Chapter 69
Ye Songlan was learning to identify medicinal herbs at home. Although she could never remember the names of the herbs, she believed that as long as she tried, she would definitely be able to remember them.
She had to help her brothers manage the pharmacy; she couldn't just stay home and play, or her brothers wouldn't like her.
Suddenly she heard footsteps behind her and thought it was her brother returning.
These past few days, her two older brothers have been busy with the pharmacy and are always running around, so they haven't spent much time with her.
She turned around and saw that it was An Youdao, the son of the butcher at the east entrance of the village!
An Youdao grinned wickedly: "Finally, I've waited until you're home alone!"
She trembled with fear, but her little face still held firm as she looked at him: "How did you get in? My brother won't let me play with you, so get out!"
An Youdao said, "Never mind how I got in, little lady, from now on you're mine!"
After saying that, An Youdao carried Ye Songlan and was about to go out through the dog hole.
Fortunately, Ye Hualing appeared in time and shouted angrily, "An Youdao! Let go of my sister!"
When Ye Songlan saw Ye Hualing, tears welled up in her eyes: "Brother, save me!"
Ye Hualing rushed over and kicked An Youdao in the butt. An Youdao loosened his grip and Ye Songlan slid off his shoulder.
Ye Hualing caught Ye Songlan with lightning speed: "Lan'er, stay away, brother will deal with him."
Ye Songlan pursed her lips and nodded, hiding under a tree to watch the two fighting.
Ye Hualing's martial arts skills were far beyond what An Youdao, a mere butcher, could handle. In just a few moves, she had An Youdao utterly defeated.
An Youdao escaped through the dog hole, and as he left, he didn't forget to glare at Ye Pingwei, who had been hiding in the distance watching this direction.
Ye Hualing glanced at the dog hole on the ground. The Ye family's defenses were very good, so why would a dog hole suddenly appear?
He glanced at Ye Pingwei, who had just entered through the main gate, and understood.
Leng Huai learned about what had happened to Mo Xiaoxin through his memories.
It turns out that the true form of the nightmare demon is water. Earth overcomes water, and water overcomes fire. If Mo Xiaoxin could still cast ice spells, that would be fine, but now their spells seem to have disappeared.
The nightmare demon sent Mo Xiaoxin, from Leng Huai's memories, to a deserted cliff in order to sever their connection. Fortunately, he could still contact Mo Xiaoxin unilaterally, so it wasn't too bad.
But now he has no clue what to do...
The nightmare kept making Leng Huai accompany her to various amusement parks and parks. This was the first time she had seen this world, and she was extremely curious.
Although it was also Leng Huai's first time meeting someone like this, he was in no mood to play around at the moment.
In the modern world, Mo Xiaoxin awoke in darkness after consciously recalling the Dark Land. Imprisoned in a cage by a dream demon, she was unable to escape and could see Leng Huai's intimate interactions with her through the dream demon's perspective, which filled her with mixed feelings.
That nightmare must have done it on purpose!
But she was helpless; there was nowhere to escape in the darkness.
Meanwhile, Mo Xiaoxin, who was on the cliff, had already received the memories from the modern Mo Xiaoxin, and she already had a plan in mind.
Just now, her ice magic came back to life; it was truly a miraculous escape from a desperate situation.
Since there is no other way, we have no choice but to fight with our backs against the wall.
Dark clouds gathered, and torrential rain poured down.
The village was immediately flooded.
Everyone will be trapped in a predicament.
Mo Xiaoxin stood atop the cliff, gazing in the direction of the village, waiting quietly.
The village was in complete chaos, and Leng Huai, being a fire-based magic user, was particularly afraid of water, so his spells were completely ineffective in the water...
The water had already reached his chest, and he was finding it hard to breathe.
"Stop right now!" The nightmare materialized and glared at Mo Xiaoxin.
"You've finally arrived. I've been waiting for you for a long time." Mo Xiaoxin looked at the angry nightmare, but she seemed quite calm.
The nightmare demon quickly dispersed all the dark clouds scattered in the sky.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Mo Xiaoxin struck the dream demon with a palm strike. Mo Xiaoxin used almost all her strength in this strike, and she could feel that the spells she had practiced before had not been in vain.
The Dream Demon never expected Mo Xiaoxin to be so powerful. She was careless. How could someone who could enter the Ruins of Ashes be weak?
"You know... ice magic..." The nightmare spat out a mouthful of blood, looking at Mo Xiaoxin in disbelief.
“Yes, that’s right.” Mo Xiaoxin stared coldly at the nightmare.
"She still gave birth to you..." Only then did the nightmare demon take a serious look at Mo Xiaoxin's face.
"Yes, you really look like her."
This familiar conversation.
Mo Xiaoxin asked, "What, do you know my mother?"
"Of course, my life was saved by your mother back then, and I owe her a debt of gratitude." The Dream Demon said slowly. She recalled that she was being chased by a powerful demon when Yue happened to be there and took a hit for her, saving her life. At that time, she was just a minor demon.
Mo Xiaoxin was somewhat surprised; she hadn't expected her mother to be so well-connected.
The nightmare was struck by the palm and collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath.
"Since we have done each other a favor..." Mo Xiaoxin didn't spell it out, but the implication was that since we had done each other a favor, we should let them go!
"Of course we will release you."
The nightmare demon exclaimed, "I never expected you to be so powerful at such a young age. You truly inherited your mother's strengths."
"And she's so lucky to have met a man who loves her, unlike her..." the nightmare lamented.
"Fine, fine. I live by eating people's memories anyway, so I'll give your memories back to you."
With a wave of his hand, the nightmare demon restored all of Mo Xiaoxin's memories.
The memory integration process left Mo Xiaoxin's mind somewhat confused, but she quickly regained her composure.
Mo Xiaoxin then realized that Leng Huai had actually entered her memories of the real world.
What should we do?
Didn't Leng Huai discover her true identity?
"There's something I'd like you to help me with," Mo Xiaoxin said.
Mo Xiaoxin remembered that Xuan She had once said that her mother's snake scales were the emblem of the God of War, and that if she took them out when she was desperate, someone would help her: "As long as you help me, I can give you my mother's snake scales."
The nightmare demon shook his head: "It was my fault before, I actually harmed my benefactor's child. Just tell me what you need, and I will help you if I can. As for your mother's snake scales, I would never dare to take them."
Since the nightmare demon was being polite to her, she said directly: "Don't let Leng Huai have this memory of my real world."
The nightmare agreed.
Seeing that the nightmare was getting weaker and weaker, Mo Xiaoxin went over and helped her up.
"Let me heal your wounds first."
Now that we've already established that we're old friends, there's no need to kill the nightmare demon.
After Mo Xiaoxin finished healing the nightmare, the nightmare thanked her profusely.
With a wave of her hand, the scene before Mo Xiaoxin's eyes vanished, and she returned to the lush forest.
Leng Huai was not far from her.
Leng Huai also regained his memory at this moment.
He saw Mo Xiaoxin appear, and in a flash, he appeared in front of her, pulled her behind him, and then tried to attack the Dream Demon.
Mo Xiaoxin quickly stopped her: "Wait, it's all a misunderstanding. She's the little demon my mother saved back then."
Leng Huai didn't care: "If we can absorb her dream ability, it will be much better than those magical artifacts and pills."
The nightmare was a little scared. She hadn't expected this man to be so terrifying. She had been so good to him before, and now he still wanted to kill her.
Seeing that the nightmare demon was afraid, Mo Xiaoxin smiled and said, "He's just joking with you, don't be afraid."
The nightmare didn't care. She said, "I still owe my benefactor a favor. Take this and just blow on it and I will come to your side."
She handed Mo Xiaoxin a golden conch shell.
This seashell is quite unique; its golden shell shines beautifully in the sunlight. Mo Xiaoxin put it around her neck.
"Thank you. We have to go now." Mo Xiaoxin said goodbye to the nightmare.
After the two left, the green forest suddenly turned into ruins, leaving only a vast river.
When the family woke up that night, they found themselves floating in the river. They remembered that they had almost drowned in their dream and broke out in a cold sweat. Fortunately, they were floating on the surface of the river and did not sink, thus saving their lives. The group hurriedly swam ashore.
"Father, thank goodness you're not dead." Ye Hualing felt a pang of sadness when he recalled that his father had died in his dream.
Ye Deqing snorted coldly: "Don't think that just because you're pretending to cry here, I'll hand over the Ye family to you."
Although Old Man Ye said that, the feeling of dying in his dream was very real. He even kept wandering around the grave. Of his three children, only Ye Hualing would come to see him.
Ye Pingwei stood to the side, silent. The memory of his dream, in which he and Ye Hualing fought over Mo Xiaoxin, instantly shattered his pride as the eldest brother.
Ye Songlan was furious. In her dream, she was actually an idiot! How utterly despicable!
And that An Youdao! He actually tried to abduct her to his home!
She glared at An Youdao, who was following behind her.
An Youdao flinched at her gaze: "Miss, that's fake, it's not real, I never did that to you..."
Ye Songlan had already begun to suspect An Youdao, but unfortunately, it was indeed a fake scene, and she couldn't possibly take it seriously.
Even though it was fake, they felt as if everything that happened inside was real.
Ye Songlan touched her chin. Among them, her changes were particularly significant. Could it be a warning to her?
Leng Huai brought Mo Xiaoxin to a dreamlike place.
It's like walking on clouds, a dreamlike experience.
"Where is this?" Mo Xiaoxin asked.
Leng Huai: "This is the final exit of the Ruins of Ashes. We'll wait for their arrival here."
Mo Xiaoxin then remembered their purpose in entering the Ashes Ruins.
Yes, they came to the Ruins of Ashes not for any magical artifacts or elixirs, but to find the spies.
But ever since she entered the Ruins of Ashes, she hasn't seen anyone else.
She always felt that Leng Huai had ulterior motives, could it be...?
"Could it be that the Ruins of Ashes are just a decoy, and you actually intend for the spy to be killed by the monsters within the Ruins of Ashes?"
The treasures within the Ruins of Ashes were simply too tempting. Leng Huai knew the spy would definitely go there, but even he was wary of the Ruins of Ashes' eeriness, let alone someone from the Northern Demon Realm who knew nothing of demons. Moreover, he knew how terrifying human greed could be; even if he wasn't killed by demons, he would surely be killed by someone else!
They should have been wiped out by now.
Leng Huai: "That spy is working with the four major families, but this is, after all, the territory of the Demon Realm. A mere spy from the Northern Demon Realm can't accomplish anything significant. The four major families will naturally eliminate them. Our most important task now is to deal with the four major families!"
If Leng Huai were to directly attack the members of the four major families in the Demon Realm, it would definitely cause dissatisfaction among others. However, in the Ashes Ruins, life and death are commonplace.
Just now, he had asked the Night Demon to temporarily trap the Night Family members inside.
If the Dream Demon hadn't been injured by Mo Xiaoxin, it could have fought Ye Deqing. But the Dream Demon is now injured, and they have also consumed a lot of physical and spiritual energy and need time to recover. They can only hold off the Ye family members for now and deal with the other three families first.
All they need to do now is wait here for these people to come to them one by one.
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