Sima Jiao still didn't think there was anything wrong with him wanting Liao Tingyan to kill someone, but he also felt a little regret... This was the first time he had experienced what "regret" felt. It was very novel, and it was completely related to physical pain A different kind of torment.
Liao Tingyan has not eaten for several days. She usually takes time to eat two meals a day, sometimes delicate, sometimes rich, and sometimes when she is in the mood, she even cooks it herself. He still remembered that once she made a hot pot that she said was something, and the room was full of flavor.
Although he didn't know what delicious food there was, she ate happily, and he felt better. Seeing that she couldn't eat these days, Sima Jiao was more uncomfortable than her.
Moreover, he also saw the nightmare that Liao Tingyan said. He rested in her spiritual mansion, the original blue sky and white clouds had changed, Sima Jiao saw in her mind a scene of a group of people killing pigs, the pigs were tied up and screamed earth-shatteringly.
Sima Jiao: "..."
It was really unique. It was the first time in his life that he knew that this kind of situation would happen in someone's spiritual residence. There were hellish mountains and bloody seas of corpses in his own spiritual mansion, but a group of blurry people gathered to kill pigs... He really opened his eyes.
It seemed as if the pigs' screams had been circulating in his mind all day long.
This can't be blamed on Liao Tingyan. Apart from what happened a few days ago, the scene that left the deepest impression on her was the scene of pig slaughter she saw at her grandmother's house in the countryside when she was a few years old. When Sima Jiao was murdered, she subconsciously resisted killing, so the source of the nightmare became the killing of pigs.
Liao Tingyan opened her eyes and put a mask on herself first. Although a cultivator wouldn't leave dark circles under her eyes because she didn't get a good night's rest, she always felt that she was so tired now that her face was not so supple to the touch.
Sima Jiao hugged her to him.
Liao Tingyan covered her mask: "?"
Sima Jiao's expression was unpredictable: "killing pigs... scary?"
Liao Tingyan rolled her eyes at the top of the tent and said nothing. She doesn't know anything, so don't ask her.
Sima Jiao knew that killing pigs is not terrible, and killing people is not terrible, but once Liao Tingyan can't eat or sleep well, it will be terrible.
Sima Jiao's eyebrows and eyes are very dark, and because his skin is too white, his entire appearance is particularly profound, especially when his eyebrows are twisted and condensed, his aura is very sharp. It's like thinking about something about life and death.
Seeing him like this, Liao Tingyan first spoke to comfort him, "I'll adjust for a few days."
Make Sima Jiao wait? it's out of the question. He's a guy who's good at creating problems and he's also good at solving them.
Soon, he brought back a jade pillow.
"With this, as long as you have a dream, it will be a beautiful dream."
Liao Tingyan hugged the jade pillow and remembered a certain fiery time-travel drama he watched in his childhood. There was also a jade pillow in it, but he forgot its name. That night, she tried this jade pillow. It was not as awkward as she thought. It was quite comfortable, and it really worked.
Sima Jiao didn't hear the sound of slaughtering pigs anymore in her spiritual mansion this night, only to find that the fragrance of the flowers had turned into a thick sweet smell, like the smell of sweets, which made him feel that his soul was full of sweetness. taste.
Liao Tingyan dreamed of her birthday and ate a lot of cream cakes with relatives and friends she had not seen for a long time. When she woke up, she sighed, "It's been a long time since I ate cream cake." She hadn't seen her relatives and friends for a long time.
"Are you happy having a good dream?" Sima Jiao asked her.
Liao Tingyan recalled her dream. In the dream, the friends and relatives she missed were smiling at her, and everyone was making a lot of noise, urging her to cut the cake. A very large and delicious cake, everything is harmonious - there is obviously beautification in the dream, her mother is reluctant to buy her such a big cake, her father will not smile so kindly, and her sister will not be so obedient Her sister and friends are from all over the world, and they don't get together like that.
She still nodded, "I'm very happy." Just thinking of a poem, it was only normal at the time.
"This pillow is so useful, why don't you use it yourself?" Liao Tingyan touched the pattern carved on the jade pillow and felt that it looked a bit like a wild boar with a long nose.
Sima Jiao relaxed a little after seeing her recover, and snorted, "It's useless to me."
He possesses special abilities and powerful powers, and on the contrary, there are many magic weapons and elixir that are useless to him.
Liao Tingyan now looks like a pig in everything, even Sima Jiao. "Why carve a wild boar on this jade pillow?"
Sima Jiao: "It's a dream tapir."
Liao Tingyan: "The legendary dream tapir looks like this?"
Sima Jiao: "The mere dream tapir can also be called a legend?"
The two stared at the array with big eyes and small eyes, Sima Jiao sat up, "Let's go, I'll take you to see the Dream Tapir."
He acted resolutely, pulled Liao Tingyan and swept out. Liao Tingyan was in a daze. She didn't even know that there were still creatures like the dream tapir alive in this world.
Liao Tingyan: "Wait a minute—"
She pulled her hair together: "I haven't combed my hair yet! I haven't changed my clothes yet!"
Sima Jiao stopped to look at her, very strange, "You are not always like this."
Liao Tingyan: Is it the same as going out at home? I don't wash my hair or wear underwear at home.
After all, she combed her hair and added a robe.
Nightmare tapirs are rare, and the only few in Gengchen's Immortal Mansion are raised in a mountain privately owned by the head master Qianlu. Hearing that the dreaming tapirs were kept in Shi Qianlu's territory, Liao Tingyan couldn't help but ask, "Let's go like this?"
Sima Jiao: "Just go empty-handed. You don't need to bring your barbecue grill. The thick skin of the dream tapir is not delicious."
Liao Tingyan felt that he had asked this in vain. There is no place Sima Jiao dare not go, and there is no thing he dare not do.
Liao Tingyan didn't pay attention to the outside world for a long time. When she went out this time, she found that the closer she was to the center of the inner palace, the more lively she was. "What's going on recently? Why is it so lively?"
Sima Jiao twitched the corners of his mouth, "Gengchen Immortal Mansion has an immortal mansion ceremony every hundred years, which is especially solemn. In the eyes of other immortal mountains and spiritual places, the master of Gengchen Immortal Mansion, that is, I left the customs this year, happened to meet this The second sacrificial ceremony is naturally more important."
The palace masters of Gengchen Immortal Mansion did not dare to disclose his affairs to the public, so they could only bear it tightly. They would probably tell everyone about this ritual that he still needed to retreat and continued to hide this matter. However, the gifts he prepared for them have already been placed, and it will be more fun at that time.
Liao Tingyan didn't hear what was going on outside the window, but when she heard Sima Jiao's words and looked at his expression, she guessed it in her heart. It is estimated that what he said to do before is related to this ritual.
Sima Jiao said a few words, but did not say more, passing the disciples who were talking, smiling and beaming. These disciples could not see the abyss under this majestic Immortal Mansion, and they were still proudly and looking forward to discussing the Immortal Mansion Ritual in the near future.
"We are the first immortal mansion, which sect dares not to give us face, I still remember the gift from Bu Yunzong last century, it was a Kongfeng, I don't know what will be given this year..."
Liao Tingyan looked back and saw the superiority on the faces of those disciples.
The First Immortal Mansion has been standing at the top for too long, and everyone feels that they are nobler than those 'out there'. There is no distinction between heaven and earth, only inside and outside the Gengchen Immortal Mansion.
After all, it is the territory of the head master Qianlu, even if they are not going to the main peak Taixuan, but the secondary peak Taiwei, Liao Tingyan is still a little worried. Sima Jiao didn't. He was no different from visiting his home, and he occasionally introduced her to her while walking.
"Shi Qianlu likes some rare spirit beasts and fairy beasts, so he specially opened a sub-peak to raise them."
"I heard that he occasionally comes to see it, but it's not an important place here, and the guards are sparse."
As Sima Jiao said, they easily entered Taiwei Mountain. There are not many guards at the bottom of the mountain, and they are all lazy, not even as tightly guarded as the fish pond where they went to fish before.
That's right, after all, it's a zoo, and it's for relaxation, just like a garden. If it weren't for a few special beasts, it probably wouldn't even have guards.
This mountain does not seem to be rare, but the aura is exceptionally abundant, and it is divided into various areas, and each area has different beasts. The dream tapir that Liao Tingyan wanted to see was not a very precious spiritual beast here, and its habitat was right beside a lake.
Sure enough, it looks like a little wild boar with a long nose. The hair on its body is black, and it drank water by the water.
Liao Tingyan looked at it for a while and wondered, "Can they eat dreams?"
Sima Jiao folded his arms: "I heard it can, but I don't know. Take two and go back and have a look?"
Liao Tingyan refused.
Sima Jiao: "What are you afraid of? It's just two little things. It's okay to be discovered."
Liao Tingyan said bluntly: "No, I just think that they are not cute, so I don't want to raise them." It's true in the world.
Sima Jiao snorted, "It looks good, there are many here, you can choose a few to bring back."
Liao Tingyan felt that her ancestors were like bringing people to the mall. Even if she didn't want to buy, she had to take something with her. The kindness is difficult, but the same sentence, she has come, she also wanted to raise a furry pet to relieve stress, so she acquiesced and followed Sima Jiao all the way to the depths of Taiwei Mountain.
Sima Jiao was not satisfied after seeing several places, and suddenly asked: "There are no otters here? Why don't we raise a few otters."
Liao Tingyan refused for a second: "No."
The two saw a phoenix with golden wings and bright wings, landing in a tree of white flowers. Liao Tingyan asked with interest, "This is Kongfeng?"
Sima Jiao didn't have the slightest interest in this noble and elegant bird. He looked around, looking for someone who looked like an otter.
Liao Tingyan: "You can tell from the fact that it monopolizes this large mountain. It must be the most precious here."
Sima Jiao: "Whether it's a human or a beast, it's naturally precious when there are only one or two left."
Liao Tingyan: "..." I can't answer what you said.
The two continued to walk along the mountain road and came to the edge of a cliff. The cliff here was like a waterfall with weeping vines, and the usual five-petal yellow flowers were blooming. Liao Tingyan picked one at random, and when the mountain wind blew, the flower in her hand was blown towards the deep forest mountain stream on one side.
Sima Jiao's gaze fell along the flower, and the originally lazy gaze suddenly froze.
Liao Tingyan didn't hear him speak for a long time, turned his head to look, and found that his expression was very strange.
"how… "
Sima Jiao stretched out his hand and made a gesture to keep her standing. He walked out towards the mountain stream, walking very slowly, and stopped after walking a dozen steps. Liao Tingyan saw that he stretched out his hand and tried to squat forward, and his fingertips suddenly spasmed. At the same time, the surrounding wind seemed to stop, and the birdsong disappeared.
There was an inexplicable tension in the air.
Sima Jiao took a step back, he turned around and walked back.
Liao Tingyan stood still and didn't know what was going on. He heard Sima Jiao say, "Go back first. Don't go out for the next few days. No matter what happens, don't step into the center of the inner palace. Wait for me to go back."
Liao Tingyan didn't ask, just nodded, "Okay, I'll wait for you."
Sima Jiao's ugly expression finally softened a little. He took Liao Tingyan's hand, kissed the inside of her wrist, and let go of her: "Go ahead."
After Liao Tingyan left, Sima Jiao's expression turned cold again. He raised his eyes and looked around. There was a hidden barrier in this place, almost as good as the barrier that trapped Sansheng Mountain. It is not easy to lay such an enchantment, so what you want to hide here is definitely not easy.
This is Shi Qianlu's territory. Of course, he has to find out what he has hidden here.
Considering that Liao Tingyan was probably far away now, Sima Jiao moved again, this time he took a step forward, no longer able to control his strength, and there was a cracking sound under his feet.
A bridge suddenly appeared over the verdant mountain stream, leading to another smaller peak.
Sima Jiao walked up. This bridge was not easy. Every time he took a step, there was a surge of spiritual energy around him. The mist was boiling and trying to get into his body, as if there was life. Walking in the air is like a person who can't swim underwater, and it is very difficult to move.
Sima Jiao's whole body was covered with a red flame, and when the white fog hit the flame, it shrank back and made a thin whistling sound.
There are insects in the fog that can devour people's spiritual power and flesh and blood.