The fire was in a trance, casting mottled gray shadows on Zhang Lan's face.Her amber pupils were expressionless, and the corners of her lips were slightly raised, smiling strangely at them.

"Ahhhh-!!"

Jin Li couldn't bear it any longer, screamed out, and hugged Xia Zhitao's waist tightly, "Junior Sister, help me!!!"

Xia Zhitao trembled when she saw the face, but she quickly realized that it was not the head, but Jin Li's wailing that gave her a headache.

"Don't be afraid, it's fake."

Xia Zhitao supported the little junior sister's head, turned it around two or three times, opened a gap with her fingertips, and pointed to Jin Li: "It's a human.skin.mask.mask."

Jin Li was about to cry, stuttering, unable to speak clearly: "Who killed Zhang Lan and made her into a mask?"

"—No, Zhang Lan should be fine."

Xia Zhitao carefully studied the face that looked so much like Zhang Lan, rubbed the corners of his eyes and brows with his fingertips, and said calmly: "It feels like rubber, and the face is drawn with a brush."

Only then did Jin Li breathe a sigh of relief, feeling apprehensive in her heart: "But why did you draw Zhang Lan?"

God knows how terrified she was just now, thinking that the cute little guy who likes to cling to Xia Zhitao died so silently, decapitated, and ended up in an extremely miserable end.

Xia Zhitao was silent for a moment, and said, "Senior Sister Jinli, do you know what happened to Shuijing Lake?"

"Ah, I have heard a little bit, it seems that you were assassinated by Zhang Lan, Junior Sister Xia, and then you were pushed down Shuijing Lake—"

Jin Li was halfway through her words when she suddenly realized: "No, there's no way Zhang Lan will harm you!!"

"That's right, that person is not Zhang Lan."

Xia Zhitao pointed to the 'head' and said, "I suspect that someone used this to disguise herself as her, and then sneaked into the cliff."

"The painting is too resembling." Jin Li dared to take a look twice, and said in bewilderment, "But why did Bai Hetang kill you?"

Xia Zhitao didn't know either.

Baihe's illusion skills are superb, his family is huge and well-organized, and he is one of the righteous alliances. There is no need to have trouble with an inconspicuous little disciple with a weak cultivation base.

If you really don't like yourself, just hint to Yashan and she will be imprisoned. There is no need to spend a lot of trouble to get a mask, and then sneak into Yashan to assassinate.

——The most important thing is, if that person is really one of Baihetang, wouldn't he have violated the commandment of "not to kill and abuse"?

"Junior Sister, if I remember correctly, you don't seem to be affected by the illusion?" Jin Li was thoughtful, "Will Baihetang target you because of this?"

There is some truth in her words, the people who set up the formation are most afraid that the opponent will not be affected by the illusion, and Bai Hetang's move to get rid of Xia Zhitao is barely reasonable.

But in addition, there are many doubts that cannot be explained.Xia Zhitao sighed: "I don't know either."

She put the head back on the table, although she knew it was fake, but the lights were dim, and the mask was smiling really weirdly, no matter how you looked at it, it was very intrusive.

Xia Zhitao turned her head in a circle silently, and turned her back to the two of them according to the original position, just blocking Zhang Lan's face.

"We might not be able to get out for a while, let's look around," Xia Zhitao suggested, "Maybe we can find clues."

The little red fish next to Jinli heard this, and suddenly waved its flame-like tail fin.

The little fish wobbled, swam to a dusty corner where heavy books were piled up, and spit a bunch of bubbles at the two of them.

Jin Li happily said: "Xiao Hong, what did you find?"

The two hurried over, Xia Zhitao removed the books one by one, and carefully placed them next to each other in order.

Jin Li pulled out the two bottom sheets of paper, glanced casually, and gasped: "Junior Sister Xia, look at this."

It was a piece of letter paper with yellowed edges and slightly torn edges. The ink-colored handwriting had long been blurred, and a layer of small red characters had been superimposed on it.

The vermilion red ink covered the paper carefully, without leaving a single gap, and filled the entire letter paper with the words "liar" and "thief".

The man used extreme force, every stroke was dripping with blood and hatred, the deep red ink overflowed, and the paper on which the strokes were drawn was extremely damaged.

Xia Zhitao lightly held the letter paper, frowned and said, "The ink characters have been completely covered, I don't know what the original content is."

"Who would be the person who wrote it? It's too scary." Jin Li stuck out her tongue, "It takes a lot of hatred to write 'thief and liar' all over the letter."

Xia Zhitao pulled out another card. She looked at the portrait with several slits on it, and said in a daze, "I seem to know who it might be..."

.

The card was about the size of a palm, and due to its age, the edges had turned slightly gray.

There is a lifelike portrait painted on it, in which the woman is dressed in a flowing feather coat, with a cool demeanor and neat black hair, but her face is a mess.

Someone used Zhu Dan pen and ink to draw countless red marks on it as if to vent their anger, and even cut several gaps in the paper.

Jin Li whispered: "The face is drawn like this, I can't tell who it is."

Xia Zhitao shook her head, she pointed to the beautiful handwriting on the lower right corner, and read softly: "Young Master Baihe, Qin Zhi, was painted in the first lunar month."

Jin Li was shocked: "What?"

She took the portrait from Xia Zhitao's hand, looked at it several times, and said in a daze, "This person is Master Qin? But what's the matter with the scratch?"

Xia Zhitao said: "Qin Shu, the current young master of White Crane Hall, is Master Qin's biological sister. That is to say, Master Qin was the rightful successor before Master was expelled from the house."

"So, because of this, Qin Shu hated her sister?" Jin Li guessed.

"I can't rule out this possibility," Xia Zhitao said intently, "but I personally think there should be a deeper reason."

If the capital of Qin was removed from the genealogy and expelled from the White Crane Hall just because of the right of inheritance, what would Qin Shu have to worry about?

Why did she have such a strong hatred for her own sister?

In short, it was a good place to start. Xia Zhitao carefully put away the two pieces of paper, and then carefully restored the booklet, not forgetting to smear some dust on it.

The two found some formation notes in the secret room, as well as a lot of formation materials, other than that, there is no more information.

The secret room is not the end of the stone road, just behind a tall bookcase, Xia Zhitao found another stone path, which extends continuously downwards, sinking into the thick darkness.

"Senior Sister Jin, it's time to make a decision," Xia Zhitao looked at her seriously, "Come on, shall we go or not?"

Jin Li said: "Don't worry, be bold! Go forward!"

When the koi spoke, Xia Zhitao felt relieved, and the flames in his palm lit up a little, illuminating the dark road.

The passage was a bit tight and narrow at first, but it became wider and wider as you walked forward. If you looked carefully, you could still hear the sound of gurgling water at the end.

The biting cold wind swept over the cheeks, and a thick layer of white mist crawled on the ground. After about ten minutes, the two left the road and came to a vast space.

Guided by Xia Zhitao, the flame swayed upwards, breaking through the mist and revealing a vast pool of water.

"... Wuxiangtan?"

Xia Zhitao couldn't believe it, that small secret room was actually a "hub", connecting two important areas of Baihe Hall.

Jin Li squatted down, looked at the dark pool water like a black stone, and commented: "There is no reflection, it is really a phaseless pool."

"There is no bamboo mat for the morning ceremony, nor is there any incense to clear the stove." Xia Zhitao looked around, "We may be at the other end of Wuxiang Lake."

A white-feathered lantern was docked by the pool, shaking gently with the cold wind gushing down from a height, the inside was empty, as if it had been abandoned here.

Xia Zhitao took out a file from her bosom and prepared to put it in the lantern, Jin Li asked curiously: "What is this?"

"In the case of Nan Keyao, I took a dossier from Master Qin's room," Xia Zhitao did not hide anything, and said truthfully, "Immortal Halo said it was very important, so I took it."

Jin Li said "Oh" and said thoughtfully, "That's why you want to come to Wuxiang Lake?"

Although the Wuxiangtan cannot reflect reflections, it can "illuminate the emptiness and fall with the light"-in simple terms, as long as you put an object into the lantern, the memory of the object will appear in the pool.

This is what Baihetang planned before, he wanted to push the lantern containing the bones into the pool, and find the person who took Qin Zhi's life.

It's a pity that the special soul-gathering feather lamp was exchanged in private, no wonder Qin Minghe was furious and insisted on finding the whereabouts.

Xia Zhitao placed the file in the center of the lantern, lit a candle, and then gently pushed it with her hand, the white feather lantern slowly left the shore, floated on the water of the lonely cold pool, and drifted towards the white mist.

The white mist surged up slowly like a lukewarm tide, swallowing the lantern bit by bit, and no more halos could be seen.

"The lantern is invisible, why didn't it respond?" Jin Li couldn't help asking, "Did we do something wrong?"

Xia Zhitao hesitated and said, "The lantern wasn't pushed back, it must be right."

As soon as the words fell, the white mist suddenly surged, and the vast soup filled the surface of the pool. The two of them heard a laugh like a silver bell, and fell crisply from the nothingness.

.

"Sister, sister Qin."

The girl in white was sitting at the table, holding a fine brush, and was concentrating on drawing something.

Behind her, a little girl about six or seven years old pushed open the door, ran in excitedly, and called out loudly, "Sister, I'm here to find you!"

"Sister Qin, I'm always looking for you." The little girl put her arms around the waist of the other party, and rubbed her slender neck affectionately, "Don't you think I'm annoying."

The girl in white put a cold face on her face, put down the brush in her hand, and said in a slightly slower voice, "I won't be annoying."

"Sister Qin is the best," the little girl's voice was clear and tender, "The other sisters ignored me, saying that I was not an ordinary child, and that I was strange."

"That's because they are inferior in talent," Qin Zhi said calmly, "They can't compare to you, so they can only talk behind their backs, which is not worth mentioning."

Qin Shu tilted his head, and said softly, "Sister Qin doesn't hate me, does she? There are so many sisters, I like you the most!"

"No." Qin Zhidao, "What do you want to show me?"

Qin Shu stood on tiptoe with great difficulty, stretched out his hand to push onto the table, and pushed up the carefully collected files, excitedly saying: "Sister, this is a new formation, take a look!"

Qin Zhi nodded slightly, and unfolded the file. She looked calm, but suddenly froze when she saw a purple stone, and her five fingers unconsciously gathered the scroll: "Wait...this..."

"The little purple stone is very beautiful, so I added a few pieces," Qin Shu said softly, "Put it together with the blue stone, and the formation will have a purple mist."

She complained in a low voice: "It's just that after the formation was set up, the maid Xiaoluo and several guard brothers ignored me and didn't play with me. They fell asleep lying on the ground and couldn't wake up no matter how shaken."

Qin Zhi squatted down, firmly supported Qin Shu's shoulders, and said coldly, "Who else have you shown this formation except me?!"

The face of the other party was too terrifying, Qin Shu was frightened and shook his head again and again, with a bit of crying: "No, no..."

"You sit here and don't go anywhere, you know?" Qin Zhi put away the file and said sharply, "Absolutely, absolutely, you are not allowed to talk about formations with other people! Especially father!!"

Qin Shu was so frightened that he couldn't speak, wiped away his tears, and gave a choked "um".

Qin Shu sniffed, and Nuonuo sat on the chair, watching anxiously as Qin Zhi took some things, pushed the door out in a hurry, and locked it with a click.

Qin Shu sat on the chair in a daze, waiting for Qin Zhi's sister to come back, helping him correct the flaws in the formation, playing with him, and making delicious jujube cake together.

She was obedient and serious, and waited obediently for a long time.

However, my sister never came back.

.

The memories were over, and the mist that had condensed into a human form suddenly disintegrated and collapsed, never to return to its original appearance.

Xia Zhitao sighed softly: "A four- or five-year-old child can't tell right from wrong, can't remember the situation—but can firmly remember vivid emotions, remember that he was betrayed, and remember the broken promise."

Jin Li was stunned and said: "Earlier Qi Xianzun said that someone modified the Nanke rumor until it got out of control, and Master Qin died because of it, could it be..."

"Baihetang is weak and weak, and its momentum is not as good as before. In the past hundred years, in three generations, there has only been one peerless genius who can create ten layers of illusions and once trapped the leader."

Xia Zhitao sighed softly as she looked at the still, phaseless pool without any waves.

"Who else but her?"

Amidst the white mist, the lantern slowly floated back, and the red candle was engulfed in water vapor, and went out silently.

Xia Zhitao was in a complicated mood. On the one hand, she sympathized with the other party, but this "sympathy" could not justify what Qin Shu had done, nor could it repay the sins she had committed.

It is not unreasonable to always say that hateful people must have compassion, but things cannot be generalized.You can sympathize, you can pity, you can even regret——

But it cannot be forgiven.

Time cannot be turned back, choices cannot be undone, and there is absolutely no chance of redemption.Since I made such a choice in the first place, I have to take all the responsibilities.

Xia Zhitao took out the file and carefully put it in his arms.Jin Li pushed her shoulder and said, "What about the letter from before, put it in and have a look."

Xia Zhitao responded, took out the letter paper, and was inevitably a little scared by the red lettering on it, stuffed it into the lantern, and was about to push it into the pool, when a soft laugh came from behind:

"Miss Xia took it, is it mine?"

With chills running down their spines, the two turned their heads stiffly to look back.Sure enough, Qin Shu smiled and stood not far away, with a group of white-clothed attendants standing behind him.

- It's over! ! !

It's like doing bad things secretly, only to be caught by the other party.Although Xia Zhitao could still argue that he wanted to help Zhang Kuangda and investigate the dusty truth along the way, it is an indisputable fact that he broke into someone's secret room and stole two pieces of paper.

The white crane guards stood behind her with their heads bowed, their expressions dull, their movements stiff, exuding a strange aura that made people feel chills.

"Why are you two here?"

Qin Shu looked at the two of them, with a smile on his face, and his voice was extremely gentle: "If my father finds out, I'm afraid he will blame me for my poor hospitality."

"No, no," Jin Li said haha, "You guys are very good at entertaining, there is food and drink, the only thing is that you are not allowed to go out for a walk."

Qin Shu said softly, "Really?"

Her voice was suddenly cold, she raised her jaw slightly, and ordered without explanation: "Take it down!"

Because in the White Crane Illusion, the realm of the two of them was completely suppressed, and they couldn't exert any spiritual energy, just like two mortals who had no power to restrain chickens, they were captured by many guards in an instant and detained on the ground.

Xia Zhitao was very sad, feeling that she worked so hard to practice every day, but in the end it was useless at all.

Shuijing Lake was suppressed and beaten, and Monster Beast Forest was suppressed and beaten. It was finally promoted from Foundation Establishment to Golden Core, and was suppressed by Baihe Illusion.

She was held down by the shoulders by the guards and forced to kneel on the ground. She couldn't help thinking that it was Zhang Kuang, but you were the ones being pressed and beaten.

Qin Shu was dressed in white, with a slender white pistil in her hair.She seems to be naturally suitable for this calm color, her eyebrows and eyes are docile and quiet, but the words she said make people shudder: "Kill it."

"Young hall master, please forgive me, we have something to talk about!!"

Jin Li glanced at the little red fish who was spitting bubbles beside her, and begged bitterly: "We just came out for a walk, there is absolutely no other meaning!"

"Walking can disperse into the secret room, and even find it here," Qin Shu smiled half-smile, "You two are really interesting."

The guards pulled out the swords around their waists, the blades were smooth and sharp, with a cold light, Xia Zhitao swallowed and tried to calm down: "Young hall master, if you really kill us, Yashan will definitely not let it go—— "

"So what?" Qin Shu smiled.

The guard clasped Xia Zhitao's arms and pressed her down.The sharp edge of the cold blade pressed against the neck, through the thin layer of skin, pressing and agitating the neck veins, with just a light swipe, blood spattered three feet.

"If you hadn't been buried at the bottom of Shuijing Lake, you would have been swallowed by the ten monsters at the trial meeting. If you weren't mad..."

Qin Shu's eyebrows and eyes were filled with a smile, like a pistil drawn in a white line, with a calm and gentle smile: "You should have died a long time ago."

She said softly: "Nan Ke Yao will be completely out of control, and Qin Minghe will not be able to get out of the demon forest. Yashan's vitality will be seriously injured, and the righteous way will inevitably be in chaos, and the spearhead will be directed at Li Gu."

Xia Zhitao gritted her teeth, forced herself to raise her head, and said coldly, "You trapped Zhang Kuang in the illusion because you hated her for destroying all your schemes?"

"Why should I hate her?"

Qin Shu shook his head gently, his voice was a little hoarse: "On the contrary, Zhang Kuang suddenly appeared, I was ecstatic and wished for it."

"You are a smart woman, you should have guessed pretty well." Qin Shu said with a smile, "I used some tricks to attract [-] high-level monsters, just waiting for Zhang Kuang to exhaust his spiritual power .”

She stretched out her hand, only to hear a few soft "ding bells", and a long chain of silver rings fell from between her five fingers.And what fell at the bottom was a pale animal tooth that was curved like a crescent moon, stained with sporadic brown-red.

"Eh?" Jin Li lost her voice, "Isn't that the leader's animal tooth necklace?!"

Qin Shu looked calm, smiling unabated: "If it wasn't for Zhang Kuang willingly throwing himself into the trap, I don't know when I will be able to complete this formation."

— Formation?What formation?

Xia Zhitao's eyebrows twitched, and a biting chill suddenly felt in her heart.Qin Shu didn't intend to say more, and with a wave of his hand, the guards pressed the backs of the two of them and dunked them into the pool.

"There is too much blood from cutting the neck, and it will be troublesome to clean it up," Qin Shu said calmly, "Be quick with your hands and feet, and throw it into the pool after drowning."

The guard responded dully, and the hands clasping the necks of the two of them became more and more forceful.Xia Zhitao was tightly suppressed, and the extremely cold pool water covered her head and poured into her throat violently.

She struggled and coughed a few times, her chest became more and more stuffy, and her consciousness gradually became blurred.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew across the surface of the pool, causing several ripples, and went straight to the wrist of the white crane guard.

The guard's five fingers loosened suddenly, Xia Zhitao's body was unstable, and half of her body fell into the pool.

She choked on several mouthfuls of water, but fortunately the water on the bank was not deep, so she left the water with her arms stretched out.

Fresh air poured into the lung cavity, Xia Zhitao narrowly escaped death, coughing violently several times.She regained her composure and brushed her wet long hair back, only then did she see the situation clearly.

A figure in light bamboo and green clothes stepped on a long sword and broke through the white mist on the surface of the pool.He held the guqin in his arms, and with a flick of his fingertips, he made several steady sounds.

The sound of the zither was filled with overflowing spiritual power, and within a few strokes, all the dozen or so white crane guards were hit.

"Jinli, Xia Zhitao!"

Zheng Luo Yi jumped down from the long sword and dragged the little girls who hadn't reacted yet away from the shore. He patted the backs of the two of them and said eagerly, "Master is late, are you all right? Are you injured?" ?”

Xia Zhitao wiped the water with her cuff, and exhaled guiltily: "It's okay."

"I'm fine," Jin Li sniffed and moved, "Master, how did you find me here?"

Zheng Luo Yi said: "I heard some noises earlier, and I couldn't let go of it, so I followed. I was scattered by patrol guards on the way, but fortunately, I found it."

Jin Li sniffed, resentful: "Master, I think Bai Hetang is sick, and his brain is all abnormal, especially that one named Qin Shu."

She couldn't believe it, and shouted: "What do those people think, they are going to drown a fish??"

Zheng Luoyi: "..."

Xia Zhitao: "..."

Jin Li snorted, nonchalantly: "I really think I can't breathe underwater, I'll turn back into a koi in minutes, and walk right under their noses!"

In short, Bai Hetang couldn't stay any longer.It was good that we lived in peace before, but now that the situation is like this, staying here is undoubtedly putting myself in a cage with a hungry tiger, who knows when I will be bitten until there are no bones left, and my soul will return to the west.

Zheng Luoyi flattened the Guqin in his hand, and let the two girls sit on it, while Yu Jian followed beside him, carefully watching the surrounding situation.

However, the three of them flew over the pool for a long time, but as far as their eyes could see, there was only boundless expanse, without seeing the dead pool of water at the beginning and end.

There was thick fog all around, covering his sight, Zheng Luo Yi slightly clenched his five fingers, and said softly: "Something is wrong."

He stopped the two of them behind him, his fingertips overflowed with spiritual energy, and suddenly drew a spiritual arc full of white light.

The spirit arc whizzed up, burning the mist away like a white flame.

As the white mist dissipated, the line of sight suddenly opened up, and on top of the endless green peaks, stood more than a dozen extremely deep and magnificent halls.

And just in front of the main hall, a majestic rock stands in front of it. Looking from a distance, it seems that there is an ancient dragon crouching on it. Three big and powerful characters are engraved on it——

【Qiling Mountain】

Qiling is a place of insolence, how could it appear here for no reason?Zheng Luoyi's pupils shrank, and he lost his voice: "We are trapped in the white crane illusion!"

作者有话要说:张狂:我家大门常打开_(:з」∠)_感谢在2020-03-2200:00:00~2020-03-2720:00:00期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

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Thanks to the little angels who cast mines: 7 steel tough guy Bai Mou; 2 Dududu, Ha; 1 Luobai;

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