After returning to the village, start chasing the mountain from binding Emei

Chapter 712 The past of Erlang Temple and the whereabouts of the stone eggs!

"The stone egg you are looking for is..."

Chen Yang looked at her in confusion.

Shi Ling said, "It is the origin of the Tao body left by this senior. I have heard about it from the Tong family. They also promised to find it for me, but in the end, nothing came of it."

A black line crossed Chen Yang's forehead. You yourself said that the Tong family had cheated you. Can you still believe what they said?

But Chen Yang only said this in his heart. He was afraid that she would not be able to control her emotions and take her anger out on Tong Xin if he said it out loud.

Chen Yang asked, "What use is this stone egg to you?"

Shi Ling sighed, "I can let my soul enter this stone egg and regain my stone body. Otherwise, is it possible that I will really occupy this kid's body?"

"His body looks too ordinary, and he's a male. His cultivation talent isn't very high either. I don't want to be tied to him forever. When he's dead, I'll have to find another way out. So, it's better to make plans early..."

……

These words were not polite at all, and were full of disdain for childishness.

Chen Yang laughed dryly, thinking that she didn't understand anything. It turned out that she did notice something.

Her purpose of looking for stone eggs was actually to find a new stone body for herself.

The stone body left behind by a quasi-celestial being who failed to pass the tribulation was definitely the most suitable and attractive one for her.

After all, she herself is stone, and a stone body is not flesh and blood, so she can take possession of it if she wants, without having to worry about the degree of compatibility.

In other words, she had no intention of occupying Tong Xin's body for a long time.

I have to say that this stone spirit is kind-hearted.

If the stone spirit found the stone egg and left Tong Xin's body, wouldn't that mean that Tong Xin's great-grandfather's plan would have been in vain?
Tong Xin's great-grandfather took advantage of Shi Ling's kindness and plotted against her. He wanted to bind Shi Ling to his great-grandson Tong Xin, so that Shi Ling would spontaneously help Tong Xin practice and make the Tong family rich.

However, Shi Ling's kindness also prevented the Tong family's plan from failing.

When Shi Ling finds the stone egg, he will naturally cut ties with Tong Xin and the Tong family, and they will probably never have any connection with each other again in the future.

"What are you thinking?"

Seeing Chen Yang in a daze, Shi Ling asked.

Chen Yang came back to his senses and said, "I was wondering, can you confirm the existence of this stone egg?"

"of course."

Shi Ling nodded seriously, "Not only have the Tong family talked about it, but I, who am not an insider, have also seen it over the years. This stone egg definitely exists, there is no doubt about it."

"How big is it and what does it look like?" Chen Yang asked.

Shi Ling paused, "I can't explain this question, but if it was in front of me, I would definitely recognize it."

"Ok."

Chen Yang was embarrassed, talking for a long time but saying nothing, "This demon-suppressing cave should have been abandoned for many years. Even the mountain-suppressing stele has been moved away. If the stone egg you mentioned exists, it must have been moved away long ago. How could it be our turn to come here to find it?"

"So what do you say we should do now? If we can't find this stone egg, I can only occupy this boy's body forever?" Shi Ling said.

She didn't care about anything else. Anyway, Chen Yang promised to help her find the stone eggs, so Chen Yang had to find a way to do this.

Chen Yang also felt a bit of a headache.

There is no fixed position on this thing, where can I find it?

After thinking for a while, Chen Yang said, "There is really nothing here. I will go back to the temple and ask Master Jiang about the situation. He is an old man in the temple and may know something."

"up to you."

Shi Ling simply became a hands-off boss.

"senior."

Shi Ling was about to retreat, but was stopped by Chen Yang.

"What?" Shi Ling looked at him puzzledly.

Chen Yang said, "I have studied the Three-One-Five Tooth Sutra you gave me before, and I don't know how many times, but I still can't find the right method. Senior, can you give me some advice..."

The text of the 315 Tooth Sutra in the jade slip that Shi Ling gave him was full of strange characters. He studied it many times but couldn't find the fire gate and couldn't figure it out at all.

I have been wanting to ask Shi Ling for advice for a long time, and now is a perfect opportunity.

Shi Ling heard this and shook his head. "Some things can only be understood, not explained. If you want to learn this technique, you have to rely on your own understanding. If you can't figure it out, it doesn't prove that you have poor talent or low comprehension. It only means that you are not destined to learn this technique..."

Missed?

What kind of explanation is this?
Chen Yang frowned slightly, "Since we are not destined to be together, why should I help you?"

"This……"

Shi Ling paused for a moment.

Chen Yang's question stumped her.

Did Chen Yang agree to her three conditions in order to help Tong Xin?
That's just one aspect. More importantly, Chen Yang wants her 315 Tooth Sutra.

He got the scripture, but he couldn't understand it. What's the difference between that and not getting it?
If you have no chance with him, then you have no value to Chen Yang. If you have no value, then if I still help you, wouldn't I be a sucker?
Shi Ling said, "You should figure it out on your own for a while. You have a good understanding ability, but maybe you just don't know the right method. This kind of thing can't be rushed. After a while, if it still doesn't work, I will help you think of other ways..."

"In other words, there are other ways. You might as well give it to me directly." Chen Yang said.

Shi Ling shook his head. "This technique, if seen by a thousand people, will have a thousand different understandings. What I can give you is only my own understanding. However, if I give it to you now, you will definitely be influenced by me, and what you get may not be what you want. Therefore, it is better for you to understand it yourself first. What you understand yourself is the most suitable for you..."

"Is that so?"

Chen Yang's eyes moved slightly. Is there such a saying?

However, what Shi Ling said does make sense.

As she said, everyone's understanding will be different. Shi Ling's true form is a piece of stone. Can Chen Yang use the 315 Tooth Sutra that she understood?
It’s best to figure it out yourself.

At that moment, he nodded and said no more.

Shi Ling retreated immediately.

Tongxin fell to the ground exhausted.

I've experienced this before, and it will be fine after a good night's sleep.

Chen Yang was not in a panic. He just picked him up and quickly left the Demon-Suppressing Cave.

……

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Erlang Temple.

After Chen Yang settled Tong Xin down, he went to see Jiang Daotang again.

He added some incense oil to the temple and went to the canteen for dinner. After dinner, he followed Jiang Daotang to his residence.

It has been sunny these two days and the temperature has risen suddenly. Even with the door open, the wind is hot.

Jiang Daotang was old and couldn't stand the heat, so he went to the flower bed outside the door with his bare chest and a fan to cool off.

The moon was hidden in the clouds, but the sky was dotted with stars. The yard was pitch dark, giving me the same feeling as when I was a child and listened to adults chatting.

"Master, there is a stone egg in the Demon-Suppressing Cave, do you remember it?" Chen Yang sat next to Jiang Daotang, holding a fan and fanning him.

Jiang Daotang shook his head. "When we were young, we were not allowed to go to that cave. The elders said that there was something extraordinary in the cave..."

"Later, something happened. That year, Emei sent a lot of people to deal with it, and the cave became empty. I have never seen any stone eggs. Later, the official came and sealed the cave, and I never asked about it again..."

……

Something happened?

Chen Yang's eyes moved slightly, "Master, are you talking about the burning of Erlang Temple by Yang Dongguan?"

Jiang Daotang glanced at Chen Yang and said, "You know quite a lot. Did your uncle tell you?"

Chen Yang did not explain, but just nodded along with his words, "But, Uncle doesn't know much, and he didn't tell me too much details."

"Ah."

Jiang Daotang smiled and sucked his few remaining teeth. "He was lucky. He happened to be back home to date and get married at that time. Of course, he didn't know much. What he knew was told to him by me..."

Chen Yang asked, "Master, did you personally experience what happened back then?"

"Ugh."

Jiang Daotang took a deep breath and said, "Yes, I will never forget that day in my life."

"Would you mind telling me about it?"

Chen Yang knew that this matter was a bit of a blow to someone's wounds, but he was also really curious about what had happened back then.

Jiang Daotang paused.

This incident had indeed been stuck in his mind for many years and he seldom mentioned it to anyone. Even many of the younger generations in the temple now do not know that Erlang Temple had such a past.

When I think of this, I feel great fear and sadness. But it has been so many years since the incident happened, and what should have passed has long passed.

No one asked before, and Jiang Daotang had no place to talk about it, but now that Chen Yang asked and the atmosphere was right, he opened up.

"I remember it was the summer of 1974, on April 19. It was the same day as today, the weather was extremely hot and dry..."

"That day, a man came to our temple to stay overnight. At that time, we didn't know that he was Yang Dongguan, one of the notorious Five Friends of Longtan. Otherwise, our master and uncles wouldn't have taken him in..."

"During the day, I chatted with him for a few minutes. I felt that he was a nice guy and his words were quite funny. However, who would have thought that one could only know a person's appearance but not his heart..."

"At night, I was squatting in the toilet when I suddenly heard a commotion outside, followed by screaming and crying..."

Having said this, Jiang Daotang paused for a moment. In the darkness, there was still some obvious fear in his old eyes.

The voices were trembling slightly.

After calming down, he continued, "I hurried out to see what had happened to that man during the day. He was wielding the long sword from the statue in Erlang Temple and was slashing around. My uncles, uncles, and fellow apprentices were no match for him at all, and they fell one after another..."

"I was so scared that I quickly hid back in the toilet..."

"Not long after, the shouting outside stopped. The man was holding a knife and searching every room in the temple. I hid in a stinking thatch and escaped..."

"Then, a fire started outside..."

"Don't be afraid of you laughing at me. I hid in the Maosi all night and didn't dare to come out until dawn. By then, the fire had been put out and the entire Erlang Temple had been burned to ruins."

"I was terribly scared. I shouted and searched everywhere. In the end, I only found two lucky fellow apprentices. Daochun hid in the well behind the yard and escaped. Daofeng was injured, but not fatally..."

"Except for the three of us, everyone else is dead."

"Later, I heard from Daofeng that Yang Dongguan secretly went to the temple's library that night. I don't know what he was looking for, but he was discovered by my master who was on duty. My master was no match for him and was killed on the spot..."

"Master shouted before he died. Several uncles and aunts who were still awake rushed over. As a result, they were all killed by him. The beast was determined to kill everyone in the temple. Finally, he set fire to the temple in an attempt to destroy the bodies..."

……

When Jiang Daotang said this, he was still relatively calm.

After all, it has been so many years, and even the deepest wounds should have healed.

"We reported the case, and before noon that day, Emei sent people over, and we were taken away for questioning..."

"Then, Erlang Mountain was closed for several months. When we came back, only ruins were left. The demon-suppressing cave in the back mountain was also opened, but it was empty..."

"If there really was something in that cave, it should have been dealt with by those people from Emei. As for the stone eggs you mentioned, if there was such a thing, I'm afraid they were probably taken away by them."

……

Jiang Daotang told Chen Yang the story of the past slowly and leisurely, without any hurry and indeed quite calm.

"Including Junior Brother Huang, there are four of us who survived. Junior Brother Daofeng was injured and died not long after he died. Junior Brother Daochun also passed away two years ago. Only Daoling and I are left. We have to burn incense and paper for them every day. Sigh..."

One sigh says it all.

Chen Yang felt the atmosphere was a bit heavy.

The tablets in the Hall of Constellations should be those of those who died in the disaster that year.

"Later, when Yang Dongguan was arrested and was shooting at Phoenix Mountain, I personally went to see him. This beast showed no repentance until his death, and was still laughing wildly..."

When it came to this, Jiang Daotang began to show some emotion.

"Do you know what he was looking for in the temple at that time?" Chen Yang asked.

Jiang Daotang shook his head. "I don't know. We don't know how the government examined it at that time. Not long after that, the Luoshan Zhao family contributed part of the funds, and the government also allocated some funds to rebuild the Erlang Temple. This is the Erlang Temple you see now..."

Chen Yang probably already had some idea of ​​the context of this matter in his mind.

Before this, he heard that Yang Dongguan killed someone under Erlang Temple because of the weapon in Yang Jian's hand in the temple.

That is the Mo Dao in Chen Yang's hand.

Chen Yang didn't think there was anything wrong with it before, but now he thinks, how could a mere Mo Dao made of fine iron be favored by someone like Yang Dongguan.

It seems more reasonable to say that Yang Dongguan had a violent temper, was moody, and killed people for fun without any reason.

Now it seems that Yang Dongguan came to Erlang Temple for other purposes.

In Jiang Daotang's words, he was looking for something in the temple's library when he was discovered. He became furious and killed people to silence them, and even set fire to the bodies to destroy the evidence.

As for the Mo Dao, it was just a weapon he picked up during the fight.

As to what he was looking for, there is no way to verify it.

The temple housed many Buddhist, Taoist and witchcraft classics, but they were all burned in that incident.

So, could the matter of the Demon-Suppressing Cave also be related to Yang Dongguan?

After the incident, Emei sent people to deal with it and closed the mountain for several months to completely eliminate the hidden dangers in the Demon-Suppressing Cave.

Jiang Daotang didn't know the existence of the stone egg, but Shi Ling was certain that there was such a stone egg.

All I can say is that Jiang Daotang has never been into the Demon-Suppressing Cave, so he knows nothing.

After all, he is just an ordinary person.

In other words, there are probably two places where the stone eggs could have gone.

One was that he was taken away by Yang Dongguan that year.

Second, he was brought back to Emei when Emei sent people to seal off the mountain and clear the area.

……

First of all, this second possibility is not realistic.

Because he had been to Emei some time ago, he had consulted Yuanlong about this matter, and also asked Wang Yuanchao to help him look up some information from that year.

There is no record of any stone pebbles.

Yuanlong and the others would not lie to him.

After this analysis.

Either Shi Ling was wrong, or this stone egg might have really been taken away by Yang Dongguan.

But, is there such a stone egg among Yang Dongguan’s relics?

It's been so long, how can we verify it? How can we investigate it?

It seems that the only thing I can do is ask Qinzhou.

Chen Yang pinched his chin and combed it carefully again.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration came to my mind.

Apparently, there is another possibility.

Could it be that he was taken away by someone from the Tong family?
In order to prevent Shi Ling's revenge, the Tong family came to Erlang Mountain and took away the mountain-guarding stele.

In other words, at that time, the mountain-guarding stele was still on Erlang Mountain.

Would the stone egg still be in Erlang Mountain at that time?

Was he taken away by the Tong family?

If you think about it carefully, it is not impossible.

Shi Ling had said before that someone from the Tong family had told her about the stone egg and had also promised to help her find it.

How did the Tong family know about the existence of the stone eggs?
Since Tong Xin's great-grandfather deliberately set up a trap to bind Shi Ling to the Tong family, then why would he sincerely help Shi Ling find the stone egg?

Help her find the stone eggs so that she can obtain a stone body, sever the cause and effect, and escape from the control of the Tong family?

He would be a fool to do that.

If Chen Yang was Tong Xin's great-grandfather, not only would he not help Shi Ling find the stone egg, he would not allow anyone else the opportunity to help Shi Ling find it.

Then, it would be safest to hold this stone egg in your hand.

Not only can it prevent the stone spirit from finding it, but also when necessary, this stone egg can be used as a means to threaten the stone spirit.

Thinking about it this way, Chen Yang felt more and more that there was a high probability that this stone egg was in the hands of the Tong family.

……

In any case, wait for Tong Xin to wake up and tell him about the situation. If possible, let him go back to Tong's house and check it out himself first.

At present, there are very few clues. After all, fifty years have passed since 1974. Half a century is such a long time that many things can no longer be explained clearly.

In the yard, Chen Yang chatted with Jiang Daotang for a while.

Jiang Daotang was old, and Chen Yang did not dare to disturb his rest too much, so he ended the topic and went back to their rooms.

……

(End of this chapter)