Chapter 1 The end of the mountain
Many years later, the young man stood at the foot of the mountain, a broken sword in his hand, and the sword was still like rotten iron, so broken that people couldn't bear to look at it directly......
He looked at the sword in his hand, and then at the mountain in front of him, and couldn't help but think of a poem he recited in his mouth many years ago, when he first saw the man in white, the poem said:
Ancient Domain South Mountain Now Weiyang,
The sky falls and the lone star crosses the vastness.
Sword Dance Nine Continents Eight Faces Desolate,
Words are not shocked, and the fairy is less crazy.
This poem is named after the first word of each sentence, and the name is called "Ancient Heavenly Sword Language"!
This is an incomplete world.
This is a lost world.
This is a crumbling world.
This is a world that could collapse at any time.
There are many secrets in this world that are not known to the world.
Those who know the truth of this world are dead.
And now, those who try to peek into the secrets of this world will not be spared......
In the far south of this world, there is a magical mountain range, and it reaches into the sky.
The mountains stretch for tens of thousands of miles from east to west, and there is no edge in sight, and there is no mountain top in sight.
No one knows what is on the other side of the mountain, and according to legend, this is the end of the sky, hence the name "Tianwan Mountain".
At the foot of the mountain, countless people live here, and countless villages and towns are scattered one after another at the foot of the mountain, standing next to the mountain.
The reason why so many people gather at the foot of the Tiandu Mountain is because there are all kinds of evil, spirits, demons, demons, ghosts, ghosts, ghosts, evil spirits, evil spirits, filth, and other aliens entrenched in various parts of this continent.
Every time they occupy a place, it becomes like a purgatory on earth, and they wantonly kill and kill the human beings and all living beings, and "transform" it into a "dead place" suitable only for them to live in.
And only near the end of the mountain, they don't want to approach.
Because there is a lot of vitality here, and that vitality is inexhaustible and endless.
Since then, the area around this mountain has become a "fertile soil" for human beings to thrive.
Although it is a "fertile land", it is not a "happy land".
Because this place is also full of dangers, the most headache is the "strange beasts" in the mountains.
There are all kinds of exotic beasts hidden in the mountains on this day, I don't know thousands of species, but no matter which one they are, they all have a habit - they like to eat humans.
Strange beasts often come down from the mountains to attack the village for a change of taste, and in recent years they have become more and more frequent, as if there is something strange about them that makes them restless.
Longan Village.
It is a small mountain village located at the foot of the end of the mountain. Legend has it that the whole village moved here hundreds of years ago and has multiplied to this day. Now the whole village has a population of one or two hundred, which is not a small village.
Although the villagers of Long'an Village do not have to worry about food and clothing at the foot of Tiandu Mountain, they are disturbed by the strange beast all the year round and suffer unspeakably.
The strange beast is also strange, and has no interest in those cattle, sheep, pigs, horses, etc., every time it comes, it only looks for the villagers to eat.
But after all, they are only there to feed their stomachs, and they will naturally leave after filling their stomachs.
In order to make the village thrive better, there is an old tradition in the village:
Whenever a strange beast invades the village, the oldest old man in the village is "sacrificed alive".
The so-called "living sacrifice" is to stand there alive and wait for the strange beast to come and eat itself!
Alien beasts like to eat raw animals, they often gnaw their hands and feet first, and then eat their bellies, and the sacrificed person will watch their bodies be eaten by the beasts little by little, until the end of life.
This way of death is extremely cruel!
Many elders in Long'an Village gave their lives in this way, so the people in the village hated the strange beasts to the core, but they couldn't do anything about it.
Long Yun.
He is an ordinary teenager in Long'an Village, fifteen years old this year.
At this moment, he was staring at the dying flame on an old piece of firewood in a daze.
"Yun'er! The fire is about to go out, is it evil today?
It was Long Yun's grandmother who spoke, she was cooking on the stove, and when she saw Long Yun's absent-minded look, she hurriedly reminded.
Long Yun reacted suddenly, and hurriedly added some firewood to the earthen stove......
Dinner was soon ready, grandma brought the food to the table, today's dish was particularly hearty, these days, every day.
But looking at the table full of food, Long Yun refused to put down the chopsticks.
"Eat it, isn't this your favorite braised reed chicken and braised pike? What's wrong with this kid today?"
Long Yun didn't pay attention to it, just lowered his head and stubbornly put rice in his mouth.
The wind outside the window was "sizzling" the branches, and the room was silent.
A withered lamp was placed on the table, and the flame on the lamp swayed gently in the breeze, and the light flickered on and off, becoming fainter and fainter, and could be extinguished at any moment.
Long Yun's grandmother stepped forward and flicked the wick a few times, which made the whole restaurant light up again.
Although the room was lit up, her heart was still uneasy, because the atmosphere in the room was different today, which made her extremely depressed.
"Brother, what's wrong today, why is the house so quiet? I'm still waiting for you to tell you the story of the mountains." It was Long Yun's sister Long Yao who spoke.
Usually when eating, Long Yun always likes to tell his sister some strange things he saw in the mountains.
But today, Long Yun didn't say anything, and as soon as he came back, he was silent.
"It's okay, let's eat. Didn't go to the mountains today. Long Yun said and took two mouthfuls of rice and swallowed it hard.
There was a "dead" silence in the room.
What finally broke the silence was the crisp sound of "clang-".
It was the porcelain bowl that fell from Long Yun's hand.
Looking at the broken porcelain bowl on the ground, Long Yun's grandmother was about to get angry, she looked at Long Yun sharply, but at this moment, she suddenly turned her anger to sadness.
Because from Long Yun's eyes, she saw two lines of tears.
Long Yun looked at the angry and sad grandmother, wiped the tears that slipped out of his eyes, and said in an extremely low voice:
"Grandma, this year is already the fifth...... I've heard...... Hear about the next ...... Is it your turn? Do you know that?"
"Brother, what are you talking about, what's your turn?" interjected her sister Long Yao.
After a moment of silence, Long Yun's grandmother let out a long sigh and said:
"I was going to talk to you about these things later, but I'm afraid it will be too late if I talk about it later. ”
"Grandma, you mean ......" Long Yao seemed to realize something and exclaimed.
"Yes, I'm the oldest person in the whole village now, and next time it's my turn. ”
"Woo woo woo ......" Before grandma finished speaking, Long Yao burst into tears. While crying, he shouted: "I don't want it, I don't want grandma to leave us." ”
"Yao'er, stop crying, it's a matter of time. ”
Grandma comforted Long Yao's head while stroking her, but Long Yao's emotions couldn't calm down at all, and she cried even more.
"Alright, alright. Grandma began to raise her voice and said loudly: "Don't cry, grandma, I'm not dead yet, I'm afraid I won't be able to get through your crying tonight." ”
When Long Yao heard this, he slowly held back his crying, but the tears still couldn't help but drip down on the table.
"Grandma, can't we leave this village? I can't watch you......" Long Yun choked up when he said this, and couldn't say the rest of the words.
"Okay, don't say such things, we can live in peace until now, because we are protected by the village, so many old people in the village blocked us in front of us to send us to death to save us, and now it's my turn, it's fair. We can't be sorry for the village, let alone the ancestors who protected us before. Grandma closed her eyes slightly.
"But ......" Long Yun wanted to say something again, but was interrupted by his grandmother.
"Yun'er, I know what you think, but don't worry too much, it's a matter of time, maybe our ancestral tomb will be smoking, and it will bless me to live a little longer. ”
Grandma glanced at Long Yao's Long Yao, who was still dripping with tears, and couldn't help but sigh and said:
"Yun'er, your parents are gone, you have been very self-reliant since you were a child, and now that you have grown up, you can take care of yourself, I can rest assured, it's just your sister ......"
Speaking of this, her voice was also a little choked, and she insisted on continuing:
"It's just that your sister is different from ordinary people, she needs to be taken care of, when I'm gone, you have to take good care of your sister, don't let her starve, don't let people bully her. When she becomes an adult, you help her find someone who has a good heart and can take care of her to marry, although she is not your own sister, but you have to treat her like a sister, you know?"
Yun'er understood. I will definitely take good care of Long Yao. Long Yun looked at Long Yao, whose eyes were full of tears, and said categorically.
Hearing this, Long Yao couldn't help but cry loudly again. But he couldn't say a word.
This time, grandma didn't stop it, but waited for Long Yao's crying to be a little more controllable before saying to her:
"Yao'er, you have loved to cry since you were a child, and now you should be sensible, don't cry all the time in the future, what if your brother is annoyed by crying, and he is unwilling to take care of you?"
"No, my brother is the best for me, and my brother won't leave me alone. Long Yao wiped her tears and said.
"Well, brother won't care, if your eyes can't get better, brother will take care of you for the rest of your life......"
This night, at the end of the mountain, in the hut, the lights were not extinguished for a long time, and the young man in the house looked at the bright moon outside the window, his eyes were like torches.