Chapter 418 The non-demon who showed his tail
Lao Chong still couldn't accept the fact that a half demon who was very likely to become a good brother was actually pretended to be a Taoist priest. He strode out of the tent and stood at the door, unable to calm down for a long time. His mood gradually changed from confusion, shock to shame and indignation. He turned suddenly and said loudly: "How could you be a Taoist priest? You are not a human at all."
Mu Xingqiu had just walked out of the tent. Although everyone thought this might be a trap, he decided to meet this "old friend of Pangshan" for a while. Hearing Lao Chi's questioning, he smiled slightly, "I am indeed a Taoist priest and a human."
Lao Chi shook his head firmly, "Impossible, when fighting together, I can feel that you are full of demonic power... Maybe you are a descendant of the demon clan and accidentally fell into the world." Lao Chi's eyes lit up, "If Yi Shijun bites you, the truth will be revealed."
Mu Xingqiu does not know who his biological parents are, but he knows that he is a pure human being. Pang Shan has conducted the most comprehensive examination of him. If he has a little demon bloodline, he would have been taken out by the great law enforcement master Shen Jun as evidence of guilt. "Sorry, I have no doubt about my identity."
Lao Chi took big steps forward, and his tall body looked like a moving mountain in the night.
The stronghold has been closed, and in the four corners is a wooden whistle tower that is more than ten feet high. The top is not a flying demon nest, but a light green demon fire. Above the flames is a huge heart that is still beating, and occasionally makes a drum-like sound.
The camp was quiet, with no fire, and no other demon soldiers walking around. At the entrance of an ordinary cave near the tent, Lao Chu stopped, "You must have the bloodline of the demon clan, otherwise you were born wrong."
Mu Xingqiu still smiled slightly and walked into the cave.
The cave was very clean, with traces of just being cleaned up. There was no light, and Mu Xingqiu saw the old friend of Pangshan who invited him out with his eyes. "It was indeed you." Mu Xingqiu sighed softly. Among the many possibilities, this was the one he least wanted to see.
The man opposite was not tall. Although it was summer, he was wearing a thick fur coat. If you look closely, you will find that the thick fur covering the upper body was actually his tail. His tail was snow-white and fluffy. He broke it over his shoulder and folded it to his front, and the tip of his tail was hanging to his waist.
The appearance of the non-demon Pei Zihan did not stay at a certain stage in the past, and grew normally, the childishness on his face completely disappeared, more mature and more calm. This was the expression he rarely appeared when he practiced in Pangshan before.
In Taoist sect, non-demons are aliens. The non-demons who have tails and are discovered by their fellow disciples are more like sheep living in wolves. During those years, Pei Zihan was frightened every moment, and his face always looked like a panic. He could condense his energy into a pill. It was far beyond the expectations of many people.
Now he is standing with a smile on his face and his hands are on his back. He used to appear once a month and wished he could cut off his tail with one knife. Now he is showing up openly and becoming the most proud part of him.
"Long time no see," said Pei Zihan.
"Six years."
"I think I should give you an explanation."
Mu Xingqiu shook his head, "No need. The matter is very clear. The one that needs to be explained by you is Xiao Qingtao."
Xiao Qingtao is Pei Zihan's cousin, and there is also Pei Ziqi. The three of them are from Furong Mountain's non-demon family. Entering Pang Mountain together is a grand event in the Pei family.
"I'm afraid there is no chance." Pei Zihan looked a little sad, "And she couldn't understand my situation. She made new friends as soon as she joined Pang Shan. Even in the most difficult period, there were people around her who protected and comforted her. No, her situation was completely different from mine. We were not on the same road. And you, Mu Xingqiu of Yelin Town, may be able to understand my choice."
Both of them were once regarded as aliens. Mu Xingqiu suffered no less suspicion than non-demons, but their reactions were different. Mu Xingqiu always resisted stubbornly and eventually became the only disciple of Nianxin Department. Pei Zihan always endured it until he no longer wanted to endure it.
"Where is Pei Ziqi?" Mu Xingqiu asked, only Xiao Qingtao, the three siblings of the Pei family, left the ancestor peak.
"Diet, as Taoist priest Pangshan, he died like everyone else." Pei Zihan said lightly, as if he was just a relative who had died.
"Furong Mountain was destroyed by demon soldiers."
"I know that the Giant Demon King once sent someone to persuade the surrender, but they refused to betray humans. This is a war, and the demon clan is the weaker side, and we have no room for tolerance and qualifications."
"This is a war." Mu Xingqiu repeated, and the little guilt that he felt for Lao Chong disappeared, "When did it start?"
Mu Xingqiu's question was a little abrupt, but Pei Zihan understood what this sentence meant, "A year before the Battle of the Ancestor Peak, I found the Giant Demon King in the back mountain. The scene of his transformation from a human form to a wolf has been flashing in my mind. I think I can find something from him."
Pei Zihan raised his head and thought for a while. He hadn't thought about that scene again for several years. "Beast monster, half demon, non-demon, no matter how human we are, there is a wild beast hidden in our body. This is not a beast shape transformed from magic, but a real ancestral mark. It has been passed down from generation to generation since tens of thousands or even millions of years ago. Only non-demons who are deeply influenced by humans will be ashamed of it. After the giant demon king was taken away, he revealed his ancestor's shape, but I don't have a demon pill, and I didn't even have an inner pill before, so why can I still maintain a human shape? I am curious about this."
"Did Qi Wushang give you the answer?"
"No, the Giant Demon King is a warrior and a leader, not a wise man. Yi Shijun may be able to give me an answer, but he disappeared before the war." Pei Zihan was silent for a moment, and the following narrative became much simpler. "The Giant Demon King had recovered some of his memories at that time, but he did not have a demon pill, so he felt more painful. I helped him and gained his trust. That night, I brought him into the Old Ancestor Peak, and I had already inquired about how to destroy the instant platform and make Pangshan isolated and helpless. The Demon Fire Mountain had been buried long ago, and the Fei Clan was also dormant in the depths of more than ten feet underground, and everything was for that night. It was not a perfect plan, but a desperate adventure. The Giant Demon King didn't care, and I didn't care. Neither of us thought it would be a great success, nor did we expect that this success would be ruined in Duanliu City."
Pei Zihan's explanation made the battle at the Ancestor Peak clearer, but Mu Xingqiu didn't care about it anymore. The time has passed, everything that should have happened has happened, and the truth cannot be changed.
"I want to take away all the captured Taoist priests and humans, and the new Shijun."
"Haha, you haven't changed at all. You always put things on yourself, no matter how much it has to do with you, no matter whether you have the ability or not. You have helped me before, but I have never forgotten. This time we meet is mainly to express our gratitude to you."
Strictly speaking, Mu Xingqiu helped Fangfang and Xiao Qingtao at that time. He was not biased against non-demons, but his favorability was not as good as he had to make friends.
"Do I need to tell Xiao Qingtao your situation?"
"No, sooner or later, she will see me who has become a giant demon with her own eyes." Pei Zihan smiled, a clear smile that only Taoist priests had. "And you can't leave here. I want to leave you. If it really doesn't work, I can only kill you. We must not let a group of Taoist priests come and go, let alone let you take the new king away. After the Yishijun disappeared, there were five successors left. The new king was one of them. They each mastered some records of ancient magic and were trying one by one. It would take at least thirty years to complete them all."
"It's him who helped you practice magic, right?"
"Well, I haven't done anything else in the past six years. I've focused on refining the inner elixir into demon pills. Thanks to the help of the new king, I've achieved some success and been able to control the Holy Cloud. I guess you've seen the Holy Cloud Arrow, which is just a small test. We have a more powerful magic trick, because we don't want to hurt too many demon soldiers by chance, so we haven't used it."
Pei Zihan seemed gentle and elegant even when he issued a threat, and seemed a little embarrassed, so he tried to make the threat easier.
"We seem to have no other choice except to kill the new king and fight with Yao Yun to death."
"We are going to provide a choice, the Seven Holy Clouds fight against the Seven Taoists, find an empty place, both sides can do their best, the winners take all, the losers... are the losers."
"Seven Taoist priests? I have only six Taoist priests who have made up my mind." Mu Xingqiu counted Xin Youtao.
"We will pick one Taoist priest from among the eleven prisoners and lend it to you."
Mu Xingqiu thought for a while, "Okay."
"There are few fair battles between the demon clan and the Taoist priests. I hope we can set an example."
"Hopefully so. I have learned some new spells in recent years."
"I know, you have absorbed more than 100,000 souls in Duanliu City. This kind of spell was shocked even the Giant Demon King. You broke the fish and dragon formation with lightning a few days ago, which opened our eyes. It was precisely to see all your abilities that the other six Holy Cloud Envoys were willing to accept this fair battle."
"I choose the time, after an hour, the battle will be fought at dawn."
"I chose a location. There is a valley twenty miles northeast from here, surrounded by peaks, which is enough for us to fight."
Non-Yao Pei Zihan is a real betrayer, but Mu Xingqiu didn’t feel any resentment in his heart, but he just felt regretful, “How many Taoist priests in Pangshan are alive?”
"Not ten, only the giant demon king knows where they are locked up."
"Where is the Mengdu Sect? How could he become an Amber Taoist priest?"
Pei Zihan smiled again, "Mengdu Sect is a good person, but he has gone too far on the road to the heaven-defying technique. He refined his whole body into inner alchemy, wrapped in a thick layer of solidified spiritual energy, like a translucent amber, but he is not dead and cannot break free from the constraints he created. He has a skill that can absorb demonic power and magic power, and even demonic pills and inner alchemy. Taoists also have similar magic spells, but to form a formation, they also need to use the assistance of a large number of magic weapons. Mengdu Sect doesn't use it, and everything is easy for him. You can imagine how powerful a weapon he would be if used properly."
Mu Xingqiu did not ask the facts clearly from the Taoist priest of Luanjingshan, but he got an explanation from a non-demon who betrayed the Taoist throne. "After this battle, I will rescue the Mengdu Sect."
Pei Zihan bowed slightly, showing no sign of ridicule.
Chapter completed!