Chapter 21: Dark Night
The sun had set in the western mountains, and the heavy twilight had begun to envelop Fallen Leaf City, and everyone had dispersed, many shops in Fallen Leaf City were closing, and some of the shops that were doing night business were lit up.
Yun Xuan barely supported his tired body, and walked with Li Yanhuan, Li Miaomiao, Fang Mo, and Fang Lele in the crowded streets.
Li Yanhuan originally wanted to go to the proud building again, Yun Xuan shook his head, where can he eat, the palm prints on his face are still red, the corners of his mouth and mouth are injured, and his chest hurts, he wants to simply eat something to fill his stomach, relieve the hunger and exhaustion in his body, and then return to Guanhe Xiaozhu to rest and recover.
found a porridge shop on the side of the street, ate something casually, Li Yanhuan bought another lantern for Yun Xuan, and the few people separated. When Yun Xuan came out to the West City Gate, the half moon in the sky was already hanging high in the sky, Yun Xuan carried a lantern, and slowly walked on the road back to Guanhe Xiaozhu in the faint moonlight.
He approached the lotus pond alone, and on both sides of the path was a secluded and dense wood, with branches and foliage covering the top, and occasionally spotted moonlight spots on the grass of the path.
The darkness was dead and silent, only the footsteps of Yun Xuan, and the rustling sound gradually sounded in the dense forest, and the branches and leaves trembled slightly, listening to his ears, it seemed that a breeze swept through the treetops, leaning towards the path.
Three thumb-sized green rattans, hanging from the branches above the path, crawled slowly.
A shadow hides in the unknown foliage, anxiously observing all directions.
Yun Xuan walked below, the rustling sound was sharp, the rattan struck obliquely from the branches, and the shadows parted the leaves, shuttled through the branches, and flew towards this side.
"Hurry up!" a female voice rang out urgently.
Yun Xuan took advantage of the light of the lantern and looked at the place where the voice came from, the shadow's face was pale with pain, his upper body was pink, and his lower clothes were tender green, and he had already flown closer, it was Yang Qingli.
A lotus flower flew out of her body with a pink glow, shooting down towards Yun Xuan.
Yun Xuan looked at the scene in front of him and was shocked.
Before he could react, the lotus flower had already swept over Yun Xuan's head.
"Bang"
The lotus flower swept the three green rattans that had fallen above Yun Xuan's head to the side.
Qing Li fell to the ground beside Yun Xuan, and the green aura in his hand shot out, landing on the lotus flower hovering in mid-air, and the lotus light expanded to form a pink light shield, blocking the three rattans from the outside.
Yun Xuan stared blankly at what was happening in front of her, it turned out that she was not here to harm herself.
Qing Li looked at Yun Xuan, who was stunned, and said anxiously on his face: "Don't go quickly, go back to Guanhe Xiaozhu quickly, it will be safe there." β
After speaking, she looked at the rattan, pinched the trick in her hand, and continuously exported sections of green aura to the pink lotus, and the range of the light shield increased rapidly.
Yun Xuan looked at the green rattan as big as his thumb that was constantly attacking towards the light shield, he had seen the rattan of the green vine old demon was the same as the rattan in front of him, could it be that the green vine old demon was here?
But Qingli's pale face looked so weak that Yun Xuan was reluctant to leave, and said, "What about you, this vine demon is very dangerous, I will destroy it with you!"
The rustling sound in the dense forest sounded from a distance, louder than before.
Qing Li looked ahead, did not look back, but his voice was eager: "The vine demon has more rattans coming, I can't show my strength here, you go first, I will resist the vine demon." β
Yun Xuan looked at the front of him, anxious, but refused to leave, and said, "I can't let you take risks alone. β
Qing Li listened to Yun Xuan's words, and a little emotion rose in her heart, only her parents would worry about her before, so she said: "Fool, I have my own way to block the vine demon, and I will go back in a while." β
"Don't go quickly, you can't deal with it, you're here, I'll be distracted. β
Yun Xuan heard that he stayed, and he would drag Qingli down, and said, "Okay, I'll go, you have to be careful." β
Qing Li looked ahead and snorted.
Yun Xuan carried the lantern, ignoring the pain on his body, and ran towards the front of the path, the light hidden in the dark corner not far ahead.
Next to the dense forest where the two of them had stayed, more than a dozen rattans had been explored, attacking the woman in pink who was defending from the side.
Qing Li had long been on guard against these green vines, and when the enemy first appeared to attack her, Miao turned her eyes slightly, guiding the lotus flowers, and flew out lightly backwards together, and the light shield was tightly defended in front.
The rattan swooped through her previous position, turning around and continuing to pounce on her.
Qing Li sent spiritual power to the lotus flower with one hand to maintain the light shield, and pinched the flower finger with the other hand, and a green light shot out from the petals, and every time the green light hit a rattan, it made the rattan wither and fall to the ground.
It's just that the rattan breaks and grows again, as if it is endless, constantly looking for gaps to attack the woman in pink.
Qingli slowly retreated while fighting, although her face was pale, she was at ease, but she faintly felt that something was wrong in her heart, the vine demon in front of her seemed to be weaker, and the offensive was not as strong as before, but it was constantly entangled.
On the dark path, when Yun Xuan was running, the pain in the wounds on his body kept coming, he gasped, and occasionally looked back to see if Qing Li was coming, but he didn't dare to stop.
Soon you will be able to walk through the woods and reach the lotus pond.
At that time, I believe that Qingli can go back.
As soon as his footsteps landed near a bush, there was a sudden sound of a roar.
Yun Xuan heard the strange noise, and before he could see what it was, he felt a tightness on his body, and his arms and body had been tied twice by rattan the size of a baby's arm.
He quickly let go of the lantern in his hand and reached out to pull the rattan on his body.
But the rattan is tough, his arms are tied, and his hands can't use much strength, no matter how he pulls, he can't pull anymore.
After only a while, the rattan tied Yun Xuan tightly and dragged him into the dense forest.
Yun Xuan was frightened in his heart, no wonder Qing Li said that he couldn't fight the vine demon.
"Qingliββ, Qingli-", Yun Xuan shouted.
When Qing Li heard Yun Xuan's urgent shout, her eyes froze, and she instantly understood Teng Demon's plan, just to attract her attention.
She shot out several green rays of light in succession and entered the lotus flower, and a strong green light burst out from the lotus leaf, shining on the green vine that circled and attacked outside the shield.
The thumb-sized green vines were illuminated by the green light and turned into crumbs.
Qing Li took the lotus into his body, his delicate body turned, his skirt fluttered, and flew towards Yun Xuan's call, his soul was like a phantom, his speed was like a rainbow, and the green vines behind him were chasing farther and farther.
After a few breaths, she followed the call and rushed to the sky above Yun Xuan's call, and saw that Yun Xuan had been tied up, and was shuttling through the forest in mid-air by two arm-sized green vines.
"Old demon, put people down. β
She flew towards the green vine, which retreated faster, trying to delay the other vines to help.
Qingli has been plagued by formations and green vines for many years, and her realm has declined, and her soul realm has descended from the Heavenly Soul Realm to the Earth Soul Realm and the Heavenly Soul Realm, but the lotus body has already condensed into lotus beads, and her soul body can make the ontology lotus exert the power of the Danhai Realm.
The body of this green rattan is just the seed clone of the green vine old demon, rooted in the depths of the dense forest, unable to transform into shape, with a wisp of consciousness of the green vine old demon, and the cultivation is the first layer of the Xuan Rank, which is equivalent to the first level of the Dao Palace of the human race.
But it underestimated Qing Li's determination too much, and dared to risk the loss of the lotus body's cultivation to detach the body from the stems and leaves, and use it to protect the soul, suppress the vine demon clone, and save Yun Xuan.
The green vines behind her had not yet appeared, Qing Li had already swept past Yun Xuan, and the lotus flower flew out of her soul, emitting a dazzling green light, shooting towards the rattan in mid-air.
The vine demon sensed the green light inspired by the woman in pink, and knew that his plan had failed, it was a strong origin spiritual power, but he still refused to give up, and wanted to rely on the rattan with the size of the baby's arm to resist Qingli's attack, so as to delay the arrival of support.
The condensed green light swept by, and the arm-sized green vine quickly withered, and expanded to both ends, only to dry up a large section in a moment, and continued to spread along the vine trunk into the woods.
Qingli floated to Yun Xuan's side.
Yun Xuan had come out of the dry vine.
The sound of rustling sounded in the forest again, and the sound became clearer and clearer.
Qing Li took Yun Xuan's hand and fled to the lotus pond.
Her soul body was not as solid as last night, and she couldn't take Yun Xuan to fly. If she activated the origin aura in the lotus flower and flew with Yun Xuan under the suppression of the formation, I am afraid that she would be forced to return to her body before she flew out of the dense forest.
Yun Xuan looked at the slightly illusory figure pulling him in front of him, and was inexplicably moved in his heart, this mysterious female ghost actually saved herself, and she had misunderstood her before.
They escaped from the dense forest and came to the grass by the lotus pond, where more than 20 green vines came to the edge of the dense forest, spreading and shuttling through the trees, shaking the leaves and making a gurgling sound.
Hearing a voice from behind, Yun Xuan said, "The vine demon behind is about to catch up." β
Qing Li had stopped running, pulling Yun Xuan to continue forward, and at this time the two had crossed the lotus pond and approached Qinghe Xiaozhu, her body was even more illusory, and beads of sweat slid down her pale face.
"The lotus pond contains lotus flowers and green wood gas, and the vine demon doesn't dare to come over. β
"Let's hurry back, I'm so hard right now, I can't hold on anymore. β
The pink-clad woman's voice was weak.
Entering the courtyard, as soon as the two of them relaxed, Qingli settled on the ground.
Yun Xuan was just about to help him up, when the figure in front of him slowly disappeared, and a lotus bud appeared beside him.
The buds slowly flew up and landed on the stems and leaves of the lotus pond, and slowly bloomed again, but the petals looked languishing.
The moonlight in the courtyard frees out tiny points of light, condenses tiny yellow bands of light, and falls on the turquoise lotus leaves and lotus flowers.
Yun Xuan walked to the edge of the pool and looked at the lotus flowers that were still moving, but he was worried in his heart: "Are you okay?"
The lotus did not respond.
He remembered that the injuries on his body also needed to be recuperated, and looked at the lunch box at the door, which Anu had put in, he opened the lunch box and took out a plate of soup, and drank it in a few sips.
It tasted like the bear bone grass soup that he had drunk in the proud building at noon, Yun Xuan licked his mouth, how could there be bear bone grass soup, could it be arranged by his uncle.