Chapter 0592: Untying the Rope
Mu Xingqiu laughed so hard that his chest hurt but he still refused to shut up, "Return to the way you were before? Haha, why? Just to make Yang Qingyin happy, to make you please her? What does this have to do with me? Jin Cu, you Nothing like your father, the old bay horse's life is much simpler than yours.
Jin Cu stopped talking. He lifted Mu Xingqiu up with his left shoulder, grabbed one of Flea's horns with his right hand, and flew into the air towards Langyuan in the southeast. Both of them were bound by Xiaoyao Suo, unable to resist.
The fire of the Hidden Dragon has not been extinguished. From a distance, it looks like a forest of red leaves in late autumn, which is in sharp contrast with the endless white snowfield around it.
Mu Xingqiu stopped laughing, "Jin Cu, do you know how childish your behavior is now?"
"I am a child."
"Ah, I forgot, you were born less than ten years ago, and your transformation into a demon gave you your current appearance. Since you are still a child, how could you fall in love with Yang Qingyin? That's an adult..."
Jin Cui stopped flying and asked angrily: "What are you talking about?"
"Am I talking nonsense? I just want to give you some advice. Yang Qingyin is a daughter of a Taoist sect. She has been favored since she was a child. No matter how much trouble she causes, she can always be forgiven. In a Taoism that is ruthless and abandons desire, she can get such treatment. , but it’s very rare. Even now, it’s just a matter of words for her to return to Pangshan.”
"So what? What does this have to do with me?"
"It's so relevant. Since you want to please Yang Qingyin, you have to be familiar with her character. For example, she likes outstanding people who can be leaders. You can't always be as docile as a pony. You have to work hard. It is best to become the overlord of a party and rule hundreds of thousands of demon soldiers. Only then can you be worthy of her favor. Don't treat yourself as a child. Children need to be taken care of, so that is a privilege. If anyone must be a child, then. It’s also Yang Qingyin, not you.”
Mu Xingqiu vomited quickly, and the injuries on his body seemed to be getting better, but his hands and feet were tied up with Xiaoyao ropes, and he couldn't use all his strength.
The brocade clusters flew quickly, and Mu Xingqiu could feel the muscles on the spirit demon's shoulders becoming stiff.
"Yang Qingyin asked you to come to me just because she wanted to find someone to help her clean up the mess, so that when she decides to return to the Taoist tradition, she can be prosperous. So what's the use of taking me back? Little Ma'er, little Ma'er , this is your opportunity, you should take advantage of the situation, become the leader yourself, and become 'what I used to be', in this way..."
"That's enough!" Jin Cu shouted sternly, thrusting his left shoulder hard, throwing Mu Xingqiu away, and then reached out to grab his collar, "That's not the case at all..."
Before he finished speaking, the flea in Jin Cu's right hand suddenly picked it up hard and threw Jin Cu high into the sky. It turned out that it had been silently accumulating strength just for this sudden blow.
The brocade let go, and Mu Xingqiu and Flea plummeted to the ground. They were both tied by the rope and unable to fly. Fortunately, it was not very far from the ground, only a few dozen feet, and the snow on the ground was deep enough to bear their weight.
Mu Xingqiu lay quietly in the snow. After a while, there was another muffled sound and the brocade fell down.
This time the fall was not particularly serious. Mu Xingqiu slowly crawled out of the snow pit. His feet were tied and he could only jump forward. After a few steps, he stopped and looked down at the brocade clusters in the snow. Feng Shui Turning around, the two people's positions were suddenly reversed.
Jin Cuo was injured. The flea's corner scratched his right rib, and the blood stained the white snow around him red.
"You can't please Yang Qingyin like this." Mu Xingqiu took a few steps forward and saw Qilin lying motionless under the snow, with only one big horn exposed.
"Insidious, stubborn beast, no wonder Zuo Liuying likes you the most." Mu Xingqiu tried to use the unicorn horn to cut off the happy rope on his wrist, but it was in vain. He bit his teeth again, trying to untie the simple knot. , still can’t do it.
"This is definitely not a rope made by Xiaoma himself." Mu Xingqiu murmured. Xiaoyao ropes are made of Jintail horse hair as the main material, but their effectiveness is not constant. Ropes made by high-level Taoist priests will naturally be more durable. Be firmer.
Mu Xingqiu suspected Zuo Liuying again, or maybe Yang Qingyin. She couldn't make up such a good free rope herself, but if she could get it, she always had a lot of treasures. Ordinary Taoist priests might not be able to have one in their lifetime. Magical weapon, she can use it as a toy.
Looking around, there are snow-covered mountains and forests everywhere. The land of monsters is vast. You might not be able to see an animal even if you walk for several days, let alone monsters and humans. Moreover, Mu Xingqiu cannot walk at all. , when I think that I can only jump around from now on, the feeling of freedom is immediately reduced.
There are only two ways to untie the rope, either to be stronger than the rope weaver, or to have the rope tieer open it himself.
Mu Xingqiu looked back at the snow pit where the brocade had fallen into, and had no choice but to jump over again.
The flea also climbed up from the snow. Its hooves were tied by the free rope, and it could only barely stand. It started to want to rush towards Mu Xingqiu, but found that it couldn't be done. It wanted to fly into the sky again, but ended up falling into the snow. The buttocks were raised high in a rather funny posture.
Mu Xingqiu laughed a few times and ignored it. He lowered his head and said to Jin Cui who had just opened his eyes: "Look at the good things you did. Qilin and I lost our freedom, but you were seriously injured and no one benefited. Principle I don’t want to help anyone anymore, but mutual benefit is different. You untie my free rope and I will help you heal. I also have a lot of Taoist elixirs. You don’t want to lie here all the time, do you?”
"Come back with me to see the Spirit King." Jinchu said stiffly, but his voice still revealed his exhaustion. The horn is the most important weapon of the Qilin, and if it is stabbed, it will not be a light injury.
Mu Xingqiu suddenly admired Jinchu a little. The stubbornness of this spirit monster is quite similar to his temper when he was a child, but it is less flexible. No matter what, Mu Xingqiu will not go for his father's fist. He knows how to run away, and he also knows how to compromise first and then take revenge.
Mu Xingqiu stared at the face that looked so similar to himself that he was a little annoying, and smiled even more happily. "You want me to go back with you to see Yang Qingyin, first you have to think about one question, why should I agree? Because you look like my twin brother? Because you are the son of a red horse?"
"Because of the Spiritual King, you have always misunderstood her..."
Mu Xingqiu shook his head, "You have heard of the four words "Taoism is boundless", the most powerful ability of Taoism is to make you worship the Taoism, be loyal to the Taoism, and be obsessed with the inner elixir. As for making you like another person, it is even easier. Do you want to say that Yang Qingyin has always liked me? Ha, she likes the me created by the Taoism, not the real me now. You want me to go back and let me change back to the way I was before, but what if I can't change back? Will I be her captive and prisoner from now on? In that case, she will hate you to death."
"Do you really not want to see the Spiritual King again?" Jinchu showed a trace of confusion on his face.
Mu Xingqiu straightened his expression, "You think I have forgotten the past, right? In fact, I remember everything clearly, I just don't care anymore, just like you spirit monsters, you all remember your beast form, but you don't want to turn back into beasts, and I don't want to go back to the past."
The confusion on Jinchu's face gradually disappeared, and he returned to his usual coldness, "You have disappointed all the trusters."
"But it makes me happy." Mu Xingqiu smiled again and stretched out his bound arms, "Untie me, little horse, not to help me, but to help yourself."
"Since you are no longer the Mu Xingqiu of the past, why should I believe you?"
The former Mu Xingqiu kept his promises, even his enemies would not doubt him. The current Mu Xingqiu only cares about himself, so naturally he cannot get the trust of the other party.
"First untie the free rope on my wrist, I will give you the elixir, and then you can untie the rope on my feet, that should be fine."
"Feet, I will untie the free rope on your ankle first." Jinchu said.
Mu Xingqiu curled his lips, thinking that it made no difference, so he sat on the snow and stretched his feet in front of Jinchu.
Behind him, the flea was still struggling, and fell into snow pits one after another on the ground.
Jinchu raised his left arm and struggled to untie the simple knot. The free rope fell on him and automatically got into his arms like a docile little snake.
Mu Xingqiu's feet finally regained their freedom. He jumped up and walked back and forth a few steps. Looking at the stumbling Qilin, he was in a good mood, but he couldn't cast spells at will now, so he had to open the treasure bag on his waist with both hands, put in a few fingers and slowly groped.
"Open your mouth." Mu Xingqiu took out a small porcelain bottle and poured out a pill.
Jinchu opened his mouth and swallowed the pill. His complexion gradually flushed. After a while, he slowly sat up, tore open his single clothes, turned his head to look at the wound on his right rib, grabbed a handful of snow, and rubbed it hard a few times. The blood was gone, but the thin scars were still there.
He stood up, climbed out of the snow pit, looked at the Qilin that had injured him, snorted softly, and did not take revenge, but turned around to untie the Xiaoyao rope on Mu Xingqiu's wrist.
The power returned to his body, Mu Xingqiu took a deep breath, and felt extremely happy again, "Who gave you the Xiaoyao rope? It's quite powerful."
Jinchu hesitated for a while before answering, "My mother, she wove a few Xiaoyao ropes when she first turned into a demon, and then... she didn't make it."
The casualties of spirit beasts when they turned into demons were quite large, and only a few could hold on to the end.
Mu Xingqiu was a little surprised. He didn't expect that a Xiaoyao rope woven by a spirit demon could actually trap him, but he didn't say anything. He turned around and was about to leave. Suddenly, he remembered something and took out a gem from his arms, "Give it back to Zuo Liuying, it's his thing."
This is the Concentrated Mind Gem that Zuo Liuying used to record Mu Xingqiu's transformation process, and it is no longer needed now.
Jinchu didn't answer, "I'm not here to see you for Zuo Liuying."
Mu Xingqiu smiled and threw the pearl into the snow. Feeling something was wrong, he reached into his arms and fumbled around, pulling out something unexpected - a glowing crystal eye.