Early the next morning

Chang Sheng walked out of the house sleepily and saw Chang An practicing his sword.

"Brother"

Chang An looked at Chang Sheng, who had just woken up, and smiled.

Shi Kuang sat on the side and looked at Chang An, who was practicing swords, his eyes were full of surprise, and said to Chang Sheng

"Brother Chang is so powerful."

I saw that Chang An's pace was constantly changing, and the long sword in his hand was suddenly extremely sharp, suddenly soft as a ribbon, and sometimes as fast as lightning, and the last sword stabbed out, raising a burst of dust.

Chang Sheng clapped his little hands excitedly and said proudly

"My brother is the best."

Chang An was interested at the moment and said with a smile

"Three or two, watch my brother perform a trick for you."

Chang An stepped out of the sword and walked under a crooked-necked tree in the courtyard, Chang Sheng and Shi Kuang opened their eyes wide, staring directly at the sword in Chang An's hand, only to see that there was a faint air flow around the sword body, but the air flow was extremely light, if you don't look carefully, it is easy to be ignored.

Beads of sweat swept across Chang An's forehead, his body trembled slightly, and the long sword in his hand suddenly stabbed at the crooked neck tree, Chang Sheng and Shi Kuang clearly saw that the tip of the sword stayed less than a foot away from the tree, and did not stab the trunk, the sound of "Sasha" came, and the crooked neck tree shook gently, as if an invisible force shook the entire tree.

Two thunderous applause erupted in the courtyard, and Chang Sheng's face was full of excitement

"Brother, how did you do it, you can beat people in the air."

Chang An was sweating profusely and panting

"It's just a gadget, and it can be performed, and it can't be used in actual combat."

Shi Kuang's eyes were full of worship

"But it's amazing to look at."

Chang An said with a smile

"This move is called sword qi in the Sword Pavilion, but even if it is used with the internal force of the grandmaster level, it will be powerless if it exceeds one foot, so even the disciples of the Sword Pavilion will basically not use this move."

Chang An felt a burst of strength and smiled bitterly, in fact, this move can only be performed by masters above the grandmaster level, and he can barely use this move, but he still loses the effect of Yan Sihai's pill.

Shi Kuang walked up and helped Chang An and said

"Brother Chang, do you want to go to the riverside today?"

Chang An nodded and asked instead

"Brother Shi, the two of us have just arrived, can you please be our guide and take us on a tour of the Chijiang River."

Shi Kuang thought about it and said with a smile

"Okay."

The three of them were walking by the Chijiang River, Shi Kuang was explaining the Chijiang River to Chang An's brothers and sisters, and Chang An suddenly asked

"Brother Shi, the water in the whole world is clear, why is the water of the Chijiang River so bright red."

Shi Kuang was stunned, scratched his head, and said

"I don't know, but I heard from the village chief that the water of the Chijiang River used to be very clear."

Chang An asked again

"Someone died last night, why don't you see the funeral procession today?"

Shi Kuang said

"We are all here, and we are all sent directly to the river and sacrificed to the demon king."

Chang Sheng shuddered for a while and said tremblingly

"Demon... Demon King"

Shi Kuang suddenly looked at Chijiang and nodded solemnly

"The legend left by our ancestors here, there is a demon king living in this Chijiang River, and the demon king in the river blesses us to get out of the boat safely, in exchange, we want to sacrifice the dead to the demon king."

"Oh?"

Chang An suddenly became interested and said with a smile

"The demon king doesn't pick it, he wants the dead, but he doesn't want the living."

"Shh

Shi Kuang made a silent gesture to him and said

"You can't blaspheme the Demon King, the village chief said that a hundred years ago, there were elders in the village who blasphemed the Demon King, and as a result, in the next month, all the adults in the village died one after another, and only some little babies were still alive."

Chang An listened, felt a burst of absurdity, and said

"Then how did your village chief know about this?"

Shi Kuang said mysteriously

"The village chief is the child who survived a hundred years ago."

Chang An was surprised, he didn't expect that the elderly village chief was already more than a hundred years old.

The three of them were walking along the river, but they met a young girl standing not far in front of them, looking at the Chijiang River.

"Sister Yang."

Shi Kuang recognized the girl Zheng Yang Bai at a glance.

When the girl heard this, she turned her head to look over, but saw that the girl had teary eyes and a desolate face.

Shi Kuang was shocked and hurriedly ran over.

"Sister Yang, what's wrong with you."

Yang Bai kept sobbing and refused to speak, and Shi Kuang became more and more anxious.

"Did someone bully you?"

Yang Bai still didn't speak, just sobbed.

Chang An looked at Yang Bai, with an ominous premonition in his heart, and hurriedly shouted

"Brother Shi, catch her!"

When Shi Kuang looked at Chang An blankly, "Poof! With a bang, Yang Bai jumped into the river.

Today, the wind is strong on the riverside, and the waves in the Chijiang River are turbulent, and Yang Bai plunged into the river, like a stone sinking into the sea, and disappeared.

Shi Kuang was so anxious that he couldn't care about the turbulent river, so he plunged into it, but as soon as he entered the water, he was hit by a wave and almost fainted.

Fortunately, he grew up by the river since he was a child, he is well versed in water, and strives to keep himself awake, he takes a deep breath and dives underwater, in the dark red river water, Shi Kuang tries to distinguish the direction, recalls the position where Yang Bai jumped and the approximate flow speed of the water, estimates the possible position of Yang Bai, and struggles to find it.

Relying on his excellent water nature and rich experience, he soon found Yang Bai, Yang Bai jumped into the river, he was knocked out by the waves, Shi Kuang struggled to grab Yang Bai who had fainted, and tried to swim to the water.

On the shore, Chang Sheng's eyes were already red from crying, she grabbed Chang An's arm as much as she could, looking nervously at the river, looking forward to Shi Kuang and Yang Bai appearing there.

In the wind, a wave slapped over, and two small figures were revealed on the river, floating weakly with the waves, although Shi Kuang was holding Yang Bai at this time, he had exhausted all his strength, and could only go with the current, letting the torrent wash the two away.

Just when Shi Kuang was about to faint, a figure appeared not far away, only to see Chang An jumped, jumped far to the river, his feet lightly stepped on the waves, his body was as light as a swallow, a little force, he stepped on the waves and jumped high, and jumped forward, between a few longitudinal crossings, Chang An had already crossed the river surface of dozens of zhang, he gently crossed the top of Shi Kuang's head, fell directly into the water, came to Shi Kuang's side, hugged Shi Kuang's body hard, and said with a smile

"You rest for a while, and then we'll work together and swim back."

Shi Kuang said with the only strength he had left

"Go back quickly."

He was about to push Chang An away, but found that Chang An was not moving in the torrent, and there seemed to be a force dragging Chang An to prevent him from being swept away by the current.

He took a closer look and found that there was a long rope on the surface of the river, and then he thought that Chang An had tied himself to the big tree on the shore with a long rope before jumping into the water.

When Yang Bai woke up, he only heard Shi Kuang's simple laughter

"Haha, she's awake."

It's just that Shi Kuang couldn't laugh the next moment, and as soon as Yang Bai opened his eyes, he tried his best to break free of Shi Kuang's hand, wanting to jump into the river again.

It's just that Shi Kuang grabbed Yang Bai this time and never let her break free.

"Let go of me."

Yang Bai roared weakly.

Shi Kuang just grabbed her silently and didn't let go.

Chang An, who was soaking wet, walked up to Yang Bai and asked with a smile

"Miss Yang, the world is so beautiful, why are you in a hurry to seek death."

Yang Bai's face was like ashes, and when he saw that he couldn't break free from Shi Kuang, the two lines of tears couldn't help but slide down

"My father and mother are dead, what's the point of me living."

Shi Kuang was startled and blurted out

"I only saw it the day before yesterday, why did I die today."

Chang An's head welled up with a bad feeling and asked

"Ling Zun and Ling Tang didn't die of a sudden illness last night."

Yang Bai nodded weakly and said with a sob

"Somehow last night, not long after I fell asleep, I heard two screams in my father's room, and when I ran into my father's room, they... They rolled on the ground in pain, and then their mouths... Blood flowed, and it didn't take long for them... They... And they were... Out of breath, woo woo woo woo ......"

When Shi Kuang saw Yang Bai's appearance, he didn't mention how uncomfortable it was, so he immediately hugged Yang Bai in his arms and continued to comfort him

"Don't be afraid, Sister Yang, I'm here."

After a long time, Yang Bai, who had already lost his strength, finally fell asleep in Shi Kuang's arms.

No matter how stupid Shi Kuang is, he already has some doubts at this moment, he looked back at Chang An with a frightened face, and said tremblingly

"Could it be...... It's the Demon King who has come to ask for his life again. ”

Chang An sneered, he didn't know how true the legend of the Demon King was, but Shi Meng was indeed poisoned to death, if this was the so-called Demon King's life, this Demon King's methods were too stingy.

Chang An didn't respond to Shi Kuang, just said

"Brother Shi, can you take me to meet your village chief."

Shi Kuang thought for a moment and said

"Okay, it's just what Sister Yang should do."

Chang An said with a smile

"Brother Shi, Miss Yang is helpless, and the only one who can rely on you at this time is you."

Shi Kuang's face changed firmness and said

"Then I will go to Yangjia Village today to propose marriage."

Chang An said

"I'll go with you."

Shi Kuang asked

"What about the village chief?"

Chang An said

"The village chief can go at night."

At this time, it was noon, and the three of them took Yang Bai, who was already asleep, all the way to Yangjia Village.

Standing at the entrance of the village, Shi Kuang scratched his head and said with a simple smile

"Oops! I don't know Yang Bai's family. ”

Chang Sheng said with a blank face

"Didn't you go to her house the last time you met?"

Shi Kuang replied

"The first time we met was by the river, so we also made an appointment to meet yesterday by the river."

Chang Sheng looked helpless and said

"Then don't ask anyone."

Shi Kuang said

"That's right."

When the three of them entered the village, they felt a little quiet, and although the doors of every house were open, no one was moving.

Chang An said lightly

"Brother Shi, Yangjia Village is quite different from your Shijia Village."

Shi Kuang shook his head and said

"Although I didn't come much, it used to be quite lively, why is it so quiet today."

Chang An frowned and said

"Just find one and ask."

Shi Kuang nodded, then carried Yang Bai on his back and walked to a house on the side of the road, just as he walked into the yard, Shi Kuang asked a faint smell

"What a smell, it smells bad."

Shi Kuang didn't care too much, after all, even if it had a taste, it was someone else's own home,

He cleared his throat, stood in the courtyard, and asked loudly

"Anyone?"

No one responded

Shi Kuang shouted again

"Anyone?"

Still no one responded.

Chang An said

"Why don't you change it?"

Shi Kuang nodded.

When they came to another house, Shi Kuang smelled the faint smell again.

"Anyone?"

Shi Kuang shouted again.

There was still no response, but this time, Chang An faintly heard the sound of children crying.

"Woo woo woo woo"

Chang An grabbed Shi Kuang and didn't let him continue shouting

"Woo woo woo."

The sound of crying came again, Chang Anxin couldn't think about it, and before Shi Kuang could react, he rushed in with a brisk step.

As Chang An entered the house, the sound of the child's crying became louder and louder, Chang An found that not only the yard was open, but the door was also open, and the child's crying came from the house.

The pungent smell permeated the room, several corpses fell horizontally in the house, only a child was crying helplessly, the corpses were hideous, in pain, on the table in the house, the food was still steaming, a female corpse was in the hand, and there were broken dishes and chopsticks, obviously, while the family was preparing lunch, bad luck suddenly came.

Chang An roughly examined a few corpses, not surprisingly, no wounds were found, and he died of poisoning, Chang An was shocked in his heart, recalling the legend of the demon king that Shi Kuang said, it seemed so real.

At this time, Shi Kuang and Chang Sheng also walked in, and Chang Sheng woke Chang An up with a scream

"Yikes!"

Seeing this, Chang An quickly hugged the crying child, drove Shi Kuang and Chang Sheng out of the house, closed the door, and said to Shi Kuang

"Brother Shi, you can take care of my sister and child here, I'll go look elsewhere, don't run around, the murderer may still be in the village."

Shi Kuang was shocked

"Murderers, you're saying they were killed."

Chang An was noncommittal, he performed light skills in the courtyard and jumped to the house next door.

After half a pillar of incense, Chang An's figure returned to Shi Kuang's side, holding a child in his arms, without saying a word, his face was extremely poor, and his anger was overflowing, even Shi Kuang and Chang Sheng felt the murderous aura in his eyes.

He jumped high again, jumped onto the roof, and looked around the village, with his Kuofu-level ear power at this time, he could barely hear all directions, so that he could already hear the crying of children before Shi Kuang and Chang Sheng even knew it.

The sound of the children in the neighborhood was crying incessantly, and his eyes became colder and colder, and suddenly, he saw that there was still curling smoke on the roof of a house in the west, and he jumped away and jumped towards the house as fast as he could.

The closer he got to the house, the more he felt that something was wrong.

The smoke was too thick.

Chang An's head trembled again.

When he finally arrived, his heart was cold to the bottom, Chang An pushed open the door, and a woman was sitting there, holding a pair of firewood in her right hand and sending it to the stove pit, the other end of the firewood had burned and turned black, and she was holding a newborn baby in her left hand, crying.

The fire burned around the woman, who had already scorched the lower half of her body, but the woman's pupils were dark and her face was bloodless, apparently dead, and two lines of tears had not yet dried on the woman's cheeks, and her gray pupils looked at the baby in her arms with pity.

She may have been in pain before she died, but she still wanted to leave the last bit of tenderness in the doll's heart.

This moment was frozen, and in the room, only the sound of flames crackling, intertwined with the sound of a baby's cry.

Be extremely tragic!

Chang An's heart was already angry to the point of no return, and there was nothing more evil in the world than this.

Throughout the day, Chang An traveled back and forth to the entire village, and every time he returned to Shi Kuang and Chang Sheng, he turned back to bring back one or two children or babies, and his heart became more and more numb.

Shi Kuang looked at the more and more children in the courtyard, and his heart became more and more frightened.

"The Demon King is really here to ask for his life again."

Chang Sheng kept recalling the scene she had just seen, she had vomited several times, tears welled up in her eyes, fear and sadness mixed with her heart, and she fainted for a while.