Mortal Mage

(Auditor, I deleted them all, okay?)

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After a long time.

The candle oil was about to run out, and slight "crackling" sounds were rising from the candle.

There was a slight "sizzling" sound, and the remaining oil in the candle flame splashed everywhere. A puff of smoke rose from the candlelight, and then it went out.

The room suddenly became dark.

Zhang Mingxuan moved his mouth away from Li Jing's lips.

"You have a secret..."

Li Jing gently moved his mouth to Zhang Mingxuan's ear, his voice was very weak.

Her head of black hair seemed to have been through a storm and covered the bed.

Zhang Mingxuan pulled Li Jingyu's long legs off his waist, with a look of surprise on his face; "I can't tell you yet."

Li Jing sat down on the bed, a hint of timidity between her cold brows. She stood up, lit another candle, put on her yellow gauze dress, and lost her proud look. Her tone was filled with a hint of surprise. "Why do you practice dual cultivation?"

Zhang Mingxuan was about to tell the truth about Canglang, when suddenly he heard Haofen's voice: "Master, there is a demon."

Hearing this, he quickly pulled out a piece of clothing from his ring and wrapped it around himself. "My demon slave has sent a message. There is a demon aura."

"What kind of monster?"

"I don't know, let's go out and have a look."

As he spoke, Zhang Mingxuan had finished changing his clothes and was the first to lift the red gauze curtain and enter the front hall.

Song Qu knelt in front of the crowd and saw Zhang Mingxuan rushing out. He asked hurriedly, "My lord, my lord, can you borrow the dragon seed to succeed?"

Zhang Mingxuan ignored Song Qu and stepped forward to the door.

"My beloved, my beloved, can you borrow the dragon seed successfully?"

At this time, Li Jing, wrapped in a yellow veil, jumped behind Zhang Mingxuan. She looked back at Song Qu and said, "It must be a success."

Song Qu was overjoyed when he heard this; "That means, I have a successor!"

"hehe."

Li Jing smiled contemptuously and nodded.

Two "chirp" sounds of sparrows were heard on the roof, and then the chirping turned into screams.

Then a burst of white mist came in from the crack in the door.

A white fox appeared in the room with a bloody colorful sparrow hanging from its mouth.

Li Jing only felt a surge of demonic energy like a storm, as if he was facing a powerful enemy, and was frightened to death.

"Zhang Mingxuan, let this fox let me go, quickly, I'm going to die."

The sparrows chirped and spoke in human language.

Seeing this, Li Jing suddenly turned his head to look at Zhang Mingxuan; "What level is your demon slave?"

"I'll tell you later."

Zhang Mingxuan first stopped Li Jing behind him, then looked at the sparrow in the white fox's mouth with a frown, "What kind of demon are you? Why are you following me? Why do you know my name?"

"I'm not a monster! I'm a human!"

The sparrow struggled desperately.

"Master, she is a demon! I will eat her!"

The white fox showed its fangs.

After a brief thought, Zhang Mingxuan concluded that the sparrow was from one of the four major sects in this world. Since the other party had already caught up to him, there was no need for him to be soft-hearted. He nodded to the white fox and then turned back to look at Li Jing; "I want to leave Changjiang immediately."

"Well, be careful along the way."

Li Jing nodded slightly and retreated to Song Hui's side.

At this moment, Hao Feng suddenly exerted force from his mouth, and with a "crack" sound, the sparrow's bones seemed to be broken. It screamed "ah", and it seemed that it was about to die. "I am a spiritual bird, not a demon beast. I can be your spiritual beast! Don't kill me! I will tell you everything!"

Then, Zhang Mingxuan felt a spirit appear in his mind. He quickly raised his hand to stop Hao Feng. "Spirit beast?"

"Yes, yes! Eight hundred years ago, I killed a girl named Yu Chu, and then transformed into Yu Chu herself, lurking in Cuiyun. I am the spirit bird responsible for delivering messages to Qingfeng Sect in Daochu Realm."

"Yu Yu?"

"Yu Xi is the daughter of Yu Qianshou, the master of Shouyun Mountain Villa. Her nickname is 'Que'er'."

"Master, please don't believe her. A spirit beast can only recognize one master in its lifetime. Since she is the spirit bird that delivered the message to Qingfeng Sect, she must have already recognized a master."

"No, no, no, in this world's sect, we spirit beasts have the same status as ordinary disciples. I am just a disciple of Qingfeng Sect. I went to Cuiyun to complete the sect's mission and have never recognized a master."

"Oh?"

Zhang Mingxuan raised his eyebrows in confusion; "What is the difference between a spirit beast and a demon beast?"

"Demon beasts belong to the category of evil cultivation, while we spirit beasts cultivate just like mortals, with the three stages of foundation building, elixir formation, and spirit transformation. Those who walk the path are cultivating on the right path."

The sparrow was in excruciating pain. "When a demon beast gives you its spirit and soul, it actually puts its life and death in your hands. It is not a recognition of master. When we spirit beasts give you our spirit and soul, it means we are beyond the myriad worlds and expand our spiritual consciousness. It is completely different from that of demon beasts." The sparrow screamed. "If you don't believe me, take my spirit and soul and feel it for yourself!"

Hearing this, Zhang Mingxuan took the sparrow's soul into his sea of ​​consciousness, and then controlled his consciousness to enter the sparrow's soul in his sea of ​​consciousness.

All of a sudden, he felt a pain as if his heart was being torn apart and pierced by a sword.

However, this pain did not directly affect his body, so he could use his spiritual consciousness to block out the pain and continue to feel other things.

At this moment, he discovered that the perspective of his spiritual consciousness was in the mouth of the white fox. At this moment, he was surrounded by severe threats of death from all directions. A huge feeling of powerlessness pressed between the bones. The fangs could chew her into pieces with just a slight force.

Soon he discovered that he could mobilize his spiritual sense from the perspective of a sparrow to explore the surroundings, and this kind of exploration would not leak any demonic energy or his own aura.

"Hello, let her go."

Zhang Mingxuan waved at the white fox to stop it.

The white fox licked the remaining blood in her mouth and reluctantly spit the sparrow onto the ground. "Master, eating her will greatly improve my cultivation." As she finished speaking, she was wrapped in white mist and transformed into a human form.

"Wait until I have established my foundation."

Zhang Mingxuan waved away the ghost.

Hao Fen stood aside respectfully.

The colorful sparrow on the ground immediately transformed into a graceful woman wearing a long skirt and a bridal robe, with her underwear exposed, her breasts protruding, a gold hairpin in her hair, and her eyebrows painted thin and long.

However, there were now two deep tooth marks in the middle of her cleavage, with bright red blood flowing.

"I thank you for not killing me."

Que'er glanced at Haofen and spoke crisply to Zhang Mingxuan.

"Go ahead."

Zhang Mingxuan waved his sleeves and sat on the round stool next to the round table.

Since this magpie is a spiritual bird responsible for delivering messages, it should be in Cuiyun now. He needs to know why it is tracking him.

At this time, Li Jing's eyes were still full of surprise.

She knew a thing or two about spirit beasts.

Spirit beasts are no different from ordinary cultivators, they all have spiritual roots and wisdom, and their cultivation is not much different from that of ordinary people. In order to have spirit beasts join the sect, all major sects allow them to be inner disciples.

For ordinary disciples, even being able to become friends with a spirit beast, let alone make it recognize its master, is a blessing that will last for three lifetimes.

At this moment, the spirit beast actually gave its soul of life and death to Zhang Mingxuan, which made her envious and jealous, yet also puzzled.

What rank is this fox demon that can actually subdue spiritual beasts?

"Yun Zhongzi did not hand over the teleportation array map to our world, but fled with it without a trace. The main purpose of the Spirit Beast Sect, Qingfeng Sect, Xuantian Sword Sect, and our Tianyan Sect in killing the Cuiyun cultivator was to find the teleportation array map."

Que'er explained to Zhang Mingxuan, "I was lurking beside Yu Qianshou. First, I had a new sect mission asking me to report the movements of Master Cuiyun to Tianyan Sect at any time. Second, I wanted to find a way to get the teleportation array map before Lingshou Sect, Qingfeng Sect and Xuantian Sword Sect." She hugged Zhang Mingxuan's whole body, covering the wound on her cleavage, and paused for a moment, "My lady, you... have the teleportation array map, right?"

Hearing him say this, Zhang Mingxuan stood up and looked at Que'er in shock; "How did you know?"

He only gave the teleportation array map to Qingling and Shi Manman.

These two people were his dual cultivation partners. After Shi Manman set up the teleportation array, she went to Canglang. Although Qingling lost the jade slip of the teleportation array, it was not enough to point all the clues to him.

"wrong."

Zhang Mingxuan suddenly thought of something.

He was borrowed by Qing Ling in Zhou City and protected Li Xucheng. Later, he was personally protected by Jian Wu, the leader of Chenfeng Sword Sect. Therefore, as long as the people from Cuiyun Sect are not stupid, they can guess that he is inseparable from the teleportation array diagram.

And this Que'er just said that the Xuantian Sword Sect was also chasing after the Cuiyun cultivator.

So after he gave the teleportation array map to Chen Feng, theoretically, Xuantian Sword Sect should not be chasing Cui Yun anymore.

One possibility is that Chen Feng embezzled the teleportation array map, and another possibility is that the Xuantian Sword Sect was afraid of causing trouble and deliberately concealed the fact that they owned the teleportation array map.

This way, everything makes sense.

At this moment, there was a sudden "boom".

The door of the room was broken by the sound of a heavy object, and wood chips flew everywhere.

"How does he know? Minister Zhang, you should ask me how I know!"

A shrill voice was heard.

A big bearded man and a middle-aged man with fair and delicate complexion stood at the door.

It was Bu Dazhen and Ye Buwen.

On their waists hung two spiritual gourds with their mouths opened.

No wonder no one noticed their presence for such a long time.

Bu Dazhen grinned disdainfully, "Give me a copy of the teleportation array diagram."