Zhao State.
A mountain village in the south.
The summer rain has been falling for half a month, and the mist filled the entire village.
A winding village path has been flooded. At the end of the path is a brightly lit brick courtyard.
If you look carefully, you can see that they are two courtyards, but there is no wall in the middle.
In the west wing of the courtyard, a young man was sitting cross-legged, breathing rhythmically.
The young man is about twenty years old, with his long hair tied up in a green scarf, wearing a long gray coarse cloth, with a delicate face and a slightly handsome appearance. He wore a thin hemp rope around his neck, and a white jade bead the size of a thumb was tied to the hemp rope.
The young man's name is Chen Ke. Today is his twentieth birthday, and it is also the day when he was pronounced dead by the city doctor.
Beside the young man stood a man and a woman, both middle-aged people in their thirties. The man was wearing blue clothes, had an ordinary face, and looked relatively honest. The woman is beautiful in appearance and graceful in temperament.
They looked at the young man nervously, waiting for the young man to finish breathing.
After a while, the young man exhaled heavily and looked at the middle-aged man. A look of surprise appeared on his childish face: "Uncle Wang, the pain in my chest has really reduced a lot."
When the middle-aged woman heard this, she also had a look of surprise on her face. She immediately sat next to Chen Ke and placed her fingertips on Chen Ke's pulse. After feeling it, the joy in her eyes could not be hidden, "Brother Wang, Ke'er's pulse is back to normal!"
The middle-aged woman named Chen Jinglan is Chen Ke's aunt. Chen Ke has lived with Chen Jinglan since he was a child and was raised by Chen Jinglan.
A middle-aged man named Wang Bokun is a neighbor of Chen Ke and his family and an admirer of Chen Jinglan. Chen Jinglan never married, so Wang Bokun stayed by Chen Jinglan's side.
Wang Bokun looked at Chen Ke who was smiling and said, "You must remember this breathing method carefully, and you must not take off the beads on your neck."
"Uncle Wang, don't worry, I will always keep it in mind." Chen Ke said.
At the beginning, his aunt Chen Jinglan took him to visit all the doctors in the city, but they all said that he would not live to be twenty years old. Especially in the past few days, Chen Ke's pulse could no longer be diagnosed, which shocked Chen Jinglan.
Chen Jinglan smiled and said: "You should be familiar with this breathing method. I have something to discuss with your Uncle Wang."
The two walked out of Chen Ke's room. Chen Ke touched his body and the pain in his chest subsided. He hadn't breathed normally for three years. Normal people could do it by breathing so freely. However, he could only take a small breath with great difficulty.
Once he breathed like a normal person, Chen Ke would feel tightness and pain in his chest, and blood would even overflow from his skin. No doctor can cure this strange disease. Many old doctors just felt Chen Ke's pulse and determined Chen Ke's fate.
Don’t live to be twenty!
"When the rain stops, I will ask Doctor Guan in the city to see that I am still alive!" Chen Ke had a smile on his face.
He could not live to be twenty years old, and it has always been like a mountain weighing on Chen Ke. From the initial depression, to the later appointment, and now to the new life, every step of Chen Ke's life has been very difficult.
Although Chen Ke has difficulty breathing and suffers from this strange disease, his body is getting healthier, his strength is surprisingly strong, and his appetite can be three times that of a normal person.
"This breathing method is really strange. I feel like my body has become warm." Chen Ke felt the changes in his body and became more curious about the method taught by Wang Bokun.
Chen Ke once again followed the breathing method taught by Wang Bokun and began to inhale. His breath sank into his chest and he swam around the canopy...
In the main hall.
Chen Jinglan looked worried: "We passed this method on to Ke'er. If the sect knew about it, Ke'er would still be in danger."
Wang Bokun said: "Xiao Ke's spiritual veins are blocked. The Shangzong will not notice that he is an ordinary person. As long as he hides in the mountain village and becomes an ordinary person, he can live a peaceful life without any danger. Furthermore, This is just the most common method of refining qi for the sect, and it is really not worth the sect to go to war to kill a mountain boy."
Chen Jinglan's heart calmed down a little, and she said: "Even though I said this, I still have to tell him a few words to prevent him from showing off."
Wang Bokun said: "You don't have to worry about this. After years of training, Xiao Ke has already become a reckless child. He will understand what can be done and what cannot be said."
"This child has been in trouble since childhood, but now he can finally be an ordinary person." Chen Jinglan smiled, feeling helpless at Chen Ke's unfortunate fate.
Wang Bokun said: "He is also very lucky. He can pick up a spiritual weapon while grazing cattle in the mountains. I heard that there is no such spiritual weapon in the sect. Thank you for your hard work over the years. From the sect After you left, you took care of him and raised him."
Hearing this, Chen Jinglan looked at Wang Bokun, with guilt on his handsome face, and said: "I have worked hard on you for so many years, and I am the one who has burdened you. With Xiao Ke, I have burdened you. If you don't follow If I leave the sect, maybe..."
Wang Bokun waved his hands and said with a smile: "Back then, you and I were just handyman disciples doing hard work. Even if I could stay in the sect and have ordinary spiritual veins, I would still be just a high-level handyman disciple. Compared with you, What does this mean?"
Chen Jinglan said guiltily: "When Xiao Ke gets better again, I will arrange a good marriage for Xiao Ke, and we...let's be a real couple from now on."
Wang Bokun's eyes showed surprise, and his hands trembled slightly: "Okay, okay!"
Suddenly, a loud shout came from the sound of rain, followed by the sound of gongs.
"You're in trouble, run away!"
Chen Jinglan and Wang Bokun immediately walked out of the room, and Chen Ke also came out of the room. How could there be a fire under the heavy rain?
But when he saw the soaring fire outside, burning in the heavy rain, at this moment, Chen Ke felt like he was seeing a monster.
"A fire that rain can't put out?"
Chen Ke murmured to himself.
"Xiao Ke, stay in the house, I'll go out and take a look." Wang Bokun picked up the raincoat hanging at the door, put it on and walked out of the yard.
Chen Ke walked up to Chen Jinglan and looked at the fire soaring into the sky outside. He said, "Aunt, was this fire set by a monster? Why can't the rain put it out?"
Chen Jinglan had a worried look on his face, but he still comforted Chen Ke and said, "There is a kind of fire oil in Western countries that cannot be extinguished by water. It may be that this kind of fire oil is burning."
What Chen Jinglan said was a bit far-fetched. The Western countries were thousands of miles away, so how could they transport kerosene to this small mountain village?
Although Chen Ke rarely leaves the village, he has also studied with the old gentleman and knows something about the outside world.
The rain was getting heavier, but the fire outside was getting brighter and brighter, and it was about to burn Chen Ke's house.
Chen Jinglan felt a little uneasy when she saw that Wang Bokun hadn't come back for a long time. She turned back to the room, took out a yellow paper charm and put it in Chen Ke's hand.
"If an accident happens later, take the talisman and put two drops of blood on it. Don't worry about anything and just run down the mountain." Chen Jinglan told Chen Ke.
Chen Ke shook his head and said, "No, I'm fine. I want to protect my aunt, how can I escape!"
"You kid..." Chen Jinglan was suddenly moved and angry. Chen Ke had really grown up and knew how to care about her safety.
"Bang."
The wooden door was smashed open, and Wang Bokun flew in upside down. There was a short arrow stuck in his chest, and only the arrow feathers remained outside.
"It's the Spirit-Breaking Arrow, hurry up!"
Wang Bokun struggled to get up, ignoring the short arrow in his chest, clenching his fists and rushing out the door.
Chen Jinglan's expression changed drastically, and he quickly pulled Chen Ke towards the main hall. Through the side door of the main hall, there was a road up the mountain.
"Hurry up and escape to the mountains. It's not easy for them to find you in the mountains!"
Chen Jinglan picked up the package that had been prepared, handed it to Chen Ke, and turned around to go back.
Chen Ke grabbed Chen Jinglan and said, "Aunt, I won't leave!"
Chen Jinglan touched Chen Ke's face with his palm and said softly: "Be obedient. If you have a chance in the future, help your aunt to avenge you!"
With tears in Chen Ke's eyes, he resisted the soreness on the tip of his nose and said, "Aunt, we..."
Chen Jinglan shook his head slightly: "Your Uncle Wang has paid so much for us, I can't let him face danger alone. Be obedient and let's go."
Chen Ke clenched his fists, put on his raincoat and ran up the mountain. Mud and water poured into his cloth shoes. He didn't care and walked forward without caring about anything.
After walking for a while, Chen Ke looked troubled. He looked back, took two steps, and turned back.
"Pfft!"
Chen Ke pushed open the back door and saw a dozen men in black shooting random arrows at Wang Bokun and Chen Jinglan.
Chen Jinglan and Chen Jinglan were hit by multiple swords and fell to the ground, with blood spilling from the corners of their mouths.
"I want your lives!"
Chen Ke grabbed the sickle on the side and threw it at a man in black. The man in black was unprepared and the sickle was inserted into his shoulder.
"There's another one here!" Two men in black came over immediately.
When Chen Jinglan saw Chen Ke coming back, a look of surprise appeared on his face and he gritted his teeth.
"Ke'er, quickly...escape."
"call out!"
A short arrow was shot. Chen Ke turned sideways slightly. The short arrow passed through his clothes and missed him.
"This kid is not a cultivator, and the Spirit-Breaking Arrow is useless to him!" said the man in black who fired the arrow.
"Deal with him!"
Another man in black ordered the men around him.
Chen Jinglan took out a blue bottle from her arms. She turned around and said to Chen Ke with all her strength, "Run!"
Chen Jinglan smashed open the bottle, and something like blue starlight flowed out from the bottle. The rainwater immediately turned into blue flames and swallowed it around.
Chen Ke's eyes were about to burst at this moment, and he shouted loudly: "Aunt!"
"escape!"
Chen Jinglan left Chen Ke with his last smile.
The flames swallowed up Chen Jinglan and Wang Bokun, who was already silent at the side, forming a wall of fire that blocked the man in black and gave Chen Ke a chance to escape.
Chen Ke shed tears, bit his lip, and spit out two mouthfuls of blood mixed with saliva on the yellow talisman. He held the talisman and ran away quickly toward the mountain.
"Go around and chase after him. We must not let go of any of the remaining cultivators!" The leader of the men in black had a cold light in his eyes.
Immediately, two men in black, armed with weapons, chased from the other side of the yard toward the mountain in the rain.
Later, other men in black came back to report: "Kill all the people who practice qi in the village!"
The leader of the men in black said: "Very good. Set fire to the village and make the government think that it is bandits massacring the village."
This group of men in black has done a lot of things like this, and it has been fulfilled a lot.
The two men in black who were chasing Chen Ke were not slow. Even though Chen Ke had yellow talismans to help weaken the resistance of the wind, he was still quickly caught up by the men in black.
There is a dead end on a cliff ahead. Chen Ke has gone in the wrong direction and cannot escape!
A man in black grabbed Chen Ke's clothes and slashed at Chen Ke with a long knife in his hand. Chen Ke clenched his fist and turned around to punch him.
Chen Ke is very strong and can kill a cow with one punch, even a living cow.
"Bang!"
The man in black's body flew backwards, his chest was sunken, and he was losing more air than he was taking in. It looked like he would not survive.
"Pfft!"
Another man in black stabbed Chen Ke in the chest with a sword, and the sword easily penetrated Chen Ke's heart.
Chen Ke ignored the severe pain in his heart at this moment, he grabbed the man in black's face towel and pulled it off.
It was raining heavily, and there was a flash of lightning.
Boom!
With the help of lightning, Chen Ke saw the face of the man in black. He looked ordinary but ferocious. There was also a cross tattoo on the face of the man in black.
"go to hell."
The man in black looked ferocious, thrust the sword in again, and said viciously.
"Die together!"
Chen Ke hugged the man in black, regardless of the sword that penetrated his chest, and used his last strength to fall down the cliff with him.
After falling off the cliff, Chen Ke also rode on the man in black, gritting his teeth and pinching the man in black's neck.
"Bang!"
The two fell to the bottom of the cliff. The man in black died on the spot. Chen Ke exhaled and could no longer breathe. He looked at the raindrops falling from the sky. At this time, he believed the old doctor's words. He really would not live to be twenty. age.
Chen Ke closed his eyes. Blood flowed out from his chest, soaking into the white jade beads in his neck. The white jade beads were stained with heart blood, and suddenly slowly melted and merged with the blood. The blood in Chen Ke's chest also began to flow back. …
Suddenly the earth shook and the mountains shook, and the river upstream burst its banks. It rained for too long, and floods broke out, quickly submerging the villages at the foot of the mountain!
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