The man was covered with a heavy fox fur, and his thin figure seemed to be unable to support the weight of the fox fur, and he couldn't help but bend his back slightly between coughing and wheezing.

Even though he has been cultivating and recuperating for many years, he can't escape the trials and tribulations of time and illness, and this person's hair is already white, and there are many folds on his face. Only those eyes that have read the vicissitudes of the world reveal a bit of coldness and unfathomableness.

When he saw that face, Xiao Lingjiang couldn't help but be stunned.

This person she had seen before.

When she traveled with her master, she met a crazy old man. When the old man saw her, he said that her life was strange and unpredictable, and he pulled her and babbled a lot of things.

She still remembered the poem that the old Taoist recited when he left: "The human body is rare and has been obtained now, and the road is difficult to know and now it has been clear." This body is not to this life, but to what life! ”

Regarding her own destiny, Xiao Lingjiang had heard a few words from her master earlier, and the words of the old Tao were not unusual, but she just listened to them and left them behind.

It's just that she didn't expect that later in the mansion of Liu Yuan, who was guarding Liu Yuan in Linchuan County, she actually used the old sentence "I want to live this life more to him" to open the copper box that Liu Yuan used to store letters.

Xiao Lingjiang closed his eyes, and the old Dao Enlightenment map hanging in Liu Yuan's room came to his mind. But it turned out that the old Taoist who was sitting cross-legged under the tree with white hair was actually the one she had seen by chance the crazy Taoist, and it was also the Venerable Lord of the Divine Palace in front of her......

Liu Yuan is a star envoy of the Divine Palace, although he can't reveal his identity to the outside world, it is not strange that he can hang a banner in the study to achieve enlightenment.

As for the fact that she had seen the Divine Palace Lord before......

Xiao Lingjiang instantly understood in his heart that Yongmu was Mei Cen Niang, who was by the side of the Divine Palace Lord, and she had the intention to use the hand of the Divine Palace to seize her body, and the Divine Palace Lord's secret approach to her was probably also to explore the truth and prepare for the seizure.

It turned out that she had been targeted by the Divine Palace so early......

Xiao Ling Jiang couldn't help sneering in her heart, at that time, she was just a Xuanshi of the rivers and lakes, but she attracted the Lord of the Divine Palace to pretend to be crazy and stupid to probe it, which was really a big face.

I just don't know if he is afraid of the master who protects her on the side, or if he likes her identity as the eldest princess of the Great Zhou Dynasty like Mei Cenniang.

She raised her eyes to look at the Venerable Lord of the Divine Palace who was sitting on the recliner in the courtyard basking in the sun, and now he had a clear expression, without the slightest appearance of being crazy and old-fashioned, but this body was much worse than before......

At the beginning, he took away his body, so that she had to attach herself to the body of He Qi Niangzi, and became a living dead in vain, and later was involved in the conspiracy of the Divine Palace together with the He family.

Now, she broke up his good chess game of replacing Zhou with Xiao Lingjiang, ruined his hard work, and made this old Taoist tired.

In the end, it is the reincarnation of cause and effect, and it has its own definite number.

The warmth of the winter sun gradually faded in the afternoon, and seeing that the cold was about to rise, the person who was waiting next to the lord of the Divine Palace stepped forward and said, "Lord, the slave will help you back to the house first." ”

The Shrine Lord nodded, got up from the recliner and went back inside.

Xiao Lingjiang looked at his disappearing figure from afar, his eyes were slightly deep.

It was night again, and Xiao Lingjiang and Pei You sneaked out of the lord's residence again.

When Xiao Lingjiang mentioned that the old Tao she had encountered was the Lord of the Divine Palace, Pei You couldn't help but be surprised: "That's the case." ”

Thinking of what he had heard from Kuisu and what he had seen today, he spoke: "That old man is indeed guilty of coughing and wheezing, and although he does not want to die, he must not be comfortable. He will go to the underground palace in a few days to retreat, and we will do it, and this will be the next few days. ”

Xiao Lingjiang bowed slightly: "Indeed." If we really wait for him to recuperate, it will be even more difficult for you and me to do it again. It's just that there are people beside him now, and there are various star envoys around his residence. It's the best time, I see, ......"

She paused slightly, looked up at Pei You, the two couldn't help but smile at each other, and said in unison: "When he first entered the underground palace!" ”

They had secretly heard the people of the Divine Palace say that this underground palace was on the east side of the inner gate, and it was a place where fire gathered and warmed. It is most appropriate for the Lord of the Shrine, who suffers from cough and asthma, to choose this place for retreat.

However, compared to the residence of the Lord, this place is relatively remote, and the security is not so strict, even if guards are arranged, with the skills of the two of them, they can blend in.

What's more, in order to retreat, the Venerable Lord of the Divine Palace specially ordered his subordinates not to disturb, even if something happened at that time, it would take a lot of time for the Star Envoys to arrive here, and it would be much easier for them to act.

Xiao Lingjiang's eyes narrowed slightly: "He Zheng, they should also be here." When the Venerable Lord of the Divine Palace retreats, it's time for us to do it! ”

There are not a lot of affairs in the Divine Palace now, and with the fact that many palace envoys and star envoys have been folded before, it is inevitable that people will have a lack of left and right.

The Venerable Lord retreats, and his subordinates have to arrange them carefully.

Today's shrine is like a game of elephant drama that has lost its soldiers and lost its generals, and only when the main backbone of the lord is standing, will it not be completely lost.

Several star envoys sent the lord of the divine palace to the underground palace, watched the gate slowly close, and ordered the people to guard outside, and then left.

The heavy stone door made a dull sound as it closed, echoing through the empty dungeon.

Because it is a retreat, after the stone door of the underground palace is closed, it can only be opened from the inside. It is almost impossible for people outside to break through this stone door and break into it.

Xiao Lingjiang and Pei You, who had sneaked into the dungeon as early as night, were hiding behind the statue at this time.

Hearing the footsteps of the Divine Palace Lord slowly approaching, the two of them held their breath and collected all the breath in their bodies.

The person who can sit on the throne of the lord naturally cannot be a mortal, and once the two of them are not careful, they can make him immediately notice that something is wrong.

The lights hanging on the four walls of the underground palace reflect the bright in the hall, look up, and see a statue of the Taoist god who is more than one zhang high standing in front of the main hall, and the treasure elephant is dignified. On the long table in front of the statue, there are melons and fruits, incense candles, etc.

The Venerable Lord of the Shrine coughed lightly twice, stepped forward and lit three long incense sticks, inserted them into the incense burner, and then flicked his sleeves lightly, took two steps back and sat down on the futon in the middle of the main hall.

Time passed little by little, the incense in the incense burner had long since burned out, and the Lord of the Shrine had also settled into pranayama.

Xiao Lingjiang and Pei You glanced at each other, one of them held a long sword, and the other pinched a trick to cast a spell, jumped out from behind the statue, and flew towards the Divine Palace Venerable Lord.

However, before the offensive approached him, he only heard the sound of the copper bell beside him, and an invisible wall rose from the ground, blocking the offensive of Xiao Lingjiang and the others.

The Venerable Lord of the Divine Palace, who was sitting in the hall, opened his eyes, and with a sharp look in his eyes, he sat down on the futon and carried him back sharply, avoiding another blow from the two of them.

At the moment when the barrier was broken, he stood up, looked at the two uninvited guests in front of him, and knew in his heart: "It turned out to be the two of you, I was really lucky." ”