Out of Xianyun Hall, Zhao Lin went straight to the main hall on the top of the mountain, passed through a secret door, and walked into the sect treasury located underground.

The vault contains important texts, exercises, and rare herbs, and there is a secret escape in case of crisis.

The important place of the sect is guarded by the deacons day and night, and only the head of the sect and the elders can enter.

"Elder Zhao, please!"

Without waiting for Zhao Lin to show his waist card, the four deacons guarding the sect said respectfully.

In recent years, the development of the Xingyun Sect has been smooth, the sect treasury is full, and the pills are complete, most of which is due to Zhao Lin's contributions, and the whole sect respects him very much.

"Good work."

Zhao Lin bowed his head slightly and stepped in.

Although the Zongku is underground, it is very cleverly designed, with good ventilation and lighting, and you will not feel bored after staying for a long time.

Walking into the corridor, there are five stone rooms lined up.

The yearbooks are stored in the third stone room, neatly arranged by year, from near to far.

The two grandmasters before Lu Yuanxiu were named Chen Tunan and Xu Yuan, and Zhao Lin remembered the approximate time when the two left the sect, and quickly found two related yearbooks.

Walk under the ever-bright lamp and flip through the pages one by one.

After a while, after a pause, I found a record of the Taoist priest's visit.

"It's a Taoist priest again!"

Zhao Lin's eyes narrowed slightly, staring at the words on the book, and thought, "As I expected, these things are not a coincidence!" ”

It's a pity that the deacon in charge of the record thinks that the matter is not important, just a passing pass, and as for the origin of the Taoist priest, what he said to the grandmaster is not recorded at all.

"Why did the Taoist priest come to the door when he cultivated to the Grandmaster Realm, and then the Grandmaster left?"

Zhao Lin muttered to himself, his heart full of doubts.

Then he thought again: "Liang Song is not a grandmaster, how can there be Taoist priests looking for him?" ”

Zhao Lin intuitively thought that the two were based on the same reason, but as for why, he couldn't think of it.

And he vaguely felt that these Taoist priests might not have malicious intentions.

Because whether it is the Grandmaster or Liang Song, judging from what they did before leaving, it was all voluntary.

"What is it that makes it so appealing? Is it worth it for them to leave their homeland with relatives and friends? ”

……

Yongning City, the town of the country.

"Duan Jue, Tao Zhuang, you take someone to Xuanyue Mountain and invite the Taoist priests there, I want to see them."

Zhao Lin called the two leaders of the guards and assigned them a task.

Originally, the government could control 800 government soldiers and guards according to the system, but Zhao Lin felt that it was unnecessary, so he only accepted 100 personal guards, patrolling the streets and alleys on weekdays to maintain law and order, but it was rare to use it today.

Duan Jue is the commander of the guard, and Tao Zhuang is Zhao Lin's subordinate when he was the chief of capture in Qinghe County, that is, the catcher called Tao Ertun.

Tao Zhuang's brain was not very easy to use, and he was helpless, so Zhao Lin transferred him to Yanzhou and became Duan Jue's deputy.

Duan Jue perked up when he heard this, and immediately hugged his fists and said, "Yes, Guogong." ”

Tao Er was stunned and stretched out his head and asked, "Zhao Tou'er, are you looking for a Taoist priest to do it?" My dad used to say that it was a lie. ”

Zhao Lin was speechless and gave Duan Qi a look.

Duan Jue understood, and hurriedly pulled Tao Erzhuang out of the house.

"By the way, invite people, don't use force."

Zhao Lin said again.

Thinking silently in my heart, more than 100 years have passed, the original Taoist priest must be gone, I don't know if there is a successor? Can Taoist temples still exist?

……

Xuanyue Mountain is in Yanzhou, only a few hundred miles away from Yongning City, Duan Jue and Tao Er stunned with their soldiers, quickly whipped their horses, and walked back and forth in less than ten days.

Bringing the news disappointed Zhao Lin.

"Qi Yu Guogong, there is no Taoist temple in Xuanyue Mountain, we asked the people in the surrounding villages and towns, and said that there has never been a monk on the mountain."

After Duan Jue finished speaking, Tao Er was stunned and added: "There is not even a monk temple or a nunnery. ”

Zhao Lin knew in his heart that the Taoist priest named Pu Yuanqing probably made up a background casually, maybe even the name was fake.

With a sigh, he sent the two away.

"It seems that it is impossible to find out the truth, only I have cultivated to the innate realm by myself, maybe the Taoist priest will come to the door."

Next, Zhao Lin sat in the retreat room every day, buried himself in the pile of old papers, and devoted himself to studying martial arts.

It took nearly three months to finally deduce the quenching exercises.

He first followed the general outline of martial arts, combined with his own situation, and created a technique: condensing the six true qi of water, fire, earth, wind, ice, and thunder, and blending with the bloodline.

With qi as the king, blood as the minister, flesh and blood complement each other, and the viscera meridians make it.

Easy tendons, wash the marrow!

Then run the exercises in the body, stop at the key rush points, and constantly adjust the exercises according to the effect of the exercises, and then finally complete them.

Finally, the exercises were run hundreds of times until they were exactly the same as expected, and then they were finalized.

In fact, although the deduction of the exercises is exhausting, every martial artist who has cultivated to the Yuan Realm is a person with outstanding talent and high intelligence.

As long as they are willing to put in the effort, most people can deduce the exercises that impact the innate realm.

And there is no one in a thousand Yuan Realm martial artists who have cultivated to become a grandmaster, and the real reason lies in age.

The peak of the martial artist's body is twenty-four or five years old, and if he can break through to the blood realm before that, the peak can last for one or twenty years, that is, until he is about forty years old.

Once he is past the age of forty, even if he is a Yuan Realm martial artist, his body begins to decline.

It's extremely slow, but it's unstoppable.

Because reshaping the physical body is extremely demanding on the body, every year after the peak, the difficulty of breaking through increases by one point.

However, there are very few people who can cultivate to the Yuan Realm before the age of forty, and if they use ten years of cultivation to achieve perfection, even if they deduce the exercises, it will be impossible to break through again.

The four grandmasters of the Xingyun Sect in the past dynasties were all amazingly talented, and they all cultivated to the consummation of the Yuan Realm around the age of forty, and only then did they break through to the Innate Realm.

Zhao Lin broke through the blood realm at the age of nineteen, and the Yuan realm was consummated at the age of thirty, which can be said to be unprecedented, and there is no need to worry about age at all.

Everything was ready, Zhao Lin decided to impact the innate realm, and then see what would happen after that.

Before breaking through, he compiled his cultivation experience over the years into a book, and revised the wind, ice, and thunder exercises he had created earlier.

Xingyun Sect did not have many different exercises, and Zhao Lin thought that if he failed to rush through the level, he could also leave something for the sect.

Although the exercises have been deduced thousands of times, after all, they are deductions, and there is no guarantee that there will be no problems when rushing through the level.

The Yuan Realm rush pass is not as good as the previous qi realm and blood realm, and the risk is extremely great, and there have been Yuan Realm martial artists who died because of the failure to rush through the pass in the past dynasties.

Two days before Chongguan, it happened to be the New Year's Day, and Zhao Lin went back to his home to have a reunion dinner with his mother and brother's family.

In this life, my father fell ill and his health deteriorated, although he had been taking medicine to recuperate, but he was unable to return to heaven after all, and passed away two years ago.

As soon as the New Year passed, Zhao Lin left to return to the sect and went to the inner courtyard to discuss the matter with Yang Lin.

Lu Chaohuan happened to be there, playing against Yang Lin under the tree in the Red Banyan Pavilion.

Seeing Zhao Lin coming over, Lu Chaohuan picked up a chess piece and said with a smile: "Protector Zhao, I heard that you have been bored in Xianyun Pavilion to read, why are you free today?" ”

(End of chapter)