About a few decades ago, with Yongchuan as the starting point and spreading to the periphery, mysterious disappearances of young girls began to appear one after another in the world.
This can't help but remind Ouyang Xueye, the demon king fox at that time, of Qingyun's general and the great demon Rakshasa who likes to eat the internal organs of young girls. Perhaps relying solely on ghost slaves to find the bodies of human women could no longer satisfy her appetite. The last time this happened was hundreds of years ago. So Ouyang Xueye sent several capable men to investigate the matter in the demon world and the human world, and Feng Huo was also one of them.
That day, Feng Huo discovered a cave in the barren mountains outside the Demon Realm King's city that was suspected to have been the foothold of the Rakshasa Mother, and found the belongings of a human girl inside. Judging from the logo embroidered on the school uniform, the girl should be a student of Yongchuan High School. Following this clue, he went to the human world to continue the investigation.
Most of the time, he will be lurking near Yongchuan High School. According to his plan, he will wait for the ghost slaves of Rakshasa Mother to take action again to capture him.
High school students in that era had very limited scope for activities after school. Most students would go home on time, but a small number of delinquent teenagers would gather together and wander around in the streets or parks.
Three girls hiding in the park smoking attracted Feng Huo's attention. If he were a Rakshasa mother, it would be perfect to attack these children. He secretly hid not far from the girls and planned to act according to the situation, but was blocked by the young man who suddenly rushed out.
The young man came up and threw a talisman at him without saying a word. He dodged to the side. When the talisman hit the ground, it exploded, spreading dust on the ground.
"It's so dangerous!" Feng Huo felt that if the spell exploded on him, it would be very painful.
The smoking girls became commotion.
"what sound?!!"
"Did you just hear that?!"
"No?! An explosion or a gunshot?! Let's go!"
They were frightened by the explosion and quickly left the park.
Because of some things that happened in the past, Fenghuo never liked interacting with humans, and because this reckless human youth disrupted his plans, he became angry and turned around to leave.
"Don't run! Were those missing girls captured by monsters like you?!" Although the human youth's voice was loud, it was trembling. He took out a bunch of bells from his pocket and began to shake them while speaking. There are words to read.
"This bell." Feng Huo noticed at a glance that the string of bells looked very familiar.
Although it has lost its luster due to being too old, the word "shan" engraved on each bell is still clear. There is also a golden hair rope with bells, which is obviously twisted from his own or similar mane. These two characteristics put together must be something left by his friend.
"Don't try to change the subject to confuse me, you are the best at this! Watch the trick!" The human youth shook the bell faster.
If it were an ordinary little monster, it would have been a severe headache, but for Feng Huo it was not painful at all. He scratched his hair and decided to leave.
But the young man pursued him relentlessly. The wind and fire were jumping among the tree crowns, and the young man ran wildly on the ground, never stopping even if he was panting. Looking at the persistence between his eyebrows, he really looks like his friend.
Feng Huo decided to simply clarify his identity with this young man, so as not to have misunderstandings when he met him again in the future, which would delay his pursuit of the Rakshasa Mother sect's murder of human beings.
He stopped on a big tree and sat cross-legged, crossed his hands on his chest, shook his head and looked at the human youth.
"Hey, are you looking down on me?!" the young man asked out of anger.
"No, you are very similar to a friend of mine from the past! I said her name, and you just asked me if you know her." Feng Huo lowered his head and said to the young man under the tree.
"Although I don't know what kind of medicine you sell in your gourd, I'm not afraid of you! Just tell me!" The human young man's hand has already touched a charm in his pocket, ready to act if the monster on the tree takes action at any time. Cure him with charms.
"Her name is Ye Shan!" Feng Huo pointed to the bell on the young man's hand and said, "This bell should be hers!"
"How did you know my great-great-grandmother?!" The young man asked loudly in shock. He almost fell down when he lost his balance and took a few steps back due to the inertia.
"Hahaha, you are indeed a family! Speaking of which, I helped her string the bells!" Feng Huo couldn't help laughing.
"Don't get too close to me. How can you, a monster, have anything to do with my great-great-grandmother?" The human youth was doubtful. He denied Feng Huo's words at first, but then he thought again and asked, "What's your name?!"
"Fenghuo! Hahahahaha" Feng Huo laughed even harder than before. The panicked look of this young man was exactly the same as Ye Shan's when they first met.
"Are you really Fenghuo?! A prince in the demon world?!" The young man suddenly stopped being nervous. He never thought that he would meet his great-great-grandmother's old friend under such circumstances. Fate is such a thing. It was wonderful, "My name is Ran Tianqi, and I am investigating the continuous disappearance of girls in Yongchuan. I mistakenly thought you were a monster waiting for an opportunity to kidnap girls. I'm sorry!"
"Do you think I look like a monster who relies on girls' internal organs to cultivate?! Hahaha. It's just a misunderstanding, don't take it to heart! I was appointed by the Lord of the Demon Realm and I am investigating the same thing as you." Feng Huo jumped down from the tree. explain.
"What have you discovered?!" Ran Tianqi asked.
"There are not many monsters who like to eat the internal organs of girls and even violate the rules of the monster world. Rakshasa Mother is definitely the first one!"
"Is that the kind of monster that is good at using hellfire?" Ran Tianqi took out his hand from his pocket and handed it to Fenghuo, "Nice to see you!"
"Uh-huh!" Feng Huo hesitated for a moment, but still shook Ran Tianqi's hand. This young man is indeed a descendant of Ye Shan. After knowing his identity, he put down all his guard and asked, "How is your great-great-grandmother doing now?"
"Well, she was very good. She lived to be one hundred and two years old before she died! She recorded the story of her acquaintance with you. We have been together since childhood, so we all know about her and you." However, Tianqi is still a little shy. , after all, although he comes from a family of monster hunters, this is the first time he has been in such close contact with monsters of this level.
"That's good." Feng Huo knew very well that human lifespan was too short compared to theirs. One hundred and two years was already a rare longevity, but he still felt a little sad in his heart. This melancholy was incompatible with his usual roughness. .
This makes it even more obvious that Tianqi and Ye Shan look very similar, especially since he, like Ye Shan, has a cinnabar mole at the same position on his left eyebrow.
For humans, one hundred years is such a long time, but for him, what happened two hundred years ago seems like yesterday. The hand of memory grabbed him and brought him back to the years when he met Ye Shan.
At that time, Yongchuan in the world was still a small village, and Feng Huo had to stay in the world in order to investigate the evil monsters hiding in the world.
According to the villagers, the places where the monster abducted villagers or travelers passing by the village several times were in the mountains surrounding Yongchuan, so Fenghuo shuttled through the mountains and forests from morning to night, searching for clues about the monster.
Since people were killed many times in the mountains, the village elders have strictly prohibited the villagers from entering the mountains. However, there has been a sudden epidemic recently. This disease mainly affects children. The main symptoms of the disease are high fever and diarrhea. Those with severe dehydration are likely to die. Herbs that can cure this disease can only be found in the mountains.
The village elder has only one daughter, named Ye Shan. This elder himself has passed down some techniques of catching monsters and exorcising them from his ancestors, and he can also write medical skills. His only daughter naturally inherited his abilities.
Ye Shan is seventeen years old, simple and kind-hearted, with a delicate face. She cannot bear to see the children in the village fall ill one after another and suffer from torture. Although she knows that there are monsters in the mountains, she secretly goes to the mountains to search for herbs without telling her father.
Ye Shan was unlucky that day and happened to catch a heavy rain. The rain made the mountain road that was not flat even more difficult to walk, not to mention that herbs generally grow on steep mountain walls.
She searched in the mountains for a long time in the heavy rain, and finally found a small piece of herb on the mountain wall below a cliff. She leaned down to pick the herbs, but she couldn't reach them after several attempts. So she just grabbed the rocks on the edge of the cliff and climbed down little by little.
As a result, the rain-soaked stones were too slippery. Once her feet slipped from them, they were suspended in the air. She could not support them with only the strength of one hand.
Even though she knew there would be no one in the mountain, she still subconsciously shouted: "Help!"
Unexpectedly, a big hand appeared out of thin air, grabbed her, and dragged her up the cliff. The man was wearing a yellow robe and had a very strong figure. His hair was wet from the rain and stuck to his face. Although he stared at her with a pair of round eyes under his thick eyebrows, he did not look evil.
Before she could say thank you, he yelled at her: "What are you doing here, a girl, in the mountains?! Don't you know that monsters often appear in the mountains recently?!"
"I" Ye Shan was frightened by his words and didn't dare to speak for a moment. Then she felt unbearable pain on one side of her calf and couldn't help but let out a "hiss" sound.
"Let me take a look!" The young man in yellow robe moved his nose, then lowered his head and lifted up Ye Shan's left leg, which was sitting on the ground, with a somewhat rough movement.
It was very impolite to do this to an unmarried girl. Ye Shan was about to scold him, but found that he was checking her wounds.
The pants on her calves were torn, and the outside of her calves were bloody and bloody. They must have been injured when she fell from the cliff just now.
The young man in yellow robe looked up at the sky and felt that the heavy rain had no intention of stopping, so he picked up Ye Shan and ran away without saying a word.
"Hey, hey, hey! Where are you taking me?! You... aren't you the monster who kidnapped the villagers?!!!" Ye Shan yelled while struggling behind the yellow-robed young man.
But the man refused to let go and took her to a cave in one breath.