At Chen time, somewhere in Qianqing Palace.
Fudozi, Huang Donglai, and Sun Yixie were sitting in a room, waiting for the emperor's formal summons.
The person who facilitated this meeting was naturally Yan Danzi.
Previously, when Yan Danzi heard the words "Thirteen Dead Animals", he was undoubtedly shocked, but looking at the other person's expression and attitude, he was definitely not lying. Therefore, he did not dare to entrust him.
Even if Yan Danzi somewhat suspected that the "little path" in front of him was wrong, he couldn't make a judgment based on suspicion alone, because if he was the one who was wrong, the consequences would be disastrous.
So, after a brief thought, Yan Danzi turned back to Zhu Fu, leaned down and whispered a few words.
The general meaning is that these three boys are indeed not assassinating the king, but have something important to report. I hope your majesty can change the place to formally receive them and listen to what they have to say. .
When Zhu Fu heard this, he hesitated for a moment, and immediately felt that this matter was not trivial.
Because in the past ten years, there were only a handful of cases where Yan Danzi took the initiative to make suggestions or requests to the emperor.
On weekdays, Yandanzi ate and practiced Taoism in his residence every day. If the emperor did not summon him, he would not do any official work. But after completing the work assigned by the emperor, he He never asks for any rewards; of course, if you force him to reward him with gold, silver, treasures, etc., he will not refute your emperor's face, refuse to accept it or send it back, but will give it away as soon as he changes hands. He went to the Taoist temples in the capital and left nothing behind.
In the past ten years, there have been any moments when Yan Danzi took the initiative, that is, there were only one or two times when the harem was so haunted that he came out to destroy a few concubines. An injustice caused by fighting.
He is such a person. Before driving today, he overstepped the guarantor, defended others, and then asked the emperor to meet with these three boys of unknown origin in private. Zhu Ya must not take it lightly. .
The emperor thought at that time that the haunting today might be worse than the two previous hauntings. He was afraid that it was caused by goblins, so I had better go and listen to it. Anyway, the imperial master would not harm me.
After making up his mind, Zhu Yao agreed to Yan Danzi’s request. He ordered the Imperial Army to “invite” the three masters to the Qianqing Palace to wait while he and the Imperial Preceptor prepared. Okay, see you later.
The leader of the Forbidden Army breathed a sigh of relief after receiving the order, because the nature of the matter had changed at this point. As long as the three intruders were not guilty in the end, their fault for the unfavorable defense of the Forbidden Army would be the same. And uncovered it, of course, on the way to send these three people to Qianqing Palace, he also guarded them tightly, for fear that they would make some trouble again.
To sum up, the three of them came to the room in front of them.
"Let me say, Taoist Priest, I will see the emperor soon, how do you plan to get him to cooperate with our actions?" Sun Yixie began to chat with Fudozi while he was idle.
"Just let him issue an imperial edict that allows us to do things conveniently in the capital. How can we cooperate?" Fudozi asked.
"Isn't there a better and safer way?" Sun Yixie said.
"Oh" Fudozi could tell that Sun Yixie had some idea, "What do you mean?"
"Look," Sun Yixie continued, "Although two of the thirteen dead animals have been killed now, there are only eleven left."
"That's not right." Fudozi interrupted before he could finish his sentence. , "The monkey and the cow are not dead, or in other words, their death is only temporary."
He paused and explained, "The thirteen dead animals are extraordinary demon spirits. They are It is the opposite of the zodiac, existing between heaven and earth, immortal.
"The zodiac corresponds to the twelve earthly branches, including rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon and snake. , Wu horse, Wei sheep, Shen monkey, You rooster, Xu dog, and Hai pig, guard the endless energy of life in the world.
“The dead animals correspond to the zodiac in the ancient zodiac, including the black rat, the star ox, the wood tiger, the big fire rabbit, the longevity dragon, the quail-tailed snake, The quail fire horse, the quail-headed sheep, the solid monkey, the beam rooster, the descending dog, the crocodile pig, and the last person, or the impermanent Tai Sui."
Hearing this, Huang Donglai came from the zodiac. In the word "celestial phase", he thought of something vaguely and softly, "Oh, humans are equivalent to the constellation Ophiuchus, right?"
"What constellation" Fuzi listened to Huang Donglai's interruption. Confuse.
"Uh, it's nothing. I just remembered another Western method of dividing the zodiac and the sky. Master, please continue." Huang Dong replied.
I didn’t move and didn’t take it seriously, so I continued, “Where did I just say it? By the way, the dead sign is opposite to the zodiac sign, so the zodiac sign is the main sign, and the dead sign is the main sign of the zodiac sign. The power can last for a long time in the world, and it takes a rotation of sixty years, but the dead animals are absolutely impossible
"It stands to reason that the thirteen dead animals usually only appear in the world when the energy of a certain dynasty and a certain generation is about to expire, or Causing natural disasters or causing death. < /p>
"Of course, this does not mean that the dead animals will appear only when a dynasty is about to run out of energy. Sometimes, on the contrary, it is precisely because the dead animals accidentally escape the seal that the dynasty's energy will end early. "It's all over"
"Oh!" Sun Yixie broke into a cold sweat when he heard this, "Then if we fail to get them done this time, we accidentally put them away on Yandeng Slope before. Isn’t it a big responsibility to run?”
“It’s yours, not ours,” Huang Donglai choked out.
“Didn’t you also fall down that day with Mao?” Sun Yixie immediately started to quibble out of instinct.
"You turned around and suddenly hit a row of teammates with a wild axe. Can I avoid it?" Huang Donglai scolded. >"Hmph" Sun Yixie knew he was in the wrong, so he snorted and quickly changed the subject.Trying to share the blame, "Hey, you said that the guy who drove away the corpses, that guy named Liang, is also a bit responsible. Who would have thought that he could transport such an important thing alone? It's too unreliable."
“Hey, you don’t know something about this.” Fudozi continued at this time, “The more dangerous things are transported, the more you have to do the same as ordinary corpse removal, which is not easy. "I'm being targeted."
"Hmm" Sun Yixie raised his eyebrows, "That means the exterminators have also transported many similar dangerous goods in addition to dead animals."
"That's right." Fudozi replied in a taken-for-granted tone, "This corpse exorcism has been undertaking this mission since ancient times
"Except for dead animals, this There are many evil things in the world that you don't know about and are indelible. If these things are released or obtained by some evil cultivators or even mortals, they will cause consequences that are difficult to deal with, so they can only be sealed.
“But there are many things among them that cannot be sealed within the Tao Gate, because if they are placed in a place with too much spiritual energy, they may become stronger and stronger and escape on their own.
“Therefore, the matter of hiding these things in the world and constantly “sealing” and “transferring them” is the responsibility of generations of colleagues from the Corpse Exorcist Sect who have expertise in this field.
"Basically, they have to move some things once every sixty years at most. After all, the world changes so fast. No place is safe forever. Even some mountain gates hidden by magic can be moved. It’s possible to discover it.”
After hearing Fudozi’s explanation, Huang Donglai was surprised and said, “Holy crap, could it be that the corpse driving thing is actually just their side job to cover up their efforts? This is a cover for the real mission."
"That's not it." Fuzi waved his hand, "After all, this kind of job usually only comes once every ten years or even decades, and there is no reward. Many of the Corpse Sect are worldly, and it is impossible to make a living from this."
Seeing that the two of them were talking more and more distantly, Sun Yixie, who was most responsible for the death of the dead animal, quickly brought up the topic again. He replied to what he was interrupted by Fudozi in the first place: "Okay, okay, I know Liang's situation is excusable, but now that the situation is so serious, shouldn't we do things more carefully?" "
"What kind of comprehensive method?" Fudozi asked.
Sun Yixie replied without thinking, "We can persuade the emperor, just tell him that the capital is in danger now. According to the common people, you might as well go to the south of the Yangtze River and pay a private visit incognito." To be considerate of the people's sentiments and avoid the limelight, leave it to us to take full responsibility. Once we have solved everything here and ensured safety, you can come back."
After hearing this, I didn't move. The usual calm expression also changed slightly. After thinking for a while, he continued, "Yixie, you are planning to change families with the emperor."
Sun Yixie knew without asking that "switching families" "Who did the other party learn this term from? So he didn't complain about it. He just replied, "No, I'll just give you an example. Don't go to Jiang."The south is fine, or let him leave the capital and go hunting in nearby provinces."
"Xia Miao" blurted out without moving.
"What?" Sun Yi Xie didn't understand.
"The emperor's family has a saying about hunting." Fudozi also took care of the illiterate person, "hunting in spring is for hunting, hunting in summer is for seedlings, hunting in autumn is for hunting, and hunting in winter is for hunting. It's summer now, so"
"Yes, yes, anything is fine. Sun Yixie was obviously not interested in learning this knowledge, "Let's just ask the emperor to seep one. It will take ten and a half months to seep, and our work here will be done." "
"You are the emperor's father! Why don't you let him have a cat?" Even Huang Donglai couldn't listen anymore. "It's the Ghost Festival soon, and the royal family is going to hold sacrifices to worship their ancestors. I know all about this, how could they leave the capital in these few days?"
"What a bastard, I might lose my life. If you bow to me with a hammer, I will bow to you next year. "He's gone," Sun Yixie said unconvinced.
Just when Brother Sun's tone was getting higher and higher.
A light cough of "Uh-huh" interrupted their conversation. Conversation.
It turned out that the old manager who used Boundless Sea came to their place when they were chatting enthusiastically about topics such as "being the emperor's father" and "cursing the emperor's death". At the door of the room.
Obviously, the old manager had heard all their rebellious remarks dozens of meters away, but at the moment he could only pretend that he was old and deaf and didn't hear anything.
"Three of you, please come from the Holy One"
After a while, the three people came to Zhu Fu
"Grandfather Sun Yixie"
"Caomin Huang Donglai"
"Kowtow long live. "
Sun and Huang performed the ceremony of kneeling and worshiping according to the regulations, but Fudozi did not kneel. He only bowed to the emperor and said, "I am a poor Taoist, Fudozi, see you. "Exceed the Emperor".
Zhu Zhu was not angry at all, as even the two kneeling men were level; anyway, there were only Zhu Zhu, the Imperial Preceptor, He Sun, Huang, Fu Fu and others in the room at this time. These five people, the guards are all outside, and even the old manager is asked to wait outside the door, so Zhu Zhu doesn't care so much about etiquette. Besides, he also knows something about those who practice Taoism, and he knows how to deal with these people. There is no point in getting entangled in red tape.
When the three of them were standing, Yan Danzi sat down next to the emperor and said, "Xiaodao, there are many people in Fengxian Hall just now." It's difficult to speak, so I didn't mention it." He said, and gave a simple salute to the other party, "Pindao is the fifty-fifth generation inner disciple of Mount Emei, his Taoist name is Yandanzi, and he is now the Grand Master of Dazuo. , I wonder which monk you are from?"
As we said before, Yan Danzi could only be regarded as a "young disciple" of Emei before he came down the mountain, and he didn't know much about it, so the heads of other sects are specific Not everyone knows his name, and it’s normal for him to have never heard of “Fudozi”.
“Xuanqi Sect. "Fudozi replied calmly.
"Oh, you are actually"A disciple of the Xuanqi Sect" Yan Danzi's eyes widened when he heard about the Xuanqi Sect.
In the Immortal Cave in Wawu Mountain, one can reach the sky in one step to the Xuanqi Sect.
This sentence The incision that Huang Donglai reported to Xi Yanzi was not something he made up to scare people, but that their Xuanqi Sect did have such a status in the Taoist world.
Although in the Shushan area, Emei has always been invisible. It feels a bit like being the leader of the group, but a large part of the reason is because they have many disciples and their overall strength is strong; if you really want to talk about the upper limit of the sect and the level of the top combat power, Xuanqi Sect may not be lower than Emei.
Therefore, when Yan Danzi heard that the other party was from Xuanqi Sect, he couldn't help but think highly of him. At the same time, he seemed to understand why this "little man" had such an arrogant attitude before.
However, Fudozi’s next words immediately refreshed Yandanzi’s understanding: “I am not a disciple, I am the leader. "
As soon as he said this, the Imperial Master stood up
"You" Yan Danzi really didn't believe it this time, "Xiaodao, this is not a joke. ”
“I know you don’t believe it. "Fudozi said, and took out a small pot from his arms, and threw it towards Yandanzi lightly with a wave of his hand, "Take it, it doesn't matter if the elders feel sorry for you, thank you for speaking for us before. No matter what, it counts as your destiny. "
On the other side, as soon as the magic weapon touched Yan Danzi's hand, the latter's expression changed drastically, and he suddenly realized that the person in front of him was not really "Xiao Dao", but "Senior".< /p>
"Thank you, senior." After Yandanzi put away the small pot, he bowed respectfully at 90 degrees and saluted Fudozi.
"Well, let's talk now. Now we can talk about business," Fudozi said.
"Yes, yes. "Yan Danzi said, and he couldn't help but make a "please" gesture, pointing to the seat where he was just now, "How about you sit down and say"
"Hey, hey" Zhu Yao couldn't understand it at the moment. He raised his hand and poked Yan Danzi's back, called him closer, and whispered, "Master, you are here." He looked away and looked away. He didn't move at all, and then said, "You are so polite."
Yan Danzi was not embarrassed at all, and replied confidently, "Your Majesty, you don't know something about this. According to this person's In terms of seniority and ability, I am no longer polite. If I were really polite, I would have to kowtow to him now. "
When Zhu Zhu heard this, he was a little angry and laughed. The national teacher he trusted and respected so much was not as capable as the "little Taoist" in front of him
" "Speaking of the Imperial Master." Zhu Qi did not meet Yan Danzi, and did not pretend to say "I". He just said in a very down-to-earth tone, "Then if you want to say this, you, as the Imperial Master, might as well not Let him take the seat."
"Oh, Your Majesty, I don't want to give this position to anyone else. Yandanzi also told the truth, "Exalted people like Master Fudozi are generally unwilling to come down from the mountain to get involved in the affairs of the mortal world like us. Only when a big monster appears in the world and the country is destroyed will the species be destroyed."When a disaster strikes, they will come down from the mountain to help. "
Zhu Fu turned green when he said that. At that time, he thought to himself, "What do you think of the years that I have been in office? Not to mention comparing myself to the sages of ancient times, I can still be regarded as the ruler of the people." Anwufu, how come you are facing the imminent end of the country?"
"Your Majesty, there is no need to panic. "At this moment, Fudozi had already understood Zhu Zhu's thoughts, so he clasped his fists and said, "The disaster mentioned by the Imperial Master can be avoided. As long as Pindao makes enough preparations before the Ghost Festival, things will turn around. "tercss"cear",,