A few breaths ago.

Beyond the illusion.

From a distance, Nan Xian saw Xia Xiyue frowning slightly, with a slightly humiliated expression. It didn't seem to be all physical pain, but more like being treated unbearably.

Although she couldn't see the specific illusion created by the dragon blood tree, Nan Xian guessed that the illusion she encountered must be related to that scumbag Ling Chen based on what she had seen and heard before.

He reached out and touched Xia Xiyue, wanting her to wake up from the illusion as soon as possible: "How are you?"

Xia Xiyue's eyes were confused and foggy, and her unfocused eyes fell on the front, and she didn't know what she saw, so she suddenly let out a low "bark".

The girl's voice was soft and cute, like a playful joke.But combined with her current situation, Nan Xian seemed to be struck by a thunderbolt, unable to laugh no matter what.

Dracaena will evoke things that people care deeply about or fear deeply, so as to temporarily incapacitate the target, or even have a mental breakdown.

What Xia Xiyue saw in the illusion just now was probably the latter - the scene she was most afraid of.

Yinxian sect is now the leader of the righteous way and a symbol of peace in the world, and Xia Xiyue was brought back to the mountains by the head sect to teach since she was a child, and she has never seen the evil people in the world.Before that, her family was also very rich, and no one dared to treat her harshly.

Counting all the way, the only thing Xia Xiyue encountered in her life that could be associated with "fear" seemed to be Ling Chen, that scumbag.

…What exactly must one see to make such a gentle and demure person suddenly imitate the barking of a dog?

Nan Xian's eyes couldn't help but fell on Xia Xiyue's slender and fragile neck. He stared at the invisible spirit lock ring, and suddenly two dazzling words appeared in his mind - collar.

"..." Ling Chen dared to raise a noble person like her...as a beast.

Nan Xian closed his eyes, his palms were about to bleed, he couldn't recall what happened to Xia Xiyue outside during the nearly hundred years he had spent safely underground.

...

Xia Xiyue didn't know the person next to her, and she made up a bunch of messy things in her head.

As Dracaena was burned by Nan Xian's consciousness, she also gradually broke away from that irritating illusion.

Xia Xiyue opened her eyes in a daze, and when she noticed a figure in front of her, she looked up with difficulty.Their eyes met, but Nan Xian turned her head away as if she had been burned, avoiding her sight.

After a moment of silence, as if he was afraid of breaking something, he said cautiously in a very soft voice, "I saw you were entangled by vines just now, and I was worried about something, so I came here to check... as long as you are fine."

He avoided what happened just now, pretending that he didn't hear anything - for Xia Xiyue, the strange expressions of other people at this time would only make her more sad.

On the opposite side, Xia Xiyue looked at him suspiciously for a while: ...?

For some reason, she always felt that Nan Xian's expression was a little strange, but she couldn't tell what was wrong.

Xia Xiyue studied it briefly, but found that Nan Xian always avoided her gaze.

So a few seconds later, she vaguely felt that she understood something.

——Could it be that Nan Xian also saw in the illusion that he petted the cat and abandoned the fox just now, and felt a little guilty at this moment?

Thinking of this, Xia Xiyue sighed inwardly when she saw the sadness hidden in Nan Xian's eyes: As a reasonable and good fox, she gets angry only when she gets angry, but she can distinguish between fantasy and reality.

It's just that was in an illusion just now, like a big dream, and thinking was limited, so was easily deceived by the false scene.Normally, she is not so irrational, she actually cares about a mere wild cat, and even rushes to fight... This, this is really inelegant.

When she thought that she had such a dream, and that scene happened to be seen by Nan Xian, Xia Xiyue felt numb all over, and was so embarrassed that she wanted to dig a hole and bury herself in it.

But after swiping her finger on the ground twice, she gradually came back to her senses: No, the illusion happened in the upper realm just now, Nan Xian should have no memory of that time.

Xia Xiyue: "..." So why does he have such an expression?

... He heard the dream talk about scolding him and cats?

Thinking of this, she couldn't help feeling even more embarrassed, and moved her dry lips with difficulty: "Just now..."

Nan Xian was carefully tearing the vines wrapped around her body.Hearing these words at this moment, his fingers froze slightly, and a frightening killing intent rose from his body.Sitting opposite him, Xia Xiyue felt a horrifying sense of oppression for a short while, and she looked up in surprise.

That feeling is fleeting.

Nan Xian quickly restrained his momentum.He raised his head and looked at Xia Xiyue with a calm expression, but his five fingers covered by his sleeves were deeply caught in the vines, and he didn't know whether to continue listening to her words or interrupt immediately.

Xia Xiyue was influenced by him, and she stammered a bit when she originally said a simple sentence: "I, I just wanted to say that I might have fallen asleep just now and said some nonsense... Well, you didn't hear it, did you?Don’t worry about it when you get there.”

Competing with cats for favor, it's almost laughable when it spreads.

Nan Xian nodded, his expression returned to normal at some point: "When I rushed over just now, I did see that you seemed to be muttering something in a low voice, but I couldn't hear it clearly."

"Well, that's good." Xia Xiyue breathed a sigh of relief.

This matter was temporarily settled, and she quickly remembered another thing: "By the way, that tree!"

She stood up abruptly, hurriedly tore off the remaining dry vines on her body, and ran towards the silver net.

Then feel relieved.

Dracaena couldn't break free from the talisman that had been used to capture it.At this time, it was curled up inside, with two eye-like slits on the trunk, looking at her with vicious eyes, struggling endlessly.

Although it looked a bit ugly, and its attitude was not very friendly, but thinking about its function, Xia Xiyue immediately became more and more pleasing to this guy.

She originally wanted to hand Dracaena to Nan Xian on the spot.

But after thinking about it, he is now a piece of wood, and his body is not here. He may suddenly be dismantled due to various accidents at any time. If he is dismantled, he will not be able to form a secret realm to wait for Ling Chen to fetch... After thinking about it, it is better to be here with her.safe.

Thinking of this, Xia Xiyue turned her back to Nan Xian, carefully moved Dracaena into the cultivation box and sealed it, put down the layers of seals that Ling Chen had engraved in advance, and then put the jade box into her natal space.

Nan Xian remembered Xia Xiyue's temperament of liking rare spiritual plants, and did not stop her.

He waited patiently, planning to wait for Xia Xiyue to pack the things she likes, then take her to get the Pure heart fruit, and then use it for her on the spot, so that he doesn't have to worry about the fire poison.After that, he can rest assured that he will speed up the refining of the three-volt fire, and let that scum who treats people like dogs pay the price he deserves.

Ahead, Xia Xiyue vaguely felt a chill run up her back.

She turned her head and took a careful look, but saw that Nan Xian was looking at her with a gentle gaze, and there was nothing wrong with it.

"..."

Xia Xiyue always felt that Nan Xian was a bit strange today.But now that Dracaena is in his hands, he can withdraw after solving the most worrying things.

She stood up and was about to discuss with Nan Xian what to do next.At this time, Nan Xian suddenly noticed something, and raised his hand suddenly, the air in his hand surged, pushing her far away to the other side, and he himself flew up with the force of the reverse push.

Almost at the same time, the ground surged between the two.A sharp vine brushed across Xia Xiyue's shoulder, knocking off the gauze hat that fell on her shoulder just now.

Xia Xiyue stretched out her hand to grab it, but on the way, her eyes moved, and she suddenly withdrew her hand.Her figure was erratic, constantly flying backwards.The next moment, a bloody mouth protruded from the stacked vines, and bit heavily on her afterimage, and the bamboo hat was also torn into pieces in an instant.

Xia Xiyue was slightly startled, and turned her head to look, and saw another snake coming here at some point - its pattern was the same as that of the previous snake that attacked the two, but its body was more than ten times thicker.The earth snake's eyes are dark, its terrifying fangs are like two curved knives, and the choking smell from its mouth can be smelled from far away.

What was even more disturbing was that the snake actually had two heads - the extra head did not grow naturally, but was more like the snake that she cut off just now, and the severed head was grafted onto it forcefully.The snake has two heads, one thick and one thin, one is vibrant and the other is stiff and rigid. The strange contrast makes people feel uncomfortable.

This strange new snake also swelled up a lot in size than before. When it was entrenched, it looked like a mountain covered with scales. Xia Xiyue stabbed through the gap where Xia Xiyue dodged, and the tip of the sword only scratched a thin mark on the scales.Can't cut it off at all.

She and Nan Xian flashed to the sides respectively.Fortunately, the two snake heads seem to have just teamed up, and the cooperation is not very tacit.They shot and chased extremely fast, but they were constrained by each other, and when they were about to bite Xia Xiyue, they barely stopped in front of her.

Xia Xiyue blinked, stared at the unwilling snake for a moment, then suddenly raised her hand, and struck it on the head with all her sword.

There was a loud bang, and the blade collided with sparks, but it couldn't cut in at all.

But this sword wasn't completely harmless—the scales of the snake weren't broken, but the head of the snake seemed to slowly swell up into a big lump.

After a moment of sluggishness, the earth snake burst into fury. It jumped forward suddenly, pulled the other head, suddenly shortened the distance between it and Xia Xiyue, and opened its mouth to bite down hard.

Xia Xiyue instinctively raised the sword in front of her body, but the snake bit the sword.

Fortunately, her spiritual root doesn't rely on swordsmanship much at all.She raised her hand and twisted the formula, and the line of land between the snakes rolled like a wave.Amidst the rumbling sound, the soil rolled up, and a huge guillotine actually stood up from it. The soil blade was compressed to the extreme, and even had a sharp edge like metal.

The guillotine took shape in an instant, and when the angry snake realized something was wrong, it aimed at the middle of the two-headed snake and chopped it down heavily.

There was a loud bang, and the giant snake hissed in pain.

Xia Xiyue was planning to retreat further to prevent it from retaliating in pain.But at this moment, her eyes inadvertently passed over the snake's huge black eyes, and she suddenly froze.

——In the vague reflection, she saw a ghostly figure behind her.

The next moment, something stabbed her in the back of the neck.

Amid the slightly numb stinging pain, the cold toxin quickly penetrated into the body.

Xia Xiyue: "..." Wait, this backstab technique seems familiar?

Most of the common toxins have no effect on her, but this poison does not know where it comes from.She only had time to delete a thought in her mind before quickly losing consciousness.

Xia Xiyue's hands and feet were weak, and she closed her eyes and fell from mid-air.Just after falling half a meter, the person behind him leaned over slightly and picked her up in his arms.

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