This is a small temple. Compared with the small fishing village that is full of mud mixed with thatch, this Hai Niangniang Temple has a rare white mud wall and black tiles.
Although it is just a simple house, it is extremely clean. The door of Hai Niang Niang Temple is wide open, and bursts of strong fragrance are exuding from inside, which is exactly the incense often used in temples.
It was evening, the sky was dark, and the Hai Niang Niang Temple was naturally deserted. Lingchu brought Qingkong to the front of the Hai Niangniang Temple and looked around the place curiously.
It was kept very clean, and it seemed that this Lady of the Sea was quite respected by the villagers in the fishing village here.
Walking in along the open door, this is a room with four open sides. The long yellow cloth that is found in most temples is hung on all sides of the house. Layers of candles are burning, illuminating this small temple. Get a clear picture.
There is a long table in the center, with four-season fruit offerings on the table, and an incense burner, which is overflowing with green incense.
Behind the long table is not the golden statue of an ordinary temple, but a painting. In front of the painting, there is a thin layer of gauze hanging. The gauze is not heavy, but it adds a certain hazy and fairy atmosphere to the portrait of the Sea Goddess, making it difficult for everyone who comes to worship to see clearly. The true face of the portrait.
Lingchu heard Ping Niang say that the small fishing village was too poor. It was like this hundreds of years ago and it will still be like this hundreds of years later. Therefore, this Hai Niang Niang and the villagers of the small fishing village could not build the so-called god statue.
I could only ask a passing scholar who was temporarily living in the village at that time to help draw such a so-called statue of the Goddess of the Sea. It was regarded as the statue of the Goddess of the Sea and placed behind the altar for the villagers of the small fishing village for generations to come. of worship.
Ping Niang has known the story of Hai Niangniang since she was a child, and has been to Hai Niangniang's temple countless times, but no one has seen the portrait of Hai Niangniang clearly. Even people who do not believe in gods and Buddhas are not willing to act recklessly in temples of gods and Buddhas. .
Therefore, the portrait of Hai Niangniang has been offered here for hundreds of years, but there are really not many people who have actually seen the portrait of Hai Niangniang.
Lingchu was a little curious about what this Lady of the Sea looked like. In Lingchu's opinion, this Lady of the Sea should be a monk, and she should also be a monk with strong cultivation.
According to Ping Niang's description, the huge tsunami that year was so overwhelming that it could overturn an island in the blink of an eye.
With such a huge tsunami, Lingchu asked herself, with her current cultivation level, if she had set up a formation, she would still be able to do something, but if she was just passing by, it would obviously be difficult to protect the island unscathed. of.
But in Ping Niang's story, the Sea Queen just happened to pass by and protected the entire island.
With such cultivation and ability, this Lady of the Sea is probably a Nascent Soul cultivator. Lingchu thought this way, and the curiosity in his heart became stronger and stronger.
For some reason, there was always a voice in Lingchu's heart, telling her to take a look and see what the Lady of the Sea looked like.
This is just an intuition, but Lingchu is somewhat certain about this intuition. I always feel that this Lady of the Sea is inextricably related to me.
As a Jindan monk, Lingchu did not despise his intuition at all. On the contrary, the higher his cultivation level, the more the monk believed in his intuition.
Holding the Taoist gift in hand, he bent down and bowed lightly to the portrait of Hai Niangniang hidden behind the gauze. Then, Lingchu gently fluttered his sleeves, and a gust of breeze passed by the Hai Niangniang Temple, blowing up the hanging gauze, revealing the portrait hidden in it.
The portrait hanging on the wall is a large portrait about two meters long and one meter wide. It seems that the portrait is exactly based on the person's height.
The painting on the portrait is very simple, just a figure. Wearing a purple robe, a long skirt that touches the floor, her eyebrows are graceful and moving, and she looks toward an unknown place in the distance with a dignified and indifferent expression. Her eyes seem to be looking at the person in front of her, but it seems that she is not seeing anything at all.
When the long purple dress came into view, Lingchu opened his eyes slightly, and a look of surprise gradually appeared in his eyes.
The past events that had been buried deep in his heart gradually emerged in Lingchu's mind. She has seen this face and this purple shirt before!
The Milky Way in the sky, the stars on the earth. Zi Ling, Taoist name Yunzhu. Lingchu suddenly remembered the cave he entered by mistake decades ago.
The owner there, named Lord Shangguang, was a Nascent Soul monk from a thousand years ago. Because of the Taoist monk's special physique, a series of tragedies occurred.
Two people who clearly love each other vow to never see each other again, separated by the sky. In order to find his Taoist companion Zi Ling, Lord Shangguang once traveled all over the Eastern Continent, but he always failed.
Later, Lingchu and several other monks inadvertently opened the teleportation circle and entered the burial place of True Lord Shangguang. They each made an oath and agreed to help True Lord Shangguang find information about him. Taoist couple, clues to Zi Ling.
At that time, Lingchu also obtained the "Book of Heaven's Secret Formation" from Zhenjun Shangguang. Lingchu originally thought that the hundred-year promise would be to find a needle in a haystack, but it would be in vain, but he did not expect that in such a situation, he would find clues about Zhenjun Shangguang's Taoist companion, Senior Zi Ling.
In the portrait in front of him, the woman wearing a purple shirt and a long skirt with graceful eyebrows was exactly the same as the woman in the portrait that Lingchu saw in Zhenjun Shangguang's cave.
However, in the portrait of Lord Shangguang, the woman in purple shirt has a bright smile, her graceful eyebrows are full of atmosphere, her eyes are smiling, and her lips are curved.
The purple-robed woman in the portrait of Lady Hai is still in front of her, her eyebrows are still graceful and graceful, but her eyes are cold and calm, and her lips are straight. She looks very dignified, but a little less popular.
Lingchu thought about the past events that Zhenjun Shangguang had said back then, and he could not understand the changes in this senior Zi Ling.
Anyone who has experienced what happened to Senior Zi Ling back then may not be able to let it go easily. Lingchu took out a shadow stone from his storage bracelet and recorded all the portraits in front of him.
This is a certificate. Lingchu couldn't help but think of all the things Ping Niang had mentioned about Hai Niang Niang.
Hundreds of years ago, counting the time, it was possible. If Senior Zi Ling successfully broke through to the Nascent Soul realm after breaking up with Lord Shangguang back then, he would have enjoyed a lifespan of more than a thousand years. If he went one step further, his lifespan would naturally be even longer.
Back then, Lord Shangguang traveled all over the Eastern Continent but could not find any trace of Senior Zi Ling. There was a reasonable explanation, that is, Senior Zi Ling was not in the Eastern Continent at all at that time.
But in the boundless sea!
