Chapter 22 • The Demon Slayer
"I know." Song Qingyin stood up and shook the candlestick in his hand, "I know where to find the dragon!" She took a deep breath, pinned the small sword on the table to her waist, and tightened the golden knot that bound her hair.
"Sister Lan, how long do I have left?"
Xiao Minglan said: "These spirit grasses can last for two months at most, but ......"
"Got it." Song Qingyin said, "I'll set off!" ”
"Wait!" Xiao Minglan hurriedly grabbed her, "Although I don't know if you have any way to find the dragon, let's let Cheng Ye's little brother go with you, we are always not at ease when you are alone." ”
Song Qingyin smiled and glanced at Lu Qichuan, who was lying unconscious on the bed. If he was awake at this time, he would definitely scold her again for not knowing the sky.
"No, Sister Lan, you all stay here, something must have happened outside, it is safest for you to stay with the true immortals, I can't trouble you anymore. What's more, Lu Qichuan can't do without people around him. ”
Seeing that she insisted on this, Xiao Minglan had no choice. She handed over a delicate and small sachet to help Song Qingyin tie it around her waist, and she didn't know what medicinal herbs were contained in it, exuding a fresh fragrance. "This is what I sewed from the fabric I saved for your clothes, and it was filled with some spiritual grass to dispel poison and awaken the spirit. Maybe it won't help much, but it's more reassuring for you to take me with you. ”
Song Qingyin's nose was sour, and she almost burst into tears. She rushed over and hugged Xiao Minglan tightly, took the opportunity to wipe her face, and then waved to her with a smile, "Sister Lan, I'm leaving!" I'll be sure to get back soon! ”
Lu Qichuan, wait for me.
According to what Xu Su's predecessors said, the memory she had seen was at least twenty years ago. Time has passed, but will dragons really still exist there......
She hesitated for a moment, gritted her teeth, and took out a spirit rune that turned into a spirit sparrow and hovered in front of her. It's good that you've just seen it in memory, please, take me there!
The sparrow cried and flew to the east.
She walked out of the courtyard quickly, passing by Lu Zixiu who had returned from outside.
"The news has been released, and the treasure hunters have already set their sights on you, so be more careful." Lu Zixiu's tone was as calm as ever, and he couldn't hear his thoughts. Song Qingyin didn't stop or look back, only said, "Thank you." ”
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Ten days later, Sunset Ridge.
With the power of the wind talisman, Song Qingyin hid among the interlaced branches and leaves of a towering plane tree. The sparrow stood on her shoulder, and her little face was also serious, and her mouth was tightly closed, not daring to make a sound. She quietly cut her hand and smeared the blood on the tree where she was hiding.
The two monsters under the tree sniffed around for a while, and finally walked away, Song Qingyin breathed a sigh of relief, and threw himself on the trunk of the tree with a bang and gasped. The sparrow followed her example, squatting on her shoulder and blowing twice with its small mouth.
Zhenxian was right, I don't know who revealed the news of the 'treasure' on her to the treasure hunter, she didn't dare to go to the town again these days, and could only walk on the sparsely populated mountain road. But even so, there are still a lot of treasure hunters coming to the door, including not only professional treasure hunters, but also many monks and demons, and she has been running away almost all the time these days.
I didn't expect them to be able to touch her traces so quickly, it must have been with the help of a high-level tracing magic weapon.
But the people she was hiding from at the moment obviously didn't come at her at first, and it was estimated that they happened to bump into her halfway, so they simply took her as a target. Song Qingyin faintly heard them mention something like 'demon slayer', she was trying to escape for her life at that time, and she didn't listen carefully.
"Forget it, we don't have the time to care about anyone else right now." She tapped the little brain of the sparrow with her index finger, "Let's go." ”
But how could the person they were looking for run into this deserted deep mountain and old forest? Song Qingyin patted his face, clenched his little sword and followed the sparrow that was leading the way with its wings fluttering. Now is not the time to think about this, if you don't hurry up and get to the place where you stay, it will be dark, and she doesn't think it's a good experience to spend the night alone in the mountains and forests.
Rubbing her cold, numb hands, she hurried to find a ruined temple in the mountains just before sunset. The environment is a little worse, but it is better not to sleep in the open. She looked at the slightly reddened sky, and it was still snowing about night.
The gate of the ruined temple was crumbling, and there were still the remains of fallen wooden windows piled up in the corner, Song Qingyin took his sword and slashed the fire in three or two times, and picked out the stinger that pierced into the forest when he ran away in the forest by the light of the fire.
The sparrow chirped in distress from her.
In the middle of the night, heavy snow fell. The fire made a popping sound, the sparrow opened his eyes vigilantly, and when he was about to wake up the owner who was sleeping on the side, he found that Song Qingyin had woken up, and his eyes were very clear, not at all like he had slept. She waved her hand, and the sparrow turned into a guide charm and was tucked into her sleeve. Song Qingyin extinguished the fire in front of him, and the temple fell into darkness, and the sound of stampeding on the snow became clear in the darkness.
Song Qingyin quietly hid behind the Buddha statue and listened carefully to the movement at the door.
Someone pushed open the door and looked inside, then beckoned his companion to come in and rest.
"Hell, where do you think that kid can go?" There were four of them, three of them entered the temple and sat and drank wine, and the rest did not know what to do at the door.
"I've searched the whole mountain and I haven't seen anyone, can he still fly to the sky and escape the earth?"
"Is there any movement from the demon dog that was sent out?" A man shouted to the door.
The man at the door: "I haven't come back yet, it seems that I met something else on the way, and I lost my target." ”
The person who asked earlier spat and cursed something brainless.
Who are you looking for? Song Qingyin thought, I didn't expect that there would be people who were chased and killed everywhere like herself, and I thought that there was still some feeling of sympathy for the same disease.
After a while, the door finally collapsed after repeated opening and closing. The people in the house cursed in a low voice, and the two demon dogs paced into the temple with falling snow all over their bodies. They don't know what they've eaten, and they have a disgusting rancid smell from them. Song Qingyin was not the only one who couldn't stand this breath, and those people scolded and drove the demon dogs into the corner, covering their mouths and noses to prevent them from getting closer.
The demon dog twitched its nose a few times, and suddenly leaned towards the huge Buddha statue. Song Qingyin's breath stagnated, and he slowly moved backwards. But after a few steps, she crashed into a warm chest, and she was so frightened that she almost screamed, and her heart jumped to her throat, but fortunately, the person behind her reached out to cover her mouth.
"Shh The person behind her whispered in her ear, "Don't be afraid, they're here to get me." ”
Song Qingyin forcibly suppressed her nervousness and nodded slightly, and the people behind her were also relieved to see her cooperating, and let go of the hand holding her a little so that she could breathe.
The two couldn't see each other in the dark, Song Qingyin pinched his forearm, would they really not be discovered if they stayed like this? The devil's nose is very smart, otherwise it would not have been possible to smell the breath of the treasure on her body from several miles away.
- It's okay, I have the blood of a high-level monster on me.
He wrote in the palm of Song Qingyin's hand.
Sure enough, the two demon dogs sniffed for a while, and then they enjoyed some kind of fright and ran out of the ruined temple.
"What are you doing?" Someone shouted dissatisfiedly.
"Forget about them, this low-level monster is stupid, and it won't be able to run far anyway." Another dissuaded.
The man scolded two more words, hummed and turned over and fell asleep.
Song Qingyin hid behind the Buddha with others, because the space was small, so he didn't feel cold when he was huddled together, but gradually became sleepy, and fell asleep unconsciously. In a trance, I only heard a chuckle in my ear.
On the second day, Song Qingyin was woken up by the movement made by a few people outside when they left. It was already dawn, and she finally saw what the man who was asleep next to her looked like.
The boy had a particularly attractive baby face, his long eyelashes trembling lightly, and his white and tender face was a little red because he was asleep. On the other hand, he was carrying a huge demon pestle behind him, almost taller than he could stand up, and I didn't know if he was tired of running with such a big thing on his back.
Feeling her gaze, the boy rubbed his eyes and woke up and looked at her in confusion. It took a while to remember what kind of place this was, so he smiled sweetly at her, "The first time we met, I was under Fu Lingyun, and he was a demon slayer. ”
"Song Qingyin, Luoxia Mountain Fu Xiu." Song Qingyin said.
The two of them carefully looked around the temple with the Buddha statue, and only after making sure that the previous few people had run away did they breathe a sigh of relief, and walked out from behind the Buddha statue.
"There's still a monster with you." Fu Lingyun sighed, picked up a piece of the hair left on the ground by the demon dog and looked at it, fortunately it was only a low-level monster, otherwise it would not be easy to avoid it.
Song Qingyin was curious: "Why did you hide behind there yesterday?" ”
Fu Lingyun scratched his head embarrassedly, "This is not ...... When I saw that you were a little girl coming in alone, I was afraid that I would be scared, so I hid. I didn't expect those people to come here too, so I kept hiding. ”
"Hey, those people are treasure hunters, why are they chasing you?" No matter how you look at it, you should chase me...... Song Qingyin thought silently.
Hearing her ask, Fu Lingyun beckoned to her mysteriously and motioned for her to come and see.
Song Qingyin approached and found that he was holding a string of quaint Buddhist beads in his hand. Although he didn't know what was so peculiar about this thing, Song Qingyin always felt very uncomfortable as soon as he got close to it.
"This is the legendary Buddha bead that can distinguish between good and evil, and it is a good thing left to me by my master." Fu Lingyun shook his head, "It's a pity that I was targeted by that group of people...... What happened to you? ”