Qian Yunsheng was talking to Jie Puzong when suddenly Jie Puzong received a notice from the disciples guarding the mountain on his waist badge, saying that Xuanben from outside the mountain came to ask for an audience.
Xie Puzong couldn't help being stunned and looked at Qian Yunsheng, seemingly asking him to make up his mind whether to see him or not.
Qian Yunsheng thought for a while and said: "There seems to be nothing else going on recently. Maybe he just came to inquire about the situation of the Nanman battle."
"Since he is usually kind to me, Qing Ninggu, then you should meet him. I will go to the wild vine to see how he is growing. After you have received him, you can come to me again."
"Yes!" Jie Puzong didn't dare to object. He gave a few instructions to Qian Yunsheng, bowed to Qian Yunsheng, and flew towards the main hall.
Not long after Xie Puzong flew to the Main Hall, he saw Xuanben Amitabha being led in.
Xie Puzong hurriedly bowed and said: "Master Xuanben has not been seen for several months. He seems to be in better health. This shows that the master's Buddhist teachings are profound. It is really gratifying."
Master Xuanben Amitabha said: "I see that Elder Xie's face is glowing, and it seems that he has been having a lot of happy events recently. I heard that during the battle with the Southern Barbarians, many sects suffered at the hands of the Soul Clan, but Qing Ninggu was not hurt at all. It’s astonishing.”
Jie Puzong hurriedly shouted "Hahaha" and said: "Master Xuanben is really over-praised. It just happened by chance. At that time, I just received the transfer order from Longhu Mountain. I can only say that I am blessed by my ancestors' good deeds!" "
Unexpectedly, Xuanben was uncharacteristic today, and instead said leisurely: "I'm afraid not necessarily. If it weren't for my junior brother Faru planning behind the scenes, I'm afraid Qing Ninggu might not be able to escape this disaster."
When Xie Puzong heard Xuan Ben's quiet words, it was like a thunder on the ground, which almost made him lose his composure.
Just when he subconsciously put his hand into the storage bag and pinched the large formation disk. However, he saw that Xuan Ben still looked calm and calm, as if he didn't care about his own safety at all.
This finally made him clear his mind, and he used great perseverance to remove his hand from the array plate, and said in a slightly trembling voice: "What is the master talking about? Why can't I understand it?"
Xuanben smiled slightly and took another step back, indicating that although he could take action to restrain Xie Puzong at any time, he had no intention of doing so.
He could only hear him say Amitabha: "Did Elder Jie really never doubt why I wanted to live next to your sect? Or maybe you really believed in the three sects, and I was entrusted by the three sects to come here." To protect you secretly?"
Xie Puzong cursed secretly in his heart. Although he and Qian Yunsheng had doubted Xuan Ben's motives, Xuan Ben had not expressed any reaction after such a long time. Not just him, even Qian Yunsheng had already let down his guard.
Seeing that Xuan Ben dared to take risks personally today, it meant that he must have a perfect plan. He suddenly felt a headache and said: "Why do I understand less and less what the master said?"
"I am a Taoist sect. If the master wants to find Buddhist disciples, he seems to have gone the wrong way, right?"
Xuan Ben smiled enigmatically again and said: "I have come here with sincerity, why should the elders keep people thousands of miles away? My Buddhists say that to untie a bell, you must tie the bell."
"Elder, why don't you ask the rightful owner if he welcomes me as a guest? Maybe he is in the valley and I don't know."
Jie Puzong took a deep breath and knew that since Xuan Ben was so sure and even guessed Qian Yunsheng's whereabouts, it seemed that he was not lying, but that he was definitely confident.
And judging from the fact that he still refused to take action, it seemed that he really came with some sincerity.
Seeing this situation, Xie Puzong knew that there would be no luck. He had to first activate all the sect's formations to the highest level, then invite Xuan Ben into the secret room, and then hurriedly went to find Qian Yunsheng.
I don't know what Xuanben was thinking here, but he actually allowed Xie Puzong to make all the preparations, and he stayed in the secret room quite calmly.
In this way, after waiting for three sticks of incense, a voice sighed quietly at the door: "I didn't expect that I thought I was keeping everything secret, but everything is still under the master's control!"
Xuan Ben's eyes shimmered as he looked at Qian Yunsheng's face emerging from the shadows. He nodded and said, "Junior brother has handled a huge case, but do you think you can disappear so easily?"
Qian Yunsheng's heart moved and he said in surprise: "Master is still willing to recognize me as your junior brother?"
Xuanben looked at Qian Yunsheng carefully, and once again Amitabha said: "Good deeds will be rewarded with good deeds, and evil deeds will be rewarded with evil deeds. Uncle Xideng will be able to smile with a smile on his face if he has such a legacy as his junior brother!"
Xuan Ben's two nonsense words made Qian Yunsheng even more certain that Xuan Ben knew something inside. So he sat across from Xuan Ben, frowned and said, "Why can't I feel the master's hostility at all even though I'm so close?"
Xuan Ben smiled slightly and was not in a hurry to answer Qian Yunsheng's question. Instead, he shook his head and asked, "Junior Brother, do you want to know why I am so sure that Junior Brother is in this Qing Ning Valley?"
Qian Yunsheng was most curious about this question, so he naturally nodded and said, "I would like to hear the details."
Xuan Ben sighed slightly and said: "Although junior brother and Xuan Ji are on good terms, your relationship is short-lived after all. I'm afraid what you don't know is that Xuan Ji's weapon refining likes to add a special method in the middle."
"Actually, his original intention of adding this method was just to make it easier for him to distinguish which weapons he had refined."
When Xuan Ben said this, Qian Yunsheng had already understood. He couldn't help but shake his head and smiled bitterly: "So that's how it is. It's really a secret. Master also found me through this method?"
Xuan Ben smiled slightly and said: "I didn't confirm it at first, but since I discovered the thing Xuan Ji refined from the hands of Qing Ninggu disciples, I followed the clues and found it."
When Xuan Ben said this, he stopped talking, but Qian Yunsheng didn't suddenly realize it.
He nodded, clapped his hands and said: "That's why the master built a house next to my Qing Ning Valley. Naturally, it is to confirm whether this Qing Ning Valley disciple obtained Xuanji by chance, or whether this place is my power. ”
Xuan Ben smiled slightly, took out another puppet and said, "From the perspective of others, this puppet, Junior Brother, is just made using authentic Taoist techniques."
"But the Sutra Pavilion in Leiyin Temple contains the most various ghost books. At least I saw many traces of ghost techniques on this puppet, and even a hint of my Buddhist techniques."
After speaking, he shook his head and said, "Junior brother showed a lack of qualifications when he was on the Thousand Step Ladder. I'm afraid he was hiding his clumsiness, right?"
Qian Yunsheng touched his nose and secretly wondered why he had forgotten that Xuan Ben was an elder in the Scripture Depository Pavilion, so he naturally had a mind that encompassed all things. Coupled with his careful observation, naturally this puppet-turned-ghost-puppet technique cannot escape his eyes.
However, Xuan Ben was wrong about one thing. His performance on the Thousand Steps Ladder was indeed extremely poor. But obviously now is not the time to explain this. Since Xuan Ben thinks so, let it continue to be misunderstood. The truth is not much different anyway.
Therefore, Qian Yunsheng could only smile bitterly again and asked the most important question: "Master, it is really surprising. Since you have spent so many years peeling off layers of silk and cocoons, your perseverance is astonishing. I dug it out."
"Then why has it been so long and I haven't seen anyone surrounding me in Qing Ning Valley?"
Xuan Ben chuckled, dipped his fingers in tea, wrote the two characters "Xi Lan" and said: "I'm afraid junior brother is still unfamiliar with these two characters, right?"
"But since junior brother entered my scripture-storing pavilion and stole the lower volume technique of Ten Thousand Ghosts Sect, I know whose mantle you have inherited."
Qian Yunsheng saw that Xuan Ben's answer was wrong, so he had no choice but to continue listening to Xuan Ben's words. In fact, although the word "Xi Deng" was unfamiliar to him, he had already guessed what Xuan Ben was referring to, and it was most likely the captain.
Sure enough, I heard Xuan Ben continue to speak eloquently: "Back then, Master Xideng and I and a few others had long seen that the shortcomings of Leiyin Temple were serious and they were terminally ill, so we were determined to change the current rigid situation of Leiyin Temple. .”
"The path chosen by Uncle Xideng Master is to introduce external objects to prove the inner world, and to follow the path of the true nature of the external appearance. That's why he studied the skills of the Ten Thousand Ghosts Sect. Since he rebelled from the temple, I originally thought that He has failed."
"But after I saw you steal this scroll, junior brother, I realized it again. Maybe from another aspect, he might have succeeded!"
