Jia Mo

Yu Shishi and Murong Xue curled up in a small corner.

They leaned against an uneven rock painting, with a reclining wall above their heads.Probably when the high wall collapsed, it just leaned against the rock wall here, leaving a narrow triangular space.Murong Xue stuck a sword in the side, creating a transparent barrier.This enchantment shields their breath and figure, so that the monsters outside cannot find them.Murong Xue was injured, and when she was captured, her right lower abdomen hit a stone, causing severe pain.He gritted his teeth, lifted the skirt of his shirt without a word, and touched inside, his hands were covered with sticky blood.He silently fastened the waistband of his trousers without saying a word.

"Do you think Junior Brother Qi and the others can find us?" Master Yu whispered.

Murong Xue really wanted to say yes, but both of them knew it well, this was a fool's dream.They were pulled in by ghost hands, too far from the ground.The outside is full of layers of 'ghosts', with pale faces and no palm prints.They were lying in the crevices of the stone, and some of them had half of their bodies submerged in the stone wall, almost melting with the stone.They closed their eyes tightly, as if they were hibernating, but as soon as there was a sound, they would stretch out their hands from the ground and pull people in from outside as their nourishment.

What it was, they couldn't figure it out.Murong Xue rummaged through the classics and allusions in her mind, but she had never heard of such a weird thing.Yu Shishi suddenly let out a little exclamation, Murongxue thought those 'ghosts' had woken up, so she hurriedly stood up.

"Look," Yu Shishi broke his face, "look at their hearts."

"what?"

"Something glows in their hearts." Yu Shishi whispered.

There is no light in the ground, and nothing can be seen.Murong Xue lit a lamp talisman, separated by a thin barrier, Murong Xue and Yu Shishi could see several pale cheeks crowded together, there were adults and children, facial features were blurred, eyes and noses could hardly be seen silhouette, like a hazy reflection in water.

Both of them gasped, holding back their fear and searching for their chests.There are twisted and twisted root systems growing in their hearts, exuding a faint brilliance like gossamer, stretching densely into the distance.Murong Xue and Yu Shishi glanced at each other, each other's eyes were full of doubts, these "people" were like plants with roots growing in their hearts.

"Are they flower demons or something?" Yu Shishi asked.

"Did the flower demon look like this?" Murong Xue asked.

"……seems not."

Murong Xue endured the severe pain in her abdomen to adjust her posture, lowered her head and approached the barrier, approaching a sleeping ghost.He carefully considered the root system on the ghost's chest, trying his best to see the direction in which the root system extended.There seems to be a frost-colored cold light flashing on the root system, but it doesn't seem to be there just now. When did it appear?Murong Xue felt that the sight was familiar, she stared so wide that her eyes were sore, she couldn't see what it was.These monsters were layered on top of each other, blocking his vision.

Yu Shishi watched in horror, Murong Xue was too close to that ghost, that blurry face was only a fist away from him, as if he could open his eyes at any time.At this moment, Yu Shishi saw a change in the outline of that face.His shapeless face was like a muddy ball, with a pair of invisible hands pinching it, the outline of the ghost gradually deepened, first with eye sockets, then with the bridge of the nose, and finally even the mouth was clearly visible.Yu Shishi held down Murong Xue's shoulders, afraid of waking up the ghosts, she didn't dare to make a sound, only dared to pull him back with all her strength.

Murong Xue sensed that something was wrong, and raised her head slowly, a pale face was looking at him coldly.At some point, the blurry face outside the barrier was fully formed, and a pair of wet and sticky eyes opened.Murong Xue waved her hand cautiously in front of him, but he didn't respond, Murong Xue breathed a sigh of relief, the ghost couldn't see him.He slowly stood up, and was horrified to find that all the ghosts around him had faces and opened their eyes one by one.

The ghosts woke up.

The roots coiled around their chests were broken one by one. If Murong Xue had enough hearing power, she would have heard all the weak hearts begin to beat vigorously.There was a commotion in the ground, like a bazaar, and all the ghosts were moving around. Earthworms twisted their waxy bodies and drilled out of the jagged rock walls.Yu Shishi couldn't help but hugged Murong Xue tightly, and the two leaned against each other trembling.The more he watched, the more frightened he became, so he simply turned off the lamp symbol.In the empty darkness, only each other's rapid breathing and countless rustling noises could be heard.

When her mind was in a mess, Murong Xue's palm was poked by Yu Shishi.

Yu Shishi wrote in his hand: face, met.

What's the meaning?Murong Xue was stunned for a while before she realized that Yu Shishi said that she had seen those faces before.How could she have seen it?Murong Xue didn't react.

Yu Shishi wrote in his hand again: "Snake witch."

As if there was a blast of thunder above her head, Murong Xue remembered that they had indeed seen these faces.In Fuxi's black stone colossus, the magma river torrents, the owners of these faces were killed by Qi Yin's cold winter technique, and they were frozen into countless stiff ice sculptures.But now they came alive and opened their eyes underground like ghosts.They were stirring and sniffing around.Murong Xue realized that Qi Yin must have come down to find them, he killed these snake witches, he was the snake witch's enemy.His breath has awakened these reborn snake witches, they are looking for his traces, his scent.

They want revenge.

"Even Master Fuxi is gone, and no one can undo our curse." Yun Zhi sighed, "The old monster can kill even gods, or we'd better defect and follow him. Maybe it depends on Because I used to be his nephew, he let me be the chief steward."

The group of them stayed away from those weird god flowers and stood on a bare rock.The big shrimp-red rocks looked like they were burned by fire, and they were indeed burnt, because the stone really burned our feet. We only stood there for a while, and the soles of our feet seemed to be peeling off.

"If you want to be the chief executive, at least think about how to go back 500 years later." The black cat sighed.

Qi Yin glanced at Fu Lan subconsciously, but he didn't respond, just silently staring at those endless divine flowers.After going back 500 years, Fulan still wants to stay here, and he will be alone again, alone and without a place to go.It's not that Qi Yin has never thought about this problem, but he can't think of any good solution.Can he stay here, then there will be two Qi Yins in the future?

"Stop dreaming," Bailu interjected lazily, "Gods have their own way, and such a paradox cannot happen. If you can't return to the original time, you will probably be erased."

"erase?"

"Just disappear, idiot." Bai Lu said, "There will be no such person as Qi Yin, and no one will remember you. You will disappear from all time. Meng Funiang never gave birth to you, and Fulan didn't have your younger brother. Find a way, don't daydream here. The three women in Baiyu died 500 years later, and they were still alive 500 years ago. You pack up and go to Yunmeng Daze to find them. A fool, at least a goddess, maybe they have a solution to the curse on you, let them send you back by the way."

But if he goes back, what will happen to Fulan?Qi Yin felt as if a stone had been crushed in his heart, and he was so stuffy that he couldn't breathe.Slowly approaching Fulan, and softly called "Brother".

Fu Lan turned her face to look at him, her eyes were quiet.

Qi Yin opened his mouth, but unconsciously avoided the topic, and asked something else casually, "Brother, why do you want to make money with Yu Linxian?"

"..." Fu Lan lowered her eyelashes, and said slowly, "I heard people say that people who have a lot of money are more likable. I want to earn a little more money, so maybe everyone won't hate me."

Qi Yin felt sour for this idiot.He took off his coat, spread it on the ground, and called Yunzhi and them, "You dog thief, lend me some money."

"Why?" Yun Zhi asked.

"My brother is short of money, lend me some, wait..." Qi Yin paused, then replied, "I'll pay you back when I go back."

"Okay." Yun Zhi lowered his head and loosened his trouser belt, and took out a wad of silver bills from his trousers, "This is the dowry that your elder brother and I saved for Sang Ya. The phoenix is ​​still closed to the island, and the sea is vast. I'm afraid I won't be able to return in this life." If you go, I will give it to you as a dowry. Keep it, no need to pay it back."

"...The dowry is the dowry, why did you sew it in your trousers?" Qi Yin held the banknotes, with a look of disgust that could not be concealed.

"Young man, the world is dangerous. You haven't seen a robber on the road who picks up shoes, dumps them on the ground, and there's a lot of gold, silver and jewels. But no one picks up the crotch, so it's the safest place." Yun Zhi said in the tone of someone who has been there.

Qi Yin looked at Qi Lingshu, the guy looked shocked, he didn't know if he didn't expect to be able to hide money like this, or he was surprised how he fell in love with such an idiot.Qi Lingshu took out the Qiankun pouch, unloaded the suet white jade and sapphire sword tassels from his waist, and put other valuables into Qi Yin's outer clothes except for the glass beads on his wrist, "The glass beads are the relics of the master, and the rest are Here you go. Same, no need to pay back.”

The black cat dug its throat with its paws, and vomited out a few moldy green copper coins, "This is what the old man saved to buy braised pork, so let's give it to the idiot."

Qi Yin wiped off the drool on the copper plate, rolled up the money and jade, handed it to Fu Lan, and said, "Brother, keep it."

Fu Lan took the cloth bag in a daze, it was a huge pile, and it jingled as soon as it was shaken.

"Brother, we all like you. It's not that no one likes you, but you have to wait longer." Qi Yin's eyes were sore, and he smiled, "Are you willing to wait for us?"

Fulan's drooping eyebrows were shrouded in the misty red light of the magma, like a silent statue, not knowing what he was thinking.Before he had time to answer, in the gray lava mist in the distance, many twisted and twisted figures stood up indistinctly.They all have human heads and snake bodies, with pale upper bodies and black tails.They paused for a moment, as if they had seen Qi Yin from a distance, and immediately twisted their bodies and rushed towards them.The abnormal appearance seemed to have no bones, but it ran fast, breaking through the heavy fog in the blink of an eye, and Qi Yin heard their hoarse shouts.

"Snake witch!?" Qi Yin was startled.

It turned out to be a snake witch buried here, not so much the Youli Diyuan, but rather the mass burial mound of these monsters.They all came alive, one after another emerged from the wet, sticky and muddy soil, roaring with high-pitched voices.

Yun Zhi and Qi Lingshu flicked their swords in an emergency, and the lights of the two swords flickered together, shining brightly in the gray mist.When Yun Zhi raised his sword, he almost lost his footing. Qi Lingshu supported him, and frowned, "What's wrong?"

"It's probably because I bleed too much before, it's a little weak, it's okay." Yun Zhi turned his face away, urging Qi Yin and the others to come up quickly.

Qi Yin stood still, what are these things?The old witch said that if you find the divine flower Fulan, you can find the secret of longevity. What does it mean?What kind of connection do these flowers, these abnormal monsters have with his brother?

"Xiaoyin, are they also Xiaohuaxian?" Fu Lan suddenly asked.

"How is it possible?" Qi Yin subconsciously blurted out without thinking.

Soon Qi Yin knew why Fulan said that, in the gray poisonous fog, the faces of those snake witches became clearer and clearer.Qi Yin finally saw them clearly and recognized them.They were the snake witches killed by him, with hideous faces and distorted bodies, screaming fiercely at him.

Those snake witches were reborn. Like Fu Lan, they could not be killed or destroyed.When a snake witch is killed, a new snake witch will crawl back from the ground, like a ghost returning from the underworld.

Fu Lan jumped into the rushing crowd.All the snake witches screamed and rushed towards him, and with a slash of the bone-chopping knife, the bleak light of the knife drew a full moon arc, cutting off a circle of ghosts at the waist.All the snake witches separated from their upper and lower bodies, fell to the ground and twitched.Fu Lan stomped on a snake witch's head and rushed into the crowd of ghosts.Startled, Qi Yin jumped into the crowd and ran behind Fu Lan.They went against the flow of people, cutting like a black sharp knife into the filthy tide.Fulan's face was expressionless, violent cold air was transpiring around him, and all the ghosts who approached him were frozen instantly, and then crushed by him with a single blow.

Blood was all over his head, and his black clothes were smeared with blood, making Fu Lan almost a bloody man.He took off his messy shirt, rolled up a snake witch's head and threw it out, like a heavy hammer, a circle of snake witches who rushed forward were instantly frozen and then shattered.Fulan's naked upper body was bloodless, as pale as ice, at this moment he was the god of killing, no one could resist his charge.But those snake witches are not afraid of death, and their blurred faces are even expressionless.

"Brother!" Qi Yin shouted.

He didn't know what Fulan was going to do, Fulan's violent killing happened suddenly and without reason.Fu Lan must have guessed something, but this guy kept silent and walked forward alone.

"Brother!" Qi Yin yelled again.

Fu Lan turned a deaf ear and continued to charge without turning her head.Yun Zhi jumped on Qi Lingshu's Wenxue, and threw Youhui to Qi Yin.Qi Yin followed closely behind Fulan, cutting to pieces the fish that escaped under Fulan's palm.The howling of ghosts, the sound of clothes being blown by the wind, the sound of bones breaking, and the sticky and cold sound of flesh and blood being separated filled Qi Yin's ears.He didn't call Fulan any more, but just followed Fulan silently.If Fu Lan wants to kill, he will accompany her.Even if there is no reason, even if it kills forever.

Finally reaching the sea of ​​divine flowers, Fu Lan squatted down, grabbed a divine flower with all her strength, and pulled it up by the roots.Along the winding root system, a vague snake witch broke through the ground, and rushed towards Fulan with its teeth and claws.Fu Lan grabbed his neck, and with her fingers hard, there was a toothache sound of bones breaking, and the basilisk screamed, its head limply drooping down.

Qi Yin also arrived, and he was surprised to find that there were thin roots growing in the ghost's heart, which were connected with the divine flower.The same tangled root system protruded from the back of the snake witch, stretching out into the dirty mud.Fulan cut off the root of the flower, and the place where the god flower used to grow sprouted again, giving birth to a flower bone like a lantern, and the fluffy petals opened one after another, and a flower that was exactly the same as before bloomed.

The white velvet flowers and the flower stalks like water snakes bloom so quietly, as if there is no one else around, as if they have never been destroyed.

"Xiao Yin, don't you understand?" Fu Lan threw the corpse on the ground, held the knife in her backhand and sent it into the heart of a snake witch, "This is the little flower fairy, when you kill them, when you destroy the god flower, The new god flower will regenerate a new heart and shape a new body. Somewhere in this world, there is also a place full of Fulan flowers, and that is where I come from. So I have no parents, so I can’t find The same family. Xiaoyin, I am not Xiaohuaxian, I am a monster, the same monster as them."

"So that's how it is..." Bailu suddenly said, "The divine flower Fulan will die when it encounters the wind. However, when the wind passes by, it will be born, withered and revived, immortal and immortal. There is no wind in the ground, and they have no chance to disappear temporarily. That is to plant them into the heart of the god witch, let them grow from the same root as the god flower, and then become immortal, presumably my extremely clever great god witch did the same."

Fu Lan finally stopped, the intense cold settled down on his body, condensing into an inextricable sorrow.

He stood there, against the light, against the tide of ghosts.Behind him, divine flowers bloomed strangely in the poisonous mist, and densely packed frantic figures rushed like waves.

He said, "Do you still like me like this? Do you still want me to wait for you?"