The Villainous Shizun Is As Beautiful As A Flower - Chapter 96

The wind is swirling with dark clouds, the night is shrouded in the demon capital, and the bustling market is crowded with people and lights.

In front of a stall selling candy people, it was crowded with people. The stall owner kept busy with his hands, smiling faces, and kept shouting to attract more customers.

“Walking by, come and have a look, the Nine Demon Kings personally selected, the demons are the sweetest candy man, a taste can be sweet to the heart—”

Sweetness blooms on the lips.

The black-haired youth sitting on the couch raised his head, opened his phoenix eyes slightly, stared at the face that was close at hand, and was stunned for a moment.

Zhou Xuanlan bit a small piece of candy man, leaned over and kissed her red lips, her black eyes revealed a slight smile.

In Qilin City, Shen Liuxiang sweetened him with a sugar man, and as a disciple, he would naturally sweeten his master back.

Shen Liuxiang’s black eyelashes trembled slightly, and he was caught off guard, and his expression was a little overwhelmed.

Until he found the apprentice in front of him, he noticed the tension overflowing from the surface, and his expression showed a bit of pride, as if he had done a great thing, and he could hide his excitement for several days.

Shen Liuxiang’s mentality changed instantly.

He couldn’t stand the stimulation, couldn’t stand the provocation, didn’t fight back, his heart was itching.

So he stretched out his hands from the quilt, hooked Zhou Xuanlan’s neck, and found a suitable angle for his handsome and fair face.

The tip of the red soft tongue sticks out a little, and lightly licks the lower thin lips.

Immediately in the silence, he tilted his lower jaw slightly and licked the little piece of Candy Man.

The smile in Zhou Xuanlan’s eyes disappeared, and the slender figure froze.

At the end, he saw the young man in a dark lingerie put down his hands, his shoulders drooping, and he smiled like a fishy cat.

“It’s pretty sweet.”

In an instant, there seemed to be an invisible little claw that scratched lightly in Zhou Xuanlan’s heart.

His eyes drooped down, and the corners of his lips curled into an inexplicable arc.

It didn’t take long before Master forgot about it.

Before, on the warm jade couch, he shook his head and cried and said no, but when he couldn’t stand it, his handsome face was full of tears.

With such a pitiful and helpless appearance, Zhou Xuanlan couldn’t help being soft-hearted, and at the same time couldn’t help being more cruel, until the person in his arms was almost collapsed by lust, and he could see the beautiful and alluring gesture. Satisfyingly let him go.

But now, the person who was pitifully begging for mercy doesn’t seem to remember this.

Turning to the top of the body, even the tips of his hair were shouting at Zhou Xuanlan—he slammed! Works again!

Zhou Xuanlan was silent, wanting to try if he was really okay, but after thinking about it, Master just woke up, and that’s all.

He handed the missing candy man to Shen Liuxiang’s mouth, “Master hasn’t said yet, who came earlier?”

Shen Liuxiang reached out and took it, and said one by one, but omitted what Ling Ye said, Zhou Xuanlan does not belong to the current demon clan.

After speaking, Shen Liuxiang took out the jade slip and planned to spread the news to Di Yunyu. The place where Qiongqi was sealed was near Yaodu, so maybe Di Yunyu had an impression.

His fingertips gathered spiritual energy, and just as he was pointing at the jade slip, the door slammed open.

The moment Xu Xingchen broke into the room and his eyes fell on the jade slip in his hand, the expression on his pale face changed greatly, and he cast a spell to knock it down without hesitation.

“Stop! Don’t tell the Emperor!”

The jade slip with the golden ear hanging on it slammed down on the quilt, and it was still bleak before it touched Shen Liuxiang’s spiritual power.

Xu Xingchen walked quickly to the couch, and he was in a trance all the way, until he saw Shen Liuxiang, he calmed down a little, he opened his mouth, his lips trembled slightly, “Brother, brother…”

Shen Liuxiang saw that his face had lost its color, his eyes were full of bloodshot eyes, and he frowned, “What’s the matter, who bullied you.”

Xu Xingchen shook his head vigorously, and suddenly held his hand, his slender fingers were as cold as snow, turning white with force.

He trembled all over: “Yes, it’s the emperor—”

Shen Liuxiang’s pupils shrank.

After Xu Xingchen left in the afternoon, Ben went straight back to his residence to rest, but he didn’t expect to be stopped by a man in plain clothes halfway through.

Xu Xingchen was vigilant. At this time, other people on the street saw this and saluted one after another. The one who met was a man in commoner clothes—the Great Demon King, Heng Jiuyin.

Knowing that it was Heng Jiuyin, Xu Xingchen had no fear.

In broad daylight, Heng Jiuyin could still eat him, he flicked his sleeve robe generously and asked, “What’s the matter?”

“You rarely come to Yaodu, so why don’t you go to the teahouse with this king and sit quietly for a while.”

When the Great Demon King invites, whoever dares to slack off, the other person immediately follows him respectfully.

But Xu Xingchen ignored this, he was too tired, and he thought of the Heng Feishan he met before, he had a father and a son, so he didn’t have a good impression of Heng Jiuyin, so he said: “Another day, Ben Shaojun will go back to rest. .”

Heng Jiuyin smiled disapprovingly: “In this case, this king can only go to Shen Shaojun.”

After all, he left immediately.

As soon as Xu Xingchen heard it, he hurriedly stopped him: “What are you asking him to do, I’m not a young master!”

Heng Jiuyin: “Young Master doesn’t want to rest.”

Xu Xingchen: “He is resting too!”

Heng Jiuyin chuckled, with an inexplicable tone, “But this king thinks that he will be willing to listen.”

Xu Xingchen was aroused by him, and then aroused curiosity, and immediately said: “Xingxing, go with you, which teahouse… I will tell you that the emperor’s palace is the most effective except for the emperor’s father, you can discuss it. If it is important, the first choice is to find me with a good eye!”

Heng Jiuyin smiled but did not say a word, and took Xu Xingchen to a quiet teahouse.

But he didn’t let anyone pour the tea, he just waved his hand, and let him bring a few sets of tea sets, which should be placed on the table, “Young Master has a noble status, not far away, rushed from Shenqi Mountain to Yaodu, for a mere scroll. , it was hard work.”

Xu Xingchen’s face was puzzled: “There is a teleportation array, why bother?”

Heng Jiuyin didn’t smile, but at this time, Xu Xingchen finally reacted as he wished, and said vigilantly: “You know the scroll, what are you trying to say.”

Heng Jiuyin: “The emperor wants to find a place to seal Qiongqi, you know why.”

Xu Xingchen: “It’s not one of you who is so daring and wants to release Qiongqi, and the emperor asked us to stop it.”

Heng Jiuyin shook his head, put the teacup upside down on the table, picked up another teacup and placed it on top, and folded it unhurriedly.

“Do you really think anyone can break the seal of the emperor? In this world, apart from the emperor himself, there is still a chance to break his seal, only the beasts of the ages are suppressed.”

Xu Xingchen frowned, and he believed most of it in his heart. With the cultivation of the emperor, what Heng Jiuyin said did make some sense.

He thought about it for a while: “…Anyway, someone moved the scroll and had a bad intention!”

Heng Jiuyin folded the cup slowly and changed the subject: “How much do you know about flying?”

Xu Xingchen was speechless for a long time: “Heng Feishan is your son, how much do you know?”

The commoner man gave a meal, the corners of his mouth twitched imperceptibly, and raised his index finger to indicate above, “Follow the way.”

Xu Xingchen: “…you know what you should know. If you ask me what to do, it’s possible that you want to learn from the scriptures and find the wrong person, not to mention that the demon clan can’t soar.”

Strange to say, although the road to ascension is extremely difficult, but every few hundred years, there are always monks standing at the top of the continent who can succeed.

But the demon clan is different. According to records, there are very few demon cultivators who can lead to the ascension of the thunder calamity, and none of them can survive the calamity.

Heng Jiuyin folded nine cups and said, “In another half a month, it will be four hundred years since the emperor’s ascension.”

Xu Xingchen was stunned for a moment, Heng Jiuyin is indeed an old monster who has lived for hundreds of years, and he has more details about the emperor’s father’s life than he, a son who has been familiar with the emperor’s life since childhood, to which day.

He said: “The emperor did have a soaring thunder calamity, but he gave up because the beast appeared in the world.”

“The emperor has great benevolence, and this king is ashamed,” Heng Jiuyin pointed to the high teacup in front of him, “However, he is the only one who can do this. If he failed to cross the tribulation, he would have long since cultivated for the trivial deeds of others. It’s all dead.”

Xu Xingchen sighed in his heart: “That, that is natural, the emperor realized the Tao in Shenqi Mountain, and no one can compare with it, but… What do you mean when you say that the cultivation base is exhausted? The failure of ascension is not directly caused by thunder. Did the robbery die? As long as you survive the thunder calamity, you should be fine.”

Heng Jiuyin laughed: “It’s wrong, it’s just an appearance.” Xu Xingchen saw his expression, and suddenly had a bad feeling.

Heng Jiuyin ordered a cup of tea and made a crisp percussion sound: “Ascension not only means reaching another vast world, but also means that this continent can no longer hold him. The monk who failed to cross the tribulation does not die. Yu Lei Jie, it was this continent that deprived him of all the spiritual power that was given to him.”

“In other words, for those who fail to transcend the calamity, their cultivation will all dissipate, and they will re-turn into a spiritual stream that flows into the world to achieve a certain balance that is well-liked.”

Xu Xingchen’s face turned terrifyingly white without realizing it. If this is the case, wouldn’t the emperor’s cultivation be dissipating all the time!

“No… not right,”

He shook his head violently, “If it’s true, as you said, after four hundred years, how could the emperor’s cultivation level still be on the top of the continent!”

“So he is the emperor,” Heng Jiuyin smiled, “but there is no doubt that he was still greatly influenced. If I guess correctly, the emperor’s memory will disappear with the cultivation level and gradually become blurred, otherwise it will not Forget the place where the beast was sealed, and do everything possible to find the scroll.”

“Although this is incredible, it is actually simple to say.”

Heng Jiuyin put another one next to the folded teacup, and said, “Ordinary people can reach the ascension realm if they have a cultivation level that is high in a teacup. The accumulated height of a teacup is far more than what is required for soaring, so,”

Xu Xingchen watched Heng Jiuyin take down the cups that were high above them, “It will take time for all his cultivation to dissipate, one hundred years, two hundred years, three hundred years… four hundred years.”

In other words, Heng Jiuyin pointed to the last teacup, “At the end, he still has an ordinary person’s Ascension Realm cultivation.”

Xu Xingchen was stunned for a moment, and suddenly reacted, “Understood! I understand! You want to say that the emperor will not lose his cultivation and end up dead like those who failed to survive the calamity, because he has another soaring ascension. opportunity!”

Xu Xingchen grabbed the remaining teacup tightly, as if holding a life-saving straw, “This is the cultivation of the Ascension Realm! There will also be thunder tribulations!”

Xu Xingchen’s expression changed uncertainly, and he asked after a while, “Why did you tell me this.”

Heng Jiuyin raised his eyelids: “This king has always admired the emperor, and naturally I don’t want him to make mistakes again and again and miss this last chance.”

Xu Xingchen’s expression changed, and suddenly he got up: “Why did you miss it? How could you miss it! Please clarify quickly!!”

Seeing that he was extremely anxious, Heng Jiuyin showed a faint smile in his eyes.

“Because of Qiongqi. Ascension is approaching, but he asks you to find a place of seal. Most of the time you want to solve this big trouble for the Three Realms before you leave. But his cultivation level is far less than that of the past, and if he does this forcibly, he may be able to kill the beast. , but in the face of the ensuing thunder calamity, what will he use to resist?”

“If the tribulation fails again, the Daluo Immortal will not be able to save him,”

Heng Jiuyin stared at Xu Xingchen and asked word by word, “The emperor dares to bet, what about the young master? Do you really want the emperor to test how strong he is?”

Xu Xingchen was shocked, his back was covered in cold sweat, and his heart was filled with boundless chills. He left the teahouse in a trance, and the sky was already dark.

He subconsciously came to look for Shen Liuxiang, just when he saw him passing news to the emperor, he immediately shot to block it.

“No! No more news of beasts to the emperor!”

Xu Xingchen’s fingertips trembled, and he clenched Shen Liuxiang’s hand, “Brother thinks so too, right? What a beast! What an oddity! Why, why should the emperor solve it again! He just needs to stay in the palace with peace of mind and wait. Just fly, you don’t need to do this!”

Shen Liuxiang’s heart was filled with turbulent waves, if it was just like what Heng Jiuyin said, it would be in line with the original.

He was puzzled. In the original book, there was no saying that Qiongqi broke free from the seal and threatened the world. Now it seems that maybe Di Yunyu successfully stopped it, so he also paid the price.

Di Yunyu’s body fell – at the most peaceful and stable time in this continent.

but……

Shen Liu said loudly: “Calm down, these are all words from Heng Jiuyin’s side. He deliberately destroyed the scroll to prevent us from finding the seal, and he disclosed this information to prevent us from telling the emperor. What he did was definitely not for the emperor. Thinking about it, it is more likely to achieve some ulterior purpose of his.”

“No! No! The emperor indeed forgot a lot of things, and more!” Xu Xingchen couldn’t hear anything, and shook his head excitedly.

“Also! There is a secret room in the imperial palace, with a star lamp in it, and the phoenix ling, the divine instrument of the emperor’s father’s life. In the past, the emperor only stayed indoors for about an hour a day, but recently, I asked Xing Lian. , he sometimes spends most of the day inside, and when he comes out, the aura surrounding him is much thinner.”

Xu Xingchen whispered: “This is the evidence that the emperor’s cultivation base has dissipated.”

At this time, someone next to him brought him a glass of water, “Except for Lei Jie, people in the world know very little about Ascension. Heng Jiuyin seems to have put a lot of effort into this aspect, and he may be hiding something. Compared to Heng Jiuyin , you should trust the emperor more, shouldn’t you?”

Xu Xingchen was stunned, thanked Zhou Xuanlan, took the water and took a sip, calming down a little, “I naturally believe in the emperor, but…”

He choked lightly in his throat: “If the emperor is really like this, I’m not surprised.”

What Emperor Yunyu wants to do, what he wants to do, never talk or discuss with anyone. Even if Xu Xingchen is connected to his bloodline and grew up by his side since childhood, he can’t understand or see through any thoughts of Emperor Yunyu.

He could only panic because of his little familiarity with Di Yunyu and intuition that what Heng Jiuyin said was true.

Shen Liuxiang rubbed his brows. If Di Yunyu is really about to soar, he should at least talk to a few of them. He can’t be unprepared, and he must face him who is about to leave or fall…

But Shen Liuxiang thought that Di Yunyu never told Xu Xinglian why she was not allowed to leave the imperial palace, and was silent for a while.

Maybe, Di Yunyu really had this idea.

When Lei Jie was in front of him, he waved his hand: “Let’s go, I hope you can come to me as soon as possible.”

Shen Liuxiang: “…” I have a headache.

He thought about it, since Heng Jiuyin admitted that only Di Yunyu and the imprisoned Qiong Qi can break the seal, if there is nothing important, Di Yunyu should not take the initiative to find it, maybe the beast inside is about to break free .

Shen Liuxiang remembered what Ling Ye said, saying that he was going to reinforce the seal.

Judging from these words, perhaps the power of the sealing technique weakened with the dissipation of Emperor Yunyu’s cultivation, causing Guan Qiongqi’s enchantment to loosen.

Several people discussed and digested the sudden news together.

Xu Xingchen always insisted on one point and was not allowed to tell Emperor Yunyu the location of the beast, “The calamity is extremely terrifying, no monk would want to exhaust his energy to do other things before ascending! The emperor only has half a month left! Half a month!!”

Shen Liuxiang frowned and pondered, and after a long time, he said: “I haven’t found the exact location of Qiongqi, so it’s okay not to tell the emperor for the time being. First, the soldiers are divided into two paths, I will continue to search for the seal, and you can tell the truth of Heng Jiuyin’s words. .”

Xu Xingchen nodded, then took out the jade slip, and sent spiritual power into it. When a pleasant female voice came out, he asked, “How is the emperor recently?”

Xu Xinglian: “I often see him in the secret room.”

Xu Xingchen couldn’t help but sink his face. At this moment, Xu Xinglian whispered, “Didn’t my brother say that he would send someone to bring me to find you secretly? When will he come?”

Xu Xingchen immediately frowned: “Where do you want to go at this time? You are not allowed to go anywhere, just guard the emperor in the palace!”

The words fell, and both ends of the jade slip fell into silence.

After Xu Xingchen finished speaking, his tone was a little heavy, and he was stunned, “I’m sorry, I, I shouldn’t have murdered you… Be obedient, just watch the emperor for me in the palace, okay?”

After a while, there was a muffled reply from the other end. Shen Liuxiang was about to take the jade slip and explained to Xu Xinglian that the jade slip had already been hidden.

Xu Xingchen clenched the jade slip and put it back in the storage bag: “It’s not too late, let’s do our own thing.”

There are secret realms on all sides of Yaodu. Ling Ye searched for secret realms in the east of the city, and Shen Liuxiang went to the west. It is not easy to travel through secret realms. Every secret realm is a small world, and there are many dangers inside.

Shen Liuxiang wandered between the secret realms, his front foot was buried by the overwhelming snow in the icy sky, and the next moment, the surrounding magma was on fire, as if being roasted on a fire.

He searched without sleep for three days, explored seven secret realms, and there was no sign of a beast. When he was about to enter the eighth one, his arm was grabbed.

Zhou Xuanlan: “Master, it’s time to rest.”

Shen Liuxiang pushed aside the low weeping willow leaves with another hand, and his spiritual power penetrated into the secret realm, “It’s okay, I’m not tired.”

Xu Xingchen just heard the news that he visited many great experts of the Three Realms, inquired about ascension, and found a group of people who had experienced the coming of beasts. No one knows what the level of cultivation is now.

There was also a hidden master who gave Xu Xingchen the word “merit”, and the rest kept silent.

In terms of merit, no one in today’s world can compare with Emperor Yunyu.

Shen Liuxiang heard that the thunder tribulations of ascending people are different, and it is related to his life. Combined with what the master said, he secretly wondered whether it was the thunder tribulation of Emperor Yunyu’s soaring, which would be easier because of countless merits.

Shen Liuxiang lowered his eyes and pondered, for a moment, he suddenly realized that something was wrong – he moved for a while, but he was still walking in place? ?

Zhou Xuanlan, who held his arm, silently watched him walk in place for a long time, the corners of his lips curled slightly, and after Shen Liuxiang reacted, he leaned over and hugged him, “Return to the demon capital.”

Shen Liuxiang raised his eyebrows slightly: “But time is running out.”

If Qiong Qi broke free from the seal, the consequences would be unimaginable. If before Di Yunyu ascends, he will definitely take action, then the emperor’s father crossing the calamity may be in danger. If after Di Yunyu leaves, the only person who can subdue Qiongqi leaves, wouldn’t it be another catastrophe.

Shen Liuxiang thought about it again and again, only to find Qiongqi first and look at the situation of Fengjie.

“Master asked Xu Xingchen to calm down, I think the one who should calm down is Master,” Zhou Xuanlan took a big step, and under the night, hugged him and left directly.

Back at the residence, Shen Liuxiang was put into the hot tub, and after bathing, he was picked up and thrown onto the bed.

Shen Liuxiang wanted to get up, but was pressed back into the soft bedding room.

“Master, think about it calmly,”

Zhou Xuanlan held his thin white wrist, his black hair drooped slightly on his neck and shoulders, and lowered his head and stared straight at Shen Liuxiang.

“Heng Jiuyin didn’t hesitate to destroy the scroll, and he also wanted to hide the place of Qiongqi’s seal so that you wouldn’t find it. Now that you and Ling Ye travel through the secret realms every day, but he doesn’t interfere, are you so sure that you won’t be able to find it? “

Shen Liuxiang pursed his lips and naturally thought about it. Not only that, the wedding day of Yao Mengyue was arranged by Heng Jiuyin at this time, so there was nothing weird and impossible.

Thinking of this, he wanted to get up again: “You’re right, the secret realm needs to be found, and the demon capital must also be investigated, wait for me…”

Before he finished speaking, Shen Liuxiang’s lips were blocked and he couldn’t speak.

His black eyelashes trembled slightly, and his thin wrists struggled, but they were restrained even tighter.

The handsome young man on the bed was pressed and kissed for a long time, and finally he was honest. After being released, he turned his face to the side and panted slightly, and a red mark appeared on his white wrist.

Zhou Xuanlan took advantage of the situation and tucked the person into the bed, only showing his head outside, then also undressed and went to bed, embracing the thin figure in his arms.

“It is inconvenient for the secret realm master to let the people from the imperial palace go. My subordinates have already gone outside the demon capital, so let them go.”

Shen Liuxiang’s whole body was wrapped in warm and familiar breath, his eyes drooped slightly, his body and mind relaxed a little, and for a while, he felt a little tired.

He blinked and closed his eyes impatiently.

Zhou Xuanlan hugged the person who was fast asleep, and closed her black eyes.

The bedroom was quiet for half an hour, and a handsome face on the bed suddenly showed a looming demon pattern.

Zhou Xuanlan frowned, her forehead was covered in cold sweat unknowingly, her thin lips were slightly open, and she whispered the word “Master” again and again, sometimes with a mourning voice.

Shen Liuxiang was awakened, rubbed his phoenix eyes, half sat up and looked at Zhou Xuanlan.

Seeing that his face was pale and painful, as if he had fallen into some terrifying nightmare, he immediately pushed him, “Wake up, Zhou Xuanlan—”

Zhou Xuanlan couldn’t respond to him. At this moment, he was standing in a scene that seemed to be real, and his heart was broken.

“Master! Master!! Master—”

Zhou Xuanlan couldn’t move, so he could only make a sound like tearing his throat, so that the figure in his sight could hear it, and hurried back to him.

But his master turned a deaf ear, and hurriedly rushed to a white-clothed sword cultivator amid the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood and the beasts that filled the sky.

Protect him in every possible way.

Being pushed aside and being treated indifferently is also perseverance.

Zhou Xuanlan’s eyes were red and he wanted to take the man back, but an invisible force bound him, as if to remind him silently that he was just a spectator.

At the end of the nightmare, Zhou Xuanlan suddenly widened his black eyes, his pupils trembled violently, and his whole body strength was instantly deprived.

His eyes gradually turned red, and he witnessed a scene that seemed to pull him into Shura Hell.

The demon pattern was stimulated, and a strange mysterious shadow quietly protruded from the forehead. The figure soaked in cold sweat opened his eyes, and his eyebrows and eyes were infected with cruel colors.

Zhou Xuanlan stared at the worried Shen Liuxiang in front of him, the previous picture still flashed in his mind, he couldn’t tell where he was for a moment, and instinctively grabbed the person into his arms.

“Master, is it Master—”

Shen Liuxiang had never seen his expression, he was terrified, and his every move was full of panic, so he quickly comforted him: “I’m here, I’m here, have you had a nightmare.”

Zhou Xuanlan didn’t say anything, just hugged him tightly.

After a long while, just when Shen Liuxiang thought he had calmed down, an extremely strong force pushed him down on the bed.

The back of Shen Liuxiang’s head hit the soft pillow, his black hair was scattered on the bed in a mess, and most of the clothes on his upper body were torn apart instantly, his skin was whiter than snow, and his delicate and beautiful collarbone was exposed.

Shen Liuxiang was stunned for a moment, and the person who had been bullied up was wrapped in his arms.

He was about to struggle when a depressed and hoarse voice came from his ear, “Don’t reject me, Master… Don’t reject me at this time… Please.”

Shen Liuxiang’s heart trembled, he didn’t know what was wrong with Zhou Xuanlan, he suddenly lost control like this, obviously he was holding him under him unreasonably, but he said something that made him unable to stop feeling distressed.

“Dreams are all fake, don’t be afraid,”

Shen Liuxiang tried his best to relax his body, raised his head, kissed Zhou Xuanlan’s taut thin lips, met his slightly startled eyes, and stroked his broad shoulders with the hands that had originally rejected.

“I will never reject you.”

Zhou Xuanlan was stunned, there was nothing at first, and the heart that was falling into the abyss was filled a little bit again.

The person in the picture who died trying to save Ye Bing was not… not!

This is his master in front of him!

Zhou Xuanlan lowered her head and grabbed her red lips, her heart’s desire for Shen Liuxiang reached its peak. After tearing off all the clothes that were in the way, she couldn’t wait, and was on the verge of madly feeling everything about the person in her arms.

It’s his master!

is his! !

The cool night wind blew into the bedroom from the crack of the window, and lifted the hanging curtain to a corner. The bed inside kept shaking, making ambiguous sounds from time to time.

After a long night, it was only when the sky was dawning that we stopped for a while.

It was only for a moment that the fair-skinned calf near the bed tent couldn’t stop trembling, and after a while, the pink toes curled up slightly and resumed.