Longevity: Start by practicing the ruthless way

Gu Chi turned over and crawled to the lakeside, drinking the spiritual water in big gulps. Then she sat cross-legged and practiced breathing techniques. Strands of spiritual energy flowed from all directions like trickles, sank into her body, circulated around her, and nourished every inch of her flesh and blood.

After drinking a few mouthfuls of lake water, the big black dog sat cross-legged and began to breathe and refine his energy.

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The moonlight was cold, and a thin mist covered the endless sea. A huge ship as big as a mountain was breaking through the waves. In the center of the ship stood a magnificent Buddhist temple. The Buddha's light shone everywhere, dispelling the deathly fog around it. Faint Buddhist sounds could be heard from the temple.

A young man in monk's robes stood in front of the main gate of the Buddhist temple, with his hands clasped together and staring ahead with a frown.

"Brother Huiming, we have been trapped in this sea for so many days and still haven't found a way out. What should we do?" A young monk who looked only about fifteen or sixteen years old walked over with a worried look on his face.

The young monk named Huiming spoke softly, "At first, I didn't take it too seriously, thinking it was just an ordinary sea area. But judging by the current situation, we are most likely trapped in the Sea of ​​the Dead."

Before entering the secret realm of Beiyin Mountain, he made preparations in advance and consulted a large number of documents related to the ancient battlefield of Beiyin Mountain in the Sutra Library.

Beiyin Mountain was originally an ancient battlefield in ancient times, with countless casualties. The so-called Sea of ​​the Dead refers to the dead energy of those ancient powerful beings gathered in the low-lying areas after their death in battle, eventually forming the lifeless sea before our eyes.

Huiming said, "When the Beiyin Mountain secret realm was opened, a group of people from our Thousand Buddha Temple were randomly teleported into this sea of ​​dead souls. In the end, only five out of a hundred people managed to escape from the sea of ​​dead souls."

Upon hearing this, everyone on the ship gasped.

"Only five out of a hundred people survived. What happened to them? How did they escape the Sea of ​​Death?"

Huiming said, "According to the records, they landed on the Green Lantern Ghost Island and eventually met their doom there. As for the five surviving brothers, the records don't clearly explain how they escaped the Sea of ​​Dead Souls. Perhaps they were just lucky."

Huiming sighed. Although he had consulted a large amount of literature, he still didn't know how to escape from the Sea of ​​Death. He could only ask his fellow disciples on the boat to get as close to the Buddhist temple as possible and recite Buddhist scriptures together.

Just then, someone exclaimed, "There seems to be an island over there. Do you want to go over there and spend the night there?"

"It really is an island, but... why are there green lanterns hanging on it?"

When Huiming heard the word "green lantern", he was immediately startled and quickly looked in the direction of everyone's sight. He found that there was indeed a small island not far ahead. There were dead trees on the island, and the branches were twisted outward like ghost claws. There were green lanterns made of white paper hanging on the island. The green light looked particularly gloomy in the mist of the night.

Huiming's face changed drastically and he shouted "Oh no!" and quickly ordered people to change the direction of the ship so as not to approach the island.

"That's the legendary Green Lantern Ghost Island. Let's get away from it quickly, or we might all die here!"

Green Lantern Ghost Island, a beacon of death in the Sea of ​​​​Death, will kill anyone who encounters it!

"Look, there seems to be someone on the island!" Someone else shouted, seeing an extremely scary scene.

Right on the Green Lantern Ghost Island, there were two figures sitting cross-legged beside a dark red and turbid pool of blood, as motionless as dead trees.

Huiming pointed a finger at his forehead, his pupils shone with golden light, and his gaze penetrated the fog and stared at the island.

"is her?!"

Huiming was shocked. One of the two figures was completely covered in a black coat, and it was impossible to tell whether it was a man or a woman, while the other figure was a woman in white.

Huiming recognized the woman. He was only fourteen years old at that time. Unable to bear the thought of the Thousand Blades Demon Lord's corpse being exposed in the wilderness, he went to a coffin shop in a nearby town to seek help.

The woman in white on the Qingdeng Ghost Island at this moment was the owner of the coffin shop who had buried the Thousand Blades Demon Lord with him in the past!

"Donor Gu... ? How could she be here?" Huiming was shocked. He was sure that he had not recognized the wrong person, but he remembered that Gu Chi was just a mortal. How could a mortal appear here?

The disciples of the Thousand Buddha Temple all noticed Huiming's change in expression and asked, "Brother Huiming, do you recognize the two people on the island?"

"Yeah." Huiming nodded. If the woman in white was really the coffin shop owner who had buried the Thousand Blades Demon Lord with him in the Qiwei Mountains in the past, then the man in the black coat next to her should be the big black dog, right?

At the same time, he also noticed that Gu Chi and the big black dog were surrounded by visible black air. He thought to himself that something was wrong and shouted to everyone, "The death energy of Qingdeng Ghost Island is eroding their minds. Everyone, please recite Buddhist scriptures with me to help them regain their sanity!"

Huiming is the leader of their group and has absolute appeal.

He leaped into the air and arrived at the dome of the Louchuan Buddhist Temple, where he sat cross-legged on it, clasped his hands together, and chanted Buddhist scriptures with everyone else.

"With great compassion and great mercy, he sympathizes with all living beings, with great joy and generosity, he helps all sentient beings, and with his beautiful and radiant features, he adorns himself..."

"Namo, I take refuge in all the Buddhas in the ten directions and throughout the universe."

"Namo, I take refuge in all the sacred dharmas in the ten directions and throughout the universe."

"Namo, I take refuge in all the virtuous and holy monks in the ten directions and throughout the universe."

Huiming and all the disciples of the Thousand Buddhas Temple had dignified and majestic appearances. The power of their faith was injected into the Buddhist temple on the ship, which adorned it with gold. The Buddha's light shone brightly, illuminating an area of ​​dozens of miles around.

"Namo Tathagata, worthy of offerings, perfectly aware, well-versed in wisdom and conduct, well-gone, knower of the world, supreme one, tamer of all, teacher of gods and men, Buddha, World-honored One..."

The Buddhist sound became louder and louder, and in the end it seemed as if three thousand Buddhas were summoning and chanting in unison across the heavens and earth. The magnificent heavenly sound was like rolling thunder that penetrated the barriers of space and descended into this world, resounding throughout the heavens and the earth.

On the Green Lantern Ghost Island, Gu Chi slowly opened his eyes, his face full of confusion.

She rubbed her eyes and muttered, "Why is it so noisy?"

But when she saw her surroundings, her expression changed instantly. She jumped up and cursed, "What the hell! What's going on?!"

The ground was reddish-brown, and there were strange and twisted dead trees. On the branches were white paper and green lanterns hanging, swaying with a faint green light.

Looking closer, I saw a pool of blood that was red to black and extremely filthy, bubbling with hot bubbles, and all kinds of flesh, body parts and bones floating in it.

Gu Chi stood there in a daze, as if struck by lightning. Hadn't she already left this place long ago, found land and recuperated beside a spiritual lake? Why was she back again?!

"Donor Gu! The aura of death on Qingdeng Ghost Island has been temporarily suppressed by us, please retreat quickly!" Huiming's voice came.

Gu Chi glanced at the Buddha-illuminated ship on the distant sea, then turned to look at the big black dog beside him. He slapped it in the face and yelled, "Stop breathing that, Old Black! That's damned dead energy, not spiritual energy. If you keep refining it, someone will die!"