From time to time there was the sound of artillery fire in the distance, and Xia Qiu guessed that it must be the artillery made by Xiong Nan's workshop according to the drawings drawn by Ouyang Xueye. Ouyang Xueye requested that it be used only against enemies on the lake. Because he knew the lethality of such weapons, he did not want them to cause damage to Lvli Island.
The downed aerial warship was still burning on the lake, and the thick black smoke rising upwards could be seen from a long distance away. The battle on the shore also intensified, but Xia Qiu knew that now was not the time to care about this. The white bats in Xuanmiao Palace were still chasing them behind her and Xiao Libai, so she did not dare to take it lightly.
The purple-eyed monster must not have thought that the real Taoist would use the power of the Mirror of Kun to attract spirits, bring her spirit into the mirror and tell her the truth. So although it also set up a barrier with talismans and arranged white bats to protect the mirror, it was not very strict, which allowed her to take advantage of the loophole. Now the monster probably knows that the Mirror of Kun was taken away by her, so these white bats must prevent her from entering the bottom of the lake to find the fairy beast in the lake to destroy it.
While she was trying to avoid the white bats that kept trying to catch her, she was also trying to search the surface of the lake for the possible location of the gap between the two peaks at the bottom of the lake. This is not easy, because the scenery seen when the soul was separated is not exactly the same as it is now. In addition, with her water nature, she can't help but worry about how she can enter the bottom of the lake while ensuring her breathing.
For some unknown reason, Little Libai suddenly lowered its flight altitude and began to approach the lake. Before she could figure out why it disobeyed her command and acted without permission, she saw a narrow wave of water coming towards her on the lake. .
When she and Xiaolibai were about to meet the front end of the water wave, she realized that it was her spirit horse Dragonfly, and riding on its back was the water snake demon Yuoyang, a subordinate of the Wuyou Saint Boy who she was not familiar with. .
"Miss Xia Qiu, follow us!" You Jie waved to her and shouted.
Xia Qiu only focused on changing direction to follow the dragonflies and oysters in front of her, but forgot about the group of white bats behind her that were pursuing her. One of the white bats was almost side by side with her at some point, and the spear in its hand was also poking at her. It was too late for Xiao Libai to change direction or speed up again, so she could only raise her height with force, and as a result, the top of the spear was piercing its abdomen.
"Ouch..." Although it groaned, it still held back the pain, quickly shook off the white bat, and then brought Xia Qiu to a safe place.
"Xiao Libai?"
Xia Qiu choked and called out. She felt that it might have been injured just now, and the injured place happened to be a little behind her calf. If it hadn't protected itself regardless of its own safety, then she would have been the one injured now. But its flying speed did not slow down, and it still tried its best to follow the dragonfly in the lake.
"Dragonfly knows where the place leading to the spiritual cave is, and my ability allows you to breathe as freely underwater as on land!" Youji loudly explained to Xia Qiu above him.
But now Xia Qiu couldn't listen to his words, because the little Libai under her body was not flying as smoothly as before. She could feel the temperature of the blood around her left calf that was constantly pouring out of its body, so she stretched out her hand to test Just touch it. Its wound lost blood very quickly, and even if it was pressed with hands, it could not completely stop the bleeding, so it had to receive treatment immediately.
She felt that she couldn't let it fly any longer, so she shouted to the oyster beneath her: "Little Libai is injured!"
"We should be very close to the spiritual cave. You can go find the fairy beast in the lake. I will take it back to Lvli Island, and then find the island owner Hua Wan to heal it!" Youyi comforted her.
"good!"
At this time, Lingma Dragonfly suddenly started to speed up, in order to temporarily throw away those white bats and create a chance for Xia Qiu to enter the bottom of the lake. Xiaolibai also lowered her head and tried to keep up with its speed.
Xia Qiu held back her tears. Her body was almost completely lying on Xiao Libai's back. One hand had to protect the mirror in her arms and grasp the long hair on its neck to maintain balance, while the other hand tried to hold it down. Its wound, even if it can slow down the bleeding speed.
The dragonfly finally stopped. Xia Qiu immediately hugged the mirror and flipped it down from Xiaolibai's back. Then she turned around and said to it: "Come, come here!" Xiaolibai returned to her small form, got into her arms, and was She handed it over to the oyster on the dragonfly's back. At the same time, Youji handed her the bubble that allowed her to breathe underwater. She glanced at the dying little Libai in his arms again and begged, "Please, take care of it for me!" "
Seeing Yu Jie nodding, she suddenly raised her head, covered her head with bubbles and plunged into the water. When she started to sink, she could still see the pairs of arms of the white bats stretching out from the lake. They were just a little bit close to catching her, so she could only speed up her sinking speed and swim towards the bottom of the lake.
Sure enough, she arrived at the gap between the two mountain peaks again. Although the light in the lake was dim, it was precisely because of this that she quickly discovered the light emitted by the Mirror of Kun in her arms. It seemed that the darker the light at the bottom of the lake, the stronger the light from this mirror became. She held up the Mirror of Kun and relied on it to illuminate herself.
The scenery on the two peaks around her was just like what she had seen that day when her soul was separated. The small square houses and bare tree trunks proved that these two peaks should have sunk to the bottom of the lake later.
On one of the mountain peaks, she saw the familiar figure again. A running spirit horse was chasing her as she sank on the mountain road. She felt that the spirit horse was the glowing star that led her into the spiritual cave last time when she saw the fairy beast Silver in the lake. However, she also felt that this gray-blue spirit horse was taller than the glowing star. She thought it was just a short time. I haven’t seen it for a few days. Has it grown up
After the spirit horse tried hard to catch up with her like last time, it jumped up from the mountain road in her direction, but this time she sat firmly on its back. It was indeed a glowing star. She didn't pay much attention to it last time. The color of the glowing star turned out to be very similar to the color of Ouyang Xiaoleng's eyes.
Huixing took her all the way to the bottom of the gap between the two peaks, and then those glowing plants appeared in front of her. She couldn't help but sigh that these plants really existed. It carried her into the spiritual cave in the same direction as last time. After walking for a while, there was no more water.
She tried to take off the air bubble covering her head and took a breath. The air in the spiritual cave was extremely fresh, and even had a little scent of seaweed. The white spiritual fires were beating towards her again, as if they were in the air. Say hello to her.
Yin did not close her eyes and rest on the high platform in the deepest part of the spiritual cave like last time. Instead, she stood under the high platform, facing the direction where Xia Qiu and Huixing were coming, as if she had been waiting for her for a long time. Seeing her walking in, she blinked and said, "I've been waiting for you for a long time, human girl! As I guessed, you will come for the Mirror of Kun!"
"I didn't expect to see you again!" Xia Qiu said with some excitement. When the wonders in the spiritual cave truly appeared in front of her, she always felt like she was in a dream.
"Yes, do you find it strange? I mean the scene in the lake." Yin saw her surprise and asked gently.
"Yes, I just realized that everything here is exactly the same as what I saw when my soul was separated."
"Because this is a rare place where the two worlds of soul and spirit are completely synchronized. I didn't mention it before. Before you first arrived here, there was someone who had arrived here more than once. That was extraordinary. He He always had a long conversation with me every time he came. It was I who told him about the Mirror of Kun, so I figured that he might use your power to destroy the mirror that trapped him. "
"But you didn't mention any of this the last time I came here."
"Because I have sworn a long time ago not to ask anything about what happens outside the spiritual cave, let alone interfere."
"Even if it is related to the survival of so many dead souls?"
"Even if I intervene, it won't change anything. Everything has its own destiny, and what is supposed to come will always come..." Silver's eyes stared straight ahead, as if there was something in the air, and its thoughts had already been Go back into the distant past. It was a memory full of sadness and helplessness, mixed with a trace of resentment, but that resentment had long since dissipated over time.
The two peaks outside the spiritual cave were originally called Yuanyangwu. Before they sank into the water, all the people living there were Yuanyang bird monsters. They live in pairs in mountain huts surrounded by flowers. They are better than a couple of gods and gods. Even Yin can't help but feel envious when he looks at them. But I didn't expect that the climate here would suddenly change dramatically, and the temperature would drop sharply, making it gradually no longer suitable for the mandarin ducks and harpies to live.
Silver saw that they were still unwilling to give up their home and leave even though they were sick, and couldn't bear it, so he let them go into his spiritual cave to hide, because it could block the severe cold under the protection of its spiritual power. Originally, these harpies thought that the climate would naturally return to its original state after a while, but who would have thought that the climate would never improve. When their hopes were shattered, the mandarin ducks and bird demons became malicious and tried to kill Yin in order to occupy its spiritual cave.
Facing the mandarin ducks and harpies who wanted to retaliate, Silver still gave them the last chance. It ordered them to leave their spiritual caves immediately. Who would have thought that they would be safe after leaving, but they found a mirror from somewhere to deal with it. This mirror, called the Mirror of Kun, has the ability to attract spirits and imprison them. Yin was almost caught by them. In a rage, Yin cast a spell to rain, triggering a flood that submerged the entire Yuanyangwu, and used this to isolate himself from the outside world.
In the end, Silver still didn't kill those mandarin duck bird demons. It only knew that they escaped from the spiritual cave with the Mirror of Kun, but it didn't know what happened to them afterwards, and the mirror disappeared. Since then, it has vowed not to help anyone, but it has given its children the right to choose, and they can freely go to the water world.
Yin suspected that the reason why the Kun Mirror reached the hands of the purple-eyed monster was because the monster had some connection with the mandarin duck bird monsters that escaped back then. If this is true, then it itself can be regarded as the cause of this incident. If it had not been soft-hearted and let those bird demons go at the last moment, the Mirror of Kun would not have been taken out of the spiritual cave, and there would have been no extraordinary Taoists imprisoned later. Things appear in the mirror.