Chapter 17: Searching for the Ghost Market
The ghost market is a market between the junction of humans and demons, its location is mysterious, and the passage is only opened once every five years, as long as the price can be afforded, all kinds of treasures can be found inside.
Shen Fei originally wanted to live quietly with Xin Zhi in the newly repaired courtyard, but since Qinglang and a few people invited him, he had to go together, just taking his spirit pet for a ride and seeing for a long time.
"Okay, I'll take Ami with me then."
Qinglang sneered, "Senior brother is now as important as Ami's eyeballs, it's really a good feeling." ”
Shuo Feng looked at the goods in Xin Zhi's hand and smiled, "That's it, this is to buy clothes and send flowers and butterflies, and people who don't know still think that Ami is your Taoist companion." He was laughing, but when it came to the ears of others, it wasn't necessarily true.
"Ami is now my spiritual pet, as the master, I naturally want to be good to her, what if I hurt her?" Shen Fei replied, and he reached out and touched the top of her head.
Looking at the doting in his eyes, Lang Yue didn't speak, he felt that he might be thinking too much, but when he heard Shuo Feng say that, it seemed to be a little like what he said...... Shen Fei, should he be ...... to Ami He had heard that humans and demons were in love, and shemales were in love, but Ami was just a demon corpse...... How is it possible to be with a senior brother... He must have been overthinking.
Qinglang was surprised, "What? Are you in a relationship with Ami? Can a demon corpse still be used as a spirit pet? She knew that Xin Zhi was powerful, but she didn't expect Shen Fei to directly accept her as a spirit pet, which was really unheard of.
Shen Fei smiled, "Naturally, Ami has good skills and high martial arts, so it's okay to protect me." ”
Hearing this, the girl pursed her lips and muttered, "I also want a spirit pet, but I haven't found a suitable one in the secret realm." "It's either too low-level, or the spirit beast level is too high, and they don't want to form a contract with themselves.
It seems that Shen Fei is very satisfied with his spirit pet, she glanced at Xin Zhi, her eyes were full of envy, the book said that the demon corpse was not enlightened because it was smoked by someone, and no one had ever used the demon corpse as a spirit pet. But Xin Zhi has spiritual wisdom and strong martial arts, although her face is terrifying, but these days it seems that her loyalty is no worse than that of spirit animals, and she is bound by a contract, and if she is hurt by a spirit pet, she will be punished.
"The ghost market is going to open in two days, senior brother, I also want to buy an obedient spirit beast like Ami and come back......"
Shen Fei smiled, "Okay, I heard that there are a lot of things inside, and there must be some Qinglang picking." ”
After the greetings, several people made an appointment to meet outside the sect in two days, and before leaving, Xin Zhi took advantage of Shen Fei's inattention to catch up with Qinglang, pulled her aside, and stuffed her bag into her arms.
Qinglang was very surprised, caught the package and opened it to see, it turned out to be his own lock fairy rope!
"Ami, you don't need it?" Looking at her covered, half-broken shoulder bone, she was surprised.
Xin Zhi gestured and told her that she had absorbed spiritual power and now she was much better and no longer needed to lock the immortal rope, but she still didn't understand after gesturing for a long time, Shen Fei didn't know when she followed, and knocked Xin Zhi's mask towards the person beside her, "She gave it to you, and you followed, this is yours." He pressed Xin Zhi's arm and examined it carefully, touched the still broken bones and frowned, "She is protected by my spiritual power now, it's fine, and when the time comes, go to the ghost market and buy her some alternative ropes to fix it." ”
Because the bones are broken and the demonic qi will slowly leak, Xin Zhi always feels very hungry, these days, Shen Fei has been frying, boiling, and refining many pills in the courtyard with the medicinal materials he bought, each of which has been transferred to his spiritual power, and named them the Zengling Pill. Then he dragged Qinglang to sew a small pink cloth bag and hung it around Xin Zhi's neck, and put the Zengling Pill in it so that she could take it at any time.
Even if Shen Fei was not there, with the Enhancement Pill, she would eat one when she was hungry, which was very convenient.
Shen Fei didn't blame her for hiding the matter of taking off the lock immortal rope and returning it, and even he was a little relieved: his spirit pet was not only conscious, but also a good girl with a pure character. After that, he would find something that could replace the rope and reattach it for her. Being able to use the things he sent, Shen Fei felt that it was quite good, since he wanted to return it, then let her go.
Two days later, in the evening.
The sunset in the woods sets its last rays, and the night rises and lights up the starry sky. Shen Fei and his entourage deliberately changed into ordinary clothes in order to hide their identity, Lang Yueshuo was blue and green, like a young man from a big family, and Qinglang was wearing a goose yellow water shirt, revealing the freshness of a girl. Xin Zhi changed into a pink-colored skirt that she only bought today, with a little fox fur covering her neck and exposed skin, and a hat, she looked elegant and dignified from a distance.
The five of them came to the mountain village outside the imperial capital, and Lang Yue said that according to the compass's instructions, tonight, the gate of the ghost market should be near here, and it will be opened after the dawn.
Jiaoyue gradually climbed up the branches, Qinglang's upper and lower eyelids fought, and he fell asleep directly against Shuofeng, Langyue paid attention to the compass for fear of missing the time when the passage opened, the door of the ghost city was only opened for half an hour, and it would take five years to miss it.
Dotted fireflies gradually brightened up from the grass, flapping their wings and looming. Xin Zhi curiously stretched out her hand and placed it on the cold blue firefly, and then a group of "lights" rose and flew in the night sky beside her.
Those little "lanterns" swirled and danced around her affectionately, like a river of stars, a long array of lights.
"Did you find a place?" Shuo Feng held the forehead of the girl on his shoulder and said impatiently, Lang Yue didn't pay attention to him, but his nerves were tense and calculating the position.
Shen Fei stepped forward and helped to find it together, he sat cross-legged on the ground, released his spiritual sense, and searched every corner of the mountain.
After a long time, he felt someone gently pull his hand, that familiar touch, for fear of disturbing his hesitation, don't think about it, it must be his spiritual pet boring. So he turned his head and gently comforted, "Don't worry, I'm helping Lang Yue find a place, are you hungry, why don't you take a spirit pill first?" His voice was gentle, and he slowly opened the small cloth bag tied around Xin Zhi's neck, took out a pill and put it in her mouth, without a trace of impatience.
Who knew that Xin Zhi took a step back and shook her head and said no.
Shen Fei was helpless, since the contract, he has doted on Xin Zhi very much, mainly because she is too well-behaved, always staying quietly and guarding on the sidelines, asking her what she needs can be brought up directly, and he never says. He was worried that Xin Zhi was afraid that he would annoy him and drive her away, so he would repeat almost every day, "I won't want you, we have a contract." ”
Whenever this happens, he is really distressed and helpless about this spiritual pet, I don't know if this character was like this when he was alive.
So once Xin Zhi made a request, Shen Fei agreed to it all, for fear that she would find someone else if she responded late.
He was led by Xin Zhi to the center of the woods, and there was silence and darkness around him, so he asked, "What are you pulling me here for?" ”
I saw Xin Zhi close the distance between the two, pointed to his ears, and looked at him. Shen Fei didn't understand, thinking that she was uncomfortable and didn't want to show it in front of everyone, and asked, "What's wrong?" What's uncomfortable? ”
I saw the girl in front of him shake her head and put her hands on his ears, and the two were so close that they could only hear each other's breathing.
Shen Fei was a little shy, "What is this ......" Before he finished asking, a leather glove was put on his lips, signaling himself not to speak, and then pointed to the surroundings beside him.
However, there wasn't even a fly around, and I was wondering what she meant, when suddenly a flash of inspiration occurred to me, and I asked, "Ami, do you want to tell me that maybe the door has been opened?" ”
Seeing that he understood, Xin Zhi nodded.
What she meant was to let herself listen. Listening to the howls of the beasts that should have been in the empty mountains and forests around them are gone. The gate of the ghost market opened, and the yin qi inside scared away all the beasts nearby, so it was naturally very quiet.
Thinking of this, Shen Fei was surprised in his heart, and couldn't hide his smile and stroked the back of her head and asked softly, "Why are you so smart?" ”
Xin Zhi heard that she turned her head sideways and rubbed lightly on the palm of his hand, and then pointed to a blue bug next to her. Seeing this, Shen Fei couldn't help but mutter, "This is... Hotaru! ”
Fireflies and mortal fireflies are very similar in appearance, both are small insects that can emit fluorescence, but the two are not quite the same. The firefly is a worm in the mortal world, but it grows on the edge of the border between humans and demons, and can only survive by sucking the remaining demonic energy.
I saw more and more of those ghostly fireflies, and the light blue fireflies flickered in the treetops, lightly stained with leaf dew, flickering, like a sparkling sapphire hidden between the leaves, magnificent and magical. The two of them stood in the middle of it, reflected by the blue stars.
Shen Fei lowered his head and looked at Xin Zhi intently, he smiled, his curved eyebrows and eyes were like the moon in the sky, his arm buckled Xin Zhi's waist, and lifted her up and spun in the stream of fireflies.
Xin Zhi subconsciously hugged Shen Fei's shoulders and let him move.
Between heaven and earth, only two people are silent and dependent on each other.
Shen Fei liked the feeling of holding Xin Zhi very much, so much so that after several turns, he put the person back on the ground, put the pill in his hand back into the pocket of Xin Zhi's chest, and cast a transmission note to summon everyone here.
Sure enough, after following Yu Ying for a while, the compass in Lang Yue's hand was fixed on a huge banyan tree. This tree is full of pale blue fireflies, which reflect it like a fluorescent sacred tree, which is already extremely peculiar, with a tall and twisted trunk, sparse and scattered branches, and because of the glow of the glow, it seems even more mysterious.
"This is it." Lang Yue closed the compass and looked at the banyan tree in front of him, but he didn't know how to enter the entrance, and everyone looked for it by the tree. The place is overgrown with bushes and extremely dim, Qinglang leaned on the trunk of the banyan tree in annoyance, "This half hour is almost over, if we don't find it, we will have to wait for another five years......"
Shuo Feng comforted, "Senior sister, don't be discouraged, five years is very fast, let's monks retreat, and it will be over in the blink of an eye." ”
Although he was right, when he thought about it, didn't he mean that he couldn't find it today? Qinglang snorted and turned to leave.
Shuo Feng didn't know what he said wrong, the little junior sister was angry again, he chased after him and was about to apologize first, but who knew that as soon as he took a step, the soil under his feet was loose? By the time he reacted, it was too late.
"Ah——!h
With a scream breaking the silence, Shen Fei and the others hurriedly came back to investigate, only to see that there was no one in the place where Shuo Feng was standing, Xin Zhi stepped forward to take a look, and there was a dark hole exposed!
"Senior brother!"
Qinglang lay down at the entrance of the cave and shouted, she was already a little girl, who knew that as soon as she walked away, she fell in, and she really regretted that her face was blue.
"Shuofeng! Where are you? ”
Lang Yue was also frightened, he knew that Shuo Feng was already playful, and he was thinking about how to secretly go down the mountain with his little junior sister all day long, and he didn't know what to do when he was underground.
Just when everyone was anxious, Shuofeng's voice came from below, "Senior brother, senior brother-"
"Can you hear Shuofeng?" Lang Yue shouted at the entrance of the cave, but Shuofeng on the other side did not respond.
Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what to do.
"Are you sure it's the wind? Why doesn't it sound like it? There are many demons here, so it's better to be careful. Lang Yuehu wondered.
"Or else...... Let's go down and have a look? Qinglang proposed.
A few people thought this method was good, Qinglang took out the lock fairy rope and said, "Let's tie it to one person, and pull the rope after we wait." It's just ...... "She only has a fairy rope on her body now, but if she is tied to someone, won't her spiritual power be sucked away again?"
She looked at the silent girl beside her, this fairy rope was useless to her, she wanted to persuade Xin Zhi to go, but she thought that Shen Fei was such a precious spirit pet, so forget it, she didn't want to be scolded.
But Xin Zhi seemed to know what she meant, and walked over and tied the rope to herself, and tied the other end to a thick tree trunk, and before Shen Fei could find out, she rushed forward a few steps and fell directly into the big hole!