In the south of the vast land of Shenzhou, there are 100,000 barren mountains that are unknown. The land here is barren, with swamp poisonous insects, and miasma prevailing. There are even rumors that many powerful monsters left since ancient times are hiding here. Therefore, except for those who practice Taoism and refine energy, ordinary humans are not suitable for living here. So a long time ago, people basically gave up here, and most of them live in the central and eastern part of the vast land of Shenzhou, where the land is fertile and flat, and the climate is mild.

But as long as there are people, there will be classes and conflicts. The ruling class enjoys the fruits of labor but does not work. The ruling class works hard but lacks food and clothing. Someone once sighed: "The harsh government is more powerful than a tiger." Under oppression, many people fled their homes and came here for livelihoods, establish a copycat to defend against beasts, and work hard on barren land to obtain food. Although it is hard, it is also far away from the court, and there is no war, and there is no tax revenue, so there is at least a way to survive.

Of course, you dare not go deep into the Southern Wilderness, but if you only build villages on the border of the Southern Wilderness, people still have the power to protect themselves. In this way, gradually the edge of the Southern Wilderness has become a little prosperous. Even far away from the oppression of the imperial court, there is even a little bit of freedom and freedom.

This is how Xu Fan's ancestors led his tribe members to the periphery of this 100,000 deserted mountains three hundred years ago and established the Xu family village. In fact, the so-called cross-border village is built on a small land parcel, with a radius of only a hundred feet and a population of only a few hundred. However, because the Xu family has been practicing martial arts and physical fitness for generations, they have also stood firm in the southern wilderness for hundreds of years.

But all of this changed three days ago.

It turned out that three days ago, a nine-leaf Ganoderma lucidum that had been carefully cultivated for hundreds of years in Xujia Village was finally about to mature! As long as this Ganoderma lucidum is made into a pill and taken, the strength of many masters in Xujia Village will be greatly improved. In this way, due to the improvement of strength, the life of Xujia Village will become better in decades.

This is the source of hope for Xujiazhai, but it also became the beginning of the destruction of Xujiazhai!

When Ganoderma lucidum was about to mature, the spiritual energy emitted was extremely rich and could not be blocked. Faced with the rich spiritual energy, the elders of Xujiazhai were very happy because if they practiced in this strong spiritual energy, the martial arts practitioners would make great progress.

But immediately, the elders couldn't laugh. Because this rich spiritual energy was so conspicuous, it was like a full moon in the dark night in the desolate southern wilderness, which attracted countless troubles for Xujia Village. First, it was spying from other parodies, and then the attack of low-level monsters. Later, the Ganoderma lucidum even attracted a human-level high-level monster - the Blue Eye Cloud Hoof Beast!

The power of martial artists is only compared to ordinary people. After all, martial arts have not reached the mystery and height of the immortal martial arts. Therefore, when facing a strange beast like the Blue Eye Cloud Hoof Beast, the people in Xujiazhai had no power of resistance at all. The sword slashed on it, but not even a white mark left. The Blue Eye Cloud Hoof Beast could kill many tribesmen of Xujiazhai in one go with just one collision. Not to mention the terrifying fangs and the fire that spurted in its mouth. Even Xu Hui, the eldest elder of Xujiazhai, had already reached the realm of transformation since his practice for many years, but when facing this beast that was three feet tall and extremely powerful and came and went as far as the wind, he was bitten off by the Blue Eye Cloud Hoof Beast when he only resisted two sticks of incense.

But just as Xu Hui struggled to resist the Blue Eye Cloud Hoof Beast, Xu Fan and more than a dozen teenagers from Xujiazhai escaped from this former home under the cover of their parents and tribesmen.

It’s not that they are afraid of death, they also want to accompany their parents to resist monsters to defend their homes. But they also have to shoulder the important task of continuing the bloodline of the Xu family, so they must live.

"You are all running away. Now is not the time to talk about loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness! We have lived long enough, and even if we are eaten by monsters, it will be worthwhile for our lives. But you are still young. The hope of reconstruction of Xujiazhai in the future and the continuation of the Xujia bloodline depends on you. Go quickly!!"

Originally, Xu Fan and several peers around him wanted to fight against the monsters with their parents, but the second elder Xu Wen suddenly appeared and blocked everyone and said this.

The second elder was weak and sickly since childhood. He was the only person in Xujia Village who could not know martial arts skills. However, because he was smart, literate, and good at organization, he was publicly elected as the second elder. Moreover, he was kind and often taught juniors to learn literature, so he was respected in the village as much as that of the great elders with high martial arts skills. However, when the second elder, who had always been weak, said this, his expression on his face was so majestic and solemn that Xu Fan and others dared not disobey.

Xujiazhai, which once had a population of more than 300, only had less than ten people escaped. Faced with the boundless barren mountains and unknown dangers in the southern wilderness, these people had no ability to protect themselves. Even if they could survive from the barren mountains, how should they survive?

In other words, there is little hope that the remaining people in Xujiazhai can survive.

But compared with Xu Fan, they were undoubtedly lucky because at least they were still together and had companions around them to rely on. However, Xu Fan himself got separated from the others.

When escaping from the village, Xu Fan followed everyone to the village. Listening to the shouts and screams of his parents and tribesmen behind him when fighting with monsters, Xu Fan felt like a knife. His parents in their forties were trying to cover their seventeen-year-old escape, which made Xu Fan unable to accept anyway.

Although Xu Fan followed everyone out of the village under the order of the second elder, he was not willing to do so. When he thought of his parents' misfortune this time, Xu Fan felt a tingling pain in his heart, and his eyes were blurred by tears without realizing it. He felt that every scream seemed to be from his parents. But in such a moment of diligence, Xu Fan did not notice his feet, and accidentally tripped to the ground by a dead branch on the side of the road, and could not stop rolling towards the other hillside. However, the people who were eager to escape did not find that Xu Fan behind him was already rolling further and further away from them.

When Xu Fan finally stopped rolling, he stood up, but where was his original companion seen?

In this way, Xu Fan and everyone got separated.

In fact, when he was in Xujiazhai, Xu Fan was a little out of the same place as other peers. Compared with other peers, Xu Fan did not like to dance with swords and guns. In addition to meditating and practicing internal skills every day, he saved his fist and foot skills. In the rest of his time, he often went to the second elder Xu Wen to learn various book knowledge, such as the "Book of Changes" in the copycat that no one could understand except the second elder. So without a common language, Xu Fan had no close friend around him. So Xu Fan's disappearance would not cause any trouble. Perhaps, some people would be secretly grateful for the lack of a scoop around him.

After Xu Fan and everyone were separated, he was confused and panicked and quickly chased in the direction he remembered, hoping to catch up with his companions. Unfortunately, even though Xu Fan ran for a whole afternoon, he could not find his companions? In this way, I don’t know how long I have walked, how many wild ridges and mountains I have walked through. Xu Fan could no longer run and felt sleepy and hungry. The gray sky in the southern wilderness began to gradually darken.

In the southern wilderness, walking at night is very dangerous. Xu Fan also knows this truth. Although Xu Fan has always liked quiet but not moving, he grew up in southern Xinjiang since he was a child, and at least the survival skills in the wild can still be found. He knew that the possibility of catching up with the large army was slim, so after he noticed that it was dark, Xu Fan suppressed the panic in his heart, found a small hill, and set up a fire in the leeward to keep warm, and then found some non-toxic wild fruits to fill his stomach. After eating, he lay flat on the ground and quietly looked at the dark sky, feeling miserable and confused.

Thinking of the tragedy and the misfortune of Xujiazhai, Xu Fan, who had been working hard for a day, felt even more sad and desperate. His father's teachings and mother's kindness seemed to be what he had done just now. However, after just one day, everything changed, the village was gone, the clan members were gone, and the parents were gone. It seemed that Xu Fan was left alone in the world. How should Xu Fan survive in this crisis-ridden southern desert? Thinking of this, Xu Fan's despair and pain in his heart became stronger and stronger. And the face, which seemed a bit elegant and elegant since childhood, became paler.

However, Xu Fan is naturally a bit dull and his emotions are rarely revealed on his face, even when he is alone. So from the outside, Xu Fan just seems very dull at this time, but who can see the misery and confusion in his heart?

Of course, there is no people at night in the desolate southern desert, and after night there is only dark clouds and no moonlight.

In this darkness, the only source of light is the bonfire beside Xu Fan. However, although the bonfire is bright, it cannot drive away even a trace of darkness in Xu Fan's heart.

"From now on, I am the only one myself." Xu Fan thought secretly.

Even the dark night in the southern wilderness is rare, and Xu Fan couldn't help but remember the dark night in the Middle Earth described by the second elder. It is said that there is not only a round and large moon in the sky at night, but also a star full of the sky, which is not only bright but also very beautiful.

Unfortunately, the second elder who often tells him stories has been killed by monsters.

"I must learn a lot of skills and avenge my parents and the second elder." Thinking of the love that my parents and the second elders have on weekdays, Xu Fan finally couldn't control the grief and anger in his heart, and said loudly to himself. Two lines of clear tears slid across his face without realizing it.

After cheering himself up, Xu Fan became silent again, because even he himself knew that although this wish was beautiful, it was difficult to realize it. You must know that the great elder's martial arts had already reached the realm of transformation, and his random punch had nearly a thousand pounds of force, but even this would not cause any harm to the monster, let alone Xu Fan himself?

Thinking of this, Xu Fan's heart, which had become hot, couldn't help but feel cold again, because he knew that his martial arts talent was mediocre, and it was difficult to reach the realm of a great elder, let alone killing the terrifying monster?

"Maybe, I will only be able to take revenge only if I meet the legendary gods and ask them to accept me as my disciple?" Xu Fan said softly to him when he was studying.

The so-called immortals, eating the wind and drinking the dew, traveling to the north and the evening, what a state of mind it is!

Just as Xu Fan was lying on the ground and thinking about it, two green lights slowly approached Xu Fan without a sound. When these two green lights approached less than one meter around Xu Fan, Xu Fan finally found something was wrong. A smell of blood hit his chest and nose, making Xu Fan's stomach churn. He looked up and found that the two green lights were actually the eyes of a monster!! He couldn't help but exclaim: "Mountain Essence Monster!"

Even though Xu Fan kept claiming that he was still in shock and calm, his voice was uncontrollable with a hint of trembling and panic.

The mountain essence wood monster is a very terrifying spirit monster in the barren mountains. It looks like a tree, and its body is neither metal nor stone nor wood. It absorbs the automatic wood and Yi energy between heaven and earth in the morning and evening. It likes to feed on tigers, leopards and flesh. In the past, Xu Fan often heard that hunters in other villages were harmed by mountain essence wood monsters. He was infamous for stopping children from crying in the southern wilderness.

Seeing that the mountain essence monster was several feet tall and seemed like a towering tree, Xu Fan knew that this mountain essence monster had been practicing for at least thousands of years. Even if he encountered the blue-eyed cloud hoof beast, he had the most chance of winning, but he did not expect that this time he was encountered by Xu Fan.

Various information about the mountain wood monster flashed like lightning in his mind. Xu Fan was panicked for a moment. As soon as he got up, he hurriedly ran in the opposite direction, not daring to look back.

But after a few steps, he suddenly felt something entangled under his feet and fell to the ground. He couldn't stop his body rushing forward. Xu Fan fell to the ground in a mess. He didn't care about the pain on his body. Xu Fan hurriedly looked down and found that it was a thin branch that had entangled his ankle at some point.

Then, the branch began to slowly pull Xu Fan towards the mountain essence monster. It turned out that it was not a branch that wrapped around his ankle, but a tentacle of the mountain essence monster!!

As Xu Fan got closer and closer to the mountain essence monster, the mountain essence monster's face, which was like a tree trunk, slowly opened a big mouth full of fine fangs, and the fishy smell came to his face. The tentacles that looked like branches were hanging from Xu Fan to feed it into his mouth.

Seeing the mountain spirit monster getting closer and closer to the mouth, Xu Fan first struggled and shouted loudly. But where could he break free from the mountain spirit monster? Not long after, Xu Qingfan finally realized that his struggle was useless and sighed in his heart, knowing that he was dead this time. But he was surprised that there was no panic in his heart, just despair.

"If I had known this was the result, I might as well fight with the Blue Eye Cloud Hoof Beast with my parents, and at least I could die with everyone."

This is Xu Fan’s last thought at this moment.
Chapter completed!