A ray of light appeared on the horizon.
The moment before daylight is often the darkest hour of the night.
In the dark jungle.
Yun Que grabbed the handle of the knife.
At the same time, the demonic claws in the blade also pinched Yun Que's neck.
If the long knife with the demonic claws protruding from it could still be considered a knife, then Yun Que was in a strange state at this moment.
Yun Que was holding the knife, and the knife was pointed at himself!
Yun Que's eyes were as red as blood. He was holding the knife tightly with one hand and grasping the demon's claw fiercely with the other hand, trying to break it open.
However, the huge power on the demon's claws was extremely terrifying, and Yun Que's strength could not shake it at all.
That demon claw can easily kill seventh-grade monks and seventh-grade warriors!
"Go back...go back to me!"
Yun Que roared with difficulty, gritting his teeth in a terrifying manner.
Click! Click!
Strange sounds appeared, as if something was cracking.
Yun Que lowered his eyes and stared at the demon claws.
On the back of Demon Claw's hand, a crack opened, like a mouth.
"Hee hee hee!!"
"Hahaha!!"
“Quack quack quack!!!”
The cracks twisted and squirmed, emitting a scalp-numbing eerie laugh, just like a living thing.
Amidst the weird laughter, a bloody vertical pupil opened above the mouth!
The moment the vertical pupils appeared, the blood in Yun Que's eyes became more intense, covering up the trace of clarity in his eyes.
puff!
Yun Que spit out a mouthful of blood.
Blood stained the vertical pupils, slowly flowing down like tears of blood, greedily swallowed by the crack like a big mouth.
"That's enough...go back!"
Yun Que was almost roaring, his hoarse voice revealing extreme weakness.
But after the mouth swallowed up the blood, it did not disappear. Instead, it made a strange human sound.
"You deliberately sent that girl away. Could it be that you fell in love with her? Such flaws are fatal. As a demon hunter, the fewer flaws you have, the longer you can live."
The voices could not be distinguished from each other, and they sounded like ghost voices in the wild forest.
"I want you to take care of it! Get back here!" Yun Que yelled.
The mouth on the demon claw opened and closed again and made a sound:
"If you want help, call them out, and when you're done, tell them to get lost. You men are really ruthless. It's been many years since I've smelled the fresh breath of a living person. That girl's Xuanyin body is a great tonic, hehehehe !”
"As long as I don't die, don't even think about it!" Yun Que growled.
"That's not up to you. You have no power and no sacrifice. What can you do to make me go back? I'm just here to have fun. Why be so afraid? Do you still have any nostalgia in this world? Why don't we destroy the world together? Hee hee hee, quack quack!!!”
Amidst the weird laughter, Yun Que's eyes began to spin until they were filled with darkness.
In the jungle, Yun Que passed out and died.
Still clutching the handle of the knife tightly.
But his body began to change, and his black hair turned red one by one...
Demon Sword's laughter gradually faded away.
Yun Que couldn't hear the sound or see anything.
All around was darkness.
He seemed to be trapped in the Nine Netherworld, waiting for the black and white impermanence to lead the way.
Tried my best...
Yun Que sighed and shook his head helplessly.
It doesn't matter if he dies, it's all over.
You will die sooner or later anyway.
As a person from the Demon Slayer Department, who can die well?
Yun Que sat down in the darkness, resting his chin on his hands, calmly waiting for death to come.
His thoughts stopped there, as if the world had frozen.
I don't know how long it took, but a ray of light appeared in front of me, and then spread out into a world.
In front of us is a tragic battlefield!
Corpses litter the fields as far as the eye can see!
Once again, Yun Que saw the horrific scene that was like hell when he was three years old.
There were body parts and broken bodies everywhere.
No one alive.
There are no living creatures either.
A wolf head bigger than a yak hangs on a towering old tree.
Two bear paws as big as water basins are embedded in a huge rock.
Thousands of white human skeletons piled up into a mountain of bones.
Hundreds of long knives with many gaps were inserted into the corpse of a giant beast that was two people tall.
The mountain on the left split in half, forming a canyon. An eagle demon with wings spread over ten feet died on the top of the mountain. The hanging eagle talons were wrapped with dry strange pythons, like vines filling the canyon.
The small lake on the right was dyed red, without any waves. There were tens of thousands of corpses floating on the lake, both human and demonic.
In the distance, the majestic palace towers into the sky.
A bloody road covered with corpses connected the distance between Yun Que and the palace.
That's the Demon City!
The final destination of this unprecedented battle.
Yun Que didn't know when the fierce battle ended.
Yun Que didn't know whether he won or lost.
Yun Que only remembered the only mission of this trip.
Kill the demon!
But his sword had been cut off long ago, and he should have died in the battle, but for some reason he was still alive.
This land of death has been Yun Que's nightmare that has been lingering over the years.
The light in front of him gradually dimmed.
The darkness closed back into a cage.
In the darkness, Yun Que's mother's voice rang in his ears.
"Stay alive, Yun'er, you must live..."
Stay alive.
Live!
Perhaps it was his mother's warning, or perhaps the cold rain coming, that made little Yun Que wake up again.
Surrounded by weeds, old trees, and unfamiliar mountains and forests.
It rained heavily.
There was no mother's gentle smile in front of him, but a huge wild boar with a single horn, and its breath was like two clouds of mist.
"Demon..."
The little Yun Que raised his hand out of habit, and even though he didn't have a knife, he still made a chopping gesture out of habit.
Click! !
The wild boar demon fell suddenly, and its huge head was chopped off with a knife!
What killed the pig demon was a long and narrow black knife.
"It's not my knife..."
The little Yun Que struggled to whisper. He had never seen this knife before, and it only felt strange and cold.
"Now it is, hee hee hee!"
A bloody pupil opened in the black knife, and a strange female voice came out:
"From today on, I am your sword and your life. If you want to use my power, you must use your soul as a sacrifice. Remember, if you do not sacrifice your soul, then you will be the final sacrifice." Pin, hee hee hee hee!"
"My knife...what's your name?"
"Only when you are strong enough can you know that a weak master is not worthy of calling my name."
…
In the jungle.
More than half of Yun Que's black hair has turned bright red.
The demon claws protruding from the demon knife were gently stroking the half of the red hair.
"Go to sleep, my little master. Next, it's my turn, the body of Xuanyin, a real delicacy! Hehe, hahahaha!"
The morning glow has come.
But he couldn't dispel the terrifying evil spirit that enveloped Yun Que.
The weird laughter in the forest stopped abruptly after a moment.
Half red hair, stopped transforming!
And the reversal begins!
Around Yun Que's neck, a soft halo of light was rising and falling.
That halo comes from Mu Qingyao's moon jade pendant.
"The soul-soothing thing! Damn it!"
The strange voice was full of anger, and he raised his right hand to grab the necklace, trying to destroy it.
Bang!
Yun Que's left hand suddenly raised and grabbed his right wrist.
"You're actually sane!" A strange voice said in surprise.
"Get back!"
Yun Que let out a low roar from his mouth. His left eye had regained its clarity, but the blood in his right eye was still strong.
Another confrontation lasted for a long time.
With the help of the power in the necklace, Yun Que finally suppressed the Demon Sword temporarily.
The claws retracted the blade.
All the hair turned black.
But the blood in his eyes could not dissipate for a long time.
Plop.
Yun Que fell down on the grass and gasped for air.
"I'll bury you sooner or later!"
Yun Que cursed feebly, grabbed the long knife and put it into the scabbard.
He wanted to bury the knife.
It's a pity that it can't be done.
It was not only a demonic sword, it was also connected to his own destiny.
Can't give up, can't stay away, can't escape.
The knife is Yun Que's life.
Facing the dawn, Yun Que raised the necklace around his neck.
Under the sun, the azure jade seems to be covered with a layer of golden light.
The feathers carved on it seem to rise in the wind and float far away.
"This thing costs more than two hundred taels..."
This piece of moon jade contains the power to suppress demonic spirits. How can it be a mortal thing.
Not to mention two hundred taels, two thousand, or twenty thousand can't be bought.
A real treasure!
Perhaps to others, the soul-soothing power in the moon jade is dispensable, but most people regard it as something that can calm the mind and calm the mind.
But this kind of soul-soothing power is something Yun Que can only meet once in a while.
If there was no piece of jade today, Yun Que didn't know what would happen, but he believed that once the guy in the knife came out, everyone would be ruined.
There was the sound of stumbling footsteps in the distance.
Mu Qingyao ran back in a panic.
Her pretty face was stained with mud, her clothes were scratched several times by thorns, and her two green-white hands held a dozen small eggs.
"It's a snake egg, washed."
Mu Qingyao carefully handed the snake egg to Yun Que and sat down tiredly.
Yun Que swallowed all the dozen snake eggs alive without saying a word.
A little choked.
There was no water around, so I had to swallow it hard.
The snake egg entered his belly, and the blood in Yun Que's eyes gradually dissipated.
The aura of the demon sword was suppressed.
"Thank you." Yun Que said.
"We have lived and died together, so there's no need to be polite."
Mu Qingyao smiled, her smile was beautiful, but her pretty face was so pale that there was no blood.
Then Mu Qingyao fell straight down.
"What’s wrong with you!"
Yun Que hugged him and said in surprise.
A closer look revealed that Mu Qingyao had snake fang bite marks on the back of his hand. The wound was black and purple, and he was obviously poisoned.
"Nine-star snakes are highly poisonous. I have looked nearby, but there is no antidote to the variegated grass..." Mu Qingyao said weakly.
"How dare you steal eggs even though you know there are poisonous snakes!" Yun Que said.
"You saved me, how could I abandon you?" Mu Qingyao said with a weak breath.
"You are stupid! If you leave, don't come back!" Yun Que said.
"You are willing to fight to the death for me, so why not if I go to hell for you."
Mu Qingyao's smile was sad and beautiful, like a pear blossom that was about to wither. She snuggled into Yun Que's arms and said, "The world of mortals is like a net. We are all people in the net. Just bury me on a mountain with flowers... Yun Que, promise." Me, you have to live well..."
After saying the last sentence, I completely fainted.
"Bullshit mortal world!"
After Yun Que cursed in frustration, he began to suck out the poisonous blood from the wound.
The snake venom is too strong.
After spitting out a few mouthfuls, Yun Que's mouth became numb, while the poisonous spots on Mu Qingyao's arms were still spreading upwards.
This kind of snake venom has little effect in emergency treatment and must be detoxified as soon as possible.
Yun Que found a strong hemp rope and tightly wrapped it around Mu Qingyao's bitten arm to delay the snake's poison from attacking his heart.
Then he wrapped Mu Qingyao in wolf skin and tied him behind his back.
It is most difficult to run away with a living person whose limbs are paralyzed, because his hands and feet are weak and he cannot grasp things at all.
Only when it is wrapped and tied up and treated as an object will it be easier to carry.
Yun Que used the fastest speed of an eighth-level warrior and ran wildly through the forest, rushing to Baiyu City.
There is a famous doctor in Baiyu City. As long as he persists in the city, the snake venom can be easily cured.
Not long after,
A red swallow flew from a distance, landed on a branch, stared quietly at the corpses on the ground in the forest, blinked its little eyes, spread its wings and flew away.
