Chapter 18: Trouble

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Xiyan finally knew why Lian Ye said that she might deny that Lian Ye was a good person after she knew what she was going to do next, and she couldn't hold that person up even after spending a lot of effort. The man had probably been dead for a long time, and the sword that pierced his heart had been plunged deep into the boulder behind him, and the body of the sword was wrapped in thick weeds. It took all her strength to pull out the man along with the sword, and he lifted the man's waist with one hand and went upstream.

Panting and swimming to the shore, I saw Lian Ye leaning on the rocks on the shore, holding her chin with one hand, looking at her leisurely, under the long red skirt, revealing half of her beautiful calves, the posture was very sultry, it was really enchanting. Xiyan didn't care about the admiration, and dragged the person to the shore, but he was lying on the ground and was half dead, and he didn't even have time to say a word.

Lian Ye looked at her weak appearance and smiled charmingly, "Why does this make you tired like this, how does it feel like to be cold and fire?"

Xiyan stretched out a hand and gave a thumbs up, "Wonderful." ”

Lian Ye stood up with a smile, walked over to the man, looked at it fixedly, and then pulled out the sword on the man's body. Suddenly, the person's body gradually dissipated, and Xi Yan couldn't help but stared at everything in front of him with wide eyes, and then saw the black rust on the sword in Lian Ye's hand falling off little by little, emitting a purple light.

Xi Yan breathed a few breaths, stood beside Lian Ye, and said, "What about that person? Why did he disappear like this?"

Lian Ye glanced at her and replied expressionlessly, "Dead." ”

Xi Yan knew that Lian Ye would not tell her easily, so she pursed her lips and stared curiously at the sword in Lian Ye's hand, "This sword is so beautiful, what is it called?"

This time, Lian Ye finally replied well: "Demon Sword." ”

Xi Yan was surprised: "Isn't that the sword that can kill demons?" Then that person ...... "Who killed him with the demon sword?" That person's expression seemed to be a little sad...... She gently clasped her hands over her chest.

Lian Ye glanced at her and saw a sympathetic look on her face, so he said: "Hmph, what is there to be sad about you, the demon will be reborn in another posture after death, and after being reborn, he will not remember what happened before, and I will do this to let him be free." ”

Although Xiyan still has a lot of questions to ask, but knowing that Lian Ye can't tell her, she simply doesn't bother to worry about that person's affairs anymore, anyway, it has nothing to do with herself, but isn't it easy for the Demon Lord to bring someone up in the lake? Even if you don't have to do it yourself, you can order your subordinates to do it, and she specially called her here, could it be that the people of the Demon Clan are afraid of water? She couldn't help but ask Lian Ye: "Uh...... Are you afraid of water, otherwise why haven't you brought people up for so long, I'll only ...... when I come?"

Lian Ye casually grabbed an invisible little beast flying in the air and threw it into the lake, only to hear the little beast open its mouth and hiss, and then turn into a wisp of smoke. Lian Ye said coldly: "You know this time?"

Xiyan nodded repeatedly. Seeing that Lian Ye was walking like flying, Xiyan hurriedly caught up with him, and reminded with a bitter face: "...... That glorious thing......"

"You go to him with the magic pattern I gave you, and when the time comes, you call me out, remember, you can only use it once, don't expect me to give it to you a second time. After speaking, Lian Ye issued an order to expel the guest.

Xi Yan was afraid of annoying her, so she hurriedly left the Demon Realm with the pass that Lian Ye rewarded her, and the journey was smooth. Thinking that Cang Yan's spirit body was in his body, and he couldn't return to his body for the time being, he flew directly from the East China Sea to the Three Emperors' Well. I left in a hurry this time, it took a whole day just to find the entrance to the demon world in Qingyu Mountain, and I don't know what happened to Youhuang in the two days that she was away. It stands to reason that nothing should happen in less than seven days, right? But Xiyan still couldn't let go, and hurried to the glorious Zihuan Palace. What made her feel strange was that such a big thing had happened to Youhuang, but the Three Emperors Well was still calm, shouldn't it be a mess of porridge? Didn't he tell others about it? Thinking of this, she felt even more uneasy.

The little servant of the Zihuan Hall saw that Xiyan did not leave the door this time, but fell from the sky, and hurriedly ran forward and said: "Miss Xiyan, I finally saw you! Where have you been, in the past two days, His Royal Highness Youhuang has been looking for you in a hurry! I also went to Qingqiu on a special trip, but somehow, the fox king doesn't seem to be ......."

Xiyan didn't reply to him, and walked straight into the Zihuan Palace, asking as he walked, "Is Youhuang inside?"

"His Royal Highness is not in the Zihuan Palace, he is discussing with the king and the second prince in the council!"

Xiyan was puzzled: "What are you talking about? Don't you know about Youhuang's poisoning?"

The little guy didn't know why, "Ah, poisoned, what's poisoned?"

Xi Yan didn't care about the explanation, and hurriedly rushed to the council pavilion, completely ignoring the calls of the people behind him.

No matter how important things are, is it important to have their own lives?! When is this?! Xi Yan didn't think about it, and pushed open the door despite the strong obstruction of the gatekeeper, only to see that some ceremony seemed to be being held in the cabinet, the wolf king, the glory, the twilight, the Tsing Yi, and the flowing clouds...... There are also the elders of the Three Emperors' Wells. She was stunned for a moment when she saw Liuyun, huh, why did Liuyun come here?

Liuyun and Youhuang were standing on either side of a floating platform, facing each other, both of them closing their eyes and chanting some incantation with their fingers together, completely unaware of her arrival, but the rest of the crowd were full of astonishment. I saw that on the floating platform, there was a demon seed emitting black smoke, and there was a glowing thing that resembled a tree branch. Xi Yan didn't know what was going on inside, and she didn't even have time to reflect on her rash intrusion, only to feel that the magic pattern given by Lian Ye in her hand suddenly became in severe pain, as if something was about to break through her skin, and after a short period of pain, her consciousness immediately fell into fainting.

Before everyone present could react, they were shocked to see the woman in green who suddenly broke in teleported to the floating platform, and quickly reached out to grab the demon seed in the center of the floating platform...... Youhuang and Liuyun opened their eyes almost at the same time, and Liuyun looked terrified. When Xiyan was about to continue to attack the glowing thing, Youhuang hurriedly stepped forward to stop it, but Xiyan didn't seem to know him, and pushed it with one palm, Youhuang snorted unexpectedly, and took a few steps backwards while holding his chest. And the wolf king couldn't hold back and quickly stepped forward to recapture what Xi Yan had just gotten in his hand, only to hear a crisp palm from the two, Xi Yan was obviously invincible, and the "branch" in his hand came out of his hand, and Liuyun saw the opportunity to fly and snatch it away. There was a sudden cold light in Xiyan's eyes, and he shifted his target to attack Liuyun, but it was difficult to get out under the confinement of the wolf king, and he was knocked to the ground in two moves. In the face of such an abnormal little woman, the wolf king's subordinates were not merciful, and the last palm had the meaning of serious injury even if it was not to kill them all.

Xi Yan forcibly endured the blood in his chest and looked up, and the fierce palm wind that hit almost reached him.

"Father, stop!!" Youhuang's frightened voice sounded, and then it blocked in front of Xiyan, and the wolf king was startled, and withdrew his hand in time when he was about to touch Youhuang's body.

"Huang'er!what are you doing!!!" the wolf king was furious, and scolded the guards guarding the door who came in with him, "Who told you to let her in?!"

The two guards quickly knelt down with a "poof", explaining and begging for mercy in panic.

Youhuang nervously squatted down to help Xiyan, seeing that Xiyan seemed to have just woken up at the moment, covering the place where he was hit by the wolf king just now. Youhuang saw the magic pattern on Xi Yan's hand at this time, and he grabbed her wrist to look at it, but the magic pattern had gradually faded and finally disappeared. Seeing Xiyan's uncomfortable look, Youhuang hurriedly checked her injuries, "Yan Yan, how are you?"

"Ahem...... What's going on? I ...... How could you be here?" Xiyan covered his face with confusion, covering his heart, and suddenly remembered that there was a momentary pain in his wrist before, and he didn't remember anything after that. She hurriedly looked at her hand, where was the magic pattern given by Sister Lian Ye? Why is it gone?! She hurriedly pulled over Youhuang's arm to take a look, and even the snake pattern on Youhuang's arm was gone! What the hell is going on?

Youhuang held Xiyan's waist with one hand, and covered the back of Xiyan's hand covering his heart with the other, instilling healing spells into Xiyan's body. Although the injury was not too serious, it made Youhuang's calm face full of pity, completely ignoring the fact that he was also pushed hard by Xiyan just now.

The people present apparently did not return to their senses at this sudden turn of events, and looked at each other. I saw Youhuang pick up the woman on the ground and say, "Yan Yan, let's go out first, I'll explain this matter to you." ”

However, as soon as Youhuang stood up, the wolf king stared at the woman in his arms with a displeased face, and said coldly: "Huang'er, can you give my father a reasonable explanation for today's matter?"

Xiyan listened to the tone of the wolf king, and knew that it must be because of herself, could it be that she unconsciously caused a big disaster just now, which made the wolf king so angry? She shrank into Youhuang's arms with a little weakness, wanting to ask about what happened just now. "I ......"

Youhuang glanced at her, signaled her not to speak, let him solve it, and said to the wolf king: "Father, I see that there is a misunderstanding, Yan Yan just now seems to be a sign of madness, even if she is wrong, her father has also hurt her, and she should have been punished." As for today's affairs, I will bear it all by myself, please stop blaming my father, and I will definitely give my father a satisfactory answer. ”

The wolf king didn't eat this, and said coldly, "How did you reply to me? This plan was proposed to me by yourself, and now she is suddenly disrupted, but you are still protecting her." Liuyun, you say, the spell casting process must not be interrupted, and there is still the possibility of repairing it again?"

"This ......" Liuyun looked at the branch in his hand that was no longer ordinary, and his expression was embarrassed, "I'm afraid I can't use it anymore." As he spoke, he looked at Youhuang.

The wolf king snorted angrily, and turned to the fearless Yu Huang on the other side and said, "You say, what should I do now?! I trust you so much, you let me down too much!"

Youhui hurriedly came up to plead, "Father, you can't blame Xiyan for this, Xiyan didn't mean it, if you want to blame it, you can blame the guards outside the door for not being optimistic!"

As soon as these words came out, the two guards outside the door hurriedly kowtowed and begged for mercy.

"And it's not natural for my brother to defend the woman he likes!"

"You go down for me!" roared the wolf king, his eyes full of anger, "The woman you like?!Huang'er, don't you forget ......"

Liuyun also immediately came out to play a round at this time, "Your Majesty the Wolf King, I think it's better to forget about today's matter, I don't think it's impossible to repair the Phantom Branch...... And it's not just a ......," he said, as if he was not sure of the credibility of his words.

Xiyan couldn't help it this time, broke free from Youhuang's hand and jumped to the ground, and said to the wolf king: "Youhuang didn't do anything wrong, why are you so fierce? It's me who spoiled your business, I'm doing things alone, isn't it just a branch? What's the big deal! It's a big deal to pay you a branch!"

The Wolf King became even more angry when he heard this, "What did you say?!Do you know what you just destroyed?"

As soon as Xiyan's temper came up, he didn't care what he said, and blurted out: "It's called the Phantom Branch, okay! I'll definitely find it for you! I can't find it and dispose of it!" Xiyan rushed out angrily after speaking. When she left the crowd, she suddenly regretted it, why was she so impulsive, what was the Phantom Branch, she had never heard of it, where to find it? and couldn't ask Cang Yan...... Cangyan ...... Xiyan's eyes were moist again, and he touched the jade stone on his neck, when will Cang Yan wake up...... Xi Yan rubbed her eyes, only to remember that she only cared about the anger of the wolf king, and actually forgot the most important thing! A hand suddenly put on her shoulder, and as soon as she turned around, she saw Youhuang's worried handsome face.

Youhuang saw that her eyes were red, thinking that she had just cried, and gently wiped the corners of her eyes with his hand, "Have you cried?"

Xiyan shook her head violently and pouted: "Who would cry for such a trivial matter...... but after speaking, he felt wronged, and pounced on Youhuang and choked sadly, but the crying was not because she was wronged just now, but because the magic pattern that Lian Ye gave her was gone, how to save Youhuang this time?

"Youhuang, I lost the magic pattern given by Sister Lian Ye, and I finally begged her to save you, what should I do if the magic pattern is gone?"

Youhuang pulled her shoulders and asked her to look at herself, "Magic pattern, what magic pattern, where have you been these two days?"

Xi Yan told him about his trip to the Demon Realm, including the encounter with the Demon Monarch Lian Ye and the origin of the Demon Pattern, but he didn't mention Xuan Ji and Cang Yan, for fear that he would blame himself for this, and besides, the matter of going to the Demon Realm was originally his own opinion.

Youhuang didn't expect that she would run to the demon world for herself, and she felt a little guilty in the shock, "...... You shouldn't be so impulsive to go to such a dangerous place...... If something happened to you for me, how could I forgive myself...... It's all my fault, I should have told you sooner. ”

Seeing that there was something in Youhuang's words, Xiyan raised his head and wondered, "Tell me what?"

So Youhuang told Xiyan about his plan with the Wolf King. Only then did Xi Yan know that Youhuang was not infected with demonic poison, starting from the feast on the night when Tsing Yi blocked the Starfire attack for him, all of this was a game set up to lure the Starfire Demon. Youhuang probably saw that Xinghuo had bad intentions and held a grudge against him for killing Hongxiu. At that night's feast, Starfire turned into a monster because of the Phantom Branch. The phantom branch destroyed by Xiyan today was originally owned by Liuyun, but it was only given to the wolf clan after the demon beast appeared in the Three Emperors' Well. The Phantom Branch is actually a thing of the Demon Race, absorbing the power of the soul of the Demon Venerable of the past dynasties, and has a powerful magic power, which can greatly increase the demonic energy of ordinary demon seeds, if you drink anyone's blood, you can summon the demon spirit from the demon seed, and listen to the dispatch of the person who feeds the blood. I don't know where Liuyun got this kind of thing, but the wolf king heard that the Phantom Branch was so useful, so he wanted to use it to thoroughly investigate the matter of the demon beasts, so he listened to Youhuang's suggestion to place the Phantom Branch at the feast, and the Starfire was affected by the Phantom Branch's demonic energy, and finally turned into a monster. Youhuang knew that if he was contaminated with demon poison, he would have to rely on the demon seed to live, so he used himself as bait, intending to get the demon seed from Xinghuo, and then use the demon spirit to wipe out the people behind the demon beast incident.

Xi Yan couldn't help but exclaim when he heard this: "You used yourself as bait, so you didn't think about what to do if you were poisoned and turned into a monster?"

Youhuang said: "Liuyun is good at all kinds of strange arts, and he has already given me poison avoidance/medicine in advance, even if it is a demonic poison, it can't invade the body. ”

"That's why you dare to be so bold to lure the demon seed in Sister Tsing Yi's body to yourself? What about Sister Tsing Yi? Why did she become like that?"

Youhuang paused, "Tsing Yi is indeed poisoned." ”

"Huh?"

"Although Liuyun's medicine is precious, he is not completely sure about the demonic poison, and Tsing Yi probably doesn't trust Liuyun very much......"

“...... Sister Tsing Yi ...... It seems that she is really worried about you...... "Maybe Tsing Yi really loves Youhuang from the bottom of her heart, so she will risk becoming a monster regardless of her own life to stand in front of him, such a woman who values love and righteousness must also occupy an important position in Youhuang's heart." Although Xiyan thinks that her mood of liking Youhuang is not lost to Tsing Yi, if she can exchange her life for Youhuang's life, she is absolutely duty-bound, but if she wants to make her such a monster, she doesn't know if she can guarantee that she can do it.

"What you are doing inside today is to summon the demon spirit from the demon seed on your body with the power of the Phantom Branch?"

Youhuang nodded.

"But I was interrupted by my intrusion, and I went crazy for some reason?"

Youhuang comforted her: "It's okay, I'm afraid it's related to the magic pattern that the demon lord gave you." ”

"How can this be? It must be the ghost of the Phantom Branch, I think Sister Lian Ye must know what is going on, maybe she can help us find other Phantom Branch!"

"What, you're still going to find the Demon Lord?"

"The Phantom Branch is a thing in the Demon Realm, Sister Lian Ye is the Demon Lord, so naturally I know, don't worry, there is such a thing as a pass, I can come and go freely in the Demon Realm now, haha! Besides, I promised your father that he would find the Phantom Branch, but I can't break my promise!"

Youhuang lowered his eyes, "This is the matter of the Three Emperors' Well, you don't have to get involved." ”

"This is my fault, and I will definitely be responsible for it to the end!"

Youhuang was silent for a while, "...... Then I'll go with you. ”

Xi Yan suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly waved her hand, "No need! Sister Lian Ye said that she doesn't like to see outsiders." She paused, "Uh, yes, I ...... I still have some things, since you're fine, then I'll go back first, and come back when I find the Phantom Branch!"