Day and night tour

Chapter 104 The Disappearing Diary

The Green Mist Mountain is filled with miasma, and there is an open area on the mountainside.

There are large-scale sacrifices of the ancient tribe here all year round. The blood spilled during the sacrifices soaks the surface of the soil into purple and red.

The ancient tattoo artists would use tough beef tendons to tie together ground bones of varying lengths into a skeleton that looked like a meditating person.

A tiny stone was placed in the abdomen of the human skeleton, and then the skeleton was wrapped with human skin.

This is the prelude to the blood sacrifice of the ancient tattoo tribe - the human skin temple.

The copper coin priest took out the bone needle that had been nurtured for many years, mixed blood, tree sap, and finely ground bone powder together as paint, and tattooed Zhou Xuan's face on the human skin in the form of a tattoo pattern.

The priest was very careful with every stitch, and sometimes he would rather stop for a while to avoid mistakes for fear of missing the needle.

When the last needle fell, the priest stood farther away and saw Zhou Xuan's face, which was exactly the same as the one he was staring at. Then he ordered the tribesmen: "The leather temple is built, and blood sacrifice is performed!"

The tribesmen seemed encouraged and brought up a sacrifice - an old blind man.

"Blind Peng, the Nuo God has appeared. The tribe has raised you since birth just for this moment."

"Can I touch the face of the Nuo god?" The blind man stretched out his hand impatiently and groped in the air.

"Bring him here."

The copper coin priest granted Blind Peng’s wish.

Blind Peng gently stroked Zhou Xuan's face on the human skin, and his hands touched every needle hole of the tattoo. The touch of the needle holes formed a concrete image in his mind.

"Okay! Okay! I can feel the face of Nuo God. You must bring him back. Bring him back."

After the blind man finished speaking, he withdrew his hands and raised his head high, ready for sacrifice. The tribesmen raised the knife for chopping off the bull's head and swung it down at his neck... Blood splattered on the leather temple and the tattoo.

The tattoo pattern was Zhou Xuan's face, which was splattered with blood and twitched a few times.

The copper coin priest held up the blind man's head and placed it respectfully behind the leather temple, just at the right angle for "Zhou Xuan" to gaze at it.

The priest chanted a spell, and the flesh and blood on the blind man's head disappeared piece by piece until it turned into a skull of white bones.
However, the color of the tattoo quietly changed. "Zhou Xuan" became more and more like a real face, standing out on the human skin temple, blinking, and his nostrils twitching with his breathing...

……

In the Zhou family, under the ancestral tree, Zhou Xuan felt his face itchy and scratched it gently.

He had been meditating for a long time. In the Divine Secret Realm, he sat cross-legged in the black water and meditated. The second incense stick was suspended above his shoulder.

“Hehe…hehe.”

“Haha…ha…hahaha.”

A woman's laughter appeared in Zhou Xuan's meditation.

The laughter was very sincere, like a woman who had encountered something happy and was laughing from the bottom of her heart, but it was also mixed with some eerie feelings. When I listened carefully, I just felt a little creepy.

After laughing a few times,

Zhou Xuan's meditation fell silent again. No matter how hard he tried, he could not sense any clues.

He opened his eyes and saw that it was almost dusk.

The courtyard of the Zhou family was not as lively as before. The number of people who came to chat after dinner was much less than in the past few days.

"Business is improving, so there are fewer people who are free."

Zhou Xuan sat up from the recliner and found a thin blanket covering his lower abdomen.

"Is the meditation over?"

Zhou Lingyi, who was standing by, asked. She was covered with the same thin blanket as Zhou Xuan.

"Sister, I sensed a laugh."

"It's a good thing to have a connection." Zhou Lingyi closed her eyes.

In Zhou Xuan's impression, his sister spent most of the day resting with her eyes closed.

"Where is Master?" Zhou Xuan didn't notice Yuan Buyu.

"Your master just recovered a little and went for a walk outside."

Speak of Master and he will appear.

Yuan Buyu had returned from his walk, and when he saw Zhou Xuan he shouted, "Xuan boy, you scared me the other day."

"Master."

"It's more like I call you Master." Yuan Buyu joked, and asked, "Are you still doing storytelling in the evening? I haven't listened to it for a while, and I miss it."

"speak!"

Zhou Xuan also has his own purpose in telling stories.

He wanted to try whether the storyteller's method of accumulating incense could be used for the second incense stick.
If it could be used, then collecting incense would become extremely easy for him.

"Don't have too many illusions."

Zhou Lingyi promptly poured cold water on Zhou Xuan and said, "If it were that simple, Da Nuo wouldn't be the most difficult hall to practice in."

"It's just a simple wish of mine." Zhou Xuan smiled.

……

The more "simple" the wish, the more difficult it is to achieve.

Today, the Zhou family's business is booming, and all the chefs are very busy. There are fewer people chatting in the courtyard.

despite this,

Anyone who had some spare time would come to listen to Zhou Xuan's lectures. They not only had a love for Zhou Xuan's lectures, but also had piety for the newly born Nuo God.
But that's it,
The second incense candle Zhou Xuan lit only had a brighter flame, but the incense did not burn down at all.

And when he was lecturing, Zhou Xuan also tried to use the method of dreaming.
He discovered a pattern.

In the second incense stick, he wanted to use the method of the first incense stick - the storyteller, and he needed to wear the mask of Bifang.

"If I wasn't wearing a mask, I should be able to use the second incense stick's method, but unfortunately I haven't even found the opportunity to use the second incense stick's method."

……

After finishing the storytelling and returning to the room, Xu Li and Yu Zhengyuan helped to make the bed. Both the couple were in high spirits.

"Sister-in-law, senior brother, I can do it myself."

Zhou Xuan took the quilt and wanted to make the bed himself.

Xu Li gently opened his hand and said with a smile: "Xuan Zi, you are back from the dead, this is a great blessing. You can't do anything on your own in the first three days, otherwise the blessing will dissipate."

"Listen to your sister-in-law. Some people are like this after a serious illness. They can't move themselves, so their family members help them. This is a sign that they will be very rich in the future, and there will be people to serve them whatever they eat and drink."

Yu Zhengyuan also advised.

Zhou Xuan didn't want to let Xu Li down, so he had to stand by and wait.

But the blessings from Xu Li and Yu Zhengyuan are not only sincere, but also popular.

After making the quilt, Xu Li did not let Zhou Xuan get into bed, and immediately brought in portraits of various Bodhisattvas and Taoist patriarchs.

"This is Medicine King Bodhisattva, I wish you good health."

"The great celestial master of Tianyan Taoist Temple will protect you from all kinds of ghosts."

"This is amazing. It's the portrait of your ancestor. I borrowed it from Master Yuan. I guarantee that your storytelling will get better and better."

"This one……"

Zhou Xuan's room is not big, and portraits and statues of gods take up most of it. Zhou Xuan finds it difficult to get up at night. He needs to be careful not to get hit by the statue of the god.

It would have been fine if he had invited a lot of "protectors", but Xu Li also scattered dried fruits on the bed.

Walnuts, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts...

“These dried fruits all have meaning.”

Xu Li introduced it.

"Walnuts, close together and be beautiful,

Longan, round and round,
Red dates, dates give birth to precious sons,
Melon seeds, a large family with many descendants..."

Zhou Xuan: “…”

I'm afraid this blessing is a bit too early, I don't even have a girlfriend yet.

The bed was filled with handfuls of dried fruits, and there were quite a few walnuts and almonds on the ground.

Yu Zhengyuan, who helped carry the radio in, introduced it enthusiastically as he walked: "This radio was bought by the four of us brothers. It's a genuine Ameikan Chinese product. The effect of listening to programs is very good... Oh..."

Before he could finish his words, Yu Zhengyuan stepped on a walnut tree, slipped, and fell backwards.

Zhou Xuan quickly stretched out his right hand to grab Yu Zhengyuan's clothes, but he never expected that his hand would actually grab into the body of the eldest senior brother.

The palm of my hand began to feel warm through the skin and bones, and it was the beating heart of the eldest brother.

Fortunately, Zhou Xuan reacted quickly. He immediately pulled out his right hand and replaced it with his left hand, grabbing Yu Zhengyuan's shoulders. The radio fell to the ground, but the person was fine.

"It's broken now."

Yu Zhengyuan didn't care about his own body. He picked up the radio, put it on the table, turned it on, and it made a sound, but one corner was broken.

"Xuan Zi, I'll take this one home and buy you a new one tomorrow..." Yu Zhengyuan felt embarrassed.

But Zhou Xuan didn't listen to him at all, but stared at his right hand.

"Xuan Zi, Xuan Zi?"

Zhou Xuan was awakened by the call, put down his hand, and asked Yu Zhengyuan: "What's wrong, senior brother?"

"You broke a corner of the radio."

"Oh, it's okay. It's just a radio. It just needs to make sound. It's even more interesting even if it's broken."

Zhou Xuan knew that Yu Zhengyuan's family was in financial difficulty, so he couldn't afford to spend more money.

"Big Brother, please take care of me for a while. I have something to do with my sister."

Zhou Xuan went out and walked towards his sister's room, where he saw Zhou Lingyi and Yuan Buyu, each holding bottles and jars.
Any more blessings?

Zhou Xuan felt a little overwhelmed when he thought of his busy room.

……

Inside the house, Yu Zhengyuan and Xu Li went back to the room first. Before leaving, they reduced the number of dried fruits on the bed by half, otherwise they would not be able to sleep well.

Yuan Buyu paced in the room, deep in thought.

"Brother, you said that your right hand can reach into the body of senior brother?" Zhou Lingyi said.

"Well, if I hadn't reacted quickly, I would have almost hurt Senior Brother." Zhou Xuan felt a little scared.

Then, he remembered that Zhou Lingyi had once taken out the heart of a living baby from the belly of a female corpse, and said, "It seems like you, sister, can do it, too."

"I relied on the Wu family's spell."

Zhou Lingyi said: "Blood and flesh, spirit and Tao, the function of that spell is to transform the flesh and blood body into a spirit body in a short period of time. The spirit body is ethereal and can naturally penetrate into the human body.

But you can do this without the help of a spell, which means... you can grab someone's heart at any time, combined with your dream-generating ability..."

"But it's strange. I was able to grab it just now, but now I can't seem to do it anymore." Zhou Xuan put his hand on his chest to test it, but it didn't go any further when it touched the flesh.

"You need to get used to it. Although the Nuo God's Hand is already a part of your body, it is like a baby's hands and feet. You don't know how to use it very well yet. It will take time to master it."

Zhou Lingyi explained it clearly.

Yuan Buyu suddenly spoke up and added: "I feel that Xuanzi's hand is not that simple..."

After burning incense, Yuan Buyu could sense many secrets, although the perception was very vague.

"Old Yuan, can you tell me about it?"

"I can't tell." Yuan Buyu said, "Put your hand on my chest and try it."

"Ugh."

Zhou Xuan said he would catch him, so he reached out and grabbed Yuan Buyu's clothes, then stopped.

Yuan Buyu closed his eyes and sensed carefully.
The brother and sister waited on the side. Zhou Xuan was reluctant to put his hand down. When his hand was sore from holding it horizontally, Yuan Buyu suddenly opened his eyes and said, "Your hand can affect the incense in my secret realm!"

"Can your incense be affected by my hand?" Zhou Xuan was a little confused.

"Logically it should not have any influence. People's incense is invisible, and it's even just a wisp of spirit, illusory. But you really have an influence." Yuan Buyu lit a stick of incense. There was no wind in the room. After the incense was lit, white smoke climbed up in a straight line.

"The incense in our hearts is basically in this state, but as soon as your hand got close to me just now..." Yuan Buyu blew at the incense, and the white smoke was blown a little crooked.

"The green smoke of my heart's fragrance is skewed like this."

"How does that affect you?"

"There is no bad influence." Yuan Buyu said.

“……”Zhou Xuan.

"It has no bad influence at all, and you are still talking about it as a serious matter."

"Because you haven't mastered the Nuo God's Hand correctly, the impact is limited. But since it can affect the heart incense, I'm afraid the horror of this hand will be beyond our imagination..." Yuan Buyu said confidently.

Zhou Lingyi also said: "No matter what happens to this hand in the future, brother, you must be careful these days. Don't rush to use this hand to help anyone or touch anyone's body, otherwise, I'm afraid you might hurt someone."

"Ah."

Zhou Xuan agreed.

Zhou Lingyi changed the subject and said, "I heard that Ren'ao wants to get something from you. This thing will only appear when you die... Can you guess what it is?"

"Things? I can't guess. All my things are in this room."

"Then do you feel that there is something in this room that has some mysterious effect?"

Zhou Lingyi guided Zhou Xuan to think.

After thinking for a long time,

Zhou Xuan found nothing and said, "I can't figure it out. Where did this thing come from?"

"My brother got it under the guidance of Ao before."

Zhou Lingyi added: "The human turtle took his soul just to make him die and reveal his things to the world."

Now that the relationship between Zhou Lingyi and Zhou Xuan has been exposed, there is no need to hide it anymore.

Yuan Buyu is not an outsider, so there is nothing he can't tell.

"Oh, then let me read the diary."

Zhou Xuan set his sights on the original owner's diary to see if there was anything written in it.

He was about to stand up when he noticed that Zhou Lingyi's eyes had become fierce.

"what happened?"

"My brother never writes a diary," said Zhou Lingyi.

"No way. I think there's quite a lot written."

Zhou Xuan walked to the desk, took the diary in his hand, and handed it to his sister: "Look, this book is full of dirty things he wrote, including a story about his love affair with a movie actress..."

Zhou Lingyi shook her head and said, "First, my brother has no habit of dating. He has no patience with women. He is only interested in spending money and having sex.

Second, where is the notebook in your hand? ! "

In Zhou Lingyi's eyes, Zhou Xuan was holding the air in his hands.
But in Zhou Xuan's eyes, he was clearly holding a diary.

"I can't see it with my eyes." Yuan Buyu said, "But I seem to be able to sense that there is something in your hand."

In a flash,

The three of them understood.

What Ren Ao wanted was this diary.

"Why are there so many people vying for a frivolous diary written by a bad boy?"

Zhou Xuan picked up the notebook and opened it to look for the secret.

As far as he could remember, he hadn't finished reading half of the diary yet. Could there be a secret behind it?
He flipped through the book quickly, only to find... there wasn't a single word in the entire diary!
From the first page to the last page, the whole thing is a blank!

"Where are the words? There are obviously a lot of them."

Zhou Xuan couldn't believe his eyes and read the diary over and over again.

"That's right, there are no words. My brother really never writes a diary."

Zhou Xuan put the diary into his arms and wondered, since it was not written by the original owner, who could have written it?
"Perhaps, the diary wrote it itself."

An answer emerged in Zhou Xuan's mind.

"It's possible. The diary is what Ren'ao is looking for. Li Jintang said that with this thing, Ren'ao can say goodbye to his life of hiding.

I think this diary has been used for many years, so it must have its magical use, but...what is the magic in it? No one knows the answer yet!"

……

Late at night, Zhou Lingyi and Yuan Buyu had already returned to their rooms.

Zhou Xuan was alone, leaning over the desk, writing and drawing in his diary.

The strange thing is that no matter what he wrote, a poem or a few lines of prose.

The writing will slowly disappear in about ten minutes.

"What on earth is this diary for?"

He put down his pen, held up the diary, and held it to the light, but still couldn't figure out the secret.

"You can ask the Blood Well for divination once a week. The week is almost up and the Blood Well knows everything. You can ask it."

Zhou Xuan had already made plans.
But he didn't really want to leave this opportunity of divination to the diary.

After all, the opportunity to find the second incense stick seems more important than the diary.

The wonderful use of diaries, I will always have the opportunity to ask in the future,
But if the opportunity for the second incense stick is not found, once the incense of the heart is extinguished, then...

"I'll try to figure out how to use the diary these few days. Maybe I can figure it out."

……

Turn off the lights, sleep.
Zhou Xuan lay on the bed, his mind entering the secret realm of divine inspiration and meditating.

The dark night makes it easier for the mind to be empty.

The gentle rippling sound allowed Zhou Xuan to enter the state extremely quickly, and the quality of his meditation was very high.

He reconnected with the woman's laughter.

"whee."

“Haha…ha…hahaha.”

The woman's smile is still sincere.

Zhou Xuan listened carefully. Besides the woman's laughter, he also heard a voice with a high-pitched tone but very low sound.

"………round"

“…kneel…yes.”

"……head……."

Zhou Xuan tried very hard to listen, but still couldn't hear most of the content of the conversation and could only hear individual words.

But he could hear some festive and joyful meaning,
When Zhou Xuan listened a few more times, the woman's laughter and the unclear voice disappeared completely.

The secret realm returned to silence.

……

Business was good, and the already busy morning for the Zhou family became even more exaggerated at this time. It would not be an exaggeration to say that there was a constant flow of people.

Zhou Xuan got up early and, as he had done in the past few days, went to the gatehouse to see if there was any secret code for the Blood Well Society's gathering.

Finding nothing new, he went back to the house, picked up his diary and continued reading.

He didn't figure out anything, but Zhou Xuan figured out two things.
"The diary was written by the diary itself, so what is its purpose? It can't just be to show me the original owner's romantic stories, right?"

Zhou Xuan quickly thought of the answer - Blood Well!
The only real gain he got from reading the diary was that he found the Blood Well Society through the contents of the diary, and learned how to borrow the power of the Blood Well at the Blood Well Society's gatherings.

"I still remember that this diary was visible to my eldest sister-in-law before...but now, even my sister can't see it."

A strange thought suddenly popped up in Zhou Xuan's mind - the diary was in disguise. Even to him, its owner, it used the romantic stories of the original owner to make him believe that this was just an ordinary diary. Even the guidance to the Blood Well Society was so obscure.

The diary seems to be waiting,
"It will only show its true appearance when I truly possess the Blood Well Secret Realm."

Zhou Xuan recalled the scene when Shenqi and Xuejing were fighting in the secret realm when he was promoted to the second incense stick. In the end, Shenqi and Xuejing reached a certain degree of tacit understanding and stopped fighting each other.

"This diary should be what Ren'ao got from the Blood Well. He is a White Walker, not a channeler of the Blood Well. How did he open the Blood Well?"

Zhou Xuan had a plan in mind.

When it’s time to ask for divination at the Blood Well in two days, he will try to bring the diary into the secret realm of the Blood Well. Perhaps he won’t waste the opportunity to ask for divination and will be able to learn how to use the diary.

In addition to figuring out where the diary came from, Zhou Xuan also remembered that when he first found the diary, he also found a key.

"Oh, the key."

Zhou Xuan opened the drawer and took out the key.

The key is bronze in color, with a straight shaft but not many teeth, and is slightly longer than a finger.

Zhou Xuan once had a wild idea that this key was used to open the original owner's cash box. Later, after confirmation by Yu Zhengyuan, it was found that the original owner did not have a cash box at all.

Now, the diary has been confirmed to be the thing that Ren Ao wanted to hide from, and this key seems like a clue.

"I want to know how Ren'ao opened the blood well, and how the things in the blood well could be taken out?"

"Where is this key?"

Zhou Xuan took the key and went to find Zhou Lingyi.

……

"The Zhou family doesn't have this kind of key."

Zhou Lingyi sat in the pavilion in the inner courtyard, eating cakes and looking at the account books of the past few days.

Zhou Xuan asked her to help find out where the key came from.

After looking at it carefully for a while, Zhou Lingyi denied that the key belonged to the Zhou family.

"Then I'll go ask the locksmith."

The person who opens the lock has seen many keys, so maybe he knows where this key came from.

"You are not familiar with the road to Pingshui Prefecture, so ask Fifth Senior Brother to take you there." Zhou Lingyi handed the key back to Zhou Xuan.

Just as Zhou Xuan reached out to take it, Song Jie came over.

"Good morning, class master, good morning, little junior brother."

"Good morning, second sister-in-law." Zhou Xuan nodded to Song Jie, said hello, put the key in his pocket, and went to find a locksmith.

Song Jie said, "Master, have you bought a big house for my junior brother?"

"Ok?"

Zhou Lingyi raised her eyebrows and asked Song Jie, "Why did the second sister-in-law say that?"

"Oh, boss, why are you hiding this from us? The business of the team has improved because of my junior brother, so it's only right that you buy him a big house. As his brothers and sisters-in-law, we won't think you are biased."

Zhou Lingyi raised her eyebrows again and asked, "Second sister-in-law, why are you so sure that I bought a big house for my brother?"

"The key, I recognize the key you gave to my junior brother."

Zhou Xuan was about to leave, but after hearing what Song Jie said, he sat back down, took out the key, and handed it to Song Jie: "Second sister-in-law, are you sure you recognize this key?"

"Of course."

Song Jie pointed at the key and said, "This is the key to Xiye Mansion. You know Xiye Mansion, it's a first-class villa area in Pingshui Prefecture. Many rich people live there. There are four female stars in our company, and they all bought houses there.

Every time they have a meal together, they would intentionally or unintentionally take out their keys to show off to us little actors. I have seen it several times and I remember it all."

ps: There is still a lot to do today, so I can only update more than 6,000 words.

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