"Let go of Chou!!!"
There was a sudden loud shout, and then the purple light brightened, Lingxi watched helplessly as the old monster was beaten into shapeless by Qing Kui's gourd, she howled and flung her away, and quickly drifted away in a black cloud.
"Dead monsters don't want to escape!"
Qing Kui picked up Jiu Sheng and wanted to chase after him. This Ling Xi was finally able to breathe, and was thrown to the ground by the old monster, his eyes turned black, and he couldn't stand up at all. Qing Kui looked at the two lying on the ground. Girl, after spitting, she had to give up her plan to hunt down the deserters.
"Ah Chou, how are you?" Qing Kui hurriedly helped Lingxi up, and said anxiously, "It's all to blame for this poor wine sage! The monster just now looked not simple, did you suffer any other disadvantages, ah?"
Qing Kui glared at his flagon, the flagon shrunk by itself, floated unsteadily to the side of Lingxi's face, and kept rubbing against her cheek as if apologizing.
Lingxi tried her best to shake her head so that her darkened eyes recovered a bit. She touched the body of the jug to comfort her, and shook her head, "It's a good thing you came back in time. Go and see how Xueran is doing."
It was only then that Qing Kui remembered that there was a girl fainting aside, and after helping Lingxi to stabilize, she went to see Xueran.
"It should be that the monster has too much evil spirit, and she fainted when she exerted too much force, and she will wake up when Junior Sister Qinglian comes back to take some breath." Qing Kui squeezed Xueran's pulse and returned to Lingxi.
"Hey, little Lingxi fainted and hugged her in her arms and asked things. The girl Xueran fainted and couldn't bear to take a breath..." The wine sage in Lingxi's hand suddenly spoke. It was a young and lovely boy. childish voice.
Before Jiu Sheng could finish speaking, Qing Kui slapped him on the side of the pot with a "slap". Lingxi didn't notice what Jiu Sheng was saying at all, but said in surprise: "Second Senior Brother, it...he can talk?"
"Of course!" Qing Kui crossed his arms proudly. He started talking two years ago, but unfortunately he somehow developed an "invincible cheap mouth". His cute and obedient "wine saint" never came back not coming!
"Second Senior Brother..." Lingxi originally wanted to ask Qing Kui some questions, but after thinking about it, it was more straightforward to ask Jiu Sheng, so she turned to Jiu Hulu and asked, "Little Jiu Sheng, how old are you?"
"A full two hundred and fifty years old!" Jiu Sheng's childish voice said without complacency.
"It took more than two hundred years to speak?" Lingxi looked at Qingkui in surprise.
Qing Kui took Jiu Sheng over, pinned it to his waist, and looked at Ling Xi contemptuously, "You think they are those monsters from the demon world? A spirit that only grows with righteousness grows extremely slowly, otherwise there would not be so many The 'spirit' has become a 'demon' by some crooked methods."
When Lingxi heard this, she immediately shut up.
"If your little black hadn't swallowed my two hundred years of cultivation back then, how could he be able to change his body shape so quickly?" Speaking of this, Qing Kui glared at the black rose on Lingxi's head angrily.
Lingxi felt guilty, Jiu Sheng would only speak for two hundred and fifty years, even if Nan Zhi swallowed Qing Kui's two hundred years of cultivation and immediately cultivated a body, would this... be too fast
"Second senior brother, how many years will it take for the fairy to cultivate his body?"
Qing Kui rested his chin and meditated: "Of course this has something to do with the spirit master's own cultivation, but under normal circumstances, it would take at least 810,000 years."
These words made Lingxi feel even more uneasy, Qing Kui continued: "Just say that the fairy Donghua Shangxian also cultivated for a full eight hundred years to get a physical body, and it took another two thousand years to get a physical body. Three thousand For many years, if you abandon the righteous way of practice and fall into the demon way, an ordinary spirit can cultivate a physical body in five hundred years, but once you use the heresy method, you will be a demon! This is the difference between a monster and a fairy... "
Qing Kui is still going on, Ling Xi has no intention of listening anymore, according to this statement, it will take a hundred or two hundred years for even a demon to cultivate his body...
Then what is her secret
***
When Qinglian and Qingnian came back together, Xueran was still awake. Qing Kui has always cherished her cultivation base very much, and felt that Xue Ran has no relatives and no reason to her, so why should she give her up? Lingxi sat alone at the bottom of the tree, immersed in her own thoughts.
When Qing Nian saw Xue Ran fainted, she became anxious, and before Qing Lian could react, she had already given her breath to wake her up.
"Bonethirsty Demon!" Xueran obviously hadn't recovered yet, and exclaimed just after waking up.
Although Qing Nian was once a young closed-door disciple under Cang Yu's seat, and he was still young when he cultivated the immortal body, his face did not look immature, and he frowned and said: "The one who attacked you just now was the bone-thirsty demon?"
Qing Nian asked Lingxi, who knew nothing about Bonethy Demon, so she blinked blankly.
Xueran coughed twice, and then said: "She wants to take the skins of Lingxi and me, just like the bonethirsty demon you once described to me, so..."
"What bone-thirsty demon?" Qing Kui has been in Tianmai Peak all along, and has never heard of it.
Qing Nian glanced at Qing Kui, but remained silent. Qing Lian said coldly, "Those who are addicted to bones and skin, no one knows the origin of the monsters that suddenly appeared in the demon world in the past two years. Ever since she appeared, she has been harming the young and beautiful in the human world A beautiful woman swallows her flesh and blood, leaving her skin behind."
The five people gradually formed a circle in the forest, and Qinglian said without pausing: "A year ago, master asked my junior brother to go down the mountain to capture the monster, but that bone-thirsty monster is not only highly skilled, but also has many skins and faces, it is really hard to catch .Furthermore, she has recruited no less than a hundred little demons to work for her in the demon world, and my junior has been busy for half a year without seeing her real body. Just in time to prepare for the meeting of the Four Immortals, my master called him back."
Qinglian spoke very casually, but Qingkui's complexion became more and more dignified, and she was still faintly pale.
"Our trip to Donghua was extremely fast this time, and we specially avoided places full of yin and qi, so it shouldn't interfere with those monsters. They can see the opportunity, so it can be seen that they came with a purpose, and they are very serious about the five of us. The disparity in strength is relatively clear." Qinglian's analysis was calm and reasonable, and she looked at the other four people and said, "The monster that appeared today must not be the real body of the Bonethy Demon, it should be just a little demon under her. Since They came with a purpose, if the purpose is not achieved, they will not give up easily, and I am afraid there will be further actions."
"When that monster appeared just now, was there anything special about it?" Qing Nian, who had always been quiet, asked Xiang Lingxi rarely.
Lingxi thought about it before and after, the old demon, after being irritated by her, coveted Xiang Yinjian, and then said that she was a skin of ten thousand years, and finally became interested in Nanzhi, as if there was nothing special to target …
Lingxi roughly talked about the process, Xueran was puzzled and said: "What is the Wannian skin?"
Qingnian and Qinglian shook their heads at the same time, Lingxi looked at Qingkui, Qingkui seemed to have just recovered, shook his head and said: "I haven't heard of it."
"It's normal for that monster to be interested in Xiang Yinjian and fairy spirits, and it's also normal to be interested in skins..." Qinglian frowned, "But we're not the only ones with spirits, could it be... what's the origin of your ten-thousand-year skin?"
Qinglian looked at Lingxi with a rare stern expression, and Lingxi touched her face uncomfortably. She had always had this face since she was a child, what kind of skin of thousands of years... She was so cold that she burst out.
"I'm sleepy, go to bed." Qing Kui, who had been silent all this time, suddenly took out the hip flask on his waist and took a sip of wine, then turned and left.
"Second senior brother..." Lingxi hadn't finished speaking, and Qing Kui had already jumped onto a tree and lay down.
"Forget it, Qing Nian has already explored the way for tomorrow, and everyone is tired tonight, so let's rest here for a night." Qing Lian also got up, drew a barrier to cover the five people, and closed herself under a tree. meditation.
Only Lingxi and Qing Nian Xueran were left in the original open space. Qing Nian wiped the stains on Xueran's face, and said softly, "Sister, can you rest first?"
Xueran nodded, Qing Nian turned her eyes to Lingxi and said seriously: "Junior Sister Lingxi, can you walk with me?"
Xue Ran was puzzled, and was about to speak, but Qing Nian stopped her with a look. Lingxi was even more puzzled, this senior brother Qing Nian who had always been silent, but what did you want to say to her
When looking for the way back then, in order to reach Donghua Mountain as soon as possible, the group tried to avoid areas where monsters frequently appeared. This mountain forest is actually not big, with beautiful mountains and clear waters nearby, and you can faintly see the lights of thousands of families in the human world not far away.
But the woods are very quiet, and when we reach a lake, we can smell the faint fragrance of lotus, and it is almost midsummer.
The farther away from the original place and the quieter around her, the more cramped Lingxi felt. Finally, she couldn't help but ask first, "Senior Brother Qing Nian specially asked me to come out, but what do you want to say to me?"
Qing Nian stood facing the moonlight, his white and tender face was full of seriousness, his eyes were lowered, his feather fan-like eyelashes covered the expression in his eyes, a gust of wind blew past, making his blue robe rustle.
"Qing Nian has something to say, I have to say it."
Lingxi turned around, just in time to see Qingnian knelt down slowly, although she was not kneeling facing the bright moon, Lingxi was still shocked and said urgently: "Senior Brother Qingnian, what are you doing?"
"Qing Nian made a mistake first, he should have apologized to his junior sister a long time ago, and he was not willing to put down his face and apologize to his junior sister in person until today. I only hope that my junior sister will blame me more." Qing Nian's expression was firm, and before Lingxi could say more, his eyes had already softened , Xu Xu said: "My mother passed away when I was born. Seven days after I was born, there was a natural disaster. My father passed away. Most of the strong men in the village were killed or injured. People in the village said that I was very evil, and I killed my parents. I am not allowed to stay. My sister took I left and worked hard to bring me up. When I was six years old, the village where my sister and I lived was attacked by a monster again. My sister was killed by the monster to save me. I was rescued by my master and went to Mount Cangjia .”
Qing Nian's voice was calm, but Ling Xi heard it in a daze, as if she had seen the past between her and her brother.
"After Xiu Dexian died, I went to the underworld without authorization, found my sister's original soul, found out her reincarnation, and stayed by my side silently, like this for the sixth life." Qing Nian paused, as if restraining her emotions, and continued for a while, "The current snow Ran is my sister's seventh life, and she will not stay in the human world after the seventh life, so I want to find a suitable opportunity to take her up to the mountains to practice, but before that, the village where my sister lives was attacked by monsters, what happens next, you We all know."
Lingxi nodded silently. When Qing Nian was going down the mountain, she happened to meet her and wanted to sneak down the mountain to find her brother, so she took her down the mountain too...
"If I hadn't been eager to save my sister and brought you down the mountain, you wouldn't have gotten into trouble. You were punished by the master and thrown into a dungeon, but I didn't dare to stand up, causing the senior brother to take you to be whipped." Qing Nian lowered her head guiltily. , said in a deep voice, "Qing Nian was wrong, but she dared not tell the truth to Master, for fear that he would be dissatisfied with my sister and not let her get started."
Lingxi breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that she was talking about such a thing, she never blamed Qing Nian for this incident, it was her own lack of firm will that led to the way of those monsters and caused disaster...
"Three years ago, Cangjia Mountain was in chaos." Qing Nian took a deep breath, and continued, "I was disturbed by monsters because of my sister's mind. My sister took you to the scene of the incident to save me, and my elder brother wanted to get rid of the monsters in my body at the same time. Save my life, so I won't have time to protect you... If I hadn't been easily controlled by monsters, senior brother... wouldn't die! You wouldn't be imprisoned in the cliff of emptiness for three years!"
Lingxi's eyes turned hot. She once thought that everyone would blame her for the death of the elder brother, but the siblings were so pure and kind that they took all the responsibility on themselves.
"But at that time, my sister hadn't successfully entered the school, so I still didn't take the initiative to admit my mistake to Master..." Qing Nian said in a low voice, "The sufferings that my junior sister suffered in the past were largely caused by the selfishness of my siblings. Qing Nian Nian Xiuxian has nothing else to ask for, but his sister is safe and sound, and his life will be peaceful. Since the master accepts his junior sister as an apprentice, the junior sister must have something special. Donghua's actions are extremely dangerous, and the bone-thirsty demon is unfathomable. ...It is inevitable that there will be times when we can't take care of..."
It seemed difficult for Qing Nian to say the following words, but Ling Xi already understood what he wanted to express, and said softly: "Don't worry, even without your entrustment, I will try my best to protect Xueran, but it's a pity..."
It's a pity that her cultivation is not as good as that of Xueran...
"I am so grateful for this promise!" Qing Nian interrupted Ling Xi, suddenly raised her right hand, looked at the moon with her eyes, and said very solemnly: "Qing Nian swears to the moon that no matter what happens in the future, he will follow Ling Xi." Around the evening, to repay the previous crime and repay his great kindness!"
Lingxi's heart was agitated, the immortal made an oath, it was not just for fun, once she broke the oath, she would be punished by heaven.
Qing Nian kowtowed three times to Qingshan Mingyue, said to go and see Xueran and got up to leave.
Lingxi blew the night breeze by the lake for a long time before preparing to go back. She didn't care whether Qing Nian was with her or not. What moved her was Qing Nian's dedication to her sister.
With the seventh generation following her, where did her elder brother go? How could she find even the slightest trace of him
Lingxi frustratingly raised her hand to touch her hair, wanting to call out Nanzhi to talk to him, but when she touched her, her heart suddenly became empty—the roses in her hair were gone!