The two returned to the small case and sat down, Su Emei changed a pastry, but it was also put on the hot one, the style was still the same as before, and the osmanthus cake was still the most.

When Li Ye and Chu Nanhuai were talking, Su Emei never interjected, and this time after Li Ye sat down, Su Emei pushed the pastry plate at hand to him. She still didn't speak or disturb, she was quiet and did her duty, but Qingtan moved her eyes and looked at Li Ye motionlessly, and the meaning was very obvious - Li Ye hadn't eaten pastries yet.

Li Ye picked up a piece of osmanthus cake, bit half of it, and unexpectedly found that it was very delicious. Soft but not sticky, just the sweetness, with a slight acidity, is very suitable for wine.

I don't know if after listening to Chu Nanhuai's words, Li Ye's mood changed, so he felt that the pastry was delicious, and he quickly finished eating one piece, and picked up the second piece easily. Su Emei had already retracted his gaze and lowered his head obediently, but he also saw Li Ye's movements, and the corners of his mouth had a curved arc.

Chu Nanhuai said while drinking: "Pangu opened the sky, Nuwa created people, Taiyi ruled the world, and his descendants taught Daxing." The Daomen controlled the monks of heaven and earth, and the two Lich clans had retired for many years and became marginal forces, and they were also regarded by the Daomen as loose cultivators in the mountains. The descendants of the two races are not allowed to become immortals, and no matter what their cultivation is, they cannot go to the immortal court, which is a practice for thousands of years. Although the two lich clans were dissatisfied, they did not have the capital to bargain with the fairy court. ”

"Time has passed, foreign tribes have risen, the Xiongnu and Turkic gods have fought with the Daomen Immortal Court, and the biggest setback suffered by the Immortal Court was when the Wuhu Rebellion. In that battle, countless immortals fell, and almost orthodoxy did not exist. ”

"Now, the border troubles of the Tang Dynasty have risen again, the Nanzhao, Tubo, Uighur, and Khitan have developed and expanded, and the Western Regions have fallen. The main forces and energy of the Immortal Court are facing the army of gods of all races. At this time, it is logical to let the demon clan deal with His Highness. Moreover, if this matter can be used to bring the demon clan under the jurisdiction of the Daomen Immortal Court, this will also enhance the strength of the Daomen Immortal Court. ”

Li Ye nodded, heaven and earth are one, he can expect these things, but at the moment, he is not most concerned about this: "What realm are the demon clan monks?"

Chu Nanhuai glanced at Li Ye and said slowly: "The demon clan is just a small number of people, and in terms of cultivation, they are blessed with many masters. However, the ancient demons have all fallen, and now in the demon clan, the highest and most famous cultivator is the Seven Saints. Oh, it should be called the Six Saints, that monkey is not a demon now. ”

Li Ye nodded, the so-called "Seven Saints" naturally did not mean that they had saint cultivation. The saints of heaven and earth have a total of six of them, the so-called seven saints of the demon clan, when the monkey made trouble and claimed to be the great sage, the six demon kings who worshiped him also called themselves the great sage together.

But that monkey's cultivation is far from being comparable to the current Li Ye, if the Six Saints lead the way to make trouble in Pinglu, Li Ye will not be able to play with them at all.

Seeing Li Ye's expression, Chu Nanhuai smiled and said: "Your Highness doesn't have to worry, the Six Saints won't make a direct move, their cultivation is too high, once they appear in the world, it will be a big chaos, and the Immortal Court will not allow it." Besides, they weren't all willing to buy Heavenly Court's account. ”

Li Ye breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he was not even an earth immortal now, when that monkey made trouble, it was the realm of Da Luo Jin Immortal, and later it was rumored that he had reached the realm of quasi-saints, and there was no comparison at all.

Li Ye suddenly remembered something, and asked again: "Have you ever heard of "Lao Tzu Hua Hu Jing"?"

Chu Nanhuai said strangely: "What is "Lao Tzu Hua Hu Jing"?"

Li Ye smiled and didn't explain much.

In the Taoist saying of the earth, Lao Tzu rode a bull to the west to send a letter to Guguan, went to the place of the Hu people, and educated them, Buddhism is also a sect left after the old man educated the Hu people. Therefore, Buddhism is also in the Taoist immortal system, many immortals are both Buddhist and Taoist, and even the Great Day Buddha is a Lu Zhuan Taoist.

But in this world, the situation is obviously different, and the Buddha Gate is a foreign force, and like the gods of the Uighurs and Tibet, it has nothing to do with the Daomen. They went east for one purpose, to compete for the blessed land of Shenzhou.

This was confirmed from Chu Nanhuai, and Li Ye was also secretly relieved. Since there are so many differences between the two worlds, it is no wonder that the monks here don't know the exercise of "Purple Qi Comes from the East". Perhaps in this world, Lao Tzu didn't go far westward at all.

It's almost sunrise.

Everyone left the small case and came to the edge of the cliff to look quietly. For those who are cultivators, this is a sight not to be missed.

In the dark eastern sky, there was a line of deep blue, and the dark blue continued to expand, and then the horizon became red, and the morning star gradually dimmed. The white of the fish belly slowly emerged, the scale-like clouds had outlines, and the mountains and rivers had a faint golden yellow. Finally, under the red line, a round of golden red the size of an egg slowly floated, and the sky gradually unfolded.

The mountains and rivers covered by clouds and mist, under the faint light of the morning sun, are hazy and mysterious, and purple air comes from the east.

Li Ye frowned slightly, and the sea of qi rippled for no reason, as if under the calm sea, some powerful existence was about to surface.

The floating pool of green lotus was also like a breeze, swaying slowly, as if it was in harmony with the existence in the sea of qi. Only the dragon qi was dormant, it had just absorbed the blue and white beads left by Yuan Tiangang, and the already condensed body, the scales on the surface of the body were clearly emerging, as if it had reached some kind of breakthrough.

However, this abnormal movement was fleeting, and the sea of qi soon returned to calm.

Li Ye thought silently: "There is still one line left, and you can be promoted to the Yin God True Person." ”

Chu Nanhuai opened his mouth and asked, "Does Your Highness want to go back to Qingzhou?"

Li Ye shook his head, "The demon disaster in Qizhou is the heaviest, and it is also the birthplace of the demon disaster this time, if I am not bad as expected, it should be the base camp of the demon clan, I will go directly to Qizhou." ”

After the Huangchao Rebellion, the general trend of the world has been very clear, and it is inevitable to enter the troubled times of the princes competing for hegemony, but there is nothing to do with Li Ye for the time being. The key battle for the Central Plains, the first battle will be between Li Ye and Li Keyong in the north and Zhu Wen in the Central Plains, but that is not something that will happen in the past two years, so now Li Ye has time to deal with the rebellion of the demon clan.

Chu Nanhuai sighed: "Lao Dao will go back to Dustpan Mountain, Xiaozhuang will also go back with me, and Emei will follow His Highness." ”

Li Ye nodded: "When Nangong comes back in the future, I will let Emei return to the true view." ”

Li Ye went to Qizhou, so naturally he couldn't go alone. The Great Young Master's cultivation is not enough, and he is now in retreat. Wei Xiaozhuang also has to manage the Quanzhen Temple, and looking at Chu Nanhuai's appearance, Li Ye always feels that this old man is planning something. Su Emei's cultivation has reached the real realm, and she happens to be walking with Li Ye.

Before leaving, Chu Nanhuai suddenly said: "Your Highness has governed Pinglu in an orderly manner, and has won the praise of the people, and they all say that Your Highness is the lord of benevolence. But Your Highness should also know that in this world, whether people can be rich and prosperous and whether they can achieve things depends not on character, not on virtue, not for good or not, whether they do evil or not, but about strength. ”

Li Ye frowned.

Qizhou, Huabu Mountain.

In the fourth year of Qianfu, when Li Ye first arrived in Pinglu, he went to Qizhou to Huabuzhu Mountain. Since then, Hua Buzhu Mountain Taoist Temple has become the power of the Tsing Yi Yamen. However, at this time, there were neither Tsing Yi swordsmen nor Daomen Taoists in the Daoist Hall.

Halfway up the mountain, the peaks were hidden in a thick mist, and at the bottom was a white mist, so thick that you couldn't see five paces away. As the altitude increases, the color of the fog deepens, and the black fog that lingers on the summit is like waves. When ordinary people are here, they must not be able to see their fingers.

However, the black mist just floated in the air like a cloud, and the Taoist temple was clear. The hall that was damaged by Li Ye's punch before has already been rebuilt. It's just that now, there are no statues of gods in the main hall, and there is nothing left empty. Only at the end of the wide hall, on the nine-step platform, there is a tiger skin seat like the king of the mountain.

On the seat sat a young man in a black robe.

His face was extremely handsome, with a pale and bloodless face, blackened lips, and a pair of deep eyes that seemed to hide hell, which was particularly bewitching and terrifying. Thick curly hair is casually draped over the shoulders, black robes are embellished with gold trim, inlaid with scale armor orbs, and the shoulder armor is like a peacock feather, which is dizzying.

He sat on the throne with his legs crossed, his chin propped in his hands, his gaze unfocused, as if he was pondering something. Wisps of black gas swirled around him like flowing clouds.

The door of the main hall was open, and a dark green air mass like cooking smoke swept quickly from a distance. When they arrived in the hall, the dark green mass suddenly swelled and dissipated, revealing a huge beast with a white head and a snake tail, exuding a dark green aura all over its body.

The beast roared, and the man stood up, and soon turned into a man with a height of nine feet. His muscles bulged all over his body, and his face was full of ferocity, which made people shudder to see.

"The demon greets the Holy Son!" the big man clasped his fists and saluted the young man on the throne.

The black-robed young man did not react, maintaining his previous posture and remained motionless, as if he had not heard the big man speak at all, nor had he noticed his arrival. He didn't say a word, and the big man didn't dare to move, so he stood in the hall and waited.

After a long time, the black-robed young man finally came back to his senses from his contemplation, he glanced at the big man in the hall, his expression did not change in the slightest, neither surprised nor excited, looking at the big man's eyes, as if the other party had been standing in the hall, and said in a flat tone: "Demon, do you know, why we are here?"

"In response to the order of the Immortal Court, come here to arrest the sinners of the Immortal Court. The demon said, this question is not difficult, they were told so before they came.

The black-robed young man was noncommittal, and lightly ordered: "Then you can do it." ”

"Yes, Holy Son!" the demon clenched his fists in promise, retreated to the door of the temple, and transformed back into the appearance of a bull, a cloud of dark green smoke rose from his feet, dragging him into the air.

The hall was empty again.

In fact, even if the demon stood there, the hall still seemed empty. At the end of the hall, which was dozens of zhang long and wide, and there was no sunlight, the black-robed young man on the throne fell into contemplation again after the demon left.

Maybe he's not in thought, he's just in a daze. When there is no end in sight to the amount of time, and there is nothing important to do, there is no difference between contemplation and being in a daze.