Chapter 172

Jingjue Temple received a letter.

It's not the letter from He Guogong asking Concubine Hu Gui to see Zen Zi, because he dare not.

His Majesty the Emperor has not seen the imperial concubine these days, and he has been pondering for a long time what this means.

The background of this letter was much bigger, no one dared to delay at all, and it was directly delivered to the Chief Law Hall.

The head of the law hall hurried through the peach grove and came to the deepest part of the temple.

A young monk was kneeling on a low couch in front of the window, staring at a pile of thin wooden sticks in front of him with a very focused expression.

The head of the Lvtang knew that this was Zenzi's favorite game of picking sticks, and the whole Guocheng Temple had long been familiar with it.

He knew that Zenzi didn't like to be disturbed at this time, but he coughed twice and walked in.

Chanzi sighed helplessly and asked, "What's the matter?"

The head of the law hall handed over the letter in his hand.

Chanzi raised his eyebrows slightly, took out the letter paper, and quickly read the contents of the letter.

This letter is from the sword saint.

The head of the law hall worriedly asked: "What's the matter with Brother Cao's letter?"

Zen Zi said, "He asked a person."

The head of the Law Hall asked, "Who is it?"

Chanzi smiled and said, "He asked Jing Jiu if he was the descendant of the monastery."

Listening to this problem, the head of the law hall relaxed a little.

As a knife saint, he shouldn't be interested in these rumors, but when he thinks about his previous status, he can understand why he wrote a special letter to ask.

In fact, the head of the law hall is also very interested in this matter.

A few years ago, on behalf of Guocheng Temple, he attended the Qingshan Zong Chengjian Conference. At that time, he was a little puzzled, why Chanzi attached so much importance to this ordinary disciple's initiation ceremony.

Afterwards, there were many discussions about Jing Jiu's origin, and he couldn't help but wonder if it had something to do with it?

The identity of the successor of Diao Hongchen in Guocheng Temple has always been extremely secret, no one knows except the abbot and the Zen master, so he can only guess.

"I'll write back. Is there anything else?"

Zenzi still did not give a clear answer.

The head of the law hall glanced at the thin letter paper in his hand, and said: "This Dao battle is in the Wansong Snow Mountain in the north of the Mohai, and it is extremely far away from the Zhenbei Army and Senior Brother Cao. If something happens, rescue may not be possible. Although it is originally intended to test their potential between life and death, but...do you want to take care of it in secret?"

He didn't have a specific target for this sentence, but it was obviously someone mentioned in this letter.

Zenzi thought for a while and said: "My old man was cautious all his life, and Jing Jiu inherited his legacy, so it seems that nothing will happen."

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The Taoist war was held in the far north, and the various sects participating in the Meihui remained in Chaoge City. The Xishan residence was still full of people, and it was even more lively than before, because many practitioners did not stay in their own courtyard to meditate and practice as usual, but came to the cliffs outside.

Practitioners do not go out for a walk or socialize when they are bored, but to look at paintings.

Xishanju has formations, so it won't rain heavily, but there is a very long rain corridor in the courtyard, and the side of the mountain is very smooth, with dozens of paintings painted on it.

The paintings stretch from the top of the corridor to the ground, about ten feet high and two feet wide. Two or three birds are painted with gold powder, and there are plum branches zigzagging among them, and red plums are blooming among them.

The eyes of most practitioners fall on the middle painting.

The plum blossoms in that painting are blooming very well, with more than a dozen flowers already formed, the flowers are very big, the color is extremely bright, like blood, there is a kind of shocking beauty.

No matter how you look at it, the painting should be more than half done.

Those plum branches stretched downwards, and the ink gradually deepened, and turned into characters, which turned out to be names one by one.

"Luo Huainan is really too strong."

Someone said with emotion: "Although Tong Yan is in seclusion, he alone is enough to make the Zhongzhou faction stand out from the crowd."

Below the painting are five names.

Luo Huainan's name is among them.

Each name stretches out a cold branch, and the branches bear plum blossoms.

The five cold branches are entangled with each other and superimposed. It seems that the plum blossoms are in full bloom, and it is impossible to tell which branch it is from.

If you look carefully, you will find that most of the plum blossoms come from the branch in Luohuainan.

The rest of the branches also bear one or two flowers.

There are many other paintings under the rain corridor. The content of the paintings is basically the same, but the number and size of plum blossoms are different.

This is the list of May's battles.

It is also in the legend: stepping on blood to find plums.

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The young practitioners participating in the Meihui Dao Battle will be divided into groups according to their fighting styles and skills. Each group is basically five people.

Every time a snow country monster is killed, a blood plum blossom will be added to the painting. At the same time, the plum blossoms are divided into three different sizes according to the strength of the snow country monsters.

Whichever group completes its own painting first is considered the winner, and has nothing to do with the competition between sects.

The previous practitioners made such a design because they did not want the various sects to go their own way and cause conflicts in the Dao war, away from the intention of uniting righteous Dao practitioners to fight against foreign enemies. But the sects are there, who doesn't care about their respective records? Those who have their own good deeds will calculate their grades according to the sect.

In this Taoist battle, Luo Huainan's performance was as strong as ever, and the rest of the Zhongzhou sect disciples such as Xiang Wanshu and others also performed very well, and their current record far exceeds that of other sects. Tonglu of the Xihai Sword Sect is worthy of being the second contestant ranked by the curtain roller. His plum branches also bear a lot of plum blossoms, the number is not even lower than that of Luo Huainan, but the plum blossoms are of different sizes, which looks a bit awkward. The rest of the disciples such as Yimao Zhai, Kunlun, and Baotong Temple performed as well as in previous years.

Somewhat surprising is the Green Mountain Sect.

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Daze's Zuo Yushi walked by the corridor, with a worried expression on his face, thinking that this time the Qingshan Sect would be in trouble.

Meihui is divided into five disciplines of piano, chess, calligraphy, painting and dao. Except for Nan Wang in the past and Jing Jiu this year, Qingshan disciples rarely participate in the first four disciplines.

But in the last Dao battle, Qingshan Sect has always had the strongest results - in the last few Meihui, Luo Huainan has won the first place in the Dao competition in a row, and Qingshan disciples have also won many excellent rankings, especially when counted by sect, Qingshan disciples have never let the first side fall.

Compared with previous years, the performance of Qingshan Sect this year is too average, it can even be said to be terrible. The reason for this situation is that in previous years, the Qingshan School often used Liangwang Peak disciples as the main force in the battle, but this year due to various circumstances, Liangwang Peak disciples rarely came.

Especially the top three powerhouses in Liangwang Peak like Guo Nanshan, Jian Ruyun, and Gu Han didn't show up.

According to the current situation, not to mention competing with the Zhongzhou faction, even the records of the Yimao Zhai, Xihai Sword Sect and even Kunlun might leave the Qingshan Sect far behind.

This is really a shame.

Many practitioners are discussing this matter.

"What about Jing Jiu? Isn't it rumored that he is very powerful? I've heard of the killing gods from Liangwang Peak in Nanshan, and it's all because of him that they didn't come."

"It's just that he blows fiercely. With his cultivation time and realm, can he still be better than the first disciple of Qingshan?"

"Even if there is something hidden, his performance is too bad, right?"

The Taoist war has started for more than ten days.

After the initial nervousness and discomfort, those young genius disciples from the sect began to show their edge.

There are more and more blood plum blossoms on those paintings, even the worst ones will have two or three small plum blossoms, although it looks a bit shabby.

At the end there is a painting but it is still blank, only a few branches, it is really pitiful.