Jiajing Spiritual Records

Chapter 121

Ning Huan stared at the bones leaning in the corner, dazed in a daze.He thought to himself, perhaps, the owner of this bone is indeed Zhao Wanniang, just as the bearded man said, what they saw just now was just an afterimage that stayed here, and I don't know how many years have passed.

"So you also know Zhao Wanniang?" The bearded man raised his eyes to look at Ning Huan, his face was covered with a layer of hazy gray, and under the dim firelight, his pupils shone with a turbid yellow light.

He was silent for a long time, let out a breath slowly, and walked slowly towards Ning Huan.A half-human, half-snake black shadow wandered on the ground, approaching with the faint flames.Ning Huan's heart tightened in vain, and from the corner of his eye he hurriedly glanced at Su Xian who had been silent all the time, his eyes flickered slightly, and he turned sideways and hid directly behind him.

"You...you know Zhao Wanniang?" Ning Huan poked out half of his head from behind Suxian, and asked with his lips tightly pressed.

The bearded man brushed Ning Huan's shoulder straight away, and stood still in front of the white bone behind him. His faint sigh came from the shadow of the backlight.The bearded man didn't turn his head, and a slightly hoarse voice came slowly from behind Ning Huan: "She is..." He paused for a moment, and finally let out a soft laugh, "It's an old friend, right?" .”

He stood up on his knees, and looked towards Su Xian Ninghuan's side. Under the dim light of the fire, his pupils had condensed into a long and thin vertical line.Ning Huan flinched, and took a step towards Su Xian's side.

"By the way, I haven't told you two my names yet. Yang Qiong, Mu Ziyang, and Wang Jingqiong." He spoke each word very slowly, his eyes swept over the faces of Ning Huan and Su Xian, observing with great interest Remember the expressions on their faces.

"You are..." Ning Huan's eyes suddenly widened, "Yang Qiong..." If Ning Huan remembers correctly, the two people talking outside Sheren Town just now, one is Zhao Wanniang, and the other seems to be Yang Qiong .

Yang Qiong.

Ning Huan recited these two words silently in his heart, he frowned slightly, he always felt that besides She Renzhen just now, he seemed to have heard this name somewhere else.But where?

Ning Huan raised his head and swallowed hard.He was still speculating that Zhao Wanniang was dead just now, but now one of the people in the conversation, Yang Qiong, was standing right in front of him... Ning Huan turned around stiffly, his complex eyes fell on Zhao Wanniang's bones behind him, could it be that his previous guesses were all wrong? it is wrong?

Yang Qiong is still alive...then how many years has he stayed in Sheren Town?Or had he left here before?That half-human, half-snake black shadow reflected on the ground, how did he become what he is now?Ning Huan's head was almost muddled by the inexhaustible thoughts...

"Yang Qiong." Su Xian stared at him intently with his dark eyes, compared to Ning Huan, the shock on his face was much less.His tone was cool, and his slightly wet eyes fell on Yang Qiong, and the moisture in the dark room surged with each breath. "Oh." He sneered with downcast eyes, "I didn't expect you to be alive."

Ning Huan looked at Su Xian in surprise, and whispered in his ear: "You...you know him?" Frost.The moment Ning Huan got close to God, his expression softened a little, "Yes." He responded very lightly and quickly.

Seeing that Su Xian had no intention of continuing, Ning Huan frowned, turned his eyes to look at Yang Qiong with a confused expression.His cautious eyes happened to fall into Yang Qiong's eyes. Yang Qiong raised her eyebrows, and suddenly smiled at Ning Huan. His cold teeth were shining white under the firelight, contrasting with the half-human, half-snake Ning Huan shivered in fright.Su Xian frowned, he moved imperceptibly, and firmly blocked Ning Huan behind him.

At this time, I heard Yang Qiong chuckle: "I really didn't expect that the yellow-haired boy who was a big bean had reached the age of marrying a wife. It is said that your father invited me to drink your full moon wine."

He shook his head while talking, and walked around Su Xian and Ning Huan.With his back against the cold rock wall, he slowly sat down next to the white bone, "It's been 14 years outside, and he is really old." He raised his head and looked at the side with playful eyes. Embarrassed, Ning Huan half-jokingly said: "Just now, Zhu Jiuyin's surveillance outside failed to tell. It's a pity that I couldn't see the reaction of that old boy Su Jinxin, and I didn't know that his son married a male wife and went home. What on earth is he thinking? It's a pity—" As he spoke, he shook his head self-consciously.

Ning Huan blinked his black and white eyes, and poked out half of his face from behind Su Xian, "I...I'm not his wife." He glanced at Su Xian guiltily, and retorted in a low voice.

Yang Qiong raised her eyebrows, and swept across Ning Huan's face as if watching a play.In the end, it landed on Su Xian's cold, stinky face, and he said in a serious manner, "It didn't work? It hasn't caught up yet! Is this what it's worth?"

"You don't understand, she is my wife!"

Ning Huan stiffened his neck and bared his teeth.Who didn't catch up!unlucky!

"Ning-Huan--" Su Xian squinted at Ning Huan, who jumped in front of him, with drooping eyes, and the corners of his mouth tightened as he couldn't bear to read out those two words, "Get out of here."

"Yo—it's broken, it's broken." Yang Qiong leaned against the stone wall, looked at the two and laughed, "Now I want to know what Su Jinxin thinks, that his son is going to be a man's wife gone."

As he said that, he sighed twice, and babbled, "It is said that parents should not die too early. Could it be that your father didn't leave you enough betrothal gifts for others? Hey——if you Next time, Dad will scold you in a dream, listen to me, don't be cowardly, it's all that old boy's fault."

Ning Huan was taken aback, Su Xian's parents are dead?

Ning Huan frowned tightly, his brows were full of confusion.Didn't they get lost here to go to Suxian's hometown?But between Yang Qiong's words, why does Suxian's parents seem to have been dead for many years?

Ning Huan looked back at Su Xian in bewilderment, his eyelashes covered Su Xian's dark eyes, his face was calm, as if he was not surprised by the bearded man's words, let alone angry.Seeing Ning Huan looking over, he patted his shoulder reassuringly.

There was an undercurrent in Ning Huan's eyes, he pursed his lips and said nothing.Memories are like chaotic dreams, which cannot be connected intermittently into a complete narrative, some of which lose details and some lose reality.But even though Ning Huan had doubted it thousands of times, is the words of the person in front of him true or false?Why did they come to this Sheren Town?

"What? Could it be that the two of you haven't remembered what happened before?" Yang Qiong smiled, looked at the two and said.Seeing the confused look on Ning Huan's face, he sighed slightly, waved his hands and said, "Forget it, I don't have much time left, are you two interested in hearing my story?" Yang Qiong glanced at Glancing at Su Xian and Ning Huan, without waiting for their reply, he continued on his own, "This happened about 14 years ago, around the fourth year of Jiajing, hundreds of corpses of giant dragons were excavated seven li outside the city."

"At that time, King Ning raised his troops in Nanchang. He led his boat division down the river, conquered Jiujiang, broke through Nankang, and left Jiangxi. The handsome boat division went down the river to attack Anqing and wanted to take Nanjing. At that time, someone released the news that that Hidden in the keel pit is Daming's dragon vein, if it is dug out, Daming will change hands."

"Since then, I have not dared to relax, filled the dragon pit, built temples, and after the rebellion subsided, I sent Lianshi Jinxin to continue investigating the matter secretly. All the clues pointed to one place, Sheren Town. And that place, about Seven years ago, a group of people went in, and there has been no news since then. And just when everything was at an impasse, the specific location of Sheren Town was reported on the rivers and lakes."

"Regardless of whether the statement is true or not, if Sherenzhen is really related to the Daming Dragon Vein, then this rumor will have to be eliminated. On the same day, Su Jinxin came to me and said that he had finally found hundreds of giant monsters seven miles away from the city's outskirts. The truth about the tiankeng of the dragon corpse. I also asked me to forge a keel stele similar to the keel tomb of the year as a substitute, imitating the immortal teachings, and compiling a false location, so that people in the rivers and lakes would dispel the idea of ​​​​Sheren Town. After being entrusted by him, So I started to imitate this stele that can be faked."

"But the inscription has not yet been found. One month later, Su Jinxin found me again, and asked me to immediately stop all the work on Sheren Town and the keel. 'That Sheren Town has already followed me.' Su Jinxin Tell me. Speaking of him and his wife who haven’t gone out for a long time. It’s been several days since I saw me, but Su Jinxin is still wearing a winter long-sleeved thick jacket. I was surprised for a long time. He immediately opened He took off his long sleeves, and a snake totem with its head and tail intersecting appeared on his arm."

"'This is the totem about Sheren Town in ancient books' Su Jinxin said at the time. At first he didn't take it seriously, but as the investigation of Sheren Town deepened, the exact same totem also appeared in the on his wife who participated in the investigation of She Renzhen. 'Yang Qiong, this place is not easy, I can't harm you.'”

"However, for this matter, many travelers on the rivers and lakes have already set their sights on Sheren Town. In order to prevent them from finding the keel that controls Daming's luck, Su Jinxin had to enter Sheren Town before to find the keel. The truth. Just when he went to Tiankeng for the last time, he found that hundreds of corpses in the Dragon Bone Pit disappeared overnight." As he spoke, Yang Qiong looked at Su Xian, with a complex look in his eyes.

Su Xian lowered his eyes, his slender and curled eyelashes covered most of the color in his eyes, under the firelight, the expression on his face seemed a bit obscure.

"Then why did you come?" His eyes flickered slightly, he looked at Yang Qiong fixedly, and asked in a deep voice.

Yang Qiong smiled: "Why—" He let out a breath of foul air slowly, "Of course it was because curiosity killed the cat. Even though Su Jinxin was so alert to me, I couldn't help but went to investigate this matter back then. But it’s not so much curiosity as it is my own selfishness.”

"But then, the totem of the snake biting its tail also appeared on my body." He was silent for a long time, and smiled wryly, "The circumstances of coming here are probably the same as yours, except for Su Jinxin and his wife and Zhao Wanniang, There are also four wanderers among them. But those people are not good characters, so Su Jinxin and I did not know each other along the way. In order to conceal my identity, I became a guide and mixed in."

A group of eight people.A trace of suspicion flashed across Ning Huan's eyes, and it fell on the handbook on the ground, but why did it say that there were indeed nine people?Was he lying or was the record wrong?

"So the owner of this corpse is really Zhao Wanniang?" Ning Huan asked.

Yang Qiong froze for a moment, nodded, and after a while, he turned his eyes to look at the bones beside him, and said slowly: "Zhao Wanniang is a descendant of the She tribe, back then the 'Zhao' branch betrayed Zhu Jiuyin Xiangliu, even if Fleeing from Bajiao Mountain, she is still cursed by Zhu Jiuyin from generation to generation. Snake transformation will become more and more obvious with age. She once told me that she saw her grandfather lying in bed for dozens of years , and was finally covered in black scales, struggling to die in pain."

"'Zhao' is a traitor and cannot enter reincarnation. After death, the undead will return to Sheren Town, and live forever to atone for the sins they committed." Yang Qiong had a trace of sadness in her eyes, and calmly told the story of Zhao Wanniang , "She also came to find the keel, so as to destroy the curse that Zhu Jiuyin left her family for generations."

"Then, she failed?" Ning Huan looked at Yang Qiong and asked cautiously.

"We all failed." Yang Qiong sighed.He raised his eyes, staring at the half-human, half-snake black figure behind him, slightly dazed, "Su Jinxin has been trapped in Zhu Jiuyin for 14 years, and now his situation is about to break."

"What game?" Su Xian raised his eyes suddenly and asked in a deep voice.

"Trapped Dragon Bureau." Yang Qiong sneered, "There is no so-called Great Ming Dragon Vein here, only an evil dragon waiting for an opportunity. Zhu Jiuyin was chopped into ninety-nine and 81 broken bones by Emperor Beiyin back then. The keel in the pit was revived that day, but Su Jinxin finally put it on one. Among the 81 14 keels, there is a fake bone that I intended to make a monument. We have trapped him for [-] years, and now he is trapped. It won't be long..." Yang Qiong paused for a while, then let out a long sigh.

"Then, where is the keel?"

Yang Qiong looked at the two of them, and smiled suddenly: "When I die, it means that the last keel was found by Zhu Jiuyin." The palms were clenched into fists.

"So as long as you're still alive, Zhu Jiuyin won't be able to live?" Ning Huan stared at Yang Qiong's half-human, half-snake back, and licked his dry lips, "You...you're still alive, right?"

"I am dead."

Yang Qiong looked at Ning Huan with a shocked face. After a long time, he smiled: "Boy, have you heard of Panling's puppetry?"

Ning Huan shook his head in a daze.

"Heal the disease and prevent disasters, live for the master, and die for the master." A flash of sorrow flashed across his brows, and he explained in a very slow tone.

"So the person in the black coffin in Sanbudi is not you at all?" Su Xianwu interrupted Yang Qiong, his black eyes fixed on him, and the dim light of the torch in his hand swayed for a while, which moved Yang Qiong. The black shadows on the stone wall shook together.

Yang Qiong raised her eyebrows, a look of astonishment flashed across her face.Even Ning Huan looked at Su Xian with confusion, what does Su Xian mean?

"Have you finally remembered?" Yang Qiong said with a smile.

Su Xian ignored Yang Qiong's words, and asked blankly, "When we came, was the person we met in front of the coffin shop you?"

Hearing this, Ning Huan was taken aback for a moment, but saw that Yang Qiong also had a stunned expression on his face. "Have you seen him?" Su Xian said nothing.After a long time, Yang Qiong smiled wryly: "Yes, it's not me."

Su Xian sneered, "Don't you want to say it? Then tell me, what is the purpose of your feigning death and coming here?" Su Xian's obsidian-like pupils flickered, and he lowered his eyes and asked casually, But the right hand covering the handle of the knife revealed a sense of threat.

Yang Qiong hesitated for a moment, frowning tightly.Immediately, he thought of something, and shook his head: "Sure enough, it is Su Jinxin's son, exactly the same as the one your father questioned me back then."

Su Xian didn't respond, his eyes swept over Yang Qiong's face indifferently, a trace of guard flashed across his face, and his fingers silently stroked the lines on the handle of the knife.

Yang Qiong sighed: "The person you met in front of the coffin shop, his name is Yang Xiao, he is my twin brother." His voice was extremely slow, and there was no joy or anger in his tone, like a quilt. The puppet stripped of its soul, told other people's stories expressionlessly, "He is also the first puppet I made after I became the head of the Yang family."

"Cure disease and prevent disaster, live for the master, and die for the master." Su Xian sneered, and repeated Yang Qiong's words just now, he slightly raised the corners of his lips, showing a sneer, "What a brother Brother Gong. So, you were able to leave Sheren Town because of your puppet elder brother?"

"Yes. Yang Xiao blocked my death for me." Yang Qiong replied calmly and directly.

"I said that back then I investigated She Renzhen because of selfish motives." A gleam of clear light flashed through his muddy pupils, he raised his head slightly, and his eyes seemed to be looking at the nothingness in the distance through the stone wall on the top of the rock. "Yang Xiao died, and since then I have been looking for a way to bring people back to life. In order not to dissipate his soul, I made him a puppet." Hearing this, Su Xian frowned. .

"Later I heard that there is a method in Sheren Town that can raise the bones of the dead."

Ning Huan was stunned.Su Xian's eyelashes trembled slightly following Yang Qiong's words.A self-deprecating sorrow crossed the corner of Yang Qiong's mouth: "I wanted him to live, so I brought him to Sheren Town. He wanted me to live, so he stayed in Sheren Town for me." He turned his eyes to look at Su Xian and Ning Huan, "Do you think this is ironic or not?"

Ning Huan was stunned, therefore, the eight people counted by Yang Qiong, nine were recorded in Zhao Wanniang's letter, and the extra one was "Yang Xiao" whom he made a puppet.

He thought of the face under the dim light, which seemed to have been burned by a fire, "The living and the dead are the same—" "Perhaps he just wanted to avoid Zhu Jiuyin's surveillance and remind us that She Renzhen was in danger." Ning Huan pursed his lips and muttered in a low voice.

Su Xian frowned slightly, looked at Yang Qiong and asked, "Since you went out, why did you come back?"

Yang Qiong sneered, "Why?" He opened his sleeve, and a totem of a snake biting its tail appeared on his arm, and the black lines were particularly glaring on his blue and white arm. "This thing has been there all these years, even if I have been hiding in three different places, I can still feel that it is looking for me." Yang Qiong twitched the corners of her mouth and gave a wry smile.

"The corpse you found in the black coffin in Sanbudi is indeed my corpse. In the last few years after I left Sheren Town, the snake transformation on my body was already obvious." Yang Qiong said lightly, his eyes were quiet. Quietly looking at the half-human, half-snake black shadow behind him, he closed his eyes, "Even if you have changed your body, this thing seems to follow your soul, and you can't escape or peel it off." go."

Changed... changed the physical body.

For a moment, Ning Huan even thought that he had heard it wrong, and he looked at Yang Qiong in great surprise.

Yang Qiong laughed, he sighed, looked at Su Xian and Ning Huan and said: "I said, 'I died, it means that the last keel was found by Zhu Jiuyin.'" He A trace of cruelty flashed in his eyes, and he said with a sneer, "Everyone's life is at She Renzhen. Since I can't escape, then I will come by myself."

"You..." There was a trace of shock in Su Xian's eyes, and Yang Qiong instantly understood what he hadn't said.

He laughed loudly, nodded and said, "I cast myself into a flesh puppet, using the keel that was hidden by Su Jinxin."

There was a trace of madness in his laughter, "It is said that the reason why Zhu Jiuyin did not die back then was because Lord Beiyin left him with a broken keel, so his soul still had a peaceful place, and he could not die. His soul flew away. He wanted to use the bones of the Dragon Pit to recast his body and change the dead end into a living one. Then I followed his wish and fulfilled the last broken bone that was missing."

"I heard that Zhujiu's cathode is afraid of fire. I put a kindling in this fleshy puppet, but I don't know if the flame of Zhurong can burn that Zhulong to death." Yang Qiong sneered, "The situation of life has changed to the situation of death..."

"Zhu Ronghuo, are you crazy?"

In Su Xian's trembling expression, "Crazy?" Yang Qiong shook his head, "Someone has to settle it." He half-closed his eyes, looked sadly at Zhao Wanniang's body beside him, and smiled calmly for a while , "I owe them too much. Now that I am left alone, I naturally have to complete this difficult situation."

"Boy, I don't have much time left."