I'm devastated by the glamour halo
Chapter 045
Chu Guyi walked out of the yard, and Lin Songyan summoned him to go to the Yuanqing Palace to discuss about the twelve voodoo women through the sound transmission jade talisman.
He Liangshui was really tired. After washing his hands and putting his face on the bed, he began to feel confused. When he was about to fall asleep, he suddenly sat up with a jerk—did Chu Guyi just want to suck his blood?
……I read it wrong.He Liangshui lay down again like a salted fish, sleepiness made his brain speed more and more sluggish, and finally the picture played back in his mind was that Chu Guyi was sucking his finger, like sucking milk...
After He Liangshui fell into a dark and sweet dream, Fei Jiu finished exploring the map of the Qingxiao School, flew in through the window with fluttering wings, and sneered when he saw it: "I can sleep so soundly in other people's beds, and I'm not afraid of being [beep——]"
Dirty words are automatically blocked.
Fat Jiu: "...a kind of plant."
In the Yuanqing Hall, headed by Xu Pingkuan, there are four elders in Qingxiao, including Fengzao.The next one is Lin Songyan.
Xu Pingkuan has five direct disciples, the eldest disciple is in seclusion, the second disciple and the third disciple have fallen, Lin Songyan ranks fourth, and Chu Guyi ranks fifth.Xu Pingkuan's attitude towards Chu Guyi was already subtle, so now Lin Songyan is the one he favors the most.
"Junior Brother Chu, what's the delay? Elders have been waiting for a long time." Lin Songyan said.
Chu Guyi fluttered his robe sleeves, bowed his hands and bowed, neither humble nor overbearing said: "The disciple is late, please forgive me, master and elders."
An elder smiled and looked like Maitreya Buddha, "It's okay, it's okay, come and sit down."
Xu Pingkuan said without hesitation: "When such a big event happened, I still have time to bring friends to play."
Chu Guyi glanced at Lin Songyan, Lin Songyan did not meet his gaze, Chu Guyi said: "Mr. He is not here to play, he is for Miss Liu."
"Miss Liu?"
"It's the girl with the peach blossom on her face."
Xu Pingkuan obviously also had an impression, "The oiran?"
"Yes."
Xu Pingkuan sneered: "A brothel girl, it is kindness to save her."
Elder Maitreya smiled and said: "This statement is wrong. Even a brothel woman is not born to want to be born in the mundane filth. There is a saying that the mud is not stained. No matter what the background is, the rich and the poor are not treated differently. As long as their hearts are kind and they have a piece of pure land, they will have a chance to achieve a positive result..."
Xu Pingkuan rubbed his temples: "Stop talking about Elder Zhu, talk about business."
Feng Zao has been staring at Chu Guyi ever since he came in. It is not an exaggeration to describe his gaze as a tiger's eye. After enduring it again and again, he couldn't wait: "Chu Guyi, you have to give me an explanation, Susu..."
"Shut up." Xu Pingkuan interrupted her, "Let's talk about Susu's incident after the fact. What I want to talk about now is the twelve bewitched women."
Feng Zao said unwillingly: "Isn't Susu's matter not important?"
"Fengzhangyuan, have you forgotten that a cultivator should take the common people in the world as his own responsibility, and put aside the private affairs of his children first." Xu Pingkuan said it righteously, but in essence he was comforting with his eyes, don't be impatient.
The elders were all there, Feng Zao could only swallow his anger.
"Songyan, tell me."
There was an old book on Lin Songyan's lap, and his voice was soft and gentle: "Junior Sister is still in a coma, and I can't find out the details from her mouth. The disciple browsed through the classics in the library, and finally found it in this book that records the regional chronicles of the Demon Refining Realm. According to the investigation in the Sutra, what Gu is among those women."
"What Gu?" Xu Pingkuan asked.
"They called the Thirteen Gu, which is unique to the Demon Refining Realm. After being infected with this Gu, at the beginning, they would be lethargic during the day, wake up in the middle of the night, and become mad and irritable. The specific manifestations are dissatisfaction with the surrounding environment and mild violence Behavior. From the second night onwards, their waking time will gradually advance, and they will become more and more uncontrollable, causing attacks and damage to others, but they will not attack their own people."
Elder Zhu asked: "Thirteen Gu? But there are only twelve Gu women here—oh, except Miss Feng."
Feng Zao rolled his eyes.
Another elder said: "Perhaps the No. 13 victim is Miss Feng."
Feng Zao was surprised: "You mean, there may be two kinds of Gu in Su Su's body?"
"There is no such possibility." Lin Songyan said.
Everyone looked at him, waiting for his explanation.
Lin Songyan said calmly: "The reason why this Gu is named Thirteen Gu is because apart from the 12 people who cast the Gu, No. 13 is the Gu king. Generally speaking, two kinds of Gu insects cannot exist in the human body at the same time." , for they must kill each other until both die, or one kills the other."
"No. 13 is the Gu King?" Xu Pingkuan frowned, "What do you mean? Is there another person who lives in the town and is the Gu King?"
Chu Guyi seemed to have thought of something, his face changed slightly: "...It's me?"
Everyone turned their gazes to him, and Xu Pingkuan stood up abruptly, only to hear Lin Songyan's serious voice: "Junior Brother Chu, No. 13 Gu is very likely in your body."
The elder who was a little closer to Chu Guyi immediately took a step back, wondering, "How could it be?"
Lin Songyan said: "Junior Sister Feng was able to lay a spell on twelve girls in Wutong Town. In the sect, Junior Brother Chu is defenseless. She..."
"Stop talking nonsense!" Feng Zao jumped up.
Zhu Changlao sighed: "If the No.13 Gu is really in Chu Guyi's body, then it must be the Gu King. Miss Feng really doesn't care about the fate of her fellow disciples."
Feng Zao's face was blue and red, "Even so, Susu was forced by Duo Molan! It's all the witch's fault!"
The sharp voice faltered suddenly, "No, all the victims of the Guyi are women, why is only Chu Guyi a man? Lin Songyan, are you making a mistake?"
Lin Songyan's brows were serious: "Master Feng doesn't know something. These thirteen Gus are very special. Only by paying attention to the mutual generation and restraint of yin and yang can the greatest effect be achieved."
Xu Pingkuan: "Speak clearly."
"To put it simply, the first twelve Gu are in a man's body, and the No. 13 Gu must be in a woman's body to become a Gu king; on the contrary, if the current twelve Gu are in a woman's body, the Gu king must be in a man's body. Otherwise This Gu cannot be refined."
Xu Pingkuan sat back down, "Duo Molan came here to avenge Chu Guyi, this No. 13 Gu can only be in his body."
For a while, the hall was silent, only sighs and sighs were heard.
Elder Zhu's Maitreya Buddha-like smile disappeared, and he asked: "But I don't know how to refine this Gu King?"
Lin Songyan's eyes fell on Chu Guyi, "From the day when the twelve girls were poisoned by the voodoo, after 13 days, that is, on the [-]th day, the person who was infected with the first [-] voodoo festers from the inside out, and will undoubtedly die. , This is also the source of their strange smell. Afterwards, Zi Gu will automatically contribute nutrients and life to the Gu King, so as to wake up the Gu King."
A drop of cold sweat dripped down Xu Pingkuan's forehead, and he asked, "What will happen after King Gu wakes up?"
Lin Songyan said word by word: "The six relatives didn't recognize each other, and slaughtered them wantonly until they died of exhaustion."
"..."
The long, almost closed silence was almost breathless.
Feng Zao suddenly said: "Even if the Gu King wakes up, as long as Chu Guyi is imprisoned in the iron wall, he can't do anything."
"Fengzhangyuan," Elder Zhu said slowly, "Did you sentence Chu Guyi to death?"
Feng Zao's face flushed red: "I didn't say that."
"If we really wait until then, not only will Chu Guyi be sentenced to death, but those twelve women will be sentenced to death. Is this the ending, Master Xu, what you want to see?"
Xu Pingkuan's face was like a block of ice: "Twelve girls can't die, if they die, how can they explain to the townspeople down the mountain? If it spreads out, my Qingxiao faction can't even save people within its own boundaries, so how can we gain a foothold in Xianmen? "
He didn't even give Chu Guyi a look, and asked Lin Songyan: "Is there a way to force the Gu king out first? The Gu king is dead, and the child Gu is useless, right?"
Lin Songyan: "The truth is this, but the thirteen Gu is different from other Gu. The most evil thing about him is that before the Gu King is refined, it has no life."
"No life?"
"Yes, what the Gu king has is just an invisible body, and only the life of the twelve child Gu can awaken it. In a sense, the Gu king is also a combination of the twelve child Gu."
Inanimate things, no matter how powerful you are, you can't detect them, let alone exorcise them.
"Then get rid of the sub-gu first! Without the sub-gu, the Gu king would no longer exist."
Lin Songyan shook her head, "Zi Gu was born for the Gu king, if it is forcibly expelled, it may hurt the lives of those women."
Xu Pingkuan punched the table next to him, "What is this? Dead end!!"
It's a dead end, the Gu king can't get rid of it, and the child Gu can't get rid of it. If you let it go, you will still end up in a miserable end.
Everyone's eyes focused on Chu Guyi again, Feng Zao hesitated to speak, it was probably rare for her conscience to realize that she knew that her daughter had caused him a lot of misfortune, and she might be alive in a few days.
"...Chu Guyi, what do you think?" Xu Pingkuan asked as calmly as possible.
From the beginning to the end, Chu Guyi didn't say a few words, he raised his eyes, without sadness or joy, without surprise or anger, he just said: "Let me think about it."
He bowed to everyone and strode out.
Lin Songyan took two steps after him, "Junior Brother Chu!"
"Let me think about it." Chu Guyi repeated with a cold voice without turning his head.
The moonlight is like water, Chu Guyi passes through the shadow of the whirling trees, the hem of his clothes brushes over exotic flowers and plants, and the wind chimes under the eaves are ringing calmly in the autumn night wind, he is ignorant of it.
A few bright lights dazzled his eyes, and he looked down. It turned out to be a small natural pool, in which lay a big green beetle. At first glance, it looked like a big stone with moss.
It was this bastard that He Liangshui touched.
Chu Guyi lifted his clothes and squatted by the pool, reached out and touched the shell, the slippery and uneven shell felt very strange.
"I really envy you, you can live for so many years without doing anything."
Returning to the "Nothing Courtyard", Chu Guyi was stunned when he entered the courtyard gate.
A white figure was sitting on the porch dozing, with elbows on knees, hands resting cheeks, face slightly raised, eyes closed under the mask, mouth puffed up, and the jade crown on the head was crooked.
It's really not a good image, and it's quite different from He Liang's chic and personable appearance when he was level.
Chu Guyi was fascinated by it.
He Liangshui still didn't know that this sleepy-headed look was being watched, and he wanted to wake up rationally, but he couldn't open his eyes, dazed, muddled, and suddenly fell to one side - woke up with a start.
Unexpectedly, his face fell to the ground, his face was supported by a big dry and warm hand, his eyes were round and round, he blinked twice, and when the shadow in front of him became clear, he recognized Chu Guyi.
"Why are you sitting here?" Chu Guyi asked.
He Liangshui sat up straight, but the jade crown on his head was not straight. He pointed to the moon in the sky and said, "Look at the moon."
Chu Guyi followed and looked, "...the moon is beautiful tonight."
He Liangshui's heart skipped a beat, isn't this a love story?
"Mr. He," the moon in Chu Guyi's eyes turned into He Liangshui's face, "Are you waiting for me?"
The moon also moved away from He Liangshui's eyes and turned into Chu Guyi.
Er Er, his eyes squinted, and he smiled brightly: "Yes, I'm waiting for you."
The author has something to say:
Feijiu tested the bottom line of the system program:
He Liangshui, sooner or later you will be [beep——] by Chu Guyi
To be [beep——] by him like this, [beep——] like that
Anyway, [beep——][beep——][beep——]
Ah beep, ah beep beep, I beep...
He Liangshui: Hey, Xiaojiu, why are you silent?
Fat Chirp: QAQ
[Sorry, because your system swears too many times, it is temporarily banned]
ps: The moonlight is so beautiful tonight.From Natsume Soseki, which means I love you.What Chu Guyi said is similar~
He Liangshui was really tired. After washing his hands and putting his face on the bed, he began to feel confused. When he was about to fall asleep, he suddenly sat up with a jerk—did Chu Guyi just want to suck his blood?
……I read it wrong.He Liangshui lay down again like a salted fish, sleepiness made his brain speed more and more sluggish, and finally the picture played back in his mind was that Chu Guyi was sucking his finger, like sucking milk...
After He Liangshui fell into a dark and sweet dream, Fei Jiu finished exploring the map of the Qingxiao School, flew in through the window with fluttering wings, and sneered when he saw it: "I can sleep so soundly in other people's beds, and I'm not afraid of being [beep——]"
Dirty words are automatically blocked.
Fat Jiu: "...a kind of plant."
In the Yuanqing Hall, headed by Xu Pingkuan, there are four elders in Qingxiao, including Fengzao.The next one is Lin Songyan.
Xu Pingkuan has five direct disciples, the eldest disciple is in seclusion, the second disciple and the third disciple have fallen, Lin Songyan ranks fourth, and Chu Guyi ranks fifth.Xu Pingkuan's attitude towards Chu Guyi was already subtle, so now Lin Songyan is the one he favors the most.
"Junior Brother Chu, what's the delay? Elders have been waiting for a long time." Lin Songyan said.
Chu Guyi fluttered his robe sleeves, bowed his hands and bowed, neither humble nor overbearing said: "The disciple is late, please forgive me, master and elders."
An elder smiled and looked like Maitreya Buddha, "It's okay, it's okay, come and sit down."
Xu Pingkuan said without hesitation: "When such a big event happened, I still have time to bring friends to play."
Chu Guyi glanced at Lin Songyan, Lin Songyan did not meet his gaze, Chu Guyi said: "Mr. He is not here to play, he is for Miss Liu."
"Miss Liu?"
"It's the girl with the peach blossom on her face."
Xu Pingkuan obviously also had an impression, "The oiran?"
"Yes."
Xu Pingkuan sneered: "A brothel girl, it is kindness to save her."
Elder Maitreya smiled and said: "This statement is wrong. Even a brothel woman is not born to want to be born in the mundane filth. There is a saying that the mud is not stained. No matter what the background is, the rich and the poor are not treated differently. As long as their hearts are kind and they have a piece of pure land, they will have a chance to achieve a positive result..."
Xu Pingkuan rubbed his temples: "Stop talking about Elder Zhu, talk about business."
Feng Zao has been staring at Chu Guyi ever since he came in. It is not an exaggeration to describe his gaze as a tiger's eye. After enduring it again and again, he couldn't wait: "Chu Guyi, you have to give me an explanation, Susu..."
"Shut up." Xu Pingkuan interrupted her, "Let's talk about Susu's incident after the fact. What I want to talk about now is the twelve bewitched women."
Feng Zao said unwillingly: "Isn't Susu's matter not important?"
"Fengzhangyuan, have you forgotten that a cultivator should take the common people in the world as his own responsibility, and put aside the private affairs of his children first." Xu Pingkuan said it righteously, but in essence he was comforting with his eyes, don't be impatient.
The elders were all there, Feng Zao could only swallow his anger.
"Songyan, tell me."
There was an old book on Lin Songyan's lap, and his voice was soft and gentle: "Junior Sister is still in a coma, and I can't find out the details from her mouth. The disciple browsed through the classics in the library, and finally found it in this book that records the regional chronicles of the Demon Refining Realm. According to the investigation in the Sutra, what Gu is among those women."
"What Gu?" Xu Pingkuan asked.
"They called the Thirteen Gu, which is unique to the Demon Refining Realm. After being infected with this Gu, at the beginning, they would be lethargic during the day, wake up in the middle of the night, and become mad and irritable. The specific manifestations are dissatisfaction with the surrounding environment and mild violence Behavior. From the second night onwards, their waking time will gradually advance, and they will become more and more uncontrollable, causing attacks and damage to others, but they will not attack their own people."
Elder Zhu asked: "Thirteen Gu? But there are only twelve Gu women here—oh, except Miss Feng."
Feng Zao rolled his eyes.
Another elder said: "Perhaps the No. 13 victim is Miss Feng."
Feng Zao was surprised: "You mean, there may be two kinds of Gu in Su Su's body?"
"There is no such possibility." Lin Songyan said.
Everyone looked at him, waiting for his explanation.
Lin Songyan said calmly: "The reason why this Gu is named Thirteen Gu is because apart from the 12 people who cast the Gu, No. 13 is the Gu king. Generally speaking, two kinds of Gu insects cannot exist in the human body at the same time." , for they must kill each other until both die, or one kills the other."
"No. 13 is the Gu King?" Xu Pingkuan frowned, "What do you mean? Is there another person who lives in the town and is the Gu King?"
Chu Guyi seemed to have thought of something, his face changed slightly: "...It's me?"
Everyone turned their gazes to him, and Xu Pingkuan stood up abruptly, only to hear Lin Songyan's serious voice: "Junior Brother Chu, No. 13 Gu is very likely in your body."
The elder who was a little closer to Chu Guyi immediately took a step back, wondering, "How could it be?"
Lin Songyan said: "Junior Sister Feng was able to lay a spell on twelve girls in Wutong Town. In the sect, Junior Brother Chu is defenseless. She..."
"Stop talking nonsense!" Feng Zao jumped up.
Zhu Changlao sighed: "If the No.13 Gu is really in Chu Guyi's body, then it must be the Gu King. Miss Feng really doesn't care about the fate of her fellow disciples."
Feng Zao's face was blue and red, "Even so, Susu was forced by Duo Molan! It's all the witch's fault!"
The sharp voice faltered suddenly, "No, all the victims of the Guyi are women, why is only Chu Guyi a man? Lin Songyan, are you making a mistake?"
Lin Songyan's brows were serious: "Master Feng doesn't know something. These thirteen Gus are very special. Only by paying attention to the mutual generation and restraint of yin and yang can the greatest effect be achieved."
Xu Pingkuan: "Speak clearly."
"To put it simply, the first twelve Gu are in a man's body, and the No. 13 Gu must be in a woman's body to become a Gu king; on the contrary, if the current twelve Gu are in a woman's body, the Gu king must be in a man's body. Otherwise This Gu cannot be refined."
Xu Pingkuan sat back down, "Duo Molan came here to avenge Chu Guyi, this No. 13 Gu can only be in his body."
For a while, the hall was silent, only sighs and sighs were heard.
Elder Zhu's Maitreya Buddha-like smile disappeared, and he asked: "But I don't know how to refine this Gu King?"
Lin Songyan's eyes fell on Chu Guyi, "From the day when the twelve girls were poisoned by the voodoo, after 13 days, that is, on the [-]th day, the person who was infected with the first [-] voodoo festers from the inside out, and will undoubtedly die. , This is also the source of their strange smell. Afterwards, Zi Gu will automatically contribute nutrients and life to the Gu King, so as to wake up the Gu King."
A drop of cold sweat dripped down Xu Pingkuan's forehead, and he asked, "What will happen after King Gu wakes up?"
Lin Songyan said word by word: "The six relatives didn't recognize each other, and slaughtered them wantonly until they died of exhaustion."
"..."
The long, almost closed silence was almost breathless.
Feng Zao suddenly said: "Even if the Gu King wakes up, as long as Chu Guyi is imprisoned in the iron wall, he can't do anything."
"Fengzhangyuan," Elder Zhu said slowly, "Did you sentence Chu Guyi to death?"
Feng Zao's face flushed red: "I didn't say that."
"If we really wait until then, not only will Chu Guyi be sentenced to death, but those twelve women will be sentenced to death. Is this the ending, Master Xu, what you want to see?"
Xu Pingkuan's face was like a block of ice: "Twelve girls can't die, if they die, how can they explain to the townspeople down the mountain? If it spreads out, my Qingxiao faction can't even save people within its own boundaries, so how can we gain a foothold in Xianmen? "
He didn't even give Chu Guyi a look, and asked Lin Songyan: "Is there a way to force the Gu king out first? The Gu king is dead, and the child Gu is useless, right?"
Lin Songyan: "The truth is this, but the thirteen Gu is different from other Gu. The most evil thing about him is that before the Gu King is refined, it has no life."
"No life?"
"Yes, what the Gu king has is just an invisible body, and only the life of the twelve child Gu can awaken it. In a sense, the Gu king is also a combination of the twelve child Gu."
Inanimate things, no matter how powerful you are, you can't detect them, let alone exorcise them.
"Then get rid of the sub-gu first! Without the sub-gu, the Gu king would no longer exist."
Lin Songyan shook her head, "Zi Gu was born for the Gu king, if it is forcibly expelled, it may hurt the lives of those women."
Xu Pingkuan punched the table next to him, "What is this? Dead end!!"
It's a dead end, the Gu king can't get rid of it, and the child Gu can't get rid of it. If you let it go, you will still end up in a miserable end.
Everyone's eyes focused on Chu Guyi again, Feng Zao hesitated to speak, it was probably rare for her conscience to realize that she knew that her daughter had caused him a lot of misfortune, and she might be alive in a few days.
"...Chu Guyi, what do you think?" Xu Pingkuan asked as calmly as possible.
From the beginning to the end, Chu Guyi didn't say a few words, he raised his eyes, without sadness or joy, without surprise or anger, he just said: "Let me think about it."
He bowed to everyone and strode out.
Lin Songyan took two steps after him, "Junior Brother Chu!"
"Let me think about it." Chu Guyi repeated with a cold voice without turning his head.
The moonlight is like water, Chu Guyi passes through the shadow of the whirling trees, the hem of his clothes brushes over exotic flowers and plants, and the wind chimes under the eaves are ringing calmly in the autumn night wind, he is ignorant of it.
A few bright lights dazzled his eyes, and he looked down. It turned out to be a small natural pool, in which lay a big green beetle. At first glance, it looked like a big stone with moss.
It was this bastard that He Liangshui touched.
Chu Guyi lifted his clothes and squatted by the pool, reached out and touched the shell, the slippery and uneven shell felt very strange.
"I really envy you, you can live for so many years without doing anything."
Returning to the "Nothing Courtyard", Chu Guyi was stunned when he entered the courtyard gate.
A white figure was sitting on the porch dozing, with elbows on knees, hands resting cheeks, face slightly raised, eyes closed under the mask, mouth puffed up, and the jade crown on the head was crooked.
It's really not a good image, and it's quite different from He Liang's chic and personable appearance when he was level.
Chu Guyi was fascinated by it.
He Liangshui still didn't know that this sleepy-headed look was being watched, and he wanted to wake up rationally, but he couldn't open his eyes, dazed, muddled, and suddenly fell to one side - woke up with a start.
Unexpectedly, his face fell to the ground, his face was supported by a big dry and warm hand, his eyes were round and round, he blinked twice, and when the shadow in front of him became clear, he recognized Chu Guyi.
"Why are you sitting here?" Chu Guyi asked.
He Liangshui sat up straight, but the jade crown on his head was not straight. He pointed to the moon in the sky and said, "Look at the moon."
Chu Guyi followed and looked, "...the moon is beautiful tonight."
He Liangshui's heart skipped a beat, isn't this a love story?
"Mr. He," the moon in Chu Guyi's eyes turned into He Liangshui's face, "Are you waiting for me?"
The moon also moved away from He Liangshui's eyes and turned into Chu Guyi.
Er Er, his eyes squinted, and he smiled brightly: "Yes, I'm waiting for you."
The author has something to say:
Feijiu tested the bottom line of the system program:
He Liangshui, sooner or later you will be [beep——] by Chu Guyi
To be [beep——] by him like this, [beep——] like that
Anyway, [beep——][beep——][beep——]
Ah beep, ah beep beep, I beep...
He Liangshui: Hey, Xiaojiu, why are you silent?
Fat Chirp: QAQ
[Sorry, because your system swears too many times, it is temporarily banned]
ps: The moonlight is so beautiful tonight.From Natsume Soseki, which means I love you.What Chu Guyi said is similar~
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