The two of them came to a small courtyard in the sect one after another, although it is also called a small courtyard, which is much more spacious than the free view, and it is also luxurious and atmospheric, the courtyard is extremely clean, and there are neat green plants in the corner.

Qiu Gongshou pushed open the door of a room and scolded angrily.

"You bastard, I think you're kicking your nose in the face. ”

Zhang Haomin didn't hear the man talk back, so he hurriedly took two steps quickly, for fear that Qiu Gongshou would fight with that person again, and he was also very curious about who could make Qiu Gongshou angry to the point of blackface.

As soon as he entered the house, Zhang Haomin smelled a strong smell of medicine, obviously the owner of this house was injured. Because Qiu Gong was guarding in front, Zhang Haomin didn't see who was lying on the hospital bed.

"You bastard, you know how hard I've tried, I'm going to say it, I've finally got my senior brother to agree to let you enter our free view, and you're not happy anymore. ”

Qiu Gong was angry and talked endlessly beside the hospital bed, but the other party didn't pay attention to him at all, obviously he was also a stubborn donkey, and it was useless for anyone to say anything if he made up his mind.

Zhang Haomin walked around Qiu Gongshou with a smile, ready to take a look at who was lying on the bed, but after looking at it, the whole person was suddenly blindfolded.

He actually recognized this person, after all, with such a special appearance, Zhang Haomin was really hard to forget. Because he was the king of Dongtuan Mountain who blocked the road that day, Liu Zhi, the white-eyed ape.

Although Zhang Haomin didn't know what Liu Zhi's name was, he knew that this person was the leader of the mountain bandits, and even blocked his way, preparing to rob himself.

"You're still alive, a bandit?"

Liu Zhi, who was originally lying on the bed, heard this voice, and immediately came to his senses, and hurriedly looked at the voice, because he couldn't forget this voice for the rest of his life, and he didn't take a blow from the other party after he forcibly broke through.

"It's you. ”

At a glance at the posture of the two sides, Qiu Gongshou didn't need to listen to the content to understand that these two people definitely knew each other, and there was any grudge between the two.

"I don't care what the relationship between you is, let go of it now, my affairs are the most important. ”

Zhang Haomin didn't care, after all, it wasn't him who suffered, so he walked around the room gracefully, but Liu Zhi's eyes kept staring at him, and Qiu Gongshou said it next to him, and he didn't listen to a word.

"Did you hear what I said to you?"

It's a pity that there is still no answer waiting for Qiu Gongshou.

"What are you staring at him all the time?"

"He's your apprentice?"

This was the first thing Liu Zhi said to him since Qiu Gongshou entered the house, but the content of the words was about Zhang Haomin.

"You don't care who he is, I'll ask you, why don't you agree to be my apprentice?"

When Zhang Haomin heard this, he couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Is he the apprentice you want to take?"

"That's right. ”

"That's not good, he's a bandit, how can you take a bandit as an apprentice?"

"Don't worry, the things involved in this are quite complicated, and when I have time later, I will explain it to you slowly. ”

As soon as he heard Zhang Haomin's meaning, Qiu Gongshou felt quite big, Liu Zhi didn't agree with it, and now there is one more obstruction, it is simply busy adding to the chaos, and he didn't bring Zhang Haomin if he knew this.

"Explanation? What's the explanation? He's a bandit, explanation by explanation, he's a bandit. ”

Liu Zhi looked at Zhang Haomin's excited appearance, suddenly laughed, turned his head and said to Qiu Gongshou on the side.

"You also heard, I'm a bandit, why do you have to take me as an apprentice?"

Qiu Gongshou finally figured it out, if he wanted to accept Liu Zhi as an apprentice, then he first needed to figure out the contradiction between the two, otherwise this matter would never be resolved.

"What kind of misunderstanding is there between you?"

Qiu Gongshou glanced at Liu Zhi, but looking at his posture, he would definitely not say it, so he could only start from Zhang Haomin's side.

So Qiu Gongshou pulled Zhang Haomin out of the house, and outside the house, even the flattering and threatening ones finally understood what happened.

"So you caused the injuries on his body?"

"He's a bandit, if I don't kill him, will I wait for him to kill me? ”

"After the last time I met you in Putan Village, I found him on the way back to the sect, he was lying in a pool of blood at the time, and if I hadn't shown up, he would have died. ”

After getting along for a while, Zhang Haomin knew that Qiu Gongshou was not the kind of bad person, let alone a bodhisattva, so he asked puzzledly.

"Then why did you save him?"

"Because he used to be a disciple of the Shenghua Sect. ”

Hearing Qiu Gongshou say this, Zhang Haomin seemed to have some impressions, I remember that someone mentioned it at the beginning, saying that he was a disciple of Shenghua Sect, but Zhang Haomin didn't take it seriously at that time, thinking that the other party was just a gimmick to scare people.

But now that it was confirmed from Qiu Gongshou's mouth, he couldn't help but wonder in his heart, why did the disciples in the sect suddenly fall into the grass? It seems that there must be a lot of hidden secrets in this.

"Fourteen years ago, in a big competition, he swallowed the Violent Blood Pill in a decisive battle for the sake of the sect, although he won the big competition, he couldn't take a step forward because of this.

When he learned this, he didn't want to be raised by the sect as a waste, so he went down the mountain, but then he didn't know what happened, and finally became a bandit on the scourge side. ”

"Storm Blood Pill?"

"Well, it's just an elixir to forcibly improve one's realm for a short time, but the cost is extremely high, and you may even lose your life because of it. ”

Zhang Haomin frowned, he didn't understand, wasn't it just a competition, why did he take such a big risk?

"Then why does he eat it?"

"Because if the Shenghua Sect at that time couldn't win that big competition, the Shenghua Sect would be divided. ”

"Divided?"

Zhang Haomin didn't react for a while, but he heard that the Shenghua Sect was a first-class sect in the world, how could it be carved up?

"Yes, fourteen years ago, the Da'an royal family united with the major sects to collectively put pressure on the Shenghua Sect, trying to carve up the Shenghua Sect. Because of this, the then sect leader Senior Brother Gong Cheng reached a gamble with Emperor Tianzhu.

As long as Shenghuazong wins the big competition, the Da'an royal family not only can't continue to embarrass Shenghuazong, but also has to support Shenghuazong, if Shenghuazong doesn't win the big competition, then Shenghuazong will unconditionally dissolve the sect and merge into the power of the Da'an royal family.

At that time, Emperor Tianzhu was too young, and he thought that it was a foolproof plan, so he readily agreed, which gave Shenghua Sect a glimmer of life. ”

Zhang Haomin suddenly fell silent after listening, he is not a child, so he understands how cruel this world is, this is a world of the jungle, if the weak want to survive, they must make themselves strong.

And the higher you climb, the more you can see the darkness of the human heart, because only the most greedy can climb to the top.

There is a good saying, there are no eternal friends, only eternal interests, and in the face of interests, everyone's face is so ugly.

Everyone has a seed of greed in their hearts, but some people can control greed, while others are controlled by greed.

People who are controlled by greed will fall down and die because of endless greed, and those who control greed know that the higher you climb, the more careful you must be, because if you are not careful, you may never recover.

Whether it is the country or the sect, in front of these behemoths, the individual seems too insignificant.

Today's Shenghua Sect is so powerful, but behind this strength, how many people like Liu Zhi are there, and their dedication and efforts have made Shenghua Sect what it is today.

But it's easy to rise, but it's hard to sustain. How many once prominent existences collapsed in an instant because of a small mistake, and all the efforts of everyone were burned.

"What's his name?"

"Liu Zhi. ”

Zhang Haomin secretly remembered this name in his heart, because this name deserves to be remembered by everyone in Shenghua Sect. At this moment, Zhang Haomin suddenly remembered something.

"No, I remember that some people said that he was a disciple of the sect master, why do you still want to accept him as an apprentice now?"

At the mention of this fork, Qiu Gongshou's face couldn't help but show sadness.

"When he went to participate in the big competition, he was still in the middle hall and did not enter the inner courtyard, so there was no master.

It is precisely because of his excellent talent and kind-hearted nature that Senior Brother Gong Cheng, as the sect master, wants to wait for him to enter the upper hall before letting him enter the inner courtyard, so as to accept him as his disciple.

But heaven is not as good as people, because of that big competition, he lost hope and left the sect, and Senior Brother Gong Cheng also blamed himself, retired from the position of the sect master, locked himself in the Qianren Cliff, and then passed away. ”

Zhang Haomin's eyes couldn't help but burst into tears, these two people who turned the sect around, one lost hope and gave up on himself and fell willingly, and the other lost his beloved disciple and died in endless remorse.

If time had to go back to them, would they still have made the same choice?

Fate is always like this, playing tricks on the world and playing with feelings. The so-called happy endings are just in the story, and in reality, they are missed again and again.

Keep losing, until you have nothing, until you are deeply wrapped in loneliness, until you regret that you have lost the most precious thing, people can grow up.

But what about growing up like this? It's just that it's not forced to accept failure, it's just that it's just forced to let yourself get used to the feeling of loss, and slowly enjoy loneliness.

Zhang Haomin slowly raised his head, looked at Qiu Gongshou's eyes, and said.

"You can take him as your apprentice, but he must be responsible for his actions, for the innocent lives that died at his hands.

He can start over, but what about the dead?"