With the chirping of chickens and birds, the sun slowly peeked out of the mountains, and rays of sunlight shone through the dilapidated windows on the back of a teenager lying beside the bed. The oil lamp on the wooden table www.biquge.info probably knew that its task had been accomplished, and after squeezing it a few times, the flame was extinguished with a "poof".

The old man leaning on the head of the bed looked at the sleeping teenager with his tired eyes open, and then stretched out a palm as dry as firewood, stroking the young man's head tremblingly, calling "Hua'er ......", full of unbearable and helpless.

The boy woke up from his sleep when he heard the call, and quickly raised his head to look at the old man in front of him and responded, "Mother, are you feeling better?" ”

"With such a filial child as my son, he has worked tirelessly day and night to take care of him, and he has been cured of any illness", the old man has rarely shown a smile since he fell ill in the past few days.

The young man held the old man's hand and said happily, "As long as the mother's illness can be cured, it is worth it no matter how hard and tired the child is."

"Yesterday, Uncle Zhang sent a freshly beaten pheasant, Aunt Wang brought a basket of wild vegetable dumplings, and Uncle Li's stew...... What would you like to eat? I'll go to Zhangluo immediately", seeing that the old man's complexion improved, the young man said in one breath that there were many delicacies and wild game sent by the neighbors, and he just wanted the old man to eat something to replenish his body.

"Don't worry, just sit here and talk to your mother for a while", the old man grabbed the boy for fear that he would go away.

Then the old man spoke, "My Hua'er is now sixteen out of ten this year, time flies so fast, and in a blink of an eye I have reached the age of marriage." Since your father's death to the present, we orphans and widows have been helped by our neighbors for so many years, otherwise how can you still live here, you will be the pillar of the Liu family when you are an adult, you must be grateful and repay, remember."

The young man hurriedly responded with a smile: "Mother, don't worry, if I break the door, you will punish me, beat me and scold me."

The old man nodded, and then said, "Do you remember the cousin I mentioned to you about who opened an inn in Fengyang Town?" Since there is no father of yours, I know that you are very disgusted with hunting in the mountains and have long wanted to go outside, your Uncle Zhang came here from the outside to live in seclusion, he is a person who has seen the world, saying that the outside is quiet and there are some jackals, tigers and leopards who are constantly quarrelling, where is so comfortable. Mother is afraid that you will be deceived by bad people, so I have been stopping, I have figured it out this time, and when my mother is well, you can go to your cousin, although I have not been in contact for a long time, but I am also my mother's maiden relative, I think he will take care of one or two."

When the young man heard these words, his heart was mixed, and he was both happy and sad, and he didn't know how to reply. The old man paused for a moment, took his eyes off the young man's face, stared at the mountain outside the window, and continued, "I saw your father last night, and he has been calling me. I guess it must have been very difficult for him to be alone in the mountains for so many years." Hearing this, the young man felt a tingling pain in his heart, and hurriedly comforted, "Mother, don't think nonsense, you still have a son here."

The old man retracted his gaze and stroked the young man's head with his hand, and said lovingly, "Mother is most reluctant to be you, okay, mother is tired and wants to lie down and sleep for a while, you go and make some food for mother." The young man hurriedly got up, helped the old man to lie down, and rearranged the quilt, and when he saw the old man close his eyes, he hurried to the outhouse to prepare food.

After a short time, the young man came in with a hot meal, and when he saw the old man on the bed, he froze. As soon as the hand was released, the dishes and chopsticks fell to the ground. The young man knelt down in front of the bed, tears gushed out, his hands shook the old man's body vigorously, and he kept calling out to his mother in a hoarse voice...... But the old man didn't react at all, only the tears hanging from the corners of his eyes slipped down his thin face.

The cry reached every corner of the small mountain village, and in a short time, almost all the people in the village hurried over, and when they saw this scene, they were all moved, and both men, women, and children wiped their tears with their sleeves. I don't know who came to the young man's side and persuaded him, "The birth, old age, sickness and death of people are determined by heaven, and it is not human power to do it, so don't be too sad." This sentence made the boy's body tremble, and he stopped crying, not knowing what he was thinking at the moment, but his eyes showed a trace of resentment that defied everything.

The young man's surname was Liu Yihua, because the birth coincided with the heavy rain that almost flooded the whole village, and he was born without crying or making trouble, and the superstitious old man in the village said that the child came with anger and was a little ominous.

The Liu family and his wife are old and old, these words reached their ears, and they were naturally angry in their hearts, "As the so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and rely on the water to eat the water, our Guyun Village is next to Qiyun Mountain, and the people in the village have been hunting for a living for generations, who hasn't killed countless people?" Which one is lighter? It's just so suspicious of a baby", although they thought so, they still used a few treasured animal skins to invite a Taoist priest from the town to come over and do a French exorcism to drive away anger, and then asked this Taoist priest to give the name is a transformation, which means to turn disasters into difficulties and turn blessings. In addition, Liu Yihua's father is the head hunter in the village, and the so-called head hunting is that he is the leader of the mountain to explore the road or hunt, so he is very prestigious in the village, so he no longer sees anyone say anything. And Liu Yihua has been smart and sweet since he was a child, so everyone loves him very much, and slowly people forget about it.

Qiyun Mountain is located at the southernmost point of this continent. First, this mountain covers a very vast area, it can be said that there is no cliff, and secondly, from ancient times to the present, as long as you enter the depths of the mountain, you want to find treasures, and the adventurers who want to find out the treasure are all spared, and there is no return, leaving only a widely spread legend, that is, there is a kind of demon beast called the dementor beast in the deep mountains, which is charming, and the mind restricts people's souls, so that no one dares to venture into it, let alone cross the mountain, so it is the southernmost because no one knows what the other side of the mountain is.

The climate here is mild, and everything grows, but there are countless birds, animals, wild vegetables and berries on the periphery of Qiyun Mountain, so the life of a village like Guyun Village living by the mountains can be regarded as comfortable.

One year, for some reason, the birds and animals on the periphery of Qiyun Mountain became very scarce, and even the wild vegetables and berries suddenly decreased a lot, which undoubtedly cut off the livelihood of the villagers of Guyun Village, and naturally caused a famine.

In desperation, the villagers could only gather together to discuss countermeasures. Some people have suggested that fleeing the famine means leaving their homeland and leaving other places, and life and death are unknown, but most of the villagers prefer to stick to their old land.

In this way, in order to survive, there is only one way to try, and that is to enter the depths of the mountains to survive. As a headhunter, Liufu naturally bore the brunt, and according to local customs, he chose an auspicious day to worship the mountain and brought two powerful helpers into the mountain.

Four days passed in a blink of an eye, and they finally came out of the mountains, but there was one less person, and that was Father Liu.

Listening to the two people who came back, the three of them ran around in the mountains for a day, and they didn't encounter any fierce beasts at all, let alone the legendary demon beasts, but they found that there were countless birds and beasts in the depths, and these corpses were very dry as if they had been sucked dry, and the people who looked directly were shocked.

What the hell is going on, what's going on in the mountains? The three of them looked at each other and no one could say anything, it was too weird.

For the sake of the lives of the whole village, the three of them couldn't care about much, so they could only stubbornly and cautiously continue to walk inside.

After walking for another half day, they found that the fog was getting bigger and bigger, and those who had experience knew that it was because there was a lake nearby. Sure enough, there was a small waterhole not far away.

There are schools of fish and shrimp in the pool, and big fish come out of the water from time to time, and the three of them are naturally overjoyed to see such a scene.

The three of them stayed for a while longer, and when they saw that there was nothing unusual, they planned to return the way they had marked and inform everyone of the good news.

At this moment, a soft "hum" suddenly came, and then he fainted.

When they woke up, Liu's father was nowhere to be found, and there were only the utensils that Liu's father wore when he entered the mountain, a set of bows and arrows, a mountain knife and a water bottle.

The two of them panicked all of a sudden, and felt helpless, there was no way to find them in such a fog, and even shouting loudly was afraid of attracting the beasts in the mountains, so they had to wait in place.

After staying for a long time and seeing that Father Liu did not come back, the two guessed that the dementor beast might have taken Father Liu away, so they could only return to the village the same way as they were.

When Liu Mu heard this, her whole body collapsed to the ground, and then she cried and struggled to get up and go into the mountain to look for it. Under the persuasion of everyone, she was promised to organize people into the mountain immediately before she gradually calmed down.

At this time, no one noticed Liu Yihua on the side, he picked up his father's relics and held them tightly in his hands, his eyes were soaked with tears, and his thin body kept trembling. He may have realized that he would never see his father again. This year, Liu Yihua was only eight years old.

Half a year has passed in a blink of an eye, and there is still no news from Liu's father, there are more birds and beasts in the mountains, and there are more fierce beasts in the depths that make ordinary people unable to set foot, and the villagers have survived the difficulties by relying on the fish and shrimp in the waterhole, and the small mountain village is the same as before.

During this time, Liu Yihua seemed to have grown up and began to learn to hunt with adults, because he knew that he was the only boy in the family, and he had to do so in order to survive.

In the blink of an eye, it has been eight years, and Liu Yihua has really grown up and become the best hunter in the village. No one knows, in fact, he doesn't like hunting at all, because every time he goes into the mountains, he thinks of his father.

Over the years, Liu's mother's health has deteriorated, and she is often sick in bed, and the big guys know in their hearts that Liu's mother is guilty of heart disease, and she is depressed and sick because she misses Liu's father.

Liu's mother was sick for the last time, and she knew that she would die soon, so she passed away after a few words. For the elderly, this should be regarded as a relief.

But Liu Yihua really couldn't accept this, and with the help of the villagers, he buried his mother and the hunting equipment used by his father in the mountains. Only a wooden hairpin worn by Liu's mother before her death and the kettle that Liu's father used when hunting were left as thoughts.

After Liu Yihua stayed in front of his mother's grave for three days, he went down the mountain and returned home, packed his bags, and walked out of the house again on the road to Fengyang Town. Although he was a little reluctant to this place where he was born and raised, and to the villagers who love each other here, he still decided to leave this sad place for the time being.

Maybe Liu Yihua couldn't have imagined that this decision would actually open the door to the path of cultivating immortals.

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