Now that they decided to leave, the two of them stopped delaying, and without any big fanfare to notify others, they packed some luggage and left Shaliu Town quietly.
Bu Xiaotian and Mo Li left Shaliu Town and did not go directly to Xuanzhou where Yuxu Gate was located. Instead, they headed southeast.
Before returning to Yuxumen, Bu Xiaotian has one more thing to do.
Although Bu Xiaotian lost his innate Qi, causing the Qi source in his body to almost collapse. After only two months of recuperation, although he could not return to the original state, the Qi source in his body had stabilized and would not collapse due to the use of Zhen Qi.
In fact, after cultivating the "Daoxuan Jing" to the fourth level, when practicing, you no longer simply cultivate your own Qi as before, but more often rely on your spiritual thoughts to perceive the changes in the world and condense your soul, which is called "Soul condensation".
Whether you are exercising Taoist magical powers or flying with a sword, you need to use your own spiritual thoughts to communicate with the power of heaven and earth. Therefore, the boundary between "refining Qi" and "concentrating the mind" is the watershed in the path of cultivating Taoism.
The foundation of Taoism is the connection between oneself and heaven and earth. If we can use this connection to continuously understand the natural way of heaven and earth, and in turn strengthen this connection, and finally reach the state of unity between heaven and man, we can live as long as heaven and earth. Achieve true immortality!
The deeper the practice reaches, the closer the connection with heaven and earth becomes, and the reliance on oneself will become smaller and smaller. Just like that day outside Sizhou City, the ancient green forest was able to condense out of thin air with the power of heaven and earth. He created an incarnation and drove away the demon sect with one blow.
In the cave under the Broken Mountain, Bu Xiaotian had condensed the three souls into the soul with the help of his understanding of the carvings on the stone wall.
Condensing the soul means that Bu Xiaotian has officially crossed the threshold of the fifth level of "Dao Xuan Jing" and reached the realm of "refining the gods".
Refining the spirit means to use the power of heaven and earth to temper the spirit.
The Yuan Shen is not stable when it first condenses. It needs to be tempered with the help of the power of heaven and earth. The Yuan Shen is constantly solidified so that it can withstand the erosion of various forces in the world when the Yuan Shen leaves the body and will not easily dissipate or be annihilated. consciousness.
Only in this way can the soul be free between heaven and earth and free from the shackles of the physical body in a short period of time.
This is what Bu Xiaotian wants to do at this time. Now that his spirit has just begun, he only needs to use a small amount of his own true energy as a guide to mobilize the power of heaven and earth to wield the sword.
If you really count it, the impact of the loss of innate energy on him, except for his longevity, is very small.
So, two days later, Bu Xiaotian and Mo Li had left the desert and arrived at the desert in the southeast of the desert.
According to Xiao Xi, the person suspected of being the evil monk is somewhere in this desert.
This desert has a better environment than the deserts in the northwest, but it is not as good as other places. You can occasionally see some scattered trees and weeds.
However, at this time of year, only the bare branches of the trees were left, and the grass was withered and yellow. There was a sense of desolation and desolation everywhere.
After the two entered the desert, they didn't look around for any door. They briefly identified the direction before moving forward again.
The scope of the desert was far smaller than that of the desert. After flying for only half a day, the two of them saw a small town on the edge of the desert from a distance.
This is the place they are looking for.
Although not as wide as the desert, it stretches like a ribbon around the entire southeastern boundary of the desert.
Most people who want to enter the desert often find a place to rest before entering the desert. Over the years, dozens of small and large towns have naturally formed, and this is one of them.
You can see a road extending from the north of the town in the distance, leading to the desert.
If it weren't for Xiao Xi's words, it would be difficult for anyone to believe that an evil monk who was incompatible with both good and evil would hide in such a town on the edge of the desert.
After all, there are a lot of people coming and going here, so it is easy for Xingzang to be exposed.
But if you think about it the other way around, it seems that it is precisely because of this that no one will search here carefully.
Bu Xiaotian and Mo Li found a deserted place to stay in the distance, and walked into the town like two people returning from a desert adventure.
Although it is said to be a town, it is actually not that big, with a radius no larger than a mathematical calculation. Most of them are shops selling things unique to the desert and items needed to enter the desert, and the rest are mostly inns and restaurants.
The two entered the town and walked around casually, seemingly looking for a place to stay. They didn't seem to attract anyone's attention.
After walking for a while, the two of them seemed a little hungry, so they stopped in front of a small restaurant and walked in.
After entering the restaurant, under the guidance of the waiter, the two of them chose a table by the window and sat down.
Sitting here, they could see the street below and several shops opposite through the open windows.
After casually ordering a few drinks and dishes, Bu Xiaotian and Mo Li chatted while eating, and then settled down in the restaurant.
Tonight was supposed to be a full moon night, but dark clouds covered the bright moon, making the town look pitch black late at night.
When almost everyone was asleep, a window facing the street slowly opened silently, and then closed silently, without disturbing anyone.
After a moment, a figure that almost blended into the surrounding darkness climbed over the high courtyard wall and landed in a courtyard facing the street.
Although it was late at night, this place was different from other places. The only bedroom in the yard was still lit, as if its owner had not yet fallen asleep.
The man climbed into the courtyard, restrained his movements more and more, and blended silently into the shadows in the corner of the courtyard wall.
At this time, even if someone stared at the corner where the person was, they could not find the person's existence at all.
But a moment later, a man's voice suddenly came from the room:
"Now that we're here, there's no need to hide anymore."
The people in the room had already anticipated the late-night uninvited guest in the yard!
The sound in the room fell for a while, but there was no movement in the yard. It seemed that the man had left.
For a long time, the person's voice from before came to mind again in the room:
"Aren't you still willing to show up?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a "whoosh" sound was heard, and a small object no more than the size of a fingertip flew out of the gap in the window and shot towards the corner of the wall.
But looking at the direction it was going, it was not the place where the black shadow disappeared before, but another dark corner near the bedroom.
The thing did not hit the courtyard wall in the end, but was held by the hand that had been stretching out from the shadows.
At this time, the man seemed to be sure that he had been discovered, so he simply stopped hiding, stepped out of the shadows, and went straight to the door of the bedroom.
The man opened his palm, and with the light leaking from the crack in the door, he could see clearly that the thing in his hand was a white chess piece.
"You are a guest, so don't stand outside, come in!"
Hearing the words, the man hesitated for a moment, and finally reached out to hold the door. With a slight push, the door opened from the inside.
At the same time as the door opened, the light in the room spilled out from the door, illuminating the figure of the person outside the door.
I saw the person outside the door wearing black clothes and a black robe, with a black scarf covering his face, covering the area below his eyes.
While the figure was illuminated by the light, the people outside the door could also clearly see the situation inside the room.
The furnishings in the house were very simple, just a bed, a table, and a chair.
At this time, there was a person sitting on the only chair, facing the door.
The man was sitting on a chair. He was wearing coarse linen clothes and his appearance was ordinary. He looked like an ordinary shop owner.
The man in black walked into the door, closed it behind his back, and then asked:
"Who are you?"
The person on the chair just watched the movements of the man in black quietly, without any trace of panic on his face. With this extraordinary calmness alone, this person could not be just a simple store owner.
After the man in black asked, an inexplicable smile appeared on the man's face and he asked:
"Since you came here late at night, you should know my identity, so why bother asking?"
The man in black had his face covered, so it was difficult to see clearly his expression at this time, but looking at the flash of confusion in his eyes, it was obvious that he knew the identity of the person sitting on the chair:
"You are indeed an evil monk!"
"hehe."
Hearing what the man in black said, the man on the chair smiled softly and said:
"Yes, many people did call me that in the past, but no one has called me that for a long time now."
"I never imagined that the evil monk who was once one of the twelve guardians of the Black Flame Palace would hide in such a small town and live such a shabby life."
The evil monk didn't seem to hear the mockery in the man in black's words. He still had a smile on his face and said:
"Haha, things in the world are never static, just like no one would have thought that the evil monk who was so frightened back then was just a young novice monk in an ordinary temple a long time ago. The past is past, come and find me , shouldn’t it be to tell me these nonsense, right?”
After hearing what the evil monk said, the man in black stopped beating around the bush and said:
"I came to you to ask you something, to see something that happened twelve years ago."
The evil monk seemed to be aroused by the words of the man in black and asked:
"What happened twelve years ago? What happened?"
The man in black looked at the evil monk intently, and after a while he spoke, word by word:
"Twelve years ago, June 22, five hundred miles north of Yuanzhou City!"
After hearing these short dozen words, the evil monk's eyes suddenly flashed, and the look on his face seemed a little surprised. He looked at the man in black briefly and guessed:
"Are you the survivor from that village?"
"That's right!"
Seeing the man in black admitting, the evil monk seemed to understand his purpose and said slowly:
"Then it seems that you are here to seek revenge? No wonder you have such a strong murderous intention! When the people involved in this matter are almost dead, that's why you found me? Since you are here to seek revenge, then let's do it !”
After saying that, the evil monk stood up, stretched out his hand, and there was a scimitar in his hand. It was obvious that he did not intend to sit still and wait for death.
The man in black also summoned a sword, raised the tip of the sword and pointed it at the evil monk, saying:
"You don't seem very surprised?"
The evil monk said:
"Is there any surprise? Things in the world are inherently cyclical. When we massacred that village, we thought that this day might be possible. But we didn't expect that a child who was only five or six years old back then would have already died in just ten years. With such cultivation."
After hearing the evil monk's words, the man in black felt as if something exploded in his head.
He actually knew it!
How could he know? !
The evil monk seemed to see Hei Yiren's shock, but he did not take the opportunity to take action. Instead, he said:
"Since we dared to massacre the village back then, we were determined not to leave any consequences. Before we started, we had already found out everything about the village. We had eliminated everyone who had anything to do with the villagers, except A child of five or six years old.
Although you have been very calm since you entered the room, the murderous intention and hatred in you cannot be completely concealed no matter what. Even if you cover your appearance, when you asked that question, I already Guessed your identity.
You are still too young after all, Bu Xiaotian. "
Although the man in black was already prepared when he heard the evil monk's previous words, the moment he was actually called by the evil monk's name, there was still a shocking wave in his heart.
That's right, the man in black is Bu Xiaotian.
During the day, when he and Mo Li were eating at the restaurant across the street, they had been secretly searching for the place where the evil monk Xiao Xi said was hiding. It was easy to find the place Xiao Xi described, but how could he look at that ordinary place? The little boss didn't look like the notorious evil monk, so Qi Ye came to investigate.
But he didn't expect that from the moment he entered the yard, everything developed beyond his expectations.
Now Bu Xiaotian is in a state of confusion and has almost forgotten his original purpose of finding the evil monk.
Just when Bu Xiaotian's mind was in chaos, the evil monk's voice rang again:
"After that night, we searched almost every place within a hundred miles, but couldn't find any trace of you. Now it seems that you do have someone protecting you."
Bu Xiaotian asked subconsciously:
"Why?"
He didn't know what he was asking, why they took so much trouble to find him, or why there were experts protecting him.
The evil monk did not show off and replied:
"Because our main purpose back then was to capture you mother and son, and the people in those villages were actually implicated by you."
"What?"
The evil monk's words struck Bu Xiaotian's heart like thunder. He never expected that the massacre of the village was actually caused by their mother and son!
The evil monk ignored Bu Xiaotian and continued talking to himself:
"Although I only captured your mother back then, but..."
Xiaotian woke up suddenly after giving in to Xie Monk's words, like a bolt of lightning splitting the chaos in his heart. He suddenly looked at Xie Monk and interrupted his words:
"What did you say? My mother is still alive?!"
The evil monk looked at Bu Xiaotian in surprise and said in surprise:
"Don't you know yet? I thought you would already know this if you could find me, but it turns out you don't know anything?"
Bu Xiaotian was so excited that he no longer cared about what Monk Xie said and asked:
"Where is my mother?"
The evil monk did not answer, but the scimitar in his hand already glowed with a cold light:
"Okay, enough nonsense. If you want to know more, it depends on whether you can get out of here alive!"
"tell me!"
When Bu Xiaotian saw that Monk Xie refused to speak, he became furious and slashed at Monk Xie with his sword.
The two of them collided in the blink of an eye, and Bu Xiaotian used all his strength in this fight.
The evil monk was once one of the twelve guardians of the Black Flame Palace, and his cultivation was naturally not simple. Even if Bu Xiaotian tried his best, he still couldn't gain the slightest upper hand.
After dozens of rounds of fighting, the room was already crumbling, but the evil monk was still safe and sound.
Suddenly, Bu Xiaotian took a step back and pointed at the sky with his sword. Dark clouds rolled in the sky, and thunder exploded in them. But in an instant, an extremely thick thunder struck straight down from the thunder clouds!
The lightning cracked the already broken roof, suddenly bent on Bu Xiaotian's sword, and went straight towards the evil monk.
When Bu Xiaotian retreated, the evil monk rushed towards Bu Xiaotian, trying to interrupt him from casting a spell. However, when Bu Xiaotian used "Divine Weapon Control of Thunder", the protective aura around him was actually indestructible, preventing him from getting close. He could only stand there and wait patiently.
