Volume 1: Wedge (4) Prequel: Shura Realm

"A-Niang, A-Niang!" On the muddy path after the rain, a three- or four-year-old girl held a cloth package and ran happily to the bamboo forest in front of her, seeing that the wrapped fabric was probably torn from the girl's clothes.

The little doll was wearing a light blue rag skirt, and the style looked like it had cut and cut her mother's clothes on her body, but the stitches were clumsy, and the original pretty clothes were cut in pieces. But the girl was obviously not dissatisfied with the shabby clothes on her body, her soft and flowing ultramarine hair lined her delicate face, and a pair of beautiful eyes of crystal blue on the bridge of her nose were shining brightly.

The hut sits on the edge of the deep forest, and from the faint imitation gold that peeks out from the mottled rust, the leopard can roughly guess that this hut used to be magnificent, but now it is so windy and swaying that it is about to collapse.

The girl pushed open the door and saw a middle-aged woman sitting on the edge of the bed walking forward quickly: "A-Niang! A-Lan has brought you buns!"

The woman sitting on the bed turned her head, a gray hair loosely tied on the top of her head, mixed with a few strands of crystal blue hair that had not been destroyed by the years, a stunning face that still had charm made people know at a glance where the little face of the female doll just came from, the mother and daughter were really too similar.

"A-Niang is not hungry, you can eat. The woman's voice was a little hoarse, but she spoke in a low voice, and she was very confident.

The little girl swallowed her saliva, obviously greedy, but deliberately raised her eyebrows, looking indifferent: "I'm not rare to eat, I just ate a plate of meat, who eats this Laoshzi!"

The woman smiled, did not expose the child's lies, reached out and took the hot meat bun in the package, broke it into two halves of uneven size, and handed the big half to the little guy: "Oh, what can I do about this? A-Niang can't eat these, A-Lan is still full, isn't the bun going to be thrown away?"

"Hey, hey, why are you so wasteful!" The girl snatched most of the buns that her mother pretended to lose, and tilted her chin dissatisfiedly: "Forget it, then I'll eat it reluctantly, oops, it's killing me, you're really useless, you can't eat a bun." ”

The woman smiled, watching her daughter gobble down the buns, but half of her hand didn't move, and suddenly, a light laugh came from outside the door: "I don't know when Long Niang's appetite was so small, where did the momentum of grabbing meat with the training go?"

Long Nanshan was stunned for a moment, and looked at the person standing at the door in surprise, it was a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl, wearing an ivory-white dress with a 'white' word hooked on it, and a mad man with no pupils under her short black hair looked at the woman on the bed, and the corners of her mouth hooked up a smile.

"Wow-hell-" The little doll was startled by the girl's frightened eyes, and she couldn't take off her shoes, so she jumped on the bed and hid behind her mother. Long Nanshan funnily dragged her daughter Long Liulan out and pushed the woman opposite: "Don't be rude, this is your Aunt Bai...... No, in terms of seniority, it should be called white grandma or white milk. ”

With an innocent expression, Bai Xinxin walked towards Long Nanshan and said, "You also know that I am your elder, and now that I have fallen into this situation, you won't tell me?"

"Come on, Xiaobai, a few years older than me and call yourself an elder, you stunted little kid," Long Nanshan saw that Long Liulan still refused to say hello, and frowned slightly: "Ah Lan, do you want to make Ah Niang angry?"

Long Liulan reluctantly took a few steps forward, muttering 'Why is it so scary', and finally saluted in a proper manner: "I've seen white milk." ”

Bai Xinxin rubbed the little guy's head affectionately, and casually handed the latter a doll: "Happy birthday." ”

Long Liulan was stunned for a moment, and then took the doll in surprise: "Thank you! It's so cute......! It's been three days since my birthday. ”

"Don't thank me, this is given to you by your aunt's little sister Gu Lanxun. ”

Hearing this, Long Liulan asked curiously, "Aunt Gu Yanxiu, is A-Niang's best friend, is the young lady good-looking, is she amazing, how does she know about my birthday, does she like me, can I meet her?"

The series of questions made Bai Xinxin laugh dumbly: "Oh, there are so many questions, why don't you wait until you grow up and ask the young lady in person?"

There were still questions here, but Long Nanshan's expression was not calm, and she looked at Bai Xinxin with some restraint: "You are from Huangyu......? Right?"

"What are you nervous about?" Bai Xinxin smiled at the corner of his mouth: "It's the training that asked me to come and see you." ”

"That ......"

"Don't worry, you know, I don't want too many changes, and I won't tell her when I see it. As he spoke, his pale eyes flashed.

Long Nanshan frowned when she saw this: "You don't always look at me without pupils, I will solve my affairs myself." ”

Bai Xinxin walked to Long Nanshan's bed step by step, completely different from the gentleness when she came, and was a little more indifferent as if she had suddenly lost her feelings: "You know, if you see it, it doesn't mean that I will care." You control your future, I can't do anything about it. ”

Listening to the voice that he hadn't heard in the past four years, Long Nanshan's already frowning brows furrowed even more: "I'm not asking you to take care of my business, you know the price of no pupil better than me." ”

As if awakened by this sentence, Bai Xinxin's indifferent expression suddenly dissipated like a dream awakening, and was replaced by the original soft expression: "I am measured." ”

Long Nanshan changed the topic with a very eye-catching eye: "It's not that I don't want to tell Boss Lei and Boss Lei, their brothers and sisters' tempers are getting worse than the other, if they know that I can't eat enough and don't have enough clothes now, I will definitely come to the Dragon Clan to make a big fuss." ”

"You also know your own situation, why are you still enduring Longbei's disgust?"

A trace of inexplicable fluctuation flashed in Long Nanshan's eyes: "My keel was removed, and my elite soldiers were taken away, what can I do if I don't bear it?"

"That's not the reason. ”

Long Nanshan glared at Bai Xinxin complainingly, a girl who seemed to be fifteen years old taught a woman in her fifties, this picture was really inconsistent: "Why did you force me to say it." ”

Bai Xinxin shook his head: "The Ice Emperor is still recuperating from the cold icicle now, but he has been thinking about you all the time, why are you so stupid? ”

Long Nanshan seemed to be stung by these words, and replied thoughtlessly: "You don't understand feelings. ”

As soon as the words fell, Long Nanshan regretted it, Bai Xinxin didn't understand who the feelings were for?

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean that......"

"White milk!" The child's immature voice sounded in time, directly breaking the embarrassment, Long Liulan took a piece of paper and handed it to Bai Xinxin: "White milk, will you still go to Aunt Xiu, can you help me bring this to the young lady?"

"Okay," Bai Xinxin smiled, and a topic turned to Long Liulan: "Long Niang, next year is the opening year of the Shura Realm, and in seven years, it will be time for Long Liulan's generation of children, you are ready, don't let your feelings for Long Bei delay this child." ”

Long Nanshan said: "No, but whether to enter or not to enter is a chance, don't force it." ”

"Although the Shura Realm is dangerous, it is a unique opportunity to cultivate. It stands to reason that she should go. ”

"But selfishly, I don't want her to be in danger. ”

Long Liulan blinked her crystal blue beautiful eyes and looked at the two of them, she couldn't understand what her mother and friends were saying, she just wanted to give the letter to Gu Lanxun, so she stepped forward and dragged Bai Xinxin to interrupt: "White milk, don't quarrel with A-Niang, she is stupid, she can't make sense! Give it to you, remember to give it to the little sister!"

Bai Xinxin looked down at the letter paper that was forcibly stuffed in his hand, and the words on it that were even uglier than cockroaches crawling made his forehead jump: "Your mother taught you words?"

"Uh-huh!"

Bai Xinxin glanced at Long Nanshan, and dragged Long Liulan to the door: "There is some food in this Qiankun bag, you take it, and there is ......" Leaving the room, Bai Xinxin handed over a calligraphy to the latter: "Practice according to this calligraphy, don't learn from your mother." ”

"Why?"

"Your mother's word, the first ...... in the world"

Long Liulan's eyes lit up: "Wow!"

Bai Xinxin slowly spit out a word: "Ugly." ”

Huangyu is said to be an island, but it is better to say that it grows on the cliff of isolation, looking around at the vast sea of clouds, not to mention people, not even a bird can be seen. The kingfisher chirped softly, approaching from the other end of the mist, but when it saw the man on the cliff in the distance, it flapped its wings and fled as if frightened. Gu Lanxun stood on a protruding cliff wall, his little face flushed, his two little hands on his little stomach in a complicated gesture, and his nose moved and sneered.

"Drink-hey-hmm-"

After a few tosses and still no movement, the little guy stopped in frustration, but then he plucked up again, looking unwilling to admit defeat.

"What are you doing?"

"Wow, wow, wow-" Gu Lanxun was so frightened by the sudden sound that she exploded, and she jumped to the side. Seeing that the eldest sister was standing on the tall tree on the side for some time, she looked at herself with a not very good face, and hurriedly looked sloppy: "I didn't ...... Didn't do anything......"

Gu Lanhan's face was expressionless, but a trace of fire flashed in his eyes, and he was as light as a black feather when he jumped down from the tree: "Did I say that you are not allowed to be bold." ”

Seeing that he was exposed, Gu Lanxun's little face turned pale, and he hurriedly stepped forward to curry favor and said, "Sister, I was wrong, you ...... Hit me. ”

Gu Lanhan's voice was low: "Why are you disobedient?"

Gu Lanxun saw that this trick was not good, so he hurriedly changed his routine, and his eyes suddenly became foggy: "Half a month ago, my uncle talked to my mother and said that I was a waste, and the little sisters of Aunt Long's family were already second-order......"

The cold voice directly interrupted: "What are you comparing to her?"

Gu Lanxun pouted: "But...... My mother was six years old, my little sister was three years old, and my sister was one year old......! I want to be that good too, and then my mother can come back and teach me herself......"

Hearing the word mother, Gu Lanhan frowned: "You don't have to please that woman...... Mother, you have a good look. ”

Saying that, the ten-year-old girl's immature hand was held in the lower abdomen, and when she stretched out again, a condensed phoenix totem jumped in her palm. This small totem that nurtures endless energy is the foundation of the cultivator's cultivation, and the spirit and soul condensation are the foundation, and only by fusing the soul can further cultivation be carried out, looking at the deep red of her sister's spirit body, even if Xiao Xun'er is not deeply involved, she can guess that this is at least the condensation that the Qi Transformation Realm can have after fusion.

didn't wait for Gu Lanxun to take a look, but the eldest sister had to take it back, and the little guy looked at her sister with a yearning expression: "Sister, what realm have you reached?"

Gu Lanhan didn't answer, but continued the previous topic: "Do you see clearly?"

"Mmmmmmmmmm

Gu Lanhan said lightly: "If you are bottled now, don't think about having such a phoenix spirit in the future." ”

Gu Lanxun was stunned: "Why?"

Gu Lanhan's eyes were cold, as if he was thinking about something, and finally did not answer, but said: "The foundation of the spirit is to introduce the qi of heaven and earth, and if the qi is stable, the spirit of the spirit is condensed. ”

Gu Lanxun was dumbfounded: "Huh?"

"Did you hear me?"

The little guy almost instinctively refused, but at the eldest sister's indistinguishable eyes, he only nodded: "Oh......" How is this possible, it is not easy to gather the qi of heaven and earth to condense in the body, ordinary people will immediately become strong when they touch the boundary of condensation, and forcibly press to the strength of the qi realm before they become bold?

"Sister, can't you tell me why?"

Gu Lanhan refused very decisively this time: "Now you don't need to know. ”

"Oh......"

"Let's go. ”

"Where to go?"

“......”

Without the presence of his mother in the living room, he was a little less down-to-earth but more comfortable, Gu Lanxun sat on the soft deerskin sofa and dangled his feet, holding a yellowed letter paper in his hand and watching it with relish, and he was in a very happy mood. Half a month ago, I heard that I had a little sister who had a world friend for her birthday, and the little guy was busy turning out the decorations of his own green feather Mingjue, and hurriedly sewed a doll, saying that it was a future meeting gift for my sister, but I didn't expect the little sister to reply so soon. Because the phoenix's young bloodline is easy to be coveted, Xiao Xun'er has been confined to Huangyu Island since she was a child, and a child of the same age has never seen it, although this little sister has never met, but it makes her very pleased, as if she has an invisible but by her side.

Bai Xinxin gently tasted the tea made by Gu Lanhan, and saw that the latter put down the tea and stood outside the door in an orderly manner, so he stretched out his hand and waved at the girl: "Why do you always stand, come in and sit." ”

Gu Lanhan said motionlessly, "Mother doesn't allow me to enter the living room. ”

"She's not here," Bai Xinxin said gently, "Come here." ”

The girl remained motionless, her eyebrows and eyes lowered, and she was quiet not like a ten-year-old. Since Gu Lanhan was a child, Bai Xinxin has learned this child's gloomy paranoia, no matter how she treats her with Yan Yue over the years, it has not changed. But you can't blame the child, a doll was almost strangled to death by her mother when she was born, she was treated coldly by her uncles and aunts, and she was talked about and pointed at by the world.

Bai Xinxin didn't move, Xiao Xun'er on the side jumped down from the sofa, ran to the door and pulled Sister Ah to the house: "Sister Sister, look! I have friends!"

Gu Lanhan was pulled along, and the moment his toes touched the ground, he stiffened as if he was stepping on a knife mountain, and his face seemed to reproduce the pain of his mother's slap at the beginning: "Let go." ”

Gu Lanxun paused, but as if she hadn't heard, she still dragged Sister A to the sofa with a grin: "Sister, look! That little sister has replied to me! I will be a sister in the future!"

"I said let go!" Gu Lanhan shook off Xiao Xun'er, raised his eyes and swept Bai Xinxin, and regardless of his sister's grievances, he saluted and left the room directly.

"Ah...... Before the words "sister ......" were finished, the eldest sister disappeared, and Xiao Xun'er's original good mood disappeared at once, she just wanted to make the eldest sister laugh, but she didn't expect the eldest sister to react so much.

Bai Xinxin shook her head helplessly: "Little Xun'er, what did the Long family doll say to you?"

Gu Lanxun also looked in the direction where her sister left, and said softly, "Please let me go to her house to play." ”

"Oh, do you want to go?"

Gu Lanxun looked back at Bai Xinxin: "Can I go out?"

Bai Xinxin smiled: "Naturally." ”

"When?"

"When you grow up and enter the Shura realm, you will naturally be able to go out. ”

"Shura Realm?"

Bai Xinxin patiently explained: "It is the seal of the eight ancestors who sealed the demon clan in the void during the Great War of the Three Realms. The seal will absorb the energy of heaven and earth in the demon realm continent once every seven years to consolidate itself, and at this time, the seal in the area far away from the five pillars of heaven and earth will be very weak, and children with extraordinary talents between the ages of twelve and sixteen will have the opportunity to enter it to cultivate and be passed on by their ancestors. ”

"The Shura Realm is between the void and the continent, are there demons in it?"

Seeing that the focus of the little guy was on the demon clan, Bai Xinxin's fifteen-year-old face showed a child's expression like an old grandmother: "Yes, there are not only demons, but also ghost clans, soul clans, and spirit clans, which are terrifying." ”

Hearing this, Gu Lanxun was not only not afraid, but became interested, and the sadness of being snubbed by the eldest sister was instantly emptied, but before he was happy for half a moment, he sat on the soft carpet as if he was deflated: "Then I can't get out." ”

"Why?"

"Didn't the white milk say that only gifted children can enter? I have poor qualifications, and I ......" And my sister didn't let me get bold, the second half of the sentence secretly thought about it in my heart, but I didn't say it, Xiao Xun'er found that no matter who she was with, she couldn't mention her sister, as long as she mentioned it, it must be a harsh comment, she didn't like it very much: "And I don't know when I will grow up, I guess I won't be able to enter the Shura realm, and I won't be able to see the little sister of the Long family." ”

Bai Xinxin avoided the important and said lightly: "I will always grow up, Xiao Xun'er has made friends before she grows up, how powerful, there will definitely be more friends when she grows up in the future, so don't worry." ”

Hearing this, Gu Lanxun suddenly thought of something, and asked in as tactful a tone as possible, "Grandma Bai, do you know Sister A's friend?"

"Oh, Xiaohan has lived alone in Huangyu since she was born, and she has friends?"

Xiao Xun'er shook her head: "Hmm...... I don't know, but I want Sister A to have friends, Sister Ah is too lonely. ”

"Then little Xun'er will accompany your sister more. ”

Gu Lanxun nodded wordlessly, looked down at the letter paper in his hand again, and after a while, he got up like a little adult: "White milk, I went to cultivate, life is not easy." ”

"Poofha," Bai Xinxin couldn't hold back, laughed suddenly, got up and took out a pale white jade plate from his arms and handed it to the little guy: "Take it." ”

"What is this?"

Bai Xinxin wrinkled her nose mischievously, and her white eyes blinked: "You guess." ”