The tranquil lake and the carcasses of huge fish in the water always give people a sense of panic like a dream.
Jing Yue and the eldest lady couldn't help but speed up, wanting to leave the lake as soon as possible.
At least before dark.
Circles of ripples were left on the calm lake surface. The sunset was about to set, and the two finally saw the shore.
There is the same tower on the shore, with a stone beast carved on the top, echoing the previous tower.
The sky was completely dark, but there were no stars or moon tonight, but because of the reflection from the snow and ice, it was not completely dark.
Behind the stone tower is a frozen glacier, which is darker than the surrounding snowfield.
Jing Yue and the eldest lady exhaled a breath of cold air at the same time and began to slide along the glacier.
After a stick of incense, they saw the mountain gate of Zanghai Temple.
It was a building that looked like a covered bridge across the glacier. It had windows and doors, so it should be habitable.
Jing Yue and the eldest lady looked at each other, and then they jumped out of the window with ease.
The place is very dilapidated, and the window paper is full of holes without needing to be poked, making it easy for peeping.
Jing Yue's eyes quickly scanned inside, but found no trace of anyone, so he pushed gently with his hand and slid in along the window, followed closely by the eldest lady.
After carefully checking the dim environment and confirming that no trace of human beings was found, the two men breathed a sigh of relief.
This land has indeed been abandoned for a long time, even the floor is in tatters, and the glacier below can even be seen from the larger hole.
The firewood was pushed into the house, which was covered with dust, and there was always a smell of spices in the house.
This should be a traditional Tibetan incense, with a very rich flavor.
Jing Yue came to the other side of the house and opened the window. From here, he could see the glacier spreading upward.
There is an outline of a building in the distance, which should be the main hall of Zanghai Temple.
It's just that you can clearly feel that there is deathly silence here, and you can't feel any life.
Perhaps as recorded in the archives, the monks at Zanghai Temple seemed to have disappeared overnight and were never seen again.
To Jing Yue and the eldest lady, this statement seemed strange and gloomy, like a story with horror undertones.
But this result may be easier for them. After all, they can get the Hidden Sea Flower without having to face these monks?
But at this moment, the eldest lady suddenly pointed in a certain direction. Jing Yue followed her gaze and found that there seemed to be a little firelight high on the buildings.
The fire was very small, probably similar to an oil lamp, and it was even smaller at such a distance. If there were no stars or moon tonight, and the sky and earth were dark, it would be impossible to detect it.
Since there are lights, does that mean there are people?
Could it be that the monks of Zanghai Temple no longer walk around the world because they practice behind closed doors here?
At this time, Jing Yue and the eldest lady's moods became complicated again.
It has to be said that whether there is anyone here or not, it will put pressure on them.
The two sat there to rest for a while and decided to go deeper.
If there is someone inside, night is the best time to explore.
The open window moved and closed again, and the two of them landed on the glacier like two fallen leaves and continued to move forward.
At this time, the two of them had already stepped lightly, and their feet seemed to have flesh pads, and they landed silently.
The entire Zanghai Temple was built from bottom to top along the slope formed by the glacier. It looks like a small mountain city.
The architecture of the temple is quite different from that in the hinterland of Qiguo. It has a very local Tibetan style. Both the materials and the shape are a bit rough.
The glacier winding up formed an icefall here, which looked quite spectacular.
Jing Yue and the eldest lady moved up the ice waterfall with nimble movements.
After that, they suddenly stopped on the upper edge of the icefall.
This is close to Zanghai Temple
The core area is already very close.
On the right bank above the icefall is a forest of towers.
Tallinn was equally solemn in the night, but it seemed a bit like a person standing there, looking a bit eerie.
The snow showed signs of melting here, gradually revealing the earthy background.
Because both of them are "water spirits", you can understand the reason just by touching the surface of the earth with your hands.
There is a hot spring down here.
The temperature of the hot spring water melted a lot of the surrounding snow.
Ahead is a tall palace, which should be the main hall of Zanghai Temple.
The attic behind the main hall was where they saw candles burning before.
At this time, the two of them could see the lamp like a bean in the attic more clearly.
Jing Yue and the eldest lady walked towards the main hall in the dark.
There are many prayer flags hanging outside the main hall, which are already decaying. The plaque in the main hall has also been removed, and the writing on it is also blurred, but the word "Tsering" can be vaguely seen.
According to the records, the monks of Zanghai Temple have always believed in Tsering Bodhisattva.
In the dim environment, the extremely tall statue in the main hall was vaguely visible.
Looking from here, you can see that it is a human silhouette with lotus feet, which should be the statue of "Tsering Bodhisattva".
But what attracted the attention of Jing Yue and the eldest lady even more was the outline next to the statue.
This outline is no smaller than the statue of Tsering Bodhisattva, and even seems to overwhelm it.
It's hard to describe the shape of the statue next to it. It always looks like a bird with many long necks and heads.
In the dim environment, it was impossible to see the specific appearance of the statue, but it gave people a huge sense of fear.
The unknown is the scariest thing.
The two sensed this fear, but accepted it.
Especially Jingyue, he accepted it quickly.
Because he has experienced many bizarre incidents, and he is barely a master, which is what a strong person has.
After passing through the main hall, a stone path leads to the lighted attic.
Jing Yue and the eldest lady lurked close to each other without making any movement. Even the most agile cat walking here would probably not be able to perform better than them.
The oil lamp is on the third floor of the attic. From here, you can see that the attic is relatively well preserved, and it looks like someone is living in it and has been maintaining it.
What can be seen more intuitively is that under the candlelight, the window paper reflects two figures, who appear to be sitting cross-legged and silently reciting the Heart Sutra.
Jing Yue asked the eldest lady to meet him below, and he jumped up to the attic.
The attic window was not completely closed. Jing Yue walked around half a circle and found an open window.
At this moment, the clothes he was wearing were almost integrated with the yellowed window paper, and he looked in along the edge.
This look made him more certain that there was indeed someone here.
Two monks were sitting there with their backs to him, muttering something in their mouths, their voices low but audible.
Jing Yue did not dare to go deeper for a while, but stayed there, wanting to observe more.
As a result, at this moment, the monk on the left suddenly let out a "hehe" laugh.
Jing Yue knew that he had been exposed.
So he stopped hiding and went straight through the window into the attic.
The two monks still had their backs to him, but the shoulders of the one who just laughed were arched a lot.
Jing Yue knew that he was the first to be rude, so he performed a Buddhist salute and said, "My late night visit disturbed the two masters' practice."
At this time, the two monks turned their heads at the same time, and the next moment, Jing Yue almost stopped breathing.
I saw that the skin on the faces of the two monks had completely ulcerated, and branches stretched out from the ulcers, with bright flowers growing on the branches.
Scenes like this reminded Jing Yue of a bad memory he had as a child in his previous life, when he accidentally swallowed watermelon seeds when eating watermelon, so the adults at home teased him.
He said that in a few days, watermelon vines would grow from his body and watermelons would grow.
It could be said to be one of Jingyue's childhood nightmares. The scene he imagined was similar to the two monks in front of him. The watermelon vines penetrated the eyes and facial skin and hung there.
It's just that he imagined it was a watermelon, and the two monks looked like a flower tree.
After they saw Jingyue, they laughed "hehe" at the same time.
This kind of laughter, coupled with their expressions, looked particularly terrifying in the flickering candlelight.
Naturally, such a monk cannot be called a human being.
Almost at the same time, the two monks came to arrest him. Jing Yue was so frightened that he smashed out the spear in his hand with a buzzing sound.
With two snaps, the two monks' heads exploded like watermelons, and their bodies fell to the ground.
Jing Yue didn't have time to breathe and quickly stepped back.
Because the bodies of the two headless monks who fell on the ground suddenly twitched violently, as if there were some tendons twisting around their necks, pulling on their bodies.
Jingyue gradually saw clearly that the thing should be a branch or something, protruding from their necks, with petals soaked in blood stuck to it.
With two clicks, two soft blood-stained branches hit the ground, and the two headless monks stood up again.
The branches twisting like a snake emerged from the neck, swaying, facing Jingyue, but maybe because of the lack of eyes, the alignment was not accurate.
Jing Yue once again chose to strike first, making a sliding shovel and kicking out his left and right legs at the same time.
There was only a sound of bone and flesh shattering. The legs of the two monks were cut off at the same time, and their entire bodies spun in the air like tops.
The next moment, the Hunyuan Ice in Jing Yue's body turned, and his hands were immediately covered with ice, as if he were wearing a pair of frost gloves.
With two snaps, Jing Yue accurately grabbed the vines at the necks of the two people. After that, the Tai Chi energy flowed and the two bodies collided with each other with a bang.
Because of the overwhelming force, the surrounding air became distorted.
Jing Yue stepped on the two monks, whose bodies were almost stuck together, and then pulled them out suddenly, like pulling out a carrot.
Two bloody tree-like things were pulled out and then slammed to the floor.
I saw them twisting and turning, and one of them had a heart and lungs hanging on it, which looked particularly ferocious and bloody.
But after struggling for a while, these two strange little tree-like things stopped moving.
The eldest lady had already rushed over, holding a small white flower in her hand and watching this scene nervously.
This was indeed a big mental shock to her who had rarely been exposed to such things.
Jing Yue took a breath, the frost gloves on his hands melted away, his expression was calm, but actually he was a little panicked in his heart.
This thing is indeed evil, as if it is parasitic in the bodies of these two monks.
After confirming that this thing was indeed dead, Jing Yue began to check the things in the attic.
The eldest lady followed him step by step, looking a little nervous, which was in sharp contrast to him who was standing like a corpse checking things.
There is no way, the eldest lady has never been very courageous, but she suddenly became bold several times, all because of Jing Yue.
The attic was very simple. Apart from two futons, a stone table and an oil lamp, there was only one scroll.
The scriptures contained characters native to Tibet, but there were also Chinese characters that Jing Yue recognized.
He looked carefully and found that these Tibetan characters should be for watching Chinese characters.
This is a sutra from the "Luojia Dharma Interpretation". Jing Yue is not good at the sutra, but Jing Yue can probably translate it to some extent.
That is, if you recite this sutra silently and take "purified water" regularly, you will have the opportunity to see Tsering Bodhisattva in your dreams and obtain the magic of immortality.
It even records that Tsering Bodhisattva was in the middle of a mirror-like lake in his dream, and at the same time a bird demon with seventeen heads appeared.
These seventeen harpies represent seventeen kinds of disasters, and only Tsering Bodhisattva can subdue them.
Jing Yue couldn't help but think of the statue in the main hall before, and murmured to himself: "Is that
Is that the seventeen-headed harpy next to the statue of Tsering Bodhisattva? "
The overwhelming feeling resurfaced in Jing Yue's consciousness again, which led him to have a bold and slightly horrifying idea, that is, it was not the Bodhisattva who subdued the harpy, but the harpy who subdued the Bodhisattva and enslaved the Bodhisattva's body. Image, gain popularity in the world.
This idea is undoubtedly absurd, but Jing Yue has this illusion.
And what these two monks have been studying here is the Immortality Sutra, so that it has become like this?
For a moment, Jing Yue felt that everything around him became unreal, as if he was in a nightmare with real details but absurdity.
"flower."
The next moment, the eldest lady suddenly said.
Jing Yue looked down and saw that the two bloody trees that he had just pulled out and knocked to death were suddenly filled with delicate flowers.
Seeing these flowers, Jing Yue's expression became more solemn.
He quickly took out the file in his arms and compared it, and found that the flower looked very similar to the Tibetan Sea Flower he was looking for.
"Is this a Tibetan sea flower?"
Jing Yue quickly denied this view, because although the flowers looked similar, their colors were different.
The Tibetan sea flower is red, but this flower is blue, a color that cannot be dyed red by blood.
However, this change really surprised Jing Yue. He couldn't help but think of the "pure water" written in the sutra just now. This pure water seemed not to be clean. And these two monks became like this, right? It is also inseparable from the pure water.
Are they "polluted" by clean water?
Now, are there any other contaminated monks in this temple?
At this moment, Jing Yue suddenly touched the eldest lady's shoulder and looked up. Read the book
Something was stepping on the roof tiles of the attic above their heads, moving gently, looking very strange in the silent night.
