Viet Kook, Jeju Buksan.

In the damp mountain forest, an old man with gray hair and a rickety back walked quietly on the bluestone road. He was followed by a boy of fifteen or sixteen.

The young man was thin, fair-skinned, wearing a white scribe's robe, with a cyan wrap hanging from his right shoulder, giving people the first impression that he was a weak scholar who had walked out of the academy.

"Tsk. "There was the sound of birds chirping in the woods.

The boy stopped, his slender eyes looking deep into the forest.

"This bird is called Bailing, and it can only be seen in the Eastern Merchant Kingdom, and its voice is as pleasant as you have just heard. The old man turned his head, his cloudy eyes, and looked at the young man kindly.

"Since only the Dongshang Kingdom can be seen, then why does Grandpa know that this bird is the Bailing?"

The old man raised his head, looked in the direction of the chirp from the lark, his eyes showed reminiscence, and said slowly: "When I was young, I spent ten years with your grandfather to go to Dongshang Kingdom, and I saw this lark in that small city on the edge, Tianshui, as for why it appeared in the territory of Yue Kingdom, this is also very puzzling. ”

After hearing this, the young man nodded, followed the old man, and continued to walk slowly into the depths of the mountain forest.

About two hours later, the grandfather and grandson walked out of the mountain forest, stood on a mountain peak, and looked at the city by the sea in front of them.

In addition to the cool mountain breeze whistling, I could faintly hear the faint sound of laughter coming from the city.

The old man pointed to the city in the distance, and said to the young man solemnly: "Aoki, where is Yunhai County, if you go to Penglai this time, you are fortunate to be accepted as a disciple, remember to learn from the immortals, so that grandpa will take you on this trip!." “

Aoki is his nickname, his real name is Su Hong, but he has been weak and sick since he was a child, and the old man Su Dehai gave him this nickname, which means that he is like Aoki, even if he is exposed to the sun and rain, he can stand safe and sound in the forest.

Su Hong looked at the boundless sea area behind the city, opened his mouth, and wanted to ask Su Dehai about the doubts that had plagued him for several years before parting, but before the words came to his mouth, he remembered that every time he mentioned it before, Su Dehai always deliberately avoided it.

Seeing Su Hong's appearance of wanting to speak and stopping, Su Dehai sighed softly, he understood what Su Hong wanted to ask, so he opened his mouth and said, "You want to ask, about your father, right?"

Su Dehai's old face revealed deep exhaustion, and his heart tingled.

Seeing that his grandfather took the initiative to mention it, this made Su Hong deeply surprised, you must know that Su Dehai usually never mentioned his father's deeds.

"Hey, I originally planned to tell you about this in two years, but now you are going to Penglai. Just solve your doubts today!" Su Dehai shook his head and sighed continuously, as before.

Su Hong looked at Su Dehai's sad face, he didn't know whether it was right or wrong to inquire about this matter at this time, he wanted to suppress his curiosity for a few years, so that the only dear person in front of him would not continue to speak, but the words came to his mouth, and Su Dehai's hoarse voice blew into his ears with the mountain wind.

"Your father's name is Su Zhe.

I remember that it was the 723rd year of the Yue Kingdom, when you were only one and a half years old, and your father was the master of the imperial residence.

It was in that year that the first emperor died in the Eastern Expedition, and the situation in the Yue Kingdom was in turmoil. Liu Guifei and Duanwang's mother and son, seeing that the prince was young, tried to murder the prince and seize the country of Yue.

On the seventh day of the death of the first emperor, King Duan found your father and asked him to help get rid of the crown prince, your father was the prince's teacher, how could he be willing to do this thing that people and gods were angry with, so he returned to King Duan on the spot.

When King Duan left, he angrily smashed the teacup in his hand all over the ground, and your father felt bad. Duanwang has a brutal personality and is narrow-minded, and this matter is known to the world. Your father refused to accept him, and he expected that he would be swept away, so he sent someone to send you and me to his hometown that night.

On the third day of coming to Huai'an, the news of the murder of your parents came from Jinling City, and the fire burned all night, and the flames soared to the sky. The entire Su Mansion was turned into ashes overnight, and none of the 27 lives were spared.

Half a year later, King Duan kissed himself in Jinling, and the crown prince succeeded to the throne, and the Yue Kingdom was able to settle down in this change. After Su Dehai finished speaking, two lines of old tears kept falling on his old wrinkled face.

This was the first time Su Hong had heard about his parents' deeds, and he froze in place, motionless.

"Aoki, I haven't told you about this, because I don't want you to hate this country because of this, your father is in the court, and it is his fate to end up like this. ”

Telling this past that one person has endured for many years, Su Dehai's heart is like when he lost his beloved son, and he suffered from Ling Chi over and over again.

Su Hong's heart was full of self-blame, if he hadn't insisted on asking, Su Dehai would never be so sad.

He stepped forward and held Su Dehai's thin hands, his eyes flashed with mist, like a child who had done something wrong, and said softly: "Grandpa, it's all Aoki's fault that you shouldn't let the old thing come up again...... “

Su Dehai raised his hand to wipe away the tears on his face, waved his thin palm, interrupted Su Hong's unfinished words, and said softly: "Grandson, I don't blame you, even if you don't mention it, I always think about it from time to time recently, when people are old, they will always look back on the past inadvertently, especially in the past few days, they will wake up late at night, sit on the edge of the bed and can't sleep, and their voices and faces before the death will always appear in their minds." “

Listening to Su Dehai's voice full of grief, Su Hong blamed himself even more in his heart, he didn't want Su Dehai to be immersed in the painful past, so he opened his mouth and said a word that was in the opposite direction.

"Grandpa, tell me about the Penglai Sect. “

Su Hong asked suddenly, and Su Dehai naturally understood that this was his grandson who couldn't bear to see him like this and wanted to change the topic.

He raised his hand and touched the corner of his eyes again, and said tiredly: "That's an immortal cultivation sect, and when I talked about sending you to the immortal sect, it was also for a regret from my youth." When I was young, I longed for flying with a sword and traveling in the sky, but I didn't have the cultivation of immortal spirit roots...... This dream eventually became a mirror in the end. “

"Cultivating the Immortal Sect?" Su Hong, who heard these four words, was slightly shaken in his heart.

Su Dehai smiled, looked at Su Hong kindly, nodded lightly, and then spoke again: "In such a sect, there is a supreme existence, that is, immortals, they not only have spells that can make mortals disappear with a snap of their fingers, but also have an endless lifespan that can last forever in heaven and earth.

You may only see a few countries around Yue from the book, but you don't know that the world outside these countries is much vast.

We mortals can only travel to most of the Yue countries in our lifetime, but immortals can ignore the cycle of time, shuttle mountains, seas and rivers, and see all the prosperous places in this world.

I can know this, it is also recorded in the genealogy of our Su family ancestors, more than 800 years ago, there was an immortal ancestor in my Su family, but in the next few hundred years, there was no record of that ancestor. ”

After Su Dehai finished speaking, his originally lost face showed a proud look, and his pride came from the former immortal of the Su family.

It's just that he didn't tell Su Hong what the ancestors had done to the Su family, so that for 800 years, the Su family has always been a single lineage.

Listening to his words, in Su Hong's ears, it was like a stone thrown into the calm lake, causing ripples in his heart.

"If I become an immortal, will I be able to go to Dongshang Kingdom to see the prosperous Chaoge City?" Su Hong raised his head and blinked, waiting expectantly for Su Dehai's answer.

In his memory, when he was a child, he saw many books about the Song City of the Eastern Shang Kingdom, which was said to be the most prosperous place in the world.

Looking at Su Hong's expectant eyes, Su Dehai said with a smile: "This is natural, after you become an immortal, you will know that the Dongshang Kingdom is nothing at all, and in more distant places, there is a country dozens of times larger than the Dongshang Kingdom!"

After listening to Su Dehai's narration, although Su Hong only had the tip of the iceberg in his knowledge of immortals, cultivating immortals was like a budding seed, which had been deeply buried in his heart.