Shameless

The night was dark, and the runes on the stone tablet could be seen vaguely by the white moonlight falling from the sky. Due to the erosion of wind and frost all year round, the three-point writing on the stone had almost been worn away, leaving only faint traces. All weathered, resulting in missing runes.

Those characters were the same as those on the walls of the pavilion, an ancient book that was almost lost, but fortunately, all three of them could barely recognize what was inscribed on it.

Due to the lack of a corner, I can only guess the general idea based on the remaining text. The inscription roughly says that Wushan Town was not called Wushan Town many years ago, but Yunjing Town. Life is comfortable, but unexpectedly, in the summer of the eighth year of Yanhe, a flash flood suddenly broke out, and a flood swept here, causing countless casualties and heavy losses. Just when everyone was crying and mourning, and all thoughts were lost, a man who did not know where came from made the move. Helping each other not only treats the wounded with kindness, but also helps everyone rebuild the town.

In order to ask for auspicious omens and imply a new beginning, the reconstructed Yunjing Town was renamed Wushan Town. In the 12th year of Yanhe, Wushan Town built an ancestral hall, erected a stele and enshrined the ancestral tablet, and wrote a stroke on the stone stele to show the kindness of the man. remember.

As for the worship of the gods that Jiang Lin said before, there is also a record on the stone tablet, but it is recorded at the end. The sentence is incomplete, and there are only a few words left, to the effect that there are gods in the bamboo forest.

Mu Qing rubbed down the inscriptions one by one.

Qingxu carefully pondered the content above, and said in doubt: "The eighth year of Yanhe..."

Yanhe means peace. Many emperors in the world have used this as their year name. In the last 2000 years alone, there are four of them. Combined with the runes on the stone tablet, it is not these. There are so many missing that it is impossible to determine which year it is based on this alone.

So much time has passed, the ancestral hall in front of me must have been renovated many times, and there are no relics of the original, no wonder the people in the town don't know these things, maybe they have been passed down for generations, How could anyone still remember.

The night wind was bitter and whistling. Compared with Yashi Street, the side of the ancestral hall was very empty, and it was extraordinarily cold to stand on the flat ground.

Bai Shu's fur is thick, but after staying in Kunshan, which is severely cold all year round, she subconsciously feels cold when the wind blows. She retracted a little into the cloth bag, even retracting her paws, only half of her head was exposed.

Mu Qing had finished digging the inscription, looked down, remembered Jiang Lin's advice, and handed it a Concentration Pill. Her hands were cold and white, thin and thin, and her fingertips were even colder now.

The hairball in the cloth bag was very self-conscious, and when she saw her handing over the elixir, he opened his mouth quickly, not even bothering to lift his paw.Because her body is too small, the elixir is too big to be swallowed in one gulp, she has to be crushed, so Bai Shu completely retracted into the cloth bag and gnawed on the elixir with all her might.

Seeing the cloth bag around her waist move and bulge, Mu Qing stared at it for a while, and only closed her eyes when Qing Xu yelled.

"Go in first, look inside, see if you can find anything." Qingxu said, softly called the three fire dogs, and walked ahead first.

Worried about encountering an accident like last time, the three of them were more cautious this time, and waited for Qingxu to check inside to confirm that nothing happened before going in, and then quietly restrained the night watchman.

The night watchman was a young and strong young man with a simple and honest appearance, Qingxu hit him with a sleeping spell while he was dozing off, and he immediately fell asleep and fell straight to the ground.

Jiang Lin quickly caught the man with his eyes and hands, and gently put him on the tribute table to lie on his stomach.

The smell of candles inside the ancestral hall is much stronger than outside. There are three freshly lit incense sticks inserted in the censer. The foggy white smoke curls around and rises until it dissipates. The layout of the ancestral hall is not complicated, everything is simple, and the hall There are three rows of spirit cards, densely packed, and it looks weird.

Not everyone who dies can enter the ancestral hall, only those who are famous and virtuous, so in recent years, those who have been enshrined are the famous and respected sages in Wushan town.

The three of them didn't waste time talking nonsense, they acted quickly as soon as they came in, and searched separately.

Mu Qing stayed in the hall to look through the family tree and various booklets that had been enshrined. All the major events that happened in Wushan Town in these years were recorded on them, such as offering sacrifices, repairing a certain place, major changes and so on.

After eating the elixir, Bai Shu raised her head again, looked up at the booklet in Mu Qing's hands curiously, and then looked around. When she saw the enshrined spirit cards, she suddenly remembered the scene she had seen in the illusion, So he hooked Mu Qing's hand and pulled it twice.

Mu Qing put down the booklet.

Bai Shu picked it up in her pocket and whispered, "You brought me here before."

Mu Qing frowned, since she understood what the evil was talking about in the illusion, "What are you here for?"

"I don't know..." Bai Shu shook her head. She just came out to join in the fun, and followed her around all day long, so she came when she came, but she lowered her head and thought about it for a while, and then said, "You drew a talisman for them to keep them safe." .”

What Mu Qing saw in the illusion was not these things. Hearing what she said, she fell into deep thought.But Bai Shu spoke again at this moment: "It's the talisman that you created yourself, and taught Ah Shu."

"Do you still remember how to draw?" Mu Qing asked.

Bai Shu hummed.

Mu Qing stretched out her hand, and Bai Shu lay down in her palm and drew what she remembered.

It was the requiem talisman used by the evil spirit protector, the first talisman Bai Shu learned in the illusion, she was extremely talented, and the talisman she drew looked like a dog crawling out, so she had to be trained for this, so she was deeply impressed and left the illusion I still remember it clearly.

After realizing what this wicked painting was about, Mu Qing frowned even tighter.

Different sects have their own exclusive skills, the same is the requiem, but the moves of each school are not the same, some people chant scriptures, others ask gods, even if they are all drawn symbols, the drawing methods will not be the same.Master Mu Qing came from the Fengling Sect and used to use the sect's exercises. The requiem talisman she painted is not like this, it is the traditional painting method of the Taiyi Sect.

Even if everything in the illusion is an illusion, some things are not all false, after all, there must be a certain basis for fabricating an illusion.

"It's really drawn like this, do you remember correctly?" Mu Qing asked again.

Bai Shu nodded her head affirmatively, "No."

He hesitated for a moment, wanting to ask something more, when Qingxu came in from the outside, Mu Qing stopped in time, and then Jiang Lin followed, the ancestral hall is so big, it won't take long to turn the ground upside down.

"Did anything happen?" Jiang Lin asked first.

Qingxu shook his head calmly.The Sanhuo dog obediently sat down at her feet, and when it looked up to see Bai Shu in the sack, it wagged its tail excitedly, barked upwards, and howled happily.

Bai Shu didn't like this chubby fat dog, so she retracted into the bag at once.

Thinking that he was playing with himself, the Sanhuo dog stood up abruptly, circled Mu Qing, arched vigorously, trying to pull the bag off, but it was a pity that it had short legs and a short body, so it couldn't touch the bag even with its claws outstretched.Qingxu flicked it away and blocked it, it didn't dare to be presumptuous, just stared at the bag and wagged its tail.

Mu Qing ignored the silly dog, and distributed the rest of the brochures to Jiang Lin and Qingxu, asking them to check them out.

However, after re-reading these things twice, I still found nothing.

The three of them did not stay long and left here soon.

But when they reached the stele, Mu Qing stopped suddenly, Jiang Lin and Qing Xu were wondering why they stopped, when a phantom suddenly flashed in the distance, the man was moving very fast, and they deliberately let them find it.

Without hesitation, Mu Qing followed immediately with a little tiptoe, and disappeared in an instant.

Qingxu and Jiang Lin's cultivation base is not as good as hers, so the reaction will be slower, almost at the moment she disappeared, Qingxu said: "Let's chase together!"

The Sanhuo dog came in handy at this time, it followed its master keenly, and suddenly turned into a giant dog more than ten feet tall, majestic and extremely fast, Qingxu grabbed Jiang Lin and brought him to Sanhuo Firedog sat on his back.After the two of them sat down firmly, the Sanhuo dog ran like a gust of wind, followed the scent, and caught up with Mu Qing within a few breaths.

The man lurking in the darkness was agile, and when he noticed the group of people following him, he immediately dodged into the pine forest on the left.

Mu Qing followed closely behind with ease, but she did not act rashly. She knew that this person showed up specially to attract their attention.

The man was dressed in a thick white robe, which was tightly covered from head to toe. There was a thin silver mask on his face, which could not tell his real appearance, and he couldn't distinguish between men and women from his figure.The wind was blowing fiercely, but the robes around this man were not blown at all, which shows that his cultivation level is not low.

When he got close, Mu Qing saw that he had an Adam's apple, and recognized that it was a man, but he didn't immediately make a conclusion. After all, monks can change from male to female at will in order to deceive others, and the appearance alone cannot be judged.

Realizing that Qingxu and the others were following up, Mu Qing decisively attacked with a sword, like a menacing rainbow piercing the sun, blocking the person's way with one move.The three fire dogs stopped behind the man cooperatively, barking viciously in protest.

Being stopped by them, the masked man was not surprised at all. He stepped back to avoid Mu Qing's sword easily, then stood still slowly, raised his hand and brushed his shoulders unhurriedly, and said softly and politely: "Master Mu, it's been a long time! not see."

It really was a man, and he knew Mu Qing.

But Mu Qing didn't know this person, she said coldly: "Who is your Excellency?"

The other party only smiled heartily, as if she was not worried that she would strike the sword again, looked back at Qingxu and the others, and then said slowly: "It's been so many years, you are still the same, you haven't changed at all."

Listening to this tone, the feelings are old acquaintances.

It's just that Mu Qing doesn't have any acquaintances who can coincide with him in her memory. Since she joined Feng Lingzong, she has made friends and met many people over the years, but there is no such person alone. With a single finger of the sword, the emptiness of the sword turned into solid, and brushed against the side of the man's face in awe-inspiring way, cutting off a strand of black hair lightly.

If it wasn't for Mu Qing's mercy, if he was a bit more biased, it wouldn't be hair that would be cut off.

The masked man was neither angry nor afraid, and smiled again. His behavior was a bit weird and unpredictable.

Jiang Lin behind was impatient, seeing that he was a little crazy, and said in a low voice: "Pretending to be a ghost."

He heard it, but he didn't even look at Jiang Lin. There was no change, and then he looked down at the cloth bag on Mu Qing's waist.

Bai Shu poked out only half of her head from inside, seeing this person staring at her, she immediately shrank down to prevent him from looking.

Mu Qing said in a deep voice, "Why did you invite us here, Your Excellency?"

The masked man withdrew his gaze and said casually, "No reason."

After saying that, he raised his eyes to look at her, this is to admit that he did all the things in the old house, and deliberately lured them over.

"According to what your Excellency said, but did you have a feud with me?" Mu Qing never let down his vigilance, and calmly glanced at Qingxu over there.

Qingxu understood, and moved a few steps to the side, and the three of them formed a three-legged posture and surrounded this person in the middle.

Knowing their actions, the masked man didn't care at all, and said openly: "No."

Jiang Lin behind was immediately displeased, feeling that he was playing tricks, and interjected, "What do you want to do?"

The other party stopped talking.

In fact, it is useless to ask again, he will definitely not tell the truth, at least not before the goal is achieved.

He tilted his head and looked at Jiang Lin calmly, turned his hand, and made a gesture to hit him, but Qingxu immediately blocked him on the other side, who knew that this man was just slamming around, and grabbed Mu Qing's waist as soon as he turned his body cloth bag.

Mu Qing's expression froze, Xing Yun Liu Shui pierced his chest with a sword, and hit him.

However, as if the man didn't feel any pain, he swiped his slender hand and directly opened the cloth bag, snatching Bai Shu in the bag.Mu Qing immediately grabbed his wrist, trying to snatch the white-haired dumpling back, but at this moment, the other party suddenly smiled sullenly and said, "Master Mu, we will meet later, see you in Anyang."

Then the whole person and the white hair dumpling suddenly turned into fragments and disappeared like that.