"It's Master Lokong's body." Li Xiuyuan was shocked.
Qingmei said that Master Kong went into the back mountain to fight with the tree demon, but he never came back. Although he knew that Master Kong was dead, he didn't expect that his golden body was actually hidden here by the tree demon.
"Now that we have met, take the master back with you to prevent your golden body from dying in the wilderness."
Li Xiuyuan stretched out his hand and grabbed it. The golden body was a little heavy. It was different from ordinary mummies. It had a special aura that seemed to calm the demons and cleanse the mind.
He felt that perhaps Master Liao Kong deliberately placed the golden body here to suppress the tree demon.
Otherwise, with Yan Chixia's cultivation level, how could she possibly defeat the thousand-year-old demon?
The fundamental reason is that the golden body of Master Liao Kong in Lanruo Temple is suppressed here, which prevents the tree demon from displaying much of his Taoism.
Only in this way can we explain why this thousand-year-old tree demon is so weak.
However, this kind of suppression cannot last for long. In a few decades at most, the golden body will rot and completely lose its effectiveness.
"It's a pity that Master Lokong was able to cultivate a golden body. In the future, it would be easy to become an Arhat after achieving perfect merit and virtue. However, because he could not survive one disaster, he had to go through three reincarnations." Li Xiuyuan sighed.
For Buddhist disciples, the human world is a sea of suffering and reincarnation is a painful thing. What they seek is to transcend reincarnation.
Therefore, for this kind of eminent monk who is just one step away from becoming a Buddha, having to undergo three reincarnations is undoubtedly a huge evil retribution.
Because after entering reincarnation, you may not be able to embark on the path of spiritual practice, and you may continue to sink to the point where you will never be able to reach this point again in eternity.
"It turns out that the golden body of a master is here to suppress the dryad. No wonder the dryad looked very scrupulous last night when I was fighting with the dryad. It seems that it is not only afraid of you, but also attracted by this master's golden body.
The body has suppressed a lot of Taoists, so it even sends female ghosts out to cause harm to the people, but I don't do anything, because the period of being suppressed is when it is at its weakest."
When Yan Chixia saw the golden body, she immediately understood what was going on.
"So this time the tree demon is in bad luck. Its destiny has been exhausted. This is the best opportunity to eliminate it." Li Xiuyuan said.
A few people left the dense forest first and returned to Lanruo Temple.
When they arrived at the courtyard of the previous monastery, they saw Ning Caichen sitting on the ground with a lost look, leaning on the doorpost and looking at the sky.
"Ning Caichen, what's wrong with you?" Li Xiuyuan asked curiously.
"Xiaoqian, Xiaoqian..."
Ning Caichen murmured to himself, letting out silly laughter from time to time, as if he could not extricate himself from some strange artistic conception.
"..."
Li Xiuyuan suddenly looked at him with a strange expression.
Yan Chixia said: "Looking at this stupid scholar, you can tell that he is fascinated by the female ghost. The female ghost's ability to seduce people is really great. Even Brother Xiahou fell into the scheme, let alone him."
Xia Houwu's mouth twitched: "There's nothing wrong with a hero loving a beauty. I didn't know she was a harmful female ghost. If I had known about it in advance, I would never have been tricked."
"Forget it, let's not talk about it. I've been playing all night and I'm a little thirsty now. Scholar, do you still have wine? Get a few jars out to quench your thirst. You still owe me three jars."
Yan Chixia was too lazy to pay attention to these trivial matters and looked at Li Xiuyuan with bright eyes.
"There's not much wine left. There's only one jar for each person. I'll treat you to a meal after the tree demon is killed."
Li Xiuyuan took out two jars of wine from the Ghost King's cloth bag.
Yan Chixia immediately rushed over like a wolf, grabbed a jar and opened the mud seal, greedily smelling the rich aroma of wine.
"What kind of wine is this? Why is it so fragrant?" Xiahou Wu was also attracted at once.
"Haha, Brother Xiahou, you have never drunk such a good wine in your life. This is the wine that was presented to the royal family from the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty. It is a rare wine that can only be seen in a hundred years. This time you can enjoy such a fine wine thanks to my blessing.
, don’t continue to pester me for sword competition in the future.”
Yan Chixia laughed and said, she couldn't help but pick up the wine jar and pour it into her mouth.
"Wine is wine, and a sword fight is a sword fight. These are two different things. Good things should be shared. If the worst happens, I won't get the reward for catching a wanted criminal, so I'll give it to you." Xia Houwu said.
"Who cares about your dirty money? I wouldn't exchange it for ten thousand gold for this fine wine."
The two people have somewhat similar temperaments. If it weren't for Xia Houwu's insistence on deciding a winner and winning the reputation of being the best swordsman in the world, the two might be one of the few close friends.
Seeing Yan Chixia and Xia Houwu sitting on the ground drinking, Li Xiuyuan ignored the two drunkards. He walked to Ning Caichen and placed Nie Xiaoqian's ashes in his arms.
"This is Nie Xiaoqian's urn. As long as this thing is in your hands, Nie Xiaoqian will come to see you again sooner or later."
"Is this Xiaoqian's urn?" Ning Caichen immediately felt excited, came to his senses, and then subconsciously hugged the urn.
Li Xiuyuan sighed softly: "But it is difficult for humans and ghosts to get together. You'd better be mentally prepared for this."
"Where there is a will, there is a way. I believe I can influence Xiaoqian with love and make her change her ways." Ning Caichen said.
"...This is not a question of love or not, but a question of different paths between humans and ghosts. If humans and ghosts stay together, either humans will be strong and ghosts will be weak. They will be subjugated by Yang Qi and die under Yang Qi. Or humans will die under Yang Qi."
Weak ghosts are strong, and people are eroded by the ghost's yin energy, and eventually die of illness on the bed. In short, forcing everything will only lead to a bad ending." Li Xiuyuan said.
It is more difficult for people to be with ghosts than to be with demons.
After all, monsters are living beings, and if they stay together, as long as the monsters don't absorb your essence and vitality, there won't be any problem for the two of you to live together for the rest of your life.
But ghosts can't.
"Mr. Li, I believe that my love can change everything. The ancients once said that where sincerity leads to gold and stone," Ning Caichen said.
"With your current IQ, I can explain some things to you." Li Xiuyuan said.
"Xiaoqian, Xiaoqian..."
Ning Caichen held the urn with a silly smile again, and was completely fascinated by Nie Xiaoqian.
In this case, Nie Xiaoqian probably didn't even need to use any ghostly skills to be fascinated by her.
Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said no more. After all, he was still worried about the matter with Qingmei. How could he have time to pay attention to the love between Ning Caichen and Nie Xiaoqian? He could put Nie Xiaoqian's ashes into the urn
Giving it to Ning Caichen is already considered as a month old. As for the future of this person and ghost, it is not up to him to decide.
I just hope that this love between man and ghost can have a perfect ending.
"I'm going back to the county. If nothing else happens, I'll be back before the afternoon."
He was going to the county to bring some people to move Qingmei's coffin, and he was also going to bring Yin soldiers to look for traces of the thousand-year-old tree demon. There were so many things to do, how could it be compared to Ning Caichen who just had to hold Nie Xiaoqian's urn and just wait.
That’s it.
Riding a dragon horse, Li Xiuyuan quickly ran towards Guobei County.