fairy family

Chapter 119: First Encounter with the Fairy City, Escape from the Dilemma

Night falls.

Yu Que stood up from the quiet room, staring out the window with sharp eyes.

He thought about it in his mind, and without further ado, he took the Taoist robe that Huang Guishan had given him, put it on, and then walked out of the guest room in a low-key manner.

The guest room area of ​​the Examination and Evaluation Institute becomes very quiet after nightfall, but there are many rooms with lights on. After all, most of the immortals are night owls, and many of them stay in their rooms to study scriptures, meditate and practice various practices.

In addition, after nightfall, there are ghosts and gods patrolling everywhere in the entire examination institute.

If Yu Que wanted to avoid them, it would be basically impossible.

But just as Huang Guishan told Yu Que, Yu Que went up the mountain this time to be a guest, not to be a thief.

Even if the ghosts and gods saw his movements, they would only keep them in their minds for the Examination Institute to review later, and would not take action to stop Yu Que from leaving.

Even if there were ghosts or gods, they would report Yu Que's whereabouts in time.

Yu Que went down the mountain this time, but he had an insider, "Master Kuzhu", in the examination hall. Although this guy would not take action himself, if Yu Que's actions were exposed, this person would help cover them up.

In this way, Yu Que arrived at the kitchen of the Examination Institute safely.

As soon as he arrived here, a figure pushing a wooden cart happened to come towards him with a creaking sound.

The other party shouted, "Here they come! Then come over here, let's go."

"Yes." Yu Que nodded to the other party, then stretched out his hand to push the wooden cart, and pushed the wooden cart down the mountain together with the other party.

The person who slowly walked out of the Examination Institute with him was Huang Guishan.

The job the other party did when he went up the mountain this time was to work as a handyman in the kitchen, fetching water, delivering groceries, etc.

Just like that, the old man and the young boy used a wooden cart as a tool to conceal their whereabouts. They went around in circles and finally left the hill where the examination and evaluation institute was located.

Along the way, they saw many pedestrians and encountered many ghosts and gods, but their eyes just glanced over them. At most, they recognized the faces of the two people. After finding that they were not the bad guys who broke into the mountains, they let them go.

After stepping out of the hilltop of the Examination and Evaluation Institute, Huang Guishan found an empty corner, stopped, tore off his Taoist robe, and let out a long sigh.

This action made Yu Que puzzled: "Master, we haven't even left Huangshan yet, aren't you afraid of being seen by the people in the Taoist Palace?"

Unexpectedly, Huang Guishan burst into laughter:
"It's okay. Wearing this robe down the mountain will only attract more attention. Just take it off. I will help you take care of the whole thing."

The other party's words and actions were very comfortable, as if they had escaped from trouble after leaving the Examination and Assessment Institute.

Although Yu Que still had some doubts in his heart, he took off his Taoist robe as he was told, then took a talisman that Huang Guishan took out from his sleeve and swallowed the ashes of the talisman into his stomach.

"Huang Tian Hou Tu, all the evil spirits and demons, disappear without a trace! Disperse!"

Huang Guishan muttered something and shouted.

Yu Que suddenly felt the smell on his body suddenly become fresher, as if he had just taken a shower and changed his clothes.

"This is an extinction talisman. It can eliminate all the smells on your body, so that you and I won't be smelled by some guys with sharp noses later."

After Huang Guishan finished speaking, he burned one on himself and swallowed it in one gulp.

After the two of them had handled this, they whizzed through the forest, one in front and one behind.

They ran for nearly an hour, their steps very fast.

Soon, a wonderful scene appeared in front of Yu Que.

They walked into a valley. The valley was huge, with clouds and fog in the center. It was a vast expanse of white, and under the silver moon in the night sky, it looked like a veil, extremely beautiful.

In the clouds, there were ships sailing and floating, some big and some small. The big ones were like mountains, more than a hundred feet high, and the small ones were like leaves, floating in the sea of ​​clouds like fallen leaves.

These boats piled up in the center of the valley formed an extremely large market town. Everyone in the market town seemed to be floating in the sea of ​​clouds, like immortals in a fairy palace.

When Yu Que saw this scene, he was surprised and immediately amazed. He felt that this scene was no less than the scene at Guangmingding!
"Is this the Fairy City of Huangshan?" he murmured.

Huang Guishan nodded and said, "Yes, this place is Huangshan Fairy City, which is also called 'Huangshan Fairy City'.

Living inside are the descendants and relatives of all the immortals, both big and small, who have lived in the Huangshan Taoist Temple since its founding.

It has been passed down to the present day, and the buildings and pavilions have formed such a scene. In addition, there are other scattered immortals around Huangshan, as well as other immortal cities and even people from foreign lands, who will come from afar to visit and do business here. "

The man pointed at the boats floating in the sky above the sea of ​​clouds:

"Look, the shape of that building ship is unique. It is not of domestic quality. It must have come from overseas."

Yu Que looked up and saw a huge clamshell-shaped ship. The base of the ship was a clamshell several hundred feet wide, and on top of it were eight layers of clamshells of different sizes stacked in order from large to small.

There are graceful figures walking and swaying on the large and small clam shells, and on the top layer, it seems that there is a singing, dancing and feasting going on.

From time to time, immortals would fly out from the immortal city and the blue sky and land on the top of the clamshell ship.

Compared with these tower ships, the clamshell water palace in the Seventh County River where Yu Que lives is like the difference between pearls and grains of sand.

Yu Que was amazed.

But then, what surprised him even more was that Huang Guishan led Yu Que directly towards the white sea of ​​clouds in the valley, and he didn't seem to be afraid of falling off the cliff at all.

After climbing up to the sea of ​​clouds, Yu Que suddenly realized something and kept looking down at his feet.

He saw that the ground under his feet was soft, and the clouds and mist had condensed into substance, becoming like cotton, able to support him.

Yu Que could feel that if he exerted force with his feet, his body would still sink down, but as long as he used a little magic power, he could step on the clouds again.

In this situation, the clouds are like water, and this sea of ​​clouds has really turned into a lake or sea. No wonder it can carry people and ships.

Huang Guishan explained: "The Dao Palace cast a formation to imprison this sea of ​​clouds, so they were able to build a fairy city out of thin air.

Beneath the sea of ​​clouds is the shadow of Huangshan Mountain. It is rumored that there are many mysteries hidden there and there are underground veins. It is a forbidden area of ​​Huangshan Mountain and exploration is strictly prohibited.

We will walk to the fairy city in the sea, and then take a passenger ship down the mountain. "Hearing this answer, Yu Que was surprised again, and admired the great power of the Taoist Palace:

"Turning the sea of ​​clouds into a real sea is truly a great feat!"

The two of them continued moving forward while sighing.

On the way, Yu Que also saw some living creatures swimming in the sea of ​​clouds, some big and some small. The big ones were like the whales written in the books, hundreds of feet long, while the small ones were like fireflies, scattered and hazy, emitting a faint light.

Occasionally, there would be small fish and loaches with wings tumbling in the sea of ​​clouds. Their behavior and appearance were just like living creatures in the water, with only slight differences: their gills were smaller and their fins were larger.

In this way, Yu Que followed Huang Guishan's footsteps and approached the fairy city, but only stopped at the outskirts of the fairy city, a place that looked like a ferry.

He wanted to take a walk into the fairy city, but the two of them had to hurry down the mountain. Standing at the ferry, he found that people entering the city had to queue up and be checked by a group of ghosts, gods, and Taoists.

"Don't worry. Sooner or later, I will be able to step into this city openly!" Yu Que put aside this thought and waited patiently for Huang Guishan.

Not long after, Huang Guishan walked back to Yu Que with a happy look on his face and waved his sleeves:

"Let's go. There are many ships going down the mountain at night. In a quarter of an hour, there will be a cargo ship heading west. It will pass by the county town at the foot of the mountain. You and I can go down the mountain now."

Yu Que also had a look of delight on his face. He withdrew his gaze from the Immortal City, bowed to Huang Guishan, and followed him.

Just like that, the old man and the young boarded the cargo ship going down the mountain, and slowly disappeared from the huge fairy city without causing any waves.

When the night faded and the sun came out, the whole Huangshan Mountain was covered in golden armor.

They had already completely left the mountain and were flying over the county town outside the mountain.

However, after getting off the cargo ship, the place they arrived at was not the Seventh Ward Market, but the First Ward Market. They had to go around a long circle outside the mountain before returning to the Seventh Ward.

at the same time.

Far away in the Huangshan Examination Institute.

When the remaining deficiency disappeared, it was not noticed in the morning hours.

Until noon, he still hadn't come out of the room, which attracted the attention of the person in charge of the guest room.

But the other party did not dare to disturb Yu Que casually.

Although the Examination Institute had already told Yu Que and Xie Qingjie not to go into seclusion for the next few days, there was no guarantee that the two would actually have to go into seclusion for a few days to comprehend the inheritance.

If they were disturbed or something went wrong, the Taoists who were looking after the guest rooms could not afford it.

So the Taoist in the guest room suddenly had an idea, and quickly called Taoist Kuzhu over, told him the problem, and let him worry about it.

After Taoist Kuzhu was invited, he looked at the guest room with closed doors and windows, his eyes rolled around a few times, and asked the people in the room a few questions. Then, a look of panic appeared on his face, and he immediately asked the other party to call over the ghosts and gods on duty in the guest room area.

When he learned from the ghosts and gods that Yu Que had gone out at night and had not returned yet, Taoist Master Kuzhu slapped his thigh in a hurry:
"Oh no! This kid was either kidnapped or ran down the mountain on his own."

He shouted and was about to inform the superior of the Examination Institute.

But after running a few steps, Taoist Master Kuzhu hurried back and dragged the Taoist who was guarding the guest room up, saying in a hurry:
"Fellow Daoist, you have to testify for me. It's not that I failed to keep a good lookout for him, but that kid had some kind of brain defect that led him to run away on his own."

The Taoist in the guest room had a curious expression on his face, but when he heard this, a few drops of cold sweat oozed out of his forehead and he quickly declined:
"This, this is not the business of our guest room attendant. We arranged all the ghosts and gods on duty last night. Senior Kuzhu, don't try to pass the buck."

The two men were arguing, one wanted to join forces to find the master, and the other didn't want to go. Their argument attracted the attention of many people in the Examination and Evaluation Institute.

But in the end, Taoist Kuzhu still dragged the hapless-looking Taoist priest in the guest room to the door of the master of the Examination Institute and insisted that the other party testify for him.

When the Master found time to meet with the two men, the other party only heard a few words and then drove the Taoist out of the guest room, leaving only Taoist Master Kuzhu in the palace.

Taoist Master Kuzhu stood in the palace with an uneasy look on his face, and said:

“Reporting to the Master, the Yu family member definitely did not want to be used by my master and disciple lineage. I’m afraid he was seduced by someone and thus escaped down the mountain.

I have already ordered everyone in the courtyard to check, and ordered the ghosts and gods to count all the people coming and going, and I will definitely find the thief."

After speaking in a hurry, the man immediately bowed to the ground:
"But now that the Yu family member has left the mountain, and his whereabouts and safety are unknown, please personally take action to capture this child!"

When the master of the Clinker Evaluation Institute heard this, his expression changed and his brows twisted into knots:

"I will take action?"

The Master just shook his head and said, "No, no."

The other party even turned his back to Taoist Kuzhu and said righteously: "I am here to suppress the earth's energy and regulate the spiritual veins. How can I move easily? You can just go and take care of these little things."

The other party rejected the proposal, which was completely within Taoist Master Kuzhu's expectations.

But their attitude suddenly made Kuzhu a little stunned, as if asking them to go down the mountain to capture Yu Que was a tricky and troublesome matter.

It is obvious that for an old immortal like Lao Gang who is only half a step away from becoming a primordial spirit, he only needs to throw out a few thoughts to easily capture any escaped creatures in the mountains.

However, no matter how much doubt he had in his heart, Taoist Kuzhu only dared to complain in his heart, and on the surface he was still extremely respectful:

"Yes, I will go down and arrange it right away."

The master nodded, but frowned, as if he had thought of something, and his voice was a little colder:
"Humph! This boy was well-fed and well-dressed in our academy, but he went down the mountain just for the purpose of taking the imperial examination. He even ignored the evaluation of the Taoist Palace. This is really disrespectful.

In this case, there is no need for you to go down the mountain to handle it. I will send a message to the people down the mountain and ask them to tie this boy up!

Do you really think that you can escape the predicament by running down the mountain and returning to the county school at the foot of the mountain? That's ridiculous."

As soon as he finished speaking, he gently shook his fingers and muttered something with his lips. Then a golden scent of incense gathered into a decree, which moved out like a snake or insect and escaped from the Examination Institute.

Taoist Master Kuzhu was slightly delighted when he saw that the Master did not send him to do anything else. He heaved a sigh of relief and said, "Huh, this matter is finally over."

Since he doesn't need to intervene, then no matter whether Yu Que is driven away completely or forced to come to Huangshan again in the future, it will have nothing to do with Kuzhu.

As an old minion in the palace, he should stay as far away from such fights between gods and Taoists as possible.

(End of this chapter)