Acai's Sky

While passing through the Nine Palaces maze, Acai's pigtails were bitten apart by Feiyue seventeen times.

The stupid dog insisted that the moving bamboo branches were a sugar painting stall, until Tuan Tuan jumped onto its nose and saw clearly that the swaying shadows were all upside-down copper coin swords.

The five-zhu coins strung on the sword tassel jingled, and a gold melon seed flew out every time it was shaken.

The sword was covered in bronze rust, but it emitted a strange green light under the moonlight, as if thousands of ghost eyes were peering through the bamboo shadows.

Feiyue slobbered as she pounced on one of the swords. The sword tassel suddenly twisted into a pretzel, and the five-zhu coin turned into a poisonous bee and stung the dog's nose.

"Mine! Mine!"

The gold ingots were running around in Acai's sleeve pocket, and her belly made a bulge in the fabric.

Suddenly, the bamboo leaves on the west side turned into darts and attacked. Feiyue jumped up suddenly - and then accurately caught one of the "hidden weapons".

The moment the bamboo leaf dart touched the canine's teeth, its green light faded, and it unexpectedly became a crispy, fragrant, preserved vegetable pancake. The fat oozed along the leaf veins, emitting an amber glow.

"It's pickled mustard greens pancakes!"

Tengu Feiyue was chewing with his mouth full of oil, and he was completely unaware that there were three bamboo leaf darts stuck in his butt.

The bamboo dart penetrated three inches into the flesh, but no trace of blood remained. Instead, a honey-like golden liquid oozed out, sticking the dog's hair into wisps of golden tassels.

Xuantian slowly blew out a bubble to wrap around its buttocks. The bubble reflected the pattern of the Big Dipper: "Tianxuan position, injury gate."

The River Map and Luoshu on the tortoise shell suddenly shifted and reorganized, with stars falling into bubbles and condensing into the handle of the Big Dipper, pointing southeast towards a crooked old bamboo tree.

Just as Ah Cai took out the copper coins to tell fortunes, the entire bamboo forest suddenly turned upside down.

The green bamboo turned into emerald, and amber honey oozed from the bamboo joints. Feiyue's tail suddenly shook like a windmill: "Honey-pickled plums! I smell it..."

Before he finished speaking, the emerald bamboo suddenly cracked into thousands of fine lines, and from each crack a long scarlet tongue emerged, rolling up nectar and flinging it towards everyone.

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by the scream of the golden raccoon dog - this greedy devil was chewing on a piece of emerald bamboo so hard that half a pine nut was broken off from his front teeth.

The broken tooth took root and sprouted, and in the blink of an eye it grew into a crystal pine tree. The pine needles that fell off were all golden melon seeds, which made Jin Yuanbao squeak.

"Kan water and Dui Ze, go to Xun position!"

The star map on the Xuantian shell suddenly rotated counterclockwise.

A Cai grabbed Feiyue's ear and rushed to the southeast, with the emerald bamboo forest closing rapidly behind him.

The emerald bamboo branches tangled into a cage, and the bamboo leaves turned into jade flying knives, but they shattered into powder when they touched the Bagua formation spit out by Xuantian.

Jin Yuanbao suddenly jumped out, and his belly "snapped" and sucked a jade brick on the ground. There was a Taotie pattern engraved on the jade brick. The moment it was pressed by the rat's claws, Taotie's single eye suddenly turned, and shot out a beam of green light straight into the sky.

Amid the roar of the mechanism, everyone fell into the lotus pond.

When the bronze mirror stood in the middle of the pool, the gold ingot was stuck in the gears of the mechanism and gnawing at the gold.

The gears were rusty red, and sticky blood oozed out every time they turned half a circle, but they were licked shiny by the lucky golden rat.

Seven lotus lanterns floated on the water, each wick containing solidified moonlight.

The moonlight seemed like a living thing, twisting into a silver snake in the glass lamp, and occasionally poking out its core to lick the rim of the lamp.

Just as Tuan Tuan was about to jump towards the light and shadow, the lotus suddenly turned into a skull, and a red-eyed toad popped out of its eye sockets.

There is a raised relief of a human face on the toad's back, and it opens its mouth to spit out a black mist filled with the cries of babies.

"It's the state of obsession."

Xuantian slowly spit out a bubble, in which the golden raccoon dog was reflected, stealing the offerings. "Someone needs to go in..."

Before he could finish his words, the bubble suddenly burst, and the fragments turned into a rain of copper coins, each of which had a tearful eye embedded in the hole.

Before he could finish his words, the glutinous rice dumpling had already rolled into the mirror and knocked Ah Cai off balance.

Ripples appeared on the mirror surface, and the date paste cake in the child's hand fell to the ground. The cake crumbs were covered with sparks and rolled into the real world, burning the white jade floor tiles and leaving scorch marks.

A Cai outside the mirror saw herself at the age of five - holding half a piece of date paste cake, with the blazing escort agency behind her.

The flames licked the gilded plaque of "Weiyuan Escort Agency". The Pixiu statue perched on the plaque suddenly turned its head, and its jade eyes stared at Acai in reality.

As the flames licked the beams, the little boy suddenly emerged from the rubble, hugged his imaginary self, and shouted, "My butt is burning!"

"The flames of reality and illusion merged at this moment. The plum blossom mark on Ah Cai's wrist suddenly became hot, and the petal pattern climbed up her neck along her blood vessels."

The real murderous intent lies in the date paste cake.

When Ah Cai took the second bite, the pastry suddenly turned into a black widow spider. The eight trigrams pattern appeared on its abdomen, and its eight legs were made of human bones, with copper bells hanging at the joints.

But the golden raccoon dog chewed it as a snack and made a loud crunching sound.

"Crunch... even crispier than fried cicada monkeys..." It commented as it ate, its fangs leaving a string of sparks on its front teeth.

Sparks splashed onto the mirror, burning a small black hole. Suddenly, a hand covered with green scales stretched out from the hole, grabbed Tuan Tuan and tried to drag him into the mirror.

Feiyue suddenly sniffed and ran westward: "Sweet and sour fire!"

The flames in the illusion condensed into syrup, wrapped around a candied haws, which was spinning in the fire, and embedded in the hawthorn fruit was a human tooth.

The moment the Tengu leaped up, Brahma sprayed sparks that singed its tail hair. "Woof! My honey-roasted tail!"

There was a strange fragrance mixed with the burnt smell. A datura flower actually bloomed from the burnt dogtail. The juice dripping from the stamens made the ground sizzle with corrosion.

When the water surface began to freeze, Ah Cai discovered that a fragment of memory was frozen in each ice crystal.

The night when her master taught her to read the stars—the old man’s withered fingers traced the night sky, and the Milky Way really flowed across the beams of the thatched cottage;

On a morning when a gold ingot secretly nibbled at her silver hairpin—a little golden mouse got stuck in the plum blossom pattern on the hairpin and squeaked, while morning dew dripped down its whiskers into a crystal curtain;

There was also the embarrassing incident during last year's Ghost Festival when Feiyue fell into a toilet while chasing a ghost fire - the heavenly dog ​​was barking wildly with filth all over its body, scaring the wandering souls within a ten-mile radius so much that they covered their noses and fled.

Suddenly, a black shadow flashed across an ice crystal - when the escort agency caught fire that night, there was clearly a pair of green-scaled boots outside the window of the warehouse.

The boot shaft was embroidered with the reverse Bagua pattern, and the toe was decorated with a string of seven skulls, the smallest of which was still sucking its thumb.

"Master, be careful!" Tuan Tuan suddenly exploded into a snowball.

Thousands of silver needles burst out from Xixi's white hair, the tips of the needles coated with icing sugar, drawing the Big Dipper on the mirror surface.

In the mirror, the date paste cake in Acai's hand suddenly swelled up and turned into a giant python, swallowing the small dumpling into its stomach.

When the snake scales were turned over, they were actually densely packed abacus beads, and the sound of the beads colliding echoed with the shopkeeper's jade abacus.

Ah Cai picked up the copper coin sword and threw it at Snake Eyes, but the tip of the sword turned into a peach branch when it touched the mirror, and it was instantly covered with bright peach blossoms.

The petals flew like blood rain, and when they landed on the bronze mirror, they condensed into a cinnabar talisman, and the snake's body suddenly ignited with green fire.

"use this!"

Xuantian suddenly spit out a gossip bubble.

The twenty-eight constellations are flowing on the surface of the bubble. Each star is a grain of glutinous rice, and the yin-yang fish eyes in the center are two glutinous rice balls.

Ah Cai bit her fingertip and flicked the blood drop into the bubble. In the blood mist, all the peach blossoms were dyed red.

Blood soaked the mirror, revealing the phantom of the Vermillion Bird behind Ah Cai—the soul that was supposed to awaken at the age of seven now had bloody eyes.

The mirror cracked with a "crack", and the real evil creature was revealed - it was actually a nightmare tapir that feeds on memories, with half of the fluff of a glutinous rice ball hanging on its fangs.

The tapir's tail is forked into nine parts, and a copper bell hangs at the tip of each tail, and the tongue of the bell is half a human finger.

Brahma let out a clear cry, and wherever the red feather swept past, a pure glazed fire ignited.

Thousands of Buddha statues emerged from the flames, each holding a long-burning lamp in their hands, and the lamp oil was actually boiling Meng Po soup.

The nightmare tapir turned into green smoke in the fire and spit out a tearful little ball.

The little girl was holding a tablet in her arms, with "Widow Acai" written in gold letters on a vermilion background. The real Acai was so frightened that she took three steps back.

Ah Cai took the opportunity to throw out the red rope, and the copper bell at the end of the rope was wrapped around her wrist: "It's time to wake up!"

Seven stars of light burst out from the knot, connecting the plum blossom mark on the child's wrist with the real jade pendant.

When the mirror shattered, the water in the pool receded, revealing the white jade floor tiles.

Black blood oozed from the cracks in the floor tiles, gradually forming an inverted pentagram, with a voodoo doll filled with silver needles placed at each corner.

The shopkeeper's voice fell from the clouds: "Using greed to break greed is a good trick."

The sound waves shattered the three night-shining pearls, and the pearl powder condensed into the word "痴" (idiot) in the air, and then shattered into golden dust and fell to the ground.

Three sugar-coated Moon Soul Stones were embedded in the Tai Chi diagram. The golden raccoon pounced on them and started to gnaw at them, only to be bruised and rolled over on the ground. "Whoever sugar-coated the stones! How unkind!"

Where the little raccoon dog rolled around, the floor tiles flipped over to reveal a charred corpse, with its fingers pointing at the jade pendant on Ah Cai's waist.

The moment Ah Cai bent down to pick up the Moon Soul Stone, a piece of green scale suddenly fell out of her sleeve.

The edges of the scales were shimmering with gold lines, which turned out to be micro-carved mantras for rebirth upon closer inspection, with a small seal with the word "Pei" engraved at the end of the mantra.

The scales matched the pattern of the boots she had just seen in the ice crystal of her memory, and glowed an eerie purple in the moonlight.

The purple light projected onto the broken mirror, actually reflecting the shopkeeper's blurry profile - under the green jade crown, there was clearly a pair of dragon horns!