I want to embrace the moon for nine days

"Hey, what happened? Master Tianjue's mind actually fluctuated violently, causing the demonic energy of Zhongyue Demon God to fluctuate along with it?!"

In the side hall on the left side of the Main Hall, a door suddenly opened and a figure walked out. It was an old man with white hair and brocade clothes, who looked energetic.

He was none other than Beitang Ao, the Holy Duke of the imperial court and a master of swordsmanship. It was said that he used the sword not for its sharpness but for its virtue, and therefore he was also known as the "Holy Sword" in the martial arts world in his early years.

If it weren't for the example of Sword Saint Dugu, who was famous all over the world, he would probably have been called a Sword Saint long ago.

But in recent years, what has troubled him most is his own kendo.

Among the Five Mountains Sword Sects, the Zhongyue Sword Sect declined the earliest. In less than a hundred years, it was merged into the Shaolin Sect. Its swordplay books were also hidden in the Shaolin Scripture Pavilion.

When the Conference of the Five Great Masters was held that year, the other four Yue sword sects, at first, had a mentality of thinking they were famous and looking down on the mob, and so they did not participate. Therefore, the sword skills of the four Yue sword sects were separated from the Four Directions Supreme Yuan Gong, and there were a total of eight sets of secret manuals.

By the time the Five Great Masters Conference came to Zhongyue, their reputation had already grown. The Shaolin School also saw the opportunity and took the initiative to offer their classics.

Therefore, the Zhijue Yuan Gong used to strengthen the seal of Zhongyue was integrated with the sword skills of the Zhongyue Sword School and was called "Tianxuan Beidou Sword".

This "Tianxuan Beidou Sword" has a total of seven moves. After Beitang Ao mastered the first six moves, he had already stepped into the realm of ghosts and gods. Over the years, he could not wait and wanted to master the seventh move.

However, the seventh form has a huge flaw. It is said that once it is performed, the person may die on the spot.

When he met the monk Tianjue once and this flaw was pointed out to him, Beitang Ao almost wanted to kill him, but after weighing the pros and cons, he endured it and acted as if he was humbly seeking advice.

To his surprise, the monk was secretly a man of big ambitions and big plans, and he was really willing to help him make up for his shortcomings, just as an alliance.

Over the years, the two of them have gradually discussed possible ideas for resolving hidden dangers. Recently, their grand plan is about to be officially implemented, and Beitang Ao simply moved to Zhongyue to live and officially go into seclusion for deep cultivation.

When he entered the side hall, he specially shaved his head and made it bald. Now when he came out, his white hair was only two inches long and stood upright towards the sky.

But looking at the smile on Beitang Ao's face, you can tell that he is in a very good mood, and it is obvious that his retreat is going very smoothly.

"This……"

Beitang Ao took two steps and found Qiu Xiaochi. He was shocked and asked, "How could he be injured so badly? Is this what made Master Tianjue angry?"

Monk Tian Jue said calmly: "If it is just such a small matter, then it is fine. The trouble is that Ci Hang and Yi Shui Han may have made a mistake. A group of people have defeated them and taken away the Dongyue Demon God."

Beitang Ao's face turned stern: "Who is it?"

Monk Tian Jue was about to answer when he suddenly turned his head and looked up at the sky: "It's coming so fast!"

In the distant sky, a small dot suddenly appeared, instantly enlarged, and turned into a colorful cloud, which had already reached the sky above the Shaolin Temple.

The tail of the colorful cloud is as thin as a ray of light, and it connects to a place hundreds of miles away that is beyond human vision.

There were three figures on the cloud. Su Hanshan was in the middle, with his hair tied up with golden needles. The ends of the needles were like a folding fan. He had dark eyebrows and bright eyes. He was wearing a white robe with the entire text of the Tao Te Ching embroidered with silver thread all over the sleeves and corners of the robe.

Fahai and Shu Dao Nan were on the left and right, the monk looked calm and the strong man was drunk.

"Namo Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva!"

Fahai chanted a Buddhist name, looked towards the main hall, and said solemnly, "Twenty years ago, I came to Shaolin, and I seemed to have met Senior Brother Tianjue at that time. I never thought that Senior Brother Tianjue, who was so calm and taciturn, was secretly involved in so many turmoil in the martial arts world."

"It seems that the connection between Qiu Xiaochi and the Beiyue Demon God is also Senior Brother's plan?"

Monk Tianjue took in the three people on the cloud at a glance, and it was hard to tell who his attention was mainly focused on. He raised his hand slightly to the side.

Qiu Xiaochi, whose injuries were still recovering, was startled and turned around and shouted, "Master?!"

Before he finished speaking, his entire body turned into a ray of light that was as fast as lightning and disappeared into the palm of Monk Tianjue.

Traces of spiritual light merged with the old monk's palm lines, and endless Beiyue demonic energy emanated from his palm lines, but it was unable to leave the surface of the skin and did not extend beyond the range of one palm.

Everyone present was an expert. They couldn't see clearly before, but after witnessing the fusion process, they could naturally see it.

I'm afraid that Qiu Xiaochi was equivalent to an incarnation of the old monk from the beginning, but this incarnation had independent consciousness, independent practice, and life trajectory, and the two had different minds.

Su Hanshan saw more and raised his eyebrows: "It turns out to be like this, it seems that the North Mountain Demon God has been assimilated by you a long time ago. No, not only that, in addition to the North Mountain and the Central Mountain, you also have the aura of the West Mountain Demon God. It's very unusual!"

"Namo Ksitigarbha. I can tell at a glance that someone like Cihang is not a human being."

Fahai stared at the Tianjue monk, his eyes flashing with golden light, and he was sincerely puzzled, "But Brother is so deeply involved with the evil spirit, yet he is so comfortable with it. I really don't understand."

"Maybe it's because my fate with the Water Spirit Demon God is deep and long."

Monk Tian Jue said slowly, "When I met the Water Spirit Demon God, there was no such thing as the Five Mountains Seal in the world..."

Monk Tianjue, this is already his third life.

In his first life, he was the leader of a sect in southern Xinjiang, known as the Moon Worshiper. Although he was skilled in witchcraft and sorcery, he was a scholar who learned from the heaven and earth, and his practice was perfect. He was magnanimous and had his own style, and his demeanor was quite impressive.

However, as he had a high level of cultivation, he traveled around the human world and saw through all the aspects of the human soul. He only felt that the world was full of hypocrisy, and people were just forced to live together, making do with their lives, and torturing each other. In this vast world, wherever there were people, there were only troubles and pains, and there was no place without worries.

Since humans are the root of evil, it is better to use water to cleanse the heavens and earth and purify the world.

At that time, the Moon Worshiper had already found the Water Spirit Demon God. He worked hard to remove all restrictions on the Water Demon. The two of them were almost of one mind and were determined to launch a world-destroying flood.

But at that time, a sword demon in the world actually led people to resist the devil.

The Moon Worshiping Sect leader felt very confused. He had heard about the deeds of this Dugu Sword Demon. In his opinion, this man looked everywhere for sword-fighting sects and attacked them, but he actually didn't kill many people. The only time he accidentally injured a righteous man, he also destroyed his own sword.

Moreover, this person listed all the flaws in swordsmanship of various schools on the door panel, but did not take the initiative to publicize the details elsewhere. It is obvious that he just wanted to guide others to improve.

Unfortunately, no one understood his intentions and instead wanted to tarnish his reputation.

Water is good at benefiting all things without competing, and it stays in places that people hate, so it is close to the Tao.

This Dugu Jianmo is a being very much like water. Why would he oppose the grand cause of cleansing the world with water?
Unfortunately, Dugu was a man of few words and he never answered the Moon Worshiper's questions.

Moreover, in that battle, the Moon Worshiping Sect was not only facing Dugu Jianmo.

Sword Master Dugu separated the water spirit demon and defeated it with his sword skills, gaining the upper hand.

The Moon Worshiping Leader was filled with doubts, his body was damaged, and he also had to deal with the people around Dugu Sword Master.

Among them was someone who used a Drunkenness Spell to break the Moon Worshiper's protective body skills, leaving him seriously injured.

Call upon the gods to drink together for eternity, and have no regrets even if you die nine times in your life!

It was a sword of drunkenness, of indulgence and unbridledness, full of worldly atmosphere and vulgarity, completely different from the transcendental Sword Saint Dugu.

But it is said that the swordsman who created the Dionysus Curse is the one who has the best relationship with the Sword Master Dugu.

I have no regrets even if I die nine times, I call on the gods to drink together, even the gods in heaven will be intoxicated, because the world is worth it.

The Moon Worshiper, who originally believed that the ugliness of the world must be cleansed, became a little curious because of the Holy Demon in the Sword and the Sword Immortal in the Wine.

The depth of his connection with the Water Spirit Demon God is beyond imagination. At the moment of his death, he was blessed by the source of the demonic energy. He wandered in the human world for a long time and was actually reincarnated and had a second life.

In this life, he was born in the Western Regions and had a noble family background. He no longer spent his whole life studying books, traveling around the world, and being indifferent.

On the contrary, in this life, his emotions were easily excited. He only liked to read about stories with ups and downs, and he only liked to practice martial arts involving extreme emotions.

It seemed as if he came here specifically to experience the great love and hatred, great worries and great loves in the world.

At that time, he had not yet awakened to his previous life, but he already had a great reputation in the martial arts world. He was a well-known martial arts fanatic, a madman, and the poison king of the Western Regions.

Later, he heard that there was a problem with the seal of the Five Mountains left by Dugu Jiansheng and others. He was very curious and hurried over to join the Five Wonders Conference.

At that time, he had already begun to awaken his previous life, and soon became one of the five leaders elected by the Five Absolutes Conference. Many people suggested that he be responsible for the seal of Beiyue, but his personality at that time was as sharp as gold, which was very different from his previous state of mind. He avoided Beiyue and deliberately chose to seal Xiyue.

His choice also created a strange thing.

Among the five leaders, the one with the most heroic and fiery character chose Beiyue, and actually created a set of skills that could strengthen Beiyue's seal.

The one with the most gentle and docile personality chose Nanyue, while the one with the most aloof and cold personality chose Dongyue, which has the most leadership qualities.

They deliberately challenged themselves, which made West Poison admire them very much. Apart from anything else, just talking about martial arts, they really had the same aspirations and lived a happy life.

Especially the most knowledgeable one among the five leaders, known as the "Great Hermit of Qingcheng", his real name is unknown and his origins are mysterious, all he said is that he is a swordsman who lives in seclusion in Bashu.

In name, he was only responsible for the seal of Zhongyue, but in reality, he visited all the seals of the Five Mountains. He participated in and provided guidance on the reinforcement of each seal and was highly respected.

Sometimes, Xidu would wonder if this fellow was the Sword Master Dugu who had changed his name and was hanging around.

After all, the seal of the Five Mountains was established by Dugu. They, the Five Great Masters Conference, were nominally studying Dugu's relics, and each of them had made new progress.

Only the Qingcheng hermit, at certain unintentional moments, would vaguely give people the feeling that his cultivation and attainments were originally in line with the highest level of Dugu's swordsmanship.

But no matter who the "Great Hermit of Qingcheng" was in the past, he was a ghost and a god, and was envied by heaven. He was indeed extremely old and would not live long.

Throughout his life, West Poison was a man who dared to love and hate and was unscrupulous. When he heard that the Hermit of Qingcheng had died, he suddenly became curious. On the one hand, he wanted to see if he was really dead, and on the other hand, he was also interested in the secret martial arts he left behind, so he broke into his house.

Who would have thought that this fellow had been on guard against the Western Poison for a long time, and had held off a breath, and had specially calculated a trick against him. He had also had secret discussions with the leader of the South, asking Nanhuo to defeat Xijin and take advantage of the situation to pursue him.

After this battle, West Poison experienced the first crushing defeat in his life, but he did not take it seriously. After all, although he had some comradeship with those people, they had long been both enemies and friends. After failing once, he would just go back and continue to practice hard.

He experienced his own anger, and after the anger there was actually a hint of surprise. He still felt that human love was indeed a very good experience.

But starting from this year, he experienced too many changes. His son has always been in awe of him and refused to get close to him, and even gradually developed resentment towards him.

In his later years, he found a clever apprentice and was prepared to pass on the true teachings to him. However, this apprentice later killed his son and tried to deceive, fool and use him, but he saw through all these and shot him to death on the spot.

In a rage, he entered the martial arts world and experienced many twists and turns. Both the good and evil factions became enemies with him, which finally made him feel exhausted and he returned to his hometown.

His son's mother had a low level of cultivation and had deep feelings for him in the past, but he thought such feelings were too slow and weak, and that the woman could not practice martial arts with him, so he did not pay too much attention to her.

After the woman gave birth to a son who could practice martial arts and died, he kept the woman's soul in a snow plum tree. When he came back this time, he finally missed the woman of the past. Although weak, it was a true love. He couldn't help but take out the soul he had kept for many years, molded a body, and resurrected it.

The woman was very surprised at first, but after gradually learning about what had happened over the years, she became a little strange and sometimes looked at him with resentful eyes.

The Western Poison was very dissatisfied, and he went into seclusion to practice hard, wanting to travel through heaven and earth, searching the whole world for a truly good successor with a suitable personality and a sincere heart, with whom he could practice martial arts together.

As a result, when he was in a deep state of meditation, he received the blessing of the source of the demonic energy and vaguely comprehended the past and the future, and then he knew.

If he hadn't killed that disciple to pieces back then.

In the future, his apprentice will have a son, and that child's personality, aptitude for martial arts, and affection for him will all meet his requirements perfectly.

But this rare possibility has been destroyed by his own hands and cannot be replicated.

“Ha, hahahahaha!!”

Upon learning all this, the Western Poison was so angry that he laughed instead, and became possessed. He felt the erosion of the evil energy of Beiyue and Xiyue, and even felt the gaze of the original thing.

But the appearance of these things in this situation, even if they wanted to provide him with support, was a disturbance in his eyes. In a rage, he destroyed his own cultivation and eliminated all the evil energy that had invaded his body.

But he still did not die, and many years later, he finally had a third life.

In this life, he was an orphan adopted by Shaolin Temple. He became a monk at a young age. He was a relatively low-key person. He was neither indifferent nor wanton in love and hate. He awakened to his previous life relatively late.

The mixture of his insights from his previous two lives caused him to think deeply many times.

The world is not all hypocrisy and ugliness.

There is indeed true love in the world, but unfortunately, this kind of true love has a time limit, and the time limit is often very short.

It is easy to lose this sincerity due to the changes in the world.

So this time, he had new ideas and a big plan.

We must do big things, do big things, do something big that will allow everyone to keep their true feelings.

However, because he awakened relatively late in this life, his cultivation is still very ordinary. Although he recovers very quickly, he still has to consider many obstacles if he wants to do great things.

The most prominent obstacle at that time was Fahai of Jinshan Temple.

This person was not only the descendant of the old monk who was the leader in the south at that time, but also one of the top masters in the world at that time. He was known as a natural son of Buddha, and his cultivation progress was so fast that it was astonishing.

Although Monk Tianjue could rely on the accumulation of his previous two lives to quickly recover his former peak cultivation level, he couldn't say for sure what level Fahai might reach during the time when his cultivation level was recovered and Fahai had experienced such a long period of smooth growth.

Therefore, when his cultivation had recovered a little, he took the initiative to communicate with the Beiyue evil spirit that had been with him for the longest time, carried out a series of arrangements, and finally succeeded in making Fahai afflicted with evil spirits.

That incident also made it natural for him to have a disciple who was born with the demonic energy of Beiyue and had excellent qualifications.

It was also with the help of Chou Xiaochi's existence that Monk Tianjue got in touch with National Master Cihang and others, and gradually built a powerful alliance.

He made sufficient preparations and also learned some basic information about the time travelers such as Shu Dao Nan from the Original Things.

Unexpectedly, there are still unexpected changes now, and the situation has taken a sharp turn for the worse.

These past events only flashed through the mind of Monk Tianjue, without many details.

But since he conveyed this idea, everyone naturally caught the vague context.

Su Hanshan's eyelids twitched twice, and he glanced at Shu Dao Nan, and secretly transmitted a message: "You guys were too careful when spreading rumors. You actually managed to sew out such a monster."

"We have always spread rumors by casting a wide net. There are tens of thousands of rumors floating around. Which of them can be combined with real history and become a new historical river? It is not my responsibility or authority to determine."

Shu Dao Nan said firmly, "If you want to blame someone, blame time. This is the choice of the long river of time!"

"Then blame the devil. All the mistakes are the devil's fault."

Su Hanshan looked at the Tian Jue monk and said bluntly, "If it weren't for the demonic energy repeatedly adding fuel to the flames, even if someone had experienced two lifetimes like that, they probably wouldn't have the state of mind they have now."

Monk Tian Jue was very interested and asked with a smile, "Have you guessed what I want to do?"

Su Hanshan flicked his sleeves.

Bang! ! !
The roofs of all the palaces and buildings in the Shaolin Temple turned into clear water bubbles, floating away and disintegrating, revealing the scenes inside.

Hundreds of young and strong monks were sitting scattered in these rooms, seemingly chanting scriptures silently. They had all entered a deep state of meditation, with a faint scent of the Six-Syllable Mantra on their bodies.

But the masters present could sense without using their eyes that these monks were clearly disciples of Cihang, and were basically monsters. They should have been sent here in previous years to support Shaolin.

As for the orthodox monks of Shaolin, most of them were killed after Tianjue awakened, and no one knew where their bodies had rotted away.

This is what The Road to Shu was originally thinking, but when he really looked with his eyes, he found that in addition to these monster monks, there were at least three or four, and at most seven or eight monks in each room.

There were grey-robed novice monks, yellow-robed monks, and several chief Zen masters who wore cassocks and lived alone in a room.

These people all looked relaxed, peaceful, calm, and smiling, with endless joy on their faces, as if they were in paradise, with their bodies intact. However, Shu Daonan had not noticed their existence at all before.

"You cut off their relationship?!"

Fahai stared at these people for a while, and said in a deep voice, "It's the legendary move of the Tathagata Palm, welcoming the Buddha to heaven!"

Even if it is the Buddha, if he wants to go to the Western Paradise, he must first cut off worldly ties.

These Shaolin monks have had their ties severed and are no longer connected to the world, living in a state of non-interference with each other.

From Su Hanshan's perspective, this is a power that is similar to the lamp holder's concept of nothingness.

However, he himself must also be deeply involved in the Lamp Bearer's emptiness. Even if he reaches the seventh or eighth level and really pushes the concept of emptiness to the extreme, he himself will disappear.

On the other hand, although these Shaolin monks have also lost contact with the world, they have not disappeared, but are frozen in a certain state.

The person who takes action should be more at ease, and should not be in the posture of a participant, but rather a judge.

"You put them under the pressure of near-death, and they didn't know who did it. Then you suddenly rescued them and showed them your ghost realm. It must have been a paradise-like scene, allowing them to reach the happiest state of their lives amidst the ups and downs."

"These emotions are naturally true feelings, and you freeze their true joy forever and preserve it forever."

Su Hanshan glanced at the monks and shook his head.

“After seeing what happened to these people, it’s pretty clear what you want to do.”

"Use the power of the Five Devil Gods to build your foundation to the highest level in this world. It can both destroy the world and save it. Let all the living beings on this planet have a moment of bliss, and then freeze it forever."

Not to mention Fahai and the difficulty of the road to Shu, even Beitang Ao's expression changed slightly when he heard it, and he glanced at Monk Tianjue.

Obviously, even he, his ally, did not know the true purpose of Monk Tianjue in advance.

No wonder, Cihang was the closest to Monk Tianjue back then, but later became the one who was most wary of Monk Tianjue.

The golden-top Buddha lamp shines with the heart of Tao, emitting great light, and is determined to move forward on the path of continuous transformation.

It can be said that this idea is completely opposite to that of Monk Tianjue.

"what!"

Monk Tian Jue showed a sincere smile on his face, clapped his hands and said, "I didn't expect that you really understand me. You and I can be called fellow Taoists now."

Su Hanshan shook his head: "I don't have such a serious illness."

Monk Tian Jue did not take it as an offense: "Don't you ever have a moment when you want to hold back time and stop everything from changing?"

"Of course I do."

Su Hanshan admitted frankly, "But that would only be my feeling, not my ideal."

“I have enjoyed peace before, but peace is also a kind of passion, slowly simmering myself, and it is because of this vitality that it is beautiful and makes people want to keep it.”

"And your freezing of severance is a complete strangulation, which is no different from destruction. You clearly want to gain true love, but you destroy everything with your own hands. This is complete demonic possession."

Tian Jue wrapped the long rosary around his hand, lowered his eyes and said, "I have never been possessed by the devil. When I have built this paradise, I will use the inspiration of the original things to walk to him step by step, leaving behind new paradises one after another."

"Until the end, I will convert even the original unwise demon! What it wants is nothingness, but what I want is preservation. This is the difference between Buddha and demon."

He stood in front of the main hall, looked up, raised his hands above his head, and clasped them together again.

"Amitabha, I have attained Buddhahood."

Behind Tian Jue, a loud noise was heard in the distant sky.

A giant Buddha, so huge that its entirety was difficult to discern, emerged from the ground and stood up.

The place where the Buddha's feet are standing is still beyond the horizon. No matter how good the eyesight of people in Shaolin Temple of Songshan is, they should not be able to see it with their eyesight alone.

Because the earth is curved, the directions of the two sides are wrong.

But the figure of the giant Buddha was too huge, and it continued to expand, thousands of feet, tens of thousands of feet!

In a moment, the body of the Buddha made up for the difference caused by the curvature of the earth, and its upper body leaned forward in the vast clouds, allowing people in the Songshan area to see it clearly.

"Amitabha, I have attained Buddhahood."

"Tathagata, bear witness for me!!"

(End of this chapter)