Chapter 111: Chapter 79: Demons Entangle the Buddha’s Incense Escape, Drinking with the Commandery Princess Over Idle Sorrows
"A sedative? How could it be..." muttered Jing Miao, holding her forehead and trying to recall.
Nausea and dizziness quickly arose.
She staggered and simply sat cross-legged on the ground.
Sheng Chuanxiong shouted, "Bring cold water!"
Soon, a soldier flipped over a bucket of water originally meant for firefighting.
Jing Miao bowed her head, scooped water with both hands, and splashed it on her face.
The icy autumn water cleared her mind a bit.
But she grew more puzzled because she gradually remembered... she hadn’t drunk anything before bed, so it was impossible for her to have been drugged.
Sheng Chuanxiong coldly asked, "What’s your relationship with Li Xuan? Where did the abbot of this temple go?"
Jing Miao sorted out her thoughts, began to recall, and started to speak...
Sheng Chuanxiong listened, thinking, calculating in his mind, while slowly mapping out the geography around Guangye Mountain in his head.
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"Jiao King, why did you leave my disciple in the temple?"
On the carriage, the old nun coldly questioned.
The masked person with purple scales calmly replied, "She is not one of us, bringing her along would only cause trouble. So... I drugged her and casually left her outside the temple."
"Not one of us, am I her master, or are you?" the old nun was rather angry.
But the Purple-tailed Flood Dragon Monarch stood his ground, saying, "Just a mere disciple, can’t I make a move on her?"
She remembered the child’s clear eyes, remembered the child saving her from the water.
So... she would indulge in a rare moment of kindness and save the child once more.
An eye for an eye, a debt repaid, the Purple-tailed Flood Dragon Monarch was not one to disregard debts.
The old nun glanced at the fearsome deity at the front of the carriage and lost the desire to continue arguing.
The descent of the Buddha was what they had wished for.
But now that the Buddha had truly descended... this Buddha was too terrifying.
How long has it been, and he had already changed several heads on himself.
A single incense stick could reach miles around, directly plucking the heads of sleeping peasants and attaching them to his neck.
The Buddha, the male and female unpredictable, the voice ever-changing.
But how could the heads of mere mortals bear the body of the Buddha?
So these heads kept rotting.
And the Buddha kept seeking new heads.
The seven-carriage caravan sped along the countryside, heading north along the coast.
Inside the carriages were believers of the Yu Sect hidden in Xinci Temple.
Yu Sect never intended to occupy a city or capture the State City of Cyan Wood Province, because... that would only force the masses into opposing them.
The Yu Sect sought to spread its teachings.
To have everyone under heaven rejoice in Yu Sect and worship the Buddha.
Then, in the sea of incense clouds encompassing one city, one state, or even one nation, ten nations, that one Jinlian would blossom.
The Buddhist scriptures have a story of the Buddha smiling while holding a flower.
Everyone considers it the Buddha’s wisdom, seeing the flower and understanding one’s nature, thus smiling.
But in reality?
Did the Buddha hold the flower, or did the flower inspire the Buddha?
One flower, one world.
Perhaps the Buddha’s existence was simply to fulfill that flower.
"Iron Armored Feather Robe Golden Lotus Flower," among them, the ceremony of the "Golden Lotus Flower" is the most mysterious and unfathomable.
Because the endpoint of this ceremony is not actually the Buddha, but...the flower.
Be it the Buddha or anything else, it was merely for the blooming of that Jinlian.
Now that Xinci Temple had quarreled with the court, it would not remain.
Even without Xingzhi Temple, there could be Bright Temple, this temple or that temple.
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Pa...
Pat...
Crack, crack crack crack.
The sound of a white bone assembly quickly arrived.
A pile of wild scattered bones suddenly assembled into a white bone dog.
And small bones assembled into a white bone bird, but the white bone bird could not fly, only "hopped around" on the ground.
The hopping white bone bird and the running white bone dog ran in all directions, soon encountering new bones.
Bones scattered, constantly awakening new companions from beneath the earth.
In the extremely concealed canyon of Guangye Mountain, a gray cloak fluttered as if draped over a scarecrow.
Inside the cloak, the boy’s waist simultaneously manifested "tree roots" and "tentacles."
He was rooted to the ground, unable to move.
However, he had chosen a new search location.
This location was north of Guangye Mountain.
’Though I don’t know the reason, suppose the Yu Sect disciples of Xinci Temple want to set fire to delay Sheng Chuanxiong’s steps, then they must be retreating.’
’There are three paths for retreat.’
’Heading east into the sea is impractical.’
’Towards the west, there are too many towns.’
’Only northwards is sparsely populated.’
He was betting.
Currently, Li Xuan, in the first slot held "Skull Flower," in the second slot held "Tiger Demon Taisui."
He was very sensitive to the position of white bones.
Seeing white bones, he could directly control them.
He could see through the White Bone Demon.
The activity range of the White Bone Demon was vast, reaching fifty miles around.
The spiritual burden brought by the White Bone Demon was minuscule, perhaps only a tenth of that of a malefic spirit.
If a bit of spiritual effort could sustain a hundred malefic spirits in the later stages, then... it could sustain a thousand White Bone Demons.
And the enhancement brought by placing "Tiger Demon Taisui" in the second slot could lead to a small probability of generating a "stronger White Bone Demon."
Li Xuan continued to bet.
He was betting on the appearance of a stronger white bone bird.
But perhaps due to the short time, a stronger white bone bird had not appeared.
Li Xuan glanced at the 13 unused Demon Points, then at "[Spirit: 15+36/30]."
He silently said: ’Add points.’
Point after point of spare points were added to Spirit.
And after adding 10 points.
Li Xuan faintly felt the activity range of the bones was larger, and the probability of generating "stronger White Bone Demons" seemed to have also increased.
