Chu Qing ran intermittently for nearly an hour in one breath, and now it was the time of sunset, and it would not be long before the sun would set, and the darkness would be shrouded in this big mountain again.

As night fell, he was wandering around the mountains and forests without a clue, and he suddenly felt that someone was staring at him behind him, and he was covered with goosebumps for a while, and slowly stopped and turned his head to look.

"Ah!" Chu Qing screamed in fright.

He found that an old man in a purple robe appeared behind him, with white beard, a dim red lantern in his hand, and a pair of deep eyes on his face full of ravines, staring at him uprightly at this time.

The sun had just set, and such a strange old man appeared behind him, Chu Qing couldn't help but be a little stunned.

"Young man, it's so late, it's better not to wander around in the mountains, it's dangerous!" the old man said first.

The shadows of the branches on both sides swayed on the ground illuminated by the dark red light, like the devil with teeth and claws.

"Thank you, old man, why is the gentleman still in the mountains so late?" Chu Qing said to the old man.

"I'm old, come out for activities, send some things home by the way, meeting is fate, is the young man interested in accompanying the old man around. The old man smiled slightly.

Chu Qing looked at the old man's kind smiling face, and his nervous mood relaxed a little, anyway, he was running for his life, and he was lost, since the old man dared to appear in the mountain alone at night, maybe he was more familiar with this mountain.

An old man and a young man walked slowly in the deep mountains, the light of the lantern could only make Chu Qing see the range of about a foot around his body, he didn't know where he went, he could only passively follow the old man.

"Why are you still in the mountains so late, young man?" asked the old man as he walked.

"I came to the mountains to find some spiritual grass for my father to heal his illness and save his life. Chu Qing replied.

The old man nodded, stopped walking and turned his head to look at Chu Qing: "Haven't you heard of this big mountain, and it is impossible to enter at night?"

"I've heard that the old people in the village often mention it, but my father's illness can't afford to wait, and I have no other way. Chu Qing was a little disappointed, if there was another way, he would not risk his life.

The old man smiled and nodded, as if affirming Chu Qing's filial piety.

"How about the old man make a deal with you, you give me the rabbit in your arms, and I will give you an elixir that can cure your father. ”

The old man looked at the rabbit in Chu Qing's arms and said.

Chu Qing looked at the old man's straight eyes, took a few steps back, and said weakly, "Why should I believe you?"

The old man smiled slightly, took out a golden pill from his arms, and the fragrance was immediately overflowing.

"This is a big pill, as long as your father still has a breath, the old man can guarantee that he will be alive. ”

Chu Qing looked at the pill, smelling the fragrance of the medicine that shocked his spirit, and a longing surged in his heart, and he suddenly had the idea that this pill would definitely be able to cure his father.

"Okay, I'll change it with you!"

Chu Qing took the pill and put it away, and was surprised to find that the old man waved his hand after holding the rabbit, and the rabbit woke up from the coma, and became lively, thinking in his heart that the old man must be a powerful person, he touched the pill in his arms, and his depressed mood was finally better.

The old man gently placed the rabbit on the ground, only to see it look at the old man gratefully and disappear into the darkness.

Chu Qing was a little puzzled, but he didn't ask much, after all, he had already changed, and how to deal with rabbits was the right of the old man.

He turned his head to look at the old man and asked, "Old man, do you say that there are really ghosts in this mountain?"

The old man didn't speak, raised his hand and made a shushing gesture, and then the lantern shook into the distance, and as his vision stretched, Chu Qing only felt the cold air rushing straight to his spine from the soles of his feet.

"Shhh

He gasped and held it in his lungs for fear of disturbing the things on the periphery.

As far as the eye could see, several figures were floating around like walking corpses, their faces, bodies, and limbs were all covered with white bones, and the rotten rotting flesh attached to them was dripping with blood, as if maggots were wriggling.

Although he only ate a few pieces of dry food after entering the mountain, he still couldn't control it and surged up his throat, but he swallowed it hard, and the impact of such pictures on a teenage child can be imagined.

The old man retracted the lantern, sighed slightly, and said, "They hate the human race until they die, but they didn't expect to survive in this face after a tragic death, it's sad and sad." ”

After speaking, he stretched out his left hand and slowly beckoned into the distance: "Come back, go home!"

I saw that the ghosts who were still walking around the lantern were walking straight towards Chu Qing and the others, Chu Qing subconsciously wanted to retreat, but was persuaded by the old man.

"Don't be afraid, it's okay!"

When those terrifying things walked into the range of the lantern light, Chu Qing's face changed slightly, and he found that their bodies had blurred into a light and shadow and flew into the lantern, and the light shook slightly, as if it was a little darker.

Although Chu Qing was a little scared, he still leaned towards the old man.

The old man saw Chu Qing's small movements and smiled: "It's okay, within the scope of this conjuring lamp, they won't attack you." ”

"Who the hell are these people, why do you hate the human race?" Chu Qing said with some curiosity.

"The old man hasn't chatted with anyone for a long time, since I have the fate to meet you little doll, so I will simply chat with you. ”

The old man's eyes were a little dazed, as if he had returned to that war-torn era.

"A thousand years ago there was a great war here......"

More than a thousand years ago, the demon forces invaded the sword domain after an unprecedented surge, and continued to spread to the surrounding domains, under the continuous matchmaking of Buddhism, the human domain headed by the human race, the god domain headed by the god race, the demon domain headed by the demon race, and the spirit domain led by the spirit race gave up their paranoia, and joined hands with many Buddhist domains to resist the powerful demon race.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and after hundreds of years of heavy damage to the demon race, the alliance collapsed due to the powerful calculation of the leader of the demon clan by the two races of man and god, triggering a war between the two races of man and god and the demon race.

In addition, there is an inherent gap between the different races within the demon and spirit races, even if they join forces, they are not as united as the human and god races, and finally suffered a crushing defeat in the demon god war, not only were many races exterminated, but even the demon and spirit continents were destroyed and lost most of their territory.

The two demon clans, whose vitality was greatly damaged, had to block all the remaining spatial passages and retreat into their remaining spaces, in order to slowly regain their strength.

"Those ghosts and monsters were transformed by the powerhouses of the demon and spirit clans who died back then?" Chu Qing asked as he listened to the old man's story.

The old man nodded: "The decisive battle that year took place on the Demon God Mountain in the holy land in the center of the Demon Domain, and the terrifying war not only caused all the space around the Holy Land to collapse, but also caused the Demon Emperor of the Demon Clan and the Spirit Emperor of the Spirit Clan to fall into it!"

Chu Qing was a little incredulous and asked, "Old man, you won't say that this is the Demon God Mountain, right?"

The old man used the same technique to collect a few ghost objects, nodded, glanced around the mountain, and continued: "Because the two leaders were both born from heaven and earth, and eventually returned to heaven and earth after falling, but their unwillingness turned into great coercion and was always shrouded in the holy land, and the anger generated in the bodies of some rotten demon clan powerhouses also did not dissipate for a long time because of obsession, and over time, this kind of ghost thing was formed in this special space of heaven and earth. ”

Chu Qing seriously recalled what the old man said, and asked, "Then why don't the powerhouses of the other three clans become ghosts after they die?"

"The spirit race is all non-living beings who produce spiritual intelligence, such as fire spirits and water spirits, even if the two spirit races can be passed on to the next generation after transforming into human forms through cultivation, but the essence of the descendants is still a strange thing in heaven and earth, and the same as the two leaders, they will not become ghosts, and the creatures with the blood of the human and god races will not become ghosts because they are suppressed. The old man patiently answered for Chu Qing.

"And what about the mountain? What about the daytime, and why I don't feel the terrible coercion of which you speak. Chu Qing still had a lot of puzzles lingering in his mind.

"These ghosts can't appear during the day, involving some of the hands and feet that the human and god races have done around the holy mountain after occupying it; and they can't appear during the day, mainly because the strong people who lived under the mountain at that time used supreme divine power to block them in the mountain in order to prevent these ghosts from killing innocent people;

Chu Qing didn't expect so many things to happen on the mountain where his home was located, and he was shocked for a while, not to mention the various domains and clans that he had never heard of, even this holy mountain surprised him, and there were still a lot of puzzles in his mind, but those can be understood later when he has time.

He stared at the old man, his heart seemed to be touched, and after a long struggle in his heart, he finally spoke: "Old man, can you accept me as an apprentice and teach me skills, I am willing to suffer any hardship!"

The old man stared at Chu Qing for a moment and nodded.