novelraw Chapter 688: 672: Evil Buddha Plays a Big Game
Chapter 688: 672: Evil Buddha Plays a Big Game
Chapter 688: Chapter 672: Evil Buddha Plays a Big Game
Master Chi Yuan brought Sha Yuanzi back to the Daoist Temple and asked Wuwei to take care of him for a while.
Wuwei was flabbergasted; Sha Yuanzi, who had earlier been as lively as a dragon, was now as dismal as a dead snake, a pitiful sight indeed.
He squatted down, and although he felt that this person had brought misery upon himself, he still showed a look of sympathy, “Beaten by the Junior Temple Master?”
Sha Yuanzi was half-awake, his eyes only slightly open, revealing a thin slit. Seeing Wuwei’s undisguised sympathy, he closed his eyes again.
Wuwei sighed and, along with another little Taoist, lifted him up and took him to the Daoist Room.
Master Chi Yuan went up to the Immortal Ascension Tower and told his two disciples, “It is already dark, and the lighting is insufficient. You all go down to have your meal and rest. We will see to it tomorrow.”
Teng Zhao nodded, glancing upstairs with some concern; his master had returned encased as if in cold frost.
“Don’t worry, go on.” The ruffled cat still needed to be smoothed over by him.
Teng Zhao, with Wang Chuan, descended from the tower.
Master Chi Yuan reached the top floor and saw Qin Liuxi transcribing scripture over her desk. As he approached, he couldn’t help but laugh with exasperation.
“Tao Te Ching, chapter seventy-four, caution in killing. Since you are transcribing this chapter, you are warning yourself. But with the way you write your characters, exuding a breath of murderous intent, sharp and fierce, are you contemplating killing or advising yourself to exercise caution in killing?”
On the sheet of scripture, each character bore through the paper, sharp as a blade’s edge and brimming with lethal intent, directly assaulting the heart.
Qin Liuxi’s brush forcefully punctuated a point as she looked up and said, “Does he even deserve to live?”
Master Chi Yuan seated himself cross-legged and said, “He does not deserve it; that’s why he must atone. Moreover, living to endure punishment can truly refine one’s soul.”
“Did Chi Zhenzi just let him suffer out there?” Qin Liuxi scoffed.
Master Chi Yuan stiffened, “That’s different.”
“There’s no difference. Is he not just another traitor? A matter of tidying up house, that’s all. Who is to say? Neither the Heavenly Dao nor the Underworld can decide. Daring to say I’ve wrongly killed?” Qin Liuxi looked at him, “You know, I have never wrongly killed a person.”
She only kills those who deserve to die.
Master Chi Yuan’s gaze held a touch of complexity, “Your master knows.”
He knew, yet he still hoped that there would be less bloodshed on her hands.
Seeing his expression, Qin Liuxi felt even more aggrieved and annoyed, desiring to do something to vent and suppress the anger in her heart.
She took a deep breath and said, “Keeping him alive is also right; we can interrogate him about the whereabouts of the rest of Chi Zhenzi’s lairs.”
“Did you clash with him?”
Qin Liuxi nodded, her face stern, “Moreover, do you know how he was resurrected? He obtained a Buddha Bone.”
Master Chi Yuan was taken aback, and his expression changed drastically, “Are you referring to that Evil Buddha’s Buddha Bone?”
“That’s right.” Qin Liuxi flexed her fingers and tapped on the table, “When I found the small dragon vein, I felt a familiar yet strange aura fluctuating, but I didn’t think of the Buddha Bone. It seems now, due to my oversight, he obtained a Buddha Bone decades ago. That is what nourished his soul and permitted him to perform a demonic possession, resurrecting in a new body.”
Master Chi Yuan, upon hearing this, felt a great blockage in his heart, overwhelmed with discomfort.
“””
“I enforced him to leave his Physical Body with the Karmic Fire, yet he still had the strength to escape. That Buddha Bone has experienced the vicissitudes of the world, yet it still possesses such power, huh.” Qin Liuxi sneered coldly, “The Evil Buddha has fled. Chi Zhenzi had better hide really well, otherwise, he wouldn’t even need you, old man, to go after him. The Evil Buddha would tear him apart himself just to retrieve the Buddha Bone.”
Master Chi Yuan felt an increasing sense of suffocation. He stood up and paced back and forth in the room, only after a long while did he say, “If that’s the case, then it’s still good news. What I’m afraid of is that the two of them might collude. If the Evil Buddha were to take him in and employ his service, it would menace all living things.”
Qin Liuxi’s complexion darkened; she had overlooked this point again.
If she were the Evil Buddha, what would she do? In the long run, of course, as Master Chi Yuan said, it would be great to recruit more lackeys, whether to serve as cannon fodder for the vanguard or to be used in a war of attrition.
“We don’t know what he will do now that he has escaped. According to historical records, with his vile temperament, I’m afraid causing chaos among all living things is inevitable,” Master Chi Yuan said with a headache.
The Evil Buddha Siluo is humanity’s number one enemy.
And the most headache-inducing part is, you have no idea what he’s going to do next.
Qin Liuxi role-played again—if she were that guy, what would she do after escaping? Cause chaos among all living things?
That’s too trivial a deed!
Having been imprisoned for thousands of years and then escaping, not playing a big game would be a disservice to all the time he had been imprisoned.
“Causing chaos among all living things is but a minor move of my lips. What I aim to do is to become an existence in the Three Realms that can no longer be bound by anyone!”
In front of a thatched hut in a valley, a man with a tall stature was fiddling with an eyebrow bone with his fingertips, looking up at the blue sky with a sinister smile on his lips, his slender eyes reflecting a ghostly light.
Beneath his feet lay a frail Void Soul, none other than Chi Zhenzi, who had just escaped back and had yet to find a new body.
Chi Zhenzi looked up at the man before him, whose face seemed to be enveloped by a dense fog, impossible to discern his true appearance, and his eyes were filled with fear and horror.
He had suffered a great loss at Qin Liuxi’s hands, just managed to escape back, and was recovering his strength when this man appeared out of nowhere, then forcefully separated the Jade Bone he had obtained decades ago from his soul, rendering him even weaker, with his Primordial Spirit somewhat in shambles.
Chi Zhenzi didn’t know what the bone was, just that it felt like an extension of his being when cultivating with it. His spiritual platform became clearer, and many things seemed to come to him naturally, automatically forming in his mind.
His first demonic possession was an old man of the same age as him; the second time was the father of Sha Yuanzi, and that body was the most compatible with him. Unfortunately, the owner’s soul was strong and not completely refined by him, leaving only a fragment of a residual soul, which shattered his own heart at a crucial moment during his meditation.
The third body he just left was a relative from his own family lineage, a body that was frail but had an auspicious birth chart and a bit of merit. The only downside was its physical weakness due to illness, which was why he couldn’t get past Qin Liuxi.
He was also aware of the deficiencies of this body, which was why he so treasured it and avoided confronting her head-on. Still, he had urgently come to see her because of his worthless disciple’s Life Plate that was about to crack.
But now, only his Primordial Spirit had returned.
To add insult to injury, he attracted such a dangerous person.
Perhaps, this was not even a human?
The other’s strength made him jealous and envious, but even more so, filled him with fear and awe.
“This is my possession.” Siluo looked down, his gaze condescending towards Chi Zhenzi, as if looking at an ant.
He pressed the eyebrow bone against his forehead, and the bone melded into his body, as if a stranded fish had encountered water, making him comfortably squint his eyes.
With a beckoning of his finger, he lifted Chi Zhenzi’s Primordial Spirit and said, “Either follow me and serve my purposes, or have your soul scattering.”
Chi Zhenzi’s soul body trembled, stammering, “I am willing to follow you all my life, in front of or behind the saddle. Please, grant me strength.”
Siluo curved his lip, leaned close to his ear, and whispered a few words.
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