Wandering Gods of Day and Night

Chapter 1443: Chapter 536: Reversing Stone Rain

The Kongming Mirror was gently swaying, and Zhou Xuan was a bit puzzled.

He couldn’t help but lift his head and look around.

The mountain wind howled, making the treetops rustle, but though Zhou Xuan let his Perception spread out without restraint, it didn’t bump into the presence of any living being.

"Strange, how strange."

Zhou Xuan could still feel the swaying of the Kongming Mirror, and could also sense a great hand stirring within the mirror.

Fortunately, this stirring seemed to bear no hostility, and Zhou Xuan, who at this moment needed to once again gather his mind and qi to stab out the Mountain and River Map,

did not continue to pursue that eerie trace...

...

Within Zhou Xuan’s Divine Revelation Secret Realm, Miss Qiang, the Engineer, as well as Big Child, Third Child, and the Blood Well Human Brains, had all thrown themselves into the research of the "White Cicada."

This gigantic cicada had already become the new group favorite in the Secret Realm, while the two large fish, one green and one red, instead gained some leisure.

At this time, the two fish sank to the bottom of the Black Water and, toward the edge of Zhou Xuan’s Secret Realm, forcefully spat out two clumps of viscous objects.

"Puff! Puff!"

The viscous things stuck to the Secret Realm’s boundary, forming two reflective patches, and though the Black Water and the Blood Well were not unaware of the fishes’ odd behavior, they all chose to ignore it.

...

At the Lotus Treasure Hall, not long ago, Zhou Xuan and the avatar of that Hundred-eyed Child had fought a great battle, leaving ruins and broken walls everywhere,

with cracked bricks scattered around and glazed tiles shattered to dust,

and now, the wind rampaging through Lotus Mountain crashed down upon the temple, beating against those cracked bricks and shattered glaze. Like a blazing Fierce Sun, it baked them till they melted.

The bricks and glaze melted into tiny reflective "grains of sand," which were swept up by the wind and blown toward Lady Lianhua, who was in a side chamber, sitting in meditation and chanting scriptures.

...

"There has suddenly appeared a great Chan insight in this mountain."

The Tiancan Monk who guarded Lotus Mountain suddenly spoke.

He opened his arms, as if feeling the embrace of a powerful Chan opportunity, while Lord Jiu, at his side, asked, "Master, you have perceived the Chan opportunity in the mountain?"

"I am the Alien Ghost behind the Broken Robe."

The Tiancan Monk closed his eyes and said with contentment, "In Snow Mountain Prefecture, the Reincarnation Zen Sect stands alone, its radiance too bright, but how could the world know that we of the Broken Robe sect are also people deeply versed in Buddhist principles?"

"The Chan opportunity in Lotus Mountain has only just shown signs, letting out a trace of its scent, but how could it escape my eye and nose?"

"But where would this Chan opportunity come from?"

Lord Jiu said.

The Eternal Life Sect Leader then said to Lord Jiu, "I’ve heard that within Lotus Mountain there is a Lotus Buddha Mother. Could it be that this Chan opportunity arises because of her?"

"The Buddha Mother’s heart is kind, but in her understanding of the Buddha Seal and Chan insight, I fear she has yet to surpass Mr.,"

Lord Jiu said with a smile. "You may not know this, but the Buddha Mother’s Buddhist Dao cultivation had once come to a halt. It was Mr. who went to the Lotus Temple and gave a talk there, enlightening her, so that the Buddha Bell within her Secret Realm rang unceasingly."

"If that’s how it is, then if I had the fortune to listen to Mr. speak, wouldn’t that be wondrous?"

The Tiancan Monk was now far too greedy: firstly for the elixirs refined by Zhou Xuan, and secondly for Zhou Xuan’s ability of turning stones into gold.

"You, you just covet too much and wish to give too little. Mr. carries many treasures on him, but you must be like me—once you follow Mr., you must think for him in all things. Only then will he be willing to share those treasures."

The Eternal Life Sect Leader was again using himself as a living example to instruct the Tiancan Monk.

The Tiancan Monk snorted and said, "Am I not learning now? I have to learn slowly."

...

To say that people outside the mountain had already smelled the scent of Chan, how could Zhou Xuan, in the very heart of Lotus Mountain, fail to sense it?

"A great Chan opportunity has appeared, but is this Chan insight coming from Lady Lianhua?"

Zhou Xuan first looked toward the temple halfway up the mountain. After he saw many faint points of light, a realization arose in his heart.

"It seems the swaying of my Kongming Mirror has something to do with Lady Lianhua’s enlightenment of Chan."

With this thought, Zhou Xuan was completely at ease.

He invested all his Heart Spirit into the drawing of the Mountain and River Map.

The mountain wind of Lotus Mountain carried a low wailing sound, as if someone were crying in grief.

The voice of that Hundred-eyed Child finally drifted over with the mountain wind.

"Zhou Xuan, we who have long dwelt on Lotus Mountain with the Yanfutai Buddha Mother have never once done an evil deed."

"Our foundations are clean, not quite the same as the rest of the Buddha Country people. There is no need to drive us to extinction."

Not long ago, the Hundred-eyed Child had still been using the mountain wind to mock Zhou Xuan, but now, seeing the formation within the mountain—an Ancient God descending, the Heavenly Dome charged and ready, the Ping Shui You Shen suppressing, and two Dragon Seeking Heavenly Masters of nine sticks of incense beating the side drums—

with such an overwhelming formation, the Child was afraid as well, afraid that Zhou Xuan might truly cut him down.

Though he still could not quite figure out whether Zhou Xuan truly had the ability to slay him, the sense of fear pressed him to keep "negotiating for peace" with Zhou Xuan.

"Where has that arrogant, unyielding air of yours gone?"

"Recover it a bit. When you wag your tail and beg like this, I’m not quite used to it."

Zhou Xuan said coldly toward the wind.

"Zhou Xuan... you are the Mr. of Mingjiang Prefecture; you must be someone who understands reason—Buddha Country is vast, and within it are good people and bad. The bad, you may slaughter and be done with, but if you kill the good as well, would that not be needlessly creating murder karma?"

The Hundred-eyed Child continued to persuade.

Zhou Xuan, however, raised his brows and laughed coldly. "If you were truly good people, you would have stayed quietly in Buddha Country."

"My map is already stabbed out. Say no more."

As Bone Teeth fell with the final stroke upon the Mountain and River Map,

Zhou Xuan suddenly pulled the Mountain and River Map out from within the Kongming Mirror.