Acai's Sky

Acai and the others are staying here temporarily and not going back.

Because I haven't received any tasks yet, I've been wandering around all day.

When Ah Cai fished out the golden raccoon dog that had been stealing pine nuts from the wicker basket for the eighth time, the mountain path suddenly turned and revealed a small building with flying eaves.

A bronze Taotie squatted on the glazed tiles, glaring at them with its red agate eyes.

The copper ring in Taotie's mouth was rusty, but it faintly exuded the aroma of soy sauce.

"Could it be that what this glutton is holding in its mouth is..."

Feiyue's nose twitched, and Tengou's ears stood up like two ginkgo leaves. "It smells like braised pork elbow!"

Before he could finish his words, Glutinous Rice Ball had curled up into a ball, hugging the tomb guardian bell. "Yin energy! Yin energy heavier than a mass grave!"

The cinnabar talismans embedded in its fur fell out, making it look like a glutinous rice dumpling with sesame seeds leaking out.

Xuantian slowly poked his head out of the tortoise shell, and the star map on the shell suddenly spun rapidly: "Jia Zi position, Sheng Men."

As he spoke, he spit out a golden gossip bubble, and the stone steps in front of the pawnshop were reflected in the bubble.

"Look there!" Jin Yuanbao suddenly jumped onto Acai's shoulder, pointing his little paws at the eaves.

I saw nine copper bells hanging under the corner. Although the sun was shining brightly, frost flowers were condensed on the surface of the bells.

Brahma spread his crimson wings, and when the flames swept across the copper bell, the frost flowers turned into tiny stars and fell into the grass.

"Ah!"

Tuantuan sneezed, and a few bamboo leaves fell out from his fluffy white fur.

The moment the leaves fell to the ground, everyone's eyes were blurred - on the steps that were empty just now, there were three celadon tea bowls, and small moons cut out of gold foil were floating in the green tea soup.

Feiyue's saliva dripped onto the stone slab: "Emerald cabbage dumpling soup!"

As he was about to pounce on it and lick it, Ah Cai grabbed its tail hair and said, "Have you ever seen glowing dumplings? This tea bowl is arranged in the Three Talents Formation."

She took out a copper coin from her purse and threw it into the air. The coin suddenly rusted into powder as it passed through the tea soup, startling the Golden Raccoon so much that the pine nut shell got stuck in its teeth.

"Kan water and Li fire, go to Zhen position."

The star map on the Xuantian Shell suddenly lit up. Just as Ah Cai's left foot stepped onto the third blue brick on the east side, the entire building suddenly began to spin with a crackling sound.

The eyes of the Taotie statue on the eaves rolled around, and countless bronze reeds extended from the gaps between the tiles, playing a piece of "Rainbow Skirt and Feathered Coat".

"Oh my god!" The glutinous rice dumpling rolled to Ah Cai's feet. "This house is dancing the Huxuan dance!"

Brahma hurriedly spit out flames to burn the reeds, but the flames flowed along the glazed tiles and turned into a river in the sky.

At the critical moment, Jin Yuanbao "whooshed" onto the beam and sucked the rotating caisson Bagua plate with his belly.

The pawnshop finally stopped at the Qian position, and the three golden characters "Fu Sheng Pawn" on the lintel splashed cinnabar all over everyone's face.

It was at this moment that the sound of beads began to be heard behind the screen.

The peacock feather screen is decorated with luminous pearls, each of which contains a firefly.

The plum blossom jade pendant on Ah Cai's waist suddenly became hot, and the jade beads on the tassels made a "ding ding" sound like a heavy rain.

As she stepped over the threshold, she heard a "clatter" sound. The shopkeeper swept the jade abacus with his wide sleeves, and twelve agarwood beads engraved with the earthly branches flew into the air.

"What does the girl want to pawn?"

The voice was like moonlight soaked in plum wine, but the face was shrouded in mist under the jade crown and could not be seen clearly.

The gold ingot squeaked up onto the beam—the golden hair at the tip of its tail was glowing blue.

Only then did Ah Cai discover that the entire roof was an upside-down compass, with peach wood nails inserted in the 72 evil positions, and dried osmanthus flowers strung on the nails.

Feiyue sniffed and rubbed the counter: "There's braised beef... five-spice beans... ouch!"

It hit an invisible barrier and the tip of its nose suddenly swelled up like a candied haws.

The shopkeeper chuckled, his glass lenses flashing with a strange light: "If this dog brother wants to pawn his nose, he can exchange it for three pounds of braised bones."

"We don't pawn living things."

Ah Cai held down the restless Bifang bird, pulled out a dark object from her purse and slammed it on the table, "Pawn this."

Tuan Tuan suddenly exploded into a snowball, muttering to himself, "You treat the skin of the Black Tortoise's feet as a treasure?!"

In the silence of the room, Xuantian slowly stretched out his claws from the shell: "I rubbed it off when I shed my shell last year..."

Before he could finish his words, the black scab suddenly rolled on the rosewood table and turned into a palm-sized Luoshu star map.

The copper bells on the eaves rang, and twenty-eight wooden grids emerged from the wall, each with a ball of phosphorescent light floating in it. Jade pendants, military amulets, and even half a dragon bone floated in the firelight.

Feiyue suddenly pounced on the grid in the northeast corner: "This smells like sweet and sour pork ribs!"

The moment its claws passed through the phosphorescent fire, the entire wooden lattice suddenly overflowed with amber honey.

Ah Cai was quick to grab the dog's tail and saw that where the honey dripped, a hole with bubbles was corroded on the blue brick.

"Sir, you have good eyesight."

The shopkeeper's jade abacus clattered, "This box is pawning the sweetest three days in Jinling City."

He swept his wide sleeves past, and a sugar painting stall emerged from the phosphorescent light. A young woman with twin buns was pouring melted sugar syrup into the shape of a phoenix. "The pawner traded his lifelong taste for this sugar painting that will never fade."

Jin Yuanbao suddenly squeaked - he had slipped to the wooden grid on the west side at some point and was happily chewing on a ball of phosphorus fire.

When Ah Cai rushed over, the little mouse's belly had swelled up into a ball, and the jade ring wrapped in phosphorescent fire had been bitten by it, leaving a crescent mark.

"That's the ring of the former crown prince."

The shopkeeper's tone finally changed, "If the pawned item is damaged..."

Just as he was about to lift his finger, Xuantian suddenly blew out a string of bubbles. The moment the bubbles enveloped the gold ingot, a gold melon seed fell out from between the teeth of the jade ring.

The wooden grids on the wall suddenly began to shift, and the positions of the twenty-eight constellations kept changing with the sound of abacus beads.

Ah Cai caught a glimpse of half a plum blossom jade pendant flashing from a wooden box. It matched the one hanging around her neck perfectly, forming a complete blossom. Just as she was about to take a closer look, the shopkeeper suddenly struck the jade chime on the desk: "The pawn is established."

The Luoshu made from the skin of the Black Tortoise's feet floated into the air, and blood-colored lines appeared on the star map.

The River Map on the Xuantian Shell suddenly rotated automatically, fitting perfectly into one with the Luoshu in the air.

The floor burst open, revealing a corridor paved with copper coins, each coin hole embedded with a night pearl.

"Wait a minute."

The shopkeeper's smoky blue robe swept across the abacus, and the wooden hairpin in Ah Cai's hair suddenly blossomed, revealing a star-spangled Udumbara. "This young friend's pet..."

He glanced at the burping Jin Yuanbao and said, "It seems he took away the souvenirs from our store."

Ah Cai pinched Fujinshu's cheek.

"puff"

He spat out a peach pit - no, it was a wooden sign with the word "danger" engraved on it.

At the same time, the phosphorescent lights in all the wooden grids turned into a dark blue, which made the shopkeeper's glass lenses look extremely strange.

"It doesn't matter."

He suddenly chuckled, "Just consider it a lucky charm." When he waved his wide sleeves, the copper coin corridor suddenly turned into thousands of fireflies.

Just as Brahma was about to spit fire to illuminate the area, he saw fireflies gather into arrows, pointing directly at the small vermilion-painted door deep in the bamboo forest.

When everyone clamored into the corridor, no one noticed that there was a "pine nut" hidden in Jin Yuanbao's bulging cheeks - it was actually the phosphorus core of the "empty" position in the twenty-eight constellations, which was now emitting a faint blue light.