Chapter 289 The Caller (3)
Although she had expected this, Luo Xuanyi still stopped and looked back at the caller with a smile on her face, as if she had not tried to escape from the caller.
Unlike Luo Xuanyi, who had taken the Wanli Pill and traveled thousands of miles to the Zhongqu Mountains, the caller, holding the skinny dog's tail in one hand, followed at a leisurely pace. Every step he took created a strange character in the air, but the character quickly disappeared, and it was unclear what it was.
Was it some kind of body movement technique, or was it some kind of Taoist technique, like the black rod that held Luo Xuanyi's humanity in place? Luo Xuanyi subconsciously looked up at the sky, but she could only fully grasp eight stars at the moment and could not see anything unusual in the sky.
If you can't tell how the caller is tracking you, then it's hard to shake him off. So, don't act rashly.
The caller's dark eyes looked at Luo Xuanyi, and with a very dissatisfied expression, he pointed at the skinny dog hanging upside down in his hands: "It clearly has a name, but it won't tell me! It won't even bark!"
The topic has been completely diverted by Luo Xuanyi.
"Well, that's too much."
Luo Xuanyi's gaze followed the caller's words and fell on the portrait held in the mouth of the skinny dog, which was struggling upside down. The skinny dog struggled for a while, but the caller still held its bare tail tightly. It seemed that it had finally lost its patience and opened its mouth to release the portrait, biting down hard on the caller's leg.
"Woo-woof!"
"Ah!" A large amount of blood spurted out from the bite wound on his leg. The caller was not angry but happy, "Can't you speak?!"
The portrait, released by the skinny dog, didn't fall, but remained fixed in mid-air. A closer look revealed a swarm of black flies holding it up. Luo Xuanyi's mind moved, and with a touch of death energy, she gently gathered the portrait into her hands.
The fly, suddenly robbed of the portrait, flew towards Luo Xuanyi, only to land on her sleeve like a black cloud. The caller and the skinny dog showed no reaction, continuing their chaotic commotion.
Luo Xuanyi glanced at the girl in the portrait, took out a pen and ink, and began to alter the portrait.
Luo Xuanyi's current appearance was originally a mimicry, and she could change her appearance by rubbing her face slightly, but she couldn't do that because of the laws of heaven.
True name and true appearance were the marks placed by the Heavenly Dao. Even though Luo Xuanyi could, according to common sense, transform into someone else's appearance, if she strayed too far from her true form, her connection to her physical body would become fragile, increasing the likelihood of being sought out by the Heavenly Dao.
Moreover, the shape change would only last for a short while; her appearance would obey the laws of heaven and gradually return to Luo Xuanyi's true appearance. Given this, instead of adjusting her own features, it would be better to exploit the caller's madness and simply alter the portrait to disrupt the caller.
She picked up the brush and quietly added a few strokes to her facial features, trying her best not to let the caller notice any sense of incongruity. Luo Xuanyi suddenly caught a glimpse of spatial vibration. Noticing the owner of this vibration, she did not dodge away. The next moment, she felt a touch of air under her feet.
A five-eyed toad suddenly appeared through the air, just in time to lift Luo Xuanyi's feet. She thought the five-eyed toad had taken the opportunity to escape, but she didn't expect it to follow her.
The five eyeballs on the five-eyed toad's head moved gently. Luo Xuanyi resisted the urge to reach out and touch its bulging eyeballs.
"Who is this?" The fluctuations in space drew the caller's attention away from the skinny dog, who seized the opportunity to leap to the caller's feet. Its four legs formed four flowing clouds, and it lay down in them and yawned.
Luo Xuanyi rolled up the portrait in her hand and handed it to the caller as if nothing had happened, while replying, "Toad. Did you find out the dog's name?"
The fly rose again with Luo Xuanyi's movement, holding the scroll in Luo Xuanyi's hand and flew towards the caller, delivering the scroll into the caller's hand.
"Oh, it refused to say its own name, but I remembered, its name is it!" The caller patted his chest with the scroll with a proud look, and the paper scroll made a rustling sound.
Luo Xuanyi had long known that Huzhe was crazy, and had no intention of understanding his nonsense. She nodded in agreement, "Is that so? I'm glad you remembered that."
"Yes, thank you! I remembered my name and its name now. Good boy, do me one more favor and I'll give you some candy."
He started calling himself grandpa again.
The caller shook the scroll in his hand, raised it with both hands, and handed it to Luo Xuanyi. His face, so old that only skin was left on his bones, tilted and looked at Luo Xuanyi: "Are you the girl in this portrait?"
"No." Luo Xuanyi said without changing her expression.
"Isn't it? They look so alike." Huzhe was surprised, as if he hadn't expected Luo Xuanyi to deny it. "Lying makes you a bad kid, right?"
Luo Xuanyi didn't know why the caller was so fond of taking advantage of his age, but that didn't stop her from noticing and exploiting it. She lowered her eyes slightly, pursed her lips for a moment, and then replied, "I'm not lying. And, Grandpa, look carefully. The person in the portrait clearly doesn't look like me."
Three teardrop moles cast shadows like teardrops, and a glint of water seemed to flicker across her silver-gray eyes. Luo Xuanyi's features were small and harmless to begin with. Seeing her, Huzhe scratched his head vigorously, turning the scroll around in a panic. "That's not right. You clearly look like... Hey, that's not right."
His gaze frequently shifted between Luo Xuanyi and the portrait, the caller becoming visibly confused. At this moment, a fly soared into the air and landed on the caller's ear, buzzing. Suddenly, the caller felt reassured: "You changed the portrait, didn't you?"
The fly buzzed with pride. The caller put his hands on his hips, a little annoyed. "When did you become a bad person? What did grandpa teach you?"
"I didn't." Luo Xuanyi saw that Huzhe was about to say something else, so she suddenly raised her head, her long eyelashes trembling slightly, and her crescent-shaped gray eyes filled with tears looked up at Huzhe, "Grandpa, do you think I'm a liar?"
"Hmm."
The caller's words got stuck in his throat and his eyes became vague.
Luo Xuanyi lowered her head with a sad look, but she felt relieved in her heart.
She had noticed before that the caller's gaze seemed to be looking at someone or something, but in reality it wasn't truly focused, simply passing through everything in front of it. As expected, he had no memory of the original portrait, and even after the fly's reminder, he was still easily swayed.
As for pretending to be good, Luo Xuanyi had no idea how many times she had done that in the Third Valley. Being able to bend and stretch is the key to survival, so she didn't feel embarrassed at all when using her face.
However, Luo Xuanyi still didn't know how the caller had found her. If it relied on positioning, that would be troublesome, but both Ding Jing Zhenren and Fei Han mentioned that positioning was impossible in the Zhongqu Mountains.
Luo Xuanyi thought of the soul mark branded in her body, and suddenly caught a flash of inspiration in her mind.
Could it be that the Yao family member who imprinted the revengeful spirit mark in her body was a member of the Paper Arts Sect? If Yao Tian and Yao Lu's family were someone in the Paper Arts Sect, and after learning that she had killed Yao Tian and Yao Lu, they sent messengers to seek revenge, just as Yao Lu was seeking revenge for Yao Tian. This would explain why the Paper Arts Sect was so anxious to come here.
First update~Thanks to lMuMuX for the 2 monthly tickets~
Sister Yi's non-aggressive face is designed to be used like this hh
ps There are still only two updates today, and it seems that there are only two updates in the past few days
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