Quick Wear: Reversing Life

Yuedu is the name of the capital of the original owner's hometown.

It was a thousand miles from Mount Xumi to Yuedu, and He Wan no longer had enough silver to buy a horse. On his way out of the desert, he happened to meet a caravan heading to the capital. He gave them some silver and got on the caravan's carriage.

A month later, they arrived safely in the capital Yuedu.

The capital city was more prosperous than all the towns she had passed through along the way, but He Wan had no interest in sightseeing and went straight to the largest temple in the capital, the Golden Buddha Temple.

The Golden Buddha Temple is also a royal temple. Every emperor would come to the Golden Buddha Temple every year to burn incense and worship Buddha.

Today happens to be Buddha's Bathing Day, and the temple held a grand Buddhist lecture, and the person who attended the lecture was Master Quechen.

The Golden Buddha Temple was crowded with people, all of whom came to listen to Master Quechen's lectures and worship Buddha.

Master Quechen was sitting in the main hall, and the hall was surrounded by people.

He Wan had good eyesight and could see a drop of dew on the flower petals even from a thousand meters away, so he found a place with few people and took a look from a distance.

But the location was still too remote, and the prayer flags hanging from the beams just blocked Quechen's face.

After all, there were a lot of people here today, so He Wan decided to come back in the evening.

After nightfall, He Wan entered the Golden Buddha Temple again. Without the dense crowds of people during the day, the temple seemed much more spacious.

After using his spiritual sense to determine Que Chen's exact location, He Wan walked towards the meditation room behind the main hall.

The temple was eerily quiet at night, with only the rustling of leaves heard in the wind.

—Wait, is there only the rustling of leaves?

He Wan is already a demon cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage, which is equivalent to a cultivator in the Golden Core stage in the world of cultivation.

She shouldn't just hear the sound of leaves; the wind should be blowing the prayer flags in the hall and ringing the bells in the corridor.

Not right.

There is weirdness.

He Wan stopped and began to observe his surroundings.

The vegetation, buildings, and even the height of the ash in the incense burner were all the same as in the daytime.

But He Wan's intuition told him that something was not right here.

She immediately summoned the Yuhong Sword, swung it, and used the sword energy to explore the way.

The next second, the sword energy that He Wan had swung came towards her from behind, and He Wan reacted quickly to escape the disaster.

Seeing this, He Wan was sure that he must have fallen into the formation.

This must be the formation set up by Master Quechen.

Although He Wan knew nothing about the formation, he knew clearly that there must be a way to break the formation.

If it is an ordinary formation, there must be a formation eye, which is the core of the flow of spiritual power in the formation. As long as the formation eye is destroyed, the formation can be broken.

Another efficient and convenient way is to break the formation by brute force.

Breaking the formation with violence probably wouldn't work, as Que Chen's cultivation must be higher than his own.

Then the only thing left is to find the center of the formation.

Since it is a formation set up by Quechen, it must be different from ordinary formations.

He Wan first used his spiritual sense to explore, but did not find any direction with strong spiritual energy.

He Wan could only observe the flaws with his naked eyes.

Soon He Wan discovered a pattern.

The incense burner is in the northwest direction. There is an ancient banyan tree with lush branches and leaves on the northeast right hand side, and there is land under your feet.

Could it be the corresponding five elements and east, west, south and north?

He Wan immediately closed his eyes and used his spiritual sense to check, and sure enough, he found a fish pond directly in front of him in the north direction.

In the theory of geography combined with the Five Elements, the south belongs to fire, the east belongs to wood, the north belongs to water, the west belongs to metal, and the center belongs to earth, which help to balance all things.

Now there is only one thing missing, and that is the fire in the southeast direction.

He Wan immediately imbued the Yuhong Sword with fire and urged it to stab towards the southeast.

Sure enough, the flames were swallowed up out of thin air, and the light curtain around them shattered instantly.

Just like completing a game, the next second, the door of the Zen room not far away opened automatically, silently inviting the guests in.

A faint human figure can be seen through the light-transmitting window on the side.

He Wan thought that he probably passed the test.

He Wan put away the Yuhong Sword and walked in.

As expected, Que Chen was sitting at the small table under the window. On the simple wooden table there was only a candlestick, a Buddhist scripture, and a set of tea sets, nothing else.

Que Chen took off the golden robes he wore during the day, put on plain clothes, and looked at the Buddhist scriptures spread out on the table with lowered eyes.

However, what surprised He Wan was Que Chen's appearance.

Her face was tough and stern, with sharp eyebrows, bright eyes, a high nose bridge, and thin lips. When she lowered her eyes, her long, thick eyelashes cast a small shadow in the candlelight.

The impact of this face even weakened his shiny head.

He Wan imagined that Master Quechen should be an old man with a kind face like Huikong.

If it weren't for the six scars on his eyebrows, He Wan would have thought he was a male celebrity who walked out of a magazine.

"Meet the Master."

Since he was going to learn from a master, He Wan kept himself humble.

Que Chen didn't even raise his eyelids, and said calmly: "Hui Kong told me that you wanted to come and learn the formation from me."

"But I do not wish to teach those who seek revenge."

He Wan chuckled: "Then why did the master set up such a 'level' for me at the door?"

If he doesn't want to teach her, why not just kick her out? He is a Buddha, he should have ten thousand ways to deal with a demon like her.

Que Chen said, "Buddhists have the obligation to persuade any demon to escape."

His gaze then shifted from the Buddhist scriptures on the table to He Wan's face.

Only then did He Wan see his eyes clearly.

Black, bright and deep as the abyss.

Although the light shining on his face was the warm candlelight, it brought out a sense of alienation as distant and cold as the stars.

After staring at each other for a while, He Wan finally smiled and said, "In that case, Master, teaching me the art of formation can also be considered as a form of 'saving me'."

Que Chen just looked at her without saying anything.

"If Master doesn't want to, I won't force you. Goodbye."

Learning skills from a master requires mutual consent, and there is more than one formation master in the world of cultivation.

He Wan turned around to leave, but found that the fragile-looking little wooden door could not be opened.

He Wan turned to look at Que Chen with a puzzled look on his face.

"I won't let any demon get away from me."

He Wan said, "You don't want to teach me, but you won't let me go either. What do you want, Master?"

For some reason, He Wan was calm in front of Huikong, but when he saw Quechen's stern face, he felt like teasing him.

She walked forward, resting her palms on the small wooden table, and leaned over to look at Que Chen.

"Could it be that Master... wants to 'save me' in another way?"

She curled her lips and smiled, and her ambiguous tone showed the devil's willfulness.

Que Chen was not angry and still had no expression.

"Being attached to external things can cultivate your external strength, but it won't cultivate your inner self," he said calmly. "It will only lead you into endless torment."

He Wan, however, was unmoved by this: "Master, there's no need to waste your words trying to persuade me to lay down my butcher knife and become a Buddha right here and now. Master Huikong has already done that."

"If everyone could let go of their obsessions and abandon worldly temptations, there would no longer be any such thing as greed, anger, or ignorance in this world. Why would you, Master, come to this mortal world to preach and chant scriptures?"