Chapter 94: Talking and Picky Grass
"Brother Xiongxiong is so awesome!" Jiu ran to Xiao Yu with his short legs, raised his head, and his big eyes were full of sparkling stars.
"It's much more powerful than adults' fireworks! Adults' fireworks will burn the crying little people, but when Brother Xiong Xiong's moonlight shines on them, they fall asleep and sleep soundly."
Chu Xuanyi: "..."
He felt like an arrow had pierced his heart, shot by Ajiu himself.
What are fireworks? That's the Pure Yang Fire of this poor Taoist who has cultivated for twenty years! What do you mean by falling asleep? That's being liberated, okay?
“You…you…”
On the other side, the Wugu tribe elder who had been blown away pointed at Xiao Yu tremblingly, his eyes filled with horror and resentment beneath his mask. He couldn't understand why the other party's sword intent could soothe resentment instead of provoking greater backlash.
This is totally against common sense!
"Puff——" He spat out another mouthful of black blood, obviously he was seriously injured.
Xiao Yu's eyes were cold, and he walked towards the elder of the Wugut tribe step by step with a sword in hand.
The elder's heart was filled with alarm. Looking at Xiao Yu who was closing in on him, a hint of crazy determination flashed in his eyes.
"Want to kill me? It's not that easy! Even if I die, I'll drag you down with me!"
He roared and tore open his clothes, revealing his shriveled chest.
I saw that the skin on his chest was densely covered with countless black beetle-like poisonous insects the size of fingernails!
"Oh no! It's the Soul Devouring Gu!" Chu Xuanyi's face changed drastically, and he shouted hurriedly, "Retreat quickly! This thing will self-destruct and specifically damage the soul!"
The clan elder let out a strange and shrill laugh. He grabbed the poisonous insect from his chest and threw it fiercely at the three people!
"Be buried with me! Hehehe..."
The black beetles spread their wings in the air, making a sharp buzzing sound.
"Ajiu!"
Xiao Yu's reaction was extremely fast. He didn't even have time to swing his sword. He just reached out with his left hand and directly pulled Ajiu's small body into his arms, with his back facing the cloud of insects!
"You wish!"
Chu Xuanyi shouted urgently, and swung the whisk in his hand violently. Three thousand silver threads suddenly grew and formed a golden light curtain in front of him in an instant!
“Bang bang bang bang—!”
The dense explosions sounded one after another like firecrackers during the New Year!
As soon as those soul-devouring insects touched Chu Xuanyi's golden light curtain, they exploded with a bang, blasting out clouds of dark green poisonous mist. The light curtain was blown into ripples, and the light was dimmed a lot.
Chu Xuanyi groaned, a trace of blood flowing from the corner of his mouth, obviously he had consumed a lot of energy.
The elder of the Wugut tribe turned around and ran. He bumped into a stone wall next to him. Ripples like water waves appeared on the stone wall, and he disappeared into the wall in an instant!
“Boom!”
When the cloud of insects had completely exploded, the stone wall returned to its original state, as if nothing had happened.
"The bad grandpa ran away again!" Ah Jiu poked his little head out of Xiao Yu's arms and pointed at the stone wall angrily, "He also littered! Those little black bugs stink!"
Xiao Yu put Ajiu down, turned around and looked at the stone wall, frowning slightly.
Chu Xuanyi retracted his whisk, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and cursed with a gloomy face: "Damn it, he got away again! This old immortal, his ability to escape is really amazing! But looking at his appearance just now, even if he is not dead, he has lost half his life. He won't be able to recover for ten or eight years."
As he spoke, he glanced at Xiao Yu's broad back.
There were several small holes in the black robe of His Royal Highness the Regent, which were blown by a few escaped poisonous insects. Green smoke was coming out of them, but the man seemed to be fine.
"Are you okay?" Chu Xuanyi asked.
Xiao Yu shook his head, saying sparingly, "It's okay."
The cave returned to peace again, leaving only broken bones and a faint blue light on the ground.
"Okay, no one's disturbing us now." Chu Xuanyi calmed his breath and looked at the Nether Grass again. "This thing is the source of all evil. Keeping it will only bring disaster. It must be destroyed!"
As he spoke, he was about to take out the talisman paper.
"don't want!"
Ajiu opened her little hands again and stood in front of Chu Xuanyi, like a hen protecting her food.
"Sir, you can't burn them!" she said seriously, "They just fell asleep. If you burn them, they will cry again!"
Chu Xuanyi felt his solar plexus throbbing.
"My dear little ancestor, it's already this late, why are you still empathizing with this evil weed? It almost wiped out our entire army just now!"
"But it also helped us!" Ah Jiu argued, "It was it that told me, sir, that you can't win, and you have to let Brother Xiongxiong do it!"
Chu Xuanyi: "..."
Why does this sound so heartbreaking?
He took a deep breath and decided to reason with this clueless little fortune teller: "Ajiu, listen to me, this netherworld grass was nurtured by the Black Bone Tribe with the resentment of hundreds of lives. It is inherently evil, and you..."
"It's not hungry." Ajiu suddenly interrupted him.
"What?" Chu Xuanyi was stunned.
"It said it's not hungry." Jiu repeated, then tilted his little head and tilted his ears, as if listening to something.
After a moment, she added, "It said it doesn't like to eat crybabies, but that evil old man in the mask insisted on feeding them to it. It said it actually... likes to eat shiny things."
Chu Xuanyi was completely speechless.
A grass that not only speaks and knows when it's hungry, but is also a picky eater?!
What the hell is going on!
He looked at Xiao Yu for help, hoping that this decisive and ruthless regent would support him and quickly burn this pile of weird things so that they could finish their work and go home.
However, Xiao Yu just looked at Ajiu quietly, and no emotion could be seen in his deep eyes.
"Let her try."
After a while, Xiao Yu uttered four words.
Chu Xuanyi almost couldn't breathe.
"You...you believed it too?!" He pointed at the patch of nether grass, heartbroken, "Xiao Yu, oh Xiao Yu, were you moved by her words 'I like your sword'? You can't just let this grass off the hook just because it likes you!"
Xiao Yu glanced at him indifferently, his eyes seemed to say "You are noisy".
Then, he squatted down, looked at Ah Jiu at eye level, and spoke in a softer tone than ever before: "Ah Jiu, what do you want to do?"
"I want... I want to take it home." Jiu stretched out his little hand, pointing at the patch of nether grass, his eyes filled with longing. "It said it knew me. It said it had been waiting for me for a long, long time. It also said it knew many stories and could tell me."
Chu Xuanyi felt his scalp tingling as he listened.
A blade of grass knows you, has waited for you for a long time, and even wants to tell you a story? If this were written into a storybook, it would probably be titled "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio: Even the Plants and Trees Are Infatuated"!
After Ah Jiu finished speaking, he stopped looking at the two adults and walked cautiously towards the patch of Nether Grass.
This time, Chu Xuanyi did not stop him.
Ajiu walked to the best-growing Nether Grass with the brightest dark blue glow. She hesitated for a moment, then stretched out her chubby little hand and gently grasped the stem of the grass.
The moment she touched it——
"Buzz!"
The entire patch of nether grass suddenly shone brightly! The dark blue light was no longer cold and gloomy, but instead became soft and pure. The light shot up into the sky, illuminating the entire cave as bright as day!
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