SCT-Novel #255 - Go! Into the den of thieves!
#255 - Go! Into the den of thieves!
"You carry the load, he leads the horse."
"Welcoming the sunrise, bidding farewell to the sunset~~!"
Xu Chengxian's singing was off-key, carrying far and wide, startling birds into flight. The surrounding demons covered their ears or grimaced.
Only he himself reveled in it.
"Flattening the bumps to create a great road, fighting through hardships..."
"Little Flower, stop for a moment, Mother has a headache." Bai Xiaocui couldn't help but speak up, then quickly asked before Xu Chengxian could answer, "Little Flower, how long until we see humans?"
"I haven't even seen humans yet!"
The humans she spoke of, of course, referred to the human race.
"Don't worry, we'll see them soon," Xu Chengxian said.
By showing the jade token and offering a Spirit Replenishing Pill, he had become friendly with the little demon guarding the teleportation array.
He had inquired about the situation at their destination.
Emerging from the teleportation array at the bottom of the river, they found themselves in a desolate mass grave.
Passing through it and walking a dozen miles, there was a village.
"It's inhabited by hundreds of families."
In his previous life, he had traveled far many times, deeply understanding a principle: you don't have to make a travel guide before setting off, but if you don't understand the basic information and don't look at the lightning warnings, you're just waiting to fall into a pit.
What others praise may not be appreciated, but what they say is bad is likely to be encountered.
In the journey of life, not encountering beauty is at most a sigh, but encountering a big pit can very likely trip you to death.
Moreover, now it's a family of demons going to the human territory.
They had to be cautious.
What if they were slain by demon slayers?
After landing, Xu Chengxian spread out his divine sense to survey the surrounding situation ahead.
He not only confirmed that there were no real cultivators here, but also verified what he already knew.
"This is the southern border of Great Zhou, a poor and remote place that the government doesn't care about. I think this village is probably a den of thieves," he said based on what he had scouted.
Of course, choosing a den of thieves as a foothold was safer for them than going to a human town.
Give a thumbs-up to his own wit!
"Don't worry, I'm reliable!" Xu Chengxian smiled, "Don't think I'm just singing. I haven't slacked off on what I should be doing."
"Hey? Speaking of singing, where did I get to just now?"
"Oh right! Fighting through hardships, we set off again! Monkey bro, Monkey bro, you're really..."
"Hey! Wait! Don't sing yet!" Bai Xiaocui quickly said again, "How are we going to find Xiaoqing and Xiaobai?"
"The human realm is so big, and we don't know where they are."
"It's easy for us to find them." Xu Chengxian had already thought about this problem, "Second Sister and Third Brother are not peaceful fellows."
"When the time comes, we'll just follow the troublemakers who are causing trouble, and they'll definitely be among them."
"What if they're not there?" Bai Xiaocui asked quickly, afraid that he would continue singing.
So it might be a bit difficult for him to find these two.
But Bai Xiaocui and Xu Chengxian's names were unknown to almost everyone in the human realm.
Especially Bai Xiaocui, few within the demon race had even heard of her.
Moreover, he intended to help Xiaocui gather the incense of the Divine Path and achieve dragon transformation and ascension to the Heavenly Realm, so he was originally going to open mountains and establish temples for her, and pass down a lineage of faith.
So spreading her name could be considered killing two birds with one stone.
"Xiaocui, how about letting your believers call you Lady White in the future?" He suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said, "I'll think of a few short stories for you and spread them out as miracles."
"Let me think, how should I write this short story? Lady White, White Snake? White under Qingcheng Mountain..."
"Little Flower!" Bai Xiaocui, who had tried her best to stop him, didn't expect that her eldest cub would start singing at the top of his lungs while talking. Startled, she covered her heart and sighed, "Little Flower, why don't I get down and you sit on the horse's back for a while?"
Don't coil around the horse's neck and sing.
It's too close to the horse's ears.
Your opening voice startled the horse.
It's only because our horse is a ninth-order demon beast, otherwise it would definitely buck!
"No need, Mother, we're almost there." Xu Chengxian turned his head and grinned at her, "I'm just going to change my clothes."
Saying that, he slid down from the horse's neck.
After landing, he slithered a few times and found a place where no one was around.
Looking left and right, he quickly enlarged his body to a length of seven or eight zhang.
Then, he opened his snake mouth.
Afterwards, a burst of red clouds floated out from the snake's mouth.
A seven- or eight-year-old Daoist child walked out.
The Daoist child flicked his horsetail whisk, stretched out his arms to look, and shook his head slightly, "No, no, this age is too young."
After speaking, he turned around.
A flash of white light on his body.
When he turned back, he had already grown to be about thirteen or fourteen years old.
"Well, still a bit small." Xu Chengxian shook his head again, but he couldn't grow any taller.
The growth of this clone came with his cultivation.
Before the Foundation Establishment stage, he could only be this teenager.
He was at the seventh level of Qi Refining, not far from the day of Foundation Establishment.
With a hundred high-grade spirit stones in his pocket, it was not difficult to cultivate to the Foundation Establishment stage.
"You want to ask me why, before there were still two hundred high-grade spirit stones, and now there are only a hundred left? Good question! Because one hundred of them were used as travel expenses."
Activating the inter-domain teleportation array was really expensive!
Especially when bringing a whole family.
He sighed deeply.
Moreover, that jade token was only for one-time use.
If he wanted to go back in the future, he would have to find another way.
"Now that we're here, let's take a look at the human realm first!"
With a flick of his horsetail whisk, he inserted it behind his neck.
Then, with a thought, he pointed out a wisp of mana, landed on the snake's body, and transformed the main body into the thickness of a finger. Then, he picked it up, wrapped it around his waist, and tied a knot very skillfully.
Just treat it as a silk ribbon.
Only then did he step out and return to everyone's presence.
"Ah! Little Flower, you actually have a human form!" Bai Xiaocui said happily.
"...Mother, you praise so well, please don't praise me in the future."
"Great King? Great King!"
Dasheng, who was holding the reins, blinked his eyes, confirming in confusion.
"It's me," Xu Chengxian said, "Dasheng, hold the horse well, we're going to enter the village."
"Okay! Great King!"
"Great King! No need to hold it, I won't run around either," Chengfeng, the horse carrying Bai Xiaocui, couldn't help but say.
On the contrary, Dasheng was much more difficult to restrain than it!
This monkey had been picking flowers and plants along the way, plucking them and putting them in his mouth to chew on, and he also had to quarrel with Xiaosheng.
When the two monkeys got angry, they would chase and play around.
He was the most boisterous of all the demons.
"So I let him hold the reins just to watch him, Xiaoma," Xu Chengxian patted the horse's neck and said to Bai Xiaocui, who was sitting on the horse's back, "Xiaocui, when we enter the village, you must all call me Daoist Xu, understand?"
"Understood, understood," Bai Xiaocui nodded.
"And you, you're not allowed to call me Daddy anymore," Xu Chengxian said to Xu Xiaobai, who was sitting in her arms.
Then it was Mao Shijiu and Shu Laibao, who were lying on the laps of the big and small, "Remember, don't open your mouths to speak in front of humans."
Lest they reveal that they were all demons.
The three little ones, of course, obediently agreed.
"Okay, let's go."
We're entering the den of thieves!