40. Chapter 40

"Don't look for me anymore lately." Xiao Zibai said to Tang Lin.

Tang Lin's lips, which were unconsciously curled just now, suddenly flattened, and he was about to withdraw his spiritual sense without thinking, but Xiao Zibai's divine thoughts rushed from behind, and while pestering him, he said, "As soon as you look for me, I can't help but want to respond to you, but I know that once I respond to you, it is impossible for me to have the heart to continue the retreat...... You know, my master told me to retreat until I came out! ”

His divine thoughts carefully circled around Tang Lin's past spiritual sense, Tang Lin paused and asked him, "...... You haven't married yet? ”

"Nope." The frustration in Xiao Zibai's heart dyed Tang Lin's sea of knowledge into a gray and blue through the contract, he carefully touched Tang Lin, and after feeling Tang Lin's cultivation, his frustration suddenly turned into joy: "You have a marriage!! ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Well. Worried that he might unknowingly hit Xiao Zibai's self-confidence, Tang Lin uncomfortably shrank his divine sense back: "Actually, I have already accumulated enough before entering the secret realm, but I haven't found that threshold for a while." ”

What he meant was actually to say, "I've already been about to form a pill before, unlike when you were just building the foundation of the Triple Heaven, it's normal to form a pill faster than you, so don't be frustrated." ”

A twist in the curve has not yet touched the point of comfort.

Xiao Zibai obviously understood, he gently pasted Tang Lin's with his divine thoughts, and said softly: "I know." ”

Tang Lin didn't know what to say next, so he could only answer in a sullen voice. After being silent for a while, Xiao Zibai reluctantly stretched out his divine thoughts, and nodded on Tang Lin's spiritual sense: "I'm leaving." ”

"Go to retreat." Tang Lin urged him to go, and when Xiao Zibai really turned around one step at a time, he looked at the empty sea of knowledge alone, and felt an indescribable coldness in vain.

He sat on the bamboo couch in a daze for a long time, and finally decided to go out for a walk, and as soon as he stretched out his hand and pushed the door of the room open, Tang Lin saw a streamer flying in the sky. The streamer flew closer and closer, and in a blink of an eye, it flew in front of Tang Lin, and when he looked at it, it was a very familiar horn comb, the comb was covered with some snow-white textures of ice-based spiritual power, and a small burden was tied to it.

Tang Lin was silent for a moment, reached out and took off the small burden, but when he opened it, he saw a red and bright peach blossom, and there were stacks of peach blossom cakes next to it, and a thin piece of paper was pressed under the peach blossoms, and half of the corners were dyed by the oil stains on the peach blossom cakes.

It's not a roast rabbit after all.

Tang Lin laughed softly, he picked up the peach blossom and looked at it, walked out the door and planted the peach blossom in front of the window, stretching out his finger and pointing at its petals. A green light flashed from Tang Lin's fingertips, and the peach blossoms quickly branched out at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in a short time they had grown into a lush tree. Tang Lin raised his head, just as a breeze blew, the peach blossoms full of trees swayed lightly, and the pink petals of the rain fell down, Tang Lin caught a few, went back to the room and turned out a snowflake note, carefully glued the petals one by one on the letterhead, and glued them into the shape of peach blossoms.

I wanted to write something on the paper and hesitated, so I turned to look at the paper that came with the peach blossoms, but saw that it was written "Let's send a spring".

Picking up a piece of peach blossom cake and taking a bite, Tang Lin thought for a moment, and honestly picked up his pen and wrote, "It's winter."

I walked around the room, I didn't know what to give in return for a while, I wanted to send some hawthorn and felt old-fashioned, so I simply went out to find some little demons and asked for a full jar of moonlight to come back. After putting it on the comb, I felt a little thin, so I simply found a storage bag, stuffed some sweet and sour fruits such as bayberry and loquat in it, and picked up a piece of paper and wrote "Gift Jun Qinghui Night", together with the previous one, put it in one place, pressed it under the jar together, and sent it back to Xiao Zibai.

When Xiao Zibai received the reply, it was still daylight, looking at the jar full of white moonlight, he simply entered the stone room of retreat, closed the door of the house and released the rays of moonlight. There was no candle flame in the stone room, and after closing the magic circle of the spotlight, it was dark, and after the clear moonlight was released, it was indeed a clear room.

In this floating glow throughout the room, he finally began his retreat.

Tang Lin waited in the Imperial Beast Sect for three days and nights, and when he saw that there was no more letter, he knew that Xiao Zibai had really closed up this time. With a bit of inexplicable frustration, he decided to find something for himself to do, so that he could divert his attention as much as possible.

If Xiao Zibai went out of the customs when he was doing penance, he was in retreat when he came to look for him, but Xiao Zibai couldn't find anyone to do, so he went back to retreat and practice, and when he came out, Xiao Zibai was in retreat...... Such a retreat, a retreat, and so on, it's fascinating to think about.

He thought about it, and finally remembered the two strange demon pets in the secret realm.

"Their hands ...... There seems to be a Beastmaster Order? Thinking of this, Tang Lin couldn't help but frown slowly. Remembering that the origin of the Beastmaster Order was suspicious, he couldn't sit down anymore, and went directly to find Kong Liu, knocked on the door but unexpectedly found that Kong Liu was not there, and there was only one Xuan Ning in the room.

"Your master, he's gone to plant trees." Xuan Ning noticed the confusion in Tang Lin's eyes, grabbed a handful of melon seeds and gave them to him, and explained to him: "The jade box you brought back at the beginning was full of grass and tree seeds...... Most of the grass and wood clans that are easy to open and intelligent were wiped out during the battle between the two clans, and those contained in the jade box are the last bit of blood, and they are placed in the Biling Cave to cultivate spiritual energy, who knows......"

He sighed, and pinched a melon seed in his hand: "I don't know how the human race got the news." ”

Xuan Ning shook his head and didn't continue to speak, Tang Lin held a handful of melon seeds in his hand, and frowned even tighter: "I always feel that something is wrong here." ”

"It's natural that something is wrong." Xuan Ning knocked a melon seed, and knocked on the table with his knuckles: "What's the use of only realizing that something is wrong now?" The bones of the dead Demon Emperor have all turned to ashes. ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ I met two demon pets in the Biling Cave Heaven, and they had the Beastmaster Order in their hands. Tang Lin said softly, Xuan Ning was stunned for a moment, and asked him: "Can you see clearly what pattern is engraved on the Beast King's order?" ”

Tang Lin thought about it for a while, but still shook his head: "I didn't see it clearly, I only remembered that it was a green light." ”

"Green light?" Xuan Ning stopped grabbing the melon seeds and said in a deep voice, "If it's really green light...... It's probably the beast king order of the wood clan. ”

"It's just that why did the Beastmaster Order of the Wood Clan fall into their hands? The Wood Clan was almost extinct during the war between the two clans, and now there are only a few grass and wood demons still alive, and they have long been out of fashion, and the patriarch of the Wood Clan back then didn't even leave the bones...... "Hearing Xuan Ning say this, Tang Lin felt more and more that there was a problem here.

He suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and remembered the fox, so he asked Xuan Ning: "Can Shi Niang feel the bloodline descendants of the fox clan?" ”

Xuan Ning didn't understand why he suddenly asked this for a while, but he still said "yes" truthfully, followed by a wry smile: "But you also know that the fox clan has made too many demon pets, and I usually don't feel these." ”

I want to know how much it feels. Seeing that there are more descendants in his own family, and as a result, they are all demon pets in the arms of others, Xuan Ning thought that he could always find a few needles in a haystack at the beginning, but ten out of ten were willing to do the love of the human race, and he only stared at a few inches in the backyard of his own "master" all day long......

Thinking of this, Xuan Ning sighed again, thinking that the demon clan probably couldn't flourish anymore, Tang Lin saw that his face was wrong, and interrupted his train of thought: "Those two demon pets in the Biling Cave Heaven who hold the Order of the Beast King, one of them is a fox. ”

"They mentioned the 'master' in their words, and I think that there will not be only one fox under the command of the 'master'. I also asked Shi Niang to help me sense where there are fox demons, and I will search for them one by one to see if there will be any clues. ”

Xuan Ning shook his head when he heard this: "Where can this work." There are too many fox clans, and there are even more monks with fox demon pets, where can you find them when you search one by one? It's worse than looking for a needle in a haystack. ”

Tang Lin was somewhat sure. His innate intimacy with the spiritual power of various attributes far surpassed that of others, and as long as he was willing, the movements and movements within a radius of dozens of miles were all in his chest. Xuan Ning didn't believe it at first, but after Tang Lin closed his eyes and told the story of two rabbit spirits burrowing in the cliff ten miles away, he pointed to a pigeon suspiciously to explore it, and found that Tang Lin could even explain the moss around the cave clearly, so he relieved himself and asked Tang Lin to bring a map to him.

Then Xuan Ning held a brush, dipped it in thick ink, took a deep breath, and danced the brush into an ink wind. Tang Lin was stunned when he saw the ink dots flying around, almost staining the map, but he still asked with a glimmer of hope: "Where is the ink not stained?" ”

Xuan Ning took the pen and shook his fingers at him: "Where the ink is stained, all." ”

Tang Lin: ......

Sure enough, it's a needle in a haystack!

Holding the map and going out in a daze, he didn't take a few steps but a little bee flew over and told Tang Lin that Huang Leshan was looking for him. Tang Lin's spiritual sense swept and found that the floating shuttle parked in the square was gone, and immediately guessed that it was Huang Leshan who cured Ah Dong, and immediately turned into a big bird and was about to fly there, so he flapped his wings twice and folded back, giving the little bee who was talking a piece of candy.

The little bee happily went back with the candy, but unexpectedly was snatched away by a gluttonous cat demon halfway, so angry that the first thing he did after cultivating the tail needle was to rush to the top of the cat demon's brain and stab it, as a result, the cat demon's head was swollen enough to be the size of a watermelon, and it became a laughing stock in the Royal Beast Sect for a long time.

Tang Lin didn't know anything about this, he flew to Huangle Mountain with the map, and when he came out, he turned into a human form, with the map rolled in his hand, and a thin vine like jasper was wrapped around his forearm.

"I thought you would be a dryad, but it turned out to be a vine?" Tang Lin smiled at Ah Dong, who swung his leaves at him, but he didn't say a wordβ€”not that he didn't want to say it, but he couldn't say it. After gaining the wood spirit heart and reshaping his body, Ah Dong is now no different from an ordinary vine that has just opened his spiritual intelligence, except that his bloodline is higher and his spiritual intelligence is slightly higher.

Knowing that Ah Dong couldn't speak, Tang Lin didn't tease him much, only told him to wrap it carefully, went back and talked to Xuan Ning, and then left the Royal Beast Sect and went down the mountain.

said that he was going to find a fox demon, but in fact, it was serious to take Ah Dong shopping to see the scenery. Tang Lin also knew that the clue could not be found in a moment, so he didn't have much hope, so he just took Ah Dong all the way over, and bought it when he saw something new. Only those delicate pastries and delicate side dishes Ah Dong can't be eaten, and all the five internal organs temple of Tang Lin are sacrificed, and only Ah Dong can taste wine and juice.

On this day, when they arrived at Dehe Cangfu, Ah Dong was hungry for wine, Tang Lin found a tavern on the corner of the street, so he walked in and ordered a pot of wine with a few plates of side dishes, and sat in the corner waiting for the food to be served, but the wine and food had just been delivered, and Tang Lin frowned first.

There was nothing special about the dish, but the flask was pure and transparent, and through the round belly of the bottle, you could clearly see a bright pink peach blossom submerged in the wine and slowly swirling. Tang Lin's toes hidden in his boots slowly curled, he poured out half a bowl of wine, sniffed it lightly, lowered his head and said to Ah Dong in his sleeve, "Demon Qi." ”

Ah Dong listened, stretched out a piece of green leaf and patted his wrist, slowly leaned out of Tang Lin's sleeve, dipped into the clear wine, raised the tip of the vine and nodded at Tang Lin, and shook the green leaf again.

Tang Lin pursed his lips and stretched out his fingers in the wine, dripped a drop on his lips, smacked his lips and sighed to Ah Dong: "...... There is indeed resentment. ”

Something wasn't quite right. Tang Lin quietly swept around, and as expected, he saw that in this restaurant, there was the same transparent wine bottle on every table, but the things soaked in it were slightly different. There are peach blossoms, pear blossoms, apricot blossoms, and camellias, each of which looks very good-lookingβ–‘β–‘ but without exception, all of them have a faint demonic aura and lingering resentment.

Seeing the shopkeeper come out of the kitchen sideways with the dishes, Ah Dong retracted into Tang Lin's sleeves. Tang Lin picked up the chopsticks, took a piece of sugar and dipped in apples and ate it slowly, but the corner of his eyes was behind the little er, and the breeze blew silently from the tavern, but the news brought back made Tang Lin frown even more: From the guests to the shopkeeper in this tavern, all of them are mortals!

Where do demonic powers and resentment come from? Tang Lin couldn't think of such a thing in the original text even if he thought about it, but after thinking about it for a long time, he recalled an important thing.

――The reason why "Ah Xuan" in the original text was identified as the "Demon of World Destruction" so quickly was because Tianyan Sect had made several predictions before, saying that some mortal towns would be destroyed under the ravages of the demon clan. Originally, no one believed them, who didn't know that the demon clan had already become yesterday's yellow flower? As a result, within a few days, those who didn't believe in the prophecy let the news come to them slap their faces: in one day, the mortal towns in the central world were wiped out by the suddenly appearing demon clans!

Tang Lin didn't remember that Hecang Mansion was not in the three prefectures, but Hecang Mansion was fertile and densely populated, and as the name suggests, it was a granary. Although there is no folk proverb in this world that "Kawakura is familiar with the world", it is almost the same. Every year, the grain of Hecang is enough to support most of the needs of the Central Plains, and the fertility of the water and soil in Hecang can be seen from this.

If the incident of "the demon clan destroyed the three mansions in a row" is a conspiracy in itself, it is only natural that Hecang Mansion should be targeted. It's just that Tang Lin didn't expect that he came out to look for the "master" and didn't find it, but he unexpectedly found a big trap.

Taking the land of several mansions as a guide, he did not hesitate to bury countless living beings, but in the end, he just wanted to pour dirty water on him, the "demon of the world", which was too big. What is the importance of the "Demon of Destroying the World" to drive him to a dead end at any cost?

If Tang Lin is not mistaken, it is still hundreds of years before the outbreak of the "Demon of Destroying the World" at this time, if this series of events is a conspiracy controlled by man, how deep should the ambush of the black hand behind it be? Tang Lin couldn't think about it, just thinking about it, he couldn't help but stand on end.

He threw down some broken silver and hurried out of the city with Ah Dong, thinking about going back to the Imperial Beast Sect to call for some helpers. Before the road was halfway through, Xiao Zibai's voice came from the other end of the contract, which had not moved for a long time.

He finally formed a golden pill.