Chapter 630 The inescapable fate
Hong Di, he probably didn’t have this name originally, and he didn’t even have this surname.
However, after Taoist Priest Hongshan adopted him, Hong Di had this name that followed his surname.
It's just that the two of them don't treat each other as father and son. Even if their relationship is good, they only get along as master and disciple.
This relationship did not change until Hong Shan's death.
At first, Hong Di was very puzzled, even confused and troubled by it.
Later, he realized that this was Master's protection for him, keeping those terrible and sinful things away from him.
But now, Hong Di deeply felt that the blood and darkness so close at hand were actually summoned by himself.
Because of his unrealistic dreams and illusory heroic complex, all the sin and darkness from the deserts of West Asia, the abyss of the Mediterranean, and the vast land of East Asia received his urgent call and gathered in this.
Now, Hong Di has felt that darkness and disaster were not actually summoned by him. On the contrary, he was the darkness and disaster itself.
After getting up, the first thing he did was meditate in front of the Bagua mirror on the wall, which was almost as big as a millstone.
This was passed down to him by Hong Shan, the symbol of the Laoshan sect. In addition to this, it was the Qimen Dunjia technique.
After a while, when he opened his eyes, there was a gentle knock on the door.
"Mr. Hong, we have your guests."
"Okay, ask them to wait in the tea room."
Hong Di stood up, picked up three sticks of incense, and bowed respectfully three times in front of the incense burner. After placing the incense, he made a sword formula and bowed.
After doing all this, he opened the door and walked into the tea room.
This is a house on Dunling Chang Island. There are tall trees everywhere, hiding the house behind it, making it difficult for people to see the house and the people inside.
Hong Di likes to live here because it is quiet and there are few guests.
But today, there were two people sitting in his tea room wearing black mandarins, cloth shoes, and sunglasses.
The two men are very different in appearance and physique. Even in temperament, one is elegant and the other is majestic, forming a seemingly seamless match.
Hong Di glanced at the two people without anyone noticing, and then sat down on another Taishi chair.
The furniture was bought from Chinatown in Ko Tam and sold as antiques.
When they fell into Hong Di's hands, they had gone through many vicissitudes of life, but precisely because of this sense of vicissitudes of life, the gadgets originally made by mediocre craftsmen had an extra layer of history.
Hong Di's hand fell on the armrest made of sour pears. In the long history, there must have been someone sitting on it with his posture, stroking the handle of the chair and looking at the person in front of him.
It was the first time for those two people to meet Hong Di.
I originally thought that the Laoshan Taoist priest should be a middle-aged man or an old man.
Unexpectedly, it was a young man. Except for his white hair, his face and eyes were all handsome and heroic.
Especially his eyes, which are as sharp as knives and as bright as swords. When you look at him, your soul will inevitably tremble.
But he seemed to have a short-lived appearance, which matched the appearance of someone "who is jealous of talented people", so the two of them inevitably despised him.
"We are from Qintian Prison, this is Li Xunfeng, I am Yuan Tianshou, Si Xingcheng and Kunlun Guard from Qintian Prison."
"Oh?"
Hong Di didn't seem surprised. He picked up the tureen, gently skimmed off the foam on it, and took a sip of tea.
It tastes bitter in the mouth, but has a sweet aftertaste deep in the throat.
"Qin Tian Jian is in North America, doesn't he seem to have an office?"
Hearing Hong Di's words, both of them laughed. They didn't know whether they were laughing at the stupidity of his question or feeling that they were being provoked.
"The Qin Tian Jian is naturally located in Kyushu. It is located in the star observatory in Jade Capital. He watches the stars day and night for the imperial government and makes inferences about good and bad luck."
"Then..."
As soon as Hong Di finished speaking, he swallowed it back along with the tea.
What he wanted to ask was, since Qin Tian Jian was in Yujing across the Pacific Ocean, why did the important officials of Qin Tian Jian appear here again.
But he didn't ask, because he knew that soon these two people would answer his questions themselves.
Sure enough, Yuan Tianshou soon said: "We were originally looking for Hong Shan, but after we got here, we found out that he had been dead for ten years.
That's why we found you. ”
"That's why."
Hong Di originally thought that they came here because of the biggest secret, but unexpectedly it was because of another thing.
Seeing his secret smile, Yuan Tianshou immediately asked: "Then what do you think it is?"
"What is what?" Hong Di asked.
Yuan Tianshou was very good at cultivating qi. Even though this rhetorical question contained quite a disrespectful meaning, he remained calm and continued to explain the origin.
"The Central Plains has always had fortune-tellers from various sects, either for money or profit. Anyway, in the past, they were the ones chasing dragons.
Our Qin Tian Jian does not call them Feng Shui masters, but alchemists, that is, people who travel around for the sake of dragon veins. ”
As he spoke, he observed the changes in Hong Di's expression, especially when he mentioned dragon veins.
But the latter only had an unchanging smile from beginning to end, so Yuan Tianshou had no way of peeking into his state of mind.
He just continued: "Thirty years ago, Laoshan Taoist Hong Shan took over the mission of Xiandu, took away one of the five Dragon Emperor's sons, and took him overseas, completely away from the Central Plains.
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This is to preserve the Dragon Emperor's son, and also to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands. ”
"Let me guess..."
Hong Di suddenly interrupted him and became interested in talking.
"Originally, the Qintian Prison should not have known the whereabouts of the Red Emperor's son. However, one day the Immortal Capital suddenly sent an envoy to the Qintian Prison and asked the contemporary Imperial Master to take the Red Emperor's son back. Is that so?"
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"Exactly."
Yuan Tianshou recalled the scene that day.
The Great Imperial Master Dongfang Future received the envoy from the Immortal City at the Star Observation Deck. In other words, the envoy from the Immortal City summoned Dongfang Future, the leader of Qintian Prison.
The two of them stood on a balcony where they could almost reach out and pick out the stars, while other stargazers from the Qintian Prison were below, watching from a distance.
The Great Imperial Master Dongfang Future had been frowning as he listened to the envoy from the Immortal Capital telling the whole story.
The two talked for a long time on the balcony, almost from dusk until night.
As they talked, the stargazers from Qintian Prison stayed with them without any intention of leaving.
Finally, after not knowing what he said, Dongfang Mirai stretched out his hand and touched the sky, as if he really wanted to pluck a star from the night sky.
That was the last encounter between Dongfang Future and the messenger from the Immortal Capital. After that, the ghost-like Qi Refiner who came and went without a trace disappeared without a trace.
Soon after, he and Kunlun Guard Li Xunfeng received an order from the Great Imperial Master, asking them to go to North America. The goal is the Red Emperor's son.
He had vaguely heard about the Changbai Mountain Dragon Veins before, and he had also felt the desolation and uneasiness in that direction to the north.
But that was something far away from them after all. It wasn't until he was given the order that he realized that the pattern that had remained unchanged hundreds of years ago had finally changed.
The Red Emperor's son will replace the Qing Emperor's son who was taken away by who knows who, and will once again become the dragon vein of Kyushu.
This is the consensus reached between Xiandu and Qintianjian.
For this reason, they came here to look for Hong Shan, but now things have changed. The person they are looking for has become Hong Shan's apprentice, Hong Di.
"All Taoists in the world must abide by the instructions of the Immortal City, because the Immortal City is the origin of the Taoist schools in the world and is also the honored guest of all heavenly masters. No Taoist priest can refuse its request."
"So the immortal wants to take back the Red Emperor's son?" Hong Di asked.
"I don't know if it's something that even immortals need."
Yuan Tianshou said frankly: "However, the order I received was indeed to take back the Dragon Emperor's son. This was the order given to me by Qin Tianjian."
"What will happen to you if you can't take it back?"
"Nothing will happen to us."
Li Xunfeng said from the side: "But you will die."
"Am I going to die?"
Hong Di smiled and said, "This has nothing to do with me. In fact, my master didn't tell me much about it, so I'm still confused about your arrival.
He didn't pass the talisman to me, so in fact I was just his half-disciple, equivalent to an apprentice. ”
"It doesn't matter that he didn't give you those things."
Yuan Tianshou put the tea bowl aside, crossed his legs together, and put his hands on his knees.
"The talisman is both a good thing and a bad thing. When it communicates with ghosts and gods, it will inevitably be contaminated by causes and effects that mortals cannot tolerate.
Your master doesn't teach you the talisman and seal script. This is for your own good, lest you consume your own blessings and not live long.
In this regard, he is a good teacher.
However, he did leave the Red Emperor's son in your custody. From this point of view, he harmed you again.
Because anyone who has anything to do with Dragon Vein has committed the serious crime of killing the Nine Clan, and must be sentenced to death. ”
"Then I understand, whether I hand it over or not, I will die, right?"
Hong Di laughed, not sure whether he thought it was funny or out of anger.
According to Yuan Tianshou, if the Qintian Prison's execution methods are so rough and barbaric, doesn't it mean that whether you are helping them or resisting them, you have actually committed a capital crime?
In fact, if he had heard the concerns of the chief internal officer Di Wei in Changbai Mountain before, he would not think this statement was exaggerated and weird.
But at this time, Hong Di inevitably felt innocent.
Innocent is the way to be found.
Just like a serial murderer, he was found by the patrol, not because he had killed many people and wanted to arrest him, but because he spit on the street, and the patrol now wanted to accuse him of damaging the environment.
"So, where is the Red Emperor?"
Yuan Tianshou stood up, put his hands behind his back, and walked around the room, observing the decorations and furnishings.
This is the arrogance that belongs exclusively to Qin Tianjian. Whether you know it or not, and whether you resist or obey, Qin Tianjian's big hand can cover the sky, because behind it is the entire empire.
No matter what your plans are, the emperor doesn't care.
Hong Di was not in a hurry, and just said to Yuan Tianshou: "Sir, before that, may I tell you a story?"
"Story?"
Yuan Tianshou smiled and said, "I like listening to stories the most. I have always been like this since I was a child. Just tell me and I will give you a cup of tea."
"It won't take that long."
Hong Di also stood up, holding his hands behind his back.
"There was such a young man who had no father or mother. He was adopted by a Taoist priest since he was a child and stayed with him for many years.
The Taoist priest was very kind to him, giving him everything, doing his best to love him and educate him, but he didn't want him to be anything like that.
Because the Taoist priest follows the nature of all things, he does not train the child to be a doctor or teacher, nor does he expect the child to become a celebrity or rich man in the future. He just asks the child to live as hard as he can and grow as much as he can, that's all.
As for his only reservation and intervention, it is that the Taoist priest keeps the biggest secret and does not tell anyone, and certainly does not let the child know.
He carried everything on his back, hid it in his heart, and finally took it all into the coffin, keeping all the darkness and conspiracy away from him. ”
Hong Di's eyes were filled with water and he looked up at the ceiling.
"However, there is something in the world called destiny, or destiny.
Everyone is a member of Xuanmen, so you two should know that, right? Even if the King of Hell tells you to die at the third watch, who dares to keep you until the fifth watch?
A person's destiny is to avoid water, so he never goes near water, never swims, rides in a boat, or fishes all his life. He even stays far away from wells in order to avoid being harmed by water.
However, one day, the man died, and he died of water. How do you guess he died? ”
"Someone pushed him into the water and drowned him," Li Xunfeng replied.
"No." Zhu Di shook his head.
Yuan Tian Shouze was more cautious. After thinking for a while, he said: "When it was raining, the man's foot slipped and he hit a stone and fell to his death."
"That's not right either."
Zhu Di shook his head and revealed the answer: "That man drank mutton soup with a big cake and choked himself to death."
"How does this relate to the story you told?"
"Don't worry, I mean, no matter how you avoid or plan, some things should happen, and they will eventually happen.
Just like after the master was buried, the young man failed to officially become a Laoshan Taoist priest due to various reasons left behind by the master, and was insulated from those secret things.
The Taoist priest did what he wanted to do and took everything underground.
However, one day, when he was packing up his master's belongings, he discovered that in that hidden place, there existed his destiny. That thing was tailor-made for him, with his name engraved on it.
Fate is a heavy yoke that tightly binds him and prevents him from escaping. ”
"What on earth do you mean?" Yuan Tianshou frowned even deeper.
"I mean, maybe it's your destiny that you come here?"
Hong Di's body was filled with red Qi.
Two officials from the Qintian Prison saw a red dragon appearing indoors and roaring at them.
(End of chapter)