Xianlu

Chapter 164 Fireworks Mirage
Xu Dao looked at Su Jiu, and found that Su Jiu was quite attractive, and was startled for a moment.

With a dumbfounded smile, he also put on his own dragon mask, and exclaimed: "Like, like it!"

Xu Dao stretched out his hand and pinched the fox ears on the top of the opponent's head, and said, "Especially these two ears, the stall owner's craftsmanship is really exquisite."

The mask seller at the side received Xu Dao's silver taels, and was overjoyed. He thought Xu Dao was praising his mask, and hurriedly said, "Of course, it's an old hand!"

Xu Dao shook his head with a smile, rubbed Su Jiu's head again, and said: "Let's go, if you don't leave, there will be more people, and maybe there won't even be a seat."

After finishing speaking, he put his hands behind his back and walked happily among the crowd with a relaxed posture.

Su Jiu replied: "Yes." She helped the mask on her face, trotted to catch up with Xu Dao, and clung to Xu Dao's side as a little tail.

Both of them were wearing masks, and they were mixed in the lively crowd with different costumes, like two small fish in a school of fish, unremarkable.

After walking for about half an hour, Xu Dao and Su Jiu approached the Wuxia River.When they were a thousand steps away from the river, the two stopped and did not move forward.

Because further inwards, only Shezhao clansmen or those who practice Taoism can enter.

The Taoist boy with the Shezhao brought his armor to guard at the boundary, and the guard was not serious. As long as the Taoist showed his cultivation, he could go to the river and sit on the seat prepared early.

Even if you are not a cultivator, a respectable mortal in the mountain city can walk in if you say a few good words to the Taoist boy of Shezhao.

Although Xu Dao and Su Jiu could easily enter, the reason why he came here on foot tonight was to mix with the crowd of mortals, to cover up his figure, and to stand on the sidelines.

Fortunately, there are tables and chairs a thousand steps away from the river, and some people even temporarily built a high platform for ordinary people who have spare money but are not qualified to be close to it.

All of this reveals that Shezhao people are very fond of the annual sacrificial meeting, and even businessmen have experience and want to make a fortune.

Xu Dao led Su Jiu. He reached his head among the crowd, and finally found a high platform with vacant seats in a slightly remote corner. He paid a high price, and he rented a small table on the second floor, which could barely seat two people.

After they settled down, Xu Dao raised his eyes to look around again, and found that there were already crowds of people behind him, and people walked all the way out of the city without even touching the ground with their toes.

If it weren't for the arrangement of the Shezhao, the outside of the city was divided into blocks, and they were divided with iron chains and cables. Every few steps, there would be blazing pillars of fire illuminating the scene brightly.

Otherwise, the scene would have been chaotic, and I don't know how many people would be trampled to death.

Su Jiu also turned her head to look at it, and muttered, "There are a lot of people."

Xu Dao nodded and replied: "There are indeed a lot of people, let alone 7, there are at least [-]."

So many people gathered together, not to mention Su Jiu, even Xu Dao, he had never seen it with his own eyes before.

Casually looking up, there are crowds of people's heads all around. If the two of them hadn't climbed onto the high platform, they might have been crowded with people below.

On the high platform, there are high-ranking merchants who came from other places, and there are also local rich people from Shezhao. The former looks more surprised than Su Jiu, while the latter is proudly pointing at the riverside:

"When the sacrifice begins, there will be fireworks first. The fireworks are so wonderful that they can form various shapes in midair. Half of the reason why half of the people in the city have left the city is to watch the fireworks."

Xu Dao became interested when he heard the people beside him talking, and immediately asked: "Then most of the reasons?"

Hearing this, the other party burst out laughing and said, "Of course it's because this year is different. This year is the 60th year of the Great Sacrifice, and all the immortal masters on the mountain will appear. Maybe there will be a gift from the immortal."

Someone's eyes lit up, and he said eagerly, "Xianyuan? It's true, it's true."

Immediately afterwards, peanuts, melon seeds, cakes, tea, etc. were brought up on the high platform, and there was a sound of peeling and pecking and chatting everywhere, and it was so lively that it was a bit noisy.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Xu Dao didn't feel bored in the slightest. Instead, he felt a little reassured. He thought to himself:

"There are so many mortals around, let's see how they look, they are at ease and relaxed, the sacrifice should be fine..."

However, Xu Dao thought that mortals are mortals after all, and even if there were major events, they would not be able to know them, so to be cautious, he made a few charms and handed them to Su Jiu beside him.

Su Jiu took the things and asked aloud, "This is?"

"These are a few body protection spells, which have the effect of stabilizing the mind and preventing evil spirits. You use one of them first, and prepare the others."

Xu Dao explained aloud, and at the same time concentrated on himself, running the body protection spell and the heart cleansing spell.

And the little fox girl Su Jiu heard his order, and didn't ask too much. She picked up a spell in her hand, put it in her sleeve and used it quietly.

After using the spell, the brain will flash, and it will stand out from the crowd, just like standing out from the crowd.

In order to be on guard, Xu Dao naturally made preparations early on.The moment Su Jiu used the talisman, he grabbed the opponent's arm, and used the breath-suppressing jade hook without hesitation in mana, enveloping both of them.

The little fox girl was held by his arm, she was stunned for a moment, she even forgot to shake out the ashes of the spell in her sleeve, she heard Xu Dao say again: "Look, it looks like it's about to start."

"Huh?" Hearing this, Su Jiu quickly raised her head, and also looked in the direction of Wuxia River, but her eyeballs were rolling, she didn't know what she was thinking.

There was no sound of gongs, drums, or shouts. Xu Dao just saw groups of Shezhao people in different costumes moving by the river. They waved the flags in their hands, as if they were passing orders or making sacrifices to the gods. Actions.

boom!
Just as the throng of people watching the ceremony was muffled, a sudden thunder exploded, splitting a white light between the sky and the earth, completely suppressing the voices of all the people in a radius of ten miles.

Pairs of eyes lifted up on the ground, and there were bright lights in the eyes, as if the stars were lit.

The white light expanded and shone on the faces of tens of thousands of people, who were either bewildered, stunned, surprised, happy, or terrified...the list goes on and on.

Xu Dao and Su Jiu also looked up at the big pure white fireworks that appeared in the sky.

Immediately afterwards there was another rustling sound, red, green, bright yellow, and cyan fireworks rising from the ground and the river, exploding in mid-air, also making a shocking sound, but it was not as loud as the first one just now. It's so scary.

Five or six breaths passed, and there were crowds of people by the Wuxia River, but their expressions stopped, chatting and screaming stopped, and everyone quietly looked up at the house-sized fireworks in the sky.

There are dish shapes, bottle shapes, and various shapes such as chariots and horses, fish and insects, plants and flowers, which are gathered or scattered, and are full of brilliance.

Xu Dao withdrew his gaze. He glanced at the people watching the ceremony around him, and found that everyone was holding teacups, peanut kernels, and melon seed shells in their hands, and forgot to put them down.

"Master..." Su Jiu was grabbed by Xu Dao's left hand, and his right hand also grabbed Xu Dao's arm, shaking his sleeve, and said pleasantly, "The sky is so bright and colorful!"

Seeing her, Xu Dao also became dazed, with a slight smile on his face, and let her hold one of his hands. Xu Dao then adjusted his sitting posture, picked up a few melon seeds from the side, put them between his teeth, and prepared to Watch the ceremony leisurely.

According to the information collected, the sacrificial meeting lasted quite a long time, with fireworks at the opening, followed by Nuo dances to exorcise epidemics and ghosts, as well as river dragon boats, building boats, and immortal masters to pray for blessings...

Right now it is just the beginning, tonight is still long, he can just enjoy this rare feast, feel the fireworks in the world, and soothe his spirit.

But as soon as Xu Dao relaxed, his eyelids jumped up, and he sat up straight again in an instant, looking up at the place where the fireworks exploded.

I saw a puff of white smoke on the zenith, but the smoke did not disperse, but stayed in the midair, condensing into a cloud of smoke, with shapes appearing in it, faintly showing the belongings of palaces and walls.

A thought popped into Xu Dao's heart: "A mirage?"

The rest of the people around also saw the vision that appeared in mid-air. Every time a firework rose, the shape formed by the cloud and smoke became clearer, and under the light of the firework burst, it entered everyone's eyes, without distinction .

Not long after, there were people on the high platform supporting the old and the young, and the whole family came here to watch the ceremony. Among them, a child with sharp eyes shouted suddenly:

"Look, Dad! There are gods in the sky."

A majestic palace appeared in the cloud of smoke and on the Wuxia River. Its own light was born, and it changed from dim to bright, and the golden light was brilliant, even worse than the light emitted by the fireworks just now.

The smoke also came out one after another, spreading to the bottom at a speed that the naked eye could not reach, hanging down, covering nearly ten miles in all directions.

And in the palace, gods and men appeared, all of them were tall and tall, the size of pilasters several feet in number, there were seven in number, they were standing on the cloud of smoke, looking down.

Xu Dao stared blankly at this scene, he swallowed suddenly and opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.

I saw the mirage in the sky, very much like the Iron Palace and Dragon Palace that Xu Dao had seen at the bottom of the lake, except that there are all pavilions, terraces and pavilions.

As for the seven gods and men on duty in this heavenly palace, although their figures are blurred, one of them has a hairy face and a fox head, entrenched, shaking his head and shaking his head, very powerful.

Xu Dao was a little familiar with the figure of this "man of gods". After careful identification, he found that the figure of the other party was very similar to the master of the alchemy courtyard in the Temple of White Bones - Taoist Linghu.The remaining six are human heads and animal heads, which are different for him, which makes him a little strange.

Seeing an acquaintance in the "Heavenly Palace", Xu Dao was instantly terrified. He suppressed his emotions and quickly closed his eyes to clear his mind to keep the Lingtai quiet.

Soon, he felt a faint breath entangled around him, and he had already inhaled it into his body inadvertently.

Fortunately, Xu Dao had prepared body protection spells and heart cleansing spells early in the morning, and his physical body was also tyrannical. During the circulation of Qi and blood, he spit out all the strange breath in his lungs into his body.

After resting for a while, Xu Dao slowly opened his eyes, and the voice of the yellow-haired child was still ringing in his ears: "There are gods in the sky!"

The mortals around also reacted and shouted frantically: "The fairy master has come out!"

"Fairy, it's a fairy!"

And Xu Dao raised his eyes to look at the top of the sky, lowered his eyes and said in his heart: "No, the ones in the sky are not gods, but demons."

He looked up again, and found that the surrounding area was foggy, and with the city wall behind him as the edge, there seemed to be a big upside-down bowl in the sky, and all the sixty-seven thousand people, cattle, horses, carriages and dogs within ten miles were contained in the bowl.

The mirage in mid-air is still there, but the light is dim, and the smoke cloud it sits on is gray and dark cloud-like, and the buildings in it are also dilapidated and dilapidated, exactly the same as the old iron palace that Xu Dao has seen at the bottom of the lake.

The seven "God Men" were standing or sitting in the dark clouds. Although their appearances were vague, they all lowered their heads and scanned the ground with indifferent eyes, harboring malicious intentions.

Among them, the "god man" with a hairy face and a fox head is undoubtedly the Taoist Linghu in the Temple of Bones.

Xu Dao looked around at the unknown people, especially the cultivator who was closer to the river but was worshiping the seven figures in the sky.

Helpless in his heart, he secretly sighed that he was obviously too cautious, only daring to mingle among mortals, and he didn't even dare to approach the river, but he didn't expect that the sacrifice would be completely different from the previous years. Ghostly, nothing good will happen.

Xu Dao stared at the people around him who didn't know about it, and he comforted himself in his heart: "There are so many people here right now, [-] to [-] mortals, more than a thousand casual cultivators, but only seven Taoist priests, it should be too much to eat. Can't finish it..."

But thinking of this, Xu Dao's heart suddenly sank.

Seven Taoist priests can't eat so much, but there is one thing that can eat so much!
He glanced again and again at the phantom of the Dragon Palace in midair.

In the ruined palace, there is a larger scaled thing hidden in it. In comparison, it seems that the seven Taoist priests are only the size of cats and dogs.Fortunately, the scaled thing was motionless, and there was still no movement.

Xu Dao tensed his mind, and suddenly let out a deep breath in his heart.

Although if he had known this earlier, he probably wouldn't have come to meddle in this excitement, but since it's all here, he might as well continue to meddle boldly.

And some of his precautions were not completely useless. If he hadn't been operating the body protection spell early in the morning, he wouldn't have been able to escape from the influence of the strange mist immediately.

And if he hadn't stayed among mortals and was far enough away from the river, he might have fallen into the consciousness of the Taoists. Even if he didn't expose him on the spot, it would be difficult for him to run or do anything later.

Suppressing the panic in his heart, Xu Dao looked directly at the looming scaly thing in the mirage.

"If I can get the flesh and blood of Jiaolong, wouldn't it just happen to be used for my martial arts foundation building!" He coveted in his heart.

It's just that Xu Daolian doesn't know exactly what Shezhao is going to do right now, he has to suppress the bold idea in his heart and think about safety first.

Withdrawing his mind, Xu Dao looked at Su Jiu beside him, and found that although the other party's eyes were in a trance, there was no dull look, obviously the confusion was not deep.

Looking at the thin mist around him, he thought to himself: "A mirage...could blind so many people at once, is it a mirage?"

(End of this chapter)