Chapter 38: The Dilemma
Because of the words of Hong Gongzi first, when he went back, Shen Yan deliberately observed the pedestrians on the road. When I returned to the inn, I quietly asked the little two who entertained me last night, but found that the people in the inn were blank and said that there was no such person.
This move was ridiculed by Hong Gongzi: "Although they are already dead, they don't know it, so everything is no different from when they were alive." I tell you to see the difference between them, so that you can feel their qi. ”
"The anger of the living is not the same as the anger of the dead. Didn't your master teach you this?"
At the end, Hong Gongzi asked with some surprise, "Who is your master?"
"My master has passed away. It was the master who accepted me into the door on her behalf. ”
"Then who is your ancestor? I haven't taught you any of these common senses, I'm afraid you're also a person who sells fame and fame, right?"
"Don't talk about the ancestor like that. It is a fact that his strength is not good, and Shen Yan did not refute it. But when it came to Bai Zhi, she was a little angry. Although she has been apprenticed for less than a year, Bai Zhi has an indifferent personality and few words, but he treats her really well. "It's me, and I don't want to trouble my ancestor with these little things. "The news that Xuanyue, or the goddess Cangyue, told her was very important, and she was unwilling to trouble him with these things that almost everyone in the cultivation world knew at this time.
But after all, Shen Yan has not been a beginner for a long time, even if the small courtyard is rich in books and almost collects a lot of information on the mainland, he has never even glimpsed the tip of the iceberg. Besides, her talent is not good, so she needs to work harder than others in her usual cultivation, and she didn't relax a little bit after Daigo's empowerment. She thought that these well-known things could be slowly understood, but she didn't expect that Bai Zhi would be sent out to deliver a letter to interrupt the original plan.
Then, she continued: "My ancestor's name is Bai Zhi, and since Hong Gongzi is also a cultivator, he should naturally have heard of his name. ”
Although Bai Zhi is not out of the mountain, since he is a figure of the same generation as Mo Feiyu, the elder of Taixuanzong, he will naturally not be famous. Hong Gongzi had naturally heard of him, and when he saw that Shen Yan's face was safe, he didn't say anything else.
The sky had already darkened, and the city of Wuyang had begun to become dead silent.
Walking down the stairs with Hong Gongzi, Shen Yan saw the little second child from last night again, and he still asked very enthusiastically: "Are the two guest officers going out?" Although Wuyang City is remote and small, there are still places to watch. It's just that the time is wrong now, and I can't see it. By the way, there is a bean curd shop in the west of the city, the bean curd is delicious, you can go there to see it......"
"Thank you, little second brother, let's go back there and have a look. Shen Yan subconsciously glanced at Xiao Er a few more times, but under the cold eyes of the red boy, he didn't show any flaws.
After they left the inn, Shen Yan asked, "Where are we going?"
"Mengfu. ”
"Mengfu?"
Hong Gongzi nodded: "The yin qi is the strongest at night, and you can find the flaws in the enchantment there." ”
"Is that so?" Shen Yan didn't really know much about this, but since Hong Gongzi knew, she went with her. It's not that she didn't suspect that the other party had ill intentions, but her intuition told her that Hong Gongzi could be trusted, at least in the matter of looking for Meng Fuyao.
The Mengfu mansion is a little more demonic than the daylight, and under the silver-white moonlight, it seems that there is still a blood-colored mist visible to the naked eye, and the wisps are entwined around the entire mansion, and there is a faint tendency to spread. And the reason why it honestly didn't spread outside the Meng Mansion was just because it was blocked by a barrier.
"There are not many cultivators in the north, but they are all old-timers whose strength is unpredictable and I don't know how many years they have survived, and they don't dare to attract much attention now, so they will confine their demonic energy in the mansion. One is to not attract the attention of those old-timers, but to hide Fuyao's whereabouts. ”
Hong Gongzi has been investigating here for a long time, and recently confirmed that Meng Fuyao was not taken away, but was still in the Meng Mansion mansion. It's just that how to find her is a big problem.
"If Fuyao is so important to the demon clan, then they should look at her very closely. Why don't you find the place with the most demonic energy first?" Shen Yan said as he followed Hong Gongzi forward.
Unexpectedly, he got a mocking laugh from the other party: "Don't you see that the demonic aura in this mansion is very even? ”
Shen Yan asked a little wryly, "Then what now?"
Hong Gongzi looked back at her, and then said, "Let's go our separate ways." It's better to find Fuyao's whereabouts quickly, or else you'll ......" He looked up at the hazy moon in the sky, and for some reason, he didn't say the rest of the words again. Then, with a flicker, the figure disappeared in place.
Shen Yan was startled, but he could only watch him disappear into the night, and he also found a direction to find it.
The hazy moonlight was obscured by the increasingly thick clouds, and the sky became darker and darker. But for Shen Yan today, the dim light is not a big problem, and those demonic qi that is becoming more and more intense is.
Shen Yan held an orange-red spiritual fire in one hand, and held a sword in the other, vigilantly paying attention to the surrounding situation.
The demonic aura has reached the point where it is impossible to see the surrounding scenery clearly, and no one knows what is lurking in the shadows.
Following his intuition, Shen Yan finally found a secret passage entrance hidden behind a courtyard rockery. But looking at the appearance of the entrance, she stopped and did not rush past.
There's nothing out of the ordinary, it's just that when combined with the surrounding rockery, it's like a giant beast with a mouth waiting for its prey to break in.
Standing in the distance and watching for a long time, Shen Yan casually threw the spiritual fire summoned in his hand into the entrance.
Then the ground began to shake violently. The entrance really opened and closed like the mouth of something, and it made a coughing sound. And the shaking of the ground was also caused by the cough of an unknown giant beast.
Shen Yan was taken aback, on the one hand, he was glad that he didn't just walk in like this, and on the other hand, he flew directly into the sky with his sword. The courtyard was completely destroyed as soon as she flew into the air, and a huge rabbit with fangs rose from below. This rabbit is at least as tall as a house even if it squats, and it has completely lost the cuteness of ordinary rabbits, and looks hideous and terrifying.
Hong Gongzi didn't know where he came from, and asked in a condensed voice, "What did you do?"
"I, I just threw a ball of spiritual fire into its mouth. Shen Yan looked at the huge rabbit that was still coughing violently, with a complicated look on his face.
Hong Gongzi didn't say anything, and a piece of red silk suddenly flew out of his hand and wrapped directly around the rabbit's body. It staggered around as if it were drunk, destroying a lot of buildings. After being entangled in red silk, he struggled even more violently. It's just that no matter how hard it struggles, it can't shake half of the red silk, but is wrapped tighter by it and lets out a cry of pain.
There was a sound of breaking the air, Shen Yan was shocked, and before he could react, he was slapped away by the red boy. A sharp blade flew past where she had stood, striking the giant rabbit entangled in red silk, causing it to disappear into a flying smoke.
Hong Gongzi immediately turned around and chased after the sharp blade, Shen Yan stabilized his body, and followed without thinking about it.
"Red boy, how's it going?"
Shen Yan chased to the end, and only saw Hong Gongzi stop in front of a remote building in the mansion, so he subconsciously asked such a sentence.
Hong Gongzi's face was not very good-looking, and he only said coldly when he heard this: "I lost it." ”
"That ......"
"However, it should not be far from our destination. ”
Hong Gongzi didn't wait for Shen Yan to finish asking, and then continued to say the last sentence. As he spoke, a small compass appeared in his hand.
With Shen Yan's current eyesight, he can also see the content on the compass, but he can't understand it. The compass in Hong Gongzi's hand is very different from the common compass, the ordinary compass is engraved with the main content of gossip and various schools of feng shui, but the compass in his hand is simply engraved with a circle of unknown symbols.
The central pointer turned haphazardly at first, then stopped, pointing in one direction.
The red boy took the compass and flew in the direction of the pointer.
Shen Yan pursed his lips, but still chose to follow.
The farther they walked in this direction, the fog became, until at last they couldn't see their fingers.
The footsteps of the red prince could no longer be heard at all, and Shen Yan didn't know the situation and didn't dare to walk too fast, groping his way forward, while trying to use his spiritual power to sense the surrounding situation. But she soon discovered that there seemed to be something isolated from spiritual power here, and this method was useless at all.
In this way, Shen Yan directly gave up using the methods of cultivators to explore the way, and simply followed his intuition.
It was as if there was no end to the road, and she felt that she had been walking for a long, long time, but there was no end in sight. Such a discovery inevitably makes people feel anxious and hopeless.
Shen Yan was tired and out of breath at the end, and he could only stop and practice for a while before he could continue to move forward. But before she could really stop, she smelled a strange fragrance, and her mind began to become chaotic.
In the dark, someone seemed to have said something cautious, and suddenly Shen Yan woke up from the chaotic state, the long sword in his hand was unsheathed, and he stabbed out a sword without the slightest hesitation.
The muffled sound of a sharp weapon piercing into the flesh sounded suddenly, and there seemed to be a smell of blood. But when Shen Yan went to check, he found that there was nothing in front of him. It's as if the sword he stabbed didn't hit the target, but just swung it away.
"What the hell is going on?" muttering to herself, Shen Yan swung another sword forward, and after the dense fog was briefly broken by the sword qi, she saw that this place was no longer in the Meng Mansion mansion, but in a cave that I don't know where it was.
There are many doubts in my heart, but I can't think about it at the moment. Shen Yan kept swinging out one sword qi after another to open the way, while feeling annoyed in his heart that he hadn't thought of this method for a long time. The sword in her hand is called Forced Rain, which is said to be able to force the rain curtain to not be contaminated with rain, but it is actually capable of breaking through anything related to water with her sword qi. These news are all said by Bai Zhi, and she will not doubt whether it is true or false. The fog in front of you is made up of water mist, which is perfect for forcing the rain to open the way.
It's a pity that I didn't think of this place for a long time, and I walked the wrong road for so long.
When the view is not obstructed by the fog, the road ahead is much clearer. It's just strange that I haven't seen any living creatures along the way, except for the huge rabbit that was forced out by mistake at the beginning, and the person who threw a sharp blade in the shadows.