One Qi Chaoyang

Chapter 190 189: Purple Demon

When seeing beautiful flowers blooming on the roadside, some people would want to pick them back, put them in a vase, and smell them from time to time until the day they wither, and then throw them away. Then they would miss the flowers in their hearts, and remember that the flowers were really beautiful that day.

I often go to the roadside when I miss the past. If I see other flowers, I will come back. After all, the vase at home is empty and the house lacks decoration, so I pick flowers from time to time.

Some people will dig up the flowers with their roots and plant them in their own yard to enjoy them alone. For some people, having one plant in their lifetime is enough.

Some people want to plant their own gardens.

Gu Na had never seen a man as good-looking as Zhao Fuyun. Seeing Zhao Fuyun roasting rabbit meat, she turned around and said, "Brother, can I borrow a fire?"

The man was surprised that his daughter's voice had become so soft and polite.

Zhao Fuyun looked at the girl standing next to him holding a piece of firewood. He didn't say anything, but just nodded.

The girl happily came to Zhao Fuyun, squatted down, and put her wooden stick into the fire in front of Zhao Fuyun.

The rabbit meat had a burnt aroma and oil was bubbling from the meat.

The girl turned her head to look at Zhao Fuyun's profile, then looked at the rabbit meat in his hand, and immediately found an opportunity to speak.

"Brother, don't you have any seasoning and salt? It's time to add these, otherwise it won't taste good later." said the girl.

Zhao Fuyun looked at her. The girl had a pair of thick, long black braids that hung in front of her chest.

Her facial features are three-dimensional and deep. If you look closely at her pupils, you can see that they have a hint of blue, which gives her a rather eerie feeling.

If you say she is beautiful, she is certainly not as pretty as Xun Lanyin, and she is still a level below Huang Miaohua and Chunyu Yan, but she has a different kind of charm. When Zhao Fuyun looked at her, she met his gaze without any shyness.

But Zhao Fuyun did not reply to her, because he did not have those seasonings. He just roasted some rabbit meat because he suddenly felt like eating something. It was not because he was hungry, but because he suddenly saw himself in the vast wilderness, the sky was full of stars, the night was quiet and desolate. It felt pretty good to sit here alone, build a fire, and roast a rabbit.

He was looking for that feeling, both for eating and not for eating.

Many practitioners think that the seven emotions and six desires should be cut off, because spiritual practice is the process of making lust less and less.

Zhao Fuyun also thought so, but he did not agree that it would disappear.

Cutting off the seven emotions and eliminating the six desires can be called Taoism.

The personal exchanges between monks are also very frequent.

He was also tireless in his pursuit of elixirs and martial arts techniques.

For some opportunities, they are fought for with blood.

So some people say that the worldly affairs have never gone away, it is in everyone's heart. Although people are in the mountains, they are not close to the Tao, and they are not immortals.

"Brother, don't you have any seasoning?" the girl continued to ask.

Without waiting for Zhao Fuyun to nod, she jumped up, walked to her package, and took out a small bottle from it. The middle-aged man looked at this scene, wanting to say something but stopping himself, but the girl glared at him imperceptibly, turned around and walked to Zhao Fuyun's side and sat down again.

"Brother, let me help you sprinkle the seasoning on it. This is something I mixed myself, and it's delicious."

As the girl was speaking, she reached out to take the wooden stick from Zhao Fuyun's hand without waiting for his answer. Zhao Fuyun did not refuse. When she reached for the stick, she took the opportunity to touch his hand.

He looked at Zhao Fuyun's face again and saw that Zhao Fuyun didn't show any reaction. He couldn't help but smile and said, "Brother, your skin is really good."

After Zhao Fuyun had nothing in his hand, he looked at the other person from the side and said, "This is a vast wilderness, with no village in front and no shop behind. Where are you going?"

"Brother, where are you going again?" said the girl.

"I heard that the scenery in this wasteland is beautiful, so I came here to take a look." Zhao Fuyun said.

"So, brother is not from nearby." The girl asked, her face full of curiosity, and she was sprinkling seasoning on Zhao Fuyun with her hands.

Zhao Fuyun raised his eyebrows and said, "You seem to be questioning me, right?"

The flames reflected on the girl's face, making her face look red. She quickly said, "No, I'm just curious about what kind of place could give birth to a person like my brother."

Zhao Fuyun smiled and did not answer the question, but asked about the wasteland.

The girl also happily introduced him to Zhao Fuyun.

This piece of wasteland was originally occupied by ghosts from the hellish realm. It is said that there was a community every ten miles and a temple every hundred miles, and the ghosts gathered together to form a huge country.

When the Great Zhou Kingdom's invading army arrived here, it was almost difficult to move forward, and many Red Flame Taoist soldiers died. The Red Flame flames burned all the way here, and only then did they drive the ghosts and monsters in this land to a place further west.

Finally, a decisive battle took place in a place further west. The Great Zhou Kingdom won that battle, but a thousand miles of yellow sand was burned there, igniting an underground fire that lasted for nearly a thousand years.

Although this area was also burned by fire, it was not burned so severely that it was not turned into sand.

However, because this area was once occupied by the ghost domain of Wujian, ghosts from all over the place often come here to look for treasures and opportunities.

"So what are you going to do?" Zhao Fuyun asked.

The one who answered him was the middle-aged man. After saying so many words, Zhao Fuyun invited the other party to come and sit together. After all, the girl said she came to borrow a fire, so she sat down and never got up again. No fire was lit over there.

"My ancestor followed the high priest to conquer this place and was a flag-bearing lieutenant. He was injured and was left here to recover first, and then he settled down here. The court classified us as military households, and we have the power to patrol this wasteland and kill ghosts and evil spirits on our own."

"Moreover, in the past hundred years, for some unknown reason, there have been more and more ghosts and evil spirits in the entire wasteland," said the man.

Zhao Fuyun asked again, the man's name was Guli and the girl's name was Guna.

"Is there such a thing?" Zhao Fuyun didn't know, but as a local who has been paying attention to this place for many years, he would naturally know about it.

"It is said that the former ghost domain of Wujian was in this area. There were community temples on the ground, but the real living place was actually underground. As the army conquered along the way, naturally both the ground and the underground were burned together, but there were bound to be omissions in the underground. This is one of the reasons why our ancestors were left behind." Guli said.

Zhao Fuyun looked at the other person with a frown on her face and a haggard look, and couldn't help wondering how his daughter could be so active.

"So, you are on night patrol?" Zhao Fuyun asked.

"Yes, brother. Recently a demon called Jade-faced Man has appeared in our area. He has harmed several families. It is said that he often seduces girls, plays with their feelings, and then makes them surrender their hearts to him." The girl looked at Zhao Fuyun with burning eyes, as if she wanted to see something from Zhao Fuyun's face.

"Oh, there actually is such a demon. Does he want people to fall in love with him before he harms them?" Zhao Fuyun asked curiously.

"Yes, it is said that the monster is very beautiful and especially likes to wear purple clothes." As soon as the girl Guna finished speaking, Zhao Fuyun knew that she mistook him for that monster.

There was a hint of helpless smile in his eyes, but this helpless smile had a different meaning in the other person's eyes.

If a person has different thoughts, then the ideas he or she will have after looking at the same thing will also be different.

Zhao Fuyun felt helpless and a little amused. His original clothes were already dirty and old, so when he changed into the robes given by Han Xiufeng of Mount Li, he was mistaken for a demon.

The other party had some preconceived ideas and thought that Zhao Fuyun was a demon, so when they saw Zhao Fuyun's smile, they thought he was smiling like a smile of admitting that he had been exposed. In addition, Zhao Fuyun did not add any seasoning to the barbecue before, and he came from another place to inquire about the situation here, which made them form their current judgment.

Zhao Fuyun thought about explaining it, but before he could say anything, a flame suddenly rose up.

The fire in front of him was turned over by Guli on the opposite side.

Guli had an honest and weathered look just now, but at this moment, his eyes were flashing with bravery.

The flames rose along with his hands. He had grabbed a burning piece of wood in his hands at some point, picked it up, and poked it towards Zhao Fuyun's eyes.

This was both an attack and a way to cover Zhao Fuyun's eyes, because Gu Na, who was closer to Zhao Fuyun, had already made her move.

A brilliant flash of sword light, coupled with the flames, reflected each other and stabbed towards Zhao Fuyun's throat.

If Zhao Fuyun was hit hard, his throat would definitely be cut open. As for whether his head would fall off, it was unknown, but at least wind would fill half of his throat.

Zhao Fuyun fell backwards and pushed off the ground, and his whole body flew up. However, the torch in Guli's hand did not stop because of his exhaustion and his arms were not long enough. He actually pounced towards Zhao Fuyun like a tiger.

He vowed to pounce on Zhao Fuyun, the demon who was leaping upside down in the air, and the flames seemed to be attracted and led upward into the sky by the torch, forming a stream of fire that flowed from the bottom to the top, and seemed to be rolled towards Zhao Fuyun by the wind.

The fire in Gu Li's hand waved out a flame, covering Zhao Fuyun's eyes and preventing him from seeing other dark places.

On Zhao Fuyun's side, the girl Guna was holding two swords.

The pair of swords were one long and one short. The long one also had a long and narrow blade, and was obviously not strong in weight. The short one was as long as a dagger. She held them in her hands, without revealing any aura. The long sword in her hand brought up a flash of light and slashed towards the side of Zhao Fuyun in the air.

Zhao Fuyun was really helpless in his heart. He didn't want to use heavy hands, but the father and daughter did cooperate very well.

Moreover, he also felt someone watching him in the darkness.

So he flipped in the air like a fish, avoiding the sword light and flames.

At the same time, Guli and Guna immediately felt a whirlpool-like force that swept them away. This was the application of the grappling technique.

Zhao Fuyun's body quickly disappeared in the darkness, like a fish diving into deep water.

The father and daughter landed on the ground and stood alert in the darkness, looking for Zhao Fuyun, but they didn't find him.

Gu Li said, "I'll let you show off. We agreed before that if we found this thing, we wouldn't do it first, but gather up with other people to hunt together. Now, you scared it. It will be even harder to find it next time."

"I didn't expect this demon to be so cunning and slippery." Guna said as she returned to the fire and added more firewood to it. Then she picked up the rabbit meat that had not been eaten yet, took a bite, and sat there eating without a care in the world.

He said while eating.

"Don't mention it, this monster is really good-looking, and there's no fishy smell of monsters on it." Guna said.

Gu Li also came and sat down next to him, then sniffed again and again at the place where Zhao Fuyun had sat, and said, "It's true that there is nothing there. No wonder so many people can't find it."

The father and daughter sat there and shared the rabbit meat left by Zhao Fuyun, and took out the water and wine they had brought with them.

He didn't say anything else, just lowered his head and ate.

Suddenly, the two stopped chewing because they saw a person slowly walking towards them in the darkness.

The man was dressed in purple, wearing a silk scarf on his head, with a handsome face. He was leading a horse by the hand, like a traveler from afar who was attracted by the firelight.

There were luggage and a sword hanging on the horse, making him look like a traveling scholar.

"Excuse me, I'm new to the wilderness and lost my way. I just saw a fire surging in the distance and was very happy. Could you allow me to rest for a while?"

When the other party spoke, the tone of his voice sounded very much like that of a nobleman living in a deep mansion.

Guna couldn't help but look at her father, and she found that her father was staring at the other person without even turning his eyes. She immediately understood why her father was like that.

Because when facing a powerful enemy, you must not be distracted by anything else.

Two words emerged in her mind - demon.

If this is the Jade-faced Young Man, the demon who killed several military families, then what about the previous one?

Is it an injustice, or there are two demons.

What if there are two?

Thinking of this, her heart sank.

"Nawawa, remember to go to Yuquantun." She knew the meaning of Guli's words very well. He wanted her to escape to Yuquantun if she was defeated.

Yuquantun is the nearest place to here. There are about thirty households of soldiers who stayed here during the conquest. The village got its name because there is a clear spring in the village.

Gu Na didn't say anything. He looked at the purple-clothed demon. Compared with the purple-clothed man he had seen before, he felt that the aura of the previous man was lighter. He didn't know if it was because of a preconceived feeling, but he felt that there was a deliberateness in this man.

"Why? Is it inconvenient? I just need to borrow a light." said the purple-clothed scholar.

"Of course." Guna said with a smile, "Why don't you sit here with us?"

The purple-robed scholar readily agreed.

Gu Na seemed to be attracted by him and said, "Are you hungry? I have dry food and homemade wine. Take a sip to warm yourself up, otherwise you will get sick tomorrow if the night wind invades your body."

As she spoke, she handed over a wine jug in her hand.

This is wine with medicine added. If people drink it, it can restore their strength and spirit, but if demons drink it, it will be very harmful.

The purple-robed scholar took it with a smile, shook the wine jug, and then smelled it and said, "It smells so good."

"Yes, it smells very good." said Guna.

Guli stood by and said nothing, with his head slightly lowered, but his body was like a leopard that could pounce at any time.

"But I don't like drinking alcohol. I prefer drinking blood." The purple-clothed scholar said with a smile. While speaking, his eyes were fixed on Guna's face and finally fell on her neck.

Guna felt a chill on her neck, as if a snake had crawled to her collar.

A chill ran down her spine and the back of her head felt numb.

This was a powerful demon. Fear surged from her tailbone to the back of her head, and spread to her face. She felt as if she was going numb.

(End of this chapter)