Seeking Immortality

Seeing the sudden appearance of Lu Qingshang, Li Yuhan and others, the Qingxu Sect and others were a little embarrassed. After all, they were speaking ill of their leader just now, but the disciple who had been dissatisfied with Xu Qingfan just snorted. , and then turned his head to the other side.

"It turns out it's Fellow Daoist Lu and Fellow Daoist Li, do you have any advice?" Lu Ziqing asked with his hands raised. At this time, Hua Xian was seriously injured and was recuperating in Ronghua Mountain. Although he brought the incomplete Qingxu Team and merged into the Jiuhua Team, it still counts. You are the leader of Qingxu disciples, so you should speak first.

"I'm not denying it. If you say that, you must be speaking ill of my Junior Brother Xu." Lu Qingshang is still so cynical. In these years of constant fighting, Lu Qingshang is one of the few people who has not changed, at least in appearance. , as for the bottom of my heart, who knows.

Hearing what Lu Qingshang said, Lu Ziqing nodded awkwardly. After all, everyone had gathered together to fly before, and it was impossible not to hear each other's words. What's more, the disciple who was dissatisfied with Xu Qingfan also deliberately let others hear when he spoke. Not covered up.

I originally thought that Lu Qingshang would accuse something. After all, Xu Qingfan is already the pride of the entire Jiuhua. But I didn't expect that Lu Qingshang just smiled and nodded, and said slowly: "That boy Xu Qingfan is indeed hateful. You don't know that before you came, we were often scolded by him. Three of my junior brothers were scolded. He put them in solitary confinement and asked them to meditate on their mistakes. It is estimated that they will not be able to come out before the catastrophe is over. Even if I am a senior brother, one time I did not go according to his plan because of one thing, which meant that I was slow. When I was burning incense, I was still scolded by him in front of everyone, and I didn't save any face. This time, you were polite. "

Hearing what Lu Qingshang said, everyone in the Qingxu Sect didn't know how to respond. They couldn't say that Xu Qingfan was so "pleasant" this time. They should be honored, right?

Seeing the silence of everyone in Qingxu Sect, Lu Qingshang put away the playful expression on his face, and suddenly asked: "You can't stand being scolded like this, then you know that my junior brother Xu completely scolded us?" These Jiuhuamen have been scolding them for seven years, why have we never complained? "

"Isn't it because Xu Qingfan is the deacon elder of your Jiuhua? As the future elder of your Jiuhua, now that the limelight is so great and he has brought so much glory to your Jiuhua, who will resist?"

The former disciple finally turned around. a Lu Qingshang smiled slightly and said slowly: "Before you came to this team, although everyone in this team was from my Jiuhua sect, there were not only Qing generation disciples of Jiuhua like me, but also many Hua generation disciples. "Senior, will they tolerate Xu Qingfan because he is the future leader?"

The disciple was slightly startled and couldn't help but ask: "Then why?"

Lu Qingshang said slowly: "Because we all know. Junior Brother Xu did this for our lives. What he scolded and taught was just to enable us to live better. In order to do this. In order to Let us follow what he said. He would rather destroy his reputation, destroy his popularity, and make others hate him and fear him, just to allow others to survive. You also know the original character of Junior Brother Xu. He is gentle and elegant, but this kind of character makes people like him in normal times, but what about in a catastrophe? Can his character be convincing and trustworthy, so he must change and force himself to change? , although this change is not what he expected."

The disciple was slightly startled. But he said: "This is just what you understand. In my opinion, under the achievements he has made in these years, he can no longer tolerate others to defy his words."

Lu Qingshang sighed slightly, shook his head and said: "I just heard you commenting on Junior Brother Xu's actions over the years, expelling the Eight Desolate Palaces, completing all the tasks assigned by the Righteous Alliance, or cutting off the source of beast madness and killing A core member of the Liao Ming organization...but do you know how much our team sacrificed when he led us to complete these tasks?"

Seeing everyone looking at him. But his eyes were blank, knowing that everyone was only paying attention to Xu Qingfan's achievements over the years. As for the others, they were subconsciously ignored. He couldn't help but sigh slightly and said slowly: "Eleven people, including seven elders from Jiuhua and four elders from other sects who joined our team. But do you know how many casualties we have suffered in the past seven years? Twenty Six people!”

Everyone was shocked when they heard what Lu Qingshang said. In fact, in the successive battles with the Bahuang Palace and the beast mad monks over the years, the total casualties of twenty-six were not too many. For example, the Qingxu Sect, many of them had died in the past seven years. Thirty elders. But what puzzled them was, where did the casualties of the fifteen extra elders come from?

Seeing the doubts in everyone's eyes, Lu Qingshang smiled bitterly, and then said slowly: "The fifteen extra casualties were not the battle with the Bahuang Palace, nor the melee when the source of beast madness was cut off, but the The third operation of our Jiuhua team was actually not dangerous if we followed Junior Brother Xu's plan. But in fact, many of the original Jiuhua team were elders of the older generation of Jiuhua. They have high strength and rich experience, but they act on their own and do not listen to Junior Brother Xu's command at all. After the success of the first two operations, Junior Brother Xu made a fuss. They only eliminated some beast-crazy monks below the pill formation stage. What kind of plan is used?”

As he spoke, a complicated look flashed across Lu Qingshang's eyes, which seemed to be ridiculing or sad.

At that time, although beast madness began to gradually wreak havoc in the world of immortality, it actually did not attract most of the attention. Firstly, everyone had already had experience in dealing with the raging beasts. Secondly, the beastmaniac monks who wreaked havoc in the world of immortality at that time also did not attract much attention. There is no one who has reached the realm above the elixir formation stage.

But Xu Qingfan didn’t see it that way. In Xu Qingfan’s opinion, beast-crazy monks above the pill-formation stage probably existed, but those who spread beast-mania didn’t release those beast-crazy monks above the pill-formation stage for some reason. . Therefore, when Xu Qingfan was ordered to exterminate those beastly monks, he arranged for some elders to conduct detection, and also arranged for some elders not to be responsible for fighting, but to wander dozens of miles away to be on guard.

At that time, there was an elder named Lu Huajian in Xu Qingfan's team. He had always disliked Xu Qingfan, who was gradually beginning to control Jiuhua. He was even more unconvinced that Xu Qingfan, who was a generation younger than him, was allowed to lead the team. In addition, he had always been in conflict with Xu Qingfan. Gongsun Huasuo was close to him, so he followed the principle that whatever Xu Qingfan insisted on was what he opposed.

In his opinion, what they are doing now is to concentrate their maximum strength to eliminate the beast-crazed monks scattered in the world of immortality as quickly as possible, and reduce the damage caused by the beast-crazed monks to the vast land of China. Xu Qingfan's arrangement not only greatly delayed the time , it also reduces the power of destroying the beastly monks, so I firmly oppose it. Under his instigation, not to mention the elders of the older generation who were close to him, even the new generation of elders all felt that it was more enjoyable to concentrate their efforts on fighting. Anyway, those beastly monks were all here. Below the pill formation stage, as long as you are not touched by their blood or injured by them, there is no threat.

Although Xu Qingfan insisted on his opinion, his always elegant and gentle character allowed him to clearly state his reasons and make Lu Huajian irrefutable, but he could not convince others. Their respect is even more inconvenient to refute again and again.

In this way, although the team was obviously acting in accordance with Xu Qingfan's arrangements, in fact the elders responsible for detection and warning were following the team to continuously attack and kill the beastly cultivators. After doing this twice successfully, Xu Qingfan actually lost control of the team.

In the third operation, the problem that Xu Qingfan was worried about finally appeared. Dozens of beast-mad monks in the alchemy stage suddenly appeared. Unprepared, the elders of Jiuhua were killed and injured in large numbers. The scene in the melee was just like yesterday. Jiuhua No advantage at all. Later, in order to save two elders who were trapped in a tight siege, the casualties increased.

Afterwards, although all the beastly monks were finally killed, the Jiuhua Squadron paid the price of fifteen casualties. However, Xu Qingfan, as the leader of the Jiuhua Squadron, was unable to control it at all. He was not far away from the Jiuhua Battle. The distant "Xingyin Sect" team had no intention of rescue from the beginning to the end.

After the war, a total of fifteen elders were killed or injured in Jiuhua, many of whom were familiar with Xu Qingfan. In that battle, Xu Qingfan's only blood relative Ting'er and the spiritual pet Xiao Hei who had been with Xu Qingfan were also seriously injured. Moreover, the reason why this person and the beast were injured was because they were protecting Xu Qingfan...

No one can understand the pressure Xu Qingfan endured when he served as the leader of the team. Jiuhua's strength was greatly damaged, so when he led the team in action, he must do his best to protect Jiuhua's limited strength. And precisely because Jiuhua's strength was greatly damaged, in order to strive for more benefits, Xu Qingfan must lead his team to build enough achievements. These two items are themselves a contradiction, but Xu Qingfan must make this contradiction stand...

Under pressure, Xu Qingfan tried his best and was exhausted. In order to stabilize the team and unite the older generation of elders, he repeatedly compromised. Xu Qingfan believed that this was the only way to best fulfill Jiuhua's requirements for him. But after the war, Xu Qingfan was stunned when he saw the smiling faces of yesterday turned into the mutilated corpses of today, Ting'er and Xiao Hei who were unconscious and unaware of their life and death.

Or at that moment, Xu Qingfan remembered a previous debate between Liu Huaxiang and him.

If you are in the minority, but you think you are right, and face the opposing majority, what is your choice, is it to lead the minority to suppress the majority, or to choose to obey?

Xu Qingfan thought he made the right choice, but in the end he found that he was still wrong.