Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 86 Pagoda

"This is?"

In a magnificent yet somewhat dilapidated square, Yi Ling looked around.

"Where is this place?"

"what happened?

Have we entered someone else's formation?
I don't know which senior's formation this is. We are students from Luofu Taoist Academy. We accidentally broke in. Please let us leave."

"That's right. The Taoist Academy can track our magical aura. In front of the laws of the Immortal Kingdom, I hope you won't make mistakes."

While the three young men were talking nonsense, Yi Ling roughly understood the identities of these three unknown people.

These three people should be independent cultivators just like Bai Lian.

It is only because of one's talent and the current policy of mass enrollment that one can enter the superior Taoist academy.

Only people like this would be so "naive" as to believe that the laws of the fairyland could really protect them.

You know, in the higher-level Taoist academies, the competition among the lower-level students is even more brutal, and casualties don't just occur on the discussion platform.

From the words of these three people, Yi Ling learned that they were students who had just enrolled this year and joined the Xianyou Society by chance. No wonder they were so naive.

There were broken walls and ruins everywhere around the square.

Looking upwards, there is a mural with countless Buddha statues.

The golden light in the space is emitted by the pigments on the murals.

Yi Ling had good eyesight. After looking around, he knew that they were probably underground.

Knowing this, Yi Ling felt relieved.

Qingniu's magical power, when it comes to escaping underground, is completely trustworthy.

The three young men, while chattering incessantly, did not forget to show their courtesy to Bai Lian.

Bai Lian just silently took out some magic weapons brought by Bai Lu and set up a formation in the square.

Two of them looked at Yi Ling.

"Student Yi, why don't we split up into two directions and explore this place, what do you think?"

"Student Yi is the runner-up in the fourth grade, and it shouldn't be a problem if he's alone."

Yi Ling ignored the three people. After looking at the array patterns on the square, he had some vague guesses about the array arranged by Bai Lian, so he said to Bai Lian:

"Sister Lian, aren't you going to start yet?

Bringing these three people here should be useful, right?"

Bai Lian's eyes moved.

The three young men are not stupid.

A truly stupid person would not be able to stand out from an intermediate Taoist academy and be admitted to a higher-level Taoist academy.

The three of them looked at each other, and tacitly agreed to drive their spirit beasts away in three directions.

A river that looked like smoke suddenly appeared.

"The long river of destiny!
Sister Bai, what do you want to do? "

"Sister Bai Lian, I was wrong. I shouldn't have bothered you. Let me go. I will listen to you in the future."

"I can't die. I am my parents' only son. In order to support me to study in the Taoist temple, my parents got up early and went to bed late, just to earn a few fragments of spirit.

I also want to repay my parents, Bai Lian, please."

"Student Yi, I am just an ordinary student in the Taoist Academy. Please let me go. I won't tell you anything when I go back."

"Student Yi, please, from now on in the Taoist temple, I will listen to you no matter what you ask me to do."

The three of them first begged Bai Lian, but when that didn't work, they turned to beg Yi Ling.

The smoke from the long river of destiny did not touch Yi Ling.

I don’t know whether Bai Lian didn’t want to cause Yi Ling to misunderstand, or didn’t want Yi Ling to know about his magical powers.

Yi Ling ignored the three people.

He just watched the three people riding on the flying spirit beasts like headless flies, rushing around in the river of white smoke.

No matter what magic they used, they could not escape from the smoke, like insects caught in a spider's web.

After the three found that begging was useless, they began to curse one after another.

He cursed Bai Lian and Yi Ling in a very dirty way.

This made Yi Ling recall the Purple Mountain Prison Experiment he conducted with his father on Purple Mountain.

Experiments have shown that in environments of power and oppression, serious acts of violence and abuse occur.

At the end of the experiment, when the Kunxu cultivators used in the experiment were dealt with, those cultivators ended up in a disgraceful state.

It seems that no matter whether they are from Kunxu or the fairyland, they cannot remain graceful when facing death.

"do not blame me."

Bai Lian's eyes trembled, and he moved away slightly. He said something softly, and then gently waved his hands. Ripples appeared in the long river of fate, and the water gathered towards the three people who were still struggling, forming a whirlpool.

After a while, the long river of fate disappeared.

White smoke continued to emerge from the bodies of the three people and the flying spirit beasts under them, and their eyes became dull.

As Bai Lian's mind moved, the three of them began to fly in three directions like puppets.

After a while, the three people and three spirit beasts formed a triangle in three directions of the square.

As they cast spells one after another, the blood in their bodies began to turn into blood mist, flying around the square and slowly gathering in one place.

Yi Ling and Bai Lian rode their auspicious beasts to the place where the blood mist gathered. A special force field began to appear, covering the two women and two auspicious beasts who were still standing in the square.

The next moment, the two women and two spirit beasts disappeared in the square.

In the three directions of the square, there were only three mummies with blood dripping out.

Two people and two auspicious beasts appeared inside a ruined golden pagoda.

"Tens of millions of years have passed, and this pagoda is still in operation. It seems that the technology of the past may not be completely useless.

Don’t you think so, Sister Lian?

Uh, what are you doing?" Yi Ling looked at Bai Lian, whose face turned pale, with some surprise.
"Is this your first time killing someone?"

Bai Lian lowered her eyes and said:

"I am only from a casual cultivator family. If I had killed someone before, would I still be able to enter the upper-level Taoist academy?
Have you killed before?"

"Haha, you're lucky.

I still remember that when my brother and I were just over ten years old, our father asked us to kill someone.

Don't get me wrong, my family is from Qingzhou, and those who were killed were some outsiders."

"Is your father crazy? He forces you to kill people at such a young age."

"No, Father only taught us that being kind to our enemies is being cruel to ourselves.

He did not force us to kill, but convinced us with reason.

My father always spoke some truths that he thought were correct to convince us, but we were young and had no experience to judge whether what he said was right or not.

“You who come from aristocratic families are much better than us independent cultivators.

When I was a child, I ate spiritual food. When I grew up, it was natural for me to go to the Taoist temple to study.

Now, even the course on killing people has been learned in advance."

“You don’t have to think so highly of aristocratic families. Being born into an aristocratic family is not necessarily better than being an independent cultivator like you. The key is how much support the family can provide.

Many members of our family have endless work to do all year round. If they don’t work, the family won’t even earn any spiritual stones at the end of the year.

Don't think that the reason I can compete for the top position now is because of my good family background.

My childhood was spent doing homework all the time, and I even thought about problems while sleeping.

You entered the intermediate Taoist academy at the age of sixteen, and I started my life in the intermediate Taoist academy at the age of five.

My father often said that having the appearance of glory that others envy is only earned through hard work behind the scenes. "

Bai Lian opened her mouth slightly. Because of her status, she had never had in-depth communication with the other five members of the Xianyou Society and did not know them too well.

"It seems that your father is also a hard-working person."

“No, my father doesn’t work hard at all, he just wants his children to work hard.

Okay, I won’t say any more, just hurry up and complete the task.”

When Yi Ling saw that Bai Lian had recovered, he said no more.

I say all these things not to comfort Bai Lian, but simply because Yi Ling knows that when people are stimulated, their thinking will be affected.

Yi Ling didn't want Bai Lian to do anything irrational here under impulse.

The place where they appear is the middle part of the pagoda.

After the two checked this floor, one went down and the other went up.

Yi Ling checked layer by layer, and occasionally when he came across a broken magic weapon, he would pick it up and make a note of it.

“The pagoda has probably not been corroded by time because of this space, and there are no books left in it.

pity! "

Moo!
"Really not?"

"Oh, what did you find?"

"I found that we have fallen into an illusion."

Forehead?
Yi Ling was stunned.

Then he looked around with his Lihuo Lingtong, and flames shot out from his eyes.

The flames were like an illusion and could not burn anything.

"what happened?"

"It is said that Buddhist practitioners are good at the soul. I never thought that after tens of millions of years, the formation would still have such an effect."

"Don't sigh. If we are trapped by this formation, we will be in trouble."

“Don’t worry, the formations of the ancient cultivators are usually formed by cleverly borrowing the power of heaven and earth, and there are some flaws such as nodes.

If it was an intact pagoda, we wouldn't have to struggle and could just wait to die. But the pagoda is damaged and the formation hasn't been maintained for 50 million years. Its power is less than one percent now."

"You are not in a hurry. This is not underground, but a space partition. If Bai Lian takes the Seven Treasures Pool, this space may collapse. Can you take me away safely at that time?"

The blue ox slowly transmits the message,
"You come to look for the pagoda, but you don't even read the information about it?
Do you know why so many pagodas have survived to this day, while other Buddhist relics have been basically wiped out over thousands of years?
That’s because every stupa, in addition to the seven-treasure pond, also incorporates the Buddha’s relics.”

"You must be kidding, Buddha. That is an existence on par with the True Immortal of the Hedao Dao. If there were 100,000 Buddhas in Buddhism, they would have gone to the Immortal Realm to kill as many people as they want."

“At that time, in the Tiandu Spirit Realm, the realms of Bodhisattvas and Guanyin were also called Buddhas, which was not as recorded in the Taoist temples today.

Well, this information is not recorded in Luofu Taoist Temple, but is passed down in my memory.

The most precious thing about the stupa, besides the Seven Treasures Pond, is the Buddha's relics.

In addition to being immortal, each Buddha relic is also a large jade slip that must contain a lot of information about Buddhist cultivation."

"Oh, you said, does Cheng Ziyan know about the existence of the relic?

Forget it, even if she knew, I wouldn’t give it to her.

How to get this relic?

By the way, how many things are there in your memory inheritance? How come you seem to know more than the library in Luofu Taoist Temple?"

Qingniu completely ignored Yi Ling's questions about his memory inheritance.

“If you want to obtain the relic, you must go through a series of illusion arrays, and you cannot break them by force.

Well, this set of procedures is called "refining the mind in the world" in Buddhism.

"It's so troublesome, is there no other way?"

"If you were a Dao Jindan, I could give you another solution."

"Then go and practice. Your character is much stronger than mine."

"I am just an ordinary cow. Do you think Buddhism will allow a cow to obtain relics?"

(End of this chapter)