The Ten Directions of Heaven and Earth

After about half a stick of incense, the three of them drove their swords to the outside of Ningcun. Night had fallen and the village was extremely quiet. The three of them put away their flying swords and fell to the ground. The young man in white said, "We won't go in."

After a while, the girl in the yellow shirt seemed to have come to her senses, and nodded, "Yes." Then she smiled at Yichen and said, "Little brother, go back, and remember not to run that way again."

"Well..." Yichen looked at the three of them and nodded, said thank you, and ran to the village.

Watching the boy's figure gradually disappearing into the night, the young man in white walked up to the girl in yellow and raised his eyebrows and asked, "Junior sister, I saw you were still absent-minded, what's the matter?"

The girl in the yellow shirt frowned slightly, looking at the young man's retreating back, as if she was contemplating something, and then said after a long time, "If I said that just for a moment, I felt a trace of immortal energy in his body, would you believe it?" "

"Trust, trust, whatever junior sister says is whatever it is."

The young man in purple walked up, shook his head and smiled, completely thinking that she was possessed. Although a cultivator can condense the immortal essence, it requires at least hundreds of years of Taoism. A teenager in a village can condense the immortal essence. Yuan, then what else does he need from the Xuan Qing Sect? Wouldn't it be ridiculous to say it out loud?

"I knew you wouldn't believe it, so let's go."

The girl said no more, twisted her fingers to form a seal, and immediately turned into a sword light and headed towards Xuanqing Mountain. She also couldn't figure out, could it be that during this period of time, she had become obsessed with cultivation and had hallucinations?

…

The small village was particularly quiet at night. Yichen came to a stream at the entrance of the village and saw the moonlight flickering in the water. He washed the mud off his face and went to the village.

When I came outside the yard, I saw the candles in the house flickering on and off, and a figure reflected on the paper window. Yichen tiptoed in and said, "Auntie."

The food on the table had been heated twice. Yichen walked over slowly. Seeing that his mother was cold and silent, he didn't dare to move his chopsticks. The room was silent.

Twelve years passed by in a blink of an eye. Back then, Wu Niang was in her prime, and now she had a few more white hairs on her temples. After a long time, she raised her head and moved her lips, "Fighting with someone again." .

Seeing that she finally spoke, Yichen smiled and sat down, scratched his head, picked up the chopsticks, and while picking food into his mouth, he said vaguely, "No, I accidentally fell into the ditch while chasing the wild boar. "

"Have a meal."

Wu Niang stopped talking and picked up the bowl and chopsticks. After a while, she put down the chopsticks in her hands and said, "Tomorrow I will go to the town to deliver some work. You get up early and deliver a piece of cloth to Uncle Shen in Nancun."

"oh."

Yichen muttered, but after a while he felt strange again and asked, "You're so good, but you're not doing anything, why are you sending me something all of a sudden?"

Wu Niang glanced at him and said, "Xiaojing and you are about the same age. I won't make any fuss about it. Will you two get married in three or two years?"

"Pfft!" Yichen almost spat out a mouthful of rice and said nonchalantly, "Mom, I'm still a child. Isn't it too early?"

Wu Niang glanced at him, "It's still early. How older are the two cows next door than you? They are all married now, how about you? You spend your days either running up and down the mountain or fighting with others. If this continues, which girl will be interested in you in the future? You?" At the end of the sentence, he sighed again, "I will use my savings over the years to settle in a house in the city so that you can marry someone happily."

Yichen looked at the flickering candlelight on the table and said nothing. The girl next door who was one year older than him and sometimes quite fierce appeared in his mind. For some reason, he got hit inexplicably. Shivering, he finally shook his head, "I won't go."

"Why don't you go!"

Wu Niang seemed angry and put her chopsticks heavily on the bowl with a clear "pop" sound. Yichen also tilted his head and said stubbornly, "If you don't go, I won't go. I won't get married."

"Then what do you want to do?" Wu Niang looked at him with raised eyebrows. After holding it in for a long time, Yichen finally managed to choke out four words: "I want to become an immortal!"

The room fell into silence for a while, and after a long time, an inaudible sigh sounded. The candlelight illuminated Wu Niang's white hair on the temples, as if there were more "You are so good, what kind of immortality are you cultivating?"

"Fight!" Yichen said excitedly, "When I learn the Xuanqing Sect's spells, I will beat Zhao Wangsun so hard that he will be unable to get up!"

"You..." Wu Niang gritted her teeth angrily and hit him on the forehead with the big end of her chopsticks. "Eat!"

"Ouch." Yichen rubbed his forehead, grinned, and then picked up the bowl to eat again. After the meal, he put the bowl and chopsticks on the table, "Mom, I'm going back to the house to sleep."

"kindness."

Wu Niang nodded slightly, looked at his back as he left the house, and sighed softly after a long time. Her mind recalled that night twelve years ago, when Lord Yaoguang sent him here, named him Yichen, and hoped that he would be there again. Live your life peacefully in this mortal world.

To this day, she has not mentioned Xiao Yichen's life experience to anyone, nor will she mention it to anyone. Twelve years have passed by in a blink of an eye, and Fairy Yaoguang may have forgotten it a long time ago, alas...

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This night, the clear moonlight shrouded the entire Ningcun, making it especially peaceful.

The young man was filled with sorrow, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep. Sometimes he thought of the eerie and terrifying back mountain, and sometimes he thought of how satisfying it would be to step on a flying sword and travel across the world. The thoughts in his heart became more and more intense. I don’t want to live an ordinary life in this world like this, and I don’t want my mother-in-law to have to work hard all her life and have to be oppressed by the Zhao family.

He got up and got out of bed and came to the window. It was midsummer, the moon was bright and bright, and the Big Dipper was hanging high in the sky. The young man rested his hands on his hands and sat by the window sill, looking at the seven most shining stars in the sky.

Those are the Big Dipper, Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianquan, Kaiyang, Yuheng, Tianji, and Yaoguang.

What a coincidence, there are seven highest peaks in Xuanqing Mountain. They are natural and created by heaven and earth. They are arranged in the direction of the Big Dipper. They are surrounded by immortal energy all year round. But how can mortals climb up the immortal mountains?

The young man sighed, and he didn't know why he sighed. Now he was no longer an ignorant child. Even from the neighbors in the village, he knew that he was not A Niang's biological child. But regarding his life experience, why A Niang never knew Not a word was mentioned.

One night passed, and the next day, Yichen woke up from another nightmare. His face was pale, he was sweating profusely, and even the sheets and quilts were soaked. But every time he woke up from the dream, he could not remember the man who had been haunting him for three years. What is the nightmare? I only vaguely remember that there was blood flowing in the dream, my eyes were red, and my hands were covered with blood...

"It's this dream again..."

Yichen rubbed his forehead, got out of bed, and looked out the window. He felt that the light was a bit dazzling, the shadows of the trees in the yard were slightly slanted, and the cicadas kept chirping. It was already past noon, so why did he fall asleep? I actually slept until three o'clock in the morning. No, why didn't my mother wake me up? Hasn't she come back yet?

When I went to the guest room outside, there were some white-faced steamed buns that were already cold on the table. Yichen didn't bother to take them to the kitchen to heat them up. He drank a few mouthfuls with water. Then he saw the cloth on the table and thought of Uncle Shen's house. "Miss", he won't go, but why hasn't Aniang come back at this time? She went to the town to deliver work, and she should have come back at this time.

At this moment, a childish girl's voice suddenly came from outside the yard, "Brother Yichen! Brother Yichen! Something happened!"

"Erya?"

Yichen got up and went outside the house, only to see a little girl in her teens with a ponytail running in panting, frowning and saying, "Erya, what happened?"

The girl choked with anger, swallowed hard, and then pointed in the direction of Guling Town, more than ten miles away, and said hurriedly, "Sister Wu Niang and Shen Jing are being bullied in the town!"

"What did you say!"

Yichen's face was slightly startled, and he thought to himself, no wonder Aniang hasn't come back after noon today, and asked, "Who is he?"

"It seems...it's from the Zhao family!"

"Zhao Wangsun...bastard!"

Yichen's face turned pale immediately. He looked around and saw a sharp hatchet under the corner. He picked it up and hid it in his trouser pocket, then ran out of the courtyard.

Later, when Erya saw him leaving with a knife, she was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she shouted in a panic, "Brother Yichen, wait... I, I haven't finished speaking yet! There are, there are so many of them..." But before he could say anything, Fall, the young man has run away without a trace.

Yichen ran quickly and soon arrived at the town. He saw that the entrance to the west town was crowded with people. Most of them were watching the excitement, but there was no one from the county government.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"

Yichen tried his best to squeeze into the crowd, only to see A Niang lying on the ground in the middle of the crowd. The clothes that were originally going to be sent to several tailor shops were scattered on the ground. These were all made by her working day and night for a month. One piece can be replaced. Dozens of copper coins were trampled on by those evil servants of the Zhao family.

Beside Wu Niang, there was a girl of thirteen or fourteen years old in green clothes supporting her. The girl's hair was like ink, her almond-shaped eyes were wide open, and she stared at Zhao Wangsun and a group of evil servants not far away. Wangsun! You really have no law!"

Zhao Wangsun smiled coldly, "Wang Fa? In this town with a radius of a hundred miles, I am Wang Fa!" After saying this, he squinted his eyes and looked at the girl, and said with a sinister smile, "Shen Jing, this is such a noisy matter. It’s better for you to be less careful, why not follow me and become a prosperous person in the future..."

The girl was Shen Jing, the daughter of Second Uncle Shen. Although she was only thirteen or fourteen years old, she was already tall and graceful. Seeing the evil young man from the Zhao family looking at her, she subconsciously tightened her clothes and took a sip on the ground. .

Zhao Wangsun smiled coldly and winked at a servant beside him. The servant immediately went over and pulled Shen Jing to the other side. Shen Jing was startled and shouted "Let me go!"

"Shen Jing..."

Yichen squeezed in and happened to see this scene. Zhao Wangsun's eyes sharpened and he saw him in the crowd. He laughed coldly, "Xiao Yichen, you are not dead."

It turned out that the more Wangsun Zhao thought about it after he returned home last night, the more uneasy he became. Even though a few dozen taels of silver could save a person's life from a lawsuit, if his father found out, he would inevitably be scolded. So during the day, he sent people to Ningcun secretly to inquire, and found that Xiao Yichen was not dead. After feeling safe, he became angry again and insisted on avenging yesterday's fall into the pit. In the past two days, Zhao Yuanwai happened to be in Qingzhou City. He became even more lawless.