Xuan You's first words after introducing himself were "I already know what you want to do."
"Is there really such a divine calculation in this world?" Lu Ning asked, "Can you please tell me what exactly we are going to do?"
"Based on the current situation, subduing the demons and ghosts, capturing the ghost weapons, and stopping Bai Li are what you are doing now. If you look at it from afar, it is to solve the disaster and find the source. This matter is no longer a matter of destiny."
"In general, you're right." Lu Ning nodded, "In that case, what's the point of meeting us here?"
"I am attaching two options to my letter. Because with my ability, I cannot decide this. Since you choose to stay, you must be aware of the risks. I know that the siblings of Bai Shen are in contact with you, although it is not very clear. I'm happy, and we have reached cooperation. Your trip will only take place today and tomorrow."
"Of course, do we have to wait for more people to die? If you are not the one who performed the white ceremony, you should know the nature of this ceremony. Since you are a cultivator, such evil magic should not be used again." Lu Ning said.
"It's just that I am no longer able to take care of it, and I don't want to take care of it. My ancestors have made a deal with Bai Shen, and even if the time limit is approaching, I have no right to interfere with the new agreement. As far as Bai Li is concerned, I am afraid that the current people are already under my control. superior."
"Above you?"
"My ancestors started the Baili ceremony to save Fang Yuan, which was a helpless act. The Baili ceremony is not a difficult thing, and if you want to steal it, it is not hard to find. If you perform it sincerely, you can even ask the Baishen for help. The Baili ceremony The fundamental is ten days and ten lives. In the old days, there was no need to consider the law to govern people, but now, the death of ten people must be concealed from others. In other words, the means of killing people have become more sophisticated."
"Wait a minute." Lu Ning noticed the hidden meaning in Xuan You's words, "Honestly? Is there still a fake gift?"
"Bai Li's creation is the way of managing mountains and rivers and blessing the countryside. This place has been blessed by Bai Li for decades. If there is one person who intends to continue the splendor of Zaoyuan Manor and preside over Bai Li, this is sincere. If the ceremony is revised, the agreement is tampered with, and one’s life is taken for one’s own selfish gain, then it is false.”
"Isn't this all about killing people?" Yan Zidan shook his head, "Whether it's true or not, it's all about killing people. What's the difference?"
"Those who are hypocritical must do everything personally, and must consider each day's life by themselves. They are responsible for the cause and consequences of the entire ceremony. Those who are sincere will be blessed by the fortune of Zaoyuanzhuang, and will not experience any setbacks on the road to the ceremony, and turn every bad thing into good luck. " Xuan You said.
Lu Ning raised an eyebrow: "Then the people who hold the white ceremony here in Zaoyuan Manor are sincere or are they pretending?"
Xuan You was silent for a moment, and Lu Ning almost understood——
"Both?"
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On Dadong Road, Chen Hang found a private room in an Internet cafe to transfer and record last night's video and audio. It was getting late, and Tang Haiyao felt that her eyes were a little sore, so she volunteered to go out and buy some dinner.
Many restaurants are also opening at this time, especially across from Internet cafes. Tang Haiyao found a shop that had just opened in the evening and ordered some fried noodles and fried rice. When he turned around to look for a shop selling drinks, he saw a newsstand.
It is said that it is a newsstand, but in fact, it is definitely impossible to operate simply selling newspapers and periodicals in this era. In addition to newspapers and publications, it also sells some phone cards, mobile phone accessories and other things. Of course, there is a freezer selling drinks and ice cream. Overall, it has become a comprehensive stall. Tang Haiyao walked over and glanced at the only few drinks here, then ordered a few bottles and glanced at the newspaper.
In addition to some official newspapers, newsstands will also buy some miscellaneous small newspapers. In order to survive, such tabloids must of course find some eye-catching events as much as possible, put the headlines in the front, and then Sandwich a seven or eight page ad in the middle.
[Gas poisoning in a closed house! There is no fire at home, but poisoning may still occur! 】
In the era of information bombardment, there are many "shocky" headlines on the Internet. Of course, Tang Haiyao will not become curious just because of a shocking headline. It's just that the newspaper is today's morning paper, which means it reports the news that happened yesterday. At least the timeliness should be guaranteed. When she picked up the newspaper and wanted to read it carefully, she found that there was no content and "see page 15 for details" was written at the bottom.
However, each copy of this newspaper is wrapped in plastic. You can't even think of opening it without removing the plastic film.
"Girl, do you want to read the newspaper?" The boss smiled mischievously, "This? Oh, "I Know the News Already", he likes to sensationalize, and he can talk about trivial matters to the point of alarming senior officials. If you want to understand normal For news, you should read Gengwu Daily or something like that."
"Is this the local newspaper here?" Tang Haiyao took a bag of drinks.
"Yes, I just occupy this one, but there is something big going on in Zaoyuanzhuang, haha."
"Want one." Tang Haiyao grabbed a newspaper and tucked it under her arm. After paying the boss, she turned around to get her meal.
Returning to the door of the store, Tang Haiyao paused for a moment. There was another person standing at the door of the store taking orders, so she was ready to wait for a while. Immediately, she noticed the man's clothes - on such a winter day, he was wearing a dark brown cotton suit and a bowler hat on his head. He was tall and thin, and the skin on his neck seemed to be old from the back.
Today, even office workers rarely dress like this.
Just when he thought of this, the guest suddenly turned around, and Tang Haiyao was slightly shocked when she saw his face.
This man indeed looked very old. There were many age spots and pits on his skin, which were loose and saggy, causing his originally kind face to collapse. He wore a monocle and his gray beard was neatly trimmed. These were nothing. The only thing that caught people's attention, and what shocked Tang Haiyao the most, were his eyes.
There seemed to be a fire burning in his eyes. When he met Tang Haiyao's eyes, Tang Haiyao instantly felt that the coldness of winter had faded away, and the anxious heat was rising around him. It was like being in an oven, more like being inside. Inside a burning building.
He is not human!
This was Tang Haiyao's instant reaction, and the moment this thought entered her mind, an even more unbearable heat climbed up from her cervical spine and went straight into her head. Tang Haiyao's thoughts disappeared in an instant. Under such high fever, the only thing left was the instinct of survival.
She heard the sound of swords. A blurry and charred figure came within her field of vision. The figure raised its palm, covering her field of vision. A child was screaming so loudly that it made you want to curse.
"You're a little short."
There were voices that could not distinguish between men, women, old and young, laughing strangely, as if they were laughing at her incompetence.
The sword penetrates flesh and blood.
A sharp pain welled up from the bottom of her heart, and Tang Haiyao opened her mouth and shouted, or at least she thought she was shouting. The pain instantly suppressed the blank thinking caused by the heat, allowing her to find a moment of thinking. She felt one of her hands slap her chest. Was that instinct? Or is the magic weapon given by Song Caiwei really spiritual? Tang Haiyao didn't know, she only knew that she should draw her sword.
The small ornament has turned into a sword hilt that can be held in one hand. She pulled the hilt out of her heart and brought out the hot blood in her heart - it was boiling like magma, the blood flew out, and the shadow in the fire was caught by this. Splattered with hot blood, he actually let out a scream and began to retreat continuously.
Then, Tang Haiyao's thoughts went blank again. When she woke up again, she saw the clerk handing her a lunch box filled with fried noodles and fried rice.
"Hello, long wait. Here are three portions of fried noodles and three portions of fried rice that you ordered."
"Uh... ah? Okay, thank you." Tang Haiyao was a little dazed. She took the things, turned and walked towards the Internet cafe. She looked around, but the old man wearing a distinctive suit was nowhere to be seen on the street.
Should I go back and ask the store clerk?
She hesitated for a moment, did not ask, and returned to the Internet cafe.
"Come back?" Chen Hang, sitting at the edge, caught a glimpse of her opening the door.
"How long have I been gone?" Tang Haiyao asked.
"Twenty minutes? I can smell the fried rice. This is really fast." Chen Hang patted his belly, "And there are drinks? That's better, thank you."
"You're welcome." Tang Haiyao replied casually and put the things on the table, which were divided equally between the six of them. But before that, she walked to Song Caiwei first.
"Daozhang Song, the jewelry you gave me... I seem to have used it."
Song Caiwei looked up at her and frowned slightly.
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"Nowadays, Zaoyuanzhuang's trouble lies in its bad guests."
"Don't avoid the previous topic! Do you mean that this white ceremony is not held by one person? Can several white ceremonies be held at the same place at the same time?" Lu Ning asked loudly.
Qi Mei muttered from behind: "I don't think I said no."
"So, how many people are there?" Lu Ping frowned and said, "Bai Li's plan is to kill for himself and his homeland in exchange for the protection of ghosts, which is very righteous. Even if there is no limit on the number, Bai Shen is only one ghost, and ghosts have their limits. .”
"Yes, so there are not many. There are only two people here who want to use Baili to make their own." Xuanyou replied, "But you have to search for these two by yourself. I am only concerned about Baili. , don’t cause too much trouble, don’t cause too many killings.”
"Sorry, then our goals are different. You can talk to Bai Shen's men very well," Lu Ning said.
"However, the hands and feet of Bai Shen cannot interfere with Bai Li. If there are internal and external difficulties, we will eventually return to our position, and it will be difficult to break the situation. Entrusting it to outsiders, especially those who touch our mysteries, is the best policy. If I provide you with a small gift I’ll help you with a little bit of fighting power, and I’ll take it as a matter of course.”
"What you want is for the dangerous elements from outside Zaoyuanzhuang to leave, right?" Lu Ning understood that this young master was still with Bai Shen after all, but the standards for judging people and ghosts were different, so they were separated from her. said the group.
"As much as possible. The place where you are now is where my hometown is. Even if there are only broken walls left, you can still extract the skills collected by the ancestors. And the skills have always been based on the heart. If you have this wish, you should be able to extract the skills of the old friend from it. thing."
"Sorry, what do you mean, you buried something here and then asked us to take it out?" Lu Ning found it more difficult to listen to Xuan You's words.
"Only Ms. Li Wenyue and Ms. Yan Zidan have this qualification. You two are destined to be in chaos far away, and chaotic in the near future. They are not within the number of days. This is the solution."
"I can give it a try!" Yan Zidan said, "If it makes me capable of dealing with those ghosts, I am willing to give it a try!"
"What's the danger?" Lu Ning asked calmly.
"If it succeeds, nothing will happen. If it fails, it won't endanger your life."
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"Burned by fire."
Song Caiwei took the jewelry, weighed it, and judged some situations.
"Yes, I met the eyes of the old man, and then my body felt like fire, as if I was seeing an illusion, and a charred black shadow reached out to me... I remember that I stabbed the sword into my heart, and sprayed The bleeding scared away the ghost, and then he woke up and disappeared without seeing the old man."
"Have you asked the clerk?" Chen Hang asked.
"No...I hesitated and didn't ask."
"It doesn't make any difference whether I ask or not. I just came here for you." Song Caiwei said, "The clerk must have normal memory. What you experienced was just a conscious offensive. Fortunately, you can still remember that you have this magic weapon."
"By the way, Sister Song, didn't you say that this magic weapon will test our qualifications?" Chen Hang said again, "Is it okay now?"
"It's not that time. Moreover, the magical weapon itself has a protective effect. As long as a little spiritual light is not extinguished, it can protect the holder. But little girl, the Heart-Destroying Sword uses your hard work. Although it is only in consciousness, it is used It's all your hard work and energy, and you will inevitably feel a little unwell afterwards. The bad news is that your results came out early, and you are not suitable for the ghost weapon plan proposed by Li Wenyue. But the good news is that this heart-destroying sword you You can keep it with you until the day it's all over."
"Uh...why?" Tang Haiyao was a little confused.
"The fundamental thing that drives these weapons is the ability to control oneself to use appropriate power. Heartblood is basically equivalent to the killing moves of these swords. You instinctively use your heartblood without knowing what effect it has. , which is proof of the difficulty in controlling oneself.”
"But, but this can be practiced, right?" Zhou Shilan whispered.
"This is not some kind of sports or craft, nor is it martial arts or anything like that. As long as you don't resist the first time, it can drain all your life force. The Heart-Destroying Sword is because I have already It has been refined, so you may be a little weaker these days. If it is still an embryo, it will really refine all your internal organs and blood into the sword. There is only one life." Song Caiwei said seriously , and explained it painstakingly.
Chen Hang was stunned: "So scary?"
"Do you think you are really playing a game of ghost hunting? Anyone who dares to play with ghost weapons is either a Taoist priest with profound Taoism, or a strange person with a firm mind or who has seen all kinds of ups and downs. What I still haven't figured out is that Li Wenyue is just How did a college girl manage to make the ghost weapon in her hand not bewitched at all?"
Of course, Song Caiwei may never get the answer to this question.
