Chapter 68: Water Mirror Reflection
The night in Chang'an seemed longer than that in Yaoshui County. Li Yuanying lay in the temporary inn, looking at the full moon outside the window, feeling a little emotional.
Today is the fifteenth again.
Li Yuanying was just about to lie down when she suddenly heard a baby crying from outside the door. The sound came and went, from small to large, and in the quiet night, there was a sense of unreal horror.
The sound had a high frequency, like many babies crying at the same time. What was strange was that such a loud noise should have attracted people's attention, but no one went out to check.
It was as if she was the only one who could hear these sounds.
Li Yuanying gently opened the door and looked outside. Nothing seemed unusual. The quiet corridor, shrouded in the bleak moonlight, was serene.
However, the baby's crying did not stop.
Li Yuanying closed the doors and windows, then covered her head with the quilt. It was a very noisy night, and she didn't fall into a drowsy sleep until midnight.
When I woke up the next day, I was awakened by Gu Jinzhi's hurried knocking on the door.
Li Yuanying opened the door and saw Gu Jinzhi's nervous face: "Junior sister, are you okay?"
Li Yuanying looked puzzled: "I'm fine. What's wrong?"
"Last night, the Infant Spirit Disaster broke out." Gu Jinzhi's face was very grim. "Many people died suddenly."
Infant spirit?
Li Yuanying remembered that when they came to Chang'an before, they had also encountered infant spirits, but they had not encountered large numbers of infant spirits.
This infant spirit disaster was probably caused by the fact that the Yuanming Realm was broken, and there was no purifying seal that could suppress the infant spirit.
Li Yuanying followed Gu Jinzhi to check on the situation of the affected people. Last night, the areas affected by the infant spirits were mainly near Li Yuanying's inn, with dozens of people killed or injured. They were all killed after their yang energy was sucked away by the infant spirits. Some of them survived but went crazy.
Infant spirits are a kind of ghost.
They are transformed from fetuses that died unjustly in the womb before they were born.
Since there are many families that favor boys over girls, there are some infant spirits in various places in Jiuzhou, but there are only a few cities that can gather such a terrifying number of infant spirits as Chang'an.
"They seem to be looking for something." Li Yuanying murmured.
The rooms everywhere were turned to pieces by the infant spirits, and those people died suddenly in the rooms one after another, as if they were being tortured one by one in a certain order.
She felt something was wrong, so she ran to Li Yuanxi's room, only to see him shivering in the corner of the bed, holding something tightly in his hand.
"Yuanxi." Li Yuanying called Li Yuanxi's name softly.
"Sister!" Li Yuanxi threw himself into Li Yuanying's arms, "Sister, are they gone?"
Li Yuanxi's face was pale and he had dark circles under his eyes, as if he had not slept the whole night.
"Are you talking about the infant spirit?" Li Yuanying asked.
"Ah, yes, yes, those scary baby ghosts, are they gone?" Li Yuanxi shouted.
Li Yuanying touched Li Yuanxi's head and said, "Don't be afraid, Yuanxi. It's daytime now. They've all left."
She pushed Li Yuanxi away from her arms, then grabbed his hand and asked, "What are you holding in your hand?"
Li Yuanxi refused to let go, but he couldn't persuade Li Yuanying, so he had to spread his hands to show her.
It was a black mahogany figurine with one word engraved on it: "Avoid".
"Why do you have this thing?" Li Yuanying frowned.
She had seen carvings made of white mahogany to ward off evil spirits, but she had never seen one made of black mahogany.
Li Yuanying once heard her master say that anything made of black mahogany was not a normal evil-repelling magic weapon.
What it wants to avoid are extremely evil things.
"It was given to me by Master Zhang," Li Yuanxi replied. "Master Zhang said that since I'm not very skilled in martial arts, I should use some powerful magical tools to protect myself."
I see.
Li Yuanying nodded, but she felt something was strange, but she couldn't tell what was strange.
"It seems this thing really has a miraculous effect on infant spirits. Everyone in the room around you is dead, but you are safe and sound."
When Li Yuanxi heard this, tears welled up in her eyes: "Sister, from what you said, I should be dead."
"How could that be? Yuanxi, you're overthinking it." Li Yuanying touched Li Yuanxi's head again.
She really didn't want anything to happen to Li Yuanxi, but this matter was indeed a little strange.
With Li Yuanxi's room as the center, all the rooms within a radius of one mile were affected, and only he was safe.
It was as if the person those infant spirits were originally looking for was Li Yuanxi, but he had a black peach wood magic weapon in his hand, so he escaped.
Moreover, he said that this magic weapon was given to him by Old Zhang, which means that something happened a long time ago that Li Yuanying didn't know about, and Old Zhang gave him that strange black mahogany in order to save Li Yuanxi's life.
That's all.
I'm glad Yuanxi is okay.
Gu Jinzhi also followed. When he saw that Li Yuanxi was fine, he felt relieved.
However, Gu Jinzhi also discovered something strange about Li Yuanxi, but when Li Yuanying didn't mention it, he didn't say it out loud.
These days, he and the Gu family have been busy building the Yuanming Seal.
All this was Li Yuanying's plan.
Li Yuanying said that as long as the Yuanming Seal is established in Chang'an, activated by the Gu family, and the demon king's demon pill is sacrificed in the center of the seal, the Heavenly Chain can be recast.
Although he was working tirelessly to arrange the Yuan and Ming seals, he did have some doubts in his heart.
Originally, the Demon King's Demon Pill was in the hands of King Yongning, so why didn't he recast the Sky Chain at that time so that the demons could not invade humans.
This seemingly innocent eldest daughter of the Li family must have some very important information that she did not reveal to him.
"Senior Brother Jinzhi, what happened to the seal?" Li Yuanying asked.
“It can be done tomorrow.”
"Can it be sped up?"
Gu Jinzhi thought for a moment and said, "The earliest would be tonight."
"Okay, thank you for your hard work, Senior Brother."
The reason why Li Yuanying urged Gu Jinzhi was because she had a bad feeling that Qilang would definitely not give up. Perhaps, he and his demon army were already traveling day and night towards Chang'an.
In order to speed up the progress, Li Yuanying also joined the ranks of setting up the formation.
Li Yuanying was busy all day long, and finally finished the seal before sunset.
"As long as the first ray of sunlight falls on the center of the formation tomorrow, we can activate the seal." Li Yuanying finally felt relieved.
She turned to Gu Jinzhi and said, "Brother, tomorrow morning, when the sun rises, no matter what happens, you must activate the seal. Promise me, okay?"
Gu Jinzhi nodded: "A gentleman's word is as good as gold."
Li Yuanying was at ease with Gu Jinzhi. She knew Gu Jinzhi's character well. He was somewhat similar to Zhang Qingchen, both of them were somewhat old-fashioned moralists.
"Senior Brother Jinzhi, have you ever met Senior Brother Qingchen?"
Gu Jinzhi glanced at Li Yuanying and seemed to be hesitant to speak.
"It seems you have seen him."
"He has always been guarding this place in his own way." Gu Jinzhi simply said, "We don't need to disturb him. He will appear when he wants to."
Li Yuanying understood.
"Brother Jinzhi, when you see Brother Qingchen someday, please tell him that I'm very grateful for your care over the years."
Gu Jinzhi was a little displeased after hearing this: "Why are you saying such things? If you want to express your gratitude, Junior Sister can tell him in person, why do you need me to convey it?"
Gu Jinzhi is still as sensitive as ever.
"Yeah, that's true. Senior brother, don't think too much about it." Li Yuanying comforted.
Li Yuanying knew Qilang, and sure enough, not long after, the descendant of the Gu family who was guarding the south gate reported that a small group of elite soldiers from the Fuxi clan had arrived at the gate and threatened that Li Yuanying should hand over the demon pill of the former emperor of the Fuxi clan, otherwise they would massacre Chang'an City.
"They are coming." said Gu Jinzhi.
"Hurry up and tell everyone to go into the house and lock the doors and windows." Li Yuanying ordered.
The messenger shuttled through the streets and alleys, warning everyone to hide indoors and lock the doors and windows, and then went to the south gate to report the news.
In the yellow sand, a young man in white stood in the wind, holding a silver umbrella. His eyes were resolute, his face was cold, and he had the aura of a man who would kill any Buddha he saw or any ghost he saw.
He waved his hand lightly, and the first row of soldiers rushed to the south gate. The gate collapsed without any attack and collapsed to the ground, making the soldiers laugh.
"What the hell! I thought it was so powerful, but it turns out we scared it away!" one of the soldiers laughed.
"Your Highness, should we—"
Qilang shook his head: "Wait a little longer."
Sure enough, just as Qilang finished his words, the bricks and stones above the doorway suddenly fell down, and black liquid poured out from inside. When the liquid touched the soldier who laughed loudly, he instantly turned into a stone sculpture. Because the mechanism was activated too suddenly, the Fuxi soldiers under the city gate were unable to react and were all turned into stone sculptures.
Then, a new door appeared and slowly closed, locking the black water and the stone sculpture outside.
"The door just now turned out to be an illusion talisman!" The military advisor beside Qilang was shocked and angry.
Qilang showed a strange smile, and he knew that the woman was not that simple.
"Everyone, be extremely alert. The enemies here are more cunning than foxes and more dangerous than snakes and scorpions. Don't underestimate them." Qilang ordered.
"Yes!" everyone answered in unison.
Afterwards, Qilang sent another team of three to test the city gate and found that there was a strong spell on the city gate, which made it difficult for them to break through.
Just when Qilang was thinking of using violence to break it, millions of golden arrows fell from the sky, cascading down like raindrops.
Qilang casually threw the Soul-Slaying Flame Umbrella into the air. It began to grow larger above the crowd, blocking all the arrows. Some soldiers standing on the edge were hit in the shoulder by arrows, and their bodies suddenly burst into flames. They rolled on the ground in agony, unable to put out the flames, and were burned to death.
Qilang glanced at the military advisor, who understood: "Reflection in the water mirror!"
The five soldiers obeyed the order and ran to the front of the team. They gathered together and performed a ritual. A silver light flashed, and an extremely thin silver line appeared in front of Qilang's team.
The silver thread became thicker and thicker, and then unfolded, forming a silver mirror.
Afterwards, the golden arrows shot towards Qilang and the others flew in the opposite direction as if they were possessed by a demon.
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