60 Chapter 60
The Hehuan Sect Cinema, which had just finished hanging up its posters and giant screen, hadn't even opened yet, but a crowd of monks, who had heard the news and wanted to watch, quickly gathered outside. The monks from the restaurant couldn't even squeeze into the front row, so they could only leap through the air and squeeze in.
"Move aside, fellow Taoist, please move aside..." They finally moved to a position where they could see the picture with great effort. They raised their heads impatiently to take a closer look. Sure enough, there was a painting with the image of an elder of Tianyan Sect hanging there.
The Tianyan Sect elder was so angry that his white beard and eyebrows were all curled up, and his eyes were wide open with anger, completely devoid of his usual tolerance and kindness. Behind him, dark clouds rolled and thunder roared, and the whisk in his hand pointed like a sword at the couple hugging each other and crying at the bottom of the picture.
This terrifying face and the rolling black clouds behind it occupied most of the entire picture. In comparison, the ill-fated couple was not even as big as the palm of the Tianyan Sect elder's hand, which made it seem that the elder was abusing his power and was unreasonably trying to break up the young couple.
The gossipy cultivator gasped. "Hiss! Isn't this Elder Xu Hengzi of the Tianyan Sect? I once heard that he had a beloved disciple who was arrested and imprisoned for some love affair. Could this picture depict that scene?"
The other cultivators originally thought that the painting was put up by the Hehuan Sect to deliberately smear the sect, but when they heard that it was actually true, they immediately looked in curiously.
"Are you serious?"
"Don't you dare talk nonsense! My fellow Taoist, don't believe those nonsense!"
"Is the news true? How did you know it?"
The cultivator instantly became the center of attention. He didn't panic, but instead shook his head with a hint of pride, gossiping with great joy. "Let me tell you, six months ago, I was flying over the Hehuan Sect, and I saw Elder Xu Hengzi blocking the entrance to the Hehuan Sect, cursing loudly!"
At this point, he lowered his voice and deliberately acted mysterious: "He scolded the witch of the Hehuan Sect for disturbing his disciples' minds, and said that he wanted to fight the Hehuan Sect to the death!"
"So, the content of this picture is actually true?"
"It seems that this matter is not groundless!"
The group of monks watching the fun grew more and more excited. Suddenly, one of them pointed at the Spirit Shadow Stone on the other side, which was playing a video on a loop. "Could the images recorded here be real too?"
After his reminder, everyone who was engrossed in gossiping finally turned their attention to the huge screen. Coincidentally, the trailer had already finished playing, and after a brief black screen, it started playing again from the beginning.
"The men in this world... are all lustful and lustful..." The scene starts with a charming woman's soft sigh, and then the picture lights up. It is a dilapidated temple with dead leaves scattered all over the yard and spider webs on the eaves. A man pushes open the door carefully, and the camera passes by the "Lanruo Temple" sign on the gate.
"What sweet words, vows... How shameless..." The woman's voice was filled with some real and fake indignation. In the picture, the scholar met a woman who was playing the piano under the moon.
The woman was as beautiful as a flower and as pure as the moon. The scholar was instantly attracted by her. They talked, admired the moon, played the piano and wrote poems. Soon they fell in love. The woman's hand gently rested on the scholar's hand. In the moonlight, the two figures snuggled together.
"A man's infatuation can still be talked about. But a woman's infatuation cannot be talked about..." As the woman sighed lightly with a theatrical voice, pieces of clothes fell to the ground in the picture, and two hazy figures in the curtain gradually approached. Only in the corner of the eaves, a spider caught a moth that hit the web.
"Ah——!!!" On such a lingering and sad night, a man's scream suddenly broke the ambiguous atmosphere. A stream of bright red blood splashed on the wall. The curtain opened slightly, and the woman just now walked out with a satisfied look on her face.
"Men in this world... their vows of love are false. They're only after the skins of us women..." The scene changed, and the woman who had previously preyed on men stood among a group of beautiful women, earnestly admonishing them, "So we must strike first and steal their lives before they can deceive us!"
At this time, a young girl with a somewhat innocent look stood up and asked, "Grandma, what if a man is telling the truth?"
The scene changed, and it was still the dilapidated ancient temple, and the same bright moonlight. The girl who asked the question just now was sitting in front of the guqin in a thin white gauze. A gentle and handsome man politely looked away, raised his hand and gently pulled her clothes up to cover her shoulders.
"Xiao Qian, the dew is heavy at night, be careful of the cold."
"Impossible! There's only one kind of man in this world!" Grandma's hoarse roar pierced people's eardrums. "You think he's telling the truth, but that's only because he hasn't revealed his true face yet!"
The enchanting and sexy female cultivator instantly turned evil and became hideous. She raised her butcher knife high and pointed it at the gentle and polite man: "They are all hypocritical liars!!!"
The pace of the film suddenly picks up from here, and many thrilling scenes pass by quickly, including the mutual support between the innocent girl and the gentleman monk, the entanglement between other female ghosts and Xiaoqian, and an extraordinary young man who moves as fast as lightning, and the long sword in his hand helps the male and female protagonists block the crazy Black Mountain Old Demon.
The final scene lingered on the scene of a fierce battle between the two sides. The nimble swordsman raised his sword and slashed at the Black Mountain Old Demon. In a flash, the ancient temple collapsed. Ning Caichen rushed over and protected the scarred Nie Xiaoqian behind him before the beams fell. "Xiaoqian!!!"
The plot comes to an abrupt end at the most critical moment. At the end of the film, the Black Mountain Old Demon loses his ferocious face and returns to his original appearance. He looks at the flying snow and mutters to himself: "Liar... all liars..."
The scene of memory became slow and long, and there was a man who once gently put a piece of clothing on her shoulders in the dead of night when the dew was heavy.
It was also this man who stabbed her chest inch by inch with the long sword in his hand without mercy. The expression on his face was familiar yet unfamiliar: "Ling'er, the Tao is ruthless. Now I kill my wife to prove my Tao. In the future, I can cut off my emotional ties and focus on cultivation."
"A man's infatuation can still be talked about. But a woman's infatuation cannot be talked about."
A woman's sigh faintly echoed in the sad and melodious music. The scene slowly dimmed, and finally the voices of Nie Xiaoqian and the Black Mountain Demon overlapped. I don't know if it was a miracle or reincarnation:
"I believe he is sincere to me, and I want to be with him forever."
When everything returned to calm, a line of large characters appeared on the black screen:
The movie "Nie Xiaoqian" will premiere at the Hehuanzong Cinema on July 15th. See you at Lanruo Temple!
After watching this trailer, everyone was silent, and only came to their senses after the film was replayed several times.
"Although I don't quite understand it, it seems to be about the love story between a disciple of the Tianyan Sect and a female ghost of the Hehuan Sect?"
"And that female ghost can even absorb human essence! Sure enough, those rumors are true! The demon woman of the Hehuan Sect is so terrifying!"
"But there are good people here too. Look at Nie Xiaoqian, isn't she one of them? She even fell in love with her prey."
"I wonder what happened to them in the end?"
"Look at how the contents of that painting were finally taken apart... How pitiful..."
"How did the battle go? Did Nie Xiaoqian escape? What about the female ghost sisters who helped her?"
"I'm more concerned about what happened to the Black Mountain Old Demon when he was young..."
Just as everyone was still discussing the plot with great interest, the monk who had been obsessed with gossip suddenly shouted, "Is that the key point? Look at that female ghost named Black Mountain Old Demon. The reason she committed evil is obviously because she was severely hurt and betrayed!"
"I know that, what's wrong?" A monk next to him asked puzzledly.
"Oh! You should use your brain and think about it!" The gossipy monk was so excited that his face flushed: "That man said that the Tao is ruthless! And in order to cut off all feelings and love, he did not hesitate to kill his wife to prove the truth! Looking through the entire cultivation world, the only one who can do such an extreme is..." He did not finish the rest of the words, but just hinted wildly with an ulterior motive look.
"Are you saying that the Black Mountain Demon's ex-lover was a ruthless guy?"
"That's right! Apart from them, who else would ever say that Heaven is ruthless and ends all feelings and love?"
"Hiss, don't say it, don't say it!"
"But killing your wife to prove your faith is really too shameless, isn't it?"
"That's right, the female cultivator didn't provoke her, she's simply inhumane!"
"Even the demon cultivators are not as cruel as them!"
"I'm telling you, this isn't over yet!" The gossipy monk had already transformed himself into a trailer analysis expert, eager to scrutinize the Spirit Shadow Stone frame by frame with a magnifying glass. He pointed at the still charming Black Mountain Old Demon in the trailer.
"Look, this Black Mountain Old Demon is obviously hundreds or even thousands of years old. If his old lover had killed his wife to attain enlightenment and then returned to Tianyan Sect to practice, wouldn't he have made a name for himself?"
"Of course!" A cultivator beside him said without hesitation, "That ruthless man who could kill his wife to prove his truth is far more than an ordinary person! I'd say he must have been an elder at least in these years..."
He paused here, and everyone looked at the ferocious-looking elder of Tianyan Sect in the painting and fell into a strange silence.
Difficult, could it be...
Is it really what we thought?
"No, I can't go back. The more I think about it, the more reasonable this guess seems."
"Me too. The more I think about it, the more I feel that this is how it should be..."
"So, the Hehuan Sect and the Tianyan Sect really have a feud that spans generations. After the master fell in love, the disciple also fell in love..."
"That's right, I think they should just get married!"
"Let's go. Killing one's wife to prove one's faith is too horrible. I don't think the Hehuan Sect deserves such a crime..."
Gradually, more and more people gathered to watch, and the rumors spread like wildfire, eventually bringing more onlookers to the gate of the Hehuan Sect Cinema.
【Author’s words】
*From the Book of Songs, “Mang”
Ling Xuzi: I'm wrongly accused! My reputation is ruined!
Zi Xiao, who plays the Black Mountain Demon: It's obviously me who has suffered the damage to my reputation...
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