twenty-one
Xu was too curious when he first came, Gu Hai and Su Zi hadn't paid too much attention to the environment outside the city, and now that they were here again, the two couldn't help but look at it curiously. At that time, Xie Boyu was repairing in a teahouse, and Yan Zhou didn't know where to go, so Gu Su and the others began to wander around when they left the teahouse. I don't know if this town is too small, or if Gu Su and the others are too close to the deserted city, and the group came to the deserted city again.
In fact, only a few hundred meters away from the bustling town is a deserted city where everything is depressed. Gu Hai and Su Zi once again took Xia Huairuo as an encyclopedia and asked, "Senior sister, why is there no one here after such a distance?" Xia Huairuo was just about to answer, and Su Zi added: "Also, why is there such a fierce place nearby, but the people in the town don't mention anything?"
"There's a saying in this town. Xia Huairuo paused for a moment, and then said: "Don't hear about the things in the city, don't look for people who enter the city." ”
Seeing that Gu Su and the others looked puzzled, she had no choice but to continue to explain: "This deserted city is actually not a deserted city, but it is just a formation set up by the Jiang clan for the biennial travel. The people in the town in front also knew about this, and they would enter the city when they should enter the city on weekdays, but when it was time to travel, no one would go to the city, and they would not ask about the affairs of the city, just wait for the Kunlun disciples who were drawn to the deserted city The trial is over, the Jiang clan closes the formation and collects the demons, and everything will return to normal. Xia Huairuo said these words with a familiar expression, and then raised his eyebrows to signal the two junior brothers to ask quickly.
Gu Hai and Su Zi saw that Xie Boyu still hadn't come out of the town, so they spoke again: "But it's nothing to remind you a little bit, why don't the residents of the town even want to mention a word?" Gu Hai looked at the decayed and mottled huge city gate with some confusion, and couldn't help but feel sorry for the Kunlun disciples who died in the city.
"Gu Hai doesn't know, Su Zi, why don't you understand? On the top of this cloud, there are so many immortals, there are so many people who seek immortals and ask questions, in addition to the disciples of the family, how many of them can make some famous names on their own? If you want to be reborn and shine on the lintel, the only chance is to enter Kunlun. If you want to make a difference, you must be ready to pay, isn't it?" she rarely said this seriously, so it made Gu Su and the others think deeply. In silence, the man who was carrying the sky had already come behind the three of them.
The sound of Xie Boyu stepping on the dry grass on the ground alarmed Gu Hai and his party, and they turned to look at the people who came. Unlike in the previous story, he did not wear the same Ji Qing robe as Yan Xin, but as when he first came to the deserted city, he wore a gray robe covered with a delicate cloak woven of silver thread, and he didn't need to guess to know that he was a member of the Penglai Xie family. He looked up at the plaque in the deserted city that had been so decayed that he couldn't read the name clearly, and he probably remembered Yan Xin's matter, and he didn't do anything else for a long time.
The sky was getting dark, and wisps of cooking smoke had risen from the town in the distance, Xie Boyu took advantage of the fact that he could still see the situation nearby, walked around the deserted city, carved many marks in the long sky, and then cleaned up a haystack and sat down, as if waiting for someone.
Gu Hai and Su Zi were not idle, they first followed Xie Boyu around, and after he sat down, they ran to the marked positions together to take a closer look at them a few times, and only returned to Xie Boyu when they were sure that they remembered it clearly.
I don't know if it's because the Jiang clan lined up in array, or if the moon in this deserted city is brighter than elsewhere, and when the night is completely enveloped in the deserted city, the moonlight illuminates it extremely clearly, and even the flow of miasma overflowing in the city can be seen clearly.
Gu Hai and Su Zi felt a little strange, the last time they came here, even the city wall was full of soul demons, why didn't they see half of them this time, Xu noticed that the other party had the same idea as himself, the two hit it off, picked up the sword and swaggered through the city wall into the deserted city.
The situation in the city was no different from when they first came back, because the miasma was too thick, Gu Su and the others didn't notice anything at first, and after walking forward for a distance, a thin figure that was much taller than them suddenly appeared in front of them. The man stood motionless with his sword in his hand, Gu Hai and Su Zi thought they had encountered a ghost at first glance, and they were so frightened that they almost hugged each other, but after thinking about it, they were just two soul bodies, and they were not in this world, so they didn't seem to have anything to fear, so the two of them settled down and prepared to take a good look at each other.
The young man in front of him carried a sword scabbard made of white jade, and wore a white robe of Moon Shadow that was no different from other Kunlun disciples. Su Zi inexplicably felt that the scabbard was a little familiar, and when he raised his hand, he saw that it was not the scabbard of the Autumn Water Sword in his hand. So he hurriedly walked around in front of at least the year, looked up, and sure enough, it was Yan Zhou. It's just that the other party's eyes are blank at this time, and he seems to be Bai Zhi when he lost his soul by the swamp lake.
"He was trapped by the illusion created by the spirit. Xia Huairuo didn't know when she followed the two into the deserted city, and she added a sentence in the back, but it scared the two junior brothers a lot. "Didn't the book say that the illusion of the soul demon is not difficult to solve, why hasn't Yan Zhou's predecessor woken up yet?" After Su Zi finished speaking, he looked at Xia Huairuo with Gu Hai and waited for the other party to answer, and Xia Huairuo also explained as if he was used to it: "Although the illusion of the soul demon is easy to solve, the illusions they create are all repetitions of the real things that have happened. ”
Xia Huairuo walked up to the young man who was slightly taller than himself, looked at his beautiful eyes with some carmine, and said with some distress: "He saw Yan Xin in the illusion and saw the real dream of immortality that belonged to Xie Boyu. ”
The autumn water sword in the young man's hand faintly flashed with cold light, as if he wanted to convey the anger and sorrow of the people in the illusion, and the sword spike shook gently in the wind, and the boy woke up after waiting for a long time. Finally, a soul demon mustered up the courage to float in front of Yan Zhou, and it paused for a moment before making a move, and let out a low cry of unknown meaning, which sounded like a lament to the three of them.
The soul demon then screamed and slammed into Yan Zhou, and the boy was hit by the huge impact and took a few steps back and finally woke up. He barely supported himself with autumn water, covered his heart and spit out a mouthful of somewhat blackened blood. In fact, there are not many soul demons left in the city, Yan Zhou is not a mediocre person, he has already swept most of the demons in the city before Gu Hai and his party arrived in the deserted city, if he hadn't accidentally entered the illusion, he should have already left the city at this moment.
The young man holding the autumn water was half-kneeling on the ground, I don't know if it was born or because he was crying, and his eyes seemed to be vaguely red at the moment. He raised his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, roared with grief and anger and roared out the unspeakable pain in his heart, and suddenly got up and raised his sword to slash at the remaining soul demons.
Outside the deserted city, Xie Boyu looked into the city in surprise as if he sensed something, he took out a talisman seal and pointed in the direction of the deserted city, and in an instant, the talisman paper burned into ashes.
"Tsk, I'm really spoiled, and I went into the city alone. Xie Boyu complained with some dissatisfaction, and then quickly swung his sword to eliminate the spell at several locations outside the city that he had marked. The spells that covered the city walls began to fade the moment they touched Changtian, and when the last spell disappeared completely, Xie Boyu finally entered the city with a face full of unconcealable worry and impatience.