Outside of Death, on the ancient road that left Dawang Village and headed west, Zhou Zhou Xian and Xiaohuan walked slowly.

Xiaohuan's bright eyes looked around, only to see that this ancient road was overgrown with weeds and desolate. After walking out of Dawang Village for a long time, I didn't even see a single figure.

Looking into the distance, I saw that this place is located in the wilderness, there are no mountains in all directions, the sky is high and the grass grows, there is a wind blowing through the field from time to time, the green grass is like a wave rolling, it is also beautiful, it makes people have a broad mind.

Zhou Xian's voice came lazily from the side, and said, "What are you looking at?"

Xiaohuan smiled: "Grandpa, when I came here a few years ago, I didn't look around carefully because I was in a hurry. The weather is fine today, you see that the scenery here is good!"

Zhou Zhou Xian looked at the field outside the ancient road, but he was also shocked, but then he said to himself: "Isn't it just a weed......?

"Grandpa!" Xiaohuan screamed, interrupted him, glared at him angrily, and said, "Why do you think about money all day long, and you still have a fairy character in your name, it's so vulgar!"

"Vulgar?" Zhou Zhou Xian was furious and said, "You dare to scold me for being vulgar? My old man is a master outside the world, and he is famous all over the world, and the Buddha of all living beings has benefited the people and all sentient beings......

Xiaohuan stared at him, Zhou Zhou Xian was under the bright eyes of his granddaughter, for some reason his voice became smaller and smaller, and the more he talked, the more he had no confidence, and finally raised his head, snorted, and said, "How do you little girl know how powerful your grandfather is?"

Xiaohuan sneered, shook his head and looked away, Zhou Zhou Xian was ridiculed by his granddaughter, his heart was depressed, and he sighed: "How could I have met you in the first place, I knew that I would have let you cry to death on the side of the road and didn't care about you!"

Xiaohuan stuck out his tongue, his snow-white face was innocent and cute, and he smiled: "Isn't that grandpa, you're kind?"

Zhou Zhou Xian glared at Xiaohuan, and said angrily: "Kind ghost, raise you so big, I will be the whole weather!"

Xiaohuan was not afraid, let alone angry, it seemed that he had already heard a lot of these words, and when he approached Zhou Xian's side, his eyes rolled, and he suddenly said, "Hey, grandpa! Why did you take me away in the first place?"

Zhou Zhou Xian was stunned, in fact, he and Xiaohuan have always been used to it, where would he be really angry, but at this time, when Xiaohuan asked this, he recalled a little bit of the past, his face was melancholy, sighed lightly, and said: "Back in Heyang City, I saw you, a little girl who was only two or three years old, lying on the side of the road, dying of hunger, even crying dumb, and when her heart softened, she hugged her." ”

Speaking of this, he suddenly glared at Xiaohuan and said: "At that time, you were so young, but you were also very smart, and you stopped crying immediately, which made the old man think that he was really destined for you, and as soon as this thought moved, he couldn't give it up anymore." ”

Xiaohuan grimaced at him, stretched out his hand and grabbed Zhou Xian's shirt, and said with a coquettish smile: "Grandpa, aren't you kind? Look, how much money have I made for you all these years?"

Zhou Zhou Xian nodded subconsciously, smiled and said, "Well, this is also ......" suddenly woke up, turned his face and said angrily: "What is it? nonsense!"

Xiaohuan covered his mouth and snickered, and after a while, he seemed to think of something, and said: "Well, grandpa, what did you do when you went to Heyang City, isn't it at the foot of Qingyun Mountain?" I remember that you have always been reluctant to approach there, over the years, it seems that it was only ten years ago, for the sake of that Qingyun disciple named Zhang Xiaofan, we were curious to look at it, but we didn't get close. ”

Zhou Xian's face was slightly gloomy, sighed, and said, "It's not the bone spirit seat of your father who has never met, it's in Heyang City." When I was in front of his grave for a long time, I saw you on the street when I came out, and I was sad in my heart, and I was pitiful when I saw you, so I adopted you. ”

When Xiaohuan heard this, he was a little silent for a while, and only said after a while: "Grandpa, speaking of which, we haven't been to see my father for ten years." ”

Zhou Zhou Xian calculated slightly in his heart, nodded and said, "Yes, ten years have passed in a blink of an eye." Speaking of this, he smiled bitterly and said, "That's it, anyway, we don't have a place to go for a while, so let's go to Heyang City and see your father!"

Xiaohuan immediately nodded and said, "Okay!"

Zhou Zhou Xian waved his hand and said, "Let's go! ”

The two walked forward, walking and walking, Xiaohuan was young after all, and it was all old things, plus she was lively, she quickly got rid of that little bit of sadness, and watched the scenery while walking, and inadvertently turned around, suddenly stunned, and said to grandpa: "Grandpa, look behind us." ”

Zhou Zhou Xian was stunned for a moment, and said strangely: "What's wrong?" said and looked back.

Xiaohuan said: "That wild dog Taoist seems to be still following us?"

Zhou Zhou Xian took a closer look, and sure enough, he saw that the wild dog Taoist didn't know why, following from a distance, walking slowly, always keeping a distance from them. At this moment, seeing that they suddenly stopped and looked back, the wild dog seemed to be stunned, and actually stopped, with hesitation and a little embarrassment on his face, and then stood aside and looked up at the sky.

Zhou Zhou Xian's face was full of suspicion, stared at him twice, turned his head and pulled Xiaohuan to continue walking, and at the same time said in a low voice: "What is that guy doing here?"

Xiao Huanqi said: "You ask me, who do I ask?"

Zhou Zhou Xian choked for a moment, and suddenly stared at Xiaohuan and said, "That guy didn't want to be wrong to you?"

Xiaohuan was startled, his face turned red, and he said angrily: "Grandpa, you can say this kind of thing!"

Zhou Zhou Xian snorted and said, "Why can't I say it, in this world, bad people are rampant, and you are beautiful, it's hard to say!"

Xiaohuan glanced at him and said, "In my opinion, the Wild Dog Dao Elder is in the Demon Sect, and although his reputation is not very good, I have never heard of him harming women, but it is rumored that he has done a lot of things like murder and arson, and Bai Rì robbery. ”

Zhou Xian's face turned white, and he suddenly became nervous, and said, "That guy shouldn't want to rob us two poor bastards, right?"

Xiaohuan snorted and said, "It's hard to say, besides, grandpa, the silver on your body is only afraid that it is much more than that of the poor bare!"

Zhou Zhou Xian hurriedly lowered his voice and said, "Shhh As he spoke, he glanced around, frowned, and said, "Oh no, there is no one here, and it is the best place to rob." Let's run faster, shall we?"

Xiaohuan was stunned, but saw Zhou Zhou Xian reach into his arms and take out a yellow sè paper talisman, it seemed that he wanted to use his "Ancestor Secret" technique to escape, and couldn't help but be angry and funny, and hurriedly grabbed Zhou Zhou Xian and said, "Grandpa, you wait a while." ”

Zhou Zhou Xian glanced behind him and said, "That guy is following again, what are you waiting for?"

Xiaohuan smiled and said: "Grandpa, although your technique of retreat is a secret technique passed down by the ancestor, you can't control where we come out after retreating." I can tell you, we're not far from that dead Ze now, and if you actually get into it, we'll be really whimpering. ”

Zhou Zhou Xian was stunned for a moment, and said, "Our luck won't be so bad, right?"

Xiaohuan glanced at him and said, "Do you think your luck is good or bad?"

Zhou Zhou Xian thought about it, and then said very resolutely: "Poor!"

Xiaohuan grinned and said, "That's not the end, so we can't take any chances." As she spoke, she approached Zhou Xian, her eyes gestured to her left hand, and she said in a low voice: "Grandpa, you forgot, I still have a talisman magic weapon given by Sister Bottle, and besides, that wild dog Taoist is not a demon master, and it is not difficult for us to deal with him." ”

Zhou Zhou Xian lowered his head and pondered, then let out a long breath and said, "You are right, alas! It seems that most of them have seen too many cultivators in the dead world, and they have also looked up to the wild dog. ”

Xiaohuan pursed his lips and smiled, and said, "Besides, that wild dog Taoist doesn't seem to be a bad person, didn't he lend us an umbrella at the beginning?"

Zhou Zhou Xian snorted and said, "What are we, it's to lend you, old man, I was half drenched in the rain, you girl is indifferent, it's really unfilial." ”

Xiaohuan stuck out his tongue and said with a smile: "Grandpa, I have something for you to cover together, but you don't want it yourself." ”

Zhou Zhou Xian snorted again, stepped forward, and said to himself: "Anyway, you are the same as your unfilial father, you make me angry all day long, it's really disobedient!"

Xiaohuan smiled and shook his head and followed.

Behind the ancient road, the wild dog Taoist faintly heard laughter in front of him, frowned, and his face changed, but he finally followed.

Between heaven and earth, the wind is passing through the wilderness, and it is whining.

This walk was another half an hour, and Zhou Zhou Xian felt a little tired, grabbed Xiaohuan, and said, "Take a break." ”

Xiaohuan nodded, looked at a half-large bluestone on the side of the road, walked over and patted it, and said, "Grandpa, you can sit here!"

Zhou Zhou Xian nodded, leaned against the bamboo pole with the white cloth of "Immortal Guidance" in his hand next to the bluestone, sat down on the stone, couldn't help but gasp a little, shook his head slightly, and said, "Why do you feel that your body is not good lately, and you have only walked for a long time, and you have begun to gasp?"

Xiaohuan was taking out the kettle filled with water from his baggage, and when he heard this, a trace of worry flashed in his eyes, and he walked over and handed the kettle to Zhou Xian, and said at the same time: "Grandpa, drink some water!"

Zhou Zhou Xian nodded, took the kettle, took a few sips with his head high, let out a long breath, and then turned his head to look back, and sure enough, he saw a figure behind him, standing there far away.

Zhou Zhou Xian looked at it for a long time, suddenly smiled, and didn't care about him anymore, handed the kettle to Xiaohuan, but when he turned around, he was stunned, only to see Xiaohuan sitting beside him, I don't know when it started, and there was an extra red and bright rock sugar gourd in his hand, eating it with relish.

Zhou Xianda shook his head and said earnestly: "I said Xiaohuan! You don't look at how old you are, why do you still like a little girl, you love to eat this rock sugar gourd so much?"

Xiaohuan smacked lightly to the side of the road, spit out a small seed of rock sugar gourd, smiled coquettishly at Zhou Xian, and said, "But people love to eat it!"

Zhou Zhou Xian was dumbfounded, and sighed: "More than ten years ago, in that Heyang City, there were so many pastries and snacks, why did I just go to the roadside alley to buy this rock sugar gourd for you?"

After that, shaking her head and sighing, Xiaohuan smiled without saying a word, and gently tasted the food in her hand, perhaps under the influence of the red appearance of the rock sugar gourd, her lips seemed to have added a touch of glamour.

Zhou Zhou Xian sat for a while, feeling that his body was gradually recovering, so he planned to call Xiaohuan to continue his journey, but as soon as he turned his head, he suddenly looked in front of him out of the corner of his eye, and suddenly a pair of feet appeared.

Zhou Zhou Xian was taken aback, and said in his heart: Could it be this negligence, the wild dog actually took the opportunity to sneak attack, this is worth it? It seems that you can't believe the words of the little girl, the old man has been walking the world for more than 100 years, could it be that the turtle fell and the boat capsized in the ditch today?

Thinking wildly on this side, he was about to call Xiaohuan up, but suddenly he heard the voice of the person in front of him be gentle and calm, and said lightly: "Are you still showing people?"

Zhou Zhou Xian and Xiaohuan both stood up, looked up, and saw a middle-aged man in front of them, with thin eyebrows and square face, elegant eyebrows, bright eyes, full foreheads, and a momentum of not being angry but mighty in the elegance. Wearing a Confucian robe, a light purple jade pendant around the waist, exquisitely clear, faintly auspicious, very beautiful, absolutely extraordinary.

It's just that his forehead and sideburns are incommensurate with his appearance, and there are a lot more gray hairs, which looks a little more vicissitudes.

Zhou Xian's face suddenly became very strange, he stared at the person in front of him, under the unnoticed sleeves, a pair of hands clenched into fists, but above his face, after being stunned, there was a faint excitement, a little relief and a little vicissitudes of life.

Xiaohuan's gaze turned from the man's face and returned to his grandfather's body, and then he found that Zhou Zhou Xian's face didn't seem to be quite right, and he was about to say something, when Zhou Zhou Xian suddenly said: "Xiaohuan, you go to the side for a while, and wait for grandpa to call you over again." ”

Xiaohuan was stunned, this is something that has never happened before, but looking at the face of the fairy on Monday, it doesn't seem to be a joke, and looking at the two of them, it seems that they are old acquaintances, so he responded at the moment, turned around and sorted out his baggage casually, and walked back.

She walked and walked, and from time to time she looked back, but saw that her grandfather and the middle-aged man were still standing there face to face, and they still didn't seem to speak. She was a little worried in her heart, that middle-aged man she had just met for the first time, but only for a short time, but somehow she was a little afraid of him, and there was a fear in her heart for no reason.

For more than ten years, she has been following Zhou Zhou Xian's side, and she never knew that her grandfather would know someone so powerful!

She was thinking about it, she was in a trance, and she didn't realize that she had walked a long way, and suddenly found that there was a figure in front of her, and quickly stopped, and almost bumped into the person, but it was a wild dog Taoist, and hurriedly said: "I'm sorry, Dao Chief." ”

Unexpectedly, the face of the wild dog Taoist at this moment was also very wrong, and the horror on his face flashed, and his eyes stared straight forward, full of fear and fear.

Xiaohuan was taken aback again, and looked along his line of sight, only to see that the wild dog Taoist was also the middle-aged man. I don't know who that person is, which would make the Wild Dog Daoist so afraid?

Xiaohuan thought in his heart, and couldn't help but ask the wild dog Taoist in a low voice, "Dao Chief, who is that person, do you know him?"

The wild dog Taoist body was shocked, and he seemed to come back to his senses, but the fear on his face was still undiminished, he looked at the small ring beside him, and said, "You don't recognize him?"

Xiaohuan nodded and said, "Yes, this is the first time I've seen this person today, but I see that grandpa seems to know him." By the way, do you know him? Who is he?"

The corners of the wild dog's mouth moved, as if he was about to say something, but for some reason, he suddenly fell silent again, and his eyes looked straight at the middle-aged man in front of him.

Xiaohuan frowned, and intuitively felt that the reaction of the wild dog Taoist was a little strange, both scared, and seemed to be a little more angry at the moment!

Zhou Zhou Xian and the middle-aged man stood side by side, standing on the edge of the ancient road, looking out into the wilderness.

The breeze is blowing, and the white hair on the sideburns seems to be telling the passage of time and the vicissitudes of the world.

"We haven't seen each other in years, have we?" said the middle-aged man suddenly.

Zhou Zhou Xian looked into the distance, his face was complicated, and he said after a while: "It's been decades!"

The man smiled faintly and said, "Are you okay?"

Zhou Zhou Xian was silent for a long time, and said: "Wandering the world, playing the world, it can't be said to be good, and it can't be said to be bad." ”

The man seemed to be a little touched, turned his head to look at Zhou Xian, and said, "Are you still blaming me in your heart?"

Zhou Zhou Xian smiled bitterly, shook his head and said, "You didn't feel sorry for me, what did I blame you for?"

The man smiled and said, "Actually, it's not bad for you to be like this, let go of your heart, travel the world, and now that you think about it, you are also a fairy, but it is not in vain that you have a fairy character in your name." ”

Zhou Zhou Xian looked at him, and suddenly said, "If you want to have a rì like me, what's the difficulty, old friend?"

The man suddenly heard Zhou Xian say "old friend", and he couldn't help but be stunned, but then he smiled, looked into the distance, and said slowly: "I'm different from you." ”

Zhou Zhou Xian said lightly: "You are naturally different from me, since you were a teenager, you have a very strong heart for power, and now, I don't expect you to let go." ”

The man's eyebrows furrowed, and there seemed to be a flash of anger in the depths of his eyes, as if no one had ever dared to speak to him like this, but he looked back at Zhou Xian, but saw that he was full of white hair, much older than himself, and suddenly he was dazed, and that anger disappeared.

"Why do you look so old?"

Zhou Zhou Xian shook his head and said: "I'm already old, but you are successful in cultivation, you shouldn't have ......" Speaking of this, he hesitated a little, but finally said: "Your daughter's matter, I heard about it, you ......"

The man's face was gloomy for a while, and then he slowly shook his head, blocking Zhou Zhou Xian's words, and suddenly said: "When we were young, you used to calculate a hexagram for my life grid at the foot of Huqi Mountain, but do you remember?"

Monday was stunned.

The man looked up at the sky and said slowly: "I still remember very clearly, you were young and vigorous at the time, and you spoke to me bluntly about everything, saying that my life was too strong, and I tortured my wife and children. Now it has been fulfilled one by one. As he spoke, his voice grew desolate.

Zhou Zhou Xian lowered his head, and after a while, he suddenly raised his head and said categorically: "Now we are all half-grounded people, and I also have something to say to you." ”

The man seemed slightly surprised and said, "You say." ”

Zhou Zhou Xian glared at him and said: "When I said those words, it was completely my nonsense to lie to you, Lao Tzu has been annoyed with those fortune-telling things since he was a child, how can he be patient to learn, as for that kind of Tiangang divine calculation, there is naturally this saying, but how do I understand? Don't take it to heart!"

The man's body was shocked, as if he never expected such words to come out of Zhou Xian's mouth, and after a while, he suddenly shook his head and laughed, laughing loudly, I saw that he bent down when he laughed later, where is there still the slightest majesty when they first met?

In the distance, Xiaohuan and the wild dog Daoist were dumbfounded.

After a while, the man slowly stopped laughing, and his god gradually regained his calm and majesty, but in his eyes, there seemed to be a little more pain.

Zhou Xian looked at him silently.

They stood side by side for a long time, and then, Zhou Zhou Xian said lightly, "Why did you come here?"

The man looked at him and said, "Aren't you conceited and clever?"

Zhou Zhou Xian snorted and said, "Are you going to die?"

The man said leisurely, "Yes, that's where I'm going." Why, don't you want to check it out?

The corners of Zhou Xian's mouth twitched, and he said: "Your reputation is too bad, I can't help but be strange when I walk with you." I'd better stay away from you. ”

The man looked at Zhou Zhou Xian, suddenly smiled dumbly, and then said: "The ancient road of the end of the world, it is rare to see the old people. You and I will see each other today, and I don't know when we will meet again in the future, so you should take care. ”

Zhou Zhou Xian snorted and said, "Old man, I live a good life, I don't want to die yet, but you have more enemies than the foxes on Huqi Mountain, so think about yourself!"

Xiaohuan stood on the side of the road and waited for a long time, and suddenly saw his grandfather and the man in front of him walking over, and hurriedly greeted him and walked to his grandfather's side. The middle-aged man glanced at Xiao Huan, and then landed on the wild dog Taoist behind him.

The wild dog's face changed, and he slowly lowered his head.

The man glanced at him a few times, and suddenly said, "You are the wild dog Taoist beside Ghost Li, right?"

The fear on the face of the wild dog Daoist was even heavier, and he hesitated for a moment before he whispered, "Yes." ”

Xiaohuan stood beside Zhou Zhou Xian, and couldn't help but ask Zhou Zhou Xian softly, "Grandpa, who is he?"

Before Zhou Zhou Xian could answer, the middle-aged man seemed to hear even this little voice in his ears, turned around, and smiled: "What, doesn't the little girl know me?"

Xiaohuan was taken aback and shook his head blankly.

The man smiled slightly and said, "You just call me ten thousand people!"

Xiaohuan was stunned.

The man glanced at Zhou Xian deeply, suddenly waved his robe, turned around and strode away, and did not look back. There is a momentum of looking at the world between steps, and it slowly spreads out.

Behind him, everyone saw the figure walking along the ancient road in the direction of Death, and suddenly heard the man singing loudly: "The end of the world is never far away." Children have always been stupid. The sky is high and the sea is 80,000 feet wide, and all living beings are prostrate. The stars are ten thousand points, the moon is bright, the sky is cold, cold as frost. It's ridiculous that everything is like a dog, who is the rain and who turns the clouds?......"

This song is clumsy, although it is not soft and beautiful, but it has its own majestic meaning in the desolation.

But everyone saw that under the sky, above the ancient road, long white clouds, lonely wilderness, the man walked with his hands in his hands, unspeakably unruly.

The singing was getting quieter, and the man was far away.

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