After a while, Xuan Mingzi landed outside the door of the "Ceres Gate" with Ming Gongzi, but saw the distant mountains such as Dai, the near peak onion cage, the Dan wall green tile, the eaves and arches, the thousand-level jade steps, like a moral scroll, ten thousand years of green pines, it seems that the ambition is lofty, and the water of goodness flows around the door, and the thousand-year-old spirit turtle floats happily, and every grass and tree contains the truth of Taoism, which is no less than the Ziyang Mountain that has been passed on morality for thousands of years.

The two of them ascended the last nine steps, and two white-clothed disciples on each side greeted each other with smiles. Stepping into the Ceres Gate, stepping into the wide "Ceres Square", you can see the tall and majestic hall "Ceres". Xuan Jizi, dressed in a bamboo green robe, was standing on the crystal white steps in front of the hall, waiting for the guests of Ziyang Mountain, and on each side stood six Qingyang disciples in white clothes, like a slim jade tree, and like a white crane. Naruto was secretly frightened, thinking to himself, today the senior brother in charge actually made an exception to meet guests at the "Cereal Temple" where the ceremony and important foreign-related activities were held, I don't know if this is a reverence for the status of Ziyang Mountain? Or is it because of the noble status of Senior Brother Xuanmingzi? Xuanmingzi walked quickly through the square, walked forward, and shouted in his mouth: "Senior Brother Xuanji!"

"Senior Brother Xuanming!" said the head Xuan Jizi said with a smile, and also walked down the steps to greet him, and the two met on the square and under the steps, and bowed hands to each other.

Xuan Mingzi said: "Since the farewell of Ziyang Mountain, you and I have never wanted to see each other again, and it has been a year for thirty years." ”

Xuan Jizi said: "I remember back then, you and Senior Sister Xuanzhu, one is a handsome young man who is good at the King Kong sword, and the other is a young girl who is good at making fingers and soft. ”

Xuan Mingzi said: "Some little things, it's rare for senior brother to remember this clearly, how can you compare to one ten-thousandth of your senior brother?" When you were only thirty years old, you cultivated to become a fourth-order master, punching like wind and thunder, flying swords like lightning, and after coming back, you inherited the position of the head of the Qingyang faction within ten years, and you became a generation of grandmasters at forty, and your name moved the world!"

Ming Gongzi said: "Senior brother, you won't keep standing and chatting with the guests like this, right?

Xuan Jizi said: "The third junior brother reminded me correctly, I was only happy to see my old friend." Senior Brother Xuanming, Your Highness, please!"

The three of them entered the hall, sat down, and the head of Xuanjizi instructed his disciples to offer green tea incense, and then introduced them to the third junior brother Ming Gongzi: "Thirty-one years ago, I was ordered by my master to go to Ziyang Mountain to pay homage to Master Chongxiaozi, the head of Ziyang Mountain, and took the opportunity to exchange moral martial arts on Ziyang Mountain. A year after he came back, he broke through the fourth order and entered the fifth order Jade Dragon. At that time, Senior Brother Xuanming was responsible for taking care of me, and he has been accompanying me, so I have such a harvest, which makes me feel nostalgic all the time. ”

Xuan Mingzi said: "Ziyang Qingyang, one vein and two branches, the elders are all brothers, the elders are all teachers, they have always been like a family, and it should be so!"

Xuanjizi said: "We all know that the junior brother and the senior sister Xuanzhu have a deep affection, and they have been inseparable for 30 years.

Xuan Mingzi sighed: "Isn't this her in trouble? ”

Ming Gongzi hurriedly said: "The two senior brothers are chatting slowly, I have something to do over there, so let's go and take care of it first." ”

Xuan Mingzi said: "Senior Brother Xuan Ming, although you and I have met for the first time, we have been friends for a long time. Today, when you see each other, you only know each other for thousands of years, and you hate to know each other late, you are not an outsider, and you don't have to deliberately avoid it. ”

The head of Xuan Jizi said: "Third junior brother, sit down and listen, you have already intervened in this matter before, sit down and listen, and make suggestions together." ”

Xuan Mingzi said: "Senior Brother Xuanji expected it. I came all the way east, and all I heard was the Qingyang faction making trouble in the East China Sea. With only one faction, the Qingyang faction dared to fight the thousand islands and hundreds of states in the East China Sea, went deep into Longtan to save people, fought the East China Sea Division, and cast the 'Spiral Sword Array' to repel their 'Four Great Mages', these deeds have already caused a sensation in the entire Xiuzhen Realm and the martial arts rivers and lakes. The Qingyang faction is wise and brave, righteous and cloudy, and heroes from all walks of life on the rivers and lakes all praise the Qingyang faction. I am here to express my deep gratitude to all my fellow disciples of the Qingyang Sect!" Xuan Mingzi said, stood up, bowed respectfully to Xuan Jizi and Ming Gongzi, and bowed twice.

Xuanjizi Ming Gongzi hurriedly stood up and returned the salute, and said, "Senior brother, you are too polite, we are all in the same family, so we can't help it." ”

Xuan Mingzi stood there respectfully, and said solemnly: "My first bow represents Senior Brother Xuanyang, the head of the sect, and I thank the Qingyang Sect for trying their best to rescue my disciples of Ziyang Mountain; ”

Ming Gongzi was taken aback and said, "Little girl, in this way, Miss Qingqiao is your daughter of Senior Brother?"

Xuan Mingzi nodded and said, "Exactly." ”

Xuan Jizi smiled slightly.

Naruto asked Xuan Jizi: "So, the senior brother in charge has known about this for a long time?"

Xuan Mingzi said: "I think Senior Brother Xuan Ji should not know. The identity of the little girl has always been kept secret from people outside Ziyang Mountain. I have also read the handwritten jade disk letter of Senior Brother Xuanyang, mainly to say that Qingqiao is the proud disciple of Senior Brother Xuanyang, because the people of the Heavenly Clan vainly claim that Qingqiao is the saint they elected, and they want to take Qingqiao to the Heavenly Clan, Ziyang Mountain does not agree, and the Celestial Clan has sent people up the mountain many times to disturb it, Ziyang Mountain is too annoying, and does not want to offend the Celestial Clan, and has already claimed that the Qingqiao girl has traveled down the mountain, and is missing, but in fact, she secretly sent her to Qingyang Mountain, first sneaking in Qingyang Mountain to cultivate the truth, and ask the head of Xuanjizi to contact and take care of it, etc., to the effect that so. ”

Xuanjizi said: "Yes, the head of Xuanyang did say this in the jade plate. Qingqiao's identity was also guessed by me just after seeing Senior Brother Xuanming. Because I saw Senior Brother Xuanming, I thought of Senior Sister Xuanzhu back then, and naturally compared Qingqiao and Senior Sister Xuanzhu in my heart, only to find that there were indeed many similarities between the two of them in appearance. ”

"Hey——!" Xuan Mingzi sighed, "Actually, Qingqiao's trouble was caused by her mother's mother, and now her mother's mother is in great trouble!"

Ming Gongzi exclaimed: "What kind of big trouble has Senior Sister Xuanzhu encountered? What do you need the Qingyang Sect to do? Senior Brother Xuanming, if you have something to say, just say it! Xuan Ming is willing to lead the disciples of the Qingyang Sect to go to danger with Senior Brother!"

Xuanjizi said: "That's right! What do you need my Qingyang faction to do? Senior Brother Xuanming, if you have anything to say, you might as well say it directly! The Qingyang faction should do its best to help and go to danger with the Ziyang faction and junior brother. ”

Xuan Mingzi said: "Thank you! Thank you Senior Brother Xuanji, Senior Brother Xuanming, thank you Qingyang Sect, I can't do anything now, I came here to take Qingqiao girl away." ”

Ming Gongzi hurriedly asked, "What trouble did Senior Sister Xuanzhu encounter?" Can Senior Brother Xuanming explain more clearly? Don't be polite at this time. ”

Xuan Mingzi said: "Then I'll tell the truth." Senior Sister Xuanzhu is actually the Holy Maiden of the Heavenly Clan in the Great Punishment Country on the Western Plateau. ”

Xuanji Zi Ming Gongzi was taken aback, and the two of them asked almost in unison, "How can this be?"

Xuan Mingzi sighed faintly and said, "This matter is a long story, everything has to start with that bizarre night twenty years ago. ”

"Twenty years ago, in the early summer, Senior Sister Xuanzhu and I went to Shenjing, the imperial capital of our Dahua Dynasty, on the order of the head of the family, mainly at the request of the crown prince at the time, to extend a copy of the unique book of the Yuan Shi that we treasured on Ziyang Mountain, the inscription of the Daozang Zhenjing Heavenly Dao Tablet, and went to the Hanzhen Academy of the National Highway Superintendent, and communicated with the old Taoist martial arts idiots in the court for a few days, and then embarked on the return journey. This coming and going was very smooth, and the exchange of cultivation in the capital was also very easy. We all know that because of the royal office, the National Highway Superintendent Hanzhen Yuan is just more officially famous. The cultivators of the Dahua Dynasty and the secular court, the middle and upper ones are also at the level of the third order. Most of the disciples who have gone down the mountain after graduating from our four famous schools have degraded their exercises because of their meritorious deeds and fame and fortune; a few of them can still keep in mind the Dao Fa and take time out of their busy schedules to persist in cultivation, and they are impatient with mundane things, and it is rare to be diligent, and it is good to be able to reach the level of the fourth order; even if some people persist in studying deeply and gradually realize it for more than ten years, or even decades, they basically stagnate after stepping into the threshold of the fourth order; very few people, half of whom have completed the fourth order of cultivation and stepped into the fifth order of Yuqing, are also hidden in the court and never make a move。 So my sister and I had a very relaxed conversation with them, and we were all in a good mood. After seven or eight days, the two of us left the capital and embarked on the return journey, either on foot or by air, all the way easily, until we arrived at the town of Luwei, which was close to the foot of Ziyang Mountain, and was ready to carry out the second task assigned by the master, but I did not expect that the ominous shadow began to appear from that place. ”