Chapter 30: The Desert (Part II)

Qingyun Mountain leads to the heavenly peak, on the Yuqing Palace. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

This magnificent palace, located on the top of the majestic peak, is the residence of the head of the Qingyun Sect in the past dynasties, and the largest Yuqing Hall is the place where the head of the door handles the daily affairs of the door on weekdays.

After the battle between the righteous and demons, Qingyun Mountain was in a mess, I don't know how many things needed to be solved urgently, and the head of the sect, Tianchengzi, was seriously injured and could not be a director, and the dead and injured of the Qingyun elders who were respected in the past, such as Zhen Yan, Zheng Tong and others did not come to deal with the trivial affairs in the door, and all the burden was on the man sitting in the Yuqing Hall at the moment.

At this moment, on the Yuqing Palace, there was a long queue lined up, and dozens of Qingyunmen disciples were waiting here, and they stepped forward in turn to whisper to Dao Xuan who was sitting in the center of the main hall, asking for instructions, and discussing, and then according to Dao Xuan's arrangement, he turned around and strode out of the hall.

Dao Xuan sat upright on the chair, his expression was solemn, he didn't smile, and from a distance, he looked a little bit of momentum without anger. Although in terms of seniority, the vast majority of people in the main hall at this moment are considered to be the same generation as him, but no one dares to despise him, and they all line up honestly.

And Dao Xuan is obviously also a very skilled and shrewd person in handling these affairs, and one trivial matter after another looks difficult to manage, but he often makes a decision between a few deep thoughts.

In such a quiet but extremely efficient way, the Qingyun disciples in this hall quickly decreased, and it didn't take long to see the end, just as Dao Xuan was about to call the last person, he suddenly saw a person hurriedly walking in from the gate, but it was Xiao Zhufeng's Shui Yue, who walked quickly all the way to him, shouted, and said, "Senior Brother Dao Xuan." ”

Dao Xuan glanced up at Shui Yue and said, "What's wrong?" ”

Shui Yue said: "There are two groups of people at the foot of the mountain, and they should be people from Tianyin Temple and Incense Valley. ”

Dao Xuan was stunned for a moment, then stood up and said: "When these two major factions heard the news and rushed to support our Qingyunmen, this matter is quite big, maybe the heads of the two factions will also come in person, I immediately told the master and asked him to show me." Senior Sister Shuiyue, please entertain them with Uncle Zhen first. ”

Shui Yue nodded and said, "Yes, I understand." ”

Dao Xuan bowed his head, turned around and walked quickly into the back hall of the Yuqing Palace, all the way around the entrance corridor, and came to the outside of the quiet room where Tianchengzi was resting. However, when he was still outside the door, Dao Xuan suddenly saw that the door of the quiet room was actually open, and there was a figure who was not Tianchengzi walking back and forth inside.

Dao Xuan was taken aback, hurriedly walked to the door of the quiet room, and looked inside, only to see that there was only one Taoist boy in the quiet room who was cleaning up the house, and the quiet room was messy at the moment, the bedding on the bed where Tianchengzi was lying was lifted aside, and many other things were thrown on the ground, as if someone had lost his temper here.

And the young Dao Tong had a depressed look on his face, silently squatting on the ground to clean up, his eyes were red and swollen, as if he had just cried.

Dao Xuan naturally recognized this person, it was the Dao Tong Baishi, who was here to serve the master Tianchengzi on weekdays, and at this moment, seeing that the situation was not right, he couldn't help but be stunned and said to Baishi: "Baishi, what's going on here?" ”

Bai Shi looked back and saw that it was Dao Xuan, and quickly stood up, standing with his hands tied in an orderly manner, obviously in awe of this senior brother.

Dao Xuan walked in, glanced left and right, frowned, and said to Bai Shi: "What's going on here, and where did Master go?" ”

Shiraishi's mouth flattened, and after a while, he whispered, "I...... I used to come in to clean the house according to the daily routine, but when the real person in charge saw me, he suddenly lost his temper, jumped up and scolded me, saying that I had disturbed his cultivation and was a great crime, and said that he ......"

Dao Xuan said in a low voice, "Master, what else did he say?" ”

Bai Shi finally seemed to be unable to bear it anymore, and cried out with a "wow", and cried with a choked voice: "Senior Brother Daoxuan, the real person in charge of the sect also said that he wanted to ...... You will drive me down the mountain and drive me out of the Qingyun Gate wall. ”

Dao Xuan's body was shocked, and he looked at Bai Shi in amazement, as if he didn't quite believe his ears, but Bai Shi's expression was obviously not half a lie, and at this moment he looked at Dao Xuan with tears in his eyes, and choked up: "Senior brother, what should I do?" I really didn't mean to anger the real person in charge. ”

Dao Xuan was silent for a long time, and then said, "Don't worry, I will intercede with the master for you in this matter." ”

Bai Shi hurriedly knelt down and said, "Thank you, senior brother, thank you, senior brother." ”

Dao Xuan sighed, leaned over and gently pulled him up, and after a moment of silence, he said, "That's it, don't do things in this Yuqing Hall these days, stay in the sea of clouds for a few days and then come back." I think Master should also be angry and casually talking, I'll help you talk about it, if you avoid these few days, it should be fine. ”

Bai Shi hurriedly nodded in agreement and said, "Yes, yes, I know." ”

Dao Xuan sighed, glanced at the messy bedding on the bed again, frowned, and said, "By the way, where has Master gone now, do you know?" ”

Bai Shi thought for a while and said, "I was so scared that I knelt on the ground just now, and I didn't dare to breathe, and I didn't see where the master went." However, I have heard him say that it is too noisy here, which delays his cultivation, so he wants to go to the ancestral hall of the patriarch to recuperate. ”

Dao Xuan was stunned for a moment, frowned, and said, "He went to the ancestral hall?" ”

Shiraishi looked at him cautiously and whispered, "That's what I heard. ”

Dao Xuan nodded slowly, then waved his hand slightly, Bai Shi hurriedly bent down and saluted, and then walked out of the quiet room quickly.

The quiet room, where only Dao Xuan was left, seemed to be quiet all of a sudden, and there was no sound around, so quiet that it seemed that even a needle could be heard falling on the ground. He stood alone in this quiet room, looking around the left and right, his face gradually became solemn, and his eyes also revealed a touch of anxiety.

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Tian Buyi and Zeng Shuchang flew all the way back to Straw Shoes Village, and met Wan Jianyi and others who were waiting in the village, and also found that during this time, Wan Jianyi, Cang Song, and Shang Zhengliang worked together to find the bodies of the villagers who were unfortunately killed in this catastrophe one by one, and then found a bright and transparent flat land outside the village, dug out some simple tombs, and then buried them one by one.

When Tian and Zeng came back, Wan Jianyi and the others still had one last point to finish, Tian Buyi and Zeng Shuchang hurriedly stepped forward to help, and with the joint efforts of the five Qingyunmen disciples, all the villagers who were unfortunately killed were finally buried.

After that, the five of them stood by the row of newly raised mounds, their faces a little heavy and solemn.

After staring at these mounds for a moment, Wan Jianyi sighed lightly and said, "Folks, let's go too." ”

After saying that, he turned around and strode away, Cang Song, Tian Buyi and others also stepped forward silently, bowed to this tomb, and then followed the footsteps of Wan Jianyi.

After leaving the Straw Shoes Village, they traveled all the way to the northwest, and on the way, they also saw many villages that had been looted by demons and demons like the Straw Shoes Village, and the same tragic situation was the same, but in the following days, they did not meet any more lucky villagers like the grandparents of the Zhang family. Maybe the villagers who originally lived in those villages either unfortunately died under the butcher's knife of the Demon Cult, or they left here far away to avoid disaster and flee for their lives.

In the middle, the five of them also saw a lot of demon sect remnants and murderers wandering around, but in order to go deep into the wilderness as soon as possible to avoid trouble, Wan Jianyi and the others mostly avoided these demons and went all the way to the northwest in silence.

After walking like this for three days, I felt that the surrounding environment began to change, and the fertile and beautiful plains gradually disappeared, replaced by large tracts of yellow earth, and the moist and mild air also changed and became dry. On the fourth day, the original plain scenery can no longer be seen, the heaven and earth are desolate, the rocks are piled up, the loess is cracked, and from time to time there is a strong wind blowing, blowing a large area of yellow sand and flying.

In this wasteland, it is difficult to see anything green, although there are also plants and trees, but most of the colors are withered yellow, the scorching sun is in the sky, the sun is falling, somehow, but it makes the hearts of people walking on this desert a little cold.

Wan Jian and the other five Qingyun Sect disciples were all Dao practitioners, so they were naturally not afraid of this harsh climate, but when they walked here and looked at this scenery, they probably knew that they were almost close to the barbaric border that had never been penetrated by the righteous Daoists of Middle Earth.

When they arrived here, Wan Jianyi and the others became more and more cautious in their actions, and sometimes they didn't even walk together.

Under Wan Jianyi's arrangement, five people or teams of three, two, or two, or each of them scattered, keeping a certain distance, while paying close attention to the surrounding movements, continued to approach the barbaric border.

At noon on this day, after walking for half a day, Wan Jian beckoned several juniors and disciples to come over, and the five of them found a small stone forest with strange rocks to rest.

After sitting down to rest, Uncle Zeng often took out the gourd he carried with him, which was filled with water, drank a big sip, and then handed it to Tian Buyi beside him, and complained at the same time: "This desert is still so bad after that, I heard that the wild land is ten times more desolate than here, how can those demon sect demons survive in that kind of place?" ”

Cang Song, who was standing on the side, glanced coldly at Zeng Shuchang, who was complaining, shook his head, turned to look at Wan Jianyi, who was sitting on a big rock not far away, and said, "Senior Brother Wan, there are some strange things along the way, especially after entering this desert, we have never met the remnants of the Demon Sect. ”

Wan Jianyi nodded slowly, his brows furrowed slightly, and he seemed to be a little puzzled by this, just when he wanted to speak, suddenly his expression changed slightly, he suddenly stood up, and said in a low voice: "Silence!" ”