The thin and dark old man dragged his dirty little grandson and guarded two stacks of self-woven straw hats, hoping that the goods would be sold quickly, and that no one would see him. He regretted that he had broken into this strange place with many towers, and his mind was blank, completely forgetting how he had come to be step by step.

When Mu Xingqiu came, he saw the grandfather and grandson, and on the way back, he took a special look, and the straw hat was not sold, piled up on the side of the street like two small towers, they came to the wrong place, this is the place where the Fu Master gathers, ordinary residents are either rich or expensive, no one needs a shabby straw hat, not to mention that the old man is hiding behind the straw hat pile, and the pedestrians who walk by in a hurry can't see him at all, and it is a miracle that he can stay here for so long without being expelled.

This is not the two most miserable people in Huangjing at this moment, but it left an impression in Mu Xingqiu's heart, he had already walked over, turned around and came back, "How much is it?"

"Hmm, straw hats...... Copperplate...... A ......" The old man replied in a panic, looking up at the young man who was asking for the price, and holding his little grandson's hand tightly.

Mu Xingqiu opened the treasure bag on his waist and took out a small piece of silver from it, this is still many years ago when a group of disciples of the Zhiyong Institute went to kill demons under the leadership of the old lady, Xin Youtao distributed it to everyone, the past is vivid, but there were less than half of the people at that time, and a few people were missing when the demon clan invaded, and nine times out of ten they had died at the hands of the demon soldiers.

"Is that enough? I want all these straw hats. ”

The old man and the child stared blankly at the little glittering white thing, and did not speak for a long time.

Mu Xingqiu had to perform a telekinesis illusion. Let a black and thin hand take the silver, "Don't stop in the imperial capital, buy something to eat, go home immediately, and don't come to the imperial capital again for the next few days." ”

The illusion provoked a sense of urgency in the old man's heart, he wanted to go home, go home immediately, don't drink water, don't eat food, and the little grandson pestered him to buy the toys and didn't look at it, he just wanted to go home.

The old man picked up his grandson. Run for your life. I don't even want a flat shoulder.

In this way, Mu Xingqiu returned to the Pangshan Daoist Hall with two bunches of straw hats, put one on his head, and stood at the gate. Like a woodcutter who has just come out of the mountains.

And they were all waiting in the courtyard for him to return. See him like this. They were all stunned, and the bald man flew over and grinned. "Haha, Brother Xiaoqiu is going to release the horse again. ”

The bald man still remembers that this is the image of Xiaoqiu in Yelin Town in the past. Shen Hao also remembered, and smiled dumbly, "This ...... If you're not a Taoist priest, you don't need to be like this, right?"

Yang Qingyin and Xiao Qingtao glanced at each other, both of them were unimpressed by Mu Xingqiu's change, Yang Qingyin said: "Is this your 'General Crown'?

Mu Xingqiu shook his head with a smile, "I happened to meet someone selling it, but I didn't expect it to be quite comfortable to wear." By the way, Xin Youtao will be here tomorrow. ”

"That Xin Youtao we know?" asked Shen Hao.

"Well, it seems that his soul has not been discarded. ”

Xiao Qingtao let out a long breath, muttered something in her mouth, and her expression immediately became cold again, she hadn't forgiven Xin Youtao for saying goodbye at the beginning, at that time his soul was intact, and everything he did was out of his intention.

"Who does the Emperor Sun represent? the Holy Fu Dynasty or the Longbin Society, have you had his support?" Shen Hao continued to ask.

"On behalf of both of them, we talked for a while, and he was willing to help me build an army, but there was one condition, I had to recruit five hundred Taoist priests first. ”

"Five hundred? There are not so many Taoist priests in the entire imperial capital, and he is obviously perfunctory to you. "Shen Hao's original goal was to attract eight hundred low-level Taoist priests to join the Demon Slaying Society, but after Mu Xingqiu withdrew from Pang Mountain, he felt that it was difficult, and he was afraid that he would not be able to recruit even a hundred people.

"So I want everyone to go back to Daotong and think about their own decisions, and persuade others by the way. ”

Yang Qingyin had already decided to withdraw from Pang Mountain, but she was not optimistic about the prospects of the Demon Slaying Society at all, "Leaving the Dao system for at least three years, following you to fight, do you know what it means? Mu Xingqiu, in addition to straw hats and rhetoric, you have to find some better reasons to convince you. ”

Mu Xingqiu was about to speak, when the bald man next to him suddenly said, "Brother Xiaoqiu, Shen Shouzuo wants to see you." ”

Mu Xingqiu snorted, left the two stacks of straw hats at the door, and walked to the backyard.

The bald man asked Yang Qingyin in a low voice: "I want to quit Pangshan with Brother Xiaoqiu, and I can't use them as a sound incense burner in the future, what should I say so that the first seat will not be too sad?"

Shen Jixian is not sad, although his room is also very simple, there is nothing superfluous, but the light is bright, and you can't feel a little darkness when you walk in from outside, which is completely different from Zuo Liuying's room.

Shen Jixian pointed to a futon in front of him, motioned for Mu Xingqiu to sit down, and stared at the straw hat on Mu Xingqiu's head like everyone else, "I've seen someone in Jinghu Village wearing this kind of thing. ”

"I used to wear a straw hat when I was herding horses in Wild Woods, and my father made it up, and it's not like this, it's good without it, and it gets tattered after a day. ”

Shen Jixian nodded, no longer interested in this, "You seem to have a good conversation with the emperor and grandson." ”

"We're at least starting to get to know each other, and I'm going to meet with him a lot in the future to discuss some details. ”

"You guessed that there were six or seven people who had mastered the Soul Exchange Talisman, and it scared them. ”

Although Mu Xingqiu was no longer a Pangshan Taoist, the record of his conversation with Fu Meng was immediately given to the senior Taoist priest by the Long Bin Society, and when Mu Xingqiu was walking on the road, Shen Jixian already knew the entire conversation process.

"This is the beginning of getting to know each other. ”

"You have to be careful, for a small organization that deliberately keeps secrets, getting to know each other is a dangerous thing, and now you are a huge threat to the Longbin Society. ”

Mu Xingqiu smiled, and suddenly remembered that it was not polite to talk in a straw hat, he had been a Taoist priest for too long, and he had almost forgotten the rules of mortals. So he took off his straw hat and put it beside him, "Are they afraid that I will leak secrets, or are they afraid that I will assassinate their lives?"

"There are seven of them, and not only do you know the number, but you can also roughly guess their soul change trajectory, so you are now one of the few people who can catch them all. The Longbin Society and the Dao Tong have known each other for tens of thousands of years, and they are still suspicious, and you have only met once, and they will only feel terrible. ”

The soul changers of the Longbin Society have become accustomed to the gaze of the High Daoists. Think of this gaze as sunlight. There was no need to be vigilant, but all of a sudden, a pair of unfamiliar eyes stared at them, and of course they felt uncomfortable.

"At least we don't have to test each other. Hopefully I can get them to let their guard down in the future. ”

"There will be a coup d'état in the imperial capital tonight. What are you going to do?" Shen Ji changed the subject first. He had already given the reminder that everything else depended on Mu Xingqiu himself.

Mu Xingqiu learned about the coup from Pan Sanye, so he speculated that the rulers of the Longbin Society did not have the energy to deal with another Taoist priest. This was the most important reason why he had the confidence to rescue Xin Youtao before, "I bought some straw hats and didn't do anything else. ”

Sending away the grandfather and grandson and letting them avoid the upcoming rebellion was Mu Xingqiu's only act of interference, and he really didn't plan to do anything more.

"Qu Xungui and his family are the 'traitors' carefully cultivated by the Longbin Society for many years, this great talisman master lives up to expectations, and tries his best to grab a qiē power and wealth, which has greatly angered the court and beyond, through this coup, the Holy Fu Dynasty can continue for a while, and the resentment of mortals will be greatly reduced. The Longbin Society did know more about mortals, and if it was a Dao system, it would definitely not be able to think of such a complex and effective means. ”

Mu Xingqiu didn't want to express his opinion on this, he knew that Qu Xungui would be a victim, and he had no sympathy in his heart.

It was just small talk, and Shen Ji looked at it first, "I've been commissioned by the seventeen Divine Daoists to learn more about your plans. ”

No matter how confident he was before, hearing this, Mu Xingqiu's heart was still much more relaxed, and the senior Taoist priest was considering his plan, which was already a big achievement.

"What do you want to know about Shouzao?" Mu Xingqiu's tone also became formal.

"You want every Dao clan – except Wangshan, of course – to give you a tenth of your supplies, including magic weapons, elixirs, books, mounts, and so on. ”

"This army of Taoist priests must have the ability to fight for a long time, and it must minimize casualties. When they were in Broken Flow City, a dozen or so Taoist priests needed hundreds of various magic weapons, and ordinary low-level Taoist priests usually couldn't get these things, and they had at most three or four magic weapons on their bodies, which was not enough to start a war with the demon clan. ”

"You also want the Daoists to take out another tenth of the annual offerings of the Longbin Society and hand it over to you. ”

"It's only three years, and after three years, I'll figure it out on my own. ”

"In this way, you are equivalent to setting up another Dao system in addition to the Nine Great Dao Systems, saying that you are quitting, but in fact it is parasitic. ”

"It is precisely because the Nine Great Dao Sects are becoming more and more similar to each other that we need a completely different direction, we are just a group of low-level Dao Priests, and no matter how many magic weapons we have, we can't threaten any Dao Sect. Moreover, my 'Dao Tong' is unstable, except for myself, every Taoist priest who has experienced the tempering of war will eventually return to his own Dao system, and they will become stronger, more confident, and more assertive, just like the first batch of Taoist priests 130,000 years ago, maybe they can solve the situation of the deterioration of the Nine Great Dao Sect, and I count on some of them to become Taoist priests who serve the sun. ”

Shen Jixian felt that he should be a little dissatisfied with the word "getting worse", but he just smiled, "There is little hope, you take away the real materials from the Dao system, take away the most precious young disciples, but what you promise to the high Daoist is only a slim hope." ”

"But it is a hope after all, a hope that the high Taoist priests cannot provide. The patriarch closed the Wangshan Mountain for a hope that no one knew, and Zuo Liuying almost opened the void passage to release a large number of demon seeds for his hope, and every senior Taoist priest in every Taoist family was working hard for a certain hope. If hope cannot be unified, why not add one?"

"Your plan is too simplistic, full of loopholes, your hopes are illusory, and there is no possibility of achieving it. Shen Jixian made such a judgment on behalf of the high-level Daoists, and then he thought for a while, "The Daoists have not made a final decision yet, but you can reveal all the plans to ordinary Daoists and attract them to quit the Dao system and join the Demon Slaying Society." ”

"Thank you. ”

"But there is one condition for the Dao system. ”

"Speak. ”

"You can't stop any Dao Sect from finding and seizing Qin Lingshuang's Divine Soul, it doesn't belong to you. ”

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