Pretending To Be a Holy Place, I Was Signed For a Thousand Years

   Chapter 230 The Empress's Next Step

  Dongling County, Zhuoguang Mountain.

   Yesterday, after drinking a lot of wine, Zhang Xiaofan sat in the backyard drinking tea.

   He recalled the progress of the mission and couldn't help but stare.

  【Prestige Mission】Under your leadership, Lingshu Guan has achieved a certain reputation in the Jin Dynasty, but it is not enough. Please let Lingshu see the name of Qinghui, resounding in the world

  【Reminder】This task is a series of tasks, and there will be multiple judgment criteria. There is no specific content for each task, and the final achievement and task evaluation will be used as the reward basis. Please explore by yourself.

  【Current Number of Rings】05/05

  【Current Evaluation】Jia Shang (Your strength exceeded the expectations of the three sects, and the Jin Dynasty changed because of you)

   "Fifth ring, and the task evaluation is top armor!"

   Zhang Xiaofan showed a look of joy, "So, if Puzhi from Xuankong Temple and Du Yin from Taiyi Immortal Sect came to the door, it's the fourth mission?"

   This prestige quest has been done for a long time, and now it is finally coming to an end.

   "However, the fourth ring is already so dangerous, and there are two Taoist realms in a row. I don't know who will meet in the fifth ring?"

   He put down the teacup, a little worried.

   At the same time, he couldn't help but look back at the Zu Shitang.

   "The deity is still in seclusion, I don't know when I can get out..."

  While he was thinking about it, the sound of hurried footsteps came from outside.

   "Senior Brother, Senior Brother! I'm back!"

   Qingquan's loud voice sounded in the front yard, and then he appeared at the gate of the courtyard.

   "Hey, why are you wearing a green robe today? Don't you like wearing blue the most?"

   He glared at Zhang Xiaofan and asked in surprise.

   Zhang Xiaofan couldn't help but glance at him and hummed, "I'm tired of wearing blue recently, can't I?"

  Qingquan frowned and said with a smirk: "Of course, as long as you like it! Senior brother, let me tell you, after I went out this time, it opened my eyes!"

   "Let's not talk about the strange monsters and the delicious food with different colors and fragrances, but the three-mouthed girl really made me find it..."

   He leaned over to the stone table and rambled about what he had seen all the way.

   At this time, Zhan Hong came over from the front yard and bowed respectfully to Zhang Xiaofan without interrupting Qingquan's narration.

   In fact, Zhang Ming left a [Demon Mark] on Qingquan's body before retreating.

   What he saw and heard along the way of Qingquan, he could feel it, and he didn't need to tell him at all.

   However, when Zhang Xiaofan saw that he was talking vigorously, he did not stop him, but pretended to be enthusiastic and listened to it.

   "The evil calamity in Dongling County has been eliminated, and the operation of the Tianshi Mansion will also enter a stable period. Zhanhong, I have to trouble you with the following matters."

   He raised his head and said to Zhan Hong who was beside him.

  Zhanhong quickly and respectfully responded: "I can't talk about trouble, since I am the Palace Master of Tianshi Mansion, then all of this is my duty."

   Zhang Xiaofan nodded.

   The tall black figure swept across the sky above the Lingshu Temple, causing many pilgrims in the front yard to exclaim.

   "Hum hum hum!"

   It said hello to Zhang Xiaofan below and disappeared into the depths of the forest.

  Zhang Xiaofan laughed: "This is a piece of shit."

   Immediately, he turned to look at the young man who stood still and asked, "Zhanhong, would you like to be a teacher of Pindao?"

   Qingquan and Zhanhong were stunned at the same time.

  Worship...worship a teacher?

   The next moment, I saw Qingquan kick him violently and wake him up: "Hurry up, don't hurry and seize the opportunity!"

Since   Zhanhong was expelled from the Qiongyu Sword Sect, what he had been thinking about was to worship under the command of the Lingshu Temple of Zhuoguang Mountain, but he never got the approval of the Taoist priest of Qinghui.

   And he volunteered to be a Taoist, and then to the current Tianshi Palace Master, he is dedicated to his responsibilities and hard work.

   Even, he watched Yin Xue also worship under the long gate of Qinghui Daoist, but he never had the chance.

   It is impossible to say without disappointment.

   However, after he achieved the path of kendo, his heart was tough, and he did not show the slightest.

Now, "You are willing to worship me as a teacher" made him stunned for a while, with a silly smile on his face, until he was reminded by Qingquan, he hurriedly said: "Yes! Yes! Please listen!"

   Qingquan pouted: "Return the writing."

   Zhang Xiaofan laughed and said, "In that case, Zhan Hong, from today onwards, you are the fourth disciple of the Pindao, and the Taoist name is off."

  Zhanhong fell to his knees with a "pop" and kowtowed three times respectfully.

   "Master is above, please accept the disciples!"

The name    was taken from Qingquan's joke that day, and he had long been used to it, but now it's just a correct name.

   Qingquan happily smiled and said, "Come and visit my uncle soon!"

  Zhanhong served Zhang Xiaofan tea before he came to greet him and said, "I have seen Master Qingquan in Yixiu."

  Qingquan couldn't help laughing and said, "Not bad, I have nothing to give you, Uncle Master. Why don't you let that pet beast Xuan Xuan go to you!"

   said, he whistled.

  I saw a colorful crane flew out from the mountain behind, circled twice in the air, and landed in the Lingshu Temple.

   It turned out that Xuan Xuan was the name of the colorful crane.

   The hanging-eyed white tiger Huahua raised his head in the corner of the front yard, looked around, and thought to himself, what is this unreliable master doing?

  Zhanhong was very happy to see it and said with a smile, "Thank you, Uncle Master!"

   The two quickly handed over the mark of the beast.

  Zhanhong rode on the back of the crane and flew three times over the Lingshu Temple, which attracted the pilgrims outside the Sanqing Hall to call the immortals descended.

Zhang Xiaofan looked at it secretly, thinking in his heart: "The daughter of the plane, Lu Xueqing, and the son of the plane, Zhan Hong, have been beaten up by me. However, this Zhanhong is an apprentice accepted by Pindao, and I don't know that after the deity leaves the customs, he will What do you think? Hehe, if you want to default on your debt, I'm afraid there is no way."

   He smacking his lips with some nasty taste, took the tea cup and drank it.

   After a while, there was a roar of dragons outside, and a black dragon carrying Guo Xiang landed in the Lingshu Temple.

   "Little Black! Miss Guo Xiang!"

   Qingquan's eyes lit up and greeted.

   However, most of his eyes fell on Xiao Hei, obviously he had been greedy for this dragon beast of his senior brother for a long time.

On this trip, he traveled all over Dongling County, educating and transforming all beings, and the pet beasts he accepted were almost all over the county, but no matter his bloodline, roots, strength, or realm, none of them could compare to the one in front of him. Jiaolong.

  Guo Xiang walked straight to Zhang Xiaofan and asked worriedly, "Qinghui Daoist, the people from Xuankong Temple and Taiyi Xianmen..."

   It turned out that she was hurrying and hurrying, the journey was long, and she had just arrived at the Lingshu Temple until now.

   However, when she approached Qianling Lake, she found that the Taoist temple was peaceful, and it seemed that there was no war, and she felt a little more confident.

   Zhang Xiaofan nodded to him and said, "The four powerful enemies have all fallen."

   Guo Xiang let out a long sigh of relief when she heard the words, and her face, which was a little pale from the impact of the wind and frost, also quickly turned rosy, regaining the brilliance of a girl.

   "Lingshuguan is all right, Xianger can rest assured."

   Her face was soothing, and she suddenly thought of another thing, and said, "Daoist Qing Hui, on my way back from this trip, I found that the Jin Dynasty has made big moves, and new edicts have been posted in various cities."

   Zhang Xiaofan was slightly taken aback: "What edict?"

   He didn't go down the mountain for two days, and he didn't know what was going on outside.

Qingquan and Zhanhong, who were on the side, smiled and said, "Senior brother, I haven't had time to tell you about this. Then the empress of the dynasty suddenly issued an edict, no longer worshiping Buddhism and suppressing Taoism, but... Clear the world of Buddhism!"

   Zhang Xiaofan frowned: "Clear the world's Buddhism?"

Guo Xiang nodded and added: "Although there is no explicit statement in the content of the edict, it is almost the same. The Empress has an order, ordering the Buddhists all over the world to turn in silver, food, grass and treasures, and fill the treasury to prepare for the war. Temple, shoot down the prison!"

   This sentence is loud and clear.

   Zhang Xiaofan agitated and stood up from sitting upright.

   "Cleaning up Buddhism and filling the treasury? Damn it, it seems that I am trying to do everything, but I still fell into her trap!"

   He, who has been trying to jump out of the chess game, understood the ins and outs in an instant.

   "Following the Buddha and suppressing the Tao, what a man who worships the Buddha and suppresses the Tao! I'm afraid you already thought of today when you first issued the edict!"

Zhang Xiaofan murmured, "Using the rebound of the Taoist sect to induce disputes in the world; using the Lingshu view as a bait, Confucianism, Buddhism and the three schools were caught. Now is your harvest season!"

   "I should have seen it sooner! The county governor of Dongling County took away the property of Xiaohanshan Temple, and you took away everything in the county governor's office."

   "Using Buddhism to collect money, then clear it up and fill the treasury, so this is your first purpose!"

   "But, what's next..."

   He couldn't help thinking deeply, and deduced the step-by-step chess path of Her Majesty the Empress.

   Qingquan touched his head, his face full of question marks: "What are you talking about, Senior Brother?"

  Zhanhong and Guo Xiang looked at each other and thought a lot from it.

Zhang Xiaofan suddenly looked at the sky and speculated: "Next, the Xuankong Temple must be furious, but it is restrained by the Taiyi Immortal Gate, and the King of Medicine is sitting on the seat of the fisherman, and more importantly, there is the Lingshu Temple in the front... This is the best time for the Great Jin Dynasty to embezzle the three sects!"

   "What a queen of the dynasty! Cultivate Buddhism and suppress Taoism in order to support Buddhism, and clean up Buddhism to enrich the treasury! The dark wounds left by the original Northern Expedition, I am afraid that it will be blocked all of a sudden!"

   He finally understood the purpose of the empress.

   Originally, she was an intermediary girl, sitting on the throne of God, so she was restricted from left and right, and it was difficult to stabilize the world.

   Not to mention that after the Northern Expedition, the treasury was empty, and there were Dongyi, Northern Wei, Xirong and other countries all staring at each other.

   But now, just one year later, she has gathered all the money in the world and gathered it in the treasury, and even made the three sects who are pressing on the head of the Great Jin Dynasty feel miserable.

   It is foreseeable that as long as she supports this round of conflict between the three sects, as well as the pressure from the Dongyi, Northern Wei and other countries, the Great Jin Dynasty will definitely be able to further secure the position of the Southern Jin Dynasty, and even take it to a higher level!

   Therefore, worshipping the Buddha and suppressing the Tao is the first step!

   Filling the treasury is the second step!

  Then the third step... must be to embezzle the three sects, and completely condense the Great Jin Dynasty into a single chain, and there will be no sect privileges above the Dynasty!

   "What a big ambition! What a deep plan! I just don't know how you are going to deal with these three cases. Do you still want to use my Spirit Pivot View as this gun?"

   Zhang Xiaofan's eyes narrowed slightly, "Also, after this third step, will you... have a fourth step? Even, the fifth step, the sixth step!"

   At this moment, he felt a little bit of fear for this empress whom he had never met.

   If she were given another ten years or a hundred years, would the Jin Dynasty usher in an unprecedented prosperity, and even overwhelm the Quartet and unify the world?

   He remembered the last time the imperial decree took a photo.

  The Empress once said that three months later, the Great Jin Dynasty will hold a ceremony to worship the heavens. At the ceremony, the powerful people from all over the world will be invited to sit down and talk about it, and one of them will be selected as the Great Jin State Teacher.

   In addition, in the photo, she once invited Daoist Qing Hui to see him in Kyoto.

   And now the so-called three-month period is close at hand.

   "Your next plan should be in this ceremony, right?"

  Zhang Xiaofan finally figured out the ins and outs, this empress had already thought about the next step by step changes three months ago, and made preparations.

   Even if there is no battle of the three sects yesterday, she will take other opportunities to pull the world's practitioners into this muddy water!

  This position of national teacher seems to be very attractive.

But whether one of the three sects was elected as the national teacher, or other hidden powerhouses became the national teacher, they would have to be labeled as "Great Jin", and thus completely torn their face with the three sects on the top of the dynasty. .

   And this is the next step of the current empress!

   Drives away wolves, embezzles three sects, and condenses the Jin Dynasty into an iron plate, like an arm.

   "But, you miscalculated the poor way..."

   Zhang Xiaofan couldn't help shaking his head and said with a smile, "Do you think that since I understand all of this, I will be fooled by you and go to Kyoto to travel to the muddy waters?"

  Thinking like this, he took his seat again.

  Qingquan quickly poured the tea and asked in a low voice, "Senior brother, have you recovered?"

  Zhang Xiaofan glared at him: "Since you're back, let's go eat and drink on the hour, let's celebrate today. By the way, I have a lot of use in the Patriarch's Hall, no one is allowed to open the door or enter."

   Qingquan, Zhanhong and Guo Xiangying should have smiles on their faces.

   "Also, then Li Xiaoyao has turned into a true disciple of the poor Daoist, and the Dao name is poor. You go and call him up, and let's be lively together."

   He, who has always liked quietness, rarely has such an arrangement.

  Qingquan was so happy that he jumped up, patted his chest and promised to come down.

   After everyone left, Zhang Xiaofan turned his head and stared in the direction of the Patriarch's Hall, and murmured, "Deity, you should continue to retreat."

   "Even if the sky of the Jin Dynasty collapses, there will still be Her Majesty the Empress. Let's not worry about this, and don't go to this muddy water, let them toss!"

   He had already made up his mind not to deal with the affairs of the Jin Dynasty.

   No matter how the external situation changes, or how the family and sect strife, it has nothing to do with this quiet mountain.

   However, sometimes that is the case.

  The tree wants to be still but the wind does not stop.

   At the junction of Beiyou County and Dongling County, Lu Xueqing, Yin Xue and Qu Feiyan were carefully tracking a man in black.

   "Elder Qu, through this period of observation, this person must be a core disciple of the Demon Sect."

Lu Xueqing said in a low voice, "He goes back and forth between Dongling County and Beiyou County continuously, and every time he is passing on some key information. I just don't know who is connecting with him, and Zhou Yimo of the Red Fire Demon Sect has another relationship. How many connections?"

   Qu Feiyan acted prudently, and said in a condensed voice: "Don't worry, if you start a snake, you will be in trouble."

   "Let's continue to follow him. This time he is so far away from Beiyou County. It is very likely that he is going to meet someone. This is the key for us to find the next chain."

  Yin Xue held the handle of the knife and said, "When you can hit, you greet me, and I will cut him."

  Lu Xueqing nodded helplessly and stopped speaking.

   While speaking, I saw the man in black in the distance flickered, turning into a black light, flying straight towards the direction of the Hundred Thousand Mountains in the far east.

   (end of this chapter)