Chapter 1 Seems to be an old man

Heaven and earth are yellow, and the universe is desolate. Since Pangu opened the world, everything has been orderly and long, cold and summer, I don't know how many years have passed.

As the largest plain, Dongyuan is bordered by the sea in the east and Cangshan Mountain in the west, with a pleasant climate and abundant land. As the largest city in Dongyuan, Fulan is even more advantageous.

It is said that when the world was first divided, there were seven fairies who came to bathe here, so the lake water was contaminated with fairy energy, and it turned into colorful colors, and there are many kinds of shrimp, crabs and fish in the water, and the taste is delicious, and some older fish are said to be able to prolong the life of mortals. When the weather is fine, there will be a faint colorful water vapor above the colorful lake, which looks like clouds in the mountains from a distance, and looks like being in a fairyland.

At that time, the Chongshan Immortal lived in the Wusang Mountain on the north side of Fulan City, and he had reached the bottleneck for many years and could not break through, but he did not want to practice spells in Wusang Mountain for less than five years to reach the Immortal Realm, so he recruited disciples, opened a sect, cultivated dozens of genius talents, and successfully resisted when the Demon Realm expanded and crossed the Bianhe River in the Demon Realm, protecting the boundary, and making great achievements.

Zhong Lingyuxiu, for thousands of years, Fulan has evolved from a small village of dozens of people to a large city of tens of thousands of people, and the reputation of Tianzong has gradually developed into the first major sect in Dongyuan, and there are countless hot-blooded teenagers and warlock rangers who want to go to Wusang Mountain every year.

The walls of Wusang Mountain stand thousands of miles, high into the sky, and there are four small peaks around the main peak. Tianzong is built on the mountain, divided into four flat layers, and the platform at the foot of the mountain is the largest, called the platform, which is the place where the junior disciples practice. The middle is called Yuntai, which is used by senior disciples and people with status to practice and live, and those who can generally be called disciples of Tianzong must at least live in Yuntai. Further up is the rooftop, which is the residence of the sect master and the elders of the Heavenly Sect, which is already higher than the clouds, and there is no cloud ladder plank road connecting the middle cloud platform, if you are a shallow person, you can't come up at all. The top of the main peak is Sendai, where the founder of the Heavenly Sect, the Shigeman Immortals, and the previous Heavenly Sect Sect Masters are enshrined, but only when the change of the term is over, the elders, the old sect masters, the new sect masters, and a few star envoys come here to do the ceremony. The four small peaks are inhabited by four star envoys, and together with the main peaks, they form a balance with each other. Surrounded by colorful lakes in the south, Wusang Mountain is full of spiritual power, and the grass and trees are prosperous, which is really a holy place for practice.

Twenty years ago, Wusang Mountain experienced a catastrophe, Tianzong was divided into two factions, the old and the new, and the trouble was inextricable, and then the two elders passed away one after another, and Tianzong replaced the new sect master, coupled with the continuous instigation of the demon world, repeatedly committed, the vitality of Tianzong, which had always been smooth sailing, was greatly damaged, and after the reorganization of the new sect master, it was not as good as before. However, in recent years, the Demon Realm has not crossed the border river, and Tianzong has also recuperated and slowly recovered.

The lotus flowers are in full bloom on the shore of the colorful lake, the market is more lively than ever, and every house in Fulan City is lit up to welcome guests from all over the world, and it is the time of the annual Tianzong to accept the new.

The streets are bustling, the old Zhang Ye Coke who sells tea has blossomed, and the price of inns in Fulan City has quadrupled, and now it has reached the point where there is no place to live if you have money. But don't live in the hotel and sleep on the ground, anyway, it's the middle of summer, but this water can not be drunk, these days the stall is full of people, and two stoves are added to boil water to take care of it.

While pouring water, Old Master Zhang told everyone what he knew about Tianzong, which attracted a round of applause from time to time.

"Brother Shangguan, what he said is really amazing, and he is not afraid of being listened to by the people of the Demon Realm......

"What Demon Realm! If this had been twenty years ago, my old Zhang might have been afraid, but boy, you are now in Fulan! The Demon Realm was beaten back to his nest by Tianzong twenty years ago. At the foot of Wusang Mountain, what magic words are mentioned!"

"Yes, yes, yes. The fourteen-year-old boy hurriedly smiled.

Several men drinking tea around them laughed when they heard this, and sighed that this time is different from the past, and the demon world may have died after so many years of silence.

The young man beside the young man, known as Big Brother Shangguan, smiled contemptuously and drank tea by himself.

"Yo, look at it, that's a disciple of the Heavenly Sect, right?"

On the corner of the street came five or six men in white shirts and green belts, sword in hand, looking around as if looking for something. The man at the head was none other than Sima Kuntu, the eldest disciple of the Qinglong Department of Tianzong, a young and handsome man, with extremely light steps, and he knew that his cultivation was good at a glance. But apparently these people have been walking for a long time, and there are fine beads of sweat on their foreheads.

A disciple of the Heavenly Sect asked softly, "Senior brother, the sun is about to go down this mountain, are we still looking for it?"

"Forget it...... It's been two days, so let's go back. Maybe the White Tiger Envoy was right. Sima Kuntu sighed.

"This kid is really unbelievable, and now he doesn't even have ...... people."

"Jiang Lin!" Sima Kun said angrily.

The disciple who called Jiang Lin knew that he had said the wrong thing, so he hurriedly shut up. A group of mermaids walked towards Wusang Mountain.

"Brother Shangguan, I just heard them say what kind of child they were looking for?"

"Mo Chuan, this is Fulan, don't use spells indiscriminately. ”

"Yes-Shangguan Tianli adults, the little ones know......" The young man named Mo Chuan lazily hugged his fists, and suddenly pointed to the side: "Big brother, look!"

Shangguan Tianli looked at the place Mo Chuan pointed out and found that it was a small shop selling steamed buns.

"What kind of buns do you have no money to eat?" the guy at the bun shop was scolding a young girl menacingly.

The girl was dressed in purple and was very thin. Holding a meat bun that had already been bitten in his hand, it seemed that he couldn't put it back, and he couldn't eat it anymore, and he stood in front of the bun shop aggrievedly, his head hanging very low.

"Hey, boss, isn't it just a bun, and there is not much money, why bother to be embarrassed, I helped this girl out." Shangguan Tianli walked over with a smile and handed the owner of the bun shop two copper coins.

"Oh, ranger kind man!" the boss smiled, hurriedly took the coin, and then shouted to the woman with her head down, "Someone has helped you pay! Why are you still standing here? ”

The young woman in purple seemed to be extremely aggrieved, and suddenly threw the bun that had been bitten in her hand to the ground, and then without raising her head, she turned around and entered the clouds, turned into a purple light, and flew away.

A group of people watching the excitement at the bun shop were suddenly stunned by this scene.

Mo Chuan shouted excitedly: "Wow, big brother, is this the so-called imperial sword of the Heavenly Sect?"

"It's ...... No, it's not a sword light......" Shangguan Tianli looked at it thoughtfully.

The purple light went all the way west and landed in a small valley more than a hundred miles west of Fulan City. The young woman fell in the middle of the valley, and raised her head, revealing a very beautiful but slightly thin face, and her two big dark eyes looked around, and saw that there was a small hut in the valley, and could not help but testify that it seemed to her that the valley should be uninhabited. It's just that the broom in the courtyard is clearly printed, and it is obvious that there are often people. However, she was clearly not here to look for someone, so she avoided the hut and rummaged through the grassy places of the valley.

"What a light body!" suddenly appeared in the courtyard of the hut an old woman of more than 100 years old, with gray hair, dressed in coarse linen clothes, and holding a dragon's head cane in her hand. Although he looked old, his eyes were like torches, staring at the woman in purple tightly, "If you hadn't turned that stone, I would have almost heard that someone was coming." ”

The woman in purple turned her head when she heard the voice, and when she saw the old man, she was suddenly stunned, and thought for a moment: "Are you Mai's mother-in-law?"

Seeing that the woman in purple could call her name, Mai's mother-in-law looked at her carefully, but the more she looked closely, the more she felt as if she had seen her somewhere.

The woman in purple didn't explain too much, turned around, and groped in the valley again.

Who the hell is this person? Mai's mother-in-law thought about it in her heart but still couldn't guess it, thinking that this person might be a demon soul, after all, she hadn't heard her arrival with her hundred years of cultivation. Mai's mother-in-law's crutch lit up violently, and a huge air flow spread around, and in an instant, all the creatures in the valley were sensed by her, but only this woman, as if she was not here, could not touch her breath at all.

The woman in purple changed places casually, squatted down and muttered while pulling the grass: "There is no Valley of the Heavenly Eye, isn't there also a Valley of Relief of Worries......"

was swept by his own spiritual power, but he couldn't feel this woman, which shows that the other party's cultivation is even more above himself. But with this woman's cultivation, she must know what she did just now, but she didn't care about it, and was busy groping in the grass, ordinary demon heroes and monsters hate human beings to perceive their true bodies with their telekinesis, and they will definitely not give up if they know that their identity is suspected, Mai's mother-in-law can't help but be curious: "Girl, I use spiritual power to perceive you, aren't you angry? What are you looking for on this earth?"

"Hmm, you use your spiritual power to perceive me?" The young woman looked at Granny Mai in surprise, thinking that Granny Mai regarded her as a monster, and said busily, "I...... I am human. ”

Mai's mother-in-law looked at the slightly nervous expression of the woman in purple when she answered, and her heart was full of doubts. Ordinary little demons are very sensitive to being perceived, and she didn't hide her spiritual power at all just now, and swept her body with great disrespect, she didn't even notice it like an ordinary person, and with her hundred-year cultivation, she couldn't hear when the other party came to the door of the hut, and she couldn't perceive the other party, so this young woman's cultivation must be at least until the half-immortal realm, which is obviously a contradiction.

Mai's mother-in-law thought about it and pushed her crutches forward again, and a huge blue light slammed out, pointing directly at the woman in purple, and this time she used nearly half of her spiritual power to test.

The woman in purple looked up and suddenly saw a huge blue light coming straight towards her, panicked and at a loss, and instinctively moved forward with her hands.

Time seemed to stand still, and Mai's mother-in-law's spiritual power stopped in front of the purple-clothed woman's palm, but she couldn't move forward at all. The woman in purple was also surprised, and looked at the faint white light bursting out of her palm with a little doubt, the white light was a small ball, but it completely stopped the thunder of Mai's mother-in-law, and suddenly, the white light turned into a faint gold, still resisting the advance of the blue light.

At this time, Mai's mother-in-law felt a familiar spiritual power from the head of the staff to the tiger's mouth, this spiritual power, with her own spiritual power of the same origin, with the Heavenly Sect of the heart of the Dharma. Right now, this golden spiritual power was only gently blocking her, but it was not like the white light before, trying to pierce her spiritual power.

This feeling seems to have happened a long, long time ago, but from which old person? Mai's mother-in-law has lived in the Valley of Relief for nearly 20 years, and only a few people have met during this period, and this little girl is only twenty-eight years old, how can her spiritual power be so thick and familiar?

Mai's mother-in-law suddenly withdrew her hand: "Little girl, the spiritual power in your body ...... This is...... This is the Heavenly Sect's mental method?"

The woman in purple seemed to have something unspeakable, nodded, looked at the terrain of the valley and said, "Mother-in-law, time is pressing right now, I don't have much time to explain, I must find the Demon Crossing Grass as soon as possible." ”

"Are you looking for the Demon Grass?" Mai asked curiously.

"Yes, I have already searched through the Valley of the Heavenly Eye of Wusang Mountain before, but I have found nothing, and now I can only come to the Valley of Worries. ”

Mai's mother-in-law trembled when she heard this, the Tianyan Valley of Wusang Mountain is the holy land of Tianzong, and ordinary disciples can't easily enter it, this little girl actually said that she turned it over inside, and she also plucked every grass like just now? Mai's mother-in-law became more and more curious about the woman's identity and origin.

She is definitely not a disciple of Tianzong, the righteous disciples of Tianzong will be incorporated into the four major galaxies, and the dress code is white shirt and red, blue, black, and white four-color belts, if the junior disciples who have not entered the establishment, although they do not stipulate the dress code, but most of their cultivation is shallow, and they can't resist the staff they just now like she did. Besides, she hadn't heard from the Suzaku envoy that there had been such a number one person in the Heavenly Sect.

"The Demon Crossing Grass is the only antidote to Iron Quinoa, do you mean that someone has been poisoned by Iron Quinoa?" asked Mai Granny to suppress the doubts in her heart.

The woman in purple looked at Mai's mother-in-law earnestly, "Yes, mother-in-law, although I don't know why you live here, but if you know where there is a demon grass in this valley, please tell me, the person I want to save is very, very important to Tianzong!"

"It turned out that the people of Tianzong were poisoned, hmph, these children must have been in peace for too much, so they were arrogant and ran to the realm of people and demons to provoke right and wrong, and they were poisoned by the iron quinoa, and they suffered some hardships and lost some spiritual power, which is also right. Mai's mother-in-law snorted coldly, seemingly unmoved.

"But mother-in-law, that's a wooden dragon, the spiritual power of the two Heavenly Sect elders of Lingqiβ€”"

Granny Mai was shocked when she heard this, "What? is the young master?! He, how could he go to the river?"

The only son of the current sect master of the Heavenly Sect, Jie Zi Xiao, is not yet ten years old, and the sect master takes good care of him, and he rarely even goes to Wusang Mountain, let alone runs to the border river, the dividing line between the human world and the demon world.

"He didn't go to Bianhe, he was still in Dongyuan. The woman in purple said slowly, as if she was thinking about something.

"But in this world, only on both sides of the border river can there be iron quinoa, once the iron quinoa is picked, it will instantly wither and turn into green smoke when it leaves the border river...... "Mai's mother-in-law said.

Seeing that the woman in purple couldn't believe what she said, Mai's mother-in-law told her about the origin of iron quinoa.

The Bian River is a river without water, and it is full of the spirits of the dead from all walks of life who have refused to die since ancient times.

Legend has it that if the undead do not fulfill their wishes, they will not be willing to return to reincarnation, and they will stay in the place where they died and wait for their wishes to be fulfilled. But if the resentment is too heavy and becomes a powerful ghost, it will smear innocent creatures, and if it is touched by some capable warlock rangers, it will be forcibly sent to life, and those undead who are cursed and resentful and cannot die will be sealed in the border river forever by a big seal without phase seal. Therefore, the river is wailing and the mountains are ringing, and there is no water but the waves are raging, and it is a place that all living beings are afraid of. And the iron quinoa is the poisonous weed that grows on the shore of this undead, it is half a foot high, its plants are all black, the leaves are like fine willows, and there is only a small black flower at the top of a vermilion, which blooms every ten years, and it is full of evil spirits.

The branches and leaves of the iron quinoa mortals die at the touch of a button, and they are no different from the most poisonous in the ordinary world. And the poison of the flower, the most peculiar, it will not kill the poisoned person at once, but absorb his spiritual power and essence little by little, three days later, let the poisoned person cultivate like an immortal, will also become a wooden person without joy, anger, sorrow, and no perception, and finally gradually exhaust the body's energy and die. And because it is born of the resentment of the border river, the iron quinoa will be turned into ashes and disappear with the wind less than a hundred miles away from the border river.

"But I'm sure it's Iron Quinoa, I've seen it with my own eyes in Nishizawa, and I can't be wrong. The woman in purple swore and looked at Mai's mother-in-law, as if Tie Quinoa had once made an indelible impression on her.

Mai's mother-in-law looked at her extremely serious appearance, and she wavered slightly, maybe there was really some way to let Tie Quinoa survive elsewhere now. "This Demon Crossing Grass originally didn't come to the East, it was transplanted from Kungang by the immortals of the Heavenly Sect Chongshan when they traveled to the four directions, and they only got four trees at that time, and they were respectively focused on the two places with abundant spiritual power in the Valley of the Heavenly Eye and the Valley of Anxiety. However, the Valley of Relief and the Valley of the Heavenly Eye did not cross the Demon Grass twenty years ago. ”

"Girl, this iron quinoa is highly poisonous in the world, and anyone with a little knowledge may know it, but where the Demon Crossing Grass is planted and what it looks like, except for the sect master of the Heavenly Sect and the elders, others should not know, right? Are you the person sent by this little man from Jie Changji?"

"No, no, I'm not from the Heavenly Sect...... They haven't found Jie Zixiao yet, I, I also met him by chance, and saw him poisoned, so I came to find an antidote. As for the Demon Crossing Grass, I also heard the elders talk about planting here when I was very young, and I found it based on my impression...... "The woman in purple heard her call Chang Ji, the current sect master of the dignified Heavenly Sect, a child, and suspected that she was a person sent by the sect master, and she became nervous for a while.

Mai's mother-in-law looked at the woman in purple, thinking that she had given people a sincere and sincere look from the beginning to the present, and she could feel her unsophisticated expression. And the homologous spiritual power I felt when I fought with her gave people a clear and warm feeling, like a spring breeze, dΓ©jΓ  vu, and even his appearance was faintly like an old man, and he finally showed kindness.