I didn't expect that I was the heartthrob.

Chapter 36: Mermaid Mirror

Gu Lan covered his head and stood up.

Why do I always fall headfirst? Is my head heavy?

Gu Lan hissed and inhaled, and stood up. This was a stone cave, with many torches burning inside, illuminating the cave as bright as day.

The spiritual energy here is abundant, and Gu Lan observes while replenishing the spiritual energy.

There was a pool of water in the cave, which was constantly gurgling. In addition, there was an altar in the middle of the cave. There were eight stone pillars carved with strange patterns around the altar, pointing to the center of the altar. On the raised platform, there was a jade-colored coffin.

It was originally a beautiful jade color, but it looked ugly and weird because it was covered with intricate symbols.

Gu Lan had no intention of studying the spells; she only wanted to find the mermaid, but after looking around, she couldn't even find a door.

Gu Lan looked helplessly at the bottomless, dark and strange pool, then at the jade coffin covered with runes on the altar, and decided to study the jade coffin first.

The jade coffin seemed to have some kind of sensor. When it saw Gu Lan walking towards it, it emitted colorful light from all over its body. The light changed and hit the dark runes, as if it was consciously guiding Gu Lan to break those runes.

Gu Lan seemed to have some sense in his heart. He took out a pen from the mustard seed bag and walked along the rune where the floating light was hitting. Then Gu Lan waved his pen and began to paint along the floating light.

With the help of Fu Guang, Gu Lan successfully drew half of it, but then the rune seemed to sense that someone was destroying it and fought back.

The runes suddenly erupted and turned into thousands of sharp swords. Before Gu Lan could react, they shot out and stabbed Gu Lan.

At the critical moment, Xu Guizhi suddenly woke up.

His remaining soul was severely damaged in that courtyard before, so he hid in Gu Lan's body to recuperate. Because he had no spiritual energy at all before, he had been in a coma.

Now that Gu Lan had absorbed the spiritual energy, he was able to repair his remaining soul. The pain as if he had been stung by a wasp had disappeared. He had just fallen asleep peacefully when he suddenly realized that Gu Lan was in danger and rushed out.

"Senior Ghost, be careful!" Gu Lan couldn't help but shout when he saw the senior rushing out and weaving a gray net in front of him to block the attacks of the talismans.

Fearing that her seniors would be harmed by these talismans, Gu Lan quickly drew a defensive talisman and threw it out. Unfortunately, her level was too low, and the talismans shattered in mid-air before they even touched the talismans.

Xu Guizhi's remaining soul still had some strength, but it was limited after all, and could only hold out for a while before being defeated.

Gu Lan shouted "Come back", and Xu Guizhi returned to Gu Lan's body.

"Thank you, Oni-senpai, for blocking that attack for me."

Xu Guizhi didn't even have the strength to even hum, and fell into a coma.

Gu Lan was very grateful to Senior Ghost. If Senior Ghost had not come out in time, she would have been pierced into a sieve by those madly surging runes.

Without a sword, Gu Lan could only use explosive talismans to deal with the runes that kept chasing him. One person and many runes staged a life-and-death race in the stone cave, and Gu Lan would occasionally throw an explosive talisman to block them.

The floating light was also swimming anxiously on the jade coffin at this time. It seemed that it had not expected that the visitor would encounter such trouble. It was so anxious that it didn't know what to do. It vaguely remembered that every time the person came to open the coffin, he would stand on a stone pillar in the southeast corner and shoot a golden light at the jade coffin.

Although he didn't know what that meant, the rune never attacked him.

So they concentrated their attacks on the stone pillar.

While running, Gu Lan paid attention to the changes in the jade coffin and found that the floating light on the jade coffin was actually hitting a stone pillar violently. He guessed that was the way to crack the code, so he seized the opportunity and jumped onto the stone pillar. After standing on the stone pillar, the rune hesitated for a moment, and then stopped moving.

The "Taoism of Fu" says that runes can be connected end to end to form an array. If the person breaking the rune stands in the right position, he can observe the center of the array.

At this moment, Gu Lan did see a white spot of light in his eyes. The white spot was as bright as a bean and radiant. He thought that it was the core of the talisman-breaking formation.

Then Gu Lan sat down, made a wave gesture with his left hand, pointed his right hand at his left wrist, and sent spiritual energy to the center of the formation.

The spiritual energy collided with the center of the formation, causing a dazzling white light to burst out. After the white light, it became a white light spot as bright as a bean. The runes quickly reattached to the jade coffin like snakes, and quickly gathered around the white spot, and finally disappeared in the white light spot.

After all the runes disappeared, the white spots gradually faded.

The floating light on the jade coffin gradually disappeared.

Gu Lan jumped off the stone pillar, walked closer to the jade coffin, raised his hand to touch the jade coffin, only to feel it was icy and cold.

Could there be a mermaid inside the jade coffin?

Gu Lan didn't know, and hesitated for a moment. What if a big monster appeared? But she felt that the floating light just now had no malicious intent.

After struggling for a while and preparing herself mentally, Gu Lan slowly opened the jade coffin. At first, Gu Lan only dared to open it a little. She lowered her head, exposed her two eyes and looked inside. She only saw a brilliant light, but nothing.

Seeing that there was no danger, he bravely opened the jade coffin.

The dazzling light was like a blooming firework, filling the entire cave. When the light disappeared, Gu Lan could see clearly that the person lying in the jade coffin was a mermaid.

The mermaid's face was pale, and she lay in the jade coffin looking at her.

Gu Lan was completely stunned.

The mermaid was glowing with pearly light all over, her inky black hair was shining with a moving luster, and her skin was extremely pale.

In the extreme white and extreme black, Gu Lan saw that stunningly beautiful face and that beautiful fish tail sparkling with pearls.

The half-lidded eyes radiated a golden-green light, but the whole look was dim, melancholy and pessimistic.

Gu Lan stared at him again and again, as if she was looking at a piece of magnificent jewel that was unique in the world, and her mind was shocked.

"You...are you Jing Lian?" Gu Lan forced himself to come back to his senses and asked haltingly.

The merman opened his mouth and said in a hoarse and low voice: "I am Jing Lian, a member of the royal family of the merman."

Seeing that his voice was damaged and his lips were covered with cracked lines, Gu Lan couldn't help but feel distressed. She reached out to help him up, but Jing Lian moved slightly, as if he was avoiding her with his expression and movements.

"Don't be afraid," Gu Lan remembered that he was imprisoned in this place and must be on guard against his sudden appearance, so he explained: "I was invited by your good friend, the Reincarnation Wood. It learned that you were imprisoned here and asked me to take you away. Oh, by the way, I am Gu Lan from the Thousand Machine Sect, and I really came to help you."

When Jing Lian heard her say this, he remembered that he had encountered a root of a reincarnation tree at the bottom of the water a long time ago and exchanged a few words with her. The reincarnation tree had little cultivation and liked to extend its roots to adventure everywhere, so he traveled with her to several waters. The two became good friends, and the reincarnation tree often came to see him in the days that followed.

Seeing that he didn't say anything but didn't resist, and seemed to believe it, Gu Lan reached out again and wanted to pick him up.

Jing Lian moved his body to make it easier for her to hug him.

Gu Lan stretched out his hand to pick up the mirror, and was surprised to find it was so light. He looked down and was so angry that he almost exploded!