Chapter 24: The First Entry into the Tower

Lei Wuchen walked behind the three of them, kept looking around, the road down the mountain was a trail, winding between the mountains and forests, about an hour, and finally walked out of the mountains and forests, he could vaguely see that at the foot of the mountain, there was a village, at this time there was white smoke billowing over the village, presumably the villagers were cooking.

"The front is Tazhai Village", Ding Xiao pointed to the front and said.

"Lei Wuchen, are you feeling better now?"

Lei Wuchen glanced at Qing'er, smiled slightly, and responded, "It's okay"

"His wound temporarily stopped the bleeding with herbs yesterday, it will not become inflamed, and it will be cleaned with water at my house later, and the medicine will be changed again, and it will heal soon, by the way, why did you appear in this Monkey Forest Mountain?"

"We're going...."

"We are going to the Thousand Cities of Ink and Wash, and we happened to pass by here last night", Lei Wuchen hurriedly interrupted Qing'er's words and said.

"Ink Thousand Cities, I wanted to go before, but then because of my mother, I stayed in the village and never went out"

"What are you going to do in the Thousand Cities of Ink and Wash?", Qing'er asked curiously.

"I wanted to go to the Xie family to apprentice, but I was worried that my ability would not pass the exam at all, and there were still so many night monkey beasts in Monkey Forest Mountain, and I was afraid that they would attack the village, so I dispelled this idea."

"Why don't you go to Jiuzhou City to apprentice at the Xie family?", Lei Wuchen asked.

"The Lei family is the first gate of the Heavenly Domain, and it is impossible for me to pass through this point of cultivation", Ding Xiao shook his head, sighed, and said helplessly.

"How do you know if you can get through without trying?"

"Don't try, stay in the village every day, it's good, I didn't go home last night, now my mother should be waiting for me at the entrance of the village, let's hurry up"

Lei Wuchen didn't say anything more, he could sense that Ding Xiao's cultivation was in the middle of the beginner martial arts realm, which was about the same as his original strength, if he went to the Lei family to try, there would still be a chance, but looking at Ding Xiao's current appearance, the reason why he didn't leave this village should be because he was worried about his mother, and in the final analysis, the reason was still on the night monkey beast in this mountain forest

Thinking of this, Lei Wuchen looked back at the lush mountains and forests behind him, and then looked around, the towering mountains, surrounding the village, completely enclosing the village inside.

"Lei Wuchen, why are you in a daze?", Qing'er stopped and shouted at Lei Wuchen behind her.

Hearing Qing'er's shout, Lei Wuchen hurriedly responded: "It's coming."

"Mother~", Ding Xiao shouted and hurriedly ran forward.

Lei Wuchen raised his head and saw a middle-aged woman standing at the entrance of the village, dressed in a dark blue coarse cloth coat, slightly chubby, wandering anxiously at the entrance of the village.

"You didn't come back overnight, but you worried my mother", the middle-aged woman held Ding Xiao in her arms and blamed.

"I'm so old, you don't have to worry about me anymore, I picked some fresh herbs last night, which are very effective for your illness, right", Ding Xiao let go of the hand holding the middle-aged woman and said, "Thanks to them last night, I was able to escape from those night monkey beasts"

The middle-aged woman looked at the three of them and said gratefully: "Thank you for saving our filial piety, you haven't eaten yet, let's go, go home and eat first"

"We've actually already eaten," Qing'er was very embarrassed to see the middle-aged woman so enthusiastic, so she whispered back.

"My mother's cooking is really delicious, you go to my house first, and change the medicine by the way"

"Then you'll have to worry about you," Li Qing said softly, and then put his sword behind his back to prevent unnecessary trouble.

The morning sun shone on the whole village, the sun had not risen too high, the whole village was already alive at this time, the birds chirped on the branches, the wind danced among the trees, and many villagers were seen on the road, they had breakfast, carried hoes one after another, and walked towards the fields.

Lei Wuchen had never seen the life of ordinary people, in this Apocalypse Continent, it was a world that belonged to cultivators, and the strong were respected, but here, he didn't feel a trace of cultivation atmosphere, and some were just ordinary pastoral life.

"This is our home," Ding Xiao said, pointing to the thatched house in front of him, which was walled with a fence and made of thatch.

Qing'er looked around curiously, she had never seen such a house, but she thought it was very interesting, from entering the village all the way, Qing'er only felt that this place was really beautiful, everything was a dreamlike life, thinking of this, Qing'er glanced at Ding Xiao, she really envied Ding Xiao to grow here.

"Come in, you sit in the courtyard first, and I'll serve you dinner" Ding Xiao pushed open the door and said to the three Lei Wuchen behind him.

"Well, good", Lei Wuchen nodded in response, and then sat down under the big locust tree in the courtyard, and Qing'er walked to the stone next to her, looking curiously, because she had never seen such a strange thing.

"This is my mother's good dish, you eat first", Ding Xiao walked out of the kitchen with a steaming bowl, put it on the stone table, and said.

"It's so fragrant", Qing'er took a deep breath, hurriedly ran to the table, looked at the steaming dishes in the bowl, and exclaimed, and then couldn't wait to pick up the chopsticks and eat them.

"Qing'er" Lei Wuchen nudged the gobbling Qing'er and signaled.

The middle-aged woman who was coming from the kitchen seemed to see what Lei Wuchen meant, and said with a smile: "It's okay, let her eat first, seeing that you are carrying dry food, you shouldn't have eaten hot dishes and hot meals for a long time, right?"

"Yes, yes, it's the first time I've eaten such a delicious meal", Qing'er swallowed the food in her mouth, nodded hurriedly, and then took a big bite again.

"Are you traveling far away with dry food?"

"They are going to the Thousand Cities of Ink and Wash", before Lei Wuchen could answer, Ding Xiao replied first.

"Go to the Thousand Cities of Ink and Wash, then you still have to continue to go north"

"Yes, go all the way north," Lei Wuchen said with a slight smile.

"You guys should eat it quickly, the food won't taste good if it's cold", the middle-aged woman saw that Lei Wuchen didn't want to say anything too much, so she didn't ask again.

"Come and eat too"

"Okay, Xiao'er, you come to eat first, and I'll do the rest," the middle-aged woman shouted at Ding Xiao, who was busy in the kitchen.

"It's going to be right away"

After a long time, the food on the table had been swept away, and the bottom of the bowl was eaten clean by Qing'er.

"It's so delicious, Ding Xiao, you are so happy to have such a mother," Qing'er put the chopsticks on the table and said enviously.

"The food cooked by my mother is really delicious, you guys take a rest first, I'll fry the herbs first", Ding Xiao got up, walked to the medicine basket at the door of the house, sprinkled the herbs in the medicine basket on the ground, carefully picked it up, and then got up and put the herbs into the medicine stove and lit the fire.

Lei Wuchen looked at the middle-aged woman and thought for a long time before asking, "Do you know the origin of the Night Monkey Beast?"

Hearing Lei Wuchen's voice, the middle-aged woman's eyes were a little moist, she shook her head, and repeated in a low voice: "Night Monkey Beast"