Chapter 174: Decision
Night alternates, and in the blink of an eye, it's day.
"Knock!!!Knock!!!
"It's cold in the north, and now it's in the wild bonfire season, this is a big business opportunity, so many troupes will work hard and rush here thousands of miles away!" Ning Xin came from the rear, "It is said that if you seize the business opportunity during this time, you can be worth a year of hard work outside!"
Yuan Xuan nodded, he understood that these were all news that Ning Xin had gone out to inquire about last night, so he couldn't help but glance at her, and said lightly: "You have a heart!"
"Be polite to me!" Ning Xin smiled, "What should I do next?"
"I'm going to go up to Wushan!" Yuan Xuan raised his head, looked at the dark mountain in the distance, and said his decision, "But this time I'm going alone!"
"You are going deep into the enemy camp, I will never agree!" Ning Xin immediately shook his head, "The matter of the last time is still in front of you, how can you rest assured now!"
"I'm not acting rashly, it's a deliberate decision!" explained, "Wushan is no better than the Plague Swamp, and in the current situation, we really don't know anything about it, so we really need someone to explore it first!
"We can catch a witch and ask him!" Ning Xin still disagreed, "I can't take the risk yourself!"
"The method you said is feasible!But you must know that we will still have to go up the mountain sooner or later!" Yuan Xuan said lightly, "So even if I ask about the general situation, I think I still need to see for myself!"
"Do you have anything else to do?" Ning Xin is such a smart woman, seeing that fate is so persistent, she thought of a possibility in a blink of an eye, "Are you for Wan Ting?"
"It's not just her, it's Tuke!" fate did not deny.
"Then I'll go with you!" Ning Xin said.
"No, it's easy to be exposed when there are many people!" Yuan Xuan immediately refused, "And I will only tell you one person about this matter, as for Ling'er and Moti, when I am not there, I still need you to help me stabilize!"
"Do you think I can hold on to these two personalities?" Ning Xin said.
"Do your best!" said Yuanxi, "I'll be back soon!"
Wushan, above the clouds, behind the altar of the gods, in a dignified and elegant courtyard, Hanyue stared at a portrait in a daze, and a smirk flashed on that beautiful face from time to time, as if she was thinking about something happy.
On the portrait in front of her, a man in white is painted, full of fairy light, standing on a high palace, looking down on the vast earth below, the man is very peculiar, his handsome face reveals a strange calmness, although he is still young, but those eyes have the vicissitudes and melancholy that his peers have never had, as if he has experienced the world and experienced the red dust.
Hanyue put her little hands on her cheeks, the expression on her face looked a little stupid, and she recalled this descent and everything he experienced in her mind, although it was thrilling, but the kind of care for herself at the first acquaintance, the kind of calmness in the encounter, and the domineering and fierce when she was fighting, all deeply attracted her.
"Don't blame yourself, everything is wrong, no one will blame you!"
"Keep up, don't lose it!"
The words of the fate of the plague swamp, sentence by sentence, seemed to be in her ears, making her face gradually show sweetness.
"Are you called Yuanxuan?" Hanyue whispered to herself, and then her face was faintly rosy, and she said solemnly, "It turns out that your name is Yuanxuan!"
"Senior sister!" Behind him, Seven Kills appeared behind Han Yue in black clothes, glanced at the portrait in Han Yue's hand, and his face became weird.
"Little junior brother, you came just in time! Look at it!" Hanyue moved a position and let Seven Kills sit beside her, pointing to the portrait, and said, "This is fate!"
"Senior sister!" Seven Kills glanced at the portrait of Yuan Annihilation, stared at Han Yue again, and asked, "Senior sister, I went down the mountain this time, but I have a good impression of this person!"
"Hmm!" Hanyue nodded subconsciously, then suddenly reacted, hurriedly shook her head and said, "What's the matter, I'm just curious, you went to the Central Plains some time ago, and I heard that you had a fight with him, what kind of person is he?"
"It's not bad to destroy this person!Those Central Plains people call it Zunshang!" Seven Kills nodded, "But there are too many things on his shoulders! This is like Master, who is gentle and elegant on the surface, but his heart is very complicated, and outsiders will never be able to peep at it!"
"Like Daddy!" Hanyue pondered for a moment, and suddenly thought of the moment when Yuan was injured, that sad look, and couldn't help but shake her head, "No, it's not like this!"
"I advise Senior Sister, don't waste your mind on it!" Seven Kills looked left and right, and suddenly leaned into Hanyue's ear and said, "I heard that Master is setting up a bureau and waiting for him to come to the door, and I think Master's attitude towards this person is not friendly!"
"Daddy set up a game!" Han Yue stood up, stared at Seven Kills and asked, "No, that night, except for you and me, no one saw his true face, junior brother, could it be that you said it?"
"I want to say!" Seven Kills hurriedly explained, "But since I came back, no one has come to ask me at all, and with Master's shrewdness, there is no need to ask the two of us, he must have used other means to find out the identity of this person!"
"Humph!" Hanyue snorted, "No, we have to help him!"
"Useless senior sister!" Seven Kills looked around, "This place has been banned, and neither you nor I can leave!"
"Why do you want to ban you!" Han Yue was stunned for a moment and asked rhetorically.
Seven Kills shook his head, and vaguely he could guess that his inexplicable grounding this time was very likely to be related to his aunt Tianji.
"Hey!" Hanyue sat down dejectedly, stared at the portrait of Yuan Xuan, and said seriously, "Yuan Xuan, Yuan Xuan, you must not go to Wushan!"
Seven Kills sighed, he was also staring at the portrait of Yuan Xuan, but what appeared in his mind was another person, a smart, free, and pure girl, although sometimes she was quite unreasonable, but when the corners of her mouth rose, that little playfulness was enough to plant a deep seed in his heart.
Fate is here, so is she also here?
At the foot of Wushan, Shifang City, on the street, countless stages are set up, one by one trick performances, staged passionately, although the cold wind is blowing, but here it seems extremely lively.
"Wow puppet, so amazing!" Ling'er jumped up happily, she was dressed in colorful costumes, wearing a phoenix tail hat, and danced with those troupes from time to time, although she was a little rusty at first, but she was smart after all, and she could learn well after a while.
"Ling'er, you're too nonsense!" Seeing Ling'er so lively, Ning Xin was very worried, because this was too ostentatious, and if it was noticed by someone with a heart, the consequences would be unpredictable.
"Uncle, do you like this dress?" Ayou followed Yuan Xuan to a tailor shop, and when he saw that Yuan Xuan had been staring at a black robe, he couldn't help blinking and asked.
Yuan Xuan smiled and said to the boss: "Boss, I want this dress, help me wrap it!"
"Okay, you really know the goods, but this dress is not your size, why don't you come into the house and help you measure it!" The boss is a middle-aged man, and he warmly invites Yuan Yuan to enter the back room. Yuan Xuan followed in, and after a while, he measured the size and walked out.
"Slow down, it can be done at dusk tonight, and please come here to pick up the goods when the time comes!" The boss muttered suspiciously while sending Yuan Xuan away, "What a strange person, to make a dress, you need such a big hat, is it possible to cover your face?"
"Uncle! I suddenly miss my mother and Sister Hanyue!" On the street, such a lively scene seemed to touch Ayou's heart, he took Yuan's hand and said, "Uncle, will you take me to them?"
"Don't worry, uncle won't lie to you!" Yuan Yu touched Ayou's head, and saw that tears were oozing from the little guy's eyes, so he hurriedly said, "In this way, you give your uncle seven days, and your uncle promises you that he will definitely let you see Sister Hanyue!"
"Really!" Ayou burst into tears and laughed, holding Yuan's big hand and shaking it from side to side, and said happily, "Uncle, what you said is true, I can see Sister Hanyue!"
"Really!" Yuan Xuan nodded, and suddenly found that the pedestrians around him were rushing to the front one after another, as if something was about to happen. Yuan Xuan pulled Ayou to follow.
"Little friend, little friend, please stay!" In the rear, Gu Lao suddenly hurriedly chased after Yuan Xuan, his face looked a little panicked, and he shouted in his mouth, "The rivers and lakes are urgent, the rivers and lakes are urgent!"
"What's wrong with the seniors?" Yuan Xuan was stunned for a moment, and saw that Gu Lao's clothes were covered with dust, and it was obvious that he had been beaten.
"Old beggar, dare to come to our Piaoxiang Hotel to eat the overlord meal, you want to die!" Several big men chased after him, and almost instantly surrounded Gu Lao and Yuan Xuan.
"Who are you talking about, who eats the overlord's meal!" Gu Lao hid behind the fate of the extinction, and his narrow shoulders seemed to have become his advantageous backer, "The old man is in a hurry to go out, and he forgot to bring money, not to mention, I also calculated a hexagram for your shopkeeper, compared to your meal money, my hexagram is more than enough, speaking of which, you should still look for my money?"
"Wow, Grandpa Gu, are you going to make money?" Ayou said innocently, although he didn't have much contact with Gu Lao these days, but under the influence of Ling'er, he occasionally communicated with this old man.
"Ahem~~" Old man Gu coughed twice, stood up from behind Yuan's annihilation, he put his hands behind his back, and said seriously, "Forget it, my old man is generous and broad-minded, and that bit of silver can be regarded as a reward for your wine!"
If he was so cheeky, even Yuan Xuan felt that he couldn't hold it on his face, not to mention those big men, they looked at each other, and one of the big men directly lifted out a kick and imprinted it on Gu Lao's face.
"Fart, nonsense!" the big man said angrily, "Our shopkeeper is alive and well, not to say that he will die within half a month, you are a fortune teller or a curse, come on, you will beat me to death!"
"Young man, help!" Gu Lao looked anxious, with a clear sole print on his face, which looked extremely funny, and hid behind Yuan Xuan again.
"That's enough!" Yuan Xuan played a round, and a piece of silver was placed in front of the big man, explaining for Gu Lao, "I apologize to you on his behalf, and ask my subordinates to be merciful, please accept this bit of silver, and the rest will be used as reparation!"
Dahan took the silver, looked at the fate, looked at Gu Lao, and said fiercely: "Don't let me see you next time, otherwise we will fight once we meet!"
"Senior, don't mess around!" After the big man left, Yuan Xuan said, "If you need silver taels, you can go to Ning Xin, our silver taels are all in her!"
"I'm not messing around!" Gu Lao wiped the soles of his face and said indignantly, "It's because they don't follow the rules, Lao Er, I eat according to my ability, but I am said to be talking nonsense!
Looking at the disgraced old man in front of him, Yuan Xuan shook his head, did such a person really have anything to do with the legendary Earth Demon, that is, the Gu Immortal he met ten years ago? For the first time, he was skeptical of his intuition, maybe Ning Xin was right, whether he was really looking for the wrong person.
"Senior, go up to the front and take a look!" Yuan Xuan pointed to the center of the city in the distance, where a group of people were surrounding, as if they were looking at something.
With Ayou and Gu Lao, the three of them stepped forward and came to the center of the city, and when they pushed aside the crowd, they saw several young women with excellent temperament, kneeling in front of a statue, and a stream of witch qi was constantly oozing out of the statue, and finally submerged into the bodies of these women.
"Congratulations! All of them have been chosen by the Great God of Tongyou, and they have the right to enter Wushan this time!" A big man dressed in black, who looked at the witch light on the statue of the god, came to this group of prayer women and said, "Next, please go back and prepare, I will take you up the mountain at night!"
"Congratulations, congratulations!" Countless voices of joy came from all around, and it was obvious that this was a great honor.
"Uncle, what are they doing?" asked Ayou, puzzled, to Yuan Xuan.
"It should be recruiting disciples!" "The fate is also very uncertain, because the Qingcheng Gate recruits disciples, and they have to go through the three-view assessment before they can enter, and in the wilderness, they only need to get the approval of this so-called Tongyou God Statue, which is a bit of a child's play, because the human heart is always the most favored and most difficult part of each inheritance, can it be said that this god statue can detect people's hearts and distinguish between good and bad?
"It's not good, it's not good!" Just when Yuan was puzzled, Gu Lao beside him suddenly said to himself, "It's not good!"
"Did the seniors find out about anything?" Yuan Xuan hurriedly asked.
"No, I just think this place is very bad!" Gu Lao's eyes stared at the feet of the idol, "The old man has learned a little about feng shui, and he knows a little bit about it, if he guesses correctly, this place must be a place where the leylines converge, and this idol can be so strange because of the help of the leylines!"
"The leylines converge?" Yuan Xuan remembered the tall tower in Xue Ling, which was also the place where the leylines converged, but compared to the two, this place seemed a little gloomy, perhaps because of the barbaric worship of witchcraft.
"That's not right!" Gu Lao seemed to have discovered something, his face suddenly became extremely solemn, and he pointed to that place and said, "It's not the leyline, it's the earth spirit, this is the place where the earth spirit gathers, and some people use the method of concealing the sky to cover up the facts!
"Senior, what is the Earth Spirit!" asked Yuan Xuan
"I'm talking about leaving here first!" Gu Lao didn't respond, pulled Yuan Xuan and left quickly, and returned to the inn after a while
"You can say it!" asked Yuanzhi.
"Young people just can't bear it!" Gu Lao explained. You have to know that the wilderness here, the heaven and earth have always been extremely heavy, and the environment is very bad, in the long run, the anger will inevitably sink, infiltrating into the underground spiritual veins, and the underground is the gathering place of some heroic spirits, when these heroic spirits are compatible with the evil spirits, it is easy to produce resentment, these grievances have existed in the earth veins for a long time, can not be resolved, the longer the time, the deeper the backlog, and finally form the earth spirit, you must know that the earth veins are circulating, the earth spirits exist in the earth veins, the combination of the two earth spirits, is not a simple one plus one, and just there, according to my observation, there are at least ten earth spirits gathered together, thus forming that terrible terrain!”
"Ten places?" said the Great Enlightenment, "Could it be that this is the origin of the hidden name Shifang City?"
"It's very likely!" Gu Lao was stunned for a moment, and also nodded, "It's really terrifying that such a place is actually used to store the statue of the Tongyou God!"
"The predecessor just said that someone hid the truth by hiding the truth!" Yuan Xuan asked rhetorically, "Then what if one day, the statue of the god is damaged?"
"It can't be broken!" Gu Lao trembled, "That is the only thing that suppresses the earth spirit, if it is broken, no one can predict what will come out! Moreover, I have a feeling that there is definitely more than one place in such a place in the wilderness!"
Old man Gu came to the window, pointed to Wushan in the distance, and said: "Judging from the direction of the leyline, there is definitely another place on Wushan! And the two are connected!"
"I see!" Yuan Xuan thought for a moment, nodded, and bowed to Gu Lao, "The juniors have been taught! Thank you seniors!"
"Young man, let me warn you, don't take any risks!" Gu Lao said solemnly when he saw that his fate was a little strange.
"Don't worry, senior, I'm free to measure!" Yuan Xuan smiled, he already had a general idea in his heart, since it was going to be chaotic, fortunately, there was a big, wild water, for him, it was too clear, maybe it was muddy, so that the precipitation at the bottom of the pool could float up earlier.