A Demon’s Path

Shangrao Village is a small village built at the foot of the mountain. According to Ling Xiao's visual estimation, the village is estimated to have only a hundred or so households, which is very small.

But for Xiaomo at this time, this is the most intimate and beautiful place, because here are her childhood memories and her parents who she misses.

Impatiently, Xiao Mo rushed into the village like a child in an amusement park, shouting happily: "I'm back!!!"

However, everyone in this village looked at Xiao Mo as if they were strangers, and Xiao Mo couldn't help feeling a little chill in her heart.

No, what is contained in these eyes is the coldness that is more unfamiliar than looking at strangers!

"What... what's going on here?" Xiao Mo faintly felt a trace of uneasiness, and an ominous premonition shrouded Xiao Mo's mind, which made Xiao Mo immediately want to rush back to her home to have a look own parents.

Ling Xiao walked to Xiao Mo's side, looked at the surrounding villagers with a strange expression, and frowned: "They seem to be poisoned by something, let's go and have a look."

The two walked towards an aunt in her fifties, and Xiao Mo said cautiously to the aunt, "Auntie, can you tell me what's wrong with you?"

The aunt still looked at Xiao Mo with those uncomfortable eyes, and whispered in her mouth: "Xiao Mo, the master wants you to go back..."

This sentence was like the first piece of dominoes, which quickly caused a chain reaction. Immediately afterwards, an old man next to him also said in a dry voice, "Xiaomo, the master wants you to go back..."

"Xiaomo, the master wants you to go back..."

"Xiaomo, the master wants you to go back..."

These words echoed everywhere at the same time, and the entire village was tightly surrounded by the endless echoes of these words.

"No!" Xiaomo covered her ears tightly, and frantically ran towards the north of the village.

"Xiao Mo, calm down!" Ling Xiao followed Xiao Mo closely and ran to a dilapidated thatched cottage.

A man and a woman in their fifties sat at the door of the thatched cottage, and beside them were two teenagers who looked very similar, sitting on their knees.

This scene looked extremely warm, but the eyes of the four of them were the same as those of other villagers, indifferent, weird, and dull.

"Father, mother..." Xiao Mo called out in a trembling voice. The two of them seemed to have heard Xiao Mo's voice, and slowly raised their heads to look at Xiao Mo, and murmured: "Daughter, the master calls you go back……"

The two little boys also said to Xiaomo: "Sister... the master told you to go back..."

"Ah—" Xiao Mo yelled wildly, kneeling on the ground with a plop, tears rolling down her cheeks.

"It was me...it was I who harmed you..." Xiao Mo's heart felt as if it had been pierced with countless knives at this moment, and she couldn't bear the pain.

With a straight face, Ling Xiao casually grabbed an old villager in his seventies and gave him a full-body diagnosis.

As a result of the diagnosis, the old villager's brain was attacked by a toxin, and his brain function had completely degenerated. As long as others taught him what to say, he could only speak this sentence.

"Xi Nao San!" Ling Xiao's mind immediately recalled the description of this drug in Amakusa Compendium, and its symptoms were exactly the same as those of these people.

As for the prescription of Xinao San, there are only four words in Amakusa Compendium: No medicine can solve it!

Because the raw material of this medicine itself is not synthesized with poison, it is not poison at all, and naturally there is no medicine to cure it.

The only way is to start from scratch and train the brains of these people step by step, which is equivalent to retraining a person.

It will take ten or twenty years at least, not to mention, the memory of these people has been completely erased by the eclipse brain powder, even if they are re-cultivated, they will still be a completely different stranger!

"Xiao Mo, my condolences." Ling Xiao said calmly: "If you have the patience, take them away and make good offerings. Maybe one day, I will find a way to retrieve their lost memories."

What Ling Xiao said was not completely comforting Xiaomo. The complexity of the human brain is far beyond Ling Xiao's comprehension at this stage. When we reach the Earth Soul Realm or the Heaven Soul Realm, there may be a skill that can restore people's memories.

So, anything is possible.

Xiao Mo cried for a long time, her eyes were red and swollen from crying, then she stood up from the ground and looked at Ling Xiao expectantly: "Is it true?"

Ling Xiao nodded very firmly: "Even if my physical body is destroyed, I can quickly reshape one, what else is impossible?"

Ling Xiao was so sure, naturally, to give Xiao Mo confidence. If you are not sure about the person you are persuading, how can you persuade them?

"Thank you..." Xiaomo wiped away her tears: "But where is it safer to put them?"

Ling Xiao thought for a while before saying, "Maybe, we can keep them in Beimin faction."

Since Ling Xiao left, Cheng Yu has been secretly following Ling Xiao's news. When she learned that Ling Xiao was trapped in the battlefield of gods and demons, her heart tightened suddenly.

Afterwards, Cheng Yu handed over all the affairs in the faction to the brothers Big Zhu and Little Zhu, and stopped talking to anyone in the faction, and practiced hard day and night.

Everyone knew why Cheng Yu did this, and there was no other way but to sigh secretly.

Many people may not know what Ling Xiao means to Cheng Yu, but everyone knows what Ling Xiao means to the Beimin faction.

Even if it was rumored outside that Ling Xiao had fallen into a demonic way, the Beimin faction still firmly believed that Ling Xiao was innocent.

This is a belief that is almost worshipful. No one can change the belief of the disciples of the Beimin Sect, even the two boys who guard the gate think so.

"Senior Brother Ling Xiao, will it really take ten years to come out?"

"Who knows? Anyway, I believe that Brother Ling Xiao will not die, and once he comes out, he will make those guys look good!"

Those two boys were talking about Ling Xiao, when a young man and woman, a middle-aged man and a child and a pair of children appeared in their sight.

"Who are you looking for?" The two boys asked curiously.

The young man said gently to the two boys: "Please inform Sect Master Cheng that her brother who traveled abroad is back."

The two boys looked puzzled, senior sister and elder brother? Why haven't you heard of it?

The young man knew that the two boys were curious, so he handed each of the two boys an orange spar: "Just send a message, isn't it a word from the head?"

"This..." The two men hesitated for a moment, finally unable to hold back the temptation of the spar, one of them quickly ran towards the door, and the other politely said to the young man, "Your Excellency, please wait a moment. "

"Brother who is traveling...?" Cheng Yu didn't speak for a long time, and even his voice became a little hoarse.

She didn't refuse straight away and asked the gatekeeper to drive the man away, but she didn't immediately say she wanted to see the man either.

The kid looked at the headmaster who was undecided, and didn't dare to say anything, for fear of disturbing the headmaster to think about something important.

"It's better... let him come in alone, come to my room." After a while, Cheng Yu finally made a decision.

Walking up to Cheng Yu was a young man who was completely unfamiliar.

But as soon as Cheng Yu saw those clear eyes and the faint smile on the corner of his mouth, he felt a sense of familiarity that he hadn't seen for a long time.

"Ling... Xiao?" Cheng Yu asked bitterly.

She didn't know what mood she was in right now. Facing this strange but familiar man, she had a lot to say, but she didn't know what to say all of a sudden.

The young man showed a standard smile that only Ling Xiao could have: "What do you think?"

The human skin mask was taken off, and the young man Ling Xiao changed back into Ling Xiao's appearance.

Yes, that's him. This man who made himself cry and laugh countless times in his dreams.

Without any more words, Cheng Yu only hoped that this moment would become eternal. And the man in front of him will stay here forever, and will never travel far...