Half Immortal
Jiang Jingyuan closed his eyes.
When she opened her eyes again, she saw an interior room of a house that was completely different from the previous one.
The layout of the room was completely different from the previous one covered with fiery red curtains. Rays of sunlight streamed into the room through the window lattices, making the interior look very fresh and elegant.
"Is this an illusion?"
Jiang Jingyuan pinched herself. The scenery before her eyes remained unchanged. She stood up from the bed and walked around the room, touching the furnishings inside. She thought to herself, "It seems this isn't an illusion."
——She said that the bride was obviously more than one level higher than the groom, so how could it not have any effect.
"But, what's so special about this room?" Jiang Jingyuan walked back and forth and looked at the house, touching things one by one, but still didn't find anything unusual.
All she could make out was that it was probably a girl's room.
Moreover, the owner of this house should have a very cold temperament. The room is decorated with calligraphy and paintings, and the vase is just elegantly painted with wintersweet. At first glance, there is not a single gorgeous decoration in the room.
She walked into the inner room and looked at the dressing table. There was no cosmetics on the table, only a gold and silver hairpin placed in front of the bronze mirror.
Jiang Jingyuan took a step back, wanting to take another look at the room. Suddenly, her gaze froze, and she looked down at the wooden floor beneath her feet. She tentatively stomped her feet twice, then stepped aside and stomped twice more, and suddenly she understood.
Moving the stool in front of the dressing table, Jiang Jingyuan leaned over and fumbled around between the wooden boards on the floor, muttering to himself, "I can't pry it open. Where's the mechanism?"
She was not the owner of this room, and she didn't know whether the owner would choose to place the mechanism within easy reach or in an inconspicuous distance.
Jiang Jingyuan thought for a moment and found that he could only search the entire room inch by inch from the surrounding area.
Thinking about this, Jiang Jingyuan looked up at the dressing table in front of him.
However, there weren't many things on the dressing table. When he opened the drawer, there were only a few delicate but not overly luxurious hairpins in it. "Nothing special..." Jiang Jingyuan seemed to be thinking about something and closed the drawer with his hand.
She stood in front of the table and looked at it for a while. Just as she was about to leave, she suddenly reached out to grab the exquisite bronze mirror on the wooden table. She grabbed the sides of the mirror with both hands and tried to lift it.
"Well……"
Jiang Jingyuan's facial features wrinkled, and her pale face suddenly turned a little red because of the exertion.
But she tried twice but failed to lift the bronze mirror. Jiang Jingyuan loosened her grip, exhaled silently, and walked to the side of the bronze mirror.
It was not until she stood at this angle and took a closer look that she discovered that a design on the back of the bronze mirror was actually connected to the wall behind the dressing table.
Jiang Jingyuan thought about it, reached out and grabbed the bronze mirror, and tentatively turned it to the side.
Amidst the dull sound of a mechanism turning, a piece of floor in front of the dressing table gradually sank.
Jiang Jingyuan continued to turn the bronze mirror in his hand, and the sunken floor shrank in one direction, revealing a stone staircase extending downward into the darkness.
Jiang Jingyuan withdrew his hand, walked to the stone steps, took out a night pearl from the storage space and threw it down.
The crisp sound of jade colliding continued downwards, and the sound coming up became softer and softer. The faint light of the night pearls that continued to fall illuminated the stone roads and stone walls one by one, and finally only a ball of faint light lit up in the depths of the darkness.
"It's quite deep." Jiang Jingyuan thought for a moment, took out the lantern, and walked down the stone steps.
Walking underground, she found that the stone path was much wider than it looked from above. The stone path looked deep, but in fact, she picked up the night pearl after walking for a while.
When he reached the end of the stone steps, Jiang Jingyuan saw a straight passage ahead.
Walking along the stone path, it became wider and wider. Jiang Jingyuan seemed to smell a faint fishy smell as he walked along it. He couldn't help but feel more and more curious: "Why did the owner of that room build this secret passage underground?"
Looking at the house above, although the decoration is not gorgeous, it can be clearly seen that it belongs to a young lady from a wealthy family. Why would such a young lady from a wealthy family build such a secret passage?
Jiang Jingyuan thought as he walked, "And she's not avoiding anyone. The trap is very obvious, she doesn't intend to avoid anyone at all..."
"Uh..." Jiang Jingyuan's thoughts suddenly paused. "Perhaps it wasn't this young lady's idea. After all, even a young lady from an aristocratic family would find it difficult to build such a secret passage without being noticed. Was that the idea of the patriarch or someone else? Why? Did they build this secret passage so that their young lady could live in the room above it, or did they build it just for this young lady?"
Countless guesses flashed through Jiang Jingyuan's mind for a moment. Finally, he shook his head secretly, came to his senses, and continued to move forward vigilantly.
The further we walked, the stronger the stench that lingered in our noses. It was a scent of blood mixed with a stench of decay, and a faint, strange smell that seemed to be masked by a large amount of spices. It wasn't nauseating, but it was still very disgusting.
Both fragrant and smelly!
——It’s hard to imagine that there is a bedroom above such a strange and stinking place.
"Does the lady living in that room know all this?" Jiang Jingyuan's face was unusually ugly. She was afraid of missing out on any clues, so she didn't use the Turtle Breathing Talisman to block her sense of smell. She had to endure the strong mixture of stench and perfume, her brows furrowed for a long time without relaxing.
Jiang Jingyuan felt that she definitely couldn't stand having such a haunted place under her room.
Suddenly, the darkness ahead twisted. Jiang Jingyuan stopped abruptly, and his right hand under his sleeve clenched the aqua-blue plum blossom sleeve arrow made of ice.
"roar……"
A low, faint howl, like that of some animal, sounded from the front.
The orange-red flame illuminated a space in the darkness. In the faint afterglow, a withered human hand "snapped" and grasped the black iron bars with mottled rust.
Jiang Jingyuan's pupils shrank, and he tried his best to restrain himself from retreating, his eyes fixed on the hand.
There were several bird feathers covered with yellow pus stuck on the back of the hand, which were about to fall off!
At the edge of the swaying orange-red faint light, an old face with mottled and black skin peeked out.
The two white eyeballs, which looked yellow due to the firelight, began to roll around, as if they were extremely unfamiliar. The eyeballs rolled back and forth several times before two black pupils appeared, looking at the girl in white clothes shrouded in the firelight.
The face of an old man with wrinkles and mottled skin suddenly came forward. With a soft "bang", the face was squeezed between the black rusty iron bars and shook violently, as if trying to squeeze out from behind the bars.
"roar……"
Jiang Jingyuan heard it clearly this time. The faint howl that seemed to be made by some animal actually came from this person's mouth.
“What the hell is this…!”
As Jiang Jingyuan brought the light closer and saw the man's full appearance, her mind buzzed. In an instant, all her previous guesses were shattered by the hellish scene before her.
The old-faced man she saw had a mottled complexion, and from his neck down he was gradually covered with bird down and feathers, which became thicker and thicker, as if he were wearing a heavy feather cloak.
His two withered human hands were grasping the iron bars, and feathers gradually covered his arms from his wrists, and even bird flight feathers grew on them, like a pair of wings covered in yellow pus.
Jiang Jingyuan's gaze slowly slid downwards, feeling somewhat frightened.
The man's thick feather cloak covered his calves, and below that was the loose down of birds, which were now clinging to the shriveled skin of his calves in strands.
His legs and feet were still roughly human-shaped, but so withered that at first glance they looked like a pair of giant bird claws, dark and covered with yellowish-brown dirt.
Jiang Jingyuan tried hard to divert her gaze from the thing in front of her, who she didn't know whether it was still a human or not. She held up the lantern and shone it on the iron bars in front of her. Only then did she realize that what was in front of her was not an iron bar like a prison, but a huge square iron cage!
"roar……"
There was another low whistling sound, but this time it came from not far behind her.
Jiang Jingyuan clenched the lantern in his hand, no longer paying attention to the person in front of him who was shaking the iron bars, and turned around to continue walking forward on the stone path.
As she walked along, she saw countless huge iron cages on both sides of the stone road, with winged people imprisoned in the cages.
The people in the iron cages were wearing feather capes, some had layers of feathers hanging from their hands like wings, and some had a pair of giant bird wings on their backs...
It is so weird that it makes people feel surprised and terrified.
"What on earth are they doing..." Jiang Jingyuan watched these scenes, with only this thought echoing in his mind for a long time.
Amidst countless low whistles and the clanging sounds of desperately shaking iron bars, Jiang Jingyuan reached the end of the stone path, where there was a well-repaired stone house.
Jiang Jingyuan placed a circle of candles in the stone house to light up the entire room.
The room was very spacious. At first glance, one could see a stone bed in the center of the room. The stone bed was covered with black-red blood and yellow pus, which had not yet been cleaned. Not far from the stone bed were two huge brass alchemy furnaces, with dried herbs and debris scattered around them.
Turning his sight again, Jiang Jingyuan saw piles of papers and notebooks placed messily on a long stone table by the wall, with a few pieces of paper dropped to the ground. It seemed like someone was in a hurry and messed up the papers and notebooks on the table, and left before they had time to sort them out.
Jiang Jingyuan approached the stone table, picked up a piece of paper from the ground, and carefully read the lines of words written on it in the orange-red firelight. The words on the paper were written in a graceful and beautiful style, but they were difficult to decipher. Jiang Jingyuan lowered his head to study it carefully, but could only guess and guess.
"The ancient method... is incomplete... Beigui Shuangque... The Yu Tu Sect believes that the ancient method is not feasible... Feathered People, can be integrated..."
Unable to make out the two lines, Jiang Jingyuan frowned and looked down. A quick glance stopped at the four characters. Jiang Jingyuan's pupils twitched, and he unconsciously uttered, "Eternal Immortality."
Immortal... Feathered...
Jiang Jingyuan's heart suddenly skipped a beat and then began to beat rapidly: "So, this is researching the method of immortality?!"
"Northern Return to Shuangque..." Jiang Jingyuan recalled the rumors he had heard in Ling County a few months ago.
A demigod appeared in Beigui Shuangque!
Really?
Did Beigui Shuangque really find the way to immortality?!
Jiang Jingyuan couldn't help but clench his fingers holding the paper, and the yellowed paper suddenly wrinkled.
The girl lowered her head with an unclear expression on her face and dark eyes, and it was unknown what she was thinking.
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