As the night deepened, Han Rui took Sikong Langyue to bid farewell to the emperor and returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

The attendants in the Qingliang Hall have all retreated, leaving only Puxiang, Naroyan and the emperor.

There is still something to be said.

"I have a prison envoy here, you know?"

Li Xu asked.

Pu Xiang replied: "Li Gongchui's name is also famous in the rivers and lakes, and the majesty of the prison envoy is very clear. ”

Puxiang's attitude changed very quickly, but Li Xu didn't want to let it go lightly, such a high-level figure of Taiping Dao suddenly surrendered, and the hidden reasons behind it are even more worthy of in-depth investigation.

Such a person is available, but not credible.

"One of the responsibilities of the Prison Envoy is to investigate Taiping Dao, and it can be regarded as accumulating a lot of information about Taiping Dao. Li Xu looked at Puxiang: "The more I know, the more curious I am about them, such a sect has repeatedly made trouble in its history and has often suffered blows, but it is like a hundred-legged insect, dead but not stiff." No, and even repeatedly come back to life. ”

"In the past, I only thought that the law in Taiping Dao was strict and the internal organization was decent, so I had such a performance, but now it seems that there is a Taoist saint secretly hidden behind. The emperor sighed: "General, is there a hidden stronghold of Taiping Dao in this Baiyu Jing?"

After asking a sentence, Li Xu closed his eyes and quietly waited for Puxiang's answer.

A moment later.

"There are two strongholds of Taiping Road in Baiyujing, one is located in the palace and the other is located in the Jianghou Temple in the south of the city. ”

Jianghou Temple is the last time Li Xu disguised himself to investigate, and found the place where the "Wu Da Lang Neidan" Dading is hidden. That crimson tripod, once triggered by a strange method, can enhance people's skills, and even raise an ordinary person's true qi to the realm of almost seven sects.

"In the palace, there is also a stronghold of Taishang Dao in the palace?"

Although the emperor was more curious about the big tripod in the temple of Marquis Jiang, in order to hide his whereabouts, he naturally focused on the palace. If Puxiang was deceived by the will of Taiping Dao, he faced the palace and Jiang Hou Temple, and asked Jiang Hou Temple first against logic, wouldn't he admit the night attack on Jiang Hou Temple.

"Your Majesty, in the Shanggong Bureau in the palace, there was originally a stronghold, which was arranged by Yu Fuguo with the help of Taiping Dao. Later, His Majesty killed Cheng Qili and defeated the two elders of Nanhua, and this stronghold was abandoned. ”

Yu Fuguo also planted a stronghold in the palace for Taiping Dao, and Li Xu couldn't help but wonder if there would be any inextricable connection between this Yu Gonggong and the Dao Saint that no one knew about?

"Second Elder Nanhua, who is that, I don't remember fighting with them. ”

Pu Xiang was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then he knew what was going on.

"When Cheng Qili poisoned and murdered His Majesty, it was actually discussed by Yu Fuguo, and he was taboo about Master Na Luoyan's attitude at that time. Saying that, Puxiang winked at Na Luoyan: "In order to be perfect, I also invited many people from the rivers and lakes to participate in this matter and act as assassins." There are two elders in the Taiping Dao who have retired from the capital position, and the cultivation of the Yellow Heaven Dafa is extremely high, and the skill is still above the Dao Master. Yu Fuguo asked the two of them to make a move, but I heard that they were defeated by His Majesty himself......"

Li Xu nodded, on the day of the killing of Cheng Qili, there were indeed two masters with high martial arts who entangled him, and he didn't expect it to be the elder of Taiping Dao. However, since Puxiang said that the skills of these two people are higher than those of the Taoist masters of Taiping Dao, the craftsmanship of the so-called Taoist masters is also a bit trendy.

"Before I entered Taiping Dao, Yu Fuguo had a lot of connections with Taiping Dao. There is a Jiguang Building in the palace that the emperors used to collect the martial arts secrets collected, and Taiping Road can select a person to enter the building for three days every year to read the countless martial arts secrets hidden in the palace. ”

This Yufu country is quite generous to others. Li Xu then asked: "Yu Fuguo has made such a friendship with Taiping Dao, apart from being able to find a few Taiping Dao people to be thugs, what other benefits does he have? In addition, I also want to know whether he is a collaborator in power in the Taiping Dao, or is he one of Taiping Dao's own people?"

Pu Xiang shook his head.

"The last general doesn't know, although I am the capital of the Northern Empire, but the collusion between Yufuguo and Taiping Dao should have existed a long time ago, and the origin of this is not clear. ”

Taiping Road, Yufu Country, interesting and interesting.

"Although it is said to be scattered, but Yu Fuguo has been in the palace for so many years, and there is no secret backhand. Puxiang, you have to pay more attention to the things in the palace, and turn out those rats and bandits. In addition to the palace, what about the Jianghou Temple in the south of the city?"

Puxiang slowed down, as if to organize his words.

"It has been deserted, probably a few days before the invasion of Tibet, I don't know which old monster in the rivers and lakes was alarmed, rushed into the Jianghou Temple, killed one of the people, and took away a Taoist weapon that Taiping Dao had just transported there. ”

It turned out that the big ding was called a Taoist weapon, and Li Xu suppressed the curiosity in his heart.

"Do Taiping Dao have a lot of enemies in the rivers and lakes? ”

"Too much is not enough. Puxiang smiled bitterly, the reason why he betrayed Taiping Dao and took refuge in the imperial court was not because he did not mean to seek good fortune and avoid evil. "Taiping Dao is known as a thousand-year-old inheritance, and with a thousand-year accumulation, there are naturally thousand-year-old enmities. Not to mention, I didn't know how to provoke the old man of the Chengtian Sword Sect for decades, killing a few people today and killing a few elders tomorrow. ”

Li Xu knew about this section of the past, at that time, Yue Guhan was also a little nervous, and he always felt that the Dao Sage wanted to kill him, and as soon as the horse boy of the Dao Sage of Taiping Dao showed his feet, he would naturally go to death, and it would not be over until the Taiping Dao was soft and begged for mercy.

"There is also some relationship between Mr. Yue and Dao Sheng. Li Xu didn't say much: "There shouldn't be many people in Taiping Dao who know the relationship between Sheng and Taiping Dao, right?"

"The Daoists below don't know anything, even among the twenty-four rulers, there are not many who know the origin of this period. If it weren't for the fact that I was originally connected with the Dao Saint, I'm afraid I wouldn't know about this relationship. ”

Li Xu nodded, this is reasonable, otherwise according to the emperor's understanding of Yue Guhan, I am afraid that this Taiping Dao will not be finished until it dies.

"You said that there is a Taoist vessel in Jianghou Temple, what does this Taoist vessel do?"

After some foreshadowing, the emperor finally led the topic to the vermilion tripod and the weird inner pill inside.

"The so-called Taoist instrument is actually just a name in Taiping Dao. Puxiang said: "Although the Taoist saint is respected as the ancestor of the Taiping Dao, because he is crazy all day long, he rarely has any arrangements for the Taiping Dao. Once an order is lowered, it is also related to some artifacts with quite mysterious effects. ”

"These artifacts that can't be explained by common sense are the so-called Taoist artifacts?" Li Xu frowned, feeling that according to Puxiang's description, there was also something in the palace that matched the description of Taoist artifacts.

"When the Dao Sage was awake, he would sometimes hand over some mysterious things with mysterious effects to Taiping Dao for safekeeping and transportation. If it is kept, the Dao Saint will leave some instructions on the use and efficacy of that thing, and then come back to take it after a period of time, some of them will come to the door to pick it up within ten years, and some may still be there for hundreds of years without moving. ”

"Sometimes these Taoist vessels will be transported away, and the places to be transported are also quite strange, the mountains of Liaodong, the estuary of the great river or something, as long as they are transported there, there is no need to do more, and the later things are handled by the Dao Sheng himself. ”

In this way, Li Xu thought that this Dao weapon should be very important to the Dao Saint, and if it is analyzed according to the principle of Occam's razor, the initial purpose of the establishment of this Taiping Dao is likely to be a security transportation company for Dao weapons. It is very likely that other businesses such as rebellion and missionary work were carried out by the Taoist masters of Taiping Dao who were unwilling to be lonely.

"Originally, there was a Taoist statue in the Jianghou Temple in Baiyujing, which was called the Lihate Ding, and this Ding was moved out of the Dao Sage by the Dao Sage fourteen or fifteen years ago. At that time, Taiping Dao had already shaken hands with the Chengtian Sword Sect and was able to get a foothold in Baiyujing, so he chose Jianghou Temple here. ”

"The Dao Holy Saint ordered us to transport this tripod to Baiyujing, saying that it was convenient for it to be used in the future, and also left a mantra, saying that as long as we lean our body on the detached tripod, and then recite a mantra that is bent and deaf, we can have endless true qi to use. It's just that anyone who uses this tripod will die. So Na Ding has been thrown in Jianghou Temple, and no one cares about him......"

"How many Dao artifacts do you know?" Li Xu frowned.

The emperor originally thought that the Dao Sage was most likely not a person, but an illusion created by an organization or a family for thousands of years to deceive people. Those conspirators can hide behind this illusion and weave a conspiracy that cannot be seen.

Now it seems that there may really be such a person, who has lived for thousands of years or even more with his martial arts cultivation or other things, and has lived until now.

It's just that there is a fatal problem with his method, that is, his mental state is not very stable, and he doesn't have much time to be awake, and those miraculous Dao weapons are very important to him. Otherwise, in the limited sober time, instead of indulging in the pleasure of being alive, the Dao Sage wants to toss out an organization that can make the thousand years toss these "Dao instruments" for him, so what is it for?

"The existence of the Dao Weapon is a secret in the Taiping Dao, and even the Dao Master probably doesn't know much. Because all the Taoist tools are arranged by the Dao Sage for Du Gong or other people in the Taiping Dao. The Taoist master will not ask, let alone record, and the last general will think that it is to avoid suspicion. ”

"As for the piece of hatred, it's because this thing was originally sent by the Dao Sage to find the last general, and the last general was to be arranged in Bai Yujing. In addition to this thing, there is also an imperial monument on the top of the Jade Emperor of Mount Tai, which is also the Dao Sheng's explanation to the last general, in addition, the last general does not know what else is the Taoist weapon that the Dao saint asks. ”

There is also a cardinal of Wanhua, which is in the palace, in the Jiguang Building.

Li Xu thought that this Puxiang happened to know that this Lihate Ding, would it be too coincidental.

"What do you know about the one who was taken away?" the Emperor asked.

"The last general invited people who know antiques to come and see, and they all said that it should be something from the pre-Shang period, and they guessed that it was a ritual vessel cast to worship the ancient emperor. ”

The things of the Shang Dynasty are so strange, and it is very interesting that the Dao Sage asked for this thing.

"Dao Sheng has lived for so long, and his martial arts are high, how dare you return to the imperial court, aren't you afraid?"

Pu Xiang pondered for a moment and replied: "I want to teach the saint to know that the last general thinks that the king who has lived for a thousand years is also a king eight, even if he can eat people, he is just a confused turtle who is not good from time to time." ”

Li Xu smiled and nodded, this Puxiang is really unbelievable.

"The general is really fast-talking. Li Xu said: "You go down to rest first, and I will ask you tomorrow." ”

Having said that, it was enough, Li Xu sent Puxiang out to find Chen Chaoen to find a place to rest, and turned his head to Na Luo Yandao.

The teacher felt that what Puxiang said was somewhat credible. ”

Na Luoyan looked at the solemn expression on the emperor's face: "I thought it was very credible. ”

"Oh, why is that?"

"The Taoist saint is like a dragon, seeing the head but not the tail, making people peep indistinguishable, today showing a scale and half a claw, no matter how much is true or false, the poor monk thinks that it can't be wrong. ”

"So teacher, what do you think of the Three Sages?"

"The Three Sages said that they could be discussed together before. Now it's good to only say that the saint is good, after all, Wuming is really there, and Chu Kuangge and Baizhang Huaihai are just legends. ”

"Teacher, I want to find the bad luck of the Dao Saint, what does the teacher teach me?"

Li Xu's eyes suddenly sharpened.

Looking at the emperor's eyes, Na Luo Yan silently recited the Buddha's name, knowing that he would always be involved in these turmoil.

He let out a long sigh and replied with two words.

"Immortality. ”

This villain really caught the point, and this head is not white.

Li Xu laughed, this time Na Luo Yan thought of it with himself.