ephemera

There are beautiful mountains and clear waters in the demon world, and occasionally there are monsters passing by, no matter flying, running, swimming, walking, or deformed, sex-changed, beautiful, or ugly, all of them stop to say hello to Yilao, I am a little puzzled, I thought to myself, what ability does this bird have to make so many monsters respect him?

Huihui explained to us: "Yishuo is His Highness' right protector."

The three of us said "oh".

"Yidao once saved His Royal Highness the Demon King." Hui Hui continued.

The three of us said "hmm".

Then we all turned our heads to look at the exhausted fat bird behind us, showing incredible expressions.

"What are you doing...don't look at me...the way you look now...isn't it...your highness feeds you so well...ouch...wait for me to lose weight...see who dares to underestimate me..."

Xiyan couldn't stand it any longer, walked over to put his mind in his arms, and said, "Go faster this way."

Looks like he's enjoying himself.

Huihui asked: "Where are you going?"

Huaji took a look at me, and I realized that I knew nothing about the demon world except for the Chiyang Forest where the Crane Clan lived.

I had no choice but to say embarrassingly, "Kill the soil forest."

Huihui looked at me in surprise and said, "That's the forbidden area of ​​the demon clan. What are you guys doing there?"

Sorry, for 600 years I didn't know it was forbidden.

Huihui added: "But there are a lot of demons there, and when His Highness is too busy, he won't bother."

I asked curiously: "What are the other monsters doing there?"

Huihui said: "Just like you, I went to the so-called Crane Clan cave, looking for a shortcut to cultivating immortals."

I didn't speak anymore, but Huihui blinked her eyes and looked at me and said, "I don't mean to look down on you. Monsters have their own ambitions. If you have the ability to take shortcuts, it's not a bad thing, but the risk is relatively high."

"What risk?"

Huihui frowned and looked at me and asked, "Have you been traveling for too long and don't know what happened?"

"Yes, ashamed to say, this is the first time we have returned to our hometown after 600 years."

Huihui suddenly realized, and then she waved to me and said, "Come here."

I leaned down, and she whispered in my ear mysteriously, "I heard there are ghosts there."

I glanced at Huaji sensitively, and Huaji came over with a sharp look: It has nothing to do with me.

I coughed and asked, "Why don't ghosts stay in the underworld well? What are you doing in the demon world? Does His Royal Highness the Demon King care?"

"That ghost has a high way of life and appears like a ghost. His Royal Highness the Demon King is impatient to control him. His Highness the Demon King also said that there is that ghost guarding the cave, and the monster with ghosts in his heart will not be able to find the so-called shortcut to cultivating immortals."

"Your relationship with Your Highness seems to be going well."

Hui Hui blushed, scratched her hair, and said, "No, I pestered His Highness to tell me."

The more you walk in, the more lively it is, and the scenery gradually changes from the countryside to the downtown. I wondered, don't monsters only like to stay with their clansmen, and why they have become social animals now.

Huihui asked, "How does it feel to be home?"

I said: "If the children meet each other, if they don't know each other, they will laugh and ask where they come from."

Huihui glanced at Xiyan again, and Xiyan said, "I'm more timid when I'm close to my hometown, and I dare not ask people."

Huihui glanced at Huaji again, and Huaji said: "It's still possible to go south by mistake, but it's even harder to follow up if you go home by mistake."

After Huihui finished saying "You guys are really educated", she ran in the crowd dancing with her hands and feet. I couldn't help laughing when I saw her small figure.

"Teacher seems very happy." Xiyan asked me holding the fat bird.

"I haven't been to the Demon Realm yet. It's really good. It's a place worth remembering." I said, swallowing the other half of the sentence: "It's no wonder that Shi Yu wanted to go back to his hometown all the year round."

Huihui squeezed through the crowd again and said, "Why don't I take you to the soil forest."

Xiyan reminded: "Isn't it a forbidden place?"

Huihui smiled and said, "I want to go and see if His Highness doesn't know about it!"

We were tense all the way, and when we got to a place isolated from the world, Huihui's innocence and stupidity seemed to attract us, so I said, "Okay, let's go."

Huihui said that Chirang Forest is in the northeast of the Demon Realm, a quiet place suitable for spiritual practice, but it is too far away from us. Xiyan used the demonic energy to enlarge a leaf without saying a word, and several of us boarded it one after another. After a while, we flew away. It's here.

Huihui pestered Xiyan to turn her into another leaf, saying that she would quickly bring Yishao and Shanmao back to His Royal Highness, I think the demon king should already know what happened in Bai Lusen. Although it is peaceful here, we, as outsiders , still attracted attention.

There are several pairs of eyes staring at us in the downtown area.

Maybe I have to meet the demon king face to face.

The little lynx struggled a bit when it left me. It had a pair of different-colored pupils, one eye was golden and the other was blue, extremely clear, like two gemstones.

Without Huihui's liveliness, the three of us soon fell into an adult-like silence. I found that the Chiyang forest was not only quiet, but even a bit desolate. The huge ancient trees grew knotted roots, and the palace was damaged. It was dilapidated, and a stone tablet was lonely and covered by moss. I touched it with my hands, and the outline of the three characters "Ki Rang Lin" penetrated into my skin through the coldness of the moss.

"Why did the teacher come here?" Xi Yan asked.

I thought it was better not to tell him about Shi Yu, so I had to tell him briefly: "Back then, the Crane Clan was a powerful clan in the demon world, and they basically took up the path to immortality in the demon world. Since then, the two clans have withered, and it is difficult to be remembered by people. You should have read the history books recording these things in Langhuanfu Palace?"

"No." He answered simply and neatly.

"Why?" I asked.

"not interested."

"But you are quite familiar with Guixi." After I finished speaking, I realized that this little fairy official has been preparing to find Guixi all this time?

Xiyan rarely didn't answer my question, but changed the subject: "Bai Lusen has a magic circle."

He has a very keen sense, and he doesn't know if it's because of the ability he unleashed the enchantment for his master in the heavenly realm. He can always intuitively judge things like enchantments, seals, and magic circles.

I gave a "shh" to signal him that the wall has ears, and he nodded and stopped talking.

I asked Huaji, "Any clues?"

Huaji said: "There is indeed a ghostly aura, but not much. It seems that the Taoism is really high, so it can be hidden so well."

Xi Yan said: "This year's demon king is the Bobcat clan. The teacher just said that the Fox clan is here for revenge. Did something happen between them?"

After thinking about it for a while, I realized that it was actually a long story.

The grievances between the Fox Clan and the Lynx Clan also involves the Crane Clan and Wujiguan. The Lynx Clan was just an insignificant small clan. "The abandoned son of the fox conspired to defeat the Crane Clan.

The reason why Xingdan Fox is an outcast of the fox clan is because he practices sorcery and specializes in absorbing the essence of mortals.Generally, monsters in the world, in order to find a shortcut to become stronger, will always attack the weak races, but the fox has always been an object of respect in the world, and abides by the principle of not hurting ordinary people. Tortured and expelled from Haiyue Hill where the Fox Clan resides.But Xingdanhu met his savior, that is, the second prince of the Bobcat clan. The second prince reshaped his body and restored his spirit, and the two became close friends.

Later, by coincidence, the saintess of the crane clan disappeared, Xingdan fox relied on his own magic to transform into the saintess of the crane clan, and stayed in the crane clan for ten years, mastering the mind of the crane clan and the secret secret.

Xiyan asked, "What secret?"

I noticed a few animal footprints on the moss on the ground, like... foxes.

I said: "Refine monsters, absorb demon spirits, and use this way to cultivate the next generation of immortals."

Xi Yan frowned, hearing this secret that not many people in the Three Realms knew, but without any surprise, he just asked: "The people who came to the Rang Forest to find the cave of the Crane Clan are looking for containers for refining monsters? "

"Yes, I heard that it is a copper tripod, but I have never seen it before."

Xiyan also noticed the footprints on the ground, and looked at them tacitly with me, without saying a word, Huaji nodded to us, and the three of them continued to chat about these past events, Xiyan asked: "I heard that the bobcats are good at large Sealing technique, monsters rely on the difference of monster aura to distinguish between our clan and other clans, since Xingdan Fox has not been seen through by the Crane Clan, did it rely on the Lynx Clan's sealing technique?"

I nodded. He was young and knew as much as I did. I said, "Yes, but in the end the real saint returned and shattered the conspiracy of the Xingdan fox. The Crane Clan was pushed to the top of the storm and ordered the whole clan to arrest Xingdan Fox, Xingdan fled to XX Fang where Shanmao lived, the second prince defected, and wanted to take this opportunity to seal Xingdan Fox for meritorious service and increase the power of the Shanmao Clan."

Xiyan said: "The mantis catches the cicada, and the oriole follows."

I pointed to Huaji and said, "In the end, Xingdan Fox was executed by the Crane Clan, and the Lynx Clan was also seriously injured. At that time, your brother Huaji was still a arrogant ghost messenger, and he went to the Demon Realm with the City God to collect many innocent dead. "

Huaji said: "The Xingdan fox also hurt the queen of the Bobcat tribe, causing the queen to die after giving birth to a son due to unstable demon energy."

Xi Yan said: "The Bobcat clan is in a very high position now, and the new demon king is also qualified by a descendant of the Bobcat clan, but because the Monster clan doesn't like to communicate with the outside world, I haven't seen him until now."

Huaji signaled the monsters around us to disperse suddenly, I breathed a sigh of relief, sat on a rock, Xiyan asked me: "Teacher, what are we going to do now?"

"Wait."

"Wait for what?"

I smiled and said, "That formation is called the Returning Soul Formation, and not only does it need to be sacrificed to activate it, but the people it summons are by no means ordinary people, but returnees."

Xiyan said doubtfully, "I have never heard of this magic circle."

I said, "This is... a preparation for my rebirth. Only Hua Ji and a few other close friends know about it."

Huaji gave me a meaningful look, and then I realized that I used the word "best friend" that I hadn't seen for a long time, and I was not worthy to be their friend.

Huaji said: "It was almost the time when the Heaven's Punishment Alliance was disbanded. He suddenly told us his real origin and how to find him in the future, and then he never returned."

Huaji looked at me resentfully, and continued, "I came back, but it was like that."

I touched my head and didn't speak. Xiyan sensed the delicate atmosphere between us and asked, "What happened to the Holy Maiden and Wuji Temple?"

"The Holy Maiden and the Wuji Temple... The story is too long, I will tell you next time, in short, the master of the Wuji Temple died at the hands of the Taoist priests of his own Taoist temple in order to protect the Holy Maiden, and the Holy Maiden disappeared with his remains. "

In fact, there is a story behind it. The saint met me with the remains of the master on her back. Huaji and Fengjiu, we learned the reason and blocked the Taoist priests who were chasing up. , the soul of the temple master accompanied the saint for a long time, and later disappeared in the battle of heaven's punishment.Because of this incident, we got acquainted with the troubled prince of the Demon Race, borrowing the forces of the Demon Race, Monster Race, and Ghost Race, we were able to formally declare war on the Emperor of Heaven.

At that time, I was in charge, and now I am a bystander. So many accidents contributed to our final encounter, and all the causal loops are unbearable to look back on.

Is this the "fate" that the red dragon said?

It turned out to be something like this that made me want to cut it off completely.

We spent that night in the ruined palace of the Crane Clan, the woods were rustling by the cool summer night wind, and I was sleepless, lying there not knowing what to do, so I planned to see if Xiyan had any nightmares, Before turning around, I suddenly heard a short flapping of wings. If I didn't pay special attention, I wouldn't have noticed it at all.

Xiyan disappeared.

What a headache.

Huaji fell asleep leaning on the stone pillar in a regular manner. I quietly got up and followed out. Halfway through, a strong force pulled me to the ground. My center of gravity was unstable and I almost fell into the mud.

"Huaji, there's no need to be so angry, right?" I said, rubbing my wrist that was hurt by his grievance.

Huaji gently emerged from the shadows of the forest, and he asked sharply, "You already knew?"

"I know, the little tail of the fairy world has been following us."

"You're taking a risk."

I shrugged my shoulders and said, "How can we let him reveal his true colors without waiting for the right time?"

Hua Ji laughed suddenly, he always felt a little shy when he laughed, completely different from Feng Ji's sharp-edged laugh that annoyed everyone, he said, "You're back."

I sighed and said, "Yes, I'm back. After sleeping for so long, it's a bit strenuous for you to lead your body to move with a talking ghost."

"I warned you to return home later, at least until half of your consciousness has recovered."

"It doesn't affect much. I'm worried that if the Skyline is opened for too long, Guanmiao will notice that I'm awake. It's better to come out sooner."

Huaji nodded, and asked, "When did the consciousness come back? Why did you hide it from me?"

I suddenly didn’t know how to answer. The day when my spiritual consciousness was really clear was when Xiyan asked me to go to Chunhua Hall. control of the body.

But the feeling of that moment was too lonely and sad, I don't want to talk about it.

"Half a month ago."

"Then can you get rid of Xiyan? His purpose is not pure, but I think the talkative ghost seems to have a good impression of him."

We stood in the shadows and watched Xiyan chatting with a fairy official in white. I nodded in disappointment. In fact, when the nagging ghost took Xiyan in, my consciousness was slowly recovering. The first time I saw Xiyan , I inevitably remembered something.

Certain things can only be called "doomed".

Hua Ji went out one step earlier than I wanted to catch the fairy official in white. When Xi Yan turned his head, I felt that my appearance stung him.

Fate should not arise, leaving you and me suffering in vain.