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Qinggui was prepared to die, and Yinyi was also prepared.

The flames grew smaller and smaller, and a white figure flew in the air, like a god from the lower world saving all living beings.

Yin Yi laughed and said, "Great, great, Wuding Temple has finally made it through! Buddha have mercy on us, Buddha have mercy on us!"

The green turtle struggled to get up. It grabbed Yin Yi's collar and said in a choked voice, "You old bastard! You said I was dead! What are you doing?"

Yin Yi was about to pass away, and he wanted to sacrifice himself to give birth to the next lotus.

There is more than one Buddha Lotus. Generation after generation of abbots have been working to give birth to the Buddha Lotus, waiting for the right person.

Yin Yi felt that he was very lucky. He had waited for the right person, and Qinggui would no longer be restricted by Fulian.

Closing his eyes and clasping his hands together, he said calmly, "Please let me go. This is the last thing I need to do. This is also what Buddha has instructed."

The green turtle reluctantly loosened its teeth and suddenly fell to the ground. It was filled with sorrow. It had lived for hundreds of years and had seen countless close friends die, but it never thought that before its death, it would have to say goodbye to its good friend Yin Yi.

Yin Yi, however, looked relaxed. He pulled himself together and stood up, as if his previous weakness was just a disguise. The flames in front of him were covered by ice, with only one flame struggling tenaciously.

He looked at the green turtle, a trace of pity in his cloudy eyes: "The Buddha said that you still need to wait."

Continue to wait? The green turtle didn't care. The lotus had been taken away by someone destined for it, and it wouldn't live long.

Yin Yi did not explain. He sat cross-legged beside the green turtle, holding the Bodhi beads that were already mottled and had marks on them in one hand, while reciting scriptures... The wind blew up the thin Zen robe, and an extremely white lotus bloomed peacefully on the robe.

Yin Yi is dead.

He followed the path of successive abbots and became the so-called Buddha Lotus, the Buddha Lotus that people all over the world flocked to but dared not pick.

The green turtle clung to the storage bag in its arms in a depressed mood. The newly born Buddha Lotus flew into the pond, and the lost spiritual power slowly recovered. It swallowed the moon fish at the corner of its mouth in big gulps.

Not sad, yet seeming extremely sad.

"Fu Chen! Calm down!" Su Miao looked at the fireball in front of him and shouted sternly.

Looking at the Wuding Temple that was burned to ashes, she finally understood what Yin Yi meant when she said she shouldn't come back, but she did not regret it.

If she were asked to choose between Fuchen and Wuding Temple, she would choose Fuchen. Only in this way would her ascension be possible.

The ice froze the flames, but no matter how hard the fireball in front tried, once it got close, the ice would instantly turn into water.

The sword spirit was extremely anxious: "Su Miao! You are almost losing your temper!"

What was on Fu Chen's body was not his life fire, but the fire of nirvana, or the punishment from heaven.

Heaven's punishment for those who overstep their bounds.

In the critical moment, Su Miao had no choice but to set up a formation. After a flash of white light, heavy snow fell without stopping. As she flew towards Fu Chen, the sword spirit returned to the spirit sword, which fell from the air and inserted vertically into the center of the formation.

Fu Chen was also feeling uncomfortable. He tried his best to fight against the fire of Nirvana in his body, but unfortunately he was unlucky.

If he absorbed the power of the Buddha Lotus, he would not be afraid of the fire of Nirvana at this moment.

"Hmm!" Su Miao groaned, hugged the young man in red with one hand, and used spiritual power to wrap himself and Fu Chen with the other hand.

The fire of Nirvana was like a ulcer on the tarsal bone. No matter how the spiritual power was used to drive it away, it stuck tightly to Fu Chen.

The boy's skin turned a strange red, his eyes were tightly closed, and he whispered, "Master! Master! Don't abandon me... Don't abandon me!"

He has been trapped in the fire of Nirvana.

Su Miao gritted her teeth, cornered. She bit her arm and took a deep breath, the taste of rust filling her mouth. She leaned forward and passed the blood in her mouth to Fu Chen.

She had once escaped the shackles of Heaven's Law, and it could be said that Heaven's power was useless to her.

The fire of Nirvana has dimmed a little. This little bit is enough!

Lifting Fuchen's collar, the young man in red instantly turned into a big white bird. The only thing that remained unchanged was the crimson fire of Nirvana that was tightly attached to his body.

Under the suppression of the formation, only this wisp of Nirvana Flame still stubbornly resisted. The Beihan Sword flew over, and the sword spirit sat on it and swung its feet: "Su Miao! Fulian! We can't wait any longer!"

Then she fished out half an eggshell from the ashes. It was relatively clean. The fire of Nirvana could not touch the eggshell, so all it could do was torture Fu Chen.

Su Miao originally planned to let Fu Chen digest the power of the eggshell before using the Buddha Lotus, but now the situation was urgent and there was no time for anything else.

Taking the eggshell and holding the unconscious bird in one hand, Su Miao flew towards the forbidden area on her sword. She couldn't be bothered to find any disciples at this point; even if there were any, they would have been reduced to ashes long ago.

Even if there is cause and effect and reincarnation, it is the cause and effect of the law of nature.

The green turtle had finished eating the fish long ago. It climbed up and gathered Yin Yi's Zen robe and Buddha beads in its arms, wishing it could hide them in its own shell.

The flames flew over and the green turtle dodged, but still did not forget to hold on to the Zen robe.

Seeing its movements, Su Miao narrowed her eyes. There were two special lotus flowers in the pond. She understood immediately, placed the white bird on the ground, and walked over.

Wiping his eyes, Qinggui carefully placed the Zen robe and Buddhist beads on the ground, and moved a step to the side.

"Brother Abbot, have a safe journey." Su Miao bowed slightly, revealing the beads on his right hand, and recited the mantra for rebirth.

Spiritual energy flew around her body, transforming into dots of white light, and a figure walked out of the white light—

Yin Yi smiled compassionately: "It seems that I was blinded by one thing. The Immortal Venerable knows more about cause and effect than I do."

Seeing him, the green turtle couldn't help but shed a string of tears. It whimpered softly: "You old fellow, you can't die far away! Let me take you away every time!"

Su Miao took the beads off and put them into his palms, clasping his hands together. "Do you have any last wishes?"

After leaving North City, Su Miao almost forgot that his ruthless path was actually the path of ghosts. Yin Yi had a high level of cultivation, and converting him would bring great benefits.

Birth, old age, sickness and death, separation from loved ones, meeting with enemies, failure to obtain what one desires, and the five elements are burning fiercely.

She had only comprehended the Eight Sufferings in North City, and she became more and more familiar with the so-called ladder of ascension.

Seeing the fiery heat in Su Miao's eyes, Yin Yi shook his head helplessly. He wanted to give him some advice: "Immortal Venerable, the Buddha said there are eight kinds of suffering. I wonder if you can understand it?"

Su Miao pondered for a moment and expressed his understanding.

The green turtle couldn't understand their behavior and noticed the fire burning nearby. It moved closer and found that it was a phoenix wrapped in flames, and it was wrapped in the fire of Nirvana.

Thinking of Su Miao coming to get Fulian in the middle of the night, it guessed her purpose and walked over to grab the storage bag. The sword spirit couldn't help but fly out: "You damn turtle! What are you doing!"

The green turtle was startled and took a step back to carefully examine the sword spirit. After a while, it finally recognized the sword spirit: "Demon King? How did you become like this?"

It couldn't help laughing: "Oh! Demon King, how did you become so small!"

The sword spirit stood in front of the white bird, unmoved: "You can't eat this phoenix! Don't forget why you can only stay in Wuding Temple!"

The four divine beasts have a cannibalistic relationship with each other, and their descendants also continue this relationship.

The Green Turtle once stole countless phoenix eggs and was forced to hide in Wuding Temple, becoming the guardian monster guarding the Buddhist Lotus.

The green turtle said somewhat angrily, "The old turtle won't eat him! He must be Su Miao's disciple, right?"

The sword spirit was half-believing and half-doubting, and did not move an inch: "Of course!" She looked at the green turtle and suddenly asked: "What happened to you?"

Hearing Su Miao's words, Yin Yi smiled kindly and said, "You are both right and wrong. It seems that you have already gone to North City. Miao Su, you said you don't believe in Buddhism, but Buddha said that your coming and going are correct. Now you believe in Buddhism?"

Su Miao shook his head and turned to stare at the phoenix tightly surrounded by a turtle and a sword spirit: "I don't believe it, Brother, do you have any other questions?"

The Buddha guessed wrong. She had lived two lives. In this life, she knew better than anyone what she wanted and what she was pursuing. These were not things the Buddha could give her.

Unexpectedly, Yin Yi continued to smile, "Miao Su, the Buddha was right again this time. The Buddha said you wouldn't come back, but I didn't believe it. Now it seems the time is indeed not right. You want to challenge that authority, and the Buddha won't stop you, but this time, Wuding Temple can only be handed over to you."

He was not very intelligent, but he was his master's only direct disciple. Since the messenger chosen by the Buddha himself did not come back, he was only temporarily in charge of Wuding Temple.

But this tube lasts for a hundred years.

The monks of Wuding Temple are similar to those of humans. For example, they do not live long, and are considered to have died of old age at the age of 100, which is very rare in the spiritual world.

In the spiritual world where many monks are hundreds of years old, Wuding Temple is more like an outlier than Qingliu.

Su Miao did not refuse: "I will give the disciples of Wuding Temple a place to stay -"

Yin Yi interrupted her: "Wuding Temple doesn't need you to worry about it. The new abbot will take care of it." Seeing the confusion in Su Miao's eyes, he continued: "Buddha said that you have a stubborn temper, but one day you will come back. Until then, Wuding Temple will not bother you in the slightest."

"Go and follow the path you believe in. This is the freedom given to you by Buddha." After saying this, Yin Yi's figure gradually disappeared, and he truly returned to the earth.

Su Miao was moved by Yin Yi's words, but this slight emotion was nothing compared to the ascension. He withdrew his hand and walked aside. Qinggui made way for him and asked tentatively, "Do you want to give Fulian to him?"

Su Miao nodded: "Yes, since Yin Yi has become a Buddha Lotus, you continue to guard it."

The green turtle looked reluctant, but nodded: "Alright, alright, old turtle will go back and rest first."

As the sky began to lighten, the sword spirit couldn't stand it any longer and yawned several times in succession: "Su Miao, I'll go back first. Jiaoqi will be left to you."

If it wasn't worried about being eaten, it wouldn't have wasted time with the green turtle until this point.

Su Miao took out the Fulian from the storage bag, looked at the phoenix that was still sleeping, and the phoenix eggshell in his sleeve, and began to feel troubled.

If the phoenix wants to achieve nirvana successfully, it must not be involved in cause and effect. However, consuming the Buddha lotus is also a cause and effect, and it can only be done by using the phoenix's own life fire to refine the Buddha lotus.

But Fu Chen's life fire was not complete. He did not completely absorb the power in the eggshell, and even his life fire was not complete.

After thinking about it, Su Miao hardened her heart. Spiritual power leaked out from her hands, intertwined with the fire of Nirvana, and covered the phoenix.

“Gugu…Gugu…”

Su Miao hurriedly removed the formation, allowing the phoenix to transform into a human form. Fu Chen had already woken up and looked down at the flames and ice on his body. He was stunned, as if he couldn't believe it. "This is... the fire of Nirvana."

Before his death, Fu Chen had some understanding of Nirvana, and the book also records the fire of Nirvana.

It's as red as ordinary fire, but it can't be extinguished. Once it's ignited, it won't stop.

Even though he understood it better and witnessed the power of the Nirvana Fire with his own eyes, Fu Chen was inevitably a little overwhelmed: "So should I absorb the eggshell or take the Buddha Lotus now?

Su Miao: "How long does it take to absorb the power of the eggshell?"

Fu Chen said in a low voice: "Maybe an hour..."

There was not enough time, and even if there was a new Buddha Lotus, Su Miao had no intention of touching it.

There is only half an hour left now, and the Buddha Lotus will dissipate after half an hour.

Su Miao stared at Fu Chen silently. A sense of unease rose in his heart, and he lowered his head and rubbed his hands. This time, he didn't want to cause trouble, but he really didn't have the energy to do so.

The best time to absorb the power of the eggshell is within one month after breaking the shell. Now that he has become an adult, he is trying to remedy the situation. This is like telling a person without spiritual roots, after he has accepted his mediocrity, that he can have spiritual roots but he will just have to suffer more.

It’s not that the suffering is too much, it’s just that it’s too much of a strain.

After thinking for a long time, Su Miao suddenly said, "You enter my consciousness and must absorb both the eggshell and the Buddha Lotus within half an hour!"