Zhao Ning turned around and saw Ji Xiu coming, but he didn't have the small action of waving the folding fan.

"Uncle Ji, what's wrong?"

Ji Xiu tugged at the corners of his mouth, his smile was not obvious, "It's nothing, it's just that this time to recruit people and demons, every disciple has distributed things, although you came in temporarily, you should also have it according to the rules." ”

As he spoke, he took out a storage bag from his sleeve pocket and handed it to Zhao Ning.

Zhao Condensation consciousness sank into the bag, but the bag contained a lot of things, if there was really a bottle of Zhuji Dan that I had just heard, there were more than a dozen bottles of cultivation pills, hundreds of spirit runes, thousands of spirit stones, and in addition, he was actually given a double spiritual weapon and two volumes of Taoism.

Zhao Ning was shocked, the contents of this storage bag were almost worth the savings of a small Xiuzhen family, and even if he was doing tasks in the sect, he couldn't easily get so many things.

"Uncle Ji Xiu, what does the sect mean, so many things." Zhao Ning couldn't help but feel a trace of trepidation in his heart, as if he ...... It seems that there is an intention to let her go out of the sect and set up her own door.

"Don't think about it." Ji Xiu had the expression of smiling but not smiling calmly just now, "It's really a matter of great importance to encircle and suppress the human demons, as soon as it was born, it had the cultivation of the Yuanying realm, even if it was seriously injured by Elder Jindan, and the cultivation fell, it was nearly half a step Jindan, this time there was no Elder Jindan to help, it all depended on the joint efforts of us and others, and the natural reward could not be less." ”

Zhao Ning grabbed the storage bag and muttered "yes", unable to accept it calmly for a while, and his mind was unusually swaying.

"Of course." Ji Xiu's voice brightened a little, as if he wanted to give Zhao Ning confidence, "Okay, let's go back to the cabin to rest, this trip is long, and more practice will help you." ”

After more than ten days of sailing, Zhao Ning opened his eyes from his cultivation, and couldn't stay left or right in the cabin, so he went to the cloud boat for a walk.

The disciples on the cloud boat also became familiar with each other, and the outer disciples also became friends with the inner disciples.

The corridor on the second floor overlooked from afar, but he listened to the gossip of an outer disciple and an inner disciple below, "Senior Brother Wang, I heard that there is an uncle in the inner gate who can inherit the ancient sword technique who committed suicide in the cave mansion, but is there really such a thing?" ”

Zhao Ning paused, could they be talking about Mu Shuyi, or other people in the sect who also had the ancient sword technique.

The inner disciple described him as casual, combing his Tai Chi bun at will, and a strand of white hair hanging down at the corner of his forehead.

Senior Brother Wang sighed and nodded, and the outer disciple had an incredible expression.

"It's what you've heard, and we can't believe it, a good foundation building uncle, with a special physique, and an ancient sword inheritance, how to say suicide is suicide. Moreover, this suicide has not been heard of in Qingxiao Sect for almost decades. ”

"It's that the Qingxiao Sect hasn't heard of it, and the entire Kunxu Cultivation True Realm has never heard of it." Another inner disciple joined their conversation, he was dressed in a silver-white robe, extremely puzzled, "I heard that before Uncle Mu committed suicide, he also went to the Punishment Palace, could it be that he made something wrong?" ”

"I know that." The disciple surnamed Wang said, "That matter is not big, it is not small, it is Uncle Mu who did not report to the sect, and he personally killed the inner disciple, that is, the prodigal son Pei Qi." Speaking of which, Uncle Mu was too irritable in dealing with it, and according to the rules of the sect, it should be punished for asking about the state of mind trial. However, when I heard that the Punishment Hall did not do much to deal with it, it just reprimanded Uncle Mu and sent Uncle Mu away. When I heard about it, I was quite dissatisfied with the flattering attitude of the Temple of Punishment. ”

"It's really inappropriate for the Punishment Hall to do this, and I felt it when I came out of this retreat, and many people seem to be stimulated, and their minds are not as good as usual." Changyi Neimen didn't complain too much, and after complaining, the words turned to Mu Shuyi, "I heard that the people of the sect used the Yuanguang Backtracking Technique to check back and forth three times, and the information in the soul lamp was also pondered repeatedly, and there was no abnormality at all, all the circumstances showed that Uncle Mu used the ancient sword technique by himself, and injured himself with ninety-nine eighty-one knives, until the flesh and blood collapsed, the sea of knowledge collapsed, and it was completely wiped out." This kind of self-killing method is really chilling. ”

"It's not like you're committing suicide, it's like you're hating and killing the most vicious people."

Zhao Ning listened to their communication, his thoughts were confused, and his steps were uncontrollable and walked in front of several people.

"A few junior brothers."

Their cultivation was under Zhao Ning, and when they heard Zhao Ning's voice, they were slightly startled, and they all bowed to Zhao Ning, and Zhao Ning asked, "Do you know how Uncle Mu was dealt with after his death." ”

The disciple surnamed Wang said, "Senior sister doesn't know anything. This Uncle Mu's corpse has been cut down by the ancient knife intent too many times, and when it was discovered, the corpse was already flesh and blood, and even the bones were shattered. ”

Zhao Ning's footsteps couldn't help but retreat, a trace of fear rose suddenly in her heart, she didn't even have time to think about the source of this fear, she only felt that the picture they depicted was so familiar.

"It's horrible." The outer disciples couldn't help but murmur when they heard this, "How can Uncle Mu be so ruthless to himself, I heard that Uncle Mu is actually a casual and gentle person, is it because he was admonished by the Inner Gate Punishment Hall to repent of not being at the beginning, and he can't get out of the shadow of his impulsive killing of the disciples of the same sect?" ”

This sounds a bit illogical, but there is no other reason, just listen to the disciple surnamed Wang said, "It seems to be so, I heard that Uncle Mu has been in retreat in the cave since he came out of the Punishment Palace, and the senior brother of Tongfeng also heard that there are often fights and screams of pain in the cave, at first they were worried that something would happen, but they found that Uncle Mu seemed to be venting, so no one dared to disturb it anymore." ”

Listening to them talk about the details of Mu Shuyi's suicide, Zhao Ning slowly retreated, and fear hit his heart overwhelmingly.

Zhao Ning finally caught the source of fear, didn't the Lin family's mansion, Tian Ji and the others completely lose their vitality that day?

And she had no intention of finding out the situation of Tian Ji and the others at that time, it was the demon who invaded the sea of knowledge and was devoured by the demon.

Mu Shu also ...... Uncle Mu...... Isn't it......

Is he invaded by the sea of knowledge, but his consciousness is still under his own control, so he traps himself until he finally has no power to return to the sky and kills himself to demonize?

Zhao Ning stepped back uncontrollably, and this thought suddenly hit his mind, as if something was beginning to string together.

She turned away suddenly, and several disciples shouted at her in surprise, but she didn't hear it, and walked faster and faster until she started running.

was about to approach Ji Xiu and the others' cabin, Zhao Ning paused, forcibly suppressed the chaotic emotions, but she couldn't hide it, so she had to restrain her breath and calm down on the surface, but when she took two steps closer to Ji Xiu's cabin, she suddenly heard a noisy sound inside.

Several disciples of the True Inheritance of the Foundation were arguing with Ji Xiu.

Zhao Ning didn't know what she was afraid of, and subconsciously unfolded the Yunsi Thousand Illusion Cloak, and the cloak instantly covered her breath.

Several disciples of the Zhuji True Transmission were arguing with all their hearts just now and did not notice Zhao Ning's approach, and at this time, they were even more unable to detect Zhao Ning's eavesdropping.

I only heard one person shouting, "Ji Xiu, you explain to us, what is going on with this encirclement and suppression of human demons, the sect has sent so many things, and even we have obtained the sect inheritance Dafa, how can this kind of Zhenzong Dafa be easily given to us, and let us be brought out of the sect, is it difficult for Qin Shouzao to let us set up our own door outside?" ”

"Joke, we have been in the Qingxiao Sect for nearly a hundred years, not to mention our contribution to the sect, almost all the relationships are in the sect, how to say that we will be driven away, and in such a weird and ambiguous way, what does Qin Keyuan want to do."

Ji Xiu didn't answer a word during the questioning, he sat cross-legged in front of the table, closed his mouth tightly, and refused to say a word.

"Alright, calm down, you two." There were also calm true disciples who comforted them and pulled the two back to their seats, and he asked in a low voice, "Ji Xiu, we all know that a lot of things have happened in the sect recently, first the chaos of the spirit beasts in the Royal Beast Garden, attacking the inner disciples, and then Mu Shu and Uncle Mu killed themselves with 7749 swords, in addition, as far as I secretly observed, I know that there are a series of disciples in the sect who beat each other to death and were all suppressed by the sect. ”

"But in such a chaotic situation, Qin Shouzao still had to agree to the proposal of Yunwei Zhenren of the Yuhua Sect, and after a month, he started the challenge of the four major sects, and invited all the sects of Kunxu to go to the sect to watch the battle. The Hundred Days Jindan Ceremony was also set at the same time, and these two actions attracted almost everyone in Kunxu to the sect, but we were driven out at this time. ”

The word "rush" is so subtle that the two people who had just calmed down started to shoot again.

"Ji Xiu, you tell us honestly, does Qin Keyuan want to make trouble and take the Qingxiao Sect for himself?!"

"Han Xu!" Hearing the other party say this about Qin Keyuan, Ji Xiu couldn't hold back any longer, "How dare you slander Senior Brother Shouzao like this!" You forgot that you were besieged by evil cultivators before, and it was the first senior brother who rescued you from the evil cultivators' lair! ”

The sound in the room stopped for a moment, and Han Xu sat back in his chair gasping for breath.

"It's that I can't help it." He held his head, "I'm really confused, I was thinking for a while if any force in the sect wanted to split the sect, so I wanted to give up our useless disciples, and for a while I was wondering if the sect was going to be destroyed, so I sent all of us out under the pretext of encircling and suppressing people and demons, in order to preserve the last strength of the sect." ”

This sentence exploded in Zhao Ning's mind.

She never thought of this possibility, she had spent too much time in the sect, she didn't even know much about the sect, and her impression of the sect was still that it had been inherited for nearly 10,000 years and had been prosperous for a long time, and she never thought that the sect would suddenly collapse.

As the original Huorong Sect Master said, the current sect has strict rules and a balance of power compared to decades ago, not to mention that Qin Keyuan is here, and he has formed a top-grade golden pill, no force will mess up the sect at this time, all the appearances point to the latter, and the Qingxiao Sect is about to end.

"My Qingxiao Sect has stood in Kunxu for nearly 10,000 years, there have been nearly ten people before and after the Venerable Yuanying, there have been hundreds of Jindan real people, and there are three more top-grade Jindan, how can there be a reason for destruction." I don't know who was suddenly angry in the room, and picked up Han Xu, who was hanging his head in annoyance, "You say who can be destroyed, even if the great power in the Heavenly Palace descends into the world, and destroys my Qingxiao Sect, you have to weigh it." The Venerable Master Lei Jing is still guarding the sect under the Yunxiao Peak, the Venerable Master is here, the sect is here! ”

"Master Lei Jing is gone."

But I don't know who muttered.

There was a crisp crack in the cabin, and I don't know what to fall to the ground.

"The Venerable Master passed away twenty years ago, and it was the Sect Master who forcibly left behind a wisp of the Venerable Master's soul with his lifelong cultivation, shocking the peeping Xiaoxiao outside."

"Then there is the Venerable Master!"

"Master Ling Xiao is only in the Qingxiao Sect, and he has been wandering outside, regardless of the sect, not to mention that he got the Haoyang Order, and after he went out to find Haoyang's tomb, there was no more news."

There was a dead silence in the cabin, and it was half loud.

Someone sat down uncontrollably, "Could it be that my Qingxiao Sect is really going to usher in a powerful reckoning?" ”

"Not a reckoning." Suddenly, a voice took over his words, it was Zhao Ning muttering to himself, and everyone in the cabin was startled, and then they realized that there was someone outside the room.

Ji Xiu stepped forward a few steps, waved his sleeves and swept the wind open, blowing the door open.

"Why are you here?"

Zhao Ning stood in front of the door, ignoring the stunned and vigilant gaze in the room.

She looked at Ji Xiu, "It's internal erosion, they've been demonized." ”

When he said these words, Zhao Ning's heart surged, and the suppressed uneasiness, fear, panic, and helplessness all came up.

It was because she didn't understand the horror and pervasiveness of the demon, and because she didn't understand the fragility and inferiority of the consciousness of human monks.

"You...... What do you say......"

Ji Xiu let out a trembling voice, unable to believe Zhao Ning's statement, and everyone in the room could no longer care about Zhao Ning's sudden appearance, and the blood on everyone's faces faded, full of paleness and fear.

But Zhao Ning didn't speak anymore, she took two steps back, and murmured, "I want to go back, back to Kunxu, back to the sect." ”

Before the words completely fell, Zhao Ning turned around and wanted to go away against the wind.

But he was suddenly stopped by Ji Xiu, he grabbed Zhao Ning's arm and forcibly brought Zhao Ning into the cabin, and the door in the cabin was slammed shut.

Ji Xiu shouted, "Don't be impulsive. ”

Zhao Ning stood in place, staring at him, thousands of emotions pressed in her throat, as if she opened her mouth slightly and roared, so suppressed without making a sound, but her emotions came out through her eyes, and her eyes were already red.

Ji Xiu seemed to have been affected, he couldn't stabilize his speech no matter what, but he was still extremely controlled and forced to calm down.

"Zhao Ning...... Things may not be what you think. You see, those scattered cultivators who entered the demons at the beginning were affected by the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Extremely Evil Dafa, and their bodies were demonized, but these situations did not occur in our sect. They're just ...... It's just that they're more impetuous and extreme than before, and they're normal. ”

"Yes, yes, yes." I don't know why, the others who were still questioning Ji Xiu just now invariably echoed Ji Xiu at this moment, "All the disciples we have come into contact with these days are normal, they have not sensed the slightest bit of demonic energy from their bodies, let alone the slightest sign of demonization, you think too much, Senior Nephew Shen." ”

"Exactly, maybe it's due to the influence of the loose cultivation outside, eager for quick success, how can there be any demonization, hehe."

“……”

These words of justification sound so eloquent.

Zhao Ning closed his eyes tightly and shook his head, "No, because the demon is not on their body, but in their consciousness, it is demonized from the divine soul." ”

"No...... The only one who can invade the soul and invade the sea of knowledge is the Heavenly Demon, and the Heavenly Demon is blocked outside the Void Domain, even if our Sea of Consciousness is connected to the Void, they cannot reach the boundary of our Sea of Knowledge, even if they use secret methods to attract the Heavenly Demon, the gray mist of the Sea of Knowledge will also shield the Heavenly Demon, and they will not be easily attacked by the Heavenly Demon. ”

The rebuttal of the two sides is no longer an argument about who is right, but a search for a situation that is acceptable to the heart.

Zhao Ning also wanted to agree with the statements of Ji Xiu and others, but she couldn't convince herself with these statements anymore, at this moment she no longer believed anyone, she only believed that the truth that was gradually extracted in her heart in all the chaos, this truth was blinded by appearances, ignored by real persuasion, deviated by other people's hints and speculations with incomplete information, and even later was deceived by Qin Keyuan, who was deceived by a series of serious explanations.

It wasn't until this moment that Zhao Ning understood that the statements in the Mangrove Courtyard were all white lies, and the truth and falsehood in them had long been impossible to distinguish, Uncle Qin just wanted her not to explore the truth anymore and seize the responsibility in her heart through the harm of humans and demons, and let her follow Ji Xiu and the others to leave the sect and Kunxu with peace of mind.

The demonization of the Feiming Chen family, the spirit child of the Qi Molin family, and Mu Shuyi's brutal suicide...... Everything shows that Qingxiao Sect and even Kunxu have been invaded by demons.

Zhao Ning didn't know where the demon came from, she was no longer able to explore, at this moment she just wanted to go back, back to Kunxu, back to Qingxiao Sect, back to Uncle Qin and ask him why he wanted to hide from the world.

She wanted to get out of the cabin in an instant, but she didn't want the prohibition of the cabin to open up steeply, blocking the sudden condensation in the room.

Ji Xiu stretched out his hand again and dragged Zhao Ning, but Zhao Ning turned around and attacked directly, Zhao Ning couldn't practice his qi perfectly, how could he go through a few moves under Ji Xiu's hands, and he was instantly imprisoned in place.

"Zhao Ning, I can't go back." Ji Xiu said to Zhao Ning, "Since Senior Brother has arranged like this, he just doesn't want us to be involved in this catastrophe. Before leaving, the senior brother even explained to me that all the disciples who were going to leave halfway would be dealt with as traitors. If you want to forcibly go back, you will no longer be a member of my Qingxiao Sect! ”

The other foundation building uncles also endured their sorrow and said, "We are the seeds chosen by the sect, as long as we are still here, the Qingxiao Sect will reappear in Kyushu, if we go back, it will be completely destroyed!" ”

Some people also said, "We are not fleeing from Kunxu, have you forgotten, we still have people and demons to deal with, the mundane is the foundation of the cultivation realm, and we must not let it run rampant in the mundane, at that time, it will not only be Kunxu that will cause trouble, but the entire Kyushu." ”

“……”

Countless words of persuasion sounded in Zhao Ning's ears, they changed from the initial questioning to the current reverse advice to Zhao Ning, no matter what they changed, whether it was to take care of the overall situation or selfishness, they all persuaded themselves, but the questioning of conscience made them try to persuade Zhao Ning, the only objection among them, to recognize their approach, as if Zhao Ning agreed, it showed that their approach was correct.

But Zhao Ning said, "What?! ”

"Whether it's Kyushu or the Heavenly Demon, abandon everything and flee, ignore it, I can't do it, I will never be able to do it."

Saying that, she pulled out the Moon Sword regardless of it, the silver light flowed, and the dual spirit sword exploded steeply and self-exlocuting in the forcible drive of all spiritual power, and the condensation could not hurt them, but it could make them lose their minds for a moment.

In just this moment, the Yunsi Thousand Illusion Cloak turned around, and the entire figure disappeared into the cabin.