Many years later, a small voice came from a small village on the south side of the Four Seasons City on the Nebula Continent, Yunzhi Village, a small village that relied on fishing for a living.

"Mother, can Xiao Yi not go fishing today, tomorrow Xiao Yi will accompany Daddy, work hard to catch more fish and come back, make up for today's laziness, okay, Daddy, you say something, Xiao Yi doesn't want to go fishing today." The little boy pouted.

"Okay, okay, you don't have to go today, you can stay at home with your mother, I'll go by myself, little lazy. ”

Xiao Yi looked at his father and smiled.

After the two of them sent the father away.

"Xiao Yi, tell your mother, do you want to find the apricot in the next village again", the mother said.

Then I only heard Xiao Yi's immature voice sound: "No." ”

"Do you really want to be at home with your mother?" said the mother.

"Well, of course, when did I ever lie to my mother, really, you don't believe me so much, hum", Xiao Yi said to his mother with white eyes.

At this time, the mother looked at her child with a smile.

"Okay, okay, I believe in you for my mother, let's go play, your little brain, what can you think of that you can hide from me, a mother." Said for the mother.

Xiao Yi smiled "hehe", made a grimace at his mother, and said, "It's better to be a mother, then I'll go play."

The mother nodded and said, "Go home early, don't play too late."

"Okay, then I'll go," Xiao Yi said.

Xiao Yi jumped up and down and ran to the next village not far away.

The next village, the name is Yongning Village, it is said that a strong man sent out by the gate back then, came here to form a good fate, at the request of the village chief, helped to change the name of Yongning Village, hoping that this village can always be safe and tranquil, and Yongning Village and Zhiyun Village are not very far apart.

In a remote corner of Yongning Village, a dilapidated yard, a dilapidated house, in the breeze blowing in a trance all the time has the meaning of collapse, in the small courtyard of the vegetable garden, there is a little girl wearing a small flower skirt, is in the vegetable garden one by one counting vegetables, jumping excitedly.

Suddenly, a voice interrupted the girl's excitement "Apricot".

When the little girl heard the shout, she turned her head to look at Xiao Yi who was far away, and happily shouted "Brother Xiao Yi".

I saw Xiao Yi smile at the little girl and said, "Xing'er, what are you doing, so happy."

Xing'er also smiled and said: "I'm counting the vegetables in the vegetable garden, you know, grandpa's body can't walk on the ground, let alone fish, so I want to see how long these vegetables are enough for us to eat."

Xiao Yi looked at Xing'er's appearance, showed a secretly sad face and said, "Let's go, let's go see grandpa."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of a cup breaking in the room.

Xiao Yi looked at Xing'er, Xing'er's little face showed a nervous expression, and quickly ran into the house, Xiao Yi followed closely behind, and ran into the house with the same nervousness.

After entering the house, I found broken cups and chopsticks scattered on the ground, and I saw Apricot shouting in a hoarse voice: "Grandpa".

Xiao Yi followed closely and stepped forward to help Xing'er tremble and help her grandfather who fell to the ground.

After the grandfather lay firmly on the bed, he said: "Xing'er, don't cry, grandpa's deadline is approaching, and I can't continue to grow with you."

Xiao Yi looked at the grandfather lying on the bed behind Xing'er and said: Grandpa, don't talk, take a good rest, I believe you will get better, you still have to watch Xing'er grow up.

Grandpa ignored Xiao Yi's words, glanced at Xing'er who kept crying, and said, "Xing'er, don't cry, grandpa has something to tell Xiaoyi, you go to the door and wait, believe grandpa, grandpa will definitely get better." ”

Xing'er was very well-behaved, stopped crying, sobbed and glanced at her grandfather, then turned to look at her little brother, slowly walked to the door, and closed the door.

Grandpa looked at Xing'er who was constantly sobbing out, and sighed. Turned his head to Xiao Yi and said: "Xiao Yi, I know you are good to Xing'er, but my limit has arrived, and it is a miracle to be able to hold on until now, and Xing'er will be entrusted to you in the future, help me take good care of Xing'er, cough~~."

Xiao Yi was just about to speak, but his grandfather stretched out his hand to stop Xiao Yi and said, "You listen to me finish speaking." ”

Grandpa continued: "You are also eight years old, you have reached the age of Nebula empowerment, Xing'er is just seven years old, and you can't carry out Nebula empowerment, grandpa, I, I don't have much ability, since I adopted Xing'er, it is the greatest luck in my life, cough cough~~".

Xiao Yi saw that his grandfather was coughing badly, so he immediately ran away, picked up a cup on the table in the corner, poured a glass of water, and brought it to his grandfather.

Grandpa took a sip of water and continued: "I am actually also a cloud spirit master, I once wanted to become the strongest and dominate the Nebula Continent, who expected, the sky is not as good as people want, when I was young, I provoked a lot of enemies, and was chased and killed by the enemy, resulting in a scarred body that could not be recovered, and I picked up Xing'er on the way to escape, and accompanied me through my seven years of old age, so you have to treat Xing'er well, can you do it?"

"Grandpa, don't worry, Xing'er is my sister, anyone who wants to bully her has to step on my corpse, and I enlighten the sky of the Nebula Continent." Xiao Yi said categorically.

Grandpa picked up the water cup at this time, took another sip of water and continued: "With your words, I can rest assured, I hope you will not live up to my hard work." ”

"There is another thing that is about you, maybe you don't know it yourself, and you don't need to know it now, when you get to that point, you will slowly understand what the world is like, and there is a deep secret in your body. Grandpa said

"Ahem~~", Grandpa coughed twice, and continued to say weakly: "I'm asking you a question, do you want to become the supreme powerhouse of the Nebula Continent?"

Xiao Yi pondered for a moment and said: "The supreme strong, an extremely difficult and dangerous road, as long as you have the courage to try and believe that you can do it, I believe that people will win the day."

Hearing this, Grandpa nodded inadvertently and said: "Good boy, I believe you can do it, follow the guidance of your heart to move forward, and walk into the palace that no one has entered so far. ”

Xiao Yi said with a shocked face: "Grandpa, your body is already like this, this will damage you even more, I believe this is not something Xing'er wants to see."

"Child, you remember, Xing'er can let him complete the nebula empowerment normally, before the age is reached, the strong planetary cloud empowerment will be detrimental to future cultivation, you don't refuse, this is the only thing I can do for Xing'er, sit cross-legged" Grandpa said categorically.

Xiao Yi felt guilty in his heart, he hurt his grandfather too much, and the sadness in his heart was indescribable, so he took off his coat and sat cross-legged opposite his grandfather on the bed nervously.

Grandpa said here: "Child, no matter what happens, hold on, remember to be kind to Xing'er".

At this time, Grandpa's arms were raised, forming a layer of light mask in himself, and the light mask slowly flowed upward, and directly above Grandpa, a circular nebula map appeared, and suddenly the nebula map rushed to the top of Xiao Yi's head at a very fast speed.

At this time, Xiao Yi felt a strong hot current rushing towards his lower abdomen, and the stinging pain like fire gradually became stronger, and his body was everywhere in the fire-like moxibustion roasting, and he heard his grandfather's voice in the extremely difficult struggle, "Xiao Yi, remember, there is a secret hidden in your body, don't tell others, until you can become a strong person, have the ability to protect the person you need to protect, tell Xing'er, grandpa is in another world, and will always protect him."

When Xiao Yi heard this, he knew that his grandfather was afraid that his life would disappear after helping him with the empowerment of the Nebula, and Xiao Yi shouted in pain: "Grandpa, stop, stop."

Nebula empowerment, for the Nebula Continent Cloud Spirit Qi cultivation fundamental, only with the help of the human body, activate the cloud spirit qi, through their own cultivation, can become that supreme powerhouse, everyone, at the age of eight, will go through the academies of various cities in the continent, specially send people to recruit students who can cultivate, one to three levels, unable to cultivate, can only assist the labor force, and the fourth level and above, can be cultivated, the higher the level, the stronger the pain experienced, often most people experience pain at the same time because they can't adhere to this piercing pain, resulting in the failure of the empowerment, completely reduced to ordinary people, and really experienced this pain, in the Nebula ContinentOnce the initiation begins, they cannot be stopped, and if they are forcibly stopped, they will cause great harm to themselves.

In this case, Grandpa used his only remaining vitality to help Xiao Yi carry out the Nebula Empowerment, and Xiao Yi still shouted helplessly, not wanting to cause Grandpa to pass away because of his own reasons, which he didn't want to see, let alone let Xing'er lose his grandfather, and didn't want to see Xing'er's unhappiness, in the shouting, he heard Grandpa's voice again: "Child, you remember, Nebula empowerment, just need the cloud spirit qi to impact the veins in the body, hold on."

At this time, Xiao Yi's body was already blood-red, as red as the steel that had just been baked, and his face was full of clouds, if anyone else saw it, they would know that this was not the reaction of Yun Lingqi, but Xiao Yi, crying in pain, and the flow of tears was evaporated by the heat of his body one by one.

Grandpa continued at this time: "Xiao Yi, I can see that your talent is excellent, grandpa here can only help you to this when you are about to dry up, as for what kind of achievements you can achieve in the future, it is completely up to you." Besides, after Xing'er has experienced the Nebula empowerment, she will definitely let some academies take her away, and then you leave this place and believe that your stage, only the Nebula Continent is the place where you can show it. ”

Grandpa's words became weaker and weaker, Xiao Yi cried and persisted, feeling that the meridians in his body were opened up little by little, and a drop of water in the dantian slipped down, forming a more illusory purple-gold cloud in his body, with a bang, the whole body shook, and the body seemed to be watered by a basin of cold water after the heat, and it was about to explode and die.

I only heard my grandfather say the last sentence: "Child, after I am gone, I will set this place on fire, let my last memories live here forever, and tell Xing'er that grandpa will always love her."

The faint invisible sound slowly disappeared in the air.

I don't know how much time has passed, at this time, Xiao Yi's ruddy outside has faded, after such severe pain, I feel that the cloud and mist in my body has gradually become solidified, and a layer of dry blood outside my body has cracked, leaking out Xiao Yi's handsome and petite face.

After such pain, Xiao Yi did not feel any discomfort in his body, but felt more refreshed, with a sad face, put on his coat, slowly walked to the door, opened the door and tied it, and saw Xing'er who was still languid and listless outside.

Xing'er saw the door open, turned around and saw Xiao Yi, looked sideways at the house and asked, "Where is grandpa?"

Xiao Yi didn't know how to speak, so he could only lower his head, looked at Xing'er with a languishing face, sighed, and saw Xiao Yi's tears slipping down again, Xing'er already knew about her grandfather's death, but she didn't believe it, and her grandfather left her without saying too much to her, without too many instructions.

Xing'er turned around and got into Xiao Yi's arms, crying loudly, shouting: "Brother Xiao Yi, what should I do!"

Xiao Yi didn't say anything, making the apricot in her arms cry bitterly, and slowly stroked the long hair of the apricot.

I don't know how long it took, looking at the apricot in her arms, the crying voice gradually became smaller and smaller, Xiao Yi picked up the apricot and slowly moved out of the yard, before reaching the gate of the yard, the apricot in Xiao Yi's arms gradually woke up.

And Xing'er, who was still crying at this time, said: "Brother Xiaoyi, did grandpa leave anything behind?"

Xiao Yi stretched out his petite hand, gently wiped it on Xing'er's face, wiped the tears that remained on his face, and helped wipe them clean again and said: "Grandpa asked me to tell you that she loves you very much, and the past few years with you have been his happiest time, I hope you will live well."

Xing'er raised her head, looked at the yard that was close at hand, slowly knelt down against the yard, bent down and kowtowed three times, and said in the direction of the yard: "Grandpa, I know that you love Xing'er very much, Xing'er also loves Grandpa, grandpa's unfinished road will be walked by Xing'er in the future, if there is no grandfather in this life, Xing'er may have already abandoned the corpse in the wilderness, I hope grandpa will live better in another world." Xing'er got up slowly and looked at Xiao Yi beside her.

Seeing that Xing'er's grief had been alleviated, Xiao Yi picked up the dry branch on the ground, lit the torch and said, "Xing'er, this is grandpa's last wish, it's up to you." ”

Xing'er looked at the torch burning in Xiao Yi's hand, took it in her hand, hesitated slightly, and then threw it directly to the house.

Seeing this, Xiao Yi bent down his petite figure, saluted the burning house, stretched out his hand and slowly stroked Xing'er's hair, looking at the raging fire, extremely sad.