Chapter 73:

Yuan Xianger was "accompanied" by Lu Junshou and walked on the streets of Chishi Town. Surrounded by dozens of strong guards with half-demon blood. In name, it is to protect safety, but in fact, the only purpose is to keep Yuan Xianger from letting her have a chance to escape.
When the pedestrians saw them and their party, they all looked at each other and cast a warm and radiant smile at Yuan Xianger.
Yuan Xiang'er was relaxed, looking around curiously.
I saw the wide streets paved with bluestones, the jade scented carts that do not need horses to pull freely, and the unmanned Cuiding Baogailu went ahead.
Under the cornices, the colorful lanterns complement each other, and the green trees and silver platforms on both sides of the golden stems compete for the wind.
Pedestrians passing by are all beautiful, handsome and demon-children parading the streets, graceful women, Panlong, kneeling.
It's a carefree place, like a dream, really avoiding Taoyuan.
"Master Lu, I was too rushed last time and didn't get a taste of the scenery in the town. Since you were kindly invited this time, I just happened to look around." Yuan Xianger said with a smile, as if he really had some investigation. It means to stay and settle.
Junshou Lu was very happy and treated her with extra care and thoughtfulness, "After placing a single name, Axiang called me Lu Yi. Our Chishi Town is so much a place for entertainment and recreation. If Axiang likes it, she will naturally be accompanied every day. Let you come out and play."
Lu Yi led Yuan Xianger into a theater. The three-sided bleachers and two-story guest seats in the garden have long been full of spectators. On the stage, the singing is ethereal, the fairy pipe is romantic, and the song "Nanke Ji" is sung. Liyuan's children are curled up, and the sleeves are gently swayed, bringing the joys and sorrows of the world to the full.
At the end of the song, everyone cheered in unison, even Yuan Xiang'er felt pleasing to the eye. He stood up and applauded. When Lu Yi saw Yuan Xiang'er say yes, he said a word of appreciation.
Not long after, two celebrities on the stage came to thank you with makeup. The young man has a handsome face and beautiful brows, and both use those autumnal eyes to turn towards Yuan Xiang'er. When he left, the young man who played the role of Huadan bit his red lips and threw the scented veil into Yuan Xianger's arms. .
"These two are the most famous characters in our place. They are beautiful and well-shaped, and they meet the requirements. If Axiang likes them, they can be the Langjun. They are all very happy." Lu Yi said thoughtfully beside her. .
Yuan Xianger picked up the peach blossom embroidered veil, not knowing where to put it. She has lived for two lifetimes, and the peach blossoms in the two lifetimes are not as many as she received today.
If it weren't for these people's impure goals and only seeing her as a tool, she might still be happy.
After visiting the theater, I ate some exquisite dim sum in the teahouse, played in the shops, watched sideshows, bought special products, and walked around the town. Yuan Xianger tried to keep in mind the terrain as he walked.
Finally, Lu Yi led Yuan Xiang'er to an Colosseum.
The ring-shaped stand was also filled with excited audiences, and in the center was a large flattened land.
Yuan Xianger always felt that there was something wrong with this town all the way, but at this moment, she finally figured it out.
The residents here live too leisurely and freely. The good times in the blue sky and white days, whether in the theater or the streets, are full of idle townspeople, but the human beings who are really engaged in production seem to have seen none of them.
"How come there are so many people everywhere? Everyone doesn't have to work and study?" Yuan Xianger asked.
Lu Yi was sitting next to her, directing his entourage to place a tray of tea, and when he heard these words, he couldn't help but express his complacency.
"Naturally, it is unnecessary. The people here are guarded by the Baizhu God, who can eat and worry all day long. If anyone lacks in the cost, the family only needs to cite one person, go out and sign an employment contract with the monster, gold, silver and jade Inexhaustible. As for reading, I am not afraid of you laughing. We all have such a small area here, and there is no way to get promoted through reading and writing, so most people are also lazy to spend that spirit."
Yuan Xiang'er nodded. She had already discovered that most of the residents here were casual and casual, and their speeches were simple and straightforward, without scruples, and their behaviors were no longer like human beings, but were closer to the temperaments of demons. Sure enough, as they said, the characteristics of human blood have gradually disappeared from them.
"But I like to read," Lu Yi tried to draw a distance from Yuan Xiang'er. He thoughtfully placed tea and snacks by Yuan Xiang'er. "Looking at the ancient books, it is said that the residents of the floating world or daily labor are worried about three meals. . Or Han Chuang study hard, gain fame and fortune. Life is very hard. Axiang stays here in the future, so he won’t have to suffer those sufferings again."
There was a chat here, and the opening gongs and drums sounded under the stands, and the audience suddenly became excited. Perhaps the life is too leisurely and plain. The favorite entertainment of the people here is to choose brave warriors and watch them fight to the death with the beasts caught in the wild.
The new samurai has a thick knotted sideburn, a strong figure, shiny skin and heavy oil paint on his face. He saw Lu Yi and Yuan Xiang'er in the stands very excited. He ran all the way, pounding his chest with his hands in the direction of Yuan Xiang'er, making a loud roar. With his movements, a large area of ​​bright and strange light appeared on the skin of his neck and chest. blue.
"This is to show your liking. The blood of their family is very mixed and does not meet the requirements. The people are also vulgar and dull, which is not something worth taking care of." Lu Yi first explained to Yuan Xianger, then looked at the venue and yelled nonstop. The man waved away, "Go back, you can't, your clan can't breed offspring from males, there is nothing wrong with you in front of Axiang."
The man drooped his arms at once, and made a grunt of dissatisfaction from his throat, but he did not dare to resist Lu Ya, so he turned his head and walked angrily towards the center of the Colosseum.
His opponent was a mighty male lion, but the male lion was not the human opponent mixed with the blood of the demon. It didn’t take long for the strong male lion to be clamped by the man’s neck and pressed into the mud, the jungle At this moment, the overlord could only struggle in vain with his limbs in the mud. The warrior of the beast was full of resentment, and with a fierce roar, he broke the head of the lion alive with his bare hands. He ran and shouted along the way holding a lion's head. The audience in the stands did not think it was bloody, but stood up excitedly and applauded for him.
"These savage guys didn't scare A Xiang, did they?" Lu Y looked at Yuan Xiang'er with a smile. He spoke softly, but actually meant to give Yuan Xiang'er a little bit of pretension.
The young girl, who must have never seen much blood, give a little candy, and then frighten her, so that she can't give birth to resistance.
"The guys who can perform in these places to earn money are mostly humble and barren people. Axiang looked at Le Yile and didn't care about their life or death." Lu Yi said dismissively, "These guys are some of their blood. It’s too complicated for the big monsters to look down upon. Others are holding on to some ridiculous self-esteem, unwilling to be servants of the monsters, and their families are too poor, so they choose to do these hard work and support the family. If, such as Xin This one came in."
Yuan Xiang'er followed his gaze, opened a corner of the iron gate of the Colosseum, and a man walked in. Yuan Xiang'er knew this person, whose name was Shi Fu. His younger brother once stole Yuan Xianger's purse, and he himself fought Nanhe at the entrance of the canyon three days ago.
As soon as he entered the venue, the audience suddenly eagerly called his name, thinking that he is a frequent visitor here, and he is deeply loved by the audience.
Of course, the love of this place is not necessarily a good thing.
At this moment, Shifu's shoulders and arms are even covered with gauze. It was injured by Nanhe during the fight against Nanhe three days ago. He couldn't heal at all in a short time, but he didn't know why, so he still participated in this event. A brutal showdown.
His young brother walked in the bottom circle of the stands, watching his brother advancing in the field with a worried expression.
After passing by where Yuan Xianger was, Shi Fu raised his head and looked towards the stands. There was a scar on his left eye, his temples were scratched behind his head, his eyes looked cold and ferocious from the bottom up.
Lu Yi snorted dissatisfiedly, "Stupid little things, such ugly scars are not willing to spend money to deal with them. The whole family is freak."
Yuan Xianger showed interest in this person,
Lu Yi: "The father of these two brothers was originally a man of pure blood and handsome appearance. One day, he was outside the door, and I don’t know which big demon caught him. He took it directly to the lair and returned for a few months. He held two cyan eggs in his arms. Asked him his blood, but he never said. Since then, he has not been able to leave the valley and concentrated on guarding the incubating offspring at home. This guarding foolishly for decades, The two sons came out of their shells one after another. Not waiting for the children to fully grow up, they also fell down due to poverty, suffered from all kinds of illnesses, and died. Nothing left for the children, but they owed a lot of debts for taking medicine and seeing the doctor, but two A child paid for him."
"It will take decades to incubate." Yuan Xianger's brain supplemented a father who had tenderly incubated eggs for decades. "It seems that this father likes that monster and his own child very much."
Lu Yi snorted, "Demons are ruthless and unrighteous. Their longevity is long and time has no concept of them. Sometimes a nap, or an oversight, time flows for dozens or hundreds of years, and they love it. A demon needs to wait all the time. When they look back and think of you, you may be dead."
Yuan Xiang'er blinked. She had many friends of demons who complained to her that human beings are indiscriminate and fickle. It is rare to hear human beings have expectations and complaints about demons. It is really new.
Seeing that she didn’t care, Lu Ye frowned and persuaded her, "I know Axiang, you like your apostle. His appearance is really charming, but what good appearance can he use? He is not our kin at all. It’s always different from human beings, and I can’t appreciate the joys and sorrows of you and me. Axiang, listen to my advice and forget about that monster."
"If you like his appearance and body," Lu Yi approached Yuan Xianger, turned into Nan He's appearance, and said softly in Nan He's voice, "I can accompany you in his appearance, but whatever you like, whatever you like Anyway, it will never be inferior to him."
Yuan Xiang'er stretched out his hand to block his leaning body, "Stop, stop. I don't like you like this, you will come back soon."
At this moment, the audience in the stands let out a cry of exclamation, the corner door of the Colosseum opened, a stench filled the audience, a low beast roar came from the dim doorway, and a pair of red eyes were gloomy. Appeared deep in the dark doorway.
The people in the stands called out in surprise, and then gradually held their breath and quieted strangely.
A monster beast with scarlet skin and tiger-like appearance with sharp horns on its forehead and all over its body slowly emerged from the shadows.
The monster beast walked around the edge of the Colosseum step by step, staring at the only man on the field with blood-red eyes, and let out a harsh and unpleasant roar.
This is not an ordinary beast, but a monster with a peculiar bloodline and known for being brutal and bloodthirsty.
"It's a fierce beast, a real beast!"
"Finally, there is a good show to watch. Can Shifu's boy be its opponent?"
"I want to buy this time and I will lose again. This kid is too crazy, he wins every time. To be honest, I would love to see him lose once."
"Hehe, I like it too. The more arrogant warrior is, the more I want to see him finally be crushed under the claws of the monster beast and die with a pitiful appearance."
"Oh, Shi Fu seems to be injured. It seems that he may not have won this time. I'm afraid there is no such person to watch in the future."
Everyone didn't care about the life and death of the soldiers on the field. Instead, they began to bet on winning or losing.
"No, no, no! Why is it a monster, everyone else is an ordinary beast, why is my brother's opponent such a powerful monster!" Shi Jun shouted, and he ran to the court quickly, pulling the protective net, and directed at The inside shouted, "Brother, come out, come out soon, we can't compare, we can ask the adults for a few more days for the money owed by the family."
But Shi Fu didn't look at him. He slowly squatted down and stared at the enemy not far away with a vigilant look.
This is the Colosseum. What the audience buys is the bloodthirsty fun of life and death struggles, how can they agree that the players quit halfway?
Shi Jun hurriedly pulled the host who was living on the side of the venue to collect gambling money, "My elder brother still has injuries on his body. This is to let him go to death. My brother earned so much money for you, please do it well and let it go. Let him once. We can't compare, we can't compare."
"Go away. Don't stop Lao Tzu from making money." The owner who was busy collecting money pushed the young boy away.
The boy staggered to the side, and when he was about to stand up, green vines grew out of thin air on the yellow ground, which bound his body, and ignoring his screams, gently but firmly pulled him out of the stands.
The fierce beast on the field roared, and a fishy wind rushed towards its face. The monster beast with sharp teeth and claws rushed towards the human who was much smaller than it.
Shi Fu looked at the monster beast rushing aggressively, and didn't dodge. With his hands on his chest, countless flexible vines broke out of the ground, densely entwining the powerful beast.
At the same time, he pulled his feet and rushed towards the beast, turned over in the air, stepped on the back of the demon, grabbed the sharp corner of its forehead with one hand, and grabbed the key between its neck with the other.
"Oh oh oh, control the plants, Shi Fu's special skill, you can use it as soon as you play."
"This kid is quite good, and the outcome is still unpredictable. Am I buying a loss?"
Discussions in the stands piled up.
The monster opened its huge mouth and spewed out a raging fire. The delicate vines were quickly broken by the fierce beast in the flame, and the armor-hard skin was not easily broken by a pair of fleshy palms.
The monster beast shook its body in the sea of ​​flames, throwing Shi Fu on its back far away. Shifu stepped back several tens of meters, stopped his figure, and dashed without stopping, dodge the hot flames that the monsters continuously ejected all the way.
"Oh--! Hurry up, him. I can buy him all his money."
No one in the audience cares about the life and death of their own kind, only screaming with excitement because of the change in war.
"Axiang thinks who will win? Do you want to also bet to buy it?" Lu Y supported his chin and watched the battle of life and death in the arena with ease.
You said that your Akaishi Town is full of joy, and it is so much a place for entertainment. So this is the way you seek happiness after being extremely bored?
Yuan Xiang'er looked at his beautiful face and saw the ugliness under the mask, but she did not speak out her disgust.
"I think that human will win." Yuan Xianger took out a piece of spirit jade from his purse and threw it into the arms of the game owner.
That piece of spirit jade was the jade that Shi Fu left in front of her three days ago to compensate for the jade stolen by his brother.
On the field, Shi Fu once again leaped towards the monster beast. His spells did not have the advantage over the monster beast of the fire element, and the wounds on his body did not allow him to fight for a long time.
He decided to take a risk.
The moment he landed, he lowered his center of gravity, and the whole person slid on the spot, sliding towards the abdomen of the monster beast. He had already seen in the short battle that the soft abdomen was the most vulnerable part of this armored monster beast.
The ground was raging fire, and the sensitive monster beast lowered its head, and pointed the sharp horn of its head at the enemy that was aimed at him.
Shi Fu knew that he might be picked up in the air by the shining sharp thorn and died on the spot. Even so, he has only this chance.
His vines burst out with the greatest strength and broke through the flames, entangled the head of the monster beast, bound the sharp horns of the forehead, and prevented him from moving.
Very good, as long as he can hold on for a moment, he can slide under the monster's abdomen, split its chest, and take its life.
The monster beast that was aware of the danger also exploded with the greatest power.
It broke the vine!
The beast raised his head in the flames of Shura hell, and his blood-red eyes stared at the little human being rushing towards it through the firelight. Shi-Fu even saw a bit of cold light from the sharp corner rushing out of the broken vine. He flashed.
He stretched out his hand made of flesh and blood in front of him, even if he abolished one hand, he still had to save his life and win the battle.
But in that short moment, the movement of the monster beast's head suddenly froze, as if it was bound by some invisible force, restricted, rigid and unable to make an effective attack.
Of course, this process is only a short moment. However, this moment is the difference between life and death.
The audience looked at the smoke and dust in the Colosseum with countless eyes, but only when he was sliding against the ground saw the light of the magic circle flashing across the dusty land.
Someone helped him, who was it?
Before he had time to think about it, he pressed against the cold sharp horn and got under the monster beast's body to under its abdomen.
A huge howl resounded throughout the audience. After the smoke and dust in the sky disappeared, the monster like a hill rumbling down in the dust.
The warrior crawled out from under the demon, holding a heart in his hand.
He stood up, his blood mixed with the blood of the monster beast and his head and face were dyed red. He looked like a Shura returning from hell. He swept his eyes from the stands. The stands were ugly and distorted. They yelled and screamed wildly, using the pain and blood of others to fill their emptiness and boredom.
Shi Fu's gaze stopped for a moment at Yuan Xianger's location.
It turned out to be her.
He turned around, stopped listening to the shouts and shouts that rang out from the audience, dragged his bruised body, and left the Colosseum in silence.
"Oh, I don't think that Axiang's eyesight is better. Many of these people have lost, but you have spotted it. It's really amazing." Lu Yi praised in surprise.
Yuan Xianger quietly retracted the palm of her back behind her back and gently rubbed the fingers that had just been pinched.
Out of the remote wilderness.
Searching every corner within a few miles, Nanhe, Dushuo and others could not find any trace of Yuan Xianger. At this moment, everyone's mood is heavy and anxious.
Wu Yuan was already in a mess. She used her small claws to desperately planed the soil on the ground, holding her face and weeping tears as she planed the soil.
"Why it's gone, Axiang, come out, you come out quickly. Oh, why did I call her with a contract, and she won't give me any response."
However, there was nothing in the large and deep pit that had been dug long ago. Only the backpack Yuan Xianger had been carrying with him was placed alone on the edge of the pit.
"If it weren't for me, she wouldn't have to come to such a dangerous place. I can't watch her well." Du Shuo stood by the huge dirt pit dug by Nanhe and Wuyuan, long black hair hanging down. Most of his body is covered by dark gray feathers, and semi-ontology is the form that the demon is extremely angry.
Hu Qing reached out and held his wings, with a worried expression on his face. She was equally flustered and at a loss.
"I remembered a little bit, Axiang seemed to mention that she saw me in her dream." Nan He said suddenly.
"You said Axiang dreamed of you? But, is there anything wrong with this?" Du Shuo turned his head and asked him.
"That's not the case. Axiang told me inadvertently. She said that she had dreamed of me several times in recent days...I seduce her." Even though she couldn't tell her, Nan He spoke quickly.
He clearly remembered that it was here last night, and he was extremely sad because of Yuan Xianger's deliberate avoidance in the past few days.
At that moment, Axiang approached him, combed his hair, talked to him quietly with a contract, and accidentally passed a thought in his heart.
(If there is anything wrong, the fault is that you are too beautiful, so I can't stand the temptation to dream wildly.)
Yes, Axiang said that at the time. When I heard this sentence, my heart was both sweet and happy, and I didn't even think about what was wrong with it.
Thinking about it now, from the beginning of Axiang's deliberate avoidance of herself, to the words she accidentally revealed, there are all weird things.
"She seems to be disturbed by some kind of magic, but I was completely unaware of it at the time." Nan He thought calmly and came to a conclusion.
Hu Qing looked at Nan He in surprise. At this moment, Nan He stood on the edge of the huge pit in a human form, with a straight body, neatly dressed, silver hair flying, and his eyebrows staring at the place where Yuan Xiang'er disappeared in thought.
After walking with her for so long, she thinks she has some understanding of Nan He's character. Compared with the age of the demon, Nan He is still very young. Young and proud, simple and powerful, he has a deep affection for Axiang and a strong sense of dependence. Hu Qing originally thought that Yuan Xianger was gone, and Nan He must be the first to mess up.
But I didn't expect that at such a moment when everyone was panicked, Nan He was able to restrain his anxiety and calmly lead everyone to think carefully.
"Yes, I also remembered one thing. When passing by the banyan tree, Axiang said that she was influenced by the tree spirit and was drawn into the spiritual world of the tree spirit." Hu Qing remembered something and hurriedly said it. Axiang is different from us. She is a human being. The human spirit is weak and easily captured by the magic of the tree spirit. Do you think that we have offended which powerful tree spirit along the way?"
At this moment, a soft noise came from Yuan Xiang'er's backpack on the ground.