Volume Four, The Year of the Curtain, Chapter 27: The Beginning of the Bloody Road to Return
The senior brother said: "I don't understand why the master said this."
The lecturer looked at him and said gently: "You are a student of the Master, so you should know his temperament very well. If he really thought that killing Sang Sang would lead to the invasion of Pluto, he would have brought Ning Que and Sang with him.
When Sang returns to the academy, where will there be these stories from autumn to winter?"
The elder brother was silent.
"I heard that in Lanke Temple, Ye Su once said that the Taoist sect is doing the right thing, and we, the Buddhist sect, are doing what we think we should do. Only your academy has always done things that make you happy."
The leader of the lecturer looked at him and said: "You have no faith and no reverence, or you may be infinitely powerful, but if this continues, in the end you may find that you don't understand what makes you happy."
"I don't know if Master Dao is happy or not, but I know that he is hesitating now. He doesn't know what is the right thing to do, how to make himself happy. Please tell Master for me when you return to the academy.
Convey greetings and tell him that the future of the world depends largely on his current hesitation."
After saying this last sentence, the leader of the lecturer held a tin staff and boarded the carriage with difficulty. The sixteen horses neighed several times in pain and pulled the carriage slowly towards the outside of the temple.
Looking at the carriage slowly leaving, the senior brother remained silent, thinking: Could it be that the teacher would also hesitate? But if the teacher did not hesitate, he should have taken action long ago.
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Winter has left, but spring has not yet fully arrived. In the low mountains in the northern part of the Moon Wheel Kingdom, the plants are beginning to turn green, but hidden among the dead branches and frosty leaves, it always seems not happy enough.
The scenery on both sides of the mountain road is slightly desolate, and it is swept rapidly on the car window. It looks like a monotonous movement of color blocks. It is not much better than the dullness in the wilderness.
In the carriage, Sang Sang was wearing a fur coat and a thick bedding, with a pale face and a wine bag filled with strong liquor in her hand. When she felt cold, she drank a few big sips to warm her chest and abdomen, but she couldn't stop her coughing.
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Ning Que stared at the small medicine jar on the copper basin, carefully counting the time and coughing slightly from time to time. The injuries he suffered in Chaoyang City had basically healed, but there were still some minor problems with his lungs.
The arrow wound suffered by Sang Sang has healed under his careful care. What makes him uneasy now is that he wonders if she is running away continuously, and the cold aura in her body is showing signs of getting ready to move again.
A pungent smell of medicine gradually filled the carriage. He took off the medicine jar and put it on the floor to cool down. Then he took the wine bag from Sangsang and thrust a volume of Buddhist scripture into her hand.
"I can carry it now." Sangsang looked at him pitifully.
Ning Que's heart was as solid as stone and he remained unmoved, saying: "Master Qishan is talking about reading the scriptures and learning Buddhism. Even if you memorize the scriptures, it is meaningless. What you want is to understand the meaning of Buddhism through reading the scriptures."
Sangsang said: "I have read so many Buddhist scriptures, but I don't know if they are of any use."
"Hasn't it been confirmed to be useful in Chaoyang City?"
Ning Que walked to the window and said, "Just think about how powerful it is for the leader of the lecturer to utter Buddha's words. If you can learn that trick, maybe the cold breath in your body will scare you with just one command.
will disappear immediately."
Sangsang laughed and continued to read the Buddhist scriptures as instructed.
Ning Que lifted the curtain on the car window and looked towards the back of the mountain road.
It was desolate, with occasional evergreen pines and cypresses, but more coniferous forests that had not yet produced new leaves. His eyes did not stay on these mountain scenery, but fell further to the south.
I don’t know how my senior brother is doing now.
This is the thing that Ning Que is most worried about after leaving Chaoyang City, besides Sangsang's body. He just thinks that since he has left with Sangsang, there is no reason for the lecturer to continue at the risk of offending the teacher.
If you embarrass senior brother, then senior brother should be safe.
At this time, they had been hundreds of miles away from Chaoyang City. The seven masters and the Yuelun Kingdom's cavalry had long been abandoned without a trace. Ning Que asked the big black horse to choose a roadside to stop and rest.
After getting off the carriage, Ning Que looked at the detailed landscape beside the road. He was very satisfied. He patted the back of the big black horse, filled up the water bag, started to stew the dried meat, and took the time to stuff an old ginseng into its mouth.
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The big black horse chewed up the old wild ginseng and swallowed it. It felt a little bitter, but he knew that it was a great tonic, so he was naturally embarrassed to express his anger to Ning Que.
This old wild ginseng, as well as the medicinal materials boiled in the traditional Chinese medicine vat in the car, were stolen by Ning Que from several particularly luxurious princes' mansions in Chaoyang City during the winter. They are all extremely precious things.
The dried meat gradually became plump in the boiling water, and a meaty aroma mixed with the smell of ham overflowed from the edge of the pot. The big black horse turned his head disdainfully and went to look for flowers in the fields beside the road to chew, trying to clear his mouth.
The old ginseng tasted bitter, but I found that there were not even a few grass roots. Where did the flowers come from? I was very annoyed.
"After spending the winter in Daqing Mountain, I really left you wild. Eating flowers requires someone like Senior Brother Eleven to do it. How do you chew them?"
Ning Que scolded him a few words and looked up to the sky.
The dark clouds were still following Sangsang. They were thicker and darker than when they were in Chaoyang City. They were like soaked old cotton wool and felt very heavy.
Ning Que felt very heavy. The clouds made him feel very depressed. When he heard the squawking and saw the dozens of black crows circling in the sky, his mood became even more depressed and irritable.
He really wanted to drive away these black crows, or even kill them directly. He shot them with a boxwood bow on the way, but it had no effect. He even wanted to try using Yuan Shisan arrows, but finally gave up the idea because
He was worried that these black crows could not be killed and he wasted precious iron arrows.
Whether it's the cloud in the sky or these annoying black crows, they always move with the black carriage, exuding an extremely strange smell that never abandons them, making people tired and fearful.
Ning Que had guessed the origin of the clouds and the black crows. The gathering of clouds might be caused by the cold breath leaking out of Sangsang's body, thus affecting the changes in the circulation of the heaven and earth. The black crows, which are both indestructible and spiritual, are more likely to be
The appearance of the cold and cold breath itself condensed in Sangsang's body.
The cold breath is the mark left by Pluto in Sangsang's body. This cloud and the black crow are equal to Pluto's methods. Once it involves the existence above the human world, it seems understandable no matter how weird and magical it is.
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Black clouds and black crows kept following the black carriage, which was a very conspicuous sign. Ning Que didn't know if Pluto could see it. But after encountering the Moon Wheel Kingdom's cavalry team one after another, he confirmed that many people had seen it.
The black carriage could no longer hide its whereabouts, and Ning Que and Sangsang's escape was equivalent to being watched by countless people, and they were forced to become upright.
In this case, Ning Que simply stopped thinking so much and ordered the big black horse to go as fast as possible, just hoping to reach the wasteland faster. Entering the vast wilderness, at the terrifying speed of the big black horse, the practitioners of Buddhism and Taoism
There are also Yuelun Kingdom's cavalry, so it will be difficult to catch up with them unless they also have a senior brother.
Rushing all the way to the north, it didn't take many days for the black carriage to successfully cross the northern territory of the Moon Wheel Kingdom and leave the country. It arrived at the sparsely populated wasteland.
It was just a simple sentence. In fact, the black carriage encountered many interceptions during the escape journey. It even almost fell into despair a few times.
The strong men of the two sects of Buddhism and Taoism, as well as Yuelun Fang, set up four interception lines in the north, and the most dangerous one occurred when the black carriage changed its route and tried to break out from the northeast.
The men of the Xiling Temple who were ambushing in the green ridge were moving north at that time, and happened to encounter a black carriage at the northeastern border of the Moon Wheel Kingdom. There were more than ten deacons of the Adjudication Department and more than a hundred of them in the Xiling Temple team.
The most terrifying thing about the cavalry guards is that there are two Taoist ministers who know their destiny.
When he saw this group of powerful people from the Xiling Temple, Ning Que's first thought was, when did the fate-knowing realm really become like cabbage? His second thought was how much power is hidden in the Taoist sect?
The third thought was of course to run away.
Nowadays, Sangsang is the enemy of the entire world. No matter how powerful Ning Que is, he can't escape as much as he wants. The black carriage can pass through so many blockades and meet so many strong men from both Buddhism and Taoism.
The most important reason for escaping until they crossed the national border and successfully entered the wilderness was that the big dark horse was too fast and had rich experience in escaping. There were always people helping them secretly.
Ning Que didn't know who was secretly helping him, but he only had a vague guess. It wasn't until he met the group of powerful men from the Xiling Temple, and those people were forced to reveal themselves, that his guess was confirmed.
Those who have been secretly helping them escape are the people from the Xiling Temple, including the deacons of the Judgment Department, ordinary priests, and two distinguished red-clothed priests.
In the sudden encounter on the northeastern border of Yuelun Kingdom, in order to protect Sangsang's successful escape, many people died, and the deaths were extremely tragic. One of the red-clothed priests once again used divine magic to self-destruct, seriously injuring the man who knew his fate.
The Taoist guest ministers, Ning Que and Sang Sang were able to break through the encirclement.
The wind in the wilderness is still slightly cold.
As one after another priests of Xiling Temple were exposed or died trying to cover the whereabouts of the black carriage during their escape, Sangsang became more and more silent.
Ning Que raised the curtains and looked at the familiar but familiar scenery of the wilderness. He thought about the tragic scenes during the escape and said, "They are all from the Temple of Light."
Sangsang hummed softly.
The black-clothed deacons of the Judgment Department, Taoists who came voluntarily from a certain Taoist temple, ordinary priests, and red-clothed priests, these people come from different places, and they are not all subordinates of the Guangming Department of Xiling Temple.
But these people have a common characteristic: they have all met a person, or studied with this person, or served this person, or even just talked to this person a few words.
And after having these experiences, no matter what these people become in the future - cold black-clad deacons of the Adjudication Department, Taoist ministers, noble red-clothed priests, or ordinary cavalry of the Xiling Temple - they will always follow them unswervingly.
Guangming, a person who thinks that he is the temple of light.
Because the man they met was named Wei Guangming.
Wei Guangming is the most amazing high priest of Guangming in the Xiling Temple for hundreds of years. He is also the biggest traitor in the Xiling Temple for hundreds of years. He is the person closest to Haotian in the eyes of the world.
His only descendant in the world is Sangsang.
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