The wind came to an abrupt halt.

Mu Wan and the monster looked at the young girl together. Her face was solemn, and there was an indescribable awe-inspiring look on her body. Suddenly, like a mouse seeing a cat, the monster remained motionless and lost all its strength.

"You. Do you remember me......" she said in a trembling voice, "we, we have met, I am Ji'e, I am ......"

"Where did you come from, a monster who dares to do anything wrong here?"

The young girl said coldly, making her stunned in place. She tried to say something, but was interrupted by the young girl.

"How did you get here? Qinglian Town is surrounded by natural enchantments, and only humans and the six realms of impermanence can enter. Unless...... You shattered an enchantment. ”

"I'm not, I didn't mean to!" Ji'e hurriedly defended, "I just followed the breath, and when I got to a place, I disappeared...... I guess there's an enchantment, so ......"

Mu Wan was a little speechless. The monster was so aggressive that she thought there would be a fierce battle. But for some reason, she saw that the young girl was panicked by this virtue. If it is simply explained by the majesty of the goddess, it seems to make no sense. And who is Ji'e chasing? It seems that her connection realm can be destroyed, and she is indeed an opponent with amazing strength, but fortunately she did not fight alone.

But, is Qinglian Town really hidden? Listening to the young girl, it is still a natural enchantment, not artificially established.

"Your Excellency, listen to me......"

Before she could finish speaking, Mu Wan saw that the young girl suddenly disappeared from there. Looking back, she had already appeared in front of Ji'e, face to face, and her movements were incredibly fast. The young girl reached out and grabbed her slender throat and looked down at her from a slightly high perspective.

"Since you can come in, prove that you ...... Strong? ”

Mu Wan saw that where the green girl was pinching her, her palms were glowing red. This aura wrapped around her neck, like a kind of seal, imprisoning all her power. At least it seemed that she couldn't do anything about it, and she just grabbed the green girl's hand in vain, looking helpless and pitiful.

"No, I- uh-uh, uh-......huh"

The green girl's hand was a little harder, and Mu Wan even began to worry that her head would really fall off. She had just taken a step forward, but the young girl stretched out her other arm to stop her. The young girl got closer to Ji'e's face, and a fiery sense of oppression hit her from above, and Mu Wan vaguely heard her threatening something with a low volume.

"You'd better be a little more restrained...... What are the rules of the world? The one that both humans and youkai have...... Even if you are a subject of one country, you need permission to enter the boundaries of another country, right? Even animals, violating each other's territory have to pay a price. Since it's a youkai, it doesn't matter if it's eaten, right? ”

She struggled, unable to utter any words in her mouth, only hissing. The tentacles trembled, and the already large eyes stood out even more on the small face, revealing the outline of dense, compound eyes. She wanted to flap her wings, but the strange red light wrapped around it, making it difficult for her to even vibrate slightly.

Nails dug into her neck, and the red, green liquid mixed together and condensed into a disgusting brownish-black color, dripping onto her clothes, falling to the ground, and melting through.

Mu Wan took two steps back.

For some reason, although the young girl in front of her did not make her feel strange, it made her sprout a kind of fear—a familiar fear.

The young girl squinted at the person behind her and let go of her hand.

". Where did you come from, go back to where you came. ”

Regained her freedom, she sat on her knees, trying to breathe in the fresh air. She touched her neck with both hands, and there were a few wisps of black smoke coming from the wound. But before long, those slender lacerations began to heal slowly. She staggered to her feet and opened her mouth slightly, as if she wanted to say something, but was ruthlessly interrupted by the young girl.

"Get out!"

There was an irregular cloud of frost and snow on her raised hand, floating and dancing, and with a wave of her hand, it hit the ground at her feet. It was as if a snowball had been smashed on the ground, splattering out broken white snow. But the ground cracked, and the thick ice spread rapidly along the cracks, freezing everything in its path. She got up in a panic, flapped her huge and beautiful wings, and fled along the sky by the pool.

The frost spread to the lotus pond, but it did not continue to freeze. As if it had sunk into the magma, it burst into an inexplicable fire and stopped spreading.

"This ......"

Mu Wan was so surprised that he didn't react to all this. She had a lot to ask, but she didn't know what to say first.

"She'......"

"Why didn't she fly over the water? I said, have you forgotten? This pool is not something that can be crossed by ordinary means. ”

The young girl picked up a stone and turned it twice with one hand, as if something had been injected. The stone was enveloped in a dull, black sheen that Mu Wan had never seen before. The young girl suddenly threw the stone out of the pool.

Suddenly, a flame rose from the surface of the water, like a mechanism rising from the ground, catching flying stones. The flames quickly fell back, and the stone remained in the air, shattering into white powder in front of them, and dissipating.

And on the calm water, it was as if nothing had happened, and there was not a single ripple. In the place where the flame appeared, there was a red lotus flower that bloomed just right. Mu Wan didn't notice if it appeared after burning the stones, or if it had been floating there.

She was glad there were no ships nearby, otherwise she would have tried the ferry. As for what would happen, she couldn't think about it now.

“…… Are all the people in the town trapped here? ”

"Not really. They don't want to go out anymore. ”

Mu Wan suddenly remembered something, and looked around on the ground to find it. She made a great circle, and at last she saw what she had dropped by the river: the cooking cakes she had bought from the street and the sweet potatoes that the woman had given her, which had already gone away during the fight. But as soon as she stretched out her hand, she felt as if she had touched a lump of mud, and it felt very wrong. She picked up the cake and pinched it like soaked wood, while the sweet potato was brown and muddy where it had fallen. It's probably too dirty to eat.

"You'd better throw it away." Qingnu frowned, "I forgot to tell you...... Outsiders should not eat anything from the town. You didn't eat it, did you? If you eat it, you can't get out again. ”

Mu Wan was so frightened that he suddenly let go of his hand. They rolled back to the ground, and they couldn't tell what the food was.

"I have one more question." Mu Wan plucked up the courage to ask, "The pool is full of red lotus, why is it called Qinglian Town?" ”

The young girl sighed softly, turned around and walked towards the town, and Mu Wan hurriedly followed. After walking for a while, the young girl was finally willing to tell her.

"In the past, these pools were indeed full of green lotuses. Qinglian Town is the place where the young girl is sheltered, and it is the closest place in the world to the heavenly realm. Qinglian is pure, elegant, holy, and unstained from the mud, which is a symbol of water. But one day, everything changed...... Qinglian Town, which now belongs to the world, is the closest to hell. The karmic fire boiled the green lotus pond and dyed everything red. ”

Mu Wan never dreamed that she would come to such a dangerous place.

The young girl muttered, "I don't know where she broke the barrier...... I just don't think something is right. We'll have to figure out how to make it up when she's gone—it's a real problem. ”

Mu Wan didn't dare to say anything. She had no doubt that if she hadn't been watching from the sidelines, she would have been dead.

They returned to the inn. Although she hadn't eaten for a day, she didn't feel hungry. The young girl also told her that time passed more slowly here than outside. First, the spiritual power is abundant, and it is not easy to produce hunger, and second, the outside world has passed for a long time.

"You can stay for another day, and I'll go out tomorrow, and I'll take you with me."

"Good...... Thanks a lot. ”

Walking to the door, the young girl suddenly stopped, leaned against the door with her arms folded, as if she had something to say. Mu Wan tilted her head to look at her, waiting for her to say what she said next.

"Why don't you stay here?"

"Are you kidding?" Mu Wan was a little surprised, "I still have so many things to do, how can I live here all day?" My friends are still looking for me, and I have to find a way to meet them, find the Cloud Mirror, and settle accounts with my brother. ”

Her answer was what Qingnu expected. She smiled lightly, shrugged her shoulders senselessly, and said:

"Indeed, I'm kidding."

"You're really scaring me again. In the future, don't say such things. ”

"Huh...... You don't like it, I won't say it anymore. If you're thirsty, drink some tea. There is no problem with the water here. ”

"yes, okay."

The young girl's smile slowly disappeared after she closed the door. She wanted to open the door again, but she didn't know what to say. So she turned and left the house, and also the inn. It's still noon outside, and the sun is warm. She squinted at the round sun and shook her head slightly.

Escaping from the land of right and wrong, she sat in a glade in the forest.

She didn't know why things were the way they were. Although she has lived for hundreds of years, she has almost never had any contact with humans, and is ignorant of the rules of human society. She always lives in her own place, watching all kinds of people, beasts, and demons, coming and going, tirelessly. She had been waiting there, waiting for what she was looking for.

At that time, she didn't really know who she was waiting for—she didn't even know that her behavior was called waiting. It's better to say that before she met the person she wanted to see, she was so empty and confused. She was reluctant to leave, not only because she knew she didn't know anything about the outside world, but also because there was a familiar smell that would appear nearby irregularly.

Warm, sweet, intimate taste.

"You came out of Qinglian Town?" Suddenly, a human voice appeared.

She reflexively pounded on the trees on the side, and the stout tree split through the center and fell straight down. A human male appears behind a broken tree, wearing a wolf mask with strange patterns.

"You ......"

"Looks like he was kicked out, right?" The young man calmly walked around the tree and came to her, "That fellow, it has always been like this, and after all this time, nothing has changed. ”

"I'm not going to let you say that." Ji'e stared at him fiercely.

"Even if I don't say it, it's just a fact. If the girl doesn't like to listen, there's nothing I can do. But don't be angry, I don't have a way to retaliate. ”

"Who are you? Where did it come from? I don't want revenge. ”

"I just came from Qinglize—"

When the smiling wolf said this, she looked at him more. He reached forward with his hand behind his back and gave her a packet of powder. Ji'e took it and looked at him with a puzzled expression.

"You always have someone you want to get revenge on...... Ah, in exchange, can you please tell me - how to get to Qinglian Town? ”