Chapter Ten: The Bronze Lamp

  At this time, the old man's face turned even darker, and Cold Cloud discovered that even the old man's hands were starting to turn black.

  "Little guy, just send my little granddaughter to the riverside of Tianyin Temple, and then find a disciple of Tianyin Temple to deliver this token into the temple. Someone will naturally come to the riverside to pick her up. At that time, you can hand over my little granddaughter to the person who comes."

  After finishing speaking, the white-bearded old man took out a white jade pendant with two strange characters carved on it from his bosom, then wrapped the jade pendant in the animal skin map in front of him and threw it directly into Leng Yun's arms.

  "This map was obtained with great difficulty, I think you will use it in the future, so I'll give it to you." By this time, the old man's face had a few more shades of black than before, and even Cold Cloud, who didn't have much experience in Jianghu, could see that the old man's life was about to come to an end.

  Leng Yun's gaze shifted from the white-bearded old man to the little girl who was still crying softly beside him, looking at the little girl's beautiful face like a fairy. At this moment, he felt somewhat helpless, on one hand was a lovely girl, and on the other hand were his mother's repeated reminders before leaving home, but in the end, he was defeated by the little girl in front of him who was crying, and could only grit his teeth and put away the beast skin and jade pendant.

  The old man with white beard saw Lingyun finally put away the map and jade pendant, and the worry in his heart finally fell. "Young man, this is my little granddaughter Yu Rong, I'll leave her to you!"

  Then, the old man with white beard hastily added in a gentle voice to the crying little girl: "Yu Rong, don't cry, quickly greet this brother and from now on when Grandpa is not around you must listen to brother's words, do you understand?"

  The little girl seemed to understand her grandfather's situation as well, and she held back tears, turning around to say to Leng Yun: "Little brother, thank you. In the future, Yu Rong will definitely repay your kindness of saving his life."

  Upon seeing the little girl say such words, Leng Yun hastily spoke up: "No need to thank me, I'm also heading in that direction anyway!"

  Seeing the two little guys getting along quite well, the old man with white beard couldn't help but reveal a hint of a relieved smile. "Young fellow, are you planning to join some immortal sect this time you go to Rongzhou?"

  Leng Yun, although he didn't go to a certain immortal sect this time, in fact it was no different from joining an immortal sect. So after hearing Bai Xu's question, he nodded very briefly.

  "Are you a Water Spirit Root?" The white-bearded old man saw Leng Yun nod and immediately followed up with another question, but upon hearing this question, Leng Yun was momentarily at a loss for how to respond. Although he and his mother had suspected that he should be a Water Spirit Root, after all, it hadn't been confirmed, and during that trip to the Great White Turtle's place, he had forgotten to ask.

  "I should be Water-type, but no one has ever helped me check."

  When Leng Yun gave this answer, the white-bearded old man was visibly stunned. Investigating the spiritual root is not a difficult task, and ordinary low-level cultivators can do it. Based on his previous speculation, being able to cross the Ghost Worrying Gorge alone with a strange turtle-like demon beast by his side should be from a certain hidden world of Xuanzhou's cultivating family.

  The old man with white beard thought for a while, but he really couldn't think of anything else that could be possible. After all, it's not something that ordinary small families or forces can do to have a demon beast at such a young age, especially this strange big turtle in front of him which didn't seem so simple.

  "Then I'll take a look for you."

  Leng Yun was overjoyed and hastily walked to the side of the white-bearded old man, who was now clearly extremely weak. After feeling around on Leng Yun's body for a while, he finally confirmed: "It is indeed a Water Spirit Root, and it should be a very rare pure Water Spirit Root."

  Leng Yun was confident in his own spiritual roots, but when a Supreme Immortal confirmed it for the first time, he couldn't help but feel some excitement. However, at this moment, the white-bearded old man suddenly let out a long sigh and said, "What a pity that it's a Water Spiritual Root!"

  "Huh!" Leng Yun's excited heart immediately cooled down, "Immortal, is there something wrong with this Water Spirit Root?"

  "Your spiritual root is not a problem, after all, it's a rare pure spiritual root among millions. However, this water spiritual root not only has weaker defensive and practical abilities compared to the earth system, but its attacking power is also the weakest among all spiritual roots, which is why I think it's a pity."

  After hearing this, Leng Yun finally let out a long sigh of relief. Earlier, he had been truly frightened. He had almost thought that the Water Spirit Root would bring some trouble based on Bai Xu's tone, but fortunately it was just a weak point in attack power. As for this point, Leng Yun didn't put much emphasis on it. In any case, as long as he could cultivate and become an immortal, that was all that mattered.

  As soon as the old man with white beard finished speaking, a blood-red line suddenly appeared at his brow point. Apparently, the old man also felt this quickly, he raised his hand and took down the small lamp on his head that looked exceptionally ancient. Until then, Leng Yun only discovered that the small lamp was actually floating in mid-air earlier.

  Holding this small lamp, which was only the size of an ordinary person's fist, the old man with white whiskers seemed to reveal a hint of reluctance in his dull eyes. However, this reluctance came and went quickly, and he suddenly grabbed Leng Yun's hand, heavily stuffing the small lamp into Leng Yun's hand.

  "This is an ancient artifact I happened to obtain in a cave, if I'm not mistaken, it should be a very powerful water attribute defensive artifact, and it's also the only thing in my hand that matches your water attribute, here you go."

  Leng Yun wanted to decline, but the white-bearded old man didn't wait for him to speak and continued: "I don't have much time left, if you think I'm worthy of this dying old man, then take it!"

  He said, pointing to a crescent-shaped gap at the bottom of the lamp's base, "I've had it for over a hundred years, but because I practice fire-based magic, I couldn't refine it. All I know is that there should be a storage space inside like a Qiankun bag, but this space can only hold water-attribute spirit stones, and using it will consume the spirit stones inside. Also, if I'm not mistaken, the flame in the lamp should be the legendary Xuanli Fire, one of the nine great anomalous flames."

  Leng Yun wanted to speak again at this time, but the white-bearded old man still didn't plan to give Leng Yun a chance to refuse, and continued to say: "I have some important things that I want to entrust to my little granddaughter alone, I don't know if you can help me pay attention to the situation outside the boat."

  Although Leng Yun was young and didn't have much of the so-called Jianghu experience that the old man on the island often talked about, he still understood the meaning behind the white-bearded old man's words. Leng Yun was very concise and gave a salute to the old man before directly exiting the cabin.

  However, as soon as Leng Yun walked out of the cabin, a faint blue light circle suddenly appeared around him. The strange wind that was blowing on his face and making it ache instantly disappeared, and the temperature around him also warmed up in an instant, as if the chill in the valley had vanished in that moment.

  "Huh!" Leng Yun naturally knew that this change was related to the lamp in his hand. After all, judging from the sound, the howling outside hadn't changed at all due to the abnormality beside him. Leng Yun tried stretching his hand out of the circle of light, and indeed, the situation outside the light circle wasn't any different from what he had felt before.