Water Reflects Peach Blossoms

Chapter 230: Return from the Dream (67)

"Xiao Zhuo!" Nanzhi ran to Zhuo Yichen, looked at his furrowed brows, and her worried hand fell on the ice-blue demon pattern on the side of his neck.

After feeling that this thing was real, Nanzhi turned around and looked at Zhu Yan: "It's real!"

"How is this going?!"

Li Lun's eyes paused slightly: "It's demonization."

"But! Lord Xiao Zhuo is obviously a human! How could he turn into a monster?" Ying Lei was puzzled.

Zhu Yan explained Bing Yi's origins to everyone.

Bingyi, who is revered as a god by the world, is actually a monster. The drop of Bingyi's blood in the five-colored stone is also the blood of Bingyi that Nuwa sealed in the five-colored stone when she removed his inner elixir according to Bingyi's wishes out of gratitude for his strength.

Now that the demon blood has broken through the five-colored stone and merged into Zhuo Yichen's body, he naturally becomes a demon.

Looking at the broken five-colored stone that Yinglei had picked up, Nanzhi asked, "Can the five-colored stone still be used?"

Zhu Yan couldn't bear to answer her.

Li Lun walked up to her, squatted down, and told her, "There is another way. In the Great Wilderness's Forbidden Land of Frozen End, there lives an old monster who has lived from ancient times to the present day. He must know how to repair the Cloud Light Sword."

"It's just that... Zhuo Yichen has turned into a demon. Is it still necessary to practice the Cloud Light Sword?"

"Of course!" Wen Xiao said, "Whether Xiao Zhuo is a human or a demon, he is still Xiao Zhuo from our demon hunting team!"

"Sister Wen Xiao is right!" Nanzhi wiped away the tears that blurred her eyes. "We need to repair the Yunguang Sword and save Xiao Zhuo!"

Bai Jiu felt strange: "But...how come the five-colored stone cracked when it was fine?"

Ying Lei also felt strange: "How could the stone that Nuwa used to mend the sky be so brittle?"

"Could it be that it's been left out for too long, soaked in water, and become brittle?"

The scene was silent for a moment, and everyone was speechless for a moment by Yinglei's imagination.

Pei Sijing said solemnly, "The clouds in the sky are so misty, the sky should be cracking by now."

"That's what Sister Pei said." Ying Lei pulled her pigtail awkwardly.

Pei Sijing looked at Li Lun and reasoned rationally, "It was you who broke the Cloud Light Sword, and it was you who told us that the Five-Colored Stone could repair the Cloud Light Sword. But now that Master Zhuo Yichen has been invaded by demon blood, what exactly do you want to do?"

Hearing this skeptical remark, Li Lun stood up and looked at Pei Sijing with a lofty gaze. "It was my idea to break the Cloud Light Sword. I told you how to repair it for Shen Nanzhi. As for the Frozen End Demon Blood..."

"I do know that a drop of Bingyi's demon blood is sealed in the Five-Colored Stone, but I wasn't the one who broke the Five-Colored Stone, and I don't have such thoughts."

"How do you know so much? You even know that there's the Frozen End demon blood sealed in the five-colored stone, and there's a living old demon in the Frozen End forbidden land." Wen Xiao asked.

Li Lun said calmly, "The more books you read, the more you will know."

Seeing that Wen Xiao didn't believe him, Zhu Yan said, "What Li Lun said is true."

"Then why don't you know?" Pei Sijing asked Zhu Yan.

Zhu Yan was silent for a moment, then admitted, "Li Lun is more hardworking than me."

Everyone: “…” Unable to refute.

Zhu Yan glanced at Li Lun and offered his theory: "The Five-Colored Stone is the stone that Nuwa used to mend the sky. It's incredibly strong. The unusual movement of the Five-Colored Stone just now... is more likely that the demonic blood within sensed something and broke free from the stone's confinement."

"Could it be..." Bai Jiu pondered, "Brother Xiao Zhuo wants to become a demon?"

"That's not right! Brother Xiao Zhuo hates demons the most!"

Noticing the looks the two big demons in the room gave him, Bai Jiu waved his hands and laughed, "Just kidding."

Zhu Yan wrinkled his nose at him: "Not funny."

“…Why is it you…”

“…I refuse to accept my fate…”

Zhuo Yichen, lying on the bed, began to mutter.

Nanzhi hurried over: "Xiao Zhuo? Xiao Zhuo...can you hear me?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the demon pattern on Zhuo Yichen's neck suddenly lit up with a strange light, and Zhuo Yichen also opened his eyes and sat up!

His pair of black human eyes now glowed with an icy blue charm. After turning around and seeing Nanzhi's worried face, his lips moved as if he wanted to say something, but he fell backwards and fainted again.

"Xiao Zhuo?!" Nanzhi was worried and didn't know how to wake him up.

Zhu Yan stepped forward to inspect the situation. "Master Xiao Zhuo has demonic energy raging within him, and as a human being, he doesn't have a demonic core. We must repair the Cloud Light Sword as soon as possible, otherwise he will explode with demonic energy and die."

Ying Lei immediately took out the Shanhai Cunjing and went to Kunlun to find his grandfather Ying Zhao, asking if there was any way to save Zhuo Yichen.

Not long after, he returned, covered in wounds, and took out the ash wood: "Here! Grandpa said that the ash wood can temporarily save Master Xiao Zhuo's life!"

"Give it to him quickly!"

After taking the arsenic wood, Zhuo Yichen's condition obviously stabilized.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

When Nanzhi found Yinglei with the ointment, Yinglei was sitting opposite the statue where he often liked to sit, with his hands in seals praying for Zhuo Yichen, hoping that he could wake up soon.

Hearing footsteps, he slowly opened his eyes, and when he saw it was Nanzhi, a happy smile appeared on his face.

"Nanzhi?"

"You are injured." Nanzhi walked over to him and sat down, opening the bottle of medicine in her hand.

"It's just a minor injury, it's nothing serious." Even as he said this, Ying Lei still breathed a sigh of coldness and pain when the cold ointment was applied on his face.

Looking at the serious expression on his face as he applied the medicine to him, Ying Lei said, "You haven't slept since last night. Go get some rest."

Nanzhi shook her head: "I was a little panicked and couldn't sleep."

For some reason, she always felt uneasy.

"Then... I'll keep watch for you." Ying Lei pretended to be lively and comforted Nanzhi: "My grandfather said that the mountain god who keeps watch at night is immune to all evil! No matter what monsters are keeping you awake, they must be kept out by my little mountain god!"

Looking at Yinglei's youthful and funny appearance, Nanzhi couldn't help but smile.

"You're smiling?" Ying Lei breathed a sigh of relief. "It's good that you're smiling. You look good when you smile."

Hearing his praise, Nanzhi suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

She stood up and said, "I want to go see Xiao Zhuo again. Now that you've applied the medicine, don't let the wound get wet. Go to bed early."

"I'll go with you." Ying Lei also stood up.

He is no longer sleepy and now feels much more energetic!

The two of them went to Zhuo Yichen's room together. Halfway there, they heard something suddenly emerge from the water in the yard.

Yinglei was startled and raised his hand to protect Nanzhi behind him.

But when he saw Zhuo Yichen standing in the middle of the pool, his clothes and long hair soaked, water dripping down his body, standing in the rain, he let down his guard.

"Master Xiao Zhuo?" Ying Lei approached curiously, "Master Xiao Zhuo, are you awake? Why are you standing in the water..."

Before he could finish his words, Zhuo Yichen, whose eyes were a strange blue, waved his hand, and an ice-blue demonic power instantly spread out and hit Ying Lei.

Ying Lei was unable to react in time and was knocked away, crashing into the altar of Zhuo Yichen's father and brother. His internal organs twisted into a ball and he spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Yinglei!" Nanzhi looked at Yinglei.

What she saw was Zhuo Yichen standing in front of her with a cold expression and the demonic pattern on his neck shining brightly.