At dusk, in the sparse streets and alleys of Shalang Town, there are school-age children in twos and threes, mixed with a few adult men and women dressed in long shirts and neat appearances, all walking in one direction, which is the only hotel backyard in the town. The town is called Sand Gallery, but the hotel is nameless. The hotel here is called a hotel, and it will not be called an inn like the mainland that is customary.

When entering and leaving the town, the students of Fangliang Daoyuan didn't have time to figure out the name of the town, and it was not until this incident that they caught the villagers who had supplied some food and firewood to ask the name of the place.

The villagers in this place seem to be uneducated, communicate with others, speak very little, and go straight to the point. There were no restaurants in the town, and there were no restaurants in the hotels, so everyone had to do it themselves, borrowing the kitchen with soot and fire to cook. The supply of firewood and food, of course, is also paid, and the price is expensive.

The four bodies are not diligent and the grains are not distinguished, such as Shen Gongjie and others, and they can't help in the kitchen, so they just wander around the front and back of the hotel, doing nothing. The tall shopkeeper was very unkind to these young men and women, and if it weren't for the good words of the esteemed guest Gong Jili, he would not even rent them a firewood room. But every time Shen Gongjie passed by the hotel lobby, Helian Wuji was still very polite to him, and even took the initiative to take out his own cellar of old wine as a gift. It's just that Shen Gongjie refused, only saying that here and now, there is a miasma of black smoke, and he is afraid that he will spoil the taste of good wine. One day, when his legs and feet are stiff, he will come to drink with interesting friends who are in charge of Helian's shopkeeper.

Helian Wuji smiled and said Okay, he will keep a few jars of good wine all the time, waiting for him to drink it.

Helian Wuji thought that the friend who this interesting young man found interesting must also be interesting and qualified to drink his Helian Wuji's wine.

Shen Gongjie was very curious and asked a question that seemed very rude, "Shopkeeper, your name was given by your own father and mother? This is not very similar, if they can come up with such a name, it will be difficult to teach you such a straightforward and heroic man." ”

Helian Wuji couldn't stop laughing after hearing this, and said: "You're right, my father and mother died early, and the only thing they taught me was how to herd and hunt, and how to defend against wolves in the wilderness. After I was eight years old, I didn't have a father or mother anymore. At that time, my name was Mountain Wolf. It's called now, but it's all called me by local folks. And this Mr. Gong and his friends will call me Helian Wuji, so to outsiders, I also call myself Helian Wuji. ”

Shen Gongjie said strangely: "Could it be that your name was given by Mr. Gong?"

Helian Wuji's face was full of reverence, and he smiled: "Yes, not only mine, but the residents of our entire town originally had no surname. After Mr. Gong came, he visited every house here and listened carefully to our stories of the past. Finally, Mr. Gong told us that the residents of the town should have a total of three surnames, one is Helian, the second is Nangong, and the third is Linghu. With a surname, it is easy to distinguish between the clans and branches to which they belong, but the problem is that everyone does not know the name. So Mr. Gong gave everyone a name and opened a school here. ”

Shen Gongjie nodded silently, several thoughts turned in his heart, and finally he couldn't help asking: "This Mr. Gong is very famous in the entire secluded plain, and he also has a Taoist academy in his hometown, how can he have time to come here to run a school?"

Helian Wuji said: "On weekdays, it is Mr. Gong's students or friends who take turns to stay here for a long time to teach. As for Mr. Gong himself, every two to three years, he will personally come here to stay here for two or three

Month. You are also a scholar, right? Mr. Gong will also give a lecture to the villagers in that small courtyard tonight, and if you are interested, you and the tall boy named Cheng can go and listen to it. As for the others, I wouldn't allow a step into the backyard. ”

Shen Gongjie smiled and thanked the shopkeeper, and then went out and went out to the street to see the "students" who were rushing to the backyard of the hotel.

Of course, he wouldn't really ask Zhou Cheng to go with him to listen to Gong Jili's lecture. Today's play, he openly offended the authority of the arrogant man of Tieliuyi, and he had already offended people to death. Although in Luoma City, he is the head snake of the land, and even if you cross the river dragon, even if you are really a dragon, then you have to spend effort to cross the river first, right? But in any case, he still has to grasp the balance of this subtle implication and conflict between the upper forces. The bright pigtails that the open flame held on to others were pulled, and he was not stupid enough to do this.

In a guest room with an upstairs window facing the backyard, Chang An and Zhong Li were carefully cleaning the wounds of Lei Zhenyu, who was covered in bruises. The dragon and phoenix brocade robe, which had long been shattered into pieces of cloth, had been taken off, revealing the steel and iron bones under the handsome face.

The tendons on the young warrior's body are all as hard as stone.

Chang An, who was born in a military family, has a lot of attainments in dealing with internal and external trauma. After a while, Lei Zhenyu's limbs where the white bones appeared everywhere had been applied to the soldier's healing elixir, and the bandaging stopped. Dressed in a new satin robe, the young warrior was as radiant as ever, and he couldn't see the slightest bit of decay when he was seriously injured.

In the backyard of the hotel, the sound of Lang Lang's book was already heard, and it could be heard clearly in the upstairs room.

“...... At the beginning of the separation of heaven and earth, clear turbidity and dissection, Mingshui Hongmeng, set up the image, erect the north and south, make the east and west, open and dark, open and dark, the light grid is four-dimensional up and down, inside and outside, long and short, thick and thin, male and female, white and black, large and small, often like a nocturnal ......"

“...... Man is the law of the earth, the earth is the law of the sky, the heaven is the law, and the Tao is the law of nature......"

There are three young people in brocade clothes in the room, with different expressions. Zhong Li's face was full of the signature smile, and he wanted to ask for warmth beside Lei Zhenyu, but he didn't dare to disturb him, because the latter was quietly listening to the sound of books in the backyard and explaining in detail with Mr. Gong.

And Chang An, who was standing on the side, was full of disdain and resentment.

Lei Zhenyu suddenly looked around and asked, "What do you think of this Mr. Gong's so-called preaching?"

Chang An didn't think about it, and said angrily: "I'm still too tolerant and forgiving, and let these outlaws take the guise of preachers and spread this kind of crooked heresy everywhere. ”

Lei Zhenyu looked at Zhong Li, who smiled and begged his senior brother for advice.

Lei Zhenyu had no choice but to shake his head and smile: "Forget it, who are you Zhong Li? Chang An said this, although it is good, but it is also a little excessive. In this way, won't even our master be scolded together?"

Chang An was ashamed, but he still insisted: "Although the master advocates freedom of learning, there is no way to go, and there is no definite law, but it is very different from the palace Jili who openly spread the superstition and evil ways of ancient times. ”

Lei Zhenyu looked through the window, crossed the backyard, looked at the vast wilderness of Guangxin Prefecture, and said slowly: "The reason why there are preachers in the world who do not follow the etiquette and law is that after all, we Taoism, the soldiers, the martial arts, and the three families are scattered. Although they all respect the Taiyi Sect, after all, they have their own policies and interests. The power of any one family cannot teach the world and preach to all people. if

One day, you and I will be able to do our best for the integration of the three families, even if it is only a small step forward, how can we allow these evil demons to flow poison in the world?"

Chang An was very happy, and said with great ambition: "I, Chang An, am a shallow learner, and I am not good at talking about this kind of eloquence." There is really this day, Chang Anwei's senior brother is looking forward. ”

Zhong Li was stunned and didn't dare to speak. These words seem to be even more rebellious than the ancient superstitions of Ji Li! How dare he, a small son of the Nine Eyes Peak Mountain Zhu, dare to say it?

But all the Taiyi Sect Masters who have set up their own mountains will have their own secular jurisdiction. For example, in the jurisdiction of the Xiqiao Mountain sect, there are three cities: Luoma, Lingshan and Yange, and each city has a city lord's mansion, which governs secular affairs on behalf of the sect, and pays taxes for farming in one place. Although the taxes have been paid by the city lord's mansion, the additional donations of pilgrims and believers, the legal contact of wealthy families, and the Taoism of mortals in a place all need someone to run before and after to act on behalf of the Taoists on the mountain. The representatives of these sects under the jurisdiction are called Shanzhu.

In the territory of the sect under the city, Shanzhu is a high-ranking and powerful existence, and he has the power to kill the villagers. If the jurisdiction of a mountain includes one or more townships, the appointment and dismissal of a township is also initiated by Shanzhu, or even directly implemented.

Zhong Li's father, Zhong Wentian, is the mountain Zhu of the jurisdiction of the Nine Eyes Peak. Within the jurisdiction of Xiqiao Mountain, Zhong Wentian can also be regarded as a character. It's just that compared with the military governor of the entire secluded plain, and the descendants of Tieliuyi, it is still a difference between cloud and mud.

There is no such thing as a "gentleman who cooks far away" in the Xuanhuang world, so those fellow students of Fangliang Daoyuan who work in the kitchen all show their magical powers, and they pour a lot of good dishes with both color and fragrance. In the end, Zhong Chengshu came to this upstairs guest room and knocked on the door, inviting the senior brothers to come down for dinner. Lei Zhenyu asked Chang An and Zhong Li to leave on their own, saying that he had no appetite.

This is the truth, and the last time the withered middle-aged man took over, Lei Zhenyu's internal organs and organs turned over the river and the sea, and I don't know what the earthquake became. But in those three encounters, he himself knew that the other party did not fight back at all, and they were all a supreme defense method of "falling into a circle". The so-called landing point into a circle is to let the opponent almost fight with himself, once he takes over, the person who punches, all the punch power is returned to himself.

The greater the output, the greater the self-trauma.

That withered middle-aged move to resolve the life-and-death battle between Zhang Bian and Helian Wuji, Lei Zhenyu already knew that this person was a whetstone needed for his own martial arts. The so-called battle of will, with his high family background, has long been downplayed. But if he needs to fight a big battle in order to sharpen his martial arts, he will definitely not hesitate to cause a life-and-death competition by any means.

What's more, some of his own indescribable hidden talents, when facing that person, there is a kind of loosening that is about to come out. That's what prompted him to finally throw the final punch with all his might.

After a punch, although he was covered in bruises and bloody and terrifying, the hidden talent on Lei Zhenyu's body that had been unable to be discovered was indeed stimulated by the opponent's powerful qi, and the bottleneck was loosened, and a trace of signs appeared. That's why Ling Yinzhen said to him at the end.

"There are some things that I may not be fortunate to get, so I can do it myself. ”

Thinking of the solemn face of the withered middle-aged man when he spoke, Lei Zhenyu, who was alone in the room, suddenly laughed wildly and improvised and sang.

How do the finches know that the birds are ambitious, and the phoenix will regret the feather injury!