Chapter 16: The Scarlet Song Temple
"And then? I wonder why you created the Scarlet Song Cult and why you did these hurtful things? Ziyu asked, "You obviously promised her that you would not bear the burden of killing for her." But look at how many young girls' lives you are carrying on you now? ”
Ziyu felt a little angry when she thought of this. It is true that Hui Xun's story with Lige is a bit miserable, and his feelings for Lige did move her, but this does not mean that she can ignore Hui Xun's mistakes for this.
Hui Xun is in love with the song, he wants to save the song, he can save people in the name of others and ignore the lives of others, even if the purpose is beautiful and beautiful, Ziyu can't accept it.
Of course, Ziyu is also selfish.
In my heart, Hui Xun is a demon, nominally under the name of the demon king raccoon. As early as when the Tanuki and Miling Mountain were on good terms, the two parties set a non-aggression agreement and made a commitment to the heavenly realm. Zi Yu remembered that one of those promises was that they would never let each other's monks or demons come out and disturb the order of the world.
However, the Scarlet Song Sect founded by Hui Xun, as well as the things he did, once it is traced and known by the Heavenly Realm, it will be counted as the poor management of the raccoon dog, if the Heavenly Realm has the intention to investigate it, then it will definitely implicate the raccoon dog and the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain.
But fortunately, this matter was discovered by her, Ji Liuhuo, and Ling Sushuang first, and she also believed that Ji Liuhuo and Ling Sushuang would not tell anyone about the Scarlet Song Sect, so she only needed to solve this matter, and when the time came, she could send a message to Tanuki Zhi and ask him to take care of the aftermath.
Anyway, for Hui Xun's sake, Ziyu decided that it would be better for her to be generous and not worry about him so much.
Zi Yu was about to wander out of the world, and then she was pulled back to her senses by Ling Sushuang's words.
"I also have a question, and I would like to ask the Lord for clarification. To be honest, I'm curious how the Sect Master learned about this evil art. Ling Sushuang suddenly spoke, and after she finished speaking, she paused slightly, turned her head to look at the silent Ji Liuhuo, and made eye contact with Ji Liuhuo for a while, before continuing: "Take blood and melt water to test the soul body, and use the soul to nourish the soul against death and life." The evil art in this ancient forbidden book should not be known to you, a snake demon who has cultivated for thousands of years in the mortal world. ”
Ziyu was immediately distracted by Ling Sushuang's words. She remembered that Ling Sushuang had said those things she had seen in the pile of books that Nansu had given her one time, and she thought it was interesting and wrote them down. Although she knew that the book was not simple, she never thought that the book would be a forbidden book from ancient times!
She only vaguely remembered that it was not easy for Nansu to get these books at that time. Because that time, Tanuki specially explained to her, saying that the books that Nansu sent her this time were extremely precious.
How precious it is, probably so precious that each of these books is not even qualified to read some famous immortals.
And the reason why Nansu was able to get these books was because he was the only apprentice of the Vermilion Bird Divine Monarch Nan Hotaru, and he was fortunate enough to be rewarded by the deceased Suzaku Divine Monarch, and obtained the honor of being able to enter and exit the Heavenly Library at will, and to borrow books without jurisdiction, so that he could secretly bring these books out in private.
She still remembered that it was because Nansu sent these books at that time, so she was tacitly allowed by Tanuki to live in the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain for a long time, and was not driven out.
Thinking about it this way, Hui Xun's way of knowing this technique is worth pondering. Zi Yu hugged and stretched out and touched her chin, staring at Hui Xun with a pair of eyes, her expression was extremely serious, and she looked like she was frank and lenient and resisted strictness.
Hui Xun was silent, and suddenly asked, "Do you believe in dreams?" ”
Ziyu glanced at Hui Xun inexplicably: "Don't tell me that these are what you know in your dreams." ”
"That's really what I learned in my dreams."
It was on the night of Lige's birthday, when Lige had been asleep for more than two months and three days, and he drank alone in the pavilion because he missed her, and he got drunk unconsciously.
The moon was as cold as water, and he lay on the stone table in a groggy state, half drunk and half asleep, dreaming in a daze. The dream was chaotic, and he stood alone in the darkness of the night, surrounded by the shadow of a snake flying around, and a yellowed piece of paper that moved with the shadow of the snake.
He didn't pay much attention to it at first, but he had the same dream for several days, the only difference was the snake shadow that became clearer and clearer in the dream, and the paper that fell in front of him little by little.
In the next few dreams, he finally picked up the paper.
He saw that the front of the paper was full of jumbled characters, and he didn't recognize them, but he found the snake translations of the ancient characters on the back of the paper.
"Take blood and melt water, and nourish the soul with the soul".
In fact, he couldn't remember many things in the dream, but the snake language was deeply imprinted in his mind. He silenced that passage many times, and gradually had an idea in his heart.
Maybe that method can wake up Lige.
So he found the Shadow Shower and the Hidden Spring, and told them about the method. He and Lige were originally kind to them, so they almost didn't hesitate and immediately agreed.
Later, there was the existence of the Scarlet Song Sect. He proclaimed himself the head of the sect, and let the Shadow and Youquan be his left and right protectors, searching for suitable girls for him, and extracting the most suitable souls to feed Lige.
Zi Yu didn't speak after listening, still pinching her chin in deep thought. Ji Liuhuo, who had been silent for a long time, said: "Since this is the case, let's go see the sect leader's wife first and confirm that it is He Snake Demon Poison." ”
Hui Xun's face changed slightly, and he responded with the word "good", and took the lead to walk outside the house.
Ji Liuhuo and Ling Sushuang didn't notice Hui Xun's strange appearance because they had something on their minds, but Zi Yu clearly saw Hui Xun's face a little paler after Ji Liuhuo finished saying that, and his expression of wanting to stop talking. She wondered in her heart, but she didn't ask after all.
Maybe he has something unspeakable. Zi Yu thought so, quietly made a note in her heart, and then followed Ling Sushuang and Ji Liuhuo, under the leadership of Hui Xun, to the Scarlet Song Temple.
The Scarlet Song Temple is located in a sparsely populated mountain field in the capital of Qin, west of Yangzhou, and is said to be a temple, but it is a bit similar to the design of a small town in Suzhou, with a spell outside, like a protective net surrounding the temple.
"Ah Li likes Jiangnan, I can't take her there, so I have to make one." Hui Xun said.
He was very silent along the way, and he didn't introduce it here, but just said this lightly, and never said anything else.
Ziyu quietly looked at the scenery under the clouds on the clouds, a bay of water connected the entire temple, the courtyard was simple white walls and green tiles, rows of houses looked at each other across the water, and the arch bridges of different carvings were connected to each other, and there was occasionally a shuttle wooden boat on the water under the bridge that appeared slowly and walked away, which made people feel a little relaxed for no reason.
After entering the temple, Hui Xun slowed them down, so Ziyu was able to sit on the clouds and watch the scenery while constantly letting out exclamations. Ling Sushuang was also surprised by the exquisite layout of the Scarlet Song Temple, and admired and praised it together with Ziyu, adding a bit of excitement to the silent temple.
It's just that Ji Liuhuo has been extremely silent all the way, and even Hui Xun didn't say a word, which couldn't help but make Ziyu wonder if staying with Ji Liuhuo could make people's personalities become cold.
They walked very slowly, even slower than the speed of the wooden boat that was leisurely moving with the waves on the water, and just when Ziyu was a little tired, Hui Xun suddenly spoke: "It's here." ”
Ji Liuhuo and Ling Sushuang followed Hui Xun's instructions to lower the clouds and stopped in front of a small courtyard.
Hui Xun took the lead in getting down to the clouds and stepped forward to push open the courtyard door. Although Hui Xun didn't show it on his face, Zi Yu always felt that he was a little afraid in his heart, she observed very carefully, and naturally saw Hui Xun's other hand hidden in his sleeve trembling slightly.
Ziyu didn't know why he was like this, he seemed to be scared and nervous, maybe Lige finally had hope of being rescued and his emotions were too complicated? Or maybe there are other hidden secrets in the mainland about this matter? Zi Yu couldn't help but start thinking nonsense, but before she could finish making up her brain, she was knocked on the head by Ling Sushuang, so she had to put aside her guess for a while, and followed her into the courtyard.
The courtyard is neither big nor small, but from the well-maintained flowers and trees in the yard, and the clean and tidy tables and chairs, you can see that the owner of the yard cares about this yard. I want to come here is the place where Lige has been "asleep" for so many years.
Hui Xun didn't stop all the way, and led them directly into the main house.
The design of the room is very simple, with all pear blossom wood carved furniture and soft embroidered carpets on the floor. To the left is a landscape screen painting as a barrier to block the left room, and on the right side is a long jade-colored bead curtain, which can be vaguely seen to be a bedroom.
Hui Xun is not like mortals, and has many taboos. He directly lifted the beaded curtain and let the three of them walk in. It's just that his expression is not as frank as his behavior. Ziyu didn't walk in quickly, and she had been paying attention to Hui Xun all the time, so she could see the deep worry in Hui Xun's eyes, and a trace of fear that was hidden deeply.
Ziyu suddenly felt a little sympathetic.
She knew that the reason why Hui Xun was able to survive for so many years was only by deceiving herself that she had left the song and not died. Hui Xun was also very scared, he was afraid that after Ji Liuhuo and Ling Sushuang finished reading it, like all the doctors he had found at the beginning, like his two brothers, as soon as he opened his mouth, he said that Lige was dead.
He was afraid that they would tell him that Lige was not sleeping, Lige was dead, and that they could not save him.
Ziyu could see that Hui Xun cared too much about leaving the song, so he couldn't accept the death of the song. He regarded Lige as the light of his life, and if the light was extinguished, he would not be able to live.
But Ziyu felt that maybe Hui Xun was not as simple as he appeared.
Somehow, one guess after another suddenly popped up in Zi Yu's heart, but it was difficult for Hui Xun to say it in the end, so he had to keep his mouth shut, and led Ling Sushuang forward while wandering.
Ziyu didn't get distracted for long, because she soon sensed a snake demon venom in the room, coming from the amber bed.
That aura was not too strong, but because of Ziyu's identity, she was naturally sensitive to snake venom. Even after such a distance, and even closer to Ji Liuhuo and Ling Sushuang had not yet noticed it, she had already felt the aura of the snake demon's venom.
Only this time, she noticed that the snake demon venom in the song was extremely fierce and vicious.
Intuition told Ziyu that the identity of the snake demon who bit the song was definitely not simple.
As Zi Yu expected, I saw Ji Liuhuo walk to the amber bed first, and at this time he was already checking the wound of Lige lying on the bed, and his expression became more and more solemn with the examination.
After a while, he turned his head and nodded towards Ling Sushuang behind him, frowning and saying, "This snake demon poison is turbid, that's right."
Ling Sushuang's face sank when he heard this, and he was about to go to see it, Ji Liuhuo saw this and took two steps back to make way for Ling Sushuang, and Ling Sushuang stepped forward and stood in front of the bed.
Without any hesitation, she directly leaned over and pulled the clothes on Lige's shoulder, looked at the wound on Lige's shoulder, and checked Lige's face before retreating, her face was a little heavier than Ji Liuhuo: "Five points of virulence, what should we do?"
Ji Liuhuo didn't answer, but Zi Yu on the side was a little ignorant: "Is Void Turbid the name of that snake demon?" Is that snake demon called Void Turbid very powerful? What kind of snake demon venom is this and the song? ”
Zi Yu asked three questions in a row, Ling Sushuang looked embarrassed, and finally answered the first question in silence: "Void turbidity is the name of the beetle snake." ”
Hui Xun, who had been standing silently at the bead curtain, finally turned pale in this sentence.
And Ziyu suddenly realized. She knew about the beetle snake, and when she was in the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain in the past, Tanuki told her about the past.