Chapter 198: Knowing the Demon in the Windy City
After leaving Liangguo, the journey was smooth.
On this day, the twilight is vast and the smoke is everywhere.
A young swordsman dressed in brocade appeared on a hill on the outskirts of Windy City with his little sister.
The bridge passed through the village, the village passed through the city, the young man stood halfway up the mountain, looking down, there were still more than ten miles to enter the city with the wind.
I inquired with a woodcutter who went up the mountain to chop wood, and the man said that there was a curfew at night in Windy City, and he was not allowed to enter or leave the city gate at that time.
Now that it was over, Li Zijin couldn't help but remind the little junior sister to speed up her pace and hurry to the city for the night.
Spring nights are occasionally windy and rainy, and it is bitterly cold.
Qi refiners need to refine the god realm before they can cover the aura on the surface of their bodies to keep out the cold and heat, so the young people in the Peiyuan realm are still unable to take the sky as the ground in the true sense.
The moon rises tomorrow, and the sky is getting late.
On the way down the mountain, the little sister suddenly said that she was very thirsty. Li Zijin and Hong Shao came to a small courtyard, planning to beg for a bowl of water to drink.
Li Zijin knocked on the door twice, and the person inside asked, "Who?"
The young man hurriedly said: "Take the liberty of bothering, my junior sister and I are passing by here, wanting to beg for a bowl of water to drink, there is only one family within a radius of a few miles, I wonder if it is convenient?"
The man in the house said again: "Passers-by hurry up and leave, there is the city of the wind, you should go into the city with your junior sister and drink water quickly, don't delay here." ”
Li Zijin was stunned, thinking that the man was probably unwilling to give a bowl of water for nothing, and said: "Running around, I am really thirsty in the bottom, I am willing to spend money to buy a bowl of water for Mr., is Mr. willing?"
Unexpectedly, there was a crisp and loud sound of smashing bowls in the room, and at first glance, it was shattered. Hong Shao put his ear to the door, coldly startled by the sound of the bowl being slammed, and shrank back.
The man in the room scolded: "Good words and persuasion, why don't you know what is good or bad?! Could it be that you are a blind baby and can't see the strangeness of this place?"
Li Zijin frowned slightly, feeling that that person shouldn't be so unkind, he had already said that he was willing to spend money to buy a bowl of water to drink, why did that person refuse to be thousands of miles away?
Just when the young man was hesitating, the girl in white with a hosta behind him suddenly exclaimed, "Senior brother, what is that?"
The brocade-clothed young man took a step back, looked up, and really saw wisps of green mist lingering on the courtyard, faintly and loomingly.
Almost out of a knee-jerk reaction, Li Zijin hurriedly took out a yellow paper talisman from his baggage, and secretly urged the aura to make the talisman burn.
After the yellow paper talisman burned out, the ashes on the ground were stacked into a dignified "demon" character.
The demon talisman is a kind of talisman that is widely used by the Taoist elders of Longhu Mountain. A high-level monk can recognize demonic energy, ghost energy, and demonic energy with just his eyes. However, even if a low-realm Qi Refiner saw that green mist-like "ominous" existence with his own eyes, it was difficult to tell whether the enemy was a demon, a demon, or a ghost.
However, if you hold the Demon Talisman in your hand and infuse it with aura, it will make the Demon Talisman burn, and after it burns out, the embers will tell the Qi refiner whether it is a monster or a monster or a ghost.
"Demonic spirit. Li Zijin said in a deep voice.
The man in the room saw that there was silence outside for a moment, but there was movement again, and asked tentatively, "The young man is still not leaving?!" Do you have to wait for that monster to come and take the lives of your brother and sister?"
The boy did not answer his question, but asked rhetorically, "Why didn't the gentleman go?"
The man smashed a bowl again, made a crackling sound, and said angrily: "I have been fighting with the monster for more than three years, and even a pair of legs are folded in the hands of that monster, how can I be willing to leave." Even if I die, I will also take it to the funeral! When the time comes, the monster will come to fight me to the death, you go quickly, go!"
After hearing this, Li Zijin was convinced, it turned out to be the gentleman in the house, his legs and feet were inconvenient, he took off the Cuiqu sword, called the little junior sister to help hold the sword, and then broke into the door with one palm, and went straight into the courtyard and went to the house.
The people in the house heard the footsteps, scolding and smashing the bowl, but the young man ignored his scolding, went directly into the house, and really saw a middle-aged man with clothes in the lower half of his body, but "empty", about the age of not confused, the person was lying on the side of the bed, with a treasure mirror in his palm, exuding a sparkling white light. Come to think of it, it was with this treasure mirror that the middle-aged man could still stalemate with the monster after losing his legs.
The man saw a young man in brocade walking with a tiger, and quickly came to the house, just lightly clenched his fist at himself: "Within the four seas, they are all friends, since Mr. has inconvenient legs and feet, I will carry Mr. into the Windy City." ”
He lamented: "I am already a wasted person, and I have the determination to die with the monsters, so why should you be implicated by me." Now that the hour is coming, if you leave on your own, I can't say that the monster can't catch up with you, but with me on your back, how can you escape? Looking at your weather, you are also a qi refiner with immortal roots, don't you know that monsters like to suck the aura and essence of a qi refiner like you the most?"
The young man only smiled and said, "What Mr. said is good, I am naturally a qi refiner." It's just that Mr. has something he hasn't said. ”
Li Zijin picked up the man on his back, walked quickly towards the outside of the courtyard, and gave the answer in the man's puzzled eyes.
"I'm still a swordsman, and I'm not happy. ”
Catching a glimpse of Li Zijin coming out with a middle-aged man on his back, Hong Shao was surprised, holding a Wen sword Cangjie and an ancient sword Cuiqu in his arms. In Li Zijin's sentence "Hongshao, let's go." After that, he followed behind Li Zijin.
It's just that the girl wonders why the senior brother's footsteps seem to be much slower today? Even if he usually wants to keep up with him, the senior brother will not be at this speed.
Not to mention that if the senior brother mentions the aura and the true qi at the same time, plus the body method that disappears with a "whoosh".
The girl didn't know that Li Zijin had already given that body method a name - folding willow.
She always calls Li Zijin's folded willow with a "whoosh".
The middle-aged man lying on Li Zijin's back suddenly asked, "Boy, what's your name." ”
"Li Zijin. He said softly, "What about the seniors?"
The middle-aged man said slowly: "Yuyang." ”
After speaking, he glanced at the white-clothed girl next to him, Hong Shao understood, and quickly said, "Hello Mr. Yu, I, I am Hong Shao." ”
The man pondered for a moment, and couldn't help but ask, "Who gave you the name?"
Hong Shao stretched out a jade finger and pointed at a young man in a black and red brocade robe.
Yuyang was dumbfounded.
After running forward for two miles, the three of them came to a pear grove on the outskirts of the city.
Walk through the woods and you'll be able to enter Windy City.
The three of them knew.
The demon also knows.
Li Zijin deliberately slowed down here.
Yu Yang held the treasure mirror in his hand, watching the sparkling white light on it suddenly begin to shine, and he secretly said badly: "Li Zijin! Throw me down at this time, your brother and sister can still get out! I will use the jade mirror to drag the snake demon and fight for a chance for your brother and sister!"
However, the middle-aged man's words were also a step too late.
The time has come.
Behind the three of them, suddenly a slanted shadow was illuminated by the moonlight, slowly elongated, and gradually caught up, and then there was a "rustling" sound made by a heavy object dragging on the ground and rubbing against the leaves.
Feeling the movement behind him, Li Zijin exerted force under his feet, jumped up, flew on a giant tree branch, and stepped on several branches until he reached the top. He put the middle-aged man with inconvenient legs and feet on the top of the tree, leaned his back against the trunk, and then flew down the branch again, grabbed the little junior sister's shoulder, swayed up, arranged her at the top of the tree, and said in a deep voice: "Hong Shao, the safety of this gentleman will be handed over to you." ”
The girl clenched the Cangjie sword and nodded heavily, she was very happy to be able to help her senior brother.
Li Zijin turned his head and looked at the figure galloping from the road behind him.
Cyan scales, a large snake like a dragon.
He stretched out his hand, and Hong Shao immediately handed the Cuiqu Sword in his arms to his senior brother.
The moment the sword reached his hand, the figure had disappeared from the branches.
Yu Yang was stunned and looked at the young swordsman in brocade with ghostly speed, and was speechless for a while, only thinking that since the young man had this kind of body method, why didn't he use this body method to run away just now?
At the moment when his toes "tapped" the treetop branches, the corners of the boy's mouth twitched, and he looked at the big snake with a smile.
Like a dragon?
Not long ago, I just cut a piece.
The moon rises, and people fall.
The figure that fell quickly from the air, in the process of falling, smiled and said "falling Jiao".
When the words arrive, the people arrive, and so does the sword.
A bit of cold light dripped from the tip of the Cuiqu sword and hung above the green snake's head.
The majestic sword intent poured out, mixed with a bit of moonlight and a little spring breeze, and fell ferociously from the top of the green snake's head.
The green snake curled up with its tail crossed, its eyes condensed into a curtain of spiritual energy, rising above its head, struggling to resist, colliding with the drop of sword light pouring down from mid-air.
Between heaven and earth, there was a loud bang.
The young swordsman borrows the momentum of the sword, as if controlling the sword qi, so that the body floats in the air, borrowing the power of the light curtain of the green snake, a sword in front of him, the tip of the sword is facing the ground and the feet are facing the sky, holding the sword in the left hand, the right hand is close to the index finger and the middle finger, gently resisting the wrist of the left hand, and the aura is running with both hands at the same time.
At the beginning, it did not reach the hard threshold of the Jindan Realm, but in fact, this style was integrated with the sword of the spring breeze sword intent and combined into a new style, which was already comparable to the sword qi used by the Jindan Sword Immortal.
The green snake demon was originally an ordinary snake in the depths of the mountain, just because a few years ago an immortal sword flew by, lying on the flying sword and drinking non-stop, while drinking, while sprinkling wine. The wine that had been spilled on the ground from the outskirts of Windy City happened to drip down, and the wine had a realgar color, which was supposed to disperse the snakes.
However, the green snake seemed to be naturally agile, not only was it not scared away by the wine spilled by the sword fairy, but it strengthened its snake gall, stiffened its head, stretched out its tongue and licked it.
A drop of immortal wine allowed the green snake to open up the sea of knowledge, and since then it has been psychic and able to cultivate.
At first, it only lived in a corner, eating some rats and insects, and occasionally lying on the top of the mountain, absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon, and sucking the aura of heaven and earth. Later, the aura of Honghu Prefecture became thinner and thinner, and he cultivated as usual, and his cultivation did not advance an inch, which made the green snake begin to set his sights on cannibalism, especially the essence and aura of the refining qi.
In the nearby mountain villages, there have also been a few Qi Refiners with immortal roots, all of whom are minor cultivators of the Enlightenment Realm or the Qi Condensation Realm, and they are naturally not the opponents of the Green Snake. It's not that there have been monks who want to eliminate harm for the people and plan to do chivalrous deeds pass by here, intending to kill demons and demons.
However, Teal is shrewd and cunning, always choosing to haunt after the hour, and does not stay in one village every time. If you don't defeat the Qi Refiners, you will slip away early, those monks can't stay outside Suifeng City for the rest of their lives, and waste their lives with the green snake, right?
In fact, Yu Yang is also the Qi refiner who plans to kill demons and eliminate demons, and outside this Wind City, it took three years to consume with the green snake, and even his legs were folded in the hands of the green snake, which was miserable and miserable.
The aura light curtain above the green snake's head gradually lost to Li Zijin's amazing Luojiao sword technique.
It is still a monster in the realm of Dongfu, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that the young man was in the Peiyuan realm, thinking that even if it was a sword cultivator, he should be regarded as the realm of the cave, it was just in the same realm as it, and he couldn't help himself.
I never thought that as soon as the young man took out the sword, he would "casually use a sword" to display such a sharp "sword qi", the weight of the sword intent made the green snake feel that there was a mountain hanging over its head, and it was suppressed so that it was out of breath, as if the next moment, there would really be a mountain falling from the sky and smashing it to pieces.
In a hurry, the green snake's body instantly shrank dozens of times, and finally condensed into a human form, which was a naked woman.
She pretended to beg for mercy and said: "Sword Immortal spare her life! The slave and maid don't dare to harm people anymore, and are willing to make cattle and horses for Sword Immortal to repay the grace of not killing." ”
The words were like this, but the young man could see the deep resentment in her eyes.
Although this demon has been able to transform into a human form, his heart is still extremely poor, and he can't even hide the resentment and murderous intent in the corners of his eyes.
Li Zijin frowned, it was clear that he was dying, and he deliberately conjured up a woman's body without clothes, in a vain attempt to take the opportunity to charm himself?
This demon is scheming and cunning, and if she doesn't get rid of it today, I'm afraid she will be a disaster to the world in the future.
Thinking of this, the young man's eyes widened suddenly, and his right hand suddenly exerted force, condensing all the spiritual energy in the sea of consciousness to one point.
Suddenly, I heard the spring breeze coming overnight, and thousands of trees and pear blossoms bloomed.
Those pear blossoms in the jungle were all infected by the spring breeze sword intent and turned into countless sword lights.
Everywhere the sword flashed, the branches fell like rain.
Where the rain of swords fell, countless potholes appeared on the ground.
The woman transformed by the green snake tried her best, but she still couldn't resist all the sword rain, and finally fell to the ground with several swords in her body.
The next moment, the brocade-clothed young man dragged his sword away, and the Cuiqu sword dragged on the ground, making a piercing and sharp scream.
Li Zijin came to the green snake woman, raised his sword, luck, and dropped the sword.
The green snake woman was seriously injured, and her heart was full of discouragement, and there was no resentment and murderous intent in her eyes at this moment.
Now there was only fear in her eyes, she lay on the ground, her eyes shining with tears, holding the young man's legs, pleading and pleading.
Li Zijin closed his eyes and didn't look at this scene, although he had already moved his compassion, but when the interruption continued, if someone was killed by the green snake in the future, then he killed them indirectly.
Li Zijin still fell from the sword.
At the last moment, a dark light flew from behind the young man in brocade, and the dark light fell on the wrist of the young man's left hand, forming a white chain that firmly bound him.
Yu Yang put his fingers together, pulled the white "silk thread", and suddenly pleaded for the green snake: "Li Zijin, it's better to let her go." ”
"Mr. Yu?" Li Zijin was very puzzled, Yu Yang had said before that he would drag the green snake to be buried with him when he died, why did he change his mind at this moment?
Besides, in the face of such a cunning monster, who can guarantee that she is not acting on the spot at the moment?
I can't say that I can agree to come down now, and then when she leaves, she will come back to take Yuyang's life, and then continue to bring disaster to the world.
"Even if Mr. Yu lets go of the grudge in his heart, he must know that this snake demon is treacherous, Mr. should not be deceived by her appearance, there was clearly murderous intent in her eyes before, but she was just invincible. Li Zijin narrowed his eyes and stared into the eyes of the woman who had been transformed into the green snake.
The woman shrank back, not daring to look at the young swordsman, and even if Li Zijin's hand holding the sword had been pulled by the jade mirror at this moment, and she couldn't hurt her in the slightest, she didn't take the opportunity to fight back or run away.
She was really scared.
There are thousands of monsters in the world, and no one wants to offend the sword immortal.
Now this green snake woman is only a young man in brocade clothes in front of her, at least she is also the predecessor of the sword fairy above the golden pill, and she uses her aura to make her youth eternal, so she looks like a teenager. Otherwise, how could he casually unleash such a powerful sword qi?
And that sword intent······ It really made her dare not reminisce, and she still had palpitations.
The woman just shrunk her head and put her legs together, trembling slightly.
Fang was still a hateful demon, but now after changing into a human form, he pretended to be pitiful again. Somewhat ridiculous.
Yu Yang shook his head and said, "Yu Mou did not let go of the hatred in his heart. Until this moment, Yu still resents her for breaking my legs. But I don't have legs anymore, and if I kill the snake demon, my legs won't grow back on their own. originally planned to die with her, but it was a helpless move.
To be honest, Li Zijin, I didn't expect you to be so capable and able to... Sword slashes the serpent. Now in a different form, I don't have to die with her, and she promised to change her ways. ”
Li Zijin shook his head and said, "Senior, in my opinion, it's still ······."
"Yu thinks that there is one more good demon alive in this world, it seems that it is better than one less bad demon in this world to die?
After speaking, Yu Yang easily opened his fingers, and the white silk thread that grabbed Li Zijin's wrist disappeared, and the light of the treasure mirror in Yu Yang's hand also dimmed.
However, the young man without the chains in his hands closed his eyes, smiled bitterly, and muttered, "Mr. Yu, why is this happening, you want to break my Dao heart." ”
The man with a broken leg holding a round of treasure mirrors on the branch of the treetop said four words with a smile, but whether it was the white-clothed girl beside him, the brocade-clothed young man in the distance, or the naked woman paralyzed on the ground, he didn't hear those four words clearly, he only felt vague and couldn't really hear them.
Originally, I thought that this snake demon must not be kept, but now, Li Zijin was a little hesitant to raise his sword.
It seems that Mr. Fish is not unreasonable.
In the end, it is actually whether he is willing to give this snake demon a chance to mend his ways.
If the world can really have one more demon with good thoughts, wouldn't it be much better than dying a demon with grudges in this world?
The young swordsman suddenly opened his eyes, crouched down, and leaned in front of the woman.
She subconsciously shrank back, trembling and looking at the "Sword Immortal" in front of her, swallowing her saliva, neither daring to be angry nor to speak.
Li Zijin asked with a serious expression, "Will you change it?"
The woman turned into a green snake was stunned for a moment, and then began to nod frantically like a chicken pecking rice, and kept responding: "Yes, yes, yes······"
It seems that at this time of life and death, every time you say the word "will", you will really give yourself more chances to survive.
"Put your clothes on. The boy dropped a word, and turned and walked into the woods.
In a few breaths, the young man in brocade had already jumped off the branch from the tree, carrying the legless fish and yang on his back, and the girl in white also followed the aura, stepping on the branch and slowly landing on the ground.
The three of them came to the green snake woman, Li Zijin frowned and asked, "Why do you still show people like this······?"
Before the boy could finish speaking, the snake demon quickly explained, "No, it's not. My mana is low, and the transfiguration form has exhausted its mana, you... The sword aura of the predecessor is so domineering, I have tried my best to resist it, and I don't have the slightest mana to transform a piece of clothing. ”
Li Zijin was dumbfounded, and he was speechless for a while, not knowing what to say.
It was still Hong Shao who took pity on the snake demon sister who was also born in the spirit, and took the opportunity to take out a change of clothes that he had worn from the baggage and handed it to the snake demon sister.
Li Zijin carried Yuyang on his back and turned around a little "redundantly".
The woman quickly took the garment, and without seeing any movement, she put on her clothes and stood aside respectfully.
She thought about it, but she still made a detour in front of Li Zijin, and handed Yu Yang an apologetic look to Yu Yang who was lying on the young man's back, but the three words "I'm sorry" were stuck in the throat of the green snake woman, and for some reason, she couldn't get out.
The seven emotions and six desires of people, she has not yet completed them, and she lacks a lot of things for people's emotions, and she still needs to practice diligently, meet more people, experience more things, and wait until the cultivation realm is higher, so that she can gradually become complete.
Yu Yang's face was expressionless, but he seemed to be waiting for something,
Li Zijin looked at the snake demon in front of him with a smile, as if he was waiting for something.
Hong Shao looked anxious, but he didn't dare to remind him.
After hesitating for a moment, the green snake woman finally gritted her teeth, cut a blood mark on the palm of her left hand with her right index finger, and then walked to Yu Yang's side and asked him to stretch out his palm as well, and cut a blood mark on Yu Yang's palm.
Then the green snake woman's bleeding palm and Yu Yang's bleeding hand were held together, she closed her eyes and silently recited a long series of mantras.
In Yu Yang's heart lake, a heartfelt voice sounded, and he also closed his eyes and silently recited the same mantra as the woman.
The next moment, on the heart lake of a person and a demon, a wave appeared at the same time, and from the end of the heart lake, slowly stepped ashore.
Leave an inscription on the shore.
At this point, the deed has been completed.
It is impossible for her to kill Yu Yang in this life.
And it is equivalent to the green snake woman and Yu Yang living and dying together, and sharing wealth and wealth, if Yu Yang dies, she will only end up dead.
Seeing this scene, Li Zijin quietly let go of the hand holding the hilt of the sword, and said with a smile: "It seems that what Senior Yu said is not unreasonable. ”
Li Zijin is not the first time he has seen the contract.
At the beginning of the border of the Daxuan Dynasty, in the broken temple, he and Su Hu were under the "matchmaking" of the female sword fairy Tang Yin, one person and one demon, and they formed a contract.
Now he, a sword immortal who does not live up to his name, is also in this Honghu Prefecture, matching one person and one demon and signing a contract.
Yu Yang glanced at Hong Shao intentionally or unintentionally, and then glanced at Li Zijin deeply, and said softly: "Leading demons to goodness, the road is long and long, you and I encourage each other." ”
The brocade-clothed boy nodded slowly.
"I'll do it. ”
The green snake woman offered to carry the fish and yang who had lived and died with her.
She gnawed on Yuyang's legs, but she made a contract with him by mistake.
Yu Yang's second half of life will depend on her to take care of her.
It is not only atonement, but also cause and effect, and it is also providence.
The woman carried Yu Yang on her back and waved at Li Zijin, this time, there was no resentment or fear in her eyes, only a touch of gratitude, and a little relief.
The two looked at each other speechlessly, and finally Li Zijin spoke: "Although you and Mr. Yu have made a contract, and you can't hurt him in the future, you still need to remember what you promised me today." If I return to Windy City in the future and hear rumors of snake demons harming people, I won't show mercy anymore. I believe that at that time, Mr. Yu will not intercede for you again. He can still have compassion for you because of your broken leg, which is a rare great good in the world. What you owe Mr. Fish, you will repay it with the rest of your life. ”
In the end, the young man said: "That's all you say, so you can do it yourself." Let's go. ”
Only then did the green snake woman bow deeply at Li Zijin again, and then turned around and walked towards the road she came.
She walked a long distance with Yu Yang on her back, until she turned around and couldn't even see the woods, let alone the "Young Sword Immortal", Yu Yang on her back suddenly said softly: "Actually, you have lived twice." ”
The green snake woman was stunned for a moment, not knowing why.
Yu Yang smiled: "If you don't take the initiative to propose a contract, the young man still doesn't plan to let you go." So tonight, you are the equivalent of dying twice and living twice. The first time, I interceded for you. The second time, it was you who seized the opportunity. So providence is so, you should not die. ”
Recalling that the hand of the brocade-clothed young man just now, it seemed that he had never left the hilt of the sword before he mentioned the contract, so it meant that he could really draw his sword out of the sheath and kill himself at any time······
The green snake woman had palpitations, thinking about how people's hearts were so sinister, and she had clearly promised to let herself go, but she still left the final calculation, or test?
Thinking about it, she wanted to cry, she was already a pear blossom with rain, standing in place, stopping, wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes with one hand, and there was a faint trend of the river bursting.
Yu Yang patted her on the shoulder and soothed, "From today onwards, your name will be Qing Confession." May you repent of the past and mend your ways. ”
She was stunned and responded, "Okay." ”
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Li Zijin and the little junior sister entered the inn in Suifeng City to stay.
Before I was about to fall asleep, I heard the four words in my ears that I had just heard in the woods.
It was about Li Zijin's mention of Mr. Yu's "why do you hurt my Dao heart", and the other party's answer to Li Zijin.
I don't know why it rings in my ears.
This time, it's a lot more real.
The voice said.
Break and then stand.