Ning Huaishan and Fang Chu were more responsive than Wu Xingxue.
At that time, they lifted the felt curtain and were about to get out of the carriage, when they heard Xiao Fuxuan's words "the time of robbery", their heads were full of question marks, and they stepped on the ground—
Hearing two muffled dong dong sounds, the two little devils almost fell into the mud in front of the door of their own magic cave.
Ning Huaishan grabbed the car door and stopped staggering. After a while, a head came in after parting the felt curtain: "...how do you know?!"
His eyes were already big, but he stared so hard that his eyeballs almost fell out, and he just blinked and stared at Xiao Fuxuan in disbelief.
After a while, Fang Chu's head also came in, frowning in confusion: "How could Su know the method of 'Jie Ji'?!"
The doctor Wusheng next to him asked: "The Tribulation Period? What does the Tribulation Period mean? It's the first time I've heard of it today."
Ning Huaishan immediately rushed to him and said: "Is that nonsense! Can you listen to it freely in the fairy sect?"
Doctor Wusheng: "?"
The evil spirits under the catastrophe will be taken advantage of and sneak in if they pay attention a little bit. Therefore, the demons and Taoists in Zhaoye City know each other well, and will cover it up in every possible way when they leave the city. No demon would let outsiders, especially those in the Xianmen, know a little bit, that would be exposing their shortcomings.
What's more, the term "tribulation period" is only mentioned by the devils themselves. They think that the devouring of resentful souls is a calamity, so they used a name. If the immortals knew about it, they would probably just clap their hands and call it "retribution".
They asked aloud, other things, Wu Xingxue at least heard a little bit - how should the word "Jieqi" come out of Xiao Fuxuan's mouth.
As for how he would know...
That's a really good question.
Holding the felt blanket, Wu Xingxue recalled those ambiguous fragments in the dream, especially Sang Yu's ambiguous tone when he mentioned "Su Shangxian" to him...
In short, the carriage might have room for him.
But those two hundred and five were still babbling: "It should be, Su You... How did you know it? Who leaked it?"
Xiao Fuxuan didn't answer them immediately, but opened the felt curtain with his sword, turned to Wu Xingxue and said, "Get out of the car."
Wu Xingxue glanced at him, lifted the thick blanket, and walked towards the car door.
He lowered his head to pass Xiao Fuxuan's sword against the door curtain, and was about to get out of the car.
From the corner of his eye, Xiao Fuxuan glanced at him, and suddenly answered the question that Ning Huaishan and Fang Chu had been asking for a long time.
His deep voice was close at hand, and he said, "I happen to know."
Wu Xingxue's heart skipped a beat.
Immediately afterwards, the voice sounded again: "Put on the cloak."
Ning Huaishan and Fang Chu: "?"
He Leng Ding popped out another sentence, no name or surname, and everyone who heard it was taken aback. After a while, the two realized that the sentence was for their city lord.
Um… … …
Ning Huaishan and Fang Chu were thinking of something else, but they suddenly ran out of words.
Seeing their city lord pause, he glanced at Xiao Fuxuan meaningfully, and finally turned his head back into the car.
The doctor took out the cloak he had prepared in the car and handed it over, saying: "I understand what the robbery period means. Since the cold is unbearable, it's better to wear more. Maybe... If you mind, you can describe the robbery period. How do you feel, and how can you suppress it. Other than that, I don’t have enough pills, so maybe they can be used.”
"..."
After speaking, there was an instant silence in the carriage, and a needle could be heard.
Yi Wusheng was stunned for a moment, then explained with a smile on his face: "What's wrong?"
Ning Huaishan and Fang Chu silently turned their faces away, not daring to interject indiscriminately. They tacitly avoided for a moment, and suddenly realized a problem——
Su Shangxian Xiao Fuxuan was silent with them.
Of course, Su cherishes words like gold and loves to talk. But at that moment, they were subtly aware that Su Shangxian's reaction was not a normal silence, but similar to them, which was a bit unspeakable.
It was as if he only knew what the Tribulation Period was, and even knew how the Tribulation Period would react and how to suppress it.
Um? ? ?
Ning Huaishan and Fang Chu looked at each other.
However, before they could think about it carefully, they heard their city lord say: "The truth is to be concealed, I remember the half of the catastrophe period, and the elixir is a must. I love it. Mister kindly accepts it."
After finishing, Wu Xingxue got out of the carriage wearing a cloak, almost in a hurry.
Ning Huaishan and Fang Chu hurried over and whispered to him: "City Master, it's so strange, that Su Shangxian seems to know something, even how to suppress the Tribulation Period—"
Before the words were finished, they heard the city lord's extremely soft voice: "Shut up, you guys."
The two were most afraid of hearing the tone, their scalp went numb, and they pursed their lips.
Wu Xingxue was finally at peace for a moment.
In the night, the chilly wind brought the moisture of the rain and swept it head-on, making it cool to the ears. It was only then that Wu Xingxue realized that in the carriage just now, there was warmth on the side of his ears and neck.
There was a soft sound of swords behind him, and Xiao Fuxuan also got off the carriage.
When Wu Xingxue scanned the surroundings, she glanced over from the corner of her eye and saw Xiao Fuxuan standing a few steps behind the carriage. She glanced towards her, but she didn't intend to come over.
"Hiss... where are there so many by the post?" Ning Huaishan suddenly asked in wonder.
"Huh?" Wu Xingxue turned her head to look.
Where their carriage stopped was a covered hitching post. In the distance behind him should be the entrance to Zhaoye City.
I saw Gao Yuan looking down there, with a minaret on each side, and a bell seemed to be hung on the edge of the tower, swinging in the cold wind, and the bell came through the fog and rain.
In the middle of the high wall is a black iron gate. There are dozens of green lights on the left and right sides of the gate, at different heights.
At first, Wu Xingxue thought it was a lantern hanging on the wall. After looking at it for a while, I realized that it was a will-o'-the-wisp in the mist and rain.
In the gap between the will-o'-the-wisps, there are shadows.
Wu Xingxue asked: "What is that? A guard?"
Is the night city in his heart a demon lair? What kind of guards does the demon lair need
However, Ning Huaishan said: "We didn't have guards in Zhaoye City before. Those Qingming lanterns were set by the city lord, and there is also a mysterious bell hanging on the tower. Once a fairy tries to enter Zhaoye City, Xuan The bell will ring, and the Qingming Lantern will burst into a wall of fire, stretching for hundreds of miles."
"There will be some later." Ning Huaishan said again.
"Why?" Wu Xingxue asked.
Ning Huaishan faltered and said: "Ah, because of the ghostly place in Canglang Northern Territory, the city lord, I don't know when I can come back. Don't worry about how many years Qingming Lantern and Xuanzhong have lasted, so..."
It is already a tactful method.
Wu Xingxue knew it well. It must be that those demons in Zhaoye City believed that he was bound to die and believed in something.
Moreover, if guards can be arranged, there is a word in Mingzhao Yecheng that works.
Wu Xingxue waved to Ning Huaishan, and asked, "Come on, let me ask you, who is the current City Lord of Zhaoye City?"
Ning Huaishan pouted convincingly, subconsciously said: "Xue Li."
After being arched heavily by Fang Chu.
Only then did Ning Huaishan react, and said, "The city lord..."
Wu Xingxue was completely surprised. Since he entered the Canglang Northern Territory, the world thought he would die for sure. The seat of the city lord may always be vacant in the Moku Zhaoye City, so there are so many evil spirits, there will always be people vying to sit on it. There is a new city owner who lives normally.
He also remembered Ning Huaishan's eagerness to pull him back to Zhaoye City when he first left the Canglang Northern Territory, probably because of this.
"Xue Li?" Doctor Wu suddenly said, "Xue Li..."
He was invaded by evil spirits and spent more than ten years in a daze. Before he woke up, he knew who the new city lord of Zhaoye City was. When he heard the name after a while, he repeated it a few times and said, "The name is the same as one of my old friends."
Fang Chu: "Your old friend is the Feng family?"
Doctor Wusheng nodded: "Exactly. The Feng family and my Hua family have been friends for generations. The previous head of the family had two sons and a daughter. The eldest was granted the title of Feishi, the beloved daughter was granted the title of Juyan, and the youngest was granted the title of Xue Li."
Fang Chu: "That's right, it's him."
The doctor Wusheng turned pale with shock: "What do you mean?!"
Fang Chu: "It's that Feng Xueli who turned against his family somehow, entered the way of evil spirits, came to Zhaoye City, changed his surname and changed his name to Xue Li. We haven't seen anything in Zhaoye City for fifteen years. The big devil, let him take advantage of it and become the new city lord."
"Just like!" Ning Huai was furious with his shirt on, and his face was longer than a donkey: "He came to Zhaoye City to repair his own mansion, and he wanted to occupy the city lord's house. If the city lord left, the bird Luo Luo has been banned by himself, he is afraid that he has moved in with all his belongings a long time ago!"
Because of this, he finds Xue Li very pleasing to the eye.
Before that, he and Fang Chuba had Wu Xingxue go back to the city as soon as possible to kill the prestige of that dog. With the ability of his family's city lord, once he comes back, how can Xue Li still have the role of domineering
But now he has changed his mind. What do their city lords remember, and it coincides with the period of catastrophe, it is best to wait until the memory is restored and the period of catastrophe is passed, then Xue Li is caught off guard.
Therefore, now is a good time to reveal your identity.
Ning Huaishan and Fang Chu thought about it, and called Wu Xingxue, wanting him to change his face a little before he passed the post platform.
Before Jie could speak, he heard a gust of wind behind him.
It was a sinister wind with a smell of corpses. When Wu Xingxue smelled that smell, he suddenly remembered that Sang Yu's mansion in the dream—the corpse refiner, always had a smell on him.
Wu Xingxue wrinkled the tip of her nose, and when she raised her eyes, she saw shadows around the city wall. But in front of them, dozens of people in black robes appeared in an instant.
Their skin is pale, and there is a very conspicuous black line around their necks. At first glance, they look like the first family, and they are forcibly stitched together.
After a closer look, I found that the circle of black thread was not a line of stitches, but coffin nails, nailed around the neck.
"The guards of the new city owner?" Wu Xingxue weighed them, turned his head to the side, and said softly, "What ugly things."
After he finished, it was rare that he didn't hear repeated echoes, thinking that Ning Huaishan still had such a deep time.
Jie then heard Ning Huaishan's voice from the other side: "We have only been out of the city for a few days, why have so many post stations been added?"
Wu Xingxue: "..."
Ning Huaishan, who was beside him before, knew when he was a few steps away. Who was standing next to him and listening to his nonsense
Wu Xingxue turned her head and saw Xiao Fuxuan holding a sword.
Wu Xingxue was startled: "...are you standing on the side of the carriage? What's the matter?"
Xiao Fuxuan: "Did you not look back? How did you know I was standing by the carriage?"
Wu Xingxue moved her lips, but said nothing. The subtle and unspeakable feeling before surfaced again.
He vaguely noticed that Su Shangxian seemed very happy, obviously he was still like that when he just woke up. Looking closely, it seems that it started when his fellow doctor Wu Sheng "remembered the robbery period" and then hurriedly left the carriage.
Wu Xingxue: "..."
Well…
He is a monster, he must never care about being happy. Besides, he really knows what to say if he wants to speak in a situation.
If you don't see it.
The big devil thought about it and pursed his lips.
After a while, he moved again: "Then why did you come here?"
Xiao Fuxuan raised his eyelids: "Come and help me change my face."
Wu Xingxue: "?"
He was stunned for a moment, and Xiao Fuxuan said in a low voice, "Don't move yet."
The next moment, he understood Xiao Fuxuan's meaning - he heard Zhao Ye City's guard leader explain to Ning Huaishan while walking a few steps towards him: "There is an abnormal movement in Luohuatai, and the city lord ordered to increase the city defense for fear of attracting them. It’s no problem to enter the city, the three are…”
The group of guards had fire floating in their palms and followed them. Ning Huaishan and Fang Chu are Wu Xingxue's confidantes, and Zhao Yecheng is almost ignorant. But for the remaining three, they should still check.
They were very close, under the circumstances, if Xiao Fuxuan raised his hand to touch someone's face, it would be too obvious.
Wu Xingxue's heart is finished.
They originally wanted to get into Luohuatai and get some jade essence to restore Mengling. For everything else, it's best to wait for him to interpret the dream and restore his memory.
But now, I'm afraid it will attract attention—
He opened his face, as if he knew Ken from Night City.
In fact, Xiao Fuxuan was quite embarrassing, after all, he was Su Shangxian. As far as the fragments of his dream were concerned, most of Zhao Yecheng knew Xiao Fuxuan's appearance.
Even Yi Wusheng is very dangerous, since he is an elder of a famous family in the immortal family and has a high reputation, he is sure to be able to recognize him at a glance.
If you think about it, they really seem to be acting in a low-key manner, more like they are here to provoke the entire Zhaoye City.
When the guard approached with the fire in his palm, Wu Xingxue heard Xiao Fuxuan whisper two words: "Okay."
All right
Wu Xingxue looked at whether he had raised his hand, feeling very puzzled. Didn't move, what's wrong
When he turned his head, he saw that the clothes of the doctor beside him hadn't changed at all, the mouth and nose were still covered by a thick cloth scarf, but the exposed eyebrows and eyes had changed.
At first glance, it looks like a frail scholar who has been possessed by a demon.
The fire in the guard's palm swept across, and Wu Xingxue squinted his eyes because of the fire.
At that moment, the guard hissed and muttered to another guard beside him, "Eyes... I don't think I've seen them anywhere."
From the corner of his eyes, Wu Xingxue saw that Ning Huaishan and Fang Chu's hands had already been pressed to the hilt of the sword, and it seemed that he would have an attack at any moment. I heard another guard say: "Two, there are always a few that you think you've seen before."
They looked carefully for a while, then turned their palms to Xiao Fuxuan.
Wu Xingxue can be sure that his face has been changed to be recognizable like a doctor's.
"Have you finished the investigation? It's really annoying. Me, we were just hungry along the way, so we caught a few." Ning Huaishan seemed a little impatient, "What else can we bring?"
It can be seen that he has some status with Fang Chuzhao Yecheng. Seeing that he was impatient, the guards immediately made way for him without wasting much effort.
"By the way, to enter the city, you have to take the road of Luohuatai. The city lord has opened another road on the right side." The guard ordered afterward.
"What happened to Luohuatai?" Ning Huaishan asked.
"It's nothing else, it's just that the mountain is showing fire again."
"Fire?"
"Um."
Wu Xingxue thought of what was in Doctor Wu's carriage before. After Luohuashan City was burned down by wildfires, every year on the third day of March, there would still be lights stretching for ten miles in Luohuatai. It attracted many disciples of the immortal sect to take up their swords and leave, only to find that the mountain was empty, a piece of scorched earth, nothing.
It was not until Luohua Terrace was drawn into the boundary of Zhaoye City and became the entrance to Zhaoye City that the lights on the third day of March slowly disappeared.
What do the guards mean is that the flames have risen again after hundreds of years
Ning Huaishan: "When we left the city a while ago, we were fine."
Guard: "It started two days ago."
The first two days
Wu Xingxue was thinking about it.
That's when they came out of the Great Sad Valley
what a coincidence Or is there any connection between them
He thought for a moment, and when he came back to his senses, the crowd had already stood in front of the black iron gate. It is said that the Qingming Lantern set up by him floated faintly on both sides. When everyone approached, it shook up and down a few times, looking ready to move.
Taking advantage of the guard, Ning Huaishan whispered: "City Master, do you still remember how to use the Qingming Lantern?"
Wu Xingxue said calmly, "I forgot, what's wrong?"
Ning Huaishan had a "numb" look on his face: "Qingmingdeng recognizes the spirit of immortality, don't be clever. It has been guarding the gate for hundreds of years, and there has never been a single mistake. The immortal's detection is accurate, that's Yi Rongneng." Fooled it."
Ning Huaishan glanced at Su Shangxian, lowering his voice: "If you remember how to use it, you can make it easier for Su alone. But if you remember, what should you do?"
Wu Xingxue: "..."
He said with a mournful face: "According to the Qingming Lantern burning, it's frightening, I want to break it, I-"
In the middle of his crying, his eyes suddenly widened, and the ending of the sound made a sharp turn, which almost split him.
Wu Xingxue followed his gaze and turned her head to look, and saw Xiao Fuxuan paused in front of the Qingming Lantern for a moment, then raised his foot and walked forward.
There was a light sound when the long sword collided, and the hem of the robe fluttered, and the strong black boots could be seen.
The Qingming lanterns on both sides only flickered a few times, as if there was a moment of hesitation. The next moment, they became quiet again, completely caring that they had just let go of a High Immortal.
Ning Huaishan: ""
Back, he and Fang Chu were really stunned.
"Why can the city lord enter?"
"Why can he get in without your hands and feet?"
"He even looks like he's in for the first time."
"The city lord?"
They turned their heads to look at their own city lord, and saw that the city lord's thin neck and chin were hidden in the silver-white fox fur, and after a while, a sentence popped out from his lips: "Yes, you two, let's go?"
"..."
"Walk."
Until he passed through the heavy black iron gate, Wu Xingxue still thought about the phrase "Why did he get in, even like it was the first time."
He could actually guess why.
Because in that dream, Sang Yu saw Su Shangxian when his two gadgets were spying on Que Luo. If the dream is true, then the former Su Shangxian also disturbed the Qingming Lantern when he came to Zhaoye City, and he has never tasted the feeling of Qingming's ghost fire burning himself.
As for Ning Huaishan, the Qingming Lantern was set up by him, if he wanted to do something, he might have to do it.
Then there is only one answer—
A long time ago, when he was the lord of Zhaoye City, he had already given convenience to Xiao Fuxuan.
…
Wu Xingxue's footsteps froze.
Subconsciously, he followed the shadow forward, and when Shi Meng raised his eyes, he realized that he had already entered a mountain path, and Shi was standing in a mountain mist.
Just one step slower, he saw Xiao Fuxuan's tall back submerged in the pale mist.
The fog was thick as usual, and it was unnaturally cold.
When Wu Xingxue walked through the white mist, he felt the mist passing by his neck, as if a large drop of ice water fell on the back of his neck and flowed down his back.
The cold made him close his eyes for a moment, and when he opened them, the "scene" in front of him had completely changed.
After the thick fog had settled, there was a white stone boundary marker covered with vines at the foot, and there was a beautiful handwriting engraved on the boundary marker: Luohuatai.
In front of it is a meandering orange light, like a long dragon, starting from the mountain road in front of your feet, and winding to the side.
Under the illumination of the lights, one can vaguely see buildings connected to squares, open windows, pavements and stalls at different heights, and shadows coming and going.
All kinds of flags fluttered among the shadows of the mountains, and the nearest long flag had four characters written on it:
Luohuashan City.
Wu Xingxue stood for a while, then raised her foot and walked towards the long banner.
He lowered his head and passed the long banner, and the lively voice was like a "tide" suddenly rising in the sea of no reason, and came towards him.
Although he has no memory at all, when he heard those noises, he suddenly felt that he was inside. It was Luohuashan City back then.
But the real Luohuashan City has been burned down and disappeared hundreds of years ago.
What are those in front of you
Just now when I entered the city gate, I had been guarding it, and the Luohua Terrace has moved a little bit recently, and there are often lights in the mountains.
Could it be that he stepped into the illusion carefully
The illusion was too real.
The mountain city is like Jianshan Road, more like a long street alley. The floor is paved with white stones, and the pavement fits perfectly. When you step on it, it will slightly tilt up to one side, and when you let go, it will fall back firmly.
The closest to him is a three-storey tea shop, the pavilion is built against the mountain, but it is skewed.
Long strings of lanterns hang from the cornices, and there are many people sitting in the teahouse, chatting and laughing, and a scholar sits in front of the hall, holding a piece of Xingmu, and flying stars are flying everywhere.
There was a white cloth towel on the small shoulders of the shop, and a stall was set up outside the hall, and Wu Xingxue yelled straight into Wu Xingxue's ears: "The spiritual tea fried in the fairy spring of Luohuatai, one pot can cure all diseases, and two pots can cure all diseases. "
Wu Xingxue: "..."
The tea flag on the side of the stall was half-dangling, he couldn't hold back, and reached out to touch the edge of the tea flag...
The illusion is a bit powerful, even the texture of the coarse cloth is clear.
"Hey, Mr. Lang Guan! Don't talk about my Sheng Qi!" The shopkeeper said to him, "Do you drink tea? My tea is a must, and you can taste it when you leave Luohuashan City."
Wu Xingxue shook her head and was about to say, "It must."
Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of a tall figure in front of him, about three to five feet away. Raising his sword, he pushed aside the floating Busheng on the pavement, sideways to avoid an old man pushing a cart, and was about to be drowned in the crowd.
Wu Xingxue strode over, just about to call out "Xiao Fuxuan".
As soon as the word "Xiao" came out, he felt a tap on his shoulder. The next moment, a palm gently covered his nose. He took half a step back, slamming his back into the warmth.
Xiao Fuxuan's voice sounded next to his ears, very low: "That can be called, it's an illusion."