With a snap, Lin Jingting severed all contact with him.
Zhao Feiyang stood there stunned for a long time before turning to ask Nan Hua Zhenren and Yin Shanjun, "Seniors, do you think the Emperor is angry because I didn't portray him well?"
Yin Shanjun: "I know he loves the Bai Ze statue in front of the seventh gate of his palace the most. What's going on? This woman dares to touch even that?"
Master Nanhua said, "What I'm more concerned about is whether that woman really used magic to make the boundary stones that Lord Jingting personally refined ineffective?"
Zhao Feiyang said somewhat helplessly, "I'm still worried about Niannian. That golden-winged roc just wants to eat her."
Liu Ying said, "Everyone advised her not to go, but she insisted on going anyway. If she gets eaten, she can't blame anyone else!"
Zhao Feiyang said coldly, "Actually, you're hoping she gets eaten, thinking that way you can get your Ninth Tail back, aren't you?"
Liu Ying retorted, "Is it wrong for me to hope like this? Imagine if you lost a leg, wouldn't you want to find it and have it reattached?"
Zhao Feiyang: "Your idea was originally not bad. But if this leg that you accidentally lost becomes someone's life, what gives you the right to ask someone to give up their life to save your leg?"
Liu Ying was speechless for a moment.
Everyone fell silent, except for the monks' chanting.
Here, the Golden-Winged Roc carried Chu Nian to the side of the Buddha Pool.
The Buddha pond was filled with golden lotuses. The surface of the water showed no abnormalities, but Chu Nian, with his powerful spiritual energy, could clearly sense that the water contained immense magical power.
However, this magical energy was different from many others that Chu Nian had seen before. This magical energy was extremely warm and peaceful, making Chu Nian feel very comfortable. But it was also as vast as the ocean, boundless and limitless, seemingly capable of encompassing all things in the world, while also capable of destroying all things in the world.
"This is the Buddha Pool, and the water in the pool is all transformed from the power of Buddha. Countless monks and nuns in this sacred mountain generate a great deal of Buddha energy through their daily devout chanting of scriptures, which automatically falls into this Buddha Pool. Over time, it is likely that no spiritual being can withstand the baptism of this Buddha Pool."
The Golden-Winged Roc spoke softly, his voice clear and pleasant to the ear; but his eyes, when he looked at Chu Nian, were filled with greed and drooling.
Zhao Feiyang's statement that he wanted to devour Chu Nian was absolutely true.
Chu Nian said, "You live in this sacred mountain, and you must receive the Buddha's blessings every day, so why are you still not pure in your six senses?"
The Golden-Winged Roc laughed and said, "Why should I be free from the six senses? The idea of being free from the six senses is only for those who are incapable of satisfying them. Do you think I am incapable of satisfying my own six senses?"
Chu Nian laughed and said, "What you said is not wrong."
The Golden-Winged Roc said, "Little girl, I've granted your wish to see the Buddha Pool. How will you thank me?"
Chu Nian: "Oh? How do you want me to thank you?"
The Golden-Winged Roc said, "Back then, you were just a little fox's tail, all skin and no flesh. But now it's different. You now have a human body, and such delicate skin and flesh. The most powerful magic of the Nine-Tailed Fox is hidden in your nine tails..." As he spoke, he couldn't help but twitch his index finger, and his hands suddenly turned into sharp claws and grabbed at Chu Nian.
Chu Nian dodged the attack and successfully circled behind the Golden-Winged Roc, raising his foot to kick the roc's rear end.
Since the Golden-Winged Roc first saw her, he hadn't detected any magical energy fluctuations on her body—it's good to have strong mental power. Even though the Golden-Winged Roc is an existence that seems heaven-defying to others, Chu Nian was still able to block all of his probes.
The Golden-Winged Roc knew that she was just a mortal after her reincarnation. Even if some of her memories of the Nine-Tailed Fox had awakened, her magical power was definitely not yet awakened. He never expected that Chu Nian could dodge his grab; what's more, Chu Nian even went behind him and kicked him in the butt.
Chu Nian's kick was no ordinary kick; it was a full-force strike. Caught off guard, the Golden-Winged Roc was sent staggering forward by Chu Nian's kick and fell into the Buddhist pool with a thud.
In fact, Chu Nian had already discovered this Buddhist pool when he entered the Spirit Mountain with his spiritual power.
It is like a great lake, without waves or ripples, its surface like a mirror, a pale gold color, with lotus flowers without roots or leaves floating on it. Both the lake and the lotus are manifestations of the vast and boundless Buddha's teachings.
Moreover, perhaps this Buddha pool left too deep an imprint on its heart when the original owner was still a fox tail. After all, it was almost destroyed here. So when Chu Nian explored this Buddha pool, the scene of the original owner struggling in this Buddha pool as a fox tail suddenly appeared in Chu Nian's mind.
Because of the memory transfer, Chu Nian could deeply empathize with the feeling she had experienced. She felt it was a real waste that such immense magical power was confined to such a large pool; why not use it to benefit all living beings?
She was thinking, what if... cough, ha!
Moreover, once the original owner woke up with her memories of the Buddha Pool, she inevitably recalled the cruelty the Golden-Winged Roc had shown her. He could have just taken the severed tail, but why did he have to throw it into the Buddha Pool? Therefore, she developed a great deal of hatred towards the Golden-Winged Roc.
Chu Nian came to resolve the resentment, but she didn't expect that the previous resentment hadn't dissipated before she started to resent the Golden-Winged Roc.
To be honest, Chu Nian actually quite liked this bird. It was beautiful both as a bird and as a person, so she didn't really want to get rid of it.
The original owner's resentment towards him stemmed from him throwing the original owner into the Buddhist pool. Well then, he should just fall into the Buddhist pool himself—an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth!
The golden-winged roc fell into the Buddhist pool and was instantly enveloped by the Buddhist teachings within. However, because he was extremely bloodthirsty and possessed a heavy aura of malevolence, the Buddhist teachings were meant to dispel all his malevolence, violence, greed, and ignorance.
He has lived for tens of thousands of years, and negative auras such as malevolence and evil have long been deeply rooted in his soul. To dispel them, well, he would be practically dead by now.
He is now facing the same situation as the original owner when he fell into the Buddha Pool. The difference is that the original owner, being a nine-tailed fox with a severed tail, is filled with demonic energy.
However, whether it is demonic energy, malevolent energy, or evil energy, it is all "energy" that deviates from Buddhism, and it is all within the scope of Buddhism's purpose of guiding and transforming people.
Although the Golden-Winged Roc possessed profound magical power, and could probably roam freely not only in this sacred mountain but also throughout the entire Three Realms, it had little resistance to the waters of the Buddha Pool. Upon entering the pool, it immediately felt as if it were living a life worse than death.
He wanted to use magic to escape the Buddhist pool, but a large part of his "magical power" came from the other demons, immortals, monsters and other beings he had devoured, all of which were meant to be purified by the Buddhist pool.
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