Chapter 8: The Deceased

Wei Hong's disciples all know about it, although he didn't tell all of his disciples, but after so many years, these disciples are no longer xiǎo children, and those who don't know should know it now.

This nominal xiǎo apprentice actually didn't get much guidance from Ye Wen, and there was no jiāo set between him and this xiǎo apprentice, but judging from Zhou Zhiruo's words, the connection between this Wei Hong and the Shushan faction was quite close, otherwise Zhou Zhiruo would definitely not have said what he said before.

"Speaking of this, I just remembered that I was a teacher, how is Mu Yan now?"

Liu Muyan is above the court, it is said that he is in a high position, and he is deeply respected by Wei Hong, but he believes that these four disciples will have disasters in the future, but he doesn't know if he should do it now.

As soon as he saw everyone's expressions, Ye Wen had a rough idea in his heart: "Eighty percent guessed it!"

Sure enough, Nangong Huang's subsequent words let Ye Wen know the situation of his four disciples, it turned out that Liu Muyan had become the target of public criticism since he became stronger and stronger in the court, and all his foundations were on the emperor Wei Hong, and when his existence had threatened the emperor, his downfall would become inevitable.

"Brother Xiǎo didn't kill them all, but just dismissed Senior Brother Liu's official position and let him return to his hometown to retire, and when the ministers wanted to destroy Senior Brother Liu, it was also Brother Xiǎo who came out to save him...... It's just that Senior Brother Liu was deeply affected at that time, so after returning to his hometown, he couldn't afford to get sick, and he passed away a few months later!"

Nangong Huang's words made Ye Wen's heart feel a little better, although he also knew that things above the court were not so simple, and he would not show mercy to his subordinates because of the friendship of some senior brother, but he always had a little resentment towards that Wei Hong! If it weren't for Nangong Huang's words following closely, I'm afraid that Ye Wen would go to find Wei Hong's trouble later.

"I see...... So do you have any descendants in Mu Yan's family?"

"After Senior Brother Liu lost power, most of the family dispersed, and in the end, only his wife and a concubine accompanied him back to his hometown! When Senior Brother Liu died, the two ladies scattered their family wealth and disappeared!" Nangong Huang was also helpless, he deliberately sent a disciple to take Liu Muyan's family back to Shushan, but unfortunately he was a step too slow.

As for why Liu Muyan didn't return to Shushan when he lost power, Guo Jing said that Liu Muyan only felt that he killed the third senior brother and the sixth senior brother, and the disciples and Nangong junior brothers were injured, so he had no shame to return to Shushan!

Hearing this, Ye Wen sighed again. Since he called back here, he has sighed more times than he has spoken, but what he has heard and seen today, how can he not sigh?

"In the blink of an eye, people and things have changed greatly!" Ye Wen then asked about other situations, originally the disciples thought that their master was going to ask about the situation on the rivers and lakes, but they didn't expect that Ye Wen didn't dare to be interested in those at all, and just asked about some acquaintances.

"The Tianshan faction is no longer in charge of Li Xuan now, but Senior Li is still reincarnated, but he no longer cares about the affairs of the Mén faction and enjoys his old age in peace!"

"That guy will be willing to live the rest of his life so plainly?" Ye Wen was very skeptical when he heard this, and the impression of that domineering Li Xuan seemed to be absolutely impossible to do such a thing.

But after careful calculation, Li Xuan was in the prime of life when he left, and of course he was domineering.

Fifty years have passed, and Li Xuan is nearly 100 years old, so any ambitions have long been wiped out, right?

What's more, he wanted to shatter the void, but unexpectedly, the Shushan faction was broken one after another, but there was no movement at all there, and it was impossible to say that he was not discouraged at all.

Coupled with the fact that he is already half of his body in the ground, it is estimated that he can see everything, just because he can put down the Tianshan faction, he can know a thing or two.

"The Heavenly Dao Sect and the Zen Sect have now recovered most of their vitality and have started to move around the rivers and lakes again, and at the same time, the Heavenly Dao Sect has gradually resumed its contacts with the imperial court, fortunately, the master and the Heavenly Dao Sect had a lot of jiāo affection back then, so we got along well between the two factions!"

Ye Wen just listened to these things, and didn't ask in detail, but asked curiously: "What about the yùdòng faction?"

Nangong Huang sighed: "The Yùdòng faction has already been destroyed, and the last heir also defected to our Shushan faction with his teacher's letter two years ago, please take us in!"

Ye Wen didn't say anything after being stunned for a moment, the topic turned around, and finally turned to the imperial court: "You xiǎo junior brother, have you been close to you all these years?"

This question had to be answered by Zhou Zhiruo, although Guo Jing and Nangong Huang both knew that Xiǎo's junior brother was the current emperor, but Ye Wen had already said that this matter could not be publicized, and it was enough for the people in charge of the Shushan faction to know.

Zhou Zhiruo said: "In the early years, it was relatively close, but in the past two years, the junior brother has grown older, and he has been inseparable from dealing with state affairs, so he ......"

Ye Wenyi frowned: "What's the matter? I haven't sat in that position for so many years?" Forget it, I'll go talk to him in person in a few days!"

Originally, Ye Wen was not going to go to Wei Hong, because he thought that Wei Hong was involved in something, but now he changed his mind, because judging from the way Wei Hong treated Liu Muyan's family, he felt that Yue Ning's matter should have another hidden meaning - although it is said that Baijian Mén has a background in the imperial court, but to be careful, the imperial court is not equal to the emperor.

By the way, he also asked Na Wei Hong, if he was willing to give up this wealth and go with him, if he was willing, he wouldn't mind taking one more person!

Immediately after that, Ye Wen asked some other things, and knew that Xu Xian's eldest disciple Li Sen had also passed away a long time ago, but Li Sen had contributed his ability to the Shushan faction all his life, and when he was old, he even opened his mind, and comprehended a mén palm technique from the cold pool, and created a set of cold ice palms, which also left a strong mark in the classics of the Shushan faction.

At the same time, Ye Wen also knew that after the birth of the cold ice palm, the Shushan faction also produced a traitor, for the sake of the rivers and lakes, relying on this mén cold ice palm and Xu Xian's lineage to tread the snow without a trace.

In addition, it happened to coincide with Yue Ning's death, Zhou Zhiruo couldn't get out, and Guo Jing also happened to be at the most embarrassing moment of the retreat, Bī Nangong Huang went down the mountain with injuries and eliminated this traitor, so that the people in the rivers and lakes knew that he Nangong Huang was not dead, even if he was injured, he could not be ignored.

With a wave of his hand, everyone dispersed, and when Zhou Zhiruo was about to go out, he was stopped by Ye Wen: "The old man in the back mountain...... Is it still there today?"

Zhou Zhiruo was stunned for a moment, and then understood who the master was talking about: "Here!"

I didn't want to change Ye Wen this time: "Is she still there?"

"I haven't been to Shushan for decades...... Zhou Zhiruo didn't know the specific things, but she was also extremely touched by the fact that the senior refused to leave for decades and had been protecting the biggest secret of his Shushan faction.

To say that in the past few decades, there are not no masters who have run to the Shushan faction to spread wildness, if it weren't for the support of that senior, I'm afraid that the secret of the Shushan faction would have been publicized long ago.

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhiruo suddenly said: "Master, in addition to that senior, there is also another person in the Shishui Pavilion who you may also want to meet." ”

Ye Wen was stunned, but he couldn't guess who this person was. As for the Water Pavilion, it was a place like the Shaolin Scripture Pavilion that Ye Wen wanted to build, which was specially used to store the secret books of the sect.

It's just that I didn't have so much spare work at the beginning, so I just mentioned a few sentences casually, but I didn't expect that my group of disciples would really build up the Water Pavilion.

Walking out of the main hall, Ye Wenwen thought that he was going to go straight to the back mountain, but after remembering Zhou Zhiruo's words, he thought about it and turned straight to the Water Pavilion.

In fact, there are many places on Shushan and they are extremely wide, when Ye Wen left, the Shushan faction did not make full use of these places, but now it has opened up a lot of places and built more buildings.

The Water Pavilion is a newly opened up, artificially created lake, and at the same time, a zigzag stone bridge connects the only building in the lake, an attic built on the water - the Water Pavilion!

"Outside is the Huanshi Water Pavilion, and in the back mountain is Lang Huan yùdòng......!

There are disciples patrolling the night near the Water Pavilion, but at this time, Ye Wenxing came, and no one dared to stop him - they knew this master, and in the main hall today, the disciples of the Shushan faction were all present, who dared to forget the appearance of their own ancestor?

bowed one by one, and then without waiting for Ye Wen to ask, he directly opened the big mén, and Ye Wen only noticed at this time that the Shi Shui Pavilion was not locked.

"This ...... Does it mean that our Shushan faction is bold and not afraid of being stolen! Or does it mean that a group of guys have no sense of security?"

Shaking his head and striding in, Ye Wen noticed that there were rows of bookshelves, and there were many books on them, each of them.

And next to each bookshelf, there will be labels similar to catalogs, such as: fist, swordsmanship, knife technique, internal strength, and so on.

In fact, the martial arts cheats of the Shushan School are definitely not so exaggerated, but there are also a lot of Taoist collections and miscellaneous studies, which makes the rows of bookshelves full - Originally, Ye Wen just casually filled up some books first, and if there are more martial arts in the future, the disciples can move these things out, after all, the library also needs to collect many books.

Unexpectedly, his disciples didn't dare to touch his furnishings, how to put them before, how to put them now, there is no place to put them, they would rather increase the bookshelves or expand the attic, and they didn't dare to clean up the books he put on.

But then he turned his gaze to a figure that had just appeared, and then looked at the man holding a broom in his hand and kept scratching on the ground, and scolded in his heart: "Which grandson is here to pretend to be a sweeping monk with me?"

He also had the same mirror in his heart, this person must be the person Zhou Zhiruo said who has also been secretly supporting the Shushan faction, and it is estimated that this is also related to this person.

Just after a general observation, Ye Wen was very surprised to find that this person's kung fu was not weak, and his internal strength cultivation was not under Zhou Zhiruo and Guo Jing at all.

"How many years have you been here?"

At this time, the figure also noticed Ye Wen, and had already turned out, lù showed a wrinkled, extremely old face, snow-white hair and beard were stained with a lot of dust, it was estimated that it was rubbed when cleaning, and he was bending down to salute at this time.

"It's been forty years......

Ye Wen calculated, forty years, that is, ten years after he was broken, he began to be in charge of cleaning the people here: "What is your name?"

"Zhang Gui ......"

Ye Wen was taken aback, but he didn't expect that this old man was still an acquaintance: "It's you?"

took a closer look at Zhang Gui, and finally a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his heart, and he laughed: "It seems that you are also a blessed person, and that picture must have been found and practiced by you!"

Zhang Gui only had one set of Quanxin Law with Ye Wenxue back then, although the Quanxin Zhenfa was not bad if he practiced it consistently, but it was definitely not so high, and Zhang Gui's strength around him was not hidden-he couldn't hide it in Ye Wen's eyes, so after looking at it for a while, he thought of the key.

That is a picture of longevity that he was mixed with in these books back then, and only that mén Taoist practice can make Zhang Gui practice to the state he is now.

"What about the pictures?"

Zhang Gui said: "Since I found out that the picture is a profound exercise, I have made it clear to Elder Zhou, and now the picture has been properly collected and kept on the upper layer!" "Elder Zhou, it is Zhou Zhiruo, although Zhou Zhiruo is doing the things of the master, but nominally he is still just an elder in the faction.

Ye Wen nodded, looked around, and then noticed that the first layer was all relatively superficial kung fu, and the advanced kung fu was put on it.

Thinking of the upstairs, Ye Wen suddenly wondered: "Who is upstairs?" As soon as he came in, he found that there were two people in this building, one of them was this Zhang Gui, his breathing was steady and silent, and his steps were extremely calm, and his skills were almost in the top few in this world.

The other one is a little strange, breathing is sometimes fast and sometimes slow, sometimes heavy and sometimes light, it feels like he has suffered an internal injury, but his steps are extremely light, almost undetectable, if it weren't for Ye Wen's strength being too perverted for these people, I'm afraid no one would have noticed that there was another person in this building.

This made Ye Wen very strange, he felt that his Shushan faction was not without masters, but it was not on the surface!

As soon as he mentioned the person upstairs, Zhang Gui looked bitter: "That was a young man who Elder Zhou thought about me in my old age and sent a helper, but I accidentally turned to a book, because it was turned out of the Daozang, and it was not written that it was a martial art of this school, so it was just some ordinary qi practice mén, but I didn't expect something to go wrong under the practice......"

"Elder Zhou, Elder Nangong, and Elder Guo couldn't see what the problem was, they only felt that the kung fu he practiced was quite peculiar, and it was speculated that the mantra in the book was incomplete, so it was like this!"

Ye Wen was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that it was not only the immortal secret of that picture that he deliberately mixed in the Dao Collection, but also the Heavenly Demon Skill that was also included in it.

If it's the Heavenly Demon Skill, it's not surprising, the Heavenly Demon Skill is extremely difficult to practice, and the light skill will become extremely high after practice, and it is estimated that this unlucky child has a fork in the way of practice, so there will be such strange symptoms.

waved his hand and said to Zhang Gui: "Take me up and have a look!" Then he went upstairs with Zhang Gui, and at a glance he saw a delicate face full of cold sweat, lying there gritting his teeth and not daring to speak, as if he was enduring great pain.

Seeing this, Ye Wen immediately pointed his fingers, and the innate purple qi came out of his hand, wanting to stabilize the true qi in his body first, and then a purple lotus was slapped out and placed on his belly dantian, and then he reached out and took the pulse.

"Huh?"

After a look, he found that the true qi was very weird, Ye Wen took a look, and finally put the young man's chin up and looked at it a few times, only looked at it for a long time, and then he was shocked and said, "This is a boy?"

Zhang Gui didn't understand why Ye Wen was so surprised, but he was surprised by the child's appearance: "Lingzhu is indeed a boy, but his appearance has become more and more delicate in the past two years, and the Adam's apple has become more and more ......."

Ye Wen wiped his cold sweat, he finally understood what was wrong!

When he took a look, he found that the Heavenly Demon True Qi of this spiritual bamboo was in a ball, but there was no mistake in its exercises, which made him very strange.

I didn't expect the root cause to be here, the feeling is that a man has practiced kung fu that only NV people can practice, and it's no wonder if something happens!

"How did this xiǎozi of 丫 practice the Heavenly Demon Gong into mén?"

This question made him puzzled, and in the end he could only say: "I don't know if it's your luck or bad luck!" Then he turned his head and asked Zhang Gui: "In addition to the Adam's apple and appearance, are there any other changes?"

Zhang Gui shook his head, indicating that he didn't understand! Ye Wen had no choice but to ask bluntly: "I'm asking him if he ever has the characteristics of NV in his body?" But he secretly scolded in his heart: "Could it be that if a man practices the Heavenly Demon Skill, it has the same effect as the Phoenix Nirvana Skill?"

It was only then that Zhang Gui was heard replying: "There is no other vision except for the Adam's apple......"

Ye Wen took a look again, because of the suppression of his true qi, the spiritual bamboo in his body that had calmed down his true qi had fallen asleep, but he still had no clue how to solve the trouble of this xiǎozi. I had to put this matter aside first, and after a few words with Zhang Gui, I went out of this Shishui Pavilion.

When he walked towards the back mountain, Ye Wen pondered: "If you really can't do it, let's waste the kung fu!" Anyway, he has a lot of exercises in the Shushan faction, and it is not impossible to find a suitable exercise! That Lingzhu can practice the Heavenly Demon Skill with his male body, and he can be regarded as a generation of geniuses, but he can't afford to spend it!

Mindfulness chattered, Ye Wen saw the steep mountain wall again after many years. It's just that for him now, it's no different from a step of an ordinary staircase, and with a slight lift, the next second someone else is already standing on the cliff.

Walking through the long and winding Xiǎo Road, Ye Wen once again saw the beautiful scenery of the valley in all four seasons, but it was very different from that year, as soon as he entered the valley, what he saw was a jīngzhi wooden house. On the big tree in front of the house, a swing made of vines and planks was swaying gently.

An NV in a pink sè long skirt, sitting on the swing slightly curled up at this time, saw Ye Wen come in, and let out a smile that made all the hundred huā sè sè: "Are you here?"