The royal mansion, the high-walled compound, a withered attic, overgrown with wild grass.

In the attic, a bronze oil lamp, in the direction of the Big Dipper, burns with a faint blue flame, exuding a cold, ice-like atmosphere.

Wang Tianba, who has chicken skin, is still wearing a Taoist robe, and his body is covered with a thick crane, and he looks weak.

Behind him, there is a huge jade screen, on which is made of various dripping paints, and the totem of the phoenix bathing in fire is so bright that it is shocking, as if there is a perverted vitality!

Wang Tianba's whole body was blue from the firelight, and he was facing a yellow and clear bronze mirror, and he was concentrating on applying rouge gouache to his face.

The blue fire of the seven-star lamp, the old man with oily hair and powdery face, and the blood-drenched jade screen......

The atmosphere in the attic is eerie, revealing a sense of death, rebirth, and old age.

"I didn't expect Chen Wantao to be as timid as a mouse, not only did he not dare to deal with that kid, but he also handed over all the things I gave him, this is to be in a hurry to break off the relationship with me!"

Wang Tianba looked at the mirror, with thin fingers like chicken feet, kept squeezing his facial features, and posed with various expressions, as if he was a grimace with painted skin, learning to imitate a living person.

"But that's fine! The jade box of the Immortal Ancestor was given to him, and the golden boy and the silver boy made a move......"

His expression suddenly froze, and his heart became puzzled.

Immortal Ancestor spent nearly a hundred years on the layout, was it just to wait for Ji Yuan's appearance?

"Is it because the immortals have endless years, and they only regard a hundred years of time as a flick of their fingers, wantonly playing with the world and all living beings like chess?"

"Or does that kid have some secrets, so that the immortals will not hesitate to spend their efforts, calculate the heavenly chances, fortunes, and then make the layout!"

Dots suddenly appeared on Wang Tianba's face, and purple-black patches could not be covered even by thick rouge gouache.

"Damn! This body is almost out of use! I tried my best to suck the blood of the living and replenish myself, but the pot of water was already leaking, so what was the use of continuing? ”

There was a deep hatred in his eyes: "I don't care about any glory and wealth, my only long-cherished wish in this life is to live forever and become an immortal and become a saint!" But why is my immortal path cut off, what is in charge of all this! ”

A gust of wind blew, and the seven-star lamp in the attic suddenly went out.

Wang Tianba's expression was cloudy, and he finally trembled and walked out.

"Strange, how can there be a child's cry?"

He looked up at the cloudy sky, and found a group of crows with black feathers and red eyes hovering over the Wang family's mansion, with a terrible voice.

"It is said that crows eat carrion, don't they smell me?"

……

A small sampan, rocking on the black river.

There was a father and son on the boat, surrounded by an "egg" the size of a watermelon, and the two of them stared at each other.

"Daddy! You said that this egg is not worth much, if you sell it to the Body Creation Temple, maybe the master inside can help you get a new pair of gills and flippers! ”

The cold wind was gusting on the river, but the boy was wearing only a thin linen coat, and his body was full of holes.

He suddenly lowered his head, looking worried: "The Xuanshui River is full of man-eating monsters, and the gills and webs on Daddy's body are going to be broken, if you don't change it, something will definitely happen when you go down to the river to fish for pearls!" ”

The man was shirtless, covered in countless centipede-like horror scars.

Fish scales suddenly flashed on the skin, and with a slight tremble, water droplets rolled down, and immediately became dry and refreshing, as if they had never been in the water.

The man's five fingers are forked, and between his fingers grow patches of flesh webs as thin as cicada wings.

Then, with the palm of his webbed hand, he gently stroked the boy's head: "Look! Daddy's gills and webs are good! If this thing is exchanged for money, Daddy will go to the Body Creation Temple and ask to see if he can ask for a flesh spirit root for you. ”

He looked at the boy dotingly, and continued to say gently: "If you have a flesh spirit root, you will have the opportunity to become a spirit officer and a spirit general, and you don't have to suffer so much like your father!" ”

The boy's eyes lit up, he knew that the flesh spirit root, it was a magical thing.

If swallowed, it can cause all kinds of visions in people's physical bodies, and have unimaginable divine powers.

Vertical eyes grow on the forehead, flesh wings are born under the ribs, or three heads and six arms, copper skin and iron bones......

Just like his father's gills and webs, they can also be regarded as a kind of flesh spirit root.

Although it is very cheap and simple, it is also accumulated by poor families for generations, and it is only in exchange for it.

And the boy has also seen with his own eyes, the flesh spirit root that can change the human body and stimulate divine power.

After someone ate it, wings grew under his ribs, and he had the divine power to control thunder and lightning.

It's just that people have also become red-haired and golden-eyed, and they are covered in blue indigo, not to mention, and they have grown a bird's beak.

The appearance is hideous and terrifying, and he has become a demon and a Shura.

But in the world where the boy lives, he is ugly and vicious, but it is a means to protect himself.

The boy was surprised and asked, "Daddy! You can use the flesh spirit root yourself! ”

The man laughed, and his face showed relief: "The Xuanshui River is cold and piercing, dead and sick, countless water ghosts and monsters, Daddy has gone down to the river to fish for corpse beads over the years, and his body has already accumulated countless dark diseases, and it is already full of holes."

After a pause, he continued: "The power of the flesh spirit root to change the human body is very fierce, with Daddy's physical condition, how can he eat it?" ”

Seeing that the boy's eyes dimmed, the man hurriedly comforted: "Silly boy! You use the flesh spirit root, and you will become a spirit officer and spirit general in the future, and Daddy will not be able to enjoy happiness with him! ”

The boy looked up, his eyes hardened, and nodded heavily.

Immediately, the man jumped up and shouted at the dark water.

The voice was loud and majestic, like a lion, like a tiger, rolling on the river, as if all the depression and anger that had been accumulated for years were spit out.

He lifted the oars and shook the small sampan on the dark waves, his body was dark and strong, as if he was beaten by iron, and he had a sense of the power of a giant beast in the water!

The boy looked at his father's mountain-like back, tall and heavy, covered with countless scars, all of which were left when he fought with the monsters in the Xuanshui River and fished out the corpse beads: "Daddy, whether you have a flesh spirit root or not, I will let you live a good life!" ”

The next day, the two of them took the strange giant egg they got on the Xuanshui River and climbed a red mountain.

The whole mountain was like a piece of red-hot iron, and every stone and plant on it seemed to have been watered with blood.

It was the first time for the boy to go to the temple, and he was both excited and scared.

Excitedly, he had long wanted to see the magical means of using flesh and blood and transforming the human body in this temple.

I was afraid that the temple would be full of flesh and blood, like a butcher slaughtering livestock, the ground was slimy, and there was a disgusting scene of hanging stumps and flesh with iron hooks everywhere.