The flames flickered and there was a dead silence in the forest. The monsters in particular looked at each other, and at the scholar and his wife looking at each other in the firelight, and they didn't react for a long time.
Hehehe…
With a silver bell-like chuckle, Hua Hongyi raised her face slightly, her eyes moving with charm as she looked at the tall scholar in a white robe opposite her.
"It is me. When my husband comes here, he will naturally greet you in person. However, these monsters under his command do not recognize you. My husband, please do not blame them for not being smart enough."
The light from the fire flickered, illuminating half of Lu Liangsheng's face. He closed his eyes slightly and looked at the Painted Skin Demon, who was almost exactly the same as Hong Lian. However, the other party's level of Taoism was a little beyond his expectations and was somewhat different from what Hong Lian had said before.
However, since the other party had no intention of taking action, Lu Liangsheng put away the half-written decree in his hand, stared at her and spoke softly.
"It's too early to use the word husband. When did we have an engagement?"
"My husband, you really forgot." The woman over there turned her head slightly, glanced at the drooling pig demon and the vigilant old donkey, swayed her waist and took lotus steps, her voice soft and mournful.
"Hong Lian and I are one. I feel what she feels, and I know what she knows. However, I dare to do what she doesn't dare to do. In her heart, she wanted to call out the word 'husband', but I called out first. Doesn't it sound good?"
"It sounds nice!" Zhu Ganglie nodded repeatedly and sucked the saliva into his mouth with a slurp.
Hua Hongyi frowned slightly and snorted, "I didn't ask you about this pig monster. You have a fat head, big ears, and black hair all over your body. Just one look at it makes me terrified."
"I used to be a very romantic and dashing man. If you want someone good-looking, I can change into one too!"
Zhu Ganglie didn't care about these words at all. He puffed out his belly, waved his sleeves, and retracted his long mouth and big ears. He turned into a majestic black-skinned strong man. However, the woman ignored him and just stared at the scholar.
The campfire crackled and sent up a few sparks. Lu Liangsheng took a deep breath and quickly thought of a strategy in the woman's view. If they really had to fight, it was not impossible. It would always be risky to fight with a small number against a large number.
Seeing that Lu Liangsheng didn't say anything or move, Hua Hongyi slightly raised her pretty face, her red lips outlined with dimples, and walked closer on the dead leaves on the ground. Her white long legs could be vaguely seen through her swaying red gauze skirt.
"My dear, it may not be so easy for you to leave today. I know your cultivation and all your magic, but I am no longer the same person I was before. I am not the same as Hong Lian who was waiting in the temple to recover her body."
The scarlet nails stroked the scholar's shoulders with the delicate palms, scraping the cloth with a rustling sound, and walked to Lu Liangsheng's back. Hua Hongyi wanted to get closer, and a light golden light emerged silently. Fortunately, she reacted quickly, twisted her feet, spread her skirt, turned to the other side of Lu Liangsheng, and breathed out her breath.
"My husband has got a new magic weapon. This really surprises me. This kind of luck is rare in the world. I really didn't make a mistake in choosing him. Hehehe..."
Lu Liangsheng flicked his robe sleeves and used his magic power to resist the evil power mixed with the obscene words. The fallen leaves accumulated on the ground were blown away in all directions, forcing the woman to take two steps. He slowly turned his face and spoke in a serious tone.
"Don't call me husband all the time. I can't bear it. With your skills, you must have absorbed the souls of living beings, right? Let me ask you, if I want to leave today, will you force me to stay?"
hehe…
Hua Hongyi raised her orchid, raised her sleeve to cover her mouth and chuckled. She looked at him charmingly and said with a smile, "My husband has misunderstood. I have indeed absorbed a lot of lives, but they are monsters from the nearby hills. My husband is a demon hunter and hates evil. How could I do something that disgusts you? Besides, eating people is not as good as eating monsters. It will improve my cultivation faster."
When the surrounding monsters heard what their lady said, they all stood up straight or hid in the darkness and hissed threats, filling the air with demonic aura.
Lu Liangsheng turned his head and raised his sword-holding arm. The sword tip began to vibrate with a humming sound. The demonic voices that seemed to be cheering all around were immediately startled by the sword chant and shut their mouths instantly.
The sword slowly dropped, and Lu Liangsheng looked at Hua Hongyi: "You haven't answered my question yet."
"Of course I won't force you to stay, but..."
Hua Hongyi smiled, with the same dimples as Hong Lian, but with a more enchanting charm. "However, I still advise my husband to follow me back to the cave. It is better to be a loving couple than to practice Taoism in a boring way. I will definitely let you enjoy the happiness you have never enjoyed before."
"I don't agree to this marriage!"
As soon as the woman's words came out, the voice of Toad Taoist rang out almost at the same time. The small door of the bookshelf compartment was pushed open, and a chubby body wrapped in bandages, with only a pair of toad eyes showing, walked out.
"Oh, it's Master Toad. Long time no see. Have you changed your clothes?" Hua Hongyi twisted her waist and took small steps, glancing at him, "I'm talking to my husband, am I asking you to interfere?"
Lu Liangsheng lowered his head and saw Toad walking to his feet, "Master, why did you come out?"
The Toad Taoist, who was carrying a purple gold gourd on his back, didn't look at him. Instead, he stared at the female demon walking slowly opposite him and snorted.
"Master, I just went in to change the bandages and treat the wounds."
Immediately, his voice became dignified, and he nodded slightly to the woman opposite him and said, "Once a teacher, always a father. How can my apprentice's marriage have nothing to do with me?"
The frog flapped its webbed feet, gathering its demonic power. The sound of a toad chirping filled the air, spreading along with his words.
“When I was at my peak, you, my little demon, would not be enough for me to eat. I’ll just give up now. Now that I’m at my peak, the gourd behind me still has some of the strength I had back then. If you don’t believe me, you can ask Zhu Erniang over there, where did you come from with your useless subordinates, and where should you go now!”
Hua Hongyi stopped, the wind blowing her black hair, she turned her head to look behind her, and saw Zhu Erniang among the group of monsters. She nodded instinctively. The purple gold gourd was a magic weapon refined by the innate magical power of the Purple Star Monster. At its peak, it could indeed hold all things and refine them into elixirs. Now that the Toad's strength was greatly damaged, his innate magical power would not change.
It should still be pretty impressive... she thought.
Seeing the spider spirit, who was familiar with the toad's strength, nod, Hua Hongyi's face darkened, and he flicked his sleeves and turned aside, and then a smile broke out on his face again.
"Since my parents don't agree, I won't ask my husband to go back with me for now. However, I believe that one day, my husband will be with me."
After saying that, he rode the demonic wind and disappeared from the spot. The demons around him looked at each other, and seeing that the lady had left, they naturally would not continue to surround her. One by one, they fled into the night and left quickly. The accompanying darkness receded like a tide, and the cold moonlight once again sprinkled on the forest, illuminating a piece of silver light.
The sound of insects chirped in the grass. The old donkey let out a deep breath, retracted his lightning, and lay back on the ground to continue sleeping. Zhu Ganglie took a few steps forward, heading towards the moonlight outside the gap in the woods.
"You made the request. Now that you have become handsome and powerful, you must look at me, Old Pig, before you leave!!"
A muffled shout came back. Beside the campfire, Lu Liangsheng did not expect that a gourd would scare away the troublesome Hua Hongyi. The gourd was indeed powerful, but he did not know to what extent.
"Master, can this purple gold gourd really swallow everything?"
"Didn't I tell you this before?"
"That's because I always feel that Master brags a lot."
"Hehe... Do you understand now?"
The Toad Taoist snorted twice, turned around and went back to the bookshelf compartment. With his back to his apprentice, he waved his webbed feet and sternly warned him, "Go to sleep, and hurry back early tomorrow morning. I have to speed up the recovery of my injuries. Don't leave you out there all day and let others bully you!"
"Yes, I'll leave early tomorrow morning."
Lu Liangsheng cupped his hands and threw Yuelong back in his hand, "You are no longer needed, go back." The sword hummed softly, and with a whoosh, it was put back into the scabbard. The scabbard sank, and Lu Liangsheng went back to sit down and heard a snapping sound from the bookshelf. The Toad Taoist covered his head, looked at the fallen scabbard, and staggered twice, "... Damn it!" He cursed, rolled his eyes, and lay down on the bedding, his legs and feet twitching.
“Master!”
Lu Liangsheng hurried over and turned over the toad, only to see that his master had fainted with his tongue tilted to the side of his mouth and his belly exposed.
Yuelong Sword shook twice and spoke weakly.
"This Master, it was not intentional..."
Alas~
Lu Liangsheng sighed, flicked the sword with his fingers, then picked up his master, held him in his palm, sat back by the fire, placed him on the hem of his robe, covered him with a corner of it, took a book, and while flipping through it, called back the indignant pig demon. After hurrying on the road and having a fight with a group of monsters, Zhu Ganglie was also a little sleepy. He said a few words, stretched himself, and fell into a deep sleep by the firelight.
The firelight illuminated the sleeping pig demon, the old donkey crawling and shaking its long ears, and the toad sleeping on the hem of his apprentice's robe, its webbed feet twitching from time to time. The light sound of turning pages occasionally stopped. Lu Liangsheng raised his head and looked at the starry sky. He thought of the painted skin demon named Hua Hongyi and pondered every word the other had said before.
Sighed and shook his head.
'…It's a bit difficult.'
The stars in the sky were twinkling. In the wilderness, there was a cave with a fire somewhere on the mountain wall. Gusts of evil wind were whimpering inside. The spider spirit Zhu Erniang and the fox spirit Hongniang were facing a large bone chair above them, lowering their heads and not daring to raise them.
"Stinky Toad—"
Hua Hongyi gritted her teeth, clenched her hands with scarlet nails under her long sleeves, and slammed them on the armrest, causing her cloak to flutter.
"You use the name of Master to pressure me. You have killed more people than me. You look so righteous!"
Below, the spider spirit raised her head and said, "Madam, that toad was originally as powerful as a demon king. It was very powerful and ate many monks and demons. Don't mess with it easily."
At one side, the red fox clenched his fingers, thinking of the white figure in the firelight.
"Madam, why do you have to look for that Lu Liangsheng? He is a successful scholar, determined, and upright... Let me tell you something that Madam may not like to hear. From the temple he built for Hong Lian, it can be seen that he will not have anything to do with Madam..."
The next moment, the red fox slammed into the wall of the cave, causing the nearby torches to fall down.
Wow~
Hua Hongyi pressed down her cloak, her pretty face was covered with frost, and she stared fiercely at the fox demon lying on the ground, spitting out blood.
"Say one more thing and I'll peel off your skin and use it as a foot pad!"
She glanced at both sides of the cave, sat back on the bone chair, tapped it with her scarlet nails, and squinted her eyes.
"Your husband is too upright and indeed not suitable for me. But what do you think of Lu Liangsheng, who is full of murderous karma and extremely vicious?"
Thinking of that short figure, a smile suddenly appeared on her red lips.
"... Hum, I have a good idea... Husband... You will come back to me."