In the evening, a disciple of Muyun Heavenly Palace came up from Ling Yunfeng to greet Bai Luo, Xie Zhanning, Xie Jinyan and others, and sent drinks and food for everyone to enjoy. And told everyone that if they have any needs, they can say to the palace maid, but there is only one point, that is, you can't go to the main peak at night.

At night, the main peak of Muyun Heavenly Palace was as silent as death, compared to Lingyun Peak, where you can drink and eat copper pots, it is simply lively.

On the main peak, the majestic palace castles are one after another, and only the palace people carrying lanterns walk tremblingly between the palace castles and the palace castles.

These palace people were of humble status, and they all wore dark red cloth clothes, but they still didn't think the clothes were red enough, and they wore a string of pigeon's blood stones around their necks to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters.

The patrolling palace people walked in groups of two on the dark corridor. The red walls and blue tiles on both sides of the golden palace lamps look extremely luxurious in the daytime, but they are cold and weird at night. The golden palace lamp illuminates the shadow of the person on the red wall, and the appearance of teeth and claws.

The wind blew through the corridor, and the candles of the golden palace lamps flickered, and the shadows also flickered on the red wall. Dangling, one more person came out between the shadows of the two people.

"Ah!!!!!!h

A scream pierced the sky, leaving only one of the three shadows on the wall.

The shadows on the wall shook again, and the screams stopped abruptly, and there was not a single shadow on the wall.

A disciple of Muyun Heavenly Palace stumbled to the front of the Chuyun Palace, his voice trembling so much that he couldn't control it at all: "Sect Master, Sect Master, the shadow is eating people again." ”

Xiao Mingjing sat up from the bed suddenly, his beloved concubine Rou Rou shrank behind him, as if she was afraid to the extreme, and her body trembled slightly.

Xiao Mingjing was distressed for a while, and comforted softly: "Don't be afraid, Rou'er, that soul devouring shadow can only deal with some people with low spiritual power, you don't have to be afraid." ”

Mrs. Rou snorted, "But I ......"

"The deity knows. Xiao Mingjing patted Mrs. Rou lightly: "The deity will send some more people to the Chuyun Palace, and no one will be able to hurt you." ”

Madame Rou was originally a monk with mediocre qualifications, but a few years ago, she suffered a catastrophe and her spiritual core was shattered, and now she is just an ordinary person with no spiritual power. However, she was also blessed by misfortune, but she was pitied by Xiao Mingjing. Now a few years have passed, and she has gone from an unknown concubine to the most favored concubine in Muyun Heavenly Palace.

Xiao Mingjing patted Mrs. Rou's hand again: "Don't worry, I'll take a look." You have a good night's rest. ”

Madam Rou held Xiao Mingjing's hand and asked with some concern: "Sect Master, didn't you invite that Cang Ayajun to come to the Heavenly Palace? The demon in the heart of the Elder of Biquan Villa was eliminated by her, why don't you invite her to take a look?"

Xiao Mingjing's face sank: "Let's discuss this matter again." ”

"But, the suzerain......"

Xiao Mingjing slowly walked out of bed, turned his head and looked at Mrs. Rou gently: "Don't think so much, you can rest." ”

As soon as Mrs. Rou saw Xiao Mingjing's gentle expression, she couldn't disobey Xiao Mingjing's meaning. I had to bring a robe for Xiao Mingjing and put it on: "The sect master is cold at night, put on a dress." ”

"It's still Arou who is the best. Xiao Mingjing smiled and walked out of the Chuyun Hall with his coat on.

He didn't see that Mrs. Rou's hand that put on his cloak for him was shaking all the time, and her eyes were filled with tears when she looked at Xiao Mingjing.

Xiao Mingjing walked out of the Chuyun Palace, and the gentleness of his body suddenly retracted, and he became an old and serious look again. He glanced at the disciple who was waiting outside the Chuyun Hall and said coldly, "Take me to have a look." ”

Xiao Mingjing is actually only forty years old, just past the age of confusion, and he was a famous beautiful man in the Central Plains when he was young. Now that he is middle-aged, he has been the sect master of Muyun Heavenly Palace for twenty years, and he has the temperament of a superior person, and he is even more handsome and extraordinary.

And at his age, it is rare to be able to have Shenwu and become a generation of grandmasters. But his expression looks extraordinarily old, revealing a twilight atmosphere that does not match his age.

The disciple who came to the Chuyun Hall to report the news was dressed in an ordinary dark red gauze robe, and his name was Zangque. Although he is just an ordinary disciple, he is very embarrassed in front of Xiao Mingjing.

"Sect Master, this time it's outside the Cloud Palace. ”

"How many people died?"

"Two. ”

"Where's the shadow?"

"It's all gone. ”

Xiao Mingjing frowned. It's like this every time, and it's a disciple or palace person with low spiritual power who dies. These dead palace people all have one thing in common - there is no shadow.

At first, it was just that Muyun Heavenly Palace often killed people at night, and Xiao Mingjing thought that there was an enemy sneaking into Muyun Heavenly Palace. Later, once the palace people who carried the corpse suddenly found that there was no shadow of the dead person, and Xiao Mingjing found that this matter was unusual. But no matter what kind of formation enchantment he laid out, there were still people in the palace who were constantly eaten by shadows.

Xiao Mingjing walked to the vicinity of the Cloud Hall and saw two palace people lying on the ground, describing them as terrifying, and blood stains flowed along the road to the corner of the wall.

The faces and bodies of the two people were covered with fine scars, their eyes protruding, and their faces were hideous. Blood flowed from the wounds, and the flesh around the wounds turned white.

Xiao Mingjing raised his chin with a calm face, two palace people stepped forward to help the person who fell to the ground, and the other person stepped forward and took a lamp to shine it. There were only two figures on the ground, one on the left and one on the right, but there was no shadow of the person in the middle.

Xiao Mingjing walked to the blood-stained wall, slapped it with one palm, and the red light suddenly burned like a fire, rushing straight into the sky along the red wall of the Cloud Palace, reflecting half of the sky. Just as it was about to touch the stars, it suddenly dissipated and disappeared into the dark night sky.

Xiao Mingjing frowned and withdrew his hand. Sure enough, the barrier was not broken, and this evil monster was able to walk freely in his own barrier! Xiao Mingjing put his hand back under the tip of his nose and sniffed, and a familiar fragrance of flowers suddenly soaked into his nose.

It's still the same taste as before. When he first discovered this fragrance, he ordered someone to bring all the incense from the palace. He sniffed them one by one, but he couldn't find anything identical. The scent was so familiar, he couldn't remember where he had smelled it.

Zangque ordered someone to carry the corpse to the longevity room, and asked Xiao Mingjing in a low voice: "Sect Master, do you want to ask Cang Ayajun to come and see?"

Xiao Mingjing looked at a tall tower in the distance and frowned: "Not for the time being." I want to figure it out for myself. ”

The Tibetan Bird followed Xiao Mingjing's gaze and also looked at the tower. That tower was the tallest building in the Muyun Heavenly Palace, called the Tower of Babel. In the Tower of Babel lives Witch Tsukihime.

If externally Xiao Mingjing is the sect master of Muyun Heavenly Palace, then internally, the actual ruler of Muyun Heavenly Palace is Wu Yueji.

No one knows how old Wu Yueji is, her identity and background, and she rarely comes out of the tower.

I heard the old man in the palace say that Wu Yueji was in Muyun Heavenly Palace fifty years ago, and Xiao Mingjing was not born at that time.

At that time, the sect master of Muyun Heavenly Palace was still Xiao Mingjing's father, Xiao Wanjun. One day, Wu Yueji went to Muyun Heavenly Palace to meet Xiao Wanjun. No one knows what this Wu Yueji said to Xiao Wanjun, or what she did to him. In short, after that side, Xiao Wanjun respected Wu Yueji.

Although everyone in Muyun Heavenly Palace was quite suspicious of this, Xiao Wanjun tried his best to resist public opinion, and still respected Wu Yueji. However, Wu Yueji is in the Tower of Babel all the year round, rarely comes out of the Tower of Babel, and rarely interferes in the affairs of the palace, so everyone gradually gets used to it.

The second time Wu Yueji appeared was when Xiao Wanjun died. At that time, it had been twenty years since she first went to Muyun Heavenly Palace. But her appearance has not changed at all, she is still a girl.

Xiao Wanjun passed the position of suzerain to his eldest son Xiao Mingfeng, and specially told Xiao Mingfeng to respect Wu Yueji.

However, Xiao Mingfeng did not take Xiao Wanjun's words to heart at all. Xiao Mingfeng didn't like Wu Yueji very much, not only did he not listen to Wu Yueji's orders, but he almost burned the Tower of Babel for a while.

Wu Yueji was furious and killed Xiao Mingfeng, executed Xiao Mingfeng and his cronies Ling Chi and shattered his soul. After that, Wu Yueji supported Xiao Wanjun's seventh son, Xiao Mingjing, as the sect master.

That was the third time that Wu Yueji came out of the Tower of Babel, and she was still a girl.

Xiao Mingjing reigned for 20 years, although he was pro-government, but every first and fifteenth day of the new year, he had to go to the Tower of Babel to worship. If the Tower of Babel had an order, he would have to respect it.

If Wu Yueji wants to abolish him, it's just a matter of one sentence.

Seeing that Xiao Mingjing was so cautious about the matter of the Soul Eater, Zangque panicked in his heart.

Could it be that the Soul Eater has something to do with the one in the Tower of Babel?