"I think with your style, I'm afraid you won't let me go so easily. But I still have to say what needs to be said - how about we each take a step back?"
Shanhai and others looked at him coldly, naturally not planning to let him go.
"Do you think we will let you stay here to do whatever you want and harm the people in the future?"
Linyou suddenly laughed loudly, as if he had heard a big joke. This smile made them feel strange. Mu Wan looked at him with strange eyes and asked:
"What's so funny?"
"It's ridiculous, of course it's ridiculous." Lin You stood up from the wall, "You onmyojis can kill monsters, but monsters can't kill people. Let me ask you, who made the rules? It's such a big honor."
Mu Wan was so reprimanded that he didn't know what to say. She always felt that this person was arrogant, but she couldn't find a reason to refute it. At this time, Shi Wuqi and Miss Qi took a step closer to the wall. He stared at Linyou closely, his eyes faintly glowing with brown-gold light, and Miss Qi beside him was ready to fight.
"We are human beings, so naturally we have to stand in a human perspective and care about people's lives and lives."
Linyou laughed again, this time more exaggeratedly. But he still covered his mouth with his hand to prevent the exaggerated laughter from overflowing.
"You? You're laughing so hard. Are you considered a human being?"
Shan Hai and Mu Wan were not sure whether he was referring to...as a human being, Shi Wuqi had too much spiritual power and internal strength, or...to the manipulation of corpses. Linyou should have noticed it. They didn't dare to speak and quietly glanced at Shi Wuqi's reaction.
He was indeed angry.
"What do you want to say?"
"Aren't you - aren't you the famous Hundred Skeleton Master? Aren't you a well-known...human being among monsters? Are you sure you are standing on the human side, or are you becoming a human being when you are with this group of humans? Already? How long have you been hanging out with these onmyojis, eh?"
"I stand my ground."
"Then there's nothing to talk about." Linyou turned around, "Let's say goodbye."
He waved his hand, and a burst of smoke appeared, covering his figure, and soon he disappeared. Shi Wuqi said to them:
"He didn't run too far. Undo the curse for Aluan first, and then I'll chase him."
They knew it, so they nodded and watched him jump over the wall easily, leaving Miss Qi standing here. This sorcery was not difficult for Shan Hai to figure out, but in comparison, they were more worried about Wu Qi. After all, no one knows how much the Ling Weasel monster, whose evil spirit is completely traceable, is really worth.
Shi Wuqi walked across the rooftops of people's homes like lightning, following the exaggeratedly fast figure. After chasing for almost four or five miles, Linyou finally stopped. He stopped on a raised cornice and turned to face his pursuers. There was a demonic red glimmer in his eyes, he was not out of breath, and he didn't look tired at all. To him, this distance was as easy as the blink of an eye. So he stopped, seemingly intending to reason with Shi Wuqi.
Wuqi judged it and stopped, standing on another eaves not far from him.
"Let me ask directly, there is no one else anyway." Linyou grinned, "You are not an Onmyoji, what are you doing with that group of people? Are you really going to slay demons and help justice?"
Of course not. He has never forgotten that he left the Weeping Corpse House and took Qi to follow them in order to see the ten thousand ghosts at a glance.
He wanted to know who she was and who he was.
"It has nothing to do with you. However, I want to ask you, what is your connection with other impermanent ghosts?"
Linyou's expression froze on his face. He looked at Shi Wuqi sideways and said slowly:
"There's no point in pretending, so I'll ask you directly: What do you see?"
"That chain on your neck," Shi Wuqi pointed at him, "is a demon-binding rope. But I heard that the demon-binding rope was used by the Lord of Naraku on Yingyue Jun. That was his weapon. , is also his shackles. Although I have never seen it, the aura your chain gives me...is very similar to the effect of a demon-binding rope. Maybe it is a fake, I'm not sure."
"Well, you actually know what it does."
Yama uses the demon-binding rope to control the rebellious Yingyue Lord, naturally because it can restrain the demonic energy in him. Although Lord Yingyue... is probably a human being, after all, I heard that only Lord Yingyue is a monster in December of Underworld. However, it is not impossible for people's evil nature to rise, and the spiritual energy in the body to gradually show the tendency of demonic power.
It is one's own choice to practice and become an immortal, or to become a ghost.
Therefore, the chain was used by Linyou to conceal his evil aura. It must not be easy to get such a chain.
"It's okay to tell you." Linyou tugged on the chain, "You are right, but it is not a fake, but the real thing."
"...Are there many demon-binding locks?"
"Strictly speaking, there is only one. Mine is part of the chain. The one you mentioned to Yingyue-kun is a mother chain, with wider usage and power. Mine is a child chain."
Shi Wuqi picked up his chin and looked at the chain carefully. He didn't know what the relationship between Linyou and Yingyue Jun was. He only knew that Mu Wan was tracking down Wu Chang because he had kidnapped the head of the Xue Yan Sect. Each of them initially determined the identity of the monster, which was related to the restrictions of the chain.
"Yingyue Jun's chains were made by the Lord of Naraku. Could it be that your chain was placed by Yingyue Jun on you? What other bad things have you done that made the Six Paths of Impermanence deal with you?"
Linyou smiled and shook his head.
"No. I put this lock on myself."
"……Um?"
"A monster that is powerful enough has the ability to restrain its own demonic energy and make itself look like an ordinary person. However, as for me...the demonic power in my body is somewhat disordered, or in other words, this body cannot tolerate such power. They always... ...running wildly inside my body. My family raised me in the Huangxian way, and naturally they did not restrain this power of my own since I was a child. Therefore, I often cannot contain it and wait for me to calm down. When we came down, everything was terrible...so bad that it was noticeable.”
There are no monsters in Cangyi City, so if there is any unusual movement, it will be eye-catching. As an important economic place, it is not impossible for the imperial court to send people to investigate if order is disrupted - no, the incident in Long Mansion has proved this.
Shi Wuqi looked at him: "So you went to find chains to trap yourself?"
"Uh-huh -" Linyou nodded, "I didn't want to cause trouble to my family, so I left temporarily. On the way to find a way, I also met an immortal who taught me some magic. He was once a Taoist priest, so Ah, at that time I thought, maybe I don’t hate humans that much.”
"But you're back."
"Yes, I'm home... Hey, let me ask you, have your parents died? My parents were killed when I was just born. Their furs are very expensive and are worth a lot in the market. And then those relatives They adopted me, they are my parents, my brothers and sisters. But what? They killed them again while I was away. So I was thinking, maybe, I don't dislike people."
"..."
"I hate Onmyoji."
The chain around his neck trembled slightly, and his calm face concealed a kind of rage that he tried to suppress.
"Hated to the core."
Shi Wuqi was speechless.
"Tell me," he continued, "am I coming back late, or should I not come back?"
After a long silence, Shi Wuqi raised his hand again and pointed at the western sky.
"Biliyuan to the west, and further west is Qinglize," he said softly, "there is an organization there called Death Shadow Pavilion."
"Ah, I know that place. It is said in the world that the master of Death Shadow Pavilion is a man from a foreign land, and some people suspect that he is a monster. But let me tell you, I know that the master over there is a woman. Even, a Impermanent ghost."
"Then I won't beat around the bush. Over there, they are developing a technique to bring the dead back to life. If you want to save your family, maybe you can go there to find a way."
"Do you want me to be punished by God? She, Yu Yumingxu, is working under the Yama Demon. Naturally, it is not her turn to be scolded. It may even be her master's wish. Besides, after all, I am considered a Taoist disciple. Such a wicked thing It’s better not to tell me anything.”
Linyou didn't ask him why he didn't go, which proved that he still didn't know the purpose of taking Qi with him. Everyone in the world, whether they were humans or monsters, who knew the Hundred Skeleton Master, thought that the corpse was the monster who wanted to assassinate him before he was alive - although that was correct, and he was the one who let it out. But what he could do to resurrect this girl was more than those people thought.
"Okay," he said calmly, "If you don't go west, where are you going to escape to?"
"Escape? Brother, I won't escape. But I have to go east. That man went to Wule City in the east."
No happy city?
Shi Wuqi suddenly remembered what the landlady said in the store before setting off in the early morning. He had preconceptions and thought that the person might be the murderer of the Taki Mansion case, but Linyou said... was he just an onmyoji who received a reward?
No, no, these two identities are not actually in conflict...
Shi Wuqi fell into a brief silence.
"Why, do you still think I can't beat him?" Linyou shook the chain around his neck gently.
"No." Shi Wuqi looked at him, "We're just waiting for the movement restriction order to be lifted. I'm afraid we will have to go east. I don't want to interfere with your business, but if I go with you, Shanhai and the others will naturally not be happy. After all, you did want to harm us at first, and you even put a spell on that little girl, and they don’t want to see you - and neither do I."
"After chatting for a few words, I think you are quite interesting. I thought that Bai Skeleton Master had also become complicit with Onmyoji." Linyou's tone became much more relaxed, "Okay, I don't want to deal with you all at the same time. A bunch of people. I will separate from you, not to mention I can't rush to chase him now, I have to take a detour."
Shi Wuqi didn't know why Linyou showed a very cunning, fox-like expression when he said these words again. He obviously did it on purpose, but Shi Wuqi didn't know what his intention was. He suddenly remembered that some animals would make many false moves or make some disguises when being chased by natural enemies.
Linyou's speech seemed to be telling him that there was someone chasing him behind him. When he came back to his senses, he found that there was no one on the eaves opposite.
