Time flies, six years fly by.
In the blink of an eye, eleven years have passed since Chen Sheng came to this point in time, and eleven years have passed since Chen Sheng and Xuanzang met in the Pure Land Temple.
The little novice monk back then was already a 25-year-old Buddhist master.
The time Chen Sheng spent in this era of the late Sui Dynasty and the early Tang Dynasty has almost reached half of the life he has experienced.
However, in order to completely solve the problem of monster survival and ensure the stability of past time and space, this is also a helpless choice and decision.
The way he unleashed his power at the beginning was so poorly thought out that it really allowed Abyss's conspiracy of delaying time to be implemented.
The year is now 626 AD.
Six years have passed since Chen Sheng and Xuanzang met Bai Jingjing.
During these six years, Xuanzang not only traveled to many places in Sichuan and Shu.
After the Tang Dynasty was completely unified, they followed their master Chen Sheng to various parts of the country. The two of them and the monster walked along like this, aimlessly looking for the monster's life.
After all, the monsters sent by the abyss this time are good at hiding. Even if the monsters are beaten to death, if they are still dormant and do not parasitize a certain creature to cause changes, the fluctuations they cause will still be difficult to detect.
Therefore, Xuanzang and Bai Jingjing could only follow their master Chen Sheng aimlessly around, and their route was probably all the way east along the Yangtze River.
Along the way, Xuanzang worshiped Buddhas and entered temples whenever he saw them. He learned Buddhist theories from various temples along the way and gradually became a true Buddhist master.
In the early Tang Dynasty, when war gradually turned into peace, Xuanzang became more and more famous and gained a prestigious title of eminent monk.
However, in this journey of ups and downs, some friction is naturally inevitable.
Just like this moment.
There was a crackdown on a mountaintop.
This is the lair of bandits who bully men and women and do all kinds of evil. When Xuanzang and his party passed by here, they learned about the existence of this group of bandits from the mouths of the villagers.
Although this place is close to the feet of the Emperor Chang'an, due to many reasons, the nearby government did not send troops to deal with the situation here.
Then, Master Chen Sheng stayed in the village and was entertained by the simple villagers.
Xuanzang and Bai Jingjing, on the other hand, rushed directly to the bandit's lair.
In these years, they have dealt with these evil people in troubled times ruthlessly.
Among them, those bandits are the main ones.
Because the girl who was Bai Jingjing's predecessor died in the hands of bandits, the combination of two people and one demon was particularly concerned about the bandits.
At this moment, huge movement resounded across the sky.
However, Xuanzang, who was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, used his spiritual power to suppress him.
And the picture beneath the sound.
It was an eight-meter-tall ape, slapping its chest and looking up to the sky, howling loudly, and directly clenched a handful of bandits in its hand into a pulp.
The wild boar, which was about the same size, ran rampant in the village and destroyed most of the buildings, covering many bandits in the dust.
Some bandits tried to jump into a pool not far away to avoid these monsters, but the shadows that appeared in the water at some point swallowed them up.
Some bandits rushed towards the door, but the young girl guarding the door just waved her hand and turned these people into skeletons.
The bandits here suddenly encountered a crisis they had never imagined, and were unable to fight back.
Soon, everything calmed down.
Bai Jingjing waved her hand and walked through every place, causing all the buildings and corpses in those places to decay into ashes, ensuring that the bandit's lair was completely lifeless and that no one would discover the mystery of the two of them.
Immediately, she walked towards Xuanzang who was sitting on the ground not far away with his eyes closed and concentrating.
"Xuan Zang, are you silently overcoming the murderous evil you created?"
Bai Jingjing covered her mouth and asked with a chuckle.
"Wukong! Wukong! Wukong! Wukong!"
Xuanzang did not answer immediately, but gently called the master to give the three monsters names.
The next moment, the released ape demon, wild boar demon, and catfish demon instantly turned into three streams of light and flew into the wooden box around Xuanzang's waist.
Xuanzang also opened his eyes.
"Xiao Bai, I have been with your senior brother for six years. Do you think I am that kind of person?"
"At this moment, I only hope that these people will never be reincarnated."
Xuanzang stood up and silently said words that ordinary Buddhist disciples could not say.
However, this deviant reply did not surprise Bai Jingjing in any way.
Because she has experienced a lot in the past six years, she also understands her senior brother very well.
The fleshy senior brother was much more ruthless than the monster like her.
Previously, there was a bastard high-ranking official who dared to steal all the relief food. Xuanzang rushed into the official residence and punched him to death directly at the door. This act was definitely not what a Buddhist would do.
Therefore, Bai Jingjing was not surprised at all by any of Xuanzang's actions and words.
Perhaps he was too influenced by his master. Xuanzang was just like his master's contradictory combination of cynicism and calmness. He was also a contradictory combination.
Xuanzang is both a saint and a demon.
Facing the vast number of suffering sentient beings, he hopes to find a way to save them.
He never hesitates to use his butcher's knife in the face of pure villains.
He is willing to help people in distress, but he is also good at slashing people with a knife. He dares to roll up his sleeves and fight to the death with evil people without saying a word.
People in the outside world only know that Xuanzang is good at Buddhism and willing to help those who are suffering, and they are willing to call him an eminent monk.
But what if they knew the other hidden side of Xuanzang: while seeking a way to save the world, they also firmly believed that evil people still need to be tortured by evil people.
So, what will be their mentality?
Do you think such people are not Buddhists?
Or do you think such a person is a devil?
No matter what others think, Bai Jingjing feels that such a senior brother can be called a living Buddha and a holy monk better than anyone else.
Looking at the senior brother whose expression has become increasingly unstable over the years, Bai Jingjing slowly asked: "Then you just kept your eyes closed, were you thinking about something?"
"Well, I do think about it."
Xuanzang nodded, with a look of solemnity and seriousness on his face.
Seeing this, Bai Jingjing couldn't help but put away the carefree character she had gradually developed during the years of following her master.
She knew that the change in her senior brother's expression meant that it was definitely not a small problem.
Although she didn't know what her always smart senior brother was thinking with a straight face, she knew that when his senior brother became serious, she should immediately become serious as well.
"Master, you may have to leave."
“Before I was only vaguely aware, but today I have a strong intuition.”
After Xuanzang was silent for a moment, he said to Bai Jingjing in front of him.
Hearing this, Bai Jingjing was stunned.
The news was so sudden that she couldn't accept it.
These six years of wandering life were so interesting to her.
The master and senior brother led her to try out all the human things inherited from the girl's memory.
They went eastward along the river.
Either practice together under the guidance of the master, or study Buddhism with the senior brother in a Buddhist temple, or rest and play in a human city for a while...
For her, these six years have been fulfilling.
She wished she could keep repeating these six years.
Now the news that Master is leaving has flashed through like a bolt from the blue.
This made her a little unacceptable for a moment.
"You were only officially accepted as a disciple by Master a year ago, so you don't know enough."
"Master is a member of an ancient organization called Yongzhou. He has always been secretly guarding mankind..."
Xuanzang slowly explained to Bai Jingjing what Chen Sheng had said to him.
And in Xuanzang's narration, Bai Jingjing also understood a lot.
This is an era of peace, and there is no crisis of abyss erosion. All members of Yongzhou went to [****], which is an extremely confidential place.
As the sage of the Star of Eternal Day, the Master must, while guarding [**], descend his avatar once a century and return to reality to conduct inspections. Depending on the situation, whether to restart the construction of a new generation of Eternal Day.
The purpose of lowering the clone this time is to hunt down those monsters.
Now, the time limit for the clone's duration is almost up, and it will take another hundred years for it to come out again.
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When his second and third disciples had not come down from the mountain, Chen Sheng stayed silently in the village at the foot of the mountain and fell into silence.
For him with a fifth-level spiritual power level, eleven years is just a blink of an eye. In fact, it doesn't count how much time has passed.
But these eleven years have passed, and there is still no reply in the Xinghuo chat group. This is a big problem.
Obviously, when time and space crossed to the Ming Dynasty before, the Spark chat group could chat across time and space, but now there is no response for a long time.
Previously, he thought it was the effect of the difference in time velocity exerted by the abyss.
At most, he has some network delay. If someone else replies a day later, he will have to wait a year to receive it.
But it has been eleven years now.
Still no news.
To put it into perspective, those members of the Modern Time and Space group in the Spark chat group have not responded to any of his messages for eleven days.
In this case, there are nothing more than two situations.
Either the impact of this time flow rate has had such a great impact on the Spark Chat Group that the Spark Chat Group can no longer be used for communication at all.
Or it's a situation that Chen Sheng doesn't want to happen at all: the eternal day in the future has been completely destroyed.
During the eleven days that Chen Sheng was delayed here, the future Yongzhou was destroyed by the Abyss, so no one responded to his message.
Such an outcome is also possible.
Therefore, Chen Sheng would inevitably become more worried the longer he stayed.
However, it seems that such worries no longer need to be maintained.
As Xuanzang's keen intuition sensed, Chen Sheng was indeed leaving.
Judging from the current time and space disruption threshold, he can stay for up to three days, and then he will return to real time and space due to the time and space disruption threshold being exhausted.
A more specific time cannot be speculated.
Because his current space-time disturbance threshold is decreasing erratically like a disco, there is no way to accurately budget.
And this time-space disturbance threshold, which was originally expected to last twenty-eight years, has been used up in only eleven years.
Not that he was wasted.
Chen Sheng knew that he had made a wrong judgment once, and the force exploded over Nalanda Temple and consumed more than half of the time and space disruption threshold.
After that, he naturally had to conserve his strength and try not to participate in the general trend of the world, ensuring that he could deal with all the fleeing monsters before he left.
But when Xuanzang killed a high-ranking official with one punch and the butterfly effect was irreversibly affected, his time and space disruption threshold consumption inevitably began to go berserk.
This is not to say that the death of a high-ranking official will change history more than the butterfly effect brought about by this group of people in the past eleven years.
But the accumulated butterfly effect finally exceeded the limit of history's automatic repair ability, and then there was a small area of rapid collapse, and history stopped automatic repair for a period of time.
Although he quickly took a bunch of measures to reverse it, he could only barely restore the self-healing ability of history and slightly slow down the depletion rate of some rampant time and space disruption thresholds.
Chen Sheng didn't say much about this.
He did not blame Xuanzang.
This kind of Xuanzang was exactly what he had cultivated and what he expected.
In essence, the origin of everything is still to blame for going to the Pure Land Temple eleven years ago to teach Xuanzang to grow up in advance.
Now that things have come to this, maybe it’s not such a bad thing.
Originally, he could only stay for a while not only because of the influence of the time and space disruption threshold, but also because he was worried about wanting to go back to the real world at any time.
At this moment, it's time to go back.
Go to the real time and space and see what the abyss did when it delayed him here, so you don't have to keep yourself on tenterhooks.
He wanted to see if Yong Zhou was still there.
If the eternal sun is destroyed, will humans still be there?
He had no idea what was happening in real time and space, so he had always been worried.
At this moment, the time and space disturbance threshold has been exhausted, and I can't stay any longer, so I just want to go back.
During these eleven years.
In the first year, he found three rays of monster vitality and met Xuanzang.
In the fifth year, I found Bai Jingjing, the fourth ray of monster life.
Last year, he found two rays of monster vitality, and he integrated them all into Bai Jingjing's body to strengthen them, which was a blessing for his disciples.
Of the seven rays of the monster's life that escaped at the beginning, six have now been found, and only one ray has yet to be found.
But he really didn't have much time left.
As for the remaining ray of life of the monster that has not been found, perhaps it can only be left to the two disciples Xuanzang and Bai Jingjing to solve it.
At least, he still left behind these two seeds of great hope, which could complete the unfinished business for him.
When I seriously trained these two disciples, I was actually more or less thinking of leaving myself a backup plan to avoid not completely destroying the escaping monsters.
Judging from the current situation, these two disciples are definitely proud of him. Chen Sheng feels that he can safely let them deal with the last trace of the monster's life.
After that, Xuanzang only needs to go to the Western Regions to inherit the huge group of monster vitality in Master Jiexian's body, learn to practice the spiritual cultivation system until the eighth consciousness realm, and completely suppress and obliterate it.
Things in the past are basically over now.
(End of chapter)
