The fairy world collapsed, and the down-and-out gods were laid off and re-employed.

"Are you crazy?" Li Yanting stepped forward to stop Jiang Zhixia, "How long are you going to keep arguing with me?"

There were not many people on the shore, and no one paid attention to what he said. Jiang Zhixia shook off his hand, frowned and rubbed her wrist.

Li Yanting knew that he had hurt her by using too much force, so he restrained his tone and said, "Go back with me. This matter is beyond your control."

"What? That monster is your relative? Do you want to protect him?"

"You are just a mortal, why are you fighting with him?" He was a little annoyed, "Ah Zhi, I have made an exception and allowed you to travel down to earth, so don't push yourself to the limit."

Jiang Zhixia sneered, "If I have to go, what are you going to do to me? Break my legs? Or kill me?"

Li Yanting exhaled heavily, as if suppressing his anger, "Do you really think that I will allow you to go down to earth and go home if you are so unreasonable?"

He glanced at Xie Zezhi and then said: "Or do you think you have found a backer in the fairy world and you can do whatever you want? I tell you that you can't get it even if you die."

Jiang Zhixia looked at him and suddenly laughed, "Li Yanting, let me ask you again, do you like me?"

His expression suddenly changed and he quickly denied it: "I am the Emperor of Heaven..."

"Okay, I know what you are going to say." She was too lazy to listen any more, "Just think of it as repaying a favor, because you are afraid that I will be implicated and be retaliated by the monster. So, let's take this monster as an example. If I can catch it He, just let me go."

"Azhi..."

Jiang Zhixia raised her hand to stop what Jingluo was about to say, and only looked at Li Yanting, "Do you dare to bet?"

"On you?" He sneered: "You forgot that you were even afraid of thunder in the mountains, and you didn't even dare to go out of the yard without me accompanying you at night..."

The memories he blurted out attracted Jingluo's attention.

"You just said do you dare?" Jiang Zhixia rolled her eyes and interrupted him.

"You've been away from me for less than a day and you asked me to take you back!" Li Yanting became even more angry, but he didn't answer her question. He was a little scared, but he didn't know where the fear came from.

"Okay!" She took advantage of his words, "If I beg for mercy or be cornered by monsters, then from now on I will never mention matters in the mortal world. I will only cultivate in the Heavenly Palace and become an immortal as soon as possible. I will stay in the Heavenly Palace or the lower world. As a Sanxian, I will never disobey you."

"Really?"

"I haven't finished speaking yet." She said: "If I win, you must swear an oath and never force me to do anything I don't want to do again."

"No immortal family is allowed to help you."

"it is good."

Li Yanting saw that she was so unsophisticated and angry, he took "Li Xuchu" and Jingluo back to heaven.

Xie Zezhi looked at her before leaving. Although the two of them didn't say anything, they understood each other's thoughts.

After the three of them left, Jiang Zhixia realized that she didn't seem to have any money...

No money, no money! It's May now, and she won't freeze to death even if she sleeps on the overpass.

As she wandered around the city, she sneered in her heart that Li Yanting took her too seriously. He only remembered that Ah Zhi was afraid of the dark, but he forgot that she had been living alone in the mountains before meeting him.

Suddenly, a group of people gathered at the entrance of the alley in front, and it seemed like someone was fighting.

It turns out that a man got a Taoist priest's talisman, and he thought of giving it to his neighbor when he didn't need it. His neighbor is a widower living with his daughter. He had a crooked idea and wanted to use this talisman in exchange for a fifteen-year-old girl.

Neighbors naturally don't want to. So in anger, he tore the talisman in front of everyone, and said arrogantly that he didn't have a woman in his family anyway, so the monster coming had nothing to do with him.

The neighbor's old man got into an argument with him and even made a move, but he was too old to beat him. When the daughter saw her father being beaten, she stepped forward to stop him, but was slapped twice by the man.

I think this person must be a local bully. He is so arrogant and domineering, and others just watch and dare not step forward to stop him.

The man punched the old man in the face one after another. Within a few blows, the old man's face was covered with blood.

While beating him, he said viciously: "I like your daughter to give you face, but you are so fucking shameless!"

Jiang Zhixia picked up a sugar cane from the fruit stall next door and swung it on the man's head.

She was afraid that Ah Zhi was too weak, so she didn't hold back at all. The sugarcane, which was as thick as the child's arm, fell on the man's head and broke a third of it instantly.

The man was stunned by her and let the blood flow from his forehead, not knowing how to react.

Jiang Zhixia pressed the remaining section of sugar cane against the Jiquan point under his arm. The acupuncture point here felt sore, numb, and painful even with the slightest touch. She applied a heavy hand, and the man lost all resistance in an instant.

She raised her chin slightly and said to him: "I'll count to ten. If you don't leave, I'll beat you to death. Seven, eight..."

Her expression was as usual and her tone was kind. But that person didn't know why, but he was afraid of her, as if she would really kill him in the next moment. He didn't dare to wait a moment longer and fled on hands and feet.

The crowd of onlookers applauded her, and the father and daughter thanked her repeatedly.

She said to them sheepishly: "You're welcome, but can you help pay for the sugar cane? I have no money..."

The fruit vendor smiled and took the sugar cane in her hand, peeled it for her, and said that this sugar cane would be given to her.

They had long disliked the bully, but now that someone was here to uphold justice, they were naturally happy.

The father and daughter didn't buy fruit for her, so they invited Jiang Zhixia to their home to sit and drink tea to express their gratitude.

She was not idle when she went to other people's homes. While helping the girl give medicine to her father, she made up an extremely miserable life story for herself, saying that she was kicked out of her home by rich people and now she had no place to stay, so she begged them to take her in for a night. .

But the father and daughter looked embarrassed after hearing what she said.

After a long while, the old man took out a bunch of copper coins from the room and handed it to her hand, saying: "Girl, you saved our father and daughter. Logically speaking, no request you can make is too much. But we can't keep you. While the sky is still dark, Morning, take the money and leave here quickly.

Your accent sounds like you're from out of town. You don’t know the situation here. To be honest, we have goblins here. Tonight is the day when the enchantress selects a person. If you get caught by that monster, you won't be able to come back. "

They are not rich, and they may have saved this money for a long time.

Jiang Zhixia weighed the copper plate and asked, "What should you do?"

The old man sighed and said: "If God favors my father and daughter, they can escape for this year and continue to live. If God doesn't open his eyes... When my daughter is gone, I will hang myself with a rope so that I can follow her on the road to hell." Take a companion."

As they spoke, the father and daughter hugged each other and cried.

These years have been very difficult for them. All parents like their children to grow up, but no one here wants their daughters to grow up.

Jiang Zhixia returned the money to them and said boldly: "Then you should let me live here. If the monster comes here, I will go for your daughter."

"Absolutely not. Girl, you have already helped us once. How could we, father and daughter, let you do such a thing? Then who have we become? Your kindness..."

"Just use your meal and accommodation to repay me!" Jiang Zhixia took over the topic and patted her chest, "Don't worry, I am the chosen one. I have the blessing of the gods and will definitely bring you good luck."

The father and daughter quickly stopped her and relaxed when they saw that she insisted on staying.

She nodded happily and thanked her, then asked, "What's for dinner tonight?"

The old man went out to buy groceries in a panic. Jiang Zhixia chased him and shouted: "I don't choose, I can eat anything."

After solving the problem of food and accommodation, she happily chatted with the girl in the yard and asked about the news about the king who was waiting for her.

Li Yanting, who was hidden in the clouds, had a sullen face and suppressed the panic in his heart.

He found that Azhi was not what he thought at all. At first, when he saw her acting strangely, he thought she had been taken away from her. In Tiangong, he did not notice anything strange after several inspections, so he felt that she was trying to vent her anger on him.

But just now he saw her using her skills to fight off the bullies, and he suddenly realized that he never seemed to understand her after they had been together for three years. She is gentle and timid but can protect herself well. The better off she gets, the more flustered he becomes.

"Brother Awu, are we really not going to help Ah Zhi?" Jingluo noticed that the murderous aura around him was getting stronger. She softened her tone and tentatively persuaded: "Actually, I think she is right. We didn't succeed. When you were an immortal, you eliminated demons and subdued demons, but when you become an immortal, you ignore the dangers of mortals. This is against morality..."

"I didn't say I don't care." He interrupted her coldly: "It's just that since she likes to show off, let her suffer. Only when you know the pain will you be obedient in the future."

He didn't tell the truth. He just doesn't want Ah Zhi to realize that she doesn't care whether she has him or not.

"Brother Ah Wu..." Jingluo looked at his expression and intuitively told her that he might not be able to understand Ah Zhi's "inner demon". Maybe he didn't want to understand at all, but just wanted Ah Zhi to become an immortal so that they could be together legitimately.

Ah Zhi...she looked at Jiang Zhixia, who was chatting happily with others in the lower courtyard, and said to herself: Why did you show up?

In the evening, Jiang Zhixia and her father and daughter finished their meal and helped the girl wash the dishes together.

The girl reminded her not to check anything she heard tonight, let alone go out.

"Why? Will that monster show up?"

"I don't know either..." the girl said, "It's just that they all said so. A few years ago, some people had the courage to check, but they went crazy the next day, only muttering about 'eyes', 'head' and so on. Very scary."

"Don't be afraid." Jiang Zhixia put her arm around her shoulders, "I will protect you tonight."

The girl smiled and nodded.

At night, Jiang Zhixia and the girl slept in the inner room. Just as we were waiting for the third watch of Jiaolou Drum, a strong wind suddenly blew up in the originally quiet courtyard, making the leaves rustle. The shadows of the trees falling on the window paper and reflecting the moonlight look like monsters with teeth and claws. The girl next to her buried her head in the quilt, trembling and chanting the Buddha's name.

Jiang Zhixia sat up and saw another shadow outside the window. The shadow was round, and there seemed to be a rope hanging underneath.

She slowly moved to the window, pierced the window paper and looked outside. Through the moonlight, she clearly saw a huge human head falling in the yard, with human facial features covering it.

Dozens of pairs of eyes on the head looked at her without blinking. And the rope is its slender neck.