"Where the heart is, where the Tao is..." Shen Xinlan murmured to herself.
"Brother Taoist, you have such great ambitions. You have no regrets, no guilt, no confusion, no knowledge, no resentment. Even the saints find it difficult to achieve this!"
"Thank you for the compliment, Fairy." Shen Zhui smiled slightly.
Shen Xinlan glanced at Shen Zhui and continued to ask the second question.
"If you want to cultivate the great road, you should cut off the seven emotions and six desires, and don't eat the fireworks of the world. Do you think so, Brother Taoist?"
"That's nonsense!" Shen Zhui said with a smile.
"Oh? What do you think, fellow Taoist?" Shen Xinlan asked.
"Is this the third question?"
"It doesn't count."
"Forget it."
"..."
Shen Xinlan was immediately speechless. Just now, she felt that what this person said made sense and was in line with what she was thinking. Unexpectedly, she suddenly became a bit shameless.
"If Brother Dao can't answer it, then there's no need to ask the third question." Shen Xinlan said calmly.
When Shen Zhui saw that he could not get through the test, he knew that Gui Yuanzong might not have gotten along with Shen Xinlan about the cooperation, so he immediately replied: "Happiness, anger, worry, fear, love, hatred, and desire are human nature and cannot be learned. able."
"Throughout the ages, I have never heard of anyone being able to abandon his own nature and become a saint."
"On the contrary, the reason why a saint is a saint is because he has seven emotions and six desires."
"Be happy with what you have learned, be angry with others, and be in awe."
"Hate injustice, worry about the world, love without boundaries."
"It is precisely because you elevate the seven emotions and six desires in your heart that you can become a saint."
"Besides, if cultivating Taoism only results in a heart of stone, how boring would it be?"
Behind the bead curtain, Shen Xinlan nodded slightly. Although she grew up in the Guiyuan Sect, she was kind-hearted and quite resistant to this ruthless Taoist philosophy. Although the Guiyuan Sect was a demon sect, she lived in seclusion here. She has not done anything evil in ten years, and Shen Xinlan has been practicing with great concentration, so she has not been contaminated by those evil thoughts.
"Brother Dao's understanding is far deeper than mine, and it is quite consistent with what I have in mind. For this third question, I am no longer a brother, I am just asking an ordinary question. This is also the confusion in my heart." Shen Xinlan said softly.
"Thank you Fang Liang. Fairy, please ask." Shen Zhui cupped his hands and said.
"A farmer was hunting in the mountains and forests. He took the mother animal away from the hunt for food and took the cub away. However, he did not feed the cub. Instead, he raised it. Brother Tao, who is this farmer? Is it wrong or not? If this cub is psychic, should it hate the farmer?" Shen Xinlan was a little excited.
Shen Zhui remained silent. He guessed that Shen Xinlan should already know that his identity was not Fang Liang. It was even possible that after that time, she also knew her own identity, or at least found some clues.
But she was wavering between truth and kindness, hesitant.
Of course, it is also possible that he was just testing himself to see if he was the one who sneaked into Zizhu Residence.
Shen Zhui was about to say something when he suddenly woke up.
This is not the place for conversation!
After a pause, Shen Zhui pretended to be impatient and said, "Fairy, you already have several questions!"
"If you don't want me to pass, you might as well speak up. Why do you need to make things difficult for me?"
"Sect Master!" Shen Zhui said loudly to the sky. "Is it possible that the Sect Master has not communicated with the fairy? Why are you here, just to embarrass yourself with some tricky and ambiguous questions?"
Shen Xinlan looked at Shen Zhui in astonishment, and a loud voice came from the sky.
"Haha, Xiaoyou Fang, you are too impatient. As the saying goes, a good girl is hard to find, and good things are hard to come by. Just answer it casually. Xiaoyou Fang's previous argument was so clever that even I thought it was quite reasonable. Is it possible that you are still trying to coax her? Not good for my disciples?"
"Master Guiyuan, I think I am extremely patient, but I cannot not mention it to the fairy at all. I respect the fairy and the Guiyuan Sect in my heart, but if I delay here for one more minute, the Qingyang Sect will be reorganized. Just take the road slowly."
"This is tantamount to delaying the sect leader's important event in disguise." Shen Zhui said respectfully.
"You..." A trace of disappointment flashed in Shen Xinlan's eyes.
Isn't it him? Could it be that he just happened to have a different marriage partner?
"That makes sense. Your Qingyang Gate is in a really precarious situation right now. With both the master and the disciple out, there is no one to guard the gate. I'm afraid it's in danger of being destroyed."
Buzz~ An incarnation of Ancestor Guiyuan appeared next to Shen Xinlan.
"Lan'er."
"Master." Shen Xinlan bowed slightly.
"Qingyangmen Fangliang is a dragon and a phoenix among men. He and you are considered a good match, so you don't have to be in trouble." Patriarch Guiyuan said.
"But……"
"There is no but, why, do you still want to disobey the master's order?" Patriarch Guiyuan's face turned slightly cold.
"Disciple doesn't dare." Shen Xinlan lowered her head, but the disappointment in her heart became even stronger.
"That's good, Ruyue, take Lan'er down and keep an eye on her." Ancestor Guiyuan waved his hand, and another figure appeared behind the bead curtain, it was Shen Xinlan's master Leng Ruyue.
"Lan'er, let's go." Leng Ruyue said softly. Although she didn't want things to get so direct, she had no choice.
"Fang Liang, follow me." Ancestor Guiyuan waved his hand, immediately picked up Shen Zhui and left.
The pavilion quickly became silent. When latecomers reached the third level, they found that the building was already empty and were told that someone had already passed the third level.
Many suitors had no choice but to regret and return the same way.
…………
Looking at the stone forest, somewhere in the sky above the deserted mountain forest, a wave of water suddenly flowed, forming a portal barrier in mid-air, and a warship broke through the stone gate.
The shape of the warship resembles an eagle, exuding heart-stopping power.
This is a level five advanced warship, the Falcon Warship.
On the warship, Shen Zhui and Fang Ziyou sat opposite each other.
"Brother Shen, what exactly did you say to Sect Master Guiyuan yesterday? Why did he agree so quickly to let you and Fairy Lan Ruo go? And also gave you a falcon warship?" Fang Ziyou was extremely curious.
He did not know the situation during yesterday's martial arts competition to recruit relatives, but after Shen chased him out, the two masters and disciples and Shen Xinlan were secretly arranged to be teleported out of the mountain gate through a secret passage in Guiyuan Sect.
"I didn't say anything." Shen Zhui shook his head and said. "On the contrary, Patriarch Guiyuan said a lot and did a lot."
"what happened?"
Shen Zhui said: "He asked me and Fairy Lan Ruo to each leave a clone in Guiyuan Sect. Then he let go of the falcon warship and ordered me and her to come out quietly. On the surface, she and I are still in Guiyuan Sect. Participate in the grand ceremony and prepare for the wedding ceremony. In fact, I was asked to take this opportunity to go back to Silver Star Cave to prepare and open the Qianyuan Sect's home base."
"What?" Fang Ziyou was slightly stunned. "Why would he do this?"
"Because we guessed right, the real purpose of Guiyuan Sect is to be in Guangling Cave Heaven." Shen Zhui said with emotion.
"Because Grandmaster Guiyuan was unknown. Without enough reasons, if they mobilized a large number of people to go to Guangling Dongtian, they would be rejected by many sects in Guangling Dongtian."
"The Qingyang Sect is different. The Qingyang Sect has been operating in Guangling Cave Heaven for thousands of years. Although it lost its territory due to the sectarian war, if the Qingyang Sect returns to Guangling Cave Heaven, the resistance it will encounter will be much smaller. , at least it is much easier than it is for large foreign sects like Guiyuan Sect to enter Guangling Cave Heaven."
"As long as our Qingyang Sect has a new foothold in Guangling Cave, it means that the Guiyuan Sect has a foothold." Shen Zhui said.
"But..." Fang Ziyou frowned. "We can't challenge the Qianyuan Sect now. Although Qian Yuanzi is a first-level venerable, he has many powerful magic weapons, and his disciples are not Young Master. Now there are only two people left in our Qingyang Sect."
"Qian Yuanzi, you can't go back." Shen Zhui said calmly. "Including the seventy-four supernatural power realm disciples he brought here, they will all die accidentally on the way back."
"You mean the Guiyuan Sect..." Fang Ziyou's pupils shrank.
"Yeah." Shen Zhui nodded.
"Hiss~" Fang Ziyou couldn't help but take a breath of cold air. One venerable person and dozens of disciples in the magical power realm were killed on the spot?
Once Qian Yuanzi dies, when Qingyang Sect launches a sect challenge, Qian Yuanzi will hardly have any high-end combat power!
"Old Fang, do you know how your Qingyang Gate disappeared?" Shen Zhui said with emotion.
"It was the Qianyuan Sect..."
"Then the Qianyuan Sect was originally a third-rate sect, and why did it rise so quickly? Qianyuanzi, an unknown person, suddenly became a venerable one. And in just ten years, he defeated your Qingyang Sect. Did you almost wipe out the family?" Shen Zhui asked again.
"This..." A look of shock appeared on Fang Ziyou's face.
"You guessed it right." Shen Zhui nodded.
"You, Qingyang Sect, have repeatedly rejected the Taishangjiao's kindness and are stubborn."
"So, they can only support Qian Yuanzi and help the Qian Yuan Sect to encroach on all your Qingyang Sect members and territory within ten years."
"When you are weak to a certain extent and the sect is promoted to the war, you will no longer have the power to resist. The Qingyang Sect will be removed from Guangling Dongtian and replaced by the Qianyuan Sect."
"The sect alliance stipulates that the three super sects cannot interfere in the competition between sects, but the Supreme Sect actually, actually..." Fang Zi's hands were trembling, and a surge of anger rushed from the bottom of his heart to Tianling Gai.
"Old Fang, please wake up. Do you believe this nonsense about sectarian alliances?" Shen Zhui snorted coldly. "You don't take sides and want to be neutral. How can such a good thing happen?"
"Old Fang, think about it again, why did the Qianyuan Sect bring so many disciples this time? The sect leader plus the disciples of the magical realm are close to a hundred people, and almost half of the Qianyuan Sect has come."
"The target of the Guiyuan Sect's marriage this time is actually... the Qianyuan Sect?" Fang Ziyou finally came to his senses.
"Not bad." Shen Zhui sighed.
"The Qianyuan Sect is also a second-rate sect. The leader of a second-rate sect in Guangling Dongtian only comes here in person. He also brings most of his disciples to congratulate him. This is not normal at all."
"The reason why this is so is because most of the disciples of the Qianyuan Sect...are originally members of the Supreme Sect and the Guiyuan Sect."
"This, how is this possible..." Fang Ziyou said in disbelief. "The Guiyuan Sect has been hiding for ten years. Did they start deploying it ten years ago?"
"What's impossible?" Shen Zhui snorted coldly. "The lifespan of the magical power realm can easily reach thousands of years. It's too common to spend a mere ten years planning a plan in such a long time. I even doubted that the Guiyuan Sect was closed down that year. The sect is not my idea. It’s just that I don’t know what else the Supreme Religion has planned.”
"Old Fang, do you believe that once I get past the Qianyuan Sect, those people will be at ease, or even turn against me?"
Fang Ziyou stopped talking. If what Shen Zhui said was true, this would most likely happen.
"Guiyuan Zong, no, Cangsong...what do you want to do in Guangling Cave Heaven?" Fang Ziyou couldn't help but ask.
"I guess their target is Tian Jue Sect, the largest sect in Guangling Cave Heaven, which is controlled by Liuhe Sect." Shen Zhui said calmly.
In the world of Ciyun, Venerable Tian Jue had appeared before. The people who were in the Blood Red Castle, as well as the Holy Envoy of Liuhe, Tian Jue Sect must have a lot to do with Liuhe Sect.
The three super sects all want to unify the Nine Nether Realm, but are forced to unite due to the Great Zhou Dynasty. Therefore, on the surface, they must maintain balance and restraint. At least, the three super sects cannot openly fight among themselves.
Once the super sects are in civil strife with each other, no sect in the entire Jiuyou Realm will be able to escape, and it will be a world war. The one who will gain nothing at that time will be the Great Zhou Dynasty.
"Qian Yuanzi has limited strength and devoured a lot of resources before he could barely reach the first level of the Venerable. This position was originally arranged for you by the Taishangjiao." Shen Zhui sighed. "Old Fang, you are nearly sixty years old as Guangling Dongtian. The top geniuses of this year, as long as they agreed to the conditions of the Supreme Master, now they may even reach the third level of the Supreme Master."
"Now there is another me, so there is only one opportunity left. After making them believe in your surrender and mine, they can change the person without any hurry. So I didn't say anything yesterday, didn't do anything, I just showed it. They took the initiative to do these things based on their own potential."
After hearing this, Fang Ziyou was also sighing, and a deep suspicion arose in his heart.
After being in the sect world for so many years, Shen Zhui is not as clear-eyed about this kind of thing.
Seeing that Fang Ziyou looked a little strange, Shen Zhui immediately smiled and said: "Old Fang, you don't have to blame yourself. This is called a fan of the authorities. Besides, no matter what you do, as long as you have the status of a secret spy of the Great Zhou Dynasty and don't join the alliance, who will be in charge?" Door, the result is the same. I also know more than you, so I can guess these things."
"I'm fine." Fang Ziyou shook his head and said. "I just think it's a bit ridiculous. In the beginning, the sects created this paradise to live in seclusion in order to not be bound by the rules of the dynasty. But now they are conquering each other, and each is fighting for power. With such overt and covert competition, those who truly have no desires and desires have no place to live..."
"How can there be any pure land in this world? Wherever there are people, there are rivers and lakes." Shen Zhui looked out the window with emotion.
"Hoo~" The falcon spacecraft flew through the sky, and the surrounding scenery gradually blurred, turning everything into darkness. Only the stars in the sky illuminated the earth forever...
Speaking of updates, I am going to Wuhan tomorrow, so I will keep at least two updates in the past two days, and I will probably go out for three or four days. Of course, if the situation outside is good, the mountain owner will resume three updates or more.