How to Raid the Flower of Low Ridge

At three o'clock in Haishi, the bright moon was in the sky, and the lights in the teaching dormitory in the courtyard had already been extinguished, only the curse seal surrounding the Tibetan real pagoda was still shining with silver light like dots of stars.Tao Xingyan hid in the night and bypassed the night patrol, and came to the door of the warehouse.

This place is located in the southeast corner of Tianxian Court. The gate is usually locked and few students pass by.Tao Xingyan touched the brocade bag at his waist, and took out a thin piece made of the same material as Tianxianling, and covered it on the door lock. After a while, the door creaked open, and the boy slipped in.

The warehouse is huge, with no windows on the four walls, only a side of colorless glass on the zenith as lighting, revealing the moonlight like clear silver from the sky.

"Testing the virtuous stone...Testing the virtuous stone..." There are countless wooden cabinets standing in different categories in the house, and it is not difficult to find things.Tao Xingyan muttered in a low voice as he walked through the tall cabinets, "I found it."

He took out the wooden box containing the fragments of the test virtuous stone from the cabinet, sat down straight down without disliking the dust on the ground, and continued to take out things from the brocade bag one by one: "Come back... not stained by dust... still There is rhino fire."

The rhinoceros fire is a transparent round mirror. Tao Xingyan put it on the bridge of his nose, and slightly slid the frame with his index finger. The five-color gemstones inlaid next to the frame shot out different arcs one after another, shining on a gravel in his hand: "Well, The material has not deteriorated, the texture is normal, and the spiritual power injection effect..."

The spiritual power poured in from the fingertips slightly, and there was a slight green glow on the fragments, but the light flashed and flickered, like fireflies in the dark night, not very stable.

"There are impurities."

He judged under his breath.

Tao Xingyan took another slap-sized Buranchen from the side.This thing looks like a silk handkerchief for women, the silk surface is clean and tidy, only the word "Tao" is crookedly embroidered on the corner of the handkerchief.He wiped every cracked pattern carefully with Bu Dian Chen, and then put the stones into the wooden box named "Fu Lai Gui".

"...The next thing is to wait for the coming back to condense and restore the test virtuous stone, and see what the trend of the crack is." The young man was talking to himself, and suddenly said in surprise, "Ah yes, I almost forgot, and there is My new invention!"

Tao Xingyan continued to dig out the kit, and found a puppet out of it after a while.The shape of the puppet is clumsy and clumsy. At first glance, it looks like a rooster carved by an apprentice who just learned carpentry. He rolled up a talisman and stuffed it into the ass of the chicken——

Oh oh oh——!

In an instant, an extremely ear-piercing cock crow tore through the silence and resounded through the warehouse!

Tao Xingyan was taken aback by the noise he made, and hurriedly tried to turn off the puppet, but the more he panicked, the more chaotic his movements became, the puppet fell out of his hands, and the continuous rooster crowing was turned into several pieces. , the rooster rolled forward to a person's skirt.

Tao Xingyan raised his head subconsciously.

It was a woman--if you could tell by her figure and clothes, she was a woman.

The moonlight fell from the hanging window on the ceiling, just outlining the slender hem of the Crane Court uniform on the woman's body, and also inlaid a layer of silver light on the wet and cold scarlet red of her clothes.

Looking further up, there is a red tulle that a woman covered her cheeks when she was married. It was embroidered with various patterns and intricate stitches, but an apricot flower among the clusters of flowers seemed to be missing half.A chilly wind blowing from nowhere, lifted a corner of the gauze, revealing the delicate cheeks of the woman under the veil.

There are no facial features on the cheeks, only a transparent bronze mirror.

A copper-colored mirror is inlaid on the entire face of the woman, and the reflection of the young man is clearly visible in the middle—the dirty uniform, the rhino fire on the bridge of the nose, the constricted pupils, and the gradually widening mouth.

"--Ah ah ah!!!"

There is still a drink, a lamp, and two people in Qijian courtyard, but the atmosphere is completely different.

"Actually, I thought about several roundabout topics on the way here, and I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to make the point. Now that I think about it, it's really unnecessary." Shen Yun looked at Xu Jing flatly, "Senior took the paper from Jie Bing Pavilion three days ago. Please return the magic weapon you left to Tianxian Court."

"..." Xu Jing fixed her eyes on Shen Yun, and after a long silence, she suddenly laughed.

"What are you laughing at, senior?"

Xu Jing said, "I'm just laughing at you for being too sensible, and it seems unreasonable instead."

With Shen Yun's exquisite heart, he could use the love between Xu Jing and Chi Zhongyao to seduce him, but he chose to talk about his career as the topic of drinking - it can only be said that he did not intend to fight from the very beginning. Any emotion card.

"Let's take senior's comment as a compliment," Shen Yun said calmly, "Anyway, only I know about it, so I will send it back quietly and keep it away from Li Fan and the others."

"No need."

Xu Jing shook her head, took out a bronze mirror from her bosom, and handed it to Shen Yun.

Shen Yun didn't expect the other party to return it so simply, and couldn't help being a little surprised: "This is Senior Yao's magic weapon?"

"Ah."

Shen Yun has also heard about Chi Zhongyao's magic weapon. This thing is called the Yaochi mirror. It is said that it can be transformed into a shape according to the shadow, and it is very precious.After taking it, he raised his hand to take a picture twice, and found that the mirror was flawless and there was nothing abnormal.

Could it be that Xu Jing has nothing to do with this matter?

Now that the other party has handed over the magic weapon, Shen Yun can't say anything more: "The man has passed away, I understand that senior wants to keep some thoughts by his side, but..."

"You're wrong. I didn't take the Yaochi Mirror." Xu Jing interrupted him, and the young man smiled sourly, "Ah Yao gave it to me in a dream."

Shen Yun was stunned.

After Chi Zhongyao's death, Xu Jing lost all thoughts and locked herself in the Qijianyuan, no matter who visited her, she closed the door.

That night, a soul fell into a dream.

"Dream?" Shen Yun frowned, "What kind of dream is it?"

"In the dream... Ah Yao was still wearing the dress she wore before she died, it was full of blood... She loves cleaning so much..." Xu Jing lowered her head, not as if she was explaining to Shen Yun, but more like Immersed in her own memories, "She said she was reluctant to part with me, she wanted to accompany me to travel all over the mountains and rivers of China... She put the wedding dress at the bottom of the cabinet in the courtyard, and the hijab was only half apricot flower embroidered. I really miss her..."

Xu Jing's low voice was mixed in the cool mist and night, making it appear a bit chaotic, but Shen Yun listened quietly without interrupting.

He was thinking about another thing.

According to Xu Jing, it was Chi Zhongyao's remnant soul who came to bid him farewell, but the problem is——

Ghosts have no souls.

Once a soul's heart orifice is polluted and swallowed by ghost energy, it is already dead at that moment. It is a miracle that Chi Zhongyao was able to confess a last word that day, and there is no possibility of summoning the soul.

So Shen Yun would rather believe that it was Xu Jing who fell in love with each other and dreamed at night, rather than believe that there would be a soul that could return to the dream.

He suppressed his doubts and continued to ask, "What about after that?"

"After that... I can't remember what I talked to her in the dream again, but when I woke up, I found a mirror next to my pillow."

"Yaochi Mirror?"

Xu Jing nodded, and suddenly gave a wry smile: "I may have been a little crazy since then. All I have learned and my common sense are telling me that magical artifacts are things after all, and it is impossible for me to grow legs and run to my room." There must be something strange in it, I should return it as soon as possible; but there is always another voice in my mind saying, maybe a ray of Ayao's remnant soul is left on it, so it has a feeling with me, so will be summoned to me."

"So you listened to that voice?"

"I just want it to replace Ayao and accompany me for a few more days." Xu Jing said.

Shen Yun asked again: "Then what did you go to Jie Bing Pavilion on March [-]th?"

"I..." Xu Jing hesitated for a moment, and glanced at the Yaochi mirror in Shen Yun's hand, "I planned to return it, but I regretted it halfway, I still can't bear it, sorry."

He glanced at the Yaochi mirror in Shen Yun's hand, and then looked away: "I'm handing it over to you now, which can be regarded as completely cutting off this muddled thinking. Take it away." The young man waved his hand wearily, yes The meaning of seeing off guests.

wrong.

The feeling of strangeness in Shen Yun's heart became more and more intense.

Still not right.

Did Xu Jing lie?He must be hiding something, but there must be something wrong...

Shen Yun stared at Xu Jing, but the other party didn't look at him, but nervously rubbed his cuffs back and forth with his thumbs. The once high-spirited young man bent his back and leaned against the corner of the wall, his whole body was hidden in the shadow, and he seemed a little shy.

Like being afraid of something.

This house is his own, what can he be afraid of?

Shen Yun pursed her lips, and her blue eyes swept across the furnishings in the house one by one, from the vase by the wall, the hanging sword, to the fairy mirror in her hand... Finally, her eyes fell on something.

In an instant, a thought flashed through Shen Yun's mind like lightning. He raised his hand suddenly, pinched a wisp of curse energy at his fingertips and waved it towards the lampstand on the table. Bright, like a pearl breaking through an oyster, making every shadow in the room invisible.

At this moment, all the key points that I couldn't figure out before became clear.

"Senior Xu, I just remembered, the ability of the Yaochi mirror... is in the form of photo-shadowing."

Shen Yun's eyes fell on Xu Jing's empty feet and behind him.

"Then where is the shadow of Senior Xu?"

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I have to work overtime for the whole of September, my heart is so broken TT