Chapter 1: Baishi Village

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There is a very interesting mountain in Longyan Continent called White Rock. It is surrounded by mountains. It's interesting because of its name. I searched all over the mountain but couldn't find a single white stone. As for why Shiraishi is named after him, it is puzzling. In appearance, it looks like any other mountain. "If the water is not deep, there will be dragons. If the mountain is not high, there will be immortals." There are neither dragons nor immortals in Baishi Mountain, so almost no one in the entire continent knows of its existence.

At the foot of the mountain lies a mountain village - Baishi Village. There are more than a hundred households in the village, which is considered a large village in Longyan Continent. Just because the people in Baishi Village never go out of the mountains, it has always been isolated from the world. There are fields, forests and streams in Baishi Mountain, which is more than enough to support a hundred or so families. In the village, men farm and women weave. They work at sunrise and rest at sunset. For thousands of years, there have been few cases of men stealing and women prostitution. There are four surnames in Baishi Village: Bai, Duan, Liu, and Wang. The patriarch is the oldest Bai clan elder, and people call him Taigong Bai. Bamboo stick, mango shoes, and silver beard reaching his knees, this is the image of Mr. Bai.

"The sky and the earth are long, but the mind is far away. Although it is in a remote area, it can reach all directions." Bai Taigong is the priest of the village. This is what he often says when he educates young people. There is a White Temple in the village, which is a school for children. When school-age children enter the White Temple to study, they must first bow three times and nine times to Taigong Bai. The study time was not long, and I graduated after just recognizing three to five hundred words. No one wanted to go out to be an official anyway, so what was the use of learning from those talented people. It is enough to be able to recognize three melons and two dates, and be able to write a credit note. Most children don't like to go to school in Bai Temple. What they like to do is learn martial arts from a man named Bai Yi.

Four years ago, there was a huge beast fight in Baishi Mountain. Overnight, thousands of ferocious beasts rushed to Baishi Mountain from all directions, as if they were attracted here by something. The villagers will never forget what happened that night. The roar of the beast shook the sky and the screams were terrifying. The beast fight spread to Baishi Village, and more than 20 people died that night. If Bai Yi hadn't appeared, more people would have died. Bai Yi killed more than a dozen beast kings by himself, frightened the beasts and protected Baishi Village.

Bai Yi's family also came to Baishi Village that night. No one knew where they came from, and no one asked where they were going. The kind-hearted villagers retained Bai Yi and regarded him as their patron saint. Bai Yi's status in the village is unmatched by anyone, even the respected old patriarch looks at him differently.

Bai Yi's wife is named Nangong Shu. She is beautiful, intelligent, gentle and virtuous. The couple has twin children, a boy named Bai Tianlin and a girl named Bai Baijiao. Tianlin is cute and naive, but his younger sister Tianjiao is extremely smart. Because they are twin brothers and sisters, Tianlin should be the older one and Tianjiao the younger one, but she just doesn't want to be inferior to others and often quarrels with her mother over this matter. Her mother couldn't compete with her, so she allowed her to think of herself as her sister. Bai Yi dotes on his daughter, so he won't scold her. However, Tianjiao, the elder sister, did an impeccable job and always protected her younger brother.

Tianjiao is extremely talented. She has been practicing arts with her father since she was one and a half years old. She is full of courage. It is not that she is not afraid of heaven and earth, but that heaven is afraid of her and earth is afraid of her. Xiao Tianlin is happy to have such a "sister" protecting him. The children in the village regard Tianjiao as their eldest child, and wherever she goes, people follow her.

As a daughter, Tianjiao doesn't like doing the things that a daughter should do at all, and her hobbies are also different. Her favorite thing is to go to the mountains to collect the animal bones left over from the beast fight four years ago. Due to erosion by wind and rain, animal bones are scattered in the mountains. It would be difficult for anyone to piece together these scattered animal bones into a complete skeleton. However, what is incredible is that Xiao Tianjiao has actually pieced together five skeletons of evil beasts, and now these five skeletons are placed in her room. Any other children would be scared to death, but Xiao Tianjiao sleeps and eats with them every day and enjoys them all to herself. Sometimes when her subordinates made mistakes, she would punish them to "think over their faults" in her room. This move greatly shocked many of his subordinates. Tianjiao's prestige is also increasing day by day, and even those boys and girls older than her dare not offend her easily. Especially those with some bad habits would stay away from her when they saw her.

"Little White Stone Goddess" is Tianjiao's nickname.

"Boss, what do you think this is?" A child ran into Tianjiao's house excitedly, holding a large animal bone in his hand.

Tianjiao took the animal bone and looked at it carefully. This animal bone was different from the animal bones she had picked up before. Judging from the appearance, it should be a jawbone, but it is much longer than other jawbones, and the gums are wide and thick. At first glance, it looks like the jawbone of a giant beast with sharp and tough teeth. "Could this be the bones of the beast king?" Tianjiao heard her father talk about the beast fight that happened that night. Her father had killed more than a dozen beast kings, but unfortunately she had never found the bones of these beast kings. It is said that the bones of these beast kings contain Yuan Shen crystals, and eating these crystals can increase Yuan power. Tianjiao is not doing it for herself, she is doing it for her younger brother. My younger brother has been weak and sickly since he was a child. Maybe these soul crystals can help him strengthen his body.

"Amu, where did you find it?" Tianjiao asked.

"Xue...Boss, you know..." Amu hesitated to speak.

"You went to the Bloody Valley?... Just you? My sister doesn't believe it."

"It's not the Bloody Valley, it was found at the foot of the Bloody Mountain...

Xueling Mountain is the only place to go to Wanyou Mountains, adjacent to Baishi Mountain. There is a deep valley between the two mountains - the Blood Valley. This valley is filled with mist all year round and is unfathomable. "The white blood seal sealed the ancient world, and all beasts can see the sky without souls." This is a rumor that has been circulated in Baishi Village to this day. It is unknown when it was passed down. Both adults and children know it, but no one knows what it means. Perhaps it is related to another legend - it is said that the Wanyou Mountains are mostly ancient and primitive places, where evil spirits and ghosts are everywhere. Once these evil spirits come out to cause trouble to the world, the world will become a bloody hell. So the heaven sent a mythical beast to the human world to guard the Wanyou Mountains. It was said that this mythical beast was in the Blood Valley. The years are long, and the world has no idea how many thousands of years have passed. The Wanyou Mountains are calm and the years are quiet. The mythical beast in the Blood Valley seems to have fallen asleep, and it has slept for thousands of years. Only the legend of Baishi Village that has been passed down for thousands of years is left. But regardless of whether it is a legend or not, the people of Baishi Village regard Xueling Valley and Xueling Mountain as forbidden areas.

Tianjiao had long wanted to go to Xueqi Valley to find out what was going on, but her father kept a close eye on her and never had the chance. Today is a good day. Dad went to the old patriarch's house as a guest and will not come back for the whole day. Tianjiao decided to go to Xueling Mountain first. She had been to this mountain when she was hunting with her father.

Tianjiao went back to the house to get the bow and arrows her father used for hunting. This bow was taller and heavier than hers.

"Boss, ask a few people to carry it." Amu suggested.

"Look up! If my sister can't even carry a bow, how can she survive in the future? Go! Call everyone to gather at the entrance of the village."

Amu ran as fast as he could to gather the troops. As soon as he ran out, Nangong Shu came back with Tianlin. The two of them had just gone to wash yarn in the creek at the entrance of the village.

"Jiao'er, what are you going to do?" Nangong Shu understood what was going on as soon as she saw her daughter's posture.

"Mom, I'm going hunting." Tianjiao grabbed her bow and ran out. Nangong Shu staggered a few steps to catch up, but Tianjiao had already disappeared without a trace.

"Master, if you have a soul in heaven... please wish the princess a long life and peace, Ah Shu... Ah Shu is mentally and physically weak, I'm afraid, I'm afraid I'm going to live up to my trust..." Nangong Shu said to herself, and then spoke loudly. Coughing. Tianjiao didn't know that her mother was seriously ill.

"Lin'er, go to the Patriarch Grandpa's house..." Before Nangong Shu could finish speaking, Tianlin ran out, shouting as he ran: "Mom, I'm going to call daddy." But the direction he ran was not the Patriarch Grandpa's house. Home, but the entrance to the village. Although Tianlin is naive, he is not stupid. He knows that his sister is under the big willow tree at the entrance of the village, and that is her martial arts field.

Sure enough, more than a dozen children had gathered under the big willow tree, and everyone had "weapons" in their hands. Tianlin envied them that they could play freely in the mountains and forests, but he himself had to rely on his father's vitality to survive every day. Tianjiao often blames herself in front of her younger brother: "It must be my sister who always bullied you in the womb and left you with nothing to eat or drink, so I want to be my sister to protect you."

"Boss, Tianlin is here." Someone reminded Tianjiao.

Tianjiao turned her head and saw her panting brother. "Linlin, what are you doing here?"

"Sister, I want to go too." This was the first time Tianlin made such a request.

"No, the mountain is very dangerous. I will take you into the mountain after your body has recovered." Tianlin did not dare to disobey his sister's will, and could only watch helplessly as his playmates ran towards the mountain like the wind... ...