Chapter 1 Manlong Island ()

Yanzhou, one of the nine provinces, is located in the west and is also called Bingtu.

In the southeast corner of Yanzhou, there is a lake with a width of 70,000 miles and a length of 180,000 miles, called the Barbarian Dragon.

Manlong Lake is very large, so big that people living by the lake often unconsciously call Manlong Lake the sea. In Manlong Lake, there is a small island called Manlong Island. This island is not big, and it is only more than twenty miles long and wide. However, it is the only island in Manlong Lake with the same name as Manlong Lake. As for why this island is called Manlong, it is no longer verified.

In the southwest corner of the small Manlong Island, there is a small fishing village with more than 20 households and more than 100 people. On weekdays, fishermen work from sunrise and sunset. For generations, their ancestors have lived a life of being far away from the world and being in a paradise. However, early this morning, more than 100 people in the village gathered under the ancient apricot tree dozens of meters high at dawn. This situation may not happen once a hundred years for this small fishing village that seems to never change on weekdays.

"Elder, what happened to the lake on the south side of the island last night? Lightning and thunder sounded for most of the night. Did some monsters come from the lake?"

The person who spoke was a middle-aged man in his forties. The elder in his words was a white-haired old man sitting on the ancient apricot tree. He was not only an elder of Manlong Island, but also a private school teacher in a small fishing village. It is said that when he was young, he had gone out for decades, and later he returned to the island with his wife and children.

Old Old Man Bai looked south of Manlong Island, which was the direction of strange weather yesterday, and then shook his head decisively, "We Manlong Lake is protected by the lake god, where does the monster come from!"

There is a legend about the lake god in Manlong Lake, and there is indeed such a thing. Not only the old man with white hair, but also ordinary middle-aged men have seen it, because the god of Manlong Lake appears on the lake every ten years. Whenever there is that, the fishermen in the fishing villages near the island will ride small boats and bring sacrifices to the lake to worship.

"What happened last night? There weren't even clouds in the sky. Such a big moon hangs on the sky. Where did the thunder come from?"

For a moment, the villagers sitting under the ancient apricot tree couldn't help but talk. Even the little kids who were used to being naughty on weekdays were sitting obediently beside their parents, as if they were scared by the sound of the clouds yesterday.

Just as the villagers were talking, a sudden sound of surprise came from the top of the ancient apricot tree, "Hey, second, look at the little ghosts here carefully, it seems that they are all a bit strange."

The sound was not loud, but it seemed to be in the ears of the villagers under the tree. For a moment, everyone's eyes could not help but turn to the top of the ancient apricot tree. It was not until this time that they discovered that there were two strange middle-aged men in black robe sitting cross-legged on the top of the ancient apricot tree above their heads.

When most of them were shocked when they saw someone sitting on the leaves, they were shocked, but the white-bearded old man who was called the elder was frightened. Before the villagers could come back from their surprise, they quickly got up and bowed to the two people on the tree and bowed down.

"The little old man bowed to the two immortals."

When he saw the old man with white hair kneeling down, especially when he heard what the old man with white hair said, the shocked villagers around him finally came to their senses and hurriedly knelt down.

Above the Jiuzhou, the Supreme Immortal is not a real immortal, but a respectful title for cultivators. However, for ordinary people, cultivators are completely equivalent to immortals, so kneeling and worshiping when they see cultivators is almost the most normal reaction for ordinary people. This is naturally familiar to the white-haired old man who has been living outside for decades.

"Do you know what the spiritual roots of these seventeen children are? Why do so many pure spiritual roots with single attributes appear on your island all at once, but the rest of you all have spiritual roots!" Speaking of this, the old man in the gray robe carefully looked at everyone in the open space, and once again confirmed that except for the seventeen children in their teens, no other people had spiritual roots, including those young children of a few years old. This is really a strange thing that has never been seen in the ages.

"Spiritual root!" The old man with white hair had been practicing immortals for fifteen years. Although he had no reputation for cultivating anything, he was not unfamiliar with the spirit roots. When he heard that there were actually seventeen children on his island with spiritual roots, the old man with white hair was so happy that he fainted.

When the old man with white hair looked like this, the old man with gray robe frowned secretly, and then waved a silver ball of light into the old man's brow.

The old man with white hair suddenly felt that his spirit was greatly boosted. The true energy that had already begun to be exhausted in his body suddenly came back to life again, and it was more than ever before. He knew a little more quickly and bowed deeply to the old man with gray robe before speaking: "Go back to the Supreme Immortal, I don't know why these children have spiritual roots. The old man has limited cultivation and cannot find out the spiritual roots."

The old man in gray robe frowned, and then seemed to turn around and talk to the cultivators around him for a while, but the fishermen in the open space could not hear any sound.

After a while, the old man in the gray robe looked at the old man in the gray robe again, "Has something strange happened on your island eight years ago?"

Among all the children under the age of twenty in the open space, the youngest with spiritual roots is a ten-year-old girl who looks very cute, while the oldest without spiritual roots is an eight-year-old boy. From this, it can be concluded that the reason for this strange situation should be eight years ago.

The old man with white hair was stunned at first when he heard this, but then he obviously didn't understand much and asked, "Supreme Immortal, doesn't this spiritual root mean that he can only be born besides practicing the magical skills?"

He also practiced for fifteen years. Although he had not achieved much, he also learned a lot of common sense in cultivating immortals. The formation of this spiritual root is one of them. As far as he knows, spiritual roots should come from his parents, that is, innate. As for what he gained in heaven, he can only be called a false spiritual root. Most of the time, the false spiritual roots cannot be called a spiritual root at all. They can only be said to be a means of tricks in the path to cultivating immortals. Moreover, the spiritual roots obtained by acquired skills are thousands of times more difficult than the innate spiritual roots in the process of practice.

"The spiritual roots are indeed mostly born from nature, but they are not impossible to obtain. It is just that the acquired method is really difficult, so it is not known to everyone."

Everyone heard the answer between the two. At this time, the middle-aged man who had spoken before suddenly said, "Shangxian, during the severe drought nine years ago, a strange thing did happen on our Manlong Island. I remember when I came back that day, I saw these little kids moving a big white turtle as big as a millstone."

"Big turtle?" Everyone's curiosity was immediately raised, including the old man with white hair. Obviously, it was the first time he heard about this. "What kind of big turtle is, why have I never heard you talk about it?"

When the middle-aged man saw that everyone's eyes were on him, he smiled embarrassedly, "The most common ones around our Manlong Island are big turtles. If I hadn't seen the big turtle grow a little strange at that time, I wouldn't have remembered it in my heart. Besides, if it weren't for the fact that the immortal asked just now, I would have forgotten this matter."

"There was a severe drought in Manlong Lake nine years ago? Why have I never heard of it?" The old man in gray robe suddenly asked strangely.

Faced with the problem of the old man in gray robe, the old man in white hair quickly said: "Go back to Shangxian, our Manlong Lake did have a severe drought nine years ago. At that time, the water in the lake dropped by nearly three meters, but the severe drought lasted less than half a month."

Manlong Lake is located in the southeast corner of Yanzhou. With the size of Yanzhou, it is so big that there are severe droughts in the area, especially in areas like Manlong Lake, which are already watery, there will naturally not cause much impact. In addition, the time is short, no one takes the drought to heart except the fishermen by the lake.

At this time, the old man in the gray robe suddenly turned his eyes to a young man about eighteen years old in the crowd. Perhaps because he was a little older, he was the only two people with spiritual roots who had not been photographed. "Young man, you should remember the situation at that time!"

The boy is eighteen years old this year. Of course he remembers the situation at that time. He saw the boy saluting the old man in gray robe and all the immortal cultivators on the side of the field. Then he said: "I still have some memories of the situation nine years ago. At that time, because the water of the lake receded very quickly, many big turtles on the island failed to retreat with the water in time, so we started to help these big turtles move. The largest of them was the big white turtle. I remember that although the big white turtle was not the largest among the big turtles, it was the heaviest. More than ten of us couldn't move it, and in the end we could only push it to the place where there was water little by little. We pushed it for three days before we pushed it into the water."

"Do you still remember what strange things are in that big white turtle?" the old man in gray robe thought about it and asked immediately.

When the boy heard this question, he first recalled it carefully before speaking: "I can't remember what it looks like, but I remember that the big white turtle had a big mouth, and there were several beards on its mouth like carp."

Speaking of this, the boy paused, but just as everyone was pondering, the boy immediately spoke again: "There is another point, the big white turtle has big eyes and two horns on its head."

"Longzibaxia!" After hearing the boy's last words, all the cultivators, including the old man in gray, exclaimed in unison. For a moment, everyone's eyes looked at the lake water outside the island with a hint of fear, as if the Longzibaxia in their mouths were in the lake water outside the island.

"Since we have already understood the situation clearly, let's get one point for each of these seventeen people, and I will take two of them in Tianjian Sect." After saying that, the old man in gray robe waved his hand, first shot the girl he had put back to him, and then shot the young man who had just told the big white turtle.

As soon as the old man in gray robe finished his movements, the beautiful girl from Jiuhuanshan followed and said, "I need two people in Jiuhuanshan, too. After that, she photographed a slightly older girl from the crowd, and the girls she had photographed before happened to be two girls."

Among the cultivators in this field, these two people are obviously the most respected or have the greatest backing. After the two of them have chosen, the remaining thirteen boys and girls will be assigned by the remaining cultivators. The whole process is very fast. After all, almost everyone has already grabbed one by one before, and now the most remaining one is to change the spiritual root attributes they need.

After the distribution was made, the old man in gray robe once again looked down on the old man with a excited look on his face. "Brother-in-law, I don't know if you agree or not."

The old man in gray robe has already chosen it. This is a typical hindsight. However, not only the old man in white robe, but even the parents and relatives of these young men and girls are all full of excitement and become immortals. For these ordinary fishermen, this is simply a good thing that they dare not dream of in their dreams, so they naturally cannot object.

"It is their blessing for all the immortals to fall in love with these children and our Manlong Island."

The old man in gray robe smiled and nodded, but when he saw several of the crying girls, he couldn't help but frown. After thinking about it, the old man in gray robe said very simply: "You take their children back and explain it. They have gone there for at least ten years, at most dozens or hundreds of years, and they may even never come back. Let's wait here for an hour."

For the relatives who were about to part, one hour was soon. After one hour, more than ten figures led the boys and girls on the Manlong Island to break through the air. However, not long after they left, the white-haired old man suddenly exclaimed: "Oh no, we forgot that boy Leng Yun."
Chapter completed!