Being knocked down by the Heavenly Dao while ascending

The Linglu car slowed down and stopped at the foot of Zhulixing Mountain.
"Bah! You just want to trick me! Fortune tellers are liars, I don't believe you!" Xiao Kong lifted the pink and white gauze curtain and jumped out of the car, "Come up slowly, I won't wait for you!"
Xiaokong did what he said and ran very fast, and soon disappeared from sight.

Pei Mingyan smiled and shook his head, "What a childish mentality." He looked up into the air and his smile faded. Of course he knew about the formations everywhere in the bamboo forest. The Mei family could be considered the big brother in the formation world. Although this formation that confused the spiritual influence was concealed, it could not be hidden from him.
Look, after Xiaokong ran away, the presence of the formation became more prominent.

He sighed, slid down from the car reluctantly, and dutifully played the role of a starving person.
He took a short breath every three steps and a heavy breath every five steps, and did not forget to let some water droplets condense on his forehead to pretend to be sweating.

Speaking of walking, we have to mention a unique rule of Zhulixing. This book is about the world of cultivation. It is normal to fly around, but Zhulixing has a rule to constrain the people in its branch, that is - people in this branch are not allowed to fly within the area of ​​Zhulixing.
So the Linglu Flying Cart they were riding in good condition could only go as far as the foot of the mountain.
I heard that it was because the dean always walked here, and Tang Gu thought that even if the dean didn't care or was not particular, people couldn't pass him.

Pei Mingyan stopped for several times along the way. Xiaokong was no longer visible, and the two of them climbed up the mountain, one slowly and one quickly.

When he arrived at the gate of Zhulixing, Pei Mingyan's legs almost went weak.

The gate was lined with people standing in rows like sugar canes, leaving a passage in the middle for two people to walk side by side. However, the faces of the people standing on both sides of the passage were definitely not good, and they stared at him with stern faces, as if he owed money.

No way, no way? They wanted everyone in the hospital to beat him up together? So they invited him back just to beat him to death? No wonder Xiaokong ran so fast, was it just in case he took someone hostage?
Pei Mingyan exhaled heavily. Not really. Not really.

He pretended to be nothing, raised his hand, and greeted Tang Gu and everyone else, "Hi, the weather is nice today, everyone is here to bask in the sun."

Tang Gu didn't say anything, just stared at him.

"Well...if there's nothing else, I'll go in first." Pei Mingyan limped and was about to walk in.

Tang Gu's face looked grim. She closed her eyes and suppressed her emotions. "Take off your clothes."

"......?" Pei Mingyan coughed twice, "Um... I'm not seriously injured. No need to check."

Upon hearing this, Qingyun and the others looked grim. If Pei Mingyan was really injured, they would have a hard time explaining it, but if Pei Mingyan wasn't injured, they would lose face.

Pei Mingyan also reacted and patched it up, "Uh... well... well, I was just lucky and happened to avoid a fatal injury. In the end, I didn't escape and injured my head."

Tang Gu stared at his face for a while, as if trying to determine whether what he said was true or false. "You misunderstood. I just want to confirm whether you are Pei Mingyan."

"How could I not be Pei Mingyan? I thought, with my popularity among people in Zhulixing, no one would be so crazy as to pretend to be me." He touched his face and thought about the face-changing.
What about taking off clothes? This is not a good idea. There are more than a hundred people watching, and he doesn't have any special fetishes. He struggled again, and lowered his voice, "Besides, you have never seen me naked, and you can't tell whether I am real or fake if I take off my clothes. After all, I don't have..."
Pei Mingyan subconsciously touched his left arm, his face changed, "Is this the mark you want to see?"

He rolled up his sleeves, and the aqua blue guqin was imprinted on his fair skin, with clear and lifelike patterns, as if the sound of the guqin would be heard at any time.

Everyone in Zhulixing, including Tang Gu, moved in unison, took a few steps back, bowed their heads, and behaved in a respectful manner.

The person who could make everyone like this seems to have something to do with the dean.
Pei Ming asked tentatively, "Could it be that this is a rare thing?"

Tang Gu frowned and pursed her lips, obviously very angry at his nonchalant attitude, but she suddenly lowered her eyes and explained, "This is the master's zither pattern. Seeing the zither pattern is like seeing the master."

Oh, that's the meaning of the Imperial Sword.
"Wait...wait a minute." Pei Mingyan said deliberately, "Isn't this something that everyone has? I woke up with this extra thing, and I thought everyone in the academy would have it."

Tang Gu raised her head suddenly, but turned her eyes away, "Don't be ungrateful, there are only three people in the whole academy who have the Qin pattern, and -"

Before he could finish his words, a person suddenly rushed out from the door. It was Xiaokong.
He ran out holding the casserole.
"Fortune teller! Let me bring you...something...to eat—"

"Bang!" The casserole broke into pieces on the ground, the porridge in the pot splashed all over the floor, and steam rose up.

Xiaokong rushed up with red eyes, grabbed Pei Mingyan's wrist with one hand, and touched the uneven pattern of the piano with the other hand.
Although it is printed on the arm, each string can be felt, and it is cool to the touch, a completely different temperature from the surrounding skin.

"This... this is the dean's master's water qin pattern." Xiaokong let go of her hand, her face full of sadness, "Tang Gu really didn't lie to me, all you fortune tellers are liars! You obviously know the dean! And you're still pretending! Liar!" Xiaokong wiped away his tears, turned around and ran to the yard.

"Eh……"
Pei Mingyan frowned. His wrist was still hot from the warmth of Xiaokong's hand. He looked at the broken pot of porridge and said nothing for a while.
Xiaokong is clearly mentally handicapped and behaves like a child, but he treats people sincerely and is considered his favorite person in the villain's den.
Well, because of this stamp, the little friend he had coaxed with great difficulty is gone again.

Pei Mingyan put down his sleeves. "Now I can prove that I am Pei Mingyan, right?"

Tang Gu looked up, "Of course."

Pei Mingyan said "hmm" and walked into the bamboo forest. When he passed by Baizhou, he stopped for a moment, but still went in.

Qingyun, Xu Bai, Shuiyuan and the other four looked particularly unhappy, "Tanggu, this..."

"Don't worry, nothing will happen." Tang Gu stopped following Pei Mingyan, "I will apologize to the dean, you don't have to blame yourself. I will also explain it to Pei Mingyan in person. This is something I caused, and it has nothing to do with you." Qingyun smiled forcedly, "Tang Gu, that's not what we meant."

"That's what I mean." Tang Gu replied.

The four of them stopped talking.
The crowd soon dispersed, leaving only them standing there in great confusion.

Shui Yuan said: "Why is it him?"

"Yeah, I can't figure it out either." Xu Bai's face was almost wrinkled into a walnut, "What's the reason for Pei Mingyan? He's neither good at martial arts nor literature, and his appearance... well, it's quite normal now, but when he had the Qin pattern on his body, he really looked different!"

Shui Yuan gave a conclusion: "Maybe... it's because of his special appearance that he attracted the attention of the dean."

"Isn't that enough for you?!" Qingyun said sternly, "The dean's decision is our decision. Are you questioning the dean now?"

Xu Bai and Shui Yuan immediately lowered their heads, "We were too presumptuous. We will go find Tang Gu to accept the punishment."

Soon, there were no more people at the gate of Zhulixing.

A figure appeared at the door. Before I could see who it was, the porridge and the broken casserole on the ground disappeared.

Behind the door, Tang Gu looked at the empty and clean floor and turned back.
A broom and a dustpan lay quietly there.
.
Pei Mingyan returned to his nest and found that everything had returned to normal. Even the brothers and sisters of his chickens, ducks, and geese who had died in vain had been sent here. The males were males and the females were females, and there was no mistake in their genders.
The group of new kids were chattering and making a lot of noise.

He dug a few holes by the lake, found an axe, chopped down a tree from the woods behind, split a few boards, controlled the temperature to bake the boards, took out a pen and wrote a few words on them, then took out a chicken feather, a duck feather, a goose feather, and a bunch of unidentified objects from somewhere, put the objects into several holes, and erected the finished tombstone.

After finishing his work, he lay on the stone slab by the lake to bask in the sun, thinking about this series of events, which indeed made him discover many strange things.
The reactions of Tang Gu and others showed that they suddenly realized that he had this mark, and they stopped asking about his appearance. It seemed that this was the reason.

So, this mark is not simple. What is its purpose? What is it?
Before he could come to a conclusion, he suddenly fell asleep.

When I woke up, it was dark all around.
He heard the sound of the bleak wind and the sound of dripping water, as if water was being squeezed out from the cracks in the cliff, not a single drop falling for a long time, and then hitting the ground with a crisp and pleasant sound.
“Tatt—tatt—tatt”

Pei Mingyan tried to move his body, but found that he couldn't move.
He quickly concluded that someone was dragging his consciousness into a dream.

"Stop playing tricks on me. Who are you? Come out."

What answered him was still the rustling sound of wind and dripping water, but the frequency of the dripping water sound became faster, becoming "tick-tick-tick-tick", which added a sense of urgency.

Pei Mingyan listened carefully and found that there were indeed no extra sounds around. He didn't understand what the other party was doing, so he didn't react in any other way and just lay on the ground quietly.

Suddenly, a "clang" sound exploded throughout the space.

Pei Mingyan only felt dizzy for a moment, and his eardrums even swelled, and then a fishy smell hit his nose.

The "tick, tick, tick" sound no longer paused for a long time, but continued one after another.

Blood?

As soon as this thought came to his mind, he felt dizzy again. When he opened his eyes again, he was lying on the stone slab by the lake.

What kind of messed up dream is this? Escape from the secret room? Waiting for rescue?
The sound of the piano...

He touched the water melody on his arm, thoughtfully.

A voice broke his contemplation.
"Pei Mingyan."

Tang Gu, dressed in black, entered his little world.

Her gaze was directed towards the last tombstone in the row, which read - In memory of Pei Mingyan, the death of friendship.
Tanggu suddenly laughed.

(End of this chapter)