In the south of the town, the fire is soaring.

On weekdays, it rains elsewhere, and the house is often wet during the rainy season, but here it is dry all year round.

The light of the fire broke through the clouds in the sky, and the sky was full of sun and stars, both day and night.

There is a sacrificial hall in the palace of the king of Zhennan.

The shrine hall was filled with statues of deities, all of which were the same size, about 20 inches high, arranged from high to low, each in the same posture, with the palm in front of him.

Names are engraved on the palms of their hands.

In front of each idol, a lamp is lit, and the light reflects the idols, making the idols come to life.

At the bottom, there is a half-human-high incense burner, which is filled with incense.

At this time, two newly lit incense sticks were inserted in it, and two people were standing in front of the incense burner.

One is middle-aged and the other is young.

The middle-aged man is none other than Lan Shaoxun, the king of Zhennan, and the young man is his only son Lan Hui.

"Over the years, you have been a temple in Guangyuan Mansion, and I have never interfered, because this is the tradition of our Lan family, and it is also the need for cultivation, not in Guangyuan Mansion, but also in other places."

"But you have to be clear, our Red Flame Divine Sect's cultivation is to exercise divine power, but we can't fulfill the wishes of the incense people, how much protection the incense people can get by worshiping the Red Flame Divine Monarch is all up to them, we can open the statue of the god for them, we can sell them amulets, but we definitely can't regard ourselves as the Red Flame Divine Monarch."

"Because we can't afford the impact of that endless incense, bringing you here is to tell you that among our ancestors, there are several amazing talents, because they don't pay attention to the ancestral teachings, they always think that they can break the rules and think that they can go out of a new way, so they respond to the incense wishes, and finally they all die in the prime of life."

"You have been smart since you were a child, you can meditate, you like to ponder spells, and you have a talent for cultivation, so when you said that you were going to be a temple blessing, although you were still young, I didn't say anything, but in the past year, I heard that you have responded to incense wishes many times, isn't that the case?" Zhennan Wang Lan Shaoxun said.

"Yes, father." Lan Hui replied with a bowed head.

"Tell me, why is this happening?" Lan Shaoxun asked.

"Because many people have been infringed by evil spirits, they can't come to the temple at all, and the statues or tablets of the gods enshrined in their homes are also easy to be defiled."

"We are just people who borrow the Red Monarch Divine Fire, we are not the Red Monarch, this is the first sentence I recited when I practiced, and now every day I open my eyes, I still have to recite it silently in my heart, have you forgotten."

"Father, I haven't forgotten." Lan Hui lowered his head and replied quickly.

"You didn't forget, but you didn't do it." There was anger in Lan Shaoxun's voice, and he said: "You knowingly commit a crime, do you think that everyone has no talent, and everyone is inferior to you?" With so many ancestors here, the people in the entire Red Flame God Sect are not as good as you? ”

He felt that his son was too underestimating the world.

"My son didn't think so, he just thought they were too bitter." Lan Hui said.

"Happiness is rare in this world, and suffering is the norm in the world." Lan Shaoxun was really angry, he felt that there was something wrong with his son's thinking.

"How many people can you manage?" Lan Shaoxun roared: "Now our family is facing the disaster of extermination, you take care of it!" ”

Lan Hui lowered his head, but at this time, he raised it, looked at the rows of ancestral spirit statues, was silent for a while, and said, "If there is no family, there will be no disaster for the family." ”

As soon as his words fell, Lan Shaoxun's eyes erupted with fire in an instant, he turned around, and slapped out, and Lan Hui's whole person was knocked out.

"Is that what you can say? You enjoy everything in the family, all of which are the hard work of the ancestors of the past, but you say such things, won't your heart hurt? You only see the suffering of others, you look down at this place where you stand, you look up at our ancestors, our own suffering is about to happen, doesn't your conscience hurt? ”

Lan Shaoxun patted the position of his heart, while Lan Hui was half-lying on the ground, his eyes saw a firelight, it was not an open flame, but a divine glow.

He didn't say a word, his eyes were half-open, all this was in a trance, he was familiar with the deeds of his ancestors' struggles, and he knew that his ancestors had paid a great price in order to maintain the family's dominant position in Guangyuan Mansion and the prestige of Zhennan Wang.

But over the years, he has been a temple priest there, and he has indeed seen too much suffering, and he feels that the lives of those people are like adventures in the dark, as if they are looking at a rich world with their eyes open, but the beauty of this world has nothing to do with them, and all kinds of accidents and illnesses will always haunt them.

Disasters can come from demons, from one's own ignorance, from one's own narrow-mindedness, from the jealousy of others, or from the injustice of the world.

But he felt that he couldn't blame them, it wasn't them who were wrong, it was the world.

"You are here to reflect on me, to the ancestors and ancestors!"

Lan Shaoxun pointed to the rows of lamps and statues, said loudly, and then went out and said to the general guarding the door: "Lock it up for me, if I don't recognize myself, I will not have this son." ”

He came all the way to his study angrily, and in his heart he was both proud and disappointed in his son.

He is proud of his son, and his cultivation talent is higher than those talented people in his ancestors, and at a young age, he can do the prayers of the incense people and borrow divine power, but what disapproves him is that his son is actually a compassionate person.

Feeling the suffering of the world, you will not die well in the future.

Outside the house, a maid walked in with a soothing yin tea, which can make people's hearts calm and not hurt their souls, which is a must-have tea for those who practice fire.

A woman came up to her, stopped her, took the tea-tray in her hand, and waved her hand to pull the maid off.

She went into the study with a tea tray and watched her husband look at a painting there.

The painting was handed down from our ancestors, and it was a flame that fell from the sky and fell on the sea.

It is said that that sea was later known as the Yellow Sand Han Sea, and a fire dried up a piece of the sea.

She put down the teapot, then picked up the teapot and poured a cup, and brought it to Lan Shaoxun's side, Lan Shaoxun took it, sighed, and said: "How difficult it is to inherit the shadow of the ancestors, protect the growth of the younger generations, and keep the family from falling into the limelight." ”

"There is a saying called rebirth after a tribulation, I think, if Hui'er has experienced something, she will always figure it out." The woman said.

"The four words of rebirth through the ages, how many people have been deceived throughout the ages, the vast majority of people have died after a catastrophe, if they are reborn and returned, I am no longer me, my family is not there, my friends are scattered, what is the point of being reborn and returning."

"One person has a way to live, and when our Lan family is robbed, we always need to make some preparations, don't we?" The woman said unhurriedly.

Lan Shaoxun knew what she meant to keep hope for the family and leave a way back.

"At this time, if I drive my son out, everyone with a discerning eye will know what we are planning, and if everyone learns from us, then how can we survive this crisis again."

Lan Shaoxun was silent for a moment and said.

"It's better to try to let Hui'er get married first." The woman said.

When Lan Shaoxun heard this, he fell into a deep silence, drank all the tea in the cup, and the woman poured it for him again, and then he finished drinking it again, and then he spoke: "A family can make a responsible man put away all his pride, no matter how many dreams and willful thoughts he had, as long as he got married, he would only be able to bury it in the depths of his heart." ”

"If he wants to be willful, then we can't blame us for putting the reins on him, even if he is a wild horse, even if he is the wind of the wilderness, he will be tied here, take his heart." After Lan Shaoxun finished speaking, the woman next to him showed a strange look and said, "You, so you think so!" ”

"At different stages of life, there will always be different ideas, I'll arrange it and let Hui'er get married as soon as possible." Lan Shaoxun put down the teacup and turned around and walked out of the study.