Chapter 18: Inside and Outside Dreams

The little boy was not shocked, and under the gray water, he approached the troll step by step with a steady pace.

The troll has yellow eyes, a long neck, and a heavy shell. It saw Shen Yuan walking towards him, its pupils constricted to a slit, and it couldn't see its emotions. But Shen Yuan always felt that it seemed to be holding its breath because it was too excited.

Shen Yuan stood under its neck, reaching out just to touch its crumpled skin. Well, it's harder than the bark of the weird-looking dragon's blood tree in the back mountain of the Nanqing Courtyard.

Speaking of the Dragon's Blood Tree, Shen Yuan naturally thought of the notebook buried under the tree with Jiuyou. He said to the troll seriously, "I have a junior sister, I don't know if you know what a junior sister is. But if something happens to me here, like being eaten by you, she will not only let you know who she is, but will hunt you down to the ends of the earth at all costs. ”

The troll blinked, as if to say: If you don't let it go, you won't let it go, so what? The ends of the earth are all good places for me, will I be afraid of her?

"Although she looks small and her fists are quite weak, she is the most vivid life I have ever seen. If it is said that Senior Sister Kui'er's temperament is a sunny flower, then she is like a flower to the sun. ”

Shen Yuan lowered his head, his long, dense eyelashes covering the emotion in his eyes.

"I can already imagine that when she grows up, she will definitely bring endless blessings to the world. This is not an estimate, but a prediction, a firm prophecy. ”

The troll flicked its neck, its ugly head drifting slowly with it in the opposite direction.

"You don't believe it? Why? ”

The troll slammed its head against Shen Yuan, but fortunately Shen Yuan reacted quickly, and the troll's head just lightly crossed the hem of Shen Yuan's clothes.

The light gauze robe stretched out like waves in the water, and the black and white of Shen Yuan's hair contrasted.

Troll: "......"

It doesn't bark, but it uses body language to express itself. Seeing that Shen Yuan had dodged the surprise attack that he had been half a beat slow because his neck was too long, it smiled behind it, and it raised its neck high in disbelief.

Shen Yuan saw that the troll's pupils were still looking at him, he chuckled, shook his head, and said, "It's not good to be conceited, I've never been conceited." For example, if I wanted to have a relationship with you and let you let me go, I would say, I saw you in the Styx, but I didn't. ”

His fingers ran along the texture of the shell: "Strange, time flows more slowly in the pool than outside. So slow that I couldn't even feel the speed of the water. ”

He shook his hand, only a piece of nothingness.

"Will it affect my way back?"

He looked up and looked at the troll, his eyebrows stretched like distant peaks and hills. Because he sensed the call of the Nether Lord again.

"After a long absence, we have all grown up. If you want to be a spirit like me, just leave, this is not the place you should be, it will only hinder your spiritual progress. ”

Shen Yuan raised his hands, and the wide sleeves of his coat swayed with it. He made a standard peer salute, stood up straight, neither humble nor arrogant, and said solemnly:

"Goodbye, big turtle. I have to go. ”

***

"Why haven't you woken up yet?"

Jiuyou sat on the wide fan, one moment floating to the roof, the next to the mountains, and the anxious whining echoed between the mountains and forests.

Fortunately, in order not to be disturbed, the Netherworld King asked the four apprentices to guard the four corners of the Yinghua Courtyard, set up an enchantment to prevent the invasion of evil creatures, and at the same time blocked the sound of the outside world. The Sorrowful Monarch had consumed a lot of spiritual power in the memory bead, and before he could recover, the Nether Monarch resolutely stopped his request to summon Shen Yuan.

Su Youjun felt guilty for not being able to let Shen Yuan return safely, but Netherworld felt that he was Shen Yuan's master, and it was his responsibility to protect his apprentices, and Su Weijun didn't have to worry about it.

After compromising between the two ideas, the final conclusion was that both of them stayed in the house of the Abyss, and the Nether Monarch was responsible for casting spells to summon, and the Sorrowful Monarch assisted by the side, just in case.

The two gods can join forces to penetrate the underworld, let alone just prevent the invasion of evil creatures.

Compared with the quiet and silent scene inside the house, the five disciples outside gathered together, and it was much more lively. Jiuyou scurried outside the barrier, and only rolled his eyes when he saw Blazing Sun.

"Count me on you, don't come around in front of me. Your name is Jiuyou, not Zhuanyou, hurry up, I thank you, okay? ”

Blazing Yang meditated on the spot and couldn't leave, otherwise he would have gotten up and asked Jiuyou to leave. But Jiuyou has always been used to not listening to him, and it's good that he didn't reply to him.

Songbai looked in this direction silently, and saw that Jiuyou quickly caught his gaze, and simply turned back neatly, closing his eyes and luck.

Ye Yan had long been silenced by the Nether-Lord because talking too much would easily lead to inattention. Jiuyou passed by him, and he didn't want to stop, but he was attracted by his unwilling "uh-huh-uhhh

"Look at what? I can't help you. Master's Dharma, you can't expect me to untie it for you, right? ”

Ye Yan: "Uh-huh-hmm" (tell me what's in the memory beads). ”

Jiuyou returned to the ground, holding his face in his hands, deliberately pretending to be confused, "What do you say?" I don't understand it at all. ”

Ye Yan slammed into the memory bead on her wrist: Woo uh woo (that's it)!

Jiuyou touched the bracelet and paused for a long time on the memory bead. Since the memory bead came out, the memory bead has become an ordinary orb, which was given to Jiuyou by the sorrowful king.

After Jiuyou received it, he made it into a bracelet and wore it on his hand. At first glance, it seems that she also has a spirit bead like her five senior brothers.

Ye Yan has coveted the memory beads for a long time, but Jiuyou didn't let him take a second look, let alone touch it, he held his breath until now.

"Don't just look at other people's stuff, okay? What should I do if I see it bad? ”

Jiuyou happily stuffed the bracelet into the cuffs, successfully making Ye Yan blush with anger and have a thick neck.

Inside the house, the Nether Monarch's practice took longer than expected. The Sorrowful Monarch hurriedly cast a spell to interrupt, and the Nether Monarch opened his eyes calmly.

"Your soul rejuvenation technique didn't respond for more than half an hour for the first time, why?"

Nether Lord calmly analyzed, "If it's not because Shen Yuan himself heard my summoning and didn't want to come back, it's because he was trapped in a place where he couldn't perceive the summons. ”

Su Weijun recalled the origin of the Pond, which was the place occupied by the Star Spirit Fairies of the past dynasties. The Star Spirit Fairy has a special physique, with a hundred years as a cycle, gradually declining until it withers; And because the star spirit fairy has an extremely cold physique, it will cultivate in the underworld.

Each generation of Star Spirit Fairy has a different personality, and the fairy who helps Kwai Er is gentle and introverted by nature, but there are also those who are as bold and brave as Jiuyou, and once went deep into the pool and found that the more they dive into the water, the more they could not feel the passage of time.

When she found out about this, she tried to stay underwater to stop her body from becoming weak. But unfortunately, she can't stay under the water all the time and not come out, so naturally she can't change her fate, so she can only occasionally enter the water for a little comfort.

"It seems that it is the nature of the pool that hinders the abyss."

Su Weijun stretched out his hand, and the notes floated into his palm, and the illustrated notes did not bring any inspiration to Su Weijun, but one of the records about the dragon's blood leaf aroused his interest.

"The dracaena loves light and shade and will dormant when it is too cold. The underworld is the coldest place in the Six Realms, so the dragon's blood tree has never grown much. Shen Yuan was originally a water attribute elf, and after turning into a dragon's blood leaf, he should be comfortable in the pool water, but he was hindered by something and couldn't return......"

The more the Nether Monarch listened to Su Sorrow's analysis, the tighter his brows furrowed, and he answered according to his own thoughts, "It must have been an external force that stopped him." ”

Su Wujun raised his forehead and recalled: "What kind of resistance will it be? ”

***

"Why don't you want me to leave?"

Shen Yuan was puzzled: "I don't belong here, not even this time. I said goodbye to you, and you still held on to me. ”

His soft features expressed a rare anger, even if he didn't notice it.

"Regardless of you, Jiuyou and Master are still waiting for me. If you think you'll be able to see Jiuyou if you stop me, tell you in advance and give up. ”

Shen Yuan waved his hand to open the front paws of the big turtle, trying to sense the interrupted summons.

At this time, his head was slapped several times by the big turtle. The big turtle couldn't control its strength, and it almost didn't break his neck in these few blows.

Shen Yuan rubbed his neck and left, facing the big turtle's big head, which obviously had no change in expression, he was rarely angry.

"I said it, you, no, want, block, stop, me."

After Shen Yuan put down the cruel words word by word, he saw that the big turtle was a little sad, and he didn't want to make up for it.

"We all have to go back to where we belong. Your Stygian Sea, my Five Elements Sect. I'm not going to call Jiuyou for you. ”

The big turtle hurriedly waved its front paws to show sincerity.

Shen Yuan looked at the sincerity that the big turtle took out, and after thinking about it, he decided to retract what he had just said.

"If it's such a treasure in exchange, I agree. Because Jiuyou likes magic weapons and treasures the most, I gave her the sound transmission butterfly, and she hasn't taken it off since she put it on. ”

His serious little face slackened slightly, and the big turtle finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Then decide so."

***

"So, you think that I was the last person I saw before Shen Yuan disappeared, and I can use it as a link to feel the breath of Shen Yuan?"

The Sorrowful Lord and the Nether Lord nodded.

"But—" Jiuyou's eyes widened in disbelief, "Obviously you can just summon him back with your notes, but he's just asleep and sinking into a dream, why did it happen?" ”

Jiuyou didn't see the momentum of making trouble outside the hospital at all, and he was anxious. She even thought of the worst possibility, which was the end of the abyss, and for no reason, came ahead of schedule.

Shen Yuan, he ...... Is it really "sinking"?

She didn't believe it!

She ran to Shen Yuan's bedside, grabbed Shen Yuan's unresponsive hand, buried her face in Shen Yuan's heartless palm, and breathed heavily, as if in this way, she could transfer her body temperature to him, so that he could "live" him.

"I won't allow Shen Yuan to disappear like this, two masters."

Jiuyou's immature voice came from Shen Yuan's palm.