Between the vast sea of ​​clouds

Passing through the thin and transparent rainbow air, the clouds and mist are at their feet, and there are endless blue sky curtains on all sides, which makes people feel like they are riding against the wind while walking.

When he got close to the carved railings and painted buildings, the outlines of the towers and pavilions began to appear, Qingping could see the appearance of the city clearly.It turned out that they were at the top of the peak at this time, and they happened to be able to see two open spaces a few meters away from the peak, surrounding the edge of the peak in a ring shape.There are densely packed photo studios standing on the open space.These photo studios have empty shapes, with walls and no houses, but they are just a mold, only a layer of tiles are laid on the top, supported by wooden frames.In addition, this place is very high and covered by water mist, so this city in the sky was created.

Qingping never believed in the existence of Biluo City, the mountain here is no more than the size of a palm, if it is possible to build a city and live in it, then it will be called a ghost.Jin Huan is used to seeing strange skills and ingenuity all the way, and she still has expectations for this city built on the top of the peaks, but now she is extremely disappointed when she sees it. This so-called city is just an empty shell, completely fooling people of.

But Zhao Yuan stood in the Biluo City that was haunted by dreams, but there was no joy in his heart.She stared at the photo studio in the ruins, as if she wanted to make up an imaginary city in her mind, but when the mountain wind blew and the fog cleared a little, her dream was also shattered, and she walked back to Qingping in a daze. side.

Seeing that she was holding the book in her hand, Qingping stared blankly at the void, he didn't know how to comfort her, so he could only say: "Although this city is gone, but—"

She pointed to the end of the road and said, "Isn't that temple still there?"

Zhao Yuan turned his head and looked blankly. A section of white jade steps stretched upwards in the golden light, and a temple stood under the blue sky, which was the highest point on the peak.On the step platform, you can see the majestic mountains running from east to west; the waterfall falls down rapidly, splashing jade beads, and the water mist rises continuously, condensing into thousands of rainbow lights in the sun, hanging over thousands of cliffs. Between Ren.

The mountain they walked through when they came here can only see the general outline, the sea of ​​clouds billows and undulates, the golden roofs of temples and temples are shining brilliantly, the eaves and arches, and the blue tiles are sparkling, simple and introverted.Jin Huan and several other guards have stepped up the steps and are watching something carefully.

Qingping calmly took out the book from her hand, flipped through it casually, then stuffed it into his sleeve, and walked towards the temple before Zhao Yuan noticed it.

Jin Huan was looking down at the railing, saw her coming over and said with a smile: "Although the city can't be seen anymore, the temple is interesting. It confirms some of my previous conjectures. Please look here, Mr. Li."

Qingping stood side by side with her on the steps, and there was a pair of fish-shaped stone carvings every nine steps.This time the fish had no hands or feet, and looked quite normal. It was held up in the air by the waves, with a lotus flower in its mouth, and a gemstone agate in its mouth opposite it.

Jin Huan stretched out her hand to fiddle with the lotus flower on the fish's mouth, and saw that she was just right, and with a slight movement of her wrist, the flower was easily removed.She twirled the flower in her hand, pointed to the empty flower heart and said: "It is rumored that when Empress Hui Chong was born, the lotus flower in the palace bloomed overnight, filling the room with a delicate fragrance. But for some reason, there is no stamen in the flower, so it has to be named Rui. After he ascended the throne, people at that time removed the pistils to avoid the taboo of his name. I think the layout of this mountain is very exquisite, although there are surprises, there is no danger, and the skillful skills with a benevolent heart should come from the hands of Wen Zhaoyong."

It is rumored that Wen Zhaoyong has become supernatural in his skills, he can drive wooden oxen and carts, and cross wooden birds to the blue sky.Leaving aside these nonsense, she was once specially summoned by Empress Hui Chong to participate in the layout design of Le'an and Zhaoye, and she is indeed a capable person.

Zhao Yuan's voice came from afar: "My lord, it's not that there is no danger, but the dangerous places have already been buried."

Jin Huan choked up, slowly turned her head to look at Zhao Yuan, Qingping coughed a few times and said: "The outline of the eaves of the roof of the studio is somewhat similar to that of Zhao Ye, I thought I was wrong, but how can my lord get it today?" Do you know that this place is written by Wen Zhaoyong?"

Jin Huan said with a chuckle: "Lord Li doesn't know, everyone like Wen Zhaoyong will definitely leave a mark on the places they handle."

She turned the flower over, and on one of the petals was inscribed in petty characters—

"The water and the moon are empty, and the illusion is empty; dreaming in a dream, seeing the body outside the body."

The inscription is next to the words: Wen Zhaoyong.

Jin Huan said: "I am afraid that Biluo City is called by later generations. From what I can see, this place should be called Shuiyue Mirage."

Zhao Yuan whispered at the side: "There is a lot of water here, but there is no moon. I don't know how to say the illusion of water and moon?"

Qing Ping and Jin Huan went to see her together, Zhao Yuan took a step back and said awkwardly: "The student is just talking nonsense, maybe it's not dark yet, the moon hasn't come out yet..."

Jin Huan gave herself a smooth ride, ignored it, turned around and handed over the lotus to the guards for safekeeping.Qingping pinched his eyebrows and said helplessly: "The towering pillars will be destroyed once; the mirror image of water and moon will come and go without intention. The word "water and moon" in this verse is originally an illusory scene, not water and moon."

Qing Ping turned his head away, seeing that Jin Huan seemed to want to laugh, but tried to hold back, but his shoulders shook violently.She took a deep breath and whispered to Zhao Yuan: "If you want to pretend to be stupid, you need to have a limit. You have been involved too deeply in this case. It would be best if the merits and demerits can be offset, but someone still needs to come forward to intercede for you... ...Do you understand what this department means?"

Zhao Yuan thought for a moment, then said: "Then, my lord, do you want to read the legendary script?"

Qing Ping's frowning brows relaxed, she thought she must be crazy to tell Zhao Yuan these things, seeing Zhao Yuan's completely ignorant and stupid look, she didn't know if it was real or fake.

At this time, the guard said softly: "My lord, my lord has already entered."

Qingping turned around suddenly, the temple door was wide open, and Jin Huan was no longer on the steps.She didn't care about Zhao Yuan anymore, she lifted her robe and walked up quickly.When stepping into the temple, the footsteps were a little heavy, and a few lines of dust fell from the eaves of the door. There were no fingers in the dark temple, so I heard a person say: "My lord, there is a fire platform here, can I light it?"

In the dark hall, Jin Huan's voice came: "Come on."

The light of the fire gradually brightened, and quickly illuminated the main hall, only a few shadows appeared in the light, but they were a few white jade statues.These portraits are all graceful women with serene faces, wearing light veils and gem-studded hair crowns, staring silently at the visitors in the hall covered in dust.

There was no statue of the main god in the temple, but the place where the statue was supposed to be placed was a huge round platform with strange runes drawn around it, connecting with the murals on the wall.There was a door at the end of the platform, which was now closed.Apart from the portraits, the entire temple is covered with paintings on the walls, and there is nothing else.

Qingping swept around the surrounding walls, and all the paintings on them were stories related to gods, but in these murals, the face of the goddess with a tall cloud bun was always blurred, which seemed to be intentional by the painter, who did not want the world to see the gods. true colors.

Qingping thought of those portraits painted by Yue Jin, it turned out that the gods of the golden tent had no face at all, and they were all painted by people wantonly.

Jin Huan said: "It seems that this sect has changed its barbarian customs after entering our dynasty, and even their gods are gradually close to the clothes of the contemporary people in terms of appearance and description."

Qingping approached the round platform, this platform reminded her of the altar she saw at the shore of Mingsha Lake in the past, the runes were almost the same, she said: "As long as the appearance is slightly modified, it can be changed, but the nature, no matter what It can't be changed."

She pulled out her long sword with a bang, and lightly scraped the dusty countertop with the tip of the sword, a piece of black fragments fell down, revealing the original white color of the countertop.The guard picked up the broken pieces with a white cloth and was about to hold them in front of her when Qingping waved his hands in disgust and said, "Don't worry, there's blood all over this table."

Jin Huan was horrified, the round table was so big, I don't know how much blood it would take to cover the table.What's more, this layer of blood scab is as thick as a finger cover, and it accumulates over time, as new blood covers old blood.

Although it has been a hundred years apart, the bloody atmosphere in the palace has not dissipated at all. The faces of those tortured and twisted people seem to be very close at hand. It was a cry of sharp pain.

Seeing this, Qingping stretched out his hand to support her, and asked, "My lord, are you feeling unwell?"

Jin Huan rubbed her forehead and reluctantly said: "Maybe I feel a little uncomfortable..."

Qing Ping turned his head sideways and saw the flames burning on the fire platform, he ordered the guards: "Go and put out the fire, if there is something in it, throw it out."

The guards followed their words, and it was strange to say that as soon as the fire was extinguished, Jin Huan suddenly became sober, and the hallucinations and ear-piercing screams disappeared.Qingping signaled Zhao Yuan who was huddled in the corner to help Jinhuan, and said: "There is too much dust in the hall, Master Fujin, let's go out and have a rest."

Jin Huan's footsteps were vain and her head was dazed. She wanted to say something, but she was helped out.Seeing her leaving the palace gate, Qingping said in a deep voice with the guards: "Bring some water, it needs more."

This round platform must not be used only for sacrifices, such a large platform is enough to hide things, but how to reveal the hidden things?

The water bag was delivered quickly, and Qingping poured all the water on the round platform, and there were lines in the blood-stained depression, and the water flowed slowly along the depression.She ordered someone to fetch a torch, and carefully stared at the direction of the water flow, but after a while, the water had already covered the round table, and those lines filled with water seemed to outline a complicated magic circle.The nine eyeball-shaped patterns in the magic circle were either open or closed, and they were different. She paced around the stage, comparing the runes drawn on the edge while looking at them, and pressed her hands on the eyeball patterns with a white cloth, It can be twisted with a little force.She reversed the patterns one by one, and when the white cloth was covered with sticky blood, the round platform still did not respond.

This is also expected, Qingping thought about letting someone smash the platform, but she heard a crisp sound from behind, followed by heavy machine guns ringing around the platform one after another, she looked back in surprise, the round platform A white pillar rose from the center, holding out a black box.

The box was perfectly stitched together, except for a gold clasp at the opening and closing.Qingping opened it, and saw a few ancient scrolls in the box. These scrolls were covered with a hollowed-out gold silk cover and decorated with green stones. At a glance, one could tell that they were not ordinary things. They must have been the secret scrolls brought to the Central Plains during the mission of the Golden Tent. , Maybe it also records the origin of this religion.But she didn't have time to open these precious scrolls, she just took them out and put them aside, watched the guards, and then looked at the bottom of the box.

There was a jade box at the bottom of the box, and Qingping's hands trembled unconsciously when he took it out.This booklet was in the jade box, the size of an ordinary book, her pupils shrunk slightly, and she twisted a thin page of paper, only to see the ink and red seal on the top, which was still as new after a hundred years.

As the pages turned, her heart became colder, as if falling into a cold cave.After turning over the last page, she closed the book, closed her eyes and let out a long sigh.

It turned out to be so.

Dreaming in a dream, seeing the body outside the body, if life is really like a fantasy dream, what you want is nothing more than a dream, and it is a waste of time, what is it for?

The sound of clashing swords and swords came from afar, and someone fell to the ground by the temple gate. She stroked the book and looked out. One of them was wearing a hood, standing at the junction of light and darkness.

Holding the booklet, Qingping waved to her, and said, "The envoy Bi Shu came from afar, why doesn't he have any humility to be a guest?"

The man took off his hood, revealing a face like ice and snow, with teasing hidden in his blue eyes, and she replied with a smile: "The world can be turned upside down overnight, and it's just like this for thousands of years. How can there be a host and a guest if there are winners and losers?" point?"