Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Thief of the Hairpin
A cool breeze poured into the neckline behind him, although it was not full of killing intent, but it made people instantly chill their whole body. Even Ruyu's face changed.
We all turned around and watched warily at the serene sight under the moonlight. Ah Nian protected me behind him, ready to take out the tomahawk at any time.
"What are you doing here?"
In the center of our line of sight, the air flow fluctuates slightly, and then a figure appears.
It turned out to be a soothsayer!
Ruyu also seemed to be a little panicked, but immediately regained her composure and vigilance. Of course, it's not just her, we're noticing something unusual.
The diviner in front of him seems to be slightly different.
Sure enough, as soon as he said the next sentence, we were even more convinced.
"You alien races, you dare to create a fox clan holy land, it's really presumptuous!"
So if he is not a diviner, who will he be?
"We have been ordered by the diviner to come to the Holy Land to pick up something. Ruyu coldly made up a reason, but it was a bit clever.
"Nonsense! I'm here, when did I order you to come and get something?" the "diviner" questioned, but there was a noticeable hesitation.
"You are just guarding here on the orders of the diviner, do you dare to obey his orders?"
The "diviner" hesitated for a moment, and his figure changed, and he lost the appearance of a man, and turned into the figure of a woman dressed in black, and covered her face with a black veil. Under the moonlight, it seems to merge with the darkness around you. Coupled with the graceful and light figure, it seemed to be covered with a hazy veil, which only made people wonder if she was really standing opposite us. It's just that her eyes are extremely sharp, lined with moonlight, and a little light flashes out, as if a tiny sword is about to shoot out of them. It is these eyes that are staring at us at this moment.
Is she the monster that guards the Holy Land? Now that we see her body, does that mean that we will also become her prey?
"If it is on his orders, can there be a token?"
"Naturally. Ruyu responded calmly, and really took out a thing from his arms, like a wooden hairpin with a bundle of hair, and the wooden hairpin was concave and convex and bent, as if carved with some strange pattern.
However, I am a little strange, in the few times I have met the diviner, I have never seen him tie his hair with a hairpin, how can there be such a peculiar hairpin.
The masked woman glanced at the hairpin, and then raised her eyes to stare at us again, but her sharp eyes eased a lot, but there were some other ingredients in it.
"It seems that you have been sent by him, and I will open the gates of the Holy Land. ”
With that, the masked woman walked slowly towards us until she stood still beside Ah Nian and casually glanced at him. Then, the woman faced the nine-tailed fox statue, drew a peculiar symbol in the air with her right hand, and gently pushed it towards the stone door, and when the symbol touched the stone door, it was embedded in, and then, the stone door slowly opened, and the nine-tailed fox statue on it moved slowly on the mountain, and slowly became a standing posture, this costume scene, is really peculiar.
In the distance, the place of the stone gate showed a hole that revealed a faint light. Immediately afterwards, several stone pillars slowly rose from the center of the lake, connecting the road to the stone gate.
"You go in, the stone gate can only open for a stick of incense, if you still can't get out by then, you will never think of coming out. ”
"Rest assured, we picked up the stuff and came out soon. Ruyu was still very calm.
The masked woman watched as we stepped on the first stone pillar, then the second, then the third, and the fourth...... Then, when I turned my head to catch a glimpse of her, I noticed that there was a glimmer of light in her eyes, or rather, a chill of utter coldness.
"Ah Nian be careful!"
Before the reminder fell, a wave of water suddenly surged on the surface of the originally calm lake, quickly swirling into a whirlpool, and the next moment, a black object quickly burst out of the whirlpool, bringing it all out of the lake, only to see that it resembled a huge pair of scissors, but the scissors blades were extremely sharp on both sides, and there were many barbs for the living. And all this happened in the blink of an eye.
With a "clang", Ah Nian's battle axe was already firmly sandwiched in the scissors, and this fight shook the lake violently, stirring up several waves around it that were more than a foot high, and then it tilted down, and Hulala completely broke the tranquility of the night.
But at this moment, the tomahawk and the black scissors were in a stalemate, and on the other side of the lake, another whirlpool appeared.
"Be careful!"
In an instant, another pair of scissors broke through the water, still in the direction of Ah Nian. Ah Nian was obviously aware of it, but at the moment his tomahawk was still being clamped by another pair of scissors, and it was difficult to get out. And my spiritual power has long been declining, and I wanted to summon Bai Aya, but I found that I couldn't do it anymore, let alone want to summon the sword of Cangrong.
At the last moment, Ah Nian let go of the battle axe, soared into the air, and jumped straight to the level of the mountain carved with the fox statue, and then, with a loud shout, a red light came out of his right hand, and slashed straight at the scissors that also burst out of the water.
The red light collided violently with the scissors, and the scissors came out of the water, which was originally the side of the opposing force, but it seemed to be able to compete with Ah Nian's top-down tentenths of strength without showing weakness.
Ruyu actually watched the battle between Ah Nian and the scissors coldly at this time, and she didn't want to make a move. I couldn't help but feel a little resentful, but in the end, I couldn't urge the spiritual power that could help, so I could only find the right time to retreat to the shore, and the masked woman before had long disappeared without a trace.
Ah Nian and the two huge scissors were evenly matched, and they couldn't tell the winner after several battles on the water surface, but the stone door was still open, but obviously the hole was getting smaller and smaller.
Just as I was hesitating to take the opportunity to enter the cave to look for the jade hairpin, Ruyu suddenly appeared next to me, and then I only felt a slight dizziness, and then the surrounding illusion began to blur, and in a moment, we were already in another environment.
"Why hesitate, if you don't come in once, won't it be wasted?"
It turned out that Ruyu had used a space spell to bring me into the cave. I turned around, and sure enough, I saw the stone door, which was still half open, but it was moving slowly. This cave is not just a stone chamber, but just a passageway, so we don't have a lot of time.
Ruyu and I walked deeper into the passage, lit by torches along the way, but the passage was so deep that we walked for a quarter of an hour, but we still didn't reach the end. I couldn't help but worry a little if it would be too late to get out, but I thought that even if the time was up and we hadn't found it, Ruyu wouldn't really let herself be trapped in the hole. So, I moved on.
Unexpectedly, at the end of the passage, there was a huge cave. It should be a huge hole in the middle of this mountain. There were no torches in the cave, but there were many dots of light flickering on the stone walls, which also illuminated the whole cave. Around the cave, there are many stone pillars of different heights, and the stone pillars are also shining, as if they are some kind of ore embedded in the stone. Those stone pillars seemed to follow some kind of law, more like a huge formation. In the middle of the array, a huge stone pillar reached to the top of the cave, and the glowing dots embedded in it were even denser and shining.
Ruyu walked straight towards the stone pillar in the middle, and when she was about to reach out and touch a certain position in the middle of the stone pillar, I took the first step and stopped her.
"Are you really not afraid that this Qingqiu Illusion will be ruined because of this?"
"Do you really believe what Zisang said, taking the jasper hairpin will ruin the illusion?"
"Probably not. But you should always tell me, how did you know that the demon beast in the lake would only attack Ah Nian?"
Ruyu put down the arm that had been raised, and a cold smile appeared on her face.
"That demon beast is a hooked snake, the hooked snake was originally not a demon beast, but a native of the demon domain who should have been born with a human body, but since Chi You led the Jiuli clan into the demon domain, he expelled the few aborigines who were originally left in the demon domain, and these aborigines were forced to move to the demon world, but because the environment of the demon world is really not suitable for them to survive, they can only cultivate their human bodies through a long period of cultivation. But fortunately, the human body they cultivated was much better looking than when they were in the Demon Realm, so they were content to stay in the Demon Realm and reproduce. When Chiyou expelled the aborigines, because the Hooked Snake Clan was extremely strong, so the two sides experienced a fierce battle, and most of the Hooked Snake Clan was killed and wounded, and only a few people escaped to the demon world, so the Hooked Snake Clan hated the Demon Clan to the bone, and when they saw the Demon Clan, they were bound to kill it quickly. ”
"So you made two preparations, and let Ah Nian be the bait to distract her?"
"Anyway, you also want to get rid of the control of the demons, don't you? If this hooked snake and the demon clan are both defeated, not only can they retrieve the jade hairpin, but they can also make you free again, isn't it?"
"Hmph, you can say it so easily. ”
"Isn't it? You took the jade hairpin, detoxified your own poison, and then completed the agreement with me, and detoxified the monster's poison, can't you go to the two of them in Yifeng Valley?"
"Even if you are a nine-tailed fox clan, but you have been staying in the jade hairpin for many years, how do you know so many things? What is your real purpose?" and in fact, this is what I really want to ask.
Ruyu's expression became extremely serious for a moment, but she immediately smiled, but this time, she didn't have the previous disdain.
"You seem to be smarter than I thought, and I really want to see what difference your next experience will be. It's a pity that now you can only do what I say, good for you and good for me. ”
After that, her expression skipped the usual coldness and murderous intent, and said to me coldly: "The jade hairpin is in the dark compartment of this stone pillar, go take it out, and I will take you out." Otherwise, after a stick of incense, the stone gate will really be sealed again. ”
I looked at her calmly, and then said, "Do you really know the antidote? Or maybe you have also been detoxified by mistake." If I have listened to you, and I have offended the diviner by stealing the jasper hairpin, in case your luck fails, will I not cut myself off?"
As I spoke, I thought to myself that it seemed that most of the time had passed, and that it would not be long before the stone gate would be closed.
"I know that time is running out, so I don't take the hairpin!" she seemed to be a little unable to wait, and urged a little threateningly.
But I was still in front of her, and I didn't intend to make the slightest concession.
"It's okay. No matter how I say it, I am also kind to the Nine-Tailed Fox Clan, and the diviner will not easily kill him. Even if the stone door was closed, the diviner would have opened the door and taken me out, knowing that I was in it. Even if I don't take it out, at least it will keep me alive, and it's okay to send some food. Or, when Ah Nian sees that the stone gate is closed, maybe he will really contact the demons and the diviner to fight, do you think that no matter how powerful the nine-tailed fox clan is, it can resist the demon army? Why be anxious? If the gate is really closed, we will have more time to detoxify, won't we?"
Ruyu wanted to refute something, but immediately realized that it was wrong. But nothing was out of her control anymore.
As I spoke, I tried my best to urge my spiritual power to summon a white silk, which instantly rushed out in the direction of the passage, and disappeared in the blink of an eye. I smiled at Ruyu, then grabbed Bai Aya tightly, relaxed my body, and followed Bai Aya out of the passage, but Ruyu was still frozen in place, knowing that she had been tricked, but she was helpless.
Naturally, she couldn't move, and I had already put a fixing bead on her, which I had bought in exchange for a discolored hairband at the market during the day.
I quickly passed through the passageway, and when there was only a gap left in the stone gate for my side to pass through, I stood on the stone pillar on the surface of the lake again. Before my eyes, the lake was calm again, as if there had never been a ripple before. I withdrew the white silk and adjusted my breathing a little rapidly, after all, using spiritual power now is too draining for me. Immediately, a parrot incarnated by flowers and birds appeared in front of me, holding something in its beak, which was the hairpin that glowed blue.
The shadow beast disappeared, and sure enough, no one in the Six Realms could detect it. Fortunately, before this, we had discussed some countermeasures with Ah Nian Ruyuan, otherwise, I don't know what kind of trap Ruyu will lead us to. On the other side of the lake, Ah Nian was holding a Xingtian battle axe, and the blade of the axe was pressing against the throat of the black-clothed masked woman.
is worthy of being the son of the Demon Emperor, among these six realms, how many people can really defeat him?
The only thing that can't be controlled now is how long the fixed body bead can trap Ruyu, if it is really that powerful, then it can only wait for the diviner to take her out in person.