Chapter 50 Newcomer to the Great Wuxiang Temple
Da Wuxiang Temple.
The magnificent golden pagoda stands between heaven and earth, and the pure and solemn atmosphere continuously overflows from the Great Wuxiang Temple to this land, so that evil spirits will immediately choose to run away when they see it for the first time.
This is an era where humans, demons, and monsters coexist on the continent.
When the contradiction between the demons and the righteous was not so sharp as to be irreconcilable, and the relationship between humans and demons was relatively peaceful and harmonious, the balance was broken by this sudden evil.
Liaowu was a little worried.
The miasma in Wanshou Mountain is very thick and not suitable for the growth of cubs, so her pregnant friend Jujiu is currently waiting to give birth in the Dawuxiang Temple, looking forward to the moment when the baby in her belly will be born.
Everyone was looking forward to the arrival of a new life with great joy, but due to the sudden changes in the world of cultivation, there was a sense of disharmony.
But now, the situation outside has changed to such a serious degree, and several groups of infected cultivators have been found in places like the Canglang Mountains...
At this special moment, even if Jujiu successfully gave birth to offspring, I am afraid that the tightly closed Wanshou Mountain would find it difficult to accept their existence again.
Who was Jujiu previously connected to, and what would happen to the child she gave birth to?
Chu Sheng stared at the scene before him, his expression slightly dazed.
She had some distracting thoughts in her mind: the existence of the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking, the nature of the Golden Lotus, her master's uncertain life and death, and the sect's hidden mysteries...
During this period of time, Chu Sheng received so much information, but she deliberately forgot it.
Now, facing the majestic and magnificent buildings in front of me, all the past events came to my mind, and finally faded away under some kind of compassionate and magnificent gaze.
Da Wuxiang Temple is one of the largest Buddhist temples. Its interior consists of a huge palace complex and pagodas. When you enter, the first thing you see is the main hall.
The temple, with its towering eaves and arched brackets, betrays no ostentation or extravagance, but rather a solemnity steeped in time. Its glazed roof, illuminated by the sea of clouds and the Buddha's aura, emanates an inherent, almost living golden glow.
Led by Master Liaowu, the crowd continued to walk deeper, going in and out several times, crossing layers of stairs and doors, and finally stepped into a new world that was suddenly bright.
The magnificent golden pagoda stands quietly on the mirror-like water surface, which is clear enough to reflect the blue sky and white clouds, making it impossible to tell the depth of the water.
At the top of the pagoda, a gilded Buddha statue sits on a lotus platform, with a solemn appearance and lowered eyes looking down at all living beings with compassion.
The sun shines through the gaps in the clouds, and the Buddha's light faintly echoes the light golden glow flowing on the glazed tiles, forming a hazy and sacred halo around the Buddha statue.
In the calm air, a very strange "sound" seemed to be faintly echoing.
That was not human chanting, but more like a "Brahma sound" that came from the void, from the depths of the earth, and blended into the wind.
It is everywhere, yet it seems to be there and not there. It can ignore any obstacles and act directly on the depths of people's consciousness, washing away distracting thoughts and karma like a clear spring, forcing the listener to involuntarily enter a state of meditation where they forget both the self and the world.
"Buzz—"
The bell rang out, and the sound waves spread out like tangible golden ripples, sweeping across the entire Great Wuxiang Temple, even the space seemed to tremble slightly. This bell sound was neither gold nor jade, but it could penetrate the soul, shocking the listener's mind and making it instantly clear!
Chu Sheng suddenly woke up from her trance. After realizing what she had been thinking, the girl was horrified and broke out in a cold sweat.
She actually forgot the existence of her "self" for a short time... How could this be?
She clearly held a fragment of the Heavenly Dao Rhythm in her hand, and had witnessed the unprecedented and terrifying power displayed by the Goddess and others...
Chu Sheng's soul should be strong enough to retain her own will from beginning to end and not be easily disturbed or attracted by external things. However, after entering the Buddhist temple, everything refreshed her cognition!
No one knew what Chu Sheng was thinking. Only Ye Ziqing, who had signed the agreement, looked at her with a knowing look. "Xiao Sheng?"
Chu Sheng shook his head at his senior brother and temporarily suppressed the complicated emotions in his heart.
Yun Mengzi never mentioned the specific situation of Buddhism in the world of cultivation to Chu Sheng. When he occasionally mentioned it, he often skipped over it or changed the subject without giving any details.
Chu Sheng had no doubts about Yun Mengzi's actions before, but now he had to have some doubts:
Master's words were vague. Was it because he had never thought of the current situation, or was it because he was fully aware of the situation he was in?
Master Liaowu brought Chu Sheng and others to the square in front of the pagoda, where they finally met other geniuses sent by various forces from Central Continent, the Far North and other places.
They stood in twos and threes, seemingly unrelated, but there was a faint sense of leadership led by a few of them.
With the arrival of Master Liaowu again, several geniuses who were discussing something in a serious atmosphere also shifted their attention here.
"...Yuan Qi?" The arrogant lady with brown hair and purple eyes looked in the direction of the voice. When she saw the son of Zhongnan Taoist Sect, she narrowed her eyes in surprise.
"What's going on? Aren't you already... you're actually here too?"
After she finished speaking, her eyes turned and her expression suddenly became dangerous when she saw Ye Ziqing beside Chu Sheng.
"This is the Young Master of Lingxiao Pavilion, Zixiao."
Yuan Qi first introduced Chu Sheng and others, and then naturally opened an umbrella to block the talismans thrown at Ye Ziqing from the opposite side.
"Zixiao, this is a quiet Buddhist place, don't make a big fuss."
Zi Xiao looked at Yuan Qi, his expression slightly relieved. "I have something to ask you later. For now, Yuan Qi, please step aside..."
"Xiao Zi's personality is a bit direct, but she's a very nice person. If anything happens in Yanbei Continent, it's more reliable to go to Lingxiao Pavilion to look for her than to go to the Sword Palace to look for Qi An."
Ye Ziqing looked calm and explained to Chu Sheng and Gui Xuan as if nothing had happened.
"Ye, Zi, Qing!" The royal sister, whose expression had softened under Yuan Qi's persuasion, suddenly became furious. She picked up a fan made of basalt shells and chopped at him on the head.
"You bastard, you still have the nerve to say that! Do you think I don't know you've written me into your damn storybook again?"
"Ahahaha, Xiao Zi, what are you talking about? I don't seem to understand..." Ye Ziqing bent down and dodged the folding fan in Zi Xiao's hand, hiding behind Qi An with a calm expression.
"I've written several books, not only storybooks but also pictures of beauties. Which one are you talking about?"
Qi An, who was calmly wiping his sword, paused for a moment. Facing Zi Xiao's raging anger, he drew his sword completely from its sheath with a clang, then stood up slowly and walked to Chu Sheng very naturally under Ye Ziqing's expectant gaze.
"Junior sister, don't worry about them. Do you want to take a closer look at my Luoshui Sword?"
“…”
Ye Ziqing's expression changed.
"Qi An! You have no shame! That's my junior sister!!"
"Do you need help?" Gui Xuan appeared quietly, holding up the various pills in her hand and said to the somewhat confused Zixiao.
"It can paralyze people, poison them, cause hallucinations, and make them bow down to you and beg for mercy..."
"Damn it! Guixuan, you're not a good person either! Have you forgotten what Venerable Yunmeng and my master told you?!"
"I didn't forget. I did a good job." Gui Xuan said lightly.
"At least as a support staff, most of the time I am better than you, the senior brother who always draws hatred to Chu Sheng."
Zixiao immediately took out a handful of talismans from his arms and stuffed them into Guixuan's chest generously.
"Good boy! I recognize you as my brother. If you need anything in Yanbei, tell me your name. If these talismans are not enough, ask me for more later!"
The generous and outgoing sister, the lucrative Gui Xuan, Yuan Qi's fruitless attempts to dissuade her, Ye Ziqing who was chased and killed and fled in panic, and Qi An who was watching the show from the side...
"Junior sister, are you here? Can you take a look at the sword?"
Looking at Qi An who was still persevering in promoting the Luoshui Sword, Chu Sheng's silence was simply deafening.
"Brother Qi An, I can see that the Luoshui Sword is quite good..."
She pointed at the chaotic scene in front of her and asked the first disciple of the Sword Palace in an indescribable manner.
"But don't you really think this picture looks problematic?!"
"It's okay, Ye Ziqing can handle it," Qi An said. "He's very familiar with this matter, and this is just the beginning... Do you see those colorful people over there?"
Chu Sheng looked in the direction of the sound and saw that where Zixiao had been just now, there were several cultivators with different hair and eye colors, and dressed in extraordinary clothes, looking over here with great concern.
"See? They also have a grudge against my senior brother?"
"That's not the way to say it."
Qi An corrected seriously.
"To be precise, it's because of a grudge against Duobao Pagoda. Junior sister, don't forget that Duobao Pagoda is located in Central Continent. Ye Ziqing holds a high position in Duobao Pagoda, so naturally, he is involved with many people..."
“…Huh?” Chu Sheng was full of questions.
"Senior Brother Ziqing is always either working on a manuscript or on his way to finish one. How can someone who never leaves the house be involved with others?"
"...It seems Ziqing didn't tell you anything." Yuan Qi sighed as he walked slowly, and under Qi An's gaze, he calmly covered Chu Sheng with the coverage of the spiritual umbrella.
Qi An glanced at Yuan Qi and said with a snort.
"The young man holding the compass over there is the descendant of this generation's Grandmaster sent by Penglai Fairy Island, known as Qiao Xuefeng, the Penglai Land Walker.
When Qiao Xuefeng was in seclusion for a breakthrough, Ziqing had spread rumors in his storybook that he was in cahoots with the Longyang Sect's Guo Long and Guo Yang brothers...
Ever since he broke through, he's been chasing Ye Ziqing almost every day, ready to catch him off guard and kill him.
As soon as he finished speaking, the young man shouted angrily and threw out the formation diagram.
"Fellow Daoist Zixiao, I'm here to help you!"
A bone-chilling icy air suddenly erupted from the formation that was slowly unfolding in the air, and goose-feather-like snow covered the originally empty ground in just a few breaths!
"...Formation cultivation is truly troublesome."
Qi An complained. The icy snow melted into water the moment it touched his body, and with the help of spiritual power, it evaporated in the next breath.
"Junior Sister, as sword cultivators, we must have a strong physique..."
"Junior Sister Chu Sheng is still young, and she doesn't necessarily have to stick to the path of swordsmanship forever." Yuan Qi held an umbrella to protect Chu Sheng from the wind and rain, speaking kindly. "You're a little impatient, Qi An."
"Don't gather together. What if they accidentally lose their aim when attacking Ye Ziqing and accidentally wipe us out?"
The moment the snowflakes cleared, Gui Xuan pulled Chu Sheng out from under Yuan Qi's umbrella. "Be careful, there's something new going on over there."
Yuan Qi casually shook the umbrella surface that was not stained with water droplets, not caring about Gui Xuan's little trick.
"Qiao Xuefeng from Penglai Fairy Island, Zixiao from Lingxiao Pavilion... who are the other two who took action?"
Seeing Chu Sheng's attention shifted, the Zhongnan Dao Sect's leader began to recount in an unbelievably soothing tone the story of Hehuan Sect's eldest senior brother's past mischievous ways of teasing cats and dogs:
"Look at the person with a zither on his back, that's Meng Lingbo, the zither master from Kunshan.
Although he and Ye Ziqing both have identities in Duobao Pagoda, Ye Ziqing often coaxes him to stay in the pagoda on his behalf and then takes the opportunity to run away.
The last time I heard about Ling Bo, it seemed like he saw Ye Ziqing at the Duobao Pagoda auction, who was supposed to be on a business trip for the Pagoda. He got so angry that he attacked and destroyed most of the Pagoda's main building."
Chu Sheng choked, as if he had found the fundamental reason why Ye Ziqing often sent messages to the sect, saying that he was heavily in debt and had no choice but to sell himself to Duobao Pagoda to pay off the debt.
It was obvious that this person had a long-standing grudge against Senior Brother Ziqing, so it was neither reasonable nor morally wrong for him to take action at this time!
"Ye Ziqing!!!" Meng Lingbo's angry voice could be heard from a distance. "If you believe my lies again, I'll go travel 8,000 miles with the sword cultivator!!"
"How cruel! I remember he got particularly dizzy from the flying sword, and he even asked Liangyi Valley to buy some special anti-dizziness pills." Gui Xuan commented.
"It's a shame that even though the money was spent, it didn't do him any good... Don't look at me, it's not like we at Liangyi Valley are deliberately trying to cheat him out of money. Who would have thought that the flying sword this guy fainted with would have to be classified by model? Let's see clearly which sect's spiritual sword it is!"
Qi An made a particularly loud "tsk" sound.
Senior Brother Qi An’s reaction... Don’t tell me that the flying sword that Meng Lingbo fainted with was Luo Shui!
What else could it be? Gui Xuan hinted at her with her eyes. So, there was no more Didi Spirit Sword in the Sword Palace!
"Look at that person over there." Yuan Qi gave Chu Sheng some space to buffer. After seeing that she seemed to have come to her senses, he pointed at the exotic black-skinned female cultivator in the distance and said in a gentle voice.
"That's Ya Ge, the Saintess of the Skyfire Holy Sect in Mobei Continent. Their techniques seem to resonate with the Hehuan Sect's mental methods.
I heard that she once tried to form an alliance with your Hehuan Sect, and her partner was Ye Ziqing.
However, Ye Ziqing had claimed that he would devote his life to Taoism and would never step into the worldly world, so the saint also vowed to only have eyes for Ye Ziqing and would never compromise with anyone other than him.
The Holy Church had no choice but to change the disciples for marriage, and only then did they choose Wang Ze from your sect as a second choice..."
What a twists and turns in this marriage... Chu Sheng is embarrassed.
Even if Yuan Qi hadn't told her, she knew what happened next. Senior Brother Wang Ze eloped from the sect for love, and Elder Fuqiu chased him thousands of miles in vain. This matter probably ended up being left unresolved...
Saint Ya Ge was standing by and watching Ye Ziqing's excitement, and then she turned her head as if unintentionally to look at Chu Sheng, and her blue eyes instantly widened like a cat.
The next second, she raised her majestic and magnificent twin hammers and joined the battle with an angry look on her face.
"Is it an illusion? Why do I feel like she looked at me before joining in beating Senior Brother Ziqing?" Chu Sheng said softly.
"Maybe he's attracted to Junior Sister." Qi An answered lightly, "After all, I remember that their Holy Skyfire Sect treats all marriages equally, regardless of gender..."
"Ye Ziqing! Now! Immediately! Release the empathy contract between you and the little butterfly!!" Ya Ge's angry roar was earth-shaking, and the sound of the sledgehammers colliding was so loud that it made people's heads hurt.
"That's my little butterfly! Mine! You shameless bastard! It turns out you were the one who deceived everyone back then—!!!"
"My Hehuan Sect is not a vegetable market where you can come and go as you please—" Ye Ziqing was silent for a long time and only responded to Ya Ge's words.
"I didn't lie to you! I didn't say I was that way back then!! Didn't you guys from the Skyfire Holy Sect just decide that?"
"You still dare to quibble!" Yage threw the hammer away in anger. "Go to hell! You bastard!!"
As the saying goes: The Black Tortoise Spirit Fan and the Colorful Hammer fly together, the bombardment of the formation and the sound of the piano blend into the sky in the same color.
Chu Sheng stared in amazement as Ye Ziqing danced like a flying goose amidst the fierce bombardment of so many geniuses, and finally had a more realistic understanding of the extent of trouble-making of his senior brother.
"Ziqing has a bad temper but doesn't have any bad intentions. He just likes to play some light jokes on others."
Yuan Qi coughed lightly and said, "From now on, Junior Sister Chu Sheng, you'll get used to it..."
"No, please allow me to refuse... I think I will never go out with Senior Brother Ziqing again in the future." Chu Sheng answered calmly.
"A pure Buddhist place—no noise allowed!"
Master Liaowu, who had disappeared for a while, appeared in front of everyone again. She did not speak loudly, but her voice was like a huge bell buzzing in everyone's ears. Those who were still fighting suddenly stopped as if they had pressed the pause button!
"At this moment, the sun is high overhead, and the pure energy is at its peak, powerful enough to reveal all evil and vile people and annihilate them without a trace. This is the perfect time to activate the pagoda."
The bhikkhuni said this.
"The Da Wu Xiang Temple's pagoda is only open this time to identify whether there are any evil spirits possessing it, so only the first floor is fully open.
The first realm of breaking delusion among the nine realms of the pagoda is no different from an ordinary inner demon, so it should be no problem for you.
If you find someone possessed by an evil spirit, don't panic. The pagoda contains everything. You only need to cut off your obsession and you will be reborn...
I am just outside the tower, waiting for the good news that you all have come out safely."
Master Liaowu stopped walking towards the pagoda. She turned back to look at the people in front of the pagoda, slammed her staff on the ground, and shouted in a serious tone:
"——The time has come, fellow Taoists, please follow me into the tower!"
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