Jiang Chen's entire body stiffened.

He held his breath and didn't dare to move, a little cold sweat oozing from his forehead. Eyes slowly roll over their shoulders, trying to see the "thing" that is making the sound.

At the very edge of the line of sight, there is a faint white shadow, but it is so faint that it is easy to mistake it for a blurred vision caused by squinting too hard.

"Click...... Click...... Click!" the voice stopped.

Creeps.

Jiang Chen felt that all the hairs on his body stood upside down, because the place where the sound stopped was too close to his ears. It's like the barber's scissors when you get a haircut, the sound of clinging to your ears. Thinking of this, he even felt a hint of coolness.

Immediately after, the sound of breathing was heard. Very slow, but distinct, breathing sounded in my ears.

"Whew...... Whew......"

The voice was soft, thin, like a child sleeping in his ear, but it didn't feel any air flowing. Jiang Chen's entire scalp was numb to the point of being unconscious. I don't know what this thing is, he doesn't dare to act rashly, but he is afraid that once he alarms "it", it will lead to consequences that he can't bear.

The metallic touch of holding the phone in his left hand reminded him. Carefully move your index finger on the side of the raised knob. He closed his eyes, held his breath again, and quickly pressed the lock screen button 5 times.

A meal for the next hand. After waiting for a long time, the things next to my ears didn't seem to react much, and then I relaxed slightly.

Exhale slowly and slide your finger across the screen to activate the Emergency SOS number.

Although he didn't want to admit it, Jiang Chen's emergency contact person was Wang Ziteng. His parents weren't around, he had few friends, and the only person who knew him was that guy.

Although this man is completely unreliable, he really has no choice.

A very faint beep sound came from the earpiece, and then the phone was picked up by Wang Ziteng. The mobile phone was still held in mid-air, a little far away from his ears, Jiang Chen still didn't dare to make too many movements, so he vaguely heard Wang Ziteng's vague voice from the mobile phone: "What are you doing in the middle of the night...... Hello?"

"Hey, hey?"

didn't dare to make a sound, and Jiang Chen didn't know how to convey his current situation, so he had to lightly tap the microphone twice with his fingers.

"Hey??, speak!!" The prince asked louder from the earpiece.

Knock again.

"Damn, what's the movement, let's press the phone again when I sleep!" The other side didn't understand the spirit he wanted to convey, so he put down such a sentence and hung up.

This is probably despair.

Quickly change the emergency contact person to the market pork aunt, which is better than this product!

Jiang Chen was hurt by the prince's angry head, but at the same time, the tension was slightly relaxed. He began to think about the current situation.

Is it a ghost? I'm not sure, after all, after tearing the three views, the world is like being covered in a fog, so he doesn't dare to make conclusions at will.

However, when he was a child, he heard the old people say that there are three lamps on the young man's body, one hanging on the top and two standing on the shoulder, if you hear a ghost and find your way, don't look back......

Bah, babaa, and scare yourself.

But he did not dare to move. The white shadow in the corner of his eye was still there, and even he began to wonder if there was something wrong with his eyes, or if he had misseen something, but the faint sound of breathing in his ears reminded him that all this was indeed not his nervous conjecture.

Fuck it!Do you want him to stay like this and wait for someone to come??

Even if I can't turn back, then I can't turn around with my whole body!

Jiang Chen took a deep breath, his whole heel touched the ground, and he quickly turned his entire body in the direction of the white shadow.

However, after standing firm again, there was still nothing in front of him.

At this time, he felt that his behavior was a little stupid. But fortunately, the "thing" still didn't seem to react. He boldly relaxed his hands and took a few steps forward.

There was still no change, but the slight breathing was still audible. Squinting at it, the white shadow seen in the corner of the eye is still there.

A thought popped out of Jiang Chen's mind: Could this thing be lying on my back......

Shivering all over his body, he simply ignored it and grabbed it in the direction of his back.

"Don't move!!" a crisp voice interrupted his movements.

Immediately, Jiang Chen felt a hand snap on his back.

This hand was extremely powerful, and he stumbled all over the place.

Suddenly turned around, but the person who came surprised him: "Summer wheat?"

"Don't move!" Xia Mai said urgently.

Jiang Chen immediately didn't dare to move, although he was embarrassed, but seeing Xia Mai did make his whole body relax. People are experts, so they have to be obedient at this time. But although the movement stopped, he still asked, "How did you get in? How do you know that something happened to me?"

But then, he immediately felt that he had asked a superfluous question, because a prince Teng jumped out from behind Xia Mai.

"It's not me, I don't!" Wang Ziteng denied with a grin, not convincing at all. He pointed at Xia Mai again: "Is your door not closed, she stretched out her hand and pushed it open!"

He asked him again: "Why are you tossing around at home alone? Late at night, the air is empty and lonely, and you have to close the door to jerk off......

Xia Mai ignored the two of them, took out a mobile phone from his bag, and took several photos at Jiang Chen. Jiang Chen was a little embarrassed and asked, "Can you let me change my posture and shoot again?"

He got up straight from the bed without clothes, this would only be wearing a vest and boxers, and he had just been slapped by Xia Mai with a palm, and the whole person was standing there bent over, Xia Mai was shooting from behind him...... Not very sightly.

Not to mention that Wang Ziteng quickly took out a piece of soap from the bathroom and threw it on the ground, and said to Xia Mai enthusiastically: "Take two more photos, remember to send me!"

Xia Mai was still the prince Teng is air, and he put away his phone and took out a yellow thing from his pocket. As soon as Wang Ziteng saw this thing, he was excited: "Damn! Dao Fu! I don't know which mountain is Dao Friend?"

Jiang Chen was not angry: "Don't make trouble, don't you make trouble? Those who occupy the top of the mountain are bandits!"

Xia Mai finally spoke, and a voice came from behind him: "I don't know why my friends are probing, this son has indeed protected the Xia clan of the Fu Qi, Wang'er and others know each other, so I can do it myself!" After that, she raised her hand and slapped the charm in her hand on Jiang Chen's back.

This time, he was more fully prepared, his breath sank, and he worked his feet, so that he was not patted on his heels, and saved the little face he still had.

I only heard Xia Mai's cold voice read behind him:

"Jiufeng Zhenguan, broken phoenix, Zhu Yi sword, standing above. Nine songs spit fire, fly in the air, scorching coin land, thousands of fires!"

Jiang Chen felt as if there was a fire burning behind him, which made his back hurt, and he couldn't hold back and didn't dare to move.

It wasn't until Xia Wheat wiped a handful on his back and said, "It's okay, get up!" that the whole body relaxed, only to feel tired and unable to exert strength, and the whole person simply sat on the ground.

Wang Ziteng was already indescribably excited, and grabbed Xia Mai's hand: "Sister, Fusheng Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable!

Xia Mai raised his hand knife without hesitation and slashed at the back of the neck.

The world fell silent.

Helped by Xia Mai to sit on the sofa, Jiang Chen said weakly: "What the hell is going on?"

"Why don't you thank me for saving your dog's life?" the girl blinked, but didn't answer his question: "If I hadn't asked Wang Ziteng to look at you, you might not have seen the sun tomorrow!"

Jiang Chen smiled bitterly and replied honestly: "Thank you." ”

Xia Mai actually laughed.

Jiang Chen found that once she came into contact with each other in private, this girl would always show her unknown cute side, and she smiled with crooked eyes: "Lie to you, it's just a little paper horse and bean soldier, even if I don't come, nothing will happen!"

Is that so...... Recalling his caution and feeling his sweaty back, Jiang Chen felt a little hot on his face.

"But," the girl tilted her head, "it does mean that you really don't know anything......"

"Should I know anything?" Jiang Chen was puzzled.

"It's a long story...... You can sleep for a while, and I'll talk to you slowly when you're in good spirits. With that, she stretched out her slender white hands and gently tapped them on his shoulders.

Jiang Chen only felt that his eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, and the girl in front of him was gradually becoming blurred, and a soft hum sounded in his ears, as if he had returned to his childhood hometown, where his grandmother was beside the bed, and the fan in her hand was shaking. So I really fell asleep like this.

He had a dream about that childhood experience. In the dream, he grabbed his grandmother's hand, but when her grandmother turned around, her face changed to Xia Mai, and Xia Mai said to her, "You don't know the situation at all......

......

When I woke up again, it was already dawn. Jiang Chen got up from the sofa, and the clock on the wall showed that it was already one o'clock in the afternoon.

Wang Ziteng and Xia Mai were gone, and only the kettle on the coffee table that originally belonged to the bedroom reminded him that yesterday's was not a dream.

Rub your eyes and stand up. I thought that I would be tired and abnormal when I woke up after a lot of tossing last night, but unexpectedly, my whole body was very relaxed, and I was even in good spirits. He stretched his arm, opened the refrigerator and pulled out a carton of iced milk, and sat on the couch looking up at the filling of his mouth.

Call...... Placing the carton of milk on the coffee table, Yu Guang noticed something pressed under the transparent glass kettle next to him.

It was a yellow post-it note with a beautiful girl's font on it: "Two o'clock in the afternoon, the curtain café, see you or leave." ”

The payment is summer wheat.

Jiang Chen remembered what Xia Mai had told him before falling asleep, it seemed that when they met again this time, she was going to tell him the story of "a long story".

He is a somewhat stubborn person, and his good decisions will rarely be changed because of external forces, and Jiang Chen did not expect that in just a few hours, his attitude towards these metaphysics and immortal cultivation and other things would change one hundred and eighty degrees.

I used to think that the world I saw was everything, and even if there were exceptions, I would never have anything to do with myself again in my life. And now he realized that he had only seen the surface in the thick fog, and in the depths of the fog, so many unknowns and fears had inadvertently spread into his life. The uncontrollable feeling made him uncomfortable.

"Anyway, at least last night's events must be clarified. With this in mind, he washed up and prepared to go out.

The Closing Café is not far from his house, about half an hour by subway. It is a minimalist café, because of the elegant decoration and great coffee, so it is quite popular among white-collar workers and staff in their twenties, but for students, the cost is a bit high. Wang Ziteng had saved a month's pocket money before, and he dragged him to go extravagant once.

Soon the door of the café appeared in front of him, and he saw at a glance the girl sitting against the glass floor-to-ceiling window. The other party also saw her and smiled and waved his hand.

Pushing open the door of the café, the wind chimes jingled for a while.

Xia Mai had also changed his clothes, his hair was limply down just above his shoulders, he was wearing a sleeveless white short tank top and candy-colored shorts, a pair of sandals under his feet, and a glass of colorful juice in front of him, he was sitting on the swing chair and dangling his legs. Most of the time, she behaved much more maturely than her peers, always making people ignore that she was also a little girl who was not yet sixteen years old.

"Coming?" Although he was dressed very youthfully, as soon as he arrived in front of the person, Xia Wheat changed back to his cold appearance.

"Hmm. As soon as he sat down, a waiter brought a cup of coffee and put it in front of him.

Xia Mai looked at him stunned and said, "Try it? ”

"Thank you. After politely thanking them, the two fell silent again.

In the end, it was Xia Mai who broke the silence: "I said, you listen." ”

Seeing Jiang Chen nodded, she continued: "What I say next may be a bit long, you can interrupt me at any time if you have any questions." ”

"About 1,800 years ago, our ancestors discovered that human beings can form a delicate balance with nature through certain behaviors and practices, so as to achieve a longer lifespan, stronger strength, and a more intelligent mind than ordinary people. And the ancestors called this practice 'monasticism'. ”

"I know you think this starts a little too long, but it's a must to be clear about what follows. Looking at Jiang Chen's expression, Xia Mai added:

"In short, after the ancestors learned to practice, they found that not all people were suitable for practice. The same behavior affects different people differently. In 218 A.D., an ancestor named Bai Puzi first proposed the concept of 'spirit'. Bai Puzi believes that only people who have 'spirit' in their body can have the root bone to practice, and 'spirit' is not acquired, but innate. ”

"Is it something like a special ability, chakra?" Jiang Chen asked.

"It can be understood this way. And in the following millennium, Bai Puzi's theory was indeed verified. Only those who possess the 'spirit' can have access to the door of monasticism, and these few people undoubtedly inherited the 'spirit' constitution from their parents. ”

"I'm sorry" Jiang Chen raised his hand: "Please allow me to interrupt, but there will always be the first one, who has changed from an ordinary person to a 'spirit', so that it can be passed on to future generations, right?"

"You're on the point. Xia Mai took a sip of juice: "For thousands of years, countless cultivators, and people who have no talent but pursue cultivation, have been tirelessly looking for people like you mentioned, we call them 'ancestors and spirits'. ”

"Isn't there only one Ancestor Seeking?"

"Yes, there is indeed more than one Ancestor, and there are five of them recorded from ancient times to the present day. The girl's eyes revealed a hint of yearning: "And these five people have all reached heights on the path of cultivation that are difficult for others to reach." Therefore, many people believe that the ancestors hide the secret that ordinary people can also cultivate immortals and attain the Tao. ”

The girl suddenly raised her head and looked at Jiang Chen fixedly: "Do you know what this means?" Without waiting for Jiang Chen to answer, she continued to say to herself: "This means that once the secret of the ancestors is cracked, everyone has the opportunity to live forever and become immortals. ”

"Do you know how tempting it is?"

Jiang Chen nodded, thought about it and shook his head.

The girl's eyes were still fixed on him: "Classmate Jiang Chen, may I ask if there is anyone in your family who cultivates?"

Jiang Chen suddenly remembered the question that the girl at the gate of the thirteenth middle school seemed to ask him inadvertently: "Is it convenient to ask about the work of classmate Jiang's parents?"

...... No way?

Jiang Chen pointed at himself and pulled the corners of his mouth with difficulty: "You don't want to say next, I'm the one who is the ancestor, right?"

This is too bloody, don't give me such a high-profile identity as soon as you come! Jiang Chen secretly complained in his heart.

"Not necessarily. The girl looked away from staring at him, and said the answer that surprised him: "Most people's ancestors cannot be traced, and it is difficult to inquire about the side branches of relatives, so you may or may not be." In the past thousand years, there have been many people who have been captured by those who have been mistaken for ancestors, and finally dissected by refining the Dan. ”

Seeing that there seemed to be sweat oozing from the other party's head, Xia Mai continued to say mercilessly: "But just this 'maybe' is enough for countless people to frantically want to get close to you, and even want your life." ”

Jiang Chen's heart conjured up countless scenes of himself being locked up in the alchemy furnace or trapped on the operating table for dissection......

"If I'm really like you say," he struggled, "then why haven't I encountered anything like you said in my previous sixteen years of life, cultivating immortals, ghosts, and gods?"

Xia Mai's eyes flashed with a hint of understanding, and she smiled slightly: "Is it? not even once?"

Jiang Chen looked directly into her eyes and nodded. I only heard the girl continue to say leisurely:

"Ten years ago, the red-haired immortal traveled to the underworld and gossiped with Bai Erye, and it happened that Bai Wuchang casually told him a story. ”

Jiang Chen: "......"

"It is said that in the world, when I saw a human child I didn't know, I was so bold that I dared to stop the errand from doing things. ”

"You must know that the first thing that the first thing that the child does when the child is born is to lead the child to greet the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth, and after recognizing each other, it is convenient for the ghosts and gods from all walks of life. This so-called 'unknown child' was really unusual, and the red-haired immortal immediately remembered it and immediately went to look for it when he returned to the world. Xia Mai paused, as if he wanted to show suspense: "It's just that in the next ten years, no matter how many people searched, they never heard anything from that kid again." ”

"Guess who that kid is?" the girl looked at Jiang Chen, who was sitting opposite.

Jiang Chen's face remained unchanged, he picked up the coffee cup and took a sip slowly, but his heart was turbulent.

It turns out that the secrets buried deep in his heart are clear to everyone in the other world. It's like having an invisible hand that travels through time and space, connecting him with the world of Xia Mai.

"Then why did you find me now?" Jiang Chen's voice gradually sank.

"Thirteen at sea. Xia Mai spat out the name: "Your name appeared on this year's admission list." ”

"A name that no immortal cultivator has ever heard of. ”

Jiang Chen understood, and because of this, these people naturally associated him with the child ten years ago, and he asked again: "Who wrote me on that?"

"I don't know. The girl's answer was beyond his expectations: "Behind the thirteenth middle school, is Boyang Academy, one of the three major immortal cultivation colleges in the Kyushu Continent, and the power of Boyang Academy is very powerful, we speculate that some power within the academy hides you, and at this time exposes you to everyone." ”

"Why?" Jiang Chen had two big heads, and felt that he was a book that could be used to smash people to death.

"Nobody knows. Xia Wheat stalled his hands: "Maybe only in Boyang School Park, can you find the answer." Seeing that he didn't speak, he kindly "comforted": "In short, you are now the little white rabbit in the hungry wolf pack, and you will be eaten by countless people as soon as you appear!"

"Like last night?"

"Yes, like last night. Fortunately, that person didn't really want to harm you, but just sent a paper soldier to spy on you. But I'm afraid he didn't expect that his whereabouts would be discovered by you. After all, from the information we have, you should be just an 'ordinary person' with untapped potential. ”

Xia Mai said that his mouth was dry, and a glass of juice had already bottomed out. She raised her hand and called the waiter again, but her mouth didn't stop: "However, other people may not be so kind, many people can think of getting half dead first and then pulling them home to study." ”

Jiang Chen fell silent.

The girl in front of him didn't give him time to think carefully, and asked bluntly, "Do you understand?"

"If you understand, I need to know your choice. ”