The master comes down the mountain: I don’t want to be a son-in-law

Li Muchen arrived at Longhu Mountain and met the famous Zhengtian Master Zhang Yunpu.

Compared to Zhang Xikun, Zhang Yunpu is much more famous. Although he and Zhang Xikun are brothers, they are much older than Zhang Xikun and have much higher qualifications and prestige in the Taoist sect.

Therefore, as soon as Zhang Yunpu came out of seclusion, Zhang Xikun immediately returned the name of Tianshi to Zhang Yunpu. Although the disciples of Tianshi Mansion still called him "Tianshi", they added the word "Xikun" in front of Tianshi. Call him "Celestial Master Xikun" instead of "Celestial Master Zhang".

When Li Muchen entered, he clearly felt that the people in Tianshi Mansion were not very friendly to him, or even hostile.

Zhang Xikun once treated him with respect because of his status as the Immortal Envoy of Tiandu, but this time, his attitude also changed drastically.

Zhang Xikun took Li Muchen to the other courtyard where Zhang Yunpu practiced.

"Master Li..." Zhang Xikun hesitated on the way.

"If Daozhang Zhang has anything to say, just say it first," Li Muchen said.

"Master Li returned the Angel Sword as a favor to the Tianshi Mansion. In Luo City, I saw you kill the pagan angels and save the Chinese Taoist sect with my own eyes. But you...why did you spread those words that ruined the Tao?"

Li Muchen said: "I am not destroying the Tao, but building it."

Zhang Xikun sighed: "I know what the young master is like, but my senior brother is a stubborn person..."

"Are you afraid that I will conflict with your senior brother?" Li Muchen smiled, "Are you worried that I will kill your senior brother, or are you worried that your senior brother will kill me?"

"This……"

Zhang Xikun is a little embarrassed. He is very aware of Li Muchen's strength, but his senior brother has been in seclusion for twenty years. He dare not say what level he has reached now.

"Master Li, I just don't want any misunderstanding between you."

"I hope it's a misunderstanding." Li Muchen said.

As the two of them talked, they arrived at the door of the courtyard where Zhang Yunpu was.

Zhang Xikun said respectfully outside the door: "Senior brother, Mr. Li is here."

"Come in." A vicissitudes of life and majestic voice came from inside.

Li Muchen followed Zhang Xikun in, walked through the courtyard, and reached the middle hall.

The huge hall was empty, with nothing but a futon. Sitting on the futon was an old Taoist with white hair and long eyebrows, and a pale beard hanging under his chin. He looked three-quarters majestic and seven-cent kind, and there was nothing he could do about it. It is related to things like killing people and sinking wells, and drawing talismans to seal corpses.

"Go back." Zhang Yunpu said to Zhang Xikun.

Zhang Xikun said: "Yes, senior brother."

He glanced at Li Muchen worriedly and then retreated.

Zhang Yunpu waved his hand and held the whisk in his hands. The whisk pulled the thread, and he grabbed a futon from the void and landed on the opposite side of him.

"sit down."

Li Muchen was slightly surprised. He also went into seclusion twenty years ago, but this veteran's cultivation level was actually much higher than Wang Chongxian of Baiyun Temple.

I just don’t know if it’s the inherent gap between them, or the breakthrough they’ve achieved in the past twenty years of seclusion.

Li Muchen sat down and said, "I heard that the Heavenly Master is looking for me. What's the matter?"

"It was you who found the Tianshi Sword and returned it to the Tianshi Mansion?" Zhang Yunpu looked at him and asked.

"Yes."

"Well, the Tianshi Sword is passed down by the ancestor and is a symbol of the Tianshi. For this matter, everyone in the Tianshi Mansion will be grateful to you."

Li Muchen smiled and said: "But what I saw when I came here is that their attitude towards me doesn't seem like they are grateful to me."

"That's because I ordered them to keep their distance from you." Zhang Yunpu said.

"Why?" Li Muchen asked.

"Why?" Zhang Yunpu's eyes suddenly froze, "Do you want the tragedy of twenty years ago to happen again?"

Li Muchen asked in surprise: "What does this have to do with what happened twenty years ago?"

"Twenty years ago, the Li family was demonized and eventually wiped out." Zhang Yunpu's expression dimmed, and he paused for a moment before continuing, "Now you are also on the road to being demonized. I asked them to keep a distance from you. If something happens to the Li family in the future, we can at least guarantee that the Tianshi Mansion will not be involved."

These words were beyond Li Muchen's expectations.

"It seems that the Taoist priest doesn't really think that I am a demon."

Zhang Yunpu shook his head slightly: "It doesn't matter whether I think it or not. What matters is what the people in the world think."

Li Muchen smiled and said: "When you and I meet today, what the world thinks is not important, what is important is what you think?"

Zhang Yunpu was stunned and sneered: "To be honest, I don't agree with your way. However, I don't think you are a devil either."

Li Muchen was a little surprised: "How do you say this?"

"Alas..." Zhang Yunpu sighed, "I have lived for a hundred years, and been in seclusion for twenty years. After reflecting on my own mistakes, I finally understood a truth. The world is not either one or the other, either the Tao or the devil. It’s not either the devil or the Tao. Twenty years ago, it was precisely because we didn’t understand this truth that the tragedy occurred.”

Zhang Yunpu then talked about what happened back then, which was similar to what Wang Chongxian said, but explained it from a different perspective, giving Li Muchen a more comprehensive understanding of the whole story.

"How did Hu Yuntian die?" Li Muchen suddenly asked.

"As expected, you cleaned that well." Zhang Yunpu's face showed a trace of pain, "Hu Yuntian and I have a good personal relationship. Longhu Mountain also has a legacy of medical skills, and we often compete together. I know Hu Yuntian's character very well. He I will never help others do evil."

"That's why Guanzhu Wang of Baiyun Temple asked me to come out. He wanted me to persuade Hu Yuntian not to get involved in the affairs of the Li family in the capital. But I didn't expect that Hu Yuntian didn't listen to my advice, and his attitude was very firm."

"Later, something happened in the capital, and Hu Yuntian hid in Hecheng. I was very familiar with him and knew that he bought a secret house in Hecheng many years ago. At that time, I already felt that something was wrong with the Li family, so I found him. I wanted to find out. But I didn’t expect that as soon as I arrived at Wutongju, Yuan Dingyi and Fairy Wang Wuyue from Maoshan appeared at the same time. Later I found out that they were following me."

"Hu Yuntian thought I was the one who brought this person, and regarded me as a duplicitous and treacherous person. He scolded me and refused to say anything. You should already know what happened next..."

Zhang Yunpu's expression was a little distorted, as if he was trapped in painful memories.

Li Muchen said solemnly: "Since you realized that something was wrong at that time, why didn't you stop them?"

"Because I also want to know the truth." Zhang Yunpu lowered his head and said, "At that time, although I realized that there was something fishy about the Li family, I didn't understand the truth yet. I believed that Hu Yuntian would not help others, but subconsciously, I felt that he He must have been bewitched by evil spirits."

"I was embarrassed to question my friend and curious about the truth, so I found an excuse to leave, but I left a Heavenly Master Magic Sky Talisman at the scene. This Talisman is a secret passed down by the Grandmaster and can restore what happened in a certain time and space. Just like today’s video recorders.”

"When I came back, the tragedy had already happened. Yuan Dingyi said that Hu Yuntian suddenly became demonic and they had to kill him. I still believed it at the time. One was a Maoshan Taoist and the other was a Wangwu Fairy. What reason did I have? Don’t you believe it?”

"After they left, out of curiosity, I used the Illusion Sky Talisman to restore the truth, only to discover that Hu Yuntian was not possessed by demons at all, but was tortured to death by them. They even used the soul-searching method on him, which is completely Taoist taboo. , the method of evil."

Zhang Yunpu's voice became angry.

"The Book of Tao says: 'Yin is within Yang, not opposite to Yang.' I finally understood that the devil is in the Tao, and the real devil is around us.