[The seventy-first year of the Great Qiankang Yuan, March 26, the time of the year, the moon building Xiuchun Pavilion]

Yesterday, Li Qi went out to look for demons with Murong Huan's brothers and sisters, and Yiqing, they went around Jinding Mountain, and searched in the mountains for a long time, but they still didn't see the slightest trace of the cat demon, so they had to return in vain.

This morning, Li Qi went to King Zhao's Mansion to find her third brother, and told the third brother about the four of them going out to hunt for demons yesterday. At the end, Li Qi deliberately said that listening to what Li Junxian, the former general of Zuo Wuwei, said, his senior brother had calculated that the cat demon was hiding near Jinding Mountain.

Li Yi naturally also knew that the "senior brother" that Li Junxian said was Li Chunfeng, the master of Xuandu Temple. He heard that Master Li Guan had calculated the whereabouts of the cat demon, and immediately decided to discuss with Xu Ke and Nangong Buyu.

However, Li Yi really didn't want his seventeenth sister to participate in this case and catch demons again, seeing that Li Qi was babbling endlessly, and there was a sense of eagerness to try in his words, he had no choice but to learn the method of his younger brother Xu Ke, and in the name of "the chief investigator of the case", Li Qi was ordered to go to Tianbao Pavilion again to negotiate with Murong Huan's brothers and sisters to solve the case.

After Li Qi left, Li Yi immediately wanted to leave for Tsing Yi Wei, but as soon as he thought that with his identity as King Zhao and the special envoy of this investigation, if he arrived at Tsing Yi Wei, he would inevitably alarm Shen Huan and the others, he couldn't help frowning, and he really didn't want to see the faces of those duplicitous people again.

So, Li Yi ordered Ma Yun to send a message to Xu Ke and Nangong silently, and asked the two of them to sit in the Deyue Tower near Tsing Yiwei.

Li Yi invited Xu Ke and Nangong Buyu to the banquet in Deyue Tower, firstly, to thank the two of them, these days for catching the cat demon, they have been busy for more than half a month, this hard work, can be commendable, and secondly, it is also to discuss with them, how to capture the cat demon in the next step.

Now, although Chang'an City has temporarily restored calm, the people are no longer as panicked as at the beginning of the month; after all, the cat demon has not been captured, if one day the cat demon can't bear the loneliness and goes out to commit crimes again, then, after a period of calm, once there is a sudden turmoil, it is bound to be more panicked.

However, Li Yi didn't expect Nangong Buyu to be so heavy after being counted in the East Market. At that moment, he had to say good words and exhortation, and drank several glasses of wine with Nangong Buyu in a row, which made Nangong Buyu's depressed mood gradually relieved......

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Li Yi said:

"Today, my seventeenth sister told me that she, together with Murong Gongzi, Miss Murong, and Miss Yiqing, went out of the city fifty miles south of the city yesterday and came to the vicinity of Jinding Mountain to investigate the traces of the cat demon. However, the four of them searched for most of the day, but they still saw nothing except some hares and gray finches to roast and eat......

Li Yi told him what his sister told him this morning, and then briefly talked to Xu Ke and Nangong Buyu.

Xu Ke said: "Senior brother, according to what the old fortune teller in Dongshi said today, the hiding place of the cat demon should be in the south of Chang'an City, how can he use the ability of Murong Gongzi to search for half a day in Jinding Mountain, but he still has nothing to see?"

Li Yidao: "No disease, you must not believe the words of those hexagrams, and you don't have to believe them all! He said that you will be imprisoned, will you really be in prison? You have just come out of the Divine King Pavilion, your father trusts you, my fourth brother also appreciates your talents, and besides, there is your senior brother covering you, I think ...... What kind of thing that doesn't have long eyes dares to touch you?! Where does this 'prison disaster' come from?......"

Hearing that Li Yi loved Xu Ke so much, Nangong couldn't help but glance at Xu Ke silently, and his heart was full of envy.

Li Yi continued:

"If it is really as the old divination old man said, if the cat demon is hiding in the south of the city, with Murong Gongzi's ability to penetrate the heavens and the earth, how can he not find the slightest trace of the demon......? I don't think the cat demon is necessarily in Jinding Mountain!"

Xu Ke said: "Maybe the cat demon was hiding in Jinding Mountain before, and this time has changed to another place?" He was thinking repeatedly in his heart, should I tell my senior brother about the cat demon hiding in Cuiyun Tower?

Li Yi stretched out his chopsticks and put a mouthful of meat in his mouth, he seemed to see Xu Ke's thoughts, looked at Xu Ke with a smile and said:

"What's the matter, junior brother already knows where the cat demon has gone?"

In the past few days, Li Yi has not been idle, since he heard that the "Flowing Frost Sword Immortal" Lu Huoli wanted to assassinate his fourth brother, he rushed to the Wei Wangfu that night, and lived with Li Jin. Later, after Emperor Li Chongsheng learned about this, he sent Cheng Wanli, the general manager of the forbidden army, to escort King Wei.

Although the prosperity of the capital has been restored, after nightfall, the grounding of Chang'an men still does not change. Li Yi knew that it was not a good strategy to go on for a long time, and to ensure the long-term peace of the capital, catching the cat demon was a one-and-done strategy. Therefore, for three days in a row, he has been visiting carefully around Chang'an City, either alone or with Yiqing. However, even if he and Yiqing searched for fifty miles outside Chang'an City, they still found nothing......

Xu Ke hesitated for a while, but said:

"Senior brother, although the cat demon has repeatedly harmed people before, but no dead body has been found in Chang'an City at the moment, which means that the cat demon has changed his personality and is no longer troublesome. In that case, why should we go to the trouble of catching the cat demon, and wouldn't it be better to let her escape on her own?"

"Senior brother's words are wrong!" Li Yi raised his neck and took a sip of wine, and said:

"Demons are demons, people are people, since ancient times, demons have different paths, each is a mortal enemy! Most of the demon clans are the creation of beasts to seize the heavens and the earth, and they are forcibly cultivated, people feed on beasts, demons feed on people, and it is difficult for humans and demons to coexist!"

Xu Ke thought in his heart, maybe people and demons can coexist? Sister Hu and Brother Shuxian in my house, they are both big demons, aren't they good with us humans?

Li Yi continued: "The demon clan is cruel and murderous by nature, although ordinary humans can hunt beasts, but most of them are not enemies of the demon clan, because the ancient gods moved the demon clan to the swampy land of Ximu Continent, and set up the heavenly enchantment on the land of Shenzhou, so that the demon clan could not step into my Middle Earth Divine Continent for half a step. The shemales are in two places, so they are all right......"

Xu Ke asked, "Since the Divine Continent has the Heavenly Enchantment, what ...... Why was the cat demon able to enter my Chang'an City?" He actually wanted to ask in his heart, how could the Bibo Fairy and the Half-Solved Book Fairy actually break into the Shenzhou and live here in peace for hundreds of years?

Li Yi sighed: "My Eastern Earth Divine Continent is the most vast, spanning 18,000 miles from east to west, and 24,000 miles from north to south. In such a vast and fertile land, no matter how powerful the Ancient Heavens Enchantment was, it was inevitable that there would be a weakness in mana. Haven't you heard that 'no matter how dense the fishing net is, there will always be fish that slip through the net'? The same is true of the ancient heavenly enchantment, and in the past tens of thousands of years, there have always been some 'fish that have slipped through the net', seeking opportunities to blend into the fertile soil of our Divine Continent......"

Nangong Buyu kept bowing his head to eat food, and at this time he couldn't help but say: "Nangong has also heard from the family teacher that for tens of thousands of years, the Eastern Earth Divine Continent has often been invaded by those demons who have slipped through the net, however, these demons are still greatly limited under the shroud of the ancient heavens enchantment, and those who can exert it are at most one out of ten. ”

Li Yi nodded and said, "It stands to reason that this is the case, but there are occasional exceptions......

Xu Ke was puzzled: "Since the ancient gods have moved the demon clan to Ximu Continent, why do they have to go through the Heavenly Enchantment and have to enter my Middle Earth Divine Continent?"

Li Yi sighed: "Senior brother, you haven't been to Muzhou, so naturally you don't know the barrenness there. More than 20 years ago, I followed my master to fly thousands of miles away from Muzhou with the technique of Tengyun, only to see that there was a swamp everywhere, with barren grass and sewage, how did you teach those demon clans how to survive in that wild land?"

Xu Ke said: "It turns out that the demon clan is trying to infiltrate my Divine Continent with the intention of snatching this fertile land?"

Li Yi nodded and said: "Yes, there is no disease, you must remember in the future, between demons and demons, there is no rivalry, you must not be lucky, do wrong and good thoughts, and mistake demons as friends!"

Xu Ke knew what Li Yi meant, so he naturally reminded him to always keep in mind the defense of shemales and draw a line with the two big demons at home as soon as possible. However, he felt to himself in his heart that although Sister Hu and Brother Shuxian were both great demons who had practiced for thousands of years, what they said and did was all kindness and kindness, and they really didn't seem to be a bad person.

Xu Ke lowered his head and pondered: Could it be that just because Sister Hu and Brother Shuxian are among the demons, I should regard them as mortal enemies and fight them to the death?

He shook his head again and again, in his mind, although the "half-understood book fairy" Shu Hatian looked a little ugly, he also had a chivalrous thought in his heart. Although Shu Hetian is good at the art of empty hands, the people he steals are all big families, and most of the gains he takes are ill-gotten gains. Moreover, for so many years, very little of the money stolen by Shu Haotian was spent on himself, and most of it was scattered to those poor families, if such a person wanted him Xu Ke to fight to the death, he would never agree!

As for the "blue wave fairy" Hu Yiyi, it is needless to say. Hu Yiyi practiced medicine in the world, not only never harmed people, but also lived countless people over the years, the people in the coastal area of eastern Zhejiang, who have received her favor, but also her immortal tablet enshrined at home, praying every day, such a person, he respected and loved it is too late, how can he bear to be an enemy with it?

“......”

Xu Ke couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart, lowered his head, but was speechless.

"What His Highness said is extremely true!" Nangong was silent, seeing that a trace of amazement suddenly appeared on Xu Ke's face, knowing that there must be a question in his heart that was difficult to solve, he hurriedly followed and persuaded:

"Brother Xian, we human beings have eaten their flesh and swallowed their marrow, and they have done great harm to the beast race! Most of the demon clan have cultivated from the beast clan, think about it, can their demon clan still have a good heart towards us human beings? According to His Royal Highness's inference, the demon race covets the fertile soil of our human Divine Continent, it is not a day or two, if our human race is a little lax, once the demons take the opportunity to enter my Eastern Earth Divine Continent, when the time comes, the wilderness will be full of monsters, and the heavens and the earth will be poisoned, and we and other human beings will be in a situation from which they will never recover!"

When Xu Ke heard this, he couldn't help but be shocked. He suddenly remembered the world of the 12-line life wheel that he had crossed into in the Divine King Pavilion. In that world, it was not only the demon clan that took the opportunity to invade the fertile soil of the Divine Continent, but the main force was the demon clan. Demons and demons joined forces, making the sky dark, the earth was barren, the demons and beasts were abusing everywhere, and there was no one left in the human race...... Isn't this exactly the terrible consequence of what Nangong Buyu said?

It seems that the result of "Xu Ke" in that wheel of life changing the wheel of life without permission turned out to be that the two demon races invaded the Divine Continent, so that the human race was almost extinct!

Xu Ke couldn't help but look at himself, and then looked at the clear and cloudless sky outside the window, and said in his heart, I'm sitting here now, I will never do such a stupid thing, right?

Li Yi saw Xu Ke looking left and right, with a worried look on his face, so he smiled, reached out and patted Xu Ke's arm, and said gently:

"Okay, okay, junior brother, you don't have to be in such a dilemma! That day, I saw you with a fox and a mouse, and I felt strange in my heart, but after that, I continued to observe for a long time, the two ...... around you people, but they are all good people, junior and junior don't have to worry about it!"

"It turns out that Senior Brother already knew that day...... Xu Ke said. Although he looked embarrassed between his words, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart.

Xu Ke remembered that day, after he was poisoned by Sun Xun's poisonous tribulus terrestris "Seven Days of Soul Devouring Scattering", he was depressed and incomprehensible, so that he could stroll through Chang'an West City with Hu Yiyi and Shu Haotian to chat and relax. At that time, Shu Haotian was still trapped in Yiqing's lock demon cage and turned into the original form of a mouse, but fortunately he met Li Yi by chance, which allowed Li Yi to cast a spell and let the "half-solved book fairy" get out of the cage. On that day, the three of them spoke extremely secretly, but they didn't think that the identities of Hu Yiyi and Shu Hattian as a fox and a mouse had already been seen through by the deputy pavilion master of the God King Pavilion......

Nangong was silent but confused, he said in his heart: "A fox and a mouse? What fox and mouse? I have been with Wuzhi for so long, but I have never seen him raise any fox and mouse? Could it be that there is a ...... in his family?" He sat there thinking wildly, and when he saw that Li Yi and Xu Ke were unwilling to say anything, he didn't want to ask more.

The three of them ate for a while, Li Yi picked up the wine glass, and said silently to Xu Ke and Nangong:

"Senior brother, Nangong Qianhu, since the sudden outbreak of the strange case in the capital, thanks to the two of you who work hard day and night, and are busy every day, this has made Chang'an City slow down, come on, come on, I salute you two with a cup!"

Seeing that Li Yi, the king of Zhao, was so polite to him, Nangong was silent and hurriedly raised the wine glass with both hands, and together with Xu Ke, after touching the glass with Li Yi, he raised his head and drank it all. He was about to say two words of affection and admiration, but he saw Li Yi suddenly put down the wine glass, turned his head to Xu Ke and asked with a smile:

"Senior brother, at this time, you should tell the whereabouts of the cat demon......

Xu Ke saw that he couldn't escape the eyes of his senior brother when he saw what he was thinking, and knew that he couldn't hide it today, so he had to answer truthfully.

He looked at Nangong silently, and stopped talking......

Nangong stood up without saying a word, and said, "If Brother Xian feels inconvenient, I will retire!"

As he spoke, Nangong raised his feet and was about to go out without saying a word.

Xu Ke hurriedly dragged Nangong Bu over and held him on the shoulders to sit down, and then said:

"The cat demon named 'Mao Jiaojiao' is in the Cuiyun Building in Chang'an City at this time......"

"In Cuiyun Tower?!"

Li Yi and Nangong shouted in unison.

This cat demon for the disaster of Chang'an, made the people of Chang'an City panic, alarmed the entire Daqian court, led by Zhao Wang Li Yi personally, gathered countless capable people in the capital, searched for a month and found nothing. Everyone thought that this cat demon must be hiding in an extremely hidden place, who would have thought that the cat demon was hiding in the Cuiyun Building in the middle of Chang'an City!

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