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"Who wants to meet the great master?"
Dongfang Jing made another tempting proposal. It is an extremely rare opportunity to see a real heavenly master fighting with a bodhisattva-level monk. Many low-level monks may never encounter it in their lifetime. As long as they are alert, maybe they can
You can understand many important points that you usually cannot understand, which will even be of great benefit to breaking through bottlenecks in the future.
Similarly, there are so many monks in the Taoist sect, how many of them can get the chance to talk to the great master? As long as you please the great master, just reveal some practice experience, and give some advice on one or two divine passage techniques, it will be an inexhaustible blessing in your life.
point.
Even Zhao Ran started to feel embarrassed, thinking hard and weighing the pros and cons.
For a moment, there was silence in the meandering pavilion.
Rong Niang was the first to say something. She curled her lips and muttered with disdain: "Whoever you like will go, but I won't go."
Dongfang Jing smiled and looked at the others. His eyes first stopped on Zhao Ran, with questioning eyes.
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Zhao Ran hesitated for a moment, looked at Zhang Zhikong, Meng Yanzhen and the butcher, and then said: "Senior Brother Dongfang has the final say. If you ask me to go, I will go. If you ask me to stay and help, I will stay." These words
The answer was very tactful, but it was actually the habitual thinking he had formed over the past many years.
When you first join a group, your qualifications and cultivation are at the lowest level. Remember to keep a low profile at all times, don't compete for cakes, and try to give opportunities to others, otherwise it will be difficult to get along with others in the group in the future. Since you stay or leave
There are benefits to all. Then just show courtesy and leave the choice to the "leader". The "leader" will be satisfied and feel that you understand the general situation and others will not be able to say anything, but will feel good about it.
Dongfang Jing nodded. Then he looked at the others, and Meng Yan said impatiently: "As I say, Dongfang, just decide on one, and whoever you want can go. There will be benefits for both sides, and no one will be unhappy."
Dongfang Jing smiled and said, "It still depends on your own wishes."
The butcher interjected: "Let me stay. It's rare to see this grand event again. I want to stay and join in the fun. Besides, a big boss like me can't do anything to serve the great master. It will make the great master unhappy.
On the contrary, it is not beautiful.”
Dongfang Jing nodded again and looked at Zhang Zhikong.
Zhang Zhikong said softly: "Brother, let me go. I have been stagnant in the Huangguan realm for three years and have not been able to break through it so far. There are still some things I don't understand about my practice. If I can get some advice from the Great Master, I might be able to figure it out.
What I learned.”
Dongfang Jing nodded again. Then he said nothing and stared at the sky in a daze.
The meandering pavilion became quiet again. Only the sound of the waterfall on the cliff echoed in the ears, but it made people feel that the valley was even more empty.
I don’t know how long it took, but Zhao Ran started to feel the atmosphere was depressing from his initial daze. An indescribable feeling of suffocation gradually spread in the pavilion, making him unable to breathe smoothly. He couldn’t help but take a long breath.
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Suddenly Dongfang Jing said quietly: "In the late autumn of the previous year, Zhang Yunzhao, the supervisor of Zhenwu Palace in the west of Long'an Prefecture, was stabbed by a Buddhist demon monk in Songfengling in the northwest of Guyang County. This was a major case that shocked Taoists all over the world. However, such a thing,
It’s not that it has never happened before. All we need to do is to arrest the culprit. Uncle Yun took the lead in taking over the case. Later, we finally found traces of the Buddhist demon monk, and chased him to this valley, where he had a big fight with the demon monk..."
Suddenly hearing Dongfang Jing start to tell about the case of Zhang Yunzhao in the Xizhenwu Palace Supervisor, Zhao Ran couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart. He subconsciously turned his head and glanced at Rong Niang beside him. Rong Niang had heard Zhao Ran tell this story before, so she also looked over.
, eyes full of curiosity.
"... But what was unexpected was that there were not one demon monk, but three demon monks, all of whom were above the level of monks. Master Yun was defeated at that time and left with serious injuries. Later, the ancestor uncle personally took charge of the encirclement and suppression of the demon monks. Unfortunately,
In the end, the demon monk escaped..."
After a pause, Dongfang Jing continued: "There are two doubts. Uncle Yun said that the demon monk is not weak in cultivation and there are many people, so it is normal that he cannot defeat him, but the strange thing is that the demon monk is very familiar with his pursuit path.
They set up ambushes on his way forward, and they were very precise. Not only that, these three demon monks seemed to be very familiar with Uncle Yun's Taoism. When Master Yun was fighting, he was always restrained by the enemy's first attack, otherwise he would never
You will suffer such serious injuries. This is one of them..."
"...Secondly, the Patriarch mobilized his men to besiege Changning Valley, confident that the place was completely surrounded, but the demon monk disappeared inexplicably. The reason has not been found yet..."
This was the first time that Zhao Ran learned in detail about the specific circumstances of the roundup of assassins that day, so he listened with great concentration. This matter was of great concern to him, so he couldn't help but care about it. But after hearing this, he had clearly understood
The meaning of Dongfang Jinghua - there is a traitor in the Taoist sect!
Dongfang looked up at the sky and sighed: "I remember that after my father heard about it, he slapped his favorite pineapple and ironwood desk into a pile of pieces... Junior Brother Zhang, do you still remember?"
Zhang Zhikong smiled and said: "The Great Elder is very amiable. I have been in the Jade Emperor Pavilion for so many years and I have never seen him lose his composure."
Dongfang Jingdao: "Since entering the realm of the Heavenly Master, reality and reality have become one, my body is dust-free, my thoughts are clear, and my Taoist mind is stable. In my memory, my father has never lost his temper, except this time."
Zhang Zhikong turned his head and looked at the waterfall, stunned and speechless.
Dongfang Jingdao: "Afterwards, Yuhuang Pavilion secretly investigated the cause, but there was never any clue. Last autumn, I went back to Yuhuang Pavilion, and my father told me that he hoped that I would investigate and handle the matter, so I agreed to the matter.
.But after looking through the files, I had no clue, so I came to Changning Valley and searched every corner, but still found nothing. One day I suddenly thought, since I couldn’t find out who was the traitor, why didn’t I find a way to let this person jump out on his own?
What? After returning to the Jade Emperor Pavilion again, I entered the register room and spent three days sorting out the list of all the suspicious monks. Even if there was only a trace of involvement, I did not omit any of them.
More than seven hundred names..."
Speaking of this, Dongfang Jing smiled at Zhao Ran and said: "Actually, this stupid method was stolen from Junior Brother Zhao. I heard from Junior Brother Pei that when you were investigating the case, you conducted a large-scale investigation and the effect was very good.
It was only through this method that Master Zuo Yunfeng and his disciples were able to plead guilty."
Zhao Ran nodded: "Senior brother is interested."
Dongfang Jingdao: "Since November last year, I started sending flying talismans according to the names on the list, inviting everyone to come to Changning Valley to help investigate the case. Fortunately, everyone has given me the honor of Dongfang, and so far no one has failed to come.
Let me check them one by one. As of today, it is already the forty-third time. I, Dongfang, have also been squatting in Changning Valley for more than five months and never left. I have been really lonely these few months..."
Rong Niang said solemnly: "Dongfang, what do you mean, you think this girl is suspicious, so you called me here?"
Dongfang Jing shook his head: "Mother Rong, I, Dongfang, can't help you, so I coaxed you to come to Changning Valley, but I definitely didn't doubt you. I called you here because I really don't know who to trust... I'll check it out again and again. , my suspicions increased again and again, and I became afraid to confirm all the friends around me. I even began to wonder if there were any omissions in the list I had drawn up... I couldn't find a helper, and I was afraid that I would discover a traitor. , there are enemies on all sides.”
Rong Niang's face brightened slightly: "Then you had told me earlier, and I would definitely help you." After thinking about it, she saluted Dongfang: "Dongfang, Zhao... he is definitely not an assassin. Before you told me about this matter, he had already You told me about Zhang Yunzhao’s assassination, he was the victim in this case!”
Dongfang Jing said to Zhao Ran: "Junior brother Zhao, I have checked on you. The year before last, you reformed the bad money policy for young people in Guyang County. Later, Zhang Jianyuan was assassinated and you were suppressed by Wuji Yuan. Logically, you should have nothing to do with this case. But you have I have been to White Horse Mountain and fell into Xia Realm. I asked Pei Zhongze that the two of you escaped together...but where were you before Pei Zhongze met you?"
Zhao Ran opened his mouth to argue, but Dongfang Jing waved his hand to stop him: "What I said is not to indicate that you are the traitor. I also said just now that my method of investigating the case is the large-scale investigation you used. Whenever there is a trace of suspicion, Everyone will be included in my list... At least when Zhang Jianyuan died, you were the first monk to appear next to his body, right?"
Zhao Ran nodded depressedly. In fact, he was also present at the scene together with Zhao Zhixing, an intellectual from Xuanyuan Guan's sect. However, Dongfang Jing made it clear that he was the first "monk" to appear next to Zhang Supervisor's body. , this makes Zhao Ran unable to refute. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!