Jin'an and Kulijiang transferred to camels along the way and finally arrived at Yueqiang Kingdom before midnight.
Outside Yueqiang City under the dark night, there is still a ring of white salt used to exorcise demons. The last time Jin An and the others came to Yueqiang City at night, they were blocked outside the city gate and spent the night. Now things are different. Standing there
The soldiers guarding the city all knew Kulijiang, and they hurriedly opened the city gate with cheers and let the two men into the city.
The people of the Yueqiang Kingdom who were sleeping soundly in their houses heard the sound of camels running on the street and curiously opened the windows to check the situation, but the camels had already galloped away and they saw nothing.
The Yueqiang King's Palace is an ancient castle with golden domes. During the day, the golden domes of these ancient castles were brilliant and resplendent, but now only the dark and blurry outlines are left.
Kulijiang’s status in the Yueqiang Kingdom is not low. The two of them had a smooth journey and met the princess of the Yueqiang Kingdom, Gulizar.
The name Gulizal means the most beautiful flower blooming in the desert. When you see the princess, your face is pale and bloodless, your body is thin and haggard, your spirit is listless, your eyes are blank and have no focus. You can see that she has been living with anxiety and tension for a long time.
In a depressing and mentally destructive environment.
Many people gathered in Gulizar's boudoir, and the whole room was filled with light. The floor, table, balcony, and window sill were as bright as day.
Children in the desert are all brave. Although Gulizal was haggard and could not hide the fear and anxiety in her pupils, she bit her lips and did not let herself cry.
“Princess, this is the Taoist priest of Kangding State, Jin’an, that I mentioned.”
“Taoist Priest Jin’an, this is the most beautiful flower blooming in our Yueqiang Kingdom, Princess Gulizar.”
Seeing that the princess was safe and sound, Kulijiang finally let go of his worries for several days. After his brief introduction, Jin An looked up at the night outside and went straight to the topic.
"Dark energy appears in people, and the palace of calamity and calamity has soared to the sky. Recently, it has been entangled with unclean things. Both the Palace of Life and the Palace of Baoshou are dim and dull. If it is blocked by black energy, there must be a bloody disaster. Make it clear what is entangled in you.
I don’t want to let you go.”
"Have you done anything recently, Princess, and have you unintentionally angered any evil god? I heard that Princess, your first nightmare started four or five days ago. You can think back to whether you said anything angry or angry in those days.
He broke something."
After Jin An finished speaking a few words, he began to look at the room in front of him again.
“Huh?” He said softly.
"This room is simply decorated. It lacks many things that women need, the red and pink curtains, and a bed. This room is not the princess's boudoir. Take me to the princess's boudoir. I want to know about Hekmati Shaman.
How did you die?"
Gulizhar did not expect that the Han Taoist priest Uncle Kulijiang spoke of would be so young, looking like he was in his early twenties.
Gulizal was thin and haggard, and refused the lady's offer to help her. As soon as her boudoir was mentioned, her eyes subconsciously showed fear. She was silent at first, and finally mustered up the courage to say with difficulty: "This is indeed not my boudoir.
I have the same nightmare every night. I dream about a woman who cannot see clearly, sleeping with me back to back under the bed... Whenever I try to see her face clearly in my dream, the woman under the bed will turn her head and talk to me.
We looked at each other, and I was immediately awakened by a nightmare..."
As if just saying these words took all of his strength, Gulizal sat back on the chair with a pale face, panting hard.
"I haven't slept for two days now. I can only take a nap during the day. I don't dare to sleep for too long. Since the shaman died, I am now particularly afraid that I will see the woman under the bed when I close my eyes." Gu.
The more Lizal spoke, the paler her face became.
Looking at the haggard Princess of Yueqiang Kingdom, Jin An admired her courage. At least she was just frightened and she didn't break down and cry. If it were an ordinary person who had the same horrible nightmare for so many days in a row, she would have broken down even if she didn't.
Afraid of crying.
Admiration is admiration, but he still has to remind the princess of Yueqiang Kingdom: "Princess, it's you who got the dirty things, not the house or the bed. The dirty things won't just change to another room or place.
Let you go."
"The dirty thing that entangled you has had a clear goal from the beginning. She just wants you to die. No matter how far the princess hides and how many people protect her, it will be useless. It will only increase the death of more innocent people. Unless
The princess can hide all the way to the end of the world without sleeping or resting."
“Since everything started in the princess’s boudoir, everything should be understood there to avoid the death of more innocent people.”
After hearing Jin An's words, Kulijiang's expression changed. He was interrupted by Gulizar before he could speak.
Although the princess of the Yueqiang Kingdom was fearful and frightened, her eyes also flashed with perseverance: "Uncle Kulijiang, I can't hide in the palace forever just because I'm afraid of the storm. Gulizar is a desert.
The most beautiful flowers bloom in the sky, and they are also the most tenacious flowers. I know that evading all the time is not an option. Since all this is my Gulzar's life, I, Gulzar, am willing to face it bravely."
Gulizal started to ask the maid to pack her things and decided to return to her original room to spend the night.
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Princess boudoir.
It had only been two days since anyone had stayed there. As soon as Jin An entered the room, he smelled a very light and strange musty smell. As soon as the weaker maid entered the room, goosebumps appeared all over her body, but a large number of royal palaces filed in.
The guards and maids, as well as the light of candlelight, quickly brought warmth and popularity to the place again.
The maid cleaned quickly and the princess checked in again.
This was Jin An's first time entering the princess's boudoir. He found that the people in these deserts especially liked glittering things, whether it was carpets, lamp holders, tables, big beds... all inlaid with gold. It would be great to use the glitter here.
Very realistic.
Jin An secretly weighed the golden lamp holder while no one was paying attention. Good guy, it's heavy. This is a gold lamp holder, not painted with gold paint or covered with gold foil.
It is indeed a wealthy royal family. Even a small desert country is so wealthy that they use gold as a lamp holder.
But if you think about it carefully, apart from gold, which is easy to store and collect, there seems to be no other valuable things that are easy to store in the desert.
Jin An put down the golden lamp holder, looked around the princess's boudoir, stepped on the thick and soft carpet, walked to the princess's bed, lifted up the sheets and bent down to look under the bed. There was nothing unusual.
He asked the princess of Yueqiang Kingdom: "Princess, where did Hekmati Shaman hide when he kept vigil for you that night?"
Since returning to the boudoir, Gulizal has become much quieter. Perhaps even she knows that tonight is extremely dangerous, and maybe... she will lose her life. When she heard Jin An's question, she raised her finger in the direction of the closet.
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Jin An was stunned.
Hide both in the princess's boudoir and in the princess's wardrobe. This shaman is quite good at choosing a place.
When Jin An pushed open the luxurious wardrobe edged with gold, there were no women's clothes in the wardrobe, only a pair of shoe prints.
The shoe print is large in size.
Not a women’s size.
is for men.
It seems that since the incident with Shaman Hekmati, no one has cleaned or stayed in this princess's boudoir.
Jin An wanted to recreate what happened to Shaman Hekmati that night, so he followed the shoe prints, walked into the closet, and closed the door facing outside.
This Hekmati shaman is really good at finding places. After closing the cabinet door, his line of sight can be directed towards the princess's big bed. As he adjusts the angle, he can see everything under the bed when he squats down.
The princess's boudoir has a large space, and the wardrobe is also very spacious, so people can see what is under the bed from the wardrobe.
While Jin An was still squatting in the closet, deep in thought, Kulijiang saw that Jin An had locked himself in the closet alone for a while without any movement. He came to the closet with some concern and called out softly: "Priest Jin An, you
Are you okay? Did you make any new discoveries?"
It is also difficult for Kulijiang, a man as strong as a black iron tower, who is used to speaking in a loud voice, but now he has to deliberately lower his voice and speak softly.
Jin An opened the cupboard door and walked out, saying it was nothing, and roughly told what he had discovered. After hearing this, Kulijiang asked in surprise: "Taoist Master Jin An, are you going to hide in the cupboard tonight too?"
Jin An chuckled, just shook his head and said nothing.
He continued to observe every detail of the princess's boudoir, checking for any oversights.
Logically speaking, he should go and see the body of Hekmati Shaman first tonight. Maybe there are more clues on the body, but time is too tight tonight, and the body is not in the palace. It would be too long to go back and forth.
To waste time, he sealed the Five Thunder Evil-Slaying Talisman four times, as well as the Concentric Lock. He had many secret tricks, but he was not afraid of a desert devil.
It’s late at night.
At this time, there were only three people left in the princess's boudoir, Princess Gulizar of Yueqiang Kingdom, Jin'an, and Kulijiang.
Jin An asked the guards and maids to retreat. It would not be helpful for the ordinary people to stay here. Maybe he would have to take care of the safety of these ordinary people when he and the woman under the princess's bed started fighting.
As for Kulijiang, he insisted on staying.
Last time, the Hekmati shaman was killed by the devil, and the princess in the room almost had an accident, and it was almost too late to save her, so this time he insisted on staying by the princess's side no matter what.
He has watched the princess grow up since he was a child.
He could not sit back and watch the princess in danger without doing anything, not to mention that as a guard of the Yueqiang King's palace, he had won the trust of the king and his family, and it was his duty to protect the royal family members.
Faced with Kulijiang's insistence on staying, Jin'an didn't care. Kulijiang was not an ordinary person. He was also a top-notch master in the Kangding Kingdom. He had strong Qi and blood, and three strong yang fires, so ordinary evil spirits could not get close to him.
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Attorney
The desert night wind blew into the house along the gauze curtains of the pavilion, and the lamps in the room swayed gently in the breeze.
Ku Lijiang nervously grasped the handle of the knife on the table.
“It’s just an ordinary breeze, no need to be too nervous.” Jin An looked at Kuli Jiang, who was surrounded by trees and grass, and asked him to relax and not be nervous.
at this time.
Jin An and Ku Lijiang sat in front of a table covered with gold, which looked like a famous wood.
Princess Gulizal was sitting on the bed with her knees in her arms, fear making her sleepless.
Ku Lijiang, a big man with a big beard, touched his nose lightly with his finger to cover up his embarrassment: "Taoist Master Jin'an, how are we going to kill the devil tonight?"
"wait."
“When we sit here like this, will the devils see that there are so many of us and they won’t dare to come? Should we learn from the Hekmati shaman and hide in the closet so that we can always see what’s going on under the bed?”
“It’s not necessary.”
"Why?"
Jin An's answer was simple: "If she doesn't show up tonight, I will go directly to her and chop her into pieces."
Ku Lijiang looked shocked: "Taoist Master Jin'an, are you saying...that you have found where the devil comes from?"
It’s no wonder that his face was full of shock and surprise at this time. Jin An had only arrived for an hour or two, and he had never left his sight for even a step. How did he find the devil’s hiding place so quickly?
"I don't know where the devil is hiding, but your princess must know it. It depends on whether your princess is willing to answer our question." Jin An looked at the princess of Yueqiang Kingdom who was lying on the bed, covered with a quilt, in a daze and unable to sleep.
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Kulijiang looked at Gulizal dubiously: "Princess, what on earth is going on?"
At this time, both people in the room were waiting for the answer.
The night wind outside the pavilion was still blowing into the room. Gulizar subconsciously lifted the quilt, as if to use the warmth in the quilt to embolden himself: "About half a year ago, a group of mysterious people came from the Yueqiang Kingdom.
desert travelers, they bluntly wanted to find my father, saying that they had the most precious treasure in their hands to dedicate to my father..."
"The thing they presented to my father was not a very precious treasure. It was just a painted pottery pot with several faces painted on it. I couldn't tell whether those faces were male or female. I have seen it a few times, but I always forget it.
What do those faces look like…”
"Obviously I was looking at the worthless clay pots, but I gradually discovered that my father started to act wrong. He held on to one of the clay pots with human faces on them all day long, and put the pots across the table after breakfast.
During lunch and dinner, I also like to place the clay pot on the opposite side of the table. Later, even when sleeping, I would put the clay pot on the other side of the bed on the pillow. My father has always loved my mother, but it has been more than ten years since my mother died of a serious illness.
He has never forgotten my mother... He would hold a clay pot while eating and sleeping, saying that the clay pot was my mother, and he saw my mother in the clay pot."