A Demon’s Path

The sun is scorching hot, the sun is roasting the earth, steaming, like a big steamer between the sky and the earth.

In the west of Beimin City, there is a large building decorated in red and green. Under the strong sunlight, it emits an unpleasant smell, as if something is rotten.

On the plaque at the main gate of the building, there are three golden characters of "Piaohongyuan", and a dazzling red cloth flower hangs above the plaque.

At this time, the closed door opened with a creak, and a young man with a smile on his face walked out from inside.

The clothes this young man was wearing were fairly decent, but the gray color made people feel that the clothes hadn't been washed for some time.

A smooth arm with five fingers painted with red nail polish stretched out, closing the door weakly.

I saw that this young man had just stepped out of Piaohong Courtyard, and unconsciously rubbed his index finger back and forth under his nose a few times, that smiling face immediately became extremely gloomy.

"It's not too late for a villain to take revenge in ten years! The damn old bustard gave me one hundred red crystals less! When I have money, I will buy this Piaohong courtyard and let you, the old bustard, pick up customers and pick up a hundred strong men a day!"

The young man's name is Ling Xiao, he is an orphan, and he lived by begging before the age of fourteen.

Later, I don’t know what fate happened, which made him learn to refine a special pill that only men who are looking for flowers and willows and “weak constitutions” need.

From then on, Ling Xiao started to do business with Piaohongyuan.

Ling Xiao walked home depressed, and when he got to the street, he found that there were more people on the street than when he came here just now.

"Isn't that big guy in blue the soul master of the Beimin Sect in the back mountain of our Beimin City? Usually, he is like a 2,580,000 person in our Beimin City. How did he become a grandson in front of these guys today? They must be more powerful soul masters than the Beimin Sect!"

Seeing this guy's groveling look, Ling Xiao thought to himself, if he is also a powerful soul master, he must ask that guy to bring him footwashing water.

Spirit masters and demon soul masters are collectively referred to as chain soul masters. They are powerful men in this world.

Ling Xiao heard people say that a high-level chain soul master can open mountains and fill seas with a wave of his hand, which is very powerful.

The so-called soul masters are because they claim to be the protectors of ordinary people.

And the demon soul master is the butcher of the common people, the incarnation of the devil.

"Residents of Beimin City, listen up, there is a monster hiding in Beimin City, all residents of Beimin City, please leave immediately, otherwise, life and death will be at your own risk!"

There were bursts of deep and long voices from the sky, and Ling Xiao felt that the voice gave people a condescending and unquestionable feeling.

"Is there a devil? Are you leaving Beimin City?" Ling Xiao immediately remembered the things hidden in the earth pit under the bed at home, and seeing the crowds of screaming and scrambling people leaving the city, he gritted his teeth and ran quickly towards his home.

In the sky above Beimin City, there is a huge boulder whose body surface looks like dry wrinkled bark, and tens of thousands of soul masters are suspended under it.

Necklaces were hung around the necks of these soul masters, and the gemstones on the necklaces shone brightly. Yellow, green, and blue rays of light rose from the gemstones and flew towards this huge boulder.

The boulder kept absorbing these rays of light, and quickly began to mutate.

hum! The dry wrinkled skin on the surface of the stone peeled off layer by layer, revealing a huge eyeball!

That eyeball emitted a large area of ​​light that was the same color as the sun, silently sprinkled on everyone who left the city...

*** With a "bang", Ling Xiao kicked open the broken door of her house, and rushed in without even taking a breath.

Suddenly, a sharp pain like a sharp knife directly piercing the brain made Ling Xiao fall to the ground covering his head and shouted: "Ah——"

"Huh?! Didn't die?" A slightly surprised sound came from a corner of Ling Xiao's house.

Ling Xiao's head was covered with sweat, and his face was pale. The sting just now almost made him lose all the strength in his whole body. He lifted his head feebly and looked in that direction.

A skinny old man in a black robe covered in blood was staring at him curiously. Seeing the dense wounds on the old man's body, Ling Xiao couldn't help feeling horrified.

Thinking of the terrible stabbing pain in his brain just now, no matter how idiot he is, he knows that the old man in front of him is the person that majestic voice said, and he can't help crying in his heart: "The devil?! He's hiding in my house! No way? Why is my luck not so good when I, Ling Xiao, usually gamble!?"

The old man suddenly muttered to himself: "The twin souls of the god and the devil...it turns out to be the twin souls of the god and the devil. I don't know why, but there is such a strong mental power. It's no wonder..."

Ling Xiao couldn't hear what the old man was whispering at all, but kept staring at the old man, like a wounded beast looking at a hunter.

As if sensing Ling Xiao's gaze, the old man looked up at Ling Xiao. Those deep eyes were like a pair of sharp swords, as if they wanted to pierce Ling Xiao's heart: "Little guy, everyone in the city has escaped, why don't you escape?"

Even with the fear, panic, and resentment in his heart, Ling Xiao still squeezed out a smile like a spring breeze on his face: "I heard that a devil is coming. I'm a poor man, and it's not easy to save some savings. When I come back, I pack up my belongings and run away. Old man, who are you? Why are you in my house? Is it because the devil has come and can't move?"

The old man clutched the wound on his chest that was an inch to the left of his heart, closed his eyes and moaned twice: "Pour me a bowl of water."

Ling Xiao rubbed her nose with her index finger, got up and walked to the table. He picked up the kettle with his right hand, took a broken bowl with his left hand, poured water into the bowl until it was full, clasped the mouth of the bowl with his thumb, and passed the bowl over: "Old man, drink some water."

The old man slowly opened his eyes, looked at Ling Xiao expressionlessly, and took the bowl of water.

Ling Xiao fixed her eyes on the old man, licked her lower lip with her tongue, swallowed hard, and her Adam's apple moved.

The old man drank the bowl of water without saying a word, Ling Xiao felt relieved, wiped the sweat from his forehead with his dirty sleeve, and took the broken bowl from the old man's hand.

"This poison is well prepared, did you prepare it yourself?" the old man said suddenly, with an appreciative smile on his face.

This smile fell into Ling Xiao's eyes, but it looked like a devil's smile. His hands trembled, and he instinctively grabbed the bowl that was almost out of his hands: "Old man, what are you talking about?"

Ling Xiao looked at the old man innocently, as if he had been wronged a lot. If it was someone else, he would feel embarrassed that he had wronged Ling Xiao.

Unfortunately, the old man Ling Xiao met was not an ordinary person.

The old man sneered and said, "Boy, don't pretend to me! There are two ways for you, one is a dead end..."

Sensing the fierce murderous aura on the old man, Ling Xiao hurriedly shouted: "I choose the second one!"

Looking at the half-smile smile on the old man's face, he seemed to know that Ling Xiao would definitely choose the second route.

Ling Xiao suddenly felt that he had been fooled and chose a seemingly lifeless path of no return. He shrank and asked, "The second way is... what?"

The old man said indifferently: "The second way is simple, that is, you will be the apprentice of my Seven Demon Patriarch and avenge me."

Ling Xiao roared angrily in his heart: I'm going to die! You old devil accept me as an apprentice now, haven't I been torn apart by those soul masters outside? Even if you are going to die, you old bastard can die by himself, why do you have to use me as a backstop?

Seeing Ling Xiao hesitate for a moment, the Patriarch Seven Demons snorted coldly: "Why? Don't you want to?"

"Why can't the poison kill you old thing!" Ling Xiao kept greeting the countless generations of ancestors of this old demon in his heart, plus all the women of the whole family, old and young.

Of course, even if there are thousands of people who are unwilling, Ling Xiao will not write those unwillingness on his face, but hastily piled up all the smiles: "Where would you be unwilling? Master is such a powerful senior to accept me as an apprentice, I wish for it! I don't know what I have to make you look good..."

The Patriarch of the Seven Devils laughed dryly and said, "Shameless, vicious, hypocritical and insidious, these are the four standards for my disciples, haha!"

Ling Xiao rolled her eyes countless times in her heart. Do you have that old thing that is so embarrassing? If it's really so unbearable, it's not because of you, an old monster.

However, since this old man said so, Ling Xiao had no choice but to "grandly" kowtow three times: "Disciple pays homage to Master."

While being apprenticed to a master, Ling Xiao kept thinking Xiao Jiujiu in his heart: "Forget it, promise him first. If you don't promise, he will die immediately. If you promise, he can live a little longer. If you can live for a while, it's only a short time. When this old thing kicks his legs, I will go to those soul masters and confess that I was forced. They probably won't make things difficult for an ordinary person like me."

Just as Ling Xiao was thinking to himself, a blue light flashed in the palm of the Seven Demon Patriarch's palm, and he pressed down hard on the top of his head.

hum!

Ling Xiao only felt his head spinning, strange power emanating from the hands of the ancestor of the seven demons, continuously rushing into every corner of his body.

"Ah!" Bursts of stinging pain came from Ling Xiao's body, tortured Ling Xiao to the point of dying, dying, and coming back to life again.

After this Ling Chi-like pain passed, Ling Xiao suddenly felt that there was an extra necklace around her neck. There are seven gemstones shining in dark tones on that necklace, and countless black air revolves around this gemstone.

With a thought in Ling Xiao's mind, a strange space appeared in his mind: a dark red space, filled with all kinds of crystals, medicinal materials, books that Ling Xiao knew, and strange metal and non-metal substances that he didn't know.

Ling Xiao estimated the quantity and value of those spars. Based on his current income from selling medicines, he might not be able to earn that much in dozens of lifetimes!

Also, the medicinal materials contained in this space were all things he had seen in that alchemy book before, but he thought they were non-existent!

Ling Xiao swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and his first reaction was to take out an orange spar worth a hundred rhododendrons. Without any warning, the orange spar really fell into his hands!

A man is not rich without windfall, and a horse is not fat without night grass.

"My... oh my God..." Ling Xiao almost suspected that he was dreaming, so he pinched his thigh hard, and after hearing his pig-killing howl, he knew that he was not dreaming.

After being ecstatic for a while, Ling Xiao remembered the old man who gave him everything: "Master, you are..."

The Seven Devils Patriarch's hale and hearty eyes narrowed slightly. Although his appearance didn't seem to have changed, Ling Xiao could still feel that the Seven Devils Patriarch's vitality was rapidly fading away.

"I actually have such a keen sense!" Ling Xiao was secretly surprised. This necklace, which actually existed in his body but was invisible from the outside, increased his physical and mental strength by countless times in just a few seconds!

The ancestor of the Seven Demons said coldly: "It's nothing, do you still like this Seven Soul Demon Chain? Well, time is running out, and I will tell you now, what you need to do to be my apprentice."

(The new book lands at 17k, all book lovers feel that this book is not bad, enjoy a flower, collect it, you understand, hee hee)