The Devil's Lair.

Incense burned in the copper stove, and candles floated in the sarongs.

Mu Shijing sat on the edge of the pools in the palace, looking up at the dome that connected with the black mountain, the black coat hanging down against his body, the slender jade legs exposed in the middle of it stirred the water, and the candlelight that overturned in the water flickered non-stop.

The architecture of the Devil's Nest is simple, there is no decoration in it, but it exudes a sense of grandeur, and those black walls are not like barriers in the dimness, but more like endless nothingness.

Yesterday, she announced the evaluation of the top ten villains in the demon nest, and the demon generals enthusiastically participated, and the thick book was quickly sent to her.

"You have done a lot of evil." Mu Shijing flipped through the scroll and praised him casually.

"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be, the Holy Son is in front, and I'm just a tiny ant." The demon general shook his head again and again, always feeling that he was suspected of having an axe.

"Don't be humble."

Mu Shijing flipped through the scroll, and just saw the murder of women and children, she shook her head lightly and closed the bamboo slip.

"It's not that the subordinates are humble, but the actions of the subordinates, which are not worth mentioning at all compared to the feats of Lord Shadow in the past few days." The demon general's face is full of flattery.

"Oh?" Mu Shijing's eyes rolled, "Shadow? Isn't he trapped in that magic mirror? ”

"Hahaha, it doesn't seem to be good news from the Holy Son." The demon general laughed dryly, and immediately said: "We have all been deceived by Lord Shadow, Lord Shadow is no longer in the Demon Lair, he has gone to the fairy village, and has already begun to slaughter the immortals there. ”

Speaking of this, the demon general couldn't help but sigh: "We are just abusing and killing some ordinary people, Lord Shadow is worthy of being the Demon King, he has killed several cultivators in the Immortal Village, and those stupid people can't find him at all, the young man who killed back and forth in Dragon Scale Town before, and was later expelled by the Holy Son, is said to have also been made a mess." ”

The demon general said this, his face full of glory.

"Is there a war report? Fetch it and show it to me. Mu Shijing asked.

Her face was calm, but her heart was rippling.

- If the shadow is in the Three Realms Village, then who is talking to him in the magic mirror?

Or is it the other side of the Three Realms Village where it is located? If that's the case, Shadow's patience with himself makes sense.

The demon general took a piece of information and handed it to Mu Shijing, Mu Shijing pinched it with two fingers, picked it up in front of him, swept his eyes half-squinted, and quickly grabbed the useful information in it.

The shadow had infiltrated the demon village and had killed four cultivators in full view of everyone, all four of them were old men, and they died peacefully, without the slightest scar.

At the end of the information, it was also written: Fear has enveloped the four fields, and it will be a foregone conclusion that the Three Realms Village will open its doors and surrender.

"Okay, I got it." Mu Shijing's face still did not have the slightest ripple.

The demon general cautiously looked at the cold face of His Highness the Holy Son, unsure whether she was happy or angry, or ...... I don't care at all.

"Holy Son......" The demon general saluted, and stopped talking.

Mu Shijing shook his head and said, "What is it to kill four old, weak, sick and disabled people in three days? It seems that the so-called ten wicked people and the so-called shadow demon king are all nothing more than Erer. ”

The demon general was shocked, thinking to himself that he had underestimated the Holy Son?

"I don't know what the Holy Son thinks......" the demon general asked tremblingly.

"If I kill the black-clothed boy and hang the corpse of the demon nest, will it be considered the first evil?" Mu Shijing asked.

The demon generals have all learned the power of that young man, he rushed into the demon army's array like a plow, and it was difficult for all armies to stop, this young man was indeed far more tricky than those old craftsmen in the fairy village, if the holy son could kill him, presumably the Three Realms Village would directly surrender without a fight!

The demon general immediately knelt down and hurriedly shouted Long live the Holy Son, but when he got up again, he found that the Holy Son had disappeared like a ghost.

Mu Shijing went to the Demon King Palace.

The mirror was put back on the throne by the servants of the Demon King Palace, and when he saw someone coming uninvited, the black shadow resurfaced, and he wanted to be angry, but he saw that it was the demon girl, and the black shadow was like a fish that had just surfaced, and dived back before revealing its dorsal fin.

Mu Shijing didn't plan to let him go.

She walked to the mirror and said coldly, "Come out." ”

The mirror didn't move.

Mu Shijing directly solved the death certificate, hit the mirror with the hilt of the sword, and shook it wildly, seeing that the shadow still did not come out, her snow-white wrist folded, and the dark golden sword light slipped out of the sheath, and the sharp edge, which was smoother than the mirror, swung out and slashed towards the mirror.

The dark shadow finally appeared, and it was called to stop again and again.

"Why did the sect send someone like you over?" The Black Shadow said hatefully.

"Do you have an opinion about the Sect Master?" Mu Shijing's eyes narrowed.

She didn't know who the suzerain was at all, but she was good at bluffing.

"If you are so arrogant, you will definitely be counterattacked." The black shadow said coldly, but he didn't dare to continue to denounce, but asked, "What are you here for?" ”

"I heard that you killed someone in the Three Realms Village?" Mu Shijing asked with a smile.

"I killed someone in the Three Realms Village?" The black shadow was also stunned.

"What? You don't know? ”

Mu Shijing took out the information and pasted it directly on the mirror.

The shadow swept across the paper and fell silent. Mu Shijing took off the piece of paper and asked again: "Do you remember anything?" ”

"What does this have to do with you? What are you going to mix? The shadow asked.

"I am the Holy Son of the Scales Sect, I have the right to ask everything here, besides, Lord Allah is in the Three Realms Village, I am worried about the safety of Allah, how can I let it go?" Mu Shijing said slowly.

The black shadow didn't answer, he was like a fish in the water, struggling as the water temperature kept rising.

After a while, the black shadow returned to silence, but it made a decisive sound:

"It won't be what it does!"

Mu Shijing was slightly stunned, "It? Who is it? ”

The Shadow didn't answer, but said, "The Shadow you think doesn't have such a strong ability, and someone else is doing it. ”

"What do we think of as shadows?" Mu Shijing focused on this, "In other words, our Holy Nest does indeed have undercover agents lurking in the Three Realms Village?" ”

"Hmm." The shadow nodded hesitantly.

"Can you reach him?" Mu Shijing asked again.

"What do you want to do?" The dark shadow asked.

"Later, I will draft a battle letter and send it to the Three Realms Village and hand it over to Lin Shouxi. I'll ask him out for a decisive battle in the name of fighting for the ownership of Dragonscale. ”

Mu Shijing said coldly: "I am confident that I can win him, but I don't have the confidence to kill him, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, I hope that the one in Xiancun can cooperate with me and kill Lin Shouxi on the spot." ”

Mu Shijing's cold words revealed resentment that could not be hidden, and the four words on the spot were more like knocking nails into the bones one by one.

"You have an old grudge against him?" The dark shadow asked, confused.

"You don't need to know." Mu Shijing's face returned to calm, she mentioned the death certificate, pushed the sword out with her thumb, and said, "Can you help me?" I give you the freedom to choose. ”

The black shadow sighed, he seemed to finally understand that a demon king of a mere demon nest was nothing at all in the eyes of Tianjiao of her level.

After a moment's hesitation, the dark shadow was forced to make a free choice.

Mu Shijing was not in a hurry to leave, she wandered around in the empty demon nest, her smart eyes looking left and right, as if she was looking for something.

"What are you looking for?" The dark shadow asked.

"Do you have any precious artifacts here?" Mu Shijing asked.

"You ......" The black shadow became more and more convinced, the sect really didn't find the wrong person, "Do you think that with my state, I can still take pills?" ”

Mu Shijing was noncommittal, she searched around, and then casually took out several ancient books from the hollowed-out stone walls on both sides and flipped through them at will.

Most of these ancient books are about witchcraft, which is useless to her, and the only thing she can barely find is this alchemy.

The book has a special paper, and it is obvious that the owner of the book has read it over and over again, and the pages are all old.

Alchemy......

Mu Shijing glanced towards the mirror, and the shadow moved in the mirror, seemingly calm, but this excessive calmness instead exposed its nervousness.

She tucked the book into her sleeve and put it away.

Seeing that there was really nothing to loot in this demon king's residence, she pushed the door and left.

Seeing the word refiner, Mu Shijing couldn't help but think of the ancient Qingguang Ding, the holy relic of the Demon Nest, since he came to the Demon Nest, he naturally wanted to see this old Ding that had been inherited from ancient times.

According to the tradition of the Devil's Nest, worshipping holy relics requires bathing and changing clothes, and she is not exempt from vulgarity as a holy son.

Surrounded by ancient incense, covered by light veil, Mu Shijing looked up at the dome, her arches were stretched, and her slender toes kept passing over the warm spring water, and the heat on the water surface steamed, touching her snow-white and cold calves, and condensed a crystal column of water on it, after a long time, she came back to her senses, leaned over to test the temperature of the water, then folded her hand behind her head, took off the crown of the Holy Son's hair, and placed it next to the snow-white ice silk.

She stripped off the black garment of Baobo, and there was almost no trace under the black robe, and for a moment, all the candles in the dark stone room seemed to have lost their color, but she shone with a holy and beautiful brilliance.

The girl faded away the only cover, and walked into the water along the stairs with a graceful gait, she was still young, and her childishness had not faded, so the charm of this demon girl also seemed confusing, her every wonderful curve was like a convex glass mirror, magnifying the enchantment on her body, and her face was as quiet as autumn water, but it was pure and cold, and the charm was restricted, so this temperament was like a light and shadow that was broken by ripples, blurred and blurred.

Mu Shijing couldn't help but think of the scene when he was a child, when Shizun helped him bathe for the first time.

At that time, she was carried by her master into a tall wooden barrel full of flower petals and medicinal fragrances, and she fluttered her thin arms in the bathtub, trying to float and struggled to survive.

Shizun stared at her back, as if she was wandering, completely unaware that the little girl had learned to swim without a teacher in her distraction.

"I'll help you heal."

After many years, this is the only words that Mu Shijing remembers...... She had to forget about this scene, but it was only years later that she remembered it inexplicably when the master said, 'You have to walk on the ground'.

As for how to walk on the earth...... She has made a decision.

Speaking of which, Shizun has bathed with her several times, especially in a snow hot spring, Shizun took her young to look at the stars in the cold sky together, when a meteor broke through the sky, she wanted to make a wish, but Shizun held her hand, saying that the starry night is a calamity, that is the beginning of all misfortune.

Mu Shijing didn't understand when she was young, just nodded, she lay in the arms of the master, the mist provoked the unique behavior of the child, she turned her head, and bit something by instinct, she wanted to grab it, but she grabbed nothing, only to see the misty mist in the master raised his neck and trembled.

The past dissipated in the mist.

Mu Shijing leaned quietly against the stone wall, her black satin-like hair spread out on the water, she closed her eyes, let the warm water soak her body, and gradually did not think about it.

When she opened her eyes again and pulled her body out of the water, she seemed to have returned from the past to the present.

Mu Shijing put on a brand-new black dress, no socks, bare feet and boots, fastened the belt, pulled his wet long hair out of his clothes, and walked towards the back mountain.

It was cold behind the mountains, and the sky was covered with snow.

Snow is created by the ancient Qingguangding.

Legend has it that since the extinguishment of this big ding, it has emitted cold air all year round, and has changed from a furnace to a cold cave.

Mu Shijing went up along the snow-covered mountain road, and finally saw this giant tripod god that was half buried in the mountain, the snow in the hearth was white, and a large number of snowflakes were sprayed at the mouth of the ding, and a large amount of white snow spread into the sky, covering them one after another.

She tried to use various rituals to activate the Great Ding, but nothing happened.

Just as she was about to leave, Juding let out a whale-like sound, as if she recognized the Lord.

……

Three Realms Village.

Lin Shouxi read the battle book, calmly folded it, and accepted it.

The three-flowered cat on the side also saw the contents of the letter, and it immediately became angry, "What's going on, what's going on!" This holy son is also too hateful, we didn't go to her to settle accounts, but she took the initiative to come to us, but this is the case...... Hmph, she must want to cooperate with the shadow inside and outside and comprehensively destroy our Three Realms Village! ”

In a short period of time, the three-flowered cat made what he thought was the correct inference.

Lin Shouxi didn't say anything, just asked Sanhua Cat to get a pen and paper.

"Huh? You, what are you going to do? "Sanhua Cat panicked.

"Response." Lin Shouxi said.

"Are you crazy?" The three-flowered cat was shocked.

"You think I can't beat her?" Lin Shouxi asked.

"It's not a question of whether you have won or not, and now that you have internal worries, do you still have to take the initiative to find external troubles...... That Holy Son is insidious and cunning, and if you go this time, you will definitely be harmed. Sanhua Cat was rarely clever: "Or are you really coveting her beauty, and it's not a pity to die to see the beauty?" ”

"I have my own ideas." Lin Shouxi said.

"Don't go!"

"There will be no disapproval of the king's order outside."

“……”

Sanhua Cat was indeed very angry by this war letter, but since Lin Shouxi was so stubborn, it had no choice but to believe him.

The location of the decisive battle in the war book is a place called Baixueling, which is a desolate place independent of the Three Realms Village and the Demon Nest, the land is filthy, barren and inhabited, and it belongs to the place where the soldiers cannot be stationed even if they fight.

"So what are we going to do next?" Sanhua Cat asked.

The decisive battle is tomorrow's thing, and the mystery of the Three Realms Village has not been resolved, so I can't go back to sleep and wait.

"Go to Dragonscale to find Duche." Lin Shouxi said.

He was still suspicious of the traitor Duche - a traitor could not be reassured wherever he went.

"Okay." Although the three-flowered cat has a good relationship with Duche, it can't let go of every suspicious person.

He borrowed Chen Ning's horse and hurried to Dragon Scale Town, there were only sporadic demon soldiers stationed in the town, they could not constitute combat effectiveness, as long as Lin Shouxi wanted to, it was easy to pull out. But he doesn't want to make a fuss today.

After searching around Dragonscale, they found no trace of Duche.

He ...... He must have absconded in fear of sin, right? Sanhua Cat said in surprise.

Lin Shouxi was silent, he didn't rush to make a conclusion, he just took the three-flower cat back first.

In fact, Lin Shouxi didn't have much suspicion about Du Che, although Du Che's realm was not bad, he shouldn't have the ability to kill people under his nose.

If he is a murderer, then isn't he doing his identity by escaping like this? There is fog in the mountains, he has nowhere to escape, and he should be found out after hiding for a few days, but if he is not a murderer, why should he hide?

Lin Shouxi always felt that he was missing something, and it seemed that as long as he opened a certain joint, everything would be logical.

When he returned to the Three Realms Village, the sky was already twilight, and Lin Shouxi looked out from afar on the mountain road at a high place, and vaguely found that the fog on the Three Realms Mountain seemed to have faded a lot.

It was also evening, Xiao Yu returned to the Sword Tower again, and couldn't wait to come to the master to study together.

She wore a skirt today, and it was still stained with mud, and it looked dirty, like a radish that had just been dug out of the ground.

"Good evening." Lin Shouxi was the first to say hello.

After a tense day, I can only relax when I see my little apprentice.

"Master, good evening......" Xiaoyu didn't look very happy.

"What's wrong with Xiaoyu?" Lin Shouxi asked.

"I almost got into trouble today." Xiao Yu rubbed her eyes and began to talk about what happened in the afternoon.

It turned out that Xiaoyu got lost when he went to the garden to dig radishes, and accidentally went around to his mother's fairy garden, and almost dug up the fairy radish carefully cultivated by his mother - in fact, Xiaoyu really dug it up, or his mother found it in time when she was cooking, and inserted it back into the soil.

"Isn't it just a fairy plant, isn't cultivating this kind of fairy plant just for eating?" Lin Shouxi was puzzled.

"No, no, no." Xiao Yu immediately shook his head and said, "My mother said that this immortal plant is spiritual, and it can be cultivated into an adult after absorbing more heaven and earth aura in the future." ”

"That's ......"

"Well, now that I've transplanted it into my little pot, no one will remove it by mistake." Xiaoyu said that he had a positive remedy.

As she spoke, she also moved the potted plant over to show Lin Shouxi.

Lin Shouxi was silent after reading it, thinking to himself Isn't this just a white radish, your mother shouldn't be lying to you......

"Well, then let Xiaoyu protect it, and when it grows up, Xiaoyu will apologize to it." Lin Shouxi said with a smile.

"Okay." Xiao Yu nodded and pulled herself together.

Then it was the usual time to practice the sword.

After Xiaoyu had the fairy Luo to protect, she became more focused on practicing the sword, and she had always talked a lot, and she was rarely silent today. She practiced her sword seriously, listened carefully to her master's careful guidance, and was so well-behaved that she just wanted people to hold her in her arms and knead that lovely face fiercely.

Xiao Yu's progress was greatly beyond his expectations, and at this rate, it shouldn't be a problem to defeat his fellow disciples in two days.

After the instruction, the pair said good night to each other.

Before parting, Lin Shouxi also asked Xiao Yu to get up early tomorrow, Xiao Yu asked the reason, Lin Shouxi did not say anything about the decisive battle with the Holy Son, but only said that there was a new swordsmanship to teach her.

Xiao Yu obediently agreed.

The long night passed quickly.

In the early morning, Mu Shijing, dressed in black, sat cross-legged in the white snow ridge, closed his eyes and recuperated, showing his heroic spirit.

Lin Shouxi was not in good spirits when he came.

Last night, Du Che didn't return all night, but there were still people dying in the Three Realms Village, this time it was three.