The shadow of the city wall outside the south gate of Jiankang City still reflects the accumulated coldness of the midwinter. The green grass along the roadside not far away is already very lush, but on the ground shrouded in the shadow of the city wall, there is not even a hint of greenness among the withered grass.
A young Taoist walked out of the south gate, holding several volumes of silk books in his hand, and walked along the shadow of the city wall towards a Taoist temple not far outside the city.
That Taoist temple is called Nanmen Taoist Temple. Because Xiao Yan previously worshiped Buddhism alone, this Taoist temple has long been neglected. It even became a warehouse for the city gate garrison to accumulate food and grass. However, when Xiao Yan secluded himself in the Jingyuan in the middle of the lake, Qi
After Zhuji and others returned to Jiankang, the situation changed.
Some Taoist practitioners also returned to Jiankang, and some Taoist practitioners who had stayed in the Southern Dynasties and were not allowed to be reused also received fair treatment.
Although Nanmen Taoist Temple has long since declined, several old Taoists at Nanmen Taoist Temple have secretly kept some of the classics in Nanmen Taoist Temple intact. When Qi Zhuji borrowed classics from various sects, these old Taoists also handed over these classics.
After going out, he quickly received more kindness from Tie Cejun in return.
The Nanmen Taoist Temple was returned to the hands of these experienced Taoists, and corresponding repairs were quickly carried out.
Tie Cejun even transferred some spiritual ice containing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to the South Gate Taoist Temple, which suddenly brought life to this declining practice place.
This young Taoist is the disciple that those old Taoists accepted in the early years. During the years of the decline of Taoism, this young Taoist has not changed his sect. Like those old Taoists, he was originally the gatekeeper of South Gate City.
He was familiar with many of the defenders. Before Linghuang arrived, he would sometimes do things for the city gate guards, and he was also very effective in the eyes of the city gate guards and generals.
After Qi Zhuji and Tie Cejun took over Jiankang City with great force, the military seemed to have given Qi Zhuji a copy of the records of all the practitioners in the city. Later, Tie Cejun specially allocated some spiritual ice to this Taoist temple.
, some generals of the city gate guards also speculated that it was related to this young Taoist.
The selection of talents for Tie Cejun was completely different from any previous selection of talents by powerful officials in the Southern Dynasties.
They seem to pay more attention to the person's character and whether he has the qualities they need, but they don't care at all about the person's cultivation potential and background, and they don't even care about the person's age.
In the days since Qi Zhuji came back, it is said that he has recruited many people from all over the Southern Dynasty to go directly to the old place of Qi Yun Academy, and then provided those people with training.
It is said that most of those people are not practitioners, and some of them are already quite old. Before that, those people would not have entered the sight of various practice places in the Southern Dynasties. Because according to fixed thinking, or according to the practice of the past many years
Confirmation and experience: If your family is too poor and has little support, and if you have not been exposed to spiritual practice at all by a certain age, then this person will have very little room for growth in the future. Even if you can become a spiritual practitioner through diligent study and practice,
But the entire dynasty and all the places of practice will naturally be more willing to use their precious practice resources on younger practitioners who are more promising than themselves.
But Tie Cejun was completely different.
Among those who were selected to enter the old place of Qiyun Academy, some were even close to forty years old, but they had no real contact with cultivation before the arrival of Linghuang.
However, Tie Cejun didn't care about this, and Tiece Army continued to consume the extremely precious spiritual ice that Dangxiang had brought all the way from Dangxiang to these people.
In this regard, many people feel that young people like Lin Yi and Qi Zhuji are a little willful and mischievous.
But on the contrary, many low-level generals who had never been able to see this dynasty from a certain perspective before found that there was nothing wrong with Tie Cejun's approach.
Many generals with experience in the border army have always believed that over the years, the Northern Wei Dynasty has made the Southern Dynasty feel more and more powerful, not because the land of the Northern Wei Dynasty is more fertile than that of the Southern Dynasty, but because the bravery of the "Northern Barbarians" seems to have become a fixed
characteristics.
They all feel that sometimes certain qualities are more important than better weapons and equipment.
Tie Cejun has very different characteristics.
It seems that their approach may also teach the people of the Southern Dynasties some unique principles and form some characteristics that they did not have before.
This young Taoist is called Jiang Yun. He knows better than the generals who guard the city gate what kind of preferential treatment he and the Nanmen Taoist Temple have received. He does not know whether the cultivation classics preserved by his division commanders have any effect on Tie Ce's army.
, but after Tiecejun returned those classics, in addition to Lingbing, Tiecejun also gave back some cultivation classics.
Although those cultivation classics were only transcripts, he could definitely come from Qiyun Academy and Jiange at that time.
These classics are more excellent than similar classics in the South Gate Taoist Temple.
At this time, walking in the shadow of the city wall, he was still thinking about a book he studied yesterday, but suddenly, he felt an inexplicable chill.
This kind of chill was countless times colder than the cold inside the city wall, and it made his heart feel like it was about to freeze and stop beating in an instant.
This chill seemed to be just because someone's eyes stayed on him for a brief moment on the road outside the city.
He turned around in shock and looked towards the road outside the city.
He saw an old horse.
There is a man on the old horse.
There seemed to be nothing special about that man, and he even seemed a little lonely.
But he felt that this man looked familiar.
Then in the next moment, he suddenly thought of who this person might be.
He thought that this man's face should be familiar to most people in this city.
He was so shocked that he couldn't describe it in words. His whole body seemed to be frozen, unable to move.
The city gate guard also quickly noticed this man.
But no one can disturb this man.
Nothing happens.
Because even the sergeants at the city gate were rendered unable to move at all by an inexplicable force.
As the old horse and the man passed through the city gate, time seemed to freeze for the people around the city gate.
After the old horse and the man disappeared from everyone's sight, the bodies of all the sergeants and generals who guarded the city seemed to be back under their control.
Everyone started panting violently and sweating like rain.
Mo Zong, the last time he appeared in Jiankang City, his name brought more disgust and hatred to the people of the Southern Dynasties.
A practitioner who had taken refuge in the Northern Wei Dynasty for many years became the biggest enemy of the Southern Dynasty. Countless practitioners and soldiers of the Southern Dynasty died at the hands of the Northern Wei people because of him, but he suddenly came back and became an arm of the Southern Dynasty royal family.
This is unacceptable to almost all people in the Southern Dynasties.
A beast with the blood of its relatives dripping from its mouth suddenly turned into a docile watchdog, which could completely ignore what it had done before?
This was what many people in the Southern Dynasties thought at that time.
However, when he appeared again, this name no longer brought disgust to everyone in Jiankang City, but more of deep fear.
…
"Are you sure?"
Qi Zhuji frowned deeply, looked at a cultivator of Tie Cejun, and asked.
"OK."
This cultivator of the Tiece Army was also very nervous, with beads of sweat on his forehead, but his voice was not slow at all, "After entering the city from the south gate, thirteen cultivators have seen him, at least one of them has seen him.
There are seven people who must be him."
"I wonder where he went now?" Qi Zhuji nodded.
"He didn't fight with anyone." The Tiece Army sergeant said, "He didn't kill anyone."
"Don't have any conflict with him."
Qi Zhuji took a deep breath. In just one breath, he had already made up his mind, "Let Wang Pingyang and the others hide as soon as possible. Also, even if he starts killing people, all of us practitioners should stay as far away from him as possible and let the military
The same goes for those people. Even if he goes to the Southern Dynasty Palace and burns it down, let him do it."
"good."
This cultivator of the Tie Ce Army didn't say any nonsense and was immediately ordered to leave.
"Demon Sect..."
After the Tiece Army sergeant left, Qi Zhuji's complexion quickly turned pale, and his hands began to tremble slightly.
In the eyes of Lin Yi and others, the Demon Sect has always been the most terrifying enemy. Especially after Lin Yi, Chen Ziyun and others stayed in Huangyuan for a while, they, the top practitioners of the Southern Dynasties, felt that the Demon Sect was more powerful than those
The descendants of Emperor You are even more terrifying.
So these days, all the actions of their Tiece Army are waiting for the Demon Sect to reappear, and all their preparations are to prepare for this enemy who seems to be unable to deal with it for the time being.
The Demon Sect disappeared in the Northern Wei Dynasty.
The descendants of Emperor You who once controlled him were also in the Northern Wei Dynasty.
At this time, the Emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the descendants of Emperor You started a decisive battle in Guanlong. According to their plans and imaginations, even if the Demon Sect suddenly reappeared in the world, the place where he should appear most would be the Northern Wei Dynasty.
What value does Jiankang of the Southern Dynasty have to him?
How could he suddenly appear in Jiankang like this after being reborn?
"What exactly do you want to do?"
Qi Zhuji gritted his teeth and heard the sound of his teeth rubbing against each other.
He could not predict what the Demon Sect wanted to do at all, but in addition to Lin Yi, Wang Pingyang, Huang Qiutang and Wang Xianrui were also the most important links in their plan to deal with the Demon Sect in the future.
At this time, the three of them have made amazing progress in pharmacological research on restraining the true energy of the Demon Sect. Could it be that the Demon Sect already knows this secret, so he rushed to Jiankang as soon as possible?
If he has determined the whereabouts of these three people, with the power of Jiankang City at this time, there is simply no way he can stop him from killing people.
The whole Jiankang City looks the same as usual, there is no difference.
However, as the news spread, all the important people in the city were trembling.
Everyone was frightened.
If the Demon Sect starts killing people, maybe they can start to deduce what the Demon Sect is coming to do. However, the city seems to have been calm all the time. Even as this panic spreads, as everyone avoids and hides as much as possible, the whole city
The city is calmer than usual.
…
The sound of horse hooves sounded on the mountain road outside Nantian Courtyard.
A lazy old horse, carrying a somewhat lonely and lonely man, appeared outside the gate of Nantianyuan.
The number of garrison troops around Nantian Yuan has been reduced a lot, but there are still more or less garrison troops. These sergeants and practitioners in Nantian Yuan have received the news before. Seeing the Demon Sect appearing in Nantian Yuan, these people actually
No one dares to go up to confront the Demon Sect, and no one dares to go up and ask the Demon Sect what they want to do.
If this city and everyone here were like this the last time they came to Jiankang, the Demon Sect might feel extremely powerful and be in a particularly good mood.
However, walking in the largest and most prosperous city in the south, and coming to one of the most important places of practice in the south, the fear and avoidance of these people made him feel like he was walking through an empty city and a dead road.
I feel that this world is even less real and further away from me.
But is this the situation he wanted to achieve before?
Mo Zong couldn't give himself an answer.
Just like he himself didn't know why he wanted to come here.
Is it because this is the place where his very naive junior sister practiced in hiding for many years after leaving the Guangming Holy Sect?
He wanted to see where his junior sister really lived and practiced after leaving the Guangming Holy Sect. Want to see her life?
Or was it because this place reminded him of another silly and childish practitioner named Ye Muyu who was a bit like his junior sister?
Or is it because there is a unique deserted garden here?
…
Mo Zong dismounted.
The old horse seemed to have no interest in the courtyard, so it naturally stopped outside the mountain gate and happily nibbled on the fresh grass leaves on the mountain path.
The Demon Sect entered Nantianyuan.
He walked slowly, stopping often to take a look.
He sensed some of the breath and traces left by Wu Guzhi.
In his mind, he remembered how Wu Guzhi taught here and how he continued to practice hard here.
Is there still time to deal with him?
Mo Zong laughed.
He smiled a little bitterly.
Then he also entered the deserted garden.
He stopped on the land in the deserted garden that was barren of grass due to the fighting, and his eyes casually fell on the surrounding area, landing on the stone house.
It seemed very ordinary here, but in his eyes, a layer of graceful Qi began to appear everywhere, like layers of transparent water curtains constantly flowing in this garden.
"What a powerful method."
"He Xiuxian and Shen Yue are so amazing."
He couldn't help but praise a few words.
But that's all.
These qi forces that were enough to arouse his shock and vigilance in the past only attracted such heartfelt admiration from him at this time.
He didn't even frown.
He thought that many years later, all the energy here would be wiped out, and the aura of his junior sister would disappear faster than the aura in this deserted garden.
Maybe in a few years, even if his cultivation becomes stronger, he will no longer sense traces of his junior sister's presence here.
He sighed softly.
He slowly walked out of the deserted garden, sensing those scents again, perhaps as a final farewell.
Then he was a little confused, not knowing where he was going next.
Until the old horse outside the gate of Nantian Courtyard came happily towards him, he thought that he might be able to visit the Jingyuan Courtyard in the Heart of the Lake. (To be continued)