What does it feel like to watch someone being intimate with his imaginary self
Leng Mushi watched with great interest.
Xiao Mian really dared to think. Leng Mushi looked at him supporting the non-existent person in the air, revealing a painful and joyful expression. To be honest, she could still accept this position...
But just when she was watching with great interest, Xiao Mian suddenly pressed his chest in pain, and then a mouthful of blood spurted out. Then his blurred vision became clear and he looked in the direction of Leng Mushi.
Leng Mushi: ...What's going on!
Xiao Mian pressed his chest, propped up his arms and sat up, then looked at the waist belt on his hand. He seemed to understand what Leng Mushi meant. He looked at her with a blushing face, then sat cross-legged on the ground, borrowed the healing power of the Illusion Stone, and began to circulate his spiritual power to dispel the evil spirit in his body.
"What's wrong with you?" Because even if the waistbands were connected, the distance was very limited, so Xiao Mian was at the entrance of the cave, and Leng Mushi lay in the dark and asked him, "What's wrong with you? Did you break the illusion? How did you break it?"
Xiao Mian did not answer Leng Mushi, he did not know what to say. Xuanzhu had given him the toad blood to prevent him from doing anything bad to Leng Mushi, there was nothing wrong with that, but the illusion he had just had...
The illusion was too embarrassing to talk about, especially in front of Leng Mushi, making him look like a sex maniac. Xiao Mian just wanted to find a hole in the ground to crawl into and never come out.
Seeing that Xiao Mian stopped talking, Leng Mushi stopped talking and stopped disturbing him while he was healing. It didn't take long for Xiao Mian's wounds to be almost healed, including the heart injury that was torn by the toad's blood.
But he was in the nest of the phantom fox, and "Leng Mushi" was by his side every minute and every second, gently asking him if he still felt pain, whispering in his ear that she would be with him forever, and even hugging him and kissing him.
Xiao Mian bit the tip of his tongue repeatedly to stay awake. He knew that Leng Mushi was watching him in the dark cave behind him, and he was too ashamed to do anything shameful in front of her.
In addition, Leng Mushi, who was transformed by the Huansheng Fox, looked exactly the same, even the blood stains on her body from snuggling with Xiao Mian were the same, but her temperament was completely different from the real Leng Mushi.
In reality, Leng Mushi would not whisper to him gently, linger on him, or even come up to kiss him.
Leng Mushi was like this, which was what Xiao Mian had imagined she would be like after they were together. Therefore, he was particularly moved. However, being moved would affect the toad sand in the heart meridian, and he would wake up in pain.
For a moment, Xiao Mian actually thought that this was a good thing, at least he wouldn't sink.
When the injuries on his body had completely healed, Xiao Mian took advantage of his clear consciousness and turned to Leng Mushi and said, "I will try to bring the disciples out. This illusion cannot affect me."
Although Leng Mushi didn't know why she couldn't be affected, and Xiao Mian just woke up from the illusion, this was undoubtedly the best way.
She nodded in response, watching Xiao Mian walk and stop.
He seemed to be obsessed at times, but he quickly pressed his chest to sober up, shook his head and continued walking, then looked dazed again.
As he walked along the way, the front of his collar was covered in blood, but his steps became faster and faster. In the end, the extremely gentle and affectionate "Leng Mushi" that appeared in this illusion was no longer enough to make Xiao Mian obsessed.
He first walked up to the group of Huanxi Sect disciples and tried to summon them, but although they did not sink like the other disciples and set up a magic circle to fight against the illusion, they could not hear Xiao Mian's voice and had no response to his call.
Leng Mushi shouted at the door at this time: "Don't worry about them, just bring Leng Tianyin and the Huansheng Fox out!"
Xiao Mian was actually able to distinguish Leng Mushi's words from the countless voices of Leng Mushi surrounding him. He turned back somewhat slowly, looked towards the cave entrance, and then walked directly towards Leng Tianyin.
Leng Tianyin was sleeping while holding the phantom fox. Xiao Mian had bitten his tongue so hard that it was rotten, his lips were stained with blood, and the veins on his forehead were bulging. He struggled to stay awake and bent down to pick up Leng Tianyin, along with the phantom fox in her arms.
But the journey back was difficult, and illusions continued to create all the scenes that Xiao Mian expected around him.
Leng Mushi is in every one of these scenes, and it is how Xiao Mian once imagined they would be when they were together.
There were even things that had happened in the past, their peaceful past in the Palace of Cangsheng, every scene made Xiao Mian indulge in it.
Xiao Mian struggled to resist, resisting the expectations from the bottom of his heart. He was almost at the cave entrance holding the unconscious Leng Tianyin in his arms, when suddenly the scene in the illusion changed. He saw his body shrinking infinitely and he had lost all his strength. This nest made of illusion stone had woven a desolate scene for him.
There were victims of starvation and disease everywhere. The roadsides leading into the city were filled with dying people, adults and children. The air was filled with the smell of rotting corpses and the stench of dying people.
Xiao Mian felt like he was lying alone on the side of the road. He was so hungry that he couldn't move. When he was about to die, a voice told him, "Eat the person next to you. Eat her and you will live."
This was the nightmare that Xiao Mian often had. Even his self-examination array depicted this scene.
But this time the illusion did not end abruptly when he turned his head to look like every nightmare, but continued.
Xiao Mian was not even watching as a bystander, but was involved in it and couldn't extricate himself.
He swallowed hard. Hunger and fear of death caused him to turn his head and see the dead body beside him.
It was a skinny female corpse, looking old and gray. Xiao Mian had lost all his memories before entering the mountain, but the moment he saw the female corpse, he remembered that the corpse was his mother.
They came here to escape famine, but because some of their people were infected with the plague, the city gates were not opened and the town refused to accept them. Due to disease, hunger and the long journey, most of the people who came with them had died.
He had lost all his strength, and it seemed that the only thing he could do was to bite the corpse beside him and devour her flesh and blood to survive.
The bewitching voice kept speaking in his ears. Xiao Mian turned over and slowly approached the shoulder of the corpse.
Leng Mushi watched Xiao Mian's expression blurry again. Less than three steps away from the cave entrance, she knelt down with a plop, and Leng Tianyin in her arms rolled down directly -
Leng Tianyin was completely unconscious, as if she was fast asleep, but because of her tumbling posture, her hand loosened on the Huansheng Fox and it fell to the ground.
If I fall to the ground like this and this beast wakes up, everything will be over.
At the critical moment, Leng Mushi didn't care about anything else and pounced forward, reaching out and catching the Huansheng Fox steadily before it fell to the ground.
However, half of her body was exposed to the light of the Illusion Stone. When she was about to retreat back into the darkness, Leng Mushi looked up and saw her mother.
The woman smiled gently, and was the youngest and most beautiful person Leng Mushi had ever seen. She had not yet turned into a withering flower because of her father. Now she was like a lotus that had absorbed enough rain water, tender and juicy.
The pair of hands that were so gentle that Leng Mushi would give up everything for a caress, held her hands. In this illusion, Leng Mushi also shrank infinitely. She was held by her mother, and it seemed as if her soul was being dragged in, and she was only the size of a few years old.
"Why are you hiding here? It's time to eat. Today we have your favorite sweet and sour pork." The woman's voice overlapped with the voice in Leng Mushi's best memory. Behind her was the courtyard of their home. The door to the main hall was open, and a faint fragrance emanated from inside. Together with the scent of the woman holding her, it drifted into Leng Mushi's nose along with the breeze.
That is the taste of mother and happy childhood.
That was a beautiful dream that she could never realize in her life.
Leng Mushi was almost bewitched. If she could go back to that time, she would be willing to give everything in exchange.
everything.
But just when she was about to sink, she suddenly felt a slight pain in her fingers.
She lowered her head, and under the shadow of her mother's gentle hands in the illusion, she saw a small creature the size of a palm biting her.
In just a moment, Leng Mushi pulled herself out of the quagmire-like state. She bit her cheek hard, then clenched the phantom fox that had woken up and was biting her in her hand, and retreated back into the darkness.
Leng Tianyin, who was sleeping on the ground, suddenly opened his eyes and quickly followed the Huansheng Fox into the darkness.
And Xiao Mian was still lying within the range of the Illusionary Stone, sinking into that nightmare-like illusion, listening to the voices coming from his body and his mind, tempting him again and again to devour the flesh and blood of the woman next to him to stay alive.
Leng Mushi, who retreated back to the cave, screamed in pain and escaped from the illusion. She watched her mother disappear in front of her, and the Huansheng Fox bit her palm directly. This was not an ordinary bite, but a direct bite on the soul. This little thing wanted to eat her!
The moment Leng Mushi came back to her senses, she strangled the fox's neck. Its mouth loosened a little, but the next moment, Leng Mushi's neck was also strangled fiercely - by Leng Tianyin!
"Give it to me!" Leng Tianyin spoke word by word, but there was an abnormal gray in her eyes when she looked into Leng Mushi's. Obviously, she had been holding the Huansheng Fox for too long and had been completely bewitched and driven by it.
Leng Mushi had difficulty breathing and raised her foot to kick Leng Tianyin, but Leng Tianyin quickly dodged. Her speed was incredible and totally inconsistent with her current level of cultivation.
Needless to say, this is because of the phantom fox.
"Leng Tianyin, wake up! Do you dare to kill me?!"
Leng Mushi roared at her, but she did not hesitate to pinch the delicate neck of Huansheng Fox with her hand. Huansheng Fox groaned in pain and completely loosened its mouth.
Leng Tianyin also hesitated for a moment, and in that instant, she was kicked out by Leng Mushi and flew back into the cave of the Huansheng Fox, right next to Xiao Mian's body, and her falling arm hit Xiao Mian's face hard.
Xiao Mian's illusion was still continuing. He had obeyed the voice and opened his mouth again towards the woman beside him. He pressed his mouth against her cold flesh and almost bit her.
And just at this moment, Leng Tianyin's slap hit him hard in the face with a "slap".
Xiao Mian suddenly realized that the space in front of him was distorted, but it quickly recovered. With his blurry vision, he saw a little girl about his age, who kept patting his face, then roughly poured the water in the water bag in her hand into his mouth, and roughly stuffed him with snacks that could choke him to death.
He tried hard to see the little girl's appearance, but because he was on the verge of death, his eyelids were heavy and almost closed, and he couldn't see this kind-hearted person at all. All this overlapped with the nightmares he had been having for years. At this moment, Xiao Mian suddenly woke up from this illusion -
He sat up suddenly, breathing heavily, and saw Leng Tianyin beside him crawling up from the ground, screaming at Leng Mushi in the cave: "Give it to me!"
Then he rushed towards Leng Mushi in the cave.
Without thinking, Xiao Mian lunged forward and threw Leng Tianyin to the ground. He then hurriedly said to Leng Mushi, who was about to strangle the Huansheng Fox to death, "You can't kill it. The Huansheng Fox has four tails, and each tail is its life. It can't die! It will kill the disciples!"
A newly born phantom fox has four tails, each of which will fall off after it encounters a fatal injury. It will regenerate anywhere in its cave, and it will be difficult to catch it at that time. Besides, all the people who are now trapped in the illusion after recovering from their injuries are under the control of the phantom fox. If it dies or gets angry, no one will survive.
Upon hearing this, Leng Mushi suddenly let go of her hand, only holding the skin on the back of the little thing's neck. Although the phantom fox was small, it was very ferocious. It bit Leng Mushi's arm again, and the pain made Leng Mushi almost jump up.
At this moment, she was holding the fox's neck skin in one hand and groping in her storage bag with the other hand for something that could control it. Unexpectedly, it turned around and bit her wrist fiercely, and this time it bit her meridians. Leng Mushi felt that her spiritual power and strength were being quickly drained away.
Pain and anger rushed to his head. At the critical moment, Leng Mushi did not even pull his hand out of the storage bag to pinch the fox's neck again to force it to let go. Instead, he bare his teeth and retaliated - biting the fox's head.
This little thing was small, only the size of a palm, otherwise it would be impossible for Leng Tianyin to hold it in the palm of his hand. Leng Mushi opened his mouth wide in anger, took half of the fox's head in one mouthful, and then closed his teeth tightly -
“Ouch—”
The little thing felt pain and immediately opened its mouth and cried out.
As the saying goes, if a dog bites you, you cannot turn around and bite the dog back.
But this kind of thing depends on whether you are afraid of getting bitten.
Leng Mushi didn't care about anything and grabbed half of the fox's head. It howled and kicked its legs, and its body and stomach were also pinched by Leng Mushi, making it completely powerless.
The disciples who were bewitched in the illusion suddenly stopped for a while, even Leng Tianyin hesitated for a moment, but it was only for a moment. After all, even if the Huansheng Fox was subdued, the Huansheng Stones in the entire cave would prevent these disciples from escaping.
Leng Mushi was panting. When Xiao Mian and Leng Tianyin were fighting, she took the time to look at her with a complicated gaze. She bit the Huansheng Fox and refused to let go. She was like a beast more ferocious than the Huansheng Fox. She simply shook the storage bag directly to the ground.
Apart from the cloth bags containing the Soul-Controlling Pills and her Five Elements Pills, there was also the Mustard Seed Pill Furnace, and the rest were daily necessities. There was no bag that could hold this little thing.
Fortunately, the Huansheng Fox is just like her, a creature that can only perform illusions but not any powerful attacking techniques. In a sense, it is exactly the same as Leng Mushi, an alchemist who can only make pills but not very good at fighting.
Because the Illusion Fox was a newborn, it was bitten fiercely by Leng Mushi for a while, but its illusion skills were endless. Even without the illumination and assistance of the Illusion Stone, it was constantly creating illusions for Leng Mushi.
Of course, it’s her mother, the person she loves most in her life.
Leng Mushi looked at her "living" mother through the illusion of the Huansheng Fox without hesitation, and remembered her with tears in her eyes, but the fluffy thing in her mouth reminded Leng Mushi all the time what was going on. She could greedily look at the memories and be heartbroken, but she could not indulge in it. The lives of all the disciples were in the illusion of the Huansheng Fox, and at this moment, they were all in her mouth.
She couldn't find anything that could control the phantom fox, so she simply took out the mustard seed furnace, changed its size to occupy the entire cave space, and then quickly input spiritual power into it, igniting the spiritual fire.
Then she pinched the fox's neck hard, took it out of her mouth, and used the law to hit it hard on the wet head, but it was not fatal.
Leng Mushi held it in her hand, standing up and saying, "I just had a crazy idea. I wanted to extract all the moves and attacks and store them in the elixir."
Leng Mushi carried the dizzy Huansheng Fox, climbed up and walked towards the alchemy furnace, "But there are no conditions and opportunities to try."
Leng Mushi walked to the side of the alchemy furnace, opened it, and pushed the Huansheng Fox, which had just become a little more awake, against the alchemy furnace again and hit it with the law, and it became confused again.
"It's really not rewarding to bully a little thing like you, but you have frightened the souls of so many disciples, I really can't let you go. A beast that eats its own mother is definitely not a good beast, so I'll use you as a training ground!"
As Leng Mushi spoke, she threw the dizzy Huansheng Fox directly into the alchemy furnace that was burning with five-colored spiritual fire. Then she wiped the saliva from biting the fox and spat out the hair in her mouth.
She bit her fingertips and used her blood to draw a beast-prisoning formation around the alchemy furnace. She sealed the phantom fox, which had already regained consciousness and was screaming and banging against the furnace wall, inside the furnace and increased the spiritual fire.
The disciples in the phantom fox's lair were all affected by the phantom fox. They were scratching and screaming. The illusion they were immersed in was distorted. They kept holding their heads and screaming in pain.
Leng Mushi and Xiao Mian, who had completely subdued Leng Tianyin, exchanged a glance. Xiao Mian smiled at her and said, "Just do it, and leave the rest to me."
Leng Mushi sat cross-legged, closed her eyes, and circulated her spiritual energy madly towards the alchemy furnace, trying for the first time to extract the magical power of the Huansheng Fox.
And those disciples who were bewitched by the phantom fox held their heads and screamed madly again. Then, after Leng Mushi extracted the first trace of demonic power, they all turned their heads to look towards the cave entrance.
Xiao Mian sighed softly, then slowly exhaled, his Shuiyun sword came out of its sheath with a clang, spiritual light floated around, causing his long hair and robes to move silently, the handsome young immortal stood with the sword in his hand, blood on the front of his lapel, his face full of murderous intent, Shuiyun was buzzing with awe-inspiring fighting spirit.
Xiao Mian held Shuiyun in both hands and pointed directly at the disciples who were controlled by the Huansheng Fox in the entire secret realm.
Leng Mushi entered an unprecedented state. She drew out the illusionary magic power of the Huansheng Fox bit by bit. At the same time, she also saw the vitality and soul power of the disciples controlled by the Huansheng Fox.
A crazy and absolutely sinful thought came to her mind. She could extract the vitality and souls of these disciples like a phantom fox and refine them into living pills!
Since dead souls can be refined, why can't living souls be refined
If she could refine the pills, all these living people would be at her disposal, and she wouldn't have to try to seal her moves anymore, as many people would be willing to die for her.
At this critical moment, she caught a glimpse of a detour that could lead directly to the sky.
She finally understood now why the first people who cultivated the elixir would take the paths of puppetry and witchcraft, two paths that were despised by the world.
The temptation was too great. Controlling the life and death of others was above everything else. She could even use the disciples controlled by the Illusion Fox to extract their vitality and place it on another person at will. No one would know, and no one would even believe it!
Leng Mushi shook her head, opened her eyes and looked at Xiao Mian.
Xiao Mian was not one of those disciples who were bewitched by the magic of the Huansheng Fox. He was fighting with those disciples in order to stop them and buy time for her.
He stood in the bright light and fought without giving an inch, guarding the dark cave entrance and Leng Mushi who was in the darkness.
He had no objection or suspicion about her actions. He turned his back to the cave, facing the entire world in this small world just for her. He didn't even need a reasonable explanation.
It seems like it has always been like this, and it seems like it will never change.
Leng Mushi didn't know that while she was extracting the illusion, she was also affected by it. Countless dark thoughts were bubbling and fermenting in her mind. She liked Xiao Mian, she was sure of that.
But in the plot, Xiao Mian belongs to someone else, Leng Tianyin, not hers!
How unfair is this? She doesn't want to accept this fate!
Leng Mushi has already found out the reason why Xiao Mian's temperament changed drastically after he awakened the demon.
Leng Mushi saw through his physical condition through the eyes of the illusion fox and through the ingenious connection with all the illusion stones. There was indeed demonic energy wrapped in spiritual power in his body, but it did not come from his blood, but from his inner elixir.
The spiritual light of his inner elixir flowing was undoubtedly the same as that of an ordinary cultivator, but underneath that light, there was indeed a thick black demonic energy.
His body was indeed made of flesh and blood, which meant that he was not born a demon, nor was his demon bloodline suppressed; it was all because of the magic pill in his body that was connected to his vitality and wrapped in spiritual power and had not yet leaked out.
He is a human being, so where does the magic pill come from
Leng Mushi, through the eyes of the Illusion Fox and the power of the Illusion Stone, which was comparable to an entire spiritual vein, briefly possessed eyes that could see through everything and discovered such an absurd fact: Xiao Mian did not even have a human soul, and his life was also maintained by the magic pill. He might...
Maybe it's just a trace of consciousness remaining in this body of flesh and blood.
Therefore, when the Demon Pill awakens, his temperament will naturally change drastically, because by that time, his weak consciousness that does not even have a human soul will disappear, and he will no longer be himself.
And the one she fell in love with was a soulless being, a wisp of consciousness that parasitized in a body maintained by the Heavenly Demon Pill.
Leng Mushi's heart was greatly shocked and she withdrew her gaze from Xiao Mian. At this moment, she really wanted to extract the souls of all the disciples who had fought against Xiao Mian, refine them and use them for her own purposes.
But after biting her cheek and filling her mouth with blood, Leng Mushi finally pulled out the animal bone knife and fiercely cut her arm, only then could she barely resist this fatal temptation.
She closed her eyes and stepped back from the wrong path leading to heaven, then madly input her spiritual power into the alchemy furnace, quickly drawing out the demonic power of the phantom fox.
The sound of fighting outside was endless. The wounds that Xiao Mian had healed under the effect of the Illusion Stone were covered by new wounds from the fighting.
He had been blocking the entrance to the cave. Facing so many monks from his own and different sects, he was covered in wounds and was nearly killed at the entrance several times.
Leng Mushi knew that if Xiao Mian died, this wisp of consciousness would disappear, and the consciousness of the Heavenly Demon Pill wrapped in the inner elixir would awaken, and then Xiao Mian would be completely gone.
Leng Mushi's spiritual power was so strong that her meridians were slightly torn, and she was rapidly drawing out the demonic power of the Huansheng Fox. In her mind, she kept thinking about whether to simply draw out the human souls of her disciples to stop them, or to simply strangle the Huansheng Fox with her spiritual power, and then kill all these bewitched disciples while they were struggling to death.
But she finally held back, because Xiao Mian, who always had his back to her, trusted her, and risked his life for her, did not go astray.
Finally, more than half of the magic power of the Huansheng Fox was extracted, and the consciousness of the high-level disciples who were controlled returned, first You Zishu, then the disciples of the Huanxi Sect, and then Yi Tu Xingzhou and the Buddhist practitioners. They stood by Xiao Mian one by one and helped him fight against the other disciples who had not yet escaped from control.
Leng Mushi burst into tears.
She kept thinking, is this world really a storybook? What are the rules? What is going on with Xiao Mian
Is everything you have heard true
What is the truth
Amid the cries of the phantom fox and the pain of her meridians being gradually torn apart, she seemed to see Xiao Mian, whose face was filled with pain and endurance.
His face was pale, his lips were pursed, a little blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, and bloody lines were running on his forehead and neck, which was extremely weird. But his eyes were as bright as stars, and there was endless tenderness and affection in his eyes when he looked at her, just like the look Leng Mushi gave him every day in Cangshengyuan.
There were blood flowers blooming on his chest, and at the source of the spreading crimson was a bone sword with strange patterns.
The sword was held in Leng Mushi's own hand.
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