As far as the eye can see, the winding bluestone main road behind you is full of branches and paths, but only here, there are only three branches left, and when you close the main road to the peak, there are just four stone steps.

And the place further up seems to be at the end, the clouds and smoke are swirling, the fairy rhyme is fluttering, and there is no rest of the branches, which makes me have to contact the Taoist priest said before the three elders and one master of Maoshan, and now it seems that the three branches should be the place where the three contemporary masters of Maoshan practice, and this main road that goes straight into the sky is thought to be the place where the only grandmaster is.

Dao Tong had already walked away, Lin Qiao'er poked me, waking me up from my stunned mind, I hurriedly retracted my mind and quickly followed.

After a while, the bluestone path has come to an end, only to see a simple and elegant wooden structure village appeared in front of us, thinking that this is the residence of the famous jade Qingzhen people.

I saw that Dao Tong made a gesture in front of the fragrant gate, and then said: "Master, the guest has arrived." ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw that the closed door suddenly opened, and a clear voice full of energy came from inside: "Come in!" ”

After the voice fell, Dao Tong shook again, and then turned around and retreated.

"Hey, little master, why are you leaving?" Lin Qiao'er didn't know why, looked at the departing Taoist boy, and wanted to stop him, but was stopped by the Taoist priest.

The priest shook his head at her, pointed to the open door, and motioned for us to enter. I feel a little strange in my heart, why is that voice, the more I listen to it, the more familiar it feels?

Suppressing the doubts in our hearts, we just stepped into the wooden temple and were immediately attracted by a big tree in the courtyard. The big tree has no leaves, and its bare branches are covered with vicissitudes of life, revealing an indescribable ethereal and mysterious meaning, even ordinary people like us can perceive the extraordinaryness of the giant tree. But at this time, I was more concerned about an old man sitting cross-legged under a big tree.

The moment we saw this old man, we were all stunned, we had seen this old man before, and it was just yesterday. I just wanted to blurt out why it was you, but the actions of the Taoist priest next to me blocked the words that came to my mouth again.

I saw that after the Taoist priest saw the mysterious old man, his expression was unprecedentedly serious, and he leaned over and bowed to the old man at an extremely exaggerated angle, and bowed: "I've seen the uncle!" ”

Uncle? The Taoist priest called this old man, and the three of us all had question marks on our faces, and we couldn't understand what the Taoist priest was making trouble with.

Without waiting for us to ask the Taoist, the old Taoist who was sitting under the tree with his eyes closed opened his eyes, his gaze first fell on the Taoist priest, and then turned to us, when he saw me, the corners of the old Tao's mouth twitched unconsciously, but when he saw that the old turtle was not by my side, the old Taoist immediately returned to an unfathomable expression.

Lao Dao retracted his gaze and ignored us, nodding at the Taoist priest: "Well, little crazy, I haven't seen you for a few years, how is your master?" ”

The Taoist priest's attitude was still respectful, and he hurriedly replied: "Thank you for your concern, old man... Master he traveled away two years ago, and I may not have seen him for a long time. ”

Lao Dao didn't show surprise at the Taoist priest's question and answer, but just nodded and said: "Well, after so many years, your master is still the same, and he can't be idle for a moment, alas! ”

"Uncle Lao is worried, when the master doesn't go out, the one who talks about it the most is the uncle, and when he comes back, he will definitely contact the uncle immediately."

Although I don't know what the relationship between the Taoist priest and the jade Qingzhen in front of me is, I can still hear some clues from the conversation between them. Don't look at the Taoist priest's respect for this old Taoist, every answer he answers, as if it is to complete the task, even if the old Tao's tone has always been very kind, the Taoist priest's attitude is still like that, and there is always an unreachable distance in the respect.

The old Taoist sighed, his face showed a hint of loneliness, and he waved his hand at the Taoist priest: "Let's not talk about these things first, do you want to consider ...... when you come up the mountain this time?"

Without waiting for the old Taoist to finish speaking, the Taoist priest interrupted him categorically: "No, don't misunderstand!" ”

The corners of Yuqing Old Dao's eyes shrank, his gaze was slightly condensed, I don't know if it was my illusion, at this moment I seemed to see a ray of golden light shoot out from Yuqing Old Dao's eyes and fall on the Taoist priest.

The next moment, Yuqing Lao Dao's expression changed slightly, and he suddenly asked, "Blood Demon Evil Curse, where did you provoke it?" ”

Seeing that the jade innocent people had seen through the evil curse on their bodies, the Taoist priest smiled helplessly, and then roughly told us what happened to us in Luogang Village not long ago.

As we expected, when we heard that there was still a prehistoric god clan in the forbidden land, the jade Qingzhen of the fairy wind Dao bone could no longer maintain that unfathomable posture, and almost jumped up and grabbed the Taoist priest to confirm whether the news was true.

Finally calmed down, Yuqing Lao Dao beckoned to the Taoist, the Taoist priest understood, walked to the side of the Yuqing real person under the tree, sat cross-legged, only to see the Yuqing Taoist sweep the dust in his hand, the giant tree above the Taoist priest's head trembled slightly, and then countless blood-red air masses rushed out from the Taoist priest's body, and from the blood mass can vaguely see a hideous and distorted human face.

There were a lot of blood clusters, and in just a few breaths, they filled the entire Taoist temple, overwhelming the sky, and the faces of the people in it roared, and the voices were extremely terrible, and many of them flew towards us.

This battle really scared me, although I have also experienced a more terrifying situation than this, but after all, it is within the forbidden land with psychological foreshadowing, and I really did not expect such a terrible situation to appear in the Taoist famous sect.

I was just about to pick up the doctor Lin Qiao'er and run away, when I suddenly heard a shout like a loud bell: "Wronged souls and wild ghosts, don't disperse quickly!" ”

The shout rang out, and the blood mass that rushed towards us immediately collapsed like a punctured bubble, and it dissipated in an instant, and the blood qi in the entire courtyard dissipated without a trace.

Before we could wake up from the shock, we heard the Taoist priest let out a comfortable snort: "Hehe, congratulations to the uncle, the cultivation is one step further!" ”

The Taoist priest said this sincerely, but the Yuqing Zhenren shook his head helplessly, pointed to the ancient tree above his head and said: "You don't need to compliment, the blood ghost curse is a unique evil art of the Heavenly Witch Sect, although I can solve it, but it can't be so easy, this is the wonder of the ancient tree Bodhi." ”

"Okay, the blood curse has been lifted, but you have come all the way here, it shouldn't be just for this matter, right?"

As he spoke, Lao Dao's gaze turned to me again.

The Taoist priest smiled: "I really can't hide anything from my uncle, it's like this......"

As he spoke, the Taoist priest explained the intention of our trip, and after hearing this, the expression of the jade Qingzhen person was even more surprised than when he heard about the forbidden place just now.

"What do you say? Dao Jun's kid...... Fallen? ”

Yu Qingzhen's voice was not only shocked, he stared at the Taoist priest deadly, as if asking the Taoist priest to give him a reasonable explanation.

I sighed, stood up, and took out the seal that Yuan Daoyun had entrusted to me before he died. The jade Qingzhen didn't stretch out his hand to take it, but just stared at the seal for a long time, didn't say anything, and turned around and walked out of the Taoist temple. The Taoist priest hurriedly waved at us and motioned for us to follow.

In silence, following the figure of the Jade Pure Man, we returned to the main bluestone step, I thought that we should enter another path next, but I didn't expect that the Jade Pure Man led us into the mountain forest next to the main step.

I don't know how far I walked, until I was shaken by the greenery and had some illusions, and the Jade Halal finally stopped.

I looked up and saw that the Jade Halal had led us to a cliff with a misty abyss on one side and a vine-covered cliff on the other.

The jade real man walked to the cliff and pushed aside the green vines, and we realized that behind the vines was a cave.

He looked into the cave, but he didn't go in, he turned to look at me, he saw the seal in my hand, I understood what he meant, and hurriedly handed it to him.

"Senior brother, please come out and see you!"

The jade Qingzhen person shouted loudly, and seeing that there was no movement, with a flick of his thumb, the seal immediately flew into the cave and disappeared in the darkness.

Almost at the same time as the seal was hidden, a fierce wind whistled out from the cave, blowing off the green vines covering the cave, revealing the whole picture of the cave.

The next moment, a skinny gray-haired old man walked out of the darkness, different from the fairy wind bones of the Yuqing Zhenren, this gray-haired old man did not have half of the immortal aura of a cultivator, but his whole body was filled with a kind of murderous aura, which was very scary, if it wasn't for the Yuqing Zhenren himself to lead us here, I would never have imagined that this fierce old man in front of me would be one of the three elders of Maoshan.

The old man's eyes were cold, and as soon as he walked out of the cave, he immediately looked at the Yuqing Zhenren, and as for the few of us, he almost ignored them.

"Where did it come from?" Without a word of nonsense, the Yuxu Zhenren raised his seal and asked at the Yuqing Zhenren.

Facing the fierce junior brother in front of him, Yuqingzhen looked helpless and pointed at me: "It was sent by this little friend, and he ...... it."

Without waiting for the Jade Void True Man to finish speaking, the Jade Void True Man suddenly disappeared out of thin air, and just when I was shocked and inexplicable, a chill that penetrated my heart rose from my back without warning.

A pair of skinny, dry hands were on my shoulders, and I suddenly felt as if my shoulders were about to be crushed, and I was in such pain that cold sweat came down.

I scolded in my heart, and said that this old bastard took the wrong medicine, Lao Tzu was kind enough to send something, but you meow like this?

Almost at the moment when I was pinched, the apocalypse in the backpack seemed to sense the provocation from my fellow Daoists, and swooped through the backpack and stabbed out, slashing straight at the wrist of Yuxu Lao Dao.

This Jade Void Old Dao is usually arrogant, and he didn't put such a broken sword of the Apocalypse in his eyes at all, and he didn't let go of me at all, but when the black light brought out by the Apocalypse was close to his wrist, the face of the Jade Void Old Dao changed instantly, and he suddenly let go of his hand, and almost withdrew against the sword qi of the Apocalypse Sword.

"Apocalypse Sword, are you from the Zhengqian Sect? No, this is the Feather Immortal Dao, impossible, this can't be ......"

The Jade Void True Person, who had avoided the Heavenly Apocalypse Sword Qi, had a shocked face, in fact, it was not just him, the Jade Pure True Person was also full of horror, and the eyes that looked at me were as if he had seen a ghost.

The change of the Heavenly Apocalypse Sword did not continue because of the Jade Void True Person's hand, the sword blade pierced into the bluestone, and I looked angrily at the Jade Void Old Dao, who was still in shock.

Yu Qingzhen hurriedly stood up to play a round game, and said Let me not misunderstand, junior brother, he is just concerned about it for a while, and he doesn't really want to do it to me, I scolded in my heart, and said that Lao Tzu's shoulders are about to be crushed, this is not really trying to do it?

Secretly scolding is secretly scolding, after all, it is still in other people's land, and the purpose of my coming this time is only to complete Yuan Daojun's entrustment, and I can't provoke Maoshan, so I forcibly suppressed my anger and looked at Yuxu Lao Dao.

At this time, Yuxu Lao Dao had already woken up from the shock, and after staring at me for a while, his expression became more solemn, he raised his seal and asked me, "Where did you get this thing?" ”

I took a deep breath, calmed down, and told the whole story of the matter in an indifferent tone, when I heard that Yuan Daojun was willing to fall into the devil in order to stop the corpse king, and finally chose to cut himself off, Yuxu Zhenren seemed to be drained of all his energy, and his already dry body became more rickety and old, and he could no longer feel half a point of fierce momentum from him, and the rest was only a thick sadness of an old man in the twilight.

At this moment, my disgust for Yuxu Zhenren is suddenly not so strong, this old Tao who seems to be hated is a real person with a temperament, true temperament, even in today's world, it is pitiful, not to mention that this is still in a grandmaster-level cultivator.

"Five!"

Suddenly, Yuxu Zhenren muttered as if talking to himself: "When I was five years old, I picked him up on the street, Dao Xun this child is poor, when he was five years old, he begged on the street, and it was easy to get half a steamed bun, but he was snatched by his peers who were older than teenagers, and was almost killed, I saw that he was pitiful, so I took him in." ”

I was shocked, I didn't expect Yuan Daojun to have such a bleak background, and at the same time subconsciously looked at the Taoist, the Taoist priest is also an orphan, and he was adopted by the old man in his mouth since he was a child, and he is also a teacher and friend, how similar is this to Yuan Daojun?

"The old man is upright all his life, he doesn't know how to be tactful, this child is with me, he doesn't know how to be flexible, although he practices hard, but he also offends people everywhere, and then he is the object of unanimous accusation because of the evil and the law, and he has become the object of unanimous accusation in the Xuanmen, I have warned him, but this child only has the idea of supporting justice, and still does his own thing, and finally breaks into a catastrophe......"

From the mouth of Yuxu Zhenren, I learned something about Yuan Daojun.

The catastrophe in the mouth of Yuxu Zhen refers to an action between the state and the Xuanmen to deal with the Heavenly Witch Sect, and Yuan Daojun mistakenly killed the family of a cultist because of the concept he upheld. It was an innocent woman who didn't know anything about the evil deeds her husband had done, and after learning the truth afterwards, Yuan Daojun wavered in her beliefs for the first time, felt guilty in her heart, and since then she has been grounded in the mountains and made a vow never to leave the mountain.

Seeing all this in his eyes, he could only sigh knowing his character as an apprentice. If this was the end of the matter, it would have been a good ending, but two years later, a premeditated attack on Maoshan by the Heavenly Witch Sect changed everything.

The specific story of Yuxu Zhenren did not go into details, we only know that in that chaos known as the scourge of the Dao, the child of the woman who was mistakenly killed by Yuan Daojun two years ago came to the door.

Due to the suddenness of the incident, Maoshan, who had been comfortable for a long time, was caught off guard and almost fell, and all the Maoshan disciples participated in that battle, and Yuan Daojun was no exception. Due to some reason, when the Zhidao Rebellion occurred, only the Jade Qingzhen people at the peak of Maoshan participated in the battle, while the premeditated Heavenly Witch Sect dispatched nearly half of the top masters, and the Maoshan disciples fell into a bloody battle, with countless casualties.

In the chaos, Yuan Daojun became the mainstay of the second generation of disciples of Maoshan, although his strength was high, he could not withstand the siege of one to ten or even one to twenty, and he was soon seriously injured.

Just when Yuan Daojun was suffering a heavy blow and was in a precarious situation, a girl suddenly rushed out of the chaotic crowd and pounced on him like crazy. The girl was very young, only about fourteen or fifteen years old, and belonged to the cult-cult side, making it an entry-level evil Gu.

It is said that that that level of Gu can only be regarded as a joke for Yuan Daojun, but Yuan Daojun really fell for the girl's Gu and did not resist at all.

Without the support of Yuan Daojun, the situation in the Maoshan Sect took a sharp turn for the worse, and it was about to be completely lost. At this moment, the living legend, the pinnacle of the three elders and one grandmaster of Maoshan, appeared.

The situation of decay was instantly reversed because of the appearance of the legendary grandmaster of Maoshan, and Maoshan turned from defense to attack, capturing the fleeing cultists everywhere, and the little girl who attacked Yuan Daojun was naturally also among the captures.

Xu was too heavy in the previous chaos, or he was anxious about Yuan Daojun's safety, and several disciples of the third generation of Maoshan shot out angrily, and the target was the little girl who had Gu against Yuan Daojun.

A shocking scene appeared, Yuan Daojun didn't care about his serious injuries, but instead shot out and seriously injured the three disciples who came to rescue him, and then escaped from the Maoshan Mountain Gate with the little girl.

At that time, everyone thought that he was controlled by evil arts, and after the chaos was over, Maoshan sent a large number of disciples out to find Yuan Daojun, but the news that came back was incredible, Yuan Daohuan was actually mixed up with the Heavenly Witch Sect.

At first, no one believed that Yuan Daojun rebelled against the sect, but as the people sent out by Maoshan were injured by him one after another, everything became confusing.

After that, Yuan Daojun participated in several major sabotage activities planned by the Heavenly Witch Sect, and the Special Incident Investigation Bureau intervened, and Maoshan had to regard Yuan Daojun as a traitor.

Hearing this, my eyes widened, I couldn't believe it at all, and subconsciously said, "How is this possible? Although I don't have much contact with Yuan Daochang, I am sure that he is definitely not that kind of person, otherwise he would not be willing to become a zombie to stop the corpse king! ”

Yuxu Zhenren looked at me with a complicated expression, sighed, and continued: "You are right, Xun'er did not betray the sect, the little girl he took away in the name of betrayal that day was the child he mistakenly killed that woman before, two years ago, after the girl lost her parents, she was taken away by the Heavenly Witch Sect with hatred, two years later, the girl participated in the rebellion of the Dao, in order to take revenge, Xun'er recognized her, so she was willing to die, and then he mixed into the Heavenly Witch Sect, It's because he discovered a conspiracy that the Heavenly Witch Cult is planning about the Node Forbidden Land......"

Hearing this, I immediately understood that the little girl that Yuan Daojun took away from Maoshan should be Xia He who went to the ancient town with us. It seems that Yuan Daojun finally resolved Xia He's hatred, they became masters and apprentices, but fate made people, Yuan Daojun was trapped in the ancient town, and Xia He finally ......

After losing his beloved apprentice, Yuxu Zhenren's already thin body became more and more rickety, and he solemnly thanked us, saying that he owed me a favor, and then walked back to the cave without saying a word, and disappeared into the darkness.

There are also Taoist priests who are also lonely, and I don't know why, I always feel that Yuan Daojun's gaze is a little strange, and the Taoist priest seems to be constantly dodging Yuan Daojun.

I didn't ask much, from the Taoist priest's previous reaction, I knew that he must have an unusual relationship with Maoshan, but he didn't want to say it, as a friend, I didn't need to go into detail.

In this way, the purpose of the trip to Maoshan was successfully answered, and with Yuan Daojun's entrustment, the blood curse on the Taoist priest was also lifted, and we did not stay long, and went down the mountain on the same day.