The back mountain of Tsing Yi Village is just a small peak, although it does not look big, but it is connected to the west of China's longest and widest north-south mountain system - Hengduan Mountains, stretching for nearly 2,000 miles, the mountains are high and the valleys are deep, and the dense forests are all over, among which there are not only rare animals such as giant pandas and golden monkeys, but also tigers, leopards, bears and other man-loving beasts.

My grandfather and I walked on a rugged mountain road, overgrown with weeds, and it was a desolate scene. Since the mountain was contracted by the tea merchants, the villagers rarely went up the mountain, and the Snake Jun Temple was demolished, all kinds of strange things in the village and my grandfather's warning, and no one came up again, and the group of tea merchants who contracted this place did not know what was going on, except for a few people who were sent to survey the situation at the beginning, and no one was sent again in the follow-up.

"Grandpa, why don't we take the main road, but go here!" I asked a little puzzled, since I went up the mountain, my grandfather has taken me along a weedy trail next to the mountain road, this road seems to have been walked by no one for a long time, the potholed road is overgrown with weeds and wild flowers, walking on it, almost covering my feet.

Grandpa saw that it was difficult for me to walk, he simply stopped, stretched out two big hands to pick me up directly, and walked fast with two legs, he said as he walked: "Walk closer here, and when we get to the place, the old Taoist priest is probably still on the way." ”

A thought suddenly flashed through my mind, and I blurted out, "Grandpa, you know where that monster is, right?" I feel like you know a lot of things. ”

Grandpa was stunned, and then said with a smile: "It is worthy of my grandson Chen Youcai, you doll is smart." Until now, there are some things that grandpa won't hide from you. ”

Grandpa found a slightly spacious open space and put me on the ground, and then he lowered his waist and reached out to unbutton my clothes, I was stunned, I didn't understand what this was for, but I didn't resist, after all, I believed that grandpa would not harm me.

Grandpa pulled the garment off my left shoulder, exposing my bare shoulder to the sun, and on my left shoulder was a cup-sized phoenix imprint that came to life in the sun, as if it was about to spread its wings and fly.

"Good grandson, do you know what this means?" Grandpa asked me, pointing to the phoenix bird mark on my left shoulder.

"Didn't you say it was my birthmark before?" I was a little puzzled, and I inexplicably remembered the woman in the white coffin, and she also had a phoenix bird mark on her left shoulder, which was exactly the same.

Mine is golden, and mine is cyan.

Grandpa smiled: "It's not wrong to say that this is a birthmark, because it is accompanied when you come out of your mother's womb." But it is extremely important to my Chen family. ”

Grandpa squinted his eyes, his excitement flashed in them, and he said, "There is not much information passed down by the ancestors, and the most important of them is related to this mark. ”

"When a child born of a phoenix bird appears among the descendants of the Chen family, it is the day when the Snake Jun Temple is demolished. The Snake Jun Temple was demolished, the demon gate was opened, and all the Chen family members wanted to send this child into the Ancient Soul Ridge in the back mountain at all costs, where my Chen family's Longxing place was buried, and what my Chen family had wanted to find for three hundred years! ”

"It's because you have this mark on your body, so when Li Dao Scar came to demolish the Snake Monarch Temple, I didn't stop it, because it was something that the ancestors had already calculated. Good grandson, if this is not on you, then I, Chen Youcai, will fight to save the Snake Jun Temple, this is the life of our Chen family! ”

I felt a chill on my body, it turned out that the root of everything came from the phoenix bird mark on my body, I reached out and touched the mark on my left shoulder, it was no different from other skin, in my ten years of life, it had never shown any strange ability, I didn't understand, what it represented.

I was about to ask again, but I was interrupted by my grandfather, who buttoned up my clothes, touched my head and said, "Okay, good grandson, I know what you want to ask, but there are some things that grandpa doesn't know, and the truth of all this may be known if you enter the Ancient Soul Ridge." You just need to understand that grandpa will not harm you, and the ancestors of my Chen family will not harm you, and everything we have planned is just to make you ......"

Grandpa suddenly closed his mouth at the end, and he silently picked me up and continued on his way. I felt as if Grandpa was hiding something from me, but when I saw his pursed lips, I knew that there were deeper secrets that Grandpa wouldn't tell me now.

Grandpa ran very fast, even if it was holding me this burden, it didn't seem to be affected at all, I watched the surrounding scenery fly by, the whistling wind echoed in my ears, grandpa is like a fifty or sixty-year-old man, I'm afraid that even the fastest speed of those young boys running lightly can't catch up with the current grandpa.

I closed my eyes and listened to the sound of the wind in my ears, and I fell asleep in a daze, falling into a strange state.

It was a long dream, and in the dream I saw a group of people kneeling on the ground, dressed in beautiful clothes and with strange masks on their faces, and I could not see their appearance clearly, but I could only see them kneeling against the high platform in front of them, and making some strange gestures, which seemed to be a kind of etiquette for them, and their mouths were singing awkward words, and I could not understand or hear what they were saying.

In the haze, I looked in the direction of their kneeling, and in front of them was a tall altar, the sides of which were decorated with glittering gold and jade, and countless ivory and precious stones.

The altar was tall and large, and I looked up the steps of the altar, and there seemed to be a figure, shrouded in a cloud of light, emitting a blinding brilliance. I couldn't see her clearly, and when I opened my eyes wide to see her, I felt dazzled and tears flowed down my cheeks.

When I woke up, I reached out and touched my face, which was wet.

"Good grandson, what the hell is wrong with you?" I saw my grandfather standing by and looking at me with an anxious expression, and he stretched out a big hand to wipe tears from my face.

I looked around and looked around at my surroundings, and I don't know when I was put on a boulder by my grandfather, and it was surrounded by a clearing full of jagged rocks, no trees, no grass, no living objects, and it seemed dead and gloomy.

"Good grandson, what the hell is wrong with you, I just saw you asleep, so I put you on this stone, but I didn't expect you to wake up as soon as you wanted, and your face was full of tears." Grandpa looked at me with some concern, at this moment it has reached the most critical step of the Chen family's plan, and he doesn't want any changes.

I shook my head and said to my grandfather, "Grandpa, it's nothing, I just had a dream that a tiger was chasing me, and I cried in fear." ”

I don't know why I lied to my grandfather, but I had a vague feeling in my heart that the dream I just had seemed to have a lot to do with me, and I couldn't tell anyone.

Grandpa didn't speak, he stared at my eyes, I looked at me weakly, I didn't dare to look at him, so I lowered my head and straightened out some wrinkled clothes, I knew that he could see that I was lying, because every time I lied before, I would lower my head and dare not look at people, this seems to be a physiological reaction, I can't control it.

Grandpa was silent for a long time before he said in a muffled voice: "That old Taoist priest should be coming soon, no matter what happened just now, you must cheer up now and listen to grandpa's words, this is the most critical time for my Chen family in three hundred years, I can only succeed, not fail!" ”

I nodded, and then asked, "Grandpa, since this is our Chen family's plan, then why do we have to find that old Taoist priest, and say that he came up the mountain to catch monsters." ”

I found that my thinking ability has improved a lot during this time, and I faintly think that the master and apprentice from Mount Emei seem to have been led by my grandfather.

Although my grandfather's temper is not very good, he will not take the initiative to block the door to provoke others like this morning, and even make sarcastic and mocking remarks, which is not in line with my grandfather's character at all, just like he is deliberately acting, the purpose is to stimulate the old Taoist priest to go up the mountain to catch demons in person.

Grandpa listened to my words, he sighed rarely, and said in a low voice: "Because grandpa has no ability, alas, since the ancestor Shengzhigong, the Chen family's descendants are not as good as the generation, especially in Taoism, the Chen family has never had a genius like Shengzhigong." Your grandfather and I have mediocre qualifications, and I know my pounds, and I am not sure that I can send you safely into that place. ”

"So, grandpa wants to stimulate the old Taoist priest and let him help!" I said.

Grandpa glanced at me approvingly and continued: "The Snake Monarch Temple was demolished, and the demon gate was opened. The Snake Monarch Temple is the hub of a Taoist formation laid by our ancestors, once it is dismantled, the eye of the formation is broken, and the demonic qi that has been suppressed for three hundred years leaks out, which will naturally cause the vision of heaven and earth, that is, the earth dragon turned over that night. ”

"Without the suppression of the formation, those spirits will naturally start to do evil, and the plan of our Chen family is to use the excuse of destroying monsters to invite Taoist cultivators with advanced mana. Join forces with them, or the praying mantis catches cicadas, and the yellow finch follows. At the end, a smile appeared on Grandpa's face.

I thought of certain episodes on TV, where a group of people took the lead for themselves, and then they hid behind themselves and calculated that others would take advantage of them, and the more I watched, the more I felt like grandpa was doing this kind of thing now.

"Grandpa, aren't you afraid that the old Taoist priest will pick up the bargain in the end? He looks like he has a lot of ability, what if he snatches away the things planned by our Chen family? I asked with some concern, after all, I have watched TV dramas since I was a child, and there are many such plots on TV.

Grandpa listened to my words and smiled: "Hehe, where did it come from so easily, our Chen family has been calculating for more than three hundred years, how can we let others pick up the cheap, this matter is not lacking in the right time, place and people, everything is indispensable, if it is not the right time and the right person, then his fate will be very miserable!" ”

"Then since our Chen family's ancestor Chen Shengzhi is so powerful, then why didn't he kill all the monsters on the mountain at the beginning, so that we can go in directly?" I rubbed my eyes and asked my grandfather curiously.

I saw that my grandfather listened to my words, and there was a very rare look of confusion in his eyes, and he shook his head at me after a long while, and said, "The ancestors have their own calculations, in short, just follow the path they have paved for us." ”

"Guarding you to grow up and escorting you to the plans of your ancestors, this is my Chen Youcai's life. And you, Chen Zixuan, my grandson, your life is to inherit the greatest gift left to you by your ancestors, to get it, and to use it to open up the most brilliant future for our Chen family. "I saw my grandfather's eyes brighter and brighter, and a big smile bloomed on his face.

At this moment, there was a sound of human voice not far away, and my grandfather's face changed, and he hugged me around me to the back of a pile of big rocks, blocking the figure.

"Dao Chief, is this really the place? I feel a little weird. Zhao Lao Wu's loud voice can be heard clearly from afar, he is also bold, so many people in the village dare not follow up the mountain, just let him go without saying a word and follow Wuwei Zhenren, I don't know if it is related to his daughter.

"It's right to feel weird, can the place where the monster lives still make you feel comfortable! My master will make a move, and naturally there will be no problems! A gust of wind blew into my ears with a mocking word.

I hid behind the stones, showing a pair of eyes and looking out, it was the little fat man Yang Kun who spoke, he walked next to Wuwei Zhenren, a drag like 2580,000, his face was full of arrogance.

And in front of them, there was a yellow-haired fox......