Chapter 18: Mingjiao

The middle waist of a peak in the Kunlun Mountains. Although it is in the middle of the mountain, there is just a large flat area, surrounded by ice and snow peaks on all sides, which can not only refract the sunlight, make the brilliance of this place bright, but also hide this place, not known to the world, it is where the bright top of the main altar of Mingjiao is located. At the end of the flat land, a large hall is built by the mountain, its appearance is majestic and majestic, simple and heavy, so that people sigh with a ghostly workmanship: I don't know how to transport a large piece of stone to build this hall in this desperate place. When I got closer, I found that the main body of the hall was a depression naturally formed in the mountain peak, and the craftsmen cut down huge trees from the valley and skillfully decorated them to turn them into a majestic stone hall.

Somewhere in the hall, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy, with red lips and white eyebrows, was leaning lazily on the armrest of a chair, listening to the reports of the people below, while secretly covering his mouth with his hands and yawning. The boy's hand was a smaller chair, in which a woman in her early twenties sits. Her appearance is beautiful, and her facial features are quite similar to the young man above, but the two have diametrically opposite mental bearings. There was a sense of competence between the girl's eyebrows, and she was listening intently at this time. Behind the pair of teenagers, two old men stood with their heads down, one expressionless, and the other looked at the performance of the two teenagers in front of him and sighed quietly.

On the left and right sides of the lobby, there are five people sitting on each side, five people on the left, one Confucian, one monk, one nun and two Taoists, and five people on the right are wearing warrior robes, green, yellow, red, white and black, each wearing a yellow coat is the Humpty Dumpty who fought with Ding Yu two days ago.

I only heard the person below report: "Sect Master, the sect members in Shannan can clearly see that Chang Hao's little bald donkey actually entered the mountain again, but he didn't walk along the mountain road, but climbed a mountain wall more than ten zhang high with a big burden on his back. Although the sect member had good light skills, he couldn't climb up, so he lost it. Next, whether to mobilize people and horses to search for the bald donkey, and ask the master to show it. ”

The young man above secretly yawned a few times and then had tears in the corners of his eyes, and was wiping them with his fingers, but he didn't hear the person's instructions for a while, until the old man in the left back coughed lightly, and he was full of spirits, and said, "Well, I know, you can step down!"

The man at the bottom didn't get the instruction, and wanted to ask again: "Sect Master, ...... monk?"

The old man on the right above interrupted him and said, "The sect master has a plan, you should step back first." ”

The man agreed, bowed, and exited the hall.

At this time, Humpty Dumpty, who was dressed in yellow, stood up and said loudly: "Sect Master, let me go with the thick earth flag!

Unexpectedly, the young man above said lazily: "It's just a little monk, it doesn't matter what he does." He rebelled and fled in the Western Regions, taking care of himself, most likely in the Kunlun Mountains to avoid the pursuers, let him go. ”

The girl at the bottom of him spoke, "Brother, that's not what you say. That Chang Hao can say the word 'bright top', and he must know a lot about us. We have been hiding in this mountain for many years, and the ordinary people have long forgotten us, if he is not a descendant of the enemy, he must have a plan. In addition, his martial arts are high, and even Fu Qi's envoy was injured by him for a while, if he ignores it, I am afraid that it will be a disaster. It turned out that the Humpty Dumpty man's surname was Fu, and he was the main flag envoy of the Houtu Banner in the Five Elements Banner, and Ding Yu had always mistaken it for the "deputy flag envoy".

The old man on the right spoke up in agreement: "Miss is not bad, no matter what, you have to take it down and interrogate it to rest assured." ”

The young man spread his hands helplessly and said: "Even if you are right, Kunlun Mountain is so big, where can there be no monk hidden? Besides, even Fu Qi's envoy was injured by him, my sect's master, who can win Fu Qi's envoy is just my sister, the second elder and the sect leader, who do you say is appropriate?"

Everyone in the hall couldn't help but roll up a bunch of eyes, your sister and the second elder of Xiaoyao are just that, you are actually embarrassed to call yourself "martial arts victory over Fu Qi"?

Speaking of the strength of the Ming Sect today, it is actually far less powerful than Ding Yu imagined. As mentioned before, after Zhong Xiang's rebellion was ambushed and killed decades ago, most of the Mingjiao masters at that time were also killed, and some of the remaining people were disheartened by Zhong Xiang's behavior and retired to other places, and finally only a few die-hard believers fled to Kunlun Mountain to re-establish Mingjiao. However, a big force cannot be established by means of establishment, the vicinity of Kunlun Mountain is sparsely populated, and it is impossible to recruit a large number of sectarians; the wealth accumulated by the Ming Sect over the years has not brought out much; the prestige of the connections in the rivers and lakes has fallen to a low point because of Zhong Xiang's actions; all kinds of unfavorable factors are superimposed, even if they still retain a lot of martial arts classics, they cannot cultivate many masters.

After so many years, the masters of the older generation have passed away one after another, and the masters of the new generation have not been trained. Among them, Liang Xiaozhong Yao, the second envoy of Xiaoyao (according to the rules of the Ming Sect, after becoming the second envoy of Xiaoyao, he was named after the word Xiaoyao) was already the only remaining first-class master; the woman's name was Fang Qinghua, and she was the sister of the sect leader Fang Qingyu, because of her outstanding talent, she had already practiced to the first and second rate masters at the age of 20; although the sect leader Fang Qingyu was also talented, he had a lazy personality, and now he was only at the second- or third-rate level; and the rest of the Five Elements Banner Envoy and the Wusan people were basically among the second-rate masters.

As for the four great Dharma kings, they are fictitious titles with positions and no powers, and they are used by the Ming Sect to envelop the masters of the rivers and lakes. At this time, Mingjiao did not have this spare strength. Ding Yu used the Mingjiao in "Yitian" to estimate the Mingjiao at this time, but it was greatly overestimated.

Let's talk about the people in the hall. As the saying goes, Wen Wu is the first and Wu Wu is the second, the Five Elements Banner Envoy and the Five Scattered People listened to the Fang Sect Leader just because Fu Qi made one person lose and compared the other nine of them, and they were very dissatisfied in their hearts, and they all stood up and asked for their lives, and the short and fat Fu Qi Envoy blushed even more, and was embarrassed and indignant.

Fang Qinghua saw that his younger brother's words made Fu Qi's envoy unable to come to the stage, and he was worried that he would say something embarrassing again, so he hurriedly said: "Fu Qi's envoy doesn't have to care, your martial arts ability is well known to everyone in the sect, but this time it's just a temporary ignorance, and the thieves have taken advantage of it." Since he is hiding in the mountains and is most familiar with the geography of Houtu Banner, he is naturally responsible for the search. It's just that Fu Qi is injured, so let the Fire Flag Du Qi help you. She knew that Fu Yan was very popular, and if he let others help him, he was afraid that the monk would be taken away by others, and he would seem incompetent, so maybe he would secretly obstruct it, only Du Lishen and Fu Yan had a very close relationship, and the two must be able to cooperate seamlessly.

Seeing Fang Qinghua's arrangement, Fu Yan's expression was a little softened, and he replied loudly: "Sect Leader Deputy Sect Leader rest assured, Fu Yan will definitely capture that bald donkey back to the mountain when he goes here!" There is a monk and a nun among the five scattered people on the opposite side, listening to Fu Yan's opening and closing his mouth without leaving the word "bald donkey", he can't help but look dark, but the power of the five scattered people is not as good as the Five Elements Banner, he is answering with the deputy sect leader at this time, and they don't want to interject because of this, and see how the two sect leaders respond.

After all, Fang Qinghua was young and couldn't cover everything, and when he saw Fu Yan's morale was high, he bowed his head approvingly, while Fang Qingyu nodded indispensably and continued to play. After a while, another congregant walked into the hall and began to report on other matters. The monks and nuns glanced at each other, already thinking about it.