In the first month of the eighteenth year of Zhengtai, I rode the waves back to the new dark cloud city. I am only a thin line away from returning to the void, and my physical body is still among the real people, and I have been delayed in the Great Ying Sea for several months before I set foot on Middle-earth.

However, my Yuan Shen has been able to rely on the seven-fold pagoda to cross continents in the Great Ying Sea, and communicate with the Kunlunmen people tens of thousands of miles away in real time. Ten years of world changes, one after another:

Nangong Panshi fell, and the southern army under the command of Yuwen Regent invaded the Qi land of the Northern Dynasty, and the world restarted the war.

At that time, I was trapped in the river drum star to cultivate, and Lin'er suppressed the demons of the Northern Wilderness, and I had no time to separate. After deliberation, the elders of Kunlun believed that the northern soil was not completely returned to the center, and it was not suitable to be the enemy of the entire Southern Dynasty, so they ordered the Ten Elders to only save the Qi soil, and not to expand the affairs and leave the country without permission.

The real person of the Sword Sect has a good heart, and he has never helped Yuwen Badu, only his army of Qi Refiners and the army of Qi Refiners of the Ten Elders' Guild have clashed.

However, the Ten Elders' Association has never liked the Nangong Shogunate, and used the law of the Kunlun Elders' Church to prevaricate, and did not come out of the northern stronghold of the Qi State, and sat back and watched the army of Yuwen Batu sweep through the Qi soil, and the Nangong Shogunate collapsed.

Fortunately, Lin'er finally led the subdued army of the Northern Wilderness to the battlefield, and the demons converged with the army of the Ten Elders, and together they drove Yuwen Badu's army back to the south of Huaishui.

Lin'er, who held a wrong word, and Yuwen Badu, who held the armillary sphere and the infinite hammer, fought without a victory. Both armies retreated, and the Southern and Northern Dynasties each divided half of their territory. The battle of Yuwen Regency's invasion of Qi came to an end.

Half of the land of Nangong received by Kunlun has since implemented the county system of the Ten Elders, which is consistent with Chang'an and other places.

Since then, the Theravada elders of Kunlun have had mixed reviews of the Ten Elders. Those who praise the Ten Elders, thinking that they have tacitly understood Kunlun's intention to cut down the domain, and have spared no effort to attack the family and sect; those who have played the Ten Elders, thinking that they are just ordinary people in the red dust, and that they are two ways to cultivate the true realm, and they are good at internal fighting and cowardly in foreign wars, which has ruined the credit of Kunlun's preferential treatment of the Longmen sect and the family.

Senior Sister Ji and Lin'er strongly supported the Ten Elders' Society, the Elders' Council had made remarkable achievements in governing Chang'an, and it was understandable to crack down on the family sects in order to have sufficient finance and taxation, and the cultivators who sincerely sought the Tao had already dedicated their spiritual veins to Kunlun and distributed them by Kunlun as a whole;

So not long after the armistice between Kunlun and Yuwen Badu, there was a scattered rebellion of the leaders of Yuanying Dao Xichun and Shi Utopia. The Elders Council sent Jing Xiaoqian, the head of the Demon Academy, to lead the army of the Ten Elders' Qi Refiners to the west, and the prefect Tanluan to the east, killing Shi Meixiang and Dao Xichun, and quelling the rebellion in the continuous Kunlun territory. Since then, the families and sects of the Northern Dynasties have bowed down to Kunlun, and all the seekers have been incorporated into Kunlun, and those who have entered the WTO do not dare to disagree with the Ten Elders.

Some other sects and families angrily left the Northern Dynasty and threw themselves into the Yuwen Batu of the Southern Dynasty, and many of the ten schools on that side longed for the authority of the Ten Elders' Association of the Northern Dynasty also joined Kunlun's command.

The Yuwen regent of the Southern Dynasty did not take advantage of the danger of Kunlun, but consolidated his power during this time. He returned from Daying Sea and brought back most of the people from the Star Sect.

Yuwen Badu reclassified these cultivators into thirteen sects on three islands and ten continents, these sects were weak and could not do without the cultivation of the armillary image, so they had to look up to Yuwen Badu to snort and be extremely tame. The degrees of the thirteen sects of Taoist priests were all issued by the regent of the Southern Dynasty, and there was no doubt about his subordinates.

Yuwen Batu went to sea three more times, and captured the Red Phoenix God with the armillary orator, and his prestige was even greater.

He then issued an ultimatum to the Dragon and Tiger Sect, which had always been neutral and unpredictable after the mountains and rivers: the Southern Dynasty planned to divide the Dragon and Tiger Sect into three sects and include them in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth sects of the imperial court, and ordered the Dragon and Tiger Sect to hand over the imaginary mind brought back from the Daomen Tallinn to clarify that they had nothing to do with the evil spirits.

The Dragon and Tiger Sect turned a deaf ear. After the deadline, Yuwen Badu led the Red Phoenix God and the Thirteen Sects to besiege the Dragon and Tiger Mountain. Xu Qingyu and Yan Caixia fell, Sa Qingxu Zhenren bowed his head and surrendered, handing over all imaginary thoughts; Fang Qingwei Zhenren and Mei Wucheng, Pian Pian and the rest of the people took refuge in Shangguan Tianquan's Lingya Gate.

Yuwen Badu was reduced to the Qingyu faction and the Qingxu faction, which were the fourteenth and fifteenth sects of the Southern Dynasty. The Qingxu faction still lives in the mountain, and the Qingyu faction divides the spiritual veins to live in Yandang Mountain, with Yan Caixia's disciple Ning Muchen as the head. The spiritual veins that originally belonged to the Qingwei family were all confiscated and entered the bag of the Southern Dynasty, that is, Yuwen Badu.

In January of this year, the regent of Yuwen sent an invitation to Shangguan Tianquan, the Marquis of Tongbao of the Taizheng Dynasty, to gamble: Lingyamen was originally gambled by Shangguan Tianquan from the Taizheng Dynasty a hundred years ago, and now the 100-year lease has expired, and the Southern Dynasty plans to send an envoy to take it back. If Shangguan Tianquan refuses to allow it, the regent of Yuwen is willing to go to Lingyamen and gamble with him for the second hundred years of the lease.

Otherwise, the imperial army will press the border, and Haijiang will turn into powder, and the crime will be in Shangguan Tianquan!

Lin'er and I reunited and walked hand in hand on the seashore of the new Dark Cloud City. We were separated for 10 years, as if we had only left yesterday.

In the past ten years, Lin'er has pocketed all the Northern Wilderness, and none of the demons have any objections to her, no less than Xiao Longyuan back then. She also mixed the demons of the Western Wilderness, Middle Earth, and the Northern Wilderness, and selected a demon army, which became another powerful force in Kunlun. She also opened the Northern Wilderness to the mortals of Middle-earth, and they settled down in the Northern Wilderness to mine spiritual veins, and there were gradually counties of the Ten Elders.

"I look at the river drum star every day, and when I see the changes of the stars and the waves of life and death in the past ten years, I know that you have not stopped cultivating, and you have been immobile for ten years in the infinite calamities, and you are in the Tao day by day, and your heart is stable. ”

She said.

I said, "However, I still didn't step back into the void, and finally decided to come back early." ”

Lin'er said: "Kunlun can afford to wait for you, why don't you continue to cultivate with peace of mind?"

I shook my head and said, "There is no need to continue to stay in the River Drum Star, the obstacle to my return to the void has been cleared, and I only need one step." But when I look at Middle-earth, there are a few other real people from other sects who also have hope of returning to the void in a few decades. I fear that the first one of myself will return to the void in the red dust, and I will lead them to follow suit. I now think it's a good thing that the world doesn't see the void. I will only go to the seven-story pagoda to return to the void. ”

Lin'er nodded.

Those of us who have a clear understanding of the Dharma have mastered the root of returning to emptiness and can take that step at any time.

The elders of Kunlun also came to the seashore of the new cloud city one after another.

Ten years have passed, and although Ji Xiaoai, the master of the Duren Academy, has grown, he is still in the middle of the Yuanying Generation. I felt guilty and thanked Senior Sister Ji: "In the past ten years, I still can't let Senior Sister Ji cultivate, but I have even let you work hard for the worldly things, delaying your preaching." ”

In the past ten years, she has not pretended to be public or private, and she has given the Ten Peerless Formation Diagram to the younger generation of disciples to improve her Dao practice, which is also the reason for her slow cultivation.

Senior Sister Ji said: "The foundation of New Kunlun depends on the foundation laid by our generation, and we can only put others before ourselves. ”

I turned to Le Jing to believe in the true humanity, "Thanks to Le Zhenren's help to us juniors, Kunlun and the Sword Sect can finally take Zhongnan Mountain as the boundary, and there will be nothing to do on the western front." ”

I took out the river drum star blue water in the silver gourd and offered it to Le Jingxin, "This is the heavenly treasure of the Nine Turns Divine Mirror. ”

Le Zhenren used his eight-turn divine mirror to intake in blue water and sighed, "When you come back, I will have to retreat after all." You won't be able to see me for hundreds of years, and Kunlun will be responsible for it thanks to your four generations. ”

I said, "I wish Le Zhenren an early return." ”

I said to Zhibei again, "I didn't bring back the son of the Star Sect, so I can only ask you, the first elder, to be the master of the Five Elements Courtyard." ”

Know that the real person should go down. In the past ten years, no one has presided over the Five Elements Academy, and he has also acted as an agent, and since then the name has been in line with the truth.

Jing Xiaoqian, the master of the Demon Courtyard, was guarding in the Western Regions, and he didn't have time to leave to see me. I conveyed my thoughts, and suddenly arrived at the west coast from the dark cloud city on the east coast, and encouraged Jing Xiaoqian, who was surprised and inexplicable.

I asked Liu Ziyue, the master of the Tongshi Palace, that after the fall of the Nangong Panshi Shogunate, there are any descendants alive.

Liu Ziyue said that Nangong Panshi's wife, Princess Roufu, the younger sister of Emperor Taizheng, fled back to Yangqiu City with Nangong Panshi's young son. Princess Roufu's qualifications for cultivation are ordinary, she is a hard-working and strong woman, but in this life, I am afraid that I can only build a foundation. Nangong Panshi's youngest son is called Nangong Ying, and he may be able to cultivate to Jindan.

"They can't be judged by qualifications, Kunlun will always treat them well. Nangong Ying I will accept as a disciple. Senior Sister Ji, the Labor and Nursing Institute bothered him. ”

I said.

As I chatted with the men, I walked to the old city of Dark Cloud City, which was still an endless barren land.

Only the master of the Charm Academy, Lin Sheng, was left and did not report to me.

I deliberately did not talk to him, but said to the people: "I have thought that when I am promoted to the Void, I will move the Hanging Garden to Middle-earth to fulfill the unfulfilled wish of the ancestor and the first master. Now I don't want to return to the void in the red dust, but the patriarch's wish can't be avoided. The viewers of this old dark cloud city are miserable, and the demons are sad, and I want to relocate the hanging garden here and restore the vitality of the old city. ”

Senior Sister Ji asked, "Your Taoism is already incredible, I don't know how much difference it is from returning to the void." It's just that we are afraid that you will be tired, and you will not have to expend your strength for this unurgent task, and you will not restep on the mistakes of being overdrawn by the infinite hammer in the past. ”

I said, "It's okay, it's the right thing to do." ”

I said to Lin'er: "The agarwood fire in the Boshan furnace is full of smoke. ”

Each of us has a seven-fold pagoda. My primordial god is in harmony with her white tiger god and leaps to the west. In an hour, the big white tiger fell in front of the Hanging Garden City in the Western Wilderness. The tiger took the city and rose into the air again. The waves resounded endlessly, and after seven days, the Hanging Pond Mountain descended to the foot of the old dark cloud city.

All things grow, and the rain is abundant. Since then, this mountain is the new home mountain of Kunlun.

Lin Sheng bowed to us.

As soon as my mind moved, the black egg in the seven-fold pagoda cracked a little. Ten years later, Xiao Longyuan's primordial spirit reappeared and emerged from my Mud Pill Palace.

The Kunlunmen people are like a great enemy.

I signaled to everyone to reassure, "Back then, I relied on the power of Luo Shenyao and Master Yan to suppress Xiao Longyuan for ten years. Today is the time for him to unblock. ”

I said to Xiao Longyuan, "Lord Xiao, in ten years, let's fight in Dark Cloud City." If you are defeated, you will still go back to the eggshell. ”

Xiao Longyuan looked around at the newborn earth and said, "Now that you are combined with Luo Shen Yao, I will fight with you, and I don't know who will kill the deer." Not to mention that you still have an Infinity Hammer to use. Forget it, there is no need for a war. This time, I will pass on all the methods under the sea to you, and this is our last side. ”

Lin Sheng shed tears.

"According to the agreement of the mountains and rivers, you are the leader of the demons after me. Xiao Longyuan disappeared completely. I read his echoes, his life.

Lin Sheng said to me and Luo Shenlin, "For ten years, I have endured humiliation and burden, waiting for the day when Lord Xiao returns, and then unveil the flag of rebellion. Now that even Lord Xiao admits that he can't defeat you, I don't have any need to insist. From now on, we demons will completely return to you. ”

I said, "Lin Sheng, this is inevitable. Why do you repeat it. ”

Lin Sheng smiled, "The latter sentence is not nonsense: since Lord Xiao went, I also went with him." This is not my world. Lin Sheng showed the true form of a silver unicorn, screaming to the north, his bull's eyes were warm, as if he recalled the ups and downs of his life, a hundred deaths and thousands of difficulties. Then he fell to the ground on his side, silently, and died.

His mission has been accomplished.

I said to the Kunlun people, "We need a new Charm Courtyard Master. Next, it's time for us to go to Lingyamen to meet Yuwen Badu and Shangguan Tianquan for a while. ”