Chapter 25: The Underground Temple
The magic array was like a huge net, enveloping the people below. Su Ning didn't even think of running away, she stood in place, letting the magic array envelop her.
Su Ning only felt that countless chaotic and dazzling lights flickered in front of her eyes, and her body became light, and her feet could not be steady.
When she saw everything in front of her again, everything around her changed, and she found herself in a wonderful lobby.
It was dim, but spacious, and in the distance there was the whining of the wind, like the mournful cry of a wild beast. There are majestic stone pillars on either side, and there is not a single window around, and it is not known where the light comes from.
In this chilling empty place, there was only Su Ning alone, and the Great Priest and the Water Protector were nowhere to be found.
However, Su Ning quickly reassured herself, because she still had a companion - the beautiful and mysterious corrobin, which had always been in a guardian posture, lying on Su Ning's shoulder.
Su Ning didn't dare to act rashly for a while because she was in a strange situation, and the first thing she wanted to find out now was the origin of this purple phoenix.
"You...... Are you Zi-chan?" she asked tentatively.
In fact, Su Ning already had the answer in her heart, the last time she was in the desert, when she was buried in the sand, it was Xiao Zi who "dreamed", only Xiao Zi was by her side at that time, and the purple wings she saw at that time were exactly this cormorant.
It turns out that Xiao Zi is really a phoenix!
The cormorant spoke: "Yes, Su Ning, I have not confessed to you, please forgive me." ”
Su Ning was stunned, what "Xiao Zi" made was the voice of an adult man, and the last time she saw it in her dream, it was also a handsome young man.
Su Ning realized that this cormorant can transform into a human form, and it is also a big man, which is really far from its usual "little purple" image.
Su Ning was embarrassed, she often untied her clothes in front of Xiao Zi on weekdays, and occasionally took it to bathe with her, isn't it ...... Is it being looked at?
She was so ashamed that she wanted to find the D drill, but Su Ning pushed it away in annoyance. The cormorant flapped its wings and landed gracefully on the ground.
The place is frighteningly large, and the slightest sound can cause an echo.
Su Ning was suddenly brought here, she was already uneasy, and the familiar pet around her showed her true colors that caught her off guard, and she was already confused.
She confronted the cormorant:
"Who are you, and what is your purpose?"
The Gulf soothed: "Su Ning, you don't have to panic, you have to believe me, I am not your enemy, I am on your side." ”
Despite its vows, Su Ning couldn't let her guard down. Su Ning saw that the spiritual power of this cormorant was a high-level third-class, and its spiritual power was so strong, it was definitely not something that could be cultivated in half a year after the "Little Purple" hatched, what was the secret here, Su Ning really couldn't figure it out when he scratched his head.
Seeing that her face was always defensive, the cormorant confessed all her life stories in order to prove her loyalty:
"Su Ning, my original name is 'Yin Xiang', as you can see, I am a purple phoenix. I was originally a member of the Feng clan, and two hundred years ago, I was seriously injured and in order to protect my 'most important' person, I turned back into a phoenix egg. I slept in the mountain with 'that man', and it would take a long time for me to regain my spiritual powers. ”
He paused, and seeing that Su Ning did not suspect it, he continued:
"However, before I woke up, the 'man' I wanted to protect woke up early due to a leak in the magic barrier, and left the mountain by himself. I was still in the egg at that time, because I was constrained by the magic barrier, I couldn't hatch, I could only wait anxiously inside, I really hoped that the effect of the magic barrier weakened, let me go out to find her quickly, because my spiritual power was almost recovered at that time, but without the help of others, I couldn't leave the mountain at all, and I couldn't hatch out. And the only one who can enter the barrier is me, and 'that person'. ”
His words evoked Su Ning's memories, and Su Ning remembered that it was in Shand that he found Xiao Zi. At that time, Xiao Zi was still in the form of an egg, and it was placed in the deep D of the amethyst jade, and only he could get close.
And at that time, Bai Xian and Qingtong were blocked by strange magic barriers, and Qingtong also joked, saying that only women could enter the magic barriers.
Su Ning seemed to deduce something, and she gasped. As if to confirm her speculation, Yin Xiang then revealed the answer:
"Maybe God saw that I was so pitiful, and finally showed mercy, and He arranged for the man to come back! And that man also took me out of the mountain with his own hands, and after leaving the mountain, the spell on my body was unraveled, and I immediately began to hatch, and I could finally leave the black eggshell, and I could see the light of day again, and I also saw the person I had been thinking about for a long time!"
Su Ning took a few steps back, and she asked in disbelief, "What do you mean...... I am...... Is that the man?"
"That's right!" replied Yin Xiang without hesitation.
Although there are endless coincidences in the world, how can Su Ning accept them calmly when the coincidences are so appropriate? She asked half-convinced:
"Really, but I don't have any impression of you......"
Yin Xiang replied for her: "Because you were a baby at that time, you didn't know what happened when you were with me. At that time you were holding me, or rather, the phoenix egg I had turned into, and you were sleeping together in the mountain. ”
In fact, what Yin Xiang said was only the tip of the iceberg, he did not tell the whole truth of the matter, which was also due to his selfishness, because he hoped that he could "start from scratch" with Su Ning, and he didn't want Su Ning to be bound by the past again.
"That ......" Su Ning's head was already a mess, she thought that she was the daughter of the great priest of Kule Country, and she saw that her life story was about to be revealed, but she didn't expect that now she was told her unknown past by Yin Xiang.
However, what Yin Xiang said can indeed be connected with her life experience. Because she was originally an abandoned baby, at that time, the Yu family went to the mountains to dig winter bamboo shoots and inadvertently picked her up.
After many years, the people of the Yu family can't tell where the mountain that picked up Su Ning is, and it's not good, the "Mountain D" in Yin Xiang's mouth is that mountain.
She made a big turn, returned to the mountain where she had been abandoned, and picked up her "companion"!
If Yin Xiang didn't lie to her, then the question is, who is she? Who are her parents?
Su Ning combed through the clues he had so far. If she is as Yin Xiang said, she is the person he wants to protect, and she was with him when she was a baby, this is not contradictory to the fact that she is a native of Kule.
Su Ningli asked calmly: "Then I want to ask you, ...... Who the hell is me, or what is your real relationship with me?"
Yin Xiang didn't want to deceive her, but he didn't want Su Ning to go back to "that bastard" because of the truth, he must strike first this time!
"I am your guardian, and I will do everything I can to protect you, all you need to know is this," he said ominously. ”
"Then do you know who my parents are?" Su Ning always felt that he was hiding something.
Yin Xiang thought for a while, and he was about to speak: "Are you ......?"
Hurried footsteps suddenly sounded in the distance, Yin Xiang was suddenly silent, he flew back to Su Ning, and Su Ning also looked in the direction where the sound came from.
With Su Ning's eyesight, even in this obscure environment, he can see the comer clearly. I saw an old woman in a wide robe staggering over.
It's the Great Priest!
Su Ning was surprised and delighted, she immediately greeted her and called:
"Your Excellency, Grand Priest!"
When the Great Priest saw her, he showed an expression like he had met a great savior.
"Miss Su Ning, you're coming in too?"
Su Ning hurriedly supported her, the panic on the face of the great priest calmed down a little, and she muttered:
"Alas...... Thought I was going to die here alone...... I didn't expect someone to accompany me, but it's not a good thing......"
Su Ning hurriedly asked, "Great Priest, what kind of place is this?"
The high priest said sadly, "You don't know, do you? This is the underground temple of the temple, and the temple on the ground is only used for disguise, and the real temple is located underground." And this underground temple is used to place spiritual weapons. ”
Su Ning was obviously surprised, but Yin Xiang was flat, as if he had already known that it was really similar. The Great Priest glanced at Yin Xiang, but didn't say anything.
Su Ning asked, "Grand Priest, do we have a way to get out of here?"
The Great Priest shook his head in despair: "This underground temple is a forbidden area, and it has always been only possible to enter and not exit, and the only people who can enter can enter are those who have been selected as the 'Great Priest'. ”
Su Ning couldn't figure it out: "Then why can I come in?"
The great priest was still holding Su Ning's small belly pocket in her hand, she took Su Ning's hand and said, "Miss Su Ning, you are very likely to be my sister's daughter!"
Su Ning was taken aback again, she looked at her belly pocket, and then at the great priest. The high priest wiped away her tears, and there were no outsiders here, so she was blunt:
"My sister, her name is 'Xuefu', she was originally the successor of the Great Priest, but she disappeared more than two hundred years ago......"
More than 200 years ago, Su Ning always felt that there must have been some major accident 200 years ago.
The Grand Priest continued, "My sister, because she was born with a strange aura that combines five categories, and because she understands the language of animals, she was chosen as the successor by the previous Great Priest not long after she was born. However, when she was sixteen years old, she was taken away one day by a white horse of unknown origin, and the maids were all by her side, but she could only watch as she was taken captive...... Later, we sent soldiers and searched everywhere, but we couldn't find her whereabouts......"
Su Ning listened carefully, for fear of missing a word. Didn't the high priest say that her sister's abilities were exactly the same as her own?
At this time, Yin Xiang on her shoulder showed a secretive look.