"I really don't want to fight you at this time."
…
The endless golden crow fire seemed to be able to burn the heaven and the earth, pouring around Kong Xuan.
A little helplessness flashed across Kong Xuan's face.
The moment the Golden Crow's flames covered his body, his whole body seemed to turn into a piece of paper, twisting and deforming under the burning of the Golden Crow's flames.
The Wuhuang figurine sitting high on the huge chariot had an indifferent expression as usual. He moved his right hand slightly, and the nine golden crows spit out a blazing flame and wrapped around the paper figure Kong Xuan.
"It seems I have to take action." Kong Xuan's voice sounded. Suddenly, his whole body returned to its original shape. He took a big breath and the nine flames wrapped around him rushed into his mouth in an instant.
A flash of surprise flashed in the eyes of Emperor Wu's figurine, and his eyes flashed with light as he scanned Kong Xuan's body carefully.
"Your hole is not just that of a Confucian sage, right?" Emperor Wu's figurine asked slowly, and he saw some clues.
Kong Xuan had absorbed all the nine rays of flames and stood surrounded by nine three-legged golden crows. With a smile on his face as usual, he raised his eyes and looked at the figurines of Emperor Wu, "His Majesty the Emperor Wu's eyes are like torches. I admire you so much."
"You shouldn't be a young man." The Emperor Wu said.
Kong Xuan smiled and said: "Compared with His Majesty the Emperor Wu, I may not even be considered a young man."
"The peacock is not a mythical beast." The Wuhuang figurines stared at Kong Xuan, "The path you choose will not get you far."
Kong Xuan laughed.
Ordinary peacocks are indeed not considered mythical beasts.
But is 'Kong Xuan' an ordinary peacock?
"Your Majesty Emperor Wu, you must have never heard of what a five-color peacock is..." Kong Xuan showed a proud look on his face. This was the first time he showed such a look in front of the human figurines of Emperor Wu.
"Five-color peacock?" Wu Huang's human figurine said calmly, "Even a phoenix can only serve as a mount in front of me."
Kong Xuan smiled noncommittally and said: "Since you can clearly see some of my abilities, you should know that it is not easy for you to kill me.
How about you looking for your person and me looking for my silkworm tortoise, each of them has nothing to do with each other? "
"Run away." The Wuhuang Terracotta Warriors said with a very firm attitude.
If you want to go to the place where Cao Chunqiu is, the silkworm turtle is the key. How can he allow Kong Xuan to continue to covet the silkworm turtle?
Kong Xuan felt helpless and nodded, "That's as you wish."
As soon as the words fell, Kong Xuan seemed to turn into a ray of light and ran away.
The nine-headed, three-legged golden crows surrounding him didn't even react at all.
"It's so close to the end of the world, but it's still thousands of miles away in an instant..." Wu Huang's human figurines whispered, recalling the scene at the moment when Kong Xuan left.
He was sure that at that moment, there was no fluctuation in the surrounding space.
The power that Kong Xuan exploded when he left was the purest speed.
This means that Kong Xuan's body is extremely strong.
"This world is becoming more and more interesting." The Wu Emperor human figurine whispered.
The nine-headed, three-legged golden crow returned to the huge chariot and pulled the chariot towards the top of the Yin Cliff.
Yin Cliff refers to this entire cliff. Opposite this cliff is the endless East China Sea.
The huge chariot has fallen to the ground, and nine flaming three-legged golden crows stand on the edge of the cliff, like nine suns, blazing indescribably.
The human figurines of Emperor Wu were sitting on the chariot, looking at the vast East China Sea, with a flash of nostalgia in their eyes.
He has traveled all over the world, so he has naturally been here.
Now, he can no longer remember his mentality at that time. He only vaguely remembers that when he came here, he had conquered the world of Haizhou.
However, he ultimately did not include Haizhou into Daqian's territory.
The dean didn't want to.
"I have lived in Zhongzhou for a long time, and my understanding of this world is still too little." Emperor Wu whispered, and he discovered a shortcoming in himself.
I haven't really explored this world.
In the days when he was still the Emperor of Daqian, he rode horses across the rivers and lakes, mostly from various sects. He never really paid attention to the famous mountains, rivers and various magical places in these nineteen states.
Even if he climbed a certain high mountain, it was to worship heaven and ancestors, and to demonstrate his civil and martial arts as the emperor of Daqian.
Now, when I visit the Yin Cliff again, I feel a lot of emotion at the Wuhuang Terracotta Warriors.
Of course, he had leisurely emotions because he was waiting for someone.
…
The other side.
Kong Xuan, who had fled thousands of miles away from the cliff, stopped with a smile.
In front of him, there was a tavern. In the tavern, there was an old man with white hair, pouring wine.
Oh my god.
"You are here now. You must have lost to the Emperor Wu's puppet. How can you still laugh?" Lao Tianji poured a glass of wine for Kong Xuan, who had lived here for more than three months.
"Losing?" Kong Xuan sat at the dinner table, picked up the wine glass, and said leisurely, "If there is no war, how can we talk about losing?"
"Oh?" Lao Tianji was surprised and said in a deep voice, "Judging from the information investigated by Tianji Pavilion, Emperor Wu was decisive in killing. It is extremely unusual for you to appear over Yin Cliff. With his temperament, you should never be left alone. That’s it.”
Kong Xuan smiled and said: "Then you have to be able to kill me."
Lao Tianji looked at Kong Xuan.
Kong Xuan took a sip of his drink and said, "He has seen through some of my situation and should be confident in taking me down. But he has other things to do, and he probably needs to conserve his strength.
With just a slight move, I left. "
"What do you think of his strength?" Lao Tianji stared at Kong Xuan and asked. The answer to this question was crucial to Lao Tianji Pavilion.
Kong Xuan muttered: "Sweeping thousands of armies is a piece of cake."
Lao Tianji looked indifferently.
The so-called sweeping an army, many hidden masters can do it.
Even Lao Tianji himself is confident that he can fight against thousands of troops by himself.
Kong Xuan got a glass of wine for himself and said meaningfully: "What I mean by sweeping the army is the Black Dragon Cavalry secretly cultivated by your Tianji Pavilion."
Lao Tianji frowned and said slowly: "Be more specific."
"As far as I know, Tianji Pavilion, not counting me, if he wants to destroy it, he can just flip his hand." Kong Xuan said bluntly.
Lao Tianji narrowed his eyes slightly and asked, "How does it compare with you?"
Kong Xuan laughed and did not answer, but said: "He and Suzaku Academy basically cannot coexist. I suggest that you postpone your plan to conquer the Central Plains until the conflict breaks out between the Daqian royal family and Suzaku Academy.
When the time comes, you, Tianji Pavilion, can completely reap the benefits. "
"The arrow is on the string, and it is beyond my control." Lao Tianji said softly, "Beiliang and Manzhou are fine, but Florida is determined to return to China. They are impatient."
"Have you ever thought about why Buddhism is so anxious?" Kong Xuan looked at Lao Tianji and asked suddenly.
Lao Tianji frowned and said slowly: "I have been away from home for too long. Now that I have the opportunity to go home, of course I will be more eager to do so."
"You're not so naive..." Kong Xuan whispered, as if a heavenly eye had opened between his eyebrows, and a five-color light suddenly burst out and poured into Lao Tianji's ancestral aperture between his eyebrows.
After a while.
The five-color light returned to the center of Kong Xuan's eyebrows.
Lao Tianji's expression changed, and he murmured in disbelief: "I have always been under the control of Buddhism?"
"It's normal." Kong Xuan said leisurely, "In some ways, the dean has actually been protecting you.
When he was here, Buddhism's hand stopped in Florida.
After he left, the world was in chaos.
You think you are the person behind the scenes, but you don’t know that you are just a pawn of some people. "
At the end, Kong Xuan felt a little emotional.
Lao Tianji is Lao Tianji after all, he is scheming and cunning, and he quickly calmed down.
"So, Buddhism must be so urgent, there must be ulterior motives." Lao Tianji looked at Kong Xuan, "Have you noticed something?"
Kong Xuan said softly: "There is a real old monster hidden in Buddhism, and behind the old monster, there may be another old monster. I guess no one knows who is the ultimate old monster."
"The ultimate old monster?" Old Tianji inexplicably remembered some of the conversations between Chu Xiu and Qimiao during the recruitment ceremony of Tianji Academy, and couldn't calm down for a moment.
"Buddhism has a long tradition, and it is normal to have one or two ultimate old monsters." Lao Tianji calmed down and asked in a deep voice, "I need to know, in your eyes, what do these ultimate old monsters in Buddhism want to do?"
Kong Xuan did not say it directly, but took a sip of wine first and said: "This side of heaven and earth, the foundation of Buddhism, has two things."
"What two?" Lao Tianji asked.
"Linghe Temple." Kong Xuan said.
Lao Tianji frowned and said hesitantly: "Ling, do you mean the spirit of the ancestral orifice?"
Kong Xuan shook his head, "All the spirits that permeate the heaven and earth."
Lao Tianji's eyes moved slightly, and he didn't quite understand. His spiritual practice was pretty good in the Central Plains, but compared with those old monsters in Florida or Kong Xuan in front of him, it was nothing. A big witch.
"Tian refers to the temple?" Lao Tianji asked.
Kong Xuan shook his head again and said: "Temple incense is indeed essential to Buddhism, but it is not the foundation of Buddhism in this world."
"That is?" Lao Tianji asked in a muffled voice, a little speechless in his heart. Why couldn't this man answer it clearly in one go?
Kong Xuan said: "The ancestral temple."
"Ancestral temple?" Lao Tianji frowned deeply, "What does ancestral temple mean?"
"The Temple of the Ancestral Aperture." Kong Xuan said leisurely.
"The Temple of the Ancestral Aperture..." Lao Tianji was startled and hesitated, "Is it like the kind of place passed down by the Liman Clan where spirits can exist in jade sculptures?"
"Different paths lead to the same destination, you can think of it this way." Kong Xuan muttered, "However, as Buddhism is studied more deeply, you should know that there are many Buddha spirits living in some pagodas in Florida, and those pagodas belong to the ancestral temples. one type."
Lao Tianji vaguely understood, and said slowly: "If the spirit of the ancestral orifice exists in the ancestral temple, can it lead to immortality?"
He knew that Lanke Temple, Leiyin Temple, and Daguangming Temple, the three major Buddhist holy places in Florida, all have Buddhist spirits that have survived for hundreds or even more than a thousand years.
Most of the bodies of these Buddha spirits have decayed and condensed into Buddhist relics. However, their Buddha spirits exist in various special pagodas and halls, as if they can live forever.
Kong Xuan said softly: "One of the teachings of Buddhism is that if monks abide by the Buddhist precepts throughout their lives, they can go to the Western Paradise after passing away.
From a certain perspective, this is not a simple doctrine. If Buddhism really establishes a spiritual Western world in a certain world, it will be able to attract the spirits of monks. "
Lao Tianji thought for a moment and shook his head, "It's possible for one person to live forever; it's also possible for a hundred people to live forever; it's basically impossible for people in a country to live forever."
"Why?" Kong Xuan was curious.
Lao Tianji said: "You can imagine that if there is a Tathagata Buddha who establishes a kingdom of spirits, how big will this kingdom of spirits need to be able to accommodate all his followers?
Even if it can be accommodated, what happens after the monks pass away and their souls return to this so-called Buddhist kingdom? Is it necessary to chant sutras and meditate day after day?
If that's the case, what's the point of immortality? "
Kong Xuan laughed.
Lao Tianji was startled and stared at Kong Xuan, his eyes flashing with a hint of horror.
"You are right." Kong Xuan smiled, "It is difficult for people in a country to live forever."
Lao Tianji said slowly: "Eternal life will never be a person of the same country."
Kong Xuan poured a glass of wine for Lao Tianji and said, "Keep talking."
"In the kingdom of spirits, all spirits belong to Buddha." Lao Tianji stared at the wine glass on the table and said, "The so-called Western Paradise is actually just the world of Buddha alone.
The Buddha can naturally transform into thousands of clones. Perhaps as you just said, the Buddha is the ultimate old monster hiding in the back. The so-called other Buddhas seem to have self-awareness, but in fact they are all under the control of the Buddha..."
The more he spoke, the more frightened Lao Tianji's face became, and the more horrified he felt in his heart.
"Just listening to it is so creepy." Kong Xuan said with emotion.
"Really, does Buddha exist?" Lao Tianji stared at Kong Xuan. If Buddha really exists, then what he just said is very likely happening.
Kong Xuan drank a glass of wine and shrugged his shoulders, "Who knows? What I can vaguely guess is that there must be someone in the Buddhist sect in this world who is anxious and wants to collect Linghe Temple through war."
"War..." Lao Tianji couldn't calm down.
War will naturally kill people.
When a person dies, his spirit is dispersed.
Spirit is one of the two things Buddhism needs.
"He's here." Kong Xuan suddenly said, looking to the east.
Lao Tianji was startled, then looked to the east and said softly: "You don't want to communicate with him?"
At this time, 'he' could only be referring to Chu Xiu.
Kong Xuan Youyou said: "I have already communicated with his senior brother."
Lao Tianji said no more.
…
Haizhou, Yinya.
A billowing white cloud floated over Yin Cliff.
Duanmu Yaoyao, Pei Yiren, and Su Yuheng have all returned to Chu Xiu's internal space ahead of schedule. They know that Chu Xiu may need to fight the legendary Emperor Wu next, and if they stay outside, they will only become a drag.
Originally, Pei Yiren didn't like other women entering this body space.
This time, she took the initiative to invite Su Yuheng.
This is not because she has become generous, but she has never seen anyone's luck be so bad.
She felt that if Su Yuheng continued to follow Chu Xiu, the game would probably be over.
The white clouds rolled around and quickly merged into Chu Xiu's body.
He stood in the air, looking down at the Wuhuang Terracotta Warriors from a high position.
The Emperor Wu's eyes were indifferent.
"Before you came, I met a young man."
"oh?"
"His name is Kong Xuan, and he is better than you."
"who?"
