When the rain stops, the flames go out.
The mirage above the clouds finally dispersed the clouds and transformed into a woman in blue.
"..."
Bathed in the cunning moonlight, Xiao Qing stared at the mountains and forests below without speaking for a long time, until Pei Wende's figure appeared out of thin air behind him.
"You seem to be getting more and more irritable lately?"
There was no complaint or anger, there was only a deep sense of worry in Pei Wende's words.
Since returning from Chang'an, Pei Wende has noticed changes in Xiaoqing - she seems to be developing in a direction that he doesn't want to think about.
The drinking was okay at first, but Pei Wende only thought that the other party was angry with him for becoming a monk.
After all, Pei Wende is not an idiot, and he can still feel Xiaoqing's friendship for him.
Therefore, after understanding this, in order to prevent Xiaoqing's random thoughts, Pei Wende always restrained himself from wearing monk's robes and reciting Buddhist sutras. He even stopped wearing the relic beads for a long time.
And everything he did was just to try to maintain the state he was in before becoming a monk, so that Xiaoqing would not feel too strange.
However, as time passed, Pei Wende was shocked to find that things seemed different from what he had imagined.
In addition to being a little annoyed at the beginning, Xiaoqing just used the excuse of "drinking" to stay out of his sight.
No longer staying in the back mountain of Tongqing Temple for a long time, but wandering throughout Tanzhou. This is the ultimate goal of Xiaoqing's long-term alcoholism.
Until today, Pei Wende finally saw another side of Xiaoqing that he had never wanted him to see.
"Is there something wrong with your practice?"
A little surprised, but also a little surprised...
I saw Pei Wende looking at the almost burned mountain forest at his feet, looking at the flesh and blood mixed with rain, and asked in a slightly heavy tone.
If it were Xiao Qing a year ago, she might have killed these monsters that invaded her territory, but she would never use such a cruel and rough method.
Killing is just a way to solve problems for Xiaoqing, and she does not feel any pleasure about it.
But in the battle just now, Xiao Qing clearly felt like he was immersed in killing, just like those demons who have fallen into the devil's path and pursue the pleasure of killing.
"When did it start?"
Glancing at Xiaoqing, who had been silent for a long time, Pei Wende asked solemnly again.
"About a year ago!"
This time, Xiaoqing finally didn't remain silent anymore.
"After returning from Chang'an, I found that my temper was getting more and more out of control."
As a great demon who has been practicing for hundreds of years, Xiao Qing is the kind of being who is indifferent and even cold-blooded by nature.
Not to mention having an uncontrollable temper, she rarely even loses her temper, most of the time she just ignores it.
"Because of me?"
Never thought that something like this would happen to Xiao Qing, Pei Wende asked with some self-blame.
If he had known that his ordination would lead to such a result, Pei Wende might have weighed more carefully whether it was worth it.
"It's not all because of you. Most of the reason is that there's something wrong with my own practice."
The corner of her mouth curled slightly, but Xiaoqing didn't show too much sadness at her changes.
For Xiao Qing, who was born and raised, there is actually not much difference between indifference and bloodthirsty. They are just manifestations of his extreme emotions.
The reason why Xiaoqing didn't want Pei Wende to notice the changes in her body was because she knew that Pei Wende would definitely not be able to accept a cruel and murderous monster Taoist monk.
In fact, before today, Xiaoqing was quite successful in concealing her own changes.
Using alcohol to suppress his violent and murderous emotions, Xiaoqing can barely maintain his original image in front of Pei Wende most of the time.
It's a pity that the short-lived light of the Buddha's bones and these ungrateful monsters made Xiaoqing's efforts this year in vain.
The short-lived Buddha's light greatly stimulated Xiao Qing's demonic nature, and the monsters that came later aroused Xiao Qing's anger.
The combination of two and two resulted in the violent and murderous red dragon that Pei Wende saw.
"Do you need me to do anything?"
Instead of asking idiotic questions like "Why didn't you tell me?", Pei Wende chose to stand behind Xiaoqing silently to support her, just like every time in the past.
If one day, Xiao Qing really becomes a demon who is forever immersed in the pleasure of killing.
Perhaps all Pei Wende can do is seal it and stay with her forever, right?
As for killing Xiao Qing completely?
This option was not among Pei Wende's choices from the beginning.
Although Pei Wende has the philosophy and vision of doing good and accumulating virtue, he is far from the level of annihilating relatives for the sake of justice.
[Perhaps, this is also the biggest difference between Fa Hai and me? 】
Such thoughts flashed through his mind, and Pei Wende, who still cannot call himself "Fahai" to this day, thought of this.
Good and evil relations are often inferior to the difference between closeness and distance. This is the difference between ordinary people and Buddhas.
"What do I have to do?"
"Besides this, don't you have any other ideas?"
Xiaoqing couldn't help but glance at Pei Wende. Xiaoqing seemed a little surprised by the calmness shown by the other party.
Compared with Xiaoqing's expected outcome of "extermination of family ties" or "severance of friendship and righteousness", Pei Wende's performance at this moment was really a bit too calm.
"What ideas can I have?"
Shrugging his shoulders slightly, Pei Wende asked angrily.
"Do you want me to seal you on the spot? Or do we sever our ties?"
"The road to spiritual practice is long and long. Who hasn't encountered one or two inner demons?"
"Even when I was going through the tribulation, I was almost invaded by inner demons and turned into a heretic demon."
"What's more, you are still walking the 'Path of Alchemy Transformation' that ordinary people have never walked before. It is completely normal to encounter some problems."
The "Nine Turns of the Golden Pill" method, regarded as the highest method by Taoist practitioners, is a way of practice summed up by countless Taoist ancestors with their blood and lives.
Even if Xiaoqing has the help of the inherited spiritual light of the "Gui Burial Lineage", it is not that simple to find his own path on this basis.
"Inner demon? You never told me about this?"
However, what is different from Pei Wende's imagination is that Xiaoqing seems to be more concerned about the "inner demons" mentioned in the dialogue.
Before today, Xiao Qing only knew that Pei Wende also practiced the "Way of Demon Buddha", and the other party never mentioned that he also encountered a demon when he was overcoming the tribulation.
"Well, it's not important..."
Suddenly realizing that he had let something slip, Pei Wende immediately blinked his eyes, then forcibly changed the subject.
"Compared to this, you haven't said what's wrong with you?"
"Although I'm not a terrestrial god like the Yangshen on the other side, it's better for the two of us to figure it out together than for you to keep groping quietly on your own!"
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