The high mountains stretch endlessly, and most of the peaks are even reaching into the sky, and the smoke is shrouded all year round.

From afar, it looks like a fairyland, and the deep mountains of the small village are mostly towering trees that can only be hugged by two adult men, covering the clouds and the sun.

In addition to Wanjian Mountain, which is a bare stone mountain, the surrounding mountains are all shrubs, and there are countless strange animals, trees, flowers and plants.

There is a locust forest in the south of the village, and a group of teenagers and children are playing under the shade of the trees.

The oldest of the teenagers in this group was a teenager, and the youngest looked like they were five or six years old.

One of the children, a tall, thin boy in a gray cloth coat, pointed to a child squatting on the ground.

The young man said with a smile on his dark face: "Invincible! As a result, you've lost all the times you've wrestled with me, so tell me who you're invincible for?".

The child crouching on the ground did not answer, his chin in his hands and his chin puffed and frowned.

There were also a few places of dust on the immature little face, and there were many stains on the body, which the child didn't care about.

It's just that I'm not convinced, and the tall and thin teenager in this group of children is the oldest and the tallest.

The boy is sixteen years old this year, and he is only ten years old this year.

What is there to be proud of if you win, if you are like him, you can slap him with a slap and eat.

"Yo, it looks like you're still very unconvinced!, or if you get up, let's compare again?. ”

The boy said to the invincible.

When the young boy heard this, he stood up and shouted, "Yes, I am not convinced, you are so much older than me, and you are taller than me, and I will not feel ashamed if you win."

When the young man heard that he was invincible, he pondered in his heart, and he was indeed suspected of bullying the small.

But this group of children has always looked at themselves as the first to look at themselves, and in order to maintain the prestige they have established for a long time, they must not be subdued.

The young man's eyes turned to an idea, and then he said to Yu Wuving: "Since you are still not convinced, we will compare others, do you dare?"

There was some hesitation on the face of the invincible, and he wondered what the other party was doing, if he did something that was beneficial to him, wouldn't he lose very badly? .

Just when the invincible was hesitating, the swarthy boy sneered: "What, if you don't dare, quickly admit defeat, and then go home to eat!"

The teenagers around laughed when they heard it.

Xuan Wushu was not annoyed in the face of everyone's ridicule, his face showed perseverance, and he said softly: "Yes."

"Then let's compare our guts, this kind of competition can be judged regardless of age and stature. ”

The thin black boy said to the invincible.

"My father and I used to go to the mountains to chop wood and hunt, and there is a waterhole that is about ten miles away from here, and there is a bottomless waterhole, do you dare to go together?, as long as you jump in and get wet in the water, you win, and I swim back and forth in the waterhole even if I win, what do you think?".

Yu Wushu replied: "Well, you can."

A group of teenagers and a dozen people walked towards the deep mountains.

The swarthy boy led the group for an hour, and finally reached a turquoise pool.

Along the way, in order to take care of the younger people, I slowed down my pace, and I took a few breaks during the period, which delayed the time.

Because he followed his father into the mountains to chop wood and hunt many times, his leg strength was much worse than that of other teenagers.

This is a circular waterhole in an open area more than ten zhang long, and there are no trees and flowers around it.

A small stream five or six feet wide flowed down the mountain from west to east, and the water was crystal clear, about three feet deep, and flowed through the waterhole to the east.

"This is it".

The swarthy boy said to the invincible.

After the boy finished speaking, he took the lead in taking off his coat and walking towards the waterhole with only his underwear, and jumped into the waterhole with a "poof" under the gaze of many teenagers.

After a few breaths, the boy was already a third of the way out of the waterhole, poked his head out of the water, and smiled at the boys on the shore, as if swimming to the other side.

When he arrived at the other side, he waved to everyone, then took a deep breath and plunged into the water again, showing his head again to breathe and reaching the middle of the waterhole again.

The juvenile is very water-oriented, and is among the top children of the average age in the village.

After a few breaths, the young man landed on the shore, stretched out his hands and wiped a handful of water on his face, and said, "Invincible, it's your turn." ”

Yu Wuxuan took a few steps forward, and there was a bitterness in his heart, he didn't know anything about water. The only way to enter the water is to bathe in a wooden barrel at home, but that's not swimming!

Looking at the shallowest part of the waterhole in front of me, it is seven or eight feet deep, and I can't get through the water at all, so I should sink directly to the bottom if I go down!.

But it is impossible to admit defeat and surrender in front of you, and after thinking about it, you finally made up your mind.

Invincible strode towards the waterhole, but as soon as he reached the shore, he turned left and ran to the place where the stream entered, took off his coat and jumped into the stream without hesitation, soaking wet.

The invincible swarthy boy on the shore shouted, "What's the matter, Xiao Jiu, I won." ”

The swarthy young man named Xiao Jiu retorted: "You are not in the waterhole, how can you win." ”

"Why am I not in the pool, here is mixed with the water in the pool, I am in the pool, anyway I won. ”

Xiao Jiu slapped his head with his hand, blaming himself for not making it clear in advance, and was exploited by this kid.

Anyway, since he has fulfilled the conditions he said before, he doesn't care about anything else.

"Well, even if you win, what kind of hero are you so opportunistic. ”

Xiao Jiu asked.

"I'm so young, I'm not a hero, do you want to regret it?".

Yu Wushu questioned Xiao Jiu.

Xiao Jiu replied: "Fart, am I that kind of person!, if I say a word, the four horses can't catch up." ”

Yan Wuving, who has been reading poetry and books with his father for a long time, also rolled his eyes.

"That's a gentleman's words, and the horse is hard to chase. ”

In fact, this group of teenagers usually have a good relationship with playmates, everyone is led by Xiao Jiu, only this invincible man has never obeyed him.

So the two often compete, at noon, the sun is scorching, and everyone who is hot has long been sweating. Xiao Jiu beckoned everyone to jump into the creek to escape the heat.

After playing for a while, a child climbed ashore and said that he wanted to relieve himself, but Xiao Jiu stopped him and said that he wanted to play a game with everyone.

Everyone stood on the bank, and whoever could put the water on the other side of the creek would win, and the result would be a group of children on the bank and a group of people would be discharged.

No one could do it, and at this moment, a dark cloud suddenly overlooked everyone, and when they looked back, they saw a few young people fainting with a shout.

When he looked up, a head the size of a millstone looked down at him in mid-air, and when his eyes turned, there were human-like emotions contained in it, and the emotions expressed in his eyes at this time were anger and coldness.

This giant python more than ten feet long was able to come behind them silently.

The python's dark scales glowed brightly in the sun, and its huge mouth opened to reveal hundreds of teeth, each as sharp as the long knives of the village hunters.

Two horns several feet long had grown above its head, and its head shook to add to its majesty.

A group of teenagers who could still stand were also weak in their legs and feet, and they did not obey the call, and a few sat on the ground trembling, wanting to shout but could not shout.

Xiao Jiu gritted his teeth to give himself courage, but his legs trembled slightly and betrayed himself, hating his legs for not being angry, and he couldn't take a step.

Yu Wuvin also gritted his teeth and insisted, did not fall, closed his eyes and silently recited the poetry books he had read in his heart, not to look at the giant python.

This giant python, which is already half of the dragon genus, has been practicing here for nearly a thousand years, and this waterhole is its place of practice.

At night, the aura of a hundred miles will gather here, and practicing in the waterhole is even more effective with half the effort.

Therefore, since the black python has stepped into the realm of the dragon, it means that it has opened its spiritual wisdom, so its thinking is no different from that of ordinary people.

For thousands of years, it has practiced hard here, and it has not caused any killing, and it has been at peace with humans. There were woodcutters and hunters passing by who fetched water by the brook pool to wash their faces, and it did not care at all, and did not feel offended by it.

But today, when he came back from eating in the mountains, he happened to bump into a group of children urinating in the stream, and felt that his cultivation place was polluted with filth, and his anger rushed to his heart for a while.

The cultivation of the spirit genus is more bumpy, but fortunately, Shouyuan is several times more than humans.

As long as you calm down and practice penance, your realm will also be steadily improved.

Reciting the book of sages silently in his heart, the fear in his heart faded a little, and he opened his eyes and stared straight at the black python, at this time there was no fear in his eyes.

The black python was already extremely angry, and when he saw the young man's eyes, he felt that he was provoking himself, so he no longer hesitated to take a huge bite and bite it.

A long rainbow in the sky came south, as fast as lightning, and it had already swept over this place, but suddenly there was a sharp turn in the air, and it came straight to the waterhole in the sky.

And he heard like thunder in heaven.

"Evil animals, Hugh hurts. ”

Just when the giant mouth was already above everyone's heads, the teenagers were already like ashes, and they all closed their eyes and waited for death, when they suddenly felt light, surrounded by a spring breeze around themselves, and the majestic pressure of the giant python on everyone disappeared.

When he opened his eyes, a young Taoist priest wearing a blue Taoist robe appeared in front of him, with two sleeves rusted with cloud pattern cranes and the word 'Dao' on each side, he turned his back to a group of teenagers and did not look back, and then the words shouted by the Taoist before came in the sky.

The young Taoist wears a lotus crown on his head, an ordinary wooden hairpin passes through the hair and binds it, and the Taoist carries a long thing behind his back, which is shrouded in layers of immortal energy, and he can't see what he is carrying clearly, and he continues to separate wisps of fairy qi from above, like a real dragon constantly flying out from the right side of the Taoist, surrounding the young Taoist priest in a circle and flying back from the left side to the thing behind him, about nearly a hundred immortal dragons surround.

The black python had already been swept into the forest by the Taoist when he landed on the ground, and the dust was immediately flying, and the trees were broken countless times.

In the distance, the fierce temperament of the black python was stimulated, and it came quickly with a fishy wind, and the young Taoist priest raised his right hand and flicked his sleeve at will, and the giant python flew out upside down and fell into the mountains and forests.

This time, the Taoist priest said: "I read that your penance is not easy, don't ruin your thousand-year-old cultivation by mistake, it's better to go back to the mountain with me to guard the mountain gate for a thousand years, and then let you go."

The black python was not reckless this time, stopped a hundred steps away from the Taoist priest, and looked up and down like a human and slapped the Taoist priest with two slaps.

There was a trace of fear in the black python's heart, but it was not enough to make it retreat, thinking that the other party had just asked him to guard the mountain gate for a thousand years, and the killing machine in his heart was a little heavier, although he already had spiritual intelligence, his fierce nature still stood in the lead.

The killing intent in his heart has risen, he raised his head and hissed in the sky, and the dark clouds in the sky rolled in, mixed with lightning and thunder, and soon the dark clouds had reached their peak.

High in the sky, a bucket-thick purple thunderbolt blasted towards the young Taoist priest's head.

Where have a group of teenagers seen such a heavenly might, they were all dumbfounded, looked up and watched the thunder and lightning shoot down, and they forgot to be afraid for a while.

The young Taoist priest looked up at the lightning that was descending from the sky, his face did not change, and he sighed lightly in his heart.

Slowly opened his mouth and said to himself: "It seems that some people think that I, Lu Zeding, have spoken wildly. ”

As soon as the words fell, the thunder had already reached the top of his head, and the Taoist priest reached out with his left hand, grabbing the electric light that was only a few points away from his forehead.

In a few breaths, the electricity slowly dissipated in his left hand, which frightened the black python.

The black python twisted its body and wanted to leave, but found that there was a great force in the air to suppress it, imprisoning its huge body on the ground and unable to move the slightest.

The young Taoist priest named Lu Zeding looked up at the dark clouds in the sky that had not dissipated.

Spit out the word.

"Dragon. ”

Then, the hundred clouds of misty qi that separated behind him converged together, forming a majestic dragon with a length of one zhang, but its demeanor was the same as that of a real dragon.

Hovering in front of the Taoist priest for a week, he went straight into the sky, and when he reached a height of ten thousand feet, he opened his mouth and a dragon roar resounded through the sky, and the rolling clouds, mist and thunder were swallowed into his belly.

As time passed, the cloud dragon that kept sucking clouds and thunder had reached a hundred feet, and when the last cloud was swallowed into the mouth, there was not a single cloud in the vicinity.

Only then did the young Taoist priest blurt out a word.

"Fixed"

The hundred-zhang cloud dragon wrapped in electric rays rushed straight down from the sky against the black python, and after a deafening loud noise, the place where the black python was located was dusty, and a deep pit more than ten zhang wide appeared on the ground.

When the dust dissipated and there was no trace of the black python on the ground at a glance, a cloud and mist dragon mouth of about one zhang flew up from the bottom of the pit with a bowl mouth and a big golden bead at the mouth of the bowl, and flew up and down in the air before flying towards the Taoist priest.

The Taoist priest stretched out his right hand, and the cloud dragon opened his mouth and loosened the beads and fell into the Taoist priest's hand, and then the dragon body separated from the mist and flew towards the things behind the Taoist priest, and the cloud dragon disappeared in a moment.

The Taoist priest turned around, gently shook his left hand in his sleeve, and a few wisps of wind flew out of the big sleeve and flew towards a group of teenagers, and the breeze flew around the teenagers and drilled back into the sleeves of the Taoist priest.

The children who had passed out woke up one after another, and the others felt much more relaxed and could move their bodies.

Yu Wuyi relieved himself and took the first step and bowed deeply to the Taoist priest.

And said: "Thank you for saving your life, I can't repay it, if you use me in the future, I will do my best." ”

The Taoist priest nodded slightly.

The other teenagers also have a good sense of learning and invincible, and they generally thank them one by one.

The Taoist priest accepted it calmly.

looked at this group of children, and then looked at the gold bead in his hand, and thought in his heart, this bead is the place where the black python has practiced for thousands of years, and it is useless to keep it for himself.

Now that I have met them, this is also their fate, as for what will happen in the future, it is already destined in the dark.

The young Taoist priest's right hand was gently closed, and the bead, which was harder than an extraterrestrial meteorite, split into more than a dozen pieces.

Then he asked the group of teenagers to stretch out their hands, and he tossed them lightly, and each teenager had a golden fragment in his hand.

The Taoist priest said slowly: "This kind of opportunity is in front of you to cherish, this is the black python's thousand-year-old cultivation just now, after you go back, every day when the sun rises for a quarter of an hour, hold this thing with both hands, slowly breathe and breathe into the body, and you can completely refine it into the body within about ten days, if you embark on the path of cultivation in the future, this is the foundation of your stability, and if you don't practice, you can also increase your life span for decades." ”

When he saw that he should have understood his words, he stopped speaking and bowed his head in contemplation.

Before going down the mountain, the master once said, "This time you go south not only to find an opportunity to break the mirror, but also to see the unevenness of the road, then you will be determined."

What is right and wrong is what is determined, what is determined is the distinction between good and evil, and what is determined is the avenue of heaven and earth.

"Lu is the road, this can be the path of Taoism and cultivation, or it can be down-to-earth walking, Ze is the life of the world, must it be calm or decided?"

The young Taoist priest shook his head and stopped thinking.

Raising his head and stomping his feet gently, he rose to the sky and turned into a white rainbow and went south.