Due to the instinct of rats, if the surroundings are dark, he can't see anything clearly, but if something moves, he can see it.
Not long after, there was another sound of the door opening. This time the sound was closer. It should be the room where he was locked up.
He saw the door open and close, but no one came in.
Just when he rubbed his eyes and looked again, he remembered that he was tied to a pillar.
Before Ah Hui could get discouraged, a figure appeared out of thin air in front of him.
He was so frightened that he almost screamed.
The next second, the room suddenly became bright.
The light made Ah Hui's eyes hurt. He closed his eyes and took a long time to adapt to the bright environment.
In front of him was a man wearing a black cloak. The cloak was the same color as him, but the material was much different.
This man's cloak was made of brocade. One look at it and he knew that he was an extraordinary person. He must be a very wealthy demon.
This thought suddenly paused in Ah Hui's mind, and he realized belatedly that the person in front of him was not a monster.
Although A Hui's cultivation level is not very good, as a demon, A Hui can still easily tell whether they are of the same kind.
It's just that this strange mortal is obviously shrouded in demonic energy, which is heavier than his demonic aura, but he is actually a real mortal on the inside.
This is strange.
Ordinary demons want to cultivate themselves into humans, but I have never heard of anyone wanting to cultivate into a demon!
You know, compared to humans, it is much more difficult for demons to practice cultivation.
If a person wants to attain Taoism and become an immortal, it can take more than ten years if the person has good abilities. If the person has poor abilities, he can become an immortal in just a few decades or at most one or two hundred years if he is diligent and hardworking. .
But this is not the case at all for demons.
Demons need to cultivate into human beings first, and then practice cultivation with human bones.
In other words, demons have one more stage of practice than humans.
Of course, this is talking about the steps to practice and become an immortal.
If the demon doesn't want to become an immortal and just wants to cultivate, he can also just practice demon magic.
But this demonic method is not the right path after all. Even if the cultivation level is improved, evil thoughts and demonic spirits will grow wantonly. If you are not careful, you may even be taken over by your own evil thoughts.
This is nothing to joke about. Even if a demon becomes an evil demon, even if it is not tortured to death by its own evil thoughts, it will still be targeted by the immortal sect.
In today's world, although there are only a few sects like the Shuanghua Sect that can distinguish the good and evil of demons and then deal with them, there are also some sects that only focus on eliminating demons and not caring about the good and evil.
There is a chance of survival if you become a good demon, but if you become an evil demon, there is really no turning back.
Therefore, Ah Hui couldn't understand why in this world that was unfair to demons, why would anyone want to become a demon?
Before he could finish his emotion, the man's voice penetrated his ears.
The man said: "Do you know where you are now?"
Ah Hui was stunned for a moment, his eyes looking a little frightened.
He thought: Is he really going to be eaten?
When he thinks about his subordinates, he has not yet become a qualified rat king, so he died here and became someone else's meal?
Ah Hui swallowed his saliva and said: "Great Immortal, I... I'm just a mouse, my meat is not delicious."
The man was silent for a moment, then suddenly laughed.
Ah Hui was a little stunned by this smile.
He couldn't help but feel relieved. Could it be that he had guessed wrong?
At best, he thought he was going to die soon.
The man had laughed enough and said in a non-serious manner, "I don't have a habit of eating rats. I just intend to kill you."
Before Ah Hui could relax his tone, he raised it again.
What's the difference between this and eating him?
A Hui quickly begged for mercy, "Great Immortal, I am a good demon. I have never done any bad things. Please don't kill me. As long as...as long as you are willing to let me go, I, A Hui, will repay you like a cow and a horse in the future. I will only treat you... It’s your destiny to obey.”
The man clicked his tongue twice and said: "For a demon that grows in a small place like Huimengshan, I thought that you would at least be a leader or something, but I didn't expect you to be such a useless waste."
Ah Hui whispered: "I am indeed the leader."
At this moment, he really didn't have the confidence to say such a thing. If the other party could give him a chance to live, he would be willing to kneel on the ground and bite that person's nails.
However, although his voice was small, it was still heard by the man in black.
The man in black narrowed his eyes and asked, "How many rats do you have that obey your orders?"
Ah Hui seemed to understand something and said quickly: "There are hundreds, no, no, thousands. Great Immortal, as long as you leave me alive, all the rats under my hands will also be rats under your hands."
Seeing him so knowledgeable, the man in black was very satisfied.
The man in black smiled and said: "You don't need to have so many mice, just a few dozen."
This made Ah Hui a little confused.
Brother, isn’t the more of this kind of thing the better?
Although I don't understand what this man is thinking, it would be fine as long as this man is willing to let go and let him live.
Ah Hui breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Everyone listens to the Great Immortal, all listens to the Great Immortal."
The man in black said: "You go back first, I will look for you later."
Ah Hui was overjoyed that his life was finally saved.
Just when he was happy, the man suddenly struck him unconscious with a knife.
When A Hui woke up again, he was lying in a leaky thatched house.
The sky seemed to have just turned bright, and the rain was no longer as hurried as before, but came down in a steady drizzle.
Ah Hui got up from the ground and wiped the rain on his face randomly.
If it weren't for the stinging pain on his neck, Ah Hui would have even suspected that what he had experienced before was just a dream.
There were no traces in the thatched house, and there were only a few patches of water on the dusty floor and a few mud marks he had stepped on yesterday.
A Hui comforted himself that it would be good to at least survive.
He picked up his black cloak and put it on himself, and hurried back to the cave.
For ten days in a row, the man seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, and there was no news from him again.
This made Ah Hui increasingly suspect that he had hallucinated that day.
He often murmured to himself: "That's right. How could anyone catch me and take nothing from me? He doesn't know where I live. Even if he wants to find me, I'm afraid he won't be able to find me." It’s not me anymore.”
A Hui was very proud of this and even thought that man was a fool.
But the next day, the black smoke got into his cave.
As soon as Ah Hui opened his eyes, he saw the man in black cloak.
The man was still as before, covered in black brocade, with not even a hand exposed.
Ah Hui was so frightened that he jumped up from the stone couch and immediately knelt in front of the man.
The man asked him, "It's so leisurely these days, have you forgotten me?"
Ah Hui didn't dare to admit it, so he shook his head quickly and said: "I have been waiting for the order of the great immortal, and I never dared to leave the great immortal's words behind."
"It's okay. I'm here today because I need your help." The man in black said.
Ah Hui was so stubborn that he quickly said: "The Great Immortal is my reborn parent. There is no such thing as helping or not helping. As long as the Great Immortal gives the order, I will go through fire and water without hesitation."
Regarding A Hui's heroic words, the man chuckled and said: "I do need someone to die for me. Since you said so, I might as well trouble you to help me!"
These words were like a thunderbolt, hitting Ah Hui on the forehead, making him immediately speechless.
Seeing his cowardly look, the man in black waved his hand and said: "I'm just joking, I don't need you to die, as long as you give me twenty of your rats, they must be able to understand human speech." , with a bit of foundation.”
Ah Hui breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Yes, yes, don't worry, Immortal. I will definitely choose a few good ones to send to Immortal."
But the man in black said: "No, I want them now. You name a few and I will take them away right away."
Ah Hui obviously didn't expect him to be so anxious, but after all, he was under the control of others and did not dare to have any objections, so he could only nod in agreement.
He couldn't understand the intention of the man in black and was afraid of making him angry, so he could only choose a few good men.
His subordinates asked him in confusion, "Your Majesty, where are you sending us?"
Ah Hui felt uncomfortable in his heart.
After all, as their king, now he has to send his men to death in order to keep himself alive.
Don't even mention what it feels like in his heart.
Ah Hui didn't dare to look into the eyes of the mice. He lowered his head and said, "It's a good thing. It's a good thing. You'll be back soon after you go out. When you come back, I will take you to have a good meal and a drink."
He said such words, but he felt very unsure in his heart.
Once they go, they may not be able to come back.
The mice were very happy to hear this. They believed in Ah Hui and had no doubts at all.
Ah Hui just gave twenty of his men to the man in black.
The man in black still treated A Hui as he did before, knocking the rats unconscious one by one and disappearing in a puff of black smoke.
Ah Hui stood there for a long time, feeling guilty in his heart, but more importantly, he was glad that at least he did not have to die.
Although Ah Hui really doesn't want to admit that he is a rat who is greedy for life and afraid of death, but the saying "cowardly as a rat" is not unreasonable.
Ah Hui was very afraid of death, extremely afraid.
Originally, Ah Hui thought that the younger brothers would never come back after leaving.
But what he didn't expect was...the twenty mice came back.
And when he came back, Ahui didn't recognize them at all.
The mice have long since broken away from their original appearance as mice and have become existences that are very similar to humans.
That level of similarity is even better than that of A Hui.
But Ah Hui was not jealous, he just felt lucky that they were still alive.
The man in black said to him: "You can't stay in Huimengshan anymore. Go south. The farther you go, the better. If I see you here again, I will definitely kill you." .”
These words made Ah Hui very confused. He didn't understand that this man didn't kill his men, and even sent them back personally, but he said such words.
After leaving Huimeng Mountain, Ah Hui didn't know where else he could go after leaving here.
Ah Hui has been practicing cultivation for two to three hundred years, but he has never left his hometown.
He asked: "Why are you leaving here? I promise that they will not come down the mountain and will not mention anything related to you. You will be merciful and let us continue to live here, okay?"
The man in black gave him a kick, hitting Ah Hui in the abdomen.
Ah Hui squatted down in pain. He heard the cold voice of the man in black saying: "You have no room for bargaining with me. Take them and leave here. Seven days. Go south for seven days. You are not allowed to stay. After seven days, we will go to the south." Wherever you go, you will stay there and you will never come back.”
Although Ah Hui wanted to ask why, the pain in his abdomen kept him silent.
A Hui had no choice but to agree to the man in black's request.
Following the request of the man in black, he led twenty of his men all the way south.
Fortunately, the man in black had turned twenty of his men into little mice in advance, and Ah Hui put them in his bag and took them on the road.
For seven days, Ah Hui did not dare to rest for a moment, for fear that he would do something wrong and die.
Seven days later, he arrived at Donglin Mountain and stopped here.
According to what the man in black said, Ah Hui dug a hole in the east mountain and finally had a night's rest.
When he woke up, the seven subordinates who had been transformed into prototypes had returned to half-human appearance.
And that small rat hole has been stretched out of shape by a few men.
In order to give his men a place to stay, A Hui could only continue to drill holes. He drilled several holes in a row before he could find a place for his men.
But unlike what Ah Hui thought, none of his men seemed to recognize him. Compared to the obedient little brother before, he was now more like a puppet.
They didn't seem to understand what A Hui was saying, but they still listened to A Hui's words.
However, this is only limited to when A Hui is present.
Once A Hui doesn't keep an eye on them, they will disappear without a trace, and even come back with a lot of blood on their bodies.
Ah Hui didn't know what was going on at first, but later he learned that his men often went out late at night to disturb the people in the mountains to the east.
Many people even died from being bitten.
When he realized this, A Hui was frightened.
Although he is the king of his subordinates, in fact he is no match for those twenty or so younger brothers.
The commotion was too loud, and Ah Hui was worried that some immortals would come to rectify the matter.
So, he gathered twenty of his men and wanted to take them away from Donglin Mountain.
But at this time, his subordinates gradually stopped obeying his orders.
After all, among any group of monsters, cultivation and force come first. Whoever has higher cultivation and stronger force will have the right to speak.
And a king like A Hui, who has been completely outclassed by his subordinates, has long become an empty shell and no longer has real power.
Therefore, his men did not follow him away.
Although Ah Hui wanted to leave alone, he felt guilty in his heart. He felt that the reason why his younger brothers became like this was entirely because of him.
After hesitating for a long time, Ah Hui stayed.
He thought that if someone from the Immortal Sect really came, he would just leave.
