Chapter 154 Chapter 154 (Two in One) Qingqing, welcome...
"Grandma, where have you been? Why can't I find you?" Wu Weiran cried out with his eyes hot.
God knows his phone must have been blown up by Ao Xinyi, who called him every once in a while to ask if he had found the person. In more than an hour, they had searched most of the small fishing village.
He wasn't worried about anything else. What he feared most was being swept away by the waves. That would be the end of him.
"Why did you give me such a high rank after just a short while?" After sending off the hundred or so creatures in the porcelain jars, Bai Qingqing waited for the incense sticks to burn down bit by bit.
She was originally planning to notify the Special Investigation Bureau after finishing her work, but she saw a string of missed calls from Wu Weiran on her phone.
While talking to Wu Weiran on the phone, Bai Qingqing suddenly remembered that she had left a candle under the table.
She bent down and searched under the table.
When he was fighting with Wushang before, the candle had been kicked eight feet away and the fire had been extinguished long ago.
"Well, something urgent happened, so I'm going back now." Bai Qingqing crawled under the table and picked up the concentric candle.
The fist-thick candle was split in half by the iron wick on the candlestick. Bai Qingqing tried to close it, but it didn't work. She had no choice but to throw one piece away and put the part with the wick back into the candlestick to light it.
"Auntie, please give me a heads up before you do anything!"
Wu Weiran breathed a sigh of relief. Hearing Bai Qingqing's calm tone on the other end of the phone, he guessed that she was fine, so he reported, "Your parents and brother are rushing to the small fishing village now. It will take them more than four hours to arrive.
Well, I'll call them first and tell them I've contacted you. When you return to the village and we meet, can you call them back in person? "
Why did he go to Ao Xinyi and Bai Shuting again...
Bai Qingqing helplessly touched her neck out of habit, and blood came out of her hand. She felt a sharp pain around her neck.
Only then did she remember that Wu Shang had just slashed her several times on vital parts of her body and her head was almost chopped off.
The wounds on the body are okay, but the one on the neck... I guess it won't be hidden later.
Bai Qingqing's face turned slightly pale. She leaned on the altar, glanced at the incense sticks, and continued on the phone:
"They probably haven't been out for long, so let them go back. After this activity is over, we can go fishing and have a barbecue tomorrow and then go back, right?"
Wu Weiran: "...My words are useless."
"Got it. See you later."
Bai Qingqing hung up the phone and without wasting any time, she called Zi Wenbin first. She stood in front of the incense burner and waited for a while to make sure that the incense sticks were burned out and the remaining spirits had left safely. Then she grabbed the bronze dagger and disappeared into the temple.
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Baotong Land God Temple.
The garrison members of the Special Investigation Bureau received the news and hurriedly gathered from their residence to rush to the front of the formation to take a look.
Before they got close, they stopped in the darkness, collectively as if nailed to the spot, staring blankly at the smoke and dust billowing down in front of them, revealing a ruin behind the center of the formation.
The small, dilapidated land temple that had existed for hundreds of years is now gone.
It fell into the huge black hole in the ground in front of it, and no sound was heard at all.
The formation was broken...
The night wind at the Nanheng Seaside is a bit cool.
Bai Qingqing returned to the small fishing village and remembered that her previous mission required her to find a beautiful shell on the beach first.
Whether it’s beautiful or not is another matter, but there should be a lot of shells on the beach, right?
Bai Qingqing appeared at the deserted shore, holding a candle in her hand and walking forward, protecting the little light in her hand as she searched on the beach, intending to pick up one at random and take it back to report.
The sound of the waves grew louder as the wind grew stronger, and the waves surged higher than before. It looked like the tide was about to rise, and waves of sea water rushed onto the beach.
The sky was darker than before, and the large clouds were thicker than before.
Bai Qingqing stood where she was, sensing the subtle changes in the atmosphere of Nanheng Village in just a short moment. The power of heaven was faintly lingering on the ground. She could not help but stop and look around.
The sporadic candlelight in the dark night was too eye-catching.
Almost dozens of seconds later, the program crew noticed the sudden fire on the shore, and they shouted "Bai Qingqing" while running towards her quickly.
I saw a figure in the distance holding a candle in one hand and raising the other hand, as if he wanted to greet them.
The faces of the several staff members who were running towards her quickly were filled with joy. Seven or eight pairs of eyes were fixed on the person on the distant shore. As they ran closer, someone immediately reported to Wu Weiran.
But just as the call was connected, the person in sight had not yet had time to wave his hand when he suddenly disappeared from the spot.
The fire was extinguished along with it.
It was as if what happened just now was just an illusion.
The eight staff members slowed down their pace in confusion and looked around. No one was in sight. They said in a low voice, "Where is the person who was there just now?"
"Disappeared again? There can't really be... a ghost..."
"Even if there is a ghost, that is Sister Qing. If a ghost sees Sister Qing, it will have to take a detour. Tsk, how is it possible..."
"Could it be... that he fell into the sea?"
Several young staff members turned pale instantly, and took a few steps forward in a daze as their bodies got used to it, their brains reacting slowly.
A few seconds later, several people came to their senses and ran madly towards the beach.
Waves crashed onto the shore, erasing all traces of the coast's past.
Several staff members illuminated the sea surface with flashlights, but no figures could be seen in the nearby waters, and there was not even a footprint nearby.
Xiao Sun felt something suddenly hit the sole of his shoe. He looked down with the light of the flashlight and saw a candlestick being hit by the waves at his feet.
He bent down to pick it up, his face tense and his hands shaking slightly.
Concentric Candlesticks...
No. A.
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The cold and fierce sea water pressed against the head, face, and neck, instantly covering the mouth, nose, and ear canals, pouring into the collar and sticking to the torso, pressing heavily on the limbs.
The view in front of her was blurry and darker than a small fishing village at night. In an instant, Bai Qingqing had no idea where the waves had taken her. She lost her sense of direction in the boundless sea and fell into the depths.
The wounds from the battle with Wuchang were now soaked in sea water, oozing out strands of blood. The bloody smell was continuously carried out of the body by the sea water, but it did not float away. As soon as it left the body, it was swallowed up by black air from all directions that was imperceptible to the naked eye.
Bai Qingqing looked at the evil spirit that was encroaching from the sea water, turned the bronze dagger in her hand, and suddenly smiled.
It saved her some trouble.
To prevent the smell of blood from spreading out and causing small fish and shrimps to swim over and eat her.
Bai Qingqing bent down in the sea, with her chest close to her thighs. Using the force of bending down, she touched her ankle which was broken instantly when she was dragged into the sea.
The sea water blurs people's five senses, and her senses are not as sensitive as on the shore.
At this moment, she touched the evil spirit on her ankle with her fingertips, smeared it on the side of the dagger, and then let go of her hand, allowing the dagger to fall into the deeper darkness of the sea.
On the shore, almost all the staff of the program crew gathered at the beach and searched along the place where Xiao Sun picked up the candlestick.
Wu Weiran contacted the coast guard, but the weather conditions changed suddenly at night and the waves were too big. Even if the rescue team arrived, the situation at sea would make it difficult to search and rescue. The group of people could not go into the water and could not find anyone anywhere, so they could only wait there.
The azure blue sea during the day turns into a dark abyss at night, boundless and with no end in sight.
Wu Weiran was so anxious that tears came out of his eyes. He stood on the shore with his hands on his waist, not knowing what to do. Suddenly, a wave that was more than a person high hit the shore and hit him, forcing him to take several steps back.
He pointed at the waves and said to the others in surprise: "Is this how the waves are made?"
The other group of people were so anxious trying to think of ways to deal with the problem that they didn't notice the waves rolling up high in the dark night.
Everyone looked at their unreliable director in displeasure, shone their powerful flashlights toward the sea, and shouted loudly to everyone, "Bai Qingqing!"
Bai Qingqing——
Deep under the sea.
The strong light of the flashlight extended into the water and gradually faded in the distance. Bai Qingqing was swimming towards the depths following the dagger. She vaguely heard someone calling her and turned around to look at the faint light spot on the sea.
There was a huge and thick black gas beneath his body, coiled into a ball underwater, breathing quietly as if it had intelligence, neither advancing nor retreating, waiting for Bai Qingqing to approach.
The deeper she went underwater, the more spiritual energy she consumed to avoid the water. In just a few minutes, a lot of spiritual energy and physical strength were consumed.
It is obvious what the purpose of the evil spirit below is.
It was strange that even the ability to detect evil spirits in the temple just now could not escape from Wushang. Otherwise, it would not have escaped along the reincarnation array at the moment of Wushang's death, instead of escaping to other places.
With Wuchang's death, the reincarnation formation was broken. There was nothing in the small world that could restrain it anymore. Why didn't it find a place to hide, but came to find her at this time?
The bronze dagger glowed faintly in the deep sea, hovering quietly in the center of the black fog and stopping falling.
Bai Qingqing was only three meters away from the black fog, which was already quite close, and her entire body was contaminated by the evil spirit's evil aura.
Rhythmic thumping sounds echoed under her feet, as if they had a heart. As she carefully identified the source of the sound, a voice rang in her mind: "Bai Qingqing, we have a common goal..."
"Want to cooperate?"
Before the evil spirit could finish, Bai Qingqing responded in her heart and lowered her eyes to look at her broken ankle.
If it weren't for the buoyancy in the water, she wouldn't be able to stand up now.
The black mist quietly swirled around her, obviously unaware of her grudge: "...I can help you achieve everything you want. Tell me your wish."
Bai Qingqing had a wooden face. She raised the dagger, channeled her spiritual energy into it, and began to draw runes in the sea water.
The evil voice continued in her heart. The wet and cool black mist adhered to her skin and drilled into her body: "Any wish is fine, such as the one you are angry about, the one you are tired of, the one who has occupied your life. Don't you hate her..."
Bai Qingqing's hands were extremely fast, and all the spiritual power in her body was poured into her fingertips. In the time it took for the evil spirit to speak, she drew thirty-six talismans in a row.
Before letting go, she stopped the tip of the knife in front of her and suddenly asked, "Do you want me to fulfill your wish?"
The low, hoarse voice that was difficult to tell whether it was male or female stopped in her heart, and the black mist that was penetrating into her body also paused slightly.
Bai Qingqing: "If you can be used by me, I will spare your life."
A deep sigh came from the bottom of my heart: "Child, you seem to have made a mistake. Wushang and I are different. He serves me..."
Bai Qingqing spread out her hands, and thirty-six talismans instantly sank into the black fog, emitting a faint golden glow. They connected to form a formation, suppressing the huge black fog three meters below.
A more distant sigh came from under my feet, as if someone had seen a naughty child.
"You were injured when fighting Wushang, stop..."
Bai Qingqing frowned with a subtle expression.
What's wrong with this evil spirit? She chopped off the Buddha's head in Baotong County and smashed the temple in Jinzhou. How dare you treat her in the same way you treat believers?
The black mist passed through the gold-rimmed magic circle of thirty-six talismans and spread to a farther place, melting into the sea water without any sign of being confined.
Bai Qingqing's hands did not stop, and the spiritual energy around her body circulated rapidly. At some point, she took out a string of copper coins in her hand, cut the red string on the copper coins with a knife, and wrapped the spiritual power on them, and raised her hand to shoot them in five directions.
The thin copper coin chased closely along the black fog. With the help of spiritual power, it became an inch faster than the black fog and finally got stuck in front of it.
Five copper coins hovered in the air one after another, and the black mist hit the copper coins, making a clanging sound as if it had substance!
Five clanging sounds resounded in the depths of the seabed, echoing one after another. The scattered black mist immediately rose upwards, enveloping Bai Qingqing and swallowing her. At the same time, the five copper coins suddenly retreated inwards, driving the large tracts of black mist back into a ball. Following the rising trend, it instantly turned into a huge black cocoon on the seabed!
On the coast, Zan Fang, who was searching for someone with a compass in his hand, suddenly looked towards the center of the sea and sensed the movement of the aura of the Five Emperors' Coins that had been nurtured by his vital energy.
A weak vital energy came from a distant place under the sea, making Zan Fang's face become serious.
It was such a long distance, how long had Bai Qingqing been falling?
The staff around Zan Fang saw Taoist Zan staring at the center of the sea with a steady look in his eyes, as if he had received some news. They asked happily, "Taoist Zan! Is there any news about Sister Qing?"
The staff cheered, and everyone around heard it. The cheers spread one after another, and soon a large group of people gathered towards Zan Fang's position.
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Silence.
The black fog condensed into substance at this moment.
The human voices, the sound of the wind, and the sound of the shaking waves were all blocked out by the huge, tightly closed black cocoon, and everything was completely silent.
Bai Qingqing was suspended in a black space. She could not see any light in her field of vision. There was an evil smell everywhere. Her vision and hearing were completely deprived.
She stretched her hand forward and felt something as fine and dense as dense hair, half soft and half tough and firm. It was the same in all directions, and she was trapped tightly.
The spiritual power in her body was greatly suppressed. Her foot with a broken ankle was tilted and fell softly on the inner wall, making her stand somewhat unstable.
The sea of gods was invaded again at this moment, infiltrating into an existence that did not belong to her at all:
"Bai Qingqing... do you see clearly now? Tell me your desires, and I will accomplish everything for you, and do anything you cannot do..."
Bai Qingqing: "Start the formation."
The five copper coins came together with a "ding" sound and gathered right below the black cocoon. The thirty-six talismans that had been pressing on the black fog emitted golden threads that penetrated the center of the round square holes in the copper coins one by one. Every time they passed through a hole, an additional golden thread was released, and the cycle continued.
A huge and bright golden light instantly penetrated the dark sea water, and thousands of golden threads chased upward to the top of the black cocoon!
Inside the giant cocoon, Bai Qingqing closed her eyes, turned the tip of the bronze dagger around, pointed it at her own sea of consciousness, and stabbed it without hesitation!
The evil spirit in the Sea of Gods saw how Bai Qingqing set up an array under the sea and did not use any spiritual power to resist him from eroding the Sea of Gods. It felt that Bai Qingqing was capable of doing anything, so it retreated quickly under the knife and quickly peeled off from Bai Qingqing's body.
Bai Qingqing suddenly turned the wrist holding the knife, chanted a spell, and stabbed fiercely to the lower left side in front of her body. At the same time as nailing the evil spirit, her left hand quickly made talismans in the air, and after drawing one, she swung another one, hitting the tip of the knife layer by layer!
"Tell me, fight or obey!"
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The people on the shore surrounded Zan Fang, hoping to hear from him that Bai Qingqing was fine, but after everyone asked him one question after another, Taoist Zan didn't say a single word.
Everyone was burning with anxiety when suddenly, in the dead of night, they saw a golden light coming from the bottom of the sea shooting up into the sky, illuminating a large area of the deep black sea in the distance, and even brightening up the pitch-black sky a little.
It was as if someone had turned on a beam of light at the bottom of the sea.
Zan Fang's heart moved slightly, and he felt the breath coming from the light in the distance, and the solemnity in his eyes relaxed a little.
Four of the five copper coins broke, but the last one held.
The problem with Bai Qingqing...should have been resolved, right?
He tried to calculate with his hands again, but the powerful divine power obscured his intention. Zan Fang's breath was shaken, and he dispersed his hands, covered his lips and coughed a few times.
"There's someone, is there a figure? Is that black spot a person?"
"Why is the light out? What's emitting the light? Where's the flashlight? Shine it over there again!"
"Let's go over there and take a look. The waves are much smaller now. Can we sail now? Director!"
The team was buzzing with chatter, and everyone was extremely anxious. Although the light that flashed out of nowhere just now was bizarre, its bizarreness made it clear that Qingqing might be there.
Now that they had finally found a clear location in the vast ocean, everyone felt relieved. They thought that Bai Qingqing had persisted for so long and would not die anytime soon. They just needed to rescue her as soon as possible.
Wu Weiran had no reason to hesitate. He immediately asked someone to go to sea to drive the boat. He put on his life jacket and sat on the boat. He clasped his hands together and prayed desperately that his grandmother was okay.
Zan Fang then got on the boat. He held up the compass in one hand and wound the red line between his fingers. He followed Bai Qingqing's breath and made hand gestures. He watched the compass needle sway and set a direction: "Go to the nine o'clock direction."
The ship rushed into the sea, moving towards the sea with its lights swaying.
Bai Qingqing had originally planned to swim by herself, but when she saw the lights on the boat coming straight towards her, she placed her hands beside her, waved the water, and floated motionless in the same place.
I had been tense just now, and now that I have stopped, I feel the cold and boundless sea water.
Fortunately, the boat had a clear direction and quickly came to her side. The moment the two met, the rescue team members immediately threw her a lifebuoy and pulled her on board.
The bright red groom's wedding suit had long since fallen apart in the sea and floated away with the waves.
She was wearing a white round-neck short-sleeved shirt and long pants, which were now covered in red patches, obviously due to blood stains from all over her body.
Wu Weiran looked away with a cry of “Ouch!”, and felt pain just looking at it. He stamped his feet anxiously on the boat: “How did you get hurt like this! Grandma, what on earth happened to you!?”
Wu Weiran obviously didn't want an answer right now, but he was so frightened by Bai Qingqing's disheveled appearance that he lost his composure.
The rescuers covered Bai Qingqing with a blanket. Zan Fang squatted in front of her and felt her pulse. He sensed a familiar breath: "Is it Baotong's evil spirit? Wasn't it sealed? How could it be..."
"Escaped."
Bai Qingqing was soaking wet, and felt even colder when the sea breeze blew. She wrapped the blanket tightly around her, pulled her wrist away from Zan Fang's hand, and patted the gourd tied to her bronze dagger, "Here it is."
Zan Fang: "...your leg is broken too?"
The boat was heading towards the shore. Zan Fang took her hand again, and with one hand he continuously supplied vital energy to her meridians. With the other hand he touched her left ankle to check the injury. He knew that there must have been a fierce battle just now.
It's good enough to come back safely.
"It's okay. I'll fix it after I get ashore."
Zan Fang withdrew his hand from her ankle, his tone and expression were indifferent.
Wu Weiran was listening nearby, and it felt like his brain was not working. He opened his mouth speechlessly, and was almost choked by Zan Fang's words. After a while, he spoke out, "No, you call this okay?"
"My leg is broken! Are you okay?"
"Yes, my foot is not bad."
The most serious problem is her Niwan Palace.
Zan Fang glanced at the emotional Wu Weiran in confusion, then turned back and continued to instruct Bai Qingqing: "Your Niwan Palace is severely damaged. You cannot use your vital energy for nearly half a month. I have a Ziyuan Pill here for you to take first. My master has another pill. I will go back to get it..."
"Okay, thank you. I know my own body well."
Bai Qingqing stopped Zan Fang's movements.
She relies on the spiritual energy of heaven and earth for her practice, which is quite different from the traditional Xuanmen way of practicing vital energy, so it is not very useful after taking it.
She turned around and asked Wu Weiran: "What's the current situation of the program?"
Wu Weiran was listening to the conversation between the two people nearby, and was completely annoyed. When he heard Bai Qingqing ask this question, he smiled speechlessly: "You still have the mood to ask about the program? Thank you so much..."
He resigned himself to the situation and reported: "The live broadcast is paused. We just found out that you are not here. The whole team is out looking for you. Except for Zan Fang, all the other guests have gone back to their rooms to rest."
"As for your parents, they landed at a nearby airport half an hour ago and are driving here now. They should be here in one or two hours."
While we were talking, the rescue boat arrived at the shore.
The program crew brought in big lights and placed them in groups of three or two along the coast to illuminate the people passing by clearly.
"Sister Qing!"
"How are you!"
On the shore, several people jumped and waved in the direction of the boat, and the voices of Pu Yueling and Chen Ruihao could be heard from afar.
The five people who were just talking about resting in the B&B probably heard her news, and now all of them appeared on the shore.
Bai Qingqing caught Jiang Muning's eye in a row of people and saw her slowly curling up the corners of her lips and smiling gently at her.
She was wearing a white dress and standing behind the bright light of a headlight on one side. The fluttering corners of her skirt were wet by the waves and her hair that reached her waist fluttered in the sea breeze.
Jiang Mu Ning raised a slender white hand, brushed away the black hair that flew onto his face, and said to her silently across the river:
Welcome back.
——Welcome back to my world.
Bai Qingqing tilted her head slightly towards the source of the sound and heard Jiang Mu Ning's soft whisper.
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