Chapter 24: The Forbidden Land's Tremors (Part 2)

  A little girl appeared, looking very cute, about three hundred years old. It's strange, I always feel like she's familiar. She was practicing by the river when she was suddenly startled by a loud noise. She stared at the river with her big, round eyes, looking left and right before deciding to go take a look, her cautious movements were very cute. As she approached, she saw a nine-tailed fox floating on the surface of the water. She quickly picked up the fox and looked at it anxiously as it struggled to breathe, but didn't know what to do, so she could only keep giving the fox soul energy.

  A few days later, the fox's body transformed back into human form. He slowly opened his eyes and couldn't move due to the pain all over his body. Seeing the little girl beside him, he immediately became vigilant and glared at her fiercely.

  "You're awake, that's great." The little girl said happily. He spoke calmly about what had happened, as if he hadn't seen the viciousness in the boy's eyes.

  "Thank you for saving me," the boy said in a low voice. The little girl smiled again and asked him many questions. But the boy didn't answer, because he was afraid, afraid that the girl would also want to catch him as a demon beast. When the girl asked where his home was, the boy said: "I don't have a home."

  She let out a "wow" and cried, but it was just a little girl crying. She said she didn't have a family either, only herself.

  The scene changed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the boy and girl grew up. The boy was the demon in the tower. It could be seen that their relationship was very good, practicing and playing together every day, and the initial hatred seemed to have faded gradually.

  "Wait until you've avenged yourself, then we'll go into hiding and think of nothing else, okay?" It was the girl, now a sweet yet gentle mature female ghost. Apparently, the boy had told her everything.

  "Alright, wait until I become really powerful one day, I'll go back and take revenge, you have to wait for me to come back." The boy said with a smile.

  It changed again. By the time I could see clearly, the girl was lying on the ground and almost dead. The boy with scars all over his body was caught by them - the two elders from the forbidden land.

  "Don't be sad, I won't leave you. Someday, I'll find you." The girl smiled and closed her eyes. The boy's tears fell like blood, his love and despair...

  After watching, it returned to darkness again. I looked at the male demon in front of me and my heart felt like it was being pinched with pain. I wanted to help him, regardless of whether it was right or wrong, I had to help him leave this place.

  "Jiū Mèi, how can I help you leave this place?" I said, looking at him.

  "Jiū Mèi, how did you know I'm called Jiū Mèi? No one knows, only she knew this name." The male demon looked at me in disbelief.

  I don't know either. I just blurted out: "Oh, it's what I heard when I entered your past earlier. Hehe, you're called Jiu Mei, hehe Jiu Mei."

  The male demon regained his original expression, so sorrowful.

  "I'm a half-demon, with the appearance of a ghost and also the original body of a demon, and I'm still a mutant. So they won't let me go outside and become powerful at will. You might not understand that only the same kind can reproduce offspring, but I am exactly a combination of two kinds. They lock me up here to get my inner elixir from me. Once I die, the inner elixir will disappear too, so they are still thinking of ways to get that power."

  "How did I end up here?"

  "It's been so long, I've been searching all along, but their souls can't enter here, only you, you're different, from the moment you arrived, I felt your presence. I've been guiding you over, originally wanted to try, didn't expect those old guys really had no feeling. Hahaha, I'm about to leave."

  "What's with that mark?"

  "It's a very ancient and mysterious power, once both parties have made an impression on each other, they will be connected for life. It's the impression I've made on you, so from now on, I'm entrusting my life to you. After I recover, I'll leave with you. You must hurry up and leave this place, no one can say anything about the impression."

  "You're not fooling me, are you?"

  "I've already given you my life, and now my fate is in your hands." He looked at me with determination.

  "So you'll be following me from now on?"

  "For this period of time, I will be inside your body. When you summon me, I will naturally appear. After I become powerful, I will go and take revenge. At that time, as long as you don't summon me, I am a physical existence."

  "Alright, I'll return your freedom when you no longer need to hide." By then, won't the mortal realm be free from any marks?

  "Go back, remember, leave here."

  The forbidden land was left with only nine mei, his expression was complex, with excitement, doubt, determination and a hint of ruthlessness. Although the voice was not loud, it echoed clearly until the third time before disappearing "Sorry, even if I use you, I must avenge." Until the day he truly becomes strong, he will devour the one who is marked, only then can he be free, he doesn't believe I will let him go, after all, when I become stronger, I can choose to devour him, the power of the strong is full of temptation. It's just that at that time, I didn't know, and chose to trust.

  I returned to my own room, thinking about what had happened, but the name "Jiuyao" kept lingering in my mind.

  "Xi Meng, are you there?" It's Yin Yue again, what's wrong?

  I opened the door and found Wild Ghost senior standing there, suddenly feeling awkward. "Come in and sit down, seniors." I hastily stepped aside to make way.

  "Just now, the ghost servant I sent said you weren't here and that he looked for half a day but couldn't find you. Where did you go?" Yin Yue asked casually as she sat on the sofa with Ye Gui, who still had an icy expression.

  "Oh, I didn't go anywhere, maybe I was too engrossed just now and didn't hear." I pretended to tidy up things, afraid that if I looked at them, they would discover my lie.

  "How's your training going here?" Yīn Yuè didn't mind either way.

  I went to the fantasy world again later and failed at the second level second pass.

  "It's already quite good. Get ready, we'll be heading back to the academy soon."

  "What? Why?" I was actually overjoyed and worried about how to leave, but I suppressed it and didn't show it.

  "It was the elders who decided, and the Dreaming Capital was stopped midway. By the way, don't slack off, there will be an inter-academy competition soon after returning to the academy, I thought it would pass by, but now it's just in time." I noticed that Yin Yue intentionally changed the subject, and I wasn't prepared to ask further anyway.

  "Oh, I don't have anything else to prepare, let's go, senior."

  "Alright, let's head back then." It seemed like another hasty ending. I recalled that Yin Yue had mentioned earlier that points could be exchanged for treasures. Adding the points from the previous martial arts competition, I probably had around 140 points. Not even enough to exchange for the lowest-grade treasure on the list. Looks like I'll have to continue next time. But when I came here again, it was a completely different scene. Of course, that's a story for later.