"Queen Mother of the West, this legend is an immortal who lives on Kunlun Mountain. Half-human, half-beast, it is the condensation of chaotic Dao Qi between heaven and earth. ”

At the foot of Liujia Slope, Liujia Village, a dilapidated old house.

An old man with a white beard sat on the podium, and a dozen or so children who looked like they were seven or eight years old sat below, watching the old man with a white beard tell a story intently.

The old man stroked his beard, and flipped through a yellowed thread-bound book in his hand. While telling the story of the Queen Mother of the West, a little boy with a dirty face stood up.

"Master, is the story of the Queen Mother of the West true?"

The child's facial features were delicate, a little taller than the other children, and the young man's face already had a little mature atmosphere. Although it was dirty, it was hard to hide the clarity in his eyes: "Young man, as long as you help me do one thing, I will prove to you that the Queen Mother of the West is real!" ”

The little boy's name is Bai Ye, and he wears a red thread bracelet around his wrist and a thumb-sized jade pendant hanging from it.

He blew his nose, and when his hand drooped down, he wiped his snot on his pants: "What you said is all in the book, and besides, qi can become a god, so won't I become a person when I fart?" ”

"Hahahahaha-"

"Quiet! Don't laugh. The white-bearded old man looked at the young man in front of him and nodded secretly.

"After dinner tonight, come to me at the back of the classroom."

Liujia Village has not been visited by outsiders for a long time, and the most recent time was a white-bearded old man who came three years ago, full of benevolence, righteousness, courtesy and wisdom, and the people in the village were not very willing to deal with him. is only liked by children, and they tell stories to children in this deserted classroom all day long, from the Queen Mother of the West to the Dragon King of the Four Seas.

The classrooms were left over from the previous elementary school, which moved away and has been abandoned for a long time. Desks and blackboards have been eroded by wind and rain beyond recognition. The concrete podium had cracked, clumps of weeds had grown in the cracks, and from time to time a cold wind had spilled in through the cracks in the old doors and windows.

At night, the moon hung high on the branches, and the white-bearded old man sat on the podium.

Under a ray of moonlight, it sprinkled on the old man's body, and the white robe flashed with a little star.

The old man showed his deep-set eye sockets, and the vicissitudes of life on his face were wrinkled: "Senior brother, I will send you someone in a while, whether you can seize the opportunity or not, it's up to you!" ”

The white-bearded old man heard the footsteps outside the door, and turned his eyes to look at the emaciated figure: "Zi Weixing, who was born when the lunar year is cloudy, the moon is cloudy, and the sun is cloudy!" Once in a thousand years, if you hadn't met me, I'm afraid I would have been eaten by those miscellaneous pieces in a few years. ”

Bai Ye pushed open the door and saw the white-bearded old man sitting on the podium, and found that his eyes were hollow, not like human eyes at all, normal people's eyes would reflect the light in the moonlight.

These eyes are hollow and pitch black. Bai Ye couldn't help but shudder, and looked in the direction the old man was looking, it was a small hill opposite Liujiapo, which had become the graveyard of the Liu family for so many years.

"Boy, come here!" The old man beckoned to Bai Ye, "In a while, you go to Liu's tomb to help me get something." ”

Speaking of the cemetery, Bai Ye's face was embarrassed, and his facial features began to distort.

That place, grandpa told me a thousand times, you must not go to that place! Grandpa said that place was the ancestral tomb of the Liu family, Bai Ye was not surnamed Liu, and it was not appropriate to go, for fear that it would be difficult to deal with unclean things.

The old man looked at the hesitant Bai Ye and smacked his lips: "What?" Don't dare to go? I don't have any patience, don't come to me if I don't say a word, don't go, don't come to me if I can't live in two years! ”

Bai Ye heard the old man roar, his whole body seemed to be electrified, and he was speechless for a while. After looking closely, it was clear that it was the old man who released a touch of black gas in his hand, restraining Bai Ye and not moving.

Seeing that Bai Ye didn't speak, the old man's eyes instantly showed a touch of anger: "Today you have seen my ability, if you don't go, I'm afraid you won't be able to get out of this door!" ”

The moonlight shone on the old man's face, and his eyes became more and more hollow, and the hollow in that eye socket seemed to be untouchable black, which could swallow everything. The shadow behind him was torn by the moonlight, and there was an indescribable gloom, and it looked more and more strange in the atmosphere of the night.

I recalled that six years ago, when I was still a ten-year-old child, there was a famine, there was no food at home, and my parents really couldn't take care of it, so they took advantage of the darkness and secretly left by themselves, leaving him alone at home.

After starving for a few days, he almost couldn't survive, and now his grandfather Liu Fugui went to the city to sell cattle, and on the way back, he saw Bai Ye, who was about to starve to death, and he was distressed, so he took it home and raised it.

Bai Ye only knows that his grandfather is his only relative, as long as he can eat enough, he can send his grandfather away after a hundred years, what is not satisfied?

As for Liu's tomb, grandpa didn't let Bai Ye get close, and he was indeed not a member of the Liu family, so it didn't matter if he couldn't go up!

The old man's coughing interrupted Bai Ye's memories,

The black clouds obscured the moon, and the old man took out a fire fold from his bosom and lit a fire, which few people would do now: "I ask you again, to go or not to go?" ”

Bai Ye sat paralyzed on the ground, not daring to move at all, this old man's ability Bai Ye saw it, and now he had no doubt that this old man had the ability to solve himself.

"If I go, it's a big deal to be scolded by my grandfather, but if I don't go, I'm afraid I won't even be able to go home." Bai Ye was stunned for a moment, looked at the old man's increasingly fierce eyes, opened his mouth and muttered, "Go!" But you're going to give me something good! ”

The old man smiled, said something in his mouth, and waved his hand: "Give you a golden armor to protect you." ”

Suddenly, Bai Ye's eyes turned black.

……

When he woke up again, Bai Ye found that he was already at the foot of the Liu family's grave, and for a while he didn't know whether he was surprised by the old man's ability, or whether he should go to the mountains against his grandfather's wishes.

"But what the hell am I going to look for?"

Bai Ye was so scared that he forgot to ask the old man what he was looking for.

"The Queen Mother of the West, her appearance is like a human, with a leopard tail and tiger teeth and a good roar, and her unkempt hair is fierce. You go down the mountain road, and you don't care what you see on the road, until you stop when you see a grave with a broken monument. ”

The old man's voice sounded around the white leaves, and there was no trace of people.

In the middle of the night, the wind was blowing, and from time to time on the mountain, it seemed that someone was carrying a package on his back, running on only a pair of legs, but he could not touch the ground.

The road to the top of the mountain was like a bloody mouth at the moment, and any creature that came near it would be swallowed up.

While complaining that he shouldn't have come and provoked the old man's bad luck, Bai Ye forcibly endured his fear and went up the hill. Fear obscured the perception of Shiraba's legs, and the higher he went, the more Shiraba's legs disobeyed, and he had to endure great tension when he took a step.

The wind blew stronger and stronger in the early morning, and the sparse small trees on the top of the mountain bent down together, and the graves hanging on the graves were blown up by the wind and crossed the air, looking like road signs from a distance, pointing to the west.

Bai Ye suddenly remembered some of the words that the white-bearded old man had said to him by chance.

A wisp of grave fell and hung on Bai Ye's body, which suddenly made his back feel cold. At this time, he actually felt that the old man's words were deeply meaningful.

"The peach of the Queen Mother of the West, not everyone is blessed, there was a loose cultivator with boundless power who went to Kunlun Yaochi and stole a peach. The peach landed, and the demons rose everywhere. That loose cultivator was taken to the Asura realm and has not yet escaped. ”

"But sometimes, the human heart is more terrible than the devil, the demon is bred by the evil spirit of heaven and earth, and it is carefree, but in order to understand the laws of heaven and earth, people punish demons and subdue monsters, and even eat people and dissect their hearts!"