In the secret room of a large mansion in the Flying Dragon Valley, after reading a secret letter, the secret hall of the Heavenly Master Sect called Xuanben to light it on the candlelight, and watched it turn into ashes in his hands. Then he asked Zhang Chunshui, who was standing with his hands down, "Is the person we contacted in Chang'an, Kyoto, the person who contacted the Imperial Palace's Internal Supervision Department completely reliable?"

"Please rest assured, grandpa, this is the master of the secret hall sent to Chang'an, and he will only contact me in a single line, and there will be no revelations. Zhang Chunshui said confidently.

Zhang Xuanben nodded with satisfaction and said, "One of the 'Big Three' of the Internal Supervision Department, Lord Shan Chunqiu, is coming. He may have come here to assist us, after all, the Heavenly Master Sect, known as the 'No. 1 Sect in the World', whether it is in the cultivation realm or in the power of the people, has always made the imperial court feel like a pins and needles and restless. The imperial court is very happy to see the internal strife of the Heavenly Master Sect, or to support an obedient Heavenly Master Sect leader to come to power. Now we are forced to go to Liangshan. My eldest brother avoided me. I, the nephew who was the sect leader, united with Sang Muzi and Dong Bu and those people with foreign surnames to force me to hand over the position of the head of the secret hall. They were clearly premeditated. If I leave this position, will I not let them fish? Now that Shan Zuo is coming to help, it is thirst that meets timely rain. ”

"Grandpa, is this single envoy very good?"

"Although I have only heard of this single envoy by name, I have not seen him. However, the Internal Supervision Department, as the secret spy agency of the Great Xia Kingdom, has functions such as secret investigation, pursuit, and interrogation, and its power is monstrous and terrifying. Zhang Xuanben said confidently, "The one who commands it is the great eunuch of the Imperial Palace, the "ghost shadow" who is known as the shadow guard of the Emperor Tianlong, Yan Wuji, whose cultivation is at least the initial realm of the Spiritual Void Period. This single left envoy is in second place in the Internal Supervision Department, and he is not a general. ”

Zhang Chunshui said happily: "Grandpa, when will this single envoy arrive?"

Zhang Xuanben rubbed a pair of iron galls on the table and said, "When the secret letter to us was sent, the Zuo Envoy had already set off. According to the schedule, it should arrive tomorrow. ”

"Grandpa, we can't completely pin our hopes on Lord Zuo. If he can't arrive on time tomorrow, the day after tomorrow will be the day when the sect leader will lead everyone to open the incense case and worship the ancestors, but I am afraid that your position as the master of the secret hall will not be guaranteed. "We should also prepare for the worst-case scenario." ”

Zhang Xuanben picked up a pair of iron galls on the table, played with them in his palm for a long time, looked up and asked, "Chun'er, do you have a powerful aphrodisiac on hand?"

"Grandpa, do you want to use that thing?" Zhang Chunshui asked with a twinkle in his eyes.

"Early tomorrow morning, you pay attention to the situation of the guards in the sect master's inner house tomorrow night, and try to arrange for our people to participate. Zhang Xuanben instructed, "You also want to give me a few powerful aphrodisiacs, preferably the kind that can take effect immediately after taking it." ”

Zhang Chunshui took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms, handed it to Zhang Xuanben, and said with an ambiguous expression: "Grandpa, this bottle of 'Eighteen Huan' can make a strong girl a slut in less than a tea cup time." After taking it, the woman will automatically untie her clothes when she sees the man, and the man after taking it is as hungry and thirsty as a wolf, and he can't stop without being happy ten times or eight times. ”

Zhang Xuan already likes the way of men and women, and laughed when he heard it. He took a bottle of 'Eighteen Huan' and put it in his arms, his face was ambiguous, and said: "If my sect leader nephew makes a big peach scandal, not only will the day of the incense case be far away, but even whether his position as sect leader can be kept is a problem. In my eldest brother's heart, the most important thing is the prestige of the Heavenly Master Sect, and it is impossible for him to let a son with a bad reputation stay in the position of sect leader any longer. ”

Zhang Chunshui flatteringly beat Zhang Xuanben in front of him and said, "In this way, we can be regarded as resolving the crisis." As long as Grandpa firmly grasps the secret power of the Heavenly Master Sect in his hands, when the eldest grandfather dies, and when the time comes, Grandpa will be the best candidate for the sect leader. In the future, the Heavenly Master Sect will belong to the world of our house. ”

Zhang Xuanben shook his head and said, "My eldest brother, if he takes the ninth-order spirit pill that Yao'er dedicated to him, he may not be far from the day when he breaks through to the Heavenly Spirit Stage. At that time, he will be like the Human Emperor Tianlong, standing at the peak of the human race's cultivation, and it will not be difficult to cultivate into an earth immortal. I don't expect him to live as shortly. On the contrary, he was addicted to cultivation and would definitely leave the affairs of his teaching in the hands of one of his sons. We just have to start with his son. ”

He looked at Zhang Chunshui, who seemed to understand whether he understood or not, and secretly sighed that although this child had a bad stomach, it was bad on the fur, and the vision pattern was worse after all.

With two iron galls spinning in his right palm, he got up and pushed open the door of the secret room and walked outside.

"Grandpa, it's raining heavily outside. Where are you going?" Zhang Chunshui asked as he ran to the secret room, pressed the door closure mechanism of the secret room, and eagerly searched for the umbrella.

"I'm going to visit my eldest nephew. He, the eldest son of the Zhang family and the master of the Heavenly Master Sect Auditorium, is he willing to sink like this? I want to draw a path in his heart. Zhang Xuanben said with a smile.

He and Zhang Qingchao's residences are relatively close to each other, and they are both close to the power center of the Heavenly Master Sect, "Cuiweiju". The stone alleys on a rainy night were deep and cold, and he suddenly felt disgusted with the deep mansion compounds on both sides of the alley. He felt that they were squeezing him and restricting the direction in which he walked. He secretly made up his mind that if he had a greater say in the Heavenly Master Sect in the future, he would definitely widen those small alleys to make the main altar of the Heavenly Master Sect appear more magnificent.

The Celestial Master Sect Auditorium advocated that Qingchao greet the arrival of Zhang Xuanben with the gift of his son and nephew. Zhang Qingchao's smile was sophisticated and sleek, as if he had met an elder who often borrowed money from him and did not pay it back. He bowed to Zhang Xuanben and said, "Uncle is here tonight, I don't know what to teach my little nephew?"

"Old nephew, don't pretend to be tender in front of me. You're already in the prime of life, and you still call yourself a little nephew. Zhang Xuanben quipped, "I'm old too." Old, old, it's useless when you're old, and you'll soon be idle at home, slowly waiting for death. ”

Zhang Qingchao didn't answer his words, and said: "The old nephew has recently become obsessed with the tea ceremony, so I invite my uncle to sit in the lobby hall and taste the tea made by the old nephew himself." ”

Zhang Xuanben secretly cursed "old fox" in his heart, followed him into the lobby hall with a smile, and was invited to sit at the top.

Zhang Qingchao ordered to go down, and his own maid brought delicate and fine tea leaves, tea utensils and boiling water. He played the tea ceremony comfortably in front of Zhang Xuanben, looking like he was never tired of it.

Zhang Xuanben looked at Zhang Qingchao's inverted eyebrows very boringly, and tasted the small cups of green tea he handed over, and the more he drank it, the more tasteless he felt. Zhang Qingchao still talked to him about every process of the tea ceremony.

Time seems to pass very slowly. Zhang Xuanben's patience was almost exhausted, and he said to Zhang Qingchao vaguely: "The old nephew can even have fun with gadgets like drinking tea, it seems that he really has no desire and no desire." ”

Zhang Qingchao said with a smile: "Since the tea ceremony can be called the Tao, it is a kind of cultivation. Uncle also needs to strengthen his cultivation in this area. ”

Zhang Xuanben said: "Since the tea ceremony is the Tao, and cultivation is also the Tao, then the prosperity of the Heavenly Master Sect is even more of a great way. Why doesn't the old nephew build the avenue and cling to the trail?"

Zhang Qingchao laughed self-deprecatingly: "Uncle doesn't have to come to test his nephew. The so-called contentment is always happy, and the nephew can be satisfied if he can cultivate the path. ”

Zhang Xuanben raised his hand to pour a cup of green tea on the ground and waved his hand to let the maid go down. He stared at Zhang Qingchao's eyes seriously and asked, "If I am walking a greater path than the Heavenly Master's Sect, is the old nephew interested in walking with me?"

Zhang Qingchao's eyes flickered and asked, "We are already in the Dao of the Heavenly Master Sect, where is there a greater Dao than the Heavenly Master Sect?"

Zhang Xuan's face showed a look of pride, and said: "No matter how big the Heavenly Master Sect is, it can't compare to the Great Xia Kingdom, and it can't compare to the Human Emperor Tianlong. The Tao that is greater than the Heavenly Master's Teachings is naturally the Tao of the Great Xia Kingdom and the Tao of the Human Emperor Tianlong. ”

The corners of Zhang Qingchao's mouth twitched, and his voice trembled slightly and asked, "Emperor Tianlong is far away in Chang'an, Kyoto, and my uncle can actually get his way?"

"Under the whole world, it is not the king's land. On the shore of the land, it is not the king's minister. The Tao of Emperor Tianlong, as long as you have a heart, you can get it. Zhang Xuanben said, "And Emperor Tianlong pays the most attention to the order of the young and the old, and the eldest son of the emperor, Shang Wubi, has been the prince for more than 40 years. Our Heavenly Master Sect's position as the sect leader, but if we want to abolish the act of growing up and standing young, wouldn't it touch the scales of the Tianlong Emperor?"

Zhang Qingchao's face was uncertain, and he asked after a while, "What does Uncle need Qingchao to do?"

Zhang Xuanben smiled like a fox, and said incomprehensibly: "Old nephew, just sit back and wait for the opportunity, when it's time for you to appear, I'm afraid everything is about to settle." ”

He looked secretive and left with a smile.

In the depths of the small alley outside Zhang Qingchao's mansion, Elder Dong of the Heavenly Master Sect Guardian Zuo was dressed in black as ink. He smiled coldly at the back of Zhang Xuanben, who was leaving with a small song, turned around and flew away in the direction of Cui Weiju.

In a hall in Cuiwei's residence, the Heavenly Master Sect advocate Qingchen and the Great Elder Sang Muzi were talking at night under the lamp. Zhang Qingchen looked at Dong Bu, who came back with an angry face, and said with a smile: "Why should Uncle Shi be angry. My father is right, such a huge body of the Heavenly Master Sect will inevitably develop carbuncles, but the sooner it rots, the better. It's just that I didn't expect that my uncle would pull my eldest brother. ”

"I don't know what they discussed? Dong Budao, "The day after tomorrow is the day when the sect opens the incense case, and the sect leader must not take it lightly." ”

Zhang Qingchen bowed his head slightly and said, "This hurdle always has to be passed." If it's just for me, the situation can still be controlled. I hope they won't be too frantic and hurt the vitality of the Heavenly Master Sect. ”

Sang Muzi said: "The sect leader attaches great importance to the major affairs of this sect, so I can admire them." As long as he successfully wins the position of the master of the secret hall on the day of the opening of the incense case, the sect leader can lead the people to the north and participate in the cultivation conference with confidence. ”