Chapter 1: The Mysterious Venerable
September, late autumn.
The Zhou Dynasty was founded for four years, and the pickaxe was west of the capital.
"The bell rang, and the ghost gave way."
"The six-star banner is coming, and the demon is revealed."
At noon, with a clear sound, a carriage pulled out of the path in the woods.
The horse is a wooden horse, and the carriage has no canopy.
On the left side of the front is a mahogany pole, and at the top is a yellow cloth banner with six star runes. There is a small bell hanging underneath, which makes a crisp sound from time to time.
The bell is called the Yang Bell, and the flag is called the Six Star Flag, all of which are magic weapons for driving away ghosts and catching demons.
At the end of the carriage sat a young man named Yang Xiaoyang, seventeen years old.
Dressed in white, Shengxue, eyebrows and eyes, delicate face, long black hair coiled on the top of the head, strung with a bamboo hairpin, looks a little loose and messy, but it makes the whole person look very free and uninhibited.
Yang Xiaoyang was originally not from this world, but from another world with advanced technology.
There are some similarities between this world and the ancient history of the world before him, and the two are like different directions of history.
Although there are similarities in the major events of history, there are great differences on some micro levels.
Sixteen years ago, the predecessor had a serious illness, and after a small life, he came here, entered the body of a one-year-old child in a wooden barrel drifting with the water, and obtained the elixir of the ten divine beasts and the "Synthetic Awakening Technique", after which he was adopted by a hunter named Yang Yi.
Over the years, Yang Xiaoyang has been practicing the Synthetic Awakening Technique.
With the body as the furnace, the elixir as the base, and the elixir as the guide, one or more precious Chinese herbs are paired and synthesized with the elixir of the divine beast in the body, so as to awaken the spiritual yuan.
In the past sixteen years, Yang Xiaoyang has successively used twelve kinds of elixirs such as the bird's nest in Qingfeng Cave of Zhongnan Mountain, the three-spotted seahorse of Nanao Island, and the musk of the Shaluli Mountains to awaken the elixirs of the six divine beasts of the Fox, Sanqingniao, Kunpeng, Dijiang, Kui Niu and Bi Fang, and synthesized and awakened the three levels of the small Dan, middle and big Dan in the realm of "Demon Hunter Apprentice", and the three levels of the Hinayana position, the middle position and the Mahayana position in the realm of "Demon Hunter".
On the Mahayana position, awaken the "Heavenly Eye Trace" magic technique, and you can see hidden things.
This is an extremely alarming phenomenon.
Normally, the Heavenly Eye Tracking Technique would only awaken at the Great Heavenly Rank of the Demon Hunting Venerable Realm, and he is now far from this level, so far away!
The wagon was pulled with charcoal.
The charcoal burned by the hunter Yang Yi is the best in Sanheyi, and the price is naturally the most expensive.
The money and silver exchanged for this cart of charcoal were enough to maintain the expenses of the father and son for a winter.
Samha-eup is a small city with a population of less than 50,000 in the west of Ho Gyung.
Samha-eup is also a wealthy city, and almost all the people in the city make a living by collecting medicines.
Due to its location on the edge of the Qinling Mountains and its proximity to the capital of Ho, there was one of the largest Chinese herbal medicine trading markets of the Zhou Dynasty in Sanheyi.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people come from all over the country to Samha-eup to buy and sell Chinese herbal medicines.
Yang Xiaoyang's entry into the city will always cause surprise.
The reason is that the horse that pulls the cart for him is a wooden horse.
In his previous life, he liked to tinker with woodcarving techniques, but in this life he did not change his preferences, and his skills were even more sophisticated, and at the age of fourteen, he built a wooden horse that was almost exactly the same size as a real horse.
The Trojan horse is equipped with an ingenious mechanism that can be slowed down and run by simply flipping a transfer switch.
Of course, there are some special gadgets inside.
The carriage entered the gate of Samha-eup and slowly drove into Chunhua Street under the amazed gaze of pedestrians.
This is one of the busiest streets in Samha-eup, with many shops and pedestrians.
Storytellers, singers, monkeys, goods who carry burdens and shout all the way, demon hunters who shuttle between major pharmacies to find elixirs, and young ladies who wander around with nothing to do... Toss a warm spring street and be very lively.
"The best elixir of Long Xiao Mountain, come and buy it quickly, come early and get it early, and miss it late." Suddenly there was a shout from ahead.
Yang Xiaoyang was slightly stunned when he heard this, the elixirs in the herbs of Long Xiaoshan were all superb, and it was the first time he had encountered this matter of being shouted and sold along the street.
Curious, he stopped the carriage and squeezed into the crowd of onlookers.
The seller was an old man, in his sixties, holding a seven-star banner in his hand, indicating that he was the Demon Hunter Venerable of the Little Heavenly Position.
The Star Banner is a rank marker for the Monster Hunter.
From one star to three stars, it corresponds to the three positions of the small Dan, the middle Dan, and the big Dan in the Demon Hunting Apprentice Realm.
The four-star banner to the six-star banner correspond to the three positions of the Small, Middle, and Mahayana positions in the Demon Hunter Realm.
The Seven Star Banner to the Nine Star Banner correspond to the three positions of the Small Heaven Position, the Middle Heaven Position, and the Great Heaven Rank of the Demon Hunting Venerable Realm.
The ten-star banner corresponds to the legendary Qiankun position of the god realm.
A demon hunter of this level like the old man can't find a few in a circle of hundreds of miles west of the pickaxe capital, which can be described as rare.
Selling elixirs along the streets, are you kidding?
The old man has a childish face, and he looks like a fairy wind and bones, and he really looks like a person with advanced Taoism.
On the table in front of him, dozens of elixirs were placed.
Ganoderma lucidum, ginseng, dragon birthday incense, cordyceps, snow lotus, Polygonum multiflori, deer antler, musk, seahorse, bird's nest, these ten elixirs are also available.
Some of them, in terms of color, size, and shape, seem to be the best of the best, or even the best.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the deity is a hermit of Longxiao Mountain."
As soon as these words came out, the onlookers suddenly whispered.
"Tsk, this Venerable is actually from Longxiao Mountain, the head of the three major spiritual mountains, no wonder there is a fairy aura on his body."
"It's the first time I've seen a monk from the Three Great Spirit Mountains, and it's really an eye-opener."
"The Demon Hunter Venerable set up a stall to sell medicine, he has never seen it before, he has never heard of it, it's really strange, let's listen to what he has to say!"
…
Yang Xiaoyang was hidden in the crowd and opened the eye of the sky.
On closer inspection, no anomalies were found.
But Yang Xiaoyang always had a feeling in his heart that this old man had a strange aura on his body, and he didn't seem to be a good person.
"The deity has been practicing penance for fifty-two years, and he has already stepped into the small heaven of the realm of the Demon Hunting Venerable. I came to sell medicine in Guidi today, not because I had no money or silver, but because I had a lot of elixirs in my hands, and I hoped to help people who had no chance to go to the three major spiritual mountains to cultivate and improve their skills and ranks. ”
The old man's words were high-sounding and flawless.
"What elixir do you have, let's hear it, I entered the Great Dan Rank of the Demon Hunting Apprentice Realm three years ago, and I haven't advanced an inch so far, if your elixir really has a great effect, I will buy as much as I want." A young man said.
"I'm sorry, although these elixirs of mine are easy to use, I don't plan to sell them to cultivators over the age of twelve."
"Why?" The young man asked.
"These elixirs come from the Valley of Young Beasts in Dragon Roaring Mountain, so they are most effective when used on children under the age of twelve, and they are best used on you..."The old man smiled, "It's really a tyrannical thing." ”
"Liar, huh? Is there a difference between juvenile and adult in this elixir? It's the first time I've heard of it. The young man shouted.
"You haven't been to Longxiao Mountain, so naturally you don't know the mystery. There are three age groups, six to twelve years old, twelve to eighteen years old, and eighteen to twenty-four years old, and different ages require the use of different elixirs. The old man explained patiently.
"My son is six years old, can I use it?"
"My daughter is seven years old, you sell some to me, and I'll go back and use it for her."
…
The old man listened quietly.
Yang Xiaoyang also listened quietly.
Hearing this, he thought of something, and his face instantly turned cold.
"I brought more than 200 elixirs this time, and there are nearly 100 of the top ten elixirs. However, these elixirs are not useful for all children, and they need to be tested for spiritual attributes first, and then used according to the spiritual attributes, so as to achieve twice the result with half the effort. ”
"Test it for my child."
"And me."
Before the old man could finish speaking, more than a dozen children gathered around him.
"Good, good." The old man smiled and said, "Stand still, let me test your spiritual attributes for you." ”
As he spoke, he stood his hands in front of him.
Soon after, a small cloud of mist appeared above the children's heads.
White is gold, green is wood, black is water, red is fire, and yellow is earth.
Among them, the five children's heads have the strongest aura, and the five spiritual attributes of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth are all available.
This cloud of misty qi belongs to an invisible thing, which ordinary people can't see at all, but it is all in Yang Xiaoyang's heavenly eye.
Seeing that the old man's face was slightly happy, and there were words in his mouth, the misty qi on the top of the five children's heads converged into a trickle, and all of them rushed towards the palms of the old man's two hands.
"Grafting."
Yang Xiaoyang smiled coldly.
Flower grafting is an evil art, and demons have many cultivations, and they can cultivate the aura into the spirituality of those who are weaker than themselves for their own use, and use it to cultivate the Awakening Pill and awaken their own high-level demon spirits and demon spirits.
I saw Yang Xiaoyang's right index finger flick on his thumb, and an extremely thin aura blade quietly shot out, instantly penetrating the old man's right palm.
Sharp pain hit, blood oozing out.
The old man hurriedly retracted his palms, his complexion changed greatly, his gloomy gaze swept over everyone's bodies, and he roared, "Who, who is doing it in secret?" ”
"Me."
Yang Xiaoyang opened the crowd and walked in front of the old man with a smile.