Jingnan, Longhu Mountain, Heavenly Master's Mansion.

Zhang Tianshi was standing in the pavilion in the backyard, watching the two drooping children not far away reciting the Taoist scriptures. Those were his two sons, but they were concubines, and according to the rules of the sect, they would be sent down the mountain after they reached the age of ten, and only their sons-in-law could stay in the mountains to learn the Tao.

Even if he looked at his son, the look on Zhang Tianshi's face was still so solemn and solemn, and he couldn't see any emotion in his eyes, or he didn't want people to see it. He put one hand behind his back, the other hanging on his waist, and in his hand at his waist he held a cyan jade pendant hanging from his belt, and his slender and powerful fingers slowly slid over the jade pendant.

Behind Zhang Tianshi stood four little dao boys, all of whom stood there silently with their hands down. Zhang Tianshi has been in this pavilion for more than half an hour, and they have been standing here for more than half an hour, except for breathing, which is no different from clay sculptures and wood carvings.

The incense burner was burned to the end, and a Taoist boy stepped forward lightly, cleared the embers inside, and then put the new ambergris incense block back in, each movement was gentle and regular, not bad at all, without a little extra sound, even compared to the long-trained concubines of any family. They all know that the Heavenly Master attaches the most importance to his majesty and bearing, and he can't see the slightest difference and vulgarity, and they don't know how much effort they have spent on hard training to stand behind the Heavenly Master.

There was a sound of footsteps coming from far and near, and a woman in costume walked briskly. Although Zhang Tianshi must have heard the footsteps and knew who it was, the Dao boy closest to him still stepped forward and bowed down and said, "Qiqi Heavenly Master, it's Madame who is here." ”

Zhang Tianshi hummed softly. Nothing to do. The boy stepped aside and said no more.

The woman walked quickly to the pavilion, first glanced at the two children in the distance with dissatisfaction, snorted coldly, and then raised her hand and waved: "You all go down." ”

The four Dao boys did not move. Still like a clay sculpture and wood carving, standing quietly beside the dust. It wasn't until Zhang Tianshi waved his hand that they bowed down together.

"Hmph. I haven't been back for a while, but there are more and more rules in this mountain. The dressed woman glared at Zhang Tianshi's back very dissatisfied, not polite at all.

Zhang Tianshi finally turned around and looked at the dressed woman, with still no expression on his face: "Madame, is there something wrong with coming to me today?"

"Naturally, there is something. Zhang Yuanling, let me ask you, why hasn't Hengliang'er come back yet? Did he summon Fu He back a few days ago? Why don't you tell me?" The woman's eyes widened, and she scolded Zhang Tianshi angrily. Her face can vaguely see a little delicate when she was young. But now the thick gouache rouge that was deliberately put on to hide the wrinkles and aging on her face, and the dress up made her look very weird.

Zhang Tianshi said lightly: "He wants to hone his skills with Senior Brother Yuhong, and only then will he inform me when Fu He sends him back." It's a trifle, so what's there to say?"

"Little things?" the woman's voice rose a lot, and she roared angrily. "What trivial matter did Zhang Yuhong have beside him? You actually let Hengliang go to the deep mountains of Yunzhou with him? You don't know how dangerous the place of the Divine Wood Forest is, even Zhang Yuhong himself doesn't dare to say that he can come and go freely. You actually let Hengliang go to such a dangerous place with him? This finally came out safely. But why don't you go back to the mountain and do something outside?"

"Also, did something happen on the mountain a few days ago? I heard that you and Zhang Yuhong both left others and hurried back, and he actually left Hengliang children in the depths of Yunzhou, where demons infested them? Fortunately, nothing happened yet, otherwise I wouldn't have picked his skin!"

The two children who were studying in the distance finally heard the sound here, turned their heads sideways to look, and then packed up their books and turned around and left silently. The woman's voice came from far away, and everyone who heard it consciously pretended not to hear it, and then turned and quickly walked to a place where it was really unheard.

Mrs. Tianshi is a distant cousin of Zhang Tianshi. She was also the senior sister of Zhang Tianshi. And when she was still a senior sister, her father was still one of the three most powerful deacon elders in Longhu Mountain. At that time, Zhang Yuanling was still an unknown disciple on duty in the Zhengyang Palace, and he was inconspicuous except for some talent in cultivation, and his personality was also silent. It was also since he became a Taoist couple with this senior sister that he gradually gained momentum, gained a place in the mountains, and finally stood out from the children of the Zhang family and sat on the position of this heavenly master. It is precisely because of this that in the eyes of this Heavenly Master's wife, Zhang Tianshi will never be as majestic, remarkable, and unfathomable as others see. And since she was a child, she has been pampered and cultivated as a senior sister, and her temperament is not very popular, except for a few affectionate elder uncles in the mountains, almost no one likes her.

Such a Heavenly Master Lady is naturally not suitable to stay on Longhu Mountain, so not long after Zhang Tianshi ascended to the position of Heavenly Master, this Heavenly Master Lady simply returned to the customs, moved down the mountain and bought a few manors to live her leisurely life, and only occasionally came up the mountain. However, everyone in the mountains knows that Zhang Tianshi is the most nostalgic, and even so, he has always respected this lady.

In the face of his wife's sharp questioning, Zhang Tianshi looked as usual, just turned around and looked into the distance and replied lightly: "Hengliang has grown up now, and it is time to go outside to practice." If you want to talk about danger, where is there anything in the rivers and lakes that is not dangerous? He is not the only one who went, but several teachers and nephews also went, and it is precisely because he has to go through some turmoil and see some world in order to exercise his talents, and the fact that Senior Brother Yuhong can have such a cultivation and reputation is inseparable from his experience of walking the world to slay demons and eliminate demons in his early years. If you just shrink in the mountains, or only dare to walk in Jingnan, then no matter how high your talent is, you will only become a waste. I've given him enough talismans to defend himself, and it's all right. ”

The Celestial Master Lady roared angrily: "I don't care about that much! What if there is an accident? I just need to be safe and sound!"

"A loving mother has many defeated children, and you should refrain from it. Zhang Tianshi didn't look back, he still looked into the distance, his voice was still flat, but there was a strange look in his eyes. "Where is there any real peace in this world? If we can't sharpen our hearts and skills to be able to take charge of ourselves, sooner or later we will only be a drag on others. Do you still expect others to shelter him for the rest of his life?"

"Someone else, you're his father!" Mrs. Heavenly Master was like an angry lioness, almost about to pounce on her and bite her. Zhang Tianshi turned around and glanced at her, and the aura contained in that look immediately made her stand in place. After all, she is not a real stupid woman in the mountains. Understand that the person in front of him is not really the one who needs to rely on her and her father's snort.

"Good, good, good. Lady Celestial Master laughed angrily and took a few steps back. looked in the direction where the two children had just gone, and his eyes were full of resentment. "I understand what you're thinking, you think my mother and you are getting in the way. The women sent to you by the Nangong family and the Li family have already given birth to the bloodline of the Zhang family for you, and you have a choice. Really?"

"Shut up!"

Zhang Tianshi shouted angrily. The Celestial Master was stunned, this was still an unprecedented thing in her memory, and the man in front of her finally had an angry look on his face. In the depths of her eyes, she didn't know what was boiling, it was something she had never seen before.

"Hengliang is my son after all, don't you understand?" Zhang Tianshi said this word by word, and the anger on his face slowly dissipated. Or rather, it disappeared again under that solemn and majestic face.

The Celestial Master Lady froze in place. After a long time, he slowly came back to his senses, and saw the familiar and unfamiliar man in front of him take a few breaths, and then asked: "Then you should always tell me what happened in the mountains? Zhang Yuhong was hurriedly recalled by you and sent out in a hurry this time, there must be something urgent. ”

Zhang Tianshi was also silent for a while, and slowly shook his head: "Since you have come down the mountain, madam, you don't have to ask about the things in the mountain sect."

At this moment, a strange buzzing sound suddenly sounded. Then there were two snaps, and the jade pendant hanging on the chest of the Heavenly Master Lady suddenly shattered.

At the same time shattered. There is also the jade pendant that Zhang Tianshi has been caressing before, hanging on his waist. And these two jade pendants are in the shape of a dragon and a tiger.

"What's the matter? This dragon and tiger pendant is Hengliang's accident!" Mrs. Heavenly Master looked at the fragments of the jade pendant that were shattered all over the ground, and the rouge on her face couldn't hide the pale face like a dead man below, and she trembled and cried.

When she looked up again, Zhang Tianshi, who was still standing here just now, was gone, and only a gust of wind blew her unsteadily.

It was just two breaths later, all the Heavenly Master Sect disciples who were in Longhu Mountain suddenly felt something and looked up at the sky. The hazy golden light faintly appeared in the sky, and a huge and complex talisman array appeared, and they could all feel that their divine thoughts and true qi were slightly induced. If it is a disciple who happens to be standing on a high place and has good eyesight, he can also see the two market towns in the distance below the mountain, and there is also a flash of golden light on the Heavenly Master's view.

The younger disciples exchanged words and discussions, and some of them were panicked, not knowing what this vision meant, while the older senior brothers or uncles explained to them that this was the appearance of the accumulated power of faith being mobilized in the Longhu Mountain Mountain Protection Array, which was connected to the entire Jingnan area.

As for who is mobilizing and who has the right to transfer, it is naturally only the leader of the Zhengyi Sect of the supreme line of Longhu Mountain, and Zhang Tianshi, who is worshiped by thousands of people in Jingnan.

The vision only flashed, and then a thunderbolt of light rose from the Heavenly Master's Mansion and flew straight towards the north. Everyone can recognize that it is the Heavenly Master Imperial Driver used by Zhang Tianshi to travel, and the Golden Spirit Tianma Lei Escape Car that he had seen not long ago.

There was a thunderclap, and the thunder escape car that was originally flying disappeared in its original position with a thunder explosion, and then flashed out at the same time, but it was already more than ten miles away, and the speed of the flight did not slow down in the slightest in this flash, it turned out that Zhang Tianshi was not flying fast enough, and he used the thunder escape technique together with the carriage. This is a method that Zhang Tianshi had not used before when he rushed back from Wuyin Mountain.

In the blink of an eye, the golden thunder in the sky was already out of sight, leaving only the roar of thunder echoing in the sky. The disciples of the Heavenly Master Sect in Dragon and Tiger Mountain were all full of worship, but the faces of the elders with the highest status, the deacons, all had faces as heavy as water, or they looked panicked, or thoughtful.

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The roof of the small farmhouse was torn into countless pieces like paper under the impact of the golden light, and then the golden light rose to the sky and reached the clouds, and then turned into the shape of a dragon and a tiger and swooped down. The huge wind pressure destroyed all the surrounding houses.

But the golden light in the center of the hut was fine, except for the roof that was blown at the beginning, and the subsequent shocks and shocks turned into a gust of spring breeze as they approached. It was only because the self-proclaimed earth spirit master of the old dao opened his hand in mid-air, and countless intricate and subtle cloud pattern runes rushed out of his hand to protect this small square inch of land.

"Hehe, is this the name of this Laozi Dragon and Tiger Conquest and Changing Heaven and Earth Dafa? In general, it is really full of momentum, Zhengyang Xiao'er likes to engage in these bluff things the most, and I don't know how many good materials have been wasted, and how much incense and wish power of believers have been wasted. ”

Looking at the golden light giant beast that fell from the sky, the tone of the earth spirit master was extremely flat, and the expression on his face also carried a faint disdain. And Cheng Shui'er, who was hiding in the corner, was already scared and her feet were weak. He knelt on the ground.

Of course, she is not a person who will be frightened by just images, she can become an official shadow guard, and she can also be deliberately cultivated by Nangong Wuji. It shows that her qualifications in any aspect are the best choice, and the Bliss Heart Sutra she cultivates is also one of the five divine strategies of Shuntian, even if the frontal combat power is not strong, the realm eyesight is truly first-class. Especially in terms of perception, it is far beyond ordinary people. But that's exactly what happened. She could clearly feel that the two golden light beasts that flew down were not imaginary images with vain momentum, the evil qi and mana contained in them were thick and condensed to an astonishing extent, and the wind brought by that action also carried the laws of heaven and earth that only innate martial arts masters could induce.

The ordinary Five Elements armor soldiers were simply as ridiculous as mud dolls compared to the dragons and tigers gathered by this golden light, and Cheng Shui'er had no doubt that even if he tried his best under the attack of these two giant beasts, he would only be torn to pieces like ants in the blink of an eye.

The golden light that converged into the dragon and tiger law phase exploded from Zhang Hengliang's body, and just as the earth spirit master stretched out his hand and was about to touch him, he suddenly let out a long howl as if he was frightened. The dazzling golden light burst out of his chest.

This golden light was originally aimed at the Earth Spirit Master in front of him, but the Earth Spirit Master seemed to have expected it. With a stretch of his hand, the surging tangible and intangible golden light was held up by him and rushed towards the sky, until it was under the clouds before condensing into a dragon and a tiger and counterattacking.

The moment the golden light rushed out, Zhang Hengliang's restrained acupoint seemed to be washed away at the same time, and he had to reach into his arms to touch other talismans while withdrawing from his retreat, but the earth spirit master just pointed at it, and his body that had just been able to move immediately froze again.

"It may be somewhat useful to others, but unfortunately these methods are too crude in the eyes of the old Tao. Your own cultivation is too poor, even if you immediately sit on the position of Heavenly Master, you can't control it if you can induce the dragon and tiger to restrain the gods in one breath, let alone these methods created by pure external forces. The Earth Spirit Master glanced lightly at Zhang Hengliang, who couldn't move again, and then ignored it. Seeing the golden light giant beast that was about to pounce on the top of his head, he floated up with his big sleeves, and the Dao robe on his body became gorgeous and graceful in an instant, and the golden light flowed, and then he raised it with one hand, and the palm of his hand just supported the golden light giant tiger, and the other hand pointed into a sword, and hit the forehead of the golden dragon with one finger.

With a bang, the wind and energy brought out by the dragon and tiger's pounce slashed the ground around it, and countless mud, dust, sand and stones flew up, but this small house was still standing in it, and the dragon and tiger on the roof could no longer strike a single bit, and the earth spirit master really completely resisted these two golden light beasts with just such a fluttering palm and finger.

"Yimu Qinglong, the vitality is continuous, just to nourish my qi. With the voice of the Earth Spirit Master, the golden dragon shrank like a poked balloon, and disappeared into a rich stream of golden light flowing into his body along his fingers.

"Gengjin White Tiger, fierce and monstrous, just for my use. The golden giant tiger continued to roll, its body rapidly shrinking, and finally turned into a golden ball the size of a soybean and fell into the palm of the Earth Spirit Master.

In the blink of an eye, the earth-shattering vision was completely dissolved. The earth spirit master descended from mid-air, walked in front of Zhang Hengliang, who no longer had a trace of blood on his face, and finally said: "The heirs of the Zhang family are really not as good as a generation. He reached out and plunged into his chest.

There were no more surprises this time. The Earth Spirit Master's hand silently sank into Zhang Hengliang's chest, no blood splattered, only countless tiny golden light runes emanated from Zhang Hengliang's body, wafting up like a stream of living light smoke, and then all of them burrowed into the Earth Spirit Master's mouth and nose together.

After a few breaths, Zhang Hengliang fell to the ground with a snap. His hands and feet were completely gone, from the shoulders and the groin there was not the slightest trace, the skin on his face looked as if it had aged for dozens of years in a flash, and a young man in his prime was left with a dry and decayed body of less than a third of the original in this short period of time, except that his eyes were still turning slightly, and he could see that he was still alive.

The Earth Spirit Master, on the other hand, closed his eyes, and although he still had no expression, he felt like a hungry drunkard had finally drunk dozens of catties of good wine. After a long time, he finally opened his eyes and nodded slowly: "Sure enough, only the bloodline of the Zhang family is the best supplement for this Yang God Law Body." Even if it's not all of them, it's a hundred times better than the flesh and blood essence of everyone in this village, and it can repair the origin of the work. ”

I don't know when, the Dao robe on the Earth Spirit Master's body was restored to its original state, and the small golden sparks that had been constantly jumping out of his body before were gone, making him look a little more real, and there was no difference from a flesh-and-blood old Dao.

"Why didn't the senior just eat this kid in one go, and what did he do with his life?" I don't know if I was blown up by the golden light or frightened when the vision suddenly came to life, and the rattan box flew to the corner at once, and then it walked out under the traction of a few silk threads.

"Naturally, there is still some use. The Earth Spirit Master smiled faintly. turned around and looked at Cheng Shui'er not far away. "Are you still useful for this woman?"

"Heehehehe The rattan box replied without hesitation. (To be continued......)