Withered vines and old trees with yellow leaves, stone bridges and flowing water mountain villages, and red-robed boys on the paths. The autumn wind is bleak, and the dogs are barking at the travelers.

On a dirt road along the river, a young man in a red robe walked to a stone bridge by the side of the road and stopped.

On the opposite side of the stone bridge, there is a small mountain village, and there are a few dogs in the village that are not long-eyed, and they bark at the red-clothed young men passing by across the river.

"Tut-tut~ Come here, come, good dog......"

Standing beside the stone bridge, the young man in red beckoned to several dogs on the other side of the bridge, but the dogs did not dare to step across the stone bridge, but barked at the other end of the bridge.

Seeing this, the young man in red waved his sleeves, and immediately an invisible wind came out of thin air, directly blowing towards several dogs on the opposite side of the stone bridge, blowing the dead leaves on a tree behind the stone bridge to the ground.

"Wang~Wangwang~" The dogs were startled by the sudden gust of wind, and they ran away from the other side of the stone bridge barking and went back to their homes.

"Why am I still carrying a few dogs?" said to himself as the young man in red withdrew his outspoken hand, and then he looked at the door of a farmhouse behind the bridge.

In front of the gate of the farmhouse, there was a boy of eight or nine years old, who was staring at the young man in red at the moment, his face full of surprise and some horror.

Catching the little boy's gaze, the young man in red showed a smile, raised his hand and waved at the little boy, and then continued along the riverside path.

"Mother~ There is an immortal nickname, come out and see~"

After the young man in red left, the little boy withdrew his gaze and shouted at his house, waited for a while, and saw that no one came out of the house, so he ran into the house.

Not long after, when the little boy pulled a woman out of the house, the figure of the young man in red had long disappeared without a trace on the road across the river.

"Zhu Yi, what are you going to see when you pull your mother out?" The woman stood at the door of her house and glanced at the path on the other side of the river, but did not see the immortal that her son was talking about.

"Just now the immortal was still on the other side of the river, mother, look at the dead leaves there, it was a strange wind that was summoned by the immortal just now, blowing down to the ground. ”

The little boy named Zhu once pointed to the ground under a tree next to the stone bridge, and said with doubts in his tone, "It's strange, why did the immortal disappear so quickly." ”

The two looked at the door a few times, and then the woman stroked her son's head and turned to go back to the house, while her son ran towards the stone bridge.

Running to the stone bridge, Zhu Yixiao's figure stopped suddenly, because he saw the figure of the young man in red once in the river.

I saw that the young man at this time had already entered the river, and he was floating quickly in the river, but because the red clothes were too conspicuous, after entering the water, the bright red robe still entered Zhu Yi's eyes through the clear river water.

"Immortal~Immortal, don't go~"

Seeing the red-clothed youth floating in the river, Zhu once took a short step and rushed directly to the path opposite the stone bridge, and then chased after the red-clothed youth in the river along the dirt road.

The little child didn't have much strength, so not long after Zhu chased him out of the village, he lost his strength and sat down on the side of the road gasping for breath, and at the same time, the figure of the young man in red in the river also disappeared in his eyes.

Sitting on the ground, Zhu once had a dejected face, he chased the young man in red out of the village, originally thought that the young man in red was the legendary immortal, he wanted to catch up with the immortal to learn a teacher.

It's just that Zhu once didn't know what kind of immortal the young man in red was, he was just an idle little Taoist who traveled around, his name was Zhou Qing, a casual cultivator who had traveled from far, far away in the past two years.

If you want to talk about where you are now, Zhou Qing only knows a rough idea, this place belongs to the territory of the Tang Kingdom, not the Tianyue Kingdom, after two years of traveling, he came to this foreign land half a year ago.

"Hey~ It seems that I don't have the life to worship immortals as teachers. ”

On the dirt road, Zhu once got up from the ground and reached out to pat the dust on his trouser leg.

"Little baby, what are you chasing me for?"

When Zhu once slapped his trouser leg, Zhou Qing's voice floated from not far away.

For Zhu Zong, who had been chasing him along the road, Zhou Qing naturally noticed it, so he appeared on the river not far from the little boy.

"Immortal, my name is Zhu Once, I want to worship you as a teacher. ”

Originally, he thought that he had lost the immortal, but now after seeing the red-clothed young man standing on the water not far away, the frustration on Zhu Yi's face immediately disappeared, and he ran a few steps closer to Zhou Qing with a smile.

"Worship me as a teacher?" Hearing the little boy's words, Zhou Qing felt a little inexplicable, he didn't understand why this kid would say such a sentence.

"Child, your name is Zhu Once. After speaking, Zhou Qing saw that the little boy nodded, and then said, "I'm not an immortal, just a cultivator, and I don't have any plans to accept apprentices at the moment, I don't know if you understand what I mean?"

"You lie, you are an immortal, please accept me as an apprentice. ”

After listening to Zhou Qing's words, the little child said his request like a dog's skin plaster.

Hearing Zhu Zong's words, Zhou Qing was a little puzzled in his heart, why this kid was so persistent in wanting to worship himself as a teacher.

"Immortal, you can accept me as an apprentice, don't look at my young age, but I know a lot of things. Zhu once saw Zhou Qing looking at him, and hurriedly added another sentence.

"Let me ask you, child, why are you so obsessed with worshipping me as a teacher?"

"I~" Zhu once paused, then his small fists clenched, and his face showed a sense of anger, as if he was remembering something, and after a while, he lowered his head and muttered.

After some explanation, Zhou Qing understood that the mountain village he had just passed by was called Maple Leaf Village, and there was a wolf roaring mountain thirty miles west of the village.

Two years ago, the thieves on the Wolf Howling Mountain came to Maple Leaf Village to rob and kill Zhu Yi's father Zhu Gan, and at the same time took his sister-in-law Zhu Ting up the mountain.

Therefore, once this Zhu once thought about avenging his father and rescuing his sister-in-law from the sea of suffering.

But he is a poor child in a mountain village, he doesn't even have hair, and he doesn't have a master to teach martial arts, so what ability does he have to avenge his father.

However, he listened to the old man in the village since he was a child, and there are immortals in this world, who can call the wind and rain and scatter beans into soldiers, so if he can learn from the immortals, he will definitely be able to avenge his father.

Once Zhu was at the door of his house just now, he saw Zhou Qing just waving his hand, and he summoned the wind, so he thought in his heart that Zhou Qing was the immortal in the mouth of the old people in the village.