When he came down from the building where Li Zhengchang's house was located, Long Ya did not rush to take Qi Chen straight to Xishi, but circled downstairs.
Qi Chen was wondering what he was looking for, but in the corner to the south of the building, he saw an old locust tree with sturdy branches, but the branch was split in half and slanted to both sides. And at the half-buried roots, there are some dark yellow paper charm fragments remaining in it.
He looked down at the street lamp and glanced carefully, but saw that the pattern on the paper talisman had been destroyed, and he could not identify the original appearance at all.
Long Ya stretched out his hand and took off the remaining pieces of the paper talisman, looked at it in front of his eyes, and rubbed his thumb twice, and seemed to see some eyebrows, then put away the paper talisman and said to Qi Chen, "Let's go, go to Qu. Shan. There's more to come!"
It's not that Qushan Qichen hasn't been here before, but it's the first time he has gone up the mountain in such a dark night.
When he heard Longya mention this place, he actually had some idea in his heart - of the gray dots he saw on the map before, one of them fell on Qushan. Then contact the old locust tree in the fantasy world... Nine times out of ten, he himself is the gray dot.
Longya also said that the gray dot has a similar meaning to the red dot, which means that there is a special person or organization in that position, but it disappeared later. Unless the reincarnated person remembers everything by chance and takes up the burden, the gray dot will light up again...
He pondered these things in his heart, so that when he was brought down by Longya on the top of the mountain, he didn't react for a while, and stared at the ancient building in the dark for a while, and then said as if he had just woken up from a dream: "This is almost there?"
"Yeah." Rarely did Long Ya use the word "bullshit" to reply to him, and just stood there with him, looking up at the ancient building in front of him with a faint expression.
The style of the ancient building is simple and simple. The first floor is a hall with two side rooms. The second floor is just a pavilion for viewing the stars. There is not even a lamp, and I don’t know how many years it has been abandoned. Heavy shadow. The only unique thing is that there is a xun hanging on each corner of the eaves, occasionally swaying gently in the wind. It's just that it's almost broken. For so many years, I have never heard these old xuns being blown by the wind.
"How many years—" Long Ya looked at it for a while, and sighed, "This building is still as shabby as ever."
Qi Chen: "..."
"Don't be ignorant of me, it's useless to roll your eyes out, I'm telling the truth!" Long Ya said disgusting words, but his expression showed an indescribable meaning, he paused and then said lightly: "Well, you Lived here before."
After he finished speaking, he silently looked at the "shabby" ancient building, which was just two floors with nothing to see, but made him look back and forth for a long time.
After a while, he retracted his gaze, glanced at the surrounding scene as usual, then raised his finger and pointed to the place close to the downhill road, and said coolly: "At that time, the whole mountain lived with you, the king of the mountain. Tianwo is like hatching eggs in this building, and it doesn't come out. When was that hut-like hut built over there? Why is it even more shabby than your building? Broken pavilion, what kind of unpleasant thing is this - can I tear it down!"
Although he always said that other things were unpleasant, in fact, at this point, he himself was the best. It's just that he has been with him for a long time, and Qi Chen has somewhat captured his temperament - he is probably naturally afraid of sensationalism, and when he encounters something that can touch him, he always looks uncomfortable, and he doesn't seem to be able to stay until the atmosphere is destroyed. Like going down.
In fact, it is because he is afraid that others will see his side outside the copper skin and iron bones...
Qi Chen didn't pierce him, and followed his words: "I have that house since I can remember. An old man lives in it all year round and cleans this ancient building from time to time. The pavilion has been built a few years ago, mainly because we are here for Qingming. I have the habit of climbing Mount Qu, but Qingming Festival is always rainy, so I built a pavilion for those who went up the mountain to drink tea and take a break from the rain.”
"Cleaning..." Long Ya clasped his arms and said "oh", finally letting go of the two innocent and innocuous small buildings, and said to Qi Chen, "Go in and have a look."
After the words fell, there was a sentence, "You can't remember when you saw it anyway."
Qi Chen: "..."
This ancient building has probably never been changed, and everything in it has been left untouched and placed where it should be placed. Qi Chen doesn't know the layout inside, but Long Ya is familiar with the way, as if he has been here countless times. .
He dragged Qi Chen into the first floor, stretched out his hand and touched the hall, but he didn't know what he touched, and the two bean candles lit up. The fire was not bright, but it could illuminate the huge hanging in the middle of the hall. width.
Qi Chen had an impression on the hanging banner, because when he was a child with his family to climb the mountain, he also asked what the ghost-like patterns on the hanging banner meant. Of course, no one could say something.
"I wrote this?" Qi Chen guessed the origin of the ancient building.
Long Ya glanced at him: "How come you have such a big face, this pattern is from heaven."
Qi Chen: "..." What about the promised benefactor? ! Can you find a second person in this world who talks to your benefactor like this? ! make fun of me!
"This ancient building was later dropped by you. Before you appeared, there was only one boulder on the top of the mountain. On the day you appeared, the sky thunder struck the boulder and made such a pattern. Later, when you built the building, put the This pattern was extended from the boulder and hung in this hall." Long Ya looked at the hanging banner and explained, "This pattern is actually a word - 'soul'."
Qi Chen looked at the unrecognizable word for "soul" and said, "Did you know me at that time?"
"No." Longya shook his head. "This is what I heard from you later. When you appeared, my body was just shattered, and I was buried. How could I know what it was like?"
Qi Chen: "..."
"I haven't heard you mention your specific origin. I only said a few words about the situation at that time. For a while, there were several versions circulated among the people, and one version matches the ones you mentioned." Long Ya carried it. The hand touched the two bean candles, and the candles instantly became much brighter.
He said lightly in the swaying firelight: "Yinghuo Xing, you know? Yingying firelight, Lili Chaohuo, that is a malevolent star that is the main disaster, and it is easy to have wars when it appears. This is the case in the past year. The war never ended that year, and then the war stopped. However, Yinghuo Xing did not disappear, but entered the ghost place. Mysterious thunder fell from the sky, and dozens of slashes were all in one place, and then there were disasters for years, countless people died, and corpses were piled up everywhere. , accompanied by Tianlei, it happened to be the twenty-ninth day again, so... everyone thinks that you are the lower realm of Yinghuo Xing, an evil star, and the chaos and corpses are caused by you, and whoever gets close to you will have more disasters , orphans and widows."
"Ominous Star Demon God?" As an observer, listening to others tell about his past life history, Qi Chen only found it strange and complicated. No matter what Long Ya or the old locust tree said, his previous life seemed to be a positive character, so along the way, he had guessed many possibilities in his mind, but he never thought that he was actually a hidden existence.
He was silent for a while, and asked Longya, "Then what?"
"Later? Later, they really worshipped you in the way of Yinghu Xingjun, for fear that you would come and go down the mountain someday, which would make their population uneasy and the six animals not prosperous. On the 29th of every month, they will be in Qu. To the west of the mountain, light fifteen lanterns and offer sacrifices to you."
Qi Chen: "..."
"I heard you say this scene, and when you said it, it was quite peaceful. If it was me, I would have lifted the mountain!" Long Ya said, paused and said: "But I saw it with my own eyes when I came to see you later. After a few times, those people tremblingly lighted the lamps on the mountain road, and after lighting their heads for a long time, they saw people—"
He clicked his tongue, and then said, "I really can't care about them."
"So I was a malevolent star in my past life? Then how did I know you?" Qi Chen was a little confused.
"You don't even know if a malefic star is a malefic star, so where can I go to find out the proof for you?" Longya pointed to the banner on the hall and said, "It's just that what you do is not what a malefic star should do. You told me about this, this banner is a celestial phenomenon, and it is also a burden that falls on you. The words on it are what you have to bear. All beings in the Three Realms are in it, saving souls, surviving misery, and being born with great evil. The omen, bearing the name of the evil star evil god, but carrying this kind of thing, it's not good enough-"
Long Ya said, looked back at him, and sneered: "The number one 250 in the world is none other than you."
Qi Chen: "..."
"I'm one of the souls saved by your two hundred and fifty souls." Long Ya continued, "At that time, it had been a hundred years since my body was smashed by a knife, and I was buried in the soil as a pile of broken iron, without any consciousness at all. At that time, the name of your fierce god was faded. According to you, on the twenty-ninth of every month, you would go down the mountain along the road illuminated by the fifteen white paper lanterns, and follow the way of heaven to save some souls that should be saved. Tian Changyan, it's finally Lao Tzu's turn! I was awakened by you, my sword soul and consciousness, and you put my body together and gave me a life."
"However, in those 100 years, some undead goods tried to dig up the fragments of my body, so that some of them were scattered outside, causing me to find it all the time." Long Ya probably remembered his handle again, and his face turned black.
"Then what happened later? Why did I—" Qi Chen wanted to say why he died, but now he's standing here again, saying this word always feels a little weird, so he paused and changed his words: "Why does the red dot become grey?"