The vast darkness of night envelopes the earth.
Lin Yue sat lazily on a deck chair in the courtyard to enjoy the cool air, looking up at the stars deep in the dark sky.
Although I can’t remember what the starry sky on Earth looked like in my previous life, this kind of starry night sky looks similar.
I have some insomnia tonight.
no way.
Xia Lie, the prince who could neither kill nor let go, kept him depressed for three full months. During this period, he lived cautiously every day, racking his brains to think about how to hide it from others, whether there were any flaws, and how to deal with them. Problems that may arise……
But he also knew in his heart that no matter how he thought about countermeasures, he could only delay the crisis temporarily, and the day would eventually erupt.
For three months, there was no hope of breaking out of the predicament, and I had to take medicine to calm my nerves and nourish my energy every night in order to fall asleep.
Otherwise, once his mental state deteriorates and it happens to start when Xia Lie disappears, people may be suspicious.
One can imagine the state of mind of struggling in such a desperate situation.
Now that he finally saw a glimmer of hope, it was like finding a ray of light in the darkness, which also made Lin Yue's mood relax a lot.
At least there is a way forward.
"There are still nine days...no, eight days before her bloodline will awaken."
Lin Yue's fingertips tapped lightly on the armrest of the recliner, and he thought silently in his heart, "Before her bloodline awakens, she must find a way to enter the cave, but there are two difficulties that need to be solved."
"First, the cave is in a barren mountain outside the city. It is only about twenty miles away from Qingdu. First of all, I have to be able to leave Qingdu."
Lin Yue frowned, "However, if I leave Qingdu rashly, it would be a bit too obvious."
Although Baili Fengzhi has never looked for him again, he has also deliberately tested him these days. No one is monitoring him, so he obviously has no doubts about him.
But he was a former 'suspect' after all. Even if the suspicion was temporarily eliminated, it would only be temporary. Baili Fengzhi could not really trust him completely.
If he suddenly leaves Qingdu, he will naturally attract attention.
Once someone follows him, if he dares to go to the cave, won't it only increase the suspicion?
"If you use the form of living beings, you can easily get out of the city, and the road out of the city is not difficult to solve, but the form of living beings can only be used by one person..."
Lin Yue narrowed his eyes slightly, glanced at the room behind him, and immediately gave up the idea.
It was impossible for him to change Su Ziqiu back to his original state and then leave him alone in Qingdu.
If it was discovered, it would be completely over.
Moreover, he always suspected that Baili Fengzhi had a way to search for Xia Lie's aura, but she couldn't find it just because Xia Lie's aura had been changed.
However, if he allowed Su Ziqiu to change back to his original state, wouldn't that be asking for death?
"correct."
Lin Yue suddenly felt something in his heart, and a thought flashed through his mind: "In seven days, it will be the Double Ninth Festival on the ninth day of September!"
I don’t know if it’s a coincidence in a parallel world or something else, but this world of Xianxia Dynasty also has a Double Ninth Festival.
After all, there is even a Mid-Autumn Festival, so it is not surprising that there is a Double Ninth Festival.
Nine is the yang number, and nine and nine are the two yang numbers that overlap each other, so it is called 'Double Ninth Festival'.
On the Double Ninth Festival, whether in the Central Plains or in small border towns like Liangzhou, there has always been a custom of climbing high to pray for blessings and worship gods and ancestors.
At that time, many people in Qingdu will go out of the city to visit tombs, worship ancestors, and climb mountains to pray for blessings.
This is a great opportunity to get out of town.
It would be normal to wait until he left the city that day, and he really needed to climb a mountain, which was convenient for him to go to the hidden cave.
Perhaps Baili Fengzhi might not send someone to follow him.
Thinking of this, Lin Yue's eyes couldn't help but gradually brighten, and then calmed down: "However, Baili Fengzhi may also send people to follow him, and he has to think about how to deal with it."
In short, he has decided to leave the city on the Double Ninth Festival.
"The second difficulty is to open the secret door in the cave."
Lin Yue sat back on the recliner, slowly closed his eyes, and carefully recalled the scene he saw in the cave that day.
Although he brought a fire seal with him at the time, it was still too dark and he didn't notice what was happening on the stone wall at the end of the cave. He could only confirm that there was a relatively flat stone wall.
"I've read a lot of books recently, and I know the Luo Shu numbers of the Nine Palaces Bagua."
Lin Yue opened his eyes and frowned slightly, "But the original owner of the cave must tap the stone wall with his bare hands to open the secret door of the cave?"
He wasn't even sure who the original owner of the cave was.
Deep in the cave, there were two corpses, and he found the rare treasure of all living beings on one of them.
If the original owner of the cave was not the two corpses, would it be possible to find the real owner of the cave?
These are all unknowns.
"No matter what, at least it's worth a try."
Lin Yue took a deep breath, "Try to deduce the details and possibilities these days... Everything depends on the Double Ninth Festival."
…
Time passed day by day, and Lin Yue still maintained the habit of going to the Taoist Academy's library to read every day, trying to cause as few twists and turns as possible to avoid attracting attention.
Finally, Qingdu ushered in the Double Ninth Festival in the fifteenth year of Qingyuan.
Stealing the beauty of the sky for thousands of years, dyeing the world yellow for nine days.
In this world, chrysanthemum is just a noble flower, and actions such as sipping chrysanthemums, eating chrysanthemums, and inserting chrysanthemums will not cause any unwarranted associations.
Qingdu is located in the northwest of Liangzhou. Although the climate is quite dry, chrysanthemums are very drought-tolerant, so there are many types of chrysanthemums planted near Qingdu.
Today's Qingdu has long been dotted with chrysanthemums.
The customs of walking in autumn, climbing mountains, and admiring chrysanthemums have long been popular. Many families go out to the city with their relatives and friends. They spread out grass mats in the mountains and have drinks together, and enjoy meals and wine while climbing high and looking into the distance. The scale is quite spectacular.
Since there were so many people leaving the city today, the city guards at the gates of Qingdu simply checked the road signs and let people out.
Just past Si hour.
Amidst the rumble of carriages, a rather simple gray-covered double-coiled carriage rolled from the west gate of Qingdu.
Sitting in the front room of the carriage was a young man wearing rough cloth, with a handsome face and a smile on his lips. He was holding the reins with slightly unfamiliar hands and driving the one-horse carriage.
On the official road, from time to time, a carriage would pass by him, leaving his carriage behind, or a rich kid with a fat horse and light coat would gallop along, easily overtaking him.
"It's really slow."
Lin Yue glanced helplessly at the horse pulling the cart in front of him. Although it was a little thinner and not pulling the cart very fast, it was cheap. It only cost four silver coins to rent it for a day.
There were too many people renting carriages today. If he hadn't known someone at the carriage and horse shop, he might not even be able to rent this old carriage.
Although he has a lot of money, he can definitely rent a better one, but it is not convenient to take it out at the moment.
Out of character.
At this critical moment, it’s better to try not to attract attention.
After getting further away from the city gate, Lin Yue opened the curtain of the carriage again and turned to look at Su Ziqiu, who was lying in the carriage.
The soul-trapping water fed to her last night has not yet expired, and she is still in a coma at this time. It is estimated that it will take at least two or three hours to wake up.
It's only about twenty miles away from the mountain where the cave is located.
A large section of the road is an official road, which will not take long. Although the second half of the mountain road is more rugged, it will not take too long. You can reach the mountain in less than an hour.
…
The sun is high in the sky, and the autumn wind is starting to rise.
At this time, the golden sky is thousands of miles away, the autumn wind is like oriole, and the heavy clouds are like painting paper, smearing out a wonderful picture of the clouds opening to see the sun.
Under the high autumn sun, the carriage arrived at a mountain wilderness.
The carriage bumped along the rugged mountain road for a long time, and finally stopped at the foot of a low mountain.
"finally reached."
Lin Yue pulled the reins hard, stopped the carriage, and looked around.
This area of mountains and wilderness is obviously inaccessible, and no tourists from Qingdu walking in autumn were seen walking this way.
After confirming that there was no one around, he drove into a wide poplar forest. He didn't stop the carriage until it was some distance deep and tied it under a tall poplar tree.
This was done simply to hide the carriage.
If it was tied near the official road, it would be easily discovered by passers-by. If the carriage was stolen while he was away, he would have to walk back.
"time to go."
Lin Yue opened the curtain of the carriage, leaned into the carriage, took out half a blue-gray pill from his arms and put it into his mouth, then pretended to be gentle and took the unconscious Su Ziqiu out of the carriage, and then carried her on his back. Behind him.
In the past three months, Su Ziqiu didn't eat well. He only had vegetable porridge and medicinal powder all day long. Naturally, he was extremely thin and incredibly underweight.
He is about less than 1.6 meters tall and only weighs about 60 pounds.
If it weren't for the magical power of royal blood, she would have died long ago if she was raised like this.
Lin Yue has practiced Taoist and Xuanmen health-preserving methods, and his martial arts and breathing methods are all top-notch. His body is much better than ordinary people, and his physical strength is also very good. Carrying a sixty-pound person climbing a mountain is not a problem. Nothing difficult.
The only sound left in the poplar forest was the sound of fallen leaves being trampled to pieces.
The sunlight passes through the heavy branches and leaves, casting mottled shadows on the ground.
The autumn wind suddenly blew by, causing the broken shadows to sway.
Lin Yue carried the unconscious Su Ziqiu on his back, and after walking silently for a while among the poplar trees, his steps suddenly slowed down, his body trembled slightly, and he knelt down on one knee.
The next moment, his face suddenly turned pale, and he opened his mouth to breathe, but he couldn't breathe.
Then, he rolled his eyes, fell down, and lay on his side on the ground full of fallen leaves.
Su Ziqiu also fell to the side.
The two lay quietly on the ground, motionless, like two corpses.
Only the autumn wind blows gently, stirring the branches and leaves.
The shadows of the trees gradually shift.
In the blink of an eye, an hour passed.
Su Ziqiu slowly opened his eyes and found that in front of him was not the familiar and hateful bed curtain, but a patch of mottled branches and leaves that blocked the sun.
She paused for a moment, turned her head to look to the side with great effort, and found that she was in a poplar forest.
"where is this?"
Su Ziqiu opened his mouth and managed to make a sound that was so weak that it was almost inaudible.
She reluctantly turned her head and looked in the other direction, and suddenly spotted a familiar figure out of the corner of her eye.
It was Lin Yue, lying unconscious not far from her.
Su Ziqiu couldn't help but be stunned.
Why did this damn guy fall?
She observed carefully and found that Lin Yue's face was pale, with almost no blood, and he was lying on the ground motionless and lifeless.
what happened?
Su Ziqiu felt a little confused, but couldn't help but feel excited.
Although she doesn’t know what the situation is, the fact that this guy looks like this is a great opportunity for her to escape!
She tried to turn over, but her whole body was limp and her legs were paraplegic and could not move.
This was also the reason why she didn't choose to take the opportunity to kill Lin Yue.
Su Ziqiu gritted his teeth and tried his best to turn himself over, then began to try to support his body with his weak arms, trying to drag himself away slowly.
But with her current strength, she simply couldn't support her body.
After a while of effort, she could only crawl forward about...a foot.
Su Ziqiu looked at Lin Yue again to confirm that he was not awake yet, and continued to crawl forward.
At least she could still move and there was hope of escaping.
Another half a while passed.
After Su Ziqiu climbed out another half a foot, he suddenly heard the sound of squeezing fallen leaves behind him, and his face froze.
"Are you too slow?"
A familiar and hateful voice sounded behind her, and footsteps approached her.
Then, a foot stepped on her back, and immediately pushed her body, which was barely propped up a little, down completely.
Su Ziqiu trembled slightly, feeling desperate and angry. Then he felt his body being turned around, and Lin Yue's face appeared in front of him again.
“It’s been so long and you’ve only crawled out just this little bit?”
Lin Yue looked at her with a mocking smile, then squatted down and patted the fallen leaves and dust off her body.
——Not to help her clean up, but mainly to carry her up the mountain later.
"Did you pretend to be unconscious on purpose?" Su Ziqiu gritted his teeth and stared at him.
"I just woke up earlier than you."
Lin Yue glanced at her casually and began to dust and dust himself off again.
"What do you mean?" Su Ziqiu's voice was weak, but he could still hear the hatred coming from his bones.
After cleaning up, Lin Yue squatted beside her and said with a smile: "You have been in a coma every day these days. You may not know that the commander-in-chief of the Northwest Pass, Baili Fengzhi, came to Qingdu to find you. .”
"The phoenix has arrived?" Su Ziqiu was startled.
Although there was a glimmer of hope in her heart, she didn't feel there was anything to be happy about.
Since this cautious and cunning pariah dared to tell her, he must be sure that she would not see Baili Fengzhi. Otherwise, with his temperament, it would be impossible for her to know even a little bit.
His only purpose in letting her know these things was to torture her mentally.
——Hope is the most beautiful and most tortured existence.
Lin Yue took out a piece of Wu Ma Powder from his cuff, pinched Su Ziqiu's cheek, forced the Wu Ma Powder in, and then carried her on his back.
As he walked deeper into the forest, he said casually: "Are you disappointed? I was just worried that Baili Fengzhi would send someone to follow me, so I pretended to suddenly fall into coma and pretend to be near death to test whether I was being followed. That’s all.”
If Baili Fengzhi sent someone to follow him, he would naturally not want him to leave Qingdu and would not let him die easily.
Therefore, Lin Yue took half a pill of 'Gui Xi Powder' to weaken his breathing and heartbeat to test whether there was a follower.
This elixir was obtained through a one-ring-level secret.
Turtle Breath Powder is a strange medicine refined by Taoist practitioners. Although it is not a magic pill, it is extremely rare.
This medicine can be used when the body is severely poisoned. It will greatly reduce breathing and heartbeat, and the blood flow will also be slowed down, just like a dying state, thus delaying the onset of toxins and buying time to save life.
He only took half a pill, which lasted about an hour.
If there is really a follower sent by Baili Fengzhi, he must be a martial artist with extremely high martial arts skills. Once he is found fallen, he should be able to tell that he is on the verge of death even from a distance.
When the time comes, in order to save him or investigate his situation, he will naturally show up.
"It's a pity that this scene was in vain."
Lin Yue sighed regretfully: "It seems that Baili Fengzhi really thought that my suspicion was low enough to be ignored, so he didn't send anyone to follow me, and all the back-ups I had prepared were useless."
He was also a little surprised. Baili Fengzhi actually believed in him more than he expected?
Maybe, it's because...
Lin Yue suddenly recalled Baili Fengzhi's strange behavior after seeing him again after having a private conversation with Tu Laodao on the day of imprisonment.
Not only did he explore his body, but he also scratched his palm.
How strange.
I don’t know what the old drunkard said to Baili Fengzhi?
With doubts in his heart, Lin Yue didn't bother to talk anymore, and walked up the mountain quietly, carrying Su Ziqiu on his back.
Although the mountain road is quite rugged, fortunately the slope of this short mountain is gentle, so it is not difficult to climb up.
In less than half an hour, Lin Yue had reached the mountainside. Following the route he took last time, he pushed through the tall weeds and finally came to a natural stone forest.
"Coming."
Lin Yue turned his head slightly, glanced at Su Ziqiu behind him with his peripheral vision, and a smile appeared on his lips.
"It's time for you to resume your noble status as a prince, His Highness Xia Honglie."
