On the first day of the first month of the first month of the Great Qin Calendar in the year 1000, the night was heavy snow.

Xianyin Village is a small mountain village located in the northwest of the Great Qin Empire, where the people are simple and the villagers live and work in peace and contentment.

In fact, a long time ago, this village was quite poor, and when the plague caught up, many people ran away, and this village was about to become a deserted village.

It may be that God has mercy, just when the villagers were desperate, an old fairy came, who not only cured the villagers of the plague, but also taught the villagers some exercises to strengthen their bodies. In this way, this small mountain village can be regarded as sparing.

Later, the old fairy lived in the mountains outside the village, and the villagers thanked the old god for his reconstruction, so they renamed the village: Xianyin Village. It can be regarded as a blessing in disguise, since the old fairy came, the life of the villagers has become more and more nourishing.

In time for the New Year, although the village is not big but also lively, it will be calm at night.

The old village chief stood under the eaves of his house, looking thoughtfully at the disturbing snowflakes in front of him, and his wrinkled face was full of joy.

In time for the millennium, there will be a lot of new babies in the village, whether it is a girl or a boy, and the population of the village is becoming more and more prosperous.

Seeing that the old man was still in a daze at the door, the village chief's wife put down the needlework in her hand and shouted at the door: "Okay, old man, I've been watching for a long time! Hurry back to the house to wash and sleep, such a big snow, you will be busy tomorrow!"

"The snow is good! When the snow stops, let them go up the mountain, and they will definitely be able to bring back a lot of good things! Sell them in the city in the spring, hehe!" The old village chief tightened the sheepskin jacket on his body, and said with some joy.

"You just want to go up the mountain, just let him go up the mountain when he has a child, can't he spend the New Year at home in peace?" When the old lady heard that the old man was going to let her grandson go up the mountain, she was immediately unhappy.

"How old is it? It's sixteen! Besides, it's him who is arguing to go up the mountain, and it's time for him to exercise, when I'm sixteen..."

"Alright, you be quieter! Wake up the kid again, it's the middle of the night. The old lady knew her old man's temperament, and she no longer argued with the old man, and beckoned the old man to rest early.

The old village chief glanced at the east house, and when he saw that there was no movement, he tightened his sheepskin jacket and walked to the gate, and glanced at the deep mountains in the distance, ready to close the door and return to the house.

At the moment when the old village chief was about to close the door, he saw a black shadow flashing at the entrance of the village, and the old village chief was afraid that he would be dazzled, so he looked away, and leaned out half of his body to look at the entrance of the village, but he did not see a figure, so he hesitated to close the door and go back to the house. I thought that I would have to go to the ancestral hall of the old god in the village tomorrow to pay respects, so that the old fairy could bless the village and not have an accident.

Outside Xianyin Village, a black shadow rushed forward. I saw that this black shadow was covered in a black robe, and it seemed that he was still holding a baby in his arms.

At this time, it was snowing heavily, but I saw that this black shadow did not touch the snow on its clothes, and there were no marks under its feet. It's just that this black shadow is walking very fast, and it is silent, a few feet away in the blink of an eye, I don't know if it is a person or a ghost.

The black shadow with the baby in his arms flashed from the entrance of Xianyin Village, but he did not enter the village, but went to the mountains outside the village. It seems that the old village chief is not dazzled, but he doesn't know what this black shadow with a baby in his arms is going to the deep mountains and old forests to do.

The villagers of Xianyin Village know that there are immortals living in the mountains, so whether they go up the mountain to hunt or go into the mountains to collect medicine, they will not go too deep. First, I was afraid of disturbing the old immortal's cultivation, and second, the mountains were deep and dense, and the danger was unpredictable.

And the black shadow with the baby in his arms still went straight to the depths of the mountain forest without stopping after going up the mountain, although the mountain is dangerous and dense, the speed of the black shadow is not slow at all.

The deep mountains are lonely, only people walk, only snow falls.

Finally, the shadow in the speed stopped. But seeing the black shadow looking around for a moment, he knew that he had stepped into a maze, and looking at the technique, it should be a master.

Fortunately, the cultivation of the black shadow is not shallow, and ordinary people who step into this maze are afraid that they will have to suffer enough if they have no guidance from a master, but it is not difficult for the black shadow.

After thinking about it for a while, the black shadow had a plan in his heart, but he saw that the black shadow was shuttling back and forth in the forest at a very fast speed, the speed was getting faster and faster, and the range was getting bigger and bigger.

Suddenly, the black shadow stopped, appeared, and crashed headlong into an ancient tree in front of him...

The black shadow holding the baby in his arms broke the maze and hit an ancient tree in the forest, but there was no situation where the tree was destroyed and people died, the ancient tree was still there, but the black shadow disappeared. Deep in the mountains and forests, calm again, only to hear the snow falling.

One step out, the black shadow finally came out of the maze, but there was a different world in front of him. But seeing the bright moon in the sky, there are strange flowers and plants everywhere. A gravel-paved path leads directly to a fenced courtyard gate not far away, and there are three thatched houses in the door, and the stream behind the house is murmuring, which is a scene of a fairyland on earth.

Seeing this scene, the black shadow praised in his heart: good means. Walking slowly to the gate of the fence, before he could speak, he heard a holy voice from inside the house: "But the old man is visiting?"

After saying a word, there was no sound in the room, and the black shadow looked down at the sleeping baby in his arms, and said in a deep voice: "It is indeed the old man." The tone contains too much sadness and vicissitudes.

After the black shadow finished speaking, the door of the fence courtyard opened, and the black shadow knew that this was the master who invited him into the house.

The dark shadow entered the house, but saw a green lamp in the house and a pot of tea on the table. On the opposite side of the table sat a crane-haired boy-faced, dressed in a white robe, holding a dusty old man. And Lao Dao was looking at himself with burning eyes, obviously, Lao Dao had long known that someone would visit tonight.

"Since you are an old man, why don't you show your true face? Could it be that your Excellency is an enemy of Lao Dao?" said Lao Dao half-jokingly. After speaking, he didn't see any movement from Lao Dao, and the teacup in front of the black shadow was already full of green tea.

"It's just a skin, whether you see it or not, it doesn't matter to Mr. Yu. The shadow sat down across from the old man as he spoke, but his hands tightened his grip on the baby in his arms.

"Also, you and I are people who should not exist in the world, and I still have a fate in the world, so we are still lingering in this world. It's just that the world suffers!" After saying that, the old man raised the dust in his hand, as if he was compassionate.

Seeing that Lao Dao had seen through his secret, the black shadow sighed helplessly. Stretched out his hand to take out a jade pendant from the neck of the baby in his arms and put it in front of Lao Dao's eyes, and said in a deep voice: "Mr. has cultivated to the realm of perfection, and there should be nothing in the world that Mr. cares about, but Mr. has not broken through the void for a long time, I think it is because of this dust." ”

Lao Dao saw the jade pendant on the table, his eyes first burst with fine light, and then he closed his eyes and fell into deep thought.

But seeing that this jade pendant is a three-inch white goldfish, it is in the shape of a leaping dragon gate, lifelike, and aura, presumably it must be from the hands of ghosts.

Both sides were silent, and only the shadows of the lights flickered in the grass hut for a while.

It was Lao Dao who broke this tranquility, and I saw that Lao Dao also took out a jade pendant from his arms and put it on the table, which was exactly the same as the one taken out by the black shadow, obviously a pair. It's just that the old jade pendant is black.

Black and white jade in pairs, yin and yang fish in pairs. When the two fish meet, the time and shadow flicker, like two live goldfish chasing me in the water, frolicking...

Looking at this pair of jade pendants, Lao Dao said in a deep voice: "Your Excellency, let's be blunt." ”