【Linghai Nanlin】

After a light rain in the middle of the night, the air is fresh and humid.

Sunny weather is not uncommon in Nanlin.

Because there are people, there are roads. If a road is paved with branches and leaves, the desolation will be more embarrassing than an uninhabited century-old house.

Passing through the small bamboo forest west of Nanlin Town, there is such a road. No one knows when the road was built, as if it existed when there were people in Nanlin Town.

On the other side of the road is a sparse wooded area where the town's children play.

"Heizi, you go to wrap it to the right, Xiao Wu to the left, let's look at the front, take care of your crotch, don't let it jump."

The teenagers are surrounding a hare. Dayong whispered: "One... Two... Three! The lads pounced on him, and the hare was caught on all sides.

Several people were overjoyed and began to discuss the next step: "I have to admit that Kuroko is the best player in this round-up plan, and the rabbit legs must have you as an Ao~"

"I recommend eating it grilled."

"I'm afraid it's not okay to roast and eat, the leaves are not dry."

The discussion was hot, but they didn't know that someone had already set their eyes on them.

In the bamboo bushes, the boy wore a flower hat made of branches on his head and a basket in his hand. He pinched his chin with one hand, thought for a long time, and suddenly rolled his eyes, took out a tomato from the basket, his lips curled slightly, and said to himself: "There is a way!" ”

The quarrel continued, and Dayong interrupted loudly: "Okay, okay, I see that you can't tell the result when it gets dark, it's time for me to give the best answer... Then I'll take it home, let my mother do it, and tomorrow we'll gather here, I'll bring the meat, and the brothers will each get a piece." ”

At this moment, I only heard someone on the other side of the road shouting, and the voice was getting closer and closer. "Ah~Don't come here, don't come here, don't eat me~"

The boy shouted and ran over. Dayong stretched out his neck and scolded: "Big salted egg, what are you doing here, and you're nosy?" Trying to rob me of a rabbit, there is no door. ”

The boy looked frightened, panting, and gestured with his hand as he spoke, "Eating people, monsters eating people." I was in... Over there, I saw and saw a monster the size of a monster that bit off an uncle's arm in one bite. When several people heard this, they replied with a smile: "Really? I think you're lying! The boy turned around, revealing his back full of tomato juice, and replied, "I didn't lie to you, the blood threw me all over." ”

This time, when several people saw the blood, they were immediately frightened and their eyes widened.

When the boy saw this, he hurriedly said: "It bit off the uncle's arm and didn't finish it, but it also caught up with me, saying 'return my rabbit, return my rabbit'." As soon as several people heard the rabbit, their stunned eyes looked at Dayong's hand. The boy stopped talking, and the air was quiet.

......

Suddenly! The boy shouted, "This is it!!" ”

Dayong screamed in fright, threw the rabbit, and several people pouted their butts, and disappeared in an instant.

The boy hugged the rabbit, looked at the hasty backs of those people, smiled, touched the rabbit's head and said, "If you are caught next time, I won't be able to save you." ”

As he spoke, he sat down on the ground and played with the rabbit.

A gust of wind blew, and the boy looked up at the sky and said to himself, "It's all right, but it's overcast all of a sudden, and it's going to rain again." ”

As he spoke, the wind became more violent, and there was dust hanging in the sky, which was very strange. "I've got to get home."

Before the boy could finish his sentence, a hand covered his mouth from behind.

"Hmm... Hmm..."

The more he screamed, the harder the man's hand struck. The man whispered in his ear, "Shhhh ”

At this time, the sky above the woods was almost gone, and the wind and sand were blowing on the trees, making a hissing sound.

The boy stopped screaming and didn't know what was going to happen.

I only heard the sound of "goo~goo~" in the distance, which sounded very terrible. Soon, a figure appeared on the road in the middle, the wind and sand blocked the view, and it was impossible to see what it was, only to see that thing jumping and jumping.

Gradually, the hand that covered him became less forceful. The thing slowly approached, and walked directly in front of the boy, and finally could clearly see that it was a toad more than a foot high, purple all over its body, bubbling with a viscous liquid, and everywhere it passed was burned gray by the slime.

The closer it was, the louder it became, and the boy's hair stood on top and he trembled.

Suddenly, a middle-aged man's voice sounded, and the voice was different from ordinary people, as if it came from all directions at the same time: "Demon, where are you going?" ”。

There was a hint of contempt in his voice.

When the monster heard this, it froze in place, and the heart-wrenching cooing sound disappeared.

In the wind and sand, I don't know when the figure of the middle-aged man appeared on the opposite side of the monster, about ten meters away from it, the middle-aged man puffed up his cheeks, turned his head, pouted his mouth and made a whirring appearance, the sand and dust over the woods dissipated at a speed visible to the naked eye, the sky was bright, and the vision was clear, only to see that the man was wearing a black robe, wearing a high hat, and a little stubble on his face.

It can also be clearly seen that the word "star" is embroidered on the chest of his clothes.

The middle-aged man said again: "What, scared?" ”

The toad snorted angrily and jumped into the sky in an instant. opened his mouth wide, shook his head down, spit out two mouthfuls of mucus, and the middle-aged man dodged sideways, and the speed was also extremely fast, jumping towards the toad. I saw that it quickly appeared on its left side, and before the toad could dodge, it was kicked to the ground by a middle-aged man. The toad was even more angry in his heart, and quickly got up, and looked up to see the bamboo boy and the people behind him.

The middle-aged man didn't wait to land, and found that the situation was not good, so he hurriedly shouted: "Ah Mao, dodge!" By this time, a mouthful of mucus had been spat at them.

The boy closed his eyes in fright, but the man behind him reacted quickly, grabbed his arms, and kicked his right foot hard, and the two rolled to the left, and the slime hit the tree with a 'crackling' sound, and a large amount of gray smoke came out, and soon a hole the size of a head was burned.

The toad wanted to attack again, but the man behind the boy quickly pulled out two thunderbolts and threw them into the toad's mouth. It held back a mouthful of slime, and was blown up unable to open its mouth, crawling on the ground and letting out a roar of rage.

The middle-aged man followed, hung upside down in the air, and kicked the toad's head violently, and the moment he lifted his leg, his entire foot was surrounded by flames, and he only heard a "tom", and the toad fell to the ground and stopped moving.

After a few seconds, the foot-tall toad turned to ashes, and its flesh turned to powder, leaving behind only a purple ball the size of a baby's fist.

The middle-aged man took out a cloth bag, put the beads in it, and walked slowly.

"Ah Mao, put away the Qianyuan bag."

The person behind the boy stepped forward to take it, put it in his arms, and said to the middle-aged man: "Master, it was really too dangerous just now, and the mucus flew in front of my eyes." ”

Only then did the boy see the appearance of the person behind him, dressed the same as a middle-aged man, but the age difference was indeed much different, about seventeen or eighteen years old.

The middle-aged man said in a stern tone, and said with a solemn face: "This is just your first time catching demons, and there will be more dangerous things in the future." Remember, at all times, your first priority is to keep yourself safe. ”

Mao nodded in agreement.

The middle-aged man said again: "You wait for me here, I'll go along the road to see if there are any injured people." ”

Mao turned his head and smiled at the boy lying on the ground and said, "Hey, are you okay?" ”

The boy sat up slowly, but was shocked, "What is this?" ”

"Have you never seen a demon before?"

"Nope."

"Oh. My name is Ah Mao, what about you? ”

"Wu Yan."

Mao looked at the boy in front of him with a smile.

He was dressed in ordinary gray cloth, and his white skin was covered with dirt. The hair is half-scattered, and the high eyebrow bones make a pair of red phoenix eyes look like a half-quarter moon under a black cloud.

/

Aunt Liu heard the sound but didn't look back, still stirring the soup in the pot. "I'm back, ready to eat."

Wu Yan put down the basket and asked tentatively, "Just now... It's windy and sandy outside. ”

Aunt Liu turned her head, but she was at a loss: "Where is there any wind and sand?" ”

Wu Yan opened his mouth again, but he wanted to speak and stopped.

The things that happened this afternoon were something he had never seen in his life, and it was natural to say that there was fright, and to his surprise, the so-called monsters that adults used to scare children actually existed.

That forest was not far from Nanlin Town, and I didn't dare to think about whether Nanlin would have the ability to fight that vicious toad if it weren't for those two people today.

Wu Yan pushed open the window, sat straight until nightfall, and returned to the usual days again, looking at the bright moonlight outside the window, breathing in the clean and moist air, as if what he saw today was illusory.

He looked at the shabby straw hat and the empty room by the wall, and thought to himself, "Uncle Wu, where have you been?" Will you ever come back? ”

/

The sound of birds in the early morning is crisp, and the whole southern forest is filled with the smell of greenery.

According to Aunt Liu's instructions, Wu Yan is going to the town market today to buy some condiments.

After breakfast, Wu Yan changed into clean clothes and went to the town market.

It took Wu Yan half an hour to walk from home to the market in the town, plus stop-and-go, play and see, and buy the things that the eldest lady explained, it was almost noon.

There is a small teahouse in the northwest of the bazaar, which is where he often goes.

He just sat on the second floor of the teahouse, looking down at the people coming and going on the street, and sat for an hour or two.

"Little second brother, a bowl of Longjing, the old place on the second floor." As soon as he finished speaking, the man had already walked up the stairs.

Xiao Er stood next to the shopkeeper, his eyes were about to crack, and he was angry: "Every time I come, I order a bowl of tea, I haven't even ordered a plate of peanuts for so many years, and one day you will die of starvation!" No, it's killed! ”

The shopkeeper pulled the abacus and said, "Do we sell tea?" ”

"Sell, what's wrong with the shopkeeper."

"Then does he give money for tea?"

"Of course I give it, if you don't give it to me, you can let him go."

The shopkeeper raised his head and shouted, "Then what are you doing with so many words, hurry up and wait!" ”

Wu Yan looked at the pedestrians downstairs, and still unconsciously remembered yesterday's scene. As he was recalling, on the table next to him, there were several young people in their early twenties, one of whom was dressed differently from the people in the town, a medium-length blue velvet robe, beige pants, arm guards and leggings, and two words "cold light" were printed on the arm guards. The man slapped the sword in his hand on the table, and several people sat down and chatted.

The blue-robed man opened his mouth: "Oh, it's been three or four years since I left the village, nothing has changed here, the teahouse is still this teahouse, and the street is still the same street." Saying that, he took a sip of tea, and then said: "My family hasn't changed much, and a few of you are still like that, just now I still have a delusion, as if I have never left the town, haha~" Speaking of this, he laughed heartily.

Friend A: "Brother, it's a little bit different. The old man in the west courtyard of your house is dead. ”

Friend B slapped A on the head: "Can you fucking say something auspicious?" Today is the day to pick up the wind for Brother Zhiping. ”

Friend A hurriedly opened the subject: "Guys, yes, that... Eh, how are you doing in the Cold Light Sect? Why did you come back all of a sudden? ”

Friend B: "Yes, Brother Zhiping, what have you experienced in the past few years, tell me about it." ”

When the blue-robed man heard this, he sighed: "Hey, brothers, this is a long story. Four years ago, I went to Mando alone, and when I arrived in Wandu City, I went around for a whole week, and finally eavesdropped...... Forehead...... When I heard the specific date of the Hanguang Sect's recruitment exam, I didn't have much money in my pocket, so I could only walk by myself, but I had good legs and feet, and I arrived on time. There is a high river in the northernmost part of Mando, and this high river is an extension of the outer valley of the valley of Qianyin Valley, the north of Mando. Standing in the Hanguang Sect, looking into the distance, that scenery is called a spectacular! ”

The blue-robed man continued: "Luckily, the sect elders said that I have a balance of the five elements, a good understanding, and a good physical strength. ”

As he spoke, he patted his legs proudly, and then said, "Hey, but ah, the inside of this Cold Light Sect has already become a pot of porridge. ”

When everyone heard this, they became even more interested, and they all craned their necks to listen.

"It is rumored that a hundred years ago, there was a major incident in the Cold Light Sect."

The blue-robed man looked around, covered his mouth with his hand, and whispered, "The sect master has been killed!" ”

The crowd was shocked.

"You think, sect master, what a powerful person that went out and never came back! Hanguang was originally the head of the four sects, but now it is ranked like this~ (raising his little thumb). Later, several high-level elders scattered and scattered, and the barren ones were barren, because the opinions could not reach a consensus, and those who were willing to continue to manage it could not make up their minds. For a long time in the future, about thirty or forty years, there was no sect master, which had already caused Hanguang to be hit hard. Later, a new sect master came, but he was not interested in managing the sect, so he set a rank for the original sect elders and divided the duties. I went to retreat and enjoy the blessings. ”

Speaking of this, the blue-robed man changed the topic and said to friend A: "Little fatty, are we brothers?" ”

Chubby: "That has to be!" ”

The blue-robed man: "Then will I be your father tomorrow?" ”

Xiaopang was stunned for a while, and said a little angrily: "Why are you my father?" ”

The blue-robed man said in a flat tone, and turned the topic back: "That's right, those elders used to sit on an equal footing, but this suddenly divided into high and low levels, everyone agreed, but they were not convinced, and naturally they were not good at managing it." ”

"Ao~" Only then did everyone understand the "good intentions" of the blue-robed people.

"From then on, until now, the disciples of the sect have not been able to improve their cultivation, and they have gradually been surpassed by the other three sects, so in this way, there are fewer and fewer people who can be qualified to be official cultivators, and even fewer can be soul slayers. If you can't go up this cultivation, you can make a mess, but the management is not good, and the disciples are also aggressive and play conspiracy, so many people simply don't want to stay when they are angry and leave the sect. ”

Friend B interjected: "Brother Zhiping, what does this official cultivation mean?" ”

"Those who are selected to work as errands in the government are all called official cultivators."

The blue-robed man continued: "For example, those people in our Zhenbei official mansion are official cultivators, and they must have been selected from a certain sect, and they have some cultivation. It's normal that you can't beat them, but don't think they're so good either. In sects, occasionally someone will come to recruit official cultivators, according to your cultivation, physical strength, quality and morality, and so on. But then again, it doesn't take much cultivation to deal with the shortcomings of the parents among the common people, if I don't blow it, just the few people in our Zhenbei official mansion may not be able to beat me. ”

With that, he puffed up his chest confidently, and his friends looked at him with admiration.

The blue-robed man said: "I'm talking about this soul slayer..."

He raised his head and looked around again, then craned his neck and said, "You all know about demons, right?" ”

When Wu Yan heard this, his eyes immediately widened.

Friend B shook his head: "I've heard of it, but I haven't seen it." ”

"We're too peaceful, it's normal to have no demons. This demon..."

He paused.

Everyone held their breath, anticipating what to expect.

The blue-robed man suddenly slapped the table, and the frightened little fat fell off the stool: "Little Er, where are my peanuts?" ”

Everyone was helpless.

The blue-robed man continued: "Everything has five elements, and people can practice it, and animals can naturally cultivate it. ”

Everyone was amazed!

"There is also a high and low level in animal practice. This person will be arrested for killing innocents, so what if animals kill people? ”

When it comes to this level, no one can pick up the conversation.

He continued: "The spirit slayer, the cultivation world generally calls it the spirit slayer, is responsible for catching those demons who kill the people, but our place has not yet appeared, maybe our aura is not strong." If you think about it carefully, the animals have all cultivated into demons, so can ordinary people deal with them? Hehe, not to mention the common people, even some low-level cultivators in the sect can't resist this thing, which shows how kind of cultivation people are who are qualified to be soul slayers. But how to assess and select the soul, I don't know, after all, my cultivation is far from reaching this standard, I only know that there is an assessment team, and from time to time to enter the sect to recruit the soul, I have only come to this organization once in the past few years in Hanguang. ”

The blue-robed man was happy in his heart, and when he brought these outside things home, his brothers' admiration for him would definitely deepen by three points.

After a while of being beautiful in my heart, I didn't get angry anymore, and I slapped the little fat head: "Okay!" My tongue is curled here, and you're better asleep! ”

Friend B: "You must be punished, you are invited for this meal." ”

Chubby smirked and nodded in agreement.

Wu Yan paid for the tea, got up and left.

The more he thinks about it, the more chaotic his thoughts become, in fact, these things will not affect his future life, but there will be an inexplicable and wonderful feeling.

Sometimes, there is no way to describe people's feelings, and even the word "feeling" is inappropriate.

That "feeling" made Xiao Yan decide to go to the woods to have a look again.

Walking through the bamboo forest, Xiao Yan slowly poked his head out to see that the desolate official road was still full of fallen leaves, but he could vaguely see the road surface that was corroded by the toad demon yesterday. Xiao Yan looked up at the sky, it was still beautiful and windy.

He crouched down beside a tree burned through by toad slime. Looking through the hole in the tree, goosebumps erupted all over my body, and I thought: If this is vomited on my body, I will definitely die a miserable death.

Suddenly, several people appeared in the hollow of the tree. If you take a closer look, it turns out to be Dayong and others.

Those few people also saw him in a sweep, pointed at Wu Yan, and said, "Brother Yong, that kid squatting over there seems to be a big salted egg." ”

"There is nowhere to find the iron shoes, it is not difficult to find him, and the brothers will teach him a good lesson today."