Chapter 16 The room is full of her portraits
On the way to the Yuan Mansion, the masters rode in a carriage, and the servants followed behind the carriage on foot.
Xie Yanyu followed the group of servants and originally planned to find an opportunity to find Helan Wei in the carriage in front, but Helan Wei actually rode in the same carriage with Xie Chengjin.
She had followed him secretly, and even though she was in disguise, she still didn't dare to wander around under Xie Chengjin's nose.
Xie Chengjin explicitly forbade her to come to Yuan's house.
If he found out that she had followed him, he would probably ask his servants to escort her back to the Xie family.
Xie Yanyu had planned a lot of things during this trip to Yuan's house and didn't want to be sent back like this.
So he temporarily put aside the matter of looking for Helan Wei.
She continued walking with the group.
The journey is a bit far,
She walked so much that her calves felt sore and her heels were burning with pain.
Fortunately, before coming to the Xie family, she had been displaced and had walked many longer and steeper roads than this one. Injuries and pain were commonplace, so her tolerance for physical pain was very high. But even so, she still stopped -
It wasn't because her feet or legs hurt, but because she had a vague feeling of being spied on.
It was as if someone was watching her from behind.
She looked back suddenly.
But I found that everything was normal behind me and there was no one there.
This is a mountain road, slightly rugged, but the terrain is open. There are only a few dead trees behind us, and the trees are bare without even leaves. There is no place for Tibetans.
She was already at the end of the group, and when she stopped she fell behind.
Seeing this, some people stopped and turned around to ask her, "What's going on? Why aren't you following?"
Xie Yanyu came to his senses, caught up with the team, and replied to the man: "I always feel like someone is watching me from behind."
The man said, "Where did he come from? If you ask me, you're just overthinking it."
Xie Yanyu felt something was wrong: "Could it be a demon? After all, this place is right next to the entrance to the demon world."
"Alright, no one's watching you, not even the demons. Don't be suspicious, it's safe here." The man shook his head. "There's a barrier in Tiandu, right in front of the entrance to the demon world. It was set up by several immortal sects to prevent demons from causing trouble in the human world. Not only can ordinary demons not escape, but ordinary people are also blocked by the barrier, unable to set foot in the demon world entrance."
"Ordinary people can't set foot in the entrance to the demon world?"
"Yes, only those from the major sects can enter. The tokens they carry are the pass to the barrier."
When Xie Yanyu heard this, he fell silent again.
The feeling of being spied on was still there, but she was now thinking about something else——
One of the reasons why she came to Yuan’s house this time was to reach the entrance to the demon world.
In the original plot, she got a jade token at the entrance to the demon world, which was the starting point for the story between her and her "fiancé".
In addition, she also has a plot line with the Demon Lord. In the original plot, she defected to the demon clan and married him, and was later pierced through the heart by his sword.
The demon lord's body is a snake, and his personality is similar to that of snakes: damp, morbid, cruel and heartless.
Xie Yanyu knew that he was very dangerous, so she didn't plan to follow this plot line with him for the time being, but she also planned to take a look at the entrance to the demon world on this trip. She knew very little about the demon world, so she had to have a general understanding of the demon world first, and then plan how to follow the plot with the Demon Lord.
But now,
But she heard that ordinary people like her could not even set foot in the entrance to the demon world.
She lowered her eyes in thought.
After a while, she remembered again -
In the original plot,
She chased Helan Wei and went to his sect to work as a servant. After obtaining the sect token, she went to the entrance of the demon world and picked up the jade token.
That sect is also one of the most powerful immortal sects in the world, and its name is Shangqing Immortal Palace.
The token of Shangqing Immortal Palace can lead to the entrance of the demon world.
Although she is not a member of Shangqing Immortal Palace yet, Helan Wei is.
It seems that
After arriving at Yuan's house, she still had to find him as soon as possible.
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Xie Yanyu had more important things to do, so he didn't take the feeling of being spied on too seriously.
She continued to follow the group towards the Resentful House, completely unaware that at the entrance to the demon world, several great demons were hiding behind the barrier, staring at her back with reluctance.
The demon race has a keen sense of smell. Even if they are standing far away and there is a barrier between them, they can still sense the breath of her spiritual roots.
Her spiritual roots are very special and rare. They cannot help her practice, but they can make her blood become like a rare and miraculous medicine. Drinking her blood can not only cure diseases, but also improve her practice.
Several big monsters were so greedy that they started discussing it.
They were all demons with high cultivation levels. However, the immortal sects in the human world had set up this barrier to prevent the demons from causing trouble in the human world. The higher the demon's cultivation level, the harder it was for them to pass through the barrier. If they tried to force their way through, they would be attacked by the barrier. On the contrary, demons with low cultivation levels could enter and exit freely.
At first they were still talking about how to pass through the barrier, but later on, the topic turned to the Demon Lord.
The demon king's name is Chen Lang.
He has a way to hide his cultivation.
If the big monsters want to pass through this barrier, they must seek help from Shen Lang.
However, Chen Lang had just survived the catastrophe a few days ago.
After waking from his tribulation, he became somewhat abnormal, crying and laughing at the same time, cutting his hands with a knife, and constantly repeating things like "I'm back" and "This isn't an illusion." He was already a cold and unpredictable person, and now he had a bit of a morbid madness. He worked tirelessly to paint many portraits, all of which depicted the same woman.
Black hair like a waterfall and pale skin.
She has willow-shaped eyes, a little white in the lower part of her eyes, and delicate and regular facial features. Although she is not the most beautiful woman, she has an indescribable temperament that makes people unforgettable.
Shen Lang asked his men to take the portrait to the human world to find the person.
He even stopped taking care of clan affairs and often hid his presence to go to the human world to look for people. After coming back, he would stay in the study and keep drawing the portrait of the woman, drawing her face, her back, her reading, and her taking a nap with her eyes closed.
Crazy and sick.
No one from the demon tribe dared to disturb him recently.
But the person who just passed by the demon tribe...
She walked at the end of the group, looking like a maid from a wealthy family. She was very alert. Even when the great demons were watching her from behind closed doors, she seemed to notice and turned to check. She seemed to be in disguise, but the great demons didn't care what she looked like. They stared at her because her spiritual roots were so fragrant that they really wanted to pass through the barrier, capture her, and drink her blood.
The big monsters finally decided to ask Chen Lang for help.
So soon,
They came to Chen Lang's demon palace.
After pushing open the front hall door, they stopped in their tracks the next second as if frightened.
The hall is full of portraits.
Everywhere and in every corner were portraits of the girl with willow-leaf eyes that Shen Lang was looking for. Some were laughing, some were crying, some were standing, some were sitting. Her appearance was already a bit ghostly, and now the portraits were hanging all over the room, like an indissoluble ghost, tightly surrounding the people in the room.
Ordinary people would find it distorted and terrifying.
But Shen Lang was sitting in the hall at this time.
In front of him is a puppet.
This doll was lifeless and was sculpted to look like the girl, even its height and build were the same as hers. It was placed in a sitting position in front of the dressing table. Shen Lang was combing its hair and putting it into a bun, but he hadn't finished it yet.
When the big monsters saw this scene, the hairs on their bodies stood up. They dared not move forward or speak.
Instead, Shen Lang put down the comb, turned around and asked, "What's wrong?"
When the big monsters saw him turn around, they quickly lowered their heads.
Chen Lang is feminine and pretty, with a face like a pretty girl. Because his face is so beautiful, he is always stared at by others. However, as the most powerful demon among demons, his cultivation is close to that of an immortal, and he is also arrogant and noble, looking down on others as lowly ants.
How can a lowly ant be worthy of looking at his face?
He was tired of the low-brow looks, so he wore a mask all year round.
He doesn't like people looking at him.
He wasn't wearing a mask right now.
The big demons glanced at it,
You can see that his facial features are gentle, his eyes are high, his nose is high, and his lips are full, like a beautiful and compassionate statue of a god. However, he is a demon, and now he is in such a strange environment, so the feminine characteristics in him add a bit of eerie ghostliness to him.
The great demons didn't dare to look at him any longer, and said with gritted teeth: "We want to go to the human world and ask Your Majesty to help us hide our cultivation."
Shen Lang didn't reply.
The big demons couldn't hear his answer, and they couldn't help but feel nervous, wondering if they had done something to upset him.
The room was very quiet, but the big demons were restless and could not stay in this environment any longer.
I was just about to bite the bullet and say some polite words before leaving.
But the next second,
Shen Lang walked slowly in front of them.
The big monsters were unable to say anything when they wanted to leave. They could only feel Shen Lang's cold gaze, like a snake, sizing them up.
Then he was heard saying, "You have her scent on you."
The big monsters were stunned when they heard this.
It took a while before I realized that Shen Lang was talking about the girl with willow-leaf eyes in the portrait.
But they had never seen her before, so how could they have her scent on them?
A great demon trembled and said, "Your Majesty, we have definitely never seen her! Everyone knows you are looking for her. If we had seen her, we would definitely bring her to you..."
Before he finished speaking,
Then I heard Shen Lang whisper, "You're lying."
The demon was speechless and was about to speak again, but before he could open his mouth, he suddenly felt a cold touch on his head, followed by a sharp pain.
It was Shen Lang who directly reached out and pressed on the top of his head.
His hands were white and cold, and spiritual power surged in his palms as he directly used the soul-searching technique.
But in just a moment, he saw a picture from the big demon's memory -
In the picture, a group of people passed by the entrance of the demon world. They looked like a wealthy family in the human world. The masters were sitting in a carriage in front, and the servants were walking behind. At the end of the servant team, there was a maid in ordinary clothes. As she walked, she seemed to notice something and suddenly stopped and looked back.
When he turned around, he revealed an equally ordinary and unfamiliar face.
However, Shen Lang immediately recognized that this was Xie Yanyu. She must have just disguised herself.
He never thought he would be reborn.
In his previous life, he practiced the way of ruthlessness, and after marrying Xie Yanyu, he killed her to prove his way.
Now I am reborn back to this time point,
It had been several years since he met her in his previous life, but he couldn't wait any longer and wanted to find her quickly.
However, he only knew that she was the adopted daughter of the Xie family, but he was not sure whether she had been in the Xie family that year.
He first tried to find her at the Xie family, but it was in vain. The Xie family had strict rules, and the servants would never reveal any information about the people in the mansion to outsiders. Even if he tried to sneak into the Xie family, the Xie family had an exorcism formation, and the demons could not set foot into the inner house. If he only sent people to wait outside the house, no one had seen her in these days.
He could only expand his search scope and keep looking for her.
After her death in his previous life, he thought he had achieved enlightenment, but his pain grew day by day. In the end, he exhausted all his cultivation to try to revive her, but to no avail. Day after day, his inner demons grew, and he realized that he remembered every little move she made.
When she was in pain, she would cover her neck with her hands and strangle herself intermittently.
Because as long as you strangle yourself to the point of having difficulty breathing, you can temporarily forget the pain in other parts of your body.
This habit is rare.
In the scene in the great demon's memory, she was gently pinching her own neck.
She seemed to have worn her feet.
Her feet hurt but she had to continue on her way. In order to endure the pain, she kept covering her neck with her hands and tightened it intermittently.
As Shen Lang looked at the scene, he pressed his hands harder on the monster's head and even began to tremble slightly.
The big demon's scalp was painful from being pressed, and it was also painful for his soul to be searched. Finally, he could not bear it any longer and struggled.
But before any action is taken,
The next second,
Shen Lang let go of his hand first.
The big demon felt like he had survived a calamity. He fell to the ground and gasped for breath. He still didn't dare to look up at Chen Lang.
If he raised his head at this time,
You can see that Chen Lang's eyes are slightly red, his chest is rising and falling, and he even hugs a set of clothes.
This is a women's dress.
Brand new. The woman Chen Lang was looking for seemed to wear this dress often. In six out of ten portraits, she was wearing this dress.
But the demon didn't dare to look up.
All I heard was Shen Lang muttering, "Found it."
The sound is very light, and seems to be floating.
It sounds a bit exciting, but there's also a kind of madness to it.
The big monster's hair stood on end and he felt terrified.
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