The white crane understood what he meant, spread his wings and soared into the air, flying towards the peak.

The wind shook the courtyard, the flowers and trees were slightly chaotic, Tang Thirty-six waved his hand and grabbed a few petals in the air, walked back to the grass hall, looked at Huairen and said, "We are not Xiao Zhang, are we guests?"

Huairen knew what he had done, and he didn't break it, and said with a smile: "It's natural to be a guest from afar." ”

Tang Thirty-six said: "Since you are a guest, how can you not have tea?"

Huairen was still calm and said, "Pingxuan, serve tea." ”

The Nanxi Zhai disciple who had been kneeling behind her responded in a low voice, got up and walked outside the grass hall.

When she passed by Tang Thirty-six, Tang Thirty-six called her, stuffed the petals in his hand, and said softly: "Sister Pingxuan, I like to drink flower tea. ”

Looking at this scene, whether it was the three Nanxizhai elders or the disciples, they couldn't help but shake their heads, thinking that it was really a child's style, which was annoying.

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Even if there is ready-made boiling water, it will take some time to make tea, and it will take time to drink tea with idle talk.

Just when Tang Thirty-six was holding the cup of flower tea and chatting with the senior sister named Pingxuan about the baked cakes in Fuchun Prefecture, there was enough time.

A clear crane chirped in the sky, and with the howling wind, the white crane slowly landed in the courtyard.

When the disciples of Nanxi Zhai saw someone on the crane, they couldn't help but be shocked, and wondered if the holy woman had left the customs ahead of time?

It was not Xu Yourong who came on the crane, but a young man.

Seeing the young man, Ye Xiaolian and many Nanxi Zhai disciples bowed down one after another. Some of the disciples of Nanxizhai who had never been to Hanshan and Kyoto were surprised who could ride the white crane of the holy woman, and when they saw this picture, they thought about what the senior sisters and sisters had said before, and they also woke up and hurriedly curtsied.

"Meet His Majesty the Pope. ”

Chen Changsheng nodded, said a few words to Ye Xiaolian and those Nanxi Zhai disciples who were familiar with each other, and then walked towards the grass hall.

Huairen and the other three Nanxizhai elders had already stood up and waited quietly outside the grass hall.

Chen Changsheng said apologetically: "It's really inappropriate to come in without invitation, but I'm worried, and I hope you will forgive me." ”

Huairen said calmly: "I think His Majesty the Pope has a misunderstanding, thinking that Nanxi Zhai is in civil strife and worried about the safety of the Holy Maiden, so he will go straight to the peak." ”

Chen Changsheng really thought this way at the beginning, but at this time, it was inconvenient to admit the matter directly.

Huairen continued: "However, Nanxi Zhai is about to announce a major event to the world, and His Majesty the Pope has come to the occasion to add to the glory, thank you for coming. ”

Hearing this, Tang Thirty-six's heart thumped, knowing that this should be the big thing that Ye Xiaolian was worried about.

Chen Changsheng's expression was slightly condensed, and he asked, "I don't know what is going on?"

Huairen's expression was extremely calm, as if he was telling a very ordinary trivial matter: "Nanxi Zhai is preparing to fast after the New Year's Festival." ”

Hearing this, Ping Xuan, Yizhi and other second-generation disciples of Nanxi Zhai shook slightly, looked at Huairen and wanted to say something, but in the end they didn't speak.

Ye Xiaolian and the other Nanxi Zhai girls showed an unwilling look on their faces, but they couldn't make a sound when they arrived.

Chen Changsheng was a little incomprehensible when he first heard this.

Isn't Xu Yourong in retreat in the Peak Cave Mansion? Who wants to fast?

Then he remembered a passage from the Nantan Farewell that he had read when he was a child.

There are three kinds of congratulatory fasting in Nanxi Zhai.

If the monks in Namxi Zhai are in retreat, it can be called a congruent fast.

The whole Nanxi Zhai can also be combined, which is similar in meaning to the retreat of the monks, and the word is still taken as a ligature.

From the day of the fasting, Nanxi Zhai no longer communicated with the outside world, and the Holy Maiden Peak forbidden formation was activated, which can be said to be isolated from the world.

"What do you mean by fasting...... Is it to guide Xizhai to be isolated from the world?" Chen Changsheng said as he looked into Huairen's eyes.

Huairen didn't seem to feel the emotion in his eyes, and said calmly: "Not bad." ”

There was silence in the cottage, and there was no speech for a long time.

Chen Changsheng walked to the door, looked at the beautiful scenery in front of the cliff, and asked, "How long?"

Huairen walked up behind him and whispered, "Ten years." ”

Hearing this, the mood of the disciples of Nanxi Zhai was as low as before, and there was no change, obviously they had known it beforehand.

"Ten years, ......," Chen Changsheng said to himself.

It is normal for cultivators to live beyond two or three hundred years old, and those who have advanced realms can even live to be more than six hundred years old and even a thousand years old.

For such a long monastic career, ten years is just a very short period of time, and the red face may not be old, and there is still no white head in the world.

But the ten years of isolation are still difficult for these girls in Nanxi Zhai to accept.

They can only see the clouds and mist of the Holy Maiden Peak, but they can't see the clouds outside, they can only see the flowers and trees on the lawn, and they can't see the flowers and trees outside.

They can only see themselves, and they can no longer see people outside.

If you don't think about this, for Chen Changsheng, if Nanxi Zhai is fasting for ten years, it means that within these ten years, the palace will lose the strongest foreign aid.

At the beginning of Fengyang County, Xiao Zhang said that he met the imperial court's mission, and he couldn't understand why, but at this time it was finally clear.

Who would like to see Nanxi Zhai for ten years? Of course, it was his teacher Shang Xingzhou, and everyone in the court of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

The two powerhouses of the Divine Realm, Xiangwang and Infinite Bi, personally brought the envoy to ensure that this matter could proceed smoothly.

Extrapolating from this, these three Dao aunts of the elders of Nanxi Zhai suddenly ended their wandering and returned to the mountain, and forcibly asked Nanxi Zhai to join the fast, which must also be related to Shang Xingzhou and the imperial court.

Thinking of this, he glanced at Hu Thirty-two, and thought to himself that such a big event had happened in Nanxizhai, why didn't the state religion receive any news?

To-32 shook his head imperceptibly, and said with his eyes that he would check it out immediately.

Those were all subsequent things, and the most important thing now was how he persuaded these three Nanxi Zhai uncles to change their minds.

"Can you talk about it alone?" Chen Changsheng said as he looked at Huairen.

Huairen said: "Everything is as your majesty wishes. ”

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The sun is setting.

Because the beautiful mountains of Tongjiang Mountain Tour are very high, the sun soon touched the shadow of the mountain, and there was a feeling of twilight.

Chen Changsheng stood on the edge of the cliff, looking at the sunset in the distance, silent, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Yes, it is indeed Dao Zun who sent someone to find us, and then personally persuaded us, so that we will end the cloud tour early. ”

Huairen stood beside him, his still young and beautiful face was gilded with a layer of gold by the setting sun, looking extremely dignified and holy.

"For the disciples, of course, isolation from the world is difficult to accept, and I believe that the holy woman will not agree to it, but I still insist on doing it. ”

Huairen turned to look at him and said calmly: "Your Majesty, Pope, you should also know that there are three meanings of Hezhai, the cultivator's Hezhai is a retreat, and the Honzhai Hezhai is self-extinction, but the original meaning of Hezhai is that Nanxi Zhai and the Ligong are reunited, if I don't want this situation to happen in the end, I can only choose the second one." ”

Chen Changsheng said: "The first generation of saints wrote the Nanxi window once said that the last kind of fasting, you can see between the lines, although Nanxi Zhai was created by her, but she still hopes that the state religion can be reunified in the end, what I want to do with Yourong is completely in line with her ideas, what's wrong?"

"That was countless years ago, time will always change a lot of things, Nanxi Zhai now has its own inheritance, why break the inheritance and merge with the palace? More importantly, if you continue to do it according to Your Majesty and the Holy Maiden's ideas, Nanxi Zhai is very likely to step into the abyss of destruction. ”

Huairen looked into his eyes and said calmly and firmly, "I can't watch you and the Holy Maiden bring Nanxi Zhai into this war. ”