The stairs were creaking, and unlike the deserted Yuzhou, the Jingcheng Inn was very crowded.
When Chen He walked in, there was a child wrapped in a cotton coat. Because he couldn't stand firm, his left foot stumbled on his right, and from the last step of the stairs, he slammed onto his calf.
"… "
Shi Feng used a trick for him. At this moment, they seemed to be two ordinary middle-aged men. The child's feeling was the most acute. He stared at Chen He and suddenly let out a howl.
Then the child was hurriedly carried away by the family behind him.
Before Chen He recovered from the stiffness, he vaguely heard a soft smile.
"Senior brother." Chen He whispered awkwardly.
"Well, you often fell like this when you were young, but you never cried." Shi Feng said smoothly.
Chen He was even more embarrassed. Jindan's later cultivation was unable to suppress the redness behind his ears.
Shi Feng saw from behind, but the smirk gradually disappeared, and he also felt a little embarrassed, more of a self-loathing that could not be contained.
- He watched his younger brother grow up, but he had such delusional thoughts about Chen He.
When it spreads out, even people in the devil's way will be amazed and ridiculed.
There has never been a Taoist companion who is also a man in the comprehension world, let alone a fellow apprentice. Love is a sin, how to extricate oneself
"Senior brother, is it okay for us to live here casually?"
Chen He's words awakened Shi Feng.
Shi Feng removed the worry in his eyes and smiled slightly: "This is the capital, tomorrow will be the sixth day of the first lunar month, and in two days, the lanterns will be put on. The Shangyuan Lantern Festival will last until the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, in four counties outside the capital. The common people, all come to the lantern festival. Those who have some wealth and want to play for a few more days, if they don't come early, I'm afraid they won't be able to stay in the inn!"
In these years, there is a curfew at night, and the brilliant lights all night long can only be seen during the Yuan Festival.
"Oh!" Chen He glanced at the moving heads, and unconsciously had some expectations.
Although he is no longer a teenager, his experience is very limited.
"Treasurer, do you still have room?"
Shi Feng took something and turned it into a guide. Without it, he couldn't live in the store.
"Guest officer, I'm sorry, the upper room is gone, but there is a room with a local name on the corner of the upper west corner. It's kept clean and tidy!" The inn shopkeeper who was playing the abacus smiled.
"Just this one!" Shi Feng took out the money.
"Wait, take it, here's the key!" The shopkeeper cracked his calculations and smiled mysteriously, "If the guest officer doesn't want new bedding or hot tea or hot water, the store can give you half the price. ."
This is a very strange question. How could there be a hotel that doesn't want these, but Shi Feng nodded calmly: "It's not necessary, please trouble the shopkeeper."
"okay!"
The shopkeeper called a guy to lead them upstairs.
The guy had a respectful expression, and was not at all slighted because Shi Feng looked ordinary. He led the two of them to the front and back of the house, and rubbed his hands together and asked, "Do you want to buy news about Dabaoguo Temple and Baishan Academy? The latest."
Shi Feng threw a piece of silver over without blinking his brows.
The man was more attentive. He looked around, then closed the door, and said in a very fast voice, "This year, Dabaoguo Temple will recruit more than ten worshippers, and Baishan Academy is not short of people. Their big worship is gone. Urgently looking for a top expert. Baishan Academy recruits worship on the tenth day of the first lunar month, and Baoguo Temple is on the eighth day of the first lunar month.”
Shi Feng nodded calmly.
The guy who was going to continue selling the detailed information looked a little disappointed, but he didn't bother and went out soon.
"What is worship?" Chen He asked suspiciously.
"Dabaoguo Temple and Baishan Academy are the two forces with the most cultivators in the capital." Shi Feng walked around the room carelessly, making sure that there were no traces of magic here.
Chen He closed his mouth and looked embarrassed.
-Sure enough, he doesn't have any experience in the world. Next time, he must remember to check the house before talking.
"Shangyuan Lantern Festival, not only the common people, but also many scattered cultivators gathered in the capital. Since this is the place where Venerable Huanjian is the most powerful, and the right way is declining, only this temple and academy can be ranked first. Strength, they can only recruit offerings every year to resist the encroachment of demonic forces."
Chen He tried hard to think about it, but he still couldn't find these two names in his poor memory.
Shi Feng said: "Don't think about it, these are just two small sects."
"Um?"
"The Heluo Sect is one of the five major sects in the cultivation world. Within the sect, there are many monks in the Yuan Ying period, and the elders should at least be in the Spirit Transformation period. Among the monks in the Dabaoguo Temple, it is not bad to have a Yuan Ying period."
Chen He touched his forehead in frustration.
- He forgot that the most cultivators in the cultivation world were the monks before the Golden Core Stage.
In Heiyuan Valley, the lowest spiritual stage, forty years of small world fragments, except for the little Taoist priests who made up the number, the worst is also the Nascent Soul stage.
Invisibly, Chen He ignored the fact that outside the circle of major sects and major forces, the common situation in the world of self-cultivation is: Jindan stage can be regarded as a guest, while Yuanying stage monks are already unattainable, you can take a nose to see People, can be respected as the master of XX Patriarch.
Venerable Huanjian is very powerful, but Qin Meng, his most trusted subordinate in Yuzhou, is only a foundation-building magic cultivator.
Even if Venerable Huanjian is the number one master of the magic way, this title cannot double the strength of his subordinates. There are more masters than masters in the world, and they will always be ordinary people.
"So, these two groups of righteous monks, who are not at the Nascent Soul stage, are struggling to resist the expansion of Venerable Huanjian's power every year?" Chen He didn't know whether to show sympathy or talk about a lunatic.
- How unthinkable and ignorant it is to be able to fight with Venerable Huanjian!
Shi Feng felt another burst of laughter, and also felt a burst of sigh.
Daigo empowerment can only make Chen He understand common sense, but he has no way of knowing the complexity of this world caused by people's hearts.
"The most powerful person in the world, the Emperor of Heaven, likes to play tricks of power and balance. To him, Dabaoguo Temple, Baishan Academy, and the National Teacher are all gods and masters, but all wise emperors are not. Will only rely on one party. In this way, he can sleep well, and he will feel that people outside the world are loyal to him. The emperor likes to deceive himself like this, so everyone plays with him. Venerable Huanjian will not smash the Dabaoguo Temple, nor will he It will destroy Baishan Academy."
Everyone is tacit. Fooling the Son of Heaven is something that the cultivation world has been doing for thousands of years, and he is very familiar with it.
As for the difference between the Jindan period and the Mahayana period—
Dare to say Baishan Academy? Will Venerable Huanjian say it
Chen He nodded thoughtfully, and suddenly asked, "Senior brother, you mentioned the national teacher just now, who is that?"
"… "
Shi Feng glanced at him.
"No, it won't!"
Chen He was a little shocked. He couldn't imagine the national teacher wearing the mask of the blessing doll, and he couldn't help but ask: "Sir Huanjian drove the Qiankun Guan to the Daxue Mountain three hundred years ago, and the previous dynasty was destroyed. He did calculate that Vigorous, but three hundred years later, how can he explain to every emperor that he has been alive?"
"Blindfolding." Shi Feng didn't raise his eyes.
"… "
"In the past three hundred years of this dynasty, seventeen national teachers have been passed down, all of them dressed up by Venerable Huanjian alone."
Chen He was completely speechless and could only keep blinking.
In fact, Shi Feng still has something to say—according to the historical records of the world, half of the national teachers of this dynasty died very strangely.
This is also the practice of one emperor and one courtier. Due to the ancestral training, the title of national teacher cannot be banned, but there are many emperors who are eager to seize power, playing distance, assassinating, and giving poison!
Anyway, everyone knows how to deceive the emperor, including the abbot of Dabaoguo Temple, the mountain chief of Baishan Academy, and the emperor "gives poison" to the emperor to die, so that the emperor thinks that the world belongs to him, even "immortals" will die. Yes, hello I am hello everyone, it's really nice.
After fooling the emperor, everyone continued to pinch behind.
Historians will record the affairs of the national masters, but they will not care how many chairpersons have been changed in the temples in the capital. Anyway, the abbot of Dabaoguo Temple is just a name. Now, are you afraid of revealing your stuff
But just like Venerable Huanjian, he had let himself "die" seven times at the hands of a suspicious and violent emperor, and the eighth time was by himself! In fact, the appearance, personality and habits of the seventeen national teachers of this dynasty are different, and there are no flaws in the historical records.
"Won't he get confused?" Chen He blurted out.
Shi Feng thought about it for a while and replied, "I didn't quite understand it before, but after this acquaintance, it was a sudden realization."
Shadow puppetry is a very common folk entertainer who walks in the market with a heavy burden. All he needs is a screen, a few candles, alone, and a bamboo stick with a rope hooked. No matter men, women, or children, they can learn the voices vividly.
Venerable Huanjian, who put down the shadow puppet and took out the blindfold, who can see the flaw
"Baishan Academy and Dabaoguo Temple, although weak in strength, have deep roots in the capital, and there is no shortage of silver every year. When it comes to the amount of money, the rich are better than the Heluo School. The things they offer are also very impressive. A lot of loose cultivators come to fight for this spot."
"So we disguised as those loose cultivators who went to Beijing?" Chen He somewhat understood.
It's just that this inn is unremarkable, and the shopkeeper and the staff are ordinary people.
Shi Feng saw his doubts, and said lightly: "In the eyes of ordinary people, Dabaoguo Temple and Baishan Academy are both martial arts schools with profound inner faculties."
"… "
Oh, a martial arts master!
The favorite disguise method in the comprehension world.
"So, the shopkeeper and the guys at the Jingcheng Inn thought that they would come to Dabaoguo Temple every year to compete with the Baishan Academy in the arena and compete to be the masters of the rivers and lakes. They all meditate at night without quilts, baths, or tea?" Chen Heyue Looking back, the more strange his expression became, "So, that guy was so respectful to us after the senior brother wanted to buy news? Are we afraid that we will tear down his inn?"
"This... maybe."
When Shi Feng came to the capital, he never expected so much.
He looked for the inn, instead of letting Venerable Huanjian arrange the accommodation. First, Shi Feng would not fully trust the other party, and secondly, he also avoided alarming the subordinates of Venerable Huanjian, so as to startle the snake and let Ji Hong discover the clue.
The most important thing is that the capital of the first month is mixed with fish and dragons, which is very convenient to hide.
"Take a rest." Shi Feng habitually wanted to reach out and touch his junior brother's head, but stopped halfway and took it back as if nothing had happened, "Senior brother is watching over your cultivation."
When the delusion regenerates, he can't leave his junior brother.
Shi Feng vaguely felt that Ji Hong was just the tip of a big conspiracy.
Even if he had to endure the torture of this delusion, he couldn't let Chen He fall into danger.