It was cold in the grotto, and a few small fish in the pool were still swimming happily, not knowing that the relationship between the two people in the grotto had changed subtly.

Murong Shaohua stroked his beard and said, "How can you say that?

Li Tianqi said indifferently: "You really didn't say it. But all things show that you will not take me as a disciple. At this time, he no longer used the honorific "you", and he was already disheartened.

"Oh?" Murong Shaohua took a few steps forward, turned to look at him, and said, "What do you say?"

Li Tianqi said: "Actually, I should have thought of it a long time ago, but I had to do it because there was no way out. Back then, the condition for you to ask me to enter the Heavenly Master Dao was that I should write an oath and betray my original master, Dream Youtian Master, and be free to be a Dao Saint. But I refused at the time, but then you agreed again, so that I didn't have to make another vow. I don't know what prompted you to make the change, but I had no choice at the time. But I've been thinking about it for the past five years, and it makes me feel bad. I have read a lot of books, and there are many rules for the sect to worship and recognize ancestors for thousands of years, and they are easy to not violate......"

Murong Shaohua was noncommittal, still staring at this Li Tianqi.

Li Tianqi continued: "In the past five years, I have worked hard and did not dare to cross the Lei Chi for half a step, and I have consulted senior people for everything, such as Song Bo, Aunt Xuanyin, etc., but unexpectedly, because of the incident of going down the mountain last month, you have an excuse. ”

He said: "I ask myself, Xiaoyue and I are bent on doing something for the people, but what happened later was unintentionally triggered, and if I want to be held accountable, there is no complaint, but how can it become an excuse to delay my time to practice martial arts?

Murong Shaohua turned his back, as if he was also thinking about Li Tianqi's words.

Li Tianqi took a deep breath, calmed down his gradually excited mood, and said: "The head of the sect is unwilling to teach me kung fu, just say it, I will go down the mountain, why bother to trick me into staying here for so long? I know that my life was picked up by you, and I am very grateful, because I didn't dare to doubt it before, and I won't do anything disobedient, but now I know that you can't teach me kung fu anymore. ”

Murong Shaohua shook his head and said, "No." ”

Li Tianqi hurriedly said: "Why not? Isn't it okay for me to go to other places?"

Murong Shaohua was silent again, presumably he was also thinking about it.

Li Tianqi said: "I know that although the White-clothed Sect came for that little black cylinder, Murong Xiaoyue's disappearance that night was someone else, and this person is you!"

Murong Shaohua came back to his senses, there seemed to be a smile on the corner of his mouth, and he asked, "Tell me, how do you know that it is the head of this family?

Li Tianqi said: "I don't think you were forced to leave the customs after the White Clothes Sect went up the mountain, in fact, you should have already been out of the customs, but you didn't declare it to the public based on some things I don't know. ”

Murong Shaohua nodded slightly, it seemed that he also admired Li Tianqi's unique thinking very much.

Li Tianqi continued: "You had a temporary idea to kidnap Xiaoyue, maybe you saw that we got the small black cylinder, although I don't know if the small cylinder fell into your hands?"

Murong Shaohua said: "Tell me, how do you know that Xiaoyue fell into my hands. ”

Li Tianqi said: "After knowing that Xiaoyue was missing that day, I thought about it carefully. Based on some of the things that are known, the details of the consideration I will not tell you. I only knew that in addition to the White-Coated Sect, there should also be a third-party force that would attack Xiaoyue for that thing, of course, I didn't think it would be you at the time. But what happened later forced me to keep an eye out for you. I think Grandmaster Yuan and Xuanyin said that, so they were punished to the face of the penance cliff, but it didn't take long for them to look for Xiaoyue's whereabouts, I was thinking that they must have gotten some exact news, so they were relieved, so they didn't need to look for it, and who could be the person who reassured them?

Murong Shaohua nodded and said, "It makes sense." ”

Li Tianqi said: "Actually, I can't be sure just by looking at this, I later recalled the day I was punished for facing the wall, and there happened to be a Taoist friend who came in and reported to Aunt Xuanyin that the head of the sect would double the food since then, although I don't know how much to eat every day in retreat, but after a month of facing the wall, I have a general understanding, I haven't been active for a long time, not to mention the increase in the amount of food, it is good if it does not decrease." ”

Murong Shaohua smiled: "So you start to suspect that it was the head of this sect who took Xiaoyue away?"

"Isn't it?" Li Tianqi was already very sure, and he said: "Based on the above points, I judge that Xiaoyue must have been taken away by you. ”

Murong Shaohua asked, "What did Master Ben do when he took her away?"

Li Tianqi said: "I can only say that you should not be used to me? Maybe you have secretly sent someone to monitor my every move. You love Xiaoyue very much, but I am the apprentice of a person who has been expelled from the mountain gate, although in my eyes this is not a shameful thing, but if it is placed in the eyes of the head of the world's first sect of the decent Heavenly Master Dao, how can you tolerate a grain of sand in your eyes? Grandmaster Yuan and Aunt Xuanyin learned that it was you who did it, so they put their minds at ease and would not publicize it to the public, and of course there was no need to continue the search. Am I right?"

Murong Shaohua nodded and said, "Well, that kid from Xilin really didn't mistake you, you are really a wizard who practices martial arts and cultivates spells, but it's a pity that ......"

Li Tianqi was shocked, "What is a pity?"

Murong Shaohua shook his head and said, "It's a pity that you followed the wrong master and ruined your future." ”

Li Tianqi said coldly: "The world is so big, is there no place for me? I think with my efforts, although I don't hope to become the first person in the world, but after all, I can also become a first-class master in the rivers and lakes, right? In this way, I can also find my mother on the road much smoother." ”

Murong Shaohua sighed: "Li Tianqi, your matter is very sympathetic to the head of the sect and wants to help you complete it, but it will take time, I hope you don't blame the head of the sect, but the Heavenly Master Dao sect has been established for hundreds of years, and the head of the sect will never allow it to be destroyed in my hands." You'll have to bear more. ”

Li Tianqi asked, "What do you mean by this? Could it be that you want to trap me here?"

Murong Shaohua was noncommittal, but asked him, "Do you know why I agreed with you for a six-year period?"

Li Tianqi shook his head.

Murong Shaohua said, "Have you ever heard of the Taiqing Taihua Occult of the Heavenly Master's Dao?"

Li Tianqi still shook his head.

Murong Shaohua said: "The purpose of this master's retreat is to integrate the two techniques of Taiqing Xuanshu and Taihua Xuanshu, and I was confident that I would win it within five years, but now I know that the difference is too far, although it has been more than five years, it can be ......."

Li Tianqi's heart moved, and he said: "You and I have been together for six years, just to fuse these two techniques, but in fact, in your heart, it only takes five years, and the extra year is probably because you have room for maneuvering." But in the end, it failed. ”

Murong Shaohua smiled reluctantly and said, "I don't have to hide it from you, you're right." The fusion of the Taiqing and Taihua techniques of this faction can only be done by the ancestor of the creation faction, and the head of this sect has also tried his best. ”

Li Tianqi said: "But what does this have to do with me choosing someone else as a teacher, and why do you ......?"

It dawned on him that he finally understood all of this.

Murong Shaohua asked, "You seem to have understood?"

Li Tianqi said: "Even if I don't know the details, I already know why you have repeatedly pushed me off. ”

Murong Shaohua said a little helplessly: "You go on." ”

Li Tianqi said: "If you succeed in the fusion of the two techniques, it should be no problem to accept me as an apprentice." ”

Murong Shaohua nodded and said that this was indeed the case.

Li Tianqi said again: "But because you failed, you have to keep me, and you don't know how long you want to lock me up, right?"

Speaking of this, he seemed to know his future fate, and there was a pause that he didn't go on.

Murong Shaohua said with a little difficulty: "It's not easy to be the head of a faction......

Li Tianqi asked, "I heard that you have learned the Book of Heaven, is it inferior to that Taiqing Taihua Occult Technique?"

Murong Shaohua didn't answer, obviously he didn't want to explain anything.

Li Tianqi suddenly raised his head, looked at him and asked, "Is all this still because of my master?"

Murong Shaohua paused slightly, and said, "Back then, your master was the most outstanding of all our disciples, and his cultivation was very high, so he should be proud of the world. ”

Li Tianqi thought of his master's downcast back then, and he felt sad again, and he couldn't help asking, "Are you worried about his revenge?"

Murong Shaohua said: "That's right, if he wants to come, then no one on this Wudang Mountain is his opponent, so this head needs to retreat......"

Li Tianqi sighed: "I understand, so you have been detaining me, on the surface it is to test me, but in fact, you have been holding me as a hostage, and you must see that my master attaches great importance to me." ”

Murong Shaohua said: "You are very smart, it is true. ”

Li Tianqi said: "But you don't know my master at all, he is not such a childish person. My master must have been wronged. ”

Murong Shaohua asked: "According to what you say, is it because the head of this sect is too small? But it doesn't matter, when you are the head of a faction, you should know how heavy the responsibility is." But you said this is nothing more than to let this head let you go, but you are wrong, if you hadn't provoked the people of the White Sect to go up the mountain to make trouble, maybe you can still walk freely in Wudang Mountain at the moment, but now you can only stay here. Although the head of this family doesn't want you to wander around, he doesn't want you to fall into the hands of others. ”

Li Tianqi thought that although this place was not heavily guarded, it was difficult for him to escape, unless he could fly.

Murong Shaohua said: "Maybe this is your fate, it seems that you have accepted it." However, this place has been noticed by the person who sent the spirit rune, and we will see where to move you after this master has thought it through. ”

Li Tianqi said: "Do I still have a choice? If I am superior in ability at this time, do you think I will be silently constrained by you like this?"

Murong Shaohua said: "It seems that you are indeed smart, and you have made the right choice. Do it yourself. It's five or six hundred feet above the ground, and there's nothing else to climb, so don't think about going out. The head of this family still has important matters, so I will not accompany him. He had vanished between words.

This was originally a closed grotto, but he disappeared out of thin air, and the high level of cultivation is indeed impressive. But Li Tianqi has long lost the heart of admiration.