SQLJBFDTW Chapter 85

Chapter 85 Kirin (2) Don’t fill your head with dirty thoughts…

The night was starless, one side a noisy crowd with lanterns, the other the soaring black aura in the silent royal palace.

The two were distinct, not like they could exist in the same picture, yet they carried an eerie harmony that made one’s hair stand on end.

Chao Jianxue jumped down from the top of the ancient temple, and only when he turned back to receive Yu Wei did he see that there was only a tall platform inside the temple, with no enshrined deities.

“This place looks well-repaired, how could it be empty?” He frowned in doubt, walking around the ancient temple to look.

Yu Wei stood by a stone lantern, the dim yellow light illuminating his robes. He looked up at Chao Jianxue and said, “It was newly moved here, look—”

He was referring to the soil beneath his feet.

Chao Jianxue squatted down to take a closer look, and said in surprise, “The color is different!”

“The soil around the ancient temple is obviously not from here, it should have been moved here later.”

“Then how could it be empty?” Chao Jianxue squatted halfway, looking up at him with a puzzled expression.

Yu Wei walked to the platform in the ancient temple and said, “Senior Brother, come here.”

Chao Jianxue walked over.

“Senior Brother, go up.” Yu Wei told him to go to the platform, Chao Jianxue “Ah”-ed, “This isn’t good, right? After all, it’s a place to enshrine deities…” Although they, people of the Xuanzhen world, have a distinction from the Xuan energy of people in the mortal realm, they are not immortals or gods.

However, Chao Jianxue only said this in words, and did not particularly avoid it in his heart, still lightly flying up.

He turned around, facing Yu Wei: “Then what?”

Yu Wei said, “Senior Brother, look ahead, what do you see?”

“What else can I see, isn’t it just…” Chao Jianxue raised his head, but was immediately stunned.

Directly in front of him was the Kirin statue, and coincidentally, this position was exactly in line with the Kirin’s eyes. Its horns were huge, like a golden canopy, its eyes were long and narrow, and the two natural golden eyes seemed to come alive, exuding a faint ghostly aura, staring straight at him, Chao Jianxue shuddered.

He hurriedly jumped down, patted his chest, “A little scary.”

Yu Wei smiled: “Senior Brother is not afraid of demons, but afraid of this kind of dead thing?”

Chao Jianxue shook his head: “You don’t understand, Chinese horror and demons are different.”

Demons can be touched and killed, but that kind of eerie ghost aura is different, a gust of cold wind blows, and half of the soul is blown away.

But the kind of black aura emanating from the palace didn’t quite resemble the demonic aura and demonic energy that Chao Jianxue was used to seeing…

He shivered again, hugging his shoulders.

“Let’s go when it’s light, let’s go when it’s light!”

Leaving the ancient temple, the two returned to the bustling crowd, and only then did they find a bit of reality that was still in the human world, shoulder to shoulder, the breath of living people was extremely good.

There were stalls selling masks, mostly in the shape of animals, Chao Jianxue chose for a moment, and handed Yu Wei a rabbit mask, and then chose a cat face for himself.

Yu Wei looked at the mask in his hand, questioning: “Why a rabbit?”

Why? Chao Jianxue didn’t know, he said, “It’s a feeling, um.”

Rabbits look gentle, but sometimes they are also very fierce.

As for the cat face in his hand, people like kittens and puppies, so looking out on the long street, there are many cat faces like him, grinning with a smile.

He put on the mask, shook it in front of Yu Wei, and then laughed, heading straight for the snack stall in front.

Although there were many people, Chao Jianxue moved freely, and Yu Wei followed closely behind, reaching out to grab his hand.

Chao Jianxue walked very fast.

The figures in front of him moved under the flower lanterns, and the surrounding scene suddenly became like a mirage, and the sounds also faded away, Chao Jianxue’s back became a blurred light and shadow, a piece of untouchable clothing corner—

And another demonic voice sounded in Yu Wei’s ear: “Do you think he really likes you?”

Just sees you as pitiful…

“Get out!” Yu Wei used a wisp of sword intent to split open his own spiritual sea, crushing that wisp of demonic thought into pieces.

He opened his eyes again, but Chao Jianxue’s figure was gone.

It was just this moment of distraction that he lost his Senior Brother again.

Yu Wei’s breathing became slightly rapid, pushing aside the crowd blocking his view, and walking forward quickly.

They were all people wearing cat-face masks, and the laughter and talking around were in a chaotic mess. Yu Wei clenched his fists, and the various sounds gradually twisted in his ears, once again becoming a strange howl.

“Yu Wei?”

A hand held his, and Yu Wei woke up as if from a dream.

The howling went away.

Looking back, his gaze fell back to reality, Chao Jianxue was standing behind him, handing him a string of pink and green dumplings: “They say it’s called Qiaoguo, do you want to try it?”

Seeing that Yu Wei didn’t move, Chao Jianxue shook it in front of him: “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing…”

Yu Wei exhaled the turbid air suppressed in his chest, took off the harmless rabbit mask, lowered his head and bit into a Qiaoguo from his hand.

He mumbled: “So sweet…”

Yu Wei had never told anyone that he liked sweets.

He had tried such sweet things a few times when he was a child and was punished, and the next time he tried it was decades ago on the Qixi Lantern Festival in the Wuwu Sect, and it was also the sugar gourd that Senior Brother handed him.

“Really… I think it’s okay.” Chao Jianxue took it back and ate the next green one.

The color was dyed with mugwort juice, with a very prominent fragrance.

“Do you want more? I’ll eat them all?” He asked casually, but unexpectedly Yu Wei grabbed his hand and bit off the next one without explanation, his lips and teeth touching the pink dumpling, making Chao Jianxue think of some things he shouldn’t think of.

“Ah!” He shouted inexplicably, Yu Wei was puzzled.

Chao Jianxue quickly lowered his head, ate the last one, and put on the cat-face mask again.

Forgive me, forgive me, there shouldn’t be so much dirty stuff in my head.

The two walked to the bridge, and diagonally to the side they could see the ancient temple from before, the Kirin statue behind it, like a huge shadow.

Chao Jianxue familiarly asked a couple next to him about the origin of the ancient temple.

The man said: “That’s a long story. It is said that this temple was originally built at the border between the two countries. The national teacher said that there was a Kirin living inside! Later, it was invited into the city by the monarch.”

Kirin? Chao Jianxue was stunned.

The woman said: “I heard my mother say, or rather, my mother’s grandmother said, at that time everyone didn’t know that there was a Kirin inside, they only said that the gods in this temple were very effective. At that time, if there were any minor illnesses in the villages outside, as long as they went to worship and pray to the immortal, they would be 70 or 80% better, and there were also gamblers who lost all their money and became paupers, went in to worship, and the next day they dug up gold in the field!”

The man said: “Yes, yes, yes, anyway, it’s very effective. Later, the national teacher at that time said that this immortal was a Kirin descended to earth, so a golden Kirin statue was sculpted in the royal palace, and the statue originally enshrined in the pagoda was also moved into the golden statue.”

With that said, the orientation of this pagoda facing the golden Kirin statue makes sense.

How could there be such a thing? Could it be that there are really divine beasts appearing? If so, the Xuanzhen world should have known about it long ago.

Chao Jianxue and Yu Wei looked at each other, and had some ideas in their hearts, and asked again: “Does the Kirin help people eliminate disasters, will it receive any rewards? Hasn’t anything strange happened?”

If it’s not a divine beast, then it’s just a monster from the human world causing trouble, receiving offerings and gaining power. Although the Xuanzhen world has been catching demons all along, demonic energy has been surging in recent years, so they haven’t come as frequently as before, and it’s possible for monsters to grow stronger.

Generally speaking, if monsters help people, they must charge a certain reward.

However, the woman shook her head. The man also said: “That’s why it’s said to be a Kirin immortal! The immortal doesn’t want anything, isn’t that amazing!”

Amazing, but also strange.

So the belief of the Kirin Kingdom came from this? If the two hadn’t seen the strange black aura emanating from the palace, they would have thought it was a real divine beast.

Chao Jianxue looked at the tall Kirin statue and asked, “Why don’t we go take a look now?”

Yu Wei said, “Senior Brother is not afraid anymore?”

Chao Jianxue stubbornly said, “I wasn’t that afraid in the first place.”

Actually, it was just because after listening to it, he felt that it was a monster or something causing trouble, and it had nothing to do with ghosts!

Taking advantage of the night, the two gracefully leaped onto the palace walls of the royal palace and searched for a while, but unfortunately still found nothing. That mass of black aura mysteriously disappeared.

They accidentally alarmed the patrolling guards, and also because Yu Wei was wearing a snow-white outfit, floating silently in mid-air in the dark night, Chao Jianxue heard a shrill cry of “There’s a ghost!”

He was also startled and almost fell from the air.

Looking back, Yu Wei’s expression was serious, he tilted his head slightly at him, and was still a little innocent.

He decided not to scare these poor little palace people anymore, the two quickly left, returning without success.

There were still a few hours before dawn, and they booked a top-quality room in the city.

Having experienced the last time, Chao Jianxue looked at the only bed in the room, and couldn’t help but feel ashamed in his heart. He touched his buttocks, it didn’t hurt anymore.

Speaking of which, Chao Jianxue felt that he was quite “cheap.”

The last time he confusedly ended up at the bottom, it was indeed very uncomfortable at first because he wasn’t prepared, but he forgot the pain after the wound healed, and now he only remembered the earth-shattering trembling pleasure that surged towards him. But he had no impression of how it proceeded at the time, how it became like that, like Zhu Bajie eating ginseng fruit, swallowing it whole, and it was gone.

If Yu Wei insisted, he couldn’t accept it…

His body suddenly felt like it was on fire.

While he was thinking wildly, Yu Wei had already lit the candle, and below the flickering flame was the copper-colored Kirin decoration on the lamp.

Yu Wei’s expression was natural, his gaze peaceful and unwavering.

Chao Jianxue coughed awkwardly to cover up the unnaturalness, thinking to himself that he really had a problem!

“Is the Kirin really like this?” To cover up that bit of unnaturalness, Chao Jianxue asked.

The Kirin statues here are all horn-headed and horse-bodied, which coincides with the records in the Xuanzhen world’s classics.

“The Kirin is an auspicious beast, perhaps it really appeared in the human world.” Yu Wei casually waved his hand, and three faint blue lotus spiritual bodies appeared beside him.

“What is this?”

Chao Jianxue curiously leaned over, stretched out his finger and touched it, it was cool, and also carried deep spiritual power.

“Gathering Spirit Lotus, the spiritual energy in the human world is thin, if you want to cultivate, you need to use gathering spirits.” Yu Wei explained gently.

Although Chao Jianxue was listening quietly, he couldn’t help but worry in his heart.

Yu Wei insisted on breaking through the demonic obstacles in the next breakthrough, but if the demonic obstacles were so easy to break through, there wouldn’t be so many powerful people becoming demons.

“You…” Chao Jianxue struggled with his words, “It’s better not to continue cultivating…”

He said it very seriously, not joking, Yu Wei’s expression froze, raised his eyes, and said: “Senior Brother really doesn’t believe that I can remove the demonic energy?”

Chao Jianxue looked at him, without answering, the answer was clear in silence.

He really didn’t believe it.

Dared not believe it.

His expression showed worry, but Yu Wei’s heart was stung by this worry, dense pain. He lowered his head and said self-deprecatingly: “If Senior Brother doesn’t believe it, then don’t believe it.”

Chao Jianxue licked his lips, wanting to say something but stopped, it seemed that nothing was good to say at this time.

He knew that although he and Yu Wei were reconciled now, they still didn’t have the kind of high-spiritedness and the courage to entrust each other’s lives that they had in the beginning.

Or perhaps he himself didn’t have this kind of courage, he was afraid of losing the current Yu Wei.

Suddenly, melancholy and sour emotions enveloped his heart, Chao Jianxue took a step forward, took the initiative to hug Yu Wei, and said: “I believe it…” But these words were not confident, and he himself was at a loss.

Yu Wei’s chin rested on his shoulder, it was a bit heavy, pressing him painfully.

Not long after, Yu Wei pushed him away and said gently: “Senior Brother, don’t worry, go to sleep first. I’ll adjust my breath by myself.”

Chao Jianxue “Oh”-ed, he opened the window and looked at the moon, an incomplete half moon, and calculated the days: “There are eight days left…”

“What?” Yu Wei asked.

“There are eight days until the full moon on the fifteenth.”

Chao Jianxue has a secret that Yu Wei doesn’t know yet, hopefully it won’t scare him when the time comes.