fantasy novels Chapter 1 - 1 This Is Not Cow Dung
Chapter 1 - 1 This Is Not Cow Dung
Chapter 1: Chapter 1 This Is Not Cow DungLooking at the collapsed wall of the Picket Fence Courtyard, a bad premonition rose in Tian Lin's heart.
He almost dragged himself toward the earthen house ahead with his 'crutch', but the old man behind him was faster.
The old man stumbled into the house and soon a cry of anguish broke out: "These goddamn beasts!"
The old man's voice was piercing, spreading through the entire valley like the cry of a Mountain Demon.
At this point, Tian Lin slowed down his pace, using the support of the bamboo pole to weakly shuffle into the earthen house.
As he expected, inside was a family's corpses.
The man lay on the ground, the woman dead in the bed.
"These goddamn beasts, they didn't leave us a single grain, do they want us to starve to death alive!"
"Isn't everyone in on it together, doesn't their conscience hurt?"
The old man somehow found the strength to suddenly push Tian Lin away from the doorway: "Check the chicken coop, maybe they missed a couple of eggs?"
The old man had already run toward the chicken coop while speaking, but soon his wails were heard again: "It's a sin, they've cleaned out everything, they're practically living bandits."
"Living bandits, aren't we foreigners Seeking Immortality also living bandits?"
Tian Lin threw down his bamboo pole and sat leaning against the door wall.
He licked his dry lips and said, "How many counties have we passed from east to west in our memories? We haven't found immortality, but we've killed plenty of people for food."
"What's wrong with killing people? On our quest for immortality, what's wrong with killing a few to survive?"
The old man looked at Tian Lin and said: "Xiao Linzi, are you possessed, speaking such foolish words?"
"Maybe I am, I just wonder, how much longer before we find the immortal gate. Will we starve to death before we keep going like this?"
"It won't be too long, Zhang Lao Da said that past Qinghe County, we could find the Yao Yue Sect."
"Once we find the Yao Yue Sect and pass the assessment, we can become disciples of the Yao Yue Sect."
He said this and also leaned against the door wall to sit down.
The two didn't speak again, only their stomachs continued to 'growl'.
"No, I can't stand it anymore, I need to dig up some wild vegetables to stave off hunger."
The old man spoke, somehow gathering the strength.
When he took Tian Lin's bamboo pole and left through the courtyard wall, Tian Lin also got up from the ground.
He held his stomach and followed behind the old man; he also had to go out to find food, otherwise he would really starve to death here.
Tian Lin crossed the Picket Fence Courtyard wall and looked at the old man
They returned to that ominous house, but didn't enter the main building, instead finding a spot leaning against the straw stack in the barn to rest.
"We should sleep early so we can presumably catch up with the others tomorrow. Once we've passed Qinghe County, we'll be able to find the Yao Yue Sect."
"Yao Yue Sect, Cultivators?"
Tian Lin said and then closed his eyes, but in the middle of the night he was awakened by crying next to him.
In the moonlight, the old man appeared to have stripped off his clothes, incessantly scratching his chest and back.
"Old man, what on earth are you doing in the middle of the night?"
The old man was crying as he said: "You little rascal, you've fooled me again, that clearly was insect grass, and yet you claimed it was Qi Condensing Grass. How come you're fine after eating it, but now I'm terribly itchy all over."
Surprised, Tian Lin said: "Insect grass is toxic; don't you understand such basic knowledge? Why did you eat it then?"
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