The witch looks at her moves

Chapter 13 Fairy Lu Qi
  When Su Zhen woke up, it was dark.

Light penetrates through the wooden windows on the carriage wall, flowing with a sticky texture.

He was sitting in the carriage, his hands and feet were not tied, and he still maintained the posture of sitting in meditation.

The road was bumpy and the car was bumpy. It seemed that he was on his way to Jiu Miao Immortal Palace.

Besides him, there were three women in the carriage, all of whom were survivors abducted from Miaoyan Palace.

The youngest girl looked less than ten years old. She was already awake, huddled in a dark corner of the carriage. She was wearing a blue-gray dress. Her thin body was completely hidden under it, leaving only a frighteningly white face. face.

The girl sitting opposite the little girl looked a little older, about seventeen or eighteen years old, with short hair down to her neck, and a face that was tanned by the sun.

Su Zhen noticed her when he was in Miaoyan Palace. She only had one leg and did not use crutches. She walked by jumping.

He originally thought it was a congenital defect, but as he was looking at it, he heard the girl take the initiative to say: "I made a mistake and my leg was chopped off by the original owner."

Su Zhen was horrified.

There was another person sitting next to the girl with the broken foot.

The moment he saw her, Su Zhen felt that the dark carriage was a little brighter.

The woman is wearing an elegant green dress, sitting cross-legged, with a snow-white silk ribbon wrapped around her waist. Her skin is soft and smooth, her face is gentle, and she has a tiny mole under her left eye, which adds to her aura. She is sitting in the carriage, The jade legs hanging down from the skirt are half covered and half exposed, and the graceful and concave side curves are also clearly exposed.

Su Zhen had seen her when she was in Miaoyan Palace. At that time, she was far away from the crowd, and she just caught a glimpse without being able to take a closer look. Now that she was sitting next to her, Su Zhen found that this woman was more beautiful than he imagined, and she couldn't help but have thoughts. : If there really is a fairy who herds deer on the green hills in the world, this is probably what she would look like.

But why did this woman, who seemed to have a good family background, end up like this?

When she was in Miaoyan Palace, she often sat alone outside the crowd, saying nothing, and ignoring anyone who tried to talk to her. Nowadays, she is not at all depressed. When she talks to the girl with the broken leg, she still has a smile on her face.

Going to Jiu Miao Immortal Palace is extremely dangerous, and I don’t know why she is so happy. Could it be that she is relying on something?

"Little sister is finally willing to open her eyes?"

The woman in the green skirt also noticed Su Zhen and praised: "I saw you sitting in meditation before going to bed, and when I woke up, I saw you still sitting in meditation and practicing. Such diligence is really rare."

"I……"

Su Zhen had just escaped from a crisis in another world, and the phantom pain from the beating still remained in his muscles and bones. As soon as he opened his eyes, he was asked a question by this beautiful woman. He hesitated for a while and could not answer anything. It was worthy of his current situation. She looked like a reserved little red-haired girl.

"There is no practice, I just accidentally fell asleep." Su Zhen organized his words.

The woman in the green skirt was very friendly and warm. After a few words, she started chatting with Su Zhen.

"My name is Yu Yue."

Su Zhen briefly introduced himself. He originally wanted to make up a life story at will, but he immediately thought that this body was not only used by himself. If he and Yu Yue's "confession" were not consistent, he might cause trouble. Disaster.

After saying his name, he lowered his head and stopped talking, as if he had some past that he didn't want to mention.

The woman in the green skirt spoke generously about her origins.

Her name is Nan Shang. She once practiced Taoism in a remote sect called Liumen. She is a direct disciple of the leader of Liumen. A month ago, she bid farewell to the mountain sect and went down the mountain to experience. She encountered a ferocious evil creature, but she narrowly defeated it in a fight. However, he was seriously injured and was accidentally kidnapped by Miaoyan Palace on the way to escape.

"My talent is low and my magic power is weak. My master repeatedly advised me when I came down the mountain, but I have been away from the world for a long time and have forgotten the dangers in the world..."

Nan Chang's voice lowered, as if he was annoyed by his willfulness.

Su Zhen sympathized with her plight and wanted to comfort her. Unexpectedly, the girl with the broken foot spoke first, coldly and harshly: "Today, monsters are rampant in Xijing. In the past, there were demons in Dazhao Temple, and in the later, there was the birth of Qinglian Temple." Pregnant girl, you, a person like you who has a mountain gate to rely on, do not cleanse inside the gate, but instead take the initiative to jump into the fire pit. If you die, you will be really stupid."

"You, why are you speaking so hurtfully?"

Nan Chang's cheeks turned red at these words. She knew that what the other party said was reasonable, but she was unconvinced.

Su Zhen originally thought that the girl with the amputated foot was a taciturn little girl, but now she was surprised to hear her talk sharp-tongued and mercilessly.

From her words, he also realized that the world here was very uneven, and there were probably quite a few monsters and bandits like Qingmao Tianzun.

"Hurt someone?"

The girl with the broken foot glanced coldly at Nan Chang, raised her fingers, and asked, "Where did I hurt you? Let me see?"

"what?"

Nan Chang was stunned, and then her pretty face turned even redder. Although she abided by the etiquette, her tone could not hide her annoyance: "We are also a woman, why are you so shameless?"

The mockery on the face of the girl with the broken foot was even worse. She suddenly thrust her hand towards Nan Chang. Nan Chang was frightened and crossed one arm across her chest and blocked with the other in a defensive posture. She originally thought that the girl with the broken foot was just frightened. It frightened her, but when she came to her senses, she found that the other person's stretched out hand had been retracted, and he was gently holding a plain white belt.

It's the silk ribbon around Nan Shang's waist.

As for when and how she took action, it was a matter of lightning and flint, and Nan Chang couldn't see clearly at all.

"you……"

Nan Chang was so humiliated that her thin cheeks turned red. She wanted to scold him, but she had learned from past mistakes and did not dare to say harsh words again.

Su Zhen also felt that the girl with the broken foot had gone too far.

Now that everyone is a prisoner of Jiu Miao Immortal Palace and their future is uncertain, why does she still have the heart to bully her companions? Perhaps this girl is physically disabled, so she has a natural hostility towards the pretty Nan Chang.

Nan Chang just glared at the girl with the broken foot, daring to be angry but not uttering a word.

About half a quarter of an hour later, the carriage stopped, and someone knocked on the wall of the carriage to signal them to get off.

The girl with the broken foot opened the car curtain and jumped to the ground first.

"Hey, wait."

Nan Chang stopped her in a hurry, bit her lip and said, "That... give it back to me."

"Call me Sheng Niang and I will return it to you." said the girl with the broken foot.

"what?"

Nan Shang has never been teased like this.

Of course she wouldn't call this girl who is younger than her, but now that she is controlled by others, what can she do? She pursed her lips and finally said, "If you do this again, I will file a complaint!"

Complain? Complain to whom?
  Su Zhen felt confused. Then, when he saw the girl with the broken foot, she let out a 'haha', then crumpled her clothes and belt into a ball and threw it back to Nan Chang. Nan Shang carefully flattened it out and then tied it around his waist again without any wrinkles.

In the carriage, another little girl who was always taciturn poked her head out. After confirming that the girl with the broken foot was gone, she cautiously said: "She is good or bad."

Su Zhen and Nan Chang got out of the car together.

The carriage stopped at the foot of a mountain. Looking at the mountains, one can see the mountains one after another. However, it is not a majestic and majestic landscape. Instead, it reveals the decay that cannot be concealed.

Above is the sky with forked branches, and under the feet is the earth woven with rotten roots. In the soil beside it, half-buried and half-exposed ruins are left. I don’t know if they are old sites left over from the past. Cricket-like insects are crawling on them, among the grass blades. It makes a rustling sound.

The lighting in the forest is extremely poor and dark, and the wind seeps through the gaps between the trees, giving people a salty and wet feeling like sea water.

When Su Zhen looked around, he always felt that there were monsters coming out of it.

Several large carriages stopped here to rest.

The little girl in the car was also very afraid of the quiet and gloomy atmosphere, so she leaned towards Su Zhen and Nan Chang. Nan Chang was a kind man and asked the little girl her name and age. The little girl answered truthfully:
  "Che Yuan, nine years old."

The little girl seemed very timid along the way. After announcing her home, she seemed to have used up all her courage, and then just followed them without saying a word.

The crowd gradually gathered together, including the eight surviving girls from Miaoyan Palace.

There are five carts in front of them, and the two at the back are responsible for loading eight apprentice girls. Four people are divided into one cart, and they are pulled by two big headless horses.

The one in the middle is a large iron cage. The majestic Suffering Heavenly Lord in the Miaoyan Palace has revealed his true form as a blue lion. He is being tied up with iron ropes and imprisoned in it. He is supervised and escorted by the purple-robed killers on both sides. Tianzun's back was turned to everyone, and his face could not be seen clearly. He could only hear the thunderous snoring, and he seemed to be sleeping peacefully.

The car further ahead cannot be seen clearly, but it should be the carriage of Lu Qi and her purple-robed killer.

"Why do we suddenly need to get off the bus? The mountain road is difficult and dangerous. How much trouble does it take to walk up there?" a girl whispered.

"That's right. Is the fairy trying to temper our will?" "There won't be any evil spirits in the forest..."

Listening to their conversation, Su Zhen felt an indescribable strangeness. The people here were all kidnapped by Jiu Miao Immortal Palace, and their life or death was uncertain. Why did they still dislike the difficulty of the mountain road? Moreover, could the fairy they talked about be... Lu Qi?
  It was the girl with the broken foot who spoke again, her voice as cold as ever: "Don't you understand the rules?"

"rule?"

The little girls were puzzled.

The person in charge of explaining to everyone was Nan Chang, who had a much better temper. She said softly: "Just now I saw a few obelisks at the foot of the mountain. There are clouds and mist surrounding the top of the mountain. I guess this is where the ancient temple is located. The monks in Xijing Kingdom respect the gods and will walk to visit ancient temples."

When the girls who were still complaining heard this reason, they quickly clasped their hands together and silently followed the convoy up the mountain on foot.

There is indeed a temple on the mountain.

The temple is in disrepair and is overgrown with weeds. The fence of the courtyard is collapsed and rotten. The load-bearing pillars are covered with moss and vines. The entire hall is like a rotten corpse entangled with thorns. The skin and flesh have long lost their elasticity and vitality. People are afraid to avoid it. Not as good as that, let alone talking about majesty and holiness.

Lu Qi was walking in the front, with several purple-robed killers standing on either side. All Su Zhen could see was a hazy back.

Passing through the desolate temple, Su Zhen and others saw the gods enshrined in the temple.

It was a wooden sculpture of a large fish with a carp body and a turtle shell. Water waves spit out from the fish's lips. An immortal was leaning on the waves. The immortal's arms were broken and his sleeves were empty. The halo hanging behind his hair was not a curled leaf or a lotus flower. lines, but hundreds of entangled human hands.

The color of the wooden sculpture has long since peeled off, and only a few scales still glow with sporadic golden light. As for the immortal... the statue of the immortal has been desecrated, and the side representing the facial features has been shaved off flat, and even the gender is difficult to distinguish.

Nan Shang and others were about to pay homage, but saw Lu Qi raising her arm to stop them.

"This big fish is the body of an evil spirit. As for the immortal on its back... there are no corresponding immortals or bodhisattvas in the Xuanzhuo Shenlu. This should be a imaginary patron saint created by the people to avoid disasters. It is neither Righteous God, why bother to worship?" Lu Qi's voice was soft, like cotton clouds blowing in the wind, without any edge.

Everyone quickly stopped visiting the temple.

Outside the temple gate, the green-haired Heavenly Lord in the iron cage also opened his eyes and said in a loud voice: "There have been many disasters in recent years. Temples with unknown origins like this are most likely to become places where evil and evil gather. Since they are not righteous gods, why not give them a hand?" Burn it clean."

Although the green-haired Heavenly Lord has done all kinds of evil, these words are true. Lu Qi not only did not refute, but also accepted them seriously. She formed a lotus seal with her jade fingers and lit a handful of green fire. The dust and cobwebs burned together in the firelight.

Lu Qi stood in front and made no move. Sparks floated past her, her skirts undulated in the hot wind, the decaying statue was distorted by the flames, and its smooth face showed a ferocious meaning. It resisted the death that did not exist, and then disintegrated in the sound of crackling wood. into ashes.

Su Zhen watched the wooden statue being swallowed up by the flames, and his elbow was suddenly touched. He came back to his senses in surprise, and then met Nan Chang's equally surprised eyes.

"Do you recognize this statue?" Nan Shang asked.

"what?"

Su Zhen was confused: "How could I recognize it?"

"Then why does your expression look so scary?" Nan Chang asked softly.

"My expression is scary?"

Su Zhen put his hands on his face in a daze, and then realized that his face was so tight that it felt sore, and his eyes were dry because of their wide eyes. If there was a mirror in front of him, his angry face would probably scare even himself.

Was this his knee-jerk reaction? Or is it that he can't even fully control the emotions of this body?
  Su Zhen rubbed his cheeks, his expression softened quickly. He didn't know how to explain it to Nan Chang, so he could only say: "I'm a little scared."

"Oh." Nan Chang was considerate, and soon had his own unique understanding, and asked: "You see that this wooden sculpture is evil and ferocious, and you want to scare it back with a fierce expression?"

Su Zhen was stunned and did not refute.

Nan Chang covered her lips and smiled, ruffling his hair.

The wooden statue burned to ashes.

Ashes filled the courtyard.

Lu Qi did not leave immediately. Instead, she led the disciples to sit in the thatch of the dilapidated house and recite the "Jingshang Clarification Sutra".

In the empty hall, a breeze blew. After a while, wisps of breeze gathered into a group and became turbulent. Su Zhen's slightly loose clothes were bulging, and the rotten and burnt air lingering at the tip of his nose dissipated. It was replaced by a refreshing fragrance.

While Su Zhen marveled at the magic, she couldn't help but have doubts in her heart: Isn't this Lu Qi a murderous female devil? Why do you still have the leisure and elegance to do this good deed of purifying and removing filth?

After reciting the Clarification Sutra, everyone rested in the sacred hall with a gentle breeze. The masked purple-robed killer distributed food and water to everyone.

"In such a big Jiu Miao Palace, who are you fooling with white steamed buns and water? My good disciples will really suffer if they follow you. If you follow me, you will eat with the bell ringing every day, swallow pills and drink dew, and your days will be more miserable than that of a prince in the world. It's a hundred times more moisturizing." Qingmao Tianzun sneered.

Lu Qi didn't like him either, so she ordered someone to pick up a piece of wood and stuff it into his mouth. Qingmao Tianzun's magic power was blocked and he had no sharp teeth, but he couldn't bite the piece of wood. He made an angry guttural sound, and the disciples listened. , I couldn’t help but applaud.

Nan Chang took Su Zhen and Che Yuan to find a quiet place to sit down.

"This old goblin is really evil-minded. He is still talking nonsense now. When the time comes, he will be thrown into the dungeon and suffer. We will enjoy the blessings in Jiu Miao Palace and we will kill him with anger." Nan Chang said coldly.

"Enjoying happiness?"

Su Zhen suspected that he had heard wrongly. At the same time, the doubts that had come along the way came to a head at this moment: "What kind of happiness?"

"Isn't it a blessing to be able to enter Jiu Miao Palace to practice?" Nan Chang asked naturally.

"why?"

"What's the reason for this?"

Nan Chang was surprised by Su Zhen's reaction: "In Xijing Kingdom, there are many people like us who have the foundation of Taoism, but the resources for Taoism are extremely limited, and many geniuses of cultivation have been buried in the fields and ridges for their entire lives, undiscovered. Although we were unfortunately kidnapped by the Miaoyan Palace, we were fortunate enough to be rescued by a famous sect, and being able to become disciples of the Jiu Miao Immortal Palace, what is it but a blessing?"

"..."

Su Zhen was speechless for a moment. He stared at Nan Chang's gentle and bright face, and suddenly felt that she was not so beautiful anymore.

Lu Qi kills people like crazy, cutting off the heads of male disciples like weeds with just a flip of a copper coin. Such a cult is no better than Miaoyan Palace, but they actually think it is a blessing to join Lu Qi's disciples?

Is the right, wrong, good and evil in this world actually like this?

Su Zhen felt gloomy in her heart.

Nan Chang didn't notice the depression of the person next to her, but the look of yearning on her face became more and more intense. She held her chin in her hands and sighed softly: "I don't know how many years of practicing Taoism it will take to become a fairy like Lu Qi." .”

Somehow, the anger he felt when he watched the statue being burned once again took advantage of it, and surged in Su Zhen's heart, causing him to blurt out what was in his mind: "Lu Qi slaughtered all the male disciples, his method was so cruel, in Nan Chang The girl is actually a fairy in her heart?"

Su Zhen's question made Che Yuan startled. She exclaimed and dropped the pasta in her hand to the ground.

Hearing Che Yuan's exclamation, Su Zhen woke up immediately - trouble comes from the mouth. No matter how dissatisfied he was with Lu Qi, he shouldn't have rashly said it here.

How could he make such a mistake?
  "Slaughter them all?"

Nan Chang was also stunned. She suppressed her smile and looked solemn: "Fairy Lu Qi rescued us from Miaoyan Palace and accepted us as her disciples. How can you slander us? I think my sister is beautiful and lovely. I didn’t expect him to be such an ungrateful person.”

"slander?"

Su Zhen's expression froze.

Suddenly, he vaguely noticed something, and a thought came to his mind, which sent chills down his spine and made him wake up instantly.

"Of course it's slander."

Nan Chang said with a cold face and said seriously: "The male disciples were obviously crushed to death by the green-haired old demon and thrown into the furnace as medicine. Although the female disciples survived, they were all treated as cauldrons for training." ...Thanks to Fairy Lu Qi, if it weren’t for her, we don’t know what kind of torture we would have suffered in Miaoyan Palace. How could you impose the old demon’s despicable crimes on Fairy Lu Qi?”

Che Yuan picked up the pasta, carefully wiped the dirt on it, and agreed softly: "Yes, Fairy Lu is a good person."

At this point, why didn't Su Zhen understand what happened?
  All the previous weirdness suddenly had an answer.

——All the male disciples were obviously killed by Lu Qi, and their memories have been tampered with!

When Lu Qi tampered with it, he had already changed his body, so he happened to retain this memory.

They knew nothing about the truth, but were grateful to Lu Qi.

Especially Nan Chang, she became Lu Qi's most ardent admirer. She originally thought that Yu Yue's sister was quite cute, but now, her attitude had completely changed. She straightened up, stared at Su Zhen, and said:

"Jiu Miao Immortal Palace is a holy place for famous families, and Fairy Lu is even more gentle and kind. By accepting an ungrateful person like you as a disciple, doesn't it taint the purity of the palace? I'm going to file a complaint with Fairy Lu!"

(End of this chapter)