Boundary Town.

When night falls, there are almost no stars, like a canopy of sky.

In the west of the town, a house is based on bluestone, white clay is the wall, red tile is the roof, and the courtyard in front of the house is neatly tied with three fence walls.

The night was dark, and the people in the house had fallen asleep.

Suddenly, a low cry came from the east room!

"Ahh

Luo Fan sat up from the bed suddenly, his body trembled slightly, his breathing was short, his eyes were shining, and his sweat was like rain.

After a few breaths, his eyes regained a hint of brilliance, reached out to support his forehead, and murmured, "It turned out to be a dream." ”

"Xiao Fan, have a nightmare?" a gentle voice came from outside the door, "Are you alright?"

"It's all right, Mother. Luo Fan hurriedly responded in a low voice.

Listening to his mother's footsteps gradually fade away, Luo Fan got out of bed, put on his shoes, pushed the door and came outside.

Quietly looking at his parents' room, Luo Fan tiptoed to the door, gently pushed open the door, and came to the courtyard. After pushing open the courtyard door, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief and ran towards a small river in the distance.

The night was as dark as ink, and although there were a few stars in the sky, it could not bring even a trace of light.

Luo Fan lay on the rocks by the river, looking up at the starry sky, unconsciously playing with an inconspicuous black stone in his hand, and let out a soft sigh in his mouth.

"It's been eight years......"

Luo Fan crossed over from a place called "Earth" eight years ago and was reborn into the boundary town of the Four Yuan Continent.

Just born, his father Luo Shan, with the ecstasy of being a father for the first time, named him Luo Fan, and said to his wife Lin Ju, "I just want him to be an ordinary person, healthy and happy, just that!"

Five years later, he had a younger brother, Luo Xing.

In his previous life, Luo Fan was an orphan and did not have outstanding abilities, so he did not have much ambition, and his biggest dream was to lie at home and do nothing, of course, there was no shortage of money to spend. In this mentality, naturally no decent results have been achieved. In this life, with his parents, siblings, and not in poverty, he quickly accepted his new identity, accepted the fact of crossing, and even felt a little excited in his heart.

This year, he is eight years old.

In Boundary Town, or rather, in the Four Yuan Continent, eight years old is a dividing line.

The dividing line between ordinary people and Yuan cultivators.

In the Four-Yuan Continent, there is no magic, fighting spirit, true qi, only the four yuan forces of metal, earth, water, and fire.

And eight years old is the age of Yuanli's awakening.

Every year in June, it is the most important awakening festival for everyone in the Four Yuan Continent, and all eight-year-old children will gather from all over the country to participate in the awakening rituals held by the major empires. Colleges in various places will also send people to participate, and once an awakened person appears, they will often receive an invitation to enter one or more colleges.

Once awakened, it is the difference between mortal and cultivation, and the status of heaven and earth. Families with inheritance hope to have geniuses who lead the continent, declining families hope to have a chance to rise again, and ordinary people hope that their children will become monks, so that the whole family can get out of the bottom and enter the upper class.

However, awakening is not easy.

During the awakening ceremony, the Yuan Li Pillar will screen which of the participants' systems is suitable for cultivating the four elements, and test the strength of the participants' spiritual power, at least reaching medium spiritual power, before it is possible to receive invitations from major academies.

Tomorrow is June.

Before tonight, Luo Fan didn't care about awakening or not, his parents were ordinary people, and the possibility of an abnormality in him was too low and too low.

However, late tonight, on the eve of the Awakening Festival, his thoughts changed, and he desperately hoped that he could become a Yuan cultivator.

The reason lies in the dream.

"That's not a dream!" Rofan muttered.

Luo Fan was not born on the Four Yuan Continent before he woke up, and before he was born, he experienced a terrifying Yellow Spring Tour.

Dark night, gloomy wind, bluestone road. Countless souls, walking like marionettes.

The voice of temptation came intermittently, as if it resounded in my heart, and it seemed to roar in my head!

The ghost generals patrolling back and forth, saliva dripping on the bluestone slab, and the strange screams made are terrifying!

At the end of Huangquan Road, the black fog is shrouded, as if there is a bottomless abyss, and the soul directly turns into ashes after stepping in!

If it weren't for the last moment, a warm current poured into his mind, making Luo Fan wake up all of a sudden, I'm afraid he would have stepped into the abyss!

After being born, the company of his parents, the laughter of his younger brother, and the warmth of reality once made Luo Fan think that it was just a dream and did not want to look back.

However, after eight years, this situation reappeared in tonight's dream, and it became even more real!

"That's not a dream!" Luo Fan muttered, "Go on the Huangquan Road, and don't look back at reincarnation." If it's reincarnation, why is it going to end up in ashes? If it's not reincarnation, what does that sound mean?"

Luo Fan was desperate to find out what was going on, but in the past eight years, he hadn't heard anyone in the town say anything about reincarnation, soul, or so on.

"Perhaps, I have to wait until I become a Yuan cultivator to be able to reach that level!" Luo Fan clenched his fists, that memory brought him too much impact, if eight years of childhood made him an ostrich that buried his head in the sand, then tonight's dream made him recognize the reality!

There are too many unimaginable things in this world, the Four Yuan Continent, the three major empires, and the population is innumerable. In the north, there are barbarian tribes. It is said that in the south, there are powerful sea tribes gathering. In the north, there is the mysterious Temple of the Far North, and in the west, there is the legendary Island of the Far West. Becoming a Yuan cultivator may not be able to answer these puzzles, but it can give Luo Fan the courage and confidence to face these problems!

In the dream, when he looked back at the last moment of his escape, the ghost looked at him with a cruel smile, and said a few words out of his mouth, although they were far away, he clearly heard the other party say "The next one is you, you, you can't run, you can't run..."

In a trance, the sky gradually brightened. A red sun rose from the eastern end, and in an instant, a ray of sunlight shone on the earth.

Today, I'm going to wake up!

Luo Fan got up, shook his clenched fist fiercely in front of his chest, then spread out his palm, looked at the black stone in his hand, and then clenched it tightly, put it on his body carefully, and pressed it carefully, then turned around and ran home. He didn't know what it was, but he had seen it. The black stone accompanies itself from the earth to the continent, and its existence may be the biggest hole card for itself to face this continent.

In the early morning, the town began to get busy. Today is the first day of the Awakening Festival, and although the Awakening Festival will last for a month, everyone still wants to pass it early. After all, people from major academies will also be tired in the process of selecting students. In previous years, the probability of being invited by the academy on the first day of the Awakening Festival with medium mental power is much greater than that of the awakened person with medium mental power on the last day.

Luo Fan's running speed slowed down, and sometimes when he met a familiar person, he would stop and say hello obediently.

"Xiao Fan, what are you doing in such a hurry? An old voice sounded beside him.

"Grandpa Zi, good morning!" Luo Fan knew when he heard the voice that it was Grandpa Zi in the town.

According to the people in the town, one night five years ago, Grandpa Zi came to the town with a baby girl in his arms, saying that the nearby village was attacked by the Yuan Beast, and he was the only one who escaped with his one-year-old granddaughter, and after settling down in the town, he opened a blacksmith shop to make tools for ordinary people to make a living.

Luo Fan's parents saw that he was working too hard, so they often took care of the little baby girl, and the two families became familiar with each other.

Everyone only knows Grandpa Zi's surname is Zi, but they don't know what his name is. The baby girl has a good name, called Zixi.

"Grandpa Zi, I have to go home and prepare for the awakening ceremony in the afternoon. What about Sister Xi'er, is she going to participate in the afternoon?"

"Of course. Xi'er's girl will definitely awaken successfully. Grandpa Zi smiled and said, "Of course, Xiaofan, you will definitely succeed." ”

"Thank you, Grandpa Zi. See you in the afternoon!" Luo Fan waved his hand and continued to run home.

Looking at Luo Fan's figure, Grandpa Zi's eyes flashed, and he sighed softly, "It's very difficult for mortals to awaken, Xiao Fan, I hope you can succeed!"

When Luo Fan returned home, his mother had already made breakfast, and Xiao Luo Xing was already walking very steadily, looking at the dishes on the table, a few drops of saliva flowed from the corners of his mouth, strung together into a line and connected to his clothes, and stretched out his white and tender hands to grab the dishes.

"Star, wash your hands and go! "It's as if my mother had eyes in the back of her head.

Xiao Luo Xing turned around in a daze, just in time to see Luo Fan, a smile suddenly hung on his face, stretched out his hands, and shouted again and again while running towards Luo Fan, "Brother, hug." ”

Luo Fan stretched out his hands, "Xingxing, come to my brother's arms!" Little Luo Xing took a few steps, his body staggered, and he fell into Luo Fan's arms at once, and then giggled.

Luo Fan used his hands hard, and steadily picked up Xiao Luo Xing and walked towards the washing place, after the brothers finished washing their hands, Luo Fan's parents were already sitting at the table.

The two brothers hurriedly went over to sit down, and their father Luo Shan took the lead in picking up chopsticks, and the family began to eat with chopsticks.

Luo Shan, while eating, said to Luo Fan casually,

"Xiaofan, today is the awakening ceremony. ”

"Hmm. Luo Fan replied as he swallowed the food in his mouth.

"You have to remember. Luo Shan said slowly, "The awakening ceremony, everyone on the continent attaches great importance to it, and people say that the awakening ceremony determines whether a person becomes a little green mouse that eats in the ground, or a golden-winged eagle king soaring in the sky, with ice water on one side and flames on the other, a world of difference." ”

After a pause, Luo Shan saw that Luo Fan was thoughtful, and then continued softly, "Father doesn't want to put pressure on you, and he doesn't even want you to wander on the mainland in the future! This world is too big, and you can't imagine it! This world is too small, and the small one may not have a place for you! Father only hopes that no matter what the final result is, you must have the courage to face it! No matter what decision you make, you must dare to take responsibility!"