Chapter 365: Showdown
I slept peacefully this night, Hongxiang's snoring was still the same, and Xiao Cong still had to block him.
The next day, Xiao Cong went to visit the Shoulu Daoist on time, and felt that he had to talk to him about what happened last night, he didn't want to hide it from him, but this time, he had to pull something out of the mouth of the Shoulu Daoist!
Around Mochen, Xiao Cong came to the broken Taoist temple of the Shoulu Taoist, and the old man was still the same, sitting on the felt under the tree in the courtyard, calm and relaxed.
After this period of getting along, although the relationship between the two is not very familiar, there is no need to comply with the redundant red tape, Xiao Cong walked into the courtyard, just said hello decently, and sat on the stone bench on the side casually.
The Shoulu Taoist smiled slightly,
"You're getting more and more punctual. β
Xiao Cong smiled and went straight to the point,
"Last night, I went into the secret room under the old court, I wonder if the seniors are interested?"
The Daoist opened his eyes suddenly, and then slowly narrowed them down, and said calmly:
"What do you say?"
"I mean, I think my seniors should be very interested in these things. β
"It's good to know. β
"However, there are some things that I really can't understand, and I can't tell my seniors. β
The Taoist of the Guardian smiled clearly,
"Boy, if you have something to say, if you have a fart, you can jump over those you can't understand. β
"Don't mind, that's a pity, it's a good story, but it's missing here and there, and it's not exquisite. β
The Shoulu Daoist breathed a sigh of relief, swept his ups and downs, and opened his eyes,
"What do you want to know?"
"Will the seniors tell me?"
"Knowing everything, saying everything. β
Xiao Cong smiled slightly,
"Okay, my first question, what kind of cultivators were the people who preached there before?"
"If I remember correctly, I should be a cultivator. β
"Only one person?"
"When they came, there were three, but then two died, and the rest of them created the Order. β
"Do you believe in many?"
"It's okay, it's okay, it's a fight with the pear blossom club. β
"If it's so powerful, why was it destroyed?"
"How do I know this! Is a behemoth like the King Kong League not planted in the hands of a small person like Ding Bushan? The hunting city is changing, and the grievances are impermanent, who can say this!"
Xiao Cong shook his head with a serious face,
"No, senior, you don't pay attention to it, you and I know the strangeness of this Taoist system in our hearts, and we won't ruin it so clichΓ©. β
The expression of the Shoulu Daoist darkened, and his tone became a little low,
"It was destroyed in a movement, and the specific plot, I'm afraid no one can say clearly. β
"Move Luan...... What's moving?"
"Didn't Yin Nuo tell you?" the old Taoist priest's gaze drifted obliquely, and the person looking at it was hairy.
Xiao Cong thought for a moment, his eyes shrunk,
"You mean the tyranny of the entire Valley of Forgotten Life every once in a while?"
The keeper nodded,
"This is it. β
Xiao Cong lowered his head and muttered to himself,
"That's really not clear......
"And later?" he asked.
"Later......" the Keeper smiled meaningfully, "and then it will be like this, until a few of you move in, and the eyes of the hunting city will converge on that side again." β
Xiao Cong thought for a while before he came back to his senses and said in shock:
"Senior, shouldn't it be a target there, you still want the three of us to go there, aren't you a pit person!"
The Taoist of the Guardian looked innocent,
"Where did you go, and you don't want to believe in any faith, where else can you go except that place, besides, have you ever had an accident there for so long? You went there, it was your fate, I showed you a clear way, but you blamed me. β
"Why didn't something happen! Yin Nuo's ......"
The Shoulu Taoist waved his hand impatiently, rightly arrogant,
"It was an accident, who told him not to stay in the house. β
"You ......" Xiao Cong stood up angrily, pointing at the Daoist who guarded the house, but couldn't find any words to accuse the old guy for a while.
"What am I," the Shoulu Daoist put on a face of a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water, like an old scoundrel, "I just arranged for you, what's the matter, what do you think I take care of you so for, besides, I just want to verify some things on you, and I don't want to harm you." β
After a while, Xiao Cong sighed slowly, put down his hand, returned to the stone bench, and said coldly:
"What the hell do you want?"
The Shoulu Daoist smiled slightly, his eyes became deep, and his tone began to deepen.
"I want you to find the secret there, and then restore it and set up a new Dao system in the hunting city. β
"What's in it for you?"
"I don't have to tell you this. β
"But even if I can recover it, what if you are not afraid that history will repeat itself and turn everything to naught again?"
The Shoulu Taoist held the ups and downs steadily, smiling confidently and mysteriously,
"You can rest assured of this, although the catastrophe in the Valley of Forgotten Life will happen once in a while, but there is no absolute law at all, now it is only fifty years since the last catastrophe happened, and it will take at least ten years before the next catastrophe happens, ten years, not short, with your wisdom and means, can't you still carry forward this Dao system in the hunting city in ten years? The last time those three people were unlucky, they encountered the catastrophe less than two years after entering the hunting city, you are different, at least, you have plenty of time. β
"Is it that once I successfully create this Dao system, I won't be able to leave?" Xiao Cong asked, with a bit of aggressiveness in his tone.
The keeper shook his head with a smile,
"No, when the time comes, you can go to yours, even if I want to stop you, I'm afraid I can't stop you, and even if you have to leave before you successfully create this Dao system, it doesn't matter, Hunting City has the rules of Hunting City, I don't want to risk the world's condemnation. β
Xiao Cong sighed faintly,
"Now that I've gotten on your thief ship, I'm afraid it's going to be difficult to get down, even if I'm unlucky enough to believe you, it's just that, people are under the eaves, and I have to bow my head. β
"Don't say it so hurtful, it's hard to get off my thief ship, if you want, you can go to the Lefan Forum now, aren't they very rare for you?"
Xiao Cong endured his anger and did not attack, and said coldly:
"Senior, let's talk with a face? Doesn't the Lefan Forum know that I have been living in the old Taoist court in the south of the city? Since you know that I have been living there, will you still accept me?"
"Yes. "Shoulu Road is harmless to people and animals.
"That's even more suspicious!" This sentence was almost shouted out by Xiao Cong, but fortunately he had a good cultivation and good temperament, "You have pushed me to the forefront, don't bewitch the crowd anymore, if I believe you again in the future, I ......"
"Hey, young man, don't say it too much, be careful that it won't end, you have to find someone to guide you in the hunting city, this character, no one else but me. β
Xiao Cong was silent for a long time, after all, he still didn't say the second half of the sentence, the old Taoist priest is not only so good at calculating, but also so good at acting, Xiao Cong feels that he is a little scared of him, but then again, which time was not sent to the door by himself? Alas, his ancestors, regret not at the beginning.
"What's in there, can you tell me about it now?" said the Shoulu Daoist with a smile.
Xiao Cong is angry now, he didn't want to deal with this old fox, but now he already knows that this master in front of him is obviously a master who pretends to be a pig and eats a tiger, if it weren't for this unpleasant conversation this morning, he would have almost forgotten that this old guy's cultivation is from the Yang Realm, so he doesn't dare to throw his face at him or talk nonsense to him now - what if this old guy kills him together, destroying a monk who picks up the star realm, for the strong man of the Yang Realm, it is still not a matter of raising his hand!
But he still didn't want to tell all the things to the Shoulu Daoist, first, he wanted to leave some hole cards for himself, and second, he couldn't swallow this breath!
"Let's talk about something dry first, stabilize him!"
He thought to himself, and replied:
"I think that secret room may just be an ornament, the real secret, and should be buried somewhere else. β
The old Taoist priest seemed to be smiling,
"Boy, you'd better not be sloppy with the old man. β
Xiao Cong swears,
"Really, why did I lie to you, if you don't believe it, let's make an appointment, and after seven days, you will go down with us!"
"I'm not going. β
The old Taoist priest rolled his eyes, and his old face turned to the other side, looking very disgusted.
Seeing this, Xiao Cong suddenly felt that although this old Taoist priest seemed to know the old Taoist court in the south of the city very well, in fact, he might not have entered it!
"It's just a scripture hall, there is no other way to say it, it seems to be a secret room, but it should only be used for some core backbones to preach before, there are only a lot of felt, a few pots of withered green plants, and two extinguished everlasting candles, nothing special. β
"How did you find there?" asked the Keeper coldly.
Xiao Cong skillfully concealed his panic for a moment,
"That day I had a dream, in the dream someone danced at the root of the west wall, scared me awake, woke up and couldn't sleep, so I went to the west wall and that side, blowing away the dust on the wall, only to find that there were murals on it, which were very similar to the dance in the dream, so I danced a section according to the feeling in the dream combined with the content of the mural, and finally the wall opened. β
"Why are you talking so carefully?" asked the Keeper with a smile, his face full of cunning and cunning.
Xiao Cong smiled contemptuously,
"Old guy, don't come with me like this, I already knew that you didn't believe me, so I said it so carefully, I didn't expect that even then you still didn't believe me, I kind of understood, you didn't intend to believe me at all, Zhizi is suspicious of his neighbor, stubborn and self-serving, and spends the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, that's what you say!"
The face of the keeper does not change,
"Then you say, why did he give you a dream? Why didn't the other two little friends have such dreams?"
Xiao Cong just wanted to answer, but suddenly found that this was a clichΓ©, and it was a clichΓ© that could be punished in his heart.
"How do I know why he only gave me dreams, it may be a coincidence, or it may be something else......"
He suddenly turned his gaze to the Daoist and asked:
"You should know this better than I do, you told me to go there in the first place!"
The keeper smiled noncommittally,
"Okay, this matter will be turned over for the time being, but what I want to tell you is that if you want to get mixed up in the hunting city, you have to go all out, since you have accepted this path, you have to go without distractions, don't use any more crooked brains, be careful of playing with fire and self-immolation. β
It's full of threats!
Xiao Cong smiled, casual and natural, and said lightly:
"I don't have to worry about this to remind my seniors, I know it in my heart. β
......
Coming out of the Taoist view of guarding the road, Xiao Cong still has to go to the Lefan Forum as usual, and he has been acting on the scene to stabilize the relationship and pretending to be respectful, this time...... This time he didn't know what to do, even if he had that heart, he didn't have the guts, who knew if the Shoulu Daoist and the abbot of Hengfa were secretly ventilating!
However, it is still okay to test the attitude of the abbot of Hengfa with the fact that he often lives in the old Taoist court in the south of the city.
In the splendid hall, the huge golden statue of the Buddha is still compassionate, and the people in front of the Buddha statue seem to be getting fewer and fewer day by day, probably all of them are involved in the distant war, and now there are only a few people left, including Hengfa, which shows that this crisis is indeed related to the life and death of the Lefan Forum.
Before, because of some guilt in his heart, Xiao Cong still had a little heart that wanted to help the Lefan pulpit, but now this heart has been wiped out in the showdown words of the Shoulu Taoist, the old Taoist priest's heart is on the side of the Lefan pulpit, the more he hopes that the Lefan pulpit wins, the more Xiao Cong hopes that the Lefan pulpit loses, such a dilemma has tormented him for a long time, perhaps subconsciously, the Shoulu Taoist has been put into a hostile position by him, and the curse of the Lefan pulpit is only because of hatred of the house and Wu, but he still understands after all, in the current situation, it is much more beneficial for him to win the Lefan pulpit than the Lefan pulpit loses, because the Lefan pulpit wins, Even if the Shoulu Daoist will still secretly play tricks on him, after all, he still has some chips in his hand, so he will not lose his life in a short time, but if the Lefan Forum loses, the winning side will definitely take part of the anger on his head, and it will be unimaginable afterwards.
Of course, he also understands that this matter is not something he can control, but he is still very happy to see the matter of spending some more strength when the Lefan Forum can win.
"The disciple has seen the abbot. Xiao Cong clasped his hands together and saluted Hengfa.
"Little friends don't have to be polite, get up quickly. Hengfa only held his hand slightly, and the person still sat cross-legged on the felt and did not get up.
Xiao Cong casually found a felt and sat down cross-legged, feeling very sad and sighing,
"Alas, there are fewer people day by day, think of the pomp and circumstance you saw when you first came here...... If the abbot has any need for a disciple, just open his mouth, the disciple is now living in an old Taoist court in the south of the city, and there is nothing to do all day, if the abbot is interested, the disciple can just spit out the block in his heart!"
Hengfa smiled slightly, unmoved, just said lightly:
"If there is anything that needs Xiaoyou's help, the poor monk will not see Xiaoyou. β
Xiao Cong saw the attitude of the abbot of Hengfa, his heart was half cold all of a sudden, and he knew that Hengfa would not bother with him in this matter, so he was no longer reluctant, and chatted casually, and then went back to the south of the city in a gloomy manner.