Chapter 1: The Immortals of Gu Ward

Gu Ouze, it is the time of sunset, and the sunset spreads all over the lake.

The breeze came slowly, and the originally smooth and mirror-like lake surface was covered with fine ripples, like a little golden scale in the sun, spreading out layer by layer on the surface of the lake.

A little shadow of the boat, rippling in the golden ocean, a fisherman's song came from afar, but the original rough sound was particularly long and beautiful under the beautiful scenery of the sunset.

In the distance, at the end of the lake, there are verdant green hills that are endless, endless.

In the depths of the green mountain, you can faintly see a snow-white jade mountain standing, the top of the mountain is high, there are curling clouds and smoke rising, graceful straight up, until the sky is high and I don't know where, it is reflected by the glow, like a fairy dancing, like a dream.

A few children of seven or eight years old were laughing and playing on a meadow by the lake, most of them dressed in the most rudimentary linen clothes, and a few of them were even bare-bottomed, apparently children of poor families.

An old man with a gray beard and a slightly clumsy body was sitting on the bluestone slab by the lake, looking at the children playing and being speechless.

The old man had a horse's face, his face was full of gray spots brought by the years, and at first glance it seemed to be very ugly and vicious, but if you looked closely, you could find that his eyes were clear and soft, but there was still a little loneliness and helplessness.

His gray hair was hairpinned with a stick-like thing, a bun was tied up on his head, he was dressed in a green robe, a gourd hung from his waist, and a blade wrapped in sackcloth was carried behind his back, but the broad appearance should not be a sword, but a knife.

The clothes are clean, but they have faded after washing, and it is obvious that life is not very good.

After looking at it for a long time, the old man's eyes suddenly lit up, and he took out a dusty porcelain vase from his arms, and squeezed it tightly with his withered palm, as if he was hesitating about something.

After hesitating for a long time, he carefully looked at the children a few more times, and finally opened the porcelain bottle with trembling hands, stretched out his little finger, scraped off a piece of ointment the size of a fingernail on the wall of the bottle, applied it to his eyelids, and then got up and walked towards the children with anticipation.

The old man's name was Liu Gu, and he was the contemporary hall master of the next branch of the Floating Jade Sect.

The Floating Jade Sect is the first immortal sect within a radius of thousands of miles, and there are countless branches under the sect, with the name of the hall, and Liu Gu is the most inconspicuous and the most declining of these branches.

Jinshentang, hearing this name is not half immortal, as long as the hall number is reported in the sect, it is often a shameful laugh.

Speaking of which, the Golden Body Hall was also a glorious place, created by the founding ancestor of the Floating Jade Sect, and when the mountain was opened, it was the main force of the sect, and the first five generations of the Floating Jade Sect were all born in the Golden Body Hall.

But as the years passed, the sixth generation of the ancestor of the sect obtained the method of inheritance of the Great Dao and the cultivation of immortals, and the Floating Jade Sect also embarked on the road of a real immortal family.

Thousands of years later, today's Floating Jade Sect has already become an upright immortal sect, and the mortal means of practicing physical cultivation in the Golden Body Hall have long been outdated, and they will no longer be in the grand past.

The Floating Jade Sect is opened every five years, and when the sect is opened, the branches under the sect can enter the place specified by the sect.

The floating jade sect has jurisdiction over thousands of miles, among which there are countless cities, and the number of mortals is hundreds of millions, and naturally there are many good seedlings of cultivation.

Of course, those top seedlings are naturally owned by those powerful branches, and after these individuals grow up, they will also become the cornerstone of those branches.

However, there are also fights between the branches under the sect, and their status in the sect is also very different, and the division of the internal affairs hall is naturally determined by this.

For example, the Aoki Hall in the Five Gods Hall, the place where the disciples are accepted is in the Wu Kingdom, which is the largest mortal country under the jurisdiction of the Floating Jade Sect, with a population of tens of millions, and there are many natural geniuses.

Every time the Floating Jade Sect opens, the lord of Wu will hold a fairy conference, and children of school age from all over the country gather in the capital for the immortals to choose. Aokitang has always gained a lot, and now it is a first-class branch of the Floating Jade Sect, and it is also a leader in the Five Gods Hall.

And the last time the sect was opened, Aoki Hall received a top-notch genius with a top-grade wood immortal embryo and immortal seedlings as high as one foot and three inches, and now it is the object of the sect's key cultivation.

I think that back then, Liu Gu's master and ancestor had finally cultivated to the Golden Body Realm, although it was not the same as those old antiques, but he could still say something in the sect, and he would not suffer too much in this regard, but since his immortal death, the Golden Body Hall is really not as good as the generation.

When it came to Liu Gu, the cultivation in the hall was the highest, and he only barely entered the Silver Body Realm, in terms of realm, it was just a little better than those disciples who built the foundation realm, and if he really wanted to fight, under the other party's immortal spells and magic weapon bonuses, it was probably not as good.

Today's Golden Body Hall is already the lowest branch of the sect, where will there be a good place to choose?

Liu Gu went down the mountain to collect apprentices this time, and the place zoned by the sect was only two hundred miles away, or was it in the surrounding area of Gu Districtze, this place, he had traveled all over in just two months, and he had never even seen a doll worthy of using peeping ointment, so where did he go to collect apprentices?

Come to think of it, this place is near the left side of the sect, if there is a good seedling, where can it be his turn?

Thinking of the white eyes he received in the internal affairs hall of the sect, Liu Gu couldn't help but sigh again, according to the seniority, those juniors have to call themselves at least uncle, but who puts themselves in their eyes?

Now there are only a dozen people up and down the whole hall, most of them are still the old people of the Liu Gu generation, only twenty years ago, they finally recruited two children with two-inch fairy seedlings, although the fairy embryo is a little worse, but it can be regarded as a gain. It's a pity that it didn't take long for it to be retracted by the Hayama Hall next to it.

Since that time, it is the third time that the sect has been opened, and the Golden Body Hall has not found anything, if you don't bring an apprentice back this time, when the old people are exhausted, I am afraid that this vein will be completely wiped out.

But there is a saying that 'the mountains and rivers are exhausted and there is no way out, and the willows and flowers are bright and another village', when Liu Gu was almost in despair and was ready to find a fisherman to take him across the water by this district, he suddenly had a glimmer of hope.

Of those children, there was one who seemed to be quite spiritual...

Xiang Yang held his head in one hand and shrunk in his arms and squatted on the ground, even if the children next to him kicked and beat him, he made up his mind that he would not hand over the things in his hand to Xiang Xian's little overlord.

He is an orphan, a child picked up by a lonely old man in the village, Xiang Yang was only five years old when the old man died a few years ago, and then he lived by mixing hundreds of family meals.

Fortunately, this small fisherman is simple, and the Gu District next to it is rich in aquatic products, although he can't make any money, but there is no shortage of rations, and those fishermen don't care about the occasional extra pair of bowls and chopsticks at home, which is four years.

Beside him, the boy in cotton clothes with a domineering face was Xiang Xian.

Although Xiang Xian's family was originally a fisherman, his aunt married into Qu's father's city, and the bride price of her in-laws was very generous. Xiang Xian's father was shrewd and capable, starting from this, and now the family has a few fishing boats and employs a lot of fishermen, and has opened an inn in the east of the village.

Xiang Xianzi followed his father, smart and clever since he was a child, and when he was five or six years old, he would use some rice cakes and the like to buy people's hearts, and he was often followed by a few children on weekdays, and there was an older brother who was five years older than him to help, and Xiang Yang, an orphan without a father and mother, had naturally been the object of his bullying.

When Xiang Yang was playing on the shore, he picked up a pebble, half the size of a palm, with golden patterns on it, which looked like a winding flying dragon, which was very exquisite. He was sitting on the grass playing but was seen by Xiang Xian, and he was about to take it away, although Xiang Yang was an orphan, but he was temperamental, so he naturally refused, so he was beaten up by Xiang Xian commanding a group of children.

Liu Gu stood on the edge of the lawn, his eyes coated with peep ointment exuding a faint light that was rare for ordinary people, and he looked at Xiang first, first with joy, and then with a burst of disappointment.

For a while, he didn't know whether to be happy or sad.

The boy did have fairy seedlings, but they were less than an inch, and the fairy embryos were the kind of miscellaneous embryos, the lowest kind.

Sighing, he looked at the other children again, anyway, the dead horse is regarded as a live horse doctor, taking advantage of the effect of the peeping ointment, take advantage of the effect of the peeping ointment, look at a few more. It's a pity that he observed them one by one, but still found nothing, until he saw the child squatting on the ground, his eyes lit up slightly, but he soon shook his head again.

This child's fairy embryo is golden, only a little variegated around, but there is no mixture, it is very distinct, it is clearly the best gold system, but the fairy embryo is empty, and there is not a trace of immortal seedlings.

You must know that since ancient times, there has been a saying in the immortal family, the immortal seedlings are three inches and three, and the cultivation is a golden pill. The immortal seedlings are three feet three, and they are on the immortal mountain.

There are clouds again, the immortal embryo is easy to refine, and the immortal seedling is difficult to grow.

The immortal embryo represents the attribute of cultivating immortals, whether you can cultivate immortals or not, even mortals have immortal embryos, the distinction is just good and bad.

Immortal embryos are honored by the five elements, and the single five elements are extremely rare, and mortals who have not cultivated are allowed to be geniuses in the world, and most of them have impurities. Even if the genius who was accepted by Aoki Hall back then said that he was talking about the best wood-based immortal embryos, in fact, it was also a mixture of civil and wood, but the proportion of wood-based was extremely high.

But the immortal embryo can be refined by the exercises, even if you are a miscellaneous embryo, as long as you cultivate the Five Elements Exercises, you will naturally refine it slowly, but the speed of cultivation is slower, and the effort spent is several times that of others.

But the immortal seedling is different, it is the foundation of cultivating immortals, and it is also the foundation of whether mortals can cultivate immortals, there is no one in ten thousand.

Immortal seedlings are also differentiated, the length of the natural immortal seedlings represents your potential on the immortal road, only some of the legendary immortal herbs can help the effect of immortal seedlings, of course, this kind of thing can be met but not sought, the entire floating jade sect is said to be few things, and they are all the lowest kind.

The three-inch-three immortal seedlings represent that they have a good foundation for cultivating immortals, if they don't die halfway or slack off, Jindan can be expected.

And the so-called three feet three, that's just a legend, anyway, not only the Floating Jade Sect, even the kind of top-level sect that is hundreds of times stronger than the Floating Jade Sect has never heard of this kind of demon being born.

You know, the entire Shanhai Continent has not heard of someone crossing the catastrophe and ascending for tens of thousands of years.

Liu Gu has been out for more than a month, and there is a child of immortal seedlings This is the first one he has encountered, but it is less than an inch, which is too short, just a little better than mortals...

After hesitating for a long time, Liu Gu still made up his mind, something is better than nothing, even if he brings back only a trace of immortal seedlings, it is better than returning empty-handed!

Besides, if he is really a genius seedling, he is afraid that in the end, he will still help others make wedding dresses, it is better to find such a thing, anyway, the Golden Body Hall is also mainly based on physical cultivation, and this fairy seedling is just incidental.

As for the child of the best immortal embryo, it is actually very consistent with the kind of body refining and self-cultivation that the Golden Body Hall did earlier, and it is not impossible to consider it, but according to the requirements of the Floating Jade Sect to accept disciples now, it is only afraid that it will not even be able to pass the assessment of entering the sect, but it is not impossible to accept it in the name of miscellaneous servants.

Feeling that the fists and kicks that fell on his body suddenly stopped, Xiang Yang looked curiously at an old man in Tsing Yi who inexplicably appeared among the children from between his fingers.

The old man took out a porcelain bottle from his arms, opened the cork and leaned in front of Xiang Xian, smiling with kind eyebrows: "Good boy, are you willing to worship me as a teacher?

"Boiled eggs?" Xiang Xian smacked his mouth, put a finger in his mouth, stretched his neck and stared at the mouth of the gourd, there was a faint and faint fragrance floating out of it, and he felt a lot more comfortable when he smelled it, obviously there was really something good.

But how can an eight- or nine-year-old child understand this? No matter how he looks at such a small opening, it doesn't look like he can stuff an egg, and when he looks at the old man's appearance, he can't get in touch with the master in the storyteller's mouth, and he feels that he has been deceived, and he can't help but get angry, and he points at the old man and scolds: "Liar! Liar!"

Liu Gu was a little embarrassed, this bottle was indeed not a Zhuji Dan, but he just poured a little of the contents of the gourd into it, but how did this young child know that he was coaxing him? Could this really be a genius with a keen sense of spirit?

Several fishing boats rowed from a distance and stopped on the shore, and a middle-aged man with dark skin and a slightly fat body heard the child's shouting, and hurriedly jumped out of the boat and rushed over, and Lao Yuan shouted there: "What do you want to do to my child, old man?"

Liu Gu frowned, plugged the porcelain bottle again, and turned to look.

It's just that at this moment, his dejected appearance was suddenly swept away, the whole person became taller, even the folds on his face were gone, his face changed greatly, his skin was glowing with a layer of dark copper light, and with a long beard under his chin, if it wasn't for the green robe that was too shabby, the horse face was really ugly, but it really had a bit of fairy wind bones.

"The deity is under the Fuyu Sect, and this time I came down the mountain to collect disciples, I see that this little baby has a bit of immortality, and I am preparing to ignite him to get started. ”

"Immortal Yuan?" The middle-aged man was Xiang Xian's father, Xiang You, who had already rushed to the nearest place at this time, looked at the appearance of this person, and just frowned at the horse's face, but his eyes swept to a small round badge at the corner of his green robe.

On the day of his sister's wedding, he also went to Qu's father's city, and saw this mark from a distance outside the ancestral shrine of the Qu family, and knew what it represented.

Liu Gu breathed a sigh of relief and pointed at the child behind him: "Who are you this little baby?"

Xiang You didn't dare to look up: "It's my young son!"

Liu Gu stroked his beard under his chin: "Then are you willing to let him go up the mountain with me?"

"What? Does the immortal chief mean to take my child as an apprentice?" Xiang only understood at this time, and was immediately overjoyed, and kowtowed there: "Willing, willing!"

Which fisherman who lives next to this Gu Ze doesn't know, there is a group of immortals living in the green mountains at the other end of Gu Quze, calling for wind and rain and omnipotent, if anyone's children are taken by them, it is simply a great thing to ascend to the sky, this kind of fairy fate, how can you not want to?

Liu Gu said with a smile: "Good! you have this beautiful child is also the result of the blessing of your previous life, and now that your baby is going with me, I can't lose you and wait." Well, but this Dao came in a hurry this time, but the immortal gift was never brought with him, you are not far from my sect, how about going back and waiting for your child's cultivation to be completed, and then let him send it to you?"

The Floating Jade Sect accepts apprentices, one pays attention to a fate word, and the other also pays attention to a love word, often after receiving a good seedling, it will give some benefits to his parents, basically some longevity pills, and it can be regarded as a gift to help the apprentices, but now Liu Gu, where can he get these things?

Xiang You didn't know that this immortal chief was a completely poor bastard, all with a mouth to fool around, how could he dare to say a word when he said this? Naturally, he was also overwhelmed.

That night, the whole small fishing village became a noisy paradise.

In the middle of the village, on the dirt floor, there is a banquet, in the middle of which there are piles of bonfires, on which large fish several feet long are roasted, and the waxy yellow fish oil drips on the fire below and makes a sizzling sound, and bursts of rich fragrance wafts away. The whole village sat at the banquet, and even the doll that was still nursing was brought out, saying that it was also going to be a fairy, and the whole scene was full of joy and laughter.

It is a great event that a child in a village can be looked at by the Xianmen, and the ancestors of Xiangjia Village migrated from Daze from afar, and they have lived on the bank of this district for thousands of years, but they have never encountered such a good thing. If that first doll really becomes an immortal in the future, then the whole village can be stained.

Hundreds of miles away in Qufu City, isn't that the development from a small village after an immortal came out of Qujia Village thousands of years ago?

Liu Gu stroked his beard and sat at the main table with a smile, next to him sat Xiang Xian, his parents and a teenage boy, who was Xiang Xian's elder brother, and even the village chief did not dare to share the stage at other tables.

There is a way for a person to ascend to heaven, and from today on, the status of Xiang Xian's family in the village has skyrocketed, and even the village chief has to walk with his head down when he sees it.

Xiang Yang squatted alone beside a bonfire, looking eagerly at the grilled fish on the fire, his nose kept twitching, and the fragrance of fish oil and resin mixed was refreshing, and the hustle and bustle next to him seemed to have nothing to do with him.

Thinking about it, that Xiang bullied him all day long, the most annoying, but this kind of guy can become a child of an immortal? Xiang Yang was depressed and it was too late, and where was he happy.

The two-foot-long Wusuo side was already golden, Xiang Yang reached out and turned the fork of the grilled fish to turn it over, and continued to wait.

The best fish in Gu Ouze is this Wusuo, the meat is thick and firm, even the fish skin is a rare delicacy after being roasted, usually sold to fishmongers, Xiang Yang has only eaten once since he grew up in this small fishing village, but the delicacy is still unforgettable.

He watched the fish skin gradually turn yellow, and the saliva was about to drip down with the fish oil, just stretched out his hand but was pulled by his ears and picked up, without looking back, just by the faint smell of soaphorn from the pair of plain hands in his ears, he could know who it was, and said with a sad face: "Auntie, you can't wait for this Wusuo to be ripe... ”

A woman in her twenties, dressed in green cloth, pulled his ears and walked towards the table next to him with a smile: "Yang Zi, my aunt usually doesn't hurt you a lot, why don't you tell your aunt about such a good thing?"

"What's the matter?" Xiang Yang looked up at her a little blankly, and then nodded to a tall man sitting at the banquet, and on the corner of the table in front of the man, there was a female doll babbling and clapping at him.

Xiang Qu and Cheng Fei are the best people in this village to him, after the death of the lonely old man, Xiang Yang spent half of his time looking for food in their house, Cheng Yu treated him as her own child, and the linen clothes on Xiang Yang's body were sewn by herself.

The two of them are not too young in the fishing village, but they gave birth to a girl a year ago, and the pink-carved child sitting at the corner of the table is it.

"What's the matter? The village chief has said that the old immortal chief wants to take you to the mountains as a handyman! Aren't you with Xiang Xian in the afternoon?

"Huh?" Xiang Yang was really taken aback at this moment, this kind of good thing can be his turn? He looked up at the main table, just in time to see the old immortal smiling at him, and his heart was suddenly overjoyed.