Chapter 11 The incense burner
"What's going on?" Yuan Ming's heart jumped, and he hurriedly looked at the hot place in his right arm.
He has been staying in a dim environment for half a month, and his eyes have gradually adapted to the darkness, and the hot place is a light cyan mark, which looks a little like an incense burner.
The originally extremely faint mark became clear at a speed visible to the naked eye at this moment, emitting a faint light.
"Hey, when did I have such a weird mark on my arm?" Yuan Ming was stunned, and touched it with his fingers, the cyan mark was not painful to the touch, and there was nothing unusual.
He groaned slightly, trying to mobilize the trace of mana in the dantian, condensed it to his fingertips, and dotted it on the cyan mark.
Although the light emitted by the mark was faint, it carried a hint of mana fluctuations, which made him feel the urge to do so for no reason.
The cyan mark suddenly emitted a suction force, and with a "boom", it swallowed up that trace of mana!
Yuan Ming was shocked, this trace of mana was something that he had worked hard for half a month and had only been able to accumulate with great difficulty, but it was lost in one fell swoop.
In a panic, he ran the Blood Qi Method, trying to suck the mana back from the imprint, but where could he suck it out, and his heart sank.
It was already difficult to accumulate mana, but now it has completely been abandoned.
Just when Yuan Ming was a little discouraged, a hot stream appeared in the cyan mark, and a hazy light immediately lit up on his arm.
Yuan Ming's eyes widened as he looked at the light.
Immediately, he was surprised to see a palm-sized cyan incense burner emerge from the light, and under the support of the light, it landed firmly in front of him.
The incense burner looks like it is made of clay, with three legs and ears, but no cover, one side is engraved with a Yin and Yang Pisces Taiji pattern, and the other side is engraved with a starry sky.
The Yin and Yang Tai Chi pattern shines brightly and looks mysterious.
On the incense burner, there are also one short and two long, three black incense sticks.
Yuan Ming was taken aback by this strange scene, and was stunned for a few breaths, then he stretched out his palm and gently rubbed it on the incense burner with his fingertips for a while, and there was a delicate and real touch from his fingertips.
"Not an illusion."
Yuan Ming sat up straight and gently stroked the three black incense sticks, only to feel that the material seemed to be no different from ordinary incense, but it was more delicate and smooth to the touch.
He looked down at his arm again, where the mark was gone, only a slight burning sensation.
"Strange, where did this incense burner come from? How did you run up my arm? ”
Yuan Ming was surprised, and a memory suddenly came out of his mind, and he suddenly remembered that he fell into the river, rolled and collided in the rolling waves, and was finally swept into the bottom by the undercurrent.
In the confusion, he saw a ball of light underneath the water, reached out and struggled to touch something.
That thing is the incense burner.
Yuan Ming's pupils contracted instantly, and when he looked at the incense burner again, his gaze became even more surprised.
Although it is not known what this incense burner is, it can be attached to oneself and is definitely not a mundane thing.
Yuan Ming pressed his palm on the incense burner, only to feel a stream of heat penetrate and quickly enter his mind.
He only felt a cool feeling flash in his mind, and the fatigue accumulated from cultivating day and night these days disappeared without a trace, and his spirit was extremely uplifted.
"This incense burner is really a divine object, and it can have such a refreshing effect." Yuan Ming muttered happily.
He looked at the three black incense sticks standing in the furnace, groaned slightly, and once again lit a flame by drilling wood, and lit a piece of cloth.
Holding the flame in his hand, he carefully sent it to the incense burner and lit one of the black incense.
The incense burns a spark, and a tiny point of light shines in the dark cavern, and a curling cloud of smoke rises from it.
Yuan Ming suddenly smelled a unique fragrance that he had never had in his memory, between sandalwood and rosin, just a little sniff made his consciousness become drowsy, and his eyes became blurred.
"Miao?"
Yuan Ming's mind had just flashed such a thought, and he immediately fell into darkness and lost all consciousness.
I don't know how long it took, but his consciousness gradually returned, and a cacophony rang out all around.
"Oh no, there's a beast coming!" Yuan Ming was startled, and suddenly opened his eyes.
What catches your eye is not a dimly lit hole, but a very large carved table covered with golden embroidered silk cloth.
On the table, there are neatly placed the four treasures of the study room and a pile of books with yellow satin wrapping, the inkstone is carved dragon, and the brush is made of jade rod wolf, each of which is exquisite and gorgeous.
"Dreaming?"
Yuan Ming suddenly woke up, looked up, and found that he was in a magnificent hall.
Under the main hall, there were four people in white brocade robes, two men and two women, who were lined up on both sides with their heads bowed.
"Your Majesty, are you awake?" At this moment, a shrill voice suddenly came from beside him.
Only then did Yuan Ming notice that there was a feminine middle-aged man wearing a brocade robe, holding floating dust in his hand, and having a white beard standing beside him.
"Your Majesty?" Yuan Ming's eyes narrowed, this person was calling himself?
Looking at the flattering smile on his face, Yuan Ming frowned, and his eyes fell on a smooth bronze mirror next to the carved table, which clearly reflected his figure, but it was a young man wearing a gorgeous golden robe, with a five-clawed golden dragon pattern embroidered on his chest.
The boy was about his age, but his face was completely different!
Yuan Ming couldn't help leaning back and hit the back of the dragon chair.
"Ouch, the slave should be damned, it shocked Your Majesty." The feminine man was startled, and quickly knelt down in panic, shouting in his mouth.
The four people in the hall were also agitated, and they knelt on the ground one after another, bowing their heads and not daring to raise a single inch.
Yuan Ming set off a storm in his heart, ignoring the feminine man and the others.
I was still in the dim cave just now, how did I suddenly come to such a place, if you say that you are dreaming, everything around you is too real, whether it is touch, hearing, smell, it is no different from usual.
"Could it be that incense burner that got me here?" Yuan Ming recalled his previous behavior, and suddenly a thought popped up, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was possible.
"I ...... I'm fine, you guys go out first. He took a deep breath, steadied himself, and said slowly.
"Yes!"
The feminine man hesitated slightly, but he hurriedly responded, took everyone with him, and walked backwards out of the palace.
When the hall was completely emptied, Yuan Ming stood up from the dragon chair, came to the bronze mirror and looked left and right, and finally confirmed that this body was not his own.
The hall is full of dragons and phoenixes, and the color is mainly golden on behalf of the Ninety-Five, combined with the name of the feminine man just now, and the golden dragon robe on his body, this body seems to be a young emperor.
"Did I get reincarnated after being killed by that incense burner? But isn't it true that reincarnation should also be reincarnated in a newborn baby? How could it be cast on a half-grown teenager? Yuan Ming was puzzled.
He paced around the room for a moment, then sat down behind the table, calmed down for a while, and a strange thought could not help but pop up in his heart: "Could it be that I am out of my body and possessed someone else?" ”
Other than that, he couldn't think of a more reliable answer.
At this moment, Yuan Ming's nose twitched, he smelled a fragrant smell, looked for the fragrance, but saw a porcelain box with a square foot in the corner of the table, and the surface was carved with green patterns that resembled birds and beasts.
He hurriedly reached out and opened the lid of the box, and suddenly the fragrance was fragrant.
The box is filled with delicate pastries of different shapes, square and round, as well as flower shapes, different colors, and steaming heat.
Yuan Ming eats raw meat these days, and in order to save food, he eats very little every day, subconsciously swallows his saliva, and without saying a word, he reaches out and grabs a translucent square cake that is as crystal as white jade and stuffs it into his mouth, and chews it in a big gulp.
A sweet and delicious jujube flavor blends with the aroma of osmanthus and immediately fills the entire mouth.
"Delicious!"
He didn't wait for the food in his mouth to be completely chewed, and he hurriedly grabbed a pastry shaped like a lotus flower and swallowed it, it was really crispy and sweet.
Yuan Ming simply stood up, used both hands, swept away the pastries in the box like a whirlwind, and then picked up a teapot next to him and said it to his mouth for a while, until he drank the tea in the pot cleanly.
"Separation"
Yuan Ming burped, sat back on the dragon chair, reached out and wiped his mouth with his sleeve, and touched his slightly convex belly, indescribably satisfied.
It feels so good to be full, he hasn't eaten so much in a long time!
After eating and drinking, Yuan Ming began to think about everything in front of him again.
Did you get here by the incense burner? If so, you might be able to find some clues.
He looked around for the incense burner, and there was an incense burner on the table in front of him, but it was bronze, and the style was very different from the one that had just emerged from the mark on his arm.
"Arm Mark!" Yuan Ming suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly pulled up the clothes on his right arm, and his eyes suddenly widened.
Where his right arm was close to his elbow, a cyan mark suddenly appeared, exactly the same as the mark on his original body, and there was a faint heat swirling inside.
Yuan Ming secretly said in his heart that this was indeed the case.
Now that it's almost certain that he was brought here by the incense burner, can he go back?
Although this body is the emperor and is about the same age as himself, he still wants to return to his body.
Yuan Ming touched the cyan mark with his finger, but there was no response.
He tried something else, but the mark didn't move.
"It's a pity that this little emperor is not a cultivator, and he doesn't have mana in his body, otherwise he can test if he can summon an incense burner here." Yuan Ming reluctantly gave up and sighed secretly.
After Yuan Ming collected his thoughts, his eyes turned and fell on the yellow satin books piled up on the table.
Now I don't know if I can return to my original body, or figure out the current situation first, play the role of the little emperor, and don't be seen by others.
Thinking of this, he took a booklet and opened it, but it was a state official who reported the flood in the territory under his jurisdiction, and prayed for the emperor's mercy to allow the opening of the granary of the state government for disaster relief.
Originally, it was just a matter of a few simple words, but the governor said it very cumbersomely, first busily accusing the heavens, then saying that the heavens were not merciful, and then devoting a large paragraph to describing the scene in the disaster area.
After saying thousands of words, it was only at the end of the recital that the specific disaster situation and relief measures were reported, and Yuan Ming was very big for a while.