Mortal Cultivator

A year of catastrophe.

Ice and snow.

On the snow, a 10-year-old child, wrapped in tattered clothes, walked forward with difficulty.

Not far behind the child, two skinny middle-aged men followed slowly, as if chasing prey.

"Why is it so cold?"

The child exhaled a white mist, trying to make his frozen and cracked hands feel better, but his hands didn't warm up much, and his stomach brought bad news.

He was hungry.

He touched the last half of the hard biscuit and a dagger in his arms, and looked back furtively. Seeing that the two middle-aged men were still some distance away, Wang Lu walked carefully towards the bushes on the side of the road.

Pulling aside the bushes, the majestic roots of a dead tree appeared in front of him, which could obviously cover his young body, so Wang Lu felt relieved and went forward.

He hid his whole body behind the tree, and then shivered and took out a dry biscuit and ate it whole.

...

On the other side, the two men talked like evil spirits in the underworld.

"Brother Tiger, aren't you going to eat the two-legged sheep? I can't swallow the dry bark anymore. If we continue like this, we'll die!"

A sharp-nosed and monkey-faced man swallowed his saliva, his face was fierce, his eyes revealed his desire for meat, and he stared at the leaving child.

He was so hungry. He hadn't eaten meat for several months. The last time he ate meat was from an old man. Although it was dry, it also made him have endless aftertaste. Thinking of this in his heart, his eyes were fixed on the leaving child.

That kid must be more tender! More fragrant!

Brother Tiger glanced at the skinny man and was shaken. Originally, he wanted to sneak away for a few days when he met Wang Lu yesterday, but now...he also wanted to eat meat.

Greedy, greedy.

Brother Tiger glanced at the dead branches on the hill next to him.

Damn it, I can't bear it!

"Okay, you go and kill him and bring him here! I'll go collect firewood!"

After Brother Tiger finished speaking, he walked excitedly towards the hill next to him, and seemed to be full of strength in an instant.

Seeing Brother Tiger leave, the monkey-faced man began to walk towards the bushes with his head shaking, but his face was somewhat disdainful. He snorted and muttered: "I don't know what the hell you are pretending to be. You have to keep it. Now you want to eat it? Bah! You dog, if I have the chance, I will fucking knock you down too!"

"Hehehe... Little lamb, brother, I'm here..." The thin monkey seemed to have thought of something and couldn't control his smile.

He strode towards the big tree with a wicked smile on his face. Although there were trees blocking the view, the outside was wide, so he was not afraid that Wang Lu would run away.

...

Behind the big tree, Wang Lu ate while looking out and observing. Seeing two middle-aged men discussing something furtively, Wang Lu felt a little heavy in his heart.

A few days ago, he felt bad when he saw the two men for the first time and wanted to stay away, but the two men kept sticking to him like a dog-skin plaster, following him slowly. He wanted to sneak away but was afraid of being caught, so he could only waste time like this.

Finished eating dry biscuits.

Wang Lu carefully peeked behind the tree and saw the thin monkey staggering over.

Swallowing a mouthful of dry saliva, Wang Lu reached out and touched the dagger in his arms. This might be his only chance to escape.

Soon, the thin monkey came through the bushes to the tree where Wang Lu was, like a smiling tiger, and smiled maliciously: "Hehe... little brother, what are you doing? Are you hungry? Good brother, I have dry biscuits here!"

The thin monkey said with a smile, slowly approaching Wang Lu as if harmless, and the words he said were like coaxing a baby, but he swallowed a mouthful of saliva inadvertently, but he couldn't hide a trace of cruelty.

Wang Lu looked at the man who was coming, and his heart was heavy. The man's smile made people's backs cold no matter how they looked at it.

Coming to this world with immortals, he has seen several cases of cannibalism, but he used to hide well and was not discovered, but this time he was accidentally spotted and could not escape.

Somehow, it snowed all of a sudden, causing many mortals to starve to death. Those who survived also had a hard time surviving, and some extremely evil people even started eating rice and meat.

Seeing the skinny monkey coming towards him, Wang Lu pretended to be weak and looked at the skinny man pitifully. His frail appearance made the man even more greedy.

"Brother, I have a piece of beef jerky here. I can't chew it. Can you help me tear it?" Wang Lu pretended to be serious.

He said with a weak breath, and at the same time, his hand reached into his arms, as if there was really a piece of jerky in his arms.

He approached the skinny monkey with a pitiful look, but his eyes were carefully staring at the skinny monkey's heart.

"Beef jerky?!"

"Give it to me!"

The skinny monkey didn't hear anything, but heard the word jerky. His eyes glowed red, and he reached out without thinking.

He got closer and closer, and seemed to have forgotten what he was doing here. He just wanted to fill his stomach with jerky first. As for the lamb in front of him, he really didn't care.

"Here!"

Wang Lu suddenly jumped up, and what he took out from his arms was not dried meat at all, but a shiny dagger.

"Puchi..." The dagger pierced straight into the thin monkey's heart.

"You..."

"..."

Before the man could react, his eyes went black and he fell to the ground without breathing, without even finishing a sentence.

Blood gushed out.

He never thought why such a small kid was so cruel, and how did the small dagger penetrate his clothes...

Wang Lu pulled out the dagger, which was shining silver and not like an ordinary object. As soon as the dagger was pulled out, blood instantly spurted out of his face, and then it flowed out like a floodgate.

Looking at the scarlet blood, Wang Lu felt a little disgusted, but he still lay on his heart and drank a few mouthfuls fiercely.

"Pooh!"

Wang Lu spat viciously, but soon he felt nauseous.

"Ugh..."

He almost choked on the blood he just drank, but Wang Lu didn't care. He suppressed his nausea and lowered his head to drink a few more mouthfuls.

This disaster was unprecedented. Although he still had a bottom line in his heart and didn't want to eat people, he still had to drink a few mouthfuls of blood to warm his body. Otherwise, he didn't know how long he could last in this icy and snowy place.

The blood began to flow slowly, and Wang Lu smeared the remaining blood on his hands and face, as if this would bring him a little warmth. Even if it dried, it could serve as a layer of protection to resist the biting cold wind.

The warm blood stained his hands and face, which really warmed him up a lot. He looked behind the tree and didn't see the figure of another person, so he quickly ran in the opposite direction and ran all the way.

He kept running...

For a long time, I don't know how many quarters of an hour had passed. Wang Lu was really tired. He looked back and saw that no one was following him, so he stopped at a small hill with a wide view.

The surroundings were open and he could see far away at a glance. Only then did he feel at ease lying on the snow and panting.

"Huh... I finally ran away!"

Wang Luyang lay on the snow and exhaled a white mist, which drifted away like smoke. His chest rose and fell violently. The feeling of being stared at by two hungry wolves made him breathless. Fortunately, he escaped again. Thinking back on it, it was still a bit dreamy...

...

He had been in this world for more than a dozen days. He died in his previous life and accidentally traveled to the body of this little kid.

His original name was Wang Youcai, a landlord. He lived a very comfortable life. As a result, their county town was in a war. The whole family was killed, but Wang Youcai secretly survived in his small basement.

After escaping a disaster, he wanted to take the heirloom to join the immortal sect, but he died of exhaustion on the way and was possessed by Wang Lu.

The heirloom is a thing from an immortal family. The old Wang family has had this thing for three hundred years, but generation after generation, no one with spiritual roots has emerged, so they cannot understand its mystery.

The old Wang family also knows that treasures are valuable and should not be exposed, so they did not ask others for advice. They have been hiding it at home and secretly exploring it. However, they did not expect that this year, a year of great disaster, would suddenly encounter an accident!

As the old saying goes, there will be war in a year of great disaster.

But they did not expect that the war would happen in the old Wang family. As a landlord, the Wang family was the first to be robbed and killed.

...

Wang Lu, lying on the ground, recalled all this. He took out a black bead from his arms, and a hazy black light lingered around the bead.

This black bead is the treasure passed down from generation to generation in the old Wang family, but he did not know its name and did not study it to find out anything.

He also had a dagger and a book in his arms, but the book and dagger were not handed down from generation to generation, but treasures found by the head of the Wang family of this generation, which were a book on cultivating immortals and a magical instrument of the immortal family.

For this, dozens of servants of the Wang family died. The reason for wanting these things was that he of this generation had spiritual roots.

But the Wang family did not dare to join the immortal gate, but wanted to develop secretly in the secular world. There were some old servants from the immortal gate in the secular world. Although they were respectfully called immortal masters, these people were actually not much better than mortals except that they had fewer diseases and disasters.

Unfortunately, the Wang family calculated everything, killed an immortal master, and only got a broken magical instrument and a book, and a spiritual stone, but he could not completely step into the first level of Qi Refining. He also suffered a great disaster because of the lack of too many manpower, and finally failed.

Damn...

After looking around for a while, Wang Lu put away the black bead, picked up the dagger and wiped it gently on his clothes. He looked around and put away the dagger when he saw that there was no one around. His tense heartstrings also relaxed at this moment.

"Alas, this road is definitely not allowed." Wang Lu sighed and muttered to himself.

He didn't want to take the official road anymore. Although it was flat, the human-shaped beasts were more difficult to deal with than the beasts on the mountain road. If he had to fight with people again, he would rather die in the mouth of the beast.

Looking up at the Black Water Mountains in the distance, he decided to change direction. The original owner wanted to go to Huayun City, which was hundreds of miles away from here, but he didn't expect to die of exhaustion halfway. After Wang Lu possessed it, he felt that it was not far away and didn't think about changing direction.

But now it seems that it's not possible. After experiencing the scene just now, he still thinks that the beast is easier to deal with. At least no one has so many thoughts, and Huayun City may not be safe.

Having made up his mind, Wang Lu immediately changed direction, and his young body revealed a hint of calmness in his actions.

As he walked along, his body was still somewhat warm thanks to the blood he had drunk earlier. After climbing over one snowy mountain after another, his legs were already somewhat weak.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, the sky gradually darkened, but he was still some distance away from the Black Water Mountains.

"Alas."

Wang Lu sighed, finally understanding what it meant to run to the mountain and die. Seeing that it was getting dark, he dared not move forward and prepared to find a place to stay on the spot.

Wang Lu dragged his thin body around to look for it. The surroundings were all white, with dead trees and bushes everywhere.

Finally, he found a cave behind a bush.

After looking outside the cave for a while, it didn't seem to be man-made.

Wang Lu narrowed his eyes, cautiously took out the silver dagger, and held his breath deeply.

He tiptoed slowly into the cave, deliberately avoiding small stones with every step, and dared not make any sound.

"Hmm? Nothing."

Surprised, Wang Lu walked into the cave. The last bit of light coming in from the snow illuminated the cave. There were rubbles inside, but there was no beast as he had imagined, only a skeleton.

Looking around, he turned his gaze to the rubble and then rushed over. He planned to clear the rubble to the cave entrance before dark, so that he could make some noise when the wild animals came in and remind them.

He quickly picked up the rubble and moved it to the cave entrance. It took a long time to cover the cave entrance. After everything was done, he clapped his hands and went back to the leeward place to rest.

The little body curled up into a ball, feeling the only warmth in the cave, he shivered and fell into a daze.

The next day.

The little body curled up on the ground woke up shivering again. Wang Lu was still a little confused. He was exhausted yesterday, but he slept soundly.

It took him a long time to wake up. Seeing that he was not frozen to death, Wang Lu quickly got up and moved around, so as not to freeze and die in the cave.

The cave was covered with snow outside, and the sunlight was reflected into the cave by the snow, making it very bright inside.

"Huh?"

Wang Lu said in surprise.

I saw a section of bone exposed in the place that was covered by rubble yesterday. It was obvious that it was not discovered because it was too dark yesterday.