Zhang Ziliang and Zhang Zihua, two young Taoist priests, are both personal disciples of the current Heavenly Master of Longhu Mountain. As for the current Dragon and Tiger Mountain Heavenly Master, it was the one who rushed to the imperial capital a few days ago and saved Xu Guan's life, as well as the old heavenly master named Zhang Shuwen who fought against Nanshan stubborn stones with Xu Guan and Feng Chenlaodao in the later imperial capital defense battle, and finally lost and was rescued by the two masters of the inn in time.

This old heavenly master was born in the Qing Mu Sect, and his cultivation is now more than 170 years old, and his cultivation is profound, and he has gone to Jinguan City twice to subdue demons for the scourge of corpses.

When he went out this time, he left a group of disciples in the mountains, and several juniors and disciples presided over various matters in the mansion.

Zhang Zihua and Zhang Ziliang, two little Taoist priests, saw the news from the Internet about the three people and one beast that appeared in the sky above the Jinguan City in Jinguan City, and noticed that something was wrong, and they were afraid that something would happen, so they left from the side courtyard and walked to the inner courtyard.

Two people went to the inner courtyard and came to the Heavenly Master Palace, this hall is composed of three halls in the front, middle and back, the two advanced to the front of the hall, through the 'Greeting Stone', this 'Greeting Stone' is the place where the Heavenly Master of the past dynasties greeted and sent guests to stay here, although it has passed hundreds of years and the color is as new.

Then go inside is the middle of the living room, also known as the fox fairy hall, this hall was established in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, the legend is a pair of fox fairy mother and daughter into the day of the essence, suffered a lightning strike, was rescued by the thirty generations of heavenly master Xujing Zhenjun. In the next three hundred years, the fox fairy has been grateful for the picture, turned into a human body, and helped the heavenly masters of the past dynasties to eliminate the plague and destroy the demons. Zhang Yuqing, the forty-fourth generation of heavenly master, obeyed his brother's decree and set up this fox fairy hall, and burned incense at four o'clock to worship.

The last side is the main hall of the Heavenly Master Palace, the center of the hall is enshrined with three statues of gods, in the support of swords, guns, axes and halberds and dragon and tiger banners, there is the ancestor of the Heavenly Master Zhang Daoling, and there is a couplet praising his merits hanging beside him: "There is a ritual to be like, discipline the demons and lose their fear; Standing on both sides are the two high disciples of the ancestor Tianshi, Wang Chang and Zhao Sheng (these two are the disciples who followed Zhang Tianshi to the Bashu realm to suppress the lich, and later people used their deeds as the prototype to make up the story of Zhang Tianshi's sword seal to break the ghost soldiers in Sichuan and Chongqing).

Ziliang and Zihua came to the main hall and saw a white-haired old man in a green robe who was dusting the statue of the Heavenly Master with a duster, with a light and leisurely posture without the slightest panic.

"Uncle Shutong, it's not good!" Zhang Zihua was far less stable than his junior brother Zhang Ziliang, and as soon as he rushed in and saw his uncle, he hurriedly shouted.

Zhang Shutong glanced back at the two of them, although his expression was still indifferent, but his brows furrowed slightly, and he said to Zhang Zihua: "Zihua, when will you be more stable." You have to learn this from Ziliang. ”

"Uncle Shi, it's a big deal with 100,000 urgent. Not steady!" Zhang Zihua said in a panic.

Zhang Ziliang took half a step forward and said to Zhang Shutong: "Uncle Shutong, Senior Brother Zihua saw on the Internet about the vision of a strange man stepping on the crotch in Jinguan City, and the two of us guessed that the beast that the strange man in the image was crossing was the ancient fierce beast. I'm afraid that the lich of the Bashu realm is going to make trouble again, and I don't dare to slack off, so I will report to you. ”

"Online?" Zhang Shutong's brows furrowed even tighter. "Which fisherman did you listen to?"

"It's not this net!" Zhang Zihua stomped his feet in a hurry. Zhang Shutong glared at him and shouted: "What kind of body is it to behave so frivolously? If you don't repent, you will be punished to meditate for three days and not allowed to go out!"

Uncle Shi was angry. Zhang Ziliang pleaded for his senior brother, he has always known that his senior brother is such a character, I am afraid that he will not be able to change it in this life, and now he should not put the tangled points here, the strange beast in that photo is a real beast.

"You two make it clear, then how did you know what happened in the Bashu realm?" Zhang Shutong watched these two little nephews grow up, and he couldn't know more about them, Zhang Zihua often has no wind and waves, and people are worried, but Zhang Ziliang is more stable and his Dao heart is more firm, if he says that something happened, it should not be chasing after the wind.

Zhang Ziliang glanced at his senior brother and asked him to say, after all, he had only seen those few photos, and his senior brother knew more about this matter than himself.

Zhang Zihua took a step forward, cleared his throat, and was about to speak, when his junior brother quietly pulled his sleeves, signaling him not to panic and speak slowly.

Zhang Zihua also knew his own problem, but he had just come in and been scolded by his uncle, and at this moment, his junior brother secretly reminded himself that he had stabilized, so he took two deep breaths, stabilized his mind, and told the story of the matter.

Needless to say, the elderly uncles in the Heavenly Master's Mansion don't talk about it, as for the disciples of the Zizi generation, most of them don't play with mobile phones, but this Zhang Zihua is quite keen on modern electronic products, and he has to buy them with food and clothing, so he almost smashes the pot and sells iron. But as soon as he thought of smashing the pot, the master and the senior brothers and uncles in the house would not be able to eat, and they would definitely have to punish themselves, so as soon as the idea of smashing the pot came out, he was ruthlessly suppressed by himself again. No matter what, the rice still has to be eaten.

On this day, he was holding the mobile phone he had bought with the pocket money he had worked so hard to save, and was playing a game, when he suddenly received a push message, and when he opened it, he found that it was a forum that he usually visits. And the news pushed is the post that has been hot recently, about the post of three people and one beast that appeared at night in the sky above the Jinjiang River in Jinguan City. The poster also linked this incident to the last incident in which someone claimed to have witnessed a large phoenix bird flying from the northeast and plunging into the Jinjiang River, and cited no less than ten pieces of supporting evidence to prove the connection between the two incidents, as well as the identities of the three people and the origin of the beast phoenix.

"Are you saying that the big phoenix bird that people found that day was thrown into the water and disappeared is the same group as the three strange people and the fox this time?" Zhang Shutong stroked his beard.

"Quite possibly. The Bashu realm has always been the place where the lich is coiled, if they have any whereabouts, they will definitely be the first to show their traces in Jinguan City, and Jinguan City is very prosperous, and it is normal for pedestrians to encounter witches who come out at night, and it is even more reasonable to be photographed by people. This is true. Zhang Zihua analyzed reasonably.

Zhang Shutong pondered for a moment, frowning and silent.

Zhang Ziliang on the side said: "Uncle Shi, a few days ago, Master and his old man watched the sky at night and noticed that the imperial capital enchantment was in danger, didn't he rush there overnight." Maybe it's because of the lich's restlessness, if they want to attack the imperial capital enchantment, I'm afraid they have to mobilize a lot of manpower, and with a large number of people and frequent activities, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not be photographed by ordinary people. ”

"Speaking of the imperial capital, I remember. Zhang Zihua's face suddenly became solemn, and he said: "Since two days ago, there has been no news of the imperial capital on the Internet. It was as if the contact was suddenly cut off two days ago, and now I can only see the old situation of the imperial capital, and I can't find what happened in the last two days at all. ”

"The news about the imperial capital in the last two days has been deliberately buried?" Zhang Ziliang worried: "There must have been some accident in the imperial capital, and in order to prevent panic, the public's access to information in the imperial capital was blocked." I don't know how the old man is doing. ”

"Master, his old man is a master of the Dao and the Dharma, and he will definitely be fine. No matter how strong those lichs are, where are his opponents? As soon as the Five Thunder Rectification Law comes out, who will compete?" Zhang Zihua was full of confidence, and out of the trust of his master's strength, he did not regard the loss of information about the imperial capital as a crisis.

"That's right. Zhang Ziliang nodded, he also felt that the master and his old man were indeed powerful, and no one should be able to hurt the master.

The two of them were discussing like this, but Zhang Shutong, who was standing on the side and listening, had an ugly face, obviously it was a cold winter, but he was sweating profusely.

"Not true. Even if the skill of the senior brother in charge is mysterious, he is not invincible in Kyushu. Zhang Shutong suddenly heard something terrible, turned around and walked out of the Heavenly Master Palace, and walked to the private place in the backyard, calling out as he walked: "A few junior disciples, as well as the dolls of the sub-generation, come to the private place quickly." ”

The private place is where the Taoist priests live, which is considered a private space, and it has always been forbidden for outsiders to enter, so it is relatively less easy to be disturbed, and it is most suitable for this place to discuss some secret things that cannot be heard by outsiders.

This old Taoist in the green robe is called Zhang Shutong, and listening to his name, you can naturally know that he is a veteran of the same generation as the Heavenly Master Zhang Shuwen. And even if he is in the scholarly generation, he is only after Zhang Shuwen, and above others.

Zhang Shuwen's master is Zhang Beichong, but unfortunately he died when Zhang Shuwen was young, so the calligraphers and Taoists ranked behind Zhang Shuwen, including Zhang Shutong, were only named as Zhang Beichong's disciples, and there was no fact of master and apprentice.

The last apprentice taught by Zhang Beichong in his life, and the most beloved apprentice was Zhang Shuwen, and the later calligraphers and Taoists were actually taught by Zhang Shuwen after he became the head of the teaching.

Because Zhang Shuwen has a large age difference with those senior brothers of his generation (similar to the relationship between the young Taoist priest Zhang Danyun and his three senior brothers in Yuqing Palace, the age is two generations worse), so when Zhang Shuwen is old and full of gray hair, his senior brothers have already passed away.

Zhang Shutong is the oldest and most prestigious one besides Zhang Shuwen today. In the absence of the head teacher, he should be in charge of the overall situation.

When he heard Zhang Ziliang and Zhang Zihua's words, he suddenly had bad thoughts, so he immediately gathered everyone to discuss important matters.

He walked in a hurry, hurried but extremely vigorous, not at all like an old man in his hundreds, and when he saw him go out of the main hall, he shouted and walked privately to the backyard.

With his shouting, the Taoists who were in various positions in the mansion stopped their words one after another and looked over here.

"Don't look at it, don't look at it, come here. Something big is going to happen. Zhang Zihua and Zhang Ziliang, young and young, waved their hands to those senior brothers of the same generation.

When he turned his head and saw that Uncle Shu had gone far away, he hurriedly trotted to follow. These two people each turned their legs upside down in the back as fast as they could, but their speed was always not as fast as Zhang Shutong, who was walking in front of him.

"It's weird. Zhang Zihua looked at his uncle's back and scratched his head.

"What's strange?" Zhang Ziliang waved his hand all the way to the senior brothers who were probing from elsewhere, and when he heard Senior Brother Zihua say this, he asked him.

"It's all two-legged, why is it that Uncle Shu and Uncle Shi can walk faster than us? ”

"This is the shrinkage of our Taoism. Uncle Shu Tong used the True Qi Imperial Technique to perform it. Zhang Ziliang turned his head and glanced at his senior brother, and said in his heart that this senior brother is too obsessed with those side doors, and he must not have practiced well on weekdays, otherwise he doesn't know if he doesn't even know this kind of thing that is just common sense for Taoist priests.

"Oh, I remembered. Zhang Zihua smiled a little embarrassedly: "Shrink the ground into inches." ”

"Alas. Zhang Ziliang looked at his playful senior brother and shook his head helplessly.