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In the early morning, when thousands of mountains had just woken up, they faced the clouds, and in the azure sky, milky white muslin was drifting along the mountainside like a fairy dancing softly. A rugged stone staircase led upwards, and on both sides of the steps, pine and cypress stood upright, their branches covered the sky and blotted out the sun, forming a natural green path.

He could not help but feel happy in his heart as he looked inside the bamboo basket at the bulbous blue mushrooms. The taste of the mushrooms was very delicious, and was very popular in Luo City, but the blue mushrooms were only grown at the top of the green mountain and were not easy to pick, but in order to supplement the family, he had to go up a thousand flights of stone stairs every now and then. Today, he had gained a lot, so he had to hurry back home and let his father have some time to sell them for a good price.

"Help!" Suddenly, a shout came from a few steps below. An old man was lying on the ground, struggling from time to time.

This old man was wearing a broken straw hat, and his hair was already graying. His shoulders were covered with a gray and not yet yellow robe, and his entire back was shiny and black as if he had just smeared a layer of oil on it. His trousers were rolled up above his knees, and his furry calves were covered with countless veins.

"I'm so hungry!" This sentence seemed to have exhausted the old man's last bit of strength.

"Wait!" The morning sun quickly took out the cloth from his waist. Inside the cloth were the food his mother had prepared for him that morning ? two steamed buns. It's a manual job to pick the mushrooms, so you need to have food to replenish your physical strength.

"This is for you!" Before Chao Yang could finish his words, the old man had already grabbed the steamed buns and started to eat them sparsely, gulping down the food.

"Slow down!" It seemed that the old man had been hungry for a long time, and he thought to himself that he was going to starve. He had just descended the mountain now, and there were still many stone steps to walk on.

"Young man, do you have chicken legs?" The old man looked at him with longing eyes, which emitted a green light.

He had eaten his own breakfast, and now even his liver, 'chicken legs', had been eaten by him. He was about to refuse, but after looking at the old man's condition, he gave up, steeled his heart, and handed over the tightly wrapped chicken legs.

The old man started to eat without a care in the world. He wished that the whole world would know that he was eating chicken legs and that Chao Yang simply didn't look at him. His heart was dripping with blood, and he couldn't understand how this old man knew that he had chicken legs. Moreover, when a person was starving, all they thought about was the chicken leg. Just like their current state, Chao Yang speechlessly shook his head.

He had already observed this child for a long time. At first, he thought this child was a playboy, but he often found out that he came to the top of the mountain to gather blue mushrooms, and gradually found that his perseverance was amazing, even a grown man would find it difficult to climb the mountain, not to mention this seven or eight year old child. The most interesting thing was that once he got tired, he would take out some steamed buns and chicken legs and always eat first, then he would wrap them up as well.

The old man casually threw away the chicken bone and burped. He happily said, "I think this world is pretty good."

Chao Yang muttered to himself, expressing his disdain for the old man. Seeing that his face was slightly flushed, there shouldn't be any big problems.

"Old grandpa, don't come to this mountain anymore. It's dangerous, I'm about to go home!"

The old man rolled his eyes. "Don't worry, young man. I can see that you are full of talent and have extraordinary bones. How about ?" "Hey, don't go!"

Chao Yang ignored him and quickly descended a few stone steps. His mother often said that there were a lot of swindlers outside. She always liked to say that children were kidnapped by those words. "Do I look like a liar?" Looking at your current appearance, you really do look like one!

The old man's figure flashed as he leapt over the stone steps, blocking Chao Yang. "You saved me, I will definitely repay you!"

He did not know that the old man was blocking him, so he had to pass through his body first. The stone steps could only allow one person to pass through. The old man was not simple, but for a child like Chu Zhaoyang, he definitely could not consider him that deeply, so he thought about the chicken leg.

Chao Yang smiled and said, "There's no need. Old grandpa, I need to go home quickly!" The old man was so hungry that he fainted, what could he use to repay him?

The old man nodded in satisfaction. "Fine, tell me your name!"

"My name is Chao Yang, Morning Sun." He introduced himself very imposingly.

"Morning sun, morning sun, good name, good name!" The old man kept praising, suddenly he stretched out his shriveled hands and quickly formed hand seals, which were unimaginably complicated. Instantly, the space and time around the morning sun started to spin, twisting like a vortex, slowly forming into a black dot, and finally disappearing.

"Illusion Techniques, True Evil Dreams" When he opened his eyes, the morning sun seemed to be in a daze. The old man was nowhere to be seen, the green mountain was gone, and everything around him was pitch black.

"Where am I?!" He couldn't help but feel dejected. He had never experienced such an event in his life. Was he dreaming? He was forcefully pinching his own face.

"It hurts" didn't look like a dream. So where could this be? His heart was filled with questions, but unfortunately, he was unable to see everything clearly and could only grope his way forward.

Ah ?" "Ah ?

A strange scream could be heard. In such an environment and with such noise, Chao Yang could no longer be scared. He crossed his arms over his chest and squatted down to cry. Right now, what he wanted the most was to go home.

"Please, let this child go, mother!"

"Ah ?"

"Right now, you're in a completely different situation. You don't care about your wife anymore. You're a man, but this blade is for you!"

The morning sun heard a sound again and couldn't help but tremble. That man's voice just now seemed ? like ? No, I have to see. Only by overcoming fear can a person become strong. The extremes of things are always reversed. Infinite fear is bravery!

The morning sun was groping in the direction of the sound. Why was it so dark? He muttered in his heart.

"Brat, I've been waiting for you for a long time. "I'll give you light, don't regret it!"

Immediately, the entire space lit up. There were three people in front of Chao Yang. Looking at the scene closely, Chao Yang found it hard to believe. His pupils dilated several times.

"How did this happen?"

A black-robed man flashed his knife. "I've already said it. If you walk in the dark, the light will hurt your eyes. It's better not to have it!"

Unable to accept the outcome, Chao Yang's body went limp and he collapsed onto the ground. In front of him, a man and a woman were tied to a wooden cross. There were small knives stabbed into their bodies, and the red blood had soaked their clothes. Their heads were bowed, and their faces were filled with pain.

Before Chao Yang could react, the black-robed man stabbed the knife into his mother's left hand.

"Ah ?"

She had fainted because of the pain, but the pain was even worse now!

Chu Zhaoyang could no longer care about whether it was true or false. His heart was truly in pain as he rushed over.

"Too naive!" The black-robed man waved his hand and a curtain of light blocked Chao Yang's path. No matter how much Chao Yang struggled, he could not get through.

"Let go, my parents!"

"Bastard!"

The shouts of the rising sun roused his parents, who ignored their own pain and shouted, "Yang'er, run!"

"Too touching, such a filial son and such a pair of parents. However, you all are as weak as ants. Besides pretending to be pitiful, you all still pretend to be pitiful!" With that, the man in black put a knife in each of their bodies.

Ah ?" "Ah ?

Chao Yang was already on the verge of tears. He could no longer bear it any longer. He knelt on the ground and said to the black-robed man, "Please, I beg you, please let my parents go."

"Your eyes tell me that you want to kill me. That's good. With hatred, one will be infinitely strong. I'll give you a chance!"

The black-robed man threw a small knife in front of Chao Yang.

You will die, you are still young, and have no concept of death. I can tell you this, you will not be able to see your parents, the two of you are separated, and you will not be able to see your companions again. You will completely disappear from this world.

Chao Yang glared at the black-robed man and pulled out his blade from the ground.

"Yang'er, don't!"

"Let's go, mother is begging you!"

This world was indeed dark. Strong people were powerful, and weak people were even weaker. In the next world, he hoped that he worked hard. The morning sun struck his parents three times.

"Your child is unfilial and unable to accompany your parents. Go die today, and I have no regrets in this life. I hope that your parents will take good care of you!"

The man in black trembled, tears flowing from the corners of his eyes. He raised his blade and stabbed it into the pit of his stomach without hesitation.

"I hope senior will abide by your promise!"

"Don't!"

"Ah!"

After the nightmare ended, the old man carried the unconscious Chao Yang in his arms and flew down the mountain.

"For a child this young, he is too cruel. However, if he loses something, he will gain something. In the future, he will become more mature. Moreover, he will understand the appearance of this world. "I don't have much time left. If I don't find a child to inherit my will, I will live to the death. I'm sorry, master, he ?" The old man thought to the depths of his heart and couldn't help but cry.

"This child, Chao Yang, is naturally kind-hearted, tenacious, and so filial. With such excellent conditions, he should become our fourth generation disciple." With that, the old man bit his thumb and formed a seal with his hands, pointing to the ground as he shouted.

"Psychic Art ? Bai Ze!"

The lion head was like a sheep's head, its snow-white fur had a mysterious cyan pattern hidden within. The pair of huge horns on its head drew a perfect curve, and the two horns flashed with a faint electric light. A pair of intelligent eyes appeared; this was the divine beast of Mount Kunlun.

"Shangguan Po, you've decided!" Bai Ze spoke in human language. If the morning sun was awake, he would definitely be scared senseless again.

"I, Shangguan Po, have lived for more than a hundred and forty years and have dominated the five heavenly kingdoms. It's a pity that I don't have much time. Now that I've found a suitable successor, I'll bring the contract over!" Shangguan Po had never been so decisive.

Bai Ze extended his long tongue and extended it towards Shangguan Po, a bunch of giant scrolls coiled around the tip of his tongue. It was very mysterious.

Shangguan Po took out the scroll and unfolded it. There were several empty spaces in the middle, and the rest were all runes, the third square was Shangguan Po's name, the third square was Shangguan Po's name, the old man cut open Chao Yang's thumb and wrote it on the fourth square with his blood, "Chao Yang", then he closed the scroll and Bai Ze rolled it up again with his tongue and spat it into his mouth.

"If your disciple is trash, signing a contract is useless."

"I know, go!" After speaking, Bai Ze disappeared. Shangguan Po caressed Chao Yang's head, his eyes filled with love and love.

"Disciple, that was just a dream, and it's not a dream either. If you weren't strong enough, anyone could have done the same thing. This cultivation world is cruel, and I can't help you. It's all up to you. "

"As the saying goes, if I don't enter hell then who will. I will execute the seven meridians sealing technique for you, preparing the way for you to break through the spirit gate. If you can't, then that is heaven's will."

The old man gathered the power of the four elephants at his fingertips, and instantly, the divine light radiated outwards. Then, he aimed at Chao Yang's body and began to seal it.

"Stone Door Seal from the Ren Meridian!"

"The Gate of Destiny in the Governor's Meridian!"

"Hand Shaoyang Trifocal Scripture Middle Ear Seal!"

"Foot Shaoyang's kidney is sealed with pylorus!"

"Foot Yang Brilliant Stomach will be sealed!"

Shangguan Po had consumed too much of the power of the four elephants, so his body couldn't help but start to tremble. I have always been afraid of anyone. For the sake of my sect's only disciple, so what if my old life wasn't taken? "

"Hand Taiyin's Lung meridian is sealed by the Cloud Gate!"

"The last one, seal it for me with the Lunar Spleen Scripture!"

Shangguan Chen collapsed to the ground after collapsing. The seven gates of the Rising Sun were already sealed and the seven gates of the Heaven Meridian Meridian Sealed Meridians were considered complete. There were not many people in the Heavenly Continent who could do this.

"Alright!" Maybe I have already become a pile of bones, and I no longer have any regrets in this life. Threads after threads of thought, candles, shadows, and relatives appeared, and I willingly slept together with them for a hundred thousand years. Now, I can understand the meaning of the poem that Master once told me. "

Old Man Shangguan sorrowfully disappeared into the air. The morning sun showed signs of awakening. What awaited him was an even more cruel world of Heavenly Cultivators.