Qishang and Baxia came out together from the feet, squatting low, with red hard hair on their backs, and white light shining on the corners of their heads.
This is scary.
There were more and more red spots outside the hall, and everyone looked pale. Taoist Chunyang had taken out his fly whisk, and there were several ghost exorcisms floating around him. The frivolity on his face had long since disappeared, and was replaced by caution as if facing a formidable enemy. Li Chengru stayed behind
The secret-cave did not come out, together with Shangguan Wan. The situation around him is not optimistic now.
The two girls, Cao Dan and Cao Tong, have long lost their beauty. Girls have always been afraid of ghosts and ghosts. Especially in Fanyang City, Fengdu, where evil spirits breed under the waning moon. Ye Qingxian is not bad, after all, she came from the Ye Family Sword Tomb.
Having received training since childhood, I am relatively bolder, but now my lips and teeth are trembling, and I can see worry and fear.
Xu Qingmu pulled out the Chouli Sword and leaned in front of the three women.
Red Armor leaned over and rubbed the blood on the ground with his hands, put it to the tip of his nose and smelled: "Sir, the blood has not completely coagulated, and it must not have been more than ten hours."
Xu Qingmu nodded, looked around, and then looked up at the top of the beam. It was just pitch black and there was nothing to gain.
The fat man tremblingly wanted to open the fire or light the torch, but Xu Qingmu stopped him. "Don't light it yet. I don't know if these inhumans will attract the light. If so, we will be attacked immediately."
After saying that, he rubbed the fire in the fat man's hand and threw it out of the hall quickly. Sure enough, a group of red eyes surged and drowned the fire in an instant. At the moment when the fire was bright, Xu Qingmu felt cold in his heart: Those group of inhumans, with broken bones and flesh
, covered in black mist, quite scary.
The fat man was so frightened that he couldn't speak. He was shivering while holding the pot. He whispered: "How about we go back to the secret cave and come out again at dawn?"
Chunyang Taoist had a heavy expression on his face, looked at the huge 365 soul-suppressing flags in the center of the city, and said: "It's useless, someone has reversed the yin and yang of this city. No matter when, we will face darkness.
"
Xu Qingmu also said: "I just tried to open the secret cave, but for some unknown reason, it didn't work." A group of people fell into silence. At this moment, the fat man behind them felt someone tap him lightly on the shoulder.
:
"ah--"
The fat man was frightened to death. A scream pierced the night sky, and all the red dots outside the palace turned to the middle of the palace. The red armor immediately stepped forward and covered the fat man's mouth. The fat man pointed behind him with trembling hands. Then under the moonlight, everyone discovered that he was seriously injured.
The accompanying soldier was on the verge of death. The soldier was covered in blood, and there were wounds on his neck that looked like they had been bitten by wild beasts. However, the wounds had been treated with unknown powder to stop the bleeding.
"Team-Captain, don't-don't go out of the palace-"
The soldier said in a low voice, and then fainted again. Xu Qingmu raised his eyes and looked at the door and then inside the hall, as if he understood something.
"Brother Fu, please light the torch and quickly insert it about ten feet away from the door." After saying that, the red armor took the lead in taking action, and the flames flickered for a while, illuminating the entire hall.
"Cao Dan, you and Ye Qingxian take care of the wounded. Fatty, take a torch and look for any remaining wounded." There may be light, and the fear of several people has lessened a bit, and they acted quickly. Xu Qingmu turned his head again,
Looking at Taoist Chunyang, he said:
"Senior brother, please help us take a look at the top of our head. There should be some magic circle and talismans there to make those non-humans outside the door fearful. This may be the key to us getting out of Fanyang alive."
Taoist Chunyang responded, took a torch, jumped up, and climbed up across the beam.
After a while, the hall became bright. In addition to the dying soldier, there were two soldiers who were slightly injured and had just fainted. As they were awakened, the younger one looked crazy and obviously suffered a lot.
It was a huge stimulation. After everyone was comforted, they started sobbing and crying: "They are dead, they are all dead! They were all bitten to death by ghosts! Wu——"
After the red armor put the torch, he also came to the soldier, with a little distress in his eyes. When the soldier saw the red armor, he seemed to have a backbone, and he felt a little more confident in his heart. He struggled to stand up and gave a military salute to the red armor in front of him.
. Tears washed away, and his expression was sad.
After his mood stabilized, the soldier slowly said: "Just two days ago, the sky suddenly darkened. There were 29 of us, 14 of whom were here to guard the red bead, and the other 15 went out of the city to look for firewood.
But suddenly there was shouting, and after a while nothing was heard. After waiting here for a day, the remaining fourteen of us finally decided to go out of the city to search, so--" The soldier started crying again:
"We encountered countless red-eyed ghosts. They rushed towards us like crazy and bit us. All the brothers who had no time to retreat were - bitten to death." After sobbing for a while, he continued: "The three of us left the temple.
The door is relatively close, so I can get away quickly. Those ghosts seem to be afraid of the inside of the temple, and they only linger outside the door and do not enter."
Xu Qingmu thought for a moment, then Taoist Chunyang fell down from the beam above, clapped his hands and said, "As you said, there is an artificial restriction on the top of the hall, so non-human beings cannot enter."
After hearing this, Xu Qingmu looked thoughtful. After a while, he shouted to the seat in the main hall:
"Friend, can you show up now?"
Everyone was shocked and looked at Xu Qingmu, not knowing why. Xu Qingmu still stared in the direction of the throne, where it was pitch dark. After a while, several claps came:
"Pah - pah - pah -"
"Yes, yes, how did you discover me?"
As the man walked in, everyone could see him clearly after stepping into the light of the torch. He wore the ribbon of a third-grade scholar in the academy, a white embroidered narcissus tied across his eyebrows to wipe his forehead, and a scholar's signature white gown, with a square-hole white jade hanging from his waist.
, holding a paper fan with the sixteen bones of mountains and rivers, the posture of an immortal is incompatible with this desolate hall.
Xu Qingmu did not answer this person's question. He watched the man in white walk slowly in front of him. He asked in reply: "Your Excellency, are you the culprit behind that inhuman thing?"
The man laughed loudly: "No, no, I'm just a scholar passing by."
Xu Qingmu looked at the people who were facing formidable enemies and said, "This person is not an enemy, so put down your weapons." Then the man in white in front of him cupped his hands and said, "I am Xu Qingmu."
A trace of surprise flashed in the eyes of the man in white, but he still clasped his fists and returned the greeting: "An unknown scholar, Qi Chunfeng." The two thanked each other, then sat down together to discuss countermeasures.
Cao Dan quietly approached Xu Qingmu: "How do you know he is not our enemy?" Xu Qingmu pointed to the unconscious veteran behind him and said, "The powder around the wound on the soldier's neck just now is not owned by the frontier fortress. I think it should be from the frontier."
Someone is secretly helping. I asked Taoist Chunyang to go up to the beam, firstly to see if anyone is hiding, and secondly, since this hall can prevent non-humans from entering the palace by force, I guess someone must have set up a ban."
Cao Dan nodded and subconsciously moved his body thinking about Xu Qingmu.
"Brother Qi, why are you here and why are you lingering?" Xu Qingmu had already lit the fire, and everyone was sitting around the fire.
The man who called himself Qi Chunfeng folded up his fan and looked at Xu Qingmu with an idiotic expression. The meaning was obvious: You go out and try?
Xu Qingmu also felt that this question was a bit stupid, and said with a smile: "Brother Qi, you haven't answered my first question yet."
The scholar stretched out his hand to warm up the fire. "I came from the frontier fortress a few days ago and passed by Fengdu City. I wanted to take a detour, but one of my pet dogs was naughty and was attracted by mice and ran into the city. In desperation, I
Then it came. But the dog didn't find it, but encountered such a strange thing, how can it be a tragedy?" After a long sigh, someone asked: "What about you? How could it appear out of thin air?"
Xu Qingmu did not explain the secret of the White Mirror - Dong Yi. He just laughed and said that he was taken away by the teleportation circle. Everyone fell into silence again, and the current situation was not optimistic.
Xu Qingmu added some firewood that was nearby to the fire. Fortunately, Wang Ziyi reminded him before setting off that the journey would be long and arduous, so he had to make more preparations. Xu Qingmu prepared a lot of tools and materials for making fire. Xu Qingmu thought,
There were no such ghosts and monsters when we arrived, and the sudden appearance of these inhuman beings is definitely not accidental. Fanyang City in Fengdu has been in dust for fifteen years. Li Chengru said that there was no incarnation a few years ago, but now it seems that it has obviously evolved in advance. Unless
...Someone did it deliberately and used some secret method unknown to them to force these ghosts to transform.
And before he came out of the cave, everyone must have known about his whereabouts from the beginning. Apart from Wei Buliang, there was also the little girl Cao Tong behind him. Although the origin of the little girl was unknown, the boatman tried his best to keep him by his side.
As a daughter, it doesn't matter much. Thinking of this, Xu Qingmu turned to Taoist Chunyang and said: "Brother, is there any secret technique in the world that can make others feel when a person dies?"
Taoist Chunyang thought for a while. "Yes, there is a secret technique in ancient times that nourishes the poison with human essence and blood. When a person dies, the poison will be destroyed. As long as you look at the blood poison, you can know life and death."
Xu Qingmu suddenly realized that this was right. Prince Xu Pei must have sensed Wei Buliang's death, and that's why he started intercepting and encircling him.
But what Xu Qingmu never expected was that Wei Buliang was just a chess piece sneaking into the prince's side.
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Inside the palace.
Qiuhe Hall.
On a luxurious gilded square bed, a graceful woman holds a letter in her hand, her eyes moving, unable to tell what she is thinking.
The maid standing next to her held a three-foot cattail leaf fan and said, "Nalan Zhijin, the eunuch's chief minister, asked to see the empress again this morning and knelt outside Qiuhe Hall all morning."
That woman was the Queen of Chao Yuqiu.
The woman said lazily: "Let it dry."
She put away the letter in her hand and opened the other one in her hand. She opened the letter with her green fingers, twisted the paper and took it out. Her eyes wandered, and her eyebrows seemed to be frowning but not frowning. After a while, the woman raised her head and looked into the distance.
Silent in thought.
Letter 1: Yi Jia is dead.
Letter 2: Qing Jia has arrived.
Everyone knows that Concubine Ye has intelligence all over the world, but no one knows that the Queen has many dead assistants. Those hidden forces have become a placebo for those in the palace, acting as spies. It’s just that over the years, I have personally cultivated the fourteen
A, one of the four died. Seeing the dragon aura above the palace gradually being replaced by black mist, the Queen felt worried in her heart.
The pursuit of the Eunuch Division has become more and more intense. Over the years, the power of the Eunuch Division has gradually grown, but in the eyes of outsiders, Concubine Ye is still arrogant, but the small Eunuch Division has gradually declined.
Is this really the case?
This is really not the case! The queen knows better than anyone else that the eunuch department is nominally owned by Nalan Zhijin, the guardian of the palace, but in fact it is controlled by the person who sleeps with her every night. But outside the Qiuhe Palace, who dares to talk behind her back?
4. Accompanying you is like accompanying a tiger, you can ensure your safety day and night and never discuss matters after your death.
A group of half-buried veterans in the Taibao Palace were very gentle. They repeatedly urged the abolition of the increasingly arrogant and domineering Eunuch Department. There were even loyalists who wanted to die and threatened to crash into the Nine Dragons and Five Claws dragon wall at the entrance of the palace.
He even asked the Holy Lord to dig out his eyes so that he could see with his own eyes that the cruel Nalan Zhijin ended up with his body and head missing. Today I just smiled and said: "I am deeply impressed by the noble conduct and cleanliness of the Grand Master.
Why don't you go to the temple and go far away to do the great work of educating the barbarians?" So he issued an imperial decree and granted the Taifu the title of King Wenyuanyi, which is slightly lower than the vassal king. But people with a discerning mind understand clearly that it seems to be promoted, but in fact it is not.
Great disgrace.
Since then, the group of noble and upright senior citizens have changed their position from admonishing to seconding. At the court meeting, a group of civil servants who were originally standing at the feet of the emperor with pens and controlling the country also moved their positions slightly and stood a little further away.
The general went to his side.
The higher you live in the temple, the more people's hearts can't stand being frightened.
The queen saw this clearly, but never said it out loud. Fortunately, Princess Xu Yan had many concubines, but they were not even affected by the rain and dew. She would go back to Qiuhe Hall every night, and she would not talk about state affairs, but talk about romance, which made the eunuch department's cowardice easier.
monitoring.
Then why did Nalan Zhijin, the guardian of the eunuch department, seal Siyang City to do such inhumane things?
Why did he suddenly purge himself and enter the palace and establish the eunuch department?
No one is pursuing it, no one dares to pursue it.
The queen burned the letter, put her hand on the maid and stood up: "Lan'er, I heard that the peach blossoms are blooming outside the palace, come with me to have a look?" The maid named Lan'er hurriedly said "Hey" and seemed weak when she moved.
The lady like Liu Fufeng left the Qiuhe Hall.
When the peach blossoms are in full bloom, the pink carpet under the tree must be as beautiful as red silk. The queen found a pile of clanking stones and wiped them clean with a handkerchief. Lan'er on the side wanted to step forward to help, but was stopped by the queen. Then she folded them with her own hands.
Several peach branches, the ones that bloomed the most, were gently inserted into the cracks of the stone, and he nodded slightly.
Some people like bamboo branches, such as the sword fairy Fang Yunyi.
Some people like peach branches, like that person, Prince Yi.
The already smart palace maid Lan'er suddenly looked sad and almost burst into tears.
During those few days in the bamboo forest, I finally endured the bad taste.
Fangxin can't bear it anymore...
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Fanyang City, Fengdu.
The reason why later generations named this city Fanyang City was because it had a beautiful meaning of "returning Yang". People in the world still don't like this evil thing from the bottom of their hearts.
Everyone finished the meal in fear, not knowing whether it was breakfast or dinner. They were trapped in this hall, the concept of time had disappeared, and there was always a dim scene outside the door. Mixed with low inhuman roars and wind blowing from time to time.
The whining sound of the ruined city was extremely strange. The little girl Cao Tong might have been frightened, and she looked tired and drowsy. Xu Qingmu took out a blanket from something nearby and draped it over the girl, accidentally waking up Cao Tong.
The girl who did not repay her kindness threw away the blanket in disgust, curled up her body, and fell asleep holding the rabbit. Xu Qingmu was so resentful that she had no choice but to hand the blanket to Cao Dan, and then she happily accepted it.
Qi Chunfeng, who was standing next to him, became interested in this girl's abnormal behavior. After saying something, he stared at Cao Tong carefully, then moved forward as if he was unsure, and then sighed: "What a big gesture, in time
Are you picking up one of these millions of living creatures from the river to pay off your debt?" Then he saw Cao Dan lowering his head and covering Cao Tong with a blanket, and was even more surprised.
Legend has it that there is a powerful person who, regardless of the cost, fishes someone out of the river of time for three lives in an attempt to change his destiny. Now it is an eye-opener.
Qi Chunfeng turned to Xu Qingmu and said, "Boy, cherish the person in front of you. Everything happened because of you."
Xu Qingmu glanced at Cao Tong, who was already sleeping, and said with a wry smile: "When this kid first saw me, he deliberately targeted me like a smile but not a smile. In addition, after getting along with him for a while, he became even more unkind to me." The person next to him said.
The fat man couldn't hold it back in the end, so he just changed his explanation: "I heard the little girl talking in her sleep, saying that she came here to kill you."
Qi Chunfeng smiled and said: "Isn't it true? I owe someone two lives and two lives, and the debt collector is here."
Xu Qingmu still wanted to ask more questions, but Qi Chunfeng shook his head to stop him. After saying something vague about how secrets should not be leaked, Xu Qingmu had no choice but to give up and glanced outside the palace. The sadness in his heart was condensed between his eyebrows and would not go away for a long time.
Qi Chunfeng said that he had set up the "Three Talismans of Clear Breeze and Clearing Haze" on the beams of the house, so that these evil things could not get close to him. However, the effectiveness of these talismans could only last three to five days, and once they were exhausted,
, faced with countless inhuman attacks outside the palace. The fat man thought quickly: "How about you just spend a few cards? Put one on each of our foreheads, and walk out in a big way!"
The man in white looked at the fat man: "What do you think this talisman is? One piece will cost me more than ten years of savings."
The fat man smacked his tongue and thought to himself that you are really poor. He subconsciously hugged the pot in his arms and said, "Fortunately, I'm not poor."
After thinking for a long time, Xu Qingmu stood up and walked towards the outside of the palace. He wanted to try whether the Yin Yue stele given by the boatman had some effect. So he reached out to take the music stele in his hand and slowly approached the non-human outside the door.
Cao Dan wanted to get up and stop him, but was stopped by Chunyang Taoist on the side: "Don't worry, Mr. Xu won't do such reckless things."
As the distance got closer and closer, the red eyes outside the door seemed to smell the scent of strangers, and gradually started to riot. Black mist rolled over their bodies, and the bones inside could be vaguely seen. But as Xu Qingmu took out the Yin Yue Monument, a group of ghosts seemed to
He backed away with great fear.
it works!
Xu Qingmu was overjoyed and stepped out of the palace door. The surrounding ghosts scattered like rocks into water, surrounding Xu Qingmu and no one could get close within three feet. With the help of the torch, Xu Qingmu could clearly see the devoured corpses of the soldiers.
There were still some bloody bones exuding a fishy smell, and some corpses were still pointing in the direction of the main hall, as if they were struggling pointlessly before death. Xu Qingmu silently approached, took off the nameplates on the chests of the soldiers, and put them into his pockets. These people were all
They came here to escort him, and they all died for him. After searching for half a quarter of an hour, they finally collected the scattered nameplates of the twenty-six soldiers. Just as they were about to go back, there was an inexplicable crisis.
The feeling came from the soles of the feet. A huge human-shaped black mist descended from the top of the head. Xu Qingmu rolled along, dodged the blow, and ran away without even having time to turn his head.
I could only feel the footsteps behind me like maggots on the tarsus, which were never leaving behind, and seemed to be getting closer and closer. In desperation, Xu Qingmu ran for thirty-six days, increasing his speed to the extreme. When he approached the main hall, he jumped directly, rolled and fell.
Entering the palace, he took a breath and looked outside the palace.
This one was obviously more powerful than the other inhumans, and the black mist was thicker. Qishang and Baxia also felt the crisis, bared their teeth, and stayed at Xu Qingmu's feet for protection.
Chunyang Taoist said: "No, there is a king-level ghost in Fengdu City!"
Several people turned their heads in fear, including Cao Tong, who had fallen asleep, and woke up at this moment, with a pair of bright eyes full of fear.
Qi Chunfeng also said: "It is indeed troublesome. The appearance of king-level ghosts means that this place for raising voodoos is not far from Dacheng."
Everyone looked at the outside of the hall in shock and remained silent.
Taoist Chunyang successively took out various objects to ward off evil spirits and get ready for battle. Qi Chunfeng also took out a small wormwood and several talisman papers from his sleeve, bit his fingertips and sprinkled the blood into the air. Then he used a pen to connect
He clicked, dyed all the blood on the tip of the pen, and painted in the air. The blank yellowing talisman was instantly formed, shining with golden light. Xu Qingmu saw it in his eyes and was secretly amazed in his heart. The scholar said that Tianxian was true, and it was true.
The giant ghost outside the hall on the opposite side has stepped into the hall with one foot, and the black mist is rolling and making a squeaking sound. The ghost doesn't seem to be relaxed either. It moves extremely slowly, with two black hands with sharp claws crossed on its chest, and in its mouth
It was no longer a human voice. It was humming like the roar of a wild beast. Then a sharper whistle sounded, seeming to break through the obstacle and come quickly. Taoist Chunyang threw out the fly whisk, and then stabbed out a peach wood stick. Only
Seeing the ghost reaching out to block the fly whisk, he forcefully caught the peach wood stick that followed with his own chest. The red stick body melted like spring snow meeting hot water.
Qi Chunfeng patted the talismans in front of him, and several of them flashed with golden light and shot out like arrows. They hit the ghost and exploded. It only slowed down the speed of the ghost. The dust and fog dispersed, and the ghost came with its claws extended.
, and grabbed Xu Qingmu's head. Xu Qingmu was never one to sit back and wait for death, so he raised his Chouli Sword and faced it. But the gap was too big. Before everyone could rescue him, the sharp long claws of the ghost had already pinched Xu Qingmu's throat. It was cold and cold.
When the touch of death struck, Xu Qingmu's eyes were full of despair. Cao Dan, who was next to him, was already glowing with light. At this critical moment, he actually chose to forcefully explode his body to rescue Xu Qingmu.
But just as Xu Qingmu was about to die, a melodious whistle pierced the night sky. As if summoned, the ghost let go and retreated.
Cao Dan, who was about to die, paused while clasping his hands. When he saw the ghost leaving, the red light all over his body slowly disappeared. He rushed over and hugged Xu Qingmu, with tears in his eyes.
Xu Qingmu gasped for air and escaped from death. His back was already wet with sweat.
The dark fog outside the temple dispersed, the sun shone again, and it was daytime.
Xu Qingmu squeezed the nameplate of the dead soldier in his hand tightly. The red-armored man knelt down beside him and lowered his head without saying a word.