The struggling man didn't let me pay much attention to it, and quickened my pace towards the pavilion, where my instincts told me that all the truth would be revealed. After walking for an unknown amount of time, I finally reached the foot of the pavilion. It's incredible, there are red lanterns hanging in every corner of this pavilion, and many articles on the wooden panels of the pavilion are engraved with the scriptures of the Emperor's Road, I can't believe that this is actually a scene that a small town can have.

I tried to enter the pavilion, but the door of the pavilion was closed, no matter how I hit it, I couldn't open it, just when I was at a loss, I found that a wooden board next to it didn't seem to be engraved with the Human Emperor Sutra, at this time the only wooden board that did not engrave the Human Emperor Sutra, I pushed hard, this wooden board instantly turned into powder, this... It's incredible.

Without further thought, I followed the hole into the pavilion. When I entered the pavilion, the scene inside was completely different from what I imagined, there seemed to be a hole inside, and the outside looked obviously small, but when I entered the inside, I found that the size of the space inside was almost equal to the whole town. There were many small rooms in the pavilion, and I pushed one open at random, and behind the door was a long corridor, and on the walls of the corridor hung a portrait of a young woman I had seen in a large family. There is a sketch book at the bottom of the portrait, only a few pages, and there are all kinds of strange symbols on it, I can't understand what these symbols mean, but on the last page of this sketch there is a line of small print that I can read, and I see that the small line reads:

Grace is the same as its name, and benevolence and righteousness are obvious and wasted.

I know this sentence, and it is excerpted from the famous chapter of the Emperor's Road Sutra, but I don't know the specific meaning.

At the end of the hallway, there was another door, and when I opened it, I found that there was another hallway, but this hallway was going all the way down, as if it was going underground.

Walking down the corridor, I seemed to enter a labyrinth, I was dazzled by many forks in the road, I picked a random path and walked forward, I came to a dungeon, there are many iron cages holding many strange people, one of the cage prisoners was covered in bruises, when he saw me coming, he stared at me, I curiously stepped forward to listen to what he said, only to see him laugh a little madly: "Fake, the saint is fake, we are also fake, everything is fake." ”

This man would only repeat this sentence all the time, and since I couldn't get more information from him, I chose to move on.

There seemed to be a table in front of me, and when I looked closer, there was still some fruit on the table, but it was not rotten, maybe it had just been put on it, and I ate the fruit without much suspicion when I was thirsty and hungry, it was really comfortable. However, under the plate containing the fruit, a few words written in blood can be faintly seen:

What we believe is what we cannot believe.

I still don't know why, but I remember these few words, and maybe they will become a key piece of information in the future. After this person finished writing, she specially covered it with a fruit bowl, as if she wanted others to know what she was going to say, but she was worried that what she was going to say would be known by some people, so she half-concealed it and seemed so contradictory.

Leaving here, I thought to myself that maybe I could only find the truth by going to the top of the pavilion, I tried to find my way up, but on the side a man who was locked in a cage stretched out his bloody hands and grabbed my arm and pulled hard, I struggled, stabbed him with a dagger, he still pulled me as if he didn't feel the pain, damn dirty, I cursed in my heart, despite the pain in my arm, he forcibly ripped off a piece of flesh from my arm, and I ran away from here.

There was a passage ahead, I didn't know where it led, but at least it was safer than here, I ran towards the passage, and when I got outside, I realized that I had left the pavilion again, and I was on the first floor of the pavilion all the time, and as for the higher floors, I never knew how to get in.

As soon as I came out, I found a ragged woman lying on the ground struggling in pain, looking at this woman, I felt a little familiar, after helping her up, the torch approached and took a closer look, it turned out to be Xiaoyu.

Seeing me come to save her, Xiaoyu snuggled in my arms and cried: "Brother Ming, you are finally here, it's terrible here." ”

"Are you alright?"

"Of course there is!"

"What's going on?"

"I don't know, but it's really scary here, I don't want to look for my cousin, let's go, get out of this hellish place. ”

As soon as she finished speaking, Xiao Yu took my hand and ran desperately forward.

"Where are we going?"

"It's better to go anywhere than here. ”

When Xiaoyu and I ran forward, Xiaoyu kept holding her stomach and her face was ugly, and I was a little worried.

"What's wrong, are you okay, what did they do to you?"

"Brother Ming, I'm fine, don't ask. ”

Xiaoyu seemed to be resistant to my question, but now that running for my life is the most important thing, I chose to believe her.

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In the distance, a group of villagers held torches and looked around for Qiu Xiaoyu's figure, and one of the villagers said with a hideous face: "That woman has a child given by the saint in her belly, we must find her, with that child, we will get the attention of the saint." ”

Another group of villagers not far away also held torches looking for Qiu Xiaoyu, led by a woman in dirty clothes, muttered: "The demon seed has been injected into that woman's body, using the demon, we may be able to get rid of the sage's confinement, we must find that woman before them"

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I never dreamed that Xiaoyu would be injected with the Dao seed, and that these stupid villagers would think that it was a child given by a saint, and that all our tragedies would come from this.

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"Who is it?" Just as we were running away, Xiaoyu and I heard more and more footsteps approaching us.

I still wanted to see who the people were, but those people didn't talk to us at all, and just pressed me and Xiaoyu to the ground.

"Don't touch me, get out of here!" Xiao Yu struggled to push away the man who was moving his hands and feet on her, but to no avail.

Looking at Xiao Yu who was defiled on the spot, my anger completely exploded, and fear could not stop my anger, I scolded angrily while struggling: "Let go of me, you brutes, let go of Xiao Yu, let go of her, don't, damn a bunch of brutes." ”

But a woman in disheveled clothes pressed my head and kissed me, and I felt disgusting, and they had defiled my woman, and now they were going to defile me.

After kissing me, the woman unbuttoned my clothes and did unspeakable things to me, and after a long time, the woman said with a satisfied face: "The stranger really gives me a different feeling, and we will meet again." With that, he knocked me unconscious.

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I don't know how long I slept in a coma and finally woke up with a pain in my head, it was still the same place, Xiaoyu was taken away, but I was still alive, I don't know why they didn't kill me, and what it means to meet again, I dragged forward with heavy steps, while thinking about what happened just now, they defiled Xiaoyu, and said that the child in Xiaoyu's body is a demon, and it is also their hope, I don't know what demons and hope mean, but the words that Xiaoyu has a child in her body made my heart collapse, these beasts, they actually, unexpectedly！

There is a pond in front, on both sides of the pond are a few villagers whispering, fortunately it is night, they can't see me, I gently go to the ground, want to swim slowly from the pond, and can't disturb these people, otherwise I will die here, before rescuing Xiaoyu, I must not die, never!

Although the villagers here were fierce, they didn't seem to have good eyes, probably because they had been blinded by the light of the pavilion for a long time, and I swam smoothly across the pond and into a small wooden house. Luckily, although my torches were flooded, there were a few logs and oil lamps in the hut, so I made a simple torch and left the hut to move on.

Xiaoyu, I must find you, I thought in my heart.

"The strangers are there!" a group of villagers saw me, and they chased after me with torches.

Damn, these villagers seem to be divided into two factions, one wants to use me, the other wants to kill me, the villagers who defiled me and Xiaoyu just now want to use me, and now this group of villagers obviously wants to kill me.

As I ran, I listened to what the villagers behind me.

"Lan Xingyan, that apostate, actually wants to use that child to rebel against the saint, she thinks too simply. ”

"Kill this stranger and find the woman. ”

I really can't run, I'm so tired, I've been running for I don't know how long, the villagers are getting closer and closer to me, when I was in despair, the mysterious and towering pavilion suddenly began to emit a strong dazzling light, the villagers covered their eyes and rolled on the ground, they screamed in pain, in the dazzling light, I fell unconscious again.

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I seemed to wake up, but what was the scene in front of me? Why was I in the seowon where I was a child? And the seowon was also at night, but fortunately there were many oil lamps and lanterns in the academy so that I couldn't see anything, and I saw that there were many tables around me, and there were some books on them, and the room was very clean, as if someone had just cleaned it. Leaving this room and entering the hallway, I pushed open the door to another room, and there was still no one, only an empty desk.

But there is a portrait on the wall, on which is painted a lovely girl, I remember this girl, her name is Lu Xi, I called her Xi'er at the time, she was also studying in this academy back then, she and I were still childhood sweethearts, but unfortunately, I later heard that she committed suicide, committed suicide in the academy, I don't understand why she committed suicide, later, I grew up, met Xiaoyu, and then Xiaoyu and I fell in love with each other. Xi'er is a girl from a wealthy family, and her father contributed a lot of money to build the academy, so many portraits of the dean and Lu Xi and Lu Xi's father were hung in the academy.

There's nothing to see here, I thought, and left the room. Returning to the hallway again, I saw a portrait of the dean hanging on the wall, and the portrait had the following sentence written on it:

The saint is nameless, all things are named and spiritual, the saint is not visible, and all beings are visible.

I know this sentence, and it is also an excerpt from the famous chapter of the Emperor's Road Sutra, so I don't understand what it means. Continue to walk forward, Zhou has no oil lamps and lanterns, it is black, but there is a little light in front of me, there is a person standing faintly in the light, I walked forward a little curiously, suddenly the figure rushed towards me quickly, I was startled, but the figure passed through my body, and then suddenly disappeared, came to the light, there is a door, behind the door is the backyard of the academy, I entered the backyard, it was black, suddenly I felt that the soles of my feet were empty, it was a cliff, but how could there be a cliff in the backyard of the academy, I was not allowed to think, I had already fallen, and then I fell into a coma。

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When I woke up again, I opened my eyes and saw a man who said with a smile on his face, "Are you okay?" ”

"I'm still alive, you?"

"My name is Langu, and it's a pleasure to meet you. ”

"No, I was wondering why you didn't kill me?"

"My soul does not belong here, and the lies of the saints have deceived everyone here, but not me. ”

"Hmm...... Well, though, I'm hurt. ”

"Come with me, to my house. ”

Then I followed this somewhat old man into his house, and he told me that his brother was a big family here, but he didn't have a good relationship with his brother, and he also had a niece named Lan Xingyan.

"I told her to get out of here, but she chose to believe the lies that they had weaved, she thought she knew the truth, but in reality it was just another lie to expose the lie. Lan Gu said with some sadness.

"What the hell is going on here. I asked, shuffling along my bruised pace.

"Do you know that pavilion, everyone is controlled by it, come with me, you need to rest. Lan Gu said very considerately.

When I came to Langu's home, I sat on a stool and drank tea, feeling comfortable both physically and mentally, I hadn't been so relaxed for a long time. Just as I was still savoring the warmth of the tea, the sound of footsteps outside the door made me and Lan Gu tremble.

"Hide, those people are coming. "Langu stuffed me into a closet.

Hiding in the closet, I saw an old woman with a few villagers into Langu's house, and the old woman was the same one who had slashed me with a scythe. The old woman said with a dry and gloomy face: "The stranger has entered here, according to the instructions of the saint, we must kill him, have you hidden that stranger in secret?"

"I didn't, you...... Ah......h

Although Lan Gu was cut in the leg, he hurriedly grabbed the old woman's sickle with both hands, and the old woman couldn't beat Lan Gu, but several villagers around him held Lan Gu's limbs down, and the old woman stood up again after getting out, and said in a hoarse voice: "The saint doesn't care what you say." ”

Then he slashed the scythe at Lan Gu's head, which couldn't move, and Lan Gu's brain burst to death in an instant. After killing Lan Gu, the old woman glanced at Lan Gu's house, and after finding the portrait of Lan Xingyan in Lan Gu's room, the old woman tore off the portrait, crumpled it into a ball and lit it with the fire of an oil lamp, and the portrait turned into ashes not long after, and the old woman said coldly while burning: "Those who betray the saint, die!" Lan Xingyan, I will kill you sooner or later!"

Then the old woman left with the villagers, and I opened the wardrobe with trembling hands, and looked at Lan Gu who was lying on the ground bleeding all over the ground, and could only pray silently for him in my heart.

Leaving the blue house, the moon outside was obscured by clouds, and in the darkness I could only rely on the little light of the torch to move forward, and I inadvertently looked up in the muddy tunnel, only to see a black shadow holding a book muttering to myself:

The saint has left us temporarily, but our hearts and the saint will never be separated, and the fate of everything has already been determined.

I was a little scared to walk by, not far away, I saw a hot soup, I felt a little cold I approached the hot soup to keep warm, there was a child on the side of the soup who had been stripped naked and tied to the rack for barbecue, I was no stranger to this, everything here seemed so weird.

Although it was so warm here, I still needed to continue to look for Xiaoyu, leaving here, I didn't know where Xiaoyu was, and I came to the side of a small cabin without a purpose, but when I tried to enter the house, a pair of dry hands opened the door, it was the old woman and her attendants.

Run! Run!

I didn't dare to turn back, but as I was running away, I tripped over a rock under my feet and fell to the ground, and when I struggled to get up, the old woman was already less than two meters away from me.

"Outlander, you ...... "The old woman was about to kill me, when suddenly the pavilion emitted a strong light, and everyone, including me, was stabbed in the eye in an instant, and my head fell to the ground in a dazed state.