In a blink of an eye, eleven years have passed since Chen Sheng arrived at this point in time, and eleven years have passed since Chen Sheng and Xuanzang met in the Pure Land Temple.
The little novice monk at that time has now become a 25-year-old Buddhist master.
The time Chen Sheng spent in this era of the late Sui Dynasty and early Tang Dynasty was almost half of the length of his entire life.
However, in order to completely eliminate the monsters' vitality and ensure the stability of past time and space, this is also an unavoidable choice and decision.
It was because the way he burst out his power at the beginning was so ill-considered that the Abyss's conspiracy of delaying time was carried out.
It is now the year 626 AD.
Six years have passed since Chen Sheng and Xuan Zang met Bai Jingjing.
During these six years, Xuanzang not only traveled to many places in Sichuan and Shu.
After the Tang Dynasty was completely unified, they followed their master Chen Sheng to various places in the country. The two of them and one of the monsters just kept moving forward, aimlessly searching for monsters.
After all, the monsters sent by the abyss this time are good at hiding. Even if they are beaten to the point where only the monsters are left alive, if they are still dormant and have not parasitized a certain creature to cause mutations, the fluctuations they cause will still be difficult to detect.
Therefore, Xuanzang and Bai Jingjing could only wander around aimlessly following their master Chen Sheng, and their route was mostly eastward along the Yangtze River.
Along the way, Xuanzang worshipped every Buddha he saw and entered every temple he saw. He studied Buddhist theories in various temples along the way and gradually became a true master of Buddhism.
As the early Tang Dynasty gradually turned from war to peace, Xuanzang became more and more famous and earned the title of a renowned monk.
However, during this process of wandering, some friction is naturally inevitable.
Just like now.
A crackdown took place on the top of a mountain.
This was the lair of bandits who bullied men and women and committed all kinds of evil. When Xuanzang and his companions passed by here, they learned about the existence of this group of bandits from the villagers.
Although this place is close to the emperor's feet in Chang'an, for many reasons, the nearby government did not send troops to deal with the situation here.
Then, Master Chen stayed in the village and was treated by the simple villagers.
Xuanzang and Bai Jingjing rushed directly to the bandits' lair.
Over the years, they have dealt harshly with the evil people in these troubled times.
Among them, the most common ones are bandits.
Because the girl who was Bai Jingjing's predecessor died at the hands of bandits, this combination of two people and one demon is particularly concerned about the bandits.
At this moment, a huge noise resounded through the sky.
However, he was suppressed by the mental power of Xuanzang, who was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed and concentrating.
And the picture beneath the sound.
It was an eight-meter-tall ape that patted its chest and howled to the sky, then it crushed a handful of bandits in its hand into a pulp.
The wild boar, which was of similar size, rampaged through the village, destroying most of the buildings and covering many of the bandits in the dust.
Some bandits tried to jump into a nearby pool to escape these monsters, but a shadow that appeared out of nowhere in the water swallowed them up completely.
Some bandits rushed towards the door, but the young girl guarding the door just waved her hand and turned all of them into skeletons.
The bandits here suddenly encountered a crisis they had never imagined, and they were powerless to fight back.
Soon, everything returned to calm.
Bai Jingjing waved her hand as she walked past every place, causing the buildings and corpses in those places to decay into ashes, ensuring that there was no life in the bandit's lair at all, and also ensuring that no one would discover the magical powers of the two of them.
Then, she walked towards Xuanzang, who was sitting on the ground with his eyes closed not far away.
"Xuanzang, is this a silent salvation for the sin of killing you have committed?"
Bai Jingjing asked with her hands covering her mouth and chuckling.
"Wukong! Wukong! Wukong! Wukong!"
Xuanzang did not answer immediately, but gently called on his master to give names to the three demons.
The next moment, the released monkey demon, wild boar demon, and catfish demon instantly turned into three streams of light and flew into the wooden box around Xuanzang's waist.
And Xuanzang also opened his eyes.
"Xiao Bai, I've been with your senior brother for six years. Do you think I'm that kind of person?"
"At this moment, I just hope that these people will never be reborn."
As Xuanzang stood up, he silently spoke words that ordinary Buddhist disciples could not express.
However, this unorthodox reply did not surprise Bai Jingjing at all.
Because she had experienced a lot in the past six years, she knew her senior brother very well.
When the muscular senior brother becomes ruthless, he is much more powerful than this demon like her.
Previously, there was a bastard senior official who dared to embezzle all the disaster relief grain. Xuanzang rushed into his official residence and punched him to death in the face. This is something a Buddhist would never do.
So Bai Jingjing was not at all surprised by any of Xuanzang's actions and words.
Perhaps he was influenced too much by his Master. Just like his Master, Xuanzang was a contradictory combination of cynicism and calmness.
Xuanzang is like a saint, but also like a devil.
Faced with the countless suffering beings, he hopes to find a way to save them.
When facing pure evil, he never hesitates to use his butcher knife.
He is willing to help people in need, but he is also good at using a knife to chop people. He will roll up his sleeves and fight the evildoers to the death without saying a word.
People outside only know that Xuanzang is good at Buddhism and willing to save people from suffering, so they are willing to call him a great monk.
But if they knew the other hidden side of Xuanzang: while seeking a way to save the world, he also firmly believed that evildoers need to be punished by evildoers.
So, what will be their mentality?
Do you think such a person is not like a Buddhist? Or do you think such a person is a devil? No matter what others think, Bai Jingjing thinks that such a brother can be called a living Buddha monk more than anyone else.
Looking at her senior brother whose expression had become increasingly unstable over the years, Bai Jingjing slowly asked, "So you kept your eyes closed just now, were you thinking about something?"
"Well, I was thinking."
Xuanzang nodded, and a solemn and serious look appeared on his face.
Seeing this, Bai Jingjing couldn't help but put away the carefree character that she had gradually developed over the years of following her master.
She knew that her senior brother's change of expression meant that it was definitely not a small problem.
Although she didn't know what her senior brother, who was always very smart, was thinking about with a stern face, she knew that when her senior brother became serious, she had to immediately become serious as well.
"Master, I may have to leave."
"I was only vaguely aware of it before, but today I have a strong intuition."
After a moment's silence, Xuanzang spoke to Bai Jingjing in front of him.
Hearing this, Bai Jingjing was stunned.
The news was so sudden that she could hardly accept it.
These six years of wandering life were so interesting to her.
The girl tried out all the human things inherited from her memory one by one with the help of her master and senior brothers.
Either they practice together under the guidance of the Master, or they study Buddhism with their brothers in the Buddhist temple, or they rest and play in the cities of humans for a while...
For her, these six years have been very fulfilling.
She wished she could repeat these six years over and over again.
Now the news that Master is leaving comes like a bolt from the blue.
This made her unable to accept it for a while.
"You were only officially accepted as a disciple by the master a year ago, so you don't know enough."
"Master is a member of the ancient organization Everday, and has always been silently protecting humanity in the dark..."
Xuanzang slowly explained to Bai Jingjing what Mr. Chen had said to him.
And from Xuanzang's narration, Bai Jingjing also understood a lot.
Today is a peaceful era, without the danger of abyss erosion. All members of Yong Zhou went to [****], a place that is kept extremely secret.
As the Star Sage of Eternal Day, Master must guard [**] and send down his avatar once every hundred years to return to reality for inspections, and decide whether to restart the construction of a new generation of Eternal Day depending on the situation.
This time, the clone was sent down to hunt down those monsters.
Now, the duration of the clone is probably about to expire, and it will take another hundred years for it to come out again.
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When his second and third disciples had not yet come down from the mountain, Chen Sheng stayed quietly in the village at the foot of the mountain and fell into silence.
Eleven years was just a blink of an eye for him, who had the fifth level of spiritual power, so it actually didn’t seem like a long time.
But eleven years have passed and there is still no reply in the Xinghuo chat group. This is a big problem.
It was clear that when the time and space crossed over to the Ming Dynasty, the Xinghuo chat group was able to chat across time and space, but now there has been no response for a long time.
Before, he thought it was the effect of the difference in the speed of time flow imposed by the abyss.
At most, there is some network delay. If someone replies one day later, he will have to wait a year to receive the message.
But it has been eleven years now.
Still no news.
To put it in perspective, the modern-time members of the Spark chat group haven't responded to any of his messages for eleven days.
In this case, there are only two possibilities.
Either the impact of the flow of time this time was too great on the Spark Chat Group, so that the Spark Chat Group could no longer be used for communication.
Or it could be a situation that Chen Sheng does not want to happen at all: the eternal day in the future has been completely destroyed.
During the eleven days that Chen Sheng was delayed here, the future Eternal Day was destroyed by the abyss, so no one responded to his message.
Such an outcome is also possible.
Therefore, Mr. Chen couldn't help but feel more worried the longer he stayed.
However, such concerns no longer seem to need to be maintained.
Just as Xuanzang's keen intuition had detected, Mr. Chen was indeed about to leave.
Judging from the current space-time disturbance threshold, he can stay there for a maximum of three days, and then he will return to the real space-time because the space-time disturbance threshold is exhausted.
A more specific time cannot be estimated.
Because his current space-time disturbance threshold is decreasing irregularly like a disco, and there is no way to accurately estimate it.
The space-time disturbance threshold, which was originally estimated to last for 28 years, has been used up in just 11 years.
Not that he wasted it.
Mr. Chen knew very well that he had made a wrong judgment. The power he exploded in the sky above Nalanda Temple consumed more than half of the threshold of space-time disturbance.
After that, he naturally had to conserve his strength and try not to get involved in the world's affairs, to ensure that he could eliminate all the fleeing monsters before leaving.
However, when Xuanzang killed a high-ranking official with one punch and caused the irreversible impact of the butterfly effect, his space-time disturbance threshold consumption inevitably began to run wild.
This does not mean that the death of a senior official will necessarily have a greater impact on history than the butterfly effect brought about by this group of people over the past eleven years.
Instead, the accumulated butterfly effect finally exceeded the limit of history's automatic repair ability, and then there was a rapid collapse over a small area, and history stopped automatically repairing itself for a period of time.
Although he quickly took a lot of measures to reverse it, he only barely restored history's self-repair ability and slightly slowed down the consumption of the runaway space-time disturbance threshold.
Mr. Chen didn't say much about this.
He did not blame Xuanzang at all.
This kind of Xuanzang was exactly what he cultivated and what he expected.
In essence, the origin of everything can be blamed on myself for going to the Pure Land Temple eleven years ago and wanting to teach Xuanzang to grow up in advance.
Now that things have come to this, maybe it’s not a bad thing.
Originally, he could only stay for a while because of the influence of the space-time disturbance threshold, but he was also worried that he would want to go back to the real world at any time.
Now is a good time to go back.
If he could go to the real time and see what the abyss did while it was delaying him here, he wouldn't have to worry so much.
He wanted to see if Yong Zhou was still there.
If the eternal day is destroyed, will humanity still exist?
He has always been worried because he knows nothing about what is happening in real time and space.
At this moment, the threshold of space-time disturbance has been reached and I can't stay here any longer. It's a good time to go back.
In these eleven years.
In the first year, he found three wisps of monster life and met Xuanzang.
In the fifth year, Bai Jingjing, the fourth ray of monster vitality, was found.
Last year, he found two strands of monster vitality, which he fused into Bai Jingjing's body to strengthen her, which was considered a benefit for his disciple.
Of the seven strands of life that escaped the monster, six have been found so far, leaving only one strand that has yet to be found.
But he really didn't have much time left.
As for the remaining trace of life of the monster that has not been found, perhaps it can only be left to the two disciples Xuanzang and Bai Jingjing to solve.
At least, he left behind these two seeds of great hope to complete his unfinished business.
When he had trained these two disciples seriously, he actually more or less had the idea of leaving a backup plan for himself in case the monsters escaped without being completely wiped out.
Judging from the current situation, these two disciples can actually be regarded as his pride. Chen Sheng feels that he can let them eliminate the last ray of life of the monster without any worries.
After that, Xuanzang only needs to go to the Western Regions to inherit the huge mass of monster vitality in Master Jiexian's body, learn and practice the spiritual practice system until the eighth consciousness realm, and then suppress and destroy it completely.
The past is basically over now.
(End of this chapter)