Ma Fan sat in Zheng Xuan's tattered carriage, and the group started again in the simple carriage with the sound of squeaking and rubbing, and the small tantrum turtle also nervously chased after Zheng Xuan's Ma Fan walked slowly for a while, and followed the group forward, in the end, the turtle was just hatched, not very intelligent, a little like a child.

In the somewhat crowded carriage of the broken carriage, Zheng Xuan smiled and spoke first: "Five years ago, I heard that the little brother suppressed the evil dragon in one fell swoop in Mount Tai with the help of Liliang of the Fengzen Stage, and then was taken to the sky by Tai Bai Xing as an official, why is he here today?"

After hearing this, Ma Fan sighed and said: "Alas, one day in the sky, one year in the earth. I was dismissed after only three days of being an official, I feel quite ashamed, I didn't expect that it would be five years since I came, and time is like an arrow that means that time in heaven flies too quickly!"

Zheng Xuan said: "It turns out that you have been removed from your official position and driven out of the lower realm! For example, there are many parties who pay attention to you today, especially the Hengshui faction, who are eager to eat your meat!"

You used to have Heavenly Court as a backer, just hide in the sky, now that you have lost this backer, you should keep a low profile when you come back to the Netherworld, why are you so swaggering outside Luoyang City?"

Ma Fan said: "Where did I swagger?"

Zheng Xuan said: "You are fiddling with your mount there, there are a lot of people coming and going here and it is complicated, and soon this matter will spread, once those sects that spy on the Book of Heaven know your whereabouts, aren't you incurring trouble?"

I think you were quite careful five years ago, how did you not grow but regressed after going to heaven for a while? No wonder you were dismissed after only three days in heaven. ”

Ma Fan said: "Your old lady has wronged me, where am I swaggering, there is really no way! The Jade Emperor asked me to choose a mount by myself, I originally thought that this broken turtle had great potential so I chose it, but who knows that it made me regret it and die."

You say it, as a mount, the speed is so slow that it is to death, and it has been almost a year since I carried me down from the sky, and I won't talk about it, but I haven't realized it as a mount, and I always play with my temper, I feel that he is the ancestor and I am the master, if anyone treats me like this, I want to be a mount. ”

Zheng Xuan said: "Okay, don't complain to me, since it's your mount, then you can think about it slowly, if it really doesn't work, go buy it for the beast ring and put it on him, anyway, it's not difficult to buy that thing."

If you are lucky today, I heard that people wanted to ask for worship and capture you, and I immediately came forward to stop you, and you don't know what it looks like yet. ”

Ma Fan said: "Xiexie, you are old, by the way, why did you come here, and there are officers and soldiers to escort you, looking at the appearance of those officers and soldiers, I am quite afraid of your age." ”

Zheng Xuan said: "Emperor Ling died, and now it is the general He Jin who is in power, and he has recruited me into the court as an official several times, but I think he can't become an atmospheric person, and the Han Dynasty will be bad in his hands sooner or later, and I am afraid that my reputation will be ruined, so I have always shirked it."

This time, in order to curry favor with him, the local officials in my hometown actually threatened me with my family's ancestral grave, saying that if I didn't come, I would dig up my ancestral grave.

Hearing that I was willing to enter the court, He Jin sent these forbidden troops to pick me up and escort me all the way to Beijing. He Jin attaches great importance to me, of course, these forbidden soldiers are naturally afraid of me, and fortunately, I was able to save your life just now. ”

Ma Fan said: "Don't tease me, with your old skills, don't talk about those local officials, even if General He brings 100,000 forbidden troops, it is not enough for you to roar, you will be threatened, and you will obediently enter Beijing." ”

Zheng Xuan sighed: "Although my Confucian Haoran righteousness is extremely lethal to demons, and even Buddhism and Taoism have some restraint effects, but it does not have any direct harm to mortals, so even if I don't lose my strength, a team of officers and soldiers, and even a few strong men can kill me." If it weren't for this reason, why do you think my Confucianism has been persecuted by those eunuchs all these years?"

Ma Fan said: "I see, this is a thing to a thing! Although my skills are not high, but I am not afraid of mortals, if there are no cultivators in the tens of thousands of troops, I can kill them all in an instant, and although you can't deal with mortals, but most of the people in cultivation are not your old opponents, why don't we cooperate, go away together, there are mortal officers and soldiers chasing and killing me, I will go up, and there are monks chasing you to resist, what do you think?"

Zheng Xuan sighed and said, "Alas, if you said this a few years ago, judging from the current world, I may not have agreed, but now it is not possible."

Last time for you, I fought hard against the evil dragon, although I came out alive later, but my heroic righteousness is also a waste, and now I am an ordinary old man, I can't cooperate with you. ”

After sighing slightly, Zheng Xuan said: "The first time I saw you, I saw that the light of merit on your body was quite strong, so I didn't care that you were a person in the sect, and I got along with you like this, if it was a person with a heinous crime in front of me, no matter how tempting the underground shijie was, I would definitely kill him first."

Now although my cultivation is wasted, but my discerning eyes are still there, I see that the merits on your body are countless times deeper, this is a good thing, with these merits to support, you will generally not die, and it is also very good for cultivation.

However, if you kill ordinary living beings, you will lose your merit, and if you kill a living being with great merit, the merit will be even worse. Once your merits are exhausted, the number of qi will be low, and it is easy to die, if you bring some evil consequences, sooner or later you will be punished by heaven, and it should not be easy for you to obtain merit, and it is better to kill less in the future. ”

Ma Fan said: "My identity has been exposed, and many people think that I have a book of heaven on me, and soon when the news of my return to the lower realm spreads, a steady stream of pursuit and killing will rush towards me, if I want to not create a killing, how is it possible?"

Zheng Xuan said: "I met with you today, mainly for this matter. I'm quite good at Confucianism, you go to Luoyang with me, I'll introduce you to meet a few old friends, I Confucianism shouldn't embarrass you in the future.

Since He Jin wants to curry favor with me, then I will simply help you get an official position in the imperial court, then many sects of exposition will naturally not do anything to you in the future, and if you are in Luoyang, it will be extremely safe, so it will also cause less killing. ”

Ma Fan said with some emotion: "I have always wanted to ask you, old man, why did you treat me like this? I heard that the human sect also dealt a very big blow to my interception. ”

Zheng Xuandao: "I'll tell you the truth, I said last time, although Zhongshan Kingdom was built by a barbarian clan, but Zhongshan Country is the whole country believes in my Confucianism, when the Qin Dynasty burned books and pit Confucianism, many of my Confucian classics have been lost, I am very old." So after I saw you that day, I wanted to use your true qi to open the passage, and I went down to look for it to see if I could find some lost Confucian classics, but when I went down and saw that shijie become like that, I knew that it was impossible to find any Confucian classics.

I did this to you, one is that I took advantage of you, and I feel a little guilty in my heart. The second is that I have seen the golden light of merit on you and know that you are not a bad person. Three, the interception of the sect also belongs to the Daomen lineage, and now the Buddhism has begun to enter my Nanzhan Continent, if I continue to fight in the Daomen lineage like this, sooner or later I will be annexed by the Buddhism, and I am not a corrupt Confucian, so I will treat you like this. ”