Chapter 30
"Go to bed early." Liu Huaizhao couldn't stay any longer, so he hurriedly said something and wanted to leave.
"etc."
Qin Zunyue reached out and grabbed Liu Huaizhao, who seemed to be running away, and said, "If you still feel cold tonight, don't force yourself, remember to come find me."
Liu Huaizhao looked up at him, a hint of hesitation in his eyes.
Qin Zunyue finally realized the ambiguity in his words and quickly added, "What I meant is that I will accompany you to find Mu Cheng."
"Okay." Liu Huaizhao nodded and tried to free his wrist from Qin Zunyue's hand.
It didn't work.
He had no choice but to look up at Qin Zunyue again, and then gestured for him to look at his wrist which he was holding tightly.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Qin Zunyue apologized repeatedly and quickly let go of his hand.
"Nothing, I'm leaving first." Liu Huaizhao tapped his toes and left here like flying.
Qin Zunyue looked at the direction he left, rubbed his fingertips, smiled foolishly twice, and also raised his legs to walk towards the direction where Liu Huaizhao disappeared.
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Liu Huaizhao stayed awake all night.
After hearing Tong Le's shouting outside, he closed his eyes tightly, got up, put on his clothes and walked out.
"Liu Huaizhao! Are you awake? Come on, this is the clothes Brother Mu prepared for you." Tong Le handed him the dark blue clothes in his hand, then immediately turned around and showed him the one he was wearing, asking, "How is it? Does this look good on me?"
"It looks good." Liu Huaizhao took the clothes and nodded, then shifted his gaze to Qiao Lang.
Seeing Liu Huaizhao looking at him, Qiao Lang immediately straightened his chest and raised his head. He adjusted his wide sleeves like Liu Huaizhao did before and saluted. "What about me? What about me? Do you have the style of a gentleman?"
"...Yes." After Liu Huaizhao finished speaking, he turned his head away, unable to bear to look.
"Are you looking for Brother Qin?"
Liu Huaizhao was startled and turned to look at Qiao Lang. He found that he was still rolling up his sleeves. As he was fiddling with his sleeves, he said, "Brother Qin went out early this morning. I don't know what he did... Hey, he's back."
Qiao Lang raised his chin and motioned Liu Huaizhao to turn around.
Liu Huaizhao subconsciously followed his movements and turned around, and saw Qin Zunyue holding a tray in his hand, with a piece of neatly folded clothes on the tray.
It's white.
Qin Zunyue handed the clothes to him under his complicated gaze, "I met Brother Mu when I went out for a morning run this morning."
"Actually, there's no need to bother." Although Liu Huaizhao said this, he still reached out to take the clothes.
"It's okay, I'll take both." Qin Zunyue looked at him and added, "And white really suits you."
"Oh." Liu Huaizhao agreed in a low voice, gave the dark blue one to Wei Zhirong, who was of similar build to him, and carried the white one back to the room.
"Tsk tsk tsk." Zheng Shu, who appeared out of nowhere, looked at Qin Zunyue and shook his head repeatedly.
"You're almost there. Once you're packed, go wait at the door." Qin Zunyue couldn't stand it anymore and left in a hurry.
He was so busy looking for clothes for Liu Huaizhao in the morning that he had no time to change himself. When he hurriedly changed his clothes and prepared to go to the palace gate, he happened to meet Liu Huaizhao who had deliberately lingered until now.
Although the clothes of Fushan Kingdom and the clothes Liu Huaizhao wears on a daily basis are both ancient costumes, the styles are completely different. It’s just that Liu Huaizhao is good-looking, so they look just as good and elegant in them.
Qin Zunyue didn't know what words to use to describe him. Like... a clear spring? Or moonlight?
He didn't know how intense his gaze was. Liu Huaizhao felt uneasy under his gaze and had no choice but to interrupt his gaze: "Let's hurry up, we should be the only two left."
Seeing Qin Zunyue retract his gaze after hearing this, Liu Huaizhao breathed a sigh of relief, but he also didn't like this kind of silent atmosphere, so he took the initiative to find a topic, "The reason why you couldn't use your spiritual power freely before was because there was no pure energy in the world. Yesterday was too chaotic and I forgot about it. If the method that Brother Mu taught you is the same as what I taught you, I'm afraid our happiness would be in vain."
"Relax. When I met him this morning, he told me that the time-stopping formation had been activated. We won't waste much time here. If his method works, that's great. If not, we can just find a beautiful place to rest for the night."
Qin Zunyue spoke at a slow pace, but he was able to easily calm Liu Huaizhao's slightly impatient mood.
"Well, let's make the best of it."
While they were talking, they arrived at the palace gate, and sure enough, they were the only two left.
"Sorry, we are late." Liu Huaizhao said.
Qiao Lang couldn't tell what was going on between the two of them, so he said nonchalantly, "Why are you two walking so slowly for just two steps?"
"It's fine as long as everyone is here. Um... Miss Lingxin, please lead the way." Zheng Shu pushed Qiao Lang, then took two steps back and walked beside Qin Zunyue.
"What's going on?" Zheng Shu asked in a low voice.
"What's going on?" Qin Zunyue glanced at her, not understanding what she was talking about.
"You and Liu Huaizhao, what were you doing just now?"
"What else can we do? We should change our clothes. We just happened to meet on the way."
"Really?" Zheng Shu looked doubtful. "The atmosphere between you two was not right just now."
"What's wrong?" Qin Zunyue asked humbly.
Zheng Shu fell silent. After thinking for a while, he answered him, "I can't really say. Anyway, Liu Huaizhao wasn't like that when he was with us."
Like that?
Which?
Qin Zunyue subconsciously looked in the direction of Liu Huaizhao.
He was talking to Tong Le with his head down. Qin Zunyue looked left and right, but couldn't see any difference between him now and when he was walking with him just now.
So he wanted to turn around and ask Zheng Shu to explain clearly, but found that Zheng Shu had already slipped away to Wei Zhirong.
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Ling Xin brought them to the palace from yesterday, but this time they did not go to the bedroom but to the main hall, where Mu Cheng was already waiting.
"Did you sleep well last night, my friends?"
There was still a smile on his face, making people feel like spring breeze.
Several people nodded repeatedly, and Tong Le asked: "Brother Mu, did we light any incense where we sleep? We slept so well last night."
"Really?" Mu Cheng smiled. "I asked someone to light some calming incense. I use it often, and it's really effective."
After chatting for a while, Liu Huaizhao stepped forward and expressed his concerns.
Mu Cheng thought for a moment and said, "Actually, I'm just an ordinary person. I don't know much about anything other than formations. The method I know is indeed the same as what you said."
Seeing everyone's slightly disappointed expressions, Mu Cheng changed the subject, "But I have some notes that Kong Yi left behind. Perhaps there's a way to crack it."
After Mu Cheng finished speaking, he took them to the side palace where Kong Yi once lived.
Along the way, they saw many idle palaces, but they were not particularly desolate. Each one was planted with various flowers and trees.
"How is it? Every flower and tree along this road was planted by me personally."
"Oh my god! Really? That's amazing." Tong Le opened his mouth wide, looking at the countless flowers in front of him, "What a huge project this must have taken."
"Ever since they knew I was different from ordinary people, the concubines and the emperor's brothers who originally lived in the palace all found excuses to move out. I'm the only one left in this deep palace. I can only find some entertainment to pass the time. I thought life was only a few decades long, but who knew I would be trapped here for a thousand years." He laughed bitterly, his hand gently brushing over a blooming peony. "But it's not all bad. After the formation was activated, this place lost the sun and moon, and there are no four seasons. However, the flowers are unaffected and can bloom brilliantly at any time. If it weren't for this formation, I'm afraid I wouldn't have seen so many flowers blooming at the same time in my lifetime."
Everyone nodded in agreement. There were all kinds of flowers in the yard. Even if they didn't bloom in the same season, they all bloomed together, creating a lively scene with clusters of flowers.
The palace where Kong Yi lived before was not far from Mu Cheng's main hall. The palace was very clean and it was obvious that someone came to clean it frequently.
The servant who had been following them silently stepped forward quickly and opened the door for them.
The hall was also spotlessly clean, without a speck of dust, but the open book on the table and the Cuju behind the door were placed casually in the room, as if the owner of the room had only left temporarily.
"At that time, Xiao Yi figured out how to eliminate the turbid monster and left in a hurry. I thought he would be back soon, so I didn't ask anyone to pack up these things. I wanted to make sure he didn't put them in the wrong place and it would be inconvenient for him to find them."
Mu Cheng picked up the Cuju from the ground, weighed it in his hand, and handed it along with the book on the table to the attendant beside him, "Put it away."
After the attendant took the things, Mu Cheng sighed slightly and led them to the other side. "This is the study I prepared for him. He often writes and draws here, but I can't really understand what he writes."
The study is much messier than the outside, with papers covered with writings and various books everywhere.
After getting Mu Cheng's permission, Qin Zunyue picked up a piece of waste paper thrown on the ground.
The paper was filled with words he couldn't understand, and there were many blacked-out areas. He could clearly feel the writer's chaotic thoughts.
Mu Cheng searched the bookshelf for a while and finally found what they needed this time.
"He wrote this a long time ago. I heard him mention it before. He said it could make it easy for mortals to kill turbid demons... Take a look. Does it contain what you need?"
Liu Huaizhao took the somewhat damaged notebook and looked through it carefully.
But the more he looked at it, the more he felt something was wrong, so he took out the half-finished ancient book in his arms.
"What are you doing with this?" Tong Le asked curiously. Then, a flash of inspiration struck him, and he exclaimed in surprise, "Could this be the other half of this ancient book?"
"No." Liu Huaizhao didn't say anything more, just compared them carefully.
After a long while, he closed the two books, took a deep breath, and said, "Although the handwriting has changed a bit, judging from the writing style, this ancient book seems to have been written by Kong Yi."
"Hiss—is that such a coincidence?" Qiao Lang scratched his hair.
"What are you talking about?" Mu Cheng asked.
Liu Huaizhao handed him the ancient book in his hand, and Tong Le added some information about the ancient book.
After carefully reading a few pages, Mu Cheng said excitedly, "Yes, this is indeed what Xiao Yi wrote. All the formations in it are what I once taught him."
Unexpectedly, the formation they set up for the safe city was actually created by Mu Cheng.
Qin Zunyue thanked Mu Cheng solemnly. If Mu Cheng had not taught Kong Yi these things, and if they had not obtained this ancient book written by Kong Yi by chance, who knows how long the safe city would have been troubled by the turbid monster.
While the few of them were chatting, Liu Huaizhao had been immersed in studying the book that Kong Yi had left behind. The many spells in the book had benefited him greatly, but it also made Liu Huaizhao even more curious about that dream. What kind of dream could allow a mortal to know so many wonderful immortal spells when there were no immortal cultivators in the world...
As he was thinking, he flipped through the pages carefully. Suddenly, he saw a line of small words in the gap between the books. He carefully opened the book and saw a talisman drawn inside. The talisman made him feel familiar, so he stretched out his finger and gently touched the talisman.
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