The two walked across the arch bridge over the Perfume River and walked towards the glazed pagoda, but Zhang Jingxiu did not want to climb the tower, bypassed the glazed pagoda, and continued to walk towards Tallinn.

Li Xuandu was still thinking about what Zhang Jingxiu had just said, Zhang Jingxiu was seeking the name of thousands of generations, so that the Daomen would be unified, and he would be ranked alongside the ancestors in the history books of later generations.

Zhang Jingxiu said softly: "I originally wanted to try to survive the thunder tribulation and stay in the world for a hundred years, but now it seems that it may not be big, I heard that the national teacher of the Golden Horde has succeeded, can the Purple Mansion know the details?"

Li Xuandu hesitated for a moment and replied: "Through the power of the Golden Horde Great Khan's shamanism, the national teacher sacrificed the living, so as to absorb the power of countless living beings, and refined it into an 'immortal stone', and then through the 'immortal stone' to survive the thunder tribulation, but even so, the national teacher after the tribulation was also weak, I didn't even see the demeanor of the earth immortal in a catastrophe, and the national teacher was killed by the earth master and the holy monarch together." In other words, the reason why the national teacher was able to survive the thunderstorm was a decades of planning and piling up the lives of countless people. ”

Zhang Jingxiu sighed lightly, "This method...... It works in the Golden Horde, but it doesn't work in the Central Plains. According to Buddhism's theory of cause and effect, the result of the death of the national teacher today is the cause of the slaughter of innocents the day before yesterday. ”

Li Xuandu said: "That's right, but it seems that the earth master has other plans, and he also wants to stay in the world for a hundred years." If the Earth Master successfully survives the Thunder Tribulation, and when both the Great Heavenly Master and the Master pass away, I am afraid that no one in this world will be able to balance him. ”

Zhang Jingxiu smiled and said: "I can't say that, our two old guys are gone, as well as Taiyun and Qin Qing, as well as you." ”

Li Xuandu was stunned, then shook his head and said with a smile: "The Great Heavenly Master can't help but think too highly of me." ”

Zhang Jingxiu said: "The Purple Mansion thinks that the poor Dao said that the Purple Mansion has the hope of immortality, is it just a polite remark on the scene?"

Li Xuandu said: "The Great Heavenly Master has won the award, and the Purple Mansion is ashamed." ”

Zhang Jingxiu nodded Li Xuandu with his finger, "Zifu's words are really polite words. ”

This gesture is a bit rude, but it is close, and if it were not for someone close to him, he would never have exceeded it like this.

While speaking, the two of them had already entered Tallinn, and Li Xuan looked around and wanted to ask each other, but he couldn't help it.

Zhang Jingxiu said: "If there is anything else you want to ask in Zifu, you might as well ask it together, don't hold it in your heart." ”

Li Xuan didn't ask Zhang Jingxiu why he brought him to this Tallinn, but asked, "Dare to ask the Great Heavenly Master, who did the death of my senior brother Situ Xuance?"

Zhang Jingxiu seemed to have expected Li Xuan's question a long time ago, so he didn't hesitate and replied directly: "Poor Dao didn't witness the situation at that time, nor did he see the last face of his boss Mr. Tuda, and he didn't even see the corpse, so Poor Dao can only speculate, not necessarily right." ”

Li Xuandu suddenly understood why everyone asked him to ask Master Li Daoxu, because the last person Situ Xuance saw was Li Daoxu, and Li Daoxu personally took care of the aftermath.

Zhang Jingxiu said: "According to my speculation, it should be a member of the Confucian sect, but who it is is not certain. ”

Li Xuandu asked, "Are there many Confucians?"

Zhang Jingxiu said with a smile: "Of course, the Confucian sect is divided into the state of today's fragmentation, and the strategy of suppressing the strong and supporting the weak, and dividing and conquering, can it be done by only one or two people? Today's Confucianism, although weak, is still not to be underestimated

, what is missing is only a leader who can respond to every call, and there is no one in the Mo Dao Confucian sect. ”

Li Xuandu couldn't help but sigh softly when he heard this expected answer.

Zhang Jingxiu said: "The old Xuanbang, Taixuanbang, and Shaoxuanbang were proposed by the Taiping Sect, and I heard that the Zifu is going to revise the Taixuanbang recently, but the Taixuanbang only covers the scope of the rivers and lakes, and the Confucian people do not belong to the rivers and lakes, so they will not appear on these lists." ”

Li Xuandu said: "The Great Heavenly Master is well-informed, and he must know the details of Confucianism. ”

Zhang Jingxiu shook his head and said, "When it comes to Confucianism, Poor Dao doesn't know much better than you. You want to deal with Confucianism, and you want to deal with Confucianism, but Confucianism is not so easy to deal with. ”

Li Xuandu was silent. Now he has walked to the road that the senior brother walked back then, there is a thorn in front of him, if he can walk over, even if he is covered with bruises, he will admit it, but he is afraid that he will fall into the thorns if he can't walk.

Zhang Jingxiu continued: "As far as the poor Dao knows, there is a group of hermits among the Confucian sects. ”

"Hermit?" Li Xuandu repeated.

"Yes, hermit. But it's not a real hermit, it's just under the guise of a hermit, but in fact, the heart is still in the world. Zhang Jingxiu's tone was a little disdainful, "Just like those ancient celebrities, known as 'virtuous', with style and bones, I really don't know how to talk about these people who don't touch the ground with their feet, their shoes don't get mud, and their high crowns and broad belts don't talk about their bones, but they blindly wander and have no benefit to the people's livelihood in the world, and where are the sages." ”

Li Xuandu asked, "How many are these hermits?"

Zhang Jingxiu said: "It's about seven people, it was seven people back then, I don't know if it has changed now." ”

Li Xuandu asked again: "Now all kinds of things, including inciting the people outside the temple and provoking the children of the Su family to make things difficult for me, are they also done by these seven people?"

Zhang Jingxiu shook his head and said: "This kind of trick is not enough for the seven of them to come forward together, even one of the seven, and it is a little reluctant." You must know that these seven people are also great people in Confucianism, not inferior to the sacrificial wine, the mountain lord and the like, and they have their own disciples. ”

Li Xuandu frowned and said: "But the person who made the move, although he is not my opponent, he also has the cultivation of the Creation Realm, and he is not like a Confucian person." ”

After Zhang Jingxiu came to Jinling Mansion, he only learned about Su Guan from the mouth of the Su family, but he didn't know the details of the people who fought with Li Xuandu. ”

Li Xuandu said: "This person is not too old, it seems to be a woman, and she will use the 'Anti-Heaven Tribulation' sword qi." ”

Zhang Jingxiu frowned, and said in a deep voice: "Confucianism does not accept female disciples, and the poor Dao knows that there is a little girl named Shi Zongxi, but that little girl is also a man all day long, and she treats herself as a man, and she has to add her father's affection to have this special case." Since she is a woman, she will use 'anti-heavenly calamity', it is unlikely that she is a disciple of Confucianism, and it seems that someone wants to take advantage of the Confucianism and Taoism to fish in troubled waters. ”

Li Xuandu nodded in agreement, no longer entangled in this matter, and instead said: "The Great Heavenly Master said that there are seven hermits, I don't know who these seven people are?"

Zhang Jingxiu said: "This is the reason why Poor Dao brought you here.

”

Just as the two were talking, the stele forest had come to an end, and then Li Xuandu saw a flowery place located halfway up the mountain, and couldn't help but be slightly stunned. What surprised Li Xuandu even more was that there was an extremely terrifying tiger lying on the grass, twice the size of an ordinary tiger.

The tiger, who was napping in the sun, raised his eyelids, looked at the two uninvited guests, and let out a low roar, as if there were too many guests dissatisfied with the past two days, disturbing the quiet.

Zhang Jingxiu and Li Xuan both stopped, Zhang Jingxiu raised his hand and pointed at the tiger, and the tiger immediately felt a great threat, its front paws prostrate, and its huge head was buried deep between its two paws, making a deferential appearance.

Zhang Jingxiu said with a smile: "This beast is a bit spiritual, and the master here is one of the seven hermits. ”

As soon as the words fell, a thin old monk walked out of the thatched hut not far away, with a sad face, clasped his palms together, and said, "The poor monk has seen the Great Heavenly Master and Sect Master Li. ”

Li Xuandu first returned the salute, and then asked: "The Great Heavenly Master is famous all over the world, and it is not strange that the master recognizes the Great Heavenly Master, but Li is just a junior, how can the master recognize it?"

The old monk smiled faintly, "Xiucai doesn't go out, he knows everything in the world." The poor monk lives in seclusion here, but he is not completely ignorant of the things outside, but at such an age, he can walk side by side with the Great Heavenly Master, and only Mr. Qingping is alone. ”

Li Xuandu said with a straight face: "I don't dare to be called Mr. Qingping." ”

The old monk said: "Tan Yue doesn't have to be humble. ”

Li Xuandu asked, "Haven't consulted the master yet?"

The old monk said: "The poor monk is a person who escapes Zen, and has not been formally ordained as a monk, nor has it been included in the door wall of Buddhism, so there is no Dharma name, but the past name has indeed been abandoned, so many people see that the poor monk is older, and they call a Zen master, and see the poor monk and the tiger as a companion, and add a 'tiger' word before the Zen master, and call the poor monk the tiger Zen master. ”

Li Xuandu said: "It turned out to be the Tiger Zen Master, please forgive the younger generation for being lonely and unheard, I have never heard of the name of the Zen Master, but listening to what the Great Heavenly Master said, there are six people like the Zen Master, I don't know if the Zen Master can see it?"

Regarding Li Xuandu's straightforwardness, Master Hu Chan did not answer directly, but glanced at Zhang Jingxiu, shook his head and said: "Master Zhang, you are not benevolent in this matter, the poor monk is already an outsider, ignoring mundane things, why bother to involve the poor monk again?"

Zhang Jingxiu smiled lightly: "This is not right, even if Poor Dao doesn't come to see you, the other six will have people come to see you, or rather, someone has already come." ”

The sad look on the face of the Tiger Zen Master was even heavier, but he did not lie and deceive, nodded and said, "It is indeed here, it is the Qinghe monk." ”

Li Xuandu frowned. Whether it is the Tiger Zen Master, or the Qinghe Layman, it is not the original name, nor the table, but the number, is it possible that the seven hermits just gave up their original names and only used their own names as their names, and now there have been Tiger Zen Masters and Qinghe Monks, and what are the other five people?

However, the Tiger Zen Master did not want to mention the other five people, and continued: "The Qinghe monk is still an old man, and he wants to persuade the poor monk to leave this place, but the poor monk did not agree. ”

Zhang Jingxiu looked contemplative, "Qinghe Layman, I met him thirty years ago, and he should be eighty years old when he counts his age. ”

The Tiger Zen Master smiled bitterly and said: "Lao Ji is in the bush, and his ambition is thousands of miles. The martyrs are in their twilight years, and their hearts are strong. ”