Chapter 75 - Sacrifice
Ouyang Zhong brought Xiao Feifei back to the Ouyang mansion because before Xiao Feifei mistakenly killed the old steward, she said that she didn't dare go back to live on her own, so she moved to the Ouyang mansion. Ouyang Zhong whispered softly to Xiao Feifei, "Since Madam is going to meet her eldest brother, you should still dress up a little bit so as to match Madam's status as County Princess Jiao Yang. You can't let the other party underestimate it."
Xiao Feifei was very obedient, carefully and meticulously freshened up and dressed up, changed into a fancy silk dress, put on her head and face, and specially chose a pair of strutters. Ouyang Zhong walked behind him, gently picked up the walking stick, and inserted it into Xiao Feifei's head. He also took out a simple-looking wooden hairpin, but a strange red flower was embedded in it like a fox's ear, which was a perfect match for the gorgeous dress.
Ouyang Zhong looked at Xiao Feifei in the mirror and praised her heartily, ''Madam has always been very beautiful, and today is extraordinarily beautiful. Let's go! My husband will hold the horse for the county princess, and we will go out of the city gates together to meet our eldest brother for a while."
Xiao Feifei felt her steps were light, always feeling both imaginary and real. She looked at Ouyang Zhong in confusion and was carried onto the horse. Although she didn't know what she was doing, seeing that the person beside her was Ouyang Zhong, she obeyed with peace of mind.
She pulled Ouyang Zhong's hand and said, "Husband, I don't know what's wrong with me. But, husband, I don't want to burden you, but I will become a good lady. You will also be good to me for the rest of my life, right?" Ouyang Zhong patted her hand and said, "Don't worry, Xiao Feifei, I'm your husband and, even more so, your only family now. I will take care of you for the rest of your life."
Ouyang Zhong did not wear any weapons and brought Xiao Feifei to meet Zhang Sun Tai. Before entering the account, he was searched carefully again. When someone wanted to search for Xiao Feifei, Ouyang Zhong rebuked, "Daring! How dare you be rude and slight, my lady, the dynastic Princess Jiao Yang?!"
Zhangsun Tai shouted from the tent, "That's enough, you two come in!"
Ouyang Zhong held Xiao Feifei's hand and walked towards Zhangsun Tai. He only saw that Zhangsun Tai was still crooked, looking sickly, and that his life was near.
I don't know if it was because he was sick or tired or because Zhangsun Tai was too lazy to see these two people in front of him; he kept his eyes half closed, and half closed, refusing to raise his eyelids.
Ouyang Zhong and Xiao Fei Fei saluted their elder brother Zhangsun Tai following the etiquette. Before Ouyang Zhong could say anything, Zhangsun Tai spoke leisurely: "What are you doing here? If you want to persuade me to retreat, you can just leave; if you want to climb the family ladder, you don't have to. I don't want to have anything to do with bastards."
Before Ouyang Zhong was married to the Xiao family, he had seen this Zhangsun Tai at some banquets organized for the sons and dukes of princes and ministers. At that time, he was still called Xiao Tai. He was the only son of the incomparable Nan Yang Elder Princess, no matter who had to give him a few moments of face, so his flighty and domineering appearance was even worse than his younger sister, Xiao Fei Fei. Ouyang Zhong remembers that his father remembered Ouyang Zhong living in the Princess Palace for those months and often hanging out with Zhangsun Tai. That is, this person, although domineering and arrogant, is also considered an interesting person, body, although not as strong as their own year-round martial arts training, but also not as weak as this now. What is even more strange is that, once the Princess House up and down the County Princess of Jiaoyang Xiao Feifei cupped in the palm of your hand as a pearl, Zhangsun Tai is a model brother, on the sister of the matter of no matter. But now, how can they be so disliked by Xiao Feifei and even abandoned like worn-out shoes?
"Why on earth do you hate me so much?" Xiao Feifei, who had been low-browed and silent all along, finally exploded when she heard Zhangsun Tai humiliate himself so much in front of her husband, Ouyang Zhong, who had been holding back for such a long time. "Father burned Mother's corpse in a fire and also emptied all the gold, silver, and fine furniture of the Eldest Princess's residence, and that's not all; when I begged you guys to take me away, Father abandoned me, and you used your belt to severely beat me ... Am I not your family? Didn't you all love me once? Why on earth? You say it!!! Why on earth !!!!" Xiao Feifei roared at the top of her voice, and then a black demonic aura gathered on her body, and her eyes turned into a demonic and ghostly black and purple color.
Zhangsun Tai had never seen such Xiao Feifei. This was no longer an ordinary human appearance. He fell straight to the ground from the seat couch in great horror. Although he was shocked, he still said with great disgust and hatred, "Because you are a monster, you are a bastard, you are not our Zhangsun Clan's bloodline at all. You are also not father's daughter, my sister."
Xiao Feifei took advantage of Ouyang Zhong's lack of attention and angrily rushed to Zhangsun Tai's face, looked at him scornfully, grabbed his collar tightly, and shouted fiercely, "What did you say? Say it again?"
Zhangsun Tai abhorrently scuffed backward while raising his octave and said loudly, "You are a bastard; you are a demon that came out of incestuous fornication between the previous king, Xiao Zhan, and his own sister, that is, my mother, Xiao Wushuang. Father knew about this from the very beginning, and he had been holding back until he saw that both Mother and Xiao Zhan had been poisoned by a demon for eating some immortality potion, as well as seeing your inhuman appearance. He finally couldn't take it anymore. You are all dirty demons; just deserve to die; all of you deserve to die!" Finally, he touched his sword that was placed aside on the table, drew it out, and swung it at Xiao Feifei.
Xiao Feifei was so shocked by such news that she froze in one place. She didn't care to dodge Zhangsun Tai's sword. Just at this time, Ouyang Zhong was quick to use the smoking table to help Xiao Feifei block the sword. However, this has not been able to wake up Xiao Feifei from the shock. She is like a fixed general dumbly crouched on the ground, no tears, no crying, no hissing and splashing, just mute to stay there.
Ouyang Zhong tugged up ZhangSun Zhi. After all, they used to be on good terms. He said to ZhangSun Zhi: "Put down your family matters regardless. Now I still plead with Zhangsun's army to withdraw. After all, our common enemy is the Dingzuo Department. Under the nest, there is no egg? At this time, we don't think about being united against each other, but our own people are still fighting with our own people. Is this interesting?"
"Our own people? What a joke! Who is your person? Don't disgust me. Ouyang Zhong, you were considered to have outstanding talent at first. Why have you become so stubborn now? Don't you understand? The Ming Dynasty was completely destroyed in the chaos of that night banquet. There is no Zhongming now. My father has already claimed the throne in Yue Pi. Dongfang Chang in Nandu City is also going to make himself king. This world is meant to be fought over. You had the chance to sit in the chair in Zongcheng City, but you don't have the guts to do so, so what do you care if others fight for it? Even if we don't, Dongfang Chang will go for it. Anyone can go for it. I'll tell you the truth again! We've teamed up with Dongfang Chang. And Dongfang Chang has made a deal with Dingling. Our several families are together, and our common goal is to take down Zongcheng! Hahahahahahahaha!" Zhangsun Tai laughed openly, "I'm not going to kill you today because we've had some old friendships before, but I won't be so kind when we're on the battlefield. Come on, people! Send off the guests!"
Although Ouyang Zhong was angry, the purpose of his visit was not to kill Zhangsun Tai but to protect Xiao Feifei. He used his afterglow to secretly observe Xiao Feifei's every move. He knew that his wife had become demonic. Still, he couldn't use his magical power, so he had to put the protective amulet that Fox Xiaoxian had given him on Xiao Feifei's head to suppress the demonic aura in her body.
Xiao Feifei was still motionless, so Ouyang Zhong had to go over and assist her in bringing her back to the city properly. Right at this moment, Xiao Fei Fei's body trembled as if she had been electrocuted, then she quickly came to Zhangsun Tai's front with no expression on her face and ruthlessly stabbed Zhangsun Tai's heart with a human bone dagger. Zhangsun Tai didn't even have to wail in pain before collapsing to the ground and dying. The process was so fast that it took less than a blink of an eye.
Xiao Feifei squatted on the ground and looked at the already dead Zhangsun Tai, still expressionless, continued to stab his body, muttering: "I'm not a demon, I'm not a demon, I'm not a demon,...," the look gradually fell into a mania.
Ouyang Zhong looks at the big event as not good; they did not bring any weapons and can not use spells, and Xiao Feifei's appearance can not be regardless of, originally do not want to let Zhangsun Tai this time on the death, the result is still dead, only by his one how to take care of Xiao Feifei while breaking out ah? Nonsense, hurry to run!
He picked up Xiao Feifei and desperately ran to the camp. Xiao Feifei still holds the human bone dagger in her hand, and her nerves don't seem normal. It could be that this series of blows had completely knocked this poor and pathetic woman to the bottom. While Ouyang Zhong held her while trying to do everything he could to fight the enemies who were madly rushing towards them, the fox ear flower hairpin she wore fell off. She was completely controlled physically and mentally by the Demon Lord.
Just by being in Ouyang Zhong's arms, Xiao Fei Fei started to go crazy, fiercely choking Ouyang Zhong's neck, and Ouyang Zhong had no choice but to put her down to get rid of the constraints. The surrounding people also looked dumbfounded; why are the couple still engaged in infighting? Immediately after, Xiao Feifei was covered in black smoke; her eyes completely turned purple, her pupils were white, her mouth was full of beastly fangs, and her hands turned into the appearance of withered branches and thorns. She started scratching and biting towards the people around her, while the human bone dagger held in her hand was slashing and stabbing towards the people around her. Because of the magic power of the Demon Monarch in her body, she had boundless strength and ferocity at the moment.
Ouyang Zhong hurriedly picked up the amulet on the ground and tried repeatedly to rush into the crowd to save his furious wife. However, there were just too many enemies, and he could never get close to Xiao Feifei.
Xiao Feifei seemed to have no target, grabbing and slashing at everyone. When her dagger was shattered, she attacked and resisted with her arms and teeth. Faced with a devilish monster, surrounded by soldiers with all kinds of weapons, they slashed and smashed hard toward the former County Pricess of Jiaoyang. Xiao Fei Fei's body was already covered in wounds and bloodstains, but as if she had no pain and didn't know how to get tired, she just kept attacking everywhere like this, completely unorganized. Ouyang Zhong shouted her name as hard as he could, trying to wake her up, but still to no avail.
The crowd used their spears to crush Ouyang Zhong to the ground, making him unable to move; even then, he was still shouting: ''Xiao Feifei! You wake up! Wake up!" Immediately after, someone took advantage of the chaos and stabbed a knife into Xiao Feifei's back waist. Xiao Feifei was restricted from moving, and just then, the other soldiers' weapons also came towards Xiao Feifei. Seeing that Xiao Feifei was about to be chopped into meat paste by the chaotic swords, Ouyang Heavy shouted, "Don't!" Immediately after that, he sank his Qi into his dantian, and a strong force erupted from his body as he transformed into a huge black dragon with emerald greenhorns. He gently swung his tail and swept the people around him to the ground. Ouyang Zhong rushed towards the middle of the crowd, holding the severely injured Xiao Feifei in his front claws, and flew up in the air to escape the crowd and hide in the clouds.
Shan Xiaohu had originally seen a melee in the enemy military camp on the city wall, so he hurriedly jumped down from the city tower and rushed toward them, but he didn't expect that Ouyang Zhong had directly transformed into a dragon and appeared in defiance of the heavenly rules and taboos. At this time, he can not use magic power to fly to the sky to look for Ouyang Zhong; the matter is urgent; he can only look at the sky, sigh, rushed back to the vertical city to continue to guard the city gates, and with a thousand miles of sound transmission to inform the senior brother and General Wei.
Ouyang Zhong transformed into a dragon and flew to the sky. This matter scared the Yue Pi army, and some people began to fall on their knees, shouting: "This is the true dragon son of heaven appearing ah! It turns out that Ouyang Zhong is the True Dragon Son!" Zhangsun Tai, who was leading the army, was assassinated, and Ouyang Zhong changed into a dragon and took Xiao Feifei to the sky. Such a big change could only make people think that it was the True Dragon Heavenly Son who descended from the sky. What more battles to fight? What more cities to attack? The Zhangsun clan is a fraud, and it is not worth following at all. Ouyang Zhong is the real deal. So, the tens of thousands of Yue Pi's vanguard army turned their backs and automatically submitted to Zongcheng City.
Ouyang Zhong transformed into a dragon and hid deep in a barren mountain with Xiao Feifei, who could never return to his human body. He wanted to wake up the seriously injured Xiao Feifei, but he didn't know what to do. Suddenly, he remembered Fox XiaoXian's amulet. Ouyang Zhong turned the amulet into soup and gave it to Xiao Feifei. Sure enough, Xiao Feifei, dripping with purple-black blood, eliminated the demonic aura from her body, and her sharp teeth and claws returned to their normal human form as she slowly opened her eyes.
Looking at the huge dragon before her, Xiao Feifei did not feel strange or surprised. She smiled naturally and fondly told the huge dragon, "So this is what your true body looks like. I could still have you by my side in my last moments, and I was already very content. I know you are only kind to me out of your duties and obligations as a husband, but you do not love me. I also want to see if I can truly love you, but unfortunately, neither can.
If there is an afterlife, I don't want to be born in the emperor's family again, don't be the high and mighty county princess, just be an ordinary village woman, live an ordinary and peaceful life with my beloved, men plowing and women weaving, have a few children, and share the joy of family. In my life, I have enjoyed the most luxurious esteem and experienced the most painful betrayal. Man is not a man, ghost is not a ghost, all my relatives are separated from me, and my family is broken." Xiao Feifei curled up into a ball in agony, her body trembling. "I made a deal with the Demon Lord: as long as He can help me avenge my death, my body and soul will belong to Him. It seems that Zhangsun Tai was right. I have truly turned into a disgusting demon. Ouyang Zhong, I'm about to leave. I'm in too much pain ... really too much pain ..."
Xiao Feifei finished physically and mentally and then turned into a puff of black and purple smoke, which the wind carried into the distance. Ouyang Zhong felt very guilty and angry and secretly swore in his heart, "Demon Monarch, I must not let you continue to jeopardize the earth again!"
The black dragon took advantage of the night color and flew back to the sky above Zong Cheng City. He called out to Shan Xiaohu and Fox Xiaxia with a thousand-mile voice transmission, agreeing to meet on the other side of Zong Yu Mountain. After transforming into a dragon, he could not change back into his human body, which also bothered Ouyang Zhong. However, Fox Xiaxia and Shan Xiaohu felt this was extremely good! Because of this true dragon body, it shocked many enemies at once. Surrendering without a fight solved a lot of trouble.
However, this appearance did not mention the inconvenience of movement; more importantly, Ouyang reoffended the heavenly rules. Only how to characterize, in fact, Fox Xiaxia they also can not distinguish. According to reason, Ouyang Zhong is still just a human being, even if it is in the Sumeru illusion realm to restore some memories of the past life and mana. However, the essence is still a person, at most counted as some of the strange ability of the magic just. This sudden transformation is not into a demon body; after all, the dragon belongs to the ancient divine beasts, and the level is very high; how can it not be considered a demon?
At a loss, Xuan Mo followed the trail and came. Xuan Mo's ten-thousand-year-old dog's nose is too smart; he looked at the Ouyang Zhong, who turned into a dragon and was still aggrieved and found it funny. Whether it was Pi Dan in his last life or Ouyang Zhong in this life, neither had learned the heart technique of transforming ah! As a teacher, Xuan Mo hurriedly filled Ouyang Zhong in on this lesson.
Ouyang Zhong transformed into his human body, and when he saw Xuan Mo, he told him about Xiao Feifei's matter and hurriedly asked where Fox Xiao Xian had gone. Xuan Mo nodded, roughly understanding the Devil Sovereign's tactics, and could temporarily not care whether this Heavenly Rule was violated. After all, their most important enemy hadn't shown up yet; subduing the devil, defending the way, and acting on behalf of heaven was the most crucial task. Right now, Zong Cheng City was surrounded by enemies, and during the day, General Wei had already fought a battle with Dingling's ministry, so they had to hurry back to defend the city. A few people briefly discussed and rushed back to Zongcheng City while it was still light.