The night was deep and dewy, the cool breeze was blowing, and a plain man dressed in red stood under the dark moon with his head lowered.

Xiuxiu pouted her ass and struggled to dig the ground at her feet for a long time, but she couldn't dig the plain beauty lamp out of the ground.

The inn sank so fast that she couldn't grab anything but the box in her arms.

She looked up at Su Xi with a worried face: "Sister? ”

Su Xi opened her eyes and shook her head gently at Xiuxiu.

Her long inky hair, her blood-red clothes, were fading at a rate visible to the naked eye. At the same time, her slender figure was thinning and narrowing.

It's just half an hour of effort, and the beauty of the past is no longer there, and what is left is just a ghost shaped like human skin.

The guys who had been at the inn for only a few months were huddled together in horror, they had never seen the prototype of Su Xi, and now they were a little chilled when they saw a beautiful woman in the city slowly turning into a pale human skin.

They held Dongqiao and didn't let go, and said again and again: "Now that the inn is gone, even the people who took us have lost their shelter." Hao Dongqiao, although you are mortal, you are still stronger than us little monsters who have not much cultivation. Please protect us tonight, and we will repay him with a spring! ”

Dongqiao stood there as if he had never heard of it, only looking into the distance.

The guys whispered to each other for a while, and when they asked for help from Higashihashi, they found that Higashihashi was gone.

"East Bridge?" The men called out in panic, and their voices scattered in the night wind, with a faint echo.

The night was silent, and no one answered.

Xiuxiu, who was tired of digging the ground, pursed her lips and sat down silently where Su Xi had been standing.

She had to wait for Tsing Yi and Hei Saburo to come back to her and Su Xi.

They will definitely be back.

***

Listening to the man's words, Jiao Niang was suddenly silent.

Tsing Yi raised her chin slightly, and crossed Jiao Niang, her scrutinizing gaze went straight to the sedan chair.

Jiao Niang's heart was aggrieved, she felt that there was nothing wrong with what she said, but she didn't dare to disobey the owner of Fang Cai's voice.

She wrung the handkerchief in her hand, and only then did she compromise like a mosquito in a half-loud voice: "Fang Cai...... It's all slaves, and the little lady in Tsing Yi has a lot of them, and it's a ...... to forgive."

Tsing Yi nodded expressionlessly, and his eyes were still staring at the low-hanging sedan curtain, as if he was seeing the other party's face through the brocade cloth.

"Little lady in Tsing Yi." Jiao Niang saw Tsing Yi staring intently at the sedan chair behind her, and after thinking about it, she took words to divert Tsing Yi's attention, "I don't know if Xiuxiu is okay at the inn?" ”

"You're not here to pick up your daughter, are you?" Tsing Yi is a mortal with the naked eye, and in the end it is not as good as her brother's ability, so she really can't see the mystery in the sedan chair, so she closed her eyes again, and said to Jiao Niang in a cold voice, "Your pair of beautiful girls, the elder died a year ago, and the young one is still healthy." I know that you don't really want to ask her about her current situation, but you are afraid that I will find out who the people in this sedan chair are. In my opinion, Xiuxiu is better than staying with the monster than following you like this. ”

Jiao Niang was so stabbed by Tsing Yi that she was speechless, and she felt more and more that Tsing Yi had changed a lot for a while. Now look at her eyes, temperament, and style, it is not like the cold on the outside and hot on the inside, but like a cold heart......

Thinking of this, she didn't dare to confront Tsing Yi anymore, but turned around and opened the sedan curtain and got back in.

"Get up!"

The strong man who was in charge of carrying the sedan chair heard the sound and lifted the sedan chair steadily.

Jiao Niang waited in the sedan chair for a while, but she didn't feel the sedan chair advancing, so she opened the curtain again and scolded coquettishly: "Why don't you leave?" ”

The strong men looked ahead with a look of embarrassment.

Jiao Niang took the opportunity to look up and saw Hei Saburo with a calm face blocking in front of them.

Jiao Niang glanced at Hei Saburo with a complicated expression, and when she was about to speak, she changed her expression in vain.

Tsing Yi and the others didn't know why Jiao Niang changed color, but Hei Saburo's ears were tip, but he heard the man in the sedan chair who had stopped Jiao Niang whispering how to deal with Jiao Niang.

Unfortunately, he didn't say that he wanted to fight against Hei Saburo, but chose to retreat first.

The tide of people and horses retreated in a neat and orderly manner under the leadership of the sedan chair.

But Hei Saburo's expression did not relax, on the contrary, the demonic aura surrounding him became more and more cold.

Tsing Yi, who was downwind, involuntarily took two steps back.

Her blood was boiling, and an unbearable thirst and hunger were like a burning fire, burning her internal organs into a ball.

She couldn't help but lean over and hug herself, and the strange voice she had heard before began to echo in her head.

"Tsing Yi, come to me." Hei Saburo looked around, and stretched out his hand to Tsing Yi behind him, "They want to retreat as advance, but they are afraid that they will raid us in a while." ”

Tsing Yi stayed motionless and did not listen to Hei Saburo's words.

Hei Saburo looked back at her in confusion, and when he saw a few substantial chains lingering around Tsing Yi, he realized what had happened.

"Tsing Yi ......," he whispered in a low voice, "Don't move...... I'm here ......."

As he spoke, he carefully raised his foot and took a step towards Tsing Yi.

The chain, which had been stationary, seemed to fly out in all directions as if it had sensed. With the crisp sound of the chain sliding, Tsing Yi's slightly curved back trembled slightly. Then under Kurosaburo's nervous gaze, she slowly raised her head and looked at him deeply with a pair of reddened eyes.

The look was familiar to him. In the demon world, hungry monsters and beasts look at their prey with such eyes.

After just one glance, Tsing Yi spun around and leaped, just like a reborn beast, flying into the depths of the mountains and forests with an extraordinary agility.

The rustle of the trees swaying mingled with the sound of chains clashing outside her, but faded away.

"Qing-" The left Hei Saburo looked at the direction where Tsing Yi left in despair, and was a little at a loss for a while.

An army of snake puppets lurks less than three feet away, and the half-beast youkai have prepared the tunnels. The disgusting stench emitted by the charms and spells in the arms of the Daoists could be smelled clearly even if they were three miles away.

He also heard the whispers of the prince and Ren Keqing, the cries of Jiao Niang and Wang Decai, and the fluttering of the wings of the flying insects carried by the eagle dog team.

But he couldn't hear where Tsing Yi was going.

"My lord—" a woman's voice suddenly appeared beside him, "please don't worry, as I said before, the little lady in Tsing Yi will be fine." Now let's focus on the big picture. ”

Kurosaburo clenched his fists and lowered his eyes, as if he was patient.

"My lord—" The woman's voice continued, which could only be heard but could not be seen, "Wen Yu of Ji Li Kingdom is already on her way here. No one else knows about this but me. ”

"He came just in time." Hei Saburo opened his eyes suddenly, and a few dark gold edges flashed quickly in the pupils that were originally as black as black jade, just as cold as his tone, "Tsing Yi will be so abnormal, it must be a good thing he has done!" ”

"My lord—" said the woman's voice, which was gradually indistinct, "the people who came are not good, and in addition to these people in this place, there are also a few people who have already traveled to the source of the spiritual veins-my lords--they have come to my lair-"

At this point, the woman's voice that appeared out of thin air suddenly screamed, and then there was a dead silence.

Hei Saburo closed his eyes heavily, and the demonic aura on his body was raging at first, but then calmed down again.

He breathed a deep sigh of relief, and when he opened his eyes again, his expression and gaze became deep and restrained.

He tilted his head towards the snake puppet hidden in the darkness with a smile on his face, and said in a cold voice: "Come on, let me have a feast after a long absence!" ”

***

After Tsing Yi flew over half of the mountain, he finally fell from mid-air with all his strength.

The new leaves and soft branches seemed to have turned into sharp blades at this time, cutting blood marks on Tsing Yi's cheeks and arms.

She fell heavily on the grass, and the pain inside and outside her body was as hot as if she had been burned.

The slightly sweet blood qi spread, attracting several youkai.

Tsing Yi barely supported his upper body, trembling like a little bird that had just broken its wings, looking so delicate and pitiful.

The monsters who followed the blood did not dare to rush forward, and squatted nearby. Only one cultivated his divine sense, and the hare couldn't resist the temptation of instinct, so he jumped to Tsing Yi's side with such a big thorn.

Tsing Yi was indifferent at first, and when the hare squirmed with a three-petal mouth, tentatively approaching the bloody wound on the back of her hand, she suddenly pinched it with her backhand, and actually grabbed the rabbit's ear and sent it directly to her mouth.

She instinctively bit the hare's neck, but soon she restrained herself from letting go of her teeth.

The hare shivered in terror and let out a high-pitched cry.

She raised her head and looked the hare in her hand up and down with a cold look, and finally she let go of her hand in the hare's almost desperate gaze.

The hare that escaped the catastrophe jumped away in a panic, but the remaining monsters still stood by the side and waited for the opportunity to move.

Tsing Yi didn't pay attention to the monsters who were about to move, she leaned over and lay on her lap, and closed her eyes quietly.

She's waiting.

I don't know how long she waited, but when the sound of the small footsteps of the coming person came from afar, she slowly opened her eyes.

A dark corner of the robe appeared in her field of vision, and she looked up at the person who came, and saw Dongqiao bending down and holding a round-bellied white porcelain vase in front of her.

There was a sweet smell of wine coming from the white jade bottle that had been uncorked, and as soon as Tsing Yi smelled it, he immediately recognized that it was the jade ice roast that he had been drinking for the past month.

She glanced at Dongqiao fixedly, then took the bottle of wine with Dongqiao's respectful appearance with low eyebrows, pursed her lips and drank it little by little.

As soon as the jade ice roast brewed from the flesh and blood of the monster entered the stomach, the burning pain was extinguished as if it had met the rain.

She finished drinking the jade ice burn but didn't return the white jade bottle to Dongqiao, just spinning back and forth with her fingertips.

Dongqiao didn't feel uncomfortable when he saw Tsing Yi like this, he still bent slightly and spread his hands towards Tsing Yi, as if waiting for Tsing Yi to have enough of playing before throwing the white jade bottle back into his hand.

Tsing Yi played with the bottle while saying in a cold tone: "Where is Brother?" ”

"The villain doesn't know." Dongqiao bowed his head respectfully and replied, "Ah Lang only sent an order, but he never explained his whereabouts. Before I came with the snow demon, Ah Lang was still in Luoyang. Where has he gone now, but the villain does not know. ”

Tsing Yi's fingers playing with the white jade bottle stiffened at first, but then returned to normal.

She was silent for a moment, and then continued ruthlessly: "My body, just like my brother, is half Ji Li and half mortal. Ji Li people and mortals, one heavy killing and good blood sacrifice, one heavy moral joy and happiness, one demon food, and the other demon food, although there are similarities, but more are incompatible, and the two are rarely balanced. In the past, I quit eating demon blood, and I forgot the past, and it took me several years to live as a mortal. Now that the demon eater is back again, the bloodline of the demon eater who has been silent in his body for a long time actually has a tendency to riot. Now I still have some sense, but I'm afraid that it will get worse and worse, so that I can't end it. I need Brother's help, no matter what method you use, send a message to Brother Quickly and ask him to come over immediately! ”

"Yes." Dongqiao responded loudly.

Tsing Yi exhaled softly, then touched the corner of his slightly twitched forehead and whispered, "Take me back to the inn." I need a good rest. ”

"The inn hasn't come back yet." Higashibashi thought for a moment and said, "Presumably, the youkai who will drag the inn into the ground is at the behest of Lord Kurosaburo, and now without the order of the adult, he will not return the inn." ”

"The prince of the mortal world has brought a group of youkai and mortal eagle dogs." Tsing Yi said thoughtfully, "I'm afraid he's going to be out of the way right now......"

Seeing Tsing Yi's expression warmed up, Dongqiao said sullenly: "Why don't you give an order, little lady?" Thou hast been married to thy lord for a long time, and thou shalt be one and the same heart, and what thou hast said is what he means. ”

Tsing Yi was speechless for a while, and finally spoke: "Grasshopper and Dapeng, how can they be one and the same?" ”

Dongqiao's expression was shocked, and he knew that he had said the wrong thing, so he hurriedly bowed his head and pleaded guiltily: "It's the villain who is abrupt, and please don't take the villain's words to heart." ”

"It doesn't matter." Tsing Yi got up expressionlessly and said, "I'm just like a morning pearl and a sunset flower, just borrow a moment of brilliance, and I will be forever beautiful." Mortals have a short life, and the people of Ji Li are not too reckless, even if they borrow the elixir, it will only last for one or two hundred years, compared with the big monsters who regard a hundred years as a moment, it is really too short. I just hope that he doesn't love me to the bone now, and that he won't be in pain in the future. ”

"Little lady......" Dongqiao raised his head when he heard this, and he rarely showed a sad look.

"Don't mind." Tsing Yi said indifferently and coldly, "San Lang and I don't mind, so why should others mind." Now let's go back! ”

As she spoke, she raised her feet and prepared to go back to the inn.

However, she had only taken a step before she nearly fell. Gain had just fallen to the ground, and although he didn't hurt his muscles and bones, he still had some mobility problems.

Dongqiao, who was standing next to her, hurriedly raised his hand to support her, but he didn't think that Tsing Yi raised his hand and refused his service.

"It doesn't matter." She straightened her back and said as she continued walking, "I'm fine." ”

Dongqiao lowered his head, he looked at the white jade bottle that was randomly thrown on the ground by Tsing Yi, and then leaned over and carefully picked it up.

Xiuxiu, who was half-asleep and half-awake, jumped up suddenly as soon as she heard the familiar footsteps, she ran with a shout, and finally threw herself into Tsing Yi's arms.

Tsing Yi patted Xiuxiu's head lightly, and after a moment of deliberation, he softened his tone and said softly: "It's really good-"

"Hmm...... Xiuxiu is very well-behaved! Xiuxiu was keenly aware of the subtle difference in Tsing Yi's tone, she blinked her eyes and reached out to touch Tsing Yi's face, and at the same time asked worriedly, "Sister Tsing Yi, has there been a bad monster bullying you?" Does it hurt? A lot of blood......"

"......" Tsing Yi lowered his head and smiled soothingly, and then said slowly, "It hurts." ”

Xiuxiu almost cried when she heard this, she tried to tiptoe, and puffed out her cheeks and blew Tsing Yi's face: "Xiuxiu gives you Huhu, Huhu won't hurt so much." When Xiuxiu cut her fingers in the past, this is how Niangniang gave Xiuxiu Huhu! ”

Tsing Yi leaned down in cooperation, and something seemed to be beating slightly in his cold heart.

Xiuxiu exhaled for a long time, and saw that Tsing Yi just closed his eyes and didn't have any expression, so he asked uneasily, "Does it still hurt?" Or is Xiuxiu not good? ”

"No, no, no......" Tsing Yi sighed and whispered, "You're fine, you're all fine, it's just me-"

As she spoke, she sighed and straightened her back, only touching Xiuxiu's hair with her hand to soothe her uneasiness.

Xiuxiu is a clever child and knows what Tsing Yi means, so she tries her best to put on a happy look and says to Tsing Yi: "Sister Tsing Yi, are you hungry?" Xiuxiu also has food from that dry guest! Let's eat it together! ”

As she spoke, she took out the wooden box she was carrying and showed it to Tsing Yi.

As soon as Tsing Yi saw the box, his face changed: "Throw it away!" Santuchuan Inn

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