After being reborn, all I want to do is run away.

Chapter 126 Dream Lane

The following afternoon, Shen Xu returned to the vicinity of the Min Pavilion.

Last night, while lying in bed, he realized that he seemed to have forgotten to ask the witch when she would come to collect what he wanted, so he had to come here again to ask.

He had to act quickly and get his hands on the item as soon as possible so that he could truly feel at ease and get away from the witch completely.

After hesitating for a moment at the door, Shen Xu took a deep breath and pushed the door open again. He found that there was still no one at the counter, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.

Shen Xu cautiously approached the counter and saw a piece of white paper under the bell on the counter. On it was written a line of delicate handwriting: "Dream Lane, under the third cracked stone brick."

"Was this left for me?" Shen Xu was a little unsure, but he still decided to take a look. If it wasn't what he wanted, he could just ignore it.

But he feared there might be something sinister under the stone bricks, which would bring him endless trouble if he saw it. However, he guessed that the note was most likely left for him, because judging from the witch's relaxed demeanor yesterday, she didn't seem like she had any guests coming recently.

The witch left a note instead of giving him the item herself, probably because she was afraid of getting herself into trouble. After all, the true background of the Mina Pavilion is something that can't be exposed, and the Mina Pavilion's human skin masks are made of real human skin.

But this suited him perfectly; he didn't want to see the witch again.

With that thought in mind, Shen Xu no longer hesitated. After confirming the contents of the note again, he walked out of the Min Pavilion.

After Shen Xu left, the girl's graceful figure appeared beside the counter. Looking at the note on the counter that hadn't disappeared, the girl seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and then, as if she had thought of something, a charming smile appeared on her face.

……

"Dream Lane! This should be it." Looking at the broken and unclear inscription at the entrance of the lane, Shen Xu couldn't help but show a look of relief.

Because the place was so obscure that even most locals in Tianjian City didn't know where Mengyi Alley was, but it was where he had bought the items he had purchased with two hundred Nourishing Yuan Pills, so how could he possibly give it up?

Finally, with the help of an old man, he found the location of Mengyi Alley near dusk.

The reason it's hard to find is that this alley was abandoned a long time ago, and only some elderly people have a vague memory of it, but the reason for its abandonment is probably unknown to everyone.

I don't know how the witch knew about such a remote alley, because it's almost at the edge of the Heavenly Sword City's walls, while the Heavenly Sword Tower is in the center of the Heavenly Sword City.

"It's really kind of her to go to such lengths to trouble me!" Shen Xu sighed before walking into the alley.

As soon as Shen Xu stepped inside, he noticed the unusual atmosphere around him. It was unusually cold and gloomy, and the temperature even seemed to have dropped a bit, causing him to shiver involuntarily. This strange feeling immediately alerted Shen Xu, and he left Dreamy Lane without hesitation.

“Something’s definitely not right here. Is she trying to harm me?” Standing in front of Mengyi Alley, Shen Xu was caught in a dilemma.

"The third cracked stone brick shouldn't be too far away!"

While the sunlight was still on, Shen Xu drew his long sword from his waist and stepped back into Dream Clothes Alley.

Since he was already here, he didn't want to waste his two hundred Nourishing Yuan Pills, and without the skin mask, his journey to choose a sword would likely be very difficult.

Moreover, he felt that the witch didn't seem to want to kill him. Even if she wanted to kill him, she wouldn't need to go to such lengths, and it didn't fit the witch's personality.

After all, he was just a lowly cultivator in the Qi Nourishing Realm with no background, the kind of person who would be ignored even if he died.

An incredibly cold feeling washed over him again. Shen Xu quickly circulated his vital energy to resist the cold outside, but he found that his vital energy was completely useless.

This situation immediately caused Shen Xu's expression to change drastically. What kind of place was this? Even his spiritual energy couldn't withstand the cold. He quickly looked down and found that he was standing on the first cracked stone brick.

The cold was still tolerable for him, but he had to speed things up. He was certain that it would get colder as he went further, and soon he found the second cracked stone brick.

This discovery immediately brought a look of joy to his face. The second piece had been found, so how far away could the third piece be?

Unbeknownst to him, Shen Xu had already walked quite a distance from the alley entrance, but he still hadn't found the third stone brick.

But that's not the most important thing. What's important is that the originally bright sky above the alley entrance suddenly turned pitch black, instantly shrouding the entire alley in a heavy shadow.

At this moment, Shen Xu was completely disoriented, unable to discern which path led to the alleyway.

Worse still, no matter which direction he chose to go, the bone-chilling cold not only did not lessen in the slightest, but became even more intense, like a surging tide constantly assaulting him.

He was now certain that the witch wanted to kill him. Shen Xu couldn't help but smile bitterly. Having been reborn, he still chose to believe the witch's words.

Left with no other choice, Shen Xu had to grit his teeth and continue moving forward with difficulty in one direction. However, with each step he took, the chill surrounding him grew stronger.

This chill was far beyond the ordinary sense of cold; it seemed to penetrate the skin and reach the bone marrow. Even his thoughts gradually became sluggish and stagnant under the erosion of this coldness, as if it were freezing his soul.

This feeling was so familiar to Shen Xu that the image of one person immediately popped into his mind—Li Xiaoyi.

Sure enough, they had a history together.

Thinking of this, Shen Xu couldn't help but feel a sense of desolation. He never expected that he would die from the same kind of coldness in both of his lives.

As time passed, Shen Xu had forgotten his purpose in coming here. Only one thought remained in his mind: to get out alive. However, the scene before him was extremely blurry, and his almost completely frozen soul could not support any of his thoughts.

In an instant, in the previously silent environment, Shen Xu suddenly caught a very faint, almost imperceptible sobbing sound.

The sound seemed to come from the distant horizon, yet it also seemed so close at hand, making it elusive and hard to grasp.

Shen Xu's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly opened his tightly closed eyes. His fallen body had already been buried under the thick snow piled up like a mountain.

Worse still, his face was frozen to the cold stone slab, the sensation like thousands of steel needles piercing his face at once, causing him unbearable pain.

The temperature was abnormally low. If the chill experienced before was merely an invasion of the soul, then at this moment, this cold was a thorough torture of the body.

Shen Xu felt as if every inch of his skin was tightly enveloped by the biting cold, and even the blood flowing in his veins seemed to be about to freeze into hard ice crystals.

He knew very well that, given the current situation, he absolutely could not get up rashly, otherwise the skin of his entire face would probably be torn off the stone slab.

So he tried to circulate the vital energy in his body, hoping to use it to melt the ice on his face, but no matter how hard he tried, the vital energy was like a stone sinking into the sea, completely useless against the ice on his face.

Faced with this predicament, Shen Xu could only manage a bitter smile once more. He knew he had encountered the witch's chilling aura this time. Having experienced it countless times in his past life, he naturally knew how to escape his current predicament.

He subtly activated his blood energy, accelerating the flow of blood throughout his body. As blood circulation quickened, a faint but warm current gradually spread within his body.

Slowly, the gradual increase in body temperature finally began to take effect, gradually melting the ice on his face.

He struggled to his feet, but as soon as he stood up, he felt a strong wave of dizziness and his whole body swayed precariously. His energy was severely depleted.

After regaining his senses, Shen Xu realized with a start that he was in a narrow alley, which had been completely buried by the swirling snow and was almost unrecognizable.