Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 265: Earth Vein Change

Outside of Li County, a rainbow bridge fell, and tens of thousands of women and children crying together suddenly appeared.

Several monks hurried forward to take a look, and were immediately surprised when they saw the clothes and appearance of these women and children.

A monk in a grey robe stepped forward and carefully observed the condition of these women and children. He said in amazement, "Their qi and blood are intact, their spiritual light is pure, and they are not affected by the power of the Northern Wilderness."

After he finished speaking, he chanted scriptures in a low voice. When Chu Tai, who was not far away, heard it, he knew that the Buddhism this monk learned was not orthodox, but a side sect that combined folk Dharma.

"However, to be able to practice the unconventional Buddhist teachings to this extent, this monk is no ordinary man! He already has one-third of my vision."

Chu Tai watched the Buddha's light with some mixed colors falling down and sweeping over these women and children, detecting the aura and abnormalities of these people in a way similar to the way Chu Tai used to observe "fate" in the past.

After they settled down, the monk whispered, "There are no secret spells on him."

A charming woman with seductive eyes stepped on the phantom of a hundred flowers and said with a light smile, "Come on, these people came without a trace. If they were really the Northern Wilderness barbarians, they would have broken through our county long ago. Why would they leave them here? I guess some senior master couldn't bear to see their misery, so he rescued them."

"If there were any senior experts who could help General Yang and his men stabilize the war situation once and for all?"

A ranger who followed frowned, seemingly unable to understand.

The woman just sneered at this and did not answer. Instead, the gray-robed monk shook his head and sighed: "This senior may not want to intervene in the war, but just rescued these women, children and the elderly out of compassion and the idea of ​​saving lives."

After hearing this, the woman added another sentence.

"Besides, this senior may not be a cultivator from the Central Plains like us, but may be an immortal cultivator from the Northern Wilds. Although he doesn't like the blood and violence of the Northern Wilds barbarians, he may not like people from the Central Plains like us who go to their land to exploit resources."

The ranger ignored the woman's words and asked the monk, "Can such behavior be called compassion?"

"Why not?"

As if she was annoyed by the ranger's attitude, the woman said coldly, "Why, do you have to save the people of the Central Plains to be called merciful? Monk, you always say that all beings are equal, but let me ask you, in your eyes, who is more worthy of being saved, the people of the Central Plains or the people of the Northern Wilderness?"

As soon as these words were spoken, many people looked at the woman with a hint of anger, and the very few who knew some of the inside story sighed secretly.

The monk also clasped his hands together, bowed his head and chanted the Buddha's name: "If we had not met on the battlefield, we would both be worthy of saving. If we had met on the battlefield, we would have been enemies."

"Hehe, you are now talking about positions? Talking about differences..."

The woman sneered and shouted at the women and children nearby, asking if anyone among them was willing to go with her.

"I can't guarantee that you will have the same living conditions as before, but as long as you are willing to work hard, food, clothing, housing and transportation will not be a problem."

Seeing this, the ranger next to him sneered: "Since you are giving me relief, why are you so stingy? If you are willing to go with me..."

"Donor Wang Chi!"

The monk in a gray robe suddenly interrupted the ranger and whispered, "It is better to teach people how to fish than to give them fish. They have to rely on themselves to survive. Donor Shaoyao's approach is very good."

After saying this, the monk bowed to express his gratitude to the woman named Shaoyao.

"Thank me?"

Shaoyao sneered and turned away.

Shortly after she left, the gray-robed monk turned and walked towards Chu Tai.

He walked around where Chu Tai was, put his hands together and said, "Namo Amitabha! Well done! Well done! I am the poor monk Yu, nice to meet you, Senior."

"Fish monk?"

Chu Tai whispered the other person's name and sneered, "Do you want to say fish or stupid?"

Monk Yu heard this and whispered, "Senior, you have a keen eye and can see through my little thoughts. I know I am dull and have no hope of ascending to the Buddha's kingdom in this life, but I am still a little greedy and want wisdom, so I call fish stupid."

Chu Tai heard this and looked at the monk with a little smile in his eyes: "From this answer, I know that you are not really dull. Was the relationship between you and Shaoyao because of love?"

Chu Tai, who did not reveal his true identity, deliberately acted like a toying monk, which made Monk Yu confused for a moment.

But he was more aware of the complexity of the current situation. Some surrounding immortal sects suddenly came into conflict with the local Han family, followed by the attack from Beihuang.

These silent indications are that the Han family must have discovered something, which is why they were targeted by so many forces.

Monk Yu was too lazy to care about which specific forces they were involved in or what problems the Han family had discovered.

Now, he only wants to protect Li County behind him, which also makes him a little restrained when facing Chu Tai.

This was due to his hesitation to seek Chu Tai's help and his worry that Lixian might not be able to survive this incident.

Seeing the monk's embarrassment, Chu Tai did not continue to ask. The light of the sun and the moon flashed in his eyes, and then a cloud of light flashed under his feet, and he left.

Monk Yu sensed a subtle fluctuation in vital energy and immediately realized that Chu Tai had left. He couldn't help but sigh, but he quickly cheered up, returned to the county town, and began to plan the follow-up work.

On the other side, Chu Tai, who left Li County, did not walk far, but followed the earth veins to the center of a lake.

There stood a huge rock shaped like a carp. Chu Tai looked at the faint light emerging from the surface of the carp and said with a smile, "Little monk, you were not very clear with me outside the city before. Now can you tell me whether what you think is stupidity is love?"

"Namo Amitabha!"

The Buddhist chanting sounded, and then the voice of Monk Yu came out slowly: "I never thought that the senior had already seen through my disguise. I was still hesitant and dared not speak out. I am really ashamed."

"Little monk, you are talking about something else again. I just want to know if your so-called stupidity is due to love?"

After the third questioning, Monk Yu began to realize that Chu Tai didn't seem to be there to laugh at him, but was really asking him why he felt that he was dull.

With this understanding, Monk Yu took a deep breath and replied, "Senior, you have also seen my current state. I have practiced hard for many years but have not been able to break through the obstacles in my heart. In the end, I ended up going astray and becoming petrified."

Chu Tai looked up and down at the carp-shaped boulder, as if pondering the truth of what he said.

Monk Yu seemed to realize that his answer did not match the specific situation, and he hurriedly explained: "Senior, please don't misunderstand me. I was not like this back then. I am like this now because of the gradual changes that have occurred over the years under the influence of external forces."

"Under the influence of external forces?"

Chu Tai felt somewhat puzzled. He carefully observed the aura on the Carp Rock and in a trance he actually sensed a trace of Dao Fruit fragments.

The aura of this Dao Fruit fragment was very fragmented and turbid, similar to a dozen Dao Fruit fragments randomly mixed together, and then directly injected into the earth veins, allowing it to flow along the earth veins and spread to all parts of the earth. 'How could this be?'

Chu Tai was shocked and secretly pondered the reason. He continued to track it and found that there was a trace of the aura of immortals in the surrounding veins.

This discovery made Chu Tai a little uneasy, especially the Lotus Mother Dharma Image he mastered seemed to be stimulated by something, gradually emitting a faint glow, forming a phantom outline, standing behind Chu Tai, appearing and disappearing.

When Monk Yu sensed the aura of the Lotus Mother's Dharma Image, his face suddenly changed. In his perception, an extremely terrifying Dharma Image of a Bodhisattva suddenly appeared on Chu Tai's body. Then an arm fell down and pulled him out of the earth veins, and then the eyes like lotus patterns looked him up and down.

Wherever the eyes passed, the petrified surface began to break, revealing the original appearance inside.

A stone statue similar to the original body of Yu Heshang. Looking at the statue, Chu Tai discovered a new problem.

"Wait, what I saw before was your real body, and the stone statue in front of you is your real body? You actually gave up your human body on your own initiative? That's not right, the method you practice seems to be a combination of Buddhism and Taoism combined with the method of the altar, so you want to become the guardian of this land?"

Upon hearing this, although Monk Yu could not show it on his face, the aura around him indicated that he agreed with Chu Tai's guess.

But the next second Chu Tai gave him another head-on blow.

"However, you wanted to become the guardian of this place, but you didn't realize that there was a problem with the ground veins. You are the most unique guardian I have ever seen."

After saying that, Chu Tai didn't wait for Monk Yu's answer, but followed the breath of the earth veins and explored deeper.

Along the way, the Lotus Mother's Dharma image was constantly trembling, which was one of the fundamental reasons for the condensation of this Dharma image in the past.

Only in this way, when Chu Tai has completely mastered the Dharma, will it automatically manifest and try to suppress the changes in the earth veins.

'Is it because a similar situation occurred when the world where the Ten Thousand Leaves and Thousand Cores Lotus Mother lived was heading towards collapse?'

While Chu Tai was tracking, he was also extracting the residual aura of the Dao Fruit fragments from the earth veins.

Through continuous summarization, Chu Tai initially overturned his original guess.

The aura of the Dao Fruit fragments flowing in the earth veins is not simply the product of a random mixture of Dao Fruit fragments. There is also alienation and changes in the earth veins themselves.

In other words, a very small portion of the power of the Dao Fruit fragments was absorbed by the earth veins, and then the earth veins became very weakly active, similar to the activity of the Dao Fruit fragments.

If Chu Tai's calculation was correct, the gradually activated earth veins would gradually withdraw their own power and begin to repel all living things above the earth veins.

"Don't let me find out who is so smart that came up with this method of dealing with Dao Fruit fragments."

Chu Tai, who had figured out the changes in the earth veins, cursed in his heart while continuing to explore non-stop.

Finally he found an altar.

A three-story altar that surprised him a little.

The entire altar is hexagonal in shape, with each layer two feet and one foot high, and stands on a node of the earth vein.

On the six sides of the altar, there is a stone sculpture of a rare and exotic animal.

These stone sculptures are crystal clear all over, but covered with bloodshot inside, as if the finest jade had been watered in blood and flesh for a long time, causing changes inside.

This twisted vitality makes these stone statues exude majestic power, suppressing the banner above the stone statues.

Each of these six flags is painted with human blood, which makes people shudder when they see them.

"Six Devil Flags of the Desire Realm..."

Chu Tai muttered secretly in his heart, and when he looked down, he saw three natural totems of sky, earth, mountain, wolf, deer and eagle, and three beast totems, depicting a vast land, borrowing the power of the northern wilderness.

Further down, there were the flags of the six tribes, which constructed a realm of breath belonging to the Northern Wilds. They drew upon the power of the Northern Wilds and transformed the six demons from the Desire Realm into creatures of the Northern Wilds. At the same time, the dozen or so mixed fragments of the Tao Fruit offered on the altar continued to influence the six demons from the Desire Realm.

When the six demons showed some changes, priests came forward, sacrificed the six demons, and sent them into the earth veins.

Then wave the six demon flags of the desire realm to summon new secret demons from the heavens.

During the entire process, the impact on the earth veins is very slight, but also very effective.

If Chu Tai had not been very sensitive to the aura of Dao Fruit fragments, he would probably have regarded the aura mixed in the earth veins as a change in the earth veins caused by Beihuang's attack.

"It looks like someone has discovered something is wrong! Well, those secret demons have learned their lesson. It's not easy to summon them if we continue to use the Six Devil Flags of the Desire Realm. It's time to sacrifice a good body."

The priest shook the animal skin drum, looked in Chu Tai's direction, and laughed strangely.

One after another, dark and strange shadows spread out from under his feet, swallowed up some of the power of the secret demon in mid-air, and transformed into little people crawling out of the shadows, putting on hideous masks, and began to dance around Chu Tai.

As he danced, it seemed as if a number of illusory masks flew out from the void, surrounding Chu Tai and emitting strange laughter.

The familiar attire and the Nuo-like mask made Chu Tai seem to see a hint of the shadow of the old ancestor Haha in a trance.

But soon, Chu Tai was sure that this priest was not Ancestor Haha, because his cultivation and magic power were too weak.

Even if the power it exudes has reached the fifth level, the Dharma meaning it has realized, or similar existence, is also extraordinary.

But in Chu Tai's cognition, he is still far inferior to Ancestor Haha.

Therefore, facing these shadows that gathered together, Chu Tai simply said: "Difficult! There is no Guanyin Bodhisattva!"

The Buddha's light surged and the precious flames rose, breaking the priest's evil spell. But before Chu Tai could make any new move, the priest had already taken out a meter-high bone staff from somewhere.

Holding an animal-skin drum in one hand and a bone staff in the other, he put on a mask and began to jump around randomly, muttering to himself.

Then, to the west of the flags of the six tribes, thousands of evil lights of dark green, pale white, or dark red rose up, emitting bursts of lung-tearing piercing screams, and rushing towards Chu Tai with a force that covered the sky and the sun, and the Dharma realm expanded in an attempt to suppress the power of the Lotus Mother's Dharma image.

At the same time, a wisp of gray smoke that was imperceptible to the naked eye flew out from the bone staff in the priest's hand. It was just a little at first, and then it became more and more.

In the blink of an eye, most of the Dharma Realm was dyed with a creepy gray-white color. In the dimness, the bone-chilling cold air continued to spread, and combined with the evil light, it encircled and suppressed Chu Tai.

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