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Jingnan, Longhu Mountain, Tianshi Mansion.

Zhang Tianshi was standing in the gazebo in the backyard, watching two little boys with long hair not far away reciting Taoism scriptures.Those were his two sons, but they were concubines. According to the teaching rules, they would be sent down the mountain after they reached the age of ten. Only the legitimate sons could stay in the mountains to learn Taoism.

Even looking at his son, Zhang Tianshi's face was still so solemn and serious, and there was no emotion in his eyes, or he didn't want others to see it.With one hand behind his back and the other hanging on his waist, he held a cyan jade pendant hanging on his belt in his hand, and his slender and strong fingers slowly slid on the jade pendant.

Behind Zhang Tianshi stood four little Taoist boys, all standing there silently with their hands down.Zhang Tianshi has been in this pavilion for more than half an hour, and they have also stood here for more than half an hour, and they are no different from clay sculptures except for breathing.

The spices in the incense burner were burned to the end, a Taoist boy stepped forward lightly, cleared the embers inside, and then put in a new piece of ambergris, every movement was gentle and regular, without any mistakes, It didn't make a little extra noise, even if it was better than the servants and concubines of any aristocratic family who had been trained for a long time.They all know that a celestial master values ​​dignity and bearing the most, and the most important thing is not to see any mistakes and vulgarity. To be able to stand behind a celestial master, they don't know how much hard work it took to train.

There was a sound of footsteps coming from far and near, and a woman in a costume walked quickly.Although Zhang Tianshi must have heard the footsteps and knew who it was, the Taoist boy who was closest to him still stepped forward and said, "I want to report to Tianshi, it's Madam who is here."

Zhang Tianshi hummed lightly.Nothing.The Taoist stepped aside and said nothing more.

The woman walked quickly to the pavilion, first glanced dissatisfiedly at the two children in the distance, snorted coldly, then raised her hand and waved: "You all go down."

The four Taoist boys did not move.Still standing beside him like a clay sculpture and woodcarving, holding Fuchen in his arms.It wasn't until Zhang Tianshi waved his hand that they bowed and retreated together.

"Hmph. I haven't been back for a while, and there are more and more rules in this mountain." The woman in costume gave a dissatisfied look at Zhang Tianshi's back, and she was not polite at all.

Zhang Tianshi finally turned around and looked at the beautifully dressed woman, with no expression on his face: "Madam came to see me today, what's the matter?"

"Of course there is something to do. Zhang Yuanling, let me ask you why Hengliang's child hasn't come back yet? Did he summon Fu He to come back a few days ago? Why didn't you tell me?" The woman stared at Zhang Tianshi angrily.On her face, she could vaguely see a bit of youthfulness.But now, to cover up the wrinkles and aging on her face, the thick gouache and rouge, as well as the costumes, make her look extraordinarily weird.

Zhang Tianshi said indifferently: "He wanted to hone himself with Junior Brother Yu Hong, so he came back to tell me with a message from Fu He. This is a trivial matter, so what else is there to talk about?"

"Small matter?" The woman's voice suddenly rose a lot, and she roared angrily. "Has there ever been any trivial matter around Zhang Yuhong? You actually let Heng Liang go with him to the deep mountains of Yunzhou? It's not like you don't know how dangerous the godswood forest is, even Zhang Yuhong himself dare not say that he can come and go freely .You let Heng Liang go with you to that dangerous place? You finally got out safely. Why don't you go back to the mountain and do something outside?"

"Also, did something happen on the mountain a few days ago? I heard that you and Zhang Yuhong left others behind and hurried back, but he actually left Hengliang Boy and the others in the depths of Yunzhou where evil spirits haunt? Luckily, nothing happened, or else I would have skinned him!"

The two children who were studying in the distance finally heard the voice here, turned their heads to look at it, then packed up their books tacitly, turned and left silently.The woman's voice was heard far away, and everyone who heard it consciously pretended not to hear it, then turned around and walked quickly to a place where they could not really hear it.

Mrs. Tianshi is Zhang Tianshi's distant cousin.She was also Zhang Tianshi's senior sister.And when she was a senior sister, her father was one of the three most powerful deacons and elders in Longhu Mountain.At that time, Zhang Yuanling was still an unknown on-duty disciple in the Zhengyang Palace, he was inconspicuous except for some talents in cultivation, and his personality was also taciturn.It was also after becoming a Taoist partner with this senior sister that he got help, and then he gradually gained momentum, took a place in the mountain, and finally stood out from all the Zhang family's children to sit on the position of celestial master.It is precisely because of this that in the eyes of this wife of Tianshi, Zhang Tianshi will never be so majestic, so great, and so unfathomable in the eyes of others.And the temperament that she was spoiled and spoiled as a senior sister was not very popular. When she was in the mountains, except for a few kind elder teachers and uncles, almost no one liked her.

Such a wife of a celestial master is naturally not suitable to stay on Longhu Mountain, so not long after Zhang Tianshi ascended to the position of celestial master, the wife of a celestial master simply resigned and moved down the mountain to buy a few manors for her happy life. Only occasionally come up the mountain.However, everyone in the mountain knew that Zhang Tianshi was the most nostalgic, and even so, they always respected this lady.

Faced with his wife's sharp questioning, Zhang Tianshi looked as usual, just turned around and looked into the distance and replied indifferently: "Heng Liang has grown up now, and it's time to go outside to practice. If it is dangerous, there is no such thing as Jianghu. Is it not dangerous? He was not the only one who went there, and several nephews also went. It is necessary to experience some turmoil and see some world situations to develop talents. Junior brother Yuhong can have such a cultivation base and reputation, which is different from his early years. The experience of walking the world to slay demons and eliminate demons is inseparable. If you just hide in the mountains, or only dare to walk in Jingnan, then no matter how talented you are, you will only become a waste. I have given him enough If you use the talisman to defend yourself, there should be no serious problem."

Mrs. Tianshi stomped her feet and roared angrily: "I don't care about that much! What if there is an accident? I just want Hengliang to be safe and sound!"

"A loving mother makes many losers, you should be very careful." Zhang Tianshi didn't turn his head, he still looked into the distance, his voice was still flat, but there was a strange look in his eyes. "Where is there any real peace in this world? If you can't sharpen your mind and ability to truly be on your own, sooner or later you'll just be someone else's burden. Do you still expect others to protect him for the rest of his life?"

"Another person? You are his father!" Mrs. Tianshi was like an angry lioness, almost pounced on her and bit her.Zhang Tianshi turned around and took a look at her, the aura in his eyes immediately made her stand in place.After all, she is not a real mountain fool.Understand that the person in front of him is not really the one who needs to rely on her and her father.

"Okay, okay, okay." Mrs. Tianshi laughed angrily, and took a few steps back.Looking at the direction in which the two children were going away, his eyes were full of resentment. "I understand what you're thinking. You think my mother is hindering you. The women sent to you by the Nangong family and the Li family have already given birth to Zhang family blood for you. You have a lot of choices. Don't you?"

"Shut up!"

Zhang Tianshi shouted angrily.Mrs. Tianshi was stunned. In her memory, this was unprecedented. The man in front of her finally had an angry look on his face.Something was boiling in the depths of her eyes, something she had never seen before.

"Hengliang is my son after all, don't you understand?" Zhang Tianshi said this word by word, and the anger on his face slowly dissipated.In other words, it disappeared under that solemn and majestic face again.

Mrs. Tianshi froze in place.After a while, I slowly came back to my senses. Seeing the familiar yet unfamiliar man in front of me gasped for a few breaths, he asked again: "Then you should tell me what happened in the mountain? If there is something wrong, if you ask other people, they will never tell. Zhang Yuhong was hurriedly recalled and sent out by you this time, there must be something urgent."

Zhang Tianshi also remained silent for a while, then shook his head slowly: "Since you have returned to the vulgarity and left the mountain, madam, then you should stop asking about the matters of the teaching on the mountain..."

At this moment, a strange buzzing sound suddenly sounded.Then there were two pops, and the jade pendant hanging on Mrs. Tianshi's chest suddenly shattered.

broken at the same time.There is also the jade pendant hanging around the waist that Zhang Tianshi had been fondling before.And these two jade pendants are in the shape of a dragon and a tiger respectively.

"What...how? This dragon and tiger pendant... something happened to Hengliang!" Mrs. Tianshi looked at the fragments of the jade pendant, and the rouge on her face could not conceal the paleness of a dead person underneath. Trembling and crying.

When she raised her head again, Zhang Tianshi, who was standing here just now, was gone, only a gust of wind blew her up and made her stand unsteadily.

Just two breaths later, all the disciples of Tianshijiao who were in Longhu Mountain suddenly felt something in their bodies and looked up at the sky.The hazy golden light vaguely revealed a huge and complicated talisman array in the sky, and they could all feel that their spiritual thoughts and true qi were slightly aroused.If you are standing on a high place and have good eyesight, you can still see the two market towns in the distance below the mountain, and there is also a golden light flashing by on the Tianshi Temple.

The young disciples whispered to each other, some panicked, not knowing what the vision meant, while the older brothers or uncles explained to them that this is a dragon that is connected to the whole of Jingnan. In the Hushan Mountain Protecting Formation, the power of faith accumulated is mobilized and operated.

As for who is mobilizing, who has the right to mobilize this ability, it is naturally only the leader of the Orthodox Sect of the Supreme Ten Thousand Generations of Longhu Mountain, and Zhang Tianshi, who is worshiped by thousands of people in Jingnan.

The vision just passed by in a flash, and then a thunder light shot up from the Heavenly Master's mansion and flew straight to the north.Everyone can recognize that it is the Tianshi Yujia that Zhang Tianshi travels with, the Jin Lingtian Ma Lei's escape car that he has only seen not long ago.

There was a sound of thunder, and the flying Leitun car disappeared from its original position with a thunder explosion, and then flashed out at the same time, but it was already more than ten miles away, and the flying speed did not slow down in this flash. Slow, it turned out that Zhang Tianshi thought that he was not flying fast enough, so he used the thunder escape technique together with the carriage.This was a method that Zhang Tianshi had never used before when he came back from Wuyin Mountain.

In the blink of an eye, the golden thunder light in the sky was far away from people's sight, leaving only the rumbling thunder echoing in the sky.The disciples of the Tianshi Sect in Longhu Mountain were full of admiration, but the faces of the elders with the highest status and the deacons all looked as if they were watery, either panicked or thoughtful.

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Under the impact of the golden light, the roof of the small farmhouse was torn into countless pieces like paper. Then the golden light soared into the sky and reached the clouds, and then turned into the shape of a dragon and a tiger and swooped down. .The huge wind pressure destroyed all the surrounding houses.

But the golden hut in the center was all right, except that the roof was blown apart at the beginning, and the subsequent shocks and shocks turned into a gust of spring breeze as they approached.Just because the old Taoist, who called himself an earth spirit master, opened his hands in mid-air, countless complicated and fine cloud-patterned talismans rushed out of his hands to protect this small square inch of land.

"Hehe, what's the matter with this dragon and tiger conquest to change the sky and the earth...is it called this? Generally speaking, it's really full of momentum...Zhengyang children like to engage in these bluff things the most , I don’t know how many high-quality materials were wasted, and how many believers’ incense and vows were wasted.”

Seeing the giant golden beast descending from the sky, the earth spirit master's tone was extremely flat, and there was also a hint of disdain on his face.But Cheng Shui'er, who was hiding in the corner, was already so frightened that his feet went limp.Kneeled and sat on the ground.

Of course, she is not someone who will be intimidated by mere images. She can become an official shadow shirt guard, and she can be cultivated deliberately by Nangong Wuji.It shows that her aptitude in any aspect is the top choice, and the Bliss Heart Sutra she practiced is also one of the five magic strategies of Shuntian. Even if her frontal combat power is not strong, her realm and vision are truly first-class.Especially in terms of perception, it is far beyond ordinary people.But it is also because of this.Only then could she clearly feel that the two giant golden beasts that swooped down were not mere majestic phantoms. It also carries the laws of heaven and earth that only innate martial arts masters can induce.

Compared with the dragon and tiger formed by the golden light, the ordinary armored soldiers of the five elements are just as ridiculous as clay dolls. Cheng Shui'er has no doubt that even if he tries his best under the pounce of these two giant beasts, It will only be torn to pieces like ants in the blink of an eye.

The golden light converging into a dragon and tiger form exploded from Zhang Hengliang's body. Just when the earth spirit master stretched out his hand and was about to touch him, he suddenly let out a long cry as if he had been frightened.The dazzling golden light rushed out from his chest.

The golden light originally rushed towards the earth spirit master in front of him, but the earth spirit master seemed to have expected it.He stretched out his hand, and he pushed the surging golden light towards the sky, until it was under the clouds before it condensed into a dragon and a tiger to fight back.

The moment the golden light rushed out, Zhang Hengliang's pinched acupoints seemed to be opened at the same time. He pulled out and hurriedly retreated while reaching into his bosom to touch other talismans, but the earth spirit master just pointed at him casually. The body that was able to move just now froze again.

"...It may be somewhat useful to other people, but unfortunately in the eyes of the old Taoist, these methods are too rough. Your own cultivation base and xinxing are too bad, even if you immediately sit on the position of celestial master, you can It's impossible to control the big array of dragons and tigers, let alone these methods created by pure external forces." The earth spirit master glanced at Zhang Hengliang, who was unable to move again, and ignored it.Seeing the giant golden beast that was about to pounce on the top of his head, he raised his sleeves in the air, and the Taoist robe on his body became gorgeous and graceful in an instant, and the golden light flowed. Then he raised one hand, and the palm just supported the A giant golden tiger, with a vertical finger in the other hand forming a sword, hit the forehead of the golden dragon with one finger.

With a bang, the strong wind and vigor brought out by the dragon and tiger pounced off a layer of the surrounding ground, and countless mud, dust, sand and stones flew up, but this small house was still standing in it, and The dragon and the tiger on the roof could no longer strike at all, and the earth spirit master could completely resist these two golden beasts with just such a light palm and finger.

"Yimu Qinglong, full of vitality, just to benefit my qi." Following the voice of the earth spirit master, the golden dragon shrank rapidly like a balloon that had been poked, and turned into a thick and strong breath along his fingers. The golden light flowed into his body and disappeared.

"Gengjin White Tiger, fierce and terrifying, just for my use." The golden giant tiger kept rolling, its body shrinking rapidly, and finally turned into a golden ball the size of a soybean and fell into the palm of the Earth Spirit Master.

In just a few blinks, the earth-shattering vision was completely resolved.The earth spirit master descended from mid-air, walked up to Zhang Hengliang, who had no more blood on his face, and finally said: "The heirs of the Zhang family are really inferior in a generation." He stretched out his hand and inserted it into his chest.

This time there was no accident.The earth spirit master's hand sank into Zhang Hengliang's chest silently. There was no blood splashing everywhere, only countless tiny golden light talismans emanating from Zhang Hengliang's body, floating up like puffs of living smoke, and then All drilled into the mouth and nose of the earth spirit master.

After a few breaths, Zhang Hengliang fell to the ground with a thud.His hands and feet were completely gone, leaving no trace from the shoulders and groin, and the skin on his face seemed shriveled and shriveled as if he had aged for decades, a man in full bloom In this short period of time, the young man was left with a dry body that was less than one-third of his original body. Except for his eyes still moving slightly, it could be seen that he was still alive, and there was no life at all.

The earth spirit master closed his eyes, and although he still showed no expression, it gave the impression that a very hungry alcoholic finally drank dozens of catties of good wine.After a long while, he finally opened his eyes and nodded slowly: "Sure enough, only the blood of the Zhang family is the best supplement for this Yangshen body. Even if it is not all, it is better than all the people in this village. Human flesh and blood have a hundred times more vigor and energy, and are more capable of repairing the original power."

I don't know when, the Taoist robe on the earth spirit master returned to its original state, and the little golden sparks that had been jumping out of his body before were gone, making him look a bit more real, with a flesh and blood There is no difference in the old way.

"Then senior, why didn't you just eat this kid up and down, and what are you doing with his life?" Youyou's voice sounded, and the rattan box floated out from a corner not far away.When the vision suddenly appeared just now, I didn't know whether it was blasted by the golden light or because I was frightened. The rattan box flew to the corner at once, and only then came out under the guidance of a few silk threads.

"Of course it's still useful." The earth spirit master smiled faintly.Turning around, she looked at Cheng Shui'er not far away. "Then is this woman still useful to you?"

"Hee hee hee hee...Since I have met senior, it is useless." Fujiko replied without any hesitation. (To be continued..)