Chapter 1: The Child's Waiter

This is the world ruled by the Spirit Emperor, the entire continent is surrounded by boundless black water, like a huge prison, no one can leave this continent, the only belief is the Spirit Emperor, nothing else.

Every five years, Juyue looks at the sun, and the Spirit Palace will recruit child attendants, the so-called child attendants, which are apprentices who follow the soul master, and almost everyone who becomes a soul master starts from the child attendant.

The conditions for registration are very simple, as long as you are at least 10 years old, not more than 25 years old, have a normal mind, sound limbs, and know how to read.

But the conditions for selection are not simple, and even very cruel, all the registered child attendants will be grouped into cage fights according to the number of existing soul masters, and in each group, the last one who survives can become a child attendant.

Even if the conditions chosen are so cruel, there are still many people who sign up, because once they become children's attendants, not only can they become phoenixes, but all their immediate family members will be raised in value and live a prosperous life from now on.

Because this is a world of survival of the fittest, but also a world where the strong are respected.

Kujiu Street is a slum area far away from the Spirit Palace, next to the Black Wood Forest, the people here are very poor, most of them are not enough to eat and wear, and they have to get up early and work greedily at night, otherwise they will starve to death.

Gu Du's father starved to death, when he was ten years old, his father wanted to send him to be a child waiter that year, but he didn't expect that the night before he suddenly had a high fever and burned unconscious, so he missed it.

And the cold moon of that year was extremely cold, and his father smashed his leg again while working, and he lay at home for half a moon, with nothing to eat and no money for treatment.

Gu Du went to the edge of the black wood forest every day to dig something, but everything that could be eaten in his mouth would be dug back, but his father still starved to death.

Gu Du has no mother, the reason why he is called Gu Du is because his mother died in childbirth when he gave birth to him, and his father named him Du, because it is impossible to marry a daughter-in-law again.

Even if he chooses a child servant in order to give birth to a child, he will not look for him, because he is still dragging a small one, and one more mouth will give him one less chance of survival.

Gu Du became an orphan, survived without a mouthful, and almost died many times, but in the end he survived.

Today, Gu Du wanted to sign up and participate in the selection of children's waiters, but he was unsuccessful...... In the future, you don't have to work hard for stuttering.

It takes a whole day to walk from Kujiu Street to the Linghuang Palace, which should actually be counted as two days, because when you walk that day, the palace gate is closed, and you can only enter the next day.

Gu Dutian went on the road before dawn, not because he was afraid of making a mistake, the registration started from Wangri and ended before the sun, in fact, there was half a month.

What Gu Du is afraid of is the little bullies on Kujiu Street, because Gu Du has no father or mother, these little bullies take pleasure in bullying Gu Du when they are idle, at first they were bullying, and soon they evolved into humiliation and even beatings.

Gu Du has been holding back, because he wants to save his life and keep his limbs sound so that he can participate in the selection of children's waiters.

After a day's journey, I only drank half a pot of water, and when I arrived at the palace gate, it was already late at night, and there was nothing except the lanterns lit on both sides of the palace gate.

Gu Du once again tightened the straw rope that tied his pants, making his already slender waist thinner, at least from tomorrow, he would be able to eat more than ten days of full food.

I was so hungry that I couldn't sleep, and I didn't fall asleep until dawn, and I just dreamed of a big steamed bun, and I was pushed awake, and when I opened my eyes and saw the palace guard wearing gold armor, Gu Du quickly stood up and said, "My lord, I'm here to sign up for the child waiter." ”

The palace guard lowered his eyes and looked at Gu Du, because he had just reached the palace guard's chest.

The palace guard asked, "How old are you?" ”

"Fifteen." Gu Du replied very unconfidently, he knew that he was short, and from the time he could remember to now, he had hardly eaten a full meal, it would be good to be alive, and there was no need to think about growing tall.

Gong Wei said expressionlessly: "Go in, go straight, there is a soul master at the end of the gallop road." ”

"Thank you, sir!" Gu Du was a little excited, all he was thinking about now was a full meal.

Entering the palace gate, there are walls more than two feet high on both sides, golden yellow, just like the golden armor on the palace guards, shining with dazzling light.

The road is very wide, wider than the street of Kujiu Street, but there is no such crowding and noise, and the bricks on the ground are very clean, so clean that Gu Du does not dare to settle down, for fear that his feet will stain the bricks.

From a distance, you can see a person in a white robe standing at the end of the gallop, and the closer he got, the more Gu Du felt that his legs were not obedient.

He was scared and oppressed at the same time, and it was hard to tell if he was here to fight for a great future or to eat a few days before he died.

The white-robed Soul Master had a grim face, a high crown on his head, and a domineering momentum, and asked in a flat tone, "How old is it?" ”

Gu Du unconsciously lowered his head and replied timidly, "Fifteen." ”

"Stand aside."

Gu Du hurriedly dodged the front of the Soul Master, but this 'side' didn't know what position it was, he lowered his head and touched it for a while, and found a place where he felt that he was not in the way.

Soon, a lot of people came one after another, some were thinner than Gu Du, and some were tall and tall, and the soul master said the same thing to everyone, how old is it, stand aside.

When the sun rose to a high level, there were people standing on both sides of the galloping road, and Gu Du counted them with his heart, and there were one hundred and thirty-three people in total.

Another thin young man walked in front of the Soul Master, the Soul Master changed slightly, the hands that had been held in front of him hung down, and his voice became a little harsher than before: "How old is it?" ”

The boy replied, "Twenty-five." ”

The Soul Master said, "Take a step forward. ”

The young man moved his feet, and the Soul Master said again, "Come closer." ”

The young man moved his feet again, and the soul master stretched out his hand to hang above the young man's head, and after a moment said, "You are twenty-six." ”

The young man hurriedly knelt down and said in a panic: "My lord, I am really twenty-five!" ”

The soul master's hand fell, and the boy fell to the ground softly, and the soul master stretched out his hand and pointed at a young man, and said, "Drag the corpse to the wall." ”

The young man who was pointed at was so frightened that he couldn't take a step at all, and the soul master slowly turned his head to look at him.

Gu Du squeezed out of the crowd, leaned down and grabbed the corpse's feet, and dragged the corpse towards the wall.

He is not afraid of dead bodies, and in order to live, he has done everything and seen everything.

Above the watchtower, there stood a soul master with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, wearing a yellow robe, with a handsome face like a woman, with a slender figure, with his left hand behind his back, silently watching this scene on the galloping road.

At noon, the white-robed soul master said, "Everyone, follow me." ”

After saying this, the white-robed soul master turned around and walked towards the gate with Lingjue written on it, everyone didn't dare to move, they were afraid of the white-robed soul master, because just half an hour ago, the white-robed soul master killed a person in front of them.

Gu Du squeezed out of the crowd again, followed the white-robed soul master, and walked into the Lingjue Gate.