Chapter 0919 Pearl

Mu Xingqiu was lying on the grass, his head resting on his hands, chewing a straw stick lightly in his mouth, looking up at the sky. It was early autumn, the sky was high and the air was crisp. The weeds underneath were soft and tough, like a legendary old country home-brewed wine. It had a rough taste in the mouth and a fragrant aftertaste. People who were too delicate could not enjoy this kind of fun.

The vine transformed from the demon seed was placed next to him. Its power was slowly recovering. Occasionally, it would suddenly raise half of its length like a snake, and then slap it heavily on the grass, making a snapping sound. Mu Xingqiu did not even notice. I ignored it and just stared at the unpredictable clouds in the sky. My mind was actually empty and I didn't think of anything.

He didn't even cast any spell restrictions around him, so the female Taoist priest could approach easily. She stood on top of the hillside and stared at him for a while, "Do you know that you are the biggest laughing stock in the world?"

Mu Xingqiu stood up, spit out the straw stick in his mouth, and looked at the young female Taoist priest more than ten steps away. After a while, he vaguely recognized her identity, "Zhang Xiang'er, Zhang Lingsheng's daughter?"

Zhang Xiang'er hummed perfunctorily. She didn't have much trace of her father, but she still had a lot of her childhood appearance. The figures of two children immediately appeared in Mu Xingqiu's mind. They were running around in Shen Xiuming's flower garden. , followed Mu Xingqiu all the way, but rarely got close, "Where is Shen Cunyi?"

Zhang Xiang'er frowned slightly, as if she wasn't happy to hear the name, "She should be practicing in the tower, I don't know."

Cultivation will change a lot. If childhood friends cannot move forward side by side, estrangement will easily develop. Mu Xingqiu asked something he shouldn't ask and smiled, "So everyone in the world knows about my challenge to Kun Chaos? "

"Grandmaster." Zhang Xiang'er corrected seriously, "You already thought of this when you asked Zuo Liuying to go to the imperial capital to declare war, right?"

"I didn't ask anyone to declare war. He volunteered and wanted to experience before me how powerful Patriarch Kunchaos really is." Mu Xingqiu also corrected, and made a small compromise on the title.

Zhang Xiang'er thought for a moment and accepted the title of "Kun Chaos Patriarch", "I thought you would hide until you suddenly appeared in the imperial capital three days later, just like Zuo Liuying did."

"I don't want to hide, as that will affect my mood before the fight. Mu Xingqiu stretched, Zhang Xiang'er moved his fingers slightly, and when he realized that Mu Xingqiu had no intention of attacking, he slowly retracted his palms into his sleeves.

"How did you find this place?"

"Zuo Liuying's memory, you broke up five miles away, he went to the imperial capital, and you...rested here. I thought I wouldn't find you. I don't understand, this place is less than a hundred miles away from the imperial capital, and you If you don’t have anything else to do, why do you choose to fight in three days and make a fuss? "

"Is there no answer in Zuo Liuying's memory?"

Zhang Xiang'er was speechless, and after a while she said: "It was the ancestor who got all his memories, not me."

"All the memories? If Patriarch Kunchaos really gets all the memories, he will not agree to the fight in three days, but will directly come to seize the demon seed."

Perhaps stimulated by the word "devil", the vine on the grass suddenly bounced. Mu Xingqiu grabbed it. The vine struggled for a while and gradually stabilized.

"Grandmaster Kunchao thinks that we are hiding a secret that is not good for him. He wants to dig out this secret, so he agreed to the fight in three days. As for why it has to be three days, I am waiting for it to recover. The time is too short, the devil This kind of power is not enough. If it lasts for more than three days, I will not be able to control it. "

"Hey, who would have thought that Mu Xingqiu and Zuo Liuying, who have been fighting demons all their lives, would use demon seeds to fight against the Taoist ancestors." Zhang Xiang'er sneered and suddenly jumped into the sky, "I'm leaving."

"Wait, why did you come to me?"

"I just want to see how my former guardian became a laughing stock in the eyes of the world." Zhang Xiang'er's cold arrogance is not as deeply hidden as the Taoist disciples, and it is clearly revealed, indicating that she does not yet have a pure heart as a Taoist priest.

"I am also your guardian now. I promised your father that I will take care of you as long as I live. If anyone bullies you, please tell me. By the way, your birthday is the ninth day of August and it just passed.

Zhang Xiang'er fell to the ground again, her expression getting colder and colder, "From now on, I release you from your commitment. You don't have to 'take care' of me anymore. No one bullies me. I am a Taoist priest, but it's not my birthday. You want to know why I came here?" Looking for you? Okay, let me tell you the truth, I am here to end a tribulation: Since I was a child, people have been telling me that I have an amazing guardian, saying how powerful and great you are. For many years, I have thought about it day and night. , I even made one gift after another for you, but you never showed up. No, you showed up once, in Uncle Xiuming’s flower garden, coming and going in a hurry, but it wasn’t me you came to see at all, I was. It just happened to be there. This thing is like a pebble in my heart, preventing me from forming a Taoist heart and affecting my practice. The past is not gone, it is growing day by day. The book calls this "Pearl Tribulation", which I am today. To break this unnecessary pearl."

The mussels constantly secrete liquid to coat the gravel mixed into the body, creating pearls one after another. Although the result is beautiful, it is meaningless to the maker, and it will never feel comfortable at all.

"I wish you success, but this has nothing to do with my promise to your father." Mu Xingqiu smiled, and the scene of Zhang Lingsheng's entrustment before his death clearly appeared in his mind.

Zhang Xiang'er had a pearl calamity in his heart, but Mu Xingqiu had a series of pearls in his heart. He didn't know whether it was a calamity or not, but he didn't want to throw away any of them.

Zhang Xiang'er rose into the sky again, "It doesn't matter anymore. The Patriarch will help me cut off this calamity. In three days, everything will be over. You will be imprisoned in the Demon Drawing Cave. I will never have to..."

"Ba Mo Cave? Is that where I end up?"

"The Patriarch doesn't kill people, and he won't even kill demons with his own hands, so you will be sent to the Demon Drawing Cave after your defeat." Zhang Xiang'er paused, "You stole the demon seeds and used them as weapons to fight against the Patriarch. Entering the Demon Cave... is the fate you deserve."

"Yes, the orthodox believe so, right?"

Zhang Xiang'er disappeared.

Mu Xingqiu lay down on the grass again, casually folded another straw stick and put it in his mouth, muttering in a low voice: "It's really troublesome to take care of people, Zhang Lingsheng, you really know how to retaliate against me... Think about it carefully, I seem to He is really not a qualified guardian.”

Mu Xingqiu said to himself that he had left a lot of pills and materials for Zhang Xiang'er to practice, but he had never visited her specifically. He heard that she had received enough from Princess Xi Jie and Shen Xiu Ming. He always felt that there was no need for him to show up.

"Fortunately, she is a Taoist priest, so she can overcome this hurdle by herself." Mu Xingqiu really wished that he could just lie there forever and never have to get up or worry about anything.

But things will come to you. Not long after Zhang Xiang'er left, the dragon demon floated down from the sky and sat down next to Mu Xingqiu. Her skin color was still a little blue, but her body had basically recovered, and the facial expressions on her face were still there. The smile was vague, as if he was recalling some fun scene.

"The little girl can't stop the pearl tribulation." said the dragon demon.

"Kun Chao will help her."

"The little girl will regret it later."

Mu Xingqiu hummed indifferently. He was in an extremely relaxed state now and didn't care about anything, not even the fight in three days. "Aren't you tired?"

"Tired of what?"

"The target approaches again and again, and then goes away again and again. You can't always break through the magic hole, and there are always new opponents in front of me. It's endless and never-ending. Aren't you tired of it? "

The Dragon Demon thought for a while, "I'm not tired, I think it's very interesting. Just imagine, if I had broken the Demon Drawing Cave a long time ago and released a bunch of souls that turned to ashes at the sight of the sun, then I would probably become I am confused and don’t know what to do. You know? I was a little regretful when I first got the magic calamity. I was worried that I would finally succeed and then I would really stop pursuing it.”

Mu Xingqiu threw away the straw stick in his mouth and sat up, "Yes, why should I be tired? The enemies did not suddenly appear in front of me, they were always there. But when I was too weak, I noticed Without their presence, they don’t look down on me, so everything is not the same. I have gained something, and I have always gained something.”

The dragon demon smiled, "You can survive these three days, the influence of the demon species on you is becoming more and more obvious."

"Otherwise, it's not enough to control the demon species." Mu Xingqiu said firmly. He had just expelled a trace of the demonic thoughts from his mind and regained his previous fighting spirit.

"You don't have to work so hard." Dragon Demon said softly, as if he sympathized with his own situation.

"The opportunity cannot be wasted. Wouldn't it be better if we could defeat Kun Chaos without entering the Demon Cave? I will go all out in this battle."

"Intentional purpose and unintentional purpose. Apart from the successors of Nianxinke, can no one really explain their meaning to you?"

Mu Xingqiu shook his head, "Only them."

"They are just some rotten souls. It's hard to say whether they remember these things. Even if they remember, it may be useless. After all, the tenth and eleventh levels of mind-reading illusion have never been completed."

"So this is just an opportunity, not a sure way to win. That's why I have to go all out to prepare for the battle in three days and try not to have to enter the Demon Cave."

Mu Xingqiu turned to Long Mo and looked seriously at the face that was so similar yet so different from Fangfang, "Promise me to take good care of Mu Dong'er, and..."

Dragon Demon smiled and said, "Ah, you also left me with a big trouble. Fortunately, I like to meddle in other people's business, but Yang Qingyin will really hate me. Their mother and son have been separated for so many years, and they are still with me." related."

"She is very open-minded and will understand you in the end." Mu Xingqiu also smiled, "The more opportunities, the better. Once or twice is not enough. There must be more back-ups. If I still can't defeat Kun Chaos, If you can't get out of the Devil's Cave, then your last hope lies with Mu Dong'er and... Frost Soul Sword."

Mu Xingqiu unconsciously touched his right rib. The Frost Soul Sword carved on it with magic had been removed.

"You fight for the people of the world, but the people of the world regard you as a laughing stock. It is really ironic."

"I don't fight for the people of the world, not even for my relatives and friends." Mu Xingqiu stood up and looked towards the imperial capital, "I once ran away in front of him, and now I have to go back and challenge him. I fight for myself. ”