Chapter 59 Bodhicitta (VIII) “Are you inviting me to have spiritual communion with you?…
With the advent of Bodhicitta, the forces of good and evil are incompatible and fighting each other like dragons and tigers, which is bound to bring about a bloody storm.
As the saying goes, "When gods fight, mortals suffer."
As demons rampaged, the people of Kyoto hid in their houses and closed their doors and windows, fearing that they would be harmed and killed.
Occasionally, one or two brave people would secretly open the window a crack, hold their breath and look up at the sky.
The old beggars and homeless children on the street had nowhere to hide, so they simply sat together and discussed who would win and who would lose.
In the sky, the twelve formation stones stopped spinning, eight of them scattered in a "M" shape, and the remaining four, one floated beside Zhu Ciying, one surrounded Xie Rangchen, one hung high in the air, and the last one went deep into the ground.
Qian represents heaven and Kun represents earth.
The five elements and three origins each have their own place.
The magic circle takes shape.
Zhu Ciying paused in her seals, and the black dot representing her Yin Yuan beneath her feet erupted with a dazzling black light. Her fingers tapped lightly in the air, deftly tracing the incantation.
After the ancient spells took shape, they lined up in a long queue, like chains, extending in all directions, quickly interweaving and intersecting to form a black disk, until it completely occupied every piece of open space under the feet of the three hundred monks.
"The Yin-Yang Five Elements Formation is a well-known small- to medium-sized formation that advocates defeating the majority with a small number. But now, the Yin-Yang Five Elements Formation this fellow Daoist is using is a massive formation that encompasses a full three hundred people!" A cultivator was so excited that he nearly crushed his formation stone. "Even more incredible is how she can activate the formation so quickly, with such a high success rate?!"
He quickly took out a photo stone.
Record it and take it back to show your junior classmates!
Who says that we formation cultivators only know how to play with broken stones all day?!
"It truly lives up to its reputation as a place that combines the strengths of hundreds of schools." Xue Nanshuang stroked his chin with one hand, looking thoughtful.
Should I recommend her to my superiors to participate in this year's Immortal Ranking and win a place?
"The champion of the Penglai Island Secret Realm Competition is not just famous." Ever since the end of the Penglai Island Secret Realm Competition, Fan Zijia has been telling everyone how Zhu Ciying, Qu Wanqing and other Shaoyang Sect disciples sat firmly at the top of the points rankings, and how they used their quick wits to turn the tide in adversity.
A real poisonous follower of Shaoyang Sect.
Xie Miaomiao tossed the hair on her chest back and tossed the formation stone up and down in her hand: "It seems that there is nothing here that requires my help."
"Eighteen years old, in the Nascent Soul stage, with amazing talent."
She stared at the girl in the center of the formation with interest, then used the jade slip to send a message to her senior brother: [If I tell him I want to poach people from the Shaoyang Sect, will that work?]
The other party is typing...
The other party stops typing.
The other party has read the message but not replied.
Xie Miaomiao was so angry that she laughed, closed the jade slip, and looked up at the army of demons on the opposite side who were ready to attack.
Wait until she finishes the fight.
The Yin-Yang Five Elements Formation focuses on defense. It claims to defeat the enemy with fewer troops, but in fact it relies on the formation's extraordinary defensive power to consume the opponent's physical strength and then attack when the opponent is weak.
Facing three thousand demons, how long can Zhu Ciying defend with just one formation?
Except for the four cultivators who arrived first, Xue Nanshuang, Jian Yangqiu, Fan Zijia, and Xie Miaomiao, almost all of them were on high alert, ready to fight a decisive battle with the demons at any time when the formation was breached.
"Killing formation." Among the crowd, Xie Miaomiao majored in formation and had some attainments. He was the first to see the trick.
good.
The Yin-Yang Five Elements Formation was the first formation her fifth senior brother had taught her in her previous life. He loved studying formations, and he loved to tinker with spells and alter formations whenever he had time.
Therefore, what she learned from the very beginning was the killing formation that had been greatly modified.
Zhu Ciying cast an affirmative look at Xie Miaomiao, and the two met eyes and smiled at each other.
All the spiritual power in the air gathered towards her. The two factions of good and evil had been fighting for a thousand years. When the situation was tense, a dragon roar suddenly erupted from the group of demons, breaking the deadlock. A giant dragon with black flames burning all over its body rushed out, followed by countless flaming black dragons.
"Hey, hey, watch out!" The demons who were burned for no reason cursed.
The dragon, disregarding all else, opened its bloody maw, ready to devour a few cultivators to satisfy its hunger. The girl's calm, dark eyes flashed with murderous intent. She raised her hand lightly and pointed in the air, causing the southeastern formation stone to glow white.
In an instant, the wind and clouds surged, and the gale became violent.
Her light blue shawl rustled, and her hair was blown back, revealing a small scar left by the burn. She spoke softly, "Mysterious Ice, Wanli Shuanghua."
The world was silent for a moment.
A small piece of white light fell from the sky farther away.
Xue Nanshuang raised her hand to catch it: "Xue?"
"Oh, it's frozen!" exclaimed the male cultivator on the side.
The dragon kept its mouth wide open, its body encased in a layer of solid ice, unable to move. He watched helplessly as the ice expanded and thickened, swallowing up the black dragon before it could escape.
The group of demons immediately exploded.
"Are you all just standing there waiting to die? Come on together!"
"Bodhicitta, Bodhicitta, let's see who dares to snatch it from me!"
"Who wants to compete with you? With your limited strength, you can't hold on to your territory even if you are crowned king. It would be better for you to eat a few people."
Three thousand demons flew towards the black formation in unison.
Several sword cultivators drew their swords at the same time, ready to kill the demons at any time.
Zhu Ciying rolled her eyes slightly, took a quick glance at the demon rushing in the front, and came up with a plan in mind.
Green light condensed on her fingertips, and she slowly uttered the words: "Yi Wood Cage."
The formation stone in the east burst out with emerald green light, reflecting the spiritual light at her fingertips.
On the city wall, Xie Rangchen looked up at the movements near the black formation. The sudden vines entangled hundreds of demons at an astonishing speed, and used them as springboards to extend to farther places.
The battle situation is like a gamble, with the monsters losing ten to one, or a hundred to ten, and countless monsters fall into the trap and are dragged into it.
He attached a layer of spiritual power to his eyes, allowing him to see the person in charge at the center of the black formation more clearly. At this moment, Zhu Ciying was curling up one corner of his lips.
It was a confident smile.
She seemed to sense something and suddenly lowered her head to look in his direction.
Xie Rangchen's eyes revealed a look of deep astonishment.
The curve of Zhu Ciying's mouth deepened, and the communication function of the soul contract was reopened.
[Can the winning party's reward be spicy chicken and spicy oil noodles made by my senior brother? ]
"Yes, mapo tofu as a bonus." He responded.
With one more dish, Zhu Ciying is full of energy.
She said to the struggling demons, "I don't have much time to play with you, so be sensible and disappear together."
As he finished speaking, a red light shot up into the sky from the stone formation in the south.
Zhu Ciying pointed to the node where the vines connected: "Bing Fire. Burn the camps."
Tightly connected vines pave the way for the blazing fire, guiding its direction. The blazing flames form points into lines, and lines into surfaces, and the warm orange light illuminates half the sky.
Under the high temperature, the demons were trapped by the vines and had no power to fight back. They screamed and turned into ashes.
Zhu Ciying lowered her arms, her hair drenched in sweat. Activating spiritual energy beyond her cultivation, her body was strained to the limit, the burning sensation in her spine threatening to burn through her flesh.
After her attack, nearly one third of the three thousand demons were killed.
The remaining two thousand are not lucky, but because of their own strong strength.
"You are really bringing shame to our master by letting a Nascent Soul steal the show." The Demon Phoenix sneered disdainfully.
He transformed into a phoenix, flew up into the sky, circled once, and uttered an angry cry. Then, a ball of fire gathered and grew larger in front of his sharp beak.
"Go, burn them all, leaving no one alive!"
This ball of fire... Xue Nanshuang glanced at Zhu Ciying who was sweating profusely behind him, pressed the handle of the knife with his thumb and pulled it forward, revealing a small section of the bright white blade.
The fireball was moving at an extremely fast speed, approaching the edge of the black formation in the blink of an eye.
Zhu Ciying bit her tongue, forcing herself to focus. A flash of black light flashed across the surface of the stone formation beside her, which had been silent until then.
"Taiyin Devouring."
A black dot suddenly appeared at the front of the black formation. It was more like a black hole than a black dot. Xue Nanshuang paused as he drew his sword and stared intently for a moment.
Xie Miaomiao started tossing the formation stones again. "Xue Nanshuang, what are you worried about? That's a modified Yin-Yang Five Elements formation, a super killing formation! Don't you realize that there are not enough monsters here for her to play with?"
"I see she's not looking well. She probably won't last much longer." Xue Nanshuang paused, "Don't try to poach her. Let me make it clear in advance that she's a direct disciple of Master Yu Yin and Zhou Mingran's junior sister."
"Zhou Mingran..." Xie Miaomiao curled her lips and silently sent a message to her senior brother.
[Brother, let's find someone else to poach our talent.]
The other party: [Who?]
[Zhou Mingran.]
The other party didn't reply for a long time, so Xie Miaomiao sent a message: [Are you there?]
Then she saw a red exclamation mark in front of her message.
Oh no, senior brother blocked her.
"Tsk." Xie Miaomiao knew everything about her senior brother's death and had expected it long ago.
Isn't it just that you like Zhou Mingran? Go compete fairly with Ji Feibai. Why are you hiding in the sect all day and avoiding him?
Xie Miaomiao decided to do some ideological work on her senior brother after returning to the sect.
Watching its fireball being completely swallowed by the black hole, the Demon Phoenix opened its scarlet eyes wide, flapped its wings a few times, adjusted its posture and dived straight down.
He didn't want to waste time with this group of monks. Instead, he might as well eat a few more people!
When Zhu Ciying saw his action, she couldn't help but laugh.
The landing point of the Demon Phoenix was a city tower in the human world. On the tower, a moon-white figure could be vaguely seen.
Xie Rangchen raised his eyelids slightly: "Sun Watch."
The formation stone representing "Yang Yuan" beside him flashed in front of the city wall in an instant.
The pure white light gathered together to form a huge high wall. The demon phoenix crashed into it and its skull was shattered. It fell to the ground and died after struggling for a moment.
The Demon Phoenix was arrogant and frivolous, forgetting that the Yin-Yang Five Elements Formation was a two-player formation. The black player controlled the situation and was responsible for killing, while the white player controlled the situation and was responsible for defense.
The people who were hiding in the house and watching started cheering. Some of the brave ones went out and moved a stool to sit down and watch the fun.
The storyteller held the pen and wrote rapidly, changing sheets of paper and writing in black and white, piling up into a thick stack.
The hustle and bustle in the city had nothing to do with Xie Rangchen. He just looked up at the person he wanted to see with burning eyes.
Zhu Ciying put his palms together, hooking his pinky and ring fingers together to form a beautiful seal: "Thunderbolt - Soul Shattering."
In the northeast, at the same moment when the formation stone flashed purple light, dark clouds rolled in the night and thunder roared.
The purple lightning exploded like fireworks, splitting into countless tiny bolts of lightning that struck the aggressive demon.
As a result, most of the demons were killed or injured.
Zhu Ciying was almost reaching her limit, and she had drained most of the spiritual power of the three hundred cultivators in the formation.
It's time to put an end to this.
"Can I borrow your bow?"
The young monk holding the bow suddenly blushed when she asked him this: "Okay, okay."
Zhu Ciying took his bow, held it in his left hand, and used the condensed spiritual power in his right hand to transform it into an arrow.
Draw the bow, put the arrow on, and pull the string all in one go.
She took a deep breath, half closed her eyes, loosened her fingertips, and the arrow streaked across the sky like a meteor.
Divine Origin: Heavenly Punishment.
Wherever the arrow passes, all demons will be killed.
In the distant sky, red light broke through the clouds of lightning and thunder, and the sun appeared through the clouds.
Xie Miaomiao reached out to catch the formation stone: "It's all over."
Xue Nanshuang nodded, turned around, and saw Zhu Ciying looking listless and shaky.
"Junior sister!"
She flew to catch her, but was a step too slow.
Xie Rangchen's figure appeared behind Zhu Ciying like a ghost and picked her up horizontally.
Zhu Ciying put her hands around his neck, her spine felt extremely hot, her head felt dizzy, and her eyes were black.
Xie Rangchen lifted his arm and let her lean on his shoulder for a rest.
"Brother, I'm so sleepy and want to sleep." Her voice was very low and she almost didn't have the strength to speak.
"Don't sleep too long." He pressed her closer to his arms, silently cast a requiem spell on her, and said softly, "I'll keep the food warm for you."
"After you wake up, I will have dinner with you."
"good……"
Zhu Ciying closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep.
"My fellow Daoist, I just heard her call you Senior Brother. Forgive me for asking, does your Junior Sister have a Daoist partner?"
The young man held the bow, his palms sweating. "I wonder if I can have a chance..."
Xie Rangchen raised his eyebrows slightly, but before he could respond, a female cultivator pushed the young man away and said, "If you know it's presumptuous, don't ask him."
"Let me ask!"
"I want to know why your junior sister is so strong even though we are both at the Nascent Soul stage?"
Xue Nanshuang was also very curious about this question.
She looked closer and pricked up her ears to listen.
Xie Rangchen carried the person and walked forward. At the same time, the soul contract on his forehead suddenly and openly appeared: "Finding the right Taoist partner is also a part of strength."
You are right!
All the monks present stared with their eyes wide open.
Xue Nanshuang: “?!” It seems like she has discovered something huge... Does Zhou Mingran know?
Xie Miaomiao: “!” Dig, dig, dig her senior brother away as well!
Fan Zijia: “…” The only one who can break down Du Wei’s defense is her Taoist partner!
*
Two days later, Zhu Ciying woke up on a quiet afternoon.
She originally thought that the high-load use of the Yin-Yang Five Elements Formation would more or less leave some sequelae on her body, but when she woke up, she felt so light all over that she seemed to be floating up with the wind.
She tried to feel it and found that her cultivation had also improved a lot.
She got out of bed and put on her shoes. Just as she stood up, Xie Rangchen pushed the door open with a lunch box.
He walked to the table, opened the box, served the dishes and set the tableware: "Are you awake? Come and eat."
Zhu Ciying was very hungry and sat down on the chair immediately.
Xie Rangchen served her rice and picked up some dishes.
He ate some himself.
Zhu Ciying frowned: "Brother, don't you like spicy food?"
Xie Rangchen: "It's nice to try new flavors occasionally."
Zhu Ciying smiled secretly while drinking porridge.
Xie Rangchen was silent for a moment, then said, "I'll have to get used to eating this in the future."
Zhu Ciying pretended not to understand the deeper meaning of his words and continued eating.
Xie Rangchen was so angry that he laughed.
He took the bait and she pretended not to see?
*
At night, Fang Heyu came to say goodbye to the two of them and gave them Chang Xi's clam shell.
Zhu Ciying held the clam in her arms and stroked it gently: "General Fang, what are your plans next?"
Fang Heyu: "I have submitted my resignation to His Majesty, and His Majesty has approved it. From now on, I will return to Japan."
In fact, he had a fight with Jiang Xuanxu before Jiang Xuanxu agreed to let him leave.
After Chang Xi's death, Jiang Xuanxu was determined to die, believing that he had failed to protect her and that she had died. He intended to commit suicide to apologize and pass the throne to Fang Heyu.
Fang Heyu disagreed: "Xixi sacrificed herself to buy back the peaceful world. If you want to atone for your sins, then help her protect it!"
Zhu Ciying heard the news after this a year later.
Jiang Xuanxu issued an edict to announce it to the world, and Chang Xi's merits were widely praised. People built temples for her, burned incense, and called her the Fairy Lady of Bang.
On the day the temple was completed, Jiang Xuanxu led all the officials in lighting incense and praying for blessings.
That day, huge waves rose in Japan and sweet rain fell.
The once-in-a-century drought in Lingyue Kingdom was resolved.
But all the palace servants who served the emperor personally knew that every late night, the young emperor would kneel alone in front of the statue of the Fairy Lady Bang and cry bitterly.
The little son of a family had a high fever that wouldn't go away. His parents had no choice but to go to the temple of the Bengxian Goddess, bowing their heads as they walked, begging her for help.
As a result, that night, his father dreamed that the Fairy Lady gave him medicine, which he fed to his youngest son. The next day, the child's fever subsided and he was full of energy and energy.
The news that the Fairy Lady Clam bestowed pearls to cure illnesses spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred, throughout the Lingyue Kingdom.
There is a huge temple dedicated to the goddess of clams in a small town near the East Sea.
The temple is always filled with incense all year round.
Everyone in the town knew that the goddess Bangxian had an extremely devout believer who would burn incense, offer fruit, clean the statue, and clean and repair the temple every day.
Every night he would sit on a huge rock by the sea, most of the time staring at the endless Japanese sea in silence, but sometimes he would talk to himself.
It was late at night and everyone was asleep. Fang Heyu supported himself on a huge rock with his hands and looked up at the full moon and stars in the sky.
The waves hit the rocks on the shore again and again.
The pale white fluorescent light slowly gathered into a human figure.
The boy bent down as usual, stretched out a hand to the person under the stone, and pulled her up.
If there were a third person present at this moment, they would definitely be shocked, because it is impossible for the goddess of the clam, whom they worship, to sit intimately with a mortal boy and watch the stars.
Chang Xi pointed at the starry sky, smiling happily:
"Fang Heyu, look!"
"There's a shooting star!"
"Make a wish now!"
*
Zhu Ciying and Xie Rangchen saw Fang Heyu off and decided to stay in Lingyue Kingdom for one night and set out to find the Huoyang Ding tomorrow.
Xie Rangchen went back to the house to take a shower.
Zhu Ciying lay by the window and looked at the stars in the sky.
Her spine has been burning since she woke up. She has tried everything but the temperature won't go down.
She closed her eyes in pain, sinking her consciousness into her spiritual palace to block out the pain from the outside world.
Entering the spiritual palace, the branches and roots of the towering trees were intertwined, and every step she took fell on the trees.
Huh? It seems to be a little cooler now?
Zhu Ciying took a few more steps inside, and the burning sensation was obviously relieved.
Her eyes lit up, and she ran deeper, hugged the tree trunk, and pressed her entire soul against it to cool down.
So comfortable.
She felt good, but Xie Rangchen, who was taking a shower, was not so good.
When she first stepped on the tree roots, Xie Rangchen sensed something was wrong. Later, she became more and more bold, touching the leaves and hugging the trunk... Xie Rangchen lowered his head with a sullen face. Beneath the clear water, his desires were exposed.
Does she know what she is doing?!
Xie Rangchen clenched his five fingers and silently chanted the Heart Cleansing Mantra in his heart.
After a few times, he sighed deeply.
Heart Purification Mantra.
No, care, use it.
He could only use the most primitive method and do it himself.
The sound of silver bells in my ears had already rang hundreds of times, and suddenly stopped at a certain moment.
He gasped a few times before he was relieved, and then someone knocked on the door.
Xie Rangchen put on his coat and extinguished the candle with his spiritual power.
He called out to the people outside, "Come in."
The person had just opened the door a crack when Xie Rangchen saw her slender fingers. His eyes darkened slightly. He grabbed her wrist and pulled her in, then closed the door casually.
He pressed her against the wall, holding the back of her head with one hand to prevent her from getting hurt.
Zhu Ciying: “?”
She was pressed into the corner with a confused look on her face.
There was no light in the room, and her eyes were temporarily unable to adapt to the darkness, but her sense of smell became more sensitive, and she could clearly smell the fragrance on Xie Rangchen's body.
The back of my hand was wet from the water dripping from his hair.
"Brother, why don't you light the lamp?" she asked.
Does Xie Tiantian like to bathe in the dark?
What a special hobby...
Xie Rangchen did not answer.
But Zhu Ciying could clearly sense that he was looking at her, and his breath seemed very disordered.
"Um... Senior Brother, the silver bell you gave me is broken."
Zhu Ciying changed the subject and explained her reasons. She had just been enjoying herself in the Spiritual Palace when the bell on her arm suddenly cracked. Startled, she quickly left the Spiritual Palace and came to find him with the things.
"Brother, why don't you speak?"
Could it be that Xie Tiantian is angry?
She condensed a ball of spiritual flame in her palm, wanting to see how he was doing. If he was really angry, she still had a piece of candy on her that might be able to comfort him.
The room lit up for a moment and then fell into darkness again.
Her anger was extinguished by Xie Rangchen.
"What’s wrong with you?"
Zhu Ciying was really confused now, and her hands were restrained by him, so she had to use her other hand to grope towards him.
She estimated his height and luckily touched his face, briefly touching it before quickly withdrawing her hand.
"Brother, your face is so hot, are you feeling unwell?"
"Did you feel comfortable when you stuck to my soul just now?" Xie Rangchen was silent for a long time and suddenly asked.
Zhu Ciying answered truthfully, "Yeah, it was cold, and the heat disappeared in an instant."
"Your temperature has dropped, and mine has risen." Xie Rangchen's Adam's apple rolled, and he said in a hoarse voice, "Junior sister, you can't just care about your own comfort."
"Then what should we do?" Zhu Ciying didn't think much about it. "Why don't you imitate me and let your spiritual consciousness enter the spiritual palace, and then stick to my soul?"
Xie Rangchen couldn't help but smile, the lust in his eyes surged and deepened.
He raised his eyebrows slightly, held Zhu Ciying's wrist and placed it against the side of his face, then tilted his head slightly, and his thin red lips brushed against her palm, causing her to tremble all over, and she froze there, at a loss.
"Are you inviting me to have spiritual communion with you?" he asked seriously.
Zhu Ciying's mind suddenly exploded!
Divine communication?!
No, how did it get to the topic of spiritual connection!!!
"I'm sorry, brother!"
"I have no idea!"
"I promise there won't be a next time!"
She was so ashamed that she wanted to cry, and she thought it would be best if she could dig a hole and bury herself.
There was another long silence in the room.
"Brother, I'll go back first..."
Zhu Ciying wanted to run away, but Xie Rangchen didn't give her a chance.
"There may be a next time."
He bent down, and Zhu Ciying sensed his sudden approach and subconsciously turned her head away.
Xie Rangchen curled his lips and asked her with a smile:
"Junior sister, why are you hiding?"
"Haven't you always been very courageous?"
"Brother, if you are willing to take the bait, I will let you do whatever you want."
"Even if you treat me as a furnace, I will let you take what you want."
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Author's Note: The spell settings related to the Yin-Yang Five Elements Array are derived from the pre-collected article "When the Enemy is Bound to the Strategy System", so I'm releasing it in advance to see the effect [Starry Eyes]
Hope you can support the pre-collected articles, Xu Zhaoxue×Li Zaiyang (Xu Shuangshuang×Li Riri)
Day after day, summer goes and autumn comes, and finally winter frost and snow appear.
Enemies become lovers, it's so good [Red Heart]
Zhu Ciying: I've played too much [melted]
Next chapter, play a big [rookie]
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