Duan Qianli hadn't seen Duan Jili for thousands of years. He originally thought that after reuniting with his father, the scene must be extremely touching.

But I didn't expect that I didn't feel the warmth of family affection at all...

Even on the contrary, after Duan Jisu taught Duan Qianli a lesson, he turned around and asked Li Fenglan the question again with a smile.

In just a few breaths, Duan Jisu's face-changing speed was so fast that Li Fenglan almost didn't realize it.

In the end, he finally met Duan Jili's slightly weird smile, and said to him, "My name is Li Fenglan."

"Fenglan! What a name!" After Duan Jili's exaggerated emotion, he shifted his probing eyes to Li Fenglan again, "I don't know if Fenglan and you and...er, Ling... Ling are not tired?"

As soon as Duan Jili mentioned Ling Buyan's name, his eyes became a little erratic. It seemed that he was not very comfortable calling the other party's name directly.

Li Fenglan noticed this, but didn't say anything.

"He is my master." Li Fenglan said.

"Master?!" Duan Jili was shocked at first, and then muttered to himself, "I didn't expect that he would accept apprentices..."

Duan Jisu's voice was low, but the few people here were monks, and everyone could hear what he said clearly.

Before Li Fenglan could ask, Duan Qianli, who had always been at odds with Ling Buyi, spoke up.

"Why can't he accept apprentices? Feng Lan has outstanding talent, so it's not certain whether he needs a master or not."

"Don't be rude!" Duan Jisu turned around and gave Duan Qianli a hard look.

And Duan Qianli once again cast an unbelievable gaze on Duan Jisu... How did his father become like this!

Li Fenglan didn't know what his master was doing, after leaving the forbidden area of ​​the sect, Duan Jili took him to the Yaozu's palace.

Just now Duan Jili went back to the demon and patrolled the sky over the demon realm several times, so now all the demons know—their former demon master has awakened!

Before the few people returned to the Yaoyu Palace, a feast had already been set up in the Yaozu Palace. Although Li Fenglan cultivated alone, as a "guest of the demon realm", he was directly taken to the seat of the banquet.

At this time, he was still wearing the off-white long gown that he had worn when he went to Daido City. Compared with the gorgeously dressed Yaozu nobles below, he had two completely different styles.

Although Li Fenglan's clothes were very simple, after he sat here, the demon cultivators below couldn't help casting their gazes at Li Fenglan.

There are many beauties of the Yaozu, but few have seen one like Li Fenglan - the clothes on him are so simple and inconspicuous, but such clothes did not take away any of his charm. It even made the facial features even more amazing.

After Duan Jisu came back, Duan Qianli did not sit on the main seat as before, but sat beside Li Fenglan.

At this moment, seeing everyone looking at Li Fenglan, Duan Qianli, who was wearing a golden robe, put his hand to his lips, and coughed softly twice, "Li—"

Before he could say the following words, Duan Jili on the main seat suddenly put down his wine glass, "Don't call Feng Lan's name directly!" he said.

Duan Qianli:? ? ?

When Ling Buyan woke up his father just now, he must have made a small move!

…

Although the members of the Yao clan are also very satisfied with Duan Qianli, the new demon master, his prestige in the demon domain is not as good as Duan Jisu's after all.

Therefore, when the man who had ruled the Demon Realm for tens of thousands of years woke up and returned, the entire Demon Realm became lively because of this.

Unlike the bustling scenes in most places in Yaoyu, there is one place that is particularly deserted.

At the very end of the demon domain, there is a faint blue sea. No one knows if this sea has an end, and if so, where does the end connect. There is little monster energy here, and there are even occassional beasts haunting it. Generally, monster clans will not come here if they have nothing to do.

At this time, there was only a black figure on the cliff about a hundred feet high and standing perpendicular to the sea.

It is Ling never tire of.

He slowly threw the Xu Youyu in his hand forward. If anyone saw it, they would think that Xu Youyu would fall into the water the next moment, and would scream because of it. But nothing like that happened.

According to legend, Xu Youyu is just a piece of jade without any use, and it has nothing special except that it is a little old.

However, at this moment, the piece of uncut jade that "has nothing special" actually hangs in the air, and emits a dark purple light. Standing on the edge of the cliff, Lingbuyi slowly formed seals, and at the same time, the uncut jade slowly revealed its true face.

Hidden among the dark stones turned out to be a piece of black jade.

The moment it appeared, the sea water below the cliff surged like boiling.

The sea water, which was originally fairly calm, slapped towards the shore one after another. There were even shattered drops of water that made Ling Buyan's clothes wet, but he didn't care about it, and he didn't use his spiritual power to dry it.

At this moment, the expression on Ling Buyan's face was unprecedentedly serious.

He glanced at Xu Youyu, then slowly closed his eyes again.

The coastline receded slowly, but after a while, a large open space appeared at the bottom of the cliff.

On the surface, everything seems to have returned to calm. But in fact, anyone who is familiar with the sea knows that it is brewing the final blow.

Right now!

The sea water that retreated just now made a comeback, hitting the cliff like a dark high wall.

However, before the sea water hit the cliff, a dark light suddenly appeared and completely enveloped the entire cliff. Even the raging waves were instantly frozen in place.

The most frightening thing is that the frozen area of ​​the sea continues to expand. Accompanied by this, the sky actually darkened a little bit.

Ling Buzhi finally opened his eyes.

He slowly raised his hand, and the next moment a long black sword appeared here out of thin air and fell into his hand.

This sword has a slender body and an extremely thin blade, and it looks like it will shatter if touched lightly. And even if the whole body is pitch black, the light can pass through the thin sword body smoothly, illuminating the chalcedony flowing in it.

If Li Fenglan was here at this time, she would be shocked to see this scene—the sword in Ling Buyan's hand, except for the color and the lack of a plum branch on the hilt, is exactly the same as his karma!

The moment the black long sword appeared, the sky darkened in an instant.

Countless people from the Yaozu looked up to the sky in panic, but Duan Jili, who was sitting on the main seat, didn't seem to feel that there was anything wrong with the scene in front of him.

At the moment when the singing and dancing stopped during the banquet, Duan Jili just put down the wine glass in his hand gently, lowered his eyes and said to the many monster races: "It's not a big deal, let's continue."

...not a big deal?

When the sky darkened, even Li Fenglan couldn't help being nervous.

His first reaction was: Could it be that the sudden darkening of the sky is a common phenomenon in the Demon Realm?

But looking at the reactions of other monster races, it is obviously not the case.

"Feng Lan~" Even Cheng Huang, who was happily watching the excitement just now, is now back into Li Fenglan's arms because of nervousness.

"It's okay." Li Fenglan gently hugged Chenghuang, and couldn't help but think in her heart: what happened just now has something to do with her master in all likelihood...

But, what could it matter?

At this time, on the edge of the cliff.

Ling Buzhi lightly stroked the long sword, his eyes full of nostalgia. At the same time as his fingers touched the blade, the blade of the long sword also let out a soft sound.

Then a dark light flashed, and the sky became brighter a little bit.

With the light, the crack on the long sword finally became clear.

Ling Buyi slowly frowned.

The shattering of the natal spirit sword is a fatal blow to every monk. It might not have been obvious when the sky was dark just now, but now, the cracks on the sword are finally fully revealed.

It almost broke into two halves.

And the state of the long sword also represents the state of Ling Buwei at this time.

The long sword was whistling non-stop, while Ling Buyan was caressing the blade and said softly, "Don't worry, your injury will be healed soon. When the time comes, I'll take you to find another sword. "

Hearing the words "another sword", the long sword gently held by Ling Buyan seemed to become more and more excited.

At this moment, Xu Youyu, who was floating in the air just now, fell back into Ling Buyan's hands.

Even the Dusheng card, which was taken back by Ling Buyi to the mustard space not long ago, appeared again, and continuously absorbed all the breath in the surrounding space.

The serious work he has to do today has finally begun—Ling Buyi needs to use Xu Youyu to repair his natal spirit sword.

…

In a blink of an eye, most of the Yaozu's banquet has gone on.

Li Fenglan is not interested in banquets or activities like singing and dancing. When many demon cultivators were most excited, Li Fenglan was a little sleepy.

In fact, he didn't show this clearly, but he didn't expect that Duan Jisu, the exalted former demon master, had been silently watching Li Fenglan's reaction.

Seeing that he seemed to have lost interest in the banquet in front of him, Duan Jisu suddenly asked, "I wonder if Feng Lan is tired?" He used this name very close to Li Feng Lan, but his tone was somewhat respectful. mean.

Fenglan? !

As soon as these two words were uttered, the monster races around immediately cast their gazes over.

In their impression, Duan Jisu looked down on Renxiu very much, and liked to discuss seniority.

But now, not only did he use the word "Feng Lan" to address this little monk who looked ordinary except for his appearance, he even spoke so politely.

Could it be that this little cultivator, some big man lowered his realm?

It has to be said that although the group of Yaozu people have great brains, the things they guessed are not unreasonable.

If you say Li Fenglan's former name, there is probably no one here who doesn't know it.

Just now after asking Li Fenglan if she was tired, before the other party could answer Duan Jisu, she waved to the maidservant beside her and said, "Take this monk to the side hall to rest."

Li Fenglan was still a little hesitant just now, after all, it is not a polite thing to leave a banquet in the middle.

But after seeing Duan Jili's attitude, he hesitated for a moment, then nodded towards the other party and said: "Thank you."

...It seems that Duan Jili really respects the master, so it shouldn't be a problem for him to follow the master, right?

Li Fenglan gently picked up Cheng Huang, and followed the red-clothed maidservant out.

At this moment, Duan Qianli, who was sitting in his seat drinking, suddenly stood up.

"Feng Lan, I'll be with you..."

The smile on Lord Demon Master's face hadn't been fully revealed yet, but his father's faint reminder came from behind him.

"Duan Qianli, sit down for me!"

Duan Qianli: "..."

Please, I am the Demon Lord now, can you show me some face!

Although he complained wildly in his heart, Duan Qianli still dared not speak out.

He gritted his teeth and squeezed out the word "good" from his throat with great difficulty.

You might as well go on falling asleep!

…

The interior decoration of Yaozu's palace is very gorgeous and the area is also very large. Li Fenglan followed the maidservant in red for a while, and finally arrived at the side hall Duan Jisu mentioned.

After simply thanking the other party, Li Fenglan finally walked in with Cheng Huang in her arms.

And after he lifted the tulle covering the night pearl, through the light of the pearl, Li Fenglan finally saw clearly that Cheng Huang had fallen asleep in his arms at some point.

But it was different from before, this time sleeping in yellow seemed to be extraordinarily unsteady.

Its eyebrows were tightly furrowed, and it was even muttering something in its mouth.

Li Fenglan hesitated for a moment, and gently put Chenghuang on the bed. He patted the little guy's paw, and called softly: "Chenghuang? Chenghuang, did you eat something just now?"

Thinking about it carefully, this is the first time Li Fenglan has such an expression when she meets Cheng Huang while she is sleeping.

At the banquet just now, I told Chenghuang not to eat anything from Yaoyu casually, but the little guy is greedy after all. If it sees some beautiful fruit and can't help but take a bite, it is not impossible.

After hearing what the master said, Cheng Huang, who had closed his eyes tightly just now, finally slowly opened his eyes and looked at Li Fenglan.

Chenghuang seemed to be aggrieved, it pouted, shook its head and said, "No, Chenghuang is just... just, when I close my eyes, I have nightmares!"

Cheng Huang's tone was a little excited.

"Nightmare?" Li Fenglan couldn't help repeating these three words.

To be honest, he really never thought about what a simple-minded little beast like Cheng Huang would dream of in his nightmares.

So Li Fenglan couldn't help asking curiously: "What did you dream about?"

"Hmm..." Cheng Huang thought about it carefully, then lay on the bed and slowly said to Li Fenglan: "It's just a lot of fire!"

A lot of fire?

After hearing these three words, Li Fenglan couldn't help laughing. He thought, it's not because he saw Duan Jisu's original form just now, and was scared by him to have a nightmare.

After the words fell, Cheng Huang seemed to understand what Li Fenglan was laughing at.

It quickly shook its head and said, "No, no! It's scary! It's different from Duan Jisu..."

Speaking of which, although Chenghuang has grown up for a long time, his speech is getting smoother and smoother. But maybe because of Duan Wannian's influence before, Cheng Huang also acted cute to himself.

Not only does it speak in a childish tone, but even the content of its speech is very childish.

This seems to be the most serious conversation Cheng Huang has had with himself since he was able to speak.

"Huh? What does that look like?" Li Fenglan also became serious.

In fact, ordinary people would not listen to the words of the beast so carefully. Even if the ferocious beast utters human words, they still treat the ferocious beast as a simple beast.

But Li Fenglan is different, Chenghuang is like a family to him.

Seeing the master asking so earnestly and cooperatively, Cheng Huang also tried his best to organize his words, and described it with his own not-so-rich vocabulary: "It's a big, big sea...the sea is full of fire!"

Although Cheng Huang had already tried his best to think about it, Li Fenglan still felt that what it said was very mysterious, and it was really difficult to construct a picture in his mind.

"En." But Li Fenglan still nodded patiently.

Until this moment, Li Fenglan did not expect that at the next moment, Cheng Huang would say a sentence that made him lose all sleepiness.

Cheng Huang rubbed the quilt lightly with his paws, then said "Oh!", raised his head and exaggeratedly said to Li Fenglan: "That fire is green!"

"Green fire..."

This thing is really unique.

The place with green flames has repeatedly appeared in Li Fenglan's life recently.

"Endless purgatory." Li Fenglan was silent for a long while before saying these four words.

But why did Cheng Huang see endless purgatory?

Endless Purgatory is the place of death for all living beings. It should have been a place where there is no return... It is also the home of ancient beasts.

"What is this?" After hearing the words "Endless Purgatory", Cheng Huang suddenly asked Li Fenglan in his grandmother's voice.

"It's...the place with green flames," Li Fenglan paused, and he continued to ask Cheng Huang, "Did you see anything else?"

Cheng Huang continued to think: "Well... I saw a log."

Cheng Huang racked his brains to remember these words.

When the words came out, Cheng Huang didn't seem to feel anything. But it didn't know that this sentence shocked Li Fenglan's heart.

There should be a sea of ​​flames in the endless purgatory, how could Cheng Huang see a piece of wood in it?

Chenghuang is Li Fenglan's spirit beast, and the way of communication between them is naturally more than ordinary people.

When hearing this, Li Fenglan was already full of doubts. But at the same time, he also knew that with Cheng Huang's vocabulary, he might not be able to explain this matter clearly.

So Li Fenglan thought for a while, he patted Chenghuang lightly and said: "Go to sleep first, I'm right here, if you dream of anything else, just tell me."

"Yeah!" Soon after Cheng Huang was born, he became Li Fenglan's spirit beast. And Li Fenglan was like the whole world to this pure-minded beast.

So upon hearing what Li Fenglan said, Cheng Huang obediently shrank into the bed, smacked his mouth, and closed his eyes again.

At this time the night had gradually darkened, but it was different from the time at the banquet just now, Li Fenglan didn't feel sleepy at all.

He gently put his hand on Chenghuang's forehead, then closed his eyes, and entered the sea of ​​consciousness of the beast.

— This is the first time Li Fenglan has done this since signing the spiritual contract with Cheng Huang.

The nightmare just now obviously left a deep shadow in Chenghuang's heart. As soon as Li Fenglan entered Chenghuang's sea of ​​consciousness, she saw the "green sea of ​​fire" that Chenghuang had just described to herself.

Everything here is almost exactly the same as what Li Fenglan saw in Ling Buyi's memory last time.

In the endless sea of ​​flames, fire dragons soared into the sky, and at the center of the flames was a dark green fire core...

Even though she had seen this place before, Li Fenglan was still a little nervous when she suddenly returned to the endless purgatory.

But even so, when a fire dragon attacked him, Li Fenglan overcame the instinctive fear and opened her eyes wide to look into the fire dragon.

——Li Fenglan is trying to find the wood that Cheng Huang said here.

But to his disappointment, the wood was not hidden in the fire core.

Li Fenglan saw nothing.

Could it be that the wood has nothing to do with the endless purgatory, but Cheng Huang accidentally associated them together when he was dreaming? Li Fenglan couldn't help being suspicious.

However, before he came out of Chenghuang's sea of ​​consciousness, Li Fenglan's environment suddenly changed.

The sea of ​​flames just now disappeared, leaving only darkness in front of Li Fenglan's eyes.

Just when he was wondering what happened here, a huge beast appeared in front of Li Fenglan's eyes.

That ferocious beast had two horns on its back, stepped on the blue flames, and had an extremely huge body...

"Chenghuang?" That's right, isn't the fierce beast in front of you the enlarged Chenghuang?

Is it dreaming of itself?

Logically speaking, even in the sea of ​​consciousness, when he heard Li Fenglan's call, Cheng Huang should turn around and look at his master.

However, when Li Fenglan called Chenghuang's name, it still stood there motionless.

"Chenghuang—" Li Fenglan called out again.

This time, Cheng Huang finally moved.

But it didn't look at Li Fenglan, it saw Cheng Huang, who was standing motionless just now, suddenly let out a very threatening low cry from his throat. And Li Fenglan also saw at this time that, unlike the Chenghuang in her impression, the one in front of her seemed to be much more mature, and it still had many scars on its body.

Some of the wounds were even bleeding out.

After Cheng Huang yelled a few times, he jumped forward suddenly.

Then Li Fenglan saw - a small black wooden sign, which was swallowed by Cheng Huang in one gulp.

The fierce beast swallowed the wooden sign into its stomach.

And if Li Fenglan was not mistaken, then the wooden sign was the Life-saving card that she had only seen before!

My God... Doesn't everything in front of me coincide with the previous legend?

"The life-saving card caused trouble in the mortal world. A dying beast swallowed it angrily and brought it to the endless purgatory."

It turns out that the dying beast is Chenghuang? ! Or in other words, is it Cheng Huang's previous life?

But aren't fierce beasts without reincarnation?

Li Fenglan felt that her world view had been refreshed once again.

…

At the same time, the man standing on the edge of the cliff finally repaired his spirit sword.

The three large characters of "Duanchen Yuan" flashed across the black sword body, and then disappeared.