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After being severely reprimanded by his master: "The boy won't be allowed to stay", "I didn't find him an apprentice wife, but provoked a male goblin", "It's more cowardly than a turtle, how embarrassing", Cheng En returned to his home wearily. Room.

It was really a wrong decision to tell my master the truth about Tong Yanshu's situation.

At night, the territory of the Demon Realm is pitch black, as if wrapped in darkness, and only oneself can be seen clearly in the endless dark tide.Sunk in the mud, close your eyes and listen to the sound.

Cheng En put away the luminous lamp in the house, and the surroundings were plunged into complete darkness, except for the bright and bright Buddha light of the Buddhist pagoda in the distance.

Cheng Enjing lay down on the bed, and later realized that the dragon-shaped imprint on his wrist was a little hot, for some reason.

He got out of bed, took out the matchbox, and struck a spark.In the corner was a small, ever-burning lamp, lying unused and dusty on the floor.Cheng En dialed the wick and lit it.

A lamp like a bean, he looked at the faint light, felt a little temperature in the wick, and said to himself: "The ever-bright lamp has two layers, the outer layer is filled with water, the inner layer is filled with oil, and the wick is soaked in vinegar. When the oil is exhausted, it will not be extinguished when it is burned." Therefore, it is also called an ever-burning lamp.

Although there are many night pearls in Di City, he still prefers the lamps and fireworks in the mortal world.

The ever-burning lamp was placed on the table, and his wrist was burning. Cheng En murmured into the air, "Come out."

There is no response.

Cheng En lowered his eyelids, and said again: "Don't hide, just come out."

Yan Shu silently appeared, a pure white fairy submerged in the warm light, staring at Cheng En, slowly resisting the coolness around his body.

The magic stick called Yan Shu out, but he didn't actually think about what to call him out for.He sat on this side of the square table, silently staring at the hem of Yan Shu's clothes.

"Just now you said you liked me." Yan Shu cut through An Ning and said, "I'm very happy."

"Yeah." Cheng En raised his head slightly, resting his chin to cover his blushing face, and looked at Yu Heng who was sitting upright, "You never said you liked me."

He was complaining, but unexpectedly, Yan Shu said bluntly: "I like you."

The magic stick was almost on the verge of falling, as if it was eaten away by this sentence, and it seemed to hate him for perfunctory.His heart was sweet and sour, but an old man seemed a bit pretentious when he said these words, he became awkward and uncomfortable: "I..." He wavered and could only shake his head first, "You should tell me first, Did you find him?"

Yan Shu was silent.

Cheng En gave up, shook his whirring head, and said without words: "I should thank you for saving me several times, I should have thought it was you."

Yan Shu said: "Combining sandalwood has no effect."

Cheng En: "...huh?"

After Cheng En left, Yan Shu also used He Sandalwood to retrieve the lost memory. It is not clear whether it was because of restlessness or other reasons, and he never entered the dreamland of the past again.

Unexpected reply, Cheng En turned his head away, "Do you want to stay here to find clues?" Before Yan Shu could reply, he suddenly said sternly: "It's my fault that you lose your temper."

Without looking at Yan Shu's expression, Cheng En poured out the words that he had been pondering for several days, "You don't know the cause and effect. I pushed all the mistakes on you, which seems to be an excuse." What if Yan Shu and the little demon prince broke up peacefully?

"Maybe someone else can handle it more maturely, but I can't." Although he doesn't know what the more mature approach is, anyway, it's not right to just leave.

Shenzhu laughed awkwardly, not knowing how to express it decently: I miss you very much, it's okay if you leave, I'm very generous, but if you want to leave, it's best to notify in advance.

He raised his head, and Yan Shu suddenly came in front of him, only an arm's length away.

His face was a little hot from the light.The words Cheng Tianci told him to snatch Yanshu back fermented in his mind, Cheng En took a deep breath, "Yanshu, are you here for me?"

Caught off guard, a voice outside shouted: "Master, I am back, are you back?"

Xiaobai has always been used to being rude, so when he broke in through the door, he saw Yan Shu hugging Cheng En, nose to nose, stiffened and looked at him.

In the upper heaven, Xiaobai was at odds with Yanshu, and now he felt like he was facing a formidable enemy. He rushed over and shouted at Yanshu: "Why are you haunted again!"

Cheng En stood up and said to the side quickly: "Speed ​​stealth", then walked towards Xiaobai, knowingly asked: "Xiaobai finished talking with the city lord and Wu Tuo?"

On the second day, Cheng En went to Mokanlin to visit Wu Tuo as scheduled.

After receiving Wu Tuo's notice, Yueqian was very happy, and deliberately woke up early in the morning, and took pictures with Cheng En, who had just closed his eyes, from the bed when it was dark.

Really, this mortal is too fastidious, after coming to his demon territory, he will be a sick man and do nothing.Yue Qian thought to herself.

With two dark circles under his eyes, Cheng En walked through the dense magic vines and stood in front of Wu Tuo.

Wu Tuo's residence has been integrated with Mokan Linhun, and the exterior of the building cannot be seen, only a square wooden door and a faint blue night light outside the door, and the rest of the place is full of dense layers of magic vines.Wu Tuo opened the wooden door and led them into a long and narrow corridor.

It was chilly in the corridor, and the stone steps were piled up neatly. After walking for a quarter of an hour, it suddenly became clear that several room-sized cages appeared on the right side of their advancing direction.

Cheng En's first reaction was a prison, and his second reaction was a big iron cage for trapping ferocious beasts.Looking across the row, there is no end in sight. Inside the cage, there are all women in ragged clothes. Although their faces are dirty, they are mostly young women. At this moment, they are all like cats waiting to be slaughtered in a cage, squatting silently. .

When he was still in the mortal world, he passed by a certain place.The local people like to eat cat meat. There are vendors in the street market who put the captured wild cats and domestic cats in iron cages, throw them into boiling water to scald them to death, and then sell them to customers after they are depilated and disemboweled.The cats in those cages all looked like this, with their eyes wide open, their ears drooping and their necks hunched.From birth to death, there will be no meow.

"This, all?" Cheng En was surprised and couldn't help shouting.

Wu Tuo glanced at him, "As you can see, these are puppets."

On the way just now, Cheng En learned about the general characteristics of puppet demons from Yueqian.The monsters regard these women as scourges and avoid them like snakes and scorpions. This is largely because the puppets will cause disasters. If they get involved with puppets, they will die suddenly and drown and be beaten to death by a big monster while walking on the road. Almost.

Cheng En rubbed his brows, and stopped looking at the cage, "Is it possible that they are just ordinary women who strayed into the Demon Realm and mutated with the Demon Clan, so they were passed on as gods and gods?"

Wu Tuo bared, his voice hoarse and deep, "It's not just rumors that puppets cause disasters. The saying that if you stick to them, you will suffer disasters is not an exaggeration or a coincidence, but a fact."

All puppets are bastards, and it will be bad luck to be in the same place with them.This is the truth.

That's why Cheng En didn't refute Yueqian's puppet devil and disaster star theory at first.There are many people in the world who do not believe in ghosts and gods. The so-called fatalism has loopholes that cannot be ignored in the eyes of people who do not believe in Feng Shui.But some disaster-inducing things can indeed damage people's luck, such as inviting ghost stones, acupuncture villains, and Cheng Tianci once taught him to make bad luck charms.There must be spells with similar functions in the devil world.If there really are pure disaster stars in the world, Cheng En will believe it.

"If that's the case, wouldn't we be living targets right now?"

"You can't see it, there is an enchantment outside the prison." Wu Tuo mused, "The origin of the puppet you said is from the mortal world. I have no idea about this, so I reserve my opinion."

Cheng En said: "If the puppet demons really attract disasters, why not send them out of the demon world?" Or find a place and lock them up for a long time.

Wu Tuo: "If you can't send them out, they will come back."

Cheng En didn't understand what it meant to come back.Wu Tuo's voice was hoarse and deep: "Yueqian may not have made it clear that he asked you to solve the puppet matter, and he asked you to discuss how to kill these puppets thoroughly."

"...To kill completely, what do you mean?"

"Literally. Or maybe, you can unravel the reason why the puppets cause disasters, so that they won't continue to bring disasters."

Without paying too much attention to Wu Tuo's last sentence, Cheng En said sharply: "You, have you killed?"

Wu Tuo didn't shy away from it, with a businesslike appearance, "Puppet demons can't be killed. If limbs or heads are removed, they can regenerate, but what regenerates is a sarcoma. Even if the heart is dug out and the internal organs are hollowed out, although they will have A long period of weakness, but regrowth."

He paused, not thinking that what he said was too bloody, "I once threw them into the volcanic rock and pulled them with chains, thinking they were dead, but I didn't expect that black corpse to slowly grow new skin, After half a year, I can run and jump."

"Use ice cubes and throw them into the Bahan Mountain. Ordinary monsters would freeze to death long ago, not to mention puppets who don't have any magic energy at all? But they are powerful. They were frozen at first, and then woke up, lying on the ice. The inside of the pillar was moving around, and the inside was cut with pools of blood. The spells were useless to them."

"I also tried to chop it completely." Wu Tuo turned to Cheng En, making Cheng En's heart shudder. But the small lump at the bottom of the altar grew bigger and bigger, and became a human ball again."

There are more and more puppet demons haunting Dicheng, so much so that Mo Qianshou and the others are terrified when they see a woman walking on the road. Now, unless there are special times, the city lord and the others will not allow them to wear human skin.

Cheng En looked straight at Wu Tuo and asked, "What disasters did they bring?"

Wu Tuo turned his head, revealing a pale chin, "The male monsters around them all died unexpectedly. Since I started to deal with this matter, there have been three plagues in Dicheng, nine ground cracks, and seventeen monster rampages. 33 Time," he paused, "the meteorite."

Yun Gui, who had been as quiet as a chicken from the beginning until now, suddenly said, "After locking these puppet monsters in, Dicheng has regained its calm."

"..."

Cheng En suggested that these puppets should be locked up, but Wu Tuo was indifferent to this, and only said: "There are not many people who can't be locked up, this enchantment is already approaching the critical value of damage."

"Wait, explain clearly, they will come back, what do you mean?" Cheng En said.

Wu Tuo sighed, "Literally, they like to get involved with other demons, especially male demons."

If you want to intervene in this matter, you must first clarify where the puppet came from, but Wu Tuo can't tell where the puppet came from.For convenience, Yueqian and Yungui took Cheng En to a study.

The study is not big, it is a small side room in Wu Tuo's residence, and there is a bookshelf inside, where some ancient scrolls and books are placed.There are several large boxes next to it, full of Buddhist scriptures.

Cheng Enfu is in his heart, Wencha is fighting, this is the time to start Wencha.

Yun Gui pointed, "Those Buddhist books are all left by Princess Lili, so it doesn't matter much."

Yueqian has always been concerned about Cheng En's progress, and pointed to the small bookshelf: "Old Huang, the information of the entire devil world is here, you can read it clearly!"

"... the information of the entire demon world?" Just a small bookshelf?

Yue Qian: "That's right, you have to work for at least five days, thank you for your hard work. But don't worry, after your precious apprentice beat us up, we have already promised that we will not attack you." He shoved Yun Gui A hand, signaled him to express.

Yun Gui still had a noble and glamorous look, "Don't worry, you don't smell at all, I'm not interested in you."

Cheng En: "..."

Cheng En: Should I say thank you?

This bookshelf is not considered too big. There are a total of 26 ancient books, large and small, but obviously they are rarely read.

Among them, there are five books, all of which are recorded by the demon king Jun Qu.There is also a scroll, which contains several portraits of Princess Lili.On the bookshelf, there are ten big heads, all of which are detailed medical explanations left by the princess.

Cheng En flipped through the picture scroll of Princess Lili, his heart trembled, and he tsk-tsk praised: "Your princess really looks like a fish and a wild goose, you are ashamed of the moon."

Mentioning this, Yueqian looked very excited, and immediately bragged for Cheng En, "Our princess's reputation is well-known overseas." He raised his thumb, "There is no such person in the whole world." .”

Cheng En stopped talking to him, and glanced away.Chronicles of the Demon Realm's Customs and Culture, two volumes.Unsolved Mysteries of the Demon World, three volumes.Encyclopedia of Erotic Poses in the Demon Realm, one volume.

The magic stick looked at an orange oil lamp with relish.Cheng En didn't understand some characters of the Mozu, so he relied on Yueqian, a literate and educated bull demon, to translate for him.

In addition, there are saliva notes from the previous demon kings.Thin, only two or three sheets of paper, a total of three.When it comes to the era of chaos, there is such a sentence in the autobiography of the first demon king: the old man stabbed us in the back and stuffed us into this place where birds don't lay eggs.

Cheng En pulled the drowsy Yueqian, "What do you mean by the period of chaos?"

"Let me think about it..." Yueqian touched her head and slowly turned it around, "Unexpected, do you know?" Then she turned to Yungui in the corner.

As soon as Maverick came in, he nestled in the corner, flipping through several boxes of Buddhist scriptures stacked there.At this moment, he raised his head and said slowly: "I don't know much about it. It is rumored that during the chaos period, the heavens separated the three realms and locked us here. The puppets appeared later."

Cheng En nodded, twisted his sore neck, and continued to look at a book——The Encyclopedia of Demon World Spells, Volume [-].

This volume records the magic formations produced in the devil world, covering thousands of kinds, which is very thick.Cheng En's eyes lit up, and he felt that he had finally discovered some meaningful records.Only unexpected, nothing impossible.

Great Compassion, Le Ren, Common Soul, Ghost Saber, Ji Sha...

Originally, he wanted to follow the table of contents to the back to see the details, but Cheng En turned upside down, but couldn't find the page number.Yawning, he had to call Yueqian again, "Why can't I find a further description of this here?"

But no response.

Cheng En, with a tired face, raised his head, and saw a Buddhist scripture on the big bull's head, purring a bunch of times.

Yun Gui in the corner stood up, "Can't find anything?"

Cheng En pointed, "Look, for example, I want to find this, Tianlu Formation—the devil's flesh and blood can destroy the bones of the immortal clan and win people. But later," he flipped through carefully, "how to operate it, specifically What do you mean, I didn't mention it at all, is this just a fragment?"

Yun Gui succinctly said: "It just doesn't exist."

"No?"

"Look at it," Yun Gui paused while pointing at the cover, "The Complete Catalog of Magical Techniques in the Demon Realm."

"Then, where can I find specific operating procedures or detailed explanations? Just this one sentence is too easy to be misled. If the flesh and blood of the demons are so powerful, they would have already lost their braids in heaven."

Yun Gui folded his arms, "The records of the entire demon clan are here, and you have to ask Wu Tuo for the rest."

This calf was never easy to get along with him, so Cheng En decided not to ask any more questions.Yun Gui also went back to the corner and continued to read Buddhist scriptures.After a long while, Yun Gui suddenly said: "Why do you continue to search for puppet demons?" In his eyes, this old Huang was brought here by force by Yueqian, and Cheng En could not decide, that's why Cheng En came to the demon world.It was only later that they realized that this old Huang and Chen Yongguan City Lord were in a master-student relationship, and they could have patted their butts long ago, but they still stayed.

"Probably because I'm idle and curious." Cheng En said sincerely.

It's not clear whether Xiao Niu accepts his point of view, Cheng En listened to Yun Gui and said, "Although you look meek and nervous, you actually like to die."

Not knowing how to answer, Cheng En paused.

Yun Gui: "And the ability to adapt is a little crazy. I understand the rules of dealing with things in the mortal world. You are not a heinous person. If other people heard Wu Tuo treating those puppets like this, they would have jumped out and scolded Wu Tuo for a few blocks. But you didn't, you quietly accepted the reality."

Cheng En chuckled, "Should I jump out and scold Wu Tuo?"

Yun Gui continued: "Do you agree with Wu Tuo's approach?"

"not agree."

Yun Gui clapped his hands, "That's it."

"I just think it's useless to criticize something that has already happened. Besides," Cheng En paused, "neither in the name of good nor in the name of evil can really restrain others."

"So you actually look down on those who jump out?"

"will not."

"Hmph, so don't you just stand by and watch?"

"Nor will it be," he said firmly.At first, he was just curious, but after seeing the puppets, Cheng En knew that he had to save them.

"You are a person who has no position. It's nice to be such a person, but you can't please yourself." Yun Gui finally said angrily.

Cheng En: "..."

The magic stick blinked, "Thank you for your compliment."

Yun Gui: "..."

The three of them stayed in the ear room for two days to burn the ointment and the sundial. After going through all the written records, they went out to join Wu Tuo.

In the other ear room, the tables were filled with all kinds of poisons and liquids and powders of different colors. Wu Tuo stood behind the console, not knowing whether he was refining medicine or alchemy.Under the big black cloak, almost merged with the darkness, Wu Tuo didn't look up, "Got a clue?"

Cheng Endao: "The puppets first appeared in the late stage of chaos, that is, after the immortals imprisoned the demons into the gap in the alien world." Although the reason is unknown, judging from the results, the immortals did take action and separated from the demons.

"What is certain is that during the period of chaos, the territories of the fairy world and the demon world should have been integrated, not two separate parallel worlds. The records of the heavenly court and the legends of the mortal world have also confirmed this point."

Wu Tuo: "It's well known."

Cheng En raised his eyes, "I have an extremely bold speculation."

"There are two types of spells recorded in the catalog of magic spells, Jisha and Tianlu. The former can be made into a taboo thing used to curse others, while the latter can be transformed into a human by using mixed immortals and demons. So I guess, puppet demons It is the hidden pile left by the demons when the heavenly court closed the gap in the alien world."

Dividing the other world will never be simple, and it must be combined with the inside and the outside.And the timing of the puppet demon's appearance was really just right.As for how to mix the qualities of both immortals and demons, he still has no idea.

Wu Tuo chuckled, "You can't take it for granted. As you said, why are all the puppets female? Those who go to heaven to fight are all men, which doesn't make sense."

Cheng En didn't want to understand this either, "But if we reason like this, it can not only explain why the demons have hated the puppet demons for years, but also explain why the puppet demons are demons, but they have no demonic energy."

If the Heavenly Court really sent a team of soldiers and horses down, it would be difficult for these immortals remaining in the Demon Realm territory to survive under the iron hooves of the demon army after sealing the two places.In order to teach these fairy women who died righteously, what would the first generation of demons do?

killed?too cheap.They will smash their pride, rub them into the sand, bear years of spurning, but they cannot die easily.

So what happens to these fairies?Losing mana, they will willingly make themselves into puppets of resentment, which in turn will harm the demon world.

"If the fairy clan really sends a fairy clan down, it will definitely be a female fairy." Wu Tuo said to himself, "However, knowing how they came here is of no help. It is of no benefit to the current situation."

Cheng En nodded slightly, "Indeed. I want to meet Jun Shao."

Seven Unsolved Mysteries of the Demon World No. 30, the black demon Jun Shao met a puppet demon and survived.