On a rainy night, in a dilapidated Taoist temple, a young man suddenly woke up from his sleep and sat up, looking around in horror with his eyes wide open.

The young man's mouth was dry and he kept panting, and beads of sweat the size of beans were oozing from his forehead. Under the faint firelight, the young man's somewhat yellowed face frowned, there were still a few sticks of hay stuck behind the messy bun, and a large piece of sweat had been soaked in sweat behind him!

After a while, the young man who came to his senses a little relieved rubbed his eyes with his hands and tightened the neckline of his shirt, and subconsciously touched his sweat-soaked back.

"It was that strange dream again!" thought to the boy.

In the dream, it was still the middle-aged Taoist priest with a face like a crown of jade and a cyan Taoist uniform, looking like the gods enshrined in the dilapidated Taoist temple in front of him. From the side of a grassy and pine mountain in the distance, he slowly walked towards the boy. But more than a hundred zhang away, somehow, in a blink of an eye, the Taoist priest came to his approach.

The Taoist priest held a golden Ruyi in his hand, with his hair coiled on his head, and a sword diagonally behind his back, only the hilt of the sword was exposed on his shoulder. On the jade belt tied around his waist, there is a piece of green and faint jade pendant.

Although the Taoist priest has entered middle age, his facial features are extremely handsome and exquisite, and there is no trace of the vicissitudes left by the years. The middle-aged Taoist priest seemed to have a smile on his face, and he opened his mouth as if he was saying something to the young man in his dream, but the young man couldn't hear a word clearly!

Just as the young man wanted to test his ears and listen carefully to the words of the middle-aged Taoist priest, the sky above his head suddenly dimmed. The sky behind the Taoist priest rapidly condensed a cloud of black qi from small to large.

The black air mass was as thick as ink, and it kept tumbling and squirming from the inside out, and there were thunder, fire, and lightning in the black air mass.

Suddenly, this black qi, like a flood beast opening its huge jaw, swooped in the direction of the two of them at a rapid speed. The young man in the dream pointed to the terrifying black qi behind the Taoist priest and shouted, but the middle-aged Taoist priest did not look back!

Every time a strange dream does this, the boy will wake up!

The dream was so real that the boy felt as if he had really experienced it. For as long as he can remember, he has had the same dream several times a year, which makes him puzzled.

When my father and mother were alive, whenever the teenager woke up from this strange dream, my father and mother would say something like "The dream is fake, don't be afraid, don't take it seriously!" and so on. But the young man who has grown up doesn't think so! Who is this middle-aged Taoist priest? Why does he appear in his dreams again and again? There must be a reason for all this!

I don't know if I'm leaving, and if the little girl is used to living alone in her aunt's house, will she cry or not? When she goes up the mountain to worship the immortal master, she will find an opportunity to go back to her aunt's house to see the girl. My father and mother are gone, and I only have my little sister left!

The rain was getting heavier and heavier outside, and the raindrops crackled on the dilapidated tiles of the roof, and the sound of wind and rain mixed with lightning roared and raged in the dark night.

The small bonfire lit not far from his feet was almost burning. The boy licked his dry lips, grabbed a few branches that he had picked up in the evening, and got up and placed them on the dying flame.

The boy turned back and sat down in the haystack, his arms folded on his knees, his eyes staring at the growing bonfire. A lot has happened at home in the past six months, but this hateful nightmare still comes to disturb my mind, and it is really haunting!

Thinking of the word "Yin Soul", the young man couldn't help but shiver, and squinted his eyes slightly and looked around in the dilapidated hall.

The door of the temple, which was almost rotten, had been pushed up from the inside out, and there were a few green bricks hidden under the door. A little farther away there was a big hole in the roof of the temple, broken tiles scattered all over the ground, and raindrops kept falling from the roof.

The young man turned his head and looked at the three statues enshrined in the shrine behind him, and then his heart was a little settled!

"Hey, let's go to sleep, there's nothing to be afraid of, you can go to Jinxia Mountain to apprentice at dawn! Thinking in his heart, the young man sighed and patted the package behind him, and lay down.

Thinking of the immortal master, the young man couldn't help but touch the cloth bag in his arms again, the cloth bag contained the paper crane that could only find the immortal master, but he was not quite sure how to use this paper crane! The young man turned his body to the side and changed a more comfortable position, and then dragged the hay under his body and put it on his body.

Although his eyes were closed, the changes that had happened in his family for more than half a year made the boy unable to sleep anymore......

Nanhe Town is located at the foot of Qingyun Mountain at the junction of Cheongju and Yuanzhou in Cangqi Province. Since this town is a relatively remote town in Aozaki Province, the scale is not very large!

Shen Cheng, eleven years old this year, his father and mother both passed away not long ago! Speaking of Shen Cheng's life experience, it is difficult to describe it!

Back then, Shen Cheng's father, Shen Xiao, was also a young and lost his mother! Shen Cheng's grandfather, who taught in a private school in the town, was single-handedly pulled by Shen Cheng's grandfather, but before Shen Xiao could succeed in his studies, Shen Cheng's grandfather also closed his eyes!

Shen Xiao, who was about to become an adult, had no choice but to give up his studies in the bazaar in Nanhe Town, and rely on his strength to support himself!

Carrying work in the bazaar requires physical strength to compare one's body, and it is not something that ordinary people can do! Who is not a sturdy man with five major and three thick skills? However, Shen Xiao, who is young, has a single body, and has a bit of bookish spirit, is also begging for food in the bazaar like those strong men, how can he not attract people's attention. After coming and going, he became acquainted with He Yu, the eldest daughter of the shopkeeper of He's rice shop in the bazaar.

There is a man and two women under the knees of the shopkeeper He, in addition to the eldest brother He Kun, there is also a younger sister He Ling under He Yu. Although the He family is not very wealthy, they are quite solid in the local area.

He Yu is very handsome, and he has also studied for a few years, and often goes to his own rice shop to help take care of business. After several times of contact with Shen Xiao, He Yu took pity on this down-and-out young man who was not more than a year or two older than himself, and every time he calculated his salary, he often secretly gave Shen Xiao some extra food!

In the past three years and two years, He Yu and Shen Xiao have had a relationship, and they often take advantage of the sunset to meet to go to the Nanhe River on the outskirts of the city to talk about love and tell each other about their hearts.

But who knew that the good times would not last long, and this matter was actually seen by someone with a heart and told the shopkeeper He! This shopkeeper He disliked Shen Xiao's family and had no interest, so he categorically disagreed with the two of them being together!

Soon after, the young master of the rich man Zhang's family, who was in the pawn business in Nanhe Town, saw He Yu's good looks, so he begged the rich man Zhang to find a matchmaker to propose marriage, and promised a rich bride price.

Shopkeeper He and his son He Kun were naturally overjoyed, and being able to climb this big tree to marry him would definitely be beneficial to the business of his own rice shop, so he readily agreed and wanted to marry his daughter one day!

On the one hand, she has a deep affection for Shen Xiao and already has feelings for her, and on the other hand, she heard that the eldest young master Zhang is a playboy who is rich and notorious for throwing flowers everywhere, so he begged her father to withdraw from the marriage!

How could the shopkeeper agree to his daughter's request to withdraw from the marriage? So he did the thing of beating the mandarin ducks, and ordered his eldest son He Kun to find a few ruffians to beat Shen Xiao violently, and threatened him not to come to the town to beg for work again, so as not to suffer from skin and flesh again, and put He Yu under house arrest at home and not allowed to go out!

After all, He Yu is a woman who has read books, and she knows the truth of her parents' orders, and she doesn't dare to disobey her father's orders easily, so she has to wash her face with tears every day without thinking about it!

The old lady of the He family felt sorry for her eldest daughter, so she took some silver taels, hid it from her wife and son He Kun, and asked her second daughter, He Ling, to secretly let He Yu go.

In this way, the two lovers left their hometowns and eloped to settle down in the Jinxia Mountain area of Yuanzhou, Cangqi State, and after her son Shen Cheng was born, Mrs. He arranged for someone to take the eldest daughter's family back to the town, thinking that they could take care of one or two!

But Shen Cheng's grandfather and uncle were still worried about the original incident! The shopkeeper He, who was already angry with the thunder, was angry when he saw Shen Xiao's family of three, and what else did he ask for help?

The old house of the Shen family was long gone, and Shen Cheng's father had no choice but to rent a broken grass house on the edge of the town to live.

Shen Xiao still goes to the market every day to carry work, and He Yu also makes some needlework for others to subsidize the family. Within two years, Shen Cheng's younger sister was born and named Shen Yue. Since then, the family has lived even more poorly!

When He Yu's sister was not married, she could often come to her sister's house to take a look, and take some of the scattered silver she had saved to line the couple, and at that time, Shen Cheng could still eat a meal of meat for a month.

But no matter how hard life is, when Shen grows up to six years old, his father and mother still take out the little savings he has saved in the past few years to study in a private school in the town.

Fortunately, the gentleman who taught turned out to be a student of Shen Cheng's grandfather, and Shen Cheng's tuition was sometimes given, and if he didn't, he was exempted in private! Shen Cheng studied very hard in the private school, and Mr. also liked this young child, who was quiet and calm-hearted.

Uncle He Kun's son He Xu is also studying in a private school, slightly older than Shen Cheng. This cousin looked down on Shen Cheng very much, and simply regarded him as a thorn in his side! He couldn't help but scold Shen Cheng for being a "wild seed who asked for food", and often took the lead in bullying him with other children.

But whenever Shen Cheng clenched his little fist and wanted to return the color, he would remember what his mother often said to him: "When you encounter something, you must know how to be patient, you must know how to be grateful, and when you have the ability in the future, let those who have bullied you look down on you, and don't dare to bully you casually." And to repay those who helped us. Even if you don't have the ability to be a good person or a good person, you must never be a bad person or a wicked person!"

The mother said that without grandma and aunt, there would be no family. Therefore, in Shen Cheng's heart, for the three generations of the He family, he has a complicated feeling of hatred and gratitude! This is an indescribable feeling.

Just over half a year ago, Shen Xiao contracted tuberculosis, which made the already stormy Shen family even worse!

Shen Cheng had no choice but to drop out of school and help take care of his father and sister at home. Lacking medical treatment and medicine, coupled with the fact that he couldn't eat enough food, Shen Xiao died of illness not long ago!

The life at home was really unsustainable, and He Yu had no choice but to go back to He's house to ask Mrs. He for help. But on a rainy night in late autumn, he was punched and kicked by his eldest brother He Kun and locked out of the door, and he never even saw the face of Mrs. He!

He Yu knew that it was hopeless to ask for help, so she had to drag her body soaked in cold rain and move back home, resentment and cold air entered her body and she couldn't afford to be sick from then on, and chased her husband away in a few days!