"When I was ten years old, my father and mother died of a plague. You may not know that at that time, the island city had been fought over by the Northern Wei and Southern Qi for many years. After a killing, the general of the Southern Qi Dynasty came to implement the decree and exploit the fishermen and the people, but before the general's throne was hot, the banner of the Northern Wei Dynasty was raised on the head of the city. Those who won continued to loot the people's fat and ointment, and those who were defeated were nothing more than leaving their bodies all over the field and fleeing in panic. But what about the people? What about them? Aren't they going to be resigned?"

Li Youzhi wiped his nose and continued to chatter, "There are many dead people, and the people who collect the corpses are too busy, the wind and rain are blowing, the sun is flooded, and over time, the plague finally broke out." I can't describe what hell on earth is lighter, but worse than hell on earth. Hey, even if hell on earth is really miserable, who knows? In short, this plague has killed nine out of ten people in the island city, including my parents and loved ones. Let's put it this way, our family is dead except me. But this is lucky in the island city, and most of the people who are really dead are the ones who don't have a mouthful left. ”

Li Youzhi suddenly smiled, and his face turned a little red. "You see, I always laugh at the guy without pupils for not pretending to be like him, in fact, I usually talk to them and do things, why don't I pretend to do something? But I'm tired enough, but I still can't help but pretend, why?"

Li Youzhi sighed, "Hey, everyone in the world is 'pretending', I don't pretend, how can I live in this turbid world?" The pair of brothers in Tantuo Temple want to try to put on a posture of not pretending, the big one is sloppy in order to repair himself, and the small one is getting into trouble everywhere in order to keep his roots, in fact, the two brothers are too deliberate, so they are still 'pretending', pretending to be 'not pretending', and in my opinion, they are not pretending. This person has to pretend when it should be, and don't pretend when it doesn't need to, so it's easier. ”

"Of course, I realized this as an adult. The plague I just talked about can't really be pretended to be in such an environment, and there are ten rooms and nine empty rooms! What can I pretend to? With whom? What's the use of pretending? To tell you the truth, I survived by eating dead fish and rotten shrimp from the fishing boats left behind by the dead people. The sea is salty, there is salt, and the plague should spread more slowly. Anyway, I was lucky!

Later, the plague slowly subsided, and the countries of the mainland always had to make a show at this time, and the total of seventeen large and small forces all sent materials and craftsmen to build towers, and set up a place on the top of Laoshan Mountain to build seventeen towers of different sizes and styles. Hey, so many people have died, and it is necessary to build a Tamare. However, these seventeen towers seem to have suppressed the mountain and the city at the same time, and they have never regained their former vitality. ”

"Dilapidated, the island city also wanted to be attached to the forces of no matter which side at that time, but at this time and then, the island city became a hot potato. The Northern Wei Dynasty and the Southern Qi Dynasty, which were originally fighting for life and death, passed the buck to each other, and the evidence that had historical records that they did not recognize each other before has now become a means of slapping each other in the face, which is funny, right? Putting aside the high-sounding grandiose, interests are the most original face. ”

"As people say now, mine started to do my ambitions out of such a shabby mess. The towers on Laoshan Mountain are now worshipped, but they were actually a pile of broken bricks and tiles. Island City has never had a climatic cultivation sect before, and those of us who have been in the beginning of the world are actually quite good, maybe in addition to luck, it is probably the physique of the first meng. ”

"Originally, there was no systematic cultivation system, and most of them relied on the classics to comprehend on their own, but now that everyone else is hiding far away, it has become a vacuum. ”

"As for me, I still have a flexible head, and I am mixed in the craftsmen who build the tower in Laoshan all day long, and I have been serving them tea and water every day in order to make a living, and I also help with the rough work. ”

"Most of them are coolies in various countries, but among the leading overseers, there are still many practitioners. I fished for them every day, and sent seafood to the mountains one by one, and when they were happy, I begged them to teach me a hand or two, and in this way, more than three years later, when the last finished craftsman left, I had learned a skill in a scattered manner. ”

Li Youzhi was chattering to himself like this, but he didn't realize that the dragon scales had opened a gap, and the kid was looking at him with a pair of starry eyes.

"Later, hey, the story never ends, and there is always a later waiting in the back. ”

"Anyway, you can't run, so it's better to listen to my nagging patiently!"

Later, among the remaining people in the island city, a few characters with heads and faces got together to negotiate, and took this opportunity to simply break off with the Northern Wei and Southern Qi, no one depended, no one relied on. ”

"The Northern Wei Dynasty and the Southern Qi Dynasty are arguing about this matter, and there are a few fights, as soon as the statement of the island city is issued, they are just happy to shake off the burden, and they all readily agree, as soon as these two families agree, it will be even more difficult for other people to talk nonsense, and from that day on, the island city will be ignored. ”

"The big families of those island cities took turns to be the city lord after consultation, and the tower courtyard of Laoshan did not worship any gods except for the ghosts in the great plague of Nightmare Town, so naturally no one wanted to pay attention to it, after a few prevarications, I, who had been eating and drinking on the mountain, became the master of this tower courtyard, of course, the master of this courtyard was also for myself, except for me. ”

"Otherwise, people always have to rely on some luck. It was also time for me to transfer, in those years, the sea monsters in the East China Sea suddenly raged, making the people of the island city panic, I relied on those miscellaneous means, and even the soldiers came to cover the water and earth, and abused the East China Sea alive, and gave the island city a piece of peace. ”

"At this time, Tayuan was at least famous in the island city, and my person and this mole on my eye were also famous. When I was twenty-one years old, I started a sect and made disciples. ”

At that time, Wu Tong was just Jing Wutong, and he was still chopping wood in the 100,000 mountains!"

"Awesome. The child in the dragon scales blinked and replied timidly.

"yes! I was ······ myself." Li Youzhi suddenly realized that someone was talking, raised his head in surprise, and saw the clear eyes in the gap between the dragon scales.

Li Youzhi hurriedly wiped his snot and tears, and said embarrassedly, "What, what, hey, you kid, why didn't you speak earlier? Okay, let me ask you, what's your name? Where are you from?"

The child looked at the face that came to the gap, and curiously stretched out his finger to touch the white mole on Li Youzhi's eye, and his eyes rolled slightly, "I am from the Western Zhou Dynasty, no name." ”

"Xizhou people, very good, you didn't lie to me about this. Can you let the scales open and come out of them?"

The child shook his head and rolled his eyelids, "Aren't you very good?

"Of course, I'm amazing, this thing is just a dragon scale, even if it's a dragon, I can catch it. I just felt that I had a fate with you, so I didn't embarrass this piece of dragon scales, otherwise, I would have beaten it to pieces. ”

When the child heard this person named Li Youzhi say that he wanted to capture the dragon, he suddenly remembered the black dragon, remembered the black dragon's resentful eyes, his face changed instantly, and his brows furrowed.

"What's the matter, stinky boy, why are you suddenly upset?"

"I'm not a stinky boy, you can really catch a dragon like that guy?"

"If I don't have a pupil, why can't I? I will take you to the South China Sea to catch that dragon king for you to play with, how about it?"

"Dragon King, why did they mess with you, why did you arrest them?"

"Ahh······h This ······ Didn't you catch one? I don't care, I thought you'd want to catch a dragon and have fun. ”

The child glared at Li Youzhi angrily, "I won't arrest them, what's wrong with them?

"Okay, then let me ask you, what do you like to play? I'll catch it for you. ”

"Loaches. ”

"Loach, hehehe, do you know how the dragon came from?"

"The old dragon gave birth. ”

Li Youzhi shook his head.

"The eggs are hatching?" the child asked weakly.

Li Youzhi still shook his head.

"It's not that, it's not that, it can't be a loach, right?" the child shouted angrily, chirping among the dragon scales.

Li Youzhi nodded with a smile that was about to overflow.

The child froze.

The little hand knocked on the inner wall of the dragon scales, "Nails, is what he said true?"

The dragon scales didn't respond, but slowly opened.

The child looked at Li Youzhi in disbelief, "Is the dragon really a loach? Then I won't play with loaches again, and we won't catch dragons in the future, okay?"

The child didn't feel angry with Li Youzhi at all, but got up and stepped out of the scales and took Li Youzhi's hand.

"You just called these dragon scales 'nails'?

The child nodded, "It's not like it, it's just too big." ”

"It's like a fingernail, but people are dragon scales!" Li Youzhi felt that this child was really interesting. "Besides, you don't have a name yourself, so why don't you give yourself a name first?"

"Can children name themselves? Aren't they all adults who name children?"

"Hehe, how can you name it, kid?"

"Black Dragon and I are both children, and if it weren't for that person, Black Dragon and I would be friends. It's just a piece of black dragon's armor, and naturally it's a child younger than me and the black dragon, so of course I can name him. ”

Li Youzhi smiled helplessly, "Okay! What you said makes some sense, it's called nails!"

Li Youzhi waved his hand, and a silver light covered the dragon scales, and the dragon scales continued to shrink, and in the end, they really shrank into a piece the size of a fingernail.

Li Youzhi beckoned, and the fingernail-sized dragon scale 'nails' flew into the palm of his hand.

The child looked up at Li Youzhi and said admiringly, "You are so amazing!"

"Want to learn?"

The child nodded heavily.

"Okay, I'll give you a greeting first. ”

Li Youzhi pulled up the child's left hand and covered the small black dragon scales on the nail of the middle finger of the child's left hand, and a burst of silver light flashed, and the dragon scales merged with the child's nails.

The child raised his hand, looked at the black nails, and smiled.