secret passage
In a restaurant outside Yuquan Sect, the two sat down face to face. Yu Heyi propped up his head and looked at him with a smile.
"My name is Qu Yang, may I know your name, the fairy?"
"If you don't mind, you can call me Ah Yi."
The honey water in the glass cup rippled, his fingers trembled slightly, and the heat in the bowl blurred his vision.
"Ayi..." Qu Yang's neck flushed slightly, and he happily picked up some food from her bowl, "Eat more, this is delicious."
"Qu Yang."
"Um?"
"Eating is so boring, let's drink."
The girl's eyes curved and she smiled at him faintly, as bright as a spring flower.
Qu Yang stared at her blankly, as if he was in a dream.
"Can you... drink?"
"Why, do you look down on me?" she complained.
"How could that be! It's all up to Ah Yi!"
He quickly stood up and asked the shopkeeper to bring a few jars of fine wine. The wine was poured into glass cups, and fine foam appeared.
Yu Heyi picked up the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp.
"not enough."
She held her chin with her hand and chuckled, her fingertips stroking the rim of the cup, and the glass cup turned in a circle in her palm.
"Qu Yang, drink with me."
A natural blush appeared on her cheeks, and she looked as cute as a little fox stealing some osmanthus wine. He couldn't say "no".
After three rounds of drinks, his tongue was trembling and his face was red.
Seeing her frown slightly, she said coquettishly: "We've only had a few drinks, and your face has turned so red. Could it be that you can't drink more than me?"
"How is that possible!"
Qu Yang's eyes were blurred and he tilted his head back to drink.
Yu Heyi leaned over at the right time to add more wine. The fragrance of flowers mixed with the aroma of wine came to his face, filling his wine cup to the brim.
Seeing his eyes gradually dimming, she sighed softly, "Why are the immortals just a bunch of brainless idiots?"
She traced her fingertips across the rim of Qu Yang's wine cup. "I heard there's a secret realm in the Yuquan Sect. I've been longing for it for a long time. I wonder where it is?"
"The secret realm?" He burped, his eyes hazy with drunkenness. "The secret realm is right below the Yuquan Sect's arena, but you can't just go there whenever you want. Only those who place in the top ten in the sect competition will have the Sect Master open the secret realm and let them in."
"I heard... there's a man guarding the secret realm. Is it true?"
"Others may not know, but how could I not know, Brother Qu? That person is imprisoned in a secret passage outside the secret realm. Outsiders say he is being guarded, but in fact, his life is very miserable—"
He leaned forward, wanting to spray the alcohol on her face. She lowered her eyes and pressed a finger against Qu Yang's forehead, preventing him from moving any further.
"Then do you know where the secret passage is?"
"Just..."
The voice stopped abruptly, and she looked up suddenly, only to see the person in front of her with wine stains on the corners of his mouth, and he was in a deep sleep.
As soon as she removed the fingers that were pressing against his forehead, he fell headfirst onto the table and began to snore.
It seems that we can't rely on him.
She left quietly amid his snoring, without even touching the food in the bowl.
When he returned to Yuquan Sect, he happened to run into Mi Xiu.
"Junior sister, where have you been? I thought you were lost."
"I was just walking around the valley. What did Second Brother want to talk to me about?"
"It's okay. I just wanted to tell you that it's okay to go out for a walk during the day. It's dangerous at night, so don't go out again. You should stay in the house and recuperate. Leave the task of capturing Xie Li to me and my senior brother."
Yu Heyi nodded and returned to the house under his gaze.
The secret realm is under the sect competition arena, and the person she is looking for is in the secret passage outside the secret realm. But before she could ask Qu Yang about the location of the secret passage, he fell drunk.
It seems that she needs to go look for it near the ring herself.
She knew the location of the arena. Qi Shouchu had told her that the Yuquan Sect's competition arena was in the open space at the deepest part of the valley.
But she couldn't go there rashly, so as not to alarm others.
She would have to wait until Xie Li reappeared and everyone's attention was focused on it before she could take advantage of the opportunity.
A few days later, it was another full moon night.
Xie Li appeared again in the center of the valley, attracting everyone to hold their magic weapons and go to encircle him.
After Yu Heyi confirmed again and again that there was no one in the pavilion except her, she lightly jumped down from the windowsill in the corridor.
Taking cover from the shadows of the trees, she stopped on the west side of the arena deep in the valley.
There are twelve black iron pillars surrounding the arena, corresponding to the twelve masters of the fairy world.
The red silk at the edge was drooping, faded and mottled, and rustled in the night wind. Calculating the time, the last sect competition was two years ago.
There was indeed the aura of Wangjing under the ring, Qi Yu was not lying.
She moved slowly along the edge of the arena, her fingertips brushing against the protrusions on each black iron pillar, but she never touched the expected mechanism.
Every bulge fits perfectly without any abnormality.
What puzzled her was that although the patterns on the twelve black iron pillars were different, they were all engraved with ancient characters.
However, on the black iron pillar representing the leader of Taiyan Sect, there is an additional moon pattern engraved, and the moon pattern is crossed out by a dark red cross, which is different from the other pillars.
She thought the moon was a mechanism, but even when her nails dug into the grooves, the black iron pillar remained motionless.
"Is the moon pattern just a decoration on the pillar?" She knocked on the black iron pillar, but there was nothing else except a dull echo.
After wandering around, her eyes were suddenly drawn to a shadow——
It was an area in the southeast corner of the arena, with several stones piled together and covered with moss.
It seems ordinary, but why are bluestones placed near the arena?
Yu Heyi strode forward and rubbed the moss on the surface of the stone with his palm. The moss was sticky and even stained the cracks between his fingernails green.
She was completely unaware of the leaves falling on her shoulders.
After the moss fell off, the original gray-brown color of the stone was revealed, and dark golden runes appeared on the stone, which seemed to be some kind of spell.
She pondered deeply, a trace of surprise flashing in her eyes: "Binding spell?"
When asking Qi Shouchu about spells, he mentioned the body-binding spell, which was a long-lost forbidden spell in the fairy world and required the cooperation of fairies and demons to cast this spell together.
This spell can bind the opponent's body and even imprison the soul.
The leader of Yuquan Sect actually abused mortals for the benefit of the immortal world.
Thinking of what the original owner once said, Qi Sheng has immortal bones and his lifespan is far longer than that of ordinary people, but he was forced by the immortal clan leader to guard the secret realm, and he is afraid that he will live in pain for the rest of his life.
What is the way to break the curse?
"The immortals and the demons need to work together to cast the spell. The binding spell is not effective without... spiritual power and magic power!" She suddenly realized.
She has magic power, and spiritual power is also in the immortal bones in her body!
She sat cross-legged and circulated the energy in her body.
Magical power rose from his left hand, as black as ink; spiritual power emerged from his right hand, as bright as snow.
The two forces repelled each other, vibrating the air around them.
She thought it was not good. Making such a big noise might alert the enemy.
Suddenly, she shouted in a deep voice and pressed her palms against the runes on the surface of the stone.
The magic power spread rapidly, seeping into the depths of the runes along the lines of the stone. At the same time, spiritual power followed closely behind.
The runes flickered violently, gradually turning into golden smoke and dissipating in the night wind.
After Yu Heyi pushed hard, the stone slowly moved, revealing a dark hole, and no one knew where it led to.
She took a deep breath and stepped in without hesitation, lifting her skirt.
The deeper she went, the stronger the smell of rust mixed with a sweet, fishy aroma became. Using the moonlight shining in from outside the cave, she took a closer look, and the sight before her made her breath stop.
The man was hung on the cave wall by iron chains. The bloodstained iron hook pierced his scapula and was handcuffed in the cave.
His clothes were torn, his blood had dried, and his hair was clotted into strands by blood.
As if noticing the tiny bit of light coming in from the moon, his fingertips moved slightly, but he never raised his head.
"It's not time for the sect competition yet, is it? What are you doing here? Are you afraid I'll die?" He twitched his lips, the blood scab on his cheek cracked, and his voice was so cold it made people tremble. "Sect Master, you are really a noble man who forgets things easily. The immortal bone is in my body, I'm afraid it won't be that easy for me to die."
Seeing that the visitor said nothing, he said self-deprecatingly: "You have worked so hard to imprison me here, you might as well take away my immortal bone and end my life."
"How can you say that?" Yu Heyi said softly.
The voice is soft, clear and pleasant, it's a woman's.
Isn’t he the leader of Yuquan Sect?
"Who are you?"
"It doesn't matter who I am. What matters is that I'm here to save you."
"Save me?" Qi Sheng sneered, "Don't waste your energy. I'm already dead. You might as well kill me right now with a single blow and give me a quick death."
She walked slowly to him, lifted the hair that was covering his cheek, and wiped the blood off his face.
Magic leaped out from his fingertips, corroding the chains that bound him.
The sacral bones in the two people's bodies resonate, bringing joy to the bodies carrying the sacral bones.
He had never felt the emotions brought about by the sacral bone in his body.
Before I could even look up, her words reached my ears.
"Among thousands of options, the Immortal Bone chose you because it recognized you, not to bring you doom. The evildoer imprisoned you here and occupied the Immortal Bone within you. The fault lies not with you, nor with the Immortal Bone, but with the evildoer. You do not need to punish yourself for the mistakes of others. Living bravely is the greatest revenge against them."
"Qi Sheng, I'll take you away."
His lips trembled and his expression was blank.
Ever since he was imprisoned in the secret passage without sunlight, he has been accompanied by only cold wind and loneliness every day.
The sect leader comes to the secret passage once every three years to forcibly take the spiritual power of the immortal bones in his body and inject it into the secret realm to keep the spiritual power of the secret realm strong forever.
Countless days and nights passed, from the time he planned to escape but was caught again, to the time when he was hooked to the stone wall, to the time when he was unable to live or die.
It had been a long, long time since anyone had spoken to him.
So long that he had given up hope of living.
Suddenly someone broke into the secret passage, brushed away the hair from his cheek, and spoke to him softly.
I'll take you away.
Qi Sheng's body stiffened unnaturally, his hands curled up subconsciously, and even his breath stagnated in his throat.
He mustered up the courage to look up, trying to see the face of the person who came.
When he saw the person coming, his eyes suddenly widened, his lips trembled and moved, and tears mixed with blood rolled down from the corners of his eyes.
Looking at the familiar face, he murmured in disbelief:
"Qi Yu...A Yu..."
"It really is you... I thought I would never see you again..."
The iron chain fell to the ground with a clang, and Qi Sheng staggered forward half a step, and was supported by Yu Heyi.
She knelt down and hooked her hair behind her ears with her fingers: "Come up, don't dawdle, someone will be here soon."
Her voice seemed to be irresistible.
After hesitating for a moment, Qi Sheng used all his strength to lie down on her, pressing his cheek against the back of the girl's neck, feeling her warmth.
Hard-earned warmth.
The girl slowly stood up, her tone calm.
"I want to explain two things to you. You just need to know them and you don't have to answer me."
"First, I'm not Qi Yu. Saving you is just a deal I made with her. But don't worry, I will take you away from this damn place and heal your injuries."
"Second, Qi Yu is dead."
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