Chapter 123: The Monk's Emotional Tribulation
It looked at her and asked, "Are you sure you want to take their lives? Don't be soft on them in the end."
Tao Zi laughed when she heard this and said, "Don't forget, they were nothing but my junior brothers and sisters before. I did everything voluntarily, or at least I thought I did. But now it's not the case. Not only that, they are the enemy's knives stabbing me. They are the ones who will do evil to me whenever I think of them. If you are too soft-hearted, you might as well commit suicide."
The inner demon shrugged and said, "Okay, as long as you have this intention, when you find that you can't kill them one day, you can become a demon, and I will guarantee that you will kill them."
"Can't kill it?"
It glared at her and said, "You have a suspect, don't you? But not only did you not dare tell the people in the Punishment Hall, you didn't even dare to clearly point out it was him in your essay. You knew full well you couldn't kill him."
Tao Zi fell silent. She certainly knew who it was talking about - Qinglan Tianzun.
She didn't know why Qinglan Tianzun didn't kill her, but she was very clear about one thing, that is, the reason for not killing her was definitely not the relationship between master and disciple. After all, whether it was setting up a scam or controlling memory and emotions, there was no so-called relationship at all.
The only reason he could think of was to use her to strengthen the Minglan Sect, but why would a dignified Heavenly Lord need her help to accomplish anything?
Tao Zi took a deep breath and thought about the doubts again.
In the essay, I designed to leave the execution hall, but it has been three years since the incident, and the hairpin is still there. What does this mean?
Something had happened at the Xingtang or Xingzhan's place, so no one came to retrieve the hairpin. Perhaps, there was another possibility—Xingtang was keeping himself out of it and didn't care about the truth behind her, his senior sister's death.
No matter which possibility it is, she cannot contact them. After all, she is not alone now, and she has to be cautious even if she takes a chance.
Thinking of Yue Shan and the others, Tao Zi pressed her forehead with a headache. Yisanmen saved her, and it was also because of Yisanmen that she came here again. She had to settle Yue Shan and the others first, and the best way to settle them was to find a master and then leave Yisanmen.
Seeing Tao Zi's eyes become firm, the inner demon suddenly raised the corner of his mouth in an ambiguous way: "Finally, you are motivated. If you continue like before, I will doubt the meaning of my existence."
"Why?"
It sneered a few times and said, "To me, a person without ambition is no different from a beggar. How can I lure her into becoming a demon? Can I tell her that the food obtained by demon cultivators is more delicious?"
Tao Zi was speechless and continued to slowly rub the hairpin in her hand.
Looking at the lazy inner demon, she suddenly blurted out, "The essay said that the power in the body will weaken. I remember when I first entered the Yisan Sect, you said some strange things, such as that I began to have the idea of destroying that person; you also said that I was beginning to care less about those things in the past. What do you know?"
The inner demon froze there. After a moment, it lowered its eyes and said slowly, "Azi, you remember all this, but how could you forget that I also told you I wouldn't harm you?"
Tao Zi looked at him steadily and asked a question she had asked many times: "Are you really my inner demon?"
"Of course, I will only be your inner demon."
There was a hint of coaxing in the last sentence, so Tao Zi naturally didn't believe it.
Although her inner demon is strange except for the beginning, it doesn't mean it can be trusted.
After all, she no longer dared to trust her past memories and emotions.
She was talking to herself: "What would happen if I were to go crazy and want to hurt them?"
"You try it."
"It's okay." She stared at the inner demon. "I just remembered something. When you first appeared, you made me want to hurt them, but I'm safe and sound. What does this mean?"
The inner demon didn't speak.
"That power has weakened, and maybe one day I'll be able to remember all the memories and feel the emotions I was meant to."
The inner demon still didn't speak.
Tao Zi stopped talking and rested on the bed with her eyes closed.
She will have a tough battle to fight in the future, and all she can do now is to strengthen her strength.
When she went out, the bow of the boat was very quiet and the Taoist priest was nowhere to be seen.
Tao Zi looked over suspiciously and asked, "Where is that Taoist priest?"
Xi Jing said honestly, "He ran away."
"Um?"
She became even more confused. What happened in such a short period of time?
Li Xiu changed his previous elegant demeanor and squatted at the bow of the boat, saying with a vicissitudes of life: "What kind of luck do I have? First I found a group of companions with enemies, and then I took in a monk who betrayed his master."
Han Yueshan patted his shoulder and comforted him, "It's okay. At most, you won't see Master again in this lifetime."
What does this mean?! Li Xiu's expression was distorted.
Zhao Xue briefly recounted the incident.
Tao Zi understood. It turned out that this monk had betrayed his master, attacked his fellow disciples, and claimed that he had no sect or faction. He was indeed not far from betraying his master.
The Flower Monk smiled calmly, tugged at his fishing rod, and said, "Don't worry, everyone. If the Master catches up with us, I will send you away even if it costs me my life."
Hearing this, Li Xiu became even more depressed: "Send him away, but where? To the underworld?"
Tao Zi's focus was different from theirs. She asked, "May I ask why Fellow Daoist Hua left the sect?"
"Master calculated that I would face a great calamity in the future and that I must remain within the sect for a hundred years to avoid it. However, I simply could not remain here any longer, so I ran away."
Xi Jing was drawn to this and asked, "What kind of disaster? A fatal disaster?"
The Flower Monk shook his head and said lightly, "Love tribulation."
Han Yueshan almost spit out the tea that he had finally managed to get into his mouth.
"You, a monk, have emotional calamities? Your six senses are not yet fully developed." He said with emotion, "But that's true. A beauty is so beautiful, how can it be completely exhausted?"
Tao Zi looked at the flower monk and said, "Although Buddhists don't advocate love, they're not as strict as ordinary monks. If you really want to love each other, it's not necessarily a bad idea. Besides, overcoming tribulations is a necessary step in cultivation, and avoiding it isn't necessarily a good thing."
Of course, having said that, the great Buddhist practitioners of today all emphasize great love and affection, and no one indulges in personal feelings.
The Flower Monk smiled helplessly and added, "My love tribulation is different. In short, in my master's opinion, I should avoid it if I can."
Everyone was speechless.
Xi Jing sighed and said, "Forget it. Among us, who has the right to look down on others? We are all being hunted."
Li Xiu whispered: "I am qualified, I am not being hunted."
"But you took the initiative to pay us."
He touched his storage bag and choked. Why did he hire a group of hunted guys as his bodyguards?
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