Dusk Returns to the Ruined Building

Half a lifetime of love, half a lifetime of coldness!

Dubei Zen Temple is a single-lineage inheritance, or in other words, it is a single-person inheritance.

The successor that Master Tan Xiu is waiting for is actually Jian Chenqing. It cannot be said that way. It should be said that when Jian Chenqing's love affair ends, if she returns to Dubei Zen Temple, she will really be the successor of Master Tan Xiu.

The Dubei Zen Temple's Dubei Temple's Dubei Stone has nothing to do with the Jingxin Monument or the Dubei Stone. It is a woman's state of mind - sadness comes from love, and you are the only one who is hurt and doesn't know it!

In a sense, Jian Chenqing really has a similar relationship with the woman who founded the Dubei Zen Temple, that is, the woman in the painting. It's not just that she is alone and doesn't know it, but actually she is alone and doesn't know it!

Neither of them can see through the person they love, and the pain cannot be expressed in words. Love is real, but strangeness is also real!

There is another similarity: Dubei Zen Temple is just a passing place in their lives.

The reason why Dubei Temple is a Buddhist temple is that the first generation successor accepted by the founder was a nun, a woman who became a nun because of love. The founder resolved the pain in the nun's heart, and the nun promised to stay in Dubei Temple for generations to come.

As for what I am protecting, I really don’t know, or it cannot be called protection, I just want to relieve more sadness in the hearts of the people!

Inside the main hall of Dubei Zen Temple, neither Jian Chenqing nor Shen Yichen had expected that Master Tanxiu would suddenly die. It was so inexplicable! What shocked Jian Chenqing even more was that this scene was exactly the same as it was back then!

Tan Xiu Zhenren's smile and the peaceful light emanating from his body seemed to bring her back to the past.

"Could the rumors be true? All the successive generations of the Dubei Zen Temple have died because of the Pure Heart Monument!"

Jian Chenqing was really sad. Master Tan Xiu had intended to take her in as his disciple, but she had just thought of it as a joke.

Shen Yichen was a little confused and asked softly:

"Where is the Pure Heart Monument? Master Tan Xiu said my destiny lies there!"

Jian Chenqing stood up, pointed at the Buddhist beads in Master Tan Xiu's hand, and responded:

“It’s in her hands!”

Shen Yichen was slightly stunned when he heard this!

"I'm asking where the Pure Heart Monument is."

Jian Chenqing shook his head and said softly:

"The fake Pure Heart Stele is the one on the left side of the courtyard. The real Pure Heart Stele is inside the Buddhist beads in Master Tan Xiu's hand!"

Jian Chenqing did not take off the Buddhist beads from Master Tan Xiu, as she felt that they were an ominous thing.

Shen Yichen shook his head to clear his mind. He looked at Jian Chenqing and said softly:

"You mean the Solitary Sorrow Stone is real, and the Purifying Heart Stele is just a cover?"

Jian Chenqing nodded.

Shen Yichen bent down and prepared to take off the Buddhist beads from Master Tan Xiu.

Jian Chenqing grabbed Shen Yichen's hand and said in shock:

"No, that's an ominous thing!"

Shen Yichen looked up at Jian Chenqing, a little surprised!

"What the hell is going on?"

"I don't know, but the deaths of Master Tanxiu and her master were so strange. I think it was related to the Solitary Sadness Stone. The way they died was too coincidental!"

Shen Yichen also hesitated. The death of Master Tan Xiu was too inexplicable. He was right next to him and didn't notice any fluctuations in his aura at all.

"Let go and let me take a closer look!"

Jian Chenqing looked at Shen Yichen's determined eyes, she slowly let go of her hand and warned:

"Don't mess around, I still need to learn some skills!"

"My great aunt, I don't want to die either!"

Shen Yichen squatted down and looked at the Buddhist beads in Tan Xiu Zhenren's hand. He looked at it for a long time but didn't find anything special. If he had to find a difference, it would be that one of the beads was not as dark as the others, but it was just an ordinary wooden Buddhist bead!

Shen Yichen pondered for a long time, and finally realized what was wrong. He turned around and asked:

"Sister, that's not right. How could you possibly know about something so secretive about Dubei Zen Monastery?"

Jian Chenqing shook his head and turned to look at the twilight sky outside the door.

"Because someone came to steal the Pure Heart Stele!"

"You're grabbing it too, aren't you?"

"Alas, we were young and reckless, and everyone made mistakes! In order to repel the enemy, Master Tanxiu used the Dubei Stone from the Buddhist string to activate the Dubei Zen Temple's protective formation. We all left with serious injuries, and we almost died!"

Shen Yichen frowned and thought deeply. After a moment, he exclaimed:

"Did Master Tan Xiu save you?"

Jian Chenqing's expression changed slightly, and he sighed:

"You're such a clever child! Yes, you not only saved me, but him too. I was very curious back then about why Master Tanxiu saved me. She said it was her master's idea, that she, I, and Dubei Zen Monastery were destined to be together. Perhaps then, the two of them knew that my relationship would end in vain!"

Shen Yichen didn't care about Jian Chenqing's love affair, he cared about Dubei Zen Temple.

"So, the Dubei Zen Temple has remained safe and sound for hundreds of years because it's protected by a formation? It's guarding the Dubei Stone, right?"

"That's right. We did go too far back then. We took advantage of Master Tan Xiu's death to steal the Buddhist beads, but we couldn't get out. Once the beads left the yard, the formation would automatically activate. We had no choice but to hand the beads over to Master Tan Xiu!"

Shen Yichen looked at the Buddhist beads quietly and said casually:

"Sister, you didn't have a good reputation in the martial arts world when you were young, right?"

Jian Chenqing did not respond immediately. After a long while, he sighed softly:

"Alas, the past is like smoke, the past is like a dream, it is better not to mention it!"

Shen Yichen cursed secretly in his heart:

"It's not much better now. This female gangster was a bandit when she was young!"

Shen Yichen was worried! Master Tanxiu said that his fate was in the Pure Heart Stele, which meant that it was in this Buddhist string. He muttered to himself:

"Isn't this a trap?"

"Brother Qingchen, let's go. You can't take the Dubei Stone away. Dubei Zen Temple has no successor, so let Master Tanxiu quietly wait for her destined person!"

Jian Chenqing turned and looked at Shen Yichen. It was not actually her who wanted to get the Dubei Stone, but the man she loved who wanted it.

Why did Jian Chenqing feel like the heavens were playing a joke on her? Because she seemed to be walking the same path again, the path she wanted to forget but never forgot, walking it again, only the man beside her had changed to Shen Yichen!

But Shen Yichen is really too similar to that man when he was young, not in appearance, but in that heart that is suspicious of everything and guards against everything, yet wants to get everything!

"You are so young, what kind of past have you experienced? Can you tell me about it when you have time?"

Shen Yichen responded with eight words:

"The past is like smoke, the past is like a dream!"

Shen Yichen turned around and looked at Jian Chenqing, and said softly:

"Help me keep watch!"

"What are you going to do?"

Jian Chenqing's tone was actually a little nervous. She really didn't want to go the same way as before, and she didn't want Shen Yichen to get the Buddhist beads.

Shen Yichen did not respond, but sat cross-legged. He wanted to integrate into this small world and experience the Dubei Stone and Dubei Zen Temple. As for whether it would work, he really didn't know.

Jian Chenqing stood by and watched Shen Yichen practice his skills. She didn't understand why Shen Yichen was practicing Taoist meditation techniques at this time.

Jian Chenqing herself was asking herself, if she hadn't stopped it back then, should she have stopped it today? It seemed like today's incident had nothing to do with her at all!

This time, Shen Yichen entered this world with the art of Zen. After merging with the world, the first thing he sensed was Jian Chenqing's contradictory state, because Jian Chenqing's emotions were fluctuating greatly.

What he felt afterwards was that there was something strange about Master Tan Xiu and the different Buddhist beads, because Shen Yichen felt vitality, vigorous vitality. The seemingly ordinary Buddhist beads seemed to have infinite vitality.

Shen Yichen was confused. Since life was infinite, how could Master Tan Xiu die?

Shen Yichen recalled the various legends of the Dubei Zen Temple, and he soon understood that the Dubei Stone might really be able to absorb the power of sadness. Its vitality might come from rebirth after despair. It should be said that the Dubei Stone is the power of rebirth after despair.

Master Tan Xiu died of inner despair, probably because Jian Chenqing's love affair did not end in vain!

Shen Yichen still didn't understand, did this count as Dubei Stone killing Tan Xiu Zhenren?

Shen Yichen wanted to expand the scope further because he wanted to feel the unknown formation of the Dubei Zen Temple that Jian Chenqing mentioned.

But a magical scene happened. Shen Yichen actually took the Buddhist beads from Tan Xiu Zhenren's hand and then came out of the state of meditation.

"What, what's going on?"

Jian Chenqing was even more shocked. She had been looking at Shen Yichen the entire time, so how could the Buddhist beads suddenly appear in Shen Yichen's hands? She hadn't even noticed!