Chapter 97

Ascension of clouds.

Ma Daochang, who was sleepy after eating wine and meat, suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes were clear, and there was still a little sleepiness. He scratched his head and sat up from the haystack he had laid casually.

It was no surprise that he slept in the grass nest in the Ascending Cloud Temple. All the disciples in the audience knew that there was an uncle in the audience who liked to build a stack of hay on his roof and sleep in it. It looked like a giant bird's nest.

Ma Dao Chang sat cross-legged and looked out at the stone city below the mountain. The more I looked at it, the more tightly it became a river.

He stroked the broken hair carried by the wind and said to himself: "It's strange, how can there be such a big 'luck'." It's not like demonic power, and it's not like manpower. Is it ......?"

As he spoke, he stood up, and in the next moment there was only a silhouette left where he stood, and the man of the horse chief was nowhere to be seen.

When the fluorescence in front of Shi Manman's eyes dissipated, the image she saw also dissipated. Maybe this is the best ending, Shi Manman thought.

But the next moment she frowned again, and the pieces of flesh and the human skin all over the ground told the cruelty of the initiator. They weren't damned, they were just trying to live a better life.

Shi Manman walked towards the human skin that had fallen off the side due to the fight, without any disgust or disgust. The stone vine spread out the human skin, and put the pieces of minced flesh that splattered on the ground back on top of the human skin.

After gathering all the limbs she could find, she burned them in the courtyard.

The firelight reflected Shi Manman's face, and it was impossible to see whether her expression was sad or cold, and the little hooked snake didn't know where to go when he watched Shi Manman go to collect the bones, and at this moment he saw it swim towards Shi Manman with a big tail wrapped around this burden.

The little hooked snake gently put the burden on the fire tray, and as soon as he released his tail, the cloth he was holding outside the burden was also opened. What was revealed was the same corpse as the one Shi Manman had seen, without half of the skin, a living corpse hanging with demonic energy.

After the fox demon disappeared, the demonic energy it left behind gradually dissipated, and the cloudy light in the eyes of the living corpse disappeared behind the black pupils as the demonic qi dissipated.

"I seem to know, why do you want to get rid of demons." The little hooked snake said as he looked at the mutilated corpse.

Shi Manman set fire to another corpse that had lost its vitality and said, "People may be blessed with wisdom. But theirs are as fragile as ants in our eyes, as long as they are little demons who have cultivated for more than a hundred years, they can casually take each other's lives......"

"But they are also powerful, and their intelligence allows them to create weapons, tools. This is beyond the reach of the demon clan. We are our own conflicting group, Long'er, I finally know why Kunlun has an enchantment, I seem to be wrong......"

The little hooked snake didn't understand what Shi Manman's "wrong" meant, it actually saw a trace of cowardice flashing in Shi Manman's eyes, and a look of confusion.

"Hey......" was another sigh that came from nowhere, and the little hooked snake trembled when he heard it. Without half a moment's hesitation, he immediately turned into a dark light and hid in the sleeves of the stone vines, and if he looked closely, he could see the cuffs of the stone vines trembling slightly.

"Dao Chief." Shi Manman shouted to the man who was slowly walking out of the darkness.

Ma Daochang looked at the two fires with a gloomy face and asked, "Did you kill the fox demon?" ”

Yes, Ma Daochang knew about the six-tailed fox. And it took a lot of time to find it. When he first appeared in Xiao Mansion, he found the demonic energy left by the fox demon in Xiao Mansion. However, although Ma Daochang's Taoist skills are profound, the cunning six-tailed fox's ability to conceal his aura is a headache for Ma Daochang.

At this time, the fox demon's body died, and the demonic energy dissipated, and Ma Daochang naturally recognized it. I saw Shi Manman in this courtyard again, and I had this idea in my heart, so I asked.

"Yes and no." As he was tidying up the poor woman's body, he put away the pendant that had been left in the black cloak after the fox demon had disappeared. The red rope on the pendant was still there, and she had hung the stone back around her neck again.

Hearing this, Ma Daochang looked at Shi Manman's trembling sleeves, shook his head and said, "You go, leave the rest to me." ”

Shi Manman did not refuse, nodded gratefully to Daoist Ma, and turned around and left the small courtyard that had changed her mood drastically. Ma Daochang looked at the back of Shi Manman's departure thoughtfully.

That night, a family inexplicably disappeared from the stone city, and a strange story was derived. Although it became an after-dinner conversation, no one believed it.

Xiao Lei came to Qiansuju to have breakfast with Shi Manman as usual, but was turned away for the first time.

"The girl said, no one wants to see me today. Childe, please come back. Yalian stood outside the door of the stone vine wing room in embarrassment, and she was explained early in the morning that no one was seen, including Xiao Lei.

Xiao Lei looked at the closed door, he knew Shi Manman's character very well, she would not lock herself in the room for no reason. Xiao Lei asked, "Is your girl in good spirits today?" Shi Manman's character is not the word "awkward", so Xiao Lei wondered if Shi Manman was sick?

Yalian thought for a moment, then shook her head and said, "The girl is in good spirits. ”

Since Shi Manman didn't want to see anyone, maybe it was for her own reasons. Xiao Lei thought that when Shi Manman was willing to see him, he would naturally tell himself the reason. And he also has a full schedule of all the time every day, and once this time is over, it is time to go to the grandmother's house to say goodbye.

Xiao Yuan, his father Xiao Yuan, who Xiao Lei hadn't seen for a long time in Grandmother Xiao's courtyard, arrived in Grandmother Xiao's room early at this moment, and when he saw Xiao Lei saluting him, he nodded and put down the tea cup in his hand.

Grandmother Xiao saw Xiao Lei coming alone at this time, and asked suspiciously, "Why didn't Miss Shi come with her?" ”

Xiao Lei had already thought of a statement in his heart, and when he saw that his grandmother really asked himself like this, he immediately said: "Manman, she is not in good spirits today, I will let her rest in the house for a while." ”

Grandmother Xiao uncharacteristically didn't ask, just nodded and continued: "You once said that Miss Shi can only be a wife when she gets started, and we promised you this, so do you also have to make a compromise?" ”

Xiao Lei was stunned, he didn't understand what medicine his grandmother bought in his gourd. But looking at his father's blazing eyes again, Xiao Lei had a bad premonition for some reason.

"What's the matter with Grandmother?" Xiao Lei asked.

Grandmother Xiao glanced at Xiao Yuan, and said to Xiao Lei with a smile: "It is also the blessing of our Xiao family, some time ago your father got the eye of Ren Zhizhou who just arrived in Ren Zhizhou, and learned that you are the only man in our family, and he wants to marry our family." ”

Without waiting for Xiao Lei to refuse, Grandmother Xiao continued: "Look at you now studying hard, and finally understand your father's hardship. The daughter of the marriageable age in the Nazhizhou family is a concubine, and if she marries our business, it will be mutually beneficial to both of us. And it doesn't prevent you from marrying Miss Shi as your wife, but even if the other party is a concubine, she is also the daughter of an official family, and she can't be a concubine, but she can be a flat wife. ”

"Our Xiao family is already weak, and now that you finally have a woman you are willing to marry, then marry other women As for how you treat them, getting along with them is your family. Grandmother, I will say in the first place, this family, you must get married, and then who you love and who you are with is your business. "Grandmother Xiao knows how to persuade with reason.

Seeing Xiao Lei's surprised face change from opposition to silence, Grandmother Xiao secretly glanced at Xiao Yuan with satisfaction.