Chapter 309: Scholars can be killed but not humiliated
One night without words, the next day.
After careful and cautious inspection and confirmation once again, avoiding all possible eyes and ears, I finally reached the headquarters of Wuyun through secret channels.
After passing through the dim corridor, Sun Huo walked on the path leading to Zhisri Pavilion with familiarity. Judging from his experience, he thought that if nothing unexpected happened, he should be summoned there to send the task. But when he walked out of the corridor
When I was there, I saw something unusual.
Originally, the flat ground in front of the Sun Pavilion should be empty, but now there are two more people, one on the left and one on the right facing out, like door gods.
The one on the left has his arms folded across his chest. He is as tall and strong as Sun Huo himself, but wears a relatively flat bull-headed mask on his face. The other one on the right is obviously much smaller. It can be seen that she is a woman, and she has one hand.
Standing half-sideways with her arms crossed, her right leg crossed over her left leg, even with a horse-like mask on her face. From a distance, Sun Huo subconsciously released his spiritual thoughts and glanced past them, but he did not sense the spiritual energy fluctuations that a cultivator should have on the two of them.
Ox head, horse face.
Sun Huo murmured, and suddenly a feeling of horror came from the bottom of his heart.
According to folklore, the names of the two soul seducers from the underworld were not what I had just thought of. In addition, I could not detect the specific cultivation level of the other party. For a moment, I felt as if I had thrown myself into a trap and arrived in front of the Temple of Yama.
And he suddenly discovered a situation. It seemed that whether or not to wear a mask at the helm was not determined by personal will, but that there was a level of difference in strength between the two types of secret guards.
"Are you really here for yourself?" He couldn't help but feel nervous. After being stimulated by the chill of the Yin-Quan, he finally managed to suppress his fear of life and death and mustered up the courage to come here to accept the mission.
Never would I have thought that I would encounter such a battle before entering the gate of Zhiri Pavilion.
He could feel the eyes of the opposite party falling on him because of his appearance. Sun Huo wanted to show his kindness with a smile, but found that the corners of his mouth were twitching and he couldn't even make a simple expression like a smile. Not only that, he
There was clearly an urge in my heart to turn around and run away, but in fact, my legs refused to stay in place and instead took steps, leading me closer to the front.
"Secret Guard Order."
When he came closer, the secret guard wearing a bull-head mask suddenly raised his hand to signal Sun Huo to stop moving forward, and at the same time, a commanding low drink came from his mouth.
"Ah?" Sun Huo was startled for a moment and responded subconsciously. He had been here several times and had never encountered a situation where he needed to check his identity. Coupled with the misjudgment of the situation just now, his head was a little hard to turn around for a while. As he got closer, the monk could clearly feel that the momentum of the visitor was declining, and he also conveyed a fearful emotion. "How can such a person enter the dark clouds and act as a secret guard?" At this moment, such contemptuous thoughts filled his mind.
It comes naturally in my heart.
"Take out the secret guard order to verify your identity, otherwise you will be regarded as a foreign enemy." The voice was raised a bit, and it also sounded like a warning.
"Okay, okay." Hearing these unkind words again, Sun Huo finally came to his senses, and his tense heart relaxed a lot. He quickly searched for his secret guard order. It didn't take long.
, the jade pendant that shed blood and recognized its owner when it joined the dark clouds appeared in his flat palm and handed it over.
He raised his hand to grab it from the air without making direct contact with it. Sun Huo's secret guard order fell into the opponent's hand with a "swish", and then he unexpectedly saw that the white jade pendant was embedded in a piece.
The metal disk he took out out of thin air suddenly emitted a faint blood-colored light. At the same time, a white light shot out from the edge of the disk and fell on Sun Huo.
Watching this series of actions, Sun Huo felt a little confused. What's more important was that the white light was just like ordinary light, and he didn't notice any different changes. After getting this identity token, he also tried to infuse himself with it.
It is driven by the mana in order to see if it can obtain any unexpected functions. After all, this can be regarded as a magic weapon refined by the hands of immortal cultivators. Unfortunately, the jade pendant has no reaction at all.
It's like a dead thing. Now it seems that this thing must have a special formula to activate it, and it doesn't provide any convenience to its owner at all.
After a few breaths, the blood-colored light on the surface of the jade pendant dimmed quietly, and was then thrown back to Sun Huo. But at this time, Sun Huo could also feel the other person's gaze looking over him, and suddenly there was something unabashedly added.
Deep contempt.
Yes, it is contempt. Because in the information recorded by the jade pendant, the top-level secret guard read that Sun Huo's level was actually the same level as himself. Although this level was incomplete and restricted-
Many permissions were restricted, and even Sun Huo himself didn't know when such a change happened. But in his eyes, such a weak junior disciple who would be afraid of showing timidity in front of him was actually in the position of secret guard.
Being on par with him is simply a humiliation. No wonder the news suddenly spread secretly from above yesterday. Not only was Wuyun going to change managers, he was also going to make some reforms and changes in internal management. Originally, he thought
Puzzled and too sudden, now it seems that it is absolutely necessary.
"Identity correct, what are you doing here?"
Even though he was dissatisfied with the young man in front of him, this top-level secret guard was very measured and did not make any more provocative and bullying moves, and asked Sun Huo's purpose indifferently.
"The helmsman has ordered to summon, and Xueyan is here to wait for dispatch."
"Wait." After simply leaving two words, the female cultivator with a horse-faced mask turned around and walked inside. Although she was doubtful, she had not issued such an order to outsiders today, but it was natural to be cautious.
You still need to go inside and report it for confirmation.
While waiting, Sun Huo stood with his head bowed and didn't even make a move to look at the person in front of him. Although he didn't understand where the other person's malice came from, he was stronger than the person, and he consciously moved forward.
The possibility of an intersection was slim, so I decided to endure this tone. However, such an obedient behavior was undoubtedly a sign of cowardice in the eyes of the bull-faced monk, and his impression of Sun Huo became even worse.
After a while, the female cultivator came out of the gate of the Hiding Sun Pavilion and waved to Sun Huo. She was obviously allowed to pass for an interview. Although it was not necessary, Sun Huo still bowed slightly to express his gratitude out of politeness.
Pass between the two people.
"Jin Shuang, what's the matter with you? You're usually so calm, how could you have such a big mood swing for a junior fellow apprentice?" After the closed wooden door blocked Sun Huo's back, the female cultivator then transmitted her message.
Asked.
In her opinion, Jin Shuang thinks very highly of himself, but that is because of his personal strength and achievements. Sun Huo's cultivation level is not high, and he has no temperament to show off. Compared with them, he is simply immature.
Nothing to get angry about.
......
On the first floor of the Hidden Sun Pavilion, behind the door.
He looked up and saw that everything was the same as before. It seemed that nothing had changed. Standing still, Sun Huo exhaled lightly, still feeling his heart heavy. Just now, he was scared by the shadow of a snake, and next was the time to really accept the mission. After turning a corner, he was still behind the desk. The picture of tree roots was still hanging on the wall. Sun Huo saw Mr. Sun sitting upright. But something strange was that there was more standing beside him.
I met a middle-aged man with an ordinary face, the kind of ordinary person who doesn’t have much impression after seeing it.
"Blood flames meet the helmsman, senior." Sun Huo strode forward to a place five feet away, knelt down on one knee and raised his hands in salute. During that period of training in the academy, he also learned some etiquette.
Importance, the movements he made at this moment were less casual than before and seemed more orderly. Because he was not sure about the identity of this middle-aged man, Sun Huo hesitated and paused before choosing to call out the title of his senior.
To his surprise, Mr. Sun did not get up immediately. Instead, he turned his head and moved his lips and said something to the middle-aged man. Then the man looked over and looked at him a few more times.
Eyes, then nodded and walked away without saying a word.
This scene made Sun Huo feel a little scared. Logically speaking, it is not strange that there are many people in Lili, but there is no response. In a short period of time, this is already the second person who seems to dislike him. What is going on?
What?
"You have been away from the sect for a long time. Tell me, how did you complete your original mission?" Mr. Sun picked up the tea cup on the desk, took a sip, and then seemed to carelessly
Asked.
Such a simple sentence sounded like thunder in Sun Huo's ears. Only then did he realize that he had made another big mistake.
During the period of leaving the sect, no matter how many personal grievances occurred, the source was still Sun Lao's operation of the mission assigned by Dark Clouds, which enabled him to participate in it and changed the fate of many people.
Yes, after all, this is still Wu Yun's mission, and after he faced and temporarily solved the problem of delay in returning to the sect, he subconsciously regarded all this as a personal matter, neglecting and forgetting that he was a secret guard.
The most basic responsibility is to take the initiative to report the task process and results as soon as possible. If he didn't mention it now, he might not know how long it would take to wake up.
Now he understands why Mr. Sun let him go so easily on the day he returned to the sect. Apart from forcing him to promise to fight to the death, he did not add any substantive punishment. The two crimes were combined into one, and the sect could take action against him at any time.
Apart from completing tasks successfully again and again, there is no other better way to prove one's innocence.
To reach this point today, where I cannot control my own life and have lost the trust of my subordinates, I can only say that I am to blame for myself. After all, I am not strong enough and mature enough. On the road to immortality, if you make a wrong step, you will have to pay for it with your life. This is a lesson.
Very cruel but also very realistic.
After figuring out the reasons for Wu Yun and even the Luo Yun Sect's attitude towards him, Sun Huo suddenly felt that accepting the next task was not so scary. He raised his head slightly and stared at the opposite side, without saying any more words of apology or begging for mercy. His tone
He calmly tells the story of his experience after leaving the sect from the beginning.
Although this mission report came suddenly without any prior preparation, his mind began to become more active after he was relieved of the pressure. He consciously concealed a small part of the process that only he felt and others could not observe and understand. However, he did not do anything temporary during the whole process.
Fabrication and alteration.
What Sun Huo didn't know was that it was precisely because of his relative honesty after letting go of his heart that he avoided an imminent fatal disaster. Because at this moment, the middle-aged man who left was sitting cross-legged on the second floor.
Sitting in meditation, a jade slip was suspended in front of him, projecting a screen of light, with images flashing from time to time. Many fragmentary fragments were of Sun Huo's actions during this mission from a third-person perspective.
Not only that, but in the middle of the middle-aged man’s forehead, a vertical golden pattern also lit up, flashing in and out, which was very strange.
After nearly a stick of incense, Sun Huo finally stopped talking and lowered his head silently as he looked at the old man with half-closed eyes above him as if he was taking a nap. He didn't make any more reminders and just waited quietly.
It was not as long as expected, but it lasted for a quarter of an hour before Mr. Sun seemed to suddenly wake up. In fact, he did not really fall asleep during this process, nor was he still testing Sun Huo's patience with this simple method.
, but waiting for the middle-aged man's response. He no longer has the power to decide the whole matter independently.
"Have you finished? There is nothing to say after the previous task was completed, but later not only went to the secular world without permission to participate in mortal affairs, but also privately traded with the secular forces of the Immortal Cultivation Family within the sect in exchange for property, thereby disrupting the rise and fall of the local secular world.
and order. Acting so wantonly and disregarding the prohibitions of immortal cultivators, do you have anything else to defend yourself?" Without any additional nonsense, Mr. Sun asked straight to the point.
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After a moment of silence, Sun Huo responded: "My subordinate's trip has not, firstly, invaded the elixir minerals, and secondly, it has not harmed the interests of the Immortal family. It's just that the Buddhists have a saying, 'Saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda.'
Although my subordinates are immortal cultivators, they are also born among mortals. They really cannot sit back and watch their compatriots suffer such disasters and die brutally and starve to death. Therefore, no matter what punishment there is, Xueyan is willing to let the helmsman handle it."
"Are you willing to cut off your spiritual roots, abolish your cultivation, and be expelled from the sect?"
Sun Huo's heart trembled. After being forced by Mr. Sun, he finally gave up on life and death, but he never thought that he would live as a useless person. In an instant, the faces of the Xiao brothers, Lu Mei and others flashed in his mind.
However, everyone was once in such a state that life was worse than death.
Such emotional fluctuations were naturally noticed by Mr. Sun, so he spoke again.
"Are you afraid? If you are afraid, just say 'I am a waste', and then you can consider giving me a lighter sentence."
Because of these words, the next moment, Mr. Sun saw an unexpected scene.
Sun Huo stood up. He stood up slowly without asking for instructions or permission. His eyes had turned scarlet, and at the same time, the pupils in his eyes had strangely turned into vertical pupils, staring straight at him. He was afraid just now.
The emotion has disappeared, but instead a violent aura is suppressed throughout the body, as dangerous as a volcano on the verge of erupting.
"A scholar can be killed, but not humiliated!"
Mr. Sun didn't know that the words he just said touched the biggest pain in Sun Huo's heart. If he was strong enough, how could the people he cared about walk away forever in front of him one by one. Even though everything was not his.
He felt wrong and responsible, but deep down in his heart he still regretted that he was unable to do what he could at the time. So he had to shout those words, which was why he had such a reaction that was out of control and about to explode.
"Bah bang bang..." A person's applause unexpectedly sounded at this time.
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