Qingyun Mountain, Big Bamboo Peak.

Since the end of the Battle of Qingyun, many times have passed, and the battlefield that was once turbulent and unpredictable has gradually calmed down, and all traces of the battle have been quietly erased in the process of people cleaning up.

In that rì, I don't know how many people have lost their friends and relatives, and on Tongtian Peak, I don't know how many corpses have been piled up, from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain, almost like the legendary underworld.

Maybe it's because of luck! In this battle, not a single disciple died, but almost everyone hung the lottery, and it was not easy for Tian Buyi, who stayed behind in the Great Bamboo Peak because he wanted to open the Heavenly Machine Seal, and he also looked very tired. Among the disciples, the second disciple Wu Dayi and the fourth disciple He Dazhi were the most seriously injured, and after these times, Rì was still recuperating in bed, but unfortunately they were fortunate that none of them were injured in their muscles and bones. If time comes true, it will not hinder their practice.

It's just that even so, it was just a life-and-death battle that narrowly defeated the beast god and turned the catastrophe of the world into the world, and Dazhu Peak was up and down, but the atmosphere looked very dull. The disciples have not been happy for several miles, and even Tian Buyi has frowned.

Early in the morning, Tian Buyi was summoned to Tongtian Peak by the disciple sent by the head Dao Xuan Zhenren to discuss the matter, and after returning at noon, he saw that he had a chubby face, yīnyīn was heavy, and his brows were twisted together and he could hardly be opened.

Around noon, Tian Buyi ordered all the disciples of Dazhufeng to come to the Shoujing Hall, that is, Wu Dayi and He Dazhi, who were still bedridden, and Tian Buyi also asked them to help them to the Shoujing Hall and sit aside.

On the Shoujing Hall, which has always been relatively deserted, few people came, and Tian Buyi's wife Su Ru also stood next to the head, seeing that her demeanor was still beautiful, but she was still wrapped in a white cloth bandage on her left hand, and naturally she was also hung in that battle.

Tian Buyi walked back and forth on the Shoujing Hall a few times, glanced at the disciples who were sitting or standing in a row, and said in a low voice: "I called you here today, not for anything else, but for the matter of the Ancient Sword of the Immortals. ’

The faces of the disciples were solemn, but not many of them showed astonishment, obviously most of them had already guessed in their hearts.

Tian Buyi glanced at Su Ru beside him, looked at the disciples again, and said, "This morning, the real person in charge of the sect called me over again, and the only one who went with me was your Uncle Shuiyue of Xiaozhu Peak, as for what to say, you can probably think of it." The matter of the destruction of the Zhuxian Ancient Sword, you must keep it secret no matter what, and you must not leak the slightest bit of your mouth and go out. ’

The disciples of Dazhu Peak looked at each other, and in the end, it was the eldest disciple Song Daren who coughed and said, "Master, your old man also knows a few of us, and we would rather die than say a word to the outside world for such a matter." Speaking of this, he hesitated for a moment, looked at Tian Buyi, lowered his voice, and said, "Master, not to mention that you and Senior Lady have reminded us three times and twice, just the Sect Leader Zhenren and Tongtian Peak, even counting this time, it is the fourth time that this has been the case." Could it be ...... Aren't they not only not believing us, but also Master and Master and Mrs. don't believe us?'

Tian Buyi frowned, and suddenly shouted loudly: "Bold! What are you, do you dare to guess the real person in charge and the teachers?"

Song Daren's face changed, and he bowed his head and said, "Yes, the disciple knows that he is wrong. ’

Su Ru stood aside, sighed, and walked over to make a round and said, "Okay, okay, these are all the words ordered by the real person in charge, and the damage to the Immortal Ancient Sword is too important, no wonder the senior brother of the head is very nervous about this, so it is also appropriate to ask a few more times and explain a few more times." ’

Tian Buyi twisted his head to the side and didn't speak, Song Daren and the other disciples all bowed their heads and said, "The disciple knows." ’

Su Ru looked at the disciples one by one, and said softly, "I know that several of you have some grievances in your hearts, and you feel that the real person in charge and the teachers can't believe you, but in the final analysis, these are all due to the importance of the matter, and they have no choice. After the previous war, our Qingyunmen had a unique reputation in the righteous path of the world for a while, and suppressed all other fellow Daoists. But this qiē, to put it bluntly, is all because the real person in charge of the sect was on Tongtian Peak, holding the Immortal Sword and the beast god in a vicious battle, and defeated him. Our Qingyunmen can have the weight of this Zhuxian Divine Sword, I think you know as well as I do. ’

When Su Ru said this, she smiled sadly and said, "But I never thought that this divine sword would actually ......" She paused, as if she had to settle down before she could continue to speak, and said: "When Rì was in the Phantom Moon Cave Mansion, except for the real person in charge and a few Changmen masters who came later, only the disciples of the first line of Dazhufeng and a few female disciples of Xiaozhufeng were present, and they witnessed the destruction of the divine sword. Therefore, for the sake of the reputation of this sect and its prestige in the world, it is also appropriate for the real person in charge to take care of it more and advise it a few more times. Don't take it to heart, just remember to keep it in your heart forever, you know?'

Song Daren and the others glanced at each other and said in unison: "The disciple knows, and I will obey the orders of the master and the master." ’

Su Ru turned his head to look at Tian Buyi, Tian Buyi frowned, the expression on his fat face was still very heavy, and he didn't seem to be relieved at all by Su Ru's words, he only stretched out his hand and waved it at the disciples, and said, "You all remember what your master said." Alright, let's go down!'

Song Daren and the others saluted together, turned around and went down together, Wu Dayi, He Dazhi and others who were unable to move, and Song Daren, Du Bishu and others also helped to support, and soon, everyone walked out, leaving only Tian Buyi and Su Ru standing on the Shoujing Hall.

Su Ru looked at Tian Buyi's increasingly heavy face, slowly walked to his side, and said in a low voice, "What's the matter, is the senior brother in charge losing his temper again?"

Tian Buyi snorted lightly and said, "He is not just angry with me, even a person like Shui Yue, he actually scolds the same, what am I?"

Su Ru was taken aback and said, "What, Senior Brother in charge, he even scolded Senior Sister Shuiyue?"

A hint of anxiety appeared on Tian Buyi's face, and the speed of pacing back and forth was obviously faster, and his brows were furrowed even tighter.

Su Ru looked at him and was quite worried, but he didn't know what to say, so he had to say: "Don't worry too much, senior brother in charge, he is just too anxious for a while, so he ......

Tian Buyi raised his head suddenly, and interrupted loudly: "If he is really too anxious, he will scold me a thousand times and ten thousand times, and I don't care?"

Su Ru lowered her head, but quickly raised it again, with a look of surprise on her face, and asked, "What did you just say?"

Tian Buyi muttered incessantly, walking briskly back and forth in the quiet hall, his face becoming more and more restless, and there was a faint trace of worry.

Su Ru was even more worried, and said hurriedly: "What do you mean, hurry up!"

Tian Buyi walked in front of Su Ru, stopped, was silent for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "Since these rìzi, Senior Brother Daoxuan has invited me and Shui Yue many times, and repeatedly told his disciples to keep secrets, which is understandable. But in recent times, I have seen that Senior Brother Dao Xuan has become more and more wrong. ’

Su Ru was stunned for a moment and said, "Something is wrong, what does this mean?"

Tian Buyi frowned and said, "In your past, have you ever remembered that Senior Brother Daoxuan scolded people lightly?"

Su Ru was silent, shook his head for a long time, and said: "The senior brother in charge is profound, has a good character, and his joy and anger are not in the sè, where will he be angry and scolding." ’

Tian Buyi nodded and said, "Yes, that's it, even you know this." But after this war, Senior Brother Dao Xuan seemed to have changed greatly, and he became more and more impatient, these few times he called me and Shui Yue, and he just told him, but every time he started with Yan Yue, in the end, he didn't know why, because of a little inexplicable little thing, he became angry, or insulted, or angry, in short......

He shook his head, slowly raised his eyes to look at Su Ru, hesitated for a moment, approached Su Ru, and said in a low voice: "I suspect that Senior Brother Dao Xuan has been attacked by the sword spirit of the Immortal Sword in the battle with the Beast God, so he ......

Su Ru's face changed, and she said hurriedly: "Stop." Saying that, he walked quickly to the outside of the Shoujing Hall, glanced left and right, and after making sure that there was no one, he walked back and whispered to Tian Buyi: "This is my Qingyunmen secret matter, you, you can't talk nonsense!"

Tian Buyi sighed and said, "How important is this matter, how dare I talk nonsense." However, in the previous battle, in order to win, Senior Brother Dao Xuan, despite my repeated dissuasion, forcibly opened the Heavenly Machine Seal of the Seven Veins of Qingyun Spiritual Qi sealed by the ancestors of the past dynasties, which greatly increased the power of the Zhuxian Ancient Sword. It's just that every time I think of the legacy left by the ancestor of the previous generation, I am prepared to say that this Immortal Ancient Sword is too violent, murderous and against the sky, and seems to be an ominous thing, so I can't ignore it. When I came back today, I was separated from Shuiyue at Tongtian Peak, although the two of us have never been at odds, but when I parted, I looked at each other as if I felt something. I expected that Shui Yue must have the same thoughts as me in his heart, but this matter is too relevant for either of us to dare to say it. ’

Su Ru was silent for a long time, her voice was slightly astringent, and she said, "Although this is the case, in the final analysis, it is still above the Zhuxian Ancient Sword. Now that the immortal has been destroyed, even if the senior brother in charge is unfortunately victimized, there is no source, and secondly, he is a god, as long as it takes a long time, most of them will gradually wake up and resolve it by themselves!"

Tian Buyi's heavy face did not diminish at all, and said lightly: "I hope so, otherwise, with him as the honor of Qingyun, if there is a good thing, this Qingyun Gate will be up and down...... I really don't know how to end it. ’

Su Ru thought about it, then sighed helplessly, and said dejectedly: "That's it, this is not something we can manage now, and you don't have to worry too much." There is one more thing, I have always wanted to ask, after the Zhu Immortal Ancient Sword is damaged, how to deal with it?"

Tian Buyi pondered for a moment, and said, "I originally inquired about this matter with a senior brother Nagato who knew about it, and I heard that when Senior Brother Rì Daoxuan reprimanded everyone on the spot not to leak it, he immediately picked up the Zhuxian Sword that was broken in two, and at the same time walked into the Phantom Moon Cave Mansion, and no one was allowed to enter the forbidden land of the Phantom Moon Cave Mansion again. So to this day, no one knows what happened to the Zhuxian Ancient Sword? Perhaps, there is still hope for repair?"

Tian Buyi said the last sentence to himself, but then shook his head and smiled bitterly, obviously even he didn't believe in such a thing. With a bitter smile, he said casually: "We can't take care of that sword, but we went to Tongtian Peak today, and in addition to being scolded inexplicably, I also heard about a strange thing." ’

Su Ru was stunned and said, "What's the strange thing?"

Tian Buyi shrugged his shoulders and said, "Speaking of which, you won't believe that in the previous battle, how many disciples and elders were killed in the battle, and now they are offering sacrifices in the Yuqing Hall of Tongtian Peak. But our Daoxuan senior brother only showed his face once on the Yuqing Palace, and then disappeared, but ran to the ancestral hall of the patriarch in the back mountain every day to guard the spirits of people, do you say strange?"

Su Ru was stunned for a moment, and said, "Shouling, what's wrong with the ancestral hall, could it be that which senior elder has passed away?"

Tian Buyi shook his head and sneered: "Where is the elder, I heard a few young disciples of the Changmen secretly discuss, in fact, it was an old man who had been guarding and cleaning the ancestral hall of the ancestor for decades, and somehow happened to die on that day. How he died, no one knows, only that after Senior Brother Daoxuan knew about it, he was stunned for a while, but after a while, he was like thunder, and I heard that he lost his soul for a few days, and finally he insisted on putting this old man's spiritual position into the ancestral hall, but the strangest thing was that the spiritual position card he put into the ancestral hall was blank!

The more Su Ru listened, the more confused he became, and he was even more shocked in his heart, shaking his head and saying, "What's wrong with this, this, what's going on, is the senior brother in charge really, really a little confused?"

Tian Buyi sneered and said, "No one knows if he is confused, anyway, someone persuaded him, but he insisted on not listening." And he didn't take a good look at the disciple spirit positions on the Yuqing Palace, but ran to the ancestral hall of the patriarch to look at the blank spirit positions in a daze. If this goes on, I see that this Qingyunmen will have an accident sooner or later, and sooner or later it will be destroyed in his hands......

Su Ru was silent, and after a while, she sighed faintly and looked out of the Shoujing Hall, only to see that in this lonely afternoon, the outside was also empty, only the blue sky in the distance.

The mountain wind blew, and the sound of bamboo waves in the back mountain was faintly heard, but somehow, it added a bit of loneliness.

Qingyun Mountain, Tongtian Peak, Houshan Patriarch Ancestral Hall.

The place is as quiet and solemn as ever, the tall ancestral hall is still standing, and the surrounding woods are verdant, as if the earth-shattering battle that took place on Qingyun Mountain a few years ago has no impact on this place at all.

In addition to the missing old man who was cleaning, there was also an inconspicuous place between the countless tablets on the dim god case, and there was an unfamiliar and blank spirit card.

Lin Jingyu silently knelt in front of the blank spiritual seat, wearing linen and filial piety, with a brazier in front of him, two white candles on the table, three thin incense sticks, and light smoke, gently floating, and soon merged into the other incense offerings, and could no longer be separated.

Lin Jingyu had a sad look on his face, his lips were tightly pursed, Mu Ran knelt on the ground, and slowly threw a stack of paper money in his hand into the burning tongue of fire in the brazier in front of him, watching them gradually curl and turn yellow, gradually turn into ashes, and then slowly put in new paper money.

From time to time, he looked up at the empty spiritual position. Putting this old man's spiritual position into the ancestral hall of the patriarch was insisted on by the head of the Qingyun Sect Dao Xuan Zhenren alone, and the other elders did not agree, but the head of the Qingyun Sect has always been powerful, and after the Dao Xuan Zhenren defeated the beast god in one fell swoop, the prestige was even more unparalleled for a while, and everyone saw that he insisted on not retreating, so they had to follow him.

It's just that although this matter was unexpected by Lin Jingyu, the next thing was even more surprising to him, Dao Xuan Zhenren actually put a blank spiritual seat into the ancestral hall of the ancestor, for this reason, Lin Jingyu even had the courage to ask Dao Xuan Zhenren who came to worship.

Unexpectedly, Dao Xuan Zhenren just asked lightly, and then refuted Lin Jingyu speechlessly: "Then do you know his name?"

Lin Jingyu was dumbfounded, although he had followed this mysterious old man for ten years to practice, but about this senior's own past, the old man never confided in him, and he really had nothing to do about what Lin Jingyu wanted to say at this moment. Just looking at Dao Xuan's real appearance, he obviously knew something about this old man, but he didn't mean to confide it.

Although Lin Jingyu had doubts in his heart, he didn't dare to be too presumptuous with the real person in charge of the sect after all, so he had to retreat silently. Anyway, in his heart, although the old man's tablet was empty, his voice and smile were clearly engraved in his heart, and it never faded at all.

In front of the mountain public sacrifice, he also went to worship, but he always felt that there were countless disciples there to worship, but this senior, although he had peerless learning, passed away so quietly, he had to send him to the end no matter what, and Dao Xuan Zhenren seemed to acquiesce to him coming here to clean up the aftermath of the old man. And with the respect of the head of the family, and despite the stunned eyes of many disciples under him, he often came to visit the old man's blank spiritual position in the ancestral hall, which caused many speculations, but Lin Jingyu couldn't control it.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of footsteps behind him, and after a few years, Lin Jingyu had already heard these footsteps familiarly, and when he heard it, he knew that it was a real person of Daoxuan.

He got up and looked back and whispered, 'Master. ’

Dao Xuan Zhenren slowly walked into the ancestral hall.

The lights in the ancestral hall were dim, and although Lin Jingyu had been staying here, he couldn't see Dao Xuan's face clearly for a while, only vaguely saw Dao Xuan's figure, standing in the shadow, silently looking at the blank spiritual position beside him.

Somehow, Lin Jingyu looked at the shadow that was a little blurry in the dark, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, but what was wrong, he couldn't say, but he felt a heartbeat for no reason, and he was faintly nervous.

"He, is he okay?" Dao Xuan Zhenren finally spoke, his voice seemed rather low, a little hoarse, and seemed to be faintly exerting force, suppressing something, very different from his tone in the past.

Lin Jingyu was even more puzzled in his heart, but he still replied: "The disciple has never been lazy in keeping vigil for his predecessors at night, burning incense on time. ’

The figure in the shadow of yīn moved for a moment, and said slowly: "He has you so dedicated to his death, and it is not in vain that he has taught you for ten years. Hehe...... ' He laughed coldly, and in this dim ancestral hall, there was a bit of yīn Sen, "I don't know if I die, what will ......?"

He stopped suddenly, as if he felt that he had said the wrong thing, and Lin Jingyu naturally didn't dare to say more, and stood there with his hands down.

There was silence in the ancestral hall, and after a while, Dao Xuan Zhenren said, "You go out first, I have something to say to him alone." ’

Lin Jingyu was stunned, answered, and said, "Yes." So saying, he stepped out.

As soon as he walked out of the ancestral hall of the patriarch and stood on top of the sunny clearing, Lin Jingyu felt a sense of relief, and then realized that in that ancestral hall just now, he seemed to have a feeling of being suppressed.

He walked around the open space around this ancestral hall, and waited for half an hour, but still didn't see Dao Xuan Zhenren come out, and when he turned around, he happened to see a back disappearing on the path leading to the Phantom Moon Cave Mansion in front of him. Since the end of the war, the Phantom Moon Cave Mansion has once again become a forbidden place, and the only person who can enter it is naturally only Dao Xuan Zhenren.

Lin Jingyu glanced there a few times, shook his head, and turned around and walked back to the ancestral hall. He walked to the blank spiritual position, only to see that in front of the spiritual position, three sticks of fine incense were reinserted, and in the brazier on the ground in front of him, there seemed to be a lot of ashes, as if someone had burned some paper money here.

Lin Jingyu pondered for a moment, slowly raised his head, and saw that the blank tablet was still standing quietly in that secluded corner, silent......

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