Compared with the outer hall, the inner hall does not have much luxury, except for an old statue of the ancestor of Taishang Dao, there is only a picture of Taiji Pisces carved on the ground. In the middle of this black and white Pisces there is a futon, on which a Taoist who looks about the age of a sixtieth birthday sits cross-legged, with his back to the three people, with crane hair and a childish face, and a fairy wind and bones.

This Taoist has been here for hundreds of years, from the Five Hegemons and Ten Heroes of the Warring States before the Great Jin Dynasty, to the Great Jin Dynasty that ended the Warring States, and then to the Golden Horde that briefly entered the Central Plains after the fall of the Great Jin Dynasty, and to the Great Wei who expelled the Golden Horde, even the Great Wei has gone through thirteen emperors.

After nearly a thousand years of ups and downs, the Taoist has been sitting quietly here until now.

Now there are eighteen more stone figures and a blood-colored stone tablet around the Taoist, as well as an old man whose face has half of his bones exposed.

The old man looked at the Taoist with his back to him, his eyes indifferent.

At this moment, a slightly illusory figure walked out of thin air behind him, his face could not be seen clearly, and every step he took would ripple out layers of ripples, as if walking in water.

The old man said slowly: "I expected you to come, but I didn't expect you to come so late." ”

The illusory figure stopped and did not answer.

The old man looked at the Taoist who was surrounded by eighteen stone figures, and said with emotion: "The Taiyin corpse of Mugou Zhenren is much better than the 'Yaksha' that the old man had expected before, and even the 'Asura' is not as good as it, it is almost comparable to the 'Great Asura', fortunately, very lucky." ”

The illusory figure calmly spoke: "Back then, Mu Gou Zhenren was only half a step away from the Immortal Realm, but he had an obsession and couldn't break it, he thought hard and meditated, thinking that he could build the Immortal Palace because of his family and country, and now the family is ruined and the country is broken, which makes him have a worry, dragging mud and water, in order to solve the hatred of the family and the country, this is the assassination." Although Mu Gou Zhenren finally died at the hands of the earth master at that time, and failed to attain the immortal realm, it is not an exaggeration to say that his body is a half-immortal body. ”

The old man said: "I almost let him drum up a corpse immortal, although he can't fly to the world, but he can also be free in the world for hundreds of years, even if he is turned into ashes by the heavenly catastrophe for hundreds of years, it is better than dying in this dark underground palace." ”

The illusory figure shook his head and said: "Mu Gou Zhenren's inner and outer Dan Dao is certainly meritorious, but after all, he has not attained the realm of immortality, anyone who can get the name of 'earth master' will be a person who has lived forever and long-sighted, since the earth master of that generation insists on putting him to death, then he will definitely die, if he is willing to sit down, it will be just a dry bone in the grave, but he wants to use the way of autopsy to steal life, then after death, the body will turn into a corpse demon, and fall into the hands of others, and there will be no peace after death, but he asked for it." ”

The old man withdrew his gaze from the man's body, tilted his head slightly, revealing half of his fleshless face, looked at this illusory figure and said, "It is worthy of being an earth master of the same lineage, and his words and actions are the same. ”

This illusory figure was noncommittal.

The old man said again: "After the success, the old man killed the juniors outside, I don't know what you think?"

The illusory figure said: "Old man Zang, I advise you, don't be rampant if you want to be ambitious, you should know who are standing behind those juniors, if you dare to kill them in one go, even if it is me, I may not be able to protect you." ”

The old man laughed at himself: "If you don't say that it's better to rely on yourself than to ask for someone, if the old man can have a realm of cultivation like yours, where is there any need to look forward and backward, if you want to kill, you can kill, if you don't want to kill, you will leave them alive." ”

The illusory figure said noncommittally: "Even if it is me, I don't dare to act like this, there is still a distance from what you think is 'comfortable'." ”

The old man smiled dumbly: "If you really want to kill someone, who can stop you? Qi Ying back then, didn't he die like this." ”

The figure didn't speak, and he couldn't see his expression clearly, but the old man didn't have to look at it, with his understanding of this person, he should have laughed at his words and didn't think so.

The old man didn't care, changed the topic, and asked, "I've always been curious, why these young juniors can be so powerful, in addition to the many treasures on their bodies, what is the difference in realm cultivation? ”

This earthly master didn't save much face for the dignified Soap Pavilion Sect Master, and said bluntly: "It's not us, it's you." You are not in the same realm as they are, and we are all the same. ”

The first "we" and the second "we" are clearly not a "we".

"We?" The old man bit the word "we" quite hard, and then looked at Xu Wugui: "Who are the 'we' you are talking about?"

Xu Wugui replied: "There are all the famous people on the old Xuan list. In other words, these young people have the hope of longevity, not that they will necessarily be able to set foot in the realm of longevity in this life, but that they have the qualifications to live forever. There is a saying in officialdom, which is called 'If you are not a jinshi, you will not enter the Hanlin, and if you are not a Hanlin, you will not enter the cabinet.' If the longevity realm is compared to the cabinet ministers, then these young people have just passed the Jinshi examination and have qualifications, but they are still 108,000 miles away from entering the cabinet to worship the prime minister.

"Don't mention the first class of the Jinshi and the first, only say that the second class of the Jinshi people, put a place for the county, the county is the seventh grade, if a county for three consecutive years in the evaluation, you can be promoted from the sixth grade, and so on, even if the road is unimpeded, you want to climb to the first product will take thirty-six years, if you are twenty years old to get the Jinshi, that is fifty-six years old, which is difficult, can be imagined. ”

"The sea of Huan ups and downs, there are ups and downs, I don't know how many people die of old age in the county governor in their lifetime, and they waste their lives. Six to five products, four to three products, two products to one product, are the threshold, I don't know how many people in the public door are stuck on the threshold, unless you meet the temple nobles, otherwise it will be difficult to move an inch, and you will not be able to advance an inch for life. If you offend someone or stand in the wrong position, not only will it be difficult to protect your official position, but you may also cause damage to your whole family. ”

Speaking of this, he paused for a moment, looked at the old man in Tibet, and said: "Let's use the people in the public gate as an analogy, people like you, the official has done enough to be said to be a feudal official in one state and one place, but he is not a Jinshi background, but a person from a lifting person, or a benevolent official background, so if you want to go further to the pavilion to worship the prime minister, it will be extremely difficult, and the only way to make up for it is only to seek a 'give the same Jinshi background', or the third class, it is actually the next choice." ”

When the old man heard this, he was silent for a long time, and then calmly asked himself and replied: "Since you use the analogy of people in the public gate, then I will also make an analogy, if we are all people in the court, and the immortal realm is a cabinet minister, then the emperor is naturally the way of heaven in the underworld, or a god three feet above his head, no matter who it is, it must be difficult to rebel, so he can only follow the rules." However, in the imperial court, there is not only a way for civil servants, but also military generals who have their wives and sons by virtue of their military merits. ”

Xu Wugui nodded and said: "What you said is not wrong, but it has not been completely to the point, you said that the martial arts will be promoted by military merits, corresponding to the person who becomes a cultivator, in fact, it is a martial artist who proves the Tao with his strength, but are you a martial artist? No." So, this road is not going to work. ”

The old man's face suddenly showed a touch of hideousness, and he said hatefully: "The more this is the case, the more the old man hates these young juniors, why do they have the hope of immortality, and the old man has spent most of his life, and the realm of immortality is still a flower in the mirror and a moon in the water." The old man can't wait to go out and kill them all now, so that he can relieve the hatred in his heart. ”

Xu Wugui said indifferently: "If you are really determined to do this, then it is up to you, it's a big deal that you give up the foundation of the Soap Pavilion Sect and hide on my side, the Yin Yang Sect still has a place for you." ”

The old man was noncommittal, and he didn't think that Xu Wugui's words were snubbing him, and said slowly: "If the Soap Pavilion Sect is really ruined, don't you feel distressed? I'm afraid that the first person to kill the old man at that time will be you, counting the past generations of earth masters, but none of them are willing to suffer, and there is no great good person who does not want to reciprocate." ”

Xu Wugui didn't speak, as if he acquiesced.

The old man said calmly: "Don't worry, the old man has lived for so long, and he is not the young man with strong blood." ”

Xu Wugui's already vague figure gradually faded.

The old man was silent for a long time, and finally exhaled a long breath, and his whole body was soaked in cold sweat almost instantly.