From midnight to the present, the elder sitting on the futon in front of the offering table with his knees crossed, always closed his eyes and motionless like a sculpture.
But Xuanyuan was sure that when she stood here quietly, the elder knew that she was coming.
After she stood here, she became a sculpture, waiting for the elder to ask for divination.
Under the futon, in front of the offering table, there is a copper brazier, shining with a cool blue luster under the huge butter candle.
It's burning like charcoal. It's white. It's burning like a blue flame. It's windless. It's like there are many snakes in it. They're trying to rush out.
Every full moon night, as long as it is not during the closing period, the flame elder will sit in front of the statue of emperor Xuanyuan, holding a silver plate to the brazier, and calculate whether the rejuvenated person has entered the world and where he is.
It's a routine. It's been the same for thousands of years.
Also according to the Convention, when the moon is full, Xuanyuan king will appear in the position where she stands. He will look down at the silver plate in the elder's hand and leave quietly, just like when the dawn of the East appears.
Her shawl hair began to become translucent, and it was almost bright tomorrow. The monthly routine was coming to an end, and it was time for her to go back to rest.
But at this time, the silver plate in the elder's hand fell to the ground, making a clanging sound.
When the silver plate landed, it made a loud noise, which was quite harsh in the open hall, making the unprepared Xuanyuan King beat fiercely.
When the routine work is about to end, how can the elder make a big mistake of dropping the silver plate?
The silver plate handed down for thousands of years is not allowed to touch the world.
Completely instinctive, Xuanyuan King's body turned into a phantom that could not be captured by the naked eye. He bent down and reached out to pick up the compass from the ground, holding it in both hands and handed it to the elder.
The elder didn't answer, as if he couldn't wake up all the year round. He never opened his eyes. His eyes were all at a loss. He murmured something in his mouth.
Xuanyuan didn't disturb him. He held the compass in his hands and listened.
"Cough, cough - how could that be?"
The elder coughed violently for a few times. What he said could be understood at last.
"How could that be?"
The elder repeated this sentence and turned to look at her.
Her voice, so cold that it had no emotion, came from under the Golden Mask: "what, what?"
"I clearly felt it roaring in anger, circling up and down, trying to break through the white fog that covered my eyes and my consciousness. I'm going to see it. I'm going to see it - but it suddenly disappears without a trace. I can't feel it again with all my consciousness. "
The elder closed his eyes slowly and said, "it's hidden in the unfathomable white fog again. It's as if it never appeared. How could that be? "
Xuanyuan king asked softly, "will it come out again?"
"I don't know. I can't feel it, let alone see it."
The elder stretched out his hand, took the silver plate, and said in a tired voice: "someone, someone must have robbed me before I want to see it. He forced it down with strong force, forbidding it to come out, and forbidding me to find it."
But the man who was hiding in the dark cloud said, "when you look at it, you know that it's hidden in the dark sky?"
"That's it, that's it. Otherwise, depending on the host's current control of the black dragon, it is far from being able to retract and release freely. "
The elder nodded his head, and his white beard trembled: "master, absolute master. There are only experts who are not born in the world - "
it sounds incoherent when he says these words, but Xuanyuan is very clear what he is talking about.
After the man who has been searched for thousands of years by the flame finally appeared some time ago, the elder is trying his best to feel its existence almost every day, hoping to find his specific location through the oldest divination.
But it never succeeded. After the black dragon's accession to the WTO, it was like diving into the sea, and there was no movement for several months.
But on this full moon night, the elder clearly felt the existence of the black dragon. He immediately urged all his mind to hold the magnetic needle in the silver plate and the holy fire in the red copper brazier. With his mind, he turned into three bodies in one and tried his best to get close to the direction of the existence of the black dragon.
The elder felt the black dragon, but also felt how angry it was at present. He was eager for it to rush out of the thick fog in the fury. It seemed that the black dragon would stand out from the white thick fog that could not see the end or the edge according to his idea!
The long cherished wish of thousands of years should be realized at this moment!
The elder, who sat like a dead tree on the surface, was extremely excited in his heart. He called it crazily. Come out, come out!He had clearly felt that at the next moment, the black dragon was about to break out of the white fog, but suddenly dived.
It's calm.
The elder, who was extremely disappointed, was not willing to lose his trace. He immediately urged his mind to plunge into the white fog where he could not see the end, let alone the edge. He hoped that he could find the trace of the black dragon.
Then he saw a pair of eyes.
A pair of evil, demon red eyes.
When his mind and this eye suddenly on, the soul immediately as if surrounded by fire, immediately screamed.
Fortunately, the elder took back his mind in time and earned it out of the white fog. If he delayed for a moment, it would not be the matter of dropping the silver plate into the world, but the matter of both body and spirit, and he would drive the crane to the West.
According to the growth cycle of the black dragon, the elder didn't believe in its host and could control it freely. When he felt that he was being spied by others, he immediately detected the danger that could never be exposed, and then quickly hid.
But the black dragon hid in time at the most critical moment.
What does that mean?
It can only be said that some people realized that the black dragon was about to be exposed and immediately helped its host to hide it.
How powerful the host will be after being influenced by the evil nature of the black dragon - the elder thinks that only Xuanyuan king can control him.
But Xuanyuan king is in Xuanyuan temple!
So, who did what Xuanyuan could do?
Master.
A master who never came out of the world!
Can there be such a master in the secular world?
No way!
But he does exist.
Moreover, the elder is now basically sure that the master who helps the host hide the black dragon should know how important it is to flame.
Who are the experts?
How did he know that?
Since he knew this, why did he deliberately let the black dragon play a magic dragon?
Thinking of the last question, a cold sweat suddenly came out of the elder's forehead.
He suddenly figured out why the master had to do this.
This is a trap for him.
The master should know that on the night of the full moon, the elder was searching for the existence of the black dragon with all his consciousness, so he risked the risk that the specific location of the black dragon would be exposed and deliberately angered the left and right hosts of the black dragon, so that the elder could be aware of it.
When the elder is about to lock the black dragon, the master lets the black dragon hide in time to attract the elder who doesn't want to let go and plunge into the thick fog to search for it.
When he plunges into the thick fog, he will devour all the black dragons invading his territory, and he will devour the elder.
After the great elder's form and spirit are all changed, no one can explore the existence of black dragon with consciousness thousands of miles away in the whole flame.
In that way, the black dragon will never come to flame Valley, and Xuanyuan king will never be reborn.
But the old man's face was as red as an orange.
He didn't say this, but Xuanyuan king felt it. Staring at the holy fire burning peacefully at this moment, he asked in a soft voice: "since someone outside knows the importance of black dragon to my flame Valley, why destroy the host before it becomes stronger?"
Xuanyuan had asked this question many times, but the elder never answered her.
She now asked, as if it had become a routine, and did not expect the elder to answer. After asking, she turned and walked quickly to the door of the hall.
It's already daybreak, her hair has turned black, her voice is soft, and she is thinking like a woman.
Don't beautiful women pay special attention to their appearance?
Sleepless all night, is a woman's biggest enemy, so every full moon on the second day of the night, she will be in deep sleep, until the next morning.
When Xuanyuan king, who loves beauty, walked out of the gate of the temple quickly, the elder's voice came from behind: "black dragon can make you reborn, and also destroy you."
After a long time, she slowly said, "I tried to revive with the help of the black dragon, but they tried to destroy me with the help of the black dragon."
The elder with his back to the door of the temple didn't speak.
Silence, sometimes is the default meaning.
Xuanyuan Wang waited for a moment, and then asked: "so, whether it is for us or for them, when the black dragon with the help of the host is not fully mature, they will not kill the host."
The elder said, "it's useless to pick peaches before they are ripe."
Xuanyuan King seemed to smile: "well, do you think that if I can personally wait for the peach to mature, our hope of success will be many times larger?"
The elder looked back at the woman bathed in the golden sun in the early morning and said slowly, "according to the ancestral system, when the eyes of the statue of emperor Xuanyuan don't turn red, King Xuanyuan can't go out of the valley of fire."The woman bathed in the golden sun raised her hand and gathered her hair at her temples. She said faintly, "ancestral system is made by human beings. Since people can decide, they can also be overthrown. "
The elder didn't speak and turned his head.
"I hope you can do the ideological work of other elders and allow me to break the patriarchal system and step out of the valley of fire."
Xuanyuan king also looked back, just like his knees were not bent, more like flowing water, floating down from the ninety-nine steps, but his voice could be tied into a line and spread to the ears of the elders in the temple: "suddenly, I am full of unprecedented urgency for the arrival of this day - they always say that the outside world is wonderful, and I want to see it."
The invisible sound, like a long visible dragon, is constantly circling on the beam of the open temple.
The golden color still came in from the skylight of the high place, reflected on the eyes of the statue of emperor Xuanyuan, plated with a layer of light red.