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Chapter 19 Half Immortal

The owner of Taozhuang just walked into the gate, saw Xu Xiaoxian coming, turned around and grabbed the shoulder of the person behind him, and pushed him to the middle of the courtyard, the person staggered a bit before standing still, the cloak hat fell behind his shoulders, revealing a With a childish face, he looked no more than seventeen or eighteen years old, with faint freckles on his cheeks.

Xu Xiaoxian stared blankly at that person, and asked: "Master Taozhuang, what is this thing you picked up?"

"What, what? When I got home, I didn't see anyone anywhere. After searching for a long time, I saw this guy hiding under my bed. Those little ghosts didn't seem to dare to touch him."

Hearing the sound, Zhinu quietly poked her head out from the gardenia lamp under the laurel leaves, and she couldn't help being taken aback when she saw the person coming.

While taking off the gardenia lamp, Chen Yao looked at this person in a daze for no apparent reason. In his opinion, this person in front of him was just a strange young man with an ordinary appearance and nothing special about him.

Zhi Nu whispered in Chen Yao's ear, "That's definitely not an ordinary person, I've never seen anyone with such a clean primordial soul."

"Can you see the soul?"

"Well, the primordial soul is related to what you usually say about accumulating virtue. The primordial soul of a good person will be whiter, and the primordial soul of a bad person will be darker. Most people's primordial soul is gray."

"His soul is white?"

"No, his primordial soul is colorless, like water mist, that's why he said it's clean. I heard old ghosts say that the primordial soul of a newborn child is also colorless, but it will soon be affected by the primordial souls of the people around him. It is gray, and it will become whiter or blacker according to the situation of good deeds in the future, but it is impossible without color."

Chen Yao frowned, and looked at that person a few more times, but still felt that it was an ordinary person, and he couldn't see any primordial soul, so he asked softly, "Can half-immortals also see primordial soul?"

"I don't know, I can't see the soul of the half-immortal."

Chen Yao originally wanted to ask Xu Xiaoxian if he could see other people's souls, but Zhinu seemed to have misunderstood him, so he asked, "Is there anyone who doesn't have souls?"

"Impossible. Everyone has a soul. If the soul leaves the shell or dissipates, that person will die."

"That half-immortal..."

Xu Xiaoxian heard them whispering, came over and explained: "Imps who are too low in level can't see my soul."

"Hmph!" Seeing him coming, Zhinu got into the gardenia lamp.

Xu Xiaoxian shrugged, and tied the gardenia lamp back into her hair. Chen Yao found that the little osmanthus flower on the mouth of the gardenia lamp was still there. He didn't know if he didn't see it or kept it on purpose.

Xu Xiaoxian suddenly approached that person, and that person took a step back vigilantly, his eyes turned dark red under the sunlight.

"Are you a rabbit?" Xu Xiaoxian looked into those eyes and came to a conclusion in his heart, but he didn't quite believe it, and asked, "You should already be ranked as a fairy, why do you want to come down to the earth to be a human being? Wechat private interview ?"

The man froze for a moment, then shook his head slightly, probably thinking that Xu Xiaoxian was harmless, the red light in his eyes faded quietly.Hearing what Xu Xiaoxian said, the owner of the peach farm curiously stepped forward to take a closer look at the "immortal" he picked up, but he didn't see any difference, but looked at him and lowered his head in embarrassment.

Master Taozhuang scratched his head and asked, "What's your name?"

The man raised his eyes to look at Taozhuang Master, then looked at several other people, then came back to his senses, held Taozhuang Master's hand, wrote a word lightly on his palm, raised his head and said to Taozhuang Zhu: "A Jing Your name was given to you by the young master, have you forgotten it?"

Master Taozhuang was stunned for a moment, then pulled away his hand suddenly, and took a few steps back.

Xu Xiaoxian slipped gently to Chen Yao's side, tugged at his sleeve, and asked in a low voice, "Shall we go out for a while?"

"Where?"

"You can go anywhere, don't watch a show here, just follow me," Xu Xiaoxian felt that Chen Yao was too slow for certain things, so he dragged him away first.

It's just that before they walked out of the courtyard gate, a gust of wind suddenly blew, which made people's eyes hard to open. After a while, the sky was covered by a large group of dark clouds blown by the wind, and no light could leak out, like a dark night. .

Xu Xiaoxian felt as if a fire was burning his wound on his back, and he knelt down on the ground in pain, trembling all over.

"Xu Xuan?" Chen Yao opened his umbrella to block the wind and sand, bent down to support Xu Xiaoxian's shoulders, and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong with you? Is it a wound—"

Chen Yao glanced back, and couldn't help being startled, the clothes on Xu Xiaoxian's back were already stained red with blood, Xu Xiaoxian's face was pale, even the color of his lips had faded, beads of sweat rolled down his forehead one by one .

Gardenia slipped out of the gardenia lamp, and a puff of green smoke gushed out from her sleeves to surround them, preventing those ghosts who came out of nowhere from approaching.

Hearing Chen Yao's voice, the owner of Taozhuang on the other side held the soft whip with one hand to block the water ghosts who were about to pounce on him, and with the other hand protected the young man named Jing behind him, and asked loudly: "Mr. Chen, are you all right? What's wrong with the demigod?"

"We're fine, the wound on the half fairy's back is open..."

"It's okay." Xu Xiaoxian recovered a little, grabbed Chen Yao's arm and forced himself up straight. He stretched out his hand to grab Zhi Nu's smoke tail, and said softly, "Miss Zhi, go and see Mr. Song, don't let him get hurt."

"I think you're hurt more than him!" Girl Zhi said angrily, but she also spewed a stream of smoke from her sleeve into the room. He said calmly: "I don't know how much this Mr. Song has done to you. I am still thinking about others after being hurt so badly!"

Xu Xiaoxian smiled weakly, without the strength to refute, he reached out and fumbled in his sleeve, only to remember that the last talisman had already been used to light Chen Yao's fire.

"Chen Yao, you can go to the owner of Taozhuang, it's okay for Zhinu to guard here."

"Shut up," Chen Yao pulled out the sword from the umbrella and held it in his hand. With one hand, he helped Xu Xiaoxian walk to the side stone steps and sat down. Gardenia followed them to the stone steps. Xu Xiaoxian leaned on the pillar and looked at the sky. The tumbling dark clouds and the ghosts flying around in the yard frowned even more tightly.

Chen Yao carefully took off his clothes, and tore a few pieces of cloth from himself to bandage his wound, but the bleeding couldn't stop, and soon the cloth was stained red again.

"Chen Yao, how many river lanterns did you release on the night of Ghost Festival?"

"I and Lin Dao put one each, what's the matter?"

"You two, the little goddess and I put four lights together, and there are six lights in total. Miss Zhi said that there were seven lights in the Chengxi River on the night of Ghost Festival, and the layout corresponds to the Big Dipper of the sky..." Xu Xiaoxian said at the same time, Counting with fingers, halfway through the calculation, he suddenly stopped, frowned, and asked Chen Yao: "The river lantern is a spirit evocation, your river lantern is for your mother? Where is Lin Dao's?"

"That's right. My mother treated him like her own son before she was alive. He also liked my mother very much. He would go with me to release river lanterns every year."

"Including the one of the little goddess, there are three lamps that brought your mother's soul back home. My two lamps are for my parents. Girl Zhi said that there are two lamps that are misplaced. It should be my two lamps. a lamp."

Chen Yao: "Who is the other lamp of the little goddess for?"

Xu Xiaoxian was stunned for a moment, the little goddess didn't know who her parents were, and she didn't know that Chen Yao was her elder brother, she only thought that she was an orphan with no parents like Xu Xiaoxian, so the river lantern she put was naturally the same as Xu Xiaoxian.

"Father of the little goddess, it is different from what Zhinu said. All three lamps should be misplaced. Why are there only two?" Xu Xiaoxian couldn't figure it out, and there was still a river lantern. Is there anyone in Chengxihe?

Chen Yao has never seen his father since he was a child. He asked his mother, and his mother told him that his father had gone to a far away place. He asked the old servant who was kind to him, and the old servant said that his father died a long time ago.

According to the age of the little goddess, she should have been born two years before his mother died, and he was 10 years old at that time, but he didn't remember when his mother was pregnant, if he hadn't accidentally discovered it when he was sorting out her belongings He didn't even know that he had a younger sister in that letter.

For so many years, he has been avoiding this question. He never wants to find his so-called sister. He doesn't want to admit the fact that his mother gave birth to another child with another man.

"A Jing!" Taozhuang Master suddenly shouted, Chen Yao couldn't help but clenched the sword in his hand, and saw a figure leaping out of the darkness, it was Taozhuang Master holding a soft whip and jumped onto the roof, swiping the whip left and right Three or four little ghosts.

But there was no sign of the boy in black.

"Don't worry," Xu Xiaoxian pressed Chen Yao's trembling hand, and instead smiled, "Master Taozhuang won't let him run away."

"That Ah Jing is what you said, the predestined person of Master Taozhuang?"

"That's right. Usually, when two people are destined, the moon elder will tie a red string at the little finger, and they will meet no matter how far away they are." Xu Xiaoxian grabbed Chen Yao's two hands and looked at them carefully, shaking his head and sighing: "I If you can't see your red string, maybe you will be a bachelor for the rest of your life."

Chen Yao withdrew his hand, frowned, and asked, "Can you still see their red rope?"

"Well, the red string on the little finger will appear when two people who are destined to get close, so I said that the Taoist owner will have good luck in the near future. The red string on his little finger is particularly obvious. Ah Jing is the reincarnation of the rabbit fairy. Only I can see the red rope clearly only when Master Peach is close to him."

"Xu Xuan, are you human? Why do you always see these strange things?" Chen Yao waved his hands in front of Xu Xiaoxian's eyes, always feeling that the world he saw with those eyes was different from his.

"I'm a half-immortal, don't turn the corner and scold me." Xu Xiaoxian felt that the pain on his back was not so painful, and struggled to stand up, Chen Yao quickly supported him.

Zhinv's smoke came out of the room, carrying a yellow safety talisman, and handed it to Xu Xiaoxian.

Xu Xiaoxian frowned and asked, "Where is Mr. Song?"

"It's gone," Zhi Nu fell down in a human form, fearing that Xu Xiaoxian would be impulsive and hurt herself again, so she quickly explained: "It wasn't that he was eaten by a ghost, he was captured by the ghost messenger of the king of hell, and he was said to be sent to the king of hell." The temple is protected."

"Old King of Hades!" Xu Xiaoxian held the peace talisman, and suddenly a purple flame ignited in his palm, he gritted his teeth and said bitterly: "Dare to take people on my territory, and treat me as a vegetarian!"

"Half Immortal, calm down..."

Xu Xiaoxian spat, shook off Chen Yao's hand, and walked forward. Zhi Nu was already condensed into a cloud of smoke, but was scattered by him directly. A purple-red flame attracted all the little ghosts in the sky, and rushed towards the flame, but the flame swallowed the little ghosts one by one, and every time a little ghost was eaten, the flame would rise higher and higher high section.

"Xu Xuan!" Seeing that the flames were about to envelop Xu Xiaoxian, Chen Yao hurriedly chased after him. Just as he was about to rush to the fire, the oil-paper umbrella seemed to sense that he was in danger, and immediately rushed to the fire to stop him. The umbrella shielded the flame that almost hit his face.

Zhinv's smoke also arrived in time and circled Chen Yao.

"Xu Banxian, are you crazy! If you have a fire, you won't go to the Palace of the King of Hell to burn it!" Zhinu scolded angrily.

Xu Xiaoxian came back to his senses, the flames behind him gradually extinguished, and the oil-paper umbrella fell to the ground, and there was no scar on the umbrella facing the flames.

Xu Xiaoxian picked up the umbrella, gently stroked the two ducks playing in the water with his fingertips, carefully put it away, and sent it back to Chen Yao.

"Next time, don't be too impulsive. If you hurt your son, Xiaoxian will be guilty."

Looking at Xu Xiaoxian's indifferent gaze, Chen Yao couldn't help but took a step back, opened his mouth, but couldn't speak.

Xu Xiaoxian picked up a fallen broom in the corner, borrowed Chen Yao's Umbrella Sword, swung the sword down and chopped off the head of the broom, leaving the bamboo pole in his hand. Throw it back to Chen Yao.

Zhinu took a step tremblingly, squatted down, and called out respectfully: "Half Immortal."

The little ghosts flying around also fell down one after another, prostrated themselves on the ground, and shouted: "Half Immortal."

Chen Yao looked at the trembling ghosts all over the yard, and couldn't help being stunned. He was almost sure that Xu Xiaoxian in front of him at this moment was the real half-immortal, not to mention those ghosts, just the way Xu Xiaoxian looked at him when he handed the umbrella, It made him feel cold.

"I'm afraid that one day he will forget who he is."

Chen Yao remembered his husband's words and was about to speak when he suddenly felt a stabbing pain in his neck, his eyes were darkened, and his body fell heavily on the ground. It was very painful, but he couldn't wake up his fading consciousness.

He suddenly understood that Xu Xiaoxian was going to abandon him to enter the Palace of Hades.

"Xu... 渄..."