Yinshan Record

Chapter 200 Empty Nunnery
Is this not enough?

Su Che looked at the Yin-Yang Dharma King, wondering what this man was up to.

These ancient remnants, some of the most prominent figures in the world, have come all the way to Jiankang City to find a girl. Even if I pretend there's nothing wrong with this, no one will believe me.

"By the way, there's something I need to tell you."

The Yin-Yang Dharma King stretched out his hand and slowly pointed to the sky.

“Your Jiankang City is quite interesting; it has a very powerful formation set up.”

A very powerful formation?

"I can't guess the specific origin, but at least I can hear the heavens and see the earth."

"You mean..."

"Void teleportation, such a grand spectacle, someone might come to take a look."

Jiankang City was the foundation of the Southern Dynasties, so it was only natural that it had various defenses in place.

However, Su Che was not worried.

"With you here, even if the entire Censorate were to mobilize, they would likely be defeated and return empty-handed."

"Don't say that. Although I am confined to one place, I have never dared to underestimate the heroes of the world. Take the City God of Jiankang here, for example, who is known as the number one person in the divine path of this world. The Censorate is also full of hidden talents."

The Yin-Yang Dharma King's next words almost made Young Master Su vomit blood.

"Moreover, my current status is probably only between the eighth and ninth ranks. If there's anything I need, I'll still have to trouble you."

calm.

Su Che exhaled a breath of stale air.

"It's alright, shall we go to another one?"

"Let's try another one."

The Yin-Yang Dharma King nodded in satisfaction.

The two then continued on their journey.

The Qinhuai River at night is ablaze with lights, and the bustling crowds exude boundless prosperity.

The Yin-Yang Dharma King looked at Su Che.

“Someone is watching us.”

Su Che looked around suspiciously, but saw no sign of anyone watching him.

"He's not here. Didn't I tell you? There's a formation here, and the person watching us should be over there."

The Yin-Yang Dharma King pointed in the direction of Jiankang Palace.

Even with his keen senses, Su Che didn't detect anything unusual.

"just in front."

The Yin-Yang Dharma King suddenly frowned. He didn't know what he had sensed, but he took a big step forward.

Su Che caught up with him in a few quick steps.

One thing is certain: the Yin-Yang Dharma King before us is indeed in a state of utter exhaustion, his soul adrift and his life force nearly depleted.

"arrive."

The two of them wandered through countless streets and alleys, and even Su Che was dizzy from all the twists and turns, until they finally arrived at an alley.

"Senior, this doesn't seem to be a brothel."

Su Che looked at the house in front of him and felt something was strange.

This is a nunnery.

Although the Buddhist community in the Southern Dynasty declined rapidly after the National Preceptor, the Lion-Lotus-Perfected Tathagata, went astray halfway through his term at the end of the previous dynasty, the Buddhist community in the Southern Dynasty took a sharp turn for the worse.

Even a centipede, though dead, does not fall down easily. How much less so a giant in the Buddhist spiritual world?
You can still find traces of them in the streets and alleys.

This nunnery in front of us is a trace of the prosperity of Buddhism in the past.

Here hangs a sign that reads "Kongyou Nunnery," nestled among the residential houses. Su Che had read in historical records that during the late period of the previous dynasty, Buddhism flourished, and many high-ranking officials and nobles donated their residences to become temples.

It means donating one's own house to be used as a temple. The Kongyou Nunnery in front of us should be the residence donated by some noble person during the previous dynasty. You can still vaguely see the original layout from the outside.

"Isn't it a brothel?"

The Yin-Yang Dharma King shook his head: "Then it's not a brothel."

As he spoke, he walked through the tightly closed gate of Kongyou Temple and barged inside.

Ghosts are formless yet have substance; passing through walls and houses is a matter of moments.

Su Che shook his head, and with a light leap, he slipped into the nunnery. "Be careful."

The Yin-Yang Dharma King stood at the door of the wooden house.

"Hey you, you over there, go and say hello to the guy up ahead."

Su Che looked up.

Behind the gate of the temple stands a tall and imposing Vajra statue, entirely black, with six arms and three faces, holding various ritual implements in its hands. Under its feet are statues of numerous evil spirits, posing in a ferocious manner.

If it were merely an exquisite and lifelike sculpture, it would simply be a testament to the craftsmen's superb skills. But this Vajra statue, with its eyes wide open in fury and its piercing gaze fixed on Su Che, clearly appears to have come to life.

Su Che frowned slightly and slowly took a step forward.

A flame suddenly formed three feet in front of him, no bigger than a fist, but it shot over fiercely, heading straight for his face.

Su Che remained motionless, standing as tall as Mount Tai, his hands silently forming a hand seal at his chest.

A large, jet-black hand burning with eerie blue flames appeared behind him, scooping the flames into its palm.

The flame in his palm was icy cold, and with just a slight touch, Su Che's soul could feel the sobs mixed within it.

Go, you who burn the gods of the Nine Netherworlds.

The dark blue flames expanded, engulfing the ball of fire within them.

The Nine Netherworld Burning God Yin Fire was fierce and domineering; it immediately extinguished the flames with fire, extinguishing the wisps of fire.

It's really strange and bizarre.

Su Che silently sensed the changes within the flames and found a familiar feeling.

Wasn't this the same kind of raging karmic fire that I saw burning in the hell realm in the Azure Emperor's Treasure Garden?
Lightning flashed in Su Che's eyes.

It was after he entered the sixth rank that the Zhou Jue Yin Tian Secret Manual underwent a change, which became known as Lieque Lei Tong (雷瞳).

With this supernatural power, one can observe the changes of Yin and Yang, the arising and ceasing of thunder, and anticipate the enemy's moves.

The Zhou Jue Yin Tian Secret Manual is based on talismans and can be considered part of the Xuanmen talisman lineage, but in the end it still falls under the category of methods for preserving the spirit.

The so-called "preserving the spirit" means visualizing one's own spirit, transforming oneself into a spirit, and possessing immeasurable supernatural powers.

This missing lightning eye is the secret technique of the Northern Heavenly General Tianpeng for subduing ghosts and demons.

Lightning flashed in Su Che's eyes, and he indeed noticed something amiss.

The Vajra statue in front of us is just an ordinary clay and wooden puppet on the outside, but inside it is a completely different world.

Beneath the layers of clothing, something seemed to be slowly wriggling and jumping inside him.

"What a fiend! Behold my Soul-Shattering Secret Arrow!"

Nine saffron-colored long arrows appeared behind Su Che, and the black bow reappeared in his hand.

"Wait a minute..."

Before the Yin-Yang Dharma King could finish his sentence, Su Che had already drawn his bow to its fullest extent and sent his arrow flying like a shooting star.

A long, dark brown arrow shot out, shattering the Vajra statue in front of them into a pile of fragments.

"Sigh, these young people nowadays, why are they so quick to shout for war? You, Meng Zhang's grand-disciple, do indeed have some of his former flair..."

The Yin-Yang Dharma King then went on and on.

A human figure slowly emerged from inside the broken Vajra statue.

Su Che had never seen anything so wicked and evil.

It seems like they threw someone into a pot of oil and fried them until they were burnt, then put them back in the pot and boiled them over a high flame for three days.

It was barely recognizable as a human figure, no taller than a person's leg, but covered in charred and swollen marks.

It crawled out from the fragments of the statue, stretched out and swayed, and began to expand from the middle to both sides.

It's as if its left and right legs had different wills and decided to separate and live independently; this thing is getting further and further off track.

Finally, it tore itself in two, and then each part began to grow, making up for the lost body. Before long, there were two identical evil creatures standing there.

"Sigh, they put this thing at the door just to trick you into taking a taxi."

The Yin-Yang Dharma King took out a yellow talisman from his sleeve and slowly stuck it on the ground.

"This thing is what Buddhism calls a kind of hellish being. It's already an inanimate object, so no matter how you kill it, you can't kill it all. It lives on karma, so the more you kill it, the more karma accumulates, and the more of it there will be. Whether it's useful or not is another matter, but it's disgusting enough."

The Yin-Yang Dharma King stood up and gently patted Su Che on the shoulder.

"Let's go."

As soon as the yellow talisman entered the ground, the small courtyard in front of them immediately turned into a swamp. In an instant, two waves of mud rolled and swallowed the two hellish beings directly into it.

(End of this chapter)