Chinese New Year's Eve, the first day of the first lunar month, is the day of the opening ceremony of Yunjiang.

Six years ago, when the saint was alive, the New Year's ceremony was held on the Holy Mountain.

The people of the city rejoiced all night and climbed the holy mountain overnight, and the holy woman danced and prayed on the altar to bring blessings on behalf of the gods.

Later, the holy mountain was destroyed, and although there were monks from the Great Zhou Dynasty to Yunjiang, they never prevailed in Yunjiang.

There is no other reason, just because witch doctors are popular, healers can save lives and help the wounded, and the identity of witches is naturally much more effective than those monks who only know how to burn incense and chant scriptures.

Therefore, on the first day of the first lunar month, people who keep the New Year's night will still go to the holy mountain to worship according to the old customs.

The carriage carrying the crown prince and the crown princess, the carriage of the king of Yunjiang, and several green cloth carriages, drove towards the holy mountain before dawn.

The mountains are covered with snow, and the snow on the official roads has been shoveled.

As soon as the carriage arrived at the top of the mountain, the heads of several major families, led the clansmen, and many people, were already waiting at the top of the mountain.

For the Chinese New Year's Eve ceremony, Shen Lingxi will not attend.

But on the day of the New Year's ceremony, even if she doesn't want to be a saint anymore, she will definitely come to the holy mountain.

Because the first day of the first lunar month is still the birthday of Queen Zansi.

Those who are unwilling to die still have a glimmer of hope - even if the holy woman does not pray for the people of Yunjiang, she will pray for the late Empress Zansi.

However, to their surprise -

The curtain of the carriage was lifted by the waiter, and a woman wearing a lotus crown and a plain white robe stepped down from the carriage.

Along with her, there was also His Royal Highness the Prince, who was wearing a plain white homely robe, covered with a crow-blue crane, and had a handsome face.

Behind the two of them, from those green cloth carriages, more than a dozen Kun Dao wearing magic robes walked down.

The last person to walk down from the carriage was Su Xian, who was wearing a magic robe.

Kun Dao walked up to Shen Lingxi, and saluted her in unison, "Uncle Shi." ”

They all came to Yunjiang with Su Xian years ago, the Kun Dao of the Golden Immortal Temple.

Shen Lingxi returned the salute to them, nodded to Su Xian, and then led the group of people to walk towards the tomb of Empress Zanxi in full view of everyone.

Everyone except Shen Lingxi and his party looked at each other.

"How can a saint wear a robe?"

"The Holy Maiden as a messenger of the gods...... Why go to worship the gods of the Great Zhou? It's outrageous! ”

"This Great Zhou's Xuanmen has nothing to do with the Holy Maiden, right?"

"It has nothing to do with the Holy Maiden, but it has something to do with the crown princess, I heard that the crown princess is the 'wonderful spirit master' given by the Emperor of the Great Zhou, and she has great magical powers, and she can also communicate with ghosts and gods, and there are countless disciples under the seat, and she is a well-known figure in the Great Zhou."

"But speaking of which, our gods are the spirits of this holy mountain, both formless and shadowless. On the contrary, it is the immortals of the Great Zhou, all of them have golden bodies, are they the immortals of the Great Zhou, a little more powerful? ”

The crowd was talking, but there was a family member who pretended to explain casually in the crowd, "You don't know this, the crown princess made a special trip from the Shangqing Palace in Taiyi Mountain to invite a master of the Tao to come and study the ancient books left by the saint." ”

The man pointed to Su Xian, who was at the end of the line, with a tall posture, fluttering clothes, and a bit of a fairy style, "Well, that one is the eighty-eighth generation of the closed disciple of the head of the Qing Palace on Taiyi Mountain, who has a profound Taoism, is knowledgeable, and knows the most about the ancient books of the Xuanmen," he deliberately sold a pass, "Guess what?" ”

These words whetted the appetite of many people, "What's the matter, what's the matter?" ”

"The classics left by the saint are in the same vein as the classics left in the Qing Palace on Taiyi Mountain, that is to say, the saint was a cultivator on Taiyi Mountain more than 100 years ago." The man was conclusive.

As soon as these words came out, the crowd instantly booed, "Your family, you only listen to the crown princess, naturally the crown princess asks you to say anything, you will say anything, such nonsense, dare to show shame." ”

The man smiled indifferently, "Words can be faked, but classics can't be faked." ”

"The crown princess has already asked those Kun Dao who came to the Great Zhou to start copying the classics left by the holy woman, and it won't be long before all yamen and families in Yunjiang can get the handwritten scriptures. The manuscript of the Qing Palace classics on Taiyi Mountain is also very easy to obtain on the market, if you don't believe it, you will get it in your hands when the time comes, compare it, and your heart will naturally understand. ”

When he had said this, the man ceased to argue with them, and departed.

It's just that his words were heard by many people, and they were whispered and spread.

These trivial things, since Shen Lingxi has already arranged them in advance, he naturally won't care about them.

Before leaving Yunjiang, she had to do two things in the Holy Mountain, one was to ask Liu Meiren and them to enter the imperial tomb of the queen mother to confirm that there was nothing suspicious in the tomb. Please ask Su Xian again to do what is going on for the queen mother's tomb to prevent anyone from beating the idea of the queen mother's tomb again.

The second is Kui Nineteen and Shaohua, the two souls who were killed by Urda. Now that Urda's souls have been refined, it's time to send them to superincarnation.

With the help of the Kun Daoists of the Golden Immortal Temple, Su Xian's transcendent Dharma was very powerful.

Although Shen Lingxi did not do things with him, as the only relative of Empress Zanxi, he was also in the magic circle, praying sincerely for Empress Zanxi.

It was precisely because she was here that the heads and clansmen of those big families, and even some of the people of Yunjiang who trusted her very much, knelt down here to worship as they did six years ago.

On the contrary, on the Yun Delirium side, according to the practice of Yun Hongshan when he was alive, after worshipping the ancestors of the Yun family, he went to the ruins of the altar of the Holy Mountain to worship the gods.

The people who worshiped with him were not even half of what they used to be.

It is also a coincidence that the originally cloudy weather, in the process of Su Xian and the Jinxian Guankun Daoists, suddenly saw the sun and the weather cleared.

There is golden sunlight, sprinkled on the tomb of Queen Zansi, like a divine light.

In this way, there were even more people who followed Shen Lingxi's side to worship.

It is almost foreseeable that in less than a year and a half, in Yunjiang, where witch and medicine have been completely divided and conquered, whether it is Taoism or Buddhism, it will slowly recover.

In this way, in the future, no one will take advantage of people's belief in the "holy woman" like Xiang Zhou and Urda, and take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble.

The people can also live and work in peace and contentment in this land.

The ritual lasted from early morning to late afternoon.

When everyone dispersed and the transcendent magic circle was left, only Shen Lingxi and Chu Yan were left, as well as Shaohua, who was standing a zhang away from them, separated from them by the transcendent magic array, with tears in his eyes.

"If the queen mother knows that the princess is not only back in her body now, but also married a wishful husband, I don't know how happy she should be."

Shen Lingxi smiled, she unabashedly held Chu Yan's hand in front of Shaohua, "Auntie goes to Jiuquan, if you see the queen mother, please tell her, we are fine, please rest assured." ”

The corners of Chu Yan's lips raised slightly, and he held her hand instead, followed her gaze, and looked at the void, "Aunt Lao told her mother that I would take care of Lingxi for her and never let her suffer the slightest grievance." ”

Shaohua looked at the hands of the two of them with ten fingers, nodded with a smile, and stepped into the transcendent magic circle, and his soul body turned into a little starlight and dissipated into the sun......

*

After several days of fatigue, Shen Lingxi's body was extremely tired, and after a while of getting into the carriage, he leaned on Chu Yan's shoulder and fell into a deep sleep.

She had a messy dream.

In the dream, for a while, the queen mother took the hand of a girl in red and walked up to her.

The girl in red, her face was blurred, but she could vaguely see that it was her appearance in her previous life.

"Child, the road ahead will be on your own." The queen mother said to her uneasily: "Although you now have someone around you who can be relied on, you still have to think more carefully in everything, and you must not relax your vigilance...... Be careful......"

The girl in red spread out her hands in front of her, and in her mottled palm, there was a jade pendant covered with black cracks, and the black cracks seemed to have a dark light surging.

"Be careful...... she whispered, "be careful." ”

After a while, Ah Weng, who had already dissipated in the moonlight, suddenly broke into her dream and said to her nonchalantly: "You girl, you fooled me with fake marriage, but now the fake has become true, should you bring your good grandson-in-law to see me......"

He also dreamed that Emperor Er, who had been shot into a hedgehog and died on the city tower, looked at her with round eyes, "If you dare to kill my son, I will make you pay for it with blood!" ”

Shen Lingxi's brows furrowed extremely tightly, and he couldn't stop struggling, and he slept very unsteadily.

It wasn't until she fell into a very warm nest covered with heavy feathers, and the tip of her nose was filled with a good smell of medicine, that she finally fell asleep peacefully.

It was like a long, long sleep.

Shen Lingxi opened his eyes again, and the huge dormitory was empty.

The earth dragon burned very strongly, warm as spring, and the hall was burning with benzoin that she was familiar with.

She sat up and found herself dressed in bedclothes.

Thinking that now that she had a clear relationship with Chu Yan, and that only the two of them had always lived in this dormitory, her cheeks instantly burned.

"You're awake." Liu Meiren came to look at her, saw her like this, and joked with a smile, "Fortunately, you are fine, otherwise Xiao Langjun would be in a hurry." ”

She said, as if thinking of something funny, "You little Langjun is really interesting, you two sleep in the same bed all day long, but he blushes even when he changes your clothes, oops, my nephew can make soy sauce when he is so old." ”

Shen Lingxi's cheeks burned even hotter.

"I, I, this garment, he gave it...... Give ......"

As soon as she opened her mouth, she realized that her voice was rough and hoarse as if it had been scratched by something.

"Tsk." Seeing this, Liu Meiren shook her head regretfully, "You are going to be disappointed this time, it was he who asked the maid to change your clothes for you, and he stood behind the screen and blushed." ”

She approached with a gossip on her face, pricking up her ears: "Tell me honestly, don't you two have a round house yet?" Xiao Langjun is not ...... What's wrong with the body? I look at the day of Chinese New Year's Eve, or you first...... Well...... Active, is he ...... No way? Otherwise, I'll ask them if they know any medicine that I can use for him......

Shen Lingxi: ......

She remembered that when she first met Liu Meiren, their old people were gathered together and spoke openly.

began to regret his actions on the city tower on Chinese New Year's Eve.

This is simply a reopening of gossip for them, how will they live in the future.

"How long did I sleep?" Shen Lingxi hurriedly opened the topic.

Liu Meiren gestured, "I slept for a whole day and a night, and it will be the morning of the third day of the first lunar month." ”

Shen Lingxi rubbed his eyebrows, feeling that his head was groggy and a little swollen.

"What's wrong with me?"

Liu Meiren floated to the side of the couch and sat down, but it was rare to be a little more serious, "Su Xian came to look at you, saying that you are unstable in soul, although the soul refining array on the holy mountain has been destroyed, but after all, too many people have died on it, and it has some impact on you." ”

"Su Xian said that Xiang Zhou had been operating in Yunguo for more than ten years, and in this Yunbian City, I don't know how many undiscovered formations there are, with your current body, you are still recovering, and it is not appropriate to stay here for a long time, he suggested that Xiao Langjun leave as soon as possible."

Shen Lingxi's heart was suddenly in her heart, no wonder she fell asleep very heavily from the moment she returned to this body, as soon as she touched the pillow.

It seems that leaving her soul again still has some impact on her.

"Even if he doesn't mention it, our original plan was to set off for Yunbian City on the third day of junior high school."

She said, thinking of the dream she had for no reason.

"My charred corpse was handed over to Su Xian that day, do you know what Su Xian did with it?" She asked.

"He asked the charred bones to be separated, put them into boxes full of charms, and ordered people to send them back to Taiyi Mountain quickly, saying that they wanted to ask a few elders of the Shangqing Palace to completely destroy the bones."

Liu Meiren said, as if she had thought of something, her expression was solemn, "Speaking of which, something strange has happened outside the city gate in the past two days. ”

Shen Ling's eyes darkened suddenly, and he looked at her inquiringly.

"It's just these days that the weather has become warmer, and the snow outside the city gate has almost melted." Liu Meiren said with a puzzled face: "Someone found that the place where Sheng Kun was burned to death that day suddenly formed a lot of ice crystals. Those ice crystals did not melt when they were on fire, but there were many pigeons pecking at them, and they were almost pecked by those pigeons in the past two days. ”

Shen Lingxi's eyebrows moved slightly, and he hurriedly asked, "What about those pigeons?" ”

"Naturally, it flew away." Liu Meiren waved her hand, "Anyway, when you go out of the city later, you will pass by." You'll just have to see for yourself. ”

When Shen Lingxi heard this, he looked around and asked, "Why haven't you seen the old ancestor and Xu Yuanshan in the past few days, where have they gone?" ”

"Xu Yuanshan has always followed his daughter-in-law, and the ancestor is worried that he will do anything bad again, so he will naturally follow him."

Speaking of this, Liu Meiren suddenly clapped her hands, "By the way, then Second Mrs. Li quietly went to the outside of the city gate the day before yesterday and saw the excitement!" ”

*

An hour later.

When the first rays of the morning sun are sprinkled on the city gates.

The carriage carrying Chu Yan and Shen Lingxi, pressed the thick snow, and slowly drove out of Yunbian City.

The Blackarmor Guard rode along the carriage.

As soon as the carriage drove out of the city gate, about a quarter of an hour later, Chun Junyu, who was riding a horse and accompanying the carriage, reported: "Your Highness, the crown princess, look at ......."

Shen Lingxi and Chu Yan glanced at each other and lifted the curtain.

I saw that beside the official road, which had melted most of the snow, there was something crystal clear, shining in the sunlight.

A flock of pigeons, around those ice crystals, pecked at a rapid pace.

Shen Lingxi clearly saw that a pigeon pecked at a piece of ice crystal, then flapped its wings and flew towards the east......

(End of chapter)