When everyone arrived at Mingyue Villa, they saw Mu Daocheng and Ma Xingkong coming out to greet them.
"I've met Master..." Xiao Muyun and Luo Xiaoyao, who felt guilty, first stepped forward to salute.
Mu Daocheng looked at Luo and Xiao, who had lowered their heads and blushed and did not dare to look directly at him after the ceremony, and smiled slightly, "Okay, okay, not bad, not bad..."
But he didn't blame the two men for their rude behavior, so he looked at Chu Nanfeng and said, "Brother, please talk to me in the study."
When Chu Nanfeng came to Mingyue Villa, although he did not tell the story about the Buddha's calamity, he also informed Ma Xingkong about Luo Hanshui's injury, and asked Ma Xingkong to send someone to Xiao Siwen's house in Youzhou to inquire about Luo Xiaoyao and
Xiao Muyun’s whereabouts.
As soon as Mu Daocheng left the border, he heard Ma Xingkong's narration and immediately guessed that Luo Hanshui's injury was caused by Zhiku. He also knew that Liu Gongwen was not dead, and that Luo Xiaoyao and Xiao Muyun had left the island and might go north.
What a shock.
When he saw Chu Nanfeng and his wife coming with Luo Xiaoyao and Xiao Yanbei, he knew the crux of the matter and immediately invited Chu Nanfeng to have a chat alone to discuss countermeasures on how to deal with Luo Xiaoyao.
Luo Xiaoyao also guessed that Mu Daocheng's invitation to Chu Nanfeng to have a private discussion in the study must have something to do with him, but he had no choice but to follow Ma Xingkong, Ma Xilan, Xiao Muyun, and Zhuo Wu to the hall and sit down.
After about a cup of tea, Mu Daocheng and Chu Nanfeng arrived at the entrance of the hall. Mu Daocheng asked Chu Nanfeng to enter the hall first and take a seat. However, Mu Daocheng used his horse in the air and called Zhuo Wu out of the hall, saying something.
Finally, he walked into the hall alone and sat down at the main seat.
"I just heard Zhuo Wu say that you went to Siwen's house and had a secret talk with Yan Zhongchang... I wonder what you found out?" Mu Daocheng looked at Luo Xiaoyao and said.
Zhuo Wu himself didn't know why Luo Xiaoyao was looking for Yan Zhongchang. Mu Daocheng called him out of the hall to inquire about it, and he also told him that Yan Zhongchang had come to Xiao Siwen's house.
"From Mr. Yan's mouth, I heard that my father's injury was related to the Buddha's calamity." Luo Xiaoyao paused, hesitated, and then said: "Master, please tell me whether the monk who injured my father is the missing person."
Jie people? His real purpose of searching for his father...is it to find the protector? Who is the emperor who should be robbed? Who is the protector?"
Luo Xiaoyao didn't know about the Buddha's Tribulation on Mo Forget Island. After listening to Chu Nanfeng's explanation, he only thought that Zhi Ku was searching for Luo Hanshui to destroy the dragon vein. When he learned about the Buddha's Tribulation from Yan Zhongchang, he suspected Zhi Ku Xun.
Luo Hanshui wanted to find out the whereabouts of the guardian.
Hearing Luo Xiaoyao's continuous questions, Chu Nanfeng smiled bitterly and said: "Your father's injury is related to the Buddha's calamity. The monk who injured him is a person who eliminates calamities. One is called Zhiku, and the other is called Dharma."
Named Zhiguang, Long Congyun is a disciple of Zhiku. And who is the Emperor Yingjie... I believe you have the answer in your mind, right?"
Luo Xiaoyao hesitated for a moment, "Is it Senior Brother Jungui?"
"good."
"Who is this guardian?"
Chu Nanfeng sighed and said slowly: "Your father is the protector..."
"Ah?!" Not only Luo Xiaoyao, but also Xiao Muyun was shocked, and they exclaimed at the same time, looking at each other in shock.
Luo Xiaoyao was stunned for a moment, and suddenly said: "This is impossible. I heard Mr. Yan say that if the guardian of the Tao fails, the emperor of Yingjie will also die... And if the Buddha's calamity is forcibly eliminated midway before the end of the period, he will still be there in the future.
Something that will lead to rebirth.”
"If my father is a protector, why did Zhiku hurt his father with the robbery fist when he was in Zhenzhou? And this time he prevented his father from cutting off his heart, and he also broke the Dantian to release the out-of-control energy that endangered his father's life?"
"A protector of the Tao is a person who is born in response to destiny, and carries the auspicious aura of protecting the Tao. However, the Ying Jie Emperor has not yet ascended the throne. Even if Zhi Ku has the magical power of 'Leaking Out', he cannot come out..."
Chu Nanfeng had his own motives for describing Luo Hanshui as a Taoist protector, so he told the story half-truth and half-falsely.
"After Jungui ascended the throne, I think he used his magical power to find your father. And he went there not to kill your father, but to find out the contents of the brocade bag left by the descendants of the Zhu family."
"The purpose of the Kanyu Book that Zhiku took away at the beginning was to eliminate the Buddha's calamity so that he would not be reborn again. Master and others did not know how he did it, but Zhu Xuanzhou, a descendant of the Zhu family, figured it out and left behind a clever trick.
...It is to protect the dragon veins from being destroyed by others."
Looking at Luo Xiaoyao with a confused look on his face, Chu Nanfeng said again: "My teacher's explanation to you on the island the day before yesterday was not false, but the key point was not revealed to you... As long as the tomb formation that protects the dragon veins is ten
If you are not harmed by others during the year, your wishes will not come true."
"And because of the Kanyu Technique, the connection between the life and death of the Yingjie Emperor and the Guardian has been severed... The life and death that can really affect the king is the Tomb Formation."
Chu Nanfeng and others also guessed that Zhiku was looking for a way to prevent the Buddha from being reborn, but they also knew that the protector was the key, so in order to hide it from Luo Xiaoyao, they had to downplay the importance of the protector.
"Ah?! This..." Luo Xiaoyao was surprised for a moment.
"Your father knew the power of this, so he wanted to cut off his heart and die, making it difficult for Zhiku to succeed. Zhiku's purpose of saving him was to follow the clues to find the person who knew the location of the Guanzhong formation...
It’s like finding out where your teacher is.”
"Then why did Master take Master Wu and the others to Qinglong Mountain again?"
Chu Nanfeng sighed, "Director Fang rushed to Taibai Academy to tell me... He said that your father cut off his heart because of his hard work and used the 'Destiny Tong' to read the memory, causing all the veins to be damaged and his life to be in danger.
But I don’t know whether Zhiku got what he wanted to know.”
"At that time, the teacher was afraid of where the tomb array was, or it might have been known to Zhiku, but if Zhiku knew where the tomb array was, he would definitely search for it and destroy it. At that time, the dragon veins of Qinglong Mountain would definitely fluctuate... and for Zhiku
The two masters Wu and Hua, who were unaware of the Buddha's Tribulation, heard that your father was injured and repeatedly forced me to tell you the truth. In desperation, I had no choice but to take them to Qinglong Mountain."
Chu Nanfeng's words were not false. When the furious Wu and Hua asked each other, they could only say that Qi Zhiku came to destroy the dragon veins of Qinglong Mountain, and only told the truth after arriving at Moforget Island.
"Then why did Zhiku ask his father about the person who knew that the 'Heavenly Thunder Sound' could break the Hundred-Calamity Fist? Did Master Mingwu have anything to tell the Buddha about?"
Luo Xiaoyao had already asked this question on Moforget Island. Chu Nanfeng could no longer answer with the original reason. He pondered for a while and said: "The elimination of Buddha's calamity has its own destiny. There are many sects of Buddhism... Some monks are
In order to agree with the actions of those who eliminate tribulations, some eminent monks have seen the real power and will stop Zhiku from forcibly eliminating tribulations."
"The person who told Zhiku that the 'Heavenly Thunder Sound' could break through the Hundred Calamity Fist and thus saved your father was the one who opposed him to eliminate the calamity. He asked Mingwu if he could tell Buddha Nan about it, because he actually wanted to know
Does he know about the difficulty of the Buddha? He just asks different questions about the difficulty of wisdom."
"Then besides father and master, who else knows where the tomb formation is?"
"Your father and I only know who set up the tomb formation, but we don't know where the tomb formation is." Chu Nanfeng shook his head. "As for who set up the tomb formation... now you know it will be harmful."
Luo Xiaoyao was stunned and hesitated, "Does Master know where Zhiku and the others are staying?"
"If I say that I don't know, do you believe it?" Chu Nanfeng looked at Luo Xiaoyao, sighed in his heart, and said: "The reason why I let the Arrow Guards dress up as woodcutter hunters is to find out where they are.
At that time... we will gather all our strength to fight them openly."
Chu Nanfeng really had this idea at this time, but he wanted to find out where Zhiku was. At that time, he would join forces with Mu Daocheng, Wu Wangbo, Hua Qianxing and Tongbao Pavilion to fight Zhiku to the death.
.
But hearing that Chu Nanfeng didn't know where Zhi Ku was coming from, Luo Xiaoyao was confused for a moment. Luo Hanshui's appearance before and after being injured intertwined in his mind, and he felt sad and looked at Chu Nanfeng, "
Then the disciple will go to Qinglong Mountain, together with the Arrow Guards... to investigate the whereabouts of Zhiku and the others."
Chu Nanfeng sighed, "Do you know your father's intention of disbanding Tongbao Pavilion?"
Luo Xiaoyao thought that the purpose of Chu Nanfeng's question was to use righteousness to restrain his revengeful Zhiku and others. He felt a pain in his heart and nodded slightly, "When the disciple left the academy and returned home, his father said to the disciple
I have said that the Luo family’s ancestral motto... is to contribute the Luo family’s modest contribution to the peace of the world.”
"Oh, it's more than just meager strength." Mu Daocheng continued: "Master, there are few people I admire in my life. Apart from you, Master Yi, Mr. Feng Dao, there is also your father. With his intelligence, martial arts, manpower
Material resources... it is not impossible to achieve hegemony."
"Right now, for the peace of the world and the people's wish to live in peace, not only have they spent thousands of dollars, but they have also spared their own lives to protect the unification of the world from being destroyed by wisdom and suffering..."
"Unify the world?" Luo Xiaoyao only said that Luo Hanshui and Chu Nanfeng helped Guo Rong because of his benevolence and wisdom, hoping that he could unify the world and make the people live a stable life. However, they knew that the dynasty and the country were now divided.
, It is not easy to unify the world. When I heard Mu Daocheng's tone, he expected that Guo Rong would unify the world, I couldn't help but feel shocked.
"Yes, the descendants of the Zhu family can see from the celestial phenomena that... your senior brother, the emperor, is the emperor who wants to unify the world. It is precisely because of this that you, Master Mu, and I have the heart to help each other."
Mu Daocheng said: "But if this were not the case...your father would not have disbanded Tongbao Pavilion, violated the agreement with the elders, and persuaded them to help the Zhou Dynasty. Your master helped your senior brother Jungui not because he was a disciple of the academy, but because he was a disciple of the academy.
It’s because he is a benevolent king who has the destiny to unify the world.”
The elders of the nine branches of Tongbao Pavilion all got involved because Luo Hanshui promised not to interfere in the court disputes, and the feud between Jianghu and Jianghu was involved. Luo Xiaoyao himself knew the reason for this.
Thinking about the transfer that day, the two elders Liu participated in the assassination of the Liao envoy. He and Jiang Qiubai even asked each other for help. But now, according to Mu Daocheng, the elders stayed in other courtyards to secretly work for the Great Zhou Dynasty.
But I think my father, Luo Hanshui, must have spent a lot of time persuading him before all the elders agreed.
"Xiaoyao, Master, I and your master all know that you have unbearable sorrow and hatred in your heart. As a human son, you must avenge your father's hatred, but you must also uphold your father's wishes... The ten-year period of the tomb formation has only been over a year. In the future,
It may be necessary for you to use force to protect me. If you have a momentary hatred that cannot be quelled, it would be a pity to search for Zhiku's whereabouts. It would be a pity if something goes wrong."
"You have already achieved a small level of perfection in holding the elixir. If you practice hard for a year and a half, you will definitely achieve a great level of perfection. And if you want to enter the realm of Yuanying, you will have a great chance in three or two years. By then, Zhiku and the others will be able to achieve it.
With the power of maneuver, it is said that it is never too late for a gentleman to take revenge... You must understand what the Master meant by what a pity is."
Chu Nanfeng and Mu Daocheng falsely claimed that Luo Hanshui was a Taoist protector. They gave a half-truth and half-false explanation, and then persuaded Luo Xiaoyao with the hope of living up to Luo Hanshui and cherishing the peace of the people of the world. Their purpose was to make him give up first.
With the thought of seeking revenge and suffering, he devoted himself to practicing martial arts.
"Whether you are on Moforget Island or studying martial arts in the academy, as long as your master finds out where the pain is, he will definitely make you happy." Mahilan, who had been listening quietly, continued, looking down in confusion.
In response, Luo Xiaoyao smiled bitterly and looked at Xiao Muyun.
With a thought in his mind, Xiao Muyun stood up from his seat, took Luo Xiaoyao's right hand, and said softly: "Brother, accompany me for a walk to Huangyangjian Peak..."
Looking at Xiao Muyun's eyes that were divided between concern and hope, Luo Xiaoyao sighed in his heart, stood up, bowed to Chu Nanfeng and the others, and left with Xiao Muyun towards the Yellow Sheep Peak of Liuling Mountain.
Looking at the walking backs of Luo and Xiao, Chu Nanfeng smiled bitterly and shook his head, then turned to Mu Daocheng, "If Mu Yun can convince Xiaoyao to practice martial arts quietly... This junior wants him to practice quietly at Mingyue Villa.
I wonder what Senior Mu thinks?"
"What do you mean, big brother...?"
"Now that Zhiku can find Brother Hanshui's residence, there is something fishy about it. I am afraid that someone in the Zhou Dynasty will use it for Zhiku... But if this is the case, the academy may not be safe in the future."
"Oh?!" Mu Daocheng was greatly surprised.
Chu Nanfeng did not give an explanation, and continued: "Brother Hanshui is dying. If Xiaoyao is on Moforget Island, he has no intention of practicing, and if Zhiku has powerful magical powers, he may leave in search of a junior..."
Mu Daocheng frowned, "If that's the case, I should go to Moforget Island. If Zhiku and the others look for it, my elder brother and I will be able to compete with them..."
Chu Nanfeng smiled slightly, "If this junior's prediction is correct, Master Wu will go to Moforget Island tomorrow, and I will leave him behind to help him."
"Senior and Long Congyun fought against each other more than two years ago... They have never caused trouble to Senior. Now I think it must be related to the Khitan people who died in Qinglong Mountain four years ago."
"The reason for thinking hard is that the senior is serving the Khitan court, and the reason for looking for Long Congyun is just to avenge those dead Khitan people, and the senior has entered the realm of Nascent Soul... They have a big plan, and they don't want to cause trouble for the senior.
, so Mingyue Villa is the safest."
"This junior will ask Wan Zhen and Junior Brother Zhao to come to the villa to practice martial arts with Xiao Yao and Mu Yun..."
"Let Wan Zhen and Junior Brother Yin Shan come here?" Ma Xilan was stunned, and suddenly understood what Chu Nan Feng meant, "Nan Feng, you want to be afraid of Wan Zhen in case Zhi Ku Xun comes...
Don’t you dare to kill someone when Li Guanshu is in trouble?”
"That's right." Chu Nanfeng nodded, "From what Wan Zhen said, she and Xiaoyao passed by that small town that day and inadvertently wrote poems that echoed Li Guanshu's poems when he was in love, and they became fateful."
"That day when she was kidnapped by Zhiguang, she happened to meet Li Guanshu passing by and was rescued by him... I think this person's cultivation is on par with Zhiku, and Zhiku will definitely not be easily provoked."
"Li Guanshu? Where is this person from?" Mu Daocheng was surprised for a moment.
Chu Nanfeng then told Mu Daocheng about the fight with Li Guanshu. Mu Daocheng understood the reason why Ji Jinghai went to Moforget Island and wanted to thank Chu Nanfeng.
"Junior Brother Zhao knows the location of the tomb formation, which is as important as Xiaoyao. We can't protect them separately, so why not gather them together to save a lot of manpower."
"It is not easy for a carefree and filial person to leave Moforget Island when Han Shui's time is short... We will only meet him for one year. Regardless of whether he has reached perfection or not, after one year, he will
You can go back to Moforget Island to take care of Brother Hanshui."
Mu Daocheng nodded, "Then I will ask Xingkong and Zhuo Wu to go to Shu to inquire about Liu Gongwen's whereabouts... Big brother can also ask Mr. Ji to inquire about Liu Gongwen's whereabouts in the south of the Yangtze River."
"Okay, after this junior returns to the island, let Zhao Yongan go and inform Mr. Ji." Chu Nanfeng nodded.
…
One day, on the border mountain road between the Northern Han Dynasty and Khitan, seven horsemen and horses were galloping, but they were Mu Daocheng, Luo Xiaoyao and others.
It turned out that Luo Xiaoyao, under Xiao Muyun's persuasion, finally agreed to practice martial arts secretly in Mingyue Villa, and Lin Wanzhen and Zhao Yinshan also arranged for Chu Nanfeng to come to the Villa. After several years, Luo Xiaoyao had successfully cultivated Baodan.
Afterwards, Mu Daocheng led everyone south to Moforget Island.
Everyone rode their horses for a while and came to a village road in the Northern Han Dynasty. They saw five riders galloping on the fork in the road not far ahead. Luo Xiaoyao saw that two of them looked very familiar, and his thoughts changed.
Leading the horse to catch up, "Two benefactors, please slow down for now..."
When the five people heard the sound, they stopped their horses and looked back. One of them, a young man who was close to his thirties, looked at Luo Xiaoyao for a moment and said happily: "Are you Mr. Luo...?"
"I met Liu Engong, Zhe Engong..."
The two people Luo Xiaoyao was greeted by were Liu Jiye and Zhe Yuxun, who had rescued him together with Zhe Deshou in Taiyuan that day.
"I didn't expect to meet Mr. Luo here..." Liu Jiye returned the greeting with his hands in hand.
"I was preoccupied with matters and was unable to go to Taiyuan to thank my benefactor for saving me. I hope that my benefactor will forgive me." Luo Xiaoyao looked ashamed.
"Haha... Mr. Liu is mostly here on the border. If Mr. Luo goes to Taiyuan, he may not be able to see him." Liu Jiye said with a smile.
Luo Xiaoyao hurriedly introduced Liu, Zhe, Mu Daocheng and others. However, knowing that Mu Daocheng had gone to Zhe's family and was famous, he intimidated Zhe Yuxun, so Luo Xiaoyao only introduced him as his master.
After everyone was waiting to greet each other, Luo Xiaoyao looked at Zhe Yuxun and asked, "Where are our two benefactors going?"
"Liu has not been to Fuzhou to meet Lord Taishan for a long time..."
"Brother-in-law..."
Liu Jiye was interrupted by Zhe Yuxun before he finished speaking. Luo Xiaoyao thought, "Is Liu Engong inconvenienced?"
Before Liu Jiye could answer, Zhe Yuxun had already said: "My uncle is in danger, Yuxun and his brother-in-law went to rescue him..."
There is no doubt that the uncle Zhe Yuxun mentioned was Zhe Deshou. Luo Xiaoyao was startled, "Oh? Brother Zhe, what happened to him?"
"Unfortunately, when my uncle went to visit the one he admired, he was captured."
Luo Xiaoyao had heard Zhe De Shou say that there was a woman he admired, but he didn't know her identity. Hearing the words, he asked, "Can you tell me the details?"
Zhe Yuxun glanced at Liu Jiye, who had a wry smile on his face, and said to Luo Xiaoyao: "There is a Wubao six miles ahead, which is where the troops under my brother-in-law's command are stationed. You can sit down at Wubao and let Rong Yuxun tell you in detail.
…”
Luo Xiaoyao heard this and turned to look at Mu Daocheng behind him. When he saw Mu Daocheng nodded, he turned to Yuxun and said, "Okay, please lead the way..."
After a while, everyone arrived at a mud house courtyard in Wubao. After inviting everyone to sit down, Zhe Yuxun told the story of what happened.
"My brother-in-law has a woman he admires. Her name is Li Minxue. She is the daughter of Yinzhou Guard Li Jinchuan and the niece of Li Yiyin, the governor of the Dingnan Army... Only because of Li Yiyin's opposition, he failed to form a good relationship with his brother-in-law.
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"But she and her brother-in-law have a deep love. One does not want to marry another woman, and the other does not want him to marry her. Every year on the full moon day in mid-autumn, my brother-in-law will go to Yinzhou to meet her secretly."
"The year before last, my brother-in-law went to Jiangling Prefecture to assassinate the Liao envoy, but he missed the time to meet him. Last year, because my grandfather was seriously ill, he went to Shaanzhou to accompany him, so he missed the time to meet him."
"The month before last, my uncle and I returned from Bianjing and stopped at an inn in Suizhou. We discovered that the proprietress of the inn was an acquaintance. We recognized her as a maid of Miss Li's family."
"My uncle was inquiring about the current situation of Miss Li's family... Only then did he find out that in the late autumn of the year before last, Miss Li's family was forced by her parents to marry into the wealthy family of Liangzhou, Xibu Gezhi..."
"Ah?!" Lin Wanzhen was surprised for a moment, "Why is this? I think the daughter of the Li family must have been separated from her eldest brother Zhe for a certain period of time...Did her parents never force her to marry another person before?"
"Li Jinchuan and his wife had forced her to marry someone else before, but Miss Li Jinchuan refused to die. But this time it was her mother who forced her to die, and her father's persuasion made Miss Li Jinchuan reluctantly agree.
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"Since the Yellow Disaster, the land of Liangzhou has been called the Central Plains Chaotang Control, but the real power lies in the hands of the local powerful and prosperous people. These powerful people appoint leaders and then ask the court to grant official positions. But there are Tubos in the area.
, Uighurs, Dangxiang and other ethnic groups live together, and unless someone has great prestige, it will be difficult to convince the public."
"In the second year of Guangshun, various ethnic groups in Liangzhou were in civil strife. Seeing that the situation was difficult to control, the former Jiedushi Zhebu Jiashi asked Emperor Taizu to send generals and officials to take over the position of Jiedushi, hoping to use the power of the Central Plains court.
To suppress the chaos."
"However, Shen Shihou, the governor of Hexi Province, was incapable of appeasing the conflicts among the various ethnic groups and acted unfairly, which aroused the opposition of the Liangzhou tycoons and fled back to Kaifeng the year before last. At that time, the Holy Emperor sent troops to the Northern Han Dynasty, but there were no capable people available.
We have no choice but to put the matter in Liangzhou aside for now, and wait until they elect a local person with prestige as their leader, and then make some appeasement appointments."
"However, when Li Yiyin saw the civil strife in Liangzhou, he thought he wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to seize power in Liangzhou, but he promised the Miss Li family to join the Tubo clan to separate the Buge branch. The Miss Li family naturally refused, but her father said that Liangzhou
The state is called the Territory of Dazhou, and it is actually a self-reliant dynasty. There are often strong soldiers harassing the border of Xiazhou. If she is willing to marry and divorce Bu Gezhi, it will bring stability to both sides."
Zhe Yuxun paused for a moment, shook his head and said: "Actually, Li Jinchuan was trying to deceive Miss Li. Since Li Yiyin has so many soldiers and generals, how could the powerful people in Liangzhou dare to invade Xiazhou? Liangzhou is rich in horses.
It was also located at the strategic point of Hexi, and Li Yiyin had always wanted to seize it... But Liangzhou was called the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and he was also a minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Naturally, he could not use troops openly, so he used the excuse of Liangzhou soldiers invading Xiazhou.