"I have the same suspicion."
Su Yun's lips did not move, but his voice came through clearly, saying: "The demon may have left the whole village eating. Look at that girl, there are many people downstairs, but she is the only one upstairs. Moreover, the whole village eating just now was standing on the roof of that car!"
The flower fox was stunned.
He originally teased Su Yun for being amorous and peeking at the beautiful girl, but he didn't expect that Su Yun actually suspected that the girl was a demon!
He looked into the carriage and saw that the lower level was crowded with people, while the upper level was occupied by only the girl with the ponytails!
"Could this girl really be a demon?" Huahu quickly retracted his gaze, not daring to look again.
Now even he had his doubts.
Li Xiaofan, Hu Buping and Qingqiu Yue squeezed their faces into a window to see the "beautiful young lady".
The girl with ponytails had been very quiet the whole time. Suddenly she turned around and stuck out her tongue at them. Then she pretended to be quiet again and fiddled with the sandalwood on the table.
Qingqiu Yue turned around, looked at Su Yun, and then looked at Hua Hu, only to see that Hua Hu was still growing and too short, so she looked at Su Yun again, biting her finger and said, "Brother Xiao Yun, I want her to be my sister-in-law!"
"Sister Yue'er said it well!"
Li Xiaofan and Hu Buping were greatly encouraged: "My little sister is so kind to me! When I grow up, I will marry her to be your sister-in-law!"
Su Yun stole a few glances at the girl, but didn't notice anything strange. He thought to himself, "Am I a little frightened? But then again, in a closed space, unless the last two die, it's almost impossible to tell who the real demon is. The demon's disguise is too strong, even the infected person won't know!"
One hundred and fifty years ago, heavy snow blocked the mountains, and Longzangling became a closed space that no one could get out of.
And now, they are in Shuofang City, which naturally cannot be a closed space.
"I was frightened by the human demon and became a little demonic."
Su Yun suddenly thought of the key point: "Could it be that those people downstairs in that car are smarter than me and recognized that she is a demon, so they dare not go upstairs? Not necessarily, right? I am just paranoid."
He relaxed.
Fu Shannian arrived at the center of Shuofang City, where tall buildings stood in rows, with high eaves and green tiles like leaves.
One after another, giant beasts carried small buildings on their backs and walked down along the circular cloud bridges. One after another, cloud bridges came here and converged between the buildings, forming a large platform with a spiral texture.
The platform is not completely suspended in the air, there are huge copper columns supporting it from below.
The copper pillar was also made using Lou Ban's refining method. It is very stable and can bear such a huge weight while still being as steady as a mountain.
Many giant beasts stopped, and the scholars in the small buildings stood up and got off the beast sedans, while the empty beast sedans were driven off the platform by the coachmen.
The mountain-carrying sedan chair that Su Yun was riding also stopped, and the young men came down from the upper floor. Su Yun looked to the next door, and saw that the bird-carrying sedan chair next door had also stopped, and the people on the first floor jumped out one after another, quietly waiting for the girl with twin ponytails upstairs to come down.
"So she is a lady from a noble family. Those people downstairs are her followers, who are here to protect her." Su Yun let down his guard.
Shuofang City is close to Tianshiyuan and close to the outside of the Great Wall, so it is also an important place. There are many outstanding people and naturally many aristocratic families here.
"After I killed Tong Fan, I met Yang Sheng. Yang Sheng said that after the Tianmen Ghost Market ended, he accompanied the young masters and young ladies of the noble families to hunt in the uninhabited area and massacred the people of Huqiu Village."
Su Yun looked around and thought silently, "There should be quite a few young men and women from aristocratic families here. I wonder if any of them were there that night?"
He looked calm: "I still remember their voices."
Tong Fan was just one of the people present that day. There should have been other young men and women from other aristocratic families present, and perhaps some spiritual followers, and maybe even some elders from the aristocratic families in charge.
The aristocratic families in Shuofang City attached great importance to the Tianmen Ghost Market and should have sent experts there, but unexpectedly Qiu Shuijing got there first.
As for the second time at the Tianmen Ghost Market, Tong Fan and his companions should have sneaked out to play, but they did not expect to encounter Su Yun who was seeking revenge, and thus lost their lives.
"Xiao Yun, I saw the scholar next to Mr. Shui Jing!"
The flower fox approached Su Yun and whispered, "Just catch up with the turtle over there!"
Su Yun looked and saw a tortoise chariot coming towards him. The chariot was built on the back of a giant tortoise. The giant tortoise had limbs as thick as pillars, a tail as long as a python, a head like a chisel, and a mouth like an eagle's beak. It moved surprisingly fast!
There was also a young man sitting alone on the second floor of the turtle's back, with incense lit in front of him and his eyes closed, resting. There were also many spiritual followers downstairs.
"Another student of Mr. Shui Jing." Su Yun looked at him deeply.
At that time, Su Yun was still a blind boy and did not see the appearance of the scholar beside Mr. Shui Jing.
Li Xiaofan stood on tiptoe to look at him and said, "He should be considered our senior brother, right? The way people in Dongdu Tiandao Academy call him is to call him senior brother."
"Yang Sheng was also our schoolmate. He was one of the people who massacred Huqiu Village. I beat him to death and cut off his neck blood vessels and trachea with my palm."
Su Yun said calmly, "Mr. Shui Jing is a private school teacher, not an official school teacher. Private school teachers are not responsible for teaching students to cultivate their character, but only for teaching them unique skills. Mr. Shui Jing's students have nothing to do with us."
Huahu agreed and said, "Private school teachers are only responsible for teaching unique skills, not teaching how to be a good person. Mr. Yehu is a teacher at the official school. Although he does not have a title given by the court, he teaches us how to be a good person."
Hu Buping, Li Xiaofan and others nodded, sharing the same feeling.
More cars drove by.
Lou Ban created a method of refining tools and used it in architecture, which seemed to release people's creativity and the vitality of the city all at once. Not only were there all kinds of tall buildings in the city, but even the carriages were strange and bizarre.
The Fushan sedan chair is the most common sedan chair and can be seen everywhere. Scholars from poor families also ride in this sedan chair to go to the imperial examinations.
In addition to the common mountain-carrying sedan chair, there are also various kinds of exotic animal sedan chairs. The small buildings on the backs of the animals are also decorated magnificently, which tests one's financial resources.
In addition to the beast chase, there are also bird chases and turtle chases. Su Yun even saw a dragon chase. It should be a python that turned into a dragon, not a poisonous snake like the one that the whole village eats. Its body is much larger and stronger than the one that the whole village eats, so it can carry the small building.
There are more and more scholars on the platform, and children of aristocratic families are a minority. Most of the scholars are commoners and poor people.
Su Yun looked around and suddenly his eyes stopped at the sky, where he saw a scroll floating.
The scroll floated between the buildings, running from east to west, and was about ten feet long.
"Spiritual power? Or spiritual weapon?"
Su Yun was thinking, when suddenly a pleasant voice came to his ears: "That is the Tianlin Shangjing Picture, one of the Ten Embroidered Pictures."
Su Yun looked in the direction of the sound and saw that the girl with ponytails had come to them at some point and was also looking at the scroll in the sky.
Qingqiu Yue was holding the girl's hand and asking questions: "Sister Zhuxian, what is the Ten Brocade Embroidery Picture?"
Hu Buping and Li Xiaofan were so grateful that tears were about to flow down their cheeks: "Qingqiu little sister is so kind to me. She created opportunities for me!"
The girl with the twin ponytails said in a very subtle voice, "I heard that several decades ago, a very powerful spiritualist completed the task entrusted by the ghosts and gods in the Tianmen Ghost Market and obtained the Ten Brocade Embroidery Map. For some reason, he did not keep it himself, but gave it to the official school in Shuofang. The Ten Brocade Embroidery Map is divided into Sandalwood Royal Scenery, Heavenly Scenery, Square and Round Villa Scenery, Moving Clouds and Sky Scenery, Heavenly Tower Scenery, Beautiful Lantern Scenery, Phoenix Resting and Yue Scenery, Dragon Pan Mountain Scenery, Pastoral Scenery, and Desert Scenery."
Hua Hu listened attentively and asked, "What is the use of the Ten Brocade Embroidery Picture?"
The girl with twin ponytails looked away and asked in surprise, "Don't you know the function of the Ten Brocade Embroidery Picture?"
Flower Fox shook his head.
The girl with twin ponytails said, "Each of the ten embroidered pictures is a spiritual world in itself, with a self-sufficient heaven and earth, and mountains, rivers, flowers, grasses and trees can all exist in it."
Su Yun's heart moved, and he whispered: "Confucian magical power!"
The girl with twin ponytails looked at him and asked in confusion: "Confucian magical power?"
Su Yun said: "The self-sufficiency of heaven and earth is somewhat similar to what the old Confucian saints said about my nature being self-sufficient and not relying on external help. Therefore, I guess the Ten Brocade Embroidery Picture may have been refined by Confucian magic."
"My nature is self-sufficient, and I don't need to seek help from outside?"
The girl with the twin ponytails repeated it several times in a low voice and said, "I have never learned these. But the owner of the Ten Brocade Embroidery Painting is indeed an old saint of Confucianism. I heard that he is the eleventh generation saint and is revered as Wen Shenggong."
Su Yun, Hua Hu and the others were slightly moved, as they passed by the Wensheng Temple when they came to Shuofang.
"The Ten Brocade Embroidered Maps are ten spiritual realms. All the entrance examinations were conducted in the maps. Ten maps, ten spiritual realms, each spiritual realm can accommodate three thousand scholars, which can save a lot of time in the selection process."
The girl with the twin ponytails said, "You are at a disadvantage if you don't know the Ten Brocade Embroidery Map. Before the big exam, I spent a few days memorizing the topography of the Ten Brocade Embroidery Map."
Su Yun smiled and said, "You are from a wealthy family with resources, so you can know the geography of the Ten Brocade Map in advance. But not everyone is from a wealthy family like you."
The girl with twin ponytails was puzzled.
Hu Buping couldn't help but said, "Sister Zhuxian, what Brother Xiaoyun meant is that we are poor!"
Hua Hu smiled and said, "It's not just because of poverty. It's also because of poverty that there are fewer ways to get news and the news is blocked. Therefore, scholars from poor families get much fewer opportunities than scholars from rich families."
Su Yun looked up at the scroll of the sky and smiled, "So scholars from poor families cannot miss any opportunity, otherwise when will they be able to stand out?"
Suddenly, his heart was slightly shaken, and he hurriedly said: "Miss Zhuxian, you just said that we are taking the test in the Ten Brocade Embroidery Paintings? Three thousand scholars for one painting?"
The girl with twin ponytails nodded: "The Ten Embroidered Maps are ten different examination halls, and the most outstanding disciples are selected from the ten examination halls. I heard that if a person's life is in danger during a fight in the spirit world, he or she will be sent out of the spirit world. When there are only twenty people left, the Ten Embroidered Maps will overlap, and these twenty people will appear in one place, and the most outstanding one will be selected."
Su Yun's face was as gloomy as water.
A closed space is formed!
Each picture in the Ten Embroidered Pictures is a closed space!
This is the perfect battlefield for demons to play with people's hearts and kill people wantonly!
This entrance exam will result in a river of blood if you are not careful!
"I wonder if the Zuo Pushe of Wenchang Academy can prevent this big exam?" he thought to himself.
At this moment, someone exclaimed, "The Saint's disciples are here!"
"Disciple of a saint?"
Su Yun's heart was slightly shaken: "There is a saint's disciple. Does that mean there is a living saint in Shuofang City?"