The moonlight was hazy, shrouding the land of Shuzhong.

Deep in the mountains, a small village of just a dozen families looms in the mist.

At the entrance of the village, there is an old locust tree surrounded by seven or eight people, so the village is named - Lao Huai Village.

At this moment, in an ordinary courtyard in Laohuai Village, a young man was sitting cross-legged on the roof with his eyes closed, motionless, as if he had entered some kind of strange cultivation state.

Around the young man's body, there was a faint silver glow that was difficult to distinguish with the naked eye.

This light spilled down from the sky, as if it was some kind of mysterious energy, accompanied by the rhythm of the boy's relaxed breathing, slowly pouring into his closed eyes.

The breeze blew quietly, blowing the boy's shirt and a few slightly scattered strands of black hair on his forehead, and there was silence all around, except for the chirping of insects on the side of the road and the string of "jingling" wind chimes under the eaves.

I don't know how long it has been, but when the young man slowly opened his eyes, the bright moon hanging high above the nine heavens had been covered by a large thick dark cloud.

The stars in the night sky are dim and almost invisible, and this night ...... There is still a long one.

"It's been twelve years, and I've been practicing this unknown technique since I can remember, but it doesn't seem to have any effect other than to calm my eyes and calm my nerves. ”

"Ye Lao once said before his death, this was taught to me by the old wolf who adopted me when I was very young, and he doesn't know what the specific effect is, but since it is the secret method of the psychic beast sect, it must be of great benefit to me, but I don't know it yet. ”

"If what Ye Lao said is true, why haven't I discovered the wonderful use of this exercise until now, and ...... Was it true that I was abandoned in the wild and eventually raised by an old wolf?"

"Why don't I have any ...... in my mind about the past?"

Under the night sky, the boy whispered softly to the darkness around him, his voice drifting gently in the wind, but he received no response.

After a long time, the boy gradually came to his senses, and was about to get up and go down from the roof, when suddenly there was a sound of footsteps outside the courtyard, and an old man of about sixty years old came from the corner of the street with a lantern.

"Yo, Mr. Xiao Ye, I'm cultivating on the roof again!" Seeing the young man, the old man greeted him with a smile.

"Uncle Wang, you make fun of me again, just call me Ye Kai, I can't afford the name of Mr. Ye Kai replied with a smile.

The old man was a little unimpressed, and said: "Little old man, what I said is from my heart, in the past few years since Mr. Ye died, thanks to you taking over his mantle and treating the people in the village for free, although you are young, but the old man, I admire you from the bottom of my heart!"

"I see all minor illnesses, far less than Ye Lao, it's really a tormenting kid for you to call it that. Ye Kai shook his head slightly, he still knew how many catties and taels he had, compared with the old doctor who raised him and taught him medical skills, his medical skills were just a drop in the bucket, and it was not worth mentioning.

If he can stay with the old doctor for a few more years, he may be able to learn more, but unfortunately, even if he is as skilled as the old doctor, in the face of birth, old age, sickness and death, he is still just an ordinary mortal, and it is difficult to escape the cycle of life and death.

Therefore, since he learned from the old doctor that there were still immortal cultivators in the world when he was a child, Ye Kai was determined to become an immortal cultivator.

Not for immortality, but for the sake of seeing the vastness of the universe and the magic of heaven and earth!

Because there is no spiritual root in his body, the old doctor has never been able to become an immortal cultivator, which is the regret of his life, and Ye Kai hopes that one day he can make up for this deficiency for him.

This matter has always been a secret in Ye Xingxing, the old doctor was still there before, he couldn't travel far, but now that the old doctor has returned to dust, his heart is alive again.

Ye Kai had already made a plan, as long as he had enough to pay the one hundred taels of registration fees for participating in the Xianmen Assessment, he would leave immediately, after all, his age was not too young, and he could not delay any longer.

The old man didn't know what Ye Xingzhong was thinking, and seeing that he was so modest, he didn't say anything more, reminded him that it might rain at night, asked him to put away the medicinal herbs that were drying in the yard, and left the alley with a lantern.

"The moon is so bright tonight, how can it rain? Uncle Wang is still nagging as always!" Ye Kai didn't care about the old man's admonition, after coming down from the roof, he returned to the house to read the medical book for a while, and suddenly felt a little sleepy, so he turned off the light and went to bed.

This night, Ye Kai slept very sweetly, and he had a dream about cultivating immortals for a long time, until in the middle of the night, a thunder roared on the pillow, waking him up from the dream.

At first, Ye Kai thought that he was still in a dream, so he turned over and ignored it, until he heard that the wind and rain outside the window were raging, and the thunder was rolling in, which was deafening, and then he realized that the old man had said a prophecy, it was really raining outside, and it was a heavy rainstorm that he hadn't seen for a long time!

"It's not good, my herbs are still outside......"

As soon as he thought of this, Ye Kai's whole person instantly came to his senses, and he ran barefoot to the courtyard without putting on his shoes, and hurriedly moved the medicinal materials back to the house, but in the end, it was still a step too late, and all the medicinal materials were all wet by the heavy rain without exception.

"Alas, sure enough...... If you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer in front of you!" After moving the medicinal materials, Ye Kai sat on the chair and sighed.

This batch of medicinal materials from collection to processing and drying, it took him more than half a year, originally he planned to take them to the pharmacy in the city to exchange for silver taels, and make up the last fifteen taels of silver left, so that he could catch up with the registration time for this year's Xianmen assessment.

But he never thought that a heavy rain suddenly broke the small abacus in his heart.

Nowadays, these medicinal materials have suffered from the cold, and most of their medicinal properties have been damaged, and they cannot be sold at a good price, and I am afraid that this year's Xianmen assessment will not be able to catch up.

And if you can't catch up, you'll have to wait another three years!

"Three years ......"

"Another three-year ......"

Ye Xingxing was full of remorse, and angrily slammed his fist on his thigh, which suddenly made him grin in pain and couldn't help but scream.

But it only hurt for a moment, and then Ye Kai didn't know what he remembered, so he suddenly got up from the chair, clapped his hands and laughed loudly.

"That's right! The thunder and lightning array outside is so big, maybe the purple bamboo forest in the back mountain will produce lightning strike liquid, if you are lucky enough to collect a few drops, why worry about not being able to make up a hundred taels!"

"That's right, 'March sting, spring thunder starts, lightning strikes bamboo and conceives spiritual liquid', this is what is recorded in medical skills, the current time and place are in line, and the probability of giving birth to lightning liquid is still quite large!"

The more Ye Kai thought about it, the more he felt that it made sense, so he no longer hesitated, took off the robe from the wall and put it on, and then went out with a night light made of flint, and braved the heavy rain to go out of Laohuai Village.

Because after the lightning strike liquid is born, if it is not immediately collected with a jade bottle and the spiritual power in it is sealed, it will dissipate in the heavens and the earth on its own in less than a quarter of an hour.

Therefore, Ye Kai didn't dare to delay for a moment, almost all the way to the back mountain, and accidentally fell several times in the middle, leaving him covered in mud, but he didn't care at all, his eyes were full of excitement that could not be concealed.

Soon, Ye Kai came to the outside of the lush purple bamboo forest in the back mountain.

And above the dome, the thunder was still whistling and roaring, which gave him a lot of confidence.

It's just that although there are many thunderstorms, there is no intention of falling.

Ye Kai could only wait on the side, watching one after another heavenly thunder explode in the sky, and he shouted waste in his heart, if this fell in the purple bamboo forest, how many drops of lightning strike liquid, how many snowflakes of silver......

"No, in a year, the lightning strike liquid is born only once, and you have to find a way to lure the heavenly thunder down!" Ye Xingxing was very anxious, whether he could successfully obtain the lightning strike liquid tonight was related to whether he could successfully sign up for this Xianmen assessment in the future, and he must not wait so passively and let the opportunity be missed in vain.

"If only I were a heinous bad person, maybe there will be a thunder falling from the sky and falling beside me......" After thinking for a long time, he still couldn't think of a way, Ye Kai couldn't help but laugh at himself.

And it was at this moment that a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind, remembering the story of an eight-year-old child in the next village who he had overheard from adults when he was a child, and had the whimsical idea to make a kite out of iron wire and lead the thunder down to kill himself.

When they heard about this at the beginning of the year, Ye Kai and his friends were shocked, and they didn't dare to fly a kite for a long time.

"This may work!"

"It's just...... It's the middle of the night, where do I go to find the wire to make a kite?"

Not long after he was happy, Ye Kai was stumped again.

However, he soon thought of something else.

"I don't have iron wire, but there are ready-made kites, I remember that the two fat bear children have a secret base nearby, secretly carrying the adults at home to hide a lot of toys, among which there seems to be a big swallow-tailed kite, not as good as ...... I'll borrow it first, hehe!"

As soon as this thought appeared, Ye Kai was already a little eager to try it in his heart.

"Flying a kite on a stormy night to lead the sky to thunder, this is the first time in my life, I feel exciting to think about!"

"Wait...... No, I was forced to do this for the sake of the lightning strike, what is this sense of anticipation?"

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