[Xiu Xian] The ninth generation

In the early morning, the first ray of sunlight shines into Chujia Village.

As if awakened by the sunshine, the silent village suddenly came alive: the sound of pots and pans came from the wooden house, followed by the shouts of women, and the children rushed out of the wooden door laughing and laughing. The men went out with their tools on their backs, and even the big yellow dog sleeping peacefully at the head of the village began to growl not to be outdone.

A fresh and fresh day belonging to the Chu family village has begun again.

A young man walked from one end of the path towards the end of the village, with a calm expression showing some determination, which contradicted his seemingly thin and young body.Looking again, the trace of determination lingering between the eyebrows and eyes has quietly disappeared, and the nine-point plainness has turned into a very ordinary one, as if the moment of determination just now was just an illusion.

"Brother Yan, you are..." From a distance, a girl with braids called him, with a hesitant tone, "Going to Daqingshan?"

The boy's name is Chu Yanzhi, and the girl's name is Chu Xiaowu.

Like any village named after a surname, most of the people in the Chu Family Village are named Chu.Because there is a teacher in the village who has been awarded a scholar but has been unable to pass the exam, almost every family who has a child will ask for a name, so the names of the children in Chujia Village are also very high-end and foreign. ——But not Chu Yanzhi.

Chu Yanzhi's parents moved to Chu's Village seven years ago. They brought Chu Yanzhi, who had just turned one year old, and claimed to have "lost money in business".

Yes, that means Chu Yanzhi is eight years old this year.He has a routine that everyone in the Chu family village knows—it started about four years ago, and he will go to Daqing Mountain to pick herbs on the tenth, twentieth, and thirtieth of every month, rain or shine.Today is the seventh day of March, and it is his turn to enter the mountain in three days according to the usual practice, but today Chu Yanzhi broke the four-year practice, so it is no wonder that Chu Xiaowu was surprised and hesitated.

Chu Yanzhi stopped and smiled at the girl: "Yes, we need to prepare for the assessment in three days."

"Brother Yan will definitely succeed." Suddenly, Chu Xiaowu waved his fist, his face full of longing, "I also want to work hard, and strive to enter the Purple Chenzong with Brother Yan!"

"Xiao Wu is very powerful." Hearing this, Chu Yanzhi showed a faint smile, "It will be even stronger in the future."

"Really?" The girl's face flushed with excitement.

Chu Yanzhi nodded: "Really."

As he spoke, he smiled again, turned around and walked in the direction of Daqingshan.

Three days later, it was the day when Zi Chenzong recruited disciples every ten years, and this time the recruiting place happened to be Chucheng.It is said to be a disciple, but it is actually limited to children aged 6-15, and requires a certain amount of force or cultivation base.According to the rule, each village has three quotas, and the three quotas in Chu Family Village are Chu Yanzhi, Chu Xiaowu, and the village head's son Chu Mengjiao.

Chu Yanzhi knew that during the selection assessment, Chu Xiaowu's talent of dual spiritual roots would be discovered, so he was immediately accepted as a disciple by Master Qingluan, and since then entered the eyes of the upper echelons of Zichen Sect and became the favored child of heaven.As for Chu Mengjiao, although his physique is a bit better than his own with the four spirit roots, he was not treated differently because of the endless emergence of three spirit root disciples in this generation. In the end, he was just mediocre. ——Of course, all memories stopped seven years later, that is, when he was 15 years old.

Because on his 15th birthday, he will die.

In the first life, he was an ignorant mortal with a weak constitution and died at the age of 15.

In the second life, he was startled by the memory of the first life, and watched his life experience with cold eyes. After a few years, he finally joined Zichenzong in Chucheng, but died at the age of 15 during the retreat of breaking through the foundation establishment.

In the third life, he reincarnated with the memory of the two lives again, and finally succeeded in breaking through the foundation building period, but died again at the age of 15.

……

In the eighth life that Chu Yanzhi remembered, "death on the fifteenth day" was like a nightmare, and the constant reincarnation was more like a huge curse, which haunted him from generation to generation and never changed.

Perhaps this ninth world will not change.

Chu Yanzhi pursed his lips tightly, looking at the continuous Cangshan Mountain and the sky in the east, a deep sorrow flashed in his eyes: How unfair fate is!

The Jingyuan Continent faces east all the way, and there is a thin layer of restraint at the end of the vast ocean.On the other side of the prohibition is the Tiansheng Continent, the real paradise for practitioners.Because of the restriction, Jingyuan Continent is far inferior to Tiansheng Continent in terms of resources and aura content.No, even the core figures of the non-two continents don't know that there is another continent besides the one they are on.

As for the reason?Without him, it can be known from the other name of Jingyuan Continent - the exiled continent.

This is a shocking secret that has been kept silent by the top officials of the two continents: Jingyuan Continent is a prison!A huge prison used to imprison those who were exiled from the Tiansheng Continent!

Who would have imagined that this vast world would be a prison?

Chu Yanzhi withdrew his gaze to the east, thinking of this could not help but bring out some sarcasm on the ground.The reason why he knows this secret stems from his status as the "son" of the head of the Chu family in the Tiansheng Continent... Oh no, it should be called "memory" more appropriately.

Tiansheng Chu family has a little-known curse——

If the head of the family gives birth to twins, one of them will surely lead the Chu family to its peak, and at the same time the family will produce a large number of geniuses.However, the heyday was like a flash in the pan. When the twins fell in love irresistibly, the geniuses of the family were infected with forbidden love like the plague, and the millennium depression came.

In order to curb this plague-like cycle, after thousands of years of tireless research, the Tiansheng Chu family finally developed a way to turn the "curse" into a "blessed opportunity" a hundred years ago: transplanting the weaker twins The talents and roots of one give to the stronger one.

If you meet the strong, you will be strong. In this way, the Chu family will be led to a more brilliant tomorrow, and the "curse" will break itself.The only sequelae is that the one with the transplanted bone root will suffer from illness and will not live to be 15 years old.

In this generation, the Tiansheng Chu family has twins again——Chu Yanzhi and Chu Zixuan.

Unfortunately, although Chu Yanzhi is an elder brother, his talent for spiritual roots is far inferior to that of his younger brother Chu Zixuan who is a Lei Linggen.The results speak for themselves.The transplant operation was very successful, and Chu Zixuan's thunder spirit root mutated into an innate thunder body, and soon gave birth to special talents such as "Zi Mei Tian Xin".

No one noticed that Chu Yanzhi on the other bed looked calmly and indifferently at the ecstatic Chu family, including his parents.

Finally, in the end his parents reacted.Because he couldn't bear to see his eldest son being cruelly hidden by the Chu family, he gave Chu Yanzhi (his name was named after the couple who later adopted him) to a trustworthy middle-aged couple.In order to repay the life-saving grace of the Chu family's parents in the early years, the couple voluntarily asked for orders to go to Jingyuan Continent.While letting his parents breathe a sigh of relief, they also felt a little lucky.

It would be fine if things were just like that. His body, hair, and skin were inherited from his parents. They took away his things and treated him as if he had nothing to do with Tiansheng Chu's family.Just pretend that there has never been a Tiansheng Chu Yanzhi, only Jingyuan Chu Yanzhi.

But the key is——

He, Chu Yanzhi, has no blood relationship with Chu Zixuan at all!

This is what Xinmi heard after the transplant.There was a lot of people outside, and he was the only one lying on the cold bed, but unexpectedly, a few maids who came to clean up the mess revealed this secret in the chat.In astonishment, just as he was about to listen carefully, the elders of the Chu family came in at the right time and took the maid down.After that, during the days when he was still in Tiansheng Chu's house, he never saw these maidservants again.After that, he was sent out of the mansion and came to Chu Family Village.

As for whether the Chu family village here has a dime relationship with the Tiansheng Chu family, Chu Yanzhi said that as far as he knows, even if there is, the Tiansheng Chu family definitely does not know.

The ninth generation was taken away from his own things, which caused his dual spiritual roots to fall all the way to the four spiritual roots. It was not because of his "innate sins". It is false to say that he does not hate or resent.But he said that he hated him so much that he vowed to kill Tiansheng's entire Chu family, even his nominal younger brother... Chu Yanzhi admitted that he couldn't do it, and he didn't have the strength.

In other words, Chu Yanzhi didn't want to admit at all that the short time IX spent in Tiansheng Chu's house had already made him feel something like family affection for the little Chu Zixuan who liked to smile at him. - how ridiculous!

Of course, if we talk about obsession, Chu Yanzhi is not without: I want to see what the world will be like 15 years later; I want to ask Tiansheng Chu's family, his "parents", why it is him , He has no blood relationship!

If one day, heaven sees that he has lost his obsession for him, and he does not seek longevity or immortality, but only wants to spread his wings and be happy!

Just walking like this and thinking, after walking along the winding mountain road for about half an hour, Chu Yanzhi finally arrived at his destination.

"It's here." Looking at the familiar mark, he squinted his eyes, and the vicissitudes of life on his tense face were swept away, revealing a smile that belonged to an eight-year-old child.

Chu Yanzhi squatted down and made several complicated handprints on the open space under the mark.Soon, a wave of light flashed, and with a cracking sound of "Bo", more than a dozen verdant stalk grasses came into view.Chu Yanzhi controlled the spiritual power to turn into a palm and picked the soul barrier grass, took out several jade boxes from his body, and carefully put the soul barrier grass into it.

After finishing all this, Chu Yanzhi wiped the fine beads of sweat oozing from his forehead, and let out a long breath.It can be seen that picking this soul barrier grass really took a lot of his spiritual energy.

"There are twelve plants in total, at least three plants a month, and they can only last for four months." Staring at the place where the soul barrier grass grew, Chu Yanzhi's joyful face gradually became dignified, "The soul barrier grass in this place After four years of using it, the barrier energy has been exhausted. After four months, if there is no second place where the soul barrier grass can grow..."

Chu Yanzhi's eighth life has a total of 120 years. Except for some fixed things-such as the opening of the secret realm, the arrival of people from the Tiansheng Continent, and the unstoppable death-the life is not in vain.The Soul Barrier Grass is the treasure of heaven and earth that he discovered in the sixth world.

It is said to be a treasure of heaven, material and earth, but it is actually a tasteless existence. In "A Slightly Glimpse of Wonder Medicine", its function is only "it is rumored to be able to eliminate a certain kind of induction, such as a blood contract".Because of the harsh growth environment (requiring the cultivation of Poor Barrier Qi), and with the loss of special contracts such as the Blood Pact (the Soul Barrier Grass seems to be believed to only have this effect), gradually no one is willing to make great efforts to find the Poor Barrier Grass .

As for how Chu Yanzhi found this spirit of impertinence near his home, it can be summed up in one word: shit luck.

Facts have proved that the Soul Barrier Grass is really useful, at least when facing the Tiansheng Chu family, and even Chu Zixuan later, there is no such tacit understanding and induction as in previous lives (God knows why he has a relationship with Chu Zixuan) Induction, is it because his bone root talent is in the opponent's body?).So in the next few lifetimes, finding the soul barrier grass became Chu Yanzhi's primary task after remembering the incident.

"If you really come to a place where mountains and rivers are exhausted, maybe you have to go there." Chu Yanzhi sighed, put the jade box close to his body, and prepared to go down the mountain.The moment he turned around, a mysterious brilliance suddenly flashed by the corner of his eyes, Chu Yanzhi paused for turning around, and carefully looked at the place where the brilliance came from just now, but there was no change.

Can't help but let out a "huh", Chu Yanzhi divided a trace of divine sense, and scanned the area carefully.This glance really had an effect—a cave appeared in the divine sense!

With the naked eye, the location of the cave is still an ordinary pine forest.Chu Yanzhi pondered for a moment, a flash of determination flashed across his face, and he immediately headed towards the cave.

The cave is an ordinary cave.The rocks, water droplets, damp moss, and even the smell of greenness seemed to be all the same.

Except for the huge hourglass in the middle of the cave.

Chu Yanzhi's sight was quickly attracted by the hourglass: the hourglass was placed on a square stone, covered with silver light, and wrapped around the hourglass.That's right, it is the "thread", those silver lights have turned into silver threads.What's even more strange is that Chu Yanzhi could clearly see through the silver light that the fine sand and stones in the hourglass were falling down pinch by pinch, shining like jade.

As if sensing Chu Yanzhi's sight, those silver threads suddenly stopped falling, and they were suspended in midair in such a strange way—no, it should be called "weird" now.Surprised, Chu Yanzhi was about to take a closer look, but unexpectedly, the silver thread and the hourglass itself rose straight up from the ground in a daze, shot towards him suddenly, and fell into his body instantly. ——With his cultivation at the peak of the fourth level of Qi refining, he didn't even have time to react!

"I..." Before he could utter a complete sentence, Chu Yanzhi passed out and fell unconscious.

Although it was embarrassing, he had to admit that he was knocked out by an hourglass.

Lee's Iron Shop

In the early morning, the carriage rumbled along the narrow path.

From Chujia Village to Chucheng, you have to cross a mountain range called "Huanchu".The Huanchu Mountain Range, as the name suggests, is a mountain range that surrounds the Chu Family Village.It doesn't matter that the mountain is steep, they are all practitioners, and even the livestock have become extraordinarily strong because of the nourishment of spiritual energy all the year round, no matter how steep it is, it is not difficult, and the fear of monsters hidden in the mountains is not difficult.

Humans can absorb the aura of heaven and earth to practice, and so can beasts.Monster beasts are beasts with cultivation bases.Just like cultivators are unwilling—or disdainful—to attack mortals, they often hide in the mountains. "Don't enter the Huanchu Mountain Range casually, even in the most marginal areas", this is what every child in Chujia Village has been warned since childhood.

Because of the barrier of the mountains around Chu, the villagers of Chujia Village seldom go to Chu City.Although there are cultivators in the village—in fact, it is more appropriate to call them cultivators, but due to the constraints of incomplete exercises and thin aura, there are only a few who are in the junior and middle stages of qi refining, and they are already old. Unable to break through the foundation period.In desperation, they can only semi-close the village and pin their hopes on the children, except for a monthly outing for buying and selling.

Fortunately, the trip this time was very lucky. Apart from encountering a few second- and third-level Qi refining monsters along the way, the group of people lived in peace.Seeing that the gate of Chu City was already far away, Chu Luo, who was in charge of the escort, quietly breathed a sigh of relief: "My ancestors bless you, there is nothing wrong with this escort."

For the Chu Family Village, the quota this time is extremely precious.Because the three children this time are the most promising children in the Chu family village to join the great sect in the past hundred years.Among them, the 6-year-old Chu Xiaowu and Chu Mengjiao have both developed a sense of qi, and Chu Yanzhi is even more amazing. At the age of 8, he already has the second-level cultivation of qi refining!

There is no doubt that Chu Yanzhi deliberately concealed his cultivation.As for the method, thanks to a small formula that I occasionally found in Fangshi when I was the sixth generation, I can subtly weaken my own cultivation and achieve the purpose of confusing the enemy.But this method has a weakness: once the cultivation level is higher than his own, the method will be destroyed without attack.For example, with his current cultivation level at the peak of Tier [-], barely reaching the middle stage of Qi refining, at best he can only guarantee that monks in the late stage of Qi refining cannot see through.

Although it is a bit tasteless, for Chu Yanzhi who wants to temporarily hide his cultivation, as long as he can not make people in Chujia Village suspicious (the most important thing is that he is too lazy to explain, will he say?), that is enough!

The carriage was gurgling, and the outline of the gate of Chu City could be seen indistinctly.Chu Yanzhi squinted his eyes, and looked straight ahead from a distance. With his current eyesight, he could clearly see the two big characters of "Chu City" hanging in the center of the city gate.Sweeping around with divine sense, the film of light covering the city is clearly visible, exactly the same as in memory.

After walking for a while, Chu Cheng appeared before everyone's eyes.After paying the low-grade spirit stone the size of a fingernail (the low-grade spirit stone can be divided by a special method, which is generally only used in cities with a large number of mortals) as the entry fee, Chu Yan and his group entered the city smoothly.

"Brother Yan, are you really not going with us?" Chu Xiaowu looked at Chu Yanzhi who jumped out of the carriage neatly, her face was full of worry, "It's been so many years, are your relatives still there?" ?”

Chu Yanzhi replied: "I was originally a distant relative who didn't move around very much. This time, I returned some things for my parents in the past. The left and right are also considered relatives. There is no reason for me to sleep on the street."

"Is that so..." Chu Xiaowu's face showed obvious disappointment.

Chu Mengjiao glanced at the two of them, finally fixed his eyes on the girl, and urged: "Xiao Wu, let's go, Uncle is urging us to go over."

Chu Xiaowu looked at Chu Luo, who was looking here frequently, and reluctantly said, "Okay then. Brother Yan, remember not to be late tomorrow."——One day later, the morning of Zi Chenzong held the assessment time.

"Understood, Xiao Wu, don't worry."

Chu Yanzhi smiled slightly, as if he didn't notice Chu Mengjiao's hostility.As soon as the words fell, the latter pulled the girl who was still nodding and walked towards the carriage.Shaking his head, Chu Yanzhi couldn't help laughing, but he didn't want to care about the young man's early thoughts.

Watching the carriage heading towards the Yuelai Inn, Chu Yanzhi looked away and looked at the grocery store four or five meters away from him.Without any hesitation, he went straight in the direction of the grocery store, turned left on his toes just as he was about to step into the store door, and turned into an extremely inconspicuous small alley.After that, he turned around several times and walked for about five or six minutes. Chu Yanzhi finally stopped in front of a small shop.

It is said to be a small storefront, but it is actually a dilapidated door with a mottled wooden board leaning against it, with the inscription "Li's Iron Shop".The storefront is very dilapidated, and can barely be covered by a few horizontal boards, hanging crookedly on half of the door.Standing at Chu Yanzhi's position, he could clearly see an old man—who looked like a shopkeeper—wearing oil-stained clothes, with his elbows resting on the table, dozing off every now and then.

...Exactly the same as the previous eighth world.

Chu Yanzhi pursed his lips, trying to show a smile, but his lips froze in the end.He stepped into the shop without hesitation, then took three steps to the right, and then three steps forward, just in front of the shopkeeper, who was still staring lazily into his eyes, and smiled slightly. ——Yes, you read that right, just staring [lazily].

"How much is a pepper?" Chu Yanzhi asked.

A code word, without a doubt.Here, "pepper" is obviously a kind of food, and "wen" is a unit of price measurement, but Chu Yanzhi said that he has lived in ignorance for nine generations, and has never heard of any place to eat "pepper" or buy things. Use "text".Moreover, in previous lifetimes, it's not that he hasn't investigated the origin of this mysterious shop, but with his peak cultivation in the late foundation establishment period, he hasn't found any clues.

There is only one reason: the background of this store is far beyond his imagination.

...Maybe from the Tiansheng Continent?

Thinking about it this way, Chu Yanzhi realized that the sloppy shopkeeper in front of him became more and more unpredictable.

"Ten pieces of pepper." The shopkeeper looked up at Chu Yanzhi, still in a lazy tone, "How many do you want?"

"Ten Wen?" Chu Yanzhi's face was calm, "Will you sell twenty Wen?"

The sloppy shopkeeper's eyes flashed a few times, and he quickly took them all away: "I haven't received such a young doll for a long time." Chu Yanzhi squinted his eyes to feel the sudden change in the other party's momentum, and understood that the stage of the mutual exchange of signals was over. Finish.

"Tell me, what do you want." The shopkeeper said as he moved away from the counter and showed him the items inside, "There are only things you can't think of, and there is nothing the old man can't sell."

Everything was staged in an orderly manner according to the script.

Chu Yanzhi didn't even look at the contents inside, and went straight in: "Thousand Illusion Masks."

"Thousand Illusion Mask?" The shopkeeper paused, and his eyes flashed again and again, "The baby is here prepared." Seeing that Chu Yanzhi was still indifferent to his age, he cleverly hid the trace in his eyes. Surprised, he turned around and took out a small wooden box from the drawer behind him, and put it on the table. "Since the old man has boasted so much, he dares to let go of his capital. But before the transaction, the old man has to ask: Is your capital enough, baby?"

Chu Yanzhi took out a piece of wood from his arms and handed it to the shopkeeper.

The latter took the wood, first knocked it casually a few times, then his expression changed, he put the wood to his ear and shook it while listening to the sound, then took out a black thin needle, and carefully poked it into the middle of the wood.After doing this for a while, he put down the wood.Looking at the milky white liquid stained on the fine needle, an uncontrollable solemnity flashed across the shopkeeper's face: "...Ju Mu Yu Ye?" In exchange for the boy's smile, he agreed.

Cut wood jade liquid, one of the strange medicines, ranked 2 in "Slightly Glimpse of Wonderful Medicines".This kind of liquid is hidden in the cut wood. After thousands of years of evolution, it has changed from clear water to milky white jade liquid. It tastes sweet and light. It is generally buried deep in the deep mountains and old forests with a history of thousands of years.The jade liquid after drilling the cut wood and taking it out must be stored in a special cold ice jade bottle, otherwise it will dissipate within half an hour.According to records, the jade liquid has miraculous effects in repairing and strengthening spiritual consciousness.

"Do you want to exchange this jade liquid for the Thousand Illusion Mask?"

Chu Yanzhi nodded again. "Well, the price of the wheel is almost the same." The shopkeeper looked at the piece of wood in his hand, gritted his teeth and handed the small box on his right hand to Chu Yanzhi, "I just made this deal!"

Under the ups and downs of his heart, the other party even changed his self-proclaimed "Old Man" into "I".

Everything is going according to the script...

Chu Yanzhi took the small box and checked it. It was indeed the familiar Thousand Illusion Mask from memory. Closing the box with a "snap", he immediately said "Farewell", Gu Jing Bubo's face did not show any fluctuation, and it became even more unfathomable in the shopkeeper's eyes.

"Wait, doll, take this."

A thin black card flew towards Chu Yanzhi's direction, and Chu Yanzhi reached out to catch it firmly.After examining it carefully for a while, the three words "VIP" stood out on the card like a burning flame. ——Even if the third generation got the same card, Chu Yanzhi still didn't understand what these words meant, he only knew that holding this card would have the right to be identified in all "Li's Iron Shops" in Jingyuan Continent and privileges.

Yes, "Li's Iron Shop" is chained across the continent, and he knows of three of them, located in Chu City, Zichen City, and Qing City.

Chu Yanzhi put away the card, turned around and strode out the door.

With the Thousand Imaginary Mask, he can change his appearance as he likes, and he can also make himself look less "Chu Yanzhi" on the basis of fine-tuning.In other words, wearing this mask will not make people who are familiar with Chu Yanzhi feel that he is not Chu Yanzhi's true self, nor will people who are familiar with Chu Zixuan immediately recognize that he is similar to his good brother. I feel that there are three-quarter images, which is not uncommon in the world of comprehension. ——It's strange to say that there is no blood relationship between him and Chu Zixuan, but he and Chu Zixuan are [-] to [-] percent similar, which is probably one of the reasons why he was able to hide the truth back then.

Of course, the most important thing is that this mask is a low-level rare treasure. Once it is sacrificed and worn, it is no different from a real person's skin. It has good air permeability and is not stiff at all.

These are the magical effects of the Thousand Imaginary Mask, and they are what Chu Yanzhi wanted to get even if he deceived Chu Xiaowu after he came to Chu City.

Just as he was thinking, Chu Yanzhi passed by a person who was coming towards him.

Chu Yanzhi stopped abruptly, frowning as he watched the man hurried into the "Li's Iron Shop": If he read correctly, the man seemed to be Luo Yuancheng, who was about to be of the same clan as him.

Why did Luo Yuancheng come to this "Li's Iron Shop"?

This scene that has never happened in the previous two lives... Is it good or bad?

Standing at the entrance of the alley, Chu Yanzhi's expression was extremely serious.