Five Elements Sect, Zhang Wanjing's Cave Mansion

"Brother, why don't you persuade your father? Do you know what reform means?"

Lin Jiang felt that he would be pissed off to death by the father and son. Life is so good, why bother with this stuff? This is not the way to die. Can't you just find a piece of tofu and kill yourself?

"I know."

"I know, but you still don't persuade him. Are you counting on your father to die? If your father dies, can you inherit the family property? Your father doesn't have much property."

"Junior brother, I and my father have worked together for several years. Have you ever seen me persuade my father?" "

It seems not."

"Since you know you can't persuade him, why bother talking?"

"But your father is playing with fire this time, you know, it will kill people. No matter how upright and selfless you are at ordinary times, your father didn't involve the core interests of those people. They gave your father a face, but reform is different. What to change, what to reform. This is to redistribute the interests of the Five Elements Sect. Whose interests are you taking? Isn't it the interests of the top leaders? Do you think they will be polite to you if their core interests are affected? Blocking someone's financial path is like killing their parents, do you understand?"

Lin Jiang almost shouted. Reform is not a new term. Its essence is the redistribution of interests. Some people get too much, and some people get too little. Distributing the benefits of too much to those who get too little is reform.

But are those vested interests willing to give up their interests? No one will. If they are so selfless, there will be no need for reform. Which reform does not involve bloodshed and sacrifice? Why should we shed the blood of our own people?

"I know everything that Junior Brother said." "Why didn't you stop it if you knew

it? If you can't persuade him, you will throw a tantrum and go to your mother and ask everyone to persuade you. Compared with your life, what is face?"

"Face is indeed nothing, but does faith count?"

"What?"

"Faith, or Taoism, my father decided a long time ago to dedicate himself to the sect. As a child, how can I bear to ruin my father's Taoism? Isn't it just death? If I really have to die, I will follow my father."

"Crazy, your father is crazy, and you are crazy too."

Lin Jiang yelled. He thought Zhang Shuhua was not that crazy. It seems that he was wrong. The son of a big madman is also a madman, a little madman.

"Junior brother, if you don't want to stay with us, then go. My father won't blame you,"

Zhang Shuhua said calmly. He had told his father about Lin Jiang's character a long time ago, but Zhang Wanjing didn't care. Zhang Wanjing believed that he could move people.

"Let's go,"

Lin Jiang ran away, but as he walked, the scenes of him and Zhang Wanjing getting along kept appearing in his mind. Lin Jiang had to admit that in his more than two hundred years of life, except when he was in the Lin family, Zhang Wanjing treated him the best. He

didn't despise his background or his qualifications, and accepted him as his personal disciple. In those years, Zhang Wanjing didn't put any pressure on Lin Jiang, allowing him to grow freely and giving him the foundation-building pill.

In the past few years, Lin Jiang has been with Zhang Wanjing, and Zhang Wanjing has also patiently taught him, treating him like Zhang Shuhua. Lin Jiang often speaks without restraint, but Zhang Wanjing doesn't get angry.

"Once a teacher, always a father. Damn, that father of the Lin family is so easy, why is this father so troublesome?"

Lin Jiang did not open the defense formation of Zhang Wanjing's house in the end, but turned back.

"Master, are you asleep?"

"Come in"

"What are you still writing?"

Lin Jiang pushed the door open and saw Zhang Wanjing writing something on the desk.

"Just some suggestions, why don't you ask Zhang Shuhua to persuade me?"

"Like father, like son. It's better for me to do it myself than to ask my senior brother to persuade you."

"Haha, okay, I'll give you a chance to convince me,"

said Zhang Wanjing. Since Lin Jiang knew that he was going to reform the sect, Lin Jiang has been opposed. He wants to see what his little apprentice can say.

"If I say that you will die if you reform, you will definitely say that you are not afraid of death, right?"

"Yes, as long as you don't become an immortal, people will always die, Xiao Yi, people live not only to practice one thing, there are many things worth doing"

"I can't tell that you have such deep feelings for the sect"

"That's because you don't know my past"

"You can say"

"Okay, I'll tell you, my background is the same as yours, I live in a mortal village, my parents are the most ordinary mortals, except for farming, they can't do anything. Our village is very large, and we have two immortal cultivators. We give them the best things, food, cloth, girls, whatever they want, we give them.

Later, the monsters came, they ran away, and our entire village became the food of the monsters, but the monsters didn't eat us all at once, but stared at us, sometimes eating one a day, sometimes eating one every two or three days.

In order to protect us, our parents were willing to be eaten by the monsters. I was ten years old that year. Later, there were only a few dozen children left in the village. When it was my turn, my master appeared and saved me.

He brought us to the Five Elements Sect and raised us for many years until I was diagnosed with spiritual roots. He then accepted me as his disciple and taught me to read and write, and to practice.

Later, my master also died in a conflict with a casual cultivator. When he was carried back, he was already very weak. I asked him why he fought so hard, and if he couldn't just run away, my master said that it was the sect that raised him and cultivated him. If he ran away, how could he be worthy of the sect?

Later I thought, it was the Five Elements Sect that saved me, avenged our entire village, and it was the Five Elements Sect that raised and cultivated me, so I must dedicate my life to the sect, so that I can be worthy of the sect, my master, and my fellow villagers.”

“There are many ways to repay a favor, and you chose the stupidest way.”

“Maybe you are right, but then I was thinking, if everyone in the world is smart, then who are the stupid people? Someone has to be a little stupid. Since no one wants to be a stupid person, then I’ll be the one.”

“You…”

Lin Jiang was speechless for a moment. He knew that no matter what, he could not persuade Zhang Wanjing. He was a man with a very firm character. He had determined on something and he would do it.

“Master, do you want to be a martyr? "

What is a martyr?"

"You regard devoting yourself to the sect as the way in your heart. Now that you are given a chance, you will seize it. You even think that sacrificing for the sect is in line with your way, because it is tragic enough."

"That makes sense. Maybe. I'm actually tired these years. Why not just make a conclusion this time?"

Zhang Wanjing was speechless. Martyrdom seems to be very powerful. Then he is willing to be a martyr.

He has been very tired in these years. He has to deal with many people, solve the daily conflicts of the sect, and prevent those high-level people from hollowing out the sect. He is obviously doing the most correct thing, but he is not liked by everyone. He is tired.

If his sacrifice can alert the sect, then he is willing to make this sacrifice.

"But Master, martyrs are also losers. People will not thank you, but will only laugh at your failure. All your efforts will become bubbles under the intervention of those people. Many years later, when people talk about Zhang Wanjing, they will only think of Master's ridiculousness..."

"Impossible, my Five Elements Sect can't be like this"

"Why is it impossible? You are a loser"

"I will not fail."

"How can you guarantee your success? Reform has always been top-down. You are only the deputy hall master. There are at least ten people in the sect who are on the same level as you. They can sideline you at any time. There are also fifteen elders in the sect who can dismiss you at any time. What can you use to fight them?"

"The sect leader supports me."

"There is only one sect leader. How many confidants and direct descendants does he have? Can they compare with the other fourteen elders? Besides, when the reform is carried out, can you guarantee the interests of the sect leader? What about his confidants and direct descendants? Aren't they the current beneficiaries? "

This..."

"Master, the sect is very old, and when you get old, you will have problems, just like ordinary people, when they get old, they will have many problems. I don't object to your reform now, but I hope you can use the right way, I hope you can win,"

Lin Jiang said. He had thought it over. With a crazy master and a crazy senior brother, it didn't matter if he had one more crazy junior brother.

He had lived for more than two hundred years, and he had always been cautious and had always lived in fear. But this time, he decided not to live in fear, and just go crazy with this crazy father and son. Maybe thousands of years later, this would be his youth, Lin Jiang.

But Lin Jiang was still rational. Even if he decided to go crazy once, he was not completely crazy. He hoped that Zhang Wanjing could win. His life, Lin Jiang's life, and the life of people like Zhang Wanjing were exciting enough.

"Xiao Yi, you understand these things very well,"

Zhang Wanjing smiled meaningfully at Lin Jiang. These words seemed to be beyond the knowledge that someone should have.

"There are many books in the Five Elements Sect's library. They are not necessarily about cultivation, nor are they necessarily related to alchemy, talismans, weapons, and formations, but they are very interesting. No one reads them, but I did. So I have a little insight into human nature. If the master can trust his disciples, then the disciples will be the military advisor for the master and give him advice."

"Haha, of course you can trust me. With your help, I have a better chance of winning."

Zhang Wanjing smiled triumphantly. The two disciples he accepted both supported him. This is a good thing, a great thing.

"The disciple is in a state of confusion today. There are many things I don't know how to say, so the disciple will go back first. Tomorrow, no, the day after tomorrow, I will come to the master and give him advice."

"Okay, then you go back and rest first."

"The disciple will take his leave."

Lin Jiang bowed and left Zhang Wanjing's room. At the door, Lin Jiang saw Zhang Shuhua. He was no longer as cold as usual, but looked at him with a smile.

“I won’t be tricked by this father and son, right?”

Lin Jiang felt creepy when he saw Zhang Shuhua’s smile. He felt like he had jumped into a pit they had dug.