"This sound?"
On the other side, Pei Wende had just stepped out of the temple gate when he heard the roar coming from the main hall.
"Is it the tiger's roar?"
Pei Wende, who had experienced the "Mulian Temple Incident", immediately realized who the owner of the voice was.
With a sudden change in his expression, he gave up his original plan of going down the mountain to buy medicine without hesitation, turned around and ran in the direction of Zen Master Lingyou.
It is true that Zen Master Lingyou is a Buddhist great man. When he was young, he indeed had the power to subdue dragons and tigers.
However, Zen Master Lingyou is now old and frail. Coupled with the hard work and energy he has spent on Pei Wende over the years, he has long lost his former glory.
At least in Pei Wende's eyes, this guy who had been hiding his injuries was just an old and stubborn old man.
"Master!!"
So when Pei Wende ran to the door of the main hall in three steps and two steps at a time, he was so anxious that he did not directly call Zen Master Lingyou the old monk this time.
"you……"
Different from the picture in Pei Wende's imagination, Zen Master Lingyou was just twirling his beads with a calm expression at this moment, as if he didn't hear the tiger roar just now.
Monk Hui Ji, who appeared in the main hall first, held the unconscious Li Yanran in a "princess hug" with a rare embarrassment on his face.
"...are you okay?"
It was only then that Pei Wende, who was belatedly aware of the situation, finished a whole sentence.
"Okay, it looks like nothing is wrong with you."
Quietly glancing at Monk Huiji next to him, Pei Wende always felt that if he said one more inappropriate word, this lawless monk would definitely push him to the ground and beat him up.
"Did I come at the wrong time? How about Master and I give you some private space?"
His eyes rolled unconsciously, and Pei Wende, who had always been very courageous, suddenly felt like touching the tiger's butt, and he got a look from Monk Huiji as he wished.
"Ahem, I'm joking..."
Pei Wende, who had decisively given up, did not dare to continue teasing Hui Ji, and instead turned his attention to Zen Master Lingyou who was watching all this with interest.
"What happened just now?"
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After a while, Pei Wende finally learned what happened to Li Yanran from Zen Master Lingyou, despite Hui Ji's glances from time to time.
"No wonder she looks so ugly."
Nodding suddenly, Pei Wende was thinking of Li Yanran's pale face when he first saw her.
"It turns out that she was infected and possessed by the evil spirit of evil spirits."
Think about Zhangjia Village three months ago. The entire village became seriously ill just by being infected by the evil energy of the mandrill.
If Pei Wende hadn't taken action in time and used pure Yang blood and the Ksitigarbha Sutra to exorcise the evil spirits for them, they might have suffered more than a serious illness.
Adult strong men may be able to carry it through with their own strength, but children and women in the village will definitely not be able to carry it through.
Even so, Zhangjiacun still has the evil spirit of the mandrill, which will definitely not be dissipated in a short time.
It is conceivable how much pressure Li Yanran, who was infected by the more sinister ghost energy, endured during this period.
"But what happened to that tiger roar just now?"
Speaking of this, Pei Wende suddenly remembered the roar of a tiger that sounded like a tiger.
"Is the tiger not dead yet?"
Although Pei Wende did not witness the death of the tiger with his own eyes, judging from all the existing signs of what happened at Mulian Temple, the eye-catching white-fronted giant tiger was already dead.
In this regard, monks Huiji and Yuande who were both at Mulian Temple at that time were able to prove that there was no mistaking the situation at all.
"The tiger is indeed dead. This is an undoubted fact."
The person who spoke was not Zen Master Lingyou, but Hui Ji who had been standing by without interrupting.
"But that doesn't mean that all the 'things' that symbolize the tiger's existence have disappeared."
The tiger is the king of the mountains and forests, a monster who has been practicing for countless years...
Hui Ji never thought that its influence would disappear immediately after death, just like he would not naively think that Li Yanran being possessed by ghost energy was just a coincidence.
"The tiger left his inner elixir to his 'daughter'."
As soon as Hui Ji said these words, the entire hall fell into silence.
Pei Wende was surprised, but Zen Master Lingyou remained silent as expected, quietly waiting for Huiji's further explanation.
"Wait a minute, was it because of Tiger's inner elixir that you asked me to escort Li Yanran home with you?"
Suddenly his eyes widened, and Pei Wende realized that Hui Ji's original reason for escorting Li Yanran home was not as simple as he said.
"You have discovered the existence of the inner alchemy since then!"
It was obviously a question sentence, but Pei Wende adopted an affirmative tone here.
"I only had some vague suspicion at the time, but I wasn't sure whether this guess was true."
The inner elixir is something only possessed by accomplished monsters, and its importance is equivalent to the Taoist golden elixir and the Buddhist golden body.
Not only is its nature private, it is also almost impossible for outsiders to exploit it.
Therefore, Huiji couldn't believe it at first. As a mortal, Li Yanran could actually inherit the tiger's inner elixir without causing any negative impact on herself.
"That's because the tiger washed away all the demonic energy in its inner elixir before it died..."
"There is only the purest vitality left in that inner elixir, so it can be accepted by mortals with mortal bodies."
Zen Master Lingyou spoke at the right moment. He was well-informed and could see the mystery at a glance.
However, the process of forcibly removing all the demonic energy from his inner elixir, leaving only the vitality that best suited Li Yanran's physique, was not as easy as Zen Master Lingyou said.
If nothing else, the pain the tiger endured during this process was tantamount to forcibly taking out his own heart and then mincing it into pieces to make a portion of food.
"Thanks to this purest vitality, this girl can persevere until now."
Having said this, even Zen Master Lingyou, who had seen a lot of human nature and sophistication, couldn't help but cast an astonished look at Li Yanran again.
"I'm a little curious now, who asked this girl to come to Tongqing Temple."
"If she comes just a few days late, even if she is supported by the pure vitality, her body will collapse because she cannot bear the conflict between the two 'qi's."
Hearing what Zen Master Lingyou said, Pei Wende and Huiji looked at each other, and a name appeared in their minds.
"Monk Yuande!"
"It's Ende from Mulian Temple!"
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