In the dead of night, an unknown Taoist priest blocked the gate of the mountain. It looked like he had bad intentions.
Considering that my master was still in seclusion in the Taoist temple, and now he was unknown whether he was alive or dead, no one here could remain calm.
Since we couldn't choose to remain silent, we could only erupt like a volcano.
"I'll kill you!"
Lao Bai's roar tore apart the little bit of rationality left in our hearts. At this time, we couldn't care about any rules, let alone whether our current state was suitable for a bloody battle. A group of people rushed to the gate of the mountain.
Zhang Xinya didn't check for a moment and stepped on Lao Bai's heel. Lao Bai fell to the ground with his face touching the ground. Whoever tries it knows the pain. In the past, Lao Bai would definitely lie there with his temper and couldn't get up for ten thousand years. But today, he seemed to be unaware of it. He paddled on the ground with his limbs. He didn't even bother to pull up his heels. He kicked off his shoes and ran wildly on the mountain road full of stones.
"What are you going to do?"
In front of the mountain gate, a slightly childish voice came. The other party finally raised his head at this moment, revealing a handsome face. The Taoist robe on his body was full of patches, and there was a sad and shabby air everywhere.
Brother Yaozi, who rushed to the front with a short knife in his hand and was about to stab the other party a few times, suddenly braked without warning. His mind was full of thoughts of finding someone to fight with, so how could he care about holding me with his hands? If I hadn't been hanging on his neck, I would have been thrown out by him halfway. Now, this happened suddenly. I was caught off guard and was thrown out. I drew a perfect parabola in the air and crashed into the arms of the little Taoist priest. My head rested on his crossed legs and my back kissed the cold and hard stone slab. I heard a muffled "dong" sound echoing in my abdomen. I almost fainted. I covered my chest and twisted half of my body. My breath was stuck in my throat and I couldn't say a word.
The little Taoist priest didn't kick me down the stairs, but stretched out his pale hand and patted my chest to help me breathe. There was a chilly aura on him, but there was no ghost on his face. He looked down at me with bright eyes, smiled and revealed two small dimples at the corners of his mouth, and whispered: "Little disciple, are you a little too enthusiastic? We practitioners don't care about this."
I was so embarrassed that I wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into. Brother Yaozi also felt that this misunderstanding was a bit embarrassing, so he quickly pulled me out of his arms.
After I took a breath, I smiled and greeted the little Taoist priest in front of me: "Fourteenth Ancestor, why did you come out? Did my master encounter danger and had to ask for the Zhenwu Banner?"
That's right, the person in front of me is the senior disciple of the Zhenwu Banner!
Several decades ago, China fell into a century of shame and darkness. The Taoist priest in the Zhenwu Temple went down the mountain to fight the enemy and never returned. Only his remaining soul lived in the Zhenwu flag, protecting his descendants like a magic weapon.
At that time, we went deep into the ancient tomb of Donghu. The red-haired wind rose, and the Donghu ghost soldiers rushed out. Brother Yaozi had no choice but to unfold the Zhenwu flag. The man in front of me rushed out at that time, killed a ghost knight, and gave me a bottle of rare precious medicine. It can be said that he has a deep relationship with me. In terms of seniority, he is the brother of my master's master, ranked fourteenth, and the brothers call him Old Fourteen, but for me, he is definitely the ancestor...
"All the disciples never returned, and the decline of the sect was already expected by us. However, the ancestral precepts that the righteous path of the people comes first. We have no choice but to be the sinners of the sect. When we died in the battle, there was only a remnant in our hearts. We didn't want to be reborn, but just wanted to burn out the remnant soul and protect the sect as atonement."
The little Taoist smiled gently, and his smile was very clean: "Now I am just fulfilling my ambition back then. Why did nephew Daoxuan come out of the dead pass and ask us to take action?"
I understand. My master is still in seclusion, but the Zhenwu flag has revived automatically, and the ancestors inside have come out to protect the Zhenwu Temple.
This made me feel a little uneasy, and I couldn't help but ask: "Is there really some evil spirit coming? Where are the other ancestors?"
"Why do the master and senior brothers need to take action against such a small-time person? I, Old Fourteen, am enough!"
The little Taoist slapped his chest with a bang, and the bullet holes on his worn Taoist robe were clearly visible. I guess they walked out of the mountain gate and used their flesh and blood to carry machine guns and cannons, and they were also so heroic when they died collectively.
I sighed lightly and asked: "Where are the evil spirits that attacked the mountain gate?"
The Fourteenth Ancestor waved his hand and said two words lightly: "Behead!"
After that, he stood up with his sword and pushed the door open.
In the courtyard, two shrunken skins were stacked at the door.
One rat skin and one snake skin.
There was only one sword mark on it, which showed that no fierce battle had taken place here. The power disparity was so great that when the two appeared, they were killed by the Fourteenth Ancestor with a clean and neat sword.
All the doubts in my heart were gone, leaving only a wave of fear. This Yaju really attacked my master. If it weren't for the automatic resurrection of the Zhenwu Flag, the Fourteenth Ancestor's obsession and residual soul would have come out with a sword, and the consequences would be disastrous! !
Brother Yaozi was full of self-blame. In his opinion, this was all caused by him. If it weren't for the demon in his heart, he wouldn't have been completely controlled by the Silk-wrapped Gu, so that Yaju could spy on all the secrets in his heart.
"Taiping Dao has appeared again..."
At this time, a trace of regret finally emerged on the young face of the Fourteenth Ancestor, and he sighed: "It's a pity that we are already a lonely soul. Once we appear, we have to lie on the altar to recover for a long time and can't fight them anymore."
He told me very seriously that they didn't wait for Taiping Dao back then, but waited for the war. Now I run into Taiping Dao, so I will kill one by one, and don't be soft.
I asked, "Does the Taiping Dao have a grudge against us?"
"The evil heretics, everyone has the right to kill them."
The Fourteenth Patriarch said softly, "Looking back in time, every time they appeared, they would commit countless evil deeds. Countless ancestors of the Zhenwu Temple died at their hands. The dispute with the Taiping Dao is no longer a dispute between good and evil, but an irreconcilable blood feud!!"
If he hadn't said it, I wouldn't have known there was such a paragraph here.
The Fourteenth Ancestor invited us to sit down in the cool of the courtyard. He suddenly took my hand, checked my pulse for a long time, and pinched the artery on my neck. Then he breathed a sigh of relief: "The Feng Shui backfired, and the Black Emperor's water qi rushed into my body. Fortunately, I got some blessings and escaped in time. It was just some damage to my heart meridians. It's not serious. Drink licorice in water in the future. It will heal itself after a period of time."
He looked very young, but he was actually very experienced. He guessed everything at once. He glanced at me and asked with a smile: "Did you use the Black Emperor's water array under the mountain to fight the enemy?"
I smiled bitterly and nodded, and told us everything about our experience. Until now, I still don't understand where the problem is. I actually forced myself into a corner of life and death. If Feng Ling hadn't taken action at the critical moment, I'm afraid I would have died there.
"You are just too reckless."
The Fourteenth Ancestor shook his head in a dignified manner and said softly, "I can't explain what happened to the wind chime. When offering sacrifices to the Zhenwu flag, nephew Daoxuan mentioned you to us several times. The wind chime is of utmost importance. Unfortunately, none of us have heard of it. However, nephew Daoxuan said that in a tomb where thousands of families cast tripods and spears intersected, the nobles who entered the tomb with great honors after death were thrown out. The people inside didn't buy it at all. I guess it's almost the same for me to go in, so I won't join in the fun. A large circle of juniors are watching, and I have to save face!!
However, I can say a thing or two about your injury."
He said that I used the principle of the conflict between the five elements to lead the Feng Shui Qi to fight against those child trees. This is correct. The idea is good, but using the earth of the five elements to impact the water of the black emperor is a big mistake.
Earth originally overcomes water, there is nothing wrong with this, but you have to choose the time and place.
This is just like two people fighting, one of them is specifically restraining the other, and in a one-on-one duel, he always beats the other, and the other dares not say anything to him. As a result, this person gets more and more arrogant, and even runs to the other person's house to beat him. So, the other person calls out a hundred twin brothers. If they can't beat him in a one-on-one duel, how can they still beat one? Old grudges and new hatreds are counted together, of course they have to be beaten to death!
I made this bad mistake and ignored the degree of madness of the backlash. The Black Emperor's Misty Water Formation has been nurtured for thousands of years, and the water Qi is magnificent. I use that little bit of the Five Elements of Earth to attack, even if I run to the other person's house to beat him, I will definitely be uprooted by him, and I, the mastermind behind the Five Elements of Earth, will naturally be burned.
The Fourteenth Ancestor said that I should actually use the Five Elements of Fire to attack.
Although it is the same attack, there is a big difference here.
Earth controls water, water controls fire. When an enemy comes to your house, he is bullying you. If you have the upper hand, you must avenge your previous humiliation. But if a bully who gets beaten every day comes to your house to pick a fight, that is asking for a beating. Of course, you should fight him, but you won't do it to the extreme. You will just treat it as a joke. No one will hate someone who is beaten by you every day, so there will naturally be no backlash.
The way of yin and yang, the five elements of life and death, this is the way of heaven, but then again, the way of heaven is like the way of man, all the principles are the same, if I use my brain a little, I won't put myself in a dilemma between life and death.
I thought about it for a while, it seems to be true, and I bowed repeatedly to show that I have learned.
People are greedy, especially me, who don't know what it means to stop. Seeing that the fourteenth ancestor is more capable than I thought, how can I let him go?
What's more, it seems that the other party knows Taiping Dao very well.
We have fought with that Yaju countless times, and our heads have been beaten into dog heads. However, up to now, I still don't know what the other party's ultimate goal is. This makes me very puzzled. I always feel that the other party has a great conspiracy. I immediately picked out some key points and said them, and then looked at the Fourteenth Ancestor eagerly, hoping that he would know something.
The Fourteenth Patriarch fell into silence, frowning tightly, mumbling to himself from time to time, and it was unclear what he was saying. After a while, he glanced at Da Huang and suddenly said, "Tell me again what the other party wants to cultivate."
"Currently, there are rats, snakes, wolves, tigers, and chickens."
I murmured, "Oh, by the way, the other party also said that I am the dragon she is looking for, and Xiao Zhi is the rabbit."
The Fourteenth Patriarch laughed, "Let me ask you, where do dogs come from?"
Lao Bai interrupted, "Of course it's a wolf. Didn't I say that dogs are domesticated from gray wolves?"
"In this case, then the two are actually the same type. Dogs are wolves, and wolves are dogs. One is domesticated and the other is wild. They are essentially the same. That's it."
The Fourteenth Patriarch laughed and said, "Now that this link has been solved, think carefully about these monsters that have appeared. What is the connection between them?"
Dogs are wolves?
I fell into deep thought, mumbling these words over and over again, with a vague sense of familiarity.
Xiao Zhi suddenly said timidly: "If wolves and dogs can be considered the same, they are both part of the Chinese zodiac!"