The words say: I have always been young and limited, and it is easy to lose my soul when I leave at leisure.

This situation, Yu He is very appropriate in Yuan Sheng, thinking that he was also a famous and romantic figure in Jiangnan, but now he is in prison, more than ten years, the years have ruthlessly corroded him day after day, the once handsome appearance no longer exists, only this dry bones and full of resentment, still fighting against the passing years, loneliness.

A little white light from the top of the tower, shining out of his reach, seemed to be his only hope in the darkness.

Every year in midsummer and September, only on the day of Chongyang, the stone gate weighing thousands of catties will be opened, and people outside will bring him a pot of good wine, a fragrant chicken and a child.

Twelve years had passed, and the bones of the twelve children had rotted around him, and he had long since become numb, and he could no longer even smell the stench of the decomposing corpses.

This year is the thirteenth year, and the people outside the tower still sent him these.

A thin child, carrying fragrant bamboo leaves and a fat chicken, cautiously staggered in from outside the tower. The stone door slowly fell, and finally there was a dull closing sound, and the child could not help but be frightened, and his body was surrounded by boundless darkness, and his hands and feet trembled even more.

This child is a little special this year, he didn't cry in the face of such a situation, Yuan Sheng let out a cold cry in his heart. These shameless rats, in order to make him conform, have tried their best. But after all, they underestimated him, even if he was trapped in this iron-walled lock demon tower, it was impossible for him to bow to this rabble, and the others were even more delusional.

"Anyone?" asked a young voice timidly, his own voice echoing in the tower, anyone?

The child was startled by his own reply, but after a moment he realized that he had frightened himself. Seeing that no one answered for a long time, he became much calmer, and carefully walked a few steps forward with his feet step by step, towards the only light in the tower. After walking a few steps, my foot tripped over something, and the wine and chicken in my hand almost fell. He steadied down, squatted down to pick up something that had stumbled at his feet, took it and put it on his plate, and moved carefully forward, towards the faint light that shone through the top of the tower. When he walked into the light, he sat down, a pair of small black hands, grabbed the chicken leg on the plate and gnawed it, his mouth was full of grease, he only used his sleeve to wipe it, grabbed the wine jug on the plate, pulled out the stopper of the wine jug, and raised his head to drink the wine.

This is a little beggar who hasn't eaten in a long time!

Yuan Sheng originally thought that they had spent some effort to get such a bold and different child, but he didn't expect it to be so perfunctory and sloppy now, it seems that after fighting with them for so many years, they are also unhappy, and they don't expect much from him.

Yuan Sheng felt proud in his heart for a while.

Seeing that the kid was about to finish eating and drinking the fat chicken and good wine, Yuan Sheng licked his dry lips and hurriedly shouted, "Hey, stinky boy, you starving ghost, leave me some!"

This frightened the child, the chicken in his left hand and the wine in his right hand fell to the ground, and a pair of big eyes with oil on his face kept looking around.

"Here, don't look at it, here, bring me the chicken and wine, this is for me, you can enjoy it yourself, what a little bastard. ”

The child came back to his senses, picked up the remaining half of the chicken and half of the pot of wine, and walked towards the sound of shouting, because the tower was dim, he didn't know when he walked to Yuan Sheng, until a small head hit Yuan Sheng's leg, and then handed the wine and chicken to him.

The man's hands and feet were chained in thick chains, but the chicken and the wine could float to his mouth, and when he sucked it gently, the chicken and the wine went into his stomach at once.

Yuan Sheng smashed his mouth, looking full of wine and food.

The child listened to the voice and asked in surprise, "Uncle, are you done eating?"

"yes, do you have to eat this thing for half a day?"

"But you're too fast, aren't you, do you have a taste?"

"Of course, not only did I taste it, but I also tasted the taste of the bone marrow in the chicken, the years of brewing and precipitation in the wine, and the spiritual essence accumulated by the growth of all things, can you eat these?"

The child exclaimed, "Wow, so you are so powerful, I thought I was already very good at eating, but I didn't expect you to be even better, uncle, can you tell me, how did you do it?"

"Naturally, not!"

"Why, uncle, you are so stingy!"

"Hehe, do you think I don't know that you were sent by them? they want to deceive me, tell you, I won't be fooled, let them die of this heart!"

"Uncle, what did you say, who are they, are they the people who arrested you and locked you up here?"

"These sanctimonious hypocrites, I know exactly what they think, and they use children to fool me, even if I am trapped here for the rest of my life, they don't think about it. ”

"Uncle, are they from the Nangong family you are talking about?"

Yuan Sheng was a little surprised, this little kid was only six or seven years old, and he actually knew about the Nangong family.

"You also know the Nangong family?"

When the child heard this, he was a little proud for a moment, and said with a smile, "There are six gates in the world, who doesn't know Nangong Tuo, the overlord of the Nangong family in the Central Plains, he is one of the best heroes in this great wilderness, and I heard that the sword immortal Yuan Qiuchen may not be able to beat him." ”

"Oh, I didn't expect you to know Yuan Qiuchen at such a young age. ”

"Sword Immortal, who doesn't know, what I admire the most is him, the only Tianzong wizard who has cultivated into an immortal body in the Great Wilderness, but unfortunately he has already become an immortal, I just don't know what the fairyland he went to look like, whether it is as beautiful as Jiangnan. ”

Yuan Sheng was silent after listening to the child's words.

This fairyland is not as beautiful as outsiders imagine, and the sword immortals are not as free and easy as they imagined, most people in this world, most of the things, are burdened by fame, and they can't be at ease at all. If he had a choice, he didn't want to live an ordinary life like most mortals in this world.

Things are done without knowing things, there is no thought because of inaction, and there is peace because of no thought, and what people want in their lives is only peace of mind.

In the dark night, the jackdaws wail, around the sycamore and not perched, only looking for the hundred-year-old dead wood.

The hidden dragon does not come out of the blue sea, the lonely Hong dies in the rivers and lakes, all things in heaven and earth, who can escape fate?

Or because of this, the sin of life and killing is too heavy, he is trapped here, this may be because of his crime of killing the true dragon of the blue sea, if there is no blood of the true dragon, he will not cultivate into an immortal body, if there is no immortal body, he will not become the public enemy of the six gates of this great wilderness, and will be imprisoned as a demon in the lock demon tower in the Central Plains.

The world only knows the sword immortal, but does not know the sword demon, the immortal and the demon, not determined by good and evil, but by the desire of the people.

This kid is innocent, smart and cute, and he is a talented martial arts talent, but it is because he is so good that he is selected by the Nangong family and becomes the thirteenth soul in this lock demon tower.

Misfortune and blessing rely on, blessing and misfortune lurk, and the things of the world are unpredictable.

On the second day, when the child awoke from hunger and thirst, he asked the strange uncle, who could not see his face, if he had anything to eat or water to drink, just like the children before him. Yuan Sheng looked at the child's innocent appearance, and couldn't help but feel melancholy in his heart, such an innocent life would be painful to death in front of him. Although he has long been insensitive, he still can't help but repent afterwards, he is stubbornly guarding the dragon blood immortal body, what is the benefit to himself, and what is the benefit to all beings in this world?

After all, the child couldn't resist the torture of hunger, and begged Yuan Sheng several times, "Uncle, I'm so hungry, can you give me something to eat, please!"

"There's no food here, not even a little water. ”

"I don't believe it, if there were nothing, then you wouldn't have starved to death. ”

"I can't starve to death, even if I starve for more than ten years, I won't die. ”

"No way, people will starve to death sooner or later if they don't eat, unless they ......"

"Unless what?"

"Unless you're not human. ”

"What is it if it's not human?"

"You're a youkai?"

"Do I look like a yokai or do I sound like a yokai?"

"I can't see you, but your voice doesn't sound like a monster, but why are they keeping you here?

"Have you ever studied the Qur'an?"

"Nope!"

"If you are born and are not ordinary, you must be a demon, what kind of person is a person who is invincible in the world?"

"It's an immortal!"

"Is that in your eyes, in the eyes of those who also want to be invincible in the world?"

"Is it the enemy?"

"Wrong, it's a demon, it's a demon that must be eliminated quickly!"

"Why?"

"Because he dominates all living beings in the world!"

"I still don't get it!"

"You don't need to understand, just be an ordinary person in the next life. ”

"In the next life, do you mean that my life is over?"

"Do you know what that stick you picked up yesterday?"

"What is it?" the child asked in a panic.

"It's the bones, the bones of another kid like you!"

The child was startled and asked, "Did you kill him?"

Yuan Sheng said peacefully, "Why should I kill, he will starve to death." ”

"You're saying he starved to death?"

"The same goes for you!"

"Why didn't you save him?" asked the child, who was now agitated in his heart, and he had long since lost his hunger and fear.

"Because I can't save it. ”

"Then you won't be able to save me!" the child turned gloomy.

"I can't save it, but I can teach you two ways to live longer. ”

There was a light in the child's eyes, and he hurriedly asked, "What way?"

"You can eat yourself, human hands and feet are the most useless, you can start with hands and feet. ”

When the child heard this, he hurriedly said, "What kind of method are you, how can people eat themselves, uncle, you are too perverted! No wonder they have locked you up here." ”

Or you can have a second option. ”

"What choice?"

"You can eat me. ”

"Eat you?" exclaimed the child.

"Except for these two, I really can't help you, you can do it yourself. ”

"Then I'd rather starve to death. ”

"They all said this at first, but then they didn't come and gnaw at me like mad dogs, and in order to survive, people are no different from wild beasts, especially children like you who have not yet developed their hearts, and are like tigers and wolves. ”

When the child heard this, he was very shocked, and he imagined in his mind that the previous child would pounce on this uncle like a wild beast and eat his flesh, and his scalp suddenly tingled. He was now very hungry and thirsty, but he could still control himself, and if he really lost his mind to the point of being tormented by hunger and thirst, maybe he would be like them.

He really didn't dare to think about it anymore, and said to Yuan Sheng intermittently, "I, I will never eat people, even if I starve to death, you can rest assured!"

"Of course I'm relieved. ”

"Why, I eat you, aren't you afraid?"

"Don't be afraid. ”

"Aren't you afraid of pain?"

"Haha, what pain can compare to betrayal, the betrayal of the dearest and most loved person!"

"I, I won't tell you, you're terrible, I'm so hungry, I'm going to sleep, my mother said, go to bed when you're hungry, and you won't be hungry when you fall asleep. ”

As he spoke, the child curled up on the ground, and he wanted to sleep, but hunger stared like a wolf, chasing after him, and refusing to let him go. He tossed and turned, his mind messed up again, and in a trance, he saw his mother, the woman he knew most and strangest to, sitting beside him, gently stroking his head, and watching him fall asleep peacefully.

What a fun kid.