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Beauty on the side, scenery like a painting
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Mission Hills lies on the border of the Western Kingdom of Qion and stretches for thousands of miles. It is rumored that the royal tombs of the Qion Kingdom are built somewhere in the mountains and guarded by a war ghost general.
As soon as Yuan Zhong rode his Bird of Paradise, he began to scratch his ears and cheeks, fidgeting and sighing, obviously recalling some bad memories.
Tan yin wondered, "What's wrong with you?"
Yuan Zhong hung his head painfully, "... remembered a little girl who broke my heart."
The war ghost lady, who was even tougher than the war ghost general,... is called Xin Mae, right? He will never forget it! She almost broke two of his teeth with her slap.
She also treated him like a cheap driver, proudly telling him to drive a car and fly around.
He was almost tortured out of his shadow, and his legs and stomach trembled at the sight of a fifteen- or sixteen-year-old water-spirited mortal girl.
Tan Yin obviously got the wrong idea, afraid of hurting him, deliberately and carefully asked: "Is ... your lover? Do you want to go down to see her? If you have any misunderstandings, it's better to talk about them. ..."
Yuan Zhong shook his head like a rattle drum, what a joke! Xin Mei is the kind of girl that only the War Ghost General can enjoy. He would rather spend his whole life with Tang Hua than spend a day with Xin Mei.
"You're mistaken." He glared at Tan Yin, "The woman I like is not her."
"Oh, ...," she said, not knowing what to say.
"Stupid." He sighed at the sight of her stupidity.
The weather was clear, and there was not a single cloud in the sky, but after flying slowly for a while, large clouds appeared in the blink of an eye, obscuring the view. Yuan Zhong whistled, and the bird slowed down and stopped in mid-air.
"This is the cloud formation released by the War Demon Generals." He opened the dense fog in front of his eyes, but soon more fog came surging in. Tanyin was no more than ten feet away from him, but he couldn't even see her face anymore.
Yuan Zhong's eyes rolled twice, and he suddenly turned back and smiled kindly, "Can't see the way, can you? Come, come to me."
"It's okay, I can follow you." I can follow you," he replied, not at all amused.
He insisted, "This is just a cloud formation, if we go deeper, you won't be able to see me.
"Don't worry, just fly forward, I can keep up." I'll be able to keep up.
I still can't figure out what it is.
He frowned, "... can't get through?"
"... Okay."
Tan Yin gave in helplessly.
She drove the mechanical bird to his side, stood up lightly, and landed behind him like a piece of feather, the soft fluffy fur on the back of the polar bird was indeed much more comfortable than the mechanical bird.
"I can feel that the Heart Mirror is in the tomb," she whispered. She whispered, her voice smiling.
"What is that?" Yuan Zhong whistled, and the bird flapped its wings and began to fly over the cloud formation at the slowest possible speed.
"There is an interesting thing I did in the past: only when two men and two women who are destined to be married look at the mirror together will it come out, otherwise the mirror will always be blank.
After she became a god, the first thing she made was a concentric mirror, and she used the golden sand from the Tianhe River that she took from Taihe. I remember when it was finished, she held the mirror around to look for someone to take care of it, but where the god world is like the mortal world, so rich and cold and vast, the gods and goddesses are usually busy with their own duties, the temperament is also strange, she ran for half a day and didn't find anyone, so she couldn't help but end up dazed by the mirror, thinking about whether or not to go down to the human world to take care of it.
Taihe suddenly appeared behind her, looking at the mirror in her hand and wondering: "Huh? You made a bronze mirror?"
When she saw him, she remembered her evil deed of taking the golden sand from the Heavenly River and ran away, hiding behind a pillar and glaring at him.
Tai He picked up the concentric mirror she didn't have time to take with her and looked into it. He laughed and said, "Why can't you see?"
She stammered to explain: "That, that has to be a man and a woman getting married to be able to take a picture of it."
Tai-he is surprised, "You made this? Sounds interesting."
Tan Yin saw that he had a clean appearance and spoke gently, guessing that he would not be too worried about his evil deed of taking away the golden sand, so he could not help but lower his heart a little, reveal half of his body from behind the pillar, and said in a low voice, ''This ... also used the golden sand from the Heavenly River from the last time.
Tai He laughed, "Is that enough? I still have a lot."
Tan Yin was very happy: "Can you take it again?
He smiled and nodded, stroking the rough and dull surface of the bronze mirror, "What is the name of the mirror?"
" Heart Mirror."
"Good name." Tai He praised the mirror and slowly walked over to her.
Tan Yin tilted her head back and watched in awe as he walked over to her and held up the heart mirror - the surface of the mirror was so rough and dull that it didn't show anything.
"Oops, does it really work?" Tai He smiled bitterly and scratched his head.
Tan Yin said sharply, "Only a man and a woman who have a marriage bond can be reflected in the mirror."
"Okay." He handed her the concentric mirror and smiled slightly, "I am so sad that we are not destined to be married."
This is of course just a joke, but she was so stupid, but did not hear it, and quickly racked her brains to explain: "This, this ... may, may not be useful to the gods ...".
Tai He was slightly stunned, but then smiled again, smiling softly.
"I know who you are." He said, "You are the new Unmatched Goddess, the unrivaled artisan of the world."
Tan Yin nodded, "Then, then you are ..."
"I am Taihe, Lord God of Taihe, in charge of the stars of the Heavenly River."
As Tan Yin thought about these long and interesting past events, the smile at the corner of her lips could not help but deepen.
Yuan Zhong in front, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly turned the bird's head and said: "Heart mirror sounds very interesting, let's go and see.
Tan Yin quickly pulled him back: "This mirror usually can't illuminate people ...".
"It's just a glimpse."
"But there are war ghosts down there.
"Don't worry, I'm here."
The bird of paradise will be as fast as an arrow off the string, breaking through the clouds and fog, almost blink of an eye can be seen on the imperial tomb of the divine path of the row of red, white and white flowers and trees, the war ghosts of the generals of the cloud array can not be difficult to defeat this bird of prey, it circled, light and noble landed in the divine path, proudly looking forward to the road next to the stone people and stone horses.
Yuan Zhong grabbed a piece of wind tail and smelled it carefully, then smiled and said, "That war ghost is not here, let's go."
It was the first time for Tan Yin to come to the Bianlan Mountain mausoleum. She did not know much about the mausoleum, but she saw that it was full of fragrant red and white flowers and trees, and the green mountains in the distance, which made for a beautiful scenery, and it was very different from the dark and decadent atmosphere in her imagination, except for the southeastern corner where the yin and yang energy was overwhelming, which was where the powerful ghosts and demons gathered.
Yuan Zhong put his hands together and recited silently, soon there was a layer of light green color boundary enveloping the two of them, he tilted his body to sit diagonally on the back of the bird of paradise, so that he could look back at Tan Yin.
"Put a layer of boundary, the people here won't be able to find us." He saw that Tanyin was looking at him mesmerized.
When he saw Tanyin fascinated by the scenery of the royal tomb, he couldn't help but secretly reach out his hand and move it over to her little by little, carefully and gently holding a piece of the corner of her coat. She was sitting beside him, exhaling like an orchid, and her body carried a variety of scents, including the smell of wood, the smell of copper, and the scent of cool skin, all blended together, more intoxicating than the strong fragrance of the flowers here.
The beauty is beside me, the scenery is like a painting, dreaming? Wake up?
Suddenly, he realized that Xin Mae in the depths of the Imperial Tomb was not scary at all. Ji Tan Yin was here, and even the War Demon Generals became a little bit more lovable.
The bird walked very slowly and met many small demons on the way, including a young boy with wings, a beautiful lotus flower demoness, and an old man with a rat's tail sticking out from underneath his clothes to breathe, all talking, laughing, and chattering as they walked away.
There was also a green bamboo forest, in which there were white stone tables and chairs, and a pretty little girl was sitting on a chair eating a melon, and behind her stood a big man, and the two of them were talking about something, and the big man's face was green and white, as if he was about to faint from anger.
Yuan Zhong couldn't help shaking at the sight of the girl, and patted the bird's head, which made it move even faster.
"I can feel the heart mirrors." Tanyin turned her head to look south, where a line of long black-tiled houses was hidden from view, obscured by the shadows of the thick trees, so she assumed that must be where the owner lived.
With a slight flick of her finger, a thin golden light suddenly rose up in the sky, bringing with it a joyful and clear whistling sound, like a happy bird pouncing into her arms. When the shallow golden light dissipated, there was suddenly a piece of bronze mirror in her arms, which was covered with dust, obviously the current owner did not love it too much.
Tan Yin wiped the dust off the mirror with a handkerchief, and the dull surface of the mirror became clearer and clearer. The surface of the mirror was rough, as if it hadn't been polished, and in the dull color, there was a tiny, broken golden light, the gold sand from the Heavenly River that she had blended into the mirror years ago.
"Look." She held up the heart mirror with a smile, "This is it."
Yuan Zhong held the mirror and turned it over and over, and finally came to her side, and both of them looked at the surface of the mirror together, but there was no response at all from the rough and dull surface of the mirror. He tapped a finger on the mirror and wondered, "Does it work? You definitely didn't do a good job."
Tan Yin hastily defended, "Of course, it is good, I said only men and women who have a marriage bond can be photographed! Besides, my body is not my own now, what can you show me?"
"Then show me your real face and we'll take a picture." Yuan Zhong was very insistent.
Tanyin shook his head.
He rolled his eyes and laughed: "If you won't show your real face, you must have been so ugly that you couldn't be seen."
Tan Yin was speechless, she simply didn't know how to clear the name of the ugly girl she had held back for half a day. She was about to speak, but suddenly, as if she had sensed something, she turned sharply and looked southeast with a grave expression - that place full of Yin and death, there was a trace of an unusual fluctuation she sensed.
"What is it?" Yuan Zhong saw that she suddenly stopped speaking and looked solemn, so he couldn't help but wonder.
"... Go over there and take a look." With a flick of Tan Yin's finger, the Heart Mirror reluctantly turned into golden light and returned to the underside of the bed in the master's bedroom.
The Bird of Great Joy slowly flew toward the southeast, and soon stopped over a huge apricot blossom forest. This boundless apricot blossom forest was still in full bloom in this late summer and early fall weather, snow-white and moist in color, and from a distance it looked like an endless sea of snow, which, although beautiful, had an eerie ghostly aura.
"This is the Sacrificial Pit of the Imperial Tomb," Yuan Zhong said in a low voice, "Many emperors of the Qiong Kingdom have been buried in the Imperial Tomb, and countless people have died in the Sacrificial Pit, which is surrounded by dark clouds all day long.
Tan Yin didn't say anything, her eyes stared at the apricot blossom forest, she could see the entrance of the dark underground palace in the forest, and a familiar wave that made her uneasy was coming out from inside.
Suddenly, the dark opening of the dungeon seemed to distort for a moment, followed by an extremely large, translucent mist-like object slowly crawling out from inside, and her hands suddenly clenched - there was no mistake! It was a demon!
No one knew what it was better than she did. Low-grade demons became powerful by devouring souls, and although she hadn't personally participated in the fierce battle between the gods and demons in the past, she had seen some of them. This demon should be the lowest of the low, not even in human form, just a translucent mass of evil aura, attracted by the powerful ghosts in the burial pits of the Imperial Tombs to devour them.
Tan Yin's expression gradually became grave, when the war of the gods and demons, the world's demons should have been swept away, and the divine realm is also a heavy loss, the source of life of the gods and god one by one meteoric, turned into the spirit of the world, so after the war of the gods and demons, a lot of fairy and demon on the emergence of this, forming the present world of human, demon and fairy mixed and living in the situation.
At this moment, a living demon actually appeared in front of her, this news spread back to the God Realm, no less than a stone broke the sky, the God Realm, which has long been withered, can no longer withstand another God-Demon War.
Tanyin suddenly rolled over and jumped down from the back of the bird of paradise, Yuan Zhong was surprised, she suddenly let the bird of paradise fly to the sky above the apricot blossom forest, and then stared at the empty entrance of the dungeon, and then she jumped down, is it possible that she was possessed by evil spirits? He jumped down immediately after her and landed beside her, gently climbed on her slender shoulders and whispered, "What's wrong?"
Still silent, Tan Yin suddenly gripped his hand tightly, her hand cold and her palm covered in sweat. Shocked again, Yuan Zhong slowly opened his palm, protecting her hand tightly in his palm, and leaned forward a step, slightly blocking in front of her - although he had no idea what was going on, she was obviously disturbed at the moment, and he had to protect her.
The shapeless demonic creature had obviously devoured too many powerful spirits, and its body was too bulky to fly, so it slowly climbed out of the dungeon, as if taking a rest. As if it had sensed that two people were watching it from a short distance, it suddenly turned its body in a different direction and slowly crawled toward Tan Yin.
She was just an artisan providing support from the back, she had no combat power at all, and she didn't know how to deal with such an unformed demonic creature, she could only watch as it crawled to less than a meter in front of her.
Suddenly, as if it had gotten a good look at her, a strange low whine came out of its foggy body - a slightly familiar female voice, but it seemed to have changed so much that Tan Yin couldn't tell who it was for a moment, and then she saw it turn and run away as if it didn't dare face her.
Note: The story of Xin Mae and the War Ghost General Lu Qianqiao is described in detail in the book "A Good Match Made in Heaven".