Chapter 206: To the Soul Forest ⑥: Bamboo Yu Chapter
Chapter 206: To the Soul Forest ⑥: Bamboo Yu Chapter
Before the man on the opposite side could speak, a man stood up tremblingly behind Xu An. The man seemed to be possessed by an evil spirit, and his struggling expression suddenly became calm.
He raised his hand, the sharp arrow ready to shoot.
Suddenly, the arrow flew towards the woman at a high speed.
"Liu Yi..."
"Be careful--"
There was a whooshing sound, and almost in an instant, the bright red arrow pierced through Liu Yixiao's chest, and he protected her in an instant.
Some real blood splashed on Xu An's clothes. She widened her eyes in panic. The person in front of her fell towards her with a miserable face, "Liu Yixiao——"
She raised her hand to hug him, but everything in front of her suddenly disappeared like smoke.
The man who fell towards her also disappeared like a wisp of smoke along with the surrounding scenery.
Before Liu Yixiao's outstretched right hand touched her face, everything around him was already white. "Okay..."
"Liu Yixiao! Liu Yixiao!"
Xu An fell to her knees, her heart aching as if it were being cut by a knife. She looked around in horror, "System! System! Please save him! He can't die here like this! He shouldn't die in a dream!"
"Ding - Hello Xu An, if you die in the nightmare, there will be no resurrection. The Soul Forest is full of dangers, so be careful. Please complete the task in time. The deadline has been extended to the thirteenth day."
A cold female voice came from nowhere, which made Xu An even more desperate.
If he died in the nightmare, he would never come back.
Overwhelming pain swept over her, and her heart felt as if it was being squeezed tightly and would break in the next second.
"Master! Master's wife... Ah Zhen... wake up, wake up..."
A hoarse child's voice rang in Xu An's ears. Before she could recover from her grief, she appeared on the blood-stained ground again.
This place seems to be the sect’s territory.
"Uncle Chang, Great Elder! A-Yu is back... I'm back..."
The ruined buildings and steps were all streaked with blood, corpses were everywhere, and blood was flowing down the mountain.
The tears in Xu An's eyes had not yet been wiped away, and the devastated scenes before her made her feel cold all over.
Looking around, there was no empty space from the steps to the hall.
A blood mist filled the air, and the ground was littered with broken limbs and bodies. When the wind blew, the stench made people feel nauseous.
The thin body fell to his knees on the ground. He collapsed and cried among the corpses. One corpse after another was covered with scars. A huge eagle was circling in the distance.
"Zhu Yu..."
Xu An walked towards the child tremblingly, her heart pierced with holes due to the heart-wrenching pain.
She couldn't be negative now, she couldn't sink into despair, she still had people to protect, she had to take them out.
Before he could get close to the young person, the scene went dark.
Then, a candle was lit and a ray of light appeared in front of Xu An's eyes.
Various heads were hung in the damp house, some still oozing with blood, and some had already rotted and smelled bad.
She stepped back subconsciously, but a familiar figure slowly took off the horrific bloody skull.
This is... Zhu Yu?
The next second, a red light flashed, and the head was split in half.
"Zhu Yu! Are you crazy? Did you kill them all?"
A man rushed in from outside the door, and he seemed to be Senior Brother Yu when he was young.
He grabbed the man's collar tightly in his hand, disbelief and anger visible on his face.
But Zhu Yu just raised his eyes and replied "Yeah", his expression was calm and even colder.
"Snapped--"
A crisp slap sounded, and Yu Chenyang's phantom sword faced each other.
He angrily shouted: "Master's uncle and mistress have already gone. If you hurt these innocent people, you will only commit a greater sin!"
"Brother, I can bring them back to life. As long as I dismember their bodies and use their sins to practice the forbidden art of life and death, they still have a chance of being resurrected."
"Are you crazy? Their spirits are already destroyed. Even if the forbidden technique succeeds, they will only be empty shells for demons to inhabit! Besides, they are all innocent people! Do you think you are worthy of the teachings of the sect elders?"
Zhu Yu chuckled, a smile that sounded like a bitter one, a smile of collapse, "But they all deserve to die. I can make them die a worthy death. As long as the forbidden technique is successful, the uncles, mistresses, uncles, elders, and other brothers will all come back!"
His crazy laugh looked particularly sad; Xu An had never seen him like this before.
In a blink of an eye, fragmented images appeared around her, frame by frame.
She saw the young child being dragged into the wild woods and kicked down by the older boys. They used him as a living target for practicing magic. They threw him into an animal den and watched the joke playfully.
They watched him helplessly and stubbornly trying to crawl out but being torn back by the monster. They watched him cry out in fear for help but they remained indifferent and even laughed wantonly.
"You are a demon! How can you enter the sect?"
"I'm not! A Yu is not a demon! A Yu is not a demon! The uncles and mistresses said that A Yu is not a demon!"
"But they are dead! You are the bamboo demon! That is why you cannot learn any of the sect's spiritual arts! You only know demonic magic!"
"I'm not! I'm not! Brother! I'm not a demon!"
The child with blood all over his face struggled to cast a spell, but he was too weak and his spiritual power was too low, so he couldn't hurt the monster at all.
Just as Xu An was about to raise his hand, the scene changed again.
In the dark and cold night, with heavy snow falling, a figure about thirteen or fourteen years old appeared outside the woodshed.
He was only wearing extremely thin clothes and holding the box containing talisman paper tightly in his arms.
A faint light lit up in the house, the young man's white hair was tied up high, and his face became increasingly grim.
Xu An slowly squatted beside him, only to see him shivering as he drew the fire talisman, but when he cast the spell it had no effect at all.
He just kept painting and painting, from night to dawn, and from dawn to night.
"Fire Talisman, burn." Seeing him like this, Xu An felt extremely distressed, but she was still in the pain of suffocation and had not yet come to her senses.
The talisman paper in the young man's hand suddenly caught fire. He rubbed his hands excitedly, but he could only rub his hands.
Then, he immediately drew another fire talisman, but there was no movement.
The only sound in the silent woodshed was his faint sigh.
When the talisman paper burned out, the brief warmth also disappeared.
The young man hugged himself tightly, just like his uncles and mistresses hugged him.
He said nothing, tears rolling down his handsome face.
Xu An tried hard to control her consciousness to get closer to him, and finally, she was able to touch the ground.
"Zhu Yu."
The trembling words left his mouth as a warm embrace wrapped the boy in its arms.
Zhu Yu broke free cautiously. Holding the firewood in his hand, he stared at the woman in front of him fearfully.
"Who are you? Why are you here?"
"Zhu Yu, you gave me these talisman papers. Do you still remember?"
Looking at the talisman papers one after another, the boy's eyes lit up.
He still kept his distance, "Who are you?"
"I am Xu An, the person who will stay with you forever in the future. These talismans, this sword, and this rune are all given to me by you." Xu An said, and then took out the items, "Zhu Yu, you promised me that you would not fail to recognize me again."
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