Chapter 279: Cold Corpse Bones
The Demon King said, "But Priest, listen to me! I swear! Those scales don't have much effect. They are just old skin, and their effectiveness has long since degraded!"
"Okay."
Ruan Wei responded lazily.
Then.
She raised her eyebrows. Her pupils were dark, and when she stared at someone closely, there was a sense of coercion in her eyes.
Ruan Wei asked, "What is the third prophecy?"
The Demon King cleared his throat:
"The third sentence."
"Mars is reincarnated, and the remnant soul of the bone harp is fighting against it."
The Demon King continued, "Yinghuo refers to Mars, the fire symbol—the tree in the Prison Ox Secret Realm, and the priest's previous preference for magic tools with fire attributes."
"Does the water mirror look familiar to you, sir? We put it there."
Ruan Wei was shocked, "You guys put it there?"
Qin Luo nodded, "Grandpa put it in secretly, and that's what the priestess said. She said that if we find the Prison Ox Secret Realm, we must put that mirror in there."
Ruan Wei, "The water mirror belongs to the priest?"
Qin Luo nodded, "Yes."
Ruan Wei was really about to be confused by herself.
The water mirror that was originally in his hand was given to the demon clan by him, and he asked the demon clan to place it in the Qiuniu Secret Realm. Later... for some unknown reason, it came into the hands of Chi Jin, who had become the Demon Lord by then.
hiss.
Ruan Wei couldn't help but think.
Is the person she predicted really herself?
In the previous timeline, Ruan Wei himself died early!
How did Chi Jin get that water mirror?
Chen Yuan popped his head up, "And——"
"Originally, everyone thought guqin referred to an ancient zither. Later, I brought Qin Luo back. With my brother's example, we knew that bone zither was also guqin."
"This is the only bone harp I know of that's related to Qiuniu. And you're the only one who can play it."
"Since then, Ruan Wei... No, Master Priest."
Chen Yuan smiled and changed his words, "I've been eyeing you since a long time ago."
"The more I look at your image stone, the more I feel that you have many similarities with the priests of my tribe."
Ruan Wei paused.
This seems a bit... too much effort.
If the person chosen to be helped was actually me, there would be no need to go through so much trouble to leave a riddle.
unless.
She wasn't sure at all who would be able to fulfill these conditions.
Ruan Wei always felt that she had gained this new life because of the sacrifice of her fellow disciples and her desperate calculations.
In fact, she shouldn't have an afterlife.
Ruan Wei felt that if she were in that situation, she would not leave herself any chance of survival.
So.
Who did she choose?
Fire element, Chi Jin has fire spiritual roots, if you must lean towards this, Wu Yu’s thunder spiritual roots are also fire.
As for Gu Qin, everyone in Penglai has seen her Youying.
As for Shui Jing...it must be Chi Jin.
It turned out to be a long time ago.
She made her choice.
Ruan Wei suddenly raised her eyes and looked at Chen Yuan. Her voice was a little dry:
"What does residual soul mean?"
Ruan Wei had a guess in his mind.
She glanced at Qin Luo and said nothing.
The smile on Chen Yuan's lips paused, and he turned his head away.
Ruan Wei felt more and more uneasy. She opened her mouth and asked, "Is it..."
"right."
Qin Luo took over the conversation. He looked at Ruan Wei, a hint of hesitation flashed in his eyes, but he still said:
"In these years, only one Qiuniu has died."
The wind blew by, and the wind in the demon world was not gentle. Perhaps the wind and rain also followed the local customs, being rough but also slightly gentle.
The strong wind blew up the corners of Qin Luo's clothes and wrinkled his skirt.
Qin Luo said softly: "That is my father's secret realm."
"After his death, his bones were made into a harp, and his soul was imprisoned in a secret realm."
Therefore, the phantom of the imprisoned ox behind the stone gate appears so real, because the soul consciousness suppressed by the secret realm is a real imprisoned ox, although it is already dead.
Ruan Wei is rarely good at speaking.
She pursed her lips and found that she didn't even have anything to say to comfort him.
because.
She is a bystander.
Since the priest predicted the Prison Ox Secret Realm, it means that she has always been aware of the fact that Qin Luo's father will die, but she did not take any measures, but let the incident happen coldly.
Ruan Wei's voice was carried by the wind. "Who did it?"
She suddenly closed her eyes.
This was a sign of Ruan Wei's guilty conscience. She was not sure whether she was so cruel.
Ruan Wei was very unsure about his own moral standards.
Qin Luo, "Don't worry, sister, it's not you."
The Demon King also said, "Don't worry, Master Priest. I searched his soul when I went to that secret realm. My eldest son is truly unlucky. You are not to blame."
Ruan Wei: "Soul search? What did you see?"
The Demon King snorted coldly: "It was the demons who did it."
Chen Yuan's tone became extremely cold, he clenched his fists, his eyes filled with coldness:
"The leader of the Four Emperors of the Demon Realm, Yu Qunqing!"
"My brother was on his way back to the demon world with his wife and children when he was intercepted and killed by him. Because the laws in Tongzhou of your spiritual race are very strict and they take the disappearance of female cultivators very seriously, he sent Yaniang's body back to the town and gave the infant Qin Luo to Qin Niang to raise."
Ruan Wei was a little confused. After thinking about it, she asked, "Why didn't he kill Qin Luo?"
If you don't remove the roots of the grass, it will grow again in the spring breeze.
Just like Ruan He failed to kill her and her brother at the beginning, and as the two of them grew up, Ruan He would inevitably be killed in return.
The Demon King Yu Qunqing shouldn't make such a low-level mistake.
"Oh."
Chen Yuan sneered, "Because one prisoner ox bone can only be made into one harp."
"Yu Qunqing, that madman!"
"For some reason, he's become obsessed with music in recent years, and he's been collecting guqin instruments everywhere. My brother was just passing by, and he was killed and his bones taken out. Scum!!! I'm going to kill him sooner or later!!"
"He saw that Qin Luo was a half-demon."
Chen Yuan paused, thinking he also felt strange: "I don't know why, but he was let go at that time. Yu Qunqing asked Old Lady Qin to raise the child well and come back to take the bones when he grows up."
Ruan Wei still felt puzzled. "If he took the bones to make a zither, why didn't he take them away?"
It's a good deal for myself.
Chen Yuan had a look on his face that said, "You are really ignorant." "Youying is a zither, and it also needs to be concerned about feelings. Leaving my brother with Yaniang is the true way to nourish the zither."
He said speechlessly: "Didn't you see that Youying's body was full of silver light?"
"I watched." Ruan Wei was confused.
Chen Yuan, "That's the essence of the cold corpse bones. It's the color that can only be seen after being frozen for hundreds of years."
"But my brother and the others didn't bury it for that long. It's probably because of the spirit gathering array that accelerated the ripening."
Chen Yuan looked at her with great pride. "How does it work? I heard that musical instruments that have been imbued with the Cold Corpse Bone Essence will have the ability to communicate yin and yang. Have you tried it?"
Ruan Wei, “…”
Oh shit.
I can’t keep this piano anymore!
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