For several days, Qiong Yi and Sheng Xuanyuan searched for the unexpectedly loosened evil seal in the barren mountains on the border of Luoyao, but they found nothing in the vast mountains. Seeing that the dry food in the package was almost finished, Qiong also suggested that he go down the mountain, buy some food in a nearby village, and then return to the big tree where he had been resting for the past few days to practice and wait for him.
Sheng Xuan thought that the village at the foot of the mountain was safer than this ghost-filled wilderness, so he let her go without any worries.
The mountains are high and steep. Fortunately, Qiong Yi flew with his sword and didn't have to climb rocks and hike. After flying for a long time, he saw scattered houses inhabited by people. There were two or three families scattered here and there. It couldn't even be called a village, let alone one. A store selling food.
Qiong Yi thought to himself, even if Sheng Jing and I can live without food, we still have minor injuries on our bodies that have not yet healed, and we have exhausted our energy and energy during the journey, so we still have to have enough food and drink. So I asked the farmer for the direction of the nearby village, walked along the road for half an hour, and finally arrived at a small village with pedestrians passing through.
Qiong also headed towards the market. When she was thinking about what dry food to collect, she suddenly heard a sweet female voice that was slightly familiar. At first, she didn't realize where she had heard this voice before. After walking a few steps away, she suddenly realized that this voice was The voice is exactly the same as that of Wu Yuecheng’s alluring female voice that night! Look back immediately.
It was a girl about the same age as her. She was wearing a dark pink dress. The skirt was thick and long to her feet. It was embroidered with hibiscus purple patterns. The patterns had a shiny texture like butterfly pink. She had a graceful posture and a good face. Her lips are light pink, her eyes are dark, and her ebony-like straight hair is braided into several thin and long braids on both sides of her ears and temples. It is only slightly tied with some bright colored ropes for decoration. The dress of women in Middle-earth is completely different.
Qiong Yi said in a deep voice: She is the demon sect witch.
The witch was arguing with the people at the stall. The vendor said that a bun cost three copper coins. The witch put her hands on her hips and said that she only had one bun. She was acting out the drama of not selling but buying by force.
"Go, go! Don't buy it if you can't afford it!" The vendor waved her hand and shooed her away.
The demon girl did not get angry as Qiong Yi imagined. Instead, she kicked the air as if she was aggrieved and muttered something. Qiong Yi heard clearly that she was cursing the vendor for his love of money and stinginess.
The enchantress puffed up her cheeks, as if she felt being watched by others. She turned her head and met Qiong Yi's eyes. She sniffed, then raised her hand high to say hello: "Hi!"
She came over with a smile: "Who are you? Why are you looking at me?"
Qiong also saw that she had a gentle smile and no trace of malice. She was still defensive in her heart, but she would not draw a sword to fight because of her status as a demon sect. "I didn't look at you," she said.
"Nonsense, you have been staring at me all the time." The witch walked over in two or three steps, raised her nose and sniffed again: "You have a bit of his scent on you. Have you seen him? Do you know where he is?" She was talking to herself: "After that night, he left me alone and left! He also said that he had important things to do. He was obviously trying to stall me! I'm so angry!"
Qiong was also puzzled: "Who is he?"
The witch's face was full of shyness: "He is my sweetheart. He is very handsome. Have you met him?"
Qiong also didn't want to talk to her anymore, and said perfunctorily: "Oh, maybe, I have no impression." After that, she left.
The demon girl grabbed Qiong Yi: "Hey, my name is Yunya, what's your name? Are you alone? Do you know how to get through this mountain road? Do you have any copper coins? I've been lost for a long time and I can't get out, and I have no food. ,Very hungry."
Qiong also didn't want to be entangled with the people from the north who practiced evil ways: "Let me go. I don't know how to get here."
"Are you lost too?"
"……almost."
"What do you call me?"
"My...name is Lu Xi."
Yunya stared at her: "You are not very good-looking."
Qiong Yi felt that this Yunya was simply inexplicable, and she added: "But her eyes are very beautiful, like fine purple glaze."
"Farewell."
"Huh? Why are you leaving? Lu Xi, you haven't answered my question yet!" Yun Ya followed up in a few steps: "You know how to leave the mountain and enter the city, right? Why don't you say anything? You Are you afraid of me? Or do you already know that I am a member of the Demon Sect?"
Qiong Yi replied coldly: "I've known it for a long time. Don't follow me, and don't use evil magic to hurt people here, otherwise you will die miserably."
Yunya said "Huh", followed her behind her with her hands folded, observed for a long time and smiled: "I practice evil arts, what about you? You can't say that you are on the right path, right? Such a pure ghost spirit in the body is not something ordinary people can have. .”
"What did you say?" Qiong Yi's steps froze for an instant, and she suppressed her surprise and turned around. That night in Wu Yuecheng, the laughing voice of the young monk from the Zen Music Sect could still be heard in her ears: "Although the girl is pregnant with ghosts, , but having the virtue of living a good life is really rare.”
At that time, she only thought that the monk's words were nonsense that disturbed people's minds during the melee. Now that someone mentioned it again, she realized that maybe it was actually true.
Qiong Yi looked at the evil girl named Yunya and asked, "What's in my body?"
"It's the soul of a ghost." Yun Ya said with a smile: "The spiritual quality is very pure. This is a good thing. It can be used to enter the soul and become a spirit-drawing physique. I can tell by looking at your demeanor that you are suitable for spiritual practice. This It would be a waste of talent to use your talents in sword cultivation. If you join my Fuhun Sect and receive my guidance, I can guarantee that you will become a unique saint in Fuhun Sect within three years."
Is she trying to lead me astray?
Qiong Yi clenched his fists, not wanting to say another word to Yun Ya. She vaguely realized in her heart that the ghosts mentioned by the witch were definitely not serious things, and were most likely related to her childhood experience of encountering ghosts.
Seeing her walking away without saying a word, Yun Ya thought Qiong didn't believe it, "I didn't lie to you." She tied several half-finger-long glass bottles on her wrists, took off one of the bottles, and put it in her mouth After chanting some incantations, deep peach-colored smoke suddenly poured out from the mouth of the bottle, and there seemed to be a short little human figure in the mist.
But at this time, Qiong didn't look back at all. Her mind was full of thinking about what the "ghost soul" in her body was. The more she thought about it, the more entangled she became, to the point where she felt a chill running down her spine, until something hit her thigh. She was awakened from her thoughts when she caught something. Looking down, he saw a ghost doll hugging his left leg. Although he didn't have a disgraceful nose and a clean face, his face was deathly pale, his body was shriveled and thin, and the little hands holding his trouser legs looked as if they had been frosted. of dead vines. The eye sockets are completely black and there are no eyeballs, or maybe the completely black flowing things are her eyes.
Qiong Yi trembled all over, staggered two steps, raised his head and looked at Yun Ya in horror: "You..."
Yun Ya's expression showed off a bit: "It's the ghost doll I raised. How about it? Is it pretty? Yuan'er is very sensitive to ghosts. If she hugs you, it means there is a ghost inside you." Spiritual.”
Qiong Yi kicked the ghost doll, trying to shake it off her legs, but it hugged it very tightly and refused to let go. Instead, it laughed, a needle-like laughter that made Qiong Yi's scalp tingle. : "Let go..." And the next second, black evil energy gushed out from Gui Doll's hands, and he opened his mouth wide and bit her leg. Qiong didn't feel any pain, but her body fell down like a powerless body, and her soul was deep. There was a tingling sensation everywhere and my ears were ringing.
This evil thing didn't seem to bite her, but bit into her soul.
"Ling, Yuan'er, wants to..."
"Be afraid, kill the evil, but eat it..."
Qiong also lost consciousness and fell to the ground, like an empty shell without a soul, unable to perceive anything in the outside world.
Yun Ya was shocked and turned pale. She quickly squatted down to support her and scolded her ghost child Yuan'er: "I didn't let you eat her soul! Stop, stop!"
The ghost named Yuan'er unexpectedly lost control and refused to obey its master. No matter what Yun Ya ordered, it did not stop, eating away at Qiong Yi's soul like a swallowing cloud. Yun Ya was panicked for a moment, afraid of further delay. If she went down, all three of her souls would be eaten up, so she quickly used a spell to put the ghost doll back into the bottle.
"Hey! Lu Xi!" Yun Ya shook the person in her arms, but Qiong Yi, who had part of her soul bitten off, fell into deathly silence, "It's bad, it's bad! I didn't mean to harm her!"
The sound of pointing came from the streets of the small village. The villagers hid far away. For some reason, a large person fell alive.
Yun Ya wanted to ask Yuan'er to return part of the bitten soul to her before she could wake up, but she still felt strange: "Her cultivation level is not low. Ordinary young monks will not be eaten away so easily. Only It is easy to be soul-eating when you are restless and mentally turbulent. Could it be that Lu Xi was frightened by Yuan'er? Yuan'er is so cute, that's not the case!"
With confusion in mind, Yunya picked up Qiong Yi and walked towards the households in the village.
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"Qiong Yi?"
Sheng Xuanyuan returned to the big tree where he had rested for the past few days, but found that it was empty, not even a human figure. He thought that the village at the foot of the mountain was too far away. Before Qiong Yi could come back, he meditated under the tree, but until It was getting late and she hadn't returned yet, and the ominous premonition in my heart became even stronger.
Sheng Xuanyuan originally wanted to use the protective soul given to Qiong Yi to determine her location, but unexpectedly, the perception between the soul and the original consciousness was actually disconnected, and he was not aware of where she was at all.
With a thump in his heart, Sheng Xuanyuan stood in disbelief in the dark forest.
On the night when she decided to go with him to find the ghost-suppressing seal, she smiled and said she would never leave by the fire.
Unless... something unexpected happens.
Sheng Xuanyuan told himself to calm down and think about where Qiong Yi might go and what might happen to him, but no matter how much he tried to persuade himself, the emotions in his heart could not calm down.
The matter of the ghost-suppressing seal was forgotten, and Sheng Xuanyuan began to look for her sleeplessly. As if he had gone crazy and lost his soul, he tried over and over again to communicate with that part of the soul, but without exception, there was no news. . He began to blame himself, regretting why he didn't take her with him, why he let her leave alone to buy dry food, and why he lost her. He quickly became haggard.
Seven whole days.
Sheng Xuanyuan looked for Qiong Yi without closing his eyes for seven whole days. On the eighth day, his body could no longer hold on and he fell asleep leaning against a mountain tree.
