Flower Moon

The capital of Yan Kingdom is called Nine Demons.In Nine Demon City, there are nine strange beasts guarding nine city gates respectively.

These nine monsters all came across mountains and seas from the prehistoric times. They were the founding kings of the Yan Kingdom, who subdued them, and then their monster bodies were left in the Yan Kingdom for generations.

"What about their souls?" Downstairs at the city gate, Tao Yue'er asked Chang Sui, looking at the statue with huge wings and dragon head and snake body.

Chang Sui shook his head and said, "I don't know. I've been dead for so many years, I'm afraid it's gone by now."

Tao Yue'er was noncommittal.Looking at the huge monster looking at the sky, she always felt that this thing seemed to have petrified and died, but their eyes seemed to be still alive.

In Nine Demon City, everything is completely different from the folk customs of Jing Country and Liu Country.

If it is said that Jingguo and Liuguo rule the world with etiquette, everyone is reserved and introverted, for fear of causing trouble to others.In the Nine Demon City, there is no doubt that good and evil are mixed together, and the folk customs are tough.

On both sides of the road, the most shops on the road are blacksmith shops, and every household is smelting weapons.And the casting masters were already sweating profusely because the fire was too hot, and went into battle shirtless.On the dark skin, the muscle lines are clearly visible.Tao Yueer's face became more and more red as she walked along.

"What's wrong with you? Are you hot?" Chang Sui asked Tao Yue'er.

Tao Yue'er looked embarrassed, lowered her head, and said, "It's, it's okay...it's just a little hot."

"You looked at their bodies, are you embarrassed?" Chang Sui accurately expressed Tao Yue'er's embarrassment.

"Wh-how can there be!" Tao Yue'er hurriedly denied it, and went to see Hua Ling beside her.

Hua Ling's expression was also a little ugly, but obviously, he didn't feel that way because he saw the upper body of others, but because he saw Tao Yue'er blushing, and felt a little uncomfortable.

Hua Ling approached Tao Yue'er calmly, blocking her gaze.Although his thin back can't completely isolate the outside world, but he is tall enough, walking beside Tao Yue'er, not only can make her look at the outside world less, but also reduce the eyes of the outside world looking at her by more than half.

Tao Yue'er was finally able to see the way ahead, and followed Chang Sui to move on.

Passing through the Nine Demon City, in the northernmost position, there is an area even more beautifully built than the imperial palace.The surrounding courtyard walls are all made of fine iron, on which are cast the heads of nine monsters from the Nine Monster City, one after another, with green faces and fangs, painful expressions, very scary.It's like purgatory on earth.

"This is the custom of the Nine Demon City. The more terrifying the nine monsters can be cast, the more good luck they can bring and the suppression of evil spirits. This is my home." Chang Sui said with a smile, and walked to the same place. Refined iron made and smelted the steps of the nine monster heads to knock on the door of one's own house.

But she knocked for a long time, but she didn't knock it open.

There was no answer at the door.

"Have you noticed that there is a strange smell in the air?" Tao Yue'er stood at the bottom of the steps and asked Hua Ling beside her.

Hua Ling nodded: "There is a smell of blood."

"..." Tao Yue'er thought for a while, and her face suddenly changed: "Could it be!" After she finished speaking, she hurriedly ran to Chang Sui's side, directly raised her palm, and opened the door of Chang's house.

"Hey... how can you be so rude!" There was a loud 'crash', and Chang Sui was a little angry when she saw the door of her house collapsed. Purgatory on earth.

On both sides of the gate, there were four corpses lying on their stomachs, stumbling around.

"Uncle Zhang! Uncle Qi!" Chang Sui hardly needed to look at their cheeks, just by their figures, he could recognize their identities at a glance.

She ran to their side, picked them up, and found that neither of them was breathing.

In the front hall, there were nearly ten corpses lying in the same state of death.Apart from spitting blood, they had no other scars on the surface, as if they had been poisoned, and they were poisoned to death here almost at the same time.

"It must be Xuan Qingzong!" Chang Sui cried out in great grief, "They are dissatisfied with me for hurting their eldest lady, so they want to destroy my Chang family!"

After Chang Sui finished speaking, he suddenly realized something, hurriedly put down the corpse in his hand, and rushed into the inner courtyard.

"Sister! Where are you? Sister!" Along the way, Chang Sui kept shouting while running, but the whole house was like a dead city, and no one responded at all. It was lifeless and terribly empty.

Tao Yue'er didn't care about the corpses she saw along the way, and she followed Chang Sui with Hua Ling, for fear that she would encounter any danger again.

They went all the way from the front yard through the big mansion with three entrances and three exits, until they arrived at the place where Chang Yu lived. There, she was lying on the floor of the boudoir, with her eyes wide open, lying on the ground with her eyes wide open, staring fiercely at the door. direction.

When Tao Yue'er saw her gaze, she felt that she must hate her very much.With such an angry gaze, it's hard to imagine that she won't become a monster.

Even Concubine Jing and Tao Yue'er didn't see such a big resentment in her memory.

"Sister!!!" Chang Sui was stunned for a while before recovering from the daze.Although they walked all the way without seeing a living person, most of the ominous premonition in their hearts was already there, but when they really saw Chang Yu's body, Chang Sui still couldn't accept it.

"Why...how did you die! Why didn't you wait until I came back?" Chang Sui was in grief, hugging her sister's body, crying uncontrollably.

Tao Yue'er stood aside, not knowing what to say at all.

She understands this feeling so well.

When her parents passed away, her grandparents and grandparents left one after another, and she had no relatives, no reasons, and no one to rely on in this world, she probably felt the same way.

And what she experienced was the life and death of ordinary people's families. In the pain of illness day by day, she warned herself day by day that it was time to say goodbye.

Chang Sui is not.

She originally wanted to go back to the Chang family and discuss with her sister how to deal with it, but she didn't expect that Xuan Qingzong would strike so fast, before they did, and destroy the entire Chang family.

At such times, any words of comfort are superfluous.Tao Yue'er could only quietly accompany her and take care of the Chang family's affairs with her.

Chang Sui cried for two hours, and the sun was almost going down before she finally stopped crying.

"I want to preserve my sister's body, I want to go to Xuanqingzong, and I want an explanation!" Chang Sui said.

"I don't think...it may be Xuanqingzong." Hua Ling beside him said calmly.

He has been wandering around the mansion, looking back and forth between the corpses, he has an overview of the overall situation, and has his own thoughts.

"Who else could it be if it wasn't Xuanqingzong? Besides them, who else has the ability to wipe out the three hundred members of the Chang family overnight? My sister... my sister is even practicing!" Chang Sui said, It was only then that Tao Yue'er noticed that in the room beside her, there was still a boiler that was steaming out.