In the life of heaven and earth, there are many things that can only be known by yourself by visiting them in person. Some fates are planted in the previous life. Even if you work hard in this life, you must respond to the various karma debts accumulated in the past before you can break them.

I count the days by fingers. Time flies and passes by.

Wangchuan left Moyan Town, walked eastward, slept in the open air, and for about half a month, finally passing through the boundless desert.

On that day, he stood in the scorching sun, wiped the sweat beads on his forehead, and looked up at the front. A stone tablet, which was meter high, appeared in his eyes, was engraved with three powerful and powerful characters: "Yongzhoujie."

"We finally arrived in Yongzhou." Wind was rising from Wangchuan's feet. He crossed the Yongzhou border and found a place to put down his bag in a cool place. He sat on the ground, took out a hard-dried coarse grain cake and put it into his mouth bit by bit. His lips were dry and squished, and his mouth was rolled upside down. He touched the sheepskin water bag on his waist, pulled out the plug, and poured it down hard, without a drop of water falling.

Wangchuan sighed with a bitter smile, packed the water bag, and folded the branches and put them in his mouth to chew it. Just like people eating sugarcane, the bitter juice on the branches touched the taste buds, and Wangchuan's face suddenly showed a painful expression. He insisted on chewing out all the moisture in the branches, and then spit out the residue of the branches that were chewed into pieces in his mouth, wiped his mouth with his sleeves, and then walked towards the hinterland of Yongzhou with his bag on his back.

After about twenty or thirty miles, a village appeared in front of him, and Wangchuan was overjoyed. It was noon that the working villagers should cook at home. It would be better to go and ask for a bowl of water to drink. If you can eat another bite of hot rice, it would be great.

Thinking of this, Wangchuan couldn't help but speed up his pace. Suddenly realizing that something was wrong, he stopped again. He looked at the village ahead carefully and thought to himself, why didn't there be smoke curling smoke at noon?

However, I thought again, maybe the villagers here had lunch, so I went to see it first, so I walked towards the village. When I saw the whole picture clearly, there must be at least hundreds of families. The scale is not small, but the village is surrounded by weeds, and there are no sounds of chickens crowing and dogs barking, and no people passing by. Wangchuan said suspiciously: "It's strange, why is this desolate?"

When he entered the village, Wangchuan felt even more alert. He was facing the cold wind, which caused dry weeds and leaves to float. Some farm equipment were upside down on the ground, and doors and windows were closed from house to house, and there was no sound coming from the house. Wangchuan felt goose bumps all over his body. For some reason, he felt that the village was full of evil.

"Is there anyone? I am a passerby. I am passing by here and want to ask for a bowl of water from your house?" Wangchuan gently pressed the door, but there was no response in the room. He continued to lock the door and asked, "Is there anyone? I am a passerby. I am passing by here and want to ask with your house?"

Wangchuan knocked on the doors of more than a dozen rooms in a row without any echo. When he was about to give up, he heard the door opening of the next house. He hurried over and saw an old woman over 60 years old walking out of the room. The old woman was hunched over, wrinkled skin as big as an old tree bark. She leaned on a crutch and stuck her head out. Her unsightly and turbid eyes narrowed a thin slit and asked, "Where is the young man, why did he come?"

"Old man, I came from the desert to the west to go to Jingzhou, and passed by here to ask for a bowl of water." Wangchuan bowed and said respectfully.

"Oh, it's from the desert. That's not close. The young man has suffered a lot." The old woman squinted her eyes and looked at Wangchuan, then turned sideways and said, "Come in, the old woman has nothing else at home, and water can still be served for you to drink two bowls of water."

Wangchuan hurriedly thanked him. As soon as he walked into the house, he heard the sound of closing the door. For some reason, he felt a little uneasy. Although it was daytime, the room was very dark. Fortunately, his body was nourished and tempered by the moonlight spiritual liquid, his eyes were like lightning, and in the dark night, he could clearly see the furnishings in the house.

The furnishings of this room are very simple, with a table, two stools and an incense table. A clay statue is enshrined on the incense table. I don’t know which god it was. Wangchuan thought to himself, “The furnishings of this room are so simple, it seems that the old man is not having a easy life.”

The old woman handed Wangchuan a black bowl that was missing, "This is the first time that the young man has gone far away?"

Wangchuan took the bowl and drank the water in one breath, put it on the table, and he asked curiously: "Old man, how do you know that this is the first time a boy has gone out?"

The old woman picked up the black bowl from the table, turned around and added another bowl of water, and said, "Seeing that you are young and have not experienced the world, you don't find a better reason to lie. Moyan Town is nearly a thousand miles away. You hiked on foot. Although it was dusty, your clothes were not messy. Even if you pay attention to tidying, you must have a smell of sweat. Young man, don't think that old woman is old and stupid, and you are so deceiving. Let me tell you, the old woman's eyes are bright."

The old woman paused, "Old woman, I don't think you are like a bad person. You can leave after drinking the water."

Wangchuan took the bowl and smiled and said, "Old man, you don't know that the boy did come from the west of the desert. It was just because he experienced some situations and his foot strength was faster than that of ordinary people." Wangchuan drank two sips of water and continued, "Old man, are you the only one in the family? In such a village, why don't you see villagers? Every family is closed and locked the windows, and no one responded to knocking on the door. Fortunately, you are kind-hearted, so I can drink the bowl of water and rest."

The old man's expression changed slightly. She stared at Wangchuan with a strange look, sighed and said, "All have left, only the old woman is left in this village."

"Ah? We're all gone!" Wangchuan said in surprise. He knew that family houses are fundamental to wealthy families and poor families. Perhaps those wealthy families can buy and change houses at will, but for poor families, it's not just a matter of changing. If they are asked to give up their house, it would be like taking their lives.

However, the village does not look rich, and it would not be unusual if three or two families abandoned their homes here and left them. However, it would be very strange that all the families in the village moved away and gave up their homes and land.

Did the people in this village make a fortune and move to the city to buy family property and enjoy themselves? But why is the old woman still here and his family?

"Well... we're leaving." The old woman stared at Wangchuan, nodding with a look of loneliness and endless sadness.

"Old man, why did they move out when they live here? Do the villagers have no nostalgia for this place where their ancestors live for generations?" Wangchuan held the bowl and drank two more sips of water, raised his eyes and looked at the old woman. He always felt that there was an indescribable strange aura in the village.

The villagers make a living by farming and regard farming equipment as more important than their own lives. However, what Wangchuan saw just outside the house was that the farming equipment was abandoned at will and buried by leaves and licorice. Why did these villagers leave in such a hurry? Could it be that something unexpected happened?

The old woman seemed to be in painful memories, her gully cheeks kept trembling slightly, "Oh..." The old woman sighed, and her whole body seemed to be much older, and her hands kept trembling, "The old woman has already been buried in the soil. She will sooner or later enter the underworld, so what's the point of not being able to walk away? Unfortunately, they are young, but..."

"But what's wrong?" Wangchuan felt nervous when he saw the old woman wanting to speak, and he hurriedly asked.

"What a sin! Before that incident, the people here lived and worked in peace and contentment. Although life was hard, they were also happy. Everyone worked from sunrise to sunset, watching the crops in the fields gradually mature. The chickens and dogs in the village heard each other, and the children played and played and played like this. God was not too weak to us. But who knew that starting from the day five years ago, the devil came, which made the originally peaceful village unable to live in peace. At first, some people threw a chicken and a rabbit, and they couldn't find it. But day after day, one or two poultry were thrown away every day, and no one could sit still. The people in the whole village mobilized and began to search for the reasons."

The old woman paused, her body trembled constantly, and tears fell from her turbid eyes. "How great it would be if they had not found clues, but they found them. They looked for the blood and traces left by the demon in a woods several miles away from the village, and found a hole in the ground. The hole was filled with blood and stench. Several strong men in the village held torches and just entered the ground hole. The people outside the cave heard screams, and they retreated nervously..."

The old woman recalled the past painfully and told Wangchuan what happened in the village. It turned out that among the few people who entered the cave that time, one of them was the old woman's son. When the people outside the cave heard screams and retreated in horror, the old woman's son, Daniu, stretched out his bloody hands and crawled to the entrance of the cave. The old woman's husband saw that it was his son, and hurriedly pulled him out, but before he expected, Daniu's lower body was gone. He held his last breath and told everyone that there was a ground dragon in the cave.

The old woman's husband looked at the big cow and cried bitterly. A gust of wind blew out of the cave. Suddenly, a bloody mouth appeared at the entrance of the cave. He swallowed the old woman's husband and son Da cow, and then retracted it into the cave.

The villagers had never seen such a terrifying and bloody thing. They were so scared that their faces were pale as paper, and they turned around and ran towards the village. The villagers were very simple. When they walked out of fear, they fell into grief again, griefing for the people buried in the belly of the dragon. In grief, the man in the village vowed to avenge the dead except the dragon, but was stopped by some respected elders in the village.

The old woman lost her husband and beloved son, and she cried all day long, and her body became thinner and thinner. The villagers couldn't bear it and came to visit her from time to time to provide some food. However, the peace was gone forever. Originally, only some poultry were thrown away in the village, but later one by one, the living people began to disappear for no reason. The village was in a panic. The villagers naturally thought of the ground dragon in the cave. The young men, regardless of the obstacles of their relatives and elders, seized the farm work and rushed to the cave, trying to kill the ground dragon.

They laid a lot of sank around the cave, and then held piles of firewood at the entrance of the cave. After igniting it, the smoke rolled into the cave. They thought they could smoke the ground dragon, but they didn't expect that the ground dragon was very cunning, but appeared behind them. As several villagers died, the rest of the villagers were furious and courageous. With hatred, they picked up the sticks, knife and fork in their hands to face the ground dragon.

In the end, none of these villagers survived.

The people left behind in the village were restless and stood outside the village and watched, waiting for the villagers who had died to return, but what they were waiting for was the revenge of the earth dragon. That night, the earth dragon entered the village and kept attacking the villagers. The panicked villagers had no power to fight back, and they all failed to escape the bad luck.

The old woman did not leave the house that day because of the pain of losing her son and husband, so she miraculously survived. This is her place of life, carrying the memories of her and her husband, Daniu, for the rest of her life. How could she be willing to leave here? So she was alone waiting for them here.

However, the earth dragon sometimes appears in the village at night, looking for food. Therefore, the old woman stays in the door and stays away without any important things.

Wangchuan finally understood why this place was so lifeless and desolate. Why did it close doors and windows from door to door, and couldn't hear the croaking chickens and dogs barking. He punched the table with a sudden punch, "This damn beast, so bloodthirsty! Isn't anyone care?"

The old woman smiled helplessly, "How can people fight against monsters? I don't want to take revenge anymore, I just want to wait here quietly for the arrival of death."

Wangchuan felt ache in his heart. Who would quietly wait for death? Unless this person was completely disappointed with life. In front of that earth dragon, human life was so fragile.

He remembered what happened in Moyan Town and couldn't help but sigh. What's the life in front of those forces? What's ridiculous is that those who have power would rather kill for the genius of Lao Shizi, but would rather reach out to help these helpless mortals. If I had their power, I would definitely kill all the monsters in the world and eliminate all the injustice.

Perhaps, my modified body can deal with that earth dragon? I was seriously injured, but I was able to miraculously survive. Now that I have encountered such a thing when I pass by here, isn’t it God’s arrangement?

Wangchuan made a secret decision to kill the earth dragon even if he fought for his life.

"Young man, it's okay if you don't talk about the past. It's getting late. You'd better set off early. If it's dark and the monster comes, you may not be able to leave at that time. If there is another mistake, it's the old woman's sin."

"Old man, the grace of water should be repaid with a spring. Since no one comes to care about this matter, the kid is going to find the bad luck of the monster today. If he is lucky, he will kill the beast to repay your kindness for water. If he loses his life, that weird kid is not as skilled as others." Wangchuan stood up and bowed respectfully to the old woman, then stepped off the table.

The old woman grabbed Wangchuan and said nervously: "Young man, don't be stupid. So many men who are stronger than you in the village die at the hands of that monster. How could you beat the monster? Listen to the old woman's words, leave here quickly."

Wangchuan helped the old woman to the table and sat down, "Old man, don't worry, you are not as weak as you see. You have a deep rest. When I go and take the life of the earth dragon, we will pay tribute to the dead people in the village together." After that, Wangchuan turned around and wanted to leave. The old woman was unwilling to let go and begged: "Young man, just beg you as an old woman. You can leave quickly and don't go to die."

There was a stalemate for a while, Wangchuan had to pull over the stool and sit down. Seeing the panicked old woman holding her wrist hard and causing some pain, she had to comfort her, "Okay, I won't go to find that monster to be unlucky. Old man, please let go of my hand first."

The old woman realized that her hand was still holding Wangchuan tightly, so she pulled back her right hand that had been trembling, "Young man, you promised the old woman just now. Don't think that the old woman is useless, you just deceive me. You must not go to find that monster to be unlucky."

"Old man, it's getting late. Can you stay here for a night tonight?" Wangchuan asked.

"Let's stay?" The old woman looked at Wangchuan, hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "It's okay to live here, but the old woman wants to make three rules with you. Don't make any noise at night to prevent the monster from attracting it. Leave here early tomorrow morning, don't make any ideas about the monster. Can you do it?"

Wangchuan nodded and said, "Don't worry, I'll leave here tomorrow morning."

It was night, and Wangchuan slept in the room of the old woman's son Daniu. He lay on the bed with his eyes closed. What the old woman said to him before was lingering in his mind, and the surroundings were surprisingly quiet, and there was no sound of insects at all.

Suddenly, he felt a chill, and his hands and feet became cold. He felt someone staring at him, so he suddenly opened his eyes. It would be fine if he didn't open his eyes, but after this opening, he was startled, his body shrank back and he immediately broke out in cold sweat.
Chapter completed!