Chapter 219 Anning Village
Because Xu Changqing's flying sword was damaged, flying for a long time would consume a lot of mana, so everyone had to stop and go. Xu Changqing felt deeply guilty for this, thinking that he had dragged everyone down.
Sedum himself didn't care much.
He, like Tang Xuejian, has been living in Yuzhou City before and has never traveled far. Compared with flying directly to the entrance of God Realm, he prefers the feeling of walking around and "traveling in the rivers and lakes".
That evening, everyone settled down in a mountain village. As soon as they entered the village, they found that the people here ran away in a hurry like a mouse seeing a cat when they saw a stranger coming, lest they avoid it.
Sensing the faint sense of peeping from the surrounding houses with closed doors and windows, Jing Tian held his chin and asserted: "According to my analysis, this village is weird!"
"It's up to you to say that? Who in a normal village would run away when they see a stranger?" Xue glanced at Bai Sedum and said, "But you really look scary."
"Is this handsome? Maybe they were scared by you~" Sedum made a face, and Tang Xuejian stomped her feet in anger.
Solanum nigrum dressed in red glanced at the bickering scene between the two, subconsciously looked at Zhou Ji who was looking around, and said, "Hey! What are you doing?"
Zhou Ji frowned slightly, and said thoughtfully, "I feel that someone has been following us since we left Yuzhou City. Until here, the feeling has become stronger."
Used to be a robber saint, Zhou Ji has a particularly keen sense of this aspect. His eyes swept over the stone tablet engraved with "An Ning Village" at the entrance of the village, and he suddenly said, "So it's her."
"You go to the inn first, I'll be back later."
As he spoke, Zhou Ji's figure flickered and disappeared in place.
"Hello!" Hongkui subconsciously wanted to hold Zhou Ji, but only touched the afterimage of the streamer. Sedum and the others also noticed the movement here, and quickly asked, "Where did Lao Zhou go?"
Hongkui shook her head and said in a deep voice, "He said he felt that someone was following us, so he went to find that person."
"How can that work? What if he is in danger acting alone?" Jing Tian hasn't seen Zhou Ji make a move yet, so he doesn't know Zhou Ji's strength, so he said quickly, "We have to find him sooner."
Hongkui's eyes flickered, as if she didn't hear the second half of what Zhou Ji told her, but followed everyone in the direction where Zhou Ji left.
Just two steps away, Tang Xuejian stopped suddenly, sniffed, and said hesitantly, "Wait~ Do you smell any fragrance?"
Everyone was taken aback for a moment, and raised their noses to smell it. Sure enough, there was a faint fragrance coming from it.
Changqing frowned slightly, sensing something strange in the fragrance, thinking of what Hongkui said just now, and said uncertainly: "This fragrance is very unusual, maybe it has something to do with Brother Zhou's departure."
Jing Tian and Tang Xuejian searched for the fragrance while pointing their fingers in two directions, one left and one right, and said in unison: "Go this way~!"
Hongkui looked at Xu Changqing, her indifferent eyes carried a bit of scrutiny, Xu Changqing glanced at the two people who were once again in a quarrel, and hesitated: "Shall we go find each other?"
After the words fell, Hongkui turned around, floated directly into the air, and flew along the center line in two directions. Everyone hurriedly followed when they saw the situation. Just as they passed through an alley, they saw a stall full of spices in front of them. Behind him stood a beautiful woman with a woman's hair in a bun.
The white gauze covered the red dress, which is gorgeous with a clean temperament.
"Xiao Kui~!" Sedum, who was amazed by the woman, quickly calmed down with Xue Jian's physical help, and hurried to the front, for fear that she would have another conflict with others. "Are you OK?"
Speaking of which, the red nightshade is also his younger sister, but her personality is completely opposite to that of the blue nightshade. She almost got into a fight with Xuejian because she couldn't understand the way of "communicating feelings" between him and Xuejian.
Hongkui turned her head and didn't say anything else, and Wan Yuzhi was also startled by the sudden appearance of the crowd, she looked away from Hongkui, and said with a smile to Sedum and Xuejian who seemed to be the most talkative: "I see It doesn't look like a local, but like someone from another place?"
Tang Xuejian paid attention to the bottles and cans on the stall from the moment she came, and replied casually: "We are from Yuzhou."
Yuzhou Wan Yuzhi nodded slightly, just when Jingtian was about to ask her if she had seen Zhou Ji, Tang Xuejian had already opened a rouge button and exclaimed: "Wow! What kind of spice is this? It smells so good Ah~"
Wan Yuzhi smiled and said: "These are made by the slave family. If the girl likes it, there are other fragrances here. You can also take a look."
Seeing that Tang Xuejian really wanted to try it, Jing Tian hurriedly lowered her arm, and asked Wan Yuzhi, "I'm sorry, we were just passing by, and I wanted to ask the girl if I've seen a girl in a light blue Taoist robe?" Did the young monk just pass by here?"
"Cultivator." Wan Yuzhi's heart sank, and she glanced at Xu Changqing, who had never spoken. The Shushan Taoist robe on the other party's body, and the scrutiny eyes that had been staring at her made her feel more and more bad. When she was about to make excuses, she heard Another stranger's voice came from the side, and she turned around to see that the blue-robed monk described by such a person was walking towards her. If there was nothing there, there was also a deliberately hidden evil spirit permeating around him.
"Brother Jing is looking for me?"
Zhou Ji walked past Hongkui, heard a coquettish hum from the side, subconsciously stretched out his hand and flicked Hongkui's forehead, ignoring her furious hopping, and smiled at Jingtian.
"Where did you go? You left the team without saying a word, we are looking for you." Sedum said a little dissatisfied.
"I just realized that someone was following us, so I went out to look for it, but I couldn't find it." Zhou Ji glanced at Xu Changqing with a strange expression, and followed him all the way from Yuzhou. Except for Zixuan, Zhou Ji couldn't think of another person elected.
The other party deliberately avoided him, and Zhou Ji didn't insist on looking for her. Recalling Zixuan's heart in the play, she wanted to eat Wan Yuzhi to delay aging, so she turned back.
Chatted for a while, glanced at Wan Yuzhi who was full of vigilance, Wan Yuzhi was startled, and quickly said: "Guys, it's getting late, the little girl will take her leave first."
As he spoke, he hurriedly packed up his things and left.
Xu Changqing frowned slightly, and was about to step forward to stop the opponent, but Zhou Ji suppressed the flying sword in his hand.
Xu Changqing frowned and said: "Brother Zhou Dao, why did you stop me? In addition to the scent of flowers on this girl, I also feel the smell of a fox."
"So what?" Zhou Ji smiled, "Do you still want to kill demons?"
"Not all monsters are bad, just like not all people are good people. She has no intention of harming others, so why do you have to kill them all?" Zhou Ji rubbed his eyebrows, roughly telling the things about Wan Yuzhi in his memory. Everyone talked about it again, but the experience between her and Zixuan that hadn't happened yet was hidden.
On the way to the inn, the sky was already getting dark, everyone found four inns and they said they were full, when they came to the fifth one, they happened to meet Wan Yuzhi who had left during the day, and was blocking a staff member's low-key excuse money.
Wan Yuzhi was a monster who could transform into a human form. Because of her husband's downfall, Tang Xuejian's eldest lady immediately lost her temper, and rushed forward to catch the member and reprimanded her.
Hongkui is also a hot-tempered and jealous master. The two formed a united front for the first time. After some reprimands and force pressure, they finally recovered the money that Wan Yuzhi's husband had lent to Yuanwai from the member.
After some thanks, everyone officially exchanged names.
From Zhou Ji, Jing Tian and the others learned that Wan Yuzhi's husband's life was in danger because of exhaustion of energy, like a tree without roots. Break the identity of Wan Yuzhi's monster clan.
Seeing the scene just now, the innkeeper thought that he had bumped into a group of "green forest heroes", so he dared to be negligent. He quickly explained to everyone that another man died strangely in their store on the fifteenth day of last month. Moreover, the appearance of his death was extremely strange. Right now, people in the village are in panic, and all the stores are afraid to entertain outsiders.
Tang Xuejian suddenly said: "No wonder people in your village run away when they see strangers."
"Boss, we are not ordinary people." Jing Tian pointed to Xu Changqing and before he could speak, the innkeeper murmured in his heart, 'That's not it~ look at you when you were chasing debts, you are not ordinary people at first sight. '
Jing Tian didn't know what the innkeeper was muttering, and said with a proud face: "This Changqing hero is a disciple of Shushan, and this old Zhou senior is also a master of Taoism, they are all specialized in collecting monsters." , you can rest assured and let us stay!"
The name of Shushan is a living sign. The innkeeper took a careful look at Xu Changqing, then looked at Zhou Ji who was forced out by Jing Tian, thought for a while, and said, "Okay then! If you really want to stay overnight, you can Sign the certificate of life and death for me! I promise that no matter what happens, the store will not be responsible."
Seeing that it was getting late, Sedum nodded and agreed: "Yes, let him sign~"
Pointing to Zhou Ji, Sedum yawned and walked towards the backyard.
"Hey~ why?" Zhou Ji waved his hand and wanted to call Jing Tian back, but Jing Tian had already walked away. When he turned around and looked at Xu Changqing again, Xu Changqing happened to pass by him on the other side, and pointed at him in the same way. Go with the sedum.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Zhou, Cai Ya said that this is your punishment for leaving the team without permission~" Tang Xuejian put her hands behind her back, showing an embarrassed smile, and bouncing after her.
Turning to look at Hongkui who was still there, Zhou Ji asked curiously, "Aren't you leaving?"
Looking at Zhou Ji with red eyes, Hong Kui said expressionlessly, "I'll sign with you."
"No need, this is just a little prank by Sedum and the others, you go back first." Zhou Ji said casually while signing his name on the life and death certificate.
Seeing Zhou Ji put down the brush, the innkeeper smiled apologetically and wanted to reach out to take the rice paper, but then a slender lotus root arm suddenly inserted in the middle, taking away the life and death shape.
"What are you?" The innkeeper looked at Hongkui in surprise, thinking that the other party wanted to repent, but saw Hongkui mentioning Zhou Ji's Langhao and adding her name next to the signature.
With a bang, the pleading paper was slapped on the counter, Hong Kui didn't look at Zhou Ji again, raised her head slightly, and walked towards the guest room with full momentum.
Five people and five rooms, that's how luxurious it is.
The night is dead and the moon is covered by dark clouds.
Xu Changqing, who was adjusting his breath, suddenly felt a little restless, and there was a vague aura of deja vu flashing through, Xu Changqing subconsciously took out the purple veil that he picked up from the Nuwa Temple that day, and chased out the door with a thought .
At the same time, Zhou Ji was walking alone on the desolate street, paused slightly, and said with a chuckle, "Don't hide, come out."
A red glow came from behind, Hong Kui stood with her arms folded, raised her chin and said, "Are you going to find that vixen during the day?"
"That's what you say, but why does it sound so wrong?" Zhou Ji raised his forehead and said, "It's considered."
"I want to go too." Hongkui frowned.
Zhou Ji asked suspiciously: "Sedum and Miss Xuejian are still in the inn right now? If you leave with me, what will they do?"
When Sedum was mentioned, there was a trace of hesitation in Hongkui's eyes.
A touch of sky blue ignited from the bottom of the skirt and quickly spread upwards, Hongkui said in a deep voice: "Xu Daxia is also at the inn, he will protect them."
The blue has faded, and the long skirt is as bright as fire.
Zhou Ji took a deep look at Hongkui, sighed lightly, and said nothing, but turned around and walked towards Wan Yuzhi's house.
Hong Kui did not follow behind Zhou Ji by the corner of his clothes like Lan Kui did in the past, but walked two steps forward and walked side by side with Zhou Ji.
On Xu Changqing's side, there was a blunder, and when he went out, he noticed a ray of monster energy coming from outside the village, so he followed the guidance of the monster-hunting compass and chased outside. On the other hand, Zhou Ji came to Wan Yuzhi's house and gently rang the door. The door, alarmed the two people talking in the room.
"Based on your current situation, if you forcefully feed him energy again, it will definitely hurt the source. As long as you promise to give me your thousand-year demon heart, I can save your husband and make him fully recover."
Before the words were finished, the door was knocked, Zixuan's vertical pupils lit up, and she glanced outside the door, Zixuan frowned slightly, and said in a deep voice, "I'm going first, if you think clearly, you can go to the bamboo forest outside the city." The shallows are looking for me."
Hearing that the other party wanted to use Wan Yuzhi's husband to coerce her to hand over her heart, Hongkui's face turned cold, and before Zhou Ji could react, she pulled out Houyi's sun-shooting bow, raised her hand and set up a flame to shoot into the house.
The red light flashed by, and the hot flame immediately melted a big hole in the door. Through the big hole burned by the flame, Zhou Ji and Hong Kui saw Wan Yuzhi kneeling on the ground at a glance, and the dignified purple-clothed woman in front of her. .
Since giving birth to Qing'er, the power of Nuwa in Zixuan's body has been continuously losing. Even if she freezes Qing'er, she still cannot restrain the inheritance of power and blood.
The last time she was chased and killed by the Mozun for no apparent reason had already consumed a lot of Nuwa's power, and now she was consumed by a spirit body with Hou Yi's sun-shooting bow. In Zi Xuan's heart, the desire for eternal youth and longevity became more and more urgent. .
(end of this chapter)