"Something is wrong......"

Du Bai looked around, his brows furrowed deeply, and when he looked up, although the temple was very clean and tidy, it was not lifeless.

Even the candles on those candlesticks burned without the slightest temperature, and the crimson flames felt strangely cold.

It's like...... It's been a long time since anyone has lived here.

Having already guessed some possibility in his heart, he couldn't help but sigh softly, and his expression became a little more solemn.

I roughly perceived the direction of the center of the temple, that is, a relatively low, simple and ordinary Buddha hall in comparison.

The source of the Buddha's power that sustains the entire temple is roughly centered there, and the form of an oval-shaped enchantment covers the entire area.

He turned and walked towards it.

It's just that at this time, in what should have been a quiet and uninhabited environment, two young monks wearing gray monk's robes suddenly came out of the corner in front, holding bamboo brooms in their hands, talking in a whisper, while walking towards the open space in front of the main hall, as if they were about to sweep the fallen leaves and do their homework.

"Is there anyone else here?"

Du Bai was slightly stunned, his eyes swept over the two of them, his eyes froze, and then he shook his head secretly, ignored them, and continued to walk towards the Buddha Hall.

And the two little monks didn't seem to see him at all, and walked side by side by themselves.

The two sides passed by very tacitly, and neither looked sideways at the other.

After walking not far in front of the Buddha hall, there were already a number of monks around, some were old, some were young, some were practicing martial arts, some were concentrating on chanting Buddhist scriptures, and some were sweeping the floor and chopping wood to do their homework.

His face was flying, he was talking and laughing, his face was ruddy, and the whole temple seemed to become alive at this moment, as if it was a prosperous scene from a long, long time ago.

It seems that everything is harmonious in the scene, but it is clear that there is one thing in common -

They all turned a blind eye to Du Bai or the Dragon King who passed through the crowd.

It was as if there had never been such a person in their eyes.

If this weird and inexplicable scene falls in the eyes of others, I'm afraid that goosebumps will stand upside down and fall into the wilderness.

However, Du Bai had already been mentally prepared when he stepped into this area, so he naturally would not be frightened.

There's even a sense of déjà vu!

"These monks...... They must all be dead......"

Du Bai's footsteps suddenly stopped in front of the door of the Buddha hall, and his eyes slowly swept over the monks behind him, and he could see that they didn't pay attention to him at this time, just concentrating on what they were doing.

However, when he pressed his hand on the closed door, in an instant, all eyes were focused!

All the monks, near and far, strangely stopped their movements and turned their heads to look at him, their eyes staring at him, but they looked very hollow because they couldn't find their target, and their bodies were stiff like walking corpses.

"Sure enough......"

This scene is really familiar.

Du Bai sighed a little in his heart.

At the same time, with a slight movement in his hand, the door in front of him was quickly pushed open.

At the moment when the door opened, the monks outside did not expect the worst situation to hit him, but suddenly returned to the state of the previous moment, and continued the previous actions as if nothing had happened.

It's as if nothing had happened.

"It seems that there are still some differences."

Du Bai withdrew his attention from the monks and turned his attention to the very center of the Buddha hall.

A huge golden Buddha statue stands, even if it is sitting cross-legged, it is still facing the beams of the house, the head is slightly looking down, the eyebrows and eyes are charitable, and the corners of the mouth are slightly raised, as if it is a true Buddha of all living beings, with the most sacred vision in his heart.

But what really caught Du Bai's eye was not the Buddha statue, but a small wooden platform wrapped in golden cloth in front of the Buddha statue, on which something should be displayed.

The aura of Buddha nature emanating from it is much richer than that of the huge Buddha statue, and it is also the source of energy that truly envelops this temple.

Du Bai didn't have to look to guess what it was.

"The Relic ...... after the fall of Lingyou Zen Master"

Even a living Buddha cannot be resurrected from the dead, and it may be a predestined fate to become a relic and be enshrined here forever.

Especially now that the immortals are gone.

It's just that what Du Bai didn't expect was that the other party's Buddha nature could almost be regarded as the most powerful existence he had ever seen!

Even Fahai, who has awakened the memory of the True Buddha in his previous life, is slightly inferior to him!

That's really just one step away from the true Buddha!

Even this step is a moat that is almost impossible to cross, but perhaps the other party is also the existence that has ever been closest to the peak among all the races.

"Perhaps it is precisely because of this that there is such a deep prestige that those monks refuse to leave even if they die, and they can even use the Buddha nature of this place to form this strange scene of Buddha ghosts......

Du Bai already had some speculation about the situation of this temple in his heart.

He also thought of the strange scene of Suwon Village that he had seen at the beginning of his crossing a long time ago.

There are certain similarities between the two.

After the deceased died, the soul remained in place, and they didn't even know that they were dead, and they were still going about their daily behaviors before they were alive, as if they were alive.

Until this strange disguise is revealed, they may not even realize that they are not alive.

But the difference is also very obvious.

The ghosts in Suwon Village are forcibly restrained by that mysterious being, and they repeatedly endure the pain before death, so as to strengthen their resentment and form a kind of evil existence like ghosts.

However, here, it is these monks who voluntarily, even very strongly, want to stay and protect and accompany this living Buddha.

The remnants of the Buddha's nature echo this desire, creating the bizarre temple without living people today.

So it seems that the movements of these monks are very weird, but in fact they are not aggressive, as if they are really vegetarian monks chanting.

The only difference is that the monks elsewhere are alive, and the monks here are just dead.

Even if other pilgrims strayed into this place, they would not notice anything strange at all, except that they were more reticent and did not like to deal with outsiders.

If you are willing to put on a stick of incense, you may be able to get a response of "Amitabha".

And they couldn't detect Du Bai's existence, just because Du Bai's body was not alive now.

And because he deliberately restrained his breath, to them he was no different from a cloud of air or weeds on the side of the road.

After thinking about these reasons, Du Bai did not disturb the lives of those monks, but looked at the relics that emitted a faint golden light, and then sat down cross-legged on the ground.

"Lingyou Zen Master, long time no see."

He sighed faintly and said in a deep voice.