Crossing the Sword

The monster regained his composure and said in a tone of more than thirty degrees below zero: "You are the third man I captured who said this. The first two died miserably."

"Oh?" Ye Shisan asked curiously, "Is this sentence your Achilles' heel?"

"This sentence is indeed a taboo of mine, but I don't have any reverse scales. Thank you for comparing me to a dragon. But..." The monster still said coldly: "You are going to die!"

"I say monster, oh, it doesn't seem very polite to call you that. Miss Monster, can you tell me your name? Otherwise I will continue to call you monster." Ye Shisan found a stone to sit on and asked casually.

The monster said coldly: "Aren't you afraid of angering me?"

"Pleasing you won't necessarily bring any benefits." Ye Shisan said nonchalantly, "You'd better tell me your name, Sister Monster."

"Shut up!" the monster Li shouted, "Do you love your wife or not?" The question she asked made Ye Shisan feel a little strange. He thought that there seemed to be some hidden secret behind the monster's desire to capture the groom, and he became more and more curious.

"Ha." Ye Shisan laughed and said, "Do you want me to shut up, or answer your question?"

The monster was speechless, with murderous intent flashing in his eyes, and said, "Answer my question."

Ye Shisan met her gaze and said without giving in, "In exchange, you have to answer a question for me. Do you dare to agree?"

The monster looked at Zhang Tianya with a strange expression and said, "You are still so curious when you are about to die. Fine! You are going to die anyway, so what if I answer you? But you have to answer my question first."

"I don't know." Ye Shisan answered very simply.

"Don't know?" The monster was stunned, and with murderous intent he asked Zhang Tianya: "Then why did you want to marry her?" His voice was even colder than at the beginning.

Ye Shisan replied unmoved, "This is the second question. I will ask two more questions later. Just like before, I will answer your question first. I am only pretending to get married to lure you out. Okay, now it's my turn to ask the first question. Why did you arrest those grooms?"

"Want to deal with me?" The monster said: "From your appearance, although you have practiced martial arts, it seems that you don't even have the ability to escape from me. Hey, you are indeed different from the previous grooms. Are you interested in listening to a story? You..."

Before she could finish, Ye Shisan jumped to the opposite side of her. The speed was not very fast, and she could clearly see every subtle movement of Ye Shisan jumping onto the tree, but she felt that she could not control every movement. This feeling was so real, and the visual contradiction made her chest feel stuffy.

Ye Shisan stood opposite her, his body swaying up and down with the branches, and said with a look of wanting a beating: "Get closer, you can hear more clearly, you can speak now."

"Maybe I will really be killed by him." A strange thought suddenly occurred to the monster's mind. In a duel between masters, it is a taboo to be timid! Although she knew this, her confidence could no longer be restored to its previous fullness. She smiled bitterly and said, "I have suppressed it in my heart for many years. Maybe it will feel better if I speak it out."

Ye Shisan found that the other party had recognized his own strength, and said in a very "tolerant" manner: "I will wait patiently for you to finish speaking."

The monster took a deep breath, sorted out his words and said, "A hundred years ago, there was a rabbit spirit who cultivated into an inner elixir. Her name was Xiaobai."

Ye Shisan thought to himself: "This name is indeed quite 'Xiaobai'." But he did not interrupt and continued to maintain a smile that said "I'd like to hear more about it."

"Xiao Bai likes to eat radishes very much. Relying on her magic power, she often steals radishes from the village near her cave. She is very simple and does not know that stealing is wrong. She only knows that there are a lot of radishes there, enough for her to eat.

Later, a hero who was practicing outside came back, but Xiaobai didn't know about it and continued to steal radishes. The hero discovered his tracks and came to find him.

"You are a beautiful woman, why do you steal?" This was the first sentence the hero said to Xiaobai. Xiaobai didn't understand what he meant, but she liked it very much. But the hero then warned her not to steal carrots again. The man and the demon had a disagreement and started fighting. Although Xiaobai's cultivation was much higher than that of the hero, he didn't know how to fight, so the two could only fight to a draw. "

Ye Shisan interrupted and said, "Then the two of them developed feelings for each other and fell in love from then on."

"How did you know?" the monster asked in surprise.

Ye Shisan smiled and said, "This story is really old-fashioned." Seeing the monster's expression as if he wanted to eat someone, he hurriedly said, "Just pretend I didn't say anything, and continue..."

The monster glared at Ye Shisan and continued, "As you said, they fell in love, and the hero taught Xiaobai a lot of things. But on the second night after their wedding, the hero got into a fight with someone and was seriously injured. In order to save her beloved man, Xiaobai used her inner elixir to heal the hero's injuries without hesitation. But..." She suddenly stopped here, with a painful look on her face.

"But what?" Ye Shisan asked.

The monster's voice was almost squeezed out from between his teeth: "That hero actually took the opportunity to swallow Xiaobai's inner elixir and wanted to kill Xiaobai to eliminate him!"

Ye Shisan felt somewhat helpless and said, "A man like that is worse than an animal. Xiaobai, why are you still calling him a hero? He absolutely does not deserve these two words!"

The monster asked back, "Do you know that I am Xiao Bai in the story?"

Ye Shisan smiled and said, "Listening to your story and looking at your expression, anyone can guess unless they are an idiot. Am I an idiot? No! So I can guess. So what happened later? How did you escape? What was the name of that beast? Did you kill him too?"

Xiaobai shook his head and said, "Fortunately, the inner elixir was still mine at that time. He couldn't control it after swallowing it forcefully, causing chaos in his true energy, and I took the opportunity to escape. But revenge is impossible. That man's name is Susano, who is now a famous master in the Sanmiao Kingdom - Susano the Wind-Breaking Blade. With my current level of cultivation, how could I be his opponent?" The cold face finally revealed a self-deprecating smile.

Ye Shisan looked at Xiao Bai with pity and asked, "So, you think all men in the world are bad and you want to kill all the grooms?"

"You are really good at talking to me." Xiao Bai said with a determined look in his eyes: "I can't let my tragedy happen to other women again!"

"His heart is pitiful, but his crime deserves death!" Ye Shisan made a decision and said, "I won't kill you, but you have to promise me that you won't harm innocent grooms again. Don't generalize, not every man is as shameless as Susano."