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Therefore, the next first step is to look for the remnants of the former great demon sect - "Mo Xiang Zong".
According to Yu'er, after the evil sect was broken up, it did not actually perish, but rather survived in various ways. For example, the Yanyue Sect was the inheritance of the Yin-Yang Hehuan Sect, and the contract technique of the Baohuang Pavilion was actually derived from the blood curse of the Blood Demon Sect. There are many such examples.
As for the Demonic Sect, it was originally a first-rate sect. Its inherited martial arts technique, the "Formless Kung Fu", was extremely special. It could make a person's appearance completely change into another person in the blink of an eye, and even imitate the other person's famous skills. Therefore, the casualties and psychological damage caused to the righteous path were extremely tragic.
After the Demonic Sect was destroyed, its remnants fled to the ancient Shu Kingdom.
As early as the end of ancient times and the beginning of the Xia Dynasty, the ancient Shu people established the ancient Shu Kingdom in the south, which has a history of tens of thousands of years. It is now called "Bashu" and is actually not far from Zhurong City.
However, after Xue Ziyi heard the purpose of this trip, she was puzzled and still had one thing in mind: "Why does the young master want to find the "Wu Xiang Gong"?"
Ye Hong did not shy away from saying, "I was thinking about this when I killed the Taoist Huodan in Zhurong City. It would be much easier to act if I had a fake identity. I have even thought of a name for it. It's called 'He Jianping'."
I ask you, what injustice have you seen along the way?
Although Yu'er already knew his thoughts, she and Xue Ziyi both said in their hearts, "You are such a clever little ghost!"
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The roads in Shu are rugged and mountainous. For ordinary people and cultivators in the Qi-refining stage, entering Shu is as difficult as ascending to heaven. However, for cultivators in the foundation-building stage, it is as easy as walking on flat ground.
Three days later, in Bashan City, at a theater called Liyuan.
Ye Hong and Xue Ziyi stood in the crowd. He couldn't help but sigh secretly, thinking that it was better to arrive at the right time than to arrive early.
On the gorgeous stage, what is being performed is not a play about talented men and beautiful women, but a one-man show, singing the "Five Elements Opera", which is the most important part.
The actor was wearing an exquisite black stage costume and his voice was in perfect harmony, which made people listen with great interest. Then, the highlight came.
He just raised his hand and wiped it on his face, and the original yellow earth mask instantly turned into a red fire mask.
Everyone was stunned at first, then immediately cheered, "Good!"
With another raise of his hand, the red face mask of the fire element turned into the black face mask of the water element.
Ye Hong had sharp eyes and had figured out some of the tricks. He thought to himself that it was somewhat similar to the face-changing performance in Sichuan Opera, but the person on the stage had really lost all his face...
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Looking at the enthusiastic audience below the stage, Wei Wuxiang's heart was filled with emotions.
He came from a very poor family. He lost his father at a young age and his mother when he was eleven. Fortunately, after all the hardships, he finally had his happy ending. Before he was twelve years old, he met his noble man, Zhang Qianbian, the successor of the Moxiang Sect, who taught him how to peel human skin to make masks. From then on, he became successful.
After the performance, he returned to the backstage alone, took off his costume, and was about to remove his makeup when he saw a man pushing the door and walking in. Although this person was a man, he had a feminine appearance and was wearing a female role costume.
In the room, the two grown men became affectionate as soon as they met. Outside, Ye Hong and Xue Ziyi frowned as they listened.
He transmitted the message, Xiao Zi, there are two people in the late stage of Qi training inside. You kill one and I kill one. Is that ok?
No problem, sir.
Xue Ziyi had been his maid these days and had suffered a lot of anger from everyone, so she just needed to vent. Although all her Nascent Soul cultivation was based on "external objects", she also had Foundation Establishment cultivation, so killing a Lianqi cultivator would be a piece of cake.
She was about to explode, but then she heard Ye Hong's order, "Wait until they go to bed before killing them, which would be safer."
Xue Ziyi felt sick, but there was nothing she could do.
After a while, the time was ripe and the two men broke into the room. Ye Hong attacked with a sword and stabbed the two men on the bed through and through. Xue Ziyi took the opportunity to move forward and finish them off. With two quick and clean swipes of his skirt-pressing knife, he cut their throats.
Wei Wuxiang's eyes widened. He was unwilling to give up. With just one step, he could collect the skins of a hundred people...
Soon, everything returned to calm again.
The two had a clear division of labor and quickly took up the spoils and fled the crime scene, walking hand in hand. They really looked like a pair of siblings who just came to watch the show.
After returning to where I stayed, I finally breathed a sigh of relief and started checking my spoils.
Since they killed the people together, the spoils were naturally divided equally between the two of them. However, there were not many immortal stones and elixirs, so it could not be said that the harvest was rich.
The most shocking thing was a large wooden box, which contained dozens of human skins, both old and young. This showed that this devil had killed at least dozens of lives.
Yu'er explained to them: "This is a prerequisite for practicing the magical power 'All Living Things'. At least one hundred human skins must be prepared..."
Ye Hong and Xue Ziyi looked at each other and saw disgust in each other's eyes.
They said almost at the same time: "Bury it." "Burn it."
Then Ye Hong changed his mind and thought that if he buried the body, it might be dug out and used again by someone with ulterior motives, so he agreed with Zi Yi's opinion and just burned it.
At this moment, Yu'er pinched her nose and picked out a piece of beauty skin covered with Shenzhou characters from the box and threw it to Ye Hong.
"Here, little bastard, what you want."
If he hadn't insisted, she wouldn't have allowed him to practice this kind of crap.
Ye Hong was silent. He read it once and wrote it down. Then he handed it to Zi Yi. After reading it, she frowned slightly and threw it back into the box.
Next, the two men took the box out of the city, found a remote place, dug a hole in the ground, set it on fire, and watched in silence as the box of sinful things turned to ashes. In the billowing smoke, a distorted human face was clearly visible. After all, they were freed and left this sinful world.
Chapter 82: I would rather deceive myself
Ye Hong, Xue Ziyi and Yu'er returned to the inn together. He washed his face first, while the latter sat on a chair, slightly raised the corners of her lips, supported her cheek with one hand, thinking that he washed his hands every time after killing someone, which gave us a glimpse of his character - he agreed to kill people for treasures, but still felt reluctant. This was really interesting.
But when Ye Hong came over, she immediately concealed her emotions, tilted her head and looked at him with curved eyebrows, and smiled sweetly: "Young Master is back."
Just looking at this smile, it is truly pure and flawless, cleaner than white paper.
Ye Hong's heart moved, he smiled and nodded, then raised his hand and touched her head.
Xue Ziyi's delicate body stiffened. After being stunned for a few seconds, she opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she just lowered her eyes.
She remembered that the last time she asked him why he touched her head, he answered like this - because you look like Sylvie.
When I learned that Xierwei was a slave girl who had been abused by her former master and was covered with scars, and that the pat on the head was to comfort her, I suddenly felt speechless and thought, never mind, he is just a ten-year-old child, why should I spoil his fun, as long as he is happy.
Xue Ziyi has been taking great care of Ye Hong these days. Although she says that she doesn't want anything from him, she actually has a big plan in her heart.
The two of them ate snacks while talking and discussing the magic book.
What he got this time was not the "Formless Kung Fu" but the "Devil Kung Fu·Skinning Chapter", which can only change shape and appearance but cannot imitate other people's famous skills.
According to the records in the book, in order to practice this method, one must first cultivate the "raw silk red thread". After cultivating it, one can peel off the human skin. Every time to change the face, one only needs to stick the human skin on the face, and then pull the red thread to take it off. This is called "pulling the face".
Ye Hong felt that this method was somewhat disgusting, and he paid more attention to the "wiping the face" that came afterwards - this was like "operating on" his own body, and with the help of medicine and the operation of true Qi, he could directly adjust his appearance by wiping his face with his hands, and directly turn it into another face.
In addition, there is a trick called "blowing face", which is used on other people. By holding the powder in your hand and blowing it, you can change the other person's face into another one.
The evil female Xue Ziyi became happy because she got the fragments of a secret manual that could skin people alive. She couldn't wait to try it out on her senior and junior sisters.
"Sir, we have achieved the purpose of this trip." She looked at him and said with a smile, "We have killed the bad guys, which is satisfying, but we have offended the Demonic Element Sect. The 'Devil Element Qianbian' is a Jindan cultivator..."
"It's okay. We have the senior here. It's just right for him to come and die. I've been worried that I couldn't catch him all these years."
Zi Yi smiled and said, "Yes."
I laughed in my heart, "Oh, I am also a Nascent Soul cultivator, but guess what, if you are in danger and about to die, will I help you?"
But at night, she couldn't laugh anymore.
She brought a basin of water with a stern face, squatted on the ground, washed his feet, and told him the story of the crappy little duck.
The pretty maid dipped her delicate hands in the hot water, looked up at her own master, clenched her teeth, and felt humiliated. She suspected that he was clearly humiliating her.
However, there is still a big difference between children's feet and adults' feet, and she can barely accept it.
Besides, he asked her if he allowed her to be touched above and below, and after she said no, he really didn't harass her at all, which made her feel quite comfortable.
She washed him very carefully, even between his toes, and then wiped him dry with a cloth.
During this period, Ye Hong closed his eyes with a comfortable expression on his face.
She thought to herself, he must be so comfortable being served by my mother, that even my foot washing would be no worse than anyone else’s!
After serving him, Ziyi took off her shoes and socks, soaked her delicate feet in hot water, and then gently wiped them clean. She didn't have the habit of soaking her feet before, but was asked to do so after being with him these days.
Ye Hong had already gotten in the car. "I'm going to bed. How about you, Xiao Zi?"
"Okay, sir." Without hesitation, she raised her hand and extinguished the spirit stone lamp.
The main body is only in the foundation-building stage, so naturally he needs to sleep, and these days the two of them have been sleeping in the same bed, but in different quilts.
Ye Hong told her bluntly, because I want you to sleep with me, so if you want to get another room, you have to pay for it yourself.
She found it funny, but then felt a little disdainful. Men need someone to accompany them even when they sleep, and little boys are no exception. They just like the feeling of being held in the palm of a woman's hand.
In that case, why doesn't she treat him like her favorite?
When she thought about her identity being revealed in the future and imagined the desperate and painful expression on his face when he looked at her, Xue Ziyi twisted slightly in the quilt with excitement like a maggot, rubbing her legs.
Apart from the son of destiny of the four states, the number one person with the talent of water spiritual roots in the righteous path was "destroyed" by his own hands, and it is possible that he even went insane for her.
Then, she unbuttoned her jacket and took off her pants in the quilt, then pulled her underpants down to her knees, then pulled them off from her toes, folded them and placed them on the bedside.
"Good night, Xiao Zi." Ye Hong said softly.
The unexpected greeting made Xue Ziyi feel a little unreal. She was silent for a while, first slowly raised her hand and touched his body, giving him some ambiguous sweetness as if to comfort him, then helped him cover the quilt, lowered her eyes as if to confirm something, and finally curled her lips with a sweet smile, "Good night, sir."
Lies and hypocrisy are the easiest to be exposed, and the highest level of deception is to deceive yourself.
They didn't hug each other, but they were very close. They didn't touch each other innocently. After all, there were two quilts, clothes, and air between them. But in the end, they were sleeping in the same bed, and a thousand years of cultivation was nothing more than this.
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In the Liyuan theater, the room where someone died has been sealed off.
Actually, the word "Liyuan" comes from a certain emperor of Daxia. It was the place in his palace where singing and dancing artists were trained. Men and women surrounded them and had fun without restraint, which was called "the joy of Liyuan". Later, people referred to larger opera troupes and theaters as Liyuan.
Suddenly, a figure in white fell from the sky.
This person has no eyes, nose or mouth. He is actually a faceless man with no facial features. No, it is hard to tell whether he is a human or a ghost.
This somewhat creepy ghost thing waved its hand, and the yellow seal that Ji Si's detective had put up in the middle of the summer slowly fell to the ground.
After entering the room and searching around, he did not find the clue he was looking for. He said to himself, "My disciple, you actually made me grind my bones and scatter my ashes, destroying my soul and body."
Unexpectedly, at this moment, a sneer came from behind, "The devil's appearance changes a thousand times."
The faceless man was startled, and immediately wiped his face, instantly turning into a charming girl in white.
When I turned around, I was surprised again because the enemy turned out to be a petite girl.
She spoke in a coquettish voice with sadness in her eyes and eyebrows, "You got the wrong person, I just came to see Wei Lang..."
But the little girl remained unmoved, and said without any hesitation: "Die!"
At this moment, he felt a great fear in his heart.