Bai Yujing

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In the dark underground palace, apart from a few candles, there is almost no other light.

Three or two rustling voices came to his ears, Lin Yan raised his eyelids a little irritatedly, feeling very heavy, "Don't make noise."

"You're finally awake." Shi Tianqing, who was scribbling on the dirt with a spirit ring, raised his head and looked at him with a smile, "Come and see the Ah Yan I drew."

Lin Yan glanced at the lively and fragrant erotic pictures on the ground, turned his gaze back from the entangled pair of figures, and raised his hand to cast a spell.

Shi Tianqing just looked at him and didn't hide, until Lin Yan looked at his palm in surprise, "The spiritual power hasn't returned yet?" He looked up at Shi Tianqing, "What time is it now?"

Immortal cultivators are very sensitive to time, even in his sleep he can sense the passage of time, no matter what, it must have been twelve hours since he took the elixir.

Sure enough, Shi Tianqing confirmed his perception, "The time has passed," he said with a smile, "Ah Yan, it seems that we really must die together."

Lin Yan frowned slightly and stood up, adjusting his breath several times but still couldn't feel any flow of spiritual power.

"Why don't we swim out?" Shi Tianqing pointed to the deep pool that was used as protection before, "Don't worry, I'll protect you."

Lin Yan glanced at him lightly, raised his hand slightly, and the pool of water turned into a little blue light, which slowly fell into his spirit ring, revealing the original ground.

"This is a virtual space created by the spiritual weapon on the plane it touches, rather than the real one running through the ground." After Lin Yan explained, he walked straight forward, "First find out what's wrong, the elixir will not fail for no reason. .”

"Aren't you afraid that the Burning Man will come again?"

Lin Yan didn't look back, and said with a bit of sullen expression: "Then dive into the water again."

"Hey—" Shi Tianqing chased after him, his smile getting stronger.

Even though he was chased by the burning man just now, Lin Yan was distracted and forgot where he came from, and wanted to go back to the place where Lian Pei started to investigate.The place was extremely dark, if an ordinary man came here, it would be extremely difficult to compete with Lian Pei, who had strong night vision ability due to his martial arts practice.Combined with the thicker blood than other places, it can be roughly deduced that this is the place where the male concubine entered the palace and died.

Unexpectedly, according to the location in his memory, he walked for a long time but did not find the place.Instead, they realized that the structure of the underground palace was different from the one that extended in all directions when they were connected to the road just now. It seemed to have turned into an extremely complicated maze, and the place where they rested just now was a dead end in the maze.

Moreover, the layout of the maze is not static, but is constantly changing with the passage of time. He tried to draw a map of the maze in his mind, but found that the road at the same location would change after a period of time, and the changing time did not change. There is no fixed number, both long and short.

"The beautiful killer must have some kind of magical weapon that can make this underground palace show its original appearance." Shi Tianqing suddenly said, but it coincided with his thoughts.

The maze is to prevent people from escaping from Lian Pei, thus confusing the public and trapping people to death, or it is also to hide some unspeakable secrets in the underground palace.

Lin Yan originally wanted to find the entrance according to the location in his memory, but now it seems that there is probably no result.

"What do you think?" Lin Yan raised his eyes.

"Ah Yan found out clearly by himself, why did you come to ask me?" Shi Tianqing said with a smile: "Could it be that what you saw at that time was not the badge on the beauty's waist, but the thin waist of the weak willow that you grasped gracefully?"

"I'm just speculating," Lin Yan ignored his joke, "the operation of this underground palace is extremely difficult to do without spiritual power control. Although the shimmer of the token is weak, it seems to be reacting to spiritual power."

He was thinking about it, but his stomach didn't give him face.As soon as he finished speaking, a subtle and disharmonious voice came from Lin Yan's belly silently. He twitched the corner of his mouth, and Shi Tianqing laughed lightly, looking at him leisurely.

"are you hungry?"

Hunger is sometimes a rather mysterious feeling. When no one mentions it, if you focus on the things in front of you, you will seldom feel hungry. But once someone mentions it, it will feel like overwhelming mountains and seas, and it is difficult to avoid it.

Immortals are not hungry, but mortal wombs are fragile. Lin Yan sighed, "Do you have anything to eat?"

Shi Tianqing took out a steamed bun from his arms and handed it over, "Liu Ren gave it to me."

Lin Yan glanced at him suspiciously, "When did you become so familiar with him, you really didn't snatch him?"

"Tsk, how much money did that meal in Qinshui Pavilion cost me?" Shi Tianqing said, "He is a man who knows how to repay his kindness, and he can even give me a steamed bun as a thank you, unlike some lords of immortals..."

Lin Yan took the steamed bun, broke it in half, and stuffed it neatly into his mouth, blocking his words.

Shi Tianqing reached out to grab the steamed bun and took a bite, looking at him with a playful smile.

Lin Yan looked down at the other half of the white bun in his hand, and was silent for a moment.

He had always disliked this kind of tasteless, dry, hard and rough food, but now looking at Shi Tianqing's bulging cheeks, he felt more and more unbearable in his stomach, so he could only swallow the steamed buns quickly while feeling disgusted.

Seeing his embarrassment, Shi Tianqing also swallowed the steamed bun in his hand in two or three bites, his eyes were stained with a smile, "Is it so unpalatable?"

Lin Yan glanced at him coolly, "If you like it, I'll treat you to a hundred of them every day when you leave here."

"That's what it means to be with me every day?" Shi Tianqing said pleasantly: "Ah Yan has already planned our life after we get married. She is really a good wife from God."

"To shut up."

Lin Yan glanced at him, raised his hand abruptly to stop his voice, Shi Tianqing wanted to say a few more words, but seeing Lin Yan held his breath, he stopped the voice with a sense of understanding, and heard something vague The knocking sound of gold and stone.

Lin Yan can be sure that this is definitely not the sound made by insects or any animal.

Lin Yan frowned slightly, and devoted all his energy to listening, until the voice finally sounded again, Lin Yan said firmly:

"Southeast, seventeen feet."

As soon as his words fell, Shi Tianqing turned into a green snake and jumped forward almost at the same time, following the direction indicated by him.

The road in the underground palace will change after a certain period of time. Only by seizing the opportunity and flying forward at an extremely fast speed, can we break the interference and prevent getting lost.

Humans do not have such speed, but snakes do.

Lin Yan was a little surprised for a moment, there was no other person who understood his mind without explaining it, except for Wen Han.

Even Wen Han had a tacit understanding through practicing with him for hundreds of years.

But he didn't expect that after only a few days of meeting Shi Tianqing, the other party already knew his intentions so well.

"Green Snake." Lin Yan frowned as he looked at the shadow of the snake passing by.

He just waited there for a while, then saw the green snake came back again, with something in its mouth as expected.

Lin Yan looked intently, but found that it was actually a child, but it was already emaciated, with a sunken face, like human skin attached to a skeleton, very terrifying.

Shi Tianqing smiled and turned into a human form, and praised: "Ah Yan has good ears."

Lin Yan didn't have time to respond to his compliment, and went to check the child's breath.The child's consciousness has been blurred, and a silver bracelet is still tightly held in his hand.

"This child is really smart," Shi Tianqing commented: "When I first went to see it, this child was hanging himself on the candlestick and knocking on the candlestick with the bracelet."

"Shi Tianqing."

"Ok?"

"This is Liu Ren."

"What?" Shi Tianqing's face, which is usually breezy, showed a few cracks, and the steamed bun he swallowed just now felt like a stick in his throat. He asked in surprise, "Liu Ren? How did you become like this?"

Lin Yan lifted up the sleeve of his palace lady's robe, and found that Liu Ren's forearm was stuck to a stone plaque, emitting a black mist.

The whole body of the stone tablet was bright red, as if it had grown into his flesh, and even the boundary became blurred, like a monster greedily swallowing blood.

Without any hesitation, Lin Yan took out a pitch-black dagger from the spirit ring, and cut it along the joint between the stone plaque and the flesh.

Blood spattered, the stone tablet rolled down, and accompanied by a scream of distress, a little skin stuck to the stone tablet quickly turned black and shrank, like rotten dead wood, and turned into dust in an instant.

The strong smell of scorching and blood in the air were mixed together. The stone plaque kept beating on the ground, like a struggling beast. After a while, it finally stopped churning and fell on the ground. Its original black color.

Lin Yan held Liu Ren's palm, surrounded by light blue light, countless orchid grasses wrapped around Liu Ren's hideous and terrifying wound until it completely covered the incision made by the dagger, and no new blood gushed out.

The spiritual power was transmitted to Liu Ren's heart along with the bluegrass, and his shriveled skin finally regained its luster and elasticity, but he still looked weak and fell into a deep sleep.

Seeing this, Shi Tianqing folded his hands and stretched out his robe sleeves, covering the three of them in the gentle silence of the deep water. He smiled and glanced at his fingertips, "How do you know that the spiritual power will return when this stone tablet is cut off?"

Lin Yan's expression was not as relaxed as Shi Tianqing's, and he did not have the joy of recalling his spiritual power.

He frowned, held up the spirit-transforming stone tablet with vines, and checked the front and back for a while, the emotions in his eyes became more and more complicated.

"This thing is called the Spiritual Stone Tablet," he said to Shi Tianqing, "Put this stone tablet on the skin, and the stone tablet will feed on the body of the attached person, dissolve the spiritual power of the attached person's body, and cut off the confined space where it is located All the spiritual energy flows inside."

Shi Tianqing understood, "So once Liu Ren entered the underground palace with the stone tablet, our spiritual power was blocked."

Lin Yan's eyes fell on Liu Ren's sleepy face, vines fluttered between his fingers, he picked up the dagger that fell to the ground in the chaos just now, and handed it back to Lin Yan.

He motioned Shi Tianqing to look at the dagger, "Once this stone plaque is attached to the skin, there is no blade that can separate it except the Dark Night Dagger."

"Is this dagger and stone tablet a pair?" Shi Tianqing asked.

"It can be said that," Lin Yan said, "this stone plaque was originally a magic weapon accidentally refined by Lord Jieshi, the governor of Baiyujing. The king or the demons and ghosts who make trouble."

"Because of the severity of the mistakes made, the punishment time for this stone tablet is also different. Mr. Jieshi retreated for several years and worked hard to find the raw materials that can overcome this stone tablet and practice it into a dagger. , and hand it over to the in-charge officer, and the sentence will end within the prescribed period.”

"How many stone tablets and daggers are there?" Shi Tianqing pointed out the key points.

"Five stone tablets and a dagger."

There are many criminals who commit crimes, but the criminals who need to use the spirit stone cards are all powerful and difficult to tame. Now there are not many in the Three Realms, and this material is hard to find and precious, and it takes a lot of energy to cast it. Only made five bucks.

"Each stone tablet has a number and can be used repeatedly." Lin Yan glanced down at Liu Ren, then raised his eyes to Shi Tianqing again, "Liu Ren doesn't have this one on him."

"The appearance of such a stone tablet in the royal family is a fantasy," Shi Tianqing said with a smile, "I don't know who is so courageous to bring this kind of thing to the world."

Lin Yan didn't make a sound, and fell into silence.

Originally, if someone had profound spiritual power, it would take hundreds of years to kill him if he used the Spirit Transformation Stone Tablet. It was a long punishment.Poor Liu Ren is just a mortal, still young, the stone tablet has only been possessed for a few hours, it seems that he is approaching the time of death, fortunately, he was rescued in time, and his life was finally saved.

Seeing his unbearable expression towards Liu Ren, Shi Tianqing suddenly smiled and said: "There is only one dagger in the world. I didn't realize that the Bodhisattva-hearted Ah Yan is actually the Immortal Master of Punishment."

Lin Yan was noncommittal, and stretched out his hand to take Liu Ren's pulse.

The stone tablet was cast by Jieshi-jun, so this kind of punishment is also in the hands of Jieshi-jun. The judge is not him, but Jieshi-jun's number one disciple, Wenhan.

For a long time in Bai Yujing, there had been no evil spirits who needed to use the Spirit Transformation Stone, so this dagger was entrusted to Wen Han for self-defense when he was ordered to follow him into the world.

It's just that Wen Han's childish face is naturally suitable for hiding clumsiness, and Lin Yan doesn't intend to reveal too much for him.

Seeing that Liu Ren couldn't wake up in a short time, Lin Yan stood up and said to Shi Tianqing, "I want to leave here first."

The queen has already used the spirit stone card, and has obviously noticed something abnormal.He couldn't guarantee whether there would be more killer moves than he expected in the future.

Lian Pei's token has been burned, and it is impossible to find the token at this time, and it is futile to circle the underground palace.Now with an exhausted Wenhan, it is really inappropriate to stay in this treacherous and unpredictable underground palace.

"When did Ah Yan learn to discuss with others?" Shi Tianqing hugged Liu Ren horizontally, with a smile on his lips.

Lin Yan glanced at him, "I just don't discuss with local ruffians."

After saying that, he pulled out the wooden hairpin and threw it casually. The wooden hairpin was engulfed in the green light, and it split the mud wall all the way as if it had the power to break through the wind and clouds.

Shi Tianqing was stunned: "I thought you were going to get out, but I didn't expect Ah Yan to be such a violent beauty—"

Before he finished speaking, he was grabbed by the collar, and the powerful force flew out following the path opened by the wooden hairpin. The howling and fierce wind brushed against his cheeks, and after a long while, he slowly fell to the ground.

The wooden hairpin flew back to Lin Yan's bun and tied it up again, but the big hole it dug just now closed silently, as if nothing had happened.

Shi Tianqing smoothed the folds of his neckline, touched his face that was hurt by the wind, and saw Lin Yan turned into his original appearance, with his hair straightened, smiling brightly, "Is this not good?"