[Sword Three] Mountain Ghost Ballad

There is a door in the deepest part of the Qin Mausoleum's underground palace, a door that even the master Ying Zheng does not know of its existence.

This door is carved from two huge pieces of jade, the textures and patterns on each piece of jade are symmetrically distributed, and a man and a woman are depicted on it, both of which are human heads and snake bodies.

Men are on the left, women are on the right, snake tails intertwined, holding the sun and the moon in each palm, dividing yin and yang, and using "rules" to determine the circle of heaven and earth. world.

Except for the original builder, no one knows the location of this gate in the Qin Mausoleum, and no one can even guess that there is a place in the mausoleum belonging to Ying Zheng that he himself does not know.

This place belongs to the Yinyang family, but the descendants of the Yinyang family know nothing about it. They don't know who built this door, and they don't know what kind of place exists behind this door. Bring a few words about it, and a rumor about the treasure is quietly born-even if no one knows whether there is really a treasure behind this door.

Miao didn't know, even if she was standing next to the door now, even if she was very familiar with the patterns on it, before the door opened, she still couldn't know what was inside.

The person who brought her here may know, but the other party doesn't seem to intend to tell her.

"Miao, what's the matter with you? Come to my mother, after all, only you can open this door..." Her voice belonged to Jiang Huaixu's voice, neither fast nor slow, cold and gentle, which could be heard in Miao's voice In his ears, he seemed to see the woman from thousands of years ago, even though he was embarrassingly borrowing someone else's body, he was still graceful and self-satisfied, and there was an arrogance between his brows that could not be erased no matter what the situation.

However, there is still something different after all...

Miao stood quietly on the spot, clenched her hands in her sleeves.

She never thought that after spending so many years in the Tang Dynasty, she would see her old people from thousands of years ago, even her blood relatives—her mother, Mrs. Xihe.

In fact, when she met Jiang Huaixu in Shangyang Palace a few months ago, she had vaguely felt a trace of Mrs. Xihe's aura in him, but after many trials, although she felt that Jiang Huaixu brought people It felt a little disobedient, but I didn't find anything wrong, I just thought it was my own superstition.

It wasn't until the other party appeared as the "real deity" and looked at the familiar expression of "Jiang Huaixu" that Miao finally connected Jiang Huaixu's strange face with the mother in his memory.

He finally understood where Jiang Huaixu's sense of disobedience came from.

——That is not the stiffness after being cast as a puppet, but the dying struggle of the remaining soul in the body after the body is taken away!

"Miao, come here..." The calling sounded again, as gentle as ever, but when you listen carefully, you can find that there is a touch of strength that cannot be rejected, which seems to indicate that the patience of the owner of the voice is about to run out.

Miao lowered her eyes slightly, her gaze was only on the skirt of the person opposite, her whole body seemed to show a touch of timidity, seeing in the pair of eyes as cold as autumn pools on the opposite side, aroused the master's dislike.

Mrs. Xihe's vermilion lips parted lightly, but she didn't know what to think of, and swallowed the words in her mouth again, only suppressing the unhappiness in her heart, waiting for Miao to slowly walk towards her.

Mrs. Xihe had something hidden in her heart, felt quite anxious, and was very dissatisfied with Miao's timid appearance, so that she only noticed the lowered eyebrows of the person in front of her, but she didn't notice at all that under the cover of Miao's hair, those pair of eyes Eyes that are always as calm as ever.

"What should I do?" Miao came to the huge stone gate, and found that the two doors were tightly connected, and there were no traces of mechanisms around them, and there were no lock holes that could be embedded in the door. It was a dead door.

"Don't worry, only you can open this door..."

Mrs. Xihe's eyes touched Miao's doubtful face, a smile flashed across her face, and her eyes couldn't help being gentle.She lightly put her hand on Miao's shoulder, half-armed her, and said softly: "If someone else were to change, they would not be able to open this door anyway, but you are different, this place is very special to you, This door will only open for you... Believe me, Miao, you will find a way."

"..."

The warm breath rushed to her ears, Ling Miao's body stiffened, and she couldn't help turning her head slightly, but the other party's hair was hanging on the side of her face, making her cheeks a little itchy, even if it was a strange face, but the surrounding The familiar atmosphere still reminded her of her childhood.

In her childhood memories, she and her mother, Mrs. Xihe, did not actually have many opportunities to get along. When she was just four years old, she was taken by her father. Since then, the number of times she has met her mother number.

But maybe because Miao remembers things quite early, Mrs. Xihe has always left a deep impression on her during the years she spent with her mother day and night, and the influence on her is even more comparable to that of her father.

Mrs. Xihe is a serious person and has always been serious. Although she cares about Miao, she has always been strict, even almost strict, in terms of words and deeds.But Miao has no complaints in her heart, and she is still close to this mother. Perhaps it is because Miao knows in her heart that although Mrs. Xihe treats her strictly, she is the most sincere person in the entire Yin-Yang family, except for her father.

At that time, Miao was still very young, but she was not stupid. She could feel the undercurrents in the Yinyang family, whether it was the mother who forbade her to go out casually, or the father who took her to live in seclusion in the mountains. But the way to protect her is quite consistent - to reduce the number of times she appears in front of the disciples of the Yin Yang family.

What's even more strange is that her father, apart from forbidding her from being in contact with people from the Yin Yang family, doesn't seem to shy away from her seeing outsiders. Even when a friend from the Taoist family came to visit, his father took her to entertain the guests without worrying about her at all. Avoid the meaning.

"Miao, what's wrong with you?"

The voice in her ears brought Ling Miao back to her senses. Her face remained calm, she just lowered her head slightly not to look at the person beside her, and turned her eyes back to the huge stone gate in front of her.

The stone gate is very large, more than ten meters high. Standing in front of the gate, Miao can only see the twin tails intertwined on the gate, and the dots of starlight around the snake tail, and the place where the dotted line at the bottom connects is exactly the appearance of the Big Dipper .

Miao has seen the pattern on this gate. In Lishan Mountain thousands of years ago, there was a "Gate of the Ancestor" depicting the statue of Fuxi and Nuwa. As a disciple, the cultivation base of Yin-Yang Art can often be improved to a higher level.

The "Gate of the Ancestors" is not mysterious, but Miao has never been there, and the door in front of him is obviously different from the "Gate of the Ancestors". This has no clue at all.

...It can't be that this door has its own will, so you can choose who will open it?

Thinking of this, Miao couldn't help stretching out her hand towards the door, trying to see if she could find a way to open it, but unexpectedly, before she touched the stone door, the two tightly closed doors seemed to sense her The existence of the ordinary, suddenly opened a gap, split the "circle" between Fuxi and Nuwa.

As the two doors slowly opened, a beam of extremely strong golden light overflowed through the crack of the door, so dazzling that Ling Miao had to raise his hand to cover his eyes.

At the same time, a light red barrier propped up in front of Miao, enclosing her and Mrs. Xihe beside her, blocking them from the dust and bursts of dust that rose around when the door opened. cloudy wind.

The dust gradually dissipated, and Miao opened her eyes before Mrs. Xihe removed the shield.

Behind the door is a stone road extending forward, suspended in the dark night, with the outline of a great hall at the end, resplendent and resplendent, the dome is covered with stars, and the sea of ​​stars is so bright that there is no end to it.

Miao's eyesight is very good. Even if she is far away, she can still see the palace in the distance. What's more, the palace is covered with starlight, and the floor is as clear as crystal. Looking from a distance, it is really unbelievably beautiful.

But it was this dreamy and beautiful place that made Miao, who saw the whole picture of it, froze in place.

This palace is not full of treasures as rumored. Unlike other places that are full of rare treasures but look gloomy, this place is really full of vitality.

Many unnamed flowers and trees are scattered in every corner of the hall. There is no soil, no water, and even no air circulation before the door is opened, but the flowers and plants here are still growing quite well, and there is no sign of decay.

The closer you get to the depths of the hall, the more luxuriant the flowers and plants are. Walking up the jade steps covered with flowers, there is a high platform in the center of the hall. The flowers and trees growing here are the most densely populated in the entire palace.

And the thing on this high platform was the culprit for Ling Miao's sudden change of face.

In the middle of the high platform, under the cover of a few dense flowering vines, a jade coffin glowing with blue light is lying there quietly, a few jade-white flower branches are dotted on it, and a few rays of starlight are shining down on it. The entire coffin is enveloped in it, like a gauze curtain hanging from the sky.

Although many years have passed and the location is different now, Ke Miao still recognized with sharp eyes that the jade coffin deep in the palace was the one she had seen in the illusion of the Nanzhao Palace back then!

A beautiful red shadow passed by, Mrs. Xi He, who was standing behind Miao just a moment ago, had passed Miao at this time, and went to the hall at the end of the road alone. In the coffin, the hatred and longing inadvertently revealed in the eyes are complex and strong, and it is shocking.

Miao walked through the stone road, but stopped at the moment she stepped into the main hall. She had a panoramic view of Mrs. Xihe's expression after seeing the jade coffin, and said slowly: "Is this the coffin that mother is looking for? ?”

Mrs. Xihe's hand holding the jade coffin froze, as if she had just remembered Miao's existence, she turned around lightly, a complex look appeared in her eyes reflecting Miao's reflection.

She looked at Miao carefully, her eyes softened unconsciously, and the hand hanging by her side touched Miao's cheek, caressing gently, just like an ordinary mother's caress for her daughter, loving and warm.She didn't respond to Miao's question, but just sighed softly, and asked back: "Miao, just now in the corridor of the God King, do you know why I let you go?"

Miao was silent and did not respond, but she was thinking about this question in her heart.

When Tang Wujue and Zishu died together, she lost all her internal strength, let alone Mrs. Xihe, even an ordinary Jiang Hu person could put her to death.

What's more, at that time, she clearly felt Mrs. Xi He's killing intent towards her, so strong that she broke out in cold sweat, and knew that the other party really wanted her life.

But in the end, for some unknown reason, the murderous intent suddenly disappeared. Mrs. Xihe changed her mind and brought her to this place, allowing her to see the jade coffin in her dream that was deeply connected to her.

Mrs. Xihe ignored Miao's silence, and said to herself: "She never wants to call me mother, even when I am the only relative left by her side, she never wants to call me... Maybe it's retribution , I shouldn't have forced so much, but after all these years, I can't get over it!"

Her expression became a little gloomy, and she calmed down a little when she touched Miao's crystal clear eyes, and her eyes became much gentler, "It's been almost 1000 years, I really didn't expect that I would get another sentence from your mouth The honorific title of 'Mother', it is because of this that I didn't kill you..."

She caressed Miao's face with her hand, meticulously and carefully, as if stroking a treasure, "Miao, if I can, I don't want to hurt you, but it's hard to get back now, since I can't let her down anymore, I have to let you down Already!"

Mrs. Xi He withdrew her hand, as if she had made up her mind, she turned around and didn't look at Miao again, but Miao's next words made her freeze in place, "Mother's soul has become a dead spirit. But he has always been attached to the world and lingered, and even wanted to come back even at the expense of taking it away...but for me?"

Mrs. Xi He turned around suddenly, and looked at Miao with almost stern eyes. The air around her turned cold at this moment, but it was not caused by murderous intent, but rather a dead air began to emerge from Mrs. Xi He's body.

Miao looked at Mrs. Xihe's "raw thread" that was starting to break apart, and a look of unbearableness flashed across her face, "Jiang Huaixu's soul has never been separated from her body. Since my mother didn't expel her in the first place, why should she be cut off now?" The vitality of this body? Once the vitality of this body is completely eroded by the death energy of the mother's soul, even if the mother leaves her body immediately, it is estimated that she will not survive!"

Before coming to Qinling, Miao did not have the ability to see through yin and yang like Jiang Yu in her previous life. Although her intuition was sharper than ordinary people for some things that happened in the dark, she still couldn't see through yin and yang. Can't live or die.

The best example is when Jiang Huaixu, who had been taken away at that time, stood in front of her. Apart from feeling something was wrong, she couldn't see anything else. Unlike now, she could see it with the naked eye alone. The thread of life and thread of death entangled in man.

Miao's words touched some nerve of Mrs. Xi He's, which caused her to laugh out loud in disregard of her manners, until tears came out of her laughter, then she slowly restrained her smile and said, "I didn't intend to kill her, But who told her to be misbehaving, as soon as she got the chance, she would find a way to sabotage my deployment, so I had to use that idiot Zishu. It's a lonely soul in the world!"

Miao frowned and didn't say a word, just looked at Mrs. Xihe silently.Xu felt the disapproval in Miao's heart, Xi and Madam suddenly laughed, "Does Miao think such a mother is ugly?"

Miao lowered her eyes and said, "I don't understand why you want to use Jiang Huaixu's body to kill me. What is the purpose?"

"I killed you to save people..."

Under Miao's surprised eyes, Mrs. Xihe's eyes showed an imperceptible sadness, "That is a very important person to me, her life is too bitter, and she will not end well after death... Although I am The person who is least qualified to say this, but as long as there is a chance to change her fate, no matter what it is, I will try it!"

Miao froze for a moment, bit her lower lip lightly, and after struggling for a moment, finally said: "The person you want to save is Jiang Yu?"

Mrs. Xihe seemed quite surprised. She looked up at Miao, with a look of unbearable expression on her face, then she turned her head slightly and stopped looking at her, "Your intuition is very keen, since you guessed it all, I also I don’t want to hide anything from you... Yu’er’s body is sleeping in this jade coffin, this is the palace of longevity, her body has not died, as long as the reincarnated soul returns to her body, she will wake up again.”

"You want to transfer my soul into her body?" Although it sounds unbelievable, but perhaps because of psychological preparation, Miao didn't look surprised, but she was a little puzzled, so she asked: "How can a person die?" When the light is off, even if Jiang Yu’s body is still alive, her soul has already been reincarnated, and Tang Miaomiao has already been born, this is the law of reincarnation between heaven and earth, you have worked so hard to turn me back into Jiang Yu, what is the purpose?”

"I said, in order to compensate..."

Mrs. Xihe is no longer what Miao remembers, she is still dignified and elegant, but the pride and awe that were once engraved in her bones, after thousands of years of baptism, no longer exist, now only resentment and madness remain, burning Burning her last reason, "You are a good boy, I don't want to hurt you, since you have remembered some memories of your previous life, do you want to change back to the way you were before? You should be aware of your physical condition, right? , your body is gradually weakening, and your skill is declining. This is because your body cannot bear the pressure brought by your soul. As long as you are willing to restore the memory of your previous life and return to your body, your illness will be cured. You don't have to go to the end and die weak and helpless."

Mrs. Xihe's words were gentle and bewitching, but in Miao's ears, it made her feel sad for a while.

She couldn't tell what she was feeling in her heart, but she could only listen to her own voice and said calmly: "If I agree, mother, what are you going to do? It's not easy to transfer souls."

Miao Ban lowered her head, making it hard to see her expression. Mrs. Xi He heard that her tone was normal, so she didn't think too much about it. She just thought she had agreed to this matter, and a smile appeared on her face.

Two yin-yang fishes, one black and one white, appeared in Mrs. Xihe's hands, and swam around the jade coffin not far away. The black lines they brought out slowly wrapped around the jade coffin, and finally outlined a Tai Chi on the ground. Bagua pattern.

Mrs. Xihe cast a spell across the air, and the place where the jade coffin was located suddenly burst into purple light, and the Tai Chi and Eight Diagrams slowly turned, but the two yin and yang fish did not stop, but continued to draw in mid-air, and finally a layer-by-layer relationship was constructed. The stacked magic circle, together with the Tai Chi diagram at the bottom, condenses a coquettish but beautiful light.

"Miao, when the formation is activated, as long as you don't resist, there will be no pain. When you wake up again, you will remember everything from the past. I will always be with you. Don't be afraid..."

Mrs. Xihe stretched out her hand with a gentle expression, trying to pull Miao towards the magic circle that was still beating with purple light, but unexpectedly halfway through the stretch, her whole body froze suddenly.

She turned her head slightly, and looked at the flower vines that trapped her ankles with a stiff expression. This was not a wooden image created by internal force, but the flowers and trees growing around the jade coffin. Somehow, they were stimulated and suddenly grew wildly. .

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Miao turned away from Madam Xi He's side, stood on the edge of the high platform, looked at Madam Xi He with an inexplicable expression, the clear look in her eyes made Madam Xi He feel something was wrong .

"Miao, you—"

"Mother, I have grown up and I am not easy to lie. So you lied, I know..."

Miao interrupted Mrs. Xihe's words, and changed her previous docile appearance, and there was a slight coldness in Yingying's eyes.Her voice was very calm, but what she said made Mrs. Xi He's face change.

"You already know that I am not the reincarnation of Jiang Yu..."

The author has something to say:

The name Xihe refers to the sun god in the mythology. It is just a simple name here, and it can be considered to reflect the attributes of a mother. However, after seeing this name, does any of the witty friends think of it QwQ ?

For example, why would a mother with a fire attribute give birth to a daughter whose main attribute is water?This question involves a grievance from thousands of years ago, and it is also a headache for Miao's father.

I'll catch bugs later~

And, it is officially announced that it has entered the countdown to the end.