White Blade (VIII)

As soon as Sang Dai went out, she saw Su Xuan waiting outside the house.

He was lazily leaning against the railing in the corridor, and when he heard Sandy open the door, he glanced at her.

Lord Demon King changed into a slightly more low-key black robe today. Compared with his previous gorgeous and ostentatious clothes, today's outfit was indeed more plain.

Sandy was surprised: "What are you going to do today?"

Su Xuan stood up and walked downstairs, saying, "We'll go to Burning Heaven Realm later."

Sandy followed his steps, "Haven't those people found their Heavenly Roots yet?"

Su Xuan: "Yes."

This time, only the Sword Sect and they withdrew from the Burning Heaven Realm, but the Demon Realm and other sects should not have given up their heavenly spiritual roots, and should still be in the Burning Heaven Realm.

Sandy understood.

She thought Su Xuan was going to Burning Heaven Realm directly, so she went downstairs with him. Just as she was about to go out, she saw a fox turn around and sit down leisurely in the corner of the hall.

Sandy: "...Su Xuan?"

"Miss Sang, come and sit down!"

One waved at her.

Only then did Sang Dai notice that there was a person wearing Zhang Yang's red clothes sitting opposite Su Xuan. It was Liu Lixue.

He seemed to be eating very happily, holding a chicken leg in one hand and drinking a bowl of porridge in the other.

Su Xuan looked at Sang Dai and said, "Sit down."

Be brief and to the point.

[Daidai must be hungry. We can't go into Burning Heaven Realm on an empty stomach. I'll prepare something delicious for Daidai when we return to the Demon Realm. We can only let Daidai make do with what she has here for now.]

Sandy: “…”

She was helpless. In fact, monks did not need to eat after fasting. They only ate to satisfy their appetite.

Just as she was about to sit down, she saw Su Xuan pulling the stool next to him.

Sandy: “?”

Su Xuan: "Sit here. Your seat will be inconvenient as the food will be served later."

Sandy: “…Okay.”

Su Xuan silently pushed the porridge in front of him towards her and said calmly, "Seeing how thin Miss Sang is, others would think that I have abused you."

Liu Lixue on the opposite side was eating and laughing, casting a teasing look at Sang Dai. Just as she was about to open her mouth to make someone laugh, Su Xuan stuffed a bun into her mouth.

His master glanced at him indifferently, and Liu Lixue immediately picked up the bun, put down the chicken leg, and drew a hand across his mouth, signaling himself to shut up.

Sandy looked at the porridge in front of her in silence.

"Not to your taste?"

"...No, it's fine." She replied in a low voice, "I just think you really like eating."

When I was in the Demon Palace, no matter how busy I was, I would come to have dinner with her every day.

Even when he was in the sword-fighting situation, he still couldn't stop.

Su Xuan: “…”

Liu Lixue: “Puff.”

He couldn't hold it in any longer and laughed quietly.

Sandy had already silently drunk half a bowl of porridge, with the corners of her lips slightly raised, and she seemed to be in a good mood.

Su Xuan's face froze and he glared fiercely at Liu Lixue, who held back her laughter and lowered her head to gnaw on the chicken leg.

He made an awkward excuse: "I was just having dinner with you. You are so thin. Don't let people say that my demon world abuses its captives."

Sandy nodded: "Okay, I understand."

Su Xuan: “…”

He saw that she clearly didn't listen.

While the Demon King was still feeling awkward, Jian Xiu made his move.

A chicken leg was put into his bowl.

Su Xuan: "...What are you doing? Do you want me to peel your skin off?"

Although his voice was cold, his brain had already reacted quickly before he finished speaking. He pinched the chicken leg and tried to peel the skin with chopsticks.

Sandy whispered to stop him: "No, there is no need to peel the skin."

Su Xuan: “…What?”

Suddenly realizing his own disappointing muscle reaction, his face darkened again and he threw the chicken leg into the bowl.

Damn, my body always reacts faster than my brain in front of Sandy.

Sandy pushed the bowl in front of him and said, "I'll give you a chicken drumstick. Eat more."

She paused and then asked, "Don't foxes like to eat chicken?"

Sandy heard that this was the case.

The nine-tailed fox is also a fox, so it should also like to eat chicken, right?

Liu Lixue couldn't hold it back any longer and burst into laughter, the sound was particularly loud.

Fortunately, this inn was booked by Su Xuan, and now there are only a few of them in the whole building.

In the past, Su Xuan might have been angry, but today was different.

Two ears suddenly popped out from his silver hair, trembling with excitement, and he clenched his hands on the table.

There was a moment of silence in Sandy's mind, so quiet that she felt a little uncomfortable.

She thought she had said something wrong.

"Su Xuan, you don't like it? Sorry, I'll eat it then."

As he said this, he was about to pick up the chicken drumstick in his bowl and put it into his own bowl. Before his chopsticks touched it, a loud voice echoed in his mind.

【Dade!!!】

Sandy's hand holding the chopsticks trembled.

[Daidai is pinching my chicken leg. Is it a chicken leg? This is Daidai’s love! ]

Sandy: “I…”

[Although I don’t like eating chicken, this is not an ordinary chicken. This is picked by Dai Dai! Dai Dai Dai Dai Dai, I love it. Give me a kiss! ]

Sandy turned her head away, her cheeks were very hot, "I'm eating, if you don't want to eat, just throw it away."

She buried her head in drinking the porridge, completely ignoring Su Xuan and not daring to look into his eyes, for fear that he would think of something unpleasant in the next moment.

The world finally fell silent, with only the sound of Liu Lixue trying to hold back her laughter audible.

Su Xuan ignored him for once, looking at him rather coldly and picking up his chopsticks.

"I spent money to buy it, why would I throw it away? Miss Sang, don't you know that money is hard to earn and food is precious?"

Only the two fox ears on the top of its head twitched, and it looked very happy.

Sandy: “…………”

It was obvious that he could spend thousands of spirit stones on one meal and cook a large and sumptuous meal, but she never thought that one day she would hear such words from Su Xuan's mouth.

Sandy was speechless.

She ate in silence, while Su Xuan silently dealt with the "love" given by the swordsman.

This meal was eaten very slowly as usual. Sang Dai always ate slowly, and Liu Lixue and Su Xuan also slowed down.

Half an hour later, Sandy put down her chopsticks, took out her handkerchief and wiped the corners of her lips.

"Are we going to Burning Heaven Realm now?"

Su Xuan also put down his chopsticks and said, "Let's go somewhere else first."

Sandy: “…Where?”

Liu Lixue snapped her fingers and said, "Go find someone I know and have a chat with."

Sandy: "An acquaintance?"

Half an hour later.

Standing outside the gate, Sandy looked up at the familiar iron gate in front of her and the ghost cultivator trembling in fear at the door, and fell silent again.

She understood Su Xuan's intention.

"You want to ask Fuyou a question?"

"Um."

At this moment, Sang Dai also figured out Su Xuan's plan.

The soul-stealing technique causes too much damage to the soul, especially when Su Xuan entered the Mahayana realm, the soul-stealing technique became even more powerful. She didn't have time to ask too many questions last night, and Ji Cang fainted due to the damage to his soul. She couldn't ask any more questions.

But Su Xuan asked more questions. He kept using his spiritual power to keep Fu You's soul suspended so that he could not faint and could only be questioned while awake.

It was indeed Fu You and Ji Cang who took the initiative to bring the fairy silk grass and heavenly spiritual roots to Bai Ren for auction, but they were also following instructions.

Su Xuan said, "Last night, I cast a spell on Fu You to capture his soul. He said that Ji Cang attacked the fairyland for the sake of Kongsang Realm, and that there was what he was looking for, namely the fairy wool grass and the heavenly spiritual root."

He lowered his eyes to look at the swordsman beside him, "But it's not as we said. We initially thought that Ying Heng appeared in Kongsang Realm, and Ji Cang extracted Ying Heng's heavenly spiritual roots and fairy wool grass."

Sandy responded: "So, someone actually extracted my master's heavenly spiritual root first, took away the fairy velvet grass, and then placed the fairy velvet grass and the heavenly spiritual root in the Kongsang Realm, and told Ji Cang and Fu You about this?"

Su Xuan nodded: "Yes."

"That third person who appeared out of nowhere, does he know the whereabouts of my master?"

"right."

But probably only that person knows.

There was another thing that Sandy didn't quite understand: "Why did Fuyou and Jicang put the fairy wool grass and heavenly spiritual roots up for auction, and why did they obey the orders of the person behind the scenes? After all, both of them have heavenly spiritual roots and don't need these things. Why did they go to war with the fairy world over these things and cause so many casualties?"

Liu Lixue on the side echoed: "Miss Sang, then we need to ask them."

He walked in first, swaggering in his red robe, and the ghost cultivators beside him didn't dare to stop him.

Su Xuan said: "Fu You couldn't hold out last night and passed out. We can find out if we go in and ask him."

"good."

After entering Fu You's mansion with Su Xuan, the tragic scene of the surroundings that had not yet been rebuilt came into view, with collapsed stone walls, attics and burnt tree branches. The originally quiet and beautiful mansion looked like it had experienced a war, with ruins everywhere.

Sang Dai saw it and knew that Xiao Fuyou probably hated Su Xuan to death.

He is a money-loving man. I don't know how much it will cost to repair the things that Su Xuan burned.

Following Su Xuan, they came to the small courtyard at the deepest part of the mansion. The several-story attic had collapsed, and there were traces of karmic fire on the ground. A man was squatting in the corner, and a ghost cultivator in maid's clothes was looking at them in horror behind him.

"City... City Lord... he he he they..."

Liu Lixue opened her folding fan and asked with a smile, "What's wrong with us? We came here to chat with the city lord. Let's stop here, old friends."

The maid was about to cry: "City Lord, they are here again!"

Sandy then realized that the person squatting in the corner was...

Floating and quiet.

His clothes were tattered. The clothes worth thousands of high-quality spirit stones were torn to pieces by Su Xuan, and faint ghost fires burned at the wounds.

The Heaven-level Spiritual Root Awakener, the Ghostly Mighty One, the Lord of the City in the White Blade, was squatting in front of a broken porcelain jar in the corner, holding a...

A fish?

After all, grilled fish is still fish.

It seems... that it was burned by Su Xuan's karmic fire last night.

Sandy was stunned.

There seemed to be someone talking in the air, with voices coming in waves.

Sandy frowned, as if she had heard something.

"Silver carp...my silver carp...I haven't eaten it yet..."

Sandy: “…”

The silver-striped autumn carp was more expensive than the winter fish from the South China Sea that she had eaten before, because it was too rare. It also had the function of improving one's cultivation, and eating one before overcoming the tribulation would be of great benefit. Therefore, it was once sold for ten thousand high-quality spirit stones.

The grilled fish was actually the silver-striped autumn carp that Fuyou bought.

Su Xuan said nothing, just watched Fu You holding the fish and crying silently, looking extremely cold and heartless.

Liu Lixue shook her head, walked up to Fu You, and lifted her sleeves...

Took out a bottle of seasoning.

He slowly opened the lid and sprinkled some seasoning on it, then sighed and said, "It just so happens that our Lord is here. Since he has just died and can still eat, let him heat it up for you. Eating cold rice can easily upset your stomach."

Fu You: “…”

He watched with disdain as a handful of chili powder was sprinkled on his silver carp.

Liu Lixue stretched out her claws quickly, picked up the fish, came to Su Xuan and handed it to Su Xuan.

"My Lord, Miss Sang, this is a very expensive tonic. Would you like a bite?"

Su Xuan bowed his head: "It's cold, I won't eat it."

Sandy: "Sorry, I don't eat spicy food."

Liu Lixue: "Alas, I will have to bear with it."

Just as he was about to take a bite, a gust of cold wind blew from behind him, and Liu Lixue quickly dodged to the side.

Fu You gritted his teeth and said, "You damn peacock, do you want to die?!"

Liu Lixue held the fish and hid behind Su Xuan: "If you don't eat it, it will be a waste, right? You are so rich, why are you searching so hard? My Lord, if he hits me, stop him!"

He had a strong desire to survive, so he pushed Su Xuan forward.

Fu You was so angry that ghost fire appeared on his head, and his spiritual power transformed into a ghost blade that was about to chop Liu Lixue's head.

“My Lord!!!”

Sang Dai was helpless. Just as she was about to stand up to block the knife for Liu Lixue, Su Xuan took action.

He turned his palm over, and a faint flame of karma was swirling in his palm. The jumping flame seemed like a nightmare. Fu You felt a sharp pain in his body at the first sight.

Fu You was in pain all over from being burned by the karmic fire last night, and the wounds haven't healed yet, so he retreated quickly.

Su Xuan stood in front of Liu Lixue, looking like he was protecting someone.

And the dead peacock took his silver carp and took a bite.

Fu You's heart was broken into pieces.

However, a certain peacock frowned and said, "Tsk, the fish is just so-so, it tastes fishy. You spent so much money to buy this, the taste is so unique that it is hard to compare."

After saying that, he handed the fish in his hand to Su Xuan and said, "My lord, my lord."

They grew up together since childhood. Liu Lixue raised her hand and Su Xuan ignited the karma fire tacitly, and burned the already burnt silver-patterned autumn carp clean.

The ashes were scattered by the wind.

Liu Lixue muttered, "What a waste of my chili powder. My mother ground it. I only brought that one bottle."

Su Xuan nodded: "It smells unpalatable to me too."

Sandy: “…”

Fu You: “…………”

After a few breaths, Fu You drew his sword: "Damned Peacock, your father is going to kill you today!!!"

Liu Lixue: "My Lord!"

This time, Su Xuan hadn't made a move yet. Sang Dai couldn't bear it anymore and drew the Qingwu sword from Su Xuan's waist and rushed forward.

Fu You was seriously injured by Su Xuan last night. At this moment, Sang Dai only needed one sword to stop Fu You and knocked down his ghost knife in the process.

The swordsman indifferently retracted his sword and said in a calm voice: "Fuyou, we destroyed your fish, but you wanted my life."

Fu You naturally knew that Su Xuan did not kill him last night because it was Sang Dai's intention. Otherwise, with the character of a certain fox, he would definitely beat him to death here.

Sandy saved him indirectly. He couldn't say anything harsh to her, so he could only glare at Peacock who was hiding behind Su Xuan.

Su Xuan and Liu Lixue grew up together. Liu Lixue has been a playful and talkative person since he was young. He has offended many people over the years, but no one dared to hurt him.

One reason is that he is the young master of the Peacock Clan, and the other is that Su Xuan is quite protective of his people.

Su Xuan can summon Liu Lixue, the peacock, but others cannot summon him, let alone hurt him.

The two of them are more like brothers than master and servant. Others may not know how tragic the situation was when Su Xuan seized the throne, but Fu You, the master of Bai Renli, naturally knew it. At that time, the only one who accompanied Su Xuan was Liu Lixue.

A friendship of life and death, a brotherhood of love.

If anyone dares to damage a single feather of this peacock, Su Xuan will kill him with a blast of karmic fire today.

Fu You picked up the ghost knife and put it back, and asked: "Master Demon King came here last night, what's wrong, is he missing this city lord?"

Su Xuan narrowed his eyes and said in a cold voice: "Are you evil?"

Fu You: “…”

He endured it!

He gathered up his tattered clothes and said coldly, "Tell me, what else do you want to do?"

At this point, fearing that Su Xuan would use the Soul Capture Technique on him again, Fu You added: "You should also know that I am seriously injured now. If you dare to use the Soul Capture Technique on me again, my sea of ​​consciousness will be severely damaged, and you won't be able to ask anything from me."

Su Xuan knew that soul-stealing was only a last resort, and that anything that could be obtained from the question would definitely not require the use of spiritual power.

He walked slowly to the stone table beside him, brushed off the dust on it, cleaned the stone bench beside him, and laid a brocade handkerchief on it.

Su Xuan said, "Sit down."

Just as Fu You was about to sit down, the peacock appeared out of nowhere, grabbed his collar and dragged him backwards.

Liu Lixue cursed: "Aren't you ashamed of your age? If I'm talking about you, why don't you just sit down?"

Fu You: “?”

But I heard the swordsman beside me quietly respond, "Okay."

She put down the Qingwu sword and sat down next to Su Xuan. Su Xuan considerately laid a brocade handkerchief on her so as not to dirty his sword practitioner's dress.

Liu Lixue swept a stool for herself and sat down on the other side of Su Xuan.

The three of them looked at Fu You at the same time.

Fu You: “…”

He gave a thumbs up and said, "You guys are awesome."

If he had known earlier, he should have put up a sign at the gate of Bai Renli.

——"Dogs and people from the demon palace are not allowed to enter."

The maidservant standing by shrank in fear when she saw ghost fire coming out of her city lord's body. She was afraid that he would lose control of his emotions and burn herself.

The maid ran over and brought out a stool for Fu You, whispering, "City Lord, please sit down."

Fu You sat down, his jaw tense and he was out of breath.

Su Xuan took out the tea set and tea from his bag with ease, and poured a cup for Sang Dai first: "Drink some water, did you inhale the dust just now?"

It refers to the silver-patterned autumn carp that was burned to ashes.

Sandy took the tea and said, "Thank you. I'm fine."

Liu Lixue held her hands and blinked.

Su Xuan rolled his eyes at him. Seeing that he had just performed so well and made Fu You so angry that he was fuming, he thought that even if he had no credit, he had worked hard, so he handed him the second cup of tea.

Liu Lixue was excited: "Okay, thank you, Lord!"

He also drank the tea poured by Su Xuan for the first time in his lifetime!

Fu You: "...Are you done yet?"

Su Xuan raised his eyes: "Not convinced?"

Fu You raised his chin proudly: "No——"

Su Xuan withdrew his eyes calmly: "If you don't agree, just keep it to yourself."

Fu You: “…………”

"What the hell are you guys doing here!!" He couldn't help but yelled, "If you have nothing to do, go out and turn left down the mountain to play. Don't hang around here. It gives me a headache!"

Sandy said, "We came to ask you something."

Fu You: “I don’t want to say.”

Su Xuan raised his eyes.

Fu You: "...if you have to fart, do it now."

Sandy nodded, holding the cup of hot tea in her hands to warm them, and asked, "What kind of deal did the person who gave you the fairy grass and the heavenly spiritual root make with you?"

Fu You: “…”

He laughed angrily: "Miss Sang, do you think I will tell you?"

Sandy said sincerely, "But if you don't tell me, Su Xuan will kill me, so I suggest you tell me."

This is extremely reasonable.

Fu You endured it again.

He clenched his fists and gritted his teeth: "I don't know about Ji Cang, but on my side, he promised..."

Fu You stopped talking suddenly when he got to this point.

He clenched his hands, not knowing what he was thinking about. Sandy could see the complicated emotions in his eyes.

Struggle, regret, hatred...

In short, there were too many emotions mixed together, and she couldn't tell what she was watching.

Fu You took a deep breath and said, "He promised to help me save one person, as long as you die."

Sandy: "Save people? Save who?"

Fu You sneered and said, "Miss Sang, there are some things I will never tell anyone in this lifetime. If you are still not satisfied, then come and take my soul. At worst, I will shatter my own soul. You don't want me to die now, do you?"

Su Xuan decided to satisfy him and said, "Okay, then I will take your soul."

Sandy quickly covered his eyes: "No!"

The swordsman covered his eyes with his hands. Su Xuan's vision was blocked by her. He could only smell the light fragrance on her sleeves, feel her slightly cool body temperature and her fingertips with thin hair.

He blinked, and his long eyelashes brushed against Sandy's palm, which felt a little itchy, so she abruptly withdrew her hand.

Su Xuan looked at the swordsman beside him, his Adam's apple rolling violently.

Liu Lixue picked up a handful of melon seeds, cracked them while laughing, and passed some to Fu You who was standing beside her: "Would you like a handful?"

Fu You glared at him and said, "Your father doesn't want to eat, get lost!"

He wished he could smash the peacock to pieces with one blow.

Liu Lixue pointed at him with her slender finger and asked bitterly, "Does swearing make you look cultured?"

In the end, he didn't even give Fu You a chance to respond. He pointed at himself and said sternly, "No, this will only make me look very cultured. I won't bother with you."

Fu You's fist hardened again.

Sang Dai drank a glass of water awkwardly, not looking at Su Xuan beside her, and tried to steady her voice and said, "Fu You, I don't need to ask about your private affairs, but there are some things that I can only get answers from you."

She didn't dare to look at Su Xuan at all. She could easily imagine what nonsense she would hear if she looked into Su Xuan's eyes. It was as if his eyes were almost growing on her body.

Sandy tried to get down to business and asked, "Fuyou, where is the heavenly spiritual root?"

Fu You crossed his arms and sneered, "I don't know. The collections were just randomly thrown away. You can find them yourself."

Su Xuan glanced at him.

Fu You: "...I really don't know. Even if you took my soul, I would have forgotten where I threw it in the Burning Heaven Realm. Heaven-level spiritual roots are treasures for others, but they are useless to me. I don't need them."

"Okay, then I'll ask another question." Sandy put down the teacup and asked word by word:

"Where is Senior Lingyin?"

Fu You's expression froze, his lower lip was tightly pursed, and a dim ghost fire jumped in his pupils.

Sandy looked him in the eye without hesitation: "Where is Senior Lingyin?"

Fu You curled his lips and said, "Ling Yin? How would I know? She is a ghost cultivator in the Tribulation Realm, and she can even beat Su Xuan. She can go wherever she wants, and her legs are on her body."

Sandy shook her head and denied: "No, you know where she is."

Fu You sneered: "You think too highly of me. I am just a small master of the White Blade Realm, and my cultivation level is only at the Spiritual Transformation Realm."

Sandy looked into his eyes and said, "Because Lingyin can't get out of the Burning Heaven Realm."

Fu You's pupils shrank slightly.

Sang Dai said, "Senior Lingyin's leg was chopped off, wasn't it?"

She thought about her meeting with Lingyin for a long time last night.

Lingyin's skirt was very long and dragged on the ground, so Sandy couldn't see her legs clearly.

But at that time she and Lingyin were alone in a room, and it was only a short distance away, but it took Lingyin a long time to walk over.

Her hair and dress dragged on the ground, and she looked like she was a little shorter.

But her upper body was tall and slender, and it was obvious that she was about the same height as Sandy.

But when he stood up, he was actually shorter than Sandy.

Sandy's voice was slightly cold: "Ghost cultivators are different from human cultivators. Although they cultivate with ghosts, their bodies will restrict them. Therefore, many ghost cultivators whose bodies are exposed in the wilderness can easily become insane and lonely ghosts. If I am not mistaken, you trapped the powerful ghosts in the Burning Heaven Realm. The method you used is to find their real bodies and trap them somewhere in the Burning Heaven Realm, so that their ghosts cannot leave the Burning Heaven Realm."

"Six thousand years ago, Senior Lingyin was a cultivator at the Tribulation Crossing Stage. Even if she lost her physical body and turned into a fierce ghost, she could not be controlled by ordinary people. So, did someone take her physical body and cast a forbidden spell to control her?"

"You cut off her legs and trapped her in the Burning Heaven Realm?"

Sandy's voice became colder and colder, until it was completely devoid of warmth.

Su Xuan drank his tea slowly, looking as if he didn't care at all.

Liu Lixue sighed deeply and stopped acting so frivolous.

Only Fu You looked at Sandy coldly and stared at her.

Sandy didn't ask any more questions and waited quietly for Fu You to give an answer.

Time passed little by little, so long that Su Xuan finished a pot of tea and was about to take out another one when Fu You suddenly spoke.

"Sande, I didn't cut her, nor did I trap her."

Fu You said in a deep voice:

"She broke her legs herself and trapped herself in the Burning Heaven Realm."