Don't be afraid, fairy, I'm blind

Chapter 435: Old Tsundere
The snow in Shuocheng fell more rapidly than on Shenshan.

You Su's eyelashes were condensed with ice crystals, and there was only a chaotic white in his vision.

He followed Venerable Qianlong three steps behind, his eyes sweeping across her straight back——

It’s not that You Su was obsessed with this perfect jade back, but that there was a faint red color on the grayish-white fabric behind the woman.

That was blood. The woman rushed all the way to Shuo City without stopping, and she did not forget to kill people. All the evil spirits that caught her eyes were wiped out and died very quickly.

Such injuries were not a big deal for a Dongxu Master, but he could not withstand such a brutal fight. So the wound had to go through the process of healing and breaking again, and the blood that seeped out dyed his back red.

When she was slaughtering the evil spirits, You Su not only didn't dare to speak or disturb her, he didn't even have the chance to intervene. He was like a mascot. After the woman killed all the evil spirits within her sight, he was picked up and rushed to the next stop.

They met many survivors along the way, and the woman took good care of them. She did not waste time blindly gathering them together. If they could not gather into a living force that could effectively defend, the dense "human smell" would only make it easier for the evil spirits to find them. Hiding in a scattered manner like this would make the evil spirits lose interest in them, and they might not even find them.

Even so, they still arrived at Shuocheng on the third day, without the woman even having a moment's rest.

You Su did not ask why she came to Shuocheng first. He thought the woman must have her own meaning.

But the closer to the evil well, the higher the concentration of evil spirits should be. This has indeed been confirmed along the way. But when we arrived in Shuocheng, we found that it was not the case. It was terrifyingly quiet here.

Venerable Qianlong suddenly stopped, and a corner of his plain dress was lifted by the wind. You Su followed her gaze and saw several frozen bodies of children curled up under the snow-covered archway. Their purple palms were still tightly grasping half of the tree trunk, as if they were grasping the last grain of millet to save their lives.

You Su's Adam's apple moved. At this moment, the wind and snow swept across the flying cloths on both sides of the long street. A half-blood-soaked notice was particularly eye-catching - "Shenshan relief food has arrived, please go to Xuexiangju to collect it as soon as possible."

Xuexiangju was where Yousu and Master Aoshu discovered something strange about Shuocheng. Along the way, Yousu basically told the woman everything he knew.

"They will believe this nonsense until they die." The voice of Venerable Qianlong was wrapped in the wind, sharper than an ice cone.

The foul smell in the air was disgusting. You Su felt that people's hearts were evil. Those who went to get food might become food for the evil spirits first.

"Is the well really near Shuo City? Why aren't there so many evil spirits here?"

Venerable Qianlonghao frowned, as if he was also thinking about this question. Her deerskin boots embroidered with dragon patterns rolled over the notice, and a string of bright red suddenly bloomed on the snow. It turned out that the frozen blood river under the ice began to melt.

You Su's pupils suddenly shrank.

The "blood rivers" suddenly surged, and countless bony hands poked out from the sticky black water. The snowfield, which had been silent just now, was filled with the cries of babies, and each cry tore open a "frozen corpse" - those were not ordinary people at all, but evil spirits wrapped in human skin!
"Back off!"

Venerable Qianlong rolled up his sleeves, and nine black ice dragons broke through the air. The dragon's roar shattered the flying snow, but it turned into green smoke the moment it touched the black water.

You Su's Mosong sword barely cut off a rotten corpse that was rushing towards him, and the vibration from the sword tip made his palm numb - these evil bones were actually harder than those on the seabed, and a faint blue fluorescence flowed in every crack.

"How can there be such a strong evil spirit?!"

Before he could finish his words, the ground suddenly collapsed.

You Su stepped back quickly on his toes, but his ankles were still engulfed by the surging black tide. The biting coldness climbed along his meridians, and he saw a huge shadow vaguely appearing under the ground - it was not a well at all, but a huge mouth that swallowed the sky and the earth. Tens of thousands of evil spirits were squeezing out from the fang-like stalactites, and their rotten flesh and blood stuck together to form a bridge to the human world.

"pay close attention!"

When the black ice chain was wrapped around his waist, You Su smelled a hint of cold fragrance. Venerable Qianlong pulled him into the air, and the shadow of the Chilong formed an ice bridge under their feet. The black water roared and hit the ice surface, and scarlet mist oozed out of every crack. The strange scene made people trance.

The snow in Shuocheng suddenly became sticky, and every snowflake was covered with rancid mucus.

You Su almost used all his strength to split the head of a corpse, but what splashed out was not brain matter, but black gravel. The gravel burned as soon as it hit the ground, and thousands of distorted human faces emerged in the rising green smoke, crying in unison:
"Sir... why don't you save us..."

The ice blade condensed from the fingertips of the Venerable Qianlong was suspended in the air, and the chopped corpse was crawling on the ground. Ice crystals condensed into frost on her eyelashes, and nine dragon phantoms circled restlessly behind her, but they were reluctant to pounce on the crying phantoms.

"Be careful!" You Su turned around and pushed the stunned female fairy away.

The sharp claws of the three corpse puppets brushed past her shoulders, and the black ice dragon armor shattered, leaving dots of red plum blossoms on her plain dress.

You Su's back hit the ice wall, and a fishy and sweet taste surged in his throat. He had already seen the strangeness of this Shuo City.

What they saw was not the real Shuo City, but they fell into an illusion when they set foot here!

"You are stupid! These are not living people! They are illusions created by the evil spirits of the Dream Master!"

"I know." Venerable Qianlong said in a hoarse voice. He raised his hand to freeze the corpse puppet that was rushing towards him, but he did not kill it.

The face under the ice suddenly became ferocious, and the old man's cloudy eyes oozed black blood, "Sir, where is the rice you promised?"

Her fingertips trembled, and the ice melted quietly, like melting tears.

The entire city began to twist. The bluestone road rolled up like a giant python shedding its skin, revealing the wriggling flesh and blood underneath. The words "Shuocheng" on the archway dripped with pus and blood, turning into the words "Save me".

You Su felt a sticky touch on the soles of his boots. He looked down and saw that the accumulated snow had turned into densely packed eyeballs, each pupil reflecting the pale face of Venerable Qianlong.

All of this is so bizarre and almost insane, it is impossible for this scene to actually happen!

“You’ve already thought of it!”

You Su swung his sword to smash the corpses that were rushing towards him. The Mosong Sword let out a mournful cry, "When you stepped into this place, you thought it was an illusion! But you still couldn't avoid it! The more these evil spirits look like ordinary people, the more it shows that--"

Venerable Qianlong used his wide sleeves to shake away the corpse puppets within a radius of ten feet, but the black ice dragon armor failed to condense again: "I don't need your reminder!"

"You're still being stubborn! No wonder God gave you two souls!" You Su gritted her teeth and shouted, "Because I know that if a stupid and stubborn woman like you were alone, you would kill yourself sooner or later!"

Venerable Qianlong was stunned when he heard this, and her palms were bleeding from where she had pinched them.

Stupid and stubborn... After spending so many days together, he still scolds me?!
But why...I think he is so right...

In fact, she knew that it seemed that all her achievements were basically achieved by relying on her split soul, while the timid and cautious "self" only needed to concentrate on cultivation and agree with her by the way.

But without that 'self' to restrain and persuade her, can she really make the most correct decision time and time again?

Just like now, she knew that these evil puppets were so difficult to kill, and it was the illusion that reflected her psychology - the more she couldn't bear to kill these evil puppets that were supposed to be the people of Shuo City, the harder they were to kill. And this illusion became more and more twisted and dangerous.

She knew this, but she was still overwhelmed by guilt and couldn't bring herself to kill him, falling into a vicious circle.

You Su suddenly grabbed her trembling wrist. The fairy's body temperature was colder than ice and snow, as if what was flowing in her meridians was not blood, but stagnant cold mist.

"Look at these eyes!" The young man forced her to look at the eyeballs wriggling on the ground, "Which eyes contain hatred? Which eyes contain resentment?" Venerable Qianlong staggered back. What was filled in those pupils was clearly the expectation that would never go out until his death.

Just like how she saw her ancestors die, the people here seemed to have long been accustomed to suffering, so they were accustomed to death. Instead of being angry about the hardships of life, they would rather pray that the lives of their descendants would not be so hard.

"Before you took charge of Beiao, even if there was no evil tide, the number of people who starved to death or froze to death in Beiao Continent would be no less than it is now! But the people of Beiao Continent still survive to this day!" His voice pierced through the wails of the corpses, "Who do you think you are! Why do you think you are solely responsible for the rise and fall of Beiao? What you think is guilt is nothing but belated hypocrisy in the eyes of the dead! They don't want you to be buried with them, they want you to live with this pain and complete your mission!"

The ground suddenly collapsed, and thousands of eyeballs merged into a river of blood, holding up a skeleton a hundred feet tall, like a bodhisattva in ancient mythology. Its skull was inlaid with the faces of the people of Shuocheng, and what was held in its palm was not a jade bottle, but a boiling blood well.

"Have you scolded enough?" Venerable Qianlong stared at You Su's hand that was holding her wrist.

You Su was frightened and hurriedly let go of his hand, but the other party grabbed his wrist.

Countless red ropes dangled from the ribs of the White Bone Bodhisattva, each tied to a twitching corpse. They chanted in unison, the sound waves shaking You Su's eardrums to bleed: "Venerable, be merciful. Let's go to the underworld together."

Amidst the disturbing Buddhist chanting, You Su seemed to hear a whisper in a trance.

"Thank you."

He looked at the woman in surprise, only to see that her long black hair was fluttering, covering her face.

"I am willing to feed Bei'ao with my own body, and I will never change my mind even if I die."

She recited this sentence softly. This was the blood oath she made when she was twelve years old. From now on, all her ways would be based on this. Since this was the way she had chosen, no matter what happened, she should stick to it!
As soon as she finished speaking, she flew up. Even in her simple long dress, she was still graceful and elegant, as if she was the goddess of the sky.

The White Bone Bodhisattva took the opportunity to open his abdomen, and billions of eyeballs formed a whirlpool, trying to drag the two into the abyss.

The moment the vertical pupils burst into blood light, the fairy's ice dragon finally pierced through the illusion in front of her. The white-bone Bodhisattva let out an unwilling scream, and thousands of red ropes broke at the same time, turning into a scarlet snow.

You Su was dragged in the air, not knowing what to do, and complained in her heart: Big sister, you can chop me if you want, why are you still holding me? I just scolded you a few words, is it necessary for me to witness this with my own eyes?

The snow in Shuocheng suddenly stopped. It didn't snow here at all, and there really were many evil spirits.

Venerable Qianlong tapped the toes on the phantom of the ice dragon, and her plain skirt swept across the ice crystals that covered the ground. Countless broken human faces were frozen in those ice crystals, which were disappearing one after another with her footsteps. Only the eyes that passed on the flame of life remained unchanged.

The woman split the snow on the street, and in the dirt lay a sticky black fat fish that looked like a human face. She did not hesitate at all, and in an instant it turned into a pool of mud.

You Su realized that this was the culprit of this dream, but he also noticed something was wrong:

"I also crawled out of the sea well. Their individual strength is not outstanding, but they win in numbers. There shouldn't be such a powerful evil spirit that can make you and I fall into dreams without knowing it. I guess this should be the remnant that hid at the bottom of Shuo City a thousand years ago."

“Yan Bodhisattva.” Venerable Qianlong clenched his fists tightly, his knuckles clearly visible. “In the past, there was a cult that used Buddha as its name, and they believed in this fat fish, so they named it Yan Bodhisattva. But… it should have been in the prison of the Exorcist Department.”

You Su was slightly stunned. He didn't expect that the enemy's big hand had already reached into the Exorcism Department.

"It seems that your Kongyuan Divine Mountain is really a place where filth and dirt are hidden."

The woman glanced over, her eyes sharp. "Who isn't?"

You Su did not refute. He had lost confidence in these high-ranking immortals.

"Do you think it was placed here to protect the sea well, or to ambush you?"

"Maybe both..." She couldn't come to a conclusion, but just continued to move forward slowly, killing the evil spirits that rushed towards her without knowing the consequences as she walked.

You Su also started to feel itchy. Killing the evil spirits was a good thing for him. There were many evil spirits at this time, and the overbearing woman did not take on all the responsibilities. As You Su said, most of the evil spirits were not very powerful. As long as you were not afraid of them, you could basically defeat them.

As he was beheading, You Su seemed to have noticed something and even rushed into someone else's house to rummage through the drawers.

Seeing You Su actually coming out with half a pastry in his mouth, Venerable Qianlong really couldn't stand his behavior: "Is this the character of Venerable Lianjian's followers? They even steal things from ordinary people?"

You Su had been sleeping in the open with her for the past few days. In fact, he had not eaten anything at all. The food he had was basically given to the refugees he met along the way. It was not that the woman forced him to make selfless contributions, but that he was willing to do so.

He had given all his food to the people, and now that he was hungry, what was wrong with taking some from the people? But he also knew that he couldn't reason with this stingy woman, he had to use morality.

"According to you, we can steal things from rich people?"

Venerable Qianlong was speechless, while You Su sneered, "It seems that the Venerable Master has stolen before. Robbing the rich to help the poor is indeed the Venerable Master's usual method of governing the continent. But how can taking the things of a dead person be called stealing? That's called taking advantage of others."

As soon as he finished speaking, he stopped laughing, looked at the woman suddenly, and asked in astonishment, "You also found out that they are not dead?"

Since the people are not dead, they will definitely come back, so You Su's behavior of stealing can indeed be classified as "stealing".

Venerable Qianlong raised his hand and an ice cone pierced the evil spirit that was rushing towards him. He said in a cold tone:

"Evil spirits don't eat mortals, they kill them just for fun. But there's not a single corpse here, which is really against common sense. They may be dead, but they definitely didn't die in the city."

You Su, however, revealed the woman's thoughts: "So many people escaped from Shuo City together in the face of danger, which must be an organized action, so the possibility of their survival is quite high. As one of the sources, Shuo City can escape so many people, which means that the casualties may be much less than expected.

Even the Changshan City I saw with my own eyes was not littered with corpses. The ability of the Bei'ao people to survive in difficult situations is beyond my imagination. This is a good thing, so don't pretend to be bitter and resentful. "

Venerable Qianlong looked back at her again and glared, secretly annoyed that this young man was so hateful. He always seemed to enjoy seeing through her thoughts, and he was right every time.

"Then should I laugh out loud?" the woman asked back coldly.

You Su curled his lips and stopped deliberately angering this stone-like woman.

Speechless all the way.

"Did you just say thank you to me?"

You Su's sudden question made the woman pause, and her angry eyes revealed a bit of exasperation. She squeezed out three words from between her teeth with difficulty:
"It's an illusion!"

You Su secretly found it funny. He had seen the young Tsundere before, but this old Tsundere who was hundreds of years old was rare. However, as he aged, he was afraid that only Tsundere was left, not Tsundere.

They just laughed a few times before they saw one of their goals for this trip -

The sea well from which evil spirits continually gush forth.

(End of this chapter)