PFC Chapter 201 The Author's Chronicle
Chapter 201 The Author's Chronicle
Ning Xiaoxi looked at the pink bead with disgust, wondering how that fair and noble snow maiden could bring herself to eat a bloody belly.
He turned away from the diners and headed straight for the rows of houses.
The cobblestone path underfoot was covered with knee-high grass, but there were no snakes, insects, or mosquitoes; the entire estate was very clean.
The row houses are all wooden houses, and although they have been uninhabited for many years and are covered with moss, they are not damaged or collapsed.
The path here is clean, without any trace of footsteps, so Xu Qingfeng and his classmates certainly haven't been to this row of houses. He left on foot; did they come on foot? It's ten miles from here to Songguo City. Walking? Impossible.
In front of the first row of houses is a circular flower bed planted with many common flowers, which are still in bloom. However, no one takes care of them, so they are quite messy, yet they have a strange beauty.
The windows of the house had been nailed shut from the outside with wooden strips, leaving almost no gaps. Ning Xiaoxi opened the door to the first room, and a putrid smell hit her, causing her to back out. She had been careless; how could she have walked in so unprepared? Even in the middle of nowhere, one should be cautious, let alone in a manor where someone had just died.
With a gentle swipe of his finger, a purification talisman was tossed directly in through the doorway. Upon entering, the talisman emitted a strange blue light.
[There's a sealing formation inside!]
Ning Xiaoxi's curiosity was piqued. She hadn't encountered any sealing formations since Lu Shu. [What's sealed inside? Even if it's a sealing formation, it shouldn't prevent us from probing the internal state of the demonic energy, right?] Then, Ning Xiaoxi channeled her spiritual energy to sense the spatial changes. She could now sense the demonic energy and the corpse energy, and she could clearly feel that the pink beads in the courtyard were almost completely absorbed. However, when her spiritual energy touched the gate, it could no longer extend.
Ning Xiaoxi increased her spiritual energy output, and the overflowing spiritual energy probed the entire manor like an octopus. There was an invisible barrier above the manor, which blocked their exploration.
"[Night Demon's Ghostly Eye Jade!]" Tuanzi suddenly jumped out, pointing with her chubby hand to the two-story building on the right. "[Over there.]"
Ning Xiaoxi stepped onto the second floor of the small building and stood at the door of the middle room.
The Spirit Crystal Heart transformed into a defensive shield, covering Ning Xiaoxi's entire body. The Illusionary Python Scales on her body shimmered with light and shadow. She stood by the door, and the Spirit Crystal Heart extended a section, pushing open the door.
The room was empty except for a round spirit crystal table in the center, on which sat a dark luminous stone shelf, and on the shelf was a black jade stone that shimmered with a dark light like an eye.
It was obvious that the jade eye was concealing its aura. It seemed that it did not dare to compete with the pink bead for the demonic energy nourished by flesh and blood, and wanted to minimize its presence.
"I have a feeling your record is a bit unreliable!" Ning Xiaoxi looked at the You Tong Yu, whose aura was concealed by the You Ying Stone. "It looks more like it was extracted and then kept here. They even used You Ying Stone to set up a barrier to block detection; that shows they put in effort."
[I'm connected to the library of Zaidao Pavilion; this is information reported by Tianman.]
[If it wasn't a recording error, then it means Tenma didn't report the truth. Where did your later records come from?]
[This is noted in the database following the records of the Zai Dao Ge Pavilion.]
Ning Xiaoxi smiled silently. [Author's Note!] Ever since she accompanied Tianji to see Qingli, she had a feeling that the records of the Zaidao Pavilion were merely based on the feedback from the Celestial Masters; they lacked the ability to discern. They simply recorded whatever the Celestial Masters reported. The Nine-Headed Serpent's poison spread for thousands of miles, yet three lives were spared. Qingli and Qixing were killed, but Qingli reappeared on the icy mountains of the North, and Qixing became Tianji.
Haha, no wonder some people are trying to recruit others to fight monsters; the locals are really unreliable!
Can you grab this thing with your hands?
The Spirit Crystal Heart transformed into a net, directly enveloping Youying Stone and Youtong Jade, capturing them in one fell swoop and returning directly to their cave.
"boom!"
Without the barrier of the Ghostly Stone, demonic energy surged into the sky.
"call!"
The pink bead, accompanied by a tornado, soared into the sky. The wind swept through, swallowing up all the scattered demonic energy, quickly absorbing it all. At this moment, dense streams of demonic energy, like tornadoes, converged into the courtyard from the rooms of the small building and the row houses. The pink bead excitedly devoured it, and the cracks on its body became less sharp and more gentle.
Soon, all the demonic energy was absorbed by the pink bead, and then it swayed back to its cave. The entire bead was close to the little beast's den, but it didn't dare to roll onto the cloak like the black bead did. It only dared to stay close to the edge of the cloak.
Ning Xiaoxi turned to look at Pink Beads, who was moving nimbly in the yard, and nodded in satisfaction.
After the demonic energy disappeared, the entire building began to emit a powerful resentment. Looking at the five rows of houses, the resentment was truly overwhelming!
Ning Xiaoxi moved to the door on the left, her Illusionary Python Scale Armor shimmering with light, and pushed open the door.
Ten corpses lay on the floor of the room, disposed of in the same way as those in the courtyard. Though ten years had passed, they appeared as if they had just died, covered in blood, their chests empty. Sealing talismans were drawn on the walls of the room in blood, trapping the souls of these corpses within their bodies, subjecting them day and night to the agony and despair of their impending death, and constantly generating fear to nourish the You Tong Jade.
It's conceivable that all the rooms in this entire estate are arranged in this way to nourish the Nether Jade. Are the other two estates in the same situation? Could there be more than one Night Demon?
Her spiritual energy surged, like an outstretched arm probing the other two villages. When she touched the same barrier, Ning Xiaoxi felt as if the anger in her chest was about to explode!
"brute!"
【Xiao Xi, release your soul first!】
Ning Xiaoxi's chest heaved violently. She took a deep breath, then another, and screamed, "Ahhhhhhh!!!! You bastard!"
[Xiao Xi, calm down, calm down! Xu Qingfeng is back! He brought twenty-two people with him.]
Ning Xiaoxi's face was as cold as ice, a sharp light flashed in her eyes, her scales burst with iridescent colors, and her figure disappeared from the spot.
Xu Qingfeng, accompanied by twenty guards, followed his father, galloping quickly towards the manor. He wondered if the young woman had left, and whether she had discovered the manor's secret.
Xu Chang's expression was solemn. He had only been in Songguo for two days, busy taking over the city's affairs. Not daring to delay the tasks assigned to him by his superiors, he quickly sent his son to handle them. But things went wrong. He couldn't imagine what his superiors would do to him, or to his Xu family, if this matter wasn't handled properly!
Just as they could see the manor gate in the distance, a tremendous pressure suddenly descended from the sky.
Everyone looked up and saw countless stars falling from the sky. "Shattered Stars Destroy the World!" A cold voice accompanied the slender figure as he landed, and stars fell, hitting everyone's heads.
Only Xu Chang was hit in the chest and pinned to the ground, unable to move.