Three Jianghu people, an old slender man, looked at the boy on the boat.

"Those of us who fight and kill, we don't know how long we will live, and it's really inconvenient to have a child...... "Among the three down-and-out Jianghu people, the more talkative one blushed a little, but still spoke.

It is said that a few of them are young and strong, even if they are not good, there is no problem in supporting a child, but it is not a glorious thing to push such a baby to an old slender man to feed.

But the people in the rivers and lakes have their own affairs, and these men who live a life of licking blood from the knife edge, not to mention whether they will affect the child when they die, even if they can live a long life one by one, what they can teach to the child in the future is just fierce and ruthless, which is not interesting.

If you leave it to the old slender man to take care of, even if you only learn such a one-handed rowing skill, you can live a peaceful life when you grow up.

The old slender man did not object.

He originally wanted to adopt a child, but it didn't matter who the child was, since the child was kept by his mother, it could be regarded as being in the middle of it.

Despite this, the old slender man's face did not show a trace of joy, on the contrary, he showed a hesitant expression.

"I'm old, I don't know how long I can live, and in two years, I'm afraid that even I need someone else to take care of me, which ......"

While everyone hesitated, they suddenly saw a jade pendant stuffed into the child's swaddling clothes, and the golden hairpin that the woman was carrying on her head.

Obviously, these were left behind by the dying mother.

A mother who has decided to die, but can still remember to leave the most valuable things on her body to her children.

Looking at the jade pendant and the golden hairpin, the four of them fell into a long silence.

In the end, it was the talkative Jianghu man who took out the jade pendant, and the golden hairpin said to the old man: "Take these things to the pawnshop, you can exchange a lot of silver, you don't have to do it after this trip, save some food and drink, plant some vegetables at the door of your own house, go to the river every day to fish, plus this money, it shouldn't be a problem to pull this little guy big, a few of us are really inconvenient to take such a small baby to go south and north!"

The old slender man was waiting for this sentence, because although these Jianghu people are third-rate masters and look relatively down-and-out, it is more than enough to pull out one casually and clean up his old and weak body.

When he came over, he saw the jade pendant and hairpin in the swaddling clothes at a glance, but he knew that if these three people did not open the golden mouth, he would not be able to move the things.

Since they said so, the old slender man was naturally not polite.

Of course, he still said with some embarrassment on his face: "You young heroes are all from the rivers and lakes, maybe you will have to marry a wife and have children in the future, it is really troublesome to carry such a drag oil bottle, my old and crippled body, I also need a person to support the elderly and send him to the end of his life, I just don't know, there is such a long lifespan, can bring this child up!"

Half of this is humble, and half of it is sincere.

Although his current health is quite good, no one can say whether he can really live for more than ten years.

Jiang Ning, who was attached to the old man, could clearly feel the sadness in that person's heart.

It's just that he is more concerned about why the old man knows that the woman will die!

Even if he cultivates to his current state, as long as he cultivates not fate, he will not have the ability to predict the future, but everyone's fate is actually intertwined by countless choices, so there are still traces to follow after all.

However, this ability is naturally not something that an old slender man who does not even have a trace of internal strength can have.

The only explanation is that he probably knew what was going to happen from the beginning.

Because, even Jiang Ning himself didn't notice how the man fell into the water at that time, and there was no way to judge whether the other party was alive or dead at this time.

This is obviously a very ridiculous thing for a person with extremely strong power of the primordial gods.

But since this incident happened, it means that the dead Immortal Kidnapper didn't want to let him know the outcome of the matter so quickly.

It's just that at this time, Jiang Ning no longer has the mind to guess what the intention of abducting the immortals is, since he has decided to be a good spectator, then try to see the end from the beginning.

The matter was settled in a daze, and the old man went back to the town to buy some things needed to take care of the baby, and when he returned, the group continued to set sail towards the left bank of the Songjiang.

There was nothing to say all the way, and soon, the boat sailed to a port called Baicheng on the left bank of the Songjiang River, settled the remaining money, the three Jianghu people left, and the old man returned with the child alone.

got the child and the jade pendant and the golden hairpin, the old man who should have been happy, but he didn't show a smiling face along the way.

On the contrary, Jiang Ning could even feel that he was in a very worried mood.

But this way up the current, nothing happened. The old man also breathed a sigh of relief.

In the following days, the old man really opened up a vegetable field in front of his house, sold the jade pendant and golden hairpin, went out to fish every day, and came back to take care of the children.

After a few months in a row, Jiang Ning was a little impatient to wait, and the change finally happened.

One night, outside his little hut, there was a thick, irritating knock at the door.

The old man hurriedly got dressed and got up, and when he pushed the door open, he saw a man's face.

The man was none other than the man who had disappeared from the ship that day.

"The child returned me. The man said calmly.

"The woman is dead," said the old man, "why do you want to cut the grass to the roots, don't forget, this is your child." ”

"Because he is my child," said the man, "so he must die." ”

"No one will ever know. The old man said.

"Don't you know?" said the man.

The old man sighed softly, "It seems that you not only want this child to die, but also want me to die. ”

"If you know, why don't you run away?" the man sneered.

"I'm an old slender man," the old man smiled bitterly, "where can I escape?"

"Yes, from the moment you recognized me, you were doomed. The man said.

"Master," the old man said respectfully to the young man, "no matter how your face changes, the breath on your body has never changed, my life was given by you, since you want to take it, it doesn't matter." ”

Jiang Ning was immediately shocked.

A dying old man, respectfully calling a young man master, no matter how you look at it, is a bit out of place.

But when you think about it, there's nothing surprising about it.

In the cultivation realm, there are many apprentices who are dying of old age because of their poor qualifications, but their masters are still young.

The legendary Jiang Ziya, the first monarch of the Great Qi Dynasty, was already an old man when he came out of the mountain, but his master, the legendary Yuan Shi Tianzun, was still a fairy wind and a strong spirit, although he was also full of white hair, but he did not have the slightest bit of old age.

"After so many years, you still haven't changed at all, master. The old man said.

"After so many years and so many losses, aren't you still so soft-hearted?" the man sneered.

"Cultivation, is it really that important?" the old man said.

"You shouldn't ask me this," the man's face was hideous, and he pointed a finger at the sky and said, "You should go and ask that damn Heavenly Dao, demon, should you be dead?"

"I don't know," the old slender man said, "but the tiger poison doesn't eat the child, and if you swallow him, what if you succeed in cultivating?" the old man said.

The man's face was hideous, "Do you think I am willing?" But now there is only one Black Jiao left on the entire continent, and our Black Jiao clan, when we advance, we must devour enough bloodline of our own clan to advance, otherwise it will be death, you should know, I have no choice." ”

"Do you have to deceive the feelings of a human woman, and you can't devour your own heirs again and again?" The old man sneered: "Master, you took me like a master and a father, if you hadn't turned into a human back then, and ordered those sailors to save me and let me live on the ship, now I'm just afraid that I'll die a long time ago, if you want my life, I will pay you back in vain, but since you are kind enough to save a human life, you always kill the woman who loves you and your own heirs, after so many years, have you ever broken through?"

"It's coming," the man said, "it's coming!"

"Is it really that important to turn into a dragon?" the old man's eyes were full of sadness, "As far as I know, master, you still have tens of thousands of years of life, right?"

The man sneered, "Do you think I want Shouyuan? Those Taoist priests killed my parents, killed my clan, refined them into pills, and gave them cultivation, all these years, they have been looking for me, the only fish that has slipped through the net, if I don't become stronger, I can only wait for death." ”

"That's not a reason for you to devour your own offspring. The old man's eyes also became cold.

"You should know best how I feel," said the man, "the feeling of being betrayed by the people I raised! When they grow up, if they want to advance, will they eat my father, just like Hongxuan back then. ”

"Hongxuan, he has already suffered retribution," after those Taoist priests used it, they only taught him some fur methods, and he himself was in a hurry, and he had already gone mad and died ten years earlier.

"Don't say it again," the man frowned, "I'm good, but there has never been a good person in this world to repay, you look at what happened to me back then, look at what happened to you now, if there was really a cycle of heavenly reason, you wouldn't be here, wouldn't you?"

The old man said with rare righteousness: "How to circulate Tianli's love, that is Tianli's own business, but to be a good person or a bad person, that is our own choice." Thinking about what you should get before doing good deeds, that's not called a good thing, that's called showmanship, master, you have lived for thousands of years, don't you even understand this?"

"I'm telling you to shut up!" the man exclaimed, the human form below the head had not changed, but the head had become a huge dragon head.

He opened his bloody mouth and bit down on the boy who had been raised by a good thought of his own decades ago.

However, just as the sharp teeth were about to touch the old man's body, they finally stopped.

"Doesn't tiger poison eat children?" The man changed back into his human form, turned around, and said a little lonely: "Although you are not my bloodline, you are still the child I raised after all, hehe, on the contrary, those children who have my bloodline have never been taken care of by me for a day." ”

"Take care of my children for me!" The man who had eaten countless of his own blood flashed and disappeared outside the old man's firewood door.

"Cut," Jiang Ning couldn't help but slander in his heart: "What the hell is this? You can eat your own blood ruthlessly, but you can't eat a human with a ruthless heart? It's really a miracle that such a demon can survive!"

At this point, the picture comes to an abrupt end.

When I turned around again, it was already an unknown amount of time.

This time, Jiang Ning was still attached to the old slender man, but the old slender man was no longer in his hut.

Ziyang Mountain, the largest Taoist sect on the northeast bank of the Songjiang River, is also one of the only two Taoist ancestral courts of the dynasty.

The old slender man held the child and appeared on the ancestral court.

He hugged the child, respectfully walked to the side of a Yellow Purple Daoist, bent down, lowered his head, and handed the child into the hands of the Daoist.

"Thirty years, a full thirty years, this guy has finally reappeared!" That Daodao, with him, I can practice Xuanjiao Dan and cultivate to a higher level.

The old slender man smiled and said, "Congratulations master, I don't know if this Ziyang Pill and the Xuanmen Mental Method that I said are good, can I..."

Huang Zidaoren patted the old man's shoulder with a smile and said, "You have been sent out by me since you were a child, you have been hiding by his side for decades, you have acted in so many scenes, and you have suffered so much, these things should naturally be given to you." ”

As soon as the Taoist waved his hand, a recipe and a bottle of elixir appeared in the old man's hand.

The old man was overjoyed and thanked him again and again.

Huang Zizhen didn't even look at him, his eyes fell on the baby from beginning to end, "With the blood traction of this child, no matter how hidden that guy is in the future, we will be able to find him." ”

"This time, I've won!" The Yellow Purple Daoist clenched his palms into fists, and his eyes were full of light.

"What the master said is very true, the apprentice wishes the master success!" the old slender man trembled and fell to the ground again.

Although Huang Zidaoren's face was smiling, there was a hint of disgust in his eyes.

In the past few decades, he has always called the black Jiao master, and now, he has hugged the black Jiao's heir in exchange for the cultivation method, every time he is called his master by such a person, the Taoist always feels a little disgusting.

"Okay," the Taoist waved his hand a little impatiently and said, "You did a good job, go down and cultivate!"

The old man left happily, and as he went, he glanced back at the infant baby.

If you don't move your true feelings in acting, you can easily be seen through.

But if you are moved by true feelings, how can it really be so easy to give up?

Looking at the child who was taken away in his swaddling clothes, he was faintly reluctant in his heart.

If he can't live forever, he really wants a child, raise him well, and let him retire for himself.

After all, people like him, Ziyang Mountain didn't know how many were planted on the bank of the Songjiang River, and they were thrown out from their youth until they were old, just to lure the black Jiao to the bait, but many people didn't see the black Jiao until they died, and the proportion of those who were lucky enough to be adopted was also very low.

So when he left the big ship, he really wanted to raise a son to prevent old age, but now, since he has obtained the pill and the cultivation method, he can naturally continue to live, and those emotions and expectations in the past are not worth mentioning.

The old man smiled, even he didn't expect that people's hearts could be so complicated.

However, people don't kill heaven and earth for themselves, and the widow's abandonment of him was not deliberately played by him to Heijiao, but a real life experience.

Since then, he has learned a truth: "Rather teach me to bear the world, stop teaching the world to bear me!"

Jiang Ning was silent.

Man is going to become, he knows it from the beginning.

Good and evil, good and evil, are just a thought.

The kindness of the last moment can be from the heart, but the evil of the next moment is also fake.

Such a change was completed almost instantaneously, making it elusive and incomprehensible.

The picture turned again, and the old man had already followed the Huang Zidao people of Ziyang Mountain to the bank of the Songjiang River.

This time, the seven cultivators of Ziyang Mountain personally went out and found the hiding place of the black Jiao according to the blood induction of the baby in the swaddling clothes.

The magic weapons in the sky flew up one after another, and the yellow rune paper was pasted all over the void, and in a short time, the net of heaven and earth had been laid around, and the black Jiao had nowhere to escape.

At this time, the old slender man had already eaten the elixir of Ziyang Mountain, and his white hair had changed back to jet black, looking at that complexion, he could live for at least another twenty or thirty years, if he added the cultivation method of Ziyang Mountain, even if his cultivation talent was average, it would not be a problem to live for another seventy or eighty years.

However, after getting the cultivation method and longevity of his dreams, the slender man was still not happy, he looked at the familiar Songjiang River flowing down, and only felt a little ashamed of himself, and quietly retreated, hiding half of his body behind the Yellow Purple Dao man.

"Hahaha!hehe!" A black dragon flew out of the water, and its voice was full of sadness and sadness, "You are really my good boy! The stupidest thing my black Jiao has done in my life is to believe in you humans, and twice!"

The old slender man had nothing to say, his face turned red, and he held back for a long time, and then he said viciously: "I was originally a person from Ziyang Palace, but you don't know, besides, you obviously also have a cultivation method, if you are willing to teach me, why is this?"

Hei Jiao sneered: "Just look at the ending now, it's right that I don't teach you." ”