Chapter Twenty-Six: Encounter in the Mountains
Tianshu Temple.
I only saw that there were dozens of people standing in the hall, standing in two rows, there were men and women, they were dressed in Taoist robes. Among them, there are a few people who seem to be immortal, otherworldly, and obviously very prestigious figures in Haoqing Palace.
In the main hall, there is a statue of Sanqing God, and the bearing is solemn.
Under the statue, on the meditation mat sat a Taoist wearing a dark gray robe, embroidered with gossip patterns. Seeing that his hair is snow-white, and he is holding a handful of Tai Chi whisks in his hand, he obviously has an elegant demeanor of respecting virtue and natural inaction.
This is the head of Haoqing Palace, "Hongqian Daoren"!
Duanmuqi and the other five people had been led to the main hall by a disciple, and they saw Duanmuqi bowing to Hongqian Daoist and saying, "Yunhua Sword Sect Duanmuqi and his disciples to meet Uncle Hongqian!"
The four people who followed her also came to meet her, but none of them said anything.
Nahong Qiandaoren's face was ruddy, looking at Duanmu Qi and the other five people who came from afar, he nodded slightly and smiled: "Duanmu Master and nephew, they are all from their own family, there is no need to be polite!" His voice was calm and majestic.
At this time, Hongqian Daoist raised his wide sleeved robe, waved the Tai Chi whisk in his hand, and then turned his eyes to the four people behind Duanmu Qi, carefully examined it, and said with emotion: "These are all new elite disciples of your sect, huh...... Not bad...... It looks outstanding, and it is indeed a manufacturable material!"
"Over the years, your Yunhua Sword Sect has worked hard to cultivate young disciples, and it is really gratifying to congratulate you on the generation of talents!" he continued to praise.
Duanmu Qi looked humble, and bowed unhurriedly: "Thank you Uncle Hongqian, these are all new disciples selected from our faction, although their skills are far better than ordinary disciples, but they still need to be honed!"
"Hmm......" Hongqian Daoist smiled: "In recent years, I haven't been able to go to your sect to pay a visit, I don't know how Senior Brother Yuanxu is doing well!"
Duanmuqi said: "The family teacher has always been in good health and in good spirits, and Uncle Lao Hongqian has remembered it." ”
Hongqian Daoist said again: "This seat and all the elders are here waiting for the arrival of Duanmu Master and nephew, regarding the matter of the Tiandui Cult, I will send my powerful elite disciples to investigate the cult traitors with you!"
In the hall, I saw Duanmuqi carrying a cyan long sword, her eyes were crystal clear, and she replied with an awe-inspiring face: "In the past few years, the cult has always been powerful and notorious, and everyone has been punished, but it is a pity that the entire Youzhou has become their sphere of influence, not only annexing many large and small sects, not to mention, but now they have also begun to establish rudders in Yunzhou, intending to swallow up all the large and small factions in Yunzhou, which is really hateful!"
At this moment, after hearing Duanmuqi's words, several elders in the main hall nodded and discussed......
Speaking of Gu Nanyun here, he looked around the Tianshu Palace, except for the difference between the Sanqing Statue and the Qinghua Hall of the Yunhua Sword Sect, the other decorations in the hall were almost the same, and the momentum and scale were also extraordinary, comparable to each other.
After everyone in the hall discussed, Hongqian Daoist said quietly: "Five years ago, the sect meeting, this seat was entangled in important matters in the sect, and it was not possible to come as promised, and when Duanmu Master and nephew go back to the descendants, this seat will apologize to Senior Brother Yuanxu!"
Duanmu Qi thought for a while and said, "Senior Uncle Hongqian is too worried, I think that my Yunhua Sword Sect and your sect have been friends for generations, as for those red tape, it should be exempted!"
Hongqian Dao people were a little worried because they were unable to attend the conference five years ago, but now when they heard Duanmuqi say this, he nodded slightly, indicating that what he said was very reasonable.
At this time, an elder of Haoqing Palace walked in front of the Hongqian Daoist, and he said: "Senior Brother in charge, my top priority at the moment is to send capable disciples to work together to resist the cult and find out the hiding place of the demon!"
Hongqian Daoist replied: "Senior brother is very right, and now the cult demons have sneaked into Yunzhou, and regard my Haoqing Palace as nothing, if I don't hurry up to stop it, I'm afraid that I will be worthy of the position of the leader of Yunzhou!"
He said again: "Senior Brother Wan, you will select three outstanding disciples from the sect and go with the disciples of the Yunhua Sword Sect to explore the details of the cult!"
"Yes! After saying a word, Elder Haoqing, surnamed Wan, withdrew and left the Heavenly Pivot Hall.
After some conversation, Hongqian Daoist looked at Duanmu Qi, and he said: "Today, Duanmu Master and nephew and a few disciples came from afar, presumably they are already tired, this seat has arranged housing, you can stay for a few days, and then go down the mountain with my disciples!"
Duanmuqi and the other five people bowed their hands and thanked them together, and then they were led out of the Tianshu Hall by a disciple in the main hall and walked in the direction of the side hall.
As mentioned earlier, the cultivation techniques of Yunhua Sword Sect and Haoqing Palace are originally from the same origin, what is the reason, I am afraid that everything has to start from more than seven hundred years ago.
As early as the early days of the establishment of the Yunhua Sword Sect, the first of the "Ten Great Xuan Immortals" in Kunlun - Yunhua Shangxian, that is, the ancestor of the Yunhua Sword Sect. At that time, he accepted a total of five disciples, and these five disciples jointly founded the Yunhua Sword Sect, and one of them was not satisfied with the status quo, and felt that his cultivation attainments could still break through, so he left the sect and traveled all over the world, seeking the supreme "avenue" in his heart!
After decades of travels and exploration, he finally became enlightened, and found that everything in this world follows a certain law, which is the essence of change, immortal, formless, imageless, beginningless, endless, all-encompassing, its big outside, its small inside, changing over time, eternal and unchanging.
Later, he used the method taught by his ancestors, and on this basis, he derived a cultivation method, which is the "Tao Method"!
Then he shook the top of Haoqing Mountain in Yunzhou, opened a sect, and set up another sect, which was called: "Haoqing Palace".
Haoqing Palace has been carried forward by several generations of ancestors, and is now one of the top ten schools. Now the Yunhua Sword Sect and the Haoqing Palace are different from each other, but it is not an exaggeration to say that they are of the same origin.
Haoqing Palace, the second day.
Gu Nanyun got up early in the morning, and it seemed that his spirit was much better than before, because of the long-distance flight a few days ago, his body was sleepy and tired. Last night was the most restful night I've slept in the past few days.
He pushed open the door and walked out, breathing in the freshness and comfort of the air, the sun's glow already reflected on his face, warm.
At this time, his eyes became wider, and he could see the horizon at a glance, and the large and small palaces not far from him were quietly distributed on the top of this mountain, and they were full of light, looming in the morning mist, like a fairyland.
Several dull bells rang, echoing faintly on the top of the shaking light, this bell seemed to symbolize the beginning of a new day in Haoqing Palace.
Gu Nanyun casually walked and looked into the distance, only to see the strange show of thousands of peaks, the clouds were steaming, and the glow was ten thousand ways, looking at the magnificent weather in front of him, he was intoxicated by it.
Unconsciously, Gu Nanyun subconsciously walked further along the scenery along the way, and at this time he had come to a certain mountain behind Haoqing Palace.
The feeling here made him feel an inexplicable sense of tranquility, and there was a trace of coolness spreading around him.
I saw a mountain rock in front of me protruding horizontally, from a distance it looks like a dragon's head is jumping with its big mouth open, and it is about to drill out of the belly of the mountain immediately, its mouth spits out a waterfall like a stream, "whoosh" straight into a clear water lake under the mountainside, it turns out that there is such an excellent place in the mountain, here it seems that the terrain is relatively flat.
A white jade pavilion, standing on the top of the mountain, looks a little lonely, as if staring at the blue water lake in front of it, making people have a kind of cold beauty after looking at it.
Gu Nanyun walked further, and suddenly he stopped, and his body stopped not far from the pavilion......
In his eyes, a beautiful figure flashed, it was a woman, a female disciple of Haoqing, the slight mountain breeze gently blew the corners of her clothes, dancing like a flying flotsam with her graceful figure.
Just look at the woman's slender figure plump and slender, her head is tied with a crown, the crown is printed with a Tai Chi pattern, the green silk hangs down her shoulders, and two white hair ribbons flutter in the wind. Wearing a black and white Taoist disciple uniform, mainly white, and black as a decoration, her whole person looks outstanding!
She looked indifferent, her eyes were like water, but they were a little cold, and her cold face was like cream, and her white skin was pink. Between the eyebrows, there is a cold and faint tenderness flashing in the heroic spirit, as if it is like the moonlight at night, clear and cold, faint, soft, like autumn water.
She held a sword in her hand, and it bloomed with an aqua blue light, dazzling in the morning sun.
Her figure is on the mountain stone, like catkins flying, like autumn water flowing, the long sword in the slender hand of the slender hand tactfully moved, sometimes rising to the sky, sometimes floating to the ground, several sword shadows turned into a silver bay moon, flying scattered, wonderful.
With such a free sword dance, she is like a fairy of the Nine Heavens, peerless.
Gu Nanyun stared at all this in front of him in a daze, he was so stupid that he forgot the existence of time, and this moment seemed to be eternal.
Now, all he could think of was the figure of the woman in front of him......
"Whew......"
This was the sound of a long sword, it was too late, and when Gu Nanyun came back to his senses, the woman flew to him like lightning, and in hindsight, the shining aqua blue sword had already stopped at his neck.
"Auntie...... Girl...... I'm sorry...... I was in a gaffe just now, and the sword has no eyes, so please ...... The girl put down the sword in her hand!" Gu Nanyun watched her beautiful eyes flow, and her heartbeat missed half a beat for a while, and she became a little stammered.
"Who are you, tell me quickly......" The woman still pointed her long sword at him, her eyebrows were heroic, and she said in a cold voice.
Gu Nanyun was stared at by her so directly, there was a look in her eyes that she wanted to kill him, but this gaze made him uncomfortable, his face was hot, and he didn't dare to look at the woman directly.
Gu Nanyun was a little flustered at the moment, and said, "I'...... Below is the disciple of the Yunhua Sword Sect in Shuzhou, this time on the order of the master, he went to meet with the disciples of Haoqing Palace, and went to explore the cult demon together......"
The woman's face was serious, and after hearing Gu Nanyun's words, her eyebrows lowered, she withdrew the long sword in her hand, and said lightly: "Then why did you come here?"
Gu Nanyun breathed a sigh of relief at this time, fortunately he showed his intention, otherwise he would have died under her sword like this, it would have been too wronged.
He turned his mind and smiled: "Girl, you are a disciple of Haoqing!"
He then said: "In Xia Gu Nanyun, I haven't asked the teacher sister to give your surname ......."
The woman turned around, turned her head coldly, looked at him no more, and did not reply to him for a long time.
Gu Nanyun couldn't help but smile a little bitterly in his heart, it turned out how embarrassing it was to be ignored, looking at the beautiful woman in front of him, he really couldn't guess what she was thinking.
In order to alleviate this embarrassing atmosphere, he arched his hand and said: "I just offended my senior sister in the next place, please forgive me, but I got up this morning, wanted to come out for a walk, and saw the pleasant scenery of Haoqing Mountain, so I got carried away and walked here!"
He stole a glance at the woman, wondering if she had heard it or not, and was waiting for her answer.
The woman raised her head and looked into the distance, her face cold, as if she was thinking about something.
Then, she turned her head again and looked at the Yunhua disciple from Shuzhou in front of her, her voice was like her appearance, cold and indifferent, but it was endlessly memorable, just listen to her: "You go back!"
After the woman finished speaking, she didn't wait for Gu Nanyun to speak, she turned around and left without looking back, leaving Gu Nanyun standing there alone until the beautiful back gradually disappeared......