Go to the Demon Realm
Seeing that the monks had strictly guarded the lake and every passing fish was checked, Xu Shulou felt that there was nothing for him to do here and strolled back to Cangzhuyuan where he was staying temporarily.
After a while, Bai Roushuang also slipped back with two fresh fish in her hands.
"You caught it in front of the monks who were searching the lake?" Xu Shulou gave her a thumbs up. "You are so shameless."
"…It's all thanks to my good teaching," Bai Roushuang replied with a smile, "But I didn't catch it. My junior sister gave it to us as a gift."
Xu Shulou touched his face and said, "You actually saw through our preferences so quickly. It's true that the younger generation is pushing the older generation forward. The young people today should not be underestimated."
"To be honest, you didn't hide anything at all," Bai Roushuang shrugged. "Sister, what flavor do you want to eat? How about one piece of stewed tofu and one piece of sliced sauerkraut fish?"
"good!"
Smoke soon rose from the courtyard, and the aroma of fish soup spread. Cangzhu Courtyard is a courtyard full of bamboos, with lush flowers and trees, quiet and peaceful, with occasional sounds of wind blowing leaves, the courtyard seems to be a world of its own.
Xu Shulou was waiting for food by the stove in such an environment, and he felt a little drowsy while waiting.
During this short nap leaning on the rocking chair, her dream finally changed.
A dagger with the handle inlaid with pearls and gems. It doesn't look like a sharp weapon, but more like an ornamental object that people can play with.
It was such a dagger that cut through the ink in her dream and the four big words "The End of the Text", just like the curtain on the stage suddenly opened, revealing the vivid characters behind it.
The dagger was held in Luo Fusheng's hand. She looked at Lu Beichen who was meditating with his eyes closed not far away. The dagger in her hand seemed to unconsciously cut a stack of rice paper on the table.
On the rice paper was the pattern she had just sketched, and she had intended to take it to the clothing store to have the maids make clothes according to it.
She looked down at the broken flower patterns on the paper, and suddenly stabbed the dagger into the stack of rice paper.
With a "bang", Xu Shulou woke up at this moment and sat up suddenly.
"Senior sister?" Bai Roushuang was a little surprised. "What's wrong? Did you have a nightmare?"
"It was originally a nightmare, a nightmare full of flowers," Xu Shulou thought for a moment, "but it seems that there has been a turn for the better, and it has become a slightly more realistic nightmare."
“…”
Xu Shulou lowered his eyes. The dream had come to an end, but it was still going on. What was this? Was it the unwillingness of the person in the dream?
After the grand finale, is it time for the reality of the world to come? At the "end of the story", Lu Beichen hugged his beautiful wives and concubines, and everyone was laughing happily. Is it time to peel off these smiles and see the holes underneath?
"Senior sister," Bai Roushuang handed over a large bowl, "Drink the fish soup and go to your room to rest. I'll be watching over the next competition."
"Okay." Xu Shulou did not reject his junior sister's kindness. He drank the delicious fish soup, took a simple wash, and then fell asleep to the sound of the breeze sweeping the bamboo forest.
But this time, she did not have any absurd dreams. She slept soundly until dawn in the east. She stretched happily, but found that she was no longer sleepy, so she got up, changed her clothes and went to watch the sunrise.
Xu Shulou found a rooftop and stood there, watching the sun slowly rising in the sky. All things in the world were bathed in sunlight and seemed to come alive in an instant. Looking around, the morning mist between the trees receded, and the lake was reflected with brilliant rays of light.
Facing this beautiful view, Xu Shulou began to have wild thoughts. When he ascends to heaven one day next year, will the sun look like this? Is the fairyland above the sun or below the sun? The sun from this angle looks a bit like a persimmon. Hmm, it seems like I haven't eaten persimmon cakes for a long time...
"Senior Sister Xu!" Someone called her from under the eaves.
Xu Shulou looked down and saw the new junior sister from Biqu Peak: "Good morning, you're up so early to practice?"
The other party waved the Emei Spear in his hand and said, "Senior Sister Bai has said a lot of encouraging words to me these few days. My blood is boiling!"
Who doesn't like energetic young people? Xu Shulou smiled and invited her: "Would you like to fight with me?"
When Bai Roushuang stood up, she saw the two fighting by the lake. The new apprentice sister said, "Senior Sister Xu is already so powerful, and she gets up so early to practice. It seems that I still have a lot to work on!"
And her reliable senior sister responded without blushing or beating her heart: "Yes."
Bai Roushuang: “…”
Xu Shulou stood still, not taking the initiative to attack, but using a folding fan to deal with the attack of his junior sister: "As long as you force me to retreat half a step, you will win."
"Okay!" The new junior sister attacked actively, using the Emei spear in her hand to pick, pierce, chop, swing, wrap, support, push, twist, pull, and pierce, using fourteen changes of techniques.
"Not bad," Xu Shulou praised, "Did you learn martial arts before entering the training world?"
"Yes, I am from the Emei Sect!"
"No wonder." Xu Shulou smiled. Today, because she wanted to see the sunrise, she transformed into a Sun, Moon and Universe Fan. No matter how many changes the opponent's Emei Spear made, she would use the simplest move to block it. And she managed to block the opponent's attack just right every time.
The girl was not discouraged, but began to think of different moves. She spun the Emei Spear in her palm and attacked Xu Shulou with a move of a spirit snake coming out of a hole. She turned sideways to dodge, but the girl immediately responded with a move of a dragon swinging its tail. She lunged with her left leg and stabbed back. The two Emei Spears in her left and right hands attacked Xu Shulou's chest and lower body respectively.
Since they had agreed not to fight back, Xu Shulou dodged and took a step back, then paused: "You win."
The little girl immediately stopped and asked, "Does Senior Sister have any advice?"
"I can see that you are still used to the martial arts style of fighting, which focuses more on moves and is not very comfortable with integrating spiritual power into this style of fighting," Xu Shulou smiled, "But you have only been in the cultivation world for a short time, so take your time. As a newcomer, you are already very powerful."
"yes!"
Xu Shulou took out a box of snacks from his Qiankun bracelet and handed it over: "Your spoils of war."
"Thank you, senior sister!" The little girl happily ran away with the snacks in her hands.
Bai Roushuang walked over with a smile and handed her a cup of hot black tea: "Did you let her do that on purpose?"
"The little girl has worked very hard. Give her some confidence."
Senior sister is becoming more and more gentle, Bai Roushuang thought blindly.
Xu Shulou looked at her again: "Your ability to analyze battles is getting better and better."
"I'm not a new girl anymore," Bai Roushuang said happily, "I'm past the age where I'm happy with a little compliment."
"Oh? Then I will..."
Bai Roushuang immediately interrupted her: "Then you can't stop praising me in the future."
“…”
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After a while, the world of cultivation suddenly began to spread rumors that the demon world was about to launch a massive attack. No one knew where this rumor came from, but it seemed to spread all over the world all of a sudden, and even the big fish that was infected with demonic energy at the trial was used as evidence.
There are many different opinions, and the more they talk, the more bizarre it becomes.
Soon, even things like "the hens raised by the farmers at the foot of the mountain seemed to have started crowing" were forced to be related to the demons. Bai Roushuang found it strange to hear this. Did the person who said this think that a demon pretended to be a hen and crowed?
Xu Shulou didn't take it seriously. Rumors of demon invasions usually spread every few decades, and she had heard even more outrageous ones. But she soon received a letter from the head of Wuchen Island, in which he ordered his disciples to investigate a little and quell the rumors, so as to prevent the cultivation world from being in a state of panic.
Coming out to quell rumors when everyone is in panic is something that many major sects would do, so Xu Shulou naturally had no objection.
After the trial meeting was over, she sent her new junior sister back to Biqu Peak on Wuchen Island, and then she and Bai Roushuang began their exploration journey.
Bai Roushuang felt that there was no clue about this matter: "Senior Sister, where should we start?"
Xu Shulou answered very easily: "The leader asked us to investigate the matter of the demon world, so let's go to the demon world and ask directly."
Bai Roushuang was horrified: "...I am very sure that the master definitely did not mean this."
Xu Shulou laughed and said, "I'll go take a look. You go back to Mingyue Peak and wait for me."
Bai Roushuang struggled, hesitated, and hesitated, but curiosity finally overcame fear: "There are many different opinions in the cultivation world, I want to see with my own eyes what the demon world looks like."
It was already late at night when the two arrived at the edge of the Demon Realm. This place looked unremarkable, no different from the scenery in the mortal world, except that although there was a bright moon hanging high in the sky, it seemed as if no light could be emitted here.
Bai Roushuang took out a night-shining pearl to illuminate the room, but the light could not penetrate the darkness before her eyes. At most, it could illuminate an inch of space in her hand, and the rest of the light seemed to be swallowed up by the darkness.
"There's something strange here," Bai Roushuang said nervously, "Senior Sister, how do you know this is the hidden entrance to the Demon Realm?"
Xu Shulou shook her head, hoping that the dream had not deceived her on this point.
She raised her hand and pressed an inconspicuous bulge among the strange stones. The stone was pressed down by her force. Bai Roushuang suddenly screamed. It turned out that a big hole suddenly appeared on the ground, causing both of them to fall straight down.
Xu Shulou was quick to grab his junior sister, but found that Bai Roushuang had already flown into the air with her sword. He withdrew his hand and smiled slightly, remembering his junior sister's words "I can't help but praise her", so he praised: "Your reaction is getting faster and faster."
Bai Roushuang was on full alert, and was startled when she heard the words, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "At this time, we can save it first, and praise it together when it's safe."
“…”
Xu Shulou slowly landed on the ground. In his dream, there was only the part where the Demon Saint described the location to Lu Beichen. The Saint was wearing a veil, so his face could not be seen clearly. He only dreamed that after Lu Beichen heard the location, he pressed the Saint's lips and softly asked her not to say anything more, as he did not want to embarrass her.
Not long after that, Lu Beichen brought back many corpses of demons, saying that demons had invaded and he had killed them all. This incident made him famous as a hero in the cultivation world. At that time, he seemed to be trying to persuade a small sect that held a spiritual mine to become a subsidiary of Lingxiao Sect. The sect leader had been hesitant, but the sect leader's ancestors had a blood feud with the demons. After Lu Beichen killed the demons, he had more respect for him and finally chose to join Lingxiao Sect.
Therefore, Xu Shulou only knew the approximate location of this place. As for what she would face after entering, she was as clueless as Bai Roushuang at this moment.
The cave was narrow, but at least there was light. As soon as the two landed, they saw a headless skeleton rushing towards them, and they were all shocked. Bai Roushuang's combat reaction had been trained by experience. Although she was afraid, her first reaction after being frightened was to hold the sword to resist.
The skeleton's arm hit the sword blade with a loud noise. Bai Roushuang saw that there was a trap door under its feet and guessed that it must be another exit of the cave.
The bones of the headless skeleton made a creaking sound when walking, which made people's teeth ache. Its strength was so great that it could swing Bai Roushuang away. The broken bones would crawl back to the body and merge with the body again. The two tried to hack and kill it for a while, but they could not subdue it.
Its head was acting separately from its body, staying alone on a high shelf, occasionally emitting a sinister cackle to mock the futile efforts of Xu Shulou and the others.
How to deal with this? While Bai Roushuang was thinking, she saw her senior sister quietly move towards the shelf, and then... covered the eyes of the head.
The skeleton's body actually became confused. It turned around a few times on the spot, then raised its arms and groped around in the air in vain, just like the blindfolded game of tag played by children on earth.
Bai Roushuang was surprised by this new way of fighting. This... is this possible?
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