"I haven't come back to look for you for so many years, and I've let you endure so much alone, it's really hard for you!" Ma Fan stroked the top of Zhang Sheng's head and sighed.

"No!" Zhang Sheng suddenly trembled slightly when he heard Ma Fan's words, and immediately raised his head and said.

Ma Fan shook his head and said in a deep voice: "What I have done for the teacher, I know in my heart, I am sorry for you is a fact, and I have also experienced that kind of day, so I can naturally guess how much you have suffered over the years, you don't have to lie to me." ”

Zhang Sheng was silent, not knowing what to say.

Seeing that he was silent, Ma Fan asked, "Over the years, have you complained about being a teacher?"

Zhang Sheng shook his head and said: "No, after the first battle of the Sword Pavilion, it was rumored that the teacher fell into the hands of the Buddha Dingguang Huanxi Buddha, and not long ago I heard that the teacher was killed from Lingshan, so I knew that the teacher was killed by the Buddha Gate, and I didn't mean to leave my ......."

Speaking of this, Zhang Sheng immediately stopped talking, but Ma Fan couldn't help but sigh slightly in his heart, and said secretly: "Leave it behind, well, there are still some grievances, but I did seem to have abandoned him in the situation back then, and he must have been forced to be incognito because I have suffered a lot and experienced dangers over the years. ”

Thinking of this, Ma Fan suddenly became more and more gentle, and said to Zhang Sheng: "Sheng'er, since you can understand me, then I won't explain what happened back then." Now that I am no longer the little monk I was back then, there are not many people in heaven and earth who can help me, and you and I can meet here again. I won't let anyone bully you from now on!"

Zhang Sheng said: "Over the years, the teacher has not been around, although I have suffered a lot, but I have also realized a lot of things. The fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold', the teacher can protect me for a while, but can't protect me for a lifetime, my road will have to go by myself after all, my enemies will have to fight me one by one, the teacher has too much support for me. It's not good for me. So I hope that if it is not necessary, the teacher will not help me easily. ”

Hearing Zhang Sheng's words, Ma Fan's eyes suddenly flashed, and he said with satisfaction: "Okay." You can have that realization. I am very pleased to be a teacher. This is my disciple, in fact, when I was a teacher, I also came out step by step like this, and you have such determination. I am according to you.

But don't be in a hurry to break through on your own, I didn't pass on your method completely, don't leave as a teacher for a period of time, follow the teacher for a period of time, make up for what you have learned, and guide you, and after your strength improves, it's not too late to leave as a teacher. ”

Zhang Sheng said: "The disciple understands that the disciple's greatest wish over the years is to reunite with the teacher and listen to the teacher's teachings, even if the teacher doesn't say it, the disciple is not willing to leave the teacher so soon." ”

Ma Fan asked, "By the way, how did you come to the Netherworld?"

Zhang Sheng replied: "Recently, for some reason, suddenly many powerful ghosts escaped from the underworld and went to the ground to make trouble, and some ghost kings even directly led their subordinates to kill them, occupying the mountains as kings, and even attacking cities, causing chaos in the world.

Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty issued a recruitment list, anxious that there are Taoists in the world to kill demons and demons, and the disciples thought that this was not only a good act of accumulating good deeds and saving the people, but also a good thing to be able to obtain the luck of the court and assist in cultivation, so he understood the new and responded to the list, and was recruited by Emperor Taizong and sealed the official position.

A few days ago, the disciple and some Taoist friends who also applied for the recruitment received the task of going deep into the netherworld to investigate the cause of these ghost riots issued by the imperial court, so they went deep into the netherworld with those Taoist friends. ”

Ma Fan asked, "What about the people who came with you?"

Zhang Sheng said: "After we entered the netherworld, we separated and went around to investigate, and then I was targeted by this monk, and I have been chasing and killing, and I have no chance to go back to meet them, but now I don't know what their situation is." ”

Ma Fan bowed his head slightly, and said calmly: "Since this is the case, then don't worry about them." ”

Zhang Sheng said: "Although the disciples are running for their lives along the way, they can also find that there are many masters in these armies in the underworld, although the Taoist cultivators who came with me are all considered strong among the recruits, but they are only about the same as me, they are all just heavenly immortal cultivators, and most of them are casual cultivators, most of them are not even as good as me, they are afraid that they will be in danger in the netherworld, and ask the teacher to help." ”

Ma Fan said: "I still have important things to do, and I can't delay these people." ”

Zhang Sheng was slightly shocked, but he also knew that Ma Fan would not come to the underworld for no reason, so although he was a little disappointed, he didn't say anything.

Ma Fan saw that Zhang Sheng was a little depressed, and thought that he had indeed lost a lot of money to him before, so he asked, "Do those people have a good relationship with you?"

Zhang Sheng said: "Most of them have only met recently, and there is no friendship, but a few of them are my friends who have made haode in the past, and they have always taken good care of me. ”

Ma Fan said: "Okay! ”

Zhang Sheng said: "Originally, we had made an appointment to meet on Beiyin Mountain, which is about thirty or forty thousand miles away from here, but now I am two days late from the agreed time, and I don't know if they are there." ”

Ma Fan nodded and said, "Then I'll accompany you to Beiyin Mountain." ”

Zhang Sheng didn't expect Ma Fan to suddenly change his mind and be willing to accompany him back, and he suddenly said happily in his heart: "Thank you, teacher!"

Ma Fan said: "Don't be in a hurry to thank you first, I have something important to do in the Wheel King City now, this matter is not only related to my life and death, but also to your life and death, I don't dare to be careless, so I can't delay too long in that Beiyin Mountain."

If your friends are gone, we'll leave and go to Wheel City, and if your friends are there, if they're willing to go with me to Wheel City, then I'll take them with me, and if they don't want to, I can send them out of the Netherlands, but if they don't want to do either and still want to stay in the Netherlands, then I'll have to leave them. ”

Zhang Sheng's heart shook slightly, but he didn't expect that what Ma Fan said would be so serious, it turned out to be a major matter related to life and death, and even his own life and death were related, and he also knew that if Ma Fan's things to do were so important, it was indeed impossible to ask for too much, so he nodded and said: "The disciple only needs to know what their situation is, after arriving at Beiyin Mountain, no matter what the result is, the disciple will immediately follow the teacher to Wheel City." ”

After thinking about it, Ma Fan's heart suddenly moved, and two children suddenly appeared beside him, it was Xiaoyao and Wuyi.

The two children came out, but they looked around curiously in surprise, and Ma Fan suddenly said, "Don't hurry up and meet your senior brother!"

Xiaoyao and Wuya hurriedly bowed to Zhang Shengyi and said, "Xiaoyao, Wuya meet Senior Brother." ”

Zhang Sheng smiled and said, "No need to be polite. ”

Immediately, Zhang Sheng said to the teacher with some loss: "The two junior brothers are really qualified, they have cultivated well at a young age, and in a few years, I am afraid they will surpass me, the senior brother, and they will definitely be able to amaze the world in the future and inherit the prestige of the teacher." ”

Ma Fan said: "The two of them are the sons of a predecessor of the sect, entrusted to me for various reasons, they inherited the bloodline of that senior, and their qualifications are not bad, but unfortunately their temperament is poor, and it is difficult to say how they will achieve in the future."

In fact, you are also very qualified, your cultivation is not too fast, but it is not slow to be able to cultivate to the realm of heavenly immortals in three hundred years, and you have a deep foundation, but you suffer from the fact that I did not pass on your complete method before, once I complete your cultivation method and guide you, your cultivation will progress by leaps and bounds, and your Dao heart is also firm, plus so many years of training, after all kinds of things, the future future is limitless. ”

After a pause, Ma Fan continued to add: "No matter how many disciples I have, the eldest disciple is always you, and you will only inherit everything from me, you don't have to envy your junior brothers in your heart, let alone be jealous of them." ”

Zhang Sheng was suddenly frightened and said, "The disciple doesn't dare!"

Ma Fan said: "I also know that you are not that kind of person, just to give you a wake-up call." Moreover, as a senior brother, you will have younger brothers and sisters to take care of in the future, and you will have to work harder to cultivate and hold up a piece of sky for your junior brothers. ”

Zhang Sheng said: "Disciple understands, but teacher, do I have any other junior disciples now?"

Ma Fan said: "Now there are eight people under my door, three of them are collected in Yuhua City, Xiniu Hezhou, these two called Xiaoyao and Wuya are collected by the Treasure Elephant Kingdom, they are the youngest and the weakest, I take them with me, because of the danger of the underworld, so I put them in a magic weapon on my body."

In addition, I also accepted the son of the Bull Demon King, Red Boy, as your seventh junior brother, and it was originally agreed to hold an apprenticeship ceremony, but it was delayed because of various accidents, and now I don't know what his situation is, as for your eighth junior brother is a tiger demon, called Tiger Power Daxian, now I still want to find your friends first, I will have time to talk to you about their affairs in the future. ”

Zhang Sheng nodded, and then, he only felt a soft liliang protecting him, and then he found that his body was light, and the heavens and the earth suddenly began to change rapidly, but he was let his teacher take him and fly away quickly.

He looked up and looked around, only to see that the two junior disciples were not put away, so that his teacher was flying away with three people, and he had to separate liliang to protect them from damage under this kind of high-speed flight, but the speed was more than a thousand times that when he was flying.

Although I have always heard rumors about my teacher, and I know that my teacher's cultivation speed is extremely fast and his strength is extremely strong, but when I hear rumors, I can't compare to the current intuitive feeling.

He thought that when they first met, his teacher was only a Yuan infant cultivator, and the gap with him was not big, but three hundred years had passed, and he didn't want the gap to be so big, Zhang Sheng was extremely shocked in his heart. (To be continued......)