"I guess you've already discovered it, this is the light vein, and there used to be an orthodox mountain lord who could suppress the essence to a certain extent, but the people in the village killed it by mistake."

Wuzhi took a sip of the wine bowl and closed his eyes like an aftertaste.

"Since then, the river has smelled like wine, and the plants are so ripe that they are almost rotten, and if left unchecked, the mountain will be ruined by rotten."

"I used to be a wandering insect master, but when I often come to this village and see the villagers who are at a loss, I make up my mind to become the master of the mountain."

Wuzhi lit a worm cigarette and smoked, and his expression became sad.

"Maybe it's because I've been influenced by the spirit of the mountains all year round, and my wife didn't live long."

"Then are you going to make Kodama the next mountain master?" Xue Song looked at the little boy sleeping on the side.

"Well, that's right. After all, he was born in the mountains, and the children who grew up on the mountains are very familiar with the conditions of the mountains. "No Naobang, sleeping Kodama, shook the fan.

"Huh?" Seeing Xue Song's puzzled expression, Wuzhi continued,

"Do you see the number of children in the village, the people in the village drink the water that flows down from the mountains, and the women give birth one after another, but the people can't feed everyone, and some of the children are thrown into the mountains."

"Kodama is what I picked up in the mountains." He stopped as he spoke, not knowing what he had in mind, and he didn't want to talk about the mountains again.

"Are you a wandering insect master who has always lived in a fixed place?" Wu Zhi looked at Xue Song and asked, when Xue Song approached, he felt that Xue Song was a little different from ordinary insect masters, and the young man in front of him gave him the feeling of a walking vein of light.

Could it be that Xue Song's body is sealed with a special worm? Wuzhi couldn't help but think.

"No, I'm a new insect master, I live in Mingyang Mountain, not far from here, I was invited by a friend to go out to help deal with some things, and when I came back, I heard about the things here and came to take a look, but I didn't expect to meet my peers." Xue Song replied.

"In this way, in the eyes of me, a person who can't take a step out of the mountain, I still have a little envy..."Wu Zhi looked at the young man, and also showed a slight smile, there are very few insect masters who have passed by over the years, and it makes him a little happy to meet Xue Song. Ever since he became the lord of the mountain, he has never been able to leave the mountain again.

"For better or for worse, I'll have to die in this mountain." Wuzhi drank the wine from the bowl, leaned against the wall behind him, and looked up at the roof.

Seeing that the old-timers were stuck in the glorious years of the past, Xue Song didn't bother, so he observed some of the records that Wuzhi had left down in his early years as a wandering insect master.

When night falls, the blue sky is dotted with countless stars.

The breeze blows and the crickets chirp.

Xue Song walked to a big tree outside the house and sat down cross-legged.

This is a light vein, and the life energy is abundant, so it is also a good place for him to practice.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, enveloping Xue Song and making a rattling sound through the trees around him, which was caused by the rapid flow of essence qi.

Xue Song's movement of absorbing the essence of life naturally also alarmed Wu Zhi, who had mastered the art of the mountain master, and he woke up from his slumber, and the information about the flow of the essence qi of the entire mountain continued to be transmitted from the humulus grass in his body.

This made him a little surprised, this was the place where the river of life passed, and even his mountain master technique could only suppress the essence and barely maintain the balance of the mountain.

And when the harvest comes in autumn, the essence is more abundant, and the essence of ordinary mountains will become stronger. Even he couldn't suppress the vigorous spirit in the mountains, so he had always forbidden the villagers to enter the mountain during the harvest season, just for fear that people would be overwhelmed by the excess spirit of the mountains and forests.

Since the people in the village killed the original mountain lord because of him, Wuzhi has always felt very guilty, he stayed in the mountain to study the art of the mountain lord, after so many years, he has long been exhausted, and as he gets older, he has been looking for other ways.

He is not only the owner of the mountain, he is first and foremost a human being, a human being who has survived in human society for decades, with all kinds of feelings, and he cannot achieve the same balance as other kinds of mountain owners, and when he is old, he does not have enough energy to manage the mountains and forests.

Originally, he was going to directly call the 'White Snake' to come and eat himself, it was a worm that ate the master, and he would replace the mountain owner who ate it to become the new mountain owner, but after he picked up Kodama, after looking at this little boy who had been following him and calling him master, he was always ruthless to do this, and he couldn't leave Kodama and let the little boy live alone.

The fertility rate in the village is extremely high because of the water flowing from the mountains with a little life essence, but even in the places where the light veins flow, the grain produced cannot feed so many people, so many children are abandoned in the horns of the mountains after birth.

He was not eaten by the beast, and in the end he was lucky enough to meet the only one who was no-straight, but his brothers and sisters who stayed in the village were short-lived, and after learning that he was alive, the child's parents brought the person back to the village, and it was almost a year soon.

And it was Kodama who was taken care of, this matter made Wuzhi completely relieved, he was ready to maintain the balance of the mountain until after the autumn harvest this year, when he could stay on the mountain and summon the white snake to eat himself, let it replace himself as the mountain owner, after all, people are too tired to be the mountain master, he doesn't want to put the burden on Kodama anymore, I believe that the white snake can manage the mountain better than him.

Now, Xue Song's ability to absorb the essence of life has given him some other ideas, if there is no way, no one wants to leave the world silently and even lose the concept of existence. He also wants to accompany this mountain to grow old, to watch Kodama grow up, and to sleep in this mountain where countless emotions have been poured in.

He got up and came to the door of the cottage, looking at Xue Song not far away, not knowing what he was thinking.

The excess essence in the mountain was all absorbed by Xue Song, and because it was located in the light vein, Xue Song also let go a little. Although he couldn't let go of his cultivation with all his strength, the rich life energy of the light veins also made him feel the concept of 'fullness' in his body again.

Put your mind into the sea of knowledge, the spirit seed has grown into a small sapling, and it is slowly growing, although the spirit seed itself is still very fragile, and it is not possible to plant the spirit in its current state, taking root in the world, but after returning to Mingyang Mountain, with a sufficient amount of spirit rice, I believe that the spirit seed will grow faster.

early morning

The dense fog in the mountains had not yet cleared, and the sounds of birds could be heard all around.

"Master Wuzhi, then I'll go back to the village." Kodama who got up early rubbed her eyes and said hello to no straight.

Kodama wants to go home, so he asks Xue Song to help send it, and by the way, he asks Xue Song to bring him some special products under the mountain, close to Qingming, he wants to pay homage to his wife, and the most important thing is that he wants to take this opportunity to talk to Xue Song alone.

Nodding in agreement, Xue Song walked down the mountain with the bouncing Kodama.