Chapter 153 Jinjiang Debut
After entering the next city, several private cars separated. Bai Mian also took Que Ge out of the car he was riding in, took another taxi, and arrived at the place agreed with the mysterious client.
The transaction was agreed to be conducted in a private villa. The taxi stopped in front of the villa area. Bai Mian asked Que Ge to wait outside and walked in holding the child. As soon as she reached the door of the villa, someone opened the door for her. She imitated Lie San's posture and walked in carelessly. A middle-aged man was waiting for her on the sofa in the villa hall.
When the two men met, Bai Mian didn't say much and directly handed the child to the man. The man took the child and examined it carefully. As long as he confirmed that it was a healthy child, he would give Lie San a large sum of cash. However, when the man was halfway through the examination, the child in his arms suddenly stopped breathing. Of course, this was controlled by Bai Mian using the illusion technique.
Seeing the child's lips gradually turning purple, the man became anxious. He turned around and asked Bai Mian, "What's wrong with this child?"
Bai Mian pretended to be innocent: "I don't know either. It was fine just now, but it stopped working as soon as it got into your hands. This is obviously your problem, right?"
The man was so angry that he jumped up and down: "Nonsense, you must be fooling around. I don't know where you found a sick child. Luckily, this child got sick here. Otherwise, if you found a sick child and gave it to the master, neither you nor I would have a good ending!"
After hearing what the man said, Bai Mian understood that the man in front of him was not the mysterious client himself, but an agent acting on behalf of the mysterious client. Judging from the title of "Master", the mysterious client behind him was most likely related to metaphysics.
Bai Mian spread his hands and said, "Anyway, I brought the child here safely. You can't deny your debt now, right?"
The man glared at her. "Is this the right time to talk about this? We have been dealing with each other for such a long time. When have I ever treated you unfairly in terms of money? As long as we can satisfy the master, we have plenty of money! The biggest problem right now is the child! The master needs a child urgently, tonight. The one you brought here died. Where can I find a child temporarily?"
Bai Mian smiled and said, "Don't worry, I have a way. Let me tell you, I know a few people here, I'll go out and ask around to see if there are any ready-made children. Give me two hours, and I'll definitely help you get this done!"
The man looked at her suspiciously. "You go out and look for it now, is that possible? Forget it, there is no other way. Go ahead. You must give me a satisfactory answer within two hours, no, within one hour! If you can't find it, we will never cooperate with you again."
"I know, I know, don't worry." Bai Mian smiled and walked out of the villa's gate.
Anyway, the child was transformed from a rag doll, so Bai Mian didn't care about it anymore. What happened just now was just part of Bai Mian's plan. She wanted to replace the child and sneak into the mysterious client's lair.
When they reached the gate of the villa area, Bai Mian met up with Que Ge. She took Que Ge to a roadside cafe and sat for a while. Then she found an empty corner and transformed herself and Que Ge into two children, a girl and a boy. Then she sent a text message to the man, telling him that the children had been found and were in the cafe, and he needed to go and pick them up himself.
But a moment later, the man really drove to the coffee shop. After seeing Bai Mian and the others, he was a little disappointed and muttered, "The master clearly said that he wanted babies who were not long old. These two are too old. This Lie San is really something. He ran away at the critical moment. I will never cooperate with him again..."
Despite his grumbling, the man had no better candidates, so he had to take the two children back to report to the task. So Bai Mian and Que Ge sat in his trunk and were taken back to the villa again.
After returning to the villa, Bai Mian and Que Ge did not cry or make a fuss, which made the man very satisfied. He bought some food for the two children, and then called to report the situation here to the master. The master did not seem surprised, and still asked the man to send the two children over. The man then breathed a sigh of relief.
After dinner, the man put blindfolds on Bai Mian and Que Ge respectively and tied their hands and feet. Two assistants carried them into the back seat of the car, and the man drove away from the villa himself.
Bai Mian pretended to struggle a few times, and while struggling she touched the assistant's wrist, and then she quickly saw the assistant's past. These assistants were hired with high salaries, and they were only responsible for escorting, and knew nothing else. However, Bai Mian captured a very crucial piece of information - these assistants had escorted many children to that place, but no one had ever come back.
Lame Brother was a little nervous. After all, he had become a child now and his physical strength was not as good as before. He had no advantage in a fight, not to mention that the other side had more people. As if sensing his mood, Bai Mian gently kicked his toes, signaling him to stay calm.
The car drove out of the city for about an hour and then stopped at a place. Bai Mian was blindfolded and could not see anything, but she read the information of this location from her assistant's memory. In front of her were huge mountains that looked particularly terrifying in the dark.
The man got out of the car with the children, and the two assistants stayed in the car. Obviously, the front was not a place they could go. The man tied ropes around Bai Mian and Que Ge and led them forward like pets. Bai Mian and Que Ge stumbled along with the man for a while, and then the man suddenly stopped, let go of the rope in his hand, leaving them where they were, and then turned and left.
Hearing the man's footsteps gradually fading away, Bai Mian confirmed that the man had finally left. She leaned her head against the wall beside her and rubbed off the blindfold on her face. Only then did she see the scene in front of her clearly -
He found himself in a magnificent ancient palace. The corners of the palace were built with gold, and unknown words were carved on the pillars. In front of Bai Mian was a bonfire. There were countless such bonfires in the palace, and there was a child standing behind each bonfire. These bonfires surrounded the entire hall, and in the center of the hall was a large blood-red altar - this was a large-scale sacrificial site!
Seeing this scene, Bai Mian was sure that the mysterious client she was looking for was Taixuan Zhenren, and she finally understood why Taixuan Zhenren's power was so strong. It turned out that he had been sacrificing children and taking these lives in order to strengthen his own magic power.
There was a gray-black figure standing on the altar, surrounded by a circle of silver gauze. Bai Mian couldn't see the man's face clearly because of the gauze. He could only see an outline. Judging from the position he was standing in, he must be Taixuan Zhenren.
The hall was very quiet and filled with warm yellow firelight. The children did not cry or make any noise. They all sat cross-legged on the ground, half asleep and half awake, as if they were controlled by some kind of drug.
Taoist Taixuan on the altar also had his eyes closed, as if he was sleeping. Bai Mian guessed that he was waiting for a certain moment to come.
While Master Taixuan had not yet woken up, Bai Mian untied the ropes that bound herself and took the pulse of the child next door. Through the child's pulse, Bai Mian saw everything that was about to happen here. If she hadn't come today, this place would have turned into a sea of hellfire.
At midnight, the mechanism behind the wall would automatically activate, and sharp arrows would shoot out from the wall, piercing the throats of the children. The ground of the palace would turn bright red, and the blood would slowly flow along the patterns on the ground to the altar in the center, and finally gather at the feet of Zhenren Taixuan.
Taoist Taixuan activated the magic circle, and the blood spurted towards him like a fountain. He bathed in the blood of the children, and his old body gradually regained vitality, and his magic power also improved to a higher level.
After the sacrifice is over, Master Taixuan will recite a spell, and the fire in the bonfires will suddenly expand, burning the children's bodies in an instant. After the fire subsides, the ground here will be clean again, as if nothing had happened.
Bai Mian clenched her fists. The evil cultivator Taixuan Zhenren had been living for too long. She wanted to put an end to his evil deeds today.
"Stand here and don't move."
Bai Mian left a message to Lame Brother, and then walked towards the altar. She wanted to get rid of Master Taixuan while he was asleep. As soon as she took the first step, a voice that was neither male nor female rang out in the hall:
"whee."
Bai Mian suddenly raised her head and looked forward. The figure on the altar did not move his mouth, but the voice was echoing in the hall. She understood instantly that it was ventriloquism!
Bai Mian did not stop his steps. The voice continued, "I know who you are. You have not yet ascended to heaven. You are just a small immortal. Your skills are not even one tenth of mine. Yet you have the courage to chase me here. I really admire you."
Bai Mian walked step by step to the altar. Master Tai Xuan did not attack, but just said: "Actually, I don't want to hurt you. On the contrary, I admire you very much. You and I are the same person. You are the me in the past, and I am the you in the future."
"What do you mean?" Bai Mian became interested in his words.
The voice said, "Many years ago, I was also a fairy who came to the mortal world to cultivate. I was kind and generous, and used my magical powers to help mortals, hoping to achieve perfection in my cultivation and return to heaven as soon as possible. But guess what, how did those mortals treat me?"
Bai Mian did not answer. The voice continued to itself, "They discovered my ability, and then they injured me while I was practicing and cut off one of my legs. They imprisoned me in a room, hoping that I would obey their orders and let my ability be used for them."
"Stupid, stupid," the voice laughed again, "So I disregarded the rules of heaven and killed all those people on the spot. The ground was covered with a thick layer of blood, and the blood flowed over my feet. That feeling was really wonderful. You should not have experienced it yet? But I think you will experience it soon."
"After I killed people, I knew I could never become a god again, but I didn't want to go back to heaven to be punished, so I hid in the human world. I used human lives to practice, and soon I became very powerful. I hid my immortal aura, and no one could find me. I lived freely like this for many years, until I met you."
"You are exactly like me when I first came to the mortal world, so innocent, so kind, and you have managed to track me down here with just a few clues. Do you think that as long as you treat people well, they will treat you well? No, human nature is greedy, and humans are the most disappointing thing in the world! They don't deserve my help, they only deserve to be stepped on by me like ants, and they only deserve to be tools for my cultivation!"
The voice became hoarse. Bai Mian quietly observed the figure behind the gauze curtain. The figure did not move at all. Bai Mian was not sure whether he was the real body of Taiyi Zhenren, but she wanted to take a gamble.
"So, you want me to be your subordinate?" Bai Mian tried to distract Taiyi Zhenren's attention by talking.
The voice said, "You are not my subordinate, but my disciple. I have been observing you. You have only been in the human world for less than half a month, but you have already made several breakthroughs. You are a good candidate for cultivation. If you come to my side, you will definitely achieve great things. I can share with you everything I have now."
"Money is just a number to you and me. For people like us, what is really useful is immortality," the voice said seductively. "If you have immortality, you have everything. I will hide the immortal aura in you, and you can stay in the world for a long time like me and do whatever you want. You will have power, status, wealth, resources, youth and beauty. This is much more enjoyable than being a god who abides by the rules and regulations. How do you think?"
"I don't think so."
After Bai Mian finished speaking, she waved towards the sky and shouted the name of the system. In an instant, a turquoise sword appeared in Bai Mian's hand. This was her special magic weapon, the Soul-Slaying Sword. She stepped onto the altar in a few steps, swung the sword in her hand, and slashed at the figure in the gauze tent.
The blade passed by, and the figure's head fell to the ground, but there was no trace of blood. Bai Mian lifted the gauze curtain and rushed in, and saw a mummy inside.
“Hehehe,” the voice sounded again, “Life is but a dream, a reflection of the water, and what you see is just a body that I have abandoned. I have practiced for so many years, and I have already changed my body. It’s ridiculous that you have such low magical power that you can’t even see through this, and yet you still dare to challenge me.”
Bai Mian stood on the altar and looked around. The edge of the hall was surrounded by children. If Master Taixuan was present, he must have used the illusion technique to transform himself into one of the children. Which one would it be?
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, what a pity," the voice said, "It seems that you are determined to be my enemy, fairy. You are not qualified to be my enemy."
Bai Mian sneered and said, "Everyone in the Three Realms knows that the words of evil cultivators are the most untrustworthy. If I really go along with you, I'm afraid you will suck my spiritual power dry and turn me into a dried corpse in no time."
The voice started to laugh again: "You are quite smart, smarter and more interesting than I thought. In fact, I saw through your identity from the beginning, but I still let you in on purpose because I wanted to have some fun. I have been too lonely for hundreds of years."
"It doesn't matter. You won't be lonely when you die."
Bai Mian reached into his arms, took out the Nine Soul Bell, and according to what Old Lady Yang had said, he shook it vigorously nine times in the southwest direction.
Old Lady Yang said that after ringing the bell, the one with silver light on his body is the true body of Taixuan Zhenren. Bai Mian looked around and saw that there was indeed one person present with silver light on his body.
That person was the lame brother who was left behind by himself.
Noticing Bai Mian's gaze, Lame Brother suddenly revealed a strange smile. He opened his mouth and said in that androgynous voice:
"So what if you recognize me? Do you dare to kill me?"
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