Chapter 22: Little Stones
Jun Yuzhao frowned.
The village chief looked at the little boy who ran away, his expression dark. Turning his head and looking at Jun Yuzhao with a smile on his face, "Immortal Chief, this is our specialty here, the Red Berry Immortal Fruit." The village chief put a basket of red fruits in front of Jun Yuzhao, and the fruits were extremely bright, as if they were dyed with blood.
"What is that kid?" Jun Yuzhao picked up a fruit casually and asked casually while looking at it.
"Hey, that kid is a bad star. Immortal Chief, I know you don't believe this, but you can stay away or stay away. The village chief waved his hand with a sincere expression.
"Oh? Please also elaborate on the village chief. Jun Yuzhao put a few spirit stones.
"Hey, Immortal Chief, I'll tell you the truth, his father and mother, older brothers and sisters, younger brothers and sisters are all dead, isn't this a bad star? Now wander around the village, and whoever has leftovers will give them a handout. The village chief stared at the red fruit in Jun Yuzhao's hand, and there was some hidden longing in his eyes.
Jun Yuzhao's eyes were rolling, and she was playing with the red fruit in her hand, and suddenly the red fruit fell from her hand.
Jun Yuzhao clearly saw that the village chief's eyes flashed with longing and pity, and there was a red light. Before the red fruit fell to the ground, Jun Yuzhao scooped up the red fruit.
The village chief let out a long breath.
"Village chief, I've never seen this fruit before." Jun Yuzhao made a gesture to take a bite, but suddenly stopped and said.
Baize heard the two people talking outside and also came out. Originally, I was quite curious when I saw a basket of fruits, but when I received Jun Yuzhao's eyes, I sat quietly on the side, secretly observing the village chief's reaction.
"It's our specialty, you can strengthen your body by eating it." The village chief patted his chest.
"But when we came here, we didn't see the fruit grove." Jun Yuzhao expressed his doubts at the right time, like a naΓ―ve lady of the family.
"Hey, the method of growing this fruit is our secret." The village chief rubbed his hands in embarrassment.
"Immortal Chief, I don't know where those two Immortal Chiefs went?" The village chief's eyes were rolling around just now.
"Oh, my senior brother, they went out to see if there were any strange medicinal plants nearby, so that they could pick some and sell them back." Jun Yuzhao said.
The village chief nodded, "It's not too early, I'll go back to cooking first." β
"The village chief is going to go." Jun Yuzhao watched the village chief leave.
"Ah Zhao, is there something wrong with this fruit?" Balitzer picked it up and looked at it.
"Isn't it strange that the village chief just now attached great importance to and cherished this fruit, but still gave us a basket?" Jun Yuzhao directly crushed the fruit, the red juice flowed down her palm, and the white hand with the red juice looked extremely weird.
"What's going on?" Baili Xi and Wuxin saw this scene as soon as they walked in.
Wuxin strode forward and took Jun Yuzhao's hand, just now he thought that Jun Yuzhao was injured.
"Does it look like blood?" Jun Yuzhao hugged Wuxin's arm to signal that he was fine.
"Indeed, as soon as I came in just now, it really looked like blood was flowing down." Baili Xi nodded.
Unintentionally found a handkerchief and wiped Jun Yuzhao's hands carefully.
Jun Yuzhao told the three of them what happened to the little boy just now. "Maybe this kid is the key, we'll go find him in the evening."
Wuxin nodded, "It's all up to you." β
"Senior brother, have you seen the fruit forest?"
Wuxin shook his head, "There are no fruit forests or crops in this area, so I don't know what these villagers rely on to survive." β
Bai Lice finally found out that something was wrong, and now after thinking about it, he found that this village is not surrounded by mountains and rivers, and there is no living foundation, how did he survive, and everyone looks young and strong.
Thinking of this, Baliice shuddered a little.
In the evening, Junyu Showa went to look for the little boy unintentionally. Bai Lice continued to study the formation drawn by Jun Yuzhao during the day. Baili Xi looked at the darkness outside with his back hand.
"Brother, don't worry, it's okay." Bai Li Ting stretched his waist, and when he saw Bai Li Xi's solemn face, he comforted.
"Well," Bai Li Xi nodded, and then turned his head to look at Bai Li Ze, "This place is not close to the next Xunpu City, and it is far from the previous Random Expansion City, which jurisdiction does it belong to." β
Baili Ce spread his hands, saying that he didn't know, "Brother, do you have any ideas?" β
"The city lord of Xunpu City is the Qing family." The Seokie family is one of the four major families in Kyoto. Speaking of this, Bailiz's face also became grim.
"I remember that the sixth child's mother's family is the Qing family." The mother of the sixth prince Baili Xuan is called Qing Huang, and she is the second daughter of the head of the Qing family.
"After a period of time, on my father's birthday, I received news that the sixth child prepared a big gift for my father, which is extremely mysterious." Baili Xi's tone was serious, and he always felt that there was some connection between this.
"I had some conversations with Wuxin when we were out on a survey before. The two of us have some speculation about the two continents in the southwest. Bailixi looked at Bailize.
"What speculation?" Baili made up his mind.
"We all suspect that someone has been secretly colluding with the demons for a long time. Otherwise, why can't we find out the origin of the demon? β
"Moreover, now that the aura is thin, the demonic qi is secretly raging, the Ten Thousand Swords Villa and the Lost Trace Gate are examples, someone may have changed the demonic qi." Unintentionally pulled Jun Yuzhao to hide behind the tree, looked at the village chief who was secretly following the little boy in front, leaned over Jun Yuzhao's ear, and said his and Baili Xi's guesses.
Jun Yuzhao had already placed a tracking array on the little boy, so he easily found the child.
Seeing that the village chief and the two villagers were about to make a move, Jun Yuzhao summoned a gust of wind, and took advantage of the fact that the village chief and the villagers were blocking the blindness, and unintentionally immediately took the little boy away, Jun Yuzhao threw down a wooden man and transformed into the appearance of a little boy.
The little boy was frightened at first, but after seeing that it was Junyu Akira and Wuxin, although he was still a little panicked, he no longer struggled violently.
"Good." Jun Yuzhao touched the little boy's head. The three of them secretly observed the village chief.
The wind stopped, and the village chief led the villagers into the ruined temple and lassoed the wooden man.
This wooden man was given to Jun Yuzhao by Jingxi, and he could transform into anyone's appearance, and the village chief naturally couldn't see anything wrong.
Jun Yuzhao and the three of them followed the village chief to a mountain wall behind. The village chief turned the stones next to him in order, and a door opened on the mountain wall, and the three village chiefs went in, and came out in less than a stick of incense. The sack and the wooden man in his hand were gone.
Jun Yuzhao felt the wooden man, frowned at Wuxin, and shook his head, meaning that the wooden man was broken.
The three village chiefs returned home. Junyu Showa and Wuxin also took the little boy back to the house.
The little boy looked timidly at the few people in front of him and hid behind Jun Yuzhao.
"Obediently, don't be afraid," Jun Yuzhao pulled the little boy and wiped his face, "What's your name?" β
Balitzer also took out a candy and handed it to the little boy.
The little boy first looked at Jun Yuzhao, saw that the other party nodded, and then took the candy. "My name is Little Rock." The little boy's voice is crisp, and he has not yet reached the stage of voice change, but now he has wiped his face clean, and he looks very clever and smart.
"Did you come to me today?" Jun Yuzhao pulled the little boy to sit down, and his voice was very gentle.
Xiao Shi nodded, "Sister, stay together, comfortable." "Xiao Shi should have not spoken for a long time, so it is a little incoherent to say too much at once at this moment.
"You mean to say that the breath on my body makes you feel very comfortable, right?"
Little Stone nodded, and a big smile bloomed.
"Little stone, can you tell my brother what happened in this village?" Baili Xi asked next to him.
Xiao Shi was stunned at first, and then his eyes began to shed tears, "Everyone is dead." β
"Be good, don't cry, with us here, no one will bully you anymore." Balitzer wiped the tears of the little stone.
"You speak slowly." Jun Yuzhao took the heartless candy and stuffed it into the little stone's hand.
"Before, a Taoist priest came to the village, and he said that as long as everyone believes in a god, they can live forever." The small stones clattered, slow but coherent.
"Everyone worships a stone statue in every household, and then the Taoist priest distributes red fruits to everyone." The small stone pointed to the basket on the table.
"After everyone had eaten, that night, everyone died, their eyes, nose and mouth were bleeding, and they were lying on the ground motionless." The little stone clenched into a fist. Jun Yuzhao held his hand and silently gave him strength.
"But the next day, everyone woke up, not only did they wake up, but many of them became younger, so everyone believed in that Taoist priest even more."
"And then?" Jun Yuzhao whispered to guide the little boy to continue.
"My sister likes to eat red fruits, so I gave my sister half of it, and I only ate half of it." Little Stone sniffed.
"What did the village chief say about your father?"
"I woke up the next day, but my father, mother, and my brother, sister and sister, I don't know why, suddenly died, and never woke up." Jun Yuzhao hugged the little stone and patted him on the back.
After a while, Xiao Shi's mood calmed down.
Wuxin frowned, pulled Xiao Shi's wrist, and then said, "An extremely rare Heavenly Spirit Body."
Hundreds of years ago, there were no celestial spirits. It was after the invasion of demons that on the mainland, it began to be intermittent, and there were children who were virtuous and achieved heavenly spirits. In addition to cultivating quickly, the only special point of the Heavenly Spirit Body is that it is extremely sensitive to demonic qi and aura. Even when the Heavenly Spirit Body is small, it can protect itself from demonic energy.
"Is it okay to follow my sister in the future?" Jun Yuzhao pulled the small stone, thinking to himself, take it back to Senior Brother Jingxi, he will definitely like this child's physique very much.
"Uh-huh." Little Stone nodded.
Xiao Shi has been sleeping in the broken temple for the past few months, and now he finally has a safe environment and soon falls asleep.
"Because it's a heavenly spirit body, I only ate half a red fruit and didn't react." Baili Ce touched his chin, this kid is really big.
"Why did they give us red fruits? Want us to die and come back to life? "Bailize picked up a red fruit and still didn't understand it a little.
"I have preliminarily examined this fruit, and the villagers died because the red fruit changed their physique, and they came back to life because they were already half-demon and half-human." Jun Yuzhao said his analysis.
"The village chief wants us to eat the red fruit, perhaps as a sacrifice." Wuxin said. "In that cave today, there is another breath." Wuxin's strength is the highest, and everyone else believes in his perception.
"It's better to do it." Baili Xi looked at a few people.
Several people nodded.
On the second day, the village chief brought another basket of red fruits, and Jun Yuzhao and the others ate it while chatting with the village chief.
At night, Jun Yuzhao set up a hidden formation for Xiao Shi, and just in case, let Aoi Aoi and the other two adult sunflowers protect Xiao Shi's safety. As soon as Xiaoshi saw the cute sunflowers, he immediately became happy.
Sure enough, at midnight, the village chief shouted a few words outside the courtyard, but when no one answered, he walked in cautiously with the villagers with sticks in their hands. saw Jun Yuzhao and several people fall to the ground.
The little stone stood to the side with his mouth tightly covered, the little sunflower stood on top of the little stone's head, emitting a yellow light, and two adult sunflowers stood in front of the little stone.
"This chick is so beautiful." A villager wanted to touch Jun Yuzhao's face.
"Don't do stupid things, who knows if you will wake up suddenly, hurry up." After the village chief scolded a young man, he took out a magic weapon, and the four of them were quickly included in the magic weapon.
The village chief and the others left. didn't notice that among the villagers behind him, four people had changed their voices.
The one who was accepted into the magic weapon by the village chief was naturally a wooden man made of Jingxi.
Jun Yuzhao and a few people mixed among the villagers and followed the village chief into the cave. Unexpectedly, as soon as I entered, there was a cave, and almost the entire mountain was hollowed out.
The village chief walked to a altar, knelt on the ground respectfully, and offered the magic weapon with both hands, "Lord Divine Envoy, these are those four monks. β
On the altar stood a black-robed man, who looked like an ordinary person, but the aura on his body was muddy and dim. The divine envoy took the magic weapon in his hand, looked at the four people inside, frowned, and fell to the ground, "Idiot, where is this person, look at what this is?" β
The village chief looked at it and threw out four wooden figures from the magic weapon. "This," the village chief was shocked, how could he become a wooden man even though he was a human.
The divine envoy was shocked, and instantly came to the middle of the altar, his hands were sealed, and he just wanted to start the formation, but he was cut off by a sword without a heart.
"Ah," the man knelt on the ground in pain, the black qi condensed on the man's wrist, and his hands regenerated at a slow but visible rate.
The man endured the pain of regeneration of his severed hand, and quickly rose and retreated, and under the black robe he lifted was a thin body like a skeleton.
"Who the hell are you?" The man endured the severe pain and gritted his teeth to look at the four people standing on the altar.
Bailize walked to the center of the altar and looked at the formation, "It's a teleportation array, I thought it was an attack array." "Bailize stalled his hands.
"You," the village chief and the rest of the people wanted to escape, but the cave door had already been set down by Bailice and could not be opened.
"Who are you? A mottled demonic aura. Jun Yuzhao frowned, "I especially can't understand that the ancient books record that demonic qi is actually the same as spiritual energy, a clear source that contains different powers. Why do the demonic qi of these people I have met recently seem to be imitations? β