Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 1934 Xunyin
The night wind blew, and Ying Baoyue suddenly came back to her senses.

This is not a good time to look at each other.

She knew that this divine beast had just breathed out, and its mind must still be very fragile. If it was not handled properly, it would easily cause a stress reaction, but she didn't have time to wait for the other party to recover.

Ying Baoyue turned her head and glanced at the corpses at the door of the stable. Although she didn't know when the two disciples would be found missing by the Zen Court, it was not suitable to stay here for a long time anyway.

Ying Baoyue gritted her teeth and approached the cage first.

The caged beast's shoulders trembled imperceptibly.

Ying Baoyue noticed it, and she felt a little sad, but this move at least proved that the other party was not so aggressive.

She boldly returned to the cage, looking at those beautiful vertical pupils, she hesitated for a moment, and asked, pointing to her chest.

"You...recognize me?"

The beast in the cage looked at her with complicated eyes.

After a moment, it nodded.

Ying Baoyue's eyes lit up.

The woman with leopard body and human face in the cage raised her front paws and made a pinching motion.

She looked at the bruise under Ying Baoyue's neck, and said slowly, "I did it."

She glanced at the corpse lying at the entrance of the stable again, with a hint of hatred in her eyes, she gritted her teeth and said, "I killed it."

Ying Baoyue was startled for a moment, but then felt relieved.

What she was most afraid of was that this divine beast could not tell who approached it and what it did to it when it was unconscious.From this point of view, even in such a state of madness before, it still retains a trace of sanity, which can distinguish her from the disciples of the Buddhist monastery.

If you can tell the difference, you can communicate.

Ying Baoyue moved closer to the cage, carefully looked at the expression of the beast in the cage, and asked softly.

"Then you are not afraid of me now?"

The reason why this divine beast choked her before was because it was afraid of humans and subconsciously wanted to kill all humans who approached it.

The beast in the cage looked at her with a complicated expression.

Just when Ying Baoyue thought she would not answer, the beast in the cage suddenly looked at her shoulder and murmured, "You have a snake."

"snake?"

Ying Baoyue realized, "You mean Xiaohua?"

She reached into the skirt of the clothes and took out, but only pulled out a snake's tail.Little Flower Snake tucked her head under her collar, biting her underwear tightly, refusing to come out.

"Sorry, this kid seems to be a little afraid of you," Ying Baoyue smiled, and put the little snake's tail back without force.

The expression of the beast in the cage became more complicated, and it said softly, "Turn into a snake."

Turn into a snake?

Ying Baoyue's heart skipped a beat, she didn't expect to hear the name she had always suspected from the mouth of this divine beast.

She couldn't help staring at the beast in the cage and asked, "Are you a snake?"

"I'm not," the caged beast shook its head, its eyes fell on the place where the little flower snake was hiding, its eyes were a little sad, "it is."

Xiaohua is a snake?
Ying Baoyue was confused when asked, this is impossible no matter what.

species are different...

"Did you make a mistake?" Ying Baoyue looked at it suspiciously, "This child is not a snake."

Not to mention that Xiaohua didn't have a human face at all, when he met the snake in Xiling Snow Mountain, Ying Baoyue clearly remembered that he said that he was the last snake in the world.

However, the beast in the cage shook its head stubbornly, and said intermittently, "It has... the aura of turning into a snake."

Xiaohua has the breath of a snake on her body?

Ying Baoyue suddenly understood something.

She pulled up her collar and glanced at the top of the little flower snake's head by the moonlight, and a scale with a different color lit up.

After coming down from Xiling Snow Mountain, she inadvertently found that the color of the top of Xiaohua's head had changed a little compared to before.But because it was already colorful, she didn't pay much attention to it.

She heard from Huali that when she passed out in Qingluan Peak, Xiaohua once fought with a snake.

Probably at that time, the snake left his breath on Xiao Hua.

It seems that the reason why the beast in the cage briefly regained consciousness when it grabbed her neck was that it felt the breath of the snake.

Staring at the human face on the face of the beast in the cage, Ying Baoyue asked softly, "What is your relationship with the snake?"

"I……"

The beast in the cage bit its lip, struggling a bit.

"It's okay if you don't want to say it, but can you tell me first, what's your name?"

Ying Baoyue asked solemnly.

Since this divine beast has opened its mind, it must have its own name.

Its every move is so human, Ying Baoyue doesn't want to continue to call it a caged beast in his heart.

"name?"

The beast in the cage raised its head abruptly.

"Yes, name," Ying Baoyue pointed to herself, and said softly, "My name is Mingyue, what about you?"

She hesitated for a moment, but chose to say her pseudonym.

The eyes of the beast in the cage flickered, and it fixedly looked into her eyes, "Xunyin."

Xunyin?

Ying Baoyue thought for a while, dipped his blood that hadn't dried up and wrote two words on the palm of his hand, and opened his palm to the beast in the cage, "Is it these two words?"

The beast in the cage opened its eyes wide in surprise, and nodded, "Yes."

I guessed it right.

Looking at the two words on the palm of her hand, Ying Baoyue was surprised.

The first word she originally guessed was actually "Xun" for looking for, but after thinking about it, the snake is a water beast, and it might use words related to water, so she guessed these two words.

Did not expect all.

"Xunyin, what a beautiful name."

Staring at the water beast in the cage, which was still wrapped in chains, Ying Baoyue asked softly, "Who gave you this name?"

In Xunyin's eyes was Manying Baoyue's incomprehensible expression, and he said dryly, "Aniang."

A prediction in Ying Baoyue's heart was faintly confirmed.

She stared at the woman with a human face and a leopard body in front of her, and asked, "Is your mother a transformed snake?"

Xunyin nodded.

Sure enough.

Ying Baoyue closed her eyes.

No wonder Xunyin called her mother to Xiaohua lying on her shoulders before.

It felt similar to its mother's breath from Xiao Hua.

"Your mother she..."

Ying Baoyue could hardly bear to ask this question, because she had already predicted the ending.

"Dead," Xunyin's eyes straightened, and he looked at her numbly, "The snakes are all dead."

Sure enough, Ying Baoyue's heart shrank.

The transformed snake on Xiling Snow Mountain is really the last transformed snake in the world.

As for Xunyin, it shouldn't be considered a snake.

Ying Baoyue had a guess in his mind.

"Xunyin, can I ask who your father is?"

Ying Baoyue looked at the woman with a human face and a leopard body in front of her, and asked softly.

If she guessed correctly, Xunyin should be of mixed race.

Mixed blood is not uncommon among divine beasts, but Xunyin is rare.

Ying Baoyue had discussed this issue with Teng Snake before. For high-level beasts that can transform into human form, there is no problem of reproductive isolation, and they can combine freely.

However, the children born of two different types of beasts will not have a fusion of characteristics.

Just like the concept of precious blood pursued by the nobles of Xirong, the children born among the gods and beasts follow the principle of blood suppression.

To put it simply, whichever parent is more powerful, the child born will be like that, and only fully inherit the characteristics of one side.

It was the first time Ying Baoyue saw Xunyin in such a situation.

She speculates that this may be caused by the balance between the parents.

But the snake is already a very high-level and rare beast, what kind of beast can have the same blood as the snake?
Ying Baoyue became curious about the identity of Xunyin's father.

Who is Xunyin's father who can give birth to a child with a snake?

Xunyin looked at her, "My father is..."

　guess
　　
　
(End of this chapter)