"Fart! There is nothing around this high platform. When you fly down, you have nowhere to use your strength. You are actually using this matter of death and no life as a test. Doesn't the state religion have any intention of selecting a new saint?" After the speaker finished speaking, someone in the audience shouted angrily
"The state religion is just entertaining us!"
"What's the difference between your behavior and a cult!"
"How can there be such a method of selecting people in the world!"
There were constant shouts and curses all around. Venerable Nianhua saw that the situation was a little out of control. He closed his eyes and began to recite something. After a while, more voices reciting scriptures suddenly appeared around him, and the sound became louder and louder. Like Huang Zhong Da Lu, it is shocking. Some Jianghu people with weak internal strength could not resist such sounds and fainted on the spot.
About a quarter of an hour later, the voice suddenly stopped, and Venerable Nianhua said: "No noise is allowed within the state religion. The questions have been published. If you don't want to participate, you can leave now. Zishi is coming soon. You only have half a quarter of an hour to think about it, so please make your own decision."
The old man hesitated for a moment and then asked: "I heard that the previous state education election included martial arts, miscellaneous studies, arithmetic, stargazing, and concentration. Basically, the assessment was complex and broad, but these questions in this state education election are a bit unbelievable, Your Majesty. That’s why.”
Venerable Nianhua nodded: "Today is different from the past. The responsibilities of the saints of the state religion have changed, and the assessment standards have also changed. If you can join the state religion, you will know. You should think about how to ask the sky."
Just when everyone was thinking about whether it was possible to pass the trial, Saint Qianqiu left quietly, and with her, Du Jie from Tianjimen. And in the very far darkness, there were three people hiding in the shadows, blending into the night.
"Brother, the saint and the boy named Du have left. The direction should be the main hall of the state religion." The woman among the three said in a low voice
The man who was called the eldest brother nodded: "I'm afraid the news that the Holy One wants to inquire about is now, let's go. Don't worry about this, let's go to the National Religion Hall."
These three people were actually three soldiers sent by the little emperor. The three of them followed Saint Qianqiu and Du Jie from a distance and arrived at the main hall of the state religion.
As soon as they entered the hall, Saint Qianqiu dismissed all the others.
"Qianqiu pays homage to the Immortal Lord."
Du Jie hurried over and helped the saint up: "Saint doesn't have to be like this. Hey, although I have studied with the black and white masters for three years, I still haven't adapted to the identity of the fairy master."
Saint Qianqiu said with a smile: "The old Immortal Master was just like the Immortal Master back then. He felt that everything was like a dream, until something earth-shaking happened to him. Time was running out, so Qianqiu asked the Immortal Master to come over because he had something to tell him."
"Saint, please tell me if you have something to say."
"Immortal Master, there is news from the northwest. The great merchant Li Wenyuan is missing. This news comes from the Tianji Sect, and Zhou Li sent the fire spirit to inform you. Zhou Li also said in the letter that your group may have been followed by a cult, so I can only tell you on my behalf. The news is that someone asked Tianji Sect to help him find Li Wenyuan." Qianqiu took out a piece of paper at this time.
"What? Mr. Li was kidnapped?" Du Jie was shocked after hearing this. He took the note and read it. Li Wenyuan had met him several times, and he had a pretty good impression of the kind-looking old man. He disappeared suddenly. Was he kidnapped? "My grandpa and I also visited his house. Not to mention that it was heavily guarded, and it was definitely not accessible to some thieves. Did you disappear or was you kidnapped?"
"This matter is far from being as simple as being kidnapped. Li Wenyuan was kidnapped. Now no one in the Li family makes the decision. Several of his sons and the wives of each house have begun to plan to separate the family. The Li family is the largest in the entire northwest. Shang, his family was in chaos, and prices throughout the northwest began to shake. In the past few months, there have been many hungry riots in the northwest, and all the local grain stores, pawn shops, and silk and satin shops of the Li family were robbed. But even so, most of the sons of the Li family still don't care about their father's life and death, but Li Wenyuan's adopted son doesn't know how to contact the Tianji Sect." Saint Qianqiu sighed, and then told Du about what she knew. Jay said it again.
Du Jie looked melancholy after hearing this: "There have been wars in the northwest all year round, and the people were almost naked. When we were there, the local officials invited me to suppress the riots of hungry people. The saint may not have imagined that kind of scene. , a big soldier in the army was holding a spear against four or five unarmed hungry people, and my five hundred dragon and tiger guards were unable to take action at that time. Later, I got to know a scholar in this group of people. He was expropriated by the local government, and no one asked him to teach. He was so poor that he could only come to beg for food. He told me that if you have never been hungry, you don’t know that hunger is the most painful chronic death. All these people have already spent just one bite to eat. There is no dignity, no gender. To them, they are no better than a vicious dog in a rich man’s house.”
"Immortal Lord, do you know why Zhou Li told me this time?"
"Any secrets?"
"People who came back from the northwest just told me today that Li Wenyuan's disappearance seems to have something to do with the cult. If this is true, it is obligatory to pick immortals."
"Cult?"
"Yes, there was talk of a secret treasure in the northwest not long ago. Many martial arts people went to Burao Mountain to find out what happened, but for some reason a fight broke out. The situation was so tragic that everyone who went there died in Burao Mountain. This is too much It's unbelievable. Zhou Li used a lot of methods and finally found out that a cult seemed to have appeared in the northwest. This cult was originally on the coast of the East China Sea..." Saint Qianqiu was talking when she suddenly heard three clapping sounds from outside the door. .
After hearing the sound outside, Saint Qianqiu had an unexpected look on her face, and then she snorted coldly and said to herself: "It came so fast."
Without waiting for Du Jie to ask anything, Saint Qianqiu continued: "The Immortal Master will gradually know about the cult in the future. I don't have much time, so I can only tell the Immortal Master that there will be a great disaster in the northwest. It also involves the cult, which belongs to I would like to ask the Immortal Master to go to the northwest to check it out as a member of the Tianji Sect. And..."
Speaking of the latter, I saw that although Saint Qianqiu moved her mouth slightly, no sound came out, and the sound was directly transmitted into Du Jie's ears.
"What? This is..." Du Jie just asked for proof, and Saint Qianqiu immediately shook her head and told him to be silent.
"As long as you know and I know, when the Immortal Master goes to the northwest, his own life is still the most important thing, and he will leave if he can't do anything about it."
"You want me to go as a member of the Tianji Sect? Saint, there are some things I still don't understand."
"There is no time, I will send someone to help secretly. Immortal Master bids farewell. Qianqiu wishes Immortal Master to eradicate the evil cult as soon as possible and restore peace and prosperity to the world."
As soon as he finished speaking, a venerable man walked in from outside the hall. The venerable man hurriedly pulled Du Jie to the depths of the hall, and the Qianqiu Saint walked toward the outside of the hall.
There was actually a secret passage inside the National Religion Hall. The secret passage was winding and circling, like a maze. The Venerable took Du Jie for about an hour and finally walked out. After bringing Du Jie out, the Venerable returned to the secret passage without looking back. It seemed that he had returned to the national religion.
Du Jie looked up and looked around and saw that he seemed to be in a mansion. He turned over and walked out of the yard, facing the tall red walls and green tiles outside. He turned his head and saw a magnificent palace not far away standing behind him.
This is actually the palace grounds! In the main hall of the state religion, there is actually a secret passage leading directly to the hinterland of the palace. If the little emperor knew this, he would definitely have trouble sleeping and eating.
At this moment, the state religion, Saint Qianqiu, walked outside the palace gate and stood motionless in front of the palace. But there was a sudden sound of wind around them, and then three figures were thrown to the ground like sandbags. Then the other three people landed beside Saint Qianqiu.
Saint Qianqiu originally looked at them with a sneer: "There are indeed spies."
But when he saw the appearance of these three people, his eyes clearly showed anger: "Is it you three? You are so brave, you dare to come to the state religion to cause trouble."
The people on the ground, two men and one woman, were the three men who followed Saint Qianqiu to the outside of the hall to eavesdrop on the news. The three people who fell behind were Feng Wuhen, Zhen Shifang, and Xiaoyaozi who were guests in the state religion.
Sanshi looked at several people coldly and said nothing.
Next to him, Feng Wuhen asked Saint Qianqiu: "Qianqiu, do you know who they are?"
Saint Qianqiu endured it for a long time before finally calming down the anger in her heart: "Of course I know who they are, the three dogs of the cult. Rumors in the world are that they personally do the work of making living people and ghosts in the cult. They betrayed the cult a few years ago and are in the world. I disappeared without a trace, but I didn’t expect to appear here now. Let me ask you three, are you sent by a cult? Or are you sent by the emperor? "
The three men looked at each other, sneered twice, then closed their eyes, with a look of life and death, and no words.
Seeing them like this, Xiaoyaozi burst out laughing. He said to Zhen Shifang: "Old man, old madman, let's make a bet? Let's each pick someone and see who can make them speak first?"
Zhen Shifang was very interested after hearing this, but Feng Wuhen shook his head: "I give up. Your methods made the immortal masters feel numb back then. Otherwise, you wouldn't have the reputation of an old bastard. I give up, there is no need to compete, You’d better get them to tell the truth as soon as possible.”
Xiaoyaozi laughed and was no longer polite. He helped one of them up from the ground, and then said abruptly: "Look at me."
The man subconsciously looked at Xiaoyaozi's eyes, and saw that Xiaoyaozi's eyes were as absorbing as a whirlpool. The man felt like the world was spinning after just one glance. When the other two people saw this man like this, they shouted: "Brother!" Then they crawled forward, trying to stop everything.
But how could Feng Wuhen and Zhen Shifang let them get what they wanted? They kicked them aside with one kick.
Half an hour later, in the main hall of the state religion, Saint Qianqiu and the other three elders were sitting quietly. However, the three soldiers disappeared. It is not known whether they were killed or let go.
Xiaoyao's executioner twirled his beard and said, "It turns out that he was really sent by the little emperor. It seems that the emperor is still evil. He wants to find out how we hunt for immortals."
