zero o'clock

【who are you? 】

Tang Dao slashed down in the air, and the dirty blood surged up. A thin red line of blood split the Nightmare's upside-down face in two from the middle.The woman seemed to be feeling no pain, fixedly staring at Li Huan's face, with that treacherous smile still hanging on her lips.

The feeling of the blade cutting through flesh and blood was extremely grotesque. Li Huan's heart was so cold that a thin layer of sweat broke out on the palm holding the knife. He looked at the demon in front of him immediately after landing, and said incredulously, "Even you-- ?!"

The voice fell, and a cold wind blew from the depths of the square.The Nightmare Demon's long hair fluttered, and the black veil kept rolling like a dark cloud. Her whole body was like ink dripping into clear water, dissipating into smoke bit by bit in the cold air, and completely disappeared in a short while...

It was so-

What has always been strange is finally clear.

What nightmare?What dream?

Everything is nothing more than the illusion of a demon—but, who is this demon that can make all the demons bow down to him?

The palms hanging by his sides were unconsciously clenched into fists, making the knuckles creak. The shock on Li Huan's face faded away, and his eyes were as quiet as pools of stagnant water. The dark red demonic light seeped out and dissipated in the darkness A coquettish and treacherous light.He turned around slowly, looking across the dimly lit pedestrian plaza, and looked at the man still standing at the entrance of passage B.

When Tang Dao lifted it, the tip of the knife pointed straight at the opponent. Li Huan's indifferent voice seemed to be covered with ice, with a bitter anger that could not be hidden.

"who are you?"

The leads connected to Chongming Bird's body were slightly tightened, and the light blue fluorescence was like star trails all over the sky, passing through the sky, and finally gathered into a bunch in the hands of the Demon Subduing Master after disappearing in the shadows.The man didn't speak, but just looked at Li Huan from a distance, with a pale golden light overflowing from the end of his eyes, like a ferocious beast dormant in the dark.

The next moment, the coercion of the high-level monsters dissipated, and with an unparalleled sense of oppression, it instantly swallowed the boy standing at the other end.

The terrifying force hit his chest, Li Huan's breathing stopped, his body was drenched in cold sweat and he couldn't shake, he couldn't resist the innate obedience of creatures to high-level monsters.With a "clang" sound, the Tang Dao plunged into the ground, and that coercive pressure was imposed on him, forcing him to bend his legs and had to kneel down.

"whispering sound……"

Cold sweat fell drop by drop on the floor, Li Huan's five fingers clutching the handle of the knife bled and turned white, and the veins on the back of his hand bulged. The more he tried to get up, the stronger his strength became, and in the end it felt like he was about to crush his bones.

"I advise you not to continue to resist," the man said softly, "Although you have inherited Feng Chi's appearance and bloodline, it is only because of the phoenix soul in your body. I have no pity for you at all." will not have."

Hearing this, Li Huan suddenly raised his head and asked in surprise, "What did you say?"

The man didn't speak in a hurry, he retracted the fuse with a flick of his finger, and sealed Recall Chenghuang and Chongming Bird into the scrolls respectively, then he left the shadow and walked slowly towards Li Huan.The man's steps are steady, and there is an aura of superiority that attracts attention but is extremely oppressive in his gestures.

The closer he got, the heavier the pressure on Li Huan became.When it broke through the threshold, the kneecap finally couldn't bear the heavy pressure and shattered and exploded. Li Huan let out a muffled sound of pain, and bit his lower lip tightly to endure it.Under the self-healing of the special blood, his two calves were continuously shattered and healed, and each time he was heart-piercingly painful.

The man stopped when he came close, reached out and squeezed Li Huan's chin, forcing him to look up and meet his gaze.The juvenile's dark and bright eyes were abnormally cold, and they were covered with a thin layer of water because of the pain. The malicious and fragile eyes fell into the bottom of the man's eyes, and he couldn't help being slightly stunned.

The young and beautiful face in front of him is the same as it was 3000 years ago, except that Qingluan Fengchi has a profound cultivation base and has seen through the changes in the world early. Like all high-level monsters, he is always calm and calm, with few emotional fluctuations. He was reborn from the ashes after experiencing the inevitable catastrophe of the Feng clan for thousands of years. Under the pain of burning his body, he never showed such an expression.

As expected, he was a mortal, because of his good luck, he happened to become the container of the Phoenix Soul, inherited the bloodline, and possessed this unique body.The man meditated, looked down at the young man's face carefully, his eyes moved slightly, and finally fell on the bitten lip.

The smell of phoenix blood is special, even for the four spirit beasts that are higher than the phoenix demon level, it is difficult to resist the high-quality blood.

Being teased, the hunger and thirst induced by blood addiction eroded his internal organs, the man frowned slightly, and made a swallowing movement impatiently, but said without saying: "It seems that Jiuwei really didn't intend to tell you."

Li Huan's eyes were extremely complicated. He fixed his eyes on Xing Yi's face, but looked at another person through the skin: "I guessed that the teacher was hiding something from me, and I also tried to find out from him. Some things, but the effect is not too much——!" Before he finished speaking, his leg bones shattered again, Li Huan closed his eyes in pain, his eyelashes trembled slightly, and a teardrop overflowed from the corner of his eye, slowly rolling down his cheek.

The man frowned, and the tear touched his fingertips, moistening along the joint.

When the pain subsided, he took a big breath of air with relief, then met the man's gaze again, and said weakly: "Although I really want to kill you with a knife right now, I don't mind listening to the teacher before I do it." Not going to tell me anything."

Heh... the mouth is still quite hard.

A smile appeared in the man's eyes, and he made an evaluation in his heart. He let go of Li Huan and stood up straight, restraining the coercion of the high-ranking monster. Then, for some reason, he used the demon-subduing master again The fuse condensed on the body, and the person whose legs were broken and temporarily unable to move was tightly wrapped and lifted up.

Li Huan: "..."

"Could it be that," Li Huan suddenly realized something, the expression on his face was both embarrassing and angry, "you are the one who tied me up every time and sucked my blood?!"

The man glanced at him lightly, and said lightly: "You are worrying too much, how can a demon at my level have such poor self-control? Besides, the demon subduing master I selected is extremely mentally strong, so I deliberately kept it A wisp of the soul is in his body, but several attempts to use the soul to control this body were blocked by his own consciousness, and this success may be due to good luck." Speaking of this, he suddenly smiled, "Speaking of which, There's something you might not know."

Li Huan sneered: "Is there too much I don't know?"

"That can't be helped, I've already let you know, how can Nine Tails still play the role of a strict teacher?" The man said with three points of contempt between the lines, "Because you could resonate with the soul of this demon subduing master, so the subordinates I took him back to the teahouse mercilessly just to figure out what my own spirit beast is, am I right?"

Li Huan was startled, then nodded slowly.

"It's pretty smart." The man continued, "But Nine Tails is not a mortal thing after all, and he is very clear about your thoughts. For more than a month, he knew that there was a demon soul in the demon subduing master, but he ignored him. , I guess it’s because he doesn’t want you to know what he is—heh, the nine-tailed demon fox is also kind to you, and he doesn’t want to just use it up and let it go. No wonder Mulan Paddock encountered Feng Chi that day and has been refusing to respond to it ever since."

The amount of information contained in this passage is too great, Li Huan listened to it with a half-knowledge, but judging from this guy's meaning, the teacher obviously understands everything in it, and must be familiar with this person!Coupled with the word "use" that was intentionally revealed, Li Huan knew that this person most likely intended to provoke the relationship between himself and Qi Jingyu, but he still had to pay attention.

Li Huanqiang suppressed the chaotic feeling of betrayal in his heart, and pretended to be calm: "Since you know my purpose of bringing him back to the tea house, you must also know what kind of monster the demon soul in his body comes from, right?"

The man said: "The soul I put in myself is naturally clear about its origin."

"What is it?" Li Huan asked.

The other party said: "Suzaku."

Li Huan was shocked in an instant: "Suzaku, one of the four great spirit beasts in ancient times, you actually killed him to get his soul? Then what are you... what is it?!"

"Naturally it is a stronger demon than Suzaku." After finishing speaking, the monster bearing Xing Yi's body raised its head, looked at Li Huan with dark golden monster eyes, and said with a half-smile, "Maybe you don't know yet. Under the combined influence of the phoenix blood demon soul, the demon subduing master lost his memory and degraded his personality and mind, which was already in my expectation, and if nothing unexpected happens, he will get better within a month at most, and his personality will gradually recover."

Li Huan: "..."

"That is to say, the person who has sucked blood, hugged, kissed, or even done more outrageous things with you in the past few days—" At this point, the man paused meaningfully, and he lowered his eyes to quietly admire the picture The familiar face turned red with embarrassment, and suddenly felt that Qingluan Fengchi's beautiful face, which was so exquisite that it could not eat the fireworks, looked more vivid now.

After a while, he spoke again, adding lightly: "That person is not completely a demon subduing master after losing his memory and personality, at least half of the time, he is conscious."

"Shut up!" Li Huan said angrily.

The two lead wires tied to his body were not completely tightened, and more than half of the leg injury had recovered. Li Huan's eyes were gloomy. Taking advantage of the unexpected lead wires, he flipped his wrist, and Tang Dao's sharp blade glowed with coldness, and he struck out in an instant , Li Huan shouted coldly: "Give me—get out of his body!"

Hearing this, the man curled his mouth and stood there motionless, as if he wanted to take the blow alive, and said calmly: "You can think about it, this body is only a strand of my soul, even if It's just a little pain for me that you cut him into pieces."

His voice fell silent, his forehead trembled slightly, and Tang Dao's sharp blade barely stopped half an inch in front of his forehead.

The smile on his lips deepened, and the man raised his eyes unsurprisingly, only to see the young man behind the blade with a livid face, and his lips were pursed unwillingly.The man's eyes flickered and he stared intently at the other person's eyes. He felt that all the reactions of this little guy in front of him were extremely interesting throughout the night. Perhaps it was because of his limited lifespan and his inexperienced experience that he took a strand of Feng Chi's hair. The soul has become flesh and blood.

Suddenly, the half-demon's eyes changed suddenly, with resolute cruelty and a hint of cunning with malicious intentions.

Mr. Monster Beast was startled, he felt something bad intuitively, and subconsciously wanted to avoid it.Unexpectedly, that young brat struck decisively and swiftly, without the slightest hesitation, the blade turned and directly pierced the abdomen of the flesh.

The man took a step back in pain, and took a low breath.

Probably because he lived too long and stood too high. For thousands of years, no one had stabbed him in the stomach. He hadn't experienced the pain caused by injury for a long time.

This might be a windfall.

Thinking of this, the man smiled instead of anger.

Li Huan looked at this guy with Xingyi leather bag and laughed so hard that he wanted to cut him to death. He stretched out his hand to grab the opponent's neckline and pressed him against the wall vigorously. out, then pierced again, and repeated this over a dozen times, probably still feeling puzzled, the red-eyed young master raised his knee and pushed it hard into the bloody and bloody abdomen.

Mr. Monster: "..."

This force fell on his body so much that the pain was no longer enough to cover it. The man felt his stomach churn, and he bent down unexpectedly and choked out a mouthful of blood foam. He gasped and said, "Are you really not afraid of his death?"

"Afraid that he will die?" Li Huan seemed to have heard something ridiculous, and smiled so that the corners of his mouth could not smile, and said coldly, "I think you probably don't remember. Your leg has been damaged dozens of times by you, and it hurts so fucking hard, why don't you just stand here now?"

The man was startled, and immediately understood the meaning of this sentence.

Li Huan was also unambiguous. He raised the hand that was not holding the knife and directly tore open the blood vessels on the inside of the wrist, then pressed it against the opponent's lips, and said in an almost frenzied tone: "As long as the body is not dead, anyway, now The one who hurts is you, not him!"

After finishing speaking, Li Huan drew his knife and wanted to stab again. The man who had already suffered a loss reached out and clasped the opponent's wrist.The ups and downs were visible in a second, and Li Huan only heard a muffled "click" from his wrist. Before he had time to react, the opponent stood up and kicked his chest.

There was a huge difference in strength between the two of them. This kick went straight to the chest, and the originally empty pedestrian square suddenly echoed with the terrifying sound of bones breaking.

Li Huan was kicked out, hit the opposite wall with a "boom", rolled to the ground, turned over and vomited a mouthful of blood.

After two consecutive bleedings, the entire pedestrian plaza was bloody and thick, and that unique smell wafted out from the entrance and slowly diffused into the cool air of deep winter.

Under the long night, the nine-tailed demon fox running along the four rings stopped suddenly. It raised its huge animal head to smell the bloody smell, and its green fox eyes narrowed immediately.The hamster hidden in the back fur of Nine Tails poked its head out, moved its nose, and said, "Your apprentice's blood smells delicious~"

Hearing this, the Nine-tailed Beast shook its body, just wanting to throw the snarky hamster away, Mo Luo wittily grabbed a fox fur, but was still dizzy from the shaking.

Kyuubi said coldly: "If you talk nonsense again, believe it or not, I'll run you over to death?"

Feeling deeply that animals like hamsters really don't have life-saving skills, Master Mo Luo consciously shut up.

The nine-tailed demon fox turned around, jumped onto the overpass, and uttered a deep beast roar towards the sky.

At that moment, the coercion of the high-ranking monsters full of overwhelming anger dissipated, and the street lamps in the entire fourth ring shattered, even the sky and the earth trembled.

A few kilometers away, the closed gate of Zhongguancun Pedestrian Plaza burst with a "bang", and the air wave swept over with glass shards.

The two people who were staring at each other raised their heads at the same time, looking in the direction where the monster power came from.

"He's here—" the guy occupying Xing Yi's body smiled slightly, and said softly as if talking to himself, "Nine Tails, it's been a long time."

The next moment, a snow-white animal silhouette appeared at the entrance of the pedestrian plaza. Covered in shadows, the nine-tailed demon fox bared its fangs, condescendingly staring down at the man's back, and said calmly in Qi Jingyu's voice, "Yes, it's been a long time, Qinglong reappears."

- To Be Continued

The author has something to say: I checked some information before writing this article. There are many opinions about whether Suzaku is a phoenix. Finally, after considering the overall setting, I classify them as the same family, but they are not the same thing, so this article is roughly The ranks of demons are divided as follows-

High level: Four Great Spiritual Beasts (Blue Dragon, White Tiger, Suzaku, Xuanwu) > Five Great Beasts (Nine-Tailed Demon Fox, Phoenix + Three Others~)

Low-level: All kinds of cute and auspicious beasts that can be called famous (Baze Qilin Balabala) > Ordinary animals turn into demons (rat demon Lagrange and the like →_→)

————————After writing this chapter, I opened a small theater brain hole———————

Late at night on the first day of the new year, the elder brother is sitting on the sofa with his beautiful cat demon (male) in his arms, watching the rerun of the Spring Festival Gala. The two demons are turning on the TV, but they are all focused on each other, and the clothes have faded away Most of the rest, please make up your own brains [Hold back and slap your face~] Suddenly, the mobile phone vibrated.

Chi Xiu got up from the cat demon and reached out to touch the phone. The cat demon smiled wickedly and flicked his curly tail under his belly.

Senior Brother: "..."

"Cough—" Chi Xiu pressed his tail down, and said seriously to the phone, "It's me, what's the matter?"

The caller was the Tiger Demon from the team. His mouth almost shattered Shen Chixiu's 300-year cultivation base. The Tiger Demon said: "It's not good, Team Shen, I have a mission!"

Shen Chixiu put the phone far away, and waited for the guy to finish yelling, then put his ears back on, and said: "You are a female fairy, can't you speak more politely?"

The tiger demon over there let out a groan, and began to report the situation in a high-pitched voice, saying weakly: "... from incomplete statistics, there are at least a dozen drivers who saw Lord Nine Tails running over the overpass on the fourth ring road, and some even took pictures of him. The photo was posted on Weibo, and the headquarters is urgently contacting Wave X to delete the blog to refute the rumors, and I have already notified the nearby monsters to come and erase the memories of the parties one by one, what do you think about this?"

Shen Chixiu's face darkened, thinking that the teacher was too messed up, he hurriedly said "I'll be right there", and hung up the phone directly.

The cat demon looked at him with desire and dissatisfaction: "What's the matter?"

Shen Chixiu said: "The street lamp on the Fourth Ring Road is broken, I'll go out for a while."

"Would you go if the street lamp was broken?!"

Shen Chixiu was also very helpless: "Teacher was shattered."

Cat demon: "..."

So at the beginning of the new year, the husband and wife of the big brother are living a very unhappy life ╮(╯▽╰)╭