More than 20 years ago in Julu County, Jizhou, there was an ordinary immortal family, and his son Zhang Jiao depended on his father for his life.

Zhang Jiao's mother died of exhaustion when she gave birth to Zhang Jiao, and Zhang Jiao's father has been pulling Zhang Jiao big, but there are unforeseen circumstances, people have good fortune and misfortune, when Zhang Jiao was twelve years old, his father hunted in the mountains, and encountered the attack of the tiger demon, although the companions saved Zhang Jiao's father, but his legs were seriously injured, and he spent all his family savings for treatment, and finally his life was saved, but his legs were wasted, so the burden of the family fell on Zhang Jiao alone.

Now Zhang Jiao is only sixteen or seventeen years old, although he is still only a child in the Qi refining period, but he has already begun to be busy with farm work alone, and take care of his seriously ill father, because Zhang Jiao is still young, he can't go up the mountain to hunt, so he can only rent the landlord's farmland to engage in farming, planting medicinal herbs, and selling them to medicine shops in exchange for spirit coins.

In the land outside the city, the aura of heaven and earth is very thin, especially for the immortals who do not live in the plains near the mountains, it is difficult for the monks in the qi refining period and even the foundation building period to directly absorb the aura, and they need to gather the spiritual incense to gather the surrounding spiritual qi to cultivate, but the spiritual incense is not available out of thin air, which needs to be bought with spiritual coins.

The true element in the body of the monk who builds the foundation and the true qi in the body of the monk during the qi refining period is the foundation of the monk, and the monk will consume the true yuan and true qi to provide the energy of the body, so the monk does not need to do these things such as eating and sleeping, if the true yuan and true qi are not replenished, and the true yuan and true qi in the body are exhausted, there will be a big problem, first of all, the body will have all kinds of discomfort, so that all kinds of diseases will occur, and finally the body will fail and die. Therefore, in order to survive, the immortals who lived outside the city had to come to engage in various jobs to earn spirit coins, buy spirit incense and other daily necessities, which was one of the reasons why Zhang Jiao did not concentrate on cultivation, but needed to farm to make a living.

To work to have the money to buy the incense, in order to live, this is the common fate of the immortals outside the city, for this reason, some become hunters, some become farmers, a lifetime of hard work can not earn much money, hunting needs to be desperate, farming needs to pay landlord tax, can be suitable for farming most of the place is bought by the landlord, others want to farm, they have to go to the landlord's house to rent land to cultivate.

Most immortals are like Zhang Jiao, they are busy making money all their lives, how can they care about too much cultivation, after the average immortal becomes an adult, he has to work during the day and cultivate at night, so the realm is difficult to improve, let alone break through, so most of the immortals are only in the Qi refining period all their lives, and a small number of them can break through to the foundation building realm, so it is already very powerful, Zhang Jiao's father only reached the early stage of the foundation building realm, and then he was injured, and his cultivation never made an inch of progress.

Unfortunately, due to that injury, Zhang Jiao's father has been in a weak state, plus he has no money to buy Ju Ling incense, and his weak body cannot absorb the meager spiritual energy around him, so the true yuan in his body is often in a semi-depleted state, which empties Zhang's father's body, and eventually causes Zhang Jiao's father to become seriously ill, organ failure and often cough up blood.

In order to survive, in order to save his father who was sick in bed, Zhang Jiao had to work hard.

Zhang Jiao is very sensible, but also very filial, although the life is very hard, but he has never complained, sometimes tired after the work, Zhang Jiao went to the river at the entrance of the village to sit and rest for a while, and watched the river flow clearly.

In the village, because Zhang Jiao usually has to work and has no time to have fun, and he doesn't like to talk much, he seems to be very unsociable among a group of his peers. Zhang Jiao only has two partners who play well, one is Wang Pang of the fourth uncle's family, who usually helps Zhang Jiao, and the relationship between the two is the most iron, and the other is Guo Qian'er, the eldest lady of Guo Landlord's family.

Zhang Jiao only met Guo Qian'er when he went to Guo Landlord's house to rent land, Zhang Jiao was only twelve years old at that time, and met the ten-year-old Guo Qian'er, Guo Qian'er, who had been afraid of life, actually opened the adult's hand and took Zhang Jiao and affectionately called him big brother, which made Zhang Jiao very surprised, since then, Guo Qian'er often came to Zhang Jiao who worked in the Tian family to play, and although the Guo family is a big family in the village, it is still very friendly to the villagers, so it is also assured that her daughter is playing outside.

With the passage of time, Guo Qian'er is also fourteen or fifteen years old, although she is still young, she is already slim, Guo's father no longer lets Guo Qian'er go out at will, and Zhang Jiao has no time to go to Guo Qian'er to play because her father's illness has become more serious in recent years, so it is rare for the two of them to see each other again.

In recent years, due to the widespread occurrence of the imbalance of vitality, the number of medicinal herbs harvested has decreased, resulting in the price of pills, Zhang Jiao can no longer afford to buy pills to alleviate his father's condition, for the sake of his father, Zhang Jiao had no choice but to ask for a prescription from the town's doctor, and decided to go up the mountain to collect medicine to treat his father.

Zhang Jiao's father was furious when he heard the news that Zhang Jiao was going to go up the mountain, saying that he was injured by the tiger demon in the mountain, and ended up in this fate, Zhang Jiao is just a child in the Qi refining period, and he is not looking for death when he goes up the mountain to collect medicine? But seeing that Zhang Jiao's mind has been decided, Zhang's father cried and asked Zhang Jiao not to go, where can he bear to watch his child take such a big risk!

"Son, don't go! You haven't learned any martial arts, you can't beat ordinary beasts, if you encounter any demon beasts, you will die!" Zhang Jiao's father cried and begged Zhang Jiaodao.

Zhang Jiao had tears in his heart, but Zhang Jiao didn't cry, after taking Dr. Chang's elixir, his father's coughing up blood was not so serious, and he was willing to take this risk for his father's sake.

Zhang Jiao wanted to go up the mountain to collect medicine to save his father, the people in the village had mixed reactions after knowing about this, some people said he was filial, some people said he was stupid, but no one was willing to help him, there were originally some hunters in the village, hunting was originally a dangerous thing, and Zhang Jiao's father was attacked by demon beasts and was injured The thing that stimulated everyone even more, over time, plus everyone is old, and they no longer want to hunt, and everyone is dragging their children and daughters, so no one is willing to take the risk of taking Zhang Jiao into the mountain to collect medicine.

So Zhang Jiao really went up the mountain to collect medicine alone.

Three days later, Zhang Jiao came back, his clothes were in tatters, his face was scratched, and he looked very tired, but Zhang Jiao was laughing, because he had successfully collected the medicine and came back, and there was no accident.

Because Zhang Jiao did not have a fidelity box dedicated to preserving these herbs, when Zhang Jiao came back, most of the medicinal power had been lost, but after Zhang Jiao's father drank the decoction that Zhang Jiao picked back and refined with his own hands with tears, he did not cough up blood that day, and Zhang Jiao's eyes finally flashed with tears.

After that, Zhang Jiao would go up the mountain to collect medicine every ten days, risking nine deaths, but for the sake of his father, Zhang Jiao was not afraid, and the people in the village were very moved.

In this way, time passed day by day, and suddenly one day, Zhang Jiao's little playmate Wang Pang came to Zhang Jiao and said something in a hurry, which made Zhang Jiao angry and angry, and he was so angry that he almost wanted to kill.

"Zhang Jiao, have you heard? Something happened to Landlord Guo's house. Wang Pang said to Zhang Jiao.

Zhang Jiao said: "It's none of my business, except for work, collecting medicine and taking care of my father, I don't care about anything else!"

"It's about...... About Guo Qian'er. ”

Hearing that it was Guo Qian'er's business, Zhang Jiao hurriedly asked, "What? Qian'er's matter, you can tell it quickly!"

Wang Pang envoy: "Not long ago, didn't there be a Jindan real person in the village! ”

"Oh, yes? I went up to the mountain to collect medicine, so I didn't know about it. Zhang Jiao asked, "By the way, why did the Guo family invite Jin Dan Zhenren?"

"That Jindan real person claimed to be a monk who was good at water spells, so the Guo family invited him in, hoping that he would cast water spells, spread a good rain on his farmland, and hope for a good harvest! Who knew that this Jindan real person could only use martial arts, and did not know any water spells, and he ate and drank a lot in Guo's house, and ...... also slept with Guo Qian'er, and finally the head of the Guo family clamored to report to the official, and the Jindan real person beat the head of the Guo family half to death, and finally fled. ”

When Zhang Jiao heard the news, he was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a long time, and finally shouted angrily: "Ah! Qian'er, Qian'er...... She's only fifteen!"

"Also, there's ......," Wang Fat said.

"What else?" Zhang Jiao grabbed Wang Fat's collar and hurriedly asked.

"Stop, stop, Zhang Jiao, you're strangling me!" After Zhang Jiao let go of him, Wang Pang breathed a sigh of relief, and then said: "This morning, the Guo family found that Guo Qian'er died in their room, which was a suicide, and it seems that they couldn't stand the blow of being insulted, so they cut off their meridians. ”

Knowing that Guo Qian'er was insulted has made Zhang Jiao very painful, and now he has heard of Guo Qian'er's death, which makes Zhang Jiao even more sad and angry. Qian'er is only fifteen years old this year, she is already very beautiful, since she has known Guo Qian'er for five years, Guo Qian'er has always been very good to Zhang Jiao, saying that she doesn't like Qian'er, it is impossible, although Zhang Jiao has never expressed his heart to Guo Qian'er, but Zhang Jiao has been thinking about Guo Qian'er in the days when he didn't see Guo Qian'er, and now he knows the news of Guo Qian'er's death, how can this not make Zhang Jiao grief-stricken.

"Ah, where is that Jindan real person!, I'm going to kill him!" Zhang Jiao shouted like crazy.

Wang Pang hurriedly hugged Zhang Jiao and said, "Zhang Jiao, calm down, Guo Qian'er is dead!"

Zhang Jiao tried his best to break away from Wang Fat's restraints, but he was not as strong as Wang Fat, and was finally slapped to the ground by Wang Fat.

"Zhang Jiao, I know you like Guo Qian'er, but Guo Qian'er is dead, cheer up, you still have a father to take care of!" Wang Pang comforted Zhang Jiao.

Zhang Jiao kept crying: "I'm going to kill him, I'm going to kill him!"

"That's enough, Zhang Jiao, just rely on you, a little monk in the Qi refining period, why do you fight with other people's Jindan real people, besides, people don't know where to go, how do you find him, just your crying and crying is not enough for people to beat a finger, no, it is not enough for a toe to beat, if you want to avenge Guo Qian'er, you have to improve your strength first!" Wang Pang said loudly.

Zhang Jiao didn't cry anymore, but his eyes suddenly became sharp, his fists were clenched, and his nails were pinched deep in the flesh and he didn't feel pain, Zhang Jiao stood up and walked silently, but he secretly swore in his heart: I must become stronger!