In the secret room on the tenth floor of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Building, Princess Peony sat cross-legged on the ground with a pale face. Beside her, Kou Yan stood bowed and solemn, with an uneasy expression on her face. She didn't know why the princess summoned her again.
"Yan'er, is that little monk your Taoist companion?" Princess Peony asked abruptly, breaking the silence.
"Ah? No, no, no! Princess, please don't misunderstand, he was only Yan'er's friend before."
"If I ask you to help me pick up something from him, are you willing to go?"
"Get something? Take what? It can't be his head, right? Didn't the princess promise Yan'er not to kill him?" Kou Yan trembled, showing fear.
"Why are you nervous? Did I tell you to kill him? Judging from your appearance, you must have had an affair. But I am surprised. Your body is intact. Could that pervert be so kind?"
"Princess, has he offended you, Princess? Seeing how angry you are..." Kou Yan asked cautiously.
"Yes! He did offend me and stole one of my treasures. Yan'er, I order you to go to him to get my treasure back. As long as you complete the task, I can not only take you directly to the upper world
, how about entrusting you with important responsibilities and giving you unlimited avenues?"
"This...?" Kou Yan's expression changed. After a while, she still shook her head: "Princess, you may have thought wrong. Yan'er abandoned him at the critical moment of his life and death. She no longer has the face to see him again. According to his
I won’t pay attention to Yan’er anymore, so the princess should hire someone else!”
"Is he so heartless?" Princess Peony was greatly disappointed. Kou Yan's statement was completely consistent with that of the dead monk. It seemed that Kou Yan was not telling lies.
"Yes, princess, there are many women around him, and the lack of Yan'er is nothing. So he will not pay attention to Yan'er at all, and maybe he will get angry at Yan'er, and then he will miss your important event, Yan'er
My son feels uneasy."
"Hey, this dead flower monk, is there no way to cure him?" Princess Peony murmured to herself.
In the midst of a trance, there was a faint shaking, and a medium-sized monk in blue robes appeared in the corner of the secret room, with bursts of strange light shining out of his blue eyes.
"Sir Lan, you're here!" Princess Peony raised her head slightly, not at all surprised, and just waved her hand to signal Kou Yan to avoid it.
After watching Kou Yan go out of the secret room, Lord Lan waved his hand and deployed several powerful protective formations: "Princess Peony has really good eyesight. She is surrounded by beautiful beauties. Lan has a little bit of it."
I just want to stay with the princess."
Princess Peony snorted coldly: "Old Ghost Lan, if you have anything to say, just say it, and then go and do what you have to do, I'm bothered!"
"Oh? The princess looks bad. Is there anyone in this world who can threaten you? Or has she discovered a monster and can't take action?"
"Oh, he's not a monster, he's just helpless. Peony was accidentally discovered by this thief where his soul-condensing flower was hiding, and stole the peony bouquet alive. Senior brother, tell me, once the soul is gone, Peony will want to return.
It is difficult to ascend to the upper realm. Even if you manage to return, if you want to ascend to the immortal realm, it is equivalent to death..."
"Wait, wait! Where did you lose your colorful peonies?" Lord Lan interrupted Princess Peony.
"Outside Famen Temple, the peony flowers were placed there by accident. I thought it was the safest place. The monks didn't like flowers. It was quiet there and there were almost no other people around. Furthermore, I arranged a thirty-six wood spirit tree.
The phantom array is here to protect you. It is a seventh-level psychedelic array, and it also has an attack function. It is very rare for this world to be able to directly see through it. Even if it is seen through, it is almost impossible to directly break through the illusory array within a hundred breaths..."
"What kind of cultivation level does this person have? Is there such a powerful person in Famen Temple?" Master Lan's expression suddenly changed.
"The last stage of Jindan."
"Golden elixir...?!" Lord Lan shook his head repeatedly: "I thought it was those old immortal guys. Golden elixir ants dare to threaten you, are you stupid? Just arrest them and torture them, otherwise
Search the soul, and if it still doesn’t work, extract the soul and refine the soul, how can he turn the world upside down?! Your colorful peony can’t be refined even by Master Chengtian, Taoist Master Chengtian’s Tai Chi furnace. Are you afraid that this small repair will damage it?!"
"That's what I said, but I couldn't breathe. After I rushed there, I couldn't find the colorful peony on him at all. I searched the nearby area for hundreds of miles repeatedly, but I couldn't sense the presence of the colorful peony at all.
On the contrary, I could faintly sense a trace of aura on his body, but it was extremely weak and could not be detected at all unless he was possessed by divine consciousness."
"No way? Could it be that the colorful peony was refined by him?"
"Impossible! If it were really refined, Peony would have been wiped out long ago, and he could still be sitting here talking nonsense to you. Oh, forget it, I'd better find a way to find it on him myself. He shouldn't be able to escape from the hands of this princess.
Heart."
"Hehehehe! Then wish yourself well! Lan came here today because he was just bored. He wanted to take a look at your sister. Xi Mo, there is nothing unusual in Ji Mo. I really want to find a few evildoers there.
Come out, but it’s a pity that there aren’t any. Is there any here, junior sister?”
"Not yet! I heard that there was a lot of commotion at Senior Brother's place. I wonder if anything has been achieved!"
"Really? Yan Jingyun has gained something?" Master Lan's face was slightly startled, and a hint of panic appeared in the depths of his eyes, but it was fleeting.
"Oh, who cares! Peony is in such a state of mind now that she has no intention of looking for any evildoer. When I came here, I originally wanted to have a good time and take some beautiful maids back, but when I encountered such a heartbreaking thing, I really wanted to eat it alive.
Little thief!
"Hehehe, sister, don't be angry. Since there are no treasures in this world that can damage the colorful peonies, there is no need to worry. I believe my sister can solve it. Okay, Lan is going to go to the senior brother's place to have a look."
Lord Lan said, and without waiting for Princess Peony to say anything else, he disappeared directly into the secret room. The protective arrays he had arranged also disappeared instantly.
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A month passed in a flash. Tianjiu's wonderful and comfortable life of cultivating immortals came again.
Every night, he would sit on a tree and practice his Heaven-Bearing Technique and Heaven-Transforming Technique without any distractions. He would use the eight major acupoints he had opened to crazily absorb the rich spiritual energy nearby.
Although it is outside the door, the density of its spiritual energy is several times denser than that of Huachenmen Elder Peak. Eight invisible vortices about ten feet in size are constantly rotating at the top of the big tree, and the spiritual energy of the surrounding ten miles away is swarming in like a tide.
Come, let them all sink into his body.
In the early morning, besides drinking and eating meat and chatting with some guarding monks, I just wandered outside Famen Temple. I sang songs, hummed a few songs, and even secretly found a fishing rod. The cat caught a small fish by the river guarding the temple.
fish.
In the afternoon, he ducked into the Zhongmen Sutra Pavilion, looked up various classics eagerly, and flipped through the first floor of the Sutra Pavilion. However, to his disappointment, the relevant information he wanted to find
I haven't seen any information from "Tian Yin Zhe", nor any classics or scriptures with Chinese characters.
Every evening, the peony princess arrived as scheduled, and never asked him about the peonies again. She just threw him a few pots of drunken fairy wine and a few bags of top-quality crystal stones every now and then, and then stood quietly beside him.
Next to him, he stared at him. His huge spiritual consciousness also scanned his body unscrupulously, and sometimes directly scanned the entire Famen Temple area.
However, it seems that she underestimated Tianjiu's face. This guy looked carefree. Whenever he saw her coming, he would sit down next to her, inhaling the fragrance, looking anxious.
Princess Peony looked at her for a long time, and he even came close to her, sniffing from left to right, until Princess Peony blushed deeply, and then she walked away laughing loudly.
Tianjiu was willing to accept crystal stones and Drunk Immortal Wine, but when it was time to practice, he would go to the treetops and send guests off with a rude face. Every time, the Peony Princess was so angry that she came back in smoke.
As time went by, the monk in front of Famen Temple slowly changed from being curious and confused at the beginning, to being just astonished at the end. He did what he was supposed to do. When he saw the two of them sticking together, he walked far away without seeing his heart.
Not annoying.
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At noon this day, Tianjiu came back from a walk and was about to go to the classics room again when suddenly a deep voice came from high up.
"Amitabha! Wuchen, I heard that there is a female benefactor who comes to you every day. Who is she?" Abbot Kudeng stood at the top of the steps at some point, looking at Tianjiu with sharp eyes.
"Ah? Master Abbot! Hehe, hehe, a friend, just a friend who is not very familiar with him!" Tianjiu was stunned for a moment, then sneered.
"Friend? Your friend's cultivation is so horrifying! Even I have been watching her for half a month and can't see through her at all. Next time I come here, can you give me a recommendation?"
"No, no! I'm really not familiar with her." Tianjiu waved her hands repeatedly.
"I see that she has been here every day for the past month without interruption. She only gives you food and wine, and she seems to be obsessed with you. Could it be that she is your Taoist companion?"
"Taoist couple? Ahem, Master Abbot, you are just kidding me. Even if you allow your disciple to marry a Taoist couple, he will not dare to mess with her. I don't even have a dime of relationship with her. Uh? Master Abbot, you do this every day
Are you spying on me?" Tianjiu asked immediately, dumbfounded.
"It's not that I want to spy on you. To tell you the truth, as soon as she arrived nearby, the several eminent monks on the rooftop of Famen Temple all became restless and uneasy, as if someone powerful was watching them. This time
Yue, I didn’t invite you to Dongzu Zen Monastery because I was afraid of setting myself on fire. I’ve already found out all about your identity. Although there’s nothing good to say, you’re not a sideshow or an evil person, so I’ll count you as a passer. From now on.
He said, "Come with me to the middle gate. There happens to be a shortage of cleaning novices at the Dongzu Buddha statue, so you can go there and take charge."
"No way? You still have to sweep the floor...?" Tianjiu almost fainted. Of course, he was also secretly happy in his heart. His fight against the Buddhist army at Xianlu Peak was not mentioned. It seems that the old monk is still relatively
Generous and kind.
"Hmph! What else do you want? Since you have nothing to do with this female benefactor, stop getting entangled and practice Buddhism well. Aren't you at the end of the golden elixir? Don't you want to have a baby as soon as possible?" Kudeng was a little unhappy.
road.
"Eh? Having a baby?! Okay, okay! Good to have a baby, I will follow you to the Dongzu Buddha." Tianjiu's eyes were shining brightly, and he looked overjoyed when he heard that he could have a baby.