One hundred and sixty-seventh chapter: Confessions
The strong wind suddenly stopped.
Mu Wan and the monster looked at Qingnu together. Her face was solemn, and there was an indescribable awe all over her body. The monster suddenly looked like a mouse seeing a cat, motionless and losing all its strength.
"You. Do you remember me..." She said tremblingly, "We, we have met, I am Yue, I..."
"Where did you come from, a monster, and you dare to act so recklessly here?"
Qingnv said coldly, making Yu'e freeze on the spot. She wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Qingnv again.
"How did you get in here? Qinglian Town is surrounded by a natural barrier. Only humans and the Six Paths of Impermanence can come in. Unless...you break a barrier."
"I'm not, I didn't mean it!" Yue'e hurriedly defended, "I just followed the breath, and disappeared when I went to a certain place... I guess there is a barrier, so..."
Mu Wan was speechless. The monster was so aggressive just now that she thought there would be a fierce battle. But for some reason, she was so panicked when she saw Qingnv. If she simply explained it by the majesty of the goddess, it didn't seem to make sense.
And who is Yu E chasing? It seems that she can destroy even the boundary. She is indeed an amazingly powerful opponent. Fortunately, he did not fight her alone.
But, is Qinglian Town really hidden? According to Qingnv, it is still a natural barrier, not a man-made one.
"Sir, please listen to me..."
Before Yue'e could finish speaking, Mu Wan saw Qingnv suddenly disappear from there. Looking back, she had appeared in front of Yue'e, face to face, her movements were incredibly fast. Qingnv stretched out her hand to strangle her slender body.
neck, looking down at her from a slightly elevated angle.
"Since you can come in, it proves that you are... very strong?"
Mu Wan saw that where Qingnu was pinching her, there was a red light in her hands. This halo wrapped around Yu'e's neck, like a seal, confining all her power. At least it seemed that no matter how she
He couldn't use any strength, he just held Qingnv's hand in vain, looking helpless and pitiful.
"No, I - ahem, um..."
Qingnv's hand became harder, and Mu Wan even began to worry that her head would really fall off. As soon as she took a step forward, Qingnv stretched out her other arm to stop her. Qingnv was closer to Yue's face.
Suddenly, a hot oppressive feeling came from above, and Mu Wan vaguely heard her threatening something fiercely with a lowered voice.
"You'd better restrain yourself... What are the rules of the human world? The ones that include humans and monsters... Even if you are a subject of one country, you need permission to enter the boundaries of another country, right? Even animals have violated the other country's borders.
You also have to pay a price for your territory. Since you are a monster, it doesn’t matter even if you are eaten, right?”
Yao'e struggled, unable to utter any words, and could only hiss. The tentacles could not help trembling, and the already large eyes became more prominent on her small face, revealing dense,
The outline of a compound eye. She wanted to flap her wings, but the strange red light was wrapped around it, making it difficult for her to even vibrate slightly.
The nails dug into her neck, and the red and green liquids mixed together and condensed into a disgusting brown-black color. Drop by drop stuck to her clothes, fell to the ground, and melted through.
Mu Wan took two steps back.
For some reason, although the young girl in front of her didn't make her feel strange, it still gave her a kind of fear - a familiar fear.
Qingnv glanced sideways at the person behind her and let go of her hand.
"Go away. Go back to where you came from."
After regaining her freedom, Yu'e knelt on the ground, trying hard to breathe in the fresh air. She touched her neck with both hands, and there were still a few wisps of black smoke coming out of the wound. But after a while, those slender lacerations began to heal slowly.
. She stood up staggeringly and opened her mouth slightly, as if she wanted to say something more, but was ruthlessly interrupted by Qingnv.
"roll!"
There was an irregular ball of frost and snow on her raised hand, floating and dancing, and she hit the ground at Yu'e's feet with her hand. It was like a snowball was smashed on the ground, sputtering out broken white snow. But the ground over there
It cracked, and the thick ice spread rapidly along the cracks, freezing all the grass and rocks in its path. Yu'e got up in a panic, raised her huge and beautiful wings, and escaped along the sky beside the pool.
The frost spread to the edge of the lotus pond, but did not continue to freeze. It seemed to be submerged in magma, causing inexplicable fire to stop spreading.
"this……"
Mu Wan was too surprised to react to all this. She had many things to ask, but she didn't know what to say first.
"she……"
"Why doesn't she fly across the water? I told you, have you forgotten? This pool cannot be crossed in ordinary ways."
Qingnv picked up a stone and turned it twice with one hand, as if something had been injected into it. The stone was wrapped in a dim, black luster that Mu Wan had never seen before. Qingnv suddenly moved towards the pool.
, and threw the stones out.
Suddenly, a very high flame shot up on the water, like a mechanism rising from the ground, catching the flying stone. The flame quickly fell back, and the stone stayed in the air, shattering into white in front of them.
Powder, dissipated.
On the calm water, it was as if nothing had happened, and not a single ripple had rippled. Where the flames appeared, there was a red lotus blooming just right. Mu Wan did not notice that it appeared after burning the stones.
It's still floating there.
She was very lucky that there were no ships nearby, otherwise she would definitely try the ferry. As for what would happen, she couldn't even think about it now.
"...Are all the people in the town trapped here?"
"Not really. They don't want to go out anymore."
Mu Wan suddenly remembered something and started looking around on the ground. She walked around in a long circle and finally saw what she had dropped by the river: cooking cakes bought from the street and sweet potatoes given by the woman, which had been dropped during the fight.
Roll away. But as soon as she stretched out her hand, she felt as if she had touched a ball of mud, which felt wrong. She picked up the cake, and when she pinched it, it looked like soaked wood, and the broken sweet potatoes showed brown, like
It looked like mud. It was probably too dirty and couldn't be eaten at all.
"You'd better throw it away." Qingnv frowned, "I forgot to tell you... outsiders shouldn't eat anything in the town casually. You didn't eat it, right? If you eat it, you won't be able to get out again."
Mu Wan was so frightened that he suddenly let go of his hand. They rolled to the ground again, and it was no longer clear what kind of food they were.
"I have another question." Mu Wan summoned up the courage to ask, "The pond is full of red lotuses. Why is it called Qinglian Town?"
Qingnv sighed softly, turned around and walked into the town, and Mu Wan quickly followed. After walking for a while, Qingnv was finally willing to tell her.
"In the past, the green lotuses that bloomed in these pools were indeed green lotuses. Green Lotus Town was the place where green girls took shelter and was the place closest to heaven. The green lotus is pure, elegant, holy, and unstained, symbolizing water.
symbol. But one day, everything changed... Qinglian Town, which now belongs to the human world, is the closest to hell. The fire of karma boiled the Qinglian Pond, dyeing everything red."
Mu Wan never imagined that she would come to such a dangerous place.
Qingnv murmured: "I don't know where she broke the barrier... I just feel like something is wrong. I have to find a way to make up for it after she leaves - it's really troublesome."
Mu Wan didn't dare to say anything. She had no doubt that if she hadn't been watching from the side, Yu E would have been dead.
They returned to the inn. Although she hadn't eaten anything all day, she didn't feel hungry. Qingnv also told her that time passed slower here than outside. Firstly, she was full of spiritual power, so it was not easy to feel hungry. Secondly, the time outside
The world has passed a long time.
"You can stay for one more day. I have to go out tomorrow, so I can take you with me."
"Okay...thank you."
When she reached the door, Qingnv suddenly stopped, folded her arms and leaned against the door, as if she had something else to say. Mu Wan tilted his head and looked at her, waiting for her next words.
"How about you stay here?"
"Are you kidding?" Mu Wan was a little surprised, "I still have so many things to do, how can I live here all day? My friends are still looking for me, I have to find a way to meet them and go to Yunwai
Jing, I still have to settle accounts with senior brother."
Her answer was what Qingnv had expected. She smiled easily, shrugged unnecessarily, and said:
"Indeed, I was joking."
"You really scared me again. Don't say such things again in the future."
"Ha... If you don't like it, I won't say it anymore. If you are thirsty, you can drink some tea. There is no problem with the water here."
"okay."
Qingnv's smile slowly disappeared after she closed the door. She wanted to open the door again, but she didn't know what to say. So she turned around, left the house, and left the inn. There was still a scene outside.
At noon, the sun was slightly warm. She squinted her eyes and looked at the round sun, shaking her head slightly.
Yu'e, who had escaped from the place of right and wrong, sat slumped in the clearing in the forest.
She didn't know why things turned out like this. Although she had lived for hundreds of years, she almost never had any contact with humans and knew nothing about the rules of human society. She always lived in her own place.
, watching all kinds of people, beasts, and monsters coming and going, tirelessly. She just kept waiting there, waiting for what she wanted to find.
At that time, she actually didn't know who she was waiting for - she didn't even know that her behavior was called waiting. Rather, before she saw the person she wanted to see, she lived in such an empty and confused way. She didn't want to leave.
, not only because I know that I don’t understand the outside world at all, but also because there is a familiar smell that will appear nearby without any regularity.
Warm, sweet, friendly flavor.
"Are you coming from Qinglian Town?" A human voice suddenly appeared.
Yan'e reflexively beat the tree on the side. The thick tree split from the center and fell straight down. A human male appeared behind the broken tree, wearing a wolf mask with strange lines.
"you……"
"It looks like he was kicked out, right?" The young man walked around the tree calmly and came to her, "That guy is always like this. After so long, he hasn't changed at all."
"I don't allow you to say that." Yue'e stared at him fiercely.
"Even if I don't say it, it's just a fact. If the girl doesn't like to hear it, there's nothing I can do about it. But don't be angry. I don't have any ways of revenge."
"Who are you? Where do you come from? I don't want revenge."
"I just came from Qinglize——"
The Laughing Wolf said this, and Yue'e took another look at him. He stretched out his hand from behind and gave her a packet of medicinal powder. Yue'e took it and looked at him with a puzzled face.
"There are always people you want to take revenge on... Ah, in exchange, could you please tell me - how to get to Qinglian Town?"
