The Lushan School is the mainstay of Xuanmen in the Fujian and Yue areas.
As the master of the previous generation, Yu Mei is the most profound person Li Changan has seen so far.
In the memory illusion presented by Dionysus, this Taoist true man walked along the way, accompanied by auspicious clouds and scenery, protected by divine generals, and rampant in the way, and all the evil spirits escaped in the wind.
But it was a bit arrogant. In Li Changan's eyes, despite those auras, what he saw was just an exhausted old man. He was scarred and on the verge of death, just like those old wolves he met in the wilderness, far away from the group and pursuing his own life.
Burial place.
Above the clouds, the Taoist priest followed closely.
He saw Yu Zhenren stepping into the ruins of Xiaoshui and entering a collapsed wall. He also saw her waving her hands to disperse the auspicious clouds, burning her watch to send back the generals, and commanding the unruly five rampaging soldiers and horses to circle around.
Repair the house, clean the yard, set up the pot and cook.
He actually started working as a laborer and a slave.
Not long after.
A pot of wild vegetable soup is cooked.
A courtyard was also roughly repaired on the ruins.
Although it is simple, the "Hui"-shaped structure and the still prosperous purple wisteria and large locust trees in the courtyard look familiar. Isn't this the Yujia Di store?
"It turns out that Amei, the girl from the Di shop in the past, is now Yu Mei, the head teacher of Lushan."
Although it has been suspected for a long time, the old man with gray hair and chicken skin is really connected with the lively and active girl, but it will inevitably make people sigh that there is no need to rush the time.
"Since Amei is Yu Mei, then who are Yu Mei and Yu Mei?"
The God of Dionysus did not answer, but lowered his cloud head and came to Yu Mei's side, inviting Li Chang'an to watch closely.
…
One person and one god follow Yu Mei's phantom.
We arrived at a street corner covered in weeds.
Yu Zhenren then directed Wu Yan to repair a small house, set up a stone stove, and brought in tree trunks as a table.
He also took out a thick book from his backpack. The material was strange, like paper but not silk. When he flipped it open, there was a vivid monster painted on each page, which was somewhat similar to Li Changan's yellow-shell book.
Yu Mei flipped through it for a while, picked out a page, tore it off, and shook it in the wind. A half-human, half-cat monster emerged from the page. She held it in her hands like a rubber, and she was stunned to see a cat.
The demon shaped her into a round-faced woman.
Then a rat demon as big as a calf was released from the pages of the book and turned into a little baby.
Raise your hand and point.
The cat, the mouse, the mother and the son were busy in the "stove table and stools" in a serious manner, using tiles as bowls and boiling rattan in front of them, just like children pretending to be a household.
However, Yu Mei never tired of it, and drew out more monsters, creating one after another a salesman, shopkeeper, clerk, diners, tourists... She didn't stop creating until the sun set, and at this time, half of the street had been "restored".
Unexpectedly, when I woke up the next day, I saw that those simple buildings had collapsed again. The monster-turned-characters and the rampant soldiers who were left to guard were all tied up with ivy and were sleeping soundly.
Some small flowers and grass grow.
…
Yu Mei was furious and looked for the troublemaker, but Li Chang'an, who was watching, saw the matter clearly and turned his subtle eyes to Dionysus.
The god of wine laughed.
"Although I had no one to worship me at that time and my powers were weakened, I was still able to deal with one or two stupid monsters with ease."
The Taoist priest pondered for a while and said deliberately:
"This Master Yu has profound cultivation, but he only brings out some monsters to amuse himself. Why should a god be in trouble with her?"
The god of wine looked solemn.
"The words of the Taoist priest are wrong. I am the land of Xiaoshui and have been worshiped and worshiped for many years. Now, even if the city walls are abandoned and the people are scattered, how can I let the demon change shape and destroy the innocence of my people?"
Li Changan nodded and stopped talking.
…
The illusion continues to develop.
as I thought.
The dionysian, whose powers were weakened, was quickly caught by Yu Mei.
Although this god looks casual on the outside, he has a strong temperament on the inside, and if he points at Yu Mei, he will be bloody.
Yu Zhenren was not hesitant and asked his soldiers to fish out the statue of Bacchus from the bottom of the Bacchus kiln, and then sealed the god into his own stone statue.
but.
This incident with the God of Dionysus also gave Yu Mei a wake-up call.
Treating a demon as a human being is something that is not tolerated by nature and human ethics. Now that a Dionysus appears to disrupt the situation, who knows that there won't be any nosy guys in the future, such as a Taoist with short hair?
then.
She buried talismans and formations everywhere in the ruins of Xiaoshui, and constructed a simple maze.
Then, in the rivers and waterways in the city, talismans and magic weapons were sunk, and many spells were cast, and finally a brand new world was created in the reflection of Xiaoshui.
One person and one god followed Yu Mei into the fantasy world.
It is naturally much more convenient to indulge in fantasy than to build walls and tiles in reality.
Yu Mei splashed ink in the illusion with great interest, and "restored" a Xiaoshui City - the Xiaoshui City that was still in its heyday and when she was a child decades ago.
It’s just that my energy is limited, so it’s inevitable to be sloppy.
There are no people around, just the street buildings, the ones close by are better, the ones further away are like the graffiti of naughty children, shapeless, the further away, they simply become simple drawings, as for the distant mountains and the sky, they are just Simply painted with color.
But.
When she put the monsters into the fantasy world, those scribbled details began to become real.
turn out to be.
Yu Mei injected false memories into the monsters, and those memories prompted the monsters to fill in the details of the illusion themselves.
that's all.
With the efforts of Yu Mei, the hard work of Wang Bing, and the unconscious help of monsters, Xiaoshui, which was once prosperous and wealthy, was restored bit by bit in the illusion.
I don’t know if it’s to relieve loneliness or simply to show off.
Master Yu asked his soldiers to retrieve the God of Dionysus and keep it beside him. Every time a house was restored and every "actor" was arranged, he would be "introduced" to him:
"This Qinyuan (a bird that looks like a wasp) was found in the miasma forest in Lingnan when I started my military career. Its tail needle is very poisonous, stinging people to death and causing trees to wither. I was there
Man Chang borrowed armor and trapped it in the mountains and forests. When it was sealed in the book, it was discovered that its tail needle had broken through three layers of iron armor and almost pierced the inner lining."
"The old lady of the Wang family outside the city gate has a stingy and vicious temperament. I heard that she often pricks her daughter-in-law with needles, so it is fitting to use this poisonous bee to pretend to be her."
"I found this false beast when I was walking in Huainan. At that time, it transformed into a human form and claimed to be the reincarnation of the Buddha. It deceived people in a county. It also created some sort of Purity Sect to win over the army and occupy one side. I spent
It took me a while to sneak into the mansion and catch it. Hey, it still wants to use words to confuse me, but I don’t know that I have long since blocked my hearing and can’t hear even a single word.”
"Zhang Yazi from the south gate is used to telling lies to deceive the upper and lower families. It is most suitable to pretend to be a blackmail beast."
"This tiger was caught by me when I was a successful monk and walked out of the mountains. At that time, this evil (harmony) barrier was entrenched in the mountains and forests, controlling tens of thousands of ghosts. The demonic flames filled the sky and the blood was eaten everywhere. I asked the gods to come down and adjust them.
Wu Gang broke through its lair and pursued it all the way across the mountains and ridges, from Qianzhong Road to Lingnan Road. It took ten days and ten nights to suppress it at the bank of Long River."
"As the saying goes, officials are like tigers and officials are like wolves. Doesn't the chair of the county magistrate belong to him?"
…
Dionysus just kept silent at first, but later he couldn't help but start arguing.
Because the process of Yu Zhenren's restoration of Xiaoshui was too casual.
For example, there was obviously a monk temple in the city, but she changed it casually, and the Jialan Baodian became the Qing (Harmony) Building Skills Workshop; the Shuiyue Temple was obviously in the city, but she felt that it was noisy in the city, so she moved it to a hill outside the city.
For another example, the Li'er Building across from the restaurant is actually just a tavern, and the third wife is just a poor woman who is often beaten by her husband.
I don’t know if she used to give her sweets when she was a child.
After Yu Zhenren's deletions, Li'er Building suddenly became a famous building, and the third wife became a stunning beauty. The irascible husband was gone, but there was a knight-errant who admired her.
Of course Dionysus couldn't see it.
Whenever this happens, he will curse or make sarcastic remarks.
Yu Mei is also happy to see the result. After all, from Dionysian's words, many characters and stories of Xiaoshui's past can be pulled out. The worst thing is, if you scold him hard, just block Dionysian's mouth.
that's all.
Time flies, the sun and the moon rotate.
Several years have passed.
Under Yu Mei's painstaking carvings, Xiaoshui City in the reflection gradually took shape, and it has become seventy-eight percent of what Xiaoshui Fantasy Land looks like today.
But in just a few years, Yu Mei also declined so badly that she could no longer walk with her legs.
Li Chang'an asked the God of Bacchus and found out that Yu Mei was only around eighty years old. Logically speaking, with her cultivation level, she shouldn't have aged like this, even if she was young.
But when I think back to when she showed off to the God of Dionysus and told about all the demons she had captured, it seemed light-hearted, but in reality, how many close calls did she have to survive?
Yu Mei's childhood was the time when the dynasty was at its peak. From then on, the world took a turn for the worse. The time in Xiaoshui Fantasy Land was the time when the dynasty was at its most prosperous, and probably the happiest time in Yu Mei's life.
So when she is suffering from old illnesses and her time is running out, she will return to her hometown and use monsters and illusions to relive her old childhood dreams.
And now.
The stage has been set.
The actors are also in place.
Feeling that her time was running out, Yu Mei couldn't wait to arrange the most exciting drama and the happiest time in her memory - the Dionysus Festival.
In the beginning, it was just like what Li Changan had seen.
The bustling long street, bustling with tourists, prosperous lanterns and painted boats connected to the waterways.
But on the last day, that is, the day of the Dionysus Festival, when all the "people" gathered in front of the Dionysus Temple to participate in the grand ceremony, everything went into chaos. Many "people" behaved in confusion, with logical conflicts, and even broke free from illusions and revealed themselves.
Discover the true nature of the demon.
To put it more simply, it's like chicken feathers.
Yu Zhenren was helpless and angry, so he mobilized rampant troops to suppress it.
Within one day, Xiaoshui was less than half empty.
This did not surprise Li Changan.
Not to mention, the Xiaoshui illusion in front of me is only seven to eight percent as complete as it is now. Even the current illusion still has many illogical loopholes, which are just covered up by the spells that confuse the mind.
It's okay to just go about your own business according to the "script", but to gather together in a hurry to put on a big show, just like a new game that has just been released and launched without testing. Doesn't this mean there are no UG (I'm convinced) flying all over the place?
But what surprised Li Changan and made Yu Zhenren helpless was:
The god of wine refused to accept the sacrifice.
If Dionysus doesn’t cooperate, what else can we call a Dionysian festival?
…
"All the gods in the world feed on incense. I think you have not been sacrificed for a long time and may be in danger of death. Why don't you enjoy the incense that is readily available at that time?"
The seemingly dissolute Dionysus chuckled and shook his head.
"A gentleman will not drink from a stolen spring."
…
The righteous gods are not subject to the sacrifices of demons.
In the image of memory, Dionysus responded calmly to Yu Mei's angry questions, and Yu Mei finally couldn't bear it anymore and threw him, including the god and the stone statue, back into the ruins of the ruined temple.
Fortunately, the illusion to Xiaoshui is just like a person to his own shadow. Although he is powerless to interfere, Dionysus can still see every bit of what happens in the illusion.
Yu Mei began to reorganize the fantasy.
This time she learned her lesson.
The huge illusion has been simplified a lot: the scope has been reduced, only around the city; the number of people has been reduced, there are not so many grudges, and the time has been shortened, only going back and forth in the twenty days before and after the Dionysus Festival.
The method of illusion has also been strengthened to make the monsters indulge in false memories and find it difficult to escape.
at last.
She added the last character to her Xiao Shui.
Little Amei from Yujia Di Store.
Done all this.
She weakened even more, like a wick that was about to burn out, with only a little light of life left.
What's worse is that even the obedient and obedient warriors in the past have gradually returned to their true nature, becoming unruly and unruly, with faint signs of devouring their masters.
So, she simply took away the consciousness of the rampaging soldiers and sealed them into the murals of Shuiyue Temple.
Suffering from physical inconvenience, she inspired two more monsters, two monsters that had just awakened and were not yet contaminated by blood, to help her control the illusion.
One is the purple wisteria in the courtyard, causing it to spread throughout Xiaoshui City in the illusion, controlling and monitoring the illusion for her.
The two are the big locust trees in the courtyard, which share magical powers and help her deal with monsters that occasionally escape from illusions.
But even on his deathbed, Master Yu still had a bad taste.
She transformed Wisteria into her own appearance, named it Yumei, and assumed the identity of the master of Water Moon Temple, because she wanted to use it to control the illusion, but unlike other monsters, she didn't let her know part of the truth.
The big locust tree was transformed into the appearance of his youth, named Yumei, and made up the identity of Zhenfusi. He changed the task of eliminating the illusion monsters into solving the monsters lurking in the city, and also arranged for Mei
Pretend to be her superior.
that's all.
The illusion gradually stabilized.
Yu Mei's light of life also burned to the end in the repeated Dionysian sacrifices.
According to Yu Mei's original intention, she should release her troops now, kill all the monsters, and destroy this dream that should not exist.
But in the end, she didn't take action after all.
He only entrusted the control of the illusion and rampant soldiers to Yu Mei, and told it to destroy the illusion and bury him with him after his death.
then.
A generation of real people passed away suddenly in an old childhood dream.
However.
What Yu Mei couldn't let go of, how could Yu Mei let it go?
For Yu Mei, the fantasy world of Xiaoshui is years of hard work and a childhood dream; for Mei, it is a real place of refuge.
Of course.
Yu Mei violated Yu Mei's last wish, leaving the illusion to continue running.
But.
Although the illusion created by Yu Mei is exquisite and huge, its essence is a tree without roots. It does not rely on the earth's veins or the blessed land of heaven and earth, and cannot absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth for its own operation.
What maintains its operation is not only Yu Mei's own magic power, but also the essence of monsters and even rampant soldiers in the illusion. Most of the monsters act as ordinary people and cannot actively absorb the essence of the sun and the moon, and even eat and drink themselves.
The transformation of one’s essence.
In other words.
Monsters are like donkeys that don't eat grass.
So a few years later, Yu Mei's "reluctance" finally led to a catastrophe.
The monsters woke up from hunger.
The extreme hunger makes them reveal their nature as monsters; the restraint of the illusion makes them still struggle in the role they play.
Just like little Amei’s dream.
There are tens of thousands of people in the entire city. They are humans during the day and demons at night. If stimulated a little, they will reveal their true nature as demons. Neighbors will kill each other, mothers and children cannibalize each other, all just to relieve their hunger.
Not to mention that Yu Mei’s eyebrows are clumsy on the left and right, even Yu Mei is at a loss.
After all, Yu Mei is not Yu Mei. She has no way to suppress the demons with her own power. She even dispatches rampant soldiers - the essence of the five rampant soldiers and horses has been extracted by it to fill the holes in the illusion. How can she still have the strength to kill the demons?
?
As a result, the condition of the illusion became worse and worse day by day, and finally reached a critical point. The illusion was about to collapse, and tens of thousands of hungry monsters were about to break free from their cages.
At this time.
A group of imperial troops passed here to go north to King Qin, and happened to be stationed at the Xiaoshui site.
That night.
Thousands of officers and soldiers were swallowed up by heavy fog.
Their flesh and blood became the food to feed the hordes, and their souls became the cornerstone to fill the illusion.
thus.
The chaos in the illusion was suppressed by the bomb, but it did not destroy the illusion. Instead, it used the corpses of the dead monsters as nourishment, and dispatched rampant soldiers to replace the dead monsters, continuing to maintain the illusion.
But.
A hundred secrets and a sparse.
Yu Mei never expected that it still missed a monster that broke free from the illusion. One was not the most powerful, but it was definitely the most troublesome monster - Baihuan Butterfly.
A great monster who was born in an illusion and thrives in illusions.
After the monster woke up, it did not escape from the illusion. Instead, it used its own natural magic to lurk in the illusion. While evading Yu Mei's search, it silently waited for the opportunity, hoping to occupy the magpie's nest and become the owner of the illusion.
Owner.
Ever since.
Outside the fantasy world, heavy fog swallowed up passers-by one after another.
In the fantasy realm, in the repeated time loop, the doctor and Yu Mei performed the cat-and-mouse play over and over again.
Dionysus saw all this.
But he was locked in the stone statue and could do nothing. He could only lie on his back at the bottom of the abandoned cellar, counting the days and rejecting the offerings in the illusion over and over again.
slowly.
He began to become "dazzled" and unable to see all kinds of illusions; gradually he became "dark and deaf" and could not hear the wind, rain and dew of the outside world; gradually he became "muddleheaded" and his thoughts were scattered and unclear.