Heaven sees the city.
It rained suddenly at night.
Xiaodong opened his eyes, turned his head and glanced at the elder brother who was still meditating and practicing kung fu, then quietly walked to the window, and opened a slit to look out.
The cool wind mixed with rain blew on his face, Xiaodong wiped it with his hands indiscriminately.
He looked in the direction of Chengzhongfu.
Even in the rainy night, this direction can not be mistaken. Because the City Lord's Mansion was exactly the same as what he saw in his dream, it was built with white jade, and at night, the jade still had a glowing halo, looking from a distance, it seemed that there was a huge night pearl buried there.
A robe was draped over his shoulders, Xiaodong turned his head quickly, Mo Chen's hand lightly pressed on his shoulders, through the crack of the window, the rain seemed to be boundless.
"Why don't you sleep?"
Xiaodong shook his head: "Sleeping..."
It's just that I can't sleep well.
In just one day and one night, he experienced all kinds of unimaginable things and was in a dangerous place. He closed his eyes and didn't feel sleepy. Hearing the sound of rain outside, he woke up again.
Mo Chen stretched out his arms and pushed the window open, the sound of rain suddenly became clear and poured into his ears. The tidal night wind blew the hem of his robe back, Xiaodong raised his head and looked at him: "Eldest brother..."
"Huh?" Mo Chen lowered his head slightly.
At night, there was a flash of light golden light in his eyes.
Xiaodong took out a small compass from his bosom.
This was Ning Yu's parting gift when he left Tianji Mountain. It was only half the size of a palm, with black paint as the base and silver powder engraved on it. Looking at it as a child's toy, Ning Yu gave this to Xiaodong, saying it was for him to play with. Xiaodong accepted it without knowing the origin at first, but it was Mo Chen who told him that this was the first magic weapon given to this disciple by Master Hu after Ning Yu became a master. Although it is no longer suitable for Ning Yu, he Giving this to Xiaodong is obviously very important to the friendship between the two.
Knowing the origin of this compass, Xiaodong carefully put it away, and used it to learn how to use it when he had nothing to do, but he didn't necessarily have any talent for it, just playing with it, Tianjishan's set of skills He can't understand.
"When we were in Tianji Mountain, Senior Brother Ning was still thinking about finding something for me. He said that this compass could replace those paper talismans, but I tried it twice later, but there was no response. But..."
Mo Chen's eyes fell on the compass.
In order to let him see clearly, Xiaodong raised the compass a little bit higher.
"Senior brother Ning said that if these two silver stars are in one place, then the direction they point to is the direction where my pendant is, and the distance will not exceed a hundred miles."
That's what Ning Yu said, and Xiaodong later took it out to look at it. The two silver stars on the upper and lower roulette wheels have always been separate, and it seems that they will never happen to be together in this life.
But now, the silver stars on the two roulettes abruptly stopped on the same line, unswervingly facing forward.
That is the location of the city lord's mansion outside the window.
Mo Chen was not surprised by this result.
Chen Jingzhi.
Taking advantage of the chaos, he took away Xiaodong's pendant and went down the mountain overnight. It seems that he defected to Tianjian City without hesitation.
Mo Chen stretched out his hand, and Xiaodong's hand and compass were held together by him: "Don't worry, brother will definitely find the pendant for you."
Xiaodong shook his head: "That doesn't matter."
He didn't take out the compass just to let his brother find something for him.
Yes, that pendant was a relic of his parents, and now it seems that it has something to do with his real life experience. Maybe he will dream of Tianjian City, and even come to this place with the elder brother now, it is all related to the pendant.
But compared to getting back the pendant, Xiaodong values the safety of the big brother more.
Because of him, the senior brother was also in danger. It is very likely that Master will also be implicated...
Even if the pendant has a history, it is still a dead thing, and in any case it is not as important as the safety of a living person.
"I'm not saying trying to get it back... I'm saying it could be a big deal."
If this trouble is not resolved, I'm afraid it will cause disasters in the future.
Xiaodong stammered a little, unable to express his words.
Mo Chen touched his cool forehead: "I know."
He silently looked at Tianjiancheng in the rain.
Xiaodong hadn't thought about it yet, but he thought about it more.
No matter sooner or later, Xiaodong will definitely come here.
Tian Jiancheng's involvement with him is by no means as simple as he thought. Yun Lie's concealment, Chen Jingzhi's plan, and their current inexplicable situation.
Xiaodong stretched out his hand to catch a handful of rainwater, and smelled the breath on his hand.
"What's wrong?"
"It's okay, I just want to see how the rain in Jiancheng is different from other places."
Mo Chen couldn't help but smile amused by his childlike behavior: "Of course it's different."
Xiaodong humbly asked for advice: "What's the difference?"
"Tianjian City proclaims itself a source of immortality, and the people in the city can't wait to treat themselves like immortals. The aura here should be much more abundant than other places, and the rain is also..."
Mo Chen suddenly paused.
He first grasped Xiaodong's rain-wet palm, and lowered his head slightly, as if he also wanted to smell the rain. But then he came back to his senses, and stretched out his hand out of the window, letting the rain hit his hand.
You don't need to pull your hands back to look closely like Xiaodong, Mo Chen can make a judgment.
This rain is no different from rain elsewhere.
this shouldn't be...
They did feel the aura when they were in the outer city, although it was different from what Mo Chen expected, but Mo Chen didn't think too much about it. After all, it was the outer city, which was the edge of Tianjian City, so the aura was of course relatively thinner.
After arriving in the inner city, he had no time to spare. Only now did he realize that the aura in the inner city was not strong, which was different from what Master said.
Master once said that if the aura in other places is as thin as fog, the aura in Jiancheng that day can be said to be as thick as water.
But now
Not to mention water, not even fog.
Mo Chen pushed open the door and walked into the yard, Xiaodong was stunned for a moment, and quickly followed out.
The rain fell on him, Xiaodong saw Mo Chen facing the sky in the rain, afraid that the senior brother was thinking about something important, so he didn't dare to disturb him for a while.
Until Mo Chen turned around and saw him, he asked, "Why did you come out? It looks like you're all wet."
Xiaodong pointed at him, Mo Chen looked down, just now he didn't use real energy to protect his body, so his shoulders were also wet by the rain.
"Brother, is there something wrong?"
"I haven't figured it out yet."
This kind of aura indifference reminded Mo Chen of what happened in the Burial Sword Valley not long ago.
The Burial Sword Valley used to be a treasure land of geomantic omen, surrounded by mountains, naturally formed a deep valley with rich aura, where practitioners of Taoism practiced and absorbed the aura for their own use. But year after year, no matter how powerful the spiritual veins are, there will be a day when they are exhausted. Things will turn against each other. After the spiritual veins are completely exhausted, they will start to eat back the vitality of humans, beasts, and plants. Yuan.
As Master said, there is birth and death, and there is a beginning and an end. Spirit veins will not last forever.
Then, what about Tianjian City
The origin of this city is even older than the Valley of Burying Swords. No matter where the aura that sustains it comes from, it cannot be exhausted for thousands of years.
Could it be that Tianjian City is going to follow in the footsteps of Burying Sword Valley
Now there is no such place as Burial Sword Valley in the world, the former valley completely collapsed and subsided, turning into a large swamp of water. There used to be a great sect, but it didn't leave a trace in this world.
Climbing high and falling heavily, the more prominent and flamboyant you are, the worse you will end up in the end.
The momentum of Tianjian City is by no means comparable to that of Burial Sword Valley. Once this city suspended in the air follows in the footsteps of Burial Sword Valley, what will happen
At this moment, Mo Chen hoped that his deduction might be wrong.
It's just that the thinness of the spiritual energy can't be regarded as evidence that Tianjian City will fall.
Mo Chen really didn't want to go through a catastrophe like Burial Sword Valley again, let alone this time Xiaodong was by his side.
For a cultivator who loses his true essence, he is as weak and helpless as ordinary people in the face of disasters caused by landslides and landslides.
Regardless of whether their own judgments are right or not, their best choice is to leave Tianjian City as soon as possible, the sooner the better, there are too many variables to delay.
The next day did not clear up, so Mo Chen took Xiaodong to the outer city again.
Xiaodong opened his eyes.
The senior brother he knows is... the senior senior brother, the senior senior brother in front of the master and in front of all the senior fellow students. But out of the sect, the eldest brother can also be exquisite, sleek, long-sleeved and good at dancing.
The two idlers in the tea shop turned out to be very respectful to the two of them, and they hadn't talked much with the elder brother, but they seemed to hate seeing each other, and they talked endlessly.
The senior brother has found out a lot of useful information from their unintentional words.
Even Xiaodong could hear some signs.
When Tianjian City recruits new disciples, it also gives priority to selecting from the outer city. The feng shui aura here is stronger than other places, so it is only natural that those teenagers and children have better fundamental aptitude.
And they talk about it with extra pride.
But Xiaodong knew yesterday that there are fewer and fewer newborn children in the city every year.
Although this man seemed to be bragging when he spoke, there was one thing he remembered very clearly.
The last time Tianjian City recruited disciples was nearly ten years ago.
Also, there have been more funeral affairs in the outer city in recent years than in previous years.
No matter how you listen... it's all going downhill.
"Meeting the two of you today is a predestined relationship between us. I used to be a person who practiced Taoism and kept a straight face. My family lives not far from here. If you don't mind it, you can just go and sit? I don't have much to do with it. Good things to sell, and two cups of green tea."
This person really hit it off with the elder brother at first sight.
Mo Chen declined this person's hospitality. He made a circle in the populated areas of the outer city.
This time he looked more carefully than yesterday, which made Mo Chen more sure of his guess.
Something is really wrong with Amami Castle. Not to mention other things, even some spiritual grass planted by unknown people on the side of the road are thin and sparse. It seems that the lack of spiritual energy in Tianjian City is not a matter of a day or two. (to be continued)