Golden oil stains dripped on the firewood in the campfire, making a gentle sizzle.
The aroma of spirit beast meat was overflowing, completely suppressing the quarrels of the team at another bonfire not far away.
"Done yet?"
Fu Yinhong hugged her knees and couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.
There's nothing to say about my brother's craftsmanship.
Even in this desolate and barren white cave, as long as she could find a job, she would have no worries about food and drink.
"What's the rush? We're here to listen to a good show!"
Fu Xing chuckled lightly, twitched his ears, and withdrew his thoughts from another bonfire team.
"Didn't the people from Tiansang Ling Palace realize it when we fought against the White Skeleton earlier? They should be Xu Xiaoshou's friends..."
Fu Yinhong glanced over there and stopped paying attention.
The sky is big and the earth is big, but there is no big thing to eat.
"friend……"
Fu Xing lowered his head and murmured, seeming to be thinking about something.
For a long time, he turned the spirit beast meat in his hand and said, "Sister, I have something very important to mention to you."
"Afterwards, if I meet Xu Xiaoshou in the White Cave..."
"Try not to have anything to do with him."
"Huh?" Fu Yinhong raised her head, "What should I say?"
"Don't ask so many questions, just do as you are told."
"What's the meaning?"
Fu Yinhong frowned and said doubtfully: "I remember before, didn't you still shout 'Brother Shou, Brother Shou' with a bad face?"
"Why, you don't want the 'Ten Sword Fingers' anymore?"
"Isn't that your dream?" She joked.
"Ten-segment sword fingers..."
When Fu Xing heard this name, his head started to hurt.
"I do think so."
"But life is important!"
"In short, try not to deal with him in the future. It's best to turn around and leave if you encounter him... No, it's best not to encounter him." He shook his head and sighed.
"There's something wrong with you!"
Fu Yinhong was so perceptive that she could spot Fu Xing's unusual behavior at a glance.
This guy, on weekdays, almost worships the Eighth Sword Immortal crazily like a god.
After finally encountering an authentic "Ten-segment Sword Finger", how could you give up so easily?
"Tell me about it?"
Fu Yinhong straightened up.
Fu Xing shook his head: "Knowing too much would be bad for you."
"I know even if you don't tell me!"
Fu Yinhong sneered.
Do you still think that you are just a little girl, hiding everything?
"Is it related to the fact that father asked you to go to the study that night?"
Fu Xing was startled.
"right."
He didn't object and nodded directly.
"So what is it?"
Fu Yinhong became even more curious.
After the dinner at the City Lord's Mansion that night, my father didn't even give orders to clean up the mess, but called Fu Xing into the study.
This conversation lasted all night.
Fu Yinhong couldn't believe that this was the deep love between father and son after a long separation.
It is still possible to say that father and daughter have a deep love.
These two people...
These two guys are so difficult to deal with on weekdays!
There is no reason to just come out for no reason and just chat and talk directly until dawn.
There must be something fishy in this!
"You really don't want to tell me?" She raised an eyebrow.
"Can't say." Fu Xing still shook his head.
"good."
"Don't say yes!"
Fu Yinhong raised her head and said stubbornly: "If you don't tell me, I'll go find Xu Xiaoshou and ask him for it. Anyway, that guy blew up the entire city lord's palace and hasn't even paid a penny in compensation!"
"This account has not been settled clearly yet."
"I was puzzled. When you finally left, with your treacherous and business-like temperament, you didn't know how to exchange the 'Ten Sword Fingers'?" Fu Yinhong said angrily.
"You're crazy!"
When Fu Xing heard this, he was startled and jumped up.
"Hey, hey, hey."
"Meat, meat!"
Fu Yinhong suddenly became anxious and pointed at the meat on his hand, signaling not to drop it.
"I told you not to go, but you are still stubborn. Is this something you can joke about?" Fu Xing looked sulky.
"Hmm~"
Fu Yinhong did not accept this trick, "So, do you want to say it or not?"
"look at me!"
Fu Xing threw the spirit beast meat to the ground with a serious look on his face.
"Why!"
Fu Yinhong quickly used her spiritual power to grab the meat of the spirit beast that was about to fall to the ground. Then she raised her head and looked at it with big eyes, unwilling to be outdone.
They looked at each other for a long time.
There was a long silence.
There was a "chuck" sound, and Fu Yinhong suddenly took a big bite, and his mouth was full of oil.
In an instant, the veins on his forehead were twitching wildly.
He hid his face and sat back helplessly.
"My aunt, can we stop playing around? This is not a trivial matter. Why don't you just listen to my advice?"
"I don't even want the 'Ten Sword Fingers' anymore. You still can't see the seriousness of the matter?"
"Hey~"
"Hey~"
Fu Yinhong took two bites, then suddenly turned bitter and spat out the meat in her mouth.
"Why is there still blood?"
Fu Xing: "..."
"After I finish eating the outer ring, you can bake it again."
Fu Yinhong hesitated for a moment, but didn't mind and bit into the crispy outer part of the spirit beast's meat.
Anyway, there are a lot of ingredients there and it’s delicious.
While eating, she kept saying: "Don't be in a hurry. Speak slowly. I don't eat fast. There are many important things, so just take your time."
Fu Xing: "..."
"I lost to you!"
With a headache, he took out a new piece of meat from the ring, skewered it and grilled it, and said: "Do you still remember the 'Tian Cardinal Plate'?"
"Hmm~"
Fu Yinhong didn't even raise his head, and said incoherently: "Can't you find it? Protector Liu and his people searched the city lord's mansion inside and out, but they didn't find anything wrong..."
"Um?"
As she spoke, her words suddenly stopped and she raised her head in surprise: "Xu Xiaoshou?"
"right."
Fu Xing turned over the barbecue and added seasonings as he said, "Xu Xiaoshou was the one who broke into the explosion in the back garden. You should know this."
"Well, continue." Fu Yinhong nodded.
Fu Xingdao: "It was only later that I realized that my father has really been studying that ghost formation disk in the back garden in the past few years."
"The reason it took so long was actually just because he was trapped by the spiritual formation he developed."
"puff!"
Fu Yinhong suddenly spurted a mouthful of meat onto Fu Xing's face.
There was a look of disbelief on her face.
"You are joking?"
Fu Xing: "..."
He clenched his fists, which eventually turned into claws, and took out a cloth from the ring to wipe his face.
"right."
"Uh, no, I'm not joking."
"Just because he didn't want to violently break the formation, he thought he could, and then he was trapped in the spirit-breaking formation for so many years."
Fu Yinhong: "..."
She looked at the spirit beast meat in her hand, and was suddenly speechless to the point where she couldn't eat anymore.
Weird!
What a weirdo for her father!
"so what?"
After regaining consciousness, Fu Yinhong suddenly lost her appetite, put down the barbecue, and asked: "So what does this have to do with Xu Xiaoshou?"
Fu Xing sighed.
"After all, I have studied the 'Tian Cardinal Disk' for so many years. Although I have not completely unlocked the secrets inside, the most basic application can be done."
"When Xu Xiaoshou went to the back garden, he didn't go alone."
"He brought his junior sister with him!"
"Yeah." Fu Yinhong acted like a listener.
Fu Xing spread his hands: "So, how should I put it, a guy who can be trapped by the spiritual formation he has researched, his control over the 'Heavenly Cardinal Disk' is limited to being able to enter, but not get out."
"During the battle against Xu Xiaoshou as an enemy who broke into the city lord's palace secretly, my father took Mu Zixi into the 'Tian Cardinal Disk'."
"This time point happened around the beginning of the dinner party."
"But finally the dinner is over..."
Fu Xing shrugged and remained silent.
"Is the dinner over?"
Fu Yinhong became confused. She thought hard for a long time before she suddenly realized.
"Xu Xiaoshou...if I remember correctly, Xu Xiaoshou left with his junior sister?"
"correct."
Fu Yinhong looked horrified, tilted her head and reasoned:
"So, what you mean is..."
"At the end of the battle in the back garden, the 'Tian Cardinal Disk' fell into Xu Xiaoshou's hands in a way that even his father didn't know."
"That guy, when he faced me and Guardian Liu, he had already started to lie?"
"right."
Fu Xing smiled bitterly, "But you seem to have forgotten a more important point."
"Dad has spent so many years of hard work and only developed a way to take people in, but he can't even let them out."
"Xu Xiaoshou..."
Fu Yinhong's pupils shrank and she said, "Xu Xiaoshou successfully cracked the 'Sky Card' and rescued people just during a dinner party?"
"Um."
This time, the scene became quiet for a moment.
The two looked at each other and saw the shock in each other's eyes.
The bonfire burned even more vigorously.
Golden oil droplets fell, sparks splashed, and the burnt firewood made a crackling sound, which was so noisy for a while.
"this……"
Fu Yinhong's face was full of disbelief.
But then she thought again.
Isn't the final showdown at the City Lord's Mansion dinner a competition between spiritual formation masters?
Those old spiritual formation masters even spent a whole night trying not to be able to break through the threshold spiritual formation of the "Thirty-six Heavenly Sealing Wu Formation".
Xu Xiaoshou completely cracked it in almost the blink of an eye.
Is this talent...
"Very strong."
Fu Yinhong sighed softly.
She prides herself on being a woman, and there are not many men in the world who can let her take a second look.
Such as Fu Xing sitting in front of me.
He is proficient in all eighteen kinds of martial arts, but he can barely catch the eye.
But Xu Xiaoshou...
Since its emergence, it has not been a problem for people to take a second look at it.
Every time this guy makes a move, it is enough to blind the eyes of the world!
"He is indeed very strong. I didn't say he wasn't strong. I just told you not to have anything to do with him anymore."
Fu Xing also sighed: "After all, I'm afraid you will fall in love with such an outstanding man like him."
After a pause, he added: "I have some."
Fu Yinhong: "..."
She grabbed the spirit beast skewer in her hand, slapped it on her face and exhaled.
"call out!"
Fu Xing's reaction was so quick, he just ducked past with a tilt of his head.
"Infuriated?"
"Shut your stinky mouth. Barbecue can't stop your lies, right? Ah!" Fu Yinhong glared with beautiful eyes.
"Didn't you ask me to say it..."
Fu Xing silently complained.
"continue!"
Fu Yinhong frowned again and asked in confusion: "So, what does this have to do with what you told me not to have anything to do with him?"
"Don't tell me anymore?" Fu Xing stretched out his hand to grill the meat and stepped back, "I'm afraid you'll be tempted!"
"call out!"
Fu Yinhong grabbed a stone and threw it again.
"Don't tell me!"
"We're here now, do you think I'll stop?"
Seeing the man in front of him dodge at the speed of light, Fu Yin raised her red lips and said, "If you didn't tell me, I would be even more excited now!"
Fu Xing: "..."
"No, no, no!"
He immediately moved back and said: "It's a small matter if the 'Tian Cardinal Disk' is lost..."
"Is this a trivial matter? Stealing things is trivial, but blowing up my family's affairs is trivial as well? Just wait until I go to him to argue!" Fu Yinhong interrupted her as soon as her temper broke out.
"Listen to me!"
Fu Xing was helpless, pressed his hand, and continued: "Compared to what happened later, the Tianshuji Pan is insignificant."
"What's the matter?"
"Zhang Taiying!" Fu Xing spoke solemnly.
Fu Yinhong's stern face relaxed again, and she said in surprise, "Zhang Taiying?"
Zhang Taiying, as a ghost beast, was destroyed by Hongyi.
Even the entire Zhang family he brought with him was directly eradicated overnight.
Except for some younger generations who have no special circumstances after the investigation, they will live under the surveillance of red clothes for many years from now on.
The rest of the high-rises were almost completely extinct.
The Zhang family has no chance of making a comeback.
What's the problem with this?
Fu Xing looked at his sister's thoughtful expression and naturally knew what she was thinking.
That night, after he learned the real information from his father, he had exactly the same expression.
"If you have collusion with ghosts and beasts, even if you are involved a little bit, if you are caught, you will die."
"Father said this, you must always remember it!"
"You have also seen the outcome of the Zhang family."
"So, this is why I told you not to associate with Xu Xiaoshou."
Fu Yinhong's pupils shrank, "What do you mean?"
Xu Xiaoshou...
Ghost beast?
There was a storm in her heart.
"That's what you understand." Fu Xing nodded.
"Can you act like a man? Mother-in-law and mother-in-law, I'm so annoyed!" Fu Yinhong felt irritable for no reason.
Fu Xing hesitated.
He still couldn't speak.
This thing is so shocking.
He couldn't even digest it.
If Fu Yinhong wants to know, what should he do if he impulsively argues with Xu Xiaoshou?
"explain!"
But the woman in front of me looked like she was about to roar like a lion from Hedong, and her hair was about to explode...
"Yes, yes, let me tell you!"
"But you have to understand that knowing does not mean that you are qualified to talk to Xu Xiaoshou, question him, or even..."
He paused, turned over the spirit beast meat, and said: "I wasn't joking before. A mysterious man can really make people tempted, so you must know all this..."
"call out!"
A big stone rubbed the edge of his ear and hit him.
"Murder your own brother, right?"
Fu Xing was angry.
"You, mother-in-law and mother-in-law, do you believe that I am really righteous in exterminating my family?" Fu Yinhong's face darkened.
"Chi~"
"If you had the strength, you would be destroyed!"
Fu Xing only dared to laugh in his heart and complain silently.
On the surface, he still gave in and confessed honestly.
"Okay~ say it!"
"let me tell you!"
"The origin of everything is because when everything was over, dad went back to the back garden to take a look at the spiritual array, and then found that it had been tampered with."
"Well, then?" Fu Yinhong was attracted.
Fu Xing continued: "There is a very obvious aura of Jinzhao remaining inside, that is, Xu Xiaoshou's fire energy!"
"These were not available before dad and Xu Xiaoshou separated..."
"Are you sure?" Fu Yinhong suddenly leaned over and interrupted.
"That's what I asked at the time."
Fu Xing thought of his rhetorical question in the study, sighed, and said, "Definitely and definitely, dad said he remembers it clearly."
"So, after the two separated, Xu Xiaoshou must have gone to the back garden once and tampered with the spiritual array there."
"In other words, setting up an ambush!"
"Then, he returned to the banquet room..."
"Go back to the banquet living room, hook Zhang Taiying out, and choose to use the tampered back garden spiritual array to kill him?" Fu Yinhong looked horrified, and her voice was much louder.
"Shh!"
Fu Xing immediately raised a finger and put it against his lips, signaling to be silent.
"It's so loud, do you want the whole world to hear it?"
He cursed lowly before returning to the topic, "That's just your speculation, I didn't say that."
"you sure?"
Fu Yinhong sneered: "You said so much, don't you just want me to introduce this?"
"well."
"I did say..."
Fu Xing thought of the second rhetorical question in the study.
He was silent for a while, closed his eyes, and sighed: "But daddy, I answered you the same way."
"The matter in the Zhang Mansion is a foregone conclusion. Who dares to reverse the case?"
"You dare to question what Hong Yi did at that time was wrong?"
"Do you dare to confront Xu Xiaoshou and ask these questions?"
"At that time..." Fu Yinhong was stunned.
"then?"
Fu Xing smiled helplessly, "It's not like you didn't know Xu Xiaoshou's mouth. The situation was indeed unstable at that time, and Dad didn't think so much!"
"Perhaps what Xu Xiaoshou said couldn't find any major faults at all, so the matter was dismissed."
"Dad, it was only after I returned to the City Lord's Mansion and met Mu Zixi that I remembered something was wrong and went to the back garden to check the situation after a long time."
"But these are all things for later..."
After a while of silence, Fu Xing added:
"Not to mention whether Xu Xiaoshou really did what he did, just because that guy dared to do such a thing in the city lord's mansion with his innate cultivation, he really managed to deceive Hong Yi in the end."
"Do you think that a mere city lord's mansion is qualified to fight against the other party?"
"Even if dad and a few uncles who are in seclusion join forces, if Xu Xiaoshou is really a ghost..."
Fu Xing's voice suddenly stopped.
As he spoke, his mood hit rock bottom.
He felt incredible every time he thought about what he had been called to the study by his father that night.
This kind of person, this kind of courage, this kind of ability...
If he is really the body of a ghost beast, then who can resist it?
The City Lord's Mansion is indeed the highest power in Tiansang County.
But in the face of this kind of ghost beasts, even the Holy Temple, the largest force in the mainland, had to set up a special force to deal with it, and it has been exterminating it for years...
"Sister, I'm telling you the truth."
Fu Xing interrupted his contemplation and said seriously: "You must never have any contact with Xu Xiaoshou again. Even if there is just a trace of involvement, my Fu family may be ruined!"
"Even more, I must not be tempted..."
"Shut up!"
Fu Yinhong rolled his eyes and scolded directly.
"Okay, I shut up."
"But you know everything, even though it's just speculation, but still, I don't want you to go into the abyss, even if it's just a sign."
Fu Xing tore open the barbecue and carefully handed it over after the meat inside was cooked.
Fu Yinhong took the meat skewers and her beautiful eyes flashed: "Actually, it's okay if you don't say it. I didn't pay much attention to Xu Xiaoshou, but you praised me to this extent..."
"For such an outstanding man, I can't help but feel a little moved."
"I have a great aunt~"
Fu Xing was so frightened that his hands were shaking, and the barbecue almost fell into the fire, "I won't tell you, just because I'm afraid you will have such thoughts!"
"Hey, it's not a big problem. Didn't you tell me that it was just speculation?"
Fu Yinhong took a bite of the meat, chewed it carefully, and said for a long time: "I didn't think Xu Xiaoshou was so capable. Wasn't Zhang Taiying also killed by Hongyi? He didn't do anything."
"I have a biological sister!"
Fu Xing was horrified, "So you still think that Zhang Taiying was killed by Hong Yi?"
"Uh..." Fu Yinhong's chewing movements froze, "Xu Xiaoshou?"
Fu Xing closed his eyes in pain: "When Dad and Hongyi rushed over, such a big boundary was broken, and Zhang Taiying's body was cold!"
"With his innate cultivation, Zhang Taiying furiously killed the ghost beast. This is such a ridiculous thing in the world, do you dare to believe it?"
Fu Yin Hongye raised her eyebrows.
"Didn't Hong Yi believe it? Didn't Dad believe it? There were so many people rushing over at that time, who didn't believe it?"
The payment bank is frozen.
To be honest, this is where the crux of the problem lies.
Until now, he still didn't know how Xu Xiaoshou deceived everyone with his sharp tongue.
If there were only people from the City Lord's Mansion there, that would be okay.
With the father who was able to be trapped by his own spiritual formation for many years, he can do it even if he pays attention to it.
But red clothes...
Is it really a lie?
Can it really be deceived?
If he didn't show the ability to kill ghost beasts, even if he died without evidence, Hongyi should have arrested the person and put him in prison for interrogation!
However, he has the ability to kill ghost beasts...
Xu Xiaoshou is just a genius!
Soon, Fu Xing interrupted his thinking.
"Sister, these things are no longer something you and I can think about."
"I can only say that Xu Xiaoshou can do this. Regardless of whether he is a ghost beast or not, the Tiansang County City Lord's Mansion cannot compete with him."
"What I said before is not important, you just need to remember this sentence..."
"When you see Xu Xiaoshou in the future, just take a detour and that'll be fine!"
"oh."
Fu Yinhong nodded.
Fu Xing went crazy.
It can be seen clearly at this glance that the two people's thoughts are not on the same channel at all!
"Are you even hearing me?"
"Can you be serious? This is a very serious matter!"
"Dad, I don't dare to tell Uncle Ye Ye anymore, and I don't dare to pursue this matter anymore. I don't even want the lost 'Cardial Disk'!"
"What are you afraid of?"
"Aren't you just afraid that you and I will be implicated by ghosts and beasts, be retaliated against, and have something unexpected happen to you?"
"You still won't listen?"
Fu Xing roared angrily: "Xu Xiaoshou is not someone we, the Fu family, can afford to offend, do you understand?"
Fu Yinhong was stunned for a moment by the yelling.
It wasn't until the sentence "Dad didn't dare to tell Uncle Watcher" came out that she realized that it wasn't that everyone didn't say it, or that they didn't pay attention to it.
But tacitly.
But, don’t dare!
Ghost beast...
Is it really that terrible?
Lips closed, Fu Yinhong was about to say something.
Suddenly, a surprising voice appeared not far behind him.