Today I hold the world

The night is quiet, with occasional cricket crickets and sporadic lights on Duanshui Cliff.

In the newly established Chilongmen courtyard, there is a small side hall on one side of the main hall. Zhong Ziyan is sitting at the table inside, looking down at a book [General Knowledge of the Five Elements].

Although the big meeting during the day was busy and tiring, it was all for the sake of the sect and it was fun.

At night, some of the disciples in the sect went back to the cave to rest or practice, and some were on duty to patrol. He had nothing else to do, so he was not in a hurry to go back.

There were footsteps outside the door, Zhong Ziyan looked up, just in time to see Liu Sanjiu stepping over the threshold.

Liu Sanjiu looked a little tired. Seeing that Zhong Ziyan was indeed here, he raised his spirits and said, "So the master is here, and I went to knock on the door of your cave..."

"What is Uncle Liu looking for?" Zhong Ziyan put down his book and got up to greet him.

Liu Sanjiu only said that Ancestor Tao was looking for something to do with him, so he dragged him out the door, and Yujian flew towards the crack in the lungs under Duanshui Cliff.

After a while, the two passed through the [Prajna Pure Land Formation] and entered the crack.

"The evil spirit around this area has been fully purified by the formation. If it goes any further, the evil spirit will become stronger and stronger. Be careful, Sect Leader."

Liu Sanjiu continued to fly down while guarding the sword, because Zhong Ziyan had never come down before, so he didn't know what it looked like. Looking at it now, this place is actually an empty stomach valley. The crack in the middle leads directly to the ground. There are wide and narrow passages in the middle , each having a shape.

As he flew down, he could feel the evil spirit gradually becoming stronger, and Zhong Ziyan gradually felt a sense of irritability in his mind.

When a blood-red light came into his eyes, Liu Sanjiu stopped his figure, and saw a figure floating up from below, it was Tao Fangyin.

"Go to work, hurry up and arrange the final foundation."

After Tao Fangyin said to Liu Sanjiu, he waved a ball of spiritual energy to wrap Zhong Ziyan and continue to fly down.

The further down, the brighter the blood-red light, and not long after, the two of them flew into a side cave, and Tao Fangyin stroked his beard and said with a smile:

"This Lung Rift Valley is not a good place. I didn't expect it to hit our hands by mistake, but it became a treasure!"

Zhong Ziyan concluded that whenever Tao Laozu stroked his not-too-long white beard, he must be in a good mood.

"It doesn't look like a good place here, is there something more wonderful?" Zhong Ziyan asked.

Tao Fangyin motioned him to look at the place where the crimson light was shining deep in the cave.

It was an octagonal high platform with a small blood-red tripod floating on it, and the brilliance inside was shining.

"That's it? Chilong Ding!" Zhong Ziyan recognized it.

"That's right, it's a coincidence that the evil spirit here can just help the blood dragon inside to practice."

Just as Tao Fangyin finished speaking, there was a deafening roar in the dragon cauldron. Zhong Ziyan quickly covered his ears, his hands and feet trembling unconsciously.

The roar didn't last long, and when it ended, Zhong Ziyan vaguely saw a huge phantom of the blood dragon projected in the cave.

After all the abnormalities disappeared, the cave returned to calm, Zhong Ziyan heaved a sigh of relief, "Old Ancestor, won't this blood dragon come out?"

"I called you here to talk about this matter." Tao Fangyin explained the origin of the blood dragon incident.

When Chilongmen founded the school in the past, the reason why it was named "Chilong" was because Cao Di's ancestor's companion beast was a fire dragon, and the fire dragon had been born and died with the ancestor countless times, and it has long been connected with the same spirit and heart.

20 years ago, the disciples in the sect found the blood scorpion at the peak of foundation establishment in Huanglongtan, Jiangbei, and mistakenly thought it was a fire scorpion and reported it to the sect. The head of the sect was overjoyed, thinking that if he could receive a golden elixir, Huojiao, just like Cao Di's current ancestor, the sect's great prosperity is just around the corner.

Because Xie An's own fire spirit root is compatible with the fire dragon, the previous generation's head made arrangements early, and let Xie An accept it as a spirit beast when the fire dragon transformed into a dragon.

20 years later, at the beginning of September, the doorman calculated that the alchemy was approaching based on the frequent changes of the fire scorpion. Xie An rushed to Huanglongtan to wait, but unexpectedly the news had already been leaked. The peak foundation monks joined forces to attack.

The result was the scene that Zhong Ziyan witnessed with his own eyes. Those people underestimated Xie An's strength, resulting in the failure of the plan, and only three or four people escaped alive.

When Xie An was about to leave, he saw that Zhong Ziyan was a material for cultivating immortals with spiritual roots. Although he did not have detailed contact to confirm the quality of the spiritual roots, time was running out. After explaining to Zhong Ziyan, he secretly passed on the flying sword and jumped off the cliff Go, use all your strength to seal the blood flood dragon in the dragon cauldron.

"Although there is no actual evidence yet, the breach of Qingling Mountain has a lot to do with the ambush incident. If all the plans happen normally, with the method of Xie Junior Brother, after subduing Huo Jiao and returning to the sect as soon as possible, how can it be the turn of those three families to run rampant?" ..."

Tao Fangyin sighed subconsciously, talking about this now, it's just that people are not as good as God, the Chilongmen should have such a catastrophe.

"Although I have learned the control method of the Red Dragon Cauldron, I can't fully control its operation. I am afraid that the ability to lift the ban can only be used in the later stage of the golden core. Cultivation, monsters have a long lifespan, not to mention that it has already turned into a dragon, so there is still time to waste."

Across the Red Dragon Cauldron, the speed of absorbing and refining the evil spirit will naturally be slower, but here the evil spirit is strong, and the level is also high, so it may be faster than other places.

Zhong Ziyan had a worry in his heart, "Old Ancestor, this blood dragon is very hostile. If it is released in the future, can it be used by the sect?"

In fact, Zhong Ziyan still had the second part in his mind, the same golden pill, and the mutated blood dragon in it, if Tao Fangyin can't subdue it after being released, it would be bad to suffer instead.

Tao Fangyin understood Zhong Ziyan's meaning, looked straight at him and said:

"Even if this blood dragon has fused the remaining soul of Junior Brother Xie to make up for the congenital deficiency after the thunder disaster, it is still unruly and unruly. It is indeed difficult to tame in the future, but we still have some time to spend with it."

Tao Fangyin paused for a moment, and said again:

"My sect was almost wiped out because of it. If we still don't listen to the dispatch in the future...humph!"

Tao Fangyin, who was originally snorting coldly, thought about it in a blink of an eye, showing a rare pride:

"Actually, it's fish now, and I'm Daozu, so I don't have to worry about it. This red dragon cauldron is a treasure that Nascent Soul cultivators can use. It's not a problem to be trapped in it for thousands of years. Let's see who gets panicked."

Hearing this, Zhong Ziyan felt that the ancestor was sometimes very...interesting.

Zhong Ziyan nodded in agreement, and then heard Tao Fangyin lament, "After all, our sect's strength is still low, and how this blood dragon will be used in the future depends on you!"

These words came to Zhong Ziyan's ears, and the pressure doubled. He had been practicing for several months, and he didn't feel at all that he was about to break through the first level of Qi training. When I saw him for the first time, each of them was a 'head', and Zhong Ziyan, who was ashamed, wanted to find a hole in the ground.

Tao Fangyin understood Zhong Ziyan's feelings, "I can also see your anxiety, but everything has to be done step by step, laying a solid foundation and accumulating steadily. The way of practice is to cultivate the spirit and persevere in meditation. Some of the Confucian principles that I have learned in the past are still not enough Abandoned."

Zhong Ziyan should claim to be.

Tao Fangyin brought Zhong Ziyan here tonight, first to explain the cause and effect of the blood dragon incident, and second to mention Zhong Ziyan's cultivation by the way.

"Finding the same ginseng is indeed a top priority. Your natal life is the natal life of a beast. Without the same ginseng, you will grow up like a headless chicken, ignorant and ignorant, and unable to cultivate the road. This will affect your cultivation speed by the way. I plan to do it tomorrow." Arrange the things in the door, and then set off to find similar references for you."

Zhong Ziyan was very grateful, and added: "Brother Jiang and Brother Tao in the door, their fellow participants also need to look for, I'm afraid I will bother the ancestor to delay it for a few days."

Tao Fangyin waved his hand and said, "It's okay, the youngest disciples, I will also help you find them. They are all the hope for the revitalization of the sect in the future, and cultivation is the top priority."

Zhong Ziyan was lucky to have such a kind-hearted Jindan Patriarch in his family, and the other family didn't know if they were so lucky.

After the two talked about it, Tao Fangyin took Zhong Ziyan to fly away from the bloody cave deep in the ground, and returned to the courtyard of Chilongmen on Broken Water Cliff.

******

In the hall that was supposed to be silent, Zhong Ziyan and Tao Fangyin walked in quickly with the sound of weeping.

I saw two patrolling disciples on duty walking back and forth, a corpse of a fellow Qi practitioner lay on the ground, and a disciple in his 30s was sitting slumped on the ground and crying.

"What happened?" Tao Fangyin asked in a deep voice.

The two disciples watching the night saw that it was the ancestor, so they hurriedly visited and explained the reason of the matter.

The dead fellow was named Bai Luo, a 21-year-old third-level qi practitioner, and the crying one was 33-year-old, a fourth-level qi practitioner.

The two of them didn't keep the gate rules in the middle of the night, and climbed hundreds of feet above the Duan Shui Cliff, harassing the corpse mandrill in the rock formation, Bai Luo was scratched, the corpse poisoned his body, and fell from the cliff. Although he was caught by the guard disciple at the last moment, People are dead.

During the day, the two placed bets on each other to guess how high the cliff above Duanshui Cliff was, and they climbed and measured together at night, but they didn't expect an accident.

When Tao Fangyin heard this, he was about to explode with anger, his white beard trembled, and he raised his palm to cover the crying foolish Gou Youwei's head, he restrained himself forcefully, and scolded:

"It's so stupid, it's useless to be a cultivator of immortals, my Chilong lineage is reduced to danger of being destroyed because of you and other fools!"

The two on-duty disciples in the hall were terrified, and Zhong Ziyan knelt down to examine Bai Luo's body. He had indeed lost his vitality, so he shook his head in regret.

Gou Youwei knelt on the ground and kowtowed to admit his mistake. The more Tao Fangyin looked at him, the angrier he became, his aura swept over Bai Luo's body, and when he found that he couldn't save him, he flung his sleeves away, fearing that he couldn't help but slap Gou Youwei to death.

The disciples on duty in the field could only turn their eyes to Zhong Ziyan. Zhong Ziyan was no stranger to handling funerals, so he sighed and arranged for the two of them to carry the body directly outside the hall, and let the fellow disciples watch and burn it tomorrow.

This Bai Luo didn't have any particularly close friends in the same sect, usually Gou Youwei was the closest to him, now that death is like a lamp going out, monks don't stick to external things in their practice, so naturally they can just come back directly after death.

Gou Youwei has lived for more than 30 years. Although he is not strong, he is also a good-looking person. At this moment, he is crying and said to Zhong Ziyan:

"Master, this... this is really too unexpected. I said earlier that it was incomparable. Brother Luo insisted on fighting for that breath, I... I..."

"woooo~"

Zhong Ziyan looked at Brother Gou, who was more than ten years older than himself, and cried like a girl. He only felt that the Chilongmen sect from the founding of Yuanying Patriarch to the present is like ordinary descendants who have wiped out their ancestors. Over 1000 years from prosperity to decline , I am afraid that all generations have strange laughter and troubles, knowing their own sorrows and sorrows.

Zhong Ziyan sighed helplessly, and persuaded him calmly, "Brother Gou, the deceased is already dead, you should take this as a warning, don't do such stupid things again in the future, and you will be punished tomorrow, just practice hard behind closed doors."

After finishing speaking, he was about to walk outside the hall, only to hear Gou Youwei crying and asking:

"Master, am I going to die?"

"No, you will be punished according to the school rules." Zhong Ziyan responded solemnly.

Gou Youwei said to himself:

"When the ancestor was still a foundation-building senior, he would often personally lead his qi-training fellows out to practice. He was much more eloquent than other foundation-building seniors. Many senior brothers encountered some difficulties and asked him to go to his door. He would definitely help out a little, but... But just now, he was going to kill me..."

Zhong Ziyan shook his head, turned around, and walked out of the hall.

If this matter tonight spreads to other mountain gates, I will be laughed out of my teeth, if everyone in the sect is like this... Sigh.

******

At dawn, outside the main hall of Duanshuiya, all members of Chilongmen were present.

According to Zhong Ziyan's instructions, the disciple on duty burned Bai Luo's body. Afterwards, Qi Changhong, who was in charge of the sect law and punishment, read out the school regulations.

Shanmen Xinli, this punishment can't be too light or too heavy, but this time, although someone died, but what happened was too dramatic, so Zhong Ziyan begged Tao Fangyin to punish him lightly.

******

At noon, Zhong Ziyan, who had just had time to rest, was knocked on the door by the disciple on duty again.

A secret letter was sent into the hand, it was stated that it was addressed to Tao Patriarch, and ordinary disciples could be used to pass the message, so the Changsu Clan would not be afraid of revealing any rumors?

Zhong Ziyan stepped up again and walked to Tao Fangyin's cave in person, and handed the secret letter into his hands.

When Tao Fangyin saw it, his complexion changed drastically, "Su Yu actually ran out of lifespan and passed away!"

Zhong Ziyan was shocked. Didn’t his face look red a few days ago? That’s the dignified Jindan Patriarch, whose lifespan is basically about 500 years, so he just left?

"I have to go to Huaiyang Slope!"

Tao Fangyin arranged a few words, Zhong Ziyan responded one by one, and watched the ancestor leave.