At the bow of the boat, Li Ding's face was cautious, and his fingers gently slid over the scroll, untying the hemp rope on it, and the slightly old black fabric was spread out.

"The Nine Desolations. ”

On the black fabric, the four large red letters on the frontispiece are slightly glaring.

"At the beginning of chaos, the nine wildernesses were divided, and heaven and earth gathered spirits to give birth to all things. However, there is a way of heaven in the sky, there is a spirit in the earth, there are outstanding people, and the killing is continuous, and the integration is not stopped. Although all things have spirits, the only way to practice is to be vigorous, which is against the sky. ”

After four big red letters, this puzzling sentence couldn't help but make the boy frown. Nine desolations, vitality, cultivation, these words that Li Ding had never heard of were deeply imprinted into his mind like a magic spell, and he faintly felt a sense of familiarity, which couldn't help but make people feel weird and inexplicable.

"The land of the Nine Desolations, inherited for thousands of years, the way of cultivation, gathering spirits for respect. Heaven and earth are first opened, aura is born from heaven and earth, heavenly spirit gives birth to Tianzun, earth spirit gives birth to earth emperor, and all things in the world gather spirits and give birth to outstanding people. However, heaven and earth are not benevolent, and I vow to use the way of cultivation to resist heaven and earth. ”

Seeing this, ......the young man's hand couldn't help but tremble, isn't this a little similar to the legend told by the head man before?

Legend has it that tens of thousands of years ago, everything in heaven and earth was ruled by the gods, and the gods were naturally the supreme beings of heaven and earth. The gods were glowing and lived in palaces made of gold, and they had supernatural powers, and they could travel thousands of miles from heaven to sea, and to and from the stars. But these gods are very bad, they enslave the world, and treat human life like a mustard. Later, I don't know how many years later, a good god appeared, he was dissatisfied with the practices of those bad gods, stole the heavenly fire, forged the sword with the 10,000-year-old cold iron of the extremely cold land in the north, and led his followers to drive those bad gods out of this world, so the world lived a quiet and peaceful life.

And all these Nine Desolations are all recorded, and they are more detailed than what Li Ding had heard before. It is recorded that the name of this good god is Yuan Xing, and it is also recorded that after Yuan Xing defeated the bad god, he was seriously injured, and finally died in the "Yuanfang Mountain" at the end of heaven and earth. After Yuan Xing's death, his followers revered him as the "Yuan God" and built a temple for him to commemorate this god who once dominated the world and the world.

Yuan Shen, that is the great god in the temple of the Li Ding tribe. The elders in the tribe have been telling his stories, saying that he fights spirit beasts and kills krakens, and Li Ding doesn't know how many times he has heard all kinds of legends about him, but Li Ding has always felt unfinished with these oral stories, just like all children will yearn for heroes, and he has always had a reverent heart for those gods who save the world in fire and water.

In a sense, the original god is the spiritual sustenance of all the people in the tribe. Whenever there is an important event in the tribe, such as going out to sea to fish, the birth of a child, the marriage of a newlywed, and the sincerity and benevolence of the younger generation, the head man father always leads everyone to the stone cave on the top of the mountain to worship the statue of the original god.

Legend has it that the primordial gods are immortal and immortal, living above the nine heavens and guarding this piece of heaven and earth. Li Ding didn't know what the Nine Heavens was, but Li Ding would never have thought that the legendary god who had been guarding this piece of heaven and earth was no longer there. Will God die too?" Li Ding asked in his heart, but no one gave him an answer.

Time always passes quietly unconsciously, and most of the day has passed in the blink of an eye.

"Looks good, isn't it? look at your broken hands, but don't break the scroll. Just as Li Ding was immersed in the shock and memories brought to him by the scroll, the girl's indifferent voice suddenly sounded in his ears.

Li Ding was stunned, just glanced at the girl, and then turned his attention to the scroll again, and the various anecdotes recorded on it deeply attracted him.

"Look at your hillbilly stupidity, can you understand it? I wanted to explain it to you, but I don't know what to do. For Li Ding's ignorance, the girl's face was obviously slightly angry.

However, Li Ding's mind was all on the scroll, and he didn't care about the girl's reaction at all.

The fleet continued to move forward according to a specific route, and the men in Tsing Yi who were on the boat didn't care about this little friction between Li Ding and the girl. Seeing that Li Ding ignored herself, the girl snorted lightly, stomped her feet and walked to the other side, sitting down and playing with a jade bracelet on her wrist.

Li Ding was still studying the scroll intently, and he found that there was too much knowledge here that his elders had never taught him. In addition to some records of legends at the frontispiece, the posthumous records are divided into five chapters, namely the continent, animals and plants, humanities, the sea of stars, and the cultivation.

From the continent chapter, Li Ding learned for the first time that the world he was in was called the "Nine Desolations", and on a sketch picture, the Nine Desolations World was composed of seven large landmasses of different sizes, and the place was the vast ocean. There are many countries scattered on the Nine Desolations, and Li Ding knows a little about the country, and the elders in the tribe often exchange things with people from the Nanming Kingdom, and he is now on the ship of the people of the Nanming Kingdom.

The chapter on animals and plants introduces all kinds of strange animals and plants on the nine wildernesses, and all kinds of animals and spirit animals also have graphics to match, which makes it clear at a glance. For plants, those that can be used as food, those that can be used as medicine, are also accompanied by graphic introductions. The humanities chapter introduces the various intelligent higher creatures in the continents and oceans, as well as their living habits and activity areas.

Slowly, maybe it's because I've seen too much, Li Ding has seen all kinds of things he has seen and heard before, such as the alien creatures told in the humanities, Li Ding himself has seen a fishman with a fishhead and a human body on the beach, for this kind of gaze is always full of cold meaning, the elders always remind them to stay away and not provoke them.

Seeing the middle, what puzzled Li Ding was that when he turned to the Xinghai chapter, there were only eight red fonts on it, "The vast Xinghai, Heaven and Earth Xiongguan", and there was nothing else.

After pondering for a moment, with a hint of disappointment, Li Ding carefully opened the remaining scroll, and three large golden characters appeared in front of him.

"Practice!"

Different from the previous red font, the big golden characters made Li Ding's eyes shine.

Practice, in fact, as early as in the tribe, Li Ding heard the head man father say that in the mouth of the tribal elders, it was a gift from God. Cultivators, on the other hand, are said to have a much stronger physique than ordinary people, and they also possess special powers that ordinary people cannot imagine.

But in order to become a practitioner, one has to go to the mainland once, where it is said that there are things that allow people to receive the gifts of God. Every few years, the tribe would use the hard-won gold coins to let the merchant ship take two selected teenagers to the mainland, but in Li Ding's memory, none of his companions would become cultivators after returning.

Li Ding had never cared about cultivation before, because with his thin physique, he was not qualified to participate in the so-called selection at all. In fact, Li Ding never understood why the head man and his father did that, because each gold coin was exchanged for ten fish skin clothes, which was all the fruits of a woman's labor for a month.

And the teenager who came back from the mainland had nothing but some strange things to bring back. For Li Ding, this only increased his curiosity about the mainland, and he never thought about whether he would one day come into contact with cultivation.

In my memory, Daddy Touren and Uncle Lehi both have super strength, and Uncle Lehi can even lift a boulder of 500 catties, but can their little strength be regarded as cultivators?

"Old Yu said that Mr. Huang Gui's magical ability is just a fart in the eyes of a true cultivator, so what does a real cultivator look like?" Holding the scroll tightly, Li Ding's eyes couldn't help but froze for a moment.

"Acting against the sky, enlightening the yuan with blood, gathering spiritual self-cultivation, and leading to heaven in eight parts...... Qiyuan, Tongyuan, Ningyuan, Yuling ......" After a while, words slowly came out of Li Ding's mouth.

"Qiyuan?" Li Ding faintly felt a little familiar, and suddenly he remembered that this was not exactly what the young man in the tribe had to do when he went to the mainland, and gradually his brows wrinkled unnaturally.

On the scroll, Li Ding could still understand some of the content of the first three articles through imagination and analysis, but when he saw these unheard words, he was completely in a state of confusion, and the previous excitement was fleeting.

On the other side, the girl seems to be playing with the bracelet, but from time to time she is observing the changes of the teenager with her spare eyes. When she saw Li Ding's expression at this time, the corners of her originally indifferent mouth couldn't help but raise a slight arc.

"If it weren't for grandpa's explanation, the ghost wouldn't have bothered to pay attention to you. With a whisper, the girl suddenly got up and lay down on the side of the boat. Facing the sea breeze, the girl said to herself to the sea: "Not everyone can practice, not only requires good physical fitness, but also has to be talented, otherwise even if Qiyuan succeeds, he will not make much progress on the path of cultivation." ”

"Qiyuan...... Cultivation ......" Li Ding repeated the girl's words in a voice that only he could hear.

The girl continued: "Legend has it that in ancient times, only gods were qualified to practice, and now the practice method practiced by the world was created by the great god Yuanxing, and among his followers there are eight spiritual gods, and these eight spiritual gods because the exercises they practice come from the divine realm outside the heavens, and the blood in their bodies turns into divine blood. But after tens of thousands of years, the nine wildernesses of various ethnic groups intermarried, although the bloodline of the eight spirit gods is widely spread, but it is also becoming thinner, although many people have the blood of the gods, but because the power of the bloodline is too weak, even Qiyuan can not succeed. Speaking of this, the girl's face couldn't help but be a little dark.

The sea breeze blew slowly, bringing up a few strands of hair from the girl's ears, as if a little bit of concern made him lose his mind a little, she continued: "Between heaven and earth, the aura is thin, only if Qiyuan succeeds can he gather the aura of heaven and earth through the corresponding exercises to cultivate and refine the body, and then pass through the Yuan Realm and the Condensing Yuan Realm, and finally condense the Yuan Dan and step into the Imperial Spirit Realm, and only when he reaches the Imperial Spirit Realm can he be regarded as a real cultivator." ”

"Eighth Order...... Qiyuan, Tongyuan, Ningyuan, Yuling, Mingxin, Gathering Soul, Xuankong, Open Heaven, Open Heaven Realm, Eight Parts of Tongtian. After passing through the eighth order, he entered the realm of opening the heavens and obtained the law of gods and demons. Li Ding muttered. Listening to the girl's words, and then looking at the records on the scroll, I remembered the old man's mouth before that the spirit realm, although there were some contents that Li Ding couldn't fully understand for a while, but compared to before, his dazed mind couldn't help but suddenly brighten.

"The eight realms of cultivation, the further the realm, the stronger the vitality in the body, the stronger the strength of the cultivator, the realm of the spirit is a watershed, because only by condensing the Yuan Dan within the dantian, can the vitality be truly utilized. The strength and weakness of the martial arts practiced by the practitioner are not only in the grade of the exercises, but more importantly, in the strength and use of the vitality in the body. The girl said.

Li Dingyun heard this passage in a fog, but he at least understood what it meant to be a true cultivator, and the higher the realm, the stronger the strength. Yu Lao's friend had already reached the Imperial Spirit Realm when he was young, and he didn't know what kind of realm it would be after so many years. Thinking of this, Li Ding's pair of dark eyes couldn't help but shine.

What the girl said before is mostly recorded in the scroll, but it is not so detailed, presumably the old man said it in private. Li Ding is not a fool, these seemingly intentional or unintentional words are not procrastinated, they must have been instructed by the old man.

Exercises, martial arts, for a teenager, it is impossible for Li Ding to master all the records related to cultivation in a short period of time, and the girl's words made Li Ding suddenly have an understanding of the annotations in the practice chapter that were not clear before.

"Thank you......" For everything the girl had done, Li Ding suddenly lowered his head and thanked the girl sincerely.

"Oh!" The girl was slightly surprised by Li Ding's thanks, and then she snorted coldly, and her eyes were still on the sea at the bow of the boat. There, the sun will sink in the west again, and the day will pass quietly.

As night falls, the quiet sea becomes more and more deserted under the starlight.

Amid the creaking of the sails, the fleet continued to move slowly day and night, but at a much slower pace than during the day.

The sound of the water was howling, the sea breeze was blowing, and Yu Lao and Huang Gui stood quietly at the mouth of the cabin, staring at Li Ding, who had fallen asleep against the side of the ship.

"This kid is not simple! Look at his eyes during the day, he looks like a teenager. Huang Gui clipped his hand and said to the old man with a solemn face.

"Hehe, I can't say that the scheming is too heavy. It is likely that what happened to him before affected his state of mind, and he was inevitably more interested in people and things than on precautions, but at least this kid's surname is not bad, is he?" the old man said lightly.

"I think it's better to look at it again, but he's a little older. Fourteen years old, if you don't Qiyuan at this age, the chances are a little slim. However, if it is really as the clan elder said, introducing him to the Golden Light Gate can be regarded as a creation for him, and as for the result, it depends on him. Huang Guidao.

After speaking, the old man and Huang Gui looked at each other meaningfully and smiled.