Day and night tour

Chapter 338: Star-Blocking Power
The lotus throne was created by the Black Water Will using the skeletons of Heavenly Officials and Ghost Hands. Each leaf looked like colorful glazed tiles, and the surface was smoother than a mirror.

An ordinary mirror, when Zhou Xuan stimulated his perception to a strong state and carefully sensed it, he could find that after the mirror was magnified countless times, there were still some lines and pores.

As for those glazed lotuses, even if Zhou Xuan pushed his perception to the extreme, he could still only feel their smoothness.

The lotus throne was slowly rotating in the Dragon Prison Well. Venerable Qiye was holding a Bodhi branch with seven leaves in his hand, gazing at the star-blocking star in the distance.

"I haven't seen you for many years, but you are still as beautiful as you were back then."

Venerable Qiye bent down and bowed to Zhaxing.

"Qi Ye, you are not really dead?"

In the past two hundred years, Zha Xing often thought of Venerable Qi Ye in her dreams. Every time she thought of him, she would wake up from her dream with tears in her eyes.

When she saw Venerable Qiye again today, she thought she would be excited and ecstatic, and would go up to hug Qiye and tell him how much she had missed him for so many years.

But she unexpectedly discovered that she was actually very calm. Apart from being surprised that "Venerable Qiye" was still alive, she had no urge to run over and hug him, nor did she even have the urge to take a few steps closer to the Venerable. She just watched from a distance.

The day and night wandering gods of Mingjiang Prefecture and Pingshui Prefecture also turned around and devoted some of their energy to watching the words and actions of the Seven-leaf Venerable.
After all, this great venerable does not come from a good background.

Who among all those present didn't know that he was Zha Xing's old lover?
It is hard to tell whether he is an enemy or a friend.

Venerable Qiye did not take the hostility seriously. He just bowed to the crowd, bent his waist, and made a "please" gesture. Then everyone made way for him.

As Venerable Qiye walked forward in the passage, Li Chengfeng watched him carefully.

He is a divine scholar and has a natural desire to learn about mysterious subjects. Knowing the true appearance of Venerable Qiye is also one of his desires.

Looking closely, Li Chengfeng discovered that Venerable Qiye's face was very strange. With the midline of the face as the axis, the left and right sides had different expressions and demeanor.

The expression on the left face is like a gentle breeze, giving people a sense of warmth while retaining solemnity.

The expression on the right side of the face is very light, with a look of both charm and lust.

"My fellow Zen master, you represent love and desire in the world. Your warm face symbolizes true love in the world, and your charming face symbolizes the deep desire in the world.
If there is love without desire, there is joy without happiness. If there is desire without love, there is happiness without happiness. Only when love and desire are intertwined and blended perfectly can there be happiness in the world."

Zen Master Wuya forgot about making moves for a moment. He said to Zhou Xuan with emotion, "Since Junior Brother Huanxi saw Zhaxing two hundred years ago, he has revealed his true colors. He is happy and joyful, and the boundary between happiness and joy is no longer clear. It is enough to show that he likes that Zhaxing woman very much."

"You ancient Buddha's twenty-one meditations don't abstain from women?"

Zhou Xuan felt that among the twenty-one kinds of Zen, there was even joy Zen, which might be the path of emptiness of the four elements.

"Also quit."

Zen Master Wuya said: "Love gives rise to sorrow, love gives rise to fear. If you let go of love, you will have no sorrow and no fear. This is the true teaching of the ancient Buddha. Brother Huanxi, if you can understand how to let go of love, you can truly master Huanxi Zen and return to the twenty-first Zen fruition."

……

The leaves of the seven-leaf tree branch in the hands of the Seven-Leaf Venerable turned from emerald green to withered yellow, and were curled up by the wind.

"Ah Xing, I was very happy the first time I saw you. I liked your appearance and your behavior. If you hadn't come to Qiye Temple, I wouldn't be able to recite the sutras or meditate. You feel the same way about me.

That day, you came to see me late at night, and I was turning my prayer beads and reciting the Buddhist classic "The Wonderful Color King Seeking the Dharma"..."

"From love comes sorrow, from love comes fear. If one is free from love, there is neither sorrow nor fear..."

Zha Xing recited the contents of "The King of Miao Se Seeking Dharma" and recalled the night when the story took place.

"When I saw you that night, my rosary broke and the wooden beads scattered all over the floor. The two of us, a giant Buddha and a strange walker, ignored the shackles of the Supreme Will in the name of love, and then..."

"From now on, we will never have a peaceful life." Zha Xing said.

"Love brings worry. After we fell in love, the days of worry came. I am a Buddha, and you are a ghost. We should not love each other. We are always worried about the arrival of the Supreme Will to execute us. After worrying for a long time, we became afraid, and finally became evil because of fear."

Venerable Qiye said, "We have done too many wrong things to conceal our affairs. You have fallen into the six desires of Buddha and sealed him in the forbidden tower of Qiye Temple. My Buddha energy is declining. In order to prevent the decline of Buddha energy from being exposed, I can only force Junior Brother Zhujiu to be sealed in the forbidden tower as well."

“But in the end, we couldn’t escape. The will still found us and brought us to justice.”

Zha Xing said: "I hid in the human world with the help of my brother and the Zoroastrianism, but how did you... survive?"

“That’s exactly what I don’t understand.”

Venerable Qiye said: "Brother Wuya appeared and captured my remaining soul, and I fell into the cycle of reincarnation. Sometimes I wake up, and sometimes I fall into a long sleep, unable to be liberated.

So, I turned to Mr. Yanwang Gua for help, hoping that he would find the ancient Buddha to answer my confusion - if I made a big mistake and could not make amends, why not disperse me and put an end to it all.

If I have not committed a serious mistake, why do I have to sleep and wake up again in a daze? "

"It was not until my senior brother took the lead in re-attaining the fruition that I realized that the twenty-one dhyanas are the ancient Buddhas, and the ancient Buddhas are the twenty-one dhyanas."

Venerable Qiye said: "The twenty-one Zens are scattered in many spaces of the Well Country, just like the gods who have not yet fallen. Perhaps they have become practitioners, or perhaps they have become farmers or fishermen whose names are unknown. Only when the right opportunity comes will they have the opportunity to re-attain the fruit position."

"Has your chance come yet?"

"My chance has come when I meet you again."

Venerable Qiye gently swept away the dead leaves on the branch in his hand, pointed at the bare branch and said: "Axing, you and I have committed serious sins. We will each be a leaf and lock our souls in this branch to protect the human world for the next three hundred years, eliminate the many disasters in the future of the Well Country, and atone for our sins..."

"What happens next?"

"Then, we wait until our sins are redeemed, the leaves wither and fall, and we each enter reincarnation, and then we find love. Because of chance, we come together, grow old together, and live another life."

Venerable Qiye said very solemnly.

"I have no sin, and I have no sin to cleanse."

Zhaxing said.

"If he is innocent, why did he go to such great pains to get rid of the Six Desires so early? And why did he imprison his Junior Brother who cooks wine?" asked Venerable Qiye.

"Humph."

Zha Xing sneered, but couldn't answer.

"Over the years, you have been dissatisfied and, in order to vent your anger, you have supported kidnappers and evil gods, and have harmed all living beings. Now you want to commit murder and bloodbath the people of this city - Ah Xing, don't make the same mistake over and over again."

Venerable Qi Ye held the bare branches in both hands and walked towards Zha Xing, asking to become a twin leaf with her and atone for the sins of guarding the world. But when he walked in front of Zha Xing, the branch was knocked away by his delicate hands.

“Qi Ye, if you want to guard it, then go ahead. If you still have some feelings for me, then join me and kill all the wandering gods in Mingjiang Mansion. Avenge my brother and the two hundred years we have been hiding. Then face the Supreme Will…”

"Axing, don't make the same mistake again." Venerable Qiye bent down and picked up the branch, saying, "If you feel that the Supreme Will is wrong, you should face the Supreme Will in person, instead of letting the entire Mingjiang Prefecture use their deaths to endorse your revenge and venting of anger."

"People from Mingjiang Prefecture? What does their death have to do with me?"

“Then do you know how many Qiye and Zhaxing were burned to death in the fire in Mingjiang Mansion?” asked Venerable Qiye.

"What do you mean?" Zha Xing asked.

Venerable Qiye said: "After entering Xunlongxiang, the young master received three hexagrams in total. The last two came from the literary saint Xu Jingchuan and me, while his first hexagram came from two ordinary people...Xu Qing, a girl who runs a teahouse.

Xu Qing has a husband named Zhang Sheng. "

"Mr. Zhang is a miserable man. He guaranteed a business for his cousin, but his cousin ran away with the money. He accidentally took on a huge debt. At this time, he learned that Xu Qing had not had her period, and she was probably pregnant.

Zhang Sheng, who was in debt, knew that he could not afford to support the new baby, so he prayed to the Bodhisattva to bless Xu Qing not to get pregnant. He would work hard to make money, pay off his debts, have a child with his wife, and live a normal life again.
But it didn't go as planned, Xu Qing did get pregnant.

Zhang Sheng could only accept his fate. After the flood in Mingjiang River subsided, Mingxi District happened to recruit boatmen to retrieve corpses from the tiankeng. This was a life-or-death business, exchanging life for money.
For the future of Xu Qing and her unborn child, Zhang Sheng secretly became a boatman. Within three days, he went down to the water pit several times to retrieve the body. After going through countless risks, he earned a lot of money and returned home safely.
Xu Qing, with the advice of the young master, knew that Zhang Sheng was going home after making money, so she cooked a pot of milk tea before Zhang Sheng went home, and waited anxiously for her husband to come home.

Zhang Sheng was hungry, thirsty, and covered with wounds. His first thought was not to have a good meal or to find a doctor to treat his wounds... He went to Liu's shop, took out some of the money he earned as a boatman, and bought Xu Qing a gold bracelet. From then on, Zhang Sheng and Xu Qing became lovers and their lives were back on track, waiting for the birth of their baby..."

Venerable Qiye paused when he spoke here, then turned around and asked Zhexing: "Do you know where Zhang Sheng and Xu Qing are now?"

"They are just two mortals like ants. I have no right to care where they are."

"A huge fire burned down the teahouse, and Xu Qing was buried in the flames. When Zhang Sheng arrived, he saw only his wife's charred corpse, two lives lost in one. Without hesitation, he also jumped into the fire and died for love."

When Venerable Qiye spoke to this point, Zhaxing was finally moved. He stuck out his tongue lightly, but it was stuck by his dry lips.

"Ah Xing, tell the painter that you want to ask the Supreme Will - you just want to live an ordinary life with me and stay together for the rest of your life. You want to ask the Supreme Will, what's wrong with you?"

"But first of all, you don't have much love for me. When you saw me, you didn't even want to take a few steps towards me."

"Secondly, if you really want to question the Supreme Will in the name of love, you should first question whether you are doing the right thing... Zhang Sheng and Xu Qing, the love between them is much more sincere and passionate than the love between us, but they died in the sea of ​​fire because of you."

"In Mingjiang Prefecture, there are countless lovers who were burned to death by the fire you brought."

"Aren't these lovers just like Zha Xing and Qi Ye back then?"

Venerable Qiye finally turned around and handed the bare branch to Zhaxing: "Axing, come with me. You and I will each be a leaf, guarding the human world, atone for our sins, and enter reincarnation again..."

"No, maybe I just want to vent my anger, maybe I just don't want to accept it, or maybe... I don't want to be an ordinary person like an ant, with my life and death controlled by others."

Zha Xing finally faced himself honestly and no longer used "his past love with Qi Ye" as an excuse for massacre.

"Hey, if you don't come with me, then I have to make a choice."

Venerable Qiye sighed and said to Zhaxing.

“How do you make choices?”

Zha Xing's heart couldn't help but tighten, and she seemed to have a bad premonition.

Venerable Qiye pointed to the colorful lotus throne made of glazed glass and said, “I stood with Mingjiang Youshen and fought with you. I killed you and was free from my loved ones, without worries or fears… After you died, I ascended the lotus throne and re-attained the twenty-first level of Zen.”

"Well, let's make a break between us."

Zha Xing hardened his heart and spoke fiercely.

“Or, I can just let go of all the love, hatred, obsession, cause and effect, and right and wrong. Whoever inherits the Buddha’s energy will be the Happy Zen Master in the future. But that Zen Master can be anyone, but not me.”

When Zha Xing heard what Zen Master Qiye said, he felt inexplicably sad.

Unexpectedly, Master Qiye changed the subject and said, "But I have too deep feelings for you. If I ascend the lotus throne again with your life, even if I attain enlightenment, I will not feel at ease as a Zen master. I will also not be willing to leave the path and forget you from now on. Therefore, I will not choose either of these two options."

The Seven-Leaf Venerable grasped the branch, and his figure began to fade. On the bare branch, a bud sprouted, which developed into a leaf.

He murmured, "I, Qiye, am willing to protect the Well Country for the next five hundred years and atone for your sins. When your sins are cleansed and the fallen leaves return to their roots, I will re-enter the cycle of reincarnation, only hoping that I will not forget your appearance. No matter if I am a shepherd or a monk chanting sutras, when I turn the rosary or blow the bamboo flute, I can vaguely see your figure and pray for you.

In this life after life, there will always be someone who still remembers you!"

When he said this, his figure disappeared like a fluorescent spot, and the leaf growing on the branch was lush and green.

"Qi Ye, come back here!"

Zha Xing finally stopped being so hard-hearted and called out the name of the Seven-leaf Venerable. The branch that had grown leaves had already flown to the bank of the Ming River and had become an inconspicuous Bodhi tree by the river. The lotus throne that had been nurtured by the black water had also flown out on its own and had become seven drops of tears that had fallen onto the Bodhi tree above the Ming River...

……

"Seven leaves..."

Zha Xing finally came to her senses. She finally realized that Qi Ye had true love and loyalty to her - everyone in the world could despise Venerable Qi Ye, but she couldn't.

Love and hate became two twisted forces, causing a war between Zha Xing's conscience and his desires.

For a moment, Zha Xing really had the urge to "lay down the butcher knife", but soon the urge was dispelled because she was no longer the Zha Xing with "independent consciousness".

When she was in Jiuli Mansion, she joined Zoroastrianism. On the back of her neck, there was a Zoroastrian fire totem with flickering flames. She treated love as firewood and made her hatred burn even more violently.

"Nanaba is dead, my brother is dead... I want all of you to be buried with him."

Zha Xing's eyes became more and more ferocious, and she regarded everyone present as an object of venting her anger.

The fog got thicker.

"That's right. Heaven is ruthless and impartial. All small favors and small loves should be cut off. There are too many concerns in the mortal world. How can one attain the infinite path?"

Zhao Qingxiao was overjoyed when he saw that Zhaxing had "repented". He shook the tortoise shell and summoned back the corpses of the Qingtian Dao disciples who had died in the Mingjiang Prefecture's crackdown.

The severed limbs and corpses were stuffed onto the walls of the Dragon Prison Well.

"A disciple of the Qingtian Dao sacrificed his life for the Dao. The stars shined, and the primordial Yang left his body!"

Zhao Qingxiao shook the tortoise shell to the extreme, and the souls of the Qingtian Dao disciples flew around in the well like butterflies...

……

"Venerable Qiye has given up the Happy Zen position?"

Zhou Xuan looked at the small Bodhi tree by the Ming River and asked Zhao Wuya.

“It’s almost like giving up.”

Zen Master Wuya was not disappointed and said, "I've already said it before, Junior Brother likes Zhexing too much, and he is worthy of the name of Zen Master Huanxi."

"Hehe, how can you practice Zen with a mind that indulges in petty love?"

The Cliff Monk was very disdainful of the choice of Venerable Qiye, but at the same time he was relieved. If this Happy Zen Master really joined the battle, he would turn the situation around to a great extent and give up the throne, which would be the best for the outcome of this chess game.

Master Wuya smiled and said, "The monk is right. Master Qiye should not have practiced Zen! You people in Fo Country regard practicing Zen as the most important thing in the world, but people in Jing Country are different. People in Jing Country, there are too many things more important than practicing Zen.

Talking to your lover, playing chess with friends, drinking with your old father, and basking in the sun with your old mother are all more important than practicing Zen. Or, in other words, these are all Zen. "

"I don't understand." said the cliff monk.

"You understand, but you are just pretending not to understand." Zen Master Wuya said: "In life, everything big or small is a Zen opportunity."

The Seven-Leaf Venerable became a small Bodhi tree, unable to participate in the battle any more.
But Zhou Xuan's second Yama Gua was solved.

The four square copper coins were stacked up like last time, knocking Zhou Xuan's soul out of his body.

By the time Zhou Xuan's soul returned to his place, his "Dragon Seeking" and "Escape Armor" incense had burned out at the same time.

Zhou Xuan closed his eyes and concentrated.

The charm of the four copper coins did not dissipate this time. Each copper coin was dancing on the chessboard.

As it bounced, the copper coin of "True Lord Xigu" rushed into Zhou Xuan's secret realm, followed by "Beitai Fengshen", which also rushed into Zhou Xuan's secret realm in the same reckless manner...

"Can we still play this chess game?"

The cliff monk saw Zhou Xuan closing his eyes and urged him.

Zen Master Wuya smiled and said, "Don't worry, the incense of the great master has been burned out, and the promotion ceremony is about to begin."

"Going to be promoted?"

The cliff monk was getting anxious again. He was getting promoted while playing chess. Could it be that Zhou Xuan really wanted to join the game himself and go to Mingjiang Mansion to control the two dragons and fight against Zhaxing?
……

The chess situation eased temporarily with Zhou Xuan's promotion ceremony, but Zha Xing's power was extremely fierce.

With the blessing of Prison Dragon Well,

Zhaxing began to attack the day and night wandering gods in the well.

In terms of fighting power in the well, the strongest person is King Kiyama.

This old fox king, relying on the true teachings of the valley, transformed himself into a pool of water, temporarily covering everyone and helping them avoid Zhaxing's first few rounds of attacks.

Zha Xing was already filled with hatred, and he was fighting in the well, so his attack was extremely ferocious.

As for Xishanwang, the Taoist of inaction, a pool of water can dissolve all attacks.

But his opponent is Zhaxing.

The top alien in the world,
Especially since Zha Xing was well versed in hundreds of Taoist methods, he had already seen through King Xishan's flaws.

"King Xishan, you first practiced the dragon-hunting technique, and then practiced the escape armor technique. Even if you have mastered the true teachings of the valley, your yin is still strong and your yang is weak. You want to resolve all forces with inaction? Your yang is insufficient, so I will use the seven most powerful and yang stars to attack you and see how you resolve it."

Zha Xing opened his hands and divided himself into seven people.
One becomes seven, seven "covering stars" are divided into seven major constellations.

Zhao Qingxiao lit up seven southern stars on the map of the twenty-eight constellations at the mouth of the well to bless the star-covering star.

"The seven southern stars represent the sacred bird, the Vermillion Bird, whose blazing flames burn everything in the world."

"Well, Ghost, Willow, three stars are the leaders."

"Xing, Zhang, Yi, Zhen, the four stars are in charge."

"Seven stars come together to form my Vermillion Bird."

With the help of star power, Zhaxing transformed his body into a sacred Vermillion Bird wrapped in flames, and rushed towards King Xishan's Wuwei Creek.

At the beginning, the stream was gurgling and unmoving. Facing the most powerful force in the world, its inaction completely neutralized the force.

But as Zha Xing attacked for dozens of times in a row, the stream began to dry up. As the saying goes, the higher the mountain, the smaller the moon. The truth will be revealed when the water is clear.

When the stream dried up, the pebbles hidden beneath the water became visible.

There are no pebbles under the Wuwei Creek here, only the old body of King Xishan.

Many parts of the fox fur had been burned...

King Xishan knew that he could not withstand Zhaxing's attack if he just held on, so he could only use offense as defense.

He changed his posture again and said to the painter, Peng Sheng and others: "Wuwei has been broken, and I only have one trick left. With this trick, I will try my best to restrain Zhaxing."

He immediately turned into a ball of mist and merged into the well and the mist.

There are countless saints,

The surrounding fog is the power of King Xishan. This power utilizes the power of all things, the power in the well, the power in the fog, and the power that covers the stars.

To put it another way, King Xishan used Zhaxing's power to deal with Zhaxing himself.

Even if you are a demon with a power of ten thousand feet, my Taoism is always one foot higher than yours.

"Unfortunately, I am Zhaxing. You absorb the power of all things to deal with me. I will let you absorb enough."

Zhaxing hid his body in the fog and dispersed all his strength.

"The Seven Azure Dragons in the East and the Seven Black Tortoises in the North are both extremely yin stars. I want to see how much you can absorb."

Zhaxing no longer attacked, but just continued to absorb the most feminine power of the stars in the Inoue Star Map.

While she was absorbing, she was also absorbing on behalf of King Xishan.

However, Zhaxing can borrow the power of stars and absorb the power of stars. For her, it is nothing. But for King Xishan, the last battle of Prison Dragon Well had consumed a lot of energy. It was a bit difficult to fight again.

Plus the power of the stars, like a river hanging upside down in the sky, flowing endlessly.

After this absorption, the Yin energy in his body was too strong. Unfortunately, he could not find any trace of Zha Xing, so he could not randomly release the absorbed Yin energy. Otherwise, he would not hurt Zha Xing but the other wandering gods first.

"King Xishan, I will find him."

Peng Sheng wanted to help King Xishan to find Zhaxing, so he urged the ancestral tree to bloom with peach blossoms. In the vast well, every peach blossom became an eye of the delusion.
But Zhaxing is a White Walker who is good at hiding. His body blends with the fog and he moves through it as fast as lightning.

"I'm here to help you."

The musician chanted a protective spell, stretched his ribs, played the bone harp, activated the laws of music, and used the sound of the harp to echo back, coordinating with the peach blossoms that were like eyes, to look for signs of the star-covering.

As a result, just as the sound of the piano began to sound, Zhaxing suddenly appeared behind him and stepped on the musician's spine. At the tip of his toes, the star pattern totem of the Jishui leopard appeared.

Then he quickly disappeared.

The remaining Jishui leopard pattern suddenly solidified in the next few moments, and then exploded, blasting a huge hole in the musician's body.

The musician is an ancient member of the Pain School. No matter how big the blood pit is, his life will not be harmed, but the laws of music can no longer be driven.

Without the laws of music, Zha Xing continued to shuttle through the fog. After avoiding the entanglement of the Peach Blossom Tree, King Xishan's ability to absorb momentum had reached its limit.

Speaking of Zhaxing, as a former guardian of the human world, he has blocked the arrival of gods and captured powerful White Walkers, so he has extremely rich combat experience.

She absorbed a large amount of extremely yin energy and also had her own plans.

King Xishan was originally yin-dominant, and together with her, he absorbed a large amount of extremely yin energy - yin is cold, and too much yin will turn into ice.

With this characteristic, King Xishan's body was frozen because he absorbed the Yin Energy that he could not resolve. He became a real piece of old ice, unable to even blink. Now, even if Zhaxing showed up in a swagger, the frozen Fox King would not be able to do anything.

"King Xishan, I've said it before, you can't master the two volumes of the Valley True Transmission, so you may be able to practice the other nine sticks of incense, but if you meet me, Zhaxing, you will be sold out."

Zha Xing's voice suddenly rang out, and in the next moment, her figure appeared like lightning, one foot in front of King Xishan, and she swung her right arm and chopped towards King Xishan's chest.

King Xishan's body was frozen. If he was hit, his body would be torn into pieces...

(End of this chapter)