The years I was in the human world

"Is there no way to solve this problem once and for all?" Lu Zhouxue asked. He had not yet recovered from the severe pain and spoke weakly.

"Yes." Xiao Fengzhuo said, but his expression was a little ugly, "Find a demon with the same cultivation as you and eat its heart."

This is also the most insidious aspect of the Heartbreak Gu. It will absorb the host's spiritual energy, causing his realm to fall. However, to cure the poison, one needs the heart of a demon with the same cultivation level as before the poisoning. Unless one voluntarily sacrifices himself, the infected cultivator will never be able to cure the poison until he is consumed to death by the poison.

"It seems that it can't be solved for a while." Lu Zhouxue's reaction was flat. He fastened his clothes and sat up, as if he was talking about someone else's business. He even made a joke, "After that, I will have to trouble Ah Zhuo to perform a few more cesarean sections for me."

"You always say that I'm not serious, but you are the one who doesn't care." Xiao Fengzhuo sighed, sat down on the bed and straightened Lu Zhouxue's clothes, "Go to sleep and get some rest."

Lu Zhouxue: "Azhuo, is this a place where you can just sleep whenever you want?"

"It's okay." Xiao Fengzhuo said. There was a strange look on his face, as if he knew something. "Do you remember the story of the Immortal Country?"

Lu Zhouxue nodded: "Of course I remember, what's wrong?"

"Chu Zhaoli was deposed, and the king appointed the third son Chu Zhaoyun as the crown prince, and married the daughter of Xiangyang Du as his concubine. The anomaly tonight is probably a replica of the crown prince's marriage to a concubine back then." Xiao Fengzhuo said, "Although I don't know the reason, I can infer that the second half of the night should be fine."

"The Crown Prince is taking a concubine?" Lu Zhouxue remembered that the paper maid had mentioned His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Empress, and thought that Xiao Fengzhuo's guess was right. "Then how do we leave this illusion?"

Lu Zhouxue thought this was an illusion created by some magic, so she asked this question. Xiao Fengzhuo shook his head and said, "This is not an illusion. Mianmian, you saw it when you came here. The eerie paper sedan chair and the winding pavilions and halls are not something that can be created by a mere illusion."

Rather than "being an illusion, it is more like a re-enactment of the past events of the Immortal Country. As for the purpose, perhaps it is related to the recent creation of gods." Half of Xiao Fengzhuo's face was hidden in the darkness, and his expression looked a little sarcastic in the place where Lu Zhouxue could not see.

There is no sun or moon in the ghost palace. The old capital of the Immortal Kingdom where the past events reappeared is also like a long night. Lu Zhouxue woke up from a nap, and the sky outside the window was still pitch black. Xiao Fengzhuo was lying on the outside of the bed taking a nap. When Lu Zhouxue moved, he woke up with a clear face: "Mianmian is awake?"

Lu Zhouxue nodded, and he sat up. His stomach was flat before going to bed, but after a good night's sleep, it was slightly curved. Although Xiao Fengzhuo had told him in advance that the Heartbreak Gu could not be completely eliminated and would grow again, it was still surprising that it grew so fast. Lu Zhouxue put his hand on his stomach, and said in a daze: "Azhuo, why is it growing so fast?"

There was a hint of hidden fear in his words. He was still frightened by the excruciating pain of skinning and cutting flesh when he cut off the intestinal insect.

Xiao Fengzhuo could see Lu Zhouxue's panic from her slightly trembling body. He said nothing, but reached out and held Lu Zhouxue in his arms, gently stroking her back like a mother demon comforting a frightened child.

Although it was still dark, there were knocks on the door. The paper maidservant pinched her throat and shouted outside: "Your Highness the Crown Prince, Your Highness the Crown Princess, are you awake?" A hole was poked in the paper window by slender fingers, and the paper man looked inside furtively with a pair of eyes that were mostly white and a little black. Xiao Fengzhuo patted Lu Zhouxue's shoulder soothingly, stood up and walked to the window, opened it all at once, and looked at the paper man coldly.

"Is there anything I can do for you?" Xiao Fengzhuo also stared at the paper man, his eyes motionless, which was even weirder than the paper man himself.

Soon, the paper figurine was defeated first. It looked away awkwardly, lowered its head and said timidly, "It's time to go to the palace to pay respects..."

"Got it." Xiao Fengzhuo calmly closed the window and returned to the bed. Lu Zhouxue looked up and asked him, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing, I just asked you to pay your respects." Xiao Fengzhuo said, picking up the clothes on the bed and shaking them out, and said to Lu Zhouxue, "Stretch out your hand, I'll help you get dressed."

Lu Zhouxue had a Gu in his stomach, so it was indeed not as convenient for him to move as usual, but he was not disabled, so he did not need Xiao Fengzhuo to dress him: "No, I can do it myself." As he said that, he was about to take the clothes from Xiao Fengzhuo.

Xiao Fengzhuo raised his hand to avoid Lu Zhouxue's move. He raised his eyebrows and smiled, "Hurry up, considering that you are pregnant, I will only serve you once or twice. No more, don't dawdle."

Lu Zhouxue had no choice but to let Xiao Fengzhuo do what he wanted. The latter buttoned up his wedding dress in a few seconds. The red collar was turned out, and the neck looked even whiter than snow. Xiao Fengzhuo pinched it, and Lu Zhouxue shuddered immediately, covering his neck and looking at him strangely: "What are you doing?"

"Nothing." Xiao Fengzhuo touched his nose and pretended nothing happened, while helping the lame Lu Zhouxue down to the ground, "Let's go, let's go out."

Although the paper-made man at the door reminded them that they should go to the palace to pay their respects to the king, in fact, when the two opened the door, it was pitch black outside. The bright red curtains had become old and worn, with cobwebs all over them, as if they had been there for many years and had long been stained by time.

There was a thick layer of dust on the floor, and the courtyard lights were dilapidated and rotten. The lanterns fell to the ground and rolled around when the wind blew. The dead grass in the yard was as tall as a person, growing yellow and withered. Just looking at it made people feel lonely.

The paper maid in bright red and green stood on the stone steps below the stage, her paper dress hanging down and two huge blushes on her face, which was particularly eye-catching in the dark night. She just stood there, as if she was also a part of the world mottled by time, gloomy and miserable.

Xiao Fengzhuo didn't know what he was thinking. He casually took out two hawthorns and fed one to Lu Zhouxue. The sourness made him frown. The other one hit the forehead of the paper figurine, and the maid was immediately engulfed in flames. The bright firelight illuminated Xiao Fengzhuo's eyebrows, showing a bit of the coldness of a spectator. He suddenly sighed: "The swallows in the halls of the rich and powerful in the old days have flown into the homes of ordinary people."

"Mianmian, the Third Prince Chu Zhaoyun was well-fed when he was alive, but now he is just so-so, don't you think?"

Lu Zhouxue didn't see his expression, nor did she know what he was thinking. She thought he was just sighing, so she also said: "The life of a mortal is only a hundred years, how can we resist the passing of time?"

"Yes, a hundred years pass by quickly." Xiao Fengzhuo sneered softly and whispered, "All irreparable regrets are left to the immortals."

The two of them left the Prince's Mansion and found the outside world unexpectedly prosperous, but the prosperity was inevitably weird and bizarre. It was because all those coming and going were evil ghosts with their feet off the ground.

The meat stalls on the street were not selling pork, but human flesh. Human flesh of all ages and genders was neatly lined up. When Lu Zhouxue looked over, the stall owner chopped the chopping board hard with his kitchen knife and shouted, "Fresh human flesh..."

Lu Zhouxue retracted his gaze and turned to look at the shop selling rouge and powder. The things outside were normal, just like in the human world. But when he looked inside, he found that there were faces hanging on the wall, all of them were extremely beautiful. The rouge shop owner came up to Lu Zhouxue when she saw him, looking at his face of a banished immortal with eyes full of love: "Sir, can you sell this face of yours?"

Xiao Fengzhuo pulled the man into his arms, looked at the proprietress with a smile and said, "I bought them all at a high price, what do you think?"

"So she's a prostitute." The lady boss muttered, somewhat disappointed. After all, people who bought her as a pet only coveted her appearance, so why would they do business with her? But when she saw Xiao Fengzhuo's face, she started to think again, "What about you, young master? Are you selling your face or not?"

"Not for sale." Xiao Fengzhuo refused straightforwardly and walked away with Lu Zhouxue in his arms. The latter did not understand what Xiao Fengzhuo had just said to the owner of the rouge and powder shop. His head twisted in Xiao Fengzhuo's arms and he asked, "What is a brothel? What do you mean you bought me at a high price?"

Lu Zhouxue was as cold and pure as snow. As soon as he stepped onto the street, evil spirits were glaring at him openly and covertly. Xiao Fengzhuo's words were to conceal his identity as a cultivator and to avoid trouble with his face that looked too much like a famous and righteous person.

But such a statement also increased the number of evil spirits who coveted him. Evil spirits usually had no sense of propriety and shame. With Lu Zhouxue's face like a fallen immortal and a figure like that, who wouldn't want to have a taste of her? Seeing that more and more people were following him, Lu Zhouxue asked him innocently what "倌儿" meant. Xiao Fengzhuo couldn't help laughing. He glanced at Lu Zhouxue, deliberately touched the latter's gradually bulging belly and said, "Your belly is so big, why are you still so stupid?"

I understand. This guy surnamed Xiao is teasing him. Lu Zhouxue stepped on Xiao Fengzhuo's foot and said in a low voice: "Azhuo, if you keep talking nonsense, I will beat you up."

"Mianmian, I was wrong." Xiao Fengzhuo became scared in a second. Lu Zhouxue had been fooled by his pretense many times but still fell for it. She couldn't help but poke his head and sighed: "You." In the end, she said nothing.

"Mianmian wants to know what a Guaner is, doesn't he? I'll take you to see it and you'll understand." Lu Zhouxue didn't bother with him. Instead, Xiao Fengzhuo became interested. He glanced and saw a building that was fairly familiar.

He took Lu Zhouxue's hand and walked in without saying anything. The building was quite lively, with bright lights, singing, dancing and noise. There was a play on the stage in the middle, and the bustle could be heard from the east to the west of the city. The handsome young man was drinking from the jar unrestrainedly, looking carefree and unrestrained.

Lu Zhouxue did not react at first to what this place was. He only heard poetry reciting, music playing, singing and dancing, and thought it was some leisurely and elegant place, until he saw the handsome young man who was holding the jar of wine and drinking heartily just now suddenly asked the men who rushed over to him to tear off his clothes. The wine was all over his body, his skin was red, and the wine wrapped around his body was shiny, which looked particularly obscene under the bright light.

Lu Zhouxue finally understood what kind of brothel Xiao Fengzhuo had brought him to. Just as she was about to say something, a slightly older man who looked equally charming came over. He didn't act coquettishly and spoke normally, but he was particularly attractive. He didn't even look at Lu Zhouxue who was in his arms, and asked Xiao Fengzhuo directly, "My dear, are there any young men in the building that you like?"

"We don't need anyone from your building." Xiao Fengzhuo tossed a spirit stone to the man with ease, then glanced down at Lu Zhouxue with an ambiguous smile, "Open a room upstairs and send some things over. Don't let anyone disturb us."

Xiao Fengzhuo seemed to be a frequent visitor to such romantic places. He was at ease in such a lewd and chaotic place with Lu Zhouxue in his arms. He spoke in a subtle way, and Lu Zhouxue didn't hear anything wrong. The man who came to greet the two of them understood what he meant, and casually called a pretty and slender young man and instructed: "Find a room upstairs for the two gentlemen, send some things over, and don't disturb others."

The young man raised his eyes and glanced at Lu Zhouxue, with a hint of surprise in his eyes. He was probably surprised that such a banished immortal could be a lover. But he didn't look at her for long. He quickly lowered his head and said softly, "You two, follow me."

Lu Zhouxue was led by Xiao Fengzhuo into a not-so-decent building without knowing what was going on, and then into a room without knowing what was going on. As soon as the door closed, Lu Zhouxue pushed Xiao Fengzhuo away. He narrowed his eyes at the innocent-looking man and said angrily, "Are you making fun of me, Ah Zhuo?"

"No way." Xiao Fengzhuo touched his nose and said this with a guilty conscience, "It's just that Mianmian is curious about what a 'guan' is."

"So you brought me here, to a place like this?" Lu Zhouxue couldn't say that word, so he simply changed his statement. At first, he really didn't know anything, but he was not stupid. After seeing such lewd situations, he could always guess something. Besides, he was just aloof, not indifferent to romance. Whether it was the man soliciting customers or the young man leading the way, he could always recognize the worldly air. "Let them misunderstand you and me."

"Mianmian, good Mianmian, calm down, calm down." Xiao Fengzhuo realized that he had angered someone, so he immediately pretended to be a good boy and apologized, while coaxing her in a gentle voice, "This is just a temporary measure. You know this place is not for prostitution. It would be strange if we didn't put in some superficial efforts."

"You don't have to come in." Lu Zhouxue thought clearly, thinking that Xiao Fengzhuo was quite reasonable. Such righteous words made it seem like he was fussing about everything. Thinking of this, Lu Zhouxue couldn't help but raise her leg and gently kicked Xiao Fengzhuo, cursing softly, "Stupid cat."

"Mianmian, you're so fierce." Xiao Fengzhuo was kicked hard by Lu Zhouxue. The latter didn't use much strength and it shouldn't have hurt at all, but this shameless guy just curled his lips and looked pitiful, as if Lu Zhouxue had bullied him.

"Didn't Mianmian want to investigate the conspiracy of the three forces to create a god? The truth can be seen here." After enough jokes, Xiao Fengzhuo straightened his face and told the real reason why he brought Lu Zhouxue into the Chunfeng Tower.