Master National Teacher is motionless

Chapter 83 The Real Endgame
Qiao Baiyue's body was placed in the most secret place of Qian Wang's Mansion, and a piece of ice stone was placed in his mouth to prevent his body from being exhausted. Coupled with the panacea that Tang Wanqiu took out, in this way, in the future, Qiao Baiyue can wait until Qiao Baiyue wakes up .

The two snake girls also woke up, and when they woke up, they cried bitterly and wanted to see Qiao Baiyue.

Tang Wanqiu also stayed by the sleeping Qiao Baiyue's side all the time, looking depressed, the mother-in-law Ying seemed a little nervous, and followed her side every step of the way.

Lin Lan looked at the sleeping Qiao Baiyue for a long time before turning around and leaving.

Back in Xiyuan, he looked at Fan Qingyao lying on the bed, and couldn't help but sigh.

"They're all asleep..."

Lin Lan slowly closed her eyes, suddenly feeling a little lonely.

Although he has long been used to being alone and the people around him leaving him, but getting used to it doesn't mean he can accept it.

"Meow."

A small meow sounded.

Lin Lan opened his eyes and looked, and saw the little black cat standing on his lap, looking up at him, as if feeling his mood, its short legs were neatly put together, and it rubbed its head against his cheek. hand.

"It's okay, it's only temporary anyway." Lin Lan smiled lightly and patted its head.

At this time, the little black cat suddenly got its head into his sleeve, as if it was looking for something, and when it re-revealed its head, it was holding a piece of white jade-like scale in its mouth.

Lin Lan was slightly taken aback.

This is the heart scale that Dream Snake gave him.

"Hey, don't you want to..." Lin Lan's face changed, and he wanted to stop it.

The next moment, he saw the little black cat suddenly raised its head, and swallowed the heart scale in the blink of an eye!
"You sword cat..." The corners of Lin Lan's eyes twitched slightly, and he couldn't help but shuddered on its head, "Why do you eat everything?"

The little black cat quickly covered its head with a pair of short paws, and obediently curled up on his lap and remained still.

"Forget it, just eat it." Lin Lan sighed helplessly, "This time you changed the fate, you have made great achievements, so let's treat it as a reward."

The little black cat let go of its paws covering its head, then meowed, stood up and rubbed its head against his hand.

"Where did you come from?" Lin Lan stroked the cat casually, and said softly, "Do you remember who your last master was?"

He didn't know what was going on, but when he talked about the previous owner, he felt that the little black cat suddenly became stiff, and his whole body was tense as if its hair had exploded, as if it was very nervous.

"Forget it, after asking so many times, you still can't answer."

Lin Lan shook her head slightly, and asked again: "However, how did you come up with the idea to call Kong Chen over? How do you know that he is the reincarnation of a divine monk?"

The little black cat looked at him innocently, as if asking: I'm just a cat, why are you asking me so much?
"I won't ask you anymore." Lin Lan sighed helplessly.

Immediately, he closed his eyes and continued to practice.

……

The Secretary of Jingtiantai Mansion.

The first hall.

"The first lord."

Venerable Yaoguang suddenly walked into the hall, looked up at the figure in white clothes like snow above, and said: "Just now we found out that we lost the sense of Dream Snake. A younger sister who sacrificed herself to absorb Mishen Yin."

"What?" Ji Shouzun suddenly turned to look at her, "I have no choice but to poison, how did she get rid of it?"

"It's the reincarnation of the divine monk from the Chengyuan Examination, Kongchen." Venerable Yaoguang said, "Combined with Lin Lan's supernatural power of calming the mind and calming the mind, he just forced out the medicinal power of Mishenyin."

"The reincarnation of the divine monk..."

Ji Shouzun murmured, and said: "That is indeed possible. That day at the Golden Luan Hall, the coercion I released with all my strength did not make Lin Lan any different. With his help, as long as Dream Snake is willing It’s possible to do that by sacrificing yourself.”

He took a deep breath and asked, "Is this news confirmed?"

"It's absolutely true." Venerable Yaoguang nodded and said, "Although Dream Snake failed to return to obedience, she has become like this, and she can no longer reveal the secrets of my Dayu, which is also a good result."

Ji Shouzun was silent for a while, then slowly closed his eyes, and said, "Okay, I see."

"Is the first lord regretting the loss of Dream Snake?"

Venerable Yaoguang said softly: "It's a pity, she is very useful, but she is too stupid, but she has been exposed after all, maybe this will affect the current stable situation between Daji and me, so it is better to let her To be regarded as a traitor, to be accused of treason is to give Daji an explanation in name."

"It's very stupid, just like those guys from Renzong." Ji Shouzun closed his eyes and murmured.

Immediately, he slowly opened his eyes, glanced at Venerable Yaoguang coldly, and said: "But no one will hate such stupid people, it's just that they are not suitable for the current Dayu. Such a person is a truly reliable talent for governing the country, besides... don't forget, in terms of merit, she is Dayu's hero."

Venerable Yaoguang was startled slightly, and said, "Yes, but Daji..."

Ji Shouzun was silent for a while, and said with a sneer, "If Daji has any opinions, let them come to me."

While speaking, he turned around again, looked up at the plaque above, and said: "Since she has already sacrificed, there is no need to defile her anymore... You go and take out the Tianxin Jade and send it to Prince Qian's Mansion."

"Tianxinyu?" Venerable Yaoguang was shocked, and couldn't help but froze. She wanted to open her mouth to confirm, but found that the first lord was looking at the plaque above, and fell silent again.

She replied slowly: "Yes."

The plaque reads——

Only when you are clear in your heart can you purify the sky.

……

The night is filled.

Qian Wangfu Xiyuan.

In the darkness, Lin Lan was immersed in the tranquility and practiced silently.

suddenly--

"Little friend Lin, can you come out and have a chat?"

An old and familiar voice suddenly came from outside the house.

Lin Lan opened his eyes.

Is it the national teacher?
He restrained his tranquility, stood up, and walked out of the house.

Under the cold moonlight, frost was everywhere outside the house, reflecting the moonlight, and the old national teacher, who looked like an ordinary old man, was sitting on the roof at this time, holding a wine gourd in his hand, gurgling Wine, with wine all over his beard.

The old master wiped the drink from his lips with his sleeve robe, patted the empty seat next to him, and said, "Come up and have a chat."

Lin Lan was silent for a while, then floated up to the roof, and sat down beside the old master.

"Now you seem to be more stable." The old national teacher looked him up and asked with a smile: "Successful?"

Lin Lan looked at him and said softly, "It's a success, but I don't like this kind of success."

The old master handed him the wine gourd and said, "Drink if you are not happy."

Lin Lan glanced at it, took the wine gourd, raised his head and took a sip, and poured it like a dragon sucking water for a long time before stopping.

"Hiss, don't drink so much if I tell you to drink." The old national teacher took back the wine gourd distressedly, "This is tribute wine that has been stored for hundreds of years, and the old man is usually reluctant to drink it."

Lin Lan wiped the drink from his lips, and said casually: "Even for practitioners, drinking too much alcohol can hurt your health. If you drink less, you might live to be four or five hundred years old."

The old national teacher smiled and said, "If there is no wine to drink, why does the old man live to be four or five hundred years old?"

Lin Lan shook her head slightly, didn't say much, just asked: "When did you know that I belong to the Heaven Thief?"

"Guess what?" the old master laughed.

"It should be a few days ago, after I entered the Tianyuan secret storehouse." Lin Lan said.

The old master smiled, shook his head and said: "A few days ago, Zhen Ling did tell me about you, but I didn't guess it at that time."

Lin Lan wondered, "That's..."

The old national teacher took another sip of wine, then smiled and glanced at him, and said, "It was four months ago, on the tenth day of September, the day of your entrance examination."

"So early?" Lin Lan frowned slightly, and said, "Even if I show extraordinary talent, I'm not necessarily a Heaven Thief, right?"

"If it's just about your talent, I certainly wouldn't necessarily consider you a Heaven Thief."

The old national teacher shook his head, and smiled again: "Do you still remember the second item in the entrance examination? At that time, you were asked to write down your ambitions on paper."

Lin Lan was startled, and suddenly understood.

"Although you threw away that piece of paper at the time, I found it on purpose." The old national teacher shook his head with a smile and said, "Who would put such an unrealistic and shameful thing on the table except for the Heaven Thief who has a predetermined destiny?" As your greatest ambition?"

Lin Lan fell silent. What he wrote at the time was "Change Fate against Heaven".

"You did very well."

The old national teacher said with relief: "Master Shengshi left something beyond the sky in the past, hoping that in the future era, there will be a thief who can change the fate of heaven. Although you are not the first thief who has done this, But it’s also amazing.”

"Which Thief of the Sky has done it before?" Lin Lan asked doubtfully.

"I don't know." The old national teacher shook his head and said: "Anyway, the Lord Saint Master is not the Thief of Heaven, but he seems to know the Thief of Heaven. I also inherited the position of National Teacher, so I know these secrets."

Lin Lan thought about it, and then asked, "Which generation of national teacher are you?"

"Fourth Generation."

The old national teacher smiled and said: "Although the old man's morals are not very good, he is the longest-lived among the previous national teachers. I am in my 370s, and I have been in this position for more than 200 years."

As he said that, he glanced at Lin Lan and said with a smile, "I heard that you told that Dream Snake today that you want to be the head of Renzong in the future? Do you want to be a national teacher?"

"I want to be the master of Renzong, but I don't really want to be a national teacher." Lin Lan said softly.

"That's right, it can be seen that you don't have a strong sense of belonging to Dayu." The old national teacher nodded slightly, and then said: "But there will be some gradually, everyone comes here like this, the master of my sect, How can you not be the master of Dayu?"

"Let's talk." Lin Lan shook his head slightly.

The old national teacher didn't try to persuade him much, but said: "The old man will try his best to last for a while, you should practice quickly, if you can cultivate great supernatural powers before the old man dies, the old man will die in peace."

Lin Lan was silent for a moment, then said: "I will try my best, the premise is that I can live until then."

"That's right." The old national teacher shook his head and smiled.

Immediately, he sighed again: "Actually, the old man is still very grateful to you. Regardless of whether the old man can survive until then, at least you helped that kid Yue Xianzhi. He is about to break through in the past two years, and he will not be the suzerain by then." , or at least the deputy suzerain, with this Chonghua formation, it can last for a long time."

Lin Lan knew.

The more you offer it, it is naturally the sacrificial wine, the master of Yue Pavilion.

"My lord, I want to ask, what's wrong with my apprentice..." Lin Lan said softly.

"Your apprentice... Qiao Baiyue..."

The old national teacher sighed and said: "She has been miserable all her life. When she wakes up, treat her well. Her contribution to Dayu is enough to rank among the top three."

Lin Lan looked at him and asked, "What is she doing in Jingtiantai?"

The old national teacher glanced at him, was silent for a while, and then said: "It's okay to tell you, anyway, this country will depend on you in the future."

He pondered for a while, and said: "You should understand that there is white and there is black in this world. In terms of practitioners, Dayu has Chonghua Academy on the surface to educate people, Zhengansi sits in Chonghua, and Fengtian Army guards the frontier. , the Enshrinement Hall guards the royal family, and the Jingtiantai is in charge of punishment, but it is impossible to maintain the future of a country by relying on these alone."

Lin Lan listened quietly.

"Jingtiantai, there is an existence similar to a spy in the dark, and it is the secret envoy of Jingtiantai."

The old national teacher said softly: "They act in the dark, and they specialize in handling all kinds of shady things for Dayu. Those bloody and sinful actions and actions that are not on the table are done by them."

He glanced at Lin Lan and said, "As for your apprentice, Qiao Baiyue, as the unique Dream Snake in the world, she is the most suitable for dreaming and investigating the confidential information of the enemy country. In terms of strength, my Dayu is actually not as good as Daji, Qiao Baiyue owes part of the credit to any of the three kingdoms, Northern Qi and Later Chu, to be able to operate smoothly these years."

Lin Lan finally understood.

He was silent for a while, then asked softly: "The princess said she was miserable, and you also said she was miserable, why?"

The old master also fell silent.

After a long time, he opened his mouth and said: "If you know, you may hate Jingtiantai very much. In the future, when you stand on a high place in Dayu, working with Jingtiantai may also affect you. Are you sure you want to know?"

Lin Lan said slowly: "Sovereign Lord, I have seen a lot of darkness, and I also understand that a country sometimes cannot live without these insidious and dirty things."

"...That's right, although you are kind-hearted, you are really mature."

The old national teacher nodded slightly, and then said: "Then let me just say something casually, you have also been to the Dreamland Sea, have you seen those isolated islands?"

Lin Lan hummed.

"Those isolated islands are everyone's soul." The old national teacher said softly: "If Dream Snake wants to explore the memories of those people and find confidential information, it must kill those people directly. Only after the isolated island sinks can they get the memories of those people. Or you have to dive into the deepest recesses of those people's minds to peek at the memory."

He sighed and said: "Human instinct is to bury those painful and dark memories in the deepest part. This is a self-protection instinct. If Dream Snake doesn't want to kill people, it must forcibly endure those painful memories. To penetrate to the deepest depths of the human heart.”

Lin Lan understood a little bit.

"Dream Snake explores the memory in a short period of time. When the soul is rejected, it is already under great pressure. If you have to directly use the soul to contact the source of the pain, you can imagine the price."

The old master shook his head slightly and said: "I don't know exactly how painful it is, but I only know that when she first completed the task assigned by Jingtiantai, her soul was torn apart, and she almost lost her mind."

Lin Lan was taken aback for a moment, his soul was torn apart?
In terms of pain, the torture of the flesh and blood is nothing compared to the pain directly transmitted from the soul!

The soul is so painful that it is torn apart, what kind of terrible pain is this?

The old master slowly closed his eyes, "I watched that child's soul being torn apart, turned into its original shape and rolled crazily on the ground, hitting the wall and the ground with snake scales and blood everywhere, and broke free With a stump of tail, she kept begging to kill her, and I was thinking at the time, should I just kill her and let her end this pain?"

He sighed, "But when that cruel boy Ji was giving her the precious medicine to mend her soul, he told her: 'You are dead, and your sisters are also dead', and finally... that silly girl actually held on down."

Lin Lan was silent for a while, and asked, "She must have experienced this kind of tearing of the soul more than once, right?"

"Should there be hundreds of times? Or thousands of times? I can't remember..."

The old master glanced at him and said softly: "It is very painful to repair the soul. Her soul is torn and repaired again and again. Now it is probably full of cracks and full of holes. Although her The will is also constantly being tempered, but the soul is getting weaker and weaker. Boy Ji asked her to work for Jingtiantai for five years because he was afraid that she would not be able to hold on, but she did not expect that she would hold on because she was thinking of her sister. "

He sighed, and said, "Actually, Boy Ji originally planned to let her go as soon as five years came, but the gang of thieves in Faguang Temple discovered her existence somehow, and the fate of the bald donkey set up this fight." Jingtiantai did not dare to let her go, after all, we all know that she attaches great importance to her sisters, and even become her obsession, maybe she will switch to the Buddhist sect."

Lin Lan was silent.

"Don't blame Boy Ji." The old national teacher sighed softly: "He is also a hard-working person. If it wasn't for Dayu, he would not have become what he is now."

He couldn't help but see the figure laughing wildly in the rainstorm, and couldn't help sighing again.

But Lin Lan didn't say anything, just said softly: "I know there's no right or wrong, but I'm not happy."

The old master raised his head and took a sip of the wine, then slowly shook his head, "Who can be happy? The old man has been suppressed for more than 300 years, and he has never been happy in his life."

For the longevity, the years are not only written on the face, but also engraved in the heart.

Lin Lan sat for a while without saying a word, then stretched out her hand and said, "Give me a bite."

The old master glanced at him, and handed him the wine gourd casually.

Lin Lan raised his head and took another big gulp, then returned the wine gourd to him, wiped his mouth, stood up and said: "The first generation of the national teacher has already done a demonstration, since there is no right or wrong in this world, there are only pros and cons and strength If there is a trade-off, then there is no other way.”

He jumped off the roof without looking back, leaving only one sentence: "I'm going back to practice."

……

……

Everything seemed to calm down again.

The night passed steadily, and finally came the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the day of the Lantern Festival.

Lin Lan was not in the mood to celebrate any festivals, but was just practicing silently.

Until night fell, he glanced at the gradually dimming sky outside the window, and suddenly remembered what Mo Tianshi and Qiao Baiyue said before they were alive.

The day when Qiao Baiyue had the most fun in the human city for the first time was the Lantern Festival, but she was brought home by the eldest sister in the end. Even though there were thousands of lights behind her, she still couldn't look back. She finally hoped that Someone hung a lantern for her.

Before Mo Tianshi died, he asked him to hang a fishtail lantern under the tallest ginkgo tree in Chonghua City when the city was filled with lanterns.

One of these two is his apprentice and the other is his master. Lin Lan naturally wants to fulfill her and his wishes.

Immediately, Lin Lan called the maid serving in Xiyuan and asked, "Where is the Princess?"

"Master, the princess has gone out and said he wants to hang a lantern for Miss Qiao." The maid said respectfully: "The princess originally planned to call Mr. Lin together, seeing that you are practicing, so I didn't bother you."

Lin Lan didn't say much, just said: "Take me out."

"Yes." The maid immediately walked behind him, pushed the wheelchair for him, and walked towards the outside of the palace.

"By the way, do you know where the tallest ginkgo tree is in Chonghua City?" Lin Lan asked suddenly.

"The tallest ginkgo tree?"

The maid thought for a while and said, "That must be Tianshi Street. Tianshi Street was very prosperous back then. Although it is cooler now, there are still many people going there, and the princess often goes there too."

Tianshi Street?
Lin Lan heard the name of this street, and immediately thought of Mo Tianshi.

Could it be because of this street that Mo Tianshi gave this title back then?

After passing through the huge palace, Lin Lan suddenly asked curiously when he arrived at the Chaoshou verandah of the Chuihua Gate: "By the way, I have lived in the mansion for a few days, why have I never seen King Qian?"

"This... the servant doesn't know either."

The maid said honestly: "Since Princess Jingchu passed away, the lord has seldom appeared."

"Princess Jingchu..." Lin Lan nodded slightly.

He had long heard that Princess Pingle was born to the younger sister of King Qian of this generation, and King Qian had no children, so he regarded Tang Wanqiu as his direct daughter, but he had never heard of Tang Wanqiu's father, only knew that his mother was Princess Jingchu.

"By the way, why is Princess Jingchu called such a title?" Lin Lan asked casually.

"This... I don't know about this." The maid said cautiously: "But I heard from my mother that it seems that Princess Jingchu was sent to live in Houchu as Dayu's hostage when she was young. A few years."

"Jingchu, Jingchu..." Lin Lan was stunned.

……

Soon, a carriage drove out from Qian Wang's Mansion.

After a while, I arrived at Tianshi Street in Yinshufang.

Sure enough, Tianshi Street is not deserted. You can still see lanterns on the street, and there are many men and women passing by.

After getting out of the carriage, Lin Lan didn't sit in the wheelchair any more, restrained her sense of tranquility, looked up at the ginkgo tree in front of her that was nearly thirty feet high, and walked over slowly.

This tall ginkgo tree has gone through the severe winter wind and frost, the leaves have fallen off long ago, and the tree is covered with frost, snow and ice.

Lin Lan watched silently.

Is this the ginkgo tree that Mo Tianshi didn't forget before he died?
I don't know what kind of experience Mo Tianshi had in Chonghua City back then, so that he became what he was later, but he never forgot it until he died?
"My lord, I have bought you the two lanterns you asked for."

After a while, the maid trotted over and said out of breath, "One is a fishtail lantern, and the other is a basket lantern."

Lin Lan hummed, and after taking the mermaid lantern, she looked up at the tall ginkgo tree.

With a light tap of his foot, he jumped up.

Immediately, he found one of the stronger-looking branches, and after cleaning the frost and snow on the branches, he hung the fishtail lantern on it.

"All right."

After landing, Lin Lan looked up at the fishtail lantern, silent, but sighed secretly in his heart: "Master, the first thing you want me to do has already been done."

He stared at the Pisces lantern for a long time before he sighed and prepared to change the place and help Qiao Baiyue hang up the lantern.

at this time--

"Mr. Lin Lan?"

Only a slightly hoarse familiar voice sounded from behind.

Lin Lan turned to look at the sound.

Today's Princess Pingle is rarely dressed in white. She looks a bit like Qiao Baiyue's attire. She is standing not far behind him, smiling slightly at him.

"The county lord."

Lin Lan nodded slightly, "I heard from the maid that you might also come to Tianshi Street, but I didn't expect to meet you."

"Mr. Lin knows Bai Yue quite well." Tang Wanqiu glanced at the lantern in Lin Lan's hand and said, "You also know that Bai Yue likes flower basket lanterns?"

Lin Lan hummed and said, "I've seen her previous experience."

"It seems that she quite likes you." Tang Wanqiu nodded slightly, then glanced at the ginkgo tree next to him, and said, "I just saw that Mr. Lin seemed to have jumped from this ginkgo tree?"

She looked up and found a fishtail lantern hanging on a branch.

The next moment, her face suddenly changed.

"Fishtail Lantern..."

Tang Wanqiu stared fixedly at the fishtail-shaped lantern, his eyes full of shock.

Lin Lan was slightly taken aback, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Tang Wanqiu looked at Lin Lan suddenly, took a step forward, grabbed his shoulders with both hands, stared at him fixedly, and asked as if going crazy: "You! How do you know how to hang on this ginkgo tree? A lantern? Do you know Yin Gongshu?? You must know him!!"

"Yin Gongshu? Who?"

At this moment, the person who turned into light and dust flashed in Lin Lan's mind.

"He claims to be a demon celestial master!" Tang Wanqiu gritted his silver teeth, and asked in a trembling voice: "What is the relationship between you and him...?"

Lin Lan frowned slightly, then said, "He is my master."

"Your master?" Tang Wanqiu couldn't help being stunned, and couldn't help asking tremblingly: "What about others? Where is he now??"

Lin Lan was silent for a while, then said: "He is dead, no matter what grievances you have with him, he is already dead."

"died?"

Tang Wanqiu was stunned, and the hands holding Lin Lan's shoulders became weak, as if he had lost all his strength, he knelt softly on the ground, and murmured: "Dead...how can you die... How can... Dad..."

Lin Lan couldn't help being startled, and murmured, "Are you his daughter?"

Tang Wanqiu, however, seemed to have completely collapsed, his whole body seemed to have lost his soul, sitting on the icy ground with a pale face, just murmured: "Dead...he died...father died..."

"Hey you……"

Lin Lan frowned, and was about to comfort her——

"boom!!"

In that instant, an incomparably terrifying coercion suddenly spread, as if the sky was collapsing. The endless coercion turned into an invisible force, instantly freezing everything.

Clothes blown by the cold wind, expressions on the faces of passers-by, flames jumping slowly inside the lantern, bits of frost and snow falling slowly...

At this moment, everything stands still.

Lin Lan stared at Tang Wanqiu who was kneeling on the ground in disbelief.

At this time, snow-white snake scales appeared on Tang Wanqiu's cheeks, spreading rapidly across her body, and her eyes seemed to have turned into vertical pupils of snakes, which were blurred like a dream , was looking at him quietly.

Lin Lan watched this scene almost in despair, as if a million thunderbolts exploded in his heart:

"The terrible coercion in the Chengyuan Hall that day was not released by the great supernatural powers, but... Tang Wanqiu!!!"

The next moment, his eyes suddenly became dark.

When the light was restored again, Lin Lan found that he had come to the boundless sea of ​​dreams and was on an isolated island.

Immediately, a huge shadow covering the sky and the sun enveloped him.

A female voice mixed with hissing snakes echoed throughout the world of Dreamland Sea:

"Yo, it seems... I should call you Junior Brother."

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