Lantern: Reflection of the Peach Blossoms

Chapter 68: Thorns of thorns. [Main CP fight monsters 40%, head vs Yan Lanyu 60%]

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The tides of time crashed against the reef, making a roar.

In the vast void, Yan Lanyu curled up with all her strength, let out a shuddering breath, and slammed her knee with her forehead amidst the pain and despair.

Why is it me

Why make me relive all this? !

The ugly past is clearly buried deep in the soul, so why cruelly reveal it and show it to the fullest? !

His forehead was smashed, and blood ran down the bridge of his nose to his cheeks. His face contorted and spasmed, and he let out a hoarse, shrill, inhuman cry of pain.

let me out.

"—let me out!"

-boom! !

The huge body of the dragon swam by, and instantly swept away a row of vermilion wooden pillars on the veranda outside the hall.

The body of the column collapsed suddenly, smashing into countless segments on the ground, and several clergymen who came running stumbled and slipped, and were almost smashed by the wooden stakes coming from the sky.

As soon as Chu He raised his hand, the wooden pillar that was about to fall behind him seemed to be lifted up by an invisible force and slowly returned to its proper position.

"Who are you?" The wizards couldn't see the magic dragon hovering above their heads, and they all stared at the boy in front of them in horror: "Why are you here, what are you doing?!"

Chu He didn't answer, squinting his eyes and looking at the sky.

I saw a snow light cut through the sky, unstoppable like a meteor, and then exploded into a dazzling light!

"Maha!" Zhou Hui's roar was overwhelming: "What the hell are you holding!"

Zhou Hui's body fell sharply, and he landed steadily with a bang. Suddenly he got up and said angrily, "The sword in this kid's hand is too open. He can directly summon wind and lightning from the sky. Do you know what it is?"

Chu He reluctantly rubbed his eyebrows: "That is Tian Congyun, the legendary ancient artifact that can control the weather, together with Yata Mirror and Qiong Gou Yu, they are also called the three major national treasures of Japan... Hurry up and throw Maha to the sea of blood, just now Isn't it messy enough to drop this dragon and leave quickly?!"

Zhou Hui was furious: "Little bastard is so abominable! No, I'm going to grab his sword!"

Chu He: "..."

A few wizards on the side were stunned, and those who responded quickly rushed up: "Where did you guys come from to break into the inner palace that only His Royal Highness can enter?! Hurry up and leave!"

Zhou Hui immediately turned his head and asked in a low voice, "Really? Only the royal family can enter?"

Chu He: "Almost, this is the place of worship for the Japanese royal family. Aida Yoshi and the others should have sneaked in..."

"Hey?! Shouldn't there be a lot of treasure here?!"

"Shut up!" Chu He's head was full of confusion: "Don't make trouble at this time!"

The wizard was about to die of anger, but the defense inside and outside the shrine was not based on manpower. The clergy was extremely limited, and most of them were witches who were powerless. There are only a few of them on duty near the inner palace. At this time, even if the police can't call anyone, there is nothing they can do.

"If you don't go out, don't blame us..."

Before the sorcerer's voice fell, an extremely thick lightning suddenly fell from the sky!

Maha's cold voice sounded in the burst of electric current: "Wait for mortals, don't go away!"

-boom!

At the critical moment, Chu He raised his hand in a volley and pushed it horizontally, and a gentle and turbulent force rolled up several wizards by the waist, and pushed them dozens of steps away in an instant.

At the same moment when the wizards barely landed, the electric current fell like a waterfall, smashing the place they had just occupied and the front door of the main hall to pieces on the spot!

The wizards screamed in unison. Zhou Hui staggered a few steps in the violent shaking, and was almost hit in the head.

Chu He grabbed Zhou Hui's hand that was about to draw the knife, and raised the other hand against the gust of wind, and a string of pure cyan beads flew from his wrist. Immediately afterwards, the Buddha beads shattered and transformed in the light, turning into a glass dagger, grabbed by his slender fingers, and waved his arms in the direction of Maha's attack.

The blade formed a fan-shaped azure light, and it rushed up against the wind, and with one blow, the Tiancongyun in Maha's hand was smashed into the air!

This series of movements was so smooth and unstoppable that half of Maha's body was knocked back, and he said angrily, "Mother!"

"Don't make trouble." Chu He stretched out his hand to Maha and said, "Come here, I will take you back to the sea of blood."

"No! Why are you all interfering with my actions?! Why are you all on the side of the Human World?!"

Chu He shook his head and said, "That's not the case. I know you want to make up for the missing Godhead by devouring your soul..."

Chu He wanted to continue his reasoning, but at this moment, the Tiancong Yunjian that flew out of the sky drew a bright arc, and suddenly drew countless intertwined electric flowers from the cloudy sky.

Immediately afterwards, the grid criss-crossed, converging into a beam of lightning, and lightly touched the blade of the sword that was pointing straight into the sky.

Chu He: "Huh?"

Suddenly, everyone was attracted by this strange celestial phenomenon. In front of everyone's eyes, the moment the lightning touched the sword's edge, it was like cold water poured into a pot full of boiling oil, and the sky exploded with a bang!

"I told you already!" Zhou Hui clasped Chu He's ear and shouted loudly, "You're still educating Da Mao, I told you this sword is valuable! Grab it and we'll use it up ourselves!"

Chu He couldn't say a word.

I saw the waterfall of electric current flow straight down, like pouring rain, in this magnificent light curtain that runs through the sky and the earth, the dragon finally showed its furious figure!

- If the body of the demon dragon was in a parallel space just now, and mortals could not see it with the naked eye, then in this rare celestial light, it completely broke free from the shackles of both human and demon, and projected its own in the human world. image.

The wizards opened their mouths wide and watched as it showed its shape in the sky, the dragon's head was raised hundreds of meters in the air, the whole body was entrenched in the mountains, and the huge tail even hung down to the ground.

"This... This is a dragon? Could it be a dragon?!" The wizards shook their heads and stepped back tremblingly: "Why is the dragon here?!"

I saw that the demon dragon seemed to be a little anxious under the eyes of the public, with its hill-like head cruising from side to side, and three blood-red lantern-like vertical pupils slowly sweeping into the air, as if looking for something.

And Maha, who was in the air, didn't even bother to pay attention to it.

King Peacock Ming paid little attention to this inedible thing. What's more, Zhou Hui was right in front of him, and his hatred for his father was enough to outweigh his concern for the Japanese. Even if this dragon killed everyone now, it was none of his business.

Maha just wanted to continue to deal with Zhou Hui, he turned around and swept in the direction of Tiancong Yunjian.

- However, at this moment, the eyes of the high-altitude demon dragon suddenly overlapped and looked at him in unison.

"… "

Maha felt something was wrong and looked up at the dragon.

The gust of wind ruffled his long silver hair, and his gaze was indifferent and inexplicable. At that moment, through King Peacock Ming's violent soul, the giant dragon seemed to sense some kind of familiar aura, and suddenly raised its head to form an inverted U-shape that was ready to go.

"…?"

Is this to attack me

Maha had not yet reacted. The next moment, the giant dragon flew down from the sky and knocked him out of the sky with lightning speed!

"-what!"

Mohe was caught off guard and flew across the waist, spewing a mouthful of silver-white blood all over the sky!

What the hell is this doing? Why did you find me all of a sudden? !

Maha couldn't understand why the magic dragon suddenly aimed at himself in the presence of so many people, but it was too late to think about it. He hadn't recovered from the dizziness caused by the impact, and then the demon dragon opened its ferocious fangs, crashed like a giant train, and smashed Maha from mid-air to the ground!

With a loud bang, a huge pit with a diameter of several meters was smashed out of thin air.

Maha lied at the bottom of the pit, and before he got up, he saw the dust swirling around, and the giant claws covered with scales of the dragon roared and stepped on him!

- If you were a mortal, let alone smashing your body into pieces this time, there would definitely be no bones left, and it would be turned into powder in an instant.

The anger of King Peacock Daming instantly rushed to the top of his head.

He staggered to his feet, opened his mouth and let out a long, shrill whistle, followed by a sudden burst of golden light; his whole body was deformed in the golden light, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into a huge peacock as magnificent as a gem!

"What's going on?" Chu He was about to step forward, but was grabbed by Zhou Hui: "Wait, don't go!"

When Chu He turned his head, he saw that Zhou Hui was squinting his eyes and carefully looking at the demon dragon that was constantly attacking. After a while, he said, "It's not trying to attack Maha... it's looking for someone."

"-Find someone?"

"Hmm, he wants to find Yan Lanyu." Zhou Hui said, "Do you remember that Mohe used his barrier to lock Yan Lanyu in?"

Chu He was startled.

The peacock spread out its wings and tail feathers, and swept past the dragon with a raging golden fire. Wherever it went, it immediately cut a long wound on the dragon's body. Black blood and scales rained down like rain, but they were dodged by the peacocks, and when they rushed up, they slammed into the dragon's body seven inches!

Bah!

The dragon's body was knocked away several feet, and the peacock took the opportunity to fly into the sky.

The fighting power of the original King Peacock Ming can be called violent. He was about to turn back to give this dragon a ruthless blow, but suddenly felt an extremely imperceptible shock deep in his heart.

This is…

There was a trace of doubt in Maha's eyes, followed by a continuous vibration from the nerve endings.

- He suddenly understood that it was an enchantment.

It was the enchantment laid down by King Peacock Ming, which was shaken by the violent impact of the dragon, and then began to collapse.

In a different dimension, the world is like a collapsed house. At first, small dust rustled down, then broken bricks and rubble, and finally the broken walls smashed down like an earthquake.

With the process of the collapse of the other dimension, those memory images hidden in the depths of the soul were also broken, turned into thousands of fragments, and the whistling faded like a sea tide; Yan Lanyu let out an inaudible scream in the loud noise, as if quickly in the deep sea He floated up and broke free from the boundless enchantment space with a bang!

At the end of the void above, there finally appeared that ray of white light leading to the real world.

And at his feet, the last fragment of memory is spinning and falling into the abyss.

—Eighteen years ago, Tokyo.

In an ordinary apartment house, the breeze wraps in the sun and blows through the curtains. In the cradle by the bed, the baby kicked its legs and looked at the smiling young couple with wide, bright eyes.

"Look, husband, he's smiling, he's smiling at me!"

"Baby, come and give Daddy a hug..."

The baby in the cradle was picked up, but for some reason, he suddenly started struggling without warning, making babbling sounds, and then burst into tears.

"Ah, what's the matter? Is it urine?"

"Baby be good, be good, come to mother to eat milk..."

Ding dong!

The doorbell rang, but at the same time the baby cried and struggled even harder, wailing horribly with an almost unimaginable force. The young father couldn't hold it at all and could only hurriedly put the baby back in the cradle, while the mother hurried to open the door.

For a split second, the baby reached out to its mother, as if trying desperately to catch her.

However, he was too young, and his tender fingertips rubbed the corners of his mother's clothes without leaving any traces.

"Excuse me, are you... ah!"

"Wife! What's wrong with you, wife?! Who are you... Come on! Help, come on!"

There was an uproar, blood splattered all over the place, and the cry for help came to an abrupt end, followed by the sound of a heavy object slamming to the end.

Several men dressed in plain clothes stepped through the door, and the man in the lead went straight to the cradle and looked at the baby.

"Hello," he said, "see you again."

The baby stopped crying, and a few drops of blood were splashed on his swaddling clothes, one of which was slowly flowing down his white and tender cheeks.

The man's smiling face was reflected in his dark pupils, it was a familiar face.

- Tian Erqi Zhi.

"I'm really lucky to see your return in my lifetime."

Tian Erqi Zhi bowed politely beside the cradle, stretched out his hand to pick up the baby, turned around and said to his opponent, "Come on, go back."

Those who have a pure and stubborn soul can refine the soul of the world of the sun.

The soul of the yang soul died of injustice. After going through hell, mountains of swords and seas of fire, and the soul returned to the human world, it is called the soul of the yin world.

The eight-handed mirror's heart is capricious, and it can illuminate both the gods and ghosts; only those who have both yin and yang souls can serve.

Years flicked their fingers, and the streamer passed by in an instant.

Five years later, the esoteric door.

The sun is like golden yarn, and the cicadas in early summer resounded through the boulevard. In front of the mansion full of Heian period flavors, a bamboo tube filled with water hits the moss-covered stone with a thud.

Tian Erqizhi stepped onto the porch, blocked the golden sunlight with his hands, and looked around with squinting eyes.

"It's been a long time since I came here." Aida Yoshi said with emotion, "Since the head of the sect fell ill and closed down, he has never set foot here again. It has been several years..."

"Me too." Tian Erqizhi smiled.

"Hey, Senior Brother Tian Er, what do you think the sect master called us this time?"

Feeling the burning eyes on his side, Tian Er Qizhi still had that smiling face, and his expression was leisurely and calm: "Isn't this kind of thing clear when I see the head? I can't guess it at all."

A trace of dissatisfaction flashed across Aida Yoshi's eyes, but he didn't say anything.

Since the head of the sect became ill and closed down and his physical condition has deteriorated, the open and secret struggle between the brothers and sisters has become more and more on the table, and now they can only maintain the harmony on the surface.

"Then, since Senior Brother Tian Er is nostalgic for the scenery here, please enjoy it slowly here. I'll take a step first."

Aida Yoshihide strode forward without looking back, Tian Erqizhi seemed to have turned a deaf ear to the irony in his words, and nodded with a smile.

The little lotus by the pool was first released, the dragonfly landed on the lotus leaf, flew into the blue sky in a flash, and disappeared without a trace.

Tian Erqizhi walked slowly down the corridor, walked through the garden to the main hall, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a four- or five-year-old child sitting on the wooden steps in front of the mansion.

"-Um?"

He didn't pay attention at first, but after taking a few steps, he stopped suddenly.

The child kept his head and wore a black kimono, looking at the sparkling pool in the distance, his tender face had a calmness that was extremely disproportionate to his age. A red rope pendant hangs from his chest, and because he is too small and sitting, the pendant hangs down to his knees.

It was a piece of gray-white debris.

"… "

Tian Erqizhi narrowed his eyes and looked at the child's face carefully, as if he wanted to find the light and shadow that overlapped with his memory from his facial features.

However, the child just sat motionless and seemed to be very alienated from the outside world. After a while, he moved very slightly, raised his head, and looked back at Tian Erqizhi's gaze.

At that moment, the cicadas chirped away, and the surroundings turned into thick silence.

The bells of New Year's Eve sounded with fireworks, and the light instantly illuminated the depths of the darkness, and then disappeared into the endless night.

Tian Erqizhi stepped forward and said in Chinese with a smile:

"Hello, we meet again, Lecturer."

The child looked at him indifferently, his eyes like deep pools of stagnant water.

After a while, he said, "I don't know what you're talking about."

He stood up, turned and stepped on the wooden steps, and walked into the big house.

Tian Erqizhi was stunned for a moment, and the usual casual smile on his lips disappeared.

After a while he shook his head and walked up the steps.

The sun was shining brightly outside, but the house was dark and gloomy. The windows on all four sides were covered with dark window paper, and the air was filled with the smell left by the decoction all the year round, and the lingering strands lingered, as if the walls and floors were deeply infiltrated with some kind of moldy and diseased breath. .

The two children stood guard outside the inner door, and when they saw Tian Erqizhi coming, they bowed deeply and opened the paper door.

The smell of medicine in the inner room was even stronger, and I saw a weak old man leaning on the sickbed, Aida Yoshi knelt beside him, his head deeply bowed.

The child sat on his knees expressionlessly in the corner of the room, his hands lightly on his knees. From his angle, he should be able to see Ten Erqizhi coming in, but he didn't even raise his eyes.

"Tian Er is here too, so let's get down to business."

Tian Erqizhi walked to Xiang Tianyi's side, also knelt down and sat down, bowed his body and said, "Master Chief."

The corners of the head's wrinkled mouth twitched weakly.

"The esoteric sect has become more and more prosperous in recent years, and I am running out of time, and I really want to entrust the affairs behind me to trusted people before I leave. After thinking about it, you two are my disciples, no matter what. Deciding who is who is unfair to the other."

The headmaster paused and coughed hoarsely.

In his early years, the leading onmyoji warlock had been hollowed out by years of illness. His face was blue and gray, his old state was revealed, his cloudy eyes were half-closed, and his body seemed to be only a layer of skin hanging from the skeleton.

Tian Erqizhi lowered his eyes and glanced at the child in the corner of the room.

The body of the Sect Master began to decline six years ago when he refined the soul of Yin and Yang. In the winter when the young man died, the sect master used many forbidden techniques to break through the yin and yang realms, and later used his own life to divination where the soul of rebirth would fall. God.

Maybe that's the price, thought Teneriki.

From the first card down, everything collapsed one after another, and all cause and effect went to the worst ending, until there was no room for recovery.

"It's not a big problem for the head, as long as you take a little rest, you will definitely be able to..."

The Sect Master waved his hand, and Aida Yoshi's voice stopped abruptly.

"I thought about it for a long time, and decided to leave the right to choose to Yata Mirror." The leader paused and said, "Lan Yu, come here."

The child got up and walked forward, bowed to the sickbed as a salute, then knelt down again and remained silent.

"His name is Yan Lanyu. He is a person with four pillars and eight characters, and both yin and yang souls are in line with the heart of the mirror. I want to leave him to the next head as a small surname."

The Sect Master coughed a few more times and said hoarsely, "Lan Yu... just choose one to serve."

Aida Yoshi didn't expect this direction at all, his face almost changed color in an instant, but then he suppressed it again.

Even Tian Erqizhi was surprised and raised his eyebrows slightly.

The room was dark and cool, and the faint sound of cicadas could be heard outside the window. The incense in the corner of the house emits curls of white smoke, and in the tea room behind the door curtain, the sound of decoction of medicine is faintly heard, with a lingering bitterness and saltiness.

Yan Lanyu's profile was very silent, only staring down at the hand on her knee.

His fingertips were almost transparent, with an indiscernible, very subtle sheen that seemed to glow in the dim light.

Everyone didn't speak, the air seemed still for a while, and the suffocating silence drowned everyone like a tide.

Yan Lanyu's body moved, but shifted slightly, and leaned in the direction of Tian Er Qizhi: "I choose to serve this lord."

As if the time bomb had reset to zero, Aida Yoshi suddenly changed color and stood up abruptly: "Wait! I can't accept—"

However, the voice of the head's aging sounded at this time, with a hidden threat: "Aida."

"..." Aida Yoshi gasped violently, and after a long while, he finally calmed down his constantly heaving chest, gritted his teeth and forced himself to sit down.

When Yan Lanyu said those words, Tian Erqizhi was a little surprised at first, but the accident turned into a lot of interest in an instant.

He looked up and down at Yan Lanyu, as if he knew him for the first time, not letting go of the slightest expression on the corners of his brows and eyes; however, there was no expression on Yan Lanyu's face, he looked at the dust floating in the air, and closed his eyes for a while .

The head said slowly: "Since it is the choice of Yata Mirror, that's the only way to do it. - Tian Er."

Tian Erqizhi bowed his head: "Yes."

"After I leave, you will take over as the head of the Tantric Sect."

In the Heian period, the sun was still shining outside the big house, and the grass was growing and the warbler was flying. The warm breeze of early summer passed through the branches, and the sunlight reflected on the bluestone steps, casting mottled tree shadows.

Tian Erqizhi stepped over the high threshold, narrowed his eyes and looked at the sun for a moment, then suddenly turned around without warning: "Wait—"

He smiled and looked behind him and said, "You still owe me a New Year's gift, Lecturer."

Behind him, Yan Lanyu stood on the threshold, preparing to close the paulownia door.

The light in the room was very dim, and his face was a little unclear in the junction of light and shadow. Tian Erqizhi just looked at him so quietly and with a smile, as if a long, long time had passed, and even the cicadas had disappeared into a blurred background.

"My name is Yan Jing," he finally said after an unknown amount of time, his voice very flat.

"Thorn of thorns."

The author has something to say:

The melee scene became a bit fast. In order to prevent it from being misunderstood, it is simply: the head turned into a dragon and started to attack Maha, and then Maha's barrier couldn't bear the complete collapse, so Yan Xiaomei was released~