Hailing barren city

After leaving the air-raid shelter, Ling Li took Qi Linpo back to the villa to change his hair style and clothes. Fortunately, the two were similar in stature, and there was not much difference in size.It's just that the sharp clothes, with a free and easy style, are worn on the serious and cold Qi Linpo, and the beauty is beautiful, but there is an indescribable sense of awkwardness and disobedience.

It was two o'clock in the afternoon when the two returned to Cuiying Pavilion. When they walked to the innermost courtyard, they saw Huakai sitting motionless at the door. They didn't show a relieved smile until they saw the sharp return.

Huakai knew about Lingli helping Fairy Qimao find her main body.So I didn't feel too surprised to see Qilin Po at this time, but just observed secretly, as if looking for some shadows belonging to the big white cat.

Now that the Qilin soul had recovered its body, Ling Li thought that Tao Rujiu would wake up immediately.However, he made a request for Qilin Po to act immediately, but was rejected.

"The separated souls, also known as ghosts, cannot appear during the day when the yang energy is heavy."

Qi Lin Po explained: "I put Tao Tao's soul in a clay jar with a charm, and it can only be opened after sunset."

Ling Li didn't know much about yin and yang spells, and remembering what happened in the ice coffin just now, he didn't dare to do it again.So he sat down beside the bluestone flower table with a sullen face, and smoked again habitually.But when I took out the lighter, it always failed to ignite.

"Smoking is harmful to your health." Qi Linpo said slowly, "Compared with people in ancient times, modern people are indeed committing suicide slowly. Instead of wasting your life, why not learn some Taoism from me."

Ling Li couldn't light the fire, still held the cigarette in his mouth, and said with a half-smile: "Me? You want me to be a Taoist priest? I'm not a vegetarian."

Qi Linpo said: "What you learn has nothing to do with what you eat. I just think you are born with a good talent. It's a pity that you are left unused. And the next thing will also need your participation."

Ling Li asked: "The next thing? Is the matter of the underground palace not over yet?"

Qi Linpo didn't give a clear answer, and seemed to avoid suspicion, but said vaguely: "This matter needs to be discussed slowly. Now I just ask you, to learn, or not to learn?"

Raising his eyebrows sharply, he answered with a bit of a competitive edge: "Learn."

It is said that it is to teach Taoism, but in fact, the spells that require cultivation and skills cannot be mastered in a short time. Of course, Qi Lin Po understands this, so what he handed over to Ling Li is just the basic common sense and movements of using magic tools .The most important thing is to strengthen the power of these instruments with the rare pure yang physique; when necessary, even the blood of a man can become a beneficial weapon.

Ling Li is a smart person, and simple operations and formations are not difficult.Qi Linpo and him taught and learned one by one, about two hours passed.Huakai, who was sitting on the side, remembered that he didn't have lunch, and was so hungry that he couldn't stand it, so he said hello to the restaurant for dinner.

Watching him leave, the two people who stayed behind suddenly changed the subject.

"Is there anything that can't be said in front of Huakai?" Ling Li asked in a low voice, "Could it be related to Dongli?"

Qi Linpo's iceberg-like face finally showed some expression: "You are not too confused after all."

"Confused?" Laughed sharply, "I've never been confused, it's just that I'm too confident and don't want to trust others."

"I think you are the only one who doesn't trust Tao Rujiu." Qilin Po said coldly, "If your liking is expressed by bullying and hurting, then it only proves that you are still a child."

Ling Li was stunned, and it was rare that he didn't refute anything.

Qilin Po no longer bothered with him carefully, and directly cut to the point: "You have seen the underground river in the underground palace. It contains a strong hostility. If it is left to flow, it will always be a disaster."

Ling Li seemed to understand what he meant: "You mean you want me to help you solve the problem of underground water flow. What does this have to do with Dongli not broken?"

Qi Lin Po replied: "The nature of the water flow is negative, and the hostility contained in it is the accumulation of resentment accumulated on the battlefield for hundreds of years. This hostility has always been imprisoned underground by the suppression of magic techniques. The method seems to be universal, but in fact it is not once and for all. The reason is the same as the water control measures of Dayu and Gun."

Nodding sharply to express his understanding, Qi Linpo said again: "In other places, the buildings that suppress monsters and monsters are nothing more than temples and towers, but in Hailing City, the ones that play such a role are..."

"The mausoleum where Dongli is not broken?" Ling Li answered his words, and said, "You mean to smash his tomb?"

Qilin Po nodded.

"In fact, Hailing was called Hailing for a period of time because there were temples and tombs dedicated to General Zhenhai here. It was because 'General Zhenhai' and his tomb blocked the way of water flow that the river was silted up in the underground channel, causing violence. An angry situation."

Ling Li listened half-understood, and asked again: "Does it mean to use external force to flatten the tomb that is not broken by the east fence?"

Qi Linpo shook his head and said, "Ordinary masonry buildings have no special effects. We only need to destroy the unbroken corpse in the mausoleum—to put it simply, take off his mask."

Having said that, it is very clear what to do.The two stopped talking, looked up to see that it was getting late, pushed the door open and walked into Tao Rujiu's room.

"If you want to stay here, you must keep absolutely quiet." Qi Linpo said to Ling Li, "No matter what you see, don't make a sound or move around. Do you understand?"

Ling Li nodded, found a stool and sat down.Watching Qilin Po lock the door, he checked the window again.Draw a magic circle along the corner of the wall──Ling Li understands it, this is a magic formation to isolate spirit bodies.The spiritual bodies inside and outside the magic circle cannot circulate, thus preventing Tao Rujiu's soul from dispersing.

Qilin Po finished setting up the magic circle, murmured something, walked around the room again, returned to the table and lit a candle on each of the four corners.The room suddenly became brighter, and Ling Li saw Qilin Po gently move one hand to the clay pot, and with the other hand, he took out a small copper bell.

"Tai Wei Xuan Palace, yellow and green, internally refined three souls, fetal light and tranquility, divine treasure and jade room, born with me, don't move rashly..."

During the incantation of controlling the seven souls that was almost inaudible, Qi Lin Po lightly compared a few words on the clay pot with his hands, and then slowly lifted the lid.

Watching sharply and intently, a faint chill came out of the clay pot.It condensed into white smoke in the hot and humid air of August, and dispersed mistyly. Then, the copper bell of Qilin soul rang, and a hand stretched out like a snow-white lotus bloomed on the top of the crock. Come.

The clay pot is only the size of an ordinary vase, but inside it seems to be another world.The transparent white hand slowly stretched out from the mouth of the pot, as if an animal growing in the clay pot heard the call of Qilin Soul, and slowly poked it out to see what happened.

That was indeed Tao Rujiu's hand.

Ling Li remembered that there was a light-colored mark the size of a coin on Tao Rujiu's wrist, which was said to be left after a wound healed when he was young.At this moment, the same trace appeared on this pale hand.

It was Tao Rujiu's soul, which slowly transformed into a human form and crawled out of the pot.

"If you want to fly, you have to go to Tai Chi; if you want to be hungry, you have to drink water and jade essence..."

Amidst Qi Lin Po's deep chanting, that hand slowly groped in mid-air, and then drooped to touch the table.Immediately afterwards, the head and shoulders slowly emerged from the pot.

The same pale or even translucent face, with eyes closed tightly, without the slightest expression, looks even more feminine and delicate, like a moving crystal sculpture.This makes people unconsciously think of the novated butterfly in the chrysalis, which is so weak and wet that it cannot withstand the touch.

Qilin Po watched Tao Rujiu come out of the jar little by little, and the spells in his mouth never stopped.The brass bell in his hand shakes from time to time, as if guiding the soul to the body.Tao Rujiu still had his eyes tightly closed, and the man had crawled out of the clay pot completely. He was completely naked, only covered with a strange layer of hoarfrost, and on the skin under the hoarfrost, one could still vaguely see blue or green. Purple scar.

Sharply frowned subconsciously, every trace was a mockery of him.

The process of the return of the soul is not complicated. It was only two hours ago that I saw the fierceness of the Famen for the first time. I just watched Tao Rujiu's soul walk half a room away, and became transparent and ethereal in the ringing of the bell. The entities of the fused together.

"Okay." Qilin Po concluded.

The whole process took less than fifteen minutes.After the incantation and the ringing of the bell stopped, the entire hut immediately became silent.Qilin Po drew a spell on Tao Rujiu's body to calm the mind and calm down the shock, and just now he extinguished the candles, and asked Ling Li to open the doors, windows and incandescent lamps.

The sky outside the house has turned a dark blue, and the cool cross wind blows in, replacing the dirty air that has not circulated in the hut for a long time these days.Qilin Po rubbed his legs and feet that hadn't moved for more than a thousand years, and went to the door to adjust his breath; when he turned around, he saw Ling Li sitting beside Tao Rujiu.

"He's breathing..." The man put his hand close to Tao Rujiu's lips, "The body has also warmed up."

Qi Lin Po nodded his head as a matter of course: "There is nothing serious about his body. After his soul returns, he will wake up in half an hour at most. You might as well call his name and see if he responds."

Nodding sharply, he was ready to bend down and try to wake the young man up; however, the three simple words came to his lips, but he couldn't say them no matter what.

What he has done in the past has made him lose the right to shout these three words.Before the young man wakes up and makes a reckoning, Ling Li cannot forgive himself; not only because of his past actions, but also because even he himself cannot foresee whether this kind of injury caused by suspicion and distrust will happen again .

At this moment, the person on the bed suddenly took a breath and slowly raised his eyelids.

Tao Rujiu felt that he fell asleep, dark and sweet, without any memory of dreams.He felt himself floating in a dark ocean, without any emotion in his heart, and without any feeling in his body.Calm and gentle, unexpectedly comfortable.

So when he felt the weight of his body again, he felt very unpleasant instead.He slowly remembered that his soul had left his body, drifted away with the wind like a butterfly, and was found by the Qimao Fairy, and placed in a clay pot... The next thing is now.

The small pains in his body continuously spread into his mind, which made him sigh involuntarily, and slowly opened his eyes.

He opened his eyes and found himself lying on the bed, as if he really fell asleep, everything was over.After trying to move his hands and feet, the inflexible feeling of being controlled by others in his memory has completely disappeared.The young man moved his body, tried to get up, and just turned his head when he saw the person sitting on the floor beside the bed.

It is fierce, but not like fierce, at least Tao Rujiu has never seen such embarrassing fierceness: messy short hair and blue beard, ashen complexion and faintly visible dark circles, the most striking thing is the His clothes were covered with loess, and there was a dry and blackened blood stain on his shoulder.

"..."

He also opened his mouth but didn't know what to say.Tao Rujiu vaguely felt that something had happened, but he didn't want to take risks and have too many encounters with Ling Li, so he hesitated for a moment, and finally just smiled politely, and then moved his gaze to the Qilin Soul by the door body.

"...you are..." he tried politely.

"Don't you know me, Tao Tao?" Qi Linpo leaned against the door and laughed, "You helped me take a bath before."

"You, you are Qi... Qi cat fairy?"

Tao Rujiu hastily went to the pillow to find his glasses and put them on. The tall and stern person in front of him turned out to be the body of the big white cat. Surprised, the young man immediately recalled the real name Qimaoxian once mentioned to him.

"Qi...is called...Qilin soul, right?"

He pronounced the name uncertainly. "You brought my soul back?"

Qi Lin Po nodded, and explained how to find his soul, but did not mention anything about what Ling Li and he experienced together.

Tao Rujiu listened to it in a trance, thinking it was a story from Liaozhai that had nothing to do with him.It took me a long time to think of thanking you.He slowly got off the bed, as if he was going to go to Qi Linpo's side, but his legs were weak, and when he was about to fall, he was slammed by someone behind him.

The sudden touch made the young man startled, he stood still and flung his hand subconsciously to run away, and it happened to hit the sharp face unexpectedly.

The man seemed to be stunned by this "slap", and just sat on the ground speechless for a long time.Tao Rujiu was terrified in his heart, and hurriedly wanted to explain, but at this moment, Ling Li, who was in a state of embarrassment, let go of the hand that was holding him, stood up without saying a word, and walked out the door.

Hearing a series of dull footsteps slowly disappearing into the night, Tao Rujiu slowly sat back on the edge of the bed, completely forgetting what he was going to do just now.

"Tao Tao, Ling Li already knows that you have been wronged." Qi Linpo said, "He ran back from the hospital to prevent others from taking your body away, and helped restore your body to the present appearance. To be fair, he Know I was wrong."

Tao Rujiu sat back on the bed, and Qi Lin Po slowly told him what happened during this period, and finally pointed to his chest and added: "I have already sewn your soul and body with ghost spider silk. In the future, unless the lifespan is exhausted and the soul leaves the body on its own initiative, ordinary wild ghosts will not be able to forcibly enter your body, let alone hook your soul out."

After Tao Rujiu heard this, he only understood that this was a good thing for him.So he nodded his thanks.Then he still sat there in a daze.Qilin Po knew that he needed time to digest the series of recent stories, so he stopped bothering him.Leaving Cuiying Pavilion, the matter of Dongli not broken needs to be resolved with Ling Li.