Onmyoji reincarnation plan

Guanjiang is a small border town, located in the desert full of sand, Gobi shoals, gravel walls, vicissitudes of life.In the vast blue sky, birds soar and hover under the scorching sun, and a string of camel bells rings in the yellow sand and strong wind.

On the sand dunes scorched by the scorching sun, wisps of solitary smoke were invisible, and several tall and strong camels slowly moved towards the ancient city about ten miles ahead.

"It's too hot here!" Xia Qi rode a camel, shaking his head while wiping his sweat, "If I knew it, I would have passed through the gate of hell!"

"It's not because you said that you have never ridden a camel before, so we are here." Ning Xin said with his arms around Ah Yan, riding a camel together.

Xia Qi hooked his nose embarrassingly, looked aside and whispered: "I didn't know that he really took me to ride a camel."

"Master Xia's words are golden words," A Yan turned his head and laughed jokingly, "Senior Ghost King dare not take it to heart."

Xia Qi glared at him, stretched out his scabbard and knocked on his head, but was stopped by Ning Xin.

Ning said: "Stop making trouble."

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My senior brother, don't you remember the weak brotherhood between the two of us? ? ?

Qing Ming took down a sheepskin water bottle hanging from the camel's saddle, raised his hand and said, "The Cold Food Festival hasn't arrived yet, so we don't need to rush there."

Xia Qi took the water, raised his head and took a few gulps, rubbed his sleeves against his mouth, and said, "Is it the day after tomorrow?"

Qing Ming nodded in response, looking towards the ancient city in the distance.

The desert is very windy and sandy. Although it is only a dozen miles away, it took as much as half an hour to walk.

Several people got off the camel at the gate of the ancient city of Guanjiang, entrusted it in a low trough, and entered the city together with the passers-by.When you arrive in the city, you can see men and women dressed in different styles from different regions, wearing veils and robes, walking and stopping at the small stalls on the side of the road covered with carpets.

Although Xia Qi and the others are dressed differently from the people here, they are not surprising.Now that the Cold Food Festival is coming, many Taoist disciples come to find the legendary Hanling ruins according to the appointment, and come here to drink a few jars of Jinzhao Zui by the way.

"You guys have come from a long way, do you want to stay at the hotel?" A woman with blue eyes and brown hair suddenly jumped out of the house next to her and blocked the way.

Xia Qi stepped back subconsciously, looked up to see that the girl had settled down, before she opened her mouth, she saw that the girl embraced her arm enthusiastically, and continued: "The young masters must be the same as those foreign priests. , I came to look for the ruins of the Hanling Mausoleum, and now it is hard to find a guest room in Guanjiang City, why not stay in our small hotel."

Xia Qi looked down at the distance between the two, frowned and thought to himself, are all the girls on the border so active?

At this time, a cold air came from behind him suddenly.

"Don't stop!" Qing Ming stepped forward and pulled the woman off Xia Qi's body and dragged her to the side, saying coldly.

"This young man doesn't know how to be kind and cherish jade at all." The woman rubbed her sore wrist, and continued, "Looking at the clothes of these young men, they must be dignified figures. Although our small shop is not luxurious, at least it is elegant and clean. A few of you will be wronged. Besides, the hotels in this city are probably full, and it just so happens that two of our customers left for business, so two rooms are vacant."

Xia Qi looked around, there were indeed many passers-by on the street, and the fronts of several nearby hotels were crowded with people in Taoist robes.

He thought for a while, turned around and discussed with the three of them: "Why don't you just stay here, this store looks pretty good."

Qing Ming kept a sullen face and said nothing, but his eyes clearly said "I don't want to live!"

Xia Qixin said it was childish, so she turned her face and asked, "Ning Xin, what do you think?"

Ning said: "I have no objection."

A Yan Yinghe also nodded, and he had no objection.

"Then it's settled, please help us arrange it." Xia Qi greeted the woman politely, then looked at a black-faced rabbit beside him, and said calmly: "Qing Ming, go pay the deposit, I have no money."

Ah Yan couldn't help laughing out loud with a snort, and he took it for granted that he received a pair of white-eyed sharp arrows.

The child really has no eyesight, and he dare not look at Qing Ming without seeing me at this time.

The woman's name is Lu Qiao, the daughter of the owner of the inn, she led Xia Qi and the others to a secluded private room in the lobby, and said sweetly: "Sirs, wait a while in the private room and have some wine and vegetables , when the upstairs guest room is cleaned, someone will come and invite some of you to go up.”

"Thank you Miss Lv Qiao." Xia Qi replied with a smile, suddenly remembered something, and said tightly, "Are you getting drunk in this shop?"

Lu Qiao's voice was sweeter than glutinous rice, "Guanjiang's famous wine is naturally available. How many jars do you want?"

Xia Qi thought for a while, and said: "Three altars, and some small dishes." He changed his mind, and asked Ning Xin and Ah Yan, "Can you eat spicy food?" They nodded, Xia Qi immediately said to Lu Qiao : "Put more spicy food in the dish."

"Okay." Lu Qiao laughed, "Those who are resting first, the food and drink will be here soon." After speaking, she went out and closed the curtain of the private room.

Ah Yan looked away from the door and asked, "Three altars? Does Master Xia not drink?"

"He doesn't know how to drink." Qing Ming and Ning Xin replied at the same time, and then glanced at each other.

Ah Yan was stunned for a while, half-closed his eyes and said: "Master Xia, as the senior brother of the head of Xia, really understands clearly."

Ning Xin coughed a few times, "It's okay, but I'm not very clear."

Looking at the two, Xia Qi seemed to understand something in his heart, and then looked at Qing Ming, he raised his eyebrows, as if gloating.

Am I really so unresponsive? ! ! !

What I don't know? !No, just know? ! !

The serving speed of this restaurant is quite satisfactory. After waiting for less than half a stick of incense, a waiter opened the curtain and walked in with a large tray.He put the food and wine on the table one by one, and said cheerfully: "You guys take your time."

"Second Brother, wait a minute!" Seeing him going out, Xia Qi hurriedly called to stop him.

Xiao Er turned around, put the rag on his shoulder and said, "What else can you order, Young Master?"

Xia Qi took out some broken pieces of silver from Qing Ming's waist, put them on the table and pushed them forward, "I'll ask you something."

Xiaoer's heart moved, and he said happily: "What do you want to ask, young master? I know everything without saying anything."

"Hanling Ruins." Xia Qi cut to the chase, "We have heard the forest name of Hanling Ruins for a long time, and this time we are here to find out, but we know very little about it, so we asked the second brother specifically, There are some rumors about this Hanling ruins in your local area.”

"That's too much." Hearing the words "Hanling Ruins", Xiaoer sat down straight away, couldn't take his eyes off the silver on the table, and said, "If you want to talk about it one by one, it will take three days and three nights." Can't say enough."

Xia Qi asked: "Then is it related to the origin of the Hanling site?"

"Origin?" Xiaoer pondered for a moment, and said, "I heard from the folklore of the older generation here that it is said that our Guanjiang was once an oasis of lush greenery, unlike the present scene of hundreds of miles of desert and yellow sand a long time ago. There is not only our city nearby, but also a big family. However, for some unknown reason, the water in the oasis suddenly disappeared overnight, and the wind and sand blew more and more violently. What’s even more strange about the desolate scene that everyone sees today is that the big family has disappeared, and after that, ghost towns appeared in Guanjiang.”

Xia Qi pondered for a moment, guessing that it should be the Luo Family Manor, and then asked: "Do you know what kind of family it is?"

Xiao Er shook his head and said, "I don't know. The elders said that it was an incredible place, and ordinary people couldn't get in, so they could only take a look at the outer circle of the oasis from a distance. Later, the oasis disappeared, and it became the place it is today. In this way, those elders said that the people living in that big family were all fairy-like characters, and they went to the fairyland, so they took away the water from the oasis, and Guanjiang became what it is now."

Xiaoer paused for a moment, then lowered his voice and said, "But there have been rumors in private that this ghost town might be that big family."

"Why do you say that?" Xia Qi asked.

"Someone accidentally broke in a few years ago." Xiao Er said with staring eyes.

Hearing this, Xia Qi and the others looked at each other.

He questioned: "Someone broke in? It doesn't mean that many Taoist disciples came back without success."

"Cut—maybe they just can't find it because they are incapable." Xiaoer cut off, and suddenly continued with a dog-legged smile, "These young masters are different, and they are not ordinary people at first glance."

Xia Qi perfunctory said: "Who is that person? How did he get in? Do you know what it looks like inside?"

"Don't worry, my lord." Xiaoer said unhurriedly, "Several years ago, there was a Taoist priest who was said to be very powerful when he heard that Guan Jiang's current drunkenness was the best in the world, so he came here to see it. Coincidentally Yes, it happened to be the Cold Food Festival that day, and there was thick fog in the desert within a few miles of Guanjiang, and it was already impossible to tell the direction half a foot away. The Taoist priest came to Guanjiang for the first time, and he had never heard of this cold tomb. Rumors of the ruins, I walked blindly in the fog for a while, and suddenly tripped and fell on a stone slab. He got up and squinted at the thing that tripped him, and it turned out to be a human bone."

Xiao Er said in a dark tone, pointing to the Taoist priest who was talking and laughing loudly outside, and said: "However, that Taoist priest is not the same as those idlers outside who are frightened just by hearing the cries of ghosts, he is not frightened when he sees human bones Backed away, and continued to walk in, and did not come out until near dawn, when the dense fog was about to clear. At that time, an old woman who got up early to sell vegetables at the gate of the city was still terrified when she saw him approaching."

Xia Qi said: "After that Taoist priest came out, did he talk about the ghost town?"

"He was busy saving people at the time, so he just explained a few words casually." Xiaoer recalled, "The ghost town has a lot of history, maybe it has something to do with Taoism, and it's still very dark, and it's full of corpses that died tragically, as well as some Residual evil spirits. Let us remind the cultivators who come here not to go to that place lightly."

Xia Qi listened to Xiao Er's words, and thoughtfully said: "Busy to save people? Who are you saving?"

"A child, maybe twelve or thirteen years old." Xiaoer said, "I don't know if it's a human or a ghost. I heard from the old woman selling vegetables at the gate of the city that the priest came out with the child in his arms."

Xia Qi thought about this sentence carefully and fell into meditation.

"What happened to that Taoist priest? Did you say anything else?" Qing Ming took over.

"No." Xiao Er replied straightforwardly, "The Taoist leader carried the child away that afternoon, and didn't buy any wine."

Ning said: "Is the child seriously injured?"

Xiao Er replied: "I didn't suffer any injuries. The child who can enter the ghost city may also be a powerful Taoist disciple. He was young and unconscious after being frightened. He was recuperating in Guanjiang, so he left in a hurry."

Qing Ming said: "Do you know the name of the Taoist leader? He came out of the Hanling site safe and sound, so he shouldn't be an ordinary junior."

"What you said is wrong." Xiaoer smiled, "We are in the desert here, so we don't know much about the outside world. I know he is a very powerful Taoist priest because I heard it from a passing drunk at that time."

Suddenly, Ah Yan snorted, Xia Qi looked back at him and asked, "What's wrong?"

The second brother also said inexplicably: "Young master, do you think I didn't explain it in detail enough?"

"The details are quite detailed, and I think the vendors here are too much." A Yan sneered: "Didn't the Taoist priest say that this ghost town is not simple, and I want you to remind the Taoist disciples in the past not to look for that place. But over the years, more and more people have come to look for him year after year, but not even a word of reminder has been spread.”

Xiaoer's face turned red and white for a moment, and he said awkwardly: "We are still counting on outsiders to do business, besides, the priests in the city don't have any real skills, since it is impossible to find the ghost city, there is no need to remind them them."

This little one is also very direct in speaking...

What he said was the truth, but it was too insulting to those useless priests at the door.

Xia Qi sighed, reached into Qing Ming's waist and groped for a while, took out a few pieces of broken silver, and pushed the ones on the table to Xiao Er's eyes, "Thank you very much."

Xiaoer's eyes lit up, he hurriedly put the money into his arms, and said happily, "Thank you, gentlemen, if you have any questions, feel free to ask, I know more!"

"No problem!" Xia Qi said, "I haven't thought about it yet, I'll find you again when I think about it." While speaking, he blinked his eyes.

Xiaoer responded happily, suddenly trembled, and hurriedly exited the door.

Xia Qi was so nervous that he didn't notice Xiao Er's reaction.Picking up the wine jar on the table, opening it and sniffing it, he casually said: "According to what Xiaoer said, the Hanling ruins must be the Luojiazhuang. But how do we get in? How did the Taoist priest break in? Only those with high spiritual strength can go in, right?"

He talked for a long while, but no one answered him. He raised his eyes and saw that Ning Xin and A Yan were looking at him with sympathetic eyes.

Hey?

This look is very strange! !Gives me an ominous premonition.

"Archie—what did you do to that man after you finished talking just now?" There was a gloomy voice in my ear.

Xia Qi was startled, quickly recalled, and hurriedly said: "Misunderstanding! My eyes were uncomfortable at that time!!!"

Seeing him squinting, with 'really? ' Emphasized it again, "Really! The wind and sand were so strong, I just got a grain of sand in my eyes at that time!!"

The desire to survive makes me smart!react quickly! !

Qingming took a few glances, recovered his expression, took the wine from Xia Qi's hand and said, "If you don't know how to drink, don't drink it, so as not to be like last time."

Xia Qi thought about it for a moment, it must have been that time at the bamboo house, he seemed to have gone crazy after drinking... But it was so hard to come here, and it is a famous wine in the world, it would be a pity not to try it.Holding his wine glass, he grinned hippie and said, "Just pour a little, I'll have a taste."

Qing Ming frowned and thought for a little while before compromising, "Just one cup, drink slowly."

"Master Xia has become less and less concerned about occasions recently. It seems that some interesting things happened when the master and I were away in the dead city." Ah Yan slowly picked up another jug ​​of wine on the table, and said with a smile .

The corner of Xia Qi's mouth twitched a few times, this brat's mouth is really poisonous!The old love puts needles in the words!

"Ah!" Ah Yan covered his hands and looked angrily at Ning Xin beside him, "Why did you hit my hand?!"

Ning Xin said calmly as usual: "You are still young, you cannot drink."

Ah Yan said loudly: "At my age, I am about to become a father in an ordinary family! Why can't I drink it!"

"Then you can't drink anymore!" Ning Xin's face was a bit displeased, "You can't be a father again!!"

Ah Yan was startled, then smiled, "If you don't drink, you don't drink, and I didn't say that you must marry a wife who can have children in the future."

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These two people do not know what they are talking about.

Great crowd!Affect!The face of our Yin Yang Gate! !

Sin! !The Yin Yang Gate has fallen!How can I feel sorry for Master!wrong!Could it be that I started it? ! !

"Ayan, if you want to be a father, I have a solution, that Meng Luo——hmm!" Xia Qi covered Qing Ming's mouth with his hands very quickly.

This ghost can't do without harming people for a day, can't he? ! !

I don't even need to listen to know what you said in the second half of the sentence!

A Yan was stunned by the movements of the two, and said: "What way?"

"It's nothing, just ignore him." Xia Qi replied calmly, throwing a warning look over him.

The aroma of the wine was overflowing in the private room, Xia Qi took a sip, and the aftertaste was endless. Seeing Ah Yan staring at the wine, he felt a little pitiful, so he asked Ning Xin to pour him a small glass.

Qingming didn't drink very well, Xia Qi guessed that he was thinking about Qin Yu, so he said, "What do you think about the Hanling ruins?"

Qingming said in a deep voice: "Based on what Xiao Er said and the experience of the Taoist leader, Luojiazhuang should still be affected by evil methods, and the yin and evil qi collide in it. Perhaps some people are worried that it will affect The innocent people outside set up a formation to surround them, and the dense fog and ghost towns appear every year during the Cold Food Festival, which should be a method deliberately set aside by the people who cast the formation to enter the formation."

Ah Yan was puzzled: "Since the purpose of casting spells is to avoid harming innocent people, why leave another way to enter the formation?"

Xia Qi explained: "This method of entering the formation is not something that anyone can enter if they want to. Only those with high spiritual power and cultivation can enter. The Taoist priest has a high cultivation base, and he can enter by walking blindly in the thick fog. Into the formation, and the idle Taoist priests who come to join in the fun in Guanjiang City every year, their spiritual power and cultivation level cannot be seen, so no one has ever been able to enter."

He was silent for a moment, and then continued: "It seems that the person who cast the magic array still has intentions. This method of entering the array should be reserved for himself, and he can come back to see it from time to time. He was worried about hurting the intruders, so he arranged it quietly. The method of entering the battle, even if someone breaks in by mistake, they can protect themselves."

Ning Xin said slowly, "Qin Yu."

Shaggy nodded.

"If you enter the battle with your spiritual power and cultivation level, what's the matter with the child?" A Yan said, "He is not very old, and his spiritual power is not very high at that age if he is practicing Taoism."

Xia Qi said: "Perhaps he is born with a spiritual root disciple, and if he has not practiced Taoism or only practiced for one or two years, it is the cultivation level of ordinary disciples who have been cultivating for several years."

"Is there such a person?" Ah Yan murmured to himself in disbelief.

Ning Xin took a sip of his wine and said, "It would be best if I knew where the Taoist priest and the child are now, so I can go and ask what's going on inside?"

A Yan said poisonously: "Where can we find it after so long? What's more, if we find the Taoist priest, he may not tell us. As for the child, he is so young. Once he is frightened, he may have forgotten what's going on inside. "

After drinking for three rounds, several people saw that it was getting late, so they went back to their rooms.

The desert is scorching like fire during the day, but it is as cold as ice at night, and the strong wind scrapes the corners of the windows, making the sound of whistle.

Xia Qi sat in the room, staring at the flickering candlelight on the table in a daze.

After a long while, when I heard someone calling my name, I suddenly came back to my senses and said, "What's the matter?"

Qing Ming said: "I called you several times, but you only heard this one time. What are you thinking about?"

"It's nothing, I'm thinking about how to find the way into Luojiazhuang." Xia Qi said slowly, "It's one thing to enter the battle, you need spiritual power and cultivation, but you also need to find the right way. The Taoist priest and the child may It's just walking in the right direction by mistake."

One thing he is still worried about now is that the formation that uses flowing air like dense fog as the enchantment, the location of entering the formation is different every time, maybe a gust of wind blows, the fog is washed away, and the entrance to the formation may be destroyed at any time. Change to another place.

As a result, that is, there is no fixation.

If they missed this Cold Food Festival and the entrance to the formation was closed, they would not have to wait another year, and the matter of Qin Yu and Tian Xuan could not be delayed any longer.

"You don't need to think too much." Qingming saw Xia Qi's thoughts, and said in a deep voice, "Whether you can go to Luojiazhuang or not, the result is the same, just understand some things."

Xia Qi thought for a long time, and said: "I think Qin Yu's nature is not bad, otherwise, at the Temple of Forgiveness, he could actually set the formation directly on your death spot, but he didn't do that, so I should still be scrupulous. We've known each other for so many years."

Qingming responded softly, and suddenly said: "Before you came, you smiled and asked me secretly, where did Qin Yu go? I told him that Qin Yu will be back in a few days."

"Qin Yu is very nice to Xiaoxiao, probably because he thinks of his son."

Indeed, Qin Yu was a poor man, his family was ruined and his wife died overnight.If it wasn't for Tianxuan, he could also have family happiness.

When Xia Qi was full of thoughts, he suddenly saw wisps of white mist squeezing in through the gap in the window.He paused for a moment, hurriedly stepped forward and opened the window to look into the distance, and said anxiously: "Qing Ming, it's foggy!"

At this time, looking out of the window and looking out of the city, you can see the white fog rolling in. On the street downstairs where you live, the people are stunned in the street, shouting, "The cold food festival is not here yet, why is there fog?!" Already?!" "Go home! Go home!"

All of a sudden, the streets were in chaos.

"Boom—" The door was pushed open suddenly.

Ning Xin and Ah Yan came in and saw the windows open, and said in a deep voice, "I see, how are you doing now?"

Xia Qi was silent for a long time, and said calmly: "Someone reversed the formation, we will go outside the city now."

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