Chapter 38:

The things that have troubled the Zhou family for more than a year have finally turned around within a short time after Yuan Xianger's arrival.
Zhou Deyun was overjoyed and smiled openly.
Everyone in the hall looked different, there were chattering, secretly jealous, and of course there were people showing closeness.
The crippled man gave a cold snort, stood up and pulled his apostle and left on his own. His apostle looked like a pony with no temples, with a pair of fleshy wings on his back. , The whole skin is staggered with old and new scars, scarred.
The thin Taoist who had buried Yuan Xiang'er several times in the background was extremely warm and kind in front of Yuan Xiang'er.
"My young friend is young, but he has an extraordinary cultivation base. I really admire him. Now I have been found the right direction by the young friend. Just follow the clues to find Mrs. Zhou, lock the souls of the two people, and return to their original positions, and you are done. Also." With a big smile on his face, he used his skinny fingers to draw out two rolled talisman papers from his sleeves. "The old man specializes in ghosts. This is my unique secret soul-catching talisman, which can keep the soul gathered without loss. , I also ask the little friends to laugh, and it is considered that I am doing a little bit for Zhou's affairs."
Yuan Xianger accepted it politely, "Then thank you senior."
Naturally, Zhou Deyun also thanked him again and again, and ordered his entourage to immediately offer thanks.
When others saw it, they secretly criticized the thin Taoist for being too cunning. They used two not-so-rare talisman to save face in front of the main member of the house, and secondly, they shared this with this mysterious, young and inexperienced young man. The girl quickly settled the relationship.
In this way, those who had ideas also gathered around to talk with Yuan Xianger.
Although Zhou Deyun is a wealthy family, most of the people who can be invited to the level of his family are some well-known casual cultivators among the people. Those high-ranking monks in the real high school, such as the state religion Dongxuan school in Kyoto, The Qing Yijiao in the depths of Kunlun, he was still not qualified to ask.
Nowadays, the world’s spiritual energy is thin and resources are scarce, and the path of casual cultivation is particularly difficult. They can’t help but envy and envy those famous disciples who can enjoy martial arts resources, and at the same time can’t help but want to approach them in order to explore some merits. The secret of the law, how much dip is so cheap.
It stands to reason that a little girl like her, who is only 16 or 7 years old, is mostly devoted to Taoism, lacks experience, is not familiar with the world, and is easy to understand the right and left. But soon, the little girl who seemed innocent and deceived and smiled sweetly was actually not slippery, not at all foolish. It seems to be polite and polite to talk to you for a long time, the seniors in the mouth, in fact, even the teacher's background will not disclose.
Although Yuan Xiang'er looks young, in fact, she has been working in society for many years in her life. She is not stage fright on such occasions, and can cope with ease.
Not only did they not tell anything from her, they were told about a lot of things nonchalantly, and they got a little understanding of the current situation in the realm of cultivation.
When everyone dispersed, only Zhou Deyun and the general who was possessed by Zhou's wife were left.
Zhou Deyun was so excited that he rubbed his hands and wished he could not leave immediately, heading north to find his own wife. But the general hesitated, his eyebrows furrowed, and he seemed extremely disturbed.
Yuan Xianger comforted him, "We will not leave too many people, only a few family members who are tight-lipped. When we get there, I promise that we will not touch your relatives and friends easily without your consent. After finding your body, if it is true The wife of the Zhou family is temporarily living in it. We will find a way to meet with her alone and discuss the next steps together as appropriate. No matter what, it will never be revealed that you are still alive and living in the wife of the Zhou family, you see OK?"
The general tensed his jaw and moved his masseter muscles. After seeing Yuan Xianger a lot, he finally made up his mind and said a few words with difficulty, "Datong Mansion, Fengzhou."
Fengzhou, that place is very far away. Yuan Xianger ran through the map in her mind, and felt that it was about the modern Hohhot, the continental plate underneath, and it was a desolate place on the border, thousands of miles of yellow sand, and wolves. Going is not easy.
"My lady has lived in a water town in the south of the Yangtze River since she was a child. How could she live in such a barren and wild place? She must have suffered a lot of grievances. I will pick her up, and then I will pick her up home." Zhou Deyun was impetuous. I almost wish I could set off right away.
But thinking of going to the north from here, thousands of miles away, just packing up and arranging boats and carts is not something that can be done in a day or two, and I can't help but stomped straight.
"Let's do this, now it's almost closed, you are ready to pack and arrange the route. We will leave when we turn over the Chinese New Year. Especially this..." Yuan Xianger glanced at Zhou Niangzi, not knowing the name of the general.
"Next... Qiu Yueming." The general closed his eyes, pondered for a long time, and finally said the name he had hesitated to defend before.
"Qiu, Qiu, General Qiu?" Zhou Deyun jumped up, stuttering. Even if he lives in a peaceful and peaceful inland area, he has heard of this young man becoming famous, stationed at the border, and established the reputation of a magnificent general.
He remembered the silly things he had done before and almost didn't scratch his ears on the spot.
Yuan Xiang'er took the topic: "Especially General Qiu's body is too weak. You must take advantage of this time to take good care of it. Otherwise, you may not be able to survive the long journey and change your soul."
Yuan Xianger planned to go back to Queqiu and his wife before leaving Mobei after the Chinese New Year. Before leaving, she naturally had to buy some Dingzhou specialties and bring them back to honor her and give gifts to neighbors and friends.
Yuan Xiang'er and Nan He were walking in the bustling market. They bought a bag of sweets and a few kilograms of dried goods on the left, so that both of them had piled up their hands.
"By the way, Nanhe, how did your little star chart do it? It seems very useful." Yuan Xianger remembered Nanhe's spell that stopped the audience as soon as he shot.
"That is my natural ability. I use my blood as a medium to mobilize the power of the stars. Coupled with the belongings of the creature I seek, as long as he is within the range of the starry sky, he can't escape. It's a pity that I don't have enough abilities. , I can only see a very unclear shadow."
"That's pretty awesome. You didn't see everyone being surprised."
"If you want, you can fuse my blood into a disc-like vessel and refining it into a magical tool for your humans to achieve the same effect."
Yuan Xianger shook her head into a rattle: "Use your blood? Don't don't, I'd rather not."
"It doesn't have to be blood, it can be hair and skin."
"Really?" Yuan Xianger happily reached out and touched Nan He's arm, regretting to find that because of wearing the clothes, she didn't have the hairy feel of the past.
"Then you divide a bunch of my hair, and I will try another day, can I get a golden jade plate, a silver jade plate or something."
Nan He was inexplicably sluggish for a moment, and for a moment his ear tips turned red, avoiding Yuan Xiang'er's eyes, and only reluctantly responded with a "OK" after a while.
She didn't know. I don't know the custom.
Nan He felt that his ears were about to pop out uncontrollably.
After the successful courtship of the Sirius tribe, there is one of the most important rituals, which is to exchange a bunch of their own hair with each other and weave and mix the other's hair on their own body, which is called "hair knotting."
Anyway, there is no other Sirius in this world. She said that she wanted my hair, just for refining. Give it to her. It doesn't matter.
Without noticing the sentimental changes in Nan He’s mood, Yuan Xianger walked into a dry goods store and opened up to pack ten dried ducks.
"The Junshan duck here is delicious, and you can hold it. Would you like to pack a few and go back for a drink? Dried whitebait seems to be good too. Would you like to bring some, Wuyuan? Strange, where did the Wuyuan go? "
Yuan Xiang'er turned her head and found that Wu Yuan had scattered among the crowd.
A small alley with few people.
In the alley stood a crippled man. The man bent down and shook a plate of fried crispy fish in his hand to lure a small cat not far from him.
"Do you want to eat a kitten? The fragrant crispy fish, I can eat for you." The man tried his best to put on a friendly smile and piled up folds.
Wu Yuan stared at the man vigilantly, moved her nose, with a look of disgust, "Huh, don't, Xianger only gives me the freshest Dongting whitebait with the most tender meat. Who wants you."
"Don't go, don't go, you look at this again, you must have never seen it." The man painfully took out a piece of jade glowing with emerald green luster from his arms, "This is a spiritual jade with abundant spiritual energy, Dai Even if it transforms into a beast-like form in the world with thin aura, it can last for a while. As long as you come over, I will give it to you."
"Who has never seen Lingyu? My dad puts a pile of sleep under his body. It's not unusual for Xiaoye." Wu Yuan sneered, "Besides, you painted such a bright formation on the ground, I am not stupid. , Why would I go there?"
The lame man sank into the hole, "Cang Ju, grab him."
Wu Yuan turned around and ran. A black figure blocked his retreat. This man was black-clothed and black-haired, his skin was like snow, his expression was cold, and his eyebrows were almost invisible. He was in the form of a monster Cangju. He was wearing a half-length black robe, and his exposed limbs were scarred.
At this moment, without saying a word, he stretched out his five pale fingers and grabbed it at Wuyuan.
Wu Yuan opened her mouth, meowed, and ejected a large group of red flames.
Obviously, Cang Ju often fights in this kind of terrain, his skills are extremely flexible, stepping on the wall to avoid the fireball, twisting his body at the top of the wall, making a fingerprint, and spraying a fireball several times the size of a black circle.
Wu Yuan hadn't fought with people much since he was a child. He saw a huge fireball rushing towards his face and panicked his hands and feet. Fortunately, he was a fire monster, not afraid of common fire, so he rushed out of the fireball in a panic. , Pulling his legs and flying outwards.
"Cang Ju, if you dare to let him run, I will be here--
Skinned you inside. "The lame man stood viciously in the shadow of the alley.
Wu Yuan used all fours together, running at full strength, a strong wind hit him from behind, and knocked him to the ground.
Cang Ju's figure appeared in front of her eyes, and her long black hair slowly fell in Wu Yuan's sight.
"Sorry, I can't disobey the master's order."
The pale five fingers pointed at Wu Yuan and grabbed him. As he got closer and closer, when he was about to catch his face door, a soft palm suddenly picked him up and put him in a warm and familiar embrace.
Yuan Xiang'er stood at the entrance of the alley with Wuyuan in his arms, looking coldly at the lame man and his apostle Cangju.
"Cripple, what do you mean!"
The small little cat in her arms buried her entire head in her arms, making a whine of milk, revealing a small section of her tail trembling with exploded hair.
Yuan Xianger felt that she was going to blow her hair too.
The muscles on the lame face piled up, and he snorted coldly, "You sell me this lynx, and I will give you five pieces of spiritual jade."
"You just gave me fifty pieces of spirit jade, and I won't let you leave here today!"
Before the voices of each other spoke, the crip had already pulled out the talisman and began to recite the mantra. The circle drawn in front of him overflowed with thick black air, and the black vines with teeth and claws crawled out of the circle.
Yuan Xiang'er held Wuyuan in one hand, but only one hand out. The white fingers were unpredictable in the air, like a flash in the pan, like a orchid suddenly released.
"Tianque Jue, sink!"
"Falling the ground, beam!"
"Taishan tactic, fine!"
The three incantations are accompanied by the chanting of rapidly changing fingers.
The ground under the lame's feet suddenly cracked, sinking him into it. Layers of loess in the earth surging up, giving him no room to breathe, tightly binding his body. The invisible pressure dropped from the sky, hitting the top of his head one after another, pressing him to scream again and again. The intensive spell attack made him unable to react at all.
The heart of the man who fell underground was chilly. Among the casual cultivators who often walked in the rivers and lakes, his cultivation was quite good, and there were even yanxian apostles accompanying him. Therefore, despite his gloomy personality and bad temper, his colleagues still flatter him and give him three points of courtesy. He always felt that he was not much worse than those disciples of the martial arts.
At this moment, he realized how big the gap was between himself and the young girl in front of him. This sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl can make a trick with one hand and he has no backhands.
He even saw the girl, writing in the air with two fingers, and yelled, "Shenhuo Talisman! Disease!"
A figure of a fire phoenix appeared in the air, and the fire phoenix uttered a clear sound, spouting a divine fire, and burned the dirty wood in the formation completely.
"Let go of my master!" Cang Ju fell from the air, with lightning speed, and attacked Yuan Xiang'er.
A huge Sirius appeared from behind Yuan Xiang'er. The wolf croaked low and bit Cang Ju's body with one bite, and held him in the air. Cang Ju struggled desperately in Nan He's mouth, stretched out his scarred arm and pushed Nan He, but to no avail, he could only make a painful voice.
"Don't, don't kill him. He just left his hand and wanted to let me go." Wu Yuan lifted his head from Yuan Xiang'er's arms, said quickly, and buried his head back.
"It turns out that the difference between the schools is so big." The lame man was located near the magic circle, his face was blackened by smoke, and his eyebrows were mostly burnt. He looked at the apostle who had been captured in midair, feeling disheartened. He pleaded for mercy, "I have eyes but don't know Taishan, and I ask the girl to forgive me once."
"You tell me first why you want to catch the black circle?"
"The natural eye of the Lynx is the real eye. I lack this pair of eyes to refine the mirror to illuminate the real body of the monster. If you are willing to sell it to me, I can not only produce enough spiritual jade, but also give you Cangju's hair and Flesh and flesh, that's a good thing for refining the Soul Rescue Order."
Yuan Xiang'er was immediately angry and used Taishan Jue twenty times to crush his bones and vomit blood.
"He is a demon, and you are convicted as an apostle. He is just like a cow or horse. Why should a girl be so angry if he sells it or not?" The lame poked the blood from his mouth, his facial muscles trembled, "Could it be that you are a human being. Still sympathize with these monsters?"
"They are not goods, nor are they cows or horses. Like us, they are flesh and blood. They can speak and think. How can you do such a cruel thing."
"Don't you know that these monsters are the natural enemies of our humans?" The lame buried in the ground suddenly became angry, with a distorted face. "They feed on humans. They are strong and have no emotions. They can easily destroy your village. You His parents, your family. To them, we are ants and reptiles. You are protecting demons? Haha, ridiculous, there are still human beings facing demons in this world."
Perhaps it was the demon who destroyed his home. This person seemed to have an irreconcilable contradiction with the demon.
Yuan Xiang'er rubbed her eyebrows, knowing that because of the different positions, it would probably never be possible to convince each other between herself and him.
She could only sigh, "Human beings have good and evil people, so are demons. There are vicious ones, and naturally there are friendly ones. We cannot generalize. We human beings are not the same, killing people, killing people, killing cities, and doing more. Isn't it that we humans ourselves?"
The lame snorted coldly, "I don't care so much. I only know that they took my leg and everything I have. I will never forgive these beasts in my life."
Yuan Xiang'er was silent, looking at the lame man who hated monsters on the ground, and Cang Ju, who had been bruised and bruised by long-term abuse in Nan Hekou.
"Well, if you unlock your apostle's contract, I will let you go."
"Impossible... Um." Before the lame man had time to yell, the loess around him suddenly tightened, pulling him towards the bottom of the earth a little bit.
And the woman who cast the spell stood indifferently in front of him, waiting for him to make a choice,
"I...I let it go, I unlock the contract. Forgive me, spare my life." He was about to be drowned above his head and had to give in, and finally agreed to unlock the contract that had been enslaving Cangju.
The was released from the ground, his mouth was full of blood, and he stared angrily at the Cangju that was let down from the mouth of the Nanhe River.
He chanted the mantra to restore Cang Ju's freedom.
"Bastard, let you run away. Let you beast run away..." The lame spit out blood and passed out into a coma.
Cang Ju silently looked at the former owner who had fallen on the ground and passed out. This human being was full of malice towards him and tortured him for a long time.
The wind blew up his soft long hair, and the hair fluttered, seeming to bring a trace of sadness to the pale face.
Yuan Xianger looked at the scars exposed on his arm, where old and new traces were covered in layers, and he was obviously suffering from inhuman torture and abuse all the year round.
"Do you hate human beings?" Yuan Xianger couldn't help asking him.
The demon with long black hair nodded.
"Do you want him to die?" Yuan Xianger pointed to the who passed out on the ground.
Cang Ju thought for a while, and slowly shook his head, "No, I don't want him to die."
"It seems that many years ago, I was still a pony, and I went to a human village to play and met a little boy." Cang Ju looked at the ground, the middle-aged man with a hostile face even in a coma." It was a barren and comfortable little village. Every time I went, the boy was very happy. He prepared me candy he couldn't bear to eat, and smiled so happily."
He looked up at Yuan Xiang'er with a look of confusion, "But one day, I slept for a long time, and I would look for him when I woke up. He no longer remembers me, and his appearance has changed a lot. With a leg, he only eagerly asked me to be his apostle."
"I agreed to be his apostle, but he shaved off my hair for the sale of refining artifacts, locked my neck to prevent me from resisting, beat me day and night, never showed me again The smile I used to be. Never asked me to eat candy again." He lowered his head and showed his body, turning into an ugly horse without hair. "I don't like humans anymore. I plan to go back to the spirit world. I won't come to you either."
When he spread his wings and was about to fly away, Yuan Xianger suddenly called him.
"Hey, wait a minute." Yuan Xianger handed a bag of sweet-scented osmanthus candy that she had just bought in front of him. Go back and eat slowly, sleep well, and forget everything in the world."
Cang Ju's hoofs were planed on the ground, and he stretched out his head to grab the bag of candies. He turned his head and glanced at Nan He and Wu Yuan, the fleshy wings on his back flew into the sky.
"I really envy you."
His dull voice came from the air.
Yuan Xiang'er looked up at the sky for a long time, until the little black shadow completely disappeared in the sun.
She thought about it, and took out a broken golden ball from her arms. "Dingzhou is so big, there must be a lot of jewelry shops. I want to find a big one in a while and fix this."
Nan He, who was regaining his human form, turned to look at her: "The misogynistic golden ball?"
The misogyny is a well-known great demon in Sirius Mountain. The biggest feature is that he plays with a golden ball all the time.
"Well, I played ball with her once. I always think she looks lonely. I think if I see her next time, I can at least return her toys."