"It's not that I can't do it, but my body is fragile and cannot be injured, otherwise I will be exposed. You just said that you will not stop me from doing anything, and you are willing to do everything you can to exchange with me for clues about the spiritual objects of heaven and earth. Now that I have told you, please leave as soon as possible."
"Otherwise," Ruosheng's eyes became fierce, "I will have to fight you to the death! You are no match for me!"
Jiang Yuebai swallowed her saliva. She knew that Ruosheng was determined to perish together with all the sects in Liusha Territory at this moment, so he was not afraid of her knowing it.
Just as he said, as long as he was not afraid of being exposed, he would never be his opponent, because spiritual creatures have no physical body and cannot be easily killed.
Jiang Yuebai said with a bitter face, "Then can't you be kind enough to give me one of your arms or legs? You are a spiritual creature, so you should be able to recover quickly, right?"
Ruosheng stared at her for a moment, "You are a wonderful person. Even if I give you my head, it will only be a handful of ordinary yellow sand."
Jiang Yuebai hung his head in dejection, "Forget it, I'm just unlucky. I'll go look somewhere else. The world is so big, I don't believe there are no other spiritual objects."
Ruosheng kept looking at her, wondering, "You're giving up just like that? Aren't you unwilling to accept this? There have been many disputes and fights in the entire Quicksand Region because of me, and I've never seen anyone give up as easily as you do."
Jiang Yuebai was furious. "What else can I do? Should I pin you down and eat you? I'm not sure I can take you down, but I don't want to risk my life for it. I can't get over the idea of eating a human for the time being."
"For now, I can only give up and practice hard. If I can't find other spiritual objects in two years, I will come back to take a look. By then, for the sake of my practice, I will convince myself to kill you, or call my master to kill you."
Jiang Yuebai's fierce and harsh words made Ruosheng laugh, a rare moment of happiness.
Jiang Yuebai felt like crying because of his laughter. She felt aggrieved as she had wasted half a year.
"Stop laughing! I'll really get angry and kill you!"
Boom!
There was a loud noise coming from the sky. Jiang Yuebai and Ruosheng rushed to the broken wall together and saw a large piece of dazzling flames exploding on the golden light curtain that spanned the sky and the earth, and shouts of killing rose to the sky.
"Are they Wu Zong's men attacking us?" Jiang Yuebai asked.
Ruosheng looked solemn, "Let's go. What's happening here has nothing to do with you. Don't get dragged into it. Go north. Wait by the Peacock River for ten days. I will do my best... to save an arm for you."
At this point, Jiang Yuebai was unwilling but helpless and could only leave everything to fate.
Ruosheng took Jiang Yuebai to the north side of the temple, where the Scorpion King was already waiting. Ruosheng pulled out a pot of small yellow flowers out of thin air and handed it to Jiang Yuebai.
"This is the Prajna flower that I planted myself. It is a parting gift."
Jiang Yuebai raised his eyebrows, "I am not well-educated, so don't lie to me. Are you sure this is not a dandelion?"
"Amitabha, the donor's realm is not enough."
Jiang Yuebai: … …
Ruosheng took out two worn blue-covered thread-bound books from his arms and handed them to Jiang Yuebai.
"One is the Prajna Sutra written by my master, and the other is the Nine-Turn Golden Body Sutra, a Buddhist body-building technique. These are the only remaining inheritances of the Prajna Temple. If you meet a monk with wisdom in the future, please pass them on on behalf of my master."
The sound of explosions continued, the ground shook constantly, a storm came, and yellow sand covered the sky.
Jiang Yuebai bit his lip, but couldn't help but said, "I know that I shouldn't advise others to be kind without experiencing their suffering, but hatred shouldn't be everything in life. Can't you wait a little longer?"
"Let them fight as they please. There's no need to stain your hands with blood. Don't you want to go outside the Quicksand Region and see a wider world? If you're willing, I can take you to my sect and ask my master to help you find a solution."
Ruosheng shook his head, "The man who recites sutras every day under the Bodhi tree is everything to me. This Prajna Temple is my world. If I could really let go, why would I have endured a hundred years of suffering and ended up like this?"
"Before we part, can you tell me your real name and origin? Just treat it as making friends at the last moment of your life."
Jiang Yuebai held the flower pot, looked at Ruosheng's beautiful eyes, and sighed, "Tianyan Sect, Jiang Yuebai."
Ruosheng's eyes flashed with an imperceptible light, and he bowed with one hand, "Amitabha, take care on your journey, donor. Also, I hope you will be less kind in the future, otherwise you may not be rewarded."
This was the first time Jiang Yuebai met someone who did not encourage others to be good, and he was a monk.
Without saying much, Ruosheng let the Scorpion King take Jiang Yuebai away.
Turning around, Ruosheng took off his red clothes, folded them carefully, and placed them under the Bodhi tree.
Outside the temple, flames of war were raging, smoke was rising, shouts of killing were deafening, and blood was flowing like a river.
In the temple, Ruosheng had a heart as calm as still water. He wore clean white clothes and sat cross-legged under a tree, twirling his Buddhist beads and chanting the Prajna Sutra like his master.
The night wind blew gently, blowing down the Bodhi leaves, which landed on Ruosheng's head.
He shuddered all over, and suddenly he seemed to see the incredibly handsome monk standing in front of him with a smile on his face, his hand pressing on his head.
"Since you have transformed into a monk, you should be my disciple from now on, Ruosheng."
"Master..."
The Buddhist beads in my hand broke, and I burst into tears.
The night wind was getting stronger. Ruosheng raised his head and held back his tears. His body returned to the yellow sand in the wind and was blown towards the dark battlefield.
Only the Buddhist beads and the red robe were left under the Bodhi tree.
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Outside the ruins of Prajna Temple, Wu Zong's disciples rushed out from everywhere like locusts, with great momentum.
Five dragon boats provided by the Chamber of Commerce Alliance were lined up in the dark night. The large and small cannons on the boats gathered spiritual light and bombarded the Buddhist sect's formation frantically.
Thunder rumbled, flames burned the night red, and the Buddhist sect's formation was on the verge of crumbling.
No matter how the Wu Sect disciples used their magic to bombard the area, the Fo Sect disciples could not get out.
"Everyone, get out of my way!"
Sha Tongtian stepped into the air from a dragon boat, with a suffocating and powerful aura, and slashed at the formation barrier with a sword.
Boom!
Thick lightning streaked across the sky and hit the formation. A dazzling light burst out, and the entire formation began to collapse from the center.
"kill!"
"kill!"
"kill!"
The foundation-building disciples of the Baji Sect roared wildly, wielding the giant axes and hammers in their hands, and led thousands of Qi-training disciples to flood into the Buddhist Sect camp.
The Buddhist disciples were forced to fight back, and the two sides fought, with blood staining the yellow sand.
The battle was fierce. The Buddhist sect was obviously weak and its defense was defeated in an instant.
Seeing this situation, the five Jindan Zen masters in charge of the Buddhist sect roared and attacked, rushing straight to the high-altitude dragon boat, using their killing moves and hitting the dragon boat hard.
A huge fist of light and shadow smashed out from the dragon boat, and the two Jindan Zen masters were caught off guard and were knocked back.
"Baji Sect's Wu Lie is here, who dares to act rashly?"
Wu Lie, the elder of Baji Sect, led five Jindan Zhenren and lined up in front of the dragon boat with a powerful momentum.
The war is about to break out.
At this time, only the last Nascent Soul in charge of both sides was still hiding in the dark. For this battle, all the sects in the entire Liusha Region gathered here.
Just like back then, they worked together to destroy the Prajna Temple with thundering means.
The fierce battle was in full swing, with smoke everywhere. The Buddhist Sect was defeated step by step, and the Wuzong Sect also suffered heavy casualties.
roar!!
The earth shook and the roars of beasts shook the sky.
The ground in the center of the battlefield exploded with a loud bang, and a huge sandworm king soared into the sky, ferocious and violent, swallowing dozens of monks in one bite.
"ah!!!"
Amid screams of terror, the Sandworm King spewed venom crazily, and large groups of monks in the center of the battlefield turned into rotten blood.
A seventh-order wild snake as thick as a bucket swam quickly from underground, rushed to the back of the Wuzong monk and broke out of the ground. It swept its tail wildly, killing a large group of Qi-cultivating monks in an instant.
Sandworms, ground scorpions, six-winged centipedes, ghost-faced spiders... Almost all the monsters that can be seen in the Quicksand Domain emerged from the ground at this moment, densely packed and countless.
Among them are dozens or even hundreds of seventh-level monsters, as well as sixth-level monsters whose strength is approaching the Jindan stage. They are lurking under the yellow sand, waiting for an opportunity to strike.
The entire battlefield was thrown into chaos in an instant!
The screams were endless and both sides of the battle became food for the monsters.
The spiritual objects of heaven and earth, because of their pure and spiritual aura of heaven and earth, have a fatal attraction to monsters.
Monsters are also more sensitive than humans and can more easily detect tiny auras of spiritual creatures. By swallowing the spiritual creatures of heaven and earth, monsters can be reborn and achieve breakthroughs and advancement.
If he were everywhere at this moment, he would transform himself into grains of sand on the Sea of No Return to attract the monsters, and personally feel the boiling blood spraying on his 'body', the pleasure that soaks into his heart and lungs.
The Jindan monks in the melee kept their distance and tried to kill the monsters, but the monsters kept coming one after another and gathered like a tide, making it difficult to reverse the situation for a while.
"Retreat, everyone retreat first!"
Baji Sect elder Wu Lie gave an order from high in the sky and punched the Ghost-faced Spider King at his feet to pieces.
The Wu Zong cultivators and the Fo Zong monks were all routed and in great confusion.
Just as both sides were preparing to evacuate, the ground shook suddenly intensified.
The sky was dark, sand and rocks were flying, and the wind was howling, raising huge waves of yellow sand from all directions.
Wu Lie stood high in the sky, watching in horror as the yellow sand rolled up layer by layer, becoming larger and larger as it went toward the outside, forming a huge and spectacular golden lotus of yellow sand that quickly closed inwards with a majestic momentum.
A black shadow spanning the sky rumbled down from overhead. Wu Lie looked up and saw even larger petals of yellow sand, wrapping up the dragon boat and all of them.
The innermost petals trapped hundreds of monks inside. There was a muffled sound of flesh being squeezed and burst, and a large amount of bright red blood gushed out from the center of the petals.
“Ahhh!!!”
The low-level cultivators were frightened out of their wits, as if they were facing a natural disaster, powerless to resist, and only left with despair.
The sense of urgency and fear of life and death exploded in the hearts of Wu Lie and others. They hurriedly sent flying swords to the Nascent Soul ancestors of their respective camps for help, and at the same time quickly rushed to the gaps between the yellow sand petals that had not been completely sealed.
Everyone tried their best, but every time they broke through a gap, they would see even larger yellow sand petals pressing down, endless and they would never see the end.
roar!!
An extremely powerful and terrifying pressure exploded from the ground, and the Jindan cultivator's breath suddenly became chaotic and he fell from a high altitude.
Corpses were scattered all over the ground, and three large pits appeared on the devastated land. A demon beast in the Nascent Soul stage was slowly emerging.
Hidden deep in the yellow sand, Ruosheng felt the greedy gazes locking on him. He relaxed his mind and let the situation develop.
"Come on, completely devour and bury me along with all this chaos and sin!"
The sky is dark, the layers of petals are about to close completely, and the last starlight is about to disappear.
"Amitabha, the sea of suffering is endless, turn back and you will find the shore!"
With a Buddhist chant, a figure suddenly appeared above the Sea of No Return.
The majestic golden lotus in the yellow sand standing above the earth bloomed again layer by layer.
(End of this chapter)