Chapter Ninety-Eight: Undercurrent
After Zhang Yu lived in the Chang Dao Sect Residence, he looked at the Dao seals and secret chapters presented by Xue and Si before every day.
In addition to these, he now has the secret methods of the Dao seals of the Fuyu and Fangtai factions in his hands, and the Wanming Dao people have also handed over the secret methods of the seals they have collected over the years.
After reading these seal secret methods, it also gave him great inspiration.
Even though his current visualization map has entered the "Xuanhe Chapter" after completing the third layer, the visualization map is not immutable, but needs to be constantly supplemented and improved.
And in the process, the supernatural power possessed by the visualization map will also become stronger.
On the third day after the exhortation was issued, three Taoist sects responded, declaring that they were willing to hand over the seal and return to the Xuanfu.
From the point of view of time, these Taoist sects almost all made their decisions within a day or two after the arrival of the persuasion.
There is one main reason why things are going so smoothly, that is, this time it was the elders of the Chang Dao sect who took the initiative to persuade them, which gave the sects a great shock.
After all, the Ordinary Dao Sect is recognized as the strongest among the foreign Dao sects, and even they are all submissive, so how can they have the strength to resist?
And the factions can also feel that the current situation is different from the past, the Shuangzhou side is aggressive, and the Taoist sect has been destroyed one after another, and the factions are also sad that the rabbit is dead and the fox is sad, so instead of being destroyed by the people of the frost continent, it is better to choose the Xuanfu that looks like it is possible to restore the old situation.
Of course, Zhang Yu's Xuanzheng identity granted by the Xuanting court also played a great role, as Cao Fangding said, in the past, they hid outside the territory, that is, they didn't like to do things for the two mansions, but if the Xuanfu is still strong, then why is it so?
Since the Xuanfu is now clear that they want to regain their authority, and it seems that they also have this ability, they are naturally willing to follow.
And in the next five days, all the remaining Taoist sects were also willing to return to Xuanfu, and sent a letter to Zhang Yu and Yun Chen, saying that they would go to the Chengchang Taoist sect in a few days to present the seal secret method.
If this situation is maintained until the monks of the various sects arrive, then the formal unification of the foreign factions should be completed.
Wan Ming Daoist maintained a certain cautious attitude towards this, and he tried to remind Zhang Yu, "Xuan Zheng, now that the news has spread, if the people of Shuangzhou know what we are doing, then they will definitely not sit idly by and watch us unite the various factions." ”
Zhang Yu agreed with him, the biggest opponent of Shuangzhou now is Xuanfu, and sweeping away the forced landing of the extraterritorial Taoist sect is undoubtedly to weaken Xuanfu.
And if the Extraterritorial Daoist Sect returns to Xuanfu, it will not be in the interests of Shuangzhou, if he is the other party, then he will definitely do everything possible to sabotage this matter.
The most likely option for this generation now is to mobilize forces and launch an attack on the Orthodox Daoist sect who are isolated outside the territory, and if they can kill them all, then this matter can be solved once and for all.
But he chose to stay here, why didn't he have a similar plan?
Gaolu Mountain, one of the stations of Hongshan Road. The flower-filled hills are dotted with magnificent palaces.
After all, it is in the continent, all the buildings are exquisite and gorgeous, and compared with those Taoist pavilions outside the territory, they can only barely be said to be accommodating.
And the disciples in the sect are all neat and gorgeous, and everyone naturally has a sense of arrogance on their faces.
In the hall of the inner hall, the sect leader Zhong Lie sat on the jade couch, his face was majestic, he had a long beard, and his earlobes were slightly larger, hanging down to the top of his shoulders.
He was looking carefully at the letter that had just been presented at the bottom, and after reading it, an inexplicable light flashed in his eyes, and after a while, he said, "Is it confirmed?"
The disciple standing below was careful, bowed his head and said, "Don't dare to be negligent, we sent it to the sect master after confirming it several times." ”
Zhong Lie stroked his beard for a long time and said, "You go down." ”
The disciple was relieved, bowed, and exited the hall.
Zhong Lie sat for a while, he got off the jade couch, and walked along the back porch to a picked out platform, which was facing the big lake in the distance, with a very wide field of vision, and a few leisurely and frolicking cranes could occasionally be seen in the reeds.
He took out a jade-colored rune letter from his sleeve, shook it lightly, and after reaching mid-air, a flying crane came out, grabbed the rune letter with its paws, and then let out a clear sound, and soon flapped its wings and flew away.
He swung the sleeves of his robe and sat down on the cushions of the platform.
It soon darkened, and he sat still.
The night passed, and when it was almost dawn, he suddenly felt a chill to his bones, and when he opened his eyes, he saw a woman in a snow-clad in front of him.
The woman's body exudes a clear light, her face is delicate, her skin is snow-white, her lips are delicate, but her temperament is cold, like a blooming white lotus on the snowy peak.
Zhong Lie said: "Master Mei, you are here." ”
The woman in the snow suit just looked at him with an indifferent expression.
Zhong Lie didn't care about her attitude, in fact, with the relationship between them, it was already very polite for the other party to treat him like this, and he continued to speak: "I think you also received news from there." ”
The woman in the snowcoat finally spoke up this time, her voice as cold as her people, but unexpectedly pleasant, "Yes, I saw it, we have lost." ”
Zhong Lie looked at her and said, "Why do you think so?"
The snow-clothed woman said coldly: "Isn't this obvious? Once the Extraterritorial Dao Sect merges, will our two factions still have the meaning of existence? With our strength, there is no way to integrate the Xuanfu after the Extraterritorial Dao Sect. ”
Zhong Lie looked very calm, and said: "No, things have not yet reached the point of no return, Master Mei, what you said actually depends on a key, or a person." ”
The woman in the snow-clad looked moved, revealing a look of serious thought.
Zhong Lie looked at her and said, "I think the Mei faction master also thought of it, as long as that person can't come back, then everything will follow the old pattern, and nothing will change." ”
The snow-clothed woman's eyes showed hesitation, but in the end she still raised her head and said, "What do you want to do?"
Zhong Lie showed a pleasant expression and said: "Although I think that even if we don't do anything, some people who don't want to see such things happen will do it, but sometimes, things often lack a little bit of help to not play the role they should have, I think we can maybe add some chips to this." ”
The snow-clad woman frowned and said, "Let me think about it." ”
Zhong Lie reminded her, "Then I hope you hurry up, we don't have much time." ”
The woman in the snow suit ignored his urging, and after a while, her expression became resolute, and she said, "I will try to use my previous favors to try, but not for the reason you said, even if I lose, I don't want to lose without any power to fight back." ”
Zhong Lie nodded and said, "No matter what, the Mei faction master has made a correct decision. He slowly stood up, "I'm going to mobilize all my forces to stop this," he looked at the snow-clad woman, "even if we need to go into battle in person in the end." ”
The woman in the snow suit ignored him, and as a gust of wind drifted by, the figure also dissipated.
At this moment, a team of chariots and horses was coming in the direction of Juzhou, and it was four tall and sturdy creation horses dragging the carriage.
In today's Qingyang Shangzhou, in addition to towns and villages, most people in the state and county use the boat and car created by Kuntu or Scale Diagram to travel, and many people are willing to take the slower carriage.
In the carriage was a young man in his twenties, he leaned on the soft and thick brocade cushion, the whole person seemed very relaxed, he played with a pig dragon jade dagger in his hand, this dagger is made of green jade, transparent and warm, elegant shape.
The carriage could feel a slight jolt, and after a while he felt sleepiness welling up, so he leaned there and fell asleep.
When he woke up, he found the sun shining in, and he asked, "Where is it?"
The coachman's words sounded at this time: "Sir, you have entered Anshou County, and you are almost in front of Qingyang Xuanfu." ”
The convoy traveled along the slightly rough road of Anshou County to the shore of the inner lake in the city, and the self-servant came forward to exchange views with the boat-driver, and then the young man got out of the carriage, and he took a servant and boarded a small boat to the island in the middle of the lake.
It didn't take long for the ship to come to shore.
Mingshan Daoist was already standing there at the moment, and when he waited for the young man to come ashore, he made a mockery of him and said: "Poor Dao Mingshan, this is where Qingyang Xuanfu is located, I don't know what you are doing here?"
The young man came up with his hands crossed, bowed his upper body slightly, and saluted: "Lejun Yuan He, the ancestor of the family is the deceased of Zhu Xuanshou, and I hereby ask to see Zhu Xuanshou." With that, he took out the green jade dagger and handed it over.
Mingshan Daoist took it, he could see at a glance that this thing was carved out with mana, the dagger lines were simple, and there was a familiar meaning on it, his originally more detached tone suddenly became a little softened, and said: "Then please invite the two distinguished guests to the guest hall for a while." ”
He called an assistant and asked him to take the two of them to the side hall to wait, and he himself took the green jade dagger to the Crane Palace.
Not long after he went, he turned back and said, "Yuan Shaolang, Xuanshou is invited." ”
Yuan He followed him into the main hall, Mingshan Daoist gently pushed behind his back at this time, he only felt light, after a trance, he saw that he came to a high platform, looking at the surrounding clouds and mist, and did not realize that his legs were weak, but he quickly controlled himself.
At this time, a voice came from the front and said, "Are you Yuan Ze's descendant?"
Yuan He looked over and saw that it was a Taoist in Tsing Yi sitting there, holding the jade dagger he had presented before, and he was busy bowing down and saying, "Yes, villain Yuan He, Yuan Ze is the ancestor." ”
Zhu Xuanshou said lightly: "I owed Meng Ze a favor back then, and now you are taking this thing, it should be to settle this burden, say, what do you want to do?"
Yuan He took a deep breath, saluted respectfully, and said, "I heard that Zhu Xuanshou is carrying a treasure by his side, called Qingyang Wheel, and the younger generation has nothing else to ask for but to see this treasure." ”
Zhu Xuanshou said indifferently: "This treasure is not on my side, if you want to see it, you can wait for a while." ”
Yuan Ji insisted: "No, the younger generation has to watch it now, I don't know if Xuanshou may allow it?"
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