Soon, night fell, and everything fell silent in the moonlight. In order to improve the cultivation speed, in addition to trading magic weapons and combat skills on weekdays, disciples generally rarely live in buildings and houses at the bottom of the mountain, and will choose to open a stone chamber or build a thatched hut in a place with more spiritual power on the mountain or in the back mountain. Do not interfere with each other, once something happens, the sect will call the disciples with the sound of a bell, if there is nothing to do, those with better spiritual root qualifications will choose to choose a quiet place with abundant spiritual power to retreat.

Hao Yue'e has her own stone room in the back mountain, but because she has to take care of her son, she has not been in retreat here for a long time.

And today, she took Zuo Hu to her stone room, and she had important things to explain, maybe when Zuo Hu left, she would choose to stay in this stone room for a long time. Left protection is the only reason why she is active in the sect. It's a pity that soon this reason doesn't exist, and it's a little lonely to think about it.

The stone chamber is hidden in a sunken stone wall overgrown with vine leaves, and the surrounding area is covered with an enchantment so that no one else can trespass into it.

Led by his mother, Zuo Hu followed him into the barrier, walked across a small bridge over the stream, and found himself in a stone room, which was simply furnished, with only a stone bed, three stone benches, a stone table, and a few stone cups. It's quite a bit of a feeling of being in the fairy mountain and not asking about worldly things.

There are no lamps in the room, but the surrounding stone walls emit a faint light, giving the room a mysterious dream. Take a deep breath and feel refreshed.

Sure enough, it's a blessed land!

Hao Yue'e beckoned, signaling Zuo Hu to come to her, in the slightly dark stone room, Zuo Hu found that his mother's figure was so close and peaceful, suddenly made him feel deeply attached, walked in front of his mother, saw the gentle face with a doting expression, and suddenly regretted his decision to go.

It turned out that I was still so reluctant and inseparable, and I was full of attachment to my mother.....

"Hu'er, my mother has something to give you. ”

Mother's words made Zuo Hu forcibly hold on to his erratic mind: he is always leaving!

"Okay, what kind of treasure will my mother give to the child?"

forced himself to squeeze out a smile of innocence and sunshine, and asked cheerfully.

Hao Yue'e smiled slightly, turned around and walked towards a stone wall inside, and Zuo Hu also followed.

But seeing Hao Yue'e make a handprint against the stone wall, a spiritual light popped up, and the stone wall suddenly had a vision, the originally hard stone wall rippled like the surface of the water, and after doing all this, she turned around and motioned to Zuo Hu to follow her in, and took the lead in stepping forward, in a series of waves, it actually penetrated into the wall. This made Zuo Hu, who saw this situation for the first time, couldn't help but be surprised, and followed his mother's example, and tentatively stepped forward, and after a cool feeling, the image in front of him changed.

There is actually another cave under this stone wall!

It's just that this stone chamber is much larger than the previous one, and there are three display shelves that are nine feet high and a few feet long. On each shelf, there are bamboo rolls of different sizes and a large number of jade slips.

Hao Yue'e stood next to a display shelf in the middle, smiling and waiting for Zuo Hu, who was surprised by everything, to come to his side, and Zuo Hu looked at all this with his mouth open, he knew for the first time that his mother still had such a secret treasure.

"Mother, what are these?"

As Zuo Hu's gaze looked around, her expression was a little gloomy, "These are all given to me by your father before he died, and they are also the last bit of family wealth of the Zuo family." Originally,Your father was going to hand it over to you personally when you grow up and cultivate to be more advanced.,It's a pity.。。 He left too early....."

Hearing his mother's sentimental words, Zuo Hu's heart was full of guilt, his mother had borne too much burden and pain for the Zuo family, and instead of sharing the worries as a son, he was now going to abandon his mother and leave, letting her watch the child she raised go away, insisting on going on the cultivation trip where life and death were unknown, the pain was something that others could not understand, but Hao Yue'e smiled and silently endured all this.

"Mother, I'm sorry....." Zuo Hu felt a faint pain in his heart, I don't know if he was afraid of the upcoming parting, or because he couldn't bear his mother's loneliness. Maybe it's both. But at this time, the arrow had to be sent, and he could only apologize weakly.

Hao Yue'e was stunned, because, within one day, Zuo Hu said two words to himself that are the most difficult for a twelve-year-old child to say to his mother, that is, thank you and sorry.

is a simple five words, but it means that Zuo Hu is no longer a coquettish child, he has grown up. But his growth was accompanied by the pain of parting from his mother.

Immediately, he smiled softly and rubbed his smooth and soft cheeks, "Silly boy, what are you talking about.... Come, take a look at what your father left you. ”

"Oh, good. ”

Zuo Hu packed up his mood and followed his mother to look at them one by one, these are the wealth left to him by his father, and each item carries his hope for his son, hoping that his Zuo Hu will one day become a strong man and become the spark for the revival of Zuo's family.

"These jade slips record a lot of cultivation experience and spell skills, almost every jade slip here in the ordinary Xiuzhen country, will cause a battle, originally the Zuo clan has more than these, but with the decline, it has lost a lot of ....."

From his mother's words, Zuo Hu could hear the preciousness of these jade slips, but Hao Yue'e did not introduce these jade slips too much, and walked straight to the innermost end of the stone room, Zuo Hu followed, until then he found that there was a stone step in the innermost, and his mother stood on the opposite side of the stone steps, and there were two wooden boxes with copper curls on the stone steps, one large and one small, and the original stone steps were waist-high, so that people could touch the wooden box as soon as they raised their hands.

Zuo Hu stood next to him and looked at the box from a distance, such two wooden boxes were placed here so solemnly, it should be a treasure that was more precious than those jade slips, he thought to himself.

"Mother, what's in here?"

Hao Yue'e smiled, "You come and open it and take a look." ”

With a flick of the spiritual light, it disappeared into the void around the wooden box, and a few rays of thunder disappeared in a flash, and it turned out that the enchantment around the stone steps was also marked by the mother.

Zuo Hu stepped forward with his mother's permission, and he could see the appearance of the two boxes up close. The lid of the dome, with a bronze pattern engraved on the purple box, is unlocked, and is fastened tightly by a delicate mechanism, the larger one is solemn and heavy, and the smaller one is exquisite.

The left guard first picked the larger one to open, and pressed the round convex copper button on the lock buckle with his fingers, only to hear the sound of "pop", and the locked mechanism popped open.

The chest is opened.

There is no glittering magic weapon, no spirit jade that exudes immortal energy, and no peerless sword sword.

An oval-shaped, turquoise stone, about the size of a child's head, lay quietly in a box covered with flower petals. The surface of the greenstone is full of water, and from time to time there will be colored light, flowing on the surface of the stone, which is quite strange.

After observing for a long time, Zuo Hu felt that there was nothing strange about this stone except that it was very beautiful. A strange stone like this, in the hands of mortals, may be used as a treasure to enjoy, but for immortal cultivators, it is not too attractive. How could such an ordinary stone be so solemnly placed in the stone room where the treasure was hidden by his mother, and an enchantment had to be set up? Zuo Hu felt that this stone was not as simple as it seemed.

"Mother, what is this stone for?"

Hao Yue'e stepped forward and looked at the greenstone for a long time, as if she was guessing something.

"It's not a stone. ”

"Ahh

Zuo Hu looked horizontally and vertically at the greenstone, no matter how he looked at it, it was a stone, but when he touched the greenstone with his hand, he finally realized the difference between this stone and ordinary stone; it was smooth and warm to the touch, without the cold and hard of a stone, giving people a sense of illusion: it was alive, as if it was alive!

"It is an egg of a demon beast, and legend has it that Zuo Mu Ancestor, the only clansman who can step through the void during the Zuo Ancestor period, obtained it in the outer fairy world, and it has been passed down to this day. ”

"The eggs of monsters, no wonder they feel alive. But what kind of monster egg is it?"

Zuo Hu has never seen a spirit beast or a demon beast, but from the records of some text classics in the door, the demon beast is very common in the world of cultivating immortals, most of them live in the spiritual veins of the fairy mountain with abundant spiritual power, under the nourishment of spiritual power, the beast with spiritual roots will produce spiritual wisdom on its own, perceive the method of cultivation, and those who have a great opportunity can even be reborn, change human form, and practice spells. And the demon beast with mana not only has sufficient longevity and amazing strength, but the offspring it gives birth to will also fade away from the mortal womb and inherit the power of the ancestors, so the demon beast can even form an independent family force.

Thinking of this, he looked at the turquoise demon beast egg again, which made Zuo Hu have the curiosity to guess what the demon beast looked like, and cast an inquiring glance at his mother.

Hao Yue'e stroked the monster egg, causing the colorful brilliance on the surface of the green egg to float and jump with her palm.

"Until now, no one knew what kind of monster egg it was, but it was certain that it did not belong to this realm. ”

"Not part of this realm?"

Hao Yue'e nodded.

"This comes from the legend within the Zuo family, when the ancestor Zuo Mu who stepped through the void once rescued an injured demon beast claiming to be the royal family in the outer realm of the fairy world. In order to repay the kindness, the demon beast gave away the unhatched demon beast egg, and signed a contract called the bloodline seal with a drop of essence blood of the ancestor Zuomu. ”

"What is the Bloodline Seal?"

"To put it simply, it is to use someone's bloodline to seal this beast egg in the initial state of reincarnation, in order to allow the demon beast to be completely controlled by a certain ethnic lineage, and let it recognize any clansman in the clan with the same bloodline as the contract at any time. It's like turning the bloodline into a lock and a key, and it's a rather subtle sealing technique. Perhaps this sealing technique is a sealing method unique to the demon beasts of the Outer Immortal Realm, at least I have never seen or heard of a similar sealing method outside of the internal legend of the Zuo family. Even in the texts, there is no such spell that can seal the progress of life. ”

After listening to this, Zuo Hu had many questions in his heart.

"Since this demon beast egg was given to Zuo Mu Ancestor by the royal demon beast in order to repay his kindness, then why didn't the ancestor wake it up for his own use? ”

Hao Yue's eyes flashed slightly, "I also asked your father the same question, he said that Zuo Mu Ancestor thought that his cultivation was profound, and he didn't need to keep such a demon beast with mysterious power by his side, so he later sent it back to the clan, hoping that a certain Tianjiao person in the clan could have this beast." ”

"Then why haven't the later clansmen been able to wake it up?"

At this time, Zuo Hu is like a curious baby, interested in these secrets. It's no wonder that when he has grown so big, it is the first time that Hao Yue'e has spent such a long time talking about family affairs for Zuo Hu.

"Later, the ancestor of Zuo Mu went to the foreign immortal world, and there was no news from him, and this demon beast egg became the only thing left by the ancestor, and the clan enshrined it as a holy product; almost every generation of talented people regarded this thing as the highest honor, because of this open and secret battle, even bloody rain, fratricide, which caused the Zuo clan to suffer a lot of losses. The patriarch did too much in order to prevent people from being greedy for the recognition of the beast egg, and the Zuo clan was strong at that time, so he didn't need the demon beast to help the family, so he sealed the beast egg and canceled everyone's qualification to own it

......

After a long time like this, the Zuo clan gradually began to weaken, and the new patriarch thought of awakening the demon beast, hoping to revive the majesty of the year. So he selected a clansman with excellent spiritual roots, started the ceremony of recognizing the lord, and dripped a drop of essence blood on the monster egg. . . ”

Zuo Hu couldn't help but sigh when he heard this, the original intention of the ancestor to send the beast eggs back to the clan was to hope that he could make the Zuo clan stronger, but he never thought that the greed of human nature would turn a good gift into poison for self-destruction.