Snow-covered, chilly. On the ancient road, a group of travelers was in a hurry, riding their horses in a hurry. In the queue, a young warlock wearing a hydration suit with a silk waistband stopped, turned his face and looked in the direction of Queqiu Town not far away.
"Really, what's the matter?" The attendant beside him caught up and asked.
"Someone is using the contract technique," the man said. "It's really rare. Today, you can still see such a contract formation in the human world. It seems that the human world is still crouching, which is not known to me."
The prosperous and prosperous place in Kyoto, the Kagura Palace, where the state religion Dongxuan Sect is located, is magnificent and decorated with gold.
The auspicious auspiciousness scattered all over the sky decorates this place into a silver world, jade universe, and there are immortal music hidden during the period, which makes the past believers unable to help but worship.
In the depths of the palace, a man dressed in landscape sleeves and a dharma crown sat in meditation. A strip of green satin printed with tantric runes was wrapped around his face, obscuring his eyes.
The room was silent, and the disciples beside him were burning incense and holding tea, all lightly, for fear of making a little noise that shouldn't have disturbed the master's practice.
The man suddenly raised his head, his face unable to see things turned towards the window where the snow was flying, and said, "Hey, someone in the southwest is making a bond."
"Master, the technique of forming a contract, there are many brothers who can do it in the view, how to alarm the master."
"You don't know,"
The man smiled lightly with red lips, stretched out his hand from his sleeve, and raised his hand slightly. Then two disciples hurriedly brought a white jade disc and held it up in front of him, only to see the smoke in the white jade plate, and the cloud and mountain fog in the plate, as if there was another universe.
The mage stretched out his palm, pinched a spell, and swiped on the white jade plate, and the smoke spread out gently, revealing the stars in the sky. At the foot of those mountains, thin snowflakes formed a small vortex and were slowly flowing.
Several disciples stretched out their heads to look around the master's magic weapon for a long time, but they couldn't do it.
"The apprentice is stupid. No matter how you look at it, this is an ordinary bond technique, and the mana doesn't seem to be so pure." The apprentices spoke cautiously.
"The art of forming a contract is to use the demons as apostles. The demons are cruel by nature, suspicious and fickle, and unruly. If you want to contract them as servants, you must first use great magical powers to subdue them. Therefore, the process of forming a contract is mostly bloody mass, resentment. Soaring to the sky," the mage faced the jade plate, as if he could see the scene through the thick green satin.
"I haven't seen such an auspicious and peaceful bond formation for many years as a teacher. It has a bit of the style of that Mr. Nature back then."
Sunny after snow.
Yuan Xianger was sitting in the courtyard, putting up a cat climbing frame. The carpenters outside these things can only make a frame for her, and the details have to be done by themselves.
Because she had to work, she wore soap-colored clothes, her hair was casually grabbed in a bun on top of her head, and her sleeves were rolled up at her elbows, revealing a fair arm, wearing a pair of sackcloth gloves, stepping on a wooden Tie up the twine with a stick.
"Wuyuan, come. Give it a try."
A small milk cat came with a squeak, and scratched with its limbs on the pole tied with hemp rope.
The hardness of this sisal rope is just right, and it is wear-resistant and has a unique feel, which makes the kitten want to grab a few more hands. It is very easy to climb up and down, and it is much more comfortable than climbing those hard trees at home that are not easy to grasp.
Why is it so comfortable, the kitten was so happy to grab it, hugging the whole post and rolling down to the ground to rejoice.
Yuan Xianger lifted the stick tied with hemp rope, and pulled the kitten hanging on it, which was reluctant to come off, to the ground.
"It's not installed yet, you play this first." She took out a takraw ball with a bell from her pocket and threw it out. The bell rang all the way, and Wu Yuan chased after him, hooking his front paws to move the toy that would ring when touched.
The big black dog lying under the plane tree hummed unwillingly. It can't understand why it was scared by the owner when he brought back a small wolf when he was the strongest creature in the yard, and now he brings home such a small milk cat, which makes him instinctively feel that he should avoid.
Yuan Xiang'er looked at the little guy who was fluttering around the takraw ball, and suddenly remembered that he had played Ball Nanhe with him. At that time, he raised his snow-white front paws, lightly stepped on the takraw ball that he had thrown, and dismissed it with disdain. He turned his face away, showing a look of disgust.
Is it really that the more arrogant and more seductive? Even though he already has a cat, he still misses the little white dumpling.
The unsympathetic guy didn't know how to come back and look at me. Yuan Xianger angrily covered a wooden board with animal skins.
In winter, the time is very leisurely and the day is boring. She can build a warm cat villa for Wuyuan, every pillar is tightly wrapped with hemp rope, and every walking board is covered with soft fur, so that This little thing who has just left his hometown lives a little warmer.
Tomorrow, I will take out Nan He's mat, add some down and dry it, so that if he comes back, he will have a place to sleep. By the way, make him a new toy ball, make it colorful, and hang two feathers in it, he might like it a little bit.
Yuan Xiang'er was half-heartedly thinking about the arrogant and not very friendly little wolf while setting up the cat's nest.
The takraw ball rolled to the side of the plane tree, and a pair of small hands stretched out from behind the tree, trying to pick up the ball.
Wu Yuan rushed over, picked up the ball that belonged to him, bowed his back and let out a low-pitched roar of demonstration at the chicken who was hiding behind the tree trunk.
"Don't be like this, Wu Yuan. Toys are only interesting if you have a partner to play with."
Yuan Xianger carried a polished wooden board under the tree, dug a hole in the soil with a shovel, buried a bracket, and then fixed the center point of the board to the bracket.
"Come on, this seesaw needs two people to play, you guys have a try."
Yuan Xianger took a few steps back, and Wu Yuan squatted on one end of the plank, occupying his place.
After a while, the long-necked chicken in cyan clothes cautiously leaned out from behind the tree. With his hands in his sleeves, he slowly moved to one end of the plank, his eyes rolled, and he suddenly jumped up with his sleeves waving. Jump on the plank with a click. He was much heavier than the kitten, so all of a sudden, the kitten on the other end bounced straight into the sky.
Wu Yuan was startled, and with a meow, turned around in mid-air, turning into a little boy with a red rope braided in his hair and a long ponytail flying in the air. The boy fell from the air, squatted down on one end of the plank, and bounced the long-necked chicken on the opposite side into the sky.
Seeing the chicken cooing and flapping its arms in the air, the cat-eared boy let out a relieved laugh.
"Hahaha, seeing how cowardly you are, you still dare to frame the young master."
"Hide your figure, you still show your ears and tail, don't scare my wife." Yuan Xiang'er sent two troublemakers to play by herself and concentrate on building the villa.
There was a knock on the door outside the courtyard, Yunniang trotted across the courtyard to answer the door, and glanced at the corner where Yuan Xianger was busy.
An empty seesaw was swaying up and down on its own.
"When did you build such a toy? It's really interesting to move on your own." Yunniang said with a smile.
Yuan Xianger often behaves strangely, and strange phenomena often occur around her. But Yun Niang seemed to be accustomed to this, never asking or interfering. Let Yuan Xianger grow up in this family messing around at will.
"Oh, it's you, please come in. Xiang'er is here today." Yunniang's voice sounded outside the door.
When Yuan Xianger heard this, she stuck out her head and glanced at it, and jumped up in surprise and joy, "Aten, why are you here?"
Outside the courtyard gate, a picturesque woman with neatly combed hair on the temples spoke to Yunniang gracefully.
"Excuse me, this family grows it by herself." She politely handed the gift she was holding to Yun Niang, and nodded to Yuan Xiang'er in a proper manner.
"It's so polite, how can I take your things every time." Yunniang reached out and took it, it was a basket of pointed winter bamboo shoots.
Yuan Xiang'er let Arteng into her room and made a cup of tea to entertain her.
"Aten, where do you live now? Why do you have time to come and play with me?"
"I originally lived quietly on the mountain by myself, and I didn't want to go to this sad place in the world again." Arteng drank tea with a cup of tea, and ate snacks gracefully and quickly, she couldn't see any sadness in her at all. appearance.
"A few days ago, I was wandering in the mountains and accidentally picked up a human cub. He looked miserable and pitiful, so I took him back to the lair. He seemed to be seriously ill, so I came to find him You ask for a healing talisman."
"Human cub? A lost child, right? You should bring him back."
"But he said that his parents were dead, and his relatives tortured him into a human shape in order to seize the family property and threw him into the deep mountains." Arteng put out a finger to support his chin innocently, "I think he looks very good. Since it is a cub that no one wants, I decided to keep him by my side as a pet."
Yuan Xianger covered her forehead, "How can you keep humans as pets?"
"Why not?" Arteng didn't quite understand. "You can raise Sirius cubs."
"How can it be the same?" Yuan Xiang'er was dumbfounded, but she couldn't say the reason for the difference for a long time, she thought about it and said, "Look, human lifespan is so short, you keep him by your side, and he will be cute for a while. The child has become a handsome man. Before you have time to be happy, his face is wrinkled and rotted into the soil. You have spent a long time raising it, and you get such an ending, don't you feel uncomfortable? "
Arteng blinked, "That's right, I'll put him back when he's done. By the way, where's your little wolf? Why didn't you raise him, instead you asked for this hair. A clean little wild cat as an apostle?"
She looked with disgust at the cat boy who couldn't take back his ears and tail, and sat fiercely at the table to grab cakes from her.
Hearing this, Wu Yuan slapped the table cat and stood up, his eyes formed golden vertical pupils, showing sharp teeth at Aten.
Before Yuan Xianger could stop him, the dignified and demure Ateng transformed into a monster with a human face and a snake body, with all six eyes open, his mouth wide open, and he took a bite towards Wu Yuan.
Wu Yuan let out a meow, and was so frightened that she instantly changed back to her original form, and ran behind Yuan Xiang'er, shivering.
"Okay, okay. Don't bully him, he's still a child." Yuan Xianger stopped the snake demon with one hand and protected her kitten with the other. Take the frightened kitten outside to play.
"Really, look at it, it's useless at all." Arteng changed back to his original form, smugly reached out to touch his hair, and straightened his clothes, "Tell me, did you get caught by this cat demon? The beauty of her is confusing, and she thinks about it when she sees something different, so that's why you let Xiao Nan go away?"
Yuan Xianger laughed and laughed, "What nonsense are you talking about, Xiao Nan is unwilling to be my apostle and will go by himself."
"Harm, are you stupid?" Arteng clapped his hands and pointed out her green jade finger to her head, "Why don't you even have this common sense, the Celestial Wolf clan are ancient divine beasts, bloodline Noble, one or two are reserved to death, how can you take the initiative to stay. That little Sirius has always been by your side, Momo Haw refuses to leave, isn’t it because he wants to be your apostle and is too embarrassed to say it?”
"Is that so?" Yuan Xiang'er said she didn't quite believe it.
"You listen to me," Aten rolled up his sleeves and gave a bad idea, "the next time you see him, just cast a magic beam to tie him to the ground, and then force him to form a contract, he will definitely give in half."
Yuan Xianger held her stomach and laughed.