Chapter 3: Don't live more than sixteen
"Yuan Huang, do you know what the elixir is?" Master Yan walked ahead. Out of the firewood house, it is a small courtyard, and then out of the small courtyard is a winding, zigzag and staggered path. Master Yan took the lead. Lead Yuan Huang to turn left and right. For a while, Yuan Huang couldn't tell the direction.
Yuan Huang heard Master Yan's question and hurriedly replied: "I know, Master Yan, this elixir is an elixir refined by gathering spiritual power, which can promote cultivation. ”
"What you know is only on the surface, let me ask you if you are just gathering spiritual power, then what do you want you to do?" Master Yan slowed down, turned around and skimmed Yuan Huang, who was walking behind and looking around with his head raised.
"Well, maybe we're not worth the price......" Yuan Huang replied.
"Although it is troublesome to condense spiritual power alone, if it is a monk like the head of the family, it can take a few days to refine several high-grade spiritual pills, whether it is the thickness of spiritual power or the efficacy, it can be a hundred times stronger than yours, do you know why you children who have less than ten levels of spiritual power can refine it?" Master Yan continued to say slowly.
"I don't know ......"
Yuan Huang really didn't understand, but he did know that the Cang family was not the only one who bought and sold children to be spirit slaves in the "Twelve Counties of Tangshan".
"Spirit slave, if you become a spirit slave, it's nothing to just refine your spiritual power every day?
"Because no slave will live to be sixteen years old. Yuan Huang replied directly. This is no longer a secret, it has long been known to everyone in the twelve counties of Tangshan.
Master Yan's eyes revealed a look of pity: "I can't live to be sixteen years old, and sixteen years old is already an extremely long time." ”
"That's because it's not just the spiritual power that has been refined, but also the unfinished spiritual root, as well as the formed spiritual source, and your lifespan. Master Yan continued to speak softly.
Yuan Huang's face changed when he heard this, and his heart suddenly became cold.
"Refining the spiritual root?" asked Yuan Huang with some incredulity.
"Most of the spiritual slaves are children around ten years old, and the aura has appeared, the spiritual roots have been formed, and the spiritual source has not been solidified. Even some spiritual roots have not completely disappeared, the spiritual source is still just a ball of spiritual energy, if the spiritual roots at this time are withdrawn from the human body, do you say that people can still live?" Master Yan gradually accelerated his pace.
"Master Yan, then this spirit slave is being extracted from the spirit root!" Yuan Huang's voice trembled slightly. It should indeed be so, Yuan Huang secretly complained, how could he not think of it. If it is simply to extract spiritual power, then how can it end up with a miserable ending of "not living sixteen".
Master Yan didn't answer and continued to move forward. Passing by a luxurious small courtyard, the stone lions on the left and right outside the courtyard are lifelike, like gold and jade.
"Ah, don't, Childe!" a pleading voice sounded.
Hearing this voice, Yuan Huang's mind exploded, this is the voice of the girl Mu who drugged him!
"Hehe, such a handsome girl, I've been thinking about you for a long time. The man's voice was playfully triumphant.
Yuan Huang heard that he didn't understand the situation of this Sister Mu here, obviously he was bullied, Yuan Huang was enthusiastic, and he was about to rush into the courtyard. However, Yuan Huang did not move, but Master Yan walked directly into the courtyard, and Yuan Huang hurriedly followed closely behind.
Entering the courtyard, Yuan Huang fixed his eyes and saw that in broad daylight, Sister Mu was pressed under a young man, and there were dozens of guards watching together!
Sister Mu's upper clothes were completely torn, revealing a large area of snow white, and her eyes were cold and deadly.
"No!" Sister Mu shouted, and her spiritual power was instantly released, actually shaking the young man away a few steps. The young man sat on the ground with his chest exposed, obviously not expecting to be resisted like this, and immediately became angry.
"Catch this slut for Young Master Ben!"
"Yes. ”
A group of guards rushed up, surrounded by groups, and completely pressed Sister Mu to the ground for a while.
"Okay, little ones, this young master will reward you for having enough fun when he finishes his fun!" said and kicked Miss Mu on the ground in the lower abdomen.
"Hmm!" Miss Mu was in pain, curled up like a boiled shrimp, and it was difficult to resist.
"Hehe, thank you, young master. The guards cheered, apparently they weren't surprised.
Yuan Huang could endure it, and he was about to rush forward several times, but he was restrained by Master Yan.
Seeing that Sister Mu was about to be ruined, Master Yan finally spoke up: "Young Master, can you improve your swordsmanship today?"
This sentence immediately made the people in the entire courtyard notice Master Yan's place, and those guards hurriedly let go of the subdued Mu girl as if they were alive.
This boy also got up immediately when he saw Master Yan, and suddenly he was like a frosted eggplant, he lost his spirit, and even showed a slightly panicked and flattering expression: "Manager Yan, let you see a smile." ”
At this time, Miss Mu, who was lying on the ground, also hurriedly escaped, and rushed out from Yuan Huang's side crying all the way.
It's just that when passing by Yuan Huang, Yuan Huang found that there was no panic in Miss Mu's eyes, and it was actually cold and terrifying.
"Childe still cultivates hard, and the king will return to his house in two days. After Master Yan finished speaking, he ignored the young man, pulled Yuan Huang and walked out of the courtyard directly.
"Mr. Yan, I must practice hard, but don't tell my father. Behind him came the young master's pleading.
Seeing Mr. Yan leaving, the young man raised his head: "Phew, bad luck!"
"Young Master, what are you afraid of him doing?" asked a guard flatteringly.
The young master shook his head: "He's not simple, his words are more effective than my father's, how can you not be afraid." ”
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Yuan Huang came out with Master Yan, and his heart was full of the strange eyes of Miss Mu just now, and he couldn't understand it for a long time.
As Master Yan turned around and stopped, he unconsciously turned to a quaint courtyard, stopped in front of the courtyard door, and saw Master Yan take out a paper talisman in his hand. Then a yellow light flashed on the paper note. The gate of the courtyard slowly opened.
As soon as the door of this courtyard opened, a smell of medicine came to his face, although Yuan Huang was short-sighted, but he also guessed that this was a pharmacy. When he saw that Master Yan didn't answer, he obviously acquiesced to all this. Yuan Huang didn't think much about it, and directly followed Master Yan into the courtyard.
As soon as I entered the courtyard, it was really a hole: a huge plaque stood in the attic in the middle of the courtyard, with three golden characters of "Cangyao Building" written on it. The whole building is old and solemn, and if you look outside the courtyard, you really can't see anything. Apparently this pharmacy has been carefully set up and has taken a lot of means. This is the medicine building of the Cang family, which is the largest medicine building in Cang County. Cangjun is called Cangjun, and the "Cang family" is naturally the largest family in this county, and the county king of Cangjun is also the head of the Cang family - Cangsheng.
Although Yuan Huang is young, he has indeed heard the name of the Cang family's "Fu Demon Stick - Cangsheng" countless times.
In this Cang County, it is all dependent on the ability of this Cangsheng County King to be too peaceful. Legend has it that this county king is already a monk who has reached the realm of "transforming spirits". Thinking of having such a skill, this pharmacy should also match his status.
"Gu San! Come down, I'll bring a new person. Master Yan shouted, his breath was long, and for a while, it shook Yuan Huang's ears and hurt. As soon as the words fell, a tall and thin young man ran out of the tall building in a panic.
The tall and thin young man shouted in a panic: "Yo, Mr. Yan, it's here." ”
This young man's face was purple, his eyes were bright, and a set of big red robes looked very loose and did not match his body. The whole person does seem ridiculous when he runs.
"Gu San, there is just one vacancy on the seventh floor, and I found it for you today. Arrange it for him, and let him refine his qi in the future. Master Yan ordered the young man.
"Well, this is the new little doll. The red-robed young man grinned at Yuan Huang, looking terrifying.
"Go ahead. Master Yan nodded, and a pair of eyes of different sizes rolled. Then he walked towards the towering medicine building in the middle.
"Mr. Yan, you go slowly. The red-robed young man bowed his waist and bowed his head in the direction that Master Yan had left. It wasn't until Master Yan's figure completely disappeared from Yuan Huang's field of vision that he got up.
The red-robed young man looked down at Yuan Huang. The clothes Yuan Huang was wearing were a set of clothes from the servants in the firewood room brought by Yuan's mother, which were already very shabby, but they were clean. It's just that for Yuan Huang's thin body, it's too loose.
"Do you have a name?"
The red-robed young man's eyes focused on Yuan Huang's cheeks, staring at the blood-red word "Cang" motionlessly, his brows moved, and his face became a little more indifferent.
"Yuan Huang. ”
Yuan Huang replied with his head down.
"It's still famous, it's good, you have to be obedient when you were bought here, you know?" the young man lowered his body and narrowed his eyes.
"Yes. ”
"Do you know who has the final say here?" the young man sneered.
"Master Yan?" Yuan Huang replied softly.
"Smack, smack. The young man directly slapped Yuan Huang twice. Suddenly, Yuan Huang's face became red and swollen directly.
"Here, Lao Tzu Gu Sanye has the final say. The young man named Gu San was annoyed and angry, as if he had been stepped on by his tail. looked around, lowered his voice and stared at Yuan Huang viciously: "Do you know!"
"Yes. ”
Yuan Huang lowered his head, and blood was already dripping from the corners of his mouth. But he didn't get angry and didn't have a seizure. He knew who he was and what his situation was. The spirit slave is as cheap as paper.
Miss Mu's care and Mother Yuan's kindness were already the most undesirable things in his life. He was tattooed as a slave for as long as he could remember, and he was constantly being trafficked. The longest time he was trafficked was a small tribe, where he did odd jobs to survive. It was also there that he read and read with the tribesmen and practiced spiritual power. It was a peaceful time.
After that, the tribe was wiped out by horse thieves, and he became a commodity to be bought and sold. In these years, there is rarely a stable life, and most of the time it is beating, scolding and humiliation.
"Dog thing, next time I have a longer memory, this one is good. Gu San took out a gray-black bracelet from his loose robe, and then put it on Yuan Huang's right hand without saying a word.
"Enjoy. ”
The moment Yuan Huang was put on the bracelet, he felt that the spiritual power in his body was constantly converging towards the bracelet. Yuan Huang was shocked, thinking that this was the device used to collect his spiritual power. All of a sudden, a feeling of weakness hit me one after another. Yuan Huang's body began to shake constantly, and everything in front of him began to dim.
I could only vaguely hear the young man Gu San laughing: "Phew, this won't work, little bastard, it's still early." ”
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Finally, the existence of heaven and earth completely disappeared in front of Yuan Huang's eyes......