Meandering the mountains, the clouds climb to the top, and two tiny figures walk out at the foot of the mountain.

A young man and woman, wet in the mountains, walk slowly along the rugged road.

"Xiao Wu, you must be afraid of me, aren't you?"

Zhou Ming walked before Lin Xiaowu, but his pace suddenly stopped. He looked up at the mountains in the distance, breathing long and soft.

"No, I'm not afraid. Although I don't know what brother Zhou Ming experienced, I will try my best to adapt to it. "

The girl shook her head gently, and her fear had been overcome. Looking at the quiet figure of the young man, she came forward and slowly grasped the broad palm of her hand, and her eyes moved.

Zhou Ming turned around, looked silent and sighed: "you're going to suffer if you follow me this time."

Lin Xiaowu took a deep breath and said seriously, "as long as I can be with brother Zhouming, I'm not afraid of anything."

"You silly girl."

Zhou Ming didn't know why, but he finally showed a smile from his heart.

Two people lead each other, gradually disappear outside the mountains

The Lingyin gate is hidden in the mountains, so it is hard for ordinary people to find its location. In the source of emptiness, there are many people who ask for immortals. Because of the lack of spiritual roots in their bodies, they have to be trapped in the secular world.

Under the mountain, there is a city. The city is full of people and merchants. This is the place where mortals live. It is called Fanling city.

Zhou Mingshun and Lin Xiaowu come to the spirit city.

Where the spirit of the city radius do not know geometry, ancient color leisurely Chen, buildings, a glance can not see the edge.

Zhou Ming and Lin Xiaowu are not the people in the spirit city. They need to pay some money to enter the city, but they are empty handed and have no valuable things on them.

Two soldiers stationed at the gate stopped them. They were wearing black armor and holding black halberds. They looked very powerful.

"You can enter the city only if you hand over one mortgaged thing or twelve spirit coins."

The two soldiers noticed that Zhou Ming was wearing strange clothes, but they didn't break the rules of Fanling city. They asked Zhou Ming and Lin Xiaowu to hand in money and things according to the requirements of entering the city.

"Brother Zhou Ming, here you are."

He took out a coin from Xiao Yulin and put it in his hand.

"This is..."

When Zhou Ming looked at the jade plate, he was stunned. On the jade plate, there was a picture of mountains and rivers. Between the mountains and rivers, there was a tangled word "Ling". The shape of this jade card came to his mind. This is the identity jade card of Lingyin sect elder.

"Immortal master! Immortal master

In the gate of the city, an old man in cloth, who had a fancy of more than half a hundred last year, rushed over. He stared at the jade plate on Zhou Ming's hand, and hurriedly took out two objects like copper coins from his arms and gave them to the two soldiers. Then he said to Zhou Ming anxiously: "immortal master! Please follow me into the city

Zhou Ming took a look at Lin Xiaowu, took her hand, and walked into Fanling city behind the old man without saying a word.

As Zhou Ming and them went away, the two soldiers seemed to be aware of something and could not help shivering. The man they just stopped is an immortal master?!

The old man in cloth clothes took Zhou Ming and Lin Xiaowu to a corner of no man's lane, and "Putong" knelt down in front of Zhou Ming. With tears in his eyes, he trembled and said, "I know that you are a great master! Please help my grandson

Zhou Ming frowned slightly, reached out to lift the old man up, and said, "I'm not an immortal. You've got the wrong person."

The old man felt that he was held up by an invisible force. At this time, he firmly believed that Zhou Ming was the legendary immortal master. After the invisible force disappeared, he knelt down again and said sadly, "immortal master, I was a dying man, and I had long looked down on life and death. Those demons have done many evil things, and now they have taken away my only grandson. If I were like this I'm afraid I'll die. "

Lin Xiaowu pulled the corner of Zhou Ming's clothes and whispered: "brother Zhou Ming."

Zhou Ming knows that Lin Xiaowu is compassionate. To tell the truth, for a stranger, he doesn't want to meddle in his own business, even if this person let him and Lin Xiaowu into the city.

"Why don't you get up first and talk about it?"

But Zhou Ming bent down to lift it up. He knew for a long time that the old man had brought them to the city for help, but he still followed. The world is such a wonderful place. Interests can often involve two unrelated people.

"Thank you, immortal master."

The old man patted the dust off his body and bowed to Zhou Ming, saying, "it's a long story. If the immortal master doesn't dislike it, you can come to my house to rest for a while. I'll tell him about it."

"Good."

Zhou Ming didn't refuse the old man's kindness. Both he and Lin Xiaowu have empty sleeves. It's not easy to find a place to live. The old man should have seen this before he invited them home.

"Immortal master, please follow me."

The old man led the way and walked out of the tunnel with Zhou Ming and Lin Xiaowu.

The streets are very busy. The surrounding buildings are all ancient duplex buildings, without a trace of modern style.Across the street, you can see an open space. On the right, there is a house with a red symbol.

The old man took out a key from his cloth pocket, turned an ancient bronze horizontal lock on the solid wood door, pushed the door open, and respectfully said to Zhou Ming and Lin Xiaowu, "the small courtyard is simple and crude. Please don't give up the fairy master and the girl."

The courtyard is small in size and consists of two wing rooms and a living room. It seems that it has some years.

When they entered the hall, Zhou Ming found that there was only a round table and a few wooden benches at the head of the hall. The wooden wall column was a little old.

The floor is very clean, giving people a sense of comfort. The old man moved two wooden benches, which were actually free of any dirt. But the old man took a square cloth to wipe it, and then let Zhou Ming and Lin Xiaowu sit down.

The old man took out a stack of bills from the house, put them on the round table, and pushed them to Zhou Ming. "Immortal master, this silver note is my savings over the years. If Immortal master thinks it's less, just speak up."

"Don't call me immortal master. Just call me Zhou Ming."

Zhou Ming didn't go to pick up the silver tickets. He knew that the silver tickets on the table might be all the old man's belongings.

Seeing that the old man still wanted to prepare tea, Zhou Ming waved his hand to show that he didn't have to work, and said, "old man, please tell me, if I can help you, I will help you."

The old man was overjoyed and said gratefully, "thank you, immortal master! Thank you

He didn't dare to call Zhou Ming by his name. He continued: "it's strange..."

The old man stood in front of the round table and said things slowly.

Fanling city has a large population, which can be regarded as a famous town in Yuanxu. But in recent years, there have been many strange things in Fanling city.

First, some people found incomplete bodies on the block, and not long after that, some people heard the screams of strangers coming from the corner when they were walking at night.

What's more, on the night of last year's Mid Autumn Festival, hundreds of unmarried women in Fanling city were cut off and blooded overnight. For a period of time, many maidens dare not walk at night for fear that they will turn into a corpse

This strange phenomenon stopped for a while, but this year, things like this reappear.

In the past six months, every month, five boys will disappear from the city of Fanling. In all, dozens of boys have disappeared from the city of Fanling.

No one knows what and where these boys were caught.

Some people speculate that it's a kind of evil that captivates boys. They live on the boy's essence, blood and skin. They look creepy.

It's a pity that no one has seen this evil thing. It's just a guess out of thin air.

However, just last night, the old man and his 12-year-old grandson had dinner and were ready to go to sleep after washing.

Just as the old man blew out the candle and was about to lie down, he vaguely saw a dark shadow floating through the window. The shadow disappeared in a flash, and the speed was very fast. He thought it was his old eyes and hallucinations. He didn't think much about it, so he went to sleep.

When he woke up early in the morning and went into his grandson's bedroom, he found that his bed was covered with bright red blood, and his good grandson was missing.

The old man was so anxious that he had been looking around the city of Fanling, but he got nothing.

The only grandson had an accident, and the old man was frustrated. When he wanted to commit suicide, he saw Zhou Ming.

When he saw the jade card on Zhou Ming's hand, he knew that Zhou Ming would be his last hope.

The elders of the Lingyin sect often travel down the mountain. By chance, the elders of the Lingyin sect come to Fanling city to look for their disciples. Just that time, the old man saw the elder jade plate hanging on his waist.

Today, he saw the jade medal again. It was the last chance to find his grandson. He decided to give it a try no matter what price he paid.

Finally, the old man bet right, Zhou Ming into the city fruitless, he help, two exchanges, he and Zhou Ming pull up a relationship.

After hearing what the old man said, Zhou Ming asked him, "you didn't see the people who abducted your grandson. Why did you say that they were the demons who abducted your grandson?"

"The immortal master doesn't know about it. In recent days, there are some strange people in the city of Fanling. But they came to the city by day and disappeared at night

The old man said, his voice getting lower and lower.

"How do you know they're at night?"

Zhou Ming frowned and asked.

"A few months ago, the elder Shen yinmen came to search for Wuling. Not long after the elder of Lingyin gate left, several people in black robes came to Fanling city. Since then, strange things have happened all over the city. A few days ago, some ugly people came to Fanling city Because all the strange things happened at night in recent years, people agreed that they acted at night. "

The old man took a slow breath and said, "besides, people in the Lord's house say that they are disciples of shadow gate."

Zhou Ming's heart leaps, shadow gate? It's a coincidence that before I went to the shadow gate, the people of the shadow gate jumped out.Zhou Ming sighed and said to the old man, "I don't need these banknotes. If your grandson is still alive, I will try my best to save him."