Iron Snow Clouds

Chapter 2540 (Two Thousand Five Hundred and Forty)
Tie Wandao asked, "Besides the white pillars and the copper square plate, did you see anything else?"

Li Pingrun said: "It's not that I didn't see the others, but I couldn't see them clearly. So even if the clan leader asked me about them now, I couldn't describe them."

"Through the ritual, do you think the place where the three alchemists who performed the ritual together mentioned that changes happened underground in Tiecangting is exactly where you performed the ritual just now?" Tie Wandao asked.

"Yes, I think so." Li Pingrun said.

Tie Wandao said, "Just now I saw you holding a rope? I couldn't see it clearly from a distance. Is that right?"

"Yes." Li Pingrun said.

"What kind of rope is that?" Tie Wandao asked.

"A rope used for rituals." Li Pingrun replied.

"What did you do with the rope just now?" Tie Wandao asked.

"Draw a circle on the ground." Li Pingrun said.

"Draw a circle?" Tie Wandao said, "Then I'll go over and take a look."

After Tie Wandao finished speaking, he said to Tie Jinjue who was standing beside him, "Let's go over and take a look."

Just saying this, he thought of the sudden explosion of the purple shell that happened there when Li Pingrun was performing the ritual. He wondered whether the area was safe after he stopped performing the ritual.

So he asked Li Pingrun again: "Have you finished your ritual?"

Li Pingrun said: "That stage is over."

Tie Wandao asked, "Will I need to perform a ritual at that time?"

"Yes." Li Pingrun said.

Tie Wandao then asked, "Is there no danger there now?"

"There's no danger." Li Pingrun replied.

"Are we sure we won't be hurt if we go there?" Tie Wandao asked again.

"Not at the moment." Li Pingrun said.

Tie Wandao then said to Tie Jinjue and Li Pingrun, "Let's go now."

The three of them walked towards the place where Li Pingrun had drawn a big circle. On the way there, Tie Wandao kept asking Li Pingrun about the circumstances of his previous practice.

Li Pingrun told him the truth.

The three of them arrived near the big circle. Before Tie Wandao entered the circle, he said, "That thing that appeared earlier and was wandering around like a funnel, is it looking for the location of the underground entrance?"

"That's right." Li Pingrun said.

"I just saw it from a distance and it seemed to have landed here, is that right?" Tie Wandao asked.

"Yes." Li Pingrun said.

"Where are you now?" Tie Wandao asked again.

Li Pingrun replied: "That's it."

As he spoke, Li Pingrun pointed at the nail.

"Are you referring to the nail?" Tie Wandao asked.

"That's right." Li Pingrun replied.

"You mean, after it fell there, it turned into that nail?" Tie Wandao said.

"Yes." Li Pingrun said.

"In other words, we have found the entrance to the place where changes are happening underground?" Tie Wandao asked.

"This... still needs to be done..." Li Pingrun said.

"Why are you hesitating? If you found it, you found it." Tie Wandao interrupted Li Pingrun and said, "Didn't it just turn into a nail? Then the underground entrance is where the nail is, right?"

"That nail is just the center." Li Pingrun said.

"Isn't the entrance where the nail is?" Tie Wandao frowned.

"I don't know if it is." Li Pingrun replied.

"You're still not sure now?" Tie Wandao asked.

(End of this chapter)