moonlit night

Yingzhou Dragon Palace.

Since Penglai came back, Jiuzhe has been locked in the room by the Dragon King, unable to move an inch.He knew that his father was annoyed that he said the wrong thing in front of the immortal emperor, and he was afraid of being caught by the immortal clan.

That's why he was severely punished and punished to face the wall and think about his mistakes.

But he felt that he was not wrong.Even if he did it all over again, he would still make the same choice.

The guard shrimp soldier just brought in a jug of wine, but it was peach blossom wine that is not common in Yingzhou, and he could guess who brought it.But Jiu Zhe drank the stuffy wine to his own discretion, but the more he drank, the more tasteless he felt.

If Li Yuan is here...

As soon as this idea popped up in his mind, the door suddenly opened, and Li Yuan walked in grandiosely.The shrimp soldiers and crab generals behind him were so drunk that they fell to the base of the wall, talking nonstop.

"It's really Cao Cao Cao Cao is here." Jiu Zhe laughed suddenly, "I was just thinking that if I had you drinking with me at this moment, I would be able to drink more freely."

As he spoke, he took another wine glass and put it on the opposite side, poured it full, raised his hand and said, "Please."

Li Yuan was not too polite, sat down and took a gulp, wiped his mouth and said, "A good news or a bad news, which one should I hear first?"

Jiu Zhe gave him a wry smile, and filled him up again: "Let's listen to the bad ones first."

"Jiu Zhe, you are too careless." Li Yuan tapped on the table, "Do you still remember that pig's head mask? You didn't destroy it,

Good thing now, it has fallen into the hands of the Immortal Clan Emperor Ji.She wanted to report this matter to the Emperor Xian, saying that you had humiliated her, and asked the Emperor to seek justice for her.Guess, based on the suspicious nature of the Immortal Emperor, he would think it was your idea alone, or was it acquiesced by the Dragon King? "

"What?" Jiu Zhe shook the hand holding the wine glass and spilled a few drops, "I obviously gave it to Second Sister, how did it end up in Di Ji's hands?"

"God knows." Li Yuan shrugged, "But this is not important, the important thing is, what are you going to do?"

Jiu Zhe was very angry, apparently caught on a sore spot.He really wanted this Di Ji to shut up, but now that he was trapped in the Dragon Palace, he really couldn't think of what to do, so he had to ask Li Yuan for help.

Li Yuan sighed deliberately, and said: "Actually, this matter is easy to handle, but it is easy to handle. She holds you in one hand, and you hold her in the other. Wouldn't the two be even? I can help, but You have to answer my question honestly."

"Don't say one, it's ten. As long as I can answer it, I will tell you the truth."

"That's what you said." There was a hint of cunning in Li Yuan's words, "Jiu Zhe, do you have a girl you like?"

Jiu Zhe was startled, and immediately became hesitant, and it took him a long time to hold back a sentence: "Are you kidding?"

Li Yuan asked again slowly: "Is it the daughter of Lord Shark? Yes, she is much more beautiful than the fairy princess."

"Don't talk nonsense, so as not to spoil Qingyu." Jiu Zhe said angrily, "Besides, you also know that it is impossible for my father and king to let me marry a woman from the Shark tribe."

"Your father? Are you marrying or your father?" Li Yuan almost jumped up, hating the iron and saying: "Jiu Zhe, how old are you? Marriage is between the two of you, why do you care about your father?" think?"

"You have no father or mother, so naturally you have nothing to worry about." Jiu Zhe spoke forcefully, "But I'm different, I can't ignore it."

"Yes, you are different," Li Yuan said sarcastically, "You are the Crown Prince of the Dragon Clan, and you will inherit Yingzhou in the future. I will not worry about feeding my family, and I have no family business to inherit, so how can I be compared with you? "

"Don't be angry with me, you know very well that I don't mean it." Jiu Zhe squeezed between his brows irritably, "You just said, one bad news, one good news, what about the good news?"

"Good news?" Li Yuan sneered, and was about to argue for a few more words, but his hand slid down and touched something, he suddenly remembered something, slapped his head and said: "Oops."

"how?"

Li Yuan didn't have time to explain to him, so he ran outside, took off the sound transmission conch hanging from his waist while running, put it on his lips and said:

"Fangzhou, where are you? Listen to my explanation first."

Before entering Jiuzhe's room, Li Yuan gave Fangzhou another sound-transmitting snail, asking her to wait in a secluded place, and then go in to see Jiuzhe when he called her in.But after Li Yuan entered, he was only thinking about how to tease Jiu Zhe to confess his feelings, but he forgot to close the sound transmission conch on his side.In this way, Fang Zhou must have heard the conversation between himself and Jiu Zhe clearly.

"He has made it very clear." A moment later, Fangzhou's voice came from Yinhe in a low voice, "Mr. Li, thank you. I know you are kind. Since Mr. Jiu is fine, I am relieved. You You don't have to come to me, I'll go back first."

"Wait a minute," Li Yuan said hastily, "he's just a stubborn duck, and never reveals his sincerity easily. Just wait a little longer, I will definitely..."

"That's enough, Mr. Li." Fang Zhou said softly, "Why should you make things difficult for him?"

After saying this, the noisy voice over there suddenly stopped.Li Yuan knew that it was Fangzhou who cut off the sound transmission conch on his own initiative, but he was unwilling to give up all his previous efforts, so he continued to chase.

While chasing, he was thinking wildly, thinking to himself, what's the use of chasing me?You have to chase after Jiuzhe.But that silly boy Jiuzhe didn't know anything at all.He really wanted to tell Jiuzhe that you and Fangzhou's red line are connected, and you are destined to be together in this life. The sooner you pierce this layer of window paper, the sooner you will be happy.But I was afraid that if I said it, I would reveal the secret of the sky, so I had to give up for the time being.

Li Yuan chased from Yingzhou all the way to the East Sea, but he still didn't even catch a shadow.He thought that Fangzhou had already returned to the Shark Clan, and suddenly felt that life was boring, and he didn't want to go back to face Jiu Zhe again, so he planned to go back to the Demon Clan.However, as he was walking, he realized that something had fallen in front of him, which seemed strangely familiar.

He picked it up and saw that it was the sachet that Fangzhou had seen hanging around his waist earlier.

The sachet was fragrant, and it seemed to be ground up from deep-sea blood coral, but it was empty inside.Li Yuan raised his eyes and looked around, and keenly caught a dark red trace under the nearby tree, I don't know if Fangzhou did it on purpose.

He walked over and squatted down, dipped in the pink powder and sniffed it, and he was sure it was blood coral.These coral powders were scattered sparsely, seemingly in disarray, but Li Yuan walked along the traces, only to find an inconspicuous hole behind the tree, like a wild boar protruding, and he didn't know where it led.

He felt that this matter was weird, he stood at the entrance of the cave and hesitated for a moment, then took out the sound transmission conch, told Jiu Zhe about it, and let Jiu Zhe figure it out by himself.Then, without making a sound, he followed the trail and groped into the hole.

The inside of the cave was pitch black and smelly, surrounded by dead branches and leaves, without any sign of living things, and it seemed to grow endlessly, making Li Yuan almost suspect that he was trapped in a maze.But Li Yuan knew that there was nothing in this world that could fascinate him, and there were occasional wisps of coral fragrance mixed with the stench in his nose, so he dared to conclude that he was going the right way.

Li Yuan didn't think of what kind of cave it was for a long time before, but after walking in it for a while, he felt that the smell was a bit familiar, it should be a fox's cave.

Fox again...

When Li Yuan was still in Baiyujing, before Li Yuan left, Xiaoxian passed by and said excitedly, saying that the prince Yaohua went down to suppress demons, and he had already executed the fox demon on the spot. His Highness will be able to fly to the god Yunyun in a short time, obviously he has made a great merit to the prince of the fairy clan and worshiped him so much.

But in this way, Li Yuan couldn't figure out what the red line between Yaohua and Chonghuan meant.

The cunning rabbit still has three caves, not to mention the practice of rejoicing for thousands of years.If he died easily, Li Yuan would definitely not believe it.But Yaohua, as the head of the Three Thousand Golden Armors, never showed mercy, since he said he was dead, Chong Huan couldn't possibly have faked his death.

In the dark, the perception of the passage of time is always a little worse. Li Yuan thought about what was there and what not, and walked for an unknown amount of time before finally seeing the dim sky again.But after coming out, the scene is completely different from the East China Sea. Within a few steps, there is a bustling market, and the butchers are slaughtering chickens and pigs, very busy.

Seeing a tea stand in front of him, Li Yuan stepped forward, first asked for a bowl of tea to soothe his throat, and then asked the old woman who sold the tea:

"Excuse me, have you seen a beautiful girl just now? It's about this tall, with thin skin and tender flesh. It looks delicious."

"It's delicious?" The old woman gave him a white look. "How could a girl come to this place? I haven't seen it before. Go away and don't hinder my business."

"What's wrong with this place?" Li Yuan searched for the atmosphere around him, and took a deep breath as if enjoying himself, "It's so nice, and there's also immortal energy. Old man, did two handsome young masters pass by here just now?"

"I have a boy passing by every day. I don't know which one you are talking about?" The old woman muttered, turning over the boiled tea, and spitting thick phlegm on the ground, "What's the matter, a lot of people died just a few days ago. You Go up the mountain to have a look, the one next to the big locust tree on the left belongs to my old man, and under the big willow tree on the right is the pig-headed boy next door, and the back mountain..."

Li Yuan leaned to the side, took a sip of tea, and asked casually, "Then which one is your grave?"

The cooking movement stopped, and after a while, it started again, accompanied by a muddy voice: "What are you talking about?"

However, the next moment, what emerged from the boiling tea soup was full of white bones.

"Stop pretending, you are a lone ghost who has practiced for thousands of years, and you are about to explode with resentment, and you still want to lie to your grandpa?" Li Yuan threw the teacup to the side, and dodged the heavy blow from the female ghost, "said Now, where did Chong Huan take that girl?"

----

Zhao Ya received Lin'an's order from Feng Guan'er, without delay for a moment, immediately went out to handle errands, causing Feng Guan'er to mutter, secretly thinking that if he had known this earlier, he would have told him later, or else he could still pester him. He said a few more words with me.

Zhao Ya was completely unaware of Feng Guan'er's intentions, the first thing he did when he left Taishi Hall was to go to Jinwu Palace where Sanqian Jinjia stayed to meet Prince Yaohua.The gatekeeper Xiao Jinjia said indifferently that the first seat was seriously injured and was moved to the Xuanxiao Palace to recuperate. The emperor ordered no one to see him, so please go back.

Zhaoya was shut out, but couldn't just go back home.He stood at the door for a while, thinking that he should go to the underworld to check the book of life and death next, and was about to turn around to leave, but saw Zhan Ling coming out of the Golden Crow Palace slowly.

Zhao Ya saw that his head was drooping, and the corner of his mouth was wounded, as if he had been beaten by someone.Although he had no friendship with Zhan Ling, since he saw it, he had to step up as usual and ask what was going on.

Zhanling waved his hands and said indifferently: "It's okay, left and right are just because I shot too hard in Yaotai last time, and some old officials from Sanqian Jinjia and Bihaixingjun's mansion came back for revenge. This injury looks scary, but it doesn't hurt. , like tickling."

He knew that Zhao Ya asked the question casually, so he also answered casually. Unexpectedly, as soon as the words fell, Zhao Ya's face darkened quickly, and he walked around Zhan Ling to the Golden Crow Palace. Fortunately, Zhan Ling had quick eyes and hugged him quickly. , before dragging him to a secluded place.

Zhao Ya wanted to fight, and said angrily: "You can't beat them, but you are willing to be humiliated?"

"Go to what, don't go." Zhan Ling didn't let go even an inch, "Forget it, what can you do to them?"

"This is Baiyujing, the capital of heaven, how dare they hurt you at will," Zhao Ya sneered, "What is the law of heaven? What is the way of heaven?"

"The way of heaven?" Zhan Ling laughed loudly, "They were born as immortals, we are mortals who cultivated, and we are born to be inferior to them. clear?"

"After all kinds of trials and tests, we finally ascended to the Dao, not to be angry." Zhao Ya shook his sleeves angrily, "Unfortunately, these immortals are just people with higher mana and longer life span. Without the control of the seven emotions and six desires, how can you compare to us? I know that with your ability, if you put your mind to it, you will definitely be the top of the three thousand golden armors!"

"It's not us, it's you." Zhan Ling had a headache, and said in a low voice, "If the gods hadn't transferred you to the Taishi Hall with your temper, I'm afraid Jiutian would have been killed by the heartless words you said in Yaotai. You have offended the immortals all over the place. Looking at it now, you really have to grind it out. Hey, Zhao Ya, don’t you practice the way of ruthlessness? Why are you so restless?”

Finally Zhaoya was discouraged, with his hands tucked into his sleeves, trembling a little: "I practice the way of ruthlessness, but I can't be too forgetful, what kind of way of ruthlessness?"

To cultivate the ruthless way, one must abandon everything and go forward without hesitation, and the most important thing is to avoid disturbing the mind of the Tao.Before Zhao Ya's ascension, his Dao heart had been as firm as a rock, but now he started to feel confused. He used to have a very high level of cultivation in the mortal world, and no one dared to provoke him, so he can already be calm and emotionless, but now he is here The fairy world is still looked down upon by those gods.

Those who looked down on him before have all died under his sword.But now, he still can't bear the crime of killing an immortal.

He was disappointed with the ethos of the entire Heavenly Court. He desperately hoped that the fairyland would become what he dreamed of. Let the five races from all over the world bow their heads and proclaim themselves ministers.

If anyone dares to be disobedient, they will fight until they are convinced.

But the current situation in Jiuchongtian is completely opposite to what he desires.

Then what would a fairy do?

Seeing Zhaoya's gloomy brows, Zhanling grinned, hooked his hands and said: "Then come and practice the Tao of Xiaoyao with me, it will be much easier, you only need to remember four words, 'follow your heart'. By the way, it's up to you You were in a hurry just now, what are you going to do?"

The clenched fist under Zhaoya's sleeve suddenly loosened, and finally came back to his senses, and replied with a straight face: "The god asked me to review the matter of Prince Yaohua's suppression of demons."

"It seems that we are really destined." Zhan Ling was stunned, and then laughed, "What a coincidence, they also asked me to do this matter. Today, the first seat will not be seen, where are you going next?"

"Hell."

From Bai Yujing to the underworld, it is only a blink of an eye.Zhao Ya explained his purpose of coming, and wanted to check the life and death register, but the judge showed embarrassment, which is really unfortunate.A while ago, a big demon broke into the Hall of Yama and made a big fuss and damaged the book of life and death. Now it is being repaired quickly, and it will not be checked for a while.

"This job is not easy," Zhan Ling clasped his fists on his chest, gloated a little at Zhao Ya's unkind expression when negotiating with the judge, "It seems that the god wants to train you on purpose."

The judge repeated the words "can't check".With a dark face, Zhao Ya forcibly searched the Hall of Yama in front of the king of Yama, but found that the book of life and death was indeed badly damaged as the judge said, so he had to give up for the time being and left the underworld.

"The first one was reported to have disappeared, so there is no body. If you want to find out whether the fox king is alive or dead, there is only one way left," Zhan Ling advised him, "you can only go to the scene to investigate."

"Fox King's mountain forest has been reduced to a bloody cave. Since His Royal Highness was injured, I'm afraid there are still a lot of unsightly dirty things left in it." Zhao Ya said, "It won't be long before the world will be dark. If you don't want to spoil your eyes, you should go back earlier."

"Joke, how can I see fewer dirty things than you." Zhan Ling strode forward, "Don't believe me? Just wait and see."

Everyone knows that the Fox King's territory is a forest, but the forest is hidden secretly, and no one knows where it is hidden on the mountain.But that was before the barrier was broken, now that Yaohua has breached it, the whole picture of Chong Erlin should have been revealed, and even ordinary people can see it clearly.

When Zhaoya and Zhanling arrived, it was just getting dark, and there was only one tea stall at the foot of the mountain that had not been confiscated, so Zhanling went over and asked, "Excuse me, which part of Chonger Forest is it?"

"What?" The old woman shook her head and muttered, "Chong'erlin? I haven't heard of it."

Zhanling said "excuse me", and went to the depths of the mountain with Zhaoya. While walking, he took out a drunk dream pill and put it in his mouth, chewed it a few times, and asked the man next to him vaguely: " Interesting, do you think she is a human or a ghost?"

Seemingly knowing that Zhao Ya didn't bother to answer such obvious questions, he asked himself and answered: "There is nothing wrong with the dress, but the bloody smell of the tea soup is too strong. It is not only a ghost, but also a ghost who died in vain. He only looks for passers-by to kill him of."

Zhao Ya didn't turn his head back: "Re-examination is important, come back and clean up."

"Don't worry, I've already set up the enchantment, so that no mortal will come in by mistake and die." Zhan Ling chewed the drunken dream pill excitedly, facing the drug-like pleasure, he quickly became talkative, " Let me ask you another question, do you know why the Fox King's forest is called Chonger Forest?"

The sky was completely dark, and they walked in the dense forest full of ghosts, as if they couldn't see their fingers.Zhao Ya clasped his hand on the saber "Danxin", looked around vigilantly, and ignored his chatter.However, Zhanling felt that the surroundings were too quiet. Regardless of whether there was an audience or not, he said loudly to himself: "The word wind removes the side and it is a worm, and the word moon removes the side and it becomes two. Therefore, when the word worm is combined, it means the wind and the moon are boundless. The phrase is called 'The Boundless Forest of Wind and Moon, the Cave of Ecstasy and Bone Beauty', and it refers to this place. This is a common anagram in the world. In the past, during the Lantern Festival, you... haven't you guessed it?"

"You talk a lot."

"It's too quiet here, I just want... to be more lively." Zhan Ling chewed to his heart's content, and he became the drunk look when we first met, "Before, when I... was in the mortal world, I was Qin Louchu. A frequent visitor in the museum. I have long been attracted to the name... I want to come to this happy forest... to find out, beauties, one counts, come out, don't... don't make people wait."

Zhao Ya regretted that he easily agreed to come with him at that time, it was dark now, the forest was full of weirdness, and the fairy beside him disturbed him so much that he couldn't calm down.So he lowered his face and said bluntly: "Even if there were, you scared them away. Immortal Zhanling, I'm all you need here, you'd better go back to heaven as soon as possible."

The tone of the words was extremely bad, as if he did not hide the boredom in his heart.Not only did Zhan Ling fail to hear it, he pointed at him and smiled and said, "Nonsense...isn't there...a ready-made one?"

Zhaoya hates people calling him "beauty" the most, but Zhanling touches his back again and again, he can't bear it.The finger on the saber moved slightly, and he was about to settle the old and new accounts together, but suddenly he felt a whirling fragrant wind blowing from behind, and there was still a delicate female voice wrapped in the wind:

"This fairy, are you calling my slave?"