Chapter 158
Bai Roushuang found it difficult to explain whether the reason why they could finally sit down and eat barbecue together was due to her senior sister's personal charm or her intimidating force.
Especially considering that a few hours ago, the angry Dream Demons wanted to kill the senior sister to avenge their "god".
Thanks to Xu Shulou's question about "whether it can be eaten" which added fuel to the fire, the Dream Demon people were furious.
The crystal corridor instantly revealed its true form, turning into a bloody throat, red, covered with mucus, and covered with soft flesh lumps, which looked really disgusting. Bai Roushuang had to admit that this was indeed a good way to trap prey, but it was a pity that the Nightmare God it was connected to had lost his life and could not swallow, allowing Xu Shulou to escape with Bai Roushuang.
Of course, for the Dream Demons who witnessed the scene, the word "escape" was not quite accurate. At that time, Xu Shulou clearly blew up the entire corridor before leisurely walking out with his junior sister, and by the way, he also lifted the latter's silencing spell.
After everyone left the corridor, the tribesmen saw the huge crab carcass floating in the water and cried out with real emotion.
Xu Shulou could barely distinguish a few words such as "source of power" and "root of life" from the howling. She felt quite guilty for a moment. After all, she didn't understand the survival mode of the nightmare clan, and thought that her act of killing the crabs would have a serious impact on them.
As a result, a humorous scene appeared underwater at that time. The nightmare demons kept trying to attack Xu Shulou, while the latter dodged the attacks while trying to touch their wrists, touch their hearts, and pinch their meridians in an attempt to understand their physical conditions and see if they could be remedied.
After groping all the men and women of the Dream Demon Clan like a pervert, everyone entered another level of anger, and Xu Shulou fell into confusion: "I don't feel that your power or life is running out. Is there some misunderstanding?"
While everyone's hatred was focused on her, Bai Roushuang sneaked to the crab's body and found something with a faint blue glow on its chest. She took great pains to open the crab's shell and dug out a palm-sized glowing object from its heart. She looked at it for a while, then held it up high and asked the Dream Demon Clan for advice: "What is this?"
The Dream Demons were intent on besieging Xu Shulou, but they were caught off guard and found that their "God of Nightmares" had been dismembered. They almost fainted from anger and wailed, attacking Bai Roushuang.
Bai Roushuang was not good at water battles, but she ran fast. She held the glowing object high in the air and swam while shouting, "Don't chase me. If you dare to catch up with me again, I will crush this thing!"
The Dream Demons actually didn't know what that thing was, but they knew it was cut from the body of the God of Nightmares. They didn't dare to take it lightly and were really scared by her for a moment.
Bai Roushuang quickly took the opportunity to swim to her senior sister and handed the glowing object to her.
If we talk about the one who was impatient, it would have to be Xu Shulou. As soon as this thing came into her hands, she crushed it.
Everyone was stunned, watching as a thick light blue liquid flowed out of the shattered luminous body, dissipated along Xu Shulou's fingertips, turned into blue light, and merged into the lake water.
"The source of power, the root of life." Xu Shulou looked at the blue light in his hand and repeated the words of the Dream Demon just now.
"Ah!" The Dream Demon woman closest to her suddenly cried out in pain and raised her hand to touch her painful and itchy face.
The others were shocked and rushed over: "Your face is melting!"
"It must be because this woman killed the God of Nightmares!"
"She wants to kill our clan! Kill her!"
“No, it’s not melting, it’s vitality,” the dream demon girl struggled to stop them, “I can feel it, it’s vitality filling my face, it’s changing me.”
Everyone was stunned, watching as the grooves on her face were filled and her wrinkles became smoothed out, and after the bluish light faded, a young and beautiful face was revealed.
Before they could express their surprise or ecstasy, the faces of the others began to change as exuberant vitality merged into their bodies, giving them the youth they deserved.
Xu Shulou and Bai Roushuang stood aside, as if they were watching a magical performance.
The Dream Demon raised his hand in disbelief and touched his smooth skin: "What, what is going on?"
Xu Shulou held a sapphire in his palm and handed it to them. The luminous body shattered, and after the thick light blue liquid dissipated, the small and delicate stone inside was revealed: "The source of your power, the root of your life."
"You mean, this is..." The leading woman took it in a daze. The moment she got the sapphire in her hand, she knew that what Xu Shulou said was true. The surging vitality in it was unmistakable.
"That's right," Xu Shulou speculated irresponsibly, "Maybe thousands of years ago, a crab or an octopus, or a fighting octopus and crab swallowed your clan treasure, and gained intelligence from it, evolving to where you are today, and then controlling you in turn."
“…”
"Wait, you mean, he's not a god?"
"But, it was the God of Nightmares who gave us power and life..."
"I tend to think that he withheld half of your strength and life, leaving it to nourish himself," Xu Shulou pointed out the simple and clear fact, "You see, he was killed, and you recovered."
Bai Roushuang nodded: "Indeed, it sounds weird to have to choose between the body and the face."
“How could it be…”
"This story tells us," Bai Roushuang concluded when no one spoke, "If you encounter a so-called 'god' who wants to take human lives as a sacrifice, don't hesitate, just kill him directly."
“…”
“Is this true?” The Dream Demons looked at each other, their lips trembling. They seemed to be shocked, ecstatic, unbelieving, and nervous. They seemed to be about to cheer, or to cry...
Xu Shulou couldn't help but interrupt: "Um... can you guys stop being shocked for a while and save those monks who were swept into the swamp first?"
"..." The complex emotions that had just been brewing in everyone were interrupted by her. They looked at her, and with their confused minds, they went their separate ways.
A few hours later, a bonfire party was held by the swamp.
When they were not planning on kidnapping living people for sacrifice, the Nightmares were indeed a relatively peaceful race, and they enthusiastically invited the monks to join in their celebration.
Lu Beichen, who was just awakened by Xu Shulou's two palms not long ago, was sulking with someone and gritting his teeth.
The ingredients for the banquet did not require the help of the monks. The Dream Demons had special fishing skills. They could not only control people, but also aquatic plants. They directed the aquatic plants to be weaved into nets and went into the water to catch bag after bag of scallops, fish and shrimps.
This lake is connected to the sea, and occasionally some marine creatures would swim over by mistake. Among them was an octopus spirit that was mistakenly fished up, and it trembled in fear at the angry glares of the crowd.
The Dream Demons hated crabs and octopuses the most. No matter if they were monsters or not, they would flatten them and make a dish of cold octopus shreds.
Xu Shulou was kind enough to rescue it. It's nothing, Bai Roushuang watched coldly, Senior Sister just likes small animals, but isn't it a bit outrageous for you, an octopus spirit, to take the opportunity to propose to Senior Sister?
Xu Shulou accepted the flowers that it rolled from the lake with its tentacles, but rejected his courtship.
The octopus was actually very sad: "Do you dislike my appearance?"
Xu Shulou squeezed one of its tentacles. He couldn't admit that he only had an appetite for it, so he comforted it very considerately: "No, in fact... if you squint your eyes and tilt your head to look hard, you do have a hint of handsomeness."
The naive octopus spirit was easily comforted and danced happily around the campfire.
Xu Shulou admired it for a while with a smile, then found his junior sister who was roasting something by the fire, and she fed him a scallop.
"Mm, delicious." Xu Shulou picked up another one, "I have something to do, so I have to leave first. You continue to play."
"Where are you going?"
"A newcomer in Qingcheng Sect who has gained fame recently heard from somewhere that I'm back, and asked me to go to the top of Mount Tai to compete in swordplay. No spiritual power is needed, only swordsmanship. The prize is a very beautiful and precious crabapple tree. When I win it, I'll plant it at the gate of your courtyard." Xu Shulou swung his sword in a wicked way, "I'll be back soon!"
"Okay! We'll wait for our senior sister to return victorious!" Bai Roushuang smiled and watched her back, but when she turned around, she found that Lu Beichen's eyes were also fixed on Xu Shulou.
With the octopus spirit's courtship just now, Bai Roushuang couldn't help but think in a wrong way, but she heard Lu Beichen sigh: "This kind of free and unrestrained life is quite enviable."
"Senior Brother Lu, you can do it too." Bai Roushuang thought about it seriously.
"I can't. I still have the responsibility of my master."
"I have too," Bai Roushuang shrugged, "but we can always choose how to face it."
"You've grown a lot. It seems that breaking up with me was indeed the right decision," Lu Beichen smiled bitterly. "In fact, I have thought that if we were this mature back then, maybe we could have gone further."
Bai Roushuang shook her head: "Let the past be the past, why think about it anymore?"
"You're right," Lu Beichen smiled as he took the wine handed over by the Dream Demon Clan, "Here's to you."
Bai Roushuang clinked glasses with him, and the two looked at each other under the bonfire and smiled, without any romantic ambiguity. All the things that happened in the past were no longer lingering in their minds: "Cheers to a friend."
"To my friends."
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