"This is a good sign, don't you see that Brother Ah Nian is also getting stronger little by little? My Yue'er must be fine!" Qing Ci still praised without hesitation.

"Here...... It's the outskirts of Puqiu City, right?" Ji Zi'an looked at the surroundings and found that they were standing on a fairly spacious official road at this time.

"Well, I didn't plan to go into town right now. Qing Ci said.

"Why don't you go into the city?" An Ruyue asked suspiciously.

"Tomorrow they will hold their so-called 'Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony', and at the moment we are only afraid that the Imperial City is heavily guarded, and we rush to it, I am afraid that it will cause a commotion. You can't use spells to suppress those mortals, it's damned. Qing Ci spread his hands helplessly.

"What is that?" Except for Cang Wunian, the other people present obviously didn't understand the reasons.

"Now that we're all here, I might as well tell you straight. Luo Fan's predecessors and his party had come to this Puqiu City a month ago, but Hui Gu was arrested by the city's Praetorian Guards. It is said that Zi Qingke, the great master of the Changyue Kingdom, suggested that the monarch search for beautiful women, who know how to use spells, and who are still virgins, and when they find 7749 such women, they will choose to hold the 'Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony' on this year's winter solstice," Qing Ci explained.

"What?" the crowd was stunned.

"You mean, they're going to take my aunt as a sacrifice?" Although there had been some speculation before, but at this moment, when he heard the news of Aunt Hui's accident coming out of Qing Ci's mouth, Hua Allure's heart still involuntarily suddenly tightened.

"Nine times out of ten, that's the case. But I haven't heard from me these days, and maybe it's not that bad. Besides, Luo Fan's predecessors won't leave your aunt alone. Qing Ci speculated.

"Then what should we do now? are we just waiting here?" Hua Chengcheng was anxious, obviously eager to enter the city immediately to find Luo Fan and them.

"Miss Allure, don't be in a hurry, tonight I will quietly go into the city to find Luo Fan's seniors and ask them how they plan. Qing Ci comforted.

"No, I'm going too. As soon as he heard Qing Ci and planned to be a hero alone, he suddenly straightened his face.

Besides, it was her aunt who was arrested now, how could she let Qing Ci take this risk instead of her?

"Let's go with the three of us, Brother Ji and Ruyue, the four of you are waiting outside here to meet us. Knowing that painting Allure would never be persuaded at such a time, he simply opened his mouth and proposed to go with her and Qingci.

With that, he stretched out his hand, and six butterfly-shaped objects that were completely black appeared in front of everyone.

"This is the communication order of the Thousand Machine Pavilion, and this thing is still convenient and accurate enough when the gathering is not too far away. I've made a few changes to them so that they don't alarm irrelevant people. Seeing the suspicious expressions on everyone's faces, Cang Wunian opened his mouth to explain.

"How should I use this thing?" Qiao Sanniang fiddled with the black butterfly in her hand and asked suspiciously.

"There is a phosphorus fire bomb in the butterfly's belly, and if you shoot it into the air with mana, it will burn and burst, creating a flame of light in the night sky. The changes I made to them were to make them look like fireworks when they burst, and they could continue to burst more than ten times, so that even the people of the Thousand Machine Pavilion would not know that this was a signal belonging to the Thousand Machine Pavilion. Cang Wunian said.

Hearing him say this, the six of them all nodded, reached out and grabbed the communication order in front of them.

The waiting process was always boring and anxious, and the seven of them were afraid that staying on the official road would be too conspicuous, so they found a clearing in the woods on both sides of the road and sat together and waited for night to fall.

Thankfully, it's winter, and it's already dark.

When a few stars were hung sporadically in the dark night sky, it seemed that thousands of lights had been lit in the imperial capital from a distance.

At this time, Cang Wunian, Hua Allure, and Qing Ci looked at each other and nodded, and then Huo Ran got up, and the mana around the three of them surged lightly, and they quickly disappeared into this clearing.

But when they arrived outside the walls of Puqiu City, the three of them stopped very tacitly. Because they all felt that the entire edge of the imperial city was forbidden by someone.

This is a kind of prohibition used to monitor, and from the method of prohibition, you can feel the caution of the caster, if the person who is not cultivated enough, he will not be able to detect the existence of such a prohibition around this imperial city. On the other hand, some people who think highly of themselves think that such a prohibition is ineffective for themselves, but they are likely to ignore the other party's scheming when they enter it, and expose their own existence.

At this time, Cang Wunian and the three of them hid their bodies and fell outside the city gate, looking at the prohibition in front of them, Qing Ci couldn't help but raise his eyebrows: "Yo, I can't see that this Laoshizi National Master really has two brushes." This little prohibition is quite subtle. ”

"It is estimated that it is because of this prohibition that Luo Fan's predecessors and his party will be surrounded by officers and soldiers as soon as they enter the imperial city. Cang Wunian said with a frown.

"But...... With the cultivation of Luo Fan's predecessors, it is impossible not to detect the existence of this prohibition? If he does, why do he have to pass through here? This Puqiu City is not the only way to Shifan Mountain, right?" Hua Chengcheng asked suspiciously.

"It's not the way to go, maybe ...... They have a reason why they have to go through here. This is still to wait for Luo Fan's predecessors to know the reason. Cang Wunian replied.

"Then what should we do now? to go in or not to go in?" Hua Chengcheng looked at the prohibition in front of him like a thin curtain with a faint brilliance, and hesitated a little.

"Then you have to go in, can this little surveillance ban stop the master?" Qing Ci pursed his lips and said with some dissatisfaction.

After saying that, he suddenly stretched out his hand, holding Cang Wunian with one hand and painting Allure with the other, and a faint blue light surged around him, and then the blue light crossed his two hands to the two of them respectively.

"Mobilize your own mana according to my method, and we will be ready to go in. Qing Ci reminded softly.

Hearing this, Cang Wunian and Hua Chengcheng hurriedly mobilized their own mana, and under the guidance of the mana from Qingci, the bodies of the three of them gradually transformed into purple, gold, and blue beams.

Then three beams of light flashed, and they passed directly through the surveillance prohibition outside the city gate, as if the prohibition was air, and they didn't even touch it.

Entering Puqiu City, the streets and alleys are very lively, red lanterns are hung at the door of every house, it seems that tomorrow's "Sacrifice to the Heavens Ceremony" seems to have a lot of significance for the people in the city.

The three beams of light shuttled quickly through the city, and in less than a stick of incense, they had already surrounded most of the entire Puqiu City. Finally, at the southernmost end of the city, they found the "Tianxi Village" that the Thousand Shadows Shadow Guard had mentioned.

This Tianxi Village is the largest inn in the imperial city, and it looks very luxurious and magnificent. On weekdays, this magnificent inn is specially for those wealthy merchants who come to the imperial capital from other cities to do business, and the inn not only provides first-class food and accommodation, but also invites all kinds of beautiful women to perform songs and dances on the stage in the center of the inn every night.

Every year, an Oiran election is held here, and many women who think they are beautiful come from all over the country. In such a grand election, even if you can't win the championship, if you are lucky enough to be favored by the dignitaries and nobles among them, you will have no worries for the rest of your life.

In addition, the largest gambling house in the entire Puqiu City is also here, and a big gambling game will be opened every once in a while, and the content of the gambling game is also strange, from whether the monarch of Changyue Kingdom is fortunate to have a concubine that night, and down to the two big yellow dogs running together on East Street, which can run to the door of Tianxi Village first. There is only what the spectators can't think of, and there is nothing that the dealer can't do.

In short, this is the largest gold cave in the entire imperial city, and it happens from time to time that the children of rich families spend a lot of money here.

But few people know that the master behind this Tianxi Village is Ziqingke, the great teacher of Changyue Kingdom.

Looking at this magnificent-looking Tianxi Village, the painting Allure couldn't help but be a little surprised, "Oh my God...... Is this really an inn? This beautiful decoration is about to catch up with the palace of Wansang Kingdom. ”

Qing Ci couldn't help but smack his tongue when he looked at the building in front of him, but when he noticed the secret guards hiding around here, his face became a little solemn: "The news of Qianjiying can't be wrong, since the head of the shadow guard said that Luo Fan's predecessors are under house arrest here, then they must be here." I don't know if you've noticed, but the hidden guards around here are all magical. ”

"It's true that although the mana of these secret guards is not very strong, but according to my guess, they may have some secret methods or difficult formations, so it is better for us to be careful. Cang Wunian said in a deep voice.

"Since you've already come, isn't it a little unreasonable not to go in and take a look?" Qing Ci smiled suddenly.

"Of course I'm going to go in, wasn't I shocked by the magnificence of this inn before? Let's go, let's go, let's go in!" Hua Chengcheng nodded very seriously, and his body turned into a beam of golden light and prepared to go inside.

"Eh, eh...... Miss Allure, wait a minute. Qing Ci hurriedly grabbed the painting Allure.

"What's wrong?" said Allure looked at him in confusion.

"Let's go in openly. Qing Ci Zhengse said.

"Is it above board? Could it be that you want the guards at the door to see us?" said Hua Chengcheng pouting dissatisfiedly.

"Hehe, the mountain people have their own tricks. Qing Ci grinned.

Then I saw his figure disappear in a flash, and he disappeared beside Cang Wunian and Hua Chengcheng, and he didn't know where he had gone.

After about a cup of tea, there was a commotion behind the two, and Cang Wunian and Hua Chengcheng looked back at the sound, but saw a gorgeous sedan chair coming towards the gate of Tianxi Village, and the sedan chair was followed by a number of guards, which looked quite promising.