Bamboo stumbled towards the half-collapsed hut, and in the twilight glow, in the small space left in the house, a man with loose hair cowered in a large blue and black felt stained with blood. He lowered his head, his long hair covering his face, and Bamboo couldn't see his face.

In the dark, he seemed to see the extremely ugly and miserable face of the fierce beast again, and Zhu shivered, and his stomach churned again. He clutched his stomach, only to hear the man's soft sneer.

"You're not afraid of me?" The man slowly raised his head, revealing a face under his long hair. It's not a—

Bamboo breathed a sigh of relief. The man was in his early thirties, with a raunchy face with a high nose bridge, and a pair of inky eyes reflected the twilight in the sunken eye sockets, and those eyes faintly brought a faint blue glow. He is...... Hu people? Bamboo thought silently in his heart, and the violent reaction in his stomach slowly calmed down. Compared to the slender, the appearance of a man is much better. He breathed a sigh of relief, ignoring even the evil aura that emanated from the man's inside.

Zhu stood in front of the door in a daze, and the man couldn't help frowning when he saw that he didn't react, "Fool?" That's exactly ......" The corners of the man's mouth rose slightly, and he didn't get up, but his big hand came from the depths of the big felt.

Just right...... Nourish Lao Tzu's vitality.

That was the thought in his heart, and Bamboo heard it clearly. Without thinking about it, he walked over and stood in front of the man, his pale and lifeless face was stunned, without a trace of emotion.

The man was startled by his sudden move, he raised his eyebrows, and said in his heart, What is the origin of this child? He still has the blood stains left over from the vicious fight not long ago, and the house is also half collapsed, crumbling, and I don't know when it will be buried in it - ordinary children have long been scared away.

"Hey, what do you mean?" The man raised his voice, and the word "Chuan" condensed in the center of his eyebrows.

Looking at his confused appearance, a helpless smile appeared on Bamboo's face, and for the first time in a long time, he spoke, his voice was very small, and his words were a little slurred.

"You want to kill me, don't you? Do it......" Bamboo said expressionlessly, and the man's brows furrowed more and more, he stared at the child in front of him for a long time, and suddenly the corners of his mouth rose, his eyes narrowed, and his face gradually became hideous, "How do you know that I want to kill you?" Who sent you? Tell me the truth, and I can spare your life. ”

"......" Bamboo sighed lightly. He was bent on dying, but the man didn't think about it. The man's psychological change at that moment was complicated enough to compose a book, made Zhu suddenly realize that he was a human, not a fierce beast, although he exuded an aura that was even more terrifying than that of a fierce beast, but for him to kill, he needed a reason. Zhu regretted speaking a little, if he had been pretending to be deaf and dumb, he might have gotten what he wanted by now.

Dad, Mom, and Cai Sui...... Their deaths drifted through Zhu's eyes one by one, and the pain lingered in his mind, suffocating, but there was no escape, and no one to confide in......

"Replenish vitality...... Don't you think so? As long as it doesn't hurt, you can do whatever you want. Bamboo was tired of his own voice, his voice became quieter and quieter, and his face was dead and silent.

"......" was changed to a man's speech this time. He stared at the bamboo for a long time, and his originally hideous face slowly regained its calm. This kid ...... The man's eyes flickered, as if he suddenly thought of something, and suddenly spoke.

"Can you read minds?"

“……”

"Who is your master?"

“…… No. ”

"You were born to read minds?"

“…… Well. Bamboo had a cold face, he didn't understand how a man could have so much nonsense to ask. Suddenly, he heard a voice in the man's head, ah...... I see......

Zhu sighed silently, and people's hearts ...... Sure enough, it is much more greedy than the beast.

"Do you want it? Take it...... I don't need that ability. Zhu opened his mouth firmly, and he was extremely disgusted with this duplicitous world.

"Wait......" The man suddenly smiled, and he lifted the large felt covering his body, revealing his body that had been hidden under the felt.

"......" Take's eyes widened. The man......

The man had no legs, two bloody bandages were tied at the base of his thighs, and his body was full of marks from being bitten by a giant beast, and white bones stained with turbid fluid could be seen where the blood melted. His tattered clothes had been stained red with blood, and the blood that had been shed had slowly turned black, forming blood clots and congealing on the edges of the wounds and clothes, emitting a strong fishy stench—his body...... Corruption!

"Hmm......" Bamboo's stomach churned again, and he quickly covered his mouth and looked away from the man. And when he saw the almost disgusting bamboo, the man sneered disapprovingly.

"As you can see, I can't move right now, and I can't use spells to claim your abilities, but we can make a deal. It is...... You bring someone over and let me replenish my strength, and when my injuries are healed, I can cast a spell to strip you of your abilities. How is it? Of course, if you want to die, I don't mind sending you on my way after that. ”

As the man spoke, the man's broken body trembled slightly. Bamboo saw the heaving of his chest, it was his breath, and as the breath went up and down, blood flowed out of the wound that had not yet healed. Bamboo swallowed and foamed, and subconsciously took a few steps back.

"Bring people...... How am I going to bring someone to you? Bamboo looked away, holding back the feeling of gagging that rose from his abdomen, "Besides, your body ......"

"Don't worry, I can't die. I'm still alive after killing that beast, and I won't die now. But this body must be supported by the essence of the living, otherwise the injury will not get better. All you have to do is bring someone in, and as long as you can bring someone into this room, I'll make sure he can't get out. The man said as he put the big felt back on his hand.

Finally......

Bamboo breathed a sigh of relief, and his stomach instantly felt a lot more comfortable.

"Can you really strip my abilities away?"

"Am I lying, can't you tell?"

"I'm ......" Takeichi choked on the question for a while. What the man said was true, and at least until now, he had not noticed any signs of him lying.

"I see...... When you're healed, take this power away from me, do you want it? Bamboo stared at him with a frown.

"Hmm." The man nodded, and suddenly laughed again, "You kid is refreshing, quick!" Hurry! As he spoke, a puddle of pus and blood came out of his mouth, and Bamboo frowned and subconsciously took a step back.

"Ahem......" The man stretched out a hand from under the big felt and wiped the pus and blood from his mouth, "So...... Boy, what's your name? ”

“…… The guy who was with me before called me 'Bamboo'......"

"Bamboo?" The man frowned, "What about that person?" ”

"Dead ......"

"Haha...... It's good to be dead, it's pure to be dead. The man sneered, and there was a little loneliness in his eyes, "My name is Chi Qingliu, and I am a monk." ”

——

"Yan is evil, it is humanized, and it is said: Chi Qingliu. Hurry up. ”

In the old place of Zheng Guo, there was a school hall, which was the lecture place of the sages and sons. A hundred years ago, Liezi ascended to the immortal, and this school hall in the maple forest in the countryside became another courtyard for Liezi's disciples. Now, among the disciples, except for two, the others have also ascended to immortality. So a whole courtyard became the residence of the remaining two. At this time, the two were sitting in several beds, one lying on his side and the other sitting upright. The person lying on his side was wrapped in a plain white deep coat, with silver threads flowing over his waist, his glass-colored eyes were as clear as water, bringing out a touch of light, and he was a rare beautiful man, but he was thin and a little sickly on his face, but he looked too haggard. The one sitting next to him was in a completely different situation.

The man was about twenty years old, with a pale cyan straight robe on the inside, a gray robe with a cockroach pattern trim on the outside, a white jade hairpin on his head, and black hair on the back of his head. He sat upright on the couch, without saying a word, he already had a bit of the noble air of the son of the family, and then saw that he was full of heaven, his eyebrows were straight, a pair of ink-colored eyes were blazing, and his eyes were still showing the indifference of Mount Tai collapsing in front of him, which was extraordinary and heroic.

And even though the people around him are "heroic", the "sick beauty" lying on the couch on his side does not think so, he lazily plays with the slip in his hand, and on the slip, there are a few square black characters engraved with a large seal:

"Yan is evil, it is humanized, and it is said: Chi Qingliu. Hurry up. ”

"Chi Qingliu ......" The silver-haired man playfully pronounced the name, his eyes on the fellow who was sitting under him.

"Senior Brother Tian, you go." He spit out a few words without a trace, and threw the slip in his hand onto the couch.

The young man on the side looked at him and rolled his eyes slightly, "That's what the master meant, Tian Yin should go by himself, but the senior brother is inevitably too slack, like the senior brother who spends his days idle, his cultivation will be ruined sooner or later." ”

Although the young man was a junior brother, he was unforgiving. At this time, the "sick beauty" lying on the couch did not react too much, he just waved his hand at his junior brother Tian Yin, and yawned lazily, which shows that he is also used to preaching.

"Ahhh......h Senior Brother Tian, you can go alive, I know ...... in my heart."

"Counted?" Tian Yin leaned forward and stared at him indifferently.

"Naturally, there are ......" The silver-haired man turned over and sat up from the couch, and Tian Yin also straightened up.

"Shouldn't you worry about yourself than worry about me? It is said that Chi Qingliu also served as the guest of the Queen Mother of the West a few years ago, and his strength must be good, but now for some reason, he has turned into an evil ...... Senior Brother Tian, are you going to go to the meeting alone? ”

"Hmph......" Tian Yin sneered, as if he didn't care, "Since the master named me to go, he will definitely not ask me to die for no reason." ”

The silver-haired man was stunned for a moment, then sighed, "That's right, but ......" He hesitated for a moment, then waved his hand at Tian Yin, "Forget it, since you are so sure, I won't say more." ”

"Hmm." Tian Yin nodded, "Actually...... Rather than thinking about how to subdue him, I was more curious about the reason why he turned into an evil spirit. He looked at his sickly-looking senior brother and said slowly, "If I remember correctly, this Chi Qingliu had a conflict with the monks of Cangyumen at the Yaochi Feast a few years ago, and there was a big trouble...... Among them, senior brother, you are the most familiar with Cangyumen, right? ”

"......" Hearing the three words Cangyumen, the silver-haired man's expression slowly became serious, "Hmm...... So? ”

"So...... Why didn't Master ask you to go this time, but asked me to go? Fear...... This has a lot to do with the monks of the Cangyu Sect—"