...... In the late autumn when the grass and trees were withering, on that night that should have been ordinary, there was an inexplicable mysterious throbbing that surged in the jungle and sky in the suburbs outside Raozhou.

The protagonist of this rhythm, the young man Zhang Xingyan, is now standing on the top of the horseshoe hill in the wind, staring and silent.

It's just that the young man who seems to look like usual is suffering an indescribable pain inside: the foreign "Taihua Dao Power" that helped him blow the song "Water Dragon Yin" still seems to be very much more than enough, flowing everywhere along the meridians and veins in his body, but there are thousands of strands of disorganized to follow.

Although, now the situation is much better than just now, not as sinister as the sinister situation of ten thousand blades. But this strange feeling that should have been familiar everywhere seemed to have some new subtle thorns, and while cleansing the whole body, it inevitably made the young man feel itchy and depressed.

After a few weeks of this strange feeling, it seemed to converge on the Yingzhi point of the person next to the throat of Xingyan. Suddenly, Xingyan only felt that his whole body was churning, and the depression that had lasted for a long time seemed to have finally found an outlet for catharsis -

I could only hear a clear and clear howl, snatching out of the mouth of this young man standing up to the sky, echoing between the empty and lonely fields.

The young man's ups and downs, unscrupulous and unscrupulous long roar, as if up to the heavens, down into the underworld, surging and surging, lingering; for a time, the mountains and valleys should echo, enduring......

After shouting this voice, Xingyan only felt the power in his body, and there was no trace of it, only the Lingtai was exceptionally clear and empty.

"Why is this the case? first bitter and then sweet—don't come to me in the future!"

Although Xingyan complained so much in his heart, he really didn't take it to heart. Maybe the boy himself doesn't know that although he is cheerful, optimistic, and easy-going, he has a stoic and fearless spleen in his bones. That's why he dared to lean on the white stone of Horseshoe Mountain, where such a grotesque image had happened - and because of this, today he was able to walk around in front of the ghost gate and pick up another surname!

It's just that the young man who has experienced this strange scene and seems to have been out of danger has not had time to slow down, but unfortunately encounters another accident: just as he has always thought that he is alone, just as the long whistling sound of the sky has just fallen, he heard it in his ears, and suddenly there was a strange and grand roar!

Xingyan, who was taken aback, quickly stared at the surroundings with wide eyes and looked around carefully - this look didn't matter, Xingyan was so frightened that he was terrified, his body retreated sharply, and he tripped and fell to the ground unexpectedly!

- It turned out that it was not until this time that Xingyan realized that at some point on the top of the Horseshoe Mountain, which was originally empty and lonely, had gathered so many mountain beasts and were roaring at him in unison;

The whole valley seemed to be boiling in an instant!

It's no wonder that the boy woke up and ate this scare. Anyone who suddenly finds a large number of beasts roaring at him will be scared to the point of urine! Especially when he sees that there are many fierce beasts among these beasts~ This awakening is just a few steps back, and a fall is already very calm!

Besides, the awakening words that fell to the ground, hastily touched the thing that tripped over him beside him, and in his ignorance he only felt that it was a stick, so he held the handle of the stick with his right hand and held it across his chest—although this instinctive action was estimated to be useless, but it was better than nothing to be brave at this critical moment.

The panicked young man was annoyed in his heart at this time:

"I'm really full and have nothing to do, how can I think of running to this wilderness to practice the flute?!If I practice music near my house, I can eat at most the noisy neighbor who scolded me~ How can it be like now-I'm afraid that the flute is too noisy, disturbing the good dreams of these beasts, so that they all run together to surround me, and eat some supper by the way!"

Xingyan was extremely remorseful at this time, and said in his heart that this time he would definitely become the thing in the belly of the tiger and wolf. It's just that after a short pause, he was feeling sorry for himself, but he was surprised to find that those beasts that surrounded him saw that they were sitting on the ground, and they all stopped roaring unevenly, and did not come forward to bite, but kept staring at him.

"Strange! How can I have a ridiculous feeling - how come these beasts in front of me don't seem to have any ill will towards me?!"

It's really strange that it happens every year, but these two months are very special!

However, although he thought that it was quite like this, Xingyan did not dare to run away at all. Because this young man in the mountains who is familiar with the surname of wild beasts knows that when people are close to these mountain beasts, the most taboo thing is to turn around and run away; instead, they face each other, but at least they can give it a go, and maybe have a glimmer of life.

Just as he was waking up and was in a dilemma, he suddenly heard one shout after another in the distance:

"Wake up...... Wake Up ......"

Hearing this voice, the confused young man immediately perked up, and hurriedly looked in the direction where the voice came from—with his excellent eyesight now, he saw from a distance that there was a little fire like a bean in the dark mountains and fields, jumping and fluttering, and it was gradually approaching!

"Ah!!" Seeing this glimmer of light, Xingyan suddenly jumped up as if he had been stung by a poisonous scorpion - it turned out that he heard the shouts one after another, it was the voice of his father Lao Zhangtou and Mu Niang!

At this moment, Xingyan's heart seemed to be boiling in the pot, he couldn't care about it anymore, he didn't say a word, he jumped up and rushed in the opposite direction!

At this time, there was only one thought in Xingyan's heart: "Die and die...... The child is not filial, and this nurturing grace can only be repaid in the next life......"

Between jumping and jumping, Xingyan waved the stick that he pulled casually, and he didn't realize that there seemed to be a flash of brilliance between the dances.

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was waiting for the awakening words of the fierce beast pounced on the wind at any time, but he was gradually surprised to find that everywhere he went, those tigers, leopards and bears who were usually fierce and fierce were actually dodging to the side in unison, as if they were ...... It seems that he is a little afraid of him, but he can't avoid it!

"Huh, how can I have such a ridiculous idea?!" Xingyan examined himself, "Is this a hallucination from the imminent death of death?"

However, after all, Xingyan was a clever and intelligent young man, and he immediately judged that these various beasts surrounding him really had no ill will towards him!

"Weird!"

This is the first time I don't know how many times I woke up tonight, and I couldn't help but imitate the gentlemanly tone of Old Scholar Ji in my heart.

However, although he thought so, he was still in danger after all, and his astute awakening words did not have the time to evaluate and figure out, and he did not dare to stop at all. I saw that the figure of the young man couldn't help but jump and flash, and he jumped out of the "encirclement" of the mountain beasts in a puff of smoke, and fled down the mountain in a panic!

When he had gone a long way, the boy stopped a little to catch his breath, and when he was sure that there was no wild beast chasing after him, he hurried around the path, and ran to his father and mother who had come to find him, and intercepted them halfway as soon as possible. Along the way, Xingyan didn't know how many wrestles he had rolled and how many thorns he had eaten!

Anxious to wake up, spread his legs, and ran busily, and finally had time to intercept his father and mother who came to find him halfway.

It turned out that the old Zhangtou couple saw the sudden change in the sky, and they were worried about their children who went to Horseshoe Mountain to practice the flute, for fear that something would happen to Xingyan. So, the old couple gathered a bunch of pine oil torches, and the old man opened his head, regardless of the high mountains and deep grass in the dark night, and came to this horseshoe mountain to look for it.

——Heh~~ Thank God! Finally, they saw their lively child come back safe and sound!

Seeing that he had successfully stopped his father and mother before they reached the top of the mountain, the awakening words that had been tensing his heartstrings were immediately relaxed. It wasn't until this time that Xingyan realized that after the lifeless run just now, he only felt that his whole body was aching. The tired young man had no choice but to hold the cane he had just picked up, hold the shoulders of the old man, and return to the hut at the foot of the horseshoe mountain.

Later, someone wrote a poem and praised:

There are strange stones

Lie down

Abrupt ambitions

Only the green mountains are like me—

A long howl

Dragon's Roar!

When she returned home, under the light of the pine oil lamp, Xingyan finally found that the child's coarse cloth clothes had already been broken by the thorns on the mountain, and she couldn't help but be busy again, so she asked her son to change his clothes and let her sew them overnight.

While sewing and mending, Xingyanniang blamed her son for knowing that his father and mother were looking for him, why he was in such a hurry - although he was blaming, but the love of a mother and her children was beyond words. This young man, who was usually clever and eloquent, was now in front of his mother, but he immediately became clumsy, and he was speechless, so he had to giggle there.

As for the few scratched blood marks on Xingyan's legs and stomachs, this is a common thing for young people in the mountains, not as delicate as the children in the city, only the old man rubbed and chewed a few pieces of herbs, and put them on them indiscriminately to stop the bleeding.

In the thatched hut at the foot of the horseshoe mountain, a wick twisted from rush grass is immersed in the pine oil extracted by the farmer's own family, lighting a little soft yellow light, and the bean-sized light keeps swaying, illuminating the four walls of the grass house, and also reflecting the needle and thread in the hands of the loving mother.

After combing the old Zhang Tou of the family's agricultural and hunting equipment, he casually asked his son what kind of fright he had eaten on the horseshoe mountain - the sudden lightning and thunder half a day ago was really a "scary son"!

Hearing my father ask, the well-behaved awakening words were afraid that my father and mother would be worried, so I only said lightly that I was not scared, anyway, it didn't rain, as long as I wasn't drenched, it would be fine.

The mother who was sewing clothes, hearing the words and babbling to warn her son to accumulate virtue and do good, otherwise he would be split by the gods in the sky with the thunder of the day - the terrifying thunder and lightning tonight, maybe which god in the sky was angry......

I looked at Mu Niang mending her clothes stitches and threads, and there was no sentence to say a word, and after a while, this had been tossed all night of awakening, and I felt a little tired. So Xingyan said goodbye and went to sleep first.

When I got to the bunk, I lay quietly for a while, and I had closed my eyes and remembered what happened tonight, but the sleepiness was not as strong as it had just been.

The scene that happened on the horseshoe mountain tonight flickered in front of Xingyan's eyes like a marquee.

Although these things are less than half an hour away, all the details are still vivid, but when Xingyan thinks of all these things, he still seems to be in the clouds and mist in the middle of the sky, dizzy, as if everything is within reach, but he can't grasp it when he reaches out.

Unable to sleep, and feeling a little trance-like young man, Suo opened his eyes and stared at the mottled moon shadow cast on the earthen wall through the window, trying his best to calm himself.

Calm down, he tried to remember everything that happened tonight, and combed them through it.

After repeated deliberation and repeated thinking, in the end, although he couldn't believe the facts he deduced, Xingyan still thought that everything that happened tonight, with ten likely, had a lot to do with the "Water Dragon Yin" that he blew out with the "Taihua Dao Force". Although Xingyan didn't dare to associate the lightning and thunder in the sky with himself, just as it was a coincidence, there were so many wild beasts that inexplicably gathered around him, not only did not attack him, but also seemed to be quite afraid of himself—this kind of unheard of strange thing, if it weren't for the 'water dragon chant' that he already felt was unusual, he couldn't think of anything else that could have anything to do with this!

"It seems that the old man Yun Zhongjun who met in Pingshui must not be an ordinary person, and the music score and jade flute given to me will never be ordinary things!"

"In my life, maybe I will change from now on......", thinking of this, this young man from the mountains lying on the bunk couldn't help but be a little excited:

"I, Zhang Xingyan, will be able to get a job of taming animals in the circus troupe that walks all directions! Come to think of it, the reward must be a lot!he~~"

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The young man, who had been tossing all night, fell asleep like this, with a shallow smile on the corner of his mouth......

Xu was really hard last night, and he said that he didn't have to get up from the bed until three o'clock the next day.

After washing, the young man found that after this night's sleep, the fatigue of yesterday was gone, and breathing the fresh and pure air of the mountains, he only felt that the whole person seemed to be reborn, and he was extremely refreshed.

was intoxicated by the wake-up words in the cool morning breeze of the mountains, but suddenly heard the mother in the house cry out in surprise:

"Huh, where did you get this iron knife?!"

Hearing the sound, he hurriedly ran back to the house to see what had happened. This glance is quite surprising when it comes to awakening. It turned out that it was not an "iron knife", but a long sword lying flat on the ground in the corner.

Xingyan hurriedly walked closer, bent down to pick up the sword, and looked at it carefully:

The sword was slender, about three feet nine inches. There was no gauntlet where the hilt joined the sword, but only slightly protruding to the sides, and then slightly concave towards the direction of the blade; the blade was flattened, the sword was dull, and it was obviously not sharpened; the head of the sword was round and blunt, and there were many mud marks on it. The whole sword is slightly grayish-black, and the shape is quite simple.

Xingyan took this long sword, looked at it over and over, and wondered in his heart, I don't know why there was an extra sword in the house. The confused young man asked his mother:

"Is this a recent hit by Daddy?"

Xingyan Niang shook her head and denied it, saying that she had never seen this thing at home.

Xingyan took it outside the house and looked at it carefully in the light of day, until he noticed the mud marks on the head of the sword, and finally suddenly realized:

"Ha!~ This sword turned out to be a crutch that he had brought all the way back from the horseshoe mountain last night!" Thinking that he had been using it as a stick in his panic last night, the young man couldn't help but laugh dumbly.

"Hehe~ It must have been when the white stone was shattered by lightning and turned over this iron sword buried in the soil!"

The teenager who figured out this section couldn't help but be overjoyed:

"Haha!~~ Now I can pick up the treasure!"

As he spoke, Xingyan quickly brought a basin of water, and sharpened the accidentally obtained sword against the stone that his father used to sharpen his knife in the courtyard:

"If you take this baby to the shop in the city, you should be able to get a lot of money, right?!he~~~"

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