A few years ago, after several years of investigation, a sociologist finally publicly exposed a spiritual master named Bapunada who was suspected of sexually assaulting underage girls, threatening and kidnapping, seizing property, and murdering. The self-proclaimed Hindu spiritual master, the descendant of immigrants of Indian origin in the United States, was born in the United States, had been active in India for a long time, and then came to the United States with a group of followers and founded a spiritual organization.

After Bapunada suffered these allegations, he was also investigated, but in the end, it was not resolved. On the one hand, because the spiritual control of this spiritual organization is very tight, the prosecution cannot find enough witnesses to go to court; On the other hand, it is also related to the US judicial system, where Bapunada can spend a lot of money to hire a large team of lawyers, and with skillful judicial skills, the litigation process will be delayed indefinitely, and the prosecution's litigation costs will be pushed to an unacceptable level, and finally the only option is to settle out of court.

The "case" took place in Salt Lake City, where the Bapunada master reportedly bought a plot of land and built a private estate on the Trorado plateau. Believers join this spiritual organization not only to give up their original identity and possessions, but also to devotionally dedicate themselves to God in order to "find comfort for the soul and seek the true destination of life." It was not only Hindu believers who joined the group, but later many Native American whites.

At first, the purpose of these people may have been just out of yearning and curiosity for the occult of the East, and they were eager to seek inner sustenance in modern civilized society, but then they fell into it. Before coming here, Tao Zongheng had investigated various situations in the vicinity, and the manor established by Bapunada was not too far from here.

The so-called not far away, in fact, there is still a long way to go. Especially on such plateaus, a few tens of kilometers is equivalent to another world. But Cheng Tianle and Xiao Shao saw the manor from a distance in the sky.

Shen Sibao frowned and said, "Such an exaggeration! And then no one cared about it? They've been active, and they've been joined? ”

Tao Zongheng shook his head and sighed, "Four treasures." You live in China all year round, but it's not the same here. There are a lot of ideas and concepts that you have become accustomed to that these people don't know. You've also seen what Yun Shaoxian's gang did, and they had to put on a cloak of promoting the Dharma, otherwise they wouldn't be recognized and accepted by people. Everyone's attitude towards strange forces and chaos is like this, and there have been too many lessons in history.

However, many parts of the world, despite being a modern civilized society, lack the qiē that you are familiar with. Some people just appear directly as gods, and they talk about strange powers. In your opinion, this may not be any different from the witches of the primitive era. But many people are not you and me, they don't think there's anything wrong with it, but are more curious to follow. ”

Shen Sibao nodded and said, "Brother Tao, when you say that, I understand what's going on." This involves the question of "who am I", for example, what is the difference between people living in contemporary society and the barbarian natives of thousands of years ago? Where does our wisdom come from?

Many people living today may ignore some things, intentionally or unintentionally. Even if we use an idiom in our daily life, it may contain the essence of many predecessors' wisdom precipitation and thinking summary. Nowadays, we can use it directly without going through the original process, and judge and analyze the things we encounter with it.

But this is not the case for everyone in this world, and everyone sees the world differently. It's like Cheng Zong, who is a generation of demon sects. Why did he leave guidance for those monsters? This is the process of moving from chaos to clarity, saying goodbye to obscurantism and learning to think, in fact, people have been learning how to see the world, and at the same time, it also means what kind of world to live in. ”

Take cultivation as the theory. Shen Sibao is the lowest of the four, but on the other hand. He is also the most read, some things in the world. He may have seen more deeply.

Knowing such a thing, that night, Cheng Tianle became more interested in the manor in the distance, and when he overlooked the gloomy valley, he always looked in the direction of the manor from time to time. The distance was too far away, and even with his spiritual sense and keen five senses, it was difficult to detect any movement.

Before sunrise, before the light was fully lit, the people of the manor walked out of the house and gathered in the square, as if they were holding a daily ritual. Xiao Shao quietly asked, "Silly Le, do you want to go and have a look?" ”

Cheng Tianle smiled: "That's what I thought." ”

He quietly descended from the clouds, flying lower and lower towards the east, and slowly approached the manor. Xiao Shao reminded: "Don't get too close, and don't get directly above them." I sensed an indescribable aura, both from them and not like it came from them, in short, it was very strange, there might be some powerful existence there. ”

Cheng Tianle stopped at an altitude of hundreds of meters, a kilometer away, if it was an eagle, his eyes could see a lot of things over there. Cheng Tianle's perception is now far more acute than many powerful monsters in the world, he can not only see those people, but also sense their vitality rhythm characteristics.

In the center of the manor sat a man with a beard, surrounded by young women, in a semi-recumbent position, like some kind of ancient religious sculpture. Hundreds of people in the audience prostrated themselves in front of him, as if praying and singing hymns, and the sun slowly rose in the east.

These people were all dressed in white robes, and Cheng Tianle found that under the nightgown-like coat, they were wearing nothing else, only this kind of clothing on their bodies. And these people are also very special in their rhythmic characteristics, in a very vigorous state, as if all the potential in life has been released.

The master here, the spiritual master, is amazing! Where can you find so many men and women with such vigor and vitality? After a closer look, Cheng Tianle immediately found that something was wrong, not so much that he was vigorous and abundant, but that those people were in a strange state of excitement, their vitality was full or burning, and they were overdrawing the power of life, so they would give Cheng Tianle the illusion just now.

People don't overdraw their vitality and present such a state for no reason. Cheng Tianle has heard more or less of the method of ghost cultivation, and knows that receiving incense from the world and using the pious wish power of countless people is also a way to cultivate the form of gods, but it is different from the scene in front of him.

Those people seem to be invisibly sucking in a certain way, slowly and constantly absorbing vitality by what exists, but on the surface, they seem to be vigorous and energetic, so that a master like Cheng Tianle can't see the clues. The more he pondered, the more curious he became, and he quietly landed, and walked in the direction of the manor, wanting to study the place carefully.

Xiao Shao said: "I don't really understand what is going on with them, why is it in such a state? They are not close when they get together, and when the ceremony is over, someone may go out into the gardens and fields outside the manor, and we can observe them secretly. ”

That's what Cheng Tianle thought, he planned to walk through the dense forest to a farmland, and wait for someone in the manor to come out, so that he could launch his divine sense to search for his form and veins in a very close position. But as soon as he walked into the dense forest that surrounded the manor, a snake appeared under the root of the tree a few meters away, and suddenly popped out like clockwork, and opened its sharp teeth and bit him on the ankle.

The snake is so fast that even a high-speed camera can't easily capture the moment it attacks, but it's impossible for it to bite Cheng Tianle. Cheng Tianle had long since discovered the existence of this cold-blooded animal, although it was so perfect that it hibernated at the root of the tree. Cheng Tianle flicked his fingers lightly, and the snake that sprang out was frozen in the air silently, and then the flesh and bones shattered inch by inch, and fell to the ground silently.

Xiao Shao asked with some surprise, "Why did you kill it?" ”

During this time, they traveled in the mountains and encountered all kinds of wild animals, and most of the time the two of them did not alarm them at all. Sometimes they show their bodies and pass by their territory, and occasionally they are attacked, but Cheng Tianle only dissolves them lightly, and never kills the animals that live in the mountains and wilderness. But just now he shot so simply, silently slashing the snake, trying not to make a movement, but not even leaving a trace.

Cheng Tianle's face was dark: "Xiao Shao, although your spiritual sense is keen, you are not as good at distinguishing demons as I am. ”

Xiao Shao was even more puzzled: "It's not a snake demon?" Even if it's a snake demon, that's not your habit, right? ”

Cheng Tianle: "It's not a normal wild animal at all, and you should have felt its killing intent at that moment." There is a difference between the fact that it is not an instinctive reaction after being disturbed, but a hunt that it actively detects and initiates. This is neither a domesticated snake, nor a completely wild snake, it has a certain breath in the rhythm of life, and whoever walks through it, as long as it is alive and not of its kind, it will take the initiative to kill the other person. ”

The dark brown, colorful snake was about a meter long, and it attacked much faster than ordinary snakes, and few animals could dodge it, even when a bird flew through the air, it would be hit by it soaring into the air and biting it, let alone anyone walking by. This snake species is unlikely to be fully domesticated and is not a native wild animal, as its habitat is far away in Australia.

Cheng Tianle had seen this snake in the reptile hall of a large zoo and had seen its introduction, but he did not expect it to appear in the dense forests of the Colorado Plateau in the United States, apparently being stocked here.