The Master seemed to have guessed something, and let out a long sigh and said, "He threatens you?"

Master Likong's face was solemn: "Yes, what Xuanyuan Gongzi took out is the official document issued by the government for the sea fishing of Living Yama before I converted to Buddhism. Of course, he already knew that I was the living Yama of the past. ”

"He is right, if this matter is publicized, once everyone in the world knows that the world-famous Master Songting Ziyan actually harbored and sheltered a wanted criminal by the imperial court, the first seat of the Arhat Hall of the dignified Shaolin Temple, it turned out to be a big thief who was full of blood and did all kinds of evil, then how would the people of the world view the master and the Shaolin Temple?"

"It was the master who took great pains to ignite me and let me get out of the sea of suffering, it was the Shaolin Temple that gave me a place where I could turn back and live from the beginning, I must not let the master and Shaolin lose my reputation because of me, and be questioned by the world. But even if I escape into the empty gate, I still can't change the fact that I am the living Yama who was full of evil back then!"

"So I have no choice, I have no other choice, for the sake of Shizun, for the sake of Shaolin, I can only join the command of Xuanyuan Gongzi and become the king of Yama in the Ten Palaces of Yama. ”

Hearing this, Ye Feng nodded secretly, yes, using the past and secrets of these top masters as a blackmail, forcing them to be controlled by himself and join the Ten Palaces Yama, this is exactly what Prince Xuanyuan has always done.

Master Likai shook his head and sighed: "Senior brother, you are wrong, everything is karma, and since the cause has been planted, you need to face the result that will eventually come, and escaping into the empty door is not an excuse to escape from all this." ”

Master Likong was stunned for a moment, and said, "But I can't let Shizun and Shaolin lose their reputation and become the voice of the people of the world because of my past mistakes." ”

The old man believed that with the great wisdom of the master, when he first enlightened you into my Buddhism, he had already expected the results that would follow, but he still accepted you as a disciple and wanted to use the Dharma to dissolve the anger in your chest.

"It's a pity that you are only interested in martial arts, but you don't know much about Buddhism and Zen. ”

When Master Likong heard this, he bowed his head silently, without saying a word, as if he was deeply touched.

Master Ligai continued to ask, "In this way, this junior brother's behavior is based on the order of that Xuanyuan Gongzi?"

Master Likong shook his head unexpectedly at this time, and said, "Senior brother, you are wrong, what I did this time really has nothing to do with Xuanyuan Gongzi, at least not with the current Xuanyuan Gongzi. ”

Master Reform couldn't help but be stunned, and didn't understand at all: "What do you mean by this Xuanyuan Gongzi now?"

Master Likong sighed and said slowly: "Actually, the reason why Prince Xuanyuan wanted to blackmail me and force me to join the Ten Halls Yama was probably because I was one of the most trusted and favored disciples of the master at that time. His purpose was only for me to use my identity to find out and report to him on the progress of the Master's interpretation of the Elder Scrolls' secrets, and I don't know how he learned that the Master was interpreting the Elder Scrolls. ”

"But the Master has been very secretive about this, and he has never mentioned the slightest news about the interpretation of the Elder Scrolls in front of us, so I have never learned anything. Shortly thereafter, we, the Ten Hall Yamas, were summoned to Huashan and massacred the elites of the Shuzhong Tang Gate and the Jiangnan Perak Hall in the secret caves of Huashan. ”

When Ye Feng heard this, he unconsciously remembered the dried corpses everywhere in the secret cave of Huashan, the headless skeleton left by Tang Ao, and his friend who was killed in Hangzhou City not long ago, Tang Qiu!

Tang Qiu is Tang Ao's widow, and he is the master of the void, and they are not the ten halls of Yama

The enemy who shares the sky is also his friend of Ye Feng!

It's a pity that now that Tang Qiu is gone, will these hatreds disappear with him?

Master Likong continued: "But since the tragedy in Huashan twenty years ago, this Xuanyuan Gongzi seems to have suddenly changed his person, and he no longer seems to care so much about the master's interpretation of the Elder Scrolls, and even no longer takes the initiative to contact me. ”

"And after that, the master passed away, and you succeeded as the head of Shaolin, but after three years, you took the initiative to resign, and lived here in seclusion to concentrate on the study of the Elder Scrolls, and also asked me to join the Five Hearts of the Buddha to assist you in your work, so that I can learn some information about the interpretation of the Elder Scrolls. However, this Xuanyuan son has never taken the initiative to come to me again, which makes me feel very puzzled. ”

"Finally, last time Senior Brother, you ordered me to go out of the temple to Beijing to deliver a letter to Ye Gongzi, I took this opportunity to contact him according to the secret method that I had agreed with Xuanyuan Gongzi a long time ago. ”

"At this meeting, I immediately concluded that the Xuanyuan boy in front of me was definitely not the one who defeated me within a few moves. Although they were dressed exactly the same, he didn't have the kind of royal momentum that the man exuded from that person!"

Master Reform was shocked: "There will be two Xuanyuan Gongzi?"

Ye Feng was not very surprised, he had heard the suspicion of Xuanyuan's identity from Lei Potian, who was the king of Bian Cheng in the Ten Palaces of Yama, before.

Now it seems that Lei Potian is not the only one who has noticed the difference in the identity of this Xuanyuan son, and is suspicious of him.

Master Likong said: "At that time, I also thought that this matter was really unbelievable, but everything that this Xuanyuan Gongzi did back then was clearly to protect the secret behind this Elder Scroll that no one could really solve, and now this Xuanyuan Gongzi doesn't seem to care so much about this matter." ”

"At that time, I had with me a handwritten letter from Senior Brother Gai to Ye Gongzi, and I mentioned the whereabouts of another Elder Scroll in my heart, which is naturally extremely important for unlocking the secret behind the Elder Scroll, but this Xuanyuan Gongzi did not stop it, but urged me to send it to the capital to hand it over to Ye Gongzi quickly, as if he wanted to do his best to facilitate this matter. This made me even more sure that this Xuanyuan Gongzi and the previous one should not be the same person. ”

Ye Feng nodded, according to what he said, the identity of this Xuanyuan prince was indeed more suspicious.

He opened his mouth and asked Master Kong, "Then when you came to the capital to see me, what happened to the injuries you were injured?"

Master Likong smiled bitterly: "Because I want to contact Xuanyuan Gongzi to meet, so the road was delayed for a few days, in order to be able to justify myself and not arouse the suspicion of others, so under the arrangement of Xuanyuan Gongzi, Wang Donghaiyu in the nearby city left a few wounds on my body, which are not light or serious, and it is inferred that I was intercepted and killed by the Ten Palaces Yama on the way, in order to hide people's eyes." ”

Ye Feng couldn't help nodding secretly, he had some doubts about Master Kong's injuries and the statement that he was intercepted and killed by the East China Sea fishermen, but it turned out that this was the case.

Master Likong continued: "After delivering the letter, Ye Gongzi asked me to bring a push-back map back to Shaolin and hand it to Senior Brother Gai, but I found that someone was secretly following me on the way. This person's martial arts are extremely high, and I don't know who this person is or what his purpose is. ”

"In order to be safe, I secretly left a message to let Feiyu, the apprentice of Donghai Yu, come and pretend to assassinate me and snatch the books to lure the master who was secretly following me to attack. Unexpectedly, this person turned out to be Taishan Jiang Mubai, who not only killed one of the two flying fish with a sword, but also escorted me all the way back to Songshan Shaolin Temple. ”

Ye Feng frowned: "Old Uncle Jiang, how could he follow you secretly?"

Master Likong's face was shocked: "He said that he was entrusted by Ye Gongzi to come and escort me, isn't it?"

Ye Feng didn't speak, but the look of surprise on his face was already there

It completely shows that Taishan Jiang Mubai will certainly not be entrusted by him to escort Master Kong.

Master Likong shook his head and said, "It seems that this Jiang Mubai is really not entrusted by Ye Gongzi, and he can instruct a master like Taishan Sun Concealment Sword Jiang Mubai to do things for him, I really don't know what kind of character this is hiding behind him?"

Ye Feng was silent, he remembered that the relationship between Jiang Mubai and the Tang Sect in Shuzhong was extraordinary, could it be that it would be Tang Da who asked him to escort Master Kong? But Tang Da was not in the capital at the time, how did he know about that "Push-Back Map"?

When Ye Feng was still puzzled, Master Likai asked in a deep voice to Senior Brother Kong: "Since you said that this series of ** that happened here was not instructed by Prince Xuanyuan, then, what are you doing all this for?"

Master Likong raised his head and looked directly at Senior Brother Gai, and said, "I do all this for the sake of Master, for Shaolin, and for the future of our Caodong Sect!"

"How much did the master trust you back then, and passed on the position of the abbot of Shaolin and the head of the Caodong Zen sect to you, but you, but you were obsessed with studying the secret of breaking the ancient scrolls, and resigned from the abbot position in only three years, and lived in seclusion here without leaving home. ”

"The huge Shaolin Temple has no abbot master, and the dragons have no leader, which naturally gives others an opportunity. So the king of Zhou in a court inexplicably issued an edict, and a foreign monk inexplicably became the abbot master of Shaolin Temple. ”

"Since the Xueting Fuyu Temple served as the abbot of Shaolin Temple, making the Caodong Zen sect an authentic school of Shaolin Temple, the abbots of Shaolin Temple in the past dynasties have all been served by Caodong authentic monks, and let an outsider serve as the first time in a hundred years. ”

"Over the years, Master Renshan served as the abbot of Shaolin Temple, although he followed the rules and did not make any mistakes, but my Caodong Zhengzong faction in the Shaolin Temple monks, and even in the world's prestige is gradually declining, not as good as before, and if this continues, I am afraid that the future abbot of Shaolin Temple will fall into the hands of outsiders, and it will be difficult for my Caodong Zhengzong to come out again. ”

Master Change's face became solemn: "So you set this poisonous plan, do you want to be the abbot of this Shaolin Temple?"

Master Likong said loudly: "I never thought of being this abbot! I am a monk halfway, in the temple in terms of seniority, wheel prestige, above me senior brothers abound, I just hope that the Shaolin abbot can return to my Caodong authentic hands, Caodong Zen Buddhism can return to the original glorious era!"

He pointed at Master Gai and asked: "When the master was passed on to you, he naturally hoped that you could magnify the Shaolin Temple and my Caodong Authentic Sect, but you were so careless, how could you live up to the ardent expectations of the master?"

Master Gai shook his head and sighed, "Therefore, you are going to poison Senior Brother Renshan, and even Lao Wei will be poisoned to death?"

Master Likong raised his head and said: "Yes, if you don't die, senior brother, Qi Bin will inevitably become the head of Caodong Authentic Sect and the heart abbot of Shaolin Temple." He's just a foreign monk who has just come to Shaolin Temple for three years, what contributions and sacrifices has he made to Shaolin Temple and to my Caodong Zhengzong?"

If he becomes the abbot of Shaolin Temple, whether he will work hard to promote Caodong Zen Buddhism in the future, there will be no other variables, and the future of my Caodong Zen is very difficult to predict. ”

Standing at the door of the bamboo nunnery and listening quietly, the monk Qibin, who had not spoken, folded his hands at this time and recited the Buddha number in a low voice: "Amitabha!"

Master Likai sighed: "For this, junior brother, you don't hesitate to poison and kill people, not only the innocent old couple, but even the junior brother of Chen, you don't let go, and you keep saying that you are for Caodong authenticity?"

Master Likong still held his head high: "If I don't go to hell, who will go to hell?" As long as Cao Dong Zhengzong can shine in the world in the future, and the ideals of the master can be realized, and all the blame for the past is attributed to me, I will go down to the eighteenth layer of Abi Hell, so what's the matter?"