Ye Yi took Song Tianxue's dissatisfaction into his eyes, but he was silent, and said with a smile: "Master, how do you say it is more appropriate to deal with this matter?" In any case, the murderer committed the crime in the name of Xuanmen, but it hurt the image of the entire Xuanmen. ”

"Do we still have an image of Xuanmen?" Ziwei Zhenren sneered and asked, "If anyone who does something that hurts the image of Xuanmen has to pay for it, then I am the first." ”

"It turns out that the ancestor also knows that he has done too many vicious things."

Ye Yi said with a smile.

Ziwei Zhenren was not angry, and even smiled, and said, "If I hadn't done so many vicious things that seemed unspeakable to you, how would I have survived until now?" See you? So there are gains and losses in everything, and I just made my own decision between gains and losses. ”

"It's really your own decision, I would never do such a thing." Ye Yi said quietly.

Ziwei Zhenren's smile became brighter and brighter.

Ye Yi said again: "But then again, we really don't have a better choice, life is like a pot of water, poured out is poured out, the so-called water is difficult to collect, that's the truth." ”

"You know."

Ziwei's real smile became brighter and brighter.

Ye Yi's sigh was also a little heavy.

"Master, while you can turn back now, rein in the precipice," she said, "don't let yourself be completely nailed to the pillar of shame of the Xuanmen." ”

"But even if I don't stop at the precipice, I'm still destined to be on the pillar of shame, I have betrayed the Xuanmen, and I am going further and further."

A trace of pain flashed in Ziwei Zhenren's eyes.

"I'll tell you a story, a joke about the quest for immortality."

Ye Yi was silent.

She knew that what Ziwei Zhenren was going to tell must be his own story.

"A long, long time ago, two hundred years ago to be exact, when China was still the Qing Dynasty, the common people still had whips, women also wrapped their little feet, and a child was born in a poor mountain village. The year he was born was just in time for a natural and man-made disaster, with corpses everywhere and people dying of starvation. His mother was dying of starvation. ”

But people always want to live, even if they have only one breath left, they still want to live, so the mother insisted on eating the bark and grass roots, and finally gave birth to him. But before the child was born, the desire for hunger overrode the mother's nature, and she was so hungry that she had no strength to give her child. ”

So the woman gave the child to another couple and exchanged it with them for some food, with which she survived the famine. But he died of another famine three years later. Of course, the focus of our story is on children, so let's stop talking about women's affairs for the time being, and I'll continue to talk about children......"

"The children were taken away by the husband and wife, but the couple was not a good person, they used grain everywhere to collect the children, the purpose was to refine the blood and qi of these children into pills for the officials to continue their lives. At that time, the Xuanmen was not as disciplined as it is now, at that time, superstition was rampant, there was no science, no matter what kind of Xuanmen people, as long as they knew a few tricks, they could get the trust of high-ranking officials and nobles, and get a lot of gold and silver treasures. ”

In short, the child was sold to dignitaries and nobles, ready to be used as vegetables and meat for medicine, and to extend the life of the nobles. Fortunately, there are not only bad people in this world, there are also some Xuanmen people who are upright, there was a person who discovered this secret at that time, he killed the evil way, took away the children who were still alive, and was originally going to send them to an orphanage opened by foreigners, but on the way I heard that foreigners bombarded Guangzhou with guns and cannons, and were ready to hit the Forbidden City! ”

“…… It was a turbulent time, and everyone was in danger. Even if the Xuanmen people are full of good thoughts, they are just a duckweed in the troubled times, drifting with the tide and unable to be autonomous. So, the Taoist sent the children to the mountains, hoping that they could learn a little bit of skills and have a little bit of capital to survive in this troubled world. And the child who was sent away by his biological mother and almost eaten as a vegetable meat was a natural cultivator, and his talent was so good that the master was shocked, and he felt that the revival of Xuanmen was promising. The child has always regarded the revival of Xuanmen as his life goal, worked hard to cultivate, walked the world, and accumulated money and contacts for Xuanmen. ”

"However, as I said earlier, the lives of people in troubled times are cheaper than grass, and the price of cultivators is only slightly higher than that of ordinary people. What's more, wars, war after war, have completely shattered the world's superstition about the power of Xuanmen, no one is willing to give Xuanmen money, and no one thinks that Xuanmen can save the future, they choose to believe in science, believe in those rumbling black iron monsters on the other side of the ocean. ”

"I think there's something wrong with your mentality." Ye Yi said, "Science and metaphysics are two sides of the natural science of the universe, and the rise of science is not a harm to metaphysics, on the contrary, it is a supplement to metaphysics." ”

"People know this now, but people didn't know it then."

Ziwei Zhenren said: "At that time, we didn't know that metaphysics and science were two pieces of the puzzle that complemented each other, we had received thousands of years of metaphysical education, and suddenly encountered a completely unfamiliar and extremely effective metaphysics, and our worldview collapsed. ”

"I'm sorry, I thought it was too light."

Ye Yi whispered.

Ziwei Zhenren didn't care and said, "It's okay, I never took your unhappiness seriously." ”

"In short, under the great impact of science and metaphysics, the idea that the boy should now become a Taoist also led to a sea change, he no longer believed that metaphysics could save the world, he became obsessed with science, and in the pursuit of science, he came into contact with the dark magic hidden in the deepest depths of Western civilization, that is, their metaphysics."

"Among them, the most fascinating thing for Taoists is the definition of immortality in Western culture," Ziwei said, "In the East, immortality also exists, but we will use cultivation to accomplish it." But in the world of Western black magic, they have a more direct and effective way to obtain immortality. The Taoist was already in his sixties at this time, and he began to clearly feel the passage of life, and he needed a way to give him more time to save the Xuanmen left by his master, so he took the initiative to throw himself into the dark magic world, and actively sought the power of darkness, so as to have the energy of immortality. ”

"So, you think you're a hero?"

Ye Yi asked Ziwei Zhenren rhetorically.

In his elaboration, she sees not a trace of repentance, only a defense of her actions and self-righteous arrogance.

This man has rotted from the roots.