Qixuan

Ji Chen had a dream, which happened before he was ten years old.

Ji Chen lived with his mother as long as he could remember, and was taken back to Qiyun Mountain by his father when he was ten years old. Before that, he spent a period of miserable escape.

Just like a young child who has lost the protection of his parents, he will inevitably be hunted down by natural enemies.

Ji Chen is a relatively special existence, Moxiu thinks he is a scum, and Zhengdao thinks he is a stain.He struggled to survive in this crack for three years, dragging a tattered body.

"Mother, these are the fruits I just picked." Five-year-old Ji Chen took out a few wild fruits from his arms and put them on the table.

Yu Que rubbed Ji Chen's head with a smile, "Ah Chen knows it hurts my mother and kissed her."

Ji Chen looked up at Yu Que, and asked childishly, "Mother, when will Daddy come to see us?"

Yuque wiped every fruit clean with a handkerchief, picked up a fruit and said, "Wait until He Hai is clear."

Ji Chen shook his head in bewilderment, and with some difficulty he opened the bench and sat on it, "Mother, what does He Qing Haiyan mean?"

Yu Que patiently explained: "It's the time when the world is peaceful."

Ji Chen curled his lips, "Mother just said that the world is not peaceful, but what about rivers and rivers? Mother, do you think the world is not peaceful now? Has Dad seen me? Do you like me?"

Yuque knocked on Ji Chen's forehead, "What are you thinking about all day, kid? Of course your father likes you. Your father got your name. The word "Chen" comes from a special meaning: 'Where Beichen is, where the stars are. The Pivot of Heaven'."

Ji Chen touched a fruit, ate it and said, "Wonderful, why don't you call it Ji BeiJi, it's simple and clear."

Yu Que pretended to be angry and said: "Stinky boy, what did I tell you, you can't eat or sleep without talking."

Ji Chen shrunk his neck, hugged his head and complained: "Mother, you have already said that the heart is the most important thing in life. I want to talk while eating right now."

Yu Que reached out and touched Ji Chen's face.

Ji Chen is extremely attached to this gentle movement, it reminds him all the time that this gentle and vicious woman is his mother, and the warmth she brings to him is unique in the world.

Yu Que said softly: "Then do you really understand the meaning of 'heart'?"

Ji Chen lowered his eyes and said: "Mother, you told me that there are too many entanglements in life, sickness and pain, life and death, and entanglement of grievances and grievances. All these must be taken up, let go, seen through, and thought through."

"But after so many years, I can't understand what you said to me more and more. How can I be able to afford it, let it go, see it through, and think it through?"

Yu Que looked at Ji Chen worriedly, and she opened her arms to embrace Ji Chen, "My child, you are naturally casual, as long as you know what is right and wrong, and live comfortably, mother will be at ease."

Ji Chen's throat was tight, and his voice was trembling, "Then...why are you still casting that blood curse on me? I don't understand and can't figure it out."

"Mother!" Ji Chen suddenly sat up from the bed, and slammed back down heavily.

Ye Feng jumped out from the ring, he stretched out his hand to help Ji Chen pull the quilt and said, "My lord, you finally woke up."

Ji Chen rubbed his face, all the blood on his body was cleaned up, and he also put on a new underwear, "I..." Hearing the hoarse voice, it seemed like two steel plates were rubbing against each other, even Ji Chen himself stunned.

Yan Heng handed over a glass of water, Ji Chen smiled and drank the water with his hand.

Yan Heng said: "You have slept for four days, and it is almost the first day."

Ji Chen patted his chest, and said happily: "It's okay, it's okay, I haven't slept for a few years."

Yan Heng said softly: "I'm relieved when you wake up. There has been another murder case in the past few days, and the uncle's place is too busy, so I have to go over to help."

Ji Chen smiled and waved his hands, "Go, go, I'm fine."

Yan Heng put his fingers on Ji Chen's wrist, and left after making sure that his pulse subsided and nothing happened.

Ye Feng looked at Yan Heng's back with a solemn expression, "My lord, you...you should just play around."

Ji Chen got up and moved a few times, his body joints that had been lying down for four days made bursts of anger, he glanced at Ye Feng strangely, "Your question is very strange."

Ye Feng said sharply: "My lord, you have to understand one thing, you are different from him."

Ji Chen drank another glass of water, thought for a while and explained: "Actually, I shouldn't have gone to Fengxue Valley ten years ago. My mother told me since I was a child that the heart is the most important thing. I have always understood it as the thoughts in my heart. Follow Heart to go. Ten years ago, I thought Yan Heng was very good-looking, young and old-fashioned, no matter how interesting he looked, I liked it unconsciously."

Ye Feng stammered and said: "But...he is an orthodox monk and a hell envoy from the demon world, not to mention that both of you are men, considering the current relationship between orthodox and demonic cultivators, it is impossible for the two of you of."

Ji Chen rubbed the center of his brows, and said exhaustedly: "It's over? I'm short-sighted and can't see such long-term things. I like Yan Heng, it doesn't matter whether he is a man or a woman, even if he is a young, A little monster with a human form, I saw him one day, and I thought he was meeting my appetite and suiting my wishes, so I liked it. It doesn’t matter if you think I’m promiscuous or not, at least I only care about it now. please him."

Ye Feng sighed helplessly, "Is it that simple?"

In Ye Feng's perception, Ji Chen hadn't had a few days of comfortable life. He finally grew up, his wings hardened, and he kicked the iron plate of Yan Heng again. Ye Feng really didn't want to see Ji Chen again because He thinks that Ji Chen should live freely and unrestrainedly in his life.

Ji Chen comforted: "How can this kind of thing be so complicated? Don't worry, I have a sense of proportion."

Standing at the door, Yan Heng recounted Ji Chen's words in his heart, and then left contentedly.

Ye Feng asked: "So, you have taken the risk of going to Qixuan Mountain many times to read the scrolls as an excuse, and sneaking out behind the back of the Lord is also looking for him?"

Ji Chen thought about it carefully, and said with a smile: "It's not an excuse, it's really to find something, the reason why I haven't acted until now is because I am a short-lived ghost, and I can't catch up with others for the rest of my life, Yan Heng still has a long way to go. Besides, Qiyun Mountain has been played by me all over the place, and occasionally I go down the mountain to look at the beauties, how can I say that I sneaked out behind my father's back?"

Ji Chen stretched out his hand to open the window, the cold wind blew him away, Ji Chen suddenly felt that people are really strange things, even a short-lived ghost wants to wishful thinking, and the growth trend of that Selaginella tree is no longer under his control That's right, that person's every frown, smile, and every gesture is his nourishment.

I wish I could hold that man in my arms and kiss him enough to relieve the annoying growth of that Selaginella.

Ji Chen continued: "By the way, I haven't asked you what happened this time."

Ye Feng thought for a moment, then he stretched out his hand and pinched the center of his eyebrows, "I can't remember. I can only remember that I noticed Gu Muyi's aura on Beiyan Mountain, and I chased after her. The one behind..."

Ji Chen frowned, put his hand on Ye Feng's shoulder and probed for a moment, then wondered: "The memory has been erased, how is it possible?!"

Ye Feng smiled bitterly: "It seems to be the case..."

Ji Chen patted his forehead in embarrassment, "Let me think about it again and see if there is any way to help you recover. By the way, sister Bai didn't notice anything."

Ye Feng shook his head, "No, Mr. Yan has been covering for you. By the way, you have seen the person who died recently, and it was Li Cheng who followed Gongsun Yan."

"Li Cheng?" Ji Chen recalled it carefully, and said with a sneer, "Is it the one who bullied Lin Ning? It's a hard life, a casual cultivator followed behind the demon cultivator all day long, and in the end he didn't even know how he died."

"But..." Ye Feng said, "Gongsun Yan seems to have disappeared."

Ji Chen waved his hand and said: "Probably I have a guilty conscience, I have no face to stay here, don't worry about him. What about the Qin family?"

"Same as usual."

Ji Chen rubbed his chin and didn't speak, after a while the veins on his forehead burst out.

Ye Feng thought that he was not feeling well, so he hurriedly asked, "Master, is there something wrong with you?"

Ji Chen nodded solemnly and said, "A little bit, my stomach is not feeling well, it's very uncomfortable..."

Ye Feng frowned and said, "Why?"

Ji Chen glanced at Ye Feng tiredly, opened his hands and patted him on the back, sighed: "You elm-headed, I'd better go out for food by myself, after all, it's really uncomfortable to be hungry for four days. "

Ji Chen glanced at Ye Feng with an expression of "You can do it yourself", then tore off the outer robe from the hanger and put it on.

As soon as Ji Chen opened the courtyard door, he almost collided with the oncoming boy.

The little servant hurriedly helped the food box, "Oh, sir, please slow down, I am a guy from Dongfengju, and this is a boy in white who asked me to bring it to you."

Ji Chen took out a few pieces of silver from his pocket, "Here, meal money."

The boy smiled and handed it back to Ji Chen, "Young master, that young master in white has already given the money."

Ji Chen felt that the corners of his mouth were about to grin to the back of his head, "It's time to run errands, it's been hard work."

The servant took the money with a smile, "Young master, eat well, I'll go first."

Ji Chen hummed a ditty and went back to the room with the lunch box in hand. Ye Feng stood there and didn't know what he was thinking.

"What are you thinking about? So engrossed?" Ji Chen put the lunch box on the table, and took out all the vegetables inside. They were all vegetarian dishes, the kind that didn't even have any meat scraps.

Ye Feng asked: "Is this from Mr. Yan?"

"Well, it was delivered by the boy from Dongfengju." Ji Chen rummaged through the lunch box with a sad face, and at least found a pot of lukewarm ghosts at the bottom.

Ji Chen took a sip from the cork and sighed: "Northern wild goose spirits make ghosts worry about it, Gu said: 'Ghosts worry about it'."

Ye Feng went to the kitchen to get a pair of chopsticks, and when he came back, he saw Ji Chen's face as if he was facing an enemy, and knew that he was the kind of person who would not like meat, so he persuaded him: "I haven't eaten for four days, eat some light food good."

Ji Chen picked up a chopstick of vegetables, swallowed them and said, "Then I will become a sheep, baa~"

Ji Chen ate resignedly, halfway through the meal, the jug was already empty.

Ji Chen complained: "It's just so much wine, it's not enough to stuff the teeth."

Ye Feng persuaded: "Drink less."

Ji Chen raised his eyebrows, he suddenly remembered the little agreement with Lin Ning, because Yan Heng was standing at the door that day, Lin Ning seemed to be jealous of him, and told himself to come back in two hours later, she had something to do To tell myself.

Ji Chen licked his teeth, it has been four days, it is no longer a matter of two hours.

According to Lin Ning's temperament, the anger about Ji Chen's breaking the appointment must have burned through Tianlinggai.

Ji Chen casually wiped his mouth, threw away his chopsticks and hurried out, "I'll go to Lin Ning's place."

Before Ye Feng could react, Ji Chen had already disappeared into the yard.

Lin Ning put an exquisitely carved wooden box under the bed. It was almost the first day, and it was bustling everywhere outside.Lin Ning suddenly felt that the small house that was originally crowded with four people had become empty, and the emptiness made people flustered intermittently.

A knock on the door interrupted Lin Ning's thoughts, "Miss Lin, it's me, Ji Chen."

Lin Ning came out of the room and opened the courtyard door. She glared at Ji Chen and said, "Master, you still know to come. I thought you have forgotten the time."

Ji Chen sneered and said, "It's my fault. I was too busy a few days ago and forgot about it. I don't know why Miss Lin came to see me?"

Lin Ning invited Ji Chen in, "I just thought of something about my sister."

Ji Chen said: "Have you told the people who came to your house a few days ago?"

Lin Ning said loudly: "How is it possible, they are the same people as the Qin family, they both eat people and don't spit out their bones!"

Ji Chen comforted with a smile: "Okay, they eat people without spit out bones, tell me what you think of."

Lin Ning straightened out his thoughts and said, "My sister was in a trance for a few days before the accident. She told me quietly that she saw a ghost when she was cleaning the backyard of Qin's house, and then Master Qin ordered someone to beat me up. My sister gave me a meal, and told them all servants are not allowed to approach the backyard again."

Ji Chen deliberately lowered his voice and said: "It seems that there is really a ghost in the Qin family's backyard."

Lin Ning turned pale, "Young master, don't scare me."

Ji Chen raised his eyebrows and said, "No, people are reincarnated after death, so there are no ghosts."

Lin Ning bit his lower lip, hesitated for a while and said: "To tell you the truth, I have also encountered ghosts. When I was young, my family was poor. My sister and I often went to the back to dig up the funeral objects of the dead... to exchange money. .”

Ji Chen pretended to be surprised and said: "You are too courageous, you are so courageous and afraid of ghosts?"

"I'm afraid, I'm terribly afraid." Lin Ning whispered: "I haven't seen it before, and I will tell myself not to believe it, but after I have seen it, I can no longer comfort myself. After all, I have really seen it."

Ji Chen let this topic go with a laugh, but he was surprised that the Lin sisters actually have yin and yang constitutions, and they are born with good materials for cultivating ghosts. It seems that the essence of the problem has returned to the Lin couple.

Ji Chen asked, "Why do you only think of telling me about this now?"

Lin Ning squeezed the corner of his clothes, and said tremblingly, "Because... because, just before you came a few days ago, I saw a ghost again, so... I remembered this matter."

Ji Chen said in surprise: "I saw a ghost again, you have run into ghosts too many times."

Lin Ning didn't pay attention to Ji Chen's joke, she continued: "One night about five days ago, I was sorting out the things at home in the yard, flipping through my mother's poetry album, and then suddenly heard a burst of crying. I thought someone's child was crying, so I didn't pay much attention to it. Who knew that the crying became louder and louder, and it lasted for about a quarter of an hour. I wondered why no one coaxed the child when it was crying? Who knows ...as soon as I looked up..."

When Lin Ning said this, he glanced at the gate of the courtyard.

Ji Chen also looked over, Lin Ning's house was relatively simple, and the edge of the yard was surrounded by green bricks. It may not be completely surrounded due to money problems, and the gaps were patched up with a group of bamboo poles.

And the place Lin Ning looked at happened to have a bamboo pole.

Lin Ning continued: "I saw a white figure in that place, it was looking at me and crying, the moment I saw it, it suddenly laughed, the corners of its mouth went behind its ears, and I yelled He ran into the house with a sound, and hid until dawn. And... and just... last night, I also... saw it again."

Ji Chen touched the corner of his mouth.

Lin Ning probably used all his strength to say these words, and Ji Chen found that her lips were biting white.

Ji Chen asked: "What did the ghost you saw last night look like?"

Lin Ning shook his head, "I didn't look carefully, it's too scary."

Ji Chen asked: "You said just now that you were reading a poem written by your mother, what kind of poem is it?"

Lin Ning thought for a while and said: "Your face is easy to pass away, and your youth is easy to grow old. The peach blossoms know me, and the flowing water flows eastward; the white bones don't know me, and the three-foot yellow spring is often buried in the ground."

Ji Chen's thoughts became clear in an instant, isn't "Peach Blossom" the ghost-faced sage who was once in full bloom and then disappeared.According to legend, this ghost-mask sage is so beautiful that she is called "ghost-mask" because her appearance is astonishing, and because she is a ghost cultivator, she can't be called "immortal". She took the word "ghost-mask" on her own .

The benevolence of the doctor, the rejuvenation of the skillful hand, is how the nickname of the ghost-faced master comes from.The ghost-faced sage once rescued Nine-Tails Immortal Fairy, and Nine-Tails Immortal Fairy used the jade flute to blackmail Ji Chen because she couldn't come forward to repay the kindness back then, so she asked Ji Chen to help Lin Ning.

If Immortal Fairy with Nine Tails came, then Beiyan City would be very lively, Yaojing, Qiyun Mountain, Qixuan Mountain, Ghost Cultivator would all come together, so it would not conform to the principle of the Yaozu to escape from the world.

In terms of emotion and reason, this is considered to be a clear explanation, and Ji Chen plans to send the Buddha to the west to help people to the end.

Ji Chen said with a smile: "Your mother really deserves to be a talented woman. I don't know where her face is, but Taohua still smiles at the spring breeze. I admire it."

Lin Ning laughed happily, her cheeks were pink, revealing two small dimples.

She stroked the broken hair by her ears, and said in a low voice, "Master Ji, can you tell me who killed my sister?"

Ji Chen responded casually: "Soon, I thought it was the one I met a few days ago, but according to what you said, I have some doubts again."

He took out a piece of talisman paper from his pocket and handed it to Lin Ning, "Amulet, the town house will be safe, and children will not be deceived."

After Ji Chen finished speaking, he blinked at Lin Ning.

Lin Ning accepted the talisman and said shyly, "Thank you, Mr. Ji."

Ji Chen said: "I'll go first, after all I can't stay longer at a girl's house."

When Yan Heng saw Ji Chen coming out of Lin's house, he immediately went up to greet him, and asked, "Why did you come out before your body recovered?"

Ji Chen leaned on Yan Heng's body and said, "If you don't tell me, I haven't felt it yet. Once you say it, I feel dizzy. Hey, little beauty, why do you have two heads?"

Yan Heng supported Ji Chen, he knelt down in front of Ji Chen and said, "Come on, I'll carry you back."

Ji Chen's eyes were bent into a line with a smile, and he lay on Yan Heng's body with peace of mind, "I'm actually treated so well, what kind of incense do you usually use?"

Yan Heng said: "There is a cold pond at the gate of Tianji, and this kind of green lotus grows on it. My senior sister will use the green lotus inside to make incense, and there is also a peach grove there, I will take you to see it when I have time."

Ji Chen put his chin on Yan Heng's shoulder, and sniffed the light but not greasy smell, feeling very at ease.

Ji Chen yawned, and unconsciously rubbed his face against Yan Heng's shoulder, "It must be delicious to pickle the peach blossom candy, and the wine is also delicious..."

Yan Heng laughed softly, and said softly, "Go to sleep."

Ji Chen nodded sullenly, closed his eyes and said, "Where did you find Li Cheng?"

Yan Heng replied: "At the foot of Beiyan Mountain."

Ji Chen said: "That Li Cheng was with a magic cultivator named Gongsun Yan before, Gongsun... um... Gongsun Yan is a relatively thin... white-faced scholar, hehe, it should be Gongsun... Yuebai's nephew? Nephew ? Son? It’s possible anyway.”

Yan Heng smiled and said, "Does what you say count?"

Ji Chen lay on Yan Heng's back, listening to his deep voice, his consciousness became more and more blurred, he wondered: "Didn't I sleep for four days? Why am I still so sleepy? Does what I say count? "

Yan Heng repeated the words he heard: "Even if I'm a little monster with the beginning of spiritual wisdom and human form, as long as it suits your heart, you will be happy with me."

Ji Chen yawned. In fact, he only heard some small and broken words. He tried to refresh his mind and only heard something like "spiritual enlightenment", "heart", and "heart joy", so he asked casually, "What are you talking about?" Woolen cloth?"

Yan Heng smiled and said, "Me too, and I want to be by your side often."

Ji Chen chuckled, and said in a daze, "Then I am too."

Yan Heng smiled and lowered his head to kiss Ji Chen's exposed wrist, feeling great satisfaction in his heart.

In the dark stone room, Gongsun Yan huddled in the corner covered in blood. He looked up at the monks killed by him around him, and simply closed his eyes, out of sight and out of mind.

Gongsun Yuebai angrily walked over and pulled him up from the ground, and scolded: "Look at your current state, you are really embarrassing to our Gongsun family!"

Gongsun Yan was pulled up by her, he looked at Gongsun Yuebai with an incredulous face, pulled her hand away and said: "Auntie, look at what you are talking about, I have already done what you asked, didn't I?" ?"

Gongsun Yuebai gritted her teeth and said: "You are only afraid of becoming like this after killing a few monks. If you are asked to follow the ghost king to guard one side in the future, can you afford it?"

Gongsun Yan insisted: "Did I say that I was afraid? You said that as long as I meet your requirements, you will not take care of my affairs. What about now? You have restricted me from making friends. Aunt, Li Cheng Did you kill it?"

Gongsun Yuebai said: "So what, he is just a useless casual cultivator, what's the use of keeping it?"

Gongsun Yan said angrily: "Auntie, you are too much! He is my friend, a friend who does not dislike me as a demon cultivator!"

Gongsun Yuebai glared at Gongsun Yan and said, "What? Does being a demon cultivator embarrass you? Your father and mother are both demon cultivators, so you are destined to be a demon cultivator! The reputation of the Gongsun family cannot be ruined by you inside."

Gongsun Yan said in a high voice: "Don't you ruin the reputation of Gongsun's family now that you have taken refuge in the King of Ghosts? How did they pass it on in the first place?" "Auntie, isn't what you're doing now betraying Qiyun Mountain?"

Gongsun Yuebai said angrily: "Shut up, you should reflect on yourself here recently, don't go out to fool around anymore!"

Gongsun Yan watched Gongsun Yuebai leave with a flick of his sleeves, and punched the stone wall. He dragged the surrounding corpses and threw them to the corner, shouting, "What is this? What are you?!"

Gongsun Yan let out a vent and leaned against the wall weakly.