Chen Xi, who closed his eyes and recuperated, slowly opened his eyes after hearing someone calling his name outside the house, in fact, he had already judged who the person was from the footsteps. It may seem to ordinary people that it is simply impossible to tell who is by the sound of footsteps, but for Chen Xi, who has lived in the Qiyang Valley Zen Buddhism and a group of taciturn monks for several years, this may just be a pastime when he is extremely bored.

The great monk Yangzhao said that he was not allowed to leave the Seven Yang Valley, nor would he accept him as a disciple. When most of the great Yangzhao monks meditated, Chen Xi, who was still young, would feel that the whole world was quiet and terrifying. So he began to like to hear the footsteps of people passing by outside the house, and after a long time, it became so easy to tell who was who.

The person outside the door was Guan Lie.

The firewood door of the house creaked open, and the first thing Guan Lie did after coming in was to raise his hand and wave it with a little disgust, as if he wanted to dispel the smell in the room. There is actually no special smell in the house, but because of this, Guan Lie is a little uncomfortable. Because in his house, there are a few little maids with a very intoxicating body fragrance, and they still light his favorite sandalwood from time to time.

He carried a jug of wine and a stone box.

Chen Xi looked at him and didn't speak, and Guan Lie put down his things after entering the door, took out a white handkerchief from his cuff and wiped the stool over and over again, and then threw the handkerchief in the corner.

Once he was seated, he began to take the dishes out of the stone box and place them on the table. There were a total of four dishes, and he arranged them in a square, and Chen Xi found that he arranged them very neatly, and the distance between the four plates was exactly the same. A man with a habit of cleanliness is terrible enough, and with such a habit, it is obvious that he will not be very comfortable on weekdays.

Chen Xi walked over and deliberately pulled one of the plates towards his side. Guan Lie looked at the ruined neatness, and his face was a little embarrassed.

Chen Xi laughed, and his mood suddenly improved a lot. He pushed the plate back, still in its original position, just the right thing. Guan Lie let out a long sigh of relief, obviously much more comfortable.

"Are you tired?"

Chen Xi asked him.

Guan Lie handed Chen Xi a pair of chopsticks and nodded: "Tired...... But his temperament is like this, and he can't change it for a while. If the things on the table are not arranged properly, I will feel bad. I feel bad when the clothes on the hanger are hanging out of order. When I came over the door, I noticed that there was a big tree outside the door with a leaf of different color from the others, and I was very uncomfortable, so I picked the leaf ......."

Chen Xi asked, "How do you feel if you see a nest of moving ants?"

Guan Lie's face changed slightly: "I feel uncomfortable." ”

Chen Xi sighed: "You are hopeless." ”

Guan Lie shook his head: "So even I feel very surprised, why would I think of asking you for a drink." You should be the kind of person who messes up when things are messed up and clothes get dirty. It seems that no matter how you look at it, you and I shouldn't be sitting face to face like this...... Haven't you washed your face yet?"

Chen Xi took a sip of wine: "I didn't brush my teeth either." ”

He picked up the chopsticks and took a bite of food on the plate in front of Guan Lie: "Do you still eat now?"

Guan Lie hesitated for a while, picked up the chopsticks with a very solemn expression on his face, and sandwiched a little from the dish that Chen Xi had eaten, although it was quite far away from the place where Chen Xi picked up the food, he was obviously very uncomfortable. However, after an unknown mental struggle, he finally ate the dish.

Chen Xi applauded: "This is a small step for you, you are already an outlier for people who are addicted to cleanliness, I wonder if I should pick my nose and shake hands with you...... But the last time Ding Mei handed you the barbecue, why did you eat it so crisply?"

Guan Lie said: "I saw her wash her hands......"

Chen Xi nodded: "I forgot to wash my hands that day." ”

Guan Lie: "......"

Chen Xi looked at his embarrassed appearance, couldn't help but laugh again, and then he said very seriously: "Thank you." ”

Guan Lie put down his chopsticks, looked at Chen Xi and said, "Maybe you don't understand very well, why Chen Dingdang is so partial to Guan Ze." I'm not here to apologize to you for Guan Ze, I just want to tell you something, you may not need to know but you should use it in the future. ”

He paused for a moment and said, "Guan Ze is my eldest brother...... The two of us are brothers. Our family is quite famous in the imperial capital, slightly more famous than the family of the Thirty-six Holy Church Generals. Although Guan Ze is older than me, he is compared to me everywhere. Maybe it's because I'm lucky and have a slightly better talent than him, so I'm always a little faster than him. His personality is very extreme, and he thinks that I am against him everywhere, and always wants to surpass me. ”

After a long time like this, he felt that everyone in the family loved me and didn't love him. The more he thought about it, the more withdrawn he became. Later, in order to appease him, my grandfather even gave him the Blood River Boundary Bead as his birth. But he still felt that I was getting more than he was getting. ”

Guan Lie took a sip of wine, was silent for a while, and then continued: "Later, I thought that this is not a way, as long as I am at home for a day, he will target me for a day. So I left the Imperial Capital City without permission and chose the Little Mantian Sect to settle down. I thought it would be enough to avoid him, but who would have thought that he would actually chase him and enter the inner sect...... Then I thought that unless I was completely defeated by him, he wouldn't give up. ”

He glanced at Chen Xi and said, "Chen Dingdang favors Guan Ze because my grandfather ...... Do you know Guan San?"

Chen Xi nodded: "There are nine gates in the rivers and lakes, and the three are the only ones." A person who claims to be the third in the world and is still alive and well for so many years is undoubtedly terrifying. I can think that you have an extraordinary background, and I can guess that Guan Ze has a lot to do with you, but I really didn't expect you to be Guan San's grandson. ”

Guan Lie sighed: "So, I think my life is not as wonderful as yours, and it is not as fun as your life." ”

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Guan Lie drank the wine in the cup, but no longer continued to fill it: "Borrowing wine to dispel sorrow is the most useless thing that only people can do, I didn't come to you to dispel sorrow, nor did I sympathize with you...... I was just...... No friends. ”

Chen Xi snorted: "You should have something else to say." ”

Guan Lie nodded: "I know that the Baijue of the Divine Division has taken a fancy to you, originally I wanted to persuade you not to enter that kind of place, it is not a place where normal people can live." But just received some news and I decided not to advise you...... The Holy Emperor fell unconscious. ”

Chen Xi's face changed slightly, and he suddenly understood something: "Little Mantian Sect is in danger?"

Guan Lie nodded again: "Yes, the danger is at stake...... If it was said that the various forces had sent some young people to test before, then after the Holy Emperor fell into a coma, they didn't have the patience to do so. They are desperate to know the secret of Shenteng, and they are desperate to prevent others from getting Shenteng. So it wasn't long before the Little Mantian Sect was a battlefield. ”

His words are exactly the same as those of Baijue.

Chen Xi said: "So you think it will be dangerous for me to stay in the Little Mantian Sect, so it is better to leave with the people of the Divine Division...... If nothing else, the people of the Divine Division will definitely leave and will not be involved. ”

Guan Lie said: "You are very smart. ”

Chen Xi smiled: "Being praised by a hairy boy is not a particularly worthy thing to be proud of. ”

Guan Lie was a little uncomfortable with the title of hairy boy, but he didn't reject it: "I think I should remind you of something, the status of the Divine Division is a bit special, because the Divine Division only serves the Holy Emperor." So no matter who becomes the Holy Emperor, the Divine Division is still the Divine Division, and there is no need for them to get involved. At this time, it is not a good thing for you to enter the priesthood. And you probably don't know much about the priests......"

Guan Lie raised his head and looked out the window: "The Divine Division was founded four hundred years ago, when the Holy Emperor appointed his most trusted person as the first Divine Division's head, whose name was Ning Po Axe. He single-handedly established the gods, and since then, even the pattern of the rivers and lakes has changed. At that time, the Nine Gates of Jianghu actually didn't have too much respect for the Holy Emperor, and they were scattered all over Great Chu. Ning Poax was the first to be the first seat, with only two subordinates. ”

He took these two subordinates out of the imperial capital in a pear wooden carriage and visited the nine gates of the rivers and lakes one by one. His approach was simple, starting with the farthest gate from the imperial capital, and then going all the way back. After two years and four months, he beat all the nine gates of the rivers and lakes, and no one in the nine gates could win him. After winning the battle once, he forced an entire sect to move to the imperial capital, and when he returned to the imperial capital, the Limu carriage was followed by a team of tens of thousands of people. ”

Guan Lie's eyes showed a yearning: "Because it involves the face of Jiumen, these things are not publicized to the public." Now everyone knows that at that time, the Nine Gates moved into the imperial capital in order to swear allegiance to the Holy Emperor, but in fact, they were forced to go by Ning Poaxe alone. From that time on, the nine gates of the rivers and lakes of the mighty world saw the pear wooden carriage, and they had to salute respectfully...... Until now, the current Shinji is still riding in that carriage. ”

After a pause, he said, "But it was precisely because of that after that series of battles, Ning Poaxe was seriously injured and died soon after. In order to stabilize the situation in the rivers and lakes, the Holy Emperor did not announce the death of Ning Poaxe to the outside world, and only after knowing that the Nine Gates of the rivers and lakes had completely settled down in the imperial capital city, the news of Ning Poaxe's death came out. ”

Chen Xi asked, "What happens after he dies?"

Guan Lie said: "After Ning Poaxe died, the Divine Division has begun to take shape. Once one of Ning Poaxe's first two subordinates, a person named Yanbei became the head of the second Shensi. From then on, the role of the Divine Division began to change, and it became an organization that secretly eradicated the forces of the opposition to the Holy Emperor. In the past four hundred years, many massacres on the rivers and lakes have actually been committed by the gods. ”

Chen Xi suddenly thought of his father, could it be that the affairs of his own family back then were also related to opposing the Holy Emperor? But this was completely unreasonable, although his father was the sect master, how could he be so unwise to oppose the Holy Emperor? This was simply self-defeating! But what Guan Lie said was very absolute, so Chen Xi couldn't help but ask: "The Divine Division only attacks those who oppose the Holy Emperor?"

"Yes"

Guan Lie replied with great certainty: "As far as I know, the only rule for the Divine Division to do things is to be for the Holy Emperor. Other than that, there will be no reason for the gods to make a move. ”

Chen Xi was silent.

After a long while, he suddenly raised his head and asked Guan Lie, "Do you know the Endless Abyss?"

Guan Lie didn't seem to expect him to ask this, and nodded: "I know some, but it's just some... It is rumored that the Divine Division has not given up prying into the Endless Abyss in the past ten years, but there is still nothing to gain. ”

"Why is the Endless Abyss in Qingliang Mountain?"

Chen Xi asked again.

Guan Lie shook his head: "I'm not a god, and God may not know everything." One thing is for sure, Shenteng is related to the Endless Abyss. As for what exactly is Shenteng...... The devil knows. ”

He looked at Chen Xi and said seriously, "In any case, you only need to pay attention to one thing after joining the Divine Division. ”

Instead of saying it, he dipped his finger in some wine and wrote a line on the table. Chen Xi's face immediately changed after seeing this line of words, as if there was some terrifying devil hidden in that word. He looked at Guan Lie with some doubt in his eyes. Guan Lie erased the handwriting: "Believe me, do what I say after leaving the Little Mantian Sect, otherwise you and you will only end up if you don't leave the Little Mantian Sect...... He died unjustly. ”

He pointed to the line of words that had disappeared: "This is the reason why the Divine Division has been taking away excellent disciples from the Mantian Sect since he was a child for ten years. ”