Chapter 1: The Boy Who Sells Firewood

Yi Xiaomou casually picked a piece of grass stalk on the ground and put it in his mouth, let the faint bitterness spread in his mouth, pulled Nale's tight strap with his right hand, raised his head, and saw through the heavy leaves above his head that the fiery red sun was hanging high above his head.

"It's already noon, I've chopped firewood all morning, and if I'm lucky, I can sell it to Aunt Yu for about five or six gold coins, forget it, hurry down the mountain and sell these." Yi Xiaomou waved his sore shoulders and muttered to himself, and walked towards the bottom of the mountain.

Wuchao Town is located at the border junction of the Wanri Empire and the Yunchuan Empire, although it is a small town, but because the Wanri Empire and the Yunchuan Empire have been in friction for many years, both empires want to annex each other, so Wuchao Town, a small town located on the main traffic road, also has heavy troops stationed here, and the head of the corps is a strong man whose strength has reached the eighth layer of the road, and he also needs a Xuan-level first-grade alchemist and four yellow-level second-grade alchemists here to refine medicine for the corps. Despite this, the Yunchuan Empire would still send people to harass from time to time, causing a lot of trouble to the residents here.

Yi Xiaomou walked to the bottom of the mountain, looked at the city gate that was a little commotion in the distance, couldn't help but shake his head, turned around and walked into the fang market, turned left and right and walked through a few square markets, came to a dilapidated courtyard and knocked on the gate with a rotten atmosphere.

"Aunt Yu, I brought you the firewood you wanted. Yi Xiaomou knocked on the door three times and shouted into the house.

After a long time, the door was slowly opened, the dilapidated wooden door made a piercing creak, and a middle-aged woman with a flushed face and disheveled clothes appeared in the doorway, with some different breath on her body.

"Aunt Yu, you want firewood. Seeing her like this, Yi Xiaomou put down the bundle of firewood on his back with some frowns, and said with a slight tilt of his head.

"Well, five gold coins, take it. Aunt Yu put the bundle of firewood into the door with some difficulty, then straightened up and took out five gold coins from a small bag on her waist and put them into Yi Xiaomou's hand. Yi Xiaomou got the money, and immediately turned around and left, it seemed that she wanted to leave this Aunt Su quickly, because in the past, she would always tease Yi Xiaomou a few times after the firewood was sold to Aunt Yi. Under Aunt Yu's resentful gaze, Yi Xiaomou left the dilapidated courtyard quickly.

Although there are soldiers stationed in Wuchao Town, but the order here is very chaotic, there are underground auctions, underground casinos, buy things here, it's good if it's not valuable, if it's very precious and the person who buys it is not strong, it is possible to be killed by others, snatch items, kill people and sell goods This kind of thing is normal in this border town, there will be basically several times a day, only if you don't kill the people in the army and some people with a big background, the people in the army will not take care of you.

Yi Xiaomou walked aimlessly in an extremely lively market, and the shouting of those vendors seemed to Yi Xiaomou as if he had never heard of it.

Yi Xiaomou's talent is very good, only fourteen years old already has the strength of the sixth layer of the Dao, and it is also outstanding in some large academies, the sixth layer of the Dao is not strong in this country, but it is stronger than those at the bottom, although there are many colleges in the Wanri Empire, but none of them do not need a large amount of tuition and various fees, with Yi Xiaomou's current financial resources obviously can't afford it, the attributes of the Dao chosen by everyone on the continent are not necessarily the same, but the attributes of Yi Xiaomou's Dao are very strange, the condensed Dao power is dark all over, and there is a strange devouring power, Yi Xiaomou has never heard of the existence of any devouring Dao, He went to a place in Wuchao Town where he had tested attributes, but he inexplicably lost one of the test steles of others, and lost two hundred gold coins to them for no apparent reason, and he was still guarding the door there for a month. This experience made Yi Xiao just go to any test point to test his Dao attributes.

The crowd in front of Yi Xiao suddenly stirred, and a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl desperately squeezed out from the gap between the two people. Although the little girl was dressed luxuriously, the skirt on her body was damaged, and there were dots of blood on the broken skirt, and there was a hideous wound on the calf that was still flowing bright red, soaking the little girl's skirt.

The little girl's face became more and more pale, and she staggered a few steps, and her beautiful eyes glanced at the somewhat riotous crowd behind her in horror, and fainted a little unwillingly, and fell in front of Yi Xiaomou. A bald middle-aged man who was three heads taller than Yi Xiao savagely pushed away the onlookers and rushed in.

"Hey. Yi Xiaomou sighed in his heart, he knew this big man, Li Fu, also called Li Guangtou, a guy who asked about the seventh floor, a younger brother of a commander in the army here, usually abducted and sold women, trained the women who were captured, and then sold them to the underground auction, which provoked a lot of people, if it weren't for his brother who was a thousand-year-old, he would have died hundreds of times. If this little girl who fainted on the ground fell into the hands of this guy, the misery in the future can be imagined.

"Count yourself lucky," Yi Xiaomou said secretly in his heart, and his footsteps moved, blocking in front of the little girl.

"Stinky boy is dead, don't be nosy," Li Fu saw Yi Xiaomou who was blocking in front of the girl, one sideways, one leg with yellow Dao force, and kicked towards Yi Xiaomou's face.

Yi Xiaomou usually chops firewood in the mountains, and there are many demon beasts in the mountains, so Yi Xiaomou has dealt with many first-class demon beasts, so the reaction is also very good, when he saw an earthy yellow foot kicking towards his face, his heart moved, his hands were covered with dark Dao power, and he grabbed the kicked big foot, and his body was also shocked by the strong force from that foot.

Li Fu didn't expect the young man in front of him to be able to block his attack so easily, and just wanted to make a move, but found that the corners of the young man's mouth in front of him curved a dangerous arc, and even when he saw that the dark Dao power in Yi Xiaomou's hand covered the leg he kicked towards Yi Xiaomou, the earthy yellow Dao power on his leg disappeared as soon as it touched those dark Dao forces, he couldn't help but be shocked in his heart, and hurriedly used the Dao power in his body to rush to the calf, and struggled hard, breaking his leg out of Yi Xiaomou's hand, but the pants and shoes covered by the Dao force had disappeared cleanly。

What a weird boy, Li Fu said secretly in his heart.

"Below is the younger brother of the third thousandth commander of the barracks here, she is a slave I bought, and I ask you to stop meddling. Li Fu took a few steps back, and with a move of his right hand, a wild sword made of fine iron appeared in his hand, and waved it a few times at will, bringing a whistling sound, the meaning could not be more obvious.

The smile in Yi Xiaomou's heart was a little stronger, his eyes swept away, and he saw a gray ring on the ring finger of the guy's right hand, Li Fu did not have any knife on his body, and the knife that was conjured out of nowhere showed that Li Fu either had a storage bag or a storage ring on his body. Yi Xiaomou doesn't have any storage bags and storage rings, because that kind of thing is too expensive, a storage bag costs 300 gold coins, and a low-level storage ring is even more expensive, at the lowest cost 50,000 gold coins, and with the high-level storage ring costs hundreds of thousands or even millions of gold coins, Yi Xiaomou really can't afford it, and now there is a chance to grab the storage bag, so Yi Xiaomou will definitely not let go. If Li Fu knew that his action of taking out the Ye Tai Knife would have caused his storage to be unsafe, he would probably have the heart to die headlong.

Li Fu looked at Yi Xiaomou, who was silent, his heart moved, the dark Yetai knife was covered with earthy yellow Dao power, raised high above his head, and his body rushed forward to slash towards Yi Xiaomou, looking at the posture, it was estimated that if Yi Xiaomou was chopped, he would have to be cut in half.

Ye Tai knife roared and slashed over, Yi Xiaomou looked at him, and the dark Dao power in his hand wiped all the way up along the chopping blade, and the dark fine iron where the Dao power passed all disappeared strangely.

"Damn," Li Fu scolded secretly, his feet pressed against the ground, forcibly stopped the body rushing forward, and after stepping hard, his body took a few steps back, and only one handle was left in the original four-foot Yetai knife in his hand.

Even metal can be devoured, what kind of way is this, and let people not live! Li Fu felt a sense of powerlessness welling up from his heart.

"Damn, you swallow it!!!Tearing the wind !!" Li Fu's face looked a little hideous, and he threw away the wild knife with only the handle left, and his right hand became strangely larger, and the earthy yellow Dao force formed an earthy yellow eagle claw phantom on it, and the left hand made a mysterious seal, and the eagle claw phantom on the right hand covered Yi Xiao's face again.

There was almost no delay, and the earthy yellow eagle claw struck Yi Xiaomou, and the smoke and dust on the ground blocked everyone's sight.

"Dead, dead, finally dead," Li Fu's face was a little distorted and laughed, the attack just now was a scroll of third-grade combat skills that he bought from the underground auction, and it was so powerful that even some people who asked the ninth layer didn't dare to take it hard.

"Ahem, your Dao power is so mottled and not delicious," Yi Xiaomou's whole body was covered with a layer of dark Dao power and slowly walked out of the dust, coughing twice, the Dao power in his left hand kept churning, and a dark katana appeared in his hand.

I didn't expect that the metal devoured by the Dao power could be used for my own use, but the Dao power consumed was a bit much, Yi Xiaomou looked at the Dao power in his body, which was already less than five or six, and grinned.

"A scumbag like you should have died a long time ago," Yi Xiaomou walked to Li Fu who had already knelt on the ground with a katana, "But I don't like to kill," the katana in his hand was gently inserted into Li Fu's lower abdomen, where there was an acupuncture point, and if he was hit hard, he would lose all his Dao power, and there was no blood flowing out, but Li Fu's terrible screams spread all over the streets, even if the injury to his lower abdomen was healed, he would always be a waste person in the future, this trick was more uncomfortable than killing Li Fu.

Yi Xiaomou gently pulled out the storage ring on Li Fu's right hand, put it on his left hand, and the dark Dao power rolled up the katana again, not paying attention to Li Fu, who was still screaming, leaned down and gently picked up the girl, and under the stunned gaze of everyone, he slowly walked into a laneway and disappeared into the dark corner.