Chapter 17: Chestnuts in the Fire
The next day, Jiayang and the others confirmed the accuracy of Su Ning's information after a secret visit, so they set the target on the temple of the holy mountain.
How to cross the sea without knowing the gods and entering the temple is another difficult problem.
Moreover, they don't know the topography of the temple, even if they enter it, they may not be able to find the spirit weapon smoothly, and there are many priests in the temple, and the five of them plus Qingtong may not be the opponents of those priests.
Therefore, kidnapping the queen as a hostage and using her to lead the way into the temple is the only way. However, they still have too little information and time to prepare is very short.
Tomorrow is the day of the celebration, after Su Ning and Zhiwa came out of the post house, they changed into the robes that Su Ning bought yesterday, disguised themselves as people from Kule Country, and continued to listen to the news on the street.
They were told that tomorrow's celebration would consist of several parts, starting with a parade of floats in the streets, singing and dancing, and then the queen would take a royal float to the finale.
The Queen's motorcade will then proceed to the temple on the south side of the Imperial City for a prayer ceremony presided over by the High Priest, and the people will be able to enter the temple square to participate in the ceremony.
Finally, the queen ascends to the temple terrace and waves to the populace, and in the evening, there is a fireworks display that the populace will party all night long.
Su Ning felt that to kidnap the queen in front of everyone, and to enter the holy mountain smoothly to obtain the spiritual weapon, this was tantamount to taking chestnuts in the fire, which was basically an impossible task.
They had been running outside for most of the day, and soon it was dusk.
Su Ning was full of melancholy, and returned to the post house with the quality baby, Qingtong had not returned, he ran out early in the morning, and has not returned.
Su Ning was worried that something would happen to him, so she hurriedly used the sound transmission stone to contact him. Qingtong said that he was already on his way back, and he also said that he had made a major discovery, and he would talk to Su Ning in detail when he returned.
Before Qingtong came back, Su Ning summed up with the quality baby again, she felt that she still had to discuss it with the wolf girls, and she would act tomorrow, but they were still clueless at this time.
Qianwa has always been worried about those wolf girls, and she is also worried that the priests of the Holy Mountain will not be easy to deal with.
Qianwa said: "That temple is full of magic obstacles, even if we have the queen in hand, we may not be able to break in smoothly, if we fight those priests head-on, with our spiritual power, I'm afraid it will be difficult to resist, right?"
Su Ning pondered for a moment and said, "It's a pity that we don't know the terrain of the Holy Mountain, otherwise it would be more convenient to move......
"At this time, it's impossible to go in and investigate......"
Su Ning muttered to herself: "If only I understood the seventy-two changes of Sun Wukong...... You can turn into a worm and fly over......"
The quality baby was puzzled: "Miss, what are you talking about?"
Su Ning smiled: "No, I'm just talking nonsense......"
Su Ning now found that he was very short of a treasure that could survey the enemy's situation. It would be great if there was a treasure that, like the water of Odori Mountain, could show the scene of each place......
Odori Mountain ...... Su Ning remembered the skills she had learned in Datong Mountain, and she had an idea again.
"By the way, I don't know if it's okay to use the 'that' method......" She said to herself again, and the quality baby didn't ask any more this time.
In a few moments, the green tung that is still in the form of a sika deer, with a bell made of ornamental iron hanging around its neck, jingles and runs back.
After Qingtong entered the house, he changed back into a human form.
He held the spirit banner in his hand and happily told Su Ning: "Sister, I have found a ghost!"
Su Ning and Zhiwa were stunned, and Qingtong continued: "The ghosts are all concentrated outside the imperial city, especially in the west of the dense forest, there are very many, because of the protection of the magic barrier, they can't get in. ”
Su Ning felt that Qingtong's ability to drive away animal ghosts could still be put to good use, because Qingtong's moves would not cause harm to people, and could play a role in intimidating.
"What caused that," she asked.
Qingtong said: "I asked, and they said that it was because there was a magic array in the square in the center of the imperial city to exorcise ghosts, and it was that magic array that made it impossible for them to get close. ”
"Magic Array?" Su Ning pondered for a moment, the dictionary she bought from the bookstore yesterday recorded a lot of methods for the arrangement of the magic array.
Su Ning asked Qingtong again: "If this magic array is lifted, will you be able to use your spell?"
Qingtong nodded: "It should be." ”
Su Ning found the dictionary and flipped through it. Qianwa and Qingtong also surrounded them, and they were all covered with Cooler characters like J intestines, and they were as if they were seeing a book from heaven, completely ignorant of what to do.
Qingtong said everyone's thoughts: "Don't these magic arrays all look the same?"
Qianwa said: "If you can understand the words above, you will be able to know the function of these magic arrays." ”
Qingtong asked rhetorically: "But who can know what these ghost-drawn things mean?
Su Ning said: "You can't ask, in case our intentions are exposed, it will be troublesome." ”
"Hey......" Qingtong also pondered, muttering: "Then there is no way, we are not know-it-all, who can read the language of any country......"
Know-it-all? Among the people Su Ning knew, only the most knowledgeable and the most abundant were her master Qianyi.
By the way, the matter of the magic array of the Kule Country was also told to her by Qian Yi, I wonder if Qian Yi can understand these words? Su Ning felt that no matter what, she had to give it a try.
She immediately used the Qianling Bagua Mirror to contact Qianyi, and after Qianyi heard her request, she asked her to teleport the dictionary and give her an answer in an hour.
In this hour, Su Ning, Qingtong and Zhiwa had dinner respectively and went to the bathhouse to bathe.
As soon as Su Ning returned to the room, he received good news, Qian Yi sent the dictionary back, and the magic was that all the words in the dictionary had become Chinese characters that Su Ning could understand, and I didn't know how Qian Yi did it, in short, he had translated all the Kule languages.
After Su Ning expressed her gratitude to Qianyi, she began to study the magic dictionary.
Su Ning flipped through the book while staring at it with her partners, for fear of missing the slightest clue. The emperor lived up to his wishes, and after turning over more than half of it, Qingtong whispered:
"This! Exorcism Array!"
I saw that the dictionary drew a six-pointed star with an eye in it, surrounded by countless lines of different lengths, and many symbols representing different meanings.
The note next to it explains in detail the function of the magic circle, which is to expel the spirits outside a certain range, and how much protection is placed depends on the size of the magic circle, the mana of the person who set up the array, and the materials used to draw the magic circle.
To Su Ning's surprise, there were a few small lines of annotations at the bottom, suggesting a way to crack the magic circle.
Su stared at the words that were only the size of a grain of rice, and read:
"Filling the pupils of the Almighty Eye with plant ash will render the circle ineffective in a single day. ”
The Almighty Eye is estimated to be the eye in the center of the magic array, Qingtong clapped his hands and said, "This is easy to do, let's just put the grass and wood ash in it." ”
Su Ning said cautiously: "I don't know if there is anyone guarding that square, so let's be careful." ”
Qingtong said: "What's this? I'll just turn back into a sika deer and run over, and no one will doubt it." ”
Qianwa complained: "The bell on your neck is so pleasant, and you run over it in the middle of the night, I'm afraid it's more attention-grabbing, right?"
"Then can't I untie the bell?" Qingtong asked rhetorically.
"If you untie it, your demonic energy will be exposed. The quality baby pointed pointedly.
Qingtong has nothing to do now, and Su Ning has already thought of a countermeasure, she said: "It's okay, I can use the out-of-body method to go over and investigate, and when we grasp the situation, it's not too late for us to act." ”
Su Ning had previously used the trick of out-of-body in order to find the true body of the Splendid Bird of Paradise and Jiang Yuan, which could be described as invincible, so she planned to repeat the old trick this time.
Su Ning then sat on the couch and meditated under the protection of the quality baby and Qingtong.
After her soul god broke away from the R body, she was free to roam around the imperial city, but fortunately, the exorcism circle was mainly for dead souls, and it did not work for living souls.
Su Ning first found the square that Qingtong said, and sure enough, she saw a magic array painted with golden paint on the square, which was exactly the same as that in the magic dictionary.
There were no guards around the square, and it seemed that the people of the Kule Kingdom had never thought that anyone would manipulate the magic array, so they allowed the magic circle to be exposed to the heavens and the earth.
Su Ning left the square and flew directly to the Holy Mountain, and on the way, she passed over the palace. Su Ning thought that the first step tomorrow would be to hold the queen hostage, so she should also go in and investigate.
Su Ning flew to the palace, which was heavily guarded, especially the queen's bedroom, which was almost three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry.
No one could see Su Ning's existence, and she passed through the wall and entered the queen's bedchamber in a grand manner. The queen has already rested, presumably to recharge her batteries for tomorrow's celebrations.
The queen of the kingdom of Kuler is over a hundred and thirty years old this year, but she only looks to be in her early forties.
Su Ning secretly saluted her and said, "I'm sorry for offending you." ”
She left the queen's bedroom and was about to go to the holy mountain, when Su Ning passed by a room and saw several guard-looking people inside discussing something.
The oldest woman among the guards seemed to be the captain. She was drawing on a two-foot-long piece of white paper with a quill in her hand, while the rest of the group watched intently.
Su Ning floated over and took a look, it turned out that these were all the queen's close guards, and they were deploying the security of tomorrow's celebration.