Chapter 4: The Spirit Temple and the Spirit Blade
Early in the morning, Liu Qing got up early and stood on the balcony to enjoy the slowly rising sun. In fact, Liu Qing prefers sunrise to sunset, the orange of sunrise can always arouse the throbbing in the depths of his heart, and sunset always has a feeling of old age and twilight, which consumes the will.
But after sunset comes sunrise, and after sunrise there is only sunset. So Liu Qing prefers to see a little more sunset beauty.
Even so, Liu Qing's gloomy mood at this time could not be appreciated at all. It's just because there is a mountain that weighs heavily on my heart.
That mountain is the spiritual temple
No one can say exactly how long the temple was founded, only that it was originally founded by an unknown person. The mysterious man did not know where to find a stone that was completely black, and this stone seemed to stimulate the inner potential of the human body, and develop abilities beyond ordinary people. He gave the man who had attained supernormal abilities a title - Spirit Master. The abilities of the spirit master are all-encompassing, beyond ordinary people's cognition, such as controlling water, fire, telekinesis and other control systems, as well as powerful and infinite enhancement systems, and even special abilities such as stealth and teleportation.
The establishment of the Spirit Temple and the awakening of talent opened the first era of spirit masters.
A very serious problem has also been exposed in the development of the First Age, not everyone can awaken the ability, and the probability is about 1 in 100,000. Even though abilities could be granted to offspring through genetics, the group of spirit masters at that time was not large, so to speak, a small and closed circle. Around the 14th century, there were also 4 lesser-known people who discovered a way of forced talent awakening, although the probability was still small, but it also reached about 10%. A large number of spirit masters joined and formed a complete management system, which also opened the second era of spirit masters.
The Second Age also has an uncontrollable problem, namely the uncertainty of talents, and each person can develop only one type of talent and it is random. Useless talents, such as faster nail growth, actually account for the majority. This randomness also determines that it is currently impossible for the National Spirit Master to be realized.
So far, it is still in the process of development in the second age, but at this time, the Spirit Temple has become the actual largest private organization, opening branches all over the world, which involves all walks of life, but the most profound impact is "hunting", ordinary people can not complete things in the hands of the spirit master may just wave his hand, so many people use cash rewards to hire spirit masters to help. Countless quests are collected in the Spirit Temple, and then distributed to various branches by the Spirit Temple, and those who are interested can receive them. Such a well-established mechanism has permeated every aspect, and as of now, there are about 100,000 registered spiritual teachers working in this area around the world.
The spirit blade that Liu Qing was subordinate to before was the secret army of the Spirit Palace, and anything that could not be dealt with openly was handled by the Spirit Blade secretly, and it could be said that the Spirit Blade carried all the darkness of the Spirit Palace. There is an unwritten rule in the spirit blade, if you join the spirit blade, you will belong to the spirit blade for the rest of your life, and only the corpse can get out of the spirit blade. This has been the case for hundreds of years.
The outside world had always thought that Liu Qing had died, including the Spirit Palace, which was also deceived by Liu Qing's witty methods, but now the news that Liu Qing is alive is estimated to have reached the ears of some people. Now that the Spirit Hall already knew that Liu Qing was still alive, it would inevitably take some measures.
Of course, the Spirit Hall can only deal with it secretly, after all, the existence of the Spirit Blade cannot be announced to the public.
Liu Qing's distress is also here, no matter what Liu Qing wants to do, the Spirit Hall will spare no effort to interfere.
Liu Qing, who was frowning and pondering, did not notice Hua Tian's approach at all.
"In the Troubled Spirit Temple?" Hua Tian asked.
Liu Qing was surprised, but then he also understood, although Liu Qing and Hua Tian hadn't seen each other for many years, they were also the best partners before, and it was normal for him to guess this little thing.
"The Spirit Temple is now officially in full swing, in the past, countries would have imposed some obstructions on the development of the Spirit Temple, but in the past few years, I don't know what happened, any development of the Spirit Temple is unimpeded, as if it has become a third-party force independent of the country. It's really unwise to want to fight against the Spirit Temple now. Hua Tian continued.
"But it's a must, isn't it?" Liu Qing's eyes flashed with a glimmer of light.
Hua Tian was stunned for a moment, and then smiled bitterly, "Yes, there is really no need for an organization like the Spirit Hall to exist from the inside out." ”
"You're wrong, it doesn't matter to me how the Spirit Hall is, they want to kill me, I'll kill one person if they come. I'm going to destroy the Spirit Temple just because they're also responsible for the deaths of Shui Mo and Brother Yifang, that's all. ”
Hua Tian froze in place, shook his head and smiled bitterly, not knowing how to continue. But indeed, this is the "shadow blade" of revenge for dripping water.
To put it bluntly, the "clearing" incident of that year was aimed at Liu Qing and Lishui Mo, and it was a black flag on the surface, but to say that it had nothing to do with the Spirit Hall would be a lie. After the incident, several generals of the Black Flag were killed, which can be regarded as a major injury, so they have honestly hid in recent years. On the contrary, it is the Spirit Hall, without the existence of the stumbling block of the black flag, the whole department runs more smoothly, and it can be said that the sandpiper and the clam compete for the benefit of the fisherman.
The "purge" incident caused quite a stir in the circle at the time, everyone knew the process and the result but no one knew the reason, and the ministry did not know that the people guessed that Shadow Blade had betrayed the organization, so he was assassinated. There are also people who believe that Shadow Blade has something in his hand that everyone covets, and the so-called puppet is innocent and guilty. Hua Tian doesn't know, and he doesn't need to know.
"What's next for you?" Hua Tian asked.
Liu Qing took a cigarette in his mouth, exhaled a long breath, a puff of white smoke rose up, slowly disappeared, and then said unhurriedly, "I need a place to hide, and then gather a group of people"
At this time, Hua Tian's face, which had been stiff, suddenly relaxed, and he stared at Liu Qing, "I don't know what kind of person you need, but count me in!" After speaking, he turned around and left.
Liu Qing didn't turn to look at the departing Hua Tian. The mood is also quite calm, Hua Tian's stubbornness has made him suffer a lot, why bother wading into troubled waters again. Although this is the case, Liu Qing also knows that persuasion is useless.
"Then it depends on whether your ability is left behind, I don't want my hand to give birth!"
A sentence floated from afar, "Young man, is it cool to be empty in your pants?" ”
Liu Qingwan smiled, Hua Tian's talent is perspective, and it is unstoppable within 100 meters. In terms of level, perspective belongs to level 2 talents, full level 10, so it is only inferior, but its actual value is much higher than some level 4 and 5 talents. Originally, Hua Tian was in his own planning, if Hua Tian didn't want to, he would still have to look for someone with similar talents. In this way, it also saves some effort.
Talent is one way, use it to advance, not to use it to retreat, because it is common to not use talent for a long time, resulting in the disappearance of talent. Hua Tian's ability to see through Liu Qing's clothes at a glance also shows that he has been exercising in recent years. This old boy may have known his own thoughts, so he has been helping to prepare. Looking at Hua Tian's departing back, Liu Qing felt a sense of frustration in his heart, but his willfulness with the help of so many people may also be the greatest happiness in life.