The true appearance of the monster

Heng Jin praised her through telepathic communication, "Your nose is truly sharp! It's comparable to the Roaring Sky Dog under the scepter of Erlang Shen!"

"If my sense of smell is really as sharp as Erlang Shen's Roaring Sky Dog, then I'm really amazing. Did you smell it?"

"I didn't dare sniff it any longer; it was too stinky. But spider juice shouldn't be this stinky, right? Even after all these years, I can't recall any other smell that's stinkier than this!"

Even though the clothes and hands blocked the smell, the smell still penetrated into her nose. Heng Jin frowned more and more tightly, and she simply cast a spell to block Yuanli's sense of smell, and then blocked her own, and only then did she feel relieved.

Yuanli also quickly signaled Hengjin to cast a spell to block Abang and Ayi's sense of smell.

"We've blocked our sense of smell. Will not being able to smell anything affect our ability to catch the suspect? What if the smell changes later? No, you'd better untie it for me. I'm not afraid. I'll smell it."

"What? Your nose is no longer a nose? Don't you feel sorry for yourself?" Heng Jin said through telepathy.

He conjured up a trumpet-shaped white flower out of thin air. The back was purple-brown, and the petals were curved at the top but not curled, which was particularly elegant and beautiful.

As she pinched her fingers and twisted her fingers, the petals slowly gathered into a wrapped vertical bud, which was plump and about the length from the palm to the fingertips.

"What kind of flower is this? It's so beautiful." Yuanli asked in her heart.

"I transformed it into a wild lily. Do you like it? I'll pick some fresh flowers for you someday. This flower has a light fragrance and has a good meaning in the human world. It's very suitable for us." Heng Jin said through telepathy.

"What's the meaning?" Yuanli asked in her heart.

"Lily, Lily, you will be happily married for a hundred years." Heng Jin gazed at her with tenderness in his eyes. His tone when communicating with her was soft but firm, as if he was absolutely sure that they would be happily married for a hundred years in this life.

Noticing the atmosphere between them gradually becoming somewhat ambiguous, Yuanli said to herself, as if pouring cold water on her heart, "It's a flower with a good meaning, but it's not suitable for you and me. When Ah Cha comes back, I'll bring the lilies home to see him. He'll definitely be very happy."

Hearing this, Heng Jin's face instantly fell. Although he knew in his heart that what she said just now was just meant to anger him, he still couldn't help but look at her with resentment.

He transmitted his message through telepathy, "Always bringing up a sour teacup when we're all in such a good mood is a complete letdown. My lady, as long as I'm still breathing, don't even think about marrying Cha Suxun while you still have a place for me in your heart."

Yuanli immediately said in her heart, "Not only did I want to, I actually married Cha Suxun. You're trying to bind me forever with a lifetime of marriage, but that's wishful thinking. Cha Suxun and I were also married in this mortal world with our original memories. However, my choice to marry you was based on the pre-written story by Siming, while our marriage was a clear-headed choice made by our hearts while we both had our memories."

"How can you so easily judge that the past between us is only a marriage for one lifetime?"

His sight fell on her hair, which was ruffled by a gust of cold wind that came from nowhere. Heng Jin looked at her intently with eyes full of love, and gently stroked her temples, tidying up her non-existent hair.

From the corner of his eye, he saw that when Abang and Ayi saw them being intimate with each other this time, there was a misunderstanding in their eyes. Hengjin had achieved his goal.

Yuanli herself was equally stunned. Hengjin's tone sounded so firm and sincere to her that it didn't seem false at all. Even his eyes held an incomparably fiery sincerity.

He did not use telepathy just now, but actually said these words out loud. Judging from their reactions, the five souls did not hear it, but the shocked Abang and Ayi must have heard it clearly.

She said in her heart, "Heng Jin! Are you crazy? You really said it out loud just now, not through telepathy! And your actions just now! How can I explain it? I'm afraid I can't wash myself clean even if I jump into the Yellow River."

Heng Jin said through telepathic communication, "No explanations. I will handle everything. Before I heard you say those words, I was so concerned about this and that, even responding coldly to your approach. I was completely wrong. I treated our relationship in an extremely self-righteous way, neglecting you and your heart. I now realize my selfish mistakes, and from now on, I will change."

"Heng Jin, are you possessed?"

"No."

Yuanli said in her heart: "Shut up! I don't want to talk to you about this, just focus on catching monsters!"

Heng Jin said, "There's no point in running away. We need to make things clear. Procrastinating and running away won't solve the problem."

"Can't you just tell me through telepathy? Do you have to make it known to everyone? What do you want? The Emperor is so overbearing. Do you want to suppress me with rumors and public opinion and force me to marry you?" Yuanli complained in her heart.

Heng Jin transmitted a telepathic message, "If I were the one forcing you to marry, you would have long been my, Heng Jin's, wife. Is it so shameful for you to keep my affections for you secret? You have so many loves, yet you're not afraid of everyone knowing and gossiping about them. Now that I'm someone you want to be recognized for, you're already afraid of everyone knowing and gossiping about me? What's wrong with me pursuing my love openly and honestly?"

Yuanli angrily thought, "Why are you still blaming me? It's obvious that you think it's shameful! Letting Abang and Ayi know is fair and square? Not hiding anything from the four seas, eight wastelands, and six realms is fair and square! Emperor, are you going to tell me next that after the third life is over, you'll let everyone in the four seas, eight wastelands, and six realms know that you like me? Are you trying to fool me? I won't accept such fooling around! You always have so many excuses, but I can't see any serious action. I no longer have any hope for your sweet words, Emperor, please stop wasting your breath."

Heng Jin sent a telepathic message: "I won't keep you waiting any longer."

As the two of them stared at each other, Ayi interrupted them through telepathic communication, "I, I don't mean to disturb you, but you should first check on those remaining souls. They're almost gone."

Hearing this, Yuanli turned her head to look at the monster in the center of the ancestral hall.

I saw the residual souls struggling, as if they were caught by something and lifted into the air, gathering above the heads of the monsters and their clones.

The screams of the remaining souls began to become shrill. A big hole had been corroded where the white smoke was seeping out of the souls. As the corroded hole expanded, the souls began to disappear.

When all the floating souls were corroded and disappeared, only the white smoke that seeped out from the souls remained, like huge clouds in the sky, condensing into a ball.

The monster's chanting became softer and slower, and the sound of the gently ringing bells blended in, making the chanting even more pleasant.

A wisp of white smoke floated out from the corner of the head and went into the corner.

Seeing this, Ah Bang quickly sent a telepathic message: "Oh no! The place where this white smoke is drifting is exactly where the ruby ​​is hidden!"

As the white smoke above the monster's head dissipated until only a trail of light remained, they stood up, lined up in an orderly manner, and followed the direction indicated by the white smoke, heading straight to the top of the ruby's hiding place.

After standing still, the monster clones began to swing their fists hard and smash the ground, leaving a deep hole with each punch.

Aiyi spoke calmly through telepathic communication, saying, "Don't worry. It's just right. Let them help retrieve the ruby. The Emperor has the Immortal Binding Rope, so he won't let the monster escape with the ruby. I think the monster's fist attack is a good method. The cracks in the rock will be smaller than if we use other methods. There's a better chance that Huamian Village can be saved. We can just sit back and reap the rewards."

The deep pits created by the monster's clones grew larger and larger, and soon the ruby ​​appeared in the monster's hands.

He raised the ruby ​​high, and all his clones returned to their original bodies. He muttered some incomprehensible words, and the ruby ​​in his hand emitted a dazzling light, illuminating the entire Huamian Village as bright as day.

Immediately, Heng Jin rushed out, tied up the monster with binding ropes, and cast several spells in succession, cutting off any conceivable possibility of him casting spells, chanting incantations, or using any weapon to self-destruct. She kept his mouth open, preventing him from even using the most basic method of biting his tongue to commit suicide.

Yuanli and the others then went to Hengjin, and to protect them, they let them continue to hide in the stone statue.

She curiously lifted the hood of the monster's red robe, revealing the monster's true face. Illuminated by the ruby, Yuanli, who was unprepared, immediately saw the monster's true face. She felt so nauseous that she began to retch again.

A Pang pulled her behind him and rubbed her back as she was hunched over and retching.

"Let me do this kind of job next time. I've seen it a lot, so I'm not afraid. Don't scare me so much that I'll have nightmares and can't sleep."

Yuanli regretted her hasty action. This monster had no skin and its entire head was covered in bloody, bumpy red flesh. There were at least ten eyeballs from the top of the head to the neck.

Those eyeballs were uncovered, the whites of their eyeballs streaked with red bloodshot, and the black pupils took up most of the pupils. When she took off the hood, those pupils moved around restlessly, looking in different directions.

The eyeballs in the ordinary person's eye sockets bulged, as if they would fall out at any time.

There were two pieces of flesh hanging below the lower eyelids, and the bones inside could be seen. There were black spots on the white bones, like mold.

His lips were gone, and a mouthful of blackened, corroded, rotten teeth were clearly visible. His tongue was so long that it covered his chin when stretched out. His tongue hung out, and thick green mucus gathered at the tip of his tongue, which seemed to be unable to fall off.

There are white maggots wriggling at the roots of the teeth, and the maggots are visibly plump and white due to their nourishment.

There are a few of them, and they are crawling towards my face.

Yuanli calmed down and hid behind Abang, watching with only half an eye open.

Upon closer inspection, I saw that there were more maggots crawling out from the roots of the teeth, and even on the tongue.

Perhaps the maggots were stained with that unknown green thick mucus when they crawled out of the mouth, and they left a long trail of green mucus wherever they crawled.