Fighter of the Destiny

Bai He understood what he meant, spread his wings and flew into the sky, flying towards the peak.

The wind was blowing in the courtyard, and the flowers and trees were slightly disordered. Tang Sanliu waved his hand and grabbed a few petals in the air. He walked back to the thatched cottage, looked at Huairen and said, "We are not Xiao Zhang, so we are guests, right?"

Huairen knew what he had done, but he didn't point it out. He smiled and said, "It's natural to be a guest from afar."

Tang Sanshiliu said: "Since we are guests, how can we not have tea?"

Huairen remained calm and said: "Pingxuan, serve tea."

The Nanxi Zhai disciple who had been kneeling behind her responded in a low voice, got up and walked out of the thatched cottage.

When she passed by Tang Thirty-Six, Tang Thirty-Six called her, stuffed the petals in his hand, and said softly: "Sister Pingxuan, I like to drink scented tea."

Looking at this scene, both the three Nanxi Zhai elders and the disciples couldn't help but shake their heads, thinking that it was really a young man's behavior and it was annoying.

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Even if there is ready-made boiling water, making tea will take some time, and drinking tea along with chatting will take even more time.

Just when Tang Sanshiliu was holding the cup of scented tea and chatting with the senior sister named Pingxuan about Fuchun Prefecture's sesame cakes, time was enough.

A clear crane call sounded in the sky, and accompanied by the howling wind, the white crane slowly landed in the courtyard.

When the disciples of Nanxizhai saw someone on the crane, they couldn't help but be shocked. They thought, could it be that the saint had left seclusion early?

The person riding the crane was not Xu Yourong, but a young man.

Seeing the young man, Ye Xiaolian and many Nanxi Zhai disciples prostrated themselves. Some Nanxi Zhai disciples who had never been to Hanshan or Kyoto were surprised who could ride the White Crane of the Saint. Seeing this scene and thinking about what the seniors and sisters had said before, they came to their senses and quickly knelt down and saluted.

"Meet His Majesty the Pope."

Chen Changsheng nodded, said a few words to Ye Xiaolian and the familiar Nanxi Zhai disciples, and then walked towards the thatched cottage.

Huairen and three other Nanxizhai elders had already stood up and were waiting quietly outside the thatched cottage.

Chen Changsheng said apologetically: "It's really inappropriate to come in uninvited. I'm just worried. I hope you can forgive me."

Huairen said calmly: "I think His Majesty the Pope had a misunderstanding. He thought there was civil unrest in Nanxi Zhai and was worried about the safety of the saint, so he went straight to the top of the mountain."

Chen Changsheng did think so at the beginning, but now he couldn't admit it directly.

Huairen continued: "However, Nanxi Zhai is about to announce a major event to the world. His Majesty the Pope is meeting at the right time, which adds to the glory. Thank you for coming."

Hearing these words, Tang Sanliu's heart skipped a beat, knowing that this should be the major event that Ye Xiaolian was worried about.

Chen Changsheng looked slightly calm and asked, "I wonder what's going on?"

Huairen's expression was extremely calm, as if he was telling a very ordinary thing: "Nanxi Zhai is preparing to close the fast after the New Year."

Hearing these words, Pingxuan, Yizhi and other second-generation disciples of Nanxi Zhai were slightly shaken. They looked at Huairen and wanted to say something, but in the end they did not speak.

The faces of Ye Xiaolian and other girls from Nanxi Zhai showed unwillingness, but they could not make a sound when they arrived.

Chen Changsheng was a little confused when he heard this sentence.

Isn't Xu Yourong in retreat at the Peak Cave? Who wants to join the fast?

Then he remembered a passage from Nan Tan Bieshu that he had read when he was a child.

There are three kinds of Hezhai in Nanxi Zhai.

If the ascetics in Nanxi Zhai retreat, it can be called Hezhai.

The entire Nanxi Zhai can also be called Hezhai, which has a similar meaning to the ascetic's retreat, and the word "合" is still used.

From the day of Hezhai, Nanxi Zhai no longer communicates with the outside world. The Saintess Peak prohibition formation is activated, which can be said to be isolated from the world.

"The Hezhai you are talking about...means that Nanxi Zhai will be isolated from the world?" Chen Changsheng looked into Huairen's eyes and said.

Huairen seemed unable to feel the emotion in his eyes and said calmly: "Not bad."

There was silence in the thatched cottage, and no words were spoken for a long time.

Chen Changsheng walked to the door, looked at the beautiful scenery in front of the cliff, and asked, "How long?"

Huairen walked up behind him and said softly: "Ten years."

After listening to these words, the mood of the disciples of Nanxi Zhai was as low as before, unchanged, and they obviously knew it beforehand.

"Ten years..." Chen Changsheng said to himself.

The lifespan of a cultivator is much longer than that of ordinary people. It is normal to live over two to three hundred years. Those cultivators with advanced realms can even live to be over six hundred years old or even a thousand years old.

For such a long monastic life, ten years is only a short period of time. A beauty may not grow old, and there will still be no gray hair in the world.

But being isolated from the world for ten years is still difficult for these girls in Nanxi Zhai to accept.

They could only see the clouds and mists on the Saintess Peak, but not the clouds and mists outside. They could only see the flowers and trees on the ground, but not the flowers and trees outside.

They can only see themselves and no longer be able to see anyone outside.

If you don't think about this, for Chen Changsheng, if Nanxi Zhai is united for ten years, it means that within these ten years, Li Gong will lose its strongest foreign aid.

When he was in Fengyang County, Xiao Zhang said he met a delegation from the imperial court. He couldn't figure out why, but now it finally became clear.

Who is most willing to see Nanxi Zhai live together for ten years? Of course it was his teacher Shang Xingzhou, and everyone in the Great Zhou court.

The two powerful men in the sacred realm, King Xiang and Wuxianbi, personally brought the envoys here to ensure that this matter could go smoothly.

Based on this, the fact that these three elder Taoist nuns from Nanxi Zhai suddenly ended their wanderings and returned to the mountains and forced Nanxi Zhai to join forces must have something to do with Shang Xingzhou and the court.

Thinking of this, he glanced at Hu Thirty-two and thought that such a big event happened in Nanxi Zhai, why didn't the state religion receive any news?

Hu Sanji shook his head imperceptibly and expressed with his eyes that he would check immediately.

Those are all the things that will happen later. The most important thing now is how he can convince these three masters and uncles of Nanxi Zhai to change their minds.

"Can we talk alone?" Chen Changsheng looked at Huairen and said.

Huairen said: "Everything is as your Majesty wished."

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The sun is setting.

Because the beautiful mountains in Tongjiang Mountain Tour are very high, the sun soon touched the shadows of the mountains, giving us a twilight feeling.

Chen Changsheng stood on the edge of the cliff, looking at the setting sun in the distance, silent, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Yes, it was indeed Dao Zun who sent someone to find us and then personally convinced us that we would end our wandering ahead of schedule."

Huairen stood beside him, his still young and beautiful face plated with a layer of gold by the setting sun, looking extremely dignified and holy.

"It is certainly difficult for the disciples to accept being isolated from the world, and I believe the saint would not agree, but I still insist on doing it."

Huairen turned to look at him and said calmly: "Your Majesty the Pope, you should also know that Hezhai has three meanings. Hezhai as a monk means seclusion, and Hezhai as a monk means to renounce the world. But the original meaning of Hezhai is , Nanxi Zhai and Li Gong are reunited. If I don’t want this last situation to happen, I can only choose the second option.”

Chen Changsheng said: "Nanxi Xianchuang, written by the first generation saint, once said about the last kind of Hezhai. It can be seen clearly between the lines. Although Nanxi Zhai was created by her, she still hopes for the final state religion. Being able to reunify, what Yourong and I want to do is completely in line with her ideas, what's wrong with that?"

"That happened countless years ago. Time will always change many things. Nanxi Zhai now has its own inheritance. Why should we break the inheritance and merge with the Li Palace? More importantly, if you follow the ideas of Your Majesty, you and the Holy Lady, If we continue to do this, Nanxi Zhai will most likely step into the abyss of destruction."

Huairen looked into his eyes and said calmly and firmly: "I can't just watch you and the Saint bring Nanxi Zhai into this war."