The young man in the gray robe turned around, he was holding a pharmacopoeia in his hand, the brown cover, and an old man was on the cover, the old man was holding a long-extinct flower in his hand, and he was carefully examining it, the young man heard the voice, raised his head, and there was a scar on his thin cheek, which was injured by the cave beast that suddenly rioted when he was going to the mountain a few days ago.

The young man in the long shirt put down the pharmacopoeia, took out a small packet of ointment from the wooden shelf behind him, put it on the counter, and said slowly, "I was beaten by your mother again?"

Zhou Tianshen embarrassedly took out the money, put it on the counter, and put the ointment into his chest.

The young man in the long robe twisted his neck, his bones made a grinding sound, he helped the frame on the bridge of his nose, and said, "Listen to the iron shopkeeper, you entered the mountain today, and you found a lot of good things." ”

Zhou Tianshen nodded and said, "They are all herbs that are beneficial to cultivation." ”

The young man in the long shirt tilted his neck and thought, "Do you know herbs?"

"Grandpa Kou taught us. ”

The young man in the long shirt nodded, and said in an unquestionable tone, "That's you, there will be an auction in Tianxiang County after tomorrow, and I need some herbs in it, but there are important things in the past few days, and I can't leave for a while, so I decided to hand over this arduous task to you, and when the time comes, please help me buy those herbs back." ”

Zhou Tianshen shook his head, "I don't think I can do it, you better find someone else." And my dad also asked me to go to Tianxiang County the day after tomorrow to buy some things, you know I'm stupid and can't remember so much, I'm really sorry. ”

The young man in the long shirt said slowly, "I heard your father say that if you want to be a cultivator, you have to go to the Huangzhao Academy, which is located in Zhongzhou and has many young talents, if you can't even do this thing, I'm afraid you ......."

Before the young man could finish his words, the young man hurriedly waved his hand to interrupt.

Zhou Tianshen complained, "How do you all know that I am going to Huangzhao Academy, my father is really a big mouth." ”

The young man laughed, "It's up to you, his mouth grows on him, his ears grow on me, he says it's his business, and he listens to me, who do you complain about?"

Zhou Tianshen sighed deeply and said in an old-fashioned manner, "Say, what do you want me to buy for you?"

The young man in the long shirt shook his head again and again, explaining, "It's not a purchase, it's an auction." Buying and auctioning is not the same thing, if I can buy it easily, I won't ask you for help, just by myself, wouldn't it be convenient. The auction is competing with other people, secretly competing with each other without knowing the details. If you think about it, isn't an excellent cultivator secretly competing with other people, and then, without the other party's knowledge, stepping on the backbone of the other party, climbing to the top, and even becoming an immortal. ”

The young man took a sip of 'tea', moistened his throat, and continued: "So, I am not looking for your help, but helping you, only by letting you experience this competitive atmosphere earlier, you can go farther and faster on the road in the future." ”

The young man looked at the young man with a blank expression, and just asked lightly, "Doctor Zhang, are you a cultivator?"

The young man was stunned and said, "No. ”

The young man lowered his eyelids and said lazily, "Why are you not cultivators, but you are so familiar with the matter of cultivation?" You look at Uncle Meng who opened the martial arts hall, he is a real cultivator, but he never said this, he would only practice alone in the courtyard, even if Ruhan asked him, he rarely said these words. ”

The young man said without thinking, "Why do you laymen know so much about the things inside the door, not only do you talk about the Tao, but you always put on a posture that you can't believe it?"

The young man laughed dryly, picked up the teacup, and hid the embarrassment on his face, "Tianshen, I just want you to understand a truth, everything has a reason and meaning to happen, you must not misinterpret what I mean." ”

The young man put his left hand on the counter, and the fingers of his right hand gently patted his left hand, and said, "Doctor Zhang, you still tell me what you want to buy, no, it is to be auctioned, and when it gets dark in a while, I will be scolded again." ”

The young man in the long shirt put down his teacup and took out a note from the pharmacopoeia, which was full of words, "I have been ready for a long time, this is it." ”

Zhou Tianshen took the note and exclaimed, "There are so many, but I haven't recognized all the words on it, how can I buy it?"

The young man walked out from behind the counter, stood on the threshold, looked at the full moon in the sky, and said slowly, "Lu Anshi will come back tomorrow, you let him go with you, wouldn't it be good." ”

The young man put away the note and stood beside the young man, "Now that Tianxiang County is banned, he can't come back." ”

The young man sighed, and a strong smell of medicine wafted out of his mouth, and he didn't notice it when he was facing each other just now, and Zhou Tianshen only found out that what the young man drank just now was not tea, but a soup made of herbs.

The young man fanned his hand left and right in front of him to dispel the smell of medicine, "Don't worry, he'll be back tonight." ”

The boy wondered, "How do you know?"

The young man said lazily, "Guess." ”

The young man pouted, he just said that he would come back tomorrow, and now he said that tonight, he really guessed. Seeing that the night was soaked in the last bit of daylight, he ran home in a hurry and didn't even say hello.

The young man looked at the young man's disappearing back, and said inexplicably, "After all, he is just a teenager." ”

The full moon hangs on the branches, and the moonlight is full and deserted.

The young man just kept standing on the threshold of his house, looking straight ahead, as if he wanted to see through the night and find an answer.

A flash of fire suddenly floated in the black hole street.

The firelight was purple, silently burning the surrounding air, several ripples floated around the firelight, the space shattered, the howling cold wind blew through the gap, and the young man tightened his clothes, feeling the cold to the bone.

When the young man came back to his senses, the old man was already standing in front of him, and this was the second time he and the old man came face to face, the first time was five years ago, when he was collecting medicine in the mountains and inadvertently broke into the territory of the cave beast, and just at the last moment, the old man appeared in front of him and smashed the head of the cave beast with a dead branch, saving him from danger.

The old man had told him that he had given him this life, and that if there was any urgency, he would ask for it.

The old man came to collect the debt.

The old man with a silver-white beard smiled kindly, "Don't be nervous, I'm not here to let you pay for your life, I just want you to do me a favor, a small favor." ”

The young man hugged his arms, the cold did not decrease but increased, and he asked in a trembling voice, "Please speak." ”

The old man took a step forward, the distance between the two was actually very close, the distance between the old man's face and the young man was only a finger away, and the old man's voice sounded in the young man's ears.

The young man nodded at first, then fell silent, and finally had a hellish expression.

The young man in a cold sweat didn't dare to refuse, and he asked, "Is this really appropriate?"

The old man frowned and said, "It's up to me to decide whether it's suitable or not, you just have to do things." ”

The old man's displeasure frightened the young man to kneel directly under the old man, and said like a trembling body, "I will definitely complete the things you have explained, and I will never dare to question the slightest." ”

The old man was very satisfied with the young man's answer, he patted the young man's shoulder, and said with relief, "Don't worry, I won't let you act alone, and it is indeed a little difficult for the people to do these things." ”

The old man patted the young man's shoulder vigorously, the young man only felt a heat on his shoulder, and all those purple flames entered his body, and then he felt a beam of fire rising in the dantian, the fire was not big, but it warmed the whole body, and there was a mottled bead suspended in the dantian, which was the spiritual root of the cultivator. The purple flame wrapped Zhang Yun'an's spiritual root, and little by little it was quenched into a bright red bead, with a layer of white patterns on the surface of the bead, which was a scorpion with its head and tail connected.

Zhang Yunan gasped vigorously, and after about an hour, the feeling of swelling in his lower abdomen gradually disappeared, and finally he felt the huge energy contained in his body, and felt that the cracks in his bones were full of spiritual power.

Zhang Yunan waved his sleeves, a gust of cold wind blew, and the bluestone slab under his feet was directly smashed.

The old man smiled with satisfaction, then turned around and left, entered the black hole, the space returned to its original state, and the old man's voice sounded in the young man's ears again, "Help you, the realm has climbed to the Jizo realm, which is enough to deal with other cultivators, but this is in exchange for your life, I will only give you ten years." ”

The young man thundered like thunder, fell to the ground in decadence, and said miserably, "It's only ten years, what use do I want this Tibetan realm." ”

Nameless mountain, nameless cave.

The man wearing tiger skin pants and a beard on his face is the cave master of the 23rd Cave of Xianyang Realm, that is, the first master, he is a tiger cultivator.

The cave beast cultivation has its own set of rules and rules, ordinary cave beasts only have a lifespan of less than forty years, and once the cave beast passes the age of fifty, it is equivalent to passing the quenching stage of the human race's cultivation, this stage is unattainable, unless the cave beast follows those cultivators behind the great power, and contaminates the spiritual power overflowing from the cultivators' dantian every day, and turns it into their own use, then as long as the talent is better, they can start cultivating in about five years. After the age of fifty, there is still an optimal period for the Cave Beast Cultivation Path, that is, between the ages of fifty and seventy, as long as even a little spiritual wisdom can be generated in these twenty years, there is a great chance that the future achievement will reach the Heavenly Realm. And after a hundred years old, the generation of spiritual wisdom, commonly known as enlightenment, is equivalent to the human race from the age of ten to start cultivating, ten years to reach the realm, is already considered a gifted, if they touch some of the human cultivators themselves carry the cause and effect, and can save a lot of time, such as the elf Fan Fang who is associated with Tieliu, isn't it a certain cultivation power, and the future achievement is a sure heavenly realm cultivation, absolutely unable to run.

At this time, they can consider cultivating into a human form.

Don't think that cave beasts should cultivate for a long time, all living beings in the world are the same, but the human race was born with only one more spiritual wisdom than them, so as to avoid a lot of trouble caused by enlightenment, that's all, but because of this, the human race is mostly lazy and unbehaving. However, there is no way to do it, the strength or disadvantage of a race is often not determined by how weak the weak are, but by how high their strongest can reach.

It's like the human race, the cultivation genius in the mouth of the human race is only one in a hundred, and those geniuses who are favored by the major clans and sects are one in a hundred, and the probability is only one in ten thousand, and the elves in Feiyu Prefecture are only hundreds of thousands, and the cave beasts in Nanzhou and Kunzhou are only one million, and those who can cultivate into human form are probably less than 100,000, and the same probability is still unable to resist that the human race is the best race on the Tianshou Continent, just because the human race has produced a lock emperor who has become an immortal.

As early as a hundred years ago, the bearded man had already enlightened, and by chance, with the help of a cultivator, his spiritual wisdom soared, and he had today's achievements.

And the monk also died of illness a hundred years ago, leaving behind a mound built at the back of the nameless cave, where there is also a bamboo forest, the monk loved bamboo the most in his life, so he named himself Zhu Ruhai.

The bearded man's name is Hu Kui, and his name was chosen by himself.

Tiger Kui sat on a bone chair made of human bones with a white blanket on top of it.

In the middle of the cave, there was a dying four-horned snake, and on the forehead of the four-horned snake, which should have been a long horn, there were two scars, and the wounds were bubbling outward, and the blood remained on the ground, soaking a large area.

The bewitching man sat on the stone chair and lamented, "It took a long time to grow five horns, and when the sixth horn grows, it can be cultivated into a human form like us. ”

Hu Kui wiped the wine from the corner of his mouth, his eyes were full of fierce light, and he said hideously, "Forty thousand, you tell me honestly, who took away your horn?"

The four-horned snake raised its head with difficulty, snorted a few times, and passed out.

Tiger Kui looked to the left and right.

The thin man wearing a hat and biting a bamboo stick in his mouth translated, "Forty thousand means, he doesn't know who the other party is." ”

Hu Kui held the wine jar in his hand and hummed, "This is difficult, I don't know the identity of the other party, we can't ask the old Huai Village under the mountain for guilt." ”

The thin man agreed, "What the big boss said is very true, especially at this juncture, we must not make extraneous branches, everything must wait for them to come before making a decision." ”

Hu Kui said, "Taomei, is your news accurate, they will really come to our place?"

The delicate woman holding a peach blossom fan and painting peach blossom makeup on her face smiled, "Don't worry, big boss, I can guarantee my future in this matter, if you say half a sentence wrong, you can take away my wisdom and let the thunder scatter my soul." ”

Hu Kui hurriedly explained, "Sister Taomei laughed, how dare I question you, isn't everything for everyone's future." If we can really climb the high branches of the Thousand Insect Caves in Kunzhou, we don't have to succumb to this kind of aggrieved place. ”

The thin man took off his hat, revealing a pair of eyes that were exceptionally bright even in the dark.

The thin man asked, "How did Momome get to the brother of the Thousand Wormholes?"

The peach blossom essence named Peach Blossom Coin, gently shaking the peach blossom fan, smiling at the corner of his mouth, the peach blossom makeup on his face echoes the peach blossom fan, lifelike.

Tao Mei chuckled, "Back then, I was just a maid in Feiyu Prefecture, just because I was a peach blossom essence, not a member of the Feiyu clan, I was looked down upon and humiliated everywhere, that is, the eldest brother Wu Xiqi I met at that time. Brother Wu Xiqi is the godbrother of the owner of the Thousand Worm Cave, dignified appearance, extraordinary, that day he and the Thousand Worm Cave Lord attended the birthday of the six brothers of Fei Yu Prefecture, the eldest Fei Wandian, I saw that he was approachable, so I had the courage to chat with him a few more words, I didn't expect him to really look up to me, not only told me a lot of things about the Thousand Worm Cave, but also introduced me to your cave beast, I will muster up the courage to join you, so I can join the big family of the cave beast, a large part of the reason is because of him. ”

Hu Kui said in surprise, "I didn't expect the peach girl to suffer this kind of treatment in the Feiyu Clan, hmph." That group of pretentious birdmen, don't they have more wings than others, they dare to be so ignorant of the height of the sky, bold and reckless, peach girl, don't worry, sooner or later, one day, I will let the Feiyu clan become my crotch dog, and let them taste the taste of being humiliated. ”

The crowd raised their glasses and gulped down.

The bewitching man sat alone on the stone chair, silent, his eyes vague.