Xue Chenjing ignored the system's weird squeeze. He secretly observed Pei Jingchao for several days. He looked down on this potential rival and didn't want to waste time on him.
Transparent tentacles stretched out from behind him and rested on his shoulders. The ends of the tentacles exploded like a blooming flower, turning into countless squirming soft threads. These threads swayed in the air, capturing the information left on Yu Yi.
Xue Chenjing followed the direction of the swaying threads, and finally, when he tracked them to a ghost town, he lost the trace of Yu Yi.
Outside this ghost town, there are burnt paper money and incense ashes everywhere. Around the outer edge of the ruins is a circle of talismans. The talismans on the rope are of different ages, and it can be seen that they have been stacked up over the years.
When Xue Chenjing came here, the surrounding villagers were holding a sacrificial ceremony, and there were also several monks from Zhaohua Palace.
These monks were dressed in lavender long Taoist robes, with jade crowns on their heads, and they were dust-free. Among a group of rural peasants in coarse linen clothes, they were like a crane standing out from a flock of chickens.
After a long sacrificial ceremony, the monks from Zhaohua Palace took out a stack of talismans and handed them to the village chief.
"Tie this stack of talismans to the rope every ten feet. Before the Ghost Festival, Zhaohua Palace will reinforce the barrier here. Then you can prepare as in previous years."
The village chief quickly called the young and strong men in the village to distribute the talismans and told them to do as the immortal said.
However, it was only March now, and there was still a long way to go before the Ghost Festival.
He asked worriedly, "Master, we saw that fairy crane hovering over the ghost town for three whole days, wailing incessantly. Has there been any changes in this ghost town? If so, can this year's ceremony be moved up?"
The monk frowned slightly, lowered his eyes, and glanced indifferently at the mortal who was bent over and looking at him eagerly, "Are you questioning the ability of Zhaohua Palace?" The
village chief raised his hand to wipe the sweat off his face awkwardly, bent his back even lower, and said repeatedly, "How dare I? If it weren't for the fairies from Zhaohua Palace coming to suppress the evil spirits in the city every year, how could the villages near us live in peace? I said the wrong thing, please don't blame me, Master."
The monk hummed, and said in a calm voice, "We took the fairy crane away."
After that, several people put their fingers together, made a gesture, and flew away.
Xue Chenjing chased after the monks of Zhaohua Palace and saw Senior Brother He tied up with ropes in a teahouse. When Senior Brother He saw him, he jumped up excitedly. His beak was tied up and he couldn't make any sound, so he could only make a cooing sound from his throat. Senior Brother
He had been changed by him before. Although Yu Yi woke up, this stupid bird was still not awake and still regarded him as the annoying husband of his master.
He usually didn't like Xue Chenjing, but at the critical moment, he had to put aside his prejudice and ask him for help.
The monks from Zhaohua Palace looked over immediately. Xue Chenjing walked over to them, bowed and said, "Hello, fellow Taoists, did you capture this fairy crane?" The other party
looked him up and down, stood up and returned the greeting, "It destroyed our barrier, and we were about to take it back to Zhaohua Palace to deal with it."
"Turns out it's a fellow Taoist from Zhaohua Palace. I won't hide it from you, this fairy crane is my mount, and it got separated from me a few days ago, and I've been looking for it for a long time."
Xue Chenjing glared at the red-crowned crane in a reproachful manner, and the restless senior brother Crane immediately behaved himself. He took out a heavy bag of spirit stones from his storage bag and handed it over, saying with shame: "I failed to take good care of my mount and caused trouble to you all. I hope you will accept this as a small compensation."
From the reaction of the fairy crane, several people also realized that they should know each other. These monks of Zhaohua Palace were not so eager to get close to a stupid fairy crane. They took the spirit stones and cushioned it, and immediately untied the rope.
Finally, he reminded him: "I hope you will restrain your mount properly and don't break into other people's barriers again. If something serious really happens, it can't be solved by a bag of spirit stones."
"Thank you for the reminder. I will definitely teach it a lesson." Xue Chenjing narrowed his eyes and glanced at Brother He, and led it out of the teahouse.
Senior Brother He carried him away from here, and landed on the ground again when they reached a small forest. Xue Chenjing asked, "Where is your master?"
The red-crowned cranes surrounded Xue Chenjing and cackled loudly, which was more unpleasant than crying. The flapping wings emitted a foul odor that even overwhelmed the bird's scent.
Xue Chenjing held his breath, unable to understand the bird's language, but felt that the noise was so noisy that it hurt his ears.
He pinched the red-crowned crane's slender neck, and his transparent tentacles emerged from his sleeves, wrapped around its beak, and a thin and long spike popped out from the tip and suddenly pierced into the back of the red-crowned crane's head.
Senior Brother He's flapping wings drooped softly, without any movement.
Xue Chenjing grabbed the information he wanted from its brain, which was smaller than a walnut kernel.
——After coming out of the sword-suppressing stone, Yu Yi left the Yunshan area easily. She wanted to rush to Yinzhou Prefecture. Three days ago, when she passed by this place on a fairy crane, she and the crane were pulled down from mid-air by an invisible force and fell into the ghost town.
The bird was knocked dizzy and turned around. When it woke up, it found that its owner was missing. It searched for three days in the vicinity and drilled every corner of the ghost town, but couldn't find her. Instead, it triggered the barrier that sealed the ghost town, attracting the monks of Zhaohua Palace to tie it up.
"Wuwuwu, the heroine is missing again. I told you to chase her quickly!" The system cried.
Xue Chenjing let go, and Senior Brother He fell softly to the ground, his eyes rolling up, as if his soul was about to leave his body.
He carried the fairy crane back to the outside of the ghost town. The villagers had already left, and there was a string of fresh talismans on the rope outside the ghost town to suppress the negative energy of this place.
Xue Chenjing threw Senior Brother He aside and drew a magic circle to release the ground filth. The ground filth mist quickly penetrated into the barrier and covered the entire ghost town.
After a while, the thick mist gathered back into his hand and condensed into a three-dimensional miniature real-life picture, replicating every tiny trace in the ghost town.
Xue Chenjing moved the muddy ground to check the topography of this place. "It's a place of hidden yin."
No wonder he felt a gloomy atmosphere as soon as he stepped into this place. The vegetation here is lush, but there are no birds or beasts, and even the sound of insects is sparse. Senior Brother He wandered here for three days and was stained with the cold and dead air.
The real scene of the muddy ground was enlarged between his five fingers, revealing a part. Xue Chenjing looked through the ruins inside and out, and found some traces of fighting that had not been worn away by the years. He found the remaining text in the ruins.
This should be the ruins of a sect that was destroyed thousands of years ago. Because of a great battle, the underground spiritual veins were overturned and the sect was destroyed.
The accumulation of a large amount of resentment turned this spiritual place into a ferocious place. After the passage of time, the surrounding landforms changed, making this place more and more evil, and it became a ghost town like today.
When Yu Yi passed by this place, it was the heaviest time of the night. It is very likely that he was dragged into the ghostland by the earth-bound spirit and used as a substitute.
"Is this what you call the heroine's luck? She can get into trouble just by walking around." Xue Chenjing said with a sigh. He hated troubles that arose out of nowhere. He didn't want to get involved except for things related to his own purpose. "What if she died like this?"
The system was shocked. "The heroine can't die! Master, she is your future wife, not your enemy. If you hold such a mentality of resisting hatred, you will not be able to conquer her."
Xue Chenjing had a blank expression and said sarcastically: "I coexist with monsters of hatred and resentment. Do you really think that there is love and tenderness in my body that can warm her?"
System: "..." Of course I know you don't have it. It's because you don't have it that I worry.
It turns out that the host actually listened carefully to the content of the mission it broadcast? The system suddenly felt a little guilty.
Of course, Xue Chenjing only said this. After the incident with the Swordstone, he finally compromised with reality and had to seriously consider how to win her over and improve her favorability.
He sat down beside the unconscious red-crowned crane, looked at the setting sun on the mountaintop, and waited for the night to fall.
He took out a food box from his storage bag and opened it. The box was divided into eight squares, and each square contained the same exquisite snacks.
Xue Chenjing picked up a piece of peach blossom cake and stuffed it into his mouth. He rubbed the powdered sugar on his fingertips, thought for a while, and suddenly asked: "Tell me, why is her heart so full of holes? Could it be that her whole family was killed, and the murderer humiliated her parents in front of her, or was she imprisoned and tortured, and her flesh and blood were cut off, and she was treated as a livestock..."
Anyway, the tragedies in the world are mostly the same.
The system interrupted him unbearably, "No, no, no, no, the heroine is not that miserable."
"Oh." Xue Chenjing fell silent and continued to ask, "Then tell me, what kind of trauma did she suffer that made her heart so full of holes and cold and broken?"
Help, he not only listened carefully to the system's task, but also remembered every word in the task clearly!
The system was silent for a moment, and whispered: "Why is the host asking these questions?"
"Aren't you asking me to conquer her?" Xue Chenjing licked the sugar powder on the corner of his lips and said, "I want to know how she is full of wounds, so that I can use my love and tenderness to fill her wounds one by one and heal her heart."
His smile was very vicious, and he deliberately emphasized "love and tenderness", which sounded very yin and yang.
System: "..." This is the most thorny host it has ever led.
"Mortals are really fragile, sensitive, and troublesome." Xue Chenjing curled his lips in disdain, waited for a long time, and did not wait for the system to answer. He snorted impatiently and urged, "Speak."
The system searched its intestines and scraped its stomach, hesitating for a long time.
How could it know what kind of trauma the heroine had suffered? In the setting of the book, the heroine is a sweet girl who was born in a peaceful era, grew up under the red flag, and is gentle, kind, and well-behaved.
She has never seen any dark side, nor has she ever been bullied by anyone. She grew up in love.
It was not until she was nineteen years old that she entered the world of the book according to the plot of the book, and began to experience the dangers of the world that she had never experienced before.
The system was supposed to bind the heroine, accompany her, and help her conquer the villain, but it bound the wrong person.
In the system tasks released, all the descriptions of the conquered objects are not used to describe the heroine, but to describe him, the villain.
Therefore, the one with a thousand holes in his heart as described in the original book is him, and he is also cold and broken. He is fragile, sensitive, irritable, and especially crybaby. All these are his own troubles.
He even looks disgusted when he is wronged.
But the system cannot say all these.
Under Xue Chenjing's oppressive gaze, the core of the system is about to burn.
Finally, it stammered out a paragraph: "The heroine came from another world to this strange world in the book, and she knew that she was destined to have a rough fate and be abused physically and mentally. She must be very lonely, confused, helpless, and want to escape from such a life, and you are her only salvation!"