Bone

Chapter 97

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"Help! Help—!"

Between the rice paddies, a large area of ​​crops was uprooted, footprints were scattered on the dirt road, and vegetables, fruits, vegetables and eggs were thrown all over the ground——behind the villagers who were shouting loudly and fleeing in panic, a thin sword fell to the ground, splashing mud and dust little bit.

A young man in green clothes was held tightly by a gigantic strange beast, he couldn't help struggling, he was about to be sent into the mouth when he saw it, a young man in white clothes flew towards the wind, and swept across the air with two swords in his hand——the aura passed by, the power of the strange beast The giant hand was divided into sections, and green juice shot out from it.

While the giant beast was roaring, the poisonous juice shot out, and the young man in Tsing Yi fell to the ground hard, covering his eyes and shouting repeatedly: "Qin Nianjiu, Qin Nianjiu, Qin Nianjiu——!"

And shouted: "My eyes—!"

The white-clothed boy named Qin Nianjiu didn't even look at him. He stepped on the left shoulder of the beast and jumped down. The two swords quickly and accurately pierced into the heart of the beast, and they crossed each other. All turned invisible and infiltrated into the mud.

Qin Nianjiu caught the still beating heart of the beast in the air, and landed lightly.He glanced at the deserted village, then turned around to look at the young man covering his eyes on the ground, and pursed his lips lightly.

Shi Shu put the heart in his sleeve, he bent down and lifted the boy up.

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"—The secret, the secret is, I have a nickname, called sister..."

In the medicine hut, Qin Nianjiu calmly looked at the young man in Tsing Yi, without any strange expression on his face.

The boy stared back at him, as if in shock, "...you didn't respond? I told you my biggest secret?!"

Seeing that Qin Nianjiu was still looking at him blankly, the young man muttered unhappily, "You really are a boring gourd..."

Then there was the phrase he had said many times: "Tsk, if my master hadn't always told me to get closer to you, I wouldn't bother to talk to you!"

However, Qin Nianjiu spoke in a rare way, "I don't know when the Immortal Yueyin said he wanted you to get close to me?"

"Say it every time—" The young man lazily leaned against the wall, suddenly wrinkled his face, made an angry face, and learned a deep voice: "Tan Junying! Don't talk too much with Guan Shizong's disciple!" Get close!"

After learning this sentence, the young man named Tan Junying spread his hands, "Here, he knows that I am the most disobedient, but he still wants to say that. Isn't this implying that I want to get closer to you?"

"..." Qin Nianjiu was silent for a moment, unwilling to waste any more time with him, got up and fetched the medicine bowl, "Drink the medicine."

The fried concoction was dark and sticky, with a fishy smell. Tan Junying wrinkled his face when he saw it, but he was not pretentious. He took the medicine bowl obediently, pinched his nose and drank it.

The concoction entered his throat, but in a short while, he broke out in sweat. It should be that the residual toxins in his body were dispelled a lot, and he felt refreshed... He smacked his lips, but couldn't tell what kind of flavor was added in it They all looked up at Qin Nianjiu curiously, "What kind of medicine is this, so miraculous?"

Qin Nianjiu took the empty bowl and said in a low voice, "The heart bound by the earth, fight poison with poison."

"..." Tan Junying's face turned green, and he rushed to the bedside, "voo voo voo——"

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"Hey, where did you come from, don't you have eyes?! Watch!"

The street was bustling, and Tan Junying was used to apologizing repeatedly to the people on the left and right, while lazily commanding Qin Nianjiu who was pulling him away, "Turn left, turn left——"

He teased him again, "It's rare to come to the world to get rid of evil spirits. Why did Qin Xianjun leave so quickly, why don't you experience the customs here?"

Unexpectedly, he didn't get any response, and he didn't show any embarrassment. He talked about the shops he had passed through one by one, "Here, this shop sells tea cakes. You don't know, it's outside the shop. The ones sold are usually inferior ones, the good ones are only willing to be sold to you if you are familiar with them at this store——

"It's the biggest noodle shop in town, but that's how I feel when I eat it—

"Hey, this one is mostly the Qinlou Chu Pavilion. I heard that the girls in it are all delicate and soft, with fragrant muscles and bones, and lotus growing every step of the way... Sigh, but I have never been in it!— —”

The capital city is prosperous, there are people performing arts and juggling on the side of the road, the sounds of talking, laughing, attracting, applauding, and Tan Junying's voice are mixed together, and the sounds are in my ears, but Qin Nianjiu just keeps going forward without turning his head .

Tan Junying said again: "Oh, the dragon beard candy sold in this mixed fruit shop is delicious-hey, stop! It's here!"

Qin Nianjiu stopped in his tracks and pulled him away from the crowd.

After taking a short breath on the steps, Tan Junying clicked his tongue twice, and stroked his sleeves that were wrinkled by the crowd, "It's the New Year's Eve, the imperial capital is always lively..."

Then he pointed to the tall courtyard next to him, "This is it, my home."

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"Come, come, move your chopsticks!"

There were a lot of dishes on the mahogany round table, and the heat was rising. Tan's family gathered around the table. Looking at Qin Nianjiu, his eyes were full of uncontrollable curiosity. Brother Tan's family coughed lightly, "This is the first time my younger sister brings friends home— —”

After receiving Tan Junying's fierce flying sniper, Brother Tan's elder brother coughed lightly again, pretending not to see it, and continued: "Xianjun is really as good-looking as my little sister said!"

The remaining three elder brothers immediately chimed in, "Yes, Xianzi is refined!"

"Extraordinary equipment!"

"Only high-spirited!"

Everyone burst into laughter, the atmosphere was so lively, but Tan Junying just wanted to tell them to shut up quickly, quickly filled them with bowls of vegetables and meat, and called the servants to add more wine for them, "...Eat, eat!"

But Qin Nianjiu just pursed his lips expressionlessly and nodded, "Excellent praise."

"Okay, okay! Neither humble nor overbearing, really calm." Mrs. Tan praised him with a smile, then looked at him earnestly and said: "I heard from my sister that what Xianjun cultivates is ruthlessness..."

Tan Jun accepted her words in a hurry, "He said ruthlessly."

Qin Nianjiu also nodded, "Yes."

Mrs. Tan said again: "Ah, how hard is that?"

Not knowing how to answer this question, Qin Nianjiu paused slightly, "..."

Tan Junying opened his mouth at the right time to help him out of the siege, "No, no, he is highly talented."

"Okay, very good——" Mrs. Tan nodded again and again, then turned to look at Tan Junying, and said with a sneer, "You have such a calm temper, you should have such a calm person by your side!"

Master Tan also said: "Learn more from others!"

"...I know, I know." Tan Junying could only answer with a bitter face, and picked up a chopstick of green vegetables for Qin Nianjiu, "Try this. ——I told them to make it lighter."

Qin Nianjiu never ate five grains, only tasted snow and dew, reluctantly twirled his chopsticks to taste, but couldn't taste anything at all, so he quietly put down the chopsticks.

Everyone was stunned when they saw this, Tan Junying hurriedly patted him, and reminded him in a low voice, "... wood, boast it's delicious!"

Qin Nianjiu nodded, and responded dryly, "It's delicious."

When everyone saw this, it was inevitable that there would be another burst of laughter.

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"be careful--"

The full moon was in the sky, and the howling of ghosts and people resounded through the mountains and fields, and there was no end to the sea of ​​corpses everywhere.

It was hard to tell whether the thing soaked into the white clothes was the pus and blood spurted by the ghosts or the blood of various sects. Qin Nianjiu held a long sword in his hand and leaped into the air, chasing after the fleeing aliens, and melted from his right wrist. The sword stopped, and the strange ghost was blasted into pieces.

Far behind is Tan Junying's alarmed call: "Qin Nianjiu——!"

Someone shouted again: "The ghost king is... ah!"

A gust of wind whirled up against the short scream, tearing the several clansmen in front of them into pieces, and amidst the blood mist and dust, the ghost king's angry voice exploded like thunder, "—— Why did you slaughter my people?!"

In the blink of an eye, more than a hundred sects jumped up and surrounded the monster covered in flames with their swords. In the chaos, someone said angrily: "'Wait'? You ghost Xiao Xiao took advantage of the breakdown of the barrier to create chaos and hurt countless people. Dare to ask why?!"

"For a hundred years, the Risheng Ghost Domain has been sealed in an enchantment, and it is hard to see the sun—" The ghost king smiled angrily, and with a sweep of his palm, a sea of ​​flames rose up, dragging most of the sect into the flames Among them, "There are only a thousand ghosts who escaped from the gap to do evil, but you are going to slaughter my tens of thousands of people!"

"It's ridiculous that ghosts talk about good and evil..." Elder Yutian picked up a few cultivators who fell into the fire, and was about to wave the Wuding demon banner in his hand, "Don't talk too much with it, let's kill them together!— —”

Two thin blue auras struck straight down, splitting the sea of ​​flames into two, and two red shadows jumped out of the middle, one of them attacked the ghost king with two swords, and the other tried his best to save all the sects from the sea of ​​flames——

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"Tsk, after this battle, you will be famous—"

In the exhausted drowsiness, the dense white fog intertwined in the mind, isolating all the sounds and pictures from the fog.

Qin Nianjiu opened his eyes in vain, and found that he was being carried on his back, walking very slowly as if the long road was endless, and the red sun was breaking dawn in the distance.

And the man was talking to him incessantly.

As far as the eye can see, there are embers of corpses everywhere.The clan members who were originally dressed in colorful clothes were already dyed red, and those who were still able to move were all busy drawing formations, healing people's wounds, picking up corpses...

Qin Nianjiu lost his strength and hung on Tan Junying's back, listening to what he said, he inadvertently asked him why he didn't use magic spells to take him back since he had the strength to speak, but slowly closed his eyes again.

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"...Hey? Is there any movement over there?"

At night, the lights of the small town are far away, and the lake is silent.

Suddenly, he heard a vague roar in the distance, just as Tan Junying asked, he turned his head and found that Qin Nianjiu beside him had melted two swords from his hands, and leaped over... He couldn't help shaking his head and sighing, "Why are you always in such a hurry... …Well."

As soon as he put away the silver fan in his hand, he walked over quickly, "What's going on here?"

"Water ghosts are causing trouble." Qin Nianjiu held a sallow, skinny, drenched little beggar in one hand, and pulled his long hair that looked like a waterfall of algae with the other hand. water stains.

Tan Junying hurriedly covered his nose with a silver fan, and glanced at the shapeless water ghost with disgust, "It's loose, what's the use of grabbing it! It smells so bad, I'm afraid it will dirty the alchemy furnace when I take it back to refine medicine... "

Qin Nianjiu let go of the water ghost as he said.

Looking at the little beggar who was still in shock and was too terrified to shed tears, Tan Junying realized that his words seemed to be somewhat ambiguous, and coughed lightly, "No, no, I didn't mean to use you to make alchemy... We are decent sects people!"

He hurriedly coaxed him a few more words, "It's all right, luckily you were lucky enough to meet Qin Xianzun—"

The child was trembling uncontrollably, but shook his head in panic. It took him a long time to utter a few words in a voice like a gnat: "...Yes, yes. It was the immortal who saved me..."

"Why did you say that like you were under coercion..." Tan Junying laughed out loud, patted him on the back to comfort him, but suddenly opened his eyes wide, "Hey, this kid is still a child A soul with bones? No wonder that water ghost just wanted to catch him as a dead ghost!"

After Qin Nianjiu heard the words, he lightly pressed the back of the little beggar's neck, and said after a while: "Indeed."

"Hmm..." Looking at the child who was hugging Qin Nianjiu tightly, Tan Junying playfully picked his chin with a silver fan, and half-jokingly said with Qin Nianjiu: "If that's the case, why don't you accept him as your apprentice?" , look at how thin your sect members are—”

In the middle of the sentence, even before Qin Nianjiu expressed his opinion, the little beggar hurriedly shouted, "Master!"

"Hey," Tan Junying slapped him on the back of the head pretending to be dissatisfied, "What kind of master is he called? Those who cultivate the sect should be called masters."

The little beggar shouted anxiously again, "Master!"

——There was no room left for Qin Nianjiu to speak, and the matter was settled by these two people without their will.

He lighted a small fire with the "Made From Nothing" casually, and dried the wet hair of the disciple of Guanshizong who had not yet started. Tan Junying said with great interest: "In this case, we must give him a name, right? —— Is your surname better or mine? How can you say that you are his master, but I proposed to accept him... Is it better to talk about it, or is it better to listen to Qin?"

While the flames were dancing, Qin Nianjiu didn't look at him, and didn't respond to him, he just said indifferently: "Then call it Hengjian."

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"How, this is Jucang Mountain, the scenery is not bad, isn't it?"

Tan Junying sat on the tree in a leisurely posture, and looked at the two kneeling and standing under the tree with a smile, "If you touch the top, I will accept you as an entry-after they come back from removing evil spirits, I will make up for you." of!"

The breeze was refreshing, and no one said anything to him.Qin Nianjiu lowered his eyes slightly, and put his hands on the top of Hengjian's hair.

Heng Jian shook slightly, and raised his head, his expression was still a little timid and cowardly, but uncontrollable joy trembled from his eyes.

The morning light in the sky was not as warm as his clear pupils. He looked up at Qin Nianjiu and smiled at him——

——"Crack."

The white snow all over the mountain melted away with a snap of his fingers, Qin Nianjiu watched in amazement as the little face he was caressing under his palm peeled off a little bit of flesh, his eyes were sunken deep into the eye sockets, maggots came out from below, and gnawed on the rotten flesh. minced meat--

The soft hair that was caressing under the palm has turned into a dry, yellow, cracked, extremely cold skull, but Heng Jian still grinned like that, until the jaws that were no longer connected by flesh and flesh could no longer hang on his jaw, "Ka" The sound came loose, and thousands of maggots struggled and twisted out of his mouth, murmuring in a low voice: "...broken, broken way..."

"Hengjian!!"

Qin Nianjiu stared at this scene with his eyes tearing apart, as if a gust of wind was raging in his ears, whistling and whistling poured directly into his brain from the pinnae of his ears, and what was swept up was the dust of his predecessors——