Everyone was terrified and hid behind their backs with their sleeves covering their faces.
"What's going on? Where does the wind come from?"
"It's so weird. This evil wind blowing in the middle of the night makes me feel cold inside."
Xuanyuan Chengyin stood up calmly and said to the people around him, "The wind is too strong. Let's work together to close the door."
He walked against the wind, and the people of Xuanyuan Chengyin's faction quickly stood up and followed him, walking towards the door with difficulty. Apart from the emperor, the only people left at the banquet were Xiao Changan and those sorcerers.
Oh, there is also a Taoist priest coming from Qingqi City.
Those Taoists did not forget the purpose of their visit to the capital, and they intended to get close to Xiao Changan. When they saw the chaos at the banquet, they knew their chance had come.
No one knew who started it first, but Xiao Changan was stabbed several times in the dark. Before anyone else noticed, he fell to the ground, holding his chest.
"Boom!" A bolt of thunder suddenly fell, making people's ears buzz, and directly split a big hole in the roof of Changle Palace.
Everyone was shattered and fled in all directions.
However, they had just taken a few steps when more and denser thunder struck down from above, like sharp knives scattered by God, carrying endless power and destructive force, leaving people nowhere to escape.
The first to suffer were the people around Xiao Changan.
Unfortunately, the warlocks around him became the first targets to be sacrificed. Several of them were struck by lightning on the spot, and fell to the ground trembling, with expressions of astonishment and fear still on their faces, and finally they could not move.
"Protect the emperor, protect the emperor!" The emperor panicked: "Jiuli, come and save me!" However, there was already chaos inside, and his voice was drowned out by the screams of the crowd, and no one could hear it.
The Taoist priest from Qingqi City ran away in panic, shouting, "It's Xiao Changan! He's dead, and he's attracted the thunder!"
What he said attracted everyone's attention.
Just then, another thunder sounded. In the bright light of lightning, everyone looked in the direction of Xiao Changan in fear. Sure enough, Xiao Changan was lying in a pool of blood, with several shining daggers stuck in his back.
If it were just this, everyone would just think that he was ambushed and unfortunately died, but the strange thing was that there was dense thunder and lightning in the area where Xiao Changan was, but it deliberately avoided his body. Even the broken tiles could not fall on him, as if there was an invisible film separating him from the surroundings.
"What's going on?"
"Xiao Changan is a devil, Xiao Changan is a devil, everyone run!"
Everyone screamed and rushed towards the door, but the wind was so strong that it blew in from the door, making it difficult for them to move.
Jiuli stood indifferently at the door, with the sound of wind whistling in his ears. Apart from helping the prince and his supporters to get out, he didn't care about the life or death of others.
This was Xiao Changan's fault and it was not his fault.
He heard the emperor crying out: "Jiuli, Jiuli, come and save me, I'm here, I'm here!"
Everyone was busy with their own affairs and no one came to save him.
Xiao Chang'an slowly rose from the ground amid thunder. In the horrified eyes of everyone, he turned into a monster with a sheep's face and a human body, bathed in lightning.
Xuanyuan Chengyin stood outside Changle Palace, swaying in the wind. Hearing the cries and shouts from inside, he felt so grief-stricken that he wanted to rush in: "Father, Father hasn't come out yet. I want to go back and save him."
"Your Highness, it's dangerous inside. You can't go." The Grand Tutor brought someone to hold Xuanyuan Chengyin Sisi in his arms. "Your Majesty, you are blessed by heaven. You will be fine."
"Yes, yes, Xiao Changan is still inside."
When Xiao Changan was mentioned, everyone fell silent.
"What on earth is that? I was walking slowly just now, and I thought I saw a monster with a goat's face and a human body..."
"I saw it too. Have you seen the bodies on the streets of the capital? Over twenty of them, all killed by lightning. Could this be related to today's vision?"
"It's hard to say. Since Xiao Changan came to prominence two years ago, I have never heard of any Taoist magic he knows." An official said, touching his chin.
"I find it strange too. No matter how well a person hides himself, there will always be some clues. But there was no sign that Xiao Changan knew Taoism in the past ten years. It's like he suddenly became a different person and suddenly learned it." said another official.
"We are all knowledgeable people, but none of us have heard of the method of borrowing life. It's not just us. I asked before the banquet, and even the people from Qingqi City have never heard of the art of borrowing life." Another official frowned.
Everyone fell silent. After thinking for a moment, someone asked, "Could it be that he has been possessed by a wandering ghost?"
As soon as these words were spoken, many people nodded in agreement. Only in this way could the strange phenomenon happening to Xiao Changan be reasonably explained.
On a night of thunder and lightning, Xuanyuan Chengyin tightened the bottle hidden in his sleeve in a place where no one could see, looked in the direction of Jiuli, and a dim light flashed in his eyes.
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Puring Temple.
Yun Yuan waited for a long time, and finally waited until the moment when the Lingxi Stone changed color. She suddenly raised her head and her eyes were fixed on the statue.
The moment she looked up, the light of faith on the statue seemed to be pulled, turning into a thin line and floating towards the direction of the palace. Then the sky became gloomy, the wind and clouds changed, and lightning and thunder flashed.
Yun Yuan looked at the statue for a while, then looked at the place where thunder was heard in the distance.
As time passed, the power of the thunder and lightning weakened, and the light of the statue became weaker and weaker, until only a faint light was left. Then the thunder and lightning disappeared, and everything returned to calm.
The sky was turning pale and a new day began.
Yun Yuan carefully observed the statue and finally came to the conclusion: If the power of faith is not replenished, the remaining faith in the statue at this time is not enough to support Xiao Changan's rebirth again.
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