Life is a dream (4)
"Don't come out easily next time. People in the world hate monsters very much. Your magic power is weak, and you will become the target of their anger." He said as he opened the window for her.
The candle flame was blown by the cold wind and swayed again, and the candlelight fell on his face, softening his eyebrows.
"Let's go."
His eyes were calm, he just glanced at her lightly, then lowered his head to look at the file in his hand. The candle demon was stunned for a long time, and when he climbed onto the windowsill, he couldn't help but look back.
The young man sighed softly in the warm light of the room.
The candle demon withdrew his gaze, jumped out of the window, and disappeared into the night.
After leaving Lixiangyuan, the originally weak candle demon suddenly changed and turned into a human form.
She was wearing a flowing purple gauze dress with a red rope hanging around her waist with a bunch of golden bells. She had a beautiful face and her eyes were like natural fox eyes, which were extremely beautiful.
At the same time, outside Lixiangyuan, a man in white suddenly appeared and blocked the candle demon's way.
Under the moonlight, he smiled brightly, and opened and closed the folding fan in his hand.
"Fang Yu." Song Shiyu narrowed his eyes and sneered.
"Senior Sister, long time no see." Fang Yu opened his folding fan with a snap, and said with a smile while shaking it.
Today is the fifth day of May, the day when Song Shiyu is at his weakest. Fang Yu's coming at this time definitely has bad intentions.
There is very little spiritual power left in Song Shiyu's body. If he fights head-on, he has no chance of winning.
Fang Yu is a simple-minded man with strong limbs, so he can be deceived.
Just as he was thinking about it, he heard Fang Yu say, "I heard that you got the antidote for that thing. If you hand it over obediently, I can spare your life."
"Antidote?" She sneered, "Only a fool like you would believe that there's an antidote for that thing."
"It seems you don't want to hand it in?"
"Stop pretending and do it."
After he finished speaking, Song Shiyu put his hands together, and a strong demonic power suddenly emerged, almost suffocating Fang Yu.
Although Song Shiyu's strength was damaged tonight, Fang Yu was still not sure of winning. He carefully closed the fan and began to gather his demonic power.
But he forgot one thing.
Now he is a disciple of Yiziyuan, with a Yiziyuan badge hanging around his waist. The demonic power emitted by the two exceeded the tolerance of the badge and blew it up in one go.
If a disciple's waist badge of Yi Zi Yuan is damaged, it usually means that the disciple is in danger and will automatically send a distress message to the elders.
Everyone on Fang Yu was stunned. The demonic power they had gathered dissipated in an instant, and they were knocked to the ground by a punch from Song Shiyu.
Song Shiyu also noticed something was wrong and almost couldn't hold back his laughter.
"I remember Xu Xing told you countless times to read more." She looked down at him, her face full of pride.
"I don't know how you managed to get into Yiziyuan with your intelligence."
"Don't be so complacent. I will definitely kill you next time." Fang Yu spat out a mouthful of blood and said hatefully.
Song Shiyu was about to continue mocking when the surroundings suddenly became quiet, an unusual silence that seemed to swallow everything.
"Fang Yu, do you have..." She stopped talking here.
The night wind blew, blowing off scattered leaves, and under the tree where the two people had originally stood, only a pool of blood remained.
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"Someone disappeared again at Lixiangyuan yesterday! Only a pool of blood was found at the scene. I think the person is in grave danger."
As soon as Li Zhaoyue stepped into the school, he heard people talking about the missing disciples. Out of curiosity, he listened and happened to hear the location of Lixiangyuan.
She was a little worried about Xu Xing, so she patted the man's shoulder and asked, "Do you know who the missing disciple is?"
The man pointed mysteriously to the side of her and whispered, "Fang Yu."
"Wait... Fang Yu?!" The direction the man pointed was vague, and Li Zhaoyue almost thought it was Xu Xing. He was frightened and was deeply surprised to hear Fang Yu's name.
"Although Fang Yu is a new disciple, he is quite powerful. Why did he disappear?" someone asked.
"What are you talking about? Tell me." Wang Kun also squeezed in and asked curiously.
"Shouldn't you be fortune-telling your grades right now? Why are you joining in the fun?" someone teased him.
"This matter has caused a lot of controversy, and I know some inside information." Wang Kun said.
"What inside story do you know?" Li Zhaoyue asked curiously.
Wang Kun looked around and didn't see the teacher, so he waved mysteriously at everyone, asking them to come closer.
"Haven't you noticed? The missing ones are all from the families that surrounded and suppressed the spirits. The first one is Xie Xue from the Xie family, and the second one is Zheng Hai from the Zheng family."
"Your statement is not valid. Yu Zhi and Fang Yu don't match." Li Zhaoyue said.
Hearing this, everyone agreed.
Wang Kun smiled, shook his head and said, "No, no, think about it carefully."
"Back then, there were four major families: Xie, Lou, Zheng, and He. Without them resisting the spirit people, there would be no Floating Island today. But besides that..." Zhu Ming's words echoed in Li Zhaoyue's head. She pondered and said crisply, "Besides the four major families, there are six other factions."
"Six factions, what does this mean?" someone asked in confusion.
"It's a legend." Wang Kun suddenly said seriously, "The words 'Six Sects' appear frequently in the legends of the ghost clan."
"What does that have to do with this?"
"People now believe that this disappearance is caused by the ghost clan." A clear young voice came from above.
Li Zhaoyue felt a warmth on her forehead, and a pair of hands reached between her and Wang Kun's foreheads, separating them.
Xu Xing smiled as he squeezed in between Li Zhaoyue and Wang Kun and said, "The six sects of the ghost clan have different interpretations, but the only thing they have in common is the word six."
Wang Kun gave him an appreciative look and continued, "That's right, it's six!"
As soon as Li Zhaoyue saw Xu Xing, she couldn't help but think of what happened in the woods last night. Amidst the embarrassment, her voice dropped considerably. "I've used Feng Shui to deduce the destinies of many people, but I've been completely clueless about a few. The compass only showed six words. That's why I came up with this hypothesis."
"Senior Sister Li's speculation is very reasonable. To be honest, I have done something similar before. I originally thought it was due to my lack of skills, but I didn't expect that I could also come up with six characters by accident."
Things became very strange at this point. Everyone had different expressions and were discussing with each other. Naturally, they didn't notice He Shuyu and Xie Feng who had been standing at the door for a long time.
"What do you think?" He Shuyu asked Xie Feng.
"What they said does make some sense. We have never thought about the ghost clan before. We can give it a try." Xie Feng said.
He Shuyu wanted to ask him how to try it, when he saw Xie Feng walking towards the crowd.
As soon as he came in, the originally noisy school immediately became as silent as death. The disciples who were discussing enthusiastically just now dispersed. Xie Feng ignored those disciples who left quickly. His target was very clear, that was Wang Kun.
Wang Kun felt a wave of anxiety as he watched Xie Feng walk through the crowd and head straight towards him. He thought to himself, he was usually very cautious and had never done anything out of the ordinary, so how could he have attracted Xie Feng?
He swallowed and looked at Li Zhaoyue beside him for help. She gave him a reassuring look.
"Senior brother is looking for you for official business, don't worry too much."
Xie Feng stopped and first looked at Li Zhaoyue who was standing on Wang Kun's left, then looked at Xu Xing who was standing next to Li Zhaoyue, and finally his gaze fell on Wang Kun.
"Wang Kun, Xie Feng, Li Zhaoyue, come with me to Mingguang Hall." He then looked at the other disciples and said, "Several disciples from Yiziyuan have gone missing today. Everyone, please be careful when traveling. Also, don't panic. The elders have found a clue and will solve the case soon."
When Wang Kun heard that he was asked to go to the Minguang Palace, he almost collapsed to the ground and fainted. Minguang Palace, that was Minguang Palace.
Yiziyuan was a place where important matters were discussed, and it was not a good thing for an ordinary disciple like him to go there.
"May I ask, have I done anything wrong recently?" Wang Kun asked carefully.
Xie Feng glanced at him coldly, and Wang Kun immediately stopped talking. He retreated tremblingly behind Li Zhaoyue and whispered in her ear, "Didn't you say it was official business? Why do I feel like I've committed a terrible crime?"
Li Zhaoyue helplessly spread out his hands, gently patted his shoulder, and said, "Brother has been busy with the missing persons case these days. Perhaps your analysis just now makes some sense. I want to take you in for questioning. Look, He Shuyu is standing at the door."
Wang Kun looked towards the door and saw He Shuyu with an impatient look on his face. He felt a little relieved.
Xu Xing followed Li Zhaoyue forward. When he passed He Shuyu, he glanced at her brow in a good mood and said softly, "Senior Sister, your brow has been darkening recently. You'd better be careful."
He Shuyu rolled his eyes at him and walked out quickly.
Mingguang Hall
The three of them told all their speculations in the academy at that time. Dean Feng told them not to spread it outside and to pay attention to safety recently. Then he and Xie Feng entered the inner hall.
He Shuyu was feeling exhausted and dozed off against a pillar.
"If what Wang Kun said makes sense, then the next one will be the He family. Senior sister, you have to be careful." Li Zhaoyue said.
"Me?" He Shuyu forced his eyes open, yawned, and said, "I actually hope those people take me away so I don't have to deal with so many official duties every day."
"I wonder if the disciples who disappeared from Jinxiantai have these characteristics?" Xu Xing asked.
"I'll go back and check it." She waved her hand and looked like she was about to fall asleep again.
Wang Kun stood aside, looking frightened.
"Bless me, bless me," he muttered, clutching a wooden compass in his right hand. The compass was old, but it inexplicably attracted Li Zhaoyue.
She walked over to Wang Kun and asked, "What's the origin of this compass? It looks very powerful."
Wang Kun smiled bitterly and showed the compass: "I just made it casually. I have used it for many years. It is not a valuable item. Sister, please take a look if you want." After that, he handed the compass to her.
This compass was indeed as he said, crudely made and simple, but...
Li Zhaoyue pulled her own compass from her bag and compared the two. Her compass, aside from the gold-inlaid ring, was almost identical.
"Our compasses..." She was just about to say why their compasses looked exactly the same when she heard a burst of messy footsteps outside.
A disciple ran in, dressed in medical school attire, and was stunned when he saw them inside.
"What's wrong?" He Shuyu woke up quickly, and seeing that something was wrong, he hurried forward and asked.
"Another...another disciple has gone missing, this time from the medical school." said the disciple.
A disciple disappeared yesterday, how come he appears again today?
He Shuyu's face was serious. He asked the disciple some more questions and then went into the inner hall to report to Dean Feng.
And just then, something strange happened.
The surroundings suddenly fell into a strange silence, as if the entire hall had sunk into the deep sea and the flowing air had turned into sea water.
Li Zhaoyue's thinking became very slow, and in a trance, she looked forward.
Xu Xing was dressed in blue, with a calm expression, and smiled at her.
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