Regarding the act of burning the book just now, Ling Wenxuan said that he didn't want to explain more, although Gui Xun'er felt that he might have destroyed the only clue to the death of his heart, but instead of scrutinizing the difficult verses on the "Ziyun Ancient Scroll", he thought it would be better to ask Ban Renjie directly.

The small wooden house where Ban Renjian lived was located on the bank of the Qishui River, and dozens of miles further on, he could see the boats he had built quietly docked on the shore, and when the time of the ban on sailing, there would be no caravans to borrow boats to cross the river, and he was able to finish his busy day and prepare dinner at home.

The gravel path leads to the garden in front of the courtyard, where strange flowers bloom only twice in their lifetime, once before the stems and leaves begin to grow, once before they wither and wither, once symbolizing life and the other meaning death. However, all things in the world, there is death and there is life, and the final surprise of the flower also spreads the flower seed to bring new life, so it is called the two-life flower.

The blue petals kept Yuna's sight, and the brilliant colors made her almost not notice the person in front of the door.

The villagers' inherent title for Ban Renjie made them think that the boatman was a gray-haired old man, but when they actually saw him, they found that he was much younger than they had imagined. Dressed in a light blue velvet trimmed warm coat and a round hat of animal skin, his face was ruddy and energetic, and when he opened his mouth to speak, a cloud of mist erupted.

"I've heard that you want to see me, but I haven't had time, especially after that, I'm sorry, please come into the house and talk about it in detail. ”

Lan Lingxiang had already met with Ban Renjie before, and his reaction was more calm than that of others. Regarding the theft of the ship by Zhulu, she felt that Ban Renjie could not be blamed entirely, after all, the people of the Tianzhao Sect had always acted strangely, which was unguardable, and people with a high level of cultivation like them could not detect it, let alone a mortal.

"I see, Master Ban is not as simple as a mortal as you say, otherwise he would not pretend to be an old man and live in seclusion in this barren mountain and isolated village. Ling Wenxuan shook his head, disagreeing with Lan Lingxiang's words, he took a sip of tea, and turned his gaze to Ban Renji, "Am I right? ”

"How do you know my name?" As soon as Ling Wenxuan mentioned this name, he was so shocked that the water in the teacup in Ban Renxuan's hand spilled out.

Ling Wenxuan poured tea again for Ban Renji, and said slowly: "The name of Mr. is known to the world, and Father Ben has admired Mr. for a long time, and the first thing he did when he came to Suhua Village was to visit Mr. and inquire about the whereabouts of the Seven Artifacts, but he was helplessly killed by the traitors of the Tianzhao Sect, so that the whereabouts of the Dreadnought Sword are unknown, and it is inevitable that the next artifact will fall into the hands of the cult again, so he has to ask Mr. for help." ”

Ban Renji's eyes were still full of vigilance: "Why should I help you?" This girl is right, I am just a mortal, and I have no obligation to intervene in the battle between your Tianyao Sect and the Tianzhao Sect. ”

"Because you want to save your country, and you hate the persecution of humanity in this country as much as I do. Ling Wenxuan glanced at Gui Xun'er beside him and said, "If you have read the history of the Gara Kingdom, I am afraid that you will also be disdainful of my act of burning books. ”

Gara, a desert kingdom south of the Junlong Empire, north of the Lobelon Empire, and east of the Buchani Desert. Due to its location at the junction of the two great powers, it was often invaded by the two countries, but thanks to the harsh natural environment and fierce folk customs, the wars of the two powers against the Gara country ended in failure, and the Gara country was able to exist for a hundred years, but a coup d'état thirty years ago almost brought the country to ruin.

The cause was a military invasion by the Loberen Empire. The people of the country of Gala are all Belon people, the southern Lobelon Empire believes that this place has been its own inherent territory since ancient times, and has carried out many conquests and wars against the country of Gala for a hundred years, although everyone in the country of Gala is still martial, but many years of war have led to the emptiness of the treasury, which has been unable to support the huge military expenditure, to the Xuanhuang Dynasty, it has suffered a defeat that has not been seen in a hundred years in the area of the mountain, resulting in nearly 100,000 casualties of Gala soldiers.

When the news reached the royal capital, the government and the opposition were shaken, and the people were panicked, and they were worried that the Gara Kingdom would be destroyed because of this, and the main war faction and the main peace faction of the imperial court quarreled fiercely, and the main war faction thought that it would rather be broken than complete, and swore to defend the royal capital to the death, and the lord and the party sent a very prestigious minister to persuade the king to negotiate peace with the Lobelon Empire at the cost of ceding the Kazan region.

King Xuanhuang was only a ten-year-old child at the time, who understood the stakes, and quickly agreed to the terms of peace, and Emperor Lobelun saw that he had achieved the goal of subjugating the vassal state, so he happily ordered the army to retreat, but a catastrophe that swept the whole country had just begun.

At that time, the power of the Gara Kingdom was held by two opposing interest groups, the military attaché collective, which was dominated by military men, and the civil servant collective, which was dominated by literati. After the Battle of Moshan, the political confrontation between the two groups over the governance of the country intensified, and the warriors accused the literati of lacking courage, being weak and incompetent, losing power and humiliating the country, and violating their country's martial traditions. The literati collective argued that due to the situation, pen and ink were the only way to stop the sword soldiers and save the country at that time.

Finally, the samurai group decided to strike first, and immediately launched a coup d'état that shocked the world. The robber-turned-general led the rebels to occupy the palace, put the young king under house arrest under the name of "Qing Junfang", took control of the government, and carried out a bloody purge and political persecution of the literati collective.

The literati of the Gala Kingdom were labeled as "traitors", and those who held official positions were deposed and exiled at the worst to be sentenced to death, and ordinary literati were confiscated of all their property to fill the treasury and live on the streets, and they were forbidden to create any literature for the rest of their lives. The rulers regarded books that they considered contrary to the imperial program as contraband, issued decrees that no one should read one or two of them, except for martial arts, the art of war, and statecraft, and burned tens of thousands of literary works.

The warrior group attributed the defeat of the Gara Kingdom to the spies infiltrated by their own country, and they suspected that their Heavenly Yao Sect had leaked a large amount of military secrets to the Lobelon Empire in the name of proselytizing. So they ordered the seizure of all the Tianyao churches in the country, fabricated various charges to persecute those missionaries they believed to be suspected of spies, and repatriated all the clergy to their original countries.

After talking about the beginning and end of the civil strife in Galu, Ling Wenxuan's fingers tapped the table rhythmically, and seeing that Ban Renjie still had no reaction, he began to be impatient: "Master Ban, don't think that only you literati were treated unfairly in the past, the vast number of fellow believers of our Tianyao Sect have not been able to get out of the shadow of the 'black and white terror' period of Galu until now, and the Holy See attaches importance not only to the seven artifacts, but also to the countless souls who died tragically back then, to discuss an explanation with this bandit country." ”

"The so-called 'black and white terror', the white of the literati's clothes and the black of the robes of the Tianyao cultists, are really unbearable. "I am the minister who advocated the cession of the Embedded Mountains region, and the Gara Kingdom has never given up tracking down my whereabouts for many years, and as the most important criminal and traitor, I can only help you. ”

So Ban Renjie talked to everyone about the background of the rise of the warrior group in the Gara Kingdom, Xian Mo'an was originally a robber who made a living by robbing money, and was selected by the imperial court to become a military general through unknown means, and soon led the entire warrior group to launch a military coup.

Ban Renjie felt that this matter was very strange, and it must be related to the power of the Seven Artifacts, and he suggested that everyone leave for the Gara Kingdom tomorrow to find out. Before leaving, he wanted to keep everyone for dinner, but Ling Wenxuan politely declined.

"Master Ban, you have not betrayed your country, your courage is not inferior to that of any warrior of the Gara Kingdom, and one day you will prove it. ”

After everyone left, Ling Wenxuan's parting words still echoed in Ban Renji's ears, and he leaned back in his chair to ponder, completely unable to hear the movement behind him.

Behind him, a black shadow slowly condensed the limbs, body and head of the human body, and the seven-colored light that appeared out of thin air poured into the black shadow, like a stream of water into a container, and then the figure of a young long-haired man appeared, wearing a white robe with a collar and cuffs dyed red, green, blue, purple, blue, yellow, and black, with a strange smile on his face, he pulled out a chair and sat next to Ban Renji.

That person was none other than the Heavenly Zhao Sect Leader Qicai, who had disappeared for many years, and the years had not made his handsome appearance change in any way, he cocked his right leg, brushed his slender sideburns behind his ears, and his white teeth emitted cold words: "Sanctioner NO: 4 Brilliant Blue, just now, I felt the emotion that surged out of your heart because of that priest, which is very disgusting. ”

"Please forgive me, I just want to use them to help me find the Seven Artifacts. Ban Renyu hurriedly bowed down and apologized.

"I'm afraid that you just want to use them to save your country, the only one who really cares about collecting the seven artifacts is this seat, you are all a group of extremely selfish waste. Colorful sneered and fiddled with the teacup in his hand, "Zi Ning betrayed my sect for the Dragon Clan, and as a result, he was killed, and Zhulu was ordered to help seize the Dreadnought Sword, and now he is missing. ”

"When I find NO:3 Zhulu, I will definitely bring him back to ask the Sect Master for his guilt, and the matter of the Crown of Courage, please believe that Xia has the ability to find this artifact. ”

"Ability: There are only a handful of people who have the ability to change this world for thousands of years, and you are not worth mentioning at all. Colorful smashed the teacup in front of Ban Renjie and laughed maniacally, "The Stone of Divine Judgment has given you great power, and you all boast of the ability to erase the hatred of this world, but what I have seen is that you have thrown your corpses into the grave one by one. ”

"Dedicating oneself to the Heavenly Zhao Sect is the honor of each of us. Ban Renzhen was sincerely afraid, feeling that no matter how he answered, Qicai would not be satisfied.

"It's an honor, the most honorable thing in this seat for thousands of years is to meet Ling Wenxuan, this person is a very hidden genius, if you can make good use of this person, I believe he will be the best person to help us collect all the seven artifacts to awaken the memory of the saint, but this person is good at calculation, not easy to control, Yu Na is by his side, only afraid of ......"

Ban Renjie just wanted to hear what Qicai would say next, but the other party thought about it and didn't answer, and after a while, he used an illusion and disappeared.