Chapter 148

Outside Dongguo Town.

The spear-bearing youth said lazily to the red-clad girl beside him:

"I heard the eldest son of the You family provoked a female ghost at a ruined temple named Lanruo Temple."

"I don't know if it's a ghost or a demon that saw Lanruo Temple was ruined and made it its lair."

As he spoke, he applied two spirit talismans to himself and one to Yan Hongye's shoulder:

"Junior Sister, you also know my Daoist techniques are poor, so I can only apply an invisibility talisman to myself to keep watch for you, plus the Heart-Reflecting Spirit Talisman that can transmit sound over a thousand miles. If I encounter danger, you can come to save me in time."

Yan Hongye sighed inexplicably:

"As expected of you. I actually thought just now that you wanted to show off your skills, wanting to use an invisibility talisman to sneak into Lanruo Temple to investigate the situation, and then use the Heart-Reflecting Spirit Talisman to coordinate with me from the inside and outside."

"Junior Sister, there is a good old saying." Zhuang Buran smiled:

"How big your hands are, that's how big a bowl you hold; how much ability you have, that's how much work you do."

"Therefore, the most important thing in life is to have self-awareness. Even if the sky is falling, there are taller people to hold it up."

Yan Hongye was speechless after hearing this, and after rolling her eyes at the lazy spear-bearing youth beside her, she no longer wanted to bother with him.

An incense stick of time later.

The two arrived outside a desolate and eerie abandoned temple.

"Demons and ghosts usually don't dare to appear in the daytime. When night falls, it is their natural home field, and their movements become even more secretive. It seems we won't be able to make it back in time, and I don't know how many days we will be delayed." Zhuang Buran shook his head.

Yan Hongye's mouth curled slightly:

"If you want to go back earlier, why not pretend to be a young knight wandering the Jianghu tonight."

She examined him carefully and nodded:

"Actually, you don't need to dress up specifically. Your attire and appearance are already the demeanor of a young knight with successful martial arts, and you carry a slight air of a noble young master."

"Whether it's a female ghost or a demon, apart from liking weak scholars, they also like wealthy young masters, not to mention a young master who is both literary and martial."

"Are you really my junior sister?"

Zhuang Buran began to look around:

"Where did my quiet, cold, reasonable, and understanding junior sister run off to!"

"Hehe, it's happily decided. You will spend the night at Lanruo Temple tonight."

Yan Hongye deliberately imitated someone's tone of voice and turned to leave with light footsteps.

The spear-bearing youth followed closely:

"Junior Sister, anyway, it's still early, why don't we go back first, eat, and then come back."

The red-clad girl's figure paused, she suddenly swept up, and dropped a sentence:

"Rest assured, tonight's ghosts and demons will definitely let you have a full meal, so just save your appetite."

Zhuang Buran smiled helplessly. Not far from Lanruo Temple, he randomly found a relatively hidden big tree and then slept lazily and comfortably on a branch.

The red-clad girl, who hadn't gone far, turned back and saw that the spear-bearing youth had already used an invisibility talisman and was sleeping steadily on the branch.

Seeing such a scene, although she had guessed it in her heart, she still couldn't help but feel some anger at his lack of ambition. Tonight, he would have to face demons of unknown origin, yet he could still be so free and easy.

She didn't know whether to praise him for having a big heart, being heartless, or being certain that she wouldn't stand by and watch him die.

Yan Hongye thought of this, a glimmer of strange light appeared in her clear eyes, and the lazy smile hanging on the corner of her mouth actually had four or five points of someone's charm.

Late at night, Lanruo Temple.

In the dilapidated main hall, a bonfire was burning. A spear-bearing youth used a wooden stick to stir the bonfire and whispered:

"Junior Sister, I have already discovered that the demons occupying Lanruo Temple are not ghosts. There is a dry well in the backyard of the temple, and the demonic energy inside is heavy. You can come over to eliminate the demons."

He saw that the Heart-Reflecting Spirit Talisman on his body had no reaction, so how could he not guess what was going on? His eyebrows raised slightly, and a smile appeared on his face.

At this moment, a delicate and beautiful girl in white suddenly walked into the hall.

"Miss, coming to this ruined temple in the wilderness in the middle of the night, aren't you afraid of encountering some villains?"

"At a glance, you are a young knight who punishes evil and promotes good. I should have no threat to my life." The girl in white smiled and pursed her lips:

"My name is Nie Xiaoqian. May I ask the young knight's name? Why have you come to Lanruo Temple to stay?"

The spear-bearing youth laughed lightly:

"Now that we are a lone man and a lone woman in the same room, shouldn't you say something like 'not sleeping on a moonlit night, wishing to cultivate a good relationship'?"

The girl in white was stunned, then scolded angrily:

"You lecher!"

"I saw at a glance that you are not human. A mere little fox with two or three hundred years of cultivation dares to play god and ghost in front of me."

Zhuang Buran showed sarcasm:

"Bold demon, I want you to reveal your true form!"

The double-headed spear, split in two, connected itself in mid-air and instantly pierced the girl in white's head with the momentum of a thunderbolt, pinning her to the wall behind.

A flash of light flickered, and the girl in white pinned to the wall turned into a fox corpse, and then a blue bead fell to the ground.

Zhuang Buran raised his hand and beckoned. Not only did the double-headed spear shake off the blood on the tip with spiritual intelligence and return to his side, but the blue bead on the ground also fell into his hand.

He toyed with the bead in his hand and whispered to himself:

"Does this count as returning to its original owner?"

Suddenly, the demonic energy in Lanruo Temple surged, spreading everywhere, instantly turning the dilapidated temple into a courtyard full of rouge scent.

Zhuang Buran showed a smile on his face, put the blue bead into the cloth bag at his waist, gripped the spear beside him, and spoke to the Heart-Reflecting Spirit Talisman on his collar:

"Junior Sister, save me!"

"I tried my best to solve one little demon. Now you must also perceive this demonic energy outside."

"This is a thousand-year-old great demon. Even if my Daoist cultivation reached the Purple Talisman realm, I wouldn't have much chance of winning!"

"If you don't come, you probably won't see me again."

At this time, a charming and seductive woman in red, leading a group of female demons, appeared in front of the spear-bearing youth.

"Xiaoqian!"

A snow demon among the female demons saw the fox corpse and couldn't help but cry out in sorrow.

"I finally found such a delicate and cute slave who could help me very easily seduce those stinky men who are greedy for flowers and lustful, and you actually killed her."

Meiji looked coldly at the spear-bearing youth:

"Such a familiar smell. From the disgusting aura emanating from you, one can see that you are from the Xuanxin Sect, but unfortunately, your cultivation seems to be not very good."

"I am a disciple of the Xuanxin Sect, the chief inner-disciple of Lingfeng Shangren, and the last disciple of the generation's grandmaster, Yan Chixia."

Zhuang Buran held his spear in front of his chest and said:

"Demon, if you dare to hurt me in the slightest, my grandmaster and master will definitely grind you to dust!"

As soon as these words came out, the female demons who had no knowledge trembled in fear.

Only Meiji laughed repeatedly:

"Even Yan Chixia abandoned his sword and went into seclusion nearly twenty years ago. He even became a traitor to the sect hunted by the Xuanxin Sect everywhere, and that little guy Lingfeng should be too old to walk by now. You actually use them to threaten me."

The spear-bearing youth laughed loudly:

"Hahaha, I didn't fool you. As expected of an old immortal who has lived for thousands of years. You shouldn't be some wild monster; you likely come from the Yin Moon Demon Palace."

"Unfortunately... the current National Master, the sect leader of the Xuanxin Sect, Jinguang, is my master."

"If you have the ability, kill me. From then on, there will definitely be no place for you in the human world, and all that awaits you is endless pursuit!"

"Do you think I will believe you?" Meiji narrowed her eyes.

The spear-bearing youth said unyieldingly:

"Since the righteous-demonic war nineteen years ago, when the Liudao Mojun was beheaded by Yan Chixia, the Yin Moon Demon Palace has not allowed its subordinates to enter the human world without authorization."

"Since you ignore the prohibition of the Yin Moon Demon Palace, you must have set up your own portal."

"As long as you dare to kill me, you will have no way out."

As he spoke, he walked step by step to Meiji and stretched out his head:

"Come, here is a great head. If you have the ability, take it."

"At that time, I will be in the underworld, watching how you, a demon who betrayed the Yin Moon Demon Palace and killed the beloved disciple of the Xuanxin Sect leader, are pursued until you have no way to heaven and no door to enter the earth, and finally end up in a miserable state of total destruction."

(End of chapter)