Chapter 241: Meeting Old Friends in Spring City (1)
Spring City is sparsely populated, and the city walls are carved with various shapes of forsythia.
Tao Zi, Yue Qingya and Li Xiu stood at the city gate, while Little Fox, Little Lizi and others stayed outside the city.
Li Xiu sighed, "There aren't many people here."
"There are not many people in the west." Yue Qingya looked at Tao Zi with a smile and said, "Spring and Autumn Gate is located in the deep mountains a hundred miles away from Spring City, but there is a teleportation array here that can be directly teleported there."
She shook her head: "Take your time."
The situation at the Chunqiu Sect is unclear, and even Qiu Huanhuan finds it difficult to contact them.
Yue Qingya understood.
A few people walked into the city. The rules here were far less complicated than those in Tiancheng, and the people were not confined to a certain area.
Li Xiu found an inn to stay temporarily.
He said, "I'm going to go hang out at the teahouse and see if any news has gotten out of those towns. What about you two?"
Yue Qingya smiled and said, "I have a good friend here, I have to go see him."
"I won't go out. I'll stay in the room and rest first."
Li Xiu was a little surprised, as he thought she would also go to the teahouse.
After they both left, Tao Zi took out the bronze mirror, dropped a drop of blood, and a line of words gradually appeared on the mirror: Shaohua, three months ago, appeared in Chuncheng.
Tao Zi laughed. Isn’t this a coincidence?
"Do you think I'll get an unexpected result?"
Hearing this, the inner demon emerged and said calmly: "Who knows?"
Tao Zi sat on the chair, tilting her head to look at the inner demon. It said, "When you do this, I think you are being cute."
She smiled disapprovingly and said, "I was just wondering why you look exactly like me."
The inner demon laughed so hard that he doubled over. After he recovered, he looked down at her and said, "I am your inner demon. If I don't look exactly like you, who else can I look like?"
"But I always feel that you are more than just my inner demon."
It was stunned for a moment, then curved its brows and said with a smile, "Maybe, who knows? After all, there aren't many inner demons like mine in this world."
Tao Zi suddenly sat up straight, looked at it intently, and said, "You know a lot of things."
The inner demon seemed to hear nothing and just smiled there.
She said, "I know you won't tell me those things, so I'm only asking something I should know."
Tao Zi looked at the careless inner demon in front of her and continued, "What was the real reason why I developed the inner demon in the first place?"
The inner demon looked at her, shrugged, and said jokingly: "If even you don't know, how could I know?"
"But you are my inner demon. You were born for my obsession and my darkness. How could you not know?"
It was silent for a moment, then changed the subject: "Why are you asking these questions all of a sudden? I've never seen you so stubborn about this before."
Tao Zi did not answer this question and said, "You haven't answered my question yet."
The inner demon sighed: "Oh, okay, there's nothing you can't say. You want to become stronger, it's that simple."
This is... so perfunctory, Tao Zi thought expressionlessly.
She sneered, "If I want to become stronger, I'll rely on myself, not resort to ridiculous methods like demonic possession."
The inner demon shrugged: "That's not necessarily true. Some people become demons out of greed and jealousy, while others become demons out of despair and anger."
Tao Zi immediately understood what it meant and looked at it in surprise: "You today..."
It smiled, looked up at the sky, and said slowly: "Tao Zi, I was born for you, and we have always been one. I will not harm you."
Tao Zi couldn't deny it, and the inner demon stopped talking.
Watching its figure disappear, Tao Zi touched the bracelet on her hand, her eyes drooping, was she possessed by a demon in her heart due to despair and anger?
She had a hunch that if she found her master, or the person who saved her, she might be able to understand the cause of this inner demon.
After about an hour, someone pushed the door open and came in: "Sister Tao."
She smiled and looked up to answer, but found that Li Xiu's eyes were empty and his expression was dull.
Tao Zi moved his wrist and put a dagger to his throat.
She stood behind Li Xiu with a sullen face and shouted, "Who are you?"
Li Xiu's voice suddenly changed its tone, sounding neither male nor female: "Miss Yue, it's been a long time since we last met. Why are you so rude?"
"Who are you?"
"He" laughed softly and said leisurely: "Miss Yue, your old friend is here with me, do you want to come over?"
Tao Zi didn't say anything, her eyes fell on the back of Li Xiu's hand. The blood vessels there were slightly undulating, as if something was wriggling inside.
Without thinking, she pierced his vein and took the thing out.
It was a small dark red bug. She smiled and said, "Shaohua, it's you."
The little bug moved, but eventually died of exhaustion and dissipated into the air.
Li Xiu fell straight to the ground and it took her a long time to finally wake up.
"What's going on?" Tao Zi's voice reached his ears.
He jumped up and said, "What's going on? Why am I here? Am I not listening to a story?"
Tao Zi looked at the bloody dagger with a sullen face: "You have been poisoned by a wood insect."
He broke out in a cold sweat.
The wood Gu worm was created by Shaohua Jushi. It feeds on blood. The person who is pregnant with the mother worm can control the parasite's daughter worms to a certain extent.
Li Xiu wiped the sweat from his forehead and focused on bandaging the wound. He asked, "What did I just say?"
"Invite me to meet her."
He frowned and slowed down his movements. "Is it Master Shaohua or someone else who has mastered this insect?"
Tao Zi lowered her eyes and said, "It's most likely Shaohua."
Li Xiu immediately recalled the stupid things Yue Qiran was rumored to have done—he had specifically checked them out when he was at Cheng's house.
"Will there be trouble?"
"Who knows?" Tao Zi looked up at him, "What were you doing the second before you lost consciousness?"
Li Xiu tried to recall: "I was listening to a storyteller. There were people sitting on both sides of me, both wearing cloaks, but there was no physical contact."
She said, "You don't need physical contact to cast a spell."
"Then what should we do? Will Shaohua Jushi spread the news? Should we hide away?"
Tao Zi looked at the sky outside and said, "It's going to rain soon."
Li Xiu looked at her blankly: "Huh?"
"You go find the little fox and the others. I'll go sit in the teahouse."
He stood there, thinking for a moment, and immediately understood what she meant.
There is no way that Shaohua Jushi would come to the door for no apparent reason. Most likely someone tipped him off, and the most likely person was Xiaolizi and the others.
His face darkened and he asked, "Where's the little fox?"
"I just found out I can't contact him, but he's still alive." Tao Zi stood up and wiped the blood off the dagger. "Tell me the location of the teahouse. I want to go check it out."
"Okay, where's Brother Qing?"
She said, "I'll leave a message."
"Then you should be careful. I will try to come back as soon as possible."
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