The gate of the temple was wide open, and the temple was empty, and the leaves the size of elm money were nailed to the bluestone paved ground by raindrops. The candle in front of the Buddha is crumbling, and there is a possibility that it will be blown out by the cold wind at any time.

Looking at the Buddha statue that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, crying but not crying, the expression on the face of the missing one was still the same as when he left the courtyard, and there was no change.

He instinctively bypassed the Daxiong Hall from the right side and went straight to the cypress forest behind the hall.

The cypress grove was cold, to be exact, it was bone-chilling. The rain gradually subsided when I entered the mountain gate, and by this time it had completely stopped. At night, clouds of water vapor waft deep in the thick trunks of the trees, giving people the illusion of being in a fairyland.

All the way to this place, the calm expression on Shao's face finally changed significantly, he looked at the ancient cypress that fell to the ground in the depths of the woods that could only be hugged by four adults, not fearful, let alone vigilant, he just slightly clenched the Shaokang sword in his hand.

He turned to Long Yi who was walking behind him and said, "I know where she is?"

Shaoyi was not in a hurry to get out of the cold, damp and cold cypress forest, he carefully looked at the direction where Gu Bai fell to the ground and the footprints near the trunk, and said happily: "It should be this direction." ”

......

At the edge of the cypress forest, Shaoyi and Long Yi found the blood stains left after the rain, and a white veil, which was not unfamiliar.

"There are footprints here, leading to the Pavilion of the Scriptures. Long Yi said and took a step towards the Scripture Pavilion.

"Wow-whoa-"

Passing through the rows of dormitories that were as silent as Buddha statues, the sound of a rhythmic broom sweeping the water rushed to the face.

In front of a small low-rise house that is the only one lit up in the entire temple, an old monk covered in puddings and scrawny wood wields a pool of stagnant water in front of the house with a sparse bamboo broom in his hand.

The broom was too sparse, and the old monk tirelessly tried to drive out the rainwater in the pond, and then every time he hit it, "the bamboo basket was empty", and not a drop of the rainwater in the pond was driven out.

"Master, what do you mean by that?" Shao Yi asked with his palms folded.

"The old man is going to drive the water into that jar. The old monk smiled.

There was a large water tank seven steps away from the water pool, and he couldn't help but laugh and said, "According to Master, you will never be able to let this water go to that water tank." ”

The old monk smiled and continued to sweep the water with a bamboo broom, ignoring the young man on the side.

Shao Yi saw that Long Yi had turned around and walked towards the Hidden Scripture Pavilion, and glanced back at the mediocre-looking old monk and left.

"Heaven and earth have love, all thoughts are to the Buddha, and Cihang is a ...... of its own"

At this time, the old monk was already a hundred steps away, but the twelve words in his mouth seemed to be right in front of him.

Even Long Yi, who had never believed in gods and ghosts, couldn't help but look back. I saw the old monk Wu raised the bamboo broom in his hand, drew an arc and fell above the water tank, and the pool of water on the ground miraculously turned into a water dragon and flew out of the pool and fell into the water tank.

The old monk smiled and stroked a handful of sparse beard and looked at Shaoyi, with an incomprehensible look in his eyes.

One or four steps less and two steps to the water tank, through the candlelight from the window, it can be seen that the clear rain in the half tank has not yet calmed, and then look back at the place where the old monk swept with a bamboo broom, leaving only a mark of water.

"Huh, why is Master gone?"

"Hahaha-"

The old monk sat cross-legged at the door and looked at Shaoyi calmly, and Shaoyi stepped forward and asked, "Dare to ask Master Buddha's name?"

"The old man is just a sweeper, with no name and no number. ”

"Well, then does Master know how the cypress tree in the forest fell?"

"I don't know—I don't know—" The old monk replied, shaking his head.

"Boom-"

A drop of water on the eaves suddenly fell into the tank.

"Master, water drops into the tank. ”

"Did you get into the tank or a drop?"

Shaoyi glanced at the water tank again, and there was nothing but rain, so he folded his palms and said goodbye to the old monk.

Long Yi didn't understand the Zen machine, and he was completely puzzled by the clouds of Shaoyi and the old monk's conversation, and Shaoyi walked up to him and said, "Gugu has left the Recommended Blessing Temple." ”

Although Long Yi didn't know how to participate in meditation and enlightenment, he knew that no one knew what happened in the cypress forest better than this old monk.

......

At this time, the mountain gate of the Recommending Blessing Temple has been surrounded by the forbidden army group all dressed in black and holding the Autumn Thunder Knife, Long Yi saw at a glance that it was the prince who was sitting on the tall horse, and glanced at the calm Shao Yi beside him and hurriedly pulled it to the side of the Heavenly King Hall and said:

"Something isn't quite right tonight, the first time it was the Scythe Gang, and this time it's the Forbidden Army...... Let's take a detour to avoid it. ”

Seeing that Long Yi's tone was wrong, he asked puzzledly: "My two swords have been registered, what is there to be afraid of? Could it be that after killing a few ruffians and hooligans, they still want to take me to ask for the guilt?"

On the same day, Long Yi received an assignment from the general Ji Hao to protect the two babies from Xishan, Shaoyi and Gugu. When leaving Daidi, Ji Hao repeatedly told him that he must not let Shaoyi and Prince Jiyang meet, although Ji Hao did not say the reason, Long Yi could see the importance of this matter from his eyes.

At this time, it was the sheep outside the mountain gate.

......

Shao Yi looked at the young man on the black horse outside the mountain gate who was gorgeously dressed and had a thin face like himself, and reluctantly turned around and left. He had probably guessed who the man with the big horse was

Climbing over a wall behind the Blue Palace, outside is Tianhe City. It was past midnight, and there was not a single figure on the street except for the guards and the soldiers who were on patrol at night.

Then, when Shaoyi jumped off the fence of the temple, he did hear a few clear footsteps.

By this time, the night sky had cleared, and a crescent moon looked down on the whole of Cloudsdale above the clouds.

The footsteps that I heard were from the two forbidden armies chasing Goo and Anar. At this moment, Goo Goo has already gone to Suzaku Street...... And the sheep has just left the temple...... Shaoyi and Long Yi followed the two forbidden soldiers from a distance.

......

"Wait, listen. Coo said to Anar with a nervous expression.

Before Anal could listen, her feet began to tremble...... A huge black figure came from the north of Suzaku, although there was only one, but it was enough to make the atmosphere tense to the extreme.

Goo Gugu saw the appearance of the black figure clearly, exactly the same as what she had seen in the attic of the restaurant on the first night in the clouds, except that the guy in front of her was even taller than that night.

"It's a demon!" said Goo, swallowing a mouthful of saliva.

The demons approached Gugu and Anar little by little, and the two forbidden soldiers chasing them also went to Suzaku Street at this time.

Then a dramatic scene happened, the two forbidden soldiers saw the huge black figure and turned to run, but they crashed headfirst into Long Yi's body.

Long Yi pushed it away, and in the blink of an eye, the kung fu man was already standing between the demon people and Gugu.