Fellow cultivators thought that Yang Zhao was in trouble because of his narrow-mindedness, and considering Yu Wuxue's face, they did not make it public, but only gloated secretly. After all, Feijian Palace had been the number one sword sect for many years, and those disciples usually looked down on others, so many sects had suffered from it.
Gu Pinglin knew the real reason, but he was tactful not to mention it. Yang Zhao was originally going to die in the Mirror Land, but now that his path was trapped and his pride was destroyed, it was impossible for him to trespass into the Mirror Land again. He was unexpectedly spared death, although living like this was not much different from dying.
Bu Shuihan remembered something: "Oh, by the way, I sent a letter before that time..."
"It's me," Gu Pinglin interrupted him, "I was a guest at the Sword King Pavilion not long ago. I was worried about the affairs of the sect, so I asked Shi Daxiu to help deliver a letter. It's just a small matter, I hope you get it."
Bu Shuihan nodded, thought for a moment and said, "Strangely enough, this man has a bad reputation, but he is actually quite nice to Miss Qi. But if they mess with the Tiancan Sect, it will always be trouble."
Gu Pinglin said: "This matter has nothing to do with the Lingxin Sect, so don't bother with it."
Bu Shuihan frowned when he heard this, and was about to say something but stopped himself.
Duan Qingming put down his wine glass and watched the boy pouring wine: "That being said, Junior Brother Gu has a close relationship with the two of them, so aren't you worried?"
"Miss Qi is the Pavilion Master's cousin. If the Pavilion Master is not worried, why should I be worried?" Gu Pinglin said, "Besides, the Sword King Pavilion is very powerful. It won't be difficult to protect them."
Duan Qingming sighed, "What a trouble."
After the banquet, Duan Qingming went back to the guest house to rest, and Gu Pinglin summoned Yan Feixiu and others to the back hall. Gan Li, Chen Qian, and Leng Xu were still in seclusion. Jiang Ruoxu had been the master of the sect in recent years and rarely participated in the meeting. Now he was in charge of the outer sect affairs and was busy. Only Chang Jinxin, Yan Feixiu, Bu Shuihan, and Jiang Wu were there, and Wan Lai was serving tea beside them.
Gu Pinglin looked at Bu Shuihan first. Bu Shuihan immediately perked up and said seriously, "I received your letter, so I went to the Six Paths Sect with Senior Brother Jiang. Junior Sister Zhang said that there is nothing wrong with their spiritual veins."
Gu Pinglin nodded to indicate that he understood and turned to Yan Feixiu.
Meeting his gaze, Yan Feixiu said, "I went back to Xuanming Sect to inquire, and Dean Zhengyangyun is indeed in seclusion, and outsiders are not allowed to disturb him."
"Senior Yun suffered a loss at the Dao Discussion Meeting, so he naturally needs to go into seclusion," Bu Shuihan was puzzled. "Why would you ask him about his purpose?"
Chang Jinxin was also puzzled: "Is there something wrong?"
"Before, Wan Lai and I went to Baitou Mountain and noticed something was wrong with the Spirit Eye. Recently, I received news that the spiritual energy in many places in the cultivation world has changed," Gu Pinglin said. "Last time I visited Master Zhan, I found that the spiritual energy of Xuanming Sect was particularly rich. I couldn't help but worry that the spiritual veins of Qianyang Mountain had changed. I heard that Master Yun was in seclusion near the Spirit Eye, so I wanted to ask."
Bu Shuihan breathed a sigh of relief: "The Earth Spirit Eye was created by the heaven and earth. It changes according to the laws of heaven and earth. It is not surprising that the spiritual energy increases and decreases..." He suddenly thought of something: "Not good, if the spiritual veins of Qianyang Mountain change, our spiritual eyes will definitely be affected."
Chang Jinxin smiled and said, "The changes in the spirit veins will not happen overnight. It will take at least a hundred years. There is no need to rush."
Yan Feixiu frowned and looked at Pinglin.
"That's right." Gu Pinglin ended the topic and turned to ask about the affairs of the sect. When he learned that everything in Xuanming Sect was normal during the time he was away, he let everyone go.
Jiang Wu, who had been silent the whole time, was the last to come. After Bu Shuihan and the others left, he walked up to Gu Pinglin and whispered, "I have informed Sect Leader Chi of the abnormal spiritual energy. Sect Leader Chi said that he would send someone to investigate secretly."
Gu Pinglin nodded: "Very good."
He just brushed it off lightly, but Jiang Wu was careful and had already noticed something was wrong: "Could it be that this was man-made and related to the ghost mentioned in the letter?"
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Coming out of the back hall, it was already dark, and Gu Pinglin went straight to the study. In the shadow of the lanterns, several disciples who were guarding stood in the corridor in an orderly manner. When they saw Gu Pinglin, they immediately saluted. Gu Pinglin walked to the door of the study, suddenly stopped, turned around and asked the disciples to leave. www.
It was pitch black in the crack of the door. When Gu Pinglin pushed it open, he was greeted by a bright pearly light. It turned out that someone had set up a barrier, but the disciples outside were unaware of it.
Someone was standing at the desk, writing with a pen.
Gu Pinglin stood at the door, looked at him and said, "Master Duan broke into the study without permission, I think he discovered something."
"With me here, why would you put important things in the study?" Duan Qingming wrote without raising his head. "I just happened to see an article called "Spiritual Heart Fu". The handwriting of the second half looked very familiar to me, so I couldn't help but copy it."
Gu Pinglin said: "It was written by an old friend. I thought the calligraphy was good, so I collected it."
Duan Qingming said: "Master Gu has treasured a piece of calligraphy for so many years. That old friend is indeed very important."
Gu Pinglin said: "It's just a piece of calligraphy, take it if you like it."
Duan Qingming continued writing: "It seems that you are not worried at all. How about it? Are you sure you can defeat me?"
Gu Pinglin shook his head: "I didn't want to defeat you..."
"I'm not that gay senior brother. I'm only interested in you, not very friendly, and I'm still very clear-headed," Duan Qingming interrupted him, picking up a pen and dipping it in ink. "Your memory was sealed, and you could have stayed away from everything, but you still chose me and took the initiative to find me. It's rare that you didn't take the opportunity to kill me. Well, of course you wouldn't do that. You wanted to defeat me fairly, so you first aroused my interest, gained my trust, and finally used my feelings to kill me."
Gu Pinglin knew that he was not being sarcastic: "I can't help it. You have almost no weaknesses."
Duan Qingming really didn't care. He calmly finished writing the last stroke and stood up: "Emotions are originally the biggest weakness of human beings. You are very smart and almost succeeded. Fortunately, that Senior Brother Duan was prepared. After all, he is Duan Qingming. How can Duan Qingming completely trust others?" He put down the pen and picked up the words to appreciate: "You want to kill me, but you have to be close to me. I can't help but get excited when I think of you like this. It's a pity that I can't witness it with my own eyes."
Gu Pinglin asked: "What do you want to say?"
"If you choose to chase me, you must do it with all your strength," Duan Qingming raised his eyes to look at him, "Even if you kill Senior Brother Duan, you will still be stuck on the path, because he is not me at all. The one you wanted to kill was always me."
Gu Pinglin said: "I didn't mean to kill you."
"Don't say you were moved by the grace of saving your life, or that you feel guilty because of Senior Brother Duan," Duan Qingming said with his narrow eyes stained with cold pearl light, "In fact, I don't mind you wanting to kill me, because that is impossible to do. Of course, I look forward to you killing me, you can just use all means to deal with me as usual, that would be fun, wouldn't it?"
Gu Pinglin was silent for a moment, then said, "You let the cultivation world become a lonely and dark place. Is it because of me that you cooperated with the Wanfa Sect?"
When it comes to "Duyin Land", the two of them openly speak out. Duan Qingming put down his words: "Not entirely, I'm just curious, when the Taoism disappears, what will happen to the cultivation world?"
Gu Pinglin walked into the door and said, "Your sword path will also perish. Only the ghost path will continue to exist. The cultivation world will be theirs. Everyone will follow the ghost path instead of you."
Duan Qingming said: "There's nothing wrong with the ghost path."
Gu Pinglin stopped in front of the table and asked: "Would you, Duan Qingming, follow them?"
Duan Qingming said nonchalantly, "Why not? Being able to exist in a place of solitary yin, which deviates from the balance of yin and yang, shows that the way of ghosts is indeed brilliant. As the saying goes, there must be a teacher among three people. People should be humble and eager to learn."
Hearing his high-sounding words, Gu Pinglin sneered.
Duan Qingming smiled instead when he saw this: "The Dao is infinite, and there is no need to be bound by the environment. The Dao is ever-changing, so we should naturally adapt to all changes. Poor your Lingxin Sect, Bu Shuihan, Chen Qian, Chang Jinxin and the others. Oh, you even accepted three disciples. If the authentic Dao disappears, what will these idiots do? By then, the cultivation world will be in chaos, and maybe they will be captured by those ghost cultivators to practice with them."
Gu Pinglin said: "So, I can only beat you once more."
"You've beaten me?" Duan Qingming said with a half-smile, "I've been indulging you, letting you think you can beat me. The Famous Wind Sword, the Creation Art... I gave you your life, how can you have the confidence to say such things?"
Gu Pinglin said: "You have become so good at talking that you don't even care about your identity. If I didn't know that you are so cunning, I would almost suspect that you were also influenced by your sweet talk."
"Then be polite," Duan Qingming said, "How does Sect Leader Gu plan to stop me? Relying on the Lingxin Sect and Li Moqing is far from enough. You can secretly contact those sects and families. Are you sure they will believe you?" Seeing that Gu Pinglin was silent, he smiled and walked out from the desk: "Or, you can try to use the same method to make me, Duan Qingming, fall in love with you, and the Sword King Pavilion will switch sides, and you will win easily."
"How do you know you can't?" Gu Pinglin suddenly sneered, "I won once, so I can win again. Duan Qingming, do you dare to bet with me?"
Duan Qingming asked: "How do we bet?"
Gu Pinglin said: "If I can stop you this time, you must immediately terminate your cooperation with Wanfamen and not interfere again."
Duan Qingming did not respond immediately, but turned to look at the flowers outside the window: "I have never heard that Sect Leader Gu also likes peonies. Are you commemorating Senior Brother Duan?"
Gu Pinglin said: "It is a means to gain trust."
Duan Qingming retracted his gaze: "If you want to gain, you must pay. How can a man as loyal and righteous as Gu Zongmen gain Duan Qingming's trust without paying anything? In the past, you were very alert when facing me, not revealing a single flaw. Now you even have no murderous intent. This is really a new experience. Rather than saying that you have gained my trust, it is better to say that I have also gained your trust. Shouldn't you be worried?"
Gu Pinglin didn't respond: "Your purpose of causing trouble for me has been achieved. When are you leaving?"
"You spared no effort to destroy the trust between me and Wanfamen, I just return a little, it's fair." Duan Qingming took the "Spiritual Heart Fu" that he had just written on the table and put it in his arms slowly, "I'm sorry, I accidentally destroyed the "Spiritual Heart Fu" that Master Gu treasured, and I specially rewrote it to apologize. My handwriting is better than that old friend's." After saying that, he smiled and bowed: "Sorry to bother you for a long time. It's night time now, I should also say goodbye."
Watching his back, Gu Pinglin waved his hand to turn the words into ashes, and couldn't help frowning.
In this new life, Duan Qingming's words and deeds have changed a lot. Thinking about how crazy he was after his death in the previous life... What happened later
In a short while, Yan Feixiu and Jiang Wu walked quickly into the study.
"Is this true?" Jiang Wu's face was full of disbelief.
"Duyin Land..." Yan Feixiu looked at the sound transmission talisman in her hand and her face turned pale. "If it is true, the cultivation world will really be in a catastrophe." She suddenly thought of something: "Duan... Why did Pavilion Master Duan do this? The cultivation world has become a Duyin Land, which is of no benefit to him and the Sword King Pavilion. Is he holding a grudge against what happened in the past?"
Gu Pinglin shook his head: "This man is no longer the former Senior Brother Duan. His actions cannot be judged by common sense. On the eighth day of the eighth month, the Wolf will eclipse the sun. We don't have much time. The most important thing right now is to stop the Wanfa Sect."
After hearing Jiang Wu mention the Ghost Dao, Yan Feixiu became more anxious: "We can't do this alone, we need to find other sects to deal with it together. Oh, why don't we let Xiaobu and Senior Brother Chang..."
"Don't let them know yet," Gu Pinglin interrupted her. Bu Shuihan values friendship and Chang Jinxin is soft-hearted. They both feel that they have known Duan Qingming for many years, which is why Gu Pinglin chose Yan Feixiu and Jiang Wu. "I have other arrangements for the two of them. We'll talk about it when the time comes."
He has always been cautious in doing things. After hearing this, Yan Feixiu gradually calmed down, nodded, and sighed: "In fact, when I returned to Xuanming Sect, I found that Master's words and deeds were quite different from usual."
Gu Pinglin understood. Zhan Renjie was ambitious and wanted to make Xuanming Sect the largest sect in the cultivation world. Back then, he cooperated with Duan family and Wei Fengshi of Demon Realm to create the sea bone pit incident, which caused huge losses to other sects and families. Now he was suppressed by Feijian Palace at the discussion meeting. It was understandable that he would fall into the trap, which was like inviting a wolf into the house. Gu Pinglin waved his hand: "There is no need to alert the enemy in Xuanming Sect. The most important thing now is to contact all parties for help. Senior Brother Jiang will leave for Liudao Sect tomorrow to ask Sect Master Chi for help."
Jiang Wu smiled bitterly and said, "Pavilion Master Duan has a special status. Because of the Penglai incident, all the sects and families are wary of the Sword King Pavilion. This time he visited the Lingxin Sect, and outsiders must have misunderstood our relationship with the Sword King Pavilion. Haven't they seen those people at the foot of the mountain? The matter of the Duyin Land is really incredible. Now if we tell others, I'm afraid no one will believe it."
Gu Pinglin said: "They will believe it."
Jiang Wu was stunned.
Gu Pinglin looked at the night outside the door and said in a slightly cold voice: "Because Jianwang Pavilion Master Duan was concerned about the friendship between us former fellow disciples, he personally delivered this important news to Lingxin Sect."