"Walk the water, walk the water!"

The palace immediately became agitated, and looking into the distance from the top of the palace, I saw the guards and eunuchs and maids in the palace running towards the places where the fire broke out everywhere, and even the Zhaolu Palace, where the emperor usually rested, had the open flames of sky lanterns falling.

The whole palace was in shambles.

Under the light of scattered sky lanterns, the pigeons are densely packed, all concentrated in one area.

Half of them are in the light, half of them are hidden in the night sky.

The night sky was filled with the sound of birds flapping their wings, and it was impossible to tell how many of them there were.

"Oops, you're here, I've finally found you."

At this moment, Liu Meiren took the two concubines and floated towards Shen Lingxi from a distance.

They stopped a foot away from Shen Lingxi.

Liu Meiren said with an unusually solemn expression: "Those pigeons have been flying around with ice crystals these days, they go out day and night, first went to Taiyi Mountain, circled in the mountains of Taiyi Mountain for several nights, and then went to many mass graves, until tonight they were attracted by the fireworks in the city and flew here." ”

Shen Lingxi's eyebrows moved slightly, he stood up and looked at the two concubines, "In addition to these, have you ever found anything else?" Like what...... Revenants or something? ”

When Chu Yan saw her suddenly speak, he knew that there must be a dead soul to report to her.

He took a few steps back directly, retreating some distance, lest the evil qi on his body bounce away those dead souls.

The two concubines pondered intently, and one of them said uncertainly: "I didn't see the dead soul, but when those pigeons were coiling in the back mountain of Taiyi Mountain, I saw a lot of black gas floating in the big array of the back mountain......

After she mentioned this, the other concubine also remembered it, and hurriedly added: "Yes, yes, those black gases are like silk threads, especially thin, and they can only be seen in the moonlight." The black line goes straight into the pigeon's mouth, and after a while, the pigeon's eyes will become as red as blood. ”

She said, with a hint of fear on her face, "It's very evil." ”

When Shen Lingxi heard the word "black gas", he thought of the dream the night before leaving Yunjiang for no reason.

In the dream, in the jade in the palm of the girl in red, there was a black streamer surging.

"Have you ever seen where the black gas comes from?" Shen Lingxi hurriedly asked.

Both of them shook their heads: "I don't know what kind of big array there is in the back mountain, we can't get close, and we can't go in to investigate." ”

These words reminded Shen Lingxi of what he had just heard from the Queen Mother-

The first emperor cut off his head and burned him to death in this palace along with his uncle Mei. The ashes were sent to Taiyi Mountain and buried in the Chaodu circle of the Shangqing Palace. Back then, the mourning family saw him burned to ashes with their own eyes, and there was no way that his body could be transported out of the Great Zhou......"

The pigeon and ice crystals are inseparable from Sheng Kun, so this big array in the back mountain of Taiyi Mountain must be the super magic circle that the Queen Mother said.

Shen Lingxi remembered that Liu Meiren had said before that Sheng Kun was outside Yunbian City, and his charred body was also sent back to Taiyi Mountain by Su Xian overnight.

It will definitely be locked into that big array by the elders of the Shangqing Palace.

So......

Shen Lingxi saw this strange situation in front of him again, and he was extremely frightened when he thought about it.

She hurriedly relayed the news they brought to Chu Yan.

Chu Yanfeng's eyes suddenly deepened, and he looked into the distance, "I'll take a look." ”

As he spoke, he planned to send Shen Lingxi down-

"I'll go too." Shen Lingxi stepped forward to hold his hand, looked at him and said, "You are Sheng Kun's target, if these pigeons are really related to him, I don't worry about you alone." ”

Seeing that her eyes were full of worry, Chu Yan hesitated for a moment and nodded, "Okay, let's do it together." ”

Now that the two of them are in the harem after all, although Chu Yan is strong in martial arts, it is inconvenient to use light skills to go directly.

coincided with the movement outside, and also alarmed the queen mother who had just rested, and heard that the two of them were going to check, so they hurriedly sent the chief eunuch of Shoukang Palace, Jia Gonggong, with several eunuchs from Shoukang Palace to lead the way with them.

In this way, even if others ask why they walked in the harem late at night, it can be said that they received the order of the Queen Mother.

Liu Meiren can float in mid-air, and it is most convenient to find the direction of those pigeons, and lead Shen Lingxi directly in front.

So, Shen Lingxi instructed Gonggong Jia to lead everyone to turn left and right.

After walking for about a quarter of an hour, the group finally came to an open place.

Even though Shen Lingxi was very unfamiliar with most places in the palace, he also knew where it was.

Too liquid pool.

Located in the east of the central axis of the harem, although it is an artificially dug inner courtyard lake, it covers an extremely wide area.

There are several palaces in the harem, all of which are located next to the Taiye Pool, including the queen's Kunning Palace, Zhao Guifei's Furong Palace, and the Xifangzhai where the most favored new concubines live.

It was late at night, although the palace people in many places in the palace were busy putting out the fire because of the suddenly falling sky lantern.

But the few palaces around the Taiye Pool are rare peaceful.

There are those pigeons coiling on the lake, and the sky lanterns can't float on the lake, so the palaces are naturally not disturbed by the lights.

"Plop...... Thump...... Plop ......"

As soon as Shen Lingxi and Chu Yan and their party arrived at the Taiye Pond, they saw that under the moonlight, many pigeons swooped into the lake like crazy.

The eunuchs who came with them, who had never seen such a scene, were so frightened that they hid back.

A concubine was originally floating in the front, curious to check.

However, Shen Lingxi saw her white soul shadow, and as soon as she approached the position where the pigeons were "throwing into the lake", she let out an "ah" and fell straight into the lake!

"Save ......"

She only had time to cry out for help before she was silent.

Seeing this, Liu Meiren and the other concubine were so frightened that they hurriedly floated behind Shen Lingxi.

"There must be a formation under this water." Liu Meiren said anxiously to Shen Lingxi: "At the beginning of the mansion in the capital of the King of Yunjiang, we were like this, we were suddenly locked into that formation, she must have been locked in the formation, you should think of ways to save her." ”

At this moment, Shen Lingxi and his party were on the shore of the lake.

But the position of those pigeons "throwing into the lake" is in the middle of the lake.

On this cold winter night, from the shore to the center of the lake, not to mention the water, even if Chu Yan performed light skills, he could not reach it.

You have to row a boat.

Shen Lingxi sighed for a few breaths and said to Chu Yan: "Your Highness, since there is such an abnormality here, there may be 'evil spirits' at the bottom of this lake, and the lake water must be drained to find out the clues." I also ask His Royal Highness to go to face the saint, explain the truth, and start as soon as possible. ”

Hearing her say this, Chu Yan immediately understood what she meant.

He took off the waist card in his hand, handed it to Gonggong Jia, and instructed: "If the matter is urgent, you go to the inner eunuch to find the eunuch on duty, ask them to open the gate downstream and start draining the lake, and go to the temple alone to explain the matter." ”

Father-in-law Jia couldn't wait to leave quickly, so he hurriedly led the two little eunuchs to go.

"Let's go to the emperor." Chu Yan said, then took Shen Lingxi's hand, intending to leave.

"I'm staying here." Shen Lingxi put his hands behind his back, looked at him and said, "I have to ...... Just keep it here. ”

Because there were still eunuchs from Shoukang Palace, Shen Lingxi couldn't say it too obviously, so he glanced at the nothingness on the side, and motioned to Chu Yan that she was with Liu Meiren.

Chu Yan frowned slightly invisibly.

He intuitively felt that this matter was inappropriate, and was about to persuade again-

"Your Highness, the matter is urgent, and it can't be delayed any longer." Shen Lingxi pointed to the distance and urged, "It will be difficult to drain the lake for a while, so we have to bring in internal guards, bring nets, and stop those pigeons." ”

There are more and more pigeons in the middle of the lake that continue to "throw themselves into the lake".

It also seems to be a series of ripples, rippling from the middle of the calm lake, making the water by the pond begin to lap the shore of the lake.

Beneath the treacherous surface of the lake, there seems to be something extremely dangerous.

This deep palace does not belong to Chu Yan's sphere of influence, even if you want to transfer internal guards, you have to nod the emperor.

After weighing it repeatedly, Chu Yan finally made up his mind and instructed: "I'll go back quickly, you are here, wait for me to come back." ”

Shen Lingxi nodded.

Chu Yan ordered the remaining eunuchs to guard the crown princess for a long time, and then hurriedly performed light skills and left.

After he left, Shen Lingxi's gaze swept over the few guards who looked frightened and uneasy, and asked softly: "I need a boat, go to the middle of the lake and take a look, who of you knows, where are the boats in the Taiye Pool?" ”

*

A quarter of an hour later, Shen Lingxi left a message for the little eunuch, and rowed the boat alone in the direction of the center of the lake.

According to her previous experience, as well as the rules of formation she learned under Su Xian's ears and eyes this time.

Shen Lingxi knew that if there was really a formation under this lake, there would definitely be a magic stone for the formation.

The black clay pieces she saw in the Yunjiang Palace's Mansion and the Mu family earlier were the magic stones that Sheng Kun used to set up the array.

The formation used by Sheng Kun is evolved from the ancient Fuxi Bagua Array, but everything changes and does not deviate from its sect, and the law of his arrangement is also in accordance with the direction of Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Gen, Li, and Dui in the Fuxi Bagua Array.

After Shen Lingxi identified the direction, he followed the closest position to them, estimated the distance of the pigeons overhead, and rowed the boat to the most likely position.

Then, he gave Liu Meiren and the remaining concubine two wind lanterns, and asked them to carry the wind lanterns to the bottom of the lake to find the location of the array stone.

Except for the Xuanmen magic weapons and formations, the dead soul is in this world and is not affected by all things. Therefore, those lakes are equivalent to nothingness for Liu Meiren and them.

Shen Lingxi can see the dead souls, and he can also see them, they are carrying wind lanterns, things that can be illuminated.

As long as Liu Meiren and the two of them don't get too close to the magic circle in the center of the lake, they will not be easily sucked into the formation by the magic circle.

This is also the reason why Shen Lingxi rowed to the center of the lake alone.

She never does anything she is not sure of.

"Found it, here!"

As Shen Lingxi expected, Liu Meiren found the location of the array stone at the bottom of the lake in less than a cup of tea.

She floated on the water, carrying a wind lantern, looked at Shen Lingxi, and asked hesitantly, "You don't plan to dive into this water yourself and move that stone away, do you?" ”

"Or else?" Shen Lingxi took off his coat, only wearing a plain white underwear, and took off the hairpin jewelry on his body, "Only I can see you, if you want to rescue her as soon as possible, there is no faster than me going into the water myself." ”

As she spoke, she picked up the rope that the little eunuch had prepared for her, and tied one end to the boat and the other to her waist.

Before entering the water, Shen Lingxi glanced into the distance.

Seeing that at the end of the line of sight, there was a group of people holding torches approaching the shore of the lake, and they knew that Chu Yan would be back soon.

"There's not much time left for us, let's go."

Without hesitation, she jumped into the icy water.

*

At this time, Chu Yan went to Chaolu Hall to tell the emperor what happened in the palace, and after getting the emperor's approval, he went to transfer the internal guards non-stop.

When he hurried to the shore of the lake, he saw several little eunuchs of Shoukang Palace, gathered together, and looked into the distance.

But there is no longer Shen Lingxi by the lake.

Chu Yan's heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and a strong feeling of uneasiness spread in the bottom of his heart.

"What about the crown princess?" He asked in a deep voice.

Several little eunuchs were so frightened that they knelt on the ground, and the eunuch who hit the head stumbled and replied: "Princess, the princess herself, rowing by herself, going, going to the middle of the lake." ”

Chu Yan's pupils shrank, and he raised his eyes suddenly, looking into the distance.

And near the middle of the lake, there was a small boat with a candle light.

He is a martial arts practitioner, and his eyesight is much stronger than that of ordinary people.

There was no one in sight of the small boat, except for the wind lantern hanging on the bow.

Chu Yan's heart instantly sank to the bottom.

The unprecedented panic made him subconsciously want to perform light skills and run in the direction of the small boat-

"Your Highness." Seeing this, the little eunuch hurriedly said, "The crown princess said before leaving...... Say ......"

Chu Yan paused suddenly, his eyes were full of anger, "Say what, don't say it quickly!" ”

The little eunuch was excited, didn't dare to delay any longer, and said like a bean: "The crown princess said that she would go into the water, if you come, you can't see her, don't worry." Please take the internal guard to the center of the lake together, don't delay the business because of emotion. ”

This is the first time in Chu Yan's life that he was warned to "don't be emotional" and not to "delay business." ”

He almost laughed.

Good, good.

It seems that she had already planned to send him to the Chaolu Temple.

I'm afraid that if he is here, he will stop her from entering the water, and he will drag her, her back, and her legs!

When the little eunuch saw the prince's cold face, a layer of frost had been condensed, and he deeply felt that he was not far from death.

"Ship...... Yes, and boats. The little eunuch said in a trembling voice: "The crown princess asked the slaves and maids to tow the boats, and just wait for His Highness to come down." ”

"The crown princess said......" he mustered up his courage and tried to imitate Shen Lingxi's tone, "Please don't hold back, and you must not go into the water." ”

Chu Yan's breathing was sluggish and he closed his eyes.

In his heart, he tried to tell himself that if she deliberately left such words and had the boat be towed, it meant that she was sure.

She's sure, she's sure, she's sure, she's going to be fine......

In this way, Chu Yan repeated it several times in his heart before he could barely suppress the unprecedented panic and uneasiness in his heart.

He waved his hand at the guard behind him, and ordered in a cold voice, "Grab your things and get on the boat." ”

At the same time, Shen Lingxi dived into the bottom of the lake, and under the illumination of the wind lantern in the hands of Liu Meiren and the concubine, he directly found the location of the array stone.

To her surprise, the array stones buried at the bottom of this lake were not the same clay tablets she had seen in the secret room before, but a few black lake stones.

Those lake rocks, any one of them, are half a man's height.

Shen Lingxi swam to the nearest one, stretched out his hand and pushed.

But the lake stone seems to be buried very deep, and it does not move at all.

She alone could not move the lake stone out of the mud.

If you can't move, you won't be able to destroy the formation at the bottom of the lake.

"How can this be done?" Liu Meiren was so anxious that she stomped her feet, "Which black-hearted thing is buried here!" It's deadly! ”

Shen Lingxi frowned.

She is now a living person, a living person has to breathe, and the time at the bottom of the lake is limited, and even if she sneaks in, she must not come in vain.

Her heart fluttered slightly, and she lowered her head to untie the rope around her waist......