That young man was Tong Yan of Zhongzhou State.
Xiao He had been in Bulao Lin for many years, so she knew what this talented disciple of Zhongzhou School looked like. She was very surprised, wondering why he suddenly came to Guocheng Temple. Then she noticed that Tong Yan's shoes were worn out, and there was a lot of black mud on his fingers. He didn't look like an immortal master of Zhongzhou State at all.
Without much time to think, Xiao He caught up with him and said a few words to him.
Tong Yan halted his steps and shot her a glance. When he saw Xiao He on the mountain path, he thought she was a little vixen who came to Guocheng Temple to pray for incense and Buddha. He didn't expect that she was Xiao He from Ying City, who was rumored to have tricked Liu Shisui away.
"As a disciple of Zhongzhou State, you can enter Guocheng Temple, but it doesn't mean you can see the person you want to see."
Xiao He looked at him and said, "I can't enter Guocheng Temple, but I can take you to see the person you want to see once you enter the temple."
Tong Yan nodded as he thought of the relationship between Liu Shisui and Jing Jiu.
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Footsteps came from the pagoda forest.
Liu Shisui went to the backyard to fetch water. Zhuo Rusui closed his eyes and didn't want to wake up, so Zhao Layue had to walk to the doorsill.
Seeing Xiao He come here with Tong Yan, she was a bit surprised, but more vigilant.
The Unicorn, the divine animal guarding the mountain of Zhongzhou School, had just made a big scene in Guocheng Temple, and then was sneakily attacked and wounded. Why did Tong Yan come here at this time?
Liu Shisui came over with hot water and was stunned by the scene in front of him.
Xiao He was surprised to see that he was fine. She took the basin from his hand and asked, "What are you going to do?"
Liu Shisui said, "To wash my young master's feet."
Xiao He didn't like it, but her expression didn't change. She said softly, "Let me do this kind of thing."
She carried the basin into the meditation room and saw the back of the figure in front of the Buddha statue. Feeling the faint majesty of the emperor's aura, she became extremely afraid. Her body went limp and she almost dropped the basin in her hand.
Liu Shisui hurriedly took the basin and said to the Emperor God, "He's one of us."
The Divine Emperor did not turn around, nor did he say anything.
If Xiao He wasn't a vixen and the Emperor didn't have a good impression of her, her Demon Pill would have been shattered.
Xiao He knew something serious had happened, so she didn't dare to stay in the meditation room any longer. After whispering a few words to Liu Shisui, she left and stood in the pagoda forest obediently.
Waiting here was better than waiting outside the temple. Being close to Liu Shisui and being able to see him was enough.
On the other side, after listening to Tong Yan's explanation, Zhao Layue slightly raised her eyebrows and said expressionlessly, "Jing Jiu doesn't want to see guests."
Her eyebrows were very thick, as if they were drawn by an ink brush. When they were raised, they were like swords. Her words were also sharp. It was not that it was inconvenient for him to see guests, but that he didn't want to see guests.
Tong Yan didn't like her eyebrows or her tone, but since she was asking for help, she couldn't lose her temper. He said, "I left Yunmeng five days ago and traveled south to Aoyama day and night. I didn't know that he might be in the Guocheng Temple until I was halfway there. Even if he doesn't want to help me, I should at least see him."
Looking at the conical hat on his back, Zhao Layue became more vigilant.
She had worn the conical hat many times when she and Jing Jiu traveled around the world, including Nanhezhou, Yujun, Shuanghe Mountain, and Haizhou. She had seen all kinds of conical hats, but she had never seen such a big one.
Five days ago, the Unicorn had arrived at the Guocheng Temple. Tong Yan's departure from Yunmeng should have nothing to do with this. But why did he hurry to Aoyama to find Jing Jiu?
At this moment, the Emperor's voice came from the meditation room, "Let him in."
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Tong Yan walked into the white mountain meditation room and came to the bed.
Liu Shisui was wiping Jing Jiu's feet with warm water.
The white cat had no place to sit, so he curled his body into a ball, feeling wronged.
Liu Shisui didn't even look at him.
Seeing Jing Jiu's pale face and deformed right arm, Tong Yan's face turned exceedingly pale. His body swayed slightly, and he had almost passed out.
He had dug the hole for six years to evade the Great Formation of Cloud-Dream and the perception of the Unicorn. He had been mentally strained for six years.
He had taken the Green Sky Mirror with him and fled from the Cloud-Dream Mountain in the middle of the night. He had endured an unimaginable mental pressure.
He had finally met Jing Jiu, but Jing Jiu looked like this.
No one would be able to hold on if they were in the same situation as him.
Zhao Layue didn't know what had happened to Tong Yan, saying, "You have seen it now. No matter what you want him to help you with, he can't help you anymore."
After a moment of silence, Tong Yan suddenly took off the conical hat on his back.
Zhao Layue was alarmed, but she knew that the Emperor was not in danger since he stood in front of the Buddha statue without turning around.
Tong Yan tore the conical hat to pieces, exposing the object hidden inside.
It was a bronze mirror, with many patterns and cracks on the surface of the mirror. It looked very old. The strange thing was that there was still a great deal of ice and snow in the patterns and patterns of the bronze mirror, which hadn't melted for some reason.
Zhao Layue hadn't seen this bronze mirror before, but she could sense the profundity exuded from it, making her even more alarmed.
Seeing the bronze mirror, Liu Shisui asked with a slightly surprised expression, "Is this the model of the Green Sky Mirror?"
The Green Sky Mirror he had seen in the manor cave in the deep end of the Huiyin Valley on the Cloud-Dream Mountain was a Bronze Mirror Formation of one hundred square feet.
"This is the Green Sky Mirror," said Tong Yan.
Liu Shisui was truly startled this time. "I didn't expect you to bring the Green Sky Mirror with you!" he exclaimed while staring at Tong Yan.
There were few magic treasures of the Heavenly State like the Green Sky Mirror in all of Chaotian. Even though Tong Yan was a talented disciple of the Zhongzhou School, his Cultivation state was merely in the Yuanying State. Traveling in the world with the Green Sky Mirror was no different from courting death. It was impossible for the Zhongzhou School to allow him to do so.
The Emperor turned to look at the Green Sky Mirror and sighed, "The living are always sorrowful; it's all the same."
Though Tong Yan didn't know his identity, she could vaguely guess what had happened when she saw his face and sensed his temperament. She felt startled, wondering what had happened in the Guocheng Temple and why Jing Jiu hadn't woken up yet.
The Emperor waved his hand, and a flame with primeval energy landed on the Green Sky Mirror.
The flame had gradually died out, and the remaining ice and snow on the surface of the Green Sky Mirror had melted into water, drying up gradually.
Buzz!!!
The sound rang out in the meditation room.
Qing 'er flapped her wings and flew out from the Green Sky Mirror.
The body of the little girl was almost transparent, as if it would vanish in the next moment.
Zhao Layue wondered what it was.
The Emperor said, "I didn't expect to see a true spirit of the Heavenly State in my life."
Qing 'er glanced at him, feeling instinctively fearful, especially since she was very weak and could vanish at any moment.
In the next moment, she noticed the white cat hiding at the foot of the bed, feeling uneasy as well.
Then, she found Jing Jiu was sleeping soundly.
She screamed in surprise and flew to Jing Jiu's face. She circled around restlessly, looking like a lost honey bee that couldn't find its way home.
"You haven't taught me how to become a real human being. I can't die like this! Wake up, wake up! "
She kept on yelling, her voice sounding like she was crying and fearful.
Jing Jiu's ears twitched a little, which could be seen clearly by the others; but he didn't wake up yet.
Qing 'er suddenly sensed something. She lifted her small face and sniffed. Then, she followed the scent and flew to Jing Jiu's left hand. She threw herself onto it and held his hand tightly, not letting go of it.
"What's the matter?" asked Tong Yan.
Qing 'er turned to Jing Jiu and said cheerfully, "He has the fairy energy in his hand!"
The Green Sky Mirror had been suppressed in the earth source for six years, which meant that the world inside had been frozen for almost two thousand years. Her spiritual body had suffered a great deal of damage. If she couldn't find a solution soon, she would die. However, who in Chaotian could repair or cure a magic treasure of the Heavenly State like the Green Sky Mirror?
The only person Qing 'er could think of was Jing Jiu.
Jing Jiu had told her that he had seen the true spirit of the heavenly state, and it was even more complete than hers; and he had told her many things about it.
As such, Tong Yan headed for Aoyama overnight after leading her away from the Cloud-Dream Mountain. She received a letter on the way and learned that Jing Jiu was in the Guocheng Temple; so she came to this place.
Yet, Qing 'er didn't expect that Jing Jiu's condition was even worse than hers.
Fortunately, her spiritual body could be kept alive with the fairy energy in Jing Jiu's hand as a supplement; at least she didn't have to worry that it would disappear immediately.
Qing 'er held Jing Jiu's left hand, feeling very happy. She didn't want to let go of his left hand, sucking it constantly.
The fairy energy leaking out from Jing Jiu's left hand had all entered her spiritual body. The fairy energy in the meditation room grew fainter and fainter.
It didn't take long before Zhuo Rusui woke up from his meditation. "What is going on?" he yelled in a panic. What's going on? "
Then, he saw Tong Yan and Qing 'er holding onto Jing Jiu's left hand tightly. "What's going on?" he yelled in surprise.
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The group had a brief conversation in the pagoda forest outside the meditation room.
Tong Yan still didn't want to tell him what had happened.
Zhao Layue didn't want to tell him what had happened in the Guocheng Temple either. However, the situation looked pretty good. The fairy energy leaking out had been absorbed by Qing 'er into her spiritual body, and Jing Jiu's condition was much better. All they needed to do now was to figure out how to deal with that strand of fairy awareness.
Tong Yan seemed to have guessed something, saying, "The Green Sky Mirror can only hold a limited amount of fairy energy. It won't take long for the process to stop."
"The Green Sky Mirror is a magic treasure of the heavenly state; why can it only hold such a small amount of fairy energy?" asked Zhuo Rusui in bafflement.
Tong Yan said, "The Green Sky Mirror has been sealed in ice for a long time. The being inside the mirror that can absorb the fairy energy hasn't woken up yet."
This sentence had already vaguely revealed some things.
It was then that a loud belch broke out in the meditation room.
The group walked back to the room and found Qing 'er sitting by Jing Jiu, rubbing her slightly swollen belly with her small hand. Her spiritual body was no longer transparent, and it was evident that it had stabilized.
Zhao Layue shot a glance at Tong Yan, wondering what she meant by "it won't take long".
"I know what you people are worried about. But there's no need to be afraid! "
Qing 'er patted her belly, making an adorable "pah" sound.
Having said that, she flew up and jumped into Jing Jiu's body.
It was like a Blue Bird flying into a well and heading to another world.
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A sword light was traveling in the distant Empty Realm.
The Immortal Liu Ci was the Sect Master of Aoyama and had a profound Cultivation state; but the speed of the flying sword was always a problem. He couldn't do anything about it. He didn't even have a sword; how could he fly?
After receiving the letter from the Guocheng Temple, he left Tianguang Peak and headed for the East Ocean, regardless of the loss of Zhen Yuan. As he was about to arrive, his Dao Heart was suddenly triggered. He calculated with his fingers and found out the current situation of Jing Jiu.
"Is it possible?"
Liu Ci turned around with a faint smile.
It would take a long time to get to Aoyama. If he flew further, it would take him even longer to get back.
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In the deep end of the Cloud-Dream Mountain, the fog was so thick that even the swordsmen had a hard time seeing anything.
The mountain-like black shadow of the Unicorn was moving slowly in the fog, absorbing the abundant spiritual energy to heal the wounds in his body.
He was wounded after being sneak-attacked by the Great Grandmaster of the Mysterious Dark Sect in the Guocheng Temple.
What puzzled him the most was that the Great Grandmaster of the Mysterious Dark Sect should have been able to wound him severely when he transformed into a human and his Cultivation state was less than one hundred percent of his usual state. However, he found that his wounds were not as severe as he had imagined after he returned to the Zhongzhou School, and he would be able to fully recover after a period of rest.
The fog suddenly started circulating violently. The Unicorn exuded a terrifying lethal intent toward heaven and earth; it was because he sensed that the fairy awareness left by Bai Ren was on the verge of being destroyed.
In the next moment, he sensed something else, which shocked him greatly. He came to the deep part of the earth source, ignoring the fact that his wounds had not been healed yet.
The Great Formation of Cloud-Dream exuded a formidable energy that even made him feel uncomfortable. He looked ahead with narrowed eyes, and the expression in his eyes changed abruptly. The tendons and vessels hidden under the skin on his face suddenly bulged, as if they were about to break through the wall, revealing a blood-red color.
The underground river and the lava flowed parallel to each other, as if they would never meet. And the Green Sky Mirror on the Cold Sky Pivot had disappeared.
The Unicorn found the tunnel after he activated his spiritual awareness.
He flew out along the tunnel and found that he was in a manor cave on the edge of the Cloud-Dream Mountain.
There was nothing in the manor cave, save for a faint energy.
Ahh!!
The Unicorn let out an angry shriek.
A violent wind rose in the manor cave. The stone walls attached to the formation were visibly eroded, turning into a thin layer of brittle skin, falling off with a rustling sound.
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The shriek of the Unicorn could be heard all over the Cloud-Dream Mountain.
All the fog seemed to have become heavy.
All the disciples of the Zhongzhou School, including those elders living in seclusion, walked out of the manor cave and looked in the direction of the valley where the Immortal Sect Master was, wondering what had happened in surprise.
The thicker the fog, the more dewdrops there were. The dewdrops wetted the leaves, as if a rare rain was coming.
Bai Zao pulled back her finger and rubbed the dewdrops on her finger gently until they turned into smoke and disappeared.
She walked to the edge of the cliff and looked in the direction of the distant East Ocean, remaining silent.
She had guessed something two years ago, and the angry shriek of the Unicorn was the proof; but she didn't need it.
The letter that Tong Yan received on the way was written by her.
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The New Year Festival was not over yet. The sound of firecrackers could be heard once in a while in the village outside the Guocheng Temple.
The Unicorn came to the world, the Great Grandmaster showed up, the Emperor struck with his palm, and Aoyama wielded his sword. Many significant events had taken place on the last day of the previous year, but none of them had any effect on the human world.
They were two different worlds to begin with. It was difficult to communicate with each other, and it was unnecessary to communicate with each other.
In the early morning, a Blue Bird flew out from Jing Jiu's body.
Qing 'er didn't tell anybody what she had seen in Jing Jiu's body, not even until a long time in the future.
"The true spirit of the heavenly treasure is born to contain the world."
This was what Jing Jiu told her in the Illusionary Realm of the Green Sky Mirror.
Looking at Jing Jiu who was still sleeping soundly, Zhao Layue thought that if the Green Sky Mirror was her world, then where was his world?
In the ancient myths and legends, the Blue Bird was the messenger for the fairy men to deliver messages.
Though she didn't bring any message to the Guocheng Temple that day, another message was delivered to the Guocheng Temple.
Having finished reading the amulet book in his hand, the Emperor handed it to Zhao Layue, and then stood in front of the Buddha statue, remaining silent.
Having finished reading the amulet book, Zhao Layue handed it to Liu Shisui after some thought.
Zhuo Rusui felt helpless, as he thought that he had entered the Guocheng Temple earlier than Jing Jiu, and that she was too vengeful.
After Liu Shisui had finished reading it, it was Zhuo Rusui's turn to read it, and then it fell into the hands of Tong Yan.
Tong Yan was the person involved.
All the Cultivation sects and the Imperial court in Chaotian had received this amulet book.
The Zhongzhou School claimed that Tong Yan had betrayed their sect and asked all the orthodox Cultivation practitioners in the world to kill her. Any sect or individual who would take her in would be regarded as an enemy of the Cloud-Dream Mountain.
Tong Yan's expression didn't change. Her eyebrows were still as light as before, because she didn't even furrow them.
"It's time for me to go."
He wrapped the Green Sky Mirror in a cloth and tied it to his back, heading for the outside of the temple.
(End of this chapter)
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