Chapter 19

Chu Jinglan's voice was a little hoarse when he spoke, revealing fatigue and depression.

The murderous aura around him was more sinister than ever before. Xiao Mo couldn't help but shiver as he looked into his cold eyes.

But the inner demon's little hand tightly grasped Chu Jinglan's fingers.

Chu Jinglan's eyes moved, the hostility in his eyes receded, and he slowly spread out his palms. Xiao Mo immediately flew along his arms and sat down on his shoulders skillfully.

It seemed that at this moment, Xiao Mo, who had been cold for three days, finally felt a little warmth, came back to life, and became a human being again.

He took a deep breath and felt his crazy and stiff state gradually subside. Xiao Mo pursed his lips and bravely moved closer to Chu Jinglan's neck.

"Shock, shock, brother Lan!"

Chu Jinglan moved too fast, and then others caught up with him. Su Baimo was panting. Although he was also in a bad state, his body was clean and not stained with blood. He just couldn't maintain his graceful and fragile appearance. The others who caught up with him were more or less injured, wrapped in bandages, and smelled of blood and medicine.

Although Chu Jinglan had a lot of blood on his body, it was not his own and he had no wounds, but his spiritual energy was greatly consumed.

The young men no longer had the vigor and vitality they had, and all of them looked dusty and exhausted.

Chu Yusheng's entire arm was wrapped in bandages. He had experienced a brutal battle and saw many people die. He knew that whether all of them could survive in the future depended on Chu Jinglan.

The third-order monsters that were impossible to appear appeared, and there were more than one. Chu Yusheng and others had to work together to surround and kill them, and they could only kill one with casualties.

But Chu Jinglan was different, he could fight alone.

Under such circumstances, Chu Yusheng could only follow Chu Jinglan's arrangements.

But he was used to being arrogant outside, and even if he tried to suppress it, his true nature would always show through. At this moment, he stepped forward and subconsciously used a questioning tone: "What did you just grab?"

Chu Jinglan gave him a cold look.

Chu Yusheng was frightened by his glance and took two steps back: "I, I was just asking casually..."

In fact, many people saw Chu Jinglan's actions just now. After all, the movement of him opening his palms was too slow, as if he was holding something carefully.

But when I got closer, I saw nothing.

Chu Jinglan said nothing but opened his left hand, which contained a beast pill.

Chu Wumei was still alive. Her hair had been loosened in the previous battle. She took off all her pearl pins and tied her hair up in a mess. She smiled helplessly and said, "It's just a beast pill. Brother Jinglan, keep it. You deserve it."

Chu Jinglan did not yield either. He just nodded lightly and put away the beast pill.

Su Baimo was puzzled: just now Chu Jinglan grabbed the thing with his right hand, but now he stretched out his left hand to show them.

However, since no one around him said anything, he had no choice but to keep his doubts to himself.

As long as Chu Jinglan can keep them alive, they really shouldn't worry about these little problems right now.

Chu Jinglan found a relatively quiet place for everyone to rest. He came and sat down with his back against the stone wall: "I will take a rest, you guys stay alert around."

It is inconvenient for a person who is regulating his breathing to be disturbed, so everyone consciously stayed a little further away from him, but they did not dare to be too far away, and stayed within a safe range.

Xiao Mo knew that Chu Jinglan was not completely in a trance. He grabbed the collar of Chu Jinglan tightly, but his voice was emotionless: "...Are you looking for me?"

Chu Jinglan whispered, "No."

Really not, I'm not being stubborn.

After first entering the secret realm, Chu Jinglan discovered that his inner demon had disappeared. He thought that he had returned to his sea of ​​consciousness and did not think much about it.

The main body's sensitivity to the inner demon is not as sharp as the inner demon's sensitivity to the main body. Chu Jinglan did not immediately notice that the two had severed their connection.

He collected spiritual plants step by step, killed monsters and dug animal pills, and by the way, he met up with the Chu family and the Su family and took them with him.

Until the third-level monster appeared, it seemed like the beginning of a riot in the secret realm.

Chu Jinglan led his men to fight their way out of the poisonous beasts and monsters. It was true that he was the strongest among the disciples, but facing the turbulent secret realm, he was just a small cultivator with limited abilities. A person's energy and spiritual power could not be endless, and he could not protect everyone.

The disciples suffered heavy casualties.

Chu Jinglan was also traumatized. After the constant fighting, he finally found time to catch his breath, heal his wounds and rest. He had an unbearable headache, so he tried to enter the sea of ​​consciousness to see if he could restore his mind.

When he stepped into the sea of ​​consciousness, he finally realized that the inner demon was gone.

Not beside him, nor in the sea of ​​consciousness.

The dark fog lurked quietly at the edge of "Yuehu Community", and on the other side of the fog wall, there was no beautiful person who would argue with him while holding a flute.

He is missing.

Chu Jinglan calmed down his mind in a daze and withdrew from the sea of ​​consciousness.

Is the inner demon really gone?

The disappearance of his inner demon is definitely a big deal for him - a great thing. He doesn't have to worry about being taken away, and he doesn't have to worry about the calamity of his inner demon. He should be happy and delighted, and even raise a toast to celebrate.

These natural emotions did not appear in Chu Jinglan at all.

Perhaps it was a matter of life and death, a crisis was imminent, and the matter of the inner demon was not enough to bother him for the time being. Whether the inner demon was still making trouble or had really disappeared...

Chu Jinglan calmed down, put all those random thoughts behind him, and told himself not to think about it anymore.

But when he saw the familiar little man on the monster's head, Chu Jinglan's body was one step faster than his brain and he rushed up from a distance.

Originally, he planned to take his men to avoid the monster and fight as little as possible.

When I caught the evil villain in my heart, the words "I found you" came out subconsciously.

Chu Jinglan himself couldn't explain the reason. He really didn't deliberately look for the whereabouts of the inner demon, but when he held the inner demon in his hands, the tension and fatigue of the past few days suddenly relaxed.

The mind can betray its master, but it is the last to lie.

Chu Jinglan didn't ask why his inner demon disappeared. When Xiao Mo got the answer, he felt it was natural and didn't feel disappointed.

After all, he was not looking for Chu Jinglan. When he was moving on the monster, he was just going with the flow.

Whether you can see Chu Jinglan or not, it all depends on fate.

But when Chu Jinglan held it in his hand, his heart came alive clearly.

He was happy to see Chu Jinglan's eyes.

The water in the pond is carefree; the gentle breeze creates ripples on the water.

Whether I admit it or not, a feeling of joy came over me at that moment, and I was happy.

Xiao Mo did not mention what happened after they broke up. He just grabbed a piece of Chu Jinglan's clothes and said, "Your clothes are dirty."

Chu Jinglan opened his eyes in shock, raised his hands and performed a cleansing spell on himself, washing away the blood and mud on his body.

After days of rushing around, he had no time to care whether his clothes were neat or not, and he was using his spiritual energy sparingly. Some of the blood stains on the hem of his clothes had turned black, but no one cared. Only the inner demon could say this at this time.

Su Baimo, who was watching not far away, saw Chu Jinglan's angry eyes and immediately ran over and handed a bottle of Qi-boosting pill to Chu Jinglan. Chu Jinglan did not refuse it, because among all the people, he consumed the most.

Xiao Mo sat on Chu Jinglan's shoulder and counted the number of people in the team. There were about thirty people in total, including not only the Chu and Su families, but also Young Master Bian and others.

There were hundreds of young men in the secret realm. Some of them joined Chu Jinglan's team, some were still fleeing alone and failed to meet them, and some had died quietly, with their bodies nowhere to be found.

Xiao Mo looked at the monster that was chopped off by Chu Jinglan with a sword not far away. Several disciples were skinning and cutting it up, preparing to eat it. This would save on fasting pills and also allow them to replenish their spiritual power with the monster's flesh and blood.

After Su Baimo handed the pills to Chu Jinglan, he sat down on the ground beside him, expectantly: "Brother Jinglan, you can take us out, right?"

All along, as long as Chu Jinglan was there, it seemed that there was nothing he could not do. He seemed as solid as a rock, always someone people could rely on. Su Baimo had seen too many deaths in the secret realm, and fear was gnawing at him all the time. He desperately wanted to find a sense of security from Chu Jinglan. He didn't want to die, he really didn't want to.

But this time Chu Jinglan said, "I don't know."

"What..." Su Baimo panicked, trembling and eagerly grabbing Chu Jinglan's arm, "Brother Jinglan, don't be like this, I'm scared, I'm scared!"

He really cried this time. Chu Jinglan gently dodged his arm, and Su Baimo grabbed nothing. He fell to the ground helplessly. The young master of the Bian family hurried over to comfort him, and Su Baimo leaned against him and cried.

The young master of the Bian family was also very tired. He was the person with the highest cultivation level on this trip except for Chu Jinglan.

Chu Jinglan looked at Su Baimo crying with tears in her eyes. He didn't feel annoyed, but he didn't have any sympathy at all.

"Su Baimo." Chu Jinglan stood up with his sword in hand. "Before you rely on others, you must first learn to stand on your own."

It is not that people cannot rely on others. To establish themselves in the world, they have relatives, friends, close friends and lovers, all of whom are fellow travelers. However, people must first create a piece of heaven and earth for themselves, including mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, before they can welcome others to come and go.

But Su Baimo didn't understand.

He was originally just crying because of fear, but now he was crying out of grievance: I am afraid, I have no choice because my cultivation is not good enough, I want to be saved, I want to be with everyone, I want to be protected, what's the problem?

Chu Jinglan walked past the two of them. Xiao Mo looked down from over Chu Jinglan's shoulder and happened to see Su Baimo looking up at Chu Jinglan with aggrieved and sad look in his eyes.

Su Baimo is still a child, but no longer a young child. He does not understand what Chu Jinglan says, now and in the future.

Su Baimo and Chu Jinglan are destined not to be the same kind of people.

The more Xiao Mo stayed around them and was in their shoes, the more he couldn't understand why Chu Jinglan would lose his life for Su Baimo in the future.

Su Baimo was crying in the young master's arms. When he saw Chu Jinglan was about to leave, he subconsciously reached out to grab her, but the corner of Chu Jinglan's clothes fluttered and fell just where his fingertips could almost touch.

It was almost there, but if you didn’t catch it, you didn’t catch it.

Su Baimo stared blankly at his empty fingertips, while on his other arm he felt the warmth of the young master.

He was afraid, and he had to catch something. If Chu Jinglan couldn't protect him all the time, and if Chu Jinglan wasn't enough...then if he caught more people, wouldn't that be enough one day?

Su Baimo's consciousness trembled slightly, and he felt as if he had grasped something in the dark.

Chu Jinglan walked over to the disciple who was dealing with the monster and gave him a piece of meat. There were no spices in the secret realm and the disciples didn't know how to cook. The upper half of the meat was half-cooked and the lower half was burnt into charcoal, with no taste at all.

Even the inner demon who loves mealtime the most is not willing to come up and smell it.

Xiao Mo: "It doesn't look delicious."

Chu Jinglan finished eating without changing his expression: "There will be delicious food outside."

The disciples were gnawing on the meat miserably beside him. When they heard what Chu Jinglan said, they thought he was talking to them and they started to comfort each other.

"Yeah, yeah, there's delicious food outside."

"Well, I'll treat you then. Let's have a big meal!"

After the break, Chu Jinglan took the lead: "Continue, let's get to the third floor as soon as possible."

The secret realm of Mushan has existed in Mucheng for many years, and people have come to explore it one after another. The aristocratic families all have maps. There is a core area on the third level of the secret realm, with a spirit crystal several meters high. When the spiritual power in the spirit crystal begins to flow, the secret realm is about to be opened, and the people near the spirit crystal will be teleported out first.

There have always been some disciples who, when they have found enough things and want to hide away, simply set up camp in the core area and wait for the gate to open.

But this time, it was very difficult for Chu Jinglan and the others to reach the third level.

On the afternoon of the third day, the team encountered three lone disciples again. No one had time to be happy because they soon encountered two third-level monsters.

The intelligence of the third-level monsters was much higher than that of the second-level ones. One of them first targeted Chu Jinglan and rushed towards him from the corner. The other one took the opportunity to attack the team. Two disciples who were too seriously injured to react in time died on the spot.

When the monster rushed over, it opened its bloody mouth and rushed towards Chu Jinglan and Xiao Mo. Different from the sword intent that faced Chu Jinglan directly, it was also filled with murderous intent, but the monster's pressure was accompanied by bloodthirsty brutality.

It came at such a fast speed that it was right in front of him in an instant. Even though Xiao Mo had no physical body, he seemed to have seen the moment its sharp claws tore through his flesh and blood, and his scalp tingled.

It was not only the breath of death, but also unbearable pain.

Even though Chu Jinglan quickly blocked the attack with his sword, he was still pushed back two or three steps. He heard screams from his disciples and knew something was wrong.

Xiao Mo looked into the crowd and couldn't help but widen his eyes.

It was the first time he saw blood splashing everywhere. A disciple had his throat bitten off before he could even utter a scream. His eyes were wide open and his face was horrified when he died. The sound of bones cracking accompanied his body. His broken neck and head fell to the ground, rolling to the ground, right in his direction.

Xiao Mo met his eyes that were open to death.