Chapter 330: Old Bell
Unexpectedly, before leaving, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Beiliu Kingdom actually appeared in the Mo Mansion.
And before that, the emperor had already issued an order, using the strength of the whole country to capture His Royal Highness the prince who fled in battle back to the barracks, I heard that the team that captured the prince had been chased to the city hundreds of miles away from the capital, but who knew that he actually appeared in the Mo Mansion.
There are formations laid out by the ink evil around the Mo Mansion, and ordinary people can't break in at all, which is also the reason why the emperor has not been able to monitor the Mo Mansion for so many years, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince actually came in, which makes me have to reassess the strength of His Royal Highness the Prince.
It's no wonder that Mo Xie insisted that I wear a mask early in the morning, and seeing Mo Xie's expression when he saw him, he obviously didn't like it.
Not surprisingly, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince showed a strong interest in me, but Mo Xie forced all his interest back with a single word.
"If you want to enter the Lightless Tower, put away your curiosity about my wife!"
It was this sentence that made His Royal Highness the Crown Prince not even look at me, but just smiled and said to Mo Xie: "If you are willing to satisfy my curiosity about the Lightless Tower, it is okay not to look at your wife." ”
With just two simple conversations, there is one more His Royal Highness the Crown Prince - Zhao Zhengyong in the list of no lighthouse.
Of course, at this moment, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has changed into an ordinary dress, but he was born noble and has been tempered in the army, so his momentum is a little difficult to hide, and I asked Mo Xie with some worry: "Uncle!" Are you sure that the prince will not be recognized by the emperor's people as soon as he leaves the palace? ”
"What if you recognize it?" Mo Xie asked rhetorically.
I was slightly stunned and nodded.
It seems that it is difficult to say whether the emperor wants this prince to enter the lightless tower or not.
Because the Lightless Tower is one of the five ghost lands, in order to open the gate of the Lightless Tower, it must be in the sub-hour.
A group of us had made all the preparations during the day and set out, and by the time the hour came, the group had already arrived at the lighthouse.
The lightless tower is located on the Yin Mountain outside the capital, because it is a very terrible place in the legend, so there are no residents nearby, and the key to open the lightless tower is also very special, it is a key made of yin bones that exist in an unknown age, this key is yin, and it has always been sealed and preserved by the Mo family.
But the last time Mo Xie's father entered the lightless tower and didn't come out, the emperor sent someone to get this Yin Bone Key back, and on the grounds that Mo Xie was too young to protect this key, he kept the key in the palace.
For so many years, the emperor has not given up looking for someone to explore the lighthouse, and the result is that meat buns beat dogs - there is no return.
This time, the emperor had no choice but to return the key to the ink evil.
In fact, when the Mo family held the key to the lightless tower in the past, it was not to enter the lightless tower to explore the secrets in the tower, but to ring a big bell on the first floor of the lightless tower to pray for the blessings of the people of Beiliu Kingdom.
Mo Xie told me that the big bell is actually a kind of sacrificial instrument, only the priest can ring the bell, and the bell of the bell can be transmitted to all parts of the Beiliu Kingdom, wherever the bell goes, the yin spirits and evil spirits there dare not be easily troubled, and the people can also be safe and not disturbed by the yin spirits.
But over the years, the emperor has locked the key without authorization, so that the Mo family has never rang the bell, so over the years, strange things have happened frequently in the Beiliu Kingdom, but because it did not affect the capital, the emperor ignored it completely.
It wasn't until Mo Xie stayed in Nanyan Kingdom for half a year that strange things happened in the capital that the old emperor began to be afraid.
Our group of people who went to the Lightless Tower this time included me, Mo Xie, my eldest brother, second brother, Yan Zi'an, Feng Shixian, Wen Chen, Zhuang Xun, Feng Zhan, Dai Yidao, Su Bangqing, etc., a total of eleven people.
Yulin, Wei Zhong, An Xun, and Zeng Hong stayed in the Mo Mansion, and my father and mother also stayed in the Mo Mansion to take care of my sister and Feng Shixian's child who had just reached the moon.
Before entering the Lightless Pagoda, Mo Xie gave each person a night pearl and a self-defense spirit rune, but the crown prince Zhao Zhengyong only took the spirit rune and rejected the night pearl.
Mo Xie didn't force it, but just told everyone that the reason why the lightless tower is called the lightless tower is because the lightless tower can't be lit.
He also emphasized that after we enter the lighthouse, we are not allowed to use open flames at any time, otherwise we will bear the consequences.
Everyone nodded in understanding, I glanced at everyone, and I wasn't worried about the others, but His Royal Highness the Prince, I really don't know if he can do it.
Perhaps it was my suspicion of him that was too obvious, and when His Royal Highness the Crown Prince noticed that I was looking at him, he immediately raised an eyebrow at me, and then took a shiny belt from his cuff and tied it around his waist.
The crown prince is worthy of being the prince, a belt is all inlaid with night pearls with strong luminosity, he tied this belt, and the whole person was like a moving lantern, which could directly illuminate the road around him.
I retracted my gaze speechlessly and looked at my uncle, he didn't say anything, just took the Xuanlong Jade in his hand and gently touched the Xuanlong Jade on my wrist, and the jade pendants of the two emitted a faint golden light, which was more dazzling than the night pearl of Zhao Zhengyong's belt.
The Xuanlong Jade in the hands of the two of us can already illuminate a large area, and when the others saw this, they silently put away the Night Pearl and followed behind us.
Zhao Zhengyong also followed, and glanced at the two of us very dissatisfied, and said, "You two are called cheating!" ”
Mo Xie and I didn't bother to pay attention to him, and walked directly to the center of the first floor of the hall holding hands.
As we got closer, we saw the big bell. It was a pitch-black bell, standing in the center of the main hall, probably because the yin air here was too strong, and the big bell seemed a little cold.
Mo Xie told everyone to stop where they were and wait for him, because this big bell has always been ringing by the Mo family, so he was not sure if it would have an impact on other people, so after setting up a protective shield around us, he went up alone and tried to ring this old bell.
After the old bell was pushed by the ink evil with soul power, it began to ring, and the ink evil pushed the old bell, one, two, three......
The bell rang out here, and after three rings, Mo Xie put down the bell pestle that had been ringing the bell and walked towards us.
"That's it! The bell without a lighthouse only rings three times at a time, and after three rings, all demons and ghosts within a radius of thousands of miles have to be avoided......"
"Wow ——!"
Before Mo Xie's words could be finished, the fourth bell suddenly rang.
I saw Mo Xie's face change drastically, he turned his head, and saw that the bell pestle, which was not being pushed by anyone, moved on its own, and then rang the old bell.
"Uncle! What's going on? Did the demons in the lightless tower come out and make trouble? ”
Hearing my words, Mo Xie made a silent gesture to me, and then looked at the big clock in front of him seriously, counting them.
"Nine...... Ten...... Eleven ......"
When the ink evil counted to eleven times, the bell and pestle stopped, and the bell disappeared.
As soon as the bell disappeared, the whole space was quiet except for the sound of breathing, and I looked at Mo Xie, as a priest, whether from a priest's point of view or instinctual intuition, I knew that things were starting to go badly.
"Huh? National teacher? Why did the old bell ring eleven times, is it because we happened to be eleven people? ”
The prince's expression seemed to be the most relaxed of our group, but his words reminded everyone that the number of bells was exactly the same as our number.
Everyone's eyes were focused on the ink evil, and everyone hoped that the ink evil would be able to answer what this strange phenomenon represented, but the ink evil only glanced back at the bell faintly, and then said to us: "You all know the possible consequences of entering the Lightless Tower! ”
Everyone nodded in unison.
"Eleven of us came in, and the old clock had already counted them! Let's go! Go to the second floor, open the bow and don't look back! ”
After Mo Xie finished speaking, he took my hand and walked towards the second entrance.
A group of people obediently followed us to the entrance to the second floor, there is no gate at the entrance, and the stairs leading to the second floor can be seen directly from the entrance.
However, before we could all step into the entrance of this second floor, the old bell suddenly rang again.
Everyone's faces changed drastically.