The Eastern Wasteland is vast and boundless, and its terrain extends from west to southeast, and finally evolves into a chaotic cliff protrusion, deep into the vast and magnificent power sea, and occupying this place is a small tribe of the Zhao Zhan clan.

On the offshore side, the white waves of more than ten feet high are surging, constantly slapping on the shore reef, and from time to time there is a huge sound, if people stand in front, their hearts are also shaken by this majestic momentum.

Not far away, on the yellow-orange-orange beach, a thin boy of eleven or twelve years old was holding a wooden shovel, digging hard, and at his feet, there was a straw basket.

He was very attentive and careful, and as the hole got deeper and deeper, his small body also sank in, and he could only see a puddle of mud and sand flying out of it, and if someone pushed the sand on both sides, he could immediately bury it.

Suddenly, there was a pause under his hand, and he heard a muffled sound, as if he had touched something.

His eyes lit up, and he immediately abandoned the small wooden shovel, and with both hands he squeezed hard, but he dug out a shell with many gaps on the edge, but the surface was smooth, and it was clearly polished.

He carefully brushed away the mud and sand, and saw that there was a strange pattern engraved on it, and although the strokes were simple, it looked clumsy and powerful, and permeated with a sense of barbarism and desolation.

"That's it. ”

He exhaled with joy, and suddenly heard a rustling sound. I saw small crabs scrambling out of the grass basket at their feet.

"Not good!"

He clung to the shell, ignoring even the wooden shovel, and leaped out of the sand pit, and the moment he left, the beach exploded, and a white-bellied monster fish three feet long and with two claws burst out of the ground.

The boy rolled over on the sand, stood up, and watched the strange fish's sharp teeth gnaw below. wiped the sweat mixed with mud and sand on his face, and secretly said that it was dangerous.

I didn't dare to stay here longer, so I spread my legs and ran to the rock cliffs standing on the shore in the distance.

He went out for three or four miles before he ran to the bottom of the high cliff.

However, I saw that on the cliff, there were houses and corridors along the cracks of the mountain rock, and it seemed that it was a great deal of effort to dig holes in the solid rock. Wooden wedges are inserted and built on top of them.

Someone above folded his hands and shouted, "Little monkey, come up quickly, the blame bird is coming."

The little monkey replied and said, "Got it." ”

He took the shell in his mouth, hurried up a high slope, and then leaped into the air, grabbed a thick rope that hung down, and climbed up it. After three or two strokes, he climbed to the first place where he landed, and then with the help of the wooden wedges protruding from the rock wall, he climbed on the stone platform that was about thirty zhang high in one breath, and his body was really flexible and agile like a little monkey.

But here, there was still a foot high from the top, there was nothing to borrow, and a soft rope that should have hung here was gone.

At this time, an anxious urging voice suddenly came from above, "Quick." Little monkey fast. ”

The little monkey only felt a faint whistling sound in the sea breeze. Looking back, he saw a little black shadow appearing at the end of the sky above the endless blue water in the distance, dense, as if endless, and he couldn't help but shudder. Gritting his teeth, he took a step on the rock wall, took a few steps back, almost reached the edge of the stone platform, and rushed again. stepped on the cliff wall that was slightly inclined inward, pedaled a few steps, and then stretched out his hand to hook up the springboard above, but after all, he was small and weak, and when the momentum was exhausted, it was still a little worse.

When he saw that he was about to fall, a thick arm reached out from above, grabbed him, and then dragged him up.

The owner of the hand was a lean man, threw him on the ground, and scolded fiercely: "Little monkey spirit, for your sister's sake, I will pull you, and I will go out at this time next time, and I will not care about you." ”

The little monkey spit out the shell, got up with a grunt, and said with a hippie smile: "Thank you, Brother You." ”

The man turned pale, pressed his head, stuffed it into the hole on the side, and urged: "There is still a laugh, hide quickly." ”

The little monkey stooped down to a narrow crevice in the rock, where there were already several children, all of whom were screwing at him, and he smiled, got into a corner, and carefully put the shell in his bosom.

The man outside had a solemn face, and looked into the distance, but at this time he could already see the appearance of the black spots, but it was a big bird with white feathers and red eyes, a thick beak and a huge body, and there was a fierce aura all over his body.

He didn't dare to delay, and after a few steps, he hid in the cave that had been dug in advance.

After about a dozen breaths, the screaming sound became more and more sharp and rapid, and it came into a tidal wave, as if it was about to tear people's eardrums.

The demon birds rushed closer, and then rushed headlong at the gray vines above the rock wall, smashing with a bang.

The little monkey curled up in the corner, listening to the storm outside, but he did not dare to move.

It took half an hour for the outside noise to calm down.

After a while, the tom drum sounded, and the little monkey and the children all cheered when they knew that the crisis was over, and they couldn't wait to crawl out of it.

Not only them, but up and down, in the cave hanging house that stretched for more than ten miles, there was also a figure who walked out, and it seemed that there were more than 10,000 of them.

However, many of the houses are broken and broken, and some people are dragged out of the cliff cave by the blame birds and pecked to death, and the corpses fall under the cliff, which is extremely miserable, but the tribe that survives by the sea, people may die every day, and the people in the tribe have long been accustomed to this.

Suddenly, someone shouted, "It's a red sac!"

The little monkey was excited, and looked at the railing, and saw that there was a bag about half the size of a human head left on the stone platform below, which looked bright and dazzling, and was very attractive.

It's just a pity that someone has already taken the lead at this moment, and an old man in a thick feather robe and a few strong men picked up the bag carefully, carefully identified it, and called happily: "It's a hundred bags, Gun'er is coming to drink." ”

"Go away, go away," said a young man as strong as a calf, and squeezed the child who stood in his way violently, and went down the rope to the bottom, snatched the bag, and poured it down, and the red juice flowed from the corners of his mouth and chest, ticking to the ground, and a fragrance wafted out.

The old man was extremely distressed and said, "Slow down, slow down." Don't mess with it. ”

The little monkey watched all this with great envy, and many children about the same age as him also salivated, stared wide, and swallowed vigorously with dirty fingers.

Birds have a habit of storing swallowed food in their jaw sacs. Because they often swallow the essence of plants and trees that can complement each other, over time, the juice accumulated in it is comparable to the treasure of heaven and earth.

Even if the adults in the clan take a sip, even if they don't eat or drink for a day and a night, they don't feel tired.

However, this is usually only a person who has survived the muscles and bones and has been taught the secret method of Zhuang Yuan by the shaman, who can swallow this lot in one go, and if it is an ordinary child, it can taste it drop by drop.

The young man named "Zhangon" was the grandson of the patriarch. Since the age of three, he has been practicing the art of internal strengthening, which is far from comparable to his peers.

When he had drunk the juice, his whole body turned red, and he burped, exhaled a puff of heat, and threw the bag down the cliff, which immediately caused many children to climb down the rope and rush forward to fight for the leftovers.

Jangon laughed.

The little monkey hesitated. I didn't fight, but I grabbed the shell in my hand more and more tightly.

The old man in the feather robe looked at Zhan Gon very fondly. Turning over the back of a big eagle, a whistle, and then driving it to the cliff cave at the top of the cliff, here is very spacious, the length and width of the foot are about ten zhang, from the rock wall traces. It's all hewn out by manpower.

Walking inside, he took off his feather coat and threw it to a good-looking girl, and lay down on a soft couch covered with fur, where his maid knelt in front of the couch and beat her back and pinched her legs.

At this time, another girl came in and said, "Patriarch." The High Priest has arrived. ”

The old patriarch hurriedly said, "Please." ”

After a while, a middle-aged man with long hair and deep eyes in Mai came in.

The old patriarch waved his hand and said, "You can go down later." ”

All the maids withdrew from the cave, and when only the two of them were left here, he propped himself up and sat down and said, "High priest, this is the third wave of birds in this month, and the toad-bellied vine is about to run out, I don't know what the high priest knows about this?"

These membrane-bellied vines can eat people and beasts, and the people of the Zhan clan plant them on the cliff wall, using these vines to protect themselves from all kinds of foreign enemies, but once this vine grows too much, it will also pose a danger to the entire tribe.

However, this Teng is also a food that birds like to eat, and they have to come to hunt every other month, but these birds are stupid, and they don't know how much easier to deal with than those fierce monsters.

In this way, not only can the membranous vine not be too much, but also avoid the invasion of monsters, the people of the Cham tribe skillfully use the balance, and can reproduce in the sea cliff for more than a hundred years.

But all this has been different since last month, and every eight or nine days, a group of people fly in, which is very different from the past.

The high priest said, "These flocks of birds are not here to feed, but they seem to have migrated from the north. ”

The old man was stunned, wrinkled his eyebrows and said, "North, but has something happened there?"

The high priest said: "It's hard to say, maybe there is an extra ancient demon." ”

The old patriarch rubbed his eyebrows and said in a deep voice: "Ancient demon, it is somewhat possible to say so. ”

In the past, as soon as the ancient demon came out, it would use all the surrounding creatures as rations, causing several groups of spirit monsters to flee one after another.

The old patriarch sighed and said, "In this way, there will be more flocks of birds coming, but once the toad-bellied vine is eaten, there is no such fine vine to cover it, Hugh said that the monsters in the sea are those spirits from the distant forest, and when they smell the smell of my flesh and blood, they will climb up and devour me clean." ”

The High Priest couldn't help but be silent, although he had some "supernatural powers", but he was powerless to deal with thousands of blame birds.

The old patriarch also understood this truth, he stared at the high priest Yan and said: "I only ask for the matter of the high priest, if I can't hold on to the department, please take Gun'er with you when you leave, and send him to the Eastern Wilderness." He untied the beast bone necklace around his neck and threw it over, "If you promise, it will be yours." ”

The high priest took it, looked at it twice, thought for a while, and said, "The kingdom is far away from here, so I can only do my best." ”

The old patriarch grinned and said, "As long as you have this word, a few maids outside, which one you like, take it away." ”

The High Priest hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

Night fell quickly, the little monkey's parents died early, only one sister worked as a maid at the old patriarch, and no one took care of him on weekdays. Then he went out again, and walked two or three miles along a hanging corridor, and came to a cliff cave.

This is a natural cavern, and a year ago, a lame shaman from a fallen tribe came to join the tribe, and the old patriarch saw that he could speak well. and the principle of the medicine stone, he was allowed to live here.

However, this man seems to have traveled in the wilderness, and he is good at telling the ancients, so many children and teenagers are attracted to listen to him every day.

The little monkey loved to hear this man talk about those ancient things, so he came here early.

At this time, the sky was dark, the cave was wet and cold, and the bonfire had been lit in advance, and the lame shaman could not tell the specific age, and his hair was gray. His beard was sparse, and he was covered in thick linen clothes, and he was sitting there napping.

After a while, people arrived one after another, most of them dirty children and teenagers, and they spontaneously sat down in a circle.

The lame shaman opened his eyes, saw that the man was almost there, and coughed. He was ready to speak.

"Dodge, dodge. ”

A shout and curse came from outside. Surrounded by sturdy young men, he swaggered in, and without waiting for his orders, some of his men drove the children aside, and even the little monkey was forced to get out of the way and into the corner.

He sat down directly across from the lame shaman and raised his chin. "That lame old man, you can start talking."

The lame shaman knew that the other party was the grandson of the patriarch, and now he sent someone under the fence, and he didn't want to offend, so he said: "Today, I will talk about the opening of the heavens." ”

Zhan Gon waved his hand impatiently and said, "Isn't it Yuan Bo's incarnation of heaven and earth. Bo Bai and Bo Xuan, the two brothers, have each been in charge of the sun and the moon, I have already heard about it, change it. ”

The teenagers around him shouted together: "Change one, change one." ”

The lame shaman was also not angry, and said: "Okay, then it will be said that all spirits are born in the wilderness, and the pure spirits will act as human fruits, and the turbidity spirits will turn into demons......"

Zhan Gon interrupted: "I've heard of this, I heard that you are from the barren land, and the Eastern Wilderness has heard of it, and you have built a lot of earthen platforms, and even the ancient demons and demons can use it to cook, so I said this." ”

The lame shaman smiled and said: "The young patriarch is talking about the Eastern Wilderness Divine Kingdom, not the Eastern Wilderness Upper Kingdom, it is not a soil platform, but a slaughtering platform, which was originally a torture platform for killing demons, but later someone disliked the murderous spirit and changed it to a picture platform." ”

Zhan Gon was puzzled: "Isn't the Eastern Wilderness Kingdom the Eastern Wilderness Divine Kingdom?" ”

The lame shaman shook his head and said: "It's different, it's different, more than 10,000 years ago, 1,300 tribes were forced by the power of demons to form an alliance in Daxiang Mountain, sacrifice to the heavens and blessings, establish the country in the Eastern Wilderness, suppress the Tianyuan, the country is brave and strong, can fight with the dragons in the sea, and can compete with the spirits in the mountains! ”

Zhan Gon was not a good-tempered person, and said with a little irritation: "Then let's talk about the Eastern Wilderness Divine Kingdom." ”

The lame shaman nodded, and then he rumored the many stories that had been passed down from the kingdom one by one.

He was eloquent, whether it was the Zhan Gong or the little monkey, or even those children, they were all attracted by the magnificent chapters that were performed on the barren land thousands of years ago, especially when it came to the Xuanshi who could call the wind and rain and enslave the demons with his gestures, it made them let out a burst of exclamations, and they wanted to replace him.

The lame shaman had been talking for more than an hour, but the more he spoke, the more excited he became, and his eyes gradually radiated with brilliance.

"The reason why the Eastern Wilderness Divine Kingdom can compete with the ancient demons is because of the Xuanshi, but the country is weak and difficult to raise, and it is difficult for the widows to rejuvenate the country!"

"What is a country?"

"Dozens or hundreds, or even thousands of tribes, unite as one, have the power to open up wasteland and split forests, reclaim mountains and seas, and have the ability to kill demons and protect the world, so as to call the country!"

"If there is a country, it must defend the frontier, it must raise its strength, it must raise its strength, it must be a scholar, and it must be a scholar!"

"In the kingdom of God at that time, there were three thousand scholars, carved gold seals with knives, needle-pierced lines, and written on the jade bone and fur. All of them are wise and transparent, people who chew bones, and with only brute force, they can't fight the ancient demons. ”

Speaking of rising, he picked up a branch on the spot and sketched a few characters on the ground.

The little monkey craned its neck and stared at it with wide eyes without blinking, as if both body and mind were thrown into it.

It's just that these teenagers and children listen to his stories, but they are not interested in these boring words like ghost drawings, and many of them yawn because they are not able to listen to them.

Zhan Gon stood up and said disdainfully, "Hey, what's the use of learning this." Can you beat the ancient beast demon? With this idle time, it is better to roast two more fat fish, which can be seen and touched, eat them today, and pull them out tomorrow, and go back. ”

He waved his hand. Several teenagers followed him out, and a voice came from outside, "The young patriarch is right, what kind of bones, it's just an old bone, I can kill him with one punch, and he can only rot in his stomach if he knows how many words he knows, what's the use of birds?"

"Hey, there's this spare time. I might as well fire a few more strong bows and lift a few more power stones. ”

The rest of the children were still reluctant to leave, waiting to talk about the following things, but they were bored by watching the lame shaman's strokes, and they were very attentive, and they left one by one, and only the little monkey remained.

After a long time, the lame shaman finally finished writing. He put down the branch, looked over and said, "Why don't you go?"

The little monkey took out the shell that he had acquired by day. He handed it forward and said, "Master Xuan, you said that as long as I find a word, you will name me." ”

The lame shaman was a little surprised, and said, "I didn't expect you to really find it." ”

He took a look. Said: "This is the word 'land', well, eight thousand years ago, the Eastern Wilderness Divine Kingdom once set up a Ludu Tower here to facilitate the defense of the ancient demons in the sea. Since you are related to this character, and you all take Zhan as your surname, how about I call it 'Zhanlu'?"

The little monkey nodded repeatedly, and he was very happy to pick up the branch and write his name on the ground.

The lame shaman looked at it, saw that he wrote decently, and said curiously, "Have you ever learned to write?"

The little monkey scratched his head and said embarrassedly: "The word is everywhere, many people recognize it, and the word Lu is just a few strokes, so I remember it very much." ”

The lame shaman looked at him a few times, then suddenly stretched out his foot, erased the words on the ground, and asked, "What is written above the ground, you may be able to write it silently?"

The little monkey scratched his scalp and wrote carefully one stroke at a time, although it was crooked, but among the hundred or so words, he actually wrote more than eighty.

The lame shaman nodded, "Yes, would you like to learn words from me?"

The little monkey's eyes lit up and he nodded desperately.

The lame shaman asked again, "Why do you want to learn?"

The little monkey said, "The little monkey thinks it's useful." ”

The lame shaman sighed and said, "You are a person who is destined for the law, let me ask you, do you know what is the biggest difference between humans and demons?"

The little monkey thought for a moment and said, "Demons eat people." ”

The lame shaman smiled: "Demons eat people, and they also eat demons, you remember, we are born as human beings, different from beasts and demons, that is, we are born with wisdom, but only wisdom, no knowledge, still not successful, wisdom is God, knowledge is the acquired achievement, you see that the old patriarch, can be regarded as a wise and knowledgeable person, is able to lead the Zhanbu to thrive on the seaside, but if the young patriarch goes up, do you think it can be done?"

The little monkey hurriedly shook his head.

The lame shaman said: "So, ah, both wisdom and knowledge, there is still one thing missing, that is learning, only learning, can inherit the wisdom of predecessors, but a person's energy is limited, if he can't learn, how can he pass it on? ”

"Record the text in the bone armor, pass it on from generation to generation, endlessly, ten generations, hundreds of generations, thousands of generations, integrate all people's wisdom and learning in one place, for future generations to learn, then sooner or later, we can kill all the demons and spirits, and set up an earthly kingdom of God, a paradise of humanity!"

The lame shaman's words seemed to unfold a magnificent picture in front of the little monkey, and his heart boiled when he heard it, and his chest was filled with a sense of pride and ambition, and he couldn't help but clench his fists.

The lame shaman smiled and said, "But that day is still far away, you can learn these words first." ”

He seemed to think of something again, "Also, don't call me Xuanshi, it's okay to talk about it here, if you come to the barren land countries in the future, it will be a joke, only if you cultivate to the realm of spiritual form, and specialize in cultivating the way of the talisman, you can be called a Xuanshi, I am just a beginner, and I am still far away." ”

The little monkey didn't know what the spirit form was, so he just looked up and asked, "Then what should I call it?"

The lame shaman said, "If you are happy, you can call Mo Lao, or call Mo Lao Man, and there is nothing wrong with calling Mo Lao. ”

The little monkey nodded and said, "Mo Lao." ”

Mo Lao snorted, "I won't keep you today, and at this time every day in the future, you come to me, and I will teach you how to read words." ”

The little monkey didn't know how to count, but he also bowed according to the rules of seeing the elders in the clan, and then went out with an excited face.

After he left, Mo Lao's eyes suddenly became cloudy and clear, and his body released a breathtaking spirit, and one leg did not seem to be lame, and he walked steadily to the edge of the cliff cave.

Looking at the churning sea under the moon, he secretly said: "A year ago, the Great Xuan Master watched the stars and calculated that there were changes in the north of the sea, which would affect the southeast, and there was one more ancient demon between the heavens and the earth. ”

Behind him, the bonfire in the cave dimmed.

In the middle of the next month, the little monkey insisted on coming to learn words every day, he was very smart, and he could memorize a few crosses every day, which made Mo Lao very satisfied, and he had already had the heart to teach him the method of cultivation in advance, but for some consideration, he still failed to make up his mind.

During this period of time, the occupation suffered more and more invasions, the birds and beasts in the forest disappeared early, and many unheard of monsters crawled out of the sea, desperately rushing to the depths of the land, every day there were huge bodies of water stranded on the beach, people were terrified.

This also made Mo Lao more and more sure of his guess, but only a few days later, he shattered this idea.

In this day and night, there is a figure of 10,000 zhang in the northern sky, its head is flat and long, like a fish like a lizard, the tail has a transparent webbed membrane, when floating, there are bright crystals floating out, under the moonlit night, it can be described as beautiful.

As soon as this monster appeared, whether it was in the sea or on land, all the creatures showed a look of despair and panic, trembling, and the people in the Cham clan were even more like boulders on their backs, and they were crushed to the ground one by one, unable to move.

Only Mo Lao was the only one who could still stand still, but he was also trembling and sweating profusely, "It turns out that the ancient demon 'Glass Newt Great Sage', who dominates the six continents of the North Sea, has not yet reached the thousand-year appointment, how dare she come to attack my Eastern Wilderness?"

It's just that the next moment, he knew that he was thinking about it, the monster didn't pay attention to them, but hurried to the inland of the Eastern Wilderness, looking at the hasty appearance, it seemed that he was also fleeing, and there were many bright thin lines behind him, which were clearly her relatives.

Mo Lao was dumbfounded, even the ancient demons were running away, he really couldn't imagine what a great change had happened on the North Sea.

Just as he was guessing, suddenly, a thunderous thunder that resounded throughout the Eastern Wasteland exploded above!

It's like the sky is falling!

Mo Lao staggered and fell to the ground, he looked up hurriedly, and saw that in the distant sky, a huge crack was torn open without a head and tail, and then a huge shadow that covered the sky slowly pierced out from the inside.

And with its arrival, it seems that the whole world is shaking and shaking!

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...... (To be continued.) )