"puff……"
Unsurprisingly, the old woman thousands of miles away immediately spat out a mouthful of blood after Gui Yun was forcibly devoured.
Even the Yin Shen Gu in her hand fell completely silent as if it had lost its life.
"How can this be?"
As if she had aged more than ten years in an instant, the already senile old woman looked even more decadent after her failure in the battle.
After all, the Yin Shen Gu's backlash consumes the old woman's own essence, blood and longevity.
What's more important is that the old woman who sacrificed so much has not yet regained the remnant of her soul from Pei Wende.
This means that as long as Pei Wende wants to, he can use the remaining soul to perform witchcraft on the old woman.
After seeing Pei Wende's black dragon soul, the old woman did not doubt whether the other party knew similar magic.
In the old woman's mind at the moment, Pei Wende himself was a monster who had become a black python. He was just hiding in the crowd for some reason, and she was unlucky enough to bump into him.
If you think about it carefully, that guy's "true identity" is probably the evil dragon that was surrendered by Zen Master Lingyou.
The old woman knows very well that for those monsters hiding in human society, an enemy who knows his identity is undoubtedly the target that must be eradicated.
"You bastard! Take me away quickly!"
The old woman, who was scared out of her wits by her own guess, immediately shouted fiercely. She had no regard for whether she could escape Pei Wende's pursuit.
As for taking back the remaining soul?
The old woman didn't have any hope anymore.
"..."
However, the old woman who was eager to leave this place did not notice that the green-haired (forbidden word) zombie visibly hesitated after hearing the order, and there was a flash in his eyes that only living beings have spirituality.
The effectiveness of the green silk Gu, and even all the Gu refined by the old woman, began to fade as she weakened.
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"Little master?"
When everything returned to calm, the civet cat boss who had just sworn to keep it secret called out tentatively.
"I'm fine. A mere unformed ghost can't hurt me yet."
Hearing the civet boss's call, Pei Wende's distracted eyes instantly regained their energy, and his consciousness immediately returned to his body.
As for that evil dragon in the sky?
He is still fighting against the remaining evil spirits in the sky, and continues to devour the remaining ghost clouds and yin energy.
But without the control of the Yin Shen Gu and the old woman, the remaining evil spirits were simply unable to resist its devouring.
The battle ended with Bui Wende's overall victory.
However, Pei Wende saw his own shortcomings from this battle, that is, he could not truly achieve both distraction and dual-use.
If you want to fully exert the power of one of the physical body and the soul, you must concentrate your energy on one, and you cannot do both at the same time.
[However, this is not an unsolvable problem. 】
In Pei Wende's view, compared with the problems faced by fellow practitioners of Buddhism and Taoism, how to balance the physical body and the spiritual aspect is just a small problem worth mentioning.
The simplest method is undoubtedly to practice the three-headed and eight-armed Dharmakaya of Buddhism.
As long as you get used to the coexistence of multiple consciousnesses, how to use distraction will naturally come naturally.
If that doesn't work, the distraction and incarnation technique of the Incarnation lineage can also solve this problem.
Especially for the tyrannical and surly Black Dragon Soul, as long as too many souls are not split at once, it can be easily restored with its recovery ability.
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Tongqing Temple, in Zen Master Lingyou’s Zen room.
"It seems that junior brother has gained a lot this time!"
Although he had known for a long time that Pei Wende could cope with the old woman's witchcraft, Hui Ji was still beyond Huiji's expectation to break through the Yin Shen Gu so easily.
Whether it's forging iron Gu or a different kind of soul...
It seems that my junior brother has been unable to use normal logic to think and judge from the beginning, just like a normal person would never think of using evil ghosts to sharpen his soul.
"Yes! The swaddled baby nineteen years ago has finally grown up."
He also didn't expect Pei Wende to be able to deal with the Yin Shen Gu so easily. Zen Master Lingyou didn't know whether he sighed with relief or regret.
"Huiji, I know your ambition, so I won't stop you from going down the mountain."
"But I just want you to know that no matter what you encounter at the foot of the mountain, no matter how big a storm you will cause in the future, Tongqing Temple in Weishan will be your final destination."
When he said this, Zen Master Lingyou, who finally stopped thinking about Zen, sighed again.
"Since you have decided to go down the mountain, I think it is not far away from the time when your junior brother will go down the mountain."
"Old man, I've been struggling for most of my life, and now I can finally spend my old age in peace, without having to worry about you two evil disciples anymore."
Hearing this, Hui Ji, who was still astonished just now, paused in silence and then laughed.
"Haha, old man, your wish to spend your old age peacefully may not be easy to achieve."
While speaking, Huiji turned to look at Butcher Zhang and his son who were sleeping beside him, with a teasing look on his face.
"Don't forget, junior brother just gave you some trouble?"
Unlike Pei Wende, who had never been educated by orthodox practitioners, Huiji knew the meaning of "passing on the Dharma and teaching the Tao" among practitioners.
In ordinary industries, there are sayings that "the law is not passed down to six ears", "the law is not passed down lightly", and "the law is kept in reserve".
Naturally, similar rules are inevitable among practitioners, and this has even become a default unspoken rule among some practitioners.
This is not just because the practitioners are too powerful and can easily affect the order of human society.
Moreover, once the Dharma is spread, it means more responsibility, more responsibility to guide people to do good.
Compared with ordinary people, practitioners with extraordinary power are destined to be more easily ostracized by secular people and more likely to have some extreme ideas.
How to make these ordinary people who have just entered the path of spiritual practice clearly understand their own strength and responsibility is what each faction attaches most importance to, even those heretics are not included.
Especially for the Buddhist and Taoist families who are strict in accepting disciples, from the moment Pei Wende taught Zhang Chusheng the Dharma, he could already be regarded as the other party's master, and he was responsible for preventing Zhang Chusheng from going astray.
However, considering that Zen Master Lingyou did not stop Pei Wende at the time, nor did he explain to him the stakes of his move.
Hui Ji felt that perhaps Zen Master Lingyou himself had the idea of accepting another disciple, so Pei Wende's behavior at that time can also be regarded as his default "accepting a disciple on behalf of the master."
Of course, just as Pei Wende thought.
Whether Zhang Chusheng can successfully become the last disciple of Zen Master Lingyou depends on his own wishes and those of Butcher Zhang.
Because Zen Master Lingyou never forces his disciples who have unresolved secular ties to become a monk.
Otherwise, based on the relationship between him and Pei Wende, Pei Wende would no longer be as simple as a lay disciple of Buddhism.
And the identity of "elder brother" probably wouldn't fall to him until Huiji went up the mountain.
——Buddha helps those who are destined to cross over, but does not force him to cross those who have no destiny.
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