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 Arhat Hall protectors had sharp eyes, but their expressions couldn't hide some languidity, and they didn't look like they were full of energy.

And when Chen Zhi used the Bi Ling Eye Divine Power to sweep it, he found that a pure white light cluster the size of a thumb appeared in the dantian of these Dharma Protector Arhats, and in this pure white light group, there was a stream of spiritual energy that was constantly generated, continuously replenishing 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 was covered with a faint layer of cyan light, and if anyone wanted to scan their bodies with spiritual sense, they would be blown away by this layer of blue light, so except for Chen Zhi, no one present had discovered this abnormal situation on the bodies of these Dharma Protector Arhats, at most they were 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.

As a result, Chen Zhi's complexion 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 several levels higher than his own, so he could easily see through his 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 people are the people, so there is no need to say other superfluous words, everyone present, some of you may not know my identity, then I will introduce myself, I am the only Taishang elder in the temple, Qingxuzi." As for what is the poor Dao as a Taoist in the Daomen, he will serve as an elder of Buddhism, firstly, because the Buddha is a family, and secondly, the poor Taoist brother Master Xuankong is the founder of this temple, and the senior brother failed to ascend that year, and when the military liberation was reincarnated, he entrusted this temple to me, telling me that if the temple had a catastrophe that destroyed the temple, I would have to help, and I promised to come down at that time. 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, there was still a little commotion.

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

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

Qing Xuozi didn't care about everyone's reaction, and then said: "Let everyone come today, in fact, I want to tell you one thing, the day before yesterday, many decent disciples who went to Shushan to participate in the Shushan opening ceremony were almost all killed, and together with the representatives of our Guangyuan Temple, the eighteen Dharma Protector Arhats, were also plotted, and only twelve people came back safely. ”

As soon as the old monk almost said this, everyone in the hall changed color, and they started 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 a righteous one, but 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 was in a commotion, and they began to ask questions, and the scene began to become a little chaotic.

"Humph!"

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

After everyone heard Lao Dao's impatient voice, they were suddenly shocked, and the person in charge of Zhilu Dao 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 have been strengthened a lot compared to before, and even our Guangyuan Temple is also on the invitation list, but what I didn't expect is that this is a complete conspiracy. ”

"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 the 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 grass, those fellow practitioners of Daohe, bare, were controlled by more than half, fortunately, the Red Fu Daogu of the Red Ayamen saw through the conspiracy of Shushan in time, and drank the remaining fellow Daoists, which saved the 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 must know that the mana fluctuations emanating from this person's body are obviously a cultivator in the Dan period, such a high cultivation, and his 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, suddenly turned into a ruffling 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 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. ”