Chapter 15: Out of the Body
There are oil lamps lit on the wall of the Taoist temple, and on a summer night, following the guidance of the oil lamps, I came to a large room, where there was a clay statue of a Taoist with fairy wind bones, and more oil lamps were lit around, but they were placed very disorderly, on the ground, on the table, and even on the feet of the clay sculptures...... It's everywhere.
And Xuanqing sat in front of the clay sculpture, in the middle of the starry oil lamp, holding a wine jar and constantly pouring wine into his mouth.
Summer Night almost suspected that the slightly magnetic, echoing invitation she had just heard was from the drunkard's mouth.
The room was very spacious, and in one corner, there was something similar to a magic weapon, which made people feel a little weird under the flickering oil lamp, and she secretly cheered herself up: since she came, she would use the dead horse as a live horse doctor, and she would always get a result, and she had never been afraid of a more penetrating situation before. So, she cautiously stepped over the lamp on the ground and walked to Xuan Qing's side.
"You're really not an ordinary woman." The drunken half-fairy suddenly put down the wine jar and raised his drunken eyes towards the summer night.
Xia Yexin said: You can find me stalking, and you know that I am a woman, and you are not ordinary! Unexpectedly, this sentence blurted out of her mouth, and she couldn't help but be stunned, this sentence was said so naturally and fluently, it felt as if Wuye had lost control of her words.
The drunken half-fairy glanced at her, smiled 'hehe', and suddenly picked up the wine jar and jumped away.
Xia Ye knew that it must be his ghost, and immediately wanted to chase after him to ask for an explanation, but suddenly hit her head on something, but there was nothing in front of her, she stretched out her hand and pushed forward in confusion, it felt like she had hit an invisible wall, and it was the same in all directions - she was trapped inexplicably.
"What's going on, why can't I get out?" Summer Night slapped the invisible wall in front of him and asked the drunken half-immortal loudly.
The drunken half-fairy stood in front of her, still holding the wine jar in his hand, as if the wine would never be finished. He looked at the anxious Xia Ye with a hippie smile and said, "Don't call the girl, it's useless to call, you have fallen into the magic circle laid by the poor road." β
"Circle? What circle? Why are you trapping me? Summer Night asked nervously, only then did she realize that the light of those seemingly messy oil lamps was connected into strips of light, forming a huge, complex and wonderful polygon shape.
The drunken half-immortal didn't answer Xia Ye's words, but just sneered, turned his head and staggered towards the pile of magic weapons in the corner of the house.
Xia Ye had a bad premonition, and he suddenly regretted it in his heart, and he wanted to rush to the doctor and find him, a half-immortal, to save his life in danger, but according to the current situation, it seems that there is a feeling of being caught in the net.
Just thinking about it, Xuan Qing had already returned, and at this time, he didn't have a wine jar in his hand, but he had an extra peachwood sword. I saw that his left hand shook a little, and there was a pile of rune paper out of thin air, his eyes were slightly jawed, and there were words in his mouth, and he coldly inserted all those rune papers on the tip of the sword, and then the peach wood sword danced, and the more he danced, the faster he danced, the wooden sword swept past the flames of the oil lamp, and the rune paper was ignited with a 'boom'. Just when Xia Ye thought he was just pretending to be a ghost, Xuan Qing opened his mouth and spewed out a wine mist from his mouth, and the wine helped the fire, and the fire on the talisman paper instantly soared high, and before Xia Ye could react, she was surrounded by raging fire, and the invisible wall seemed to only trap her, and did not stop the fire at all.
"Xuanqing, you drunkard Taoist, I have no grievances with you, why do you harm me like this?" The summer night was scorched by the flames, like a trapped beast, and it was so frightened that it only screamed loudly.
But the drunken half-immortal ignored her.
Just when she thought she was going to die, her body suddenly felt a heart-rending pain, as if a big hand had turned her internal organs upside down, and then pulled it out alive, as if her soul, flesh and bones had been dismantled from her skin, and she was like a marionette, unable to move at the mercy of her hands, and she didn't even have the strength to die.
Suddenly, the fire disappeared, as if someone had pressed the stop button. In a trance, she saw a cool white mist surrounding her, and gradually, she felt that her soul seemed to drink the rain and calmed down, and then she realized that the fire just now was not really fire, it might just be an illusion, because there was no trace of burning on her body.
"Hmph, you really showed up!" Xuan Qing's cold voice finally reappeared.
Xia Ye was about to respond, but saw the white mist around her, which began to move without wind, gradually condensed, and finally turned into a person, standing in front of her. This man looked exactly like Summer Night, except that his body was fluttering and somewhat empty.
Summer Night thought to herself: This should be the remnant soul of the Nightless Princess who does not want to leave.
"Why are you forcing me?" The remnant soul of the nightless glare at Xuan Qing with a blank face and asked.
"Because, you should have entered the path of reincarnation a long time ago, acting against the sky, and the poor path has to be managed."
"Nonsense, it's obvious that this girl has taken my body." Nightless suddenly pointed viciously at the summer night.
"Shut up, you're still stubborn here, look at your body, but you still have flesh and bones?" Xuan Qing said mercilessly.
Wuye didn't look at her body, didn't speak, and saw that she knew it completely in her heart, but she never refused to admit this fact.
"Thank you Dao Chang for inviting her out of my body, I wonder how Chang knew about her existence?" Xia Ye felt that this Taoist priest was really unseemly, not only with high mana, but also with a heart to help the world.
"That day in the black market, the poor road bumped into the girl, and I already felt that the soul on your body was different from ordinary people, so I secretly stole what you were pregnant with, and led you to the Sword Shadow Villa, sure enough, under the lure of interests, the remnants of the soul in your body were finally revealed, and they were taken into the eyes of the poor road, but unfortunately you were later imprisoned, and the poor road was not allowed to cast spells."
Hearing these words, Xia Ye couldn't help but suddenly realize, and secretly surprised in his heart, this Taoist priest is really not an ordinary person.
Xuan Qing had already taken a big gourd as he spoke, lowered his head and bit his fingers, drew a few blood talismans on the gourd, pulled off the plug and shouted: "Injustice, where to escape!" He threw it into the air.
The remnant soul of the nightless suddenly let out a terrible cry, and instantly turned into a black thick mist, rampage in the closed enchantment, and was suddenly sucked into the gourd with a 'swoop', and then the gourd fell, just falling into the palm of the drunken half-fairy, and he quickly covered the stopper.
Xia Ye looked at Xuan Qing with his mouth open, and saw that he collected the remnant soul of the nightless like Sun Wukong collecting monsters, and couldn't help but feel a little sad that the rabbit died and the fox died.
"You, what are you going to do with me." Summer Night asked in a whispered with some humility.
"By the way, to this day, I don't know what to call the girl?" The Taoist priest sat on the ground in front of her, but looked at him left and right.
"My name is Summer Night."
"Miss Xia, I'm afraid you won't be able to leave here."
"Why?" There is a bad premonition on a summer night.
Xuan Qing frowned, and seemed to be entangled in her heart for a while, and then finally raised her head to look at Xia Ye, and said solemnly: "Because, girl, you don't belong to this world." β
Summer Night's body shook violently.
"Hehe, girl, you must be surprised, how did Poor Dao find out?" Xuan Qing said with a sudden smile that could not be hidden, and after looking around, he said angrily, "This oil lamp has not been extinguished yet, so I will listen to Poor Dao and tell you slowly." Xuan Qing said and simply sat on the opposite side of the summer night, and at some point, he hugged the wine jar in his hand again.
"What do you mean that the oil lamp is not extinguished?" Xia Ye muttered in his heart, Xuanqing had already talked about himself.
"More than ten years ago, Poor Dao was still young, but he had already studied under the famous occult scholars at that time, and he became famous, and he only wanted to enter the palace of Jiantiansi and serve the emperor. However, because the dynasties after the two Jin Dynasty were more frequent, in order to assist the Ming monarch, Poor Dao often watched the stars at night to peek at the national fortune, until the Liang Dynasty founding emperor Xiao Yan ascended the throne, Poor Dao knew that he was a benevolent and promising monarch, and the celestial phenomena showed that there were several generations of imperial fortune after him, and he was about to go out of the mountain to take refuge, and one day the stars suddenly changed, and the galaxy cracked, and then, the Liang State was replaced by the Wei State......"
"This happened more than ten years ago, what does it have to do with me?" Summer Night couldn't help but interject.
Xia Ye's accusation seemed to make Xuan Qing stunned, but in a blink of an eye, he said confidently: "I don't care about this, since that day when the Sword Shadow Villa was parted, after the poor Dao returned to the Taoist temple, I used a wisp of your breath that I secretly collected and put it on the altar, and found that your soul actually came from the afterlife, presumably from the crack of the galaxy." It is really a demon to enter the world of this time if you are not a person of this time, and the poor road will be sent back for the heavens today, otherwise, the universe will always be torn apart and cannot be repaired. β
"I see." Xia Ye muttered, she didn't expect that her time crossing would affect the balance of time and space, and listening to the words of this Taoist priest was likely to cause the consequences of making history unable to return to normal, she was silent.
She thought about it a lot: since she came to this strange era, although she has encountered a lot of ups and downs, she is lucky that she is still free, there is no person like Cen Qiang, like a fisherman raising cormorants, restraining her and using her, if she is not obedient, she will be beaten or scolded, and she can only endure silently, and there is no possibility of resistance. What's more, she met 'An Hao' here, although she can't be sure that the third son is An Hao, but these are enough to make her very glad to stay here, even if she is hit by the 'Peach Blossom Scorpion Venom', she is trying hard to find a solution.
She was once glad that she had traveled to this world, because here, she could fulfill her long-held wish: to find someone she truly loves and live a happy life like a paradise.
However, if she comes, it will really be a great disaster...... Alas, it seems that this is her fate, and she has never escaped the fate that belongs to her, like a cormorant in captivity.
Summer Night sighed softly, and then she saw that the oil lamps in the room began to flicker without wind, and began to go out one after the other.
"The lights are going out." Xuan Qing suddenly sighed in a hoarse voice.
Xia Ye had a premonition that when the lights were extinguished, this Xuan Qing was going to send herself on the road, although she was reluctant in her heart, but instead of wagging her tail and begging for mercy, it was better to face it calmly, she said to Xuan Qing: "The Taoist has the world in his heart, it is really admirable, and Xia Ye is willing to become the Taoist Chief." β
Xuan Qing couldn't help but be a little surprised, at this moment, the gourd hanging on his waist jumped violently, and a voice shouted in despair: "Dao Chief, I beg you to give me a few more days, let me take revenge and destroy my flesh again, Dao Chief!" β
"You died innocently and tragically, your grievances can't be condensed, and the poor Dao is also deeply sympathetic but can't help it, so I have to persuade you that you were born in your previous life, and you closed your eyes and were reincarnated."
"Dao Chief, please raise your noble hand and let the princess have a wish. Rest assured, I won't be untrustworthy. These days I shared the same body with the remnant of the princess, and Summer Night also developed some understanding and sympathy for her, so I spoke for her.
Xuan Qing was silent, just staring at the oil lamp with his eyes, ignoring the pleas of the summer night and the nightless.
The oil lamp was extinguished one by one, Xuan Qing stood up with a serious face, he picked up the soul bell, brandished the peachwood sword, and was about to start the practice.
When the last spark turned into green smoke with a 'poof', Xuanqing began to chant words in his mouth. As his speech became faster and faster, Xia Ye saw a dazzling white light appear above his head, and soon a black whirlpool was torn open in the center of the white light, and the whirlpool spun rapidly, becoming bigger and bigger, and the inside was as black as an ancient well, as if it was unfathomable.
Xia Ye felt the stronger and stronger suction above her head, and her body seemed to escape from this skin, knowing that this was her soul being withdrawn, she couldn't help but smile bitterly a few times in her heart: just leave like this, it's okay, at least you don't have to wait for the poison to die, at least you are a healthy person when you return to modern times. Just as Summer Night was about to accept reality, suddenly, a multicolored glow shot out from her heart, turning into a white two-tailed python and tightly wrapping her up.
The pressure on Xia Ye's body was instantly reduced, and she looked at the white snake that was firmly protecting her, only to find that it was just the shape of a snake condensed by the white mist.
"Ahh Soul Stone! It, why does it protect you, does it say, does it say, you are ......" Xuan Qing exclaimed in disbelief, at this moment, there was a sudden noise of people outside the house, he hurriedly threw down the summer night and ran out, and before he reached the door, he was blocked by a group of people.
"Boss Mo, she's here." Someone shouted.
"Hmph, I actually let you break the Dao Master's lost array." Xuan Qing just scolded stupidly, and was immediately surrounded.
At this time, the torches in the room were swaying, as bright as day, and as soon as she sat down limply on the summer night, Mo Liangren rushed over and helped her upβthe invisible wall had ceased to exist at some point, and the white snake that had wrapped around her had long since disappeared.