"Dream?"
When Mo Liang opened her eyes, Ye Yuejun poured a cup of tea at the table. Shanhai and Aqi were also in the room. Others either helped the elderly clean up the house or went to the morning market to buy vegetables. You can feel a slight chill in Moliang, it should be dawn.
As soon as he turned over, he touched the familiar bone sword, wrapped in rough white gauze. Gui Tan did not disappear. Rather, this is natural.
"Well..." He rubbed his eyes and asked Ye Yuejun, "Have you rested?"
"I'll always be by your side." She smiled, "Don't worry, the six paths are impermanent and you don't need to rest. You don't seem to sleep well at night, and you're always talking in your sleep."
"Talking in sleep? I, did I say anything..."
"No, I just muttered something in a low voice, too soft to hear clearly." Ye Yuejun was a little worried, "Is it a nightmare? If you still feel sleepy, do you want to continue sleeping for a while?"
"Ah, it's okay..."
Mo Liang sat up and hooked up her shoes. Ye Yuejun's care for him was more "meticulous" than Chili's, which made him a little uncomfortable. One thing is certain, he did dream, and those images are still vivid in his mind.
Shan Hai looked at the sword. Ye Yuejun noticed him watching and said with some regret:
"Sure enough, there are some problems with the method..."
"...Maybe not." Mo Liang said, "I saw the fairyland you talked about, but I don't know if it was fake and just a dream."
"What? Then, what is it like in Wonderland?"
“It’s my favorite look,” he said. “Someone in the dream told me that if it were created by myself instead of others, what I can see is the place where I want to live most. In the dream, It’s a residence like Yunwaijing. To be honest, I really like it there more than Xueyan Valley..."
Shanhai and Hazuki-kun looked at each other. Fortunately, Mu Wan was not here, otherwise she might be sad to hear this.
"What kind of person is that?" Shanhai asked.
"It's a woman with long blond hair." He said, "A very beautiful woman. No... she's a succubus. She said she was trapped inside and couldn't get out."
"...Can't you get out?" Shan Hai was confused, "Could it be Fu Sangshen?"
Hazuki-kun is not sure. Mo Liang's description was too simple for them to judge. What's more, can a demon with a strong evil nature like an incense burner possess a Fusangshen? Fu Sangshen only appears in ordinary objects. How can a monster born from something with such a strong demonic aura be trapped?
"Taoist Master Lin, this incense burner...has any sealing spell been cast on it?"
"I don't think there is such a thing." Shan Hai's tone was very firm, but after a while, he also hesitated, "If a spell can completely hide the traces... it will not only be too powerful to deal with, but the person who cast the spell will also be very capable. punish."
To him, the nature of this wording was serious.
Shi Wuqi came back first. He dried the Roselle sand in the old man's backyard, but it didn't take long. It is not difficult to hear their conversation. As soon as he entered the door, he said:
"So the method is correct? Can you really enter the mirage like that?" He clapped his hands and dropped some light red powder, "What if we want two people to go together? Drop the blood of two people?"
"Yes, a few people will need a certain amount of blood. Just one person can recite the incantation."
"What is the origin of the trapped monster?"
"She said that the incense burner is in the human world and can only be used by humans. Is that true?" Mo Liang asked.
Ye Yuejun nodded and said, "That's true. To monsters, this is just an ordinary stove."
"The banshee said, this is the reason. For the monsters trapped in it, it is like a dark cage. For the monsters in the world, the refined monster energy released by the incense burner itself is, in the eyes of the monster, It was neutralized and turned into an ordinary furnace. The furnace is a very big world for people, but monsters only feel narrow. Only one monster can be trapped in the furnace. If a second monster comes in, it will become overcrowded. The original prisoners are squeezed out...but the new ones can't get out either."
"Is this the principle?" Shan Hai thought, "The monster inside must really want to come out."
"Well, she really wanted to. She pulled me and talked about many things. I asked her if she had been lonely for so many years. She said that the world in the furnace passed quickly and she could see the outside scenery, so it was not boring. .”
"Like a fluorescent lamp." Shi Wuqi said.
"What is that?" Mo Liang asked.
Ye Yuejun knows the answer to this question. There is a popular little game among monsters in many places. They catch a special kind of firefly that is full of monster power - Qing Lize, and there are many of them. Just like human children, if you put a firefly in a small transparent bag, you will get a small glowing ball. It's just that humans can't see this kind of light, but just one insect is bright enough. The small pocket is a cage woven by demonic energy, allowing the insect to live long enough. When the light of the bug finally dims, you can grab new ones and put them in. As long as there is a small opening in the cage, the insects inside will immediately get out and escape, even if they know that they will not survive long. Grab the new firefly tightly and seal it. This fluorescent lamp will last for a long time. Nuancai Literature Network
Not all monsters have good eyesight at night. In order not to alarm humans, many little monsters play this trick.
The incense burner is like a fluorescent lamp, trapping monsters inside. It will stay there until a new monster arrives.
"So how does the incense burner judge in front of the half-demon Long Miao..." Shi Wuqi thought thoughtfully, "I don't know what the reason is for being able to fuse with him."
Ye Yuejun asked: "Have you told her about Gui Tan?"
"……Um."
"What did she say?"
"She was a little happy and said that Gui Tan can 'disrupt the sight and hearing'. If it can grow into a real monster, it can replace her and let her regain her freedom. Do you think this method is feasible?"
"What kind of method is this... Does it mean to keep you in the incense burner, waiting for Gui Tan to mature? Impossible, there is nothing wrong with it." Shi Wuqi picked up his bone sword and rubbed it up and down, "This Have you figured out how the sword grows? You are just making a fool of yourself."
There are still two bone knots on Gui Tan's body, unchanged. As for whether it has grown... To be honest, the time they were apart was not too long, and the sword may not have grown as fast as Mo Liang's hair.
"Excessive consumption of spiritual power will aggravate its mutation." Shanhai said, "I suspect that it overdraws Mo Liang's own spiritual power. We can't urge him to consume himself, it is too risky. Besides, no matter what, where It's a monster, don't believe everything you say about monsters..."
"That's not necessarily true." Shi Wuqi squeezed his sword, "Sometimes monsters are more honest than people."
Mo Liang looked at him with his mouth half open, hesitant. Ye Yuejun saw that and asked him to say whatever he had to say. Everyone is one of his own. So Mo Liang said this:
"That banshee said she had a way to help me..."
"Huh?" Shi Wuqi changed his mind, "This sounds really suspicious."
"I don't know... She said that humans and demons are both spiritual and tangible. Gui Tan is just a spirit, just like a human only has a soul. This bone is not the real body, it must have additional A body that can be united with it.”
Shi Wuqi had held the sword for too long, and Mo Liang was a little anxious. He stretched out his hand to get it back. Unexpectedly, Shi Wuqi suddenly raised his sword high, out of his reach. By coincidence, Xi Yu came back from the morning market with a lot of things. She was carrying the basket and just passed by the door when she saw Shi Wuqi "bullying" Mo Liang.
"What are you doing! Give him the stuff back!"
Xi Yu threw the basket in his hand on the ground, and she stretched out her hand to scold him angrily. Unexpectedly, the little girl was quite angry.
Shi Wuqi frowned slightly, but didn't put down his hand at all. He looked at Mo Liang seriously and asked:
"This sword...does it have two knots from the beginning?"
The atmosphere suddenly froze, Xi Yu's eyes widened and he took a breath of air. The sun was clearly rising and everything was slowly getting warmer, but the room was suddenly freezing.
"Bone knots? Two?" Shan Hai quickly looked at Xi Yu, "When?"
Ye Yuejun suddenly rushed forward and snatched the tightly wrapped sword from Shi Wuqi's hand. Xi Yu felt very guilty and didn't know where to put his hands. Although Chi Li didn't say anything, Mo Liang told her not to tell anyone on the way. Now they knew why when Shi Wuqi picked up the sword, his eyes suddenly became anxious for a moment.
But now, Mo Liang's eyes were evasive.
"what happened?!"
Hazuki-kun quickly untied the white cloth. It was knotted in some places and just stuck. So she took out an arrow from the quiver without hesitation and used the metal arrowhead to draw down the blade of the sword. Broken white cloth was scattered on the ground, and what appeared before them was clearly Gui Tan with two bones.
"Oh my God..." Ye Yuejun suddenly lost his composure and knelt on the ground, covering his face, "Why is this happening..."
A desperate silence fell in the room. In fact, it wasn't just them, Mu Wan who was busy in the house also heard it. She was standing outside the window, helping the old lady collect the washed clothes. She didn't dare to go in now, she pressed against the wall, clenched the newly washed clothes in her hands and didn't dare to speak. The faint scent of honey locust lingers on your fingertips.
Everyone knows that Ye Yuejun does not need to bear anything for Mo Liang's curse. If it wasn't Mo Liang, it would be someone else. Someone would have to face all this. But Ye Yuejun believed that once the mistake was traced back hundreds of years, the initiator must be found to be responsible for it. Except for her stupid self at that time, she could not find the second person.
"When...when exactly? Why..."
Hazuki-kun just muttered to himself.
Mo Liang remained silent, leaving Xi Yu in a dilemma. Finally, she clenched her fists and gritted her teeth, as if she was determined to die, and said:
"My master did it. Just that time, when we were in Xueyan Valley! He, he took it too seriously. On the third day after you left, this sword will..."
