Chapter 113 Chapter 113 (Two in One) Just need to...
The window panes creaked in the night wind, and the black pool water splashed with a cold sound a few meters below me.
The heavy object thrown into the water continued to sink, and a string of bubbles rose upwards, and in an instant they swam around as if they had come to life.
The red candle in Bai Qingqing's hand burned, and the wax continued to melt and fall along the tilted angle, condensing into substance in the wind.
She stared at the dark water for a while, feeling the unusual breath spreading under her feet. She sneered, raised her head, and looked at Zan Fang across the lotus pond filled with human heads for dozens of meters, and made a series of gestures to him.
The others were puzzled and could not see clearly the gestures she made as they passed by under the candlelight.
As they were asking, they saw Zan Fang nodded, suddenly squatted in front of them, and opened the black bag he was carrying.
He lowered his head and took out various objects one after another, lined them up on the ground, and finally took out a bronze mirror wrapped in black cloth with both hands, removed the black cloth, and placed it in the center of the pile of magic tools.
The clear mirror was placed on the ground, reflecting the flames in the sky.
Bao Zishi was originally putting his hands together, praying for Buddha's blessing.
Seeing Zan Fang posing as if he was about to worship the gods, he stopped praying, stretched his neck to look in the mirror, and asked him with the other three equally curious people: "Master, what are we doing now? Do you want us to do anything?"
Pu Yueling nodded as he spoke, showing that she was absolutely willing to cooperate with the arrangement, and also asked aloud: "What did Qingqing's two gestures mean just now?"
Chen Rui was puzzled: "This mirror is placed in the middle, is it for... offering a mirror?"
The three of them each asked a question, and they asked cautiously, fearing that saying too much would disturb Zan Fang's practice. But if they didn't ask, they really couldn't understand the current situation and felt unsure.
Among the four, only Jiang Muning was calmer. He stretched out his hand to stop them and led the three of them back a step to avoid disturbing Zan Fang.
Jiang Mu Ning said calmly: "Don't worry, the Taoist priest said that we are in an illusion, and what we see now is the evil spirit confusing our minds. If the Taoist priest has any plans for us, he will definitely tell us.
In short, we should keep our minds stable and not be confused by illusions."
The three of them adjusted their mental state.
Chen Rui took a deep breath, trying to regulate his heartbeat. After a few deep breaths, his heart rate actually stabilized a lot.
He would have been quite scared before, but now Sister Qing was right across the street at Shen Yu’s former residence, so the voice she called out to them just now sounded very steady.
Chen Ruihao felt that his heart was half settled.
Last time, Jiang Mu Ning was taken away by the evil soldiers, but Sister Qing was able to bring her back. So today’s little incident is nothing!
Don’t panic!
With his heartbeat steady, he opened his eyes again and looked towards the other side, searching for Bai Qingqing.
The person who was holding the red candle and standing by the window just now disappeared, taking away the only light on the other side. I couldn't help but tremble in my heart, pointing at that place and asking, "Where is Sister Qing?"
Zan Fang, who was setting up the altar, looked up when he heard the voice. Bao Zishi looked around and pointed at a figure that flashed by in the southeast: "It seems to be there!"
"So fast..." Pu Yueling sighed as she followed Bai Qingqing's figure.
Bai Qingqing seemed to be rushing towards them.
Pu Yueling's heartbeat had calmed down by now. As the only psychic among the four, she felt that she couldn't panic like them. She had to at least help. She calmed herself down and asked Zan Fang, "Master, is there anything I can do?"
Zan Fang had already finished his actions. He knelt on one knee on the ground and lit two red candles while answering their questions: "Not yet. You just need to keep your mind calm."
"We are now in an illusion. If we want to break through it, we must find the center of the formation or the owner of the illusion. However, this illusion is strange. I can't feel the evil spirit, and the compass is useless. These two methods are not feasible."
A pair of red candles were lit, and Zan Fang extinguished the match in his hand.
Recalling the hand gestures that Bai Qingqing had made to him across the river, he took out the cinnabar brush, bent his waist even lower, and wrote the talisman on the ground.
"Just now, Bai Qingqing meant to use a ritual to connect the heaven and earth in this fantasy world and create a passage so that we can find a way out ourselves."
I just don't know what she threw into the water.
He always had a bad feeling in his heart.
Chen Rui opened his eyes wide, and imitated Bai Qingqing's gesture of shaking his hands twice, and said in a surprised tone: "Can you figure out the meaning from this?"
Baozi took a real picture of Chen Rui. It seems that he is a little too relaxed now. Please be quiet and don't disturb Taoist Zan.
"So this Bagua mirror is the passage..." Pu Yueling suddenly realized.
She did feel the spiritual energy around her, as if there was a pair of eyes watching them everywhere, evenly spread over every inch of space.
Everyone recalled the first episode, when Chen Jian came and went through a mirror. At that time, Zan Fang said that the mirror was another world.
It’s just a mirror in an illusion, isn’t it reflecting another illusory world?
While several people were talking, Jiang Muning stood silently at the back, still seizing the opportunity to contact E01.
No one knows what is behind this, but as long as she exists in this small world, she cannot escape the control of heaven. It is only a matter of time before E01 contacts her. It just takes some time.
At the moment, she was calm and could look at the crowd without blinking. She held her breath and shouted in her heart: "101, can you hear me? E01?!"
〖……rather……,,〗
“Pah.”
"What are you looking at?"
Jiang Muning's shoulders trembled, and she felt a hand falling on her left shoulder. Bai Qingqing's voice came close to her left ear. The two were so close that she could almost feel the heat radiating from her skin after her intense running.
This kind of touch is intimate.
Their relationship was not good, and Bai Qingqing never interacted with her like this. Jiang Muning frowned and did not answer for a moment, thinking that she was a little strange.
Fortunately, Bai Qingqing took her hand off her shoulder the next second, and only stayed there for a short while.
She breathed a sigh of relief, and following the brief sound E01 had just made, she stared at Bai Qingqing as she walked into the crowd, and asked herself in her mind, "E01, did you hear me? I heard your voice just now."
The response in my mind fell silent again.
Jiang Muning sighed, but what she just heard was definitely not an illusion. E01 must be looking for a way to contact her. She believed that everything would return to normal in a while.
"Sister Qing!"
"Qingqing."
Chen Ruihao and Pu Yueling came over with a cheer. Bao Zishi let out a breath, opened his hands that were clasped in prayer, and smiled innocently.
Everyone was excited and relieved about Bai Qingqing's return. They gathered around her and looked at Taoist Zan who was drawing talismans on the ground. They felt that their two backbones had returned.
Zan Fang stood up with the two talismans he had drawn, looked at Bai Qingqing, nodded slightly to greet her, and asked directly, "What did you throw into the water just now?"
"Well, just a little thing. We'll talk about it later." Bai Qingqing lowered her eyes and looked at the altar that Zan Fang had placed on the ground. She followed the direction of the Bagua mirror and glanced at the lotus pond in front. She raised her fingertips twice, then turned sideways and reached back, took Zan Fang's wrist, looked at the yellow talisman he was holding, and quickly let go of his hand.
She raised her chin towards the pond and said, "Feel something coming."
Zan Fang nodded and took a step forward.
〖…Ningningbao…are you…okay?〗
Chen Ruihao and the other two looked towards the pond, but didn't see anything, so they huddled together in fear.
Bai Qingqing turned around and glanced at the people behind her, finally landing her sight on Jiang Muning.
Jiang Muning was looking at the water surface. Hearing E01's voice, he was delighted. "I'm fine. What's going on now? What's behind this? How can I get out?"
"Don't worry... I've checked if there's any danger... The exit is still there..." The voice in his mind was intermittent, but the meaning was basically conveyed. Jiang Muning felt relieved, met Bai Qingqing's gaze, and smiled at her.
Bai Qingqing turned back and looked at the water again: "Here it comes."
The sky lanterns in the sky were almost burned out, the light in the lotus pond was dim, and the surging heads of people were pushed to the shore by the waves. The sound of the water seemed to be stirred by something and became louder.
Bai Qingqing and Zan looked into the water. The other four also mustered up their courage and moved towards the water's edge. They saw what seemed to be thin creatures swimming in the water, sometimes gathering and sometimes dispersing, surrounding the human heads in groups underwater.
"Is it a fish?" Baozishi took a step forward, took a quick look underwater and asked softly, but was afraid to look into the eyes of those people with their eyes open, so he quickly shrank back behind the crowd.
He was so frightened that he clasped his hands together in front of his chest again, muttering a prayer while adjusting his breathing.
"Like... tadpoles?" Pu Yueling opened her eyes wide and looked into the water, but she didn't think it looked like one.
As the two were talking, they saw black creatures in the water climbing up the people's heads and gathering at an extremely fast speed on the open eyes of the people. They surged densely, expanded their bodies in an instant, flipped over, and flew towards the shore. The moment they landed, they turned into black toads and jumped towards the people on the shore.
"Ah!" Chen Ruihao screamed and took several steps back.
Pu Yueling's scalp went numb, and she almost vomited. She bent over and covered her mouth, not daring to move a step: "Why are there only toads? I can't stand this!"
Jiang Muning patted her on the back, feeling sick himself.
Even though I know that this illusion will not hurt anyone, I still can't withstand this kind of mental attack.
The second, the third... dozens of toads jumped onto the shore one after another and surrounded everyone in a blink of an eye.
Zan Fang replaced his hand with a long sword that shone brightly with silver light and asked Bai Qingqing, "How is it? Can you kill him?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Bai Qingqing stepped on a toad, making a dull sound on the ground.
After moving its feet away, the toad had turned into a ball of black water, with a few wisps of black gas floating upwards.
"Kill them?" Bai Qingqing laughed, "How long will it take to kill them all? Just continue to complete your ritual in peace."
After she finished speaking, she looked at the others and said, "Did you see that? If these toads get close to you, just step on them. They are all illusions. There won't even be any blood. Don't panic."
Several people watched with their own eyes as the palm-sized toad turned back into a puddle of water at Bai Qingqing's feet.
But when they saw those plump toads jumping towards them with their bellies bulging, they were still frightened and huddled together, and no one dared to stretch out their feet.
Bao Zishi put his hands together in front of his chest. He was not that afraid of such a substantial thing. After taking a deep breath, he nodded to Bai Qingqing: "Sister Qing, you and Taoist Zan should concentrate on breaking through the realm. I... I will deal with these toads."
Chen Ruihao also nodded, moved to the outside, and made up his mind: "I, I'll come too!"
Seeing that the four of them had come up with a plan, Zan Fang and Bai Qingqing looked at each other, nodded, and immediately began to break through.
Zan Fang squatted down, holding two yellow talismans with his right hand in the shape of a sword finger, and his left hand rested on the base of his right palm. He looked serious, muttered something, and turned his palm over, and the two yellow talismans ignited without fire.
He hung a burning yellow talisman on the Bagua mirror and made it circle.
Bai Qingqing stood behind him, sensing the aura around her, mobilizing the spiritual energy around her body, pinching her fingers with her left hand, and making talismans in the air with her right hand. She drew eight strokes in succession and waved them at the eight directions corresponding to the Bagua mirror.
The entire space shook, the water surface trembled a few times, and suddenly the stirring sound of water stopped.
Zan Fang sensed eight talismans being fired in succession from behind him, causing the aura of the illusion to change. He looked up in shock and turned to look at Bai Qingqing, only to see that her expression did not change at all as she drew talismans in the air and threw them into the water one after another.
In a moment of daze, she had actually drawn more than twenty talismans!
This was an illusion, his cultivation was suppressed, but Bai Qingqing was not affected?
Zan Fang was shocked, and his gaze moved back and forth between her hands and the water surface. He felt that Bai Qingqing's cultivation might have improved a lot compared to the last time in Jilin Village.
He suppressed the shock in his heart, held his breath and concentrated his mind. He formed seals with his hands in front of his chest and covered the Bagua mirror. Then he shook his right arm, and blood oozed from the three fingertips, drawing three blood marks in the middle of the Bagua mirror.
"The Supreme Star, responding to situations without stopping, exorcising evil spirits, binding demons, protecting lives and bodies..."
Zan Fang stood up and took a step, pinching the Jade Purity Seal with his hands and chanting a spell. He raised his eyes and saw the water was sometimes surging and sometimes calm, as if there was something under the water that was bound by Bai Qingqing and could not rush out.
Bao Zishi and Chen Ruihao stood on the left and right of the two girls, mustering up their courage to step on the toads that were approaching them. The four of them moved left and right together, and soon they were a few steps away from Bai Qingqing and Zan Fang.
Bai Qingqing glanced at Zan Fang, and stopped making talismans. She noticed that they had walked away, so she reached out and grabbed Bao Zishi back, "Teacher Bao, don't go too far away from us."
She then waved to the other three.
Pu Yueling quickly pushed Jiang Mu Ning and pulled Chen Ruihao back to them.
Bao Zishi smiled, but before he could say anything, a toad flew in front of them. Bao Zishi closed his eyes subconsciously, but before he could close his eyes completely, he saw Bai Qingqing raise her hand and wave it in the air. The toad turned into liquid in front of his face and fell to the ground with a patter.
Zan Fang: "...Mirror reflects the universe, breaking through delusion and returning to the truth!"
Bai Qingqing raised her hand into the air and grabbed Bao Zishi's collar, pushing him forward.
The huge body was pushed by her and staggered a few steps. He kicked over the clear water and red candles on the ground. His upper body hung on the Bagua mirror and disappeared from everyone's sight in the blink of an eye.
Pu Yueling and Chen Rui were stunned, watching a living person disappear before their eyes.
Jiang Muning opened his mouth slightly in astonishment, realizing that the passage to leave the illusion had been opened.
Zan Fang put down his hands and turned to look at Bai Qingqing. The thing under the water was tied up by her so that it couldn't come out. Although he still didn't see its true appearance, it was important to leave now.
He smiled when he saw Bai Qingqing: "It's done, let's go."
Bai Qingqing grabbed Chen Ruihao and pushed him in front of the Bagua mirror in the same way.
Jiang Muning didn't need her to do anything. He took Pu Yueling's hand and walked towards the Bagua mirror, followed by Bai Qingqing and Zan Fang.
[Wow, wow, wow…why aren’t you awake yet?]
[My heartbeat has calmed down, is it true that I fell asleep? (confused)]
[Our Chen Haohao’s heart was beating fast. What on earth were they doing in their dream?]
[Master Zan and Sister Qing's heartbeats have been as steady as those of old dogs. I guess even if something happened in the dream, it's not dangerous. Everyone, relax~]
[Ningmei and Teacher Bao's heartbeats have remained steady, rest assured!]
It was already completely dark at around five in the afternoon.
It was clearly summer, but the sky seemed as if it was seven or eight o'clock in the evening. Not a single ray of sunlight could be seen. Several people on the bed opened their eyes one after another, making slight noises.
The audiences in the six live broadcast rooms were all shocked and kept scrolling “Wake up, wake up” and looking at the screen with wide eyes.
"Ning Bao, you finally woke up. Can you hear me now? The one in Baotong County is the evil god, the one supported by Wushang! We may not be able to deal with him with our current points, so let's leave here quickly!"
"The evil god refined by Wu Chang?" Jiang Mu Ning lay on his side on the bed and opened his eyes, his eyes clear.
"No wonder he could create such a powerful illusion, but why is he in Baotong? When I met him before, he was in Jing City, and the time hadn't come yet..."
Jiang Mu Ning asked in his mind, his eyes suddenly widened, and he sat up: "Doesn't that mean I might meet Wu Shang?"
E01: "Baotong is the birthplace of Wushang Evil God. I don't know how it happened in advance. The aura of the evil god is too strong here. I can't find Wushang's location, but it is very likely that he is here. "
〖Our points were reset to zero before, and we just accumulated some points. Now the time of meeting has been advanced by nearly a month. It is really difficult to fight back against him. Wushang wants to catch you, Ning Bao, let's go first.〗
The upper bunk made a sound, and Pu Yueling whimpered and sat up from the bed. She glanced at the dark sky outside and slowly responded: "I'm back...?"
She immediately grabbed the railing and looked down. Seeing Jiang Mu Ning awake and sitting up, she breathed a sigh of relief: "Mu Ning, you're awake. Are you okay? Are you alright?"
"And Qingqing, where is Qingqing?" Pu Yueling asked Jiang Mu Ning, and immediately looked at the bed opposite. She was shocked to see that it was empty and no one was there.
Bai Qingqing, who was sitting by the window, moved her head and turned to look at the two people behind her.
"I'm here." She stood up, stretched her stiff body, and walked towards the door: "It's getting late, are you hungry? Let's have dinner first, I have something to go out for."
Pu Yueling: "You want to go out? Where are you going?"
The memory just now was still very clear. Pu Yueling felt that it was not her dream, but Bai Qingqing's tone and movements were too calm, which made her feel a little dazed. Instead, she began to doubt whether what just happened was really just her dream.
Bai Qingqing kept walking, opened the door, and smiled at her: "Go out and take a walk. This mission is complete. You can stay in the dormitory and rest."
After he finished speaking, the door closed, leaving Pu Yueling and Jiang Muning alone in the room, looking at each other from above.
She said this obviously intending to act alone, and Pu Yueling felt uneasy.
Jiang Mu Ning sat on the bed and put on his shoes, his face also full of worry: "I...I'll go out for a walk too."
"Ning Bao, didn't I tell you it's dangerous? Let's stop filming and leave Baotong now. If Wushang finds out you're here, it'll be troublesome! I really can't deal with him now!"
Pu Yueling quickly got down from the upper bunk. She heard something wrong in Jiang Mu Ning's tone and turned on the light in the room. As expected, she saw that Jiang Mu Ning looked worried.
Now it was confirmed that the dream just now was definitely not just hers.
Pu Yueling: "What we just experienced wasn't a dream, right? Are you going to follow Qingqing...?"
Jiang Muning nodded worriedly.
Pu Yueling searched in her bag and put it on her back: "You are an ordinary person, you won't be able to help if you go, so you should stay. I am a psychic, I will go and take a look at the situation."
Jiang Muning wanted to say something, but Pu Yueling repeated again, asking her to stay, then pushed the door open and closed it.
Jiang Muning had no choice but to wait for a moment. He heard the footsteps at the door seemed to be going away. He confirmed that the purse given by the program team was still on him, and pushed the door open and walked out.
The door of the men's dormitory next door opened at the same time.
She was startled and made eye contact with the sneaky Chen Ruihao.
"you……"
"you……"
Behind Chen Ruihao, there was Bao Zishi, who looked uneasy. Seeing this, Jiang Muning looked behind them and asked, "Where is Taoist Zan?"
Chen Ruihao was relieved to see that it was her. "As soon as we opened our eyes, Taoist Zan had already packed his bags and was about to leave. Before he left, he asked us to stay in the dormitory and not go out. What are you doing now...?"
Bao Zishi also asked: "Are you the only one in your room?"
Jiang Mu Ning nodded: "Qingqing and Yueling are both out. I was worried about them, so I decided to go over and take a look, but I don't know where they went."
Bao Zishi: "Should we go to Jinghui Pond?"
E01 heard Jiang Mu Ning say this, and sighed in her mind like a normal person: "Ning Bao, we only have 1,665 points. If we really run into Wu Shang, we won't even have enough points to escape..."
〖We haven’t seen Ji Kui yet, and we don’t know if he has tracked down Wu Shang. In short, without him, we don’t even have a helper.〗
Jiang Muning closed the dormitory door and led the way downstairs. He smiled slightly and said in his mind, "Bai Qingqing and Zan Fang are here. They won't let anything happen to me. We don't need to deal with the evil god."
"We just need to... let Bai Qingqing die here at the right time."
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