[Ancient Sword II] Morning Light Shadow

"presumptuous!"

At the same time that the woman in the palace costume was screaming, Shen Xi saw a beautiful head soaring high, blood drops splashed on the bright bronze mirror, and the dark cloud-like long hair lost the restraint of the hairpin and scattered chaotically. , Covering the gushing blood and a pair of eyes that are dying.

Shen Xi slowly pulled her gaze to look at the black-armored general who shot swiftly like lightning. From the astonished and bewildered eyes of the other party, she saw the reflection of a virgin with straight bangs and ponytails.

The whirling and regressing colors are chaotically twisted together, and the sweet and dull air, like ripe fruit, disperses, leaving a cold chill... The sudden hallucinations dissipate just like when they came without warning up.

The tail thorn of the Feathered Serpent is still in the hand, the rough surface can be felt through the deerskin gloves, and the person is still standing in front of the incense burner, the hand that touched the incense burner is placed on the ear of the furnace tripod.

Shen Xi quickly squeezed the tail thorn, and the feathered snake who received the instruction moved and pulled her closer.Looking past the coiled body of feathered snake guards, Shen Xi fixedly stared at the dark golden figure behind the incense burner, without blinking her eyes, her tightly pursed lips turned pale due to excessive force.

At the moment when the woman in palace costume was beheaded and escaped from the hallucination, Shen Xi could be sure that the general who did the work had already sensed her existence.

On a cold and windy winter night in early January, she only felt that the back of her clothes were soaked in cold sweat, and her wrists, which had been worn out from climbing trees earlier, were also stained by the salt in the sweat.

Sheng Xue, the blade of the horizontal blade reflecting a little bit of cold light, if the situation just now was not an illusion, then the blood on the blade should not have dried up at this moment...

Shen Xi touched her intact neck subconsciously, and just when she was about to call out to Chu Qi, she saw sparkling will-o'-the-wisps floating in the air around at some point, and a strange mist that seemed to have substance rose from the incense burner, bringing A coldness and violence that penetrated deep into the bone marrow gathered in gusts of wind, taking on the form of a human being...

For a moment, Shen Xi almost took out a bottle of chili oil and smashed it on the head. ——She admitted that she thought of the scene when a demon appeared.

The translucent figure floating above the incense burner has the same appearance and attire as the woman in palace costume in the hallucination, but it is not as vivid and bright as in the hallucination. The knife wound across the neck all explained one thing.

"It turned out to be a ghost..." Shen Xi glanced at the woman who was playing with the ghostly torch with her fingers, "Can it be haunted in a Buddhist temple?"

The beauty in the palace costume looked at Shen Xi in surprise, and a sternness flashed in her empty eyes: "I underestimated you, but you managed to escape... Huh? You are... This is so interesting..."

Sensing the malice and interest hidden in Li Gui's words, Feathered Serpent raised its neck, its feathers puffed up, looked at her like a demonstrator, and made a hissing sound.

"Sanmao, don't make trouble." Shen Xi tugged at the feather snake's long feathers, and put away the glowing fireflies, "She doesn't even have a body, you can't beat her, we don't know the same as the dead, don't give it to me during the Ghost Festival. She just burned the paper."

The feathered snake's huge body twisted, although it was unwilling, it shrank to the thickness of a finger under Shen Xi's signal, and swam into Shen Xi's sleeve.

"..."

The face of the beauty in palace costume was even more gloomy than when she first appeared, "Do you think my hallucinations won't hurt you, so you can sit back and relax?"

Shen Xi blinked in surprise: "I hate it...you can see it all!"

Ever since the heart demon invaded and tried to inject demonic energy into her body but screamed and escaped, Shen Xi began to pay attention to the strange phenomenon that occurred at that time - she appeared in front of Li Ying while she was in the room. After more than 30 years, although she didn't fully understand the reason, it also allowed her to touch a little way.

Under certain conditions, to a certain extent, space cannot limit her.So far, this has only happened twice, and both times happened to save her life.

Shen Xi didn't really understand why this happened, but she had a vague intuition in her heart that these strange phenomena were related to the large number of Gu worms kept in her body.

The specific principle remains to be studied, but now is not the time to think deeply.

"So what if you escaped? Speaking of it..." The woman in palace costume seemed to think of something interesting, and she tapped her chin lightly with her finger dyed bright red Koudan, "Is that the man who protects you?"

As she spoke, she lowered her fingers, raised her chin slightly in the direction of Chu Qi, and said casually.

"I found out that my head was almost cut off, and my whole body collapsed!"

...It's not really beheading, do you want to be so glass-hearted?Shen Xi pouted.

"He was entrusted to investigate the strange incident at Zhaocheng Temple, but he didn't return home at night..."

The very small girl clenched her fists secretly, and raised her flat chest imposingly, which was completely incomparable to that of women in palace costumes, "Although she is under my brother's subordinates, I am currently covering you... you Don't you know that the rules of the world are from the small to the big?"

The subtext is that you bullied Chu Qi, so she came to find her way back. If she is also knocked down here, it will be the turn of the High Priest of Liuyue City to appear.

Shen Xi doesn't know about ghosts and ghosts, but judging from the ability displayed by this one in front of him, it should be related to hallucinations... Her own brother is decathlon capable, and illusion is not a problem.

"So, in order not to invite more powerful people to directly beat you to death, can you be honest..."

While speaking, the undetectable tiny Gu worms had already attached to Chu Qi's body. Under Shen Xi's signal, he began to check whether there were any injuries or abnormalities on his body.

"What does it mean to go to the monk's temple to make trouble? Solve the problem early and reincarnate with peace of mind earlier, and we can save some trouble."

"Hahahaha... what I want to do, it's not up to mere pariahs to comment!"

After hearing Shen Xi's words, the eyes of the woman in palace costume lit up with a cold light, and she let out a sharp and ear-piercing laugh.

"If you're afraid that this will happen, you should just kneel down and beg for mercy. Maybe I'm in a better mood, and maybe let you live?"

Even in her previous life, when her memory was somewhat blurred, Shen Xi had never been treated with such harsh words, not to mention that her father and brother are both high priests of Liuyue City in this life. He and Shen Ye are a little more polite, how have you ever heard such malicious words?

"...Calling yourself my own palace... Could it be that you are the emperor's concubine? Did someone kill you because your Gongdou skills were too bad? You just shut it in the incense burner and turned it into slag? Or did you steal the monk and be discovered?"

The four parallel sentences are closely connected, and the sharpness gradually increases from low to high, until the face of the beauty in the palace costume is changed from white to red, from red to green, and then from green to gray, and finally freezes in the dark The base color of the pot.

"Despicable pariah, is this your upbringing?!"

Shen Xi rolled her eyes, and changed gestures with her left hand in the sleeve: "Aren't you dead because you are so educated?"

Before the words fell, Shen Xi's eyes blurred, and then he felt his throat was tightly strangled by a strong force.The carotid arteries were compressed, and the backflow of blood to her head made her temples buzz.

The woman in the palace costume held the left hand in the air, and the tips of the five fingers closed into claws, and they were slowly raised.

Synchronized with her movements, Shen Xi's body also left the ground, and the sunken marks on the skin of the neck coincided with the shape of the paws of the woman in palace costume.

Shen Xi instinctively wanted to struggle, but the woman in the palace costume didn't give her a chance. With a wave of her hand, she was thrown directly against the courtyard wall beside her. Her thin body hit the cold and hard wall, causing a slight and fragile break The sound was very clear in the night near midnight.

"Isn't it quite easy to talk about, untouchable?" The woman in the palace costume said with a contemptuous smile, her charming eyes like peach leaves narrowed happily, "When you have had enough of living but not dying, you will still feel that life is very difficult." Are you happy?"

"...Really, I'm sorry..."

Shen Xi coughed a few times, and a vague syllable came out of her trachea, "...you're going to be disappointed..."

At the same time, Chu Qi moved up with a knife and split the incense burner standing in the middle of the square into two.

The angry and ear-piercing screams of the ghosts came to an abrupt end, and in an instant, the haze that locked the entire Buddhist temple like a cage fell apart and collapsed as if split in two by a sharp knife. The sky that appeared was full of moonlight. suddenly see the light.

In the empty square, the little girl who was thrown away like a rag doll looked like a nearly extinguished candle.

Chu Qi quickly stepped forward, half squatting and stretched out his left hand, which was not holding a knife, as if intending to help Shen Xi, but then he remembered something, his movements froze, and the outstretched hand stopped just like that.The wound on the arm was cut by the quill's tail thorn was very deep, the dark red blood stained the clothes, dripped down again, and landed on Shen Xi's face covered by his shadow.

"Don't, think wildly..." Shen Xi moved her lips, her voice was very weak, "—listen to me."

"First, I got out of the illusion one step earlier than you...so, even in the hallucination, you didn't hurt me...

"Second, don't move me for now, it will be fine after a while..."