Chapter 25 Chapter 25: Internal and External Troubles
Zhou Botong looked up and saw that there was no flag on the top of the pole, he couldn't help being startled, he only thought that Jinlun Fawang would lay down experts around to intercept him, and he would take the opportunity to make a fuss. But when you see thousands of camps and tens of thousands of tents, overlapping, where can you find them?
Zhao Zhijing went up to meet him, and was about to say hello, when he thought about it: "At this time, I will go up and tell him that he has not seen it well. Let him find it everywhere, helpless, and depressed. Then I will tell you where Wang Qi is. He will accept my love greatly." So he hid behind a tent and watched Zhou Botong's movements.I saw him jumping up, throwing himself on the flagpole, supporting it with one hand, and leaping up several feet, supporting each other with both hands, and quickly climbed to the top of the flagpole.Zhao Zhijing was secretly astonished: "Uncle Master Zhou is now ninety years old even if he is not a hundred years old. Although he is a cultivator, his muscles and bones are always weakened and his steps are difficult, but his movements are so agile, he is even better than a young man, he is truly unique in the martial arts world. thing."
Zhou Botong jumped onto the flagpole and looked around, he saw thousands of flags waving, but there was no royal flag.He got annoyed and shouted: "Golden Wheel Fawang, where did you hide the king's flag?" The echo came.The King of Fa had already reported this matter to Kublai Khan and passed it on to the whole army, so although the army heard him shouting, there was no sound.
Zhou Botong called out again: "My lord, if you don't answer again, I will scold you." After a while, no one paid any attention.Zhou Botong scolded: "Stinky Jinlun, King of Dogs, what kind of hero are you? You're hiding in a turtle hole and not daring to stand out!"
Suddenly someone from the east shouted: "Old naughty boy, Wang Qi is here, come and steal it if you can." Zhou Botong threw himself off the flagpole, rushed over, and asked, "Where is it?" But after the man shouted, he stopped making a sound. .Zhou Botong looked at the countless tents, but he didn't know where to start.
Suddenly, someone from far away in the west shouted like killing a pig: "Wang Qi is here, Wang Qi is here!" Zhou Botong ran away like a smoke.The man kept screaming, but the voice became lower and lower, Zhou Botong only ran halfway, the screaming became intermittent, like a gossamer, and finally stopped, he really didn't know which tent the screaming came from.Zhou Botong laughed loudly, and shouted: "King of the Dharma, are you playing hide-and-seek with me? Wait until I burn down the camp of the Mongolian soldiers, and see if you can get out?"
Zhao Zhijing thought to himself: "If he really set fire to the camp, that would be bad." He jumped out and said in a low voice, "Master Zhou, you can't set fire." Uncle Zhou said, "Ah, little Taoist priest, it's you! Why not set it on fire?" Zhao Zhijing said nonsense: "They are going to deliberately set you on fire. These camps are full of landmines and explosives. When you light a fire, you will be blown to pieces." Zhou Botong was frightened. With a jump, he scolded: "This trick is also vicious."
Seeing that he believed him, Zhao Zhijing was overjoyed, and said again: "The disciples and grandchildren found out about their tricks. I am afraid that my uncle and master will not notice, and I am very anxious, so I stay here." Zhou Bodao said: "Well, you are kind. Didn't you tell me, wouldn't it be convenient for the old urchin to be blown to death here?" Zhao Zhijing said in a low voice, "My disciple and grandson took a big risk and found out where Wang Qi is, so my master and uncle will come with me." Unexpectedly, Zhou Botong shook his head and said: "No, never say no! If I can't find it, I will admit defeat." Betting on stealing the flag is an extremely fun game for him. If he is guided by Zhao Zhijing, even if he succeeds, it will be boring. This kind of betting must be done Be open and aboveboard, but sneaking around is a big taboo.
Zhao Zhijing hit a snag, felt very anxious, and suddenly remembered: "He is called an old urchin, and his temper is naturally different, so we can only lure him into the bait." Then he said: "Uncle Master, since that's the case, I'm going to steal the flag, see Is it you who wins first, or I who wins first." As he spoke, he began to lighten his body and ran towards the mountains on the left, running several zhang, when he turned around, he saw Zhou Botong following behind.He ran straight into the third hill, and said to himself: "They said they were hiding in the cave between two big elm trees, where are there two big elm trees again?" Said cave.Suddenly he heard Zhou Botong cheering: "I found it first!" He got in between the two big elm trees.
Zhao Zhijing smiled slightly and thought to himself: "He stole the king's flag, my role in guiding is still indispensable, not to mention that I prevented him from setting the fire, he also said that he really saved his life. This is even better than the arrangement of the King of Dharma. "Complacent, I walked towards the cave.
Suddenly Zhou Botong yelled, the voice was extremely horrific, and then he yelled: "Poisonous snake! Poisonous snake!" Zhao Zhijing was startled, his right foot that had already stepped into the entrance of the cave quickly retracted, and asked loudly: "Master uncle! Is it a poisonous snake?" Zhou Bo said, "It's not a snake...it's not a snake..." But his voice was much weaker.
This move was beyond Zhao Zhijing's expectation, so he hurriedly picked up a piece of dry firewood from the ground, took a fire and lit it, and looked into the cave. He saw Zhou Botong lying on the ground, holding a cloth flag in his left hand, waving it constantly. , seems to block some kind of monster.Zhao Zhijing was startled and asked: "Uncle Master, what's the matter?" Uncle Zhou said, "I gave...poison...poison...and I got bitten..." At this point, his left hand gradually dropped, and he was no longer able to wave the flag.
Zhao Zhijing saw that he was injured in the cave, but only in an instant, and thought that with his martial arts, even if he was injured, he would not be injured immediately, what kind of poison is that, it is so powerful?Seeing that the cloth flag Zhou Botong was holding was just an ordinary military flag, not a king's flag, he was even more chilled: "It turned out that the Fawang asked me to trick him into the cave, but he planted poison in the cave to kill him." At this moment, he only asked himself. Escaping is the most important thing, Zhou Botong didn't care about his life, he didn't dare to check his injuries and what kind of poison it was, so he threw the torch behind his hand, turned around and fled.
The torch didn't hit the ground, and suddenly stopped halfway, but someone reached out to catch it, and the person said: "You don't even care about your elders?" The voice was soft, as if the jade had been struck, and the white clothes were sloppy, it was Xiaolong The figure of a woman, the torch shines a ball of light, reflecting her beautiful face, but there is no expression of joy or anger on her face.Zhao Zhijing was so frightened that his feet went limp, and he was tongue-tied, how could he speak?He never expected that she was so close behind him, he wanted to escape, but he couldn't move.
In fact, Xiao Longnv watched from afar, and Zhao Zhijing never took her eyes off her every move.He led Zhou Botong up the mountain, and Xiao Longnu followed behind.Zhou Botong naturally knew about it, but he ignored it, while Zhao Zhijing didn't realize it.
At that moment, Xiao Longnv raised the torch and pointed it at Zhou Botong, only to see a faint green aura on his face.She took out the gold silk glove from her bosom and put it on, raised his arm to look, and couldn't help but her heart skipped a beat, she saw three spiders the size of the mouth of a wine glass biting three fingers of Zhou Botong's left hand respectively.
The appearance of the spider is very strange, with red and green stripes all over the body, extremely bright, which makes people feel thrilling at first sight.She knew that the brighter the color of any poison, the more poisonous it would be.The three spiders firmly bit Zhou Botong's fingers, she picked up a dead branch and picked it up, she couldn't get rid of it even a few times, then she raised her right hand, and the three Jade Bee needles shot out, stabbing the three spiders to death immediately.She used the force of the needle just right, stabbed the spider to death, but did not hurt Zhou Botong's flesh.
It turns out that this kind of spider is called "colorful snow spider", which is produced on the top of the snow mountain in Tibet, and is one of the three most poisonous in the world.King Jinlun came east with him, intending to compete with the famous masters of poisoning in the Central Plains.That day when he went to Xiangyang to assassinate Guo Jing, he didn't expect to use poison, and he didn't bring the colorful snow spider with him.After being hit by Li Mochou's ice soul silver needle, he returned to the camp. Out of anger, he took out the gold box containing the colorful snow spider and put it beside him. He only hoped to meet Li Mochou again, so he invited her to have a taste of Tibet. The taste of poison.It was also a coincidence, not only had a bet with Zhou Botong to steal the flag, but also met Zhao Zhijing who wanted to be a teacher, so he put a cloth flag in the cave, and wrapped three poisonous spiders in the flag.As soon as this colorful snow spider encounters flesh and blood, it immediately jumps up and bites. It will never let go unless it has sucked up the blood.He refused to carry it close to his body, because he was afraid that if something happened to him, it would be a disaster.
The Jade Bee Needle of Xiao Longnu is stained with the deadly poison of the Jade Bee's tail on Zhongnan Mountain. Although the poison is not as dangerous as that of the Colored Snow Spider, it is still quite powerful. When the needle enters the body, the Colored Snow Spider will naturally produce anti-venom. quality.Poisonous spiders prey on all kinds of highly poisonous insects, and they will not be poisoned only because of the anti-venom humor in their bodies.The poisonous spider's anti-venom fluid sprayed out from the mouth and poured into Zhou Botong's blood, after only a few sprays, he fell to his death.Fortunately, Xiao Longnu was eager to save people, and seeing the ugly appearance of the poisonous spider, she didn't dare to approach it, so she fired a hidden weapon and hit it right, which just happened to save the poisonous spider that has no cure in this world.
Xiao Longnv saw the three colorful snow spiders lying dead on the ground, red and green, but she couldn't help but feel hairy; she also saw Zhou Botong lying motionless, obviously dead.She is very grateful to Zhou Botong, she often thinks that if he hadn't led Yang Guo into the Valley of Unrequited Love, she would have married Gongsun Zhi, thinking about it afterwards, her whole body is often sweating and trembling with fear.Unexpectedly, he died here, and my heart is very sad.All of a sudden, Zhou Botong waved his left hand a few times, and said in a low voice: "What bit me so... so hard?" He tried to stand up, but he only raised his upper body about a foot before falling down again.
Seeing that he was not dead, Xiao Longnv was overjoyed, held up the torch and looked around, and saw no trace of spiders, so she felt relieved and asked, "Are you alive?" More than half, less than half...haha..." He wanted to laugh out loud, but his hands and feet twitched and he couldn't stop laughing.
But he heard a long laugh from a person outside the cave, the voice was sharp and deafening, and he said: "Old naughty boy, have you stolen the king's flag? Did you win today's bet, or did I win?" It is Jinlun Fawang.
Xiao Longnv pinched the torch with her left hand, the torch went out immediately, she was wearing gold silk gloves, her weapon was invulnerable to fire.Zhou Botong said in a low voice: "Old urchin is doomed to lose this game, I'm afraid I'll lose my life to you too. King of Smelly Laws, what kind of fellow are you poisonous spider, so vicious?" No power, but Fa Wang's rumbling laughter couldn't cover it up.The Fawang was secretly shocked: "He was bitten by my colorful snow spider, but he still didn't die. These few words have profound internal power, which is beyond my reach. Fortunately, I caught a strong enemy. Although he is not dead at the moment, anyway It's less than a quarter to one."
Zhou Botong said again: "Little Taoist Zhao Zhijing, you tricked me into this big trick. It's too shameful. Go tell Qiu Chuji quickly and tell him to kill you!" Zhao Zhijing stood outside the cave, hiding behind the Fa Wang, I was horrified when I heard it, and thought to myself: "How can I tell Uncle Qiu about this?" The Fawang laughed and said: "This Taoist Zhao is very good. Our prince wants to report to Khan and make him the head teacher of the Quanzhen sect." What about the real man." He thought to himself, "Zhou Botong's death is inseparable from Taoist Zhao, and he will be held hostage by me for the rest of his life. This person has mediocre knowledge, and he doesn't think that Zhou Botong is such a crazy person. Although his seniority is respected, how can Qiu Chuji and others treat him like that?" He takes his words seriously? How can you be the Quanzhen teacher with just a few words from the old urchin?"
Zhou Botong was furious, and let out a yell.Although most of the poison in his body has been eliminated, the poison of the Colorful Snow Spider is by no means something that humans can resist, a slight amount is enough to kill many people.Zhou Botong's zhenqi was slightly relieved, and he passed out again.
Xiao Longnv said: "Jinlun Fawang, you use this kind of poison to harm people because you can't beat them, do you look like a suzerain? Quickly get the antidote and treat Mr. Zhou!"
Fawang saw Zhou Botong fainted from across the cave, he thought he was very proud that he died of poison, and thought to himself how could you, a little girl, win me?Thinking of Zhao Zhijing's exasperating words during the day, saying that he had been defeated by her, he decided to capture her with his own hands, showing off his majesty, he immediately rushed to the cave, raised his left palm, stretched out his right hand, and grabbed Xiao Longnu, saying: "Here comes the antidote, hold it carefully." Xiao Longnv waved her right hand, there was a light tinkling sound, and the golden bell soft rope flew out, rushing towards his "Qimen acupoint".
Fa Wang thought to himself: "If I can't capture you again today, why don't I teach that Taoist priest surnamed Zhao a joke." He swayed away from the golden bell, and put his hands into his arms. The loud noise shook people's ears.Xiao Longnv missed a single shot, turned the rope around and tapped the "Dazhui Point" on the back of his heart, this move changed extremely quickly and ruthlessly.The Fawang jumped up a few feet and praised: "Kung fu like yours is rare among women!"
The two fought with each other in the hole, and broke down more than ten moves in an instant.If the Fa Wang relied on all his strength to attack, Xiao Longnu would have been hard to resist, but when he entered the cave a few days ago, the sole of his foot was stabbed by the Bingpo silver needle, and almost killed him. The ingenuity is especially superior to Li Mochou's, he never forgets the past, he is the teacher of the future, how can he be willing to repeat the same mistakes?What's more, there are poisonous spiders in the cave, if they are bitten, they will die immediately, so although they are anxious, they don't take the risk of attacking by force.In the dark night, one can hear the rattling of lead wheels, the clattering of silver wheels, and the sound of golden bells, like percussion instruments.
Zhao Zhijing stood far away, listening to the sound of the two men's swords, his heart was beating wildly, thinking that although his uncle's death was not intentional, he could not escape the guilt. All sects are guilty of all crimes, if the King of Dharma can kill Xiao Longnv, that would be great, but if Xiao Longnv wins, or let her escape and the news will spread naturally, then what should I do?He stepped back step by step, holding the hilt of the sword, his body trembling uncontrollably, hearing the sound of the two wheels and the golden bell getting denser, he couldn't help sweating profusely, and the Taoist robe was soaked.
Although Fa Wang's kung fu is far superior to Xiao Longnu's, but the wheel is short and the cable is long, so it's hard to win if he doesn't enter the cave.Xiao Longnv saw Zhou Botong laying motionless on the ground, probably dead, she wanted to try to rescue him, but how could she be slow?The two were fighting in the dark, she had keen eyesight, and she had more advantage than the king. Seeing that the king swung the wheel obliquely to the right, and there was a gap on the right side, she immediately turned the golden bell rope and pointed it at his right flank, while raising her left hand , more than ten jade bee needles shot at him three times.
This time the distance was very close, and the Jade Bee Needle shot out without any sound, the Fawang found out that the Jade Bee Needle was no more than a foot away from his body, and thanks to his martial arts, he turned the silver wheel in a crisis and caught the golden bell With a soft rope, he supported his feet at the same time, with a whooping sound, he pulled up more than ten feet, and more than ten jade bee needles flew over the soles of his feet.Hastily exerted too much force, raised his body, raised his arms, and flew into the air with the silver-lead wheels and the golden bell soft rope.The whining of the wheels and the tinkling of bells rang straight up to more than ten feet in the sky.Under the starlight, I saw a cloud of gray light and a cloud of silver light flying up with a long rope.
Xiao Longnu didn't wait for him to land, and shot out another Jade Bee Needle.Fa Wang was in mid-air, no matter how strong his martial arts were, he could not dodge. Although the distance was far, the situation was even more dangerous.
But when the French king jumped up, he had expected that the enemy would follow and attack, he grasped the front of his chest with both hands and spread it outwards, with a hissing sound, the robe was torn into two pieces, just at this moment when the Jade Bee Needle was shot, he danced twice The clothes were torn, and dozens of fine needles were pierced into the clothes.He laughed, put his feet on the ground, threw away his rags, and reached out to catch the twin wheels falling from the air.These two escapes were all by relying on superb martial arts and clever maneuvers, they escaped with their lives at the critical moment, but they also won Xiaolongnu's weapon because of it.
As soon as he landed on the ground, he rushed to the entrance of the cave and said with a smile: "Miss Long, are you still not surrendering?" He was afraid that Xiao Longnu would set up an ambush in the cave, so he didn't dare to go in.But Xiao Longnv didn't know that he had scruples, since she lost her weapon and nine out of ten Jade Bee Needles were gone, she could only hold a handful of golden needles in her hand, and hid beside the entrance of the cave, silent.
The Fawang waited for a while, but there was no movement, so he had a plan in his mind. He put the two wheels in his right hand, picked up two pieces of rags with his left hand, and suddenly threw the two wheels on the ground. In a flash, his feet were already on the wheels, in case there were poisonous needles stuck in the ground, he flew with the tattered clothes, and waved them into a cloth barrier in front of him.He nailed dozens of Jade Bee needles on two pieces of rags, and it has become a powerful weapon. He said with a smile: "Others have maces, Miss Long, try my mace." After that, suddenly his hand tightened, half of the robe was caught by Xiao Longnu.She was wearing gold silk gloves, let alone a mace, even if it was a mace, she would dare to grab it with her bare hands.
Fa Wang was caught by surprise, and hurriedly used his energy to grab it back, and within a short pause, Xiao Longnv shot out golden needles from her hands.The Fawang yelled that it was not good, he was quick and wise, he grabbed Zhou Botong who was lying on the ground to block in front of him, and followed the move of "stepping on the seven-star step backwards", and rushed out of the hole.Rao had been the enemy many times in his life, but this time life and death were on the line, so he couldn't help being so scared that his hands were covered in cold sweat, and he stood far outside the cave panting.
All the more than twenty Jade Bee Needles were nailed to Zhou Botong's body.The little dragon girl sighed slightly, thinking that after your death, the body would still suffer, but suddenly Zhou Botong called out: "It hurts, it hurts, what is biting me again?" The little dragon girl was surprised and delighted, and asked: "Zhou Botong, aren't you dead yet?" She didn't understand etiquette, she just called her by name.
Zhou Botong said: "It seems to be dead, but it has come back to life. I don't know if it's not dead enough, or it's not enough." Xiaolongnv said: "It's good if you don't die, that Dharma King is so vicious, I You can't beat him." He took out the magnet, and sucked out the jade bee needles stuck in his body one by one.Zhou Botong scolded: "Fawang, you bastard, is really unreasonable. He used these invisible thin needles to prick me while I was dead." swearing.
Xiao Longnv smiled slightly, and said: "Zhou Botong, I pricked you with these needles." Then she briefly explained the process of the fierce fight just now, and then asked: "My jade bee needles are fed with bee venom, are you feeling distressed? Uncle Zhou said: "It's very comfortable, you can prick me a few more times." Xiao Longnu also said that he was joking, took out a small jade bottle from her bosom, and said: "This bottle of jade honey can cure my golden needle poison Just drink a little." Zhou Botong waved his hands again and again, and said, "No, no! These needles on your body feel very comfortable, and they seem to be the nemesis of that poisonous spider."
Xiao Longnv thought that the old naughty boy was talking nonsense again, but seeing that he refused to obey, she didn't force her. It seems that this strange old man's inner strength is unfathomable, even poisonous spiders can't kill him, so naturally he was hit by the jade bee needle It's okay too.In fact, although the poison on bee stings is very poisonous, it can cure many diseases, and it is even more effective in treating rheumatism. Therefore, all beekeepers in the world will never have rheumatism.But Xiao Longnv and Zhou Botong didn't understand medical principles, they didn't know that the Jade Bee Needle used poison to fight poison, and it actually relieved the poison of the Snow Spider a lot.
Hearing Zhou Botong's words from outside the cave, Fa Wang was completely energized, as usual, even more astonished, thinking to himself, could this person really be a god?Taking advantage of the fact that his vitality has not yet recovered, he has to kill him, otherwise he will not have such a good opportunity in the future.Just now he failed to enter the cave, even the silver and lead wheels were trapped, so he waved the soft rope of the golden bell of Xiao Longnv, and shouted: "Miss Dragon, I will use your weapon." With a strong shake, the soft rope swung Come into the hole.His martial arts has reached the peak, any weapon can operate freely, although Xiao Longnu's soft rope is weird, but he uses it as a soft whip, it can make tigers and tigers like wind, and it is sent from a distance, not afraid of the opponent's surprise attack with golden needles.
Xiaolong girl's childlike heart suddenly aroused, she picked up the silver and lead wheels from the ground, struck each other with a clang sound, and shouted: "Okay, let's switch weapons and fight." She stretched out her right arm and pushed it out, her arm suddenly felt sore and limp. Can't push it to the end.The lead wheel doesn't look big, but the weight is really heavy, Xiao Longnv felt overwhelmed when she pushed it out, she retracted it immediately, protecting the two wheels on her chest.
Fa Wang saw the advantage, suddenly bullied him, stretched out his long arms, and came to snatch the two wheels.Xiao Longnv took a step back, and threw the silver wheel with her left hand.Her throwing the wheel was just a false move, taking advantage of that throw, dozens of jade bee needles were shot out again.These Jade Bee Needles were taken from Zhou Botong's body, most of the poison has been eliminated, even if they are shot on the body, it will not cause any serious problems.This time Fa Wang was on guard, he didn't catch the silver wheel, he jumped to the side, and the dozens of Jade Bee Needles were all emptied.
Zhou Botong laughed loudly, and said: "Okay, if the thief becomes bald, you can prick him with a small needle. After a while, I will regain my energy, so I will go out and catch him and spank him." Xiaolongnv said: "Oh, I have finished all my jade bee needles, not a single one left." Zhou Botong was startled, scratched his head and said, "This is a bit troublesome." Both of them, the old and the young, had no intentions, what did they think of? , said it out of the mouth.
Jinlun Fawang is full of resourcefulness, but he doesn't know Zhou Botong and Xiaolongnu's disposition, and he doesn't believe that there are people in the world who will be self-defeating. He thought: "You said that the Jade Bee injection is over, how could I be fooled by this? You must be trying to lure me closer. Also let the weird Dharma shoot me." Xiao Longnu said frankly, but the Dharma king did not dare to attack rashly, and he was caught by Yang Guo's trick in the cave a few days ago, remembering the tragedy of Nimoxing's self-severing of his feet, he died on the twelfth. Get serious.
One consumption and two consumption, the sky is getting brighter.Zhou Botong sat cross-legged, using the above internal energy to force out the residual poison in his body.But the poisonousness of the colorful snow spider is extremely vicious, every time he gets lucky, his chest feels nauseous and nauseated, from top to heel, everywhere is itchy and unbearable, but if he is not lucky, nothing will happen, even after trying three times, Fei Ran sighed: "Oh, the old urchin is no fun this time!" The Fawang was peeping outside, but he didn't know that he had such difficulties, so he thought to himself: "No, this old man is using his internal strength!" With a thought, he took out the gold box containing the colorful snow spider from his bosom, and opened it On the lid of the box, more than a dozen colorful snow spiders were wriggling in the box. At that time, the sun was just rising, and the red and green colors in the box were bright and dazzling.His Holiness took out a clip made of rhinoceros horn from the side of the golden box, held up a spider silk, flicked it lightly, and a colorful snow spider was attached to the spider silk, stuck to the left side of the cave entrance.He squeezed and shook, and released all the poisonous spiders in the box. Each poisonous spider carried a thread, which stuck around the hole.The poisonous spider in the box hadn't been fed for a long time, and was hungry for a long time. It immediately hung from east to west and formed webs one by one. In less than half an hour, the entrance of the cave was covered with more than ten spider webs. When the poisonous spider was weaving its web, Xiao Longnv and Zhou Botong watched it interestingly, and neither intervened. Later, a hole with a diameter of more than ten feet was already covered with spider webs, red, green and green poisonous spiders were crawling back and forth on the web, only Look distraught. Xiao Longnu said in a low voice: "It's a pity that I've finished my Jade Bee injections, otherwise I'll take one injection at a time, so as to save the annoyance of these poisonous spiders crawling around in front of my eyes." Zhou Botong picked up a dead branch and wanted to grab the spider's web, but suddenly saw A big butterfly flew close to the hole and was immediately caught by the spider web.Originally, insects would have to struggle for a long time when they fell into the spider web, and the powerful ones could destroy the web and escape, but this butterfly, despite its large body, fell into a coma as soon as it touched the spider web, and remained motionless.Xiao Longnv was cautious, and shouted: "Don't move, the spider silk is poisonous." Zhou Botong was startled, and hastily dropped the dead branch.It turned out that Fa Wang sent poisonous spiders to seal the cave, not because he wanted to block the two with these slender spider webs, but because he hoped that they would destroy the webs. Zhou Botong watched the poisonous spider eat the butterfly for a while, then sat down cross-legged, thinking: "Anyway, it's not easy for me to recover my mystic skills, so it's good to sit for a while longer." But Xiao Longnv thought: "I don't know when this stalemate will end. I don’t know if the poison in the old naughty boy’s body has gone away?” Asked: “You have worked hard to get rid of the poison. Is another day and one night enough?” Zhou Botong sighed: “Don’t say one day and one night, another day will be enough. One hundred days and one hundred nights won't work." Xiao Longnv said in surprise, "How can life be good?" Zhou Botong laughed and said, "If that thief Bald is willing to give us food, he will live in this cave for several years, and he won't die. What's wrong." Xiao Longnv said: "He won't deliver the food." Sighing, said: "If Yang Guo is here, I will live in this cave for the rest of my life and it will be fine." Zhou Botong angrily said: "I am not as good as Yang Guo in any way. Is he still stronger than me? What's wrong with me being with you?" His two words were neither fish nor fowl, but Xiao Longnu didn't think it was disobedient, she just smiled and said: "Yang Guo can master Quanzhen swordsmanship. , I will be able to kill this monk and flee with two swords together." Zhou Bo said, "Hmph, what's so great about Quanzhen swordsmanship? Can't I know how to use it? Can Yang Guo defeat me?" Xiaolong The woman said: "Our two swords are combined, which is called the jade girl Suxin swordsmanship. If I love him in my heart, and he loves me in his heart, and the two hearts are connected, then we can defeat the enemy." When Zhou Botong heard about the love between a man and a woman, his heart jumped with fear, he waved his hands again and again, and said, "Stop, stop. If I don't come to love you, you must never come to love me. Let me tell you, I lived in the cave for a few years. It's not a big deal. Back then I lived alone in the Taohua Island cave for more than ten years, with no one to accompany me, so I had to fight with myself. Now I'm with you, talking and laughing, it's very different." He He enjoyed himself so much that he wanted to live in the cave for a long time. Xiao Longnv wondered: "If you fight with yourself, how can you fight?" Zhou Botong was very pleased with himself, so he briefly explained the technique of distraction and dual use, left and right fights.Xiao Longnu's heart moved: "If I learn this technique, my left hand uses the Quanzhen swordsmanship, and my right hand uses the Jade Girl swordsmanship, wouldn't it be two swords combined to become the Jade Girl Suxin swordsmanship? I'm afraid this skill can't be learned overnight. " Said: "This kind of kung fu is very difficult to learn." Zhou Bodao said: "It is extremely difficult to say it is difficult, but it is also easy to say it is easy. Some people can't learn it in their entire life, and some people only need a few days. Yes. Do you know the two dolls, Guo Jing and Huang Rong?" Xiao Longnv nodded.Zhou Botong said, "Who do you think is the smarter of the two?" Xiao Longnv said: "Mrs. Guo is very intelligent. I've heard her say that no one in this world can match her intelligence and wisdom. But Guo Daxia's aptitude is very ordinary." Zhou Botong laughed and said: "What's ordinary? Tight'? It's really stupid. Do you think I'm smart or stupid?" Xiao Longnu said with a smile: "I see that although you are not young, you are still not very stupid, and your words and deeds are a bit crazy." Zhou Botong clapped his hands and said: "Yes, what you said is not wrong at all. I came up with this technique of fighting left and right. Later, I taught Brother Guo Jing, and he learned it in just a few days. But he transferred to teach him Don't look at Huang Rong, who is exquisite and translucent. She has seventeen or eighteen holes in her heart, but she can't learn this skill. I also thought that Guo Jing taught it wrong. Later, the old urchin personally Teach her, who knows that her first lesson "drawing a square with the left hand and a circle with the right hand" is not the same. So, some people can learn it as soon as they learn it, and some people can't learn it for a lifetime. It seems that the smarter they are, the more It won't work." Xiao Longnv said: "Could it be that a fool learns kung fu better than a smart one? I don't believe it." Zhou Botong said with a smile: "I see that your appearance and intelligence are on par with that little Huang Rong, and your martial arts are also similar to hers. You If you don’t believe me, then use your left index finger to draw a square on the ground, and your right index finger to draw a circle at the same time.” The little dragon girl stretched out her two index fingers to draw on the ground, but the square she drew was a bit like a circle, and the circle was a bit like a circle. like cubes.Zhou Botong laughed loudly and said, "Really? You can't do it now." Xiao Longnv smiled slightly, focused her attention, and with a clear mind, stretched out her fingers casually, and drew a square with her left hand, and a circle with her right hand. Zhou Botong was shocked, and said: "You...you..." After a while, he said: "Have you learned it before?" Xiao Longnv said: "No, what's so difficult about it?" Zhou Botong scratched his white hair "Then how did you draw it?" Xiaolongnv said, "I don't know. I didn't think about anything, and I just stretched out my fingers to draw it." Immediately, he wrote the three characters "Old Urchin" with his left hand, and "Old Urchin" with his right hand. The three characters of "Little Dragon Girl" are written with both hands at the same time, and the handwriting is neat and tidy, just like writing with one hand.Zhou Botong was overjoyed, and said: "This must be the skill you learned from your mother's womb, so it will be easy." So he taught her how to attack from the left and defend from the right, how to attack with the right and resist with the left, which he learned on Peach Blossom Island. This world's incomparable miraculous skill was told to her all at once. In fact, the key to this skill of fighting left and right lies in the four words of "distraction and dual use".All smart and wise people have complicated thoughts, and after thinking about one thing, the second thing comes to their minds.During the period of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Zijian wrote poems in seven steps, and during the Five Dynasties, Liu Yun used soldiers to use hundreds of tricks in one step. If this kind of people wanted him to learn the kung fu of fighting left and right, even if they had to kill him, they would not be able to learn it.Xiao Longnv practiced the basic kung fu of getting rid of emotions and desires since she was a child. At the age of eight or nine, her heart was as still as water. Later, although she was infatuated with Yang Guo, this kung fu was greatly wasted. Actually replied eighty to ninety percent.The inner strength of the Ancient Tomb Sect that she practiced was created by Lin Chaoying after she was frustrated in love, and it is similar to her current state of mind, with the induction, a sudden enlightenment, once Zhou Botong instructed, she immediately understood it.Just because Zhou Botong, Guo Jing, and Xiao Longnv are honest and simple people with no scum in their hearts, such as Huang Rong, Yang Guo, and Zhu Ziliu, they can't learn anything. Zhou Botong's body was still poisoned, but he spoke with great interest.Xiao Longnv kept nodding her head, secretly meditating on how to use the Jade Girl swordsmanship with her right hand and the Quanzhen swordsmanship with her left hand, after a few hours, she suddenly understood, and said: "I understand everything." As one wishes.Zhou Botong opened his mouth wide and couldn't close it, he just yelled: "Strange! Strange!" The Fawang and Zhao Zhijing were guarding outside the cave, but they were chattering non-stop, talking and laughing, and listening attentively, they only heard a few words intermittently, but they didn't understand the meaning at all. As soon as Xiao Longnv looked up, she saw the two of them were peeping from head to head, she stood up and said, "Let's go!" Zhou Botong was stunned, and asked, "Where are we going?" Xiao Longnv said, "Go out and catch the thief. , forcing him to give you the antidote." Zhou Botong pulled his beard and said, "You must have defeated him?" Speaking of this, there was a buzzing sound suddenly, a bee stuck to the spider web, and couldn't help struggling.Previously, a big butterfly fainted when it touched the spider web. The bee was very small, but it seemed that it was not afraid of the poison of the colorful snow spider. The spider web actually tore a hole.A ferocious poisonous spider was staring at it, but it didn't dare to go forward and entangle it. After a long time, the bees couldn't help but fainted, and the poisonous spider jumped on it and bit it. Xiao Longnv raised a group of jade bees in the ancient tomb, and she kept company with the bees all year round. Although she is very good at repelling bees, she also regards the bees as friends. Seeing the bees in trouble, she couldn't bear it. Although the appearance of spiders is evil, my bees may not be afraid of them." He took out the jade bottle from his bosom, stretched out his right hand to hold it, uncorked the bottle, and subtly exercised the power of his palm, and the hot air flowed into the bottle from the palm, after a while , a fragrant and fragrant honey fragrance was sent out through the spider web. Zhou Botong wondered: "What are you doing?" Xiao Longnv said: "This is a very interesting trick, do you like to watch it?" Zhou Botong was overjoyed and shouted: "Wonderful!" Then asked: "What kind of trick is that?" Xiao Longnv smiled and didn't answer, just urged her palm. At this time, the wild flowers in the valley are in full bloom, and there are a lot of wild bees gathering honey all around. Smelling the sweet fragrance, they rush here from everywhere.The wild bees kept rushing towards the cave, and as soon as they stuck to the spider web, they struggled and tore apart. Some were bitten to death by the poisonous spider, while others were stabbed by the poisonous spider.Although the colorful snow spider is the most poisonous in the world, if it gets too much bee venom, it will gradually stiffen and die. Zhou Botong just looked at it and danced, his heart was full of joy.Jinlun Fawang and Zhao Zhijing outside the cave were stunned and at a loss.At that time, the colorful snow spiders still had the upper hand, and only three of the poisonous spiders died, but more than forty bees died. In the end, it turned out to be a group of dozens or hundreds of spiders, and in a short while the spider webs at the entrance of the cave were all washed away, and more than ten poisonous spiders were all stabbed to death.Zhao Zhijing had suffered a lot from the bees, and seeing that the situation was not good, he quickly slipped into the bushes and avoided it far away.The king of Fawang regretted that the colorful snow spiders were rare, and the entire army was annihilated inexplicably in this battle. He also said that the wild bees have a gregarious heart, share the same hatred with the enemy, and fight poisonous spiders, but he didn't know that it was called by Xiaolongnv, and he was thinking how to force Zhou Botong and Xiaolongnv Out of the hole, resulting in the lives of two people. Xiao Longnu put her little fingernail into the jade vase, picked up a bit of honey and flicked it towards the Fawang, pointed her left index finger to his left and right, and yelled.Thousands of wild bees turned around and came out of the hole, rushing towards him. The King of Fa was shocked, and hurried forward.He is very good at lightening his body, although the wild bee flies fast, his movement is even faster, and he has jumped more than ten zhang away in an instant.But seeing him running away like a cloud of black smoke, the wild bees couldn't catch up, so they scattered. Xiao Longnv stomped her feet repeatedly, and kept shouting: "What a pity, what a pity!" Zhou Bo said, "What a pity?" Outflanking from left to right, trying to surround the King of France, but I didn't expect these wild bees to be a mob, gathering together in nests here and there, they can't be compared with the jade bees domesticated in her ancient tomb, asking them to chase and stab the enemy for a while , but it's okay, as for the subtle formations of outflanking from left to right and encircling from front to back, the wild bees are helpless.但周伯通已佩服得五体投地，深觉这玩意儿比他生平所见所玩任何戏耍都强得多，鼓掌大赞，全忘了身上中毒未解。 小龙女见洞口蛛丝已除，窜出洞去，招手道：“出来罢！”周伯通跟着跃出，但身在半空，突然重重跌落，叹道：“不成，不成！力气使不出来。”猛地里全身打战，牙齿互击，格格作响，这一跌之下，引动彩雪蛛的余毒发作出来，犹似身坠万丈冰窖，酷寒难当，嘴唇和脸孔渐渐发紫，一丛白胡子连连摇晃。 小龙女惊问：“周伯通，你怎么啦？”周伯通不住发抖，颤声道：“你……你快用那针儿扎我……扎我几下。”小龙女道：“我的针上有毒啊。”周伯通道：“便……便是……有毒……有毒的好。” 小龙女想起适才野蜂与毒蛛的恶战，心道：“莫非蜂毒正是蛛毒的克星？”从地下拾起一枚玉蜂针，试着在他手臂上刺了一下。周伯通叫道：“妙啊！快再刺。”小龙女连刺几下，听他不住的叫好，眼见针上毒性已失，于是换过一枚。一共刺了十余针，周伯通不再打战，舒了一口气，笑道：“以毒攻毒，众妙之门。”试着一运气，却觉体内余毒仍未去尽，猛地一拍膝盖，叫道：“龙姑娘，你针上的蜂毒不够，而且不大新鲜。”小龙女笑道：“那我便叫野蜂来叮你。”周伯通道：“多谢之至，快快叫罢！” 小龙女揭开玉瓶，召来一群野蜂，一一叮在周伯通身上。老顽童笑逐颜开，全身脱得赤条条地，让野蜂针刺，一面潜运神功，先将蜂毒吸入丹田，再随真气流遍全身各处大穴。约莫一顿饭功夫，遍体都是野蜂尾针所刺的小孔，蛛毒尽解，再刺下去便越来越痛，大声叫道：“够啦，够啦！再刺下去便搅出人命来啦！”拾起衣裤穿起。 小龙女微微一笑，将野蜂驱走，见金铃软索掉在一旁，顺手拾起，问道：“我要上终南山去，你去不去？”周伯通摇摇头，道：“我另有要紧事情要办，你一个人去罢！”小龙女道：“啊！是了，你要到襄阳城去相助郭大侠。”她一提到“郭大侠”三字，便想到郭芙，跟着想到了杨过，黯然道：“周伯通，你若见到杨过，别提起曾遇见我。”却见他口中喃喃自语，但一些声息也听不到，脸上神色甚是诡异，不知在捣甚么鬼。过了半晌，周伯通突然抬头问道：“你说甚么？”小龙女道：“没甚么了，咱们再见啦。”周伯通心不在焉，只是点头挥手。 小龙女转身走开，过了一个山坳，忽听得周伯通大声吆喝呼啸，宛似在指挥蜜蜂。小龙女好生奇怪，悄悄又走了回来，躲在一株树后张望，只见周伯通手中拿着玉瓶，正在指手划脚的呼叫。她伸手怀中一探，玉瓶果已不翼而飞，不知如何给他偷了去，但他吆喝的声音似是而非，虽有几只野蜂闻到蜜香赶来，却全不理睬他的指挥，只是绕着玉瓶嗡嗡打转。 小龙女忍不住噗哧一笑，从树后探身出来，叫道：“我来教你罢！”周伯通见把戏拆穿，贼赃给事主当场拿住，只羞得满脸通红，白须一挥，斗地窜出数丈，急奔下山，飞也似的逃走了。 小龙女哈哈大笑，心想这怪老头儿当真有趣得紧。她笑了数声，空山隐隐，传来几响回声，蓦地里只觉寂寞凄凉，难以自遣，忍不住流下两行清泪。这一晚和金轮法王斗智斗力，有老顽童陪着胡闹，倒也热闹了半天，此刻敌人走了，朋友也走了，全世界便似孤零零的只剩下了她一个人。
她一路跟随尹志平和赵志敬，只觉这两人可恶之极，虽将之碎尸万段，也难解心头之恨。她只消一出手，便能将两人杀了，但总觉得杀了他们那又如何？在大榆树下呆了半晌，自言自语：“我还是找他们去！”走下山来，跨上放在山下吃草的花驴。 上得大路行了一程，忽见前面烟尘冲天，旌旗招展，蹄声雷震，大队军马向南开拔，显是蒙古大军又去攻打襄阳。小龙女心中踌躇：“这千军万马之中却如何去寻那两个道士？”忽见三乘马从山坡旁掠过，马上乘者黄衫星冠，正是三个道人。小龙女心道：“怎地多了一个？”遥遥望去，最后一人正是尹志平，赵志敬和另一个年轻道士并骑在前。小龙女一提缰绳，纵驴跟了下去。 尹志平和赵志敬听得蹄声，回头一望，又见到小龙女，都不禁脸上变色。那年轻道人问道：“赵师兄，这女子是谁？”赵志敬道：“那是咱们教中的大敌，你别出声。”那道人吓了一跳，颤声道：“是赤练仙子李莫愁？”赵志敬道：“不是，是她的师妹。”那年轻道人名叫祁志诚，也是丘处机的弟子。他只知李莫愁曾多次与师伯、师父、师叔们相斗，全真诸子曾在她手下吃过不少亏，来者既是李莫愁的师妹，自然也非善类。 赵志敬举鞭狂抽马臀，一阵急奔，尹祁二人也纵马快跑，片刻间已将小龙女远抛在后。但小龙女那花驴后劲极长，脚步并不加快，只是不疾不徐的小跑。三匹马奔出四五里，气喘吁吁，渐渐慢了下来，花驴又逐步赶上。赵志敬举鞭击马，但坐骑没了力气，不论他如何抽打，只奔出数十丈，便又自急奔而小跑，自小跑而缓步。 祁志诚道：“赵师兄，我和你回头阻挡敌人，让尹师兄脱身。”赵志敬铁青着脸道：“话倒说得容易，你不要命了吗？”祁志诚道：“尹师兄身负掌教重任，咱们好歹也得护他平安。”原来他此番是奉师父丘处机之命前来，召尹志平回重阳宫接任掌教之位。 赵志敬哼了一声，不加理睬，心想：“也不知天多高，地多厚，凭你这点儿微末道行就想挡住她？”祁志诚见他脸色不善，不敢多说，勒住马缰，待尹志平上前，低声道：“尹师兄，你千金之躯，非同小可，还是你先走一步。”尹志平摇头道：“由得他去！” 祁志诚见他镇静如恒，好生佩服，暗道：“怪不得师父要他接任掌教，单是这份气度，第三代弟子中就无人能及。”他却不知尹志平此时心情特异，小龙女要杀便伸颈就戮，早已全无抗拒之念。赵志敬见二人不急，究也不便独自逃窜，好在见小龙女一时也无动手之意，于是走一段路便回头望一眼，心中大是惴惴不安。 四人三前一后，默默无言的向北而行。这时蒙古大军南冲之声已渐渐隐没，偶尔随风飘来一些金鼓号角之声，但风势一转，随即消失。百姓躲避敌军，大道附近别说十室九空，简直是鸡犬不留，绝无人迹。那日尹志平与赵志敬慌不择路的逃到了偏僻之处，还可找到一家小小饭店，这时一路行来，连完好的空屋也寻不着一所。 当晚尹志平等三人便在一所门窗全无的破屋中歇宿。赵志敬和祁志诚偷偷向外张望，只见小龙女在两株大树间悬了一根绳子，横卧在绳上。祁志诚见她如此功夫，暗暗心惊，只有尹志平坦然高卧，理也不理。这一晚赵志敬忽起忽卧，哪敢合眼而睡？只待树上稍有声息，便要破门逃去。 次晨四人又行。赵志敬连晚未睡，加之受惊过甚，骑在马上迷迷糊糊的打瞌睡。祁志诚和尹志平并骑而行，落后了七八丈，祁志诚忍不住说道：“尹师兄，你和赵师兄的武功，每年大较小较，我都见识过的，两位可说各有所长，难分高下。但说到胸中器量，那是不可同日而语了。”尹志平苦笑了一下，问道：“师父和各位师伯叔这次闭关，你可知要有多少时日？”祁志诚道：“师父说快则三月，慢则一年，因此要急召尹师兄去接任掌教。”尹志平呆呆出神，自言自语：“他老人家功夫到了这等田地，不知还须修持甚么？”祁志诚低声道：“听说五位真人要潜心钻研，设法破解古墓派的武功。”尹志平“哦”了一声，忍不住回头向小龙女望了一眼。
原来那日大胜关英雄大会，小龙女与杨过出手气走金轮法王师徒，武功精绝，郝大通、孙不二和尹赵二道都亲眼得见。何况杨过在郭靖书房之中，手不动、足不抬，便制得赵志敬狼狈不堪，后来小龙女只一招之间，便将赵志敬震得重伤。他二人使何手法，孙不二虽在近旁，竟然便看不明白，倒似全真派的武功在古墓派手下全然不堪一击，思之实足心惊。后来又听说小龙女和杨过双剑合璧，将金轮法王杀得大败亏输，全真派上下更是大为震动。全真诸子想起郝大通失手伤了孙婆婆的性命，李莫愁、小龙女、杨过等人总有一日会来终南山寻仇。对付李莫愁一人已是大为棘手，何况再加上杨龙两个厉害脚色？李莫愁和小龙女互有嫌隙之事，他们却不知晓。 全真七子之中，谭处端早死，此时马钰也已谢世，只剩下了五人。刘处玄任了半年掌教，交由丘处机接任。五子均已年高，精力就衰，想起第三、四代弟子之中并无杰出的人才，古墓派上山寻仇之时，倘若全真五子尚在人间，还可抵挡得一阵，但如小龙女等十年后再来，那时号称天下武学正宗的全真派非一败涂地不可。因此五人决定闭关静修，要钻研一门厉害武功出来和古墓派相抗，是以赶召尹志平回山接任掌教。
尹志平等朝行晚宿，一路向西北而行。小龙女总是相隔里许，不即不离的在后相随。 这日到了陕西境内，祁志诚向尹志平道：“尹师兄，咱们是回重阳宫去。难道这龙姑娘孤身一人，竟也敢涉险追来么？” 尹志平“嗯”了一声，实在猜不透她的用意。这一路之上，日日夜夜，只是反来复去的寻思：“她要向五位真人揭发我的恶行么？要仗剑大杀全真教，以出心中恶气么？或许，她只不过要回到古墓故居，正好和我同路？又难道……又难道……她怜我一片痴心，终究对我有了情意？”想到最后一节，总不由得面红耳赤，暗自惭愧，这自是痴心妄想，比之长生遇仙，尤为渺茫，反正此时生死荣辱全已置之度外，恐惧之心倒也淡了。 又过数日，已到了终南山脚下。祁志诚取出一枝响箭，使手劲甩出，呜的一声响，冲天而起。 过不多时，四名黄冠道人从山上急奔而下，向尹志平躬身行礼，说道：“清和真人，您回来啦，大家等候多时了。”尹志平道号“清和”，但除了他的亲传弟子之外，向来无人如此称呼。这四名道人都是全真教的第三代弟子，和他一直师兄弟相称，其中一人年纪比他还大得多。这四人突然改口，尹志平极感过意不去，忙下马还礼，谦道：“四位师兄如此相称，小弟何以克当。”那年纪最长的道人是马钰的弟子，说道：“五位师叔法旨，只待清和真人一到，即便接任掌教，至于交接大礼，要等丘师叔开关之后再行。”尹志平道：“师父和四位师伯叔已经闭关了么？”那道人道：“已闭了二十多天。” 说话之间，只听山上乐声响亮，十六名道士吹笙击罄，排列在道旁迎接，另有十六名道士拿着木剑、铁钵等法器，见尹志平来到，一齐躬身行礼，前后护拥，向山上而去，竟把赵志敬冷落在后。赵志敬又是气恼，又是羡妒，但内心却又不禁暗暗得意：“待掌教之位落入我的手中，再瞧你们的嘴脸却又如何？” 傍晚时分，一行人已到了重阳宫外。宫中五百多名道人从大殿直排到山门外十余丈处，只听得铜钟镗镗，皮鼓隆隆，数百名道士躬身肃候。见到这般隆重端严的情景，尹志平本来委靡颓唐，不由得精神为之一振，在十六名大弟子左右拥卫下，先到三清殿叩拜元始天尊、太上道君、太上老君三清，再到后殿叩拜创教祖师王重阳的遗像，又到第三殿全真七子集议之所，向七张空椅叩拜，然后回到正殿三清殿。 丘处机的第二弟子李志常取出掌教真人法旨宣读，命尹志平接任掌教。尹志平下拜听训，感愧交集，瞥眼见赵志敬站在一旁，脸上似笑非笑的满是讥嘲之色，心中蓦地大震。 尹志平听训已毕，站起身来，待要向群道谦逊几句，忽见外面一名道士进来，朗声说道：“启禀掌教真人，有客到。”尹志平一呆，想不到小龙女竟会这般大模大样的正式拜会，实不知如何应付才是，事到临头，要逃也逃不过，只得硬着头皮道：“请罢！” 那道士回身出去，引了两个人进来。群道一见，均大感诧异，尹志平更是奇怪。原来进来的两个人一个是蒙古官员打扮，另一个却是在忽必烈营中会见过的潇湘子。
那蒙古贵官朗声说道：“大汗陛下圣旨到，敕封全真教掌教。”说着在大殿上居中一站，取出一卷黄缎，双手展开，宣读道：“敕封全真教掌教为：特授神仙演道大宗师，玄门掌教，文粹开玄宏仁广义大真人，掌管诸路道教所……”宣读到这里，见没人跪下听旨，大声道：“全真教掌教接旨。” 尹志平上前躬身行礼，说道：“敝教掌教丘真人坐关，现由小道接任掌教，蒙古大汗的敕封，非对小道而授，小道不敢拜领。” 那蒙古贵官笑道：“大汗陛下玉音，丘真人为我成吉思汗所敬，年事已高，不知是否尚在人世。这敕封原本不是定须授给丘真人的，谁是全真教掌教，便荣受敕封。”尹志平道：“小道无德无能，实是不敢拜领。”那贵官笑道：“不用客气啦，快快领旨罢。”尹志平道：“荣宠忽降，仓卒不意。请大人后殿侍茶，小道和诸位师兄商议商议。” 那贵官甚是不快，卷起了圣旨道：“也罢！却不知要商量甚么？”教中职司接待宾客的四名道人当即陪着贵官和潇湘子到后殿用茶。 尹志平邀了十六名大弟子到别院坐下，说道：“此事体大，小弟不敢擅自作主，要聆听各位师兄的高见。” 赵志敬抢先道：“蒙古大汗既有这等美意，自当领旨。可见本教日益兴旺，连蒙古大汗也不敢小视咱们。”说着神情甚是得意，呵呵而笑。李志常摇头道：“不然，不然！蒙古侵我国土，残害百姓，咱们怎能受他敕封？”赵志敬道：“丘师伯当年领受成吉思汗诏书，万里迢迢的前赴西域，尹掌教和李师兄均曾随行，有此先例，何以受不得蒙古大汗的敕封？”李志常道：“那时蒙古和大金为敌，既未侵我国土，且与大宋结盟，此一时彼一时，如何能相提并论？”赵志敬道：“终南山是蒙古该管，咱们的道观也均在蒙古境内，若是拒受敕封，眼见全真教便是一场大祸。”李志常道：“赵师兄这话不对。”赵志敬提高声音，道：“甚么不对，要请李师兄指点。”李志常道：“指点是不敢。但请问赵师兄，咱们的创教祖师重阳真人是甚么人？你我的师父全真七子又是甚么人？” 赵志敬愕然道：“祖师爷和师父辈宏道护法，乃是三清教中的高人。”李志常道：“他们都是顶天立地的大丈夫，爱国忧民，每个人出生入死，都曾和金兵血战过来的。”赵志敬道：“是啊。重阳真人和全真七子名震江湖，武林中谁不钦仰？” 李志常道：“想我教上代的真人，个个不畏强御，立志要救民于水火之中，全真教便算真的大祸临头，咱们又怕甚么了？要知头可断，志不可辱！”这几句话大义凛然，尹志平和十多名大弟子都是耸然动容。 赵志敬冷笑道：“便只李师兄就不怕死，旁人都是贪生畏死之徒了？祖师爷创业艰难，本教能有今日的规模，祖师爷和七位师长花了多少心血？这时交付下来，咱们处置不当，将轰轰烈烈的全真教毁于一旦，咱们有何面目见祖师爷于地下？五位师长开关出来之时，又怎生交代？”这番话言之成理，登时有几名道人随声附和。赵志敬又道：“金人是我教的死仇，蒙古灭了金国，正好替我教出了口恶气。当年祖师爷举义不成，气得在活死人墓中隐居不出，他老人家在天之灵知道金人败军覆国，正不知有多喜欢呢。” 丘处机的另一名弟子王志坦道：“蒙古人灭金之后，若是与我大宋和好，约为兄弟之邦，咱们自然待以上国之礼。但今日蒙古军大举南下，急攻襄阳，大宋江山危在旦夕，你我都是大宋之民，岂能受敌国的敕封？”转头向尹志平道：“掌教师兄，你若受了敕封，便是大大的汉奸，便是本教的千古罪人。我王志坦纵然颈血溅于地下，也不能与你干休。”说到此处，已然声色俱厉。 赵志敬倏地站起，伸掌在桌上一拍，喝道：“王师弟，你是想动武不成？对掌教真人竟敢如此无礼？”王志坦厉声道：“咱们只是说理。若要动武，又岂怕你来？” 眼见双方各执一词，互不为下，气势汹汹的便要大挥老拳，拔剑相斗。一名须发花白的道人连连摇手，说道：“各位师弟，有话好好说，不用恁地气急。”王志坦道：“依师兄说该当如何？”那道人说：“依我说啊，唔，唔……出家人慈悲为怀，能多救得一个百姓，那便是助长一分上天的好生之德……唔，唔……咱们若是受了蒙古大汗的敕封，便能尽力劝阻蒙古君臣兵将滥施杀戮，当年丘师叔，不是便因此而救了不少百姓的性命么？”有几名道人附和道：“是啊！是啊！” 一名短小精悍的道人摇头道：“今日情势非昔可比。小弟随师父西游，亲眼见到蒙古兵将屠城掠地的惨酷。咱们若受敕封，降了蒙古，那便是助纣为虐，纵然救得十条八条性命，但蒙古势力一大，不知将有几千几万百姓因此而死。”这矮小道人名叫宋德方，是当年随丘处机西游的十九弟子之一。 赵志敬冷笑道：“你见过成吉思汗，那又怎地？我此番便见了蒙古四王子忽必烈，这位王爷礼贤下士，豁达大度，又哪里残暴了？”王志坦叫道：“好啊，原来你是奉了忽必烈之命，做奸细来着！”赵志敬大怒，喝道：“你说甚么？”王志坦道：“谁帮蒙古人说话，便是汉奸。”赵志敬突然跃起，呼的一掌便往王志坦头顶击落。斜刺里双掌穿出，同时架开他这一击，出掌的却是丘处机的另外两名弟子，其中一人便是祁志诚。赵志敬怒火更炽，大叫：“好哇！丘师伯门下弟子众多，要仗势欺人么？” 正闹得不可开交，尹志平双掌一拍，说道：“各位师兄且请安坐，听小弟一言。”全真教的掌教向来威权极大，众道人当即坐了下来，不敢再争。
One consumption and two consumption, the sky is getting brighter.Zhou Botong sat cross-legged, using the above internal energy to force out the residual poison in his body.But the poisonousness of the colorful snow spider is extremely vicious, every time he gets lucky, his chest feels nauseous and nauseated, from top to heel, everywhere is itchy and unbearable, but if he is not lucky, nothing will happen, even after trying three times, Fei Ran sighed: "Oh, the old urchin is no fun this time!" The Fawang was peeping outside, but he didn't know that he had such difficulties, so he thought to himself: "No, this old man is using his internal strength!" With a thought, he took out the gold box containing the colorful snow spider from his bosom, and opened it On the lid of the box, more than a dozen colorful snow spiders were wriggling in the box. At that time, the sun was just rising, and the red and green colors in the box were bright and dazzling.His Holiness took out a clip made of rhinoceros horn from the side of the golden box, held up a spider silk, flicked it lightly, and a colorful snow spider was attached to the spider silk, stuck to the left side of the cave entrance.He squeezed and shook, and released all the poisonous spiders in the box. Each poisonous spider carried a thread, which stuck around the hole.The poisonous spider in the box hadn't been fed for a long time, and was hungry for a long time. It immediately hung from east to west and formed webs one by one. In less than half an hour, the entrance of the cave was covered with more than ten spider webs. When the poisonous spider was weaving its web, Xiao Longnv and Zhou Botong watched it interestingly, and neither intervened. Later, a hole with a diameter of more than ten feet was already covered with spider webs, red, green and green poisonous spiders were crawling back and forth on the web, only Look distraught. Xiao Longnu said in a low voice: "It's a pity that I've finished my Jade Bee injections, otherwise I'll take one injection at a time, so as to save the annoyance of these poisonous spiders crawling around in front of my eyes." Zhou Botong picked up a dead branch and wanted to grab the spider's web, but suddenly saw A big butterfly flew close to the hole and was immediately caught by the spider web.Originally, insects would have to struggle for a long time when they fell into the spider web, and the powerful ones could destroy the web and escape, but this butterfly, despite its large body, fell into a coma as soon as it touched the spider web, and remained motionless.Xiao Longnv was cautious, and shouted: "Don't move, the spider silk is poisonous." Zhou Botong was startled, and hastily dropped the dead branch.It turned out that Fa Wang sent poisonous spiders to seal the cave, not because he wanted to block the two with these slender spider webs, but because he hoped that they would destroy the webs. Zhou Botong watched the poisonous spider eat the butterfly for a while, then sat down cross-legged, thinking: "Anyway, it's not easy for me to recover my mystic skills, so it's good to sit for a while longer." But Xiao Longnv thought: "I don't know when this stalemate will end. I don’t know if the poison in the old naughty boy’s body has gone away?” Asked: “You have worked hard to get rid of the poison. Is another day and one night enough?” Zhou Botong sighed: “Don’t say one day and one night, another day will be enough. One hundred days and one hundred nights won't work." Xiao Longnv said in surprise, "How can life be good?" Zhou Botong laughed and said, "If that thief Bald is willing to give us food, he will live in this cave for several years, and he won't die. What's wrong." Xiao Longnv said: "He won't deliver the food." Sighing, said: "If Yang Guo is here, I will live in this cave for the rest of my life and it will be fine." Zhou Botong angrily said: "I am not as good as Yang Guo in any way. Is he still stronger than me? What's wrong with me being with you?" His two words were neither fish nor fowl, but Xiao Longnu didn't think it was disobedient, she just smiled and said: "Yang Guo can master Quanzhen swordsmanship. , I will be able to kill this monk and flee with two swords together." Zhou Bo said, "Hmph, what's so great about Quanzhen swordsmanship? Can't I know how to use it? Can Yang Guo defeat me?" Xiaolong The woman said: "Our two swords are combined, which is called the jade girl Suxin swordsmanship. If I love him in my heart, and he loves me in his heart, and the two hearts are connected, then we can defeat the enemy." When Zhou Botong heard about the love between a man and a woman, his heart jumped with fear, he waved his hands again and again, and said, "Stop, stop. If I don't come to love you, you must never come to love me. Let me tell you, I lived in the cave for a few years. It's not a big deal. Back then I lived alone in the Taohua Island cave for more than ten years, with no one to accompany me, so I had to fight with myself. Now I'm with you, talking and laughing, it's very different." He He enjoyed himself so much that he wanted to live in the cave for a long time. Xiao Longnv wondered: "If you fight with yourself, how can you fight?" Zhou Botong was very pleased with himself, so he briefly explained the technique of distraction and dual use, left and right fights.Xiao Longnu's heart moved: "If I learn this technique, my left hand uses the Quanzhen swordsmanship, and my right hand uses the Jade Girl swordsmanship, wouldn't it be two swords combined to become the Jade Girl Suxin swordsmanship? I'm afraid this skill can't be learned overnight. " Said: "This kind of kung fu is very difficult to learn." Zhou Bodao said: "It is extremely difficult to say it is difficult, but it is also easy to say it is easy. Some people can't learn it in their entire life, and some people only need a few days. Yes. Do you know the two dolls, Guo Jing and Huang Rong?" Xiao Longnv nodded.Zhou Botong said, "Who do you think is the smarter of the two?" Xiao Longnv said: "Mrs. Guo is very intelligent. I've heard her say that no one in this world can match her intelligence and wisdom. But Guo Daxia's aptitude is very ordinary." Zhou Botong laughed and said: "What's ordinary? Tight'? It's really stupid. Do you think I'm smart or stupid?" Xiao Longnu said with a smile: "I see that although you are not young, you are still not very stupid, and your words and deeds are a bit crazy." Zhou Botong clapped his hands and said: "Yes, what you said is not wrong at all. I came up with this technique of fighting left and right. Later, I taught Brother Guo Jing, and he learned it in just a few days. But he transferred to teach him Don't look at Huang Rong, who is exquisite and translucent. She has seventeen or eighteen holes in her heart, but she can't learn this skill. I also thought that Guo Jing taught it wrong. Later, the old urchin personally Teach her, who knows that her first lesson "drawing a square with the left hand and a circle with the right hand" is not the same. So, some people can learn it as soon as they learn it, and some people can't learn it for a lifetime. It seems that the smarter they are, the more It won't work." Xiao Longnv said: "Could it be that a fool learns kung fu better than a smart one? I don't believe it." Zhou Botong said with a smile: "I see that your appearance and intelligence are on par with that little Huang Rong, and your martial arts are also similar to hers. You If you don’t believe me, then use your left index finger to draw a square on the ground, and your right index finger to draw a circle at the same time.” The little dragon girl stretched out her two index fingers to draw on the ground, but the square she drew was a bit like a circle, and the circle was a bit like a circle. like cubes.Zhou Botong laughed loudly and said, "Really? You can't do it now." Xiao Longnv smiled slightly, focused her attention, and with a clear mind, stretched out her fingers casually, and drew a square with her left hand, and a circle with her right hand. Zhou Botong was shocked, and said: "You...you..." After a while, he said: "Have you learned it before?" Xiao Longnv said: "No, what's so difficult about it?" Zhou Botong scratched his white hair "Then how did you draw it?" Xiaolongnv said, "I don't know. I didn't think about anything, and I just stretched out my fingers to draw it." Immediately, he wrote the three characters "Old Urchin" with his left hand, and "Old Urchin" with his right hand. The three characters of "Little Dragon Girl" are written with both hands at the same time, and the handwriting is neat and tidy, just like writing with one hand.Zhou Botong was overjoyed, and said: "This must be the skill you learned from your mother's womb, so it will be easy." So he taught her how to attack from the left and defend from the right, how to attack with the right and resist with the left, which he learned on Peach Blossom Island. This world's incomparable miraculous skill was told to her all at once. In fact, the key to this skill of fighting left and right lies in the four words of "distraction and dual use".All smart and wise people have complicated thoughts, and after thinking about one thing, the second thing comes to their minds.During the period of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Zijian wrote poems in seven steps, and during the Five Dynasties, Liu Yun used soldiers to use hundreds of tricks in one step. If this kind of people wanted him to learn the kung fu of fighting left and right, even if they had to kill him, they would not be able to learn it.Xiao Longnv practiced the basic kung fu of getting rid of emotions and desires since she was a child. At the age of eight or nine, her heart was as still as water. Later, although she was infatuated with Yang Guo, this kung fu was greatly wasted. Actually replied eighty to ninety percent.The inner strength of the Ancient Tomb Sect that she practiced was created by Lin Chaoying after she was frustrated in love, and it is similar to her current state of mind, with the induction, a sudden enlightenment, once Zhou Botong instructed, she immediately understood it.Just because Zhou Botong, Guo Jing, and Xiao Longnv are honest and simple people with no scum in their hearts, such as Huang Rong, Yang Guo, and Zhu Ziliu, they can't learn anything. Zhou Botong's body was still poisoned, but he spoke with great interest.Xiao Longnv kept nodding her head, secretly meditating on how to use the Jade Girl swordsmanship with her right hand and the Quanzhen swordsmanship with her left hand, after a few hours, she suddenly understood, and said: "I understand everything." As one wishes.Zhou Botong opened his mouth wide and couldn't close it, he just yelled: "Strange! Strange!" The Fawang and Zhao Zhijing were guarding outside the cave, but they were chattering non-stop, talking and laughing, and listening attentively, they only heard a few words intermittently, but they didn't understand the meaning at all. As soon as Xiao Longnv looked up, she saw the two of them were peeping from head to head, she stood up and said, "Let's go!" Zhou Botong was stunned, and asked, "Where are we going?" Xiao Longnv said, "Go out and catch the thief. , forcing him to give you the antidote." Zhou Botong pulled his beard and said, "You must have defeated him?" Speaking of this, there was a buzzing sound suddenly, a bee stuck to the spider web, and couldn't help struggling.Previously, a big butterfly fainted when it touched the spider web. The bee was very small, but it seemed that it was not afraid of the poison of the colorful snow spider. The spider web actually tore a hole.A ferocious poisonous spider was staring at it, but it didn't dare to go forward and entangle it. After a long time, the bees couldn't help but fainted, and the poisonous spider jumped on it and bit it. Xiao Longnv raised a group of jade bees in the ancient tomb, and she kept company with the bees all year round. Although she is very good at repelling bees, she also regards the bees as friends. Seeing the bees in trouble, she couldn't bear it. Although the appearance of spiders is evil, my bees may not be afraid of them." He took out the jade bottle from his bosom, stretched out his right hand to hold it, uncorked the bottle, and subtly exercised the power of his palm, and the hot air flowed into the bottle from the palm, after a while , a fragrant and fragrant honey fragrance was sent out through the spider web. Zhou Botong wondered: "What are you doing?" Xiao Longnv said: "This is a very interesting trick, do you like to watch it?" Zhou Botong was overjoyed and shouted: "Wonderful!" Then asked: "What kind of trick is that?" Xiao Longnv smiled and didn't answer, just urged her palm. At this time, the wild flowers in the valley are in full bloom, and there are a lot of wild bees gathering honey all around. Smelling the sweet fragrance, they rush here from everywhere.The wild bees kept rushing towards the cave, and as soon as they stuck to the spider web, they struggled and tore apart. Some were bitten to death by the poisonous spider, while others were stabbed by the poisonous spider.Although the colorful snow spider is the most poisonous in the world, if it gets too much bee venom, it will gradually stiffen and die. Zhou Botong just looked at it and danced, his heart was full of joy.Jinlun Fawang and Zhao Zhijing outside the cave were stunned and at a loss.At that time, the colorful snow spiders still had the upper hand, and only three of the poisonous spiders died, but more than forty bees died. In the end, it turned out to be a group of dozens or hundreds of spiders, and in a short while the spider webs at the entrance of the cave were all washed away, and more than ten poisonous spiders were all stabbed to death.Zhao Zhijing had suffered a lot from the bees, and seeing that the situation was not good, he quickly slipped into the bushes and avoided it far away.The king of Fawang regretted that the colorful snow spiders were rare, and the entire army was annihilated inexplicably in this battle. He also said that the wild bees have a gregarious heart, share the same hatred with the enemy, and fight poisonous spiders, but he didn't know that it was called by Xiaolongnv, and he was thinking how to force Zhou Botong and Xiaolongnv Out of the hole, resulting in the lives of two people. Xiao Longnu put her little fingernail into the jade vase, picked up a bit of honey and flicked it towards the Fawang, pointed her left index finger to his left and right, and yelled.Thousands of wild bees turned around and came out of the hole, rushing towards him. The King of Fa was shocked, and hurried forward.He is very good at lightening his body, although the wild bee flies fast, his movement is even faster, and he has jumped more than ten zhang away in an instant.But seeing him running away like a cloud of black smoke, the wild bees couldn't catch up, so they scattered. Xiao Longnv stomped her feet repeatedly, and kept shouting: "What a pity, what a pity!" Zhou Bo said, "What a pity?" Outflanking from left to right, trying to surround the King of France, but I didn't expect these wild bees to be a mob, gathering together in nests here and there, they can't be compared with the jade bees domesticated in her ancient tomb, asking them to chase and stab the enemy for a while , but it's okay, as for the subtle formations of outflanking from left to right and encircling from front to back, the wild bees are helpless.但周伯通已佩服得五体投地，深觉这玩意儿比他生平所见所玩任何戏耍都强得多，鼓掌大赞，全忘了身上中毒未解。 小龙女见洞口蛛丝已除，窜出洞去，招手道：“出来罢！”周伯通跟着跃出，但身在半空，突然重重跌落，叹道：“不成，不成！力气使不出来。”猛地里全身打战，牙齿互击，格格作响，这一跌之下，引动彩雪蛛的余毒发作出来，犹似身坠万丈冰窖，酷寒难当，嘴唇和脸孔渐渐发紫，一丛白胡子连连摇晃。 小龙女惊问：“周伯通，你怎么啦？”周伯通不住发抖，颤声道：“你……你快用那针儿扎我……扎我几下。”小龙女道：“我的针上有毒啊。”周伯通道：“便……便是……有毒……有毒的好。” 小龙女想起适才野蜂与毒蛛的恶战，心道：“莫非蜂毒正是蛛毒的克星？”从地下拾起一枚玉蜂针，试着在他手臂上刺了一下。周伯通叫道：“妙啊！快再刺。”小龙女连刺几下，听他不住的叫好，眼见针上毒性已失，于是换过一枚。一共刺了十余针，周伯通不再打战，舒了一口气，笑道：“以毒攻毒，众妙之门。”试着一运气，却觉体内余毒仍未去尽，猛地一拍膝盖，叫道：“龙姑娘，你针上的蜂毒不够，而且不大新鲜。”小龙女笑道：“那我便叫野蜂来叮你。”周伯通道：“多谢之至，快快叫罢！” 小龙女揭开玉瓶，召来一群野蜂，一一叮在周伯通身上。老顽童笑逐颜开，全身脱得赤条条地，让野蜂针刺，一面潜运神功，先将蜂毒吸入丹田，再随真气流遍全身各处大穴。约莫一顿饭功夫，遍体都是野蜂尾针所刺的小孔，蛛毒尽解，再刺下去便越来越痛，大声叫道：“够啦，够啦！再刺下去便搅出人命来啦！”拾起衣裤穿起。 小龙女微微一笑，将野蜂驱走，见金铃软索掉在一旁，顺手拾起，问道：“我要上终南山去，你去不去？”周伯通摇摇头，道：“我另有要紧事情要办，你一个人去罢！”小龙女道：“啊！是了，你要到襄阳城去相助郭大侠。”她一提到“郭大侠”三字，便想到郭芙，跟着想到了杨过，黯然道：“周伯通，你若见到杨过，别提起曾遇见我。”却见他口中喃喃自语，但一些声息也听不到，脸上神色甚是诡异，不知在捣甚么鬼。过了半晌，周伯通突然抬头问道：“你说甚么？”小龙女道：“没甚么了，咱们再见啦。”周伯通心不在焉，只是点头挥手。 小龙女转身走开，过了一个山坳，忽听得周伯通大声吆喝呼啸，宛似在指挥蜜蜂。小龙女好生奇怪，悄悄又走了回来，躲在一株树后张望，只见周伯通手中拿着玉瓶，正在指手划脚的呼叫。她伸手怀中一探，玉瓶果已不翼而飞，不知如何给他偷了去，但他吆喝的声音似是而非，虽有几只野蜂闻到蜜香赶来，却全不理睬他的指挥，只是绕着玉瓶嗡嗡打转。 小龙女忍不住噗哧一笑，从树后探身出来，叫道：“我来教你罢！”周伯通见把戏拆穿，贼赃给事主当场拿住，只羞得满脸通红，白须一挥，斗地窜出数丈，急奔下山，飞也似的逃走了。 小龙女哈哈大笑，心想这怪老头儿当真有趣得紧。她笑了数声，空山隐隐，传来几响回声，蓦地里只觉寂寞凄凉，难以自遣，忍不住流下两行清泪。这一晚和金轮法王斗智斗力，有老顽童陪着胡闹，倒也热闹了半天，此刻敌人走了，朋友也走了，全世界便似孤零零的只剩下了她一个人。
她一路跟随尹志平和赵志敬，只觉这两人可恶之极，虽将之碎尸万段，也难解心头之恨。她只消一出手，便能将两人杀了，但总觉得杀了他们那又如何？在大榆树下呆了半晌，自言自语：“我还是找他们去！”走下山来，跨上放在山下吃草的花驴。 上得大路行了一程，忽见前面烟尘冲天，旌旗招展，蹄声雷震，大队军马向南开拔，显是蒙古大军又去攻打襄阳。小龙女心中踌躇：“这千军万马之中却如何去寻那两个道士？”忽见三乘马从山坡旁掠过，马上乘者黄衫星冠，正是三个道人。小龙女心道：“怎地多了一个？”遥遥望去，最后一人正是尹志平，赵志敬和另一个年轻道士并骑在前。小龙女一提缰绳，纵驴跟了下去。 尹志平和赵志敬听得蹄声，回头一望，又见到小龙女，都不禁脸上变色。那年轻道人问道：“赵师兄，这女子是谁？”赵志敬道：“那是咱们教中的大敌，你别出声。”那道人吓了一跳，颤声道：“是赤练仙子李莫愁？”赵志敬道：“不是，是她的师妹。”那年轻道人名叫祁志诚，也是丘处机的弟子。他只知李莫愁曾多次与师伯、师父、师叔们相斗，全真诸子曾在她手下吃过不少亏，来者既是李莫愁的师妹，自然也非善类。 赵志敬举鞭狂抽马臀，一阵急奔，尹祁二人也纵马快跑，片刻间已将小龙女远抛在后。但小龙女那花驴后劲极长，脚步并不加快，只是不疾不徐的小跑。三匹马奔出四五里，气喘吁吁，渐渐慢了下来，花驴又逐步赶上。赵志敬举鞭击马，但坐骑没了力气，不论他如何抽打，只奔出数十丈，便又自急奔而小跑，自小跑而缓步。 祁志诚道：“赵师兄，我和你回头阻挡敌人，让尹师兄脱身。”赵志敬铁青着脸道：“话倒说得容易，你不要命了吗？”祁志诚道：“尹师兄身负掌教重任，咱们好歹也得护他平安。”原来他此番是奉师父丘处机之命前来，召尹志平回重阳宫接任掌教之位。 赵志敬哼了一声，不加理睬，心想：“也不知天多高，地多厚，凭你这点儿微末道行就想挡住她？”祁志诚见他脸色不善，不敢多说，勒住马缰，待尹志平上前，低声道：“尹师兄，你千金之躯，非同小可，还是你先走一步。”尹志平摇头道：“由得他去！” 祁志诚见他镇静如恒，好生佩服，暗道：“怪不得师父要他接任掌教，单是这份气度，第三代弟子中就无人能及。”他却不知尹志平此时心情特异，小龙女要杀便伸颈就戮，早已全无抗拒之念。赵志敬见二人不急，究也不便独自逃窜，好在见小龙女一时也无动手之意，于是走一段路便回头望一眼，心中大是惴惴不安。 四人三前一后，默默无言的向北而行。这时蒙古大军南冲之声已渐渐隐没，偶尔随风飘来一些金鼓号角之声，但风势一转，随即消失。百姓躲避敌军，大道附近别说十室九空，简直是鸡犬不留，绝无人迹。那日尹志平与赵志敬慌不择路的逃到了偏僻之处，还可找到一家小小饭店，这时一路行来，连完好的空屋也寻不着一所。 当晚尹志平等三人便在一所门窗全无的破屋中歇宿。赵志敬和祁志诚偷偷向外张望，只见小龙女在两株大树间悬了一根绳子，横卧在绳上。祁志诚见她如此功夫，暗暗心惊，只有尹志平坦然高卧，理也不理。这一晚赵志敬忽起忽卧，哪敢合眼而睡？只待树上稍有声息，便要破门逃去。 次晨四人又行。赵志敬连晚未睡，加之受惊过甚，骑在马上迷迷糊糊的打瞌睡。祁志诚和尹志平并骑而行，落后了七八丈，祁志诚忍不住说道：“尹师兄，你和赵师兄的武功，每年大较小较，我都见识过的，两位可说各有所长，难分高下。但说到胸中器量，那是不可同日而语了。”尹志平苦笑了一下，问道：“师父和各位师伯叔这次闭关，你可知要有多少时日？”祁志诚道：“师父说快则三月，慢则一年，因此要急召尹师兄去接任掌教。”尹志平呆呆出神，自言自语：“他老人家功夫到了这等田地，不知还须修持甚么？”祁志诚低声道：“听说五位真人要潜心钻研，设法破解古墓派的武功。”尹志平“哦”了一声，忍不住回头向小龙女望了一眼。
原来那日大胜关英雄大会，小龙女与杨过出手气走金轮法王师徒，武功精绝，郝大通、孙不二和尹赵二道都亲眼得见。何况杨过在郭靖书房之中，手不动、足不抬，便制得赵志敬狼狈不堪，后来小龙女只一招之间，便将赵志敬震得重伤。他二人使何手法，孙不二虽在近旁，竟然便看不明白，倒似全真派的武功在古墓派手下全然不堪一击，思之实足心惊。后来又听说小龙女和杨过双剑合璧，将金轮法王杀得大败亏输，全真派上下更是大为震动。全真诸子想起郝大通失手伤了孙婆婆的性命，李莫愁、小龙女、杨过等人总有一日会来终南山寻仇。对付李莫愁一人已是大为棘手，何况再加上杨龙两个厉害脚色？李莫愁和小龙女互有嫌隙之事，他们却不知晓。 全真七子之中，谭处端早死，此时马钰也已谢世，只剩下了五人。刘处玄任了半年掌教，交由丘处机接任。五子均已年高，精力就衰，想起第三、四代弟子之中并无杰出的人才，古墓派上山寻仇之时，倘若全真五子尚在人间，还可抵挡得一阵，但如小龙女等十年后再来，那时号称天下武学正宗的全真派非一败涂地不可。因此五人决定闭关静修，要钻研一门厉害武功出来和古墓派相抗，是以赶召尹志平回山接任掌教。
尹志平等朝行晚宿，一路向西北而行。小龙女总是相隔里许，不即不离的在后相随。 这日到了陕西境内，祁志诚向尹志平道：“尹师兄，咱们是回重阳宫去。难道这龙姑娘孤身一人，竟也敢涉险追来么？” 尹志平“嗯”了一声，实在猜不透她的用意。这一路之上，日日夜夜，只是反来复去的寻思：“她要向五位真人揭发我的恶行么？要仗剑大杀全真教，以出心中恶气么？或许，她只不过要回到古墓故居，正好和我同路？又难道……又难道……她怜我一片痴心，终究对我有了情意？”想到最后一节，总不由得面红耳赤，暗自惭愧，这自是痴心妄想，比之长生遇仙，尤为渺茫，反正此时生死荣辱全已置之度外，恐惧之心倒也淡了。 又过数日，已到了终南山脚下。祁志诚取出一枝响箭，使手劲甩出，呜的一声响，冲天而起。 过不多时，四名黄冠道人从山上急奔而下，向尹志平躬身行礼，说道：“清和真人，您回来啦，大家等候多时了。”尹志平道号“清和”，但除了他的亲传弟子之外，向来无人如此称呼。这四名道人都是全真教的第三代弟子，和他一直师兄弟相称，其中一人年纪比他还大得多。这四人突然改口，尹志平极感过意不去，忙下马还礼，谦道：“四位师兄如此相称，小弟何以克当。”那年纪最长的道人是马钰的弟子，说道：“五位师叔法旨，只待清和真人一到，即便接任掌教，至于交接大礼，要等丘师叔开关之后再行。”尹志平道：“师父和四位师伯叔已经闭关了么？”那道人道：“已闭了二十多天。” 说话之间，只听山上乐声响亮，十六名道士吹笙击罄，排列在道旁迎接，另有十六名道士拿着木剑、铁钵等法器，见尹志平来到，一齐躬身行礼，前后护拥，向山上而去，竟把赵志敬冷落在后。赵志敬又是气恼，又是羡妒，但内心却又不禁暗暗得意：“待掌教之位落入我的手中，再瞧你们的嘴脸却又如何？” 傍晚时分，一行人已到了重阳宫外。宫中五百多名道人从大殿直排到山门外十余丈处，只听得铜钟镗镗，皮鼓隆隆，数百名道士躬身肃候。见到这般隆重端严的情景，尹志平本来委靡颓唐，不由得精神为之一振，在十六名大弟子左右拥卫下，先到三清殿叩拜元始天尊、太上道君、太上老君三清，再到后殿叩拜创教祖师王重阳的遗像，又到第三殿全真七子集议之所，向七张空椅叩拜，然后回到正殿三清殿。 丘处机的第二弟子李志常取出掌教真人法旨宣读，命尹志平接任掌教。尹志平下拜听训，感愧交集，瞥眼见赵志敬站在一旁，脸上似笑非笑的满是讥嘲之色，心中蓦地大震。 尹志平听训已毕，站起身来，待要向群道谦逊几句，忽见外面一名道士进来，朗声说道：“启禀掌教真人，有客到。”尹志平一呆，想不到小龙女竟会这般大模大样的正式拜会，实不知如何应付才是，事到临头，要逃也逃不过，只得硬着头皮道：“请罢！” 那道士回身出去，引了两个人进来。群道一见，均大感诧异，尹志平更是奇怪。原来进来的两个人一个是蒙古官员打扮，另一个却是在忽必烈营中会见过的潇湘子。
那蒙古贵官朗声说道：“大汗陛下圣旨到，敕封全真教掌教。”说着在大殿上居中一站，取出一卷黄缎，双手展开，宣读道：“敕封全真教掌教为：特授神仙演道大宗师，玄门掌教，文粹开玄宏仁广义大真人，掌管诸路道教所……”宣读到这里，见没人跪下听旨，大声道：“全真教掌教接旨。” 尹志平上前躬身行礼，说道：“敝教掌教丘真人坐关，现由小道接任掌教，蒙古大汗的敕封，非对小道而授，小道不敢拜领。” 那蒙古贵官笑道：“大汗陛下玉音，丘真人为我成吉思汗所敬，年事已高，不知是否尚在人世。这敕封原本不是定须授给丘真人的，谁是全真教掌教，便荣受敕封。”尹志平道：“小道无德无能，实是不敢拜领。”那贵官笑道：“不用客气啦，快快领旨罢。”尹志平道：“荣宠忽降，仓卒不意。请大人后殿侍茶，小道和诸位师兄商议商议。” 那贵官甚是不快，卷起了圣旨道：“也罢！却不知要商量甚么？”教中职司接待宾客的四名道人当即陪着贵官和潇湘子到后殿用茶。 尹志平邀了十六名大弟子到别院坐下，说道：“此事体大，小弟不敢擅自作主，要聆听各位师兄的高见。” 赵志敬抢先道：“蒙古大汗既有这等美意，自当领旨。可见本教日益兴旺，连蒙古大汗也不敢小视咱们。”说着神情甚是得意，呵呵而笑。李志常摇头道：“不然，不然！蒙古侵我国土，残害百姓，咱们怎能受他敕封？”赵志敬道：“丘师伯当年领受成吉思汗诏书，万里迢迢的前赴西域，尹掌教和李师兄均曾随行，有此先例，何以受不得蒙古大汗的敕封？”李志常道：“那时蒙古和大金为敌，既未侵我国土，且与大宋结盟，此一时彼一时，如何能相提并论？”赵志敬道：“终南山是蒙古该管，咱们的道观也均在蒙古境内，若是拒受敕封，眼见全真教便是一场大祸。”李志常道：“赵师兄这话不对。”赵志敬提高声音，道：“甚么不对，要请李师兄指点。”李志常道：“指点是不敢。但请问赵师兄，咱们的创教祖师重阳真人是甚么人？你我的师父全真七子又是甚么人？” 赵志敬愕然道：“祖师爷和师父辈宏道护法，乃是三清教中的高人。”李志常道：“他们都是顶天立地的大丈夫，爱国忧民，每个人出生入死，都曾和金兵血战过来的。”赵志敬道：“是啊。重阳真人和全真七子名震江湖，武林中谁不钦仰？” 李志常道：“想我教上代的真人，个个不畏强御，立志要救民于水火之中，全真教便算真的大祸临头，咱们又怕甚么了？要知头可断，志不可辱！”这几句话大义凛然，尹志平和十多名大弟子都是耸然动容。 赵志敬冷笑道：“便只李师兄就不怕死，旁人都是贪生畏死之徒了？祖师爷创业艰难，本教能有今日的规模，祖师爷和七位师长花了多少心血？这时交付下来，咱们处置不当，将轰轰烈烈的全真教毁于一旦，咱们有何面目见祖师爷于地下？五位师长开关出来之时，又怎生交代？”这番话言之成理，登时有几名道人随声附和。赵志敬又道：“金人是我教的死仇，蒙古灭了金国，正好替我教出了口恶气。当年祖师爷举义不成，气得在活死人墓中隐居不出，他老人家在天之灵知道金人败军覆国，正不知有多喜欢呢。” 丘处机的另一名弟子王志坦道：“蒙古人灭金之后，若是与我大宋和好，约为兄弟之邦，咱们自然待以上国之礼。但今日蒙古军大举南下，急攻襄阳，大宋江山危在旦夕，你我都是大宋之民，岂能受敌国的敕封？”转头向尹志平道：“掌教师兄，你若受了敕封，便是大大的汉奸，便是本教的千古罪人。我王志坦纵然颈血溅于地下，也不能与你干休。”说到此处，已然声色俱厉。 赵志敬倏地站起，伸掌在桌上一拍，喝道：“王师弟，你是想动武不成？对掌教真人竟敢如此无礼？”王志坦厉声道：“咱们只是说理。若要动武，又岂怕你来？” 眼见双方各执一词，互不为下，气势汹汹的便要大挥老拳，拔剑相斗。一名须发花白的道人连连摇手，说道：“各位师弟，有话好好说，不用恁地气急。”王志坦道：“依师兄说该当如何？”那道人说：“依我说啊，唔，唔……出家人慈悲为怀，能多救得一个百姓，那便是助长一分上天的好生之德……唔，唔……咱们若是受了蒙古大汗的敕封，便能尽力劝阻蒙古君臣兵将滥施杀戮，当年丘师叔，不是便因此而救了不少百姓的性命么？”有几名道人附和道：“是啊！是啊！” 一名短小精悍的道人摇头道：“今日情势非昔可比。小弟随师父西游，亲眼见到蒙古兵将屠城掠地的惨酷。咱们若受敕封，降了蒙古，那便是助纣为虐，纵然救得十条八条性命，但蒙古势力一大，不知将有几千几万百姓因此而死。”这矮小道人名叫宋德方，是当年随丘处机西游的十九弟子之一。 赵志敬冷笑道：“你见过成吉思汗，那又怎地？我此番便见了蒙古四王子忽必烈，这位王爷礼贤下士，豁达大度，又哪里残暴了？”王志坦叫道：“好啊，原来你是奉了忽必烈之命，做奸细来着！”赵志敬大怒，喝道：“你说甚么？”王志坦道：“谁帮蒙古人说话，便是汉奸。”赵志敬突然跃起，呼的一掌便往王志坦头顶击落。斜刺里双掌穿出，同时架开他这一击，出掌的却是丘处机的另外两名弟子，其中一人便是祁志诚。赵志敬怒火更炽，大叫：“好哇！丘师伯门下弟子众多，要仗势欺人么？” 正闹得不可开交，尹志平双掌一拍，说道：“各位师兄且请安坐，听小弟一言。”全真教的掌教向来威权极大，众道人当即坐了下来，不敢再争。