In the western part of Jingzhou, on the Mingtuo River flowing eastward from Shuzhou, a seemingly inconspicuous merchant ship is flowing down the river.

A small boat hiding in the reed marsh by the river, a young water thief took back his head and said excitedly to the old water thief who was napping in the cabin: "I finally encountered a merchant ship that was alone and did not hang the flag of the escort shop. Our Jiulong Village can finally be eaten today. Go out and follow us quickly and prepare to report the fireworks. I just don't know if the things on it are valuable? If you can have a thousand taels of silver, we will be here for five days. I also saw a beautiful girl sitting at the stern of the boat. I'm going to fight to the death this time!"

"Really? Don't take a look at it. There are not many merchant ships at this time." Lao Shuitao yawned and lazily poked his body out to take a look, but when he saw it, he suddenly shrank back as if he was bitten by a snake. His eyes widened, and he was so scared.

"What's wrong? Was he stung by a water bee?" The young water thief looked strange and was still holding the oars to go out. Before he could reach the oars into the water, the old water thief jumped up and slapped the oars and slapped him on the head.

"What's wrong?" The young water thief screamed in pain when he was photographed.

"What else? Have you seen clearly what ship it is?"

"What ship? There is no mark and no flag on it. How do I know what kind of ship it is?"

"That's the Tang family's ship! You dare to go out, don't take me with you if you want to die."

"Tang Family's ship?" When he heard this name, the young water thief was stunned. He thought that he almost chased out just now. Thinking of the beautiful girl on the stern of the boat, thinking of the rumors about this family in the world, his whole body was as cold as if he had fallen into an ice cave. However, there was a heat between his legs, and he was so scared that he was so scared that he peed.

On the merchant ship gradually faded away from a distance, Tang Qingxiao, who was sitting at the stern of the boat, glanced at the slightly turbulent reeds. Even amid the sound of the rushing water, the little movements on the other side could not be hidden from his ears. He felt the peeping eyes just now very clear, but he didn't care. In this Mingtuo River water, even if they borrowed the ten thousand courage of those thieves, they would not dare to move the Tang family's ship.

"It will be here in one day. You can get off the boat and walk for another one day to reach Hongjing County."

The fat second-yester Tang was dressed as a merchant. With his face that was almost always smiling, he looked like a businessman. He walked over staggeringly and sat down next to Tang Qingxiao, took the cover of tea on the coffee table and took a sip.

"Uncle Er's injury has not healed yet, right? Why are you going to accompany us to travel far this time?" Tang Qing chuckled and looked at Mr. Tang. The injuries he suffered from last time on several Tiangong-level mechanical beasts were far from healed, and even his actions seemed to be hindered.

Mr. Tang shook his head and smiled and said, "What is the responsibility? This time it is related to the Yingwei and the Nangong family. I am responsible for your second uncle. Of course, I have the responsibility to do it."

"You are afraid you can't fight with others like this, right?"

"Of course not, but it doesn't matter. This time we just went to see it. The old man said, let's just go to see it." Mr. Tang said very easily, paused, and added. "It's the same as your brother's last mission, just take a look."

"My second uncle means I want to remember, can't I act rashly?" Tang Qing laughed and said, "I didn't move. He just put his hand on the wooden box beside him. Even through the layer of wooden box, he could feel the resonance of the blood.

"Xiao Sier. Don't think too much." Mr. Tang said in a pun, then sighed with a rare sigh.

Tang Qing chuckled and silent for a moment, and asked, "Then why do you have to bring me with you again?"

"Because maybe you need to take action. Although it is not very likely, there are some." Mr. Tang shrugged and smiled. "Brother II will rely on you to protect him at that time."

"Then why do you have to take her with you again?" Tang Qingxiao waved her head gently towards the bow of the boat and glanced at it. Although there was no one there.

"There is news that Nangong Wuji rushed there urgently, and his behavior was a little abnormal. Take your wife with him, maybe you can have a relationship at that time."

"When necessary, it's a bargaining chip, right?" Tang Qing chuckled and said lightly.

"I said you can't just take your uninformed wife out for a trip to enjoy the fun?"

"Because this is not the case." Tang Qing chuckled and answered calmly.

Both of them stopped talking, and for a moment they heard the sound of water flowing. In between, two screams of water birds sounded from far and near, and the bow of the boat was silent.

"Do you know why we are like this?" Mr. Tang suddenly said.

"What?" Tang Qingxiao didn't understand what Tang Erye meant for a while.

"I mean, do you know why we have to work so hard? We have to work hard to make every Tang family train so hard since childhood, we have to do whatever we can, and we have to make every man in the martial arts world tremble when he hears our name?" Tang Erye still smiled, but there was no hint of happiness in his words. "Do you really think we are just for the reputation of our Tang family? How old are you? Still believe in this?"

Tang Qingxiao didn't say anything. After a moment of silence, he still said, "Why is the second uncle?"

"It's just to survive." Mr. Tang said lightly.

"Live?" Tang Qing chuckled and seemed a little surprised at the answer.

"Yes, live longer, it's that simple."

"There is no dynasty in the world that has a thousand-year-old family. Do you know why? Because people's hearts will gather together and disperse. No matter which dynasty, the Five Elements Sect, the Confucian clan of the previous dynasty, no matter how great it was, it was just time to lose. People's hearts gather together because of what they believe in, but sooner or later they will decline because those things are invisible and intangible. When people no longer believe in that, dynasty, sect, or Taoist dynasty, they will disperse like that."

"But this is different." Tang Erye reached out and pointed Tang Qing's wrist. "The blood left in your body will not change. Whether you believe it or not, you are all born to your parents, and you have relatives connected to your bloodline. So the dynasty will disperse and the sect will be destroyed. The family has been passed down. People always have to be united to survive. Look at the Zhang family in Longhu Mountain, the Nangong family in Yuzhou, and our Tang family. How long has the three largest families in the world been passed down? How strong are they? There are so many aristocratic families in the world, even if they have ups and downs, they will always be the most fundamental part of the world. Because only the blood connection is the most solid and fundamental."

"The Zhang family had a leader who founded a sect and established sects. He inherited the incense in the name of the Taoist sect. The Nangong family has always held the thighs of the court throughout the years, and this dynasty directly shared the honor and disgrace with the royal family. But what about our Tang family? What does our Tang family have? We have nothing. When our ancestors first established themselves in Shuzhou, it was the most powerful lion division in the world. To the west was the strongest lion division in Xidi, and to the south were the Yunzhou Zhudong, which was the most demonic man. We can only survive by relying on ourselves. So we must become stronger. We must be ruthless. We must be ruthless. When we can kill our opponents, we must never let him live. When we can make people die as miserable as they are. It can make people say how scared they are when they are. Just like the bright patterns on the poisonous spider, the real reason for fearing others. In fact, it is just because he wants to survive."

Tang Qing chuckled and sat silently. The river wind blew his loose hair and clothes, as if he was about to fly away by the wind.

"I know you have always been unable to see your brother's death. But I just want to say that it is not just you who are sad. But we still have to live, so we still have to do whatever we should do, do you understand?"

After a while, Tang Qing chuckled and nodded slowly: "I understand."

"Just understand. Every Tang family member should understand this." Tang Erye nodded, and then pointed out the position of the bow of the boat with his eyes. "You should have more snacks for the little wife who has not passed the door. After all, you still have to spend your whole life together. Don't make a fuss like strangers. Speaking of which, the girl from the He family is also good, even if she is not smart, but she is not very smart. She is so beautiful. Do you know how many people among the young children envy you? More importantly, the daughter of Nangong Wuyan and He Jinzhi. No matter where they are placed, they will always be a very important bargaining chip. Do you think so?"

"Yes." Tang Qingxiao finally smiled, smiling coldly and sharply as if it were a knife.

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The Pure Land Zen Temple is the world's number one Buddhist sect and the world's number one temple.

Since the founding of Dagan, because many people in the royal family Zhao family believed in Buddhism, the Pure Land Zen Temple was also taken care of, and there were continuous rewards such as land. For more than a hundred years, not only branches and temples were spread all over the world, but the temple has been expanded to be extremely magnificent, and the entire temple is endless. The main hall is extremely majestic and vast, the statues of Bodhisattvas are indescribable, and the monks' houses are countless. Some believers have been worshiping for several months but have not been able to get a glimpse of the whole picture.

Among this town-like building complex, the most eye-catching thing is the ten-sided Glazed Pure World Relic Pagoda located in the center. This pagoda has 108 floors, 108 feet high, and it took more than a hundred years to build it. All the whole body is inlaid with glass crystals, and the scriptures are engraved with scriptures. In the pagoda, monks recite mantras day and night, or sit quietly to meditate on Buddhism. Each floor also worships the relics of monks of all generations. The pagoda is surrounded by Buddha light, and the light shines for miles away. I don’t know how many devout believers come to worship every day and night, and kneel down from the entrance of the temple to the bottom of the pagoda.

At that time, the three Buddhist sects of Zen, and Pure Land were combined into the Pure Land Zen Temple. The opportunity to achieve this ten directions of glazed Pure World Relics Tower, the entire Pure Land Zen Temple can be said to be made of this glazed tower. This glazed tower is not just a symbolic pagoda, but also a treasure of the Buddhist temple today, subduing demons and demons to suppress all heretics. Over the past few hundred years, countless monks have practiced Buddhism and practiced supernatural powers, and all the monsters and ghosts sent in after being captured were suppressed and refined.

The most famous Buddhist treasure in the world was when Xidi entered the Central Plains seven years ago. At that time, the three states of the Central Plains were in ruins, and only the Pure Land Zen Temple was a pure land, which accommodated millions of refugees, relying on the achievements of the Pure World Glass Tower. The then host, Abbot Rong Guang, brought three old monks with the highest cultivation level into the pagoda together, burning his soul and body with the golden lotus and purifying fire, and urging the Buddha light of the Pure World Tower to cover the radius of fifty miles. In this range of Buddha light, not only Xidi Shaman's witchcraft was completely invalid, but even the most fierce Xidi barbarians felt tired, their hands and feet were sore and weak, and they were easily killed. That is, after this battle, the Buddhist sect, which has always been gentle but not very involved in the disputes in the world, began to have a vague momentum of Taoism led by Zhengyidao.

At the third hour, although the square under the Relic Tower was still clearly visible by the faint Buddha light, it was empty and silence.

This is not the case in normal days. Believers will pray under the pagoda day and night. However, the monks in the Pure Land Zen Temple invited all the believers in the square after nightfall, and no one was allowed to approach. At this moment, there was only one old monk standing in the square, looking at this huge building that was already a Buddhist symbol.

The old monk had white hair and wrinkles on his face, and was wearing a cassock on the well railing. He was Master Huiguang, the abbot of the Pure Land Zen Temple, and he could be said to be the first person in Buddhism today. However, at this moment, no one was with him, and he was standing here alone. He looked up at the relics tower without blinking.

The Buddha light in the sari pagoda is hazy, faintly but as if it has substance and life. In this night, the Pure Land Zen Temple is illuminated like a Buddhist land far away from the world.

Suddenly, the Buddha's light seemed to disappear for a moment. For a moment, this world covered by pure white Buddha's light seemed to disappear suddenly. However, it immediately returned to its original state, and the interval between the two was shorter than in the blink of an eye. Even those believers would only think that they were dazzled for a moment.

However, this change was completely different in the eyes of monks like Master Huiguang. He could feel that the Buddha light that lit up again after disappearing for a very short time was already fundamentally different from the one before. If it was a vast and continuous ocean before, it was just a pool of still water that deliberately stirred up waves, and it was already a rootless tree without roots.

Master Huiguang did not show any surprise at this change, but seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. He walked quickly through the silent and unmanned square and came to the entrance under the tower.

Just as they arrived at the entrance and exited the station, the pagoda gate had just been opened, and an old monk with his eyes closed walked out with the help of two middle-aged monks.

"Senior Brother Huiguang. Thank you for your hard work." Master Huiguang couldn't help sighing when he saw the old monk's closed eyes. The old monk's closed eyes were slowly sinking, as if the eyeballs below were shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"How can I do my own evil? I am obsessed with cause and effect but I missed the opportunity of cause and effect. This is a retribution. My cultivation is shallow, and this pair of wisdom that has been lost in the ten directions has become a sin of possessing a treasure. I should have sent it back to my Buddha's seat." The blind-eyed old monk did not seem at all depressed. "Your brother Huiguang, don't act like a child, you have no chance of turning back when this path begins. At this time, the 388 billion Tripitaka's achievements have finally been completed. The act of shining Buddhism and revitalizing humanity that the ancestors of all generations have begun."

"Is Senior Brother Huiguang going to set off now? I have already been sentenced to destroy the catastrophe, destroy the difficulty, destroy the appearance, destroy the color for a long time, and I can go with my senior brother immediately."

"What are you doing with so many people? Do you really treat this as a battle between the martial arts sects? You just go to pick up a donor and help the ten directions to settle a period of cause and effect. I can just go and go back quickly, and it's more convenient."

"But your eyes, brother"

"If you have the treasure with you, what's the harm of the six consciousnesses?" The blind-eyed old monk shook away the two monks who were supporting him and began to walk slowly alone. "But you have to take care of yourself in the mountain gate. If Junior Brother Xuguang and others ask, you will say that I am just walking alone and don't need to pull you in. As for those hawks and dogs in the Tian family, you must also keep a steady step, don't let them see the truth. If they ask, they say that we will definitely do what we promised them, and as for the intermediate process, they don't need to pay attention to it."

Amid the slow voices, the figure of the blind-eyed old monk was gone. He took a slow step and was dozens of feet away. In between these words, he had disappeared from Master Huiguang's vision.

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In the continuous green mountains in Jingbei, two old men were walking slowly on a path that was stepped on by a hunter and woodcutter.

An old man was wearing a shabby Taoist robe, with a Taoist crown that was no longer big on his head, and his hair was also messy, but he was an old Taoist priest who described Luotuo. Another old man had a thin figure and was wearing ordinary cloth clothes and shoes. He seemed to be no different from an ordinary country old man. His left sleeve, which was hanging beside him, was empty, and it turned out that his left arm had been broken shoulder-to-shoulder. In addition, he had a wooden stick around his waist, which was a bit like a beggar's dog-beating stick, and it seemed like a branch that was pulled by a sheep and ox.

"I said, you, an old man, for no reason, remembered what to do in Jingzhou? You even wanted to call me together? The first man in Jingzhou had too many noses and smelled too smelly. I never liked it." The one-armed old man asked the old man beside him a little dissatisfied with his face.

"Ha, you're just wandering around and doing nothing, so what if you're accompanying me to see the excitement? Haven't you heard that Zhang Yuhong, the real person who subdued the demons of the Heavenly Master, just killed a thousand-year-old demon snake not long ago and was exhibited in a county town there. How many years have you not seen such a big monster in the past? I'll go and see the excitement and have a long experience. I can't think of some way to get two demon snake armor pieces, and I can brag about it in the future."

The old Taoist priest said while holding the gray beard on his lips with his hands, looking a little proud. The one-armed old man looked disdainful: "Hmph, I think it's a terrible lively. The Tianshi's sects are used to confusing the public and bluffing, and putting out a snake demon corpse with such a big fantasy, maybe to cover up the ugly things behind it. However, that boy Zhang Yuhong is really good. He is the only person who can show off in the past few decades. He is just too stubborn. He is still not cheated by his fellow disciples. He is lucky."

"That's right." The old Taoist laughed. "Wouldn't it be a pity for such an outstanding person to go and see him before he was cheated to death?"

"You old man is so unscrupulous. Also, you ask me to accompany you to watch the fun, but you don't buy meat or prepare it. You still walk with you like this to make time. If I were to go alone, it would have arrived long ago."

"Oh, you said that I haven't eaten meat these days, and my mouth has faded out of the birds." The old Taoist looked around. "But what I met along the way were all small birds and beasts that were kind-hearted at first glance, so it was hard to kill them and fill them with them."

"Huh? There is." The old Taoist looked up and looked at the black shadow flying past with flapping its wings in the sky. "The big bird looked like a fierce hostility, just to hit us to satisfy our cravings. Let you, the old man, see the old Taoist's newly painted flame-fire sun talisman, and roast the big bird directly, and you open your mouth and wait for the meat to fall down."

The one-armed old man also looked up and saw the black shadow flying above his head, but was stunned, and then said quickly: "Wait, this is not a bird."

This is too late. The old Taoist had already pulled out a Fu Yang hand from his sleeve and called it out. Fu Yili's hand turned into a torrent of flames and rushed into the sky. (To be continued...)
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