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This also indicates that the ceremony of inviting the immortals is about to begin.
"Shh!"
The young master's eyes blurred, and when he came to his senses, he found that the embers had disappeared.
"What a fast speed!" The young master's pupils shrank slightly. He didn't feel anything when the embers left just now.
The young master jumped onto the tree and turned his head to look at the crowded Yujing Terrace. There, Tianquan Xing Ningguang had already led the master of ceremonies to the center of the altar.
Ningguang looked up at the sky. The jade stone on her waist seemed to sense something and began to emit a faint fluorescence.
"The auspicious time has come!"
Ningguang's rhythmic shouts echoed throughout the entire Yujing Terrace. The originally noisy crowd suddenly quieted down.
"Huh..." Ningguang looked at the huge incense burner in front of her and took a deep breath. Although she had practiced it many times, she still felt a little nervous when she presided over the ceremony.
This tension did not linger in Ningguang's heart for too long. Soon, she calmed down.
Ningguang took a step forward, and with a thought, the jade used for sacrifice flew out from her waist and surrounded her.
Liyue values stone, so whenever sacrifices are needed, in addition to the usual long incense and yellow paper, jade is also indispensable.
"Clang, clang, clang!" The jade flew and was accurately embedded in the concave shape of the incense burner.
Then, the huge incense burner in the center seemed to have received some kind of instruction, and a pillar of light rose from the burner and reached the sky.
Thick clouds gathered around the light column. Countless clouds gathered and swirled and intertwined, forming a huge vortex.
"Of course, Zhongli is a very imposing guy!" On the roof of the attic of Yujin Yujingtai, he praised the magnificent scene in front of him.
Not to mention anything else, just looking at the appearance, it is definitely full.
"Uh... something seems to be wrong?" Yu Jin said with his eyes slightly narrowed, looking at the huge vortex in the sky.
As soon as he finished speaking, the originally pure white vortex in the sky began to appear dark.
The darkness grew larger and larger, eventually stained the entire sky with an extremely gloomy gloom. In the dark clouds, red lightning flashed, looking quite depressing.
"What...what's going on? This kind of thing never happened during the ceremony of inviting the immortals in previous years!"
"This red thunder and these dark clouds, why do they look like the legendary calamity?"
"Is Lord Yan okay?"
……
The strange sight in the sky caused discussion among the people below.
Not to mention the crowd watching, even Ningguang, who was presiding over the ceremony, looked a little panicked. This kind of scene had never appeared in the records.
"boom!"
The gloom did not last long. With a loud bang, a black shadow fell from the sky. The enormous force it brought not only smashed the incense burner in the center of the altar, but also caused the entire Yujing Terrace to tremble a little.
The gray smoke cleared, and Ningguang looked at the falling shadow in front of her. Then her eyes widened.
The Rock King is dead~
"..."
"..."
"..."
Yu Jin scratched his head. That was it? Was Zhongli's death too hasty? I didn't know and thought he fell to death.
After briefly checking Morax's "corpse", Ningguang stood up, waved her hand, and shouted:
"The emperor is assassinated, the whole place is blocked!"
Following Ningguang's loud shout, the Qianyan Army, some visible and some invisible, filed in and surrounded the entire Yujing Terrace.
Ningguang was also busy, and she was surrounded by a crowd of people. It seemed that those people were the leaders of the various teams of the Qianyan Army.
Following Ningguang's command, Yujingtai, which had been in chaos due to the death of the Emperor, quickly regained its order.
The Qianyan soldiers were doing their respective jobs. Some were guarding the main roads, some were questioning passers-by, and some were scouting everywhere...
"Hey! The one up there! Come down!" A patrolling soldier looked up and saw the remaining embers picking their feet on the roof of Yujingtai.
"what?"
Yu Jin jumped with a big leap and jumped directly from the roof, scaring the soldiers in front of him.
"Come with me to meet Lord Tianquan!" The soldier looked at Yu Jin's strange outfit and then looked at the broken floor.
Even if this person is not the murderer of the Emperor, he has definitely committed the crime of damaging public property!
"No problem. I just want to ask her what she thinks." Yu Jin nodded. There was a group of people surrounding Ningguang, and he was worrying about how to find her!
While looking around, Yujin saw Ying and Paimon in the distance.
"You two! How do you like it?"
Yu Jin waved from a distance, but it made the sneaky Ying and Paimon shudder.
The two men seemed to have seen the Qianyan Army next to Yujin, and turned around and ran!
"Hey! Don't run!"
When the soldier saw Ying and Paimon running, he immediately shouted and chased after them.
Yu Jin looked at the empty surroundings around him and scratched his head. Did he trick Ying just now?
Chapter 273 Sneaking in
2023-11-04
Looking at Ying and Paimeng jumping up and down in the distance, Yu Jin felt very confused. Could it be that these two guys had done something bad? Why were they running so fast?
Unlike him, a man with a clear conscience has nothing to fear!
Yu Jin looked up and saw that no one came to talk to him. After sighing, he decided to talk to others.
Then he saw Zhongli taking a walk.
"You're so free, is this the plot in detective novels where the suspect admires his own masterpiece?"
In front of the railing at the edge of Yujing Terrace, Yu Jin patted Zhongli on the shoulder and said.
He looked far into the distance, and the whole of Liyue was in his sight. I have to say, Zhongli really knows how to choose a place. From here, you can see all four sides of Yujing Terrace from above, and all directions of Liyue from below.
It has the atmosphere of someone behind the scenes.
"Brother Yu Jin, you'd better speak softly, otherwise you'll be taken to the General Affairs Department and you'll have to waste a lot of time."
Zhongli turned around and smiled at Yu Jin.
"What are you thinking about? The melancholy on your face is about to burst out!" Yu Jin looked at Zhongli who was staring at Yujingtai, waved his hand in front of him and said.
“Hmm?” Zhongli blinked as a shadow flashed before his eyes. He turned around and said with some annoyance in his tone, “Nothing. I was just wondering if what I did was right.”
"Right? You've already done it, there's no point regretting it now." Yu Jin pointed at the corpse of the incarnation surrounded by the crowd and said with some gloating.
With Zhongli's death, all forces in Liyue are definitely ready to make a move. As the saying goes, muddy waters are prone to trouble, and Yu Jin is already impatient.
"Yeah, there's no point in regretting now." Zhongli is not a sentimental person. The expression he had just had was just a little confusion about himself and Liyue's future.
"Well... Brother Yu Jin, do you know the details of the girl in white below?" Zhongli looked down and saw Ying and Paimeng who were fleeing.
Judging from their speed, their strength should not be underestimated, not to mention that they have the Fatui's executive officer beside them.
"You don't know? That's Mond's new honorary knight, the rising star girl of the Adventurer's Guild, and the helpful model girl - Ying, and her partner and pet Paimon!"
"..."
There are so many things to complain about that Zhongli doesn't know where to start.
“Well, actually, only the first of these titles is real. The others are all made up by me.” Seeing Zhongli’s facial expression, Yu Jin had to explain again.
"Although I don't know why Ying ran away, she probably just wanted to come and see you."
"Meet me?"
"To be precise, it's to meet Morax," Ember added.
"Is that so?" Zhongli pondered for a moment, then said with a sigh, "This is really a bad timing. I'm afraid this is another new variable."
"Be gentle! This is Lord Yan's Immortal Ancestor's Transmutation!"
"You carry it when it's so heavy! It won't hurt your waist to talk while standing!"
"You said that Lord Yan was not transformed from jade. The texture is exactly the same as stone."
……
Just as Zhongli was lost in thought, the noise from Yujing Terrace called him out of his thoughts.
When Zhongli looked carefully, he saw the Qianyan Army pulling the Immortal Ancestor Fa Tui away from Yujingtai.
There are travelers who want to see him but are too powerful, Morax's immortal ancestor Famei, and the guest official of the Wangsheng Hall.
Zhongli nodded slightly. He already had a way in mind to keep Ying, the variable, under control.
"Brother Ember..."
Zhongli turned his head and tried to look at the embers, but he saw nothing except the empty floor.
The embers had disappeared long ago and no one knew where they were.
Zhongli put his hands behind his back and faced the sea breeze. The slightly fishy sea breeze blew up Zhongli's braids and broadened his mind.
"Forget it, forget it. Do your best and leave the rest to fate."
Zhongli smiled bitterly, shook his head, and sighed. Why did he feel a little powerless?
Isn't the biggest variable right beside him? And it's the kind that he can't control.
……
It must be said that the Qianyan Army was indeed well-trained. Even though they were carrying the huge dragon bodies, they were still able to move at full speed.
Behind the Qianyan Army was the embers that had followed them all the way. But it was obvious that they did not notice the bushes that were moving behind them.
As he moved around, the scene in front of him became more and more familiar. Soon, a huge pavilion and lotus pond located in the mountains, like a furnace, appeared in front of Yu Jin.