Hong Jun nodded, and the two fell silent, waiting for the talisman to dry. Qiu Yongsi glanced at him, and said with a smile: "You said these nine talismans, can you do it tomorrow morning?"
"It's almost here now." Hong Jun said, "It doesn't take tomorrow morning."
"I hope it won't work for a hundred years." Qiu Yongsi said suddenly, "Unfortunately, it can't."
Hong Jun: "???"
The two waited for a while, Hong Jun yawned, feeling a little sleepy, he tried to hold on to his drowsiness, and was about to tell Qiu Yongsi that he wanted to go back to his room to sleep, but Qiu Yongsi suddenly said: "Don't talk, Hong Jun, just so."
Hong Jun: "?"
A gust of wind blew, and the talisman paper fluttered gently on the case. Qiu Yongsi looked at Hongjun and smiled, "Are you sleepy?"
Hong Jun's eyelids were fighting a little, and he said "um", and Qiu Yongsi said, "Let's go."
As he said he packed up the talisman paper and got up, Hong Jun didn't know why, so he got up with him and helped him hold the glass bottle, Qiu Yongsi said again: "Wait for me."
Qiu Yongsi went to pack his things, and when he turned out again, he changed into a splendid battle armor, wearing a dragon helmet, a sun, moon and star hollow brocade armor, a flowing cloud ribbon around his waist, and cloud-patterned combat boots. There are flying cloud-like wings on the side of the boots, shoulder armor, and helmet.
"Are you going to the tower now?" Hong Jun said, "Why don't you wait until tomorrow?"
Qiu Yongsi seemed a little sad, and said: "Today's affairs, let's finish today."
Hong Jun always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell. Looking at Qiu Yongsi, he felt that he seemed to be a different person, even more majestic than Li Longji. .
It is true that people rely on clothing, and Buddha relies on golden clothing, vaguely, it is a bit like the Zoroastrian god of war invited by Ashinaqiong when he summoned the gods. It is also like the heroic spirit of the general leader described in the scriptures.
"Does it look like an opera singer?" Qiu Yongsi was obviously not used to wearing armor, and said, "This helmet is too bulky."
"It's so beautiful!" Hong Jun admired sincerely, "You should draw yourself."
"Huh?" Qiu Yongsi said, "Do you want to be the door god? Let's go."
He smiled and took Hong Jun's shoulders, and walked around the backyard, where there was a path leading to the circular platform in front of the nine-story pagoda.
"Do you remember that day when we played the piano and sang in the Exorcism Division?" Qiu Yongsi smiled as he walked.
"I remember." Hong Jun has a particularly deep memory of that day. Everyone was playing and singing, and suddenly the door fell, revealing Li Jinglong and Feng Changqing with distorted expressions outside. Afterwards, people often mentioned it, and they all felt that day was the happiest time in their lives.
"There is also Liuying Chunxiao." Qiu Yongsi said as he walked again, "Thanks to Chang Shi..."
In the tea room, Li Jinglong tried hard to recall all the unreasonable things, and said, "Isn't Li Bai cousin Yongsi?!"
"That's a relative of their Li family." Qiuqiu said again, "It's so far away, everyone just screams according to their seniority."
Li Jinglong said: "Why did you... tell me this?"
Qiuqiu said: "I want to know if Yao Ji said anything before she died in this life. My lifespan is almost at the end of my life, and I won't last much longer when I enter the tower again. I just want to say goodbye before I die." One side of her. Even if it's just one side, it's good."
Li Jinglong said: "I don't know... Hong Jun never mentioned his mother, I..."
When Li Jinglong got up, his expression was a little dazed, and when he looked back at Qiu Qiu, his brows were deeply furrowed. Originally, he wanted to inquire about the whereabouts of King Fuming's magic weapon from Immortal Jianglong, but now he has thrown it out of the blue.
"It's none of your business." Qiu Qiu said with a smile, "Why are you so shocked?"
Li Jinglong was right when he thought about it. Although Hong Jun and Qiu Yongsi have this connection, they can't be called brothers anyway. After all, Yao Ji in the previous life and Yao Ji in this life both fell in love with different people. Can they be generalized? Obviously not, otherwise how many people in the world would be able to be relatives
But he always finds it strange that this matter can only be heard as an innocuous anecdote, but he can't completely take it as an anecdote.
"Yongsi... so it's like this." Li Jinglong finally said, "It's not easy for him, too."
"He grew up in the tower." Qiuqiu said, "I never told him about the Yang family, and please keep it a secret. He is a very good boy, and he is very sensible since he was a child. I've never had any objections... The old man is going to die soon, and after I die, I'm afraid he will be really lonely... After all, since he was a child, he didn't have many friends."
Seeing that Qiu Yongsi was proficient in painting, calligraphy and chess, Li Jinglong thought that he was born as a dandy, and his family was a family of exorcists. He would inevitably make friends and companions in his hometown.
"He often writes to me." Qiu Qiu said again, "He likes you very much, but this child has been smiling since he was a child, and he doesn't like to talk about his feelings with others, especially the brothers, he will blush if he talks too much. These days Here, please stay with him more. After all, he is about to enter the tower."
"What do you mean?" Li Jinglong said.
"The sea has changed, and the world has changed." Qiu Qiu said meaningfully, "The Immortal Jianglong will always have only this tower in his life."
“The hot spring that day was really good…”
"Summer is too hot, Jinglong promised to take us there again in winter."
There is no door on the Zhenlong Pagoda. When they got here, Hong Jun and Qiu Yongsi could only stand on the platform and look towards the tower. The bottom of the tower was actually floating, and there were faintly five colors of light blooming underneath.
Qiu Yongsi thought the helmet was cumbersome, so he took it off and hugged it, with his long hair tied up, as if he had changed from a former scholar to a general who was ready to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy at any time.
Facing Hongjun, he took the glass bottle and said with a smile, "When I first saw you, I had a strange premonition."
Hong Jun looked at Qiu Yongsi and said, "I always feel that I met you somewhere, but I can't tell."
Hong Jun remembered the feeling when he and Qiu Yongsi went to investigate the fox demon case for the first time. The familiar feeling Qiu Yongsi gave him was as reliable as a big brother.
"I think." Qiu Yongsi said, "If one day I stand here, you may be the one who will accompany me through the last part of the journey. Now it seems that it is you."
"Wait." Hong Jun began to feel that something was wrong, and said, "What do you mean? Brother Yongsi, what are you going to do?"
Qiu Yongsi turned his head to look at Zhenlong Pagoda, then looked at Hong Jun, and said, "Repairing the time barrier in the tower requires me to do my best. It will take a full two hundred days to complete all the processes."
Hong Jun: "..."
"The time in the tower." Qiu Yongsi said, "This time, that is, the process of the seal gradually becoming invalid after Xie Prison escaped from the tower, I have to reverse it again, and then stop the entire magic circle, that is to say..."
"You want to stay in there for two hundred years?!" Hong Jun said in disbelief.
Qiu Yongsi nodded.
"No no." Hong Jun hurriedly said, "Why don't you discuss this matter with everyone first?"
Qiu Yongsi said: "I also thought about saying goodbye to everyone tomorrow morning. After all, we have been together for so long. Everyone in the Exorcism Division is like a family member. But thinking about such a farewell is really sad. How about..."
He was a little sad, but smiled at Hongjun.
"The Xie Prison hasn't been caught yet!" Hong Jun said, "The Heavenly Demon hasn't been solved either! How can you go in like this? Can't you wait for a while?"
"The time in the tower will get faster and faster as it gets later." Qiu Yongsi said, "An extra day of delay is a change in a day. Chang Shi will get rid of the prison for me. It is no longer important whether to arrest it or not."
Hong Jun never expected that the end of this journey would be the farewell to Qiu Yongsi!
"I..." Hong Jun said subconsciously, "I'll call Chang Shi, you can't do this! Yongsi!"
Qiu Yongsi just looked at Hongjun quietly, stretched out his arm, and motioned to him.
Hong Jun walked towards Qiu Yongsi in a daze, and Qiu Yongsi hugged him in front of him, holding him tightly through the armor.
"Take care of yourself." Qiu Yongsi said in a low voice, "Tell everyone, I'm gone, don't miss me too much, Artest went back to Pingkangli to ask me to borrow money, so that he doesn't have to pay it back, remember not to be in front of Tran Duo said."
Hong Jun hugged Qiu Yongsi's waist, leaning his head on his breastplate, his heart was surging for a moment, but he was speechless. He couldn't accept all this for a long time, as if he was in a dream.
Qiu Yongsi stretched out his right hand and spun the paintbrush in his hand. Tens of thousands of stars were sprinkled gently from the tip of the brush, covering the entire circular platform. The platform instantly turned into a huge teleportation circle and began to rotate slowly.
Then, he pressed Hongjun's shoulder with his left hand, forced him away from his body, and pushed him out of the platform with a stroke of luck.
However, at this moment, Hong Jun suddenly saw not far behind Qiu Yongsi, a black air was filling the forest.
what is that? Hong Jun thought to himself.
"I'm leaving." Qiu Yongsi said, "Hong Jun, goodbye."
"Wait..." Hong Jun saw that the black air was getting thicker and thicker, and he didn't realize what was going on for a while. This obviously shouldn't happen here, but in just a few breaths, Hong Jun shouted angrily.
"Li-Jing-Long!"
Hong Jun yelled, and Qiu Yongsi hurriedly said, "Don't yell!"
Immediately afterwards, the black air exploded and rushed towards Qiu Yongsi. A tumbling dragon appeared in the black air, roaring and rushing towards the two of them!
When it was too late, Qiu Yongsi realized something was wrong, and when he turned his head, his eyes reflected the black air in the woods under the moonlight. The black air gathered into a sharp arrow, shot into the teleportation array, and hit the glass bottle in Qiu Yongsi's hand .
With a clear "ding", the glass bottle flew out of his hand, drew an arc, and fell outside the teleportation array!
The teleportation array rotates faster and faster, while the black air transforms into the aggregated forms of nine-tailed demon fox, flying mastiff, snow girl, etc., flying out from around the body of the black flood dragon, rushing to grab the glass bottle!
However, Hongjun was faster, he flew up with one foot in the air, first rushed into the magic circle, stepped on Qiu Yongsi's shoulder, then turned his body, and kicked out with the other foot in the air. Hook the glass bottle back. Qiu Yongsi suddenly pulled out the brush at his waist, waved it in the air, grabbed Hong Jun with the other hand, and shouted: "Get out!"
Hong Jun's fingers protruded exactly half an inch, and he was able to touch the glass bottle, and with a hook, he grabbed it firmly in his hand.
The blue light covered the sky, and on the circular platform, dazzling flames exploded with a "boom" and shot straight into the sky! The two were submerged in the blue flames at the same time.
Xie Prison slammed into the ring of flames, was instantly blocked by the teleportation barrier, and was bounced into the distance with a roar.
Li Jinglong walked through the corridor, and suddenly his heart beat violently, which was unprecedented. The first instinct was that Hong Jun's violent emotional fluctuations affected him.
"Hongjun?"
Before the words fell, there was a loud shock in the distance.
The members of the Exorcist Division had just fallen asleep, and now all of them came out, and saw a beam of light rushing towards the sky. Li Jinglong asked subconsciously: "Where is Hongjun?"
Everyone was there, but without Hong Jun, Li Jinglong had an ominous premonition at this moment. When the blue light soaring into the sky formed a beam of light, a black dragon whimpered and flew up from the outside, hitting the blue light hard to no avail, and then turned around and rushed to the top of the Zhenlong Pagoda .
"Xiao Prison?!" Qiu Qiu came to the courtyard of the backyard and roared angrily, "It's that beast!"
Li Jinglong immediately drew the Wisdom Sword and ran towards the back mountain.
On the land of Heluo, the sun rose, and the caravan was washing by the stream. The man took the cage containing the carp demon and submerged it in the water. The carp demon still had a dull expression on his face. He lifted it up and lay there in the cage, dripping wet, motionless.
"This thing doesn't juggle?"
"Come on, it's just a carp, what do you want it to breathe fire?"
"Let's jump through hoops anyway! The boss spent a lot of money to buy it back!"
"Forget it." The caravan boss came and said, "Bring Fan Yang in today, and if he can't sell it, let him go."
When the carp monster heard the word "release life", its gills moved, its eyeballs turned back slightly, and looked at everyone. As soon as the boss approached it, the carp demon's eyes immediately returned to their dull state.
"What do you think this carp is thinking all day long?"
"What else can a fish think about besides earthworms?" A clerk grabbed an earthworm and fed it, but the carp demon just refused to eat it, as if protesting on a hunger strike. The fish's mouth moved, and the clerk took a chopstick and picked the earthworm to it. mouth, poked it in again, ignored it, and went on the road.
The earthworm escaped from the fish's mouth, and crawled out twisting and turning. The carp demon was really hungry, and when everyone was unaware, he quickly grabbed the earthworm and stuffed it into his mouth, and stuffed it whole.
The convoy entered Fanyang City early this morning. Compared with when the caravan owner came over a year ago, the city was full of tension. First, the guards at the city gate repeatedly checked and confirmed their identities before letting everyone in. But the city is full of iron workshops, the sparks of iron smelting, and thick smoke billowing up like a cloud.
There are more iron products in the market, and the whole Fanyang is full of flying ashes and sparks, like a burning ancient city, the pedestrians who come and go have bitter faces, their faces are gray, and the streets are full of patrolling guards military.
The caravan waited for a long time at the market, but they couldn't sell anything, and they couldn't buy anything back. They originally planned to use this place as the last stop, but all supplies were strictly controlled.
"Look, hey—" the caravan owner said dumbly, "There's a monster here!"
In the end, everyone couldn't do business, so they rented a stall again. After all, they had to sell monsters.
The carp monster was not good looking along the way, and it could not be sold in Luoyang and other places. After standing there for a long time, the caravan boss had no choice but to admit that he was unlucky, and was about to open the cage to let the carp monster go, but he was unwilling. It's okay to lose money, and the two golden pheasants flew thanks to it.
The boss cursed and kicked the cage door, and suddenly the horse's hooves sounded, and a female voice behind him asked, "Huh? A monster?"
The boss turned around and saw a female general in armor with the logo of An Lushan's army tattooed on his clothes. He hurriedly bowed and told the origin of the carp demon. The female general didn't have any guards with him, so she just glanced at the boss.
"How do you sell this fish?" said the female general.
The boss smiled apologetically, compared four fingers, and said, "I bought it at Chen Cang, but I spent a lot of money to buy this monster."
The female general glanced at the carp demon and whistled, and the soldiers who were checking on the street came after him.
"Take four hundred taels." The female general said.
The boss was frightened for a moment, but he was well-trained and calmed down immediately.
The carp demon turned his head and looked at the female general with one eye. The female general stretched out her hand and signaled to the boss without waiting for the payment. Tossed to and fro and taken away.
She shouldn't eat me, right? The carp demon's first thought was, what will happen to him? But based on common sense, no one would spend four hundred taels of silver to buy a carp steamed or braised. As long as you don't kill it, let it out of the cage for a walk every now and then, and you can escape by yourself.
It roughly remembers the road along the way, even if it can't remember, it can enter Chang'an by going upstream along the Yellow River and then entering the Jing River. But what's the use of entering Chang'an? The Exorcist Department no longer wanted it, and Hong Jun even listened to it shouting inside for a long time, but did not come out to open the door.
Thinking that he would be homeless from now on, Yusheng was about to despair.
The cage was thrown on the ground, and the carp demon didn't even notice where he had entered. It looked like a general's mansion, and he was in the female general's room.
The female general turned around, took off her armor, and looked in the mirror.
"Can you talk?" the female general said.
There was no one in the room, so these words were naturally addressed to the carp demon, who grabbed the cage fence and remained silent for a while.
"It looks stupid." The female general laughed again, "Haven't you cultivated a human form yet?"
Speaking of which, the female general took off her underwear again, showing a beautiful ivory body, and said casually: "If you don't practice hard, why did you get caught?"
The carp demon stared at the female general, and saw that the female general was completely naked, bent down and touched his ankle, then tore apart the flesh along the ankle, and then pulled the skin from the foot to the head upwards like undressing , pulled it out, revealing bloody flesh.
The carp demon was instantly terrified, and shouted wildly:
"Monster-monster-ah!!!"