Chapter 38: The Sutra of the Innocent Heart
In the end, a disheartened Ruoyao left with her grandmother. In the afternoon of the same day, Ruoyao simply packed her parcel and said goodbye to everyone in the Taoist temple before setting off. When he walked out of the gate of the Taoist temple, Ruoyao glanced in the direction of Wei Hang's village, "He still hasn't come yet." ”
In fact, Wei Hang hid behind a big tree early, and he didn't show up just because he was afraid that she would be reluctant. Looking at her distant back, Wei Xuan thought silently: "When I become strong enough, I will definitely go to Dongzhao to ask you for marriage." ”
In the days when Ruoyao left, Wei Hang's requirements for himself were almost harsh, he practiced kung fu and archery day and night, and finally one day three years later, he was recognized by the master and other Taoist masters of the Liangyi Temple, and was recognized as the new guardian of the Hall of Stars.
The royal family of Nancang country believes in Taoism since ancient times, there are many large and small Taoist temples distributed in the country, among which Liangyi Temple is a special existence, which is built by the royal family himself, and the successive emperors will come to Liangyi Temple every other month to worship on incense, because the founder of these two Yiguan Yuan Yizhen is a Taoist and martial arts attainment, and has led the disciples to protect the peace of Nancang many times from foreign invasion. In addition, there are countless Taoist classics and martial arts cheats hidden here in the temple of stars in the view, especially the legendary ancient scripture that is enough to destroy the world - "Wu Delusion Heart Sutra", according to legend, in addition to the original Yuan Yi Patriarch, the rest of the people who tried to practice this scripture all went mad, crazy and finally killed themselves. Later, Yuan Yizhen sealed the "Wufu Heart Sutra" as a banned book, and set up a special position as the guardian of the Star Palace, which is to guard this scripture pavilion, but also to guard the "Wufu Heart Sutra".
The selection of the guardian of the stars is a major event that the whole country and even the royal family are very concerned about, the guardian is a term of thirty years, and it is the supreme glory that the cultivators of the Nancang Kingdom dream of, but not everyone can be qualified for this position, in addition to outstanding virtue and profound kung fu, it is also necessary to be proficient in the art of bow and arrow, because the guardian will inherit the ancient magic arrow left by Yuan Yizhen at the time of succession - "forgiveness".
After Wei Hang passed the selection exams, he finally became the new guardian of the Hall of Stars recognized by the whole country in Nancang, and he also took over the "forgiveness" from the previous guardian.
When the figure turned around, he finally saw the face that he had missed every day for the past three years, the bow and arrow in his hand fell to the ground, and he strode to hug her, and was reluctant to let go.
"Ruoyao, you're back."
It turned out that not long after Ruoyao followed her grandmother back, her grandfather passed away, and a few months ago, her grandmother also died of illness. Ruoyao did her filial piety in front of the spirit for a hundred days, and later took care of everything in the Wen Mansion, and finally made up her mind to come back to find her lover.
On weekdays, in addition to accompanying Wei Hang, who is the guardian, she will also teach the children in the neighboring villages to read and play the piano.
Most of the time they don't talk to each other, they just listen to the tinkling river, look at the blue sky and white clouds, sit next to each other, and dazzle for an afternoon.
Wei Hang likes to bury her head in Ruoyao's hair, which always has a faint fragrance of flowers, rubbing it gently, and then taking out a wooden comb to comb her hair after rubbing her long hair.
"Your hair is beautiful." Wei Hang held her waterfall-like hair with one hand and gently combed it with the other.
Whenever she saw Wei Hang concentrating on combing her hair in the reflection of the river, Ruoyao would always think in her heart, probably they would be like this, combing each other's hair until it turned white.
Until one day, the iron cavalry of the Western Dome Kingdom invaded the Southern Cang Kingdom, their peace was broken, and their lives were completely changed......
Xiqiong took a number of Nancang villages and towns in a few days, and wherever their troops went, nothing but death and desolation were left behind.
Finally, when several troops of the Western Dome Kingdom approached Wei Hang's village and Liangyi Temple, Wei Hang was forced to make a choice: to protect the Hall of Stars or to protect the villagers.
His duty is to protect the Hall of the Stars, and the people of the West Dome are very likely to attack the Highness of the Stars, if this "Innocent Heart Sutra" is obtained by the poor people of the West, the consequences will be unimaginable...... But without his help, the unarmed villagers of the village would not be able to put up any resistance to the slaughter of the West Dome. After some struggle, he chose to continue his duties as a guardian with a heavy heart.
Sure enough, on this day, several teams of soldiers from the West Dome entered the Liangyi Temple and rushed straight to the Hall of Stars, obviously to attack the "Sutra of the Heart of Nothingness", Wei Hang and other brothers guarded the Hall of Stars together, and the attackers retreated one by one, and finally defended the Hall of Stars.
However, when he returned to the village a day later, he found that it had fallen and had become a devastated cemetery, and although half of the Taoist priests had descended the mountain to help the village the day before, they had not resisted the army of the Western Dome.
When Wei Hang saw the corpses of his family, he "pounced" and knelt on the ground, and his self-blame and remorse almost swallowed his consciousness.
Looking around, looking at his family, the villagers, and many brothers who had died tragically, he suddenly had doubts about the faith he had once been extremely proud of, was this the result of unswervingly abiding by his mission? In the end, I couldn't even protect my family......
Wei Hang knelt all the time, from evening to night, and then to sunrise. If it weren't for the wind blowing a strand of white hair in front of Wei's forehead in front of his eyes, he wouldn't have known that he had turned white overnight.
He struggled to stand up, but his numb, red, swollen knees made it impossible for him to stand, and it took a long time for him to slowly bury his family.
Looking at his family's humble tombstones, endless hatred ignited in his heart. He vows to slaughter every invader in the Western Dome, but first he needs to have more power, and despite the "forgiveness" in his hand, his ability is still far from enough. Then he turned to look in the direction of the temple, his hands clenched into fists, and secretly made that devastating determination.
Wei Xuan returned to the place where he had sacrificed everything to protect, the Hall of the Stars, and looked at a black iron box in the hall that was hung high with chains, and he knew that it was the Sutra of the Heart of Innocence.
He cut off the chains, opened the dusty iron box, and the legendary book that could destroy the world finally reappeared in the world.
Those four words were like a flame of life, swaying and shaking in Wei Hang's eyes. Wei Hang locked himself in the Hall of Stars and opened the "Sutra of Innocence".
"Ah!!h Three days later, Wei Hang's terrible scream came from the Hall of Stars, and a flame-like black and purple appeared on Wei Xuan's chest, and soon began to spread rapidly to his whole body, along with the real burning sensation also spread from his heart, the pain made him almost unbearable, his whole body was bruised, his face was hideous, and he fell to the ground struggling in pain, and his heart gave birth to an unprecedented sense of fear and evil.