"When will Master come back?"

“Soon.”

Xia Xiao answered the little monk carelessly. Someone followed him all the way. He told him to go back to the room and close the door, forgetting that Ah Zhu was still outside. The girl didn't expect Xia Xiao to close the door, and bumped her head against the door, making a noise.

"What are you doing?"

Xia Xiao did not answer, but Ah Zhu would not give up and started to quarrel. The guards who followed him back outside were like guarding prisoners. They thought they were going to do something by closing the door as soon as they came back. It turned out that they were quarreling. They were completely relieved. Their role was just to prevent them from running around on the way back. Now that they were back, they could return to their posts.

"You're so annoying."

Ah Zhu could only utter this sentence when she saw Xia Xiao ignored her. But when Xia Xiao took over the talisman formation, she remembered the question she had been holding back all the way. She had forgotten it when she was hit by the door before.

"Hey, Senior didn't ask us to come back, why should we come back on our own?"

"He said let's come back and prepare."

"Did you tell me?"

"Yeah, use your energy to tell me directly. We have to go back later, don't wear skirts."

Ah Zhu looked at her outfit and found it quite nice. This skirt was given to her by Sister Long Li. Seeing her twisting her body back and forth to show off her beauty, Xia Xiao said:

"We have to go back secretly without being discovered. The skirt is a bit of a hindrance."

"What are you going back for?"

"Confirm the princess's condition."

Ah Zhu said "oh" and didn't plan to ask any more questions, but Xia Xiao was afraid that she didn't understand the process and would make a lot of noise on the way, so he explained it in advance.

"The senior will put a forced hypnotic drug in the medicine to make the princess fall asleep, and then send the people away. We will take the opportunity to go in."

"Then why are you activating the talisman formation now?"

"It takes time to boil the medicine. You can get to know this senior during this time."

Xia Xiao became interested and wanted to ask about the fat monk. After listening to Xia Xiao's explanation, Hu Bugui understood his thoughts, but could not give an answer. He and the fat monk were not that close, they just knew each other for a long time. But there were some things Xia Xiao didn't know, so Hu Bugui told him.

"Spiritual contracts are the mainstream of practitioners, and signing spiritual contracts with wild beasts is the general direction of progress. Many people do not choose this path and become talisman masters. Of course, there are some special existences who practice in their own unique way and sign contracts with different things, which are similar to spiritual contracts, but different. For example, the practitioners of Tanghua Temple, who can bear this title, are all people who sign the five elements of lamps and candles."

This is a new word, Xia Xiao has never heard of it, because he has only seen the monk of Tanghua Temple once before. Shu Shuang was not around that time, otherwise he should know something about it.

"The five elements of the lamp are the oil lamps in front of the Buddha, representing the power of the five elements. The prerequisite for signing a contract with them is to get the approval of the abbot of the temple. The monk Xuyun you know signed a contract with an earth element lamp. After that, he can use a fairly complete earth element power, and the vitality tree in his body also follows the earth element. Although the degree of complete earth element is far less than your future, and there is no contract beast, but what they cultivate is this kind of pure vitality."

Xia Xiao roughly understood it. This method of practice was even more peculiar than a spiritual contract. No wonder it was called a contract.

"This is somewhat similar to Gou Longbang's beast soul contract."

"Yes, but the beast soul contract of the Goulongbang clan can only be regarded as a branch of the spiritual contract, but the candle contract of the Tanghua Temple is a sublimation, and countless beasts are bound to it. So far, they are the only ones in the Great Wilderness who have created this kind of contract."

When talking about the fat monk, Hu Bugui only had some ridicule in his words. He had seen the former's dishonesty and carelessness since the first time they met. He was mentally clear and could switch between wild beast and human form freely, but he regarded himself as a demon. I don't know what he was thinking. But when talking about Tanghua Temple, he had a particularly strong respect for it.

"For ten thousand years, Tanghua Temple has always stood in the south. This spirit of self-sacrifice is beyond the imagination of ordinary people. Moreover, the candle will return to Tanghua Temple after the person who signed the contract dies and will be inherited by the next monk. It must be the consciousness carried in it that made Xuyun guess what you want to do."

"How many lights are there?"

"I don't know. We five major forces never interfere too much, nor do we ask too many questions. We just do our own job. But since Xuyun is cooperating, you should seize this opportunity. They are the Buddha's messengers walking in the world. If you ask more deeply, they will tell you that everything has cause and effect. The cause and effect in the Buddha includes everything. You just need to follow his guidance. This way I can rest assured that I won't let you suffer too much like Yugu and Longgong did."

Xia Xiao nodded slightly, and immediately admired it. It was difficult for him to measure the entire wilderness with his own feet, but he vaguely knew that he would go to the southern wilderness sooner or later. When he did, he would definitely go to Tanghua Temple to see how sacred the legendary temple was.

When Xia Xiao wanted to prepare in advance and go to explore the secrets in the princess' body, Hu Bugui talked about the past.

"From the time I met Xuyun until now, he has done only one thing that I admire."

Xia Xiao and Azhu's expressions became more serious after listening to him.

"Fifty years ago was known as the Year of Demons in the Great Wilderness. There were an unusually large number of demons that year. Countless wild beasts turned into demons and broke into the human world without human protection. Then they showed their bloodthirsty and devilish side and slaughtered the people. There were many tasks to eliminate demons that year, and the five major forces worked together. However, as Tanghua Temple had already sent out walkers, they should take the lead in this matter, and we should be the auxiliary."

"At that time, the grasslands of the Goulongbang clan were full of monsters, most of which were hiding. When people from the First-Class Academy, the Adventurer's Guild, and the Qingtian Sect arrived, they were all eaten. Therefore, the news has not been transmitted. We have no intelligence because the strong men in the academy and the union are in seclusion, which is similar to now. So I went there personally with the elders of the Adventurer's Guild to prepare to cut off that cancer."

"But by then, there were broken Buddha statues all over the ground. None of the thousands of stone statues were intact, and under each Buddha statue, there were monsters suppressed. At that time, Xuyun had just accepted the power of the candle. Although his strength was greatly improved under the vitality left by the predecessors, I still don't know how he killed thousands of monsters. Among those monsters, there were seventh-level strengths."

When he first accepted the candle, his strength was at level 4 in terms of beast. With the vitality left by the senior in the candle, he could only advance to level 5 at most. With the power of the noble Zhimao, could he defeat Qulun across the domain? This was impossible. Only Xuyun himself knew how he defeated those monsters in that magical past.

"At that time, not only Tanghua Temple, but even the academy thought he was a rising star, and even thought he might be the second-in-command of Tanghua Temple in the future. But what we thought was the beginning became his peak. After that, he became fatter and fatter, more and more careless, and finally became what you see now."

“What a pity.”

"It may be because his favorite disciple died that he fell into such despair. Every master loves his disciples as if they were his own children."

Xia Xiao could probably imagine how heavy it was, but Hu Bugui said:

"These things are in the past and cannot be changed. It is up to him to decide what kind of monk he wants to be. And you, it is also up to you to decide what kind of person you want to be. Come on!"

On the side of the talisman formation, Hu Bugui's old face was quite expectant. He was talking not only about the present, but also the future. Xia Xiao's stage has been mentioned more than once. It will not be limited to the academy, nor will it be limited to Daxia. His stage is the entire Dahuang. Moreover, the second-in-command will not be able to satisfy his ability and the imprint in his body. Only the first one is suitable for him. The premise is that everything goes well. Xuyun can only be used as a negative example.

Xia Xiao roughly understood Hu Bugui's idea, but the road was too bumpy. How could it be so easy to get through it smoothly and slowly? He would definitely take a few detours, but he didn't know how far and deep the detours were, and how far they would deviate from the main road.

The talisman array returned to the scroll and could be used twice. Xia Xiao fastened his belt and looked at Ah Zhu beside him, feeling a headache.

"Why did you change into this outfit?"

The previous reverence, shock and pity were now completely gone due to Ah Zhu's anger. Ah Zhu looked at the black clothes he had just changed into and asked:

"Is it not good?"

"Your hair is tied up nicely, but it's not night time, won't it draw attention to you?"

Xia Xiao personally picked clothes for Ah Zhu. When he found the underwear, he couldn't help but exclaimed that the size was too big, but he finally chose an ordinary spruce coat. When Ah Zhu was mumbling and hesitating for a long time before changing, the little monk came in.