Chapter 1: Youth
The Eastern Lands of the Heavenly Realm
Renzhou Jianzhang City
Renzhou is located in the central coastal zone of the Eastern Continent, and Jianzhang City is a city near the sea. Some forces like to break away from empires and cities, and naturally there are others who like empires and cities.
The Yang family has existed in this city for thousands of years.
In Jianzhang City, a young man in green clothes wandered aimlessly through the streets, his eyes constantly scanning the things that the merchants had put out.
Some people knew him and shouted, "Yun Gongzi, why don't you come to me to have a look?" I bought a batch of good things from somewhere else. Yun Weidao answered, took a closer look, and put it down again. It's just the usual stuff.
Yun Weidao has lived in the Yang family for seventeen years, he remembers that he has been in the Yang family since he was born, and he has always wanted to inquire about his life experience, but the head of the Yang family, Yang Lianbo, rarely sees him, he asks others, and they don't know. I only know that it was the head of the family who took him back to the Yang family when he was still a baby. Maybe it's the orphan of one of Yang Lianbo's former friends, a cultivator, accidents always happen, so he asked Yang Lianbo to raise him. The Yang family has always been atmospheric to Yunwei Dao, with food and clothing, and there is no gap between them and their eldest grandson. Two years ago, Yang Lianbo also asked people to vacate a house with a courtyard for Yunwei Dao to live in. Weekday expenses, before Yunwei Dao spent the money, another person gave him the money. This kind of treatment also makes many juniors of the Yang family envious.
But Yun Wei Dao is an outsider after all, even if it is the Yang family's own clan, there are still open and secret fights, and for Yun Wei Dao, his friends in the Yang family are even more few. As he grew older, he had heard a lot about the Yang family, and the reason why the Yang family was able to become the largest family in Jianzhang City was all due to Yang Lianbo, the head of the family. This head of the Yang family, cultivated to Tongtian, and his third son, Yang Fang, actually reached the emperor realm, and served as the grandmaster of the protector of the country in the Chen State of Renzhou, and every year the Chen State would send envoys to the Yang family to send many treasures, and every five years, the emperor himself came to send congratulatory gifts. In Renzhou, Yunwei Dao has never heard of it that can be comparable to the Yang family in pomp and circumstance. After all, he grew so big that even Chen Guo had never been there.
Now that he is about to become an adult, his attention is no longer as focused on fun as before, and he hears the rumors about the head of the Yang family from the people around him, and the young people of the Yang family are not very close to him, so his interest begins to shift to cultivation.
It's just that in terms of cultivation, he doesn't have any way at all. The people of the Yang family never asked him, and some of the children also began to practice. He also inquired about the children who had a good relationship with him, but in the end they were all gone, and he didn't want to ask the adults of the Yang family, so he went to the market when he had nothing to do, and occasionally listened to the rumors and strange things told by the storyteller in the teahouse. Once, he heard a storyteller tell him about his background, but in the end, he didn't have a clue. He also wanted to find the storyteller and ask him if he had just made up the story or if he had heard about it from somewhere else. But the storyteller never showed up again. He only felt regretful, after all, the world is so big, and the storytellers in the teahouse come and go in batches, which is just a foothold for them to make a living.
But he also heard some methods of cultivation in the book, and it is said that in the bazaar, or in the forest and by the sea, there are some masters of cultivation, who are waiting for the destined people, some will accept disciples, and some will give them a few peerless treasures. Or among the common people, some treasures of cultivation are sold as ordinary objects to supplement their families. These things, no matter which one they encounter, are all great opportunities.
Therefore, he often wandered around the market, in the forest or by the sea, looking at the things that were being sold. The sea on which Jianzhang City leans, people call it Zhonghai, and on the family gathering for a year, he once heard Yang Lianbo talk about this sea. The sea is boundless, and even Yang Lianbo has never reached the other side of the sea, and he has gone out to sea with his friends to explore before, but in the end he gave up.
Yun Weidao continued to walk forward and saw a small group of people gathered together, as if they were arguing about something. He also walked over, wanting to join in the fun.
Several people surrounded an old man, led by a gorgeously dressed man, who was obviously the son of a large family. Yun Weidao squeezed and stepped forward.
The old man set up a stall on the ground, and two young men stood in front of his stall and shouted, "Old man, you have been setting things here all day long, and you don't shout, what are you doing in a place?" The old man did not speak. The people around him also persuaded him, "Old man, you don't sell it here, why do you want to occupy space?" "The old man has put things here, how can you call it not for sale?" "Old man, your things are not worth much, I want all the one hundred taels of silver, take it and get out." After saying that, the man had to pack up his things, "You have to buy it, the old man doesn't have to sell it." When the old man had finished speaking, he closed his eyes and ignored him.
"Hey, I thought you were dumb. Old man, young master, I bought your things to give you face, don't be ignorant. "Okay, then see if you can take anything from me. The old man stood up, as if he was about to make a gesture with the young man.
"Hey, this old man is looking for death. With that, the man also stepped forward. However, he did not move, as if he could not take another step forward.
"It seems that you don't have the ability to do this," said the old man lightly, and sat down cross-legged on the ground again.
"Forget it" may have seen something, and the person next to the young master began to persuade him.
"It's all gone, what's there to see. His attendants shouted, and the crowd dispersed.
Yun Weidao looked at the old man and felt that the others were different from the people he usually saw, so he looked at the items that the old man placed on the ground, which seemed to be no different from other items. His eyes swept over the old man's hands, and he found that the old man had a ring on his hand, although it was quaint, but it obviously did not match the old man's identity.
Could it be that Yun Weidao felt hesitant, so he accosted the old man
"Old man, what are you going to sell?" The old man didn't look at him, "Childe is young, can't you see it?" "What you see, the old man sells? Then the ring on your hand, can there be a price?" The old man heard Yun Weidao say this, opened his eyes, and looked at him. "This ring is an ordinary object, what are you buying it for?" "If it is ordinary, the old man may wish to give it to me, and you can make a price." Yun Weidao felt that the old man had the idea of selling the ring, so he continued to ask. But the old man shook his head, and said that he was selling the objects on the ground.
"Old man, this is your first time coming to Jianzhang City. You might as well go to my place and sit down, and we'll discuss slowly, since you want to sell something, you must have encountered some difficulties, maybe my adults can help you solve it. ”
Under the soft grinding and hard bubble of Yunwei Road, the old man seemed to reluctantly agree. Yun Wei was happy, and he wanted to help the old man clean up the things on the ground. Who knew that the old man said, "No one can take away the things, what to do when you pack up the things." ”
When Yun Weidao heard this, he realized that this old man was not ordinary, so he made a gesture of invitation to him, and led the way for him in front.
When he arrived at the side door of Yang's house, the old man was slightly stunned, but he still walked in with Yunweidao. Yun Wei Dao lived in a separate courtyard, and he had always been quiet, and usually few people came to him except for the servants
"With such a big yard, does Childe live alone?" "Yes, usually no one comes, but what do seniors need?" "No, the yard is quiet, and the Yang family is really attentive to Childe." "The seniors also know the people of the Yang family?" "Or a few of them know." It's just that I have something to do now, and when the matter is settled, I'll visit again. ”
This old man is familiar with the people of the Yang family, and now he is in difficulty, perhaps because it is inconvenient to open up to the Yang family, so he let himself see it in the market. In this way, it seems that this ring belongs to him. Yun Wei Dao thought in his heart.
The old man sat down in the room with Yun Weidao, and he made the old man a pot of tea sent by the Yang family a few days ago. He continued to talk with the old man, wanting to know more things. After an hour, they began to talk about the ring again. It turned out that this ring was also obtained by the old man by chance, but the ring is now depleted of spiritual power and is useless. With the blessing of overhaul, the ring can reappear in its original form.
Yunwei Dao has also heard that the storyteller said, the legend is that there is a treasure between heaven and earth, which is called "Taoist" by all races, and Yang Lianbo has also said that "Daozu" Zhongru once called the Taoist instrument "Heaven and earth are momentary, and the avenue is eternal". Tangible and invisible, there is a master and no owner, all of them are "Taoist instruments".
When you think about those treasures, there are naturally different forms.
"How did Childe make you see the use of this thing?" the old man asked, taking a sip of tea. "Forgive me, but the younger ones don't see any difference in this thing. It's just that the predecessors are more concerned about this thing, so they guess that this thing is not extraordinary. "Hahaha, the son really has a unique vision, and he is worthy of being a member of the Yang family. The old man laughed
When Yun Weidao heard the old man say this, he was overjoyed, "The seniors said this, did they intentionally give this thing to the juniors?"
The old man took the ring off and pushed it towards Yunwei Dao. "Now that Gongzi has seen this, he is a member of the Yang family. This ring is given to you by the old man. ”
Yun Weidao hurriedly shirked it, "The beloved things of the seniors, how can the younger generations accept them like this." There are a few silver tickets for the younger generation, which are given by the Yang family to the younger generation for weekday expenses. The seniors walk the world, and it is inevitable that they need silver two for emergency relief, so it is better to accept it, so that the younger generations can also feel at ease. After speaking, Yun Weidao found five hundred taels of silver tickets from the cabinet and wanted to hand them over to the old man. But the old man didn't mean to ask for it, and hurriedly refused.
After several pushes, the old man reluctantly accepted it.
More than two hours passed, and the old man left. Yunwei Dao sent him out of the Yang family, and when the old man left, he said to Yunwei Dao, "Son, the old man is entangled in important matters this time, and when the old man finishes solving it, he will definitely visit the Yang family." Don't talk about it to the people of the Yang family, lest I pass by but don't visit, so that the people of the Yang family think that I have lost my manners. ”