The small village of Shanyuan is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the only mountainless north is an abyss. A river that is not too wide runs down the hill to the south, through the village, through the farmland, and finally flows like a jade belt into the abyss. A few farmers were in the fields on the bank of the river, and in the middle of the day, four or five houses were already rising from the smoke of cooking, and in the distance, the occasional sound of chickens and dogs barking could be heard from one house.

"Daddy, Auntie asked me to bring you food!" A little boy about ten years old was holding a rice basket and holding a little girl of seven or eight years old in one hand walking on the ridge of the field.

A middle-aged man in the field saw the two children, and hurriedly put down his work and ran towards the two children. "Daddy...... Father...... Embrace...... Hugging ......" Seeing this man coming, the smaller girl hurriedly stretched out her hands and threw herself into the man's arms. The middle-aged man picked up the little girl, scratched the little girl's nose and said with a smile: "Little Li'er, you call me daddy before you become my daughter-in-law!

"How dare I, Daddy, you and Auntie are both partial to the pity, I don't have the courage to have a chance, my ass hurt last time!" the boy said dissatisfiedly.

"It's good to know!" the man smiled, looking at the little girl in his arms, "Li'er, look at what good things Daddy brings you." The man took out a grasshopper out of nowhere and handed it to the little boy, and when he looked closely, the grasshopper was actually made of straw, but it was also lifelike, and the little one obviously liked the toy very much, and played with it for a while, and then turned around and saw the little boy looking at himself with a blank eye, gritted his teeth, and handed the grasshopper to the little boy.

"Brother Yi, give it to you, Li'er doesn't like to play anymore!" Zhou Yi looked at Li'er, and when he saw that the other party nodded, he took the grasshopper with joy, and ran to the side to play, obviously not noticing the reluctance in Li'er's eyes.

"This kid!" Looking at Zhou Yi who ran to the side to play, Zhou Shan couldn't help but shake his head. After eating, Zhou Shan let the two children play while he continued to work in the fields. Soon half a day passed, watching the sky gradually darken, Zhou Shan packed up the farm tools and beckoned the two children to go back to the village together.

"Dad, what do you think that?" Zhou Yi exclaimed.

Zhou Shan looked at the place where Zhou Yi pointed out, but saw a light in the sky piercing the sky, flying from the West Mountain to his side, this light was so dazzling, the dusk was like day, people couldn't open their eyes, and when the light gradually dimmed, Zhou Shan and Zhou Yi found that the light actually rushed to Li'er's body, and gradually disappeared into the eyebrows of Xiao Li'er. Zhou Shan hurriedly went to check whether Li'er was injured, and only then did he feel relieved to see that Li'er was fine.

At this time, the rest of the village also came out, apparently alarmed by the light......

Ancestral hall hall

A large group of people gathered here, and sitting in the center was the village chief of Shanyuan Village, followed by some elderly people in the village.

"Three hundred years ago, the ancestors of my Mu family lived in seclusion here to avoid the troubled times, and then accepted the five families of Zhou, Ye, Yang, Wang and Su respectively, so that we have today's Shanyuan Village. This time, we have gathered everyone here to discuss the vision just now. The village chief said when he saw that everyone was almost here.

"Uncle Mu, what's going on with the vision just now. A middle-aged man said to the village chief.

"Alas, this may be the Corpse King Temple's selection of saints!" Village Chief Mu sighed.

"Corpse King Temple?" "What kind of place is this?" everyone began to talk when they heard this.

"The Corpse King Temple is one of the three major forces in the Demon Realm, and it is said that every hundred years, ten magic lights will fly out of the Corpse King Temple's holy weapon in search of ten inheritors, and only one of these ten inheritors will become the successor of the Corpse King Temple. Village Chief Mu frowned.

"Is this a blessing or a curse for our Shanyuan Village?" is the question that the villagers want to know the most.

"Every time the Corpse King Temple chooses a holy maiden, it will be accompanied by a bloody storm. Ye Li'er was selected this time, and for our Shanyuan Village, it was unpredictable!" the old village chief shook his head.

"Although our Shanyuan Village is in the Demon Realm, we are isolated from the world and never come into contact with outsiders. Moreover, although our ancestors were demon cultivators, we people couldn't cultivate because the aura of the demon world was too domineering, and the people in our village who were more capable of cultivating could count it on one hand. And none of them are too high, and they can't fight against any forces at all. Why don't we send Li'er away, village chief, what do you think?" said someone.

Without waiting for Village Chief Mu to answer, Zhou Shan first stood up and objected: "I object, Village Chief, our village is already isolated from the world, where can we send Li'er? Your so-called sending is nothing more than driving her out of the village, how can she live as such a young child." Don't you forget how Ye Li'er's father died three years ago?" Everyone was speechless when he said this, and the person who said that just now was even more red-faced.

"Xiaoshan is right, Li'er's father sacrificed for all of us. It's our job to protect our children. The village chief said.

It turned out that four years ago, there was a demonic beast attacking Shanyuan Village, and Ye Li'er's father Ye Tian was one of the few cultivators in the village, in order to save the village, Ye Tian fought desperately with the demonic beast, although he drove away the demonic beast, Ye Tian paid the price of his life. Li'er's mother was also overly sad by Ye Tian's departure, and passed away soon after. Zhou Shan has been friends with Ye Tian since he was a child, and his son Zhou Yi is even married to Li'er, seeing that Li'er's parents have passed away, he took the initiative to take the responsibility of raising Li'er, and treats Li'er like his own daughter.

"Okay, let's discuss the matter here first, and then discuss it tomorrow, and Zhou Shan stays. Let's all disperse!" said the village chief.

"Uncle Mu, what's the matter with letting me stay?" Zhou Shan saw that everyone was gone, so he asked the village chief.

"Tomorrow, you can take Xiao Yi and Xiao Li'er to the cave on the South Mountain to take refuge for a few days. Li'er is still young and needs to be taken care of. The village chief looked at Zhou Shan and said slowly.

"Village chief, how can this be done, I'd better stay, let my family Yi'er take Xiao Li'er up the mountain. He can take care of the child. Zhou Shan hurriedly said.

"Well, let them go up the mountain tomorrow, no, they will go up the mountain tonight, and you can go back quickly. The village chief said with a worried face.

Looking at Zhou Shan's back, the village chief muttered: "It is said that this is the paradise of the demon world, but this paradise is still in the demon world after all, and I don't know how long this small mountain village can be calm?" For a moment, it seemed to be a lot older.

Zhou Yi sat at the door of his house in a daze, although it was dark, but he was still thinking about this afternoon's events, everyone went to the ancestral hall, Zhou Yi always felt that this was related to Li'er. No matter what, I must protect Li'er so that everyone is not allowed to bully her!" Zhou Yi thought secretly.

"Daddy, you're back, I've been waiting for you for a long time" Seeing Zhou Shan coming back, Zhou Yi hurriedly ran over.

"What about Li'er?" Seeing Zhou Yi, Zhou Shan asked.

"Li'er is asleep!Dad, what's going on?Is someone going to bully Li'er, I'll teach him a lesson!" Zhou Yi rolled up his sleeves and looked like he was about to fight.

"Don't talk nonsense, go and wake up Li'er, you two will go to live in that cave on the South Mountain for a few days tonight. Zhou Shan saw that Zhou Yi was about to rush out, and hurriedly grabbed him.

"Dad, are you going tonight?, just me and Li'er?" Zhou Yi asked.

"Yes, just the two of you, what's the problem?" Zhou Shan asked, looking at his son.

"Dad, I'm afraid of black ......"

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"Brother Yi, when are we going back? Ye Li'er looked at Zhou Yi with blank eyes.

It has been three days since I came to this Nanshan cave, which is a temporary residence for the villagers of Shanyuan Village to go up the mountain to hunt, and there will be some food in it, and it is not a problem to live for ten days and half a month. Seeing Li'er's noise, Zhou Yi was also very anxious, but he could only persuade this child who was younger than himself patiently.

"Be nice, Daddy said he would take us down the mountain soon. Let's play with this for you. Saying that, Zhou Yi handed it to Xiao Li'er turned out to be a grass grasshopper. "This is what I learned last time I watched my father weave grass grasshoppers, and I can make this up for Li'er to play with in the future. ”

"Brother Yi is so good!" Ye Li'er took the grasshopper and stopped making trouble.

Seeing that Ye Li'er was no longer troublesome, the uneasiness in Zhou Yi's heart was getting stronger and stronger. "No, I'm going to go back and have a look. Zhou Yi thought.

"Li'er, you play first, I'll go pick some wild fruits. Zhou Yi said, and walked out of the cave and rushed to the village.

Although it is a cave in Nanshan, it is also seventy or eighty miles away from Shanyuan Village, not to mention that these mountain roads are not as smooth as the avenue, and it is not easy to walk. The average adult also walks for half a day.

The mountain road is rugged, and every time he walks from here, Zhou Yi feels scared, but at this time, Zhou Yi can't care about this, and just wants to rush back to the village.

When Zhou Yi walked to the entrance of the village, he saw a scene that he could not forget in his life, where is this still a peachy mountain source village, and the village is in ruins.

"Daddy...... Mother......" Zhou Yi shouted in fear, but no one answered. "Maybe everybody's out. Zhou Yi comforted himself like this. But soon Zhou Yi's thoughts were shattered. Because Zhou Yi saw that the ancestral halls were lying with a large number of corpses. And Zhou Shan's body was lying in it. "Ah......" Zhou Yi screamed in horror and fainted.

At some point, it started to rain. It seems that he is also crying for this tragedy in the demon world.

At this time, one of the corpses stood up tremblingly. Although he was covered in blood, the blood on his face had been washed away by the rain, and it was vaguely clear that this was not from Shanyuan Village.

"I can't imagine that I, Chen Du, am not dead yet, the sky will not kill me! What? There are other living people?" said the man with a bloody face looking at Zhou Yi who had fainted.