"It's complicated, a lot of things have been lost to history, and even I don't know the details. Ji Guantai said, "I'll start with the mission of my Ji family." ”

Luo Zhuo is a good listener and doesn't say anything, but the curiosity in his eyes makes Ji Guantai have the desire to continue.

"The original mission of my Ji family is to guard the seal of this Hangu Pass. Ji Guantai said, "Our task is not to let people enter the seal at will, in fact, people who don't have a key to the seal can't enter, we are not so much preventing people from entering, but guarding this secret, so as not to let the news of Hangu Pass leak out." This task, my Ji family thinks that it is not bad, over the years, Mr. Luo, you are the second to discover Hangu Pass, the first is that a person somehow strayed into the seal more than a hundred years ago, and in the end, it was my Ji family ancestor who found a way to get him out. Mr. Luo should have seen the true appearance of Hangu Pass, that pass, there used to be guards, and now although there may be no guards, it is not easy to approach. ”

"Is Hangu Pass used to defend something, is it to defend the Immortal Realm?" Luo Zhuo couldn't help but ask.

"Being able to say the word immortal realm, it seems that the old man is not wrong in guessing, Mr. Luo is the only remaining cultivator. Ji Guantai sighed and said: "Of course, it is not to defend the fairy world, in ancient times, our earth was originally a part of the fairy world, the so-called fairy world is not as beautiful as described in the novel movie, there is just a higher level of space, there are still all kinds of ugly things, my family word of mouth, in addition to the fairy world, there are ghosts and demons, especially the heavenly demon clan, born to hate my human race, a fairy and demon war, the fairy world is fragmented. And my earth is right on the border between the fairy world and the demon world, and this Hangu Pass is precisely to prevent the invasion of the demon world!"

"Is there still a demon realm?" Luo Zhuo was a cultivator, and he didn't know as many secrets as a secular family head, which made him feel a little uncomfortable, but he didn't doubt Ji Guantai's words, Ji Guantai didn't need to make up stories for himself, he knew the existence of Hangu Pass, and it was really possible that what he was talking about now had been passed down from generation to generation by his family.

As for why the Ji family didn't enter the cultivation realm. Luo Zhuo could also guess that Ji Guantai had said at the beginning that the existence of the Ji family was to keep the secret of Hangu Pass, and since it was kept secret, it was naturally safest not to contact the cultivators.

Without waiting for Luo Zhuo to ask, Ji Guantai continued: "Hangu Pass is the front line of the Immortal and Demon War, and there were countless tragic battles here back then, and it was even lost for a time, until later. Daozu Lao Tzu became enlightened, rode a green ox out of the customs, and repelled the demon clan for 3,000 miles with the strength of one person, and there was a legend that the purple qi came east for 3,000 miles. That's also the confusing words deliberately spread by my Ji family. ”

Luo Zhuo didn't expect that there would be such a relationship, no wonder there are legends of Lao Tzu among the people, but there is no real record of Lao Tzu in the cultivation world.

"Then what happened to the cultivation realm on the earth later, why did no one in the cultivation realm ever know about the battle between Hangu Pass and the Immortals and Demons?" Luo Zhuo asked.

"Of course no one knows, do you know how the cultivation realm came about?" Ji Guantai said with a sneer on his face. "Back then, after the war between the immortals and demons, the earth had been separated from the fairy world, and the gods and demons no longer went to war. The inferiority of human beings is undoubtedly revealed, and the infighting is endless. The cultivation realm was a victim of infighting, and all cultivators who refused to take sides were all exiled to the earth. ”

"To put it bluntly, the earth is a penal colony in the fairy world!" Ji Guantai looked up at the sky, and his tone was indescribably sad.

"This doesn't make sense, more than six hundred years ago, the Earth Monks could obviously ascend! If the Earth was really just a place of exile, how could the Immortal Realm allow the Earth Monks to ascend again?" Luo Zhuo frowned and asked. He was keenly aware of the contradictions.

"I'm getting more and more curious about your identity now. Ji Guantai said with admiration on his face: "Back then, there were not only low-level monks, but even powerful people, even those big forces in the fairy world, they didn't dare to offend them to death, so they still left an upward channel for those people on the surface, but later those powerful people fell one by one, and no one could take care of the earth, and finally someone took action to completely cut off the road to ascension on the earth." ”

Luo Zhuo never thought that the great changes in heaven and earth would be such a reason, maybe it was really as Ji Guantai said, the cultivators on the earth were all descendants of the exiled people back then, and they naturally did not mention the life in the immortal realm that made them hate, generation after generation, and gradually no one knew the true origin of the cultivation realm.

"I still have a question, whether Hangu Pass is still connected to the fairy world now. Luo Zhuo asked in a deep voice.

"I can tell you this question clearly, don't fight that idea!" Ji Guantai said with a serious face, "The road to Hangu Pass is extremely difficult, although those passes have been abandoned now, but there are countless gods and demons who died on the ancient battlefield back then, and there is no lack of unfathomable power in cultivation, although they have fallen, but the murderous aura and ghost of the ancient battlefield make Hangu Pass a hundred times more dangerous than back then, and it is impossible for anyone to go to the fairy world through the road of Hangu Pass!"

In other words, the road behind Hangu Pass is still connected to the fairy world. Luo Zhuo said, it's not that he didn't take Ji Guantai's words seriously, of course he knew the danger of the Hangu Pass Road, if it wasn't dangerous, how could those immortal forces who treated the earth as a place of sin and ban it let it go, it was precisely because they were sure that no one could pass through the Hangu Pass Road, so there would be this glimmer of life, otherwise Luo Zhuo was confident, and he didn't think that he would be able to compete with the big forces of the fairy world now.

"Last question, your Ji family knows so many things, where did you come from?" Luo Zhuo asked.

"Have you ever heard of the Romance of the Gods?" Ji Guantai smiled strangely and said: "My Ji family is the descendant of King Wen and King Wu, and it is a lineage of the Ji family in the Immortal Realm, and you still don't understand the seal of Hanguguan, it is the jailer who specializes in guarding your cultivation realm!"

Luo Zhuo was directly speechless, he didn't expect that a family in the mundane world that the cultivation world looked down on was actually the one who guarded them, and this kind of big backlash Luo Zhuo really couldn't accept it.

"It's hard to accept, isn't it?" Ji Guantai is an old man, so he naturally knows Luo Zhuo's thoughts, he said with a smile: "You must think that with the strength of our Ji family, how can we guard the cultivation realm, don't say that the cultivation realm, with Mr. Luo's cultivation, we may be able to sweep the current Ji family." ”

"As I said before, time is the most powerful supernatural power, my Ji family was not the scene it is now, according to legend, the people of the Ji family who first came to the earth back then, there are no less than ten heavenly immortal monks alone, my Ji family has great grace to the earth, and is favored by heaven and earth, except for the people of my Ji family, other heavenly immortals will be suppressed to the Mahayana period as soon as they arrive on the earth, so there is absolutely no problem in guarding the cultivation realm. ”

"Cultivation is already difficult, in my Ji family is no exception, with the passage of time, the monks of the Ji family are getting fewer and fewer, after the gate of heaven is closed, we are not trying to contact the family of the fairy world to seek to retreat into the fairy world, but for some reason, the message sent out mud cow into the sea, the result is what it is today. Ji Guantai smiled bitterly and said, the cultivation realm didn't know about their existence before, not because they didn't know how to cultivate, but because they thought they were high above and disdained to deal with the cultivation realm.

"As the gatekeeper of Hangu Pass, don't you have a way to pass through Hangu Pass? This key was not scattered by you?" Luo Zhuo said, with an extra key in his hand.

"The gatekeeper is not just my Ji family, there are five passes on the road of Hangu Pass, each city is a guard, in ancient times, every guard general is qualified to distribute this kind of key to the outside, this key is made of the bones of the heavenly demons, it is a kind of certificate, it is used to recruit soldiers, anyone who holds this kind of key, can enter Hangu Pass to participate in the war of gods and demons. "Ji Guantai has all the questions to answer, their Ji family knows more than the inheritance of the Kunlun faction, at least Luo Zhuo has never heard of the war between gods and demons in the Kunlun faction.

"My Ji family has kept some of these keys, but Mr. Luo, you didn't pass it on from us, I'm afraid it was lost for some reason back then. Ji Guantai continued: "If it was placed back then, it would have been possible to determine which guard issued it according to the key, but now, the guard will probably disappear, and the old man will not have the ability to distinguish it." ”

"I see, you have solved many doubts in my heart. Luo Zhuo nodded, Ji Guantai Xiu Wei opposite him had been eaten up by the heavenly machine, he was old and frail, he was already a little out of breath after saying so many words, and his face was even more red.

"This is a bottle of Pei Yuan Dan, it can't solve the heavenly backlash, but it should be a little helpful to your body, and it can be regarded as your reward for helping me solve my doubts. Luo Zhuo put a porcelain vase in front of Ji Guantai and said.

Ji Guantai was not too excited, he shook his head slightly and said: " My old man is old, there are not many days to live, although this Pei Yuan Dan can let me survive for two years, but it is too wasteful, I can't hide it, when the gate of heaven was closed, after the road to heaven was cut off, the ancestors of my Ji family once used their lives to occupy a hexagram, it was a great murderer with a glimmer of life, and I think this line of vitality fell on Mr. Luo's body, I have no other requirements, I just hope that if one day Mr. Luo really wants to take the road of Hanguguan, bring some descendants of my Ji family, the earth has been unable to practice, I can't bear them for such a lifetime, you can rest assured, you only need to take them on the road, when you can help, if you can't do it, then leave them to fend for themselves. (To be continued.) )