Chapter 86 Lingxiang Visits the City Lord's Mansion Again
On the Lantern Festival day, Banshan Temple was extremely bustling. Even during the daytime rituals, many people came to watch. No matter they were dignitaries in Guyang City or common people in the suburbs, they all wanted to come to the temple to burn incense for Emperor Yuanyang and get some blessings.
After the ceremony, the elders appeared one after another and lit candles for the believers who came to burn incense.
The so-called lighting of lanterns refers to the lanterns that will be lit in front of the door at night. Various colorful paintings will be prepared in advance, but the last stroke will be retained and painted by a person of high moral character or an elderly person in order to distribute blessings to each family. It will be even more auspicious if a person with profound cultivation can paint the last stroke.
Therefore, when the Yuanqing Sect announced that the elders of the sect would descend on Banshan Temple to light lamps and bless everyone, not only the people of Guyang City, but also those who lived dozens of miles away, either got up early or gathered in the city the day before, just to get a chance today and hope to gain the favor of Emperor Yuanyang.
Of course, since there are people who come here specifically to burn incense, there are naturally peddlers who come here to make money for a living.
When many families learned about Elder Yuanqing lighting the lamp flowers, they stockpiled some of their own goods, waiting for this day to set up a stall outside the Jiuque Mountain Half Mountain Temple, sell them to people who came to burn incense, and at the same time pray for blessings for their families.
When Lingxiang and his group arrived, the foot of the mountain was already packed with people. The road, which was not very wide to begin with, was lined with various stalls on both sides, and there were a large number of people burning incense. Even the nobles, who were always pampered, parked their carriages and horses far away and walked.
There were shouts everywhere, and a wide variety of new things to see. Lingxiang was so happy that she smiled and bought a lot of small things all the way from the temple. But it was hard for Long Qi, Xinyi and Honeysuckle who were behind her. They had to carry a lot of things and keep an eye on passers-by.
Maidong originally wanted to go out and play with them, but when passing by Banshan Temple, she was caught by Fuyin Zhenren, who said that the temple was so busy, but she still had the leisure to wander around, and forced her to stay to help.
Poor girl, she could only watch Lingxiang taking Xinyi out of the temple, but she was unable to do anything.
Lingxiang happily followed the stalls all the way into Guyang City. After entering the city, she went straight to Youran Residence, ordered Long Qi and Rendong to clean up the house, and then took Xinyi out.
Xinyi came out of Youranju with a look of discomfort on his face. Youranju had been in a mess since it was searched last time and Lingxiang naturally noticed his expression.
"If I'm not mistaken, it was you who caused trouble in my Youran Residence that day." Lingxiang said as she took a bite of the plum blossom pancake in her hand, which was the hot one she had just bought from Grandma Shen's stall.
Xinyi didn't answer, but just lowered her head, not knowing what she was thinking.
"I'm not blaming you. I know you were following orders, but I just can't understand why you wasted all those elixirs in bottles and jars, even though they're not as valuable as life-extending pills, they can still improve your cultivation. Why would you waste them like that? Unless..."
Lingxiang paused and looked at Xinyi, but saw that the big man was still silent.
"Unless you knew who I was from the beginning and deliberately warned me of the impending danger, causing me to return to Yuanqingzao to be on guard."
Xinyi was stunned when she heard this, and then she smiled. Lingxiang was indeed a person with a clear mind. As long as she could grasp some clues, she would be able to figure out the rest.
I guess it was her doing that Maidong was captured by Elder Fuyin just now.
Seeing him like this, Lingxiang knew that she must have guessed correctly: "I have always thought that although you are a martial arts cultivator, you have already reached the Jindan realm of the Golden Core Dao. In the mortal world, you are also a semi-immortal. You should be able to finish me, who is only at the Foundation Establishment stage, in one move. But you insisted on waiting for reinforcements to arrive. I guess you knew that Senior Chi Yanzi was nearby." Lingxiang took a bite of the plum blossom pancake and continued vaguely:
"Although Senior Chi Yanzi has reached the Golden Core Dao Huayuan Realm, it would not have been easy for him to deal with a group of evildoers at that time. After all, those people also have high cultivation levels. So, it seems that the fact that I only encountered you on my way down the mountain must be due to your doing."
Hearing this, Xinyi looked at Lingxiang.
"You are really thoughtful and considerate. You even thought of this. But I'm afraid you don't know why I met you."
Lingxiang swallowed the plum blossom pancake in her mouth and said, "So, it wasn't you who wanted to meet me?"
Xinyi looked at the colorful lanterns hanging in a house not far away and reminisced.
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At that time, Xinyi did receive the news of searching for the third life-extending elixir. To be more precise, it was about searching for the living daughter of the Qiao family who had married out. However, the Qiao family kept the marriage of their daughter extremely secret, and they couldn't find it after searching for a long time.
Later, when passing by the Tai Shang Sect, he happened to hear people talking about the appearance of the life-extending elixir, so he followed them, but unexpectedly learned about their plan.
He had observed Lingxiang for two days in the Supreme Sect at that time, and originally thought that Lingxiang would be the daughter of the Qiao family, but from the information he had obtained, it seemed that this did not fit the situation.
Later, when he was dealing with some bad guys, he met Chi Yanzi again. He let him clean up this group of bastards, while he secretly followed Lingxiang.
Speaking of which, Long Qi was a fish that slipped through the net. Everyone thought Chi Yanzi would get rid of the troublemakers, but they didn't expect that Long Qi, who had no cultivation at all, would take advantage of the opportunity.
He felt that since Long Qi only knew some martial arts, he should not pose a threat to Lingxiang. Even if he wanted to do something illegal, Lingxiang should be able to handle it herself. However, he did not expect that the two of them would be so gentlemanly, one being indifferent to the other.
However, after listening to Lingxiang and Long Qi's conversation, and realizing that Chi Yanzi was not far away, he changed his plan, which led to the subsequent pill robbery incident.
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"It's quite meticulous. When I took out the life-extending elixir from the Supreme Sect, I thought there might be bad people, but I didn't expect to meet someone from the Lu family." Lingxiang said with a smile.
"At that time, I still had Bai Wuchang's hands and feet by my side, which made it very inconvenient for me to act. It was just right to use the hands of those evil-minded people to get rid of them, making it easier for me to act."
"So I was surprised at that time. Logically, a person who does evil will come up with a second plan if the first one fails. That's why Senior Chi Yanzi escorted me all the way and was on guard at every turn. But you seemed to have disappeared and never showed up again. I guess you did some investigation on me." Lingxiang said, stuffing the last piece of plum blossom pancake into her mouth.
"Although I have escaped from Bai Wuchang's minions, I am still under his control. I still have to obey him on some matters..." Xinyi thought of her mother and suddenly fell silent again.
"So..." Lingxiang suddenly stopped.
Xinyi was puzzled for a moment. Based on his understanding of Lingxiang, although this girl seemed to have the same temperament as Maidong, she actually had her own ideas and did things for a purpose. Just now, he was wondering why she took him out alone. It seemed that she must have something to tell her.
"So I will take you to see the Qiao family's hidden pearl that you have been looking for." Lingxiang said and turned her head.
Xinyi followed her gaze and saw that although the road ahead was a bluestone official road, there was still a flow of people. In front of the official road, there was actually a wealthy family. A green wooden plaque on the door read:
City Lord’s Mansion!
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