Chapter 111 Funeral

The mermaid dancer in a white dress walked slowly in the water with a small boat.

On the boat, the mermaid girl Yuchan was lying there quietly. Her hair and body were full of flowers stained with dewdrops, and her slightly pink face was slightly ruddy, which made people feel that she was just asleep.

The long wavy skirt with blue gold thread embroidery on her body was exactly the same as the one she wore when Xia Qiu saw her in her dream, but there was an exquisite belt full of colorful gems and feathers on her waist.

Thousands of white sails have already been raised on the lake in Dongyao City, around the boat carrying jade cicadas to see her off. Everyone standing on those boats held a lotus lamp in their hands and quietly paid attention to the direction of the jade cicada.

As a mermaid, it is unprecedented to get such a ceremonial burial. Qianqi really prepared all this for her like his own sister.

Xia Qiu and Ling Yu picked flowers for her in the palace garden and carefully dressed her up. In her eyes, Yu Chan is so beautiful that she would rather sacrifice herself for the people she loves deeply without regret.

Her sentence "Don't ask for love, but don't forget!" Still echoing in Ouyang Xiao Leng's ear, he didn't know what to do for her, so he recited the last paragraph of the Heart Sutra, wishing that it could guide her soul to the other side of the light.

"Reveal the talis, the talis, the talistalis, the talis, the sattva sattva."

During the drag of the mermaid dancers, the boat sailed to the middle of the lake. With the ethereal singing of the male mermaid singers on the boat next to them, the dancers began to dance around the boat in the water.

That is the traditional dance that the mermaids only dance when they practice for their companions. Qianqi insists on not letting them do any spiritual dance, but only this one, because he does not want to make this ceremony too sad in his heart.

The ferryman rowed the boat he and several other teenagers took to the side of Yu Chan's boat. They looked at the beautiful girl carefully for the last time. In the sunset, she became a real princess.

Although he is reluctant to give up, Qianqi knows that it's time. He ordered the ferryman to row the boat out of a distance, and then called out the dragon fire bow on his arm to release an arrow at the jade cicada's boat. The whole boat burned, and the flames rushed into the air.

Cremation is a tradition of the mermaid clan, and Qianqi does not want to violate it.

Because they come from water, and they have lived there most of the time in the past, so in order to get a completely different fate in the next life, they believe in burning the skins of this life with a fire after death, so that they can be reborn in the fire.

After the grand funeral, the trip to the water city also came to an end for the time being. Seeing that the Amber Dragon King was fine, several teenagers decided to say goodbye to Dongyao and return to the royal city.

During the period when they left, Wangcheng was still calm.

Ouyang Hongye sent a seven-person group of secret weapon intelligence he trained as planned to secretly investigate the details of the king's red-eared demon.

I don't know if it's a coincidence that the Tucheng Qingyang in the strange array once belonged to the demon clan. And the king's red-eared demon spirit is exactly the descendant of the patriarch of the demon clan. His intuition tells Ouyang Hongye that there must be inextricable links between them.

After days of tracking and investigation by the intelligence group of seven, some clues were finally found.

The Red-eared Demon Spirit has only one son called the leader. Kui was attacked by unknown evil spirits when he was a child. Since then, he has been weak and no longer grows up. He, who should have been an adult, still looks like he was attacked when he was six years old. In the demon world, this situation is called ghost hiding.

The so-called ghosts or monsters that are powerful and born by ingesting the demonic power of others will set the underage demon circle as his supporter. He and the proponent will be connected by an invisible tube, and the evil ghost will use this tube to absorb its demon power and vitality from these children. The time when the donor is completely sucked out is also the moment of his death.

Dong Muya and Min Entong also used this time to collect a lot of information about Qingyang. Because the water and soil of Qingyang are different from other places, it is especially suitable for planting several plants that can make elixirs, and the elixirs made from plants planted in Qingyang not only double the effect of the medicine, but also the side effects are not so obvious.

The palace where the owner of Qingyang once lived is called the King's Palace. As the name implies, this palace is in a royal shape, and an avenue in the palace connects the front hall, the main hall and the apse respectively.

In the meaning of the seven heavens, the stepped Qingyang City is divided into seven levels. The demon people live according to their identity, and the higher the identity, the higher the level of residence. The palace is at the top, and the lower levels are nobles, merchants, soldiers, and then almost all civilians born by planting elixirs.

In the past hundred years, children born in Qingyang City have been repeatedly hidden by ghosts. They will die in their twenties. Therefore, nobles and merchants have abandoned the city one after another, and the whole city has declined, leaving only the old and weak still remaining in the city. But in fact, leaving Qingyang does not prevent the ghost from happening. Although Kui, the son of the Red-eared Demon Spirit, was born in Wangcheng, he still did not escape the fate of Ghost Yin.

Over the years, in order to continue his son's life, the Red-eared Demon Spirit has often traveled back and forth between Yongchuan and Qingyang.

Ouyang Hongye remembers that Ling Yu from Chilemir, the Fire City, once said that Qingyun doesn't know what kind of persistent disease or serious injury he has, so he has always needed to eat the elixir. Is it just a coincidence that the salamant, the owner of the Fire City, will send a convoy out of the city to buy it for him, and the place where the convoy will go is exactly Tucheng Qingyang? He definitely doesn't think so!

According to the previous analysis of Min Entong, the array material in Qingyang, Tucheng is fragrant soil.

The only thing related to fragrant soil in Qingyang should be the sculpture created by the Moling clan in the Futu Hall in the apse Hall of the King's Palace for the ape Red Demon they believe in.

Ape Red Devil is a legendary figure when the demon clan was just established 700 years ago. It is said that he is eight feet tall, wearing gold armor, his feet are like a clock, his heart is like a drum, and his strength is infinite. What he is best at is stepping on his opponent vigorously during jumping, and what is more peculiar about him is that it is rumored that he has a thousand arms, and each arm can be used. Different weapons.

But none of the records are about how he died. There are only a few big monsters that can compete with him in the demon world. It is reasonable that he should not suddenly disappear in the demon world and never appear again.

After he disappeared, the demon family shaped the statue with red copper, which was not only the same size as him, but also had a thousand arms. They found fragrant soil to fill it and worshiped it in the Futu Hall of the King's Palace, so that his undead could continue to protect the Qingyang.

There is also a sensational rumor about him, saying that he was blindly pursuing power in the later period, and he liked to eat children to increase demon power. Some people also said that the ghost that happened later in Qingyang was related to the ape red demon.

In the past few days, something more unusual happened. The red-eared demon spirit took his son Kui to sneak out of the royal city in a demon carriage at night. The seven-person intelligence group secretly followed him, but found that he had returned to Qingyang with his son. During this period, his move obviously had a special meaning.

Ouyang Hongye ordered the seven people to stay in Qingyang, stay quietly, and continue to observe the movements of the red-eared demon. At this time, what he hopes most is that Wang Yue can appear and help him.

From Wangyue to save Ouyang Xiaoler and others in Chilemir, he did not appear at the contact point with the three purposes. No one knew what happened to him later. However, Ouyang Hongye always believes that with his strength and the blessing of his brother's spirit in heaven, he will be able to escape.

After leaving Dongyao, several teenagers decided to sleep out for one night on the way back to the royal city. In the evening, they passed by a barren mountain and happened to find a cave that could shelter from the wind and cold, so they called their demon horses into the cave. At this time, the night lanterns obtained in Dongyao had a chance to play a role, and they each walked into the cave.

"I really don't want to live in such a place. It's gloomy and damp, and it's easy to produce strange things!" Ling Yu complained.

Qianqi stared at him and said, "Don't talk nonsense to scare Xia Qiu!"

Xia Qiu quickly advised, "It doesn't matter. There is nothing to be afraid of you here!"

Looking at them, she felt a little funny. Qianqi used to compete with Ouyang Xiao Leng, but now it's more lively with a Lingyu.

Ouyang Xiao Leng, who has been silent since entering the hole, suddenly made a gesture and whispered, "Don't talk!"

Among them, his sense of smell and feeling are the most effective. He had found some strange breaths in the air, but he was not sure whether the breath was left in the past or whether the owner of the breath still existed in the cave. But the deeper he went to the cave, the more he felt that there were other people in the cave besides them.

Several teenagers summoned their own weapons and decided to meet the possible challenges at any time. They found a pile of firewood that had just been extinguished in a slightly open place in front of them. It was likely that the other party also found that someone had entered the cave before it was quickly extinguished.

A dark shadow rushed down from the cave. Ouyang Xiao Leng, Qian Qi and Ling Yu quickly protected Xia Qiu behind them and fought against the shadow.

But the uninvited person in a black cloak did not fight with them head-on, but just dodged back and forth, and even bare-handed, which made them very strange.

"Stop fighting, Brother Shadow, I know it's you!" Ling Yu suddenly stopped and shouted.

The dark shadow lifted the hat on the cloak and showed its true face. Ouyang Xiao Leng and others saw that it was indeed the moon.

Wang Yue with a stubble face, and the braids on his head looked more messy than before. He smiled cheerfully and said to them, "I haven't seen you for a long time!"

Ouyang Xiao Leng asked, "Since you know it's us, why didn't you talk just now?"

Wang Yue touched her head and answered him: "I've been hiding during this period, and I also want to move my muscles and bones!"

It turned out that he had been tracked by Qingyun's men since he escaped from Chilemir. At first, he decided to kill one when he found one, but later he realized that he could not kill all these stalkers at all, and they would always pour out. Obviously, he had been lurking in the eastern hotel and suddenly helped the demon king fox escape, which aroused great interest in Qingyun.

It took him a lot of effort to barely get rid of the stalkers, but he was afraid that those people would still hide in the dark, so he did not dare to go back to the place where he met Sanmu, and chose a person to eat and sleep everywhere. This cave is where he has been settled in the past few days, but he didn't expect to meet Ouyang Xiao Leng and others here.