The ancestral mansion of Jiuxuan Fenmen is located at the highest place in the southern part of Nancheng, overlooking all the secular buildings in Yanmen County. Even the official residence of Yanmen County has to crawl obediently in front of it. On the surface, the area of Yanmen Temple, the power center of Yanmen County, is less than half of that of Jiuxuan Fenmen.
Lou Shidao had just arrived here and had just been appointed magistrate of Yanmen County.
Every time a car and horse pass by the Qingshi Avenue in front of Jiuxuanzong's Mansion, where eight cars can run in parallel, the driver will be asked to stop.
From the car window, he looked up at the majestic Xianjia building. The black basalt archway rose from the ground, and the words "Jiuxuan" written on it flew sharply, with supreme majesty. Black basalt, this kind of stone used exclusively by the ancient emperors in the era of chaos, and engraved with imperial decrees, can be seen everywhere in this era of immortal cultivators.
Even the Cultivation School, which is not one of the Eight Great Immortal Schools, dared to use it.
When he was still in Taixue, he listened to those gray-haired old masters holding decayed scriptures and chanting day after day, "The king wants the minister to die, the minister has to die" "Within the four seas, is it the land of the king" For one category, it is funny to daydream about "the emperor is like the sun and cannot be violated".
In fact he laughed too.
The old master who was over ninety years old was furious and asked him why he didn't concentrate on listening.
Lou Shidao replied: "Above the sky, there are clouds that cover the sun."
The gray-haired old master scolded him for being rude, making him think outside the hall. After a while, Yan Ziyu, who was not yet the prince, was also kicked out. At that time, Yan Ziyu was still wearing a square scarf crookedly all day long, openly contradicting the old master during the doctor's lectures, and was the person who was scolded the most besides Lou Shidao.
"What did you do again?" Lou Shidao stood upright without looking sideways.
Yan Ziyu leaned lazily against the wall, took out a dog's tail grass from nowhere and put it in his mouth, he stretched out his foot to kick Lou Shidao, Lou Shidao didn't change his face, and easily dodged away. Yan Ziyu sneered: "What can I do? I just think that what you said just now is more interesting than the long-winded "National Road". I want to discuss it with the old master...the result..."
Yan Ziyu spread his hands and shrugged: "Old four times ten times."
The old four volumes in Yan Ziyu's mouth are the "University", "The Doctrine of the Mean", "The Analects" and "Mencius" that old masters regard as standard. Copying these four parts ten times is not a small project, so Lou Shidao felt that this guy must have said something else to make the old master so angry.
"Hey, Lou Zhengjing." Leaning against the wall, Yan Ziyu watched a lingxiao bird flying to the locust tree in the courtyard, and suddenly said, "If... I mean, if one day you become an important minister, you want doing what?"
"Did Goulan drink too much yesterday?"
Lou Shidao rolled his eyes and asked.
In fact, he is still a bit self-defeating when he confronts the old master now. The new imperial examination system was established by Emperor Chen Ming, but it has been under the suppression of the aristocratic family. Some small officials who record documents.
Lou Shidao's father had read poetry and books for most of his life, and had dreamed of being a "famous bell" all his life, but in the end he could only be a little master. When he was dying, he didn't forget to trick his son, telling him to wear the crane court dress to honor the Lou family.
He also didn't think about how his son could become a first-rank official who could wear the crane court uniform under the monopoly of the aristocratic family.
At most, he is similar to him, a small official who is useless for copying and editing.
Lou Shidao clearly knew that he was born in this kind of world, so that's it. But sometimes when I read those ways of being a minister and a king, I still can't help but feel unwilling.
Even if the Eight Sects of the Immortal Sect are superior and the emperor is not the emperor, he still wants to be a high-ranking official who can govern the country and the world. It's even worse if it's a guy who has a lot of food and drink.
So when Yan Ziyu suddenly asked him if he could become a high official in the future, Lou Shidao couldn't help breathing heavily, and his blood flowed faster than usual.
But soon he calmed down again, and laughed at Yan Ziyu without looking sideways. When he said it, the tip of his tongue was a little bitter.
"Hey, Lou Zhengjing, what do you mean?" Yan Ziyu was so angry that he raised his foot and wanted to kick him again. "You look down on me, don't you think I'll never be able to get ahead in my life?"
Yan Ziyu yelled, but suddenly shut up.
Lou Shidao glanced at him, his eyes were indescribably uncomfortable... It made people feel that this guy who usually pays for his own money and looks down on the seriousness of the world, suddenly, suddenly became a madman full of resentment, and in the end he must It is only willing to give up when it dies with something.
After a while of silence, Yan Ziyu asked in a deep voice that Lou Shidao had never heard before.
"Who knows what will happen in the future... So, what if you can become a minister?"
Yan Ziyu became serious in a rare way, Lou Shidao felt that it was not good to always mock the guy who accompanied him for punishment, so he couldn't help but think about it seriously, if he was in the examination room or in front of the old master, he could talk eloquently about this question. The taxation system and the construction of water conservancy have always talked about farming at the right time.
But at this time Lou Shidao couldn't say those words.
After thinking for a long time, Lou Shidao finally replied: "Do your best and be famous as Zhongding."
The ghost knows what he was thinking at that time, and he actually said to Yan Ziyu, who was scolded twice every three days like him, what the old man said by grabbing his wrist before he died.
Later, the late emperor violated the interests of the sect and the aristocratic family because he issued an edict ordering the prefectures and counties to save the land and check the household registration of the cultivated land. Therefore, on a cold snowy night, the upright and ambitious late emperor suddenly died of a serious illness. The next successor was the fifth prince, Chen Yanyu, who was found by the prime minister and said to be "a wandering folk".
The new emperor was born in Kusano, ignorant of political affairs, absurd in nature, drunk at banquets and banquets, and soon became a puppet of the family. The new emperor has done a lot of absurd things, such as ordering people to capture many scorpions just to watch them fly in groups. The most insignificant thing is that during the Xinke Palace Examination, the new emperor went up to the court so drunk that he didn't even bother to read the test papers. A... be a sheriff."
The aristocratic family felt that the emperor was just a fun-loving and incompetent person. He was young and full-blooded and couldn't tear himself apart. Sometimes he had to take care of the superficial respect. So Lou Shidao became the only official of the fourth grade who was born in civilian clothes in the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty. In the third year of the new emperor's ascension to the throne, he served as the governor of Yanmen County.
When he left the capital, the former prodigal student of the Taixue, now the Ninth Five-Year Master, sent him a folded secret book. On the rice paper with the family crest of the Chen Dynasty, he wrote a few words in iron and silver hooks:
——The most important place in Yanmen, it is famous as Zhongding.
The sharp handwriting is definitely not something that a dude can write.
"My lord, my lord." The loyal old servant knocked lightly on the car door, "Jiuxuanmen, we're here."
Lou Shidao opened his eyes, he lifted the curtain to look at the outer door, and sure enough, there was the Jiuxuan Fenmen archway with flying eaves in front of him. Lou Shidao straightened his clothes and got out of the car. Yan Ziyu once laughed at the ugly official uniform with Yunyan embroidered on him, but it was not ugly.
"The next official came to ask to see Immortal Chief Jiuxuan, please inform me."
Lou Shidao bowed slightly to the disciple of Jiuxuan who was guarding the gate, and said loudly.
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They said they wanted to torture him to extract a confession, but after returning to the Jiuxuan branch, Ye Qiusheng was still unconscious.
Anyway, he can be regarded as an important disciple of Taishangzong, and he can't really let him die on the territory of Jiuxuanmen. Jun Wanbai could only ask the elders of the Jiuxuan sect to bring him the pill while cursing. But Ye Qiusheng's life was obviously much tougher than they thought, and he could get up and go to the ground the next day, talking nonsense.
"Although it's a bit out of character for me to do things, isn't it too obvious for you to treat people differently?"
Ye Qiusheng's face was still a little pale, and he was sitting in the room. On the left stood the gloomy Li Banlunatic in a black robe who didn't look like a living person. In front of him was the Grand Master's chair, and Jun Wanbai was sitting with a big horse and a golden knife.
The posture of the king of Hades interrogating the little ghost, Jun Wanbai in front of him is Lord Yan, and Li Xin behind him is Hei Wuchang.
"Master Baili knows as much as I do—wait a minute, I think that guy knows more than I do. Would you consider asking him directly?"
Jun Wanbai raised his eyes and sneered: "Baili Shu is our elder brother of Jiuxuanmen. On the territory of Jiuxuanmen, we juniors and sisters are not qualified to ask what he is doing. As for you..."
Jun Wanbai looked Ye Qiusheng up and down and snorted.
"Who do you think you are?"
Ye Qiusheng shut his mouth.
He could tell that the aunt in front of him and the ghostly old man behind him must be holding back their anger and had nowhere to vent, so they came to him early in the morning to operate on him. And the person who made them hold their breath is probably not someone else, it should be the "Senior Brother of Jiuxuanmen" in their mouth, Baili Shu.
That's right, he deserves to be unlucky if he doesn't open the pot and lift the pot.
Ye Qiusheng guessed right, Jun Wanbai and Li Xin were so annoyed because of Bailishu. After returning to the Jiuxuan branch, Jun Wanbai and Li Xin didn't even care about their injuries, so they wanted to ask that guy Bailishu what was going on under the Lingxing Temple, and how he went to that place.
Who knew that before they could ask those questions, Bailishu said: "I will go to Bingzhou in three days, and I will go to recuperate myself." After that, he tossed his sleeves and closed the door directly to prohibit interruption.
Right now, only Ye Qiusheng was left with a bunch of questions to ask.
Facing the murderous Jun Wanbai and Li Xin, Ye Qiusheng smiled wryly, before speaking for a moment: "How much do you know about the reason why the Wanxianji is called the "Interrupted Era"?"
Jun Wanbai was slightly taken aback.
Today, historians generally divide the long history of the past into four eras. The first era is the barbaric era, in which wild beasts rule the land. The second era is the era of chaos. In this era, the powers of various races were born, and the earliest dynasty was established. The majesty of the ancient emperors shocked the world. The third era is the era of Wanxian where immortals and demons fight each other. The last epoch is now.
Among them, the Era of Ten Thousand Immortals is also known as the "Era of Interruption".
Thirty thousand years are considered as one era, but the Wanxian era is only 15,000 years!
There have always been mixed opinions about the end of the Ten Thousand Immortals Era, and there is still no conclusion. It can be said that this issue is a mystery to the entire world of cultivating immortals. But now, Ye Qiusheng asked them, "How much do you know about the reason why the Ten Thousand Immortals Era is called the "Interrupted" Era?"
Combined with those things underground, Jun Wanbai suddenly felt that he was being drawn into a huge chaotic zone covered by a long history.
It was a huge vortex.
so…
Is that why Bailishu let them take the secret passage on the left
Ye Qiusheng laughed, with a bit of mockery: "How about it, it's too late to regret it now, I can shut up."
Li Xin passed the blade forward, and he said without hesitation: "Say."
When Li Xin put a knife on Ye Qiusheng's neck and questioned him, Bailishu sat cross-legged against the wall in his room with his back straight. In front of him was an ancient token—something he had taken from the altar of soul-sealing underground. When the three of them left the Soul Sealing Altar, Baili broke up.
Ye Qiusheng and Li Xin were afraid of the awakened Xuandi's will, so they only cared about leaving, and didn't see an ancient token hidden at the bottom of the collapsed Soul Sealing Altar. Flicking the broken sleeve of Baili Shu's robe, he took the token away.
The first time he returned to the room, he placed a closed barrier, so Jun Wanbai and the others didn't hear Baili Shu's uncontrollable cough after entering the room.
and the sound of blood dripping.
Baili Shu sat down slowly, bit by bit, against the wall, coughed and took out the ancient token and placed it in front of him.
The token is made of bronze, with the horned dragon and beast pattern commonly used in the Chaos Era with the characteristic of "using copper as a soldier". It exudes an ancient power fluctuation, faintly calling for Bailishu's blood.
After sitting cross-legged all night, Baili Shu opened his eyes, his face was so pale that there was no trace of blood.
He cut his finger and dripped blood on the token.