Shuli woke up from his sleep, cold sweat streaming down his head.

In his dream, he returned to Nanzong Temple and saw that Yifeng was besieged by a 50,000-strong forest army led by the Marquis of Ba Dun.

Yifeng supported alone, and thousands of arrows rained down with artillery, shooting Yifeng into a broken sieve, blood flowing, and seven orifices bleed.

He saw the senior brother Yuan Yin come out of nowhere, tugging at his clothes, his eyes widened, and he asked him why he left Yifeng and why he didn't take care of him.

In a blink of an eye, I saw that because of the death of Yifeng, the Buddhist monks in the fourteen states of Dawu Kingdom learned the news one after another, knowing that the Heavenly Dao had extinguished hope, and they could no longer stop the encirclement and suppression of the Dawu State Border Legion and the Junzhou Legion, and they gave up the struggle one after another, and were slaughtered and died tragically by the Jin Ge Iron Horse.

The entire Dawu Kingdom was full of gunsmoke, blood flowed into the sea, and the wailing shook the sky completely, and thousands of evil spirits rushed towards him, asking him why he sent the Buddha into the siege and why he caused his tragic death!

The cry of thousands of ghasts struck him, like a monstrous wave sweeping over him, and he was out of breath, and as soon as he broke free, he woke up.

At this time, the sky was not yet dawn, and it was about to dawn, Shuli slowly wiped away the cold sweat on his head, and his frightened pupils looked especially dark in the darkness.

Suddenly, there was a "poof", a firelight lit up, and Shuli was so frightened that a carp sat up, but saw that in the room, his father Shuyu was sitting at the table.

He was shining a lamp at him, just in time to meet his horrified gaze.

When Shuyu saw Shuli's frightened eyes, he couldn't help but feel sad in his heart, he said in his heart, Shuli has been wandering outside for so many years, I am afraid that he has encountered an unknown number of disasters, resulting in sleepless nights.

His heart softened, he was silent for a while, and then asked, "You, how are you?"

Shuli also eased up at this time, felt a little dry in his throat, and saw his father pour a bowl of water and hand it to him.

He hurriedly caught it, took a few sips, breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at his father by the dim light, just like his mother, with his hair full of luxury.

These two days seemed to pass very quickly, and my father was much older in the blink of an eye.

Shuli sighed in his heart, raised his head and asked, "Dad, why are you here?"

Shuyu took the bowl away, walked to the table and sat down, and said, "As soon as you come back, you won't eat, and you won't be able to speak, your mother is really worried about you, and she will accompany you here until late at night." I just came to comfort your mother and told her to go to the rest meeting. ”

As he spoke, he drank the remaining water from the bowl himself.

Shuli looked at it, and said with a bad feeling in his heart: "Father, go and rest, I'm fine." ”

I only heard Shu Yu snort coldly and said, "You're fine, have you ever thought about what your mother is like? She is just one of your sons, and she is still deviant, left home, and thinks about it every day."

She couldn't bear it anymore, so she began to eat fasting and pray for the Buddha in spite of the strong opposition of her family, relatives, and scholars!

"Our calligrapher has never been so ashamed, a mother and son have believed in Buddhism one after another, and the face of my calligrapher's ancestors has been lost!"

Shuli lowered his head and said, "Everything has a certainty, father. At that time, the eighteen bells rang in the Qiuren Hall, and the sound resounded all over the world, and all my hair fell out at that moment, and countless complicated Buddhist mantras flashed in my mind.

"I later learned that these things have cause and effect, and that God is so willful, how precious my father and mother are, and in the next life, I will honor you and my mother again. ”

When Shu Yu heard this, he couldn't help but sigh and stopped talking.

The sky slowly began to turn gray, and Shuli saw that his father was sitting there, and it was difficult to urge him again, so he had to follow the light of the lamp to look around.

This is his room, he has been restless since he came home yesterday, he doesn't care about everything, he doesn't look carefully at his room, and now he realizes that everything is as it was more than ten years ago, and he hasn't moved at all.

Thinking of his mother's thoughts, he felt sad again.

He really didn't want to stay in the room anymore at this moment, for fear of evoking any more memories that would ruin his Buddha's heart that had been cultivating Buddha for more than ten years, so he raised his head and said to Shuyu: "Dad, I want to go outside for a walk, can you accompany me?"

Shuyu didn't answer, just stood up silently, opened the door, and walked out.

Shuli hurriedly put on his clothes, but found that the clothes were also monk's robes sewn by his mother, with a simple style and familiar needlework.

He sighed again, put it on, and fled the room.

The two went out of the house, Shu Yu was in front, Shu Li followed closely, and walked forward aimlessly.

The sky was gray, but it was still a while before dawn, and at this time, except for a few very diligent scholars who went to various cultivation halls with swords to practice swords, there was no one else on the way.

As Shu Yu walked, he asked seemingly casually, "What do you think when you come back this time?"

Shuli was silent for a while, and said, "Since my father arranged for me to lead the elite children of the Shujia family to Junzhou, my father is on top, so I dare not refuse."

"But I won't go to the battlefield, and it's impossible to exterminate the Buddha's path. I will only do it once in my life. ”

Unexpectedly, Shu Yu nodded and said, "Let me tell you the truth, this time I asked you to go to Junzhou, but Cui Ming asked you to go by name." If it weren't for the patriarch's childlessness, it wouldn't have been your turn. ”

Shuli was already smart, and he immediately understood, and said with a sneer: "In this way, Cui Ming is afraid that the calligrapher's intentions are not sincere, so he sent me over to be a hostage?

On that day, he also deceived the little junior brother with righteous words, saying high-sounding words such as which is more important and more important, and turned his head to spit out wild words in Xuanming Square, whipped the Buddha, and pinched out the eight deadly sins of the Buddha. It's just an old traitor who is good at speculating on people's hearts!"

After hearing what he said, Shuyu's face was calm, and he said lightly: "Are you very wronged?"

Shuli was stunned for a moment, slowly shook his head and said, "Don't dare, gentleman Yinuo, since I promised to come back, I am ready." Although words and deeds cannot betray Buddhism, it is not a grievance for me to bear the matter of going to Junzhou as a hostage. ”

Shu Yu said: "Don't be wronged, I will go to Nanzong Temple, the first task is to get the son and mother Xuanzhu back, and the second is you!

Shuli's heart moved, pretending not to know, and asked, "Oh? Could it be that this Ying Tianjing and the Green Snake Sword are not as good as a small bead?"

Shu Yu snorted coldly and said, "Don't think I don't know, the mystery of the Xuanzhu of the son and mother." Not only me, but even the patriarch and several other clan elders knew.

"The original name of the Xuanzhu is the Fire Dragon Pearl, which is refined by the originator of the Nine Dragons Temple, and can be called the emperor of the Dan Yao of the Great Martial Kingdom.

Shuli was dumbfounded, he didn't expect his father to snoop on their secrets!

His thoughts turned sharply in his heart, and in a blink of an eye, he figured out the key to it, the matter of the Fire Dragon Ball must have been transmitted back by the spies sent by the calligrapher to the Nine Dragons Temple.

After all, Daoist Wu had already told the elders of the Nine Dragons Temple, and it was inevitable that rumors would come out.

But I really can't figure it out, this divine method is so secretive, even the fire monkey senior brother, who is a star beast, has only recently learned from Xiao Fudie, and it is the big secret that Taiqingmen is most concerned about, why does my father know so deeply?

Shuli asked, "Why did my father ······ if he knew the importance of the Fire Dragon Ball?"

As soon as the words came out, he regretted it, and he understood, because he swore to die not to hand over the Fire Dragon Ball, and he was about to kill himself in front of his father, and his father had no choice but to violate the clan rules, reluctantly give up the Fire Dragon Ball, and bring him back first.

It's the helplessness of being a father.

Shu Yu also snorted coldly when he heard this, but did not speak.

Shuli was silent for a moment and asked, "In that case, didn't my father live up to the patriarch's order and be punished by the clan rules?"

Shuli deeply knew the power of the Shujia rules, and at that time, a calligrapher's Qu Ge order caused him to bury many disciples betrayed by the calligrapher with his own hands, and even his favorite junior brother Shu'an died at his hands.

Because of the family rules, he had a lot of unbearable blood on his hands, so he was very worried about his father's safety.

But Shuyu sneered and said, "For their ambition to covet power, can they push my only son out as a hostage and have the face to punish me?"

Shuli said: "In their eyes, this is not necessarily a shame. You said that the storyteller would send all the elite disciples out to fight, listen to Cui Ming's command, assist him in destroying the Fa, and encircle and suppress Buddhism. If other scholars and disciples go, won't your son be able to go?"

Shu Yu turned around, his expression was very solemn, and said: "Far different, first, you are my unique and only son, whether you are a god or a ghost, you can't change this fact.

"Second, since you have chosen to leave the scholar's family, the scholar's family will break off your kindness and have nothing to do with it, even if you join my most despised Buddhism, I respect your choice.

"The other disciples of the calligrapher are already shouldering the mission of the calligrapher. But you're different, since you're a monk, you don't have that kind of responsibility on you. Why are they asking you to take on a responsibility that is no longer yours?

"What's more, I don't want you to be stained with this kind of dirty thing that destroys morality. ”

A seat, said Shuli was moved in his heart, although his father protected his shortcomings, but he had never heard his father say such warm words in his life.

Only then did he deeply realize what fatherly love was, and was about to say something, when he saw Shuyu turn around in a little panic, stop his hand, and said, "You go, the elders of the Library Pavilion have something to look for you." ”

After speaking, without waiting for Shuli to react, he turned around and left.

Shuli looked at it, and before he knew it, he had walked to a familiar dirt path in the mountainside, and there were one or two faint beast roars.