June is the rainy season, and a heavy rain envelops the three prefectures of Shuzhou, Xiaozhou and Jingzhou.

At this time, the territory of Jiangling Mansion in Jingzhou is still pouring heavy rain, and on the mountainside of Taihe Mountain, there are two figures in the pavilion to take shelter from the rain and watch the scenery.

One of them, a middle-aged Taoist with black beard, asked, "I heard that the master has fought with Wang Tianxiao?"

Sitting opposite the middle-aged Taoist was an old monk, who said, "It doesn't matter if you win or lose." ”

This monk's identity is not bad, the Taoist is the master of the Shenxiao Sect on this Taihe Mountain, one of the five real people of the Sanxuan Zhenren, and the old monk is the abbot of the King Kong Sect, and he is the seventh Wuzhen master on the Taixuan list.

Sanxuan Zhenren pondered for a moment, and then asked, "What if it's a battle of life and death?"

Wuzhen said: "The poor monk will be destroyed by him, of course, he will also pay a lot of price, but no matter what, he will still survive in the end." ”

Sanxuan Zhenren showed a look of surprise on his face: "Could it be that with the master's realm cultivation, he can't even burn jade?"

Wu Zhen sighed: "Then it depends on luck, after all, the life-and-death struggle in the rivers and lakes is not only based on the level of the realm and the strength of cultivation, but also on the time, location, and people. ”

Sanxuan Zhenren nodded, and asked instead, "Has the master met other people along the way?"

Wu Zhen smiled and said: "It's not enough to meet a great Ming official, but also someone else, does the real person want the poor monk to sit on the way here?"

Sanxuan Zhenren shook his head and smiled: "None, non." It's just that according to the news of the Great Heavenly Master, the Little Heavenly Master and his party have already entered the White Emperor City, and logically speaking, the Earth Master's side will never sit idly by. ”

Wuzhen said: "Speaking of the Great Heavenly Master, there is still one thing, some time ago, the Great Heavenly Master sent a letter to the poor monk, asking the poor monk to meet the Zifu Sword Immortal, and the tone of the Great Heavenly Master in the letter was quite solemn. ”

Sanxuan Zhenren's expression was a little strange, and he said: "This Purple Mansion Sword Immortal is a disciple of the Great Sword Immortal, although he was expelled from the sect, he should not be transferred to the sect of the Great Heavenly Master." ”

Wuzhen said: "The poor monk once had a relationship with this Purple Mansion Sword Immortal, and had a deep conversation, it is true that he is not a person who will turn his back on the master, I think there are other reasons, but the Great Heavenly Master has not said it explicitly, and the poor monk is not easy to speculate." ”

Sanxuan Zhenren: "As far as I know, the Great Heavenly Master has sent a disciple of the Zhang family to the East China Sea to visit the Great Sword Immortal some time ago, in order to plan today. ”

Wu Zhen exclaimed: "It seems that the Great Heavenly Master is going to make up his mind and finish his work in one battle. ”

Sanxuan Zhenren: "Yes, in addition to the poor Dao, the Great Heavenly Master also passed on to the Taiwei Zhenren of the Donghua Sect and the Wanshou Zhenren of the Miaozhen Sect respectively, plus the Great Heavenly Master and the Little Heavenly Master, the five real people canonized by the imperial court are considered to be Qi, plus the master and the Bai Sect Master of the Cihang Sect, the twelve sects of the righteous path have not been so complete for many years. ”

Wu Zhen clasped his hands together, recited a Buddha name, and said: "It is reasonable that the Qingwei Sect does not come, in addition to the Qingwei Sect, what about the Xuannu Sect, the Taiping Sect, the Faxiang Sect, the Jing Zen Sect, and the Shingon Sect?"

Sanxuan Zhenren stroked his beard and said: "The Xuannu Sect has just fought a big battle with the Xuannu Sect, and the losses are quite serious, not only was a prisoner who was imprisoned in the jade prison robbed, but even the Xiao Sect Master was also injured and was recuperating at this time, plus Yu Qingning was still in Qizhou, and he couldn't get out, so the Xuannu Sect was powerless. Although no one from the Taiping Sect came, Mr. Shen Da helped. As for the Faxiang Sect, since the previous sect master died at the hands of Song Zheng, the rivers and rivers are declining, and now there are no masters in the sect, and there are many worries, and the Great Heavenly Master is not good to force too much. ”

Speaking of this, Sanxuan Zhenren paused slightly, and said: "The master is a member of Buddhism, and he should know more about the affairs of Jing Zen Buddhism and Shingon Sect than Poor Dao." ”

Wu Zhen sighed: "Yes, when the imperial capital changed, all the masters of my righteous path gathered in the palace, and as a result, the evil people had already ambushed, and when we were fighting, the old abbot of Jing Zen Buddhism was plotted by the earth master, and soon after, Jing Zen Buddhism began to close the mountain and close the temple, compared to the Taiping Sect that has also closed the mountain but still has some voices over the years, Jing Zen Buddhism has not moved at all, and I think the old abbot is no longer alive. ”

There were early signs of the change in the imperial capital, but the specific day when the dagger was exhausted, but it was not predictable, the incident happened suddenly, not all the righteous path masters could arrive at the first time, so Sanxuan Zhenren was not in the imperial capital at that time, and he didn't know much about the details, and asked: "Dare to ask for details?"

Wu Zhen said: "In the eleventh year of Wude, the first emperor died in the Yanbo Hall of the West Garden of the Imperial Palace, and he was only ten years old at the time, and it was difficult to control the court situation, so the first emperor ordered the four cabinet scholars headed by Zhang Suqing, the first assistant of the cabinet, to be the four ministers of Gu Ming, and at the same time, in order to balance the four ministers of Gu Ming, the first emperor also ordered the master of ceremonies to hold the seal of Yang Gonggong and the master of ceremonies and the master of ceremonies and the seal of the silk supervisor Bingbi Liu Gonggong handed over the six seals of the Son of Heaven to the Empress Dowager Xie to take charge. ”

Sanxuan Zhenren sighed: "This is the source of chaos, if there is no will of the first emperor, how can there be a matter of Si Chen later!"

"In the heavenly family, there are still many suspicions between father and son, let alone monarchs and ministers. After the death of the first emperor of "Wuzhen Dao", he succeeded to the throne today, changed the name of the year to Tianbao, respected Xie as the queen mother, and named Zhang Suqing as the prince. After that, the major affairs of the court and government were jointly discussed by the Taishi and the Queen Mother, with the Taishi in charge of the outer court and the Queen Mother in charge of the inner court. ”

Sanxuan Zhenren sighed with emotion: "It's a pity that the Queen Mother wants to be in charge alone, so this is what happened." ”

Wuzhen said: "The Queen Mother and the Grand Master have become more and more centrifugal because of the struggle for power, and they have gradually become a trend of fire and water, so there was the change in the imperial capital. In the name of the emperor's orthodoxy in advance, the queen mother summoned Zhengyi, Zhenyan, King Kong, Cihang, Xuannu, Fa Xiang and other six masters to secretly enter Beijing, including Qingning, Yan Feiqing, Su Yuncheng and others have participated in this matter, but Zhang Suqing also has Qingwei, Donghua, Shenxiao, Miaozhen four masters of the guard, including this Zifu Sword Immortal. ”

"After the first battle of the imperial capital, the four ministers of Gu Ming were defeated and lost, Zhang Suqing and three other people died, and the queen mother had to take power, first in the name of the emperor to depose his Taishi title, and then punished his son Zhang Baigui, and the others were exiled, and their henchmen were also scattered. ”

Sanxuan Zhenren: "These are no longer any secrets. ”

Wu Zhen said: "This is just the surface, and even young people like Li Xuandu and Yan Feiqing can't know everything. On the night of the change of the imperial capital, headed by the Great Heavenly Master and the Great Sword Immortal, a total of seven righteous path masters entered the palace, and the poor monk was also present at that time, three people on the side of the Great Heavenly Master, two people on the side of the Great Sword Immortal, plus the old abbot of the Jing Zen Sect and the old sect master of the Taiping Sect, a total of seven people. At that time, the situation did not allow anyone to sit on the wall, so Jing Zen Sect and Taiping Sect seemed to be neutral, but in fact they had been involved in the dispute between the four and six, and the two sect masters came here tonight to mediate in the middle, and asked the Great Heavenly Master and the Great Sword Immortal not to make a big move, so as not to ruin the lives of the people. ”

Sanxuan is truly humane: "With the temperament of a great sword immortal, how can he give up?"

Wu Zhen announced the Buddha's name, and shook his head again and again: "The real person is wrong, the Great Sword Immortal did not object at that time, and even agreed to take a step back, give up Zhang Suqing, and completely withdraw from the imperial capital." The poor monk only felt strange at the time, and later learned that the Great Sword Immortal had used a trick to retreat into advance, and he had already secretly communicated with the Empress Dowager Xie, so after the battle of the Imperial Palace, Zhengyizong failed to enter the Imperial Palace, but the Qingwei Sect was able to enter the center of the temple, so that the '46 dispute' has not ended to this day. ”

Sanxuan Zhenren couldn't help but sigh when he heard this: "The Great Sword Immortal is so calculating. ”

Wu Zhen continued: "Not to mention what happened later, at that time, when the poor monk thought that a war was about to be resolved, a young eunuch beside the Queen Mother stood out and immediately injured the old sect master of the Taiping Sect and the old abbot of the Jing Zen Sect. ”

Sanxuan Zhenren: "That person is the earth master?"

Wu Zhen nodded and said: "No one would have thought that the earth master would disguise himself as a eunuch, so he was not prepared, at that time, the earth master took action, ran the Xuan Gong, and used all things, and had already reached the realm of the 'debate of the six qis' as the Daomen Nanhua Daojun said, Yin and Yang reversed, Ming and obscurity transformed, water and fire suddenly rose, and the old sect master of the Taiping Sect successively encountered the four calamities of Yin Fire, Xuan Bing, Heavenly Wind, and Thunder, and died on the spot. The old sect master of Jing Zen Buddhism suffered two catastrophes and was also seriously injured. ”

Sanxuan Zhenren became more and more surprised: "At that time, the Great Heavenly Master and the Great Sword Immortal were both present, if the two of them were not inferior to the Earth Master in terms of realm cultivation, how could they let the Earth Master act so unscrupulously?"

Gojin smiled bitterly and shook his head silently.

Sanxuan Zhenren had already understood in an instant, and couldn't help but sigh: "I think the two of them didn't make a move at all, they just watched coldly!"

Wu Zhen heard Sanxuan Zhenren's words, and was silent for a while, which was equivalent to acquiescence.

Sanxuan Zhenren sighed for a long time: "A neutral person will only be feared by both sides at the same time. The two sect masters were kind-hearted, but it was too bitter to suffer such an end. ”

"What the real man said was very true. Wu Zhen sighed: "Soon after the earth master drifted away, the Great Heavenly Master and the Great Sword Immortal also left one after another, and then Zhang Suqing and others were defeated and lost, and the Queen Mother and the King of Jin gained the momentum. ”

Sanxuan Zhenren thought for a moment, and suddenly said: "The master has said so much to the poor Dao, I don't know what the intention is?"

"Real people. Wu Zhen smiled slightly: "The poor monk just wants to persuade the real person, this kind of battle is dangerous and abnormal, and if you step into the void, it will be a catastrophe, and I hope that the real person will not take the old path of the two sect masters." ”

Sanxuan Zhenren thought of his behavior of changing the court, and couldn't help but be shocked, and bowed with a solemn face: "Thank you for the reminder." ”