Feng Yan was slightly stunned - she never thought that Wei Xingzhen would give such an answer.

She couldn't help but smile, "Not once? ”

"Hmm."

Feng Yan clapped her hands perfunctorily and laughed, "Lord Wei is really powerful. ”

Wei Xingzhen inexplicably heard a bit of ridicule from Feng Yan's words, as if she didn't believe her words at all.

- Is this ...... Isn't it weird.

When several people came to the mountain gate of the Liufu Garden, everyone got off the car and dismounted and began to walk.

The garden was quiet at this time.

This huge manor in the mountains and forests is rarely visited, and along the way, Feng Xiaoqi only saw a few sweeping Taoists, who were wearing wide and drooping robes, looking solemn.

Du Weifeng walked in front to lead the way, and the others followed closely.

"Sister, the Heavenly Master seems to be familiar with this place?" Feng Xiaoqi asked.

"Yes," Feng Yan replied softly, "Because, the place where the Heavenly Master 'retreats' are here. ”

"Retreat ......?"

Before Feng Xiaoqi could ask about it, he saw that his aunt had already appeared in front of him, and the road was not far away.

As soon as she saw Feng Yan and Xiao Qi, a smile appeared on the old man's face, and behind her, there were two young maids with indifferent expressions.

"Follow me." Old Madam Feng said softly.

Feng Yan and Xiao Qi walked forward, and after about seven or eight steps, Xiao Qi turned back with some hindsight - Wei Xingzhen and Du Weifeng both stood in place and did not follow.

"Sister, they-"

"Ahead is a forbidden place." Feng Yan said softly, "Outsiders can't enter. ”

"Oh......" Xiao Qi retracted his gaze and continued to walk with his aunt and sister with a little curiosity.

Behind them, Wei Xingzhen and Du Weifeng stood in place and watched them go away.

Until the corners of Feng Yan's clothes completely disappeared at the end of the road, Wei Xingzhen looked at Du Weifeng, "Yesterday's hexagram, does the Heavenly Master have a clue?" ”

Du mocked up and groaned for a while, "Go out for a walk? ”

Wei Xingzhen nodded.

……

"So you went up the mountain this time not to pray for any blessing, but to sweep away this ...... What kind of martyr is this? ”

In Danshe, Xiao Qi looked at her sister and aunt with a shocked face.

Feng Yan lowered her head and drank tea, "Yes, but it's true that Your Majesty set up an altar to pray for blessings, but you don't need me to go." ”

Xiao Qi thought about everything that happened yesterday, especially Sister A's sentence "Stay in Tianji Palace tonight", she suddenly reacted, "Sister, do you already know that I want to go up the mountain this time-"

"Hmm." Feng Yan nodded.

"But how do you know ......"

"Guess."

"......" Xiao Qi hissed softly, "Sister is...... How do you guess? ”

Feng Yan said softly, "Last year, you failed in the selection, and you were already suppressing a momentum, but this year, you encountered a deliberate target like Cen Lingju, coupled with the recent wild spirits...... I'm guessing you'll go off the rails. ”

Xiao Qi bit his lip lightly.

"This matter of the wild spirit, you can't be underestimated, Xiao Qi." Old Madam Feng also picked up the teacup, and she said softly, "The technique of attracting spirits can destroy the body at the least, and kill you at the worst...... Whether the spiritual sense is open or not depends on chance, how can you take this risk for such a trivial matter? ”

"It's not a trivial matter." Feng Xiaoqi said softly, "Let's talk about other methods, I've tried them in the past two years......"

For example, in the middle of winter, go to the cold pool to meditate and meditate;

For example, in the dog days, in the hot summer, in the mountains and forests;

For example, using some strange incense and herbs, such as using some tricky and strange formations, such as deliberately allowing yourself to face demon beasts and fall into a desperate situation, in order to complete the awakening when life and death are on the line......

However, all of them ended in failure - if the fifth brother hadn't arrived in time for the last time, perhaps she would have been torn to pieces by the fierce beast she had provoked.

Old Madam Feng laughed and slowly put the cup in her hand on the tea cup.

"Flowers have their own flowering period, and so do you."

The old man's voice was soft and dry.

"You're a late-blooming child, so you'll have to wait longer than anyone else."

Xiao Qi smiled bitterly, "I understand." ”

"No, you don't understand." Old Madam Feng said softly, "At your age, you can't understand - it's okay if your sister takes you up the mountain this time, you haven't seen a wild spirit, so your aunt will take you to see it once." ”

"But the wild spirit didn't open the divine sense—"

"Auntie naturally has a way." Old Madam Feng stretched out her hand to Feng Yan, Feng Yan got up and stepped forward and helped the old man stand up.

Xiao Qi also immediately got up and grabbed the old man's other arm.

Old Madam Feng led the two girls slowly into the house, and behind a cabinet door, a deep stone passage revealed its entrance.

Candles flanked the stone path beneath her feet, and the light of the fire faintly illuminated the outline of the road, but she couldn't see the edge of the stone path - there was deeper darkness in the distance, and the walls couldn't be seen at all.

"It's so dark in here." Xiao Qi said softly.

"Be careful, don't fall." Feng Yan said softly.

Falling?

Feng Xiaoqi suddenly shuddered—could it be that the edge of the road under his feet was not a stone wall, but a hanging one?

"If you're afraid, just take me."

Feng Yan stretched out her hand, and Xiao Qi immediately grabbed it.

A circular shadow in the distance caught Xiao Qi's gaze tightly, until there were only a dozen steps left, she finally saw clearly—it was a huge armillary sphere.

The armillary sphere is a tool used to measure the coordinates of celestial bodies, with three layers from the inside to the outside, and a hollow speculum on the innermost side.

When stargazing, as long as the speculum is pointed at the star you want to measure, then the moving speculum will drive the inner and middle rings of the armillary sphere to rotate, and the inside of each ring is marked with a scale, so as long as you write down the corresponding scale, you can get the declination of the star.

"How could the armillary sphere be placed here......" Feng Xiaoqi stepped forward a little strangely, "I can't see the stars here." ”

"I can see it." Old Madam Feng said softly.

She began to chant a scripture, and with the old man's soft, long voice, the entire dark stone chamber gradually lit up.

Countless light blue points of light flashed in the darkness, like stars seen at night.

Feng Xiaoqi looked at the scene in all directions with some panic - the space here looked like an endless universe, with countless stars above her head, under her feet, in front of and behind her...... Manifest in turn.

And the ground she stood on was like a floating island floating in the vast starry sky.

"This is ......" Xiao Qi looked down from the edge of the floating island, and suddenly found something, she pointed to her bottom, "Ah-it seems to be Beidou over there?" ”

"yes." Old Madam Feng nodded, "Because it's noon, they're under our feet, and when the night comes, they'll rise into the sky again." ”

Xiao Qiyi was a little speechless, and she felt an indescribable romance.

Yes, of course - any ordinary day, looking down from where anyone stands, he has his feet on the stars.

"These 'stars' you see are actually wild spirits in the past, but we have used some methods to capture them, and make them no longer eye-catching, and simulate the movement of the stars." Old Madam Feng said softly, "So we can ...... See all the stars here at any time, including the ...... that you don't normally see. Our stars. ”

"Our ...... Star? ”

Old Madam Feng took Xiao Qi's hand, then raised it slightly, pointing to the two pale red twin stars in the southwest corner.

"Do you see those two stars?"

“…… Well. ”

"It's you on the west side, and Ah Yan on the east side." The old man said softly, she held Xiao Qi's hand and moved slightly westward, pointing to a dark red star, "This one is me." ”