The evening breeze was cool, the thin clouds gradually obscured the day, and the city was dead silent, and no one was resting. The dappled shadows of the trees swayed in the wind, and the leaves swayed like whispers. Upon closer listening, it seems that someone is hurrying down a desolate road, and his steps are hurrying back, as if he is looking for something.

A person jumped out of the deep alley, jumped up the wall, looked around, and the huge ancient city seemed to be sleeping, with a faint sound of breathing. The man listened attentively for a long time, and unconsciously rested his hand on the peiyu on his waist, with a solemn expression, and looked in a certain direction.

Chi Yuan's forehead became more and more hot, and he opened his eyes suddenly, and the surroundings were old, the moonlight was bright, and the body of the tree was open. Chi Yuan stood up, stretched out his hand and rubbed his painful eyebrows, but he saw a few remnant butterflies still fluttering on the ground.

Butterfly? Chi Yuan reached out in confusion, but retracted it suddenly.

Wrong. Chi Yuan remembered that he was inexplicably unconscious, and there were broken dreams, and he always felt that this remnant butterfly was very strange.

Xiao Yuan's figure flashed in his mind again, and an ominous premonition arose in his heart, Chi Yuan's heart moved slightly and wanted to summon Wuya, but there was no response at the center of his eyebrows, so he had to summon Frost and hold it in his hand.

The talisman on his forehead burned abnormally, Chi Yuan closed his eyes and concentrated, reaching out his spiritual power to feel his weak connection with Wuyan. A silky faint breath came, and Chi Yuan withdrew his spiritual power and hurriedly searched in the direction he had reached.

Chi Yuan felt the weakening breath, and a trace of uneasiness arose in his heart. After a few breaths, I crossed the house, and finally saw Xiaoyuan's figure.

Xiao Yuan leaned on the eaves of the wine shop and was unconscious, his eyebrows were tightly locked, his eyes were closed, and his spirit body was almost transparent, as if he was about to disperse at a touch. There are many black butterflies perched on it, and the wings of the butterflies are together, as if they are eating something.

The burning pain in Chi Yuan's forehead had already dissipated, but looking at Xiao Yuan's painful expression, the uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense. He rushed up and half-helped Xiao Yuan, only to feel that the person in his hand was as light as a floating hong, and his breath was broken.

"Xiao Yuan?"

Chi Yuan called tentatively, but saw that the black butterfly fluttered its wings and wanted to fly towards him, but turned back halfway.

Chi Yuan waved his hand to dispel these strange butterflies, but the butterflies seemed to be even more excited, dancing their wings around the two of them.

The cold qi condensed in Chi Yuan's hands, turning into Dao Ice Ridges and stabbing towards the gathered black butterflies, but the Ice Ridges passed through the butterfly body without hindrance. The black butterfly still flew freely, not in the slightest appearance of being injured by the ice edges.

This butterfly, without a substance?

Suddenly, footsteps were heard on the side of the street, but the sound was slow, accompanied by the crunch of bamboo canes hitting the bluestone slabs.

Chi Yuan followed the sound and saw that the person who came was a short old woman, carrying a long green bamboo cane, dressed in clothes that were obviously of good materials, but it was covered with dirt, and there was no sense of nobility at all, but she looked like a beggar.

Chi Yuan couldn't help but be vigilant, his right hand secretly stroked the hilt of the frost sword, and asked, "Old man, who are you?" What happened in this city? ”

Those who came did not answer, but still moved forward step by step. Chi Yuan probed with his spiritual sense, only to find that the old woman was actually a mortal, and secretly said in his heart, this city is so strange, how can a mortal act freely?

The old woman approached and glanced at Chi Yuan, "What a handsome offspring, it is a good match for my Ying'er." She paused, and suddenly burst into tears, "Ying'er...... My warbler...... And the ...... The sky has no eyes, why do you treat me like this? ”

Chi Yuan roughly guessed that this old woman should have lost her loved ones and went crazy, so he couldn't help but feel compassion, but now that he wanted to save people, he cast a heart-clearing spell and asked, "Old man, what happened?" ”

The old woman's eyes turned from turbidity to Qingming, "It's all Shu Mountain, the demon road of Shu Mountain, they, they damn beasts!" ”

Hearing this, Chi Yuan couldn't help frowning, Shu Mountain, Shu Mountain again.

The old woman continued: "Four days ago, several Taoist priests from Shushan came to the city and said that there were demons in the city and that they wanted to eliminate the demons. said so, but asked Zhi'er to take them to my Ji's ancestral shrine, and my Zhi'er didn't know that his heart was sinister, so he led them there. ”

"What kind of evil, they just want to take away the divine sword that my Ji clan has guarded for generations!"

"Zhi'er took action to block it, but it was slaughtered by these vicious demons and slaughtered seventeen members of my Ji family, and only the remaining old man was not found and survived in the world. They unlocked the seal of the butterfly shadow and released the dream soul butterfly, to destroy tens of thousands of people in the city, these beasts! ”

"Old man, you are talking about dream soul butterflies, but these black butterflies? What are the butterfly shadows you just said? ”

"My Ji ancestor is a major repair, the ancestor obtained the divine sword butterfly shadow in the sky of an ancient immortal cave, and there were few opponents in the world for a while. However, the sword devoured the Lord, and tortured the ancestors so miserably that they could not fight with others later. In order to avoid the suffering of the butterfly shadow and the descendants, the ancestors did not teach the descendants the method of cultivation, and also set up a family motto not to allow descendants to touch this sword. ”

However, the butterfly shadow was too powerful, and the sword body was forged with the butterfly, and soon many dream soul butterflies were recruited here. This demon butterfly feeds on the soul of the human spirit, causing people to fall into dreams, taking advantage of this to eat their soul, and the mortal soul is a little weaker will die in a few days, even if the soul is strong, it will only die in ten days. ”

"The ancestor couldn't bear to hurt mortals, exhausted his essence and blood to set up a seal to suppress the butterfly shadow and dream soul butterfly, and took off the bead on the butterfly shadow sword to pass it on to the descendants, and before he died, he instructed that the descendants of the Fan Ji clan must guard this place for generations, if the seal is loosened, the person who holds the bead will go to the ancestral shrine to strengthen the seal with the heirloom spirit stone, and activate the psychedelic array to prevent outsiders from entering, so as not to harm the innocent. Therefore, for thousands of years, although the seal has been loosened, it has not caused a catastrophe. It's just that now that the seal has been broken, you and I can only wait here to die. After speaking, the old woman couldn't help but sigh.

"Old man, where is the seal you are talking about, and I am also a cultivator below, so I may be able to restore the seal. However, my friend may be very dangerous at the moment, and I have to ask you to take care of it. "That's the case, but the worry in Chi Yuan's words is difficult to hide, as a cultivator, he still doesn't know how to alleviate Xiaoyuan's danger, what can this old woman do if she is just a mortal?

When the old woman heard this, her eyes couldn't help but light up, "If the young man can really restore the seal, then it will be very good." As for your friend, please don't worry, Shaoxia still remember the pearl I just said? The old woman took off a pendant from her neck with her left hand, and saw that it was a crystal bead, emitting a faint purple light, "This pearl can block the invasion of the Dream Soul Butterfly, and it should be fine for your friend to wear it." ”

"But what would you do without the protection of the Nightmare Pearl?"

"I'm a mortal, I can't save the people in this city, if the young man can really restore the seal and save the people here, why take some risks. I don't have such an immortal method as Shaoxia, and that's all I can do. ”

"But why do you trust me so much?"

"The young man woke up, did not leave his companions and left, but never left, such a person is worthy of the trust of the old body, and the old body has no choice. Shaoxia, sealed in the Jifu in the north of the city, this city will be entrusted to you! After speaking, the old woman handed over the pearl in her hand.

"I will not disgrace my life." Chi Yuan held the pearl and said in a deep voice.

The old woman let go of her hand and immediately fell forward, Chi Yuan hurriedly hugged her and leaned on the seat of the wine shop, and then ran to Xiao Yuan's side to bring her the pearl.

Wearing the Nightmare Bead, the Dream Soul Butterflies around Xiao Yuan's body really scattered and flew away, and Xiao Yuan's painful expression was slightly soothed. Chi Yuan immediately stood up, and Edgeworth flew towards the north of the city.

In an instant, Chi Yuan had arrived in the north of the city, and a mansion immediately came into view, and the plaque on the door read "Ji Mansion".

When Fang entered the mansion, he was hit by a strong smell of blood, and he saw that the mansion was full of corpses.

Suddenly, Chi Yuan's shoulder was patted. Chi Yuan immediately flew away and stabbed the frost in his hand with his backhand.