That was half an hour ago.
After Lord Xueyu escaped, the demon birds in the imperial city also dispersed. Many birds that could be seen on weekdays finally flew out of their nests fearfully and came to this familiar but broken city.
A sparrow with short brown-gray tail feathers landed in an inconspicuous yard.
A large part of the wall of the courtyard has collapsed, and there is still a smell of blood among the broken stones. But the lights in the house are calm, and the dim yellow halo on the window paper is like the horizon before sunset, and also like the sky before sunset. It's the rouge lightly applied on the girl's face.
The little sparrow stares at that room with its dark eyes. It likes that color. That color can bring a sense of peace, just like this city without the noisy queen of the sparrow.
Suddenly, the little sparrow cleverly raised its head and looked under the clouds - under the early clear night sky, the ink-colored clouds became lighter and lighter, but in the dark blue sky, there was a discordant crimson light. It looks like a long snake swimming in the sky.
The little sparrow was afraid of the snake. It shook its body and wanted to fly away with its wings.
But suddenly it saw that the snake was really coming in its direction. It flew up in fear and came to a higher and farther roof beam, looking down cautiously.
That crimson snake was not coming for me. It was a snake made of countless red lights. It swam down from the sky and sneaked into the courtyard silently. It didn't take long, The light in that courtyard visibly flickered for many times, and then suddenly went out, leaving it completely dark.
The sound of fighting came from inside, and then the windows were broken, the door was broken, and even a hole was poked in the high roof.
The little sparrow felt a sign of extreme danger. It immediately fluttered its wings and flew away, making a short warning call in the night. However, people who had just experienced the disaster were still immersed in the joy of slaying evil spirits. Naturally, they could not heard.
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When the changes occurred in the palace, Ning Jiujiu felt a slight movement in his heart and noticed something.
At this moment, the water on the stove has been boiled. Ning Jiujiu lifted the iron stove and stood at the table, making a pot of tea. Because the water was boiling hot, the pot needed to be held very high to allow the hot water to cool down during the fall and fall into the cup. When the tea leaves are brewed at medium, it is the appropriate temperature.
This was a habit that Ning had long remembered for many years, so his technique was very skillful, and not a trace of it spilled out when it fell into the cup.
"Every action of a person can reveal a lot of things." Ning Jiujiu pushed the porcelain cup in front of Ning Xiaoling and said with a smile: "Looking back now, the day I first woke up, I poured a cup of hot water for you. Water, it’s the way you pour it that makes you doubtful.”
Ning Xiaoling hesitated for a while and nodded. She picked up the porcelain cup and took a sip. She had to admit that the tea brewed by her senior brother was indeed much better than the tea brewed in her own big bowl.
She put down the cup, looked at the young man in white clothes in front of her, and asked: "Senior brother was sitting on the chair that day, raising his hands in the air motionless. What was he doing?"
Ning Jiujiu said: "I am fishing."
Ning Xiaoling remembered that Lu Marian asked him what he was good at today, and his answer was fishing.
"Fishing? What are you fishing for?" Ning Xiaoling asked.
Ning Jiujiu replied: "I don't know, it's just a habit I developed when I was a child. At that time, my second senior brother gave me a wooden stick and asked me to go to the river and catch a fish without using silk thread or bait."
Ning Xiaoling was surprised: "How is this possible?"
Ning Jiujiu said: "I didn't understand it at the time. Later I learned that there are countless invisible threads in this world. Those threads connect everything in the world. As long as we can grasp these threads, we can master everything in the world. That is the true fishing line from heaven dropped to the world.”
Ning Xiaoling scratched the air around her, shook her head and said, "I don't believe it."
Ning Changjiu smiled and said: "I didn't believe it before. At that time, I sat by the river with that wooden stick for a day. A fish happened to stop under the shadow of the wooden stick. I knocked it unconscious and fished it out. Let’s go back and give errands to senior brother.”
Ning Xiaoling burst into laughter and asked, "Didn't your senior brother scold you?"
Ning Jiujiu also laughed: "Having quick eyes and quick hands is also a skill, why do you have to scold me?"
Ning Xiaoling thought for a while and stopped laughing. She asked, "Are you fishing for something now?"
Ning Jiujiu said half-jokingly: "Of course it's to catch a little fox hiding underwater."
Ning Xiaoling sighed: "Senior brother, you are not suitable for joking."
So Ning Jiujiu really stopped laughing, and only two cups of tea were steaming slightly between the two of them.
Ning Jiujiu suddenly glanced at the window, but his eyes seemed to be able to fall further through the window paper.
"That old fox was defeated." Ning Jiujiu suddenly said.
Ning Xiaoling's eyes widened. She sensed the demon seed that was deeply rooted in her innate spirit. Although she found it incredible, the demon seed's reaction could not be deceiving. The demon seed's body had been destroyed, so this demon seed became The rootless tree is gone.
After each great demon reaches a higher level of cultivation, he can produce his own demon seed like a tree blossoming and bearing fruit.
This demon seed is equivalent to another heart of oneself.
It can only be grafted into the soil of the same sect as itself, otherwise the grafted person will immediately go crazy and die violently. The demon seed also represents new life. Even if the original body dies, the demon seed may still take root and germinate again, and then use those that have not dispersed. Wisdom, complete rebirth.
The more powerful and rare the demon clan is, it is extremely difficult to find someone with the same ancestry and origin as itself, so when this girl with a congenital spirit as a fox appeared in the imperial city, the red-tailed old man woke up immediately. He almost He used all the power he could to influence the imperial city and threw out the invisible demon seed.
And that night, Ning Qinshui slapped open the spiritual orifice of her body, allowing those wronged souls and ghosts to come in. These wronged souls and ghosts were the wind, and the seed thrown by the old fox was a dandelion blown up by the wind. Seed.
Once the seed falls to the ground, takes root and sprouts, it is closely related to the innate spirit, and it is difficult to separate it.
As long as this seed is still there, Ning Xiaoling will become a demon sooner or later.
Therefore, during the assassination that night, if Ning Jiujiu did not arrive in time, the demon seed would be activated in advance, and the consequences would be disastrous.
And if the old fox really escapes from the underground palace, he will take back the seed and swallow the demon power contained in it together with the innate spirit that the demon seed is attached to. If the old fox dies, the demon seed will swallow this seed. The body serves as new soil.
So no matter what, Ning Xiaoling could not escape death.
On the first night, she heard the old fox speaking to her through the demon species, and she couldn't sleep all night, but in order to prevent her senior brother from seeing the clues, she still looked carefree on the surface.
In fact, these days, the demon has been subtly influencing her, and even wants to completely occupy her body.
The demonic nature of the demon has reached the end of its life, and this is a doomed situation.
Ning Xiaoling leaned on the back of the chair, as if all her strength had been drained away. The words Xiao Yanyan had spoken just now seemed to be just an illusory dream she had finally concocted. She said feebly: "Brother, our fate is really bad."
Ning Jiujiu said: "Sometimes, a talisman that attracts ghosts can become a talisman to exorcise evil by changing a few strokes. Many things in this world can be changed in this way, and then produce completely different effects. Demons are established by the evolution of spirits. Nature can also turn it upside down."
Ning Xiaoling said: "I won't change the talisman..."
"It's okay, senior brother is good at this." Ning looked at her face for a long time and said calmly: "Go to sleep and you'll be fine when you wake up."
Ning Xiaoling held her face in her hands and said regretfully, "If I had told you this earlier, wouldn't a lot of things have changed?"
Ning Jiujiu said: "I already knew it, so don't think too much about it."
Ning Xiaoling noticed the strange movement outside and said: "Senior brother, actually I know that you may not be you anymore, but I don't know why, but I always feel in my heart that you are still my senior brother."
Ning Jiujiu rubbed her head: "It will always be the case."
Outside the window, the short chirping of sparrows sounded.
A long crimson snake snaked in, penetrated all obstacles, and rushed towards Ning Xiaoling's body like a rushing stream.
Ning Jiu couldn't stop it. In fact, he had no intention of stopping it.
What he had been waiting for was this moment.
Only by truly drawing out the old fox could he have a chance to peel off the demon without harming Ning Xiaoling's life.
The long crimson snake is the last remaining spirit of the old fox.
At this moment, the long crimson snake wrapped around her body like a soul worm. Ning Xiaoling stared in front of her in despair, tears streaming out of her eyes. But for just a moment, the pupils in those watery eyes were almost invisible. , turned pale.
A snow-white tail broke out from behind her, swaying a huge and illusory shadow.
The wooden chair under Ning Xiaoling suddenly shattered. She stood up numbly and stared blankly ahead. She exuded an extremely strange aura, like a demon or a god.
Ning looked into those snow-white eyes for a moment.
Ning Xiaoling looked at him, thought for a moment, and said uncertainly: "Senior brother?"
Her voice became extremely cold and indifferent. There was almost no emotion in it, and it was more like a piece of ice covering her chest that was slowly melting.
The demonic power of the girl in front of her skyrocketed in just a few breaths. After all, it was the essence of Old Hu's six-path broken soul. It was condensed together at this moment. If it were not limited by Ning Xiaoling herself, she should be able to break into the Purple Court instantly at this moment.
But even if longevity is at its peak, in this city at this moment, the spirituality of the Four Keys has been temporarily lost, the Immortal Sword has been re-sealed into the Jiazi Palace, the palace killing array has been destroyed, and Lu Marry's injury has not healed, where is the power that can stop her
Ning looked into her eyes for a long time and said, "Are you here?"
Ning Xiaoling looked at him indifferently and said, "Sometimes I really can't tell whether you are hypocritically calm or truly calm."
Ning Jiujiu said: "I can't tell who you are either."
Ning Xiaoling's whole body was filled with demonic power, like a strong wind undulating between her Taoist robes. She put one hand behind her back and pinched the Taoist secret with the other. There was still no expression on her face, "That old fox is dead, and your junior sister is about to die too. I It’s me, I haven’t thought of a name for myself yet.”
She is Ning Xiaoling's innate spirit, the snow fox with its tail cut off. Now, with the help of the demon seed, she has endured the remaining demonic power of the red-tailed old master after his death. Her realm has suddenly risen, and she has directly turned against the guest, occupying Ning Xiaoling's consciousness.
Ning Jiujiu nodded and said: "As long as you are not a junior sister, I can kill you with confidence."
Ning Xiaoling stood still, the white fox tail phantom behind her still increasing. She stared at Ning for a long time and said: "I know there are many extraordinary people in the world, and you may be one of them, but you are not even in the Nascent Realm at this moment. Why should you kill me?"
During the words, Ning Xiaoling's figure suddenly retreated, and a snow-white finger was pointed slowly. The fingertips were haloed, as if burning the purest holy fire in the world.
Ning Changjiu's expression was calm and serious. This was the finger he pointed out that night, the finger that sealed the demon.
After Ning Xiaoling took three steps back, several slender fox tails that had grown behind her exploded like a peacock spreading its tail, and then gradually condensed into two thicker and fluffy long tails.
This was her first time fighting. Although there were many fragments of combat experience hidden in the spirit of the old fox, she had not had time to digest it quietly. At this moment, she was a little nervous.
But this tension only lasted for a moment, and the confidence brought by the realm crushing quickly calmed her down.
She also pointed a finger, and the fox fire was burning between her fingers, so the whole room was suddenly filled with crimson light, as if there was a big sun hidden, and Ning Changjiu's weak fire seemed to be swallowed up and overturned at any time. .
But in just a moment, the fox fire hit Ning Changjiu's finger, and the two actually offset each other and died together. The light in the room was just a flash in the pan, and was swallowed up by darkness in an instant.
A moment later, the beams shattered, the roof tiles collapsed, the wooden windows and doors shattered, and Ning Changjiu's figure fell into the courtyard, with three claw marks clearly visible on the back of his white shirt.
Ning Xiaoling's figure arrived in an instant. She broke through the roof, jumped up high, and landed deftly. Just as she was about to rush towards Ning Changjiu, she was suddenly tripped by something under her feet.
A golden light wrapped around the ankle like a thin thread. The thin thread was buried deep in the ground. At this moment, like a fishing net lifted from the water, those golden thin threads were revealed one after another, densely intertwined in the yard, rising and falling silently, like thousands of vertical and horizontal lines. Interlaced strings.
"Magic circle?" Ning Xiaoling reacted immediately, but her feet couldn't break free.
Ning Jiujiu pointed out, pointed directly at the center of her eyebrows, and said four words in his mouth: "Zi Wang Zhai Xin."
Those were the first four words on the mountain road stele pavilion.
As soon as the mantra comes out, the dust from the sky falls to the ground, the fine grass clippings fall quietly, the stars, the moon, the birds in the tall buildings all seem to be sitting on the futon and forgetful, everything is quiet.
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(Thanks to book friends Porridge Demon King and Mo Sa 123 for the reward! Well... So, I owe you a chapter and I will pay it back tomorrow!)