Huh? Isn't this an adventure kingdom building game?!-Chapter 823 - 769: Suspected Old Acquaintance Returns (Part 2)
He single-handedly killed most of the evil cultivators entrenched in the city;
And after he entered Prajna Hall to study the cultivation techniques, he triggered a series of unusual happenings: the big guys near Cold Spring City were beaten so badly they had no temper left, all hiding to heal their wounds; the spiritual energy eruption is still dense to this day.
The entire Cold Spring City benefited greatly, with such a lucky star visiting, one must personally receive him no matter how busy they are!
"Master Zhiming, it’s been a while." After a simple greeting upon entering, Jiang Yuan couldn’t wait to bring up the important matter of meeting Abbot Master Faxuan.
It’s the future Black Tortoise waiting to be redeemed!
Needless to say, with the system for sure it can be pulled out from under the suppression of Cold Spring Temple, adding one more fierce fighter to the small courtyard!
Thinking of going out in the future with a future divine beast by his side, and being able to release Yan Xuan at any time, he couldn’t wait to see what it looked like.
Zhiming dared not be negligent and hurriedly went to ask for instructions, asking him to wait for a while.
After a short delay, Jiang Yuan finally met the abbot again, exuding a celestial and high-minded demeanor.
Only the details revealed by the system directly exposed the other party’s pretend carefree facade—for suppressing the increasingly irritable fierce beast Yan Xuan, this over-a-thousand-year-old senior stuck in one corner had become exhausted.
"Patron Jiang specifically seeks me today, what is the urgent matter?" Faxuan sat face to face with him, yet still could not sense the spiritual power fluctuation within him.
He couldn’t help but secretly marvel, in the vast world, nothing is surprising, unexpectedly there can be a cultivator who does not reveal a single flaw in front of him.
"Returning to Cold Spring Temple this time, I come for the fierce beast suppressed in the temple." Jiang Yuan got straight to the point: "It is naturally brutal and extremely difficult to transform, once freed from the seal of suppression, it will bring about disaster.
Moreover, successive abbots of Cold Spring Temple have paid greatly to suppress the fierce beast, now this hot potato might break out of the seal at any moment, could you allow me to go in and talk to it? If I can persuade it and eliminate the hidden danger, it would also be a merit."
Faxuan knew this human race cultivator was both formidable and mysterious, merely entering a retreat could create such a big stir, he must undoubtedly possess a strong destiny.
But he never thought, a seemingly gentle and refined young man, upon opening his mouth, revealed Cold Spring Temple’s secret over seven thousand years—only the successive abbots have had the qualification to know and take it to their graves!
Facing the crisis, he had to think deeply.
Could it be that the human scent on this young man was a disguise, actually being an accomplice of the fierce beast? Otherwise, how would he know such secrets?
Or perhaps, last time while in the temple in retreat, he glimpsed something?
"Alas..." Faxuan sighed without denying, clasping his hands together: "Amitabha, Patron Jiang you ought to know: Bodhisattvas fear cause, while sentient beings fear effect? A single thought requires careful deliberation, to cut the evil cause from the source, avoiding future malignant effects. I see Patron Jiang free and unrestrained, why involve yourself in such cause and effect to add unnecessary trouble?"
Oh? Sounds like the Abbot Master doesn’t want to pass the buck, truly a responsible Buddhist cultivator, afraid the populace will suffer as a result.
On the other hand, since hearing Xie Chenyuan speaking on the cause-effect theory of spying on the heavenly secrets, Jiang Yuan is also worried about getting involved in everything, if he handles something wrong and digs a pit for himself.
So for those whom the system didn’t clearly mark as needing to be killed, he tries to not kill and focuses on persuasion.
But now that the system has issued a task, clarifying the reasons, concerning life and death in two worlds, he must wade through this troubled water no matter what!
"Has the Abbot Master ever wondered: why is it that although the fierce beast has been sealed and suppressed for years, obviously not eating or drinking and unable to absorb or refine spiritual energy, it’s still as vigorous and untired?"
An open-book exam, Jiang Yuan struck the biggest doubt deep inside the other’s heart with a question.
"This old monk does not know, please enlighten me, Patron."
"The fierce beast Yan Xuan is not a demon beast, but a spirit of heaven and earth fallen into a demon. Not to mention over seven thousand years, even seventy thousand years, seventy million years, as long as the heavenly dao does not deliver punishment, if this world remains unscathed and unbroken, it can remain unscathed.
Thus, simply sealing and suppressing it holds no meaning.
Rather than bottling it up, let its resentment accumulate and after breaking the seal, abate even more in intensity, harming the living. It would be better to let me try to converse with it, maybe prompting it to turn over a new leaf, repent for its evil and cleanse its sins."
Spirit of Heaven and Earth? Can even fall to be a demon?
Faxuan, who took over the suppression task, had heard past abbots speculating on the fierce beast’s origins; this version he indeed had never heard.
"The suppression ground of the fierce beast is the temple’s secret important place, Patron Jiang wanting to visit and face the beast makes this old monk need to consider deeply." He felt very conflicted.
Afraid the other party is an accomplice in disguise of the fierce beast not yet discerned, if releasing the tiger back to the mountain, he would die a hundred deaths without being able to atone;
Also worried if what the other party says is genuine, where could another enlightened master be found willing to sacrifice his life to suppress and seal it for another seven thousand years?
Faxuan stepped out from the small Zen room, looked up at the sprawling stars across the sky, without a person to consult close by.
For over a thousand years, he adhered to the temple’s precepts, without handing over the heavy duty, not daring to utter a word about the fierce beast.
Now, a stranger from a mere encounter wants to see the fierce beast, and he can’t discern the other’s strength, how could he trust?
"Zhiming, do not alarm others. Go activate all the arrays in the temple; notify the protectors of the various halls, once the arrays engage the sealed barrier, the entire Cold Spring Temple enters combat readiness." After a while, Faxuan summoned Zhiming and instructed: "Then let the young novice monks take the temple’s inheritance and leave through the internal teleportation array, we must coexist with the entire temple and even Cold Spring City!"
"Abbot senior brother, what’s happened?" The other party complied, looking bewildered at the Zen room, not knowing what kind of message Patron Jiang brought causing such severe consequences.
Faxuan sighed deeply and shook his head without more words.
If the other party really is an accomplice of the fierce beast, having come this far, even a strict refusal would not make them give up. If a fight ensues, with the temple’s rituals attracting numerous demon cultivators, accidental injuries to the innocent are inevitable.
Might as well let him go and see, once in the secret realm, escaping would not be easy!
Fully prepared and ready to face death anytime, Faxuan then entered the Zen room, pressed a hand on the screen. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚
The silk-embroidered screen simmered like water with ripples spreading, the ink of the decaying lotus painting increasingly spreading.
Jiang Yuan noticed a faint black mist began to float in the air, a few seconds later, everything turned completely black!
"I’m terribly hungry!"
"I’m gonna eat people!"
The roar echoed, and it was only then he realized he had successfully entered the Sealed Land, soon to meet the fierce beast Yan Xuan!
Then, a thunderous roar fell into his ears, Jiang Yuan was taken aback—why does the fierce beast have a regional accent? Could it be a "fellow villager" who transmigrated here?!
"Patron Jiang, please proceed." Faxuan gestured for him to go, secretly on alert and guarded.
As long as the other shows any anomaly, even if sacrificing himself, he could not allow them to step one foot out of the secret realm!
Jiang Yuan politely returned the gesture, surveying the surroundings.
This place is truly damned dark, even with the Earth Mirror Book passive skill, able to see the surroundings clearly at night, it still proves challenging to locate where the fierce beast is.
The place where the two were was a cliff, contemplating how for over seven thousand years, one master after another persevered in such an oppressive environment, left him with boundless admiration.
No wonder they are genuine Buddhist cultivators, starkly different from the fake monks who gorged themselves and only crossed over the original population.
"Ahem!" Jiang Yuan couldn’t see where the fierce beast was, nor dare recklessly fly down the cliff, waiting for the chatter in the thick dialect to halt, he then coughed lightly, speaking loudly: "Yan Xuan, do you know your sins, you wicked beast?"
"Who? Who’s calling my name?" Yan Xuan was stunned, upon hearing his long-lost name, immediately perked up!
An old acquaintance visiting?
Wow hahaha, I’m finally going to regain my freedom!
Faxuan, whose heart was already anxious, felt like it died half as he listened. It’s over! They indeed know each other! Time to brace for a fight!
"Who are you? Quickly let me out!" If not heavily suppressed, Yan Xuan was almost about to jump excitedly, "Quickly, quickly! Throw that bald donkey over for a bite, I’m famished!"
Jiang Yuan: ???
The system suddenly stops displaying dialogue boxes?
What is there to say in this conversation? Am I just here to chit-chat with it, or should I exit the Wilderness World and search online how to speak Sichuanese, see if I can match the code for transmigrators?
