The barren county, located on the border between Lizhou and Pingzhou, is home to less than 800 households, and it is sparse and desolate. In the evening, the smoke from the kitchen was everywhere. The street is not wide enough, the dust is heavy, there are low wooden houses on both sides, and there is rarely a decent house at the end, with a high-walled gate. This is a famous squire's house in the county. The old man, as well as the two servants with their heads wrapped in cotton cloths and wearing blue jackets, all looked in one direction with anxious expressions, probably waiting for someone.

In the distance, a woman in Tsing Yi walked towards this side, her hair in green jade hairpins, neat and neat, with a long sword on her back, against the setting sun, her whole body seemed to be covered with a layer of soft gold.

If the old man was rescued, he went up to meet him: "The girl is finally here."

The woman looked up at the high wall and smiled brightly: "It's been a long wait."

The old man couldn't be polite: "This old man's whole family is counting on the girl to rescue him. As long as you get rid of this thing, you will be very grateful." Seeing that she only had a long sword on her body, the old man suddenly woke up and regretted: "You should call them to pick it up, girl. What kind of instruments do you want to use, I'm afraid it's too late to get them back now, why don't you make a list, and the old man asks them to buy them for you." After speaking, he repeatedly asked the servants to fetch the pen and ink.

The woman stopped him: "Well, let's go and have a look first."

When something big happened at home, the old man was already anxious and wished she could say this. Hearing that, he hurriedly asked her to have tea in the hall, and everyone went in together.

A woman in white stood in the corner, looking at this scene, frowning slightly, thoughtfully.

She suddenly disappeared from this world, and suddenly reappeared half a month later. Where has she been hidden during this time? The land city gods everywhere couldn't find any trace of her. He must have set up a stumbling block. When he came back this time, his expression was different from usual. Mei Xian was unwilling to say anything.

The only certainty is that he treats himself more and more distant and polite.

The jade hairpin at the fingertip was broken and half fell to the ground.

"Why are you here?" A familiar voice came from behind.

Her thoughts were interrupted, and Lu Yao couldn't help but be surprised, the coldness in her eyes quickly changed to a gentle smile, and she turned around: "A while ago, she suddenly disappeared, and now she has again, so I'm surprised, I'll stop by and have a look. ."

Jinxiu looked at the broken hairpin in her hand.

Lu Yao frowned and said, "I accidentally broke it just now. Unfortunately, this hairpin is my favorite."

I suddenly remembered that someone had broken the hosta in front of his face and swore, and now it has finally come true. Jinxiu was silent for a moment, then leaned over and picked up the other half of the hairpin on the ground and handed it to her: "I set the barrier."

The hosta was reassembled into one piece, which was perfect and seamless. Lu Yao raised her face and smiled at him: "I said, it must be your arrangement."

It was a foregone conclusion, and she might be safer by speaking up. Jinxiu nodded and said, "I thought she would have an epiphany if I asked her to see her past life with her own eyes. Who knows that she is still obsessed with human love. Now that I am about to be promoted, I can't use my magic power at will, and I will send her back after I return to the throne. You... "

Everyone knows his affectionate reputation, but all the goddesses and fairies who are closely related to him know that he is very casual in this matter, especially for his fiancée, when will he spend so much for a mortal woman? thought? Who would believe just based on the word "guilt", even after falling into the mortal world for ten times, he could not forget it, and he could be reassured by sending it back?

Lu Yao slowly looked away, covered her expression, and said softly, "Am I such a small thing that I can't stand people? If she's not a mortal, it's okay to stay by your side."

Jinxiu didn't say much, just said lightly: "It's good to think so."

Something strange happened to the Liang family recently. Every night someone disappeared for no reason. The whole family couldn't sleep. They hid in the room at night. The two sons and the eldest daughter-in-law had accidents one after another, and their whereabouts are still unknown. Mr. Liang was in pain and anxious. He hurriedly sent his grandson to live in someone else's house. It was amazing, so Gong Gong hurriedly sent someone to invite her over.

In the dead of night, Hong Ning was lying on the bed with her eyes closed, not daring to relax at all.

Why do you need to insist on what you have obtained? After this life, everything here in the future, including the skills you have learned for more than ten years, will be forgotten. In this case, you should cherish the present and do what you like. In this If there is something left in the world, it is worthwhile to follow Master for so many years, and it is also worthwhile to come to this game.

More importantly, you can go the way you want to go in the future.

I heard from a housekeeper that on the night of the eldest son's accident, he just got up and went to the thatched hut. When he passed by the room, he saw the shadow of something hanging on the beam reflected by the lights inside. The next day, the door was open, and the eldest son Also disappeared. At first glance, this matter seems to be a ghost, but the disappearance of people is inevitably a bit unreasonable. Which ghost will drag people to a corner to slowly abuse them?

Just thinking about it, a "squeaky" sound suddenly came from the beam, as if it was bearing some heavy load, and the whole beam was shaking.

Following Wenxin Bailing's work since childhood, Hong Ning had already developed a high level of vigilance, still lying motionless, but her right hand secretly clenched her sword.

The sense of crisis is getting stronger...

Suddenly, the top of the bed shook violently, as if something was attached to it.

Something is approaching! Hong Ning quickly turned over and jumped up, and stabbed the sword in her hand towards the position where she was lying!

The sword stabbed on something, and the skin was a little hard, but could still feel the tip of the sword pierced into it.

It wasn't an expected result, Hong Ning was a little surprised, knowing that the monster would definitely attack next, so she jumped out of bed without thinking much.

With a "bang", the whole bed should have been hit violently, followed by the sound of the bedpost breaking.

Hong Ning was in a cold sweat. Since this monster came at night, he must not be afraid of the darkness, and the darkness is obviously not good for him. Afraid that it would attack again, Hong Ning quickly dodged to the wall, leaned her back against the wall, and at the same time stroked a few times with her left hand out of thin air. .

Except that the bed was out of shape, no other furnishings had changed.

There were a few drops of blood on the ground, exuding a strong fishy smell.

In his hand is a rare treasured sword, which is extremely suffocating and terrifying for ordinary monsters, but this thing was only slightly injured. It can be seen that, as guessed, it is not a spiritual body, but a monster.

Hong Ning thought for a moment, then looked up at the transom above her head

There is a forest next to the yard, weeds and rocks in the forest, and it seems that very few people go there on weekdays. With a sword in hand, he followed the trail. Every now and then, there would be bloodstains left on the grass or on the rocks next to it, probably because the monster didn't get much on it when it escaped. Passing through the woods, the trace stretches straight into the mountains next to it.

Further confirming the previous guess, Hong Ning smiled, this monster has not yet taken off its true form, indicating that the cultivation base is still shallow, and it should not be difficult to deal with. Originally, she was thinking about calling more people to come at dawn, but after thinking about it, she still followed The trail went to the mountain, intending to explore the strange lair first.

The talisman light reflects the path.

Since entering the valley, Hong Ning felt that something was wrong, and secretly stepped up her guard.

The mountains and forests on both sides were dead silent, unusually quiet, as if something powerful was appearing in this area, causing other beasts to avoid it far away.

The bloodstain in front suddenly disappeared!

Knowing something was wrong, Hong Ning instinctively stopped and glanced around.

At this moment, a gust of wind suddenly rolled up, with a faint smell of heat and fishy smell, and then a long black shadow appeared in the bushes next to it!

Fortunately, Hong Ning was well prepared and dodged.

The black whirlwind blew past, the monster was very nimble, it quickly turned back as soon as it missed, and raised its head high, but seeing that it was as thick as a small wooden barrel, the scales on its body shimmered a little bit, and the mouth was "hissing" spitting letters. It's a black python.

Indeed it is! Hong Ning sighed, the reason why the Liang family disappeared was not that they were taken away by some ghosts, but that they were all buried in the belly of the python. The night the eldest son had an accident, the servant saw something hanging on the beam, but it was nothing. Hanging the ghost for his life, this big snake came down from the beam through the transom, devoured the eldest son, and then slipped away through the door. It can be seen that it already has aura, but it has not yet grown into a human form.

To deal with such a cumbersome thing, of course, you can't use your flesh and blood to fight it recklessly, so before it pounces again, Hong Ning squeezed a trick, and her figure disappeared from the place, turning into a white light that escaped not far away. On the tree, quietly lying among the branches without making a sound.

The talisman still burned itself, the person in front of him disappeared out of thin air, and the giant python froze for a while, and then it seemed to sense it, and quickly turned around and swam towards the big tree.

Just when he was escaping, Hong Ning had taken the opportunity to seal his anger. How could he think that he could still detect it? If he really underestimated it, how long has this beast been practicing? Hong Ning became more and more astonished, and was busy chanting tricks, and there was a faint sound of thunder in the clear sky.

After all, that giant python was a wild beast. It was afraid of the might of the heavens.

Hong Ning shouted: "Murdering people's lives is not tolerated by the law of heaven, so you still don't bow down and confess your guilt?"

She was originally pity that this giant python was not easy to practice, and wanted to take the opportunity to persuade the seal, but before the words fell, the hesitant python suddenly rushed towards her as if he had received some instructions.

The thunder continued to roar, and most things with a little spiritual energy were afraid of thunder punishment. At first, even the dragon in the Evil Dragon Pool was fooled. Hong Ning frowned, seeing that its ferocious temperament has no chance of persuading it, so no matter how soft-hearted, she decided to strike first, jumped down from the tree quickly, chanted the tactic to drive the sword into the air, and nailed it fiercely!

The sword did not reach the handle, and the python was nailed to the ground alive.

Hong Ning shook her head and stepped back.

The python was in pain and anger, desperately flapping its tail and struggling, sweeping up countless dust on the ground, with so much strength, how could a mere sword be nailed, it broke free in three or two strokes, and frantically attacked Hong Ning with the sword.

Hong Ning was helpless and sneered: "If you don't change your fierceness, you will find your own way of death."

The sword was driven by the formula, pulled out of the python, flew high, and stabbed it again. Repeating this many times, the blood splattered all over the place. The snake was almost smashed, and lay on the ground with its dying breath.

Hong Ning sighed softly, estimating that it was about time, walked over to draw the sword, took out a handkerchief, carefully wiped the blood, and put it back into the sheath, thinking that since it is haunting this area, the nest should be not far from here, it is better to go back first , and wait until dawn to find more strong men from the county to come and look for it.

When he turned around, a thin red shadow flew out from the mouth of the dead snake on the ground.

There was numbness in the right calf, followed by severe pain, Hong Ning knew something was wrong, and he slashed with his sword.

The red shadow was extremely fast, avoided the sword's edge, landed two feet away, and turned into a fiery red snake two or three meters long and the thickness of a small bowl, but it had a disheveled woman's head, rushing into the red congealingly. laugh

The strange way, the python is not deep in practice, but can sense where he is hiding. It turned out that she was instigating the mischief. She used the python's demonic energy to hide her body. The python swallowed the Liang family, and she should have instigated her. Snake Belly Hidden Snake! Where did Hong Ning expect such a strange thing to happen, she felt a chill in her heart, secretly regretted it, and immediately took out the medicine pill she carried with her and swallowed two pills, still feeling unbearable pain in her right leg.

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Sweat dripped from her forehead, she reluctantly calmed down: "It turns out that it was you, you took human essence and blood to cultivate the inner alchemy without authorization, you will be punished in the future, why don't you change it and return to the right path, otherwise you will be doomed, and you will only be ruined in vain. Cultivation."

The snake girl just laughed.

It turned out that she couldn't speak yet, and Hong Ning was stunned. The pain in her right leg gradually turned into a numbness, and she couldn't lift it up again. The poisonous ordinary medicine in her heart would definitely not be able to solve it, so she should be subdued first and then care about.

Just as she made up her mind to shoot, Snake Woman suddenly twisted her body and disappeared into the grass.

I think she has seen her ability and is unwilling to fight recklessly. Anyway, she will die sooner or later if she is poisoned. Hong Ning couldn't help laughing bitterly. When she was about to move, her right leg was no longer obeying her orders, so she had to sit on the ground. Seeing that the wound on her calf was black, she hurriedly tore a piece of cloth from the corner of her clothes to tie it up tightly, and then pulled out the hairpin towards the wound. prick.

The stench of black blood flowed out, and at the same time, cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

The more blood flowed, the more black it was.

Hong Ning secretly negligent, she should have said hello to the Liang family before, and I don't know if they found out that it is impossible for anyone to enter the mountain in the middle of the night, so I am afraid that it will not last long, Hong Ning simply ignored the wound and took out the whole bottle of medicine in her arms. , no matter how much, pour it all into your mouth and swallow it, and then use the strength of your left leg and both hands to move back along the road little by little.

Save or not, it's better than sitting still.

Unfortunately, the situation was not as good as imagined. The numbness in the right leg began to spread, to the left leg, and then to the whole body, and finally even the two hands lost consciousness.

Unable to support her body, Hong Ning fell to the ground, her eyes closed helplessly.

Life or death is up to fate, so there is nothing wrong with leaving silently like this. Although have only lived here for less than twenty years, experience is richer than many people in the world. Besides many demons, have rescued many people. There is nothing scary about death, and it will be reincarnated soon, and the next life will never remember everything here, and start a new life again.

Consciousness became more and more blurred, and the past events came up one by one, the smiling Wen Xin, Bai Ling walking around holding her hand, Duan Fei who seemed like a dream and real in confusion, and even Yang Zhen's disdainful eyes and fiery eyes. lip.

Sorry, I forgot about you in advance.

The pictures in front of him were erased page by page, and Hong Ning smiled, letting her consciousness disappear.

There seemed to be a strange aroma floating around her body, and the familiar aroma made her almost unable to help remember that gentle and generous embrace.

"Hong Ning, Hong Ning." In the dimness, someone hugged her tightly.

Haven't died, don't know how the soul leaves the body? After an unknown amount of time, consciousness gradually recovered, Hong Ning tried to move, and found that she was still firmly bound to this body.

When she opened her eyes, she saw the snake girl

A fiery red bead twirled, emitting a red light, covering the wound on the leg. The color of the wound has turned tender red, and the swelling has subsided. After the wounds were completely healed, the Snake Woman took back the inner alchemy and swallowed it, and bowed down to the person next to her.

He sternly warned: "If you do too much sin, you will eventually suffer the consequences. Go back."

The snake girl nodded quickly, and after two more bows, she swam into the grass and disappeared.

He leaned over and helped her up: "Why do you still do these things?"

Hong Ning didn't refuse. In his impression, no matter what happened, he always had a calm attitude. Was that anxious voice just a dream or real?

She looked at him for a long time, then smiled and said, "I always want you to save me. I almost think you are the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva who saves the suffering."

He smiled slightly: "That's the snake mother."

Seeing that the injured leg can move freely, Hong Ning felt relieved, and lowered her head to pat the soil on the front of her clothes: "I didn't mean to cause you trouble, I only learned to do these things, just to make a living, not to mention that subjugating demons and eliminating demons is also doing good deeds, In fact, you don't have to always come to save me, I am a mortal, and I will be reincarnated when I die.

In this way, won't remember this life anymore, and Jinxiu didn't say anything.

Hong Ning tidied up her clothes, raised her face and smiled: "Of course, now that you have saved me, I will still cherish my life until I die of old age, thank you very much!"

Jinxiu said softly, "Is this good?"

Hong Ning smiled: "You brought me here, so you want to protect me comprehensively, I understand what you mean, but since I chose to stay and spend the rest of my life, I don't plan to care about the past. Why do you do this, do you need you to save me every time I am in trouble in the future? In the two worlds of immortals and mortals, mortals have their own way of living.

Jinxiu was silent for a moment and said, "I will not interfere in your way."

After changing her life against the sky, she still couldn't escape her fate. She tried to rescue her, but she was barely able to keep her memories of this life for a while longer.

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