Chapter 714 – Counterproductive
Xue Mu listened to these words from Leng Qingshi and nodded with quite a bit of emotion, “Brother Leng, many thanks for the explanation.”
Leng Qingshi thought that he had impressed Xue Mu, after all, that was also a person who was destined to have children. He carefully tried, “Then what was said just now, with the intention of the Xue ally ……”
Xue Mu smiled faintly, “I would not have intervened in the dispute between Department Six and Nature Sect.”
Leng Qingshi breathed a huge sigh of relief and was about to say something when he heard Xue Mu say, “But Brother Leng, since your father’s intention is like this, do you know if you know what ending will result from you standing in front of me?”
“Eh?” Leng Qingshi couldn’t figure it out, and was about to ask, when there was a slight pain in his back waist, and he had already been pressed against a sharp object.
Leng Qingshi immediately flooded with Ye Lushang’s name, this woman was just now sitting with a smile in the waiting parlor, and he didn’t know when to come out, and said flip-flop. He didn’t lose his color, and said with a calm face, “What does Alliance Master Xue mean by this?”
“The reasoning you just told me is nothing more than lips dying and teeth chilling, the imperial court has suppressed the righteous path, and one day it will be the turn of my alliance of the six paths.”
“Isn’t it?”
“Yes. But until then, this theory of your lips dying and teeth chilling should be directed at the other sects of the Righteous Dao.”
Leng Qingshi colored slightly.
“You would want to entangle the Righteous Dao, share the same spirit, and resist the pressure together, the problem is that I, Xue Mu, don’t want you to do that. For now, having a strong group out there doesn’t do the situation any favors, it will just get stuck in endless tug-of-war.”
“Then what’s the point of you sneaking up on me?”
“Because I know that your father is looking for Questioning Sky and Yuan Zhong. With you here, he’ll think he’ll stop.”
“You fucking listened with a touching face just now, but you were actually setting me up?”
“Being very moved and then rejecting him, isn’t that a regular routine? Brother Leng has read too little.”
Leng Qingshi cried and laughed, but also didn’t feel much malice from Xue Mu, just sighed: “You actually also know how to play this hostage taking and threatening family members thing …… Where is the righteous man who did it for the sake of the ten thousand people of Yi Zhou before?”
“Art returns to art, Tao returns to Tao.” Xue Mu calmly said, “Xue Mou’s Devil Sect origins have never been shy about using small side techniques, Xian father and son may have forgotten this. Let’s go Brother Leng, I’ll buy you a drink.”
Xuan Tian Sect.
Deep in the cloud mountain, white mist, drifting snow like flakes, gently raised, there are immortal cranes gently dancing in the sky, elk wandering in the snow, the sound of running water, the end is the fairyland on earth.
Fairyland in three people walking slowly, a monk and a common, are bamboo sticks and shoes, leisurely, such as the mountains in the high priest, transcendent.
To the cliffside pavilion, pavilion in the ice and snow does not accumulate, has been transformed into a trickle of gradual flow of the phase, the sky of the evening sun is brilliant, reflecting the white mountains and rivers slightly red, beautiful.
“It’s going to be spring.” Daoist Questioning Heaven looked at the evening sun and leisurely said, “This time of year reminds me of a poem.”
Cold Bamboo Yuan Zhong all looked sideways, they had crossed paths and played more witty banter, but talking about poetry was unprecedented, it was evident that Xue Mu’s original quip of “Wind Wave Setting” had indeed had a great impact on the Xuan Tian Sect’s ethos, and even Asking Heaven had gained such an elegance. Leng Zhu and Yuan Zhong didn’t feel it was sudden, this situation is like a poem.
Leng Zhu also had to admit that he was inevitably influenced by Xue Mu. Xue Mu’s presence is too strong, along with the things he does have been repeatedly studied, and all kinds of literary works are easy to get into the heart, study, study, many people themselves are genuinely loved into it.
Yuan Zhong then said, “What poem does Brother Dao recall? Did Xue Mu give you the poem ‘Tingfengbo’?”
“No.” Wentian leisurely said, “There is no snow on the curved threshold of the leisure garden, and there is a sunset on the flowing water and empty mountains.”
Yuan Zhong applauded and laughed: “Brother Dao actually still reads Dream of Red Mansions, that teach lust, a piece of red dust rolling around, the most demented and stubborn, but it really doesn’t look like something you can read on.”
Ask Tian looked askance at him and said, “How do you know about the teachings of obscenity and theft? Any sentence you know is from the Red Mansion, I’m afraid you’ve read it more carefully than I have.”
“Do not look more carefully no way ah, that Journey to the West, I thought it was revered Buddha, but the more you look the more it is not a taste, especially by the Heron State Daily Newspaper every now and then to a ‘Journey to the West New Explanation’, ‘Journey to the West Background Analysis’, what Buddhist conspiracy theories have come up, make everyone look at us with a strange look.”
Questioning Heaven laughed out loud.
Yuan Zhong added: “Since it’s Xue Mu’s Red Mansion Snow Poem, I’ll also chime in with a poem.”
Leng Zhu said, “You can still say which one, is not it see through the recluse, obsessed in vain life?”
Ask Tian Yuan Zhong together side-eye: “So you also look ah ……”
Leng Zhu smiled and did not say anything.
“I am talking about but not this song.” Yuan Zhong leisurely said, “Into the world cold pick red snow to go, away from the dust incense cut purple clouds to come, contempt who cherish poetry shoulder thin, clothes still stained with moss in the Buddha yard. Regardless of how Xue Mu to my Buddhism, whether or not the shade of the old line, in any case, he this Buddha nature Zen heart, really can not be false.”
“Son of the Heavenly Dao Well, you say that is called Zen heart, but I say that is the Dao edge.” Ask the sky smiled and turned to Leng Zhu: “Leng brother can have a poem? Or is that the one just now?”
Leng Zhu was silent for a moment and faintly said, “If it’s the one just now, then I’ll take another line.”
“Which line?”
“It’s not easy to pay back for grievances, separation and reunion are all predetermined.”
Yuan Zhong wondered, “Hey, you also talk about cause and effect?”
Leng Zhu smiled slightly bitterly, “I speak of the present.”
Ask Heaven Yuan Zhong looked at each other and said nothing.
The three of them had gathered here today, originally to do some discussions about the way forward, and of course Xue Mu was their topic, even the verses.
Leng Zhu slightly revitalized his spirit and spoke, “Today’s matter is not about my Natural Sect being difficult, the two of you are having a similar day I see, listening to what Master just said, the Heron State propaganda offensive has already affected the foundation of your Buddhist Sect.”
“Yes.” Yuan Zhong faintly said, “Although we have not seen the real thing, but in the long run there will be problems. I think Xuanzhou Taoist style is similar ……”
Ask Tian smiled, “It is about the same.”
“What does Brother Dao think?” Leng Zhu directly said, “Xue Mu’s resources at hand are so powerful that they exceed the limits of what we can expect, it can be said that he is capable of digging up roots in literature and destroying sects in martial arts. If we sit back and let this happen, and he breaks us in every way, there will be no Xuan Tian Wu Gui banner in the world in the future.”
Yuan Zhong said, “So what does Shifu Leng mean?”
“Xue Mu was able to form the Alliance of the Six Paths, why can’t we form the Alliance of the Righteous Path?” Leng Zhu said, “Mister Leng would like to raise Brother Ask the Sky as the alliance leader, what does Brother Dao think?”
Asking Heaven looked at the evening sun in the sky, he slowly said, “Alliance, alliance with whom? Your mind is long gone, the Seven Mysteries of the Questioning Sword is almost considered Xue Mu’s outer residence, Xue Qingqiu is still in the Desert Wild Sands, you’re allied with the Sea and Sky Pavilion? Attacked the murderer who killed Zheng Yezhi?”
“So what if we killed Zheng Yezhi? This is not something we should be concerned about.” Leng Zhu paused and added, “Besides, the Questioning Sword Sect can still have the Supreme Emperor.”
Asking Heaven did not speak, Yuan Zhong also did not speak, the two looked just lacking in interest, as if they were not interested in Leng Zhu’s proposal at all.
“Back when I was in the capital, I told Mo Xuexin that if I continue to be so confined to rules and regulations and look ahead, sooner or later, Xue Mu will have no one to restrain him. Now, not only proved that at first my prediction was completely correct, even Mo Xuexin herself has become his personal favorite …… ” Leng Zhu spat out a sentence, and then said, “What about you guys, you also want to continue to be a world out of the ordinary, sit back and watch when Xue Mu sweeps in? ”
“It’s not that we’re heartless.” Questioning Heaven sighed and slowly said, “Xue Mu borrowed the order of the Son of Heaven to spread the word all over the world, digging up the eyes of the Eight Desolate Blood Spirit Formation, digging them in according to the directions he pointed out, and every one of them is true. Void Purification has been setting up this formation for an unknown amount of time, there must be a backstory, it’s impossible for it to be destroyed cleanly at such a time. Xue Mu has a gap with your Natural Sect, do not take advantage of the time when the power is in the hands of your Natural Sect to strike, is to see in the sake of not wanting to cross the branch, we instead take advantage of such a time alliance to deal with him …… this matter Lao Dao not for.”
Leng Zhu frowned and asked Yuan Zhong, “Master thinks so too?”
“Amitabha Buddha.” Yuan Zhong folded his arms and said, “If you plant this evil cause, you shall not be blameless. The poem that Mistress Leng just wrote is quite interesting, so you might as well savor it again.”
Leng Zhu shook his head, “It’s not that I don’t know, I just can’t help but worry when I think of the future situation, could it be that you really don’t care?”
Yuan Zhong smiled, “All actionable laws are dreams and bubbles. I’m afraid that we may not be able to meet that situation, but the worried Leng Shi Master will meet it first. This is called counterproductive.”
Leng Zhu cold hummed: “What am I afraid of?”
“Report!” A Xuan Tian Sect disciple hurriedly went up the mountain and said in an urgent voice, “Star and Moon Sect’s Xuan Tian Branch Rudder sent a message saying that Xue Mu has words to pass on to Natural Sect’s Patriarch Leng, saying that if Patriarch Leng doesn’t return home, Leng Qing Shi won’t be able to return home.”
Leng Zhu was dumbfounded.
Almost at the same time, Mo Xuexin approached Xue Mu, “Elder Du of the Questioning Sword Sect visited and brought news of the Heavenly Extreme Ice Plains.”
Xue Mu looked at Leng Qingshi, who was sealed off from his powers and drinking mulled wine, and stood up long: “I knew it, maybe I won’t even be able to stay for the Spring Festival.”