Pei Jing asked: "Is he okay now?"
The head of Zhongnan Peak said, "Changwu has been in seclusion for a while, and I haven't seen him much."
Pei Jing nodded.
The leader of Zhongnan Peak: "Since Senior Brother is here, I will activate the formation first."
"good."
When the spirit-seeking formation was activated, the chains that fell from the high platform into the water made a clear vibration sound, rumbling. The man who was sitting in the center of the formation, sleeping with his eyes closed, shook violently, and his body turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Pei Jing was looking up from below.
The soul-seeking array can draw out the most vivid memories in a person's subconscious mind. He saw that the disciple's brows were furrowed, his teeth were chattering, and his limbs were trembling - showing a state that seemed to be extremely cold and extremely hot. Then, a virtual fire suddenly ignited on the high platform. The fire was a strange green color, surrounding the disciple, burning his eyebrows and eyes.
Because his arms were locked, he couldn't move. He curled up, sweat dripping down his face. Even though we were far away, the murmurs in the dream of the sleeping boy could still be heard. He said, "Fire... Such a big fire... It hurts so much..."
The fire and pain kept repeating.
Chen Xu said: "I have rarely seen fire of this color."
Pei Jing said: "Strange fire, blue or grayish white, probably ghost fire. As for the blue one... it's quite rare."
The fire burned the boy's soul and body. In his sleep, he bent himself into a twisted posture.
Just as the fire grew larger and more intense - the raging fire burned high into the sky, and suddenly the flames from the bottom up changed and gathered, forming a giant eye.
Everyone was stunned.
The eyes are semicircular in shape, with clean whites and pupils the same blue as the fire. The eyes are dull and lifeless, and when you look at them suddenly, there is a sharpness and coldness that goes straight into your heart.
The blue eyes were above the sea of fire. The moment it appeared, the young man screamed! "Ah!" He held his head with both hands, inserted his ten fingers into his hair, and dug deeply into his hair, causing it to bleed.
Just the spirit peeping was enough to make him so devastated. What on earth did this disciple see when he was alive
The leader of Zhongnan Peak pressed the mechanism of the formation, and the chain moved slowly, and the green virtual fire also dissipated along the edge of the platform. After the nightmare dissipated, the disciple lowered his fingers little by little and fell into a long sleep.
Out of the dark room.
Chen Xu said: "That eye is a bit strange. I always feel that it is not a human eye. Human eyes don't look like that."
Pei Jing said: "Oh, you are so smart, you figured it out.
Chen Xu didn't bother to pay attention to him and continued to talk about his guess: "It doesn't look like a human eye, but more like a bird's eye."
Pei Jing couldn't help but laughed softly: "Don't you think it looks familiar? I suspect that the owner of this eye is a distant relative of the coward on Tianqian Peak."
After being reminded by him, Chen Xu turned around and said, "Yes! It is the eye of a bird! Is this monster a man-eating bird monster?!"
Pei Jing thought for a moment: "Maybe."
After leaving the dark room, Pei Jing talked to the master of Zhongnan Peak.
He asked: "Has there ever been a fire at Zhongnan Peak?"
The peak master shook his head: "No, I have been in the peak for the past few months. If there was a fire, I would not have failed to notice it."
Pei Jing paused, then asked, "What is the identity of this disciple?"
The peak master pondered for a while before slowly saying, "I investigated his identity after he got into trouble. This disciple is called Yu Ming. He was a mortal son of a wealthy family before he entered the immortal sect. But he is too old now, and these past events are not important. He entered Yun Xiao and Zhongnan Peak two hundred years ago, and has been unknown ever since."
Pei Jing said: "That's interesting. You were preaching to your disciples in the main hall of Zhongnan Peak. How did an unknown disciple like him get in?"
The leader of Zhongnan Peak was stunned and frowned: "I don't know. I asked the Consulate Hall, and according to reason, he should have been doing missions at the foot of the mountain during that time, and should not have been in the sect."
Pei Jing stood between the palaces, the moonlight was bright, and said, "You should check this main palace carefully in the next few days."
The leader of Zhongnan Peak accepted the order: "Yes."
When Pei Jing saw the disciple named Yu Ming's body turn red, he had a strange guess in his mind. He saw that Ji Wuyou was the same at Shangyang Peak, and even their movements were surprisingly similar, curling up and twitching.
Blue virtual fire, blue bird's eyes.
"Blue fire, blue bird." Pei Jing tilted his head and asked Chen Xu: "Do you know what I'm thinking of?"
Chen Xu and he made eye contact. The two grew up together, and from Yunxiao to Jingtianyuan, the people they came into contact with overlapped.
Chen Xu said without hesitation: "Phoenix Clan."
Pei Jing said: "At the beginning of Nirvana, the Phoenix Clan has always used fire as its spirit. In the Jingtian Courtyard, in addition to Feng Jin, there were also several small nobles of the Phoenix Clan. Isn't this kind of exaggerated colorful fire their favorite?"
Chen Xu twitched his lips: "Can you be more respectful?"
Pei Jing ignored him and continued, "But that doesn't make sense. Although the Phoenix Clan had a cannibalistic nature in ancient times, Fengqi Mountain is too far away from Cangze Continent, and they are basically spoiled. They would not travel thousands of miles to eat people."
Chen Xu pondered for a moment and asked, "Could it be a fugitive from the Phoenix Clan?"
Pei Jing looked at him strangely and nodded: "But they could also be refugees who escaped."
Chen Xu: “???”
Pei Jing: "With Feng Jin as the new emperor, isn't it normal for the people to live in misery?"
Chen Xu sighed: "... You two are surprisingly consistent. If Feng Jin becomes the emperor, you think the Feng clan will be finished, and if you become the leader, Feng Jin thinks Yun Xiao will be in trouble."
Pei Jing said: "Whether it's cold or not, just ask him to take a look."
Chen Xu disagreed: "He is now the emperor of a clan after all, how can he be so idle."
"Feng Jin is not even a thousand years old yet. The elders in the clan will not entrust important tasks to him. He is just a figurehead. And don't worry, he really wants to come to Yunxiao now, so he will definitely agree."
Chen Xu was puzzled: "Why do you want to come to Yunxiao?"
Pei Jing picked up flowers and leaves and smiled in a profound manner: "Because of me."
Chen Xu almost vomited: "Do you really think you and Feng Jin have a love-hate relationship as described in the storybooks? Are you crazy?"
Pei Jing continued to laugh, patted Chen Xu's shoulder, and wiped his hands clean: "These books will make you stupid if you read them, so you should read less - after I came out of retreat, whether I had broken through the Nascent Soul stage, and how my cultivation is now, he wants to know more than anyone else, just be prepared to welcome Brother Feng."
Chen Xu actually thought that what he said made sense, and followed him: "What are you preparing for?"
"Roasted squab, fried sparrows, stewed pheasant, make arrangements."
Chen Xu: “…”
Mount Zhongnan is adjacent to a small forest. The starlight and moonlight are dim, and the branches are swaying, giving off a cool feeling.
Pei Jing looked around and said, "I've passed by Zhongnan Peak before, but it wasn't like this. Something must have happened here." As he spoke, his face darkened. If something happened in one of the seventy-two outer peaks, it wouldn't be that simple.
Chen Xu said: "I always feel that although this incident seems to have happened at the foot of Yunxiao Mountain, it is actually heading towards Yunxiao."
Pei Jing said nothing.
The bird's eye actually couldn't prove its relationship with the Phoenix Clan, but Pei Jing still chose to write a letter to Feng Jin. He was asked to come to Yunxiao. After all, as the reincarnation of an ancient mythical beast, Feng Jin
The moment the blue fire started burning, the burning sensation and familiar breath reminded him of many things. The Thousand-Faced Woman, Shu Yan, and even the Blue Bird now, all appeared beside him at the same time.
When he first came to Changtian Secret Realm, he heard from Shu Yan's lord or subordinates that they came to kill him - so did all the people come to kill him? - No, Shu Yan's killing intention only came from that twisted loyalty. The people he was loyal to hated him, so he wanted to kill him - the killing intention was not strong. He only put a wisp of spirit in Changtian Secret Realm, and he was too lazy to even take action in Zhonglian Village.
Tianqian Hall. Pei Jing took up his pen and dotted the relationship on the paper.
"There is someone behind Shu Yan. That person hates me, but he didn't order me to be killed."
"Have I ever offended anyone before?"
He once heard Ji Wuduan say that the Thousand-Faced Woman appeared in Tianyan City out of thin air, without any origin, and inexplicably. "Zhu Jian" was millions of words long, and he only saw Ji Wuyou coming back for revenge, but the author had laid a lot of fragmentary foreshadowing in the early stage, and even the bloodline of the demons had not been explained. So when talking with Yu Qinglian, Pei Jing made the assumption that the Thousand-Faced Woman came from another side of this world, deep underground or in an overseas area that was farther and more unpredictable than Yingzhou, and was related to the demons.
One of the important reasons for tracking down Shu Yan was that the feeling Shu Yan gave him was very similar to the cold feeling of Thousand Faces Woman. Pei Jing felt that they might come from the same place.
But, Shu Yan is actually a Li countryman? The real Zhang Qingshu with a name and surname? He possesses such powerful power just because of a jar.
So the assumption is overturned.
"They were transformed from humans into demons. Shu Yan was Zhang Qingshu in his lifetime. Who was the Thousand Faces Girl in her lifetime? She had a thousand faces on her body. What did she do when she was alive? Plastic surgery? There are also such things in the world of cultivation. No, no, no - if a female cultivator wants to change her appearance, she can just cast a spell."
"Maybe she was a mortal in her lifetime."
Pei Jing's expression suddenly became a little strange, and he had a guess.
"Was she the kind of lunatic who would tear off other people's pretty faces and stick them on her own face? Not only did she love beauty, she was also easily bored with the old and loved the new, changing her face every day..."
In his mind, he had already imagined a sickly lady from a noble family.
Sitting in the room, with smoke rising from the jade incense burner, she faced the yellowed brass mirror and pressed the edge of her face with a hairpin.
The bronze mirror reflected the beauty's lifeless eyes and eyebrows, as well as the undried bloodstains.
Pei Jing thought for a moment and said, "Really, beauty has many faces."
I have all the looks you like.
"Assuming this hypothesis is correct, Zhang Qingshu became a demon after entering the vat. What about the Thousand-Faced Woman?"
After thinking for a long time, Pei Jing still couldn't figure out the key point.
There are too many reasons for the death of the Thousand Faces Woman. Such a vicious woman has enemies everywhere, and there are a thousand ways for her to die.
The simplest point is that the girls she killed were skinned alive and died in extreme pain and resentment. Logically, they would become evil spirits and haunt her.
However, since the Thousand Faces Girl was able to live to gather all her thousand faces, there must be a way to suppress her.
"Forget it. Maybe Shu Yan and the Thousand-Faced Woman are not from the same place. Maybe she is just a mask seller... Besides, there are faces of men, women, young and old. When the Thousand-Faced Woman eats a person, a corresponding face will appear on her body. She might be a cannibal."
"Let's check the matter of this blue-eyed bird first."
Pei Jing's letter to Feng Jin was very simple.
The first two sentences explain what happened, and the last sentence is: Brother, come to Yunxiao.
Wuya Pavilion would be hotter than colder at night. The temperature of the entire Tianqian Peak was about the same.
The moonlight shines through the mist, and the jade-like glow is like a fresh snowfall. Pei Jing stepped into Wuya Pavilion. Chu Junyu sat on the floor in front of the desk and raised his head. The bright silver flowed, and in an instant, it was like snow covering his white hair.
Pei Jing was just sorting out the Blue Bird incident, and was in a bad mood, mostly confused and uneasy, but the moment he saw him, these emotions inexplicably disappeared in an instant. His heart became particularly calm.
He even scratched his head in confusion.
He walked over and sat down, and when he saw the things next to Chu Junyu, his head was about to explode!
wipe.
His diary!
His doodles when he first arrived as a kid!
Pei Jing was embarrassed and annoyed. He hurriedly pulled the manuscripts over, but pretended to be calm: "Where did you see this?"
Chu Junyu was not surprised by his arrival and closed the book slowly: "The secret compartment under the table."
Pei Jing looked down and felt a little relieved. When he was a child, he was probably afraid of being discovered, so he used modern simplified characters, with flying dragons and dancing phoenixes. The characters on this continent are similar to modern ones, but they are different after all. Moreover, he couldn't hold the pen steadily at that time, so his writing was even uglier. Except for himself, it is estimated that few people can recognize the characters.
Pei Jing coughed and said, "This is a practice piece I wrote on paper when I was a kid studying talismans with my master."
Chu Junyu smiled with an ambiguous meaning when he heard this and said, "So it's a rune. You really have a talent."
“… …”Yes, he is a genius after all.
It wasn't that he was looking for him now - when he investigated his identity, Chu Junyu just brushed it off, and considering that he was seriously injured, Pei Jing didn't ask any more questions. Now that he was really in Yunxiao, or Tianqian Peak, it was natural that he had to investigate this matter to the end.
"Shouldn't you also tell me why you came to Yunxiao?"
Chu Junyu's pure bloodshot eyes looked at him strangely: "Didn't you ask this question before?"
"Ah? When?"
Chu Junyu said slowly: "Yinghui Peak. Xiuyayuan. First night."
Pei Jing: “???”
During the year at Yinghui Peak, he had been thinking about Chu Junyu, and since they lived together, he asked a lot of questions without hesitation. Although Chu Junyu had a cold personality, he would answer nine out of ten questions at that time.
Chu Junyu stared at him and reminded him: "Number one in the world, remember?"
The best in the world.
The first night in the middle-class residence on Yinghui Peak, in Xiuya Courtyard surrounded by green bamboos.
The boy on the bed was sleeping with his clothes on and his light-colored eyes open; the boy on the ground was leaning leisurely, lively and enthusiastic.
—"Let's chat. Why did you come to Yunxiao? Tell me. I'll tell you mine first. I came here because I wanted to become more powerful. They say Yunxiao is the leader of the immortal sects, has the most powerful skills, and the most powerful elders. If you want to become stronger, this is the best choice."
— "How strong will it become?"
—"I don't aspire to be the best in the world, second place is enough. I just want to be strong enough to protect myself and the things I want to protect. Of course, it would be even better if I could leave a name in the world of cultivation."
The young man with light-colored eyes and a cold and indifferent manner in Xiuyayuan, and now the mysterious young man in black clothes and silver hair in Wuya Pavilion.
He stared at Pei Jing's face and repeated his original answer: "Not enough."
Even if you are the best in the world, you can’t protect yourself.
"I remember now." Pei Jing recalled, "You said at the beginning that you came to Yunxiao to become stronger, and then you wanted to trample the way of heaven under your feet."
Chu Junyu: “Yes.”
Pei Jing: “…”
At first, we were like a newborn calf that was not afraid of a tiger. So what is it like now
The young man in white just looked at him, his posture elegant and upright, his robe as white as snow, his expression on the verge of breaking.
Chu Junyu got his gaze, and after a long while, he said, "I lied to you."
Pei Jing: "You lied to me?!" He had come here in the identity of Zhang Yiming, and he thought he was on good terms with Chu Junyu, but he actually lied to him.
"You lied to me, too. You're thick-skinned and like to sleep on the ground. Did Yunxiao abuse you when you were a child?"
Pei Jing: “… …” OK.
Chu Junyu smiled. Although his eyes were not smiling, his personality was always like this. He stopped looking at Pei Jing, lowered his head and opened the sword technique he had taken from his desk again. He said in a low voice, "I came here for someone."
When he lowered his voice, the moonlight seemed to be a little softer.
Pei Jing: “???”
Silver hair fell on his sides, the young man's eyebrows and eyes were hidden in the shadows of the moonlight and stars, and his slightly raised lips showed another kind of tenderness.
Pei Jing suddenly got excited and recalled Yu Qinglian's detailed analysis to him.
The girl was walking on the field, shaking flowers in her hands. The bell on her wrist was accompanied by the fragrance of flowers, which was beautiful and fresh.
I don't believe there is such a friendship in this world, and I don't believe that a person with that kind of personality would say this if he regarded you as a friend. There must be other more important relationships.
Then came his test of Chu Junyu at night.
"Brother, you have forgotten so quickly that we opened our hearts to each other in the Changtian Secret Realm and sworn brotherhood to the heaven and earth. How heartless."
"That's not sworn brotherhood."
"Anyway, our relationship is different now. Just tell me if I am the most important person to you in Yunxiao now."
"Not important."
"At least it's different from others."
"So what?"
Different from others. More important relationship. I came for one person.
Pei Jing just felt his ears a little hot, embarrassed and ashamed. He forced himself to remain calm and did not want to ask for the answer behind this question, nor did he ask who that person was - he was completely unprepared now!
Steady one hand, steady the other.
Change it quickly, change it quickly.
"What about you? Who are you?" He scratched his head, this question was not as powerful as the previous one.
Chu Junyu was still waiting for him to ask who he came for, but suddenly he heard another question. He was slightly stunned and raised his eyes. He saw Pei Jing also lowered his head, seemingly sorting out the diaries he called talismans, but his ears were a little red.
Red ears. He knew every little movement of his, even every sensitive point - red ears, why, nervous or shy. Chu Junyu looked at him quietly, thinking in his heart, why is he nervous, and why is he shy.
Maybe she was nervous and guessed his ill will towards Ji Wuyou, so she deliberately changed the subject
It was Ji Wuyou again. Traveling through a book really made him stupid, and all he saw and thought about was the protagonist.
Chu Junyu felt a little violent in his heart, a violent feeling that came from nowhere, and he smiled jokingly, "What if I don't want to say it?"
Pei Jing: "..." What can I do? Just kick him out if I don't want to talk? But Chu Junyu saved him, so this is too unethical.
To be honest, if Chu Junyu didn't want to say it, he had no choice. The cultivation world was too big, and the origins of a hermit master were illusory and could not be traced back to the end.
If someone else was here and said this, Pei Jing would have already gritted his teeth and left.
But this person is his admirer. Although it is embarrassing, he has not figured out how to refuse, but the real deal! He has protected him so many times, he should be gentler.
Oh well.
"Then let me ask you, can you just nod and shake your head?"
Back off, back off, and take another step back.
Chu Junyu and Pei Jing met eyes. The young leader had calmed down. He had jade-like skin, black hair and white clothes. The tone of his voice was normal, as if he was discussing something. However, he could hear a very faint gesture of goodwill.
This was not what he thought. When he was young, Pei Yuzhi was young and frivolous, arrogant and conceited. Now he should be angry and laugh and walk away. Instead of sitting here and trying to be nice to him.
The violent anger in Chu Junyu's heart dissipated. He stood up, but his eyes were fixed on the tip of Pei Jing's ear. His skin was very white, the kind of shiny white, and at this moment it was slightly red, like a red plum blossom under the snow.
Pei Jing asked: "Aren't you from Canghua Continent?"
Chu Junyu cooperated very well, and said, "No."
Pei Jing said: "Do you have any bad intentions towards Yun Xiao?"
"No."
"Are you from Tianyan City?"
For the last question, Pei Jing pressed his fingers on the old papers, and there was an unexpected seriousness in the depths of his clear eyes.
Tianyan City. The story of the Thousand-Faced Woman points to Tianyan City, and the story of Shu Yan points to Tianyan City. A myriad of threads, bit by bit, are revealing the capital of the dark world of the cultivation world, the place where the villains revel.
Chu Junyu stared at him for a long time, and then said calmly, "Really smart."
He was really not happy at all when he was praised for being smart, as the word "stupid" was deeply rooted in people's minds.
Pei Jing said: "You are."
Chu Junyu said: "I said I came from a very far away place." A place in this world that only I and I know.
"???" Pei Jing was driven crazy by him: "Are you really like this?"
Chu Junyu said: "Yes."
Tianyan City.
That's not surprising, considering Chu Junyu's earth-shattering evil.
Chu Junyu is from Tianyan City. What kind of person is he in Tianyan City
And what kind of people live in Tianyan City
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