Chapter 1: Youth
Nanping Chau, the blue city of Li Mansion.
Li Mansion is the mansion of Li Gui, the supreme governor of Canglan City, and naturally occupies the largest area, the whole mansion is made of mountains, and there is a bottomless abyss in the backyard, it is said that the abyss and ravines are the traces left by the Jiuzhou War, and the perennial fog is shrouded in fog, and the bottom is not visible.
Under the scorching sun, in the martial arts arena of the Li Mansion, I saw a dark-skinned and resolute-looking young man dragging an iron rod that was a cut taller than him and dancing. The boy is about thirteen or fourteen years old, and although his skin is slightly dark, he is better than his eyebrows and eyes. Although he is young, he is also quite disciplined with the iron rod.
At this time, there was a hurried voice from outside the field: "Ah Fu, hurry up and clean up, the old master and the young master will be back soon, don't let the young master see that you have touched his fine iron rod, the young master will break your legs." The age of the person who spoke was almost the same as that of the young man named Ah Fu, but he looked at Kong Wu Lili, the young man of Kong Wu was named Ah Yuan, and the two were both servants in the house. Hearing this, Ah Fu hurriedly cleaned up the traces in the martial arts arena, then placed the fine iron rod on the weapon rack, and hurriedly said to the man: "Why did the old master and the young master come back so quickly today?" Ah Yuan pursed his lips and gestured: "Lie to you, I'm the one"!
Ah Fu smiled, put his arm on Ah Yuan's shoulder, and said, "Just kidding!"
Both of them are servants of the Chen Mansion, and the two of them are the youngest in the house, the two are of the same age, and they are teenagers, so they naturally get along quite well.
At this time, I heard a housekeeper and servant at the door shouting, "The master and the young master are back!"
I saw an old man and a young man at the door, turning over and dismounting and walking towards the middle gate. The old man is Li Gui, the blue county guard, tall and mighty, although he is nearly sixty years old, but there is no sign of aging, the royal family governs the country with martial arts, although Li Gui is a civil official, but he is also a master of body refining, and he is already a master of body refining.
The young master's name is Li Deyi, he is the eldest son of Master Li, about fifteen or sixteen years old, handsome in appearance, and Li Junshou is quite similar.
When everyone walked into the courtyard, a beautiful woman came out of the wing room and said in surprise: "Why did the master and Yi'er come back early today?" The woman looked about thirty years old, dignified but charming.
Li Shengyi Li Gongzi was full of joy and pulled the woman to say: "Mother, today Tiandumen Sangmu Zhenren came to visit my father, and said in the city restaurant that I am talented and a good material for refining qi, and asked me if I would like to go to Tiandumen with him to practice, of course I said yes, if I don't come back to pack my luggage, I will leave with Mr."
Tiandu Gate is a major cultivation sect in Nanpingzhou, but the living materials and grains required by the low-level disciples in the gate still need to be turned over through the government, and the elders in charge of logistics in Tiandu Gate often wander around the temple.
Although Mrs. Li is not a person who practices martial arts, she also knows that if she is fortunate enough to be admitted to Tiandumen, it means that she has truly stepped into the path of cultivation, and her future achievements will definitely not be limited to a martial artist who refines the body, and she is also known as a fairy in people's mouths.
Mrs. Li's crisp voice that did not match her age was as beautiful as a yellow bird, and she turned her head and asked, "Master, is what Yi'er said true?"
Master Li looked at Mrs. Li and said with a smile: "It's true! Starting today, I am ready to start speeding up the progress of refining the body for Yi'er, the immortals of Tiandumen will send someone to the house to take Yi'er away in a few days, I have to hurry up before Yi'er leaves, a few thousand-year-old ginseng that have been treasured for many years will be given to Yi'er, this thousand-year-old ginseng is also extremely precious in Tiandumen, and it greatly improves the refining body, Yi'er is currently refining the three realms of cultivation, and after taking this thousand-year-old ginseng, you can directly ascend to the fourth or even fifth realms of refining within a few days!"
Refining the body, pay attention to step by step, the ten realms are already the pinnacle that mortal bodies can reach, although the people of the ten realms have the power of a hundred horses, but they cannot prolong their lives, if there is no talent for refining qi, they can only be regarded as a martial artist, stop at the ten realms, and the life span is no different from ordinary people. However, I heard that there is a kind of elixir in the cultivation sect that can wash the marrow and improve the qi, but that kind of elixir is too precious, and if you are not the head of the sect, your nephews and relatives, who will give you this kind of great creation?
Mrs. Li was pleasantly surprised: "It's really Tianxing my Li family, as long as Yi'er succeeds in cultivation in the future, my Li family will be the glory of the ancestors." Then he was depressed: "How long will it take to go this time, is it a long time since I have not seen my mother?" Thinking of this, tears couldn't help but drip down.
Master Li said unhappily, "What is this doing, women's Taoist family, it's not like you can't go back, go and go, today I will give Yi'er a thousand years of ginseng!"
Mrs. Li hurriedly wiped her tears and said, "Yes, master, listen to the master," although she is over forty years old, her smile is quite attractive.
Ah Yuan whispered to the side: "You said that why didn't the two of us have this kind of good luck to be favored by Tiandumen, maybe we also have a talent for cultivation." ”
Ah Fu said: "Don't even think about it, Master Li has been refining his body for thirty years, and he has only refined the sixth realm so far, you and I have been peeking at the Fuzhong Nursing Institute to practice martial arts every day, and we have been practicing martial arts for a year or two, and I don't know that the Year of the Monkey can be regarded as a real refining body." ”
Ah Yuan said dejectedly: "People are more angry than people, my father is a servant, I am also a servant, even if I have talent, who knows!"
Ah Fu patted Ah Yuan on the shoulder: "You have a father and mother, I don't even know who my parents are, the name Ah Fu was taken by my uncle, and my uncle was gone a few years ago."
Ah Yuan said softly: "I am your brother! you still have me!" Ah Fu recovered from his depression.
When Ah Fu was six years old, the clan uncle was kicked to death by a horse because he blocked the way of a dignitary and nobleman when he went out to ask for food, and since then, Ah Fu has no relatives. A few years ago, the Li Mansion summoned servants, and the young man sold himself to the Li Mansion.
Ah Yuan's surname is Wang, and his father is also a servant of the Li Mansion, but the older he gets, and he falls during the period, his legs and feet are inconvenient. Now it's a good time to be at home. The Li Mansion signed a deed of sale with the Yuan's father, and the steward of the palace asked the Yuan's father to send his son to the mansion as a servant, otherwise he would have to pay a large amount of liquidated damages, and the Yuan's father had no other way but to send his son to the Li Mansion.
The night is dark and the stars are scarce.
On the bed, Ah Fu tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, and his mind couldn't help but think of the scene when Uncle Clan was hit and killed by a horse that was galloping.
That day, the uncle led Xiao Ah Fu to the street to beg, and finally got two steaming big meat buns from the owner of the usually stingy bun shop, and was full of joy and was ready to enjoy this rare delicacy with Xiao Ah Fu.
"Drive, drive, get out of the way, get out of the way!" came a loud cheer and the sound of horses' hooves hitting the ground in the distance.
Little Ah Fu didn't know what was going on, and he had been thrown aside with a force.
Immediately after that, a miserable scream of "Ah!" came from his ears, and Xiao Ah Fu saw that his uncle was dying and fell on the ground paved with bluestone bricks.
It turned out that the clan uncle did not intend to stop when he saw the momentum of the horse galloping over, and seemed to be about to step on himself and Xiao Ah Fu, so he used all his strength to push Xiao Ah Fu to the side.
The man who rode his horse and killed his uncle only stopped and looked at it, and then left expressionlessly, and no one dared to stop him.
Pedestrians on the street stopped one after another, some watched the excitement, some commented, some gloated, and of course there were kind-hearted, a middle-aged man said to Xiao Afu: "Little baby, take your elders to Hades Mountain, there is an old doctor at the foot of the mountain, maybe you can save your elders!"
Xiao Afu was already crying beside the clan uncle, and when he heard someone say this, he hurriedly reached out and wiped a handful of snot on his little face, and said while sobbing: "Uncle, how to go to Hades Mountain?"
The middle-aged man who spoke: "Walk all the way to the east, and when you go out of the city and go south for an hour, you will see a wooden house, where the old doctor is." ”
After thanking the middle-aged well-wishers, Xiao Afu helped the clan uncle to stagger towards the so-called Hades Mountain, crying while walking, and the uncle and nephew spent five hours on the journey of an ordinary person for an hour and a half.
When the two uncles and nephews arrived at the place where the middle-aged man said, it was getting late, a small wooden house came into view, Xiao Afu helped the clan uncle to push the door in, there were only two people in the wooden house, a middle-aged man and a kind-faced old man, at this time the middle-aged man was getting up and walking outside the house, thinking that he had been healed.
Little Ah Fu immediately said to the old man in the wooden house: "Old man, save my uncle, please." "The old man had silver hair, and although he had a ruddy complexion, he was seventy years old.
The old man looked at the pale-faced clan uncle, frowned and asked, "How did you get hurt?" After speaking, he stretched out his hand and put it on the clan uncle's wrist.
"I was hit by a horse. Little Ah Fu sobbed.
After a long time, the old man withdrew his hand, his face was solemn, and he said slowly: "Your uncle's spleen has been kicked and broken by the horse, and the gods are difficult to save at this time!"
"It's hard to save the gods, it's hard to save the gods........ Xiao Afu repeated in his mouth, and suddenly fell to his knees with a thud, "I'll kowtow to you, old man, please save my uncle!"
Although Xiao Afu is young, he also understands what the old man said, but he was brought up by his uncle since he was a child, if there was no uncle, he would have starved to death and didn't know where he was.
The old man shook his head, and just wanted to say a few words to comfort the little baby, but he saw that the clan uncle had already woken up, and he tried his best to put together a smile and said to Xiao Afu: "Little Afu, don't be embarrassed by the old doctor, let's die, if we die, we will die, so let's go down below to find your grandparents and your parents earlier." He coughed twice and continued: "When I go, the most unsettling thing for me is you, hey!"
Seeing that the clan uncle woke up, Xiao Ah Fu grabbed the clan uncle with one hand, wiped his tears and snot with the other hand and said, "Uncle, are you okay?"
The old man looked at the poor uncle and nephew, and knew from the mouth of the uncle that the two should be hard-working people who depended on each other, thought for a moment, and said on the side: "Your uncle is returning to the light, and he can't last a moment, little baby, tomorrow I will take you to find a place to bury it in this mountain." ”
Uncle Clan turned to the old man with difficulty and said miserably: "Thank you, old doctor!" After speaking, he put his hand on Xiao Afu's head, rubbed it nostalgically, and said: "Little Afu, don't think about revenge, be more patient in case of trouble, be smart, uncle can only rest assured when he sees you alive well under Jiuquan, be good, listen... Speech. The word "words" was slowly closed, and there was no breath.
Xiao Afu suddenly felt that the sky was falling, he wanted to cry but couldn't cry, he didn't swallow a breath, and fainted and fell to the ground.
Seeing this, the old man also sighed, looked at the dead man and the fainting little baby and said, "Miserable people!"
The old man placed Xiao Ah Fu on the small bed in the house, got up and moved the body of the clan uncle outside the house, then brought a shovel, dug a small grave in the mass grave not far away, and then buried the clan uncle on his shoulder.
When Xiao Afu woke up, it was already dawn on the second day, and he glanced around, but he didn't see the clan uncle, so he trotted out of the house, saw the old man making medicine, and hurriedly asked, "Grandpa, where is my uncle?"
The old man said softly: "Your uncle has been buried in the ground, and the old man buried him in a mass grave two miles away, and the old man does not know your uncle's name, so he has set up a wordless tombstone, if you want to see it, go ahead." ”
Xiao Afu walked to the mass grave with empty eyes, looked for some time, and sure enough, he saw a stone stele, stepped forward and sat down, hugged the tombstone and cried. Xiao Ah Fu sat in front of the tomb of his uncle for a whole day as if he had lost his god.
When the old man saw Xiao Ah Fu, Xiao Ah Fu had not eaten for a day and a night, and he was too sad, and he was already asleep in front of the tombstone, the old man shook his head, picked up Xiao Ah Fu, and took him back to the wooden house.
After the old man was fed, Xiao Ah Fu woke up, saw the old man in the wooden house, got up and kowtowed to the ground, "Thank you, old man!" Although Xiao Ah Fu is young, he has been wandering the rivers and lakes with his uncle for several years.
The old man sighed and said, "I failed to cure your uncle, what do you thank me for?"
"Uncle often teaches me that the grace of dripping water should be reciprocated by a spring, although you failed to save my uncle, but this kindness Xiao Afu dare not forget!" Xiao Afu said with a serious expression.
The old man nodded and asked, "Do you have any relatives?"
Xiao Afu shook his head and said, "There was a plague in my hometown, and the entire village died, only my uncle and I survived, begging all the way from Jinyun City to here for a living. ”
The old man looked at Xiao Afu with pity, his heart moved, and said: "Otherwise, if you are an apprentice to the old man, you will not be rich and rich, but you will not be able to sleep in the open air." ”
Xiao Afu nodded hurriedly, kowtowing like pounding garlic again, "Thank you, grandpa, thank you, grandpa!"
In this way, Xiao Afu stayed, and the old man taught Xiao Afu to distinguish medicinal materials and explain the efficacy every day. Xiao Afu has an excellent memory, learns quickly, and makes rapid progress in learning to distinguish medicinal materials, and the old man is also quite pleased to see this.
In the first year, when the old man went into the mountains to collect medicine, he would take Xiao Ah Fu with him, and when he saw that Xiao Ah Fu could also distinguish the types of medicinal materials on his own, he would be handed over to all the medicine collection work in the future.
After living in the wooden house for two or three years, the old man not only taught him pharmacological knowledge, but also taught him to read and write words, and saw the old man every day to treat people and save their wounds.
In this way, spring went to autumn, and after three or four years, the old man was old, and after not seeing the old man get up for a day, when Ah Fu found the old man's bed, he found that the old man had died of breath. Ah Fu suddenly like a thunderbolt, since he was a child, he was an orphan, and the clan uncle depended on each other for his life to wander the world, after the death of the clan uncle, he thought that there was nothing in this world to be nostalgic for, but he did not expect that the old man who was on the side of the fate actually took him in, as his own. Now that even the old man has passed away, where will he go?
Ah Fu's eyes were red, he pointed to the sky, and kept scolding: "Thief, thief." ”
Thinking about everything he has been doing since he was a child, Ah Fu jumped to his feet and scolded for an hour, and a mouthful of blood gushed out of his mouth, wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth.
got up and picked up the old man on the couch, walked to the mass grave like a walking corpse, put the old man aside, Ah Fu made a simple small grave next to the tombstone of the clan uncle, and buried the old man next to the clan uncle's tombstone. After sitting in a daze for half an hour, after saying goodbye to the clan uncle and the old man silently, he packed his luggage and headed towards the blue city.
Over the years, although he has been nesting in Hades Mountain, he has not wiped out the resentment in his heart, and he did not dare to forget the hatred of the clan uncle being kicked to death with a horse.
He has a plan for revenge in his heart, it is definitely impossible to kill with real swords and guns or sneak attacks, although he does not say that he is powerless, but he also knows the horror of the body refining martial artists in the world.
The Central Plains is divided into nine continents
The nine continents are Nanping Zhou, Mu Zhou, East One Continent, Qingyun Continent, North Ping Zhou, Biluo Continent, Sky Snake Continent, Jingzhou and Haiyu Continent.
There are countless sects of power in various continents, among which several sects that are famous in the south of Pingzhou are Tiandu Gate, Jade Sword Cave, and Zhengqi Sect. The Six Holy Sects of the Demon Dao have not been visible since they were surrounded and suppressed by various sects a hundred years ago.
Each sect is based on the ten realms of refining the body, and in the future, the qi realm, the god realm, the spirit realm, the Ming realm, the heaven realm, and the Dacheng realm, each realm is divided into primary, intermediate, and high-level levels.
What Ah Fu thought in his heart was to prepare to infiltrate the county guard mansion and use the pharmacology and toxicology he had learned in the past few years to put it into action.
"Li Deyi was favored by that Tiandumen this time, although he didn't know what kind of sect Tiandumen was, but even the county guard Li Gui attached so much importance to it, it was a very remarkable thing to think about it, with Li Gui's kind of heart, he would definitely show off with great fanfare. Ah Fu closed his eyes on the couch and pondered. "In a few days, Li Gui will definitely hold a feast, and there are many people at the banquet, which is a good opportunity to start. "Touching his chest has already been adjusted," Ah Fu muttered.
In the depths of Hades Mountain, Ah Fu Zeng Qing saw a tiger with a long head and a long head after licking and eating the dead rabbit coated with "Death Scatter", and died of foaming at the mouth and convulsing in only half an hour, so he was very confident in this medicine, and such beasts were killed by eating them, not to mention the mortal fetus.
Three days later, Li Gui set up a hundred tables in the county guard's mansion, and all the leading figures in the rivers and lakes and the court came to congratulate them. "Ladies and gentlemen, the dog is favored by the immortals of Tiandumen this time, and is about to start cultivating, the old man is very happy today, take this opportunity to express my gratitude, and I would like to give you a cup. Li Gui drank a full cup of spring breeze at the main table.
"Congratulations to Lord Li, Lord Li is really a blessing. "Master Li, I think you are a father and a son, and your breakthrough in the body refining realm is just around the corner. Congratulatory voices such as "Steady Progress" went to Li Gui as if he didn't want money.
Of course, everyone wants to tie up Li Gui, there is a son who practices in the inner gate of Tiandumen, of course, it is necessary to publicize it widely, and it is not sure that one day the Li County Shouguan will be promoted to a level or the refining body will become a matter of course, and the cultivation of the ten realms of refining the body can almost dominate the entire rivers and lakes, and it can be said that the cultivation of the great sect can also be said to be a rare master.