Chapter 16: Going to the Feast
Li Taiyi and Chu Lingyan spent a day in cultivation. When dusk came, Chu Lingyan's Clear Wind Blade could already slash out seven wind blades in a row, and Li Taiyi was also more proficient in the arson technique recorded on the fragment of the exercise, "Leaving the Fire".
After returning to the guest village and having dinner, he was obviously extremely excited because of Chu Lingyan's substantial increase in strength.
She squinted and smiled and said to Li Taiyi: "Brother Taiyi, thanks to you this time." Xiao Yan may be able to enter the top 20 this time, and she may even be able to obtain the spiritual empowerment of the Red Moon Empire's protector! It would be nice if she could open more than 12 innate entrances~"
"Oh?" Li Taiyi asked with some curiosity, "Don't you want to participate in the Hundred Domains Selection?"
"Hundred Domains Selection..."Chu Lingyan's eyes flashed with a hint of expectation, but she sighed again, "Of course Xiao Yan thinks about it, it's just that the Hundred Domains are selected by the Heavenly Pride and the Red Moon Empire is only five places." Xiao Yan can't go if she wants to. ”
"That's right. Mrs. Li said casually, "But it doesn't matter, as long as Xiao Yan wants to go, she will definitely be able to go." ”
Chu Lingyan smiled, only thinking that Li Taiyi was comforting her, and didn't really take it to heart.
After a while, there was a knock on the door. When Mrs. Li heard this, she stepped forward and opened the door slightly.
There was a rather handsome maid standing outside the door, and when she saw Mrs. Li, she bowed slightly.
"Are you?" asked Mrs. Lee, puzzled.
"Hui Gongzi, the slave family is the maid of Yihong Courtyard. ”
"Yihongyuan?" Li Taiyi frowned, "What are you looking for me for?"
"Back to Gongzi, my young lady has set up a banquet on the second floor of Yihong Courtyard. I want to invite my son to a banquet. ”
"Your young lady invited me to a banquet?" Mrs. Li thought of her piano music that almost made him lose his heart at that time, such a dangerous woman actually set up a banquet for herself, saying that it was not a Hongmen banquet, and he didn't believe it himself.
After thinking about it, Li Taiyi was about to close the door and said, "Don't go." ”
The maid stretched out her hand to stop the door that was about to close, and said, "Miss said that she has something that interests you." ”
"Oh, what is that?" asked Mrs. Lee.
"A drop of innate spiritual dew from the Jade Snow Peak Spirit Dew Grass. ”
At this time, it was already midday, the sky was gradually darkening, and a crescent moon hung high, looking down on the entire Red Moon Empire.
Under the leadership of the maid, Li Taiyi came to the Yihong Courtyard, which was still full of lights.
Open the door, and a fragrant breeze hits. The lobby on the first floor was filled with drunken guests, tilting their heads and closing their eyes to the sound of flutes played by the musicians around them, and the maids who came and went dragged the wine and fruit on their plates and placed them on their tables.
Mrs. Li crossed the lobby and accidentally knocked over a wine glass. The wine in the glass spilled on the ground and splashed on the body of a guest in front of him with his head bowed.
Li Taiyi hurriedly leaned over and picked up the wine glass, and said sorry to the guest.
The guest still kept his head down, ignoring Li Taiyi, and when Li Taiyi got closer, he found that he was already out of breath, obviously dead.
The maidservant girl who followed Li Taiyi waved her hand, and someone immediately stepped forward and carried him away.
"Let Childe see and smile. The servant girl said lightly, and reached out again to make a gesture of please.
Li Taiyi took a deep breath and continued to walk forward, raising his feet and stepping on the steps leading to the second floor.
He was led by his maidservants to an accord, which contained only a table filled with all kinds of delicacies from the mountains and seas, fine wines, a chair made of precious agarwood, and a silk screen.
The figure of the saintess was reflected on the screen, and even so, her perfect figure could be clearly seen.
She said softly: "The little girl Yue is silent, please take a seat." ”
"The dignified Holy Maiden of the Red Moon Empire is not a little girl. Li Taiyi stared at her and said coldly.
Yue Wuyin covered her mouth and chuckled: "Childe is so interesting, since you know that I am the holy daughter of the Red Moon Empire, I think you have heard some rumors about me." ”
"I've heard a little. ”
"Now that I've heard of it, Childe is still so arrogant in front of the little girl," Yue Wuyin said with a smile, "I don't know if Childe is really capable?" or ...... Aren't you afraid of death?"
She poured her spirit into her voice during the last sentence, causing Mrs. Li to be in a trance for a moment after hearing it.
"Is it arrogant?" Li Taiyi immediately came to his senses and replied, "I was rude." ”
He casually took an empty wine glass, filled it with a wine jug, and then ran the Nine Palaces Bagua Diagram in the Sea of Knowledge, compressing the extremely rich divine soul into the wine glass.
"Toast to Miss below, and please don't remember Miss below. ”
After that, he handed over the glass of wine, and a maidservant gently picked it up and put it behind the screen.
The divine soul power in this glass of wine can make a monk whose soul is at the beginning of the realm lose his mind for several hours.
Yue Wuyin gently picked up the wine glass behind the screen, peeled off her silk veil with her hands, and raised her head to drink.
After a while, she put down the wine glass and said with a smile: "Li Gongzi is really a good means. ”
Li Taiyi also smiled: "Miss has won the award." ”
He pulled out a chair, sat down and said, "I heard that Miss has a drop of innate spirit dew in her hand?"
"Oh, Childe really has an idea about this innate spirit dew. ”
She waved her hand, and a maid came up with a jade bottle and gently uncorked it. A touch of pure dew from the inside of the bottle,
"This is the innate spirit dew that Childe wants. It's just that this innate spirit dew, my Red Moon Empire only has three drops. The little woman had already used a drop for herself, and sold another drop at auction, and now only this last drop of Innate Spirit Dew remained. ”
"If Childe wants it, he has to show some sincerity. Yue Wuyin said with a smile, and waved his hand to let people accept this drop of spiritual dew back.
"Oh, is there anything I can do here?" asked Mrs. Lee.
"Yes, I just don't know if the son is willing?"
"Tell me about it. ”
"Li Gongzi must have been selected for this hundred domains," Yue Wuyin said softly, "I wonder if there are any seniors behind Li Gongzi who will tell you the strangeness of this hundred domains selection?"
"I don't know. Li Taiyi replied.
"I don't know?" Yue Wuyin was stunned for a moment and asked, "Isn't there anyone in Gongzi's family or sect who reminds you?"
Li Taiyi frowned, according to what she said, could it be that there would be something abnormal in the Hundred Domains Selection this time?
He said to Yue Wuyin: "There is no sect and no sect in the bottom, and there is no cultivation." Please tell us more about it. ”
"Loose cultivation?" Yue Wuyin was a little puzzled, she originally thought that a powerful monk like Li Taiyi and an unknown origin would be the son of some large sects, but she never expected that he was just an ordinary casual cultivator, and looking at him, it didn't look like he was deliberately hiding his identity.
She thought for a while, and suddenly smiled lightly: "Loose cultivation~ Loose cultivation is also good." ”
"I wonder if Childe has ever heard the term "living puppet?"
"I haven't heard of it. As soon as Mrs. Li heard Yue Wuyin's two chuckles, she suddenly felt a very bad premonition.
"The so-called living puppet, the human body, the puppet heart. ”
"I have a song, if I don't hear it, I live, if I hear it, I die, and after I die, I live again. ”
"Please enjoy it. ”
She took out a lyre, and waved the strings with her bare hands, and the long, meandering music swirled through the room.
Li Taiyi's eyes widened, he didn't find that this Red Moon Holy Maiden had changed her face so quickly.
He pulled out and tried to get up, but found that he had been tied to silver-white silk and couldn't move.
The sound of the moon made him feel weak in his limbs, and he was about to fall asleep.
The Nine Palaces Bagua Diagram in the Sea of Knowledge suddenly released a wisp of Yang Qi and hit Li Taiyi's Sea of Knowledge. The heavenly eye on his forehead was also like being pricked by a needle, which made Li Taiyi wake up a little for half a minute.
He bit his tongue so hard that blood was spilling from it, and the sharp pain regained his clarity for a short time. He took a sharp breath and spit out a mouthful of scorching flames that burned the silk on his body.
Yue Wuyin snorted coldly, and more than a dozen sound blades flew out of the screen from the piano with the moving melody.
Li Tai dodged several blades on one side, but he had just recovered from his weakness, and he couldn't help but be a little powerless. A blade cut a hole in Li Taiyi's shoulder, and blood flowed out, staining Li Taiyi's clothes red.
"Damn," Mrs. Li was anxious, picked up a glass of wine on the table and poured it violently, spitting out flames in all directions.
Around the furniture, curtains, stairs, doors and chairs are not burning. The surrounding maids screamed, throwing away their armor and fleeing in all directions, knocking over countless utensils.
The billowing smoke made it difficult for Yue Wuyin to attack Li Taiyi, and Li Taiyi hurriedly ran out of the compartment, setting fire everywhere along the way, and the entire Yihong Courtyard was like a fire dragon entering the room.
"Hugh away. Yue Wuyin Fuqin chased out from behind Li Taiyi and shouted, "Leave your life behind." ”
She wore a veil, her willow eyebrows were furrowed, and she quickly played a half-song of piano music with her bare hands, and many guests in the hall on the first floor were sleeping or sitting like dead people, but after hearing this song, they immediately stood up, and together they urged the practice cheats, and countless fireballs of light and flames overwhelmingly hit Li Taiyi.
Li Taiyi was forced into a desperate situation, so he could only shout angrily, open his heavenly eyes, and once again urge "Leaving the Fire".
I saw a sea of fire pouring out from Li Taiyi's Heavenly Eye like a flood of gold, burning the treasures of those many monks cleanly.
At this time, in the Yihong Courtyard, the sound of the piano, the sound of utensils falling to the ground, the screams of the maids scattering, and the sound of burning wood cracking were intertwined, and it was extremely noisy. There was also fire and fog dispersed, and smoke was everywhere, and the Yihong courtyard was extremely chaotic.
Li Taiyi took this opportunity to snatch the door out of Yihong Courtyard.
Seeing Li Taiyi fleeing, Yue Wuyin was very anxious, and hurriedly shouted: "Grandma Qing, capture him." ”
An old woman walked out of the void and said, "Miss, don't worry. ”
Just as she was about to chase forward, another whirlpool appeared in the space above, and a woman came out.
With pink faces and red pupils, ice muscles and red lips, wearing the robe of the Phoenix Emperor, and a light crescent moon on her forehead, there is no doubt that she is the Empress of the Red Moon.
With a wave of her hand, all the noise fell silent, the smoke dissipated on its own, and the flames were extinguished.
"Your Majesty. Yue Wuyin and Qing Ma both knelt down and called respectfully.
"Get up. The Red Moon Empress said, showing the majesty of the emperor with her gestures.