Master National Teacher is motionless

Chapter 74 The White Lady

"The head of the Jingtiantai?"

Lin Lan was a little surprised, and then glanced at Qiao Baiyue again, a little concerned about what she called the first one.

The first... my lord?
However, he didn't say much, he just frowned slightly and said, "Is the head of the Jingtiantai male or female?"

Qiao Baiyue became more and more surprised, and replied, "Of course it's a man."

"Is he human?" Lin Lan asked.

"Naturally, it's human." Qiao Baiyue nodded slightly.

Lin Lan was silent for a while, and said, "Qiao Baiyue, you are also the Xuezheng of the academy, right?"

Qiao Baiyue was slightly taken aback, nodded and said: "My identity is indeed the Xuezheng of the Academy, and I happen to be able to learn art in the Academy."

Lin Lan asked again: "Speaking of which, you should call me Junior Brother?"

"Naturally." Qiao Baiyue nodded and said, "I am indeed a few years earlier than Mr. Lin."

Lin Lan pondered.

According to the situation seen in the finale, it is undoubtedly the snake demon who set off a huge wave to kill him, and it was a woman who called him junior, and it was probably in a dream.

The most qualified one is undoubtedly Qiao Baiyue in front of him.

but……

From the looks of it now, Qiao Baiyue probably had no reason to kill him.

Lin Lan still couldn't figure it out, and asked again: "Do you know that there is a second Dream Snake in Chonghua City or somewhere?"

"The second Dream Snake?" Qiao Baiyue was stunned, then shook her head and said, "Mr. Lin, the Dream Snake is unique, there can be no second Dream Snake in the world."

"Unique?" Lin Lan frowned slightly.

Qiao Baiyue pondered for a while, and said, "Mr. Lin, do you know how a monster is born?"

Lin Lan said: "The emperor is liquid."

"Yes, Emperor Ointment." Qiao Baiyue said, "But do you know why Emperor Ointment is useless to humans?"

"I'm not sure about that," Lin Lan said.

"Because...human beings are human beings, not monster races."

Qiao Baiyue said a seemingly meaningless nonsense, and then said: "Human beings are the master of all spirits. This has been the case since ancient times, but ordinary animals and birds are different."

She paused, and said softly: "Because all the beasts and birds in the world are descendants of the monster race, and the blood of the ancient monster race is hidden in their bodies. The emperor's fluid only stimulated the blood of the monster race, so they returned to their ancestors and returned to their origins." , become a demon again."

Lin Lan listened quietly.

Qiao Baiyue continued: "In the legend, the source of the blood of many demon clans is the demon ancestors born in the early days of you. They were also called divine beasts in ancient times, but they have long been extinct now, and only the blood has been handed down. The pure divine beasts Bloodlines are also restricted by the heavens, so any kind of divine beast is unique."

"You mean..." Lin Lan said softly, "Is the dream snake a kind of ancient mythical beast?"

"Yes."

Qiao Baiyue lightly nodded her head, and said: "The ancient mythical beast 'Dream Snake', that is, the bloodline of the Dream Demon Ancestor has multiplied up to now, and has already spread countless bloodlines, from all kinds of snakes and dragons, down to the most common Jieyou Snake. , up to the legendary Mirage Dragon, all of them have the blood of the Dream Demon Ancestor in their bodies, but more or less, but only the Dream Snake is unique."

Lin Lan was silent for a while, and said, "Your sisters said that you came to Chonghua City because you felt the call from your ancestors?"

Qiao Baiyue sighed softly, and said: "That's right, because there is an ancient remains of the Dream Demon Ancestor hidden in Chonghua City, and it is only because of the awakening of my blood that I feel its appeal."

"So, you are the unique Dream Snake..."

Lin Lan narrowed his eyes slightly, and asked again: "Then do you know, what kind of powerful snake-like monsters are there? Like you, they can pull people into such a dream, and then kill them in the dream? "

"Yu Shui killed people in the dream?" Qiao Baiyue was stunned, then shook her head and said, "Mr. Lin, do you know why I am so sure that Dream Snake is unique?"

"Huh?" Lin Lan looked at her.

"Not only because of the memory of classics and bloodline inheritance."

Qiao Baiyue turned around slowly, looked at the endless sea of ​​dreams, and said softly, "It's more because this is the 'Sea of ​​Dreams' that only Dream Snakes can dive into."

Pointing to the isolated islands in the distance, she asked, "Have you seen those isolated islands?"

Lin Lan hummed.

The isolated island under his feet looked no different from those isolated islands.

"This sea of ​​dreams seems to be boundless, but it's actually just the appearance of a dream."

Qiao Baiyue said softly: "The key lies in these countless isolated islands. In fact, these isolated islands are the embodiment of the hearts and wills of countless people, and more parts buried under the water surface are the deeper roots of the soul. Taoists call it It is Dao Zang, Buddhism calls it Tathagata Zang, do you understand?"

Lin Lan nodded, "Go ahead."

He has also read many classics in the library, so he naturally knows what she is talking about.

--subconscious.

And this sea of ​​dreams is the so-called collective subconscious?
"This sea of ​​dreams is very special."

Qiao Baiyue said: "Dream Snake's innate supernatural powers are powerful because they can dive into this sea of ​​dreams, and through these isolated islands that represent everyone's soul, pull people into the sea of ​​dreams, directly targeting the deepest layers of the soul."

She was silent for a while, and said: "Normally speaking, it is impossible to kill people in dreams, but in this sea of ​​dreams that is connected to reality, it is possible to do it, and Dream Snake uses the sea of ​​dreams to greatly increase his powers, and Outsiders have greatly reduced their morality."

Having said that, Qiao Baiyue looked at Lin Lan.

"So... if it is said that Yushui killed people in the dream, it can only be done here."

Qiao Baiyue said: "It is true that I can drive this dreamland sea to set off a wave and kill the person I dragged into this dreamland. If it is a snake, only the Dream Snake in the world can do it. The power of instant awakening seems to be able to dive into this deep sea of ​​dreams."

Lin Lan fell silent.

In the finale, he did die in a dream, and when he was submerged by the monstrous tsunami, the real feeling of being impacted by the vast mighty force was unmistakable.

So it seems that he really died at the hands of Dream Snake.

Maybe... in the remaining few days, something will happen, causing Dream Snake to kill him?
"What's the matter, Mr. Lin Lan?"

Qiao Baiyue asked cautiously: "But do you have any acquaintances who died in such a way?"

Lin Lan let out a breath slowly, did not answer her, but asked softly: "Qiao Baiyue, I want to ask you a question, what do you think...under what circumstances would you kill me?"

If you can't figure it out, just ask directly.

"Kill you?" Qiao Baiyue couldn't help being startled, and asked, "You have been kind to me, how could I kill you?"

"That's if." Lin Lan said, "You answer honestly."

Qiao Baiyue thought for a while, then lowered her voice slightly, and said: "If there must be such a time, then... it can only be that you and I have formed an irreparable hatred."

Lin Lan looked at her and made things clear for her: "For example, killed your two sisters? Will you kill me for revenge?"

Qiao Baiyue was startled for a moment, then lowered her head and said in a low voice, "I... will."

Immediately, she couldn't help asking: "What do you mean by asking this?"

Lin Lan was silent for a while, then slowly shook her head and said, "It's nothing, I have no grievances with you, why did you kill your sister? I just hope you can remember my words, no matter what happens in the future, you have to check it out. "

"Yes, Bai Yue, please remember." Qiao Baiyue nodded seriously.

Lin Lan pondered for a while, and then said: "I want to know your previous experience, especially the special part, can you let me have a look? I have read some classics, and I know that Dream Snake has the ability to recall memories and turn them into dreams .”

Now it seems that the person who killed him was probably Dream Snake, and there must be some unplanned misunderstanding or coincidence.

It was a matter of the endgame, so he naturally wanted to find out what was going on.

Qiao Baiyue was taken aback when she heard the words, and then asked in a low voice, "Are you sure you want to see it?"

"Yeah." Lin Lan nodded.

Qiao Baiyue was silent for a while, and said: "I can show you, but I think it's best for you not to know about the secrets of the Jingtiantai, otherwise if I leak it out and break the oath, the head of the Jingtiantai will be killed." You know, you will be in trouble when the time comes."

"Okay, if you can't tell me, you can skip it." Lin Lan nodded slightly.

Facing the end at this time, he naturally wouldn't take the initiative to seek death and incur the hatred of Jing Tiantai.

Even if he forced Dream Snake to tell him everything, maybe this would be the reason for the end?

He just wanted to increase the favorable factors as much as possible and grasp more situations.

"In that case...then, please take a look."

Qiao Baiyue stood up slowly, looked at the vast blue waves and the sea and sky in the distance, flicked her sleeves lightly, and saw the color of the world and the surroundings changed.

This is the dream scene of illusion of memory.

The surrounding fog drifts, and the lush flowers and trees can be seen, which is impressively in a valley.

The moonlight was bright and clear, and there seemed to be countless strands of golden streamer flashing across the sky.

Not far away, under the moonlight, a huge white jade-like boa constrictor could be seen. It was trembling slowly among the flowers and plants. Then the scales of the snake receded, and gradually grew human hands, feet, body and face. A stunning girl with naked fruit, with her hands on her knees, curled up among the lush flowers and plants, her carcass looming under the cover of flowers and plants.

"This is what I looked like after I swallowed the emperor's ooze to produce spiritual intelligence and transformed into a form." Qiao Baiyue said softly, "Then, I went to find my 21 sisters."

With a movement of her fingertips, the illusion around her continued to change.

Lin Lan found herself in front of a cave in a deep valley. Twenty-two snake demon women, including Qiao Baiyue, were lying on smooth rocks in front of the cave like snakes, lazily basking in the sun. He only wears clothes made of flowers and plants.

And Qiao Baiyue in the memory was looking into the distance, which was in the southeast direction.

"Little sister, why are you staring in that direction in a daze every day?" A snake girl suddenly asked.

The stunning girl with a flower wreath and a flower and grass dress was looking at that direction with some bewilderment, and murmured: "Sister, I really feel the calling of the ancestors, do you know where it is over there?" ?”

The snake girl thought for a while and said: "The nerd who strayed into the valley last time left behind a book of world geography. Our Qingmu Mountain is in Dayu Yanzhou, one of the four dynasties of human beings, right? Go further southeast The direction... should be the Jingzhou of Dayu? It is the direction of Chonghua City in the legend, and further southeast seems to be Youzhou, Chizhou, and the sea area, right?"

"Elder Sister, I want to go and have a look." The stunning girl said suddenly.

"No, you are not allowed to go out!"

The snake lady immediately said sternly: "The outside is full of human beings. Those stinky monks and Taoist priests are all over the world to eliminate demons. If you are discovered, those monks and Taoist priests will come to arrest you. If you are lucky, they will arrest you and go back. You will be guarded by spirit beasts." Dongfu, if you're unlucky, I'm afraid it will kill you directly."

"I'm not afraid." The stunning girl snorted, "Didn't I knock down a Taoist priest who sneaked into the valley last time? When I sent him out, he thought it was a dream and forgot what happened here." Woolen cloth."

"That Taoist priest is not very good at Taoism, but there are many people with profound Taoism among human beings."

The snake girl said: "It is said that our demon clan was wiped out by a human named Tang Tianyuan, the first national teacher of Dayu, more than 800 years ago. According to my ancestors, the black water cave six hundred miles away was 800 meters away. Years ago, there was a ten thousand-year-old demon king, but because of his evil deeds, he was killed by the Dayu Guoshi, think about it, that is a great demon king."

"Isn't that a good thing?" The stunning girl suddenly opened her beautiful eyes wide, shining like little stars, "The bad guys who did evil have been wiped out, the first generation of the national teacher is a good person, big sister, I want to learn from him! "

"Unfortunately, the first national teacher passed away a long time ago." Sister Snake gave her a blank look, and then said: "However, Tang Tianyuan seems to have established a sect called 'Renzong'. It is said that Renzong accepts disciples without distinction , just look at the character and aptitude, I heard that there was indeed a demon clan who transformed into the Renzong."

The stunning girl's eyes lit up when she heard this: "Renzong? Renzong..."

"You are not allowed to go." Sister Snake Girl glared at her, "Blame me for talking too much, I shouldn't have told you."

"Eldest sister, why? Isn't Renzong only accepting good people and good demons?" The stunning girl pouted and looked at her eldest sister with tears in her eyes, as if she was about to cry. Saved those who got lost and fell into the valley."

"That's not okay, anyway, you are not allowed to go." Sister Snake Girl snorted coldly, and then said softly: "Little sister, can't we sisters hide in Qingmu Mountain to practice? How happy every day is like this."

"But... people want to go out and have a look."

The stunning girl lowered her head and said aggrievedly, "And Zu is also calling me."

"Is that because of the ancestor's call?" Sister Snake couldn't help laughing, "It's not uncommon for me to expose you. You are obviously greedy for those delicacies of human beings, and you still want to go out to play, and return to the ancestor's call."

The surrounding snake girls all laughed.

"Oh, big sister!" The stunning girl stomped her feet, and went back to the cave angrily.

Recalling the dream, amidst the laughter of the snake girls, Qiao Baiyue slowly closed her slightly red eyes, then turned her head to look at Lin Lan beside her, and said softly, "Mr. Lin, the old me...was Isn't it childish?"

"A little bit." Lin Lan nodded slightly.

"But this period of time was the happiest experience I had." Qiao Baiyue laughed at herself, "It's just that I didn't know how to cherish it at that time, and only yearned for the outside world."

She stretched out her hand, as if holding the roulette of time, and flicked it lightly.

The illusion of memory changes rapidly.

The night was filled with darkness, and only a soft moonlight fell in the valley.

Under the moonlight, a stunning girl wrapped in tree bark carefully poked her head out of the cave, looked around, and then walked out of the cave.

She was about to walk out of the cave on tiptoe, but she heard a rushing sound in the nearby woods.

The stunning girl turned her head to look, and her face suddenly collapsed, "Eldest sister, second sister..."

Several snake girls who came out of the nearby woods looked at the stunning girl angrily.

"The elder sister is right, the younger sister is really planning to sneak away."

"Little sister, you are too disobedient."

"Running outside alone, what if you run into danger?"

The elder sisters of the snake girls couldn't help frowning, but after saying a few words, they found that the elder sister of the snake girl didn't speak, but just looked at the little girl in silence, and one of the snake girls couldn't help but said: "Sister, you Why don't you talk, you should also teach the younger sister a few words."

"Big sister..." The stunning girl looked pitifully at the big sister of the snake girl.

Sister Snake sighed, and said: "Forget it, what's the use of teaching this girl? This girl is the royal blood of our Jieyou Snake, 'Dream Snake'. After all, her future can't just stay in this small valley. inside."

She reached out and touched the girl's head, "Go out if you want, but you have to be prepared. If you go out like this, you will definitely be caught by humans."

"Really?" The stunning girl looked at the eldest sister happily, and couldn't help but stepped forward to hug her hard, and said happily: "I knew that the eldest sister treated me the best! Why don't the eldest sister go out with me?"

"I've been out, I know what it's like, so I won't go."

Sister Snake Girl shook her head, looked at the girl again, and said, "You can't go out like this. You have to change into human clothes and dress plainly, otherwise it will be too eye-catching."

The stunning girl nodded excitedly.

And Lin Lan was standing beside Qiao Baiyue, watching these snake girls rushing to impart 'common sense' about the human world to the girl.

"Later... after I left the valley, I met a human tooth in a nearby town."

Qiao Baiyue said softly, and the memories and dreams in front of her eyes were constantly changing one after another, "She lied to me and said that she could take me to Chonghua, take me to Renzong, bought me a lot of delicious food, and even married me. I told a story written by the first national teacher 800 years ago, the script called "The White Lady", I was very happy to hear it, and soon believed her."

The follow-up memories are obviously not very good, she is not even willing to show the images of the memories, but just strips the pictures from the memories.

Lin Lan just watched the scenes silently.

Ren Yazi, who looked like a middle-aged woman, looked extremely shocked when she saw the stunning girl.

There was that human tooth who heard the stunning girl say that she was a wandering official lady, that seemingly gentle but greedy eyes.

Someone poisoned the food, but found that the stunning girl showed no reaction after eating it.

"Then, this group of people found that no matter how much medicine they gave me, it was useless to me. They suspected that I was a practitioner, but found that I was too naive and still wanted to be a big ticket, so they tied me up."

Qiao Baiyue's dazed water-cut eyes reflected the ever-changing memories and dreams, "I hadn't started practicing at that time, my physical body was not much stronger than ordinary people, and my innate supernatural powers were still awakening. At this critical moment, human beings must not be allowed to discover my supernatural powers, so there is no resistance."

She laughed at herself, "At that time, I naively thought...these bastards might want to take me to Chonghua City."

Immediately, the illusion of memory stayed on one screen, and I saw a huge white jade-like python entrenched on the ground, surrounded by humans holding torches, constantly besieging it.

"Later, they broke my tendons and hamstrings, and nailed my hands and feet with rivets and hemp rope. I was in pain and scared, so I had to show my original shape and break free from the rope."

Qiao Baiyue sighed: "They were all terrified and besieged me desperately. I wanted to explain, but no one listened. I didn't want to be a bad monster, and I didn't dare to kill anyone, so I had to run away."

The dream scene of the memories flashed past, and the stunning girl sat by the river crying and pulled out the rivets on her hands and feet, and then looked at the story book of "The White Lady" while crying.

Lin Lan was silent for a moment, and said, "The White Lady...is a tragedy."

(End of this chapter)