In the silent night sky, a ray of auspicious light shot up from the ground to the sky, reflecting in a somewhat dilapidated temple ten miles away from the canal. The people gathered in this temple were all ragged, some run-down people. Many of them

They are the people nearby. Due to the current Holy Emperor's southern tour, they were expelled from their homes by local officials and took refuge in this desolate and declining temple. Their only hope is that the Holy Emperor of the Holy Spirit can pass over soon so that they can

Go home as soon as possible. But just a moment ago, one of them, who was ten months pregnant, suddenly gave birth. Perhaps because of sympathy for the same disease, facing the helpless cry of the woman who was about to give birth, although they could not help

They were busy in the morning, but they all gathered in front of the already mottled Buddha statue in front of the main hall to pray for her. Finally, as a baby cried, everyone finally let go of their clenched hearts. Everyone's originally somewhat sad hearts,

There was also a hint of joy at this time.

"Dong dong dong!"

Not long after the abbot of the temple had finished taking care of the newborn baby, he heard a knock on the door. After chanting the Buddha's name, the abbot had no choice but to go over and open the door. Because the Holy Spirit was on his southern tour today, the poor people within ten miles on both sides of the canal were

They were all driven away from their places of origin, and the wandering refugees could only take refuge in some Taoist temples. Although this temple in his place had accumulated some property in the past few years due to the promotion of Buddhism and Taoism by the current saint, it continued to provide financial aid.

, and slowly withered away. Nowadays, the livelihood cannot take into account all living beings, and how many people are willing to adhere to the Buddha's heart. In the end, the golden armor of the Buddha in the main hall was also secretly stripped off by some people with evil intentions.

"Amitabha! Why did the female donor come here late at night?" The abbot opened the door. Standing outside the door was a beautiful woman well-dressed, and judging from her dress, she probably didn't look like an ordinary girl.

"Master! This little girl came here with her family to visit her relatives. I didn't want to meet a bad guy on the road just now. I panicked and tried to escape, but I was separated from my family. Fortunately, I saw the lights of the Pagoda, so I came to stay. I hope the master will be merciful and take you in for the night.

"My little girl will leave tomorrow morning." The woman spoke softly and pitifully told her story.

"Come in!" The abbot let her in, and then said: "Female donor, there have been too many refugees in our temple recently. There are no wing rooms in the temple. There is only some space in the main hall. If the female donor does not feel aggrieved, please

Just one night."

"Thank you for your mercy, Master. I just want a place to stay, so that I won't die in the wilderness. It's okay to stay in the main hall."

The abbot did not expect that this woman was so easy to talk to. Women from ordinary families are either afraid of life or getting into trouble. No matter how bad the situation they encounter, most of them are not willing to live with others, let alone at night, and this woman... The abbot is in the heart

Although she was a little confused, but since she had seen a lot of this kind of thing recently, she didn't say anything more and led her to the main hall.

"Master, thank you for showing me the way. The little girl thanks you again. It's getting late. Please go and have a rest early." After thanking you again outside the hall, the woman turned and walked into the hall. The refugees in the hall were still surprised at the woman's beauty at first.

But the next moment, each one of them couldn't help but hide in the corner and didn't dare to move. They didn't know why they were like this. They just felt that there was an invisible force in the woman, which made them afraid to get close.

"It turns out to be here!"

Behind the Buddha, the woman finally found the newborn baby. The mother of the baby was still coaxing the baby to sleep. When she saw the woman coming over, she wanted to protect her baby. However, due to her recent delivery and long-term pain, she wanted to protect her baby.

Without food, she couldn't get up at all!

Dong Dong Dong! Three more knocks came from outside the door. The abbot, who had just returned to his room to rest, went to open the door again, but this time it was a young man who knocked on the door.

"Infinite Blessings!" Xiao Zhuo saw the abbot who opened the door and quickly recited the Taoist number to identify himself. "Master, has a girl come to stay here?" Tonight is the third night after leaving Luoyang. Xiao Zhuo originally thought that this night

It would be safe and sound, but when the auspicious light rose from the ground, two black shadows flashed out of the originally calm dragon boat. Those were two cats! Although the Xiaoguo Guards had fulfilled their duties, the two cats,

It was not enough for them to pay more attention to it. After all, they were not sure if this was a pet brought on board by a court official. When Xiao Zhuo saw the two cats on the shore, he hurriedly chased them, but after all, they were four cats.

It was an animal with legs, so after chasing for a while, he still lost the chase. However, guessing the purpose of the two cats coming ashore, Xiao Zhuo decisively chased them in the direction of the temple.

"Amitabha, there is, but Taoist Master, why are you looking for her?" The abbot felt relieved when Xiao Zhuo reported the Taoist name. After all, although Buddhism and Taoism are separate schools, they all exist for the purpose of saving the world.

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"To be honest, Master, that woman was a noble concubine on a dragon boat ten miles away. She fled in a panic while the Holy Master was drunk. I came to catch her and take her back!" Xiao Zhuo said this, and the abbot was so frightened that he quickly asked Xiao Zhuo to come in.

, while leading Xiao Zhuo to the main hall, he kept explaining, "Taoist Master, sir! The imperial concubine came to stay late at night. I really didn't know that she was the imperial concubine. Please don't blame her!"

"He who does not know is not guilty!"

Xiao Zhuo followed the abbot to the main hall. As soon as they stepped into the courtyard, they saw a woman wearing orange clothes walking out of the hall, and the woman was holding an infant baby in her hands. Seeing this, Xiao Zhuo raised his hand with one hand.

Stopping the host who was still coming forward, he stepped forward and angrily shouted: "Yuan Ziyan!"

"It came quite quickly!" Yuan Ziyan replied, and the other hand reached towards the baby's neck, but five bloody nails grew out of the originally green and jade-like fingers. "If you are

Come here again and I will kill him!"

"Didn't you originally want to kill him?" Xiao Zhuo remained unmoved and continued to walk forward. "If he really died today, it would be his fate. Anyway, it was just a reincarnation. At worst, he would have to start a new life.

What's more, if I let you go, more babies will die in your hands in the future, and in terms of justice, he will be considered a worthy death!"

"If you say something like this, what kind of Taoist do you think you are?" Seeing Xiao Zhuo getting closer and closer to her, Yuan Ziyan quickly threw the baby towards Xiao Zhuo in order to give herself time to escape.

"Golden light appears quickly and protects me!" Xiao Zhuo was still reciting the golden mantra silently in his heart, but when he saw Yuan Ziyan's move, he quickly recited the last sentence, jumped forward, and picked up the fallen ball with one hand.

The baby, while catching the baby, turned around sharply and protected the baby in front of him with his body.

Chi! Chi! Chi! Three sharp sounds came from behind Xiao Zhuo. Yuan Ziyan behind him indeed took the opportunity to launch a sneak attack. Fortunately, when Yuan Ziyan's attack was about to touch his body, a golden light quickly spread to Xiao Zhuo's body. Cat

The claws only made three muffled sounds and then hurriedly withdrew. Yuan Ziyan also jumped to the side and prepared to escape. But although she wanted to escape, Xiao Zhuo did not want to give her a chance. After hurriedly seeing that the baby in her arms was okay,

Xiao Zhuo quickly made a sword move with his right hand, and the Dihu was instantly unsheathed. While the cat demon was still retreating, the Dihu was flashing with a faint green light, and he struck it with a sword!

"Meow!" A shrill cat meow sounded, but it was not Yuan Ziyan who died there, but Yuan Ziyan who was rushing towards him in front of him. In order to save his life, he used the power of his life elixir to form an orange cat head and bit it.

When Xiao Zhuo saw her doing this, he couldn't hold the sword in his hand, so he concentrated the golden light around him on his right hand. At the same time, the Dilu that was trying to contend with the cat demon also changed from cyan to gold. At this point, Xiao Zhuo's right hand suddenly

Pulling it down, golden light burst out from the body of the sword, slicing the orange cat's head open.

"Ah!" Yuan Ziyan saw that she was defeated and wanted to escape again. She had just turned into her own body and jumped out of the wall, but she heard a voice from behind, "The golden light subdues the demons, the Tao moves with one breath." Xiao Zhuo quickly recalled the ground weapon in his hand, and the edge of the ground sword also appeared.

It was quickly wrapped in a layer of golden light, forming a golden sword blade, but until Yuan Ziyan jumped out of the wall, Xiao Zhuo did not make any move.

"Master, please take care of this child, I'll go after her!" Xiao Zhuo handed the baby to the abbot and hurriedly chased after her. It wasn't that he meant to let Yuan Ziyan go just now, it was just that his move originally required both hands to be launched, but that

At that time, he was holding the child in his other hand and could not free his hand at all, so he could only let Yuan Ziyan leave.

Xiao Zhuo followed Yuan Ziyan's escape path not far away, but found nothing. At this time, he also noticed something was wrong. There were two cat monsters leaving the dragon boat at that time, but there was only one Yuan Ziyan in the temple, and the other one was in the temple.

Where? To other places? It makes no sense! The auspicious light where the newborn was born was in the direction of the temple, so he chased it there. But if he had not gone to other places, where would it be? Could it be that he was trying to lure the tiger away from the mountain? But this risk

Is it too big? It almost killed Yuan Ziyan!

Although he was unsure, Xiao Zhuo returned to the temple. As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the temple, he saw a golden light overflowing from the courtyard and disappearing in an instant. When Xiao Zhuo hurriedly entered the temple, he saw that the courtyard was even bigger than before he left.

There were several more corpses of monks. Xiao Zhuo was anxious and hurried to the Main Hall. Before he reached the main hall, he heard an angry curse: "Little monk, Buddha can't save you, give me that child quickly!"

"Namo Amitabha!"

"Namo Amitabha!"

"Namo Amitabha!"

Xiao Zhuo stepped into the Mahavira Hall amid waves of Buddha chants. As soon as he entered the hall, he saw a ** year old young monk sitting in front of the Buddha holding the baby from before, with eight old monks surrounding him.

Chanting the Buddha's name. As they recited the Buddha's words again, the seated Buddha statue in the main hall, which had been scraped off until only its eyes were left with a little gold paint, also flashed a golden light from its eyes, blocking the way of trying to snatch the baby.

woman in blue.

"Monster! Die!"

Xiao Zhuo recognized that the woman in front of him was Yuan Baoer, one of the concubines of the current Holy Emperor. When he saw that except for the monk, everyone else in the hall was already a corpse, he could no longer suppress the anger in his heart.

, and immediately struck Yuan Baoer's waist with a sword.

"Xiao Zhuo?" Yuan Baoer was also surprised by Xiao Zhuo's reappearance, because according to her and Yuan Ziyan's plan, Xiao Zhuo should have been lured away by Yuan Ziyan. She had seen Xiao Zhuo chasing him out of the temple before.

The second time she came to snatch the baby, she never expected that she would be blocked by these monks. Although the Buddha's light drawn by these monks could not hurt her, she could not get close to the little monk who was protected by the Buddha's light. After going back and forth,

It actually dragged Xiao Zhuo back around, and now she felt a little scared!

Suddenly five sharp claws stretched out from Yu's hand. Yuan Baoer clamped the sword that Xiao Zhuo had slashed with one claw, and then raised it with an upward claw. His body jumped back and went straight to the window behind him. Although Xiao Zhuo

That sword was not very powerful, but she knew clearly that Xiao Zhuo was worried about those monks, so he did not use all his strength. If the entanglement continued, once Xiao Zhuo gained power, it would be difficult for him to escape.

Her idea was quickly confirmed. Xiao Zhuo watched Yuan Baoer leaning out of the main hall, and he wished she would do so. He immediately jumped out of the window and saw that Yuan Baoer was about to escape from the wall. He squatted on the ground, bursts of green

The light quickly condensed into a cyan blade on the sword body, which looked like a scabbard on the ground. The next moment, Xiao Zhuo waved his left hand that was pressed on the sword body, and the cyan sword blade instantly separated from the sword body and inserted into it.

Yuan Baoer's back appeared through his body, then disappeared again.

"Bao'er!" A mournful voice came from outside the gate of the temple. Xiao Zhuo turned around and saw a snow-white kitten turned into a human figure. The face was familiar and kind, but it was Zhu Gui'er.

"Did you kill her?" Zhu Gui'er stood there blankly, still unwilling to believe that Xiao Zhuo really killed Yuan Bao'er. She and Xiao Meiniang were still taking care of the drunk Yang Guang, but a sister told her that Yuan Bao'er and Yuan Ziyan came ashore, and the newborn was born

She also saw the auspicious light, so she naturally knew what the two people were doing when they came ashore. But when she broke away and chased him halfway, she met Yuan Ziyan who was seriously injured. When she asked Yuan Ziyan and Yuan Baoer about the strategy they had agreed upon, she

Only then did they realize that because they had despised Xiao Zhuo before, Yuan Ziyan could not contain Xiao Zhuo at all. If Yuan Ziyan had not fought with his life, he would have died long ago. When Zhu Gui'er heard this, she couldn't help but worry more about Yuan Bao'er's safety, but she waited for her to arrive.

After all, she came to the temple a step too late. Looking at the human corpses all over the floor in the temple, she couldn't blame Xiao Zhuo for being too harsh. They were all living beings in the world, but it was Yuan Ziyan and the others who killed these humans first. Xiao Zhuo, as a member of the Taoist sect,

It is what he should do to straighten people out. The only difference is that Xiao Zhuo killed her own kind!

"Yes! Did the imperial concubine see Yuan Guiren when she came over? If not, go back and pass a message for me. I will take her life sooner or later!" Xiao Zhuo faced this woman who looked the same as Jin Ruo, and finally

He just left these words and walked towards the main hall. After Zhu Gui'er found Yuan Bao'er's body, he didn't say much and just took Yuan Bao'er back silently.

Xiao Zhuo, on the other hand, looked at the young monk in the main hall and asked, "Dare you ask me the name of my young master?"

"Little monk Xuanzang, thank you so much for rescuing our temple from the crisis!" The young monk is still childish, but his words and demeanor are gentle and polite.

"Young master, you are serious. This child can escape today, all thanks to the efforts of all the masters." After Xiao Zhuo finished speaking, he walked towards the abbot and said: "Master! The current situation is turbulent and the temple here has been destroyed. If you don't

If you think the journey is too long, you can go north to Chang'an from here, where there are outstanding people and places, and all the masters will be able to find a resting place."

"Amitabha! Thank you so much, Master, for your kindness! But the souls of the dead here still need to be rescued by us, and the bodies have not been buried. How can we leave like this." After the abbot finished speaking, he sat down again. When the other monks saw the abbot sitting down, they also

Follow and sit down.

"Master! You have to do the work of salvation first. I will have people come to bury the body here tomorrow. I hope Master will listen to my good advice and leave this place tomorrow." After Xiao Zhuo finished speaking, he wanted to wait for the abbot to reply, but the one who responded to him was

The sound of Buddhist chants and Sanskrit chants is so deep and solemn that it seems to go straight to the Nine Netherworlds, asking Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva to open the gate of the underworld.
Chapter completed!