Chapter 19
Chapter 19
The man looked handsome and refined, wearing a moon-white robe with the word "卍" trimmed on the cuffs, he should be a handsome young talent.
But now this talented man was firmly tied up and hung on a tree in a state of embarrassment.
Probably because Jiang Li's gaze stayed for too long, his brows and eyes were wrinkled, and he slowly opened his eyelids.
The two looked at each other.
Ye Jingxian was stunned at first, then surprised, pleasantly surprised, his emotions flashed by, his lips moved, and he was about to call out the word "A Li".
Before he could say anything, he noticed that the situation around him was not right, so he swallowed it back abruptly, but looked anxiously, as if he had something to say.
Jiang Li didn't expect to meet Ye Jingxian here.
Looking at the appearance of this unlucky guy, he must have been hanging here for a while.
Jiang Li gave Ye Jingxian a look, telling him to be calm.
I don't know if Ye Jingxian understood it, but his shoulders and neck became tense, very impatient.
At this time, the people in green clothes moved.
The leading man in green walked towards one of the sacrifices, and without knowing what he did, the sacrifice suddenly twitched wildly.
The face of the sacrifice was distorted and looked very painful.There was a thud in his chest, and after a "poof", a green bud sprouted from it, swaying in the wind, it was really delicate and lovely.
The bud seemed to absorb the life force of the sacrifice, and after it sprouted, the sacrifice shrank and shriveled, his legs dangling weakly in the air.
The leading man in green withdrew his hand.
The other men in green walked out one by one, ready to attack other sacrifices.
With a movement of Jiang Li's footsteps, he blocked one of the men in green clothes, squeezed out his position, and walked towards the place where Ye Jingxian was.
Ye Jingxian's eyes lit up: "Ah Li!" He twisted his wrist, trying to break free from the shackles on his body, and said anxiously, "It's dangerous here, hurry up and leave me alone!"
Jiang Li: "..."
He actually didn't intend to.
In order not to attract other people's attention, Ye Jingxian moved over with great effort, and said quickly in Jiang Li's ear, "Don't believe the notice at the door, hurry up, the farther away from the Shenmu, the better, this is the center of the mutation... ..."
Jiang Li's eyes flashed.
Obviously, Ye Jingxian knew something, so it seemed that he had to be saved.
He "shushed" lightly: "Stop talking." His eyes were clear and moving, "How could I leave you alone?"
Ye Jingxian was startled, his expression moved: "A Li, you..."
Before the words finished, Ye Jingxian felt his shoulders loosen and regained his freedom.
Although he got away, he still didn't let go.
Shenmu was surrounded by people in green clothes. With so many pairs of eyes watching, there was no way to escape.
Ye Jingxian gritted his teeth and said decisively: "A Li, I'm here to attract their attention, you run quickly."
Jiang Li shook his head lightly, rejecting the proposal.
Ye Jingxian: "But..."
Before the second half of the sentence could be uttered, a weak and boneless little hand grabbed his wrist and led him under the shade of the tree.
After a while, the figure disappeared.
The man in green came back to his senses and found that one of the sacrifices had disappeared. He opened his lips angrily, revealing his black throat: "Find him."
"Find them!"
The people in green clothes responded and headed in all directions, ready to search every corner of Liucheng.
The surroundings of Shenmu became quiet.
After a while, the willow branch above shook, and a figure protruded from it.
The people in green didn't expect that they didn't escape from the Shenmu at all, but hid on it.
The sacred trees are lush and towering, more than enough to hide two people.
Jiang Li glanced around, then shrank back.He sat on the tree trunk, his feet dangling in the air, and looked sideways.
Ye Jingxian's hands couldn't stop rubbing against the hem of his clothes, he couldn't sit still, even though he was fully prepared, he still didn't dare to look up at the other party.
He took a deep breath, and said in a voice like a mosquito, "A Li, I'm sorry."
Jiang Li frowned, puzzled: "Why do you say that?"
Ye Jingxian felt more and more guilty, and lowered his head: "I... I almost thought you were a liar."
Jiang Li almost laughed out loud.
The tip of her tongue rolled, and she swallowed a smile: "Liar...?"
Ye Jingxian: "I thought you approached me just to defraud the inheritance key of the secret realm." His voice became softer and softer, perhaps because of embarrassment, even his ears turned red, "I was wrong, I shouldn't doubt your."
Jiang Li cleared his throat and said softly, "Maybe I'm really a liar."
"No!" Ye Jingxian was extremely excited, "If you were a liar, you wouldn't take such a risk to save me!"
Jiang Li: "..."
Ye Jingxian: "Ah Li, don't say any more, I know your heart."
The fledgling monks are especially easy to deceive.
There is no need for a superb story, it is enough for him to find all kinds of excuses.
Jiang Li: I may not believe it when I say it, but I have already admitted that it is he who does not believe the truth.
Jiang Li changed the subject: "Why are you in Liucheng?"
Ye Jingxian: "I want to go back to Taiwangzong..."
Taiwangzong and Liucheng are both in the north, so the flying boat must pass through Liucheng.
It's just that when passing through the sky above Liucheng, the formation on the flying boat suddenly failed, and it was forced to stop outside Liucheng.
It would take several days to repair the array, Ye Jingxian waited impatiently, so he entered Liucheng first with the others, and prepared to leave in another flying boat.
Unexpectedly, a sudden change occurred in Liucheng, trapping everyone in it.
Jiang Li asked at the right time: "Where are the others?"
Ye Jingxian recalled that terrifying scene, his breathing was slightly chaotic: "Those people... have lost their sanity and become puppets..."
Jiang Li gently held Ye Jingxian's hand, as if to comfort him.
Ye Jingxian came back to his senses: "I'm fine."
He continued.
After discovering the strangeness in Liucheng, he and the rest of his companions were going to investigate, and they found some clues during this investigation.
Liucheng became like this half a year ago.
Ye Jingxian remembered it very clearly. At that time, he happened to set off from the northern border. At night, a meteor shower that was rare in a hundred years appeared in the sky.
The stars fell and the shadow of the moon turned, causing the tide to rise and fall.
It is recorded in the manuscript of Liucheng City Lord that one of the star stones happened to fall on the root of the sacred tree.
It was from that day that Shenmu was eroded by alien objects and mutated.
Jiang Li mentioned: "It is written in the handwriting, where did the star stone fall?"
Ye Jingxian: "At that time, the city lord sent someone to look for it, but because of the luxuriant sacred tree and rich root system, I don't know where it was hidden. However, if there are monks who practice the way of stars and moons, they can find the exact location."
Ye Jingxian wanted to say something else, but Jiang Li put his hand against the corner of his lips.
Ye Jingxian stopped talking in a daze.
The people in green clothes searched around and then came back, staring sharply at the surroundings, trying to find the escaped sacrifice.
They still couldn't find the figure, so they had to set off again to find a new sacrifice in the city.
Ye Jingxian thought of one thing: "A Li, why are you here?"
A small town in the south of the Yangtze River is thousands of miles away from Liucheng. How did an ordinary person get here and get mixed into the team of men in green safely?
Faced with such questioning, Jiang Li's expression remained unchanged, and he said softly, "I met a kind man."
Ye Jingxian immediately became vigilant: "What kind-hearted person?"
Jiang Li's pupils rolled slightly, and within a short while, he gave an answer: "After you left, this kind man came to me and said that the jade in my hand is very precious, and what kind of ancient inheritance can be opened... "
Ye Jingxian: "Did you give him Yujue?"
Jiang Li hurriedly said: "How is it possible! You gave this to me, how could I give it to others?"
Ye Jingxian let out a long breath: "Then?"
Jiang Li: "I didn't want to give it, and the kind-hearted people didn't force it, so they took me into a weird secret place."
It's all true.
It's just a little bit of polishing, and it becomes a completely different story.
Ye Jingxian was preconceived, and he really believed it, and even said: "This person is definitely not a good person!"
Jiang Li frowned: "Jing Xian, you haven't seen him, how can you say he is not a good person?"
Ye Jingxian didn't expect that Jiang Li would favor a stranger, so he clenched his fists secretly: "He is clearly plotting against you and wants to seize the inheritance!"
Jiang Li excused him, and anxiously defended: "No, we didn't get the inheritance, but the jade was lost. I thought, since it is such an important thing, I naturally need to tell you. So I asked him to take me. Come to the northern border. Then you will know, I entered Liucheng by mistake with him..."
Ye Jingxian saw that Jiang Li smiled shyly when he mentioned that person, and he already concluded that that person had an impure mind.
He gritted his teeth in his heart, but he still pretended to be calm: "Where is that person now?"
Jiang Li: "I got separated from him."
Ye Jingxian said decisively: "He must have sensed the danger and left you alone!"
Jiang Li's eyelashes flickered and he said blankly, "Impossible, he said he would protect me..."
Ye Jingxian took the young man's hand firmly, and said in a solemn tone, "A Li, I know you are kind by nature, but not everyone in the world is like you, so you shouldn't trust others just because of a few words."
Jiang Li hesitated: "But..."
Ye Jingxian interrupted him: "A Li, I will protect you from now on."
Jiang Li raised his head and looked at him for a moment: "...OK."
green willow blowing,
The young man's hair was scattered in front of his forehead, his round eyes were clear and bright, and he relied on him wholeheartedly.
Ye Jingxian made up his mind that if he meets this "good-hearted person" in the future, he must let him know that Jiang Li is not something he can imagine.
With a flash of thought, he saw that the man in green was gone, and jumped under the tree with Jiang Li.
The two fell to the ground silently, Ye Jingxian was about to leave here when someone tugged lightly on his sleeves.
Jiang Li said: "If we can find the location of the star stone, will we be able to resolve the anomaly in Liucheng?"
Ye Jingxian felt that this method was feasible, but Shenmu was surrounded by people in green clothes, and it was difficult to move, so he hesitated for a while.
Seeing this, Jiang Li sighed softly: "That's right, the two of us may not be able to find it, it would be great if there are kind-hearted people."
At Ye Jingxian's age, he couldn't stand aggressive tactics. As soon as he used one, he immediately said, "Who said the two of us can't find it? I have a way!"
Jiang Li hesitated, "Really?"
Facing Jiang Li's suspicious eyes, Ye Jingxian couldn't wait to show his trump card: "It's a big deal, I can borrow a ray of sword intent from my master."
Jiang Li already knew who Ye Jingxian's master was, after all, he had used it as a cover countless times, but at this moment he still showed confusion: "Your master...?"
Ye Jingxian looked proud and puffed out his chest: "My master is Immortal Wangshu, whose sword intent is unparalleled in the world. As long as his sword intent descends on a small Liucheng, it will not be a problem."
Jiang Li said "Oh" lightly, and Zhuangruo inadvertently mentioned: "Then why are you still caught by the man in green?"
Ye Jingxian: "..."
Ye Jingxian was vague and secondly: "I was careless for a while, and I was deceived. It was the notice pasted on the door, and I believed what it said, so I fell in love..."
Seeing that his face was red, Jiang Li pursed his lips into a smile and stopped asking.
The two circled around the roots of the Shenmu, but found nothing.
Not to mention the star stone fragments, I didn't even see a shadow.
Ye Jingxian even took out some treasures related to Xingyue. Logically speaking, Xingyue communicated with each other, and some breaths would naturally emerge.
Ye Jingxian frowned: "Could it be taken away by someone?"
Jiang Li was thoughtful: "Does the star stone not appear until the sacrificial ceremony begins?"
Ye Jingxian looked in the direction he was looking.
The golden crow sinks to the west, the sky is full of rays of light, and the clouds are burning, with a vague ominous meaning.
On the other side of the sacred tree, there was the sound of drums, which seemed to herald the beginning of the sacrificial ceremony.
Ye Jingxian said: "They are too many to deal with."
Jiang Li bit the corner of his lips and reminded: "Don't you still have the sword intent of your master?"
Ye Jingxian: "The sword intent can only be used once, so you must pick the right time."
Jiang Li hesitated for a moment.
In any case, the sacrificial ceremony must not be allowed to proceed smoothly.
But he had a vague premonition that only when the sacrificial ceremony began and the Shenmu and the moon appeared at the same time, could he find the location of the opportunity.
Then, it is necessary to find the right time, not only to let the sacrifice start, but not to start completely.
Jiang Li said: "Let's go and have a look first." He softly said, "Will you accompany me?"
As soon as Ye Jingxian raised his head, he agreed immediately.
……
Then the shade of the tree hid their figure, and the two smoothly circled to the front side.
It can be seen that the men in green are singing and dancing around the corpses on the ground, with bright smiles on their faces.Just take a closer look, everyone has the same expression on their faces, weird and scary.
At the end of the jump, all the men in green were prostrate on the ground, motionless.
Just as Jiang Li was feeling strange, he saw the roots of the Shenmu squirm, like candied haws on a string, passing through the heart of the man in green.
puff-
The people in green died one after another, but on the contrary, the canopy of the sacred tree became more and more lush, and in the center, there was a "thumping" heartbeat.
Following the sound, one can clearly see a head-sized tumor hanging on the crown of the tree, beating like a human heart.
At some point, a round of moonlight rose in the sky.
Jiang Li: "Right now!"
Ye Jingxian's heart was full of Jiang Li, so naturally without hesitation, he stretched out his hand and pointed, and a sword qi flew in the air, aiming at the tumor on the sacred tree.
Jiang Li's gaze paused.
Why do you feel that this sword energy looks familiar?
Before he had time to think about it, the sword energy sank into the tumor first.
After a moment of stagnation, the sarcoid throbbed violently, as if something was about to break through the ground.
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