Chapter 38 Whose Desire
On the eighth day of the first lunar month, the sky was gloomy and drizzle suddenly started falling.The streets were decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations, and everyone was beaming with joy.A lantern vendor enthusiastically invited people around him to join him for a wedding banquet.

"Brother, today the Gu family is getting married, and the palace is open for a banquet to entertain guests from all over. Shall we go and have a look together?"

The person who was invited was an honest porter who never knew much about what was happening in the outside world. He asked out of curiosity: "Is it the famous Gu family? Isn't there just one young master in his family?"

"You see, I am ignorant. The one I am marrying today is the adopted daughter of the Gu family. Her surname is Song and her name is Song Yihe. Although she is an adopted daughter, she is loved by her parents and elders. No, she has been prepared for everything."

"It's interesting, let's go and have a look."

The two of them walked to Gu's house arm in arm, just in time to see the bride getting married.

Song Yihe, with his head covered with pearls and emerald green, and his wedding dress like blood, stood in front of the wedding sedan.

Why am I here?I shouldn't be in...

What shouldn't be there?She was confused and felt that she had forgotten something important.

"Xiaohe? Xiaohe? Did you hear me talking to you?" The energetic old man stood at the door, with worry and love in his eyes.

"Grandpa, tell me, I'm listening."

As if she already knew who this person was, Song Yihe called out his name smoothly.

"If that brat from the Zhou family bullies you, come home and grandpa will support you!"

"Oh, I got it. Isn't there Gu Changzhou? Brother Changzhou will also help me." The girl raised a sweet smile and looked at the person standing silently behind her.

Today, his sister is getting married, but he is dressed in black, with only a few red threads embroidered on it to express his meaning.

Song Yihe looked over, but he turned his head away, as if he was losing his temper.

Why is Gu Changzhou here too?Song Yihe's consciousness cleared for a moment, and then continued to sink in the blink of an eye.

She felt happy to be getting married today, but when she saw this silent young man, she suddenly felt a sour feeling rising in her heart, as if there were some unfinished words stuck in her throat.

Xipo came over and reminded her softly: "Girl, the groom is here and it's time for us to leave."

"Yihe bids farewell to my grandfather." Song Yihe held up her skirt and bowed at the door. After kowtowing, she turned around and got on the sedan chair.

Her groom also said goodbye to his elders: "Grandpa, don't worry, my grandson-in-law will definitely treat Yihe well."

"Okay, okay." The Gu family's grandfather nodded happily.

The procession to welcome the bride set off with great fanfare.

The young man who was awkward just now turned his head and stared at the red sedan chair again, as if he wanted to see clearly the people inside through the layers of red silk.

Unlike Song Yihe, Gu Changzhou fell into despair as soon as he fell into this illusion.

Now his heart is full of sourness and a little bit angry.

The day before the wedding, he asked her in the backyard: "Do you have to get married?"

"What's wrong? Brother Zhou is a very nice person." Song Yihe tilted her head and asked in a sweet voice, "Don't you like him?"

"I don't like it." Gu Changzhou's voice was firm.

"But I have to get married eventually. I can't stay in Gu's house and be an adopted daughter for the rest of my life." The girl replied softly.

"What's wrong with being an adopted daughter? Who dares to criticize you?"

Song Yihe shrank his neck: "Brother Changzhou, you are so fierce."

The young man's voice softened instantly: "You know, I'm not trying to hurt you."

"But you also know that what I want to do is not to be the adopted daughter of the Gu family." The girl's voice was so soft that it seemed to be blown away by the wind, but the backyard was so quiet that not even a leaf fell, so they all heard this sentence.

"If you get married, then I won't stay in the Gu family." Gu Changzhou said after being silent for a long time.

"Then where are you going?" Song Yihe's voice became softer and softer.

"I want to go to the Asking Heart Sect to practice Taoism and practice the Tao of Ruthlessness." The young man looked at her sideways and emphasized the last four words.

"Then you go."

The two broke up unhappy in the end, and only the broken flower whose juice was crushed by the girl proved that this conversation had ever existed.

The bright red hijab covers her pretty face, and the red candle burns quietly, gradually melting into a pool of blood and tears.

After paying homage, Song Yihe sat on the wedding bed, quietly waiting for her husband like all brides do.

After a long time, the noise in the front hall dissipated like a tide, and the groom came back.

Song Yihe naturally knew who this was.

Zhou Yu, the eldest son of the Zhou family who had admired her since she was a child, came from a wealthy family and was a good match chosen by her grandfather for him.

Song Yihe felt grateful and appreciative of him in her heart, but she had no feelings of admiration.

"Sister Yihe, you are so beautiful today." He lifted his hijab, his face flushed, his eyes blurred, and he was obviously drunk.

The girl avoided the hand he stretched out to her, but kept her eyes on the door.

"Your husband has arrived, why are you still looking out the door? Who are you waiting for? You just sat on the wedding bed of my Zhou family, which man are you thinking about? It's Gu Changzhou, right? This is all for this reason You still have extravagant hopes? Why did that coward come? He was afraid of being blamed for the incest between brother and sister, so how dare he come?!" Zhou Yu suddenly had a fit, his eyes were red, and he pinched her cheeks and shouted.

Song Yihe tried her best to break away from him and said sternly: "He and I are not brother and sister!"

Zhou Yu was stunned, then laughed maniacally: "You admit it? You are just thinking about Gu Changzhou, you ignorant woman." He suddenly got angry and slapped her hard.

Song Yihe fell to the ground, got up and ran out without stopping, muttering: "I won't get married! I won't get married!"

But when she opened the door, another hell awaited her.

Two men, all covered in black robes, stood at the door. With a wave of their hands, she passed out.When Song Yihe woke up again, he was in a completely unfamiliar environment, with only a dim candle beside him.

This is where?

When the girl moved, she felt as if the flesh and blood of her neck had been torn open, causing her to scream in pain.

There was a sound outside the door. It was Zhou Yu who ran in after hearing the sound.

With the light behind him, his expression could not be seen clearly, and he tripped over the hem of his clothes when he ran in.

"What's wrong? What's wrong? What's wrong? They clearly said it doesn't hurt." Zhou Yu asked repeatedly.

"Where is this? What happened to me? What did you do to me!" Song Yihe covered his neck with one hand and touched a thin hose.

"Don't get excited yet." Zhou Yu helped the person lie down.

Under the candlelight and a little bit of skylight, Song Yihe finally saw clearly what was going on inside the house.

This is a dilapidated wooden house. She is lying on a piece of dead grass, with a hose connected to her neck, and the black floc inside is being continuously fed into her body.

"What is this?" Song Yihe grabbed the tube, his whole body was shaking, and he was extremely scared.

"This, this is..." Zhou Yu didn't know how to explain it to her, he was hesitating and couldn't come up with a reason.

At this time, two more people walked in outside, the same two who tied her up before.

Their voices were rough, as if they had gravel in their throats.

"This is a good thing that can make your husband become an immortal. In order to get this, he would even trade his new wife for it."

"What good thing? Tell me clearly!"

"This is called demonic energy. With this thing and you, we can create some supreme elixirs. When mortals or monks eat them, they will feel like immortals and want to die, unlike in the human world. We call it Yu Dan!" The man came closer, took off his hood, made a gesture of raising a glass to get drunk, and laughed.

Only then did Song Yihe see clearly that their eyes were blood red, and one person's ear even had a bloody hole. The rotten flesh inside was squirming and emitting a faint black air.

Song Yihe was scared to death: "This is not true, Zhou Yu, are you kidding me, right? Let me out, and I will never mess with you again. Let's live a good life, okay?"

Zhou Yu lowered his head and remained silent.

Instead, the two men answered for him.

"Want to ask for a husband?"

"late!"

"Your husband can't help it. How can a person who eats Yu Dan still have self-esteem?"

"They are all puppets, they are all feather puppets!"

Song Yihe became more and more frightened and wanted to grab Zhou Yu's neck and question her, but had to give up because of the pain. She shouted in a sharp voice and in disbelief: "Zhou Yu, are you mute? Do you really dare to do this? The Gu family I won't let you go! Someone will definitely come to save me! By then, it will be too late even if you die to apologize!"

Zhou Yu suddenly became excited, "Hahahahaha, are you saying that Gu Changzhou will definitely come to save you? Let me tell you, at the wedding yesterday, everyone in your Gu family ate Yudan. No one can escape from Yudan's control. , no one! Even your Gu Changzhou left the imperial capital immediately after worshiping. You don’t know where he is going, right? "

Song Yihe fell silent for a moment, as if someone had hit him on the head with an awl. He suddenly felt cold all over and even his breathing stopped.

Where is Gu Changzhou going?He said he wanted to go to the Wenxin Sect and practice the ruthless way.

In the days that followed, Song Yihe lived in a haze every day. From the words of those who came to feed her, she knew that her body was now ulcerated, and she was no different from those demons.

The thing in her neck never stopped for a moment. She wanted to pull out the hose and commit suicide, so these people cut off her tongue, tied it up, and lived like an animal all day long.

The wooden door that symbolized freedom opened and closed, but she never waited for the person she wanted to wait for.

On this day, the two demons finally couldn't wait any longer.

"The feather pills in my hand are about to be used up. Why hasn't this woman reached the last step? Logically speaking, she should have been completely alienated long ago."

"Why are you anxious? Nowadays, all the Nanyu Kingdom are full of feather puppets. Are you afraid that you won't find anyone like her again?"

"That's true."

On the contrary, the last light in Song Yihe's eyes extinguished after hearing this.

"Hey, look, the alienation has finally begun."

……

In the wind and fire forest, scale powder flapped with the wings of the Dream Butterfly, gradually forming a pair of blue wings behind the four people.

As they fell into the illusion, the dream butterflies that threw themselves into the sea of ​​fire and fed on their desires were resurrected one after another.

The dreamy blue scale powder fell again, and the intertwining of red and blue formed a strange dream.

This silent hunt lasted for three days, and it wasn't until Tan Qing led his team passing by that he discovered a few of them.

The powerful sword energy swept away. I thought these seemingly weak creatures would die instantly, but unexpectedly they were blocked by a blue light curtain.

Dan Xiu from Tan Qing's team explained: "Dream Butterflies are rare and are a very special kind of monster. They live in groups and feed on the monks' strong desires. Judging from the size of these Dream Butterflies, they should have eaten a lot of people. . They seem to be weak, but in fact, the scale powder contains powerful demonic power. When combined, they can block the full blow of the Jindan cultivator. In fact, looking at their current number, it may take Nascent Soul to deal with them."

"Is there any other way?" Tan Qing asked with a frown.

"I brought two incense sticks. Lighting them can help them escape from the illusion, but whether they can truly wake up depends on themselves."

Several people lit incense and stood aside.

Tan Qing's worried eyes glanced at the girl in the center of the butterfly several times, still crying with her eyes closed.

What happened to deserve this sadness?

(End of this chapter)

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