Not long after, they heard the sound of footsteps. Everyone turned around and saw a man coming from below led by Xuanye Sect disciples. He was wearing black Nether Sea clothes. There was no doubt that this person was Nether Sea.

Xiao Ting, the director of the garden pavilion.

Tang Ning took a look at him and saw that he was in the early stage of Nascent Soul cultivation, had a Chinese character face, was thin, had a fair complexion, and looked very easy-going.

"Master Chen, I accidentally heard that today is the 1000th birthday of my Taoist friend, so I came here to congratulate you on your birthday. Don't be offended by the inconvenience." Xiao Ting nodded and said with a smile.

"You are so polite, Fellow Daoist Xiao. I'm really sorry. I didn't know that Fellow Daoist arrived suddenly, and I didn't prepare the location of Fellow Daoist in advance." Chen Jin said calmly.

"It doesn't matter. Why should we cultivators care about this? Kuang Xiao was lonely in his early years and often lived with the sky as his quilt and the earth as his quilt. He has long been used to it." Xiao Ting smiled slightly and looked around, his eyes moving from

Everyone glanced at Tang Ning and finally stopped at Tang Ning. They walked straight towards him and said, "This must be Taoist Taoist fellow Taoist Tang Ning, the newly appointed chief of our pavilion from Tai Xuan Sect!"

Tang Ning also returned the salute: "Exactly."

"I wonder if I can sit with fellow Taoist?" Xiao Ting finished his words. Before he could reply, he sat down beside him, nodded to him and said, "Thank you, fellow Taoist."

Tang Ning was speechless and only smiled slightly: "You're welcome."

As soon as Xiao Ting sat down, he took the spirit wine from Tang Ning's desk. He opened the bottle cap without using a jade cup, opened his mouth and drank it. He drank half the bottle in one gulp, took a deep breath, and said

The Xuanye Sect disciple on the side said: "Go and get a few more bottles."

Of course, the Xuanye Sect disciple would not listen to his orders and stood still, only looking at Chen Jin for instructions.

Chen Jin had no choice but to wave his hand: "Go get a desk."

"Yes." The disciple responded and left.

Xiao Ting was still eating and drinking on his own, drinking heavily and eating meat without stopping for a moment. Here he was eating the spiritual food made by the tiger demon before swallowing it, and there he took a bear demon's claw and started to chew it.

There was a constant sizzling sound inside.

He was devouring his food like a beggar who had not eaten for several days and was extremely hungry.

The atmosphere in the hall was very subtle, and everyone's eyes unconsciously focused on this uninvited guest, but he ate and drank as if no one was around, and never stopped talking for a moment.

Tang Ning sat next to him, still with a faint smile on her face, but secretly wary in her heart.

This person obviously came with bad intentions, and there was no way he could act like a birthday greeter. I just don’t know why he came here.

After a while, Xiao Ting finally stopped talking. Seeing everyone's gazes on him, he smiled slightly: "Sorry, these spiritual wines and spiritual food are so delicious that I couldn't hold it back all of a sudden, making all of you fellow Taoists laugh. Hey! Don't just

Look at me! You should eat and drink, don't let me disturb your mood. Come, Master Chen, I will give you a toast and wish you a thousand years of birthday."

Xiao Ting picked up the jade bottle and drank it in one gulp, while Chen Jin also took a sip of the spiritual wine in the jade cup.

"Fellow Daoist Xiao, you must have other important matters here!" Huang Xuan asked.

"Friend Huang Dao has misunderstood. I came here specifically to celebrate the birthday of Master Chen. In any case, we are neighbors after all. As the saying goes, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. Not to mention that our headquarters and your sect are still allies. Due to circumstances and reasons, I

Everyone comes to celebrate."

"Really?" Huang Xuan said with a faint smile.

Not long after, two Xuan Yezong came to the hall carrying the desk.

Xiao Ting waved his hand: "Put it here."

The two disciples followed his instructions and placed the desk in front of him. Xiao Ting took several bottles of spiritual wine and plates of spiritual food from his desk and placed them in front of Tang Ning's desk: "Fellow Taoist Tang, this is what I just ate and drank for you."

I keep all the spiritual food and spiritual wine in my heart, and I will not eat or drink for free. Now I will return it to you together, and we will owe nothing to each other."

Tangning was speechless. She didn't know how to answer this question, so she just nodded.

Xiao Ting put down the spirit wine and returned to his desk.

The birthday banquet is still going on, the men and women in costumes below are still singing opera tunes, the competition among the disciples in the tower is also coming to an end, everything is going on as usual.

The atmosphere in the hall on the top floor of the pagoda was a bit subtle. After Xiao Ting arrived, everyone felt a little uncomfortable. Although they were still talking softly, the laughter and laughter before was gone.

After three rounds of drinking, the opera under the tower ended, and several men and women filed out. At this moment, Xiao Ting suddenly said: "Fellow Daoist Chen, there is a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not?"

As soon as these words came out, other voices in the hall suddenly stopped, and everyone looked at him for a moment.

"Fellow Daoist Xiao, if you have anything to say, just say it."

"Fellow Taoist, this birthday banquet was impeccable in every aspect, and the spiritual wine and food were even more delicious. But there was one thing that made me feel a little flaw, like a piece of white paper as white as snow with a little mud on it, which kept me from vomiting.

Not happy."

"What do fellow Taoists mean?"

"These operas prepared by your lord are really ordinary, dull and boring, which makes people sleepy. Knowing that my friend is celebrating his thousandth birthday today, I ordered someone to prepare a wonderful opera as a congratulatory gift and presented it to Chen Zhang.

teach."

"Oh?" Chen Jinpi said with a smile: "Fellow Taoist Xiao is so attentive, so please come on stage!"

"Please go and tell my followers to come on stage and congratulate Master Chen on his birthday." Xiao Ting said to the Xuanye Sect disciples standing beside him.

The disciple looked at Chen Jin and saw him nodding slightly before taking the order and leaving.

Not long after, several men and women in costumes and makeup walked to the stage and started to play.

The plot of the opera is very simple. It is nothing more than a beautiful poor girl who is attracted by a local bully, who uses various means to coerce and induce her to submit. In the end, the poor girl escapes from her side, and the bully becomes angry, catches her father, and kills him.

There is nothing new in the clichéd drama of love. What is rare is that the singers' voices are full of emotion, which makes people feel as if they are actually there, unconsciously being involved in it, and feeling sad in their hearts.

The whole play lasted for about a quarter of an hour. At the end, the performer of the poor girl was filled with tears and bowed deeply towards the pagoda before leaving the stage.

"Master Chen, how does this opera compare to the previous opera?" Xiao Ting asked.

Chen Jin nodded slightly: "Although it is a cliché, it is indeed quite emotional."

Xiao Ting stood up and bowed to everyone: "I would like to ask you fellow Taoists, if the poor girl in the opera just now was your daughter and suffered what happened, how would you deal with the bully?"

Chen Jin kept his expression straight: "What do you mean by this, fellow Taoist?"

The atmosphere in the hall was subtle, everyone had different expressions, and Jiang Xinquan was smiling.

The corners of Huang Xuan's mouth of Jingyue Sect were raised slightly, as if he was smiling but not smiling.

Zhu Lian of the Xingyue Sect observed his eyes, nose, and mind without moving.

The other people either looked like they were watching a show, or they were expressionless and impassive.

Several people from Xuanye Sect frowned slightly. Now that things have happened, everyone has vaguely guessed the purpose of Xiao Ting's trip. It is obvious that the person who came here is not good.

Tang Ning took a sip of the spirit wine and listened to Xiao Ting continue: "Just now, Headmaster Chen mentioned the word "emotion", and it was really vivid. Do you want to know why you are "emotion"? Because this is not a made-up song, but the real experience of the opera singer.

.”

As soon as he finished speaking, footsteps came from the corridor. A Nether Sea monk led a woman in costume and makeup. It was the female character on the stage just now, with tears on her face.

.

"I think all Taoist friends should be very interested, so let me ask the protagonist to tell you the whole story!"

Xiao Ting turned around and walked to the woman: "Zhilei, here are the representatives of various sects in this pavilion. The first one is the leader of Xuanye Sect. Aren't you looking for someone to redress your grievances? Tell them what happened to you, Xuanye

Zong is a well-known and decent sect, and I believe that Zhang Zhang will handle it impartially and give you justice."

"Yes." The woman bowed her head to everyone one by one, knelt down in the hall and said: "Greetings to all seniors, junior Xin Zhilei lives in the Jinshan Ridge area in the northwest of Jingyuan County. My father Xin Lian was originally a casual cultivator, but was later recruited by the Xuanye Sect.

Working in the Jinshanling Spiritual Mine. The younger generation was taught by my father to enter the path of spiritual practice because of his spiritual roots."

"Thirty years ago, in the year 1249 of Daoding, my father was ordered by Yuan Haoran, the chief of the Xuanye Sect stationed in Jinshanling, to secretly transport some of the excavated spiritual stones and send them to the market to be exchanged for high-grade spiritual stones."

"I didn't expect that on the way, I would be intercepted by two disciples from the Xuanye Sect's Supervisory Department, and my father would be caught on the spot. The Xuanye Sect's Supervisory Department was on their way to embezzle the Jinshanling Spirit Stone from Yuan Haoran."

"Later, for some unknown reason, Yuan Haoran settled the matter, but my father was treated as a scapegoat and imprisoned on other charges."

"In order to save my father, I went through many twists and turns to find Xu Yong, the Supervisor of Xuanye Sect, and was forced to become his concubine. I suffered all the humiliation. The month before last, my father was released, and I escaped from Xu Yong's clutches. I thought that from now on

I was able to fly far away, but Xu Yong Naoxiang became angry and ordered Yuan Haoran to send people to hunt down my father and me. As a result, my father was unfortunately killed, but I luckily escaped."

"Everything that this junior said is true. If there is even half of it that is false, I will die badly. I hope that Senior Chen can uphold justice for this junior."
Chapter completed!