Chapter 1: The encounter between Kaede and Kazuma
The twilight sun turned purple and purple the clouds in the sky, shining the peaks of the mountains and covering the lush forests with a faint golden light.
The world of sunset is very beautiful and very ........ Filming.
On the winding path from Tianping Village to Tianping Mountain, a very immature boy who was less than ten years old was walking along the winding path under his feet towards the top of Tianping Mountain under his feet.
Tianping Mountain, legend has it that the ancestors of Tianping Village saw a powerful sword cultivator who wanted to retreat and practice on the top of the mountain in ancient times, but the top of Tianping Mountain was as sharp as a needle and there was no way to settle down, this sword cultivator was able to flatten a sword at the top of the mountain, so he got the name 'Tianping Mountain'.
Of course, there is no way to know whether it is true or not, and it has been so long that it doesn't matter whether it is true or not.
The little boy followed the winding path at his feet to the top of Tianping Mountain, where the scenery was so spectacular that he could see the village he lived in the distance.
From the heights, the village is very small, and the houses of the village are built in the middle of the mountains, which looks like they are scattered. The originally wide river now looks from the top of Tianping Mountain, winding like a small earthworm.
But the boy's face did not change, and the afterglow of the sunset stretched his shadow long, like a tall man.
If you look closely, you can see that there is an unidentified black shadow on his shadow's head, firmly glued to the boy's shadow.
The little boy's face was dirty, his cheeks were flushed, and his dark eyes were in stark contrast to his dirty hair.
"Come on, come on, I'm in front, come on."
A hoarse and inexplicably chilling voice rang in the boy's ears, and the boy raised his feet and walked forward.
"I'll find you right away."
The little boy's eyes were blank, his dark eyes seemed hollow, and his voice sounded without joy or anger.
"Come on, come on, just find me, and you can play with me."
The hoarse voice continued to ring in the little boy's ears, and his tone gradually became excited, constantly guiding the little boy towards the front.
"I'll find you."
After the little boy finished speaking, he had come to the edge of the top of Tianping Mountain, and if he took a step, he would fall.
On the other side of Tianping Mountain, there is a very vertical cliff, towering into the clouds, and there are thick clouds formed by white mist floating halfway down the mountainside, which sets off the real scene below very mysteriously.
"Come on, come on, you're ready to play with me, come on!"
The hoarse voice sounded in the little boy's ears again, and the little boy walked straight ahead with a step.
The little boy took a step, without the support of the ground, the whole person fell directly towards the cliff below, the whistling wind continued to blow from his ears, and a happy smile appeared on his face at the moment: "I found you, I can play with you." ”
The wind howled, and the little boy fell downwards at an extremely fast speed, and in less than a moment, he passed directly through the clouds and reached the bottom of the mountainside.
"It's successful, I've succeeded, I'm finally going to be promoted to the realm, I finally don't need to kill people like this anymore, hahaha!!"
The black shadow attached to the shadow of the little boy was very excited at the moment, and although the tone of his voice was very hoarse, he was very excited at the moment.
It took him more than ten years to grow stronger.
He was very weak at first, even if it was not in the strong sunlight, he would die completely, but now—as long as he absorbed the soul of this little boy, he could be promoted to the realm of ghost pawns.
He used many ways to kill the children in the village who he found, and then absorbed and refined their souls, and now, he can finally raise his realm.
"I can finally condense the entity, and I can finally become stronger faster, hahaha!!"
He was very excited at the moment, and if He had a face now, he would be very happy and excited.
Just as the little boy fell to a distance of several hundred meters from the ground, the little boy seemed to have passed through a membrane, and after a ripple in mid-air, he came to a place that was not as beautiful as the place surrounded by white mist as the outside scene.
Thump~
The little boy fell to the ground with a soft sound, but instead of standing up, he just lay on the ground motionless.
"Who, who is it that spoils my good deeds?"
The black shadow attached to the little boy's body emerged from the little boy's body, and then he yelled and spoke.
This turn of events directly annoyed him.
thought he was about to succeed, but he was saved by someone, how could he not be angry?
"Little ghosts, dare to be arrogant here?"
The voice sounded, a soft, cold female voice.
He looked into the place where the voice came from, and in the place where he saw the very thick roots of a tree, and when he looked closer, he saw a girl with long light blue hair sitting under the root.
"Who are you?"
He was angry at the moment.
Blocking people's promotion is like killing his parents, and he is very angry at this moment.
"Me? You're not qualified to know. ”
As the voice sounded with a hint of coldness and dominance, the ground began to tremble, and a thick root struck him.
He secretly felt bad and wanted to hide back in the little boy's body, but he was directly torn into countless pieces by the thick roots of the tree, and directly turned into flying ashes.
"No—"
He made his last voice at the last moment, but it was useless, and he was allowed to disappear and die completely.
Boom Boom –
The thick roots of the trees retracted into the ground, and the cracked ground returned to its smooth appearance.
The girl opened her eyes and looked at where the little boy was.
“.........”
The girl did not speak, closed her eyes and moved her fingers, and a hammock made of roots the size of many fingers appeared on the ground, and the little boy was directly supported on it to rest.
At this moment, the whole world was quiet, and the girl stopped moving at this time, I don't know if she had entered the cultivation state or completely fell asleep.
In the evening, dusk disappears completely, and day is replaced by night.
"Recently, another child in the village has disappeared."
In a thatched hut in Tianping Village, which was located in the center of the village and was several times larger than the other houses, a heavy and vicissitudes of life sounded.
As he said this, the surrounding villagers began to whisper.
"Village chief, whose child is missing?"
A villager asked.
Each of them was dressed in a coarse linen coat with many patches, and they were reluctant to throw it away even if they were very dirty, and it was obviously very hard.
"It's the child of the Huang Tianjing family."
The old man, known as the village chief, replied loudly.
"That little brute from Huang Tianjing?"
"Don't say that, people are still children."
"He is also pitiful, his parents were killed by demon beasts when they went up the mountain two years ago, leaving him alive."
.........
The surrounding villagers were all whispering.
"I asked you to come here to let you take care of your own children, Huang Rhodiola's son is now missing, I don't want any more children in the village to disappear without a trace, we should be vigilant."
After the old man finished speaking, his tone became a little heavier.
The crowd stopped whispering, but nodded.
"So be it! There is no way for Huang Tianjing's child to die, let's build a grave close to his parents for him, as for his family's field, Huang Tiantian's family has all died, so let's divide it equally among everyone. ”
After the old man finished speaking, the surrounding villagers all nodded.
In this world of demon beasts, ghosts, and cultivators, those of them who can't cultivate and don't have spiritual roots can only seek a more stable place to grow crops to spend their lives, maybe this is the sorrow of ordinary people.
Here, the starry sky at night is very beautiful, and the land is very vast and lush, but also very dangerous.
Beauty is only the surface of this dangerous world, but in fact, most of this world is full of dangers.
The human heart, for their own interests, will also be vividly reflected in this world.
Rules, in this world, only the strong can make and maintain the right to rules, while others can only abide by the rules.
In this world, killing is commonplace; Peace is a rare thing.
In this world, there are many kinds of killing, either they are killed by demon beasts; Either the ghosts are killing; Either you are killed by a monk with a strong cultivation.
At night, monsters come out frequently, and some will even rush into the house to kill people, which is a night of carnival between ghosts and monsters.
Following.
The morning sun has no temperature, and the morning dew formed by the condensation of the mist is like a smooth and transparent spar on each leaf.
Tick~
A drop of morning dew fell from the sky like rain and fell on the little boy's dirty face.
The little boy's eyelids moved, and then he opened his eyes in a daze.
The little boy opened his eyes for a moment of confusion, then glanced around the unfamiliar surroundings and found a girl sitting on the ground next to the thick roots, and then looked up along the thick roots.
When he looked up, he saw only a few thick branches stretching upward, and then he was blocked by the mist, and a little morning dew dripped from above and landed on the tip of the little boy's nose.
The little boy was shivering with cold morning dew, and his whole body was much more energetic.
Looking down at the bed on which he was sitting, the little boy was startled, then relented, and began to climb carefully along the four thick roots that served as support points.
With a strong sense of curiosity, he slowly walked towards the girl next to the tree.
When he got closer, the little boy was a little puzzled, puzzled and surprised, and looked stunned.
The girl in front of the little boy looks very weak, her hair is light blue and very long, and her melon seed face is also very delicate and beautiful, without a little rouge and vulgar powder decoration, very beautiful.
Dressed in a silver-blue plain dress, with a blue maple leaf on her head, her long hair is very natural and beautiful, and her face looks a little baby fat, which looks very cute. She was close to the roots of the tree behind her as if she was asleep, and the little boy was stunned at the moment, not knowing whether to wake up the weak girl in front of him.
As the minutes passed, the morning fog disappeared, and the sun, which had no temperature, gradually gained temperature, and a breeze blew, and a few silver-blue maple leaves fell from the sky, dancing in the air and falling towards the little boy's head.
The girl's eyelids twitched slightly, and when she opened her eyes, she saw that her eyes were pale cyan, and the shape in her eyes was the shape of a blue maple leaf.
The first thing the girl saw when she opened her eyes was a dirty little boy, dressed in a coarse cloth made of linen and with many patches, and he looked very miserable.
"Sister........ Hello? ”
The little boy was stunned for a long time and said loudly, as if he was at a loss.
"Hello."
The girl also replied.
"Sister, what is your name? My name is Huang Zhen! ”
A smile appeared on Huang Qi's immature face, although his face was dirty now, his red smile was very cute.
"My name is ........ Maple. ”
The girl paused for a moment and then spoke.
"Sister Kaede, do you know how I got here?"
After scanning the unfamiliar environment around him, Huang Ji asked with confusion and confusion on his face while asking.
Kaede didn't say anything, but closed her eyes, and her long eyelashes set off her pitiful appearance.
"Sister Kaede, why don't you speak?"
Huang Qi didn't understand why Feng closed his eyes and didn't answer him, so he asked anxiously.
"You were tricked by a ghost into falling here from the top of the mountain."
Feng still told Huang Yan truthfully.
Although Huang Qi is still a child, the world will not pity him because he is a child, and it is not bad for him to know it sooner.
"Ghosts?"
Huang Qi was stunned for a moment.
Obviously, for him, the ghost doesn't know what it is.
"With that said, I send you back, but please don't tell anyone about my here, and....... Don't come here again. ”
Kaede didn't explain the meaning of the ghost to Huang Qi, but wanted to send Huang Qi back to the top of the mountain.
After all, Huang Qi is a mortal, he still has to go back to live an ordinary life, he still has relatives or friends, and the lifespan of the two is not much different, Huang Qi is destined not to stay here.
Hearing that Feng was going to send himself back, Huang Qi hurriedly hugged Feng's arm, and at this time, tears appeared in the corners of his eyes at some point, only to see him cry out with tears: "I don't want to go back, I want to live with you, Sister Feng." ”
Feng didn't expect Huang Qi to suddenly rush up and hug her arm, she didn't have the slightest defense, and the warmth that Huang Qi brought was something she hadn't experienced when she cultivated before.
Obviously, since the birth of Kaede, he has been alone.
"The uncles and aunts in the village seem to hate me, once I heard that the uncles and aunts in the village discussed dividing up the land left to me by my father and mother, even if I go back, I will not have friends, uncles and aunts seem to want me to die, I feel that when I go back, I will either be killed and injured by them, or killed by monsters, and no one is friends with me, they will all alienate me because I am a fatherless and motherless child, I don't want to go back, I want to stay here and live with you, Sister Kaede! ”
When Huang Qi said at this moment, tears couldn't stop dripping on Feng's tender arm, and Feng didn't make a sound at the moment, so Huang Qi hugged his arm and cried out all the tears he wanted to cry out.
can make a child have this kind of suspicion, obviously Huang Yan's uncles and aunts are not good people, or this is the world in order to keep themselves and those closer to them alive, and losing a person who is not very close to them is not important to them at all.
But for a child, living in that kind of random speculation environment is too depressing, and it is good to let him cry, after all, it is too painful and uncomfortable to hide in the heart of a child.
Huang Ji cried while telling that after the death of his parents, many uncles and aunts in the village had changed their personalities, and cried for a long time, Xu was tired of crying, so he fell asleep with Feng's arm in his arms.
Feng didn't dislike the smell of Huang Qi's body, and when Huang Qi fell asleep from crying, she slowly opened her eyes, gently put down Huang Qi's hand that firmly circled her arm, and then let him sleep on her thigh, and her fingers gently wiped away the tears from the corners of Huang Qi's eyes.
For a child, Feng is not guarded, and Huang Ji has no scheming, and his experience also makes Feng feel sympathy.
Besides, he has always lived by himself, and there is no big problem for Huang Qi to live together, just treat herself as his sister.
Obviously, Kaede didn't think about the future, it might be good to live in the present, even though all the things that happened in the past made her unforgettable, but she still chose to live in the present.
Feng became very gentle at the moment, stretched out his palm and stroked Huang Yan's head a few times, then closed his eyes again, the breeze blew slowly, and the maple leaves fell to the ground, such a scene was very peaceful and quiet.
In the afternoon, the sun sets in the mountains, leaving only a little bit of afterglow like a candle that is about to burn out, and it will disappear at any moment.
Huang Zhen's eyelids trembled a few times, and he opened the eyelids that were frozen by tears, and it took a little strength to open them.
What caught his eye was Kaede's unchanged face, and at this moment Kaede seemed to be asleep.
Because she was not face up next to the trunk of the tree behind her as she had been at the beginning, even if it was just a sleeping face, it was very beautiful and moving, but for him, he didn't know how to describe it, even if there was a thought in his heart, but he couldn't describe it in words.
Huang Qi didn't look at it much, but opened his eyes and looked at the roots of this very huge tree, where he saw a small silver-blue maple leaf, under the sun's afterglow, it was very shining, like an extraordinary maple leaf, very beautiful and magnificent.
The hair on Feng's forehead slid down on Huang Qi's face, very soft, Huang Qi curiously reached out to touch it, which was different from the texture of his hair, very soft.
For Feng, she doesn't need anyone to sleep, she closes her eyes just to keep herself from seeing how many greedy immortal cultivators and fellow clansmen struggle out of the hands of how many greedy immortal cultivators and fellow clansmen struggle to get this beautiful scenery now, she doesn't want to live a lonely life in the past, Huang Qi's arrival makes her inexplicably want to chat together, maybe she hasn't spoken to anyone for too much, too many years.
Feng opened his eyes slightly, and then raised his head, and Huang Qi was also startled at this time, and the hand that was curiously playing with Feng's hair also hurriedly retracted, and then stood up suddenly, as if he had done something wrong.
Oops~
Kaede: "??? ”
Huang Qi touched his forehead in front of him and made a painful sound, and stood up and apologized to Feng while covering his swollen forehead: "Sister Feng, I woke you up, I'm sorry." ”
"It's fine."
Kaede touched his forehead and found that there was no pain, so he replied loudly.
"Sister Kaede, do you have a place where I can take a bath?"
Huang Qi suddenly smelled the stench on his body, sniffed his stinky body carefully, and hurriedly asked Feng.
"Wait."
When Feng saw Huang Qi's appearance, he knew that he wanted to wash his body.
The words fell, and under Huang Yan's puzzled face, I saw that a few thick tree roots began to stir not far away, and then the ground was concave, and a pit about half a meter high and two meters wide directly appeared.
In the center of the pit, there is a slow flow of clear and transparent water, although it is not the turbulent kind, but the speed of the flow is quite fast.
In less than a moment, the water directly filled the pit.
"Alright."
Kaede said lightly.
Huang Yan nodded, and then directly took off his clothes under Feng's gaze, and walked to the pool to wash his body.
He's still a kid and doesn't realize what's wrong.
Kaede's face did not change, she did not close her eyes directly, but looked up at the night sky in the sky, not knowing what she was thinking.
"Sister Kaede, do you want to wash together? I accidentally got your arm dirty, right? ”
Huang Qi asked at this time with only half of his head exposed in the pool.
"No, you don't."
After Kaede finished speaking, she closed her eyes directly, and this time there was a smile on the corner of her mouth, obviously she was smiling for the first time.
"Okay."
Huang Qi didn't care, and continued to scrub the dirt on her body, and Feng seemed to think of something, raised her hand and gestured a few times, and saw that many maple leaves fell from the maple tree behind her back, and fell into the pool where Huang Qi was.
Maple leaves have a unique aroma, very good, not pungent, Huang Qi is playing happily in the pool at this time, so unhappy.
In the past, in the village, even if you go to the river to fetch water, you need to be extremely careful, because there are a lot of demon beasts in the river, and if you are not careful, being dragged into the water is not the most serious, if you are swallowed directly, but you will die on the spot.
Therefore, Huang Qi has not taken a bath for many days, and even the water he drinks is only hit by him when he is extremely careful, and he can take a bath with peace of mind like now, which he has never thought of before, so he happily swims in the pool.