The sun rises in the east, and the earth awakens.

In the primeval forest at the junction of the central boundary of Yuanyang and Dongzhou, an embarrassed figure suddenly appeared. I saw that the figure was wearing a gray-black robe that could no longer distinguish its original color, and his unkempt hair was scattered casually on his back, and he walked aimlessly in the forest, staggering like a drunk.

Eventually, he collapsed on the road.

In the primeval forest, which was originally rare, two figures unexpectedly appeared, one high and one low, one thick and one thin. When I looked closely, it turned out to be a rickety, gray-haired old man, and a tall girl.

The two saw a person lying on the road in front of them, and out of kindness, the girl hurriedly helped the old man to the man.

The old man slowly crouched down and stretched out his right hand to probe the man's snort.

"It's alive!" said the old man to the girl next to him.

The girl put down the bamboo basket on her back, took out a gourd from it, and gently brought it to the man's mouth and poured it.

"Do you want to save him?" the old man asked the maiden.

The girl shook her head.

"Don't want to?" asked the old man again.

The girl shook her head again.

Seeing this, the old man laughed twice, and then said, "I'm afraid the people who appear here are not simple." The old man sighed and continued: "It's just that if you don't save yourself, it's too cruel. Qinqing, the old man can't do it, so please carry him home. ”

The girl finally nodded, and then with the help of the old man, she picked up the man, and the old man also picked up the bamboo basket on the ground, and then helped the girl away.

"Water... Water...... Give me water......" In a daze, Ji Chen only felt that he was about to die of thirst.

After a while, Ji Chen felt a stream of sweet water flow into his mouth, and he swallowed frantically until there was no more clear water flowing in, and then he stopped.

He slowly opened his eyes and found himself lying in a bamboo hut, and in front of him, a girl dressed in a blue cloth dress with black hair hanging down her shoulders was sitting in front of her bed and staring at him blankly with a gourd.

As soon as the girl saw that Ji Chen was awake, she immediately showed a surprised expression, and before Ji Chen could react, she immediately got up shyly and ran behind the bamboo gate to hide.

Ji Chen looked at the wooden door and found that the girl had not left, but was hiding behind the door and secretly looking at him.

"Aunt, girl, did you save me?" asked Ji Chen behind the door.

Hearing this, the girl slowly came out from behind the door, and then walked to Ji Chen with small steps and nodded at him.

Ji Chen took the opportunity to take a closer look at the girl in front of him, and saw that this girl was about seventeen or eighteen years old, with a slender figure, clear eyebrows, and a very sweet appearance, her fair face was flushed with a touch of shyness, and the corners of her mouth squeezed out two dimples with a slight movement.

What a transcendent, pure and beautiful woman! Even the Jiangnan girl I once saw in the painting is less than half as soft as the woman in front of me. Ji Chen only felt that his eyes lit up, and his heart jumped.

The girl saw Ji Chen staring at her intently, and her face instantly turned red to the root of her ears. Her round eyes flickered from side to side, avoiding Ji Chen's gaze, but Ji Chen was fascinated, and the girl snorted, and then ran out of the house shyly.

Only then did Ji Chen realize that he was too rude, and he felt a little embarrassed, so he scratched his hair. At this time, Ji Chen heard another old voice outside the house.

"Oh, how could it be? People are just too curious to stare at you. ”

When Ji Chen heard this, his old face suddenly turned red, and he thought to himself, it turns out that this girl has gone out to sue!

As soon as the old man's voice fell, he saw an old man in coarse clothes and gray hair walking in behind the bamboo door. Behind him, the girl in Tsing Yi was half-squatting and hiding behind the old man, but the difference between the two figures was too great, and Ji Chen could see it at a glance.

"Childe is awake?" the old man kindly handed a bowl of soup to Ji Chen.

"Thank you, you saved me?" Ji Chen took the soup from the old man's hand.

"Yes, yes. When I was collecting medicine in the mountains, I happened to meet you who fell to the ground. ”

"Thank you for saving your life!" Ji Chen wanted to get up and thank the old man, but was stopped by the old man.

"It's not enough to raise your hands. Your body hasn't fully recovered, so rest and rest. After speaking, the old man got up and said to Qin Jing behind him, "Let's go, don't disturb the son's retreat." ”

Qin Jing nodded to the old man and followed, and when he arrived at the door, he glanced back at Ji Chen before closing the bamboo door.

In the early morning of the next day, Ji Chen pushed open the bamboo door and walked outside, and found that a few meters away from the door was an unfathomable cliff. He took two steps forward and looked back, only to see that behind him was also an endless bamboo forest, with a high mountain on the left and right.

There was only this one family in this radius! Ji Chen couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat on his back.

He swallowed a mouthful of saliva and began to look at the family, and found that this bamboo house was not big or small, and the furnishings inside were extremely simple.

Ji Chen walked to the left side of the bamboo house, looked closely, and just saw that Qin Jing was squatting on the ground with his back to him doing something.

He frowned, stood on tiptoe and looked behind Qinqing, but before he could see clearly, Qinqing seemed to have discovered him, and suddenly turned his head to look at Ji Chen.

Ji Chen was so frightened that he wanted to run, but as soon as he turned around, he found that the old man in rough clothes appeared behind him at some point.

"What's wrong with Childe?" the old man asked inexplicably.

Ji Chen bit his lip and stepped aside, and said, "Are you lying to me?

"What, Childe, what's wrong with you?" asked the old man again.

Qin Jing also stood up and looked at Ji Chen.

"Don't pretend!You're all monsters!You want to kill me to get the elixir!And then improve your cultivation!," Ji Chen roared.

"Elixir, are you the Destiny of Heaven?!" the old man was also a little surprised.

"Hmph, stop acting, what kind of monster are you, bamboo demon or something else?" Ji Chen said as he glanced at the bamboo forest behind the house.

"Hahaha, it's strange that the old man is clumsy, he didn't even see that you were the legendary Destiny One. Hey, you said that we are demons and want to kill you, don't you know that heavenly punishment exists?" said the old man.

When Ji Chen heard this, he stopped retreating.

"If I want to kill you, I won't save you. The old man walked to the front of the house, put down the bamboo basket on his back, then picked up the gourd and took a sip of water and said.

"Then how do you explain the sudden appearance of such a bamboo house in this deep mountain and old forest?!"

The old man sighed.

"Hey, as a Destiny, you don't know much about this world. In this world, there is no eternal peace, it is difficult for the weak to survive if they do not become strong, and the strong have to become stronger among many strong people in order to survive, and if they do not move forward, there will be another ritual of forcing the gods every three hundred and thirty-three years. If you want true peace, you must not only avoid humans, demons, and beasts, but also avoid the slaughter of ancient beasts in the god-forcing ritual, so I took my granddaughter to hide in this primeval forest. ”