Chu Danfeng: "Fourth Brother, we have hostages in our hands. Ji—this devil dare not do anything to us."
Fang Qingya still shook his head: "It's my own decision. I'm not worried about your safety. Chu Danfeng, you are always so self-righteous."
"…" Chu Danfeng couldn't stand his inability to talk things out, and he also felt a little angry, "Fang Qingya! Now is not the time to lose your temper, follow me out of the secret realm and return to Lixu Peak!"
"Since he doesn't want to, why are you forcing him?" Ji Xiao's face was pale, but he looked like he deserved a beating. "Miss Chu, don't think that the famous and upright sects are all upright. You cultivators in the human world are generally filthy and vile. The Shuangji Sect is also a place where filth and dirt are hidden. He just knows the truth and sees through it. If you ask me, the most upright sect in the human world is the Hehuan Sect. With your qualifications, it would be most appropriate for you to join the Hehuan Sect..."
Chu Danfeng didn't listen to Ji Xiao's nonsense, but asked Fang Qingya directly: "So, you want to defect from your master?!"
Fang Qingya turned his face away slightly, pursed his lips and said nothing, his attitude silent and resolute.
Ji Xiao said with great interest: "Why don't you explain it in detail to your fellow apprentices? When the time comes, you and I will return to the Demon Realm together. Wouldn't it be lively with all the fellow apprentices together?"
Hua Tingxuan stood behind Chu Danfeng, looking at them coldly, as if he was an outsider. Lin Shuer clasped the ends of the immortal rope with both hands and opened her mouth, as if she wanted to persuade them.
But at this moment, several strange ghosts came through the wall and shouted, "Sir! It's bad, the flying cigarette bottle is all broken!"
Ji Xiao's already pale face became even uglier. He glared at Chu Danfeng with hatred and grabbed Fang Qingya's wrist. "It has come to this. There is no point in staying any longer... Let's go!"
Fang Qingya cooperated very well and followed him. Chu Danfeng tried to catch up but was stopped by Hua Tingxuan. He shook his head and said, "Junior Brother, he has already made up his mind. It's useless."
Fang Qingya really left without any reluctance, and within a few breaths, his figure almost disappeared.
“Fourth Senior Brother!” Lin Shu’er chased after him and shouted hoarsely, “What I said before was nonsense. You are not boring! You are very good!”
Fang Qingya's running figure paused, but only for a moment, then he caught up with Ji Xiao again and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Several ghosts looked at each other, "Then should we still kill people?"
"The Lord Demon has left, and there is no one to protect you. If you continue to kill, aren't you afraid of being punished by the rules of the secret realm?"
"Let's go, let's inform the brothers to retreat."
A few ghosts talked to themselves and floated away. Chu Danfeng rubbed Lin Shuer's head and sighed, "Fourth Brother won't blame you. He... maybe he has some difficulties. Go back and report this to Master first."
Lin Shu'er pursed her lips. This was a habit she had developed since childhood. When she was wronged, her first step was to pout, and the second step was to throw herself into the arms of her fifth senior brother.
However, this time she held back. Not only did she not pounce on Chu Danfeng, she also pushed him towards Hua Tingxuan. Chu Danfeng was caught off guard and the wound on his back was affected. He staggered and almost fell, but was caught steadily by his own junior brother.
Hua Tingxuan was caught off guard and hugged Wen Xiang and Ruan Yu tightly in his arms, feeling a little dazed.
Lin Shu'er had no idea how strong she was. She clenched her little pink fists and mouthed "I'm sensible, don't worry" to Hua Tingxuan. Then, like dragging a dead dog, she led Li Yunyi away, leaving the two brothers alone.
Hua Tingxuan: “…”
Hua Tingxuan could smell the sweet and warm fragrance of Chu Danfeng just by lowering his head. He was a little distracted. He held his waist and coughed lightly: "Junior sister, it was not too serious. Are you okay?"
"What can I do?" Chu Danfeng said stubbornly, but he still stayed there for a long time before he stood up and said seriously, "Let's go, it's time for us to leave."
After saying this, he took big and slow steps forward as if to show off his strength.
Hua Tingxuan felt distressed and amused. He followed closely and returned to the main hall of Youquan Palace. As expected, he found that all the ghosts had dispersed. The monks who survived the disaster were a little excited to see Chu Danfeng. Some noticed his unnatural walking posture and asked, "Miss Chu... No, Brother Chu, what happened to your leg? Are you injured?"
“…” Chu Danfeng didn’t know how to answer, so he could only nod in an unfathomable manner.
He didn't know that this nod became the source of the rumor that "Chu Danfeng of the Shuangji Sect bravely challenged the devil in a duel and was seriously injured."
However, at this moment, the most urgent task is to leave the secret realm.
This place is full of ghosts, it's so scary, he doesn't want to stay there for even a second qvq
But in front of everyone, he must not show fear. Chu Danfeng turned his wrist, closed the folding fan, put it under his palm, and clasped his fists: "Everyone, Chu and his junior brothers and sisters will go first."
He thought he was handsome and cool, and finally managed to get back on track and redeem himself from the embarrassment of "suspected leg pain", but he forgot that he was still wearing women's clothes.
The bright red wedding dress showed off her slender waist, she had black hair and red lips, and a peach blossom hairpin on her forehead was as bright as the morning glow, which attracted the eyes of many male cultivators. It was only after a while that someone remembered to return the gift.
Hua Tingxuan blocked their view with a dark face and quietly urged Chu Danfeng to set off.
Since Fang Qingya chose to leave, Li Yunyi was no longer useful, so they finally decided to let him go. However, the coward Li Yunyi didn't dare to walk out of the secret realm alone and insisted on remaining a 'hostage'. So they let him follow them, neither protecting him nor driving him away.
Yulou had long been separated from them and no one knew where he was now. Fortunately, the Luofeng Secret Realm did not seem so dangerous now.
There were no more hordes of evil spirits killing people, nor were there starving ghosts calling their friends for company. They followed the feng shui map and headed eastward, straight to the exit of the secret realm.
Occasionally, a lone human-faced spider or two sneaky zombie tapirs would appear on the road, as well as a hanged man who tried to trick them into accepting the rope, and a drowned ghost who tried to pull them into the water as a substitute...
"This is the difficulty that a Earth-level secret realm should have." Lin Shuer sighed.
Chu Danfeng agreed with this. You know, in the original novel, the starving ghosts were already a relatively difficult monster to fight in the Luofeng Secret Realm. But not long after they entered the secret realm, they encountered a large group of...
Lin Shu'er suddenly asked, "Isn't the exit in front?"
At the end of the corridor, a circular light spot can be vaguely seen among the flowers and trees, with an indescribable mystery. A few feet ahead of the light spot, there is a deep well. Next to the well is a simple stall. An old man in a gray cloth gown and a gray goatee is dozing with his head propped up.
As the group approached, the old man nodded, woke up, rubbed his eyes and asked, "Are you coming back to life?"
… You really know how to talk. You almost sent us away with just one sentence. We are not dead, so what’s the point
But this man cannot be offended. Chu Danfeng remembered that he was an important NPC in the secret realm—important in the plot. It was through him that the hero and heroine understood each other's feelings.
The old man is a retired civil servant from the underworld, who is responsible for giving people a love potion. The so-called love potion has a similar effect to Doraemon's "honesty potion", and people cannot lie after drinking it, which makes it easier for the subsequent interrogation by the Ten Kings of Hell to determine whether the ghost is good or evil, which serves as the theoretical basis for its reincarnation plan.
But this is just a secret place, not the real underworld. The old man forces people to drink the love potion only because of his occupational disease and his curiosity to serve the plot - those who drink the love potion will write down on paper the deepest secret buried in their heart at this moment.
In the original novel, the hero Hua Tingxuan wrote, "That ugly girl unexpectedly attracted me, and I didn't care about her appearance." Qi Wanglan, who was traveling with him in the original novel, wrote, "Brother Hua is a man of outstanding talent, so handsome and responsible. I, Qi Wanglan, have seen all kinds of men, but I dare not look him in the eye. Is this what it feels like to be moved? How can I tell him that I am actually wearing a human skin mask and that I am actually the Young Master of Bixia Pavilion?"
With the help of this NPC, the hero and heroine both knew each other's feelings, and Hua Tingxuan successfully gained a new harem.
…
As expected, the old man in the gray gown pointed to the well and said, "This road is built by me. If you want to pass by here, you must..."
Li Yunyi: "Leave some money for passage?"
The old man laughed and said, "If you want to pass by here, you must leave your secrets. Don't worry, unless you want to exchange them, the secrets will only rot in my heart and I will never reveal a word to others."
Chu Danfeng was regretting that he hadn't found the young master of Bixia Pavilion, and had missed another chance to correct his sixth junior brother's sexual orientation. He didn't notice the complicated and eager look Hua Tingxuan cast on him.
Lin Shu'er was afraid that there was something strange about the well water, so she took the lead in scooping water, picked up Li Yunyi skillfully, pushed him in front of the old man, and ordered: "Drink."
Under the pressure of Lin Shuer, Li Yunyi had to drink the bowl of "water". He smacked his lips, picked up the pen without saying a word, and wrote on the paper with a dull look, and actually wrote a whole page.
Chu Danfeng was a little curious about how many secrets he had, and couldn't help but take a peek, but he only saw a piece of mosaic on paper.
“… … ”
The old man in gray stroked his goatee, shook his head and said, "Except for me, no one else can see it."
“…” Chu Danfeng touched his nose angrily.
At this time, Li Yunyi also regained consciousness. The old man in gray asked, "Is there anyone willing to exchange with him?"
The three of them shook their heads in unison.
The old man in gray: "Then please come in, sir."
After Li Yunyi left the secret realm, Lin Shuer volunteered next. When it was Chu Danfeng and Hua Tingxuan's turn, the old man took the initiative to make a suggestion: "Look at the way you are dressed, have you just got married? Hahaha, why don't you two come at the same time? It will be convenient if you want to exchange secrets."
… What a familiar rhetoric, Chu Danfeng thought, what a pity I am not the heroine! Old man, you have found the wrong person! How come the trend of not distinguishing between men and women in your ghost town secret realm has spread so widely!
Chu Danfeng was about to refuse, but Hua Tingxuan shyly said "OK", "Thank you, father-in-law."
Chu Danfeng: “…” Okay.
Chu Danfeng picked up the bowl and scooped half a bowl of well water. Before drinking, he was still thinking: What secrets do I have? The biggest secret is probably "I am a reborn person".
This must not be told to Hua Tingxuan, so this little game of exchanging secrets could not be carried out in the end.
Thinking of this, Chu Danfeng drank the love potion in one gulp. It was sweet and delicious. Then, he lost consciousness.
When he opened his eyes again, he saw Hua Tingxuan standing far away, with his eyes lowered. A few strands of hair on his forehead obscured his expression. He was holding a piece of rice paper tightly in his hand, and he didn't show any intention of exchanging secrets with him.
Chu Danfeng breathed a sigh of relief, but also felt a little disappointed - he thought Hua Tingxuan, who was pursuing him so eagerly, would be willing to share secrets with him.
Chu Danfeng withdrew his gaze unhappily, and met the extremely complicated and ambiguous gaze of the old man in gray.
Chu Danfeng: “?”
The old man looked at him for a long while before he stroked his goatee and said, "Take a look for yourself first. Whether to exchange with your... husband or not, it is ultimately up to you."
It was obviously just a normal sentence - if you ignore the word 'your husband' - but Chu Danfeng always felt that the tone of the old man in gray was indescribably ambiguous. He lowered his eyes suspiciously, and then he was completely stunned.
I was just complaining about how Li Yunyi had too many secrets. He wrote it simply, but the amount of information was too much:
"It seems like having sex with a man isn't bad. It's quite comfortable to be served. It's a hundred times better than Thumbelina! But having sex down there is too damn painful. I absolutely can't do that! Especially with Sixth Junior Brother, whose size is simply inhuman!"