The ancient mansion was silent and dark, and when Li Yiqing slowly walked to the backyard with his sword, the cold stars in the sky were dim.

When asked at noon, the servant said that he couldn't go to the backyard, but now Li Yiqing is standing here and understands the reason. The backyard was the servant's quarters, and the silent people were nowhere to be seen.

"Save it for later." After talking to Pei Li, Li Yiqing repeated in a low voice, "So. Is this ritual called [Edict] to feed the bloodline of the Yi family one by one to the son of the edict? ”

"Not sure yet." The black cat's blue eyes looked seriously ahead, "But the Immortal Monarch does maintain a connection similar to the 'oracle' with the Candle World Sect. ”

"Oracle." Li Yiqing muttered a repeat.

"The edicted land of the Candle Cult. They were able to exercise the will of the Immortal Monarch in the human world, and they should have the means to listen to the oracle. ”

This kind of place should be very important for a denomination."

"Yes, but the Candle World Sect returned from a big defeat in Xincang before, so this place is empty, and Pei Ye also said just now that they are preparing to leave." "This should be their last ritual before leaving." ”

Li Yiqing didn't say anything more, at this time she had reached the edge of the back wall, this was the route that was detoured in the kitten's guidance, she pursed her lips and pressed the sword, the old wooden door was embedded in the wall, and the dead grass on both sides was overgrown, the girl slowly pushed the door open, and the empty autumn wind in the mountains and fields suddenly swept up her clothes.

The wind sounded in the shadow of the forest, Li Yiqing raised his eyes to look, faintly in the distance, the shadow of the Qiu Bao stele stood under the moon, and a house hall was showing some light in the distance.

"The Yijia Shrine, when it was just dusk, the black-clothed priest walked in there with a fire."

Li Yiqing nodded, and swept over silently, like a night sparrow among the grass and trees.

When she was nearly four feet old, the girl held her breath and stood still behind a high pine.

It is indeed a tall ancestral hall, the roof is a cut higher than the ordinary two-story building, and it seems that it is still quiet and silent at this time, but Li Yiqing did not take half a step closer, and his face tensed a little.

There's a lot of breathing and heartbeat inside.

The girl looked around quietly, her eyes locked on a tall tree outside the ancestral hall, and cast an inquiring glance over her shoulder, the black cat nodded, and she quietly swept up.

At the same time, a wooden wall dissolved silently under the dark blue fire, and the situation inside fell into the girl's eyes.

Nearly twenty servants were all gathered here at this time, and their silence was not abrupt at all, and in the lonely mountain tombs, under the ghostly fire and high shrine, the strange solemnity made the girl quietly check her breathing again.

Under the shrine, the silent people were dressed in white robes, divided into two inclined columns, standing motionless and silent, and in front of them, the old ghost-like priest had his back to everyone, standing in front of a crest of blue liquid fire, holding a book and bowing his head.

When this flame fell into his eyes, Li Yiqing's eyes immediately widened, and he turned his head to look at the black cat beside him.

But the black cat did not speak, and the whispered chanting of the great priest was already heard from the shrine below.

Li Yiqing was stunned for a moment and listened attentively.

"Chasing the ancients, the universe is infinite, and the wisdom is chaotic; Panwa shows merit, and Xuanhuang begins to divide ...... Yang Wei Taiyi True Dragon Immortal Monarch, following the heavens and the pole, the divine rule of the Holy Rule; All beings bow their heads, and all souls are ...... In this world, thousands of years have passed, the stars are ever-changing, the holy will is undiminished, and the immortal body is eternal. It is difficult to listen to the holy edict from the mortal faint, but fortunately there is a descendant of the gods, who has passed on the blood of the immortals, and now serves as a new servant at the bottom of the stairs to preach the gospel for the holy king. ”

With that, the great priest took a step back and bowed to the ground.

As his knees fell to the ground, like the wind passing through the reeds, all the people in the shrine knelt silently.

Li Yiqing watched this scene silently, and suddenly his eyes froze, and his pupils slowly dilated.

I saw that in the middle of the two rows of kneeling people, a slender figure slowly walked out of the obscure, stepped forward, and stopped all the way in front of the fire ding.

Clothes bear the heart.

The girl's shoulders were straight, her face was reflected in the blue flames, and she also had a sense of weirdness, she stood in front of the ding, her hands were raised to the ding, her left hand was vacant, and her right hand was holding a small knife.

At this time, Li Yiqing saw the reason for her awkward movements-the slender white wrists were tied together by black silk, and only a very small range could move.

The Great Priest bowed to the ground and whispered, "Please test the blood of the Dragonborn." ”

Yi Chengxin held the blade in the palm of his hand, and looked down at the bright red blood flowing out, hanging into the tripod in a thin line.

Li Yiqing was clearly seeing it from this angle, the bright red was not into the dark blue, and a pool of red should have surfaced on the thick liquid surface, but nothing happened.

As if pouring water into the water, those bright red blood disappeared without a trace, but the next moment, the flames in Dingzhong suddenly rose sharply, and Li Yiqing even subconsciously dodged, and the momentum seemed to be burning to the roof.

In the full hall of rosewood, the great priest led everyone to stand up, and raised his hands high: "Pupil Pulse Edict, after the sacrifice to the immortals, Xu into the Lin Chuan Edict." ”

More than 20 people got up and bowed again, and the girl in front of the ding didn't say a word, and returned the dagger to the table with both hands.

Then the girl, still with her hands tied, crossed the offering table and walked straight ahead.

It's gone.

Li Yiqing was stunned for a moment, the black cat had melted the latch of the high window next to it, pushed open a slit, Li Yiqing moved over, and the situation in the back hall came into view.

Yi Chengxin is walking in.

Li Yiqing was about to take a closer look, but at this moment, the cold hairs on her body suddenly rose.

Separated by a thin wall, the ghostly gray eyes of the Great Priest suddenly locked onto this place!

After the ritual was over, he seemed to suddenly regain his perception of his surroundings, Li Yiqing was about to draw his sword in shock, a claw had pressed the back of her hand, and the calm voice of the black cat sounded in his ears: "Don't move." ”

Li Yiqing really didn't move anymore.

At the same time as this sentence was settled, she was fixed by another fact.

In her vision and touch, the black cat's soft little claws were clearly and quickly dissolving into something else. Tough, delicate, smooth and sharp. The iron-like texture of jade was generated on the back of her hand, and the handsome claws came into view, but before the girl's stunned gaze could climb up the claws, the artifact had already drifted away from her body.

With a light weight on his shoulders, Li Yiqing turned his head suddenly, but only saw a trace of pretentious qi in the night sky.

The next moment, the black-robed robe swept out of the door of the ancestral hall like an eagle.

The rest of the people in the hall also took action immediately, some chased them out, and some of them remained in the hall, Li Yiqing remained motionless, quietly waiting for everything to calm down.

At the same time, the magical feeling that she had experienced once in the Bixiao Pavilion came to her mind again, and her mind moved, and suddenly everything became clear.

The black cat's voice sounded directly in his heart this time: "[Quail Head] can communicate temporarily, you monitor the news here first, and I will be back in half an hour." ”

Li Yiqing tried to pass his mind over: "Okay. ”

Received an immediate reply: "Hmm. ”

At this time, Li Yiqing moved his gaze to the crack in the window again.

The turmoil just now did not disturb the back hall at all, only Yi Chengxin glanced ahead.

There are a total of six people in the hall, in addition to Yi Chengxin, Yi Nandai, who is blindfolded and carrying a gun, is also standing here, and the rest are four Mo Qing clothes, motionless, like dead wood, and the exposed skin is terrifyingly white.

And after the five people surrounded the arch, a deep entrance hole opened on the ground.

It seems to go straight to the Nine Shadows.

Li Yiqing immediately had an irrepressible association - these four people. It came out of this.

In a momentary frustration of her mind, Yi Chengxin in the hall had already withdrawn her gaze, and then took a step that caught Li Yiqing off guard—she walked straight to the entrance of the cave.

Between the "Rite of Sacrifice to the Immortals" and "Into the Forest of Purple Bamboo". Didn't there be a pause? So what did she mean to talk to herself at night?

But there is no mood to think about this, Li Yiqing looked at the girl's non-stop pace, if the [Edict] is going to start now. She glanced at the night sky where the black cat had disappeared, and there was no trace of it.

Looking back, the rituals in the hall were still going on.

It is indeed a "ritual", even though there is no chanting or flame, but in the silence, the rich solemnity fills the whole space. The people in Tsing Yi were lined up in all directions, looking at the entrance of the cave with their eyebrows lowered, even the angle of the chin was exactly the same, Yi Nandai didn't say a word, in the empty space, the girl's reverberating footsteps were as lonely as her temperament.

In such an isolated silence, Yi Nandai suddenly spoke: "Accept your heart." ”

The man's voice was as flat and short as it was at noon.

Yi Chengxin stopped and turned his head.

Yi Nandai stretched out his hand and handed her a touch of color, Li Yiqing looked at it, but it was a bracelet.

Yi Chengxin was slightly stunned, took it and put it on his wrist, then nodded, turned around and walked straight into the deep entrance.

The girl's dress was completely engulfed by the hole, and the four Tsing Yi people descended one after another, leaving only the man in the hall.

Li Yiqing looked at it with some last hope, but the man didn't move in the end, and the heavy stone door was already slowly closing.

It is controlled from within.

Li Yiqing glanced back at the night sky again, but there was still no trace of the black cat coming back, and in the hall, the stone door was more than half closed.

The girl's eyebrows were cold.

Then her eyes lit up, and the man who remained in the hall finally took a step and walked out with his spear wrapped in cloth.

Li Yiqing immediately leaned over with her sword, staring at the threshold of the exit with her residual vision, and at the moment when the man's boots stepped over, she immediately pushed the window and stepped on the branches, and the bird-like green shadow swept by, and in the last gap before the stone door closed, the girl's slender and straight figure sank into it.

At this moment, she seemed to feel that the figure that had stepped out of the threshold set its eyes on her, and the lock of the Seven Lives made her shudder, but in the end, there was not a single shadow of a gun chasing after her.

The stone door closed completely, and the last layer of diffuse glimmer disappeared from around him, and Li Yiqing slowly straightened up on the steps.

Even the sound of the wind had disappeared here, and it was a dark silence that really made the cochlea ring, and the five people who had just come down were no longer in sight.

"Kitten, I'm in." Li Yiqing roughly explained the situation around him, "They are going forward, I want to go over and have a look." ”

After a moment of silence, the black cat's voice came: "Be careful, find a way out first, and tell me if you have something." ”

"Hmm."

Li Yiqing turned around first and pressed the stone slab, and the wisps of true qi were blocked in the middle.

Whether it's a formation or some spiritual material, this stone door can't be shaken at all.

When I reached out, there were clammy and cold walls on both sides, and sure enough, I couldn't find any mechanism for the switch. The "key" to open the door of this formation is obviously only on those few people in Tsing Yi.

After a moment of silence in the darkness, and after getting used to it, a faint blue light appeared on the lower edge of the girl's vision.

The steps are downward.

It's just that the distant depth and slope really made the girl purse her lips, she pressed her steps, vigilantly and slowly went down with her sword horizontally, and when she reached this point of light, another deep point of light appeared below.

This exactly. How deep?

Li Yiqing's heart and lungs were carefully stretched, the clammy and cold became deeper and deeper, the girl had never had such an experience, she really felt that she had entered the realm of the Nine Shadows, and only the floating blue flame guided the ghost path.

After six blue flames in a row, the girl finally stepped onto the straight road.

In a circular room, there was still only one flame flower, and Li Yiqing took a few steps forward with the faint light, and two paths appeared in front of him.

“.”

There was nothing landmarked, Li Yiqing scrutinized the ground, but there were many hard stones, and there were no footprints.

Just when the girl's brows furrowed, she suddenly looked at a half-dried drop of blood on the ground of the left passage.

In the early morning of Bixiao Pavilion, the girl's smiling voice suddenly came to mind: "I don't practice martial arts." ”

The deep cut just now, the girl who has no true qi has not stopped her blood so far.

Li Yiqing immediately followed.

And after a short passage of time, the blue flames gradually increased, and floated in the air, and in the midst of this light, some sharp bumps caught the girl's attention.

On the ground, on the wall, and even on the top, a few small purple cones protruded, Li Yiqing took a closer look, its texture was brittle and tough, and the surface condensation was not ore. Bamboo shoots!

The forest of purple bamboo.

The girl's heart suddenly froze.

The unknown mystery literally enveloped her mind at this time.

Of course, it is impossible to grow bamboo underground, let alone purple bamboo, let alone grow on rocks.

Li Yiqing's hand stretched out on the hilt of the sword, and worry did come up.

What is Blue Flame and what is Purple Bamboo. Without a black cat by her side, she was just a girl with only true qi and a sword, and none of the things she saw along the way could have an impact.

Further along, even if she saw the [Edict], even if she witnessed the Jade Array and entered the Purple Bamboo Forest, what could she do?

This is the world of Lingxuan.

But she could only move forward, the girl frowned and walked slowly, and the stone wall was spread, and there was another room in front of her.

But here Li Yiqing stopped.

It dawned on her that she might not be alone.

In the room in front of him, an iron cage was placed in the center, and a girl with her hands tied sat side by side on her legs. She held the bloodied handkerchief in her palm, and with her other hand pulled the colored ring on her wrist upward.

She looked at the empty space with a calm expression, as if she was used to such a fate.

At this time, as if sensing something, she suddenly turned her head and looked at the girl in Tsing Yi who stood silently at the entrance of the passage at some point, and her expression was stunned for a while.

(End of chapter)