The bright moon in the mountains, the clear spring stream, gurgling, but also a quite good place of beauty.

This is Liuya Mountain, located in the southeast of the Yuhe Prefecture in the middle of the mainland. At the foot of Liuya Mountain, there is a small town called Liuya Town, which is also named after the mountain.

The scale of Liuya Town is several miles in a square circle, it is not big, there is a bluestone city wall of a certain height around it, and there is a city gate in each of the four directions of east, west, north and south. It was night, and there were still a few soldiers guarding each of the city gates.

At night, Drift Cliff Town was quiet, as if you were asleep. Commerce here is not well developed, and it mainly relies on herbs from the Drift Cliff Mountain.

To the southwest of the town, there is a small courtyard in the middle of nowhere. The yard is not big, only less than ten zhang square, and the house in the courtyard looks quite old, it is a decades-old house. But in such an old house, there is still a man living in it, a teenager to be exact.

The boy's name is Feng Yike, and he is only thirteen years old this year. It's an orphan who has been living here alone. When he was six years old, his father went to the mountains to collect medicine and never returned. The people who live in the town say that they were eaten by the dragon in the Flowing Cliff Mountain.

There is a mountain stream in Liuya Mountain, called Youlongjian, and it is rumored in the town that there was once a dragon there, so it was named Youlongjian there. Feng Yike's father was eaten by the dragon that swam the dragon stream.

He was still young at that time, so he only knew that he was afraid, and he kept pulling his mother to cry.

When he was eleven years old, his mother also died of a serious illness, leaving Feng Yike to live here alone. On weekdays, Feng Yike is also taken care of by the neighbors, today this family gives him a steamed bun, tomorrow that family gives him a bowl of gruel, Feng Yike in such an environment difficult to grow up.

This also made him more sensible than other children of the same age, and knew how to cherish and strive more.

this day

The moon is bright and the stars are sparse, and Feng Yike is lying on the bed from side to side, unable to sleep, thinking about what happened during the day.

During the day, he went to Liuya Mountain with his neighbor's uncle to collect medicine, and when he passed by the dragon stream, he accidentally saw a very pleasing elixir, Lingyue Grass. Lingyue grass is a relatively valuable herb, and this plant alone can be sold for ten taels of silver. What is the concept of ten taels of silver, that is the living expenses that can make Feng Yike not have to worry about it for a year.

However, due to the dangerous location of the Lingyue grass, Feng Yike did not go forward to pick it, nor did he tell the neighbor's uncle, and planned to pick this Lingyue grass when he came alone.

He lay on the bed and thought about it carefully, so as not to have too many dreams at night, and decided to go to Youlongjian in the moonlight at night and pick the Lingyue grass. If he goes tomorrow and is taken by someone else, then he won't have time to cry.

Thinking of this, Feng Yike put on his clothes, carried a three-foot-long dagger in his arms, and left the house directly, hurried out of the town. The reason why he didn't take the hoe and back basket for collecting medicine was because he was worried that others would get up and snatch his Lingyue grass.

When he came to the south gate of the city, he was stopped by the guards.

"Stop, why are you going so late?" The town is not big, and there are not many people, so those guards also recognize Feng Yike.

"I, my mother left me the kettle, I forgot it at the foot of the cliff mountain, this just remembered, so I wanted to go over and get it. "Feng Yike doesn't lie, and when he lies, his face is red. Fortunately, it was night, and even with the lights, it was not really visible.

"You kid, the Drift Cliff Mountain at night is very dangerous, you go and go back quickly. Even though the guards said that, they opened the door to Feng Yike.

"Thank you, thank you. Feng Yike walked out of the city gate, turned around and bent down to thank the guards.

As everyone knows, it has been ten years since Feng Yike left and returned here, of course, this is all a later story.

After Feng Yike left Drift Cliff Town, he ran towards Drift Cliff Mountain with an excited face, and then the moonlight could see the road clearly. Is he afraid, but he is also a little afraid. After all, it was the first time he had entered Drift Cliff Mountain at night when he had grown so big.

But instead of being afraid, he was more excited and looking forward to it, because in his eyes, that Lingyue grass seemed to have become something in his pocket, it was ten taels of silver with white flowers, and he had never seen so much silver when he was so big. The ones he came into contact with the most were the copper plates.

Although Liuya Town is at the foot of Liuya Mountain, there is still some distance. Feng Yike traveled all the way, and in about a quarter of an hour, he walked into Liuya Mountain, and then went up the mountain to the Youlong Stream in the depths of Liuya Mountain.

Drift Cliff Mountain is quiet in the middle of the night, although there are insects chirping, and a few bird calls are heard from time to time. But in the eyes of Feng Yike, it is quiet, a little depressing, and a little scary. He, a thirteen-year-old boy, walked alone in this late night cliff mountain, and his courage was not ordinary. There are some fierce beasts and fierce beasts living in the Flowing Cliff Mountain, although they do not appear much during the day on weekdays, but they will be much more frequent at night.

This is also the luck of Feng Yike, walking so far into Liuya Mountain, he did not encounter a fierce beast, otherwise he would have died here.

He walked for nearly half an hour before he came to Youlongjian. Based on the memories of the day, he quickly found the Lingyue grass that grew on the edge of the cliff. Feng Yike looked at the Lingyue grass, his eyes lit up, and he reached out to pick it, but found that it was out of reach. While thinking about it, he moved his steps forward, and saw the abyss below the Ling Yue Grass, pitch black, like the mouth of a giant beast in the wilderness, ready to swallow the wind at any time.

Feng Yike felt nervous in his heart, and his feet couldn't help slipping, and he kicked off a few pieces of gravel and fell into the abyss, so frightened that Feng Yike hurriedly retreated. He breathed heavily, calming the tension and fear in his heart.

After a while, Feng Yike was not so scared in his heart, so he stood up and tried to pick the Lingyue grass again.

He cautiously moved forward, reaching out his hand as far as he could, but it was always a little bit off. This went back and forth several times, which made Feng Yike's mind a little irritable.

He looked around, looking for something he could borrow, and then grabbed it with his hand so that he could move forward. Outside of some weeds, it was a half-man-high stone, and there was nothing to borrow.

Feng Yike frowned for a moment, suddenly thought of something, took out the dagger in his arms to cut off those weeds one by one, and then knotted and twisted the strands, and after a while, a long grass rope appeared in Feng Yike's hand. Feng Yike was delighted, and tied the straw rope to the half-human-high stone, and there was still three feet of length left, just enough for Feng Yike to use.

Feng Yike grabbed the grass rope with one hand, and carefully stretched out to the Lingyue grass with the other. After a moment, he grabbed the rhizome of the Lingyue grass, and then lifted it up vigorously, pulling it out.

But before he could be happy, suddenly the rock under his feet slipped and he fell into the dark abyss with him.

There was only one sound

'Ah---。 ’

There was no sound.