The surroundings suddenly became dim, and the streetlights on the distant highway were hazy, leaving only a halo. The group kicked up dust and sand, creating a truly eerie atmosphere.
Song Jun appeared in human form and couldn’t help but raise his hands to cover his face to avoid the flying sand and stones.
Xi Anling hid behind Song Jun, held his sleeve, and said worriedly, “Is everything going to be okay?”
Song Jun didn’t dare to say it, but he believed that there was no demon more powerful than Xia Hongshen in the world. In the many years they had been together, he had seen countless powerful monsters fall to Demon Zhen’s claws.
As Demon Zhen let out a roar, Qin Song couldn’t resist it and was so frightened that he turned back into his original squirrel form and burrowed into Song Jun’s arms.
Song Jun quickly grabbed his big tail and told him not to move.
Firefly rushed over first and bit Demon Zhen. Demon Zhen hit one side of his body and hit his neck with his tail. Although Demon Zhen had long been cultivated into a demon, and even had gained an immortal body, when they fought, they were no different from ordinary beasts. The two formidable monsters engaged in a fierce battle, generating a thick aura of demonic energy. The surroundings were enveloped in a mist, concealing the ongoing conflict from the passing vehicles, leaving them unaware of what was happening.
Song Jun and the others watched worriedly but had no room to intervene.
Just a moment later, Song Jun noticed that the monster called the Firefly was showing some signs of fatigue, and he couldn’t help but wonder if there were wounds on his body that had never recovered.
The moment it showed his mistake, Demon Zhen bit his neck and knocked him to the ground hard.
He rolled over on the ground and got up. He no longer tried to rush out of the city but turned around and ran away into the city.
Demon Zhen quickly chased after him.
“Oh my!” Song Jun shouted.
Demon Zhen turned back at the sound of his voice, took Song Jun in his mouth, and threw him onto his back, along with the little squirrel and Xi Anling.
After delaying for such a short time, they could only see the back of the demon from a distance.
After chasing through another street, the sound and shadow of the demon disappeared.
Demon Zhen stopped and carefully searched for the beast’s traces. After a while, he transformed back into his human form and said, “Narrow the encirclement. He won’t be able to escape from this area.”
So, once again, all demonic beasts were mobilised, and the magic circle was once again set up within the area designated by Xia Hongshen. There were always people stationed at the four points of the magic circle. In this way, whenever there was any movement from the beasts, Xia Hongshen could get the news immediately.
Xia Hongshen and Song Jun stood on the rooftop of a nearby high-rise building.
Song Jun asked Xia Hongshen, “Can you find it?”
Xia Hongshen shook his head, “Firefly is exceptionally skilled at concealing its whereabouts. However, as long as it appears, there’s no way it can escape my grasp.”
Song Jun looked at the tall buildings in the distance, hoping that nothing would happen to Long Xing.
At this time, Long Xing, who had been sleeping for a long time, finally woke up from the haze.
When he opened his eyes, he was in a daze, not knowing where he was. Then he realised that he was in a strange room, lying on a soft bed.
He sat up and suddenly found another person sitting beside the bed. The person had long white hair and was sitting there cross-legged in silence, his face looking a little gloomy.
But after seeing Long Xing woke up, a pair of dog ears suddenly stood up on his head.
Long Xing looked at him blankly, and after a moment of mental processing, he suddenly realised and asked, “Erbao?”
Although the man’s face was still gloomy, the white-haired man stood up and pounced Long Xing onto the bed.
Long Xing was overwhelmed and said, “Are you really the Erbao? How did you become like this? Why am I here with you?”
The white-haired man seemed to accept the name Erbao calmly. He said, “Come with me.”
Long Xing was baffled, “Where to?”
Erbao told him, “I am going to overcome the tribulation and become an immortal. I will take you to the heavenly realm.”
Long Xing said, “Why should I go to the heavenly realm? I won’t go.”
Erbao raised his head to look at him, the ears on his head drooped, “Why don’t you go?”
Long Xing was a bit frantic, “It was hard for me to follow my Master down here,. Of course I don’t want to go back, I like it here.”
When Erbao heard this, he looked shocked.
Long Xing asked strangely, “Do we know each other? Why do you want to take me to the heavenly realm?”
Erbao said, “You don’t remember me.”
Looking at his face, Long Xing couldn’t remember where he had seen this person before.
Erbao said slowly, “Many, many years ago, I once encountered Demon Zhen, and you saved me from a life-and-death situation.”
Long Xing looked confused. He had no memory at all.
In fact, at that time, the Firefly was injured by Demon Zhen and fell to the ground, dying. Chunjun and Fengliu followed Demon Zhen away, while Longshao and Yueya were a step slower.
Yueya asked Longshao, “Will it die?”
Longshao squatted down, stretched out his hand to test the Firefly’s breathing, and said, “It might. What’s wrong?”
Yueya said, “Can I eat it?”
“No,” Longshao said. He lowered his head and saw the Firefly slowly opening his eyes, with tears in his eyes.
Yueya felt bored and planned to chase Demon Zhen and the others.
Longshao suddenly stopped her and said, “Go get some water.”
Yueya helped Longshao bring a handful of water over. Longshao fed the Firefly water, then helped him wash his wounds, then stood up and said, “It’s up to you.”
The Firefly looked at him with his weak eyes open.
Longshao couldn’t help but say again, “Don’t overestimate your capabilities.”
They were the most ferocious beasts, and they would fight to the death if they encountered one. However, Longshao had been following Demon Zhen for a long time, but he had never seen a demonic beast that could fight Demon Zhen.
In fact, it was just a momentary sense of compassion. As time passed, Long Xing had long forgotten about this incident. Perhaps the supernatural creatures he had once shown mercy to were not limited to just Erbao.
But the person in front of him still remembered him and wanted to take him away.
Although Erbao’s expression still looked a little gloomy, as Long Xing looked carefully into his eyes, he was full of expectations for Long Xing.
Long Xing suddenly felt a little pain in his heart.
However, he still pushed Erbao away and said, “I really don’t remember you, and I won’t follow you. I won’t hold you accountable for sucking my spiritual power. I want to go back to my master now.”
Erbao said, “I didn’t mean to suck your spiritual power. I was injured and couldn’t control myself.”
Long Xing had already stood up from the bed. When he heard him say he was injured, he hesitated for a moment, turned his head slightly and asked, “Where are you injured?”
Erbao, who was not wearing any clothes, opened his legs wide and showed him a long wound on the inside of his leg. The wound had festered, and pus had appeared, and it seemed that it had not healed for a long time.
Seeing the terrible condition of the wound, Long Xing moved closer to take a look and asked curiously, “What’s going on?”
Erbao said, “The poisonous energy cannot be eliminated.”
Long Xing frowned. He saw Erbao looking at him with his ears drooped and felt that he was quite pitiful, so he said, “Why don’t you come back with me, and I’ll ask Master to find a way to help you remove the poisonous energy.”
“No!” Erbao refused flatly, “He wants to snatch you away.”
Long Xing immediately corrected him, “I belonged to Master. Even if he doesn’t come to snatch me, I won’t leave with you.”
Erbao’s ears drooped, and he didn’t look very spirited as he said, “If you don’t come with me, then I won’t go to the heavenly realm.”
When Long Xing was still about to speak, the doorbell of the room outside suddenly rang.
This house was a temporarily vacant house in a nearby community. At that time, Erbao sneaked in with Long Xing in order to avoid Xia Hongshen.
Erbao stood up immediately and pulled Long Xing nervously.
Long Xing was not so nervous. As he walked outside, he asked, “Who is it?”
A pitiful, trembling voice came from outside the door and said, “I’m checking the water meter.”
It turned out that in order to find their traces, Xia Hongshen sent many little demons to search the area one by one. They knocked on doors under various pretexts to see what was going on inside. If they saw anything strange, they would immediately notify Xia Hongshen.
The person ringing the doorbell now was Qin Song. He had already rang the doorbells of many nearby houses. When he opened the door and saw someone who was not the person he was looking for, he would apologise and say that he went the wrong way.
But this time, he didn’t expect that the person who opened the door would be Long Xing.
Originally, Qin Song didn’t expect that he could find them, and of course, he didn’t really hope that he could find them.
However, at the same time as he saw Long Xing, the Firefly also jumped out and threw Qin Song to the ground.
“Er Bao!” Long Xing scolded and pulled him hard.
The big white-haired dog swung its tail and was pulled away by Long Xing.
However, in this moment of movement, Qin Song had already sent a message to Xia Hongshen, and immediately after, Xia Hongshen climbed in from the corridor window and rushed towards Erbao.
Seeing that they were about to fight, Long Xing quickly called to Song Jun, who was following Xia Hongshen, “Help me pull them away!”
So one caught the dog, and the other pinned down the cat, finally nipping a war in its bud.
Long Xing said to Erbao, “If you dare to hurt my Master, disappear from my eyes immediately!”
Erbao looked at him in disbelief, as if he was greatly hurt.
Song Jun also hugged Xia Hongshen tightly. Of course, he was not afraid that Xia Hongshen would hurt Erbao, but he felt that this environment was too dangerous. A neighbour might open the door at any time to check what was going on. He felt that they should change to a safer environment.
Long Xing pressed Erbao to the ground and looked at Xia Hongshen, feeling a bit aggrieved as he sniffled.
Xia Hongshen said, “Take it back and find a place to dispose of it.”
That night, the amusement park became lively again, and the demons who heard the news came to watch one after another to see who dared to steal Demon Zhen’s precious weapon.
Erbao didn’t know if his vitality was damaged again in the battle with Xia Hongshen that day. He never recovered since he transformed into the beast form, and he looked a little like dying.
Inside the office building of the amusement park, Long Xing grabbed one of its legs and lifted it up to show Xia Hongshen and the others for inspection.
“Tsk,” Yun Po squatted down, took a closer look at the injury on its leg, and said, “This seems to be poisonous.”
Feng Junyuan said to Long Xing strangely, “It didn’t seem to have any injuries on it when you picked it back up.”
Song Jun said, “Maybe it is hiding it. It just wants to take Long Xing away.”
Xia Hongshen suddenly snorted and said, “Wishful thinking.”
Long Xing quickly expressed his loyalty to Xia Hongshen, “I will never go anywhere, and I will always follow my Master.”
Xia Hongshen raised his hand and touched his head.
Erbao raised his head and made a soft whimpering sound.
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