Chapter 16: The Demon Alchemist
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Outside the crowded city of Kyoto, there were fights in an ordinary wood, and a little boy in ragged clothes ran desperately out of the woods. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Boom-"
After a loud bang, the little boy stopped and looked back at the woods where the sound of fighting was heard, "Daddy! He cried out as a cold voice came from the sky, "You're going to be reunited with your dad soon!" ”
When the little boy heard this voice, he looked frightened, and immediately turned his head and ran out of the woods, however, when he ran to the exit of the woods, he found that he couldn't get out, "Enchantment?!" He looked in amazement at the path of people outside the woods, and immediately came to a conclusion in his mind.
"Why don't you run away?" A cold voice appeared behind the little boy, and his voice was full of hatred.
"Help! Help me! The boy kept flapping the barrier and yelling at the people outside the woods, but no one could hear his cries for help.
"Little guy, don't struggle, people outside can't see or hear you, I advise you to be obedient and arrested! I want to be reunited with your father! Ha ha! The cold voice burst out laughing uncontrollably.
When the little boy heard him say this, he, who had been constantly slapping the enchantment, suddenly stopped, and his eyes were filled with endless anger and hatred in addition to despair.
"Got it? Finally ready to give up? Seeing the little boy standing there in a daze, without making any more sound, the cold voice was a little surprised.
"You killed your father, I fought with you!" As he spoke, the boy turned and glared angrily, staring directly at the middle-aged man in a gray-white robe in front of him, who at first glance looked somewhat similar to the outfit of an onmyoji, but without a hat on his head, a long sword pinned to his waist, and a compass-like thing in his hand, with wisps of miasma lingering on it.
"I'm going to kill you!" The little boy shouted and rushed towards the man, only to see the middle-aged man sneer, and easily dodged the little boy's attack with a dodge.
"Master......" A young man's voice suddenly appeared not far away, the little boy followed the voice, and a young man dressed like a man appeared in front of him, unlike the man, his eyes were full of pity when he looked at the little boy.
"You came just in time, this little guy will be handed over to you, just let the teacher see how you have learned!" The man glanced at the young man coldly and said with an expressionless face.
"But......" the boy glanced at the little boy in ragged clothes and scars, and then continued, "but he is still a child, or let him go, we haven't ...... his father anyway."
"You want to disobey your teacher's orders?" The man's gaze stared straight at the boy.
"Don't dare!" The boy immediately knelt on the ground and replied with a nervous face, and the boy's thin body even trembled a little.
"Then kill him!" The man commanded in an unquestioning tone.
"Yes......" the boy whispered in response, and then stood up and approached the boy step by step.
"You'd better not resist, so at least there won't be pain." The boy said to the boy in a gentle tone, but the boy shouted at him, "I want to avenge my father!" ”
The next moment, the little boy turned into a tanuki and threw himself at the boy with his teeth bared, but before the boy could dodge, he scratched a hole more than an inch long on his face.
"Kill you!" The tanuki, whose eyes had turned red, completely lost his mind and kept attacking the boy, and the boy dodged every time, but he didn't make a move, "Don't resist, it's going to be painful!" He kept trying to persuade the tanuki, but the little guy didn't stop him, just attacked him frantically.
"Taiyi!" The young master's master shouted impatiently, it was clear that he was very dissatisfied with his apprentice's performance.
"Don't resist anymore!" The boy also said to the fried tanuki again with some anxiety, but to no avail, the little one went crazy and kept shouting to kill him.
"Enough!" The man finally couldn't help yelling, and then the long sword on his waist flashed, and one after another sword shadows flew towards the tanuki, and the young man didn't think about it when he saw this, so he took the tanuki in his arms and rolled to the side, dodging the attack of the sword shadow.
The shadow of the sword, like a sharp blade, flew fiercely towards the trunks of the trees after losing its target, and the sound of trees breaking and falling to the ground rang out in the surrounding ears.
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"So, the person in my dream told me not to go to Kyoto, which means, I really don't want to go?" Yan Nai looked at them with a twitching expression.
"Master, there!" While everyone was silent, the Great Tengu pointed to a forest below, where there was an obvious fluctuation of spiritual power, and not only did the Great Tengu notice, but Slippery Scoop and Sake Swallow also appeared, staring at the forest with a slight frown.
"That forest seems to be surrounded by an enchantment, although I don't know what is going on inside, but with such a powerful spiritual power fluctuation, could it be an onmyoji?" Shiro also looked at the woods.
When Yan Nai looked down at the woods, his heart sank, isn't this the forest where Huangfu Mubai was trapped before?!
"It's not an onmyoji, it's a demon refiner." Slippery Scoop's tone still did not fluctuate, but his solemn expression was enough to show his fear of the demon refiner.
"Demon Alchemist? What other professions are there in this world besides Onmyoji?! When Yan Nai heard a strange profession from the mouth of the slippery scoop, he looked at the forest with great shock in his heart.
"Demon Alchemist? I've heard the master say it! They're amazing, aren't they? At this time, Hongxiu, who had not intervened, seemed to come to his senses as soon as he heard the demon refiner, poked his head out of the ox cart, and looked at the woods below with a new expression.
"For youkai, it's a nightmarish existence." White face looked at the woods shrouded by the enchantment expressionlessly.
"Why don't we go down and have a look!" Hongxiu's face was full of excitement, and it was clear that she was interested in the demon refiner.
"When I get to Kyoto, I can see the same, and now I can go down and join in the fun." Jiulan Xun glared at Hongxiu, the demon refiner was a familiar existence to him, so he naturally had no interest in watching the excitement.
"No, Kaoru, just go down and take a look, just a look!" Hongxiu was unrelentingly coquettish, which made Bai and Yan Nai unconsciously excited.
"You're going to go yourself." After Jiulan Xun finished speaking, she jumped onto Xiaobai's body, and sat down with her back to Hongxiu.
"Kaoru, you!" Hongxiu was so angry that she couldn't speak, and as soon as she turned her head, she sat in the ox cart and didn't say anything more.
"Here we are." It didn't take long for Kagura to point to the Kyoto Castle Gate not far away, and Xiaobai gradually lowered his height, and finally landed in a pavilion a mile outside Kyoto Castle.