The years I was in the human world

"Where is this?" Kong Qing and others also came out of the illusion. Faced with the unfamiliar environment, they couldn't help but ask aloud.

"He's still alive." Xie Huaiyu raised his eyebrows, obviously surprised. He thought the Bamboo-Clothed Ghost would take these people's lives.

"Being alive now doesn't mean you will be able to escape from here alive in the future." Xiao Fengzhuo said softly. These cultivators, including Kong Qing, had no idea what they had been through. They looked miserable and had more or less wounds on their bodies. The underground royal tomb of the Immortal Kingdom might be hiding good things.

There was a large wound on Kong Qing's stomach, which was bleeding profusely and soaked through her clothes. Her entire abdomen was red. Her face was pale and she only managed to avoid falling down thanks to the support of the puppet beside her. It was obvious that she was at the end of her strength.

As soon as she came out, she looked around. When she saw Lu Zhouxue, she was obviously relieved. With the help of the puppet, she walked towards the three people who were safe and sound.

The three of them didn't react to her approaching. Xiao Fengzhuo stared at the puppet beside Kong Qing for a moment, then smiled. He whispered, "Mianmian, look at that puppet. Doesn't it look alive?"

Hearing him say this, even Xie Huaiyu, who didn't care much, looked over curiously. He saw that the corpse, which should have been dull and numb, was now standing next to Kong Qing as if it had a soul. Its eyes were lively and it looked at Kong Qing with worry.

"It's alive." Lu Zhouxue said firmly. After a pause, he added, "The puppet came to life little by little."

"Is she offering sacrifices to a dead body?" Xie Huaiyu came to a terrifying conclusion.

"Master Zhou." As the three were talking, Kong Qing also came closer. Because she had something to ask of them, she changed her previous arrogance in front of the three people and respectfully called Lu Zhouxue "Master". "The road ahead in the underground royal mausoleum must be dangerous. I am afraid that I can't protect myself. I would like to ask Master to take care of my puppet for me."

Perhaps fearing that Lu Zhouxue would not agree, Kong Qing immediately put forward his own conditions: "As long as you are willing to help, Changyang Sect will reward you handsomely."

Who wouldn't be tempted by the generous reward from Changyang Sect? As soon as Kong Qing said this, the others cast envious glances at Lu Zhouxue, but they just looked at him. After all, their strength was not as good as Kong Que's, and they could hardly take care of themselves, let alone take care of a useless puppet.

Lu Zhouxue was about to refuse, not wanting to get involved with Kong Que again, but Xiao Fengzhuo suddenly tugged at his sleeve. Lu Zhouxue tilted his head in confusion and looked over. He saw the pretty kitten with its cat ears still on blinking at him and whispering coquettishly, "Promise her."

"Okay." Lu Zhouxue was like a bewildered tyrant, and was coaxed into agreeing by Xiao Fengzhuo without thinking. When Kong Que heard his promise, he breathed a sigh of relief, forced a smile and said thank you to the two of them.

Lu Zhouxue wanted to ask Xiao Fengzhuo why he asked her to agree, but it was not convenient to ask now, so she suppressed her doubts and waited patiently for the opportunity.

"How do we leave here?" Xie Huaiyu asked, looking at the towering city gate in front of him.

The layers of buildings in front of him extended into endless darkness. The streets were lit with dim candlelight, barely illuminating the area around one foot square. Most of the monks had sharp ears and eyes, but they could only barely make out a vague outline of the city in such a dark environment.

The entire underground city was silent, with yellowed paper money scattered all over the ground and the air filled with the smell of decay. The road illuminated by dim candlelight stretched into the darkness, like a ghost town leading to the land of the living, emitting an ominous dead silence.

What Xie Huaiyu said was also what the other embarrassed cultivators wanted to ask. Zhongting, the demon clan, and the devil clan had been pursuing the secret of immortality for thousands of years, but no one had ever heard of the underground undead in the Immortal Kingdom, let alone had ever been there. Naturally, they all looked at each other at this moment, undecided.

"Do you know how to go?" Lu Zhouxue asked Xiao Fengzhuo. For some reason, he had an inexplicable feeling that Xiao Fengzhuo must have a solution.

He didn't deliberately lower his voice. After hearing his words, everyone looked at the two of them. Xiao Fengzhuo didn't hide it either. He pointed to the distant city gate hidden in the darkness and said, "In the west of this city, there is a ferry leading to the Wangchuan River in the underworld. From there, you can go upstream and return to the human world."

"So if we want to leave, we have to go through this dead city?" Xie Huaiyu hesitated. This city gave him a bad feeling, and he subconsciously didn't want to enter. Others naturally felt the same way, and some even couldn't help but question Xiao Fengzhuo: "How can you, a half-demon, know all this?"

Xiao Fengzhuo's cat ears and tail were still exposed. He knew that Lu Zhouxue liked him like this, so he had no intention of taking them back. However, in the eyes of other arrogant cultivators, he would be seen as a half-demon who relied on his looks to cling to the strong and was talking nonsense.

"Are you talking nonsense?" These monks really didn't want to step into the city. They felt uneasy just standing at the city gate, not to mention crossing the entire city to the so-called Forgotten River ferry.

"Does the Immortal Master also think I'm talking nonsense?" Xiao Fengzhuo didn't care whether others believed him or not. He turned his head and looked at Lu Zhouxue teasingly. He lay on Lu Zhouxue like an octopus, pretending to be weak and delicate, and even blew air into Lu Zhouxue's ears, "I never lie to the Immortal Master."

Lu Zhouxue: "..." Did this guy take some strange medicine by mistake? He wasn't like this before.

Perhaps sensing Lu Zhouxue's silence, Xiao Fengzhuo got off him after a while, lifted Lu Zhouxue's hand, took out a stack of talisman papers from his sleeve, and casually made a fire order to set the stack of papers on fire.

Bright flames rose up, and Xiao Fengzhuo casually threw the burning talisman paper into the city gate. The moment the talisman paper entered the city gate, it seemed to hit an invisible barrier, and then the flames spread along the invisible barrier to the entire city.

In a moment, the lifeless city seemed to be awakened, and thousands of lights lit up. Pedestrians began to appear on the streets, and the sounds of hawking and singing could be heard. Looking around, it was like a city that never sleeps.

But as the city was awakened, the chilling feeling did not fade away, but became stronger, like a cold poisonous snake crawling along the bones. Some people could not help but shudder and cried out, "What the hell is this place?!"

"Shh..." Xiao Fengzhuo immediately turned around and made a gesture to keep quiet, and reminded in a very soft voice, "Did you see those people coming and going? They are all undead trapped here. Don't let them feel the blood of the living in you - if you don't want to stay here forever."

"Shut your mouth, hold your breath, and go through quietly." Xiao Fengzhuo said without paying attention to the others, and looked at Lu Zhouxue, "Master, let's go."

"Okay." Lu Zhouxue nodded, and looking at Xiao Fengzhuo's ears moving around, she couldn't help but stretched out her hand to pinch them, "Let's go."

The others were still hesitating, for no other reason than that this city made them feel too dangerous, so dangerous that they would rather go back and face the Bamboo Clothed Ghost. Peacock's eyes slid across the faces of the hesitant people, and without saying anything, he quietly followed the three people who left with his puppet.

Lu Zhouxue was not surprised that Peacock would follow him. He simply asked Xiao Fengzhuo about his previous doubts through telepathy: "Why did you ask me to agree to her just now?"

"Mianmian is not curious, this girl asked you to take care of the puppet for her, is she planning something?"

Lu Zhouxue shook his head. He really didn’t care much: “I don’t like to meddle in other people’s business, so I don’t want to care what she’s thinking.”

"Yes, yes, our Mianmian is the coldest and most ruthless." Xiao Fengzhuo was helpless. He said it so confidently. He didn't know who was being so kind. However, he did not expose Lu Zhouxue's duplicity. Instead, he said, "But I want to know what she is going to do."

"why?"

"We can't let her give you another Heartbreak Gu." Xiao Fengzhuo's voice was transmitted into Lu Zhouxue's mind through the secret voice transmission, and it sounded calm and indifferent, "This girl has ulterior motives. She intentionally left the puppet by your side. In addition to testing your identity, she also has other purposes."

Two hundred years ago, Xiao Fengzhuo heard that Lu Zhouxue was dead. If he hadn't been suppressed by Xiao Jin, he would have almost picked up a knife to massacre everyone in Zhongting and Guifu. He was forced to come out of seclusion to investigate the Beihong Mirror, only to find out that it was the damn girl Kongque who had planted the Heartbreak Gu on Lu Zhouxue.

"Mian Mian is kindhearted and won't bother with her, but I can't stand it. I don't know if this girl can leave this Undead City alive. If I don't keep an eye on her and let her die so easily, I'm afraid I'll be so angry that I can't sleep."

Xiao Fengzhuo spoke pitifully, and from his tone it didn't sound like Lu Zhouxue had been poisoned by the heart-breaking poison, but rather like he had suffered a great injustice.

Lu Zhouxue couldn't help but sigh: "Why are you so angry about something that happened two hundred years ago?"

It wasn't that he was extra kind-hearted. He didn't care about being indirectly killed by Peacock. He would definitely settle the cause and effect with Peacock. But she was an insignificant person, so there was really no need for him to be too angry. It would affect his mood. Instead of wasting time on hatred, he might as well coax Xiao Fengzhuo to touch his tail a few more times.

"Mianmian, I saw your death in the sad red mirror." Xiao Fengzhuo suddenly grabbed Lu Zhouxue's hand tightly, his eyes flashing with surging love and hatred, but soon calmed down into a gentle lake with a hint of sorrow.

"But Xiao Jin wouldn't let me come down. He wouldn't let me come down. Do you know how long I walked in the human world before I found you? And then this damn girl actually made your body into a puppet. How could I not be angry?"

Lu Zhouxue looked at the little cat with mandarin duck eyes in front of her and was about to cry. She sighed in her heart and reached out to rub Xiao Fengzhuo's hair: "It's all over, Ah Zhuo, be happy, don't be angry, and don't be sad."

"Mianmian, I desire many things, but I get very few. I only have you." Xiao Fengzhuo's tone suddenly became fragile. He took Lu Zhouxue's hand and placed it on his chest. He said, "Can you feel it? Mianmian, I am not happy, and I can't help being angry."

The vigorous heartbeat passed through his chest and was transmitted to the palm of Lu Zhouxue's hand. The emotions in his heterochromatic eyes were so turbulent that Lu Zhouxue couldn't help but be touched by such directness and passion. He suddenly felt the same way as Xiao Fengzhuo, and then he felt distressed. He said, "I only have you."

"Ha, Mianmian, do you really understand what I mean?" Xiao Fengzhuo silently looked at Lu Zhouxue and laughed. He grabbed the latter's hand with his backhand, and blatantly interlocked their fingers with his sleeves. He stared at her intently and asked, "Do you understand?"

"What are you two doing?" A slightly stiff voice sounded. Upon closer listening, one could discover that the tone was very similar to Lu Zhouxue's.

Xiao Fengzhuo's conversation with Lu Zhouxue was interrupted. He looked at the person who was speaking unhappily, and then frowned. The reason was that the person who was speaking was not any of them, but Peacock's puppet, Lu Zhouxue's former corpse.

This is not good. Xie Huaiyu also had a surprised and solemn look on his face. The puppet gradually became like a human. If it was resurrected from the dead, it would be fine, but the mistake was that the real owner of the body had already been resurrected from the dead and was standing next to it.

So what is the thing that has woken up from the dead body?

"What are you?" Xiao Fengzhuo was used to being unrestrained, so he asked whatever he wanted to know. However, he was not a dead body after all, and he had to worry about leaking blood if he opened his mouth, so he spoke in ventriloquy.

"As for me, my name is Lu Zhouxue, as the master gave me." The puppet wisely did not answer Xiao Fengzhuo's question about whether it was a thing or not, which was considered a clever change of concept.

Xiao Fengzhuo smiled and glanced at the original body beside him when he heard this. Lu Zhouxue thought, you are Lu Zhouxue, then what is he? Oh, he made up a name before, and now he is called Zhou Yuchen.

"Lu Zhouxue? It sounds like the name of a beauty. You look pretty good, but you've lost some of your spiritual energy." Xiao Fengzhuo first praised Lu Zhouxue's good looks, then changed the tone in the second half of the sentence, almost saying that the puppet was just for show.

The other three did not have Xiao Fengzhuo's ventriloquism ability, so they could only keep their mouths shut and pretend to be mute, watching the two "people" talking with their eyes wide open.

The puppet listened to Xiao Fengzhuo's words and slowly broke into a stiff smile on its face. It had been fed by Kong Qing with blood and human lives for many years and had already developed its own intelligence. It was grateful for its master's kindness and naturally obeyed Kong Qing's words, but it would be ferocious towards other people.

"What's the use of having a beautiful appearance? Won't you just be a pile of bones after you die?" The puppet spoke in a grim voice, staring at Xiao Fengzhuo with its eyes, and tried to make an ugly expression of greed and drooling with Lu Zhouxue's cold and beautiful face.

"It's true that beauty lies in the bones, not in the skin. I loved this face so much when it was on Mianmian, but why do I dislike it so much now?" Seeing that the puppet was about to attack, Xiao Fengzhuo still had the mind to send a secret message to make fun of Lu Zhouxue.

"Azhuo, be careful, this thing is different." Lu Zhouxue didn't have time to care about what nonsense Xiao Fengzhuo said. Just a moment ago, he felt something unusual on the puppet.