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Recap
Xunzhe didn’t react at all, as if he didn’t hear what he said.
“You are obviously trying to do good things, but there are a bunch of people shouting to kill you. These people are afraid of you, countless Taoist priests and monks want to hurt you. Some people are even more disgusting. Not only do they want to kill you, but they also force you.”
After Chu Shici finished speaking, the deserted alley fell into deathly silence.
After a long time, Xunzhe nodded slightly, “Yes, I often encounter these things after I first transformed, so I rarely go down the mountain after. The people outside hate me.”
“Zhe-ge, do you feel wronged?”
Xunzhe was silent for a while, took a deep breath and turned away again.
Chu Shici heard him hum softly.
There were still a hint of vulnerability in his voice.
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Chu Shici was only as big as a palm and could not wipe away Xunzhe’s tears.
Seeing Zhe-ge’s face getting paler, he gritted his teeth and said, ‘Tong-ge, get my soul out, I want to hug him.’
Xunzhe, who was lowering his head, suddenly felt something extra beside him.
He turned around warily, the moisture in his eyes blurring his vision.
Standing in front of him was a man with light blond hair, his facial features were delicate and soft, and his skin was fair. There was a gentle smile on his handsome face.
The moment the two looked at each other, the man raised his hand to wipe away his tears carefully and opened his arms to him.
Xunzhe already recognized this as the soul of the little wood spirit.
He clenched the wooden sculpture of the monk in his hand, raised his arms to hug the man’s slender waist, and buried his head into his shoulder.
yaoguais can touch the soul body. Chu Shici felt like water drops were hitting his shoulders all the time, and his soul was almost completely wet.
He patted Xunzhe on the back, “Zhe-ge, it’s okay. It’s because they are morally corrupt and mentally ill. It’s not your fault, you’re really good.”
Suddenly being comforted by someone, the grievances that had been suppressed in Xunzhe’s heart for hundreds of years completely burst out.
He rarely made a sound when he cried, but Chu Shici felt that Zhe-ge’s body was shaking.
The arms holding his waist were so strong that they almost wanted to melt him into his body, making his soul ache.
Chu Shici turned his head and kissed the soft silver hair of the snake yao, “Zhe-ge, you have me, you don’t have to hide your pain anymore. If you have any worries in the future, you can tell me.”
He comforted him for a long time, and finally Xunzhe’s choked voice came to his ears: “I saved a few people, they said they wanted to repay me and feed me their essence.”
Chu Shici felt fear creeping up, and he gently stroked the snake yao’s back, “What happened after.”
“I have been cultivating by absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon, and few yaoguais talk to me. I didn’t understand what “sucking essence” meant at that time.”
He sniffed and hugged Chu Shici tighter.
From Xunzhe’s tears, Chu Shici can roughly infer what happened to him back then.
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The snake yao lives in the back hill of Dayangtian Ming Temple. He hangs on a nearby tree every day to cultivate and observe humans’ daily lives.
People who come to Dayangtian Ming Temple to offer incense will show their good side in front of Buddha and Bodhisattva, no matter what they are like in private.
At that time, the monks in the temple were also real monks practicing the righteous path. They ate and chanted sutras all day long and helped pilgrims solve their problems. If they see a white snake who is coiled on a branch all year round, they will bow to it.
Sometimes when the winter is too cold, the little white snake will run to the temple and stay with the monks. The old monk built a small nest for him, and the young novice monks often held him and played with him.
Xunzhe grew up in this warm and friendly environment. In his eyes, the world is beautiful and human beings are friendly and kind.
He has no contact with the ugly side of human nature, and he knows nothing about love.
When he finally transformed from the little white snake that had just begun to develop spiritual wisdom into a snake yao, Xunzhe wanted to share his joy with the monks. But the way he looked like a snake with a snake tail scared the little novice monks to tears.
This incident made Xunzhe realize that if he wants to be friends with humans, he must first become a human.
He went to the temple less frequently and focused solely on cultivation.
To his knowledge, human beings are tolerant and kind, and he will earn merit by helping them.
Xunzhe dreamed of transforming into a human.
But the snake yao is only good at offensive spells. No matter how long he cultivates and practices, he can’t hide his silver hair and golden eyes.
Because of these characteristics, the monks easily recognized his identity as a yaoguai and began to attack him as soon as he appeared.
When other pilgrims saw him, they pointed at him or threw leaves and stones at him and called him a monster.
In order to better integrate into human society and to earn merit, Xunzhe chose to compromise.
He put on his hood and blindfolded his eyes and pretended to be a blind swordsman, doing good deeds in the nearby villages.
Everything was going well at first, and some of the girls he rescued even wanted to give themselves to him.
Until one day, Xunzhe rescued several men from bandits.
They knew a little about magic and subduing demons, so they were able to recognize his identity as a yaoguai, but they did not attack him.
The men wanted to repay his kindness and said they would treat him to some essence. They even warmly invited him to go with them, saying that there were many people at home who could feed him as much as he wanted.
Xunzhe didn’t know what eating essence meant. When they asked him if he wanted to leave, he hesitated for a moment but agreed.
Then the men burst into laughter and looked at him with mocking eyes, it seemed there were some things he couldn’t understand.
He heard several men gathering together and whispering.
‘I could tell right away that he is a seductive chick.’
‘Really beautiful, even more beautiful than the vixen I caught last time. It’s just a pity that he’s blind.’
The noises reached Xunzhe’s ears, and he was wondering what ‘seductive’ was.
Although he didn’t understand what the men were saying, he still felt vaguely uncomfortable.
It’s just that he’s been alone for too long, and it’s rare for someone to be so enthusiastic about him. The snake yao has been alone for hundreds of years, and he does not want to return to an empty lair.
He gritted his teeth and decided to give it a try.
Xunzhe followed them back to a camp. It was empty and he didn’t know where the people they had mentioned had gone.
The men took him into a tent and prepared food and wine for him.
After three rounds of wine and five tastes of food, Xunzhe suddenly felt that he couldn’t use his powers.
He concentrated hard and felt around carefully for a while, it seemed his powers were sealed by something.
His vision became increasingly blurry, and when Xunzhe realized that he had been tricked, he held the table with one hand and quickly broke the seal.
At this moment, the group of men tore off their masks of hypocrisy.
They pushed him to the ground and tore off his clothes.
Xunzhe asked them what they were doing, and the men laughed loudly.
‘I pledge my life to repay the kindness of saving my life. Your brothers will treat you to some good essence. We’ll make sure you are so full you’ll vomit.’
Seeing that he still didn’t understand what they meant, one of them went out and grabbed a fair scholar who was tied like a rice dumpling.
There are two red tails hanging behind the scholar. This is a fox yao.
What happened next completely destroyed Xunzhe’s understanding.
The men surrounded the scholar and vented their desires on him. The fox yao screamed in terror, but couldn’t escape.
The cruel scene stimulated Xunzhe. The man held his shoulders and pointed at the crying and struggling fox yao, “This what it means to take in the essence. Have you learned it, little yaoguai?”
At the same time, cries could be heard in nearby tents. There were men and women, all wailing and begging for mercy.
Xunzhe’s chest rose and fell violently. After the initial fear, all that was left in his heart was anger and confusion.
While secretly breaking the seal inside his body, he asked the man: “Why?”
‘Why? Have you ever been merciful when a demon took out someone’s heart? My parents were both killed by yaoguais, so all yaoguais deserve to die!’
‘But I didn’t do it, I cultivate the righteous path!’
‘So what? Demons eat everyone and everyone kills demons. Isn’t this the natural law? Don’t worry, since you are so good-looking, we will keep you alive for at least a year and a half.’
Before the man finished speaking, Xunzhe had already broken through the seal.
He transforms into a giant white snake and kills everyone in the camp. Even if they joined forces, these people are no match for him.
One by one, the tortured yaoguais took the opportunity to escape from the tent.
Full of rage, Xunzhe turned the camp upside down.
Finally, he found several dying monks and Taoists priests hanging on the nearby trees.
One of them saw him, raised his head with difficulty, and told him to run.
It was from this Taoist priest that Xunzhe learned about the background of this camp.
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Some humans will form a yaoguai-slaying alliance to capture and kill various yaoguais and demons. They work together to kill yaoguais and earn merit together.
These people who were tied to the tree were originally members of the Yaoguai Slaying Alliance.
But as the number of yaoguai slayings increased, the people of the Yaoguai Slaying Alliance reaped the benefits, and their psychology gradually became distorted. They began to be no longer satisfied with simply killing yaoguais.
Most yaoguais are beautiful in appearance, and no matter how tortured they are, their merits will not be lost.
The law-enforcement society in the human world don’t care about yaoguais, and the underworld and the deities in heaven don’t care about their plight either.
As time went by, more and more people began to vent their desires on yaoguais with impunity.
Others saw how happy they were and joined in.
Without legal constraints, temptation is right in front of them. The bottom line of the members of the Yaoguai Slaying Alliance is getting lower and lower, and more and more people are doing dirty things.
Those who couldn’t stand their behavior and wanted to rescue the yaoguais were either pushed out or tied up to die.
The Taoist priest who was talking to Xunzhe had his legs broken just because he let a rabbit yao go a few days ago.
Several monks and Taoist priests on the side were also tied to trees for this reason as well.
The kindness they showed through their words made Xunzhe calm down again.
He healed their injuries and let several of them go.
His rose-tinted filter of human beings was shattered, and Xunzhe slithered back to his lair alone, turning into a little snake and hiding in the corner wiping his tears.
In his dream at night, he dreamed that he failed to escape and was surrounded like the fox yao.
He suddenly woke up from his dream to the cold and silent lair in front of him. He was scared but didn’t know who to vent to. He curled himself up into a ball and didn’t dare to sleep all night.
After learning about the existence of the Yaoguai Slaying Alliance, Xunzhe was much more careful when going down the mountain.
In order not to be noticed, he pretended to be mature and calm. Always keeping a straight face, trying to let others know that he is not easy to mess with.
But a person who specializes in catching yaoguais has more experience than him, so they can always see through his disguise easily.
There are all kinds of tricks emerging, and he can’t cope with them at all.
After being captured several times, Xunzhe became afraid of the human world.
He no longer longed for life at the foot of the mountain, and hid in the mountain all day long to cultivate. He only occasionally transformed into his human form to buy some human food and listen to their singing and performances.
After watching, he’d run away and never stay for too long.
Until five hundred years ago, several women came up to the mountain and begged Xunzhe to save them.
He hated such dirty things and sympathized with them.
Coupled with the fact that he had not earned any merit for a long time, Xunzhe decided to take a gamble.
As a result, he was directly tricked this time, and several eminent monks joined forces with Dayangtian to seal him for more than five hundred years.
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After listening to Zhe-ge’s words, Chu Shici’s mind was buzzing.
The system who was watching and eavesdropping was speechless for a moment, and after holding it in for a long time, he could only say one sentence, [Fuck, this is indeed the punishment world, your man is still as miserable as ever.]
As soon as it finished speaking, a message popped up in the background. The host’s vitality value dropped directly to 80 points.
The system quickly poked its head out, only to see the ends of Chu Shici’s eyes turning red, and his usually bright eyes were now covered with water.
He is always lively and happy, but when he cries, he gives people a sense of beauty in fragility.
The system had just taken out the camera, hissed twice, and then reacted suddenly.
It comforted him worriedly: [Are you feeling sorry for your Zhe-ge? It’s okay, his vitality is still stuck at 43 points, which means that with you by his side, he can face up to the painful memories. Just try a bit harder, his vitality level will definitely increase.]
Chu Shici bit his lower lip tightly and cried, ‘Ge, Tong-ge, I feel so guilty. If it weren’t for saving, saving me, Zhe-ge wouldn’t have encountered such bad things in every world. It’s all because of me, because I was useless and failed to protect myself.’
As he cried, his vitality level dropped.
In just a few words, it dropped straight from 80 to 76.
The two beauties hugged each other tightly, sobbing silently against each other, and even the sounds of crying and inhaling overlapped from time to time.
The scene in front of it directly feeds into the system’s fetish. It couldn’t hold back and quickly took a few photos.
As both of their vitality levels dropped, seeing that the situation was about to get out of control, the system jumped and shouted: [Ah Ci, hold on, Xunzhe can’t hold it anymore. If you fall together with him, how long can he hold on? If you’re so sad that you can’t say anything comforting, you can just give him a kiss!]
It dug out the glow sticks that were piled in the dusty corner, waved them back and forth, [Kiss! Let me see a kiss! Listen to me, he is shy and easy to coax. Just kiss him and he will stop crying.]
Chu Shici sniffed, ‘Wouldn’t this be too hasty?’
[Fuck, why didn’t you think of this when you secretly touched his abdominal muscles? He is almost fusing you into his body, he must have feelings for you.]
[Why are you standing there in a daze? Kiss him!]
His soul state could last for three minutes. Chu Shici took a deep breath and held Xunzhe’s cheek, “Zhe-ge, I’m going to kiss you.”
A trace of confusion flashed in Xunzhe’s red eyes, and the next second, there was a soft and cold touch on his lips.
He looked at the blond man who was so close, and his heart began to beat violently.
A blush quickly spread across his cheeks, his ears and neck.
The snake yao failed to hide his tail, and his legs accidentally turned into snake tail, swinging nervously back and forth on the ground.
The man’s kissing skills are very good.
Xunzhe has never kissed anyone before, so he doesn’t know if all humans are born good at kissing, or if Ah Ci has a lot of experience.
As soon as this thought came up, he felt irritable. Fortunately, the small wood sculpture became a spirit in front of his eyes, so he had no chance to come into contact with others.
At first Xunzhe was completely led by Chu Shici, but he has a strong learning ability and quickly took the initiative.
After learning to kiss, Xunzhe directly pressed Chu Shici against the wall, pinched his chin and kissed his slightly pale lips until they were bright red.
An ambiguous atmosphere fills the quiet alley.
Xunzhe used the invisibility technique, so no one could see them.
But even so, when several aunties carrying vegetables walked past them while chatting, he still felt that the person in his arms stiffened for a moment, and he also became inexplicably nervous.
It is around mealtime, and residents returning from shopping for groceries are constantly walking into the alley.
Chu Shici’s body tensed up and he shared his happiness with the system in a daze: ‘Ah! So exciting. If we have a chance in the future, we must try invisibility play. ’
[Tsk, you’re not so uncomfortable now?]
‘…’
[The vitality value is reduced by 1 point, and the current vitality value is 75.]
The system gave itself a slap in the face. How could its mouth be so lacking?
This was Xunzhe’s first kiss, and the freshness and strong sense of satisfaction temporarily overshadowed the grievance and sadness in his heart.
He was a diligent and talented student who used his newly acquired skills to kiss his first teacher until he was happy.
The three-minute time limit came quickly, and Chu Shici’s soul returned directly to the small wooden sculpture, breathing heavily on the cold hands of the hero.
He found that Xunzhe learned things very quickly. If he could train him well, he would have a very happy life in the future.
After the system has finished appreciating the photos just taken, it went to the backend to view the data.
After the kiss, the male protagonist’s energy level began to rise, finally stopping at 47 points while the host’s vitality value only increased a little, to 76.
The system sighed.
Little 0, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, cannot be easily satisfied.
Xunzhe calmed down briefly.
He wiped away the tears on his face and was about to leave. When he turned around, he saw Monk Pu Xin with his head stuck in the wall.
He was silent for a moment, “What are you doing?”
Pu Xin was fidgeting with the mala beads: “See no evil, are the Benefactors finished?”
Xunzhe: ……
Being a monk has a lot of restrictions, but luckily his little wooden sculpture is not a real monk.
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In this world of supernatural novels, demons and yaoguais are everywhere, and various religions are blooming everywhere.
The fact that the Dataiyang society is a cult has not been noticed by anyone.
It is opened grandly in the old city, and like other religions, it gathers believers for weekly activities.
The Monkey King said that the golden statue with the stone hidden in it was placed at the headquarters of the cult.
It’s not clear where exactly it is.
Xunzhe can become invisible, so he can go in at any time without waiting until nightfall.
Chu Shici originally planned to lie on top of Zhe-ge as usual.
But Xunzhe refused to let go, holding on to him. He glanced at him coldly from time to time, but the blush on his face never faded.
He hesitated to speak along the way, as if he wanted to say something but was too embarrassed to say it.
Chu Shici simply held up his chin and chatted with him, “Zhe-ge, what are your plans next?”
“Destroy all the golden statues, find the true body of the stone carving spirit, and kill her.”
“Have you figured out who we are going to kill?”
“Dataiyang should be a substitute, my target is Dayangtian.”
Before the sun went down, Chu Shici summoned the little lotus flower that had not come out for a long time and gave it some sunlight.
He pondered while drying the flowers, “Zhe-ge, do you think it’s possible that Dayangtian is the substitute?”
Xunzhe’s voice was still a little hoarse after he finished crying.
He lowered his eyes and looked at the small wooden sculpture: “What’s the point of adding so many sins to yourself?”
Chu Shici didn’t think it through and nodded.
According to the information they currently have, the stone carving spirit is so capable and bold because it was supported by a deity.
This was information obtained from the mouths of the King of Hell and the Monkey King, though it may be false information.
Chu Shici couldn’t figure out a question.
Because the body was incomplete and the stone carving spirit’s cultivation speed was too slow, the deity proposed a dirty method.
The Nine-tailed Fox and the Monkey King have reached cooperation with her. She can devour them at any time to repair her body and increase her cultivation speed.
But she didn’t, she chose to live in peace with them.
The stone carving spirit’s outward behavior contradicts the goal she wants to achieve.
This thought made Chu Shici feel vaguely uneasy.
The system helped to submit the side task, and then continued to watch TV while knitting.
As Xunzhe entered the hall, Chu Shici put away the little lotus flowers.
Today is not a prayer day and there are very few people in the hall.
There is a statue of the goddess in the middle of the lobby, it is an ordinary statue. She looks ordinary, and most statues of deities have this appearance.
Several believers were praying for blessings from the goddess, and Xunzhe’s tail swayed slightly, slithering past them silently.
When passing by the goddess statue, Chu Shici suddenly had a strange feeling.
It seemed like something was calling him.
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