Exorcism

Mu Xingqiu was lying on the grass, his head resting on his hands, chewing a straw stick lightly in his mouth, looking up at the sky. It was early autumn, the sky was high and the air was crisp. The weeds underneath were soft and tough, like a legendary old country home-brewed wine. It had a rough taste in the mouth and a fragrant aftertaste. People who were too delicate could not enjoy this kind of fun.

The vine transformed from the demon seed was placed next to him. Its power was slowly recovering. Occasionally, it would suddenly raise half of its length like a snake, and then slap it heavily on the grass, making a snapping sound. Mu Xingqiu did not even notice. I ignored it and just stared at the unpredictable clouds in the sky. My mind was actually empty and I didn't think of anything.

He didn't even cast any spell restrictions around him, so the female Taoist priest could approach easily. She stood on top of the hillside and stared at him for a while, "Do you know that you are the biggest laughing stock in the world?"

Mu Xingqiu stood up, spat out the straw stick in his mouth, and looked at the young female Taoist priest more than ten steps away. After a while, he vaguely recognized her identity, "Zhang Xiang'er, Zhang Lingsheng's daughter?"

Zhang Xiang'er hummed perfunctorily. She didn't have much trace of her father, but she still had a lot of her childhood appearance. The figures of two children immediately appeared in Mu Xingqiu's mind. They were running around in Shen Xiuming's flower garden. , followed Mu Xingqiu all the way, but rarely got close, "Where is Shen Cunyi?"

Zhang Xiang'er frowned slightly, as if she wasn't happy to hear the name, "She should be practicing in the tower, I don't know."

Cultivation will change a lot. If childhood friends cannot move forward side by side, estrangement will easily develop. Mu Xingqiu asked something that he shouldn't ask and smiled, "So everyone in the world knows about my challenge to Kun Chaos? "

"Grandmaster." Zhang Xiang'er corrected seriously, "You already thought of this when you asked Zuo Liuying to go to the imperial capital to declare war, right?"

"I didn't ask anyone to declare war. He volunteered and wanted to experience before me how powerful Patriarch Kunchaos really is." Mu Xingqiu also corrected, and made a small compromise on the title.

Zhang Xiang'er thought for a moment and accepted the title of "Kun Chaos Patriarch", "I thought you would hide until you suddenly appeared in the imperial capital three days later, just like Zuo Liuying did."

"I don't want to hide, as that will affect my mood before the fight. Mu Xingqiu stretched, Zhang Xiang'er moved his fingers slightly, and when he realized that Mu Xingqiu had no intention of attacking, he slowly retracted his palms into his sleeves.

"How did you find this place?"

"Zuo Liuying's memory, you broke up five miles away, he went to the imperial capital, and you...rested here. I thought I wouldn't find you. I don't understand, this place is less than a hundred miles away from the imperial capital, and you If you don’t have anything else to do, why do you choose to fight in three days and make a fuss? "

"Is there no answer in Zuo Liuying's memory?"

Zhang Xiang'er was speechless, and after a while she said: "It was the ancestor who got all his memories, not me."

"All the memories? If Patriarch Kunchaos really gets all the memories, he will not agree to the fight in three days, but will directly come to seize the demon seed."

Perhaps stimulated by the word "devil", the vine on the grass suddenly bounced. Mu Xingqiu grabbed it. The vine struggled for a while and gradually stabilized.

"Grandmaster Kunchao thinks that we are hiding a secret that is not good for him. He wants to dig out this secret, so he agreed to the fight in three days. As for why it has to be three days, I am waiting for it to recover. The time is too short, the devil This kind of power is not enough. If it lasts for more than three days, I will not be able to control it. "

"Hey, who would have thought that Mu Xingqiu and Zuo Liuying, who have been fighting demons all their lives, would use demon seeds to fight against the Taoist ancestors." Zhang Xiang'er sneered and suddenly jumped into the sky, "I'm leaving."

"Wait, why did you come to me?"

"I just want to see how my former guardian became a laughing stock in the eyes of the world." Zhang Xiang'er's cold arrogance is not as deeply hidden as the Taoist disciples, and it is clearly revealed, indicating that she does not yet have a pure heart as a Taoist priest.

"I am also your guardian now. I promised your father that I will take care of you as long as I live. If anyone bullies you, please tell me. By the way, your birthday is the ninth day of August, and it just passed.

Zhang Xiang'er fell to the ground again, her expression getting colder and colder, "From now on, I release you from your commitment. You don't have to 'take care' of me anymore. No one bullies me. I'm a Taoist priest, but it's just my birthday. You want to know why I'm here?" Looking for you? Okay, let me tell you the truth, I am here to end a tribulation: Since I was a child, people have been telling me that I have an amazing guardian, saying how powerful and great you are. For many years, I have thought about it day and night. , I even made one gift after another for you, but you never showed up. No, you showed up once, in Uncle Xiuming’s flower garden, coming and going in a hurry, but it wasn’t me you came to see at all, I was. It just happened to be there. This thing is like a pebble in my heart, preventing me from forming a Taoist heart and affecting my practice. The past is not gone, but it grows day by day. The book calls this "Pearl Tribulation", and I am like this today. To break this unnecessary pearl."

The mussels constantly secrete liquid to coat the gravel mixed into the body, creating pearls one after another. Although the result is beautiful, it is meaningless to the maker, and it will never feel comfortable at all.

"I wish you success, but this has nothing to do with my promise to your father." Mu Xingqiu smiled, and the scene of Zhang Lingsheng's entrustment before his death clearly appeared in his mind.

Zhang Xiang'er had a pearl calamity in his heart, but Mu Xingqiu had a series of pearls in his heart. He didn't know whether it was a calamity or not, but he didn't want to throw away any of them.

Zhang Xianger ascended again, "It doesn't matter. The ancestor will help me break this calamity. Three days later, everything will be over. You will be locked up in the Demon Cave, and I will never have to..."

"The Demon Cave? Is that where I will end up?"

"The ancestor doesn't kill people, not even the demons, so you will be sent to the Demon Cave after you are defeated." Zhang Xianger paused, "You stole the demon seed, and used it as a weapon to fight the ancestor. Entering the Demon Cave... is what you deserve."

"Yes, the Taoist school thinks so, right?"

Zhang Xianger disappeared. Mu Xingqiu lay down on the grass again, casually broke off another piece of grass stick and put it in his mouth, muttering in a low voice: "Taking care of people is really troublesome, Zhang Lingsheng, you really know how to retaliate against me... Thinking about it carefully, I don't seem to be a qualified guardian."

Mu Xingqiu said to himself, he left a lot of elixirs and materials for Zhang Xiang'er for cultivation, but he really never went to see her specially. He heard that she was fully favored by the Princess of Xijie Kingdom and Shen Xiuming, and he always felt that there was no need for him to show up.

"Fortunately, she is a Taoist priest, and she can get over this hurdle by herself." Mu Xingqiu really hoped to just lie down like this, never have to get up, and don't have to worry about anything.

But things will come to the door by themselves. Not long after Zhang Xiang'er left, Long Mo floated down from the sky and sat beside Mu Xingqiu with her knees hugged. Her skin color was still a little blue, but her body had basically recovered. The smile on her face was looming, as if she was recalling some fun scene.

"The little girl can't break the pearl calamity." Long Mo said.

"Kun Dun will help her."

"The little girl will regret it later."

Mu Xingqiu hummed indifferently. He was in a state of extreme relaxation now. He didn't care about anything, not even the fight in three days. "Aren't you tired?"

"Tired of what?"

"The target approaches again and again, and then goes away again and again. You can never break through the Demon Cave, and there are always new opponents in front of me. It's endless and never-ending. Don't you feel tired?"

The Dragon Demon thought for a while, "No, I think it's very interesting. Just imagine, if I broke the Demon Cave a long time ago and released a bunch of souls that turned to ashes when they saw the sun, then I would probably become confused and don't know what to do. You You know? When I first got the Demon Tribulation, I felt a little regretful, worried that I would finally succeed this time, and then I would really have nothing to pursue. "

Mu Xingqiu threw away the straw in his mouth and sat up, "Yes, why should I be tired? The enemies did not suddenly appear in front of me, they have always been there, but when I was too weak, I could not detect their existence, and they looked down on me. So everything is not repetitive, I have gained, and I have always gained. "

The Dragon Demon smiled, "You can survive these three days, the influence of the demon seed on you is becoming more and more obvious. "

"It is not enough to control the demon seed." Mu Xingqiu said firmly. He had just driven a trace of demonic thoughts out of his mind and regained his previous fighting spirit.

"You don't have to work so hard." The Dragon Demon said gently, as if sympathizing with his own experience.

"The opportunity cannot be wasted. If we can defeat Kun Dun without entering the Demon Cave, wouldn't it be better? I will go all out in this battle."

"One-pointedness and unintentionalness, except for the descendants of the Mind Mind Department, is there really no one who can explain their meaning to you?"

Mu Xingqiu shook his head, "Only them."

"They are just some decayed souls. It is hard to say whether they remember these things. Even if they remember, it may be useless. After all, the tenth and eleventh levels of Mind Mind Illusion have never been cultivated."

"So this is just an opportunity, not a sure win, so I have to go all out to prepare for the battle in three days, and try not to enter the Demon Cave."

Mu Xingqiu turned to the Dragon Demon and looked seriously at the face that looked so similar to Fang Fang. The face seemed so different again, "Promise me to take good care of Mu Dong'er, and..."

The Dragon Demon smiled, "Ah, you also left me a 'big trouble', fortunately, I like to meddle in other people's business, but Yang Qingyin will really hate me. They have been separated for so many years, and it's all related to me."

"She has a broad mind and will understand you in the end." Mu Xingqiu also smiled, "The more opportunities the better, one or two times are not enough, there must be more back-up plans. If I still can't beat Kun Dun, and I can't get out of the Demon Cave, then the last hope lies in Mu Dong'er and... Frost Soul Sword."

Mu Xingqiu unconsciously touched his right rib, and the Frost Soul Sword engraved on it with magic had been removed.

"You fight for the people of the world, but the people of the world regard you as a laughing stock. It's really ironic."

"I don't fight for the people of the world, not even for my relatives and friends." Mu Xingqiu stood up and looked at the Imperial Capital, "I once ran away from him, and I will go back to challenge him again. I fight for myself."