In the chaos, Commander Wang grabbed an official from the Dali Temple who was running past him and dragged him to Emperor Xianzong.
The official had never seen the emperor, but he knew the man who grabbed his collar. He knew that the man in front of him was the emperor, as the commander of the imperial guards treated him as an ancestor. His legs went weak and the official from the Dali Temple knelt on the ground.
"What's the matter with this fire?" Xianzong asked without waiting for the official to kowtow to him: "Didn't you say there was a demon? Where is the demon?"
The official said, "Your Majesty, it's full of bugs."
"What?" Xianzong jumped out of the carriage and onto the ground. A young eunuch tried to hold an umbrella for Xianzong, but was pushed away by Xianzong. From monsters to insects? Are these people crazy? Xianzong stood in the rain, but he felt like he was about to spit fire. "The monsters you people in the Dali Temple are talking about are insects?" Xianzong swore that if the guy in front of him dared to nod, he would kick him to death.
"No, that's not it," the official said, "It was in the monster's eyes. There were bugs all over his body. The bugs were crawling all over the ground. The prince consort ordered to set it on fire, but it suddenly rained, and the fire died down, so the bugs crawled out again."
Xianzong asked Commander Wang, "Can you understand what he said?"
Commander Wang shook his head. He didn't understand the first sentence. The monster's body was full of bugs? Was this person not telling them a story? Had he read too many strange stories?
"It's really a bug!" the official shouted, his voice breaking.
Xianzong was startled by this shout and asked angrily, "What are you shouting about? Where is the monster or the insect now?"
The official shook his head and said, "Your Excellency, I don't know."
"What about the princess?" Xianzong asked again.
The official still shook his head.
Xianzong was furious. His daughter was still fighting a monster in there, and these guys just ran out together?
"Your Majesty," the official shouted to Emperor Xianzong, "Your Majesty, please send troops quickly, Your Majesty!"
Xianzong flicked his sleeves and walked towards the Dali Temple.
Commander Wang knelt on the ground, hugged Xianzong's legs with both hands, and begged, "Your Majesty, you cannot go in."
The sound of houses collapsing was heard one after another in the Dali Temple. People standing on the street outside the Dali Temple could feel the ground shaking.
Xianzong was no match for the strong and powerful Commander Wang. He used all his strength but failed to break free from Commander Wang's grip. Xianzong could only get angry at the official from the Dali Temple and said, "Are these bugs demolishing the house? There are bugs that can demolish houses?!"
The fire burned down the house, what does it have to do with bugs?
Everyone present had this question in their mind, but no one dared to ask.
Another group of prisoners were driven out of the gate of Dali Temple by the bailiffs and jailers.
Xianzong looked at the group of people carefully, but still did not see Yu Xiaoxiao. Xianzong panicked and shouted loudly towards the gate: "Linglong, Yu Linglong!"
At this time, Gu Xingnuo rode his horse to the gate of Dali Temple, dismounted, and looked at the Dali Temple with flames rising to the sky in the heavy rain. Young Master Gu was also stunned.
When Emperor Xianzong saw Gu Xingnuo, he scolded him, "You left before me, why are you here only now? Where have you been, you bastard?"
Gu Xingnuo looked at Emperor Xianzong and said with a pale face, "Your Majesty, why is there a fire in the Dali Temple?"
Xianzong smelled blood from Gu Xingnuo's body. His face darkened and he asked, "Are you injured? What happened?"
Gu Xingnuo looked around Xianzong.
"Come closer and talk," Xianzong waved to Gu Xingnuo.
Gu Xingnuo walked up to Emperor Xianzong and whispered to him, "I met assassins on the road and I fought them off, which delayed me."
Xianzong was so upset. Yesterday there was an assassin in the palace, and today Gu Xingnuo encountered an assassin again. Are assassins now a frequent visitor in his life? But Xianzong thought about it and felt that it was not right. He asked Gu Xingnuo, "I am also going to the Dali Temple. Why didn't I see you on the way?"
Gu Xingnuo shook his head and said, "I took the small road because I wanted to get to the Dali Temple faster."
Encountering assassins while walking on a side road? What does this mean? Either the assassins can read minds and knew in advance that Gu Xingnuo would take the side road, or Gu Xingnuo was targeted after leaving the Huguo Temple. Xianzong was not a shrewd person, but he could think clearly about this matter. Needless to say, these assassins were Mo Wen's men.
Gu Xingnuo put his hands behind his back, blood dripping down from his fingertips.
Xianzong asked Gu Xingnuo with concern: "Are you seriously injured?"
Gu Xingnuo shook his head. His left arm must have been broken and his internal organs were injured. But Gu Xingnuo was still glad that many of the attendant monks around Mo Wen were injured by Yu Xiaoxiao, so Mo Wen did not send the remaining two or three attendant monks to take his life. Otherwise, Gu Xingnuo was sure that he would not escape death.
"Your Majesty," Gu Xingnuo whispered to Emperor Xianzong, "Mo Wen has been angered. I hope Your Majesty will be careful."
Xianzong stood in the heavy rain, and others could not tell whether the emperor was in tears. Xianzong thought, Mo Wen was angry, what could he do? If he knelt down and begged for mercy, would Mo Wen, the bald donkey, let him go?
At this time, Mo Wen was standing under the dry well in the small courtyard in the northeast corner of Huguo Temple.
The dry well was just like the small courtyard outside it, a scorched earth with no sign of life.
Mo Wen bent down and picked up a handful of black ash. The smell of the ash made him sure what the black ash was originally. What on earth could turn his things, stones, land, all living and dead things into scorched earth? Mo Wen couldn't think of it. There was no such poison in the world, and there was no way to turn everything into scorched earth.
"Master," the voice of an attendant monk came from the well.
Mo Wen jumped out of the dry well, looked at the monk standing in front of him with his head bowed, and asked, "Where is Wu Huan with Jing Mo?"
The attendant monk lowered his head and whispered, "Yes, Wuhuan is at Deyi Winery. Jingmo gave him a pill, and Wuhuan vomited blood. When I left, Wuhuan was already awake."
Mo Wen now understood that Yu Linglong and her gang had obtained the antidote.
The attendant monk said: "Master, no one has been to the Buddhist temple tonight, how could Jingmo have the antidote?"
"Go back to the temple and take a look," Mo Wen said in a calm voice, "see if any of my medicine bottles are missing."
"Yes," the attendant monk responded to Wuhuan and retreated.
Soon, several monks from the Eternal Life Temple also arrived at the courtyard.
Mo Wen glanced at the appearance of these monks and asked softly, "Gu Xingnuo escaped?"
Several monks bowed their heads and said, "Master, I am incompetent."
"Forget it, I don't blame you." Mo Wen smiled and said, "His martial arts were taught by me back then, so it's normal that you are not his opponent. Go down and have a rest."
Before these monks could retreat, a monk who served Master Fenglin ran in and hurriedly reported to Mo Wen, "Master, the Master has been poisoned."
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