In Lingxiu Villa, after Hu Liang asked to stay overnight for the time being, He Jin agreed and placed the group in a small courtyard on the west side of Lingxiu Villa, and He Jin personally led the two to their residence.

This courtyard is located in a corner of the villa, rarely visited, the environment is quiet, and a few bamboos are planted in the yard, adding a bit of elegance.

Hu Liang stood under the corridor, gently rubbed the head of the great master's sword, and said: "Lao Li, this Lingxiu Villa is not simple, the plaque hanging at the door of the Zhuangzi contains a mouthful of true yuan, even after so many years, it still has not dissipated, it can be seen how deep the realm of the person who wrote at the beginning." ”

"Xu Shisong, a master of the Heavenly and Human Escape Realm, once ranked eighth on the Taixuan List. Li Xuandu said slowly: "But that's all in the past, over the years, the imperial court has been declining, and there are many fewer masters on the surface, but I don't know if there will be real masters hidden in the secret." ”

Hu Liangchi asked: "The first battle in the imperial capital?"

Li Xuandu's face was a little gloomy, "In addition to the many true realms on the bright side, there must be heavenly and human realms that are secretly attacking, but we don't know it." ”

Hu Liang nodded.

Li Xuandu glanced at the rain curtain outside, and then said: "As for Lingxiu Villa, whose ancestors have not been wide, I was also a master of the True Realm back then, and now I don't have to rely on you to escort me." So, the past is the past, and the present is the present, two different things. ”

Hu Liang leaned under the pillars, looked at the rain outside, and said, "This heavy rain will take a day's work, and I don't know if I can leave here tomorrow morning." If you can't leave, will you have long nights and dreams?"

"Yes or may not. Li Xuandu said: "Of course this is nonsense, but the next road will never be a smooth road." ”

Hu Liang straightened up from the pillar and asked, "Lao Li, why do you say that Qingluanwei is holding on like this?"

Li Xuandu thought about it for a while, and said slowly: "Eighty percent is involved in the battle in the court, since the death of the four ministers of Gu Ming, the queen mother and the king of Jin are in power together, one mountain is difficult to accommodate two tigers, there must be a fight between the two, plus the little emperor is getting older, he should be sixteen years old this year, and he will be crowned in a few years, so there are not a few civil and military officials who are attached to the emperor's master Sun Songchan." Today's temple, the queen mother's party, the Jin king's party, the emperor's party, the three parties stand together, among which the queen mother's party is the most powerful, the Jin king's party is second, and the emperor's party is again. ”

"Zhou Tingchao is an upright person, dare to speak, dare to speak out. But he is not in the cabinet, not in the center, and the general envoy can completely drown out his sparseness, but not in the middle, and there is an article. As far as I know, the current envoy is the emperor Sun Songchan's person, so the reason why Zhou Tingchao's sparseness can shake the court is because there are people behind him who want to shake the court, which involves party disputes. Although we are here to save people for the word 'righteousness', when it comes to the party struggle in the court, it is no longer a word 'righteousness' that can be included. ”

Hu Liang scratched his head, "Lao Li, you have never been an official, and you still understand these twists and turns?"

Li Xuandu sighed and said: "The situation in the imperial capital back then was so dangerous, did I dare not understand? If I didn't understand, I would accidentally make a knife in someone else's hand, so I had to understand, and I didn't dare not understand." ”

Hu Liang sighed: "It's amazing, it's really amazing, Lao Li, it's a pity that you don't become an official." ”

Li Xuan was noncommittal, and glanced at Zhou Shuning, who was refining qi with his eyes closed.

The kung fu of the Xuannu Sect belongs to the yin and near the water, as the so-called goodness is like water, and the rainy day is regarded as the intersection of heaven and earth, so practicing the Xuanshui Gong in a place near the water or in heavy rainy weather can get twice the result with half the effort. The little girl was concentrating on collecting water essence and turning it into qi in her body at this moment, and she couldn't take care of the conversation between Li and Hu.

Hu Liang walked into the house from the verandah and said, "Lao Li, our battle in Nanshan Garden this time is actually a bit of a fluke, after all, in terms of strength on the surface, it is not difficult for them to defeat us. ”

Li Xuan didn't deny it, "They feel that they are calculating intentionally and carelessly, and they are too careless, rather than doing some tricks, it is better to fight with open fire." ”

That's a good point. Hu Liang said with a smile: "If Chen Guhong didn't think about poisoning, but directly opened the landscape array in Nanshan Garden, maybe the two of us would be consumed alive by him, but then again, if they poisoned it, it didn't take any effort over there, in the final analysis, they were greedy and wanted to take us down with the least effort, not the safest way." ”

Li Xuandu was noncommittal about this, and took out a fragment from the eighteenth-floor bead on his wrist, which was obtained from Chen Guhong's true inheritance sect "Human Immortal Refining Method", although it was only a fragment, but there were also merits, Li Xuandu planned to look at it when he was fine, and it could be regarded as enriching what he had learned.

Hu Liang retracted his gaze after taking a look, the same people do not have the same fate, some people are involved in various families, but they are miscellaneous but not refined, and there is even a danger of going crazy, while some people can do it and become a family of their own.

This kind of thing also has a precedent in the past, it is rumored that there were two ways to achieve success on the rivers and lakes, belonging to water and fire, there have been many people trying to practice two exercises at the same time, either water and fire collide and blow up the body and die, or yin and yang are confused and go into the devil and die, almost everyone regards it as a dangerous road, but in the end, there is a great master, in the case that everyone is not optimistic, the two exercises are integrated, water and fire, yin and yang are combined, and the law of achievement is achieved, and the realm of heaven and man can be obtained.

So single-mindedness or miscellaneous, it varies from person to person, take the two of them as an example, Lao Li is the kind of grandmaster who can be integrated, and it is enough for him to practice the knife in his hand. Especially after reaching the innate realm, the knife technique is almost instinctive, the so-called knife practice is no longer the practice of ordinary people in the rivers and lakes, as the so-called "practice boxing without practice, to the old one", the knife technique, no matter how subtle, after all, still has to rely on its own foundation to support it, so Hu Liang, who is already in the innate realm, began to get involved in the mysteries of the fairy family, and he can no longer be distracted.

Heavy rain poured down, and the hall fell silent.

Li Xuandu reads, the little girl practices, and the bored Hu Liang looked at the white and bright water line hanging down from the eaves, falling on the steps in front of the corridor, splashing a little water, he remembered a poem for no reason, it seemed to be called "The rain enters the empty steps and the night is long"?

A long delay means many hitches.

At this moment, in the heavy rain, the man in blue staggered out of the back gate of Nanshan Park, followed the steep mountain road that Li Xuandu had walked on, and slowly descended the mountain.

Because of the heavy rains, there was water in the dry riverbed again, and it looked like a river.

He walked into it, his body staggering, as if he would be swept down by the current at any moment, but he never fell, and just walked to the other side.

Then he looked up and "looked" at the Lingxiu Villa, which was hidden behind the rain curtain.