Chapter 1: The Arrival of the Calamity
The night sky was gorgeous, the stars were shining, and the bright moonlight sprinkled the entire Ling family manor.
At this time, it was almost midnight, and there were still more than a dozen important figures of the Ling family gathered outside the courtyard of the East Chamber, and everyone was anxiously going back and forth.
The door creaked open, and a midwife stuck her gray-haired head out of the door, and raised her voice to let out a hearty shout.
"Old patriarch, is the boiling water in the kitchen boiled? let them move faster, the little young master is about to be born!"
Without waiting for the white-haired old man at the head to answer, a girl dressed as a maid had already carried most of the basin of boiling water and hurriedly ran in from outside the courtyard.
"Granny Wang, the boiling water is coming, the boiling water is coming!"
The midwife quickly took the boiling water from the little girl and quickly returned to the room.
Beside the white-haired old man, there was a handsome young man about seventeen or eighteen years old, nervously rubbing his hands and constantly walking back and forth.
"Little rabbit cub! How many times has Lao Tzu taught you to be calm and calm in case of trouble, and don't be impetuous. β
The handsome young man laughed a few times, quietly hid his rubbing hands behind him, and tried to pretend to be calm.
"Hey, Daddy, your son is going to be a father soon, just a little excited!"
It's good that the young man doesn't speak, but when it comes to being a father, the white-haired old man is angry.
"You little brute! Cultivating the inheritance technique of my Ling family's Sacred Lineage, before you have cultivated to a small level, you will lose your True Yang body, and your more than ten years of cultivation will be ruined, as the heir of the seventy-second generation of my Ling family, have you thought about the future of the family? Have you thought about the future of the human race?"
Unexpectedly, the young man had a straight look, looking at the starry sky from afar, faintly revealing an endless look of amazement.
"Now the Taiyan Continent is turbulent, there are many major races, and my human race is at a disadvantage. In the face of such a dilemma, not only did the major god dynasties and the clan alliance forces not unite to fight against foreign enemies. On the contrary, they intrigue and constantly provoke civil wars, causing wars between the human races in the Taiyan Continent to be raging again and again, and talents are withering day by day. I, Ling Wu, naturally have to make plans early, contribute to the thin human race, and spread more of the fine seeds of my Ling clan. β
The white-haired old man violently slammed on the young man's forehead, splitting his head and covering his face was a scolding.
"Little Wang Eight Calves, Lao Tzu for the revitalization of the family, hard cultivation of the golden body Chiyan for decades, at the age of fourteen reached the peak of the ninth layer of the spiritual training period, at the age of sixteen he stepped into the spiritual sea period, at the age of twenty-five, he was already a master of the elixir period, at the age of forty he was promoted to the list of the strongest in the spiritual body period, until he was sixty-eight years old, Lao Tzu's golden body Chiyan was refined to the fullest, and only then gave birth to you with your mother, and now Lao Tzu is eighty-five years old, and he has broken another order and entered the spiritual period, even if he is the lord of the Dongwu God Dynasty, he must give Lao Tzu some face.
I didn't expect you little rabbit cub to be so unsuccessful, hiding from the elders of the clan, doing misdeeds outside, and cultivating for twelve years, which will also come to naught with the loss of the True Yang Body, if there is no Lao Tzu to protect you in the future, what are you? Can you stand in the Terran sphere of influence of the Dongwu God Dynasty and even the entire Taiyan Continent?"
Speaking of anger, the white-haired old man was about to give the young man a burst again, but the young man was so active that he was so active that he flashed to the side with a twist, and he actually used the Ling family's secret technique of spiritual martial arts, Ling Feng Void Crossing Method.
This body method can be as fast as the wind, the body shape is erratic, and the body can resist the wind in the middle of the practice, and the body shape is like lightning, and the practice reaches the legendary Dacheng realm, which can be volleyed into the void, and it is difficult for the naked eye to capture its body shape as shrinking into inches.
"Daddy, don't take a bite of a king and a little rabbit, okay? Are you scolding yourself too?"
The white-haired old man just wanted to give the boy another burst, but the latter nimbly dodged him.
"You must not have imagined that when my son met Li Luo a year ago, he had already renovated another set of exercises in the family, 'Nine Star Flame Decision', and transformed the original exercise route and his own spiritual power, and now I have made a breakthrough and reached the middle stage of the spiritual sea, and I am only seventeen years old this year, compared to you, Dad, I can be regarded as a genius among geniuses, right?"
The white-haired old man was so angry that he was smoking, his whole body was trembling, and his body disappeared abruptly in a hurry, and when he reappeared, he had already twisted up the smug young man, let him hang in the air, and the slap fell hard on his buttocks, and then the sound of snapping echoed rhythmically in the courtyard for a long time.
"Little rabbit cub! If you don't open the roof for a day, and if you don't beat and fart for two days, it stinks! Look at Lao Tzu, I don't teach you a good lesson today. β
The people in the courtyard had already stopped all their actions and words when the two were arguing, and they just looked at the two fathers and sons, one old and one young, who had a big age difference, and their expressions were extremely complicated.
Listening to the conversation between the two, in the hearts of everyone present, some gloated, some applauded excitedly, and some showed worry, all kinds of ambivalence were intertwined in their hearts, but now the situation in the Taiyan Continent made everyone deeply ponder about the future all the time.
At this moment, in the clear night sky, several earth-shattering thunders sounded, the sky seemed to collapse as if it was pitch black, the clouds were thick and low, and the next moment, countless lightning bolts surrounded a black and white pillar of optimus light through the dark clouds to the sky, shrouded in the sky above the east wing of the Ling family's courtyard, blocked by a black and white light.
The houses around the east wing were not so lucky, dozens of lightning bolts splashed irregularly on several other buildings, and immediately a large number of houses collapsed and caught fire.
In an instant, the ground of the Ling family's compound that was struck by lightning flew sideways, and the materials and debris of the buildings flew all over the sky, filling the entire Ling family's mansion with bursts of smoke and dust.
The high-ranking figures of the Ling family, who were originally onlookers, unhurriedly ordered the servants to put out the fire, as if it was not their own house that suffered, but someone else's house. For a huge Qidao inheritance family, just a few houses are really nothing.
When everyone's eyes were shifted for a short while, the black and white pillar of light that enveloped the east wing only flickered a few times before disappearing into the room. Then there was a series of baby cries that resounded through the East Wing Annex.
After a while, the midwife carefully held the newborn baby, and under the escort of two maids, came to the young Ling Wu.
"Young patriarch, congratulations, congratulations, it's a young master, you can give it a name. β
The newborn baby is pink and cute, with fair and shiny skin, closed eyes, and slightly upturned corners of the mouth, as if born with a hint of evil smile, which looks cute and naughty.
"Although the Taiyan Continent is vast, our human race has always been trapped in a corner of the land, and is often bullied by other races. I firmly believe that my son of Ling Wu will definitely be able to become a peerless powerhouse who stands up to the heavens and the earth, and will definitely be able to break the shackles of fate, soar into the sky, and shock the universe. From now on, he will be called Ling Xiao!"
The white-haired old man nodded in rare agreement, this time he did not object to Ling Wu's decision, because he also had the same idea as Ling Wu in his heart.
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Time flies, time flies, five years have passed in a blink of an eye, and the pink baby has grown into a naughty child carved in pink.
"Little master, that can't be dismantled, little master, be careful not to hurt it. β
A twelve or thirteen-year-old maid followed behind Xiao Lingxiao, all of them crying urgently, looking anxious to stop his bold move.
But as soon as the little maid's words fell, I saw that the bottle was originally powerful and domineering, and it was enough to be more than two meters high, and it was scattered all over the place, and a mecha puppet worth millions of spirit stones was actually dismantled into pieces of parts by a five-year-old child in a short time.
Xiao Lingxiao held two extremely sharp inscription carving knives in his hands, staggered, jumped off the stool almost the same height as him, and the carving knife in his left hand was unstable and fell to the ground.
Xiao Lingxiao picked up some of the scattered parts, and tinkered with them very rhythmically, and after just one pillar of incense, a four-legged monster that was half a meter high and more than two meters long and could walk automatically appeared on the ground in front of the two of them.
"Hey, Sister Xiaoxiang, look at this guy is much cuter than before, right?"
Xiao Ling Xiao turned over and climbed onto the back of the puppet beast, his immature face showed a smug look, almost the same as Ling Wu when he was a teenager, this was already the twelfth precious treasure that the little guy had demolished since he was born.
The girl Xiaoxiang was depressed in her heart, how many powerful mecha puppets were hard to find, but they were easily played with by a little kid, and completely turned into a child's toy, if you say it to let people know, anyone will go crazy.
The spirit weapon-level high-level mecha puppet is the common product of the pinnacle of organ skills, alchemy techniques, inscription techniques, and formation attainments, and its defensive and offensive capabilities are not at all what ordinary people can imagine, even if tens of thousands of catties of huge force hit the mecha puppet, it is just to tickle it, and the power it exerts can be used to reduce a large number of spiritual sea stage cultivators, and they never want to be easily handled by Xiao Lingxiao's two knives in their hands.
How can this be considered cute? It's just hateful. However, Xiao Xiang can't offend Xiao Lingxiao yet, otherwise there will be more magic weapons and puppets in the Ling family's manor.
Xiao Lingxiao seemed to think of something, a pair of dark eyes looked up at the position of the little girl's chest purely, licked her tongue, and said weakly.
"Sister Xiaoxiang, I want milk!"
Xiao Xiang's face was slightly red, she took a light quenching, and lightly tapped her index finger in front of Xiao Lingxiao's forehead.
"Little master, don't look around, don't talk nonsense, why do you want to drink milk? β
In fact, Xiao Xiang completely misunderstood, with the distance between Xiao Lingxiao and her, as well as the difference in height between the two, Xiao Lingxiao raised her head, and she could only see the position of her chest.
After Xiao Xiang finished speaking, she blushed and walked towards the outside of the courtyard, obviously cooking animal milk for Xiao Lingxiao.
Seeing the maid Xiaoxiang leaving, Xiao Lingxiao happily drove the mecha puppet beast to the side of the flower bed in the courtyard, jumped to the ground flexibly, and grabbed the golden soil in the flower bed with two tender white hands, and the little hands kept moving, and after a while, the models of the beasts appeared on the ground one after another, and the strange items were gradually placed.
These things often appear in his mind inexplicably, and he also likes to tinker with these strange things, so whenever he has time, he will draw the strange things in his mind on rice paper, or knead them into clay models to dry and collect.
Just as Xiao Lingxiao was having fun, two men in black appeared beside him silently.
"Hey, little fart, do you know which room Young Master Ling Xiao lives in?"
Xiao Lingxiao, who was playing with mud, looked up at the two men in black, his dark eyes turned, and he pointed to a room beside him with a smile.
"Oh! Ling Xiao's little rabbit cub, just live in that room, please help me beat that kid down, that guy is the most hateful!"
The two men in black didn't care about the kid who was playing with dirty stains all over his head, face, and body, and ran quickly towards the door where Ling Xiao was pointing.
They didn't even think that the little young master of the Ling family would squat on the ground and play with mud, and his face would be dirty, like a little beggar, and they would never have thought that a five or six-year-old child who didn't understand the world would be as fine as a little fox.
The two black-clothed men walked a few steps quickly, came to the door of the room that Xiao Lingxiao pointed to, and just pushed the door into the room, they saw the wind whistling overhead, and two huge metal balls fell down quickly, the two reacted quickly, and rolled on the spot, but they were immediately pierced with countless triangular nails up and down their bodies, and they jumped in pain in an instant.
The two of them had the heart to scold their mothers, but unfortunately when they ran into each other back to back in a panic, and stepped on a floor in the middle of the house together, they touched another mechanism, and a big bell above their heads shone to cover the two of them, and then in four directions, a huge metal hollow ball hanging under the wire flew respectively, and after more than ten consecutive impacts, the two black-clothed people were in the big bell, only to feel that their heads were ringing constantly, and they were bleeding and unconscious in a short time.
Who would have thought that two cultivators who were in the late stage of the Spirit Sea would be pitted by a five-year-old child to the point where they had more qi and less intake.
Xiao Lingxiao came to the door of the room, looked at the big clock, rubbed his hands excitedly, smiled happily, and showed a smile that had succeeded in his treacherous scheme.
"Haha! If you want to trouble the master, isn't that the same as looking for!"
Xiao Lingxiao came to the side of the wall in the room, stood on tiptoe, and clicked a few times on an inconspicuous pattern, and the big bell was picked up by the mechanism.
Looking at the two embarrassed black-clothed masked men, Xiao Lingxiao showed a bad expression on his face, and at some point a rune pen stained with ink appeared in his hand, and on the faces of the two black-clothed men, two big turtles were drawn, and written in red ink.
"I am despicable, I am shameless, I am the food of the little turtle province".
Xiao Lingxiao has been naughty since he was a child, an expert in mischief, a brick-level person, and a brick-level when he meets a beautiful woman, and since then a disaster star that has plagued a large number of stars has risen from the Ling family.
Time always flows inadvertently, and eight years have passed in a flash, and now Ling Xiao has grown into a beautiful boy.
"Big brother, fifth brother, why do you two have time to come to the younger brother today?"
Ling Xiao's tone is neither good nor bad, since the Ling family has Ling Xiao, the status of the seventy-third generation of the Ling family and the fifth generation seems to have been slightly affected.
However, because Ling Xiao, a kid, has been idle since he was a child, lazy to eat, and likes to make trouble everywhere, causing trouble, and does not like cultivation and refining, in the eyes of family elders and outsiders, he has become a typical waste and squirrel.
Ling Xiao, as the only son of Ling Wu, the current head of the Ling family, although his performance is extremely mediocre and not valued by the family, no matter how he is said to be the grandson of Ling Canghai, a generation of Tianjiao, he still has the right to inherit the position of the head of the family.
Therefore, the two of them always tried to think of various ways to calculate Ling Xiao, but they were inexplicably teased by Xiao Ling Xiao several times, the two unlucky men in black eight years ago were Ling Xiao, the seventy-third generation boss of the Ling family, and Ling Wei, the fifth elder of the Ling family, and it was at this time that the two brothers who came to find Ling Xiao.
"Xiao Qi, today, eldest brother, I got a thirteen-year-old top-grade daughter incense, do you know whose family?"
Ling Xiao shook his head, saying that he didn't know, he didn't bother to talk nonsense with his hypocritical big brother, and only cared about fiddling with the mecha doll next to him.
"Hehe, this is your fiancΓ©e, Shangguan Luo'er's daughter, Xiang, and I bought it from their housekeeper at a high price. It is said that it is one of the few jars that the housekeeper deliberately buried back then, and I want to try it with my eldest brother and fifth brother. β
Hearing this, Ling Xiao snatched the wine jar and began to drink it in a big gulp, without the slightest intention of giving it to the two brothers.
"Big brother, fifth brother, this is my wife's dowry wine, as the saying goes: brothers and wives can't be bullied, so this wine can only be drunk by the younger brother and me alone, just look at it. β
Ling Xiao and Ling Wei glanced at each other, not only did they not have the slightest dissatisfaction, but instead showed a smug look, saying in their hearts that although you are cunning, once you are involved in a beautiful woman, you will definitely be deceived, and the good show is still to come.