Brother, can you save me again?

Everything happened in the blink of an eye. Seeing the blood on the corner of Xu Zeran's mouth, Qi Hong raised his eyebrows and eyes immediately. His sword intent was faster than anything else, piercing the night, and stabbing towards a place in the dark with anger.

The other party didn't seem to have expected such a change. He didn't have time to dodge Qi Hong's sword, and his breath suddenly became heavy.

Knowing that it was impossible to kill Qi Hong today, the figure in the darkness trembled, and the breath dissipated immediately.

In a blink of an eye, everything returned to calm.

Before the sword was sheathed, Qi Hong picked up Xu Zeran, stepped on the sword, and flew towards the residence with Yujian.

Xu Zeran's face was pale, and the severe pain made his brain return to normal in an instant, and then he fell into the boundless chaos again. He shivered and shrank into Qi Hong's arms, murmuring something inarticulately.

After a few breaths, the two arrived at the small courtyard. Qi Hong got down from the sword, carried Xu Zeran back to the house, and put him on the bed. Seeing him talking non-stop, Qi Hong bent down and asked softly. Said: "What are you talking about?"

Xu Zeran ignored him, the severe pain made him curl up into a ball, seeing that his shoulder was still bleeding, Qi Hong treated the wound first.

After everything was finished, he simply put his ear to Xu Zeran's lips. This time, he heard clearly what Xu Zeran was saying.

Xu Zeran kept murmuring: "Don't be afraid."

Tell anyone not to be afraid, it goes without saying.

Qi Hong stood there in a stalemate for a long time, and when the newly lit candles were all extinguished, he chuckled lightly, with some inexplicable meaning in his voice: "Brother, don't say that next time, don't be afraid I'm not used to hearing those two words."

After he finished speaking, he was silent for a while before he said: "Senior brother, I said it last time, I'm not afraid."

But Xu Zeran on the bed had already fallen into a deep sleep.

Xu Zeran was awakened by the pain.

There was a scorching pain in his shoulder, and he opened his eyes for a long time before he vaguely remembered something that happened last night.

I don't remember the specifics, but I only remember that I seemed to help Qi Hong block the sword.

Xu Zeran tapped the system: "Do you still remember the details?"

In fact, the onlookers watched the whole system and sincerely said: [I was off work at the time, so I didn't see it. 】

I didn't see you getting drunk, and I didn't see that you were completely exposed in front of Qi Hong.

Xu Zeran tasted its words: "Why do I not believe it so much?"

The system said: [Qi Hong is here. 】

Sure enough, the door was pushed open, and Qi Hong came in with a food box. He took out the breakfast one by one and put it on the small case in front of Xu Zeran's bed, and said softly: "Yesterday, thank you brother."

Xu Zeran was drooling looking at the preserved egg and lean meat porridge, and waved his hands: "No, no, this is what I should do as a senior."

He didn't dare to take credit in front of Qi Hong.

Qi Hong just laughed: "In the sect, I said that I would guarantee the safety of my senior brother. After all, I broke my promise. Let me owe my senior brother a promise. If my senior brother wants me to do something in the future, Qi Hong will never postpone it."

His shoulder was injured, but Xu Zeran could still move his hands. At least holding a bowl to drink porridge was not a problem. When he heard Qi Hong's words, he stopped drinking porridge and his breathing was stagnant: "Are you serious?"

The promise of the future Demon Lord.

"Of course," Qi Hongwen said, "as long as I can do it, I will do it."

Xu Zeran was happy, he put on a reserved look, but his eyebrows were bent to reveal the joy in his heart: "Then I will remember."

The system said in his mind: [Look at your promising appearance, don't you think that you can get stabbed a few more times in the future, right? 】

Xu Zeran smiled and said, "It's not impossible."

"By the way," Xu Zeran called to stop Qi Hong when he saw that he was about to leave, "Be careful, he won't kill you once, maybe there will be a second and third time."

Xu Zeran thought about it, the assassin last night should have been sent by Chu Yunliu.

Qi Hong nodded: "I see, brother, rest well."

Ever since he was injured, Xu Zeran has lived a life of semi-paralysis—he can't get out of bed until he can.

After Jiang Zhaoge and his team found out about this, they also came to see Xu Zeran. At that time, Xu Zeran was lying on the bed reading a script, and the few of them still had competitions, so they didn't talk in detail.

After nearly a month like this, Xu Zeran's shoulder injury was healed.

The competition has reached the second round, and half of the more than 4000 sects participating this time have been eliminated.

When Xu Zeran was watching Zhong Yu practicing sword in the yard that day, Qi Hong hurried in from the door and told the two of them bad news.

In the spring tower of Weiyang Pavilion on Lianchun Street in Xunling City, a disciple of a sect who came to participate in the alliance test died.

"Elder Changhong of Xunling City is already in Weiyang Pavilion," Qi Hong said with a frown, "He told us to go there quickly."

Xu Zeran and the two followed Qi Hong to Weiyang Pavilion, Xu Zeran asked: "This case has nothing to do with us, why let us go there?"

Qi Hong shook his head: "I don't know, Elder Changhong didn't just call Lingyun Sect, but called all the disciples from the five major sects who came this time."

Xu Zeran was surprised.

It stands to reason that a cultivator should not be polluted by the world of mortals, especially in places like brothels.However, Xunling City was built in such a prosperous place, and young disciples who had cultivated Taoism for many years suddenly came to such a place, and without the control of the elders in the sect, it was easy to go too far freely.

Most of the sources of inspiration for storybooks such as "My Immortal Daddy" and "The Vengeful Immortal's Bastard Son Dominates the Immortal Way" come from life.

In Xunling City, Lianchun Street, a brothel street, is full of such sources of inspiration.

When the three of Xu Zeran arrived at Weiyang Pavilion, Jiang Zhaoge, He Xingzhou, and Pei Qiexing had already arrived.Gather in a private room on the second floor, but go down from the second floor, the first floor is still full of people coming and going.

Elder Changhong of Xun Lingcheng saw the three of them and greeted them with a smile: "But the three friends of Ling Yunzong?"

The three said yes, and reported their names one by one. When they heard Xu Zeran's name, the proprietress who had been drooping in the corner looked up at him.

Jiang Zhaoge asked curiously, "Why is the first floor still open for business after someone is dead?"

Elder Changhong supported his beard and said: "The murderer has not been found, and we are not sure whether he will come here again, so we thought not to clean up the surprise, and everything will remain the same. It also prevents the people in the city from hearing that Xianxiu was killed. Fear, disturbed the murderer."

He squinted his eyes: "Xunling City has been stable for too long, and it can't stand the toss during the alliance test. Let's investigate secretly first, and be cautious."

Xu Zeran listened to his words, but felt a little strange.

Since the murderer dared to kill people, left the body like this after killing people, and abandoned it without any treatment, as long as he had a normal mind, he would definitely know that Xun Lingcheng would look for him. Now he pretended nothing happened, didn't he let the murderer escape?

Furthermore, Xunling City has been stable for a long time, and it's not that it has been devastated for a long time, so how could it not withstand the toss?

But this happened in Xunling City, and Xunlingcheng was investigating. Xu Zeran had no choice but to say politely: "If you don't inform the ordinary people, can you inform the disciples of the various sects who came to participate in the alliance test, so that they can pay attention?"

Elder Changhong waved his hand: "Impossible, this is during the grand test of the alliance. So, are you still competing?"

"Then why did the elder want us to come?" Pei Qixing asked.

Elder Changhong said quietly: "When you see the disciple who was killed, you will know."

Qi Hong said, "Elder, why don't you take us to see the disciple who was killed first."

"Wait a minute," Elder Changhong shook his head, "And Ma Chichi from the Shunhua Sect hasn't arrived yet."

Speaking of Cao Cao and Cao Cao Dao, as soon as Elder Changhong finished speaking, he looked through the open window of the private room and saw a young man dressed as a shepherd boy leisurely walking up the stairs.

He even dropped an unknown weed in his mouth, and his whole body was full of laziness, as if he was not walking in a brothel, but rather an outing in a place with beautiful mountains and rivers.

When he walked in, Elder Changhong stood up and said, "Everyone is here, let's go, I'll show you around."

The one who was killed was the young disciple sent by Xukonglou this time. Xukonglou is an unknown small sect in Xijing. Something to covet.

Even the disciples who were sent were defeated in the first round. If there were no accidents, they should go home today.Unexpectedly, in the end, I wanted to be romantic and go directly to the sky, which is another way to ascend to heaven.

The young disciple's body was placed in another private room. The proprietress led a group of people into the private room. Unlike the previous private room, which had its doors and windows open and well ventilated, this private room was locked tightly, and no light came through. Come in, just light a few candles.

The moment they saw the young disciple's body, Xu Zeran and his party immediately understood why Xun Lingcheng had people from the five major sects gathered together.

The disciple's normal skin color was no longer recognizable, and even his normal body shape was completely different. His flesh and blood had disappeared, leaving only a thin layer of skin covering his bones. The person was scorched black, and from time to time, dead black air would emerge from the cracks in the bones and disappear into the air.

In this world, only cultivators whose spiritual energy has been sucked dry by the demons will look like this after death.

Xu Zeran asked the system: "Didn't Qi Hong do it?"

The system said: [Of course not, there is nothing to suck in a rotation period, Qi Hong wants to suck, and he is also sucking in the golden elixir period. 】

Xu Zeran: "...That's true."

On the other side, Elder Changhong looked at everyone's shock and sighed: "My friends, it's been more than 100 years, and we haven't seen the demons for more than 100 years."

More than 100 years ago, after Tianlu Xianzun broke through the formation of the demons alone, with the five sects as the leader, hundreds of thousands of immortals entered the barren domain where the demons lived, and slaughtered the entire demons to the end. There are no demons. Unexpectedly, 100 years later, in the alliance test in Xunling City, there will be demons again.

Hearing what he said, Ma Chichi, who had been holding the weeds in his mouth without speaking, suddenly spit out the weeds in his mouth with a bang. He looked around, glanced at Qi Hong with a smile that was not a smile, and said: "Elder Changhong Don't jump to conclusions so quickly."

"What if it's not the demons, but the traitors at the bottom of the crossing cliff, what do you think, fellow Daoist Qi Hong?"