Chapter 11011 That was the second time she met Jing Huai...
"Sister-in-law, you should know Madam Xueqi? I also heard from others that she was the one who created this illusionary Quicksand City..." Shui Wu knocked his head and thought carefully.
Zhuang Rong'er's eyes turned slightly cold, and she suddenly reached out to take out the amber hairpin from her hair and threw it hard to a high place behind her.
The hairpin cut through the sky and stabbed out quickly. A muffled groan escaped from the mouth, accompanied by the rustling sound of fabric. The eavesdropper knew that he had been discovered and it was inconvenient for him to escape, so he simply jumped down from the wall.
"I am Yu Huanye, a disciple of Feiyuan Pavilion. I came here to follow Miss Shui and have no intention of offending Valley Master Zhuang." He knelt on one knee and bowed, then placed the hairpin in his palm.
There was a big hole in the fabric on his shoulder, but it did not touch the skin. It was pierced by a hairpin.
Shui Wu was stunned for a moment, then glared at the man fiercely and said through gritted teeth: "...Why are you following me, you weirdo?"
He was able to speak normally this time.
The young man with an inexplicably dark temperament was exactly the weird scoundrel who had offended her outside the city and then led her to hide in a house inside the city!
What is Feiyuan Pavilion? It’s a small sect that no one has ever heard of. Where does it get the courage to always make fun of her!
Yu Huanye didn't even spare Shui Wu a glance. He just lowered his head and said to Zhuang Rong'er, "The Valley Master has been wronged and it's inconvenient for him to enter the city. If you don't mind, I have some men's clothes that you've never worn..."
Zhuang Rong'er looked at the man calmly.
She clenched her hands under her sleeves, squeezed the Weeping Buddha mask tighter, and whispered, "Okay."
From the moment this person appeared, she smelled a faint smell of medicine. It was very unpleasant, but not very obvious. It was a bit intriguing. She always felt that she might have smelled a similar smell before.
It was... a few years ago when I broke into the Soul Burial Cave alone and retrieved the incorruptible bones used in the resurrection magic.
Undying Bones are a type of extremely evil zombie that transcends the cycle of life and death. They are extremely ferocious and rare to find. The refining material of the same name refers to the spine of this type of zombie. Therefore, if you want to succeed, you must first completely kill the zombie body and cut it into pieces.
She was seriously injured in the fight with Buhuagu and still has some sequelae.
During the fight, when Bu Huagu was close to her, she had smelled such a pungent medicinal smell at one point, but it was much more obvious than now.
Yu Huanye heaved a sigh of relief when he saw her agree. He bowed slightly and took out a set of black clothes from his Qiankun bag. The color was the same as the one the Crying Buddha Attendant wore in the Changbao Pavilion that day.
He said, "Valley Master, please do as you please. I will go into the city first. I have important matters to discuss with you in the city."
Fortunately, there was no smell on the clothes, and they fit the boy's body shape well.
Zhuang Rong'er endured her discomfort and disguised herself completely, and entered the city with Shui Wu who was covering for her.
As soon as we entered the city, we saw corpses everywhere.
Human and animal remains were scattered in front of the alley entrance.
The fox's head was torn off by brute force, and the floating fur on the ground was stained with blood.
The quicksand on the ground also became moist, and a lot of blood had seeped into the ground, appearing a thick, clumpy dark red color.
"The body of Elder Shun Fang has been taken away." Shui Wu curled her lips. "It was originally lying under the inscriptionless stone tablet in front, right where that Fei Yuan or that scumbag from Feiyuan Pavilion is standing now."
Yu Huanye stood there and nodded politely in this direction. There was no one around, and he didn't know whether the others were recuperating in the house or exploring deeper into the city.
Zhuang Rong'er lowered her eyes and walked over with Shui Wu.
"You should know, right? The original method of escaping from Quicksand City under the Blood Flowing Sand Hairpin is to use spiritual power to destroy the sand eye." Yu Huanye said straight to the point, "However, even with the influence of the God Devouring Pearl, our current situation is very different from the rumors... According to the rumors, once trapped in Quicksand City, people will be trapped because the city is vast and the streets and alleys are identical, making it difficult to find the city gate. The so-called sand eye is near the city gate. And now..."
Shui Wu interrupted unhappily, "I landed right outside the city, and the city gate was right in front of me. This rumor is not accurate. Stop spreading false information and confusing people."
Yu Huanye glanced at her helplessly. "Obviously, the rumors are correct. What's wrong is that the place we are currently... in is not the Quicksand City in the illusion. And the hairpin that was thrown in front of everyone at the singing ceremony that day was not the Blood-Crying Quicksand Hairpin."
"Why are you talking like this again?" Shui Wu hesitated, "It's so uncomfortable to listen to!"
“…” Yu Huanye closed his mouth with a sullen face.
Zhuang Rong'er remained silent.
Of course, the place they are now is not the Quicksand City in the illusion. She has long known that this is the real Quicksand Ancient City.
The magic used by everyone at the same time was not an illusion, but a space formation.
The hairpin that nailed the Soul-Devouring Orb to the ground that day was indeed not the Blood-Crying Quicksand Hairpin.
I'm afraid the real hairpin is just as Wu Heng said, and he has never thrown it away.
Wu Heng is actually not a coward, so there is no need to lie to her on purpose.
Zhuang Rong'er didn't actually take to heart the fact that Wu Heng escaped alone in the early morning after being teased by the sand ghost. If there was any awkwardness in her heart, it was only because she felt that this was not something Wu Heng would do, unless he was attracted by something.
There must be quite a few cultivators who noticed that there was something wrong with the hairpin and that something was wrong with Liusha City. This was one of the reasons why Wu Heng, who took the photo of the hairpin, was not targeted, while Zhuang Rong'er became the target of public criticism.
"What do you want to say?" Zhuang Rong'er asked calmly.
All this preparation meant nothing to her.
Yu Huanye was silent for a moment, then opened his mouth tentatively and smiled at her, "The person behind this scheme is teasing the Valley Master and making him bear a stigma. Could it be that the Valley Master doesn't have any thoughts of turning the tables?"
Zhuang Rong'er didn't answer, but Shui Wu was surprised that this person could stutter sometimes and speak fluently sometimes.
"I am willing to cooperate with the Valley Master... I know how to escape, and I also know who is driving the Evil Ghost Disk." Yu Huanye whispered, "As long as the Valley Master grants me a Heart Covering Pill..."
The Heart-Protecting Pill was a secret elixir from her Destroying Valley. It could protect the very core of the body, protecting even the most severe injuries from affecting the heart and lungs. In a sense, the Heart-Protecting Pill could be considered a shield; even the sharpest spear—the Death-Acting Gu—could not destroy it.
Zhuang Rong'er's expression turned cold under the mask. When she was about to sneer, the sand under her feet suddenly surged, and Shui Wu couldn't help but exclaimed.
The ground-sinking noise only lasted three to five seconds, and the blood-stained sand seemed to have become much lighter in color than before.
It was as if the blood floating on the surface had seeped deep into the earth's core.
Zhuang Rong'er's eyes moved slightly.
While she was looking at the ground, Yu Huanye was also looking at her.
His expression became less certain, and his gaze fell on the faintly faded ground. He gritted his teeth and said directly, "As the Valley Master sees, the real way to escape is to inject trachoma. The trachoma is under this wordless stone tablet, and the substance used to inject trachoma is not spiritual power, but human blood..."
If he didn't say anything at this moment, the strange thing would have already happened, and Zhuang Rong'er would figure it out herself soon. It would be better for him to point it out now, perhaps he could win the favor of one or two people.
His plan was completely disrupted since he was knocked down from the top of the wall, and that mistake was because he underestimated Zhuang Rong'er, the current master of Cuihuan Valley who inherited the throne through improper means.
He no longer dared to look down on this person and confronted him with the thought that "Zhuang Rong'er could not possibly see through the truth about trachoma."
"To escape from this place, the amount of blood required is immeasurable. By then, this city will become a complete hell on earth..."
While Yu Huanye was exaggerating the urgency of the situation, a white snake silently wrapped itself around Zhuang Rong'er's ankle.
Zhuang Rong'er's slight pause made Yu Huanye realize something. He immediately fell silent and turned to look towards the city gate entrance.
Zhuang Rong'er also turned around and saw a man in white wearing an evil ghost mask walking towards her.
The breeze blew through his sleeves and hair, and the strings on the sides of the demon mask swayed gently.
“…”
Zhuang Rong'er's body suddenly froze, and in a trance, she seemed to have returned to more than a hundred years ago.
She was thrown down from the sky by the Ghost Lady and landed in the human world. It happened that the disciples of Tianque Sect had just finished exorcising demons. The people spontaneously arranged a banquet, hung red lanterns all over the streets, and performed acrobatics as a parting gift to thank the sword masters who had exorcised the demons.
The disciples were still teenagers and had never seen such a lively scene in the world. They mingled in the crowd, wearing masks and having fun with everyone. It was at this time that Zhuang Rong'er fell into the lake around them.
That was the second time she met Jing Huai.
The ghost lady tied ropes around her body to suppress her spiritual power, like a barrier, so no one would care about her falling into the water.
The pain of the lake water hitting her body and the sudden suffocation of her mouth and nose made her instinctively crawl towards the shore.
In the dim light, he wiped the water droplets off his face with his hand, and vaguely saw a man in white clothes wearing a Nuo god mask walking towards him from the shore. He clasped his hands on the mask and slightly peeled it off, revealing half of his cold face. It seemed that he felt the fluctuation of spiritual power and came to investigate.
Zhuang Rong'er suddenly came to her senses, recognizing him as the knight she had seen that day in the Thousand Eyes Forest as a butterfly. Her first reaction was to sink, sink deep into the water, to prevent him from seeing her in such a state of disgrace...
The lake water was not bone-chillingly cold, but she had angered the Ghost Lady and was injured, so she felt confused after being submerged in the water for too long.
A piece of red silk taken from a nearby vendor's stall dipped into the water and was tightly wrapped around her waist.
She couldn't remember anything that happened afterwards. When she woke up, she was lying on a bed in a resident's house in the town, with a Nuo mask placed next to her ear.
No one knew what she was thinking at that time, and she actually destroyed the mask.
Then he watched it shatter into ashes, and picked up the silk string hanging behind the mask.
She later braided the colorful rope into a sword tassel and hung it around her waist, until she lost it during an adventure.
It seemed like fate - she lost the silk rope left by Jing Huai, fell into a coma, and after waking up, she also lost Jing Huai himself.
The cold feeling on her ankle gradually disappeared and moved to her wrist, where a small snake was crawling up.
Zhuang Rong'er trembled all over and suddenly woke up. Looking at Ah Huai walking towards her, she not only did not move forward, but took half a step back.
Ah Huai stopped walking forward and noticed her abnormality. After hesitating for a moment, he reached out to cover the mask and gently took it off.
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