Outside the city of Anyang, there is a mountain more than ten miles in the northeast direction, called "Yingzhi Mountain", the mountain is 1,327 zhang high, the four seasons are everyspring, the ancient trees and pines and cypresses are verdant. There is a river under the mountain, called "broken flow river", the river is more than 100 zhang wide, stretches for 5,000 miles from east to west, goes straight into the confluence of the East China Sea, the river water is clear and cool, and the sweetness is incomparable. At the foot of the hill there is a hut by the river, made of thatched trees, which has been beaten by wind and rain for many years, and is somewhat dilapidated.

Now there is an old man on the bank of the river, with silver hair and a bamboo pole, who is leisurely fishing. Next to her, a little girl of about five or six years old guarded the old man's side. But seeing that the old man's eyes lit up, he shook the fishing rod, and suddenly lifted it, and a big fish jumped out of the water, and the girl said excitedly: "Wow, the fish has been hooked." I saw the old man slowly dragging the fishing line, and finally dragged the fish ashore, took the hook, and put it in the bucket. There were already two big fish in the bucket, the color of the fish body was red and yellow, and it weighed two catties, which was a carp.

The old man had already gotten up to pack his equipment and pack his bags, and the little girl asked, "Grandpa, aren't you fishing anymore?"

The old man put away the fishing line and said, "Don't fish, let's go back."

The little girl helped to clean up, carried the bucket, felt very heavy, saw the old man smiling, disgusted, made a grimace, turned around but took a bamboo pole gently, followed the old man to the hut with joy, the remnant sun behind him was like blood, the wind rippled.

The hut was very close to the river, and in a moment the old man and the young man had approached the hut, and the old man pushed the door of the courtyard, and the two went in, and heard the little girl say, "Why hasn't the uncle come back yet?"

The old man put down the bucket, looked up at the sky, and said, "It's time to come back, let's wait", and said, "Grandpa cooks fresh soup for you to drink."

The little girl frowned and said, "Trick me into drinking that bitter water again, it's obviously poison, I don't drink it, I want to eat fish."

The old man said with a slight threat: "Don't drink or eat fish", and walked to the edge of the stove.

The little girl said straightly: "Trick me into drinking that bitter water every day, ignore you, I'll go to the side of the road to see if my uncle has come back", turned around and ran out of the courtyard.

The old man smiled bitterly, filled the pot with water, put some medicinal herbs, and made a fire underneath it, and boiled it.

It's just that the potion has just boiled for a while, and I can hear the sound of talking and footsteps outside, which is the cheerful voice of my granddaughter: "Uncle is back." Looking back, the little girl had jumped into the courtyard with a man in tow. Look at the man dressed in gray cloth, with a cloak of hair, although he is slightly immature between his eyebrows, his figure is tall and mighty, his eyes are deep and powerful, and his face is full of wind and dust. The man carried a wild deer on his shoulders and two hares in his hands. The man spoke, "Master, I'm back," and saw the old man sit in front of the firelight, put down the prey, and said, "Master, I'll come on," and walked towards the old man.

The old man waved his hand and said, "No need, you can rest for a while."

The man said, "The disciple is not tired", seeing that the old man did not get up, he glanced at a few fish in the bucket in the courtyard, and said happily: "Master, you have come back from fishing today," turned to the little girl and said, "Let's have a good mouth tonight, uncle will cook fish for you to eat?"

The girl said happily, "Okay, yes, I love fish the most."

The man shaved the girl's little face and said with a smile: "Gluttonous cat," turned around to find a knife, and took out a carp from the bucket, but it slipped a little, and the carp rubbed on the ground, fluttering back and forth. The man smiled: "It's quite strong", picked it up and took it to the edge of the courtyard, and scraped the fish scales upside down.

The little girl watched the man kill the fish, watching the bloody scene, covering her eyes from time to time, but she couldn't help but peek. The man asked, "Are you good today?"

The girl said, "Of course it's good."

The man said again: "Did you make grandpa angry"?

The girl said, "No, it's just that grandpa boiled medicine for me to drink again, and I don't want to drink it."

The man said, "Why don't you want to drink it?"

The girl said, "It's too bitter."

The man stopped his movements and said, "Good medicine is bitter, if you are sick, you have to drink medicine, listen to grandpa, okay?"

The girl was a little sentimental, and asked with a little face, "When will my illness be cured, am I dying"?

The man reprimanded: "Don't talk nonsense," and said softly: "It'll be fine tomorrow, and after that, my uncle will make you fish to eat every day."

The girl said, "Don't lie to me."

The man said, "Silly girl, how could my uncle lie to you."

The girl held out her little finger and said, "Pull the hook."

The man smiled: "Okay", wiped his fingers, and shouted with the girl: "Hang yourself, you must not change for a hundred years......

The fish scales have been scraped clean, the man got up and washed in the basin, and saw that the old man's medicine was also boiled, so he hurriedly walked over and put it in a bowl, carefully picked it up and put it on the stone table, and sat down next to it with a spoon and stirred it gently.

The old man also sat down on the stone bench, looked at the man, and said, "When I went up the mountain today, I saw no trace of that man."

The man said, "The disciple always keeps an eye on it, but he still finds nothing."

The old man looked at the little girl playing with mud at the door, sighed, and said, "Pity her at such a young age, her life is on the line, but she can't wait for the return of that person."

The man comforted: "Master, don't worry too much, pay attention to your body, it will be fine at dawn."

The old man sighed: "Early this morning, as soon as you left, you vomited blood at dawn, although the teacher was barely restrained, but it was useless, I am afraid that her time is short."

The man exclaimed: "At dawn, she vomited blood again, don't these drugs work?"

The old man said: "After all, these drugs are cheap, they are only auxiliary effects, and they cannot remove the roots."

The man seemed to have made up his mind, and said resolutely: "Why don't you let the disciple enter that ......?"

The old man interrupted the man and said, "No, how many times have you been told by the teacher, don't say that your qualifications are limited, and you must have the opportunity to go in, and you are not allowed to mention this matter in the future."

The man said: "But it's been a month, and there is no situation at all, and the dawn is hanging by a thread, so it's not a way to wait."

The old man said: "Resign yourself to fate", looked at the decoction in the bowl, and said: "The medicine is cold, call for dawn to come and drink the medicine."

The man was grieved in his heart, but he couldn't do anything, seeing that the little girl was innocent, but her life was in an instant, he couldn't help but get up and walk to the girl's side, and said pitifully: "Dawn, drink the medicine."

The girl knew that her uncle was coming, and when she heard the words, she looked back at the bowl of Chinese medicine soup and said, "This medicine is so black, it's so scary, it's okay not to drink it."

The man said, "No," scooped a spoonful of decoction, and said, "Good dawn, after drinking, my uncle will take you to catch fireflies later."

After hearing this, the girl took a small sip in the spoon, but twisted it and said, "It's so bitter."

The man said: "It's not bitter to drink it widely."

The girl innocently asked, "Is it really"?

The man nodded in affirmation, "Hmm".

The girl tried to open her mouth and move towards the bowl, but the man poured all the potion into the bowl. The girl was suddenly attacked, choked in her throat, and when she swallowed it into her abdomen, she knew that she had been deceived, and finally felt wronged, only to see her teary eyes, almost ready to cry. The man hurriedly said: "Uncle, let's take the dawn to catch fireflies", took the girl's dodging hand, trotted out, and watched the dusk sky, three people and one horse at the end of the mountain road, walking far away.

......

Who are those three people, it is Ji Zong and his party. But it is said that Ji Zong and the others have the treasure of the mirror of the underworld, so they opened the time tunnel, several people entered the underworld, shuttled in the space of the years, and did not feel the passage of time, step by step, one thought and one attachment, the heart has broken through the eternity, that is, the mind has reappeared in the world in a blink of an eye, and in an instant I knew that I was in the dream of the mountains and fields. Ji Zong looked at the green mountains and green waters, déjà vu, flowers and plants, like waking up from a dream, I don't know whether it is virtual or real at this moment, and I can't tell the truth from the false.

Ji Zong regained the fragments of his memories, and vaguely recognized that he was in the mountains and forests at the moment, and the past was vivid. Seeing the trees withering, the flowers withering, and the road under their feet still flat, the impression gradually became clear, and then looking at the broken branches on the side of the road, the broken marks are still there. Ji Zong suddenly said: "Isn't this the place where the mysterious man sneak attacked and fell that day," hesitated slightly, and said: "It's just that after decades, why is it still scarred, as if it happened yesterday?" Ji Zong was puzzled.

Now that Ji Zong had found his way to come, the three of them had also fled from the Infinite Demon Domain. Ji Zong saw that a few people were unharmed, and immediately said with infinite feelings: "Disciples, we have finally escaped from the Infinite Land, and you are already in the world at this moment."

The two of them who became famous and surnamed listened to the master's heroic words, and their expectations for many years have finally come true, although they don't know what fireworks in the world are, they are also infinitely reverie. The surname yearns for it: "Master, is the world beautiful, what is there in the world?"

Ji Zong listened to the words of the surname, and was speechless for a while, thinking about the suffering of the world, the turmoil of war, birth, old age, sickness and death, he couldn't help but think about it for a long time, and saw the innocent appearance of the two, but said: "If the heart is home, everywhere must be peaceful and happy", thinking about not seeing the teacher for many years, since he led the second son to meet first, looked up at the sky, and said: "Let's go down the mountain."

Listening to the master's words, he was puzzled for a while, thinking that he would go down the mountain to experience the world, and he was overjoyed.

The two of them turned back and went down the mountain with the road that the master said, only a few steps, and the fame saw that Ji Zong's calf suddenly became weak, and he almost wanted to fall, so he hurriedly stepped forward to help, and saw Ji Zong's face pale, and the beads of sweat slipped down, and he said urgently: "Master, what's wrong with you."

Ji Zong had to become famous and hold on, take a breath, see the second son's panicked and concerned expression, and said: "For the teacher, I am only afraid of internal injuries at the moment."

He said, "Master, how can this be"?

Ji Zong forbearably said: "I'm afraid that when I escaped from Wuji, my teacher was chased and swallowed by time in the dark mirror, and I couldn't resist the power of the flood", as soon as the words fell, I felt that the fire in my body was burning, and I was whipped with a hundred whips.

It turned out that when the three of them did not enter the Dark Mirror, the immortal apricot immortal power in Ji Zong's mouth was about to be exhausted, and then time was in a hurry, and when the three of them stepped into the reincarnation, the immortal apricot mana was exhausted. The Mirror is a thing of yin and yang, after all, Ji Zong is a person who is weak, Ren is a strong mana, and he can't compete with immortals, and he was expelled by the Mirror of the Dark and seriously injured, if it weren't for the remnants of the immortal apricot and the body of Peiyu, I am afraid that his life would return to Huangquan. Ji Zong barely supported it, and when he came out of the extreme, he didn't realize that he was sick for a while, Ji Zong also said that there was no big problem, but he didn't want to have another attack at this moment, and the symptoms appeared.

Fame saw that the master was just starting to come out, and he felt abnormal, but he couldn't figure out what the problem was, so he always paid attention to Ji Zong's state, and didn't want something to happen, but at this moment, seeing that Ji Zong was weak and in pain, he was busy saying to the opposite surname: "Quickly enter the true qi to the master."

The two of them helped Ji Zong sit down, and one after the other lost their skills to Ji Zong.

Ji Zongde's second son imported essence, his face gradually turned ruddy, and he felt that he had basically improved, and persuaded the two.

Seeing that the master had returned to normal, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, and they still had palpitations in their hearts, and said emptily: "Master, you looked scared to death just now, how do you feel now?"

Ji Zong couldn't understand it in his heart, the internal injury he suffered this time had already hurt the root essence element, he was already at the end of the strong crossbow, and at this moment in the world, the immortal herb medicine did not work, even if the master Guiguzi came, he was also lacking in skills, and he couldn't help but be lonely and sigh. Thinking that the second son had just come to the world, he was ignorant and ignorant, but said: "Master, isn't this okay," and said: "It's not early, the mountains are cool and dirty, I can't say that I can't enter Wuji again, repeat the mistakes of the past, and go quickly."

Became famous and listened to the master's words, looked at the master's expression, although he was suspicious, but he was helpless, and at that moment he got on the horse with the surname Fu Jizong and walked down the mountain, the mountain breeze blew slowly, and he felt cool.

It is said that the three of them went down the mountain all the way, the sky was already gray, and in a trance they saw the fire and smoke in the distance, Ji Zong pondered: It is getting late at the moment, and it is far away to go to the city ahead, so it is not too late to rest for a night, and it is not too late to go tomorrow. Immediately said: "There seems to be someone in front, let's go over and have a look." So he dismounted and led the second son to this direction.

The three of them saw a man and a little girl standing under the locust tree from a distance, Ji Zong immediately stepped forward, saw that the man was tall and burly, the little girl was innocent and cute, vaguely felt familiar, the thought flashed, and worshipped: "This strong man, I waited for the three of us to get lost in the mountains and forests, and came to this noble place, it was late to see that it was getting late, can you spend the night in Baoshe, and I am grateful." Seeing that the man's expression was focused, he looked straight at himself, and was silent for a long time, reminding: "Strong man"?

Only then did the man come back to his senses, looked at the three of them again, and said, "Sir, wait a minute, please let me go in and report." He pulled the girl and returned to the courtyard to find the old man.

The old man had heard the voices outside, and walked outside, when the man came in a hurry, and the man whispered, "Master, someone outside the door asks to see him, saying that he is staying overnight."

The old man said, "Who is it?"

The man said in a trembling voice, "That's the person."

The old man exclaimed, "Have you looked carefully?"

The man said: "The disciple can see it clearly, but the man is very old, not like he was back then, and he also brought two followers."

The old man said suspiciously: "Oh", and said, "Let me go out and have a look."

The old man went out of the door, and he already saw the three people waiting in front of the door, the first one was gray-haired, his face was dull, as if there was a dark illness in his body, his eyes swept over the two people behind, but his heart was happy, but he was invisible, and walked towards several people.

When Ji Zong saw an old man coming, he always felt that something was wrong, and he thought that he was the master of the house, so he didn't dare to be rude, and said: "The old man is disturbed."

The old man said, "Where did His Holiness come from?"

Ji Zong replied: "I went up the mountain to collect medicine a few days ago, but I accidentally got lost, and I came down the mountain, so I arrived here, seeing that it was getting late, and the mountain road was difficult to walk, I came to spend the night here, and I hope that the old man will have a convenient trip, I am grateful."

The old man listened to the words and remained silent, but said: "That is the case, there is no other family nearby, look at a few dusty servants, please come with me."

Ji Zong didn't expect the old man to be so cheerful, and said happily: "Thank you old man", instructed the second son to tie the horse, and followed the old man into the house.

The old man led the three people to sit down in the room, the man had already brought a pot of tea, and the old man said to the man: "Fang'er, you go and cook a few dishes", and the man took the order. The old man said again: "Little Lao'er, there are no delicacies here, just coarse tea and light rice, and a few guest officers will use some."

Ji Zong hurriedly said: "Thanks to the warm hospitality, it is already an honor, how dare you ask for any more luxury."

The old man said: "Since you are a guest from afar, you should be hospitable."

Ji Zong said: "The old man is too polite."

The old man said: "The three of them came from afar, where do they want to go"?

Ji Zong said: "I will go to Anyang City tomorrow", and said: "In Xia Ji Zong, dare to ask the name of the old gentleman, and keep it in mind when you make up your mind, and you will repay today's hospitality in the future."

The old man said: "The little old man has no name and no surname, and there is a fisherman in the mountains."

Ji Zong saw that the old man refused to reveal his name, and he was not easy to ask, so he heard a "grandpa", and saw a little girl running in and pounced on the old man.

Ji Zong didn't pay attention to the little girl when he first came, and when he took a closer look, he couldn't help but be surprised, this person was covered with yin qi, blood and qi loss, and he was afraid that his life would not be long, and he recalled that he had met a similar little girl many years ago, and he couldn't help but be suspicious, and said, "May I ask the old man, your granddaughter has ......."

Before Ji Zong finished speaking, he heard the old man say to the little girl, "Go play with your uncle," and Ji Zong stopped talking and saw that the little girl went obediently.

When the little girl walked away, the old man sighed and said, "She is seriously ill and has few days to come."

Ji Zong said worriedly: "It's a pity to see that she is so young and has a terminal illness", thinking about how she didn't die and sympathize with the same disease, and said: "I don't know what disease the little girl suffers from, maybe I can do a little bit in the future."

The old man's eyes flashed, and he said: "This woman suffers from an incurable disease, and there is no antidote in this world, unless you pick 10,000-year-old ginseng from Xianshan, you may be saved."

Ji Zong listened to the old man's words, and was shocked in his heart, secretly saying that the old man was not an ordinary person, but he was afraid to see the incarnation of the two sons of ginseng around him. Tentatively: "The immortal mountain is slim and hard to find, and the 10,000-year-old ginseng is even more rare, how can the old man get this priceless treasure"?

The old man said: "Seeing that Mr. is in good health on the surface, but in fact, his internal organs are damaged and he is full of anger, and Mr. is from the fairy mountain, so he is seriously injured."

Ji Zong was in a panic, and the three of them escaped from Wuji and no one else knew, and even the serious injuries in his body were seen through by him, so he immediately got up and shouted: "Who is Your Excellency?"

The old man didn't panic when he saw Ji Zong and the three of them rioting, but said: "Little Lao'er has already said that it doesn't matter who the nameless person is, but I can cure Mr.'s illness, I don't know if Mr. is willing."

Ji Zongdao: "Your Excellency and I don't know each other, why do you want to treat me?"

The old man said: "Because the little old man also asks Mr. for one thing."

Ji Zong said: "Your Excellency may wish to talk about it first and see if it can be done in the future."

The old man said: "You only need to agree to this matter, but I just want a piece of flesh and blood on the two people next to you."

Ji Zong was taken aback, thinking about it carefully, the old man's desire for flesh and blood is nothing more than to treat his granddaughter's illness, seeing that the girl's condition really needs flesh and blood to heal, the old man's magical powers are vast, and he may be able to get rid of his root disease, it is not a lie, but it is difficult to establish a surname for the two of them, and he immediately said: "You and I meet in Pingshui, life and death do not matter in the next, and I am willing to save your granddaughter's life, but I want the flesh and blood on the two of them, which is cruel."

The old man said: "The two of them are not flesh and blood, so if you take off a piece of flesh and blood, you don't have to worry about your life, why not."

Ji Zong said: "How do you know that the two of them are not flesh and blood, and you know that we are from the Immortal Mountain."

The old man hesitated slightly, reached into his arms, and took out a thing, only to see the old man slowly unfold the thing, it was actually a picture scroll, the scrolls were connected, spread out arbitrarily, and the picture was full of mountains and rivers, and the trees were overlapping, which was very beautiful. The old man said, "Sir, can you remember this painting?"

Ji Zong looked at the picture scroll, and the scenes of the past gradually came to his mind, and he exclaimed: "Isn't this the painting from more than 20 years ago, and the old gentleman is ......"?

The old man said slowly: "This is the "Mountains and Rivers Society Map", one of the top ten innate spiritual treasures, previously owned by Nuwa Niangniang, and then accidentally lost, I got it by accident many years ago, and it has been collected so far, Mr. has entered this "Mountains and Rivers Society Map" before, and refined two ginseng seeds."

Ji Zong was in a trance for a while, he couldn't believe what the old man said, but the old man's words were swearing, and there was no doubt, thinking back to all kinds of encounters in the mountains and rivers, and asked for a while: "If you really enter the picture, why do you stay in it for decades, and the situation in the world is like yesterday?"

The old man said: "The years are impermanent in the mountains and rivers, time is nothing, one day in the world, one year in the picture," and said: "It has been thirty days since you entered the mountains and rivers, and you have been in it for thirty years."

Ji Zong calculated in his heart and doubted: "It's not thirty years, it's only twenty-four years."

The old man asked, "Oh", and said, "Then you must have stepped into another infinity."

Ji Zong recalled what happened to the swamp and said, "Yes, we will escape from the infinity."

The old man said: "Infinite alternate, the years are reincarnated, and time will become swaying," and said: "How did you escape"?

Ji Zong listened to the old man's words and recalled, and then he did stay in that Wuji for six days, one day and one year, adding up to just thirty years, no wonder Fang Cai saw that the three of them seemed to be familiar, but the time was too long, and he couldn't remember what he looked like before, so he responded: "If you get a treasure under it, you can escape Wuji."

The old man asked, "What treasure, can you show the little old man?"

Ji Zong thought that it was okay, so he took out the Mirror and handed it to the old man. The old man took the mirror of the underworld, examined it carefully, and said strangely: "True and even treasure, this mirror can enter the heaven and earth, straight to yin and yang," and returned it to Ji Zong, and said: "Fortunately, Mr. got this treasure, so that he can get out of the infinite reincarnation."

Ji Zong said: "How to say this."

The old man said: "In this map of mountains and rivers, there are thousands of universes, mountains, rivers and mountains, strange and bizarre, sun, moon and stars, flowers and trees, birds and beasts, mountains and rivers and leylines...... The boundless aura in the spiritual treasure gives birth to hundreds of millions of living beings, and it is all between life and death, there is everything, if the saint enters the picture, there is no treasure in his hand, he is trapped for hundreds of years, and the palm is a treasure, and he can get out of trouble in a year.

Ji Zong listened to the old man's words, and knew that his entry was the tip of the iceberg, and he was secretly glad that he could get the treasure of the Mirror of the Shadow, but he said: "Does the old gentleman know how to stray into this picture?"

The old man said categorically: "It was the little old man who led you in."

Ji Zong exclaimed: "How do you say this"?