Chapter 175 Cliff Carvings
Xiao Qian immediately shook her head like a rattle and said, "How would I know? I just know that grandma has sent people to look for it, but whether they can find it or not is still uncertain."
Gong Mengbi looked at her panic and asked, "You don't know where the cliff carvings are, but you must know something else, right?"
At this moment, Yan Chixia walked out of the room holding a sword case.
Ning Caichen, with dark circles under his eyes, and Ma Junji, who had rarely woken up from a dream, also came out. When they saw Gong Mengbi, they felt relieved as if they had found a stabilizing force in their hearts.
Ning Caichen suddenly remembered and said, "There are still the master and servant from Lanxi in the east wing. I wonder how they are doing now?"
Yan Chixia was about to go check it out, but Xiaoqian, under Gong Mengbi's gaze, said dejectedly, "No need to go. The scholar from Lanxi is a descendant of Grandma. Grandma has already sent him to look for the cliff carvings."
Yan Chixia frowned and asked, "Where is the cliff carving?"
Xiao Qian shook her head and said, "I really don't know."
Gong Mengbi sighed and shook his sleeves, and dozens of straw men fell down and transformed into warriors with fox heads and human bodies, and quickly ran towards the Lanyin Temple.
“It’s hard to find the cliff carvings, but it’s easy to find the people.”
"That makes sense." Yan Chixia nodded.
Gong Mengbi was a little worried and said, "I hope it's not too late."
Xiao Qian asked, "Why did you bother to stop me? If it weren't for Zhenru and the old thief Sanming, I wouldn't have ended up like this. Why did you bother to help those two thieves?"
Yan Chixia glanced at Xiaoqian strangely and asked, "Miss Xiaoqian, are you knocking on their door in the middle of the night because you're worried they're hungry and want to bring them food?"
Ning Caichen snorted coldly and said in a strange voice, "I came here to ask for help."
Xiao Qian's face flushed with anger, and she glared at Ning Caichen fiercely. With Gong Mengbi and Yan Chixia by her side, Ning Caichen was not afraid of him at all.
Ma Junji was puzzled: "Did you knock on my door?"
Ning Caichen felt a pain in his heart. He really didn't understand why he was the one who was unlucky and why Ma Junji could sleep so soundly.
Xiaoqian was speechless.
Gong Mengbi said, "I'm not trying to help Zhenru, I'm just discussing the matter at hand."
Xiao Qian didn't take it seriously. "Grandma is a Rakshasa ghost, she's meant to eat people. And she doesn't eat just anyone. Most of them are greedy and lustful people who forget their principles when they see profit. So I'll just kill them."
Gong Mengbi shook his head and said, "You seduce people with money and sex, but then blame them for being greedy and lustful. Can you tell who's good and who's bad just by testing them like that?"
Xiaoqian stopped talking.
Gong Mengbi said, "Brother Ning and Brother Ma's auras were also absorbed into the Realm of Reality by you. If we don't resolve this, they won't be able to leave even if they want to. I can't just stand by and watch."
Xiaoqian said, "You should help grandma even more. If you don't destroy the mural, they will never escape. Only by destroying the mural can they be free."
Ning Caichen clenched his fists and gritted his teeth, saying, "Brother Mingfu, don't worry about me."
Ma Junji said solemnly, "Brother Ning's meaning is exactly what I mean. If we release this man-eating monster because of us, then we are the sinners."
The two scholars were obviously trembling with fear, but a kind of courage and fearlessness gathered in their hearts.
Xiaoqian looked at them and was shocked for a moment.
Gong Mengbi smiled and comforted him, "There will be a way, don't worry."
Gong Mengbi looked at Xiaoqian and said, "I not only want to rescue them, I also want to rescue you."
"Save me?" Xiao Qian laughed. "Grandma taught me how to practice and treated me very well. I don't need you to save me."
Gong Mengbi shook his head: "You and Zhenniang are too similar. You are both born with a charming body, charming but not coquettish. You are both gentle on the outside but strong on the inside. You are not the kind of people who accept their fate."
"Zhenniang treats you well because she sees her past self in you. She treats you well only to make up for her shortcomings. It's only because you resemble her, not because you are Xiaoqian. Zhenniang has no control over her life, and you are just repeating the same mistakes now."
Xiao Qian gradually fell silent and said, "So what? I am so weak and powerless. Without grandma, I am just a lonely ghost."
Gong Mengbi did not try to persuade her any further, as he knew that Xiaoqian was just looking for reasons to convince herself.
Zhenniang cherishes her body, so she is admonished by the Sanming Zen Master with the Golden Clavicle Bodhisattva. Does Xiaoqian not cherish her body? Yet she can knock on doors to seduce men and kill people for her grandmother.
The sea of suffering is boundless, and it takes courage to turn back.
At this time, fox-headed warriors from all directions came to report that there was no trace of the scholar in Lanyin Temple.
Yan Chixia frowned and said, "If not in the temple, where else could it be?"
Xiao Qian said quietly, "Grandma was happiest at Lanyin Temple when she was planting flowers. If I were Zhenru, feeling guilty towards her, I might hide the cliff carvings in her favorite place."
"Flower garden!" Yan Chixia shouted.
He and Gong Mengbi once worked as flower-growing monks in the world of truth and fantasy, helping Zhenniang grow orchids.
The flower garden is not far from Tiannv Temple. After hundreds of years of wind and rain, Tiannv Temple has long been reduced to ruins and the flower garden has long been abandoned.
But the flower garden was too far away, and Zhenniang had not yet refined the seven murals and could not extend her magic power there.
Gong Mengbi and his party immediately rushed to the flower garden and hurried out of Lanyin Temple. Not far from the flower garden, they heard an ecstatic pig squeal.
Gong Mengbi looked from afar and saw a half-human, half-pig monster digging the soil in the flower garden. It bit off one of its hands, and its ghostly blood spilled into the soil.
In an instant, a golden light flashed, and the pig demon flew backwards.
A massive rock rose from the earth, towering above the ground. Inscribed on this rock, like a silver hook, were the words "Deep in the Orchid Shade." Beside it, a series of murals, seemingly eroded by wind, emerged.
There are still some traces of the first monk's burial site, but the rest of the murals are completely invisible.
The golden light flickered, disturbed by the ghostly aura, and a new mural slowly emerged.
The mural depicts the young monk Zhenru, who is slowly painting with a stone in his hand.
This is the seventh mural and also the seventh world.
"The cliff carvings are actually here." Gong Mengbi revealed a solemn expression. "Zhenniang is extremely intelligent. She must have guessed that Zhenru is not dead, otherwise she wouldn't have sent him here to look for her."
Xiao Qian sighed and said, "Grandma thought about it day and night, trapped in the cliff carvings, recalling the past over and over again. It's impossible not to have suspected that it was really like being resurrected from the dead. Now, through someone else's hands, my suspicions have finally been confirmed."
The pig demon that was knocked away by the cliff carving grunted and rushed towards the newly revealed mural.
Smoke rose and white mist evaporated, and the pig demon disappeared into the mist.
Gong Mengbi then walked out from the shadows with a few people and said worriedly, "This is a big trouble."
Xiao Qian said, "I have to go. If Grandma finds me, I'm doomed. You guys should run away quickly. Once Grandma breaks through the cliff carvings and the realm of truth and illusion ceases to exist, these two scholars can leave safely."
Xiaoqian glanced at the few people, and then rushed into the cliff carvings.
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