Chapter 43: Flame Mountain Cocoon Man (16)

It's the green rabbit again.

"Fifteen, who taught you this nursery rhyme about the rabbit?" Li Yuanying squatted down and touched Fifteen's head. Her hair was messy and mixed with dust.

"It's my mother..."

Li Yuanying nodded thoughtfully.

"Your mother... didn't your mother look different before?" Li Yuanying had long noticed that there was something wrong with this nursery rhyme - rabbit, all people are rabbits, why?

Fifteen seemed frightened. She shook her head and said, "Mom said not to tell anyone!"

"Even my sister can't do it?" Li Yuanying started to play the emotional card.

Fifteen was indeed a little hesitant. She looked at Li Yuanying's harmless face, not knowing whether to say it or not.

"Sister is here to help you and your mother, don't be afraid." Li Yuanying continued.

Fifteen opened his mouth before he said, "But, Mother said...Humans are the poor creatures who are most afraid of aliens. They will eliminate all aliens to ensure their own status."

This sentence really doesn't sound like something a child would say.

"What else did your mother say?"

"Mom also said that Fifteen must remain in human form, so that Daddy will come to pick him up!" The little girl said this with a serious and innocent look on her face.

The speaker may not intend it, but the listener may take it seriously.

These words were like a knife stabbing into Qilang's heart.

His mother had said the same thing to him. She looked at the blood bracelet on her hand, her eyes full of light: "With the blood bracelet, people will not be able to sense the evil spirit in me. As long as I am like them, your father will be able to take us to Chang'an."

Yes, in the end, Dad took them to Chang'an.

However, my mother never came back.

"Fifteen, where is your mother now?" Li Yuanying asked.

"Mom..." Fifteen said, she looked timidly in the direction of the Buddha statue, and then looked at Li Yuanying.

"Your mother is here?" Li Yuanying grabbed Shiwu, afraid that she would run away.

Fifteen screamed in pain.

At this time, the shadow behind the Buddha statue became thicker and bigger. The black shadow grew wildly and wantonly. Finally, a huge body appeared behind the Buddha statue, with a pair of green eyes staring straight at Li Yuanying and his group.

Qilang stood in front of Li Yuanying, listening vigilantly to the unfriendly visitor.

Click.

Click.

It seemed as if liquid was dripping onto the ground.

Then, the liquid and the land merged into one.

Li Yuanying smelled a strong smell of blood. As the black shadow was gradually exposed to the faint light of the fireflies, its outline appeared - like a giant man squatting on the ground.

Just as the black shadow was about to reveal its true face, all the fireflies had burned out and the cave fell into darkness.

Qilang threw out the flaming umbrella, and when the blue flames ignited again, a huge bloody face appeared in front of Li Yuanying, only half a foot away.

Li Yuanying took a breath of cold air.

The muscles and blood vessels on this face are clearly visible, and the liquid dripping on the ground is pus and blood seeping out from between the muscles.

This is a monster without skin.

It has a human body and a wolf's head, and its face is neither wolf nor human.

A low growl came from its throat, as if responding to Li Yuanying's offense.

Fifteen called out softly, "Mom..."

The monster slowly opened its mouth, revealing the details of its muscles and ligaments pulling at its mandible.

Then an unpleasant roar came out of its mouth, echoing in the cave for a long time.

"Let her go."

The monster seemed to be saying these three words.

"I won't hurt your child. As long as you are willing to remove the core of the formation, I will release Fifteen immediately." Li Yuanying held Fifteen, preventing her from moving.

Li Yuanying had noticed this nursery rhyme a long time ago. All the themes were rabbits, which meant that the person who wrote this nursery rhyme was standing on the other side of the rabbit. Maybe she was the wolf demon.

In the eyes of wolves, all people are rabbits.

The white rabbit is an ordinary human like her.

The red rabbits are villagers, half-demons who turned into wolf-demons.

Green rabbits are humans who have been infected by sand puppets. Perhaps because they are highly poisonous, Fifteen always says that green rabbits are scary and cannot be eaten.

Finally, the black rabbit is Fifteen, a child like her who can get along with both humans and wolf demons.

"Rabbit, you are not worthy of negotiation." A strange sound came out of the skinless wolf demon's mouth.

As soon as he finished speaking, a gust of black wind blew over. Qilang immediately turned the Soul-Slaying Flame Umbrella to block the attack of the skinless wolf demon. Pus and blood adhered to his umbrella, looking extremely disgusting.

"Mother, please don't hurt my sister!" Fifteen shouted in panic, tears streaming down his face.

Li Yuanying handed Fifteen to Bingyi, then drew out Frost Ember and stood side by side with Qilang.

"You have a nice face, really nice..."

The skinless wolf demon looked at Li Yuanying and kept repeating this sentence.

"I want it so much, I want your skin..."

After saying that, the skinless wolf demon stretched out its claws, which were long and sharp, and attacked Li Yuanying like a hurricane.

Qilang completely ignored Li Yuanying. He blocked the attack and started fighting with the wolf demon.

However, since he had just lost half of his cultivation, he soon couldn't hold on any longer. Li Yuanying immediately joined the battle. The two looked extremely indifferent on the surface, but they cooperated very well in the fight.

Every time the wolf demon was about to hurt one of them, he would be stopped by the other. The two men and the demon would fight fiercely in the sky and on the ground, with flames flashing.

After these ordeals, although Li Yuanying could no longer use her magic power, her swordsmanship was still impressive. She looked like the wind and water, always able to overcome the hard with the soft.

Qilang's swordsmanship is different from hers. His moves are always unpredictable and his tactics are always unexpected. He has a strong murderous intent, which is frightening.

One soft and the other hard, one yin and the other yang, the two advanced together, forcing the wolf demon to retreat step by step.

"Don't hurt my mother!" Fifteen shouted. At first she thought Li Yuanying was no match for her, but now it seemed that her mother was the one in danger.

The two of them, one holding a Soul-Slaying Flame Umbrella and the other holding a Frost Ash, finally hit the wolf demon's fatal spot, preventing it from moving.

"As long as you remove the eye of the formation, we will definitely give you and Fifteen freedom." Li Yuanying said.

"Haha, kill me if you want, cut me up if you want. I won't listen to your human talk of morality, and I won't help you remove the eye of the formation." The wolf demon knew that he had no chance of winning and had given up resistance, but he was not ready to obey easily.

"Do you know who you are suppressing? They are all innocent women. Because of this Wanyang Formation, they will never be reborn!" Li Yuanying roared.

The wolf demon looked at Li Yuanying and smiled coldly: "Innocent? Are you willing to listen to what they did?"

Li Yuanying looked at the wolf demon and heard what he said. It seemed that the story of this village was far more complicated than she had thought.

"They want sons. All women want sons! If I can't fulfill their wishes, they'll stop offering incense to me," the wolf demon said viciously. "As a local land god, I have all these abilities, but nowhere to display them! Because I can't defy morality and fulfill their wishes, I've become the poorest god, the most destitute. No one builds a temple for me, no one burns incense for me, simply because I refuse to meet their unreasonable demands!"

"So, in the end, you agreed to their request." Qilang's voice sank.

"What else can I do? I finally ascended to become an immortal. I don't want to be demoted again. What else can I do?" The wolf demon looked at her hands and let out a painful howl.

"It's because of them! I broke the rules of heaven and became this horrible appearance! If I hadn't become ugly... Immortal Lord... Immortal Lord wouldn't have left me!"

Li Yuanying looked at the wolf demon in front of her who was madly blaming all the mistakes and responsibilities on others, and suddenly felt a little sad.

"They were certainly wrong, but it was your greed that ultimately led to your tragedy," said Li Yuanying.

"Are you willing to watch those who are worse off than you rise to prominence while you yourself remain destitute and old? Why can't I be assigned to a better place, but instead have to be a land god in this shabby place?" The wolf demon became increasingly agitated. "It's not fair!"

"If...if I hadn't been assigned to this place, I wouldn't be like this...it's all their fault..."

As the wolf demon spoke, tears began to flow.

"I thought about redeeming everything. I wanted to become human again... But I tried everything, but nothing worked. My skin peeled off layer by layer like a cocoon, and it just wouldn't grow back on me."

The wolf demon spoke of his own pain. All he said was the suffering he felt. He never thought that it was because he had done something wrong that he was being punished for it.

"I've tried, but nothing works... I've failed... I can't go back to the past..."

"So, in order to take revenge, you pressed the souls of these women into the Wanyang Formation?" Li Yuanying asked.

"This is their retribution! If Heaven doesn't punish them, I will take Heaven's place!" The wolf demon's eyes glowed green.

"You have been blinded by hatred. As a local god, you failed to serve as a warning, but instead aided and abetted the evil. Furthermore, your own greed has led to this tragedy in the world. You are to blame!"

"You're full of righteousness and morality! I pursue glory and wealth, what's wrong with that? Am I destined to live in poverty all my life?"

"It's beyond help, why continue arguing?" Qilang said.

Li Yuanying looked at Fifteen in Bingyi's arms and said, "No, Fifteen still needs her... Fifteen is too young and needs his mother."

Hearing this, Qilang was stunned for a moment, as if something touched the softest part of his heart.

If only that person had been grateful that he was still young and had given his mother a chance to live.

So, he still has his mother now, he can still see her smile, he can still eat the snacks she makes, and he can still call her mother.

"For her, can't you unlock the array's core? If you don't unlock it yourself, we will have no choice but to kill you." Li Yuanying pointed at Fifteen in Bingyi's arms.

Shiwuliang looked at her mother with tears in her eyes. She called out softly, "Mom... please help them."