Taiping Inn

Victory and defeat are common in the military, and the same is true for people in the martial arts world. If you lose today, you just need to win again tomorrow, so staying alive is the first priority. After being defeated, Old Man Zang retreated directly to the mountain gate of Zaoge Sect, where there was the "Three Refining" formation that Zaoge Sect had perfected for nearly a hundred years, which was far superior to the three temporary formations in Beimang County.

Tang Han also thought so, and after Old Man Zang retreated, he had the intention to retreat.

At this moment, Zhang Haishi fell from the sky, landing silently, and the "bamboo joint" in his hand turned into a bamboo stick again.

The old man held the bamboo stick, just like a three-foot green sword returned to the sheath, retracting all the sharpness, and turned from the powerful sixth man in the world back to the lazy old man.

In fact, Li Xuandu often envied this second brother, who didn't care about anything, loved and hated, and didn't care about the division and unification of the world, or the struggle between good and evil, what did it have to do with me?

Of course, many times, there are still some relationships, especially when the second senior brother is needed to clean up the mess. In fact, as early as four years ago, Li Xuan was on the top of the imperial capital. He really had the will to fight to the death and was determined. However, at the last moment, he was forcibly taken away by the second senior brother. That was the last time the second senior brother set foot in the martial arts world. In the following four years, he disappeared without a trace in the martial arts world.

He is like a hermit, unable to change the world, and does not want to change the world. He is alone picking chrysanthemums in the east fence and enjoying himself.

He is a gentle person, a person who rarely loses his temper, more like an honest man in the mouth of many people. An incompetent honest person will allow others to bully him, but a capable honest person will bleed once he gets angry.

The tragedy many years ago has already explained it.

Zhang Haishi looked at Tang Han and asked knowingly: "General Tang, what are you doing with such a big battle?"

Tang Han was silent for a while and said: "I will leave now."

Zhang Haishi smiled: "That's right, I can resolve a conflict today, and I have done a good deed for the martial arts world."

Tang Han and his men left like the ebb tide, and a war that was about to break out disappeared without a trace.

Zhang Haishi turned around and looked at Li Xuandu, and said in a gentle tone: "Fourth Junior Brother, can we talk for a moment?"

Li Xuandu nodded, and then said to Yan Feiqing and Su Yun'an: "Excuse me."

Yan Feiqing smiled and said: "Brother Zifu, please do as you please."

The two brothers walked side by side to the quiet woods not far away.

All the people in the righteous way looked at the backs of the two with awe, especially the old man. Although they didn't know who this person was, judging from the power of his attack just now, he was undoubtedly a great master of the heavenly realm.

The place was quiet, with only the roar of the waterfall.

After a while, Su Yun'an said slowly: "This Mr. Zhang is only ranked second, Li Yuanying is ranked third, Li Zifu is ranked fourth, Lu Yanbing is ranked fifth, and it is said that there is a sixth junior brother who is as talented as Li Zifu. If Li Zifu had not fallen, if their eldest senior brother was still alive, what would the world be like now?"

Yan Feiqing sighed: "One family dominates."

Su Yun'an's eyes were a little dark: "I have to say that in terms of the ability to teach disciples, the old senior can be said to be the best in the world."

Yan Feiqing said calmly: "If Senior Brother Zhang had not experienced those changes, he would have been on the Taixuan List today."

Senior Brother Zhang here naturally refers to Zhang Luanshan, who should have taken the position of Heavenly Master and the position of the head of the Zhengyi Sect.

No matter what the world will be like in the future, the current world is still male superiority and female inferiority, and it is important that a woman obeys her father at home and her husband after marriage. Although Su Yunyan is not an ordinary woman, she sometimes has to take into account secular views, so even if she disagrees with Yan Feiqing's views, she rarely refutes him in person. However, this time she refuted for the first time: "What if Situ Xuance didn't die early? With his qualifications, has he touched the threshold of the Old Xuan List?"

Yan Feiqing was silent.

There are still some words that Su Yunyan didn't say. Without mentioning Zhang Luanshan's fall, there is still no definite statement about the cause of Situ Xuance's death. There are many different opinions, but is it really that clean? Could it be that the various forces are afraid that a second Zaoge Sect will appear, and then secretly join forces to strangle it in advance?

Thinking of this, Su Yun'an murmured, "A tree that stands out in the forest will be destroyed by the wind."

At this time, Zhang Haishi and Li Xuandu had already arrived in the forest, several dozen feet away from the crowd. Zhang Haishi put the bamboo stick in his hand on the ground, set up a ban, pointed to a tree stump not far away, and said, "Sit down and talk."

Li Xuandu sat down obediently.

But Zhang Haishi did not sit down, but stood with his hands behind his back, like a private school teacher who was about to start nagging.

After the two brothers looked at each other for a while, Zhang Haishi sighed: "The best of the best are still the best of the best, no matter where they are placed, they will never become loaches or sparrows. I really didn't expect that you could stand up again after falling to the Baodan realm, and still stir up trouble in the martial arts world."

Li Xuandu shook his head and said: "Brother, you are too kind."

"Am I praising you?" Zhang Haishi glared and said: "From childhood to adulthood, you only know how to cause trouble. Every time you make trouble, you ask me to clean up the mess for you. Since you fell four years ago, I thought I could finally have some peace and quiet, and it really gave me four years of peace and quiet. Now the solid state sprouts again."

Li Xuandu sighed: "Brother, the saints talk about family, country and the world..."

Before Li Xuandu finished speaking, Zhang Haishi interrupted him with a wave of his hand: "Brother, I am a Taoist. I believe in tranquility and inaction. I have nothing to do with Confucianism. Please don't tell me these great principles. I don't want to listen and I can't listen."

Li Xuandu sighed and asked: "Brother, Beimang Mountain is so big, how did you know we would come out from here?"

Zhang Haishi said directly: "This is the arrangement of the Great Heavenly Master. The Great Heavenly Master also asked me to come. After all, he is the leader of the righteous path. I can't even the Great Heavenly Master. As for how the Great Heavenly Master knew about this place, in his early years, even before the Zaoge Sect, the Great Heavenly Master had gone deep into the Changsheng Palace and took out the "Taishang Dan Jing" from it, so he was very familiar with the layout. According to the Great Heavenly Master's prediction, you should have entered the Changsheng Palace along this path behind the waterfall, but you didn't expect that you accidentally found another passage that had been abandoned for many years, but these are irrelevant, just be fine. "

Li Xuandu smiled bitterly and said nothing.

Zhang Haishi looked into Li Xuandu's eyes and asked with a smile: "Don't you think I came here on the orders of the master?"

Li Xuandu's expression stagnated slightly, and he smiled reluctantly.

Zhang Haishi reached out and patted his shoulder: "You should know what kind of temperament the old man has. Life and death are determined by fate, and wealth and honor are determined by God."

Li Xuandu closed his eyes, exhaled a breath of turbid air, and murmured: "I know."

Zhang Haishi restrained the smile on his face and said seriously: "Then you should also know the attitude of the third brother."

The bitter smile on Li Xuandu's face gradually faded, and he opened his eyes and said calmly: "I know it too."

Zhang Haishi sighed lightly: "It's good to know. Let me remind you that he is the sect master now. If we really talk about the rules, you and I will be suppressed by him."

Li Xuandu asked back: "Second brother, are you a rule-abiding person? Besides, if he wants to put on the posture of the sect master, it depends on whether the master is willing."

Zhang Haishi seemed to have anticipated the words of this junior brother, and even skipped the step of being choked, and directly knocked Li Xuandu on the head with a chestnut - this was his intention to let Li Xuandu sit down to talk, otherwise, considering the height of the two, it would be really difficult to knock.

Then he said: "I hit you not because you said something wrong, but because you didn't take my words to heart and used your stupid 'borrowing power method'. I told you a long time ago that this is a crooked way, and you will suffer the consequences sooner or later."

Li Xuandu smiled bitterly: "But if you don't use it, you may not be able to see me."

After hearing this, Zhang Haishi couldn't help but sigh: "Let's not talk about this. I just want to remind you that if you want to go home to see the old man, it's best to choose the beginning of next spring. At that time, the third brother will go to the capital and will not be at home."

Li Xuandu got up from the tree stump and clasped his fists and said: "Thank you for your advice, senior brother."