The long night was silent, and several clouds of smoke rose in the sky stained red by the blood moon.
The tip of the nose smelled like the rotten smell of weeds, which was unpleasant and rushed straight into the lungs.
Yun Wan was awakened by the smell.
She opened her eyes, slowly got up from the ground, patted a few messy weeds on her clothes, looked around casually, and felt that this place was as dirty and smelly as a garbage dump.
There are sundries piled up in the corner, and there is a thatched mat in the corner. Judging from the traces, it seems that someone lived on it.
Then she looked at other places, and it should be a hut.
There is no door, only four walls are left, the beams are scattered, and the black raindrops are pattering down to her feet. She was afraid of getting her clothes wet, so she moved back carefully, only to hear a crisp sound coming from behind. There was a loud noise, as if something had been inadvertently crushed.
Yun Wan turned her head and groped for a while, and found a cloth bag under the pile of debris.
It contained a few strange stones and two pills that were used for unknown purposes, and now they were all crushed by her and mixed together in a mess.
She looked at the cloth bag, and then at the foggy sky outside the door.
The breath here is very different from Qingyun Realm, it is turbid, filthy, and can vaguely smell the smell of demon seeds.
Yun Wan asked, "Xuan Ling, where is this?"
Xuanling opened the mouth and said: [Nine Youquan in the Demon Realm. ]
The Demon Realm is not as extensive as the Qingyun Realm.
Anyone with some cultivation lives in the main city of the Demon Realm, but most of those with low abilities gather in Jiuyou Spring. This place is at the junction of the Demon Realm and the Wanku Mausoleum. In addition to low-level demon cultivators and bandits, high-level demon species will come out of the Wanku Mausoleum from time to time to look for food. It can be said to be the most dangerous place in the entire Demon Realm.
The retrospective mirror will directly send her to the place where Xie Tingyun is. So, more than three hundred years ago, Xie Tingyun lived in the Demon Realm?
Xie Tingyun never mentioned his past to her.
She originally thought that being accepted as a closed disciple by Daoist Qingxu meant that her childhood would not be bad, but judging from the situation, Xie Tingyun's youth was not as peaceful and carefree as she thought.
Yun Wan was in a daze, and the sound of hurried footsteps stepped on the rain and approached here.
Before she had time to find a hiding place, the slender figure of the young man broke into her world from the night.
He was covered in wind and rain.
Under the shabby gray robe was a tall, thin and straight body, with long hair **** with a black band, and a few strands of hair sticking messily to the pale face. Against the background of the night rain, those upturned pupils looked extremely black, and he was staring at her for a moment, with a faint coldness in his expression.
The young man in front of him is only sixteen or seventeen years old, like a pine and bamboo growing wildly in the cold wind, he has not yet shaken off his immaturity, but he can still see his loneliness.
Yun Wan never expected to meet him at this time, she was startled for a moment, and stared at his whole body from his brows and eyes, not even a single strand of hair fell off.
That's right, it was indeed Xie Tingyun.
Her eyes were sour, and she almost shed tears.
Yun Wan couldn't wait to step forward to recognize her, but just as she took a step, she was awakened by Xuan Ling: [Did you forget Master Shuyu's instructions? ]
Footsteps stop.
Before she left, Liu Chen's words went through her mind again.
[Remember not to let go of secrets, not to turn cause and effect. If it is forcibly reversed, the Three Realms will be in trouble. ]
Liu Chen's words are not without reason.
What she did three hundred years ago will affect the future. It is probably because she is afraid that she will cause a butterfly effect and put the common people in danger, so she repeatedly warned her.
Yun Wan stared at Xie Tingyun, and swallowed the words abruptly.
Xie Tingyun walked around her indifferently, and when he saw the mess in the corner, his brows twitched, and his expression suddenly changed.
"You did it?"
He finally spoke, his voice was clear, cleaner than Quan's voice, but it sounded a little sullen.
Yun Wan lowered the corner of her eyes and nodded slowly.
She can't freely choose where to land. If she wants to be held accountable, it is indeed her fault.
Yun Wan licked her dry lips, her voice tensed, "You, yours?"
Xie Tingyun pursed his lips, squatted down and picked up the pile of things.
After such a long time, coupled with the rain, the elixir has long been mixed in the gravel and turned into mud stains. As for the few stones, they were more thoroughly broken.
This is what Xie Tingyun bought with great difficulty in exchange for money. He has worked so hard to hide it for so long, but now it's all good, and it's all broken by this sudden stranger.
Xie Tingyun held the cloth bag, his face getting colder and colder.
Finally, he drew his blade and quickly stabbed her in the throat.
Yun Wan never thought it would be this development.
She froze for a moment, pinched his wrist holding the knife without hesitation, and then pressed **** the acupuncture point, only to hear a muffled groan, and the short dagger fell to the ground with a thud.
Yun Wan looked at him puzzled: "Xie Tingyun, what are you doing?"
Xie Tingyun's eyes became even colder, and he attacked her neck again.
Yun Wan is good at close combat, not to mention that the sixteen-year-old Xie Tingyun has not yet started to practice, and his moves are all based on his own epiphany. She dodged her head sideways, and hit his right arm with a hand knife. This time, both hands were completely "useless".
Xie Tingyun staggered back, a little in disbelief that this plain-looking woman could subdue him with two moves.
"Xie Tingyun, why are you so fierce?" Yun Wan frowned, unable to associate the irritable young man in front of him with the restrained and cold man. Unexpectedly, they look the same, have similar auras, there is nothing wrong with them.
"I accidentally crushed your things, I will compensate you, why are you so violent?" It's not as calm as in the future.
She meant no harm.
Unlike the evil cultivators outside, who stared at him everywhere.
Xie Tingyun rubbed his sore wrist, still not letting go of his vigilance, but when he heard the word "compensation", his eyes flashed subtly.
"My name is not Xie Tingyun."
She was taken aback again.
Xie Tingyun ignored her shock, and stretched out his hand: "Two bigu pills, ten magic stones."
Bigu pills?
magic stone? ? ?
Dare to love that this kid was a demon cultivator three hundred years ago? ?
Yun Wan was completely dumbfounded.
Seeing her frozen in place, Xie Tingyun completely lost his patience: "Why, do you want to go back on your word?"
Yun Wan came back to her senses, stumbling her tongue: "Why, why, I have a lot of bigu pills here."
She opened the storage bag and rummaged for a while.
There are only a few sets of daily change of clothes and a few beauty pills left in it.
Yun Wan was silent towards the empty storage bag.
Suddenly remembered that all the spirit stones contained in it were given to Mo Hua, and the remaining spirit stones were also left for Li Xuanyou and the others to forge swords when they were in Cangwu Palace. As for Bigu Pills...she had eaten five years before. , for the remaining space, the pocket was never installed again.
That is to say...
She pays for it! !
Yun Wan put away the storage bag, glanced at him carefully, shrank her neck, and asked tentatively, "Are you accepting credit?"
Xie Tingyun had expected that she would not be able to get it out.
Jiuyou Spring is full of three teachings and nine streams, if she is really like what she said, how can she end up here.
Xie Tingyun swept away from the corner of his eye.
Although Yun Wan's clothes are plain, the material is delicate and clean, and seeing her alone as a woman, she must be a gift from someone else.
Chongming is the lord of Jiuyouquan, with a vicious heart, and he cultivates with essence and blood.
The small towns in the rest of the world mainly wanted to get him to rely on, so they would kidnap women from the Qingyun Realm or the Demon Realm to offer him.
Xie Tingyun lived here since he was a child, and he has long cultivated a heart of stone. He doesn't even care about himself, let alone care about other people's life and death.
"Go." He pointed to the open door and pushed people away without hesitation.
It was raining heavily outside, Yun Wan blinked blankly: "Now?"
He didn't want to repeat it again, maintaining his indifference with a blank face.
Yun Wan patiently explained to him: "Xie Tingyun, I'm here..."
"My name is not Xie Tingyun." He was extremely impatient, "I don't have a name."
Yun Wan's throat choked, and she fell silent.
He didn't care whether Yun Wan left or not, he just grabbed a handful of gravel from the cloth bag and put it in his mouth to chew.
Hearing the "creaking" bite sound, Yun Wan's brows became more and more wrinkled.
After taking a bite, Xie Tingyun continued to grab a second handful. During the process, some gravel cut the corner of his mouth, even though the blood was dripping, he didn't care.
"The spiritual power in the magic stone has already drained, even if you eat it, it's useless."
Yun Wan wanted to fight, but Xie Tingyun quickly hid the cloth bag behind his back, his phoenix eyes were cold and stern, mixed with a bit of warning.
She felt chills down her spine and stopped immediately.
Good guy, this kid is still protecting food.
Xie Tingyun's tone was even colder: "You go."
Yunwan didn't move.
"Not going?"
"It's raining outside, I have nowhere to go." Yun Wan sat down on the weed bed in the corner, regardless of whether he agreed or not.
The two stood face to face.
Looking at the woman in front of her with a big thorn trespassing on her territory, Xie Tingyun's beautiful lips pursed tighter and tighter, and finally took a deep breath: "Okay." Things on the ground, "If you don't go, I'll go." After saying that, he rushed into the rain with the package in his arms.
Yun Wan: "...?"
Xuanling: […]
It was raining heavily outside, and the thatched hut was swaying in the torrential rain, and the long and thin figure was swallowed up by the night in an instant.
Yun Wan couldn't help but fell into deep thought.
The purpose of her trip was to find the lost spirit bone of Xie Tingyun.
But maybe because he was still young, she couldn't feel the flow of spiritual breath in him at all, let alone the spiritual bone.
Could it be that he was picked out long ago?
No, his extraordinary meridians are all healthy, it doesn't seem like he has experienced internal injuries, that is... not grown yet?
Yun Wan was at a loss, so he could only follow him to observe the situation first, and then make another plan.
But this kid has a really bad temper.
Yun Wan sighed in a low voice, slowly got up and chased after him.
The rain in Moyu is also cold.
The coldness only pierced into the bones, she was originally an extremely yin body, even with a mysterious body protection, she couldn't resist the invasion of the cold dew.
His breath was faint in the air.
Yun Wan lit a piece of talisman paper, and the talisman fire floated forward, vaguely illuminating the paths on both sides.
It is secluded, full of jungles, and you can hear the strange calls of wild animals if you listen carefully.
Before the talisman paper was ignited, Yun Wan vaguely saw a few black shadows shaking, accompanied by a few sharp curses—
"It really is a narrow road to Encounter. I have been caught by Lao Tzu after looking for you for a few days."
"What about the things you robbed earlier? Return them quickly!"
"No, right??"
"A mere twister dares to act presumptuously on us!"
The man was punching and kicking while cursing, punching into the flesh, just by hearing the sound, one could tell that the attack was serious.
Yunwan quickened his pace.
With the help of the burning talisman, she saw Xie Tingyun being suppressed in the mud by four people.
The four people around him are low-level demon cultivators, but they are a circle bigger than Xie Tingyun, and they are all tall and big.
The leader looked fierce and kicked and beat him one after another.
A few younger brothers were afraid that he would run away, so they held onto his knees and hands.
"Speak! Where's the antler cream you snatched?!"
Antler Frost is a kind of psychedelic grass that grows in the fantasy forest. It is not very good for cultivation, but it can make the user feel ecstatic. It is said that a deer horn cream is as happy as a fairy.
There are not many things for fun in the devil world. Low-level magicians rely on antler cream to pass the time, and some magicians rely on these psychedelic grasses to make money.
Xie Tingyun was unlucky and happened to rob these people of their goods.
Seeing that he was holding his head in silence, they were so angry that they raised their hands and drew out their long knives, slashing at his legs.
Her heart tightened, and she was about to stop her, when she saw Xie Tingyun turn around, first snatched the weapon, then took advantage of the unpreparedness and grabbed the leader's skirt, the next moment, the slender white palm passed through his chest .
Moxiu didn't expect Xie Tingyun to be able to escape the bondage, let alone that he would actually do it.
He froze in place like that, staring dumbfounded at the arm in front of his chest.
Those eyes are getting bigger and bigger, and the breathing is messy and rapid.
Xie Tingyun's brows and eyes were calm.
In the rainy night, the sound of blood churning could be clearly heard.
In an instant, the surroundings were completely silent, and none of the other people standing behind dared to stand up.
Xie Tingyun stared at the man with indifferent eyes, and with a "poof", he pulled the demon's heart out of his body.
The heart was still warm, beating regularly in his palm.
Xie Tingyun let go of his hand, Moxiu staggered back two steps, and finally fell to the ground staggeringly, the blood mixed with muddy water, meandering to Yunwan's feet.
The rain is fading.
The red moon enveloped him, condescending, even more frightening than the ghosts and beasts Yun Wan saw in the Demon Realm.
Not only them, even Yun Wan didn't know how to react.
In my impression, he is mostly aloof and indifferent, and occasionally emotional is also in the bed. It's not like it is now, cold and bloodthirsty, like a ghost crawling out of the nether world.
"You, how dare you? Could it be that you forgot whose territory this is in?!"
"Aren't you really afraid that the lord will ask you for a crime?!"
Others turned pale with shock, but they didn't dare to go forward to provoke him.
To them, Xie Tingyun was far more frightening than the man-eating ancient beasts in the Wanku Mausoleum. They backed away a distance, with more panic than anger on their faces.
Xie Tingyun clenched his fingers, his heart was like an egg, and he crushed it into powder in an instant.
Seeing this, their faces turned pale again.
"Why don't you dare?" He was fearless, very arrogant, "You can find Cheng Chongming and cry, if he wants to come to me to settle accounts, then come, I'm here in Ye Canglin, and I won't go anywhere."
"you…"
Several people gritted their teeth, but there was nothing they could do.
Xie Tingyun is a twisted ghost that is rare to see in a thousand years. He is born with evil spirits, and his evil spirit is heavier than those tortured demons and ghosts in the exile. If they really fight, they will definitely not be opponents.
Seeing the stalemate, several people simply left their dead companions and ran away.
After the three left, the rain stopped.
Xie Tingyun looked down at the corpse on the ground, squatted down beside him and rummaged for a while, and finally found a small bag of worthless magic stones. He was about to continue searching when he suddenly noticed something strange. He started, and his gaze collided with Yun Wan not far away.
The two looked at each other, and fell into an eerie silence.
Thinking that what he did before might be seen by Yun Wan, his eyes dimmed for a moment, and finally he ignored it, got up and limped away.
Yun Wan pondered for a long time, but still followed.
"Thank you, Tingyun."
He pretended not to hear.
"Xie Tingyun, I'm calling you."
The repeated "Xie Tingyun" made people tired of the noise, he didn't look back, and his back became extremely hasty.
Yun Wan followed him in a few steps, and grabbed his cuff: "Where are you going?"
Xie Tingyun shook off her hand, without squinting: "It has nothing to do with you."
Thinking of what he said not long ago, Yun Wan frowned: "You don't really want to go back, do you?"
Xie Tingyun kept silent.
He is not stupid, how could he really stay here. What he killed was someone under Chongming's command, and Chongming was jealous and narrow-minded, so he would definitely settle accounts with him, and the most urgent task was to leave Jiuyou Spring.
But…
Thinking of the person in the way next to him, Xie Tingyun stopped immediately, his eyes were cold: "If you keep pestering me, I will..." He raised his heart-piercing right hand and stretched it towards her threateningly.
Yun Wan didn't speak, but silently puffed out her chest, her gaze never averted: "That's all?"
This time it was he who was stunned, and looked towards her chest involuntarily.
Looking at the two slightly undulating curves on the flat river, his breathing was stagnant, and his ears turned red.
Xie Tingyun staggered his eyes in a hurry, and honestly hung that hand on his side of his leg. After thinking about it, he was still uneasy, so he simply hid it behind his back, and slowly tightened it into a fist.
The roots of his ears were so hot that he even forgot the previous irritability for a while.
This reaction made Yun Wan feel the long-lost relief, and couldn't help but want to tease him, her tone was full of playfulness: "You want to dig my heart too?"
Xie Tingyun quickened his pace, eager to get rid of her.
Yun Wan followed up unhurriedly: "You said you don't have a name, what do other people call you?"
Xie Tingyun's expression darkened, and he bowed his head in silence.
Yun Wan recalled what those people called Xie Tingyun just now, - Hanging Ghost.
It's more or less ugly, and it doesn't look like a good name.
"Since you don't have a name, so what if I call you Xie Tingyun?"
She is very domineering.
-bother.
Xie Tingyun didn't want to say a word, dragged his injured leg, and stumbled into the woods.
Yun Wan twitched the corners of her mouth, and stepped forward quickly, "Believe it or not, I'm here to save you."
"Heh." Xie Tingyun sneered and gave a cool look, "I don't need anyone to save me."
"Yeah."
Yun Wan raised her eyebrows, took two steps closer, stepped on his injured ankle, raised her face with a harmless expression: "Have you used it now?"
The sharp pain coming from between the bones made his face turn blue and red.
Xie Tingyun's lips trembled slightly, almost unable to stand still, but he still gritted his teeth and said, "No, no need."
"oh."
Yun Wan ruthlessly crushed it with all her strength, "Have you used it yet?"
"..."
His fist hardened.
Eye sockets are also red.
- Angry.