Chapter 06 About to die

Chapter 06 About to die 

By Jiulu Feixiang,

Translated, Edited and Arranged by Angel Chua 10/11/2024

White smoke rose from the incense burner in the house. The man sitting at the sandalwood desk put down his pen and raised his voice: "Is it true?"

The man kneeling below replied tremblingly: "Even if I had ten guts, I would not dare to deceive His Royal Highness the Crown Prince! My sister-in-law was crazy a few days ago, but she has recovered to be no different from ordinary people in the past two days. I saw the miracle that night with my own eyes. Although my wife was unconscious at the time, the neighbors also saw the light overflowing from my house! And this green clothes... The immortal turned his accompanying chicken into a beauty, and this is the clothes he took off for the beauty to wear. Later, the beauty turned into a chicken again, and the clothes fell to the ground, and he forgot to take them away."

"This is an interesting story." The phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, "Fu Sheng, bring that man to the mansion to show me what he is capable of."

"Yes."

The days in the courtyard were still as peaceful as ever. The leaves on the grape trellis slowly grew denser, blocking the sun that was getting hotter with the arrival of summer. Xingyun was resting in the yard when his rocking chair was bumped. He opened his eyes and glanced at the chicken rolling on the ground.

"Ah! Why can't I change back!" Shen Li rolled in the dirt and yelled angrily, "It was successful that night! My magic power has almost recovered in the past two days, why can't I change back!"

Xingyun's eyebrows curved slightly, and after a while he pretended to be calm and said, "Don't shout."

He glanced at the cloth that Shen Li had pulled on the ground, "Get inside the clothes and change. If you turn into a human body like this, it will be bad."

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly remembered Shen Li's upright back in the light of that day, and was a little absent-minded for a while.

Hearing what Xingyun said, Shen Li stood up and looked at him: "The other day I saw that the formation you set up looked very powerful, why don't you set up a formation that can condense the essence of the sun and the moon for me to try."

"The formation you mentioned already exists here." Xingyun laughed, "You have been here for so many days, and you don't feel anything at all?"

Shen Li was stunned, and looked around, and then she found that the placement of stones and the planting of grass and trees in the backyard were indeed arranged according to a certain pattern, but it had been so many years that grass had grown in many places, and the boundaries could not be seen clearly, which confused Shen Li's eyes. She suddenly realized that it was no wonder that her physical strength recovered so quickly here, it turned out to be thanks to the formation here.

"Xingyun, you are becoming more and more unpredictable to me." Shen Li looked around the courtyard carefully, squatted in front of Xingyun, and said, "A mortal who can calculate destiny and understand so many strange formations, but has no magic power and no spells, who are you?"

Xingyun smiled and replied, "A good person."

"I think you are a weirdo." Shen Li said, "You have a weird temper and weird behavior. Look at me, I look like this." Shen Li turned around on the ground,

"I have no hair, I can talk, and I can turn into a human. You are neither curious nor afraid, and you still support me at home... Could it be that you have figured out something?"

"Didn't I tell you that fortune-telling is not a good skill, and I don't like to do these things. I didn't ask you just because I didn't want to ask. Fate brings us together and fate brings us apart. There is no point in asking more questions. You and I just need to know that we are harmless to each other."

Shen Li was stunned by these words, and finally said seriously: "You must be the unlucky disciple of some bald donkey in the sky who came down to earth to experience disasters."

Xingyun was stunned, just looked at Shen Li, squinted his eyes and smiled, and didn't say anything.

Until noon, he silently ate all the bacon given by others. He let Shen Li pick at the table legs for a long time without giving her any look.

After finishing the meal, he carried Shen Li to the table, letting her look at the empty plate with only two drops of oil in astonishment. He burped at her with satisfaction and said with a smile: "I just want to prove that I am not some unlucky disciple of a bald donkey who came to earth to experience disaster. I have no other intentions." After that, he also took away the plate with two drops of oil, leaving Shen Li alone on the table flapping her wings and kicking her claws in anger.

"Spit it out! Spit it out! You bastard!"

Walking to the front yard, Xingyun suddenly heard someone knocking on the door. He answered and went to open the door with the plate. When the gate opened, three men in brocade clothes and carrying swords stood outside the door. They looked like the guards of the family of some high-ranking official. The leader's collar was red, and the two people beside him were blue. They looked at Xingyun solemnly. The red collar guard said, "Sir, my master invites you."

"You probably found the wrong person." Xingyun chuckled and replied. As soon as he stepped back, the people on both sides pulled Xingyun's arms without saying anything. Xingyun didn't pay attention and the plate in his hand fell to the ground and broke completely. The red collar guard didn't even look at him and just said, "We will judge whether we found the wrong person. Sir, please go in."

Xingyun narrowed his eyes and the curve of his lips dropped a little: "I don't like others forcing me..." Before he finished speaking, the red collar guard punched Xingyun in the stomach, bending his waist directly. It hurt so much that he couldn't stand up for a long time.

Before Xingyun could even cough twice, the man said, "I don't like people talking nonsense to me all the time." He looked contemptuous and said, "Take him away." The other two did as they were told, and dragged Xingyun away regardless of how injured he was.

Xingyun bent over, and the moment he was taken out of the courtyard, he kicked a stone on the ground lightly as if by accident, and the stone turned over. But a moment later, a golden light flashed in the house. The three men in brocade clothes paused, and a woman shouted, "Beat him until he vomits, then drag him away!" Xingyun heard this and laughed softly even though he was being carried by someone. "Who is it?"

The red-collared guard stepped into the courtyard and saw a woman in a dirty cloth dress. She tore a strip of cloth from somewhere and walked out while tying her hair up high.

The red-collared guard frowned, "Young lady, you are so arrogant." He looked Shen Li up and down, and saw that although she was dressed in shabby clothes, her eyes were very intimidating. There were too many hidden dragons and crouching tigers in the capital. After a moment of hesitation, he took off the badge on his waist. The golden badge was very dazzling under the reflection of the sun. "We are ordered by the prince to invite you to the mansion for a chat. I hope young lady will understand..."

"Understand?"

Shen Li tied her hair up and walked to the red-collared guard like a ghost. Her magic power was not strong now, but she remembered her martial arts skills by heart, which was more than enough to deal with these mortals. Before the red collar guard could react, Shen Li snatched the badge in his hand. She broke it with both hands, and with a crisp sound, two pieces of scrap metal were thrown at the feet of the red collar sergeant.

"Teach me how to write these two words."

The red collar guard's pupils shrank, and before he could react, he felt dizzy and had a sharp pain in the back of his head. He didn't know how long it had been black in front of his eyes. When he reacted again, he had been thrown out of the door with the other two blue collar guards.

Shen Li squinted at the three people with a look of extreme contempt: "If you want to see my men, no matter if it's the prince's son, grandson, or any other king, let him roll over here."

Although Shen Li said that, when she saw that Xingyun had been beaten so hard that she couldn't straighten up, she frowned and stared at the red-collared guard: "Where did you come from to bully others, how dare you provoke me...

This girl is watching. Are you tired of living, or do you want to die? "Shen Li is famous in the demon world. She has her own way of dealing with the mistakes of her soldiers, and the punishment will be severe.

Quickly take away half your life. But her soldiers cannot be punished by others, and they can't even curse. To be pretty, it means loving soldiers like children, but to be honest, it means good face. The people and goods that belong to her as King Bi Cang, how can she be bullied by others? Go.

The gate was closed, and the three guards stood up with help. They looked at each other. When they were silent, two objects suddenly flew out from the courtyard wall and shot straight into the ground in front of the three people like arrows. They sank more than an inch. The three looked carefully and found that they were the waist badges of the red-collared guards.

After a moment of silence, the front of Xingyun's door returned to peace.

"When did I become your man?" Xingyun stood bent over, holding his stomach, staring at Shen Li with a smile.

Shen Li ignored him, stared at him coldly for a while, then pointed at the moved stone at the door and asked him: "What is that?"

"Stone."

"Do you still want to be beaten?"

"Well, that's actually the stone pressing on the eye of the formation."

"Why put a stone there?"

"To suppress the power of the formation."

"Why suppress it?"

Xingyun glanced at her, hesitated for a long time and finally said: "This was put there on the second night after I brought you back. Otherwise, it would be too inconvenient for you to move after you became a human, and it would be inconvenient to play with you... Naturally, the separation of men and women is the most important reason why I put this stone. It is not good for you and I to be alone in the same room."

"In other words, on the third day after you brought me back, I could already become a human..." At that time, at that time, oh yes, that morning, he was seeing off the girl in plain clothes, so according to him-"When I ran out that day, I could become a human, and I wouldn't have to be chased and stewed by those mortals all over the street like a plucked chicken."

She could have been much less embarrassed...

"Well, that's about it." Xingyun paused, and sighed as if helplessly: "Another secret has been seen through by you, so sad."

Sad... sad? He actually had the nerve to say sad! She is the one who should be sad, okay!

Does this guy know how much damage her dignity has suffered because of the stone he moved! No... This guy must know, he must still be laughing at her in the dark, to see how she can struggle!

Shen Li's murderous heart surged, and her whole body twitched with hatred: "If I don't kill you, it will not be enough to appease the blood hatred in my heart." She gritted her teeth and said this word by word. When she looked up, she saw Xingyun holding his stomach and kneeling on the ground. She glared at him, "What! It's too late to apologize!"

Xingyun smiled bitterly: "No, it's just... cough..." Before he finished speaking, he threw himself forward and fainted.

Shen Li was startled, and suddenly felt that Xingyun's breath in the air was much weaker. This man was weak to begin with, and the guard didn't seem to be sparing his strength when beating him. Could it be that... something bad had happened to him? Thinking of this, for some reason, Shen Li's anger, which had not yet been vented, seemed to be poured with a basin of cold water, and died down. She hurriedly squatted beside Xingyun and reached out to feel his pulse. Then her face turned pale.

Weak, slow, and about to die...

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