Many years ago, Xiao Xiao told me how the three golden scales on my chest were hard-won and rare. More than 3,000 years ago, when I was born, my soul was too weak and my breath was unstable, and I couldn't survive in the human body, so my father used the demon forbidden art without authorization after I was full moon, and took my soul out of my original body and fostered it in the body of a carp spirit. Since then, three thousand years have passed, and I have almost forgotten that I am not a carp.

These three golden scales embody more than 3,000 years of cultivation on my body, before, because I wanted to hide the breath of the demon race, I had asked Botai to pull out a piece for me, and now, because I want to save the purple lotus, I am thinking about whether I want to pull it out myself.

I finally waited until the evening, and finally waited until it was dark, I thought that it was so late, and on this Lingyun Mountain, there should be no more people who were idle and had nothing to do to come to this Qingluan Hall to play, so they lit the lights in the house, and squatted down and hid in the corner of the wall to prepare to pull out the fish scales by themselves.

I've never seen anyone pluck the scales on their body, so I don't know how to pull them out for a while, through a few layers of palms, I reached out and stroked the scales on my chest that were only two left, I comforted myself, anyway, there are two more pieces, pull one for Zilian to heal the wounds is also good, the last one, I will keep it, I will never give it to others in the future, even if it is him, I will not give it.

As the night grew darker and I heard only the sound of insects, I slowly relaxed my nervousness, and untied the clothes in front of me with my hands, and untied the cloth strap that had been tightly bound to my chest. Under the faint candle flame, the two fish scales in front of the chest were not blocked for a while, and suddenly emitted a dazzling golden light, I raised my hand to block the light of my eyes in time, and secretly rejoiced in my heart, fortunately, the window has been covered by my clothes, otherwise, a golden light emanated from this Qingluan Hall in the middle of the night, and I don't know how many disciples will be attracted to watch.

I raised the dagger in my hand and slowly approached my chest, and when I felt a biting chill on the skin on my chest, my hand couldn't help but pause. It is undeniable that I am actually very scared in my heart, afraid of pain, and afraid that the fish scales I cut off my body will not help Zilian's injuries at all, if I really don't, then my sin is in vain.

However, even if I suffered it in vain, in order to save him, I am willing to go out like this once.

I relented, raised the dagger in my hand again, and approached my chest, this time, I didn't dodge, and when the cold, piercing blade touched the skin in front of my chest again, I held back and didn't withdraw my hand. Slowly poked the tip of the knife under the scales, and before I started to cut, there was a faint spasm of pain in the flesh of the skin, I bit my lip and tried my best to hold back, and did not pull the knife out from under the scales, but squatted on the ground, trying to make my breathing smoother, cheering myself up in my heart, telling myself over and over again, you can do it, you can. After resting for a while, when the fear in my heart dissipated a little, I held the handle of the knife in my hand tightly, and slowly broke the handle upward, and the blade in the gap under the scales began to slowly tilt up a little, so that there was a burst of pain tearing flesh and blood on the scales, so painful, I gasped, trying to calm myself down, not to let myself scream in this silent night.

A thick smell of blood slowly spread in the air, and a burst of dampness slowly flowed from my chest, I thought, the junction of fish scales and flesh should have been opened by me with a dagger, just reached out to touch it, to see how much I had torn off, suddenly there was a faint sound of footsteps outside the door.

When a candle flame shone into the room, my heart rose to my throat and almost burst out. I quickly wiped the blood stains from the dagger in my hand, threw it into the dark corner, and then pulled the placket of my shirt that was already wide open, but the force was not right, and I used too much force for a while, and pulled the scales that were still half not torn off the flesh, and I gasped again.

"Who?"

Inside the empty room, where there was no sound, Landor's voice suddenly sounded.

"Senior Sister Duo'er, it's me, Xiaoyu."

I clenched my teeth and pursed my lips for a long time before I could spit out these words.

"Senior Brother Xiaoyu?"

She exclaimed in surprise, and that scared me too. The sound of footsteps came, she seemed to be walking this way, I really don't understand, in the middle of the night, she didn't stay in the house to rest, what would happen if she came to my Qingluan Palace? It's easy to understand when you run to the Qingluan Palace, but you just ran to Zilian's room, this is ......

"Senior sister, it's so late, what are you doing here?"

I nervously asked her, and at the same time nervously looked down at my clothes, hoping that there would be no blood droplets on them, so that she could see something wrong.

She slowly approached and said in a distressed voice, "When I was cleaning here during the day, the earring pendant accidentally fell here, I want to come and look for it to see if I can find it." As she spoke, she approached, and at last she stopped three paces away from me.

"What about you, Senior Brother Xiaoyu, it's so late, don't you have a good rest in your room, what are you doing hiding in the house of the head of the family?" A hint of confusion appeared on her face with a faint smile, and she asked me.

"No, nothing was done."

I nervously replied to her, worried that she would get too close, worried that I would show some horse's feet in front of her, and moved my body as far as possible into the corner of the wall, as far away as possible from the lantern fire that was about to shine in front of my chest, and said to her: "When I rushed back from the Meng Shao Mansion with Master, I was attacked by monsters on the way, and Master was seriously injured because he saved me, and he is still unconscious, and I stayed here just to take care of him." ”

"Uncle Master is injured?"

She exclaimed, her voice sharp and piercing, as if she was even more shocked and surprised than the third uncle when he heard the news. I nodded to her slowly, but I didn't expect her to walk towards me in the next moment, grabbed my wrist tightly, and said anxiously: "Such a big thing happened, why didn't you tell us earlier, what are you doing hiding in the corner alone, what is the head of the family, where is he now?" ”

I replied, "He, he's still unconscious, lying on the couch." ”

"Haven't woken up yet?" She glanced behind the screen, then turned back to me and said, "Since I haven't woken up, then I won't bother!" Senior Brother Xiaoyu, you can take good care of the head of the family here, and I will come here tomorrow morning to look for my earring pendant. ”

"Uh-huh, that's good."

Seeing that she was leaving, I nodded happily.

With that, she turned around and prepared to walk out, just as I was rejoicing in my luck, she suddenly walked back and began to walk this way, in the dark room, a small and broken footsteps approached, I clutched my bleeding chest with one hand, and moved my body back with the strength of the other hand, trying to move to a place that was not so easy for her to see.