Heirs of the Seven Swords of the Qin Dynasty

Chapter 1999: The Seven Constellations of the Azure Dragon (Forty-Six)

Deep in the East China Sea, above the sea surface.

The starry sky tonight is exactly the same as the previous few days, with shining stars but no bright moon.

Under the starlight, waves reflected on the sea surface.

The mirage stays above the sea, like a huge dark shadow.

Tonight, most people on the ship did not rest.

Some people knew that something big was going to happen, while others didn't, but they also had a vague strange feeling.

On the upper deck, Tianming lay on the window frame of the cell, looking up at the starry sky.

He has been looking at the stars a lot these days. Although he can't understand the constellations and doesn't recognize the stars, he always feels that something is strange.

Of course, compared to the starry sky, he is more concerned about the strange feeling in his heart now.

Ever since the Mirage stopped sailing, he has been having an indescribable strange feeling.

The feeling was so faint at first that he almost thought he was hallucinating again, but as time went on, the feeling became more and more obvious and stronger.

This made him sure that he was not hallucinating, but that he really had a mysterious feeling.

But even though the feeling became more and more obvious and profound, he still couldn't grasp what it was.

It feels like a cat's paw is scratching my heart. I feel an itchy tingle every now and then, but scratching has no effect. It's really torture.

This feeling reached its peak tonight, and the dawn was too torturous to concentrate.

After looking at the stars for a while, he turned over and sat on the ground, then took out a scroll from his arms.

This was the reward he got for helping Chu Nan Gong pick shoes a long time ago when he was in Sanghai - the Yellow Stone Heavenly Book.

For this book, he not only paid a large sum of money, had a fight with a dog, but also owed a favor to Zhang Liang. However, no matter how he turned the pages of the book, there was not a single word on the bamboo slips known as the Heavenly Book.

He tried flooding, fire, burying in the earth... gold, wood, water, fire, earth, every method he could think of, but nothing worked.

However, it does prove that this heavenly book is indeed not simple.

Bamboo slips are actually very easy to damage, but after Tianming went through a lot of trouble, the Yellow Stone Heavenly Book remained intact.

Although Tianming took special care not to damage the Yellowstone Book during the experiment, it is impossible to cause no damage at all.

But this ordinary-looking scroll does not have any scratches on it, and looks like a newly compiled scroll - the newness itself is a proof.

According to what Zhang Liang told Tianming, the origin of this book can be traced back to Jiang Taigong a thousand years ago, or even to Huangdi even longer ago. It is obviously abnormal that it still looks brand new.

Because Tianming paid a considerable price to obtain this book, and Zhang Liang had asked him to do so before, Tianming often carried the Huangshi Heavenly Book with him.

However, this time when he boarded the ship, or when he was captured, he really didn't remember bringing the Yellowstone Book with him. It was only later that he discovered that he had inexplicably brought this book with him.

Therefore, he flipped through this wordless book a lot during this period, but the result was no different, he still could not find a single word.

Although the results were the same, Tianming flipped through the book more and more frequently, especially in the few days after the Mirage stopped. All day long he was either in a daze, looking at the stars, or flipping through the wordless book.

Every time Tianming flipped through the Yellowstone Heavenly Book, he felt his restless heart calm down a lot.

Tonight, he was even more determined to read this book.

Tianming sat cross-legged on the ground and spread out the entire Yellow Stone Heavenly Book in front of him. The smooth, wordless, narrow bamboo strips were neatly and tightly arranged in a row, which looked like a long piece of silk at first glance.

Tianming supported his tilted head with one hand, staring at the wordless scroll, and gradually fell into a trance.

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While Tianming was "painstakingly studying" the wordless heavenly book, many people were looking at the bright and dazzling starry sky.

In the bedroom of Ehuang and Nuying, Gu Xun leaned against the window, staring at the sky.

Nuying hid a little further away, looking at Guxun with some nervousness.

Ehuang followed Gu Xun, looking up at the starry sky, and said:
“It seems that nothing has changed.”

Gu Xun responded softly, "Of course there is no change."

"In fact, since the first day the Mirage stopped flying, you have been seeing exactly the same starry sky. There has been no change at all."

"Ah!?" Ehuang was shocked when she heard this, "How come there is no change?"

Although she knew almost nothing about astronomy, Ehuang at least knew that the stars would change - this was not referring to the destiny map seen in astrology, but the real starry sky and stars.

Gu Xun replied calmly, "Because after we stopped at the mirage, what we saw was no longer the real starry sky."

"Ah!?" Ehuang was even more confused, and asked stumblingly, "Is this... an illusion?"

"Maybe... it is?" Gu Xun gave a questioning answer, and then added, "In short, this area is very wonderful."

Ehuang couldn't understand what Gu Xun said, and couldn't even understand how this could be an illusion... Although she was the first to come up with this guess, she just said it casually.

In her opinion, the one with the highest level of illusion is Moon Goddess, who can almost create a real world to trap the person under the spell.

But even the Moon Goddess would find it difficult to create such an intricate and complex sky filled with stars, let alone quietly pull everyone into the same illusion.

Looking at the confused Ehuang, Gu Xun smiled and said, "Didn't you find anything special these two days?"

"A special discovery?" Ehuang fell into recollection.

At this time, Nv Ying's soft and tender voice sounded:
"I feel like practicing Yin-Yang magic seems to be going a little smoother."

After her sister's reminder, Ehuang immediately reacted, "Now that you mention it, it's true! It's indeed much smoother than before!"

Gu Xun nodded, "Staying in this area can indeed effectively improve the speed of cultivation, whether it is normal internal energy or your Yin-Yang magic, the increase is not small."

"How was this done?" Ehuang was not happy about this, she was just very curious.

She had been on the boat long enough and didn't want to stay there even for another day. Unless this damn place could allow her to ascend to heaven in broad daylight, she wouldn't like it no matter how beneficial it was to her practice of Yin-Yang magic.

She was just curious and shocked that such a special environment existed.

She had never heard of such a place before.

The practice of martial arts, whether it is normal internal strength, the Yin-Yang techniques of the Yin-Yang school, or the Taoist techniques of the Taoism, is just a step-by-step, painstaking process.

The Yin-Yang School has a method of forcing things to grow faster, but the consequences are very serious and it is difficult to say whether it is a loss or a gain.

Apart from this, only medication can speed up progress, but these medicines are very precious. Whether it is a decoction or a pill, it requires a large amount of precious medicinal materials and is difficult to refine.

Even the emperor can't afford it.

It’s not that there’s not enough money, but that there’s not enough medicine.

Gu Xun smiled and said meaningfully, "Is this... an extra blessing, or a leak?"

Ehuang didn't understand at all, "What do you mean by that? It's so meaningless."

"You will understand later." Gu Xun did not explain and turned his attention back to the sky. Seeing this, Ehuang did not ask any more questions and asked, "Yesterday you said that Ying Zheng would die today, so is he dead?"

"Right away!" Gu Xun narrowed his eyes and replied in a deep voice.

As soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly felt an inexplicable strange feeling in her heart, and then she looked up at the sky unconsciously.

Not only her, but Nuying also went to the window at some point and looked up at the sky.

Except for them, everyone on the mirage looked at the same place in the starry sky at the same time.

Under the gaze of everyone, a dazzling star, as dim as a candle in the wind, was completely "extinguished".

At first glance, this sentence is full of contradictions.

How can a dim star shine brightly?
Can the human eye really observe the stars completely going out?

In theory, neither is possible.

But in fact, that star is the Emperor Star that Gu Xun mentioned many times.

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Its light was indeed dim, and it was inconspicuous and difficult to attract attention among the starry sky, but it was indeed extremely "dazzling", enough to attract everyone's attention at the first moment.

The "extinction" of the Emperor Star is not perceived by the naked eye, but is a feeling that is directly transmitted to the hearts of everyone who observes the Emperor Star.

The emperor star was completely extinguished, which also meant that Ying Zheng had finally entered death.

The Emperor Star went out, and Ehuang and Nuying regained their attention, only to find that Gu Xun was gone.

Knowing that the big one was coming, the two sisters said nothing and slipped out of the bedroom together.

As soon as the two came out, their attention was immediately attracted by something.

The stargazing instrument on top of the Toad Palace started to operate autonomously at some point, and the entire instrument gathered a large amount of brilliant golden light. In the dark night, it looked like a small artificial sun.

The commotion here did not stop, and changes also occurred in the sacred Fusang tree on the other side.

The light on the branches of the sacred tree, which was already emitting a faint golden glow, began to gradually become brighter. Millions of leaves gathered together, as if a cluster of huge burning golden flames rose up and rushed straight into the sky.

The light penetrated the mirage and directly illuminated half of the sky.

And at the bottom of the mirage, invisible to others, in the dark cave right below the roots of the sacred Fusang tree, a towering palace with a strange structure stands in it.

This is the area that Shao Yu and Shi Lan almost entered before, but they were stopped by Gu Xun at the last moment.

The Toad Palace and the sacred Fusang tree all underwent strange changes, and the same is true here.

However, unlike the upper layer of the mirage which was shining with golden light, a deep, dark fog began to spread here, and its concentration continued to increase as time went by.

If someone went deep into the fog at this time, they would immediately feel the biting cold and would be frozen to death.

While changes were happening one after another in the outside world, changes were also happening inside the mirage.

Inside the Toad Palace, in the girl's room, all twelve windows on the fifth floor of the Fantasy Sound Box were opened, spinning at high speed according to special rules.

The strange melody echoed in the house. The girl sat in front of the treasure box, her hands constantly overlapping and separating, making one special gesture after another.

As she gestured, a series of complex and intricate patterns appeared on the ancient brass box placed next to the Fantasy Sound Box.

In fact, there were not just one but three ancient brass boxes next to the girl.

These three ancient brass boxes come from the royal families of Qin, Chu, and Yan respectively.

When Qin conquered the six kingdoms, the Yin-Yang School asked Ying Zheng for the royal families of the six kingdoms, as well as the ancient brass box that was closely related to the Seven Stars of the Blue Dragon and had been passed down from generation to generation in Qin.

In order to achieve immortality, Ying Zheng naturally agreed to the Yin-Yang School's request.

But the embarrassing thing is that although Ying Zheng destroyed the six states in Shandong, he failed to get even one ancient brass box from the royal families of the six states.

The Korean box was suspected to be in Han Fei's hands. Gu Xun told others that he didn't have it, and no one dared to ask him for it.

The whereabouts of the boxes from Wei, Zhao and Qi are unknown.

The box of Chu State was obtained by Yin-Yang School through its own channels before the demise of Chu State.

The box from Yan was obtained through a transaction with Prince Dan of Yan.

All Ying Zheng could offer in the end was a box from his own home.

The Yin-Yang family didn't care much about this, because they didn't need to have all the ancient brass boxes in their hands, one was enough.

However, at this time, the seven copper boxes were actually above the mirage.

The situation in the room where Qianlong was hiding was almost exactly the same as that in the Toad Palace. There was even a wonderful melody played by the Magic Sound Box. Qianlong's movements were exactly the same as those of the girl in the Toad Palace.

But Yan Fei was not there.

Next to Qianlong, there were two copper boxes.

One of the two copper boxes belonged to the Korean royal family and came from Han Fei. It was preserved by Liusha early on and was taken away by Concubine Yan when she left Xianyang.

One is from the royal family of Qi, from Jingwei, or from Yan Lu, and was passed on to Yan Fei by Jingwei.

On the other side, at the highest point of the upper deck of the Mirage, Gu Xun stood with his hands behind his back facing the night wind. At his feet were two ancient brass boxes.

One of the two boxes belonged to the royal family of Wei and came from A Yan. She had obtained it from the remnants of Lord Xinling some time ago and handed it over to Gu Xun.

One belongs to the Zhao royal family, and as for its source... it was given to him by Xiaomeng.

The seven copper boxes were all undergoing similar changes. The originally simple copper-yellow surface was now covered with complex and intricate golden lines of unknown meaning.

Gu Xun glanced at the changes in the copper box without thinking about what this change meant. His attention was all focused on the sky.

In other words, place it on the Fusang sacred tree and the Toad Palace.

At the same time, next to the stargazing instrument on top of the Toad Palace, Yue Shen and Yan Fei stood side by side, waiting for the situation to develop further.

Yan Fei said to Moon God at this time:

"It won't be peaceful at Zibei Water Pavilion, go and keep an eye on it."

This time, the Moon Goddess didn't even bring the veil that she always carried with her, and went into battle dressed lightly... though not much lighter, as she was still wearing a floor-length skirt.

She frowned slightly and did not directly agree to Yan Fei's arrangement, "I'm leaving, you're all alone here..."

"You can't help me with this." Yan Fei interrupted her directly, "Go ahead."

After hesitating for a moment, the Moon Goddess slipped away.

Yan Fei was left alone, dragging her dark blue Jinwu dress to the top edge of the Toad Palace, looking towards the sacred Fusang tree on the other side, with the golden 'firelight' reflected in her dark eyes.

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The Moon Goddess quickly arrived at the Zibei Water Pavilion, and as expected, she met her 'archenemy' - Xinghun.