Chapter 18: Searching

Chiaki's words were like a hammer, and they smashed into the hearts of everyone in Numa Qingmiao.

Indeed, they came too late. Including Nuan Qingmiao, including Ting Ruodu, they realized that their actions were not fast, and they could even be said to be slow.

Because today's Yuan Qingguan is not easy, the person in charge of the main things of Yuan Qingguan is Lian Xiangu. Because Cui Xuanzhong had already received the order of Dusk Yuchang, he rushed to Taiqingtian and had not yet returned.

And the morning practice of the disciples in the Yuan Qing Guan could not be left behind, so Lian Xian Gu waited in the Laojun Pavilion of the octagonal tower of Laojun Peak early in the morning. I am going to replace Cui Xuanzhong to make arrangements for today's morning class for the disciples.

Ting Ruo also entered the illusion on the bridge leading to Laojun Peak, but soon walked out of the illusion and came to the Laojun Pavilion, but he didn't find Xingmo's figure.

Ting Ruo was a little panicked in his heart, so he first told Gu Shuling, who was meditating quietly in front of him, the news of Xingmo's disappearance, because after all, Gu Shuling's grandmother was the Lotus Immortal Gu who was currently in charge of Yuan Qingguan. I hope Gu Shuling can think of a way to organize a few people to go to the bridge to see if Xing Mo is still standing safely on the bridge.

Gu Shuling just nodded, but she didn't move her body for half a minute, and still meditated with her eyes closed.

Seeing this, Ting Ruo didn't continue to wait, first got up and squeezed through the crowd of people sitting and meditating on the ground on the first floor of Laojun Pavilion to find Marsh Qingmiao, and asked Nua Qinghao to take more people to the bridge to find Xingmo.

But she didn't think that she had just stepped past Gu Shuling's side, but she stood up abruptly and blocked Ting Ruo's way with half of her body.

"Senior Sister Tingruo, if you don't study your homework well, how can you look around? Don't you care about your cultivation growth?" she said with contempt in her tone.

Ting Ruo was anxious, "Senior Sister Gu, I just told you that Xing Mo didn't reach Laojun Peak. But you didn't organize people to look for her, and you still meditated and practiced without moving, I don't know if the safety of the disciples of Yuan Qingguan is important or your morning class is important. ”

"Hmph...... It's just a love parting. Are you so nervous? Disciples who have no cultivation have to cross that bridge, and the illusion of Xi Xing Mo may take more time than others? Do you want me to disrupt everyone's morning study for the sake of a person who is going to experience the tardiness of the love parting country?"

Gu Shuling squinted at Ting Ruo as she spoke, very disdainful.

"You!" Ting Ruo choked on her words, his face flushed a little, but he didn't know how to refute it.

At this moment, on the circular platform in the middle of the first floor of the Laojun Pavilion, Lotus Immortal Gu, who was meditating with her eyes closed, heard the movement.

"What's going on down there? It's so noisy. ”

Gu Shuling glanced at Ting Ruo, and turned to look at Lotus Immortal Gu on the high platform, "Back to Immortal Gu, it's the new disciple Xi Xingmo who has not yet arrived at Laojun Peak. Ting Ruo was very worried about her, and was about to gather his disciples to find her on the bridge. ”

Lian Xian Gu shook the sleeves of her purple and gray gauze robe, and pouted and smiled, "Isn't it just a fantasy of parting......? In the past, all the new disciples had to walk on the wooden bridge when they entered the meditation, and they also had to experience the illusion of love and parting, could it be that this Xi Xingmo couldn't be like everyone else?

After Lian Xian Gu finished speaking, the few disciples sitting around the first floor of the Laojun Pavilion couldn't help but laugh.

The pavilion is octagonal, in the middle of the pavilion is a high platform for the main meditation and practice, and it is the lotus fairy who sits here at this time.

Under the high platform, like water waves, the eight sides are like water waves, and the vertical and slow up and down flowing air walls are enclosed together, forming an octagonal shape that continues to extend upward.

The pavilion has eight floors, each with a walkway and staircase along the walls. But each layer is not separated from the top.

These airflow walls extend all the way up to the third level of the attic. Dense golden fonts float on each wall, which are commentary on today's lessons.

Behind the transparent air wall on eight sides, there are three large brass incense burners around the periphery, each of which has the height of three people, standing on three legs, the belly of the furnace is full, carved with the auspicious clouds of the crane, and the relief carving is horizontally engraved with the three characters of Yuan Qingguan. Sandalwood mixed with a little agarwood slowly rises from the top of the incense burner, and the fragrance fills the entire Laojun Pavilion.

The disciples sat around the eight walls of air, lined up in an octagonal shape.

After Lianxian Gu finished speaking, with the sound of laughter. A man's voice was crisp and a little majestic.

"I'll go to the bridge and have a look!"

Everyone looked at the person who spoke, and it turned out to be Numa Qingmi. His eyes were calm, as if he was always unfazed.

As he spoke, there was an instant silence. Because no one will have any objections to Nua Qingmiao, it is also because he is the most outstanding disciple of Yuan Qingguan and one of Cui Xuanzhong's most favored disciples.

Cui Haoqing was meditating beside Nuan Qingmiao, and at this time, he also got up with Nua Qingmao, "I'll go and see it too." ”

After saying that, the two of them turned around in unison, took big strides, and without waiting to walk out of the door of the Laojun Pavilion, they stepped away under the feet of the door to gather their energy.

Ting Ruo squinted at Gu Shuling, squeezed her shoulders and passed, and also attracted auspicious clouds to quickly flash out of the Laojun Pavilion.

Immortal Lotus had already stood up from the high platform at this time, and her face was not very good-looking. Because she is not a real Yuanqingguan person, she is not an immortal of Taiqing Heaven. To put it bluntly, she is a mortal immortal who is not qualified to set foot in the Taiqing Heaven.

And she was able to participate in Yuan Qingguan's daily tasting things because she had some friendship with Cui Xuanzhong on weekdays, and she also had something to do with her past.

Therefore, she thinks that the high cultivators in Yuanqingguan are disciples and do not take her, a mortal scattered immortal, in their eyes, after all, Yuanqingguan is subordinate to Taiqingtian, and it is possible that the Yuanqing audience disciples will eventually ascend to the immortal and enter Taiqingtian.

Although she ostensibly replaces Cui Xuanzhong, she is temporarily in charge of Yuan Qingguan. But in addition to Cui Xuanzhong, this Yuan Qingguan also has Cui Haoqing, the daughter of Cui Xuanzhong, and Nuan Qingmiao, who was adopted by Cui Xuanzhong in Yuan Qingguan since he was a child and grew up with Cui Haoqing.

Although she is an immortal, what she really says in Yuan Qingguan is a few swamps and clearing, except for Cui Xuanzhong. Because the cultivation strength of this swamp Qingmiao really has to be admired, the cultivation height that he can achieve at a young age has surpassed the Lotus Immortal Gu of the same age a hundred years ago by dozens of times.

Lian Xian Gu stood on the podium in the center of the Laojun Pavilion, squinted at Gu Shuling who was standing at the bottom, and gave her a look.

Gu Shuling nodded from afar, "A few more people, let's go to the bridge together to see if Xi Xingmo hasn't come out of the love parting realm yet." ”

After that, Gu Shuling was a little impatient, and walked out of the door with her sleeves flicked up.

Afterwards, three more disciples chased after them, and the three of them arrived at the edge of the cliff of Laojun Peak.

It was drizzling and misty, and the wooden bridge was erected on the edge of two steep cliffs. Numa Kiyomi narrowed her eyes and looked ahead, shrouded in fog and unable to see the end of the bridge opposite.

Without saying a word, he flew away, Cui Haoqing couldn't see the expression on his face, but frowned lightly. also went on the bridge with Numa Qingmiao. Ting Ruo and the others soon followed.

......

Marsh Qinghao and the others went back and forth on the bridge several times, but they did not find Xingmo's shadow.

Ting Ruo was so anxious that she once felt that Xing Mo had fallen off the wooden bridge and was swallowed by the cliff and the sea. couldn't help crying on the bridge several times, blaming himself for not being careless and not telling Xingmo in advance that this was the entrance to love farewell.

Nug Qingmiao was a little anxious in her heart, but she still continued to comfort Tingruo, who was on the verge of a collapse.

While they were discussing the search from the wooden bridge down the cliff, the six of them searched for the six people who were looking down from top to bottom, but there was still no trace of Xingmo.

Ting Ruo felt relieved every time she heard the fruitless reply, this kind of ambivalence, because she was really afraid that the Xingmo they found was just a corpse.

The cliffs on both sides had been searched, and finally, Numa Qingmian frowned. Suddenly waved his hand and dispersed the clouds. The whole body is like a shuttle, and it quickly slides down in mid-air in front of the cliff.

With a thud, he was already plunged into the sea at the bottom of the cliff.