But after taking a closer look, Chen Zhi showed a look of surprise.

Aren't there eighteen Dharma Protector Arhats in the Arhat Hall? Moreover, these eighteen Dharma Protector Arhats have always advanced and retreated together, and there are few who appear in front of everyone alone, but looking at these Arhats standing in front of everyone now, the number is obviously less, only twelve or thirteen, where are the others?

In fact, not only Chen Zhi had this question in his heart, but everyone present showed a little surprise on their faces.

Seeing this scene, Chen Zhi frowned, and after a careful glance, he immediately found that something was wrong, although these protectors of the Luohan Hall had sharp eyes, they couldn't hide some malaise in their expressions, and they didn't look like they were full of gods.

And when Chen Zhi used the blue spirit eye magic power to sweep it, he found that a thumb-sized pure white sè light cluster appeared in the dantian of these Dharma protector Arhats, and within this pure white sè light group, there was a stream of spiritual energy that was constantly being generated and continuously replenished into the meridians of their whole body, as if they had taken some kind of elixir to supplement their internal strength.

The surface of the bodies of these Dharma Protector Arhats is covered with a faint layer of green light, and if anyone wants to scan their bodies with spiritual sense, they will be blown away by this layer of blue light, so except for Chen Zhi, no one present has discovered this abnormal situation on the bodies of these Dharma Protector Arhats, at most they are just a little surprised.

At this time, thousands of monks from Guangyuan Temple had already gathered in the hall, among which there were many lay disciples, so many people, but Chen Zhi didn't know a few, so he had to stand with the monk Xushi.

So many monks stood there, but there was no ant-like chaos on the hot pot as they imagined, and all the people present were silent, all of them bowed their heads and frowned respectfully, and looked at the person on the main seat with a solemn expression.

Although all the stewards and elders were gathered in the council hall and sat in two rows, these high monks, who were usually in power and had their eyes above the top, were now sitting with their heads bowed and their expressions unusually respectful, just like everyone else.

This made Chen Zhi a little surprised, because the person sitting on the main seat was not a Zen master of Kongdu, but an old man with white eyebrows and fairy bones.

But what really surprised everyone present was that although this person was sitting on the main seat of the council hall, he was not a monk, but an elderly Taoist priest wearing a gossip robe.

As soon as I saw that there was an old Tao in the monk's temple, everyone muttered a little in their hearts, just looking at the silent Zen master Kongdu and the high-level officials in the temple, they could guess the identity of some old Taoists, so no one came out to say anything.

Seeing this person's appearance, Chen Zhi naturally remembered some legends about this Guangyuan Temple, and then linked these legends to associate them, and naturally guessed the identity of this person.

Legend has it that the reason why Guangyuan Temple can stand in the monastic world for thousands of years, the most important reason is actually that there is a mysterious Yuan infant period behind the overhaul, it is by this high-level monk that the Taoist and Confucian Daoists recognized that Guangyuan Temple opened a sect here.

And this Yuan Infant monk is said to be not a person in Buddhism, but he has a lot of connections with this Guangyuan Temple, and he is the only Yuan Infant monk in Guangyuan Temple in the past two or three hundred years.

However, this was the first time Chen Zhi had seen this Taishang Elder of Guangyuan Temple who was not a member of the Buddhist Sect, so he naturally looked at it twice, but this old Taoist immediately glanced in the direction where Chen Zhi was, although his eyes were peaceful and gentle, but this glance made Chen Zhi's heart jump wildly for no reason, like falling into an ice cave.

In this way, Chen Zhi's face suddenly changed greatly. Immediately he didn't dare to look at it anymore and lowered his head.

"Huh, the realm is a little unstable, it seems that he has just broken through the bottleneck of the mid-stage and reached the late-stage realm, right?" After the old monk on the seat glanced at it, he accurately said Chen Zhi's cultivation realm.

As soon as he heard this, Chen Zhi naturally knew that the other party's realm was a few levels higher than his own, so he could easily see through his own cultivation realm, and even the fact that he had just broken through the realm was broken by his words.

In this way, Chen Zhi naturally strengthened his conjecture, and immediately said in a respectful voice that he didn't dare to make a mistake: "The predecessors are as wise as torches, and it is true that they have just broken through the previous realm and reached the current realm not long ago. ”

When Lao Dao heard this, he nodded with a smile on his face, and after waving his hand lightly, he said: "Okay, it seems that these are the people, so there is no need to say anything else, everyone present, some people may not know my identity yet, then I will introduce myself, I am the only Taishang elder in the temple, Qingxuzi." As for why Poor Dao as a member of the Taoist Gate, will serve as an elder of Buddhism, firstly, because Buddhism is a family, and secondly, Master Xuankong, the elder brother of Poor Dao, is the founder of this temple. But I'm usually in a secret retreat in the monastery, and you haven't seen it. ”

Although most of the people below had already guessed the identity of Lao Dao, they still moved a little.

Qing Xuzi noticed everyone's reaction, and suddenly his face sank, and he said solemnly: "However, since I appeared in front of everyone today, and rang the sting bell used for the jǐng ring in this temple, what does that mean, everyone must have guessed something." ”

When everyone heard this, they looked at each other, but they still fell silent.

Qing Xuzi didn't care about everyone's reactions, and then said: "Today, I asked you to come, in fact, I want to tell you one thing, almost all of the many decent disciples who went to Shushan to participate in the Shushan Sect Opening Ceremony were killed, and together with the eighteen Dharma Protector Arhats, the representatives of our Guangyuan Temple, were also plotted, and only twelve people came back safely. ”

As soon as the old monk almost said this, everyone in the hall suddenly changed and began to discuss, "Qingxuzi Ancestor, didn't you hear that the opening ceremony of Shushan had already been held, how could it be held again in such a short period of time?"

"Old Ancestor, isn't Shushan a famous and decent family, how can it be possible to attack those of us who congratulate you?"

"Ancestor, although our Guangyuan Temple is not in the line of righteousness, we have always been friendly with these decent people, why did they attack us?"

......

As soon as everyone heard the words of the old Taoist, everyone moved for a while, and they began to ask one after another, and the scene began to become a little chaotic.

"Humph!"

When Lao Dao saw the appearance of everyone, he snorted coldly.

When everyone heard Lao Dao's impatient voice, they were suddenly shocked, knowing that the person in charge was dissatisfied, and hurriedly quieted down again.

"The last Shushan opening ceremony, it is said that because the people of the Evil Ghost Valley and the Ten Thousand Poison Gate made trouble from it, intercepting the tributes of each gate on the road, there were not many people who succeeded in congratulating them, so this Shushan decided to reopen the mountain gate for the second time and re-hold the opening ceremony. For this reason, the number of people invited this time is fully double that of the last time, and the security measures are also much stronger than before, even our Guangyuan Temple is also on the invitation list, but what I didn't expect is that this is a thorough yīn scheme. ”

"These people from the Shushan faction, after introducing the Daohe people into the mountain gate, put the blood gate in the spiritual tea that everyone drank. As soon as this blood beet enters the body, it will drill into people's brains in a very short period of time, and then no matter if you have great ability, you have to obediently obey the orders of the people who are under the enemy, those fellow practitioners of Daohe, bare, were controlled more than half, fortunately, the Red Breeze Daogu of the Red Silk Gate saw through the yīn plot of Shushan in time, and drank the remaining fellow Daoists, which saved other people from being controlled, but those who were controlled attacked at once, and the entire Shushan Hall suddenly became a fighting field. ”

When he said this, Qingxuzi Lao Dao suddenly pointed to a middle-aged monk beside him and said: "Among the people who congratulate the Dao in this temple, in addition to the eighteen Arhats, there is also this Dharma Master and nephew, Dharma Master and nephew, you can talk about the rest." ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone immediately focused their attention on this middle-aged monk, it turned out that because of Qingxuzi's relationship, almost no one noticed this person. As soon as Qing Xuzi said at this time, everyone noticed that there was a person standing behind him, the gray monk's robe on this person was tattered, dusty, unkempt, and his eyes were full of bloodshots.

But after everyone present saw his appearance, they were taken aback, you know, the mana fluctuations emanating from this person's body are obviously a cultivator in the Dan period, such a high cultivation, the status in the temple must not be low, why did he look like this?

As soon as the monk opened his mouth, he said to everyone in a hoarse voice: " On the contrary, on the contrary, these people in Shushan are all reversed, they saw that they could not fully control our fellow Daoists, so they immediately activated the ban on the organs in the main hall, and the main hall was shrouded in a ball of blue light, and the people in the main hall were also some people who had experienced a hundred battles, knowing that the situation had changed, and they had released the talisman magic weapon one after another, but the colleagues in the main hall had just completed these, and it was too late to rush out, and the pillars in the main hall suddenly released a blood-red mist, these mist tumbled and rolled, blood waves, and the whole space was shrouded in the smell of blood, and these fogs rotated rapidly, suddenly turned into a rattling raindrop and fell towards everyone, this raindrop was bright red, and it turned out to be a drop of blood that occasionally flashed with a faint green sè filament. And as soon as it fell on everyone's body protection magic weapon, it 'sneered-' emitted a green smoke, and the magic weapon of the people trembled, and after a few flashes of spiritual light, the magic weapon of good quality was okay, and some of the magic weapons that were almost almost touched by this blood rain, the surface aura dimmed a little, and as soon as these blood rain fell to the ground, it was like a red-hot iron piece touching lard, emitting a strange and unpleasant smell, as soon as this smell spread, it made people feel upset, and some disciples who were weaker in the practice even dizzy and vomited. ”

"Fortunately, the Qianjin Dao chief of the Kunlun faction saw that the situation was not good, and sacrificed his magic weapon Miro umbrella, as soon as this umbrella came out, it immediately expanded several times and turned into a giant umbrella, protecting everyone, but at this time, the demon Dao people also killed in, the demon Dao people were many people, and I waited for everyone to retreat, but fortunately, the cultivation of everyone present was not weak, and in a hurry, a temporary magic circle was formed, which blocked the demon Dao people from the outside. ”