Nian'er went to the next room and waited, and Long Xiao closed his eyes. Grandpa's words have been listened to by the two of them since they were children, and Nian'er's head was already clear at this time, so she had to go to the next room with a frown and worry, and Long Xiao obediently closed her two already blood-red eyes.

Seeing that Long Xiao's eyes were closed, he saw that the old man's eyes were closed and opened, and suddenly the two pupils turned into pure sky blue, and a blue light and shadow rose behind him, although the light and shadow were illusory, but they could be clearly distinguished, just like the appearance of the legendary dragon, and suddenly the light and shadow turned into a transparent match, and slowly entered the boy's seven orifices under the guidance of the old man's hand.

The boy suddenly felt very sleepy and fell into a deep sleep.

Soon, the blue pi practice flowed into the boy's whole body, and the body that was still trembling just now began to settle down, but the development of things was obviously not so simple, I saw that suddenly the red light suddenly brightened, the boy groaned in pain, and suddenly opened his eyes in shock, and his whole body began to spasm, the old man saw that his hands quickly formed a strange handprint, and then, the blue light on the boy's body was more abundant, and the red light gradually dimmed until it disappeared, but the light blue light came out, and the painful expression on the boy's face slowly unfolded, but between a few breaths, the boy's spasmodic body quieted down, and then the light and shadow that lingered around the old man and the boy disappeared。

After quieting down, the tired boy looked at the old man in a daze, and the old man looked at him with a serious expression, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Grandpa, I'm not uncomfortable anymore, don't worry too much, it's okay. The boy looked at his grandfather as if he had done something wrong, full of questions, but he didn't know where to start, but he felt that he had worried his grandfather and felt annoyed and blamed himself.

At this time, the door also rang, Long Nian pushed open the door and asked while looking his brother up and down from a distance, "Grandpa, is my brother okay?"

"Alright, Nian'er come in. Grandpa got up and tidied up his clothes and said.

"Xiao'er, something. Grandpa frowned, looked at Long Xiao, turned his head and glanced at Nian'er, and saw that the two people's dark eyes were staring at him intently, full of doubts, grandpa hesitated for a long time, I didn't know what to think, and finally sighed and continued: "Rest well tonight, and I'll talk to you another day." ”

The old man turned around with a solemn face, opened the door and walked out. Although Long Xiao said that he was relatively tired, his mind was still clear, and when he saw his grandfather's back walking very heavily, he naturally knew that his grandfather had something important to say to himself, but judging from the way his grandfather looked at his sister just now, he didn't seem to want Nian'er to know, so he turned his head to look at his sister and said, "Nian'er, I'm fine, I just feel very tired, let's rest." ”

Zuyou Village, where they are located, is hidden in the rolling mountains, built on the halfway of Longji Mountain, dozens of miles away from the town below the mountain, and lives in less than 30 families, where they have lived by farming and hunting for generations, and their lives are simple, peaceful and peaceful. Long Xiao, Long Nian has been dependent on his grandfather since he was a child, and since he can remember, they have not seen their parents and have never left the village.

Grandpa and he were outsiders from this village, and after coming here, Grandpa relied on a little medical skill to treat many villagers. The people in the village have great respect for their grandfather, and many villagers often send food and prey.

Grandpa never mentioned anything about their parents. For Long Xiao and Long Nian, two siblings, they have always wishfully felt that they have no parents at all, they are jumping in the stone and rushing down from the river, a Monkey King and a gourd baby. Of course, this is self-deception, every time they see the father and mother of other children, their hearts will eventually fall a stone, and they will also fantasize that one day their father and mother will come back, standing far away in the sunset, with a warm smile and a broad chest, they will laugh and pick themselves and their sister high like the parents of other children. But it's just a fantasy, and no one dares to say it, for fear that it will be the most chilling ending. People are sometimes like this, they want to face something, but they often don't have the courage to face it. Twelve years have passed, and what they fantasize and hope for is just a bubble after all, which will burst at the touch of a button. It's okay to live your life calmly and simply, just like the people in the village.

Fortunately, Long Xiao was born an optimist, and if he says it well, he is open-minded, and if he doesn't say it well, he is called heartless. I don't think much about things that I can't figure out, and I forget about my troubles in a blink of an eye. In Long Xiao's own words: don't take yourself too seriously. Long Xiao himself is strong, and he became the child king of the village early, not to mention the children who are younger than him, even the children who are a few years older than him also regard him as an iron buddy, the backbone.

After grandpa went back, Long Xiao lay on the bed tiredly, although the tingling sensation in his body had disappeared, but the meridians of the whole body would still have a feeling of swelling pain, he carefully recalled the method of grandpa treating himself just now, which was not at all the same as the usual method of treating the villagers, and he had never seen it. "Nian'er, did you peek at the door just now?"

"I'm not worried about you, I'm just sneaking a peek through the crack in the door for a while. Long Nian grimaced at Long Xiao and said.

"Did you just see the blue light behind Grandpa?" Long Xiao put his arm under his head and asked Nian'er with his head sideways.

"I saw the blue light, but I didn't see it very really, the things in the blue light seem to be the same as the legendary dragon, I saw the painting of the dragon at the fourth uncle's house in the back mountain, he said that it was the incarnation of God, is it ...... grandfather" Nian'er stood up, lying on the side of Long Xiao, his two eyes flashed, and muttered: "I still remember hearing the fourth uncle say that there is a prosperous world far away in the north of the Lun Mountain, where there is a Tao, Buddha, and spirit, all of which are fairy-like legends, isn't it true?" Did Grandpa bring us from there in the past?" After a while, he sighed and said, "Well, maybe it's some strange way to cure the disease. At this time, Nian'er suddenly remembered something, turned her head and asked worriedly: "Brother, do you still hurt, where does it still hurt, I'll rub it for you." ”

Looking at Nian'er beside her, a pair of smart big eyes flashing with anxious eyes on her ice-carved jade-like face, Long Xiao stretched out her hand and gently rubbed her willow eyebrows that were frowning because of worry, shook her head gently, smiled and said, "It's okay, if you think about your brother, your brother won't hurt." ”

At this time, Nian'er's stomach suddenly gurgled, Nian'er touched her stomach, exhaled and said, "Why are you hungry all of a sudden." ”

Long Xiao rubbed Nian'er's head dotingly, and said, "I picked a few big blessing fruits in the mountains during the day, and I wanted to ice them in cold water overnight and then give them to you to eat, but it should be almost frozen by this time, I'll bring them to you." ”

Daifuku fruit is a rare wild fruit in the mountains, not only the place where it grows is tricky, but also there are often wild beasts around, because it not only grows beautiful and tastes delicious, but also I heard that it is also a kind of spiritual fruit, which strengthens the body. Especially after the ice, it is crisp and refreshing, fragrant and pleasant, and has always been Nian'er's favorite.

Long Xiao got out of bed and went to get two fruits, and found that there was an insect eye on them, so he carefully bit them off, and then handed them to Nian'er, who hurriedly took them over and ate them in a big gulp, and said while eating: "Brother, it's delicious." Yesterday, I saw Xiaolan showing off to me with the big blessing fruit that her father picked for her. ”

Long Xiao touched his sister's head, sighed, dotingly stroked the black and green silk that flashed like water waves on Nian'er's sideburns, and said softly: "It's okay without a father or mother, it's enough to have you and grandpa." After Nian'er finished eating the Great Blessing Fruit, under the boy's comfort, after a while, the little girl fell asleep.

Long Xiao looked at the sleeping Nian'er gently, with a slight smile on his face, but he began to think about it in his heart.

"What's going on lately, my body is hot and cold, and sometimes I feel a lot of pain all over my body, is it really because I was bitten by a snake last time, but grandpa said that the snake venom has been drained, and what's going on with the blue light behind grandpa?"

Long Xiao understands his grandfather, he has never hesitated with himself and Nian'er no matter what he has been doing since he was a child, and he has made himself suffer a lot because of his stubborn temperament, and today he suddenly hesitated so much that there must be something unusual.

There is nothing else at home, but there is a room full of books, Long Xiao and Long Nian have read a lot with their grandfather since they were children, but most of them are just medical books, and then some miscellaneous books. In addition to reading some books, the two of them were forced to practice light skills by their grandfather, but Long Xiao always felt that light skills were a kind of escape kung fu, and it was better to learn some hunting skills to be more enjoyable, so since he was five or six years old, he secretly followed the men in the village to go hunting, and there have been no accidents over the years, grandpa seems to have turned a blind eye and didn't say anything, now he is more than ten years old, except for several fierce beasts, ordinary beasts can also be taken down by themselves, but in front of grandpa, he can only obediently train himself to fly on the grass。

For spells, Long Xiao has never been in contact with them, but since he was a child, he likes to listen to the fourth uncle of Houshan tell mythological stories, like a thousand-year-old snake spirit to repay his kindness and cute Xiaolangzhong, like a thousand-year-old ginseng transformed into a clever little doll, like a ring medicine Lao Yizhu down-and-out boy, and said all kinds of spells to his god, which opened Long Xiao's eyes. He also looked through the books at home, but he never found a book of this type, it seems that his grandfather must have put it away on purpose. Thinking about it, his mind became clearer and clearer, and he couldn't sleep anymore, so he simply got out of bed quietly.

Seeing that the lights were still on in his grandfather's room, Long Xiao pushed open the door and walked in, and saw his grandfather sitting at the table. The table was made of dead old elm wood behind the house, and the mottled insect eyes on the wood had been polished by Grandpa to be smooth as a mirror, and he was rubbing the mottled veins on the table and didn't know what to think, when he heard Long Xiao's voice, he raised his head and looked at him with a solemn face and said, "Xiao'er, sit down." ”

Long Xiao looked at his grandfather with a solemn face, and became more and more curious, this kind of look had not been seen much since he could remember, and the whole person looked much older after a while. He always thought that people were getting old slowly, and in this way, people actually grew old in an instant.

Long Xiao naturally knew that what his grandfather wanted to say would not be a trivial matter, so he lowered his head and picked his fingers, waiting quietly as if waiting for a trial.

"It's been almost twelve years since our grandfather lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests, and I know you want to know about your father. Hearing Grandpa say this, Long Xiao's hand couldn't help but clench into a fist, and it trembled slightly.

"Of course, I know you're disappointed in them, but don't resent them, they had their own reasons for leaving you. After 12 years, I don't know where I am now. If you want to see them, you can only look for them yourself when you grow up. Now I want to tell you that your parents, and me. ”

Grandpa paused and continued word by word: "Actually, they are all spirit masters. ”

"Spirit Master?" Long Xiao said in surprise. I heard this word from the fourth uncle of Houshan, he was very interested at the time, and asked the fourth uncle for a long time, but the fourth uncle didn't say anything, which made him a little unsatisfied, but he didn't expect to hear this word again from his grandfather.

"That's right, unlike ordinary people, we are people with soul powers, just like this. As he spoke, Grandpa's eyes closed, and when he opened them again, he had turned sky blue, and a blue light appeared behind him, turning from weak to strong, and transforming into the shape of a dragon, lifelike.

Long Xiao looked carefully at this animal that originally only appeared in mythology, just like the legend, with horns like a deer, a head like a cow, a mouth like a donkey, eyes like shrimp, scales like a fish, a belly like a snake, and feet like a phoenix, especially the thin beard floating slowly, without wind and automatically, there is an invisible deterrent enveloping the entire room.

"The zodiac sign of our water dragon clan is the dragon, and behind me is the soul body of our water dragon clan, and we can use the power of the water system. ”

As he was speaking, he saw that the air around Long Xiao's body in the room began to flash with blue points of light, and then little by little, it formed the shape of a sword in the air, condensed into an entity in a blink of an eye, and pierced the table with a whoosh.

"That's our strength. After saying that, Grandpa manipulated the water sword to turn into water and scatter in all directions, and everything returned to its original appearance, leaving a black hole on the table.

Long Xiao stared at this scene with wide eyes, and couldn't help but be dumbfounded. "But didn't my sister and I be born in the Year of the Snake?

"That's just for ordinary people, for the spirit master family, the zodiac is inherited by the family. Grandpa paused and continued: "You know that myth and legend, the ancient barbaric century, the catastrophe of heaven and earth, the world's living beings, and the extinction of life, at that time, there were twelve families in the world, which inherited the energy of the twelve divine beasts in the world, and the supernatural power of the universe. The elders of the twelve great families gathered the power of tens of millions of living beings in the world to turn into gods, and the twelve gods joined forces to resist the catastrophe, and finally saved the common people from the catastrophe. Since then, the gods of the twelve families have reached an unwritten consensus, twelve years of reincarnation, each year by a family god to protect the world, the children born in the world by the kind of family miracles blessed, virtually with some of the inheritance of this miracle, people take it as their own genus. These twelve gods are what we now call the gods of the zodiac. ”

Grandpa coughed lightly twice and continued: "But for some families, the zodiac signs in his body are innate, their soul power is far stronger than ordinary people, and the influence of the outside world is not enough to change his zodiac talent, even if it is a miracle, because after all, the miracle is too weak." There are also some factors that are more affected by geographical factors, or because of other reasons the influence is far greater than the power of miracle protection, although it is the zodiac of the year, but it has more characteristics of other zodiac signs, which is why people born in the same year will have a variety of personalities. If the zodiac of this kind of person can't be awakened, forget it, if he awakens, he will find that the awakened soul body is not necessarily the same as the zodiac of the year he was born. ”

Seeing Long Xiao thoughtfully, Grandpa paused and continued: "Originally, your parents and I hoped that you could grow up like ordinary children, but now you have some problems with your body, and the situation is a little complicated, it should be related to the fire poison that your mother brought to you when she gave birth to you, the fire poison is very strong, even I can't completely solve it, and the general treatment can only suspend the symptoms, if you wait until the condition worsens and erupts, the consequences will be unimaginable." The only way at the moment is to rely on awakening the power of your zodiac to resist, otherwise even I will be powerless in the future. ”

The dragon portrait was dumbfounded when he heard the book of heaven, as if he understood, and as if he didn't understand, nodded and shook his head.

"Today I'm going to take you to a place where you can awaken your soul power, as for Nian'er. ”

Grandpa paused, sighed and continued: "If we can prevent her from stepping into the ranks of spirit masters, we must do our best to protect her and not let her get involved in the right and wrong of the spirit master world, which is also the wish of your parents." Fortunately, she has not yet shown signs of awakening, so we can only hide this matter from her first. ”

"Grandpa, I see. Long Xiao nodded, and the two clear eyes looked at his grandfather firmly and said.

"Remember, in the spirit master world, the law of the jungle is the immutable law, and since you have stepped into this step, you have to make yourself strong enough, because only in this way can you protect yourself and protect the people you want to protect. There is no shortcut to any cultivation, and if you want to be stronger than others, you need to put in more effort and tempering than others. Stepping into the realm of spiritual masters, comfort has never had a chance with you from now on. In the future, you will not only be Nian'er's brother, but also a man. Grandpa said to Long Xiao with a solemn expression.

Long Xiao felt his shoulders suddenly feel heavy, he nodded, he wanted to say something, but the words came out of his mouth but he couldn't say it. He knew that all empty promises were useless at this time, and the key was to see what he should do in the future.

Grandpa took out a crystal clear dragon-shaped jade pendant and said, "This is a spirit seal jade pendant, which can be used for spatial transformation in several marked locations, follow me." ”

Grandpa held Long Xiao's hand, and in the blink of an eye, time and space flew around, Long Xiao felt a wave of dizziness, and when he opened his eyes again, he found that he had arrived in a strange place.

Directly in front of you is a huge waterfall, the roar of the water rushing down thousands of miles hitting the rock, so that Long Xiao has a kind of deafening feeling, the steep cliffs on both sides are hideous, there is an invisible pressure straight into the bottom of the heart, the ancient pines on the cliff are verdant, the roots are entangled on the cliff wall, like a giant snake that bends and circles, the deep pool that is more than ten zhang wide, the pool water is crystal clear, with a blue and blue light, a thin mist rises on the water surface, everything is like a fairyland.