Chapter 105: The heart of the Desolate Demon Realm is scattered
Before entering the demon world, Shaohua had a lot of fantasies, in her fantasy, the demon world may be like the fairy world, pavilions, gold inlaid with jade, maybe like the world, bustling, cultivators, fish calves, or maybe like Yunrong Mountain, lush grass and trees, flowers and birds.
Now seeing the true appearance of the demon world, Shaohua was surprised and sighed a little.
"Is it because of the Lich War?" Shaohua asked, looking at the desert in his eyes.
"Yes. After Jiang Ming finished speaking, he flew up with Shaohua and marched towards the center of the desert.
Shaohua thought that the demon world was like this, but when they passed through the desert and came to a land of quicksand, Shaohua couldn't hide his stunned. Moreover, when they walked through the quicksand and saw a blank void in all directions, Shaohua no longer knew what emotions to use to control his facial expressions.
After seeing Shaohua's shock, Jiang Ming said uneventfully: "When the demon world first opened, it was nothing, and the stronger the demon clan, the more vibrant the demon world would be." ”
"When the Demon Clan's Heavenly Court fell, the Demon Realm turned into a desert, quicksand, and even returned to nothingness at an extremely fast speed. It's just that at that time......" he looked at Shaohua, "we were all in the Eye of the Demon Spring at that time. The Eye of the Demon Spring is the birthplace of the Demon Clan, maintaining the source of the Demon Power of the Demon Realm, so I didn't see the changes in the Demon Realm in time, if it weren't for the ......" A look of pain flashed in his eyes, Shaohua knew that he remembered the past again, but she didn't know that Jiang Ming remembered Fei Ning's death.
Jiang Ming didn't say "if not", he wasn't sure what Shaohua's reaction would be when he found out, and anyone who got the cause of his death from others wouldn't feel good. What's more, if it is stated at this time, it will leak the brother-sister relationship between Fei Ning and Yunxiang, and this matter is better for Yunxiang to admit by himself.
Jiang Ming said: "When I entered the demon realm again, there was only one demon spring eye left in the demon realm, and now this scene is the result of thousands of years of recuperation and the increase in the qi of the demon clan. ”
Shaohua looked around and thought: It has only been a thousand years since it has been restored to this level, and the revival of the demon clan is a heavy and distant task.
Jiang Ming flew to the center of the void with Shaohua, and saw a black spot gradually getting bigger, and when he arrived in front of him, he saw clearly that it was a basin-sized whirlpool that was spinning extremely quickly in the void.
As soon as Shaohua approached, he felt the demonic energy in his body riot, surging and boiling in his blood.
Shaohua just wanted to suppress it, but she felt comfortable all over her body, and it became more and more comfortable, she let out a long sigh of comfort, this breath floated to her eyes, Shaohua was shocked to find that she actually spit out a breath of black gas, and was so frightened that she hurriedly turned her head and asked Jiang Ming with her eyes.
Jiang Ming comforted her and said, "It's okay, it's the eye of the demon spring that is cleansing your demonic qi and expelling the miscellaneous qi in your body." ”
"The Eye of the Demon Spring?" Shaohua pointed to the whirlpool and asked, "Is this it?"
Jiang Ming nodded.
Shaohua wanted to ask Jiang Ming if he felt the same way as her, but suddenly thought that Jiang Ming was now a demon, and she secretly observed that Jiang Ming had indeed not changed, so she affirmed the idea in her heart.
She thought: "In the past, the demon world that dominated the Six Realms has become this desolate, and even a half-demon can't live, and she has to use the power of the demon clan to protect the enchantment, only one ten-thousandth of the previous one, she suddenly realized that for so many years, Jiang Ming must have lived a very tired and difficult life. ”
Jiang Ming picked up a ball of demonic qi from the eye of the demon spring, and let the demonic qi flow away from his fingers like flowing water. Shaohua was curious to hold it, she put her hand in, and felt that the spring was cold and slippery, obviously qi, but it seemed to be really tangible and physical.
"The Demon Emperor clan worships the eye of the demon spring as a holy place, and all disciples in the clan must drink this spring water when they are born, adult, and married. Jiang Ming held a demon spring and handed it to Shaohua's eyes.
"A thousand years ago, you and I came to the eye of this demon spring to get married, but the witch clan attacked, and I promised you to get married after returning victorious. Jiang Ming grabbed Shaohua's hand and asked with great sincerity:
"But the Lich Clan was defeated, and I didn't go to war, you ...... Are you still willing to marry me, even if it has been a thousand years, even if I am no longer the prince of the demon clan back then. ”
Shaohua seemed to be bewitched, just listening to Jiang Ming's words, as if he had experienced the pain of parting and lovesickness with him, tears rolled out of his eyes.
But she still had concerns, she said: "You are no longer the prince of the demon clan back then, and I am not the concubine Ning in your mouth, I, the little green vine demon, I don't know if I can replace the concubine Ning back then, so that your heart, eyes, and mouth only identify as today's Shaohua?"
Jiang Ming seemed to be shocked, and even let go of the hand holding Shaohua. Shaohua was also frightened by herself, she looked at the hands of the two of them, and blamed herself in a panic: Why did I say it? What if Jiang Ming alienated me because of this?
Shaohua looked at Jiang Ming's eyes at a loss, afraid to see disgust and estrangement in that pair of black-red abysses.
Only now did she know how afraid she was of leaving Jiangming and how much she cared about her impression in Jiangming's heart.
She thought: I'm afraid I'm in love with him.
She held the hand that was stunned there and stammered, "I...... What I just said...... What to say...... You don't have to take it seriously, I'm ...... anyway It is...... Alas, I am Fei Ning, Fei Ning is me, all the same. ”
I used to care most about the difference between Shaohua and Fei Ning, but now I even said this kind of thing, I just hope that Jiang Ming can treat her as before.
However, Jiang Ming said: "No, you are right, you are indeed not Concubine Ning. He pressed Shaohua's lips to defend himself, and continued:
"Thousands of years of change, vicissitudes of life, let alone us. You've changed, I've changed," he sighed, "Yunxiang has changed, Rongye has changed, we've all changed." ”
He hugged Shaohua into his arms, "I'm sorry, I'm too attached to the past." ”
Only then did he know that Shaohua actually minded that he had been treating her as a concubine.
He really always regarded Shaohua as a concubine, and often ignored the difference between them, if it weren't for what Shaohua said just now, he didn't know when he would wake up.
Jiang Ming knew in his heart that he only loved Fei Ning, and for Shaohua, ask yourself, he is a little repulsed, otherwise, he would not have bothered to help her retrieve Fei Ning's memory.
But although Shaohua recovered some memories, he always forgot them quickly after the memory was restored, and Jiang Ming guessed that in the end, Shaohua was afraid that he couldn't remember anything, so it seemed that Fei Ning would not be able to come back.
Conjecture is conjecture after all, and Jiang Ming has always had hope, even ignoring this conjecture.
Now that he has woken up, at first he was obsessed, and even wanted to take Shaohua to Maofeng Pond again, but when Shaohua held his hand, he saw Shaohua's self-blame and scared eyes, his heart seemed to be picked up by someone and put down fiercely, and suddenly he thought of what if Fei Ning really couldn't come back?
Give up Shaohua and still go back to the cold demon palace to be his demon lord?
Jiang Ming understood that he was reluctant to Shaohua.
Maybe it's not that he is reluctant to Shaohua, he is just reluctant to give this warmth that has been lonely for thousands of years, whether she is Fei Ning or Shaohua, in short, only she can give him warmth.
Shaohua felt Jiang Ming's strong arms, listened to his heart pounding, and couldn't help but open his arms and hug Jiang Ming.
"As long as he doesn't mind, even if he treats me well because of Fei Ning, it doesn't matter, anyway, only I can have the memory of Fei Ning in this world, and Jiang Ming will not leave me.
Is it Fei Ning or Shaohua, what are you doing with this? It's not all me. ”
Shaohua is very unprincipled in self-suggestion.
Jiang Ming and Shaohua went out of the demon world, it was just noon, because the summer heat had not disappeared, mortals were afraid of heat, most of them were in the house to cool off, at this time the street was very quiet, the two of them casually found a restaurant, pretending to order a pot of tea.
This town is not big, usually there are few customers in the store, at this time, in addition to them, there is only one table of guests eating and drinking, there are three guests at that table, two of them are wearing peasant shirts, dark skin, and they are peasant men at a glance. The other was wearing a nondescript robe, with oily hair, and a gourd with a missing mouth next to his hand, I don't know what it was pretending to be.
Jiang Ming said softly: "If the gourd is not broken, it is a treasure." ”
Shaohua took a closer look at the gourd, and sure enough, he saw that it exuded a fairy aura, although it was dirty by this sloppy Taoist priest, it couldn't hide its original aura.
Shaohua looked at the Taoist priest again, he was rude in appearance, greedy in his eyes, and he knew at a glance that he was not a good person, and he did not have a trace of spiritual power on his body, Xu was a fake Taoist priest who was swindling and deceiving.
One of the peasant men was full, wiped his mouth and said to the Taoist priest, "Daoist, I am beating a drum in my heart, for fear that someone in the village will be bitten by that evil corpse." We have been on the road for the past few days, I don't know what the situation is in the village, the Taoist chief is eating, let's try to get to the village before dark. ”
The Taoist priest plucked a vegetable leaf from his beard and threw it into his mouth, muttering, "Your village is forty or fifty miles away from here, and it is almost time now, how can you arrive before dark?" Don't worry, there is a poor road, as long as the evil corpse appears, it will be wiped out, and there will not be even a scumbag left. ”
The two peasant men looked at each other, both worried and helpless, and their eyes changed when they looked at the Taoist priest, obviously suspicious of him.
Jiang Ming said to Shaohua: "Why don't we follow them and see how this Taoist master can get rid of that evil corpse." ”
Shaohua had already had this intention, and at this time, Jiang Ming proposed it, and felt that the two of them had a good heart, and happily bent their eyebrows and eyes, and nodded busily, just remembering that the Taoist priest deliberately delayed time, fearing that the villagers would be attacked by evil corpses again, so he told Jiang Ming his worries.
"This is easy to do," Jiang Ming said, "When they are on their way, I will use the technique of shrinking the ground for a thousand miles, and promise to let them arrive before dark." ”
Although there is Jiang Ming's technique of shrinking the ground to accelerate, but he can't stand the Taoist priest's grinding, he didn't take a few steps and shouted tired, sat down on the side of the road, no one persuaded him to go, and the two peasant men were so anxious that they sweated, but he turned a blind eye, and when he passed through a wild plum forest, he also went to pick a pocket, and ate all the way.
The two peasant men muttered in their hearts, they were entrusted by the villagers to find a master who subdued demons and eliminated demons, and it took several days to find one, but looking like this, it doesn't look like a master, I'm afraid that he is a liar, and it's not a matter of cheating to eat and drink, how can I explain to the village elders if this is the case?
In this way, I did not enter the village until it was just dark.
Before entering the village, Shaohua and the others felt a gust of yin wind, but when they entered the village, there was no evil air, but the yin wind blew in the east and west, blowing the late summer night hot and cold. Looking overhead, although the moonlight was bright, the starlight was dim, and it was still flashing, as if it was covered by clouds.
The two peasant men were mortal in the flesh, and when the wind blew, they felt that their bones were cold, and their walking speed couldn't help but increase, and they said to the Taoist priest:
"Dao Chief, let's go quickly, that evil corpse will come out at night and bite people when they see them. Let's go to the village chief's house quickly, and the Taoist chief should rest early. After a while, the evil corpse will come out, but it will be all the chief of the road. ”