Qin Tiexin leaned against the stone wall and was silent for a long time.
Chengxin. A born Buddhist, an abandoned baby picked up by the abbot outside the mountain gate, with seven vermilion marks on his head and a natural ring scar. He was literate at the age of three, debated scriptures at the age of seven, and his unearthed attributes Single Spirit Root were measured at the age of twelve. He has cultivated to Golden Core Peak in less than a hundred years, and Heavenly South Domain is the most promising Buddhist practice to break through Nascent Soul.
Then I went down the mountain and entered the mortal world, and met the Devil Artifact bracelet and the girl.
Then there was a siege. The girl blocked his sword, became possessed, and massacred him. He returned to the temple, the abbot was killed, and he was massacred again.
Finally, he took off his Buddha Bone Sarira Rib and sealed the bracelet with himself at the cost of his own death.
If Chengxin is right, he did massacre countless monks.
Jiang Lie Although the description of the two massacres in the record is brief, the two sentences "they were slaughtered by him overnight" and "all the high-ranking monks of the coalition forces were left forever in this Buddhist pure land" are enough to explain how many people died at that time. With so much blood on their hands, they cannot be considered innocent in any case.
But if the coalition forces were right, it was their greedy pursuit that drove Chengxin to a dead end.
The first siege was to steal bracelets. The second siege was to attack Pure Land Chan Temple under the pretext of exterminating demons and defending Daoism. However, after breaking through the defense line, they burned, killed and looted all the way. The abbot and several old monks took the initiative to leave the monastery and tried to negotiate, but the coalition forces killed them without even giving them a chance to speak.
And that girl.
The most innocent person in the whole thing, she could have walked away, but she chose to stand in front of Chengxin. In the end, she didn't even have a name in Jiang Lie's story.
Qin Tiexin pressed the back of his head against the cold stone wall, remembering his own experience.
There were many people and Demon Beast who died in his hands, but everyone he killed had a reason for killing. He killed those who should be killed and those who shouldn't be killed. He always made a clear distinction. So even if his hands were stained with blood, he never felt that he was a bad person.
Where is Chengxin?
Chengxin was not even willing to fight back at first.
When he was surrounded and killed, he fled with the girl all the way, from the exit of the secret realm to the mountain road of Pure Land Chan Temple, evading ambushes again and again, with more and more wounds on his body, but he never took the initiative to kill anyone.
He just wanted to go back to the temple, purify the evil spirit on the bracelet, and go back to his old days.
All of his crimes were committed after being eroded by the devil. To be precise, he did those things only after witnessing his loved ones being killed in front of his eyes twice and being completely swallowed up by the devil.
If there hadn't been that bracelet, if there hadn't been an accident in the secret realm, if the coalition forces hadn't gone crazy and attacked the Zen temple, if he was just an ordinary monk who spent his whole life chanting sutras and worshiping Buddha at Pure Land Chan Temple, then what kind of person would Chengxin be?
He should be a generation of holy monks.
Qin Tiexin put Jade Slip back into the storage ring. A thousand years have passed, and it is not his turn for future generations to judge what is right or wrong. But one thing he can be sure of is: Jiang Lie did not have much hatred for Chengxin in his last writing.
A monk whose head was split open by Chengxin, shattered by Dantian, and finally died alone in Blood Forest, wrote more sighs when recording all this. Maybe he looked away before dying, or maybe he also realized something during that massacre.
In addition to this story and last chapter, Jade Slip also comes with a detailed map at the end.
Pure Land Chan Temple structure diagram.
The first floor is the main hall and the residence of ordinary monks. It covers the largest area and has the locations of more than ten corridors and guest halls marked;
The second floor is the Sutra Pavilion and Lecture Hall, which store Buddhist scriptures and jade slips of Buddhist martial arts and martial arts by eminent monks of the Pure Land Zen Sect.
The third floor is the resource library, where Law Artifact, elixirs, Spirit Stone, and spiritual materials are stored in categories according to grade;
The fourth floor is the residence of the abbot and eminent monks, with the Zen rooms dedicated to the abbots of the past dynasties and the Seclusion Chamber of several elders marked;
The fifth floor is the Formation Hall, where the core formation of the entire temple's mountain-protecting formation is located;
The sixth floor is the bell tower, the highest point in the temple.
The map was drawn by the coalition forces during the attack on Pure Land Chan Temple, and is extremely detailed.
The location of every staircase going upstairs, every entrance that may be restricted, every duty point where monk soldiers are stationed, and even the characteristics and weaknesses of some protective formations.
It can be seen that the coalition forces made sufficient preparations before the attack and were determined to capture this ancient temple. Unfortunately, according to Jiang Lie, this map was not fully useful in the end. After the coalition forces invaded the temple, they fell into a frenzy of burning, killing and looting. Before they could break into Pure Land Chan Temple, Chengxin turned into Shura after his master was killed, ending the entire war at his own feet.
Qin Tiexin Keep in mind the structure of each layer of the map.
The formation hall on the fifth floor should be the location where the abbot and eminent monks set up the formation to refine the bracelets for Chengxin.
It is recorded in Jade Slip that at that time, all the high-ranking monks in the temple gathered in the formation hall and used their own cultivation to maintain the formation and help Chengxin fight against the devil. When the coalition forces broke through the mountain gate, the abbot and several senior monks forcibly broke away from the formation from the fifth floor and went downstairs.
The core of the seal is most likely in the formation hall.
The severed arm shook slightly on his right shoulder. The dark golden runes shimmered slightly through the clothing fabric, and the feeling of the same thing was clearer than ever, and the direction was pointing towards the heights of Pure Land Chan Temple.
It's time to leave.
But before leaving, there is one more thing to do.
Qin Tiexin took out the cold jade stone box from the storage ring. The lid of the box was opened, and thirteen Blood Demon Fruit were neatly stacked at the bottom of the box. The dark red peel glowed with a warm luster under the white light of the fluorite lamp, and the surface was as thin as a hair. The blood-colored veins were still beating slightly, like thirteen small hearts that were still beating, lying heavily at the bottom of the box. A strong and pure wave of Qi and Blood rushed towards the face, and even the formation pattern was stirred up by this wave of very faint ripples.
He picked up the top one, which was heavier than it looked. The weight of a single fruit was close to a hundred kilograms. The peel was warm to the touch, not like a fruit, but like holding a piece of warm jade that had just been taken out of the fire.
He put Blood Demon Fruit into his mouth.
The pulp melts in the mouth, with no core and no residue. At first, a very light bitterness flashes on the tip of the tongue, and then it turns into a mouthful of sweetness. A huge and pure Qi and Blood energy pours into the stomach along the throat, warm but not violent, like a warm current slowly spreading from the belly to the limbs.
It is not at all as greasy and rough as Demon Beast flesh, and the energy does not need to be repeatedly tempered to separate impurities. It begins to automatically integrate into the blood almost as soon as it enters the body.
Qin Tiexin Close your eyes and run True Fire Furnace Scripture.
The ball of Fire of Life in the ventricle suddenly ignited, and the halo circulated rapidly, incorporating the Qi and Blood energy that poured into the body into Flame bit by bit. After entering Qi and Blood Realm, the efficiency of Essence Blood was tempered. It is much higher than before. Flame of Fire of Life is the best furnace. Qi and Blood energy surges, concentrates, and purifies in Flame, and then is pushed into the blood vessels of the body along the meridians, and merges with the original blood.
Time flows slowly in the silent rock cracks.