My Taoist companion just wants to welcome and refuse

Banquet night.

Xia Qi followed Chang Yao to lead the disciples around the circuitous corridor covered by flowers and moons, and at the end of the corridor, they met Qing Yan who was about to have a banquet.

The sparkling light of the lake spread peacefully on the hem of his clothes, melting into flowing broken silver.

Qing Yan took over the lamp from the disciple who led the way, dismissed the other party, and waited for him to move forward together.

Xia Qiyao smiled at him, hurried up and walked side by side with him, and then looked curiously at the white walls and blue tiles with glazed lamps hanging all around: "The wind in Lingzhou is too soft, and the food is so good, I'm about to fall into this exhaustion." The gentleness of the will. Speaking of it... are the buildings in Lingzhou so strange?"

Qing Yan glanced sideways at his slender figure, and the light from the glazed lamp fell on his eyes lightly, turning them soft and mottled: "What's so strange?"

"For example, this courtyard," Xia Qi pointed around, then rubbed his chin, "Look, it's square and neat. It would be nice to pave a straight path from the garden gate to the house door. Why make the path curved? The furthest distance around?"

It is troublesome and time-consuming to walk through it.

Qing Yan was silent for a moment, and gave up discussing with him the beauty of the garden, which is a painting in every direction and every time, and directly chose a way he could understand to explain: "The landscaping is a reason, and there are magic circles and Qimen Dunjia buried in it." .”

Xia Qi was taken aback for a moment, recalling Xiaoshan's own small dilapidated courtyard, he couldn't help but feel that the martial art is exquisite.

The two walked and chatted, and arrived at Feiyun Pavilion after a while.

Feiyun Pavilion is surrounded by a clear water, surrounded by luxuriant flowers and trees, graceful and drooping gauze, slow and light silk bamboo, and lotus lanterns floating leisurely on the water surface, which complement each other with the lights in the water pavilion. Between the water and the sky and the galaxy.

Xia Qi looked around, and his preference for Changyao architecture suddenly became in his heart. He roughly summed up its characteristics - open air, flowers, gauze curtains, water and lights, as long as any combination of any few landscapes can be strangely beautiful.

When I turned around, I also ordered my small courtyard.

The person who came to invite Xia Qi to take his seat was Chang Yao's disciple who often dealt with him. Seeing that Qing Yan had also come together, he was taken aback for a moment and hurriedly saluted.

Stepping into Feiyun Pavilion, Xia Qi stepped on the thick and soft blanket and raised his eyes to look around, he couldn't help but pause under his feet.

The disciples waited for him to follow up and chatted with him familiarly: "In this extraordinary period, everything is kept simple, and only the scale of the family banquet is used, which is not as good as the Tianhai Banquet. But the atmosphere is more lively and loose."

With an indifferent look on his face, he took another look at the golden and jade-covered body. The room was filled with warmth and fragrance, which made people feel comfortable and relaxed. As far as the eyes could see, the delicate and luxurious textures streamed lightly under the gentle glazed light.

He silently redefines the four words "everything is kept simple".

It was said to be a relaxing banquet, but in fact all the leaders of various sects came together, Cang Liqing Banquet, Chang Ruo Wen Yuxie and Fu Leshan, Shifang Pavilion Liu Shi, and him.

It seems that sitting here represents Xiaoshan.

Liu Shi kept talking to the disciples of Shifang Pavilion beside him, maybe because Liang Zijie was deeply connected in Luoyuji, now he didn't even glance at him from the corner of his eyes, as if he didn't exist.

He couldn't help feeling a little regretful.

After everyone sat down casually, Wen Yuxie also hurried over, walking with a murderous aura that had not yet dissipated, and the sheathed knife still had a sharp aura, as if it had just escaped from a fight.

After a few steps from the door to the main seat, the excess aura has been removed.She directly poured the wine into the bowl, raised her head and drank it as if to quench her thirst, brushed the remaining wine on her lips with her thumb hastily, and finally recovered.

Fu Leshan watched her act like a golden knife, almost pulled off his beard, his eyes twitched, and he shook his head secretly, unable to look directly at her.

Now that everyone has arrived, he calmed down a little and showed a serious face. After toasting everyone a glass of wine, he went straight to the theme of the banquet.

"Yesterday, when I came back from Luoyuji, I had already replaced the group of disciples who came back from Yunxia Town. After careful inspection, they were all controlled by the Heart Demon Realm. Now it seems that this Heart Demon Realm can escape the Jindu Grand Formation, maybe It is related to the soul-locking bell. However, once the soul-locking bell fails, it will be disconnected from the main formation, and there is no trace to be found."

Xia Qi was taken aback for a moment, he didn't expect it to start so soon, isn't there a meal session?

While listening, he casually glanced at the plate of fruit in front of him, thinking in a distracted way, it's just grapes, isn't it too exaggerated to put them on a plate inlaid with emerald gold?

He couldn't help but grabbed one and put it in his mouth, squinting his eyes slightly - this taste... is indeed worthy of a luxurious plate.

It tastes even better than the one I planted in Cangcheng...

He was continuing to study the remaining dishes when he heard the sound of Qingyan.

"The soul-locking bell can absorb the memory of a dead soul, and the main array linked to it can put this memory into a certain area and become an illusion. Anything in the illusion can follow the master's rules, such as the dead soul in Yunxia Town. After Yunxia Town, such phantoms were detected, proving that the main formation is still in operation."

Wen Yuxie was the second person to eat honestly in the banquet hall. She had her head full of travel and dust, and she had to rush to the next place to investigate after this time, so she carried out the discussion with dinner.

"It's not a solution to always spend time investigating illusions. If the main formation is not destroyed, doing other things is not a draw from the bottom of the pan. In the Luoyuji incident, the aura that was taken away from the disciples was used to activate the soul-locking bell. In the same way, to activate the main For the eyes of the formation, a large amount of spiritual energy is required to supply it, so it is impossible..." She stopped her chopsticks and frowned slightly, "Will the main formation fall directly on the place where the spiritual energy is abundant?"

Xia Qi chewed on the grapes, thinking that such an arrangement would indeed be the most trouble-free.He pondered over the explanation of Qing Yan's point, and suddenly realized something.

All places in Lingzhou that are full of aura will not be controlled by mortals, and naturally they are all under the control of Changyao.

As far as he knows, in a rough count, all kinds of spiritual stone veins, production places of magic weapon materials, and natural secret places of all sizes, which one does not belong to Chang Yao's wealth?

If other sects talk too much, they will be suspected of having evil intentions.

Fu Leshan spoke at the right time: "I found out that the group of abnormal disciples went to the altar of Qiushui Lake, so I became vigilant and began to investigate the remaining spiritual mine veins. Some of the mines had traces of demonic energy infestation, and they were again attacked by Jindu Dazheng. It was purified very quickly, and there is no abnormality for the time being. Since there is such a guess, it will be strictly guarded in the future. But the heart demon and illusion are hard to guard against, and if a disciple gets the Tao, it is equivalent to opening the door."

The incident of Luoyuji left a deep impression on the people present. It was clear that the monsters who came could deal with it, but they were afraid that they would be stabbed in the back by the controlled fellows without warning.

After a while of silence for each of them thinking, Qing Yan spoke first.

When he thinks, his brows are always slightly lowered, his eyelids are lowered, he looks indifferent and rusty, and he has a bit of aura of deep awe.

"The soul-locking bell can cast illusions, and the illusions are not empty. Landscapes, flowers and plants can be touched, and dead souls can also attack others. Perhaps the role of the main array is similar to it." He pondered for a while under the gaze of everyone, He also said, "The magic energy in the heart demon illusion will not be warned by the big formation in Jindu, which means that the magic energy has not passed through the boundary of the big formation. If the main formation can project the magic energy anywhere in Jindu like an illusion, it will be able to Let the heart demons and illusions appear out of thin air."

As soon as these words came out, everyone was stunned.

It actually matched up with the second guess about the illusory realm of the heart demon before - it was caused by a special magic weapon.

Liu Shi couldn't help but open his mouth when he heard this: "But the devilish energy cannot exist alone, and the demon beasts are also blocked from the formation. Where does this continuous devilish energy come from?"

"I have a guess."

Hearing this, Xia Qi remembered the things he had pondered recently, and no matter who he answered, "You all know the heart of a demon, it is not the heart of a demonic beast, but a large number of demonic beasts gathered and refined to become a It is neither life nor death. Once it is formed, it can breathe the surrounding spiritual energy and release the devil energy, just like a contracted heart. If Bai... Qing Xianzun's statement is true, what is in the eyes of the main formation may be the devil heart."

He bit the word "Qing Xian Zun" meaningfully, and glanced at Qing Yan inadvertently, and the other party raised his eyebrows slightly.

A large number of demonic beasts that confuse the mind appeared in Lingzhou, and the answer was found in this cause and effect.

As soon as this deduction came out, all the clues were connected.It is also equivalent to clarifying the cause of the psychic illusion, Wen Yuxie had already put down his chopsticks, with a serious expression on his face.

"So, the people behind the scenes use the soul-locking bell to collect the aura of the monks, and then supply it to the eyes of the main formation to cast it into the illusion of the mind. But this magic weapon is really ugly, can it refine the aura of the monks and enslave the souls of the dead? I vaguely remember it for more than ten years Before... Chang Yao imprisoned an evil cultivator who used a child with innate spiritual roots to refine this kind of magic weapon, and later let him escape, but was never caught again... Now it seems that this magic weapon has been refined to such an extent Evil door."

Hearing this, Xia Qi lowered his eyes and smiled inexplicably, and said indifferently: "Children's pure spiritual roots are most suitable for refining magic tools, but they are rare. If magic tools can only be used to deal with children now, wouldn't it be in vain? What a waste of people who have sacrificed so many years."

His tone was indifferent, and it had nothing to do with him, as if he was talking about other people's business.

Hearing this, Qing Yan tightened her fingers in vain, and the fine cracks in the white jade wine glass meandered open.

He suddenly understood what Xia Qi meant by the enemy before. At that time, Xia Qi was too understated, as if it was just a casual vendetta when he was a demon hunter, and not the evil spirit that had tortured him for six years since he was a child.

Xia Qi has been thin since he was a child, probably because he was abused when he was supposed to grow his body frame. Later, he was rescued by his aunt, who forced him to be a boy with an ordinary physique, but he still looks smaller than his peers.

No wonder Xia Qi showed that expression the moment he touched the Soul Locking Bell.

A waiter approached Qing Yan and put a small plate of peeled grapes in front of him.The grapes are crystal clear, attractive and lovely, with a fresh and sweet taste.

Qing Yan raised his eyes and saw Xia Qi was wiping his hands on the silk cloth. He seemed to feel something. He raised his head and blinked at him, then looked around calmly. Seeing that others were immersed in the discussion just now, he bent his lips and smiled. It attracts attention and has a very reserved arc.

The urging look in her eyes couldn't be hidden.

The discussion of the business was coming to an end, and news was exchanged among various sects, finally straightening out the incidents that were caught off guard and frequent accidents recently.

Starting from the appearance of the mind-confusing monsters in Lingzhou, then the Luoyuji incident, and now, a vortex has formed.

Is the soul-locking bell now a coincidence, or has it been planned for many years...Is it just what the people behind the scenes want to make Lingzhou completely fall into evil?

No matter how much speculation there is, we still have to find the main eye as soon as possible, otherwise Lingzhou will be gradually dragged into the abyss by this vortex.

The division of labor was discussed among the sects. Chang Yao locked the main exploration site in the spirit mine veins, and the rest of the sects cooperated in the search for the soul-locking bell, cut off the spiritual energy supply and searched for the main formation together.

Xia Qi was always a little concerned about the motives of the people behind the scenes, he thought about it and finished eating the food on the table, and it was almost time for the banquet to end.

I had a good time tonight, so I stretched lazily.

But... why did she suddenly stop talking after the Qing banquet?