The scorching sun was high, and on an ancient road that had been obviously abandoned for a long time, two figures were walking slowly.

The first one was tall and gray, but he was an old man.

The old man's face was pale, and when he took a step, the oncoming breeze blew his gray hair and broad sleeve corners, and he was like a fairy for a while, not like a mortal.

He was holding a bamboo cane in his right hand, and a tattered cloth banner hung from the bamboo cane, and two large crooked characters could be faintly seen.

“... Showing the way. ”

The latter person is a young man, and the young man's face is somewhat similar to the old man, but he is born with thick eyebrows and big eyes, handsome and extraordinary.

But for some reason, his face turned a little yellow, and he coughed twice from time to time, as if he was sick.

I don't know how long I walked, the old man suddenly stopped, pointed to a bare tree next to the road, and said: "We are still half a day away from [Heyang City], and it is almost time before sunset, I see that you are also tired, let's rest here." ”

The yellow-faced young man did not reply, but looked at the other side of the overgrown with a slight frown.

The old man didn't get a response for a long time, and when he looked back and saw the young man's posture, he also turned his head to look.

I saw that at the edge of the dense weeds, a slightly pale little hand was quietly exposed, and in the fierce sunlight, even the blue blood vessels on it could be seen clearly.

The old man frowned slightly, sighed and said: "It's really unlucky, specifically picking this kind of long-abandoned ancient road to walk, it is still not possible to live in peace, let's go forward." With that, he raised his feet and prepared to leave.

Unexpectedly, the young man suddenly grabbed the old man's sleeve and said with a little confusion: "Dad, I seem to have seen that hand move." ”

The old man rolled his eyes, touched his beard with a headache expression, and said helplessly: "Every time you see a dead person along the way, this is the reason, can you change it, the old man is tired of hearing it." ”

When the young man heard this, he smiled awkwardly, and did not speak, but raised his hand to gently hammer the old man's shoulder.

Seeing the young man behaving like this, the old man couldn't help but blow his beard and stare at him, and after a while he rolled his eyes and said, "Come on, let's go and see, the boss is not a small person, and he is still like a child, hum!"

After that, he turned his head away and stopped looking at the youth.

When the young man heard this, he smiled happily, and hurriedly answered and walked towards the grass.

"Remember to cover your mouth and nose!"

The old man reminded from behind.

The young man replied without replying, and then took out a white cloth from the package he was carrying and tied it to his mouth and nose, and then pushed through the dead grass that was more than a man tall and got in.

Seeing this, the old man sighed silently, and his eyes looking at the grass also had a somewhat strange look, but he didn't know whether he was lamenting the difficulty of this world, or something else.

After a while, after the grass swayed for a while, the young man ran out with a girl in his arms with a happy face.

"Daddy!

The young man's face was full of surprise, and even the hands holding the child trembled slightly.

The old man was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and hurriedly greeted him.

I saw that the girl was about ten years old, with two messy pigtails, her dirty little face couldn't see the original appearance at all, and her exposed hands and feet were skinny, and she was extremely pitiful.

The old man raised his hand to hold the child's wrist, and sure enough, he felt a slightly beating pulse, so he shook his head and said, "You kid, I really let you hit her crookedly, put her in the shade over there, and feed her some water first." ”

The young man nodded hurriedly, turned around and walked two steps quickly, then gently placed the child in his arms in a small shaded place under the dead tree, and then looked at the old man with a hopeful face.

The old man pulled out a worn-looking leather bag from his luggage, unscrewed it, and brought it to the child's mouth.

Unexpectedly, the girl suddenly turned over, casually pushed the leather bag aside, and muttered while chirping: "Ah Cha, can you stop in the morning, believe it or not, stuff your head into the litter box for you to make you feel what despair is?"

.........

The old man held the leather bag motionless, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.

The young man next to him opened his mouth wide, but his face was full of joy.

The last yellow leaf on the dead tree also fluttered down and landed on the top of the old man's head.

But at this moment, the girl casually touched the side of her head, as if she was looking for something.

It was an old tree root, thick and hard, so she slowly opened her eyes, and just met the old man's eyes.

Child: Huh?

Old Man: Huh?

Children:???!

Old man:???!!!

⊙ω⊙⊙ω⊙

.........

Shaking his head a little dizzy, Lin Zhuo looked at the old face that was looking at him in front of him with a puzzled face, and couldn't help but shrink his neck and said, "Old man, what are you looking at?"

The old man's face was visibly darkening with the naked eye, and there was a tendency to change in the direction of purple.

But before he could respond, the girl in front of him suddenly covered her mouth in disbelief, and after a while, she raised her hand to look at her dirty hands, and glanced down at her somewhere.

"it!"

After gritting her teeth and popping out this sentence that made the two of them listen to it with a blank face, she simply rolled her eyes and fainted again.

Seeing this, the young man was a little anxious, and hurriedly asked, "Dad, she... Why did you faint again?"

The old man didn't have time to deal with the young man at this time, but stared at the girl's wrist intently.

After a long time, the old man suddenly turned his head as if he saw something, and said to the young man with a serious face: "Xingyun, the old man thinks that it is not suitable for us to take her on the road, or leave her some rations, let's set off quickly." ”

The young man was also stunned when he saw this, it was really rare for his father to be so serious.

groaned slightly, but shook his head helplessly at the old man, and said: "Dad, she is a child, and there is no one here, we don't care about her, she will have no way to live at all." ”

The old man rubbed his hands when he heard this, then he rolled his eyes helplessly, and muttered: "Yes, I would have known that I wouldn't have let you go, but now it's okay, it's a lot of trouble in vain." ”

The young man took the leather bag and fed the girl some water, and said: "Dad, don't you claim to be the thirteenth generation descendant of Qingyunmen, Qingyunmen is the number one faction today, and you are in charge of the righteous path, how can you see death and not save it?"

When the old man heard this, his hand touching his beard shook twice, and then he turned around and whispered: "It's not certain whether Qingyunmen recognizes it or not, don't talk nonsense, don't blame me for being beaten up when the time comes." ”

After that, he glanced at the child who still hadn't woken up, frowned, and said, "On the contrary, this kid may be a genuine disciple of Qingyunmen." ”

"Oh, why?" asked the young man, looking surprised.

When the old man heard this, he flicked his beard lightly with his right hand, looked up at the sky, and snorted coldly: "What do you see on her right wrist?"

Hearing this, the young man hurriedly looked over.

I saw a small sword-like ornament, quietly tied by a red rope to the child's right wrist.

I don't know what material the small sword is made of, it is only an inch in size, but it looks extremely exquisite, and the whole body is engraved with complicated patterns.

The young man couldn't help but reach out and touch it, only to feel that his hand was cold but suddenly turned hot, and then it seemed that there was endless fire rushing to his face.

He was shocked, and hurriedly let go of his hand and turned his head and asked, "Dad, what is this?"

The old man touched his gray beard again, and then said with a slight show: "This thing is amazing, have you heard of the [Tianya Divine Sword]?"

The young man nodded and said, "But hundreds of years ago, the black-hearted old ghost holding the [Blood Devouring Bead] was slashed under the sword?"

"Yes, that [Tianya] is the Nine Heavens Alien Iron fell into the mortal world, and was occasionally obtained by the Dry Heart Master in the Arctic Ice Field, which was refined into the current [Tianya Divine Sword], it is said that after the sword is completed, the sword qi is like a rainbow, and the blue light is prosperous, so it is called [Tianya]. ”

"What does that have to do with this little sword?" the young man was a little anxious.

The old man didn't buy it anymore, and after glancing at the young man, he continued: "What the world doesn't know is that when the Nine Heavens of Alien Iron fell into the mortal world, it was divided into two pieces in the air, one fell into the Arctic ice field, and the other fell into the fire in the center of the earth. ”

Later, when the first seat of Xiaozhu Peak of Qingyunmen at that time went out to travel, he accidentally discovered and brought back to Qingyunmen, and refined into a divine weapon named [Jiuyan]. After this sword is completed, the purple light is three miles, and there are three points of the earth's core fire, which can be described as the nemesis of all evils!"

At this point, he suddenly frowned, paced back and forth for two steps, and then looked down at the unconscious girl.

"However, this [Jiuyan] has had too much influence on the sword-wielder, and can unconsciously make the sword-wielder have a violent temperament under the depletion of the sword-wielding meridians, so it has been sealed by that little bamboo peak for more than a hundred years, and now it appears on this child... And this kid doesn't have the slightest breath of 'Tai Chi Xuanqing Dao'. ”

As if he had suddenly figured out something, his eyes lit up, and he clapped his hands and said, "Then there is only one possibility, that is, Xiao Zhufeng has chosen this child to be accepted into the door and become the [Jiuyan] Sword Master." ”

"But now, why is this kid here?"

As he spoke, the old man himself fell into deep thought again, and began to walk back and forth in place with a frown.

The young man was stunned for a long time when he heard this, looked down at the pocket sword that was still tightly tied to the girl's wrist, and then looked up at his father, who was frowning and contemplating, and couldn't help but be a little cautious.

Raising his hand, he gently pulled down the girl's dirty cuffs to cover the little sword, and he also sat down next to him to rest.

After a long time, the old man who was pacing suddenly stopped, and shouted to the young man with a slight frown: "Xingyun, I'm afraid we have to leave quickly, I'm afraid this Nizi is a little troublesome." ”

At the same time, the unconscious child slowly woke up. When she opened her eyes, she stared blankly at the sky, as if she had lost her soul.