old grace

Shangguan Shiyi is 180 years old this year, and Xie Qinghe, the first apprentice, is only 28 years old.In other words, the head of the Hanjiang Sword Sect, who kept clamoring for the inheritance of the orthodoxy, did not take the eldest disciple into his sect until he was around 160 years old.

Is this normal?

Of course not.

It is said that monks are different from ordinary people, and their life span is as long as three Jiazi.However, there are not so many monks who can really live to be 180 years old.There are those who are not talented, those who are unlucky sometimes, and there are also various disasters and accidents caused by weapons, water and fire.The number of monks who can live steadily past the age of 180 in this world can be counted on one hand.

No matter how talented and confident Shangguan Shiyi is, he should not wait until he is 160 years old to choose apprentices to train the next generation.

"So, the senior brothers in front of us said that there was an accident, but they actually died in the Demon Sealing Valley?"

Chen Yiwei is the youngest disciple of Shangguan Shiyi, ranking fourth in the school, only 12 years old this year.He was lying on the coffee table, looking at his master gossipingly. He didn't have much deep gratitude for death, so he could mention it at will.

In Feixian's cottage, Shangguan Shiyi and Xie Qinghe were sitting on the couch.

On the ground floor is a square tea table, surrounded by Shu Hanyun, Li Nanfeng and Chen Yiwei.

This time the arrangement was quite strange.

After all, the couch was one foot high, and beside the coffee table was a futon on the floor. Xie Qinghe and his three juniors were all sitting around the edge of the coffee table, but in front of the master, how could he ask the juniors to squat on the ground and sit on an equal footing with the master?No matter how the head disciple should have such dignity.

However, the situation of the Hanjiang Sword Sect is different from other sects.

When Xie Qinghe was appointed as the head disciple by Shangguan Shi Yili, Shu Hanyun, who was ranked second, hadn't entered the sect yet, so his position was undisputed.

In recent years, Xie Qinghe's cultivation has become more and more exquisite, and he has already become a master. Shangguan Shiyi has been in seclusion all year round due to his body's decline, unable to deal with trivial matters in the sect. The teacher is the head of the sect, and he has to communicate on behalf of the teacher... In short, except for eating, sleeping and going to the bathroom, Xie Qinghe basically "represents" everything that can be handled "on behalf of the teacher".

Although the position has not been formally passed on, Xie Qinghe has long been the invisible head.

When there are small meetings in the door, Shangguan Shiyi often invites Xie Qinghe to sit opposite him, and all the disciples are used to it.

"Yes." Shangguan Shiyi sat cross-legged on the couch, holding a string of rosary beads in his hand, and the traces of heartache have long since disappeared from his eyes, "60 years ago, it has been almost 70 years now. There used to be six disciples as a teacher, That time, they all fell in the Demon Sealing Valley."

All fell.In just one sentence, how much sadness is hidden.

The older disciples didn't dare to speak, only Chen Yiwei was full of lawsuits and dared to ask: "We have been sealing demons along the river for many years, and we can fight demons after learning ten-year-old archery, and we don't see how powerful that evil heretic is. Are the monsters in the Valley of Sealing Demons hard to kill?"

"What is a demon?" Shangguan Shiyi dispatched his senior disciple, "Qinghe, please explain it to my junior brother."

Xie Qinghe glanced at Chen Yiwei.

Chen Yiwei hurriedly sat upright, and smiled obediently at him.

Shu Hanyun knew that Xie Qinghe didn't like to talk nonsense. Questions like monsters and demon religion, Xie Qinghe had talked about it when he was teaching at Miao Miao Shanju. The younger brother obviously didn't pay attention to the class, so he asked such childish questions.

"Let me tell the younger brother. Senior brother drinks tea." Shu Hanyun lifted the teapot and filled the teacups of master and senior brother one by one.

Xie Qinghe glanced at the new clothes he had just changed without any trace.It was well concealed, and he changed into thick clothes and came over, and even wore a sachet for fear of being smelled of blood.Between the lines, his expression was as usual, without showing a trace of pain and discomfort after being whipped.

After putting down the teapot, Shu Hanyun sat back to his original position and began to talk about the difference between the monsters along the river and the Valley of Sealing Demons.

"The devil is all grievances, such as resentment, jealousy, and so on."

"If you think about it for a long time and can't understand it, if you can't calm your mind, if you worry about it day and night, if you can't stop worrying about it, then you are called a demon."

"When there were no monks in the world, the evil thoughts faded, like light frost on the grass, and disappeared when the sun rose. The monks obtained the good fortune of the heaven and the earth. After practicing and seeking the truth, the thoughts and hatreds were deep, and the evil thoughts that could not be solved became stronger and stronger. When they gathered in one place, they became There is a demon."

"The Valley of Sealing Demons is the place where the evil thoughts gather in the world. The evil thoughts there are thick and deep, and can bewitch people's hearts. People often accidentally enter it by mistake, fall into the devil's way, and cannot extricate themselves from then on. There are also many people who fall into the devil's way in pursuit of power. "

"The monsters that we seal up along the river with flying kites are just mountain spirits, grass monsters, or some small animals that are bewitched by the scattered magic energy. There are very few people who are not strong-willed. Such little monsters are very rare. It’s easy to kill, but there are a lot of them, if you don’t take care of them, it’s easy to gather in groups and harm mortal villages, that’s why Master wants us to seal demons along the river from time to time.”

"It's different in the Valley of Sealing Demons. The people gathered in the Valley of Sealing Demons are usually people, and there are also many monks who have fallen into the devil's way."

"The force they gather is shameless and calls itself the Devil's Cult. The strength is very strong."

"So, demons are divided into three types: demonic energy, demonic cultivation and monsters. Demonic energy erodes everything in the world. Those who have the will are demonic cultivators, and those who have no will are reduced to monsters. Monsters are easy to deal with, and demonic cultivators are more troublesome. Demonic energy is the worst. Trouble. The problem we are facing now is the devil energy."

Having said that, it is almost over.

Li Nanfeng kept silent, but suddenly added: "The trouble with the devil energy is that once we get too close to the Valley of Sealing Demons, no matter how determined a monk is, it is easy to be infected by the devil energy. Meat buns beat dogs."

Shangguan Shiyi paused for a moment with his fingers pinching the rosary.

Chen Yiwei was startled when he heard that: "That's not meat buns beating dogs, it's rebellion! The meat buns are eaten by dogs and it's over. The monks who went to crusade against the demon cult fell into the devil's way before the battle. Wouldn't it mean that they would kill their own people with their backhands? This It's not food, it's weapons and combat power! I'm going to grow and lose."

Shu Hanyun comforted: "Evil never prevails over good. We were the ones who won the victory 60 years ago."

"Master, tell me the details of how to eliminate demons back then." Xie Qinghe interrupted the discussion of the juniors, not wanting to listen to the specific description of how to destroy morale.

He has decided to play on behalf of the teacher.

Anyway, everything has been replaced, not bad for this shiver.

Master is almost two hundred years old, and his body and energy are not as good as six or seventy years ago.Where can it withstand such a high-intensity battle as Fengmo?

Shangguan Shiyi smiled slightly, and said a word, every word was a threat: "When I was a teacher, six disciples, Xu Yang died early in battle, and the other five all fell into the devil. After a long time, I fell into the devil, knowing that I was invincible, and committed suicide in front of the teacher. And died, the four who were deeply possessed by demons... beheaded by the master himself."

die in battle.suicide.beheaded.

Six people died, and none remained.

This tragic ending made Chen Yi blindly shrink his neck.Li Nanfeng couldn't help holding his forearm tightly with his hands in his sleeves.

Only Shu Hanyun frowned slightly: "So easy to be enchanted?"

"The devil's energy enters the heart, not in the cultivation of skills."

Shangguan Shi Yi even favored Xie Qinghe when he spoke, the first sentence was still directed at Shu Hanyun, and the next sentence changed in seconds: "You are now younger than a few senior brothers, and with your experience, it is inevitable that you will be entangled by evil thoughts." It must be Xie Qinghe.

He sighed, and repeated the old tune: "I'm already 180 years old, I can't afford to gamble. The six brothers in front of you fell, and it took me nearly 40 years to find you, and another 30 years to find you." Cultivation, if you become a demon... How can you have another 70 years as a teacher to raise another head disciple?"

Everyone was silent.

The devilish energy in Sealing Demon Valley was banned 70 years ago, and none of the young disciples had seen it.

How powerful the devilish energy is depends entirely on Shangguan Shiyi's telling.The fate he told was so tragic.All the disciples of the previous generation of Hanjiang Sword Sect are dead!The probability of five of the six apprentices becoming enchanted is a bit scary.No one is sure that Xie Qinghe will be able to withstand the demonic energy.

Shangguan Shiyi once again tried to persuade the big disciple: "I can suppress the devil's lair for 80 years. By then you will grow up too..."

Speaking of this, he couldn't help laughing, as if he could imagine the future appearance of Xie Qinghe, with a handsome face and a fluttering beard and hair.

"Qinghe, you have to raise a good disciple for your teacher, and pass down the tradition of the Hanjiang Sword Sect. You are so smart, maybe in a hundred years, the evil calamity will end in your hands." He looked at Xie Qinghe's eyes full of Love and hope: "Master is old, I have not been able to find a way to end the evil calamity in my whole life. Only by living well can there be a way and hope."

Shu Hanyun, Li Nanfeng and Chen Yiwei have all been persuaded.

Shangguan Shiyi should be dying of old age, and his life expectancy is only within ten or twenty years, but Xie Qinghe has not yet reached the peak just like the day he was promoted.

Inherited from generation to generation, changing from generation to generation, the old and the young have their own way.

Only Xie Qinghe refused to accept his fate: "Whether it's okay or not, you'll know if you go to Fengmogu to see."

"Originally, I wanted to take the second and third junior brothers to Fengmo Valley to fight against heretics, and I could see the world. Since it is so dangerous, the two junior brothers will stay at home—I will go with the master."

He got up from the couch, bowed his knees in front of Shangguan Shiyi: "My disciple is not a foolish, filial and arrogant person. If you can withstand the attack of the evil thoughts of the Fengmo Valley, please turn to the cold river and take care of yourself in the Feixian thatched cottage. The disciples should do their best. If the disciples are incompetent...forgive the disciples for being unfilial, and ask the mentor to carry a gun to defend against the enemy, and then protect the disciples and the world once again."

Before Shangguan Shiyi could express his opinion, Shu Hanyun refused to agree: "I will go with senior brother!"

"How dare you disobey senior brother?" Shangguan Shiyi immediately reprimanded him.

He was especially unwilling to let Shu Hanyun go with him.

Shu Hanyun is secretly in love with Xie Qinghe, and with a free heart, he is most likely to be tainted by evil thoughts and cannot extricate himself.On the other hand, the young Chen Yiwei has a pure mind and is not easy to be tricked.However, what's the use of bringing along Chen Yiwei, a little kid who has just practiced?It's better not to bring it.

Shu Hanyun was so trained by his master that he didn't dare to look up, so he asked Xie Qinghe for help in a low voice: "Brother..."

Although he and Xie Qinghe didn't pierce the window paper, Shu Hanyun always knew that the elder brother favored him very much, and he would always plead for mercy.

Xie Qinghe really smiled at him: "Senior Brother, don't you listen to what he says? When I get to the Star Observatory later, Senior Brother has something to say."

The adult disciples in the sect all live in Sandalwood Xiaozhu, and Shu Hanyun is no exception.Only Xie Qinghe fell in love with the star observatory when he first started, and insisted on living alone in the star observatory. Shangguan Shiyi valued him very much and favored him, so he let him dominate and live alone in the huge star observatory.

In front of the master, Shu Hanyun didn't dare to make a fuss, so he nodded: "Yes."

Xie Qinghe also told Shu Hanyun and Li Nanfeng about everything in the family.

Not all the young disciples of Miao Miao Shanju are qualified to worship under Shangguan Shiyi's sect. If they are not qualified enough, once they get older, they will automatically become outer disciples when they move from Miaomiao Shanju to Tanxiang Xiaozhu. Manage trivial matters.

There are few direct disciples of the Hanjiang Sword Sect, but there are many disciples from the outer sect.Too many people will inevitably make things complicated, and it will not be easy to manage.

Xie Qinghe intends to train a few juniors to help him. The older Shu Hanyun and Li Nanfeng both received errands and were directly responsible to Xie Qinghe.

This trip to Fengmo Valley is unpredictable, and I don't know how long it will take, Xie Qinghe of course has to ask them one by one.Shangguan Shiyi didn't care about business for more than ten years. He listened to the big apprentice sending the little apprentice, put his hands on his sleeves, stringed the rosary back on his wrist, and listened while drinking tea.

It was so easy to wait for Xie Qinghe to finish talking about the trivial matters in the door, announce the end of the meeting, and then take Shu Hanyun to the observatory to "privately order".

The window paper of these two little devils was punctured by the teacher himself.Shangguan Shiyi took a sip of cold tea, but he was not very optimistic after all.Xie Qinghe and Shu Hanyun have very different temperaments and temperaments. The so-called love is nothing more than youth and ignorance, and yearning for youth.In vain.

Fortunately, Shangguan Shiyi firmly believed that Xie Qinghe would practice what he said, and since the eldest disciple said that it would not ruin his practice, he believed it.

Shu Hanyun had already left the door, Xie Qinghe followed two steps and then fell back.

"What?" Shangguan Shiyi was puzzled.

Xie Qinghe hugged the Shiyan Demon Flower on the table in his arms: "I'm talking to Junior Brother Han Yun, please wait a moment."

Where the magic energy gathers is a very unpredictable direction, and it is different from moment to moment.If you want to find the location of the devil's lair, you must either fall into the devil's way and naturally be able to sense the location where the devil's energy is at its peak, or you have to follow this pot of Shi Yan Mohua to find it.

Xie Qinghe took Shiyan Mohua away, and Shangguan Shiyi couldn't make a "heroic sacrifice" alone.

Seeing Xie Qinghe going out with the flowerpot in his arms, Shangguan Shiyi was angry and wanted to laugh.After all, Xie Qinghe was reluctant to let him die.