When I was in Luoyang, I heard the travelling Taoist priest say that ghosts are most afraid of black dog blood, but right now where to get these things? I was just thinking about it, "snap", my head was hit a few times, it turned out to be broken and scattered crab shells. Looking up, the white light had already appeared outside the tube, scurried up the wall of flesh, lightning-like drilling into the eggshell.

　　My heart on fire, I jumped onto the tube and kept leaping upwards, quickly climbing to the highest point. Pulled the white fluff, the eggshell slightly open, a strong wind blowing straight outwards, inside as a black abyss, downward endless extension, the point of white light flickering in it, especially conspicuous.

　　Day his grandmother, I must catch you! Against the gusts of wind, I carefully drilled into the egg shell, just a few steps inwards, below suddenly born a suction force that can not be overcome, firmly grabbed me, pulling downwards. Oh no! Below was a red vortex that turned with a roar, and as I plummeted, the vortex was like a big mouth that swallowed me in one gulp.

　　The pressure around me skyrocketed, and my body felt as if it was going to be crushed into pieces, abnormally painful. I tried my best to struggle, but I couldn't do anything. The vortex rolled around me and kept spinning downwards at a fast speed, after a few hundred circles, I was already dizzy and couldn't support myself any longer, and passed out. In a blur, I seemed to see the bit of white light that was flickering on the opposite side. "I'm not going to die in the stomach of a sea beast, am I?" This was the last thought that flashed through my mind.

　　When I opened my eyes again, there was silence around me.

　　I climbed up in a flash and found that the whirlpool was over my head, rotating at high speed. I immediately regained the realisation that I had fallen from the vortex above. Fortunately, although my body was sore, my little life was finally saved!

　　Surveying my surroundings, it was empty and pitch-black, and my feet were like rolling hills, thick and soft. I groped and walked forward. About an incense stick of work, the front vaguely through the blue shimmering light. Into a look, the ground growing a large mushroom, like an upright umbrella, shimmering blue light. Through the faint light, I saw not far away, there is a figure, is lying on the ground, scribbling something. Hearing the sound of footsteps, she raised her head, a pair of turquoise eyes, staring at me ghostly.

　　My body shook dramatically, and my hairs stood on end. Holy shit, she's a human! Inside the stomach of the sea beast, there was actually a person!

　　She was an old woman, her face was covered in dense wrinkles, I had never seen that a face would have so many wrinkles, like an old walnut. Her white hair fell down, dry and long, covering most of her face.

　　She and I stared at each other like this, and after I don't know how long, I coughed and said, "Old woman, you, hello."

　　The old granny looked at me coldly, and after a while, said, "Am I very old? Granny is granny, why do you add the word 'old'?"

　　Her voice was pleasant, not old at all. I smiled sarcastically, "Granny, how are you, I'm Lin Fei, I came here after being accidentally eaten by a sea beast. Do you live here?"

　　The old granny said impatiently, "Talking nonsense, of course you were eaten by a dragon whale if you can come here. What does it matter to me what your name is? Of course I live here, you're not blind. I can't see that you're young and have a lot of nonsense."

　　Holy shit! This old woman's temper is too eccentric! I hesitated and said, "So this giant sea beast is called the Dragon Whale."

　　The old woman rolled her white eyes, full of disdain, clearly feeling that I was talking rubbish again. I simply stopped talking and looked left and right, the ground was scattered with books, several hundred of them. Many of the books were worn and old, the edges of the pages were curled and wrinkled, the handwriting was yellowed, and they seemed to be a bit old. Purple Mansion Secret Taoist Technique, Dragon Tiger Secret Taoist Technique, High Immortal Yu Xuan Secret Taoist Technique, Six Dings Armour Royal Technique, Chaos Armour Royal Technique, Transported Demon Codex, Yin and Yang Mending Demon Technique, Foetalised Everlasting Demon Scripture ...... Browsing through the cover of each book, my eyes reddened and my ears burned, and my heart thumped wildly as if it were beating on a drum. Holy shit! It can't be a dream, right? All the books here, are they all Secret Dao Arts, Armour Royal Arts and Demon Arts Secrets?

　　How could so many secret books be piled up here? I was trembling all over, so excited that I couldn't speak, like a penniless pauper who suddenly entered a pearlescent treasure cave. These hundreds of secret manuals, I can just pick a few to cultivate and immediately become a very powerful human demon, right?

　　The old woman did not move to look at me. After half a day of excitement, I remembered that the owner of these secret manuals was this old woman. In a flash, as if a pot of ice water was poured on my head, my mind immediately cleared. No matter how good the secret manuals were, they were still someone else's. How could she be willing to show me such a valuable thing? It's impossible to rob it, an old woman who has seen so many secret manuals is probably bullish to the point of perversion, blowing her breath can kill me. In front of such a terrifying expert, in case she sees through that I'm Dragon Butterfly, then I won't even be able to live. It's better to go with the 36th plan.

　　With that, I said four words to her, simple and clear, absolutely no nonsense.

　　"Bye granny." I turned around and left.

　　"Kid, stop!" The old woman's shout came from behind me.

　　I twisted my head around, and she looked at me curiously and asked, "Can you read?"

　　I nodded, and she pointed to the books on the ground and asked again, "Then do you know what these are?"

　　I smiled cheekily, "Nonsense! Since I can read and write, of course I know that these are the secret books of the Secret Dao Technique, Armour Royalty Technique, and Demon Technique."

　　The old woman skimmed her parched lips, "Then why did you walk away? Don't you want to take them? Any one of the secret manuals here that falls in the Northern Realm will cause a sensation, attracting countless people and demons to snatch and kill. You're not moved?"

　　"Those who aren't moved are fools. But I can't get these secret scrolls at all. Since I can't get them, why would I stay here? It's just adding to my worries. Besides, it's still unknown whether the secret scrolls are real or fake."

　　"Huh? You, this kid, are not stupid."

　　"For me, it's already good enough to be alive. People die for money, birds die for food, can the secret scrolls still be more important than life?" I laughed, in fact, I had long since become accustomed to it, and in the past, I had long since lost any delusions of grandeur when it came to surviving in a bustling capital city like Luoyang. More silver, more beautiful women, but things that do not belong to me, envy is useless, but instead make themselves miserable.

　　The old woman looked at me with surprise, and only said after a long time: ''I really can't see that your kid is still a bit enlightened. Hehehe, but how easy is it to be able to live. As long as you are in the Northern Realm, you have to endure the destiny of becoming, dwelling, destruction, and emptiness. No matter how strong your power is, one day, you will die under the Heavenly Tribulation."

　　She was silent for a while and sighed, "Ten years ago, how precious these secret scrolls were in my heart. Now, yet they are nothing more than a pile of waste paper."

　　Curious in my heart, I asked, "Granny, how long have you lived here?"

　　"About ten years or so." She faintly said, "I don't remember much, all these years living in the belly of the dragon whale, oblivious to the years outside, I don't even dare to look in the mirror. I must look very old."

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　　I said with a straight face, "Not very old, but very old."

　　The old woman laughed out loud, "Kid, you're quite funny, aren't you afraid of disrespecting me and me killing you?"

　　I was confident: "You are a big man, you must have the temperament and breadth of mind, how would you kill someone because of this little thing?"

　　As the saying goes, a thousand wears, a horse's arse does not wear. The old woman was really pleased, "Kid, don't come to this with me. Tell me, how did you get to the belly of the dragon whale?"

　　I said truthfully, "I was chased by Water Sixth Lang and Mirage Third Lang of the Devil's Shakra Heaven, and ended up encountering the Dragon Whale, and was treated as a snack."

　　The old woman frowned slightly, "Water Sixth Lang and Mirage Third Lang? How come I've never heard of them before? There aren't many demons with the surname Mirage in Devil's Brake Heaven. Mirage Sanlang, could it be that kid from Mirage Dream Tower?"

　　I gritted my teeth and said, "It's that brat! Granny you know him?"

　　The old woman was disdainful, "What the hell is he? He just relies on a little mirage change to show off." Reaching out to rummage through the pile of books, she drew out a crumpled book and threw it over, with Mirror Pupil Secret Dao Technique written on the cover.

　　"Kid, you only need to cultivate this secret book and you'll be able to beat the dust out of him. The Mirror Pupil Secret Dao Technique is the best technique to crack mirage. By the way, it's best to add the Earth Hidden Demon Scripture. Deeply hidden in the earth, using the real to break the imaginary, using the earth's solidity and boundlessness to break the mirage's vagaries of emptiness." Saying that, she found out another secret scroll and threw it to me.

　　I held the two secret scrolls and looked at her dumbfounded, "Granny, what do you mean - these two secret scrolls are for me?"

　　The old granny impatiently said, "Nonsense, you brat are quite to my liking, so I'm giving them to you. Anyway, I've read all of these secret manuals, it's useless to keep them."

　　My heart was so hot and excited that I couldn't speak. She was willing to give me such precious secret manuals after just a brief encounter. Over the years, other than the three beauties, no one had been this kind to me.

　　After a while, I silently said, "Granny, I ...... don't have anything to give you."

　　The old woman hemmed and hawed, "Do I still rare your little kid's things? Quickly go, I'm going to be busy, no time to accompany your nonsense." Lowering her head, she no longer ignored me, scratching her fingers on the ground, frowning tightly from time to time, thinking hard for a long time, and then burying her head to write and scratch again.

　　I held the secret manual, my heart fluttered, the old woman drew all kinds of shapes on the ground as well as sporadic words, which I couldn't quite read. After another long time, the old woman unintentionally raised her head, saw me and said, "Why aren't you leaving yet? Do you still want a few more secret scrolls?"

　　I clenched my teeth and said, "Granny, you are a good person, willing to send me such a precious secret manual. I ...... can't take it for nothing. I ...... also have one thing to ...... show you."

　　She looked at me with a smile, "Granny doesn't care."

　　I said in a deep voice, "Granny, I, Lin Fei, am not used to owing others favours. This item, I'm not giving it to you, I'm just lending it to you."

　　A hint of curiosity appeared in the old granny's eyes as I slowly said, "It's the map of the Autonomous Sky, and since it's someone else's item, I can't give it to you. But you can draw one according to the map."

　　Out of my expectation, the old woman just froze for a moment, no expression of surprise at all, she said indistinctly, "No wonder Mirage Dream House wants to hunt you down, it turns out that it is for the map of the Self-Existent Heaven. It's hard to see that you kid is carrying a special treasure."

　　I said in confusion, "Granny, why aren't you surprised at all? Don't you want the map of the Self-Realising Heaven?"

　　She laughed out loud, "Silly boy, can a map find the Self-Realising Heaven? Can a map break the destiny of Success, Dwelling, Destruction, and Emptiness? If it was that easy, I wouldn't have to be here for so many years pondering over it. Keep your map, I don't want to see it, and I don't need to see it."

　　I froze, unbelievable, this map that could make the entire Northern Realm go crazy was actually like a piece of scrap paper in the old woman's eyes.

　　After freezing for a while, I smiled bitterly, "I'll be going then, goodbye granny."

　　"Wait." The old granny called out to me again, staring at me with interest, "You're a kid with a good heart, very good. The map of the Self-Realising Heaven is also willing to take it out, not afraid that I'll be greedy and snatch it?"

　　I said greasily, "At a glance, I can tell that granny is a supreme master, her heart and spirit is one of only a handful in the Northern Realm, otherwise how would I dare to reveal this secret to you?"

　　The old woman laughed happily, "Good boy, you are good at talking. Come, sit down, let's have a good chat."

　　I sat face to face with her, the old woman is very quick, but also interesting, not a little frame, and her conversation is very pleasant.

　　The old woman asked, "By the way, the dragon whale is so huge, how did you come to me?"

　　I then remembered the bit of white light, and hurriedly told her the original story of how I was caught, and finally said, "Granny, you've lived here for so long, you should have seen that thing, right? It seems to be nearby."

　　A hint of wryness appeared on the old granny's face, "So it's it, hehehe, I thought why your hair style was so weird, so it was repaired by it."

　　"Ah, granny, you know it? What on earth is it? Is it a ghost?"

　　The old granny smiled but did not answer, and added, "What kind of spells do you cultivate? To be able to pass through the Blood Transformation Vortex without a scratch, your skills are quite good."

　　"Blood Transformation Vortex?"

　　"It's the vortex that sucked you down, it's used by the Dragon Whale to guard its heart, any foreign object caught in it will melt into plasma."

　　I said blankly, "I cultivate Danding Stream's Cloud Light and Stone Stream Flying Dan, my body is as firm as a cloud and stone, that's why I didn't get hurt, right?"

　　The old woman looked surprised, "Cloud Light Stone Flow Flying Dan is a scripture for refining dan, how did you use it to cultivate mana?"

　　I hesitated for a moment, wondering if I should tell her the secret that I was a Dragonfly. The old woman winked, "There's no need to say anything if it's inconvenient to say. Well, I also have two secret manuals of the Danding Stream here, so if you want them, find them yourself."

　　My heart warmed and I couldn't help but say, "Granny, you're so good to me."

　　The old granny waved her hand, "Don't say it in such a meaty way, since you came here by coincidence of opportunity, it's also considered to be our destiny, giving away a few books is no big deal."

　　"To granny, these secret books are just as light as a goose feather, but to me they are as heavy as a mountain." I smiled cheekily and asked, "Granny, why do you live in the belly of a dragon whale?"

　　She sighed and didn't say anything, staring at the messy patterns on the floor. After a while, she raised her head and suddenly asked me, "Kid, do you believe in fate?"

　　I silently thought for a while and said, "I don't know. However, some people are born with brocade clothes and jade food; while others can only be like a piece of rotten mud, being trampled on at will. Granny, is this really predestined by heaven? I'm not willing to do it, but sometimes I can only resign myself to fate."

　　"What is fate?" The old woman said quietly, "Kid, let me tell you a story."