Time flies, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle, four years have passed in a blink of an eye, the mountains in the blood-red abyss are continuous, the wind and rain are blowing, and they have long been covered with a thick layer of vegetation, and the spiritual power in the mountains is vigorous, giving birth to many rare herbs, cloud deer, badgers and other animals travel through the mountains, making this mountain forest a treasure land for hunters and pharmacists.

It's just that people are circulating a story that there are immortals in the mountains, the sun and the moon shine together, immortal, proficient in spiritual arts, and changeable, but no one seems to have seen such an immortal.

It's the rainy season again, the rain drops fall in the mountains and forests, flowing down the green leaves and falling among the grasses, moistening the soil, on the cliffs between the mountains, a figure can be faintly seen climbing on the rock wall, is a gray-haired old man, carrying a small bamboo basket behind him, in which there are clusters of herbs.

The old man's face was slightly ruddy, and he carefully used a shovel to pluck the roots of a herb repeatedly, for fear of hurting the roots of the herb and affecting the medicinal properties of the herb.

Nearly ten meters below the rock wall, a girl about four or five years old was dressed in a blue pigment suit, looking up at the old man with a raised face, a pair of big watery eyes flickering, her hands clasped to her mouth, and said softly: "Grandpa, be careful!"

The old man laughed: "Mengye, don't run around, grandpa will come down after picking this ambergris." ”

"Be careful......"

The girl muttered, as if she was not quite satisfied with the way her grandfather took such a risk to collect medicine.

In the blink of an eye, a ambergris was pulled out by the old man, holding the protrusion on the rock with one hand, and carefully throwing the ambergris into the bamboo basket with the other hand, and then coming down from the rock wall step by step, but the rock wall was very slippery on the rainy day, and at a height of about three meters from the ground, the old man suddenly stepped on the air and fell down.

"Bang!"

Fortunately, there was grass below, but the old man was still hurt by the stones in the grass, baring his teeth and exhaling pain, the girl hurriedly stepped forward and helped the old man: "Grandpa, where is the injury, where is the injury......

Seeing the girl's worried appearance, the old man immediately endured the pain, laughed and stroked the girl's pigtails, and said with a smile: "Grandpa is fine, tease you, Mengye, let's go, this ambergris can be sold for a good price in the pharmacy in Bailing City, maybe it can be sold for twenty gold coins, and then grandpa can buy a lot of sugar gourds for you to eat." ”

"Woo......"

The girl nodded, with a pair of big watery eyes as if she could speak, took the old man's hand, and walked out of the blood-red abyss step by step.

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Bailing City, rebuilt directly south of the ruins, is fifty miles away from the Blood Red Abyss, and has changed from a famous city with a population of three million to a small city with a population of less than 200,000, and most of the residents have been scattered to Sunset City and Shangyang City, which is also the reason why Feng Jixing chose to set the capital of Lingnan in Sunset City.

In the rebuilt Bailing City, there are groups of merchants, before sunset the next day, the figure of the old man and the girl appeared in the city, the old man is called Li Zhu, a Jianghu Langzhong, who makes a living by picking and selling medicine, and has a granddaughter in old age, so the granddaughter is named Li Mengye, which comes from the dream leaf grass in the herb, which can be regarded as a good wish!

Li Mengye's immature little hand tightly grasped her grandfather's palm, she knew that the ambergris grass in the bamboo basket behind her grandfather would be the source of income for the family this year, her mother was sick after giving birth to herself, and she was bedridden for five years, and her grandfather was old, and there was not much time to collect medicine, and her grandfather's alchemy was not enough to extract the medicinal yuan of ambergris to refine medicine, so she could only sell herbs directly to make money.

This ambergris was the first valuable herb they had picked in three months.

Zhennan Pharmacy, a pharmacy with only a shopkeeper, is also one of the dozens of pharmacies in the small town, where in the past, the herbs collected by Li Zhu were all sold.

"Yo, Uncle Li is here. The shopkeeper of the pharmacy was a fat man, and his weight of at least three hundred pounds made his one-meter-six body look very bloated and round, and his eyes swept through Li Zhu's bamboo basket, and he suddenly smiled brightly: "Is this here to sell medicine and buy rice again?"

"yes. ”

Li Zhu put down the bamboo basket, carefully took out the ambergris grass, and said: "This ambergris grass has fat roots, it should have grown for several years, Shopkeeper Liu, give me a good price." ”

"Yo, this was picked in the Scarlet Abyss, right? I heard that there are wolves in the Scarlet Abyss, and it is not easy to dismantle your old bones. Shopkeeper Liu took the ambergris and said, "The medicinal properties are indeed good, and the medicine yuan is full, so let's give you ten gold coins." ”

"What, it's only ten gold coins?" Li Zhu was stunned for a moment, and said: "Shopkeeper Liu, the ambergris collected by Defu Pharmacy half a month ago is twenty gold coins each, and those ambergris grass is definitely not as full as this one, you see, I came to you to sell herbs in order to earn some money to support my family and cure diseases, in order to pay a little less for the handling fee of the commercial house, you see...... My family is old and young, you must not trick me, in this case, I might as well go to the business house to sell. ”

"Hmph, the old guy really knows how to talk ......" Shopkeeper Liu's eyes were full of impatience, and said: "For you, this is thirty gold coins, it's enough to collect your ambergris, right?"

Counting the gold coins one by one, Li Zhi's old eyes were full of smiles, and he took out one of the gold coins and said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Liu, look, I want to buy a roast chicken for my granddaughter to eat, you can help me turn this gold coin into a hundred silver coins, thank you." ”

"What a hassle!"

Shopkeeper Liu impatiently took out a money bag, a heavy hundred silver coins, and said, "Oh, take it, let's go, don't be an eyesore in front of my store." ”

"Thank you, shopkeeper Liu!"

Li Zhu took Li Mengye's hand and walked out of the pharmacy with a smile, bought a bamboo leaf chicken at the stall on the side and handed it to Li Mengye, and said with a smile: "Eat, eat, the rest of the money will buy soup medicine for your mother!"

Li Mengye happily hugged a chicken, took a greasy bite, and smiled even more happily: "Grandpa, it's delicious." ”

"Then eat more. ”

But the girl ripped off a fragrant chicken leg and handed it to the old man, smiling like a flower: "Grandpa eats together!"

Li Zhu was stunned: "Grandpa is not hungry." ”

"Mengye is hungry, grandpa must be hungry too, if grandpa doesn't eat, I won't eat either. The little girl blinked her eyes wide and said sensibly.

The old man was so moved that he took the chicken leg and ate it bite by bite, while the girl just looked at it, for fear that her grandfather would lie to her and hide the chicken leg for herself but not eat it.

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Turning a street corner, three thieves stared at Li Zhu from behind, after all, thirty gold coins is not a small number, enough for a family of ten to eat and drink for several years.

"Second brother, do it, a little kid, an old fellow, they will do it when they enter the alley!" said one of the mustachioed thugs.

"Okay, do it!"

The old man who walked into the alley never thought of the arrival of bad luck, and suddenly suffered a heavy blow to the back of his head, and the money bag on his waist was quickly snatched away, he wanted to scream but couldn't, but the girl screamed loudly, grabbed the leg of a gangster and said loudly: "Bad guy, put down grandpa's money, come quickly, catch the bad guy, catch the bad guy!"

"Get out of here!" The thug kicked Li Mengye's hand away and stepped on her neck, and the girl's face turned red suddenly.

"Let go of my granddaughter. ”

Li Zhu hurriedly stepped forward and hit the gangster's waist pole from behind.

"Old thing, die!"

Another thug swung a bamboo stick and slammed it into the old man's leg!

"Click......"

The sound of bones breaking was heard, and the old man's leg was broken.

"Grandpa...... Let go of my grandpa......" The girl cried.

A few gangsters, you look at me, I look at you, and they don't dare to show off, one of them pointed at Li Zhu and said: "If you dare to say it, be careful that Lao Tzu kills you, we are people from the Heavenly Book League!"

The Heavenly Book League, the establishment of the Northern Qi Mansion in Bailing City, the Heavenly Book League is responsible for reselling the Heavenly Book written by the Northern Qi Mansion to mercenaries, bandits, etc., and is considered the number one gangster in Bailing City.

When a few gangsters left, the old man looked depressed, and the money he had worked hard for several months was gone.

Li Mengye hurriedly picked up his grandfather, cried and said, "Grandpa, are you okay?"

"Grandpa is fine, Yumeba doesn't cry. ”

The old man wiped the girl's tears and looked into the distance tremblingly, the Tianshu League is something he can never provoke, even if this matter is reported to the government, it will not help, but it is his own leg, he stood up with difficulty with a wooden stick, and said: "Mengye, let's go, let's go home, let's go home......"

"Woo, grandpa......"

The girl burst into tears, looking at her grandfather's appearance, and her heart was indescribably distressed.

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"Boss, how much is the bone healing potion. ”

Two days later, an immature voice came from a small town in the southwest of Bailing City, and Li Mengye asked timidly with wide eyes holding a pile of silver coins in his hand.

"Two gold coins for the high-grade bone healing potion, little girl, your dozen silver coins are not enough to even stuff your teeth, let's go, don't hinder our business." ”

"Boss, my grandfather is bedridden and needs medication, you can do it. ”

"Fuck off, we are opening a pharmacy, not doing good deeds, get out, don't block us from doing business, do you want medicine without money, go into the mountains to pick medicine and grind it yourself!"

"I ...... I ......"

Li Mengye's tears of grievance swirled in her eyes, and she turned to look in the direction of the blood-red abyss, as if she had suddenly made up her mind.

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The blood-red abyss, the mountains are forested.

In the depths of the mountain range, in a dark cave, the starlight lingers around a stone statue, and suddenly there is a "snap" sound, the stone statue's finger rock bursts open, the starlight flows, a powerful finger slowly stretches out, "pop" sound, the stone statue covers the body of the rock has cracked, this young man who has been sleeping in the stone for four years finally woke up, his face is covered with beards, only a pair of clear eyes reveal deep confusion.

"Who am I?