On the night of June 14, Cheng Jun entered the main hall.

Cheng Jun has been pondering for the past few days, why didn't Zhang Qinglu talk to him. After all, he went to Jiuyan Mountain, but he left with a task, Zhang Qinglu had already found three people to talk to, but he had never looked for himself alone, so when he went to Jiuyan Mountain, he would have no goal. If the task is not explained before leaving, and it is necessary to call back and give instructions when it arrives at Jiuyan Mountain, then it will be on the tracks.

In fact, it was too late to order after the ceremony, and the conversation between Ying Yue and Tang Shichu could be placed at that time. But Cheng Jun is different from the two of them, and he also has a Tianji Pavilion Qin Yue by his side. Once the ceremony is over, he will immediately follow Qin Yue to Jiuyan Mountain, and at that time, Zhang Qinglu will look for him again, Qin Yue's mind is so sharp, he is afraid that he will be suspicious. A few days before the ceremony, it was the best time for Zhang Qinglu to talk to the Cheng family in detail, since Cheng Jun knew this truth, how could Zhang Qinglu not know?

Fortunately, the day before the ceremony, Cheng Jun finally got the news that Zhang Yanxu asked him to meet in the main hall in the middle of the night.

As soon as he entered the main hall, Cheng Jun thought that he had returned to the Burning Soul Palace, because the lights were bright and the candlelight flickered was too similar.

It's just that this hall is wider and more empty, and under the light of thousands of candles, it is not bright at all, and it only feels doubly cold and lonely. In the center of the lamp, there was a person kneeling upright, and the dark robe was dyed with a faint golden color by the lamplight.

Cheng Jun saw Zhang Qinglu kneeling alone, looked up at the hall, but saw that there were no statues of gods enshrined in the hall, and his heart was slightly strange - the statue of Daozu was not there, who is Zhang Qinglu worshipping?

But since Zhang Qinglu was like this, Cheng Jun couldn't stand and talk to him, so he walked over slowly, knelt behind him, and said, "Cheng Jun was ordered to come and have seen the palace master. ”

Zhang Qinglu didn't look back, but he hummed and said lightly: "Xiao Cheng is here." Sit down and talk. ”

Cheng Jun frowned, Zhang Qinglu's state was very bad, and even his voice was a little hoarse, this is very serious in a real person, it is a ceremony, if something goes wrong with Zhang Qinglu, then the ceremony of Zixiao Palace will become a joke.

And Zhang Qinglu asked him to sit down and talk, which was also very troublesome, Cheng Jun had to put his body down, put his knees together, maintain a sitting posture, and said, "Real person...... But what's the difficulty?"

Zhang Qinglu laughed and said, "What difficulties do I have? If I have any difficulties, it is not because of the present, but because of the future." ”

Cheng Jun knew that Zhang Qinglu, as the pride of the sky and the palace master of Zixiao Palace, had his own pride, and he would never show his weakness, so he didn't mention it, and asked instead: "Why did the real person say this?"

Zhang Qinglu said quietly: "I am afraid that the distant future will be unpredictable, and I am also afraid that the current future will be unpredictable. For example, I'm afraid that you won't be able to bear what I'll say later, you can't bear such a burden, and you can't become a key figure in reversing the general trend of the world. Then my hard work, I don't know how to say that there is an end. ”

Cheng Jun Yile, no matter how agitated the Fa came up, he said: "It's okay to say it." Even if the world falls on me, what is there to fear? Even if I am crushed to death, I will never be scared to death. ”

Zhang Qinglu said with a smile: "What a young ambition." Since you have such guts, but what the future holds, I will tell you about it once today. Xiao Cheng, let me ask you, you said that the world is pressing on your head, and you are not afraid. So—what is the world?"

Cheng Jun was stunned, for him, this question is easy for him to answer - below the rooftop, it is the world. But there is a big problem with him answering like this, not to mention that Zhang Qinglu doesn't understand it at all, but he understands, and his insight is too beyond the ordinary to explain.

After hesitating for a moment, Cheng Jun still said cautiously: "People say that the world is all the land that can be stepped on under the blue sky." Shengtian, where I grew up, and other countries outside Shengtian and Fengtian occupy the entire northern ice field, which is already a vast place that ordinary people can't walk in their lifetime. Farther away, it is the Yanyun Treasure Realm in the south, which is like the hometown of the gods, and the Yanyun Treasure Realm in the south, as if it is as far away as the horizon, and it is rumored to be the Yanzhi Mountain where the demons are entrenched. These three places are all I know. As for what else there is, I don't know. ”

Zhang Qinglu said: "Very good. You are different from those frogs at the bottom of the well, you know that there is a heaven outside the sky. I have heard how many people say that the world is Yanyun Treasure Realm. Yanyun is Middle Earth, the center of the world, the north is the barbarian, the south is the demon, barely the edge of the world. Nothing else. Hehe, if the world is really only that big, then why does our Zixiao Palace exist?" he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Do you know what Zixiao Palace is?"

Cheng Jun was stunned again, this question was also difficult to phrase, but he still chose a more popular statement, and said: "Zixiao Palace is the branch of Shangqing Palace in the Northern Kingdom, but in my opinion, Zixiao Palace is the Dao Palace of Shengtian and even the Northern Kingdom. ”

Zhang Qinglu laughed and said: "This statement is really ...... This cannot be wrong, but it is enough to say it in front of me. If you talk about it in front of the people of the Shangqing Palace, you will inevitably cause big trouble. There is only one Dao Palace in the world, and that is Shangqing Palace. Are we in Zixiao Palace......" he sighed and said, "It's far from it." Whether it's in strength or control. You haven't been to Yanyun, in Yanyun, there is only one voice in the cultivation world, and that is the Dao Palace. All monks, from the moment they became monks, have been branded with the Dao Palace, and their initiation, inheritance, promotion, and achievements are all under the all-knowing Dao Palace system. For all people, there is no distinction between loose cultivation and Taoism. The Dao Palace is too huge to accommodate any other force, not even in the cracks. 'There is no more Tao below the Dao Palace', which is the Yanyun Cultivation Realm. ”

Cheng Jun pursed his lips, what kind of virtue is the Dao Palace, he couldn't be clearer, when he wandered to Yanyun, as an external casual cultivator, he personally experienced the strictness and horror of the Dao Palace, even if it was in the war at that time, the Dao Palace also relaxed its control. Compared with them, Zixiao Palace is simply extremely enlightened, and Zhang Qinglu is even more benevolent and righteous.

Zhang Qinglu said: "But then again—what do you think of the Northern Realm Cultivation Realm compared to Yanyun?"

Cheng Jun said directly: "I said something unpleasant, don't care." On both sides of us is the judgment of clouds and mud, which is equivalent to the crane of the sparrow. ”

Zhang Qinglu said: "That's right, not only our Shengtian, but even the Northern Realm Cultivation Realm, is barren and inferior, otherwise it wouldn't be called a barbarian." In this case, it is very easy for the Shangqing Palace to bring our northern kingdom under its rule, why do they always stand still and regard the northern kingdom as nothing? Naturally, my Zixiao Palace is one of the branches of the Shangqing Palace, which was established by the elders of the Shangqing Palace thousands of years ago. When it comes to relationships, they should be quite close, but why do they pay little attention to them for thousands of years, or even ignore them, and have no strong support at all?"

Cheng Jun said: "That must be because people don't look down on us." In poor places, invite people to come, but no one comes. ”

Zhang Qinglu smiled a little and said: "No, don't say that we haven't been wild to that point, it's really poor jingle noise, and the size is a foothold - barren land, there are benefits of barren land." It is possible to suck blood vigorously and feed the land of abundance. A monk in a rich place, of course, can look down on people from small places. But those who occupy the top positions must have a comprehensive vision, how can they have the same insight as ordinary reckless people? Even secular emperors still know how to expand their territory, let alone the Taoist Palace?"

This time, he replied directly, "They don't set foot in the northern country because they can't. The northern kingdom has been a place of four wars since ancient times, and it will always be left as a buffer zone to serve as a battlefield for all forces. And our Zixiao Palace is a nail left by the Shangqing Palace on the front line of the Northern Kingdom, when there is peace, we are the gatekeepers, and when there is war, we are pawns. ”

Cheng Jun's heart moved, these words were a little different from his thoughts in his previous life. After thinking about it, Deng Shi felt that he was very stupid in his previous life. He should have thought that the war launched by Zhang Qinglu was certainly his own action to consolidate his position, but the real source should not be the small Zixiao Palace anyway. At the beginning, he also speculated that Zixiao Palace at least had a stimulating effect on the war, and maybe even the Shangqing Palace later participated in the war in a big way, and it also had the meaning of being dragged into the water by Zhang Qinglu. But in fact, Zixiao Palace, as Zhang Qinglu said, is just a pawn.

With a lot of clues in his heart, Cheng Jun remembered that he should ask a very important question, if he didn't ask, then he would arouse suspicion, and hurriedly said: "What? Shangqing Palace also has to fight with people? Who is the other party?"

Zhang Qinglu said: "The other party is the person opposite Jiuyan Mountain. Our Zixiao Palace is the gatekeeper, and Jiuyan Mountain is that gate, and if we open that door, we will release the monster that is comparable to the Dao Palace—no, it is a hundred times more terrifying than the Dao Palace. The northern kingdom is bound to become a real battlefield. Cheng Jun, do you remember what the poem about the Three Holy Lands says?"

Cheng Jun said in a low voice: "The Nine Directions Goose returned to the Nine Heavens, and before the stars moved to the sea and the sky, a sword crossed out of the West Ridge and cut off the two of them in Kunshan. ”

Zhang Qinglu said: "Exactly." Jiuyan Mountain, Douxing Moving Sea, Xiling Sword Sect, these three sects have become the three holy places. Holy place, what a glorious name. How can they be worthy of such a title? Is it because they are strong? No matter how powerful they are, how can they be bigger than my Zixiao Palace? The little northern kingdom is also called the Holy Land, why does even the Shangqing Palace acquiesce? Just because they bear the burden of that door. ”

He straightened up and said coldly: "Needless to say, Jiuyan Mountain itself is that gate. The Xiling Sword Sect kept the key to that door. And the stars move the sea......" Speaking of this, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and said, "The most special thing is the stars moving the sea, do you know that the second sentence of these four poems originally did not refer to the stars moving the sea." ”

Cheng Jun was stunned, he really didn't know this, and asked, "What does that mean?"

Zhang Qinglu said: "Before the stars move to the sea and Zixiao, the key is not in the stars moving the sea, but in the purple sky. Zixiao - refers to my Zixiao Palace. ”

Cheng Jun sighed, and secretly said in his heart: This scene is really not in vain, hearing the real inside information that he didn't even know in his previous life, it is worth it from the perspective of satisfying curiosity.

Zhang Qinglu said: "My Zixiao Palace was originally also known as Star Palace. Our establishment was not earlier than the Jiuyan Mountain and Xiling Sword Sect, and we only existed as one of the three legs of the Northern Kingdom. We are only responsible for monitoring, measuring and indulging the operation of that door. It's just that in later developments, fate played a joke. My Zixiao Palace is getting bigger and bigger, and I have been able to build a system on my own, and this system was originally not planned to be established by the Shangqing Palace. However, since there is one, there is no need to break up, after the decision of the Shangqing Palace, the part of the astrological functions was separated, and the four words of fighting stars and moving the sea in the poem were taken separately, and another sect was set up. This is the fulfillment of the theory of the three holy places. As for the Dou Xing moving to the sea, the background is insufficient, and the status in the Dao Palace is not as good as the other two factions. They are also willing to degenerate, unwilling to be self-reliant to take charge of themselves, but have fallen into the trap of sowing discord. ”

Cheng Jun secretly said in his heart: Having said that, but I don't know whether the Douxing moved to the sea intentionally or unintentionally, it was established in that place, and in the future, its key point is not under Jiuyan Mountain.

Putting aside this thought, Cheng Jun then asked, "So, who is the enemy of the Shangqing Palace?"

Zhang Qinglu said leisurely: "Well, you think about the last sentence." Isolated between two people in Kunshan. Kunshan - Mountain, refers to my Taoist Palace, in the eyes of outsiders is the Lingshan Taoist system. Kun - refers to the Kunlun Dao system that is isolated from heaven and man on the opposite side. ”

(To be continued)