Yuzhang City is a big city, and it is as famous as another big city, Xijin City.

These two cities are the mortal tribe settlements of the Li family in Taiqiu Mountain.

Spring is bright, everything is recovering, and the old trees that have lost all their leaves last winter are beginning to sprout green shoots.

There is a academy in Yuzhang City, which is dedicated to the enlightenment of young children of the nearby Li clan.

Li Heng is one of them.

Lang Lang's reading sound came from the academy, one after another, forming a beautiful melody.

Li Heng doesn't like to read, he likes to read, and there is a difference between the two.

The gentleman in the academy was walking around, and when he saw a lazy student, he gently patted him on the head with a ring ruler.

Li Heng sat by the window, the winter cold had not gone, and the open window showed a hint of coolness.

Li Heng rubbed his little hands that were frozen red, and turned the poetry book on the desk with difficulty with two fingers.

The gentleman who walked to Li Heng's side saw this scene, but he didn't care whether he opened his mouth to read or not.

Instead, he tapped the desk with a ruler, and after attracting Li Heng's attention, he pointed to the window with a ruler.

Li Heng then willingly pulled the window over and closed it.

Li Heng actually likes this coolness, because it is full of the breath of early spring, which makes Li Heng feel refreshed, and his mood will unconsciously improve.

But he knew what the gentleman meant, and the people next to him didn't like this kind of atmosphere as much as he did.

The gentleman in the academy knew that he was a smart man, so he knew that he understood what he meant, so he nodded and smiled before slowly pacing away.

A leisurely afternoon was spent in the sound of books.

The young children who were already preparing to go home said goodbye to the teacher who taught them.

Li Heng was the last, and after he bowed as well, he did not leave. Instead, he asked Mr. a question seriously.

"Sir, someone from Taiqiu Mountain will come in a few days!"

The gentleman of the academy let out a soft sigh and said kindly:

"What do you want to ask?"

Li Heng thought carefully for a moment before he spoke:

"Sir is the most knowledgeable person I know, and the student wants to ask if Taiqiu Mountain is really as beautiful as my elders say?"

When the gentleman of the academy heard this, his expression also became serious, since Li Heng asked him this question so carefully, he must also show a sincere attitude towards him.

"Maybe it's darker than you think!"

"Is it inside the Taiqiu Mountains?"

"No, it's outside Taiqiu Mountain. ”

Li Heng gave his hand again and thanked him:

"The student seems to understand, thank you sir. ”

The gentleman waved his hand and said to Li Heng:

"If you can go up the mountain and go to the ancestral shrine, remember to help Mr. go to the pillar incense. ”

"Students remember. ”

Then Li Heng walked outside the academy, and after a while, he strolled in the lanes of Yuzhang City, and there was a faint smoke not far away, and the air smelled good.

......

Five days later, under the leadership of the city lord Li Gui, all the school-age children in Yuzhang City were gathered in two large carriages outside the city.

Today, they are going to set off to Taiqiu Mountain, where the elders' mouths and hearts are nagging and thinking about them.

In the carriage, Li Heng saw that in addition to the city lord and his guards, there was also a stranger riding a black horse.

This stranger was dressed in a black robe, with long sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and he was very beautiful. The city lord Li Gui was very respectful to him.

This is Li Xuanyu, the twelfth ranked Li Jiaxuan in Taiqiu Mountain.

As if sensing that Li Heng was observing himself through the gap in the carriage curtain, Li Xuanyu turned his head and smiled at Li Heng.

Li Heng didn't expect the other party to be able to find out, and after being stunned for a moment, he also smiled back.

Li Xuanyu turned his head and continued to carry out his escort mission, but whispered softly in his mouth:

"This kid is funny. ”

After ten days of running on the road, Li Heng finally arrived at the holy place of the clan, Taiqiu Mountain.

And two other carriages from Xijin City also joined them here.

Under the organization of the two city lords of Yuzhang City and Xijin City, dozens of children in the four carriages got off the carriages, and the next road required them to walk.

Led by Li Xuanyu, the group passed through the Linggu field at the foot of Taiqiu Mountain, and approached the mountain body of Taiqiu Mountain little by little.

The Linggu had just pulled out the new sprouts, and Li Heng sniffed carefully in the air with his nose, as if he had smelled that these Linggu were slightly different from the ordinary rice grown outside Yuzhang City.

Although he was a little curious in his heart, Li Heng still obeyed the instructions of the city lord before he set off: don't look around, don't ask questions, and don't move.

Crossing a long road, Li Heng raised his head and looked at the majestic mountain in front of him.

I thought: Is this Taiqiu Mountain? It's really beautiful!

The aura is dense, and the breath of early spring is revealed everywhere on the mountain.

Li Heng secretly turned his head and looked at a side peak next to him, and found that there was a beautiful red pouring on this side peak, but he didn't know what that red was?

Once here, the lord and his guards could not follow him up the mountain.

So they had to wait here.

At this time, a caravan walked by, and Li Heng was very curious about the horses in these caravans.

And the other children were even more so, Li Heng even saw a girl who wanted to reach out and touch the huge horse beast.

But she was scared to tears by a man in black who was riding on the horse.

Li Heng saw the black shadow man jump off his horse, take two steps towards the girl, and then stand still in front of her.

In front of this man in black, City Lord Li Gui was very nervous, and his words were not clear.

Li Heng saw the man in black hand the girl a round "sugar pill", and then told her to stop crying.

After the man in black left, the scene was a little chaotic, so Li Xuanyu cast a spell to keep the group of children quiet again.

Afterwards, Li Xuanyu led the children up the mountain and slowly walked towards a building on the mountainside.

When Li Heng went up Taiqiu Mountain, he felt that the air around him was a little different, as if there was something more, and the more he went up, the more obvious this feeling became.

Li Heng also met many people like Li Xuanyu on the road, all wearing the same black Xuanyu.

Li Heng arrived at the Li family's Soul Measuring Pavilion.

Li Heng followed the instructions of the people inside in a daze, began to make various movements, and finally put his hand on a piece of crystal clear jade.

This process didn't last long.

In the end, there were only five people left, and Li Heng was one of them.

Next, Li Heng was taken to the foot of the back mountain, where there was a delicate wooden house.

The man in black who had brought them with him gave each of the five of them a book, and told them to choose a hut to live in, and that the others would tell them about the rest.

In this wooden house, Li Heng stayed for three months, and when he sensed the aura described in the mouth of those black-clothed people, he was taken to the ancestral hall of the Li family.

When Li Heng entered the ancestral hall, there was already an old man with a gray beard waiting for him inside.

The old man gave him a character and wrote his name: Li Yuheng into the family tree.

Li Yuheng became the first member of the Li family's jade generation.

The old man's name was Li Yishang, because he deliberately pointed out his name to Li Yuheng on the second page of the genealogy, but around the name Li Yishang, the rest of the names had been darkened.

Li Yishang asked Li Yuheng to drop a drop of blood on his name, and then asked him to kneel on the futon and kowtow three times to the ancestral shrine.

When Li Yuheng left, he suddenly remembered something.

So he turned to his uncle Li Yishang and said:

"Uncle, can I put a pillar of incense on behalf of the gentleman of the academy?"

Li Yishang was stunned, then said with a smile:

"Yes. ”

......

Li Yuheng's formal cultivation life in Taiqiu Mountain began in this way.

After leaving the ancestral shrine, the first place he went to was the Good Gong Hall, from where he received his own black Xuan costume and family token.

In the following years, in addition to his step-by-step cultivation, Li Yuheng carried out the tasks assigned to him by his family.

Originally, he was asked to plant yellow bud grass, but he didn't like it, and later changed him to raise earth horses.

Li Yuheng likes this group of earth horse beasts in the family, he likes this task, when he stays with the earth horse beasts, it seems that he can hear their hearts, so he has completed this task very well.

Gradually, when the earthy horse beasts of the three caravans of the family returned to Taiqiu Mountain to recuperate, they would all be sent to Li Yuheng to take care of them.

In addition to raising earth horse beasts at the foot of Taiqiu Mountain, Li Yuheng often goes to the family's library pavilion.

He likes to read, and he is often attracted by the various classics in the library, whether it is exercises, secret arts, or strange things.

Li Yuheng can often meet the same person here, which is his ninth uncle Li Xuangang.

After meeting Li Xuangang a few times, Li Yuheng moved his reading position to Li Xuangang's side.

The two of them leaned against a corner on the first floor of the library and read quietly.

The sun fell at their feet, and when they read a book, the time was quiet and beautiful.

Li Yuheng naturally didn't want to sit with his ninth uncle Li Xuangang for no reason, because he found a lot of things in the classics that he didn't understand.

And obviously, Ninth Uncle Li Xuangang is a very good object to ask.

Such days continued for a few more years, until Li Yuheng heard the bell from the ancestral shrine in the library pavilion.

Li Yishang, the uncle of the first generation, sat down. The family said that he was exhausted in Shouyuan and sat in the cave.

On that day, there was a dripping autumn rain on Taiqiu Mountain, so it was a chill to the bone.

Li Yuheng and many other clansmen stood on the bluestone slab outside the ancestral hall, waiting for his uncle Li Changji to come out of the ancestral hall.

In the process of waiting, Li Yuheng saw the ninth uncle Li Xuangang leading the third brother Li Yuxian to come. Then Li Yuheng heard the ninth uncle Li Xuangang once again warn Li Yuqian, who ranked fifth, not to cry.

Li Yuheng also heard Li Yuqian quibbling, and she said it was because of the rain.

He thought of his uncle Li Yishang, and he felt that he was a good person, because he always smiled at himself, and he often went to the foot of Taiqiu Mountain with him to take care of the earth horse beast.

Li Yishang said to him: These earth horse beasts are very important to the family, and you are also very important to the family.

Li Yuheng thinks that what his uncle Li Yishang said is very right.

Two years later, Li Yuheng met his ninth uncle Li Xuangang in the library on an afternoon, and he heard that he was going to the Hengduan Mountains, so he seized the opportunity to ask a question that had been entangled in his heart.

"Uncle Jiu, Yu Heng wants to know what Taiqiu Mountain means to you?"

Ninth Uncle Li Xuangang's side face was sunk in the afternoon sun, and the corners of his mouth showed a good-looking arc.

He thought about it seriously for a while, and then said to Li Yuheng seriously:

"It's a complicated question, and I haven't figured it out, but I have a vague answer in mind, but it takes time to verify. ”

After that, Li Xuangang seemed to think of something, he put down the classics in his hand, and then asked Li Yuheng a question. He asked:

"Yuheng, what do you think the family is?"

Li Yuheng was stunned, thought about it seriously, and finally failed to answer.

Li Xuangang patted him on the shoulder, then got up and walked out of the library.

......

A few days later, Li Yuheng watched Ninth Uncle Li Xuangang embark on the caravan bound for the Hengduan Mountain Range, he watched the figure of the Ninth Uncle gradually disappear, and then he turned his head again and looked at the Taiqiu Mountain behind him.

After the spiritual vein promotion presided over by Uncle Li Changji two years ago, Taiqiu Mountain became a little higher.

The sunlight is draped on the entire Taiqiu Mountain, which looks very majestic.

Li Yuheng still hadn't found the answer to his question, and he guessed that it might be because he hadn't felt the "darkness outside Taiqiu Mountain" that Mr. Shuyuan said. Or maybe as Ninth Uncle Li Xuangang said, the answer will take time to verify.

After the departure of the ninth uncle Li Xuangang, Li Yuheng often read books in the library by himself, and he was extremely eager to break through to the fourth layer of qi refining as soon as possible, because this would allow him to feel the darkness outside Taiqiu Mountain as soon as possible.

Three years later, Li Yuheng refined the third layer of qi.

The first time he reached the top of Taiqiu Mountain, the first time he saw the third-order green plum spirit tree, and the first time he faced his uncle Li Changji alone.

Uncle Li Changji solemnly handed him nine elephant tortoise beast eggs and asked him to do his best to hatch them.

Two years ago, Li Yuheng had already seen the newly deposited secret technique of domesticating the tortoise beast in the library.

......

A few years later, Li Yuheng, who was taking care of the nine-headed tortoise cubs, was once again called to the top of Taiqiu Mountain by his uncle Li Changji.

This time, it was handed over to him by a group of demon beasts named Jade Luo Bee.