Yan Ran gossips again, and the sky gradually darkens.
Xu Dongqing looked at the dark sky, with a worried look on his face: "It's going to be dark, what shall we do next?"
"Ask me?" Yan Ran pointed to her nose, "I'm still counting on you guys to come up with something!"
Qiu Yutong hesitated for a moment: "When I was young, I heard people say that most monsters like to move at night. Or, let's find a place by the river to rest for a night, and then find a way to find Shuo Xuecheng after dawn." Thank you, the city lord?"
Lu Xiao nodded: "That's very good."
Xu Dongqing and Yan Ran naturally had no objection.
This river valley is very deep, and there are tall and dense cliffs on both sides of the valley. The four of them found a sunken shelter under the cliff. Yan Ran and Xu Dongqing went to the river to pull out many dry reeds, and spread them thickly on the ground. The first floor is actually a good resting place.
Yanran hadn't started bigu yet, so he naturally brought a lot of dry food with him, but his taste was rough, and the dry food he brought were all dried meat pancakes, which were really not good in taste, at best, barely enough to satisfy his hunger. But at this time, there was nothing to be picky about. Qiu Yutong took a rough buckwheat noodle cake and gnawed it as hard as chewing wax. Fortunately, Lu Xiao boiled some hot water, and he could finally swallow it with the hot water.
After the four of them finished eating, the sky was completely dark. In the dark night sky, not to mention the moon, there was not even a single star. On the thick reeds, Xu Dongqing was curled up sideways, and Yan Ran was lying on her back, already fast asleep. Xu Dongqing was relatively quiet, Yan Ran's snoring was so loud, and she would grind her teeth "cracking" from time to time, which made people's teeth sore.
Qiu Yutong lay on the pile of reeds, staring blankly at the dark sky, a little lost in thought.
Too many things have happened these days. He thought about Amaterasu Cloud Sea, Shuo Xuecheng, the three senior brothers, the burnt Yaowang Village, the terrible secret place of Blood Prison, Qingheng Xianzun, thinking of the Beihai Sword School, thinking of those two strange turtle shells...
He thought wildly for a long time, but still didn't have the slightest clue. He couldn't help but sighed lightly, and turned sideways again, but he bumped into a pair of dark, pitch-black phoenix eyes.
Qiu Yutong was taken aback for a moment, and at that moment he almost had an illusion, as if there was nothing in the world that could enter these eyes except him.
"Xiao'er?" He came back to his senses and asked doubtfully.
Lu Xiao moved his eyes away in panic and embarrassment. Qiu Yutong was still a little puzzled, but suddenly saw something, and his eyes lit up slightly: "Eh? What is that?"
He stretched out his hand to catch it lightly, and picked up a fat mouse from the side of the reed pile.
This mouse is not quite the same as the mice in the human world. It is about the size of a rabbit, very fat, with a big and fluffy tail. The snow-white thick fur is dotted with strands of gold, which looks very funny and cute. At this moment, its pair of small black eyes stared at Qiu Yutong in panic, and screamed very shrillly: "Zhizhi! Zhizhi!"
"This seems to be... a golden squirrel?" Qiu Yutong held it by the nape of its neck and looked it over carefully.
"What is a squirrel?" Lu Xiao asked suspiciously.
"Oh, it's just an ordinary low-level monster. It's said that it likes to steal things, but it doesn't cause any serious harm. I saw its illustration in the collection in Shuo Xuecheng, and the drawing looks quite similar."
The golden squirrel screamed for a while, and seemed to find that Qiu Yutong had no malicious intentions, let alone wanted to eat it, so it gradually calmed down, and a pair of small eyes stared at Qiu Yu curiously and vigilantly. Tong.
"This little guy is quite clever." Qiu Yutong raised her eyebrows in amusement, and put it on her lap.
The chubby golden snow mouse lay on Qiu Yutong's lap for a while, and seemed to feel very comfortable, then tentatively arched into Qiu Yutong's arms, then narrowed his eyes, with a look of great enjoyment: "Zhizhi squeak."
Lu Xiao raised his eyebrows, stretched out his hand to pick up the little thing from Qiu Yutong's arms, and looked at it carefully: "Although this fat mouse is not very big, it has quite a lot of meat. It should taste good after a little roasting."
The snowmouse opened its small eyes wide in horror, screamed "Zhi Zhi Zhi" indiscriminately, and flapped its four little paws desperately. The beautiful fur that was originally snow-white mixed with gold gradually turned gray, and even lost its luster. Lu Xiao gradually felt something, he was stunned, his hands trembled involuntarily, the squirrel fell to the ground with a "click", and ran away limping.
Qiu Yutong wondered, "Why did it turn gray?"
Lu Xiao quietly hid his trembling right hand behind his back, and said in a hoarse voice: "Maybe it's because of fright. Some small animals will change color when frightened... There is a lizard."
"Oh, I don't know about that. It turns out that there are such timid monsters. I thought monsters were very courageous." Qiu Yutong laughed.
Lu Xiao was silent for a while, and asked softly: "Master, what the hell is going on with monsters? Are they all this kind of monsters? They don't have human shapes? Like that lizard today, and this mouse?"
Qiu Yutong scratched her hair: "Uh, I don't know much about this. But when I was a child, I heard from the brother in charge that some monsters with spiritual consciousness can also practice cultivation. When they reach a certain level, they can transform into human form." , called Demon Cultivator."
"How do monsters practice? Do they also need to absorb spiritual energy?" Lu Xiao asked.
"I read in ancient books that the methods of cultivating monsters are not the same as those of humans. Ordinary people must slowly absorb the aura of heaven and earth to condense into Yuandan, but high-level monsters can not only absorb natural magic energy, but also directly The demonic energy of low-level monsters. Therefore, high-level monsters practice much faster than ordinary humans, but it is not the right path after all, and it is difficult to prove the way."
Lu Xiao listened carefully, his face gradually turned pale: "Monsters... can absorb the same kind of magic energy?"
Qiu Yutong nodded: "Well, so the battle between monsters is very tragic. Although I don't know what the demon world is like now, it is probably much more dangerous than the human world."
Lu Xiao was silent for a while, then cautiously said: "Since the demon world and the human world were completely separated three thousand years ago, then the human world... there shouldn't be any monsters, right?"
"Uh, this question is more complicated. In fact, it is said that ten thousand years ago, the human world and the demon world were not separated, but a chaotic one. Later, a war between humans and demons in ancient times occurred, which angered the heavens, and the human world and the demon world were separated. The two realms...you know what happened later, after Qingheng Xianzun fell three thousand years ago, the two realms of humans and demons were completely cut off, but there are still some remnants of monsters in the human realm, but the number is very small."
"Since it is completely isolated, how can there be monsters in the human world?" Lu Xiao asked anxiously.
"Because those powerful demon cultivators in ancient times left a lot of blood in the human world. If the descendants of these human-devil hybrids awaken their demon veins, they will naturally become monsters... I heard from the senior brother in charge that our master The □□real person, just to wipe out a group of descendants of human demons, was besieged by them for several days and nights, and finally committed suicide. But I was too young at that time, so I don’t have much memory.”
"...Awakening the magic vein?" Lu Xiao murmured.
"Well, it is said that the descendants of the demons are stimulated or absorbed the demon energy, and they may awaken the demon veins. However, according to the brother in charge, there are also people who will not awaken for a lifetime."
Lu Xiao was silent for a long time, then suddenly said: "If you meet a monster, what will Master do?"
Qiu Yutong didn't expect him to ask this question, so he hesitated before saying: "I have never met a monster... If I encounter a monster that does evil, I should kill it as much as possible like my master back then. We can’t let it continue to cause harm to the world.”
"Really?" Lu Xiao lowered his eyelashes, his voice was as soft as a feather, and the blood on his handsome face was almost gone.
Qiu Yutong was a little puzzled, but also a little worried: "What's wrong? Is the wound hurting again?"
Lu Xiao slowly raised his eyes and looked at him almost in a daze. After a long time, he gave a low "hmm".
Qiu Yutong's heart softened slightly, and she couldn't help touching the little apprentice's jet-black and soft hair: "It's really hard for you these days."
"No." Lu Xiao said hoarsely.
The two lay quietly side by side on the pile of reeds. Qiu Yutong touched the little apprentice's hair lightly, feeling soft and loving in his heart. After a while, Lu Xiao turned his head slightly, rubbed his cheek against his warm palm, and brushed the slender and cool fingers intentionally or unintentionally with his hot lips.
Qiu Yutong's heart twitched inexplicably, and her fingers were itchy, and she couldn't help but want to pull her hand back: "You child, why are you still the same as when you were a child?"
Lu Xiao grabbed his wrist and said in a hoarse voice as if he couldn't bear it: "Don't treat me like a child!"
Qiu Yutong was stunned: "What's wrong?"
He is already two hundred years old, and this kid is only in his twenties. Although he has been emperor for several years, compared with him, what is it if he is not a child? Besides, he didn't say that much before, and he didn't see such a big reaction from this kid.
Lu Xiao didn't answer, but slowly propped himself up and stared at him with downcast eyes. Those beautiful phoenix eyes were so dark that there was almost no luster, and there seemed to be something extremely intense surging in the dark eyes. , and seemed to be struggling to suppress some fatal impulse.
Qiu Yutong looked a little nervous: "Xiao'er?"
Lu Xiao's drooping eyelashes trembled slightly, and then he closed his eyes as if he were patient, his tense muscles slowly relaxed, and finally gave up, and slumped down on Qiu Yutong's chest: "Master."
Qiu Yutong blinked: "Huh?"
Why is this kid acting coquettish all of a sudden? Just now I kept saying that I didn't like to treat him like a child...
At this moment, Lu Xiao could hardly conceal his extremely agitated emotions, so he could only bury his face deeply into the thick black hair on the side of the other party's neck, and took a deep breath very slowly and eagerly.
That snow-like clear breath has kept him dreaming for so many years, and how many nights he has been tossing and turning... Those nights when he first dawned on people, those bizarre and unspeakable dreams, he didn't dare to recall them at first, but I would like to think back, even afraid to think about it, but in the end I couldn’t resist it at all. In the end, I could only give up and let myself recollect it over and over again. With an extremely heavy sense of guilt, I trembled and indulged in it. …
In those years of thunderstorm nights, just lying next to this person, just smelling the light and cool breath, he could... But this simple person didn't notice it, even when he was trembling unbearably, Sleepily coaxing him softly: "Huh... Xiao'er? Don't be afraid, it's just thunder, and I'm here for the teacher." That hoarse and soft voice almost made his scalp tingle...
He has always been calm and restrained, his mind is extremely complicated, and his methods are cruel enough, but when facing this person, he is so stupid that he doesn't know what to do... After strangling his father with a bowstring, he has no interest in the throne anymore, but this People seemed to want him to be emperor very much, so he became emperor. In fact, all he did was to hope that this person... would be satisfied with him.
Then, at his enthronement ceremony, his master was ascended.
It nearly broke him.
It turned out that in this person's heart, he was not... that important. Until now, Lu Xiao still couldn't talk about that ascension calmly, and couldn't ask his master why, because he knew that the answer might directly tear him apart.
Maybe his master saved him for the sake of ascension... He couldn't think about it anymore.
He also knew in his heart that he was probably crazy. When he was in Yaowangzhuang, he even did such terrible things that even made him feel disgusted. He actually wanted to keep this person by his side by such despicable methods...
How much he wanted to be able to practice himself. He wanted to be with this person for thousands of years, guarding this person, protecting this person, and not allowing anyone else to have a chance... He wanted to get everything that this person had. Everything, from hair to fingertips, from body to soul, every hair, every inch of skin, every trembling, every gasp, every tear... all belong to him and only to him.
However, now it seems that there is finally a glimmer of hope, but he is afraid again... That huge monster lizard, that golden squirrel, he obviously felt that something was extremely wrong, that surging sense of power, that An extremely terrifying sense of control, that boiling urge to kill... What if, what if my own blood... How would this person treat him? Will it, will it...
Lu Xiao closed his eyes, he didn't dare to think about it.
Qiu Yutong blinked her eyes, feeling the hot breath of the other party gradually rushing towards her neck. Although Lu Xiao liked to bury his head in his neck like this since he was a child, but at this moment, Qiu Yutong felt a very strange feeling for no reason. He couldn't help but want to move back a little, but the other party's strong The arms wrapped tightly around his waist, like iron hoops, and he couldn't move at all.
"Don't move. Let me hug you for a while... just for a while." Lu Xiao said hoarsely, "Is that okay?"
Qiu Yutong couldn't refuse the little apprentice's pitiful tone. He sighed, feeling soft in his heart, he had no choice but to reach out and touch the other person's forehead: "What's wrong? Is the wound uncomfortable? Fever again?... It seems not."
"Master, when I get out of the secret realm, I... I want to tell you something."
…
When Qiu Yutong opened her eyes in a daze, the sky was already bright. Lu Xiao, Xu Dongqing, and Yan Ran had already packed their packages and were waiting for him.
Qiu Yutong rubbed her eyes in embarrassment: "Uh, I've always been a deep sleeper, Xiao'er, why didn't you call me?"
Before Lu Xiao could answer, Qiu Yutong was stunned for a moment, then jumped up suddenly: "Communication fireworks! That's summoning fireworks!"
Following his gaze, everyone looked up at the eastern sky, and saw a smoky blue firework soaring into the sky in the far eastern sky, like a huge cold plum blooming in the sky, especially eye-catching against the crimson morning glow.
Qiu Yutong was full of surprises: "That's the messenger fireworks from Shuo Xuecheng! They must be in that direction!"
Lu Xiao looked intently: "Looking at the direction of the fireworks, they should be just downstream of this river."
Yan Ran said happily: "So, as long as we walk down this river, we can find the powerful monk in Shuo Xuecheng?! Oh, my little life is finally saved!"
"Where is City Lord Xie?" Xu Dongqing's eyes lit up, "Let's go, let's go there quickly!"
The four of them tidied up a bit and started on the road immediately.
They walked along the narrow and long valley bottom for two or three hours. Finally, the valley gradually widened, and the riverbed also became wider.
Yan Ran sniffed, and suddenly said: "It smells so good, what's the smell?"
Xu Dongqing sniffed it carefully: "It seems to be... the fragrance of Mo Lian?"
"There!" Yan Ran sharply spotted a small black water lily by the river, immediately stepped on the reef, jumped over in a few steps, and stretched out her hand to pick it up, "I didn't expect there to be a black water lily in this secret place. But it’s a rare good thing, you can’t buy it with any number of spirit stones!”
"Don't pick it, that's..." Qiu Yutong hurriedly stopped, but it was too late.
Hearing a few soft sounds of "shuashuashua", several white-clothed youths descended from the sky, and a sharp and dense sword net immediately enveloped Yan Ran's whole body, and the handsome young man in the lead sternly shouted: "He Fangxiao, how dare you move?" Canglong Molian of my Shuo Xuecheng?! Do you want to die?"
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