When Nie Chen woke up, it was already noon the next day.

After entering the depths of the desert for more than a month, the life of sleeping in the open every day is the most abrasive, and there are more terrible sandstorms and monsters that do not know when they will appear, forcing people into danger, and even when they sleep at night, they must be cautious, and they dare not sleep too deeply. Fortunately, Nie Chen is a martial artist cultivator with the realm of Yuan King, if he were an ordinary person, I am afraid that he would have been tortured to the point of dying.

However, Nie Chen's body was still very seriously overdrawn, so since he lay on the bed prepared for him by Ren Fanchen, he fell asleep in an inexplicable sense of security and calm, and this sleep was more than ten hours.

Opening his eyes, Nie Chen felt the light refracted from outside the window, very soft, the outside was a scorching desert, but the inside of the house was exceptionally cool and comfortable, the two worlds formed a stark contrast.

Nie Chen rubbed his eyes, and his adequate sleep made him feel refreshed.

There was a soft "crunch", the door was pushed open, and I saw Yinyue and Ren Fanchen walking in from outside the door, and when they saw Nie Chen, Yinyue had a happy smile on her face.

"Are you awake?"

"How long did I sleep?"

"It's been a whole day, and I can't bear to disturb you all day to see you sleeping so soundly. Yinyue beckoned to Nie Chen mysteriously, "Come on, I'll show you something." ”

"What......"

Nie Chen stood up and followed Su Yinyue downstairs.

Silver Moon slammed the door open.

"This, this is!"

Nie Chen was startled by what he saw, and hurriedly took a step back.

A hundred-meter-long giant snake was winding outside the house, a three-zhang long head was facing the gatehouse, blood-red letters were swallowing from time to time, and a pair of calm eyes were looking at Nie Chen uprightly.

"Desert Serpent!"

Nie Chen lost his voice.

"Her name is Xiaoqing. ”

Su Yinyue's silver bell-like laughter came from her ears, and she saw her stretch out her jade hand, spread her palm upward, and said to the giant snake: "Xiaoqing, come here." ”

Then the giant snake lowered its head, came to Su Yinyue's face, and stretched out the snake letter to **** Su Yinyue's palm.

"It's itchy, hahaha. ”

Su Yinyue smiled even more happily, and finally couldn't help the entanglement of the snake hyacinth, and retracted her hand.

Nie Chen was stunned from the side.

"This is a colorful jade python, it is my pet, it is just three years old this year, but it is very close to the silver moon girl, and it has only been a day to get acquainted. ”

Ren Fanchen's voice sounded from behind.

It's hard to imagine that a demon and a beast who fought you to the death yesterday have now become friends.

"It was trying to eat me. ”

Nie Chen looked at Xiaoqing in front of him angrily and said.

"You broke into its range in the middle of the night, and it thought you were going to be bad for me, but of course it couldn't spare you. Ren Fanchen explained apologetically.

Nie Chen knew that for many fierce beasts, the sphere of influence was very important, if any creature broke into their sphere of influence, it would often be the result of your death, not to mention that this giant python thought that Nie Chen would hurt his master, so he naturally had to desperately protect the master.

At the same time, he is now that the scars left on the body of this colorful jade python in the battle yesterday have disappeared, and it seems that this python's self-healing ability is quite strong.

Nie Chen looked at the colorful jade python intently, and gradually fell silent, Yinyue saw Nie Chen's expression, and walked away gently, leaving only Ren Fanchen still standing quietly behind Nie Chen.

……

After a long time, Ren Fanchen slowly spoke: "You are here to find me?"

"Yes. ”

"Just ask any questions. ”

Nie Chen closed the door, turned around and sat on the stool in the living room, lowered his head, his eyes were shining, he went through many twists and turns in order to find the King of Baoxiang, in order to figure out the doubts in his heart, and now the King of Baoxiang Ren Fanchen was standing in front of him, but Nie Chen suddenly didn't know where to start, so he fell into contemplation again.

After a long time, Nie Chen raised his head and asked from the recent incident: "That Fa Ming, the abbot of Hong'en Temple, why did you want to attack me?"

Ren Fanchen looked calm, looking at the dappled sunlight outside the window: "Because of a prophecy." ”

"What prophecy?"

Hearing Nie Chen's question, a series of jerky tones and unfamiliar prophecies came out of Ren Fanchen's mouth, the language seemed to be very ancient, but it was full of rhythm, and Nie Chen couldn't understand a word.

"What are you talking about?" Nie Chen said.

"That's Sanskrit, which translates to: The demon star has fallen, there is a young man and the king of Baoxiang, the creation is endless, and the Buddha country has changed dramatically!"

"What do you mean?" Nie Chen was puzzled.

"This is a prophecy that Bitter Sorrow obtained from the secret art of the Heavenly Stars, saying that there will be a young man, and when he meets me Ren Fanchen, he will bring great variables to the Buddha Kingdom. Ren Fanchen's voice was calm and heavy.

"Celestial Star Secret Technique?"

It was a means of divination, and when Ku Sorrow obtained this prophecy through this secret technique, he immediately reported the matter to the abbot of Hong'en Temple, Fa Ming. ”

"Is that the Bitter Compassion Master of the Great Compassion Temple?"

"Yes, that's him. Ren Fanchen nodded and continued: "The prophecy says that this young man will bring great changes to the Buddha Kingdom, which is the last thing they want to see, especially Fa Ming. ”

"Why?"

"Do you know why the Buddha Kingdom is so barren?" Ren Fanchen's question was a little abrupt.

Nie Chen thought carefully about Ren Fanchen's words, the Buddha Kingdom of the Western Regions, as a divine continent above Tianyuan Da 6, was indeed much more desolate than other places, full of deserts and Gobi, even if there were occasional mountain ranges, but there was no vegetation on those mountains, only bare rocks, not only uninhabited, not even a trace of life.

The city here is also unusually secluded, although the Buddhist temples in the city are built solemnly and solemnly, but the color is monotonous, all of them are earthy yellow, and the residents of the city are very scarce, without a little bustling atmosphere of a big city, as if these people have no desire, no pursuit, only obedience and piety.

Thinking of this, Nie Chen hurriedly asked, "Why?"

"Every year in every temple in the Buddha kingdom will recruit a large number of strong men from nearby cities, and after these people are requisitioned, they will be taken to the temple to serve the monks in the temple, so that every household has an extremely scarce labor force, a large amount of land is uncultivated, and gradually becomes barren, and finally becomes a large area of the Gobi and the desert. And because these people were not allowed to marry and have children during their military service, even if they were allowed to leave the monastery after decades, they were already past the age of childbearing when they returned home, so that the population of the Buddha country not only did not grow, but also declined sharply. ”

"How can this be? They are monks, what qualifications do they have to forcibly recruit strong men? Don't they work?" Nie Chen felt incredulous after hearing this.

"Hehe" Ren Fanchen sneered a few times, sighed and said: "Where do they care about the life and death of the people? In the Buddha country, all the young people who can become warriors are absorbed into the temples of all sizes here, and become monks, once they become warriors, they don't need to work for the rest of their lives, they only need to practice with all their might, and their daily life, as well as farming, grazing and even weaving, etc., are all handed over to the young men who are recruited. ”

"They are even more domineering than the Earth Emperor!"

Nie Chen's eyes were on fire, filled with righteous indignation.

"In the Buddha country, the monks in the temple are the sky, they have no worries about food and clothing, they only care about meditation and meditation all day long, but the people live a barren and hard life, in the Buddha country, there are no monks who come to the door to turn their fate, but there are many people who go to the temple door to beg!"

"So......" Ren Fanchen looked at Nie Chen leisurely: "How could they allow the existence of a young man who will bring great changes to the Buddha Kingdom?!"

"Are you just going to let it go?" Nie Chen asked Ren Fanchen.

Nie Chen heard Su Yun say that as the King of Treasure Ministers, Ren Fanchen's lifespan has reached more than 30,000 years old, such a long lifespan, his cultivation is even more unfathomable, and he is definitely a natural existence in the Buddha Kingdom.

"Hehe" Ren Fanchen shook his head, and said a little desolately: "As the only abbot who has been kicked out of the temple, I am also powerless. ”

Without waiting for Nie Chen to speak, Ren Fanchen continued to say leisurely: "Hong'en Temple, I founded it 30,000 years ago, I am the first abbot, about 10,000 years ago, I passed the position of abbot to Fa Ming, and I traveled all over the world, 10,000 years to build, my footprints have traveled all over the four major divine continents of Tianyuan Da 6, and even the demon world, and the affairs of the Buddha Kingdom have long been thrown out of the clouds. ”

Ren Fanchen's eyes gradually became profound: "But when I returned to the Buddha Kingdom, it was now full of desolation, barren land, and withered people. When I knew the truth, I was also furious, and immediately punished Fa Ming and other senior monks. After 10,000 years of pampering life, the warriors in the temples were very obsessed with the existing system, and only a very small number of warriors were willing to follow me, but they were all expelled from the temples or assassinated for various reasons, and my opposition ended in failure. Disheartened, I left Hong'en Temple, regained its customs, and became what it is now. ”

Speaking of this, Ren Fanchen's gaze became a little lonely.

"After all, it's my fault, it's my unclear use of people, willful and reckless, and I'm ashamed of the sentient beings in the Buddha country. ”

(End of chapter)