In the western part of Shenzhou, there is a mountain range that stretches for hundreds of miles, called Huangren Mountain. For thousands of years, it has been a holy place for cultivating immortals, and it is the place where the world's first immortal cultivation sect "Five Elements Sect" is located. This mountain is so rocky that it is impossible for mortals to climb it. Among them, there are five peaks at the highest, which are in the form of five finger rings, which are Tengyan Peak, Qirui Peak, Wenfa Peak, Bolang Peak, and Wujiang Peak.

Huangren Mountain is rich in gold, jade and various minerals, and attracts people from all over the world to come because of the abundance of products in this area. Whether it is the secular magnates who covet gold and jade, or the resources and materials of various sects coveting cultivation, or the nameless casual cultivators trying their luck to find an opportunity, they will never disappoint when they come to Huangren Mountain to pan for gold. But all those who come here know that whether it is rock climbing or mining for gold, they must not exceed the height of 100 zhang to show respect for the immortals.

The Imperial Water originates from this mountain, and the mighty river flows endlessly day and night around the fire-weary city and flows westward into Chishui. Hundreds of tall and towering Nanmu trees along the riverside, the branches and leaves attack from all sides, showing teeth and claws, giving people an incomparably oppressive feeling. A touch of afterglow smeared the leaves blood-red, adding a bit of desolation and depression.

If you want to say that the entire fire-weary territory, the most prosperous is the fire-weary city in the center, with many guests and people. But if you want to say that the must-visit place for tourists to come to the city of fire is Dakeng Village at the foot of Huangren Mountain. Huangren Mountain stretches for hundreds of miles, with undulating peaks and peaks, towering into the clouds, but here is the most abundant minerals. Since the official family discovered the ore vein here more than 100 years ago, and after decades of excavation, this peak has been hollowed out into a huge pothole, from which the name of "big pit" comes from.

At this time, at the foot of the Emperor's Mountain, in the deep valley, between the shadows of the trees, there were two thin figures. But seeing the green shadow in front of him, the gray shadow chased closely, dangling around, chasing and running.

"The demon is fleeing, look at my evil talisman!"

A childlike voice shouted, it was a gray-robed young man dressed as a twelve-thirteen-year-old Taoist child, holding a three-foot wooden sword in his hand, and was chasing a young man in a green shirt about the same age in front of him. With a wave of the Dao Tong boy's arm, a green leaf painted with black runes smashed out and hit the young man in the green shirt. The young man in the green shirt said "ah", his body shook and tumbled, and he fell to the ground.

Dao Tong pounced on a cat, jumped up and sat on the young man in green shirts, the wooden sword in his hand waved quickly in the air, and he silently recited the incantation in his mouth.

"Haha, I, Jiang You, will eliminate the harm for the people today, and accept your harmful obstacles!" After the Daotong boy finished speaking, the wooden sword in his hand froze, and then slashed towards the young man in the green shirt.

"Haha, I've got rid of the demon, I've killed the monster! Dao Tong cheered.

"Okay, Jiang You, this time it's my turn to pretend to be a Taoist priest, and you pretend to be a monster......" The young man in green shirt turned over and wanted to get the wooden sword.

Jiang You put away the wooden sword, hid it behind his back, and said with a smile: "Zhao Hong, if you call me Brother Jiang, I will give you the wooden sword and let you pretend to be a Taoist." ”

The young man in the green shirt was named Zhao Hong, he glanced at Jiang You, and said, "You are only a few days older than me, why do you want me to call you big brother." I just said okay, this time it's my turn to play the Taoist, do you want to regret it again?"

"Forget it, if you don't call, you won't scream, and I won't force you. We have known each other for so many years, we are like brothers and sisters, brothers are just titles, whether we call them or not will not affect our friendship, and it is good to call them by name. Jiang You smiled.

"Of course, I don't have any other friends. In the future, you and I will be like brothers, blessed and disadvantaged!" Zhao Hong also grinned.

"Alas, why do you say that after so many years, Uncle Si has not taught you to cultivate, and my master has always refused to teach me talismans? Jiang You suddenly sighed and said.

"Oh, isn't this the evil talisman drawn by our powerful Jiang Dadao?" Zhao Hong handed over the green leaf just now, and said with a grin.

Jiang You glared at him, "Go and go, what kind of talisman is this, it's just that when I watched the master draw talismans on weekdays, I secretly copied it, and it was useless." After speaking, his expression was a little gloomy.

Zhao Hong patted him on the shoulder and persuaded: "Jiang You, didn't Uncle Liu say that they would officially accept us as apprentices when we are sixteen years old? Who doesn't know that you are gifted and intelligent, and you can learn anything as soon as you learn it. Maybe in another year or two, Uncle Liu will change his mind, or not? Besides, you are much better than me, and you can often follow Uncle Liu out to wander and exorcise ghosts. But I have to stay in the wine shop every day, and I have never been out of Dakeng Village!"

Jiang You sighed, looked at the towering Huangren Mountain in the distance, and thoughtfully, "I hope so." In fact, it is not interesting to be a Taoist priest who exorcises ghosts, if you can be a monk who cultivates immortals, then it is really great! Unfortunately, on the top of Huangren Mountain, mortals can't go up at all, otherwise the two of us can try to go up to the mountain to apprentice and learn from immortals. ”

Zhao Hong shook his head and lay lazily on the grass, "Everyone wants to worship under the immortal sect and become a righteous monk, but how much chance does this take! Besides, whether it is the right path or the evil path, just like mortals, there will be a day when they will die, and cultivation is just to make Shouyuan longer. If life is boring, what's the use of having such a long life?"

Jiang You also lay down on the side, looking up at the sky, "Hehe, I didn't expect you to be so young and happy about the world, like an adult." ”

Zhao Hong sighed: "I'm different from you, I've been an orphan since I was a child, and I don't know who my parents are. You have to think about everything, otherwise how can you live?"

Jiang You turned his head and asked thoughtfully, "Uncle Si still hasn't mentioned your family background to you?" Maybe he really doesn't know." By the way, you don't always have a dream, maybe it has something to do with your background. ”

Zhao Hong shook his head, "Yes, I always dream that someone is waving to me, and I also dream of a woman with a pink figure, but I can't see what they look like after all." Who knows if they are my parents and relatives?"

Jiang You grinned, "I think maybe it's you Sichun, which girl do you fall in love with?" Haha, I guess you're interested in Gongsun Yan of Maotianwu?"

Zhao Hong glanced at him, "I think you are interested in her, but you don't dare to say it, and you come to make fun of me." ”

The two of them were teasing each other sentence by sentence, when an old man's voice came from the distance: "Two rabbit cubs, hide here and be lazy!" Zhao Hong, why don't you hurry back to the wine shop, the old ghost Yi is not here these days, you want to be lazy again, right? Jiang You, you also get back for me, you don't have to work?"

"Yes. The two jumped to their feet, glared at each other, and walked forward with a wry smile.

At sunset, by the Huangshui River, under the two big nanmu trees at the head of Dakeng Village, there is a simple shop built of bricks and stone thick wood, which looks a little dilapidated, and there is a more broken small sauce-colored flag outside the small shop, and there is only one word "wine" on the flag.

Next to the sauce-colored flag with the word "wine" on this side, there is also a dark blue stone stele, and there is a simple limerick poem on the stele, "You are drunk well, and everything is drunk when you are drunk." The world laughs a few times, and the pot is the most free. Where it comes from is where it comes from, cup after cup. ”

From time to time, pedestrians pass by, or nearby hired mining villagers, or caravans traveling from south to north. Most of them will take a break at this small wine shop, have a few drinks before heading out.

There is not much space in the restaurant, and there are five or six tables compactly, all of which are scattered with customers. It's just that the shopkeeper of the wine shop doesn't know where to go, only a young man in a green shirt who is about twelve or thirteen years old should respond to the customer's shouting and serve wine to each table, it is Zhao Hong.

More people sat outside the store, mostly villagers from the surrounding area, with dozens of men and women and a dozen children, taking refuge in the shade while listening intently to the chatter of the people in the liquor store. For ordinary villagers, there are not many opportunities to go out in a lifetime, so most of them have come here in their spare time to listen to the chats of people coming from south to north in the wine shop.

"Liu Banxian, I heard that last time Yingchuan Taishou arrested you, saying that you were talking about bewitching the people to kill your head, what kind of Dafa did you do, but you still ran back unharmed?" asked a rough man with a grin.

"Hehe...... " At this time, an old man turned around, took a wine glass and drank it all, just smiling, but not speaking.

This old man was dressed in a shabby gray robe, about fifty years old, and looked dusty. A goatee under his chin and a fleshless face, covered with a thin layer of hungry blue-yellow skin, and only a pair of deeply sunken eyes remained. He is a famous Taoist priest in the vicinity, surnamed Liu Minggen, it is said that when he was a teenager, he met an immortal and taught him immortal arts, so he could dispel illness and summon ghosts, and the nearby villagers called him "half immortal".

Liu Banxian closed his eyes and looked proud, and a twelve or thirteen-year-old Taoist boy beside him replied: "This matter is very easy, my master borrowed the Taishou pen and ink to draw a talisman on the spot." After a while, five or six imps tied up two ghost criminals and escorted them to Na Taishou. Taishou looked at it, but he was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground, kneeling down, why do you say?"

"Why?" asked the crowd in surprise and interest.

Seeing everyone's reaction, Liu Banxian looked quite proud, stroked his goatee with his hand, and looked around at everyone with a smile.

Jiang You continued: "Those two ghost criminals are none other than the parents of the Taishou. I only heard his parents scolding Taishou: 'You can't be a descendant of your ancestors, why do you want to offend the immortals and let your parents suffer such a burden?' After saying this, they kowtowed to my master and begged for mercy. After that, the Taishou was terrified, wept and kowtowed to my master to ask for sin, and set up a banquet to apologize, and finally personally sent us out of the Taishou Mansion. ”

The crowd was in an uproar, some were amazed, some were noncommittal, and some were adoring. In a moment, everyone in the wine shop came up to toast and flatter, and their mouths were full of flattery. After all, who has not been born, old, sick and dead, if you can get close to such an immortal, maybe you will be inexhaustible in this life.

Liu Banxian stroked his goatee again, squinted his eyes, modestly greeted a few words, and clinked glasses with everyone one by one.

However, this is not the case for everyone, and there are two or three people in the liquor store who still turn a blind eye and do not look out of sight. Liu Banxian's gaze swept over, but his brows were slightly furrowed, but then he looked away.

"I don't believe it, you have to have real skills, why don't you perform a spell for us all now?" A black-faced man stood up and shouted at Liu Gen.

"Bold, you dare to be disrespectful to my master!" Jiang You shouted and pulled out a wooden sword from his waist.