Situ said to me, this is also what he doesn't understand, if it is a pure Taoist contradiction, then he and Tie Songzi and Hu Zongren and Hu Zongren's masters are all Taoists, except for Hu Zongren, who is considered a junior, the rest of the people are not boastful, and they can be regarded as leaders in the industry. Although the Xuanyuan Society is large, it is in terms of power rather than strength after all, and any of the existing old Taoist priests of the Xuanyuan Society is not necessarily their opponents. And this time, the case that Xuanyuan would give over was inexplicably involved in an irrelevant sect, which was indeed unexpected.

Situ sighed and said, this can only show that we are in the dark and the enemy, and regardless of the level of strength, it is just that people have spent so much effort to test Hu Zongren, I think this matter is probably not so simple, Hu Zongren has been busy until now, I have always thought that I am dealing with the other party's test, I have a bad premonition, I think the two of you seem to be being used, from a while ago we found that we had taken a lot of detours, so we returned to the original point, and re-perceived the layout of this Quartet Divine Beast, I had a faint feeling like this, as if the other party felt that we were going farther and farther away, so they gave us a few hints, deliberately pulling us back from the crooked path, and the time left was running out, and they began to be a little anxious to give us a new sect.

I hurriedly asked Situ, then you are a Taoist family, is there any festival between the Taoist family and this White Lotus Sect? Because I thought that since the other party wanted us to do this in such a secret, in fact, to put it bluntly, it was actually borrowing the knife of me and Hu Zongren to eradicate a dead soul of the White Lotus Sect, the White Lotus Sect itself will catch ghosts, and the Onmyoji will stand alone in the world, without relying on the power of Taoism, so it is unlikely that it is possible to help, and why do I need Hu Zongren and me to help? It's more likely that you're sneaking in to achieve a goal.

When Situ mentioned the idea of this conspiracy to me, I suddenly had a feeling that I had a sudden feeling that we had been following up on the case provided by the other party, and although the process was controlled by me and Hu Zongren, we had only one purpose, which was to solve the case. The people of this Dao Ideal Bixuanyuan Association know better than us, so in these 24 cases, they only need to give a contact information, and they don't have to interfere in our process at all, because they know that Hu Zongren and I will get things done even if our heads are broken, and during this period, they just need to know the results we have already handled, and then give us new cases one after another. Therefore, even if our self-control is very high, we are led by the nose by this group of stinky Taoist priests after all, and although it is impossible to calculate step by step, it forces us to move on.

Situ said to me on the phone, do you remember the black mark on Hu Zongren's wrist some time ago? I said of course I remember, and I can still see the imprint. Situ said, if he guessed correctly, from the time when the black handprint appeared, it was the time when Xuanyuan would plan to insert the case of the White Lotus Sect in it, and at that time, our guess actually deviated from their assumption, so he put a set up for Hu Zongren so that Hu Zongren had to re-examine, rethink, and then get back on track. Situ sighed and said, vicious, such a secret fight, when is the head!

I also want to know that I have been running around with Hu Zongren almost non-stop for more than a year, perhaps because I have been in the industry for a longer time than Hu Zongren, and I am starting to get more and more tired. I have told Sister Cai countless times that Hu Zongren helped me a year ago, and after I help him this time, we will get married, go on a trip, and worry less about these things in the future. At that time, it seemed to me more like an unattainable dream, a blank check I wrote to Sister Cai.

Situ said that if there was any festival between the Taoist family and the White Lotus Sect, it would not be able to talk about it. Religious figures have often played a pivotal role in many of the major turning events in history. For example, Zhang Jiao in the Three Kingdoms period, Xu Maogong in Wagangzhai, Qiu Chuji in the late Song Dynasty, etc., but the activity of the White Lotus Sect has been a matter of the last few hundred years. Among the techniques of the White Lotus Sect, there are not a few Taoist skills, although the worship is the Buddha, but the matter of catching ghosts and drawing talismans is mostly inherited according to the Taoist method. Therefore, at the beginning of the establishment of this religion, it absorbed many people from all walks of life, and only then did it have a larger scale and a relatively neat occult method. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the climate was already formed.

When he said this, Situ suddenly paused for a long time, I thought that the signal of my phone was not good, so I fed it several times, and was about to hang up the phone and call him again, when Situ suddenly laughed out loud on the other end of the phone. So I quickly asked him, have you thought of any good ideas? Situ said, although I haven't thought of it for the time being, I finally figured out how this White Lotus Sect was blended in. I asked Situ to tell me quickly, and Situ asked me, do you remember that night in my house, when I analyzed the Divine Beasts of the Quartet, what did we get after connecting Hutou Rock and Jiangbei City in series? I said of course I remember, isn't it the Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger? Situ said, that's right, if you take the word apart, it seems to refer to those two places, but when you connect them, will it mean that at the end of this case, there will be a hidden master or sect appearing? How else is it called the Hidden Dragon Crouching Tiger?

Situ said, in this way, the appearance of this White Lotus Sect is most likely referring to this. Although the White Lotus Sect is not very powerful in the south, it is distributed throughout the country, and it is not an exaggeration to describe the strength of this sect as a dragon or a tiger. It seems that we still have a step less. I asked Situ, then you say you know why the White Lotus Sect appeared at this time, and why? Situ said, think about it, in the early days, which religion was almost completely consistent with the White Lotus Sect?

I really don't know this, I don't talk much about this sect in the industry, and I am worried that my unintentional remarks will cause unnecessary turmoil. So I said to Situ, don't sell it, if you have something to say, just say it. Situ Haha said with a smile that the White Lotus Sect had a huge uprising in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, and the original name of the White Lotus Sect was originally Maitreya Sect, although it belonged to a branch of Buddhism, but it was introduced to Middle-earth from ancient Persia and carried forward most of the doctrines and ideas, and it also had a name, that is, Manichaeism.

I also know about Manichaeism, in Mr. Jin Yong's novel, the purple-shirted dragon king Jinhua is a Persian Manichaean person, and if it weren't for Situ telling me, I would have thought that this religion originally only existed in fiction, and it didn't exist in reality. Situ said that Manichaeism is actually the predecessor of the White Lotus Sect, when the Yuan Dynasty rebelled, they claimed that the heaven and the earth were dark, and the sun and the moon were not shining, so they were determined to make the world peaceful, so that the world could see the sun and the moon again, and return to the light. I didn't really understand what Situ was trying to say, but I still let out a polite sigh. Situ then asked me, when it comes to the sun and the moon, what do you think of? I blurted out without thinking, Sun and Moon Divine Cult, Black Wood Cliff, Ren Yingying! As soon as I said it, I felt stupid.

Situ snorted and said, you just read too many novels, and the Sun and Moon Divine Sect never existed at all. I said, what do you think I can think of? Situ said, you add the words sun and moon together, and you will know.

Bright? Could it be that you're talking about Mingjiao?

Mingjiao really existed in history, I know, Zhu Yuanzhang is a person in Mingjiao, which coincides with the novel. It is precisely because of this that Zhu Yuanzhang set his own dynasty to be called "Ming" after laying down the world, although various film and television materials and wild historical materials have mixed opinions about Zhu Yuanzhang and his person, but they have never denied the fact that he is a member of the Ming Sect. However, the implication of Situ's words seems that this White Lotus Sect is actually the Ming Sect? However, I vaguely remember that after Zhu Yuanzhang came to power, he quickly declared the White Lotus Sect a cult and wanted to ban the encirclement and suppression. Situ told me that today's White Lotus Sect has experienced some differentiation over the past few hundred years, but in Zhu Yuanzhang's time, it was actually integrated with the Ming Sect. Mingjiao itself is also composed of a large number of sects, and after forming a force, it launched a political attack on the authorities, and religion was also used because of this, and the people of that era actually regarded the White Lotus Sect and Mingjiao as the same organization, but there were some differences in the law. After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in modern times, many members of the White Lotus Sect went to the people, branched out, at first most of them were concentrated in Shaanxi, and then gradually went south, more and more scattered, encountered the period of warlord melee, many of them joined the very bloody elder association in Sichuan and Shaanxi at that time, and the consistent Dao, Tiandihui and other organizations, secretly developed in the people, and inherited the authentic White Lotus Sect, there are secret incense halls, there are secret organizations, although a lot of skills have been lost for hundreds of years, but in Shanxi, Shandong and other places, it has been relatively pure and preserved.

Situ said that it was originally a very good religion, but because of the suppression of the past dynasties, it has repeatedly become a cult organization, which is why people nowadays talk about the White Lotus Sect with a sneering appearance, in fact, people have a lot of talent, and their strength must not be underestimated, but it has been looked at by the world in a strange way for thousands of years, and gradually, it is inevitable that it will become perverse.

I asked Situ, what does all this have to do with what we encountered this time? Situ said, you and Hu Zongren are now located in Jiangbei City, not far from you, buried the tomb of Ming Yuzhen that we discussed that day, this Ming Yuzhen is also a Mingjiao person, and Zhu Yuanzhang used to be a comrade-in-arms on the same front, he was not surnamed Ming, but because he was a Mingjiao person, he used Ming characters to give himself a surname.

As soon as Situ said this, I understood, Jiangbei City was located in the green dragon seat of the Quartet Divine Beast that day, and there was an emperor buried in this position, the True Dragon Heavenly Son. This emperor happens to be a member of the Ming Sect, and the Ming Sect is inseparable from the White Lotus Sect, and the ghost hand we met in the old city of Jiangbei City, judging from the tattoos, is the White Lotus Sect.

In this way, it all seems to come together perfectly.