The nun glanced at her and knew that this was Buddha Maiden's sister in the secular world. She turned around and pushed the door open. She came out after about a cup of tea and turned slightly to let the door open.
The door was closed after Xiao Yan entered. The light in the living room was very dark. The windows were covered with three layers of spiritual gauze, filtering the daylight into a thin layer of gray. There were a few wisps of extremely light sandalwood floating in the air, which was a real incense ground with spiritual wood cores. Each wisp of smoke stayed in the air several times longer than ordinary smoke, but it was not pungent. The smoke slowly spiraled up in the sunlight, forming a thin white curtain under the beams.
A curtain divided the room into two halves. The curtain was woven with Ice Silkworm Silk, and it was embroidered with Sanskrit scriptures, and each word shone slightly. Behind the curtain, a human figure could be seen vaguely, sitting cross-legged on the futon, motionless.
Xiao Yan knelt down three steps away from the curtain. His knees hit the cold gold brick floor with a dull sound.
"Sister, Yan'er is back."
Xiao Yan pressed her forehead against the floor tiles without daring to raise her head. After a while, a soft "hmm" sound came from behind the curtain, and she began to report.
"The marriage certificate was not brought back, and Lin Boyuan was teasing Yan'er from the beginning to the end. He pretended to consider it first, and after Yan'er showed all four things, he turned his face in public, drew his sword, shocked the Benhong elders, and drove Yan'er out." Her voice was very flat, but she still trembled unconsciously when she said the word "draw the sword", "He said that he would let Duke of Tranquil Peace talk about the divorce in person."
The human figure behind the curtain tilted his head slightly, as if he was a little surprised.
"Continue."
The sound came from behind the curtain. It was not loud, but it was clear, as if someone was talking to the ear. There was no emotion in it, neither angry nor happy, nor cold nor hot.
Xiao Yan's forehead pressed lower on the floor tiles.
"Lin Chuan did not take action. Yan'er followed her sister's instructions and secretly cursed Lin Feng in the main hall as a waste. She wanted to provoke him to draw his sword and test his true strength, but Lin Boyuan blocked both him and Lin Wei behind him and did not give Yan'er a chance at all."
"A monk moved." Xiao Yan raised his eyelids and glanced at the curtain, then quickly lowered his eyes, "A monk I had never seen before was a one-armed Middle Stage of the Qi and Blood Realm body cultivator. When he heard me calling Lin Feng a waste, he rushed out from the shadow of the side door. He came to block the way and forced me to apologize. I fought him twice, and he only used Arhat Fist. I used Boundless Ganges Sands Fist, the first move. Five punches were superimposed on his chest, leaving only a red mark. He punched with his backhand and broke through the three-layer shield. I was not injured, but the bracelet... cracked."
Xiao Yan took off the white jade bracelet on his wrist and put his hands above his head. Each of the white jade beads on the bracelet had a small crack.
"How does it compare to your strength?"
"His basic martial arts skills are superb, his body is strong, and his one hand is restricted. He is slightly better than my hidden strength."
After Xiao Yan finished speaking, she took out a bodhi-shaped jade pendant hanging around her neck from her collar, held it in both hands and passed it into the curtain. The moment the jade pendant left her body, the spiritual power that had been suppressed for a long time in her body finally began to run wildly, and her breath climbed upwards one by one - Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, Foundation Establishment Late Stage, Foundation Establishment Peak Stage!
At the same time, the swelling on the chest where Arhat Fist was hit quickly subsided, and the red mark faded away at a speed visible to the naked eye. It disappeared completely after three breaths, and not even a trace of bruise could be found.
Xiao Wan lightly touched the jade pendant with his fingers and placed it on the wooden table beside him.
"This little thing can't be handled well." The voice behind the curtain was still calm, "You don't have to worry about breaking off the engagement anymore. I will find a Golden Core monk who is good at dissolving marriage contracts to handle it. If I can't find a suitable one -" she paused, "I will go to the master. Nascent Soul True Lord to do it myself. Three Golden Core seals can be broken with just a snap of the finger."
Xiao Yan's pupils shrank slightly. The master, Nascent Soul True Lord of Brahma Sound Valley, the one who has been in seclusion for many years, Xiao Wan said to look for it, it was an understatement.
"Promise Holy Buddha Son, and you can't let it slip."
"Yes." Xiao Yan put his forehead on the ground again.
The voice behind the curtain did not stop.
"The second thing, I learned that this time Brahma Sound Valley sent you and I to the Myriad Stars Dynasty, Golden Summit Temple and Bodhi Monastery have also arranged manpower. Our target is in the third level of Star Selection, and we must get that thing." Xiao Wan's tone paused, "Bodhi Monastery is easy to deal with. Those old-fashioned people are rigid in doing things, but at least they act decently and won't stab you in the back. Golden Summit Temple people are hard to say. You know their methods. There is no bottom line in their actions. They dare to do any dirty work to achieve their goals."
Xiao Yan responded in a low voice, "Yan'er understands."
"Only when we find something like that can we get that glimmer of hope. If we can't find it, Holy Buddha Son will be blamed, and no one can save you and me." The figure behind the curtain finally turned slightly and looked directly at Xiao Yan, who was kneeling outside the curtain.
"When the time comes, you will be in the light and I will be in the dark. I will follow you as a maid to participate in Star Selection. If you fall off the chain again, I can't help you. This is your biggest fortuitous opportunity. If you can't catch it, don't blame me for not caring about the love of sisters in the world."
"Yan'er dare not." Xiao Yan pressed his head lower, almost burying his entire face on the floor tiles, "Yan'er will definitely live up to my sister's trust."
"Go out. Go pick a maid from Foundation Establishment Early Stage and send it to me tonight." Xiao Wan waved his hand, and the last trace of movement disappeared behind the curtain, leaving only the smoke of Ningshen Incense still lingering slowly in the air.
Xiao Yan walked backwards to the door, opened the door softly, and stepped out.
The moment the door closed, she took a big breath. The material on her back was soaked with cold sweat and clung to her back.
Benhong waited outside the door for about a stick of incense. The two nuns acted as if they had not seen him, keeping their hands clasped together without even raising their eyelids. Xiao Yan could go in, but Benhong could not.
Xiao Yan looked calm when he came out. He nodded to him, indicating that nothing was wrong, and Benhong turned around and walked towards the small courtyard arranged for him by Xiao Residence.
He came to Ten Thousand Stars City this time as the person in charge and needed to attend on behalf of Brahma Sound Valley. This time he was originally going through the motions with Xiao Yan. The scene that should be performed was finished and the scene that should be supported was done. In the remaining time, he only needed to wait for Star Selection to start, and then go to the auditorium to sit for a few hours before returning to Gujiao.
The rest of the tasks will naturally be taken care of by Buddha Maiden's lineage, and it's not easy for him to get involved.
However, the scene he saw at Lin Residence today made him unable to calm down along the way.
He walked into the small courtyard, closed the door, and sat cross-legged on the futon. The dark red beads were slowly spinning on his fingertips. After spinning them for more than a dozen times, he opened his eyes and took out a palm-sized jade talisman for communication from the storage Law Artifact.
The jade talisman was gray-white, and its surface was covered with precise Spirit Rune, like an old man's face. He injected a bit of spiritual power into the jade talisman, and Spirit Rune began to glow. A subtle buzzing sound sounded in the air for about ten breaths, and then a voice came from the jade talisman.
"Senior brother Benhong? It's rare to find me."
The voice is young and clean, sounding like a teenager, but there is a slowness and calmness in his tone that only people who have lived for a long time can have.