The Nalan beauty was stunned for a moment, but she wiped her tears and immediately opened her arms.
Xiao Hua secretly smiled in his heart, his conspiracy had succeeded, and he knew in his heart that the old man's hug actually represented all Nalan people.
But he pretended to be stupid and not only hugged this old man, but also took the initiative to hug another old man. The three leaders hugged two. Could the remaining beauty still refuse? Holding a beautiful woman in his arms was his purpose.
A faint body fragrance like orchid came, full of tenderness, Xiao Hua's heart swayed, and he was almost drooling again, but taking advantage is taking advantage, and being romantic is not obscene. They hugged each other as a courtesy, and soon separated.
As soon as they separated, the beauty immediately asked:
"Fellow Daoist Xiao, have you seen my father and mother?"
"No, I didn't find anyone alive in the Holy City." Xiao Hua shook his head.
"No one alive?" The beauty was stunned for a moment, and tears burst out of her eyes instantly.
"Father..., mother..., ugh..."
Beauty Nalan cried loudly, and the hall suddenly became quiet, and no one spoke anymore.
The old man who took the initiative to hug Xiao Hua walked up to the beauty and gently patted her shoulder.
"Zixia, you should have known what this meant from the moment the clan leader and the fourth elder decided to stay. The main city was destroyed and the race was in danger. All the remaining clan members, whether monks or mortals, risked their lives to cover our evacuation. What I want is to ensure that I, the Nalan people, will not be exterminated."
"Zixia, you have to be strong. You are the princess and the hope of all our surviving Nalan people. We will never forget the clan leader and the fourth elders as well as the thousands of clan members who sacrificed their lives to protect the city."
"Elder Song, I know, but, but, ugh..."
Beauty Nalan continued to cry, but her voice was much softer.
"Alas..." Elder Song sighed and shook his head, turning to look at Xiao Hua.
"Human monk, since you have been to the Holy City, can you tell me what is the situation in the Holy City now?"
"Oh well."
So Xiao Hua told him in detail everything he saw in "Nalan Holy City", including everything he saw on the road before and after.
This time he did not add fuel to the fire. The reason is simple. The beast tide has receded. These Nalan people can immediately know whether something is true or false as soon as they check it. Xiao Hua likes to exaggerate, but it does not mean that he is stupid.
After listening to Xiao Hua's narration, the elder Song frowned.
"You said there was a self-destruction in the temple in the inner city?"
"Temple? Well, yes, but I'm just guessing, because I really can't think of any powerful magic weapon that can cause such a big damage, so I think it should be a high-level monk who carried out the self-destruction of the Nascent Soul."
"Well, your guess is correct. When the inner city was breached, our defensive formations and large magic weapons were ineffective. There is indeed no other magic weapon that can destroy the temple instantly, except, alas..."
Elder Song sighed and turned to look at the beautiful Nalan girl named Zixia.
In fact, they all knew that the only high-level monks who stayed in the inner city to buy time for them to break out were their clan leader and his wife, the four elders they called them.
If there are people whose Nascent Soul self-destructs and perishes with the beasts, it must be one of them, maybe even all of them.
"Human monk, apart from the silver crystal pendant you picked up in the temple, did you find anything else?"
"Um..., does this count?"
Xiao Hua took out the six pieces of black gravel the size of eggs.
"What's this?"
Elder Song picked up one piece and looked at it carefully. The other old man also picked up one piece from Xiao Hua's hand, and even the beautiful Nalan girl also took one piece.
"It's nothing special. It's just a stone. It's just smooth." Elder Song didn't see the reason.
But the beauty named Zixia frowned, picked up another piece of gravel from Xiao Hua's hand and compared it with the one in her hand, and then she put all the gravel together, including the ones in the hands of the two old men. Stone.
"Elder Song, Elder Liu, these gravels seem nothing special when viewed individually, but put together, don't you think they are almost exactly the same?"
This beauty is still attentive, she saw the problem.
"Huh? It's true."
The two old men also noticed it and picked up the gravel to compare it again.
"Why is this happening? My little human friend, what is this?" Elder Song asked.
"I don't know, I just thought these rocks were a bit strange, so I put them away."
"Hiss..., could it be..."
Elder Song frowned and closed his eyes, as if thinking about something.
"Elder Song, what, did you find something?" asked the other elder Liu.
"Hmm... I can't say I found anything. I just feel like I've seen these pieces of gravel somewhere, but I can't remember them at the moment."
Elder Song opened his eyes, but his brows were still furrowed.
"Where have you seen it?."
Elder Liu also frowned and began to think hard.
Xiao Hua did not disturb the two old men. He was secretly peeking at the Nalan beauty again. But just after looking at it for a while, the Nalan beauty raised her head, and the two people's eyes met.
Xiao Hua did not flinch, showed a smile that he thought was very charming, and continued to look at the Nalan beauty.
Beauty Nalan was stunned for a moment, frowned, then continued to lower her head to study the gravel, but soon raised her head again, she had discovered that Xiao Hua had been looking at her.
Xiao Hua still didn't flinch. Seeing the beauty looking up at him again, he asked directly: "Your name is Zixia?"
"Well, my name is Nalan Zixia. I am the daughter of the clan leader and the princess of the Nalan people."
"So you are a princess, oh, my name is Xiao Hua, I am a monk in the Great Xia realm of the human continent."
"I know, you just said it." Nalan Zixia frowned again.
"Ah, I said that? Uh, okay, hehe."
Xiao Hua smiled awkwardly. In fact, he was too embarrassed. This was a common pick-up technique he used, called "deliberately showing off one's clumsiness and retreating in order to advance."
What's the meaning? This means that when you strike up a conversation with a strange girl, you should deliberately look a little stupid, and it is best to cause a little embarrassment that is not harmful to elegance.
Because under normal circumstances, in order to avoid embarrassment, the other party will take the initiative to find words to ease the situation. Xiao Hua will not be happy until he tries this trick. The only requirement is that he is thick-skinned enough.
Sure enough, Nalan Zixia smiled slightly when she saw Xiao Hua's embarrassed look.
"Thank you, thank you for bringing back my father's silver crystal pendant," but after saying that, he continued to lower his head to study the stones.
Xiao Hua stopped talking and started to look at the stone again, but at this moment, the elder Song suddenly shouted.
"I remembered, these stones are the ash fragments of those elemental creatures"
"Ash fragments?" Xiao Hua was stunned,
"No, Elder Song, didn't you say that these elemental creatures can't be killed? If they can't be killed, where did the ash fragments come from?" Xiao Hua didn't understand.
