Due to continuous strong winds, today's temperature is obviously lower than yesterday.
I didn't feel much in the city before, but as soon as I left the city, I obviously felt that the jacket I was wearing was not warm enough.
So when no one was around, Qingyan put on the thin cotton clothes and tried to see if a small pottery stove on the pottery basin would work.
By the way, I boiled hot water to drink. The hot water in Chou Chou Space has been used up for washing in the past two days.
It was usable, but there was a bit of smoke when the charcoal was first lit, which made the carriage a little choked. I thought it would be better to light it outside first and then put it inside.
Overall it's pretty good, at least I won't suffer too much when I'm on the road in the future.
As for the shed in front, Qingyan didn't do it today. Anyway, it should be some time before it snows. Don't worry, let's go to the Qinian Village to settle the matter first.
It still took nearly two hours of walking to reach Qingfeng Town. There were still officers and soldiers guarding the entrance of the town. It seemed that the bandits had not been caught yet. This was probably because they were afraid that they would kill them.
Qingyan didn't stop and continued walking west. When she reached the previous fork in the road, she turned left, preparing to go directly to the Qinian Village.
When they arrived at the woods again, Chou Chou asked Qingyan to stop the carriage.
"I feel a strong evil aura. The remnant soul of Yin Kejing may be doing something sinister here to restore himself."
Qingyan was startled. Just when she was about to say something, she heard Chou Chou say again: "The whole village over at Qinian Village is empty. This guy is probably going to use the whole village as a living sacrifice!"
"Don't move here, I'll go over to the woods and take a look!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Chou Chou disappeared out of thin air!
After leaving Yunling County, Chou Chou came out of the space and stayed in the carriage with Little Leopard, watching the charcoal stove to prevent the charcoal from flying out.
Qingyan started to boil some hot water in her stainless steel tank to drink, but she didn't boil it anymore. The road was too bumpy and the water spilled easily.
Chou Chou felt that it was no shame that the charcoal was burning in vain, so he baked sesame cakes inside to eat. In fact, the sesame cakes were almost as fresh as freshly baked, and there was no need to bake them at all. The main thing was to spread the sauce and sprinkle barbecue ingredients on them.
The aroma was tantalizing and Qingyan, who had not had breakfast, ate two of them together. The bumps on the road didn't even make her stomach flatten.
Qingyan looked worriedly into the forest. The distance was too far and she couldn't see what was going on there.
She lifted the curtain and took a look. Chou Chou had already put away the extinguished charcoal stove and pottery pot. Looking at the few sauce ideas on the sheepskin mattress, Qingyan shook her head.
It seems that I will need to get a small mat later, otherwise it will get dirty too easily.
She reached out and picked up the little leopard, put it in her satchel, got off the carriage, stood in a sheltered position and looked towards the east.
She did not chase after him rashly, fearing that she would hold Chou Chou back. She was not good at these mysterious things.
If she is dealing with someone, she can still help, so don't cause trouble at this time.
He took out the Black Bird Inner Elixir from the compartment of his bag. Under the bright light, he discovered that the inner elixir was not pure black, but actually had a golden halo surrounding it.
You can faintly see the outline of a bird inside, but it's not that clear. After all, the beads are not transparent.
She raised her hand and looked at the bead towards the sun. This time she could see it clearly. It was not her imagination. There was a standing black bird in it, which looked very similar to the golden crow totem.
It seems that what Blackbird said before that it has the blood of the Golden Crow is really not nonsense. It is reflected in its inner elixir, whether it is the golden halo or the totem of the Golden Crow.
The only difference is that it only has two legs. If you think about it, the three-legged Golden Crow is the sun god. It has only a little blood. It is already good to reach this level.
Chou Chou said she could keep this as a talisman, but she didn't know if it would be of use to Yin Kejing.
Qingyan didn't dare to try it easily. After all, it was the reincarnation of the black bird master. Who knew whether the contract still existed.
It may have been farther away before, and Chou Chou isolated it, but now it's closer. If the contract is effective again, and the inner alchemy is controlled, it will be troublesome.
So she simply sat on the carriage, crossed her legs in a meditative posture, and thought about trying the mental method she had remembered in the dream again, just in case it really worked.
Thinking of this, she reached into her bag again, took out the spirit stone and looked at it.
Then he frowned. The spirit stone that was still shining when he took it out during the day was now dusty under the sunlight. It seemed that it still had not recovered.
She was a little hesitant. If she held the spiritual stone and recited the inner method silently, if it could really be used, would it drain out the only spiritual energy in it?
Or, can the spiritual stone be used to speed up the absorption of spiritual energy through mental methods?
Of course, the most likely possibility is that it won't work at all.
Qingyan thought about it for a while, put the large piece of spiritual stone back, took out the small piece, held it in her hand, put her hand on her knees, and silently recited the mental formula.
While thinking about it, I felt the touch inside my hand. I don't know if it was because my mind was not calm, but I didn't feel the burning feeling in the illusion before.
She closed her eyes and tried to calm down, no longer paying attention to the spiritual stone in her hand, and recited the inner law word by word.
Once, twice, three times, until I finished reading it for the third time, I could feel the burning sensation in my palms!
Qingyan felt happy and quickly suppressed it again. Afraid of her own illusion, she took a deep breath and continued to read.
When I recited it for the sixth time, the feeling became stronger and stronger, and my palms even started to tingle. I had to stop after reciting it for the sixth time.
The pain in my hand was severe, as if it had been burned, and my hand was a little numb.
Opening his eyes, he raised his hand to his eyes and opened it gently. The fingernail-sized spirit stone returned to its shiny white appearance, and the light was much brighter than before.
Qingyan took several deep breaths excitedly before suppressing the excitement in her heart.
I didn’t expect that my guess turned out to be true! Holding the spiritual stone in your hand and reciting the Wanxiang Fist will not only not absorb the spiritual energy in the spiritual stone, but will replenish the spiritual energy in the air into the spiritual stone!
This mentality is really awesome!
She put away the small spiritual stone and took out the big one.
This piece is relatively large. If you hold it with one hand and place it on your lap, your fingers won't be able to close at all. So I simply put it in the middle with two hands clasped together, close my eyes and start chanting again.
It may be that this spiritual stone is relatively large, so the capacity is also large. After reciting it more than ten times this time, the spiritual stone felt hot.
Qingyan didn't stop and just recited it over and over again. She didn't know how many times she recited it in total. She didn't stop until the spirit stone became extremely hot.
He opened his eyes and slowly opened his hands, and couldn't help but put a smile on his face.
Sure enough, it has returned to its previous appearance. Of course, it has not returned to its fullest period, but it is much better than before, indicating that the spiritual energy has at least been filled in a lot.
Suddenly, I felt dizzy and tingling in my head.
She panicked for a moment. Could it be that she had drawn the spiritual energy from her body into the spiritual stone?
No way! She is not a monk, how can she have spiritual energy in her body?
The feeling passed by in a flash, so she panicked for a moment and quickly calmed down.
However, he still took off his satchel and put it on the carriage, jumped out of the carriage, walked around, and tried a set of Wanxiang boxing techniques.
Although she has learned this boxing technique for many years, the way she performed it this time was obviously different from the previous ones.
Although the punches were smooth in the past, I didn't have this feeling of being integrated throughout the whole body. It was as if the two meridians of Ren and Du had been opened. Every movement seemed to have a force that could split mountains and rocks. You could even feel the wind of the fist. The air everywhere was torn apart by her!
That feeling is incredible.
Qingyan couldn't help but hit her again before stopping.
At this moment, the sky suddenly became dark!
This scene seemed very familiar to Qingyan, and she suddenly remembered that this was how the Qinian Village changed when she was in the fantasy world!
I saw a sudden strong wind all around, the sky was dark and the ground was dark, and sand and rocks were flying.
Qingyan quickly drove the carriage towards the other side of the woods.
The wind is blowing from the northwest, and stopping on the south side of the woods can block a lot of wind.
She did not drive the carriage into the woods. The weather looked like a storm was about to come. She was afraid that if there was thunder and lightning, it would be bad if it was different from the dream.
As soon as we parked the car to the south of the woods, the wind was not so strong and the sky was completely dark.
Qingyan took the spirit stone for illumination, took off a piece of oilcloth from the carriage, and draped it on the big bear.
The tarp was large enough to cover the bear from head to toe.
She tied the horse's neck with a hemp rope, and tied the two corners of the oilcloth behind its legs to prevent the wind from blowing it away, and used it as a simple raincoat.
Then when the first heavy raindrop fell, he also got into the carriage.
As soon as she sat down, the sound of pattering rain could be heard. She was a little stunned for a moment, not knowing whether this was an illusion or reality.
Ordinarily, since Blackbird's inner elixir is in his hands, he should have no more energy left to create illusions.
But if it wasn't an illusion, it's almost winter here in the northwest, will it still rain?
She didn't know much about the climate here, but she knew that there was heavy wind and sand, little rain, and it would snow in winter.
And this doesn't look like winter rain. Showers like this usually only happen in summer. At least in later generations, Beijing occasionally had sleet and snow in early winter. It was the kind of overcast that took a long time to start falling.
She rolled up the coarse cloth curtain in front of the carriage to avoid getting wet from the rain.
This way you can also watch some big bears.
After a while, Qingyan felt that something was wrong with the sound. The sound coming from the carriage shed was too loud.
Then she saw the big bear was a little restless, and then she discovered that ice balls the size of quail eggs kept hitting the big bear. It was hail!
The big bear may have been hurt by the hail, as it kept tapping its hooves.
Qingyan frowned, seeing that this was not going to work, and wanted to find something to cover the big bear, but Chou Chou was not there, and she couldn't take out anything she wanted to use.
Just this piece of oilcloth, I used it when I was holding the pottery stove, I was afraid of taking out the blackening on the top to cover it.
She looked anxiously to the east. She didn't know what was going on there. Could the change in the weather be related to the battle between Yin Kejing and Yin Kejing? The two of them won't fight, right?
Fortunately, the hail did not last long, and it disappeared within a minute or two, leaving only heavy rain.
Qingyan kept looking over there, wondering if Chou Chou was okay. Suddenly, the scene in the forest appeared in her mind!
Qingyan's eyes widened, this... was this real or another hallucination?
She tried to think about the Qinian Village again, and the whole village quickly appeared in her mind.
"Pah!" Qingyan slapped her thigh hard and couldn't help but let out a "hiss", it really hurt!
I rubbed it with my hands. It was very good. It must be true. I finally had spiritual consciousness!
Qingyan hissed and laughed twice, her expression a little weird.
Then he looked eastward attentively.
I saw that the previously barren grassland had changed. It was now a high platform made of stones, and it was also surrounded by stones.
The rain washed the stone platform very clean, and the pattern on it was also revealed. It was a black bird!
Dude, the wasteland before was an illusion. This is the real scene there.
It's not the black bird, it's the formation.
She tried to use her consciousness to zoom in on the scene, and saw a small door opened on the side of the stone platform that allowed one person to enter and exit.
As soon as she penetrated her consciousness, Qingyan was stunned. Isn't this the tomb passage she had walked through in the illusion before?
Sure enough, the place of worship is right here.
Continuing to explore inside, we arrived at the previous sacrificial place. The sacrifices there fell on the ground in a mess, and no other people or souls were seen in Chou Chou.
There were quite a few white skeletons on the ground nearby. I guess these were the young men and women who had been sacrificed alive for so many years.
The skeletons were piled casually on the side of the altar. She had not noticed this when she was in the illusion before. It must have been blocked by the black bird.
Qingyan followed her previous memory and looked towards the stone door on the side. Behind it was another stone room with a totem altar for Qiongqi.
As soon as she reached in, Qingyan was dumbfounded.
It was actually densely packed with people!
She took a look and saw that there were several familiar faces among them, including Yin Keqin and his son, as well as the clan leader and several clan elders.
They were older than before in the illusion, and they stood upright under the altar, as if they were wooden figures.
On the altar, Chou Chou and Yin Kejing were confronting each other. No, that person shouldn't be Yin Kejing.
Although the facial features are similar, there are some differences from before.
He used to feel like a young boy, but now he feels very feminine and vicissitudes of life.
I don’t know why, but despite looking very young, it gives people the impression of decay. Yes, it is decay, as if it has experienced thousands of years.
And now this is no longer a soul, but an entity. Of course, people don’t know whether it is.
Isn't this Yin Jin's original body?
Could it be that he controlled Yin Kejing's soul to enter his body?
But two thousand years have passed. No matter how well-preserved the body is, it can no longer be used, right?
