The sound of "rolling" was dull in the empty stone room, which was the secret room where the three tokens of His Holiness were stored. Ye Xiaotian originally knew about one of the secret passages, but after returning to the temple, he was inspired by the ingenious design of the corresponding mechanisms of this secret passage, and discovered several more mechanisms one after another, and mastered how to use them.

With the sound of the "rolling" stone door opening, a heavy stone door slowly opened, revealing a black step opening. Winter, wearing a black robe, like a ghost emerging from the black hole, suddenly appeared.

His tall figure was staggered, a half-bald head poked out first, Ye Xiaotian stood on it with the lamp in his hand, first saw a shiny ball of meat, and then saw Winter raised his head, his deep-set eyes narrowed slightly, and then lined with the hooked nose of the eagle, a little gloomy.

"Elder Winter!" Elder Dong's appearance is not good, but his face is cold and his heart is hot. When Ye Xiaotian saw winter, he couldn't help but be a little excited, and he also showed a happy appearance in winter, and wanted to get dressed and salute: "Disciple winter, I've seen ......."

Before he finished speaking, Ye Xiaotian grabbed his hand: "The matter is urgent, Elder Dong doesn't have to be polite." Elder Dong, now that the deity is in great trouble, only Elder Winter can protect the Dharma. ”

Winter was stunned, and said periodically: "What the Venerable is talking about the Eight Great Elders asking the Venerable to return to the mountain, right?" The disciple thought that the loyalty of the Eight Great Elders to you was beyond question. They just disagreed with His Holiness's decision to leave the mountain, and hoped that His Holiness would stay in the temple to preside over the affairs of the Sect. In fact, Your Holiness has indeed disobeyed the will of His Holiness......"

Ye Xiaotian said: "Don't talk about it, you only sue me, do you think, what I did is right or not?" ”

Winter was silent and did not speak for a long time, and this already shows the attitude.

Ye Xiaotian sighed and said, "Elder Dong, why did you say that the seventeenth Venerable Daika made the decision that the believers were not allowed to go out of the mountain?" Although I am the Venerable. But if you don't know much about the story of this religion, can Elder Winter teach me? ”

Winter said in a somewhat hoarse voice: "Actually, in the beginning, there was no rule in this religion that you should not go out of the mountain. In the earliest days, not all of our Miao tribes believed in Gu Religion. Since the first Venerable of this sect founded the Gu Sect, he has carried forward the Gu art that has been passed down from generation to generation.

Before that, Gu Master was just a physician and sorcerer in the tribe, but since he had his own sect and united the tribes that believed in Gu Sect and obeyed the orders of His Holiness, this force has grown.

Since then, whether it is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster. The Gu Sect believers who gathered the strength of the tribes were far easier to overcome and survived than the other tribes. After seeing the benefits of joining the Gu Sect, more Miao families joined the Gu Sect.

However, with the passage of time, the Central Plains Dynasty's control over the world has gradually strengthened, and those great families who have taken root in Guizhou since the Han and Tang dynasties have gradually evolved into hereditary Tusi masters, and they do not want to see a sect above them that can influence their native people.

And the power, glory, wealth, and so on in the world have irresistible power, so. Some tribes began to get lost, they gave up their belief in the Gu gods, and betrayed the Gu Sect one after another.

For this reason, His Holiness had persuaded them and stopped them. Even at the expense of war, brothers who shared weal and woe in the past began to kill each other for their different pursuits. But this qiē still couldn't stop them from leaving.

At first there were one or two tribes, then more tribes, even those who hadn't left yet. All kinds of heretical theories began to circulate. When it came to the 17th Venerable Daika, he decided to lead his devout followers back to the origin of the Gu Sect, retreat to the Divine Lake and the Temple, and set up a canon, so that from then on, he would be isolated from the world, and the believers would not be allowed to leave the mountain! ”

Ye Xiaotian listened to him quietly, and asked rhetorically: "Then, when Lord Shika made this decision, did the elders of the sect oppose it?" ”

Winter's white eyebrows were raised slightly, and he was silent for a moment, and said, "There are also some." ”

Ye Xiaotian asked again: "So, after Lord Daika led the people back to the mountain, did any tribe break away from this sect again?" ”

Winter pondered and said: "There are also some tribes who can't adapt to the treacherous environment in the mountains when they first enter the mountains, and they have been bewitched by forces outside the mountains before, so they have defected. Later, it began to stabilize itself, but in the past one or two hundred years, another tribe has rebelled. ”

Ye Xiaotian said: "So, Elder Dong thinks that today's deep mountains are still deep mountains?" Are we in closer contact with the outside world than we were hundreds of years ago? The life of the tribes in the mountains is almost no different from that of more than a thousand years ago, and how does the world beyond the mountains compare to that of a thousand years ago? ”

Winter gently wiped the fine sweat from his forehead and did not answer.

Ye Xiaotian walked up to him and said sincerely, "Was Lord Daika's choice wrong?" No! At the time, his choice was the best. This has ensured the stability of my teaching for hundreds of years.

But were the elders who opposed retreating into the mountains wrong? No, they are still loyal to the Cult, but they are more in favor of choosing the path of joining the world. At the time, they made the wrong choice, but today, I chose the same path as them, am I still wrong? ”

Winter's lips moved, but he didn't make a sound. Ye Xiaotian said again: "The once deep mountains are now not deep, and people can easily come to the mountains. The mountain tribes are no longer as isolated as before, and in the past, only elders-level figures could go out of the mountains, but now more and more tribes have begun to come into contact with the outside world.

Why did the first Venerable set the rule that the successor Venerable and the elders must go out of the mountain to go through the training? Because he doesn't want his descendants to sit in the well and watch the sky, completely ignorant of the changes in the outside world, and eventually become a group of ignorant savages.

Elder Dong, you have also experienced in the Red Dust, do you think that the Seventeenth Venerable Lord Daika decided to escape from the world and bring stability to the Gu Sect for seven or eight hundred years, but now this rule, can the Gu Sect continue to survive in the deep mountains for seven or eight hundred years? ”

The corners of Winter's eyes twitched a few times, and he lowered his head deeply. He didn't want to lie, but his belief in doctrine and obedience to the canons was an instinct he had cultivated since childhood, and he didn't have the courage to say anything to deny the words of his ancestors.

Ye Xiaotian said in a deep voice: "Elder Dong, it's better to be sparse!" Lord Daika has built a long embankment between the mountains and the outside of the mountain, separating the inside and outside for seven or eight hundred years, and now the water has been accumulating higher and higher, and if we don't take countermeasures in time, this embankment will collapse!

At that time, it will not be one or two tribes that will rebel, and the monstrous waves will sweep away, in order to get rid of the control of the temple, in order to vent the blindness of a thousand years, they will burn down the temple, kill the elders, and completely wipe us out, just like those rebellious mud legs, killing all the royal family of the previous dynasty!

Elder Dong, don't think I'm alarmist, use history as a mirror, and you can know the rise and fall. Now that the development of the outside world has become faster and faster, the steepness of the mountains and the mountains that were originally used as moats is no longer enough!

When our followers see that the lives of people outside the mountains are far more affluent than they are, how do we explain this to these devout believers? The seventeenth generation Ka-sama made his choice, and now I have to make a choice, I, to find a new path for the mountain tribe! ”

Winter's eyes widened, and Ye Xiaotian said: "Elder Dong, I remember, you once told me a story passed down from the elders of the Gu Sect that there was a sage in the West who once led millions of believers who had been enslaved by the emperor on a long journey, crossing the sea, and finding a land suitable for their survival.

Along the way, some of their own people wavered and betrayed; There are natural and man-made disasters that constantly test their will; That powerful man continued to send troops to chase and kill, but this qiē could not stop him, and there were always more people around him who followed him unwaveringly! I hope that you can follow the example of this sage, and I hope that you will join me in leading our believers across the mountains and the sea until we find our place of existence! ”

In winter, he opened a pair of highly myopic eyes, looked at Ye Xiaotian in front of him excitedly, and in a trance, he seemed to see an old man holding a cane, a beard, resolute and wise eyes, and a bright and shimmering holy ring behind his head.

He threw his cane into the air and shouted, "Part! Then the sea thuded and parted from it......

Winter shook his head, dispelled the absurd imagination in his mind, and said to Ye Xiaotian: "Venerable, disciple...... The disciple is willing to serve His Holiness. It's just that the disciple has not yet become a temple elder, and all the temple warriors in this temple are under the control of the eight elders, what can the disciple do? ”

When Ye Xiaotian heard that there was a door, he was secretly happy in his heart, and hurriedly stepped forward and said: "I haven't thought of the method yet, so I came to you, hoping that you can provide me with some help." First of all, I want to know who can help me. ”

Winter rolled his eyes and tried to think, "Well......, I think the Geduo should be on the side of His Holiness, their entire tribe is very dissatisfied with moving back to the mountains, complaining and complaining, and the Ya and Seducer are also very annoyed about this......

Ye Xiaotian interrupted him and said, "I know these people, but it's not enough to rely on them alone!" I need more help! ”

Winter said curtly: "More ......, Venerable you left the temple as soon as you succeeded to the throne, although there are many tribes in the mountains, but they have no contact with the Venerable, many tribal leaders are not even familiar with the face of the Venerable, but they are afraid of ......"

Ye Xiaotian frowned and said, "Is there no one else?" The helpers I need are not necessarily those who are already loyal to me, but all those who are dissatisfied with those six old elders! As long as a force exists for ten years, it will inevitably be full of mountains and factions. My religion has been inherited for thousands of years, and it has ruled so many tribes, and it has always been monolithic, and there are no enemies? ”

Winter suddenly realized: "That's it! The disciple understood that there were such people, and there were quite a few, including the former temple elders who failed to compete with the previous Venerable, and the tribal elders and patriarchs who had deep contradictions with the temple elders and were degraded and banished......"

Ye Xiaotian was overjoyed when he heard this, such a person would definitely be able to be used by him, and these people could participate in the competition for the position of Venerable back then, and they could provoke the elders of the temple, they must be masters with great power and not very peaceful, once these people are in their hands, they will become the capital of his "revolution"!

Ye Xiaotian blurted out and asked, "I haven't heard that this sect has a prison cell, where are these people locked up?" ”

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(To be continued......)