Chapter 55: The Decline of Xuanzong
Li Ergou touched his back, looked at Hei Yan who was running and jumping in front of him, and took off the gown on his body with a wry smile, a huge black hole had been blown out of the back of the gown, and black smoke was still emitting, and he took out a white gown from the storage ring and put it on himself, and shook his head: "This group of turtle grandsons, even armor-piercing bullets have been used, if you are not afraid of scaring my little baby, see that I don't break your neck, oops, it hurts me to death, I really want to dismantle my old bones." At this time, Li Ergou had already taken a shower and changed his clothes, and he really looked like a fairy and a bone. Not counting the fact that he blocked the bathroom drain while he was in the shower, of course.
Hei Yan smiled slightly, in fact, her body was the three-headed dog of hell, and those troops had already sniffed out their existence with her sensitive nose a few kilometers away, and this old man was protecting her behind her, and the words of those gods and goddesses naturally couldn't escape her keen hearing. After the old man finished changing his clothes, Hei Yan turned around and smiled: "Grandpa Li, where are we going now?" It wasn't until just now, after the old man used his body to help him block the attack of a cannonball, that Hei Yan really accepted the old man.
Hearing Hei Yan call himself grandfather, Li Ergou's face, which was originally twisted into a twist, suddenly stretched: "Xiaoyan, is it okay for grandpa to take you to Shushan to play?" "Shushan can be said to be the holy land in the hearts of all cultivators in China, basically only those who are extremely talented or strong will be selected to enter Shushan, either before the age of sixteen to reach the second order, or before the age of forty to reach the third order, only these two types of people have the opportunity to be selected by Shushan as disciples. And this is just an ordinary disciple, trained by an elder of the fourth order of strength. Only the ones that stand out from the crowd. will be selected as a core disciple by various sects. There are two major sects in Shushan. They are the Qi Sect and the Sword Sect, the leader of the Qi Sect is the current head of Shushan Xu Zhimo, and the leader of the Sword Sect is the Great Elder Hai Dafu. Each sect is divided into three sub-sects, and the Qi sect is divided into: Xuanzong, Tantra and Heart Sect; The Sword Sect is divided into: the Instrument Sect, the Tang Sect and the Law Sect, and each small sect is led by an elder of the fifth order of strength, so there is a total of one head and eight elders in Shushan. And Li Ergou is the leader of the Xuanzong in the Qi Sect.
Every ten years, Shushan will conduct a rookie selection competition, each of the six sects will send eight representatives, and ordinary disciples can send sixteen talents to fight the method, the top three will get a chance to enter the Chance Pavilion, and the first place can not only enter the Chance Pavilion, even the elders of his sect, can also have a chance to enter, if it is an ordinary disciple, as long as they enter the top sixteen, they can freely choose a sect to join. Become a core disciple.
The Chance Pavilion is a bamboo attic floating above the Shushan Palace. It looks only three or four meters tall on the outside, but it hides a lot inside, and it may not be possible to reach the end even if you walk for a few days. There are a large number of Shushan collected exercises and treasures inside, but these treasures are spiritual, it depends entirely on chance, and if there is a treasure that chooses the master, there will never be a second treasure to choose him, and the quality of the things in it can be said that it depends entirely on luck, so it is called the Chance Pavilion, it is said that there are even ten artifacts in the wilderness and various things left by Hongjun Dao Ancestor, but no one has found it after so many years.
Pinch your fingers and calculate, there is still one year and nine months to go before the selection of rookies, if Hei Yan can be allowed to join Xuanzong and focus on training during this time, then she will take the first place in the selection competition because it is not a big problem. At that time, I will also have the opportunity to enter the Chance Pavilion once, it is really wonderful, the first few competitions, Tang Zong's won the first, and Tang Ming was happy, this time I picked up the treasure, see if you can still be free. Thinking of this, Li Ergou couldn't help grinning, like a strange uncle who used a lollipop to fool a little girl, looked at Hei Yan and said: "Xiao Yan, you see that your strength is not enough now, and it is still a bit difficult to complete the task assigned to you by your boss, why don't you go to Shushan with Grandpa Li first, and then come back when your strength is strong?" ”
Hei Yan looked at Li Ergou, who didn't know why he was smiling so brightly, his eyes rolled, revealing an innocent look and said: "Grandpa Li, you also know Xiaoyan's strength, even if you practice in Shushan for one hundred and eighty years, you may not have half of Grandpa Li's achievements, what if I still can't complete the boss's task?" After that, my eyes were red, and I was about to cry.
Looking at Hei Yan's appearance, Li Ergou almost wanted to take out his heart, and hurriedly said: "Xiao Yan, grandpa promised you that if you can't complete your boss's task in two years, grandpa will take the entire Xuanzong and help you complete it." After speaking, he straightened his waist and patted his not strong chest.
Hearing Li Ergou say this, Hei Yan's face suddenly showed a happy smile: "Really? That's good, I'll go to Shushan with Grandpa Li to learn skills first, grandpa, you have to talk about it. "With Xuanzong, will Shushan really make Xuanzong finished? I'm afraid that Shushan is likely to be dispatched by then. Thinking of this, Hei Yan couldn't help but lick his little lips, revealing a little devil's smile.
"Huh!" Looking at Hei Yan's expression, Li Ergou knew that he might be following the path of this little devil, smiled depressedly, and was about to speak, when his face suddenly changed: "Council of Elders? What's wrong with the boss, we haven't had an elders' meeting for hundreds of years. Just now, Li Ergou received a message from the head Xu Zhimo, asking them to rush back to Shushan immediately for a meeting of elders. The Council of Elders is not trivial, and it will only be held when the life and death of Shushan are at stake.
Li Ergou didn't care about talking and laughing with Hei Yan, he casually took out a small green ruler from the storage ring and held it in his hand, pulled Hei Yan up with the other hand, and said, "Get up." And he disappeared where he was. The shrinking ruler can allow the user to step thousands of meters with each step, but it will consume a lot of energy from the user, and there is such a thing in the exchange room, which should be considered a good rush for those masters who will not step into the air.
From Li Ergou's face, Hei Yan also knew that something big might have happened, so he also let Li Ergou pull it, and the scenery on both sides quickly regressed, and Li Ergou only took a few steps and came to the top of a mountain. As far as the eye can see, there are about tens of thousands of people practicing and meditating in various parts of the mountain. At the top of the hill, there are groups of buildings connected together.
Li Ergou took a heavy breath, wiped the beads of sweat on his head and said to Hei Yan: "This is Waishu Mountain, and most of the ordinary disciples are cultivating here. After that, he stretched out his hand and swiped in the void, and suddenly, there were ripples in the space in front of him, looking at Hei Yan's surprised expression, Li Ergou smiled: "In order to prevent outsiders from breaking in, and it is also convenient for the core disciples to concentrate on cultivation, so the connection between Waishu Mountain and Lishu Mountain is sealed by subordinates, and only those who have the strength to cross the tribulation can split the seal, let's go." ”
After passing through the seal, Hei Yan's mouth opened wide in surprise, the six mountain peaks ignored the gravitational pull of the center of the earth and floated in the sky, between the white clouds, and in the middle, a huge mountain peak was surrounded by the stars and moons of these six small peaks.
Looking at Hei Yan's wide open mouth, Li Ergou smiled: "Xiao Yan, grandpa, like you, was shocked when he first came. He pointed to one of the six peaks and said with a smile: "That's Grandpa's Xuanzong, let's go to the main peak in the middle first, and when the meeting of elders is over, Grandpa will take you to Xuanzong." With that, he took out something similar to a frisbee, and in Hei Yan's strange expression, the frisbee quickly enlarged. After Li Ergou stood up, he said to Hei Yan: "This is the flying prop refined by our Shushan Instrument Sect, let's go, I'll take you to meet the master." ”
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"I think it's up to our Tang Sect to copy these two secret books first." A spherical creature about 1.4 meters tall was the first to stand up and speak.
The two cheats that Xu Zhimo brought back surprised almost all the elders, and when he proposed to find an elder to copy these two cheats, all the elders went crazy. You must know that these two secret books together have at least millions of words, and each sect must have a manuscript, that is, a total of eight volumes, if only one elder copied it, it will take at least a few months of effort, which means that he can completely read Hongjun's secret method several months earlier than other sects, such a great benefit, naturally all the elders are red-eyed.
Looking at this ball, Li Ergou whispered to Hei Yan who was sitting beside him: "This person is the sect master of the Tang Sect, Tang Ming, one of the eight elders, their Tang Sect is very good at using hidden weapons, this Tang Ming is the same as the secret weapon, he is also a ruthless person." Originally, Hei Yan was not allowed to participate in the elders' meeting, but when Xu Zhimo and Great Elder Fang Huatian sensed Hei Yan's ability, they also made a decision to let her enter the main hall and added a secondary seat next to Li Ergou, which was considered to have given Hei Yan enough face.
Just after Tang Ming finished speaking, another red-faced old man stood up and looked at Xu Zhimo and said, "Master, I feel that this matter is inappropriate, Tang Zong has always been based on secret weapons, and Dao Ancestor's secret method is mainly based on internal cultivation, I think it is more appropriate to give us Tantra to copy." ”
After looking at the red-faced old man, Li Ergou continued: "He is the deputy sect master of the Tantric sect, Gu Moming, the sect master of the Tantric sect suddenly disappeared when he traveled more than a hundred years ago, so he temporarily took the position of the sect master of the Tantric sect, although he was a little short-tempered, but in general he was still a good person. ”
Seeing that Li Ergou had no intention of asking for the right to copy the cheats, Hei Yan couldn't help but ask curiously: "Grandpa Li, they are fighting so fiercely, why don't you fight?" ”
It seemed that Hei Yan had asked about the sore spot, Li Ergou smiled bitterly: "Xiao Yan, you don't know, after the disappearance of Hongjun Daozu, although many classics have disappeared, but each sect still has some family background, only Xuanzong has suffered the worst loss, not even a secret book is gone, Xuanzong people practice completely by themselves, even the Dao Law, you have to rely on yourself to think and create, so Xuanzong has been declining, until now, there are only dozens of people in the entire Xuanzong, it can be said that the talent is withering, if it is not for the six sects to be there, I'm afraid that the head of the sect has already canceled Xuanzong, you look at the elders of other sects, their strength is above grandpa, what is grandpa going to fight for. (To be continued......)