It was already midnight when he left Lingxizi's residence. Nanfeng did not go up the mountain immediately. Instead, he came to Yin Yang Square and sat down under the stone sign in front of the square.
The night wind blew, and Nanfeng felt a bone-chilling chill. Inferring the truth did not make him happy at all. Instead, it made him fearful. He desperately wanted to leave here. Taiqing Mountain was The Immortal Family Dojo, the Taiqing Ancestral Court, but this is not a pure place. At this time, the evil people in Taiqing Mountain are in power. Staying here is like being in a tiger's den and a dragon's pond. You need to be careful in everything and be on guard at all times. If you are not careful, you will be shattered to pieces.
Leaving Taiqing Mountain was easy. He didn't even need to pack his things. He could just go to Dongshan and take out the tortoise shell and hit the road.
It is very difficult to leave Taiqing Mountain. If the other party finds out that he has left the mountain, he will know that the matter has been exposed. The other party has more than 20 Zi Qi Zhenren who have cultivated above the mountain and thousands of Taoists. They can just make up any reason. If the entire sect uses all its strength to arrest him, even if he leaves Taiqing Mountain, he will be captured soon. Once you are caught, it will no longer be a honey trap and you will be beaten and tortured.
Furthermore, if they just leave like this, what will Tianqizi and others do
Judging from the time when Lingyanzi appeared, his identity was exposed not long after he entered the mountain. It is not yet known how the other party learned his identity, but the most likely possibility is that one of the people who participated in questioning him that day was the other party's informant. , Tianqizi and others don't know about this yet, so they have to try to tell Tianqizi about it. He is worried about others, and now he only believes in Tianqizi.
But Tianqizi was not in the mountain at this time, so he could only stay in the mountain and wait for Tianqizi to come back.
"Nanfeng, why are you sitting here?" A figure appeared outside the mountain gate.
If it had been half a day ago, he would have been very happy to hear this voice, but now this voice made him shudder, and he did not even dare to turn his head.
Seeing that Nanfeng had no response, Lingyanzi shouted again, "Nanfeng?"
Nanfeng turned around when he heard the sound and saw Lingyanzi walking slowly towards here from the road, wearing casual clothes and holding a cloth bag in his hand.
"Senior sister, what have you done?" Nanfeng tried his best to calm his mind, but his voice was still trembling.
"I have been dreaming about Lingjizi these days, so I went down the mountain to buy some incense and candles to burn with her." Lingyanzi replied.
Nanfeng nodded. He didn't believe Lingyanzi's words. Lingyanzi's appearance here was definitely not a coincidence. She had been looking for opportunities to get closer to him. Tonight's encounter seemed like a coincidence, but in fact it was probably someone who saw it. When he was sitting here, he notified Lingyanzi, who hurriedly went down the mountain, went around the main road, and then returned to the mountain from the main road.
"What happened? Why do you look so ugly?" Lingyanzi walked to Nanfeng and stopped.
Nanfeng lowered his head and said nothing. He was still too young. Although he could deduce the truth of the matter, he could not keep his face. He was now very afraid of Lingyanzi and did not even dare to look at her.
"What's wrong?" Lingyanzi squatted down.
Nanfeng still didn't answer, he was thinking about how to answer.
"Nanfeng?" Lingyanzi put his hand on his shoulder.
Nanfeng was frightened.
Seeing Nanfeng's strange behavior, Lingyanzi looked confused and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Nanfeng was afraid that Lingyanzi would become suspicious, so he calmed down and said, "Senior sister, can you sit with me for a while?"
Naturally, Lingyanzi would not refuse. He sat down next to Nanfeng, put the cloth bag on his knees, tilted his head and said softly, "You don't look right. What happened? Is there someone who is angry with you?"
Nanfeng did not dismount the donkey along the slope. Lingyanzi was testing him. If he made it up casually, Lingyanzi would definitely verify it. Once he found out that he was lying, he would immediately become alert.
"Senior sister, can you share some of your incense with me?" Nanfeng was quick to think, Lingyanzi had already discovered that something was not right with him. In order to prevent the other party from becoming suspicious, he had to find an excuse for himself to be depressed.
"Zi Wuwei, who do you want to pay homage to?" Lingyanzi asked.
Nanfeng shook his head.
"Your parents?" Lingyanzi asked.
Nanfeng shook his head again, "You also know that I am an orphan. I don't even know who my parents are, so how can I pay homage to them?"
"Then who do you want to pay homage to?" Lingyanzi asked.
"Benefactor." Nanfeng said. At this time, the other party already knew about his relationship with Tian Yuanzi, and at this time last year, he happened to be with Tian Yuanzi.
Lingyanzi nodded, untied the cloth bag, took out a wad of paper money and two sticks of incense candles and handed them to Nanfeng, "It's not appropriate to offer sacrifices in front of the mountain gate. Go to the edge of the forest."
Nanfeng took the paper money and walked west.
"Go over there." Lingyanzi stretched out his hand to grab Nanfeng and pursed his lips towards the east.
Nanfeng had become a frightened bird. Seeing Lingyanzi signaling to go east, he subconsciously thought of the tortoise shell hidden in the mountain.
"It's too far over there, so it's closer." Lingyanzi explained softly.
After Nanfeng nodded, he followed Lingyanzi and walked eastward, stopping at the edge of the forest. He had never brought the fire, and neither did Lingyanzi. Lingyanzi asked Nanfeng to stay here and went to borrow it himself.
Nanfeng watched Lingyanzi go north, relieved and worried. He could use the time that Lingyanzi left to figure out how to deal with it, but he was worried that Lingyanzi would go to Lingxizi to borrow the fire twister, in case Lingxizi talked too much. Lingyanzi may become suspicious.
Whatever he was afraid of, he came. Lingyanzi really went to the residence of the people in Zhikedao. He pushed the door of Lingxizi, but he didn't push it open and moved to another house.
Only then did Nanfeng look away, thinking quickly about countermeasures.
Even if you don't want to stay here, it's not advisable to leave Taiqing Mountain immediately. You have to wait for Tianqizi to come back and make long-term plans.
Although the other party knew that he knew the Taixuan Scripture, he was not in a hurry to obtain it. In order to ensure that it was foolproof, the other party worked slowly and sent Lingyanzi to deceive him with a beauty trap.
At the moment, he can only pretend to be ignorant and use his tactics to stabilize the opponent as much as possible and delay time.
To do this, you have to make the other party mistakenly think that the honey trap is effective, and getting closer to Lingyanzi is the best way to confuse the enemy.
When Lingyanzi came back after borrowing the fire stick, Nanfeng had already thought of a countermeasure. He took the fire stick, lit the incense candle, and burned it with branches.
The incense paper money turned into ashes in the fire. Nanfeng thought of his deceased master Tian Yuanzi. He and Tian Yuanzi had left Chang'an at this time last year. Without Tian Yuanzi, he would still be wandering around at this time. Tian Yuanzi not only taught His nine scriptures also left him a lot of teachings and three pieces of advice. Although he was in danger at this time and could lose his life at any time, he did not resent Tian Yuanzi. He was only grateful to Tian Yuanzi. Without this master , who would treat him as a beggar
While Nanfeng was burning the incense candles, Lingyanzi was doing the same thing not far away. Nanfeng tilted his head and saw that his heart was palpitating. Although Lingyanzi did not kill Lingjizi himself, he was an accomplice. , how hypocritical it is to burn incense and paper in memory at this time.
Lingyanzi finished burning the incense candles and came to Nanfeng, "There are many good people with short life spans in the world, but those who do evil get a longer life span. It's really unfair."
"Sister, is there a spell that can bring the dead back to life?" Nanfeng asked.
"Why do you ask this?" Lingyanzi asked.
Nan Feng shook his head and did not answer.
Lingyanzi said, "A person's fortune, wealth and longevity are controlled by the Yin Division in the Heavenly Court. Although Taoists have obtained the mysterious method, they cannot change it arbitrarily."
Nanfeng nodded, "Senior sister, is it a good thing or a bad thing to be respected by others?"
"God has a responsibility, everything has its own gains and losses, everything has its pros and cons." Lingyanzi replied.
Nanfeng nodded again. People in the world generally believe that good people are smart and bad people are stupid. In fact, the opposite is true. Most bad people are smart, because even fools cannot deceive others.
"Senior sister, will you leave Taiqing Sect in the future?" Nanfeng asked again.
"I am not a direct disciple of the headmaster. Although I have been practicing Taoism all my life, I have not learned the true and wonderful teachings. One day I will leave the mountain and become a secular person." Lingyanzi replied softly.
"I won't let you go." Nanfeng said seriously.
"Huh?" Lingyanzi tilted his head and looked sideways.
"Well, it's getting cold," Nanfeng pretended to be speechless and stood up straight, "Senior sister, let's go back to the mountain."
Lingyanzi nodded in agreement, and went north with Nanfeng back to the mountain. Nanfeng did not talk to Lingyanzi again on the way back. Those words he had said before, if Lingyanzi was an outsider, he would not understand what he was talking about, but Lingyanzi was an insider and knew who he was paying homage to, and why he asked those questions. She also understood that his seemingly gaffe-like sentence of "I won't let you go" was to teach her the scriptures above Jushan.
All of these are his tactics to delay the attack, to give Lingyanzi something to look forward to, or to be precise, to give the enemy something to look forward to.
After returning to the mountain, the two of them went back to their residences respectively. Nanfeng lay on the bed and looked at the ceiling. Although he was aware of the other party's conspiracy and began to use it as a plan, he also knew very well that the so-called plan was just a delaying tactic. He and Tianqi who supported him Zi and others do not have the strength to turn defeat into victory. In the end, he will not be able to become the leader of Taiqing. The best outcome is to save his life.
He thinks he is no match for his enemy, and the only thing he can do now is to wait for Tianqizi to come back...