"Ancestor, you can indeed understand your feelings, but the most important thing for you now is not to worry about others, but to take care of your own body."

"I know, I know."

Cheng Shaoqing poured a cup of hot water and handed it to Patriarch Piaogao's hand, Patriarch Piaogao took the water and put it aside, and held Cheng Shaoqing's hand again. Cheng Shaoqing said: "Ancestor, you are tired, you need to rest, Shaoqing said goodbye." Cheng Shaoqing helped the ancestor to lie down and covered the quilt again.

After the patriarch lay down, he remained motionless for a long time. Cheng Shaoqing thought that the ancestor was asleep, so he tiptoed away and closed the door.

After the door was closed, Ancestor Piaogao's tears slid down the corners of his eyes. He burst into tears, couldn't cry, and years of hard work came to naught. Northern Expedition, I don't know if there is a chance to go north in this life.

Three days later, Patriarch Piao Gao led everyone to personally sacrifice the childless mother. The followers of the White Lotus Sect worship Maitreya Bodhisattva and the Birthless Mother, and preach that the Birthless Mother is an ancient Buddha who is born and immortal in the heavens, and will return the earthly people to the heavenly realm and avoid calamity.

The disciples were sacrificed by the Piao Gao patriarch. Cheng Shaoqing and the flag to make Yang Duanhe, the seal to make Xun Qingfu, the sword to make a hundred miles, these four people used the phoenix to invite the statue of the childless old mother down the mountain, according to the order of Cangguo Palace, Shangtian Palace, Cangmen Palace, Ye Yu Palace, and Zhaoyao Palace.

Then the procession lined up in two rows on the open ground of the river beach where the warships were moored, leaving a running track in the middle, and four horsemen shuttled through it, and the four men continued to carry the phoenix chariot in it, until it was enshrined in the resting hall built at midnight. At midnight, the four of them began to carry the phoenix chariot and set off. There were all kinds of people in the back, and they had four detachments, a total of three hundred and sixty-five people, the number of Zhou Tian, and their lineup was:

Sun team: two open gongs, two open flags, two trombones, two avoidance and quiet cards, twenty-four willow stick teams, twenty-four bar teams, two flying dragons, flying phoenixes, and flying tiger flags, two horseback riding flags, sixteen three-eyed guns, eight colored flags with eight statues of immortals such as Zhang Tianshi, Shouxing, Luxing, Dongfang Shuo, Zhang Xian, Chen Tuo, Peng Zu, Lishan Old Mother, etc., one flag of the Queen Mother, ten people in the big drum team, sixteen people in the small umbrella team, twelve poles in the silk pole, four sides of the drum, two gongs, two five-layer big blue umbrellas, about one hundred and eight people.

Taiyin team: six people in the big drum team, holding Han Zhongli, Zhang Guolao, Lu Dongbin, Tie Guan Li, Han Xiangzi, Lan Caihe, Cao Guoshu, He Xiangu and other eight gods and goddesses of the colorful flag, a birthday flag, a small umbrella team of 18 people, a silk team of 28 people, a Yagu team of 6 people, two gongs, about 64 people.

Shaoyang team: six people in the big drum team, 16 red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue, purple and black color flags, 8 colored flags with eight statues of gods and goddesses such as Hanshan, Shide, Guangchengzi, Guiguzi, Li 800, Liu Hai, Magu, Sun Bin, etc., one Taishang Laojun flag, 16 people in the small umbrella team, 12 people in the silk team, 6 people in the Yagu team, two gongs, about 81 people.

Shaoyin team: six people in the big drum team, eight gossip flags, four Cao flags in the year, month, day and hour, sixteen people in the small umbrella team, twelve people in the silk team, four people in the Yagu team, eight people in the javelin team, four horses with the blue flag, gourds, axes, stirrups, silver guns, outstretched hands, open road lances, sabers, boring sickles, Fang Tian halberds, spears, steel forks, ghost fists, dragon knives, immortal brushes and other martial deacons two or eight, gong and drum team of six people, four people carry a phoenix, two yellow umbrellas, a big flag, about one hundred and eight people.

The procession is numbered by the day after tomorrow: six, one, eight, three, five, four, nine, two, seven, each position has an offering table, and there is a group of good men and women kneeling on the ground. The procession followed a group of believers in each direction.

At about midnight, the mighty procession came to the east of the altar of the old mother's palace, concentrated at the foot of the steps of the old mother's paper statue, and the ceremony to the top began: the sixteen poles and three-eyed guns sounded in unison, and the valley echoed, deafening and deafening; Teacher Piao Gao led the elders to burn incense paper to the statue of the childless mother, placed offerings, and everyone worshiped the old mother, which was a pious atmosphere.

Then the flag guard, the seal guard, and the sword guard led the team to climb the eighteen plates, went up to the old mother's pavilion, carried the childless old mother Feng Yuan to the worship hall, faced the Wuji old mother statue in the grotto, and let their sisters meet; Patriarch Piao Gao and the others worshiped the old mother again, and recited the sacrificial text:

In the play, the suffering of living beings is not suffering from killing. Since the beginning of the war, there have been many bandits, and there have been countless people who have been killed unjustifiably, whose corpses have fallen and filled in the ravines. Coupled with the resumption of the epidemic, the people also suffered. There are believers who are high, dreaming of good seeds, special sorrows, watching the suffering of chaos, knowing that there is a right thing to do with grievances, and repaying grievances with grievances. Only the mana of the white lotus can save the life, it is the sincerity of luck, the comrades are ten thousand, and the mud comes from the chaos of Qi, and the white lotus is a prosperous event.

After reading the sacrificial text, Piao Gao Ancestor said to the sect members: "It has been more than 50 days since the rebellion, and it has been more than 50 days since I put down the rebellion. I've been alone. I have led all of you to fight for the people of the world, and you have been here for more than 30 years. For more than 30 years, we have never been afraid of the enemies we have faced, whether it is the Yaksha King, Dachengzi, Song Lun, Wuling Zhenren, or the people of the Five Elements Sect Alliance, large and small. For the sake of the White Lotus Fa-rectification, I sacrificed a lot of my fellow disciples. We have experienced ten failures, but the most heart-wrenching, the most heart-wrenching thing is not Dachengzi, not the Houtu Sect, the Purple Fire Dao and the like, but the colleagues who have followed me for more than ten years. He betrayed me, and it was him Fan Luobai. ”

"It's a lesson," Yin Changsheng sighed angrily, "Ancestor, please don't mention Fan Luobai again, it's because of his rebellion that we suffered this catastrophe." ”

Chiang Kai-shek also said: "Xuanjizi has been imprisoned until now, and his life and death are still uncertain. ”

Yin Changsheng said again: "Ancestor, it's a pity, it's hateful, most of the four thousand rebels besieging my sect's main altar are my White Lotus disciples. ”

"If failure can really become the mother of success," Patriarch Piao Gao said bitterly, "then even failure can be regarded as victory, fellow Daoists." The road is long, I will go up and down and seek. Now I am floating high as an ancestor, and I eat this trench again, and I will be wise. ”

"In the past, I used to disdain the advice of the Fire Spirit Sect Chief's envoy." Patriarch Piao Gao said bitterly, "I don't want to cooperate with the Fire Spirit Sect. But the lesson was so painful that it sobered me up. I think that from now on, whether it is my White Lotus Holy Sect disciple or the Fire Spirit Dao, as long as it is for me, as long as I fight for the White Lotus Fa-rectification, I can be regarded as a fellow Daoist. Everyone's blood should be kept together. If you don't do this, the Northern Expedition won't succeed, and the whole world will be defeated. ”

Everyone had never expected that Ancestor Piaogao's attitude would change so quickly, and he would actually decide to cooperate with the Fire Spirit Sect, and for a moment everyone stood silently.