Taihu Fairy Island, Jiang Family Ancestral Hall.
The ancestor of the Jiang family has returned to the front of the ancestral hall, holding a cane in one hand, with his beard and hair hanging on the ground, waiting for everyone at the foot of the mountain to climb the mountain.
Today, Jiang's population is thin, and there are only a handful of new faces on the island. The ancestor of the Jiang family withdrew his gaze and recalled what the woman from the Jiang Yuanshan family said.
Thousands of years ago, our ancestors landed on the island and took a look at the spiritual creatures at the bottom of the lake. They wanted to use their own way to capture the vitality of the spiritual creatures and help themselves achieve immortality. Later, out of compassion, he felt that it was a sin to take someone else's life to help himself achieve immortality, so he simply abandoned the immortal path. He went down the mountain and met an ordinary woman. She fell into the mortal world and spread her branches, giving birth to the Taihu Jiang family.
The ancestors used to go to the island to seize the vitality of spiritual creatures and ask for immortality. So what if the spiritual creature was born on the fairy island on its back, in order to lure others to the island, absorb the human energy, nourish the spiritual energy, and enable itself to enter immortality.
If you don't enter immortality, it will enter eternal life. The world is inherently dominated by the weak and the strong.
The ancestor of the Jiang family banged his cane on the ground and said resentfully: "Ancestor, your wrong thoughts have caused me, the Jiang family, to be tortured like this by a beast."
The Jiang clan members have climbed up the stone steps and gathered in a group in front of the bronze square tripod.
The most prestigious old man in the clan leaned out. He had seen his ancestor when he was climbing mountains when he was young. Now he is very old and stooped. "Ancestor, why did you call us here?"
The ancestor of the Jiang family took a step forward and looked down at everyone, "There is a traitor in the family, and I need to discuss with you how to punish him."
The old man lowered his body by half, "Ancestor is talking about Jiang Yuanshan?"
The ancestor of the Jiang family looked cold, "Why, you know what he did!"
The old man was so frightened that he knelt on the ground. The entire Jiang clan knelt down with him. The old man responded: "Ancestor, there is nothing we can do. Now in this island, children die soon after birth. If in a few years, I'm afraid that if there are no more children, when I grow old and die, you will be the only one left in our Jiang family."
The ancestor of the Jiang family tapped his cane on the ground, and the bronze square tripod trembled, "Didn't I say that when I absorb the spiritual energy and enter the realm of immortality, I will help you to achieve immortality and bless your descendants!"
The old man raised his head tremblingly, "Old ancestor, you have never married, how can you understand the feelings of parents like us? Watching your own children and grandchildren die in front of your eyes but being unable to save yourself, that is the most unbearable thing for a parent."
The Jiang family ancestor's power was gradually weakening, "Why don't you wait for a few more years? You can't even wait for a few more years!"
The old man raised his upper body and pointed to the tribesmen aside, "His second son died in his wife's arms just after the full moon. His wife cried blindly and became insane. She threw herself to death while holding the child in her arms. My own fish pond.”
The old man pointed to another person, who was over thirty years old, with white hair and an old look, "His girl grew up to be three or four years old, and she was well-behaved and lovely. However, she died on the night of her fourth birthday. Her favorite lotus root died." Not even the flower fish entered my mouth. Ancestor, we really can’t wait any longer.”
The ancestor of the Jiang family argued vigorously: "You really think that killing the spiritual creature will protect the Jiang family from future troubles! Now that you have a great opportunity to live forever, why do you have to follow the example of your ancestors? With the difference between heaven and man, Isn't it good to escape from life and death and look down on all living beings?"
Everyone remained silent. If the ancestors had entered immortality back then, how could the Jiang family still exist? Now, if we wait for our ancestors to ascend to immortality, how many members of the Jiang family will still be alive?
The ancestor of the Jiang family used his staff to grab the land and was furious, "a group of short-sighted people."
He glanced at the ancestral hall in disappointment, leaned forward to pay homage, and then stood up from the ground and rushed towards Taihu Lake. He had to rush to Jiangyuan Mountain to absorb the spiritual energy of the spiritual things and enter immortality in one step.
Above Taihu Lake.
Jun Bubai sank his sword into the middle of the lake, but no suspicious person was found.
The sun was shining brightly, and his face was burning hot from the sun. The smoke and cold caused things at the bottom of the lake to suddenly turn over, and the Tongxuan Ancient Mirror rolled into the bottom of the lake."
No one else was found, and the body of the old man guarding the lake sank to the bottom of the lake. Jun Bubai sheathed his sword. On the shore of the lake, the ancestor of the Jiang family leaned down and shouted to the two of them.
How could the ancestors of the Jiang family visit Taihu Lake in person if they didn't keep their ancestral hall? Jun Bubai flew away with his sword, and the ancestor of the Jiang family asked anxiously, "Can you see Jiang Yuanshan in Taihu Lake?"
Jun Bubai asked in confusion: "Who is Jiang Yuanshan?"
With the help of Jun Bubai and Xie Husheng, it is better than facing Jiang Yuanshan alone. The ancestor of the Jiang family lied: "Jiang Yuanshan is a traitor in our clan. He pretended to collude with the water bandits, lured Master Xie Hu to Taihu Lake, and destroyed Jingxuan Pavilion with one punch. , so that I can wake up the one at the bottom of the lake, and then kill the spiritual creatures according to the methods in the ancient scrolls of my ancestors' floating clouds, so as to help myself achieve immortality."
The ancestor of the Jiang family did not agree with what he said. Jun Bubai took a few steps back and stood on the Taihu Lake with his sword. "We were in the ancestral hall just now. Didn't you know the contents of the Fuyun Ancient Scroll?"
The ancestor of the Jiang family pretended to be coy, "I am getting old and my brain is not bright. After you two left, I burned incense and asked my ancestors again, and then I found out the contents of one or two Fuyun ancient scrolls. In the meantime, some members of the clan spread the news about the evil deeds in Jiangyuan Mountain. That’s why I hurriedly came to inform you two.”
Xie Husheng stepped into the cave and flashed beside Jun Bubai, with a nervous look on his face: "That old guy Yan Wuqi is gone."
Jun Bubai asked in a low voice, "Are you sure you're not dazzled?"
Xie Husheng's eyes were determined, "A black shadow dragged him under the thing at the bottom of the lake."
The ancestor of the Jiang family had sharp eyes and ears, and noticed something strange about the two of them, and reminded him: "I, the Jiang family, all wear black raincoats, and the black shadow is most likely Jiang Yuanshan."
If it is true as the ancestor of the Jiang family said, Jiang Yuanshan killed the spirit creature at the bottom of the lake, everyone on this island may be buried in Taihu Lake. Jun Bubai asked: "Is there a way to lure him out?"
The ancestor of the Jiang family pointed to the hinterland of the Fairy Island, "Jiang Yuanshan's favorite daughter, if she brings her daughter to the lake, she will come out of the water."
A knife intent was cut out from Jun Bubai's hand, and he said without mercy, "If Jiang Yuanshan's favorite daughter is his favorite, and he wants to kill the spiritual creature, how could he leave her on the island regardless of his daughter's safety?"
The ancestor of the Jiang family stayed in the ancestral hall all year round and was unkind. He said a few words to help avoid the sword's intention, without being shy or impatient. "I am also thinking about the safety of the family. If Jiang Yuanshan really kills the spiritual creatures and overthrows the fairy island, , my Jiang family’s millennium-old foundation has been destroyed, how can I have the face to meet all the ancestors in the ancestral hall?”
Xie Husheng sneered and said: "Everyone wants to enter immortality. If immortality is really that easy to obtain, immortals in this world cannot just cast a net and catch it."
Xie Husheng entered the state of selflessness when he was in his twenties. The ancestor of the Jiang family did not dare to refute his words. For Xie Husheng, the state of immortality may only last a few years. He said flatteringly, "Master Xie Husheng is a young and talented man. At such an age, he is in the state of selflessness." , naturally it is despised.”
Jun Bubai whispered, "How convinced are you by his words?"
Xie Husheng shook his head, "You are so cunning and cunning, you can't trust him at all."
Jun Bubai suddenly smiled and said, "Could it be that my mother saw through his hypocrisy and gave him a stick?"
Xie Husheng smiled evilly and said, "Then the blow he received with the stick was not unfair at all."
The two of them burst into laughter, and the ancestor of the Xie family looked confused.
Bottom of Taihu Lake.
A dark place where the skylight never shines.
Jiang Yuanshan dragged the old man guarding the lake into a hidden waterway. This place was under the spirit creature. Thousands of years of sediment accumulation had formed potholes, which happened to be where he could hide.
The old man guarding the lake still had a breath left, and his chest was rising and falling.
Jiang Yuanshan crossed over to give some of his internal energy to the old man guarding the lake, so that he could live longer.
Although the content written in the Floating Cloud Scroll can appease the person at the bottom of the lake, it is also a way to exchange one life for another. If you absorb thousands of years of spiritual energy with your physical body, if you cannot convert it in time, your body will explode and die.
The old man guarding the lake has obsessions in his heart. Jiang Yuanshan is well aware of his nature. He has guarded Taihu Lake all these years just to repay his kindness. If he gets his wish and enters immortality, I am afraid that the entire Taihu Fairy Island may be taken by him as his own.
In the past, the old man guarding the lake was at the peak of the realm of material transformation, and no one in the entire Jiang family could match him and did not dare to covet him. Now that his life is hanging by a thread, he can use him to absorb the spiritual energy of the spiritual creature and comfort that person, so that he can escape unscathed and protect the safety of the island.
Just before hiding in the waterway, a shallow pit has been dug, where the spiritual energy of spiritual creatures can be absorbed.
Jiang Yuanshan straightened the body of the old man guarding the lake, pushed him into the cave with one palm, and connected with himself with the other palm. The golden soft silk hidden by the old man guarding the lake is unfathomable, and it is still unknown how much spiritual energy it can absorb. If the spiritual energy leaks out, he can also absorb it.
The golden soft silk floated on the old man's chest, and a stream of spiritual energy was introduced from the old man's palm. Occasionally, a trace of spiritual energy escaped, entered Jiang Yuanshan's body, and was safely transformed by him.
The spiritual creature was full of spiritual energy, and a few shallow strands of spiritual energy leaked out, making Jiang Yuanshan's whole body numb, his muscles and bones expanding, and he felt like he was in danger.
Jiang Yuanshan thought of his wife and daughter in the lotus pond, and thought with a smile on his face: "When I surrender this thing, enter the state of selflessness, take the girl and her mother out to go out to the island, after living on the island all these years, I have not yet I’ve shown them the vastness outside.”
In the hinterland of Xiandao, there are people living in the lotus pond.
The woman had been dead for a long time, and the little girl fainted from crying.
I don't know how long it took, but the little girl woke up. The tears on her face had dried, and the blood on her mother's body was red and congealed.
The little girl ran barefoot to her mother-in-law's room, ran back to the open space with the dressing box in her arms, and opened the box. There were all kinds of jewelry in the box. Although they were not expensive, they were also much smarter. The little girl took out the jewelry one by one and lined them up in the open space. Finally, she selected one she was satisfied with, inserted it into the top of her head, and then put the jewelry back into the box one by one and placed it next to her mother-in-law.
He got up, went to the room to fetch water, carried it in a copper basin, soaked the towel, knelt on the ground and wiped away the blood that had condensed on his mother's body.
The porridge in the kitchen has been boiled dry and smells like paste.
The little girl wiped away the blood, replaced it with a basin of water, and wiped her mother's face and hands. The copper basin is too big and the body is too small. Every time I carry water, half of the basin will spill out.
Mother was too heavy and the little girl couldn't drag her, so she cleaned her clothes bit by bit. When the woman was alive, she fell into the mud pond. The mud half of her body had been dried by the sun. The little girl slowly peeled off the mud and threw it into the fish pond.
This is my mother's favorite dress and cannot be ruined.
I don’t know how long it took, but the woman’s dress was cleaned. The little girl picked a few soap locusts from the courtyard, crushed them with a stone mortar, and scrubbed the corners of her mother’s skirt bit by bit. She had never washed clothes before and was clumsy. She wanted to cry, but she could no longer cry. There was no water in the corners of her eyes and no sound could come out of her mouth.
She had cried before when her brother died in infancy, but she was not as heartbroken as she is today.
"Jiang Xiaoyu, from today on you don't have a mother. You are an adult." The little girl told herself in her heart. She didn't know when her father would come home. When he was away, she was the head of the family. She had to guard this yard until her father came back, then she could hide in his arms and cry loudly.
