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Chapter 58
After that incident, Nan Xian originally thought that the fox would be alone for a while.
Unexpectedly, her recovery speed was not slow. When her injuries healed, she would still occasionally go to the outer door to watch the young disciples, but she was no longer as close as before, but hid herself and watched from afar.
Nan Xian's only apprentice also liked it very much.
It seems to think that this pretty sister named Lingyue has a good temper, and the little fox will occasionally get close to her and play with this junior.
Nan Xian once again saw that when passing by his apprentice, he picked up the fox and pointed at her eyebrows to reprimand: "You little bastard, do you let anyone touch you?"
The fox patted him with its paw dissatisfied, and Nan Xian snorted, "I'm the only one who can't touch it?"
As he spoke, he rumpled her fur in the opposite direction, and the fox barked twice in anger, jumped off his legs, and ran to shake his fur elsewhere.
Lingyue heard the commotion, sneaked around to the place where the little fox was, took the comb, and smoothed her hair bit by bit.
"..." It's better to be a junior.
The little fox spread out into a long strip, comfortably enjoying the care of humans.
...
Life on the mountain is very calm, and the undercurrent seems to be moving slowly.
Nan Xian was looking up the demon cultivator in the Immortal Mountain experiment, while observing the little fox.
Then found out that that incident didn't affect her at all - Xia Xiyue became more clingy, she used to run around Zongzhong all day long, and only occasionally went back to Obscure Peak to take a chance.But now, she's spending significantly more time at Obscure Peak than before.
Sometimes he even wakes up from his practice, and when he opens his eyes, he can see the fox nesting next to him, rubbing the spiritual energy comfortably.Even if she no longer seduces those precious spiritual plants, she will take the initiative to approach them.
When he is not around, the fox clings to Lingyue.
...
But no matter how leisurely a cultivator usually lives, he still has important responsibilities, and there are some things that must be done.
One day, before Nan Xian came back, Lingyue received another letter from outside.
She planted enough spiritual plants in the flower pots for the little fox to eat for a while, and strengthened the defensive formations everywhere, and hurried out.
When they are about to arrive at the place, it is customary to make pre-war preparations and count the magic tools, talismans and seals.Lingyue reached into her natal space to touch it, and suddenly froze: ... She, she seemed to have touched a ball of furry things.
Lingyue withdrew her hand suddenly, and saw a snow-white fox lying on the silver cassock as thin as a cicada's wings.
She was startled: "Why are you here?"
The elusive little fox fawned over her tail and rubbed her hand.
Lingyue stroked its head.The village where the accident happened was her former hometown. Although time flies and the old people have long been turned into bones, their descendants are still here, and her home still retains its original appearance.Lingyue is quite concerned about this matter.
It was almost at the entrance of the village now, and it was too late to send the fox back to the mountain.She had no choice but to sigh: "Forget it, don't run around for a while, stay by my side."
The fox slipped down the hill for the first time, nodded happily and excitedly, and hid her arm in his sleeve.
...
Almost every household in the village has patients, all of whom have recently developed illnesses. They cannot speak, and their eyes are red like blood.It is said that some people even saw walking corpses at night.
Lingyue's family looked over, and finally went to Yizhuang to investigate the newly dead corpses. They seemed to have come to a conclusion, and said with a frown: "There is a demon cultivator here to teach."
Cultivating immortals requires extremely high aptitude for practitioners. Just getting started may be enough to make some people with poor talents worry about it for decades.
But Xiumo doesn't have this kind of trouble: with the exercises in hand, it only takes a moment to draw qi into the body, and there are very few bottlenecks in the follow-up practice.As long as you have enough resources and dare to cultivate, your cultivation will increase immediately.
"It's just that there is no such simple good thing in the world. In fact, cultivating demons also requires talent-if a person who cultivates immortals is not qualified enough, it will be difficult to touch the threshold throughout his life. It is easy to step into the threshold of cultivating demons, but if he does not have talent, his body will not be able to support him."Live, will collapse quickly, like these 'seriously ill' people in the village.
"Furthermore, the demon cultivator's skills penetrate the brain and interfere with thinking. The demon cultivator's temperament is inevitably different from that of ordinary people. If he makes a wrong step, he will lose his way forever. Then the demon cultivator actually lures the villagers to learn this kind of thing..."
Hearing Lingyue's muttering, the little fox wagged its tail guiltily: it is the demon cultivator, and it feels that Nan Xian is too.
But people on Immortal Mountain seem to hate the demon cultivator, and Nan Xian only uses righteous exercises in front of others.Therefore, Xia Xiyue instinctively felt that this was something that needed to be kept secret, so she didn't say anything, but cautiously restrained her breath even more.
Lingyue noticed the fluffy fox tail brushing against her forearm, and thought the little fox was comforting her.She recovered from her anger, hugged the fox and kissed it: "Let's go, let's find out that guy who hurt others and himself."
...
At night, there were indeed walking corpses in the village.
Compared with the villagers who were tortured by the demon cultivator's exercises, the connection between these walking corpses and the strange demon cultivator was obviously closer.
Lingyue quickly followed her breath and found the man in front of her.When he arrived, he happened to see the demon cultivator grabbing a villager, and the two were surrounded by dirty spiritual power.
The villagers still had some breath, Lingyue drew her sword out of its sheath, and floated to stab the demon cultivator.When you get close, you can see that the aura of this person spreading the demon cultivator technique is not overbearing.
Originally thought it would be solved with a single sword, but before the sword light arrived, the demon cultivator suddenly grinned to the extreme and bit the villager's neck fiercely.
The villager suddenly let out a near-death roar, halfway through the roar, the sound disappeared in his throat.This originally strong farmer quickly shriveled up and became a dead corpse in the blink of an eye.
One person and one fox were stunned at the same time.
In the next instant, Lingyue's eyes suddenly turned cold.She stabbed with a sword, and the wind of the sword swept the flames, devouring the demon cultivator in the blink of an eye.
However, this seems to be just the beginning of the nightmare.
The demon cultivator turned into a cloud of fly ash and disappeared.On the ground, the villager's pool of blood suddenly writhed as if alive, and sharp and piercing screams suddenly sounded from the thatched huts in the village.
Lingyue was stunned, and waved her hand to smash open the nearest door, just in time to see the body of five members of the family inside were swollen, with protruding eyes, like skin bags that were forcibly filled with water.open.
Hot blood splashed all over Lingyue, and a few drops fell on Xia Xiyue's tail.
And similar cracking sounds sounded in all the huts that were still alive, and the peaceful and peaceful village fell into hell in the blink of an eye.
Lingyue has never seen such a scene before, looking at all this in a daze, the hand holding the sword trembled a little.At this time, in her sleeve, the little fox suddenly howled in warning.
However, it was too late.
There is more than one demon cultivator in the village.
A shadow, like a puff of smoke, passed behind Lingyue.In the blink of an eye, a large bouquet of blood flowers splashed on her body.
Lingyue's eyes widened, and she wanted to stab back with the sword, but before that, she completely lost control of her body, she knelt down on the ground and fell down.
The shadow stopped behind her, sighed softly, and dropped the sword in his hand, trying to draw some kind of formation.
At this time, it seemed that he thought he was going to make up the knife, a white light suddenly shot out from Lingyue's sleeve, and bit his wrist fiercely.
The man was taken aback and stopped moving.
He frowned, and soon there was a bit of surprise in his eyes. He casually grabbed the fox by the neck, tore her off his hands, and held her up in front of his eyes to look at it with interest: "Monster?"
The little fox suddenly raised its paws, the hind paws were covered with sharp spiritual power, and it scraped across like a blade.The demon cultivator felt that something was wrong, the laughter stopped abruptly, and he raised his head violently, but his left eye still suddenly hurt, and there were several bloody scratches.
"It's really dishonest." Demon cultivator laughed, shook his head helplessly, and said to himself, "Anyway, it can be used with the main meridian, and it doesn't matter if one more claw is missing."
With one hand, he restrained the fox that was baring its teeth and wanted to bite him, and with the other hand, he changed a dagger, aimed at the paw that kicked him, and chopped it down vigorously.
There was a sound of a sharp knife piercing the bone.A large handful of blood was splashed and mixed with the blood of the villagers on the ground.
In the light of blood, the fox and a severed human hand fell down at the same time.
The severed hand fell to the ground, splashing a splash of blood.
The fox was supported by a gust of wind, drifted to the side, and landed firmly on a person's shoulder.
Nan Xian didn't know when he appeared there, his whole body was filled with murderous intent, and his sleeves were stained with fresh snow that had just fallen thousands of miles away.
His eyes slowly swept across the blood-stained village, and finally stopped at the demon cultivator, who was clutching his severed arm, with no emotion in his voice: "Who appointed?"
The demon cultivator covered his face with a black cloth, his figure flew back, and he had retreated to the entrance of the village in the blink of an eye, as if he would disappear into the dense forest in the next second.
Seeing that he was about to leave smoothly, but at this moment, a blazing fire suddenly burst into the forest—a formation that had been carved long ago was dropped there at some point, and the edge that had been refined for decades seemed to have been waiting for this moment.The murderous intent was ignited and surrounded from all directions.
The overwhelming fire array made the man in black instinctively surge out a trace of spiritual power for defense. Although he quickly retracted, Nan Xian still suddenly noticed something.
The sword in his hand froze suddenly: "...Brother?"
"..."
There was a dead silence.
After an unknown amount of time, the man in black gave a low laugh, pulled down the hood on his head, and exposed his face in front of their eyes.
It is indeed the diligent and astonishing head of the Yinxian Sect.
He nodded slightly under Nan Xian's shocked and unspeakable gaze, with a gentle manner.Nanxian suddenly threw the flying sword in his hand, and the cold light swept towards Lingyue, forcing back the bloody light that was approaching her ferociously.
The sect leader stopped laughing: "I went out to find some cultivation resources, and my junior brother actually bothered me—you must know that not everyone in this world is as talented as you. It's really not kind of you to obstruct me like this."
The blood of the whole village was reflected in his eyes, Nan Xian looked at the pair of scarlet pupils that symbolized the identity of the demon cultivator, and his fingertips trembled.
"When did you become a demon?" He said slowly, "Do you know what you are doing?"
The head revealed his identity, but he didn't see much panic, as if he had expected today.
He sighed, and shook his head helplessly: "Several major parties are eyeing the Yinxian sect's territory, and if I don't become stronger, how can I compete with them?"
He looked at the broken corpses and blood in the village with pity in his eyes: "The life of a mortal is only a short moment. After ten years of bullet index, it will change from a newborn sun to a pile of loess, like a treasure withered. It is painful. Instead of watchingLet them pass away silently, it is better to help them bloom the greatest value."
The evil act of massacre using people as medicine has been crowned with this kind of hat by him.It was the first time for Nan Xian to truly understand the state of an obsessed person. His palms were cold: "No matter how nicely you say it, it runs counter to the way. You have convinced yourself, but the way of heaven cannot be deceived."
"Follow the way of heaven, break through the world and become immortal, this is something that you, the pride of heaven, will consider." The headmaster slowly wiped his blood-stained hands, "From ancient times to the present, there have been very few people who have ascended. On the contrary, the demigodsLife is long, under the way of heaven, above ten thousand people. That is the direction I should pursue—not to mention the path of cultivation, who has not stepped on the skeletons of other creatures to climb to the top? Have you never taken the elixir of spiritual plants?, haven’t forged animal blood and bones? Why can’t you bear the stepping stones instead of human beings now? Besides...you think I don’t know what kind of exercises you practiced?”
He suddenly stabbed Nan Xian with a sword, and the sword mixed with magic energy was three points sharper than usual.
Nan Xian had never lost to him in a competition since he was a child, but when the swords collided, he was instantly overwhelmed by the opponent's power.His thinking is still a bit sluggish, but his body has instinctively erupted with the strongest power, and the muddy spiritual power flowing at the bottom of the meridians is no longer covered up, pouring out.
When he came back to his senses, he had already pierced the opponent's heart with a sword.
The head of the sect looked down at the sword that pierced through him, and his tone was calm, as if reminiscing about the past: "You used to be the best in the world, and everyone praised you as the proud son of heaven and asked for hope. When the master passed away, if you hadn't been kind enough to give alms, what would you say?If I'm not interested in the sect's secular affairs, how could I be the head of the sect.
"And since this position falls on me, I can only take on this responsibility. I must be better than you, those old-fashioned people on the mountain, and all the people outside who covet Yinxian sect." His voice gradually changedTerrified, "The Yinxian sect will emerge as the first demigod in the millennium to surpass all sects. This should have been caused by you, but now that I'm on top, if you don't help me, you still want to stop me?!"
The screaming person gradually disappeared, turning into dust in the strong wind.
That is not the body, but an incarnation.
Nan Xian watched it dissipate silently, although he knew that the demon cultivator whose mind had been eroded would undergo a drastic change of mind, and had sent many of them away with his own hands.But the feeling in his heart at this time is still indescribable.
Just as he was thinking, his face suddenly turned cold, and he slapped a dusty paw.
Nan Xian was startled, wiped his face and turned his head, meeting a pair of watery eyes.
After staring at each other for a moment, the fox lowered his head in a rare way and leaned on his neck actively.The warm body seems to dispel the coldness in my heart.
Nan Xian closed her eyes, and when she raised her head again, there was not much emotion on her face.
He walked to Lingyue.The apprentice was lying in a pool of dirty blood, coughing blood in her mouth, and when she sensed someone approaching, she struggled to open her eyes.
The originally pure spiritual power of human monks has been stained with turbid breaths. Lingyue looked at the dead villagers in the village, and her eyes, which were as black as lacquer, gradually turned red.
The little fox turned around anxiously, jumped to her side, and stretched out its claws to cover her eyes.
Nan Xian picked up the fox from behind, and brought with him the only apprentice he had accepted over the years.
"Let's go." He whispered, "I'm not going back to the sect."
...
A major event has recently occurred in the world of comprehension.
——It is said that the younger brother who is the head of the Yinxian Sect, who rarely shows his face in front of others, unexpectedly fell into a demon cultivator at some point, and even slaughtered several villages in a row.
The head of the sect failed to stop him, so he was injured and retreated, and the affairs were handed over to his disciples. No one knew where his current retreat was.
Not long after, another Demon Sect silently appeared in the remote northwest corner of the mainland, amidst the miasma and deep forest.
...
Saying "Zong" is actually not appropriate.
After all, there are very few members in the sect, and there are only two people, one fox.
But soon, the number of people there gradually increased.
Every time the three Founding Elders went out, they would bring back many people: they had eliminated a lot of the introductions of spreading magic skills, but the vast continent still had some villages that could not be spared.So the people in any village were transformed into demon cultivators, and before the disciples of various sects went to encircle and suppress them, they were all brought back to the demon sect.
Even if they are both demon cultivator exercises, some exercises are easier to control.Although there are still not many people who can survive, over the years, the remote deep forest has gradually become populated.
The demon cultivator entered the country very quickly, and occasionally there were casual cultivators who came here because of their reputation. They also picked up some sect disciples who were inadvertently contaminated by magic skills. The strength of Demon Sect changed almost every day.First sight of scale.
...
Nan Xian leaned against a corner of the main hall, looked at the poisonous barrier in the forest that covered the sky, and thought of the lush green forest in the Yinxian sect, his eyes were a little dazed.
On the contrary, the little fox liked it very much and ran around in the forest every day.Maybe it's because she's grown in size after her infancy, and her favorite pastime recently is to take advantage of Nan Xian's unpreparedness to kick him down, and then rub her paws on top of her.Nan Xian wiped the dust off her paws while hiding, hugged and pinched her after wiping, always felt that this vengeful fox was taking revenge for being forcibly hugged and petted by him when she was a child.
The apprentice actually adapted well.Lingyue's original demure appearance disappeared, and she became more and more like those demon cultivators, who even learned to wear dark furs from the scattered cultivators who came here.
The change of the little fox is relatively easy to adapt to. After all, no matter how it changes, the fox is still a furry fox.
But the appearance of the apprentice...
demon cultivator If one's mentality goes astray, it is easy to step into the abyss of eternal doom.And every trace of external changes and abnormalities may mean hidden dangers.
Nan Xian was silent for a while, and finally reminded politely: "Recently, you seem to have slackened a lot in your practice."
Lingyue sighed: "I can't cultivate immortality, I actually have regrets in my heart. I just thought about it, the sect master... that devil is also hard to get on the road. It's good to cultivate casually like him, and live as long as possible. I am happy."easy."
Nan Xian looked at her: "The reason why the demon cultivator technique is crowned with the word 'magic' is because it is difficult to control, and if you are not careful, you will go astray. But if you follow your heart, you will be worthy of heaven and earth, and you can also see the great way.”
Lingyue's eyes are a little erratic, she doesn't know what she is thinking.She finally said seriously, "I understand."
...
Physicians don't heal themselves, Nan Xian tried to persuade others, and he spoke in a decent way, but he himself was an unmotivated Demon Lord no matter what.
Although she was still practicing occasionally, every time Xia Xiyue watched, she felt that Nan Xian Feisheng's heart was not strong at all, and she was more foolish than Lingyue.
For example, this time, it looked like he was meditating, but actually judging from the breath in his body, he was completely dodging and taking a nap.
Xia Xiyue then trotted closer, skillfully knocked the man down, raised her claws and stepped on it.
Nan Xian opened his eyes, sighed, and stretched out his hand to throw the fox down. One person and one fox quickly rolled into a ball on the ground.
The fox has grown bigger and bigger, and now he is almost taller than he is standing when he is lying down, and he can no longer be hugged on his lap like he was when he was a child.The difference between Yaozu and ordinary spirit beasts became more and more obvious, but every time she leaned her head on Nan Xian's knee and Nan Xian groped along the back of her head, her heart couldn't help but sink.
——The little fox has no fairy bones.
In other words, there is not enough physique to undertake powerful strength.
Unlike monks who can continuously cultivate and break through, the upper limit of the monster race seems to be fixed from birth.The starting point is high, but the end point is almost the same as the starting point.
Hundreds of years have passed, and Nan Xian's appearance has hardly changed. He looked at the little fox that had grown up, but there was a trace of aging.
"What's the use of being immortal and immortal?" Nan Xian leaned lazily on her body, raising her hand to stroke the long hair behind her ear, "Brother's nonsense, now that I think about it, there is some truth. The road is hard to achieve,It seems that enjoying the present moment is not as good as being separated from old people in retreat all day long. Compared with the two, the happy time is almost the same, but the retreat is a little more hard work."
Listening to these mutters, the fox twitched the tips of his ears, and gave him a slap, moved away, and stopped leaning on him.
Nan Xian tugged at her, but couldn't pull her back, so she had to change her words: "Okay, I'll practice. I just said it casually just now. Why, why don't people complain?"
The fox was happy again.
She doesn't seem to be aware of her inherent flaw, or if she is, she doesn't care.Yaozu's pure mind and innate heart for the Tao have made her never bothered by these things, and she still needs to practice and play as she pleases.
Nan Xian originally thought that this was a species issue.
But soon he found that he seemed to be the only one who was overthinking—even Lingyue was always in a good mood, and she seemed to be getting married.
Nan Xian didn't practice much by himself, but in his heart he felt that ascension to immortality was the right way, so he couldn't help but mind other people's affairs.But with a Taoist partner, it is easy to be distracted, and if the Taoist heart is unstable, it will be difficult to maintain the stability of the exercises.Not to mention the inherently unstable demon cultivators, even powerful monks in the righteous way rarely form a couple.Lingyue's aptitude is excellent, even if she has become a demon cultivator now, she is still the best among demon cultivators. It would be a waste if she doesn't practice immortality.
Lingyue was annoyed by his nagging, and sighed helplessly: "Master has been very slack in cultivation recently, isn't he?"
Nan Xian: "..." Is it that obvious?
Lingyue fiddled with the newly engraved mandarin duck bracelet on her wrist, lowered her head and smiled: "You said before that one must follow one's heart in cultivating the Tao. There is one person, I want to see his figure and hear his voice all the time,I want to make friends with him and join hands on the road to immortality. If Chengxian wants to give up all this, I will not be able to go along with it, and I will not be able to become a fairy if I don’t go along with it.No one has ascended for ten thousand years, and no one knows what it takes to become an immortal, so maybe thinking about it the other way around, a Taoist companion is the necessary condition for becoming an immortal."
Nan Xian: "...Why didn't I realize that you talk so much before."
Lingyue laughed, and saw a figure passing by in the distance, she quickly chased after him, and left side by side with that person.
...
The Dao knot ceremony will not be long.It doesn't take too long to prepare for this matter, and the demon cultivators don't pay that much attention.A group of people got together in a lively manner, and they insisted on turning the solemn and solemn ceremony into a bonfire party with demons dancing wildly.
Nan Xian sat on a cliff a thousand meters away, looking down at the warm bonfire in front of the temple.The big furry fox lay quietly beside him.
Nan Xian turned her head to look, and saw her focused eyes.The little fox obviously knew what kind of happy event this was. When the following song was played just now, she howled at the moon a few times, like a hardworking accompaniment.
Looking at the two silhouettes in wedding clothes who are close to each other through the slightly poisonous air, what Lingyue said before seemed to reappear in Nan Xian's ears: There is such a person that I want to see all the timeWith his figure, I want to hear his voice, want to make friends with him, and join hands to climb the fairy road together.
... Is this the criterion for finding a Taoist companion?
Nan Xian was a little distracted, and patted the big fox next to him: "It would be great if you were alone."
After a pause, he suddenly remembered something, and muttered to himself: "But why does it have to be a human? Isn't it okay for the Yaozu? It's not necessary to do something just to connect with each other. And I heard that the Yaozu has the opportunity to transform peopleYes, although I've never seen..."
"...?"
The fox was dumbfounded at first, and then blushed, but luckily the fluffy fur blocked it, so he couldn't see anything.
Seeing Nan Xian move his lips, he didn't know what shocking words he was about to mutter.She subconsciously pressed on Nan Xian, crushing him flat.
"Hey, pay attention to the image." Nan Xian came back to his senses and patted the dirt on his body, "There are still people watching from below."
The fox grunted twice, stretched out its paws to rub the dirt all over his body, turned around and ran away.
Nan Xian looked at her running back, recovered her senses, remembered what she was talking to herself just now, and the corner of her eye twitched: "..." Wait, can the little fox understand this.
Even if you understand, do you think he is a pervert?
People look at foxes very cute, but foxes look at people, maybe they think they are bald and ugly.Although he has absolutely nothing to do with ugliness, and his black hair is still very thick, but...
Nan Xian pressed his forehead.
After pressing it, I couldn't help but pat myself.
... Is he not far from being insane, what kind of mess is he thinking about!
...
Although I also feel sick.But from that day on, Nan Xian always felt as if he had opened a magical door to a new world, and it couldn't be closed anymore.
It's just that I don't know what the fox is thinking, Nan Xian thought to himself: Should I show her more relevant scriptures and examples recently, and ask her for her opinion after her cognition in this aspect is normal?
...But this behavior sounds really weird, it's almost like ringing a good family and a young fox.If someone else did this kind of thing to the little fox, he might raise his sword and hunt down half the continent.
Nan Xian always does things casually, this is the first time he is so entangled.
However, if you hesitate for too long on some things, you often miss the deadline for options.
One day, Nan Xian routinely went out to search for those who were forcibly transformed into demon cultivators.Ordinary villagers can be extradited as long as they send their subordinates, but over the years, ordinary people seem to be unable to fill up on the guy hiding behind the scenes.Some small schools and sects of cultivating immortals also suffered disasters, and all sects fell into demons.
The demon cultivator who has just transformed from a cultivator is more difficult to deal with and can easily affect other people. To be on the safe side, he can only go into battle in person.
Only this time, it seemed to be different from the past, the closer the place mentioned in the offline newspaper, the more restless he became.
Looking at the sky over there, Nan Xian always felt something was wrong.He frowned, and suddenly wanted to go back to Zong to have a look.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he stopped, a formation pattern suddenly passed under his feet, and the seemingly ordinary mountains and forests suddenly rose layer by layer, and the ground suddenly collapsed, instantly turning into a maze that devoured the sky, holding people firmly in it.