Chapter 44 [044] Already in it

Zhongli Jin never expected this.

The peach blossom demon sniffed at his chest and neck, and touched him all over, just to find the half piece of white bread hidden in his arms.

"……"etc.

Zhongli Jin reacted.

——Half a piece?
That should be what he used to simply fill his stomach in the evening. He only ate half of it, so he left half.

As a result, now it has been taken away by the peach blossom demon.

"You--" he spoke to stop her.

But it was a step too late.

The other party had already taken a bite of the white flour bun.

Zhongli Jin stared at her lips, which were bright red, not as pink as peach blossoms, but more like the beauty of red peonies, and seemed to exude a fascinating fragrance at this moment.

Maybe it was because of the fragrance of peach blossoms, but the boy stood there in a daze, unable to say any words of reminder. He could only watch the girl take another bite of the half-bite of white steamed bun he had already bitten, and her lips and teeth lingered over the place he had tasted before.

Some people say, kiss the petals she has kissed and taste the cups she has tasted.

There is no intention of an indirect contact.

Zhongli Jin didn't take these words to heart, because he had no intention of falling in love in his life.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, he suddenly understood the meaning of those words and the indescribable meaning contained in them.

*
The girl ate very slowly, taking small bites, chewing slowly, and finally swallowing.

Shi Qing held a white flour bun in his hand and ate it while sitting cross-legged under the peach tree next to him.

There was a calm and serious light in his brown eyes, as if he was really tasting the food.

Shen Xiang thought about it and realized that during the time she had traveled through time, she seemed to have never seen Shi Qing eat.

After all, she was already fasting and didn't need those things. She was also an indifferent person and seldom expressed the same desire for the things that most people liked to pursue.

Therefore, Chen Xiang felt that Shi Qing seemed to be the true image of the person who "preserved the principles of heaven and eliminated human desires" as described by Zhu Xi.

But——if Shi Qing restrains his desires like this, what is the "reason" that he wants to maintain?
The Seven Emotions Illusion Array will actually magnify people's desires.

In this magic circle, no matter how hard Shi Qing tries to control his desires, he will still be a little shaken.

But she really didn't expect that the Seven Emotions Illusion Array, which had such a strong aphrodisiac effect, could only make Shi Qing feel a little hungry!
After what happened just now, and with Shi Qing and Disciple Xu now here, Shen Xiang no longer had any thoughts of continuing to pursue the male protagonist.

She couldn't hear the system's voice in the illusion, which made it quieter. Of course, she could also imagine how the system would scold her in her mind after seeing that she had just wasted a great opportunity.

Chen Xiang didn't care. She had been feeling extremely depressed most of the time since she came here anyway, so she might as well follow her heart in the illusion for once.

"Is it so delicious?" Shen Xiang walked to Shi Qing and couldn't help asking when she saw how seriously she was eating.

Shi Qing said calmly: "Sweet, it's okay."

It tastes sweet, but it's okay.

Chen Xiang recalled how Shi Qing's eyes had lighted up slightly after he drank the slightly sweet tea on the fairy ship.

"..."

Do you like sweet things?
"Then do you want more?" Shen Xiang asked.

After Shi Qing finished the piece in his hand, he shook his head slightly: "No need."

"why?"

“Don’t be greedy.”

Shen Xiang: “…”

My god, I even had a taste of it!!
We are all in a fantasy world, so it’s okay for you to eat one more! ! !

*
The unbearable feeling of hunger was finally relieved a little after eating something.

She still wanted to eat, but some reason told her not to continue.

Shi Qing glanced at Disciple Xu and Zhongli Jin in front of her, and finally stopped her gaze on the young man in white. She thanked him lightly for giving her half a white steamed bun just now.

"Thank you."

Zhongli Jin: “…”

The boy's body stiffened again.

His eyes unconsciously fell on the other person's red lips.

The peach blossom demon has a good-looking appearance, with an inexplicable heroic spirit between her brows, but the lower half of her face looks somewhat cute because of her extremely rosy and translucent lips.

There were some steamed bread crumbs on the corners of her mouth. Zhongli Jin was inexplicably tempted to reach out and help her wipe them off, but the moment the thought came to his mind, he restrained himself!

No!

Don't be bewitched!
Maybe this peach blossom demon is planning another trick!

Zhongli Jin forced himself to close his eyes and turned around to remind his senior brother to be on guard, but unexpectedly the young man next to him was also staring at the Peach Blossom Demon opposite him, with a hint of inexplicable forbearance on his handsome face.

“…Senior Brother?” Zhongli Jin frowned slightly.

Xu Zhongtian's pupils trembled slightly when he was brought back to his senses by the young man's voice.

Then, as if realizing something, he smiled apologetically at the boy, "Sorry, I just..."

"The fragrance of peach blossoms can affect a person's character even if you inhale a little bit of it. Brother, please be careful!" Zhongli Jin's eyes darkened slightly, with a hint of concern and reminder, and he emphasized the pronunciation of the last four words.

"Yeah." Xu Zhongtian let go of the feeling and exhaled again.

He took a deep breath, mobilized the spiritual energy in his body, and dissipated the medicinal effect of the trace of gas in his body through his breath.

The spiritual power circle around him kept the smell out of the two people. When Shen Xiang turned his gaze back to the two of them, they had already eliminated the control of the flower fragrance over them and were able to stand up again.

Zhongli Jin pointed his sword at the two peach blossom demons and said coldly, "Have you eaten all the people who disappeared here?"

Shen Xiang: “…”

What the hell! When I entered the fantasy world, I was already acting out with you two, how could there be so much foreplay? ! !
Shen Xiang was about to retort, but Shi Qing next to her seemed to speak before her.

"Missing?"

A cold and indifferent tone.

It makes people feel a little cold.

The peach blossom girl who was sitting cross-legged slowly stood up and looked at Zhongli Jin.

That calm gaze was like the water in a mirror-like lake, solemn, serious, and slightly severe, as if two lines absolutely parallel to the earth were shooting straight from the girl's eyes into the boy's heart.

Obviously, there is no influence of the floral scent anymore.

Zhongli Jin discovered.

His sword hand.

——It was still trembling slightly.

*
Shi Qing suddenly said——

"Elaborate."

"Missing."

"what for?"

What does disappearance mean in detail?
Xu Zhongtian did not draw his sword. He looked at Shi Qing quietly and really started to explain: "It is said that there is a monster on this path to Xiangzhou. Anyone who passes by that path will disappear for no reason. What the innkeeper said is that there is a peach blossom forest here, and the peach blossom monster was born. It uses its fragrance to entice people to come here, have sex with it, absorb its essence, and finally kill it and eat it to increase its monster power."

Shi Qing had a blank expression on his face, except for a slight movement of his eyes when he heard the word "kill".

Then he said, "Not me."

The vicious peach blossom demon in the legend is not me.

She doesn't like killing people.

Xu Zhongtian looked at the other peach blossom demon.

Shen Xiang: “…”

Chen Xiang: "It's not me either! This is my first time committing a crime today!"

Anyway, the male protagonist and his friends had just arrived in Taolin when they traveled through time, so it’s nothing wrong that it’s her first time committing a crime!
"Committing a crime?" Zhong Lijin's eyes darkened slightly: "So you really have the intention to harm others."

The young man thought of how she had just moved him, and his trembling hands immediately stopped shaking. He placed the extremely sharp sword across Shen Xiang's neck, and was about to kill her, but the sword in his hand was kicked away by someone!

The force caused pain in the man's arm. Zhong Lijin's eyes turned cold, but he did not let go of the sword. He turned around and looked at Shi Qing angrily, saying, "You - shouldn't have stopped me!" Shi Qing stood in front of Shen Xiang, stared at the boy, and said, "It's not her either."

Neither me nor her.

Zhong Lijin did not shy away. His dark eyes were dark and serious as he looked into Shi Qing's eyes: "She has the intention to harm others."

"No." Shi Qing said quietly, as if it was a guarantee: "I'm here."

"She won't."

Shen Xiang looked at Shi Qing's back, pursed her lips slightly, and had a complicated feeling. She couldn't help but murmured: "...Do you trust me so much?"

Shi Qing nodded: "Yeah."

He looked back at her and said, "I believe you."

"..."

Calm and indifferent words.

However, when it came out of Shi Qing's mouth, there was an inexplicable weight and firmness.

Shen Xiang's expression was even more complicated.

The upper teeth even began to bite the lower lip.

Finally I endured it.

Still couldn't help it.

He reached out, gently grabbed Shi Qing's sleeve, and whispered back: "...Senior Sister."

Mutual trust between sisters and little intimate gestures are actually not uncommon things.

Even in Zhongli Jin's memory, he often saw the senior and junior sisters in the sect pulling each other and playing and fighting.

But this time something was different.

I don’t know what the feeling is.

If it were an ordinary woman, it would be fine.

It happened to be the peach blossom demon hiding behind Shi Qing.

Such an action makes people feel a sting in front of their eyes for some unknown reason.

He looked at Shi Qing again, tightened his grip on the sword, and asked, "Your promise? How can you guarantee it?"

Shi Qing met the boy's dark and deep eyes, still as calm as still water, stretched out his hand, pointed at the long sword in his hand, and asked: "Can I borrow it?"

She wanted to borrow the boy's sword.

Zhongli Jin frowned and asked in a deep voice, "What are you going to do?"

Shi Qing blinked, opened and closed her red lips, and uttered two words crisply and clearly -

"Kill the demon."

*
Zhongli Jin's sword is his natal sword that has accompanied him through ten years of ups and downs. No one except its owner can use it.

The young man said: "Even if I lend it to you, it won't let you use it. This kind of magic sword with a sword spirit recognizes its master."

The magic sword has consciousness and is in tune with its master's emotions.

Given his hatred for monsters, Pei Jian would never obey the Peach Blossom Monster's orders.

Shi Qing probably understood what the boy meant, and since he didn't want to lend it, she didn't force him.

She turned her gaze to Xu Zhongtian beside her and asked, "Can I use it?"

Xu Zhongtian also has a sword on his waist.

He looked at Shi Qing deeply and was about to draw his sword, but unexpectedly, the long sword that was in Zhongli Jin's hand in the previous second suddenly turned over and landed in the girl's palm in the next second!
Zhongli Jin: “…”

Xu Zhongtian: “…”

Shi Qing subconsciously tightened the hilt of the sword and glanced at Zhongli Jin in confusion.

The young man didn't seem to expect that his sword would jump out by itself when the Peach Blossom Demon was about to take over the other swords!

It directly slapped him in the face for what he just said!

Zhongli Jin's delicate, fair, handsome and beautiful face suddenly turned blue and red.

The boy with a slightly red face looks even more charming.

Unfortunately, no one present recognized her beauty, and the current situation did not allow it.

Xu Zhongtian was startled, as if he understood something. He looked at Zhong Lijin with his eyes, then smiled bitterly and said, "Forget it."

The young man said, "Just use Junior Brother Zhongli's."

“But—” Zhongli Jin wanted to say something, but Shi Qing had already said, “Thank you.”

Two words.

This blocked the boy's next words of refusal.

Shi Qing got a sword and turned to walk deeper into the peach forest.

Her long pink dress fluttered down with a shower of peach blossoms, gradually becoming shorter in the eyes of the three people, and finally fitting her body like a short skirt. The long clothes disappeared, revealing the layers of bandages that had been covered up until then.

Chen Xiang called out to her: "Hey! Are you so sure there really is a third demon?!"

Shi Qing said, “Yes.”

She turned her head again, with a cold and indifferent look towards the monsters, and looked at the three people, and ordered -

"Stay there."

*
After eating the white flour bun, my memory was restored.

The Seven Emotions Illusion Array aroused people's desires. Shi Qing wanted to eat something, and after being satisfied, he had no other desires.

The illusion could no longer hypnotize her, so she woke up.

The so-called monster in the peach blossom forest is actually the core of this illusion array.

If they could find the center of the formation and destroy it, then everything would disappear and they would be able to leave here and return to reality.

A magic array like this that mobilizes people's emotions and leads them to experience emotional tribulations can be easily destroyed if no one is emotionally involved.

But - if someone really falls into it, once it is forcibly destroyed, then those who are addicted to the illusion will suffer from mental turmoil at best, vomit blood and collapse at worst, and finally become insane and die.

Shi Qing just made a rough observation and found that neither the junior sister, nor Disciple Xu and Zhongli Jin seemed to be overly affected by the illusion and did not express any love.

The junior sister responded frankly, saying that even if she had "committed a crime", it was only out of instinct as a peach demon, without any emotion. Disciple Xu had always been gentle and indifferent, while Zhongli Jin was wary of demons, so this was the easiest way to deal with it.

The center of the formation is usually located at the place where the love story mainly takes place, in other words, it exists in this peach blossom forest.

Therefore, the deeper you go, the easier it is to find.

Soon, Shi Qing discovered a giant peach tree that was several times larger than the other trees.

Its main trunk is coiled like a tree root, so thick that it requires five adult men with their arms stretched out to their maximum extent to completely encompass it.

There are also many forked trunks and branches on it, covered with peach blossoms.

Shi Qing quickened her pace without any hesitation. The moment she sensed something close to the center of the formation, the girl directly gathered the spiritual power in her body into her palm, and then transmitted it to Zhongli Jin's sword to enhance its power.

The next second—

She had no expression on her face and slashed with her sword!
But the giant tree, which should have been shattered like rotten wood by a single sword, only had some bark broken, and the rest was not moved at all!
Shi Qing frowned and chopped with even stronger spiritual power - this time the ground shook slightly for a moment, but only for a moment.

After that, there was no more movement.

Only flower petals fell like rain, as if the spiritual array was mocking the person who broke the array for overestimating his own abilities.

Shi Qing stopped.

There is no need to break the formation by force if the two swords haven't broken it yet.

Her expression was slightly solemn.

because--

There are four people in this illusion.

Somebody is already addicted to it.

Here I come! ! Sorry for the long wait! ! ! I went to socialize with my colleagues last night and got home very late, so I only had time to update after get off work today! ! Private Marseille! ! In addition, this book is on PK again, data is very important, my friends, please don't keep the article for the time being~~ Help to be active! ! Thank you, my dears~~