Chapter 24 I Helped Lao Gong Cover Up His Identity
"I sent out requests for help to all the immortal sects, but it was no use. No one came."
"I will send Lingzhi off the island and ask her to look for you in Hidden Valley."
"After Aye arrived, things did calm down for a while, but more and more demons gathered, until all the villagers died and only the three of us were left."
"Just when we thought we would die, she appeared and plunged the entire island into a deep sleep, and the demons retreated."
Ye Musi was stunned and couldn't believe it. All he saw and heard were dead people.
"We are in her dream now."
"Who?" Ye Musi looked at him and asked, "Hua Lingzhi?"
"no……"
Hua Luochen was silent and drank a glass of wine.
The flower demon was his lover. He thought she was dead and her soul had dissipated. Unexpectedly, there was still another trace of her soul left in this village. It was all his fault that he didn't discover it earlier.
"Her name is Hua Luochen..."
Hua Luochen was originally the name of the flower demon. He didn't want the flower demon to disappear without leaving anything behind, so he used her name to protect the village for her, but he didn't expect that he still failed to protect it.
The village was still destroyed.
It was all his fault for being useless. He failed to protect his loved ones and caused the place where they lived to disappear.
"How can I get out?" Ye Musi didn't want to stay here. He wanted to leave. He had unfinished things and he couldn't stay here.
"I can't get out." Hua Luochen said calmly. In fact, he could get out. He just needed to find the flower demon's body and destroy its soul. But he wouldn't do that. He finally found out that the flower demon's soul was left behind, and before he had time to reminisce, he didn't want the flower demon to die. He didn't want to lose the last bit of his lover's soul. "There is no way out of this place."
"If you can get in, why can't you get out?" Ye Musi didn't understand. He always felt that Hua Luochen was lying to him, because this was what Hua Luochen said when he first learned the magic array, "If you can get in, you can get out."
But Zhu Jianye on the side shook his head, "It's true that I can't get out. I've tried it, and once I leave the village I'll be teleported to this house. I've tried all the magic spells, but nothing works."
Hua Luochen knew in his heart that this was not something that could be broken by an ordinary illusion spell. His lover was the Flower King. How could an ordinary illusion spell break her spell? It would only be a waste of spiritual power.
He won't go out.
He wants to stay in this dream forever. Although he doesn't know where the flower demon is, he wants to guard this dream forever.
Ye Musi didn't believe it. It wasn't that he didn't believe Zhu Jianye, it was that he didn't believe Hua Luochen. Hua Luochen had clearly said that there must be a way to break the illusion.
This dream was created by an illusion, so how could there be no key to crack it?
However, Ye Musi didn't want to expose Hua Luochen directly. After all, even if Hua Luochen didn't go back with him, he was still his senior brother and had taught him.
In that case, he could only investigate on his own.
"Since we are here, let's make the best of it. I hope Master Ye will bear with me and stay with Aye in the next courtyard."
Ye Musi and Zhu Jianye looked at each other and said no more. He got up and went to the next room. When he was about to remove the sleeping spell on Lu Lishen and take him to the next courtyard, he found that the spell he cast had dissipated.
He looked at the person on the bed in silence.
In other words, Lu Lishen was pretending to be asleep.
After a long moment, Ye Musi felt both angry and amused. He then helped Lu Lishen up, held his face, and called him affectionately, "A-Li, wake up."
Ye Musi placed his palm against Lu Lishen's face and patted it gently.
Lu Lishen then slowly opened his eyes and pretended to have just woken up.
“Master…”
Lu Lishen was not calm at this moment. He had just been eavesdropping on their conversation by sticking to the wall. When he heard the door open, he hurried back to bed and pretended to be asleep.
Just when Ye Musi was about to wake him up, he suddenly stopped, which made his heart rise to his throat. He thought his master had discovered it.
"We're going to the next courtyard."
Lu Lishen did whatever Ye Musi said. After putting on his shoes and socks, he followed Ye Musi into the yard.
Although this yard is about the same size as the previous one, it is different. There are no dream flowers planted here, but bamboos instead. It looks like a secluded valley in the eastern mountain.
Zhu Jianye walked in front, Ye Musi and Lu Lishen followed behind. There were only three of them in the yard.
Suddenly Zhu Jianye stopped and said, "Now you can talk." He turned around and looked at the two people. He always felt something was wrong, as if there was something more between them, but he couldn't put it into words.
I always feel very strange, as if a breath is pressing on my heart and I can't breathe.
"What happened to Lu Lishen?"
Ye Musi: "Let's go inside and talk."
Zhu Jianye also obeyed and took Ye Musi into the main hall.
For this short journey, Ye Musi had already thought of an excuse for Lu Lishen. He said that Lu Lishen was accidentally injured by the demon from Yunlie Manor and was infected with the devil's aura, but he was not seriously injured.
After all, those imprisoned in the Demon Locking Tower are all powerful demons and monsters.
He couldn't let Zhu Jianye know that Lu Lishen was a demon. He knew that Zhu Jianye hated demons and would kill him if he knew that Lu Lishen was a demon.
Then, he won't even have a chance to make amends.
"Go on."
Lu Lishen was a little nervous. He had just revealed his demonic aura in front of everyone, which was not what he wanted to do. He couldn't control it.
When he came to his senses, he immediately regretted it. He was afraid that his master would know that he had become a demon and drive him away.
So he lowered his head and didn't dare to look at Ye Musi.
"A-Li was accidentally injured by the demon from Yunlie Manor and nearly died. A lot of demonic energy entered his body."
Lu Lishen was slightly stunned when he heard this. He raised his head and looked at Ye Musi's smiling face. He didn't seem angry, and was still helping him cover up the facts.
Obviously... he should have known it.
Then he lowered his head in shame, not daring to look, and just listened silently.
Zhu Jianye nodded, looking as if he understood. He didn't care what Lu Lishen said, as long as Ye Musi said it, he would believe it.
"Aye, have you discovered anything in the past few days?"
Zhu Jianye shook his head. "Everything is normal here, just like an ordinary village. There's nothing wrong. It's just... I think Senior Brother Chang is hiding something, and that Hua Lingzhi doesn't recognize me anymore."
Ye Musi pondered: "Could it be that the key lies with Hua Lingzhi?"
"No, I once secretly explored her spirit body. There's nothing special about her. She's just an ordinary mortal with spiritual power." Zhu Jianye retorted, "But for some reason she really doesn't remember it."
Zhu Jianye would never have thought that Hua Luochen had already seen through his thoughts and deliberately concealed Hua Lingzhi's true identity.
Hua Lingzhi is indeed a dream-loving flower demon, but she is not the one they are looking for. She is just an ordinary little flower demon who was favored by Hua Luochen and was adopted as his adopted daughter.
"Before Ali and I entered the formation, I met Hua Lingzhi, but that person was not Hua Lingzhi." Ye Musi told everything that happened before entering the formation, except that Lu Li was deeply poisoned.
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