Spring goes to autumn, and the seasons change.

More than ten years is a small part of life for mortals, but for those who have achieved cultivation, more than ten years are too short, so short that they can't even feel the passage of time.

Yun Xuan Zhai is still quietly open in a corner of Chang'an City, as if it has never changed, just like its owner, but everything around has changed, the willow saplings that have just been planted in the past have now become quite large-scale, and the people around them are gradually getting old, for more than ten years, Hou Ming has witnessed the prosperity of one family after another in Chang'an, and from prosperity to decline, just like the martial arts of the year.

These ten years are undoubtedly short for Hou Ming, but in Hou Ming's feelings, it is longer than the hundreds of years since he was born, especially when he sees Wu Mei again, the little girl who used to be only a little big, and now she has become a mature woman, he can't help but feel the horror of time, which he has never felt before.

The vicissitudes of life, that's probably what the master said, right?

"Monkey, teacher, he ...... Still won't see me? Wu Mei looked at Hou Ming, her eyes flashed with a glint that Hou Ming couldn't understand, and she said with some expectation.

"Master's temper, you should know that fate is over." Hou Ming said indifferently, although he didn't know why Li Xuan refused to see Wu Mei, but over the years, he knew one thing, what Li Xuan decided, it was absolutely impossible to change, even if he interceded, there would be no difference.

"Huh." Wu Mei smiled sadly, didn't say anything more, turned around and left, her back looked a little bleak and desolate against the backdrop of the ancient road, which made Hou Ming couldn't help but feel sorry.

"Don't want to go back?" Yunxuan Zhaizhong. Li Xuan took a sip of tea, put down the scroll in his hand, and squinted at Zhu Yuyan, who was standing in front of him.

"The master forgives sins, he shouldn't have thought so." Zhu Yuyan lowered her head, and said in a somewhat hoarse voice: "It's just that Mei'er's child is different from Wanwan, she ......"

"Huh. If Song Que and the others knew that the Yin Queen who was famous for her murder in the past would actually be moved by compassion, I don't know if she would stare at her. Li Xuan shook his head and said, "I can give you a chance to choose, but that girl is not simple, and the final result may not be what you expect." ”

"Thank you, master." Zhu Yuyan arched his hand, obviously, he didn't listen to the second half of Li Xuan's sentence.

"Go ahead. Remember, you must not let her know everything about me, even the relationship between you and me, otherwise, the consequences will never be clear to you. With a wave of his hand, Li Xuan said indifferently.

"Yes." Zhu Yuyan's delicate body couldn't help but tremble, and he bowed down.

Looking at the direction Zhu Yuyan left, Li Xuan shook his head. Although his cultivation has improved, the courage of the former generation of sect masters is gone. After Zhu Yuyan left, Li Xuan closed his eyes, and after thinking about it, he slowly opened his eyes, looked at the void in front of him and said, "Come out." ”

A figure like a goddess falling into the mortal sky suddenly appeared in front of Li Xuan. Concubine Xuanyi is as ethereal as she was back then, and her sacrosanct temperament is easy to make ambitious men have a sense of possessiveness from the bottom of their hearts.

"Concubine Xuan has successfully persuaded the Buddhist and Taoist forces in the Tang Dynasty to fully support Wu Mei." When the senior concubine said this, she glanced at Li Xuan suspiciously: "According to Your Majesty's orders, she has vaguely known that Her Majesty is behind the promotion of Buddhist forces to support her. That's it......"

"Therefore, you are not a qualified politician, and you will not understand the emperor's mind." Li Xuan shook his head, didn't explain much, and said, "I gave Zhu Yuyan a chance to indulge freely, whatever, if you want, I can also give you a chance." ”

"Concubine Xuan is tired and doesn't want to meddle in the world's disputes anymore." Shaking her head, Concubine Xuan rejected Li Xuan's proposal.

"That's a pity, I originally wanted to see the scene of another Dao Demon confrontation, but now it is destined not to happen." Li Xuan shook his head and smiled, and with a wave of his hand, he took the silent concubine Xuan back into the imperial jade seal, looking into the distance, with a smile on his face, the bureau has been laid out, and then, it depends on the means of the first and only female emperor in history who has succeeded to the throne, I hope I don't want to disappoint me.

The matter of Yuan Tiangang and Jinghe Dragon King has ended, Wei Zheng slashed the dragon, Wei Zheng here is not the Great Yan Wei Zheng, but a certain star of the Heavenly Court descended to earth, the Jinghe Dragon King obviously failed to provoke Wei Zheng, so he vented his resentment on Li Shimin's body, but it was just a drama staged by Heaven and Buddhism, at least in Li Xuan's view, it was completely dependent on the ability of the gods to bully mortals, otherwise Xingyun Buyu was the duty of the Water God Dragon King, but the Heavenly Court had to interfere for no reason, and the Jinghe Dragon King was just a mere river Dragon King in the final analysis, Don't say that the god is right, not even a small god, and the heavenly court is not full of food and idle to do nothing, to care about such trivial matters as sesame mung beans, and finally sent a heavenly soldier to capture a river dragon? If there is no cat, then there is a ghost.

The journey to the west is the eastward spread of Buddhism, but the Jade Emperor is not taking advantage of the situation to consolidate his power.

A series of events can be regarded as the source of the Journey to the West, Li Xuan did not intervene in it, but took this opportunity to send his concubine Xuan to add fuel to the fire, pushing the power of the Tang Buddhism to a peak.

It's not that Li Xuan wants to cater to Buddhism, everything is booming and declining, and the trend of Buddhism spreading eastward has been completed, even if Li Xuan wins in this small tribulation of the westward journey, he will still introduce Mahayana Buddhism to the east in other ways, and the general trend formed by Buddhism after several calamities is naturally not something that Li Xuan can destroy in just a few decades.

Therefore, Li Xuan wants to take the first step to completely trigger the potential of Buddhism in the East before spreading Buddhism to the east, which seems to be strong, but in fact it disrupts the deployment of Buddhism, plus Wu Zetian, the first empress in history, has successfully planted the seeds of hatred of Buddhism in his heart under Li Xuan's secret control, but now he is alone, Wu Zetian wants to take the throne, he must use the power of Buddhism, when Wu Zetian ascends the throne, it is the moment when Buddhism's power in the Tang Dynasty reaches its peak, and it is also deep in Wu Zetian's heart, The moment when the seeds of hatred of Buddhism erupted.

The emperor's mind is the most difficult to guess in the world, for this kind of people, personal grievances are absolutely difficult to hinder his will, in the eyes of the emperor, what he sees will never be Buddhism's help to himself, but Buddhism in it. The hidden power that has erupted, a terrorist force that is enough to influence the status of a country's leader, can push itself to the throne today, and whether it will pull itself down again for any reason in the future, this is absolutely not allowed for Wu Zetian.

Wu Zetian had a really hard time during that time. For the sake of the martial arts family, the mother became the plaything of the five cousins, not only that, but after the five cousins grew up in Wu Zetian, they actually extended their claws to this sister, and in the end, although under Wu Zetian's mechanism, the danger was turned into a disaster, but in this internal family struggle, Li Xuan also saw Wu Zetian's terrifying forbearance and ruthless methods.

Although I don't think much that a woman is not talented is virtuous. But a woman is too scheming, ruthless and indifferent, after putting aside her glamorous appearance, looking directly at the essence, it will make people a little resistant, at least such a woman, Li Xuan will not like it.

So. From the beginning, between him and Wu Zetian. It's just the relationship between the chess player and the chess piece, which is why Li Xuan tried to avoid too much contact with Wu Zetian.

After recovering the imperial jade seal, Li Xuan walked out of the house, and in the courtyard, Hou Ming was taking a group of Yunxuanzhai students to do morning class, and saw Li Xuan come out. Hurriedly checked and saluted, for these orphans who grew up in Yunxuan Zhai since childhood, Li Xuan was undoubtedly a god-like existence, respectful and awe-inspiring.

"It's all excused." With a wave of his hand, Li Xuan's gaze swept over the group of registered disciples. He smiled slightly and said: "More than ten years ago, when I adopted you as a teacher, the eldest Ling Huluo was only eight years old, and now, the youngest Murong Zhe has also become a young man. ”

"Master?" Several disciples suddenly felt that Li Xuan's speech today was a little unusual, as if he was sighing, and as if he was explaining something, for a while, everyone's hearts suddenly felt as heavy as pressing a stone, Hou Ming opened his mouth, and when he said the most, he was stopped by Li Xuan with his eyes.

"Master, are you leaving?" Murong Zhe looked at Li Xuan, with a deep reluctance in his eyes, as the youngest of the registered disciples, although he was talented, he couldn't hide his words.

"Ahh Without answering, Li Xuan looked at the youngest named disciple and said.

"Master." The youngest disciple, Murong Zhe, hurriedly stepped out of the queue when he heard this, and bowed his hand.

"Among the senior brothers, you have the best talent, but also your personality is the most out-of-the-box, as a teacher, you can naturally protect you, but if one day, the teacher is not around, remember to think twice before acting, although Ling Hu Luo is not as talented as you, but Xiuwei is the fastest one among the senior brothers, do you know why?" Li Xuan asked with a smile.

"Second Senior Brother works harder than us." Murong Zhe bowed his head and replied.

"It's not stupid, but it's a pity that this bit of cleverness is not used in the right way." Li Xuan nodded, then looked at Ling Huluo and said: "After the teacher leaves, Yunxuanzhai will be inherited by you, remember, do everything according to your ability, there is no eternal thing in this world." ”

With Wu Zetian's character, after taking sole power in the future, Yun Xuanzhai's fate is not easy to say, he can't stay here all the time, this group of disciples has good talents, otherwise it would not be possible to be adopted by Li Xuan at that time, but for this group of temporarily adopted named disciples, Li Xuan did not report too high expectations, on weekdays, he only pointed out some mortal martial arts, but more is all aspects of learning, he has experienced fantasy, and what he has learned is even more all-encompassing, even if he only has to catch the scales, but for mortals, it is enough to be used for a lifetime, In their respective industries, they are all considered to be the top choices, but the so-called shore of the land is none other than Wang Chen, who is in the Tang Dynasty, how can he compete with the Tang Dynasty Emperor.

"Master rest assured, even if the disciple is broken, he will definitely keep Yun Xuan Zhai and wait for the day when the master returns." Ling Huluo said in a deep voice.

When Li Xuan heard this, he looked at the eyes of the disciples, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, but he didn't persuade again, in the dark, everything has its own certainty, and he took out a token and threw it at Ling Huluo.

Ling Huluo stretched out his hand to catch it, looked at a huge Yan character on the token, and looked at Li Xuan with some doubts.

"This is a jade pendant for the teacher, if you and I have a chance to meet again in the future, this token will tell you what to do." After all, there is a master-apprentice, the Great Yan Yan Dragon Order, if one day, the power of the Great Yan spreads here, and these named disciples are still alive, it means that the fate of master and apprentice is not over, and Li Xuan does not mind giving them a transformation.

"Disciple remember." When Ling Huluo heard this, he solemnly took the jade pendant into his arms and bowed to Li Xuan again.

"Since I have guessed, I will not say much as a teacher, it is difficult to say goodbye when we meet, there is no feast in the world, you will take care of yourself." With a wave of their hands, everyone felt dazzled, and after their sight returned to clarity, there were still shadows of Li Xuan and Hou Ming.

"Master, why ......" Looking at Chang'an City under his feet, Hou Ming couldn't say what he felt, there was sadness, reluctance, and incomprehension, all kinds of thoughts lingered together, as if something was blocking his heart, this is a feeling that he has never felt in his hundreds of years of life.

"Why don't you take them back with you?" Li Xuan asked with a smile, he was used to parting, although that kind of emotion was there, it was very light, far from being like Hou Ming.

"Hmm." Hou Ming nodded, the six-eared macaque is gifted with magical powers, allowing him to know many secrets that ordinary people don't know, but the Tao can be passed on but not taught, some things can not be conveyed by words, only after feeling it personally, can he have the deepest understanding.

"Remember how you feel now, and you'll understand later." Li Xuan did not explain, the six-eared macaque, starting from today, will take a completely different path from the original, and it will not be in vain for him to waste more than ten years of time.

All the way west, Hou Ming was not very interested, and followed behind Li Xuan all the way, silent, as if the monkey nature had disappeared.

After walking all the way for a long time, the auspicious clouds under his feet stopped.

“？” Hou Ming raised his head and looked at Li Xuan inexplicably.

"There's a bear demon down there, capture him." Li Xuan pointed to a cave below, facing Hou Mingdao, where it was the cave of the black bear spirit, and it was also one of the few goblins with strong strength but no special background on the way to the west, who could fight with Sun Wukong without a win.

"Yes." Nodding sullenly, Hou Ming's heart was a little blocked, he was in need of catharsis at the moment, and he didn't ask the reason when he heard the words, he pressed the cloud under his feet and flew to the front of the cave, with an extra black stick in his hand, and without saying a word, he smashed it into the cave.

"Boom~"

Hou Ming's stick is full of strength, even if he doesn't use any magical powers, the power of this stick still makes the heavens and the earth change color, and the entire mountain seems to be about to collapse, and the cave mansion is directly under this stick, collapsing.

"Where did the monkey come from, he dared to spread wild in his grandfather's place and look for death!" With an angry roar, a burly figure rushed up from the ruins, looking at Hou Ming, his eyes breathed fire, and the mace in his hand danced, and he smashed towards Hou Ming without saying anything. (To be continued......)