"Arrogant boy, dare to insult the sect leader, the fire god will not forgive you!"

"Impolite boys, let them be burned to ashes in the holy fire!"

The people around made a noise, especially one of the old women with a black veil, who shouted the most happily, as if Li Mu was the enemy who killed her whole family. Jin Chen looked at Li Mu and saw that he was holding his neck and did not have half a point of compromise, so he sighed helplessly and said to the old woman: "High priest, detain him first." Don't hurt him, I'm sure he'll figure it out. ”

"Master!"

"High Priest, I'm the Sect Master!"

The old woman glanced at Li Mu resentfully, glanced at the two warriors who were holding him, made way in the middle of the crowd, blindfolded Li Mu, and escorted him out. Li Mu couldn't see the road, and he didn't know how long he had walked, and by the time someone ripped the cloth off his eyes, he was already in a prison. And this prison seems to be a dungeon, because he can see the stars when he looks up, and there are walls all around.

What if it rains, won't you drown?

Li Mu secretly pondered, and shouted in his mouth: "Uncle, I'm hungry, find me something delicious!" ”

No one paid attention to him, and after a while, a bag of water was dropped from the ventilation window where the stars could be seen, a naan, and there was nothing wrong with things, but this attitude was very rude, Li Mu jumped to his feet and scolded, but no one paid attention to it anymore, Li Mu was tired of scolding, and sat down, picked up the naan and water on the ground, and muttered while eating, and now he has no other way than to be happy.

Counting the days, today is the thirtieth day since I left Chang'an, exactly one month. I don't know if the news of my kidnapping has been passed on.

If Qiaoqiao knows, can he still raise a fetus with peace of mind? I don't know if Zhi'en's girl can take care of her, take care of the family, and Wang Ou, will she know the news and not leave, or if she is really ruthless, even if she knows, she doesn't care, but she takes herself too seriously and is amorous.

With a thousand threads and entanglements in his heart, Li Mu sighed, and suddenly couldn't eat anymore.

……

At this time, in an underground palace not far away, an unusual question was being conducted. The old woman who was shouting to execute Li Mu was questioning Jin Chen and Yinyue at this time. And Jin Chen, who had just been revered as a god by the sect, was like a primary school student who had been reprimanded by the teacher in front of the old woman at this time, and where did he still have a little demeanor as a sect leader.

"You two said that you would follow the results of divination and go to the East to find a savior, is it this hairy boy? Jin Chen, don't think that you have become the sect leader, relying on the status of the Holy Fire Order in the hearts of the sect members, you can arbitrarily exercise the power of divination. People don't know what divination is all about, so how can I not know? Originally, I thought that you could still play a little trick, but now it seems that I think highly of you. ”

The old woman suddenly jumped in front of Jin Chen's eyes, like a ghost: "Let me ask you, do you still want to resist stubbornly now?" The Western Turkic army is coming soon, it's time to choose, do you want to drag your people to die with you? ”

The old woman narrowed her eyes and shouted gloomily: "Jin Chen, you should understand that if it weren't for the previous sect leader insisting on passing on the position of sect leader to you, this position should have been mine!" Why don't you abdicate and give it to me, and it has nothing to do with you from now on, how about it? ”

"High Priest, it is the will of the gods that the old sect leader passed on the position of the sect leader to me, and you are also present at the ceremony, how can you say such a thing. My divination is also the will of the gods. You think you understand, but in fact you don't understand, this is a power that only the sect leader can exercise, only the sect leader can pray to the heavens, you are just a sacrifice, you have no qualifications to watch! ”

"Hah!" The old woman laughed: "I haven't seen other skills, this sharp-toothed and sharp-tongued ability has learned ten out of ten from the previous sect leader!" Okay, if you don't abdicate, then you just wait, wait for the iron hooves of the Western Turks to wreak havoc, and wait to collect the corpses of your clansmen! ”

The old woman flicked the iron rod in her hand, turned around and walked out. Jin Chen listened to the footsteps and walked away, only to be like a deflated ball, and the whole person collapsed.

Yinyue was worried: "Sect Master, it seems that the high priest is determined to defect to the Western Turks, I'm afraid that when we are not there, we will already contact us in private, and on our side, Li Mu seems to be determined to refuse, what should we do now?" ”

"Wait."

"Wait?" Yinyue hurriedly said, "How can you wait?" Didn't you hear the high priest? The Western Turkic army is coming soon, and it is time to make a decision. If your heart is to the Tang Dynasty, we should now let the clansmen pack up and set off, if you are heart to the Western Turks, you should hand over Li Mu to them at this time, he is the military marquis of the Tang Dynasty, and the person that the Tang Emperor relies on so much, it is definitely a great achievement, with this credit, our clansmen are also-"

"Don't say it!" Jin Chen interrupted Yinyue's words, word by word, and said, "Li Mu is kind to me, I will never hurt Li Mu's life!" ”

"Master!" Yinyue was also anxious, and stomped her feet and said, "Don't be blinded by the love of your children, you only care about him, and you don't care about the clansmen?" When we went to Chang'an, what did you tell me, did you forget? ”

"I ......" Jin Chen opened his mouth, unable to say anything. After a while, Jin Chen waved his hand and said, "Yinyue, I've been tired for a few days, I'm tired, I want to rest early, nothing is bad this day, let's talk about it tomorrow." ”

"Okay," Yinyue bowed and saluted, turned around and left, Jin Chen looked at her back, and suddenly felt a sense of sadness in her heart, she and Yinyue grew up together since childhood, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are like sisters, but just now, she felt that Yinyue was afraid that she was not of the same heart as her. But she can't say that Yinyue is wrong, she is also thinking about her people, and she, herself, is also doubting whether she is emotional-

Jin Chen took out a piece of tortoise shell from her arms and gently stroked the cracks on the tortoise shell, she didn't tell a lie, she went to the east to find a savior, it was the answer that divination told her. And the divination method she used to come to this conclusion was indeed taught to her by the previous sect master when he was dying, and she did it exactly according to the steps, and there was no mistake at all.

Jin Chen put the tortoise shell back into his arms, took off his golden clothes, changed into black night clothes, slipped out of the underground palace through the secret passage, and disappeared into the night.

……

Li Mu lit a fire in the dungeon, and the fuel used was the bones of a man or a beast. When he was about to sleep, he had just lay down and was caught by a piece of bone, and when he reached out and touched it again, he felt a large pile of bones. I don't know how long these bones have been here, and some have even weathered.

Li Mu raised a pile of bone slag with his hand, and the theory of ghost fire suddenly appeared in his mind, and according to legend, the ghost fire was produced by the spontaneous combustion of phosphorus in the bones. There are so many bones here, I guess they can be lit too.

Life is on the horizon, and Li Mu is not afraid of ghosts. The dungeon is cold and cold, the night is cool and the wind is cold, and it is good to light a fire to keep warm.

Li Mu took two long bones to test, and used the means of drilling wood to make fire, rubbing them for a long time, and they really lit it. He led the fire to the pile of bones and slag that had just been crushed, and the fire became vigorous all of a sudden, and Li Mu saw that what kind of dungeon was this, it was almost the same as the tomb, and all around him were skeletons sitting upright, as if someone was here.

Sacrificial?

Li Mu didn't dare to think about it, although he was a little scared in his heart, but when he thought that he was about to become one of them, that trace of fear disappeared.

"It's all lonely ghosts, you can't live here if you stay here, everyone is a fallen person at the end of the world, I can do a good job, I will give you a cremation, you will also warm me up, everyone will not lose what they need."

Li Mu secretly muttered in his heart, and threw the skeletons into the fire, and the fire became more vigorous.

Such a great fear was broken, and Li Mu's heart suddenly became clear. If a person puts life and death aside, there are really not many things that can make him afraid. Li Mu looked at the water bladder and naan on the ground, and thought for a while, if you don't eat for nothing, you can't be a hungry ghost if you die, what if there is a case, can you live? If you don't have the physical strength to run away because you haven't eaten, how unjust it is!

Eat!

Li Mu picked up the naan again, put it in his mouth and chewed it. It's like countless nights, when he was working overtime in the company alone, a loaf of bread and a bottle of mineral water were also full.

While eating, Li Mu picked up the thigh bone of an unlucky person and threw it into the fire, and lit a torch to burn the spider webs on the wall, which could be regarded as cleaning his temporary 'home'. Suddenly, he stopped, and he noticed that there seemed to be writing on the wall.

Li Mu threw the burned leg bone in his hand into the fire, broke off another one and lit it, and went to look at the wall again, wanting to see what was written, but before he could see it clearly, there was a sound of footsteps overhead. Li Mu hurriedly threw the bones in his hand on the ground, he didn't want people to find out that he had discovered the secret of the wall.

"Lord Hou......"

It's Jin Chen.

Li Mu snorted, sat down against the wall, and pulled the two skeletons to block himself, determined to ignore her.

Jin Chen came to the top of the skylight, saw that there was a fire below, and thought that the high priest was going to kill Li Mu's life, so he quickly lay down and looked, and saw that it was a bonfire with a green light, and then saw the bones that were still burning everywhere, Jin Chen understood what was happening, and smiled bitterly in his heart, such a shocking thing was surprising when it was done to others, but Li Mu did it, although he was surprised, he didn't feel surprised, because he was a deviant person.

Jin Chen took advantage of the firelight, took a closer look, found Li Mu between the two skeletons, and called softly: "Master Hou, don't hide, I saw you." ”

"Don't scream, I'm dead, I just heard what you said, you call it 'Middle Earth Zoroastrianism', don't bother you, I'll cremate myself myself, don't bother you."

Jin Chen ignored Li Mu's yin and yang weirdness, sat next to the skylight, and said to himself: "I know that you must hate me to death in your heart, but don't you want to hear my hardships?" ”

"!" Li Mu sneered and said, "Your hardship? Do you have a fart relationship with me? Lao Tzu originally thought that Lao Tzu was unreasonable enough, but I didn't expect you to be even more unreasonable than Lao Tzu, you can kidnap me here if you have a hard time? If you have a hard time, I have to take care of you? Is that okay? I'm also suffering now, can you help me with suicide, okay? ”

Jin Chen once again ignored Li Mu's nonsense, and said to himself: "Why is our sect called Middle Earth Zoroastrianism, do you want to know?" ”

"I don't want to!"

"I'll tell you."

Li Mu rolled his eyes, he understood that Jin Chen just wanted to tell him about the cause and effect, even if he didn't want to hear it, Jin Chen had to say that she just had to let herself know.

Stupid woman, do you think that if you tell your bitter feelings, Lao Tzu will forgive you? No way!

Li Mu closed his eyes and pretended to sleep, intending to let himself fall asleep, but when he fell asleep, he couldn't hear this woman's words, and whatever she said had nothing to do with him!

"This Zoroastrianism was not originally a sect in the Central Plains, but came from the Western Regions, and I heard the previous sect leader say that it is further west of the Western Regions, west of the Western Turks, there is a place called Persia, and Zoroastrianism came from Persia. And our people, originally all from the Central Plains, although they believed in the god of fire, but their teachings were different from those of Persia, so we called Zoroastrianism in Middle Earth to show distinction. ”

"But after the Turks migrated westward, they could not get in touch with the Zoroastrianism in Persia. We rarely say that we are Zoroastrians in Middle-earth, so we call them Zoroastrians. ”

Li Mu rolled his eyes and said What does this have to do with Lao Tzu?

"Our people are called the Hidden Clan. I don't know what my surname is, and neither do the elders of the family. We only know now that the Yin people have four surnames, which are called gold, silver, copper, and iron. ”

What kind of bullshit surname is this, joking?

As if hearing Li Mu's heart, Jin Chen smiled bitterly and said, "It has been handed down like this, and future generations can't change it." ”

"Among the four surnames, the two surnames of gold and silver are the first. There are few people, but they are in charge of the hermit. There are many people with copper and iron surnames, but they all belong to the two surnames of gold and silver, and the position of the patriarch has always been produced among the two surnames of gold and silver. ”

"Since I have embraced Zoroastrianism, the rules have changed slightly. When the surname Jin is the leader, the surname Yin is the patriarch, and when the surname Yin is the leader, the surname Jin is the patriarch. The leader of the sect surnamed Jin, the deputy surnamed Yin, the patriarch surnamed Yin, and the deputy surnamed Jin have been like this for hundreds of years. Only when the leader or patriarch suddenly dies and no next one is designated, will the handrail be used."

"Since I have embraced Zoroastrianism, the rules have changed slightly. When the surname Jin is the leader, the surname Yin is the patriarch, and when the surname Yin is the leader, the surname Jin is the patriarch. The leader of the sect surnamed Jin, the deputy surnamed Yin, the patriarch surnamed Yin, and the deputy surnamed Jin have been like this for hundreds of years. Only when the leader or patriarch suddenly dies and no next one is designated, will the handrail be used."