Leng Mushi was like a person who had just woken up from a dream. After hearing Xiao Mian's words, she recalled all the details of her life over the past six months.
Xiao Mian looked at her nervously, he knew that he might be a little impatient, or this was not the best time to make things clear, but he couldn't stand Leng Mushi's alienation from him. The two of them had been almost inseparable in the past few months, just like they were really together.
Leng Mushi's alienation seemed to be just a sign of not being too close to Xiao Mian, but to Xiao Mian, it felt like being abandoned.
Xiao Mian knew her. She had just entered the critical stage, so her mind should be full of elixirs. She could even use human souls to make elixirs, which was simply unheard of in the art of alchemy. Leng Mushi must have been extremely excited at this time.
Xiao Mian knew that she was obsessed with alchemy and devoted to Taoism. He didn't want to occupy too much of her thoughts. He just wanted her to think about herself occasionally, spend some time with him, and not reject being close to him...
"I..." Xiao Mian opened his mouth to say something, but Leng Mushi suddenly frowned and raised her hand, interrupting him.
Xiao Mian's heart suddenly turned cold, bitterness spread along the root of his tongue, and the bright and gentle expression on his face, which was always bright when facing Leng Mushi, showed signs of cracking.
Is it impossible to succeed after all
Hasn't my companionship over the past few months made her feel the slightest bit moved
Xiao Mian took a step back, his lips trembling. Leng Mushi looked up at him and winked at him.
The two of them had a tacit understanding to a certain extent. Even though Xiao Mian was on the verge of heartbreak, he could instantly understand Leng Mushi's meaning. He turned around and saw...
"Senior Brother, what are you doing?" Xiao Mian saw You Zishu standing behind him, and You Zishu was pulling Xiaomei in his hand, while Xiaomei was holding a piece of limp painted skin in her hand.
You Zishu's cold eyes swept past Xiao Mian and turned to Leng Mushi, "I hope you can explain to me, what's going on with this big monster? She said she's yours."
The seal on Xiaomei's demonic power had been reinforced by You Zishu, so he became shy and timid again. His thin wrist was pinched by You Zishu, and a red mark was clearly visible on it.
Xiaomei raised her head and met Leng Mushi's gaze. She retracted the hand that was holding Fenlian into her arms, her eyes full of apology, an apology for not being able to protect the person she loved... the demon's apology.
Leng Mushi paused, looked at Fen Lian, whose demonic power was exhausted and almost turned into a piece of dead skin, and said: "She is indeed... mine."
"As a disciple of Taichu Mountain, you secretly raise a monster?!" You Zishu's tone suddenly became heavier. "Even if you are the disciple of the Second Elder, there are indeed countless monsters and beasts in the Second Elder's Courtyard, but this Painted Skin Monster has clearly never been tamed. She even has a precedent of eating people alive. How dare you bring this monster with you? What is your intention?"
"You searched her soul?!" Leng Mushi's scalp suddenly felt numb. After all, no matter how stupid Fen Lian was, she would never tell anyone about such things, unless You Zishu searched her soul.
Leng Mushi said, "Big Brother, you can't be like this. She helped us kill so many Balo bones and stood in front of our disciples. Now you turn around and search her soul, digging out her past and telling us what you are up to?"
It’s no wonder that Fen Lian is so weak. Leng Mushi thought that the transformation pill he made was not good and he was bullied for a long time.
"I brought you out, so I must be responsible for your safety. Although she helped us in times of crisis, she is still an untamed demon after all. And with that precedent, it's hard to predict what will happen next. What do you think my intentions are?"
You Zishu didn't know how long it had been since he had been mad at someone like this. The last time was during the initial examination meeting for new disciples. Naturally, the one who made him so mad was the person in front of him.
The scene was very tense for a while. Xiaomei pursed her lips tightly. Although she was the disciple of the third elder, she was a monster and had no right to speak in the sect.
He could only frown as he held the pink lotus that had fainted from overconsumption. The sealing formation in his heart that had been reinforced again began to heat up slightly.
Leng Mushi looked at You Zishu, and met his emotionless eyes that anyone who saw them would want to dig out and step on, and she wanted to scold him for ungratefulness.
But Leng Mushi opened his mouth, thinking of how he had held up the barrier for a long time by himself when dealing with Barro Bone. Although he was at the peak of Yuezhong level, he must have been badly damaged in such a situation, and perhaps his meridians were torn, but he didn't say a word.
Leng Mushi thought again that he had never told the disciples of the Punishment Hall that she had refined the Soul Control Pill. Although he dragged Xiaomei here at this moment... he was avoiding everyone after all, on the premise of not causing panic among the disciples. It was also the most gentle thing he could do with his rigid personality.
Leng Mushi is not good at understanding others, but she is good at remembering the good things about others. She suddenly relaxed her tense face and smiled at You Zishu.
She narrowed her fox eyes and smiled in a very flattering manner.
"Big Brother, since you have searched her soul, you should have seen that although she has eaten people alive, those she swallowed were all sinners, and they were also her enemies. Karma and reincarnation, she has no sins, which proves that she has never killed innocent people."
Leng Mushi said: "I brought her with me, and my master also knew it."
Maybe it was because of the Second Elder Hua Yanyue’s move, or because of Leng Mushi’s sudden change in attitude, but the frost on You Zishu’s dead face eased a little.
Leng Mushi racked her brains and continued: "Actually, Master asked me to keep her by my side."
I'm sorry, Master, you have to bear this big blame first.
You Zishu was not so easily fooled, "Why?"
"Why is it that when a new disciple goes out to practice, and you are still an alchemy practitioner, the Second Elder wants you to take an untamed monster with you?"
Leng Mushi: “…” Brother, aren’t you a man of few words? When did you become so talkative
"Because..."
"Because..."
Xiao Mian and Leng Mushi spoke at the same time. Xiao Mian wanted to say that this monster had been fed the Heart Oath Pill by the Second Elder, and if it hurt someone, its heart would be eaten to death, so there was nothing to be afraid of.
Anyway, You Zishu had no way of verifying whether the person who was fed the Oath Heart Pill was Xiao Mian or Fen Lian.
But as soon as he opened his mouth, Leng Mushi also spoke.
The two looked at each other. Xiao Mian thought that he was not as smart as Leng Mushi and was afraid that he could not think of a more clever reason than her, so he shut up.
Leng Mushi thought to herself, "Don't you like me? Why can't you understand my eyes?"
She had no choice but to glare at Xiao Mian and said, "She... was actually the mount that my master arranged for me!"
"Yes, a mount!" Leng Mushi looked at Fen Lian's limp appearance and said to You Zishu with a smile, "You have seen her transform, she is pretty brave, right? Hahaha."
You Zishu: "... Mount? The Second Elder wants you to use an untamed monster as a mount?"
Leng Mushi said “hmm”, “So, the Third Elder’s mount is a magical beast!”
"Have you met the Third Elder?" You Zishu asked.
Leng Mushi had heard about it of course, but she tilted her head and looked at You Zishu, and in her heart she really wanted Leng Tianyin, who was very good at sewing, to sew up his mouth and make sure that the stitches couldn't be seen.
But she still said: "My master said that we Dan cultivators are not good at swordsmanship and are not good at self-defense, so our mounts must be powerful."
“But with Xingzhong’s cultivation level, it is impossible for you to form a master-servant relationship with your mount. When you came out of the mountain, your cultivation level was only middle-level Xingzhong.” You Zishu said again.
Leng Mushi gritted her teeth, "My master calculated that I will advance on this trip, and I am now one month heavier! I will go and sign the contract now!"
Leng Mushi took two steps forward as she spoke, gnashing her teeth and biting her fingertips, and without caring whether the unconscious Fen Lian was willing or not, she directly pressed the blood contract on her skin. She originally wanted to press the head, but Fen Lian couldn't find the head or the butt in this state, so she had to be casual.
The next moment, the contract took effect, and a spiritual light emanated from the pink lotus' body. Leng Mushi shuddered all over and was supported by Xiao Mian in time.
The blood contract creates telepathy between the mount and its master. The master can deprive the mount of its abilities, but needs to provide the mount with mana.
Leng Mushi had finally advanced to the next level, but unexpectedly a lot of her spiritual power was drained away by the pink lotus. She immediately felt dizzy and fell into Xiao Mian's arms.
Xiao Mian knew that he shouldn't be happy right now, but he couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth.
After Fenlian absorbed the magical power, she regained her original appearance in the spiritual light and fell to the ground in a daze, looking like a beautiful woman in a delicate aqua green robe.
You Zishu looked at Leng Mushi, then at the big demon that had been imprisoned by the master-servant contract, turned around and flew up on his sword without saying a word. Before leaving, he said, "The next stop is Wanbo Town. Don't be too late. I heard that there are disciples from other sects training in the Demon Clan Ruins."
You Zishu flew away on his sword, and the remaining four people looked at each other in confusion.
Fen Lian should have jumped up and down after knowing what happened, but for some reason, after the dizziness came, she stared at Leng Mushi in a daze, with a serious expression on her usually frivolous face.
Leng Mushi slowly stood up and looked at Fen Lian. While the master-servant contract allowed their souls to blend together, it also inevitably brought back many of their long-lost memories of each other, making them feel unreal.
After Leng Mushi's face was stunned, she gradually regained her composure. After a while, she chuckled and said, "So it was you... Fate is really wonderful. When you mentioned that unfaithful man, I felt very familiar with him, but I didn't expect..."
Unexpectedly, Fenlian was the prostitute that her father kept as a concubine in his outer room besides Leng Tianyin and her son.
Things in this world are so coincidental. At that time, Fen Lian told Leng Mushi how she turned into a demon and how she killed the unfaithful man and escaped.
At that time, they did not mention any town or person's name in their conversation, but it turned out that they were talking about a place and a person.
The Leng family was not destroyed by Fenlian, but her father had offended someone and the whole family was massacred. When Fenlian left, except for Leng Mushi and Leng Tianyin who had escaped, the only person left in the Leng family was her unfaithful father Leng Xuezhen who was being tortured by a group of killers.
Fen Lian killed the people who massacred her entire family, and also killed Leng Xuezhen.
Cause and effect are cyclical, and retribution will come inevitably.
Leng Mushi's mood is no longer the same as before. Moreover, after her mother's death, she has wanted Leng Xuezhen to sacrifice his life as compensation for her mother more than once.
Fen Lian killed him for revenge, but also for cause and effect. Therefore, Leng Mushi sighed softly for a while, looked at Fen Lian and said, "You'd better keep this secret tightly, otherwise I won't kill you, and Leng Tianyin won't forgive you even if he knows."
After all, Leng Tianyin grew up really spoiled. Even though Leng Xuezhen never truly loved Leng Tianyin's mother and still kept a prostitute, he still doted on Leng Tianyin, his well-behaved daughter.
When the family was in trouble, she and Leng Tianyin had already become motherless children. Leng Mushi could not care less about Fen Lian killing that old beast, but when Leng Tianyin knew about it, it was difficult for him not to avenge his father's death.
Leng Mushi said: "I won't hide it for you. She has always wanted to find the person who killed our whole family, so she practiced very diligently."
Fenlian tensed up, looking at Leng Mushi with a look of guilt or something else in her eyes...
They have come all the way to where they are now, and although a year may seem like a quick time, they have truly developed feelings and a bond.
Few people don't care about the identity of a prostitute. Fen Lian really likes Leng Mushi, and she can truly feel her respect for any evil spirits and prostitutes.
Fen Lian was still thinking that she had found her husband and would always follow Leng Mushi. When she saw her advance yesterday, she was really happy for her...
She felt that she was being treated as a mount. She was not angry at all about this extremely insulting blood contract towards the great demon. She just wanted to quarrel with Leng Mushi.
But when she suddenly found out that Leng Mushi was the daughter of that unfaithful man, Fen Lian was like an ant on hot pot, not knowing what to do.
Fenlian's body trembled slightly. Xiaomei half-circled her shoulders from behind and looked at Leng Mushi with a little pleading.
Leng Mushi sighed again and said, "But I won't tell anyone. If Leng Tianyin doesn't point at you and ask if you are the murderer of our family, I won't take the initiative to tell her the truth."
Fenlian immediately breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Leng Mushi for a long time. She was about to walk towards her and want to apologize to her.
Leng Mushi said, "You guys go first, let me be quiet, I don't hate you."
Leng Mushi said: "It wasn't you who killed the innocent people in my family. As for Leng Xuezhen... haha." Leng Mushi really wanted someone to kill him at the beginning.
Fen Lian's charming little face was filled with tears. After a moment, she said, "He is not called Leng Xuezhen in my place. He said his name is Yong Wenxuan. I call him Yong Lang..."
"Yonglang, damn it... Stop annoying me here, get out of here right now, or I'll turn you into a cow and ride on you, believe it or not?!"
Leng Mushi suddenly yelled. In fact, she had seen the intimate scenes between her father and Fenlian in her memory. The hairs on the back of her neck stood up immediately. She yelled at Fenlian to get out, and the tears that had accumulated in her eyes fell out of her eyes.
Fenlian quickly got on Xiaomei's sword. When she flew high into the sky, Fenlian's sharp voice came, "You are so vicious. If you dare to turn me into a cow and ride on me, I will throw you into the dung pit—"
Leng Mushi was so angry that she wanted to turn her into a cow. Fortunately, Xiaomei flew fast on the sword. Xiao Mian hugged Leng Mushi and stroked the back of her head. "I know you feel bad. Don't be angry. I'll buy you something delicious when we pass by the town later..."
Although it is best not to eat worldly grains when one has reached the Yuezhong level or above, in order to avoid the accumulation of impurities in the body, which would affect one's practice.
But it didn't matter to Leng Mushi. She was an alchemist and ate the elixir of purification like candy beans all the time. Xiao Mian also had a lot of them. She had to practice harder to reach the realm of giving up worldly desires. She was still far away from them.
Leng Mushi was quickly stroked by Xiao Mian, and she leaned on his shoulder with steady breathing. Xiao Mian hugged her tightly, and kept rubbing his chin against the top of Leng Mushi's head.
Leng Mushi finally came to her senses. During this period of time, between her and Xiao Mian... She thought they were good brothers who would walk together for life, but Xiao Mian was just flirting.
She was completely unaware that her bottom line for what she would accept from him was getting lower and lower, and she didn't know how many times she had been taken advantage of like this.
Leng Mushi was not unaware of this approach. After all, she had seen a lot when she was hanging out with bad friends. Xiao Mian was just boiling a frog in warm water.
The kid is small, but he's still playing tricks.
Leng Mushi leaned in Xiao Mian's arms without saying a word, listening to Xiao Mian comforting her. She squinted her eyes and recalled the past six months, the scenes of Xiao Mian's transformation since she rejected him.
It cannot be said that he is not smart, but it can be said that he is very cunning.
But... Leng Mushi thought of many intimacy, but hugging was the bottom line. The next step was to take care of her and wash her underwear.
Xiao Mian was very self-restrained and really didn't do anything excessive, otherwise it wouldn't have lasted so long. Xiao Mian probably felt that it was enough and wanted to make it clear, and Leng Mushi came to her senses.
It's not wrong to forcibly attribute Xiao Mian's behavior to friendship, but it just has a bit of a mean vile taste. Leng Mushi originally thought that he was testing the medicine to temper his meridians, so she took extra care of him every time she made the pill and gave him a lot to eat.
Xiao Mian has always been positive, but he has not made any progress in the past few months. He just hangs around her all day... If he really wants to be with her, then this is right.
Leng Mushi wanted to laugh. He was quite tough. He didn't get sad after being rejected. He changed his approach quietly.
She really sneered, and then in this posture, she knocked her forehead against Xiao Mian's shoulder.
"Is my hair nice to touch?" Leng Mushi asked.
Xiao Mian paused.
Leng Mushi raised her head again and looked at Xiao Mian closely. In the process of raising her head, her lips almost brushed his chin.
"Am I huggable? Am I soft?"
Xiao Mian's whole body froze.
Leng Mushi stood up, pushed him away, and took a step back.
Xiao Mian quickly grabbed Leng Mushi's arm.
“Nian Ci…” Xiao Mian called out in a low voice, his handsome features revealing endless panic, like a white deer running fast in the snowy field being chased by tigers and leopards.
Leng Mushi looked at Xiao Mian without saying anything for a long time, admiring his panicked expression as he was caught. Thinking that she had been fooled by this idiot for so long, she wanted to scare him out of dissatisfaction.
At the same time, she thought of the things that happened in the later part of the plot... After Xiao Mian awakens the demon, he will be madly infatuated with a pure and beautiful woman with water spiritual roots like Leng Mushi.
Leng Mushi believes that he has nothing to do with the pure beauty, he is destined to...
—He is destined to belong to someone else, so don’t think about him anymore and reject him immediately.
The law that had been silent all this time suddenly spoke in her sea of consciousness. Leng Mushi's heart skipped a beat and her face darkened.
Xiao Mian thought she was angry, and hurriedly let go of Leng Mushi's sleeve. Leng Mushi looked at him, thinking about the closeness and harmony between them in the past, and couldn't help but feel a rebellious mentality in her heart.
Why
Why was Xiao Mian destined to belong to someone else? She had already changed the storyline about herself, so why couldn't she change Xiao Mian's
Besides, maybe there isn’t any bullshit plot at all!
But just as she was about to take a step towards Xiao Mian, the rule said again - seeing your lack of ability, the plot will not continue? Are you satisfied with the lower grade of Yuezhong? The lower grade of Yuezhong is nothing in the world of cultivation. Even You Zishu can crush you if he gets serious.
The voice of the law was full of sarcasm - Xiao Mian looked like a little white rabbit now, but when he awakens the devil, if he doesn't like you, he can slap you to death, so why are you moving forward!
Leng Mushi stopped in her tracks and frowned.
The law continued to say - the plot of the Demon Ruins is crucial. I promise that you will be able to see more secrets and improve your cultivation.
Leng Mushi raised her eyes and looked at Xiao Mian, her gaze sweeping across his eyebrows, his nose, lips, and finally his jaw.
She weighed it in her mind, cruelly digging out her own desires, comparing the two, and ultimately, Xiao Mian was no match for her.
Leng Mushi took back the step she had taken and let out a sigh of relief.
She looked calm and said calmly, "Let's go. We will be unable to catch up with the disciples later."
Leng Mushi smiled distantly and asked, "Brother Xiao, will you still take me to fly the sword?"
Xiao Mian looked at her for a moment, then turned around and summoned Shuiyun, drew his sword, and without looking back, he said in a tense voice, "Let's go."
They flew up on the swords again, but they were even more unfamiliar with it than when they left Letan Town. Xiao Mian stood in front of Leng Mushi with his back tensed, flying the sword. He could see something a little strange from her back, and his eyes were slightly red.
Leng Mushi bargained with the law repeatedly in her mind, and finally the law agreed to follow this plot and taught her to suppress her other spiritual roots during the process of refining the elixir.
For Leng Mushi, this is even more tempting than helping her cleanse her spiritual roots.
As long as she could suppress and use her spiritual roots at will...what else did she need the laws for
Leng Mushi knows what she wants and how to achieve her goal.
Therefore, she did not communicate with Xiao Mian along the way. They flew thousands of miles on their swords in one breath, and finally settled in Wanbo Town, the nearest town to the demon ruins.
People from all walks of life come here to train all year round, so there are many inns around that provide accommodation for disciples of cultivation. Moreover, these mortals who do business with the cultivators are all knowledgeable and have good attitudes.
A group of disciples from Taichu Mountain directly booked an entire inn. Since it was already night when they arrived, there were not many people on the street. Leng Mushi only saw a few female cultivators in red gauze walking by with sweet smiles. The night breeze brought with it a faint fragrance, which was really charming.
Leng Mushi, Leng Tianyin, and other female cultivators in the team were more vigilant than the male cultivators, because their Taichu Sect did not allow disciples to wear overly complicated jewelry, not even female cultivators. At most, they could tie two bows on the binding belt, and they had to prevent being discovered by the disciples of the Punishment Hall.
As for these female cultivators, they are even more adorned with jewelry than ordinary women. And what they wear are not ordinary items. Each of them is a magical instrument, dazzling and gorgeous, making people unable to take their eyes away. After all, which woman doesn't like these accessories
"This is a female cultivator from the Joy Sect."
You Zishu stood at the door, wearing mourning clothes, totally out of place in this world of mortals. He said in a tone as if he was visiting a grave: "Don't be tempted, because once you practice dual cultivation, you will become a furnace for others to use the skills you have cultivated with so much difficulty."
The disciples quickly turned their eyes away from the female cultivators, but Leng Mushi noticed that there was a male cultivator in the middle of them. His figure and appearance were no less than those of the women, and his every frown and smile was simply enchanting.
She took a closer look, actually because she saw the faint aura of death surrounding the male cultivator. As a result, the male cultivator threw a flirtatious glance at her.
Leng Mushi blinked and laughed.
This scene was so severe in Xiao Mian's eyes that it almost pierced his eyes.
In the end, she refused to accept him. Did she like that kind of man
Xiao Mian couldn't help but think that the black bamboo that Leng Mushi said she liked also had an evil aura.
He pursed his lips, with unknown emotions churning in his heart.
After everyone was settled, Leng Mushi didn't plan to go downstairs to eat. Over the past six months, she didn't have to worry about anything, and she always had everything she wanted.
But Xiao Mian is now injured by her, I am afraid he will not...
"Knock knock knock." There was a knock on the door.
Leng Mushi raised her eyebrows slightly and looked towards the door. When the knock on the door sounded for the third time, she walked to the door and opened it.
Water vapor hit his face, mixed with a very light floral scent. Xiao Mian's long hair was untied and all wetly fell on his shoulders. His handsome face was reflected a hazy blood color against the red lanterns in the corridor.
Leng Mushi looked down at his disheveled appearance and saw that his clothes were disheveled, revealing a little bit of his fair and firm chest. He was holding a food box in his hand, and water droplets were dripping from his head, landing on the back of his hand that was holding the food box, and the veins on his hand were almost bulging.
Leng Mushi took a deep breath and exclaimed in her heart.
What are you doing in the middle of the night when you look like you deserve to be humiliated
The author has something to say: Leng Mushi: I’m having trouble breathing.
Xiao Mian: Her expression is not right... Should I find a red gauze robe to wear like the one worn by the disciple of Huanxi Sect during the day