Xie Lian sighed, turned around, and said, "Ah, I would like to, but now the spirit communication array in the Heavenly Palace has been dismantled, and I don't remember the spirit communication passwords of other priests, so I can't say anything. Fuyao, do you remember the password of any priest? That way I can send a message back and tell them that I'm here and ask for some help."

His expression was extremely natural and convincing. The dark clouds on Fuyao's face disappeared and he said perfunctorily, "I don't know. The Heavenly Palace is in chaos right now. Everyone is very busy. Just deal with your own affairs."

At this time, Hua Cheng said, "Brother, this child has been hungry for two days and has a fever."

Xie Lian went over to take a look and saw that, indeed, Gu Zi’s forehead was so hot that one could fry an egg on it. He immediately grabbed Qi Rong and asked, “How did you raise a child?”

Qi Rong spat with blood all over his face, "I'm not really his father! Not eating him is already a great mercy! Give me credit for the great deed!"

Xie Lian said, “I think you didn’t want to eat because he has a fever and his appetite is bad.”

Lan Chang hesitated for a moment and said, "Is the child sick? How about I take a look?"

She was also hit by the beam of the shabby house, her face was bruised and swollen, but she took pity on the child, crawled over and picked up Gu Zi, covering his forehead with her palm, as if she wanted to use her cold constitution to neutralize the heat of Gu Zi. Fuyao grabbed the fetal spirit wrapped in a ball by the yellow talisman with one hand, walked over and said, "It's time to go."

Lan Chang obviously didn't want to leave, but with his son in his hands, he felt helpless. Xie Lian said, "Wait, don't leave yet. Fuyao, can you talk to your general now?"

Fuyao looked at him and asked, "What do you want to do?"

Xie Lian hesitated and said, “Actually…”

Speaking of the word "real", he suddenly attacked with lightning speed, instantly locking Fuyao's arms and holding them firmly in his palms. Then he continued: "Actually, I already know that he is in trouble!"

Fuyao was caught off guard and locked up by him. She was shocked and angry: "You! Despicable!"

Xie Lian said, “No, no. This is my strength. You can try to sneak attack me using the same method and see if you can lock me down.”

Hua Cheng clapped his hands politely and said, "I agree."

Fuyao was so angry that she rolled her eyes and said, "Why don't you let me go and let me try?!"

Xie Lian said seriously, “I’ll try again next time I have a chance. Now I have something important to do. Fuyao, could you please help me persuade your general to go back to heaven first?”

"……go back?"

Fuyao suppressed her anger and whispered, "It's easy for you to say that! If you were in the same situation now, would you choose to go back? What would you say if someone advised you to go back? Would you go back and wait to be wrongly accused and convicted? Would you go back and wait to die?!"

Xie Lian said, “Don’t get excited. I’m serious. I’m not just saying this to make fun of you. Your general is different from me. His condition isn’t so serious that it’s irreversible. It would be a bad idea to just run away. Many priests have already convicted him. If you can get in touch with him and tell him about this, I can help him investigate.”

Fuyao was stunned: "You help him check?"

Xie Lian said, “Yeah. I’ve checked a lot, so I’m pretty experienced. Anyway, I’m more experienced than him.”

Fuyao asked, "Your Highness, may I ask if you can remember how many priests you investigated the first time you went to heaven? Was there any priest who was not brought down after being investigated by you?"

Xie Lian coughed lightly and said, “That’s different. It’s not my fault. If he really didn’t do that, I can naturally clear his name.”

Fuyao laughed in anger and interrupted him, "That's enough! It's no secret that you have a personal grudge against him. You help him investigate? Then will he have any chance to turn things around? If you want to take advantage of this opportunity to make fun of him, just say so. Don't pretend."

Hearing this, Hua Cheng's face darkened slightly. After a while, he smiled and said, "Forget it, brother. This man doesn't know what's good for him, why bother talking to him? Some people are born to be ungrateful and are good at judging others by their own standards. Maybe he really did something in the end. He doesn't believe you, and you don't bother to care about him, just let him do it on his own."

Fuyao looked at him and said sarcastically, "'Little kid'?"

Hua Cheng responded to him even more sarcastically: "'Little Priest'?"

Fuyao's face fell slightly. Xie Lian locked his eyes with him and said gently, "Well, let's separate the public and private. Whether I have a personal grudge against him is one thing, and whether he has done something bad is another. Mu Qing is a petty person, narrow-minded, sensitive and suspicious, with a bad personality, a lot of small thoughts, speaks badly, likes to nag, often offends people, is disliked by many people, has no friends, and can remember a little thing for a long time..."

“…”

After saying all this in one breath without changing his expression, Xie Lian concluded, “…But after all, I have known him since we were teenagers, and he still has a bottom line.”

“…”

Xie Lian continued, “He might spit into the teacup of someone he doesn’t like, but he would never poison the water to harm someone.”

“…”

Hua Cheng said calmly: "Really? That's disgusting too."

Veins popped up on Fuyao's forehead: "No! I won't even spit!"

Xie Lian said, “Then give me a laxative.”

Fuyao seemed to be holding back something, and said, "You...must use this metaphor to describe him? Are you speaking for him or insulting him?"

Xie Lian said, “I’m sorry, I can’t think of any other more suitable metaphor at the moment.

Fuyao struggled a few times but couldn't get free, so she asked cautiously, "Were you informing the people in the Heavenly Palace just now?"

Xie Lian said earnestly, “Not yet. We just had a chat. Don’t worry, I won’t harm your general. If he really doesn’t want to go back, why not come find me and do it together? That way, if he does something during the journey, there will be someone to testify. Otherwise, he won’t be able to explain himself, and things will get worse and worse…”

At this moment, there was a burst of unbridled laughter from behind the two of them. It was Qi Rong staring at Lan Chang's face. He suddenly went crazy and said, "Hahahahahahahahaha who am I thinking! Isn't this, isn't this Miss Jian Lan?"

Lan Chang was originally holding Gu Zi and trying to cool him down. Upon hearing this, her shoulders trembled and her eyes widened as she asked, "Who are you? How could you also..."

Qi Rong said, "How should I know? Nonsense! You almost had to call me cousin! What, everyone has become a ghost? There are so many acquaintances hanging around, this world is really small and lively, hehe!"

Xie Lian frowned and said, "Qi Rong, why are you crazy again? Who is Jian Lan?"

Qi Rong said, "Hey, cousin Crown Prince, are you blind or are you playing dumb? Look carefully at who this is. This is our Xianle Country's most beautiful lady - Miss Jianlan! Her family is both an official and a businessman. I don't know how glorious she was back then. Her looks were just so-so. She is always on the list of beautiful and talented women in Xianle. She is so arrogant that her eyes are on top of her head and she looks down on everyone. She almost entered the palace to be selected as a concubine!"

"What?"

Xie Lian could not help but immediately look at Lan Chang's face. Back then, the king and queen had indeed intended to choose a concubine for him, and had summoned a large number of carefully selected girls to the palace for a banquet, so that he could see if there was anyone he liked. But Xie Lian had devoted himself to cultivating Taoism when he was young, and he stood aside after just walking around the banquet. He didn't remember the faces and names of those girls at all, so how could he tell anything?

Lan Chang looked at Fu Yao, but Fu Yao snorted, "That's not what my general said. This man is also a survivor of Xianle, and he must have seen you before."

Xie Lian looked at Hua Cheng again. He also showed no sign of surprise. It seemed that he had not just learned about this. Xie Lian turned to Lan Chang and murmured, "You really were..."

Lan Chang quickly covered her ears and said, "Don't say it! Don't say it out loud! Don't call me by that name!!! I... I changed my name a long time ago."

Xie Lian was stunned at first, then he dropped his hands and sighed.

She was once a noblewoman, but now she is a prostitute among the ghosts. She changed her name, probably because she was afraid that her family would be ashamed in the underworld and would not admit that she was herself.

This woman was once his believer and his people. How could she not sigh?

At this moment, he suddenly felt warmth on his hand. He looked down and saw that it was Hua Cheng, who didn't look at him but held his hand.

Although he was in child form and had a cold body temperature, this hand was small and cold, but when it held his, it was warm.

Qi Rong, however, had no sympathy at all. She said, "I never thought that the once unattainable Miss Jianlan would become so old and ugly now! I thought you were not good-looking before, but now I see that I have a sharp eye and you are not good-looking! By the way, whose bastard is this that you gave birth to?"

This was such a rude remark that Jian Lan's face turned pale. Qi Rong continued, "Could it be my cousin the Crown Prince? No, no, I think my cousin is probably impotent, so he pretends to be pure and indifferent to women all day long. How can he have a son? Oh! How could I forget that after the fall of Xianle, wasn't your eldest daughter sold to that kind of place? She must be the offspring of Yong'an's lowly people!"

Xie Lian couldn’t stand it anymore and was about to go up to him to shut up, but Jian Lan exploded faster than him and slapped him in the face: “What are you saying?!”

Qi Rong's nose was bleeding after being slapped by her. He widened his eyes and said, "You are a wicked person, but you are such a low-class person. How dare you hit me, a near-absolute person?!"

Jianlan spat in his face, grabbed his neck and slapped him twice, saying, "What a bullshit near-superior! You really know how to flatter yourself! What the hell, are you worthy of being compared with the other three supremes?! What do you have to show for it? Shame? I'm going to hit you!"

Her words touched Qi Rong's sore spot, and Qi Rong got angry and spitted, "You stinky woman, let go of your chicken feet! I find them dirty! Ugh! Ugh!!"

The two of them wrestled together, but it was only Jian Lan who was beating Qi Rong unilaterally. Qi Rong was trapped by Ruo Xie and couldn't move. He howled, "Xie Lian! Why don't you stop the fight at this time?! Where is your fatherly heart?!"

Xie Lian was holding Fuyao in one hand, while he lowered his head to talk to Huacheng, as if he didn't hear his screams at all. Jianlan kicked Qi Rong, and said viciously with red eyes: "I would rather be abused by the untouchables than be touched by a maggot like you! You are a useless thing! You are not worthy of calling others untouchables! Who do you say is an untouchable?"

Qi Rong was furious: "No one wants me? I'm a waste? You, a rotten whore, have the right to scold me like that? How can you be a pariah and look down on someone like you?... Wait a minute!!! Put down that stone!!!"

As they were struggling, a loud "boom boom" sound came from the sky. Several people looked up at the same time, and Fuyao said, "Didn't you say that you didn't tip off, but just chatted for a while?"

Hua Cheng frowned slightly and snorted, "Come here uninvited."

A thunderclap exploded in the night sky, and everyone closed their eyes. When they opened their eyes again, a tall black-robed priest came over with a longbow on his back, saying, "Your Highness the Crown Prince!"

Xie Lian put down his sleeves, pushed Hua Cheng behind him without leaving any trace, and said, "Feng Xin! Why are you here?"

Feng Xin came up quickly and said, "You suddenly stopped talking just now. I asked people and found you nearby through the fluctuation of mana." After saying that, he frowned and said, "What's wrong? It's a mess. Did you encounter something?"

Just as Xie Lian was about to answer, Feng Xin saw Fu Yao in his hands and Hua Cheng standing behind him.

This scene was beyond his imagination. He didn't know which one to express more surprise at. Feng Xin said, "You..."

Finally, he pointed at Hua Cheng and asked Xie Lian: "...What's wrong with this child?"

Xie Lian laughed dryly, “Very cute, isn’t it?”

Feng Xin stared at Hua Cheng, whose expression did not agree with Xie Lian’s comments at all, and said suspiciously: “… Cute? No, why do I think he looks exactly like…”

Xie Lian said calmly, “Looks like my son, right?”

Feng Xin: "??? When did you give birth to your son?"

Xie Lian smiled and said, “Not yet. I mean, if I gave birth to a son, he would definitely be this cute, right?”

Hua Cheng took his hand and smiled, "That's right."

Feng Xin: “…”

Fuyao: “…”

Xie Lian said, “Hahahaha… Eh? Miss Lan Chang, don’t run!”

Feng Xin turned around suddenly and saw a woman's back running away from Qi Rong. Without thinking, he drew his bow and aimed at her legs.

Unexpectedly, perhaps sensing that his mother was in danger, the fetal spirit ball wrapped in yellow talisman paper that Fuyao had been holding in her hand began to vibrate, and suddenly the yellow talisman exploded, screaming and rushing towards Feng Xin. Jianlan seemed to be panicking just now, and when she heard this voice, she remembered that her son was still in someone else's hands, and turned around and said in a lost voice: "Wrong, wrong!"

This was the first time Xie Lian knew the name of the fetus spirit. It turned out to be Cuo Cuo. Feng Xin's arrow changed direction and flew towards the snow-white fetus spirit. But with a "click", the fetus spirit flipped several times in the air, jumped onto a tree nearby, and actually bit the feather arrow in one bite, allowing everyone to see its appearance at the moment.

Rather than saying it was a fetus, it was more like a deformed little monster. Its skin was pale as if it had been painted with powder, its eyes were huge and gleaming with a strange light, its hair on top of its head was sparse and yellow, and it held Feng Xin's arrow in its two rows of extremely sharp fangs. When it saw him looking over, it chewed it at high speed, "cluck, cluck, cluck", and bit it into pieces. Then it spat out a shining arrowhead and nailed it to the side of Feng Xin's boots, and then it stuck out its long and thin dark red tongue like a snake's tongue, as if provoking him.

Feng Xin said nothing, and took another arrow and aimed at it. The fetus spirit climbed up and down the tree like a lizard, extremely flexible and cunning. No wonder Fuyao couldn't catch it. Jianlan said anxiously: "Don't fight him, run!!!"

Only biological parents could be so concerned about such a monster that made people feel terrified and disgusted. Feng Xin took aim, let go of the bowstring, and an arrow flew out. The fetus's short leg was nailed by the arrow, and it screamed and could not climb. Jianlan ran back and reached out to pull out the feather arrow, but because her level was too low, she was bounced away when she touched the arrow shaft, and a string of sparks exploded. She took two steps back, but persisted in pulling it out, causing sparks to fly.

Feng Xin put away his bow and walked forward, saying, "Okay, let's go back. Don't add more official duties to us... Jianlan?!"

Jianlan, who had just been bounced away, shuddered when she heard his voice, and turned around quickly. Feng Xin turned her back and asked again, "Jianlan?"

“…” Xie Lian had a bad feeling and asked in confusion, “What’s going on?”

Jianlan lowered her head and said vaguely: "You got the wrong person."

Feng Xin said, "What nonsense are you talking about? How could I have mistaken you? You are very different now, but how could I not recognize you..."

At this point, he was stuck, because he did not recognize Jianlan when she was Lanchang, wearing heavy makeup and covered in dust.

You can't blame him. Feng Xin is still the same as he was back then, not a bit changed, but Jian Lan has changed so much.

Appearance, makeup, manners, conversation, temperament... Even if her biological parents stood in front of her, they might not recognize that this was their precious daughter.

Feng Xin said in a daze: "...It's you. It's really you. Yes, it's you!...I thought you were married and living a good life. How come you...how come you have become like this..."

Hearing this, Jianlan suddenly turned around, pushed him hard, and cursed: "Fuck your mother!"

Feng Xin was pushed back a few steps by her and was speechless. Jian Lan continued to push his chest fiercely and cursed at him: "I told you I'm not that kind of ghost, don't you understand what I'm saying? Are you sick? It's you, it's really you, yes, it's you, come on! Can't you pretend you don't know me? Can't you pretend you didn't recognize me?! Can't you please give me some face? Can't you?!"

She looked like a street shrew, probably too different from the one Feng Xin remembered. He stared at Jian Lan in a daze, unable to speak. Xie Lian was the same. Qi Rong was the happiest, rolling on the ground with laughter: "Hahahahahaha oh my god! Cousin Prince! Look at what's going on! You've been cuckolded by your most loyal dog!!!"

Jianlan kicked Qi Rong fiercely a few times and said, "Dog! Dog! I think you look most like a dog!"

Strictly speaking, Jianlan was only chosen by her family with high hopes, but she had never officially entered the palace, let alone become a concubine, so Qi Rong's gloating was not true. However, Xie Lian really didn't know what to say.

I never expected that Feng Xin, who usually never said a word to a woman, would actually...

At this time, the fetus's two rows of sharp teeth bit the feather arrow that pinned him to pieces again, and then broke free and rushed towards Feng Xin. Feng Xin was careless for a moment and was bitten deeply on the right arm by him, and blood spurted out.

The right hand was Feng Xin's dominant hand. For a martial god, it was not a good feeling to get his dominant hand injured. Feng Xin raised his left hand and was about to chop it down, but Jian Lan said, "Don't hit him!"

Feng Xin stopped the attack with his palm, and then a terrible idea came to his mind.

Not only him, but everyone present had the same thought in their mind. Feng Xin let the fetal spirit bite his arm like a piranha, looked at Jian Lan, and said: "...This...is...?"