Chapter 8: Is there a demon? Why is there a demon here?
Mu Xingchen sat on the doorstep and yawned. It had been three days... For three whole days, she hadn't seen a single person except Xiao Yuan.
Xiao Qi laughed and said, "You've been imprisoned, and now you can't get out. This is great."
Mu Xingchen shook the fan gently and denied it: "He is seriously injured. It will take at least a month for him to see anyone."
Xiao Qi: "You want to wait?"
Mu Xingchen sighed, "What if I don't wait? This humanoid surveillance is on all the time." As he spoke, Mu Xingchen glanced at the tree in the west corner. It was monitoring her, and it was so obvious. It seemed that he believed that she was really a waste.
"You'd better pray that no business comes to the Seven Star Tower in this month, otherwise..." Xiao Qi threatened.
Mu Xingchen shook her head and sighed deeply: "Don't worry, if they really come, I will find a way to leave." Her eyes darkened as she spoke, "Tsk, please don't disturb me while I'm doing business, otherwise, no matter how good-looking he is, I won't be able to keep him. Xiaoqi, what do you say, why don't you kill him and make him into a doll? It will save you all this trouble."
Xiao Qi: "...When you recover your spiritual power, I will support you. Otherwise, you should consider dual cultivation. However, the prerequisite is that the man's strength is enough, otherwise it will be a waste of time."
Mu Xingchen deflated his breath and said painfully, "Wait, my distant life is so fragile and vulnerable..."
In the middle of the night, Mu Xingchen was woken up by Xiao Qi.
Xiao Qi: "Xingchen, there's movement in the Seven Star Tower. Someone is approaching. The bell must be rung tomorrow afternoon at the latest. You must find a way to leave."
Mu Xingchen opened her eyes, sat up, yawned, and said regretfully, "Okay, I get it."
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In the cold spring, Xu Cen reported to Li Jing: "Master, Miss Mu has done nothing these past few days. The only thing she likes to do is sit on the doorstep and stare blankly..."
daze?
Li Jing frowned slightly and said in a hoarse voice, "Find her something to entertain herself."
Something for entertainment?
Xu Cen said in embarrassment: "This... is something a girl would use for fun, I don't know anything about it..."
Li Jing frowned and said, "Go ask Feng Xue."
Xu Cen twitched his lips. Fengxue? Is Fengxue, who wields swords and guns every day, the same thing that ordinary girls like? Although he thought so in his heart, Xu Cen's expression remained unchanged: "Yes."
Early the next morning, Mu Xingchen received a lot of strange things.
A dagger inlaid with a huge ruby, yet capable of cutting through iron like mud; a belt embroidered with bright red peonies, yet concealing deadly poison; a hairpin made of white jade, black jade, and jadeite, yet each one of them was a hidden weapon...
Mu Xingchen fell silent as she looked at the items. "Does he... want me to assassinate someone? Or does he want me to be a secret guard? Or... does he want me to kill myself? Poison myself? Make myself unconscious?" Mu Xingchen looked at the white powder in her hand in confusion. This was from a bottle of drug on her belt. The moment she pulled it open, smoke billowed, and she accidentally got some on her hand. She asked in a complicated tone, "I thought it was medicine for wounds?"
Xiao Qi laughed like crazy inside the bracelet: "Hahahahahahaha, there's not a single normal person here. Giving these things to a woman who can't even tie a chicken, hahahahahaha, I'm dying of laughter. Who told you to check on that belt first? Hahahaha, when did you become so careless?"
Mu Xingchen twitched his lips. "Shouldn't a normal person give the injured people medicine? At the very least, tonics, but what's the point of giving poison and drugs? Should he let me protect myself or poison the one in the tree? Is he that kind?"
Xiao Qi laughed wildly again, "Who told you our motives were impure and our vision wasn't very good? Men who are too good-looking, have many enemies, and have almost died are generally not mentally healthy. You should be thankful that you only took drugs and didn't touch much of them."
Mu Xingchen's lips curled slightly, and a glint of starlight flickered in his eyes: "However, this is really an opportunity that has been delivered to my door. I was just thinking about how to get out of here quietly."
She took the white powder from the bottle and poured it into a handkerchief, then hid the handkerchief.
Xiao Qi: "Why not just take this opportunity and leave."
Mu Xingchen shook her head and smiled, "Leaving is a last resort. He knows my identity, and it's not easy for him to find me. Mu Qing's revenge has not been avenged yet, so I can't just leave the Mu family like this." After saying that, she walked to the window with an empty bottle, "I'm going to faint."
With a loud "bang", Mu Xingchen fell to the ground.
Xu Cen heard the noise in the house and rushed over quickly. Mu Xingchen opened his eyes and listened to the sounds outside.
"three."
"two."
"one."
Just three seconds before Xu Cen opened the door, Mu Xingchen scattered the drugs in his arms all over the room and closed his eyes.
The moment Xu Cen pushed open the door, he was caught off guard and took a big puff of smoke. His pupils widened as he looked at Mu Xingchen lying on the ground, and a piece of white jade porcelain beside him. If this thing wasn't what Feng Xue often used, whose was it?
Xu Cen gritted his teeth: "Wind! Snow! You hurt me!"
The next second after he finished speaking, Xu Cen fell to the ground with a "bang".
Mu Xingchen opened his eyes, looked at Xu Cen lying unconscious on the ground, and patted the drugs on his hands.
"Don't tell me, this drug has some substance. I'm still a little dizzy."
Xiao Qi: "Of course you will faint without spiritual power to protect yourself. Let's go quickly. We can't stay here for long."
Mu Xingchen walked to Xu Cen and pressed his sleep button, "Just sleep a little longer. Let's go."
Xiao Qi: "This time the Seven Star Tower appears at Sanjian Cliff."
Mu Xingchen nodded.
Originally, the Seven Star Tower had recognized her as its master, and normally she could return to the tower just by using her mind. However, now that she had lost all her spiritual power, she was unable to mobilize any connection with the tower's source. Therefore, whenever the wisher found the tower's location, she had to follow him, and she had to get there before the wisher, otherwise they would not be able to knock on the tower door, and they would never find the Seven Star Tower again in this lifetime.
Mu Xingchen gritted his teeth and said, "If he's not dead, I will definitely cut him into pieces!"
Xiao Qi sneered: "If he didn't die, it would be your turn to die."
Mu Xingchen smiled speechlessly.
An hour later, Sanjian Cliff.
The wind was howling, rustling the leaves, and the whole cliff was filled with a gloomy atmosphere. The woods were dense, and no sunlight could penetrate at all. It was foggy everywhere and it was difficult to see clearly. It was clearly summer, but it was three times colder than winter.
Mu Xingchen stopped and frowned, "Why do I feel like there's something wrong with this place? The yin energy is so strong, and there's an indescribable evil aura. And the aura of this evil aura is so strange. What kind of strange aura is this? Why have I never encountered it before?"
Xiao Qi: "Something is wrong here. That's why when you came in just now, the Seven Star Tower had no choice but to let you recover your spiritual power for an incense stick of time to protect your body. This mission must be completed. There is no time left. Enter the tower first."
Mu Xingchen nodded and ignored the breath.
This time, the Seven Star Tower was located in the middle of the Three Stream Cliff. Mu Xingchen pushed open the tower door and walked to the throne in the tower. The moment she sat down, the seat slowly rose until it was dozens of meters high, and the entire Seven Star Tower began to be covered with a ray of light from above.
The original Seven Star Tower had seven floors. She had unlocked five floors before, but after she was seriously injured that time, only this one floor was left. The Seven Star Tower is now unable to do anything.
Half an incense stick of time later, the tower door rang.
Mu Xingchen waved his hand, and a force silently pushed open the tower door. The moment the tower door opened, a strange wind blew in from outside. Mu Xingchen narrowed his eyes and said in a deep voice, "That was the breath just now."
Xiao Qi said seriously, "It seems like a special guest."
"Deng ge ge..." As the footsteps approached, the strange aura became stronger and stronger.
The light in the tower suddenly lit up, shining on the woman who walked in. Mu Xingchen's pupils trembled. She tilted her head slightly and frowned. "Xiao Qi, which world did you tear open the door to? Why is there a monster here?"
Xiao Qi said with a guilty conscience: "In this vast world, everything depends on fate. The situation was urgent at the time and there was no time to think too much."
Mu Xingchen looked at the woman at the foot of the tower. She was stunningly beautiful, dressed in a purple robe of exquisite elegance. However, she seemed to have been in a fight; her clothes were tattered and her body was covered in bruises. Mu Xingchen was startled by the sight of her because she had a pair of furry white ears and a white tail hanging from her buttocks. From this shape, she looked like a fox...
As soon as she opened her mouth, she was filled with strong hatred: "I heard that the Wishing Tower can fulfill any wish of a person, but what about an alien like me?"
Alien?
Mu Xingchen smiled, a smile that was incredibly captivating. The corners of her eyes held an unconscious allure. "Oh, in this world, any sentient being can do business with the Seven Star Tower." She slowly sat up straight and asked curiously, "But, what is your wish, young lady?"
Her face was filled with resentment, and she spoke excitedly, "I want all the enemies who harmed my father to die! I want my culprit, the bitch husband, to be torn into pieces and tortured to death! I want to take my daughter back in one piece! I want to take back the business that belongs to my Tushan tribe!"
Mu Xingchen shook his head and said with interest, "It sounds like you have a lot of wishes. Why don't you tell me about them?"
The woman calmed down a bit and closed her eyes. "My name is Tushan Zi, the daughter of Tushan Xu, the richest man in Pingyuan County."
"Tushan? Is it really a fox?" Mu Xingchen asked in surprise. Isn't that the record in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" of her world?
Tushan nodded: "It seems that the Pagoda Master knows Tushan. Then the Pagoda Master should also know that the Tushan clan has been in seclusion for a hundred years."
"Since you are in seclusion, why are you here?" Mu Xingchen asked.
Tu Shanzi seemed to recall a beautiful memory, a smile spreading across her face as she said, "When my father was young, he was very lively and couldn't stay in the mountains, so he often went down the mountain to play. One time, when he was going down the mountain to play, he unexpectedly met my mother..."
She paused, a nostalgic look crossing her face. "They fell in love with each other, and not long after, I was born. After I was born, they chose to stay in Pingyuan County. Later, they started a business to make a living, and have stayed here ever since."
Mu Xingchen raised his chin and asked, "Then where does your hatred come from?"
Tu Shanzi closed her eyes and trembled as she said, "My mother passed away a few years ago..."
"After my mother left, my father originally wanted to give up all his property and take me away, but I was already an adult by then, and had fallen in love with someone, a...human man." When she said this, her face was filled with pain.
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