The ancestral hall is the place where the iron sword gate is dedicated to the ancestors of the past dynasties.

Except for the sacrificial event held once every five years, it is closed to the public at other times, and only elder-level figures can enter.

Therefore, this one-armed Taoist has been guarding for more than 50 years, but many of his disciples do not know each other.

Su Mai followed the old Taoist priest through Liuxian Lake, past several courtyards, and through a path on the east side of the valley.

After a short time, we came to a valley full of bamboo forests.

Walk through the bamboo forest and come to a small courtyard, with bluestone paving, gray tiles and white walls, which looks quiet and peaceful.

Compared with the high-walled compound in front of it, it is more like a small farmhouse courtyard, and even worse than the outer valley.

If Su Mai came here alone, he would have thought that it was the residence of the hunters in the mountains.

The old man stopped in front of the courtyard gate, and when Su Mai approached, he said:

"This place is the ancestral hall of this gate, and it is also the place where the immortals of the ancestors of the Iron Sword Gate are enshrined. ”

This is the first time that the old Taoist priest has spoken since leaving the deacon hall.

It turned out that his name was dry heart, and this name was strange enough, Su Mai looked up, and suddenly asked strangely:

"Master, why isn't there even a plaque here?"

"Respect the ancestors, feel at ease, what's the use of asking for a plaque!"

Having said that, there was a little loneliness in his tone, and then he said: "This ancestral hall, it was also a prosperous incense, but it's a pity that ......!".

"What is a pity, Master?" asked Su Mai.

"It's none of your business, don't ask!"

The old man blocked his doubts.

Su Mai stuck out his tongue, full of curiosity about the mysterious old man, but he didn't dare to be disrespectful.

When the two of them walked into the courtyard, they saw that there was a hall facing the courtyard gate, and there were two side rooms on each side.

The courtyard is paved with bluestones, and there is an ancient well, and the ground is so clean that not even a single leaf can be found.

As the old man walked inward, as soon as he entered the hall, Su Mai was taken aback.

It's just that in front of me is an offering platform, densely packed with dozens of spiritual seats, new or old, under which there is an incense case, and there are three sandalwood sticks that have just been burned.

The old man approached the incense case, gently took out three incense sticks, lit the fire, bowed to the front three times, handed it to Su Mai and said, "Come and meet the ancestors."

Su Mai took the incense, knelt down in front of a grass futon in front of the incense case, and kowtowed respectfully three times, which was considered to have completed the last process of his worship into the Iron Sword Gate.

The dry-hearted Taoist quietly looked at Su Mai on the ground, sighed softly, and said to himself: "I don't know if it's a curse or a blessing!"

After Su Mai finished kowtowing and stood up, the old man took Su Mai to the side room.

I saw that there was a wooden table in it, a pot of tea, two teacups, and a small desk in the corner on the side, which was very simple.

Seeing the teacup on the table, Su Mai opened his mouth and asked, "Master, do we have anyone else here?"

"No, I used to be a teacher, but today there are more of you," the old man replied.

"Then why are there two teacups?" Su Mai was a little strange.

"The shadow is self-product, and the other one will be yours in the future"

After the old man finished speaking, he sat down at the table and beckoned Su Mai to sit down as well.

"Child, I arrived at this ancestral hall today, but I was a little disappointed?"

The Dry Heart Daoist asked.

Su Mai was shocked, hurriedly stood up, bowed down and said, "It is a great luck to be favored by the master."

The old man smiled, waved his hand and motioned for Su Mai to sit down, and said:

"You don't have to be nervous, you also saw it today, the teacher has never given an apprentice, and he guards this ancestral hall alone, you can be here today, it is also fate, I have a thousand-year-old inheritance of the Iron Sword Gate, and there are countless Xuangong Taoism, as long as you are good at self-cultivation, you will achieve success in the future,"

Speaking of it, the old man was surprisingly excited, and he could see that he had a heartfelt respect for the Iron Sword Gate.

"It's a pity that the immortal method in my sect is half lost, and now there is only this void cloud trick left, and no one cares about it."

The old man's expression turned gloomy, and there was a bit of pain in his words.

"Master, what is the Void Cloud Secret, why does no one care about it?"

"This Void Cloud Recipe is the treasure of my sect, the Taoist Qi Secret Method, which was originally the foundation of the disciples of the Iron Sword Sect, but unfortunately now the Iron Sword Sect is different, and this Void Cloud Recipe will also be shelved", the old man sighed.

"Why?"

Su Mai wondered more and more, if the disciples of the Iron Sword Sect didn't practice this Void Cloud Technique, could there be any other techniques?

"This Void Cloud Recipe is Taoist orthodoxy, passed down from the Patriarch of Konoha Patriarch, after the completion of the Dao Law, it can have the ability to penetrate the heavens and the earth, but unfortunately it is very slow to enter the realm, if you practice for countless hundred years, it is difficult to become a great tool. ”

"Hundreds of years?"

Su Mai's eyes widened.

"That's right, so since the Konoha Patriarch, there are very few people in this sect who have cultivated to the peak, and the reputation of the sect has also deteriorated, until fifty years ago, after Yi Jianchu took over from Sect Master Jiang to take charge of this sect, it gradually improved, but it is no longer the prosperity of the Iron Sword Sect. ”

The old man replied that he didn't seem to be optimistic about the prosperity of the Iron Sword Gate in recent years, and the Yi Sect Master, who was admired by everyone, also called him by his name.

After a pause, the old man continued:

"Over the past few decades, the Iron Sword Sect has opened its doors to recruit talents, and the prestige of the sect has increased day by day, but the real reason is that it has abandoned this false cloud trick and found another way, so that the realm of the disciples under the sect has risen greatly, and the talents have flourished. ”

"Do you want to practice the Tao of another family in another way?"

"Fifty years ago, Yi Jianchu took over the position of the sect master, and soon announced that he had found the legacy in the ancestor's secret scroll, which was easier to practice than the Xuyun Jue, and ordered the new disciples to learn this "Xuanqing Immortal Scroll", since then the Xuyun Jue has been abandoned, and now there are even fewer people in the younger generation of the Iron Sword Gate, and even the elders of the sect, there are many people who turn to practice the new method."

"Master, is this Xuanqing Immortal Scroll really so powerful?"

Su Mai leaned towards the old man and asked.

"This immortal scroll has never been practiced by the teacher, but from the young disciples in recent years, it is indeed easier to cultivate than the Void Cloud Technique, and it is faster to enter the realm, as for the future progress, no one knows. As for Su Mai's question, the old man had no way to answer it.

"Then how do I practice?"

Su Mai suddenly thought of this thorny question, from the bottom of his heart, he must also hope that the cultivation is the fastest, after all, it is always good to have a shortcut, and he can't wait for Gao Xiang Han Ping'er and them to fly in the sky, and he is still running underground.

I thought so in my heart, but I was embarrassed to say that after all, from the master's words, he attached great importance to the ancestral practice of Xuyun Jue.

The old man saw what Su Mai was thinking, so he said:

"When you enter my court, this Void Cloud Recipe and Xuanqing Immortal Scroll can be chosen by yourself, but the cultivation methods of the two are different, you can only take one and follow, and be greedy and vain, otherwise you will risk your life."

After speaking, the old man stood up and took out a wooden box from under the desk next to him and handed it to Su Mai.

When I opened it, there were two ancient books side by side, which were Xuanqing Immortal Scroll and Xuyun Jue.

"Master, I want to refine the Void Cloud Technique"

Su Mai picked up one of them and said to the Dry Heart Daoist.

"Well, that's right, although this Void Cloud Technique is slow to enter the realm, it is the orthodoxy of the Iron Sword Sect passed down by the ancestor, as long as you concentrate on cultivation, it will never be worse than this Xuanqing Immortal Scroll"

The old man's face was happy, and his heart said that this void cloud trick has been dusty for many years, and now there is finally a successor.

Picking up the Void Cloud Recipe in Su Mai's hand, the old man gently stroked it for a while, and said:

"The Void Cloud Recipe is the secret method of the Three Clears, emphasizing gradual and natural, leading the qi of heaven and earth for my use, you and I mortal body, want to attract the aura of heaven and earth, it is difficult to ascend to the sky, so at the beginning of the practice, it is very painful, you must have extraordinary courage and perseverance to succeed, you must prepare in advance, if there is no chance, do not need to force, go to repair the Xuanqing scroll."

"Please rest assured, Master, the apprentice knows that his qualifications are not high, and he must do his best."

Su Mai said firmly, with the words of the dry heart Taoist, Su Mai also had a bottom in his heart.

Previously, he chose this Void Cloud Technique for fear of making the old man unhappy, as long as he did his best, it was reasonable for him to turn to the Xuanqing Scroll if he couldn't learn it.