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Chapter 246 History Dust
Before Liu Zilin's head fell to the ground, he seemed to be facing the empty underground palace, and said something emotionally.

He said... the sword belonged to their Liu family, and asked why the struggle of three generations of his family's ancestors could not compare to him, a ten-year-old carrot county magistrate.

It is said that the three brothers of the Liu family sacrificed so much to harvest the Dingjian, but he, an unrelated outsider, easily picked the peaches, so aggrieved and unfair.

He also said that those who harm female celebrities are also.This made him more uncomfortable than Ouyang Rong directly killing him.

Liu Zilin felt remorse, pain, and fear.

Ouyang Rong ignored it.

Finally, Liu Zilin raised his head and roared angrily.

But the head with these distorted expressions fell heavily on the floor, rolled twice, and stopped at the foot of a lotus pedestal that looked like a red lotus.

Ouyang Rong lay limp on the ground like a dead man.

Surrounding him were rows of headless corpses, quietly accompanying him.

An "arc" floated in mid-air above Ouyang Rong's head.

Not moving.

No trace of blood.

There was also a faint halo of clear blue light, which fell softly on Ouyang Rong's hair below.

The one-sided killing just now seemed to have nothing to do with it.

Well, just like the smile of a newly promoted first sword master in the past, it is harmless to humans and animals.

This person, a sword, and headless corpses all over the ground formed a strange picture.

The Pure Land Palace fell into deathly silence.

Not far away, there is a long sword of moonlight lying quietly beside the four-character stone carving of "Go back and come" under the lotus seat.

Its gray moonlight merged with the dazzling moonlight blooming on the stone carving at this moment.

On the four walls of the underground palace, the moonlight emitted by the lines of "Guiguilaixici" is getting stronger and stronger, and the moonlight is deserted, covering every corner of the underground palace.

Just then, a vision appeared.

In the empty underground palace, a strange figure suddenly appeared—the moonlight on the lotus pedestal condensed a little, gathered slowly and regularly, and finally outlined the shadow of a monk in cassock.

The shadow of this cassock monk is vivid, and even the long eyebrows that look like fishing with a fishing rod are vivid and lifelike.

He was sitting cross-legged on the lotus platform in the same posture as Ouyang Rong was sitting on the lotus seat just now.

It seemed that he didn't see Ouyang Rong next to him, messing with the corpses all over the floor.

The cassock monk stood upright with one palm in front of his chest, lowered his eyebrows, lowered his head on the floor in front of him, and wrote something earnestly.

He held up two fingers, and there seemed to be a light spot around the fingertips.

The monk in cassock used this as a pen, and the place where he left his words is exactly where the four dazzling characters of "Gui Qu Lai Xi" are located at this moment.

The positions are completely coincident.

The monk in cassock outlined by the moonlight has a calm expression on his withered face, mixed with a little sadness.

As if he had finished writing the words "Go back, come" on the stone slab, he slowly raised his head and looked at the hole above his head.

At this moment, there is a "rolling thick smoke" outlined by the gray moonlight, pouring into the underground palace from outside the cave entrance.

What the cassock monk saw seemed to be a similar scene.

From the perspective of an outsider, the light and shadow picture outlined by the moonlight in the entire underground palace at this time is much darker and gloomy, and it is faithfully reproduced.

Ouyang Rong didn't know when he got up, but he was also silently watching this scene.

He knelt down and supported his hands, spit out a mouthful of bloody saliva, covered his belly and turned over, sat on the ground, and looked up at the strange light and shadow scene in the underground palace:
On the lotus pedestal, the cassock monk was coughing like Ouyang Rong, but it was because of the thick black smoke from the fire outside the lotus tower pouring in.

The choking black smoke gradually drove away the remaining fresh air in the underground palace.

But the cassock monk didn't move at all, he clasped his palms together, and squirmed his lips to chant sutras.

The monk looked up at the mouth of the well.

Outside the mouth of the well, there was the faint roar of a certain mad emperor beheading the temple, the crackling of Buddhist scriptures and pagodas burning in the raging fire, and the wails of monks begging for mercy...the sound came across a hundred years of time and space.

The 400-year-old famous temple in the Southern Dynasties was destroyed overnight.

But he can't go out.

The monk who painted the ground as a prison slowly lowered his head.

At the fingertips, a light spot of lettering continued to fly out, engraving the next line of hasty cursive script on the four walls of the underground palace.

A piece of "Return to Come" and a lonely last word.

The monk in cassock sat withered on the lotus platform, in the billowing smoke, his eyelids slowly drooped, and finally he lowered his head.

In the underground palace, the strange moonlight inspired by inexplicable is silently reproducing the light and shadow of a hundred years ago.

Loop sketching over and over again.

The dust of history was swept away for a short time, and it became brand new.

The strange moonlight that fills the underground palace seems to contain spirituality. It is still an unforgettable scene that I witnessed a hundred years ago, and I will take the trouble to tell it to future generations.

The light and shadow in the underground palace are like a dream.

I don't know how long this scene lasted.

Until the moonlight long sword lying on the ground was picked up by a bloody hand.

Under the lotus pedestal, the four-character stone carving of "Go back and come" is slowly dimmed by the blooming moonlight.

On the four walls, a radiant piece of "Return to Come" was also extinguished word by word, returning to darkness.

Ouyang Rong picked up the sword, got up, and staggered towards the mural wall on the east side.

In a ray of sunlight above his head, there was an "arc" hanging alone, and he didn't even look at it.

In front of the murals, Ouyang Rong staggered and supported the wall with both hands before barely standing.

His fingers touched the cracks in the mural, and touched the old black gray wall below the cracks.

He looked down at his fingertips, which were stained with black ash.

If you guessed right, the old wall inside should be the original wall of the lotus pagoda underground palace.

The current mural walls were newly built by the monks of Donglin Temple.

From the last words behind the sword formula, it can be known that Master Zhongma is actually the last Qi refiner in Donglin Temple, or in other words... Ben is the last sword holder who mastered the "poor man" sword formula.

At the beginning, the Southern and Northern Dynasties fought for the tripod, facing the southward march of the Northern Dynasty, the royal family of the Southern Kingdom placed their last hope on the tripod sword.

The royal family of the Southern Kingdom made a bridge, so that the Donglin Temple of the Lianzong, the Meijia of Longcheng, and Yunmeng Jianze, in the lotus pagoda of this temple, made an oath of the Dao and signed the alliance of the lotus pagoda and sincerely cooperated.

As a result, good fortune tricked people, and the southern royal family was as fragile as thin paper, and it was also the perpetrator of the female red. The embryo of the half-forged tripod sword fell into the hands of the mad emperor, who ordered the Longcheng Mei family to continue casting swords.

The monks of Donglin Temple and the swordsmiths of the Mei family were worried that all the tripod swords would fall into the hands of a single husband, and in order to abide by the alliance of the lotus pagoda, they returned a new tripod sword to Yunmeng Jianze who had offered the "Ding" back then.

So the two sides cooperated inside and outside, tacitly took the risk of stealing the tripod sword newly cast by the mad emperor at the bank of Butterfly Creek.

The reason why Ouyang Rong suddenly realized not long ago is that the false object of the tripod sword is not a fixed object like the sword box, but the entire Longcheng County.

It is because Master Zhong Ma's way of stealing the sword gave him a blow:

At that time, on the day when the mad emperor had completed the sword-making process, the swordsmiths of the Mei family, like their predecessors today, deliberately concealed the truth of the "pretend"—in fact, the entire Longcheng County was a sword furnace, which not only washed the sword for the first time for the newly born Dingjian, but also served as its pretense.

So Master Zhongma sat far away in the secret underground palace under the lotus pagoda of Donglin Temple. Using only the three conditions of ninth rank, sword formula, and real name, he directly revealed the newly released tripod sword to the world and hid it in the underground palace.

The reason why Master Zhongma, as a master monk with exquisite cultivation, can also meet the harsh conditions of the ninth rank is because the Qi refining technique of the lotus sect possessed by Donglin Temple is very special, it can naturally dissipate the spiritual energy, and smoothly fall to any rank.

This is also the reason why Donglin Temple is eligible to participate in the Lotus Pagoda Alliance.

Donglin Temple possesses the Sword Art of the Unfortunate and has its own special Buddhist Qi training technique. Compared with other sects, Donglin Temple is more likely to maintain an orderly lineage of the legend of the sword bearer...

After the newly forged tripod sword was stolen, the mad emperor was naturally furious, and the heads of a large number of swordsmiths involved in the incident fell on the bank of Butterfly Creek. The nearby Donglin Temple also became a suspect.

Outside the underground palace, the eminent monks of Donglin Temple who concealed the cover for Master Zhongma almost died, and the ancient buildings of Donglin Temple including the lotus pagoda became a piece of scorched earth.

Master Zhong Ma also painted the ground as a prison, guarding the hypoxic underground palace.

Just to hide this tripod sword.

Several orthodox qi trainers in Donglin Temple died completely, and the lotus tower library room where the sword formulas and sect qi training techniques were kept was also reduced to ashes.

This is how Ouyang Rong saw in the strange light and shadow, Master Zhongma carved words in front of the rosette and on the wall, leaving sword formulas and last words.

only……

In front of the murals on the east side of the underground palace, Ouyang Rong shook his head as he stared at the dirty old wall behind the cracks in the murals.

If it wasn't for this weird moonlight, he wouldn't be able to see the remaining stone carvings under the black soot today.

Master Zhongma, who left a line of inheritance, did not know that the lotus pagoda outside the underground palace had been on fire for a long time, billowing black smoke filled the underground palace continuously, and the stone inscriptions on the walls were covered by thick black ash.

Decades later, the new generation of monks who restarted under the ruins and buried in the underground palace probably did not find these black and gray inscriptions, and even misunderstood Master Zhongma's suffocation and death, thinking that he became a Buddha in the flesh.

So they happily rebuilt the underground palace, the old walls were covered by new paintings on the walls, and the miracle of the ascension of the pure land was preached everywhere, ignoring the real precious legacy left by Master Zhong Ma.

According to Master Zhongma’s last words, this “Hidden Scholar” sword formula was given to a friend of the abbot of Donglin Temple by Tao Yuanming before he resigned from office in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It has been passed down throughout the Southern Dynasties.

As for why Tao Yuanming was the sword master of the "poor man" 400 years ago, and what kind of fate happened, it is temporarily unknown.

Ouyang Rong supported the wall, turned his head indifferently, and looked around the Pure Land Palace.

This is not the pure land of Master Zhong Ma, but his death land.

This is also the place where he, Ouyang Lianghan, died.

But the death of the predecessors changed the lives of the descendants.

He also became... the sword bearer of a new tripod sword.

"How can there be rebirth in the Pure Land..."

With a bloody face, the young man pulled out a miserable smile, raised his head and stretched out his hand, pointing to the blue sky and white clouds outside the mouth of the well:
"All conditioned dharmas are like dream bubbles, dew and electricity, and should be viewed in this way."

Ouyang Rong murmured, his crooked and belly-covering body was on the verge of falling, and he suddenly saw several wellheads swaying in front of his eyes, feeling dizzy from excessive blood loss.

In mid-air, the "arc" that had been static for a long time moved.

It seems to be approaching.

"roll."

Ouyang Rong sat down against the wall, lowered his head and wiped his mouth.

The little guy named "Jiang Zuo" had a meal.

In the next second, the rope ladder that was hanging down at the mouth of the well suddenly broke and fell innocently.

The little aura that was left in Ouyang Rong's body was completely emptied immediately.

"Bang"!The young county magistrate fell hard.

He frowned and turned his head violently, the "arc" in the air disappeared without a trace.

It seems to be playing away and leaving, not wanting to talk to someone.

Ouyang Rong silently got up.

The fetter of blood dissolved in water in the sea of ​​hearts still exists firmly and cannot be shaken off.

It's just that the wave of silent killing just now temporarily depleted the aura in his body, making it impossible to force it to appear.

At present, the entire Longcheng County is still a "sword furnace" made by craftsmen, which can be hidden at will.

Suddenly found that this tripod sword actually has a small temper.

Ouyang Rong lowered his head and remained silent...

After a stick of incense.

The backyard of Beitian Jiyangyuan.

A wellhead that was being protected by a stone fence suddenly flew out of a sword sheath tied with a rope and dropped it outside the wellhead.

Shaoqing, at the mouth of the well, suddenly a bloody hand stretched out towards the sky, grabbing the edge.

A blood-stained young man with short hair struggled to climb out of the mouth of the well.

This scene is somewhat similar.

Ouyang Rong climbed out of the underground palace alone again.

This time, a group of people went down and one person climbed out.

Ouyang Rong turned over and fell, leaning his back against the mouth of the well, gasping for breath, lowering his head to tear off the cloth, and treating the wound, the sunlight above his head made him squint his eyes, and opened his hands to cover the sun.

Outside the well, there is still Donglin Temple in Longcheng County under the jurisdiction of Jiangzhou, the southern road of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

It wasn't the missing manhole cover where he stumbled when he was taking the postgraduate entrance examination and worshiping Buddha in his previous life.

Ouyang Rong lowered his head, his face was not sure whether it was sadness or joy.On the ground beside him, there was a long sword of moonlight and a new bronze beast face.

He was still holding a bloody head in his hand.

With trembling palms, Ouyang Rong went to pick up the bronze animal face.

This was what he dug out from Liu Zilin's corpse, and it belonged to Liu Zian.

As soon as his fingers touched the mask, Ouyang Rong's eyes burst into purple.

He licked his dry lips, closed his eyes, and opened them again, the purple aura suddenly disappeared, and bells rang in his ears.

Another [-] merits equivalent to the last time were consumed.

In the merit tower, there are more than [-] merit points left.

A purple mist gushed out of his palm, wrapping around the mask.

At a certain moment, the mask suddenly stopped shaking and was completely refined.

Ouyang Rong lowered his head and put on his mask slowly.

then……

He saw the very familiar silhouette of a dull man in the mask.

"Hahaha……"

The young county magistrate smiled, with tears streaming down his bloody face, he lifted Liu Zilin's head in his hand and said:
"Ah Shan, you've seen it all... Liu Zi'an is dead, and Liu Zilin is dead, and now there are only accomplices Wei Shaoxuan, Qiu Shenji, and Liu Fu left, don't worry, come one by one..."

He slowly took off the bronze mask, revealing a pair of absent-minded eyes:

"It's my master, I'm useless, I was greedy for life and afraid of death, so I couldn't go down to accompany you."

The most painful thing in this world is that people who want to die fail to die, and want to die again, but... lack courage.

(End of this chapter)