When the devil

-Glass article-

[Cold dew in the 36th year of the Zhao calendar]

Liuli Mountain, Tianyu Temple, the red leaves are just dyed, and the sun is shining brightly.

A gust of wind blew, and the copper bell outside the hall swayed slightly.

On the promenade, the young disciples in white Taoist robes were in a hurry, some were carrying raw fish and poultry, some were holding all kinds of precious medicinal materials, they came and went in a hurry, but they were skillful and neat Everything is placed outside the porch.

This promenade is built across the water, and at the end is a tall tower with a huge gate built under the tower, and a young man is guarding the gate. He has good features, a strong body, and a big bow on his back. Xia is not someone who can be provoked easily, but he showed a dazed expression completely different from his temperament, hesitating to speak and watching more and more things in front of him.

"What are you doing?"

This is the fifth time he asked this question. No one answered the previous few times. This time, a young disciple took advantage of the time to wipe his sweat and responded hastily: "The pavilion master said that today is the end of the immortal's retreat. Give him something to nourish himself."

"Huh?" The boy was even more confused.

It is common for people who practice immortality to go into seclusion. I have never heard of people who need to nourish their bodies, and they don't need to be contaminated with raw poultry and meat.

"The Pavilion Master said, you don't have to think too much if you don't understand it, just leave it to the Immortal Venerable."

"..."

So the boy stopped talking, and continued to watch them in a hurry. After being busy for a while, suddenly a disciple came to report that Meng Lanzhou, the elder who crossed the sea, had arrived. There were too many, bumping and bumping all the way, knocking over a pile, afraid of being scolded, and squatting down to straighten him up. When he arrived in front of the corridor, Meng Lanzhou had been waiting for a long time.

"Meet the Elder Duanhai in Mochi."

Meng Lanzhou raised his hand to let him get up, stroked his beard with his slightly old fingers, and said with a smile: "The Tianyu Palace is very lively today, what are you doing?"

Mochi told the truth: "Elder Meng, today is the day when my master leaves the customs, but the master of the Shuiyue Pavilion came to give a lot of things uninvited, you see—" He was polite and calm Stepping aside, he witnessed Meng Lanzhou's ferocious face turn into cloudy clouds, and his beard flew up in a strange posture against the wind.

"A group of nonsense! They all withdrew! How can I, Liuli Mountain, accept such vulgar and frivolous things!"

When he got angry, he threw his crutches on the ground, which made the silverware and jade plates in the long corridor clang, and the dying birds, fish and sheep jumped up and down.The scene was so chaotic.

The disciples of Shuiyue Pavilion came calmly, first bowed to Meng Lanzhou, and then said: "The pavilion master said, don't think too much if you don't understand, just leave it to the immortal."

Mo Chi almost laughed out loud: "Elder, when I asked him just now, he responded to me in the same way. How dare the Master of the Shuiyue Pavilion only confessed this sentence, in short, it is 'none of your business'."

Meng Lanzhou was furious in an instant, his old hand clenched his crutch tightly, and was about to hit the ground again, Mochi quickly reached out his hand: "Elder, don't, don't, don't get angry in this corridor, it's hard to explain when the immortal comes out... This is the place where he most, most likes to be in a daze...?"

Meng Lanzhou looked at him seriously: "Throw these things into the backyard of Tianyu Hall, and wait for Tianyu Immortal to figure out a way to deal with them. Mochi, come with me."

"…Ah good."

The anger burned on him, Mo Chi didn't quite understand, but the proposal of "throwing it in the backyard of Tianyu Hall" seemed to be accepted by those disciples, they caught the chicken,

Lifting the fish, holding the medicinal materials in hand, and carrying the fat sheep on the shoulder, he started to act again in a busy and orderly manner.

Mo Chi and Meng Lanzhou were the only two left on the huge corridor.

Meng Lanzhou's irritability calmed down, and Mochi quietly watched the changes, not knowing why he came here. After a long while, he finally started to walk towards the tower.

The air is full of sweet fragrance, the sound of birdsong is very light, the red leaves are reflected in the pool water, there are carp playing, and the ripples are flickering.

"Your master wanted to go down the mountain ten years ago. We tried our best to persuade you, but if you didn't listen, it's good now, and you will be stigmatized, and my Liuli Mountain will be damaged because of him! Seven years later, he finally came back, but it was a crooked general. He brought it back, messed up, messed up!" Elder Meng said earnestly: "He has been contaminated with human affairs, and he has long been disqualified from returning to Liuli Mountain. He left just like Chen Xiao, but he wanted to be decisive."

Meng Lanzhou said a word, sighed three or four times, Mo Chi followed behind him, saw his voice stopped, and then slowly continued: "Elder, don't worry, my master is kind by nature, and has always put the righteousness of Liuli Mountain as the most important thing. When he recovers, he will definitely go down the mountain by himself like Master Chen Xiao, and I will follow him when the time comes..."

"Okay, we'll discuss this matter later." Meng Lanzhou flicked his sleeves, and Mu Ran looked at the towering stone gate.

One night three years ago, there was a violent storm.

The layers of barriers on the Glazed Mountain were suddenly broken by a man.

At that time, the Elder Meng Lanzhou and Fairy Yulan were both on the mountain. As if they were facing an enemy, they led all their disciples to meet the enemy in the square outside the hall, but they saw the man surrounded by evil spirits, holding the "corpse of Tianyu Immortal Weiling" in his arms. ", striding towards them.

Meng Lanzhou was almost sure that at that time, Wei Ling lost all his mana, and even his life veins were completely destroyed, but the man said: "Find a place that can cover the sky and the sun, and the one with the highest mana will come with me, otherwise you will all be buried with him." .”

His eyes were blood red, his demon nature was surging, and he could not tolerate any hesitation.

Fairy Yulan stopped Meng Lanzhou, who was about to go forward to fight, and said only one sentence: "The immortal can be saved, listen to him first."

On that day, the thunder roared, the earth shook and the mountains shook, like a bad omen declaring turmoil.

Now, the wind is not calm, the copper bell swayed and rang softly, and red leaves fell, which shocked the fish in the pond to scatter.

Meng Lanzhou stood in front of the stone gate, his mind flooded with the past. He and Fairy Yulan obeyed the arrangement of the man and sent Wei Ling here for retreat. After three years, whether Wei Ling can really wake up will be the time to tell.

"Open the door and follow me in to see him." Meng Lanzhou said softly.

Mochi bowed his head and saluted, strode up to Meng Lanzhou, put his hands an inch away from the door, and suddenly circle after circle of magic circles lit up.

An air current was generated spontaneously, which lifted his brocade robe flying, and he gathered his palms together, shook the copper bell hanging on the beam a few times, and the heavy stone door slowly opened towards the inside.

The oncoming cold air hit the body, and the ink pond was so cold that the fingertips were closed, and looking around, it was completely frozen inside.His eyes flickered, and he stepped on the ice and marveled: "How can it be so cold—is this a place where people can stay?" He probed and looked, but he saw it was pitch black, and there was nothing there, while Meng Lanzhou held a cane and looked at him. Questions turned a deaf ear, and went inside despite the extreme cold.

Mochi's face was full of admiration for Meng Lanzhou, and he followed obediently with his arms folded.

"Who has been here?"

Although Meng Lanzhou was old, he didn't tremble when he spoke in the cold weather.

"When Master was brought here, Xia Zhou, the master of Shuiyue Pavilion, set up a magic circle, and no one came after that." Mo Chi said while thinking, could it be that these ices are because of the magic circle of Shuiyue Pavilion master?

Suddenly, the beard of Meng Lanzhou beside him flew, Mochi was shocked, and immediately explained: "Let's talk about it first, I didn't just let him in casually, you and Fairy Yulan will be there when I try to do it."

Meng Lanzhou wiped off his beard and said flatly: "This is the Underworld Formation, which is used to preserve the bones of the dead and keep their souls alive."

Mochi suddenly realized, nodded, and after a while he was startled again: "Yellow Spring Formation? That's..."

"witchcraft."

"..."

Mochi curled his lips, one must know that this is Liuli Mountain, the supreme fairyland of the sect of immortality, one should not condone sorcerers to run rampant no matter what.

Meng Lanzhou will inevitably be scolded for saying this.

Mochi actually silently hoped that the master would wake up quickly. In terms of seniority and title, if Meng Lanzhou wanted to curse, Mochi could only listen obediently.

"If you didn't use this technique at that time, your master's life would not have been saved. Besides, although the Underworld Formation is a sorcery technique, it is not harmful to nature. You and I just need to know about it, and we must not make it public."

Unexpectedly, what was waiting was Meng Lanzhou's well-spoken statement, and Mochi's eyes lit up, and he nodded repeatedly.

"..."

Meng Lanzhou took a breath and walked in step by step.

The two of them walked through the long and narrow ice hole and stopped in front of the frozen pagoda gate. Further inside was the place where Heavenly Feather Immortal Venerable Wei Ling retreated. This gate was sealed by Xia Zhou many years ago, and only Wei Ling If you can open it yourself, anyone who enters will destroy the yin and yang circulating in the magic circle.

"Elder, what should we do now?" Mochi asked Meng Lanzhou.

Meng Lanzhou tilted his crutches and sat on the ground: "Wait."

Mo Chi followed him and sat down beside him, thinking to himself: You can wait outside, why run to this cold and dark place to wait...?After thinking for a while, he couldn't help talking: "Elder, are you worried about Master?"

As a result, he was hit hard by the crutches after he finished speaking, and he screamed "Ouch", and then he heard Meng Lanzhou send him a cold sentence: "Quiet."

"..." Mochi covered his mouth obediently and stopped talking.

But this silence only lasted for a cup of tea. Mochi looked at the closed tower door and said as if muttering to himself: "When Master went down the mountain for Junior Brother Xuancheng, if I could persuade you , it’s not like that anymore.”

His voice should have been bright and clear, but now it was a little weak.

Ten years passed like a blink of an eye.

Ten years ago, Wei Ling was still the head of the Four Great Immortals of Liuli Mountain, but he went down the mountain alone for an apprentice, and got involved in human grievances. That was the beginning of everything. In the mortal world, you will never turn over.

Meng Lanzhou said: "Gu Xuan accepted you as the prince of Zhaoguo, and he had another purpose in worshiping him as his teacher back then. Your master has always been shrewd, but he was confused about this kind of thing, and he ended up in this situation."

Mo Chi disagreed, and shook his head again and again: "Elder, you are wrong. Master treats me and junior brother equally. If I was the one who was in trouble that day, Master would go down the mountain to save me."

"You all regard Wei Ling as a god who saves the world. Now, if it wasn't for the evil spirit to pick him up, I'll see where you can find Master." Meng Lanzhou was angry.

"I..." Mo Chi seemed to have been greatly wronged, and for a long time, "I" didn't come up with a reason, his mind was empty, and only the chill lingered around his body, he lowered his head, rubbed his arms and crossed his legs, and said sullenly : "I regret it very much, elder, please don't expose my scars."

"I think you regret not going down the mountain with him! You didn't lie down in this retreat tower with him!"

"..."

Meng Lanzhou guessed right, Mochi could only smirk, but when he raised his head, he caught a glimpse of the tower gate not far away, and was instantly dumbfounded.

"Door."

He turned over and stood up straight: "Elder, the door is open!"