A little uneasiness welled up in Lingxi's heart, the heavy dark clouds obscured the moon, and the inexplicable sounds from time to time in the dark woods all irritated her nerves. She had just escaped death, and she really didn't have the courage to be alone.

She forcibly suppressed the uneasiness in her heart, and sent a message to Qian Mei'er with Linglong Jade, but waited for a while but did not receive any reply. She felt a wave of anxiety in her heart, got up and checked around, but found no trace of the enemy, let alone any trace of force. She really didn't believe that the enemy could take all the Qian and Phantom girls away silently, and she didn't believe that the enemy would leave her alone, so it was obvious that they must not have encountered the enemy.

So, will they leave themselves alone?

No, it won't, it won't!

Deep down, she couldn't believe that her friends who had lived and died together would abandon her here for no reason. Maybe the two of them just left for some reason, and they found the enemy's traces and went to investigate.

Lingxi took a deep breath to stabilize herself, she was already sure that Qian Mei'er and Phantom Ji must be nearby, and they would not be too far away. So, do you keep waiting here or look around? Although waiting in place was the best option, she really didn't want to be alone here, so she made up her mind to use this place as the center of the circle to look for their traces.

It was early autumn, the nights were still very hot, and the moisture in the air seemed to have been dried by a fire in the city last night. She patrolled around but there was no trace of the two of them, and a wave of boredom unconsciously surged in her heart.

At this moment, suddenly there was a faint sound in the forest on the right, and she quickly followed the sound in her heart, she didn't care if the voice was an enemy or a friend, now she just wanted to see a living person as soon as possible.

Passing through the dense trees, there is a small lake in front of you. On a moonless night, the lake is lifeless like a pool of black ink. Then there was another burst of women's laughter, which was very clear and clearly nearby.

Lingxi jumped dozens of meters in the direction of the sound, and finally found a figure dancing and playing on the lakeside. There were many fireflies gathered in a large area of reeds by the lake, and the man seemed to be chasing them.

It was a bit surprising that someone was playing alone by the lake on this dark night. She took a few more steps forward, and with the glimmer of the fireflies, she finally saw the man's true face, which turned out to be Phantom Hime!

At this time, Phantom Ji was like a child of six or seven years old, and she was laughing and chasing fireflies. No, not fireflies! She just happened to be surrounded by fireflies, but she wasn't chasing them, she seemed to be chasing someone.

"Hee-hee, don't run! I got you! Hee-hee, don't run, I know you're here! ”

Looking at her childlike behavior, Lingxi gasped. She thought that Phantom Ji was bewitched by something, but she seemed to be the only one around, and there was nothing out of the ordinary. Moreover, her eyes were open, not like she was sleepwalking, and the golden pupil of her right eye emitted a slight golden light, which seemed to be pulling her into an empty game.

Lingxi was upset for a while, she suddenly got up and wanted to go up and ask directly, but before she could take a step, she was pulled back to the bush by a person! She was startled, but the man whispered a few words in her ear before her hanging heart finally let go.

"Don't go over! If you wake her up, I'm afraid she'll be in danger! "This voice is none other than Qianmei'er!

"Mei'er, it's you! This...... What the hell is going on? Lingxi asked in a whispered impatiently.

"I don't know, I woke up to find that Phantom Ji had disappeared, and seeing that you were sleeping soundly, I didn't alarm you, but I just quietly searched around, and finally found her here. I've been watching it for a while now and she's supposed to be sleepwalking! ”

"Sleepwalking? But...... But why is she keeping her eyes open? And she really doesn't look like she's sleepwalking! ”

"Although I haven't seen sleepwalking before, I've heard people say that sleepwalking is usually with his eyes open, and he will do some normal human behavior, which is no different from waking up, just ......"

"Just what?"

"It's just that sleepwalkers have empty eyes, and sleepwalking time is just a cup of tea, but she sleepwalks for a long time......"

"There are many fox spirits in the mountains, maybe she's evil, no, I'm going to wake her up!"

"Wait! Look at her right eye......"

"Right eye?" Lingxi noticed the golden light in her right eye, and couldn't help but say, "It's her pupil technique...... On the run? ”

"Yes, her right eye seems to be very special, it should be some kind of pupil technique. I guess maybe it's because of the vicious battle that her mental power is exhausted, so the pupil is running uncontrollably, and if we go up and forcibly wake up, I'm afraid she will be attacked by the pupil. ”

"That'...... So what should I do? ”

Qian Mei'er groaned slightly, "Let's wait and see, fortunately, the enemy shouldn't appear here at night......"

……

Phantom Hime opened her eyes and found herself in a small village, where every house was made of yellow mud mixed with straw, and the dry branches were surrounded by a simple fence to form a small yard. It's summer, the cicadas are chirping desperately, the sky is blue, there is not a trace of clouds, and the green vegetation climbs up the fence, like a stall made of green grass draped over the fence. The colorful morning glories, like the fancy dots on the stalls, are very pleasing to the eye. A towering tree brings half of the yard into a shade that sprinkles coolness.

She looked down at her little hands, which were as fleshy as a child of five or six years old, and her eyes couldn't help but show a sense of confusion.

"This is ......"

"Wow!"

A little yellow dog ran towards her, wagging its tail around her, sniffing at her, as if to please her for caresses.

She unconsciously reached out and touched the little yellow dog's fluffy head, she could feel the warmth of the tentacles, she could smell the wild breath on its body, and a familiar and reassuring feeling welled up in her heart.

"Lan'er! What are you doing here? Everyone is waiting for you! Why don't you come and play together? ”

A girl half a head taller than her appeared in front of her, although she was wearing a coarse linen dress, but she was quite good-looking, especially the two small dimples that could bring people a kind of warmth like a spring breeze when she smiled.

"I ......"

"What am I? Don't come yet! ”

Without saying a word, the little girl took her little hand and turned to run, and the little yellow dog ran out of the yard with them, running and barking, as if to play with them.

They walked through the village to the stream, where many of the village's children had gathered, and everyone was waiting for them. Seeing them coming, the boy at the head of the group shouted, "You are late, so you must be ghosts!" Run, everybody! Whoever gets caught is a ghost! ”

"Run! Come on! ”

"Come and get us! Hee-hee! ”

The children dispersed in a hurry, and the little girl pushed "Lan'er" in a daze, "Lan'er, don't be stunned, go arrest someone!" ”

"Lan'er" seemed to be relieved, she nodded heavily and finally joined the children's game. They chased, laughed, and the little yellow dog ran with them, and everyone's heart was filled with joy at this moment.

"I ...... I got you! "Lan'er" grabbed the sleeve of the little boy and said with a grin.

The little boy smiled back, "Yes, you caught me!" Well, it's time for me to get you! ”

The boy's body was suddenly elongated, his face, his body was changing rapidly, and everything around him was swallowed up by the darkness! When she came back to her senses, her arm had been clutched, and in front of her was a strong man like a hill, staring at her viciously. A bolt of lightning struck, and she could clearly see the blood-stained long knife coming towards her!

"Ahh "Lan'er" covered her head and screamed!

"Wow!" A little yellow dog suddenly pounced, desperately biting the strong man's calf, and with a loud scolding from the other party, the body of the little yellow dog was cut into two pieces. Hot blood splattered on her face, and she could only scream, but her screams were drowned out in rolling thunder.

"Hehe, don't be afraid, little girl, you'll be next!"

"No...... No...... Don't! ”

"Lan'er" frantically hid in the corner, but to no avail, she could only watch the enemy approach little by little, for a five or six-year-old child, she could do nothing.

Another flash of lightning flashed, and in an instant the electric light illuminated the face of a small corpse in the corner, the girl who had pulled her to play with during the day. Her eyes widened, and only half of her head remained, her brains mixed with blood running all over the ground. The remaining one eye was staring at her, as if to say, "Come on, come on!" You're next! ”

"Ahh

"Lan'er"'s voice was already hoarse, she couldn't make a sound but still screamed desperately, she didn't want to die! She wants to live!

The long knife was raised high, just as it was about to fall! A golden glow suddenly appeared, filling the room! After the golden light, the knife-wielding murderer had an unbelievable look on his face, and then collapsed to the ground as a lifeless corpse.

And "Lan'er" curled up in the corner, her snot and tears were mixed together, her whole body twitched unconsciously, but the golden light in her right eye was very dazzling.

It was dark again, and when she opened her eyes, she was back in the little village, the sky was blue, and all around was lush green. At this time, the little girl came again, as if nothing had happened, and said to her with a grin: "Lan'er! What are you doing here? Everyone is waiting for you! Why don't you come and play together? ”

The little yellow dog was still jumping around her, as if he wanted to pull her to play as soon as possible.

Looking at the little girl's face, "Lan'er" was stunned, she remembered that she was "Lan'er" and "Phantom Queen". As for the little girl in front of her - it's her own sister.

"Why...... Why won't you let me go......" she muttered to herself as she stared blankly at her sister's face.

"Lan'er? What happened to you? Why don't you play with your sister? ”

"Why...... Why don't you let me go......" she continued to muttered to herself as if she hadn't heard it.

The little girl put away her smile, stared at her, and said word by word: "Why, you are alive!" ”

"Me? Why live? ”

"Everyone is dead, why don't you die?"

"I ...... Why not die? ”

"You should die too, stay with everyone so that everyone can play together forever."

"I ...... I deserve to die too...... yes, I deserve to die too! I deserve to die too! Hahaha! She looked up to the sky and laughed like crazy, then stretched out her finger and stuck it in her right eye without hesitation! Those golden pupils!

"Smack!" Her hand stopped, and she was held by a man, and then a familiar voice came to her ear: "Wake up!" Wake up, Phantom Hime! ”

The little girl smiled playfully at her, as if to say, "You're in luck!" Then there was darkness in front of her eyes. When she came back to her senses, she was greeted by the anxious cheeks of Qian and Ling.

"Mei'er...... Lingxi ......"

Seeing that she finally came to her senses, the two girls breathed a sigh of relief, her self-harm just now frightened them, but fortunately, they were relatively close, so they could quickly stop her behavior.

"You...... Do you have sleepwalking? Why didn't you say it earlier? It's also scary! Lingxi still had palpitations.

"Lie down first, did you dream of anything? What's uncomfortable? Qian Mei'er asked with concern as she lay her body flat.

Phantom Hime gasped a few times and shook her head, she looked at the dark sky without saying a word, not knowing what she was thinking.

"Drink some water?" Qian Mei'er handed her the kettle, and she sat up and took a few sips of "Gollum".

"Relieved?"

Phantom nodded.

"What did you dream about?"

Phantom Ji sighed, and stopped talking, "No...... It's nothing. ”

"You don't look like nothing."

Phantom opened her mouth to say something, but eventually sighed, "It's just hell......"

"Hell? What kind of hell? This time it was Lingxi who couldn't help but ask.

"What kind of hell?" Phantom Hime unconsciously repeated the question, "That's hell for me alone." ”

Qian and Ling looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

"If you'd like to, why don't you tell us about it?" Qian Mei'er asked tentatively.

Phantom shook her head, "It's nothing remarkable, it's just some ...... The shadow of childhood, don't talk about it. ”

Seeing that she still refused to reveal, Qian and Ling couldn't say anything, so they could only accompany her to close their eyes and breathe.

A gust of wind blew, and Phantom felt a chill down her spine, only to realize that her back was soaked with sweat. She grew up in the Immortal Dust Continent since she was a child, because of the shadow of her childhood, she never trusted anyone, and she was unwilling to confide her heart to anyone, even the master who raised her did not know this dark memory in her heart.

She will never forget the three days she spent in the room full of corpses, the stench of corpses attracting swarms of flies, and the buzzing echoing in her ears countless times in the quiet of the night. She couldn't forget her sister's eyes before she died, and she couldn't forget the scene when her parents' bodies were disembodied by wild dogs.

On the fourth day, she was discovered by a passing monk......

If there is no existence of Qian and Ling today, I am afraid that she has gouged out her right eye by now. But perhaps it was a relief for her to do so......

Ling Ning and Xia Shiqing followed the big snake to explore the depths of the cave, the deeper they went, the more downward the terrain became, the damp aura gradually worsened, and after about an hour, they were already in the underground without seeing the light of day, and it was pitch black all around.

Xia Shiqing used the "fluorescence technique", and the glowing sphere was suspended in front of the wooden figure for illumination.

Another hour of time, the smell of fish in the air is even stronger, large and small animal corpses began to appear in the quagmire, all of which have turned into dry bones, and the snakes around are several times larger, but the number is less than half, obviously these snakes belong to the "elite" compared to the previous ones. But these snakes also raised their heads towards the depths of the cave, as if they had been hooked.

Just when Ling Ning was impatient with this endless darkness, he suddenly found that murals began to appear on the rock wall, Xia Shiqing also found it, and under a closer look, these murals were all depicted with red lines, because most of them had fallen off after a long time, and the rest were dark red.

The mural seems to depict some kind of ritual, with a woman in a feather robe standing on a high platform, being worshiped by thousands of people. This woman's body is snake-tailed, and although her face is no longer clear, she knows that she is the legendary ancient god - Nuwa Niangniang.

The subsequent mural also verified their conjecture, which is a story of "Nuwa mending the sky". These murals are obviously very old, and it can be vaguely seen that Nuwa Niangniang has ascended to the upper realm, but before the ascension, another woman with a snake tail was appointed to stay in the world, as if she was the descendant of Nuwa, and everyone worshipped again.

Just as the two of them were fascinated, a light suddenly lit up in front of them, but for a moment the light became brighter and brighter, until it suddenly became clear. A huge cave appeared in front of the two of them, and the stone walls around the cave were inlaid with countless night pearls, and the cave seemed to have turned into an emerald green ocean.

There are countless big snakes entrenched in the cave, like the big snakes they encountered today, about 20 meters long and more than 1 meter wide, can be seen everywhere, and the larger ones can't see their heads and tails at all! These big snakes all looked up at the center of the cave, which was a high platform more than 20 meters high and 5 meters wide. There was a huge snake hovering on the high platform, full of the thickness of a person's height, and only the head of the snake could be seen but the tail of the snake was seen when it circled. What's even more surprising is that it has two horns on the top of its head, and the scales on its body faintly glow gold, which is obviously extremely extraordinary.

"This ...... Could this be the Snake King? It was the first time for Ling Ning to see such a big snake, and his surprise was beyond words.

"Since this is the 'Earth Dragon Blessed Land', maybe this is the true face of the Earth Dragon." Xia Shiqing seemed much calmer.

"Earth Dragon?" Ling Ning looked at the two horns on its forehead, "But no matter how you look at it, it looks like a giant python, it has horns on its head, could it be that it has already crossed the catastrophe?" ”

Before the two of them could dig deeper, the dragon's huge body writhed, and then let out a roar that seemed to be a dragon's groan, and the sound was deafening and full of pain. The snakes around were all shocked and looked very panicked. And the transparent snake that attracted them was even more impatient, and kept spinning on the ground, as if it wanted to come forward to help, but did not dare to approach.

"What the hell are these snakes up to?"

Ling Ning didn't know why for a while, Xia Shiqing on the side looked quietly for a moment and suddenly said, "Look, there are people there!" ”

"People?" Ling Ning followed the direction of her finger and saw that there was really a person on the high platform! It's just that this person should be sitting cross-legged on the high platform, leaving only a small half of the light on the top of his head, and the light in the cave is unknown, so it is indeed not easy to find if you don't pay attention.

"Bare head...... Is it a monk? ”

"Whoever it is, he should know what's going on here. Let's go over and ask. ”

Ling Ning nodded, and the two of them flew towards the high platform. If ordinary people didn't dare to follow this transparent snake at all, they would have been frightened and quietly left when they saw this cave full of giant pythons. But Ling Ning and Xia Shiqing have struggled on the line of life and death many times, and their hearts have already been tempered, although they are still a little nervous in their hearts, they are not timid, but they are eager to try to find out.

The two climbed up to the high platform, and sure enough, they saw one person sitting in front of the earth dragon. As he spoke, golden filaments floated out of his mouth, wrapping around the Earth Dragon's body before becoming transparent and disappearing. The dragon looked pained, its red eyes spewing with rage, staring at the man sitting cross-legged in front of him, but powerless to resist.

Who has the ability to subdue such a strange beast? It's amazing.

"Brother Dao, what are you doing here?" Ling Ning stepped forward and saw the man's face, which instantly surprised him!

This person is none other than the demon monk who has disappeared for a long time!