"Yuan Wuzong." He pointed to himself and said, "It's me."

I looked at him silently, and both of them had a complicated feeling in my heart, and I was stunned for a moment and didn't know what to do.

"Kneel down." The man still kept sitting cross-legged, but his aura was completely different from before. He exuded a strong awe-inspiring aura, and the cold and solemn look between his eyebrows and eyes was daunting.

His voice was not loud, but I heard Chen Si and I suddenly burst into tears in my heart and I couldn't help but kneel down together.

I thought the next thing was to kowtow and become a disciple.

But the man said, "I, Yuanwu Sect, accept disciples, don't have the red tape. Now you kneel to me, then you are my only two disciples in this life. If you have time to return to the Guiyin Sect, you will ask you to pay homage to the ancestors of the master."

He suddenly took off a strange-shaped ring from his left hand, but he didn't see clearly what technique he used, so he actually divided the ring into two halves.

He held half of his ring in one hand and said to the two of me solemnly: "Take off your clothes."

I was stunned by the sound of Chen Mo, not understanding what to do if I took off my clothes.

But seeing his awesome look, we had to take off our tops as we did.

The cold wind blew on our thin bodies and I couldn't help but tremble.

The man suddenly reached out and pressed the two halves of rings on our chests.

As soon as the finger ring touched my chest, my skin felt like it was burned by a soldering iron. The violent burning made me scream, and at the same time I smelled the burnt smell of flesh in my nose.

The same is true for silence. Cold sweat broke out on his forehead in an instant. However, he did not scream and kept gritting his teeth.

After a while, the man withdrew his hand. We couldn't help but look down and found that half of the rings had been burned on each of our chests.

The finger ring was obviously taken off that man's hand, so why did such a high temperature leave a burnt mark on us?

My heart was shocked violently, and I thought he could use magic tricks for a moment.

"This is the symbol of the sect passed down from generation to generation by my Guiyin lineage. It is called the Guiyin Ring Seal. Every disciple of the Guiyin Sect must leave a mark on his body. This is the entry-level rule." The man suddenly opened his clothes and said, "I am no exception."

We looked up and vaguely saw a mark on his still muscular chest that was left with the same mark as ours.

He closed his shirt and extended the two halves of rings to us again, saying, "Each of them will take these half rings and keep them for peace. Never lose them, otherwise they will be punished for being traitorous."

Chen Si and I didn't care about the pain in our chest, and we reached out to take it carefully and cautiously, thinking that the ring was still very hot, and we didn't want it to be burning in our hands. Everything was normal. This made both of us even more surprised.

The master regained his initial indifferent expression. He had already seen through our surprise and said, "What I used just now was not a magic trick, but a secret internal technique of Guiyin, called Wuying's control of emptiness. The energy of heaven and earth is endless, and it is tolerant of everything. It is vast and still, without form and impermanence, and there is endlessness. You don't understand it now. I will teach you slowly in the future." He took a sip of wine and continued, "Now you and the two of you have become my disciples. Although I disdain those etiquettes, you must have a seniority."

I vaguely guessed the meaning of this sentence. I and Chen Si must distinguish who is the senior brother and who is the junior brother.

But I don’t know what method Master will use to distinguish.

The master pondered for a moment, then said, "I will ask a question, and you two must answer immediately based on your true thoughts in your heart, and it is not considered."

I only nodded with silence.

"Then tell me, why didn't you choose to escape in that fire?" The master's tone was still faint.

"Silence, you answer first." The master said to Silence.

Silence did not hesitate and immediately replied: "I want to take revenge."

The master nodded slightly, turned to me, and asked, "Where are you?"

The most secret answer in my heart jumped out in an instant: "Because I want to live."

I know best in my heart that only by living can I achieve my goal of revenge.

The master's eyes were introverted and sharp. He stared at me for a long time before he slowly said, "Very good, then from now on, you will be the silent senior brother."

I was confused when I heard this and didn't understand what the reason for Master's decision was.

I subconsciously looked at the silent reaction and found that his expression did not seem to fluctuate significantly.

I really wanted to ask why, but as soon as I reached my throat, I hesitated again.

The master looked at Chen Si and said, "Jin Si, why don't you ask why you are not a senior brother?"

My heart moved, and this is what I want to ask.

The silent expression was still very calm, and he replied softly: "Master is the master, and the disciple should obey it."

"I can see that although you don't care about this title, you still want to know the reason." The master looked at him and said slowly: "Your personality is too direct, and it is correct to have a clear purpose, but it is not suitable for everything. It is easy to break. You should try to learn how to use roundabout ways to do things. This way you will avoid many unnecessary harms."

I don't know if silence understands it, but I know I don't understand it.

Because of these words, how can a child who is only seven years old fully understand?

"The answer to a question is often the answer that does not require a deliberate thought to be the most real. And these answers often reflect a person's truest side." The master turned his eyes to me and said, "Xiao Yi, your answer tells me that you are very thoughtful and good at disguising your true nature well. In other words, when you grow up in the future, you may be more scheming than scheming. This is not a bad thing. The key lies in how you use it. You have a greater vision of the overall situation than silence, so I am making you a senior brother because I hope that in the future you will get along with each other and learn from each other's personalities to make up for the part you lack. You must also be the responsibility of a senior brother, because for a long time in the future, you will all witness the growth of each other together."

It took me many years later that the reason why Master asked me to be a senior brother was actually because I had more direct desires than silent, but I was better at concealing and planning than him, and Master also needed these things on me.

Silence, he yearns for himself more, he doesn't like complexity, and sometimes I envy him because he lives more purely than me.

I remember that night it was the 17th day of the winter moon, and our two children had a mark on them and became the descendants of a little-known sect in the world. I remember that at that time, I finally asked the master a question.

"Master, since the Guiyin Ring Seal is half of each person, why was it the complete one when you were in your hands just now?"

After hearing this, the master didn't speak for a long time. He looked up at the door of the ruined temple with his hands in his arms, his eyes as if there was a hint of imperceptible loss.

"Because only the true Lord of Ghost Hidden - the Ghost King, can have the complete Ghost Hidden Ring Seal." The master seemed to sigh softly. He looked down at the two children in front of him and said, "One of you two will become the Ghost King in the future and inherit the incense of the Ghost Hidden lineage for hundreds of years. By that time, the Ghost Hidden Ring Seal will be combined into one and become the symbol of a generation of Ghost King."

"But you don't need to think so much now. The first thing you have to do now is to learn how to survive in this world." The master said to us earnestly: "You must remember that in this world, only living people are qualified to speak."

This sentence also became the most said to us by Master later.

"I can't guarantee what kind of people you will become in the end, but it will be fun to follow me now and learn how to live a little longer than others."

I saw the master walk to the door of the ruined temple. He raised his head and looked at the sky before dawn. Gray hair flew and his sleeves were full of wind.

At that time, I didn’t know that many years later, I would leave the Guiyin Sect and leave my junior brother because I didn’t want the Guiyin Ring Seal to be combined into one, and I wouldn’t know that I would become a “destiny master” who was afraid of being talked about in the world.

I chose to leave because I don’t want to, or even dare to face someone, one thing.

The person I don’t want to see again is Shen Mo. As for that matter, I don’t want to mention it again.

Many people have such problems in their hearts. Some people don’t want to see each other again and don’t want to mention them again. Perhaps it’s because they don’t have the courage to face it, or perhaps it’s because they have no way out once they look back, so I would rather choose to escape.

From that dilapidated temple, I and Shen Mo had a master sect and a master.

Later I learned that almost not many people in the world knew about my master's sect, and I even suspected that no one had heard of the name "Ghost Yin".

I have always been wondering why the Guiyin lineage is so weak. In the generation of Master, there are only two disciples, Shen Mo. I once asked Master, but Master didn't seem to want to tell me the answer, and I just sighed alone every time.

This question seems to have become a thorn in the master's heart, and it will hurt if it is mentioned.

So I stopped asking. But I knew there must be a reason for this.

After I grew up, I gradually realized that Guiyin Sect was only known in the world of my generation. However, more than a hundred years ago, the name Guiyin not only became famous all over the world, but also brought an unprecedented bloody storm to the world. Countless people hated this name for it, and the Guiyin lineage also paid a heavy price for it and had to withdraw from the world. And people no longer mentioned those bloody pasts and the name that was like a nightmare.

Some pain can only be forgotten by force.

And my master, the Ghost King Yuan Wuzong, never took the initiative to reveal his identity when he was walking in the world.

So the name Guiyin has been mentioned in the world for almost a hundred years.

No one mentioned it, but it does not mean that it has not existed. Even if people in the world deliberately do not record and recall it, they still cannot cover up Guiyin's former reputation.

Later, I followed my master to the former Guiyin Sect, which was a secret place far away from the Central Plains, a place hidden deep in the endless snow-capped mountains. When I first stepped into that place, I thought I had entered a dreamland.

Because that place, in my opinion at that time, was simply an unreasonable existence. There were no end to see the continuous snow-capped mountains outside, but among the crisscrossing valleys, it was a magical place that was as warm as spring and blooming flowers.

This place, which is called "the external world of dust" by the master, has sunshine, birds and beasts, and streams and flowers. No matter how the seasons change outside the mountain, it is always like spring. Although it is only separated by a mountain, it seems like outside the world.

There is the sect holy land of Guiyin Sect. I learned from later records that this place has a history of nearly three hundred years. In this valley with a unique cave, there are countless gold and silver treasures, as well as the magical weapons and secret books that people in the world dream of. It is no exaggeration to say that this is a treasure house. These existences that cannot be estimated are obtained by disciples of Guiyin throughout the ages spent hundreds of years collecting them.

I remember that was the first time I and Shen Mo came to the place where the master sect was. We were seventeen years old that year.

The reason why we came to the outside world was that Master said it was time for us to come to pay homage to our ancestors and those former seniors. Another reason was that Master said he wanted to give us something as a gift from our master.

Those were two weapons, one knife and one blow.

The knife is about two feet or eight inches long, with a simple and slender style, but it has a cold murderous aura, and is called "Seven Kills".

The fan was dark and red, forged by thirteen extremely sharp and refined iron fan bones, and was called "Half-foot Hongchen".

According to the master, this sword and a blow were not weapons of Guiyin Master, but gifts from a friend outside his world. The materials of the swords were made of fine iron from the bottom of the North Iceberg, and they were rare peerless magic weapons in the world.

Master asked me and Shen Mo to choose one of the weapons themselves.

The weapon I value most in my heart was the ordinary knife that killed blood feud in the sea of ​​fire that year. Unfortunately, it was left in the fire scene at that time, which became a regret in my heart.

Although I have known many weapons well and are extremely skilled over the years, I did not have any special requirements for weapons at that time, and I was not even used to using a certain weapon. But since it was a gift from my master, I had no reason to refuse, and the so-called elders could not refuse. So I took a look at the fine iron folding fan at a glance. It seemed to be a fan of special shape, but I knew it was an extremely strange and powerful Qimen weapon. But as my senior brother, I had to give the right to my junior brother the priority.

Shen Mo chose the knife without hesitation.

I know his choice was from what he really wanted in his heart. Because his personality was like a knife, his murderous aura was simple and direct, pure and sharp, and the two complemented each other.

So I naturally became the master of the half-foot world.

Many years later, the Seven Killing Sword and the person who matched the sword led to a story that was scrambled to the world, and was called the "Ghost Eye Demon Sword" by the world.

But I never understood why that folding fan was called "half-foot red dust"?

What is the world in half a foot?

That time we stayed in the world of dust for about a year. During this period, I had the opportunity to understand the past of the master more deeply.

Those tablets that worship Guiyin ancestors and seniors of the same sect told me that Guiyin was once a sect where masters gathered. I have read the books of the master and learned from those incomplete records that Guiyin still had a strong power in the generation of Master Yuanwu Sect, and the disciples of the master did not have the simple rules of the first and second masters like me and Chen Si. In other words, the rules that Guiyin Sect only accepts two disciples, which only happened in the generation of Master Yuanwu Sect.
To be continued...