Free Web NovelChapter 349: Chapter 129: Xiaojing’s Dream Unravels the Dilemma, A Fortune Spent for Freedom
The air in Lingyi Sect, originally cool and comfortable, gradually changed.
An inexplicable feeling of irritability arose.
Rising Sun Peak,
In the Ancient Study,
The elderly man, his hair disheveled, head lowered and face showing extreme discomfort, barely raised his head upon seeing Li Xuan, but soon coughed.
His originally stern old face showed a few hints of drowsiness, resembling those patients with persistent high fevers.
But he was a cultivator with a lifespan of over two hundred years, an immortal in the eyes of common people.
"Master." Li Xuan approached.
Jin Tianchan coughed for quite a while before turning his head, asking gravely, "Xuan’Er, what exactly is your relationship with the Buddha?"
Li Xuan hadn’t expected this sudden question and hesitated for a moment, ready to answer, when Jin Tianchan suddenly said, "Forget it, whatever it is, it doesn’t matter...
But, if you are his believer, I advise you not to get too close.
The things that come out of the Incense Fire Divine Realm are strange and unpredictable, hard to fathom their intentions."
Li Xuan said, "But he killed the Demon Bear, and now all the Bear Puppets are dead too."
Jin Tianchan sneered, "And what about the great changes in the world now?
Isn’t it also caused by him killing the Bear Demon?
What is his true purpose, is it really to kill the Demon Bear to protect all beings, or is it to achieve some unknown purpose?"
Li Xuan: ...
Jin Tianchan raised his hand, gripping Li Xuan’s sleeve firmly, his weakening gaze flashing with brilliance, saying, "Take my legacy, bring our sect’s elites, and leave here quickly! This land is no longer safe!"
Li Xuan was hesitant about whether to reveal that he was the Buddha, after all, to some extent, he was invincible in this land already. But hearing the Sect Leader’s words made him dismiss his original thought, because Jin Tianchan and the Buddha were merely collaborators, as for trust...there was none. Therefore, he softly asked, "Master, then now...what caused your illness?"
Jin Tianchan, unlike with the previous Arhat, did not wish to keep secrets from Li Xuan, because he was his chosen successor. Thus he said, "It’s the Buddha’s doing!
He connected this land with the Incense Fire Divine Realm!
Truth be told, it’s amusing. He blatantly committed such acts, but then comes to ask me what’s going on?"
Li Xuan: ???
He gravely asked, "How to undo it?"
Jin Tianchan shook his head, "Old man does not know."
After speaking, a few memories flashed in his eyes as he muttered, "Time flies, in the blink of an eye it’s almost two hundred years...
At that time old man was still young.
I was lucky enough to witness the Ancient Land of the Rabbit Assembly...
(The Ancient Land of the Rabbit Assembly isn’t actually a specific place, but rather a type of place.)
The place old man visited was an overseas abandoned ancient kingdom.
From the outside, it was a peculiar ruin, a completely empty city, but the people living there seemed to have suddenly vanished from the world.
They were still busy during their lifetime, but vanished in an instant, leaving that silent city behind."
Li Xuan’s pupils contracted, exclaiming in shock, "How is this...possible?"
Jin Tianchan smiled, continued reminiscing, and said slowly, "We arrived at that ancient kingdom.
My grandfather brought out a deity statue, claiming it was a Joyful Celestial Mother figure worshipped for over thirty years."
Li Xuan asked, "Joyful Celestial Mother?"
Jin Tianchan replied, "It’s a belief, my grandfather was not from native Great Yin, perhaps it was something they brought from their homeland.
The Joyful Celestial Mother..."
The old man pondered for a moment, then said, "She is the goddess depicted in the White Bone Vajra Map."
Li Xuan: ...
Jin Tianchan continued, "My grandfather took that deity statue, instructed everyone to burn three specially made incense sticks, and in the ancient ruins city, they bowed three times before the Joyful Celestial Mother’s figure, then filled the surrounding area with incense.
You know what?
That day, that land were torn apart...
Yet all the surrounding scenery didn’t change, but the atmosphere did. It felt as though the silent city came alive.
Grandfather told the watch person, stationed at the entrance, he would surely return within twelve hours; if not, they were to leave promptly.
The means of leaving was to extinguish the incense.
The incense was special, burning for twelve hours.
Grandfather said, one can only enter once a year, for only one stick of incense, and must not stay until the incense burns out.
Otherwise, if the incense burns out and the people haven’t left, they will never get out.
After giving these instructions, he, along with many uncles, family members entered the depths of that city on an expedition and brought back an item that allowed our Lingyi Sect to be established.
Only, out of the hundred and six who went, merely over ten returned, and among them, two uncles were seriously injured.
Old man will never forget that tragic and desolate scene.
Then, we arrived at today’s Lingyi Sect, those two uncles..."
The elderly man took a deep breath, gazing at Li Xuan seriously and said, "They turned into chaos demons, killed by my grandfather jointly with other cultivators."
Chaos demons...
Li Xuan knew.
The earliest he learned was from Senior Sister Feng.
It’s said that "if one is disturbed by the Heart Demon during the breakthrough process from Demon Intent Realm to Returning to Truth Realm, failing to break through, they turn into mindless, crazy demons," which are chaos demons.
But obviously, chaos demons aren’t formed by a single method, but various ways.
Thinking of relatives once, brothers who fought side by side turning into chaos demons, then personally killing them, the taste of it is truly indescribable.
Li Xuan sighed lightly.
Jin Tianchan said, "Nowadays, it seems the Buddha is aiding us, caring for this land.
But the incense, the fever, strange signs, golden Buddha statue, all of this...always reminds old man of those past scenes.
Old man often wonders where that entire nation’s people have gone?
