Water Reflects Peach Blossoms

"I'll take you back." Cheng Huang said, but suddenly his eyes became sharp and he looked towards the door.

In the yard, a woman in an elaborate red dress was standing under a tree. The clear sky was covered by dark clouds, not a single ray of moonlight could be cast, and she was just standing there straight, looking extremely strange.

The woman opened her closed eyes, and golden light shone in them.

Nanzhi felt a pain in her eyes, and then a big hand covered them to block out the pain.

He covered Nanzhi's eyes with his hands, and Chenghuang's pupils also emitted a golden light.

When the light disappeared, he put down the hand that was covering Nanzhi's eyes. Nanzhi and Chenghuang, who temporarily had the ability to see through illusions, saw Li Lun, who was dressed in black and looked particularly strange in the moonlight, like a beautiful female ghost.

"It's you..." Cheng Huang was extremely angry, veins popping out of his forehead: "How dare you lie to me!"

He stood up and stood in front of Nanzhi to face Li Lun, with anger and rage rising uncontrollably.

"I lied to you, so what?" Li Lun raised his lips in a provocative arc, not at all afraid of Cheng Huang's current situation: "Being tricked by me only proves that your brain is not working well, old man."

Before Cheng Huang could get angry, Li Lun instantly appeared in front of Cheng Huang, and the powerful demonic power in his palm suddenly attacked his face!

Cheng Huang crossed his hands to resist, but still could not withstand Li Lun's demonic power. He was instantly knocked against the wall and fell to half-kneel on the ground. As his blood surged, he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Cheng Huang?!" Nanzhi was shocked.

Then she no longer had the energy to pay attention to Cheng Huang. Li Lun had already arrived in front of her, and his tall body completely covered her in his shadow.

Nanzhi tried to retreat with her weak body, but there was a table behind her and she couldn't move back.

"Are you scared of me?" Li Lun squatted down, looking at Nanzhi's face, which looked even more adorable under its paleness, and chuckled softly, "Why aren't you as bold as before?"

As he spoke, he looked at Nanzhi, and his bony hand slowly touched her cheek.

"Don't touch her!"

Cheng Huang roared and used his demonic power to try to force Li Lun back, but he didn't expect that Li Lun could disperse the demonic energy with one hand. Countless vines emerged from the stone brick floor and wrapped around Cheng Huang's wrists and limbs. Regardless of his struggle, they twisted him into a silkworm chrysalis.

Nanzhi was worried about Cheng Huang, so while Li Lun was concentrating on dealing with Cheng Huang, she waved the Huanling Powder hidden in her sleeve towards Li Lun!

A cloud of powder that could render monsters unable to move enveloped Li Lun. When he looked at Cheng Huang, the cruelty in his eyes revealed a hint of a smile, and he looked towards Nanzhi.

"I've already said it, Huanling Powder has no effect on me..."

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly raised his hand and grabbed Nanzhi's wrist as she was attacking him quickly.

Fingers as white as jade and as white as scallions held a short but sharp dagger, and the tip of the knife, flashing with a cold light, was pressing against the cloth on his chest, unable to move forward any further.

Nanzhi's wrist was tightly grasped by Li Lun, and she couldn't struggle free. Her body felt extremely cold and weak.

Her hands and feet were so cold that she felt like she was frozen. The next moment, warmth came from her wrist, which was held by Li Lun, and flowed to every part of her body. Her body, which had been cold just now, suddenly warmed up.

Her body felt warm, and she finally had the strength to speak. Nanzhi looked up at Li Lun, who was squatting in front of her and staring at her, and asked, "What did you do to Cheng Huang? Why did he..."

Forcefully pulling out the dagger from Nanzhi's hand, Li Lun scoffed, "That old thing was taken by you to atone for his sins. He used a huge amount of demonic power to fuse the soul of a dead person with the doll. It consumed a huge amount of demonic power, so it's natural that he has become so weak."

"Zhu Yan only placed Pei Siheng's soul on the puppet, but he already lost a lot of his own demonic power and became weak. What's more, that old man Cheng Huang placed the souls of more than a dozen people on the puppet at once. He is lucky to have survived."

Li Lun kept calling Cheng Huang an old thing and was obviously very contemptuous of him.

“…” Nanzhi looked at Chenghuang, who was wrapped in vines like a silkworm cocoon, in disbelief.

She didn't expect to lose such a huge amount of demonic power this time. If she had known this, she would definitely make a backup plan and ask Zhuo Yichen or Zhu Yan to protect her secretly!

"And you." Li Lun lowered his eyes, his fingers already touching Nanzhi's jade-like cheek, gently caressing it, and whispering to her like a lover: "For these insignificant people, you actually used your own blood to save them. It's simply foolish."

Nanzhi raised her eyes and glared at Li Lun.

Before Li Lun could react, she rushed forward and hit his forehead hard.

A dull, painful crash echoed in the room.

Nanzhi couldn't stop crying because of the pain, and Li Lun's head was also dizzy from the collision.

He grabbed Nanzhi's chin and lifted her up. When he saw her face, which couldn't stop crying and had a red and swollen forehead, his angry eyes tightened and his anger disappeared. Only her eyes, which were filled with water, stubborn, unyielding, and pitiful, remained.

Shen Nanzhi... Could this be his fate?

Li Lun was depressed, but he still put his hand on Nanzhi's forehead and used his magic power to heal her red and swollen forehead.

He was knocked unconscious and his forehead was still hurting, but he did not use his magic power to heal it.

The pain disappeared, and Nanzhi looked at Lilun: "Don't call the kindness in others' hearts stupid. This is hurtful!"

Li Lun: “…”

"You are stubborn." Although he said this, he never mentioned again that Nanzhi's behavior of hurting himself to save others was stupid in his opinion.

He looked at Cheng Huang, a hint of murderous intent in his eyes: "However, thanks to you, you were able to consume almost all of Cheng Huang's demonic power, so that I can kill him effortlessly."

His deal with Cheng Huang must not be known to Zhu Yan and the others, otherwise they would definitely be prepared.

The most urgent task is to kill Cheng Huang, or to make him weak for a short period of time so that he can only sleep in the jade pendant, unable to show up or speak.

"You want to kill him?" Nanzhi was surprised.

"Of course I have to kill." Li Lun let go of the slender wrist he had been holding and stood up. A black robe that was shining with tiny lights and reflected the stars in the entire cold night fell in front of Nanzhi. He raised his hand and made a gesture of preparation for making a seal with his long fingers.

On the eve of Li Lun forming the seal, the vines that were wrapped around Cheng Huang were suddenly broken apart by a burst of demonic power.

Cheng Huang, who broke through the vine cage, had exhausted his last bit of demonic power. He was so weak that he half-knelt on the ground and didn't even have the strength to stand up.

Nanzhi seized the opportunity and threw herself on Li Lun, hugging him tightly and restraining his arms and body with her arms. Unable to wrap her arms around his back, she grabbed his long, smooth, black hair that fell to the ground!

A weak but resolute voice shouted to Cheng Huang, "Go!"

Li Lun felt his scalp was being pulled tight and numb, and he couldn't help but tilt his head upwards according to Nanzhi's force.