Burning fire

"Is the dragon saliva pearl in your hand now?" Zhang Jueming asked.

Lin Juan's emotions gradually calmed down, and he stopped crying, but his holey eyes were black and blood red, and the eyelids were swollen and wrinkled, making him look even more frightening.

Lin Juan shook his head. He cried too hard just now, and now he hiccups from time to time: "No...hiccup...not here."

Zhang Jueming frowned.

"It's really not with me. Up to now, I won't hide it from your lord." Before Zhang Jueming could speak, Lin Juan continued, "I've been looking for Dragon Saliva Beads, and I've tried a few times, but... ....belch......"

Lin Juan suppressed the panic in his heart. ——As long as he thinks about it, he will be very scared: "I didn't get it, the Dragon Saliva Pearl must have been snatched by Qiongqi."

"Qongqi? You mean Qiongqi?" Zhang Jueming's eyes widened, and he immediately remembered Jiuying on Xiaotai Mountain years ago, "Are you sure it's Qiongqi?"

"Although I haven't really seen it before, I shouldn't admit it wrong."

Lin Juan: "There is a beast in the northwest, which looks like a tiger, has wings and can fly, so it suppresses cannibals." (Note)

"Besides, besides ancient beasts like Qiongqi, I really can't think of anything else that can have such a great ability." Lin Juan covered his mouth and coughed twice, "To tell you the truth, my lord, my injuries are serious. Because I borrowed the dead body of a great evil spirit."

"Isn't that a forbidden technique?" Zhang Jueming's face changed, and he didn't care about other things. He grabbed Lin Juan's slender arm and rolled up the wide blue sleeve around his wrist.

Sure enough, Zhang Jueming saw blood vessels protruding from Lin Juan's entire forearm, and the pale skin was covered with bluish-purple spots.

There are many techniques in Xiangxi to drive corpses, most of which are good at using blood and cinnabar, and mainly use spells to draw arrays.But there is a kind of forbidden technique, or sorcery, which relies on Yin people's own vitality as a sacrifice.That is borrowing the murderous corpse.

The vicious corpses of the great evil spirits are those who have been subduing sins for tens of thousands of years. They have committed so many crimes during their lifetime that their bodies have nowhere to return, while their souls are serving their sentences in the eighteenth floor of hell, and they cannot be reborn forever.

This kind of vicious corpse has too much evil spirit, if you want to borrow it, exorcising the corpse and summoning the soul, the Yin people will definitely suffer a huge backlash.

This principle is exactly the same as Zhang Jueming used the red gold order to borrow three thousand ghosts, except that Zhang Jueming relied on the red gold to open the ghost gate at that time, while Lin Juan relied on his own life for this move.

Zhang Jueming saw that the bluish-purple scar had climbed up Lin Juan's arms: "It will cost you 30 years of life at least, do you know that?"

"It's just subtracting two strokes from the number in the book of life and death." Lin Juan withdrew his arm, "It's nothing."

Zhang Jueming was speechless.

Lin Juan went on to say that in the future, he would clarify the cause and effect: "I went on a business trip to Changchun last month. On an unexplored route in Changbai Mountain, I drove the body of a traveler to a place where it could be found so that he could be picked up by his family. go back."

"It was on that road that I discovered Ambergris."

Lin Juan: "I have learned a lot from my travels all these years. I know that the dragon's saliva pearl is the treasure of the dragon clan, and the water of the five sages can create mirages and illusions."

"You want to use the dragon saliva pearl as a bargaining chip to negotiate with the dragon clan?" Zhang Jueming didn't think it was a smart idea.

Lin Juan was naturally not that stupid, he shook his head: "No. I want to use the dragon's saliva beads as an excuse to go into the underworld, and ask Yan Luodian to check Master's book of life and death."

"What do you mean?" Zhang Jueming hesitated, and asked hastily.

"I suspect that Master's life span is not over yet." Lin Juan bit his lower lip, and squeezed the quilt tightly with his fingers, "When Master died, I went to his altar, and all three soul fires were extinguished. His soul is gone. But there was no evil messenger to arrest him. Then where did his departed soul go?"

"You mean, according to the book of life and death, your master should still be alive at that time, so the underworld servants in the Yan Luo Palace didn't arrest him, but his soul disappeared after his death?"

"Yes." Lin Juan nodded, "But Yin people are mortals, and they have never been able to enter the abyss. Checking the book of life and death is not a trivial matter. I think, if there is a dragon's saliva pearl..."

Lin Juan said bitterly: "But since I got the dragon saliva beads, Qiongqi has been chasing me all the way. I fought with it once, and I was seriously injured at that time. , so he laid down the corpse-tampering talisman, made a seal, and buried the dragon's saliva bead in the bushes of Chuying Elementary School."

"But your boundary sealing technique has been broken, and the corpse tampering talisman has not come in handy." Zhang Jueming said.

"Yes. I don't know who made it. I searched for a long time, only to find out that the dragon's saliva beads were actually in the hands of a child..." Lin Juanfei glanced at Zhang Jueming and said guiltyly, " In fact, I already knew that you were here, my lord, but I didn't dare..."

At this point, Lin Juan was still in the dark, but Zhang Jueming could already understand the outline.

Lin Juan's formation, as well as the corpse tampering talisman, were broken by those five-fingered claws.And the two places of blood cinnabar that Zhang Jueming found were probably left by Lin Juan when he was entangled with the other party.

The reason why the other party didn't take the dragon saliva pearl immediately, but let Jin Mingyu pick it up, and then got involved in the river, all of this... Maybe it was to design a trap, forcing himself and Zhou Qizun to jump into it.

It must be a rare thing to be able to instigate Jiuying and Qiongqi without knowing his identity.

What is the relationship between the five-fingered claws and the Golden Dragon of Fortune?

"Then why did you show up at Changsha Railway Station?" Zhang Jueming asked again.

"It was Qiongqi who brought me here." Lin Juan said as he got up, pulled the bag beside the bed, and began to search.

After a while, he took out a rectangular box.Opening the box, a thick black aura rushed out. Zhang Jueming waved his hand, and the aura dispersed, revealing the contents inside.

"This is..." Zhang Jueming was basically sure this time, Lin Juan was telling the truth, "Is this Qiongqi?"

Inside the box was a black pointed horn, about twenty centimeters long, covered with dark purple scales: "I borrowed eight hundred corpses, but I only broke off the tip of Qiongqi's horn."

"The tip of the horn is still alive, and it has a feeling with Qiongqi. I chased it in the direction it pointed." Lin Juan closed the box.

Again.Using the holy object as a primer, release the ancient beasts, and go around in circles to plot against them.In addition to revenge, the other party must have other purposes. ——The ultimate goal.

Zhang Jueming subconsciously felt that this purpose would be terrible.

"Listen, Lin Juan." Zhang Jueming lowered his face, his voice was calm and unquestionable, "I will handle this matter, don't act rashly."

"Qongqi's sharp horn has not moved now, which means that Qiongqi may be in Jishou, or even near us." Zhang Jueming said, "That's not something you can deal with, and giving you an extra 300 years of life is not enough."

Zhang Jueming: "Let's keep in touch first, and if anything happens, you must tell me as soon as possible, you know?"

Lin Juan opened his mouth and finally nodded: "Yes, my lord."

Zhang Jueming glanced at him, the little boy was poking there alone like a frost-scarred eggplant.

Helpless, desperate, he has suffered for too long.

"Your master's book of life and death, I will find a way to help you look it up." Zhang Jueming got up and said suddenly.

Lin Juan raised his head abruptly, and after a daze, he immediately knelt down on the bed and kowtowed to Zhang Jueming: "Thank you, sir."

"You don't have to do this, get up." Zhang Jueming sighed.

Lin Juan refused to get up: "Really, thank you."

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Liu Jian said try not to suffer from insomnia, Zhou Qizun tried his best, but in the end he still suffered from insomnia.

Everything is quiet in the dark night, if you pick your ears carefully, you can even hear the occasional wind outside the window clearly.

Someone is talking in the hallway.In a small local hotel, it is common to hear trivial chants, and the small voice seems to be covered with a thick layer of oil, moistening the ears, slipping vaguely in the ear canal.

Zhou Qizun straightened his stiff back, closed his eyelids, heard the wind in his left ear, and chattered chatter in his right ear, his head was full of nonsense, and he didn't know what to think about.

For a while, I thought of the shortbread I ate on the train—Xiao Yi would definitely like it; for a while, I even thought of the girl at home, is it wandering now?You're not biting your own slippers, are you? ...Xiao Yi should also like cats.

After a while, Zhou Qizun suddenly thought of Zhang Jueming.

Last night, the lights in the hotel were not very bright, Zhang Jueming lowered his head in front of him, and whispered, "It's really bad."

The young man closed his eyes with a heartbroken expression on his pretty delicate face. ——Objective evaluation, it's really painful.

"Tsk." Zhou Qizun lifted his eyelids and stared at the ceiling. ——Why do you suddenly think of Zhang Jueming?

Zhou Qizun naturally put his hand into his pocket, and touched his blood jade finger.

He rubbed the slightly cool jade and thought, "Will I still have weird dreams with my finger ring on tonight?"

Oh, can't do it, he has insomnia and can't sleep tonight.

Zhou Qizun sighed, it seems that his head is not serious tonight.

Zhou Qizun was dying of "illness", when the phone next to his pillow vibrated.

Zhou Qizun touched the phone and glanced impatiently.If he dared to call and harass him at this point, it was either because there was something really urgent, or he was just looking for scolding.

Seeing the words "Bai Yuxing" displayed on the screen, Zhou Qizun understood that this call belonged to the latter - looking for scolding.

"What's wrong with you?" Zhou Qizun was blunt, and opened his mouth when the phone was connected.

"Did you not sleep? Did you not sleep? Did you not sleep?" Bai Yuxing shot a string of cannonballs, "I knew you were not asleep. You will not suffer from insomnia tonight. My surname is Zhou."

Zhou Qizun: "..."

Zhou Qizun was silent for a while, then laughed angrily: "I'm dead."

"Bai Bai, don't...Bai (don't) intervene!" Bai Yuxing hurriedly howled, "Bai (don't) hang up."

Hearing the big tongue and blunt mouth, Zhou Qizun understood that Bai Yuxing had drunk too much: "Drink too much?"

"Hey, I drank a little. Not much." Bai Yuxing smiled, "There are regular customers in the store, so I just had two drinks with me."

"Go to sleep." Zhou Qizun sighed.He could figure out why Bai Yuxing wanted to get drunk on him - seeing "Zhou Yi" tomorrow, Bai Yuxing would feel uncomfortable if he didn't say something to his heart in advance.

"I can't sleep." Bai Yuxing said aggrievedly, "Your sister-in-law thought I smelled of alcohol and smoked the child, so she kicked the toilet for me."

"..." Zhou Qizun didn't say anything, he simply took the phone from his ear and wanted to turn it off immediately.

"Are you going to hang up the phone? You're too lazy to listen, right? I know you." Bai Yuxing said at the right time.

Zhou Qizun paused, then turned the phone back to his ear: "I admit, I'm extremely nervous, and a little..."

He kept his mouth shut. ——Also a little scared.

Zhou Qizun: "Is it alright?"

"Hmm..." Bai Yuxing chuckled, "Yeah. It's better for you to speak out than to hold back."

Zhou Qizun felt a sharp pain in his throat and eyes, and he didn't make a sound.That drunkard Bai Yuxing did not work in vain, the call fell silent for a while.

After a long time, Zhou Qizun closed his eyes, and exhaled a long, sullen breath from his nasal cavity: "Old Bai, I actually hope that she is Xiaoyi, and I also hope that she is not Xiaoyi."

Zhou Qizun's voice was low and low: "You understand."

——It’s Zhou Yi, she can go home.back to yourself.It's not Zhou Yi, at least...at least there are fantasies.Maybe his little Yi didn't suffer such a serious crime, maybe she was taken in by kind people, maybe she just hated him and didn't want to come back to recognize him.

Maybe... there are too many tiny possibilities.What a good maybe.

"Your trip to Jishou, I looked so uncomfortable, I thought, I must talk to you tonight. You... vomit..." There was a burst of vomiting from the other end of the phone Voice.Bai Yuxing vomited halfway through speaking.

Zhou Qizun didn't move, and waited quietly for him to finish vomiting.

"If you say it, I can rest assured. Zun'er, don't think about it, really, you are all knives when you stretch your neck and head. You will go tomorrow. There is a brother, and the brother is here. Ah, the brothers will go together for the rest of their lives! Let him go from east to west Wind!" After Bai Yuxing vomited, his mouth was even more able to scoop.

"Okay, come on, shut up." Zhou Qizun finally smiled lightly.

"I want to sleep." Zhou Qizun said.

"Well, that's good, try to close your eyes and rest your mind." Bai Yuxing grumbled a few more words, but Zhou Qizun didn't listen much.

"By the way, sister-in-law sent you something? Didn't I go to the courier to deliver it to you? I happened to see it, so I'll help you (receive) it." Bai Yuxing said.

Zhou Qizun came back to his senses, and checked the text messages on his mobile phone twice. There was indeed a courier message earlier, but he didn't pay much attention to it.

The sister-in-law changed places with Lao Peng.She packed up some things from her hometown, there was no place to put them, and it was hard to take them away, so she sent them to Zhou Qizun.

"Let's put it in your place first, and I'll get it when I go back." Zhou Qizun said.

He turned his head casually, and saw a black shadow swaying over the curtain.

Who?

Zhou Qizun rolled over from the bed.

The curtains in the hotel were two layers, Zhou Qizun was slovenly, he only pulled the front layer of tulle, so as not to block the light.Although the lights were off, the moonlight was still bright.

But the black shadow flashed past, Zhou Qizun's eyes were not too sharp, and he was not sure now.

illusion?No.That's a person?Or something weird...

"Zun'er?" Bai Yuxing called him several times, "Zun'er? What's wrong with you?"

"Okay, hang up first, you can sleep on the floor." After Zhou Qizun finished speaking, he immediately hung up the phone without waiting for Bai Yuxing's response.

He narrowed his eyes and stared warily at the curtains.A layer of semi-transparent white gauze curtain remained motionless.The moonlight pierced it and poured openly into the room.

Zhou Qizun stood up from the bed and walked towards the window.

The author says:

"There is a beast in the northwest, its shape is like a tiger, it has wings and can fly, and it suppresses cannibals." - "Shen Yi Jing"