Hanno strolled through the alleys of Veran City, when the continent of Elam had entered the cold season, and from time to time a cold wind blew and made people shiver.

Hano is only 19 years old this year, his mother died early, and there is only one father in the family who has been bedridden for many years. Papa Havana was an adventurer when he was young, and he was also quite famous in Vilan City, but during an adventure, he suffered a serious spinal injury, so he lost consciousness from the waist down, and lay in bed for 15 years. Hano is the only child of Havana's father, and at first, thanks to his father's savings, the father and son can live their lives for a while. Havana planned the future for his son, and when Hano was 10 years old, Havana sent his son to the Apothecary Guild of Veran City through an old friend, hoping that he could get a job in it and learn alchemy by the way, so that at least after his savings were exhausted, he could rely on Hano to support the family.

Unfortunately, Hano had no talent in the profession of pharmacist, and until he was 15 years old, he couldn't even refine the most basic potions, so he had no choice but to do some miscellaneous work in the guild to earn a meager income to supplement his family. But the misfortune is not alone, Hanno inadvertently broke the beloved medicine cup of the guild leader's son, and the result can be imagined, Hano was expelled from the pharmacists guild. Since then, Hano has had to do odd jobs to make ends meet.

Today, Hano has to go to the Pharmacists' Guild, because Havana's father needs a potion to suppress the severe pain caused by the injured spine, so Hano has to come to the guild every week to buy this potion, which is actually a lot of expenses, but after all, Hano has been in the Pharmacists Guild for several years, and there is a good friend in it, called Sophia, every time Hano comes, Sophia secretly stuffs him with a few silver coins and some potions, so that Hano saves a lot of expenses, and Hano also hides this kindness in his heart, always thinking that he will have the ability in the future, and he must repay his good friend。

"Hey~~~Hano~~~~I'm here~~~~" A crisp shout came from the back door of the Apothecary Guild.

Hano smiled, and only smiled when he saw Sophia. Hearing the shout, Hano hurriedly walked a few steps to the stone pillar at the back door of the guild, which was also the old place where they met every time.

"Guess what I brought you?" A beautiful little girl with short pink hair turned out from behind the stone pillar, grabbed Hano's arm and said, "Last night, the president had a banquet for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, I helped clean up the table, and took a lot of delicious food while they were not paying attention, nay, there is meat, bread, and a bottle of wine, you can take it back and give it to Havana Daddy~~"

Sophia said as she took out a few paper packets and two bottles, one large and one small, from her wide robe, and handed them to Hano, and said as she handed them over: "I haven't paid my salary this month, so I won't give you silver coins today, and in that small bottle is ten days of painkillers, you can take it quickly~"

Hano smirked and took these things and said, "Sophia, it's really ...... to trouble you every time Thank you so much!"

Sophia blinked her eyes and pretended to be angry, "Hey, hey, hey, I said, don't say thank you to me, why don't you always remember it!"

Hano didn't know that Sophia was faking to be angry, so he hurriedly said, "Eh, Sophia, you...... Don't be angry, I'll remember next time!"

Sophia laughed, stretched out her little hand, stood on tiptoe and touched Hano's head, like a young lady: "Well, well~~~"

The two were laughing, and then a few teenagers came out of the back door, the leader was very energetic, and the followers behind looked like dogs.

"Yo, isn't this our little Sophia?, what, to help this waste again?" said the leader, and then the others who followed laughed uncontrollably.

"No...... Leave it alone!" Sophia said with a blushing face.

"Waste is waste, I entered the guild at the age of ten, how can I refine several levels of potions now?"

"I ......" Hano recognized this person, his name was Ryan, and he had been working in the Pharmacists Guild since he was a child, but this person was good at slapping horses, and he smelled the same as the president's son, and always regarded himself as a red man in front of the young president, and he liked to bully the weak the most, and he was bullied by Ryan when he didn't leave, "Ryan, your mouth is still so stinky! No wonder you can only be a lackey for Boris!"

"What!" Ryan's face changed, who in the guild except for the guild leader and his son dared to talk to him like this, he was about to have a seizure, he gestured at the few people behind him, and then took a step back.

The few young people behind Ryan didn't look like they were good at it, although they were wearing a white pharmacist's robe, they all had horizontal flesh on their faces, and their appearance had nothing to do with alchemy.

"Hey, hey, hey~~~" A man with a scar on his face smirked and rushed towards Hano, raising his hand and punching straight to the door.

Hano had never learned fighting skills, and he had no money to learn, so he could only rely on his body's instinctive reaction, and when he was able to dodge this punch, he felt a sharp pain in his lower back, and then a dog ate and threw himself on the ground, and the paper bag in his hand was thrown far away, and the contents were scattered all over the ground.

"Hit me!!" Ryan saw that Hano had fallen, and he also took a few steps forward, raised his foot and kicked it.

At this time, seven or eight people surrounded Hano is a random beating, Hano was also stubborn, and he didn't say anything, only holding his head with both hands, raising his knees to protect his heart, and coming from all sides, let these people beat him.

Sophia's face turned pale with fright, and she screamed and rushed at the few who had beaten people.

"Stop!!don't hit !!" Sophia tried to pull one of the happiest bald heads, but she was a little girl how to be the opponent of those big men.

"Get out of the way!!!' The bald head was annoyed by the pull, and with a flick of his hand, Sophia was thrown out lightly.

"Poof!"

Sophia's back of her head slammed into the corner of the base of the stone pillar at the back door of the guild, and her hands immediately fell, her eyes were full of horror and puzzlement, and her small mouth trembled, as if she wanted to say something, but the back of her head was already covered with red blood and white brains. Sophia stared at Hano with her eyes wide open, and two lines of tears fell quietly, and her eyes, which were originally clear and bright, turned gray after the tears flowed. Sophia used the last of her strength to reach for Hano, but her right hand shook almost spasmodically for a few moments, and finally stopped moving completely.

At this time, Hano had also been beaten unconscious, Ryan noticed that Sophia had been killed by his own men, he frowned, his heart was irritable, but he was not very flustered, Sophia, like Hano, belongs to the kind of small role with no identity, no status and no background, even if he is killed, with his own means, it will not have much to do with it, but if he wants to smooth out this matter, it will be more or less troublesome.

"Big brother, what should I do with this little girl?" asked the bald head.

"It doesn't matter, move her body back to me first, you guys clean up here, and I'll go find the young master." Ryan said.

The bald head nodded, said no more, and beckoned the others to go busy without mentioning it.

At this time, only Hano was still lying on the ground at the back door of the guild, and occasionally a cool breeze blew, turning over the paper bags scattered on the ground a few times.

"Hano!"

"Hano!!"

Hano was dazed and heard someone shouting, and he struggled to open his purple eyelids, and it turned out to be Sophia crouching in front of him, calling out to him one after another.

"Ah...... It hurts......" Hano rubbed his shoulders and sat up in pain.

"Sophia...... You...... Are you alright?" asked Hano.

Sophia smiled sweetly and said, "Fool, I'm a little girl, they won't do anything to me, it's just a pity for those delicious ......"

Hano struggled to stand up, took out the small bottle that Sophia gave him just now from his arms, looked at it and saw that it was okay, then he put his mind at ease and said with a smile: "Look, my Sophia is fine, Daddy's medicine is fine, and the rest will be ruined if they are destroyed......"

Sophia giggled and said, "Fool, who is your Sophia? When did I become yours?"

"Hehe~~" Hano didn't care about the bruises on his face, and smirked, "Sophia, I saw a message in the Adventurer's Guild when I came, do you know the Burial Dragon Valley?"

"Burial Dragon Valley?" Sophia was stunned, "Of course I know, legend has it that it is the most dangerous and mysterious place on the continent, and it is said that there are eleventh-order demonic beasts entrenched in it!"

"Well, yes," Hano nodded, "but now the situation in the Buried Dragon Valley has changed, and it seems that it has been occupied by some mysterious big man, who has released a mission in the Adventurers' Guild to find some special medicines and treasures, as long as you can find one of them, you can get whatever you want." ”

"Poof!" Sophia laughed, "anything you want?

Hano shook his head, pondered for a moment and said: "I don't think this is a big breath, if this big man really occupies the Burial Dragon Valley, then his ability must be unimaginable to us, maybe he can really realize our wishes!"

Sophia tilted her head to look at Hano, sighed softly and said, "Maybe...... Hano, if you think it's the right thing to do, go ahead, but ...... I'm going with you!"

Hanno was stunned for a moment, then became excited, and said happily: "Sophia, have you finally figured it out? The Pharmacists Guild is not suitable for us, you should have left a long time ago!"

Sophia nodded and said, "The reason why I insisted on not leaving before was just to get more potions for my father, but now, I have learned the formula of that painkiller, so I want to go with Hano!"

"Alright!" said Hano, nodding heavily, "Let's go together!never come back here, I'll take care of you no matter what!"

"Hmm!" Sophia smiled, smiling very happily, "Brother Hano, you go back first, I still have something to pack, and when you decide to go, I will be there for you......"

Hanno nodded, didn't think carefully about Sophia's words, put the potion in his arms, didn't care about the pain all over his body, and ran to the adventurer's guild with a trot.

Sophia stared at Hano's back, the smile on her face fading away, replaced by sadness, helplessness, and hatred for fate.

Another cool breeze blew, and the back door of the Apothecary's Guild was empty, and everywhere was a dead gray of stone, except for a faint shade of crimson under one of the doorposts......

Hano came to the door of the Adventurers' Guild again, and by this time there were already thousands of people gathered here, and there were crowds of people everywhere, whispering to each other.

"Who do you say this burial Dragon Valley Lord is?"

"How do I know, it's not ordinary anyway, what, you want to go?"

"This ......"

"Brother, I think there's a deception here! Where is such a good thing? Anything you want? I think bragging is about the same!"

"And~ What do you know, the Burial Dragon Valley is the most mysterious and dangerous place on the continent, since this valley master can occupy it, I think it must be at least a sword god and a law god-level power!"

"Are you going or not?"

"I?haha, I don't have what this valley lord needs, wouldn't it be in vain to go!"

“......”

Hano squeezed into the front of the bulletin board with difficulty, the huge bulletin board was covered with graphics and descriptions of various medicinal materials, ores and rare objects, Hano looked at them one by one, the more he looked at them, the more disappointed he became, among these thousands of things, he didn't even know nine out of nine, and even some medicinal materials were simply unheard of. You must know that Hano has worked in the Apothecary Guild for many years, and although his ability to refine medicine is not very good, after all, he still has knowledge.

Just as Hano was disappointed, out of the corner of his eye, he saw something in a corner, on which was painted a black piece of wood, but there was a faint golden light in the black.

Hano only felt familiar at a glance, and then looked at the annotation: Jin Xuan Lei Mu, the body is the Jin Xuan Tree, the tree was born in the haze of the land, and it did not stiffen after a long time of death, and after the thunder hit the top, the Jin Lei Bush did not disperse. This wooden ground can generate the sound of wind and thunder without moving, and the whole body is pitch black, with occasional golden light flowing.

Seeing this, Hano's heart was happy, and he had the impression that there seemed to be such a piece of black broken wood in the sundries under the bed at home, at first Havat and his son did not know where the wood came from, and one day, Hano always heard the muffled sound of thunder, the sound was not loud, and it seemed to come from under the bed, the father and son spent a long time finally finding the source of the sound, which came out of this piece of broken wood, at that time the two were just amazed, so this piece of wood remained.

Hano looked at the note again, and in the value column it read: Superior

Hano is happy again, it turns out that Liu Xuan divided these things into high and low when compiling the book, and set the exchange rules, the best treasure can be exchanged for a piece of exercise (the level is not limited, in fact, Liu Xuan can't be graded, if his exercises are converted to the Elan Continent, I am afraid that the lowest is also the god level, and the exercises on the Elan Continent are divided into earth level, spirit level, heaven level, holy level and god level from low to high, and the legend says that there are super god-level exercises on the continent, but no one has ever seen it. ), a set of weapons and armor (artifact), ten elixirs, or the reward is negotiable; medium treasures can be exchanged for a set of weapons and armor (holy weapons), five elixirs, or negotiable; while low-level treasures can only be exchanged for some elixirs or some cultivation improvements.

Hano was not stupid, he was excited, but he didn't dare to show it on his face, and hurriedly squeezed out of the crowd and ran home.

At this time, the square was still crowded with people, but everyone was watching, to put it mildly, the conditions given by Liu Xuan could be regarded as very good, but it was such a good condition that everyone was discouraged, because people are not stupid, and the story of pie in the sky is not so beautiful. Therefore, everyone is a little hesitant in their hearts, go, afraid of being deceived, don't go, and afraid that they will really miss an opportunity.

"Report this to the authorities immediately!" a man in black who stood at the edge of the crowd whispered to those around him.

"Yes!" the other man in black nodded yes, and slowly disappeared.

Inside the City Lord's Mansion of Wilan City.

"Is it really okay, Mr. Byron?" said a handsome middle-aged man, in a deep voice.

"Master Hou, I guarantee with my life, Miss has encountered a great opportunity, not only is her life safe, but after this incident, it is also an opportunity for us, if you seize it well, maybe everything will be solved!"

"But......" The middle-aged man was still a little hesitant.

"Master Hou, Mr. Xuan's ability is not something you and I can imagine, we have to wait for today's plan, wait for an opportunity to appear, what Mr. Xuan asked me to do this time, maybe it can make this opportunity come faster, and the strength of Kebo County is enough to protect itself, as long as the empire does not send the Four Dragons Legion, it will be difficult to break through our defense line." Byron said.

"Hmm......" The middle-aged man groaned slightly, and seemed to have made up some kind of determination, "Okay, Mr. Byron, according to what you said, I don't care what the origin of this Mr. Xuan is, who he is, I will no longer ask about the matter of the burial of the Dragon Valley, and I can also agree to all the matters related to the burial of the Dragon Valley, whether it is a scam or a chance, I want to see how much of a wave this unborn master in Mr. Byron's mouth can set off!!"

"Hahahaha!" Byron laughed heartily, "Master Hou, I promise you will not be disappointed, you will never be disappointed!!"