Mu Yao wasn't sure if this "trait" really existed in him, he actually felt that he hadn't changed from beginning to end, he was just a taciturn ordinary monk back then, even if he degenerated into a demon cultivator today, he was still silent.

Although he is a taciturn person, Mu Yao also has advantages, he is a very sensitive person, who can quickly and delicately feel the emotions of others, that is, the kind of person who knows how to "read people's faces" as the saying goes.

This skill is not very useful on the battlefield, but in the process of interpersonal communication, this skill will bring great convenience to Mu Yao.

During the period when Mu Yao stayed by the side of the Demon Venerable, because he knew how to read his face, he could very keenly grasp the mind of His Highness the Demon Venerable, and he only needed to observe the subtle expression on His Royal Highness's face, so that he could feel the changes in His Highness's thinking, so as to make actions that were in line with the mind of the Demon. So in a sense, Mu Yao felt that he knew this Demon Venerable His Highness named "Chasing the Sun" very well.

However, today, Mu Yao may not be able to boast that he knows His Highness the Demon Venerable very well.

Because he found that the "Demon Venerable" in front of him was not the real Demon Venerable.

Mu Yao didn't know how to describe it, although He Qianjue behaved quite perfectly, his personality and behavior were very close to the Demon Venerable, especially his body and demonic qi were flawless, and he was definitely the body and demonic energy of His Royal Highness the Demon Venerable, and others couldn't notice anything abnormal at all, but on the contrary, Mu Yao could clearly feel that he was not the Demon Venerable.

So who is he?

By the way, hasn't His Royal Highness the Demon Venerable recently followed a "new favorite"?

Mu Yao remembered that the spirit that had been staying with the Demon Venerable day by day and was inseparable during this time, he had always thought that it was the "new favorite" of His Royal Highness the Demon Venerable, because the demon cultivators of the entire Demon Realm knew that His Royal Highness the Demon Venerable had a hobby of "adopting pets", just like when the Demon Venerable subdued Mu Yao day by day.

There were even a lot of bad demon cultivators in the demon army who gathered to gamble, and they gambled on how long the demon venerable could spoil the spirit beside him.

Mu Yao didn't pay much attention to the newly acquired pets of His Royal Highness the Demon Venerable, but because he had been in contact with the Demon Venerable recently, he became familiar with it back and forth, and he barely learned the name of the Demon Venerable's "new favorite", which seemed to be called He Qianjue, and it should be a ghost cultivator.

This ghost cultivator had been following the Demon Venerable, but he had disappeared in the last two days, could it be that he fell out of favor so quickly?

When Mu Yao touched his chin and thought, a shadow shrouded him, he came back from his thoughts in a trance, raised his head and looked, and was stunned to find that it was "His Highness the Demon Venerable" in front of him.

"You're distracted. His Royal Highness Demon Venerable's tone was soft, which was quite rare, and it also made Mu Qin even more sure that the "Demon Venerable" in front of him was definitely not the real Demon Venerable!

But he does have the power of the Demon Venerable, that kind of terrifying demonic energy can never be controlled casually, if he is not the Demon Venerable, then who is he?

Mu Yao couldn't figure it out, he suppressed his doubts in his heart, and decided to temporarily cooperate with the actions of the "Demon Venerable" in front of him, and replied: "Your Highness the Demon Venerable, it's getting late, you should rest." ”

He Qianjue glanced at Mu Yao, then raised his head and glanced at the sky.

They started attacking in the morning, and they had already broken through the Immortal Army's defense line around noon, and the rest of the time was used to loot the resources left by the Immortal Army's garrison for the Demon Lords, as well as to station a new camp in place to prepare for the next attack. After a lot of hard work, now the sky is dark again.

This day, He Qianjue didn't wait to show up day by day, he also looked around to see if there was an entrance to the underground in this station left by the immortal army, but almost the entire station was turned over, He Qianjue didn't find the underground entrance, it stands to reason that the immortal army should have deployed an underground defense line, how could they not find it?

He Qianjue tried to feel the breath of the sun, but he didn't sense anything, there was only the breath of these scattered demon cultivators around him, and their bodies exuded a rich demonic aura, which covered the entire station with a layer of evil black mist.

Day by day, he still refuses to show up.

He Qianjue felt that it was not a way to go on like this, he thought for a moment, and said to Mu Yao beside him: "You go and deal with your own affairs, I still have some arrangements, you don't need to follow me." ”

Mu Yao answered "yes" on the surface, but he didn't immediately turn around and leave, but boldly asked: "Your Highness Demon Venerable, the two immortals you caught before...... I don't know what you've done?"

He Qianjue glanced at Mu Yao thoughtfully, this demon cultivator stared at He Qianjue's gaze revealing a suspicion, He Qianjue knew that he might have exposed the information that he was not the real Demon Venerable, maybe it was his very different style of acting from Day by Day that made this subordinate suspicious.

He Qianjue thought that it was necessary for him to appease this subordinate, so he said to Mu Yao: "How do I deal with it, do I have to tell you something?"

Mu Yao immediately replied with sincere fear: "Of course not, whatever His Highness wants, it is His Highness's freedom...... It's just that, Your Highness, they are captives that they have been caught with great difficulty, at least the information that comes out of the captive's mouth, I think I ...... Should have the right to know. ”

He Qianjue couldn't help laughing, he looked at the demon cultivator in front of him, and only thought it was funny in his heart: "You are actually doubting me, right?"

Mu Yao felt that his heart was beating a little fast, he didn't quite understand the meaning of He Qianjue's words, was he going to have a showdown with him? Mu Yao couldn't judge, he decided to continue to test: "How dare I doubt His Royal Highness the Venerable Demon Venerable!"

"You dare to question me here, isn't that the best proof of doubting me?" He Qianjue squinted his eyes, with a smile in his tone, he didn't intend to hide it in front of Mu Yao, "You suspect that I am not the real Demon Venerable, and I have to tell you...... I really am not. ”

Mu Yao raised his head abruptly to look at He Qianjue, staring at He Qianjue's blood-red eyes, he took a step forward and pulled the distance between himself and He Qianjue, and the question in his tone became more obvious: "Where is the real Demon Venerable!? Who are you!?"

"As soon as I heard that I wasn't, I became even bolder!" He Qianjue laughed happily, he intended to teach this bold demon cultivator a lesson, so when he raised his hand, the demonic energy rushed towards Mu Yao frantically, Mu Yao was startled, he couldn't react, he waved his hand and just wanted to establish a shield, He Qianjue's demonic energy was like a spear piercing his fragile shield, and then surrounded Mu Yao's throat with lightning speed, lifting him up.

Mu Yao's feet were off the ground, suspended in mid-air, the iron pincers formed by the demonic qi pinched his throat, he struggled with his hands, suffocating at the same time, the demonic qi was also slowly eroding his meridian internal organs, Mu Yao clearly felt that the demonic qi in his body had been swallowed by the demonic qi extended by He Qianjue, and the demonic qi devoured more demonic qi, forming a terrifying and spectacular power, boiling in Mu Yao's body.

These terrifying forces rampaged through Mu Yao's meridians, Mu Yao soon turned pale in pain, and his seven orifices were bleeding, he remembered this feeling, when he first met the Demon Venerable day by day, the other party forced him into the demon in such a straightforward way!

Yes...... It was to pour a large amount of demonic qi into his body, devouring the power in his body and gathering even more energy, so that he was completely engulfed by the black aura.

And now the situation is exactly the same as it was back then.

Mu Yao was a little in a trance, I don't know if it was because he recalled his past, his mind began to diverge at that moment, and he thought of something.

His distraction made him unable to organize the demonic qi in his body and effectively resist He Qianjue's demonic qi, so he simply gave up resistance and let He Qianjue brutally torture him.

He Qianjue didn't want Mu Yao's life, so he simply stopped after a shock, and threw the poor demon cultivator to the ground, He Qianjue said: "Although I am not the real Demon Venerable Chasing the Day, but I do play the role of 'Demon Venerable Chasing the Day' now, and my behavior and personality are the same as the Chasing the Sun in a sense, so ...... If you provoke me, I can also cut you with a thousand knives and destroy your body and spirit. ”

Dealing with these demon cultivators, He Qianjue has never been soft or sloppy. Don't look at Mu Yao at this moment, it seems that he has no power to fight back, but He Qianjue believes that if he can seize the opportunity, he will definitely do his best to bite He Qianjue back, these demon cultivators are not soft persimmons that are easy to pinch.

However, Mu Yao in front of him really surprised He Qianjue.

Because some of the meridians in his body were extensively damaged by He Qianjue's demonic qi, and Mu Yao did not resist strongly, he was in a state of serious injury almost instantly, and he did not □□ pain when he lay on the ground, but forced himself to get up while vomiting blood, and raised his head to look at He Qianjue.

"You...... Not a Demon Venerable, but ...... The power of the Demon Venerable. Mu Yao coughed and wheezed while wiping the blood from the corners of his mouth, but he painted half of his cheeks with bright red. He looked at He Qianjue's eyes that seemed to contain deep meaning, and he said, "You will be here to replace the Demon Venerable...... Commanding us to fight, does it mean ...... You're in league with the Demon Venerable?"

He Qianjue couldn't guess Mu Yao's thinking a little. After He Qianjue tortured this guy like this, Mu Yao didn't show the slightest panicked look, he calmly continued to ask He Qianjue questions, which made He Qianjue puzzled and a little playful at the same time, He Qianjue said, "What do you want to say to me?"

"A while ago, I have been following His Highness the Demon Venerable...... The inseparable ghost cultivator is you, right?" Mu Yao seemed to guess something.

"Ah...... Yes, that's right, that's me. He Qianjue was a little looking forward to what Mu Yao wanted to say.

"What I want to know is...... Do you really want to help His Highness the Demon Venerable to stand on the united front with him, or is it just because of the coercion of His Highness the Demon Venerable that you have to stand here?" Mu Yao swallowed the blood in his mouth into his stomach, he took a deep breath, and said slowly, "I just want to know this. ”

"Why do you want to know this?" He Qianjue smiled, "Is my will so important to you?"

"Yes. Mu Yao seemed to really plan to take a big gamble, he lowered his voice and looked at He Qianjue with an extremely solemn and serious gaze: "I think you have the strength to match the Demon Venerable day by day, and you have the ability to defeat him, so I want to be your most loyal lackey." ”

Mu Yao's words startled He Qianjue, and scared He Qianjue into silence for a long time, and finally He Qianjue seemed to understand what Mu Yao meant, and continued to stare at Mu Yao thoughtfully: "What do you mean...... You're going to betray the sun and decide to come to my aid without reservation?"

Mu Yao continued to take a deep breath and replied seriously, "That's right. ”

"Haha, oh my God!" He Qianjue smiled and glared at Mu Yao: "You are simply making me laugh, I can't think of any reason that can motivate you to ...... in just a few minutes." Especially since you just went through the process of me torturing you with demonic energy...... And you didn't hesitate to say that you would betray the sun and turn against me?"

He Qianjue smiled and stopped smiling, he looked at Mu Yao with a scrutinizing gaze: "I only have two conclusions about your behavior. One is that you are crazy, and the other is ...... You are indeed insane. ”

Mu Yao didn't reply, he lowered his head and stopped looking at He Qianjue. After a long silence, he suddenly talked about some messy old things.

Mu Yao said: "At the beginning, I was just a disciple of an ordinary sect about two thousand years ago. ”

"I don't have parents, or as I should be...... In those days, it was always like this, backward, poor, wars were frequent, and poor families could not afford to raise children, so they sold their children to others, traded them as goods, and collected money from them. ”

Mu Yao seemed to be caught in a memory, and showed a self-deprecating smile: "They sent me to the trafficker, I remember the trafficker, he was a dirty old man, he wore fancy clothes made of inferior fabric, bought big cigarettes from Westerners, smoked all day long, and filled his house with that pungent smell of smoke. ”

"I was the only child who was taken in by this trafficker, and in my memory, he seemed to be accompanied by about eleven or two children, the youngest of whom was only a baby, and the oldest was seven or eight years old. There are men and women, some have been sold by their parents, and some are orphans who have been picked up by traffickers. ”

"This trafficker has an accomplice, a woman, and seems to be a good friend of the trafficker, but it is only an object of interest. Women also sometimes send all sorts of children to traffickers, and they sell them to places where others need them, factories or brothels. ”

When Mu Yao said this, his expression seemed to be filled with a hint of anger, although it was not obvious on his face: "That despicable man, he chooses the beautiful little girl in his hand, and sends the girl to the Qinglou in the town after the strong girl, and if she is not good-looking, she will sell it to a rich family as a slave." Most of the boys were sold to work as coolies, and at the age of a few they had to work like machines, working day and night until they died. ”

"Occasionally, though, there are a few good-looking boys. Mu Yao continued, "The traffickers are good, the woman suddenly sent a seriously ill boy one day, who looked very thin, only seven or eight years old, because he was very sick, he was locked in the small room by the traffickers. ”

"I once secretly looked at the boy through the hole in the window, he was richly dressed, his eyebrows were clear, his skin was like congealed cream, he was very good-looking, he should be the child of some rich family...... It's just that he was very sick, so he was later sent to a children's house by human traffickers. ”

"I remember the boy's name, which I mentioned when the trafficker's friend brought it. Mu Yao wanted to speak and stopped, bowed his head for a moment, and finally raised his head to look at the "Demon Venerable Highness" in front of him.

He Qianjue didn't wait for Mu Yao to finish speaking, but took the initiative to laugh and said, "His name is He Qianjue...... Right?"

Mu Yao stopped talking, subconsciously clenched his fists, and stared at He Qianjue intently.

He Qianjue couldn't help but laugh: "That's what you want to say to me? We were old people who had a relationship back then, and we were sent to the same human trafficker and sent to various places, or do you want to laugh at me? Because of the experience we once shared?"

Mu Yao shook his head at He Qianjue and said, "No, the reason I mention this is just because I want to give you something back." ”

Mu Yao said, taking out the storage bag hanging on his body, people who cultivate the truth will basically be equipped with this kind of space pocket that can hold a large number of items, and there are also called Qiankun bags.

Mu Yao searched in the storage bag, and only after a long time did he find out the old things that had been sealed in the bag for many, many years, and showed them to He Qianjue.

He Qianjue took a look at Mu Yao's palm and found that it was a small jade pendant.

The jade pendant is very worn, I am afraid that it has been tempered for a long time, resulting in the original pattern on the jade pendant being blurred, and there are many messy scratches.

"The seriously ill boy who was sent here was indeed a child of a rich family, and the valuable items on his body had been looted by the woman, but this jade pendant seemed to have been overlooked and fell on the bed where the boy once slept. I found it when I was ordered by traffickers to clean my room, so I put it away and kept ...... Left until now. ”

He Qianjue stared at the jade pendant in Mu Yao's palm for a long time, in his distant memory, this jade pendant seems to have been left to his son by He Qianjue's father "He Jiuming", and it is also the jade pendant that was consecrated by the monks when He Qianjue's deceased mother begged for Buddha in the temple, which is also a relic of He Qianjue's mother, and has been hanging on He Qianjue's neck.

It's just that these things outside the body, in that kind of turbulent world, are always slowly lost with the torrent of time.

"How can you be sure that I am the 'He Qianjue' back then?" He Qianjue subconsciously reached out and took the jade pendant in Mu Yao's palm, held it in his palm, and asked Mu Yao.

Mu Yao said: "I can't be sure, but you have just admitted it. ”

"I still don't get it. He Qianjue said, "Why do you remember such a long time ago?"

Mu Yao said: "I didn't deliberately remember it, I just guessed that you have been following His Highness the Demon Venerable recently...... That ghost cultivator named He Qianjue. The name He Qianjue made me feel familiar, and then just now, I suddenly remembered this adult past after two thousand years, and remembered the jade pendant that I had always put in the deepest part of the storage bag. ”

"Then we are really fateful, after more than 2,000 years, we will meet again on the battlefield. He Qianjue couldn't help laughing, "But so what, in order to return me a piece of jade pendant, can it be a reason for you to betray the Demon Venerable?"

"No, the matter of returning your jade pendant is just an episode. Mu Yao shook his head, "My story is not finished yet. ”

……

Mu Yao was later sold by traffickers, of course, he was not a good-looking person, so of course he was given to a shipyard owner by traffickers, and began a career of working as a coolie day and night, he was a seven or eight-year-old child like He Qianjue, and he couldn't bear that kind of life at all, and he was woken up by the foreman with a whip before dawn every day, and began to do all kinds of chores, serving tea and pouring water, carrying goods, cleaning and cleaning, and washing clothes for shipyard sailors.

There is so much work to do, but I can't eat a decent meal at noon, a steamed bun with water can cope with it, and dinner is even simpler, only a bowl of rice porridge with two vegetable leaves, which is no different from white water.

Every day he has to work at night, and when everyone else is asleep, Mu Yao has to continue to clean. If you go to bed without cleaning, you will be severely lectured by the foreman the next day.

In this environment, Mu Yao, who was still in a long physical state, was so thin that he was not human, and he was in a state of extreme hunger every day, he was so hungry that he panicked, his hands and feet were weak, and he couldn't do heavy work, and he began to get sick because of hunger.

When the foreman saw that the child he bought with money could not work, he was so angry that he whipped Mu Yao with a whip, and then Mu Yao was completely ill and was thrown directly into the sea from the boat by the foreman.

"I drifted in the sea for two days and was rescued. Mu Yao laughed, "The one who saved me...... It's the Demon Venerable day by day. ”

Mu Yao didn't know what kind of mentality he had towards him at that time, maybe it was just a whim. It just so happened that the Demon Venerable flew over the sea area where Mu Yao was thrown into the sea day by day, and when he saw Mu Yao floating on the sea, he scooped him up.

"I was only seven or eight years old at the time, and I stayed with him for a while, and in human terms, it was actually quite a long time, almost three years. Mu Yao seemed to attach great importance to this memory, and He Qianjue noticed that his gaze had become deeper, indicating that he was falling into some "good" memories of the past.

At the moment of Mu Yao's recollection, He Qianjue couldn't help but carefully observe Mu Yao's appearance. Let's be honest...... is indeed a mediocre-looking man, with just the right facial features, not so eye-catching but not ugly, it is a face that I think is okay after looking at it for a long time.

has typical black hair and black eyes of Oriental people, does not have long hair, but relatively neat short broken hair, wearing a black uniform, a few points shorter than He Qianjue, but also quite tall.

Mu Yao said, "When His Highness the Demon Venerable picked me up, he didn't seem to have thought about what to do with me...... You should know His Royal Highness the Demon Venerable's hobbies, he often goes outside to collect some monks he likes to be 'pets', trying his best to make the pets fall into the Demon Path, and then bring them back to the Demon Realm, and then leave them out in the cold after a wanton favor. ”

"But I wasn't a monk at the time, and I didn't have the value of being a pet, and he only fished me back because of his whim. He should have strangled me to death, but he didn't. However, he was not a man who was willing to dutifully act as an 'adoptive father', so he threw me in a private mansion in the human world, and spent some money to hire a few subordinates to take care of me. ”

"I think you can imagine how I felt. Mu Yao said and smiled at He Qianjue, "The terrible and painful coolie life, as well as the terrifying experience of wandering in the sea water thinking that I would die, His Royal Highness the Demon Venerable at that time was tantamount to a god descending to earth in my eyes, and it was God who opened his eyes and rescued me from the fire of the water." ”

"I am full of reverence for him, I am always thinking about repaying him, I tell him that I am willing to be a cow and a horse for him and I am willing to die for him, but ......" Mu Yao smiled even more happily, the kind of deep ridicule of himself, "You know the character of the Demon Venerable, he doesn't take me seriously at all, and he doesn't take my heartfelt gratitude seriously at all, I'm just the result of a few rare kindnesses in his evil life for tens of thousands of years, and I'm not worth mentioning at all." ”

"But in the three years I was thrown into that mansion by him, I was looking forward to his arrival every day, and at that time, Lord Demon Venerable didn't seem to have much to do, he just wandered around every day, and occasionally returned to that mansion, so I had many opportunities to see him. ”

"To repay him, I tried to do what I could for him...... I was too young to know anything, and the maid who took care of me said, "Why don't you make a table of delicious food for the master." Mu Yao said, "Therefore, I asked the chef in the kitchen for instructions on how to cook a lot of dishes, hoping to present to him the food that His Highness the Demon Venerable likes." ”

"Whenever His Highness returns to the mansion, I will send him the fruits of my efforts, although His Highness has never tasted the food I cooked, he is dismissive of mortal food, and he is not very interested in me. At first, he would even lash out at me for breaking into his room, but later, when I came back with pastries and tea, he stopped kicking me out. ”

"I thought I had touched him. The expression on Mu Yao's face was a little stunned. 166 Reading Network