I said in a deep voice: "I came down because of the Seventh Shuilan."
Ye Jin turned around suddenly and said, "Are you stupid? What does Seventh Shuilan have to do with these things?"
I said, "I have always had a feeling that the Seventh Water Blue is guiding me into the lair of the human-headed wooden Buddha."
At first, I just thought that Qishi Shuilan was deliberately testing her future subordinates. It was not until I saw the note she left in Yingshan Temple that I realized Qishi Shuilan’s real intention—she wanted me to find the human-headed wooden Buddha.
Although everything that happened in that dilapidated temple seemed ordinary, in fact, every single thing was very consistent with the current Shenmu Temple.
Yingshan Temple is a deserted temple on a lonely mountain that has been abandoned for countless years, but is revered as a sacred place by people. The same is true for the nameless mountain in front of me, because Chen Hanxing and his men are here.
Yingshan Temple was renovated from the inside out, and wasn't Shenmu Temple also renovated in the same way? The Seventh Water Blue was using Yingshan Temple to hint at Shenmu Temple.
There are many places in Yingshan Temple where you can hide notes, but Diqi Shuilan hid the note under the broken Buddha head. Isn't she hinting that the Buddha head is the key to deciphering the human head and wooden body Buddha in Shenmu Temple
There is only one Buddha statue in Yingshan Temple, and there should be only one Buddha in Shenmu Temple. If I don't enter Shenmu Temple, I won't be able to find the evil Buddha, let alone turn defeat into victory.
I can't compare with Duan Yunfei in terms of resources, connections, or even military strength. I once thought that cooperating with Chen Hanxing might help me turn the tables, but since Chen Hanxing gave me a hint, I knew that joining forces with Chen Hanxing had become a luxury.
My only chance to turn defeat into victory is in Shenmu Temple. Even if it means gambling with my life, I must make this bet.
After Ye Jin heard what I said, he couldn't help but hesitate and said, "Zhao Zi, I have something to say, but I don't know if I should say it or not?"
Seeing that I had no objection, Ye Jin said, "Have you ever thought about what you would do if the Seventh Shuilan was setting a trap to deceive you? Take the incident at the gate of the Seventh Palace for example. If someone proficient in martial arts could calculate the direction you would retreat from and how many steps you could retreat based on your height, it could actually be calculated."
"As long as you have a preconceived notion that the Seventh Shuilan can see through the secrets of heaven, everything that follows can happen naturally. Don't forget, you were originally in the Hell Gate, not somewhere else. If they put all their efforts into calculating you, you wouldn't even be able to notice it!"
I was slightly stunned, then walked forward again: "It's no use saying this now. We have already gone deep into Shenmu Temple and have entered the core area. Is it too late to turn back now?"
"If everything that happened these days was Seventh Shuilan playing a game with me, then we can't turn back or regret our moves now. We can only try our luck!"
Any plan can be adjusted before action is taken, but when the action has been carried out two-thirds or even more, even if I know that the plan has failed, there is no room for me to turn back.
Gambling on my life and luck is the only thing I can continue to do.
Besides, I don't think that the Hell Gate will use all its strength to plot against me. There shouldn't be anything about me that's worth their while.
Furthermore, I have a hunch that the Seventh Water Blue may have something to do with me.
She could predict my appearance, see clearly the last mission I took, and even left me a note thousands of miles away. Everything has crossed the boundaries of time and space. Isn't that the ultimate in destiny deduction? I suspect that the seventh Shuilan is also the heir of the Half-Life Dao.
While Ye Jin and I were talking back and forth, we had already walked 200 to 300 meters, and the cold air on the ground had reached a terrifying level. With every step I took, my clothes were like folded cardboard, making a continuous "cracking" sound.
When I went to look at Ye Jin, he seemed to feel nothing at all. He just strode forward on the frozen ground, and even looked back at me from time to time.
Ye Jin’s skills may not be much higher than mine, but everything that happens to him is always unexpected.
The first time I saw Ye Jin take action, I was deeply shocked by the murderous aura that was surging from him.
The second time, he used just a few words to drive the local tyrant Ye Yanluo to stir up the situation.
The third time, he walked safely in the cold air that even the innate masters could not resist.
What secrets does Ye Jin hide
As I was wondering, a pyramid-like iceberg suddenly appeared in front of me.
From my perspective, I could vaguely see a huge coffin after passing through several meters of ice. When I looked closely, I realized that it was a platform made up of twelve coffins.
The platform still retains the shape of a coffin, so at first glance I thought it was a giant coffin.
A headless wooden Buddha was sitting cross-legged on the coffin platform, with one hand on his chest and the other on his abdomen. Although I couldn't see the carving of the Buddha, I could feel a sense of pressure coming from the Buddha through the ice.
What was even more strange was that a layer of dark green gas floated on the broken neck of the Buddha statue, which looked like blood spurted out when the Buddha statue was beheaded. However, the "blood" was frozen by the extreme cold air before it could disperse, and not a single drop of it leaked out. Instead, it hung above the Buddha statue like a steaming cloud.
When I looked up along the green clouds, I couldn't help but be slightly stunned - there was actually a person standing on the top of the iceberg, a person wearing a hooded cloak with his feet dangling in the air.
The man was frozen from the neck down, with only his head sticking out of the ice. Although I couldn't see his face clearly, I intuitively felt that he was still alive.
"Ye Jin, hold the line while I go up and take a look." As soon as I finished speaking, I immediately lifted my feet off the ground and kicked several times in the air, climbing up the steep iceberg. When I was about to reach the top, I pulled out the dagger from my waist and stabbed it into the ice. Although my dagger was not a magical weapon, it could easily pierce through the iron sheet. However, the moment my dagger touched the ice, it was repelled and I almost slipped under the iceberg.
Just when I was about to fall to the ground, my body was suddenly lifted up by some force, and Miaokong's voice rang in my ears: "Seventh Shuilan, the person you want is here! Why don't you say anything?"
The seventh Shuilan? The person frozen in the ice was the seventh Shuilan? I no longer cared that the person holding me up was my mortal enemy Miaokong, and looked at that person in horror.
As expected, a clear female voice came from under the hood exposed outside the ice: "Your last name should be Wu, right? Let me introduce myself. I am the Seventh Shuilan."
I frowned and asked, "Who are you?" The voice of the Seventh Shuilan sounded young, probably only about 30 years old. Could it be that she was only about 20 years old when she disappeared at the Hell Gate? Is she really the heir of the Half Life Dao
The seventh Shui Lan said: "My identity is not suitable for you to know for the time being. Anyway, you should remember that I led you here to save me and to save yourself."
I said coldly: "If you don't explain clearly, I won't do anything!"
Although I don't know what Qi Qi Shui Lan is going to do, I understand one thing: she is begging me now, not me begging her.
Seventh Shuilan said quickly: "Many years ago, I planned to sneak into Shenmu Temple alone to steal something that was very important to me. However, before I set out, I calculated that I would most likely be trapped in Shenmu Temple."
"At that time, I spent seven consecutive days trying to deduce my chance of survival. Finally, I finally figured out that the glimmer of hope was in you. I don't know if I can grasp this glimmer of hope more than 20 years later, but there is a reason why I must come to Shenmu Temple."
Seventh Shui Lan said this and suddenly changed the subject: "I hope you won't ask what the reason is for now. You know now that it will not benefit you at all and may even bring you a fatal disaster."
I don’t know why, but I instinctively believed him: “Go on.”
Seventh Shui Lan said: "I deduced step by step for a long time before I figured out how to lead you to Shenmu Temple."
"My first step was to use an unborn girl to make her meet you in Miaojiang, and also to make her attract the masters of Hell Gate. Of course, even without my arrangement, you would still have a destined meeting, but I brought that fateful encounter forward a little bit."
I couldn't help but gasp: The person that Qi Qi Shui Lan was talking about was Xiao Baitang.
If you think about it carefully, Xiao Baitang's appearance was indeed very sudden, like a destined encounter, full of coincidences and inevitability. If Xiao Baitang hadn't appeared, the Black and White Impermanence wouldn't have come to the God Village, and Winter Witch would naturally not ask Hell Gate to repay the favor, and I wouldn't have appeared at Hell Gate, and Seventh Shuilan's subsequent arrangements would naturally have been completely in vain.
If the seventh Shui Lan's first step was not gambling, then her ability to deduce has reached an appalling level. At least, since my debut, I have never seen such a brilliant fortune teller. What she can do, even if Lu Xiaoying and I join forces, we can't even hope to achieve half of it.
Seventh Shuilan said, "My second step is to lure you to Shenmu Temple. Of course, that mission is fake. Judge Dong is my man, and even if no one commissioned him, he would still let you take the mission of Shenmu Temple." I narrowed my eyes and looked at Seventh Shuilan and said, "Didn't you expect that I would confront Hell Gate?"
Seventh Shui Lan shook her head and said, "No. It is impossible for a fortune teller to predict everything. He can only predict the general direction of events. You know this."
Seventh Shui Lan smiled and said, "Even if you figured it out, what can you do? As long as you don't kill Judge Dong, it doesn't matter who you kill."
I said in a deep voice: "Go on!"
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