In the midst of a scattered village, there was a dilapidated thatched hut at the head of the village, and on a small bed covered with rags and tied with weeds, lay an old man in his old age.

I saw that her face was scorched and sickly, and even breathing was extremely difficult, and from her body, the smell of corpses came from time to time, which made it unbearable for people to cover their noses and vomit.

"Xiaoli, Li, where are you?Come back quickly, let me take another look at you, one last look, Li......" The old man kept muttering, calling the girl's name.

At that moment a little girl pushed open the broken bamboo door of the hut, and seemed very happy, and ran into the house in a hurry, and shouted happily:

"Grandma, look at what I brought back to you, the Phantom Spirit Root, the medicine that can help you heal!

As she spoke, the girl kept shaking the grass roots in her hands that seemed to be a little crystal clear in her hands at the old man.

When the old man heard the girl's call, he also opened his eyes, looked at the girl in front of him who he missed day and night, smiled with difficulty, and stretched out his wrinkled old hand to her face with difficulty.

When the girl saw this scene in front of her, crystal tears fell, lowered her head, held the old man's hand with both hands, gently stroked her face, and sobbed:

"Yes, grandma, your little Li'er is back, I will always be with you in the future!

"Li, grandma doesn't need anything else, she just needs to see you, and she will feel at ease when she dies~Na"

"Grandma, don't say that, don't leave me alone, I don't want you to die, if you have any three long and two short, I won't live anymore~ Woo woo woo ~" The girl cried as she spoke.

The old man's wrinkled old face also moved slightly, and a trace of dry tears oozed from his dark eyes, and he no longer spoke, revealing a sad look.

Xiao He saw this sad scene in the house, and he couldn't stand it, sighed, and sat silently under the eaves, falling into deep thought.

At this moment, a series of small voices came, and Xiao He was also thinking that there would be people patronizing this dilapidated thatched hut, which made him a little puzzled, so he quietly hid and secretly observed.

"You said Xiaoli is back?" one of them, dressed in white and with a fair face, should be the one who has been staying indoors all year round, asked.

"Yes, I saw it with my own eyes, but she seems to have brought a helper, a teenager!" the other man in gray clothes quickly replied as a young man.

"Don't get in the way, with Boss Du here, these are all nothing!" After the man in white finished speaking, he looked at the middle-aged man with a sword behind him and said disdainfully.

"Hmm" The man was obviously hesitant, but nodded anyway.

"Did you see anything in her hand?" the man in white continued.

"She was carrying a bag in her hand, and some crystal clear leaves were hanging down, I don't know what kind of plant it was!" replied the fellow after a careful reflection.

"Oh? That is probably the Phantom Spirit Root, it's really you! I will get rich and have your share!" The man in white was also overjoyed after hearing this, and patted him on the shoulder.

Immediately afterwards, the man in white turned around and walked towards the middle-aged man with the sword, and whispered respectfully:

"Boss Du, it seems that that person just now shouldn't have lied to us, Xiaoli should have obtained the Phantom Spirit Root with the help of that kid, presumably he is a cultivator, so please make a move, and then the gold coins obtained from the auction will be fifty-five cents! Boss Du, what do you think?"

"Well, that's good, but that's all you can do!" the sword-wielding middle-aged man nodded, then stretched out two fingers to the man in white and sneered.

"Ah~what! Didn't we say that it was okay to have five or five points?Boss Du, what are you ......" The man in white obviously didn't believe it and said in shock.

"What is this? I have already given you enough face to give you this number, you don't have to make any more inches, and don't blame the sword in my hand for not having long eyes when the time comes!" As he spoke, the middle-aged man pushed open the hilt of the sword with his fingers, revealing the blade of the sword.

"Okay then~Just according to your words, boss~" The man in white was obviously a little reluctant, but he still chose to compromise.

"Hmph, this is like words, lead the way!"

"Yes~Yes"

......

Due to the distance, Xiao He couldn't hear what they were saying, but he could be sure that this group of people was definitely not a good person!

After a while, the group arrived in front of the thatched hut, and the middle-aged man gave the man in white a look and asked him to go in first.

The man in white also looked helpless, but he still nodded, pushed open the door, walked in, and saw that the girl was making a fire, and there was a kettle on the fire.

The girl was also happy to see the man in white open the door and come in, and got up and asked:

"Mrs. Zhang, why are you here?"

"Uh, Xiaoli, I heard that you are back, so I came to see you" The man in white said with a bitter face.

At this time, he was staring at the kettle on the fire, worried that the little girl would use the spiritual root, so he was a little anxious, and hurriedly asked:

"Xiaoli, have you picked the spiritual root?"

"Hmm"

"Have you already made it?"

The girl shook her head.

Seeing this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, as if he had just escaped.

"Husband, what's wrong with you?, how do I feel that something is wrong with you today~weird" The girl had some doubts and said directly.

"Oh, haha, is it?" After hearing this, the man in white felt a little embarrassed, smiled, and said.

"Well, if it's okay, I'll boil the medicine first!"

"I heard that you came back with a teenager, why didn't I see anyone else?" The man in white looked inside the room, and there was nothing but the old man lying on the sick floor.

"You said big brother, he's outside!"

After saying this, the girl ran to the door, but there was no one to be seen, and shouted:

"Big brother, where are you? Big brother"

But she shouted a few times, but no one responded, so she had to go back to the house again and say to the man in white:

"Big brother was still outside just now, maybe he was bored, so he went out for a walk by himself, do you have something to do with him?"

"No, I just wanted to ask!"

"Alright then, I'll just boil the water! It's so shabby, I don't know how to entertain you. ”

"It's not ~ it's okay"

The man in white looked at the girl's busy back, hesitated for a moment, and then asked:

"Xiaoli, can you show me the Phantom Spirit Root? I have been a husband for so many years, and the only thing missing in the medicine cabinet of the pharmacy is this medicine, I have never seen the real thing, I want to come and see it today, can you open my eyes?"

"Oh, I see, yes, right there!"

As she spoke, the girl pointed to the old man, and saw a broken bag full of patches beside her bed, and a few crystal leaves sticking out of the mouth of the bag.

The man in white was also shocked, so he rushed over in a hurry, and the girl was a little surprised, so she put down the firewood in her hand.

"I'll go~ Why is this dead old woman so stinky" I saw the man in white with a bitter face and scolded in a low voice.

He opened the rag bag and saw a few crystal clear rhizomes lying quietly inside, this was the first time he had seen it in his life, so dreamy that he would be attracted for a while, and he was so excited that he couldn't return to his senses.

Then he laughed, sinisterly, and said:

"Haha, it's really the Phantom Spirit Root! This time I've made a fortune!Xiaoli, thank you, for helping me find such a good thing!"

"What, Mrs. Zhang, what are you talking about, put it down! The Phantom Spirit Root is mine"

As she spoke, the girl rushed straight over, but was pushed to the ground by the man in white and cried.

"Woo woo woo ~ no good man, woo ~"

After seeing the girl crying and screaming, the man in white was obviously also very anxious, and pulled the bag suddenly, but he was grabbed by a pair of wrinkled old hands and held on!

"Get out of the way, old immortal stinking thing!

The man in white spat at the old man, and violently broke her hand, and with the other hand, he pulled it away, and directly carried the rag bag away.

"Loosen up, you little."

The girl was also in a hurry, rushed over directly, hugged his thigh, opened her mouth and bitten, the severe pain made his face blue.

"I won't! I won't let you die! You are all big villains, big liars!Woo~" The girl continued to cry and bite hard.

"Wow~ It hurts me to death, damn, Uncle Ben still doesn't believe that he can't cure you!" After speaking, he stretched out his hand and wanted to pull the girl's hair.

As soon as he stretched out his hand, a steel sword pierced his right palm, and blood spilled all over the ground.

"Ah~"

I saw that the man in white let go of the rag bag, and the whole person fell to the ground, holding his right wrist tightly with his left palm in pain, staring at the pierced palm with his eyes, with an incredible expression.

Before he could fully react, the white steel sword pressed against his neck, slowly lifting his chin and allowing him to see Xiao He's indifferent face clearly.

The white-clothed man's pupils suddenly dilated, and the fear of death permeated his whole body, and he was all wet with urine, and said tremblingly:

"Shaoxia spares my life, it was the guy surnamed Du outside who asked me to come in!

"Hehe, when you die, you still have a hard mouth, you didn't hear anything just now? Sure enough, it's a scumbag, it seems that keeping it will only harm the world, or is it more real for you to kill it!"

"Ah, don't, I don't dare anymore......"

Just as Xiao He was about to make a move, he suddenly stopped, threw the white-clothed Langzhong to the ground, and then kicked him hard and flew out of the door.

At the same time, Xiao He held his sword in his chest with both hands, and shouted coldly behind the door:

"Don't hide, since you're here, let's come out quickly!"

"Haha, I didn't expect the little brother to be so young, so that Du Mousheng admired" At this time, a middle-aged man with a sword walked out from behind the bamboo door.

"Don't be a sycophant, you're also here to compete for the Phantom Spirit Root, right? The Spirit Root is here, if you want to take it, let the horse come over" Xiao He played with the broken bag in his hand and said disdainfully.

"Little brother said that I was laughing, where and where, I just happened to pass by, and I didn't mean to fight!" the middle-aged man waved his hand and smiled.

"Really, I've just seen you come with this scumbag, and I can hear you all right!"

"Little brother, what are you talking about, why didn't I understand, I don't know this guy at all, how could I ......" the man was going to quibble again.

"Hehe, a thing that looks like a dog, if you learn to speak a little human language, you will treat yourself as a human being!

"Stinky boy, what are you talking about!

The sword-wielding middle-aged man finally couldn't hold it anymore, pulled out the steel sword, and stabbed at Xiaohe's body.