This is Kukai's room—it's better to say that it's among the red peony flowers. More precisely, in the realm of Danon's spells. Kukai was sitting on a peony petal as huge as a house. Tachibana Yishi sat next to him beside the tree-like yellow hair, opposite Dan Weng. At this moment, Kukai has just finished reading a letter sent by Abe Nakamaro to Li Bai, which is a very long story. Kukai carefully read the letter written in Japanese, and at the same time interpreted it into Tang language and read it out.From the beginning, he read it all the way down. This is a fantasy story describing the relationship between Emperor Xuanzong and Concubine Yang.

Yishi didn't say a word.Dan Weng was also silent, and sat down with his head up. "Master Danon, are you crying?" Kukai asked. In an instant... the red colors around him had faded, and after recovering, he took a closer look and saw that this place was Kukai's room. The lights flickered, and in the center of the three seated, a lonely red peony floated down like a dream. Dan Ong, who looked up to the sky, lowered his head and wiped the corners of his eyes with his right fingertips. "No, it reminds me of old memories." Danon looked up. "Master Danweng, could the Danlong appearing in Master Chao Heng's letter be referring to you?" Kukai asked.

"Exactly." "Then, what was written in the letter is all the truth?" "Yeah." Dan Weng nodded, and whispered to himself: "I didn't know Lord Chao Heng left such a letter..." The scroll with the letter was still in Kukai's hands. "Lord Danon, do you know all about the contents of this letter?" "Yes. I know everything written and not written..." "Are you referring to Danlong, Bailong, and Concubine who disappeared at the same time, and the whereabouts of Yellow Crane who also disappeared later, and what happened afterwards—"

"That's right." "Why are you all missing?" Facing Kukai's question, Danon remained silent. "Master Danon—" Kukai asked again.Dan Ong glanced at Kukai and said, "Kukai, this is our secret." "us?" "yes." "Who is with whom?" "It's Dan Weng and Bailong, Yellow Crane Taoist priest and imperial concubine. Or add the names of Emperor Xuanzong and Gao Lishi. If we go on, there is Qinglong Temple..." "what?" "Because of this letter, I finally fully understand. This is all like a dream fifty years ago.

And it's still going on.It can only be said that the cause we created at that time has finally reached the time when we have to reap it.Alas, it’s really..." Dan Ong spit out these words with a sigh, a smile appeared on the corner of his lips, and said: "Kukai, no matter how many years or decades, people can't escape the actions they have done..." "—" "In the past few decades, it can be said that I have been avoiding this matter, but in the end, I still can't escape its entanglement..." Dan Weng said as if swallowing the condensed bitterness.

"Bailong, you are finally determined to end this dream..." Not to Kukai, nor to Yishi, Dan Ong continued talking to himself. "Dream?" "That's a distant dream." Danon muttered to himself, looking up to Kukai. "Just now you mentioned the name Bailong—" "Kukai, that's not a business matter, it's a private matter—" "Master Dan Weng, the figure I met in Xu Wenqiang's cotton field that night was someone you knew well?" "Ok." "Is that a private matter?" "Yes. Kukai, in return for helping me read this letter, I would like to talk about that incident."

"that matter?" "About the terracotta warriors unearthed in the cotton fields." "Master Dan Weng said that those terracotta warriors were buried?" "Exactly." "The large group of pottery figurines?" "No." Dan Weng shook his head quietly, "I mean, those unearthed terracotta warriors. These terracotta warriors were not originally buried there. In fact, we imitated them." "what--" "Kukai, listen carefully..." After finishing speaking, Dan Ong began to describe the ins and outs of the unearthed terracotta warriors.

Autumn wilderness.Looking around, there are autumn grasses everywhere. The three men pushed aside the autumn grass as they walked. One is a man in his early fifties.His hair was jet black, but his eyes were light gray with a hint of black. The bridge of the nose is high. The other two are teenagers.A boy of about twelve to fourteen years old. A man about fifty years old, dressed in Taoist robes, walked in front. A man with the appearance of a Taoist priest was walking along the road with two teenagers. This man is Huang He. The two teenagers are Danlong and Bailong. The two originally had other names, and the Taoist named them Danlong and Bailong.

In a few places, slender and tall Suga grows in groups. Once you get in, you can hardly see people, only swaying silver spikes can be seen. They pushed through the miscanthus grass, and the speed remained the same. Go forward as much as you can. It's getting windy. At this moment, the sun is moving towards the mid-heaven, and the autumn grass still retains residual morning dew. While walking, the sleeves and feet of the clothes were wet with dew, making them look a little heavy. However, when the wind blows, the cuffs bulge, and the water vapor evaporates into the air. Two teenagers, Bailong and Danlong, each carried a shovel on their shoulders.

In the direction ahead, look to the right and you will see Lishan Mausoleum. It is also the mausoleum of Qin Shihuang. When the wind blows, the weeds shake. Except for these three people, there is no trace of Siye. The sleeves and hair tips of the man were also fluttering in the wind like weeds. "Go a little further and we'll be there." Yellow Crane, who was walking ahead, murmured briefly. "Have you noticed?" Huang He then asked the two people behind him. "How much..." "Is it the feeling that makes the hairs on the neck stand up?" Bai Long and Dan Long replied.

"So you've noticed it too!" Huang He nodded contentedly, and whispered to himself, "This place is under a huge curse." Huang He took a deep breath as he walked, and looked around. "Everyone around here has been cursed. How, do you feel that huge power?" Huang He sighed: "Listen carefully, no one knows about this except me. This secret must not be revealed to anyone People." Danlong and Bailong nodded repeatedly. "It's been fifteen years since I discovered this. This curse was originally cast on the Lishan Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang. The first emperor probably wanted to use this curse to protect his own undead. Those living people seemed to be buried with this curse... "Huang He talked more as he walked. "I planned to use this curse ten years ago. So I buried something here, and today we are here to dig it." The three moved forward in the wind. "Okay, it's near here." Huang He stopped and closed his eyes. While reciting a mantra, he bent his knees and squatted in the grass, with his right palm touching the ground. "Oh, here, right here!" Huang He stood up and plucked a hair from his head. Put one end of the hair between your lips and bend your knees. This time, put your palms on the ground, lower your waist forward, and let the other end of the hair in your mouth touch the ground. Then, I closed my eyes and said the mantra. What he recited was not a Tang spell, it sounded like a spell from a foreign country. After a while, his eyes slowly opened, and he got up to spit out the hair in his mouth. "It's unmistakable. The tip of the tongue is spicy, it must have touched the earth curse." Huang He looked at Bailong and Danlong and said, "Dig from here!" Bailong and Danlong started digging silently without saying a word.But the yellow crane was lying in the grass, looking up at the clouds in the sky. "Here, Bailong, Danlong, one day, I will use my magic to shake this country..." Huang He occasionally said to himself towards the sky. Sometimes he chewed grass branches in his mouth, looked up at the clear sky, spit out the grass, and muttered to himself: "Speaking of curses, the beauty of women is also a kind of curse. And it not only makes men's hearts beat, it can even overwhelm the country..." During the excavation At one point, he stopped to eat. After eating, Danlong and Bailong continued digging immediately. Yellow Crane sometimes leaned over to watch the deeper and deeper hole, and told the two of them: "It needs to be wider, because we still have to dig deeper." "One digs, and the other clears the soil out of the hole." Soon, the order became an exhortation: "It's almost here, take your time, and be careful with the shovel, so as not to damage the things buried in the ground." At this time, the sun is about to go west. Shen. After a while, the shovel in Danlong's hand touched some kind of hard object. Not rocks. "That's the one, that's the one." Huang He got up and looked into the cave. Finally, four human-sized pottery figurines were dug out of the cave.They were all men in armor. In addition to the four statues, there are also similar figurines buried around them. "No, those are real. No need to dig—" Huang He asked the two to stop digging. "Are you surprised?" Huang He, who was above the cave, said to the two people in the cave. "There are similar things buried in the ground around here, there are about seven thousand statues. I passed by here by accident, and felt that the earth's atmosphere was disordered, so I tried to investigate, only to find that there are such pottery figurines buried here—" Huang He's voice echoed loudly in the cave. "The four figurines must be brought out. But don't worry. You don't need to do anything. Come out!" Huang He said. Bailong and Danlong crawled out of the cave.Yellow Crane stood by the cave, looked down at the four pottery figurines lying in the cave, and began to chant mantras with both hands in mudra. "" Then, he prayed with an exotic mantra. Then—"Oh." "Wow." Bai Long and Dan Long exclaimed. The terracotta figurines lying in the cave suddenly began to tremble in their limbs and started to move. Yellow Crane kept chanting the foreign mantra. The four terracotta figurines clumsily collided and fell, while each climbed up, holding the edge of the cave with their hands, and got up repeatedly until they climbed out of the cave. At this moment, the four figurines are standing side by side in front of the yellow crane. The red sunset that is gradually sinking on the horizon is reflecting on the four figurines. Huang He laughed, but his voice was full of joy in a low voice: "Ten years. It takes only ten years to be able to move. Just as I expected. These four imitation figurines have successfully gathered the magic power of this place—" Huang He laughed triumphantly. "When shaping the fake figurines, I mixed my hair into the soil, and then mixed them into the nails. If they are buried for another ten years, these fake figurines will act like real people. Answer me, son of the earth, my son, give You are alive, please be happy—" The four terracotta figurines exhaled from their lips. Whew——was it the innermost words of the initiative to answer? Or did Huang He cast a spell to make them answer? No one knows. However, it is absolutely true that these four pottery figurines can move and can climb out of the cave by themselves. Before the sunset, Huang He ordered the four terracotta statues to lie down in the cave again. Before the figurines climbed back, the cave had been made shallower. "Next time, let them climb out of the hole on their own, so they can't dig too deep. After they lie down, don't cover it with too much soil." In this way, the hole was filled back. When it was buried, the stars were already twinkling in the dark sky. "Bailong, Danlong, they will come in handy sooner or later." "yes." "Yes." Bai Long and Dan Long nodded towards Huang He. Under the starry sky, the three walked away leisurely. The room was silent. The lights dimmed as if they were about to go out, and the room was filled with cold night air. "The only one who knows about this now is Bailong besides me." Kukai took a deep breath of the cold air in the darkness and said, "Then, Master Dan Weng, the terracotta warriors unearthed from Xu Wenqiang's cotton fields are all Bailong What did you do?" "En." Dan Weng nodded in acquiescence. "Then, about Liu Yunqiao's demon cat..." "I'm afraid it's—" "Why on earth did Bailong want to do such a thing—" "—" Danon didn't answer. He pursed his lips tightly, as if thinking about something. Kukai looked at Danon, waiting for his response. "Too many puzzling things..." Dan Weng muttered to himself. "The years between us are long, too long. Xuanzong, Gao Lishi, Chao Heng, Huang He, Bailong, and—" Dan Weng paused, closed his eyes, and said with emotion: "The noble concubine ..." Then, Dan Weng opened his eyes and said, "However, there are things that we already know." "—" "I can categorically confirm one thing..." "What's up?" "That's Bailong's method to lure me out." "White Dragon's means?" "If there are terracotta warriors near the Lishan Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin, and if the terracotta warriors can still move, the news will definitely reach my ears. Bailong probably thinks that as long as the news spreads, I will definitely show up." "So that's how it is..." Kukai called out bluntly, "Then, where is Taoist Priest Yellow Crane?" "Don't ask me, Kukai—" "—" "That's our private matter, and a secret—" "—" "When the opportunity comes, there must be a day to tell." Dan Weng stood in the middle of the room slowly. "Kukai, tonight let you hear about the nostalgic past." "yes." "This is a matter between me and Bailong. It is something that must be resolved between us..." Dan Weng walked towards the door. "Master Danon..." Kukai called him from behind, but Danon didn't respond, he opened the door and walked out. "Kukai!" Yishi stood up, and Kukai stopped him with his eyes. "Kukai, time passes, but only a moment..." Danon's voice came from outside the house. "Don't waste your talent in vain." After that, Dan Weng's voice and movement disappeared into the night air. In front of Kukai and Yishi, there was only the letter volume sent by Abe Nakamaro to Li Bai, quietly reflecting the faint light.

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