Chapter 2: Monsters

The sea breeze howled, bringing up a heavy wave that kept hitting the cliff and stirring up crystal waves.

The tide goes and the tide recedes, and the craggy strange stones are carved out of themselves.

In front of a mountain cliff, the young man rested his head on his hands and leaned against a boulder, holding a dog's tail grass in his mouth, crossed Erlang's legs, and squinted his eyes to look at the sea.

At his feet was a long branch, and at the end of the branch, a white thread hung down to the surface of the sea.

Behind the boulder, there was a small bonfire with a few fat fish pierced by branches, and the fragrance and smoke drifted into the sky with the wind.

"What the hell is this place? It's been three months, and not even a birdman has come. ”

The young man spat out the dog's tail grass in his mouth and shouted dissatisfiedly.

Time flies, and it has been three months since Li Ling came here.

This is a deserted island hanging in the sea, surrounded by water, and the area is not very large, with a radius of about six or seven kilometers.

Li Ling had already accepted the fact that he had encountered the legendary crossing.

His soul was a perfect fit with a dead but still fresh, hot corpse in the world.

This kind of bloody episode, which has long been rampant in online novels, happened to him vividly.

And as soon as I came, I got a lucky "newbie package,"

When he met a monk who he said was particularly awesome but was about to overcome, he was accepted as an apprentice and became a cultivator under his leadership.

This treatment, this luck, is properly through the other world, fighting invincible opponents all over the world, pretending to be forced everywhere, and sleeping with all the beauties of all sides.

Li Ling couldn't wait to leave this place where birds don't and start such an awesome life.

But after half a year, no one came to this desert island, but Li Ling was not discouraged, he firmly believed that someone would soon drive him away in a boat, maybe there was a beautiful woman on the boat, bowing down to his domineering spirit, and was willing to make a promise to relieve the emptiness and loneliness on the way.

Thinking of this, Li Ling was a little angry, because his current body was eleven or twelve years old, and there was not even a single hair in the crotch of his pants, so I am afraid that it would be difficult to have some indescribable things happen with beautiful women.

In the midst of his indignation, there was a shaking of the branches under his feet, and the young man immediately came to his senses, and quickly grabbed the branch and shook his hand, and a big fish was thrown out of the water, and the joy brought by it diluted the depression caused by not being able to have indescribable things with beautiful women.

Seeing that the sun was setting in the west, the boy straightened up from the boulder, extinguished the bonfire, and then turned away.

Across the peaks, in a sheltered shelter from the wind, there is a simple thatched hut made of hay and branches.

This is the temporary residence built by Li Ling.

The young man pushed open the door and threw the grilled fish in his hand into the corner, "Old fellow, are you dead?" ”

A figure lying on a simple bed in the corner was the old man who fell from the sky that day.

The old man's bloody clothes had been washed and he no longer looked miserable before, but his cheeks were sunken and his skin and bones were thin, just like a dried corpse.

"Do you practice the technique I taught you every day?"

The old man sat up, picked up a grilled fish, tore it off and swallowed it, and looked up to ask the young man who was about to boil the water.

"I've practiced, but I've been practicing for half a year and still haven't realized the qi you said, if you continue like this, you can cultivate to the first realm of martial artists in the Year of the Monkey?"

The young man seemed to think of something, and asked: "I said, old fellow, aren't you very awesome? Is there a peerless elixir, 10,000-year-old ginseng, thousand-year-old shouwu or something? Let me eat it and become the kind of master that is unique in 10,000, so that I can complete the conditions you mentioned as soon as possible." ”

The old man couldn't help but glance at the young man, and sneered: "Don't say that there is no such elixir in the world, even if there is, with your current realm, you will explode and die after taking it." ”

"Forget it, I didn't want to fulfill your requests. The boy replied nonchalantly.

Hearing this, the old man was stunned, and took a few breaths to suppress his anger, "Do you know that you and I have made a blood oath, and if you can't complete those requirements within forty years, you will be killed by the oath." ”

The young man was silent for a moment, but said lightly: "The conditions you mentioned are too harsh, let me defeat which old monsters who have been famous for a long time in just a few decades, tell jokes, life is just a few decades, and I can't help but be too tired to give myself such a heavy shackle." ”

"You..."

"Cultivators act against the sky, when they fight against the sky, they strive for self-improvement, with a mentality like yours, how can they seek the way of immortality, why did I go blind in the first place and accept you as a disciple. ”

The young man glanced at the angry old man, "That's because you don't have a choice." ”

Can we still have a good chat together?

The old man was speechless.

"What's more, what you taught me are some martial arts cultivation techniques, but you teach me which immortal cultivators to deal with. ”

The boy sneered and said, "Isn't this an egg to touch a stone?"

"You know. ”

The old man blew his beard angrily and glared, "It's in vain that the old man has a good heart, Huangkou Xiao'er understands the benefits of martial arts cultivation, throughout the ages, most cultivators only know how to refine the Yuan Shen, and how do they know that the flesh is like the land, and the Yuan Shen is compared to the crops in the field, only the fertile land can grow good crops, and blindly refining the Yuan Shen is just a matter of seeking the near and far." ”

"According to what you say, wouldn't the Martial Dao Grand Master Cultivation be half the effort?"

Hearing the young man's answer, the old man pondered for a long time and said: "That being said, martial arts cultivation, even if it is an outstanding talent, will take thirty or forty years, not to mention those who have been poor for fifty or sixty years to advance to the great martial arts masters, at that time, the innate vitality in the body has disappeared, and it is extremely difficult to condense the original spirit." ”

The old man looked at the young man's one-eyed burst into a blazing light, "But as long as a person is sixteen years old Yuanyang does not lose the advanced level of the martial arts great master, and then turns to the immortal path, the entry is naturally a thousand miles a day, I look at your bones, this year just turned eleven years old, you only need to use five years to advance to the martial arts great master, and another forty years, it is not impossible to reach the realm that countless monks dream of, and it is natural to complete a few of my last wishes." ”

"Five years?"

The young man couldn't help laughing, "Old guy, you also exalt me too much, the realm that others can only reach in thirty or forty years or even a lifetime, let me reach it in five years, I ask myself if I can't do it, you better find someone else!"

"If you don't do things, how do you know that you can't do it?" The light in the old man's eyes gradually extinguished, and his tone became gloomy, "Just like you said, I don't have a choice, our Shangqing Sect has been passed down for several generations, if it comes to my generation and the sect inheritance is extinct, I have no shame to go to see the ancestors of the sect, you will see that I saved your life, why not cultivate hard for five years." ”

The young man has always been the master who eats soft and not hard, and when he met the old man's expectant eyes, his heart was soft, and he said for a while: "Okay, I promise you to give it a try, but I can only try my best to say it ahead, and I can only listen to the destiny of heaven if I succeed or not." ”

The old man was relieved: "Okay, I am relieved to have your words, although you kid is a big ghost, but he is a trustworthy person, my time is running out, you should also collect your heart and practice martial arts, otherwise I am afraid that I will walk on the front foot, and your kid's life will not be guaranteed on the back foot." ”

"Huh?" the boy wondered, "what do you mean, old fellow?"

"You think this island is peaceful, these days it's just the old man's evil spirit that has suppressed those demon clowns, don't dare to act rashly, your blood food is a great supplement for them, once the old man returns to the west, they will naturally flock to it, you have no power to protect yourself, and it will not be a life when the time comes. ”

"What demon clown?" the boy was a little skeptical.

The old man snorted, "It's just some spirits, ghouls, don't you believe it? Okay! The old man will restrain his evil spirit tonight, those ghosts smell the smell of blood and food, and they don't swarm here, you naturally know that what the old man said is right." ”

......

Tonight seemed to be a little different than usual, it was quiet outside, and there was not a hint of wind.

The night owls that used to cry incessantly also disappeared, and everything was silent, and it was a little more depressing out of thin air.

Li Ling turned over and opened his eyes, looking at the old man in the corner, who seemed to sense his gaze, raised his head, and said in a low voice: "Boy, you look through the crack in the door, they seem to be coming." ”

"Who are you scaring about? Li Ling scoffed, but out of curiosity, he turned over and sat up to the door, his eyes pressed against the crack in the door to look out.

The moonlight is like water, sprinkled all over the mountains, and the shadows of the trees are reflected, and the shadows are abundant, and it seems to be too quiet compared to the past.

"The old guy lied..."

The rest of the words were swallowed back by Li Ling, his pupils slowly dilated, his fists clenched, and his heart unconsciously accelerated.

In the distance, a few white flames fluttered in the shadows of the trees, moving towards this direction, constantly changing shapes.

A mountain rock quietly rolled down, and a skeletal palm stretched out from the ground, clicking, and slowly a broken skeleton climbed up, and two dark blue flames in the skull shone in all directions.

In the sound of the whirring wind, a huge strange bird descended from the sky, shook its wings, and turned into a monster with two horns and six claws, but with a woman's face.

The skeleton and the ghost slowly moved towards the hut, but the spirit of the strange bird froze in place, its blood-red eyes full of suspicion, and its throat let out a low roar.

The sound of the waves suddenly rose, as if a huge wave hit the cliff fiercely, and silver light flew out from under the cliff, revealing a woman with an upper body and a monster with a fish body below the waist.

The monster turned into a strange bird was taken aback, and its roar stopped, as if it was very afraid of the fish-body monster, and slowly took a few steps back, as if it wanted to escape from the road.

The young man in the room widened his eyes, and the scene in front of him brought him too much shock.

"These are just low-level demons, but it's more than enough for your life. ”

The old man's voice was low, "How is it? ”

The young man wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, nodded subconsciously, and forgot to talk for a while.

"That's all the guts!" the old man snorted heavily, "Among these little demons, the fish demon has already generated an inner pill, and I will cast a spell to catch it and refine a few bone-forging pills for you." ”

Seeing that Li Ling was still in the local area, the old man said angrily: "Don't look at it, come and help me up." ”

The young man knew that the old man was going to cast a spell, and his spirits were lifted, and he hurriedly stepped forward to help the old man.

"Boy, take a closer look. ”

The old man exhaled heavily, waved one hand again and again, golden light bloomed between his fingers, and drew a mysterious pattern in the void, and then slapped it out with a palm.