The afterglow of the bonfire festival has not yet subsided, the cheerful music and singing still seem to linger in the ears, and the enthusiastic dance steps are still boiling with blood, but the teenagers have to bid farewell to the soil city and green soil and embark on the way home to the royal city of Yongchuan.

No matter how reluctant they were, the first rays of the morning sun appeared and urged them to set off, and the Heyin, the Heye, and many people from the Demon Spirit Clan all gathered together to see them off. Before I knew it, it was time to separate, Hingye and his children were extremely attached to Xia Qiu, and Xiaoshi and Doudou were even more tugging at the corners of her clothes and refused to let go of their little hands.

Seeing that he had already walked out of the archway at the city gate, Mochizuki summoned his demon horse, smiled heartily at the person who saw him off and said: "What I drank yesterday was really a pleasure, and the Demon Spirit Clan is really heroic!" You can send it here! We're going to hurry back to Wangcheng to make a mission, I don't know what Momiji is going to worry about again! ”

Xia Qiu still wears a small stone around her neck and a wreath that Doudou knitted for herself with her mother bell yesterday, this wreath is made of special herb flowers, so even if it is put overnight, the fragrance is still very strong, and yesterday it was placed next to the pillow and drank some wine to make her sleep very sweetly all night.

"You have to take care, Sister Xia Qiu! I heard that you will soon be going to the Fire City of Chi Mir, which is a dangerous place, so you might as well wait a few more days, and when I have recovered from my wounds, I will go to the royal city with you, okay?" Hinge pleaded.

The wound on his chest would take some more time to heal, and now he only hated that he couldn't join their team immediately to help Xia Qiu and Ouyang Xiaoleng.

"Little Stone and Doudou have just recovered, you have to accompany them well! And Kui, it must be very hard for Bell to take care of him alone. There are still troops in the royal city, and if you are really needed as a last resort, I will definitely tell you! Xia Qiu said comfortingly, then turned to Little Stone and Doudou, "I will come to see you again in the future, and I will bring you fun and delicious things when the time comes!" I want to listen to your father and mother, and I have to get along with Kui, you know? ”

"Hmm!" Little Stone and Doudou nodded in unison.

The galloping demon horse pulled the green soil city behind him into seven lines like a rainbow, just now I was afraid that they would be sad about the hinge, Xia Qiu has been holding back tears, and now I can finally let myself cry, fortunately, Qingcui ran so fast, no one would notice her tears.

Many princes and nobles have gathered inside and outside the palace these days. As soon as the news of the Red Eared Demon Spirit betraying the royal city and defecting to Qingyun spread, the entire royal city exploded again, and many people in the city were inevitably in chaos.

On weekdays, he had a good relationship with the red-eared demon spirit, and he began to worry about his situation, so he tried his best to dissociate himself from him; has a bad relationship with him, and begins to worry about whether he will be retaliated against by Qingyun; There are also many people who were the happiest at the time of the trial of Mochizuki, and at this time they knew that his innocence had been confirmed, so he had no confidence, so he retaliated and hurriedly sent all kinds of generous gifts to the Auxiliary Star Palace, and even many were sent to Wutong Garden. Ouyang Yong had no choice but to accept it for Mochizuki first, and then make a decision when he came back.

Although everyone tried their best to hide it, Little Snow Rabbit still heard about the whole story of Uncle Mochizuki's wrongdoing, and she was very angry when she heard that those princes fell into the well when he was judged. She was obviously the happiest one at this moment, and when she saw these snobbish people who had wronged Uncle Mochizuki bring gifts to her house, she deliberately embarrassed them, and made them carry the gifts back and forth in the house and yard a few more times before telling them where to put them.

Recently, Wang Cheng has been relatively calm, and her mother Miao Xue You is not as strict as she used to be in the past. Knowing that Uncle Mochizuki was going to return to the royal city with Brother Xiao Leng and Sister Xia Qiu, she ran to the Auxiliary Star Hall early to guard, just in time to be able to chat with Grandpa Yong and play chess. When she was pulling Grandpa Yong to play ghost chess with her, the second elder Lion Wang Cheng suddenly visited.

"Snow Rabbit, you go to the yard to play for a while!" Ouyang Yong said to her kindly.

"Oh......" Snow Rabbit was still a little reluctant, but still walked out of the house.

She has never liked Lion Wang Cheng very much, and feels that he always gives people an indescribable sense of oppression with a face. Moreover, before Ouyang Xiaoleng succeeded to the throne, he had not supported him very much, and when Uncle Mochizuki was wronged by everyone, he did not play a good role at all. She thought that he must not be good to come here, so she decided to hide outside and listen to his conversation with Grandpa Yong.

"Actually, I've heard about what you're doing for a long time, and Fenghuo also revealed a little bit to me before going to Nanzhejiang, but I've always felt that since it's something beneficial to the royal city and the demon world, it's inconvenient for me to stop it." Lion King Cheng took a sip of tea and said.

"Actually, I've wanted to discuss with you for a long time, but because of Mochizuki's previous status as a fugitive from the royal city, it's hard to say. A series of recent actions all stem from an array he intercepted with his help, and he lurks around Qingyun for a while, and later learns that Qingyun is about to use the array map to complete some unknown project. Later, this map was brought back to the royal city by the demon king and the fox, and after some analysis by the administrator of the Ouyang Ancient Mansion database, although it was not clear what this map was used for, it was concluded that this map was a very complex alchemy array map. As he spoke, Ouyang Yong took out a scroll of paper from his sleeve and unfolded it to the Lion King Cheng, and the paper was the array of strange columns.

"The death of the city lord of Nanzhejiang is inextricably linked to alchemy, and it seems that Qingyun really has some great knowledge." Lion King Cheng looked back and forth at the picture, revealing a look of surprise.

"Exactly! This diagram can even create life, and if it is penetrated by Qingyun, he is likely to create a monster that is enough to subvert the demon world. Ouyang Yong echoed.

"Although I don't know the specific content of this array map yet, I know that the Demon King Fox and the others will go to Fire City in the future, right?" Lion King Cheng asked.

"yes, how do you know?" Ouyang Yong asked him rhetorically, feeling that there seemed to be a mystery hidden in Lion Wang Cheng's words.

Yan Ming recently made a prophecy. This prophecy is about a certain conspiracy between the Demon King Fox and the Human Contractor who will soon go to Fire City to end Qingyun, and he predicts that his conspiracy is related to Black Fire Purgatory, but he can't say the specifics. Lion Wang Cheng began to gradually bring the topic into the right track.

"Oh? You're going to say more than that, right? Ouyang Yong heard his voice.

"Well, the next few words can only be conveyed by Yan Ming himself to the human contractor! Even I wouldn't say it, but I guess it was some key factor in the success of their trip to Fire City. After speaking, Lion Wang Cheng took another sip of tea.

"When they come back, I'll let Xia Qiu go to you!" After Ouyang Yong finished speaking, he looked thoughtfully in the direction of the window, and then asked to himself, "Are there rabbits in my yard?" ”

"Rabbit?" Lion Wang Cheng raised his gaze from the teacup in his hand and looked at him suspiciously.

"It's okay, I guess I heard it wrong, it's like this when I'm older!" Ouyang Yong replied with a smile.

The snow rabbit outside the window was frightened, and she heard that Grandpa Yong noticed that she was hiding here, so she quickly hunched over and fled a little farther away before daring to catch her breath.

As soon as Mochizuki and the boys stepped into Chenji Palace, before they could go to greet Ouyang Hongye, Xia Qiu was called over by Ouyang Yong alone, and asked her to go to the Kaiyang Hall to find the stone demon Yanming. Although she didn't quite understand the reason, because it was ordered by Ouyang Yong, it was inconvenient to ask more, so she walked towards the Kaiyang Hall alone.

This was the first time she had entered the territory of Lion King Cheng, and although the structure of the Kaiyang Hall was very similar to the Auxiliary Star Palace, it was extremely different in layout. Unlike Ouyang Yong's simplicity, Lion Wang Cheng seems to be more interested in intricate curtains and luxurious furniture, and the courtyard is actually planted with extravagant peonies and hibiscus.

The stone demon Yanming stood in the middle of the courtyard, as if he had a premonition that she would come at this moment, and nodded his head when he saw her. No matter how many times she met, Xia Qiu still had a little fear of him, his body wrapped in bandages from top to bottom under his big black cloak, revealing only a pair of green eyes, and that pair of spotless white gloves, all of which made her associate with the protagonist in horror movies.

She nodded to him in return, and then asked, "I heard you have something to tell me?" ”

The stone demon Yanming was silent for a moment and thought about how to speak, and then said to her, "Although I have the ability to prophesy, unlike your soul separation ability, my power cannot be exerted anytime and anywhere. Sometimes my prophetic abilities are not under my control, and there are some information and images that naturally appear in my mind, so I can't completely distinguish whether they are a prediction of the future or just some kind of imagination of mine, but ......"

Xia Qiu heard the twists and turns in his words, so he asked bluntly, "Can you tell me directly what you saw?" Is it about me? ”

"I have a hunch that you will soon be heading to the Fire City of Chi Mir, and I also have a hunch that the purpose of your visit this time is related to the Black Fire Purgatory, but I hope you can listen to the next few words about you." Speaking of this, the stone demon's flat tone began to become serious.

"Hmm!" Xia Qiu nodded, looking at him intently.

"You are indispensable to your ultimate goal this time, but at the same time I do not see you in the possibility of your success, but instead a black shadow." The stone demon Yanming continued.

His green pupils suddenly began to congest, and the memories of this passage brought him back to the state he had prophesied, and his hands and shoulders began to tremble. Seeing that darkness again made him feel extremely painful and cold, because he knew what that darkness meant, which was the color of death.

"Can you make that clearer?" Xia Qiu felt the ominousness in his prophecy, but still bravely pursued it.

"If you go to the city of Fire, you may face death." The stone demon Yanming had quickly returned to normal, and said calmly.

"But you just said I'm integral to success?" Xia Qiu felt as if someone had suddenly poured a bucket of cold water from top to bottom, and her voice began to tremble uncontrollably.

"Yes, the only way to avoid this outcome is for you not to go to Chi Mire. It will be your freedom to decide what you will choose, and whether or not you will tell others what I have to say, and that's all I can say. After the stone demon finished speaking, he saluted again and left.

Only Xia Qiu, who looked in a trance, remained in place. This is a dilemma, if she tells the words of the stone demon to the others, whether it is Ouyang Xiaoleng, Qianqi or Lingyu, they will definitely try their best to prevent her from going to the Fire City Chi Mire; But if she doesn't go, the plan to destroy the material of the last city array will most likely not succeed. She wasn't entirely sure if the black prophecy would come true, but she decided to bury it deep in her heart, because only then would she be able to follow her own will and make the final choice without anyone's interference.