Chapter 55: The Ghost King of the Man-Eating Nest vs. the Heavenly Official 2
Xie Lian didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, but he was also very grateful. He said, “Master Fengshi, I’m afraid you have misunderstood. Actually…”
He wanted to explain that Hua Cheng did not come to him to accuse him of Ji Le Fang, but Shi Qing Xuan secretly winked at him, as if to tell him to stop talking. Hua Cheng did not refute, but just said: "I have not settled the matter of Jun Wu inserting spies under my command, what can you use to negotiate with me?"
Xie Lian understood. Shi Qingxuan had already seen that Hua Cheng had no ill intentions, but he had to pretend that Hua Cheng had gone to Xianjing to seek accountability. This way, he could prevent people from saying that he had fled with malicious intent. Hua Cheng also understood his intentions, so he agreed. However, Xie Lian was unwilling to do so and said, "Okay, stop pretending. He went to Xianjing to save me. Sanlang had good intentions, so why bother hiding it?"
Shi Qingxuan said, "I won't act anymore. I have already transmitted those two sentences to the spiritual communication array. You don't understand this. Good intentions will eventually turn into malice if passed back and forth. It's better to have malice from the beginning."
Hua Cheng raised his eyebrows and said, "An understanding person."
Shi Qingxuan said proudly: "That's right. Otherwise, how can this Wind Master survive in the Upper Heaven? General Nanyang, put down your bow."
Feng Xin still pulled the string to the full seven points, holding his breath and saying nothing. Shi Qingxuan patted him and said, "Put it down, I'm familiar with you, I don't mean any harm."
Feng Xin said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, the one next to you is Jue..."
Seeing that his hostility remained unabated and his arrows were still pointed, Shi Qingxuan suddenly made a "huh" sound and hit him on the elbow.
At that moment, Feng Xin's face was 10,000 times more horrible than seeing a ghost. He screamed, and the half-condensed spiritual power in his right hand collapsed and disappeared. His face was pale and he cursed loudly, and finally collapsed and said: "Fuck! What do you want to do!!!"
It turned out that Shi Qingxuan had used his chest to hit the hand holding the arrow. It seemed that this collision really scared Feng Xin. Shi Qingxuan flicked his whisk, and his immortal bones were so unrestrained that it was impossible to tell how indecent he had just done. He said, "I haven't asked you what you want to do. I said that Xueyu Tanhua is going to rescue His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and you are pointing an arrow at someone. If you want to fight so much, this Fengshi will not accompany you anyway."
Feng Xin retreated a great distance away, as if he didn't dare to approach her anymore. He shouted at the top of his lungs, "Don't do this again! Don't do it again! Do you hear me?!"
Seeing him avoid snakes and scorpions, Shi Qingxuan, who was very confident in his handsomeness, couldn't help but feel depressed and said, "Okay, okay. I won't do it anymore. You won't suffer any loss, will you? What's your attitude???" As if he felt that he had lost face, he changed back to a male form, turned around, and said, "Hey, where's Qianqiu?"
Hearing this, Feng Xin finally regained some consciousness and looked around. Xie Lian exclaimed, "Isn't he in the spiritual formation?"
Shi Qingxuan said, "No! He rolled the dice and went the right way, but he didn't say anything after that. I asked him several times what the correct number was, but he didn't respond to me. In the past, he always responded quickly to anyone who spoke to Qianqiu, even if the little priest of Zhongtian asked him, he never put it aside. It's really strange."
Xie Lian sighed softly and said, "Prince Taihua went to chase Qi Rong."
The two visitors were both startled: "Qi Rong?"
Xie Lian said, “Yes. This is exactly Qi Rong’s lair. Well, anyway…”
Feng Xin said, "Wait. Why would His Highness Taihua go after Qi Rong? Wasn't he after you?"
Hua Cheng said at the side: "No reason. He was chasing the murderer who massacred the Gilded Banquet, and the Crown Prince just cleaned up the murderer's ass. Lang Qianqiu learned the truth and went after the real murderer, that's all."
Feng Xin's expression was stern, and he said, "The real murderer? Really?!"
Xie Lian felt that he had no way of explaining it again, and he couldn’t make it clear for the time being. He shook his head and said, “It’s not that simple. I’ll explain it in detail when we get back.”
Shi Qingxuan didn't know the inside story, and said happily: "Sure enough, there is a misunderstanding. This Master Feng is really as good as a god. Now you don't have to be locked up even if you go back."
Feng Xin said, "Okay!" He looked relieved, put away his bow, and his vigilance was much less. Hua Cheng sneered. Xie Lian said to Feng Xin, "You know, Qi Rong is that Qi Rong."
Feng Xin said, "That Qi Rong? Which one?" He was surprised and asked, "The one we all know?"
Xie Lian asked, “As expected, you didn’t expect it to be him?”
Feng Xin's face darkened and he said, "No. I've never dealt with Qing Gui himself, and I always thought it was just a coincidence. How could a ghost wear his real name and walk around everywhere? Isn't this crazy?" As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately thought that Qi Rong was really crazy, and he and Xie Lian looked at each other in silence.
Feng Xin had been very displeased with Qi Rong long before the two of them ascended to heaven. Qi Rong was the son of the sister of Xie Lian's mother, the last empress of Xianle. He was raised in the royal family since he was a child and was always pestering Xie Lian. As Xie Lian's bodyguard, Feng Xin naturally had to see him often. This person was young, ignorant, unwilling to listen to advice, energetic, and extremely behaved. The worst thing was that he was a royal relative, and no one dared to beat or scold him. It was conceivable how lawless he was. He used to say "My cousin the crown prince is perfect!" "My cousin is so and so". If anyone was disrespectful to Xie Lian or brought him the slightest trouble, no matter who it was, Qi Rong would put that person in a sack and beat him until he was shit. He never had any idea of respecting the elderly and loving the young. Xie Lian once rescued a child who was only ten years old from his hands. He beat him so hard that he was covered in blood and looked like a human being. It was miserable. Xie Lian sympathized with his background, and felt that he was sincere towards him, so he never taught him a lesson. However, if he only guided him with words or scolded him, he would not change his ways, which was a headache. Feng Xin was straightforward and spoke harshly, and he was not as patient as Xie Lian. He contradicted Qi Rong and disobeyed his orders several times, which made Qi Rong extremely disgusted with him. He always found ways to make things difficult for him and acted bossy. Moreover, after Xie Lian ascended to heaven, Qi Rong became even more aggressive, and sometimes even when the other party made an unintentional mistake, such as spitting in front of the Prince's Palace, he would stuff red-hot charcoal into the other person's mouth. In order to prevent him from going too far, Feng Xin often had to go down to the mortal world to clean up Qi Rong's mess, which annoyed him so much that he often said to Xie Lian: "Qi Rong is sick, and sooner or later he will cause trouble!"
Feng Xin said: "If it is really him, it is not surprising that he would act like this."
Shi Qingxuan asked curiously: "Why, do you know Qing Gui himself?"
Xie Lian nodded and said, “My cousin.”
Shi Qingxuan was shocked and folded his arms, saying, "That's amazing."
Xie Lian said, “He is really quite amazing.”
Shi Qingxuan said, "I'm not saying he's awesome, I'm saying you're awesome. Your Highness, look, the Southeastern Martial God and the Southwestern Martial God are old acquaintances of yours, the Eastern Martial God is your apprentice, Qingdeng Yeyou is your cousin, Xueyu Tanhua is your sworn brother, and this Fengshi is your friend. Isn't that awesome?"
Xie Lian smiled slightly, thinking, the Wind Master is just like the wind, once the wind comes out, the haze will be blown away. When Hua Cheng and Feng Xin heard that "Xue Yu Tan Hua is your sworn brother", their expressions seemed to disagree. Hua Cheng raised an eyebrow, while Feng Xin frowned and said nothing. After a while, he said to Xie Lian, "If there is nothing else, you should hurry back to Xianjing. After such a scene just now, the other priests don't know what's going on, and they are still waiting up there. The Emperor should know about it too, you have to give an explanation for what happened."
Hearing this, Hua Cheng laughed out loud. Feng Xin said, "What are you laughing at?"
Hua Cheng said: "I thought you were really straightforward, but it turns out you like to beat around the bush. You just want His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to stop associating with monsters like me, so why don't you dare to speak directly? Are you afraid that you don't have the right position to speak?"
Xie Lian coughed lightly and said, “San Lang…”
Feng Xin said coldly: "He shouldn't have been mixed up with demons and monsters, just know that."
Hua Cheng did not comment on this. Xie Lian calmly interrupted and said to Feng Xin in a gentle voice: "I will give you an explanation, but there are indeed other things to do here. Qi Rong hid more than 300 living people in his lair to eat. Thanks to Sanlang's help, we were able to rescue all of them. There are still a group of little ghosts left, and we have to deal with them slowly. I will go up after that."
Feng Xin said, "It's not good to delay it for too long. Just let me handle it."
Hua Cheng nodded and said, "Given the efficiency of the Heavenly Court, we should be able to complete the process next month."
Feng Xin said: "You made it sound as if it could be finished in an instant."
The two of them were actually at loggerheads. Shi Qingxuan looked at Xie Lian and asked, "Do they have a grudge against each other?" Xie Lian shook his head. Before he could change the subject, Hua Cheng took out an umbrella from somewhere. The umbrella was as red as maple leaves and as bright as fire. Hua Cheng held the umbrella with one hand, and the umbrella blocked the space between him and Xie Lian, making their cheeks blush.
This must be the umbrella he held when he was walking through the bloody rain in the forest of corpses at Yujun Mountain. However, it wasn’t raining now, so Xie Lian couldn’t help but feel a little strange and asked, “Sanlang, why are you holding an umbrella?”
Hua Cheng faced him, moved his umbrella towards Xie Lian, and said with a smile, "Wait. The weather will change soon."
As soon as he finished speaking, heavy rain fell from the sky!
The rain came suddenly and suddenly, making Xie Lian completely dazed. However, he stayed under Hua Cheng's umbrella and didn't get wet. However, Feng Xin, who was standing opposite Xie Lian and Hua Cheng, was completely unprepared and was soaked from head to toe by the rain.
Even more unfortunately, the rain was blood-colored, so Feng Xin had turned into a bloody red man, with only his wide-open eyes white. Shi Qingxuan happened to be standing in a cave, so he was not affected. He was dumbfounded and forgot to throw away his whisk.
The bloody rain came quickly and went away quickly, and soon it calmed down. Feng Xin finally reacted and wiped his face, which was still bloody and red, with no improvement at all. Xie Lian said, "This..."
Hua Cheng put away his umbrella and laughed, "Just a moment. How is it?"
In the five words, he walked a few steps leisurely, and was already a long distance away. Xie Lian was originally searching for a cloth in his sleeves, and Shi Qingxuan plucked a few white hairs from the whisk and presented them to Feng Xin who had fallen into silence. As soon as Hua Cheng left, Xie Lian immediately realized that there was one person missing behind him, so he turned around and ran a few steps, saying, "Sanlang, are you going back to the ghost market?"
Hua Cheng turned around and said, "Aren't you going back to Xianjing too?"
He half-jokingly said, "But if you want to go back to Ghost City with me, I welcome you."
Xie Lian smiled and said, “Next time.” He said sincerely, “Next time I have a chance, I will definitely go to the Ghost Market again. You rebuild the Paradise Square, and I will help you carry the bricks.”
Hua Cheng said: "You don't have to move the bricks. It's good for you to sit and watch."
Xie Lian slowly put away his smile and said, “No matter what, I still want to thank you for Qianqiu’s matter.” After a pause, he said, “I don’t know what is right, but maybe this is not so bad.”
Hua Cheng said calmly: "Think too much."
Xie Lian was startled and tilted his head slightly. Hua Cheng said, "Just do it."
After saying that, he turned around and waved his hand.
Not long after, the red-clothed figure gradually disappeared in front of the mountain, under the moon, and from Xie Lian’s sight.