kidnap a beauty to catch a demon

it's dark.

This is the first time that Lin Jie has stepped into the Imperial Capital Headquarters of the Demon Subduing Masters Association, which is also the gate of the Ninth Branch of Guoan.

This courtyard house near Shichahai is not as strict and orderly as she imagined. There are begonias blooming under the corridor, red plums in full bloom, two red lanterns dangling under the eaves, and even the thin snow on the eaves in the distance. , gave her the illusion that this place was just an ordinary house.

However, as soon as she saw the legendary He Lao hurriedly approaching, and only glanced at Fang Yize head-on, her face turned horrified, Lin Jie felt as if she had just woken up from a dream: So it turns out that this place is really where people and gods come from. The Ninth Office of National Security, which is well-known in the Ghost Three Realms!

Shao Guozhong and Su Yin followed Helao, and when they saw Fang Yize lying on Gu Jin's back, unconscious, Shao Guozhong frowned even more, and said directly: "Helao, Aze, he..."

As soon as He Lao saw the situation of the four of them, he roughly guessed what happened, and was also secretly shocked. With a wave of his hand, he asked Shao Guozhong to take Fang Yize from Gu Jin's back, and hurried back all the way. Head towards the end of the corridor.

Gu Jin didn't have time to wipe the blood from his temples, so he followed after a few steps, and asked in a deep voice, "What are you going to do?"

While they were talking, they had reached the end of the corridor. There was an ink painting painted on the pink and white wall. The background of the painting was a small tea room. The literati's elegant affairs of chess, burning incense and playing the piano are lightly written and the ink is long, showing the meaning of peace and leisure.

If Fang Yize was still awake, or if Ji He's eyes were intact, they would soon be able to recognize that this was the painting they had seen and entered before!

He Lao stood still in front of the painting, stretched his hand forward, and a sliding wooden door appeared on the wall out of thin air. He turned his head and glanced at Shao Guozhong, then raised his foot and stepped in.

"Please, everyone." Shao Guozhong naturally knew that Elder He didn't say anything else, he just acquiesced in allowing them to enter together, so he said respectfully, and then walked in.

Gu Jin frowned. Although he didn't know what He Lao was up to, this tea room looked unusual, so he also greeted Su Yin, glanced at Lin Jie who was supporting Ji He, and signaled them to follow.

The tea room painted on the pink and white wall is static. No matter how beautiful the scenes of drinking tea, playing chess, burning incense and playing the piano are, there is no fresh vitality. And as soon as they entered the tea room, it seemed to be separated from another dimension. , everything feels changed.

Everything seemed to come alive in an instant.There is smoke curling up from the incense burner, a small cup of tea on the tea table still has the residual warmth of the tentacles, the pine and crane on the screen are vivid, and even the warm candlelight in the tea room gives people a rare sense of comfort.

Although Su Yin faintly felt that the matter was not simple, she couldn't help but looked around for a while.In comparison, He Lao, Shao Guozhong, Gu Jin and even Lin Jie all had serious expressions on their faces.

Ji He has been in a daze since he called out "Yize" in front of the elevator in the apartment, but no one answered, until he smelled a faint, somewhat familiar scent of sandalwood, and suddenly woke up.

"He Lao?" Ji He's eyes were still blank, but he could feel the breathing of everyone in the tea room, so he couldn't help but tilt his head, and looked in He Lao's direction.

Although he couldn't see it, he could feel it—here was the tea room in the painting they had entered!

"Lord Phoenix."

He Lao didn't look back, watched Shao Guozhong lightly and carefully put Fang Yize down on a soft couch behind the screen, then bent down to check Fang Yize's situation, and heard Ji He's voice, Just responded in a low voice.

Ji He could smell the bloody smell getting heavier and heavier in the air, and he was very clear about who the bloody smell came from. He collected himself, stretched out his hand and patted Lin Jie who had been supporting him, and said in a low voice: " Help me over there."

Lin Jie was taken aback for a moment, then subconsciously raised her head to look at Gu Jin.

Gu Jin just turned his head to look at Ji He, met Lin Jie's eyes, and nodded slightly at her.

They were standing not far from the soft couch, Ji He walked over in a few steps, and simply knelt down in front of the soft couch, groping to touch Fang Yize's hand, and when he caught it, he held it tightly.

"How is he... now?" Ji He could feel that He Lao was less than half a meter away from him, and asked softly.

Elder He withdrew his hand from Fang Yize's eyelids, stared at Fang Yize's gray face for a while, his voice tightened, and then he sighed: "The soul of Suzaku is the same as that of Baihu and Xuanwu. They are all different, part of his soul is scattered in the world and kept here, and part of it is hidden in the 28 constellations in all directions. It has been integrated into his own consciousness in the astrology last night, and a very small part is left behind. on you."

Ji He's fingers trembled, he pressed his forehead against the edge of the soft couch, and said in a very low voice: "Then take this small part of my soul and make it up for him!"

"It's not that simple." He Lao's face was also a little heavy, "What I wanted to say just now is that when you were attacked just now, Suzaku's soul was not complete. Because of this, his spells were banned, and even the basic His power as a demon subduing master can't be exerted. And his current situation is the result of incomplete spirit."

"What consequences?" Gu Jin asked coldly.

He Lao gently closed his eyes: "The soul is damaged, and his mind is blurred. This 'soul' refers not only to his soul as Suzaku, but also to his three souls and six souls as 'Fang Yize' in this life. "

Gu Jin's face suddenly changed, and Ji He's hand, which had been holding Fang Yize's hand, suddenly became stronger, but it was trembling slightly.

"How to solve it?" Gu Jin settled down.

If there is no solution, Elder He will not be anxious and worried, but still faintly reveal a little calmness.

Sure enough, Old He raised his eyes to look at the two red lanterns in the tea room, his eyes flickered slightly, and he said in a deep voice, "The lamp of continued souls. Suzaku turned into good spirits from the three worlds, and gathered tens of thousands of souls. The wick of the ever-bright wick, and with its own Suzaku fire, refined a small piece of five-colored stone left over by Nuwa when she repaired the sky, and made it into a lampshade. This is the lamp for continuing the soul. It can mend any remnant soul in the three realms, and can also influence the resentful spirits of heaven and earth .”

Renewing Soul Lamp?

Gu Jin frowned.Back then, Suzaku always liked to toss some gadgets of gods, gods and ghosts, such as the "Fate Disk" born out of the Yin Division was one of them, but he had never heard of the Soul Renewing Lamp.

"I know." Ji He's voice was a little hoarse, as if he was suppressing his emotions before he could speak, "This is when we went down Kunlun Mountain and traveled in all directions in China, Suzaku felt a little bit emotional for a while because he witnessed the devastation of mountains and rivers. It was only transformed, and it was usually placed in the small courtyard we bought in Hangzhou. But not long after, Huang Chao's mutiny led the demons to attack Chang'an, and the four holy beasts agreed to meet in Chang'an City. We had no time to go back. Outside the Lingyin Temple, it was directly abducted to Chang'an."

Ji He didn't need to say more about what happened after that, not to mention him as the person involved, even Bai Hu, who hadn't witnessed Suzaku sealing the Phoenix with his own eyes, knew a thing or two about these things.

"As Master Fenghuang said, Master Suzaku really made the Soul Renewing Lamp." Helao sighed, "Later, Master Suzaku enlightened me with the fire of Suzaku and ordered me to set up the Association of Demon Subduing Masters to protect the world well. At the same time, he also mentioned to me the soul-renewing lamp, saying that he left it in Hangzhou, and hoped that I would get it back in the future. But at that time, because of the four holy beasts, I had an accident in the process of setting the four directions, and I was in Chang'an. I stayed for a while longer and collected some of the souls of Suzaku and White Tiger scattered in Chang'an. When I rushed to Hangzhou after that, decades had passed."

"And then?" Lin Jie seemed to be attracted by his narration, so she couldn't help asking.

He Lao slowly raised his hand, a soft white halo appeared in his palm, and then the halo circled up and landed on the two red lanterns not far away——

Under the effect of this halo, they quickly changed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the two sides intertwined, and finally turned into a hand-sized, octagonal and exquisite red lampshade that was as flawless as glazed glass, but inside was dull and empty. Lamp.

He only hooked his little finger, and he held the lamp firmly in his palm.

Elder He lowered his eyes slightly, looked at the glazed lamp in his palm, and looked a little perplexed: "This is the Soul-Continuing Lamp. But I went there too late at that time, and the wick of the Soul-Continuing Lamp had already grown spiritual wisdom under the nourishment of heaven and earth, and it had already grown on its own. away."

His lips moved, but he still didn't say a word——

A soul-renewing lamp without a wick is nothing.Not to mention mending any remnant soul in the three realms, influencing the resentful spirits of the world, even being a lighting tool is of no benefit.

"Where's the wick?" Gu Jin was overjoyed at first, and then terrified by He Lao's words, his fingers were clenched into "clicking" sounds, and his face was extremely ugly.

Shao Guozhong, who was silent on the side, sighed softly: "He Lao has been looking for the wick for many years, until more than 20 years ago, he found it in the eastern coastal area, but when he rushed over, he found that the wick had been killed without his knowledge. Melted into the body of a newborn baby, He Lao thought that he hadn't used the Soul Renewing Lamp for many years, and he was not in a hurry at this moment, so he registered the child in the Demon Subduing Masters Association, and planned to wait until then. When the child was dying a hundred years later, he went to fetch the wick again, but he never expected that a momentary negligence would cause the current crisis.”

Ji He suddenly made a sound, as if cutting gold and breaking jade: "Since you know where the wick is, why are you still talking nonsense here? Go get it back! If you can't make a decision or make up your mind, then I will come!"

When it came to the end, Ji He almost shouted out, his voice was low, but with a hint of sorrow and pity, Lin Jie stared at him blankly, she seemed to have never seen such a side in Ji He .

Is it messy to care about?

Gu Jin also felt impatient with He Lao's hesitation, and said coldly: "It won't hurt your life if you take the wick. You already know who the wick is on, so what's the delay? Since you have remembered him in the Demon Subduing Masters Association What's his name? What's the situation now? I'll go get it back!"

He Lao seemed to have thought of something, he couldn't help but glanced in Ji He's direction, and immediately said seriously: "Master Fenghuang also knows this person, and his name is Zhou Zhou."

##### The little assistant who disappeared for so long is finally about to appear in a brand new attitude of the savior!It's really comforting~