Flame red

Tu Xin is not used to living under the eaves of ordinary people. She was born under the dragon chair of the imperial palace, and grew up practicing in that resplendent palace. The life of eating food, watching one after another young or old emperors are supported by others to sit on the top of the ten thousand people, and then, sooner or later, they fall from the top again and fall into the abyss that no one cares about. The next mausoleum surrounded by green mountains and green waters will be excavated back and forth after thousands of years, looking pitiful and helpless.

I don't know who told her that the one who usually guards the emperor from birth to death is called the emperor's spirit.Even after many years, as long as he still has this title, he must be a life that can call wind and rain and surpass all monsters and ghosts.

But it is a pity that even Tu Xin has never seen the so-called emperor spirit.

She felt that human beings were really boring, so she dared not raise her head in front of her obsequiously.Tu Xin is just a little fox who has cultivated to eight tails, but for some reason, anyone who sees her eight tails spread out like a lotus flower will definitely kneel down, as if she can eat Drop them the same.

Tu Xin felt that human taste was not good, and smelled the greasy smell of fireworks.But every time she saw those so-called exorcists, she felt bored again.

She doesn't have any superpowers, at most because she is older, so many spells and monsters are just trivial things that dissipate with a flick of a finger in front of her, and it is not worth looking up at all.

However, Tu Xin has lived for so long, so it can be regarded as a bit of pursuit.

Unlike those little emperors, it is not for the glory and wealth, nor is it for the three thousand beauties in the harem. These things can be transformed by waving her tail. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

She had never seen a fox with nine tails, at most she had peeked at an ancient book in a certain temple, which told the story of a demon fox with nine tails bewitching a certain emperor to poison the world.

This monster is alive, and it is considered boring. Apart from scaring the passing children every day, there is nothing to look forward to.So Tu Xin thought, why not just cultivate to the ninth tail, and then ascend to immortality.

It's a pity that she doesn't know the truth, and after hundreds of years and nearly 1000 years of tossing, she can't find the feeling.

Fortunately, one day a kind old monster heard her doubts and told Tu Xin to find a shadow that could completely tolerate her and spend a long time in it, maybe she would understand.

So what is the shadow that can completely contain her?

The old monster smiled and said, "You stay in that person's shadow, open your tail, and count to see if there are eight. If it's right, it's done."

oh.Tu Xin nodded half-understanding, and set foot on the road to find such a shadow.

After searching, he found Mu Yu.

At that time, Mu Yu was still an immature little girl, sitting under the big banyan tree in front of the town, reading a comic book "Journey to the West", with a bag of rice cakes beside her, which she didn't eat after opening.Tu Xin looked at it as a pity when he passed by, so he sneaked onto the branch of the banyan tree, stretched out a tail, and tried to take away the bag of rice cakes.

But just when the tip of her tail touched the packaging bag, she saw the rice cake being taken away by a small hand.

Tu Xin flinched, blinked and looked down, just when Mu Yu raised his head, those pale eyes looked into hers without fear.

According to the general script, Mu Yu should feel Tu Xin's anticipation in the next second and pass the rice cake to her, but in fact he didn't. At that time, Mu Yu looked at Tu Xin blankly, and then threw out a sentence.

"Twenty cents in the village can buy a bag."

It was as if Tu Xin would really buy it.

She shook her tail in embarrassment, then rolled down from the tree, pretending to sit calmly beside Mu Yu.The child was not timid, but he didn't reach out to touch her hair either. Instead, he politely stepped aside and continued to read his book.

——This kid is interesting.

Thinking in his heart, Tu Xin tilted his head and looked at Mu Yu.Ask: "What's your name?"

Mu Yu looked back at Tu Xin, not surprised that she was able to speak, and replied in a businesslike manner: "Mu Yu."

According to what Tu Xin heard before, a person like Mu Yu who can see ghosts and monsters has opened his eyes.But unlike the exorcists who have been trained since childhood, Mu Yu doesn't know how to use any exorcism spells and tools except for being able to see her.

At that time, Tu Xin was also in a period of burnout, so he didn't look for any shadows. He followed Mu Yu from one end of the town to the other, observing the child's every move. Occasionally, Mu Yu would go to the village to buy a bag of rice for Tu Xin. Cake satisfies her hunger, muttering how the fox is a vegetarian.

Tu Xin didn't tell Mu Yu that in previous years in the palace, she could eat up the whole banquet.

Mu Yu doesn't know how to exorcise demons, but her grandmother is a capable exorcist.When seeing Tu Xin, he would salute respectfully, very much like the exorcists he had seen in those years.

Tu Xin is not very good at talking to Mu Yu's grandmother, so he sticks to Mu Yu when he has nothing to do, and tells her about the things in the palace, often while talking, the child will fall asleep leaning on her tail.

I don't know if it's because I'm not very interested in the imperial palace, or because Tu Xin's words are too boring.But she also cares about it, letting Mu Yu sleep soundly alone, turning her head to watch the people coming and going in this small town, and a few tits occasionally jumping off the tiled roofs of the houses.

Later, it was probably the year when it was said that there was a rare mudslide in the east. Tu Xin heard that a fox nest in a backer was buried by the mudslide. Say goodbye to Mu Yu, and rush to the rumored location.

But when they got there, they found out that the said fox den turned out to be a small city where a plague had occurred. This rumor was clearly the bait released by the exorcists, luring capable foxes from all over the world to the city for encirclement and suppression.

Tu Xin didn't want to confront the exorcist head-on. After all, no matter how strong she was, she would not have any advantage in the face of hundreds of exorcists. If she was desperate, she might have to cut off a tail to save her life.

She wandered around the city, carefully looking for the exit, and finally in the chase with the exorcist, she was forced to fall into someone's shadow.

The exorcists who were waiting to chase her left, and Tu Xin crawled out quietly, only to find that the shadow belonged to a dying little girl.He is much younger than Mu Yu, and beside the girl, there is a boy with similar appearance crying.

Tu Xin was annoyed by the boy's crying, so he tied the little girl's soul with demonic energy.But this tie didn't matter, what mattered was that she found that the originally young shadow of the other party opened eight furry tails with a bang.

- what the hell?

She looked shocked. A child who was about to die actually met the requirement that the old monster said to be able to live together?In the days to come, is it necessary to put in so much effort to keep the child alive?

After careful consideration of the pros and cons, she decided to act as if nothing had happened, and leave quietly, just as she came quietly.

Just moving half a step, the girl suddenly opened her eyes.

"Who are you?" There was no innocence in her immature voice.

This is probably the meeting between Tu Xin and Gu He, and they got along for a while by accident.And at that time, she found that she was actually a kind-hearted fox. After all, there was no monster who would run around looking for an exorcist to adopt two children in her arms, and no monster would persevere in teasing an innocent fox. Girls who can't laugh laugh.

Tu Xin felt that he might have been led astray by Mu Yu, and actually thought that children are actually quite cute.

Oh, yes, Mu Yu.

After finding an exorcist for Gu He and her younger brother to adopt, Tu Xin hurried back to Mu Yu's side.One reason is that she wants to complain about what happened during this period, and the other reason is that she really thinks Mu Yu is cuter compared to Gu He.

That was when Mu Yu was unconscious due to the entanglement of the evil spirit.

Her family seemed to have thought of many ways, but they couldn't wake Mu Yu up. Even after Tu Xin came back and swallowed the evil spirit, the child still weakened at an incredible speed.

Before, Tu Xin was able to tie Gu He's soul with demonic power, but it was obvious that Mu Yu's situation needed more pure demonic power or something to ease it.

Her grandmother went around looking for people to inquire. As a monster, Tu Xin should not have interfered in the affairs of human beings, but later she couldn't stand it anymore, so she told Mu Yu's grandmother to find a family of exorcists with a certain background. There are many magic weapons in it, maybe there is one that can solve this matter.

And this search led to the Lu family.

The Lu family came from the head of the family, and Tu Xin knew that this was a newly established family of exorcists. They have been very young for nearly a hundred years, and the oldest head of the family is only over fifty years old.

The head of the family drove a minivan to Mu's house, and brought out a little doll from the car, with a chain on his hand and an infusion bottle hanging from it.

As soon as the child appeared, Tu Xin frowned.

The method that the head master provided to the Mu family was to put the monster inner alchemy with extremely high morals into Mu Yu's body, so as to save his life and eliminate disasters.Mu Yu's grandmother is not sure if this matter will cause future troubles, and she is the only one in the whole family who knows something about this strange power. In that room, he bowed and asked her opinion.

Tu Xin said: "Using the Taoism of monsters to heal diseases and eliminate disasters, I have seen this before. The higher the Taoism, the more blessings and blessings will be achieved."

"Then is the Lu family's method feasible now?" Grandma Mu Yu asked.

"It is undoubtedly a correct choice. There is no other way to save her now." Tu Xin nodded. "However, I'm a little curious about that child." After thinking for a while, she casually took a small jug from the side, turned into a wisp of smoke and penetrated into it, and asked Grandma Mu Yu to take her close to the child to see clearly .

Mu Yu's grandmother brought Tu Xin to the Lu family's van.The little doll was lying on a stretcher, followed by a butler in black, who held a strange instrument in his hand.Mu Yu's grandmother told her that this is something used to measure the heartbeat, and the beating numbers on it are the heartbeat frequency.

Tu Xin saw that the number displayed on the instrument was 40—it was strangely low.

As Tu Xin said, there is no other way to choose at the moment, and the Lu family has repeatedly emphasized that the inner alchemy of this monster has been washed by an authoritative exorcism family, so it is very clean.

The head of the family still patted his chest and vowed: "If there is a problem in the future, just ask our family to take responsibility."

After thinking about it again and again, Mu Yu's parents still nodded under the persuasion of grandma.

So the people from the Lu family took the little doll into the room where Mu Yu was.Mu Yu's grandmother followed with Tu Xin.

At first she was a little curious about where the monster's inner alchemy was, but then she poked her head out of the flagon, approached the child and sniffed it, and then she understood.

This kid is not simple.Tu Xin knew that after the monster's inner alchemy left the body, even the best material, whether it was amber or jade, would dissipate quickly if it was not wrapped in flesh and blood.

And human flesh and blood will consume the inner alchemy. As time goes by, the ghost soul remaining inside will grow stronger and stronger under the nourishment of this person's flesh and blood, and finally backlash against the person who swallowed the inner alchemy.

Even though the Lu family said that the inner alchemy of this monster was washed very clean, Tu Xin knew that no matter how powerful an exorcist or a magic weapon was, they would not be able to wash away the soul of the monster sealed in the inner alchemy. more remains.

Because Neidan itself has a soul.If it is said to be completely washed, the only way is to burn the inner alchemy.

"Then, let's take out the inner alchemy."

Just as he was thinking, he suddenly heard the big boss say something like this.

Tu Xin regained his senses, hid in the flagon, and observed the situation in the room intently.

Mu Yu's grandmother was obviously a little puzzled. "Take out the inner alchemy?"

"En." The head of the house nodded, and the butler in black brought a small iron box, opened it, and took out a box of white ointment from inside.

Da Dangjia covered his hands with ointment, and then took a small indigo jade knife from the housekeeper.After a gesture, the housekeeper turned over the little doll beside him, and tore off the hospital gown directly, revealing a smooth back.

Tu Xin snorted.

As I said before, this little doll is not simple.Because the monster's inner alchemy has no other way to preserve it except nourishing it with flesh and blood in the human body, but at the same time, this will consume the monster's power and human life.

And the exorcist would not choose to use a living person as a container in order to preserve a precious monster inner alchemy.

The only way to allow the inner alchemy to maintain its original Taoism without nourishing that ray of soul is to use the flesh and blood of that monster as a container.

However, many monsters have no offspring, and even if they did, they would not be caught by the exorcist so easily.

If so, what should we do?

Before hundreds of people surrounded the fox, Tu Xin once saw two exorcists driving an ambulance parked in front of the hospital.In the car was the stillborn fetus that had died in the womb of the mother in the past three days. When preparing to kill a monster with considerable skills, one of the exorcists would rush to the scene with a stillborn fetus and throw the fetus into the monster to turn it into a monster. In that fire group.

The fire will reduce people and demons to ashes and burn for a long time. After waiting for it to go out, the exorcist will rummage in the ashes until he finds a baby with a beating heart.

This baby is a human child reborn with the help of a monster's flesh and blood.In that group of flames, the inner alchemy was burned along with the monster's flesh and blood, and when it was dying, there was no other way but to swallow the dead fetus and be reborn into a new container to keep the remaining ray of soul from dissipating .

If this little doll hadn't been put into an indefinite sleep, after waking up, it might really become a new monster.

The Lu family sold the monster inner alchemy that they had painstakingly preserved to the Mu family for the price of two buildings, which is said to be at least half cheaper than the current market price.

Tu Xin doesn't understand the market, but in order to save Mu Yu, her parents will find a way to pay even the price of a small town.

The master cut open the back of the little doll with a jade knife, and with a bang, he directly pulled out a small golden ball from the wound with his hand covered with white ointment.

According to the position of the little doll's wound, an identical cut was made at the same place on Mu Yu's back, and the little ball was carefully placed next to the spine.

Then, a golden light was seen spreading from the wound, covering Mu Yu's body.

The big master breathed a sigh of relief.Carefully sewed up Mu Yu's wound, while the other little doll at the side gave the butler a look, tied it tightly with a bandage, and did not do any more treatment.

"Okay." After wiping off all the blood, he smiled and said to Mu Yu's grandmother. "This little girl will have smooth sailing and prosperity for the rest of her life."

Mu Yu's grandmother quickly thanked her and sent the Lu family members out of the room.They didn't take the little baby away, Mu Yu's parents ran out the door and called to stop the big head who was about to leave by car, and asked the child what to do.

The head of the family hummed, and said: "There are rules in our industry, such a child cannot be taken home. You can discuss it, and you can send it to an orphanage. Anyway, you won't live long."

After speaking, he got in the car and left.

Later, the Mu family really discussed seriously about the little doll for several days, and Tu Xin kept squatting in the small flagon. She remembered that Gu He had accidentally told herself before that she had no father or mother. The child is in poor health, and I always hear relatives say that sending their two siblings to the orphanage will not live long anyway.

When Mu Yu's parents were about to send the baby to the orphanage, Tu Xin got out of the flagon, found Mu Yu's grandmother, and suggested that she raise the child.

"Why?" Mu Yu's grandmother seemed a little surprised.

Tu Xin said: "This time Mu Yu's life was saved, but if this monster's inner alchemy stays in a person's body for a long time, it will breed something harmful to that person, whether it is spells or spells, it can't be cured—— In addition to using the flesh and blood of this monster itself."

"You mean, this Neidan will still harm Mu Yu in the future?" Her grandmother was startled.

"It's just inevitable. A monster is a monster, and a person is a person. How could our inner alchemy let you be a magic weapon to cure diseases and eliminate disasters so easily?" Tu Xin said with a frown. "After Mu Yu grows up, this monster is probably getting stronger gradually, but because it has no physical attachment, it will naturally want to swallow Mu Yu's body to be reborn. At that time, it can only be burned again."

"That……"

"But do you think it can be burned like this? The soul, the inner alchemy, and the flesh and blood can't be lost. Only then can this monster be completely killed and Mu Yu's life can be saved." Tu Xin glanced at the room where the little doll was. "If you really want to save her, you might as well raise this child. In the future, if there is something else around Mu Yu because of the inner alchemy, the child can still protect her."

"Is this really something that even the exorcists can't do anything about?" Mu Yu's grandmother asked.

Tu Xin nodded. "I shouldn't have said it, but since I have a deep friendship with Mu Yu, I will tell you the method."

Later, she asked Mu Yu's grandmother to seal the snake demon from the family of exorcists, that is, the Jian family, bought Li Long, and waited for a young blood relative who had opened the eyes of the sky like Mu Yu to teach her how to tame it. ,in case for need.

After everything was arranged properly, and after confirming that there were no major omissions, Tu Xin was ready to return to Gu He's side.Before leaving, she asked Mu Yu's grandmother: "What's the name of that little baby?"

"Name?" Mu Yu's grandmother frowned and shook her head. "The head of the Lu family told me that this kind of child has no name, but because they were born in a raging fire, the exorcists sometimes call them Yanhong."

Flame red.

Tu Xin said the name silently in his heart.Then he gave a wry smile.

"It's a good name," she said.