Thanks to the spiritual power from Pei Jidu, when Ning Ning opened her eyes from her sleep, most of the annoying heat in her body had dissipated.
The cave was quiet, except for the faint sound of the firewood burning. She was sleepy and couldn't see anything clearly. In her hazy vision, she caught a glimpse of Pei Ji moving not far away.
He seemed to bow his head in a hurry.
After a while, he raised his eyelashes as if inadvertently, and said solemnly, "Is it better?"
When he spoke, he returned to his usual dead face, and his tone was equally unwavering, so indifferent that no emotion could be heard.
Xu Shidu gave Ning Ning too much spiritual power, Pei Ji's face was a bit morbidly white, and the bottom of his eyes was full of rich blue and black, and when he was illuminated by the throbbing fire, he fainted with a thin light pink.
…Did he stay here the whole time she was asleep
Ning Ning's head turned a little slowly, and stared at him for a while.
Pei Ji was still looking at her indifferently, but after a long time, for some unknown reason, she looked away with some embarrassment.
"Don't think about it."
"I didn't keep looking at you," he said.
Oh.
Ning Ning blinked and continued to be stunned.
This kind of question... she didn't ask.
"Did you say you want to go out to breathe?"
She touched her head, which was no longer so painful, and tried to recall the vague memory when she had a fever. The more she thought about it, the faster her heart beat, and her voice gradually turned into the buzzing of mosquitoes: "You are outside, have you found any useful clues? "
She was indeed held in Pei Ji's arms.
Although they used the name of crossing the air, the posture between the two of them at that time seemed too ambiguous.
What's more, after that, she actually fell into Pei Ji's arms and poked him around with her spiritual power. Such unruly flicking and that vague "Are you comfortable"—
Ning Ning's temples were throbbing.
Pei Ji didn't overturn Hu Lai at that time, which shows that he is really a kind and good person in his bones.
Now that he never mentioned that matter, Ning Ning also turned the page and listened patiently to Pei Ji: "This place is different from the rest of the towers, it is in the slaughterhouse."
Ning Ning was startled: "Buddha realm? Can you be sure?"
She had heard the term.
Similar to the spirits formed after the death of mortals, the demons or monks with successful cultivation can gather their spiritual power into an illusion and reproduce their memories. The Buddha Pagoda used for training in the Xuanxu Sword Sect is based on this as a prototype.
"When I was in the forest, I came across a demon woodcutter."
Pei Ji didn't look at her eyes anymore, and lowered her eyes to stare at the cluster of flames in front of her: "Unlike the demon that killed people in the Demon Refinement Tower, the demon has a pure and gentle temperament. When asked about this place, only the battle between the immortals and demons is protracted. , the clan suffers greatly.”
In other words, this memory happened during the battle between the fairy and the devil.
Another fairy war.
Ning Ning thought that she seemed to have a lot of fate with this past.
Pei Ji's words were concise and to the point, and his throat moved slightly.
He also wanted to tell her that although he met the woodcutter in the woods, he had never left the cave.
Ning Ning's appearance was so bad, he couldn't bear to provoke and fled in embarrassment, so it was no longer what a gentleman did. When he got out of the cave, it was naturally impossible to keep her out of sight.
However, this is really awkward to say, and it always sounds like... how much he cares about her.
Although he does care about her.
"If this is the Buddha Realm," Ning Ning said hesitantly, "The Demon Refinement Pagoda itself is also a secret realm, so what we're staying at...isn't the realm realm?"
Pei Ji nodded: "Not bad."
He said for a while, his angular face was outlined in a smooth arc by the firelight, and his voice was very clear: "If you want to leave this layer of the Buddha, you need to find the initiator of the illusion. If it is forcibly broken, it is likely to cause turmoil in the formation. , difficult to escape.”
The emergence of the Buddha Realm often stems from strong obsessions and emotional thoughts, and many soul-stirring, unrequited, or unforgettable memories can be reproduced in it.
Like the Buddha Tower, the best way to escape from the Buddha Realm is not violent means, but to follow the memory little by little and break the inner demons for the master of the illusion.
"really weird."
Ning Ning looked around, only to realize that the scenery in the fantasy world was no different from the real world, and finally focused his eyes on Pei Ji's face: "The people detained in the Demon Refinement Tower are all heinous demons... Even them, there will be such things. Deep obsession?"
She also thought that the evil spirits in this place were no different from shadow demons, they only knew how to twist and turn like a lump of coal.
But after thinking about it, all people, fairies, demons and ghosts have desires. She has been nourished by so many ancient TV dramas, and she has long understood the vulgar truth of "devils also have feelings".
But on the 62nd floor, he has to be a great demon with Nascent Soul going up. What can he be entangled in this way
"The slaughterhouse still needs to be carefully explored."
Pei was silent for a while, then said slowly, "When I was outside the cave, I met an old friend."
"Old man?"
The moment these two words blurted out, Ning Ning suddenly heard the rustling of the forest outside the cave, and then a white shadow flashed by.
The young man who swept away the vines and walked into the cave had a slender figure and a clear demeanor. He was dressed in white clothes that surpassed the snow, and was stained with a few drops of blood like red plums.
At the moment when Ning Ning's eyes met, he slightly bent his eyes, like thrush eyes illuminated by firelight: "Little Junior Sister."
"Senior Brother Meng Jue!"
Ning Ning didn't expect to meet so many disciples, so she raised her eyebrows and smiled and said, "How long have you been here?"
"Before you."
Although Meng Jue was smiling, his expression was always very light, as if a smile was just the most usual expression, and he would always hang it on his face.
As for what was on his mind, Ning Ning couldn't tell.
"I met Junior Brother Pei when you were asleep, and then went to the forest to investigate."
Meng Jue's tone was a little more mocking and teasing: "I planned to let him go with me, but he insisted on staying at the entrance of the cave and did not want to leave."
Pei Ji's long eyelashes trembled, and she frowned and said nothing.
Ning Ning didn't notice anything wrong, and asked curiously, "Did you find something tricky, brother?"
"This place should be in Qingzhou, in Chongling."
Meng Jue replied in a low voice: "It is rumored that Qingzhou practiced many witchcraft techniques, there are many poisonous insects and giant beasts in the mountains, and Chongling—"
He said for a while, and the corner of his lips smiled even more: "It's one of the demon kings, Xie Yu's old nest."
Ning Ning:…
So your expression really became excited, right? The smile in her eyes was well captured by her! It turns out that this kind of thing can make Senior Brother happy!
Ning Ning suddenly remembered the fear of being taught swordsmanship by him all day and night when he saw Meng Jue for the first time.
Apart from being a bit crooked by Tian Xianzi, I have to admit that this is a real sword cultivator.
Ningning turned into an emotionless question mark machine: "Xie Yu?"
"Thank you for this person, extraordinary."
Meng Jue narrowed her eyes slightly, and looked at her in a relaxed manner: "The slave system in Qingzhou still exists, he was born in a lowly family, and his family has been a slave for generations, but he has excellent cultivation roots. The cultivation base has greatly increased, and he is included in the position of the devil."
This is a cruel man.
It's just that Ning Ning can't understand, if he lives in the world as a slave, not to mention being a devil, even if he wants to learn the method of cultivation, I am afraid it will be difficult to reach the sky.
There might be a hidden meaning behind this, she couldn't guess the clue after thinking for a long time, and she was embarrassed to interrupt Meng Jue, so she nodded and listened to him continue to say with great interest:
"Xie Yu has a temperament that must be vindictive. After his cultivation soared and he made a name for himself, he returned to Qingzhou during the battle between the immortals and demons, causing the people to be miserable and grief-stricken. Those who had bullied him never got a good end, such as— "
When he said this, he hesitated, his pupils flashed a little, and he pursed his lips and smiled.
Ning Ning immediately understood the meaning of this smile.
Those who died were too miserable, Meng Jue took into account her feelings and swallowed the detailed descriptions back into her stomach.
"The one who can create the Buddha state must be the master of self-cultivation."
She pondered for a moment, and said softly: "As the Demon Lord Xie Yu, it also seems to be in line with the evil spirits in the Demon Refinement Tower... Could it be that this is his memory?"
Meng Jue shook his head: "I don't know. If we recognize the wrong owner of the Buddha Realm and help the wrong person in the fantasy realm, causing chaos in our obsessions... Then we may not be able to go out again."
Then Xie Yu doesn't sound like a good character who is a good man and a woman, Ning Ningda was reluctant to help him from the beginning, he heard the words very usefully raised his lips and smiled: "Since Xie Yu has done so many bad things, he will end up in the end. how?"
"That's the part that puzzles me the most."
Jianxiu in white narrowed his eyebrows, although his pupils were illuminated by the firelight, his eyes were full of darkness: "Chongling suddenly suffered a catastrophe one day, mountain fires raged, and thunder fell suddenly, and after the disaster subsided, there was no life breath - not only It is the common people who live here, and even the Demon Lord Xie Yu himself has disappeared."
Ning Ning was startled.
"Beyond this forest is the town where Xie Yu once lived. We might as well go there to find out, maybe we can get some clues."
He said with a chuckle, his eyes swayed slightly, and fell on Pei Ji in the corner: "I don't know Junior Brother Pei, what do you think?"
Ning Ning turned to look at him.
When she was talking to Senior Brother Meng just now, Pei Ji didn't say a word.
Meng Jue and Pei Ji were one white and one black. When the two confronted each other, the sense of antagonism between them was unprecedentedly strong.
The former is fluttering in white clothes, naturally bright and splendid, Zhilan Yushu, and Pei Ji has a shadow of a mountain wall in front of him, dyeing the boy's already dark pupils into a dull dark color.
Long and thin, with straight spine, like a pure black sword.
Pei Ji held the long sword in her arms, and her throat moved slightly: "Well."
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This forest is not big, and after passing through the dense groves, you can see the houses in the town soon.
According to Meng Jue's statement of the demon clan, now is the time when Xie Yu occupied Chongling during the battle between the immortals and demons.
The towns in the mountains and mountains have inconvenient transportation. Most of the residents rely on self-sufficiency to feed their stomachs. Of course, they are not rich.
Most of the buildings here are wooden houses. It is conceivable that when the wildfire spreads in the future, the tragic situation of life will be devastated.
Ning Ning looked around and saw two incompatible shadows at the entrance of the town.
One was wearing a monk's robe and had a big, shaved head; the other, with clear eyebrows and deja vu, was Fu Xiu Bai Ye of Luming Mountain.
In front of the two of them, stood a rather bewildered townsman.
The two of them faced the direction where Ning Ning and the others came, and they just needed to raise their eyes a little, and they happened to be looking at each other.
Seeing Ning Ning, Bai Ye's face stiffened.
He could never forget the sight of this girl rushing towards him like a ghoul dancing wildly.
It's just his adult shadow, the kind that occasionally twists and turns in nightmares.
Meng Jue is worthy of being a flower on the front of the Xuanxu Sword Sect. When he saw the two of them, he smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist Bai Ye, Young Master Yonggui."
It turned out that the little monk was called Yonggui.
They don't know each other well, and when they meet each other now, it is inevitable to say a few polite words, which is called "Blowing Rainbow Farts" for short.
Ning Ning always felt that these words sounded too awkward. In order not to make herself too embarrassed, she had already practiced the magic skill of amusing herself—
Replace the slang words of Xianmen here with down-to-earth compulsory education.
Like now.
Bai Ye tried his best to stabilize his expression, and said with a loud laugh, "It turns out that they are the Taoist friends of the Xuanxu Sword Sect! Young Master Yonggui, you may not know these people - they are all direct disciples of Elder Tianxian. Senior Brother Meng Jue, at a very young age, he acquired the sixth realm of Nascent Soul, and it took less than half a month to practice "Taiwu Swordsmanship"."
—This student Meng Jue skipped a grade at the age of 12 and came to the third grade of senior high school. It only took less than half a month to complete a book called "Five-Year College Entrance Examination Three-Year Simulation".
Meng Jue easily concealed the impatience in his eyes and listened to him continue: "This is Junior Sister Ning Ning, who shines in the small mountains, and is the first in the Jindan stage in the last round of the Ten Method Conference, and is a worthy young talent. ."
—This student Ning Ning, not only achieved excellent results in the Mathematical Olympiad, but also won the first place in the high school group in the last English speaking competition, and is a well-deserved seed player in Qingbei.
"As well as Junior Brother Pei Ji, he killed the demonized tree demon in the ancient wood forest. Although it has not been a long time since he entered the door of Elder Tianxian, he has already broken through the golden pill."
—Student Pei Ji solved the final question of the Math Month exam paper, and although it didn't take long for her to transfer to another school, she has already made it to the top of the honor roll.
It is very grounded and in line with the core values of Marxist materialism and socialism.
Bai Ye spoke passionately, and the townsman next to him couldn't bear his temper. He spoke with a little accent: "Do you still want to go down and listen? If you don't listen, I'll go home."
Bai Ye hurriedly held back: "Don't stop! Let's continue to talk about choosing a concubine!"
Ning Ning asked curiously, "Choose a concubine?"
"yes."
The townsman glanced at her, then pointed at Bai Ye and the young monk Yonggui: "The devil chooses his concubine, these two are planning to participate."