Chapter 9 Haze

Qingyun Mountain, Dazhu Peak.

It has been many days since the end of the Battle of Qingyun. The battlefield, which used to change color, has gradually calmed down. All the traces of the war have been quietly erased in the process of people cleaning up.

That day, I don't know how many people lost their friends and relatives. On the Tongtian Peak, I don't know how many corpses have been piled up. From the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain, it is almost like the legendary underground prison.

Maybe it's because of luck! In this war, there was no disciple who died, but almost everyone hung up. It was not easy for Tian, who stayed at Dazhufeng because he wanted to open the seal of heaven, and he also looked very tired. Among the disciples, the second disciple Wu Dayi and the fourth disciple He Dazhi were the most seriously injured. After these days, they were still in bed to rest, but unfortunately, fortunately, they did not hurt their muscles and bones. After seeing it in person by Tian Buyi, they just needed to heal quietly. In time, it will not hinder their Taoist practice.

However, in the just a life-and-death battle, he narrowly defeated the beast god and saved the world's life and disaster. Dazhufeng was up and down, but the atmosphere seemed very dull. The disciples have been unhappy for several days, and even Tian Buyi has frowned for days.

Early in the morning of this day, Tian Buyi was summoned to Tongtianfeng by his disciples sent by the head Dao Xuan Zhenren. After coming back at noon, he saw his round and fat face, gloomy, and his eyebrows were twisted together and could hardly be opened again.

Around noon, Tian Buyi ordered all the disciples of Dazhufeng to come to Shoujing Hall, even Wu Dayi and He Dazhi, who were still in bed. Tian Buyi also asked people to help them to Shoujing Hall and sit aside.

In the quiet hall, which has always been relatively deserted, there are few people. Tian Buyi's wife Su Ru also stood next to the upper head, looking at her still beautiful, but she was still wrapped in a white cloth bandage in her left hand. Naturally, she was also hanging in the war.

Tian Buyi walked back and forth on the Shoujing Hall several times with his hands. He glanced at the disciples who were sitting or standing in a row, and said in a low voice, "I called you here today, not for anything else, or for the ancient sword of the immortals."

The disciples looked solemn, but not many people showed a look of astonishment. Obviously, most of them had guessed in their hearts.

Tian Buyi looked at Su Ru beside him, looked at the disciples again, and said, "This morning, the head of the real person asked me to go there again, and the only one who went with me was your Uncle Shuiyue of Xiaozhufeng. As for what to say, you can probably think of it. You should keep it a secret about the destruction of the ancient sword of the Jade Dynasty. You must never reveal anything.'

The disciples of Dazhufeng looked at each other in consternation. Finally, the eldest disciple Song Daren coughed and said, "Master, you also know how many of us. We would rather die than say a word to the outside world." Speaking of this, he hesitated for a moment, looked at Tian Buyi, lowered his voice, and said, "Master, not to mention that you and the master's wife have reminded us three times, only in charge of the real person and Tong Tianfeng. Even this time, it is the fourth time to send such a message. Could it be... Don't they not believe us, but they don't even believe our master and mother?'

Tian Buyi frowned and suddenly shouted: 'Bold! What are you? How dare you guess the real people of the leader and the teachers?'

Song Dayen's face changed, and he bowed his head and said, 'Yes, I know I'm wrong.'

Su Ru stood aside, sighed, and came over and said, "Okay, all these are the words ordered by the head of the real person, and the destruction of the Zhuxian ancient sword is too big. No wonder the head brother is very nervous about this, so it's right to ask a few more times and explain a few more times.'

Tian Buyi twisted his head aside and didn't say anything. Song Daren and other disciples bowed their heads and said, 'I know.'

Su Ru looked at the disciples one by one and said softly, "I know that you are quite aggrieved in your hearts. I think that the real leader and the teachers can't believe you. In fact, in the final analysis, these are still because of the importance of the matter. After the previous war, our Qingyunmen had no reputation in the right path in the world for a while, and suppressed all other peers. But all this, to put it to put it, is because the leader's real man fought a fierce battle with the beast god with the Jade Immortal Sword on the Tongtian Peak in exchange for defeating him. Our Qingyunmen can have everything today. I think you know the weight of this Jade Sword as well as I do.'

When Su Ru said this, she smiled sadly and said, "But I never expected that this magic sword would..." She paused for a moment and seemed to calm down before she could continue to speak. She said, "In addition to the real leader and several longmen uncles who came later, only Dazhufeng was present. The disciples and several female disciples of Xiaozhufeng witnessed the destruction of the divine sword. Therefore, for the sake of the reputation of this door and the reputation in the world, it is also appropriate for the head of the real person to take more care of it and tell him a few more times. Don't take it to heart, just remember to hide it in your heart forever, okay?

Song Daren and others looked at each other and said in unison, "The disciple knows, and I will obey the order of the master and the master's wife."

Su Ru turned her head and looked at Tian Buyi. Tian Buyi frowned, and her fat face was still very heavy. It seemed that she was not relieved by Su Ru's words at all. She just stretched out her hand and waved to the disciples and said, "You have remembered what your teacher said. All right, let's go down!'

Song Dayen and others saluted together, turned around and went down together. Wu Dayi, He Dazhi and other people with mobility difficulties, as well as Song Dayen, Du Bishu and others to help. Soon, everyone went out, leaving Tian Buyi and Su Ru standing on the quiet hall.

Su Ru looked at Tian Buyi's increasingly gloomy face, slowly walked to him and whispered, "What's the matter? Did the leader lose his temper again?"

Tian Buyi snorted lightly and said, 'He is not only angry with me, or a person like Lian Shuiyue. He even scolded me the same way. What am I?'

Su Ru was shocked and said, "What, the head brother even scolded Sister Shuiyue?"

A trace of anxiety appeared on Tian Buyi's face, and the speed of walking back and forth was obviously faster, and his eyebrows were even tighter.

Su Ru looked at his expression and was quite worried, but she didn't know what to say, so she had to say, 'Don't worry too much. The leader is just too anxious for a moment, so...'

Tian Buyi suddenly looked up and interrupted loudly: 'If he is really too anxious, he will scold me a thousand times and ten thousand times, and I don't care?'

Su Ru lowered her head, but quickly raised her head, with a look of astonishment on her face. She asked, 'What did you just say?'

Tian Buyi muttered in his mouth and walked quickly back and forth in the quiet hall. His expression on his face became more and more restless, and there was a faint trace of worry.

Su Ru was even more worried and said anxiously, 'What the hell do you mean? Say it quickly!'

Tian Buyi walked to Su Ru, stopped, was silent for a moment, and said in a low voice: 'These days, Brother Daoxuan has invited me and Shuiyue many times, repeatedly telling my disciples to keep secrets, which was understandable. But in recent times, I think Brother Daoxuan has become more and more wrong.'

Su Ru was stunned for a moment and said, 'What's wrong, what does this mean?'

Tian Buyi frowned and said, 'In the past, do you remember that Brother Dao Xuan easily scolded people?'

Su Ru was silent and shook his head for a long time and said, 'The head brother is profound, his conduct is thick, and his joy and anger are not obvious. How can he be easily angry and curse?'

Tian Buyi nodded and said, 'Yes, that's it. Even you know this. But after this war, Brother Daoxuan's nature seemed to have changed greatly, and he became more and more impatient. In the past few times, he called me and Shuiyue, and it was okay to tell me, but every time he was pleasant at the beginning. In the end, he didn't know why, because of a little inexplicable little thing, he ......'

He shook his head and slowly raised his eyes to look at Su Ru. He hesitated for a moment, approached Su Ru, and lowered his voice and said, "I suspect that Brother Dao Xuan has been devoured by the sword spirit of the Jade Sword in the battle with the Beast God, so...'

Su Ru's face changed and she said urgently, 'Shut up.' With that, he quickly walked to the outside of the Shoujing Hall and looked left and right. After making sure that no one was there, he came back and whispered to Tian Buyi, "This is my secret matter of Qingyunmen. You, you can't talk nonsense!"

Tian Buyi sighed and said, "How important this matter is. How dare I believe in nonsense. However, in the previous war, in order to win, Brother Dao Xuan, despite repeated dissuasion, forcibly opened the heavenly seal of the seven veins of Qingyun Reiki by the ancestors of all dynasties, which greatly increased the power of the ancient sword of the Jade Dynasty. It's just that every time I think of the legacy left by the ancestors of the previous generation, I prepare to say that this ancient sword of the Jade Dynasty is too fierce and murderous. It seems to be an ominous thing, so I can't regard it as idle. When I came back today, I was separated from Shuiyue in Tongtianfeng. Although the two of us have always been at peace, we seemed to feel something when we looked at each other when we parted. I expected that Shuiyue must have the same idea as me, but this matter is so relevant that both of us dare not say it.

Su Ru was silent for a long time, and her voice was slightly astringent, saying, "Even so, in the final analysis, it is still above the ancient sword of the Jade Dynasty. Now that the Jade Dynasty has been destroyed, even if the head brother is unfortunately victimized, on the one hand, there is no source, and on the other hand, he is enlightened. As long as it takes a long time, he will gradually wake up and resolve it by himself!'

Tian Buyi's heavy color on his face did not fade at all, and said lightly, 'I hope so, otherwise, as the respect of Qingyun, in case there is a good or bad, this Qingyun door... I really don't know how to end.'

Su Ru thought about it, then sighed helplessly and said depressingly, "That's all, this is not something we can control now, and you don't have to worry too much. There is another thing that I have always wanted to ask, how to deal with the destruction of the ancient sword of Zhuxian?'

Tian Buyi pondered for a moment and said, 'I had asked an informed brother of Changmen about this matter. When I heard that Brother Daoxuan scolded everyone on the spot that day, he immediately picked up the sword of the Jade Dynasty, which was broken into two pieces, and walked into the Huanyue Cave, and no one was allowed to enter the forbidden So to this day, no one knows what happened to the ancient sword of the Jade Dynasty? Maybe, is there any hope to fix it?'

Tian Buyi said the last sentence to himself, but then shook his head and smiled bitterly. Obviously, even he himself did not believe such a thing. With a wry smile, he casually said, 'We can't take care of that sword, but we went to Tongtianfeng today. In addition to being inexplicably scolded, we also heard a strange thing.'

Su Ru was stunned and said, 'What's the strange thing?'

Tian Buyi shrugged his shoulders and said, "You won't believe how many disciples and elders died in the previous war, and now they are in the Yuqing Hall of Tongtianfeng. However, our Daoxuan brother didn't show his face once a day in the Yuqing Hall, so he disappeared. Instead, he ran to the ancestral hall of the back mountain every day to guard the spirit. Don't you think it's strange?'

Su Ru was stunned and said in surprise, "Shou Ling, what's wrong with the ancestral hall? Is it that which elder has passed away?"

Tian Buyi shook his head and sneered, "Where is the elder? I heard several young disciples of Changmen secretly talking about it. In fact, he was an old man who had been guarding and cleaning the ancestral temple for decades. Somehow he happened to die that day. No one knows how he died. After Brother Daoxuan knew about this, he was stunned for a moment, but he was furious for a while. I heard that he had lost his soul for a few days. In the end, he actually insisted on putting the old man's spiritual position in the ancestral temple, but the strangest thing was that he put the spiritual position he put in On the card, it turned out to be blank!'

The more Su Ru listened, the more confused she became, and she was even more stunned. She shook her head and said, "What's going on? Is the boss really, really a little confused?"

Tian Buyi sneered and said, "No one knows if he is confused or not. Anyway, someone has persuaded him, but he insists not listening. And he didn't take a good look at the spiritual position of the disciples in the Yuqing Hall, but ran to the ancestral temple to look at the blank spiritual position in a daze. If it goes on like this, I think this Qingyun Gate will happen sooner or later, and sooner or later it will be destroyed in his hands...'

Su Ru was silent. After a long time, she sighed and looked out of the quiet hall. In this lonely afternoon, the outside was also empty, and only the blue sky in the distance was blue.

The mountain wind blew, and the sound of bamboo waves faintly came from the back of the mountain, but somehow, it added a little loneliness.

Qingyun Mountain, Tongtian Peak, Houshan Ancestral Hall.

It is as quiet and solemn as usual, the tall ancestral hall is still towering, and the surrounding woods are as green as before, as if the earth-shaking war on Qingyun Mountain a few days ago has no impact on this place at all.

In addition to an old man who cleans, there is also an inconspicuous place between countless plaques on the dark god case, and a strange and blank spiritual card.

Lin Jingyu knelt silently in front of the blank spiritual position, dressed in hemp and wore filial piety. There was a brazier in front of him. There were two white candles on the table, three fine incense sticks, curling light smoke, and gently floated up. Soon, it merged into other incense offerings, and it

Lin Jingyu's face was sad, his lips were tightly squeezed, and he knelt on the ground. He slowly put a pile of paper money in his hand into the burning tongue in the fire basin in front of him, watching them gradually curl up and turn yellow, gradually turn into ashes, and then slowly put in new paper money.

In the middle, he looked up at the blank spiritual position from time to time. Putting this old man's spiritual position into the ancestral temple was insisted by Tao Xuanzhen, the head of Qingyunmen, alone. Other elders disagreed, but the head of Qingyunmen, had always had the weight. In addition, after Dao Xuanzhen defeated the beast god in one fell swoop, his reputation was even more unparallelled. When everyone saw

Although this matter was unexpected by Lin Jingyu, the next thing surprised him even more. Dao Xuan Zhenren actually put a blank spiritual position into the ancestral temple. For this reason, Lin Jingyu even dared to ask Dao Xuan Zhenren, who came to worship.

Unexpectedly, Dao Xuanzhen just asked a faint rhetorical question, and then refuted Lin Jingyu's speechless: 'Do you know his name?'

Lin Jingyu was stunned. Although he followed the mysterious old man for ten years, the old man never confided anything to him about the senior's own past. At this moment, he really had nothing to do to let Lin Jingyu say something. Just looking at the appearance of Dao Xuanzhen, he obviously knew something about the old man, but he didn't mean to reveal it.

Although Lin Jingyu was puzzled, he did not dare to be too presumptuous to the real person in charge of the teaching, so he had to retreat silently. Anyway, in his heart, although the old man's position was empty, his voice and smile were clearly engraved in his heart, and it did not fade at all.

He also went to the Qianshan Festival, but he always felt that there were countless disciples worshipping there, but this senior, although he had peerless learning, left the world so quietly. He had to die for him anyway, and Dao Xuanzhen seemed to have acquiesced in him to come here to clean up the old man. Things. And with the respect of the head of the sect, and regardless of the stunned eyes of many disciples under his family, he often came to the ancestral hall to visit the old man's blank spiritual position, which caused a lot of speculation, but Lin Jingyu could not control it.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of footsteps behind him. In the past few days, Lin Jingyu had been familiar with these steps, and as soon as he heard it, he knew that it was Dao Xuanzhen.

He got up and turned around and whispered, 'The head.'

Dao Xuan Zhenren slowly walked into the ancestral hall of the ancestor.

The lights in the ancestral hall were dim. Although Lin Jingyu had been staying here, he could not see Dao Xuan's face clearly for a moment. He only vaguely saw Dao Xuan's figure, standing in the shadow, silently looking at the blank spiritual position beside him.

Somehow, Lin Jingyu looked at the shadow that was a little blurred in the dark and suddenly felt something was wrong, but what was wrong, but he couldn't say it. He just felt a heartbeat for no reason, and he was a little nervous.

'He, how's he?' Dao Xuanzhen finally opened his mouth to speak. His voice seemed quite low, a little hoarse, and seemed to be using a hidden force, suppressing something, which was very different from his previous tone.

Lin Jingyu was even more puzzled, but he still replied: 'Disciple guarded the spirit for his predecessors day and night, burned incense on time, and never neglected.'

The figure in the shadow moved for a moment and said slowly, "He has you so dedicated to the end for him, and it's not in vain that he has taught you for ten years." Hey hey...' He laughed coldly, and there was a little gloomy meaning in this dark ancestral hall, 'I don't know if I died, and...'

He suddenly stopped and seemed to feel that he had said something wrong. Lin Jingyu naturally did not dare to say much and stood there with his hands down.

The ancestral temple fell into silence. After a moment, Dao Xuanzhen said, "You go out first. I have something to say to him alone."

Lin Jingyu was stunned, answered, and said, 'Yes.' With that, he stepped out.

As soon as he walked out of the ancestral hall and stood on the sunny space, Lin Jingyu suddenly felt refreshed. Only then did he find that in the ancestral hall just now, he seemed to have a feeling of being suppressed.

He walked around the open space around the ancestral hall and waited for half an hour, but he still didn't see Dao Xuanzhen come out. It was strange, but when he turned around, he happened to see a figure disappearing on the path leading to the Huanyue Cave in front of him. Since the end of the war, Huanyue Cave has become a forbidden place again. Naturally, only Dao Xuanzhen can enter.

Lin Jingyu looked there a few times, shook his head, turned around and walked back to the ancestral hall. Before he went to the blank spiritual position, he saw that before the spiritual position, three fine incenses were inserted again, and there seemed to be a lot of ashes in the brazier on the ground in front of him, as if someone had burned some paper money here.

Lin Jingyu thought for a moment and slowly looked up. He saw that the blank card was still standing quietly in the secluded corner, silent...