Chapter 56
After such a lot of trouble, it was almost dawn.
The dome is like a girl's blushing face, silently spreading a layer of ambiguous orange. There are still few clouds in the sky. Looking around, the sunset is surging like a tide, covering the endless mirror.
Ningning was wrapped in Pei Ji's outer shirt, and her hands and feet were covered with wide cotton. She seemed to find it interesting, and she was waving her sleeves with great enthusiasm as if she was performing Peking Opera, which led to a cool breeze soaked in fragrance.
She just entered the pool below her waist and abdomen. Although some water splashed by the waterfall, she did not turn into a chicken;
Pei Ji was soaked all over because of the squatting movement, his long dark hair was scattered behind him, and he dripped water droplets, like a water snake climbing on his neck, and his tail swept across the boy's sunken neck.
I don’t know if it was because of the Bingliangtan Water or some other reason, the demonic energy that was originally rushing in his body slowly retreated without realizing it, leaving only very faint embers.
The light pink cloak on his body was covered with a light fragrance of gardenia, which reminded him of the same smell on Ningning, and he pulled the corners of his clothes unaccustomedly.
"Pei Ji, do you think things are weird?"
Ning Ning walked briskly. When she spoke, she turned her head to look at him. She chuckled somehow and handed over a handkerchief: "Wipe the water on her face and it's all wet."
Pei Ji took it as he said, and his tone was very light: "I would like to hear it carefully."
"First of all, it is the whereabouts of the Sunburst Bow, everyone knows this."
Ning Ning sucked in and played with the cuffs of her shirt: "Whether it is the demon clan or the spirit fox, once it is obtained, it is equivalent to having the power to turn the situation around. If it is really obtained by one of the parties, how could there be no news yet?"
Pei Ji listened to her patiently and said "Yeah" softly: "According to the timeline, Qiao Yan saw with his own eyes that her father was ambushed by the demons on the way to get the Sun Bow, and the jade pendant was robbed by the fire phoenix. For a long time in the future, it should have been hidden in the West Mountain."
He paused and said, "Then we took it away. Niguang Island was deceived and the jade pendant returned to us. There was no free opportunity in the middle of the journey, so that others could take advantage of the situation."
In other words, whether from the result or the time of the crime, the chance of someone secretly taking away the jade pendant and stealing the divine bow is very small.
"Then it's Qiao Yan's childhood sweetheart."
Ning Ning nodded and gently curled the corner of her mouth: "Qiao Yan said that he lost the thousand silk ears she gave in that battle, and after that, he became more and more cold to her, as alienated as a stranger. Although it can also be explained that he knew that he had not had much time and did not want to have any entanglements with Qiao Yan, if he abandoned this old and abusive love routine, he would think from the most intuitive perspective-"
She thought for a moment and emphasized her tone: "There is no token, and it is unfamiliar. Isn't this a person I've never seen before?"
Thinking of this, the story is a bit too weird when you take off the shell of self-sacrifice and so-called love.
Ning Ning thought about it carefully and felt his scalp numb. After a while of silence, she continued to say: "The reason why I deliberately distance myself and rarely talk to her is because I don't want to be discovered by Qiao Yan. He is just a fake fake - but what is his purpose? Apart from Qiao Yan, no one of the many Linghu villagers noticed his strangeness? Where is Qiao Yan's real childhood sweetheart?"
Pei Ji followed her thoughts and frowned slightly: "Is it for the Sun Burning Bow? As long as she enters the fox tribe and is a person close to Qiao Yan, once she obtains the jade pendant, there is a great chance to take it away."
"But according to Qin Niang, the Water Mirror Formation will never be compromised by the demons. How could he come in without knowing it?"
Ning Ning thought about it and frowned with a lot of trouble: "And if she really wanted to transform into someone close to Qiao Yan, wouldn't she be in conflict with his later deliberate alienation?"
When she spoke, she couldn't rest her hands, and she kept holding her sleeves to play. Her long gown was put on her body but she didn't hold it up. As long as Pei Ji turned her head, she would see the thin material of the girl gently pressed against her chest and the white skin on her neck.
He pursed his lips and looked away, raised his arms without saying a word, and buckled his shirt for Ningning, causing her to laugh softly.
The laughter was unpredictable. Since the two were very close, they fell almost quietly to Pei Ji's ears.
He felt a sudden silence, and soon he returned to his posture of walking side by side with her, and his voice became a little hoarse for some reason: "...not only him, but others have problems."
Ningning responded well: "You mean, Qin Niang?"
Pei Ji nodded.
"She has an extraordinary desire for control over Qiao Yan and Zhu Rigong. If it were before, it might have been explained that she was eager to love her daughter and was unwilling to let her take risks."
He calmed his expression and deliberately did not look at her staring at her: "But later we found the jade pendant, but we found that the divine bow was stolen. When Qiao Yan told her about this--"
Pei Ji paused for a moment when he said this, but Ning Ning took the conversation seriously: "She did not show too surprised, and quickly changed the subject. It seemed that she had known for a long time that we would not find the Divine Bow. Moreover, as the wife of the patriarch, the treasures that the Spirit Fox lineage, which had been passed down for many years, were stolen. This reaction is really unreasonable."
"good."
Pei Ji nodded and finally looked at her calmly for a moment: "And don't you think? Her obsession with 'not allowing Qiao Yan to go to the other side of the formation to kill the demons' was far higher than her obsession with the Sun Bow and even everything else. Even if she was advised to leave the secret realm quickly, it seemed that what she thought in her heart would never let Qiao Yan contact the demons."
——What did she want to hide? Why can’t Qiao Yan go to the other side of the formation?
As the conversation went on, the fog seemed to be gradually dissipating.
Ning Ning heard the sound of his heart pounding and took a deep breath: "There is the most important point."
She said: "According to Qin Niang's words, the other side of the water mirror is full of the demons in the Nascent Soul Stage of the Golden Dan, and their strength cannot be underestimated, so Qiao Yan is so afraid of Shui Bo - but what we saw before was clearly just a little monster without any threat. Judging from Qiao Yan's familiar posture when he shot it with a bow and arrow, he must have killed the "mirror ghost" many times. If there was really a so-called Nascent Soul Power, why would she have never seen it?"
For a moment, both of them were speechless.
Ning Ning was silent for a while, and suddenly looked up at him again.
This time she lost her smile and her voice was crisp: "I have an idea... Let's go to the nearby lake to take a look, how about it?"
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There was not much water around the waterfall. Ningning followed Pei Ji through the lush forests. After about a moment of incense, he finally found the nearest lake.
This lake is not big, reflecting the dim and dim sky light. The surrounding mushrooms have already faintly emitted light, covering the evening wind with a layer of green fluorescence.
Ningning stood by the lake and planned to step forward to approach the lake, but Pei Ji gently pulled her sleeve.
Before they arrived, they changed their clothes in a hurry. Pei Ji bought countless sets of black clothes with a similar style, and his figure was engulfed in the smooth night.
When Ningning twisted her head, she saw him shook her head lightly: "I'll do it."
Even without too many words, he could always understand her thinking quickly.
After saying that, Pei Ji took her back and walked straight to the lake.
The moon leaned out of the twilight and sprinkled a handful of ambiguous dim halo. In the moonlight and water, the young man's clear and upright shadow reflected in the lake.
——Then the water surface suddenly shook, and a skinny bloody hand suddenly stretched out from the lake and attacked Pei Ji's throat.
He had expected it long ago, so he did not show any surprise eyes, but instead took a step back without changing his expression and led the monster under the water to the ashore.
This time, the mirror ghost is not much different from the one before. It is still bald and has a short and thin body, and is grinning and making waves of howls from her throat, reminding Ningning of the sound of her fingernails slashing across the blackboard.
She resisted the urge to cover her ears and said to Pei Ji: "Don't kill it."
Pei Ji had already drawn his sword out of the sheath, but when he heard this, he took the long sword back into the sheath, quickly dodged the sharp claws attacked by the mirror ghost, and silently recited the sword technique in his heart.
He did not take any action, but saw the sword energy surged all over his body, and then a white light flashed, attacking the monster's neck with lightning speed.
Before the mirror ghost could make a whine, he lost consciousness and fainted on the ground.
Ning Ning's eyes were slightly dimmed, and she subconsciously clenched her fists: "Let's go ahead."
So Pei Ji walked towards the lake again.
They tried six times in total. Every time Pei Ji used his body as bait, he attracted the strange-looking and weak-powered mirror ghosts, but Qin Niang said that "the numerous Jindan Yuanying Demonic Cultivators" had not seen any of them.
The tricks are obvious.
Qin Niang is lying.
"Even though it's just this little monster worthless, she swears to make up lies and tell Qiao Yan not to approach the lake no matter what."
Ning Ning squatted on the ground and looked at the mirror ghost carefully: "In this way, Qin Niang must not be worried about her safety, so she doesn't want Qiao Yan to contact the mirror ghost--"
A thought suddenly flashed by, and the biting chill spread from her spine to her mind, making her feel cold all over her body.
If you think about it carefully, all their understanding of water mirror comes from Qiao Yan.
The information Qiao Yan herself has comes from her mother.
A big battle broke out between the Spirit Fox lineage and the demon clan. In order to resist the monsters, they had to set up a water mirror formation with the power of the entire clan and imprison it on the other end of the mirror.
Qiao Yan was seriously ill and fell into a coma back then, and she didn't know anything about it. This was what Qin Niang told them.
The spiritual power of the Spirit Fox clan members is declining, and they are only willing to sacrifice their dying lives to protect Qiao Yan from monsters.
Qiao Yan has been kept in the dark for many years and is eager to leave here with everyone, so this is what Qin Niang told them.
But if these are not the truth, from beginning to end... their understanding of that past and this secret realm are based on a thorough lie?
Why does Qiao Yan's childhood sweetheart have no thousand silk ears on her wrist?
Because he was not the original person at all, even if he wanted to imitate, he would never notice such irrelevant decorations.
Why is the whereabouts of the Burning Sun Bow unknown?
Because this place is not a real secret realm at all, but a mirror space created by formations. The water mirror can copy all mountains, rivers, birds and beasts, but the powerful ancient divine bow cannot be fake no matter what.
Why did Qin Niang prevent Qiao Yan from obtaining the Sun Bow and let her leave the secret realm as soon as possible regardless of everything.
Because once Qiao Yan gets the Sun Bow and goes to the other side of the water to annihilate the "mirror ghost", there is a high chance that he will notice clues and understand the truth about everything being buried-
Under the pond, those creatures that looked strange and were shot mercilessly by Qiao Yan as monsters were the real fox tribes.
The "compatriots" who lived with her day and night were the demons who slaughtered the fox tribe and wore masks.
Ning Ning should have thought of it long ago.
When I first met Qiao Yan, the girl from the fox clan told her that "mirror ghosts are all demons after a mutated one."
But when you think about it carefully, the monster has been infected by the demonic energy. Even if you go crazy, it will definitely not become such a weak and weird appearance.
The only people who can be affected by the demonic energy and undergo abnormal changes are extremely weak and have few spiritual energy left.
Above the water mirror and under the secret realm, not only spiritual power is used to maintain the formation.
There is also a lie that runs through the whole process.
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There is another update tonight, so it should be quite late. I don’t recommend waiting. Let’s see it tomorrow morning! I’ll continue to go to the liver!
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