Taiping Inn

Li Xuandu retracted his gaze and made up his mind.

According to reason, Li Xuandu should have reconciled with the two at this time, but if he wanted to reconcile, it would inevitably involve the previous Taiping Inn incident, and the two would have to take Zhou Shuning away from Li Xuandu.

This was something Li Xuandu could not agree to.

Moreover, Li Xuandu's grievances with Zhengyi Sect and Cihang Sect were far more than the Taiping Inn incident.

As for how the two found him, Li Xuandu was not surprised. It is true that Qingluan Guards are proficient in tracking, but these sects that have been rooted in the world for thousands of years and have survived more than a dozen dynasties have a deeper foundation than Qingluan Guards with a history of more than 200 years. In addition, Luzhou is the territory of Taiping Sect. If Zhengyi Sect asks Taiping Sect for help, Taiping Sect will most likely help them because they are both righteous sects.

Li Xuandu said softly: "I can't give you the explanation you want."

Zhang Lianshan sighed and said: "Nothing to talk about?"

Li Xuandu shook his head and said: "It's not that there is nothing to talk about, but I know what you want. The reason why Empress Dowager Xie was able to defeat Zhang Xiang was not because she was much better than this Grand Tutor, but because Grand Tutor Zhang had deliberately suppressed the royal family and nobles, causing the royal family to hate him. However, when Emperor Muzong was alive, they could not touch Zhang Xiang. When Emperor Muzong passed away, they joined forces with Empress Dowager Xie to deal with Zhang Xiang together, led by Prince Jin."

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Lianshan and Ma Suzhen's faces changed.

Li Xuandu continued, "After Zhang Xiang died, Empress Dowager Xie was able to rule the country from behind the curtain, and Prince Jin became the regent as he wished."

Speaking of this, Li Xuandu showed a hint of sarcasm on his face, "This is interesting. Although I am not a member of the imperial court, I also know that when the emperor was young, it was either the Empress Dowager who ruled the country from behind the curtain or the uncle who was the regent. How could the Empress Dowager and the regent rule the country together? So there must be a battle between Prince Jin and the Empress Dowager."

"You, the Zhengyi Sect and the Cihang Sect, have already parted ways with Empress Dowager Xie. Now But you have joined the army of King Jin. You want to make a fuss about Zhou Tingchao. How could I not know your intention? But now Zhou Tingchao is dead, and only a weak and orphan girl is left. You still refuse to let her go, so I can never agree. "

Ma Suzhen took a step forward and said coldly: "Brother Zhang, why bother to talk to such people, just take them down directly!"

Zhang Lianshan waved the whisk in his hand. Although he hesitated a little, he nodded in the end because of the sect's plan.

The next moment, Ma Suzhen kicked his feet, and the bluestone ground under his feet shattered. The whole person instantly came to the three feet in front of Li Xuandu. Because of his fast speed, the white clothes on his body rustled.

The woman's face was as cold as frost. She pulled out the long sword behind her with a backhand. With a clang, a cold light flashed, and she cut Li Xuandu's head directly.

Although this woman was born in Cihang Sect, she did not show any mercy when she drew her sword.

Li Xuandu retreated back, just enough to let the sword brush past his throat without hurting him.

The sword missed, and Ma Suzhen was startled, knowing that the person in front of her should not be underestimated, and immediately withdrew her sword to defend.

But how could Li Xuandu let her come and go freely? She slapped her palm lightly, and although she was blocked by the long sword, Ma Suzhen still retreated uncontrollably.

At this moment, Zhang Lianshan finally made a move. He first pressed Ma Suzhen's back with one hand to help her stop retreating. At the same time, he shook his wrist, and the silver silk of the whisk in his hand swelled in the wind, sweeping towards Li Xuandu.

Li Xuandu's figure was like a drunkard, swaying left and right, staggering, and narrowly dodged the whisk.

Zhang Lianshan stepped forward, the whisk in his hand was dazzling, and silently, he kept sweeping towards Li Xuandu.

There is a saying that "a person holding a whisk is not an ordinary person". In Taoism, whisks mean to brush away worldly ties and transcend the mundane world. They are also what Taoists carry with them when they travel. Because whisks are Taoist instruments, various martial arts about whisks have evolved from them, emphasizing the meaning of nature, as the saying goes, it moves like clouds and moves continuously.

At this time, Zhang Lianshan used the Yin-Yang whisk of Zhengyi Sect, which reversed the hard and soft shapes and reversed the Yin-Yang power. It looked like a woman's black hair, but it was like a three-foot sharp sword when worn. It looked like an iron ruler, but it turned into a soft finger when worn, making it hard to defend against.

Li Xuandu's figure floated back and forth on the street, using the Zhengyi Sect's stepping on the Gang Budou, changing the Eight Diagrams, stepping on the Nine Palaces, and using the Eight Diagrams Palm and the Nine Palaces Fist in his hands. While strolling in the garden, he blocked all of Zhang Lianshan's whisks.

If it were to be seen by outsiders, they would think that they were two brothers who were also from the Zhengyi Sect practicing and learning from each other.

After stopping her retreat, Ma Suzhen calmed down her internal Qi and stepped forward again with her sword.

At the same time, Zhang Lianshan also sped up his movements, and saw silver threads dancing wildly, blocking all of Li Xuandu's retreat routes.

But Li Xuandu had no intention of dodging at all. Facing the sword stabbing at his chest, he used the Qi of the Golden Element to activate the Vajra Sect's Vajra Finger, and used two fingers to catch the sword in his hand. It can be said that he had a force of a thousand pounds, which could break bones and tendons, like breaking withered trees, breaking stones and shattering jade, like wearing rotten cotton.

Li Xuandu said calmly: "It is said that the sword energy of the Qingwei Sect and the sword intention of the Cihang Sect, your Daci sword is still a little short of the fire."

Ma Suzhen was shocked and angry, and wanted to pull the long sword back from between the two fingers, but found that the two fingers were like cast iron, so that the long sword caught between the fingers could not move at all. With such finger strength, how could he be in the Baodan realm? The masters of the Xuanyuan realm are no more than this!

Li Xuandu slightly increased the force with his two fingers, and with a bang, the three-foot-long sword could not withstand the huge force and broke into three pieces.

It was not that Ma Suzhen was too useless, but that Li Xuandu could not always reason with her.

Ma Suzhen's Baodan realm was a real Baodan realm, which he had walked out step by step, but just like the officials in the court, both of them were of the seventh rank, one was just an editor of the Hanlin Academy, living on salary, without any oil and water, and suffering from poverty; the other was a local county magistrate, as the saying goes, "the prefect who exterminated the family, the county magistrate who confiscated the property", he was the lord of a county, known as the Marquis of Baili, and could also be regarded as living in the eight seats, opening a government office, and the local gentry and people, anyone who saw him had to call him the master.

How could the two be compared?

In terms of the power of Qi, apart from Yu Qingning, no one in Baodan Realm can compare to Li Xuandu, and even in Xuanyuan Realm, there are few who can match him.

The middle-aged Taoist holding Fu Chen saw this scene, immediately stopped his action, and sighed softly.

The strength of the two sides was very different, and this time they hit a wall.

The young man in front of him was probably not in Baodan Realm, but had already stepped into Xuanyuan Realm.

What made him even more puzzled was why this person knew the method of Zhengyi Sect? His ease was completely incomparable to those who only learned a few moves in the world.

Was he also a member of Zhengyi Sect? Was he the hidden hand of the headmaster? But it didn't seem like it. From the tone of his words, he seemed to be a member of Zhang Suqing's faction. Among the four sects that supported Zhang Suqing back then, three of them were from Taoism, and they were vaguely hostile to Zhengyi Sect.

The situation was unclear, and he and Ma Suzhen really shouldn't have rushed into it at this time.