The sky was getting darker, and the setting sun had sunk behind the mountains, leaving a dim sky. After a few hours of walking, several families appeared not far away, and from a distance, there were faint candles reflected in several windows, and Li Chuxun couldn't help but speed up his pace.

"Is anyone home?" he shouted as he walked around the fence at the entrance of the village to the courtyard of a house made of stone.

After a long time, a white-haired old man walked towards the courtyard gate with a cane, looked at Li Chuxun carefully, and then opened the courtyard door. The courtyard was a stone house, and the fence of the yard was all covered with thorns, and the thorn fence was full of burnt charcoal, and under the eaves of the next roof, there were countless logs and dead wood branches.

"Uncle, I want to borrow a night, can it be convenient?" Li Chuxun's trembling voice was a little pleading, he was hungry and cold, he gradually lost the strength to support, and just wanted to reach out to hold the fence full of thorns, but he was immediately scratched by the sharp thorns.

The old man saw that it was a young man, and the sky was gradually darkening, so he must not be able to let him sleep overnight in this cold wind, so he beckoned him to enter the house. When he entered the house, Li Chuxun found that in addition to simple belongings, he couldn't find a single item in the modern home at all.

On the wall facing the doorway hung an air-dried deer head, under which was a huge animal bone bow, two large wooden chairs directly below, and a small round table in between. On the round table was a dilapidated wooden box, with some animal skins piled up in the corner of the wall on the left, and a stone pot on the right supported by several thick logs.

The water in the pot was boiling, and on the edge of the fire sat a little girl of fourteen or fifteen years of age, who was probably a regular firewood, and whose face was black and red, and who looked so weak in a coat large enough to fit two of hers. As for the cheeks, I can't see what they look like. When the old man walked into the house, the little girl jumped up and ran to Chu Liying's side with an excited face, but immediately the excited expression disappeared from her face, and then she muttered in disappointment, "It turned out that it wasn't Daddy." ”

"Uncle, this is your granddaughter, right?" Li Chuxun said with concern. The old man nodded, then took a dead wood branch and threw it into the fire.

"My father-in-law can't speak!" At this time, the little granddaughter replied, and at the same time gradually became a little defensive against Li Chuxun.

"Oh, I'm sorry, little sister, I want to spend the night with you and your father-in-law. As he spoke, Li Chuxun's face was filled with a smirk, which made the little girl not so cold.

"Of course you can, come with me!" The little girl jumped up and down and took Li Chuxun into the inner room, which was originally two large rooms, one was the old man's room, and the other had been divided into two, and entered the little girl's room inside, except for a stone bed, the room was full of wild flowers and weeds, and there were many animal skins piled up in the corner.

"My name is Xiao Yan, what's your name?" the little girl kept blinking.

"Your name is so nice! Hehe, my name is Li Chuxun!" Li Chuxun saw that his praise was exchanged for a burst of joy from the little girl.

"This is my room, and the room next to it is reserved for you. Your clothes are torn, why don't you wear my father's!" the little concubine greeted Li Chuxun sensibly, and at the same time handed Li Chuxun a new animal skin coat.

"We?" Li Chuxun was a little puzzled. Seeing the little concubine walk into the room next to him, he also followed into the room.

"Aren't you going to go up to the mountain to apprentice? My father-in-law told me that during this period of time, people will come to stay overnight, so I prepared this room temporarily. The little concubine suddenly became a little defensive again. If a strange teenager didn't live in the little girl's house for the sake of going up the mountain to apprentice, it would still be a little scary for her to think about it.

Seeing the little concubine's defensive appearance, Li Chuxun seemed to understand, it turned out that the little concubine was afraid that she was a bad person.

"Well, of course I'm going to go up the mountain to apprentice!" Then he touched the back of his head and suddenly remembered that the Taoist chief had said that he would go up the mountain to apprentice in seven days, and then said: "Hehe, I must have arrived earlier than the others, so you suspect that I am a bad person!"

"Hmph, the devil knows if you're telling the truth! But with my clever wisdom, I can tell from your eyes whether you're lying or not!" As she spoke, she folded her hands to her waist, and then stared at Li Chuxun with straight eyes. The little concubine looks a little eccentric, and her serious appearance is indeed very cute.

"Hmph, I'll believe you for the time being!" After hearing the sound of the old man outside banging on the wall with the beast bone, the little concubine came out of the room with Li Chu out of the room.

Dinner was some air-dried animal meat and animal milk, although the smell was strange and unpleasant, even if it was difficult to swallow, it was undoubtedly a rare enjoyment for Li Chuxun, who was hungry and cold. After Li Chuxun always couldn't stop questioning, he gradually became close to his little sister.

"You said that every three years, a large number of disciples will go up the mountain to apprentice, so why don't you go to apprentice?" Li Chuxun asked the little concubine while chewing on the beast meat that could not be bitten.

"I'm only thirteen years old, but even if I envy it, I won't go up the mountain!" said the little girl, pouting.

"Because I can't leave my father-in-law behind and let him live alone!" Without waiting for Li Chuxun to ask, the little concubine answered first.

"Uncle, it seems that the little concubine is indeed a good granddaughter who is filial!" Li Chuxun turned directly to her grandfather and said. It seems that Li Chuxun is also a little moved, he thinks in his heart that this little girl is so well-behaved and sensible at a young age, but he almost gave his life for a senior brother who has been secretly in love for three years, and he doesn't know how much sadness and pain his disappearance will leave to his parents. Thinking of this, Li Chuxun's face gradually showed a sad expression.

"Big brother, you came so early, it seems that there are still seven days before you officially accept the disciples. Three years ago, I remember that many people were late for several days, but they still refused to leave in our village!" Xiao Sum's words made Li Chuxun's face smile again.

What the little concubine said just now was "you", Li Chuxun suddenly thought that what the little concubine said was that you came really early, and this means that there are still people in this village.

"Hehe, yes, am I the first one to come to stay overnight this year?" Li Chuxun asked the little concubine, in fact, he wanted to get some clues from the little concubine's words. If what Shadow said was correct, then Chu Liying was most likely taken by the crane somewhere nearby, maybe somewhere else, or maybe it was in this stone village.

"You're the second, you've already got a big sister before you!" Sure enough, the little concubine's simple words directly left Li Chuxun with a glimmer of hope. Will the big sister in her mouth be Chu Liying, or is it just an empty joy for herself. As the saying goes, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. So Li Chuxun simply didn't think about anything, just like he thought in the taekwondo gym, if there is fate, God will naturally match him, so let everything go naturally.

Li Chuxun's mind has drifted to the city of modern life, when he was practicing the basic skills of taekwondo alone, it was Senior Brother Rufeng who taught him how to give full play to the joints and strength of the whole body, so that he had reached the realm of a black belt in taekwondo in just half a year, and then watched the senior brother and a girl he had a crush on hold hands and pass by him every day

The sky had completely turned into night, and Li Chuxun, who was wrapped in an animal skin coat, couldn't sleep while lying on the stone bed. In addition to the beast cries coming from outside from time to time, which made Li Chuxun uncomfortable, there was also this unknown world. He was always thinking in his heart what kind of world this was, and what he could do when he came to this world, a whole lot of questions and mysteries made him toss and turn, and he seemed so frightened and uneasy to think of everything he had learned from his little concubine before he went to sleep.

The little girl told him that they didn't live here, but she was still young at that time, and she should have lived in a place called Xiling on the other side of the mountain, and the village they lived in at that time was called Xiling Village, and when the little girl was just five years old, there were thousands of families living in Xiling Village, most of whom made a living by hunting. After a long time, the nearby wild beasts were hunted and endangered, so the village chief proposed to go to the wasteland on the other side of the mountain, so most of the fathers and grandparents of the village carried huge bows and stone axes and began a long and distant hunting journey. The rest of the village waited and waited until more than half a year had passed, and there was no news at all. One day, the little girl's father-in-law couldn't wait any longer, so he took the remaining grandparents and some brave fathers out to look for the village chief and the missing villagers, but this time there was no news for more than half a year.

Until one day, two old men with long beards in white robes carried her grandfather back, and her grandfather was already dying and had lost his tongue. Then a group of wild beasts rushed in and began to trample their village, and then the two bearded old men led all the remaining less than twenty people in their village to move here, and every once in a while would send some food from Heming Mountain to the villagers here. The two bearded old men lived in Heming Mountain on the top of the Entering Dao Peak, and it is said that they were the immortals of the Sanqing Palace, so the birds and beasts never invaded again, and her grandfather was also the only surviving grandparent in Shicun.

Later, these immortals would recruit a group of mortal disciples to join the Sanqing Palace every three years, and there were many believers from afar in this village to stay there, all in order to join the Sanqing Sect. Although the little concubine only said so much, it made Li Chuxun sincerely feel an unprecedented thought. Since you have crossed here, you are destined to survive here.

"Respect the Tao and noble virtues, the unity of heaven and man!" Li Chuxun suddenly thought of the last sentence left by the shadow. That's right! The shadow is to let him go up the mountain to apprentice and let him join the Sanqing faction! Li Chuxun clasped his hands tightly, and strengthened his will in his heart, and changed his cowardice, he must become a brave person, and he must succeed in apprenticeship!;