"This is guarding a treasure mountain without knowing it!"
"What a great opportunity, what a great opportunity, why didn't you realize it? Just like me, you are so honest." Zhuo Siwei looked at Hou Zhuxin in front of him and said.
"My lord suddenly promoted me, what do I need to do?"
"The world is in such chaos, so naturally we should do something to make it more peaceful." Zhuo Siwei said.
Hou Zhu was startled after hearing this. These words really surprised him.
In the past few years since he came to Kuaiji Mansion, he has come into contact with some officials. Like the county magistrates and county magistrates he met in Guobei County, these people are only thinking about collecting money and getting promoted.
No one is willing to do anything practical for the people.
Now I suddenly hear that someone wants to do something for the people and make the world more peaceful, which is really uncomfortable.
"It's like a piece of white jade suddenly appeared among a pile of garbage.
Very unreal.
"If your Excellency really has this intention, I will definitely help you with all my strength." Hou Zhu said seriously.
Only when you come up from below do you know how miserable the people below are.
Hou Zhu is a kind-hearted person who has never changed from beginning to end. After embarking on the path of spiritual practice, whether in Guobei County or Kuaiji Prefecture, he always tried his best to do things.
Protect the people on this side.
After Zhuo Siwei left, Hou Zhu returned to the study and was lost in thought for a while until his wife knocked on the door and came in.
"What are you thinking about? You're so lost in thought? The food has gone cold."
"Okay, eat, eat." Hou Zhu stood up and walked out of the study.
The family ate together happily.
After dinner, it quickly became dark.
After coaxing the child to sleep, Sun Xiulian came to the study. Hou Zhu was still awake, sitting on the Taishi chair in a daze.
"What are you thinking about?" Sun Xiulian said softly when she came to her.
"Think about the man who came today and what he said. What he said surprised me. He doesn't look like an internal guard in the imperial court." Hou Zhu said.
"What did he say?"
"He said he wanted peace in the world."
"Really, that is indeed different." Sun Xiulian was also a little surprised after hearing this.
"There are not many officials like this nowadays. I hope he is telling the truth."
"Today he also mentioned Wang Zhe. It seems that he has seen him recently. I don't know where that guy is now. I haven't seen him for a long time. He should have reached the age of starting a family." Hou Zhu said.
"He is a capable man and he has no worries about finding a wife." Sun Xiulian consoled her from the side.
Thousands of miles deep in the Qinchuan River, in a cave, there is a plate of chess pieces on a stone table.
Wang Zhe and Laifu were playing chess with one person and one dog.
backgammon,
"Come on, you are a true gentleman who has no regrets."
"I'm not a gentleman, I'm a dog." Laifu decisively regretted his move.
"shameless."
Well, Wang Zhe suddenly raised his head and looked out of the cave.
"What's wrong?"
"A guest is coming."
At the bottom of the mountain, two people stood outside the white mist.
One is wearing green clothes and has a handsome appearance, while the other is nine feet tall, has a strong back and a strong waist, and has a very rugged appearance.
"Sir, there is no need for you to take the risk. I heard that the one inside can kill immortals."
"It's because of his great ability that he had to come here in person."
"I am in Qingqiu, Huan, asking to see the immortal."
"Qingqiu? Where?" On the mountain, Laifu turned to look at Wang Zhe.
"The fox's den."
"Fox? Are you familiar with them?"
"I'm not familiar with it. I haven't seen it before. Playing chess." Wang Zhe stared at the chessboard.
"Wait a minute, I remember there is a sunspot here. Where did it go? Did you hide it?" Wang Zhe pointed to the chessboard.
"Really? Have you seen it wrong?" Laifu looked confused.
"I can see all the stars in the sky well, but I can see just two pieces wrong. Did you just take advantage of my turning my head to steal the pieces?"
"Impossible, no." Laifu shook his head.
"Ha, look at your expression, don't you admit it? Okay!" Wang Zhe waved his hand, and a painting appeared in his hand.
"Come on, go in and think about it."
Poof, Laifu opened his mouth and spat out a sunspot, covered in saliva.
"Oh, you really are, let me in!"
Wang Zhe waved his hand, the scroll unfolded, and Laifu was taken in at once.
"Just sit in there and think about it!"
As soon as Laifu hit the ground, there was a sound from above, deafening, like thunder.
"I was wrong." Laifu raised his head and shouted toward the sky.
thunder,
There was a sound from above,
Boom, then the wind and clouds changed in the sky, and thunder and lightning as thick as a bucket fell from the sky. By coincidence, it landed on him, as if it had eyes.
Ouch, it screamed, and then black smoke erupted from its body.
"I was wrong!" Laifu apologized promptly.
A typical person who knows current affairs is a hero.
fire dragon,
Another voice came from the sky,
A fire dragon descended from the sky, more than a hundred feet long, and came straight towards it.
Laifu roared when he saw this, and his body suddenly grew bigger. One of the native dogs turned into a lion, and then one of the lions grew a little taller.
"Young man, you have grown up, this is it."
Wang Zhe watched with great interest outside.
Thunder and lightning, fire, ice, and swords all greeted him one by one.
I put it in at dawn, but it was already dark when I came out.
Laifu lay on the ground like a dead dog.
"How does it feel?"
"I, I swear, I will never steal chess pieces again. No matter whether I win or lose, I will do it with dignity."
"Oh, I have quite a deep understanding. Is this what I'm talking about?"
"Well, why are those two people still outside?" Laifu's ears that were on the ground suddenly moved.
"Still." Wang Zhe nodded.
At the foot of the mountain, the two men were still standing guard outside.
"Sir, are we just going to wait like this?"
"wait."
"Then if he doesn't see us, maybe he's not on the mountain at this time."
"If you don't want to wait with me, you can go back." The young master said.
"How can that be done?" The rough man stopped talking after hearing this and stayed aside quietly.
These two people stayed together for three days.
"Let's go, I don't want to see you!"
The next day, the sound from the mountain passed through the clouds and mist and reached the ears of the two people.
"senior......"
"Let's go!"
A force shrouded the two people through the clouds.
"Master!"
The rugged man sensed the danger and took a step to block the young man in green.
"Let's go!" The young man glanced at the mountain and frowned slightly.
"I'm sorry to disturb you, senior." Before leaving, he still did not forget the etiquette.
Not long after they left, colorful divine lights lit up in the cave on the mountain.
There are some words faintly fluttering in the five-color divine light. They are the words on the "Eight Wastelands Monument".
Wang Zhe felt something as he looked at the scroll in his hand, thinking about integrating the wonderful principles contained in the four Eight Wastelands monuments into his innate five-element magical power.
He kept trying,
I sat in this cave for several months without moving, only seeing the five-colored divine light flowing around my body endlessly.
Time flies by so fast, before we know it, winter is coming, snow is falling heavily, the mountains are covered in snow, and the new year is approaching.
A man went up a mountain in the snow, but was stopped by Laifu as soon as he reached the bottom of the mountain.
"I want to see sir." The person who came was Ye Zhiqiu.
"Sir is in retreat." Laifu said matter-of-factly.
"I know, say hello to sir for me." After saying that, he left a package.
"This is a small gift for Mr. Please pass it on to me." After leaving the things behind, he turned around and left without any hesitation.
Not long after Ye Zhiqiu left, Zhuo Siwei also came and was also stopped by Laifu.
"Retreating, you are still in seclusion after your cultivation level is so high?" Zhuo Siwei looked up at the mountain, and then left a piece of spiritual tea and a jar of good wine.
Then Zhan Wushuang also came to the mountain. He heard that Wang Zhe was in retreat, so he left a gift and left.
"Well, what kind of gifts are these? Why doesn't anyone send meat?"
Thousands of miles away in the capital,
In winter, there was a sudden thunder in the sky, which struck a tree in the palace, killing the old tree directly. It is said that the tree was planted by the late emperor Xiao Jian himself.
For a full year, Xiao Guang never showed up, and the officials did not even know whether he was dead or alive.
On the observatory, the cold wind howled outside, but there was no wind at all inside.
Daoxuan held a scroll of scriptures, a small stove on the side, and a copper kettle on the road.
Cough cough cough, there was a coughing sound coming from the stairs. After a while, an old man in purple robe came up to the observatory.
"It's already this time, and you're still here?" Daoxuan raised his head and glanced at him.
"I didn't come until this time." The old man held a bottle of wine in his hand.
"Come, have a drink with me."
"I only drink tea." Daoxuan said.
The old man sat down and poured himself a glass.
"When will His Majesty leave seclusion?"
"I don't know." Daoxuan shook his head.
"I plan to resign next year." The old man took a sip of wine.
"I advise you not to do this." Daoxuan said after being silent for a while.
"I have a grandson this year. I have to think about them!" The old man took a sip of wine and sighed.
"You can't leave unless..." Daoxuan didn't say the rest.
"The tree in the palace was chopped to death!" The old man suddenly said something incomprehensible.
"I saw it."
"Can you tell me what you are waiting for?" The old man stared at Daoxuan when he said this.
"What?" Daoxuan asked.
"Daozhang Xue is waiting, and so are you. What are you waiting for?" The old man put down his wine glass.
"Secrets must not be revealed."
While they were talking, a star suddenly appeared in the northern sky, as big as a bucket, emitting purple-red light.
Daoxuan stood up and looked at the star.
"A great emperor has appeared in the Northern Xinjiang Royal Court."
"A new king has ascended the throne?"
"Yeah!" Daoxuan nodded.
"One thing is going down, the other is going up, and war is about to break out on the border again." The old man sighed.
"This world is full of patchwork and leaks, and we really can't hold on any longer."
"Prime Minister, be careful what you say." Daoxuan said after pondering for a long time.
In the palace, a golden light suddenly rose into the sky, followed by the sound of dragons roaring.
The palace city shook, and then the entire capital city began to shake.
"Prime Minister, sit down for a moment again. I'll be back as soon as I go." There was a breeze. Daoxuan disappeared.
The next moment he appeared at the imperial mausoleum on the outskirts of Beijing,
The clouds above the imperial mausoleum were billowing fiercely.
He landed on the front foot, and a Taoist followed him on the back foot. It was Taoist Master Xue.
"Fellow Taoist."
Daoxuan nodded.
"Has the time come?"
"That's almost it."
In the capital, in the palace, in a secret room, Xiao Guang, who was wrapped in golden light, opened his eyes.
In his hand is the Kongtong Seal,
Suddenly his body shivered, and then he felt cold.
Don't say that a monk who is above a human immortal or above the sixth grade is not afraid of the cold and heat.
"How could this happen?" He frowned.
I thought that more than a year of retreat would have eliminated all my hidden illnesses.
"He Wuyong!" he shouted.
"The old slave is here." Then the old eunuch appeared beside him.
"Where are Daoxuan and Daochang Xue now?"
"Reporting to your majesty, Daoxuan was chatting with the prime minister in Guantian Pavilion just now, and Taoist priest Xue was giving lectures in the academy."
"Let's explore again!"
"yes!"
He Wuyong left.
Outside the capital, a black and yellow energy suddenly surged out of the depths of the imperial mausoleum and rose into the sky.
"Coming!"
The two Taoists soared into the sky and each used their magical powers to block the black and yellow energy.
Ouch, there was a dragon roar, and the black and yellow energy changed into a dragon shape.
This is Dayong's dragon vein, and it is Dayong's Qi that is suppressed.
Now the Great Yong Qi is about to be exhausted.
These two people actually tried to intercept Dayong's energy and hide the black and yellow energy in the dragon's veins.
Half an hour later.
There was a roar, and the sky fell and the earth fell.
A huge crack appeared in the mountains behind the imperial tomb in the capital.
Three people in the sky.
Daoxuan, Daozhang Xue, and a man wearing a golden robe.
"Wu Zhengang?!"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, Qintian Supervisor, Taoist Master Xue, you two are the most trusted people of Xiao Guang, and you actually came here to intercept Dayong's remaining energy.
It’s really unexpected!”
"That's right, normally you wouldn't dare to do this, otherwise not only will you die, but your family and the sect will also be harmed."
"What a trick!"
"King Wen has given you the award. Isn't this why you came here?"
"Hahaha, Xiao Jian, Xiao Jian, did you ever think that this day would happen?!"
Boom, a golden light flew from the sky in the distance.
The three of them dispersed instantly,
Xiao Guang came to the sky above the imperial mausoleum, his face was unusually ugly, and there was an undetectable black spot between his eyebrows, as if he had been drawn with a brush stained with ink, which was a bit ominous.
On the observatory, the old prime minister suddenly felt uneasy, turned around and left, getting off the observatory.
Not long after, there was a loud bang, and the pavilion above the observatory exploded all at once, leaving it all bare, as if a person had his head taken off.
Five hundred miles outside the capital,
Two people, Daoxuan and Daochang Xue.
"Junior brother, take care."
"Senior brother, take care."
Almost all the officials in the capital knew that Daoxuan and Daozhang Xue never ate at the same table.
No one thought that these two people were actually brothers from the same school. They acted in a scene together, and this scene lasted for decades.
Just for this day,
When Dayong was at his weakest, they intercepted Dayong's Qi,
This luck, this Xuanhuang Qi energy is extremely important to them.