Volume 1 The Knife Rises from Qingzhou Chapter 17 The Celestial Elephant Palace

The sunrise from the high mountain is always magnificent, the red sun jumps out of the sea of clouds, sprinkling ten thousand golden red rays, and the Luoshen Peak is like bathing in golden rain.

In the Celestial Elephant Hall, the middle-aged hall master was gently stroking the scar in the middle of his forehead in front of the mottled ancient mirror. Not long ago, the ancient mirror moved, which scared him enough, and he took over the treasure left by the old hall master for half a day, only to end up like this.

I flipped through all kinds of strange things collected by the celestial officials of various state capitals, and all of them were trivial things such as hens crowing and roosters laying eggs, so I grabbed the booklet with both hands and tore it to shreds it and threw it on the table.

"Humph!"

Turn around and continue to study how to make the scar on your forehead look better.

At the moment when he turned around, he caught a glimpse of a piece of shredded paper with the words "Qingyu City is no more", Qingyu City? The middle-aged hall master secretly thought to himself, isn't that a small city on the border of Qingzhou? It is said that the local climate has been damaged by the "change of the sky", which makes the weather impermanent, and it is also a little famous.

But his intuition told him that something must be wrong!

A cultivator like him no longer believes in any coincidences, and he is majoring in divination, for him, intuition is equivalent to heaven's will!

Rummaging through other confetti for discovery.

But after rummaging for a long time, there was no progress. Also, a thick booklet was torn by him, and the few confetti that could make out the handwriting could not be related to those five words.

"Someone, someone!" had to shout for help.

"Rubbing" came to four palace attendants.

"Say goodbye to ......"

"Don't bow down, put these shredded pieces of paper together for me!" the middle-aged hall master pointed to the table and said.

The four of them stopped kneeling halfway, you look at me, I look at you, and had to get up and walk to the table indicated by the hall master.

So the four of them, eight hands and eight eyes, were busy from sunrise to sunset, and finally they were defeated in the dark.

"Could it be providence?" the middle-aged hall master pondered as he touched his smooth chin.

What kind of providence, it is obvious that someone has tore up the booklet with a hand! The leading palace attendant dares not speak out, and he knows who it is who can tear up the hall master's booklet in this hall.

What should I do?, the middle-aged hall master fell into deep thought.

Luoshenfeng Astronomysium, the general leader of the five state capitals of the planetarium, each planetarium has a Xuanguang mirror, the system is the same as the mottled ancient mirror of the Astrology Palace, but it is nearly twice as small, it is the Astronomy Hall imitates the mysterious pattern array on the mottled ancient mirror and spent countless efforts to create, but unfortunately the finished product of the Xuanguang mirror is only the Xuanguang, and it is not comparable to the level of the mottled ancient mirror at least the level of the ground-level divine soldiers.

The Xuanguang mirror uses the characteristics of the five mirrors to be born and interconnected, and has the function of transmitting text information, although there will be a slight delay in time, and the content should not be too much, but this is already much faster than the Hongyan book, which has played a huge role during the "heavenly change".

If there is an important matter in the five states that needs to be conveyed to the Falling God Peak Celestial Planetarium, they will order the astronomical officer in charge of the state capital planetarium to control the Xuanguang Mirror to send information to the Xuanguang Mirror of the Zhongzhou Planetarium first, and then the Zhongzhou Planetarium will be responsible for reporting to the Celestial Planetarium.

Yu Songting is the astronomical officer of the Zhongzhou Astronomical Planetarium, some time ago, after communicating with the other four state celestial officials, he copied the newly collected strange people and strange things, compiled them into a book and handed them over to the hall master of the Celestial Elephant Palace, but tonight he went through many checkpoints, and then went up and down the Celestial Elephant Palace, because the news he had just received was too shocking, after informing the state lord, the state lord ordered him not to delay, and quickly sent a letter to the Celestial Elephant Palace.

"I'm tired of informing you, Yu Songting, the owner of the Zhongzhou Planetarium, asks to see the hall master!" "Naturally, this is not the first time the owner of the Yu Pavilion has come to the Planetarium, and he has long been familiar with these guards at the door, but the rules are the rules, especially on the Luoshen Peak, every word and deed must be self-denial and courtesy.

"It turned out to be Pavilion Master Yu, please wait a moment, let's go and report to the Hall Master!" one of the two guards responded, then turned and walked through the door.

Yu Songting looked up at the outer wall gate of the Celestial Elephant Palace, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion, more than ten years ago he was just a small Taoist boy of the Celestial Elephant Palace, at that time the old hall master was still there, and the current hall master was also still traveling in the five states, it was really not a good year at that time, the demons were rampant, and the natural disasters continued, if it weren't for the Heavenly General Hall and the cultivators of the five states fighting day and night, where could there be a peaceful life in the past few years? But is this peace about to be broken?

"The hall master has an order, the Yu Pavilion Lord invites you to discuss matters in the main hall!" The guard just now came back, interrupting Yu Songting's emotion.

Obviously, I asked the hall master to report information, but why did the guards say that it was a discussion?

Yu Songting was a little puzzled, but he still saluted respectfully: "The lower official obeys the order!"

As he spoke, he was about to raise his legs to enter the door, when the guard who ordered the herald gently pulled Yu Songting and said in a low voice: "The hall master is not in a good mood at the moment, he seems to be very irritable, Yu Pavilion Master should be careful!"

"Thank you two! Pick up a few pieces of broken silver on the way down, and give them a glass of water and wine!" Yu Songting was shocked when he heard this, and quickly took out his money bag to thank the two guards, as the old saying goes, the prime minister's concierge is a seven-grade official, on this Luoshen Peak, being kind to others is the most basic law.

"Pavilion Master Yu is polite, our brothers will be the eyes and ears of Pavilion Master Yu in the future. The guard who ordered the order took the money bag, shook it, and said with a smile.

Yu Songting was humble and humble, bypassing the sundial in front of the palace gate and walking towards the main hall, it seemed that he had to be careful with his wording, so as not to make the hall master angry.

Huh, how do the palace attendants kneel on the ground?

"A bunch of rice buckets, I can't even put together a piece of paper!"

The hall master is scolding.

Yu Songting shrunk his neck and bowed: "Xiaguan Yu ......"

"Don't be Yu, come here!" Seeing Yu Songting coming, the hall master was overjoyed, and beckoned to Yu Songting.

Yu Songting at the door did not dare to delay, hurriedly walked to the hall master, arched his hand and said: "Qi Yu ......"

"What kind of gift, let me ask you, but you personally copied the strange people and strange things in the five states that you sent two days ago?" said the hall lord with his eyes firmly fixed on Yu Songting's face.

Yu Songting wondered in his heart, could it be that something went wrong? This shouldn't be!

So do you admit that it was indeed written by yourself, or do you find a scapegoat?

His mind turned sharply, and he finally replied cautiously: "The master of the Qiqi Hall is indeed copied by the lower officials himself. ”

"Really?" the hall master's eyes widened.

"Uh... Seriously!" After hesitating, Yu Songting still confirmed.

I saw that the hall master slapped his palm and said, "Great!"

Turning around and rummaging on the table for a while, he handed Yu Songting a pen and a piece of paper, and then held a scrap of paper and said, "Write me this relevant information, don't miss a word!"

Yu Songting took the paper, pen and confetti, and the confetti was indeed his handwriting on it, with the words "Sunny and rainy city is no more".

"Sunny and rainy city is no more, and sunny and rainy city ......," Yu Songting carefully recalled the content related to this.

The hall master stretched his waist, pointed to the table and said to the four hall attendants: "Bring these confetti down and burn it for me, and I will be angry when I look at it!"

Obediently, this is a fine rosewood table, even if the four of them have never seen the world again, they know that the value of this table will cost hundreds of taels of silver, the hall master is afraid that it is not angry, right? The four of them did not dare to make a move for a while.

"Either you burn them, or I burn you, you can do it yourself!" How could the wise and wise hall master not see the thoughts of the four people, and after dropping a sentence, he went to the mottled ancient mirror to pound the scar on his forehead.

The four palace attendants had no choice but to carry the table out with a pile of confetti, hoping that they could secretly sawn off a few pieces of wood, sell them, and make them into combs and give them to the little lady under the mountain.

So in the main hall, only the hall master who was humming a little song and looking in the mirror, and the Yu Song Pavilion Yu Pavilion master who was meditating.

The hall master was no longer anxious since he handed over the confetti to Yu Songting, because he knew that Yu Songting must have thought about it. Just kidding, although there is a lot of information in that booklet, the owner of Yu Songting, who was born as a Taoist in the Heavenly Elephant Palace, has some cultivation, although he doesn't dare to say that he will never forget, but he can be regarded as a clear ear and a clear mind, and it is unlikely that he will forget what he copied in a short time.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Yu Songting to have a clue, looking around for a table to put paper, but unfortunately just now the palace attendant moved the table out and burned it, and the furnishings in the hall were simple and simple, except for the table that was burned, there was only a long case dedicated to the mottled ancient mirror, and he didn't dare to offend that kind of artifact.

So the owner of Yu Song Pavilion had no choice but to kneel on his knees, press the paper to the ground, and pout his ass to write down what he recalled.

Yu Songting just finished writing and looked up, and found that the hall master had already noticed his movements and walked over, so he put down the pen at the moment, and held the paper in both hands to offer it to the hall master.

"Too polite, too polite, don't be restrained!" The hall master took the paper, waved his hand casually, and motioned for Yu Songting to get up and speak.

Yu Songting hurriedly got up and stood aside respectfully.

"In the autumn of the fifteenth year of the heavenly prayer, on the seventeenth day of the seventh month, at noon, there was a white light in the city, and then the snow was all over the sky, and the snow stopped at dusk, and the city of clear rain was no longer sunny and rainy. ”

The hall master read what Yu Songting had written on the paper, and his brows furrowed slightly.

"Is there a mistake?"

"No mistakes!"

That should be it, the date and hour can be correct, but what does this have to do with Haotian Mirror? Master, Master, how can you guess that you have left so many secrets for the apprentice?

The hall master stroked the mottled mirror surface of the Haotian Mirror and fell into deep thought.

"Enlightenment ......"

"Oh, you haven't left yet, go back, I won't leave you to eat at night, it's hard work!" the hall master turned his head and glanced at Yu Songting and said.

"Enlightenment ......"

"Is there anything else you wanted? Didn't you just let you go home? Why, don't you want to go back?" The hall master looked at Yu Songting and blinked his eyes.

Yu Songting was also suddenly stunned, yes, do I have anything else to do? Why don't I go home? His mind was blank, and he blinked a few times and said, "The next official retires!"

The hall master turned around, waved his hand with his back to him, and muttered softly, "It's dark and the road is slippery, pay attention to safety...... What's the connection......

Yu Songting walked towards the hall gate in a daze, and after walking a few steps, he suddenly remembered something, slapped his head suddenly, turned around and ran towards the hall master with small steps.

"The master of the Qi Palace, the lower officials have something to report!"

"Ah! Your grandmother is scared to death! Can't you talk about something properly?" the hall master, who was contemplating, was startled.

Yu Songting was speechless in his heart, it's not that I am always interrupted by you, so that I forget such an important matter.

The hall master patted his heart and said, "What's the matter, let's talk about it!"

"Qiqi Hall Lord, there is an urgent situation from the Ice Prefecture Celestial Elephant Official, the ground-level peak demon raided Xueyingbao, and the daughter of the lord of Xueyingbao Castle was taken captive!"

"Wow"

The paper in the hand of the Lord of the Celestial Elephant Hall was clenched into a ball.

"Is there any news like this coming from other state capitals?" the hall master asked in a deep voice.

Yu Songting arched his hand and said, "Xia Guan has not received this kind of information. ”

The hall master strode out of the door, looked at the stars in the night sky, and pinched his fingers again and again.

"Didn't find out... How could it be?" the hall master frowned secretly.

Turned around and returned to the hall, waved his hand and hit the Haotian Mirror, only to see the mottled mirror surface flash, and five grape-sized points of light appeared, four were up and down, left and right, and one was in the middle, and the light spots were connected by slender rays of light in pairs.

The hall master said to Yu Songting: "You immediately go down the mountain and return to the Planetarium This hall master is now going to take over all the information sent by the Xuanguang Mirror of the Five States, you assist the hall master to communicate with the other four states, and when this matter is over, the main hall master will personally go up and down the Divine Palace, and you must not sit back and wait for death like fifteen years ago!"

"The subordinate obeys!"

Yu Songting ran out quickly, his heart was so excited, he actually mentioned the Falling God Palace! That is the legendary place!

Only the hall master is left in the main hall of the Celestial Elephant Palace.

Shao leaned, he rubbed his face with both hands, and said to himself: "Master, come back quickly!

In the night sky, the moon is lonely behind the clouds, and only a few tiny stars twinkle quietly.

In the Qingzhou Prefecture, the old blind man's empty eyes looked in the direction of Zhongzhou, and muttered: "Bai Chen... Beware..."

Zhang Xiaolu just prepared the futon, saw the old blind man staring at the wall of the dead end in a daze, reached out and pulled him, wrapped the quilt around him, and then wrapped himself in the quilt and leaned on the old blind man, although the snow stopped for several days, but after all, it was autumn, and the night was getting colder and colder, fortunately, the state capital such as the bedding and padded jacket was not taken back, the state lord is really a wonderful person!

The old blind man stretched out his hand to hug Zhang Xiaolu's body, and Zhang Xiaolu comfortably drilled in the direction of the old blind man.

"Good boy... In the next life, you will have a senior brother, he will treat you well, better than me, much better......"

Zhang Xiaolu's breathing gradually stabilized, with a smile on his eyebrows.

The old blind man's hand patted gently on Zhang Xiaolu's body.

The bitter voice of the old man echoed through the alley.

Children sleep, children sleep,

Dreaming of rain and snow is not tears.

It's hard for your parents to meet each other when they give birth to you,

So that you have a home and can't go back.

The autumn breeze in August is cool and heartbreaking,

There is affection in the world as an aftertaste.

Willing to stand for the fire does not go away,

The old blind man will be with him.

Demons and monsters are fierce,

I was so scared that I couldn't sleep.

Will you kill demons and slay demons?

Who's going to return with a knife?

Hold the knife and return to ......