"Buzz——"

When the morning light appeared over the eastern sky of Feixian City, a melodious bell rang from the Maha Temple on the top of Fuyao Mountain in the city, and soon spread throughout the city.

This ancient city is like an old man who has been sleeping for a long time, finally yawned, opened his eyes, and came to life from the dead silence.

When the melodious bells came down from the top of the mountain, the twelve city gates in the four directions of the city opened at about the same time.

Feixian City is the westernmost city in Cangming Continent. Going further west is not a place suitable for human survival.

Many people don't know what it's like to go west and how dangerous it is.

The only thing I know is that no one who goes there can come back alive.

In the minds of the people of Feixian City, going west means death.

The west side that is not allowed to go refers to the ten miles past the west gate of this city.

Within ten miles, it is still the human world.

Ten miles away is the place of death.

That ten-mile road is also called Shili Huangquan Road.

In the words of the people of Feixian City, after walking through the ten-mile Huangquan Road, it is no longer the human world, but the underworld.

Ten miles west of the city, even though it is said to be a safe place, no one lives there, only gloomy tombs.

But those buried there were the dead of poor families. There was no way to find a good cemetery but to bury them there.

Going west from the city gate, there are graves along the way, which is very crowded. Normally, no one would go that way, even in broad daylight.

But on this day, a city gate in the west had just opened, and a ragged young man walked out of the city gate with a hatchet.

This young man’s name is Ning Shaoyang.

Of course he knew that there was great danger in the west, but he also knew that a few miles to the west, there was a medicinal material called Huanyangcao. It was said to be a great tonic and could be sold for more than 100 yuan per kilogram.

, he needs money urgently now, so he has to take risks to collect it there.

The area where Sunflower Grass grew was not even ten miles away, so it was not considered a dead place. However, it was not without danger for him.

There are ferocious beasts like wild boars, wild dogs, wild wolves, and sometimes even tigers and leopards.

Of course, the most common ones are birds and rabbits.

Because humans dare not live in that area, that area has become a paradise for animals.

Only during the Qingming Festival to worship ancestors, do many humans go west together, scaring the animals into hiding.

On other days, you have to be careful when walking this road, otherwise you may die under the attack of wild beasts.

After leaving the city, the outside world has become very desolate because there are no humans living there.

There is only one former official road, because many people walk this road every year around Qingming Festival to visit tombs and worship their ancestors, and they can still walk on it now.

However, it is already overgrown with wild grass that is half a man deep.

There may be poisonous snakes or hungry wolves hiding in the wild grass.

After Ning Shaoyang left the city, the hand holding the hatchet involuntarily increased its strength, and he became cautious.

To him, the poisonous snakes and wild beasts that haunt the grass are the most dangerous.

He waved the hatchet and struck the grass in front of him with the back of the knife, hoping that this would scare away the dangerous animals hiding in the grass.

Along the way, he drove away more than a dozen venomous snakes, scared away a group of pheasants, and faced off with a hungry wolf whose eyes turned green for half an hour.

However, he did not give up the idea of ​​marching westward.

He must get through!

He needs money, needs money very much.

Six years ago, he was the son of the lord of Feixian City and would not worry about money at all.

But since his father, the city lord, died unexpectedly, his mother and he were kicked out by the new city lord. His mother became depressed and became ill. After being kicked out of the city lord's mansion, she has been bedridden. The little belongings she brought out were quickly used.

It's over, and I've become penniless.

Now his mother needs a lot of medicine every month, the family has no money, and it is almost time to buy medicine, so he has to take the risk.

Although he is only sixteen years old, he has already tasted enough of the hardships of this world and the warmth and coldness of human relationships.

In the past two or three years, he has taken risks and traveled west out of the city alone many times, just to earn money for his mother to buy medicine and money for food for the mother and son.

No matter how dangerous it is, he can only move forward.

——Not only is there no money to buy medicine for his mother, but there is also no money for food tomorrow.

He knew which area had more sunflowers, so after leaving the city, he walked towards that area with a clear goal.

After walking for a few miles, there was no one except wild birds and animals, which made him feel a little panicked.

I don't know what kind of state he is in today, so I can only pray that he doesn't encounter any ferocious beasts.

Finally, he found the place where the sun-returning grass grows. The sun-returning grass grew very lush, which made him relax a little.

This piece of Sun-returning grass has been collected, at least one or two hundred kilograms, which can be exchanged for dozens of taels of silver.

One hand was still holding the hatchet tightly, and the other hand began to pull out the sun grass.

Huanyang grass needs to be collected as a whole.

It didn't take long for him to collect hundreds of sun-returning grasses.

While collecting, his hand holding the hatchet did not relax, his ears stood up, and he was very vigilant. He would react promptly to any slightest disturbance.

Suddenly, there was a loud roar of wind above our heads, and the sky suddenly became dark.

He looked up and saw a dark cloud appearing in the sky.

"Is it going to rain heavily?"

He thought to himself.

But when I took a closer look, my expression changed drastically.

——He saw that what appeared in the sky was not a dark cloud, but a huge black bird with its wings spread out like a dark cloud, completely covering the sun in the sky.

The giant bird waved its wings, and a strong wind immediately blew up. Ning Shaoyang was still a hundred feet away from it, but when the strong wind swept over him, he still couldn't stand up and sat down on the ground.

He had never seen such a big bird before. Unless he saw it with his own eyes, he really couldn't believe that there were such big birds in the world.

It looks bigger than a hill.

Isn't this the legendary monster?

The giant bird seemed to be chasing something, stretching out its huge claws as big as a hill to claw forward.

When I was in panic, I suddenly heard a sharp shout from the air:

"Evil beast, seeking death!"

The voice came from the air ahead, and it turned out to be a woman's voice.

Before he finished speaking, Ning Shaoyang saw a rainbow-like white light in the sky striking at the dark clouds like lightning—no, at the giant bird.

Behind the white light is a woman in white flying in the sky.

"Is this...is this a fairy?"
Chapter completed!