In August, in early autumn, the cold snow had already roared over the entire Xuanling Mountains. Outside Eguchi Village. A team of centaurs is scurrying through the snow. From Beicheng to Jiangkou Village, the team rushed to Yanbian for seven days. This is a labor team rushing to Yanbian to repair the city wall, and in addition to the sound of horses' hooves and footsteps along the way, the only rhythmic thing is the clatter of anklets. In Eguchi Village in winter, there is a deathly silence, and if there are a few occasional sounds of a child's crying, the adults will tell the child that if they make any more noise, they will be taken to Yanbian, and then the crying will stop abruptly, and then there will be a dead silence again.

After walking for about five miles, the team suddenly stopped, and an old man in his fifties could not resist the cold of the river mouth, and finally collapsed on the way to Yanbian. The team did not stop for long, and the guards next to him immediately came up and untied the old man's ankle chain. It's normal to have a dead person on the road, but there is one less ankle chain, and it's not cost-effective to build it when looking for labor, and it's difficult to deal with it after the officials above investigate it. The moment the anklets were taken away, the laborers around them swarmed up, stripped off the old man's few coats, and took away the little dry food in the package. The fastest of them all was a boy about seven or eight years old. Because he was closest to the old man, he was the first to snatch the old man's package, and the rest of the people could only take the coats.

After the plunder, the team set off again. No one paid attention to the little boy's movements as he left, and he put one of the underwear in the package over the old man's face before he got up to follow the group.

The guards did not shout at those who were slow-moving, because of the bitter winter cold in Yanbian, and ice bumps would grow in their mouths when they opened their mouths to speak. The group continued to walk against the cold wind, and the little boy put a few coats on his body, which would be warmer, but the places where there were no coats had already grown ice crystals, especially the feet with chains, which were not only purple from the cold, but also a little swollen, and only when the feet stepped into the snow did they feel that they were his own feet. Despite the cold and pain, the little boy's face still did not show a little bitterness, like a cold man with rich experience.

It was soon getting dark, and it was the happiest moment for the little boy, because when it was dark, the guards would never risk wandering around in the night of Yanbian. Everyone will find a safe cave or cliff to sleep on. There was no accident this time, the guards drove a servant about thirty-five or sixteen years old into the cave to explore the way, and only after making sure that it was safe did they go in to rest.

Not long after stepping into the cave, the guards suddenly neighed and looked restless. This was not a good omen, and the guard drew his sword, "You, go outside the cave and have a look." Then he ordered the servant who had just entered the cave to go out and see what was going on, for the poor servant had just done a quest and was about to go out again.

I saw the laborer pacing, moving a little bit to the outside of the cave, sweat the size of a bean dripping down his forehead, and his hands were still a little trembling. Before he could move outside the cave, a snow wolf about three meters in size suddenly rushed into the cave. This time, the servant collapsed directly to the ground in fright, and everyone was also panicked. Fortunately, when I settled down, I found that there was an armored guard sitting on the snow wolf. The armor guard obviously didn't have a trace of nervousness when he entered the cave, maybe he saw the torches in the cave before entering the cave, or maybe this armor guard had a relatively high training quality.

However, when the guards who were rushing to work saw that it was an armored guard, they immediately put away their weapons and flattered them. The armor guard whispered a few words to the labor guard, and then ran out of the cave on the snow wolf. Although I don't know what they said between them, judging from the smile condensed by the labor guard, it will definitely not be a good thing.

Sure enough, under the orders of the labor guards, everyone left the coveted cave and camped down beside the rock wall outside the cave. A bold servant asked, "Brother officer, the cave is big enough to hold a thousand people, why do we sleep outside the cave?"

After a while, everyone found a flat land, took the bark of the tree as a mat, and lay down to rest. The little boy also went to the forest to get some bark, and just as he was picking off a small piece of bark, the ground shook slightly under his feet, and he looked fixedly at a group of snow wolf guards galloping towards the mouth of the cave. In the blink of an eye, the snow wolves had already roared past him, and there was a white tiger and a Pegasus in the snow wolf pack, but it was not clear who was sitting on the mount. The little boy opened his mouth in shock, and couldn't say a word for a long time. The man sitting on the white tiger ignored the dirty little beggar, and after inadvertently glancing at it, he actually stopped the whole team. The snow wolf troops galloping at high speed cushioned in an orderly manner, and after a few steps, they all stopped in an orderly manner, and the man riding the white tiger jumped off the tiger's back and strode towards the little boy. When he stood still, the little boy saw that this person was wearing a white-scaled battle armor, with a ruby blue belt tied around his waist, and an unknown rune mark on the shoulder of the white-scale battle armor. Seeing his shoulder, the little boy consciously lowered his head.

"The boy looks up at you. The man commanded.

The little boy was drunk by this, and his head, which had just been lowered, was raised again. The eight-year-old's cold gaze met the man's sharp eagle eyes.

"Hahaha, I didn't expect it! I didn't expect ......" I thought it would be a little boy who would slap him, but he was picked up by the man with one hand.

"Huber, why are you so happy? Hearing the prestige, there was a little fairy sitting on the horse, this woman had smooth muscles and bones, eyes like water, a small cherry mouth under the bridge of her nose, dressed in a brocade snow robe, although she was seven or eight years old, but so beautiful that the little boy was reluctant to bow his head.

"Back to the county lord, this son has a wood spirit, which is a good material for cultivation, although there are dark diseases after many years of hardship, if the old man wishes him healing, he will have great achievements in the future. Huber replied excitedly.

"There is such a thing, I didn't expect that such a barren place in Yanbian could also produce wood spirit materials. Little boy, what's your name. The little county lord muttered, also a little excited.

The boy who was brought to Huber's waist just looked at the little county lord with wide eyes and did not make a sound.

The first time he was ignored, the little lord was a little annoyed, jumped off the heavenly horse, and strode in front of the little boy. Unexpectedly, at the moment when the little county lord approached the boy, the boy actually used his strength to break free from Huber's hands, and then pounced on the little county lord with all his might. No one reacted to this sudden move, and the little county lord had already been pounced three or five meters away. Seeing this, the guards on both sides immediately drew their swords at their waists, and the only one who was calm was Hu Bo, who shouted "stop", and the guards on both sides retreated to the side and hurriedly helped the little county lord.

"You...... I just wanted to ask your name, and I didn't scold you, why did you push me. "The little lord was obviously very angry. But no matter how loudly she scolded, the little boy had already collapsed.

Hu Bo picked the little boy up from the ground again, and when he looked closely, there was an extra stinger about ten centimeters long in the little boy's abdomen. Seeing this, the little county lord's face turned pale all of a sudden, because she knew what it was, even if an immortal cultivator encountered this poisonous weed, he would die in Huangquan. Because this poisonous herb is called the Soul Snatcher Grass, there is no cure at all, it just wears down the life of others and sucks the aura. The Soul Reaver Grass in the little boy's belly had already been cultivated to the point of refinement, and he had learned the spell of invisibility. Although the name of the Soul Snatcher Grass is grass, it is an earth-based monster, and it is born with spells such as shielding the ground, and now it has to forage for food when it is cultivated. Yanbian is a barren and populated place, not to mention immortal cultivators, there are not even a few people. I didn't expect that there were three of them today, how could I let them go, but unfortunately it only had one thorn in its life, and it was originally planned to secretly suck one person and then hide it. I never thought that I was the first to suck the body of the wood spirit first, and it was difficult to pull out the stinger after it was stained. There was an immortal cultivator with advanced cultivation next to him, but he could only break his arm and escape with a poisonous needle. Hu Bo couldn't care about chasing the Soul Reaver Grass, after all, without the poison needle, he couldn't harm people for a thousand years, he protected the pulse of the little boy's heart with one hand, and burned the stinger with the internal fire with the other.

encountered a sudden change, and the little county lord also panicked. Beside him, Hu Bo picked up the little county lord with his other hand, jumped on the white tiger, and after placing the little boy with his left hand, he put the little county lord on the back of the Pegasus with his right hand. Then he shouted, "You don't have to rest tonight, rush to Yanbian Shizhai Mansion overnight." The armored guards on both sides replied in unison, "No!" The little county lord was also unambiguous, kicked the horse's belly with both feet, and galloped away.

Only the labor team still outside the cave was muttering, these officers and soldiers still can't live in the cave. But no one dared to ask, and apparently the labor guards did not have a score. Since no one knew whether those officers and soldiers would come back or not, naturally no one dared to go back to sleep in the cave, so they could only look at the door stupidly for a while, and then lie down and go to sleep.