Chapter 121 Closed Loop
The Happy Funeral Demon struck while the iron was hot, stretching its sharp claws to his back in an extremely twisted posture, while the White Water Demon cooperated to snatch the glass cup that he was protecting.
Being attacked from both sides, Li Daoxuan thrust the wooden sword backwards, instantly piercing through the sharp claws of the Happy Funeral Demon. She pulled away in pain, but in doing so, Li Daoxuan lost the wooden sword.
In a blink of an eye, Bai Shuisha's increasingly withered claws were about to fall. Seeing that Li Daoxuan's body stagnated again, he smiled faintly.
Coming closer, he stretched out his claws and squeezed: "Sizzle——"
Instead of getting what he imagined, he grabbed a pitch-black sword. The sword was very spiritual. When it sensed the evil spirit coming, it immediately sent out a protective gust of wind, burning a big hole in Bai Shuisha's palm.
He tried to pull his hand away, but it was firmly held by the sword. Li Daoxuan took advantage of the chaos to grab the hilt and pulled the sword away. Four of Bai Shuisha's fingers fell to the ground like they were free.
A girl holding an umbrella appeared behind him at some point. She was looking at the two demons indifferently, holding a ball of talismans in her hand. The ball was as big as two fists. It was likely that the talisman paper inside was enough to scare them to death.
The two demons looked at each other, turned into two wisps of green smoke and flew away, no longer wanting to fight.
Chen Qing had no intention of catching up. He slowly shook off the snow from his umbrella and folded it.
She carefully peeled off the talisman paper, revealing what was inside. It wasn't talisman paper, but a stone.
The stone was quite heavy, and Chen Qing's hands were sore from lifting it. The talisman papers on the stone were what she used to "show off" and save face. She carefully put the only two wrinkled talismans left into her arms.
When Li Daoxuan saw that it was her, he was surprised, and then he breathed a sigh of relief. He finally couldn't hold on any longer and slid down to sit against the wall, looking very embarrassed.
Chen Qing had seen him in such a miserable state more than once, and every time she had to clean up his mess.
She curled her lips and muttered, "It's just a wisp of soul. It's not impossible to nurture it. Is it necessary to risk my life?" Although she said so, it was obvious that his entire arm was corroded by the demon poison. She still gritted her teeth and took out a talisman from her arms.
Li Daoxuan closed his eyes and said, "Your body is precious, what do you know?"
Chen Qing's eyes trembled, and she leaned in to observe his eyes carefully. A person's eyes are the most deceptive. But before she could see clearly, she saw him suddenly grab her neck and press his lips to hers.
The overly hot breath sprinkled on the tip of the nose, burning people uncomfortable, and Chen Qing wanted to push him away.
Her delicate palm had reached his chest, and Chen Qing was caught off guard by the heat and dampness in her hand. The tip of her nose was filled with the strong smell of blood. She frowned, and finally changed her stance to grabbing his collar and responding to him perfunctorily.
Li Daoxuan didn't argue too much, and brought the extracted soul back into her mouth, nibbling on her lips with the tip of his tongue, before finally letting go reluctantly. He held her tightly in his arms, his nose rubbing against the top of her soft hair, intentionally or unintentionally.
Chen Qing was so engrossed in the kiss that she finally focused her eyes when he released her lips and left. She touched her upper abdomen and found that the wound had healed.
She said, "If you don't let go, and no one helps you detoxify, you're going to die."
Li Daoxuan: "No problem."
After a long silence, Shen Qing suddenly asked, "When did you find out?"
"What?" He was still playing dumb.
"Love Gu." She raised her eyes from his arms, her gaze burning.
"You've recovered a long time ago, but you've just been playing dumb with me. I'm not a fool either, and I can tell the difference between you before and now."
Li Daoxuan lowered his eyes to stare at her and said confidently, "So what?"
Chen Qing opened his eyes and moved closer, "You're not angry?"
"I like you. What's wrong with having a reason to be close to you?" At first he was angry and struggled, but in the end, everything turned into a sigh and he accepted defeat.
Seeing that he was still calm, Shen Qing asked nervously, "Have you taken the antidote?" She remembered that this love Gu could be fatal if the antidote was not taken.
Li Daoxuan said, "It doesn't count."
"What's the meaning?"
"There is a more powerful Gu in my body that will devour all alien creatures."
Chen Qing was surprised: "You just told me that?" She subconsciously wanted to look for relevant information from her memories of her previous life, but she stopped herself halfway through.
She thought that she had lost too many memories related to him and could not trust all the memories of her previous life.
Chen Qing decided to ask him in person: "What kind of Gu is this?"
She was just trying it out, but she heard him say truthfully, "Zhu Yan Gu."
Zhu Yan Gu? What kind of Gu was this? She had never heard of it before.
Li Daoxuan seemed to see her doubts. He held the person in his arms tighter and said truthfully:
"A kind of... life-saving Gu."
"When I was five years old, there was a riot at Guisuipo. Soon after, news came that the Gao family generals had defected, and the remaining 30,000 soldiers were buried in the valley."
"When Xiang Yao massacred the city, evil spirits began to grow. The Saint Jing then sent people to seal off the city. My mother was worried that so many people couldn't all be buried alive, so she tried to stop the Saint from sealing off the city, but the Saint was determined. So my mother took me back to the Gao family."
Chen Qing listened intently, her eyes widening in a moment. She had heard of Ghost Town before, and now Ghost Town, along with the Sneaky Hill, was a notorious haunted place.
She also knew about the battle that year.
"So what does this have to do with the Gu in your body?"
"have."
"My mother abandoned me at the Gao family and went to look for my grandfather and the Gao family soldiers alone. Later..." His eyes were filled with confusion. "Later, my mother couldn't find anyone and cried until she went blind. The Gao family was also ordered to be executed." Perhaps my mother would never have thought that her former partner would actually believe the rumors and want to kill her mother's clan.
"Later, Grandpa Gao hid me, and I was able to escape the disaster. The Gao family was completely slaughtered, leaving only one old man and one child."
"Who is it?"
"Gao Haizhou and Gao Congli."
Chen Qing pondered for a moment. She had heard of Gao Haizhou's name. He was the Chief Secretary of Yangzhou. He was an honest man and had many students from poor families.
She had never heard of Gao Congli.
only……
Chen Qing shuddered. Weren't all the troubles that had arisen in Weinan County due to "Gao Changshi's death while offering treasures"?
"Then they—"
Li Daoxuan said in a dull voice: "Gao Congli has been murdered, and Gao Changshi escaped by water, and his whereabouts are unknown."
"As far as I know, Gao Changshi is now over 60 years old..." It was already autumn at that time. Chen Qing couldn't imagine how a 60-year-old man jumped into the cold and turbulent Wei River, and how he avoided those who were chasing him and survived alone.
After hearing about Gao Changshi's experience, Shen Qing's mood suddenly became depressed.
"Back then, the Gao family was wiped out, and only two people survived. Then what happened?"
"Then, I took advantage of everyone's inattention and sneaked off to Sneaky Hill."
Seeing the surprise in Chen Qing's eyes, he said: "Of course I'm not alone. It's a long and sneaky road. A man in black found me and took me there."
This memory didn't seem very pleasant, so he kept it simple. "Then I saw my mother. She had exhausted all her energy and inner strength trying to save the souls of the deceased. She had even cried herself blind. She was at the end of her life."
"I just remember her hugging me and crying, and then when I woke up again, I was back in the palace."
"No more?"
"Also, I heard it from someone else. I was on Sneaky Hill and my meridians were cut off. I was dying, but a passing nun saved me and sent me back to the palace."
"I was destined to die, but she defied fate and used the Zhu Yan Gu to reconnect my meridians, giving me a new life."
"Going against fate and changing your destiny will naturally not have a good ending. The Zhu Yan Gu in my body will accompany me for the rest of my life. The Zhu Yan Gu will attack on three days of every month, and after I turn twenty, it will start to gnaw at my meridians." It will gnaw back the same meridians that the Zhu Yan Gu had connected in the first place, bite after bite.
"Until I become completely useless."
"So... you need an antidote, which is my—Glass Heart."
At this point, the incident becomes a closed loop.
This makes sense. Why has he been so accommodating to her since she got Liulixin? Why was he so angry at herself for "cheating" her and killed her without hesitation after she destroyed Liulixin in the previous life?
Thinking of this, the small bud in Chen Qing's heart that had just stretched out to become a leaf was pressed back into the mud with a "puff".
The eagerness in her eyes faded a little, and she pulled away from his arms.
Li Daoxuan grabbed her sleeve and waved it away with a calm expression.
He suddenly raised his eyes, raised his eyebrows and said solemnly, "You're almost dying because you're so busy telling stories."
She will unfold the pickled vegetable-like talisman in her hand to exorcise the evil spirits and poison for him.
After exorcising the poison, Chen Qing asked, "Why was my soul taken away?"
Li Daoxuan pursed his lips, a sense of dread gradually welling up in his heart. "When I found you bleeding on the bed, I went to look for the imperial physician. Coincidentally, during that interval, a night mill that had coveted you for a long time stole a wisp of your soul away."
So the one who tried to launch a sneak attack on him that night but was beaten back by Li Daoxuan was the Night Grindstone Demon!
Li Daoxuan took the initiative and asked: "What about you? Why did you stab yourself?"
Shen Qing was stunned, as if someone was strangling her neck. After holding it in for a long time, she said, "Why do you care about me?"
Thinking back to the stupid things he had done, Shen Qing's old face turned red.
She originally wanted to recover more memory through stimulation, but who would have thought that she would be restless every time she was in a coma. Now the memory she has recovered is pitifully small, and so many days have been wasted in vain.
In this case, it would take a long time for her to fully recover her memory, and she didn't know if her body could withstand the ordeal...
"Oh, no, no, no," she said, "It stinks in here, take me out now!"
Li Daoxuan closed his eyes, and a thin layer of sweat seeped out from the tip of his nose. He didn't know whether it was hot or painful.
After a long time, he stood up quickly and walked out with her hand.
Chen Qing spoke to him intermittently, and learned from him that during the more than one month that she was unconscious, he had been looking for her residual soul.
In the first half month, some things happened. The emperor fell seriously ill and all state affairs were handed over to the crown prince. The third prince, who was far away in Huazhou, accidentally contracted the disease and died while controlling the flood. Li Yu heard about it and rode his horse overnight to Huazhou to find his brother, but was stopped at the city gate by the crown prince. He was imprisoned in Dongshan Temple on the grounds of disrespecting the saint.
Li Daoxuan knew that it was not safe in Dongshan Temple, so he took Chen Qing with him into the Yemozi Cave.
That’s right, this intricate and winding underground palace is exactly the hole dug by the Night Mill Spirit.
Li Daoxuan used up almost all the talismans on his body to set up a formation. The world inside the formation was completely different from the world outside the formation.
The world inside the array is connected to the outside world and can share the same seasons and weather as the outside world.
For this reason, when Chen Qing woke up, he thought he was outside, but he didn't expect that he had entered the underground tunnel of Dongshan Temple unknowingly.
As soon as she came out, she met the two demons who were also hiding in the tunnel and attacking Li Daoxuan. Without thinking too much, she took out the talisman paper from the silver bracelet and found a stone to disguise it, pretending that there were many talismans.
In the past in Yuanchun Tower, the shadow of the two demons' reckless scattering of talismans by Shen Qing was really deep, so now they have no doubt that the thing in Shen Qing's hand is fake.
After leaving the underground palace, the extremely dazzling white light made the two of them raise their hands to cover their eyes at the same time.
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