The vicious female supporting role in the book cultivation world is crazy and involuntarily

After living in the back mountain for half a year, Lu Zhaozhao finally understood the current situation.

She fainted to the sound of the bells in the Nine Mirrors Tower, and naturally, when she woke up, she was in the same place as when the Nine Mirrors Tower had not yet been destroyed.

She, or Guannan, was born with a unique physique, a rare Buddha bone. However, the Buddha bone was contained in the flesh, making it difficult to resist the invasion of external evil spirits. After a spring outing, evil spirits entered her body, and she had a high fever and was drowsy all day.

Her parents had no way to seek medical treatment, so they had to go to the temple for help. After the abbot Huizhen told them the reason, he personally presided over the exorcism ceremony. Half a month later, Lu Zhaozhao woke up with Guannan's body.

The temple is simple but also leisurely.

She was frail, so the women in the monastery took pity on her and exempted her from cleaning duties. So, apart from the morning classes at Mao and the evening classes at Shen, the rest of her time was quite leisurely.

Master Jingwen took pity on her and taught her the Heart Sutra herself.

She had originally just used it as a pastime, but to her surprise, after studying it for a few days, her cultivation level actually returned to her. Even more unexpectedly, this Heart Sutra greatly promoted her practice.

Therefore, she spent all her time studying the boring scriptures, and whenever Master Jingwen had free time, she would run to her to ask for answers.

For example at this moment——

"Master, the Unreal Taoist sees all things as real, but the Buddha sees all things as unreal. What does this mean?"

"Dependent Origination, emptiness of nature, all things arise from causes and conditions."

"So, above existence, there is a non-existence?" Just like this world, she clearly experienced it personally, but it was ultimately an illusion.

"No. All things exist, and the world is not empty, but all things arise from causes and conditions, and the world does not exist."

This confused Lu Zhaozhao, and she shook her head to indicate that she didn't understand.

Nun Jingwen raised her hand and touched her head, her tone gentle: "True and false, real and fake, don't necessarily have to seek out the truth, to explore the truth. Just like ignorance, you can know nothing, or you can know everything."

The nun looked at the confused girl in front of her, shook her head, and thought: These things are still too far-fetched for a child. However, Guannan's understanding is the best she has ever seen in her life. Take it slow, she will teach him slowly until there is nothing more to teach.

Lu Zhaozhao, who was wearing Guannan's skin in front of her, knew nothing about this. After listening to Master Jingwen's words, she fell into deep thought.

When she had previously calculated, she had sorted out the causes.

What was the Nine Mirrors Tower's purpose in luring her to this illusory world? The outcome was already a foregone conclusion, and there was no way she could change it.

This didn't make sense, so let's push forward. She heard the bell inside the Nine Mirror Tower when she entered it, but she didn't faint immediately, which meant that the bell was not the key to entering the illusion.

After the bell rang, she looked along the wall and saw ferocious beasts, lotus petals, and musicians. When she reached the top, she saw the bell and the black bird.

The bell sounds and the black bird moves.

She and the black bird looked at each other, and then heard the sound of a bell. From this point of view, the black bird seemed to be the key.

But this speculation was overturned within the first month of her arrival here.

The scriptures here did not mention the Xuanniao, and there was no place in the temple related to the Xuanniao. More importantly, in the first month after arriving here, she visited the Nine Mirrors Pagoda at night.

The octagonal, nine-story structure, with its soaring eaves and angled corners, is a testament to the exquisite craftsmanship. 480 Buddha statues, clad in golden brocade, gleam in the abyss of silence, some with downcast eyes, some glaring, some resting, each so lifelike that it resembles a living Buddha.

This is the Nine Mirror Tower that has not been swept by war or weathered by time.

The eight-sided golden plates shine in all directions, leaving no place for evil spirits to hide; one side faces the sky, reaching the ears of the heavens.

The murals inside the tower are also very different from what they were a thousand years ago. The brightly colored paintings are painted with bold strokes, creating a majestic and imposing scene, freely displayed on the neat tower surface.

148 steps spiral up to the top of the tower.

The clock is the same as always, but now it is more colorful and dazzling.

Everything is just more vivid and brighter than a thousand years later, but that’s all.

The only difference is that there is no Xuanniao image on the top of the bell of the Nine Mirror Tower.

So, was the Xuanniao added later?

She asked almost everyone in the women's courtyard about this issue indirectly, but no one knew. The nun from the Northern Region didn't even know what the Xuanniao was. Even the nun Jingwen only told her that there was a passage in the scriptures called "Phoenix Nirvana", and that the Phoenix and the Xuanniao might have similarities.

Just when she was searching in vain, an old woman came to the yard.

Her newborn granddaughter went missing, and the women's home often took in baby girls, so she came here to look for her.

Unfortunately, her granddaughter is not here.

But she brought news of war outside the temple. Rumors were rife among the people, and discussions were rampant, with the slightest hint of violence. Only the temple was relatively safe.

At the same time, before leaving, she also told Lu Zhaozhao the news about the Xuanniao.

It was an afternoon, Lu Zhaozhao was sitting in the yard drawing a picture, and on the picture was the black bird.

This was her way of relieving her depression. Now, there was no information about it at all. Furthermore, to prevent the memory from fading over time, she could only draw it. But to avoid criticism, she burned each drawing after finishing it.

This day was no exception.

She held the drawing paper in front of her, facing the sunlight, puzzled. Just as she was about to burn the drawing and go to evening class as usual, a voice that did not belong to the women's college came from behind her.

"Is this the Xuanniao?"

Lu Zhaozhao was frightened. She quickly crumpled the paper into a ball and turned around to look.

It was the old lady who came to look for her granddaughter two days ago.

Lu Zhaozhao breathed a sigh of relief, relaxed his expression, and stepped forward to salute.

"Does Grandma know about this?"

"I saw it, on the day my granddaughter was born."

The old woman's eyes were filled with tears, while Lu Zhaozhao frowned.

"Please tell me in detail, mother-in-law."

The old woman wiped her eyes and said without hesitation, "On the day my granddaughter was born, a Taoist priest came to our house. He said something about a black bird or something, left this pattern and left."

After saying that, she took out a handkerchief from her arms. In the middle of the handkerchief, where the embroidery should be, there was a piece of paper sewn. The pattern on the paper was almost the same as the one in the paper ball in Lu Zhaozhao's hand.

"At the time, we thought it was a good omen, so I thought of turning this picture into a handkerchief. But I didn't expect that after the handkerchief was completed, my poor grandson..."

When talking about the past, the old woman was overwhelmed with sadness and covered her face and cried.

Lu Zhaozhao gently stroked her back and whispered comforting words for a long time.

Only after the old woman left did she start to think about the matter again.

"The black bird left its old nest. The baby girl is a black bird, so she left home?" Lu Zhaozhao murmured to himself, but then he thought about it. The old woman said that the black bird had appeared in many people's homes during this period. Without exception, they were all newborns who were born but disappeared.

This can't be a coincidence at all.

Lu Zhaozhao wanted to go down the mountain to find out the truth. She said goodbye to Master Jingwen, but was persuaded to stay.

The nun said earnestly: "You have a special physique. You can only be safe in the temple. If you go down the mountain, I am afraid your body will not be able to withstand it."

Lu Zhaozhao wanted to say something more, but was stopped by Master Jingwen. This was the first time she had used a tough attitude towards her favorite disciple.

Lu Zhaozhao begged her for a long time before she agreed to wait until she came of age before leaving.

Lu Zhaozhao had no choice but to agree.

Fortunately, she is only half a year away from adulthood.