Despite their arguments, they're actually quite a good match.
Yan Huanyue saw that the demonic seed here had begun to devour the host's body and expose itself, and it seemed to have developed its own consciousness.
She had initially considered sealing him with a barrier and then throwing in the Demon Bone Incense to burn and bewitch the demon seed, but she happened to see someone from the Xue family doing just that.
But it seemed that because of the spiritual energy covering them, the demons felt threatened and crawled out to eat the Demon Bone Fragrance, charging and biting at the barrier.
The demon sac on the opposite side charged straight at them.
Yan Huanyue leaped into the air to dodge, but the person who had become a demonic sac was controlled by the demonic seed and soared into the air, flying even higher than her.
Suddenly, the demon pouch made a feint and ran directly eastward towards the bustling area, stepping on the rooftops.
The white smoke in the sky watched her from afar, only chasing the demon pouch over, seemingly without any intention of helping her.
Yan Huanyue chased after it through the air, blocking the demon pouch, and with a stern face, she fiercely stabbed the demon bone incense in her hand into her eye socket.
The blood-red fleshy ball lying in the eye socket was scalded in a small area. All four faces trembled. They stretched out their seemingly delicate bloody hands, grabbed Yan Huanyue's fingers, and opened their mouths to bite.
If this thing bites you, at least that finger will be gone forever.
Yan Huanyue casually thrust the flat, sharp tip of her scalpel into its mouth.
The demon's sharp little teeth were suddenly bitten, causing it to release its grip. It manipulated the demon sac to dodge to the side, and then the demon sac suddenly opened its mouth and bit at her neck.
Yan Huanyue suddenly fell backward, lying horizontally in the wind. She raised her foot and braced it against the demon sac's chin, instantly spinning it around in the air before it crashed heavily into the alley. She leaped down from the air, and a wisp of sword energy pinned the demon sac to the ground.
Several demonic seeds within him, already possessing some consciousness, emerged from his skin, tugging at his tiny bloody hands as they prepared to scatter and flee.
Yan Huanyue was too lazy to use the Demon Bone Incense anymore. With a single strike, she sent a swarm flying, instantly sweeping all the ferocious demon seeds in mid-air into the box.
With a "click," she had just closed the box and hadn't even caught her breath when another demonic sac rushed in front of her, this one with a demonic seed that had crawled out and was sitting on its head.
She quickly and efficiently tidied up the mess, but before she could even close the box, another demonic pouch rushed over and reached out to slap her.
No wonder Lu Shenchu was making a fuss.
Yan Huanyue suddenly flew up and unleashed a gust of wind that pinned the demon pouch to the ground.
Gritting his teeth, he said angrily towards the direction of the white smoke, "Give me a moment to catch my breath!"
Before she could finish speaking, two demonic pouches flew towards her, using her as a stepping stone. One of them stepped on her shoulder and hopped eastward.
Yan Huanyue flew into the air with her knife, knocking each person down to the ground with a single blow. The demon seeds in the three demon sacs were all smarter than the previous ones.
They were all huddled inside the demon sacs, motionless. Yan Huanyue took the incense and went over. Just as she approached one of them, the demon seeds in the other two sacs took the opportunity to bite open their skin and escape.
She pinched the barrier to cover the still motionless demon sac, then flipped over and shook up the two escaped demon seeds inside, collecting them all into the box.
When she turned around, the demon seeds inside the silent demon sac had indeed crawled out and were biting at her barrier.
As a demonic race that is inherently incompatible with humans, the barrier was quickly breached.
Yan Huanyue ran into the barrier and slapped each of the demon seeds with her spiritual power, making each seed spin around noisily. Then she used her sword to shake them up and put them into the box.
She stood in the barrier, holding the box, when a fragrant aroma of oil wafted from somewhere, making her incredibly hungry.
Following the scent, she looked at the box in her hand, couldn't resist opening the lid, taking out a pretty little meatball, and popping it into her mouth.
Chew it up, it's both crispy and oily.
Blood trickled down the corner of her mouth, and she licked her lips again, greedily grabbing a small meatball and stuffing it into her mouth to chew.
Soon, the little meatball in the box was gone. She was so hungry her intestines were twisted and knotted. Watching a meatball emerge from the dark little hole in her arm, she happily bit her hand...
The wisp of white smoke drifted into the barrier through the opening. Seeing her happily chewing on the demon bone box, I didn't want to disturb her.
But a moment later she almost bit her arm until it bled before the wisp of white smoke drifted toward her brow.
Yan Huanyue instantly regained her senses and looked at the intact box. It turned out that eating the demon seed was just an illusion.
A faint voice emanated from the white smoke and said, "You were just touched by the demon seed, and some demonic energy gathered in the barrier, so you might have some hallucinations. However, the demonic energy of the demon seed is very weak, and you will wake up after it dissipates."
Yan Huanyue loosened her teeth and said, "Thank you."
She dispersed the barrier and saw that several members of the Xue family had already begun to collect the corpses from the demon sacs.
Huo Chengying paced back and forth in the snow, reminding everyone, "Be sure to do as the eldest young master instructed. Send all these people to the Xue Family Mortuary to remove the demonic energy and repair their wounds and injuries, so that their families won't find it too difficult to accept when they come to claim them."
Yan Huanyue asked, "May I ask where the Xue Family Charitable Estate is located? And that...?"
Huo Chengying walked over and said, "I have already sent someone over. Tonight's events were so sudden that I haven't had a chance to ask your name yet."
Yan Huanyue cupped her hands and said, "Yan Huanyue of Tianyan Sect."
Huo Chengying suddenly opened his eyes wide and smiled, "So you are a fellow disciple of the Third Young Master. My apologies for my rudeness."
Yan Huanyue returned the greeting with a hand gesture and asked, "What happened tonight...?"
Huo Chengying sighed, feeling a bit of a headache, and said, "This matter tonight could be a big deal or a small deal. Alas, we sent two teams to assist the Su family in excavating the demon's remains. Tonight, our team was on duty in the southwest, but something went wrong there. When we get back, the young master will question us."
Yan Huanyue asked, "The medicine in Chang'an to remove the demonic seed...?"
Huo Chengying shrugged. “Every spring we deliver medicine to every household, but some people just won’t drink it. These kinds of demons that have been lurking in the human world for many years and changing their demonic sacs all over the place are difficult to detect because their demonic energy is so thin. If they don’t drink the medicine, by the time they are discovered, their internal organs will have been eaten away.”
Just then, someone stood inside the courtyard wall and loudly questioned, "What are you all shouting about here? Can't a person get any sleep?!"
Huo Chengying, hands clasped in his pockets, replied with a smile, "Just enjoy your New Year, why are you talking so much!"
Upon hearing this, the man asked in confusion, "Miss Huo?"
"It's me."
The person inside the wall immediately climbed a ladder and leaned over the top, inviting, "Still patrolling on New Year's Eve? Come on, come to my house and have a bowl of dumplings."
Huo Chengying looked up and laughed, "I'm not going. I have other things to do. You should go to the ministry to close your case another day. Your false report about the fox demon is still hanging in the main hall. The other day, the young master passed by and even asked about the situation."
The man chuckled, "Sorry for the trouble."
As she spoke, she handed a bamboo basket down from the wall, saying, "My daughter-in-law just brought these over; you can all try them."
Huo Chengying stood on tiptoe to take the bamboo basket and said with a smile, "Thanks, I'll return the bowls and chopsticks to you tomorrow."
The man said a few more words before climbing down the ladder.
Someone in the courtyard whispered, "Mother-in-law, are Miss Huo and the others still on patrol? They're working so hard..."
Huo Chengying asked Yan Huanyue if she wanted to eat dumplings, and Yan Huanyue replied, "Thank you, but no need. I had my New Year's Eve dinner before coming here."
Huo Chengying asked Lu Shenchu if he wanted to eat, and Lu Shenchu took five dumplings from the large basin in the basket and said, "That's enough for me."
Huo Chengying then gave the bamboo basket to his team members to distribute.
As Lu Shenchu ate his dumplings, he moved closer to Yan Huanyue and said with a smile, "Fellow Daoist, we meet again."
Yan Huanyue asked, "Do you live here?"
Lu Shenchu chuckled and said, "No, I originally came to pick someone up. My aunt has been in seclusion here for a year, and my master ordered me to pick her up, but it seems she has already left ahead of time, so I planned to wander around Chang'an."
The white smoke above their heads drifted silently.
Lu Shenchu looked up and said, "Little immortal, you've worked hard tonight. Go back and rest now, or you'll naturally dissipate in a little while."
The white smoke still lingered in the air.
Yan Huanyue looked at the demonic souls and asked, "What kind of demon immortal is this?"
Lu Shenchu shook his head. "I don't know either. My master lent it to me."
After arranging everything, Huo Chengying came over and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to Tianxuan Department to exchange for spirit stones."
Yan Huanyue handed over several demon pouches tonight, which originally contained about eighty demon seeds, but she didn't expect that the demon seeds would devour each other in the boxes.
When they received the Tianxuan Division of the Xue family, there were only twenty large demon seeds left in the box.
The person at the exchange point had a serious expression. They strictly calculated the amount received and poured the demon seeds into a jar full of medicinal juice, then gave her two high-grade spirit stones.
Yan Huanyue heard the sound of blood dripping from her heart.
Lu Shenchu, who came with him, said in disbelief, "I lost eight pounds running all night, and all I got in return was a high-grade spirit stone." As he was speaking, the person at the exchange point took out three gold ingots, each about the size of a thumb, and used an iron ruler to give two ingots to Yan Huanyue and one ingot to Lu Shenchu.
"The fattening fee for these demonic creatures."
Lu Shenchu's face immediately lit up with a smile. Holding the gold, he said with a grin, "Big brother, you're such a kind person."
Before he could finish speaking, someone came in amidst the wind and snow, saying, "Brother Cheng, the Third Young Master heard that fresh demon seeds were harvested tonight and is coming to collect them. He said he wants to make medicine for someone, so you should get a jar of the best quality ones."
Upon hearing that Xue Jingnian was coming, Yan Huanyue immediately stepped outside. Unexpectedly, just as she and Lu Shenchu left the Tianxuan Tribe, they saw Xue Jingnian riding his sword through the wind and snow.
He called out from afar, "Yan Huanyue, I've looked for you many times during the day, but you refused to see me. What are you doing here at my house now?"
Lu Shenchu, standing to the side, said cheerfully, "Greetings, young master. We're all here to make money off your family."
Xue Jingnian leaped down from his sword, sheathed it with his sleeve, walked to her side, and asked, "Aren't you going to spend New Year's Eve with Pei Xuanzhi?"
Yan Huanyue said indifferently, "What's it to you?"
Xue Jingnian was like that; he could be cold and indifferent to her whenever he wanted, and he could be kind and gentle to her naturally and without any reservations whenever he wanted.
He never seemed to think her emotions were important.
Xue Jingnian glanced at Lu Shenchu, who then consciously walked to the side.
The white smoke floating in the air grew thinner and thinner.
Xue Jingnian gritted his teeth and said to Yan Huanyue:
"Come on, Pei Xuanzhi is taking advantage of your kindness. I know you're suffering with him too. Don't hold back anymore. Come home with me. After the New Year, don't go back to the sect for now. Stay at my house and I'll talk to the sect leader."
Yan Huanyue felt like her brain wasn't working properly; she couldn't understand what he was giving her nonsensical instructions. "Why should I stay in your house?"
Xue Jingnian said, "You don't need to fight with that kind of person anymore. Divorce him and marry me. If you don't have a heart contract, you can give me yours. I'll give you mine, and no one will dare say you're not my wife."
Yan Huanyue looked at her strangely, "Don't you like Yu Zhao? What are you planning to do by bringing a woman home with you?"
Xue Jingnian looked as if he had eaten something disgusting and said incredulously, "What nonsense are you talking about! Why would I like Senior Brother Yu? I clearly... like you."
Yan Huanyue sneered, "You like me? Seriously?"
Xue Jingnian felt that he had ultimately lost, but he had done it to save her from a forced marriage, so he could be considered to have lost with honor.
He nodded dejectedly. "So you'll come home with me then."
Yan Huanyue pointed to a corner in front of her that was not lit up by any lights and said, "Jingnian, come with me. I... I'll talk to you properly."
Xue Jingnian's eyes lit up, and he followed her eagerly.
The increasingly thin white smoke in mid-air suddenly stopped.
A moment later, from behind the dimly lit corner came several muffled groans from Xue Jingnian, which were extremely suppressed.
The white smoke couldn't wait any longer and kept trying to rush in that direction.
Unfortunately, the time for the descent of the Xuanjiang (mysterious descent) has come tonight, and it has become increasingly transparent. It is bound by the paper figure behind Lu Shenchu and can no longer drift out of the area where the paper figure is located.
Lu Shenchu leaned against a tree with his hands tucked in, kicked off his cotton shoes, and said cheerfully:
"Little fairy, you really love to join in the fun. Listen to what they're doing right now. It's nothing more than romance, exchanging sweet nothings, hugging and cuddling, all that stuff. I think you shouldn't go and peek, it'll be too embarrassing. They may be arguing, but they're actually quite a good match, don't you think?"
The wisp of white smoke struggled forward, but eventually could not hold on any longer and was sucked into the paper figure, disappearing completely.
Lu Shenchu put the paper figure away and turned to head back to his residence.
He shook his head with a wry smile and said, "You've probably been a bachelor for many years. I'm embarrassed to say that you want to go and see this kind of thing."
In the dimly lit streets and alleys.
Taking advantage of his unpreparedness, Yan Huanyue gathered her spiritual power and punched Xue Jingnian in the chest.
Xue Jingnian groaned, clutching his chest for a long time before asking incredulously, "Why did you hit me?"
Yan Huanyue said calmly, "Don't say things like 'I like you' in the future. It disgusts me."
"Why......"
"If you had always been against me, I wouldn't have found you disgusting. But you constantly belittle and belittle me, saying I'm unworthy to be Yu Zhao's fiancée, and now you say you like me... Ha..."
Xue Jingnian stared blankly at her silhouette. "I just wanted you to notice me, to wait for you to say you like me first... And what about you? I will treat you well, our child will inherit a portion of the Xue family fortune, and you, right now, are doing that kind of thing for Pei Xuanzhi, and you still won't leave him. Aren't you shameless?"
A sharp slap sent Xue Jingnian staggering back two steps.
It's not that he couldn't avoid it; it's just that he'd been in the habit of making her angry and then letting her vent her frustrations for a long time.
But she's not one to act rashly unless she's pushed to the limit.
Just like last time, I scratched his face because I angered him.
Yan Huanyue pounced on him, grabbed his collar, and slapped him several times. When Xue Jingnian tried to resist, he found that her spiritual energy fluctuations were incredibly strong, and he couldn't push her away at all.
Yan Huanyue was unable to control her emotions, and even her spiritual power.
She didn't care about controlling herself, but just grabbed Xue Jingnian and pressed him against the wall, saying indifferently, "What I do with Pei Xuanzhi is my business and his business. Who are you calling despicable?"
Blood trickled from the corner of Xue Jingnian's lips as he raised his hand to grab her chin, saying viciously, "Yan Huanyue, I know what you ate yesterday was disgusting, but I still want to kiss you."
Another slap.
Hot tears streamed down her face as Xue Jingnian said in a choked voice, "Yan Huanyue, don't ruin yourself..."
"Fellow Daoist Yan, what are you doing!"
A burst of spiritual energy struck, but Yan Huanyue shook off Xue Jingnian and dodged it.
Xue Yuannian and Tan Guiyi ran together to Xue Jingnian's side.
Tan Guiyi looked at Xue Jingnian's face covered with slap marks, and the blood on his lips mixed with his tears, dripping into the snow.
Tan Guiyi frowned and asked, "Fellow Daoist Yan, why did you hit him?"
Yan Huanyue glanced at them indifferently a few times, then turned and walked away through the wind and snow.
Xue Jingnian was about to pursue her when Xue Yuannian, with a deep expression, stopped him.
Xue Jingnian struggled to call out, "Yan Huanyue! Don't go..."
Tan Guiyi looked at him in surprise.
She asked for whatever she wanted, and Xue Jingnian gave it to her. She said she needed fresh demon seeds to purify and refine medicine, and Xue Jingnian would go out on New Year's Eve to get them for her.
She thought she was about to win Xue Jingnian over, but she never expected that Xue Jingnian would fall for Yan Huanyue instead.
ah?
Wasn't he the one who could most easily provoke Yan Huanyue? Is this how he shows affection? Using belittling, belittling, and mocking to get her attention, saying things he doesn't mean?
ah?
Tan Guiyi didn't understand, and she felt there was no need to understand; this kind of self-righteous liking was truly inexplicable.
Xue Jingnian sat in the snow and cried silently for a while. Perhaps feeling that he had lost face, he got up, wiped his face, and said in a hoarse voice, "Let's go, Fellow Daoist Tan, I'll go get the Demon Seed for you. I'll use the one that Yan Huanyue picked."
It was only now that Tan Guiyi finally understood Xue Jingnian.
The more polite and caring he is towards you, the less he cares about you; the less polite he is towards you, the more likely he is to say the opposite of what he means. This is the person he cares about most.
Why is he like this?
Damn, little boys are so annoying, I thought I had them under my thumb.
Xue Yuannian said weakly, "Brother, go live in the other courtyard. Don't let Father and Mother see your injuries... Tomorrow I will go to the Lu family to find Pei Xuanzhi and demand an explanation for you."
Xue Jingnian clearly loathed Pei Xuanzhi, and wiping the blood from his lips, he said rather nonchalantly, "Don't go, I'm taking the beating willingly."
Tan Guiyi looked up at the sky speechlessly, and couldn't help but let out a "heh".
Xue Yuannian didn't even look at him. He waved his hand and said, "What do you know? His wife beat you up like this. He must have felt vindicated when he found out. I'll talk to him about something. I'm afraid he'll agree."
Xue Jingnian exclaimed in shock, "Big brother! Whose brother are you?!"
Xue Yuannian laughed and said, "Brother, I'm sorry to have wronged you, but didn't I tell you before not to bother people? If I were to stand up for you, I would lose face. How about this, I'll give you all six villas outside Chang'an, okay?"
Tan Guiyi looked up at the snow in the sky. The snow was so white, and Xue Yuannian was so dark-skinned.
Although the Xue family is wealthy, we can no longer stay here. We should make some gains and leave as soon as possible, and come back to conquer Chang'an in the future.
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In the Yunshui Courtyard.
Pei Xuanzhi, who was on the small couch, suddenly opened his eyes.
The candles were out, and the wind and snow howled past the window, rustling the bamboo forest.
He threw off the quilt and staggered out of bed, but before he could take even half a step, he was blocked by a barrier.
The countless golden mists within his soul struggled desperately, denouncing his wishful thinking and how he had caused them to miss so many opportunities.
He couldn't control the clamorous, alluring spirit; his mind felt like it was about to explode.
He could only clutch his aching head and kneel on the cold floor.
Looking down at the dark ground, he repeated himself, almost frantically, "No...she wouldn't, she wouldn't..."
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