Chapter Seventy-Six: The Beginning and the End
The Lushan faction is the mainstay of the Xuanmen in the Minyue area.
As the real person in charge of the previous generation, Yu Mei is the most profound person Li Changan has seen so far.
In the illusion of memory presented by the god of wine, this Taoist real person traveled all the way, with auspicious clouds and scenery, with gods to support, and a group of rampant Taoists, all of whom fled from the wind and evil spirits.
can be said to be a bit arrogant, in Li Changan's eyes, throwing away those halos, what he sees is just an exhausted old man. Scarred and dying, like those old wolves encountered in the wilderness, far away from the herd, seeking a place to bury alone.
Above the clouds, the Taoist priest's gaze followed.
He saw Yu Zhenren stepping into the ruins of Xiaoshui and entering a collapsed wall, and saw her waving her hand to disperse the auspicious clouds, burning the table to send the gods and generals away, and commanding the unruly five rampant soldiers and horses.
Repair the house, clean the yard, set up a pot to cook.
but began to do the work of laborers and servants.
Not much.
A pot of wild vegetable soup cooked.
A courtyard was also rudimentarily renovated on the ruins.
Although it is simple, looking at the structure of the "Hui" character and the wisteria and locust trees that are still flourishing in the courtyard, it is very familiar, isn't this the Yu family store?
"It turns out that Amei, the girl in the former Didian, is the current Lushan Coach Yu Mei. ”
Although there have long been conjectures, it is true that the old man with goosebumps and the lively and active girl are associated, but it is inevitable that people will sigh at the urgency of the years.
"Since Amei is Yu Mei, what are Yu Mei and Yu Mei?"
The god of wine did not answer, only lowered the clouds, went to Yu Mei's side, and led Li Changan to the nearest sidelines.
......
One man and one god followed Yu Mei's phantom.
Arrived at a grassy street corner.
Yu Zhenren also commanded Wu Rampant to repair a small house, then erect stones as stoves, and move tree trunks as tables.
He also took out a thick book from his backpack, the material was strange, like paper and not silk, and when he opened it, there was a vivid monster painted on each page, which was somewhat similar to Li Changan's yellow shell book.
Yu Mei flipped through it for a while, picked out a page and tore it off, shook it in the wind, and there was a half-human and half-cat demon in the page, which was held by her hands, like pinching a rubber, and was stunned to pinch the cat demon into a woman with a round face.
And from the page of the book came out a rat demon the size of a calf, and rubbed it into a little baby.
Raise your hand and point.
This cat and mouse, a mother and a son, are busy in the "stove, table and stool", using tiles as bowls and cooking rattan noodles, just like children pretending to be at home.
Yu Mei was not tired of this, and pulled out the monsters, and successively pinched out the merchants, shopkeepers, men, diners, and tourists...... It wasn't until sunset that she stopped creating, and by this time, she had already "restored" half of the street.
But I didn't think about it, and when I woke up the next day, I saw that the houses that had been simply erected had collapsed again, and the characters turned into monsters and the rampant soldiers who had been left behind to guard them were all bound up by green vines, and they were sleeping soundly, and some small flowers and grass were growing on their bodies.
......
Yu Mei was so angry that she was looking for the troublemaker and didn't mention it, and Li Changan, who was watching from the sidelines, saw things clearly and turned her subtle gaze to the god of wine.
Bacchus laughed.
"At that time, although my divine power was weakened because there was no one to worship me, I was still able to deal with one or two stupid demons. ”
The Taoist priest groaned for a while and said deliberately
"This Yu Zhenren has a profound cultivation, and he just takes out some monsters to entertain himself, why should the gods be embarrassed by her?"
Bacchus looked solemn.
"The Taoist priest's words are wrong, I have been worshiped for many years for the sake of Xiaoshui, and now even if the city walls are deserted and the people are scattered, how can I let the demons change their form and destroy the innocence of my people. ”
Li Changan nodded and stopped talking.
......
The illusion continues to develop.
Not surprisingly.
The god of wine, whose divine power was weakened, was quickly caught by Yu Mei.
Don't look at this god on the outside, but on the inside, he has a strong temperament, pointing at Yu Mei is a bloody head.
Yu Zhenren was not ambiguous, and asked the rampant soldiers to fish out the statue of the god from the bottom of the Bacchus kiln, and sealed the god in his own stone statue.
But.
The stubble of the god of wine also gave Yu Mei a wake-up call.
Taking demons as a man is already intolerable to heaven and people, but now there is a Dionysian god to stir up the situation, and in the future, I don't know that there will be no more nosy guys, such as a short-haired Taoist?
Thereupon.
She went around the ruins of Xiaoshui, buried talismans and formations, and built a simple maze.
Then, in the rivers and waterways of the city, he sank into the talismans and magic weapons, and cast many spells, and finally created a new world in the reflection of the water.
One person and one god followed Yu Mei into the illusion realm.
Naturally, it is much more convenient to build walls and tiles than in reality.
Yu Mei splashed ink in the fantasy world with great interest, and "restored" a Xiaoshui City - decades ago, it was still in its prime, and it was still in her childhood.
It's just that the energy is limited, and it is inevitable to scribble.
There are no people, not to mention, it is the street buildings, the closer ones are better, the farther ones are the same as the graffiti of the naughty children, not shaped, and the farther away, they simply become stick figures, as for the distant mountains and the sky, it is just a simple color painting.
But.
When she puts the monsters into the illusion, the scribbled details start to come true.
Originally.
Yu Mei infuses the monsters with false memories, and those memories prompt the monsters to fill in the details of the illusion on their own.
That's it.
With Yu Mei's efforts, the hard work of the rampant soldiers, and the unconscious help of the monsters, the once prosperous and rich Xiaoshui was restored little by little in the illusion.
I don't know if it's to relieve loneliness, or just to show off.
Yu Zhenren asked the rampant soldiers to take the Bacchus back and put it by his side, and every time a house was repaired and an "actor" was arranged, he would be "introduced"
"This Qinyuan (a bird that looks like a wasp) was obtained in the miasma forest of Lingnan when I left school. Its tail needle is very poisonous, stinging people to death, stinging trees and withering. I borrowed armor from the local barbarians, and then I ensnared it in the mountains and forests. When it was sealed in the scroll, it was discovered that its tail needle had broken through three layers of iron armor, almost piercing the inner lining. ”
"The old woman of the Wang family outside the city gate is stingy and vicious, and I heard that she often her daughter-in-law with a needle, and it is appropriate to use this big poisonous bee to pretend to her. ”
"This beast was found when I was walking in Huainan. At that time, it incarnated in human form, claiming to be the reincarnation of the Buddha, deceiving all the people in a county town, and also making a pure world religion, attracting the army, and entrenching one side. It took me a lot of effort to sneak into the mansion and catch it, hey, it tried to bewitch me with words, but I didn't know that I had already closed my hearing, and I couldn't hear a word. ”
"Zhang Yazi of the South Gate is used to lying a lot, and he is the most suitable to pretend to be a beast. ”
"This tiger was caught when I was successful in cultivating and walking out of the mountains. At that time, this evil (harmony) barrier was entrenched in the mountains and forests, controlling tens of thousands of ghosts, demonic flames, and blood eating. I asked the god general, lowered the five rampant, broke its lair, and pursued it all the way, over the mountains and mountains, from the Qianzhong Road to the Lingnan Road, ten days and ten nights, before suppressing it on the bank of the Takishui. ”
"As the saying goes, officials are like tigers, officials are like wolves, isn't he the chair of the county master?"
......
Bacchus just kept his mouth shut at first, but then he couldn't help but argue.
Because Yu Zhenren's process of restoring Xiaoshui is too casual.
For example, there was obviously a monk temple in the city, and she changed it casually, and Jialanbaodi became a Qing(Harmony) Building Workshop;
For example, the Tanuki Building opposite the Di shop is actually just a tavern, and the third lady is just a poor woman who is often beaten by her husband.
I don't know if it's a child, I often give her candy to eat.
Under Yu Zhenren's deletion and modification, the Tanuki Building has become a famous building, the third lady has also become a beauty who has captivated the country and the city, and her irritable husband is gone, but there is an extra ranger who loves her.
Bacchus, of course, couldn't look past it.
Whenever this happens, they will scold or sneer.
Yu Mei is also happy to see it, after all, she can pull out a lot of Xiaoshui's old characters and stories from the words of the god of wine, it's a big deal, it's a big deal, it's a big deal, it's a big deal, it's
That's it.
Time flies, the sun and the moon turn.
A few years passed.
Under Yu Mei's painstaking carving, the Xiaoshui City in the reflection gradually took shape, and it has seven or eight points of the current appearance of the Xiaoshui Fantasy Realm.
But in just a few years, Yu Mei has also been so weak that she can't even walk on her legs.
Li Changan asked the god of wine, Yu Mei's age is only about eighty, and it stands to reason that with her cultivation, she should not be so old if she does not say that she is always young.
But when she recalled that when she showed off to the god of wine, she told about the demons she caught, and it was light to say, but in fact, how many were close to death?
Yu Mei's childhood was the heyday of the dynasty, and since then, the world has taken a sharp turn for the worse. The time of Xiaoshui Fantasy Land is the most prosperous time of the dynasty, and I am afraid it is also the happiest time of Yu Mei's life.
So when she is riddled with old illnesses and time is running out, she will return to her hometown and use monsters and illusions to relive the old dreams of her childhood.
And now.
The stage has been set up.
The actors are also in place.
Yu Mei, who felt that her time was numbered, couldn't wait to arrange the most wonderful drama and the happiest time in her memory - the Dionysian Festival.
At the beginning, it was just like what Li Changan had seen.
The lively long street, the weaving of tourists, the flourishing lights and the painting boats that fill the waterway.
But on the last day, that is, the day of the Dionysian Festival, when all the "people" gathered in front of the Dionysian Temple to participate in the grand ceremony, everything was chaotic, and many "people" behaved chaotically, clashed logically, and even broke free from illusion, revealing the true nature of demons.
In short, chicken feathers.
Yu Zhenren was helpless and angry, and transferred rampant troops to suppress it.
Within a day, Xiaoshui was half empty.
This did not surprise Li Changan.
Mo said, the completeness of the Xiaoshui Illusion in front of him is only seven or eight points now, that is, the current illusion, there are still many illogical loopholes, but they are just covered by the spells of the illusionary mind.
It's okay to go about your own thing according to the "script", and get together in a hurry to stage a big show, like a new game that has just come out, and it has been launched without testing, so you don't have to ug (I took it) to fly all over the sky?
What can surprise Li Changan and make Yu Zhenren helpless
Uncle Bacchus refused to be sacrificed.
The god of wine is not cooperative, what is it called a wine sacrifice?
......
"The gods of the world all feed on incense, I see that Your Excellency has not been sacrificed for a long time, I am afraid that you are in danger of falling, why don't you enjoy the ready-made incense at that time?"
The seemingly prodigal Bacchus chuckled and shook his head.
"A gentleman does not drink the water of a thief's spring. ”
......
Righteous gods are also not subject to demon sacrifices.
In the image of memory, in the face of Yu Mei's angry questioning, the god of wine also calmly answered, and Yu Mei finally couldn't bear it anymore and threw him back to the ruined temple with the stone statue.
Fortunately, the illusion is to Xiaoshui, just like the shadow of a person and himself, although he is powerless to interfere, the god of wine can still see the bits and pieces that happen in the illusion.
Yu Mei began to reorganize the illusion.
This time she learned her lesson.
The vast illusion has been reduced to a lot of scope, only around the city, the number of people has been reduced, there are not so many grievances, and the time has been shortened, only going back and forth for twenty days before and after the Dionysian sacrifice.
It also strengthened the method of illusion, making it difficult for the monsters to indulge in false memories and break free.
At last.
She added one last character to her Xiaoshui.
Xiao Amei of Yu's family shop.
Do it all.
She was even weaker, like a wick about to burn out, with only a little light of life left.
What's worse is that even the rampant soldiers who used to be well-behaved have gradually regained their nature, becoming unruly and uncontrollable, with faint signs of devouring the Lord.
So, she simply took away the rampant soldiers from their minds and sealed them on the murals of the Water Moon Temple.
Suffering from physical inconvenience, she ignited two more monsters, two monsters who had just enlightened and had not yet been contaminated with blood food, to help her control the illusion.
One is the wisteria in the courtyard, which spreads to Xiaoshui City in the illusion and manipulates and monitors the illusion for her.
The two are the big locust tree in the courtyard, and they share it with magical spells to deal with the demons who occasionally come out of illusion for her.
But when Rao is dying, Yu Zhenren still has a bad taste and does not change.
She changed the wisteria into her own appearance, named Yu Mei, and set up the identity of the Lord of the Water Moon Observatory, because she wanted to use it to control the illusion, but she didn't like other monsters, so she knew part of the truth.
And the big locust tree was transformed into the appearance of his youth, named Yu Mei, made up the identity of the Zhenfu Division, changed the task of eliminating the magic demons, and turned it into a monster lurking in the city, and arranged for Yu Mei to pretend to be her Shangguan.
That's it.
The illusion gradually stabilized.
Yu Mei's light of life also burned to the end in the reciprocal sacrifice of Dionysus.
According to Yu Mei's original intention, she should release the rampant soldiers now, kill all the monsters, and destroy this illusion that should not exist.
But in the end, she didn't do it after all.
only entrusted the control of the illusion and the rampant soldiers to Yu Mei, and instructed it to destroy the illusion and bury it for himself after his death.
Then.
A generation of real people passed away in the old dreams of childhood.
However.
Yu Mei is reluctant, can Yu Mei be reluctant?
For Yu Mei, Xiaoshui Fantasy is a few years of hard work, a childhood dream, but for Yumei, it is a real place to live.
And rightfully so.
Yu Mei violated Yu Mei's last wish, leaving the illusion to continue to operate.
But.
Although the illusion created by Yu Mei is exquisite and huge, its essence is a rootless wood, it does not rely on the earth's leylines or caves, and cannot absorb the aura of heaven and earth for its own operation.
What maintains its operation is not only Yu Mei's own mana, but also the spirit of the demons and even rampant soldiers in the illusion. And the monsters play most of the ordinary people, and they can't take the initiative to absorb the essence of the sun and the moon, and even the diet is the illusion of their own essence.
In other words.
The monsters are like donkeys that don't eat grass.
So a few years later, Yu Mei's "reluctance" finally caused a catastrophe.
The youkai were woken up from hunger.
Extreme hunger makes them reveal their demonic nature, and the restraint of illusion makes them still struggle in the role they play.
Just like little Amei's dream.
Tens of thousands of people in the whole city, people during the day, demons at night, a little stimulation, will reveal the true nature of demons, neighbors cannibalism, mother and child cannibalism, all just to relieve hunger.
Don't say that Yu Mei is clumsy, even Yu Mei is at a loss.
Yu Mei is not Yu Mei after all, there is no way to suppress the demons with his own might, and even the rampant soldiers - the essence of the five rampant soldiers and horses has long been extracted by it and used to fill the hole in the illusion, where is the strength to kill the demons?
As a result, the situation of the illusion is getting worse and worse day by day, and finally it has reached a tipping point, and the illusion is about to collapse, and tens of thousands of hungry monsters will break free from the cage.
Then.
There is a team of imperial court soldiers and horses who go north to King Qinwang through this place, and they happen to be stationed on the Xiaoshui site.
That night.
The fog engulfed thousands of officers and troops.
Their flesh and blood became the food that fed the crowd, and their souls became the cornerstones of the illusion.
Therefrom.
The chaos of the illusion was suppressed by the bullet, but it did not destroy the illusion, but used the corpse of the dead monster as nourishment, and sent rampant soldiers to replace the role of the dead monster, and continued to maintain the illusion.
But.
100 dense and one sparse.
Yu Mei never expected that it still missed a demon that broke free from illusion. One is not the most powerful, but it must be the most troublesome monster - the Hundred Fantasy Butterfly.
Born in a fantasy world, a big monster who grew up in illusion.
After this monster woke up, he did not escape from the illusion, but through his innate demon method, he lurked in the illusion, while evading Yu Mei's search, while silently waiting for the opportunity, wanting to occupy the magpie's nest and become the master of the illusion.
And so.
Outside the hallucination, the fog swallowed up passers-by one after another.
In the fantasy realm, in the repeated time loop, Lang Zhong and Yu Mei staged a cat-and-mouse play over and over again.
The god of wine saw all this.
But he was locked in a stone statue, unable to do anything, only lying on his back at the bottom of the abandoned cellar, counting the sun, and rejecting the offerings in the illusion over and over again.
Slowly.
He began to be "dizzy with old eyes" and could not see all kinds of illusions; he gradually "became "dizzy" and could not hear the wind and rain of the outside world; and gradually "his mind was confused" and his mind was confused.
Decaying, falling silent.
Until a Taoist in the chaos snapped his fingers.
"Exorcism. ”
Thereupon.
The god of death awakens from his long sleep.