A mermaid dancer in a white dress carries a small boat and moves slowly through the water.

On the boat, the mermaid girl Jade Cicada was lying there quietly, her hair and body were full of flowers still stained with dewdrops, and her slightly powdered face was slightly flushed, making people think that she was just asleep.

The long skirt she wore with a blue background and gold thread embroidered with a wave pattern was exactly the same as the one Xia Qiu wore when she saw her in her dream, except for a delicate belt full of colored gems and feathers hanging from her waist.

A thousand white sails had already been hoisted on the lake in Dongyao City, surrounding the boat carrying the jade cicada to see her off. Everyone standing on those boats held a lotus lantern in their hands, quietly staring in the direction of the jade cicada.

As a mermaid, it was unprecedented to receive such a funeral, and Senki had prepared all of this for her as if she were her own sister.

Xia Qiu and Lingyu picked flowers for her in the palace garden and carefully decorated them. In her eyes, the jade cicada is so beautiful, and she is willing to sacrifice herself for the person she loves deeply, without regrets.

Her sentence "Don't fall in love, but don't forget!" Still echoing in Ouyang Xiaoleng's ears, he didn't know what he could do for her, so he recited the last paragraph of the Heart Sutra, hoping that it could guide her soul to the other side of the light.

"Revealing the truth, revealing the truth, revealing the truth, revealing the truth of the Bodhisattva, Bodhisattva Bha."

Dragged by mermaid dancers, the boat sailed to the middle of the lake, and the dancers began to dance around the boat in the water to the ethereal singing of the male mermaid singer on the boat next to them.

It was a traditional dance that the merfolk would only dance when they practiced for their companions, and the Thousand Riders insisted on not letting them dance any of the Sacrifice Dances, but only this one, because he didn't want the ritual to seem too sad.

The ferryman rowed the boat in which he and the other teenagers were riding to the side of the jade cicada's boat, and they took one last closer look at the beautiful maiden, who had become a real princess at sunset.

Although reluctant, Chiki knew it was time. He ordered the ferryman to row the boat some distance, and then summoned the dragon fire bow on his arm to release an arrow towards the jade cicada's boat, and the whole boat burst into flames, and the flames flew into the air.

Cremation is a tradition of the mermaid clan, and the thousand riders do not want to violate it.

Because they came from the water, and they lived there for most of the past, they believed in burning the skin of this life with fire after death in order to be able to be reborn in order to have a completely different fate in the next life.

After the grand funeral, the trip to Shuicheng to break the formation also came to an end temporarily. Seeing that the Amber Dragon King was no longer in trouble, several teenagers decided to say goodbye to Dongyao and return to the royal city.

In the days since they left, the royal city has been relatively peaceful.

Ouyang Hongye sent the secret weapon intelligence seven he trained as planned to secretly investigate the details of the prince's red-eared demon spirit.

I don't know if it's a coincidence or not, the earth city in the Qilie Array once belonged to the Demon Spirit Clan. And the prince red-eared demon spirit happened to be the descendant of the patriarch of the demon spirit clan, and his intuition told Ouyang Hongye that there must be an inextricable connection between them.

After days of tracking and investigation by the intelligence seven, some clues were finally discovered.

The red-eared demon spirit has only one son, named Kui. Kui was attacked by an unknown demon as a child, and since then his body has been weak and no longer growing, and he should have been an adult, but he still looks like he was when he was attacked when he was six years old. In the demon world, this situation is called ghost hide.

The so-called ghost hidden is those evil ghosts or demons who are powerful and live by ingesting the demonic power of others, and will designate the underage demon circle as his provider, and he and the donor will be connected by an invisible tube, and the evil spirit will use this tube to absorb the demonic power and life force from these children, and when the donor is completely emptied, it is also the moment of his death.

Dong Muya and Min Entong also used this time to collect a lot of information about Qingyang. Because the water and soil of green soil are different from other places, it is especially suitable for planting several plants that can make elixirs, and the elixir made from plants grown in green soil not only doubles the medicinal effect but also has less obvious side effects.

As the name suggests, this palace is in the shape of a king, and a large avenue in the palace connects the front hall, the main hall and the apse.

Taking the meaning of the Seven Heavens, the stepped Qingyang Castle is divided into seven levels. The Demon Spirit people live in stratification according to their status, and the higher the status, the higher the level of residence. The palace was on the top floor, and the lower floors were nobles, merchants, soldiers, and then almost all commoners who lived by cultivating elixirs.

For nearly 100 years, children born in the city have been repeatedly hidden and will die before they reach the age of 20, so the nobles and merchants have abandoned the city one after another, and the whole city has decayed, leaving only the old and weak to remain in the city. But in fact, leaving Qingyang could not prevent the occurrence of Oni Yin, although Kui, the son of the Red Ear Demon Spirit, was born in the royal city, he still did not escape the fate of Oni Yin.

Over the years, in order to be able to renew his son's life, the red-eared demon spirit often traveled back and forth between the royal city of Yongchuan and Qingyang.

Ouyang Hongye remembered that Lingyu from the Fire City Chilemir had said that Qingyun didn't know what kind of stubborn illness he was suffering from or was seriously injured, so he had always needed to consume elixir. The city lord of Fire City, Salamander, would send a convoy out of the city to buy it for him from time to time, and the place where the convoy went happened to be the green soil of the earth city, was it just a coincidence? He thought it was definitely not!

According to Min Entong's previous analysis, the array material of Tucheng green soil is fragrant soil.

The only thing related to the fragrant soil in Qingyang should be the sculpture created by the Demon Spirit Clan in the Futu Hall in the apse of the Wangzi Palace for the ape red demon they believe in.

The Ape Red Demon is a legendary figure when the Demon Spirit Clan was first established 700 years ago, it is said that he is eight feet tall, wearing gold armor, his steps are like a bell, his heart beats like a drum, and he is infinitely powerful, and he is best at stomping on opponents between jumps, and his even more peculiar thing is that he is rumored to have a thousand arms, and each arm can use a different weapon.

But none of the accounts is about how he died. There are only a handful of big monsters that can compete with him in the demon world, and it stands to reason that he shouldn't suddenly disappear in the demon world and never appear again.

After his disappearance, the Demon Spirit Clan fashioned the statue in red bronze, and the statue was not only the same size as him, but even had a thousand arms. They found incense soil to fill it and enshrined it on the Futu Hall of the Wangzi Palace, so that his dead spirit could continue to protect the green soil.

There is also a sensational rumor about him, saying that he likes to eat children to increase his demonic power because of his blind pursuit of power in the later period, and some people say that the ghost hidden that happened later in Qingyang is related to this ape red demon.

Just in the past few days, something even more unusual has happened. The red-eared demon spirit actually took his son Kui to secretly leave the royal city in a demon carriage at night, and the seven-member intelligence team secretly followed, only to find that he had returned to Qingyang with his son. In this period, it is clear that his actions have a special meaning.

Ouyang Hongye ordered the seven people to stay in Qingyang, secretly not moving, and continued to observe the movements of the red-eared demon spirit. And at this time, what he hopes most is that Mochizuki can appear and help him.

Since Mochizuki rescued Ouyang Xiaoleng and the others in Chilemir, he has not appeared at the contact point with the three purposes, and no one knows what happened to him later. But Ouyang Hongye always firmly believed that with his strength and the blessing of his brother Tingyue's spirit in the sky, he would definitely be able to escape.

After the teenagers left Dongyao, they decided to spend the night on the way back to Wangcheng. In the evening, they passed by a barren mountain, and happened to find a cave to shelter from the cold, so they called their demon horses into the cave. At this time, the night lantern obtained in Dongyao had a chance to play a role, and they each walked towards the cave.

"I really don't want to live in a place like this, it's the most likely to give birth to strange things when it's cloudy and damp!" Ling Yu complained.

Qianqi glared at him and said, "Don't talk nonsense to scare Xia Qiu!" ”

Xia Qiu hurriedly persuaded: "It's okay, there's nothing to be afraid of having you here!" ”

Looking at the two of them, she felt a little funny, in the past, Qianqi always competed with Ouyang Xiaoleng, but now there is another spirit feather that is even more lively.

Ouyang Xiaoleng, who had been silent since he entered the cave, suddenly made a gesture and reminded in a low voice: "Don't speak!" ”

Of them, he had the most sense of smell and feeling, and he had already noticed some strange breath in the air, but he was not quite sure whether it was left over from the past or if the owner of the breath was still present in the cave. But the deeper he went, the more he felt that there were other people in the cave besides them.

Several teenagers summon their weapons and decide to meet the challenges that may come their way. They found a pile of firewood that had just been extinguished in a slightly open area ahead, and it was likely that the other party had also discovered that someone had entered the cave and quickly extinguished it.

A black shadow rushed down from above the cave, and Ouyang Xiaoleng, Qian Qi, and Ling Yu hurriedly protected Xia Qiu behind them and confronted the black shadow.

But the uninvited man in the black cloak did not fight them head-on, but only dodged back and forth, and even bare his hands, which made them very strange.

"Stop fighting, Big Brother Shadow, I know it's you!" Lingyu suddenly stopped and shouted.

I saw that the black shadow lifted the hat on the cloak, revealing his true face, and Ouyang Xiaoleng saw that it was indeed Mochizuki.

Mochizuki, who was covered with stubble, and the pigtails on his head looked more messy and unruly than before, and he smiled heartily and said to them, "It's been a long time since I saw each other!" ”

Ouyang Xiao asked coldly: "Since you know that it is us, why didn't you speak just now?" ”

Mochizuki touched his head and responded to him: "I've been hiding and hiding all this time, and I'm also thinking about moving my muscles!" ”

It turned out that he had been being tracked by Qingyun's men since he escaped from Chilemir. At first, he decides to kill one when he finds one, but then realizes that he can't kill all of them, they will always pour out. Obviously, he who had been lurking in the east hotel and suddenly helped the demon king fox escape, aroused Qingyun's great interest.

It took him a lot of effort to get rid of the stalkers, but he was afraid that they would still be hiding in the shadows, so he didn't dare to go back to the place where he connected with the three eyes, and chose to sleep alone in the open air. This cave is where he has settled in the past few days, but he didn't expect to meet Ouyang Xiaoleng and them here.