Chapter 56: Mysterious Footprints
Soon, Hope and Aoyama returned.
But the two did not have daffodils in their hands. When they approached, I could see the blood on Aoyama's face, and the prayer on the side was also exhausted. Looking at their appearance, I wondered what had happened to them.
"Palace Master, I'm sorry, we didn't complete your order." Aoyama gasped, his face still filled with horror.
"Did something happen?" I asked the servants to bring them chairs.
"Palace Master, I and Hope received your fate and went to the Flowing Galaxy to find daffodils, when we arrived there, the morning glow was already covered with the river, I and Hope summoned a spiritual weapon, and went to the Flowing Milky Way, and when we were looking for it, a fierce water monster suddenly came out of the Flowing Milky Way."
"Did it attack you?" Asher walked up to them with a worried expression.
"Yes, I don't know if it's because we disturbed it, the water monster rushed over as soon as it saw us, and I had to protect ourselves, and when we were fighting, we killed it by mistake."
"That's the Gollummon, and this is the time for them to multiply, so you should be disturbing it."
Asher prayed for Aoyama and hoped for healing, and at the same time explained the reason for us.
"I see, it's me, the palace master, who didn't think about it enough, but fortunately you're fine." I admitted my mistake and walked up to them to check on the injury.
"No, the palace master is too modest, this is also a test for us."
"Asher, how are they doing?"
"Palace master, it's no big deal, Qingshan and Hope were all selected by the Buyue clan, and their spiritual power is still very strong."
"That's good, have a good rest tonight, and then do the third level tomorrow."
"Yes."
At the end of the test, I asked Asher to take Qingshan and Hope back to rest first, and I sent the dream back to the Yiyi Palace, about today's scene, she was amazed all the way, and kept talking about the wonderful.
"Xiu, it seems that you, the palace master, are quite good."
"How?"
"Have the courage to admit your mistakes, the status of a soothsayer is much lower than yours, you can be so frank, compared to that... The Earth Spirit King is much better. ”
"Hehehe, you, why did you suddenly think of him again?"
"Hey, actually... When I first came here, I was quite worried, the Liuli Palace is comparable to those palaces in the Ethereal Continent, both exquisite and authoritative, I am afraid that if you become the palace master, you will become the same ...... as those kings. ”
"It's not unreasonable, after all, we've witnessed so much together."
"Xiu, do you think I'm stupid, I've been with you for so long, and I actually think like that?" The dream suddenly stopped, and looked at me cautiously.
"Yes, you're really stupid, so stupid that you don't know to believe in your cultivation." I touched Meng's black hair and looked at her dotingly.
"Girls should generally think more."
"Dream, no matter what I decide, I want to make this palace what I want, trust me, okay?"
"Well, I trust you and support any decision you make."
In the black eyes of the dream, there was a light like a star, which was exactly what I liked.
Sister Yaoguang had been waiting for Dream at the gate of the Palace for a long time, and she told me that she and Dream had become good friends, and she wanted to hear Dream tell the story of the Elven Kingdom. He also urged me to hurry up and go to the palace master's business.
In the end, I was actually pushed out of the beautiful palace. This is probably the right of the two women I love the most.
The night of the Liuli Palace is as long as ever, I returned to the central hall from the beautiful palace, after becoming the palace master, I rarely use spiritual arts, my father is not there, the Liuli Palace is a lot less majestic, and the servants all say that I, the young palace master, is very loving. Usually "loving-kindness" is not used in the Liuli Palace.
"Xiu,"
I heard a familiar voice, holding my wandering thoughts. When I turned around, it was my uncle.
"Uncle? Why didn't you rest. ”
"Didn't you sleep either?"
"After completing the two tests of the soothsayer today, I am a little upset and want to go around alone."
"This year's soothsayers should be very good, right?"
"Well, that's good."
"It seems that Xiu really wants to be alone and quiet, then I'll go back to the Pleiades Palace first."
My uncle tapped me on the shoulder and turned to leave.
"Uh-huh......." I looked at my uncle's back and didn't say anything to keep him.
Going around and around, I still walked to the Bright Sun Palace.
I don't know when I fell asleep, but when Arnold's shrill voice sounded in my ears, I knew that something had happened in Liuli Palace again.
It was just dawn, and I hurried to the place where Asher lived, and he had sent a servant to the Shining Sun Hall to deliver a message, saying that he had invited me to come and have a look. However, the servant's expression looked terrified. I didn't ask too much, and directly used spiritual magic to reach the front of Asher's hospital as quickly as possible.
Pushing open the door of Asher's room, his figure standing in front of the bed, his gray robe hanging all the way to the ground.
"Asher, what's going on?"
Asher didn't answer, but moved to the side and looked at me, and I couldn't see anything in his pupils, until, my gaze drifted to the bed, how could it be ......? I couldn't believe my eyes.
"Aoyama ......."
I saw Aoyama lying on the bed with his eyes wide open, motionless, with a dagger stuck in his chest, and the bright red liquid flowed out of his body until it reached the ground, and in the other corner of the bed, he curled up in horror.
"He ......."
I stared at the scene in front of me, not knowing where to speak.
"I came here when I heard the screams of hope, and just now, the night has been quiet." Asher spoke.
"How so?"
"When Aoyama died, he should have seen something, so his eyes widened in disbelief." Asher began to use spiritual magic, taking the scepter around the room, and I knew he had begun divination.
"Who else is there when you arrive?"
"I hope to live with Aoyama, I should be the first person to be on the scene." Asher was quick to answer me.
"You?"
"Yes, my room is next door, and they both live together."
"What about the other diviner of the Buyue Clan?"
"They're in another place."
"Did Asher find anything?" Thinking of the breadth of the murderer, I could only ask Asher about the results of his divination.
"There's nothing too obvious."
"Isn't it a little different?" I looked around the room, everything seemed normal, and it was hard to notice anything out of the ordinary.
"Wait...... There's a strange footprint here. Asher stopped me and crouched down in front of the bed. Through the blue light of the scepter, I could see the footprints as well.
"This must have been left by the murderer.
Asher and I looked at each other, and this was the only clue to Aoyama's death.
Afterwards, I immediately gathered the entire Liuli Palace, including the palace cooks, and asked them to stand in the center of the main hall, and Asher began to check their feet one by one. From the first person to the last foot, no footprints were found that matched the murder scene. Asher shook his head worriedly, and let everyone go down, only the people of the Buyue clan refused to leave.
"Mr. Asher, in the death of Aoyama, you must find the murderer!" The rest of the soothsayers were grief-stricken, and each looked at Asher with longing eyes.
"Qingshan is the soothsayer of my Buyue clan, and I am also responsible ......for his death." Asher soothed the soothsayers, and her frown looked even deeper on the old face.
"Asher, how about praying?"
"Palace Master, since I entered the room, I have been trembling and crying, and my mind has been in a trance."
"He was the only one on the scene, and there's a good chance he witnessed the whole thing."
"I know, I'll heal him as soon as possible."
Whose footprints are these? I couldn't figure it out.
"Palace master, shouldn't the ladies of the Liuli Palace also come over to take a look?" Asher's voice rang out from the silence. I saw firmness in his eyes.
"Ladies and daughters?"
"Asher is referring to a dream?" My gaze began to become serious, and I kept staring at Asher as he walked in front of me.
"Yes. Such a thing has not happened in Liuli Palace for hundreds of years, and the palace master should treat it seriously. ”
"Asher means a dream, or no one has ever come in from the outside in the Liuli Palace, except for that Zhai Li."
"Qingshan is a senior soothsayer of the Buyue clan, I only hope that the palace master will treat this matter seriously."
After Asher finished speaking, she fell to one knee on the ground, as if pleading, as if persecuting.
The air froze for a long .......
"Ladies please!"
In the end, I compromised. Gathering his mother, sisters, dreams, and all the maids of the Liuli Palace in the main hall, Asher bowed deeply and began to check.
"Palace Master, it's neither." Asher stepped forward and possessed me.
"Asher thinks, is there anyone else in this glass palace who hasn't been checked?"
"It's all checked."
"That's good."
"But there's another person?"
"Come on," I looked at him, holding out my foot.
"No, it's not the palace master, it's Ke of the Pleiades Palace."
"Asher, why should you be embarrassed for your uncle, I have said it many times, he ...... after all."
"Xiu, I'm here." Uncle suddenly came to the main hall and interrupted me.
"Uncle, why are you here?"
"I heard from the servants that someone died in the Liuli Palace, and Asher is looking for the murderer in the main hall, so let's take a look."
"Well, Qingshan is dead, originally, I planned to keep him and let him be the soothsayer of the Liuli Palace."
"Who the hell is it that such a cruel murderer has been found?" Looking at my uncle's eagerness, I blamed Asher even more, he knew that his uncle had no spiritual skills, how could he kill Qingshan under his nose.
"Only a pair of footprints were found at the scene, and Asher checked everyone's, and none of them matched."
"Mine should also check, after all, it is from the distant Buyue clan, and the Liuli Palace should give an explanation to the Buyue clan." So saying, the uncle sat down on the ground and took off his shoes.
"Uncle......."
"Asher, please."
"Yes." Asher crouched on the ground and began to examine his uncle's feet, and soon he gave me the answer.
Uncle's feet don't fit either.
"Everyone has a hard time today, and it will continue tomorrow." I sent everyone away and lifted up my uncle.
"Let Asher also check on Xiu, people's lives are a matter of heaven, don't leave anyone out." Uncle stopped Asher, who was about to leave, and smiled softly.
"Any?" Asher turned and stared at her uncle.