Qiao Yuan didn't act rashly, just stood at the window and watched quietly, not even exuding his divine sense.

With a creak, the door was pushed open, Zhan Yao walked to Qiao Yuan's side in a few steps, pointed to the nine pillars of light, blinked his eyes, and asked curiously.

"Brother Qiao, what is that?"

"I don't know for the time being, wait until a few days to get familiar with the situation and then go to investigate, you don't want to mess around. ”

Qiao Yuan shook his head and said solemnly.

Zhan Yao is a little different from ordinary people in some small things, but she is never ambiguous in business, except for beauty, she almost never causes trouble for Qiao Yuan because of willfulness or curiosity.

"Brother Qiao, don't worry, who knows if there are any Jindan Stage monks here, Xiao Yao will definitely be cautious. ”

Zhan Yao smiled, stuck out her little tongue, and said playfully.

"Finished with those snacks?"

Qiao Yuan had a gentle smile on his face, habitually touched her head, and asked softly.

"How can I be, after eating today, Brother Qiao won't buy it for Xiao Yao tomorrow, and I won't drink the northwest wind. ”

Zhan Yao's eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and the pear vortex on her lips flashed, and she said jokingly.

Seeing that the nine pillars of light had not changed, Qiao Yuan also relaxed and joked with Zhan Yao.

Both of them are lively and cheerful, and they like to quarrel with each other, so you say a word to me, and the sky gradually brightens.

It wasn't until the sky was white, the sky was full of stars, and the moon hung high that the nine pillars of light gradually dimmed and finally disappeared.

Qiao Yuan watched as the door of the Mei Mansion also opened at this moment, and then one by one the maids were busy inside and outside the Mei Mansion, starting a new day.

During the day, Qiao Yuan took Zhan Yao around the city at will, and when he had nothing to do, he went to some teahouses and restaurants to sit down, and quietly inquired about some things about Meifu.

In this way, ten days passed in a flash, and in these ten days, except for three nights, because there was light rain in the sky, dark clouds covered the stars and bright moon, and the nine pillars of light in the plum mansion did not appear.

And for the other seven days, almost every time the child arrives, the nine pillars of light will appear on time.

"Xiao Yao, if my expectations are good, those nine pillars of light should be caused by some kind of formation that absorbs the power of the stars and moon, and this kind of formation is generally arranged, in addition to cultivating some special exercises, it is to warm some spirit plants or spirit beasts. ”

After ten days of observation and investigation, Qiao Yuan knew a lot about Meifu, and at this moment he sat in the room, arranged a soundproof prohibition, looked at Zhan Yao and said softly.

Zhan Yao sat aside, holding her cheeks with two jade hands, tilting her head to look at Qiao Yuan, her eyes showing a thoughtful expression.

"If you are cultivating special exercises, there is no need to make such a big move, I think it must be to cultivate some kind of spirit plant or spirit beast, and this kind of spirit wisdom or spirit beast is extremely precious, I am afraid that there will be high-level monks to take care of it. ”

After a while, Zhan Yao blinked, looked very serious, and analyzed Qiao Yuan's words again.

"Brother Qiao, according to what the third son of the Mei family said, the Mei family is just an ordinary immortal cultivation family, and there may not even be Jindan stage monks in the clan. ”

Zhan Yao kept talking, and continued to speak seriously.

"And the Mei family's main family is still in Shengmei Mountain, which is thousands of miles away from here, this is just a place where the Mei family's mortals live, how can there be such a precious spirit plant or spirit beast?"

When Qiao Yuan heard Zhan Yao's analysis, he was immediately stunned, and after a long while, he asked with a strange expression.

"The third son of the Mei family, how did you get the news from him?"

The third son of the Mei family met in the restaurant six days ago, but during the meal, the third son of the Mei family happened to be sitting at the table next to them, and overheard his conversation with others, Qiao Yuan knew that he was the third son of the Mei family.

But Qiao Yuan remembered that they didn't talk about the Immortal Cultivation Family at all that day, how did this little girl know?

"Hey...... The mountain people have their own tricks. ”

Zhan Yao smiled, revealing a mouthful of neat white teeth, and deliberately sold Guanzi.

"Okay, don't sell the guanzi, I'll buy you chestnuts tomorrow, hurry up. ”

Qiao Yuan smiled helplessly, and hurriedly waved his hand and said.

"This girl is naturally beautiful, how can he be a mortal who can resist, as long as I hook my fingers, he will honestly say what should be said and what should not be said. ”

Zhan Yao straightened up, said with a smug look on her face, and stretched out her right hand to hook her green jade fingers.

When Qiao Yuan heard this, he was completely dumbfounded, when did this girl learn the beauty trick, and she was not ashamed to say it so calmly.

Seeing Qiao Yuan's dumbfounded look, Zhan Yao's chin was raised, and the smug look on her face became a little stronger.

"Xiao Yao, Brother Qiao is usually so indulgent to you, you are not allowed to come in the future, a girl's family must have the appearance of a girl's family, otherwise how can you marry in the future. ”

Qiao Yuan's eyes sank, and he raised his hand to press down her chin that was about to reach the sky, and scolded with an extremely serious expression.

"I'm not going to get married, I'm going to follow Brother Qiao all the time. ”

Zhan Yao saw that Qiao Yuan was a little angry, and hurriedly said extremely aggrieved, with a hint of crying as she spoke.

"You don't come to this set, anyway, you won't be allowed to use this method in the future. ”

When Qiao Yuan saw her appearance, he suddenly felt a little unbearable, his expression eased, and he waved his hand and said.

"Brother Qiao, Xiao Yao knows. ”

Seeing that Qiao Yuan's expression had softened, Zhan Yao hurriedly reached out and grabbed his right hand, shaking it while saying coquettishly.

Qiao Yuan sighed secretly in his heart, and at the same time made up his mind that he would discipline her strictly in the future, and he could no longer let her develop in the direction of the "little demon girl".

"Okay, when it gets dark today, we'll sneak into the Mei Mansion to find out. ”

Qiao Yuan put away his thoughts, said solemnly, and after speaking, he got up and walked out of the door and returned to his room.

Two hours later, two black-clothed people appeared under the courtyard wall of the side gate of the Mei Mansion, and taking advantage of the night, the black-clothed people jumped up, jumped up more than a foot high, and fell into the Mei Mansion.

Without any words, the two of them walked around the Mei Mansion very familiarly, as if this was their own home.

In the dead of night, except for some patrolling families in the Mei Mansion, it was difficult to see any figures, and the two arrived at the back garden of the Mei Mansion very smoothly.

"There are formations. ”

One of the men in black stopped, waved for the other to stop, and then spoke in a very low voice.

I saw that there was a high red wall in front of the two of them, nearly ten zhang long, and there was no other entrance except for a moon gate in the middle.

"Brother Qiao, what now?"

The man in black in the back pulled the corner of the man in black in front of him and asked in a low voice.

"It's okay, that formation doesn't seem to limit mortals. ”

Qiao Yuan observed for a while, then he breathed a sigh of relief, and said in a low voice, after speaking, he took out two talismans, one on himself, and one handed to Zhan Yao.

"This is a hidden spirit talisman, which can be cultivated to hide, and we are no different from mortals when we paste it. ”

This hidden spirit talisman is an extremely remote talisman, and it is more precious, ordinary monks will not spend a high price to buy this kind of talisman, Qiao Yuan also inadvertently bought it in a trading market when he traveled before.

After the two of them pasted the talisman, they saw that there was no one around, so they walked lightly towards the moon gate.

There was nothing strange about the Moon Gate, and the formation was also invisible to their naked eyes, so without the slightest obstruction, the two of them passed through the Moon Gate and entered the back garden.

At this moment, there was still more than an hour before the time came, and before the nine pillars of light had risen, Qiao Yuan and Zhan Yao searched for them in the back garden.

Eventually, the two found nine circular altars on a stone floor in the center of the garden, which were relatively low, only one zhang in size, and looked like nine flower beds.

Qiao Yuan and Zhan Yao hid in the dark, carefully observed for a long time, and saw that there was no one here, so they tiptoed over.

"There's a dungeon down here. ”

Walking to the altar, Qiao Yuan's eyes flashed with a strange purple glow, and he immediately noticed the abnormality and said in a low voice.

The altar looked normal, but in fact it was all hollow, and the stone slabs on the surface were just a trick.

"Could it be that the rudder of the Shadows is just below the altar?"

Zhan Yao's heart moved, and asked without thinking.

"Go down and have a look. ”

After thinking about it, Qiao Yuan's eyes flashed with determination, and he said softly.

After speaking, he took out a moon-white Taoist robe, pulled Zhan Yao over, and the two of them jumped into one of the altars together wearing Taoist robes.

The dark passage could not see the bottom at a glance, and the speed of the two people's descent was controlled neither fast nor slow, so as not to encounter any danger and not have time to react.

After a stick of incense, the two of them fell to the ground lightly and like ghosts, without the slightest sound.

As far as the eye can see, this is actually an underground city, surrounded by palaces, buildings, and even streets and shops.

In the center of the city, there is a square with a radius of thousands of zhang, the square is shrouded by formations, but there is a large altar in the center of the square, and there are nine small altars on the large altar.

The position where Qiao Yuan and Zhan Yao were standing was on one of the nine altars.

These nine altars correspond to the nine altars of Meifu, arranged in a circle, like stars and moons, surrounding the center of the altar.

"It's ...... Qingxing Xuanyue Flower?"

Qiao Yuan's gaze fell on the center surrounded by the nine altars, and his eyes immediately burst out with a dazzling essence, and he suddenly felt that his mouth was dry, his heart was pounding, and he couldn't help but exclaim.

Seeing Qiao Yuan's reaction so violently, Zhan Yao hurriedly turned his head to look, only to see that there was a one-foot-sized flower bed in the center of the altar, which was covered with a layer of gray-white soil, and an extremely beautiful flower grew on the soil.

The shape of the flower is quite similar to that of a rose, except that the color of the petals is dark blue, with a slight purple tinge, a little light yellow crystal on it, like a star, and a crescent-shaped bump, emitting a moon-white light, like a bright moon.

The nine petals, each of which is like a starry sky, look dazzling and dazzling, making people feel like they are trapped in it at a glance, and it is difficult to extricate themselves for a long time.

Just when both of them were fascinated by the beauty of the flower, nine extremely powerful auras suddenly appeared on the square, and the two of them immediately woke up.

Fortunately, they were dressed in the Moon Traceless Dao robe, and they performed stealth techniques, and neither the naked eye nor the divine sense could detect them.

Qiao Yuan's eyes sank, and he immediately suppressed the excitement in his heart, and turned his head to look outside the altar.

I saw nine people appear on the square, and those nine people were men and women, old and young, and their cultivation was all in the Jindan period.

Nine Jindan period monks appeared here, Qiao Yuan and Zhan Yao suddenly became nervous, if they were found at this moment, I am afraid it would be difficult to escape.

"Elder Liu, the hall master has been out for so long, why hasn't he come back yet? You must know that it won't take long for this Qingxing Xuanyue Flower to mature, and when the demon beast attacks, I'm afraid the nine of us alone won't be able to resist it. ”

Among the nine people, a beautiful young woman in her thirties frowned, looked at an old man with gray hair, and said in a deep voice.

The white-haired old man glanced at the beautiful young woman with his slightly closed eyes, and said in a light tone.

"The hall master came with news today, saying that they have saved the white hall master, and at this moment they are healing in a hidden place, and they should be back in a few days. ”