Chapter 20: The Thirteenth Mourner

On the day of mourning, the wind is sad, the sun and the moon are lightless, and heaven and earth mourn for it.

The six chief priests and the twenty-four priests sat cross-legged in the back hall, ringing bells in their hands, and silently reciting the scriptures of the afterlife. The twelve guests arrived as scheduled, dressed in linen and silk, silent, recalling the benefits of Yu Yuanjun's life, but now they died of illness and could not die well, and they all burst into tears.

The soul is knotted and the sky is heavy, and the ghosts and gods gather to gather the clouds. The daylight is cold and the grass is short, and the moonlight is bitter and frosty. The funeral rite made the mourning music sound, the heavy death knell echoed in the morning and dusk, the mountains and rivers were supreme, since then the stars have changed, the clouds have passed away, and there is no No. 1 person in the Yuan.

After the song, the soul is summoned, the seat is placed, and the lamp is lit, and the twelve mourners offer the elegiac couplet, crying and blood, sad and runny, Kyushu is thousands of miles, and the black daisy is a piece.

"Nanyang Yuze respects the gods and worships the name, and offers the coupletโ€”โ€”"

"Demo Hanchi Immortal Officials worship the name of the post, and offer the couplet-"

"Taihe Immortal Worship the Famous Post, Offer the Couplet-"

"Hao Yuanjun worships the name post, and offers the couplet-"

The immortals stepped forward in turn to give their last condolences to the Yuan Jun. For a time, the mountains and rivers were silent, the sky was cloudy and the ghosts were crying, the long wind was gentle, and it was like a frosty morning. As the younger brother of Yu Yuanjun, Yu Yuanjun presented the last elegiac couplet for the deceased, wishing the deceased to surpass as soon as possible and die happily.

After a moment of condolence, Han Yuanjun slowly entered a stick of incense, signaling that the funeral rite could invite the funeral student to be clothed and graved. The funeral rite student seemed to freeze, hesitated for a long time, and stammered: "God...... Divine Monarch, there is also a name worship post......"

The immortals were amazed, and sent out twelve worship posts, how could there be this thirteenth guest? Yu Yuanjun's face immediately became gloomy, and he shouted in a low voice: "Present!"

The funeral rite student presented the thing in his hand tremblingly, and Han Yuanjun looked at it fixedly, it was a letter, the paper was yellow, wrinkled, and looked old.

The awareness of vigilance he had cultivated over the years made him shake his head quickly, look left and right, and found that the hall was silent, and the eyes of the immortals were scorching, all staring at him.

Twelve people and twelve shadows, how can there be a thirteenth mourner?

Lou Che also looked at Yu Yuanjun with a puzzled expression, and Yu Yuanjun opened the envelope and found that there was only a thin piece of paper, which was also smoked and dried and wrinkled, and some small characters were densely written on the back of the paper. Yu Yuanjun looked at the front of the paper, and then his face was like earth. With a shudder of the fingers, the paper slipped off the fingertips.

A gust of wind blew, and the yellow paper floated in the air and swooped down on a pot of burning charcoal. The demon civilization was destroyed, and in a moment, it turned into ashes.

The immortals panicked and kept looking, and He Yan was in the apse at the time, although he was curious, he couldn't enter the main hall. Just when she was ignorant, her eyes flickered, and the blue butterfly she saw that day suddenly appeared in front of her.

Lou Che saw that Yu Yuanjun was in such a gaffe, and knew that the situation was serious, so he immediately sent someone to relieve the immortals present. The green tendons on his forehead flared up, and his pupils were dim, as if he had seen some evil ghost.

There were only a few words on the note:

Yu Yuan is extended. Zero ninety-six.

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What they didn't know was that on the last day of the eighty-six thousand five hundred and forty-second year of Hongmeng, three famous people, including Yan Yuanjun Yanyu, received an invitation at the same time, inviting them to carry out a ritual called "Spiritual Confession" to the end, and the sender was unknown.

The heavily armed heavenly soldiers in the twelve halls are patrolling everywhere, the gods present are dressed solemnly, the Yuan Jun is in tears, and Shangqing is carrying out a mournful condolence.

He thought that such an abrupt visit was not polite, so he left his own prayer post, and 096 was just a code name to show respect.

Yu Yuanjun was surprised and panicked when he saw the note, the riot of the gods, and Lou Che's impatience and anger...... He knew that there must be countless people looking for him now, but he couldn't show up yet.

After all, this game has just begun.

At the condolence meeting, the receipt of a mysterious letter by Yu Yuanjun caused a lot of turmoil, and it was spread to hundreds, although Lou Che tried his best to conceal it, this matter finally reached the ears of the emperor.

In the face of the arrogant clamor of a mysterious killer, Shangqing two immortal gods died in succession, the wind of the Son of Heaven, how can it be offended, the Emperor of Heaven was furious, thinking that the eldest son was incompetent, and even a condolence meeting of twelve people could be fished in troubled waters, and he would be condemned to him in a moment or three. Jian Yong, the queen of heaven, was worried that her son's position as the prince was not guaranteed, so she united the gods to come up with a countermeasure, and secretly taught Lou Che how to deal with it.

This mysterious 096, the queen of heaven, Jian Yong, means to find four people with the Tao, unite and work together, and carry the killer to the end, and not destroy him. In this way, the killer is equivalent to having a nemesis dedicated to him, and he can also destroy his prestige.

It's just that these four candidates are difficult. There are a vast number of famous immortal gods in the Six Realms, and it is not easy to find four people among them who are strong in immortal skills, have outstanding wisdom, and have enough ability to compete with that killer. The queen of heaven was worried that her son was too young to take on this important responsibility, so she specially invited the judicial god Ju Ling to assist her, plus the evil exorcist Wang Xuanjing, there was still one candidate missing.

At this time, the old immortal Mu Yu of Penglai Pavilion said about a daughter: "The merman clan once had a princess Lingyu, named Xingfu, who was born with a good skill, Wen Tao Wuluo, good at immortal arts, and a good ability to recognize incense and refine medicine, but she is a rare talent among the younger generations. โ€

The next day, the people of the merman tribe sent people back and forth to say that the princess was seriously ill, and she was afraid that she would come to visit the queen of heaven later. The queen of heaven asked what the illness was, and the merman clan was hesitant, and after asking for a long time, she learned that the princess was plotted by the ghost mother a few days ago, and was imprisoned in the mage tower, and was almost used as a medicine for alchemy. Later, he desperately escaped when the mage tower collapsed, and his vitality was greatly damaged, and he was recuperating in the sea at the moment.

Jian Yong, the queen of heaven, was embarrassed at the beginning, and heard that the prince's junior apprentice and the concubine were quite capable, so she was also counted as a person, and a little fairy said: "There is a son who has recently come to the side of the girl, who is graceful and extraordinary, I am afraid that the son's kind words persuaded him, so he asked the girl to take on such an irrelevant job." โ€

So Julu, Lou Che, Heyu, and Xuanjing twisted into a rope and named it the "Red Squad", and since then they have been responsible for the follow-up news about "Zero Ninety-Six", and they have been given to Deyin Pavilion.

The red letter is heroic, and the evil is eradicated. Jian Yong, the queen of heaven, set up a banquet for the red-letter team in Qingyan, Kyushu, and invited the four gods to the venison in Nangu, and everyone was familiar with each other and released their suspicions.

The small banquet in the pavilion is not mentioned in business. Juluo, Lou Che, Xuanjing and Yu each sat down to drink and feast. In addition to waking up and recovering from old knowledge, the gods drank and talked freely, but they were not very formal. During the banquet, the bamboo orchestra cheered up, and he played a song "Thinking". The sound of the piano is lingering, the guests and hosts are happy, everyone knows that after this feast, they will face the terrible opponent who hides in the shadows, and they will enjoy it today, and they don't know when.

After drinking, the sky was hazy and ethereal, and drizzle began to fall. The immortals soared away from the clouds, only greedy for rain with her, and couldn't stay.

The wind and rain are getting stronger, mixed with the sound of water droplets and stones, but in the blue and faded water curtain, there is a vague silhouette of a person. The water and sky are colorful, the autumn water is rippling, the silhouette gradually washes away the blur, and a man in a green robe comes with an umbrella.

It's sparkling. Wet hair stuck to his temples, and raindrops were dripping down his face.

He Fei was slightly surprised and said, "You are here?"

He didn't put away his umbrella, "Let's go?"

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