Deciduous Town, Dongfang City.

Dongfang City is one of the three major families in Deciduous Town, the Fang City of the Lin family.

Early in the morning, the city was busy. Merchants from other towns wander around the market early in the morning, looking for goods they like.

Fang Market is operated by the Lin family, so every shop in Fang Market will be guarded by a disciple of the Lin family.

At this time, in the south end of Fang City, in a grocery store, a teenager was lying on the counter to catch up on sleep.

The young man's name is Lin Yan, fifteen years old, and he is a disciple of the Lin family.

The grocery store is located at the southern end of Fang City, and the goods sold are too messy, which makes this grocery store a little different from other stores in the whole Fang City.

It's a little deserted.

There were two guys in the store, chatting in a low voice, while leisurely picking up the goods that had been damaged, and looking up at the boy lying on the counter from time to time.

In fact, the boy lying on the counter was not asleep, he was pondering.

Ponder what happened three days ago......

Lin Yan was originally an ordinary office worker on a certain planet, but he got off work and picked up a string at a roadside stall, but he was sent to this world by a bolt of lightning.

That is, he crossed.

reborn in this world, a young man also named Lin Yan.

Fused with part of the memories of "Lin Yan" in this world, Lin Yan also has a general understanding of this world.

This is a transcendent world, where humans can awaken when they reach the age of sixteen, and after awakening, they can cultivate and become a monk.

In addition, there are many overlapping different dimensions in this world, which are called "abysses".

Each creature in the Abyss is different and powerful. However, they rarely invade the outside world, so much so that the monks from the outside world often enter the "abyss" to crusade and experience.

Deciduous Town is a small coastal town, and there is an "abyss" entrance to the reef group to the east of the town, where a group of creatures with dark green skin, scales on their backs, and two fins that have evolved into hands and feet, and are called "fishmen" by outside monks.

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"Hey, fill me with five catties of dried yellow croaker, I want the kind with more fat, the shop in front of me said you have here." ”

At this time, a middle-aged man with a fat figure came to the grocery store and shouted at the two guys who were picking up the goods.

When the guy who was picking up the goods saw that someone was coming to buy the goods, he immediately put down his things, stood up and greeted, "Okay! ”

The two guys quickly loaded five catties of dried yellow croaker, collected three taels of silver from the man who made the fortune, and the grocery store finally sold the first goods of the day.

The silver was handed over to Lin Yan, which also interrupted his thoughts.

Putting the silver two into the drawer in the counter, Lin Yan continued to hold his cheeks with his hands, his eyes blank in a daze.

After coming to this world for three days, he was also a little used to this kind of life. There is no "golden finger", there is no awesome "start", and there is no "background" against the sky.

He is an ordinary disciple of the Lin family, who can only sit in this grocery store every day, collect money, sleep a lot, direct his men to work, and be an ordinary leisurely little shopkeeper.

Typical mixed eating and waiting to die type.

"Alas!"

With a sigh, Lin Yan stood up and stretched his slightly numb arm, and his face couldn't help but feel a little sad.

Three days later, there is the family awakening ceremony, if he can't wake up, then he can really only be a "leisurely little shopkeeper" for the rest of his life.

Awakening is to connect the wisp of "true" qi in the body with the true qi between heaven and earth, so that the human body can feel the qi between heaven and earth and cultivate.

If there is no wisp of "true" qi in the human body, it means that it cannot be awakened!

Not being able to awaken means that you have no chance with the monk, and you can only be an ordinary person for the rest of your life.

Although the Lin family will not expel the disciples who cannot be awakened, they will also let them take care of the shops in the Fang City, giving them the dignity to be a disciple of the Lin family.

But who doesn't want to awaken, to become a monk, to go to heaven and earth, to become a human being?

Lin Yan also wanted to!

However, in the family internal test three years ago, his body was found to be thin of "true" qi in his body, and he may not be able to awaken.

Generally, if the "true" qi is detected in the family internal test, it is very good if one out of ten people can awaken during the awakening ceremony.

Many times, there will be no one.

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At noon, there are not many people in the city, and most shops start to close.

In the afternoon, the Fang Market will not be opened, and the disciples of the Lin family who take care of the shop will return to the family.

"Lin Yan, let's go!"

There was a shout at the door of the grocery store, Lin Yan came back from his stunned and answered: "It's here!"

Putting today's income into a black cloth bag and putting it in his arms, Lin Yan got up and locked the door of the store.

After instructing the two guys to arrive early tomorrow morning, Lin Yan followed the young man who had called him before and walked towards the outside of the market.

This young man's name is Lin Qing, and like Lin Yan, he is the "true" qi in his body during the family internal test.

"Lin Yan, how much did you earn today?" Lin Qing asked sideways.

Lin Yan patted the black cloth bag in his arms, and said helplessly: "It's not the business you introduced to me, it's three taels of silver in the morning." ”

The shop that Lin Qing is in charge of is in front of Lin Yan, it sells dried seafood, and the business is not bad every day, and occasionally introduces Lin Yan to business.

The rule in the family is that if the income of the shop's business exceeds ten taels a day, the disciples who take care of the shop can raise one tael of silver.

Lin Yan's grocery store rarely sells for ten taels of income, and in his memory, after taking care of this grocery store for two years, he has earned more than ten taels more than a dozen times.

Hearing that Lin Yan had sold the goods for three taels of silver, Lin Qing couldn't help but shake his head, took out the black cloth bag from his arms, and said, "Today's business in my store is not bad, you can take and pay the ten taels of silver! Send the dried yellow croaker in your store to my store tomorrow." ”

"What day is today?" Lin Yan couldn't help but ask.

Lin Qing helped him like this, and it was usually a day when the clan carried out routine inspections, and if he couldn't complete ten taels of income during the routine inspection, he would inevitably be punished.

took out the black cloth bag from his arms, Lin Yan was not polite to Lin Qing, and put the ten taels of silver into his black cloth bag.

He didn't want to be sentenced to a night of confinement without anything to eat.

Passing through the north and south streets of Fang City, the two merged into the flow of people, followed by a group of Lin family disciples, and hurried back to the Lin family's mansion.

The Lin family's mansion is located in the southeast of Fallen Leaf Town, covering an area of more than 100 acres, accommodating more than 2,000 children of the Lin family.

The Lin family's mansion is divided into an inner house and an outer house, and the inner house is for the core disciples of the family, the disciples with strong "true" qi in the body, and the children of the head of the family.

The outer house is for disciples like Lin Yan and Lin Qing, who have thin "true" qi in their bodies, and disciples of the side family to live.

The residences of the inner house are all exclusive and independent courtyards, and in Lin Yan's generation, some outstanding inner house disciples even have their own pavilions and pavilions, as well as subordinate maids.

The residence of the outer house is a bit similar to a courtyard house, and there are three or four families living in a large courtyard.

Lin Yan and Lin Qing's family both live in the West Courtyard, because their parents have made some contributions to the family business, and the two families jointly occupy a courtyard, Qingmei Garden.

went to the account room to pay today's income, and with the help of Lin Qing, Lin Yan not only escaped today's confinement punishment, but also received a commission of one or three dollars of broken silver.

Lin Qing handed over a lot of silver taels today, and after giving Lin Yan ten taels, he also paid forty-five taels.

Coming out of the account room, Lin Qing took out his money bag, put four halves of silver into it, and said happily: "It's finally done, Lin Yan, come with me to the family pill pavilion." ”

Looking at Lin Qing's happy appearance, Lin Yan was a little surprised, glanced at the money bag in Lin Qing's hand, and said casually: "You haven't given up yet?"

"Huh, give up? I didn't say anything about giving up in Lin Qing's concept. Lin Qing showed a smile, but his clenched fists couldn't help but tremble a little.

There are still three days left before the family awakening ceremony, and this is the tenth time he has gone to the family pill pavilion to buy the "Qi Condensing Pill".

The "Qi Condensing Pill" has the effect of condensing "true" qi, but it is so weak that even taking hundreds of pills cannot reach the level of those excellent disciples' "true" qi.

There used to be a precedent for a disciple whose "true" qi was thin and couldn't awaken after taking fifty "Qi Condensing Pills".

Moreover, the price of "Qi Condensing Pill" is very expensive, and one one costs twenty taels of silver.

Lin Yan also ate two, but in his opinion, this is burning money, and the income of the grocery store he takes care of is not high, so he didn't eat it again.

Lin Qing has never given up, and since the family internal test, he has also eaten nine "Qi Condensing Pills" in the past three years.

Following Lin Qing through a corridor and through the South Courtyard, the two of them came to the Family Pill Pavilion located in the East Courtyard.

There are a lot of people in the Pill Pavilion, in addition to Lin Yan and the others who are disciples of the outer house, there are also many disciples of the inner house.

The inner house disciples and the outer house disciples buy pills in different ways, the outer house disciples talk about buying pills, and the inner house disciples talk about bottle buying, this is the gap.

"Elder Yuntian, I want a 'Qi Condensing Pill'. Lin Qing walked to the counter and poured the silver from the money bag on the table.

The person who was in charge of the family pill pavilion was a family elder named Lin Yuntian. He glanced at the silver taels on the table, put them away casually, then turned around and took out a jade bottle on the medicine shelf and poured out one.

"I'll take the rest. ”

Suddenly, a voice sounded behind Lin Yan, and then a young man crossed Lin Yan, walked to the front of the counter and stood side by side with Lin Qing, and said, "Elder Yuntian, how many 'Qi Condensing Pills' are left in the Medicine Pavilion? ”

"Oh, it's Hong Yu! Wait a minute, let me check it......" Lin Yuntian turned around and checked the jade bottle on the medicine shelf, then turned around and said, "There are more than three hundred and twenty pills, do you want them all?"

"Well, give it all to me!" Lin Hongyu nodded and handed over a spar card.

"It's Lin Hongyu!"

"Why did he buy so many "Qi Condensing Pills"?"

"Who knows, I guess it's going to be used for!"

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Listening to the whispered discussions around him, Lin Yan also set his eyes on the tall young man.

This Lin Hongyu is the same age as him, fifteen years old, but the gap between the two can be described as a heaven and an earth.

In the family internal test three years ago, Lin Hongyu's "true" qi was the highest, while he Lin Yan was the thinnest "true" qi.

"Gone!"

Lin Qing, who had put away the pill, turned around and greeted Lin Yan, with a deep sense of frustration in his eyes.

The two walked towards the outside of the Pill Pavilion, but they didn't notice that Lin Hongyu behind them turned around and glanced at them, and his eyes were full of coldness.

Back at Qingmei Garden, Lin Yan walked towards his home.

Yesterday, Lin Yan's parents and Lin Qing's parents went to Yangzhou City to purchase goods, and they won't be able to come back until the afternoon of the day after tomorrow, and Lin Yan and Lin Qing are left in Qingmei Garden, as well as four subordinates.

After lunch, Lin Yan read books in his room for an afternoon, and he didn't eat dinner in a dizzy state, so he went to bed early.

Midnight.

When the entire Lin family's mansion was silent, several dark-green-skinned "fishmen" climbed over the courtyard wall of the Lin family's mansion and quietly entered the Lin family's inner house.

"Gollum!"

Sleeping until midnight, Lin Yan was woken up hungry.

Touching the kitchen in a daze, Lin Yan just opened the door and was stunned in an instant.

A sleek back, covered with fish scales that shimmer with a turquoise sheen, blocked the entire doorway!