Xiuyuan. He always took care of him carefully and arranged everything on the way so that Meng Xiuyuan did not need to worry about it.

In this way, just like an outing, Meng Xiuyuan and Zhong Ling finished most of the trip, talking and laughing.

But when we arrived in Shanju County and Moutongfu area (today's north of Lijiang, Jianchuan, Heqing and other places), the road suddenly became very difficult to walk. There were high mountains, deep streams and rapids everywhere, and the terrain was steep.

After reluctantly walking for several days, as the mountain road narrowed, Meng Xiuyuan and his party had to abandon their horses and switch to walking, gradually walking deeper into the mountains.

After two days, the road visible to the naked eye was almost exhausted, and many cliffs had to be climbed with vines and ropes to pass, which was very difficult and dangerous.

At this time, with the sea

As we climbed higher and higher, the guards who were not good at martial arts were already a little unable to do what they expected. If they quickened their pace a little and climbed the dangerous road, they would be out of breath, have a splitting headache, and have obvious altitude sickness.

When Batianshi saw this situation, he knew that he could not continue like this. When he ordered the soldiers to stay where they were, he and a guide found from the local area would continue to move forward with Meng Xiuyuan.

However, Zhong Ling had a good foundation in martial arts and was taught internal skills by Meng Xiuyuan, so he did not show any signs of fatigue and continued to move forward with Meng Xiuyuan.

And according to the local guide, from here, it is still more than two hundred miles away from the "Eternal Spring Valley".

The four of them walked over mountains and ridges for a long time, until it was getting dark, and when they wanted to stop and find a place to spend the night, they suddenly found many crooked words on the bark of a big tree beside the steep mountain road.

Nabatian Shibasitu was also very knowledgeable, and he recognized these at a glance as the hieroglyphs of the local Naxi people.

He looked around the big tree for a long time, then turned his head and explained to Meng Xiuyuan and Zhong Ling:

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"These words are very strange and weird. It seems to mean that there used to be a magical book in the Valley of Changchun that taught people how to live forever. Now this magical book has been taken away by a person named Xiaoyaozi.

There is only a spring left in the valley that can keep people young after drinking it.

The following text also says that those who want to enter the valley must think twice before doing so.

Because if you live in this valley, you can stay young and enjoy a lifespan of one or two hundred years, but once you stay in the valley for too long, you will never be able to leave the valley again.

If you want to go out of the valley, your black hair will turn to snow-white within a few days, your back will be hunched, your face will be wrinkled, and you will die of old age."

When Zhong Ling heard this, he was so frightened that he quickly pulled Meng Xiuyuan's sleeve and said:

"Brother Meng, there may not be monsters in this 'Eternal Spring Valley', but it can only be entered but cannot be exited.

We must not go, otherwise it will be bad if we are trapped in that valley.

Even if I could live a hundred or two hundred years, I would be suffocated to death in that valley, it’s just not worth it.”

Meng Xiuyuan smiled when he heard this, and did not immediately answer her words, but just made silent calculations in his mind.

The "Eternal Spring Spring" in this valley is really powerful. If ordinary people drink it, they can stay young forever and enjoy a life span of one or two hundred years.

You know, the green valley in the Kunlun Mountains is far from having such magical effects.

If the matter is really related to the so-called "spiritual energy", it is obvious that the spiritual energy in the Evergreen Valley is much richer than that in the Kunlun Green Valley.

Under such a high concentration of "spiritual energy", even if Meng Xiuyuan has not yet obtained the "Eternal Life Eternal Spring Kung Fu", he might be able to gain some benefits first by relying on the remaining two techniques.

Maybe you can temper your body, maybe you can cleanse your Qi.

In short, with the magical skills of two Xiaoyao sects at his side, and the fact that he had already sensed the existence of "spiritual energy", Meng Xiuyuan believed that this trip would be beneficial to him.
Chapter completed!