Gui Li, who was guarding the ghost king's stone chamber, had changed from calm and indifferent at first to uneasiness and then anxiety, and now his face was full of irritability and impatience. For him, even though he had done well
After all, this astrolabe is not an ordinary treasure. It takes a long time to mentally prepare to understand its secrets. However, he never thought that it would take three days. The most important thing is that at this moment, it seems that these three days are enough time.
The flowers were gone, but Mr. Ghost still seemed to have made no progress.
According to his original thought, when Mr. Ghost came into contact with this astrolabe for the first time, it caused a change in the astrolabe. He should have been somewhat obsessed with this treasure. After a few days of understanding, he would no longer be able to understand it.
It was difficult to understand the mystery. Who would have thought that during these three days, he had been standing beside Mr. Ghost, only watching Mr. Ghost turn this artifact over and over and look at it non-stop. Not to mention that he was familiar with it, Gui Li even felt that
Mr. Ghost must have memorized all the ancient characters on the small jade pieces that kept sliding in the center of the jade plate.
However, Mr. Ghost was obviously in some kind of dilemma, or in other words, Mr. Ghost encountered a huge problem in understanding this treasure. After several days, he made no progress.
The stone room where the Ghost King lives is naturally much larger than the other stone rooms in the Huqishan Cave. It is divided into two rooms. The larger room on the outside is where Ghost Li and Mr. Ghost meditate on the astrolabe, and the room on the inside is smaller.
The small one is naturally the bedroom of the Ghost King. Although the Ghost King is not here, Gui Li and Mr. Ghost have not stepped into the inner room in the past three days. With the way they behave, not to mention three days and three nights, it is ten days and ten nights.
Even if you don't sleep, you can hold on as long as you can.
But the most difficult part is still the word "waiting".
For three days, Gui Li has not left this stone room, and the monkey Xiao Hui has also stayed here. However, the monkey has a restless nature. He has not moved for three days, which has made Xiao Hui suffocated. I saw Gui Li and Gui at this moment.
The two gentlemen were still looking at the astrolabe treasure with big eyes and small eyes. After three days, they were too lazy to pay attention to Xiao Hui.
Xiao Hui was running around in this stone room. After three days, he had already become familiar with every corner. At this time, it jumped onto the big desk that the Ghost King usually used, and changed it to the big desk that the Ghost King usually used.
No one up and down would dare to do this, but at this moment, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and no one cares about it.
Xiao Hui was bored, lying down on the big desk for a while, getting up again, dancing, and lying on his back again. In the end, being alone was too boring after all, so he had to sit up again, unable to reach out.
Stop scratched his head, making a low "squeak" sound from his mouth, looking around, trying to have some fun.
Although this stone room is spacious, it is not exaggeratedly big, so naturally, its eyes saw the inner room. Xiao Hui scratched his head and looked back towards Gui Li, only to see Gui Li's face was gloomy.
There was quite a bit of anger on his face, and he was obviously in a bad mood. Mr. Ghost was concentrating on studying the astrolabe in his hand that emitted a faint white soft light. Occasionally he raised his eyes and looked at the ghost.
With a sharp glance, he looked away again.
The two of them obviously paid attention to the astrolabe. Even if they were a little more vigilant, they would only look at each other. No one paid even a little attention to the monkey here. Xiao Hui shrugged his shoulders,
He curled his mouth, muttered "tsk tsk" twice, waggled his tail twice, turned around, looked at the inner room for a while, then jumped down from the desk and walked slowly over.
Xiao Hui sat next to the two of them for a while, and soon became bored again. In fact, it can't be blamed. Who else could have stayed next to these two people for three days and three nights, but just watched them doing the same thing?
Everything can be annoying, not to mention monkeys who are naturally restless.
At this time, Mr. Ghost seemed to have discovered something. He suddenly pointed at the small moving jade pieces in the center of the jade plate and said to Ghost: "I think the key point of this treasure is on these jade pieces that are constantly sliding."
Gui Li nodded slowly, obviously agreeing with this view in his heart, but then he frowned slightly and said: "But we have been looking at it for three days, but we still can't see why these jade blocks can slide automatically. I wonder if Mr.
What's the point?"
Mr. Ghost pondered for a moment and said, "Have you ever felt that the sliding trajectory of these jade blocks is quite similar to the movement of stars in the sky?"
Gui Li was shaken, and then he stared at the astrolabe closely. After a while, he clapped his hands and said, "It does make some sense."
Mr. Ghost said: "Actually, I'm not sure, but I feel it is true. It's just that even though these jade blocks are sliding like stars in the sky, there are still many unsolvable mysteries. I believe that if you want to understand the most important part of this treasure,
, it should be on top of the ancient characters on these jade blocks."
Gui Li nodded slowly. The two kept talking and answering each other, and soon became immersed in the astrolabe treasure again. Xiao Hui sat next to them for a long time, then turned and left.
In the stone room, the soft whispers of Gui Li and Mr. Ghost could be heard from time to time. Xiao Hui looked around for a moment, then out of boredom, quietly walked into the inner room.
On the stone wall where Xiao Hui had just pulled the scroll off from the wall, some traces were revealed. There was a slight color difference with the surrounding stone walls. It seemed that the painting had been hanging here for some time. But in this inner room, except for
Of the four paintings on the stone wall, only the wooden bed, table and chairs remained, and there was nothing interesting anymore. Little Hui looked around here and there, and soon became bored again.
Just when it was really bored to the extreme, its three eyes suddenly lit up, as if it had discovered something, and then it jumped up and down, and its whole body suddenly jumped onto the big bed of the Ghost King. It didn't care about soiling the bedding on the bed.
He rolled and writhed on it. The decorations in this stone room were simple but very clean. I guess the Ghost King himself is also a person who likes cleanliness. I wonder if he would be so angry if he saw this scene when he came back.
But Xiao Hui won't care about that much at the moment. No one is caring about it at the moment. It is making noises on the bed by itself. While jumping around, it suddenly seemed to hit something in a corner of the bed. The whole bed
Suddenly it shook.
Then, a large crack opened silently on the stone wall next to the bed, and then slowly and silently retreated to both sides, revealing a large hole that could accommodate Yi En's entrance and exit.
The moment the bed shook, Xiao Hui had already felt something. He jumped down and lay on the ground, staring in confusion. It wasn't until he saw a secret door quietly revealed on the stone wall that he slowly stood up.
, took a look inside the secret door, only to see that it was pitch black inside, and nothing could be seen, but no ferocious monsters ran out, and the mysterious black hole seemed to be interesting to the bored monkey at this time.
It seems to be waving to it with a hint of temptation.
Xiao Hui scratched his head and looked back. In the stone room outside, Gui Li and Mr. Gui fell into silence again. It seemed that it was another long period of enlightenment. The three-eyed monkey turned around and suddenly
He grinned, made a face, then jumped up slightly, but got into the black hole of the secret door. Within a moment, the figure disappeared into the darkness.
A gust of wind blew gently from the mysterious black hole on the stone wall, carrying a faint smell of blood! As soon as he entered the secret door of the stone wall, Xiao Hui's third eye in the middle of his forehead flashed with a faint golden light.
, emits a somewhat strange light, and under this faint golden glow, the originally dark cave can be vaguely seen clearly.
The passage that is only about one person high is not very smooth for people to walk on, but for a monkey, it is more than enough. Xiao Hui walked in this passage for a short while with a sense of adventure.
Then I felt the ground suddenly sink under my feet, and the passage turned downwards.
The stone walls on both sides of the passage gradually became a little damp as they went deeper. In some places, there were even water drops gently dripping down in the darkness. In the extremely silent passage, only Xiao Hui's figure was there.
Slowly moving forward, in the darkness ahead, a gentle breeze carrying a strange and faint smell of blood blew from time to time.
This downhill passage was not steep, but it was quite long. Xiao Hui walked for a long time, and it seemed that he had gone deep into the depths of Huqi Mountain. At this time, Xiao Hui suddenly stopped and
Somewhere far ahead, a faint red light suddenly lit up.
The monkey stood in the passage for a while, seeming hesitant. After a while, it looked back at the way it came, and scratched its head, as if hesitating to go back and talk to its owner, but the little red light in front seemed like
It's like a temptation, flickering gently.
Finally, after the monkey squeaked twice, it moved forward cautiously.
As he got closer and closer to the red light, the slight smell of blood in the passage gradually became stronger. The expression on Xiao Hui's face gradually became a little nervous. He stretched out his nose and smelled the air.
, with some surprise and uncertainty in its eyes. But in the end, seeing the red light right in front of its eyes, it still moved forward.
Finally arrived in front of Hongmang. It turned out that this was another hole in this passage. Xiao Hui poked his head out from here and looked around for a few times. Then he jumped out. After a while, he was already in a passage that was several times wider than the one just now.
On the main road.
In addition to the passage where Xiao Hui came in, there is another passage connected to this avenue, right next to the passage where Xiao Hui jumped down, but it was dark and gloomy, and he didn't know where it led.
On the other side of the avenue, the darkness in the passage was much brighter, especially the red light flashing, which kept shining at the end of the avenue. It seemed that what Xiao Hui had seen from a distance in the passage just now was.
This is the scene here.
There was still no one there, even at the end of the bright red light, there was just a flicker of light and no sound.
Xiao Hui sniffed the air. The bloody smell here was so strong that it seemed that it could not be dissipated. After a moment, Xiao Hui's eyes suddenly focused on the entrance of the passage he had just come to. The originally green stone wall,
At this point, it turned into a dark red color, and the water dripping slowly from the damp place on the stone wall was extremely bright red in the light, just like blood. Drop by drop, dripping slowly!
The golden eyes on Little Gray's forehead gradually lit up. After staring at the blood drop for a while, it slowly turned around and looked at the flashing red light in the distance for a while. After that, the monkey took steps again and headed towards that Walk away.
The red light flashed strangely, as if it was spiritual. It breathed gently and slowly spread out, submerging the slowly approaching monkey figure.
It was already late at night. Although the change of day and night could not be clearly felt in the Huqi Mountain Cave, outside the cave, the sky under the night sky was dotted with stars, and the starlight twinkled, still shining like countless past days. In the human world, a few places are illuminated on the dark and bare Huqi Mountain.
Under the starlight, a white figure suddenly floated from the distance. It was light and elegant, and seemed to have no weight at all. Like a fallen leaf in the wind, it was blown by the night wind between the mountains and fields, and slowly landed on Hu Qi. On the top of the mountain, the slim white figure turned around under the faint starlight, with slender eyebrows and watery eyes, icy skin and ice skin, and a faint charm that could not be shaken away, making people's hearts beat. It lingered between the eyebrows. It’s Xiaobai, the nine-tailed sky fox.
At this moment, Xiao Bai'e's eyebrows were furrowed, and her face was unusually heavy. She was standing on the top of Huqi Mountain. The night wind was blowing, and the surrounding area was bare. There were no trees to block the wind, and her clothes were blown away. The robe was fluttering, revealing her plump and alluring figure. Xiaobai slowly looked around. Today, Huqi Mountain is full of rocks and gravel. Not to mention the trees, there are not even a single stray tree. There is no grass either.
Looking at this desolate scenery, who would believe that just a few decades ago, this was a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters?
Others don't know it, but Xiaobai knows it, because the area around Huqi Mountain is the place where the ancestors of the fox demon family originated and lived. She also grew up here since she was a child. The mountains, rivers, plants and trees here are... For her, it is different from other places.
However, all of that disappeared mysteriously at some point, and all that was left was the desolation in front of him.
Xiaobai slowly squatted down, stretched out his white palms, and gently grabbed a handful of dirt from the ground. No, it should be said to be sand. The ground on Huqi Mountain was cracked, and all that was left was gravel. The hard sand and stones were there. The delicate palms of his hands spread out, and Xiaobai looked at the sand in his hands carefully, his eyes flashing as if he wanted to see something from the small gravel.
After a moment, she slowly closed her palms, clenched them into fists, and gently released them downwards. The gravel slipped silently from between her fingers, but in mid-air, it was blown by the night wind blowing from afar. Gone, a faint ray of light reflected under the starlight, disappeared into the dark distance under the night.
The gravel here is no different from that found elsewhere.
Xiaobai stood up slowly, raised her head and looked up at the stars in the sky. The starlight fell on her body, as if gentle hands were gently touching her body, comforting her.
Suddenly, her eyes suddenly opened, as if she thought of something, but she didn't make any big movements next. Instead, she suddenly raised her feet in a rather strange way, like the movements of a little girl in the world when she is angry and acting coquettishly. He stepped hard on the ground.
"puff!"
A low muffled sound sounded in the night wind, drifted with the wind, and a burst of smoke and dust rose up, then fell gently in the wind. After a moment, a strange sound suddenly came from the ground under Xiaobai's feet. , the sound lasted continuously for as long as half a cup of tea, and then gradually calmed down.
The corner of Xiaobai's mouth tightened, and her white body rose up like duckweeds, as if being lifted up by the wind. It was extremely graceful, but her watery eyes were just staring at the ground under her feet. After a moment, she
In mid-air, his sleeves and robes suddenly unfolded and flew towards the ground.
The force of this blow was so strong that several loud roars suddenly sounded in the night sky. When the sleeves and robes brushed against the ground, all that was seen was sand flying away, rocks flying, and smoke and dust dancing around. And Xiao Bai, who was in mid-air, also
Without pausing, the sleeves of the robe were continuously waved downwards. After seven consecutive swipes, the smoke and dust on the ground had turned into a small gray tornado, filled with gravel and gravel. It rotated rapidly and swept under the starlight of the night.
superior.
Xiaobai let out a soft whistle, and her figure suddenly rose by more than a foot. Under the starlight, her white shadow fluttered as straight as a fairy, which was dazzling but also had an alluring beauty. As her figure rose, that
The tornado composed of bunches of sand and gravel was suddenly pulled upward by an invisible force, but it was suddenly blown towards the opposite side of Xiaobai. The wind speed was so fast, and within a moment, the wind column mixed with countless sand and gravel had completely fallen towards
In the distance, there were constant roaring sounds in the darkness, presumably the sound of rocks hitting the ground.
But at Xiaobai's feet, at the top of the original Huqi Mountain, a large hole appeared six feet wide and more than ten feet deep. Xiaobai dug such a large hole in the mountain as hard as iron with just a few moves.
This Taoist practice is shocking to the world, but judging from the nine-tailed celestial fox she has practiced for thousands of years, it is not unexpected. But Xiaobai obviously did not go to the top of the mountain to dig a hole late at night out of boredom, and slowly fell from the air.
, her eyes never left the cave again, and the white figure floated directly into the deep pit.
Once entering the deep pit, Xiaobai's body suddenly became extremely slow, as if there was something invisible supporting her body under her feet, and she stared closely at the wall of the pit, looking through the sky.
Faint starlight, look at it intently.
The white and slender hands pressed against the rough stone wall, forming a sharp contrast and a strange feeling, but Xiaobai didn't notice it at all. She just followed her palms and her body slowly.
Land and look carefully at the pit wall.
What came into view was the blue-gray stone wall, which was rough and hard, and the tentacles were extremely cold. Then as Xiaobai's body slowly descended, her eyes also slowly dropped. After dropping a foot, it was still blue-gray.
The rocks have not changed at all, they are exactly the same as the rocks in the mountains above and everywhere in the world.
She continued to descend, holding her white palms on the rock wall and falling gently. Two feet deep, there was still the same blue-gray hard rock.
One or two feet...
Four feet...
Five feet...
Nothing has changed, it is still such a strong rock, and the cold feeling seems to have been passed down for thousands of years, and now it suddenly sees the light of day, radiating coldly from the rough surface of the rock wall.
There was no expression on Xiao Bai's face, and her body was still falling gently. After a moment, her eyes suddenly lit up, and her body shook in mid-air and stopped.
On the rock wall six feet deep from the ground, next to her white palm, finally, the first strange thing appeared on the hard rock.
A faint red mark, like a tiny blood streak, appeared on the stone.
Xiaobai stared at this small red mark for a long time, and suddenly a sneer appeared at the corner of her mouth, and then her body slowly fell down again, her eyes still continuing to stare at the stone wall. Sure enough, as her figure gradually descended
, more abnormalities appeared in front of her eyes. It was supposed to be a blue-grey rock that became harder the further down it went. Instead, what appeared now was that there were more and more red marks on the stone wall as it went down, and the color became darker.
Going deeper and deeper, after reaching the bottom of the pit more than ten feet deep, Xiaobai slowly turned around and looked. In front of her, there was a rock wall as red as blood. Thick cracks could be seen everywhere, and around her, the rock wall was as red as blood.
There is no longer a cold breath on the wall, but a strong smell of blood.
That shocking blood-red color, that kind of terror that would devour people! There was disgust that could not be concealed in Xiaobai's eyes. He snorted coldly, and when his figure moved, the white figure rose into the sky, flew out of the cave, and landed deep in the depths.
On the ground next to the pit, the starlight in the night fell and fell on her white figure again, like water, washing away the nightmare-like scene just a few years ago.
Xiaobai's face was calm, she took a deep breath, and faced the night wind blowing from afar, looking up at the sky. After a moment, she suddenly smiled and whispered in a low voice: "For thousands of years, there are always some people who don't know how high the sky is, and what they have to do."
Let's see what happens when something stupid happens, hehehehe..."
The cold laughter floated gently in the night wind, and drifted away with the wind. I don’t know which corner of the world it drifted to. But under the night, in the starlight, that beautiful white figure still stood on the top of the mountains, welcoming
Standing alone and lonely in the wind, with a bit of stunning beauty.
This late at night, it seems that many people can't sleep either. It seems that something is lingering in their hearts and they have inexplicable feelings. People always have some indescribable feelings.
In the Huqi Mountain Cave, Gui Li and Mr. Ghost were still concentrating on studying the astrolabe. They had reached a critical moment. With Mr. Ghost's profound knowledge, they had managed to deduce several of the stars on the jade plates.
Although the ancient characters have not yet understood the secrets of the astrolabe, they are obviously much better than before.
In this tension, Gui Li suddenly felt something in his heart. He looked away from the astrolabe for a moment and looked around. He saw nothing around him. Xiao Hui didn't know where he went to play again.
Or maybe he found a place to sleep! A flash of light from the corner of his eye fell on the picture that had been rolled up beside him. He was silent for a moment, as if he thought of something, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
However, although the smile was warm, it disappeared quickly. He shook his head slightly, as if putting aside something that he shouldn't think about at the moment, and then got into the mysterious astrolabe again.
In another place in the heart of Huqi Mountain, in the silent ice stone chamber, smoke floated gently. Baguio was still sleeping quietly, and beside her, the Ghost King sat silently.
The gray hair hung down from the Ghost King's head, reminding him that he was getting old, and the sleeping person beside him made him feel heartache. In such a late night, he was as sleepless as countless nights in the past ten years.
.
He waited quietly, waiting for the dawn, waiting for tomorrow. Maybe, by tomorrow, everything will really change!
His hands clenched unconsciously into fists.
Thousands of miles away, it was the same lonely and silent night.
On the high Xiaozhu Peak of Qingyun Mountain, the night wind howled and bamboo waves burst, Lu Xueqi slowly sat up from the bed. That night, she couldn't sleep for some reason.
Tossing and turning, for whom?
She got out of bed gently, without wearing shoes, and walked on the ground with her bare white feet. A chill came from the soles of her feet. The ground was as cool as water. She walked to the window and stretched out her hand to open the window.
, the starlight that filled the sky flowed like water waves, and immediately poured in, making her beautiful face even more radiant.
Lu Xueqi quietly stared at the stars in the sky, motionless.
In such a late night, are people far away also under the starlight?
Did any of that faint starlight fall on him?
She stared at the stars quietly, never moving again, as if she was also expecting something.
The starlight is faint, but seems to be eternal. It can see all the vicissitudes of the world and see through the grudges and hatreds.