Ren Pingsheng ran all the way, and when he returned home, the eastern sky was already white.

Taking advantage of the fact that no one was moving in the village, he quietly entered his house, rummaged through the boxes and cabinets, and tossed for a long time before finally hiding the iron sword in a place where he thought he was safe.

After not sleeping all night, coupled with the long-distance travel of seventy or eighty miles, the young man was already exhausted. Although the sun was scorching, the air in the room was very hot and stuffy, and he could not take care of this, and fell asleep in that narrow room with only four walls.

It's finally time to relax!

In a drowsy state, Ren Pingsheng felt that the hard bed board behind him began to fall, and his body lying horizontally was also sinking. Then, the bed board was gone, and the body began to accelerate and fall, falling faster and faster.

What kind of place is this? The boy panicked and quickly turned his head to look down, but there was nothing underneath, no light, no color, no bottom...... It's over, is this the underworld? How did I die like this?

He turned his head in a panic and looked around, up and down, left and right, in all directions, it was all the same, nothing!

Void.

Suddenly, he thought of this very mysterious word. Since it is void, how can there be up and down, and if there is no up and down, how can it fall?

As a result, Ren Pingsheng found that his body no longer fell, but stayed in the boundless thick void.

Since it's a void, how can there be a thick feeling!

He was stunned, struggling desperately, twisting his waist and rolling his body, his hands and feet scrambled.

Bang......

Finally broke through the void, touched the ground, and fell to the bottom and back ached. Ren Pingsheng sat up groggily, opened his eyes, and found himself falling to the ground next to the bed.

Hey, that damn dream again!

Since I can remember, I don't know how many times I have dreamed this dream of falling into the void.

After sitting on the shady floor of the room for a long time, Ren Pingsheng's head was still dizzy, but he was irritable and no longer sleepy. When I opened the door and went out of the house, I found that I had slept until the end of the day.

He moved his muscles and bones, and suddenly woke up, if he didn't flood the fields and tidy up the seedlings today, where would he have time to sow seeds before the rain! Ren Pingsheng hurriedly picked up his hoe, and took advantage of the afterglow of the setting sun to hurry to the entrance of the village.

Before the young man left the village, he saw several groups of people gathered and walked into the gate one after another.

"Ren Pingsheng, the patriarch has already said hello yesterday, and every family must send manpower to salvage the bridge stones, why is no one in your house?" Ma Guiqi, who was walking in front of the crowd, looked grim, glared at Ren Pingsheng and shouted, "This bridge collapsed, but it was all your family's fault." ”

As soon as Ren Pingsheng heard this, his head "buzzed", and it went blank in an instant. He thought that the sick man's "trouble" meant something else.

The young man's eyes had a slight hint of imperceptible panic, but he pretended to be calm and said, "Seventh uncle, you can't talk nonsense without evidence." I go to the bridge every day to play, but if I want to collapse the bridge, you can teach me with my body. ”

Ma Guiqi raised his eyebrows and said sharply: "Everyone knows that this bridge was given by the gods, and the bridge suddenly collapsed, which was naturally caused by the wrath of the heavens." So now every family is making efforts, just your family, stay out of the matter, and want to provoke a greater natural disaster? In the whole village, but you hunters kill the heaviest. ”

Ma Guan Qiyi pointed to the villagers who gradually surrounded behind him, and continued to reprimand: "Everyone has discussed, if your father and son don't give an explanation of this matter, tomorrow I will go and ask the Taoist master of Xiangxing Hall to come over to exorcise the demon, and when the time comes, I will have to sacrifice you to the sky." ”

Ren Pingsheng's heart was weak, so he had to soften and say: "I didn't give our old ...... yesterday Dad sent something, ran all night before coming back, I don't know what is going on in the clan, tomorrow will be doubly the effort. ”

Xiangxing Tang Langshang Taoist Master is a character who can make the entire plain tremble with a stomp.

Ren Pingsheng has a ghost in his heart, but he is really afraid that the Taoist Master Lang will find out the clues of the bridge collapse. After all, this matter is too mysterious, and Daoist Langshang is an even more mysterious character.

Seeing his attitude change, Ma Guiqi's expression eased a lot: "Redoubling your efforts will not help." But now there's something you have to do now. This is a public opinion in the clan, and no one on the wheel can shirk it. If you can do it well this time, not only will you be able to make a contribution in the clan, but you will also be able to accumulate a lot of merit for you hunters. The matter of the stone bridge has nothing to do with your family. ”

Ren Pingsheng slammed his thin chest, and said with a proud face: "No problem, since you are doing things for the clan, you can go to the soup and the fire." ”

It was so easy to take the bait, but it made Ma Guan Qi stunned. How do you know that the two of them have their own thoughts, and they both feel that they have taken advantage.

At this moment, Ren Chongshan, the master of Xingzhi Academy, walked over from the crowd, and when he heard Ren Pingsheng's bold words, he said with a pleasant face: "The young man has ambitions, very good, very good." You can go home and prepare first, and then go to your seventh uncle's house, and after you have eaten and drunk enough, you can take the sacrificial offerings prepared by the clansmen and go to Nantouling. ”

Ren Pingsheng, who was hungry in his belly, first heard "eat and drink enough", and unconsciously swallowed several mouthfuls of saliva; and then heard the word "Nantouling", his face turned pale in an instant, and he said: "I want to go to Nan...... Nantouling?"

Although the boy was panicked, he rolled his eyes and said, "But, my father is not at home." Even at home, everyone knows that we don't have a sword at home, and we don't know how to swordsmanship. Therefore, many major events in the clan are more than enough but not enough. ”

"Go to Nantouling, what's the big deal, there are several teenagers of your age in the village, they have been there. Gao Lao Bin, who was already extremely impatient on the side, shouted, "Today's visit is the result of a public discussion among the clan." If you dare to disrespect the clan rules, let Daoist Langshang clean it up tomorrow. ”

The surrounding villagers echoed the voice, and the momentum suddenly rose. Rao is no matter how cunning Ren Pingsheng is, an eleven-year-old boy can't cope with it, not to mention, thinking about the collapse of the bridge, and the unpredictable Langshang Taoist Master, he gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, just go, when I go home and bring something, I will go to the seventh uncle's house to pick up the sacrifices." ”

Seeing that the young man was in order, Ren Chongshan and Ma Guiqi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"What are you afraid of, they can come back, can I go hunting in the mountains for so many years, and I am not as good as them when I go to Nantouling?" Ren Pingsheng secretly relieved himself.

With the astonishment of the people, he carried the offering with a large iron sword like a spindle on his back, and a burden on his shoulder, and walked out of the village to the hills and mountains to the south.

Although the previous moon is also a sacrifice for children, it is generally accompanied by an adult in the family with a sword. Rao is like this, for more than a year, there are still children from Gao Laobin's family, and another adult who accompanied him, and died in Nantouling. But this result is much better than the demon beasts in Nantouling entering the village to attack and kill people.

The offering is two and a half sized roast pigs, plus some vegetarian rice and noodles carefully prepared in gravy. In fact, everyone knows that the monster in Nantouling does not take vegetarian food, but prepares some every time, in case it likes it.

The burden of fifty or sixty catties is not a burden for the eleven or twelve-year-old boy in the village, and Ren Pingsheng is good at his feet, so he walks very fast, and when it is dark, he has already crossed the first mountain.

The bamboo torch in his hand has also been lit up. Fill a bamboo tube with fire oil, and plug the mouth of the cylinder with a linen cloth to ignite it, which is a very durable, bright enough torch, not afraid of the wind.

"The smell of this roast pig, to be honest, even makes me drool. Fortunately, I haven't taken a shower for two or three days, and this stinky body, that guy, definitely can't look down on it. ”

Walking in the dark, thinking about the good in everything, the darkness is not so terrible.

Ren Pingsheng is not afraid of the dark, what he is afraid of is Nantou Ridge, and what he doesn't know what is on the ridge.

"Everyone is begging for a living in the mountains, maybe they smell the same and make friends. ”

A cool mountain breeze blew, Ren Pingsheng felt a chill in his head, and those messy thoughts were blown away all of a sudden.

Nantouling has arrived!

The mountain is cold, and a chill rises on the back for no reason.

The time of the sacrifice should be the time of the sea. He had enough time to rush to the humble "Lingjun Temple" in the middle of the mountain, but as soon as he was nervous, the speed of walking unconsciously accelerated.

"Lingjun Temple" is actually a small shed built by the Si'an Zhai people in order to pay tribute after the appearance of demon beasts in Nantouling, with an open front and a wide offering table in the middle.

Ren Pingsheng unloaded the burden on his shoulders, put a series of sacrifices, according to the master's explanation, put them on the offering table in turn, burned the self-made thatch incense of the clansmen, trembled slightly with his hands and feet, bowed a few times, and muttered words in his mouth.

"Uncle Lingjun, no, Lord Lingjun, I sincerely sent offerings to your old man today, there is no merit and hard work, I haven't taken a bath for several days, so I won't affect your old man's appetite here, go first." When the time comes, you take your time. ”

In the dark night, gusts of wind poured straight into the mountain shrine, and the gloom was even more terrifying.

Ren Pingsheng muttered as he retreated, which had already retreated outside the open door, picked up the torch, turned around and ran.

It's dangerous! It hasn't shown up yet.

At the moment of starting, he secretly rejoiced.

As soon as he raised his foot, he didn't take the first step for a long time. When he raised his feet, he staggered behind him with a shudder, and his whole body trembled like chaff.

- What kind of monster is that!

In the firelight, I saw a behemoth on all fours, and its appearance was very terrifying: Pixiu had a wide mouth, big eyes with copper bells, a dragon's head protruding from his forehead, a lion with a long mane, and his whole body was dark and covered with shiny armor.

In my spare time, I heard people tell some strange stories, and I once described the appearance of Yajiang divine beasts. I can't see the slightest so-called "elegant" aura on this thing.

The legendary Yajiang is standing in front of him, tall and majestic, and Ren Pingsheng can only reach the height of its neck!

The giant beast bared two long fangs and a pair of big eyes like copper bells, staring at Ren Pingsheng's whole body!

In a panic, the young man hurriedly turned sideways to give way, pointed to the door of the ancestral hall, and said in a trembling voice to the giant beast: "Yajiang ...... God, Your Offerings...... products, but they were all delivered. Hemp...... Excuse me. No, no...... Please come in and enjoy it without giving way. ”

Na Yajiang began to bow his head, two nostrils with long mucus, leaning towards Ren Pingsheng's head and face, and constantly inhaling.

The hot and smelly smell came to my face. The young man was so frightened that his feet went limp, and he sat down on the ground. I wanted to say a few more good words, but I felt that my tongue was knotted, my throat was blocked, and I couldn't make any sound.

Yajiang's wet and greasy nose almost rubbed against Ren Pingsheng's face, and it smelled very cool. Suddenly, there was a deafening roar, and it opened its mouth and bit the boy's head.

The torch had fallen to the ground and was still burning.

In the big mouth that was enough to swallow Ren Pingsheng's entire head, two rows of sharp teeth were about to touch the cheeks, and the trembling long tongue could already lick the forehead......