zero o'clock

【One touch】

The moment the other party approached, the coercion of the high-level monsters came over irresistibly.

Almost due to instinct, Li Huan, who was lower than the spirit beast Azure Dragon, frowned unnaturally, and took a step back instinctively, and then he realized "this step back" belatedly. The meaning of the expression is that the body froze immediately.

Retreat, which symbolizes obedience, has long been a deep-rooted survival rule in the world of demons. Li Huan's muscles tensed up, and he raised his head expressionlessly, meeting Chong Ye's eyes.

The human form of that dragon is much younger than imagined, as if it has been deliberately left to distinguish it from ordinary people. Although Chongye has handsome features, the human form is not completely transformed.There are light blue scale-like lines at the end of his eyes, and his long silver hair hangs down smoothly. There is even a small pair of snow-white dragon horns growing between the hair on the top of his head.

Li Huan stared at the pair of dragon horns for a while, thinking that the demon must be a paranoid and childish guy, and after a long silence, he said: "So, the reason why the demon subduing master will cooperate with you is entirely because of their meeting." It has long been a puppet in your hands, and all the news from here comes from your hands?"

"It can also be understood in this way." Withdrawing his hand, Chong Ye made a "please" gesture to Li Huan, signaling him to sit on the sofa.

Li Huan didn't move, and Chong Ye didn't insist, but continued: "However, not everything you said is completely correct."

"For example?" Li Huan asked.

Chong Ye smiled and didn't rush to answer. He turned around and walked behind the desk, with one hand in the air and his five fingers slightly closed.In an instant, the light blue spiritual power condensed into a thread, and being drawn, the puppet lying on the table moved, then raised its head, and turned its pale and stiff face towards Li Huan.

"Based on the age of human beings, if he lived to this day, this old guy would probably be close to two hundred years old." Chongye raised the corner of his mouth sarcastically, loosened his fingers after speaking, and fell down by the puppet, and then said , "Even under the influence of spiritual power, the demon subduing master ages relatively slowly and has a longer life span than ordinary people, but after years of excessive consumption, it is impossible to have an exaggerated life cycle, and before he became a puppet Already seven or eighty years old."

Hearing this, Li Huan frowned slightly, looked thoughtfully at the lifeless man behind the desk, and said softly, "Did you renew his life?"

Chong Ye said: "It's not counted as life extension. You know, demons feed on human souls, human blood and human flesh, and their purpose is to absorb their vitality. Among them, human souls are the most nourishing. I just put this simple Just tell him what you understand.”

Li Huan was stunned for a moment, Chong Ye noticed his reaction, the smile in his eyes deepened, and said: "People in this world have a bit or two of greed, and he is in a high position, naturally he hopes to stay in power for as long as possible." , so we were indeed a cooperative relationship at the beginning. It's just that the human soul can extend the life of the soul for him, but it can't stop the aging of the body. I had to choose the right time to completely turn him into an immortal puppet for my use gone."

"Is that so..." Li Huan looked at the president with cold eyes, "That's self-inflicted."

Chong Ye said: "They are demon subduing masters, and death is what they deserve."

Li Huan was noncommittal, did not answer, and instead asked: "Chong Ye, now that Feng Chi is dead, and I have nothing to do with you, what is the purpose of your meeting today?"

Hearing this, Chong Ye smiled lowly, turned around and stood in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window in the chairman's room, and used his fingers to open the slits of the drawn curtains.

It was already past eight o'clock in the morning, and the sunlight in this different space created by spiritual power was just right. The pale golden light passed through the gaps, casting a weakened light band in the dark room, and there were many small Dust slowly floats in it.

Li Huan was a little distracted, and suddenly heard Chong Ye teasing with a light smile: "According to your personality, can you resist talking to Yunhe along the way?"

The other party's voice was playful, and there was an obvious familiarity in the words. Li Huan didn't like this selfish and cruel dragon, and he was very repulsed by this strange tacit feeling in his heart.

Seeing that the other party didn't respond, a clear smile floated on the corner of Zhong Ye's mouth, and he said again: "Yunhe has a cold temperament, a thoughtful mind, and in addition to being loyal to me, it's really wrong to try to get the truth out of him." possible."

Li Huan was taken aback, thinking what was going on?At first Zhu Yan kept his mouth shut, but later he revealed his identity. He said a lot about the reason for going south this time!Could it be... At that moment, an extremely bold idea flashed through Li Huan's mind, he hurriedly restrained himself, pretended to be unhappy and let out a "hmm".

Chong Ye said: "3000 years ago, Feng Chi wanted to break through the bottleneck of Qingluan's cultivation with the way of becoming a demon, but unfortunately due to lack of cause and effect, he failed to become a demon. So far, this is all you know."

Li Huan nodded calmly, and Chong Ye said again: "I had a close friendship with Qingluan back then, and I couldn't just see him die unwillingly. All these years, Jiuwei and I have been searching for scattered phoenix souls for nothing more than They are all intended to help Feng Chi revive, but I think a step further than that fox, I not only want him to live, but also want him to become a demon."

"But—" Li Huan frowned, and stared at the man's back without blinking, "Feng Chi is dead, you can't force Qingluan's long-cherished wish from thousands of years ago to me just because Qingluan's three souls surrendered to me. on me."

"Why not?" Chong Ye turned to look at Li Huan. Because of his emotional fluctuations, a demonic light in his eyes trembled slightly, "Now you are Qingluan, the reincarnated Qingluan Phoenix that I lost and found again. Of course, after all, you You were brought up by Nine Tails as a disciple, and the phoenix soul in your body was suppressed by the demon fox's soul for a long time, so you still haven't realized your true identity."

After he finished speaking, Li Huan couldn't help but fell silent.

This statement is indeed true, although he has inherited the other two souls carried by Feng Chi to become the real Qingluan Huofeng, but because he grew up in the tea house on the other side, even though he has seen many monsters welcoming him , but he has never really experienced the cruel world outside the tea house where the ranks of monsters are divided into superiority and inferiority, so he does not have any substantive concept of the identity of "being among the five fierce beasts in ancient times".

Now that I think about it, after the reunion of the three souls, even though he and Qi Jingyu have a true master-student relationship, in the world of demons, they can also be regarded as equal high-level beasts.

Thinking up to this point, Li Huan couldn't help but sigh with emotion. Seeing his expression loosen a bit, Chong Ye thought that Li Huan's heart had been moved, and continued to bewitch him: "And there is one more thing that you may not realize its importance, the Feng Clan Except for the spirit beast Suzaku, the rest of the same race must experience a once-in-a-thousand-year rebirth from the ashes of the ashes from the day of birth, and then have to spend nearly a hundred years as a fledgling. It is more difficult to accumulate the cultivation base of the clan than other monsters."

"However, since you have the protection of Nine Tails, you naturally don't need to consider that the fledgling period will be threatened by demon-subduing masters or others of the same kind, but the pain of rebirth from the ashes is inevitable, and all of these can become demons at will. It's easy to solve. Li Huan, this matter is not harmful to you, and I can also complete that unfinished thing for a thousand years, so you might as well think about it carefully."

This set of logic has been repeated by Su Yunhe as early as on the train, and Li Huan will not be surprised to hear it again, but at that time he had to be careful at all times to beware of that monster whose camp cannot be distinguished. Not sure if I should ask, but now just happens to be a good time not to worry too much.

Li Huan pondered for a while, then raised his head pretending to be hesitant, and said to Zhong Ye: "There is one more thing I don't understand."

Chong Ye: "You say."

Li Huan said bluntly: "Why did Feng Chi fail in the past? Then what is the magic method obtained from Mo Luo?"

As if he had expected that he would have such doubts, Chong Ye slowly raised the corners of his mouth, narrowed his eyes slightly, showing a strange expression that seemed to be a smile but not a smile, and said softly: "It's a crime."

Li Huan was stunned for a moment, and repeated in great perplexity: "Crime?"

"Well—" Chong Ye said, "Demons are the most yin and evil things in this world. Whether it is a demon or a human, if you want to become a demon, you have to make yourself guilty. The easiest way is to kill."

"If it was just killing, how could Feng Chi have made a mistake?"

"Because he would have misunderstood the meaning of the killing."

Li Huan became silent for a moment when he heard the words, his brows were frowned, and he had a vague guess in his heart, but he still said, "I don't understand."

Chong Ye didn't rush to explain, but stretched out his hand and pulled open the heavy curtain covering the floor-to-ceiling windows inch by inch in an extremely slow motion.At that moment, the bright morning light flooded into the room, and Li Huan turned his head away uncomfortably, feeling that his eyes were extremely uncomfortable being stimulated by the strong light.

Chongye turned his back to the well-lit window, and his whole face was hidden in the shadow caused by the backlight. The man's voice suddenly sounded with a smile, like a gloomy and slippery snake, entwining its prey carelessly but with malicious intentions. The fragile neck tightened with a gentle force.

He said: "For thousands of years, demons and demon-subduing masters subordinate to humans have survived as natural enemies. This kind of killing across races is nothing but a karmic reincarnation. These will not exceed the laws of heaven, no matter how much blood is shed, the original owner will not be stained with the slightest sin."

"—there were tens of thousands of mortals who died at the hands of Feng Chi back then, but he was originally a ferocious beast that caused disasters, and it is his nature to take human lives, so naturally he is not qualified to become a demon."

When the voice fell, Li Huan suddenly opened his eyes wide. Chong Ye knew that he understood the contradiction, so he simply didn't show any suspense. All demon subduing masters have a strand of demon soul, right?"

At the same time, Chenghuang Temple business district.

Affected by the increasingly torrential rain, even though it was business hours, the entire scenic area was still sparsely visited by tourists, but many business people in formal attire entered the Temple of the City God through the four entrances one after another.

Not far from the archway, the owner of the Shengjian Mantou shop is sitting on the porch of the shop listening to the local morning news.

A middle-aged woman wearing an OL suit and a stiletto heel passed by holding an umbrella. She was holding a huge travel bag in one hand, which seemed to be quite heavy, and what was even weirder was that there seemed to be something in the travel bag The living creature was struggling in a very feeble manner.There were many passers-by during this period of time, but the owner of the pan fried shop acted as if he hadn’t seen anything. He just felt that the signal of the radio seemed to be affected for a moment. Got it.

On the opposite side of the road, the black Land Rover that had been parked for a long time slowly lowered the window on the driver's side, blue smoke drifted out, and a little scarlet fire flickered behind the dark gray glass.

Inside the carriage, Xing Yi rested his elbows on the car door, and held a half-lit cigarette between his fingers. There was no emotion in his brows and eyes. The commercial street deep in the archway.

The puppet Cheng Huang released earlier has been put into the scroll.After arriving here, it's not just Zhu Yan and his group that need to be paid attention to. The Demon Subduing Master has keen senses and is very familiar with puppets. It is obviously not a smart way to use Chenghuang to track them at this time.The nine-tailed fox spirit who followed Cheng Huang hadn’t come back yet. Qi Jingyu rolled up his cuffs and looked at the time. The civet cat was lying on his lap, squinting a pair of yellow eyes, staring out the window for a moment, and finally said meaningfully. He glanced at Xing Yi.

Yan Mo smiled and said, "How do you feel? You haven't been back for more than half a year."

"Lord Mo Luo is joking, how can I feel?" After speaking, Xing Yi put out the remaining half of a cigarette in the ashtray of the car, and then said to Qi Jingyu, "Have you got any feedback from your soul-splitting side? "

Qi Jingyu's drooping eyelashes twitched slightly, as if he had come to his senses, he gave a plain "hmm" and said, "It turns out that the association is hidden in another space created by the alienation of spiritual power, no wonder it is so difficult to track down. "

Xing Yi turned his head to look at him: "It seems that the demon has never thought about the association at all?"

"Naturally." Qi Jingyu looked at him from the rearview mirror, "For demons, such things as demon subduing masters really shouldn't work."

Xing Yi: "..."

As a member of the same "shouldn't live", Mr. Jiang Yaoshi didn't speak.

After confirming the destination, Qi Jingyu withdrew his distracted soul, and said, "You must have a way to enter the arch leading to the illusion, right?"

"Naturally." Xing Yi raised his brows and eyes lightly, met the opponent's eyes from the mirror, and then replied in exactly the same tone, "It's just that I'm afraid I'm going to wrong Master Nine Tails."

Qi Jingyu frowned, at first he didn't understand the meaning of the word "grievance", but the wicked cat in his arms was very smart, raised a furry paw and pointed outward.Jing Yu looked along as if feeling something, and saw the female demon-subduing master with a travel bag turn the corner and disappear behind a shop dealing in Suzhou embroidery.

At that moment, Nine-Tails-sama who was quick to talk but was immediately retaliated by natural enemies was still very unhappy.

Ten minutes later, the Land Rover door opened, and Xing Yi stepped down from the car with an umbrella in one hand and a similar large travel bag in the other.

——inued