The Master teaches the real person what he says and follows the Dharma

Chapter 37 The Hell-Suppressing Dog
It was night, and the moon and stars were scarce.

Ahead, to the right, there is a lake, reflecting the moonlight, clear and bright.

The night wind blew, causing waves to appear on the lake, but the waves shimmered like pieces of silver-white scales.

But looking from a distance, I saw a huge figure emerging from the lake, shaped like a hound and as big as a hill.

It looked ferocious, roared lowly, threw itself into the lake, and opened its mouth to swallow the moon in the water.

It kept rolling in the water, roaring and roaring, setting off stormy waves, and finally looked up to the sky and looked at the moon, maintaining this posture, and sank into the lake.

After a while, the wind and waves were calm, the lake was silent, and the moonlight reflection remained the same, as if nothing had ever happened.

"..."

Bai Yuan was silent for a moment, and then said: "Master, did I see it wrong just now?"

Lu Wan shook his head slightly, with a solemn expression.

Bai Yuan paused for a moment and then said: "Did the master just shout 'Run'? Are you also afraid of dogs?"

"You read it right, but you heard it wrong."

Lu Wan said this with no expression on his face.

At this moment, the voice of the Fourth Ancestor finally sounded.

"It turns out this is Xiaoyue Lake."

"Master, are you finally awake?"

"..." The Fourth Patriarch Yanfa Dao Lord always felt that there was something in this boy's words, so he couldn't help but muttered: "A quarter of an hour ago, at nightfall, I woke up."

"Then why did Master pretend to be dead just now?"

"It's not like pretending to be dead. I'm already dead."

"..."

"Actually, I noticed the change here from afar, but I mistakenly thought it was the Pluto Sect's mountain-guarding demon king and the prison-suppressing divine dog who had come back to life!" The fourth ancestor's tone seemed a little solemn: "That guy's innate magical power can restrain the soul, so He specializes in eating souls and likes divine souls the most... If I was alive, I would naturally have nothing to fear, but now that only the divine soul is left, I must avoid it."

"So you, old man, are hiding?"

"What do you mean by hiding it? It sounds like I'm afraid of it, Master. Mainly because I'm afraid that the divine soul energy will leak out and cause trouble for you..."

The Fourth Patriarch's voice was slightly lowered, and he defended himself before saying: "Now that the Headmaster's Token and the Divine Thunder Tree are integrated into one, and rooted in your sea of ​​consciousness, if you die, I will probably be wiped out in ashes... "

When he said this, he felt that the explanation was not clear, so he continued: "According to the classics, the origin of the prison-suppressing dog is mysterious. There are rumors in the world that it was brought back from the Netherworld Hell by the founder of the Pluto Sect. It is so fierce and powerful. It is also extremely picky about food, and if it were an ordinary casual character, it would not eat it.”

"You think that people will think that my cultivation is too shallow, that my meat is not of good quality, that I am not nutritious, and that I may have a bit of a toothache, so you think that the prison dog is too lazy to eat me?" Lu Wan looked a little complicated.

"That's not what I mean. After all, you have two real flowers, and you still have the ability to escape! And the prison-suppressing dog is extremely proud in the classics, and it will not lower itself to pursue you. She...well, I admit it, just because I have decided that I am too lazy to feed you, a mere Qi refining state."

The fourth ancestor was a little depressed and said: "As long as I hide, the prison-suppressing divine dog will basically ignore you, an ant! Even if it doesn't like you, it will just follow you and swat a fly. As long as you use the divine flower Who would chase a fly if they have no ability to escape?”

"If the master doesn't know how to explain it, there is no need to explain it to the disciples." Lu Wan, the fly Taoist, couldn't help but said depressedly.

"What is an explanation? This is a clarification!" The Fourth Patriarch was obviously quite dissatisfied with this term, and said, "If all the sects in the future wake up and learn about this, they will not be allowed to ridicule me?"

Having said this, he continued: "At first, I thought that if I had warned you at that time, there was a high possibility that the power of the soul would be noticed by the prison dog, and then it would definitely hunt hard and pursue it relentlessly! But now it seems that it is not the prison dog..."

"Then what happened to the vicious dog in Xiaoyue Lake? Since you, the old man, felt threatened, why did you wake up again now?" Lu Wan asked in a low voice.

"Because it is already dead." The Fourth Ancestor sighed.

"Huh?" Lu Wan was stunned for a moment.

"It died 160 years ago, and just now was its remnant." "Just a wisp of remnant, can it be so shocking?"

"It was a monster at the peak of the Cauldron during its lifetime!"

"Casting a tripod..." Lu Wan looked solemn when he heard this.

"It is entrenched in Xiaoyue Lake, and it has never brought harm to all parties. Instead, it often scares the monsters in the southern mountains. Invisibly, it protects Qujiang County and the south of Ziyang Territory... so I, Xuantian Temple, acquiesce. Because of its existence, the imperial court even wanted to consecrate it to a god."

"And then what?"

"It rejected the throne, and then it got into trouble."

"Damn it?"

"There are rumors in the outside world that it has inherited the inheritance of the prison-suppressing divine dog in the past. It involves the Pluto Sect, and the court wants to capture it! But in fact, it has been more than 20 years since it inherited the inheritance of the prison-suppressing divine dog. It is a god. A prince from the capital royal family wanted to surrender it as a mount, but he just found an excuse because he was famous!"

"So it was beheaded by the imperial court?"

"No, when Si Tianjian came, he found that it was gone."

"Gone?" Lu Wan thought for a moment and said, "When you said 'gone', did you not just mean 'dead'?"

"It's just gone." The Fourth Patriarch whispered: "After all, our Xuantian Temple is the number one sect in the Ziyang Region. Although Qujiang County is in the neighboring county of Kaiyang Mountain, the government also gave it a certain degree of respect! So back then I I came to see it in person..."

"It's like being attacked and eaten while trying to break through to the realm of refining gods."

"Being eaten?"

"Yes, I have always wondered which ferocious devil is capable of eating raw even at the peak of the Zhuding Cauldron!"

The Fourth Ancestor paused and said: "And based on clues, I can infer that when it was eaten alive, I was on Kaiyang Mountain... and didn't notice anything strange!"

"With your old man's cultivation, even if we are one county apart, in a fierce battle, we should not be able to hide from your perception."

"So I believe that there was no fierce fight at all, just a confrontation, and the howling moon divine dog at the peak of the cauldron was eaten alive."

The Fourth Patriarch couldn't help but sigh and said: "Not only was the physical body eaten, but even the soul that was about to become a Yin God was eaten away..."

"To this day, I still don't know what kind of lunatic that guy was back then. He is so insane!"

After finishing speaking, the Fourth Ancestor suddenly fell into a long silence.

Lu Wan thought he had finished explaining and didn't want to say more.

But the next moment, the Fourth Patriarch was heard saying in a low voice: "So, something is wrong?"

"What does the master mean by this?"

"The body and soul were all eaten away. There is only a trace of remnants of the past. After more than a hundred years, they have long since disappeared."

"Then what do you mean by old?"

"There was something wrong with that dead dog just now." The Fourth Patriarch was a little surprised. After a moment, he said: "Xiao Liu..."

"The disciple understands your old man's firm spirit of not fearing life and death for his lofty beliefs, but the disciple is completely unwilling to dedicate his life to the 'research cause'!"

"That's not to say..." The Fourth Ancestor whispered: "It has died a long time ago. It is just a trace of residual thoughts. It is not dangerous. I suspect that it just passed away in a flash."

"Gone in a flash?"

"Yes! I am [-]% sure that this trace of its lingering thoughts will not reappear."

"What's the difference between being [-]% certain and risking death?"

(End of this chapter)