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Xue Banxia doesn't reject the excitement, but for some reason, he seems to prefer to walk through unmanned alleys, and he doesn't like to go to crowded places. Even though this market reflects the prosperity of the entire Wuyun City, he has never been there a few times .

Now the Caiwei Market has removed the lambskin tents and wooden frames, revealing the most primitive appearance - the polished yellow stone floor is neatly paved in this huge square where you can see the head and cry.

Only the five-story building of Caiwei Pavilion, which is surrounded by several layers of walls, stands alone in the center of the square. No matter how much noise and noise there is outside, it is like a tomb built on the ground, forever silent.

Xue Banxia was also a frequent visitor to Caiwei Pavilion back then, so he knew that even now, Caiwei Pavilion must be busy.

The people in Caiwei Pavilion are like puppets, they are obviously doing intelligence gathering, but they are indifferent to the outside world.I only know how to work ignorantly. If it is not for survival, it is estimated that I can even save food.

As if wanting to test Xue Banxia's idea, a Yong'an cloud-piercing swallow specially used for sending letters "swished" into the small passage on the roof of the attic, and then a huge black vulture carrying food passed in silently.

Xue Banxia couldn't help laughing. There are so many people in the Caiwei Pavilion. They even thought of using Chuanyunyan to deliver the letter in front, and then let the black vultures that feed on Chuanyunyan follow closely behind with their daily supply of food. I feel sad to death.

Floating dust floats, dry and fallen leaves are sparsely rolled up by the breeze, swirling and brushing against people's bodies, sometimes a leaf brushes against the cheek, and the face hurts like a knife cut.

Xue Banxia stepped on a small cluster of wind that Xue Suyi called "never step on it, you will be unlucky" and walked to the south edge of the square. Looking across the river, you can see the center of Wuyun City, the City Lord's Mansion and the surrounding area. Kite flying tower.

He suddenly thought of the old men in dark clouds who were drinking together.

Each of them can drink incredibly well, but they like to pretend to be crazy when they are drunk.Several people pushed and shoved each other to grab the only undamaged chair, stumbling and pulling their hair without any image, and the winner who sat on it in the end usually looked like rubbing his old waist and hammering his old arms and legs. Like someone who just escaped.

The most proud person that day is naturally the one sitting on the chair, he can talk about his past or the interesting things he knows, regardless of whether other people applaud or boo.

Every time after breaking up, the old men are still brothers and sisters who go home together with palms and backs, and are served by the wife and wife's family law.

There can only be a dozen or so people sitting in the small Suzaku Building, except for Xue Banxia, ​​almost all of them are old men with white beards and hair.

When they were young, some of them escaped death on the Haiyao Merchant Road and left an arm in the desert; I saw the extremely rare flower of Xia Xin.

A thousand people have a thousand kinds of stories, and each of their experiences has its own ups and downs, but they nestled in that small wine shop after they got old, showing the past without any scruples, telling the stories to Xue Banxia, ​​and also Tell them about themselves.

Among these stories, Xue Banxia was very impressed by a special story, because every time these old men mentioned it, they showed extremely proud expressions, and then you told each other the legend about this tower.

The tower, named Yuanfei, is nine feet high and is built with Dinghai stone unique to the West Sea.

Dinghai stone is only produced in the West China Sea. It is a reef that was torn off when the continent was broken. It is usually buried deep in the seabed for many years and is difficult to mine.Its stone is hard, with waves in it.

It is said that the location of this stone can be blessed by the sea god. In the Beishi area of ​​the vast sea, almost every seaside town has such a Dinghai tower with the blessing of the sea god. The surrounding towns will not be hit by floods and tsunamis.

In contrast, in countries not facing the sea, especially in inland desert cities like Wuyun City, the Dinghai Tower almost never exists, but it does exist.

It is said that the nine-foot-high pagoda was originally built as a sacrificial pagoda. It had no name at first, but it was named because of a small allusion later.

It was winter more than 20 years ago. Wuyun City was not as prosperous as it is now, and most Wuyun people still rely on grazing and hunting to make ends meet.

There was a hunter who had too many children in his family. This winter his wife gave birth to another son, who was waiting to be fed. The food saved in autumn was not enough for the whole family.In desperation, he had no choice but to try his luck to hunt in Fuqiu Mountain outside Wuyun City, to see if he was lucky enough to hunt animals that hadn't had time to hide.

But the hunter almost searched the Fuqiu mountain forest and found no trace of animals. He was forced to cross the border between Fuqiu mountain and Scorching Sun Rift Valley due to hunger and cold.

On the edge of the rift valley where the strong wind is raging, there is a brood of young kites on a scorched broken tree that failed to fly away from Fuqiu Mountain in autumn and could only make their home on the edge of the rift valley.

A huge Rift Valley Red Lizard propped up its upper body, and its stubby upper limbs had already climbed onto the broken tree. The kite, which could not fly at all, could only squeak in its nest.

Their tender and pitiful appearance aroused the kindness of the hunter. He drew his bow and shot an arrow, aiming at the big golden eyes of the red lizard.The red lizard let out a piercing hiss in pain, immediately turned around, and quickly crawled towards the hunter.

The hunter nimbly jumped to the nearby tree, flicked the rope, and jumped to the burnt tree where the bird's nest was.He gently picked up the nest, hid the kite in his clothes, and was thinking about how to drive away the red lizard.A clear cry came down from the sky, and a giant dark green kite spread its wings and descended from the sky to stand on the back of the red lizard, its sharp beak pecked the other eye of the red lizard blind.The blind red lizard immediately swung its long tail like an iron whip at the giant kite, the giant kite dodged nimbly, its wide wings set off a storm of dust, and even slapped the red lizard to the side.

The hunter reacted very quickly. Seeing this scene, he immediately jumped from the tree to the monitor lizard's belly, poured all his strength into his hands, and slashed the red lizard's intestines open with a slash of the long knife.The hunter lost his strength and fell to the ground.

Then the giant kite took a few steps towards the hunter, staring at the hunter's front.

After a long confrontation between one person and one kite, the hunter finally realized that the giant kite was looking at the little sparrow in his arms.So he consciously took out the little bird and placed it under the tree, raised his hands and slowly let it go, so that the giant kite could lean over and gently peck the little bird with its beak.

Only now did the hunter realize that there was a comatose boy lying on the giant kite's back, naked and holding a wild fruit that he picked from nowhere.He relented again, thinking that the boy might be a lost child of some family, cut off part of the red lizard meat, and carried the boy on the giant kite's back back to the city, kept him at home and searched for news.

Good people are rewarded with good rewards. One time, the city lord took the city lord's wife to tour the city, and after taking a second look at the boy, he felt very familiar.It was finally confirmed that the boy turned out to be the son of the city owner and his wife who had been living outside for many years, the young city owner of Wuyun City.

The city lord thanked the hunter well, and in order to thank the kite family, he renamed the sacrificial pagoda the kite flying pagoda, and told the people in the city that any birds that did not fly away in the winter should be taken care of at home. Let fly on this Kite Flying Pagoda, and thank God for his kindness with this kind deed.

At first, Xue Banxia had a strong interest in this tower because of the vivid description of the rumor by the elders, so he went around it every now and then.But every time, he would be asked to leave very "tactfully" by the expressionless black-faced guards, because the Kite Flying Tower is under renovation, and it will not be open to the public in recent years, and the spring flying activities have also been changed to the city gate building superior.In the end, he lost interest in studying the tower after all.

Xue Banxia walked slowly in the square.

He remembered that when he first came to Wuyun half a year ago, the lights on both sides of the river were brightly lit, and the river was sparkling almost all night, like the legendary city that never sleeps.But now, there is only the sadness of people taking tea to cool down.

Suddenly, a faint light flashed on the Kite Flying Tower.

anyone?

Looking from afar, Xue Banxia saw the Yuanfei Pagoda shrouded in darkness, and the wave-like natural patterns on the Dinghai Stone were interlaced with the stone bricks, neat and solemn from bottom to top.

If this is the real Dinghai Stone, then the Dinghai Stone that Xue Banxia saw in the dark should be the same as the stone that ordinary people see in the daytime.

But the light just now was like a stone entering a clear pond. Although the light disappeared, it left a faint faintness spreading in the veins of the stone, which was very clear in Xue Banxia's eyes.

Xue Banxia walked quickly to the river and looked carefully. These originally gray lines actually exuded an extremely weak blue light, making this tower like a lighthouse standing in the turbulent waves, tall and firm, just like the great people of Wuyun City. Like the Santo, exuding hope and light.

"Oh, is it bright again?"

Xue Banxia's tone was as soft as a murmur when he was rubbing hands with his lover, and those eyes that were always smiling but not smiling were fixed at a place farther than the other side of the river at this moment, with deep and gentle eyes.

"I really miss it," he jumped down the river bank with a sudden flash, "the feeling of tearing the light apart."

The tone changed suddenly, although there was no ups and downs, and even a feeling of no sadness or joy, but it made people feel like they were in an ice cellar, like a light on their backs.

Xue Banxia flew down the river, barely stopped on the river surface, stepped on the water with a flick of his sleeves, and floated across the Wuyun River along the waves, like a swallow skimming the water, no, perhaps lighter than a swallow.

Physician?

No.

With his erratic figure, he is now a ghost on the water waves, a ghost in the dark night!

He didn't touch the river bank, but he seemed to be volleying in the air in an instant, with one foot kicking in the void, he walked up the courtyard wall with one step lightly, and stepped onto the nine-foot kite flying tower in the second step.

As soon as the footsteps stepped on the eaves of the tower, the light gray wavy pattern of a tile under his feet suddenly became brighter, exuding a halo of sea blue.But the Dinghai Stone does not emit light, even if the moonlight shines on the silver waves, there will be no such obvious light.

No wonder there are constant guards here day and night, it really is tricky!

Xue Banxia paused slightly in the air, as if he thought it was too conspicuous to stay on the tower like this, and it would be better to land on the ground first, then turned on his toes, and then flew down.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he landed, the stones under his feet also lit up.

Xue Banxia's heart trembled, could it be that this is really a soul-suppressing stone?Here, the ground is full of soul-relief stones from the deep sea of ​​nine luminaries?

The soul-suppressing stone is a harder and rarer stone than the Dinghai stone. The ripples of the soul-suppressing stone can emit sea-blue light under the stimulation of internal force or blood force. It is said that it can reunite scattered souls, shelter heroic souls, and suppress evil spirits. It is produced in the tomb of Jiuyao, so it is also called Jiuyao soul-suppressing stone, and it is one of the top ten wonders of consonance.

The city lord of Wuyun City is really generous. This kind of stone, which even Jiuyao tomb watchers are reluctant to give away a small piece of stone, is actually regarded as the most common Dinghai stone to form a tower here, and it is covered with the entire yard.

Glancing at the guard lying soundly sleeping at the door, Xue Banxia shook his head, he could fall asleep like this, the city lord raised some trash.

He turned around, stopped in the yard, and took a light step towards the Kite Flying Tower.

Obviously he was stepping forward, but his figure appeared in the other five directions. Although it was a little slow, if you didn't look closely, you would feel that the sea-blue light seemed to be extending towards the six directions at the same time.

Xue Banxia's steps are elegant, wherever the footsteps turn, there will be six flying flowers, and his figure also seems to be divided into six, constantly reappearing.

A blue light, like snowflakes flying.

The entire courtyard was filled with blue light, and a blue snow flew up for a while, overlapping and spreading out one by one, spreading and disappearing. If anyone saw it, they would feel that they saw a fairy.

After a while, the light of the soul-restraining stones all over the ground stopped slowly as Xue Banxia's movements slowed down, and only his feet were illuminated.As soon as his feet were lifted and dropped, even the light under his feet disappeared.

Exactly this time!

A clamor from the depths of the soul rushed to Xue Banxia's heavenly spirit, and the internal force quickly gushed out from the dantian, bypassed the limbs, broke through the internal organs, and desperately resisted upward.

Xue Banxia's eyes were out of focus, and she fell on her back, but when she landed, it was as light as a feather, slowly and without a sound.

Obviously want to resist, but the body wants to sink.

The author has something to say:

Yunmu is online~~

Cute Yunpo: Is he particularly powerful in some invisible places?

Xue Banxia: Minors should not drive!Where are the parents?Hurry up and take the kids away!

Parents who did not appear: Xiao Po, here is the book "[-] Postures for Minors to Correctly Obtain a Driver's License" to learn about?

ps.3.8 Half a day off~~Happy holidays, female compatriots~