The abbot laughed loudly: "I have already lost all my desires, what obsessions do I have that require me to change my fate? The Prajna Temple rescued Mr. Wu just to fulfill its promise to Half Life. Apart from that, the Prajna Temple does not want to be involved in any cause and effect."
The abbot paused and said, "After we send Mr. Wu away, Prajna Temple will close the gates and resolve the cause and effect. Mr. Wu, please take care of yourself."
I was silent for a moment before I said, "I'm afraid that the closure of the gate of Prajna Temple is not just for the sake of resolving karma, right?"
"Amitabha." The abbot chanted a low Buddhist name, "To change one's fate against the will of heaven involves too much cause and effect. Half-Life Dao has been fighting against heaven for hundreds of years, and it is no longer just a fight for life. Countless people and countless things are involved. The grudges, right and wrong, cannot be explained in a few words. There are some things that I cannot say more about, so Mr. Wu should go and see for himself and understand for himself!"
The abbot's words clearly implied something else, but he didn't want to explain, so I didn't dare to ask any more.
I was in silence when I suddenly heard someone outside say, "Mr. Wu, the donor Tang is seriously injured. I'm afraid..."
My head suddenly buzzed, and I stood up and ran out. When I broke into the secret room where Xiao Baitang was healing, I saw Xiao Baitang wrapped in a white cloth. The bright red blood was seeping through the gauze, so red that it was blinding.
Xiao Baitang stretched out his hand toward the door: "Brother Wu Zhao, is this you here?"
"Xiaotang, I'm here!" I barely suppressed the trembling in my voice and hugged Xiaotang.
"Brother Wu Zhao, I'm leaving. Don't cry, okay?" Xiao Baitang reached out and touched my cheek.
"What nonsense! You will be fine. I will take you away right away and we will go find a famous doctor. We..." I didn't know what I was saying anymore.
Xiao Baitang smiled and said, "I know better than anyone the consequences of using the Shocking Sword Eyes with all my strength. Have I become uglier?"
"No, no, you will always be the most beautiful little Tang!" I couldn't help but cry.
Xiao Baitang was still smiling: "Hearing you say that, I'm so happy. Brother Wu Zhao, I really want to see you again, I really want to hear you sing a song for me! In the next life... In the next life, I will definitely get here before Sister Xiaoying and the others."
The hand that Xiao Baitang had been touching my cheek fell weakly downwards, and I hugged her gradually losing temperature tightly in my arms: "Xiao Baitang, Xiao Baitang..."
Ye Jin walked up to me and said, "Zhaozi, calm down."
I picked up Xiao Baitang and walked out. Monk Zhihui led the monks to chant the "Nirvana Mantra" in unison, but I suddenly got angry and said, "Shut up! Xiao Baitang is not dead, why are you chanting the Nirvana Mantra?"
"Zhaozi, calm down!" Ye Jin quickly stood beside me, fearing that I would lose control and hurt someone.
Zhihui sighed and said, "Send Mr. Wu out of the temple."
I don’t know how I walked out of that ancient temple, nor do I know where I was going. I only know that I kept singing at the top of my lungs the song that Xiao Baitang had sung to me: “At the entrance of the wolf smoke and windy sand, please drink less, General…”
"I wish I could walk under the willow trees, with my hair covered in willow catkins until we are old..."
There are no willow catkins on the mountain road, so how can there be white hair
The Xuanming Qi burst out from my body, and wherever I walked, the wind blew and snow fell. Layers of white snow fell on the tips of Xiao Baitang's and my hair, gradually dyeing our hair silver-white.
We met in three lives, and separated in three lives. We never grew old together. All I can do in this life is to dye our hair white with snow. But all this just stays in the process of moving away from each other step by step and moving forward step by step.
"At the entrance of the Wolf Smoke and Sand, please drink less, General..."
"I wish I could walk under the willow trees, with my hair covered in willow catkins until we are old..."
I don't know how long I walked before I stopped. I sat on the top of the mountain holding Xiao Baitang tightly, letting the melted snowflakes condense above our heads again and again.
After an unknown amount of time, Ye Jin finally whispered, "Zhaozi, let go and let Xiao Baitang rest in peace. You've been sitting here for a day and a night. Do you want Xiao Baitang's spirit in heaven to see you run out of energy and die?"
Ye Jin tried to pull Xiao Baitang, but I waved my hand to block his arm, pulled out Luosha, and dug up the soil on the ground. After I covered Xiao Baitang with the last handful of soil, I stood up and looked at Lu Xiaoying: "Give me your secret book of the Heaven-Defying Hand, I want to practice the Heaven-Defying Hand."
Lu Xiaoying looked at me and asked, "What do you want to do?"
"Give me the secret book!" I suddenly became furious. "Give it to me! I want to trigger the fate of Xuan Jing Si. I want to flatten Xuan Jing Si and make them die with Xiao Baitang!"
"No!" Lu Xiaoying refused flatly. "There are over ten thousand sorcerers in the Xuanjing Division, protecting the sorcerers. If you want to trigger the Xuanjing Division's fate calamity, it is equivalent to committing boundless murder. The heavens will definitely punish you. Before you can calculate your fate calamity, you will die under the heaven's punishment. No, absolutely not!"
I shouted angrily, "Lu Xiaoying, whether I live or die is my business, it has nothing to do with you!"
Lu Xiaoying refused again: "That won't work either."
I gritted my teeth and said in a deep voice, "Lu Xiaoying, when Ye Jin and I were surrounded, I asked you to leave, but you refused to leave and even brought Xiao Baitang into the encirclement. Don't you have a divine hand? Can't you predict the past and the future? You couldn't predict that I could escape safely? You couldn't predict that Xiao Baitang would die?"
Lu Xiaoying's eyes suddenly turned red: "Wu Zhao, what do you mean?"
"I was just wondering what you meant!" I said sternly, "You brought Xiao Baitang into the encirclement, and I can think that you didn't calculate the situation correctly. Now Xiao Baitang is gone, but you won't let me avenge her. Do you have a grudge against her?"
Lu Xiaoying said sternly: "Wu Zhao, there is not only your little Baitang in this world, and not everyone has to follow your will..."
I didn’t wait for Lu Xiaoying to finish and drew my sword in anger, “Hand over the Heaven-Defying Hand to me!”
Lu Xiaoying sneered: "Are you crazy for your Xiao Baitang? I'll tell you one last time, there is more than one Xiao Baitang in this world..."
"Shut up!" I roared at the top of my lungs, and Rakshasa rushed out, with the bright sword light falling straight on Lu Xiaoying's head.
Ye Jin immediately screamed, "Hide quickly! Zhaozi, are you crazy?"
Lu Xiaoying took a step back subconsciously, and my long knife swept across her forehead. Although I didn't hit Lu Xiaoying's vitals, the wind from the knife cut Lu Xiaoying's forehead, and the bright red blood instantly flowed down her face.
But I held the long knife and shouted: "Are you going to give it to me or not?"
“Hahahaha…” Lu Xiaoying suddenly laughed, “The God of Hate is ungrateful… The Half-Life Divine Vein can never escape its fate! Hahaha…”
Lu Xiaoying flew up while laughing, and flew away quickly: "If you want to defeat the Heaven's Hand, just catch up and kill me. Anyway, I don't care if you betray me again."
I didn't chase after Lu Xiaoying. She stumbled and disappeared from my sight while laughing all the way.
I turned around and shouted to Guan Qingyan in the distance, "Get out of here too, get out as far as you can! You're obviously not a sorcerer, so why are you causing trouble? If Xiao Baitang hadn't been protecting you, he wouldn't have been seriously injured one after another, and he wouldn't have exhausted all his energy using the Shocking Sword Eyes!"
Guan Qingyan bit her lips tightly to stop herself from crying, but she shook her head desperately and stepped back step by step. After she had retreated more than ten steps, she cried out in a sobbing voice: "Wu Zhao, Lu Xiaoying was right. I was wrong about you."
After Guan Qingyan finished shouting that, she ran into the forest crying. Ye Jin was so angry that he yelled, "Wu Zhao, I think you are crazy! What the hell are you thinking? Look at what you have done, is it human?"
I put down the long knife and said calmly, "I should have driven them away long ago. If I don't let them go, will they die with me?"
Ye Jin was stunned for a moment: "What did you say?"
My tears immediately flowed down: "Ye Jin, if I tell you that I am a fortune teller, but I always don't believe in destiny, would you believe it?"
Ye Jin was silent for a moment before nodding and saying, "You mean, you have always had a lucky mentality, right?"
"Yes!" I said in a trembling voice, "After I came out of the ghost realm, I knew that the fate of ghost veins is separation and death, and I also figured out the various weird things about our Wu family. But I always felt that none of them were my real women, and I couldn't bear to part with them, so I kept deceiving myself and kept them all."
"In fact, Zhan Wuxiang told me a truth in the Heavenly Dao Jade Disk a long time ago: destiny cannot be avoided. If you want to escape destiny, you can only go against it. But I have never been willing to face it. If I had made up my mind earlier and driven them all away, Xiao Baitang would not have died. Don't you think so?"
Ye Jin was silent for a moment before he said, "So, you drove them away, are you planning to change your fate?"
I shook my head and said, "I don't know if there is a place for me in the Half Life Sect's plan to defy the heavens. But I know one thing, that is, Xiao Baitang's sacrifice cannot be in vain. I want to completely destroy the Xuan Jing Division."
Ye Jin was shocked: "Are you really going to calculate Xuan Jingsi's fate? Do you want to die?"
I said in a deep voice: "The Xuan Jing Division is an invincible behemoth to me. If I want to destroy the Xuan Jing Division, I must either cultivate to become a flying immortal on land, or I must raise a force that is not inferior to the four major sects. These two things are not easy for me to do. Even if I can, I don't know how many years it will take. I can't wait that long. Attracting the Xuan Jing Division's fate is the only way for me to destroy the Xuan Jing Division."
Ye Jin hesitated and said, "But Lu Xiaoying said..."
"I know this is dangerous." I turned to Ye Jin and said, "So, you should go too!"
Ye Jin suddenly became furious and asked, "What the hell do you want to do?"
I said calmly, "Go and find Gu Piaoran. If they want to go against the will of heaven, they must overthrow Xuan Jing Si. If I die, there will be someone left to avenge me, so that all of us brothers will not be wronged."
Ye Jin said angrily: "Why don't you come with me to find Gu Piaoran?" (To be continued)