Strange Tale

Si Ren, Qi Lin and Si Ren's master closed the door and talked in the back room.Liu Chengfeng and Huan'er stared at each other in the hall.

"Are you... at Hao Xiaobao's house... that little girl who ran into the well by herself?"

Huan'er hugged the legs of the table, staring at Liu Chengfeng with big eyes, poking the ground with one foot and turning around, "You made someone throw a stone at me?"

Liu Chengfeng was sweating, "Do you recognize me?"

"Xiao Ren told me. He said that a Taoist surnamed Liu had someone pin me down with a stone. Isn't your surname Liu? Taoist priest."

Liu Chengfeng sweated even more, "I'm sorry."

Huan'er acted like an adult who didn't care about villains, "It's okay. I won't bear any grudges against you. Is that uncle with white beard and white hair Xiaoren's master?"

"Uncle? Ha, sure enough, even you can tell that he has a very young face. But Si Ren asked me to find some old man with a white beard, but when he appeared, I thought it was a liar, almost I rushed up and pulled his beard."

"Then should I be called Grandpa or Uncle?"

Liu Chengfeng smiled, "Uncle is not suitable. People call him Tianfeng Old Man, he is very famous in Dushuo Mountain area."

Si Ren poured Tianfeng a cup of tea respectfully, "Master, please use tea."

After Tianfeng took the tea, he looked at Si Ren, "You have dealt with monsters a lot recently, look at your face."

"Well...it's okay. Master, why are you here suddenly?"

Tianfeng took out the painting Si Ren asked Liu Chengfeng to bring him from his bosom, "It's not because of this."

"What's the problem with this...?" Si Ren had a bad feeling, "I just want to know what kind of monster it is, and I didn't want to trouble you, old man, to go there myself."

Tianfeng opened the painting and slowly held it up to Si Ren's eyes, "This monster is called Jiuying."

With severe pain in his chest, he pushed the man in front of him away, lowered his head and looked at his body...

Long Jiu sat up abruptly, panting for a while in shock, his head drooped, and fell into a half-dream-like contemplation and memory.

9000 years ago, he was still Jiuying.

Looking down and seeing a white arrow pierced into his chest, Jiuying raised his head in shock, "Yi...why?"

Many heavenly soldiers appeared in the forest and mountains, and Yi avoided Jiuying's gaze, "Why...why? Tell me why! In just a few days, how many fields and villages have you destroyed? How many innocent civilians have you killed? You Do not you know?!"

Jiuying grabbed the arrow shaft and pulled it out, but he couldn't pull it out, his whole body went limp in pain and almost fell to the ground, "You...don't you know that wasn't my original intention? It's because I have nowhere to live and I'm thirsty I will lose my mind and commit such a crime. Now that the nine suns have been shot down by you, I will naturally return to the fierce water and will not come out to make trouble again."

"What happened to the thousands of heavenly soldiers who were eaten by you?!"

"They came to offend me first! Am I going to get caught without a fight?!"

"You...have done something wrong and still don't know how to repent!"

Jiuying looked around at the heavenly soldiers who raised their weapons and tried to gather towards him, and sneered, "Hmph! So, you brought these 'bugs'? What? The dignified heavenly emperor's first shot is now Are you going to rely on the help of my defeated generals to catch the monsters?"

Yi frowned, gritted his teeth and took off the big red bow on his shoulder, "Monster! Don't talk nonsense, today I am ordered by the Emperor of Heaven to eradicate the six monsters! Now you are the only one left, come on, come on Show me the winner!"

"Evil? I'm an evil now? Ah? Haha! You still want to fight with me? Hahahaha! Haha...cough cough cough cough..." Jiuying coughed while holding the arrow on his chest , "...cough...you...you want to fight me?! You want to kill me?! Hahahaha..."

Yi stretched out his hand to the quiver, and said in a low voice, "Yes, I will kill you."

Jiuying's laughter stopped abruptly, "Can you do it?"

Yi had no expression on his face, "Then what is the arrow on your chest?"

Jiuying pursed his lips tightly, and his voice became a little strange, "You know that this arrow can't kill me, so I don't blame you. Yi... Come with me, don't go back to the sky. I have a thousand years of spiritual power, enough Achieve your body of immortal war god, as long as you and I are together, from now on we will be invincible. Why do you have to go back to the lifeless heaven..."

"Shut up!" Yi yelled at Jiuying, the veins on his forehead where he gritted his teeth, "I am a general of heaven, how can a god and a demon be compared?!"

Jiuying was stunned for a moment, his eyes dimmed, and then he showed his original shape.

Soon a huge monster with a snake body and nine heads surrounded Yi tightly, and a barrier of water and fire formed around them in an instant. No one could break through the encirclement, and no one could see clearly what happened inside...

"...Finally, the water and fire receded, and Yi walked out from a pool of blood. Behind him, nine infants who had been shot in the head by an arrow were already lying on the ground lifeless." Tianfeng put down the painting in his hand and took a sip of tea.

Si Ren was very surprised, "So... Jiuying is a ten thousand year spirit monster?!"

"Well, it should have been more than 1 years since it was formed, but it was trapped in the fierce water for most of the time."

"No wonder..." Si Ren remembered what Long Jiu had said in the wine cellar.

"...I'm afraid to become a person again... a person, one day, two days, one month, one year may be nothing. But you haven't tried 100 years, 200 years... 1000 years... It's always been yourself, in the deep At the bottom of the pond, there is no sound or light, the body no longer exists, but the consciousness is clearer than ever. No one talks to you, and no one cares about your emotions. I can’t forget what I want to forget. I don’t know when I will see the light of day again. never die..."

"Small blade?"

"Huh? Oh." Si Ren came back to his senses, "It turns out that Yi knew Jiuying long before he killed him. This is somewhat different from folk legends."

Tianfeng nodded, "That's why it's called a 'Legend'. Besides, the matter is not over yet."

"What happened again?"

"Originally everyone thought that the ten-day disaster and the six monsters had been eliminated, and that the country and the people would be safe and peaceful from now on. But unexpectedly, Yi was demoted to a mortal and fell into reincarnation. After 7000 years, Jiuying reappeared in the world. At that time, it no longer had its real body, and because of thousands of years of resentment accumulated at the bottom of the water, it must first take revenge if it wants to be resurrected. So Jiuying made a solemn oath: he must kill Yi and reincarnate nine times, To avenge my nine lives and nine arrows."

"Ninth world?"

"Yes, as far as I know, he has succeeded eight times so far, and now he is short of his last life. So this monster is very dangerous. Tell me, where did you see the ghostly vision on your painting?"

"This is..." Qilin was about to answer.

Si Ren pressed his head down, "Kids, don't talk nonsense."

"Who's a kid?!"

Si Ren ignored Qilin's protest, and looked at Master again, "Why is it so dangerous? Can't the Jiuying be resurrected?"

"of course."

"why?"

"He's a monster."

"Isn't Middle-earth full of monsters now?"

"He is a monster who has killed countless humans and gods and demons."

"Isn't it considered an atonement to have died once? Besides, didn't you also say that it happened because he was burned by ten suns at the same time, and he lost his mind for a while because of the pain?"

"Do you think that after he came back to the world, he changed his mind and turned from evil to good? He can do anything for revenge. Besides, if he can do whatever he wants because of his own pain and forget the past, then anyone can kill and set fire at will. Jiu Ying It is a difficult and very powerful monster, tell me Xiaoba, where did you see this nine-headed monster?"

Thinking of how he went to Xucheng to save people with Long Jiu, Si Ren couldn't believe that he would kill innocent people indiscriminately.Looking at the aggressive look of the master, Si Ren regretted letting Liu Chengfeng send the painting.

Seeing that Si Ren deliberately concealed it, Tianfeng sighed, "Xiao Ren, how many times have I told you? You will no longer be the same Si Ren as before when you come to my door. But why are you not stupid or stupid anymore? But you can’t get rid of the problem of wanting to save everyone and take care of everything, you have to know that sometimes being too tolerant of the bad and the evil is the ruthless obliteration of the good and the good.”

Si Ren was silent for a moment, "But Tuer thinks that there is no absolute distinction between good and evil in the world."

"You... that monster is very arrogant, disobedient to control, and no one takes it seriously. If he hadn't been familiar with Yi and neglected to guard against it, then I don't know how many people would have to die to subdue him. So now Before he finds Yi's ninth reincarnation, this is the last chance, we must find a way to stop him."

Si Ren raised his eyes, "How can Master know such a long time ago?"

Tianfeng smiled, "Because I am your master. Tell me quickly..."

"Master, do you know the divine dagger?"

"God's dagger? That's the dagger that Yi reforged with the arrow iron that he shot and killed Jiuying. It was specially used to restrain Jiuying, but it was stolen when Yi died. How did you know?"

"Specially used to restrain Jiuying? Since everyone thought that Jiuying was dead at the beginning, why do you need something to restrain him?"

"Well... just in case. Don't get entangled with this, can you tell me where you saw this monster, and how did you know about it?"

"What is Master going to do?"

"I want to find him."

"..."

"You don't think I can't find you if you don't tell me, do you? When I passed over Yancheng just now, I noticed that there is a big courtyard not far from you. A powerful enchantment. That's not something ordinary witches or warlocks can do."

Si Ren lowered his head and grabbed the hem of his clothes.

Tianfeng stroked his snow-white beard, "If I'm not wrong...the monster whose name was changed to Long Jiu is within the barrier, right?"