Early in the morning of the fourth day, Xiaoxia got up just after dawn, put on her clothes and pushed the door out.

"Where are Brother Wei going so early in the morning?" Taoist Feilong asked while yawning on the bed. Those who were exploring the world were a little alert, and they would wake up if they had a little movement, not to mention that Xiao Xia did not deliberately make things lightly.

"I didn't eat much last night. I'm a little hungry. Go to dinner earlier. Fellow Daoist Feilong went with me?" Xiao Xia replied.

"Sleep a little longer, go yourself." Taoist Feilong murmured, turned over and fell asleep again. Half of his legs hung outside the bed, and a stinking smell came from his feet and shoes under the bed, which made the whole room so that there were not even a single fly or mosquito.

Xiao Xia walked quickly in the passage of the room with only a shiny light. When she arrived at the canteen, she saw two servants moving a large pot of porridge and several large cages of steaming steamed buns from the machine beast to the table next to it. The huge canteen was still empty and there were no one else.

"It's a coincidence that I came early, so I'll let me have my first taste today." Xiao Xia smiled and walked up to pick up the bowl of rice porridge and pick up steamed buns. The two servants also smiled and nodded to him: "This master got up so early."

Xiao Xia nodded with a smile, walked to a corner of the hall casually and sat down, slowly starting to eat and drink. When he drank half a bowl of porridge, another person came into the door. The man was in his early twenties and was wearing a Taoist robe. When he saw Xiao Xia sitting in the middle, his eyes lit up and said with a smile: "I thought I was the first one, but it turned out that fellow Taoist Wei Feng came earlier than me."

Xiao Xia smiled and nodded at him, then continued to drink porridge. The young Taoist walked to get the porridge buns by himself and then walked to Xiao Xia's table to sit down. He spoke with some familiar words: "Fellow Taoist Wei Feng, how did you make yesterday?"

"I have no clue yet." Xiao Xia shook her head, still having a faint smile on her face. At this time, the two servants had finished moving things and left with the machine beasts. The only two of them were left in the huge canteen. The skylight outside had not yet fully lit up, and the lights on the wall were not enough to light up the hall that was dozens of feet in radius. For a moment, a bit of gloomy and strange aura was revealed in the darkness.

In the darkness, the smile on Xiao Xia's face also disappeared, and her expressionless face seemed cold in the darkness. The voice seemed to be chilling: "Master Xiningzi, what are you doing?"

"Fellow Daoist Qingfeng, I'm here to help you..." Xiningzi's expression was a little strange. Perhaps he was a little confused and uneasy about Xiaoxia's current expression.

Xiao Xia tried hard to calm his expression, but it was indeed difficult for him to calm down. He had recognized Xiningzi a long time ago, but he had not had the opportunity to contact him until this time. And there was not much time: "Do you mean Maoshan here? Or Nangong Tong?"

"It's Mr. Nangong's meaning... He asked me to help you..."

"All the hell!" Xiao Xia could hardly help but curse. "Playboy, you can do nothing but defeat!"

"This... I just asked someone to introduce him to join the Zhengdao League, and Young Master Nangong asked me to come." Xiningzi's expression continued to be strange. He also understood that Nangong Tong might not be a capable family member, but the status of the Nangong family directly destined his status in the Zhengdao League. For a disciple like him in the Maoshan Branch, this was already something that needed to be looked up and looked up. He almost subconsciously thought that he was really a noble existence.

As early as Maoshan, Xiningzi showed the intention of joining the righteous alliance. This was an alliance that gathered disciples of aristocratic sects. In the eyes of those who were good at attracting specialists, Xiao Xia agreed casually, but he didn't take it seriously afterwards. However, he didn't expect that Xiningzi had tried to ask someone to get in, and happened to be among Xiao Xia's troops.

In fact, it’s fine, but Nangong Tong was randomly arranged to enter here.

Xiao Xia took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart, and continued to whisper: "You Guangning Temple was originally in Jingzhou, but you didn't even disguise yourself and got in. Moreover, you are not like a talisman Taoist priest who wanders around the world, and you don't know how to disguise yourself as a talisman Taoist priest. If the people in Shenji Hall are a little more wary and have a little more ruthless, you are simply seeking death by yourself."

The regular Taoist priests of famous sects are very different from those of wild Taoist priests who are mingling in the world in every move and words. It would be fine if they were deliberate to dress up, but when they walked in like Xiningzi, even the rude Feilong Taoist could see at a glance that Xiningzi's young man was "young and promising". In the eyes of the interested people in Shenjitang, the possibility of being seen through is extremely high.

Hiding is extremely dangerous, and if you are not careful, you will never be able to recover. However, it is like a joke to fall into the eyes of the princes of Nangong Tong, such a noble family. It would be fine if Xiningzi was seen through and killed, but it might be implicated on him. So this is why Xiao Xia is extremely angry. In the lurking mission in Liuzi Camp, killing such colleagues who may be exposed directly to cover up his identity has not happened.

"No wonder, Fellow Daoist Qingfeng, you haven't had contact with me these days. It was not until yesterday that he quietly sent me a message to ask me to come here this morning." Xiningzi suddenly felt a little dissatisfied. "... It's just that Mr. Nangong said that the people of Shenji Hall are flustered and focused, so that I don't have to worry about being discovered, so I didn't dress up and disguise. Now it seems that this is true. The people in the Shenji Hall are quite complicated and there are no guard against outsiders, especially the newly recruited wild Taoist priests, who gather together for a lot of time, so why be so careful..."

Xiao Xia couldn't help but frown and shook his head. Xiningzi is good at entrepreneurship and has good cultivation. He can barely be considered a talent, but there is obviously not much experience in the martial arts world. He didn't say much, just asked: "How many days have you seen here? How many Taoist priests in the local area of ​​Jingyang City?"

"...This doesn't seem to be... the ones who come in with me are from other places, and the only ones who are with you are considered to be local to Jingzhou, but it is also on the Jingzhou border, which is quite far from here."

"Then where did the local talisman Taoist priests in Jingzhou go?"

"Eh...I heard that some people were killed or injured in the previous accident?"

"Tactic Taoist priests are not rare people. Although many of them live in a place without a fixed place and wander around, there are generally two or three within a radius of a hundred miles. The news of the heavy rewards from Shenji Hall has been spread to Qingzhou, Yuzhou, Xuzhou, how can local talisman Taoist priests in Jingzhou not know? Within a radius of three or four hundred miles, there will be more than a dozen people coming, and they will be better than us. Didn't Master Zeng say that only two or three died a few days ago? What about the others?"

“Er…”

At this time, there were already people from groups of people outside the canteen. Xiao Xia glanced at it, and the relaxed smile that only happened between acquaintances and chatted with each other, and whispered: "In short, this matter is far from as simple as it seems. The Shenji Hall seems to be messy. There is danger hidden inside. Be careful yourself. If you really can't do it, just find a reason to leave. Don't contact me in the future. Do your own thing. If you don't want your help, you can't help either."

After saying this, Xiao Xia picked up half of the steamed bun and stood up and left the seat. While eating, she walked out, leaving Xiningzi sitting there alone.

Outside the canteen, the sun began to light up, and many craftsmen and technicians also began to walk out of the house. This dense and neat residential area like a chicken cage began to show lively vitality. Xiao Xia chewed the steamed buns while walking around it, but unlike the ease on the surface, his heart was solemn.

What I said to Xiningzi just now was not just to scare him. Xiao Xia could roughly judge that under the seemingly messy and negligent structure of Shenjitang, there should be an invisible shadow, like a poisonous snake lurking under the chaotic grass. If someone really inserted his feet in a random way without knowing the depth, what he got would not be just a lesson, and maybe he would be a complete death.

Also, there are more than one reason why Xiao Xia has been so cautious. He also vaguely felt that since he entered here, it seemed like there was a pair of, perhaps more than a pair of eyes, looking at him in the shadow of the closest shadow. This was the sense of crisis for people and things he had trained in the years he had walked between life and death in the Liuzi Camp. Although the hazy and slightest and almost impossible to detect, he would never be wrong.

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The fire secret medicine, which looked like a red paste, slowly flowed into the arranged thin tubes, and the talismans carved on the thin tubes lit up one after another. As the temperature gradually increased, the fire secret medicines gradually flowed faster and faster, and gradually emitted red light, and finally turned into a dazzling flying light, flowing rapidly on the stone platform covered with talismans along the guidance of the talisman array.

The stone platform is about a radius of about a meter, and dozens of large and small talismans are placed on it, forming several connected magic circles, which combine, stimulate and control the secret medicines of fire flowing out of the thin tubes. Several feet away from around, Xiao Xia, Feilong Taoist, Sanshan Taoist, and Old Man Zhang, along with Xiningzi, who was a pseudonym Guangningzi, were all watching nervously. More than ten feet away, several mechanical masters were also watching here from afar.

As the red light flowed faster and brighter, the temperature in the room became higher and higher, and the overflowing fire energy seemed to dye even the air red. Suddenly, a talisman seemed to be unable to withstand the impact of these red lights and burst out. The red light that was originally controlled by the talisman suddenly gushed out, and exploded several talismans around like a chain reaction, and then exploded into the surroundings.

At this time, a circle of talismans on the outermost side of the stone platform suddenly lit up, and thick water energy and coldness spewed out from it, and a lot of red lights that were overflowing and spraying randomly, suddenly canceled out, leaving only hissing white water vapor. Even so, some fiery red light still splashed out. The Taoist priests standing in front seemed to have been prepared, and they used the talismans they had already pinched in their hands in time. For a moment, several earth walls and water walls flashed out, blocking all the red lights that were flying out.

After a turmoil, someone used a talisman to blew a gust of wind to blow away the water vapor in the room, revealing the stone platform below. There were no traces of the fire secret medicine on it, and a large piece of the stone platform was melted. The thin tubes used to transport the fire secret medicine had long been burned without leaving any trace, so naturally none of the talismans survived.

"It's still not possible. This Fire Walk Secret Medicine is too domineering, and the fire walk elementary power it stimulates is too strong. Even the first-grade magic is difficult to control."

"It's not that I can't control it... it's just that those craftsmen require that they control it too carefully and freely, and they need to control the error of one in five hundred parts at any time... With this level of fire energy, it's like wielding a thousand-pound giant hammer to randomly hit mosquitoes and flies. If they only have to hurt but not kill them, how can it be done by talismans and spells?"

"That's not the case. If there are a few top-grade fire talismans or directly control the above-grade spells, then maybe it's OK..."

"Aren't you talking nonsense? Now almost all the masters and elders of the Tianhuo Sect of the Five Elements Sect are dead. Where can I find someone who can use the top-grade fire magic? Even if there are talismans left behind, it is something that has not been used once. Can you take out thousands of them to try it slowly?"

"I said these craftsmen are really picky. They don't understand the Dharma, but they ask people to do what they want..."

The wild Taoist priests around the stone platform were all frustrated and talked in a long way. The talismans on this table were pieced together by them all these days and racked their brains. However, they couldn't even hold on to half of the incense stick. This was just the feasibility of detecting the talismans, which was still far from practicing to the mechanism.

Several craftsmen in the distance also came over. When they heard the complaints of the Taoists, an old man in his sixties in his 60s could not help but snorted angrily: "The mechanism of our Shenji Hall is so clever. How can you jinhu Taoists understand? If it weren't for our leader Wei's unfortunate death, this firepower hub can be controlled by the power of the mechanism. How can you help me?"

This old man is the chief craftsman of the Jingzhou branch. His surname is Wei, who is in charge of all the institutions. The talisman mechanism that Xiao Xia and his friends studied is naturally also included. Now this talisman mechanism seems to have become the focus of all research and development work, and the craftsman of Wei is staring at them almost all day long.

People in the martial arts world and people in the Shenji Hall know that these craftsmen and merchants are practical and have no airs of showing off. Although this is precisely because of this, some people don’t look down on them and think they don’t have the style that big gangs should have. But for ordinary martial arts men, it is much easier to deal with them. Although the Chief Craftsman Wei has a good status, he does not have the habit of suppressing people with power. Feilong Taoist couldn’t help but refute: “Wei martial arts, don’t talk nonsense, don’t talk nonsense, this fire secret medicine was originally made by the Tianhuo Sect of the Five Elements Sect of the Taoist Sect, which is specially made of the fire-action element in the earth fire sect. It is a proper combination that is really burning mountains and boiling the sea. How can such a fierce and domineering thing be controlled by the art of mechanism?”

When Chief Craftsman Wei heard this, he became even more angry and shouted: "Ignorance Junior! Do you think I don't know about the Tianhuo Sect? When I helped the Tianhuo Sect build utensils, you are still not sure where to play with cement!"

Everyone around couldn't help but sneer, and the depressed atmosphere disappeared. Taoist Sanshan couldn't help but kindly explained to Taoist Feilong: "Fellow Daolong, don't you know. The predecessor of Shenjitang was a branch under the Qiaojin Gate of the Five Elements Sect. It's also my Taoist lineage. Judging from the age of this Wei Jiangshi, he is also an old man from the Qiaojin Gate. Compared with us who just paid to learn the Five Elements Sect, they are the real direct descendants of the Five Elements Sect."

"So that's it? There are such allusions?" Taoist Feilong suddenly turned red with a big face.

The Taoist Sanshan rubbed a few shrimps on his chin and his face was gloomy: "It is really hard for ordinary people to know about this secret of the world. I also learned about it from my friends in the Houtu Sect."

Taoist Feilong turned to Wei Jiangshi and asked, "Since you are born in the Five Elements Sect, why no one of you can use Taoist talismans? You still have to pay money to invite us?"

Chief Craftsman Wei waved his hand and looked a little embarrassed: "The past is boring. At that time, we couldn't stand the Five Elements Sect's confusion and conscience. We only knew that we could only hold on to the remaining classics of our predecessors and stood up for ourselves. Then we broke the door and made up our own way of smelting the mechanism. We were determined to use the mechanism to open one, and we naturally gave up the Taoist laws before."

The Taoist Sanshan kindly explained: "Among the Five Elements Sects, Qiaojinmen was originally the least popular and least prosperous sect. It is basically only responsible for the manufacturing and smelting of instruments. In a battle with the Demon Sect, it was attacked by the Demon Sect and almost suffered a catastrophe. It lost the most Taoist scriptures. Now the Golden Taoist Dharma is the least common among the Five Elements Sects. It is also because of this. After the Five Elements Sects split, Qiaojinmen gradually withered, and even its livelihood is difficult to maintain, and no one has studied Taoist Dharma..."

Chief Craftsman Wei interrupted with displeasure: "It's enough. What's the use of talking about the old past now? I'm still thinking about how to solve the current problem."

Everyone pulled their eyes and attention back to the half-burned stone platform. After thinking about it, Taoist Sanshan said, "The main problem is that the talisman cannot control the violent fire-turning elementary power. If the power of this fire-turning secret medicine is reduced by half, it will be much easier to control it with the talisman..."

Before the Sanshan Taoist finished speaking, Chief Craftsman Wei waved his hand and interrupted: "That's impossible. This is the lowest power under the operation requirements of the entire agency architecture. If it is reduced, it cannot even be driven by the agency, what's the purpose?"

"Is this mechanism talisman developed to drive the mechanism?" asked the Taoist Sanshan. "I thought it was used to spit out fire and hurt people."

Chief Craftsman Wei didn't say anything, and a craftsman beside him who was looking at the drawings answered casually: "Of course it's the driving mechanism, otherwise why should it control its power so fine? Ordinary organs and beasts use spiritual wood, but this time the power of the mechanism required in the new plan of our hall is too great. It's far from being driven by the spiritual wood, so it is planned to use the burning and explosion power of the secret medicine of the fire-moving secret medicine. Originally, this core fire melting mechanism would be handed over to Master Wei Se, the head of the organ hall, but unfortunately, Wei was killed by a traitor a few days ago. Now we can only settle for the second best and try to use the talisman array."

Chief craftsman Wei frowned and glanced at the craftsman. The craftsman was stunned for a moment, and noticed that he was talking too much. He kept silent with shame on his face.

The Taoist Sanshan is also an old man. It is best not to know what he shouldn't know. He coughed and talked back to the topic: "If you talk about the Fire and Taoist Dharma in the world, it will naturally be considered a Tianhuo faction. Although the person in the rudder of the Tianhuo Mountain Campaign died, the disciples of the rudders in various places should be still there? Check it carefully, maybe there are some other classics, and you may think of a solution after using it for reference."

Chief Craftsman Wei shook his head expressionlessly: "It's gone. As early as when he got the Vermilion Bird Fire five years ago, the Tianhuo Sect sent all the classics, talismans, magic weapons, etc. to the head of Tianhuo Mountain. The ultimate fire path is the long-cherished wish of those monsters for hundreds of years. Even if they don't even have their own lives as fuel, there will be any classics, talismans, etc. left. Those disciples who stayed in the branches of various places are also three-legged cats who only know how to learn about magic. We have visited a few people before, and their cultivation is worse than you."

"What if I go to invite someone from the Shenshui Palace?" Xiao Xia, who had not spoken, suddenly spoke.

"Shen Water Palace?" Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and then the Feilong Taoist immediately laughed: "Hahahaha, Brother Wei, you are wrong. The Shenshui Palace specializes in water practice and has no choice but to do with the things on fire."

"This is not necessarily true." Xiao Xia shook his head. "Water and fire are mutually restrained. If the world knows the best way to the Fire Taoist Dharma, besides the Heavenly Fire Sect, there should be only the Divine Water Palace. Moreover, from the perspective of Taoism, using fire to control fire is the right way, using water to control fire is also a way. Even if it is a bit more difficult, it might be fine if the Divine Water Palace can help."

"...Yes, Brother Wei's words make some sense." Several Taoist priests looked at each other and nodded. Although these were wild Taoist priests who had no masters, they could learn the Five Elements Taoist priests to a certain level, and their talents and minds were not bad. They also had some experience in the way of talismans.

"Is it really possible to use water to practice Taoism?" Chief Craftsman Wei looked at the expressions of the people and showed joy. "The people in the Shenshui Palace are much easier to talk to than the monsters in the Tianhuo Sect. I will report to the master and ask the Shenshui Palace to send someone to help."

After saying this, Chief Craftsman Wei and several subordinates turned around and left excitedly, leaving Xiao Xia and several other Taoist priests looking at each other in surprise.

"Eh... Brother Wei, you said something a little bad. Although the people in the Shenshui Palace are a little weird, they have always followed the "Supreme Good is Like Water" method and are famous for making good relationships. If Shenji Hall invites them, they will probably really send someone to help. If they come to solve this matter, can the money still fall on us?"

Leading by the Taoist Sanshan, the other people looked a little bad. Everyone came for a reward and pushed the matter to others in one sentence. Did everyone come here just to eat a few bowls of idle rice in Shenjitang?

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Brother, I didn't think so much for a moment. I've been speechless, I've been speechless! Please don't blame me! In fact, the people from the Divine Water Palace may not come, and even if they come, they may not be able to do this. If we work together with us, then the money should still be indispensable..."

Xiao Xia kept apologizing, smiling bitterly. He was still smiling bitterly in his heart, but the meaning was completely opposite: these fellow Taoists didn't know that if someone really came to the Divine Water Palace, then everyone might be able to get money. If they didn't come, ninety percent wouldn't come. It was because they knew the best of the best, so they would never come to this stagnant water that was so muddy that they would never come to see the bottomless stagnant water. Then let alone money, it would be good that the few people here could keep their lives. (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, the novel is better and faster!
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