The master said not to judge people by their appearance

Seeing Xie Yunlan's arrival, there was a commotion in the crowd, and they were so excited that they seemed to see a savior.

Surrounded by guards, Yuan Lang and Yuan Yi came forward. Yuan Lang looked apprehensive, as if he hadn't recovered from the series of changes tonight, but Yuan Yi accepted it quickly. When he saw Xie Yunlan, he asked directly: " General Xie, where are those monsters?"

"They're all in Weiyang Palace, so I didn't come after them." Xie Yunlan answered briefly. He looked at the black barrier in front of him, which was taller than the city wall, and could hardly see the edge. "Is there no gap in this barrier? The east gate can go out." ?"

Mu Qingyun: "We came from the east, no, everything is blocked!"

"Can it be destroyed?" Xie Yunlan asked again.

"I've tried it all!" Mu Qingyun said, "This barrier is not afraid of swords, guns or water and fire, nothing will work!"

"Fire..." Xie Yunlan was reminded by Mu Qingyun, he turned his head to look at Shen Fan, ordinary fire won't work, what about soul fire?

"No." Shen Fan said, "The formation has already been activated. If you want to break the formation, you can only destroy it from the eye of the formation, and you can't do it anywhere else."

Xie Yunlan: "Where is the eye of the formation? What is the use of this formation besides blocking the whole city?"

Shen Fan didn't answer, he suddenly turned his head and looked behind him, that was the direction they came from.

At the end of the long street, above the Weiyang Palace, a black pillar of air is rising, thicker and more terrifying than all other black pillars of air, as tall as the sky pillar that carries the heaven and the earth. There, a huge phantom appeared.

That phantom hovered high in the sky. Although all parts of its body were blurred, its outline could still be vaguely seen. It was shaped like a snake, but it had four claws. It was...

"Dragon!" Someone exclaimed.

"There are dragons in the sky!"

"The real dragon is alive!"

The crowd kept shouting in surprise. The dragon, a creature that is said to have the power to penetrate the heavens and the earth, is not uncommon in stories, but it is the first time I have seen it with my own eyes. According to legend, someone already wanted to kneel on the ground and pay homage to that phantom.

"It's not a dragon!" Xie Yunlan shouted, pointing his sword at the phantom, "Like a dragon but without horns, it's clearly a monster dragon!"

Everyone heard the words and looked over, and found that the top of the dragon-shaped phantom was flat, and it really didn't have two horns!

"Why did another monster appear?!" Yuan Yi said in surprise, "How many monsters are there in Beijing?!"

"That monster dragon is the heart demon." Shen Fan said.

Xie Yunlan was also a little surprised: "The real body of the heart demon is a monster dragon?"

"It should be said that the image that the heart demon chooses to transform into is the monster dragon." Shen Fan explained, "The heart demon is invisible and shapeless. The form power is more powerful, and it is easier to achieve the purpose."

Xie Yunlan understood, and he asked again: "What is the heart demon showing up for? The eye of this formation is in Weiyang Palace? How do we destroy it?"

He asked too many questions and asked them too quickly, so Shen Fan picked out the easy answers first and replied: "It's in Weiyang Palace, which is directly under the monster dragon. If you want to destroy the formation eye, you need to get near the formation eye first, but ..."

"The palace gate is full of monsters, we can't get through it." Xie Yunlan said the "but" for Shen Fan, he frowned, now he understood the reason why the monsters stopped chasing them, those monsters were guarding the eyes of the formation.

"What's the use of this formation?" He asked this question again. Yuan Shuo attached so much importance to the opponent's eyes, it must not only be used to seal the whole city.

Shen Fan: "If my prediction is correct, it should want to use this formation to transform into a dragon."

"Turning into a dragon?" Xie Yunlan was taken aback, "Since the form of this monstrous dragon is transformed, why didn't it directly transform into a dragon?"

Shen Fan explained: "The difference between a jiao and a dragon is not just a pair of dragon horns. The shape of a dragon itself is a symbol of power. A jiao is just a monster, and a dragon is a god of heaven and earth. The boundary between the two is not so good. If you want to transform into a dragon, you must have enough strength to become a divine dragon that penetrates the heavens and the earth, or a magic dragon. The current strength of the inner demon is not enough."

"Then how does the heart demon increase its strength?" Xie Yunlan asked.

"It wants to..." Shen Fan was about to explain, but suddenly heard a woman's scream from the crowd behind him.

Xie Yunlan turned back immediately: "What's going on?"

Some officers and soldiers reported: "My lord, she is a pregnant woman, and she suddenly has abdominal pain, as if she is about to give birth!"

The rest of the people heard the words and sighed that it was too unfortunate to have a baby at this time. Only the expressions of the few who knew about the demon fetus changed. The pregnant woman was lying on the ground, already passed out from the pain.

He asked the man standing next to the pregnant woman: "Are you her husband? How many months is she pregnant?"

The man looked anxious: "It's only been seven months, logically it's not too late, but somehow it suddenly happened like this, officer, please save my daughter-in-law!"

He knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Xie Yunlan.

Xie Yunlan's heart sank, she gave birth in only seven months, and the [-]% of her stomach was... He turned around and wanted to ask Shen Fan, but found that Shen Fan hadn't followed at all, he was still sitting on the horse, looking a little confused, as if he didn't know what to do. know how to get down.

Xie Yunlan hurried back again, lent Shen Fan her shoulders and hands, helped him off the horse, and immediately brought her back to the pregnant woman, asking, "Really?"

"Yes." Shen Fan said.

"Is this the demon fetus you are talking about?" Yuan Yi also followed, and he looked at the woman on the ground.

"The monsters in the palace were born through such a woman?" Yuan Lang also asked.

Xie Yunlan each responded, and then asked, "Can you save me?"

Shen Fan shook his head, and said: "It's too late, the demon fetus is about to be bred, and her body's energy has almost been sucked dry, so it can't be saved."

The man kneeling on the ground didn't know what a demon was or wasn't a demon, he only understood the three words "can't be saved", his expression became extremely mournful in an instant, he hugged his wife and burst into tears.

The crying was unbearable, Yuan Lang couldn't help asking: "Master, is there really nothing you can do?"

"No." Shen Fan said calmly, the man's mournful cry lingered in his ears, but his expression didn't change at all, and he even reminded Xie Yunlan, "It's still too late to do it now before the demon fetus is born."

Xie Yunlan's expression changed slightly, and the man who was holding his wife and crying bitterly raised his head vigilantly: "What are you doing?! What are you going to do?!"

"She is destined not to survive, why not kill the mother before the birth of the demon fetus." Shen Fan explained seriously, he didn't think there was anything wrong with saying that.

The expressions of the man and the rest of the people around him changed when they heard the words, Xie Yunlan could tell at a glance, although Shen Fan was telling the truth, but it was too direct, and he didn't care about others' feelings.

The man's grief turned to anger, he put his arms around his wife and shouted: "Do you dare to touch her?! I will fight with you!"

The people next to him were also talking about it, Yuan Lang looked hesitant and didn't know what to do, Yuan Yi quickly made a decision: "If this stomach is indeed a monster, it is indeed better to get rid of it as soon as possible."

"Brother, what should we do?" Mu Qingyun also hesitated.

Xie Yunlan groaned silently, looking at the man who was nervously hugging his wife, he finally put his hand on the hilt of his sword and shouted: "Get out of the way!"

The man naturally refused to give way, and even blocked his whole body in front of his wife. When he saw Xie Yunlan draw his sword out of its sheath, he went up to grab it without hesitation.

He doesn't know martial arts, so he grabbed the sword entirely with brute force, Xie Yunlan pushed the opponent away skillfully, but the man refused to give up, and immediately rushed back after being pushed away, he knew he couldn't beat Xie Yunlan, He wanted to directly hold the sharp blade with both hands.

Xie Yunlan didn't want to hurt innocent people, so he was forced to retreat for a while. He was about to call the officers and soldiers to restrain the man, but suddenly he smelled a strong smell of blood. !"

The man's expression was inexplicable, he turned his head in a daze, and what greeted him was a bloody mouth biting his throat.

Although Xie Yunlan drew his sword while shouting, he was one step too late. The man let out a miserable howl, and the monster bit his neck!

This newborn monster is not big in size, with the afterbirth on its body, just like a newborn puppy. However, it takes about a week for a newborn puppy to open its eyes, and it takes a month to use its limbs flexibly. Monsters are not the case. They grow rapidly after they are born, their size swells visible to the naked eye, and they will instinctively attack and prey on nearby living creatures.

Xie Yunlan picked the monster off the man's neck with a sword, and cut off its head before it fully grew up, then dragged the man's collar to bring it behind him, and handed it to the soldiers for treatment.

Without the cover of the man, everyone finally saw the situation of the pregnant woman clearly. It was already a corpse with its belly torn apart. The monster came out of the woman's belly just now. Still beating, there is more than one monster in this stomach!

"Burn the corpse! Quick!" Xie Yunlan shouted.

The soldiers immediately threw the torches at the woman's body, but it took time to burn completely, which stimulated the monster hidden in the stomach, and another one had to tear the afterbirth, and when it came out, Shen Fan took a step forward. The damage was not great, but the soul fire was not. The few monsters that had not yet had time to be fully born were vulnerable to a single blow in front of the soul fire, and turned into fly ash in an instant.

Everyone was still in shock. Looking at the burning female corpse, it took a long time to recover. Xie Yunlan didn't dare to be careless. After confirming that all the monsters were dead, he breathed a sigh of relief. He turned to check the bitten man.

The man was covered in blood, and the soldiers in charge of treatment helped to press the wound, but they still couldn't stop the blood gushing out like a fountain. Xie Yunlan knew at a glance that he would not survive.

The man probably also understood his situation. His dilated pupils looked at the blazing flame in the night. That was his wife. He stretched out his hand to her, as if he wanted to say something, but his vocal cords were blocked by a And bite through, can't speak, can only make a "ho ho" sound, like a leaking bellows.

A tear fell from the socket of the eye, the man's hand drooped, and there was no light in his pupils.

Xie Yunlan sighed and reached out to close the man's eyes.

"Master Xie, what should we do with this corpse?" The soldier asked for instructions.

Xie Yunlan glanced at the female corpse that was about to be burnt into charcoal, and said, "Let's burn it together."

The soldiers lifted the corpse and were about to throw it into the fire, but Xie Yunlan suddenly stopped: "Wait!"

Everyone didn't know why, seeing Xie Yunlan looking at the man's body solemnly, they followed suit, and then they noticed something strange, wisps of tiny black air were floating out from the man's dead body.

This black air was very inconspicuous, and if Xie Yunlan hadn't had extraordinary observation skills, the rest of the people present would probably not have noticed it at all.

"What is this?" Xie Yunlan asked Shen Fan.

"It's his fear before death, resignation, anger, despair, everything that can be nourished by monsters." Shen Fan's eyes followed the black air, which rose into the sky and drifted north. That was Wei Young. The location of the palace is also the location of the ghost dragon phantom.

The black air rising to the sky is not only on their side, but also in all directions of the capital, and they flow into the phantom of the monster dragon like a river flowing into the sea.

The phantom changed a little accordingly, its color became darker, its shape became more condensed, and the texture of scales began to appear on the blurred outline, as if it was about to come alive.

Shen Fan looked at the monster dragon, and answered Xie Yunlan's previous question: "The heart demon wants to use the lives of the entire city as a sacrifice for it to transform into a dragon."