Fire and theft prevention

Huo Wei found Mu Qingjia three miles outside Guyi City.

He sat cross-legged under a quaint peach blossom tree, and the peach branches stretched out in all directions, propping up a light pink cloud.Fine peach petals fell on the temple between his eyebrows, adding a little more tenderness.

Huo Wei felt that as long as he looked at him, no matter how boiling his heart was, he would return to tranquility.

"Junior Brother found me again." Mu Qingjia lowered her eyes and smiled, "It's like finding your sword."

This kind of comparison is both appropriate and a bit weird, Huo Wei was silent, unable to tell whether it was a casual remark or a deliberate one.

However, Mu Qingjia had long been used to his silence, so he just stood up and casually patted the dust and fallen leaves off his shoulders.

"Let's go. Finish it as soon as possible and return home as soon as possible." He smiled, "I have begun to miss the sweet-scented osmanthus and fine wine of Mount Gaotu."

"Osmanthus still has to wait for autumn." Huo Wei said.

"Junior brother is really spoiling the scenery." Mu Qingjia said with a smile, "Autumn is autumn, anyway, it's still a long time, I can afford to wait."

Huo Wei was noncommittal, and urged her silently.This time, the two of them did not walk in through the city gate brightly, but crossed the city gate with their swords from a high altitude, intending to reach Dadong City.

On the Underworld Butterfly Sword, Mu Qingjia asked: "Junior Brother, what do you think constitutes 'I'?"

"You are you." Huo Wei said.

Mu Qingjia smiled and said: "Master will be satisfied with this kind of answer, but it can't be perfunctory for me. To be more specific, life can be roughly divided into body|body, soul and memory. Answer again."

"The one standing here is Mu Qingjia." Huo Wei said stubbornly.

"Okay." Mu Qingjia said helplessly, "I don't have a body|body, and I lack memory. The only thing that is complete is my soul. Let's just pretend that your answer is 'soul'."

Huo Wei said nothing, just listened quietly.

At this time, they passed over the city lord's mansion, and when looking down at the city lord's mansion from a high altitude, they could only see a tiny square black dot.

Mu Qingjia asked while looking down at Guyu City, "Then do you think that the wife of the city lord has absorbed so many alien souls, is she still herself?"

"If the body is kept intact, the soul will remain within seven days after death." Huo Wei said, "If he can reshape the carrier for that woman within seven days, she will still be her."

"Then why does she need to absorb other souls?" Mu Qingjia said.

Huo Wei explained: "Her resurrection has flaws and is not recognized by the Dao of Heaven, so she has to rely on other souls to bear the overflow of souls instead of her."

"Then, where did the souls she absorbed go?" Mu Qingjia stared at him and asked.

Huo Wei was undefended, and his expression was a little confused because of the memories.

"Integrate into the world and go back to the tree of life and death." He replied.

"This is the first time I've heard the term 'tree of life and death'." Mu Qingjia said with a smile, "Junior brother knows it really well."

Huo Wei: "..."

"If my guess is correct, the so-called 'Returning Soul Wood' is a part of the 'Life and Death Tree'." Mu Qingjia continued, "Because the Life and Death Tree is the ultimate destination of the soul, the Returning Soul Wood can perfectly accommodate the soul. It doesn’t need to be consumed, am I right?”

Huo Wei continued to remain silent: "..."

His expression was mixed with surprise, annoyance, uneasiness, and other complex emotions that Mu Qingjia couldn't fathom.

While trying to figure out his thoughts, Mu Qingjia joked with a smile: "Senior brother, I'm so smart, it's only natural that I guessed it. Junior brother, why are you so nervous?"

"Senior brother, a thick skin may not be a good thing." Huo Wei changed the subject, "Here we are."

The two landed in the deep alley where they parted from Bu Chen last night. Bu Chen was caught by something and did not arrive, so the two walked out of the deep alley and merged into the busy thoroughfare of Dongshi.

After the soul sacrifice ceremony at dusk yesterday, today's Guyi City is full of people like in the past, and the young rosy faces are active on the thoroughfare, as if nothing happened.

This town is becoming young and full of vitality, the strong laugh loudly, and the weak are getting weaker, paying for them the price of life.

Mu Qingjia was very close to Huo Wei, almost walking side by side with him.

The younger brother is only three knuckles taller than him, but his broad shoulders make him look stronger and taller.Thanks to his tall stature and sharp aura, although he was handsome and beautiful, no one dared to recognize him as a woman.

Mu Qingjia couldn't help feeling that Xue Tuantuan, who was half a head shorter than him, grew taller than herself so quickly.

The voice of Guyicheng was flowing in his ears, perhaps because he had thought in advance, he found that he hardly heard old voices, only the voices of young men and women.

Seeing that there was no abnormality on the thoroughfare, he talked about the body|body and soul again.

"For example, the living creature is a complete cup, and the castellan's wife's body is a broken cup, from which water is constantly leaking. So she managed to pour the water from the living creature's cup into her own broken cup instead of Spilled souls, keep the cup full."

He thought for a while and said, "The soul-returning wood is like a cup-shaped magic vessel. Not only does it not leak, but it is also naturally able to absorb water from the sky and the earth. Its attraction is higher than that of living and dead things."

Seeing Huo Wei nodding, Mu Qingjia continued: "The role of Yaocao in the city lord's wife is probably to draw a water-gathering 'condensation charm' on the broken cup to help her plunder the souls between heaven and earth."

He hammered his palm and admitted himself: "Now it's clear."

He thought for a moment, and the corners of his lips twitched playfully: "By the way, junior brother, do you think the city lord knows about the fact that the soul will disappear after seven days and there is no way to recover?"

He blinked his eyes, "Or, will the person who wrote the letter allow him to know? - There is no mention of this in the letter. Compared with 'unnecessary' mentioning, I am more inclined to 'deliberately' not mentioning it. Mention."

"I don't know if it's true or not, junior brother." He laughed.

The thoroughfare of Dongshi was full of streams, and the cars and horses rumbled past, and the warm wind brought by them swept up the arrest notices posted on the stone pillars.

There were three men with different appearances drawn on the notice, two of them were standing blatantly on the street, but all the passers-by turned a blind eye to them.

Capture the person with the most vicious face in the list, with an inexplicable smile on the corner of his mouth.

"He will know." Huo Wei said.

There was cunning in Mu Qingjia's amber pupils, and when they faced each other's mysterious pupils, both of them showed unkind expressions by coincidence.

Suddenly, Huo Wei's ears moved slightly, and he turned to the crowd not far away.

Mu Qingjia looked in that direction, his sight was blocked by the crowd and he couldn't see anything, but he heard a boy crying.

He knew that his junior brother was interested in that cry, so he took his hand and said, "Go and see."

There was a sparse circle of people around the place, Mu Qingjia pushed through the crowd, and saw an old man slumped on the steps, with a sugar pot with a burden and charcoal fire beside him.

The wooden box stood alone, and the place where all kinds of sugar figurines had been stuck on the wooden box was now empty.

The woman's color was so dim that it was almost transparent, most of her soul was gone, obviously she had been dead for a long time.

"...was lying on the street early in the morning, and there were no children to be buried. It's a pity that the children and grandchildren are so unfilial at such a young age..."

Mu Qingjia suddenly realized that it was the corpse of the sugar seller's old lady.

He felt that his junior brother held his hand tightly for a moment.

"She became your sugar figure." Huo Wei said.

For the first time, he added a few more words: "Her hands are very steady. Suitable for sword practice."

The people nearby felt the scorching heat inexplicably, and wiped away their sweat one after another.Mu Qingjia also felt the anger of his junior brother, but this time he didn't try to calm down the anger, but just clenched that hand with the same strength.

"I know," he said.

The crowd dispersed, but the young boy's cries continued, sobbing and tugging at the hearts of the two of them.Mu Qingjia followed the sound, and just as he turned around, he was caught by the young man.

"Whoa, the sugar figurine is gone, the old grandma is gone..." The young boy threw himself on the hem of his clothes, crying with snot and tears, "Brother fierce face, I..."

He still wanted to continue crying, but Mu Qingjia took a step back vigilantly, blocking Huo Wei behind him.

"Who are you?" Mu Qingjia asked.

The young boy's amber peach blossom eyes, which looked very much like Mu Qingjia's, blinked, as if he was a little dazed by his shock.

He still holds a corner of Mu Qingjia's clothes in his left hand.

Huo Wei reacted very quickly, the Underworld Butterfly Sword slipped out of his waist, and chopped off the young man's left hand.A few blue shadows flew out of thin air, ding ding dong dong towards the Butterfly Sword, the sound was like a falling spring, knocking it to a very slight angle.

The sword's edge and the young man's hand passed by at the wrong peak, scratching the corner of his clothes and igniting a golden flame.

At the same time, a blue light flashed in the boy's left hand, and Jin Yan, Yijiao, and Mu Qingjia disappeared.

The whole process happened in an instant, and just as Mu Qingjia realized that something was wrong with the young boy, he disappeared out of thin air.

The young boy withdrew his left hand leisurely, and tapped a pocket silver mirror in the palm of his hand.The silver mirror sank into his palm and disappeared without a trace.

"Forgot that your spiritual eyes can explore cultivation." He pouted, "It's boring, I wanted to play with you more."

The young boy paused for a moment, then looked down at his chest.

A Xuanying long sword sank into his heart, and the golden flame passed through his chest.

"Oh." He sighed in surprise.

With a slight click sound, several cracks cracked in his chest, like broken mirrors.Huo Wei drew his sword, and the mirror surface was completely restored.

He laughed: "Why, is my new magic weapon fun?"

Bright red incantations spread from under Huo Wei's skirt, the corners of his eyes were red, and his pupils shone like golden flames in the abyss.The wind of the sword fluttered like a butterfly shadow, changing into hundreds of movements in an instant, turning into a frenzy of flames and biting the little boy.

The young boy did not dodge or dodge, his whole body was riddled with holes, broken into mirrors, and instantly restored to perfection.

"Don't be impulsive, Huo Xianyou." He said casually, "Of course I can't beat you, but you can never hurt me—are you not afraid of accidentally hurting your dear senior brother?"

"Hand over Mu Qingjia." Huo Wei was on the verge of fury.

The young boy raised his chin and moved away from the tip of the Butterfly Sword.

"I'm not going to harm him, just for now." He said with a smile, "I just want to invite your elder brother to be a guest, and ask you to do me a favor by the way."

Seeing that Huo Wei was silent, he said to himself: "—kill 'Nie Xiaoqian' and find out the real culprit. I'll return the 'fox spirit' to you."

"It's most convenient to kill you now." Huo Wei shouted angrily.

He moved forward with the sword and cut off the young boy's neck.However, the little boy was not affected at all, he just pretended to twist his neck, and the gap healed as before.

"Be careful." The young boy said, "If you use full firepower in this town full of mortals, you will directly fail the mission."

Huo Wei narrowed his eyes dangerously, and said fiercely: "Afterwards, return him to me completely. Otherwise, I will chase you to the ends of the earth. You know, I will always know his location."

He approached the little boy, his eyes spit out fierce flames: "You also know that based on the number of enemies you and I have, once the location is exposed, you will never have peace."

"Hey, it's scary." The little boy smiled and took a step back, "This person has such a strange vision that he can only fall in love with you."

He glanced at the Heshi bracelet on Huo Wei's left wrist, and smiled with interest.He lightly tapped the gold bracelet with his knuckles, and the bracelet was released in response to the sound, and fell into the palm of his hand with a clatter.

"Without this, it should be much easier to kill 'Nie Xiaoqian'." He tilted his head and said.

The flames in Huo Wei's dantian soared into the sky, and the manic fire aura poured into his limbs, eager to try.He frowned and looked at the little boy in surprise.

"It's nothing to be surprised about." The young boy said, "Of course I can control the magic weapon in my hands."

His figure blurred like a mirror, from being blurry to disappearing.

"Huo Xianyou, Lemou is waiting for your good news."

Le Lu finally said.