In the courtyard of the small town, a child was chopping firewood with great effort, and the strength of a child of this age was not very great, and the blade of the axe in his hand was already dull, but the strange thing was that when the axe went down, the wood was still cut several inches deep by the axe.

Wood is good wood, a few days ago the old Taoist priest just bought it from a firewood seller outside the city, there is no excessive moisture, the hardness is also high, these days are hidden in the house, there is no rain, it is a good material for making firewood.

The child gasped heavily, the sweat on his forehead continued to overflow, until it reached his cheeks, he was getting up and wiping the sweat on his forehead and face, intending to sharpen the blade of this axe, just put down the axe, but was stopped by the old Taoist priest on the side, the old Taoist priest straightened the wood, and said in a deep voice:

"Don't sharpen the axe, use the vitality of your whole body, attach it to the blade of the axe, and make your axe sharper!

Ah Xiao nodded obediently, holding the slippery axe handle that had already been moistened with sweat, the vitality suddenly rushed through the life barrier in the body, and a white vitality flowed from the abdomen into the meridians, flowing down the blood to the arm, and finally lingering on the blade of the blunt axe.

"The vitality is tangible, and it will overflow between heaven and earth when it flows out of the body, hurry up, one, two, three, split!"

Ah Xiao knew that he was still young and his strength was not strong enough, so he used the vitality of his whole body to strengthen his arm strength, and as the old Taoist priest shouted out, Ah Xiaoqing shouted, and used his whole body strength to chop towards the log!

"Smack!" The wood was about a foot high, but under this split, Ah Xiao's axe went down and cut into a full seven inches, and the axe was completely stuck in it, and he couldn't pull it out, Ah Xiao looked at the old Taoist priest embarrassedly and said, "Grandpa, this axe is stuck inside." ”

The old Taoist priest picked up the axe, carefully looked at the depth of the axe into the wood, and couldn't help but say: "Not bad, not bad! ”

"Then grandpa, when will I be able to fly?" Ah Xiao asked hopefully.

The old Taoist priest pulled the axe out of the wood and said with a smile: "Although there are not many monks in the world, but in the imperial capital, the low-level monks of the early realm Yongquan are all over the place, and the sword cultivators who have reached the Shenqiao realm can only resist the sword, and it is only for a short time, and the amount of vitality it takes to send a person to the sky and fly away is a huge amount of energy, and generally only the great monks of Tianmen will use this method to hurry." ”

"Oh, okay...... I thought I'd be flying soon. ”

"Ah Xiao, let me ask you, what is the vitality?" the old Taoist priest threw the firewood into the pyre, patted the dust on his hands, and asked.

"It should be an energy between heaven and earth that can be captured and refined into the body. ”

Of course, the classic saying of Confucianism and Taoism is not wrong. The old Taoist priest smiled and continued: "In fact, the vitality between heaven and earth, you can understand it as your blood. ”

"Blood?" Ah Xiao wondered.

"Yes, it's blood, there is blood in the human body, and when you are angry, the qi and blood will surge, causing the face to be red and the heart to beat faster. Blood can flow in the body, such a person is a living person, and the body without blood flowing through will die and wither, and the same is true for vitality. ”

"There is vitality between heaven and earth, so vitality can be understood as the blood of heaven and earth, vitality into the body, exercise muscles and bones, strengthen the body, this is the role of blood, the more vitality, the greater the power of nature, but to a certain extent, it can no longer be tolerated, so there is a saying that the next secret realm is opened. ”

The old Taoist priest continued: "And the secret realm is the place where we store our vitality, and the more secret realms and the larger they are, the purer and richer the stored vitality. And the power of each secret realm is different, the life pass is the initial realm, when the vitality of the life pass is full of rain and dew, your life pass will gradually form a small clear spring, this is the spring secret realm. ”

"Then grandpa, how long will it take me to get to the Yongquan Realm?"

"It should be a few more years, I remember that the Confucian saint in the imperial capital only entered the spring when he was ten years old, what are you anxious about?" The old Taoist priest took out some copper plates from his pocket, stuffed them into Ah Xiao's hand, and said patiently: "You take this money, Ah Xiao, I am going to the county town in the next few days, Ah Xiao, you take good care of yourself at home." ”

"You can buy whatever you want, but don't spend it indiscriminately, the old Taoist priest touched Ah Xiao's head and said: "Today is already Thursday, I will come back on Sunday, you practice hard at home, don't be lazy." ”

"Well, grandpa, go ahead, I'll take good care of myself. Ah Xiao said seriously: "But grandpa, you have to be careful, I heard from the uncle and aunt who came back from outside that there is a pavilion mountain near Yi'an County recently, and there have been robbers on the mountain recently." ”

The old Taoist priest couldn't help laughing and said, "Why, do you think that people like grandpa are still afraid of some little thieves? ”

......

It's a barren hill.

There are only some gravel and dead trees on the mountain, and there is a scene of decay and decay. No matter where you look at Huainan Road, it is a barren mountain of no value, and the gravel layer on the ground is so deep that even the poorest people are reluctant to come here to reclaim the wasteland.

But in this barren mountain and wilderness, there is a large mansion of blue bricks and black tiles that is very inconsistent with this mountain, and the house is very large, which should be built by a large family.

The house's red-lacquered wooden doors are covered with brass rivets, and the pillars on either side are carved with couplets that resemble auspicious wishes, and are now covered with ivy. There are many words and lines engraved on the stone wall at the door, but they are already full of dust, and the two stone lions at the door are still standing majestically in front of the door, as if telling the extraordinary nature of the house.

Ah Xiao stood in front of the gate blankly.

"I'm here... Dreaming again?" Ah Xiao was a little confused, but he didn't feel any discomfort, he stepped forward, wiped the heavy dust from the stone wall, and was about to check what the text was, when the door suddenly opened.

The door opened without warning, and when it opened, a gust of wind blew, bringing up dust and dust on the ground, causing Ah Xiao to cough.

Ah Xiao plucked up his courage and looked sideways at the world behind the door, where it was pitch black, like a pitch-black canopy without stars and moons at midnight, and he couldn't see anything, only darkness flowing.

He wanted to know what was behind the door, but there seemed to be a voice telling Ah Xiao that he had to walk through this door to know what he wanted to know, as long as he walked through this door, he could take what he wanted, and he would own the mansion and everything inside.

But Ah Xiao didn't go in, he turned around and was about to leave here, under the teaching of Jiang Laosi and his grandfather, he had become much more vigilant, this kind of place was not safe at first glance, who knew what was in it?

As soon as he walked out of the stairs of this house, the scene was reversed in an instant, and Ah Xiao stood in front of the door after a trance.

An ethereal voice came from inside the door: "Since you don't want to come in, then you can take the things here." ”

"Who are you, why did I take the contents away?" asked Ah Xiao vigilantly.

"Take it. The voice just repeated it again.

"Remember to take it!"

The endless feeling of dizziness hit again, and Ah Xiao's eyes were pitch black, and when he opened his eyes again, he could already see the black roof tiles - he had already woken up at home.

Looking at the already white but still dim sky outside, Ah Xiao shook his head, only to remember that today is Saturday, and grandpa has been going to the county town for two days, and Ah Xiao has been sleeping at home alone for the past two days, but he is not afraid, he has reached the middle stage of the initial realm of life, and the old Taoist priest is also very relieved.

The vitality that had been strengthened by Sui Han in the life pass slowly gushed out, flowing in the body along the blood vessels and meridians, and a big Zhou Tian was completed in a while, just when Ah Xiao was going to continue the second round of the Great Zhou Tian, he was ruthlessly interrupted by Sui Han, Ah Xiao didn't have time to ask the reason, Sui Han preemptively said:

"Be careful, someone is coming in outside the door. ”

Ah Xiao was stunned, he didn't think that someone would come to his small courtyard at this point in time, now the sky has just turned white, and most of the small city is still shrouded in night, and the people from the courtyard at this time are not necessarily good people.

Ah Xiao wanted to do something, but he heard the sound of the man picking the copper lock on the door and coming in, so he could only continue to lie on the bed and pretend to sleep.

The figure lowered the force on his legs, tiptoed open the door, and cautiously walked in, avoiding Ah Xiao on the bed, and began to rummage through the room.

The neighbors in Tuochuan Street, where Ah Xiao lives, are all acquaintances, and they just lock the door of the yard on weekdays, if someone is at home, the door in this house is generally not locked, which also makes this sneaky figure touch in.

Ah Xiaojing lay on the bed and didn't dare to breathe, although he has now entered the middle realm of life, but he is essentially only an eighteen or nine-year-old hairy child, and the little heaven and earth vitality brought by the middle stage of life is pitiful, it is said that if you want to achieve a hundred steps flying sword similar to the storytelling, the kind of technology that controls items to leave the body requires the cultivation of the qi sea realm.

If this person who came in was thin and small, Ah Xiao might be sure that he would not fall behind, but through Ah Xiao's secret observation, this person was tall, and it was absolutely impossible to deal with him head-on.

The figure rummaged in the house for a long time, but he didn't find a copper coin, Ah Xiao couldn't hold back a smile on the bed: Grandpa Qian at home has always been with him, and Uncle Jiang's was also taken away by Uncle Jiang, and now there is a copper coin given by the old Taoist priest at the head of Ah Xiao's bed in the whole room, how can this thief-like person rummage find silver coins at home?

The man was a little annoyed, and now he could only look at Ah Xiao's side, he stood at the head of Ah Xiao's bed, looked at it carefully, and muttered in a low voice: "This little cub looks good, and it can be worth some money if it is sold, and he can't come for nothing today." ”

The child, who was sleeping in the bed, heard these sounds, woke up in a daze, and when he saw him standing at the head of the bed, he cried out in fright. The sneaky figure hurriedly covered the child's mouth and shouted coldly: "Shut up, if you don't shut up, I'll kill you!"

The child seemed to be frightened stupidly, and he didn't dare to move in his hand, so he nodded with satisfaction and said, "Look at your house is so broken, you can't even find a few copper plates, otherwise uncle, I'll find you a new home, okay?"

In the dim light, his face looked extremely distorted, and if it were another child, he would have fainted with fright.

But the child just swallowed his saliva and cried quietly: "Uncle, don't sell Ah Xiao, Ah Xiao's family has money, and he will give you woo woo woo......"

"Why didn't I find the money? I couldn't find the money, so I had to sell you!" He said fiercely.

The child trembled and stretched out his right hand, pointed to the kitchen cabinet at home, and sobbed, "Just... Just under that cabinet, there is a grid at the bottom that can be pulled out, uncle, I will give you all the money, don't you sell Ah Xiao...... Woohoo......"

He laughed secretly: "Sure enough, it's a little kid, and he told me where the money was hidden when he was scared, but isn't it good to sell you to get more money?

The child saw him turn around and rummage through the cupboard and continue to sob, but his hand snuck into the axe used to chop wood.