She handed the jade piece to Yun Kong: "This is passed down from my ancestors. It is very old. We don't even know what it is."
Yun Kong flipped through the jade piece and looked at it carefully. He still couldn't see what words were engraved on it. He remembered that the girl's mother seemed to have something to say to him that day: "Your mother once talked to me, but I couldn't understand it. You Do you remember what she said?"
Liu Ye shook his head: "However, she often told me that if I found someone who could interpret this piece of jade before I was sixteen, maybe my head wouldn't fly out."
In the cool sea breeze, Yun Kong fell into deep thought.
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The moment when Willow Ye was both worried and excited was gradually approaching.
The sun slid towards the stern of the ship, the sea breeze warmed, the sky slowly turned from blue to purple, and the sea level was orange-red. When the sun touched the water, it turned into a huge goose egg yolk, slowly sinking into the sea, boiling sea water Burnt to a golden light.
Liang Daoqing prepared a cabin under the ship, vacated the cabin, lit a torch, let Liu Ye in before dark, then locked up the outside, and did not open it until dawn.
They spread straw mats on the floor of the cabin and let Willow Leaf lie on it.
Yun Kong also went in with Liu Ye.
Liang Daoqing repeatedly confirmed to Yun Kong that he really wanted to go in together.
"I feel," Yunkong said, "Her mother wants me to help her, and I really want to find out what's going on."
"If I die, I will be very sorry."
"Liang Weng is also a man who loves the ancient times. This mystery since the Three Kingdoms is now right in front of us. I think you also want to find out."
"I'm not as crazy as you."
"I'm not crazy, I'm really thoughtful," Yun Kong said with a smile, "Liang Weng is responsible for the rise and fall of a clan, and there are family members and crew members who rely on you to live. I, Yun Kong, am alone, and my life and death will not affect anyone else. If I am really dead, I can just treat Pin Dao Just throw it into the sea and feed it to the fish.”
"What about the person you are looking for? I haven't found him yet."
"Life and death are tiring, reincarnation is endless, don't be afraid of what you won't meet."
Liang Daoqing sighed: "It's rare for a Taoist priest to be so open-minded." He quietly handed Yunkong a dagger, which was found from Liu Ye's body. "If anything happens, just knock on the door and I will send A Bing Stay outside the door.”
Suddenly, Yunkong felt a chill on his spine, a stabbing pain in his back, and strong resentment emerging from behind. His heart shuddered, and when he looked back, he saw Liu Ye lying on the ground suddenly making a gurgling sound in his throat, and his breathing became rapid. .
She stared at Yunkong with wide eyes and said tremblingly: "Taoist Priest, I'm so scared..." She knew that Yunkong couldn't understand, but her mother was not around, and she had no one to tell her fear.
"Liang Weng, close the door quickly."
Yun Kong pushed the door open from inside, and Liang Daoqing hurriedly closed the door.
Someone knocked lightly outside the door: "Taoist Master, I am Ah Bing, call me if you need anything."
"Thank you, A Bing."
Yun Kong hurriedly walked to the corner where the torch was, sat on the ground under the torch, and took out the peach wood sword, bronze mirror, cinnabar pen, I Ching and other items from the yellow cloth bag, keeping on guard at all times.
Liu Ye stared at him with fearful eyes. The red mark on her neck became deeper and deeper, pushing the blood into her head and into her eyeballs, gradually staining them with a layer of blood, covering the whites of her eyes, covering up the The pupils and head made a rattling sound as the vertebrae were disconnected. The whole head slowly turned behind the back, the whole face rubbed against the straw mat on the ground, and saliva mixed with blood flowed from the corners of the mouth.
This is a very intense transformation process, and it is the first time in Liu Ye's life.
Yunkong held the peach wood sword in his hand, tried his best to steady his breathing, opened his eyes wide, and carved what he saw into memory.
Liuye stuck out her tongue. Without the restraint of her neck, her tongue could be extended very long, allowing her to drag her head on the ground and slowly pull out her esophagus, trachea and some muscles from the hole in her neck.
Yun Kong was surprised: "A person can fly even if his head is severed, unless the head has its own blood. If not, could the internal organs also be extracted together?"
Thinking about it, it was unbelievable. During the years when he followed the old man as You He, he heard him talk about many autopsies, and also saw him examine corpses that died of tragic deaths. With the size of the internal organs, is it possible for them to come out of such a small hole?
Yun Kong immediately had the answer.
What was pulled out from the neck were shrunken internal organs, shrunk into bags one by one, and dragged out of the hole like bunches of grapes, but no blood flowed out.
Liu Ye's face was pressed on the straw mat, uttering indistinct murmurs. At this moment, two thin membranes suddenly protruded from the back of her head, like the thin wings of a bat, but without the slender fingers of a bat.
The film slowly unfolded, began to flap vigorously, and the whole head slowly rose into the air.
Yun Kong stared at the two films, thinking quickly in confusion.
An idea suddenly came to his mind, so he took out the jade piece Liuye gave him, held it close to his eyes under the light of the torch, looked at the words spinning on it like clouds and water, and blurted out: "Bird Seal Script..."
Before the Qin Dynasty unified the six kingdoms, each of the six kingdoms had its own written language. Wu and Yue in the south were not included in the six kingdoms, nor were they subordinate to the king of Zhou. In the early Eastern Zhou Dynasty (Spring and Autumn Period), they only participated in the war in the Central Plains because of the neighboring state of Chu. .
The Wu Kingdom has a long culture. The martial sage Sun Wu also came from the Wu Kingdom. Most of the famous swords of each generation came from Wu and Yue. When Yun Kong was young, he traveled with Tie Langgong and saw his family's sword manual. The ancient sword of King Wu is depicted in the book. This kind of seal script is engraved on the sword. It is different from the small seal script formulated by Li Si, the prime minister of the Qin Dynasty. The characters are shaped like a bird, so it is called "bird seal script".
"Could it be the writing of Wu State?" Yun Kong was secretly surprised.
His mind was racing: his master had mentioned that his school originated from Maoshan, which was the Juqu Mountain where he and Chi Chengzi went after being in danger in Jiangning Mansion. The location was also in the ancient Kingdom of Wu!
Perhaps, Maoshan’s art is so special and different from other Taoist sects because it originated from the ancient wizards of Wu!
Maybe it’s not accidental that there were ruined people in Wu State recorded in ancient times!
When he was young, he, his master and his senior brother encountered Gu magic in Guilin. Afterwards, his master told him that Guilin in Guangxi was the ancient Cangwu, and was closely related to the surrounding Bashu (today's Sichuan), Kui (today's Guizhou), and Dali (today's Yunnan). In general, many ancient witchcrafts were preserved, and he had wanted to visit them one by one.
This makes sense.
Maybe these ancient arts have not disappeared, but have been spread southward from Wu, Gui, Kui, Dayue, and Champa.
Or, these tribesmen migrated all the way south.
Yun Kong raised his head in shock and stared at Feitou in the sky: "What happened to your ancestors?"
Feitou seemed to have lost consciousness. He was no longer a willow leaf, but another creature.
She raised her nose and searched, looking for a fishy smell in the dull air of the cabin.
The cabin was filled with the salty smell of sea water, but it still couldn't cover up the smell of dead fish lying on the ground.
The flying head flapped the membrane on the back of the head, flew towards the dead fish, bit the fish's belly, and let the intestines and blood flow out. Then she stretched out her long tongue and greedily sucked the fish's blood. After she licked the blood clean, she then sucked the intestines and internal organs, and finally Then he ate the fish meat in big mouthfuls, and finally used his long tongue to take out the fish bones.
After eating the fish, Fei turned his head to the clouds.
Her neck was hanging and shrunken, her internal organs were filled with blood, her blood-red eyes had no pupils, and her pale face had lost its girlish beauty.
Yun Kong couldn't see her pupils or what she was planning.
"Liu Ye?" Yun Kong called her name with the pronunciation of Champa.
Willow Ye didn't respond.
He wanted to know, does Liu Ye's flying head still retain Liu Ye's consciousness?
Yun Kong could clearly feel Feitou's resentment, but he didn't know where the resentment came from. Was it Liu Ye himself?
Is it Feitou?
Or something else?
"Liu Ye," Yun Kong raised the jade piece towards her, "your mother may want someone to help you. I think I probably know what this thing is."
Yunkong didn't know what special abilities Feitou had, but judging from the fact that the Feitou in the sky that night could feel his thoughts, they might be able to read people's hearts.
"If that's okay," Yun Kong raised the mahogany sword, "do you mind if I touch you with this thing?"
The flying head chirped strangely, flapped the membrane vigorously, and flew to the ceiling.
"I see."
Yunkong put down the mahogany sword and said, "I understand."
The flying head flew around the one-foot-square cabin, sometimes flying back to the place where the dead fish had been placed, smelling the smell of blood seeping into the floor, and chirping softly.
Yun Kong observed for a while, then stood up and walked to the door, knocking gently. Da Bing outside the door opened the door in a panic: "Taoist Master, come out quickly!"
He thought Yun Kong was in danger.
