Chapter 37

When Yu Tu walked through the light green door, a lot of thoughts flashed through his mind. He thought he had glimpsed a corner of the secret, but he didn't expect that there was a store outside the door—

To be more precise, it is a shop that is already covered in dust.

As soon as Yu Tu entered, he started coughing because of the dust.

"Cough, cough, cough———" He covered his mouth and nose with one hand and waved the other hand in front of him. In the light coming through the glass window, he could see the dust rising and falling.

"Where is this?" Yu Tu muttered to himself. He turned his head and saw that the long corridor was still outside the door, but the door seen from inside the corridor was light green and felt like warm jade. However, the door of the dusty shop where he was now was a carved wooden door, exuding an ancient charm.

After adapting to the dust, Yu Tu looked around the shop. The shop was quite large and was divided into two rooms, front and back. The wall of the front room was inlaid with a circle of wooden frames. The wooden frames were probably carefully designed to look like mosaic murals. Under the murals was a tea table covered with dust and even spider webs. In addition to the exquisitely carved partitions between the front and back rooms, there was a wooden screen in the middle. Perhaps due to its age, the silk inlaid on the wooden screen had faded, but one could still vaguely see some of its former splendor.

The door that Yu Tu pushed open was on the innermost wall of the back room.

Yu Tu walked around the wooden screen to the tea table and reached out to wipe the dust off a tea pet on the table. In most cases, the tea pets people choose are animals, such as Pixiu, Qilin, carp, dragon turtle... Some people also choose plants such as lychee, mostly for good luck or to express their own wishes.

But the tea pet on this table is a cluster of exquisite apricot blossoms with lifelike stamens, and the one in front of it is a branch of plum blossoms.

There are plum blossoms in the first month and apricot blossoms in the second month. The twelve tables should correspond to the Twelve Flower Orders.

Yu Tu thought of the inheritance he had inherited, which mentioned a teahouse. He had always thought it was a mansion in the locust tree forest, and wondered how anyone could come to drink tea in such a remote place. Now that he thought about it, the mansion might be the backyard of the teahouse. In other words...it took him a month to find the door to the front yard.

The light in the teahouse seemed to be brighter. Yu Tu looked in the direction of the light's source and discovered that it was a carved wooden door that was very similar to the mansion's that was letting in the light.

It's amazing.

Even when he came into contact with the inner world and saw many existences he had never seen before, he was still surprised by these different things.

Yu Tu went over to observe how a thick carved wooden door let in light. The small buds above his head also bent their leaves, clearly expressing their curiosity.

Yu Tu sensed some movement above his head: "......?"

When did he switch back from the vest?

After staring at the door for a while, his eyes felt slightly hot. Yu Tu blinked and knew that the magical ability had appeared again.

A few seconds later, his eyes passed through the thick carved door and saw the commercial street behind the gate. A breath of modern society filled him.

Yu Tu: “???”

Why did he feel out of place when the street scene outside was apparently normal?

His mind was shaken and his ability disappeared. He immediately couldn't see the scene outside.

Yu Tu remembered that it was night in the backyard, and now it was almost dawn outside. Are dreams so illogical?

Perhaps he was thinking too much, the scenery around him began to waver, and then gradually turned into a blurry block of color. Yu Tu felt dizzy for a moment, and when he opened his eyes again, it was the ceiling.

———It was still a ceiling that looked both familiar and unfamiliar.

"Hey? Are you awake?" Yu Tu heard a strange voice next to his ear. He turned his head and saw Lu Yayin with a pair of dark circles under her eyes. There were several gray marks on her black hair, as if it was stained with something.

Yu Tuyu looked around the ward where she was and felt that everything was covered with a layer of dust.

He asked in a low voice: "Sister Yayin, what happened?"

"It was almost two o'clock in the middle of the night, and in an instant, all the spiritual energy in the talisman in the whole room was drained away, triggering the induction talisman linked to the consciousness of the three of us." Lu Yayin showed a gritted smile, "Now it's twelve o'clock in the afternoon of the next day. Guess how long I haven't slept since midnight yesterday?"

Yu Tu: “…”

"I'm sorry." He apologized sincerely, "I didn't expect that I would do this."

"The chief of the Plant Tribe said that you are growing stronger." Lu Yayin continued to smile with dark circles under her eyes, "So you not only emptied the talismans in the whole room, but also emptied the spiritual energy of half of the air in the city. You are really amazing."

Originally, she could absorb some free spiritual energy from the air. Not to mention storing it in her body for emergency use, at least she could use it to refresh herself. But it turned out that there was not a trace of spiritual energy in the air around Yu Tu, which was cleaner than a wallet at the end of the month.

"You and Gu Hongying are really good friends. You grew up, and he grew up too. You emptied a room of spiritual talismans, and he absorbed a whole block of Emperor's plasma. Then the two of you worked together to drain all the spiritual power in the air of a city."

Growing tall? Whose child is so tall?

Yu Tu's first reaction: "Do you want compensation?"

"You don't have to pay for it." Lu Yayin said, "The spiritual energy will recover on its own in a few days."

After venting the resentment that had lasted almost two nights, Lu Yayin began to worry about him with real feelings: "The situation between you and Gu Hongying is very strange. Do you feel uncomfortable now?"

Yu Tu thought of what Lu Yayin had mentioned before, that he had made a noise at two in the morning, and he reasonably suspected that it was related to his dream. If he guessed correctly, at almost two o'clock, he seemed to, should have, seemed to be pushing the door in his dream.

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After Yu Tu woke up, other people came to check on him and some even took him to the hospital for a check-up. The results showed that there was nothing wrong with his body.

By the time Yu Tu got all the test results, Gu Hongying was still absorbing the Emperor's Plasma.

"Hongying probably won't wake up for a while." Meng Ziqiu said, "The materials will arrive at noon today, let's set up the formation first."

Since Qin Fei knew almost nothing about formations, he offered to stay and look after Gu Hongying while the others set up the formations.

They had seen the person who delivered the materials before. It was Yin Li, the girl with bangs and long black hair who had restrained Lu Susu when she was about to hurt someone.

Others noticed this, too. Lu Yayin was the first to greet her: "Didn't you go look for Lu Susu?"

"We have searched Chongming City thoroughly, using both the Spiritual Power Wave Device and the Demonic Energy Capture Device, but we still can't find any clues." Yin Li shook her head, a little anxious between her brows, "With her ability, she can't hide it so well. I'm afraid something might happen."

"I took the initiative to accept this mission of escorting formation materials." She said, "Before in the police station, I knew your name was Yu Tu. Su Su said that the smell on your body could help her get rid of the nightmare. I want to entrust you to go with me to find her. I will do my best to satisfy you with the reward."

After Lu Susu escaped inexplicably, the fox tribe mobilized all their contacts but couldn't find her. It just so happened that the formation materials they needed were near Chongming City, so she simply negotiated with the escort to transfer the mission to herself, so that it wouldn't be too abrupt for her to come to the door.

"No." To his surprise, the first person to show his refusal was not Yu Tu himself, but Meng Ziqiu, the leader of Special Team 7. "When Lu Susu said that Yu Tu was a young cub of the Grass Tribe, he felt as if someone was staring at him and he was unconscious until the next day. If he continues to stay here, he might be more dangerous than Lu Susu."

Yin Li sighed.

She was present throughout the chaos that night, and she didn't actually have high hopes when she made this request.

The fact that a grass tribe cub appeared in the surface world was as absurd as the sun rising from the west. Every tribe had the principle of prioritizing the protection of their cubs. It made no sense to drag the cub into another unknown danger when the cub itself was not safe.

Lu Yayin couldn't bear to see this dilemma, so she took the initiative to change the subject: "Isn't the formation master here?"

Lu Yayin was a talisman practitioner, which belonged to a different system from formation practitioners. When they placed an order for formation materials before, they also hired a formation master who could set up this formation.

Yin Li said, "That's me."

If she wasn't a formation cultivator, she wouldn't be able to take advantage of the situation no matter how much they negotiated.

"Don't worry." She had already learned everything in detail before she intercepted him. "I won't joke about the future of those girls."

The main functions of the magic circle that sends the spirits to reincarnation are purification and reincarnation. Yin Li took out the materials one by one in an undisturbed space behind the hospital. Every time she took out an item, it automatically flew to the corresponding corner under her gesture. After arranging one place, the items in this place would emit the same luster, echoing each other from a distance.

"Although talisman practitioners and formation practitioners have some overlapping abilities, I'm really envious every time I see the cool scenes of formation practitioners arranging formations in the surface world!" Lu Yayin whispered to Yu Tu, "Unlike us talisman practitioners, who can only use cinnabar-dipped pens to draw after leaving the inner world. If we make a mistake, the talisman paper will be scrapped and we have to start over."

Yin Li started to set up the formation at 3 pm and worked until 10 pm, which took almost seven hours. All kinds of colors connected to one place and gathered into a point at the center of the formation, and then this point fed back the spiritual power, rendering the entire formation into one color. Fluorescent light flowed, and the mist was shining, indicating that the formation was successful.

Yin Li let out a long breath. Six hours of continuous high-intensity output had made her face pale. She checked the formation and said with a smile, "It's done!"

Lu Yayin handed her an insulated box containing food reserved for her. She was told not to be distracted, stop, or be interrupted during the formation. Yin Li, who was already starving, thanked her and started to work.

The lip piercing affected her performance a little, so she pulled it off and stuffed it into her pocket, which made Lu Yayin's eyelids twitch.

"It's a fake lip stud!" Yin Li looked at her horrified face and said, "Do you want one? Red, yellow, green, purple, colorful laser ones -- we have all kinds."

Lu Yayin: “…Thank you, no need.”

After she finished her meal, Yu Tu handed her a bottle of warm water and Meng Ziqiu handed her a tissue to wipe her mouth. Yin Li thanked them one by one and stood aside holding the bottle of water.

“Put the carriers that carry their spirits on it,” she said. “Don’t worry if you see black gas coming out of the carrier after the formation is activated. It is being purified. Spirits that are not purified are still ghosts and cannot be reincarnated.”

Yu Tu was determined to take off the seven plush dolls hanging on him. The consciousness of the baby spirits was dissipating faster and faster, so that more baby spirits were needed to gather together to control a doll. When they went to the amusement park before, there were 19 dolls that could move, but now there are only seven left.

A brown bear, a pink rabbit, a snow-white puppy, an orange tiger, a cartoon smiling sunflower, a cat with little wings, and a pony with big, shiny eyes.

Seven dolls were squeezed in the center of the formation. They didn’t understand why Yu Tu put them here. After landing, they wanted to hang on him like before.

"Stay there, don't move." Yu Tu said, "The babies are the best, right?"

The formation was activated, and the flickering light illuminated the dark ground. Yu Tu did not hear those familiar "Ahs", he only saw wisps of black gas slowly emanating from the formation, like light smoke.

The black air rose for a long, long time, so long that only a ball of white was left on the heads of the dolls.

This ball of white slowly rose into the sky, then decomposed and turned into shining spots of light. The spots of light rose higher and higher, and gradually scattered to all parts of this beautiful land.

The golden crow broke through the dim sky, and the sunlight spread over every inch of the mountains and rivers. Some of the scattered points of light became a blade of grass, a flower, or a tree; some became unfettered and free elves in the mountains and forests; some became mayflies that were born in the morning and died in the evening; and some became birds in the sky and fish in the water.

They choose to return to nature and never experience the pain of being human again.

Some points of light also landed in the city, landing in the belly of a kind woman. The child, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly kicked her belly lightly, causing her to let out a low cry;

Some points of light drifted out of the hospital window, and saw a young couple inside crying silently, and a baby in the incubator who was gradually becoming motionless suddenly cried loudly;

Some of the light spots saw a very beautiful children's room, with many big plush dolls, beautiful clothes, and interesting toys. It flew in and looked around, then gently kissed the smiling woman standing in the room...

They choose to re-enter this world with love and expectation.