Dragon Fate of Shan Hai Ji

Le Yue's hair stood up one by one.

Zhao Yuan shivered, and all the dragon scales exploded.

Le Yue's hand touched his waist, and Zhao Yuan held his right front paw.

A beam of sword light and a ball of light crashed into He Jizi and Chen Shang at the same time.

"My master will never say such nasty words in this life!"

"My father wouldn't laugh so disgustingly!"

With two crisp bangs, the figures of He Jizi and Chen Shang were shattered into powder.

With a clang, the gong rang in Luo Ling's hand. In an instant, the lights all over the street, the bustling crowd, and the numerous shops and stalls all disappeared.

The silent night, the silent street, return to the quiet Ziyang night in the town.

Zhao Yuan raised his right hand, holding up a ball of dazzling dragon fire.

Le Yue raised his head and said loudly: "Where is the great immortal, please show yourself, don't hide behind the scenes and use some low-level spells."

Luo Lingzhi walked to Le Yue's side and rang the gong again. The clanging sound awakened Lin Qing and the monkey.Only Ying Ze was still in mid-air.

A voice faintly recalled in the dark, very immature: "Isn't it good to see the gentlest appearance of the person you want to see?" Le Yue gradually emerged a silhouette in front of his eyes, "Why do you say that this is not popular? Spells?"

Le Yue didn't know what to do.

The monster behind the scenes turned out to be a little girl.He looked only eight or nine years old, wearing a small brown skirt, and staring at Le Yue stubbornly with his big eyes.

Lin Qing and the monkey jumped off the roof. Lin Qing found out that she had been hit by an illusion. She couldn't help being furious, and planned to take out the little monster who caused the mischief and beat him up.But seeing the little girl in front of her, she couldn't do anything.

Zhao Yuan couldn't believe his eyes. If his sister turned into a human, she should be about the same age as this little girl. Would such a little girl be a monster that even Lin Qing couldn't deal with?Or is she, like Ying Ze, actually many years old?Luo Lingzhi bent down and asked kindly: "You were responsible for the illusion just now and the haunting in this city?"

There was a faint mist in the girl's eyes: "They've been here all the time, every night, isn't it good?" She raised the leaf in her hand and put it near her mouth, and the flute-like music sounded again, and the surrounding people The fog thickened again.

Is this child an unjust soul left behind, or another monster?Before Le Yue had time to ask Lin Qing, a bright electric light suddenly flashed in the air, and the girl who was blowing leaves put her hands on her head and let out an oops. The electric light made the whole Ziyang Town more dazzling than the daytime.

The girl shrunk into a ball, shrinking smaller and smaller in the dazzling white light, becoming translucent, and finally turned into a little hedgehog, curled up on the ground.

The wind was howling, Le Yue was blown to one side, barely raised his head to look up, and saw a dark figure stepping on the black clouds slowly descending from the middle of the sky, his clothes and black hair were motionless in the wind, his eyes gleamed with coldness Chill: "That person, why can you transform it?"

The sparks from the electric light hit the ground heavily, the gravel scattered, and the hedgehog crawled on the ground and trembled intermittently: "Great Immortal let me go, Great Immortal let me go, I, I just have a mind-reading mirror, which can reflect the deepest thoughts in your heart. The person I want to meet..."

A mirror floated up from its body, and as soon as it lifted up a little, it turned into fine dust and scattered in the air.

Ying Ze fell to the ground coldly, the hedgehog shook twice, and passed out quite simply.

Lin Qing turned around awkwardly, and glared at Ying Ze: "You're not mistaken, are you scaring a child like that! You brag all day long that you can destroy the world, but you end up being tricked by a little monster, and you can't save face, so you bully the weak?"

Ying Ze snorted coldly: "I'm just asking." With a flick of his sleeve, the lightning stopped.

Le Yue spat out the sand in his mouth.

Lin Qing bent down, a faint red light surged from her hand, and shone on the hedgehog.

The hedgehog twitched and moved, and gradually changed back to the little girl in the red light, sitting on the ground blankly with her big eyes open.

Luo Lingzhi knelt down and asked, "Why are you here and what are you doing?"

The girl's eyes blinked, two lines of tears flowed down her cheeks, she put her hands on her knees and cried, "They are all dead. All of them are dead. I can't protect anyone. I'm useless. They're all dead." It's..."

The once bustling streets, the shops that used to be brightly lit at night, the people who used to talk and laugh and come and go are all gone.

After that day more than ten years ago, there is nothing.

It still remembers when he came to this city.

It originally lived on the mountain, but at some point, it became a spirit, without parents, without friends, and lived alone in a small cave.

One day, a wolf spirit who strengthens its demon power by devouring other monsters found it. It was almost killed and fled to the side of the road down the mountain dragging its seriously injured body.An old beggar woman rescued it, took it with her, begged all the way, and came to Tucheng.

The nunnery in Tucheng took this old woman in and asked her to clean the nunnery and courtyard and cook in the back kitchen.It also has a nest, just behind the altar of the Guanyin Hall. When it first put the nest there, the little master in the nunnery wanted to drive it away. The master abbot said that all things in the world are equal and have Buddha nature. The Bodhisattva would also be willing to give the hedgehog a shelter.So, it lived behind the Buddhist altar, watched the old lady clean the room every day, listened to her chanting, and shared the steamed buns in her hand.

The old woman is illiterate, she is too old and can't memorize scriptures, she can only recite Amitabha, and she will recite to the Buddha statue every day when cleaning the nunnery, Amitabha, please bless the good people and the people in this city Safety.She didn't know that it was a hedgehog that could understand human language, but she would talk to it every day.The old woman said, the nunnery and the Buddha and Bodhisattva rewarded you and me with a bite of food, and the nunnery is entirely supported by the good people in the city. Therefore, it is the people in this city who support us. Good people are safe and sound.

However, the good people were not safe, many soldiers came in, and many people died.The fleeing people wanted to hide in the nunnery, but were shot to death one by one in front of the door by arrows.It used all the spells in its body to protect the nunnery, but a fiery red shadow stood in the sky, waved its sleeves, and all the spells disappeared.

It heard someone yelling, someone in the nunnery knows the magic, kill!It saw the little master, the great master, and the old woman, one after another, being pierced by arrows and slashed by knives.

They are all dead, and no one will give it steamed buns to eat. They pretended not to see it when they found out that it was stealing the fruits from the offering.

Amitabha, please Buddha and Bodhisattva bless the good people and the people in this city.

The hedgehog buried his head in his knees and wept loudly.

Le Yue, Zhao Yuan, Lin Qing and Luo Lingzhi all lowered their heads silently.

Lin Qing said: "That fiery red one is probably a phoenix. Sun Ben is right, it is really not easy to cover the city with blood."

Le Yue said: "Sometimes I really want to ask God, does the so-called law of heaven really exist?" If the law of heaven exists, why do you just watch a city of innocent people being killed.Why is the chief culprit who slaughtered a whole city still at ease, without any retribution.

Ying Ze snorted coldly: "Tianli, the Jade Emperor and his group of little gods are probably busy drinking and having fun, and have no time to care about insignificant Tianli."

The way of Luoling, it is a little biased to say so. More than a hundred years ago, Baili Changge, the suzerain of the Baili clan, helped Emperor Fengxiang raise an army to seize the throne, and personally beheaded the prince and Xi Yuma, so Baili Changge was awarded He was granted the title of Marquis of Mighty Wu, and later the king of the county. Emperor Fengxiang gave him the three states in the southwest area as fiefdoms.Baili Changge believed that the crime of killing was too serious, and he was afraid that future generations would have retribution, so he just started building Tucheng and taking in refugees.

The descendants of the person who was helped by Baili Changge to ascend to the throne wiped out the whole Baili clan a hundred years later. It does sound like retribution.

Lin Qing said: "That's also a matter of the Baili clan, what are the people of Tucheng doing?"

Luo Lingzhi lowered his eyes: "I once read the old allusions in the teacher's gate. It mentioned that when Tu City was first built, not only refugees lived in the city, but also many fleeing bandits and robbers. This place is the only way to and from the southwest. Someone They rely on the road to eat, and there are many robberies and murders, but the murderer cannot be found."

Le Yue sneered and said, "If there is retribution, why don't the retribution be on those who have done something that harms nature? Those innocent people didn't do anything wrong, so why should they be destroyed?"

Luo Lingzhi smiled wryly: "This may be the difference between the principles of heaven and human feelings."

Ying Ze said gloomyly: "This is a manifestation of Heavenly Court's incompetence!"

Zhao Yuan squatted aside and listened silently, the hedgehog was still crying, Zhao Yuan asked in a low voice: "Then what should we do now?"

Lin Qing sighed, and put her hand on the hedgehog girl's shoulder: "We all know that you miss the people in this city very much, but your actions have caused a lot of trouble for the people in the city now, and you can't continue like this Done."

Ying Ze held up his hands: "Go where you should go, those mortals are already dead."

The hedgehog raised his face slowly.

Yes, everyone in this city is dead.

Although it doesn't want to believe it.It used to stubbornly move those corpses back to the city again and again, hoping that they would stand up and move again.But it didn't work.

Every night, it hopes that this place will return to the way it was before, but the past is all created by itself to deceive itself.

Those scenes will never come back.

Le Yue suddenly asked: "Since you remember the people in the city, do you recognize a rich businessman named Li Ting and his family? They are my parents, and I was born in this city at that time."

The hedgehog girl shook her head.

Le Yue sighed.

The hedgehog looked at him with big eyes: "However, if you were born at that time, I think there is someone who may have something to do with you." The hedgehog raised his hands and drew a circle. The circle glowed faintly, like an ice sheet. Mirror, a scene emerges in the mirror.

A woman with a big belly was supported by two maids and walked into the Buddhist hall.

The woman was very, very young, she looked only about 20 years old, with a peaceful smile on her beautiful face.

She knelt down in front of the statue of Avalokitesvara with great difficulty, and clasped her hands together: "Daughter Li Liu, I beg the Bodhisattva to bless my unborn child with a smooth life. I don't want him to be an official or slaughter, rich and powerful, but I want to be safe and secure throughout my life." An Le."

Le Yue's eyes were sour, and his throat was a little stiff.

It has always been one of the tenets of his life that a man shed blood but not tears.Le Yue believes that a man should never cry, because if he cries, he will get pustules.

He still tells himself that.

He felt Zhao Yuan's hands lightly grasped his right hand, hesitating first, then squeezed tightly and reassuringly.

He remembered that many years ago, he had asked his master He Jizi.Why are our brothers and sisters all from the generation of happy characters? Isn’t it more bold to use the words “tyrant”, “shock”, and “crazy”?He Jizi stroked his beard and smiled authentically. The word Le is so good. Leshan, Leshui, Leshi, Lesheng, and Letian are the realms we cultivators should have.

Just like being a parent, you want your children to be happy.

I don't want to be an official or a master, rich and famous, but I want to be safe and happy for a lifetime.

The figure of the woman in the mirror gradually disappeared, Le Yue lowered his head and said to the hedgehog, "Thank you."

The hedgehog shook his head and wiped away his tears: "No, I'm leaving too, to where I should go."

More than ten years later, it woke up from its dream, and its fate with this place has been exhausted.

Occasionally, I got immortality by chance, and I listened to the scriptures before the Buddha for another seven years.Being able to understand human language, being picked up by an old woman, and living in this city is the luckiest thing in its life.

The figure of the little girl slowly turned into a hedgehog again, faded into translucent, transparent, and finally turned into a wisp of light smoke, which dissipated.

Where the girl sat was a wrinkled piece of yellow silk.It was a corner of the yellow silk cloth used to drape the body of the Buddha statue.

Lin Qing opened the yellow silk cloth, inside there were a few small dead bones and a piece of hedgehog skin.

In fact, it died ten years ago.

When he was hit by that flaming man's mana and his alchemy was shattered.

But, Lord Buddha, I really don't want to die.

I hope that I can live and everyone in this city can live.

Why should they die when they shelter me and feed me?Amitabha, please Buddha and Bodhisattva bless the good people and the people in this city.

Zhao Yuan and Le Yue dug a hole by the city wall together, wrapped the hedgehog's bones in yellow silk and buried them.

Le Yue sat against the city wall and didn't speak for a long time.

It was as if a stone was pressing on Zhaoyuan's heart and shoulders, stuffy and heavy.

Lin Qing looked at Le Yue and then at it, clapped her hands and said, "Oh, when a mortal's ghost arrives in the underworld, it usually takes three years to reincarnate, maybe the people in this city have already lived a good life. "She stood up, "However, Fenghuang personally took action, I'm afraid there are other inside stories about Tucheng's matter, I think we still need to investigate in detail."

Le Yue was also a little suspicious. The matter of his parents made his mind a mess, and he couldn't think too much for the time being.He picked up the lantern and hourglass on the ground, and stood up: "Let's talk about it after the night patrol tonight." He looked at Ma Fu's coffin shop not far away, and there was no sign of the former prosperous inn in the illusion.

The doors of the shop were closed tightly in the dark night.

Luo Lingzhi said: "Tomorrow we will ask him to try again."

Zhao Yuan found that Fei Xianfeng was lying on the ridge of the coffin shop, with his back to them, looking towards the inner courtyard of the coffin shop.It intuited that the monkey might have seen something worthy of attention, so it used spells to go up to the roof. The monkey immediately turned its head, gestured to it, and signaled it to keep quiet.

Standing on the ridge of the roof, Zhaoyuan heard strange noises in the yard, and looked down, only to see a man in the yard, who was holding an ax and was chopping the stake vigorously.

Le Yue's voice whispered next to Zhao Yuan: "It's strange, why did he get up to chop wood in the middle of the night? And he didn't light the lamp, can he see it?"

Zhao Yuan turned his head and found that Le Yue, Lin Qing, Luo Lingzhi, and Ying Ze had climbed onto the roof at some point.Everyone squatted in a row on the ridge of the roof, looking at the courtyard below.

The man who split the stake was Ma Fu.

Lin Qing narrowed her eyes and said, "Look carefully, Ma Fu's appearance doesn't seem quite right."

Le Yue doesn't have the extraordinary eyesight of unicorns and dragons. No matter how long his neck is, he can only see a black shadow swinging an ax in the courtyard, and he can't see the expression.

Zhao Yuan looked at it seriously, and whispered in surprise: "Yes. Why are his eyes closed?"

Le Yue frowned. Could it be that Ma Fu was... sleepwalking?He decided to go down to find out, Lin Qing and Zhao Yuan eagerly followed, leaving Luo Lingzhi and Ying Ze to watch the wind on the roof.

Le Yue cautiously jumped into the courtyard, held his breath and approached Ma Fu a little bit, the sleepwalker should not be easily woken up, otherwise it would easily kill him.

The monkey went down to the courtyard with them, looked around, sneered and ran along the wall towards a well, squatted on the edge of the well and looked down, grabbed a wooden stick by the well and poked it in, then poke.

Both Le Yue Zhaoyuan and Lin Qing didn't care about the monkey, they just stood in a safe place in the corner and carefully observed Ma Fu.

Ma Fu had a strange and ferocious look on his face. Every time he split the wood, he seemed to use his whole body's strength. He kept saying something, gnashing his teeth: "... split your head, split your legs, split If you can't enter the door, I'll hack it!"

The stake quickly turned into a pile of debris. Ma Fu stiffly dropped the axe, turned around stiffly, and walked straight to the wing house in the courtyard, with his eyes closed from beginning to end.

With a creak, the door of the wing closed.Silence returned to the yard.

Le Yue walked to the door of the wing room, and was about to reach out to push it, when suddenly a voice said faintly: "Who are you?"

A human head slowly rose from the mouth of the well. The monkey danced and squeaked twice, then poked the head with a stick.

The head rose higher and higher, gradually revealing the shoulders and upper body, and finally supported the edge of the well with both hands, jumped onto the ground, walked up to Le Yue, shook a fire pocket, and rolled the three white eyes: "So it's you! Midnight What are you doing in my yard? My family is poor and I have nothing to steal."

Le Yue immediately said: "We are not here to steal." He looked at Ma Fu's son Xiaofa suspiciously, "Why... did you climb up from the well?"

Xiaofa rolled his eyes again: "You also saw that my father often sleepwalks, and when he sleepwalks, he chops things with an ax. If he doesn't hide, what should he do if he uses it as firewood?"

Le Yue felt deeply sympathetic.

Lin Qing asked, "What about your mother?"

Xiaofa said: "I was scared away by my father. If he is like this, who would live with him. When I grow up and have money, I will also run away."

Le Yue asked tentatively, "Why does your father sleepwalk every night?"

Xiaofa rolled his eyes again: "How do I know." He rolled his eyelids and looked at Le Yue, "However, it has something to do with the name of Li Ting you mentioned today. He hasn't had such an attack for a long time. Listen After hearing your words, he is a little abnormal."

Le Yue asked persuasively again: "Do you know what is the relationship between Li Ting and your father's illness?"

Xiaofa said firmly: "How do I know!" He looked Le Yue Zhaoyuan and Lin Qing up and down again, "Oh, you sneaked into my house in the middle of the night today to find out about this. I'm going to the county government to sue You are trespassing on houses."

Le Yue sincerely stated that he had no malicious intentions, and Xiaofa stretched out a hand to him: "Okay, in order to prove that your words are true, I will give you some money. You must pay some compensation for trespassing on a private house. Twenty cents!" "

Le Yue touched his shriveled pocket in embarrassment, and was about to ask Xiaofa boy if he could postpone paying the bill until tomorrow, but Lin Qing took a step closer to Xiaofa before him: "Hey, how about we talk about a business? If you can Your father can tell you about Li Ting's whereabouts, and we can give you more money."

Xiaofa withdrew his hand and put his arms around his chest: "Sister, you have also seen that my father has a very violent temper. If I am not careful, I may be chopped off by him as firewood. Your business ,very dangerous."