“What are you going to do with him?” Xiang Wenxi asked Ling Xiao.
Ling Xiao was also a little confused. He crossed his arms on his chest and said nothing.
Xiang Wenxi said, “Do you remember what day tomorrow is?”
Ling Xiao looked at him.
Xiang Wenxi smiled and said, “The demon market is opening tomorrow. I think it’s better to take Chunjun and sell it. Maybe we can get a good price.”
Ling Xiao said, “Stop talking nonsense!”
“I’m serious,” Xiang Wenxi said to him, “Since we are not sure whether he is really Chunjun, let’s go find someone who knows and ask. I believe Mr. Yun must know. We will take him with us tomorrow. Go to the demon market and let Mr. Yun take a look at him. Maybe we’ll know what’s going on.”
Ling Xiao heard this and replied, “Let me think about it.”
Song Jun finally understood what they said this time. He was a little in disbelief, “You want to sell me?”
Xiang Wenxi said, “What are you afraid of? If you are not really Chunjun, no one will buy you, so don’t worry about it.”
Of course Song Jun believed that he was not Chunjun. He knew better than anyone else that he was just an ordinary person. But Song Jun still couldn’t help but feel terrible about the uncertain future that was coming.
Throughout the night, Xiang Wenxi guarded Song Jun and did not give him a chance to escape.
Song Jun asked Xiang Wenxi, “Where are the fragments of Thousand Years Lamp? What do you plan to do with them?”
Xiang Wenxi said, “This is my brother’s thing. I’ll handle it however I want. I will go to the demon market tomorrow. If the price is right, I will sell it.”
“That’s Senior Brother Xia’s…” Song Jun whispered.
Xiang Wenxi glared at him fiercely, “You killed my brother, and I haven’t settled the score with you yet!”
Song Jun quickly averted his gaze.
Xiang Wenxi took out the fragment from his chest, held it in his hand, looked at it, and then said, “But I don’t feel much sentiment for him. If he’s dead, then so be it.”
When Song Jun heard what he said, he couldn’t help but turn back and look at him.
The yellow-haired boy looked at the fragments in his hand, and he didn’t know what boy was thinking.
After dark the next day, Song Jun was taken out of the house by Xiang Wenxi and Ling Xiao. He didn’t know where the demon market was, but when he heard the name, he remembered a poem he had learned when he was a child called ‘The Street Market in the Sky’.
In that city, there were many places unfamiliar and unknown to you. The ordinary middle-aged people who brushed past you, on a night like that, might have adopted a different form and appeared in a place where humans seldom ventured, living their own lives. Just like back then, when Song Jun followed Xia Hongshen to the City God Temple, who would have thought that such a magnificent temple was nestled in the heart of the city?
With this thought in his mind, Song Jun was immediately disappointed when he saw Ling Xiao driving out an ordinary Jetta, “Are we going like this?”
“How else are we going to get there? Flying?” Xiang Wenxi asked strangely, “Isn’t that just like waiting for the police to come and arrest you?”
Song Jun shook his head and said nothing.
It was already eleven o’clock at night, and Ling Xiao drove slowly, obviously not in a hurry to reach their destination.
Together with these two demons, Song Jun did not dare to ask questions, even if he had questions.
When they arrived at their destination, it was already past twelve o’clock at night. When they got out of the car, Song Jun discovered that this place turned out to be a city amusement park. This amusement park had a history of more than 20 years. When Song Jun was very young, his grandmother once took him to play.
Ling Xiao parked the car in the parking lot.
After they got out of the car, Song Jun looked up and could see the silhouette of the Ferris wheel playing music in the dark night sky in the distance.
“Let’s go,” Ling Xiao said.
Song Jun followed him and left. At this time, he saw cars driving into the parking lot one after another.
They walked towards the gate of the amusement park. At this time, there was actually someone guarding the entrance check-in area. However, the ticket sales window was already closed.
Song Jun walked between Ling Xiao and Xiang Wenxi. When he was about to enter, the gatekeeper stared at him for a long time. Then he looked at Ling Xiao and Xiang Wenxi and said, “This seems to be a human being, right?”
Xiang Wenxi said, “He is the goods we want to trade tonight.”
The gatekeeper clicked his tongue and said, “It’s against the rules!”
Xiang Wenxi came closer and whispered to him, “He is an immortal soldier who has transformed into a human being. It’s not strange that you can’t recognise him. Just don’t delay the people who know the goods.”
The man hesitated when he heard this, then looked at Ling Xiao. Perhaps he recognised Ling Xiao and finally waved his hand and let them in.
When they were still outside the gate, it was still dark when they looked into the amusement park, but when Song Jun stepped through the gate, he found that the lights in the amusement park were on.
There were strings of colourful lights hanging on the trees on both sides, merry music was playing throughout the amusement park, and all the rides had been activated. Song Jun could hear the voices of many people talking and the happy laughter of children.
The city amusement park usually closed at nine o’clock in the evening. Song Jun had never been here at night. This was the first time he had seen the night view of an amusement park. The Ferris wheel in the distance was spinning slowly in circles, and the neon lights on it were constantly flashing brilliant lights. The entire amusement park was like a fairy tale.
Someone passed by them, and Song Jun looked back at the gate of the amusement park, where guests were entering one after another.
Most of the people who passed by Song Jun had ordinary looks, but they couldn’t help but look surprised when they saw him. When they saw Ling Xiao again, they walked away from them silently.
Xiang Wenxi spun in a circle, joyfully like a small child.
“I like the demon market the most!” he said.
The further inside, the more weird-looking people became. Song Jun saw a golden python running over at a very fast speed, its body spiralling upward, transforming into the upper body of a woman, and said to Ling Xiao, “Ling Xiao, you are here too, how rare it is!”
Song Jun was so frightened that his breath caught, and he hid behind Xiang Wenxi.
The woman had a beautiful face and a good figure, but Ling Xiao obviously ignored her and asked, “Is Mr. Yun here?”
The woman seemed to find it a bit uninteresting and said, “Really boring, coming here just to look for Mr. Yun, I have no idea.” After saying that, she circled away and left.
Song Jun watched the monster with a human head and a snake body wander away and suddenly realised that this was really the so-called demon market. The people around him might be strange or ordinary, but it might just be a disguise. They were all demons, usually hidden in this place. Everywhere in the city, just like Ling Xiao and Xiang Wenxi, but on such an occasion that only belonged to them, they would show off their original strange form with abandon.
Song Jun was probably the only human to sneak in. He followed Ling Xiao and attracted countless attention. However, because Ling Xiao was leading the way, no one came out to grab him and ask him how he got in.
He couldn’t help but look around and saw a giant panda standing in the middle of the road not far ahead, holding a stack of masks and selling them.
The masks looked ordinary, like those you would often see at a masquerade party.
Ling Xiao took them there and bought each of them a mask.
When Song Jun held it in his hand, he couldn’t help but reach out and pull the hair on the giant panda’s butt. As a result, the giant panda lowered its head to look at him, raised its hand and rubbed its butt.
Song Jun looked at him in surprise and asked, “Is this a real giant panda?”
The giant panda didn’t say anything, rubbed his butt again, raised his paws and pulled two pieces of Song Jun’s hair.
Song Jun held his head and apologised quickly, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”
Ling Xiao put the mask on Song Jun and said, “The trade fair is about to start. Let’s go there first.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Song Jun saw several dazzling beams of light falling from the sky on the carousel in front. The large disc of the carousel was rotating happily, accompanied by pleasant music. A man wearing a suit and a mask was standing in front of the carousel with a microphone in his hand as if he was giving an exaggerated speech; he said, “Without further ado, let’s bring out your treasures!”
People in the entire amusement park gathered in this direction.
This was a real trade fair. They didn’t need money; they only exchanged what they needed. If they got a deal, they exchanged it. If not, they just took it back.
Song Jun followed Ling Xiao and the others into the crowd, immediately attracting the attention of a small number of people around them, but it was just a small-scale commotion. Song Jun following Ling Xiao felt more like a follower or a pet; maybe for these monsters, it was not too unusual to bring humans as pets to such places.
The pace of the trade fair was very fast. People who participated in the trade fair brought their things to the host, and the host showed them to everyone. If anyone were willing to trade, they would bring what they wanted to trade.
In a sense, this was also a platform for display. Some demons did not come here to exchange treasures. They were just happy to show their treasures to everyone and get some envious looks.
At first, most of the items that were sent up for trading were some elixirs that could help demons cultivate. Song Jun was not interested in these things, and Ling Xiao and Xiang Wenxi also looked at them with a lack of interest.
So Xiang Wenxi grabbed Song Jun’s hand and said, “Let’s go see Mr. Yun.”
Mr. Yun was a large lizard, rumoured to have lived for a very long time. Throughout his life, he witnessed countless wonders and treasures. Any item that he laid eyes on, he could discern its authenticity.
In the demon market, all items for trading must first pass Mr. Yun’s appraisal.
At this time, Mr. Yun was sitting in a small mushroom house selling drinks. There was a long queue in front of him; all of them were people who had brought things to prepare for transactions.
The person maintaining order saw Ling Xiao and waved him to the front.
The person who was first in line was not happy and was about to protest loudly. When he raised his head and saw that it was Ling Xiao, he immediately shrank back and said, “Whatever.”
Ling Xiao grabbed Song Jun’s hand and threw Song Jun directly onto the high counter of the mushroom house.
There was a little stir around here.
Mr. Yun pushed up his glasses, looked at Song Jun and then at Ling Xiao, and asked, “What does this mean?”
Ling Xiao asked bluntly, “Mr. Yun, can you see his true form?”
Mr. Yun was quite baffled when he heard this. He looked at Song Jun up and down for a long time, and even took off the mask on Song Jun’s face and said, “Isn’t he just an ordinary human being?”
Ling Xiao pulled Song Jun’s hair, forced him to raise his head, and said to Mr. Yun, “Take a good look. This person is none other than the former world-renowned assassin, Chunjun, the unparalleled sword of the past!”
As soon as he finished speaking, there was an uproar around him.
Mr. Yun was so frightened that he stood up and said, “Are you kidding me?”
Ling Xiao said, “You can tell for yourself whether I am joking or not. If you can identify his true identity, I will send him to the trading field today and let everyone compete for him!”
The commotion here was so great that the demons in the trading place over there also looked in this direction.
Song Jun was frightened for no reason when he saw Ling Xiao’s serious expression. Suddenly, he was worried that Ling Xiao was serious about selling him, and he didn’t know what to do.
Mr. Yun frowned, turning over and over to look at Song Jun carefully. He gathered soft light with one hand and slowly explored it from the top of Song Jun’s head down, frowning and shaking his head from time to time.
After more than ten minutes, Mr. Yun stood up straight and said to Ling Xiao, “I don’t know.”
He neither dared to say yes nor said no. He really couldn’t figure out who or what Song Jun was.
Xiang Wenxi and Ling Xiao looked at each other helplessly.
With his mind spinning, Xiang Wenxi suddenly grabbed Song Jun and threw him towards the carousel. Then he rushed to the host and said loudly, “The thing I want to trade today is him,” he pointed at Song Jun, “The former best killing sword in the world—Chunjun!”
Song Jun landed on a merry-go-round and hugged the horse to keep from falling.
There were loud noises all around, and there was obviously a lot of discussion about this matter.
Some people even shouted, “That is Chunjun? How is it possible?”
Xiang Wenxi’s purpose was to gather all the demons hiding near the perimeter. If Mr. Yun didn’t know, maybe someone else would know. Of course, if Song Jun were really Chunjun, he would definitely not be willing to sell him.
There are booing monsters shouting, “Let him show his Chunjun form for us to see.”
Xiang Wenxi said bluntly, “If he didn’t want to, I can’t help it. If anyone has the ability to let him show his form, I am willing to give him this Thousand Years Lamp fragment!” After saying that, Xiang Wenxi pulled out the piece of the Thousand Years Lamp hanging around his neck, causing another lively commotion.
Some people with profound demonic powers were already eager to try.
At this moment, he suddenly heard a clear voice saying, “Did you get my consent before you sold my things?”
Xiang Wenxi suddenly looked shocked.
The sound was not loud, but people in the entire amusement park could hear it.
Ling Xiao looked up and saw Xia Hongshen holding a silver whip in his hand. He was standing on the top of the carousel, looking down at them.
After he said those words, he suddenly swung the long whip in his hand, splitting the top of the carousel in half and sliding down to both sides.
Xiang Wenxi also reacted quickly. While Xia Hongshen split the top of the merry-go-round, he had already pulled Song Jun back one after another, avoiding the crowd.
At this time, Mr. Yun looked at Xia Hongshen. His whole body trembled, and he exclaimed, “Demon Zhen! It’s Demon Zhen!”
As soon as these two words were uttered, it was as if someone had dropped a bomb within the amusement park. Instantly, the entire amusement park boiled over.
Some were howling desperately to get away, while others had never seen Xia Hongshen’s true face and wanted to get closer.
Only Ling Xiao swelled up and turned into a giant black wolf, rushing toward Xia Hongshen.
Xiang Wenxi said anxiously, “Your injury is not healed yet!”
However, Ling Xiao had already rushed forward, and Xia Hongshen refused to retreat. The long whip in his hand hit the ground hard, and it rebounded and rolled towards Ling Xiao’s front legs.
There was chaos all around. Seeing Ling Xiao rushing towards Xia Hongshen, some people were not in a hurry to escape and stayed in place to watch the fun.
The Demon Market was not just a spontaneous gathering of monsters within a city; it had its own master. How could they easily tolerate Xia Hongshen barging in and disrupting the order of the trading grounds?
The moment Ling Xiao entangled Xia Hongshen, Song Jun saw many ferocious beasts suddenly appearing from all directions, and they all rushed towards Xia Hongshen.
Song Jun felt nervous and shouted loudly, “Senior Brother Xia, be careful!”
Not allowing those demonic beasts to get close, Xia Hongshen suddenly pointed the long whip in his hand and threw it in the direction of Song Jun while he himself raised his head to the sky and transformed into a black beast, his fangs opening up to instantly tear a pouncing and biting demonic beast into two.
Song Jun’s breath suddenly suffocated, and his head went blank.
This was the first time he saw Xia Hongshen in this form, and he felt very scared from the bottom of his heart.
Xiang Wenxi said in his ear, “What Senior Brother Xia? What deity! Demon Zhen is really the most ferocious demon in the world. Only he can sacrifice human souls to refine weapons. Do you still want to go back to him?”
After he finished speaking, he suddenly felt something wrapped around his neck. He lowered his head and pulled it and found that it was Xia Hongshen’s dragon-tip whip.
The dragon tip whip immediately transformed into a dragon shape, strangled Xiang Wenxi’s neck, and shouted, “Song Jun!”
Song Jun still looked in the direction of Xia Hongshen, stunned.
Xia Hongshen bit them mercilessly. He didn’t like to eat demons’ flesh and blood. His favourite food was the souls of dead humans. His purpose was just to kill all the beasts that were blocking his way. In an instant, the flesh and blood of those monsters fell from the sky like rain, and a few drops of warm blood fell on Song Jun’s face.
Among them, only Ling Xiao could resist him for a moment, but it was only for a moment before Xia Hongshen bit him on the neck and threw him away hard.
At this time, Long Xing tore off the Thousand Years Lamp fragments from Xiang Wenxi’s neck with one hand.
“Ling Xiao!” Xiang Wenxi could no longer care about Song Jun and the fragments and tried to get rid of Long Xing and ran in the direction of Ling Xiao.
At this time, other beasts in the amusement park ran out of the way, fearing that they would become Xia Hongshen’s next target.
However, Xia Hongshen was not interested in them. He landed lightly next to Song Jun, took Song Jun directly into his mouth, and ran towards the outside with the dragon tip whip hovering on his tail.
At this moment, dozens more demonic beasts came towards Xia Hongshen to block him. These monster beasts seemed not to be afraid of death and swarmed up to surround Xia Hongshen.
Because Xia Hongshen had Song Jun in his mouth, he could only fill his front paws with spiritual power and slap these monsters away from his face. He saw a few monster beasts with blood-red eyes. They were clearly torn in half by Xia Hongshen’s claws, but they still dragged their mutilated bodies towards them and bit Xia Hongshen’s legs.
Xia Hongshen flicked his tail, and the dragon tip whip slashed out horizontally, cutting all the surrounding monsters into pieces. Xia Hongshen finally broke away from the siege and ran out with Song Jun.
Song Jun had been in a state of fear, knowing that a single powerful bite from these monsters could instantly cut his body in two.
Fortunately, Xia Hongshen did not bite him to death. Instead, he ran to a park near the amusement park and stopped in a forest.
He let go and let Song Jun fall from his mouth.
Song Jun felt that he was covered in blood from Xia Hongshen’s mouth. It was all the blood from the demons just now. He tried to stand up, but the huge demon in front of him raised its front paws and slapped him on the chest to knock him down.
Song Jun lay down on the grass, and due to the soft pads on Xia Hongshen’s claws, he was unharmed.
Then, Xia Hongshen stretched out his forelimbs, pressed his whole body on Song Jun and lay down. He put his big furry head on Song Jun’s shoulder and rubbed it a few times.
Song Jun was a little out of breath, but Xia Hongshen seemed to find a comfortable position on top of him and closed his eyes.
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