Volume 1 Two Years of Building the Foundation Chapter 17 The Way of the Jungle
On the official road.
A group of carriages and horses slowly moved forward and stopped at a tea shop on the side of the official road.
A middle-aged man wearing a brocade suit with a fat head and big ears got out of the carriage, and he looked like a squire or something.
He and his family sat down in the tea shop, ordered hot tea, and ate dry food.
While resting, several children in ragged clothes came out from the side, "Kind nobleman, give me something to eat." ”
"Go, go, go!" said the squire, in disgust, as he drove away the children.
His family came out and stopped the children to stop them.
The children did not go far, but crouched to the side, their eyes fixed on the dry food in the squire's mouth.
"De", "De", "De" The sound of horses' hooves, several teenagers riding horses, also came to the tea shop to rest.
The dust was raised, and the squire said irritably: "The dust is so big, how can people rest!"
Several teenagers glanced at him, did not speak, sat down at the empty table, and called the boss for tea.
The squire looked at the dusty dry food in his hand and threw it aside in disgust.
Seeing this, several children who were squatting on one side immediately pounced on them to pick them up, and divided their food on the side, and when they had finished eating, they squatted on the ground again, looking at the squire with blank eyes, like a few poor puppies waiting to be fed by their masters.
The owner of the tea shop served a pot of hot tea to the new guests, and among the teenagers, a handsome young man took a sip, spit out the tea, slapped the table and said, "It's cold!
The owner of the tea shop couldn't help but apologize, "Little Lao'er will go and burn it for the guest officer again." ”
The handsome young man said impatiently: "No need, no need, wait for you to be hot, how long will you have to wait!"
As he spoke, he pinched the trick in his hand, his lips moved, and then, a tongue of fire appeared between his fingers.
Seeing this, the owner of the tea shop and the squire at the next table were all shocked, "Immortal Law!"
The handsome young man, the tongue of fire between his fingers was soothing at the bottom of the teapot, and after a while, a trace of white gas came out of the mouth of the teapot.
The squire hurriedly came to him and said with a smile: "The villain has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, and he has offended a lot before, so please forgive me." ”
The handsome young man ignored him completely, poured himself a cup of tea, and drank it.
The squire stood aside, laughing, nodding and bowing, as charming as he could, like a big dog pleasing his master.
After resting, the teenagers rode away.
As they were leaving, one of the young men, with a resolute face and a clear eye, took some dry food from the package and distributed it to the ragged children.
"Why, sympathy is guilty again?" quipped one of the boys as the horses galloped.
These teenagers were Yan Yue and the others who went to Yunyang Sect, and the person who distributed the dry food before was Yan Yue, he said: "These are too small, just give them some, anyway, there is still silver." ”
After Yan Yue and the others left the village, they bought horses in the market and had been riding on horses for several days.
When the two major Xiuzhen sects of Yunyang and Jinjiao fought, most of the mortal villages were ten rooms and nine empty, and where the war occurred, the people who originally lived in peace were displaced and moved to other places.
Along the way, all Yan Yue saw was the migration of refugees and the scene of mourning.
When Yan Yue first saw the refugees, he would help each other, but after seeing a lot, he also felt powerless, and he shot again before, but he felt that those children were too young.
When he left the village, what He Gengnong said to him, Yan Yue felt a little exaggerated at first, but along the way, he deeply realized what it means to "eat the strong by the weak, and respect the strong".
As I had seen before, the fat-headed and big-eared squire completely ignored several ragged children, and looked like he was on top. And such a person, as soon as he sees a cultivator, immediately grovels and flatters and flatters.
The few Xiuzhen teenagers who traveled with him, when they were in the village, because the villagers were their relatives and elders, they behaved like ordinary mortal teenagers. But as soon as he got outside, he completely changed as if he was a person, and in the face of mortals, although he was not arrogant and reckless, but the kind of arrogance in his expression was fully revealed.
The weak eat the strong, and the strong are respected. That's the best way to do it.
In such a world, if you don't become a cultivator, it is completely equivalent to a wasted person, and you can only be ravaged by the strong.
A few people were galloping on the official road on horseback, and suddenly, they saw a few miles in the air in front of them, there were sword lights staggered, as if there was a cultivator who could fly with a sword fighting there.
"The people of the Golden Jiaomen have penetrated deep into our territory! The people in the yellow shirt are the people of the Golden Jiaomen, there are four of them, and they are suffering, I sent only two senior brothers, flee quickly!" Cao Lin identified the strong enemy and I was weak in the battle, turned his horse's head, and fled in a hurry to the forest next to the road.
"Run!" The others also turned their horses around and fled into the woods.
Jincai, the youngest of the several people, rode with He Dacheng and said hurriedly: "Brothers, aren't we going to help!"
"You can fly with the sword first, don't talk, don't let them find out!" He Dacheng, who was sitting in front of him, said.
"Conceal the breath, quickly hide the breath! Suffer, Yan Yue has not yet reached the qi refining period, so he can't hide his breath, ouch, why do you want to come with us, now you can be miserable!"
At this time, Cao Lin had completely lost the arrogance he had when he faced the squire in the tea shop, and he looked panicked at this time, and fled in a hurry, like a lost dog.
While looking back at the direction of the fighting method, he couldn't help complaining that Yan Yue would not hide his breath.
Yan Yue didn't argue with him.
He Dacheng on the side couldn't stand Cao Lin's chatter anymore, and scolded in a low voice: "Don't make noise, okay! Originally, they couldn't find us, but you also exposed their whereabouts." ”
Several people shuttled through the forest, fled in the direction of coming, and at dusk, they came to a ruined temple and stopped.
"This place is not in front of the village, there is no store in the back, and tonight can only be here. ”
Several people set up horses and came to the temple.
This is a "Yanhuang Temple", the descendants of the Yanhuang miss the Yanhuang, there are similar temples built everywhere, the original residents of this place should have moved to other places, the temple has not been repaired for a long time, dilapidated.
Yan Yue entered the temple and saw that there were three tall statues in the temple, the one in the middle was the tallest, standing against the door, and there was a relatively short statue on the left and right, standing opposite each other.
The statue in the middle, the demeanor is majestic, not angry and self-majestic, so that people can see it, and the respect in their hearts arises spontaneously, but he gives people a sense of majesty at the same time, and it makes people feel kind, this statue, Yan Yue has also seen it in the Yanhuang Temple in Dashu Village, it is the statue of the Yanhuang God.
But Yan Yue had never seen the two statues next to him.
The statue of the god located on the left side of the statue of the Yanhuang God is a middle-aged man with a rather dusty meaning.
The statue of the god located on the right side of the statue of the Yanhuang God is a simple and cute old man.
In front of the three statues, there are incense ashes left by the burning of incense candles, the incense ashes in front of the statue of the Yanhuang God are the most, and the other two are only half.
Everyone in the world respects Emperor Yan, and the first thing after a few people enter the temple is to worship Emperor Yan.
After worshipping Queen Yan, Cao Lin came to the statue of the old man again, kowtowed, and kept chanting: "Master Zu bless, Master Zu bless, don't call those villains of Jinjiaomen to find here." ”
Seeing Yan Yue, He Dacheng couldn't help but look at the idols on both sides, and explained to Yan Yue: "This old man is the founding ancestor of our sect, Yun Yangzi, and our sect is also named after him. The other one is not very clear, anyway, he is also a senior master. ”
Yan Yue was shocked when he heard this, he had a little understanding about Yunyang Sect, the Yunyang Sect was founded more than three hundred years ago, and the person who founded the sect, Yunyangzi, is now more than five hundred years old.
What surprised Yan Yue was that this Yunyang Ancestor, who had only been founding the sect for more than 300 years, was able to enjoy the honor of human worship with Emperor Yan, the ancestor of Xiuzhen five thousand years ago.
It was getting late, and a few people were afraid that the people they had seen before would find this place, so they did not make a fire, sat on the ground in the temple, and talked about the dispute between the two factions.
"Jin Jiaomen actually took advantage of the Chinese New Year, we were defenseless, and came to our sect's territory to spread wildness, harming our disciples who are shallow in cultivation, we can only hide in Tibet, it's really annoying, I hope those people don't come here." ”
"Don't worry, they didn't see us at all just now, don't scare yourself. ”
Yan Yue asked, "Why did the two factions suddenly quarrel?"
"It's not for this", Cao Lin didn't know where to go, took out a strange stone, and played with it in his hand.
Yan Yue sensed a faint fluctuation of aura from the strange stone he was holding in his hand.
"Lingshi, where did you come from, lend me a look. A young man said, getting up to snatch the strange stone from Cao Lin's hand.
"Of course, I got it when I was on a mission with the sect before. Cao Lin patted the hand that the young man stretched out, hid the spirit stone in his hand in his arms, and after the young man sat back, he took out the spirit stone again and turned it over in front of several people.
It turns out that there are two major sects of cultivation in Tiannan, Yunyang Sect and Jinjiaomen, the two factions each occupy half of the boundary of Tiannan, but there are several spiritual stone veins at the junction, and they have not talked about the belonging, and the two factions often fight endlessly for this, this time, the war has penetrated into the boundary of the Yunyang Sect.
For example, Cao Lin, He Dacheng and others, because of their shallow cultivation, were unable to participate in the disputes between the two factions, so they were able to return to the village for the New Year.
Several people talked about the fight between the two factions, chatted and chatted, and talked about what happened on the first day of the new year.
"On that day, the king said a strange thing, 'Those who have succeeded in enlightenment but have not yet become cultivators, count yourself lucky, stand aside, you are still useful', do you remember?'"
"I seem to remember, what's wrong?"
"I don't know what his intention is to let people who have successfully opened the light but have not yet become cultivators stand aside. This person thought for a moment, couldn't guess the intention of Wang Popi's words, and turned his head to look at Yan Yue, "At that time, Brother Yan family, you were just opening the light, and it was really surprising that you could drive such a heavy boulder." ”
Before Yan Yue could speak, Cao Lin said sourly: "Didn't you use some demon magic ......?"
As he spoke, his expression suddenly moved, as if he had thought of something, looked at Yan Yue, and said with a smile: "When you left the village that day, your father pulled you aside and mysteriously stuffed you with some good treasures, and took them out for us to see." ”
After others have just turned on the light, the repellent can only drive things weighing one and a half catties, but the weight of the objects that Yan Yue can drive is much heavier than ordinary people. When the rest of the people heard this, especially the words "good baby", their expressions also moved, and they looked sideways at Yan Yue.
Yan Yue looked at the undisguised eyes of the greedy intentions of several people, and couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart, and recalled in his mind the scene when several people fought directly for the hat, as well as the hard and cold corpse of Baolai in the snow.