The years I was in the human world

The sticky footsteps echoed in the corridor. The monks huddled in their rooms, silently waiting for the moving thing to pass by their doors. No one dared to make a sound.

"Cha Cha Cha--" Someone knocked on the door. The monks in the room became nervous in an instant. They silently made hand gestures and were ready to take action at any time.

The person outside knocked for a while, and when no one responded, he walked over and knocked on the next person's door. The monks in the room breathed a sigh of relief. It would rather die than let a friend die. No one knew what the situation was now, and no one dared to take action first.

For a moment, although the entire inn was filled with monks with profound cultivation, they were waiting anxiously like ordinary people. Some were afraid of others, while others were wary of things outside the door. Everyone had their own ulterior motives and were unwilling to take the initiative to expose their own strengths and weaknesses.

The doors of the rooms in the inn were knocked one by one, and then stopped at Lu Zhouxue's door. Perhaps because no one answered for a long time, the thing suddenly changed its mind, tore out a piece of human skin and put it on, opened its mouth and uttered human words: "Master."

Lin Xiyang, who was hiding in the room and watching the situation, changed his expression. The ghost was imitating his voice, but Lu Zhouxue was so smart that he should not be fooled.

The monks in other rooms heard the ghost suddenly open its mouth and speak human language. Although they were not fooled by it, they still felt a chill. That sticky mass of unknown flesh could actually learn to speak like a human. The more they thought about it, the more their scalps tingled.

"What's outside?" Lu Zhouxue asked. Because he was facing Xiao Fengzhuo, he was too lazy to pretend to be profound and just said whatever he wanted to say.

"I don't know. We'll know when we open the door." Xiao Fengzhuo shook his head, got down from Lu Zhouxue's bed with a carefree manner, and went to open the door with a cat's tail dragging. The human skin that had not yet been put on neatly at the door suddenly looked at him.

The thing hadn't been covered with human skin yet, and it knelt on the ground limply, like a mollusk. The bones and flesh on the edge of its skin were bloody, and it looked really horrible. However, Xiao Fengzhuo didn't show any discomfort, but laughed: "It seems that the door was opened a little early."

Xiao Fengzhuo acted too calmly, which gave the creature the illusion that it had successfully disguised itself. Its eyes, which were about to fall off, rolled around, and it suddenly opened its mouth towards Xiao Fengzhuo. It said, "I don't know what's stuck in my throat. Can you take a look for me?"

Although Xiao Fengzhuo arrived late and missed the fate of those who had looked at other people's throats, it didn't mean that he didn't know that the guy in front of him had bad intentions. Looking at the bloody mouth slowly opening in front of him, the smile on his face gradually grew.

Lu Zhouxue, who followed him out, saw the smile on his face, and the words of warning stuck in her mouth. She inexplicably felt sympathy for the ghost outside the door who was still trying to fool Xiao Fengzhuo.

"Okay, open your mouth, I'll show you." Xiao Fengzhuo squatted down with an ambiguous smile on his face. The ghost thought that his plan had succeeded, so he couldn't help but feel proud and opened his mouth wider and wider.

Just as it was about to swallow Xiao Fengzhuo's entire head, a soft, smelly thing filled its entire mouth tightly.

"How does my two hundred year old stewed golden toad taste?" Xiao Fengzhuo brought out a plate of weird-looking stuff from somewhere and stuffed it into the ghost's mouth, pushing the plate in along with it, still with a cynical attitude.

Lu Zhouxue took a closer look and then also laughed. What was this stewed golden toad? That was clearly the "delicacies of mountains and seas" that the waiter had served them when they were previously in the Rongcheng Inn. At that time, all the dishes on the table were stored in Xiao Fengzhuo's ring, saying that they would be useful in the future.

So it was reserved for this use.

"You still keep this thing?" Lu Zhouxue was watching with joy from the side. The "dish" in Xiao Fengzhuo's hand originally looked weird, and it had been kept for nearly two hundred years. It was hard to say what it tasted like now.

"Well, keep it. It'll be useful if you tell me." Seeing a smile in Lu Zhouxue's eyes and eyebrows, Xiao Fengzhuo's tone also became cheerful. The thing under his hand struggled to escape, but he held it down with a light spell.

Xiao Fengzhuo was smiling beautifully while playing with the princes with fire, but the monks in the nearby rooms were watching all his movements. Seeing him packing up his things so casually, they couldn't help but relax and opened their doors one after another.

"Master, are you all right?" Lin Xiyang opened the door and came out. He saw Xiao Fengzhuo stuffing an unknown object into the ghost's mouth while joking with Lu Zhouxue with a playful smile. His face changed slightly.

This ghost is not simple, otherwise it would not make those cultivators subconsciously alert and fearful. But Lu Xiaoxiao, a notorious ordinary disciple of the Hehuan Sect, can easily subdue this evil spirit. Is it really as simple as it seems?

Lin Xiyang's gaze turned to Lu Zhouxue, who was leaning against the door frame with his arms folded, his eyes lowered and talking and smiling. It seemed that he was very intimate with Lu Xiaoxiao, and it didn't seem like they were just meeting for the first time.

Lin Xiyang was trying to guess Xiao Fengzhuo's identity when he suddenly caught a glimpse of a cat's tail sticking out from under the latter's clothes. He had not noticed it before because it was covered by his clothes, but when he looked closely again, he saw that the tail was restlessly wrapping around Lu Zhouxue's hand.

As for Lu Zhouxue, he almost condoned this behavior which could be described as rebellion.

Lin Xiyang, who had seen all the little movements of the two, suddenly remembered something. Xiao Fengzhuo, who always relied on his long life to bully him, was a cat demon. In the last year of his life, he seemed to be close to Lu Zhouxue.

With these guesses in mind, he looked at "Lu Xiaoxiao" again and indeed saw some familiar shadows.

Xiao Fengzhuo had his demon core cut open by Qi Nankuo, and his cultivation level dropped all the way from Refining Void to Nascent Soul, and his life span was greatly shortened; Lu Zhouxue died tragically from the divine bones; Lin Xiyang himself... It seems that those who died in vain because of creating gods have now returned in a completely unrecognizable state, Lin Xiyang thought sarcastically.

He is an evil ghost that crawled back from the dead, born only for revenge. Lu Zhouxue is full of murderous aura, so it seems to be the case. However, Xiao Fengzhuo is as free and easy as before, but no one knows why he came back.

Lin Xiyang opened the door and came out, followed by the other cultivators.

"Is this the thing causing trouble?" A monk said as he kicked the ghost, and said with disdain, "If we had known it was this kind of thing, why would you and I have to hide from it?"

When this person said this, the other monks naturally remembered how they were so scared that they hid in the room and dared not make a sound. They couldn't help but get angry and embarrassed. It would be fine if they all just cowered, but they could also pretend to be deaf and dumb and pretend that nothing happened.

But there happened to be an oddball like Xiao Fengzhuo and Lu Zhouxue. Not only were they not afraid, they also opened the door and pinned the ghosts to the ground and beat them up, which made them seem cowardly and useless.

Forced by Lu Zhouxue's previous tyranny, they were so angry and embarrassed that they dared not attack Lu Zhouxue, so they just started to punch and kick the ghost, as if they wanted to regain some lost face through this belated "courage".

Xiao Fengzhuo knew exactly what they were thinking, but he just smiled faintly and didn't point it out. He and Lu Zhouxue watched coldly as the cultivators drove the ghosts out of their suppression range.

"Ah, it slipped away." Xiao Fengzhuo said in a pretentious manner, without reminding the monks who were still looking for the existence of the ghost.

The fact that the ghost was helpless against Xiao Fengzhuo and Lu Zhouxue did not mean that it would continue to tolerate the minions around it to do something to it once they were out of their suppression range.

The ghost spat out the dead toad that Xiao Fengzhuo had stuffed in its mouth for two hundred years. It still preferred the delicious taste of human flesh and the warmth of human blood. It immediately grabbed a person next to it and bit the person's throat with its sharp teeth.

The warm blood flowed into the throat, bringing with it the sweetness of a living person, and the ghost felt that his whole soul was warmed up.

It tore off an arm of the person in its hand, put it in its mouth and sucked it gently. The flesh and blood on it melted into its mouth like steamed meat soup, and it picked out a white human bone.

In a short while, a person told it to finish eating. It licked the blood on its lips and paws with relish, and went to catch someone again.

The monks were paralyzed by the heavy pressure from the moment the ghost suddenly attacked. The ghost was at least at the level of a red evil ghost. They had no power to fight back and could only watch a colleague being eaten alive.

Seeing that they were about to become the next meal, someone finally realized that Xiao Fengzhuo could easily scare away ghosts, and said in fear and panic: "Lu Xiaoxiao, can't you suppress it? Help, save us!"

"I saw you were so aggressive just now, I thought you could handle it." Xiao Fengzhuo didn't move, he crossed his arms and watched the show, still smiling, but it looked weird, "It turns out it was just bluffing."

Seeing another person being captured by the ghost and about to have his neck bitten off, the cultivator was about to cry. His pants were wet on the spot and a smell of urine came out. Xiao Fengzhuo then walked over lazily, kicked the ghost away, and casually cast a spell to pin the ghost to the ground.

After doing all this, he turned around and looked at the monk who was lying on the ground with incontinence due to fear with some disgust: "If you don't have that ability, don't try to be a hero. You wet your pants, aren't you ashamed?"

The man stared at him blankly without saying anything. The other monks he rescued also stared at him blankly. Xiao Fengzhuo didn't understand why. "Are they all scared silly?"

"Azhuo." Lu Zhouxue called out to him from behind. Xiao Fengzhuo turned around and saw Lu Zhouxue pointing at the top of his head and whispered, "Your ears are not closed properly."

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Xiao Fengzhuo subconsciously pressed on the top of his head and really felt two ears moving around. He was handsome, and even when he was mocking people, he was still captivating enough, not to mention that there were two ears moving around on the top of his head.

"Tsk." Xiao Fengzhuo narrowed his eyes and looked at the people he had just rescued, and suddenly he had the urge to kill them. Although he was confident that he had a peerless appearance and was not afraid of being seen by others, his ears were specially used to coax his Mianmian, so what would it matter if these people saw them?

The tail behind it also swung back and forth, indicating its owner's restless thoughts. Everyone suddenly felt a chill and inexplicably felt that their lives were in danger. The ghosts suppressed by Xiao Fengzhuo on the ground in the distance looked a lot more pleasing to the eye.

His butt was gently patted. Xiao Fengzhuo wondered who was so bold as to touch his butt. When he turned around, he met a pair of smoky grey eyes. Lu Zhouxue pinched his waist again and said calmly, "Why don't you put it away?"

Does this tone sound a little unhappy? Xiao Fengzhuo obediently retracted his ears and tail, quietly observing Lu Zhouxue's reaction, and then he was happy, humming in his heart, this damn possessiveness.

Xiao Fengzhuo was as happy as a flower in an instant. His mood change was so great that even someone as slow as Lu Zhouxue could sense something was wrong. He turned around and asked suspiciously, "Why are you smiling like this? What did you think of?"

"Nothing, I just think you're pretty." Xiao Fengzhuo tilted his head and blinked playfully, like a good baby.

"..." Lu Zhouxue turned around silently and walked straight to the suppressed ghost.

The ghost was not without mind. It could not help but shudder when it sensed the bloody aura on Lu Zhouxue. Kong Qing, who had heard the noise and came down from the upstairs room, came late. Seeing the mess, he could not help but ask, "What happened?"

Lu Zhouxue bent down to clean up the ghost on the ground and ignored her. Xiao Fengzhuo came over and casually replied, "What else can it be? Something happened."

Xiao Fengzhuo saw clearly through the Red Sad Mirror that Kong Qing had stabbed Lu Zhouxue twice. Although Lu Zhouxue did not show any intention of settling the score later, Xiao Fengzhuo could not help but be angry for him, and even looked at Kong Que with displeasure.

He didn't want to say anything more to the ruthless Peacock. When he saw the puppet following the woman, his eyes paused, and then his scrutinizing eyes fell on Kong Qing: "Is this your puppet?"

Betrayal would have been fine, but Xiao Fengzhuo saw everything about how Lu Zhouxue treated the peacock. Even though he was parasitized by the heart-breaking insect and could not move easily, he was still concerned about the safety of the little peacock. However, after his death, the corpse was made into a puppet. If Lu Zhouxue was just an ordinary cultivator, he would have truly not been able to rest in peace.

Xiao Fengzhuo's face gradually became gloomy. He was a typical double standard. He was not angry at all when Qi Nankuo cut open his demon pill, but when Lu Zhouxue was wronged by Kong Que, he wanted to take a knife and chop the stinky girl to death immediately.

"This ghost is not simple." However, Xiao Fengzhuo had all kinds of thoughts in his mind, but Kong Qing ignored him, just like Lu Zhouxue didn't want to talk to her. Xiao Fengzhuo's current identity did not allow him to be qualified to talk to her.

"A red evil ghost close to Asura." Lu Zhouxue said after looking at the ghost's cultivation level. The red evil ghost at this level is equivalent to the three levels of concentrating the mind, refining the void, and integrating the body in the early, middle and late stages. The red evil ghost close to Asura is at least in the integration stage.

There are very few cultivators in the Zhongting realm nowadays, so it's no wonder that these cultivators can't deal with it. It's really like this kind of ghost, and they really have no power to fight back.

"Red evil ghost?" Kong Qing's face changed drastically. She was now concentrating her mind, and when she approached the evil ghost of Asura Road, even she had no power to fight back.

Now they are trapped in the inn and no news can be passed back to Zhongting. The Red Ghost appeared not long after they lost contact. If there are other things coming later, how should they deal with it?