Chapter 86 Lingxiang Visits the City Lord's Mansion Again On the Lantern Festival, Banshan Temple was extremely bustling. Even during the daytime rituals, many people came to watch. No matter they were dignitaries in Guyang City or common people from the suburbs, they all wanted to come to the temple to burn incense for Emperor Yuanyang and get some blessings. After the ceremony, the elders appeared one after another and lit lamps for the believers who came to burn incense. The so-called lighting of lanterns refers to the lanterns that will be lit in front of the door at night. Various colors will be painted in advance, but the last stroke will be retained and painted by a highly respected person or an elderly person in order to distribute blessings to each family. It will be even more auspicious if a person with profound cultivation can paint it. Therefore, when the Yuanqing Sect announced that the elders of the sect would descend on Banshan Temple to light lamps and bless everyone, not only the people of Guyang City, but also those who lived dozens of miles away, either got up early or gathered in the city the day before, just to get this opportunity today and hope to gain the favor of Emperor Yuanyang. Of course, since there are people who come here specifically to burn incense, there are also peddlers who come here to make money for a living. When many families learned that Elder Yuanqing was lighting the lamp flowers, they stockpiled some of their own goods, waiting for this day to set up a stall outside the Jiuque Mountain Temple halfway up the mountain, sell them to people who came to burn incense, and at the same time pray for blessings for their families. When Lingxiang and his entourage arrived, the foot of the mountain was already packed with people. The road, which was not very wide to begin with, was lined with various stalls on both sides, and there were a large number of people burning incense. Even the nobles, who were always pampered, parked their carriages and horses far away and walked on foot. There were shouts everywhere, and a wide variety of new things to see. Lingxiang was so happy that she smiled happily. She came out of the temple and bought a lot of small things. But it was hard for Long Qi, Xinyi and Rendong behind her. They had to carry a lot of things and keep an eye on passers-by. Mai Dong originally wanted to go out and play with them, but when passing by Banshan Temple, she was caught by Fu Yin Zhenren, who kept saying that the temple was so busy, and how could she have the leisure to wander around, and forced her to stay to help.
Poor girl, she could only watch Lingxiang taking Xinyi out of the temple without being able to do anything. Lingxiang happily followed the stall all the way into Guyang City. After entering the city, she went straight to Youran Residence, ordered Long Qi and Rendong to tidy up the house, and then took Xinyi out. Xinyi came out of Youranju with a somewhat uncomfortable look on his face. Youranju had been in a mess since it was searched last time and Lingxiang naturally noticed his expression. "If I'm not mistaken, it was you who caused trouble in my Youran Residence that day." Lingxiang said as she took a bite of the plum blossom pancake in her hand, which was the hot one she had just bought from Grandma Shen's stall. Xinyi didn't answer, but just lowered her head, not knowing what she was thinking. "I'm not blaming you. I know you were ordered to do this, but I just can't understand why you wasted those elixirs in bottles and jars, even though they're not as valuable as the life-extending elixirs. Unless..." Lingxiang paused and looked at Xinyi, but saw that the big guy was still silent. "Unless you knew who I was early in the morning and deliberately warned me of the impending danger so that I could return to Yuanqingzao to be on guard." Xinyi was startled when she heard this, and then she smiled. Lingxiang was indeed a very insightful person. As long as she could catch some clues, she would be able to figure out the rest. I guess it was her doing that Maidong was captured by Elder Fuyin just now. Seeing him like this, Lingxiang knew that she must have guessed correctly: "I have been thinking before that although you are a martial arts practitioner, you have already reached the Jindan Dao Jindan stage, which means you are a semi-immortal in the mortal world. You should be able to deal with me, who is just a foundation building, in one move. But you have to wait for reinforcements to arrive. I guess you know that Senior Chi Yanzi is nearby," Lingxiang said as she took a bite of the plum blossom pancake, and then said vaguely: “Although Senior Chi Yanzi has reached the Golden Core Dao Huayuan Realm, it would not have been easy to deal with a group of evil-minded people at that time. After all, those people also have high cultivation levels. So it seems that you must have been responsible for the fact that I only met you on my way down the mountain.” Hearing this, Xinyi looked towards Lingxiang. "You are really smart and thoughtful. You even thought of this. But I'm afraid you don't know why I met you." Lingxiang swallowed the plum blossom pancake in her mouth and said, "So, it's not you who wanted to meet me?" Xinyi looked at the colorful lanterns hanging in a house not far away and reminisced. …… At that time, Xinyi did receive the news of searching for the third life-extending pill. To be more precise, it was to search for the living daughter of the Qiao family who had married out. However, the Qiao family kept the daughter's marriage extremely secret at that time, and they could not find it after searching for a long time. Later, when passing by Tai Shang Sect, he happened to hear people talking about the appearance of the life-extending elixir, so he followed them, but unexpectedly he learned about these people's plans. He had observed Lingxiang for two days in the Supreme Sect at that time, and originally thought that Lingxiang would be the daughter of the Qiao family's daughter. However, from the information he had obtained, it seemed that this did not fit the description.
Later, when he was dealing with some bad people, he met Chi Yanzi again. He let him deal with this group of troublemakers, while he secretly followed Lingxiang. Speaking of which, Long Qi was a fish that slipped through the net. Everyone thought Chi Yanzi would get rid of the trouble, but unexpectedly, Long Qi, who had no cultivation at all, took advantage of the opportunity. He felt that since Long Qi only knew some martial arts, he should not be a threat to Lingxiang. Even if he wanted to do something illegal, Lingxiang should be able to handle it herself. He did not expect that the two of them would be so gentlemanly, one being indifferent. However, after listening to Lingxiang and Long Qi's conversation, and realizing that Chi Yanzi was not far away, he changed his plan, which led to the subsequent pill robbery incident. …… "It's quite meticulous. When I took out the life-extending elixir from the Supreme Sect, I thought there might be bad guys, but I didn't expect to meet someone from the Lu family." Lingxiang said with a smile. "At that time, I still had Bai Wuchang's hands and feet by my side, which made it inconvenient for me to act. It was just right to get rid of the hands of those people with bad intentions, so that I could act more conveniently." "So I was surprised at that time. Logically speaking, a person who does evil will come up with a second plan if the first one fails. That's why Senior Chi Yanzi escorted me all the way and was on guard everywhere. But you seemed to have disappeared and never appeared again. I guess you did some investigation on me." Lingxiang said, putting the last piece of plum blossom pancake into her mouth. "Although I have escaped from Bai Wuchang's minions, I am still under his control. There are some things I still have to obey..." Xinyi thought of her mother and suddenly fell silent again. "So..." Lingxiang suddenly stopped. Xinyi was puzzled for a moment. Based on his understanding of Lingxiang, although this girl seemed to have the same temperament as Maidong, she actually had her own ideas and did things for a purpose. Just now, he was wondering why she took him out alone. It seemed that she must have something to tell her. "So I will take you to see the Qiao family's lost pearl that you have been looking for." Lingxiang said and turned away. Xinyi followed her gaze and saw that although there was a bluestone official road ahead, there was still a flow of people. In front of the official road, there was actually a wealthy family. On the green wooden plaque on the door, it was written: City Lord's Mansion! After the National Day, the unit has been busy. I finally finished it yesterday and will resume updating from today! I am really on the verge of death, dancing with my head held high! Covering my face... (End of this chapter)