Chapter 17, the snake demon venom
In the past, after the ancient goddess Nuwa made a man from the soil, because of loneliness, she pinched a pet according to her own appearance, that is, a beetle snake. After tens of thousands of years of cultivation, the beetle snake has become an immortal, giving birth to wings and being good at soaring clouds, and the Vermilion Bird, the White Tiger, the Green Dragon, the Xuanwu, and the six ancient divine beasts.
However, although the beetle snake is called a divine beast, he has no godhead, he is selfish by nature, hypocritical and cunning. When the ancient gods of Nuwa were not extinguished, the beetle snake would still disguise itself because of the identity of the pet of the ancient gods, but after the death of the ancient gods of Nuwa, he became unscrupulous and disobeyed the rules of the gods several times.
Because of the face of the ancient gods of Nuwa, the gods and immortals still put up with him in the end, but the void saw this as the gods and immortals were afraid of him, and they became even more indulgent, so that they later angered the Emperor of Heaven, and the gods sent by the Emperor of Heaven caught him with snakes and trapped him in Nuwa Mountain.
It is said that at that time, the Emperor of Heaven also personally performed a spell on Nuwa Mountain, threatening that if the turbid nature did not change, he would not be allowed to come out for a day.
The Emperor of Heaven would initially go to Nuwa Mountain every hundred years to check the turbidity situation, and then see if the snake rope was damaged, and then strengthen the spell along the way. At that time, these things became the talk of the Heavenly Realm after dinner, but later the Emperor of Heaven was gradually busy with other affairs, and the number of times went less, and after that, the beetle snake was left behind.
In the tens of thousands of years, there will always be many other new and interesting things happening, just when all the heavenly gods and immortals in the heavenly realm gradually forgot the void, and few people remembered the void again, suddenly from Nuwa Mountain, the news that the void broke the snake rope and the heavenly emperor's spiritual spell came out.
Void turbidity holds a grudge, this time he has been trapped in Nuwa Mountain and imprisoned for tens of thousands of years, how can he easily give up, he has been cultivating hard for tens of thousands of years, just to get revenge once he escapes.
The first thing he did after he came out was to make trouble in the Lingyun Immortal Palace where the Emperor of Heaven lived, and at that time, it happened that the Western Heavenly Buddha set up a puja, and the Emperor of Heaven led a row of famous immortals in the Heavenly Realm to participate in the Dharma, and the combined efforts of the immortals and gods who stayed in the Heavenly Realm were also difficult to defeat the ancient divine beasts that had been painstakingly cultivated for tens of thousands of years, so for a time the Heavenly Realm was turned upside down by the void.
Fortunately, at that time, the first female god of war in the heavenly realm, Suzaku Divine Monarch Nan Ying, did not leave, and led the Blue Dragon Divine Monarch Dongyan to come to help, and finally found the Void Dead Cave and attacked each other with joint forces after a hard battle.
Seeing this, the void knew that it was impossible to escape, and he ruthlessly gave up the seven spirits to kill the Qinglong Divine Monarch, and the Vermilion Bird Divine Monarch was injured by the Void Turbidity in order to save the Qinglong Divine Monarch, and the Void Turbidity was destroyed by two souls and seven spirits, and the remaining soul took advantage of the chaos to escape into the mortal world, and the Vermilion Bird Divine Monarch failed to survive until the Heavenly Emperor returned with the elixir because of the nine-point poisonous snake venom, and died out outside the Lingyun Immortal Palace.
Ziyu remembered that every time Tanuki told her about this past, his expression was full of grief, and after the death of the Vermilion Bird Divine Monarch, Tanuki was unwilling to stay in the heavenly realm anymore, so he went down to earth alone and became a demon king in the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain, so as to live in chaos.
And if he was poisoned by the snake demon, even if he was an ancient divine beast, the Vermilion Bird Divine Monarch only ended up with a soul annihilation, not to mention that it was just a song with thousands of years of cultivation?
Zi Yu looked at Hui Xun's expression, obviously he knew about the beetle snake.
Hui Xun walked over with a white face, and the whole thing shook badly. He stumbled to the bed of Lige, knelt on the ground and stretched out his hand to pull Lige, but suddenly cried bitterly.
He said: "I know the beetle snake, I guess you don't know, the snake god worshiped by our snake clan is the ancient divine beast beetle snake, he is the only one in our snake clan who has cultivated the god position, so he is worshiped by all the snake clan's kind. ”
Ziyu suddenly couldn't bear to listen to it, and even Ling Sushuang had a rare expression of unbearability.
Since the beetle snake is the snake god of the snake clan, it is obvious that Hui Xun knows the beetle snake.
Then it is not difficult to think that Lige should have recognized the flying snake demon at a glance, which was the snake god they worshipped, so she was frightened, and she pushed Hui Xun away regardless of it.
And Hui Xun, maybe from the beginning, from the moment Lige fell, he clearly understood that Lige was dead, and it was he who was too sure of this answer, but he couldn't accept this answer from the mouths of others.
The so-called finding a doctor, the so-called lethargy, is nothing more than his wishful thinking. After all, if you don't deceive yourself, how can you deceive others?
He pretended to be so real that he believed that Lige was not dead, Lige was asleep, and he really didn't know what kind of snake demon poison Lige had caused this, he thought that as long as he deceived himself and escaped from reality, he didn't have to face the fact that Lige was dead.
He has deceived himself for so long, but now he has to be forced to recognize the current situation, he naturally can't stand it.
Ziyu felt a little uncomfortable in her heart, and wanted to leave to go outside the house for a walk, but found that Ji Liuhuo, who had not spoken, had a pain in her eyes.
"If I promise you will save her, I will save her." After Ji Liuhuo finished speaking, he turned around and left the house.
And Ling Sushuang's face also showed a look of pain, Zi Yu couldn't care about the discomfort for a while, and hurriedly turned around and chased after Ling Sushuang after repeatedly confirming that he was fine.
Intuition told Zi Yu that the identities of Ji Liuhuo and Ling Sushuang were definitely more than just the monks of Lingshan Mountain.
They knew that the ancient beetle snake was turbid, and after a little thought, Zi Yu guessed that the person they were talking about before was nine times out of ten that it was turbid, and Zi Yu thought that when she first saw it on the hill outside Changxiao Town, Ling Sushuang mentioned the name of Void Turbidity with a look of urgency.
They came for the void, although they didn't know what they wanted to do with the void, but Zi Yu always had a faint premonition, maybe the relationship between the two of them and the void was not simple, and even more, they had some kind of relationship with the heavenly realm and the deceased Vermilion Bird Divine Monarch.
Ziyu found Ji Liuhuo on the roof of another courtyard connected to this courtyard, she pinched the spell and climbed onto the roof, and sat next to Ji Liuhuo by herself.
Ji Liuhuo ignored her, just stared at the sky blankly.
Ziyu looked at the sky and then at Ji Liuhuo, thought about it and asked, "Are you okay?" ”
Ji Liuhuo nodded, and said after a while: "I just remembered an old man." ”
Ji Liuhuo's voice was slightly hoarse, with hidden pain: "She also died because of snake poison and died in my arms." I watched her breathe a little weaker, but I couldn't save her. ”
Zi Yu's heart became more and more uncomfortable, and she wanted to say some comforting words but didn't know how to persuade her. She is a bystander, and she can naturally say those comforting words easily, after all, bystanders are light.
But if the person concerned can be comforted by a few words that are nothing new, then it should have been relieved a long time ago, how can he still suffer from the pain of longing and regret for a long time?
She remembered that for the death of Suzaku Shenjun Nan Hotaru, Tanuki still has no way to get out, and every year on Suzaku Shenjun's birthday and sacrifice day, Tanuki will get drunk and lock himself in the house for a whole day and not come out.
And every time at that time, Nansu, who always made a fuss and looked the most heartless, would also become extremely silent, sitting alone under the tree for a day, seeing everything would be distracted, and even the atmosphere of the entire Ten Thousand Demon Mountain would become extremely depressing.
Now Ji Liuhuo is the same, he watched the person he cared about die in front of him, but he couldn't do anything, how painful it should be.
Zi Yu didn't speak again, she felt that all the comfort was superfluous to Ji Liuhuo, so she chose to remain silent and just sat quietly next to Ji Liuhuo.
At that time, it was dusk, the sunset was all over the sky, the sunset would fall on the water, sparkling golden waves, the unmanned wooden boat slowly swam on the water, and the breeze blew over the weeping willow branches on the river bank, peaceful and beautiful.
"Let's go back." I don't know how long it took, Ji Liuhuo said suddenly.
Zi Yu got up obediently and silently followed behind Ji Liuhuo: "Do you have a way to solve the poison of the song?"
Ji Liuhuo didn't answer, Ziyu didn't ask anymore when he saw this, and the two of them went back to the courtyard where they were one after the other.
Before entering the door, Ziyu heard Ji Liuhuo reply very lightly, "Approximately." ”
Inside the house, Ling Sushuang was sitting alone in the hall, and when she saw Ziyu and Ji Liuhuo coming in, she hurriedly got up: "Where did you go, why did you come back?" ”
"It's okay, just walk around." Ji Liuhuo said casually and walked straight towards the bedroom.
Ziyu and Ling Sushuang glanced at each other, and then walked in as well.
The bedroom was very quiet, and I saw Hui Xun kneeling in front of the bed with his head down, which made people unable to see his expression clearly, but it made people feel sentimental for no reason.
Hearing the footsteps, Hui Xun raised his head, but he hadn't seen him for half an hour, but he looked a lot of vicissitudes, his eyes were empty, and even a few strands of gray hair had been added to his sideburns.
Zi Yu suddenly felt a little sad when she saw Hui Xun like this, but she heard Ji Liuhuo say: "What do you do like this, as long as you can cure her poison, it may not be difficult to bring her back to life." And although she is a beetle snake demon venom, I know that there is a way to solve it. ”
Hui Xun's eyes faintly lit up, and both Ziyu and Ling Sushuang couldn't help but get excited when they heard the news. Ziyu looked at Ji Liuhuo, and her heart was full of anticipation.
If there is really any way to get rid of the snake venom in Lige's body and resurrect Lige, then Hui Xun and Lige can be together happily again.
Zi Yu thought so, and looked at Ji Liuhuo more seriously, waiting for his next words.
"Did you know that hosta flowers can cure snake venom." Ji Liuhuo said slowly: "Take the hosta petals and mash them externally to apply the wound, and use its juice as medicine to take it internally, you can solve all the snake venom in the world." ”
"However, the beetle snake is an ancient divine beast, and the hosta flower introduced for medicine naturally cannot be an ordinary hosta flower. I heard that the Demon King of Ten Thousand Demon Mountain has a purple hosta, I don't know if you've heard of it? ”
Although Ji Liuhuo said this, he looked at Hui Xun, but his eyes also fell lightly on Zi Yu. Zi Yu panicked for no reason, and before she could think about it, she heard Hui Xun say, "Naturally, I've heard of it." Back then, the demon king and the head of the Soul Seeking faction, a demon and an immortal, had caused trouble in the Three Realms for this flower. ”
Ji Liuhuo nodded and praised: "That purple hosta sprouts for a thousand years and blooms for a thousand years, although it only has thousands of years of cultivation, but with the Demon King and the head of the Spirit Seeking Sect taking care of it personally, how can it be bad?" If you can get the petals of the purple hosta for external application, and use its blood as a guide to relieve the snake venom of the sect leader's wife, it will not be a difficult task. ”
Hearing this, Hui Xun suddenly became depressed again: "Who in the fairy and demon worlds doesn't know that the head of the Spirit Seeking Sect and the demon king offer that purple hosta as a treasure, how can I be able to get the purple hosta petals and her blood?" ”
"Just because you can't do it doesn't mean we don't." Ji Liuhuo looked at Ziyu as he spoke, and there was silence in his eyes.
Zi Yu didn't look away, she looked directly at Ji Liuhuo, she couldn't believe that this indifferent and ruthless person in front of her was the person who would make her call his brother when she first saw her at night, the person who was worried about her but didn't say anything after she sneaked into the Scarlet Garden, the person who couldn't bear to wake him up after she accidentally fell asleep in Lige House, and the person who was sitting on the roof with her just now.
She had always felt that Ji Liuhuo was actually a warm and kind person, but because of some external reasons, he had to act like a cold one, but now, she felt that she didn't know him at all.
There are turbulent waves between Ziyu and Ji Liuhuo over there, but Ling Sushuang and Hui Xun here are unknown, so the two of them looked at Ji Liuhuo in a daze, and then looked at Ziyu along Ji Liuhuo's line of sight, and then looked at Ji Liuhuo along Ziyu's line of sight.
Ziyu was uncomfortable for a while, but she held back her emotions and pretended to be calm and asked Ji Liuhuo: "What can you do?" ”
"If I didn't guess your identity wrongly, then as long as you want, the poison of the sect master's wife can be saved."
When Zi Yu heard this, she knew that she couldn't pretend anymore, and Ji Liuhuo must have guessed that she was the Purple Hosta Flower Demon.
However, even if she is a purple hosta, even if she has a good relationship with Ji Liuhuo and Ling Sushuang, she really wants to help Hui Xun and Lige, but this does not mean that she is willing to use her petals to help.
He had no idea what those petals meant to her.
"I don't want to." Zi Yu looked at Ji Liuhuo fixedly, inexplicably feeling very aggrieved, and her heart was very uncomfortable. She sniffed and said stiffly, "I'm sorry for you to find another way." ”