"I know, I know, I really know." Cai Qianqing picked up the Night Pearl, "I know you're worried about me, it's okay, I've already found my successor, and the one-eyed flower fox won't admit defeat so easily." This time, even if Hu Shen knew who the rescuer I invited was, then he would have nothing to do, because the person I found never played according to the routine, he was a crazy madman. ”

After speaking, Cai Qianqing said again: "What? Hu Shen is also a madman? Yes, they are, so the madman has to be handed over to the madman, and I can't win because I'm not crazy enough. ”

As soon as Cai Qianqing's words fell, she laughed again: "Yulan, Miss Shen is going to marry Qiu Zhutan, I can finally see what you look like when you get married, and I can finally get what I want." ”

Cai Qianqing, who looked at the pearl of the night, burst into tears: "Yulan, if I hadn't been so good with you, you wouldn't have come back, you would have stayed in France, and nothing would have happened." ”

After Cai Qianqing finished speaking, she held the Night Pearl in her hand and approached her eyebrows: "Yulan, I really miss you." ”

That day, Cai Qianqing made a decision, a decision that would leave him stinking for 10,000 years.

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Compared with Yongcheng, which is cloudy and rainy, Fengyan Island is sunny.

When those giant coffins landed on the island in the middle of the lake, the dark clouds that they had seen before drifted farther and farther away, and soon disappeared.

Tang Anshu looked at the dark clouds for a long time, and then turned his head to look at the legendary uninhabited island in front of him.

Where is it deserted? Surrounded by wooden and straw houses, outside stood men, women, and children tanned by the sun. The arrival of Tang Anshu and others made the village on the island not lively, but on the contrary, it added to the tense and strange atmosphere.

"I didn't expect there to be people here." Gu Feng looked around as he walked, "The appearance of these people looks a little strange, similar to us, but not quite the same. ”

Benzoin said on the side: "Are they fish people?" ”

When Tang Hualong heard this, he interjected: "Is it a mermaid or a fish man?" ”

Gu Feng smiled bitterly: "Is there a difference?" ”

Tang Anshu glanced back, looking at the three pirates who looked behind from time to time, knowing that they were worried about Yexin.

Tang Anshu deliberately slowed down, and waited for the three of them to come to his side, and then said, "Don't keep looking backwards, they are not stupid, they will guess." ”

One of the pirates guiltily said, "I don't know what happened to the princess." ”

Tang Anshu comforted: "It's okay, don't worry, she's not a child anymore, maybe we have to rely on her to get out of danger." ”

The pirates all nodded slightly, and said nothing more, trying not to look back.

Just when Tang Anshu was about to walk forward quickly and catch up with Gu Feng, Benzoin and others, he raised his eyes and saw an old man with a hoe standing at the foot of the mountain in front of him.

The old man was wearing a thin gown, the hem was rolled up and tied around the waist, revealing the sturdy calves, the gown was also open to expose the chest, and a black gourd was hung around his waist, and his hair was coiled into a bun, although at first glance he looked like a peasant, but there was a bit of a Taoist feeling.

The old man put the hoe on the ground, looked at Tang Anshu and the others, and waited for the leading "dry corpse" to lead them to him, and raised his hand and waved.

Immediately afterwards, the leading "dry corpse" led the other companions to turn around and leave, very obedient.

"How many people are here to find immortals and ask?" The old man asked lightly, "Or are you here to escape the world and cultivate?" ”

Everyone didn't speak, Tang Anshu stepped forward and saluted: "The junior Tang Anshu, who studied under the eight-armed Arhat Hu Shen in the southwest, dared to land on the island because of an emergency, and asked the seniors not to blame." ”

Tang Anshu found out that the Lingjian Mansion had a connection with the Earth Master Association, and the relationship between the master had also been to Jinling Jian, and he also informed the pirates of the Three Immortals Society about the Lingjian, so he simply reported to his home to see how the old man reacted.

As Tang Anshu expected, after hearing these words, the old man was shocked, his face changed greatly, and the hand holding the hoe was trembling slightly.

Tang Anshu noticed this, and didn't continue to say anything, just clenched his fists and lowered his head and waited there.

After a long time, the old man came back to his senses, glanced at the others, and asked, "Are they also the earth's face?" ”

Tang Anshu shook his head: "They are just friends who escorted me here." ”

The old man turned around and said, "You come with me." ”

After the old man finished speaking, he left, and Tang Anshu said to Gu Feng: "Adjutant Gu, you wait here, rest for a while, and I'll go back when I go." ”

The old man led Tang Anshu to the rice field at the foot of the mountain, and when he came to the edge of the rice field, the old man stopped and asked, "You came to fetch the Muling Jane for your master?" ”

Tang Anshu shook his head: "That's not the case, I'm here to find out the truth." ”

"The truth?" The old man wondered, "What truth?" ”

Tang Anshu said: "The younger generation doesn't know where to start, this matter is very complicated, the corpse wind in Jinling Jian has been released, and the coastal Yongcheng has been killed and injured countless times, although it has been controlled, but the madness hidden in the corpse wind has been deliberately spread in Yongcheng Xingang, and the initiator of all this is my master." ”

When the old man heard Tang Anshu say this, he was even more puzzled, looked at Tang Anshu carefully, and said for a long time: "You mean, you betrayed your master?" ”

Tang Anshu said: "Senior, this is not a betrayal. ”

"Then you answer me two questions." The old man looked at Tang Anshu, "First, why did you do this?" Second, why are you in Yongcheng? ”

Tang Anshu thought about it, but asked rhetorically: "Senior, junior dare to ask, are you and my master old acquaintances?" ”

The old man snorted coldly: "It's not just the old knowledge, he can become a man of clothes, relying on our cultivation."

The old man's word "cultivation" was particularly important, Tang Anshu could hear that it was a kind of sarcasm, coupled with the change in the old man's expression, he concluded that the sarcasm was not only aimed at Hu Shen, but also referred to the old man himself.

Tang Anshu knew that he would not return empty-handed this time, and the next difficulty was how to convince this senior to believe in himself.

The old man looked at Tang Anshu and said, "Why didn't you answer my previous two questions?" ”

Tang Anshu said: "Senior, let me tell you all the causes and consequences of the matter." After speaking, Tang Anshu paused and said, "Let's start with the day my master took me as an apprentice." ”

The old man just snorted and sat there listening to Tang Anshu.

In the process of recalling the narrative, Tang Anshu did not add oil and vinegar, did not hide anything, and did not deliberately say good things for Hu Shen, nor did he frame Hu Shen in his words.

When the memories ended, it was evening.

The old man sat on the ridge and looked at the jungle in the distance: "This is the evil we have created. ”

Tang Anshu also sat on top of Tian Kan: "Senior, what's going on with all this?" What does Lingjian Mansion do? What does it have to do with the Earth Division? Why do you say that Master is where he is today because of your cultivation? Who are you referring to here? Why did my master become like this? ”

The old man's tone at this time was not as cold as before: "Tang Anshu, as far as I heard before, you are quite honest, if you added oil and vinegar before, once I noticed it, you would have died a long time ago, because what I practiced was also Su Qin Technique." ”

After that, the old man looked at Tanaka again: "Over the years, the people who landed on the island to find Mu Ling Jian, and after being captured by Ling Jian and captured to see me, they all became part of this island. ”

The old man looked up and looked ahead, Tang Anshu followed his gaze, only to find that there were several strong archers standing in the woods, and those strong archers were the same as the previous "dry corpses" with the same body shape and appearance, it seemed that they were the Ling Jianwei that the old man said.

Tang Anshu said: "Senior, to tell you the truth, my original intention was just to know what the Lingjian was, and I didn't want to take it for myself and take it for private ownership, especially after learning what Jinlingjian was, I even hoped to destroy the Lingjian." Therefore, if possible, I hope that my seniors will help me. ”

"The road is one foot high, and the demon is one foot high, and Hu Shen, the devil, is now going to be higher than the sky." The old man's brows were furrowed, and his face was sad, "I can tell you the truth I know, but in front of me, you can't take Mu Ling Jian, because Mu Ling Jian is dead." ”

Tang Anshu was very puzzled when he heard this: "Dead?" What does the predecessor mean that Muling Jian is a living creature? ”

Faced with Tang Anshu's question, the old man was not in a hurry to explain.

"The Earth Master Association is just what the rivers and lakes call it, and after the Earth Master Association returned to the Ming Dynasty, it was renamed Lingjian Mansion." The old man looked at Tang Anshu and said, "With this official name, it is also equivalent to announcing the world, and the earth master will obey the imperial court from now on, and will no longer have anything to do with the rivers and lakes, but no one on the rivers and lakes knows the existence of Lingjian Mansion." ”

Tang Anshu asked, "Return?" ”

The old man explained: "Yes, Guishun, the court is called Zhao'an. ”

Tang Anshu said: "You mean, the Earth Master Guild used to be in the Ming Dynasty, and it was a thief and a rebel party?" ”

"There is a reason for this, at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang had just pacified the world, but there was a civil uprising, a rebel army tried to establish a country within a country under the banner of paganism, and the military division of this rebel army came from the local division association, surnamed Song Mingkui, called himself Song Tianshi, known as Qianyuan Immortal." The old man sat down again and said, "This person led the rebels, repelled the Ming army several times with strange schemes, and made the Ming army suffer heavy losses, and after the imperial court found out that Song Kui came from the local division meeting, he was angry with the local division meeting and sent troops to besiege the local division meeting, saying that the local division would secretly assist the rebels......"

The Earth Division Association immediately sent someone to play the Ming Imperial Court, indicating that Song Kui had already been swept out of the ground by the Earth Division Association, and the Earth Division Association had nothing to do with the rebels, but the Ming Dynasty did not want to believe it, thinking that even if the Earth Division Society did not assist the rebels now, sooner or later it would be a threat, and it must be cleared and eradicated.

At the same time, the Earth Master Association is also divided into two factions, one faction believes that it should cooperate with the imperial court to help the imperial court exterminate the rebels, which can be regarded as cleaning up the portal, and the world has been pacified, and it is also their duty to assist Ming Jun.

The other faction believes that the imperial court listens to rumors and creates something out of nothing, and this kind of faint emperor should not be assisted, and should ask for help from all around, and at the same time take advantage of the natural danger where the Earth Master Association is located to continue to resist.

While the two factions were arguing, one night, the imperial court sent the Imperial Guards Division, who later became the Jinyi Guard, to quietly infiltrate the Underground Division, capture the leader of the main battle faction, and kill the supporters on the spot.

At this time, the leader of the main battle faction suddenly realized that Song Kui's so-called rebels, the rise of the rebels, and so on were all just tricks, and this serial plan started by the bitter meat trick was designed by Liu Bowen, and its purpose was to completely annex the Earth Division.