Of course, there was some selective exaggeration in Ji Yuan's words. He was not very clear about the specific capabilities of the land in the capital of Dazhen. What he meant was just to snatch people from it.
The reason why Ji Yuan said this deliberately was to remind the woman that it was indeed him who rescued her and that he was able to snatch the person from the land god, so she should not have unnecessary conflicts with him.
After all, it is a monster and he is being chased again and again. If he loses his composure and thinks that Ji Yuan is also an enemy and then fights desperately, he will definitely be discovered by the City God and the Land God, and then he, Ji, might be implicated as well.
When Ji Yuan turned around to look at the demon girl named Bai Ruo, there was only Bai Ruo left in the attic, and the tail body on the ground had merged with the main body again.
After being stunned for a moment, Bai Ruo immediately knelt on the ground facing Ji Yuan.
"Thank you for saving me, Immortal. I will never forget your kindness. If I can be of any use to you, I will be at your service even if it means being your slave!"
In Dazhen, kneeling is a rarely used ceremony. Even when meeting an official, one does not have to kneel unless the person is a convicted criminal. Although there are cushions in front of the statues in the temple, people usually stand to burn incense. They only kneel occasionally when praying for something really important.
The only time that the kneeling ceremony is performed is when one worships heaven and earth, and parents, at a wedding.
At this moment, Ji Yuan saved Bai Ruo's life. For such a great favor, the latter knelt down and kowtowed to express his gratitude, which was quite polite and his words were sincere.
When she knelt down to express her gratitude, Ji Yuan opened his eyes for a brief moment and saw a white deer vaguely emerging from her hazy figure.
"Haha, no wonder the tail is so short. I was wondering what kind of monster it is. It turns out to be a white deer girl!"
When he just watched the section about the white tail, Ji Yuan really had no idea what kind of animal it was. He guessed it might be a squirrel or a weasel. After all, he had never studied deer tails in his lifetime. The truth was not revealed until this moment.
Bai Ruo shuddered when she heard this and kept lying down, not daring to get up. In fact, she had no idea the purpose of the immortal saving her. It was very likely that he had just escaped from the tiger's den and fell into the dragon's den.
"Get up. I don't need you to work like a slave. Just answer a few questions for me."
Bai Ruo straightened up and knelt where he was sitting, waiting for Ji Yuan's questions with a little trepidation, but he saw the other party smile.
"Miss Bai, tell me about your origins, and how you and Zhou Niansheng met, and how you fell in love with each other. I also like to listen to stories."
Bai Ruo looked at Ji Yuan and saw that he looked serious.
He was silent for a while, calmed himself down and recalled a little before he slowly spoke.
The cold winter wind blew through the attic, penetrated through the open door, and blew the curtains inside in the wind, ruffling Bai Ruo's hair.
"More than sixty years ago, a great monster in the mountains of the Southern Wilderness used some unknown means to steal a furnace of Xuandan from the Tianji Pavilion. After being predicted by the immortals of the Tianji Pavilion, they rode clouds to chase it to the Southern Wilderness. At that time, there were also two sword immortals from Changjian Mountain present. With the help of the immortals of the Tianji Pavilion, the monster certainly could not escape and was eventually captured and taken back to the Tianji Pavilion. It is unknown whether it was killed in the end or in the Locking Monster Tower..."
Bai Ruo hesitated for a moment and continued.
"But several years later, immortals from the Tianji Pavilion would still come to the Southern Wilds to look for it. Then the rumor that the stolen Xuandan had not been found spread like wildfire, and that was the cause of the demon chaos in the Southern Wilds. A few demons really ate the elixir and made great progress in their cultivation, and they proclaimed themselves demon kings. Over the next twenty years, the situation became increasingly severe, and under the rampant demonic energy and devil flames, a group of demons even caused chaos in the small country of the Southern Wilds, causing many tragic events... In the end, they brought about bitter consequences, and the Hengshan Mountain God was furious. Several immortal palaces took action, and the Buddhist Mingwang also appeared. The demons trembled, and countless people fled..."
As Bai Ruo spoke slowly, Ji Yuan frowned. Bai Ruo's description was very comprehensive. The overlapping of the Dharma Eye and the artistic conception of mountains and rivers seemed to restore before his eyes the scene of the demonic aura rolling in the mountains tens of thousands of miles in the southern wilderness. The demons that had practiced separately in the past were boiling because of a furnace of stolen Xuan Dan, and the billowing demonic aura and demonic flames covered the sky and the sun.
The subsequent escape was like a murderous aura spreading everywhere, and no one knew whether it was a good thing or a bad thing. Ji Yuan thought of his small wooden sign, the content of which was obviously a bad signal.
"Because I was very afraid of being implicated, I traveled thousands of miles to escape to Dazhen. At that time, I was already seriously injured and my vitality was greatly damaged. After that incident, I dared not move around casually, let alone hurt others... Then I met Zhou Lang who was going to Beijing to take the imperial examination. I used a little beauty trick to blend into his carriage and horse team. I wanted to avoid the gods of Dazhen and also had a little evil thought..."
In the previous part, Bai Ruojiang talked about his origins, and only now did he enter the stage of his love affair with Zhou Niansheng.
"That Zhou scholar was very interesting. He was obviously drooling over me, but he never touched me. He said he must marry me in a formal way..."
Bai Ruo's face also showed warmth.
"He was really good to me. As a demon, I had never felt that kind of care and true love. He also spent a lot of money to buy me all kinds of rare herbs. I was a little confused, and one day I accidentally revealed my true identity..."
When Bai Ruo said this, her expression was both angry and amused, while Ji Yuan became very curious.
"I thought Zhou Lang must have been scared, but I couldn't bring myself to kill him at that time, so I thought I'd just leave. Unexpectedly, that idiot... was just startled and didn't even scream. He just asked me, 'If I'm a fairy, can I give birth to a child for him?'... Phew..."
Bai Ruo couldn't help but laugh, and her face turned a little red.
Ji Yuan found it unbelievable. He couldn't believe that the old and frail Zhou Niansheng had such courage back then. Was he brave or stupid? He might be even more powerful than Brother Xu Xian, right
"That question left me stunned for a long time... That night I realized that after spending half a year together, Zhou Lang had noticed something was wrong with me. He was afraid at first, but when he realized I would not hurt him and treated him gently, he gradually stopped being afraid. That night, he was just shocked..."
"After learning that I was originally a white deer, Zhou Lang was unexpectedly delighted. He said that in his hometown, white deer are auspicious animals, and there is also a story about a lost person in the mountains who saw a white deer and was saved from trouble. He was no longer afraid of me..."
Bai Ruo still seemed to have a hint of the same doubt on his face, not understanding why he was not afraid just because he was Bai Lu Zhou Lang.
However, Ji Yuan thought of something. Maybe Zhou Niansheng was just looking for an excuse to make himself feel at ease.
"After that, Zhou Lang did not pass the imperial examination, but we got married and settled in the capital..."
At this moment, Bai Ruo's face showed both happiness and sadness.
"He doesn't know and I don't understand either. We didn't have self-control after we got married, and we actually hurt Zhou Lang's vitality..."
Ji Yuan asked at the right time.
"Did he realize this later and that's why he married other wives and concubines?"
Bai Ruo was stunned and shook his head.
"That's not the case. I am a demon and cannot give birth to a son for Zhou Lang, so I let him marry other mortal women. As the saying goes, the three unfilial acts are not having descendants, and the worst one is not having descendants. I don't want the Zhou family's incense to be cut off."
Okay, so that's the reason.
"About seven or eight years later, I finally realized something was wrong. Even though I had never done anything to harm Zhou Lang before, and I tried my best to protect him during intercourse, and I concealed the evil spirit from him so that he would never be infected with it, his vitality was still depleted and his life span was unstable. At that time, I was more panicked than if I were in the southern wilderness mountains, and I began to look everywhere for a way to save him..."
The story is not too long, and the whole story can be said to be very plain, with the biggest ups and downs being the part at the end where the soul is sent to the underworld.
But Ji Yuan felt very comfortable listening to it. The whole story filled with Bai Ruo's emotions was a true love story between a human and a demon. It couldn't even be considered a tragedy, as it had a relatively happy ending.
Even in the mortal world, how many couples can compare to Bai Ruo and Zhou Niansheng.
After Bai Ruo finished telling the story, he just stared blankly in the direction of the temple. For some reason, after the story was over, he felt a sense of loss, wondering if it would have been better if he had not escaped.
The more I thought about it, the more uncomfortable I felt.
"It's a good story indeed! I think this story shouldn't be known only to me, and it shouldn't disappear into history!"
Ji Yuan said this with some emotion, maybe he could change some details and let Master Yin write a book called "The Biography of Ruoniang"
Just as he was thinking this, Ji Yuan came to his senses and found that Bai Ruo was kneeling in front of him again, with a very respectful posture and no intention of getting up.
"Miss Bai Ruo, what are you doing?"
Bai Ruo knocked his head against the wood, making a loud noise, but he refused to get up.
"Master, if Bai Ruo knew that you were a person with great magical powers, I would not want to practice cultivation in this life anymore. I don't want to attain enlightenment!"
The woman raised her head, tears streaming down her face.
"I want to go to the underworld of the City God of Jingji Prefecture. Please send me there. I have escaped before. If I go there by myself now, I will be beaten to death on the spot. Please send me there. I beg you to talk to the Lord of the City God and let me accompany Zhou Lang in the underworld until my life span is exhausted. At that time, whether to refine my demon soul or do something else is up to the underworld!"
“Boom boom boom…”
The woman kowtowed again, and her forehead hit the wooden board in the attic with a continuous sound.
"Bai Ruo knows that this request is too much, but I have nowhere else to turn to. I can only beg you, the Immortal. Please, please... Dong Dong Dong..."
Ji Yuan was a little dazed. For a moment he didn't know how to respond to the woman in front of him. The first thing he thought of was not the troublesome things like dealing with different city gods, but to murmur something.
"Looking at each other facing the moon, I only envy the mandarin ducks instead of the immortals..."