Chapter 327: Inner Demon
The sun has disappeared, everyone has gone into the tent, Han Chuang is no exception, he and Nie Qingqing live in a tent, the tent is not big, but at this moment there are two men, one is the monk who can't be, and the other is the shopkeeper of the tea shed.
The shopkeeper is not the shopkeeper, at least many years ago, he was not the shopkeeper; his name is Hu Yixue, not the snow of the wind and snow, but the blood of the blood flower.
Snow is cold, while blood is hot and cold.
Hu Yixue was a sand thief who roamed Karakum ten years ago, and suddenly disappeared a few years ago, no one would have thought that he would pretend to be the shopkeeper of a tea shed in the desert, let alone that he would be the one who guarded the clan.
Hu Yixue looked at the monk and said coldly: "Now you can say it, who are you?"
The monk shook his head and said, "No, don't, drink first." ”
The wine had already been placed on the low table, not for a long time, but strong enough to warm up in the cold wind.
Hu Yixue didn't talk nonsense, he raised his glass and drank it all, the wine seemed to be a little bitter, bitter.
Nie Qingqing suddenly spoke: "Why do you guardian the Linglong Pagoda of your guardian clan. ”
Hu Yixue said: "Like you, it is a mission passed down from generation to generation, the difference is that your Nie family guards the key to open the Linglong Pagoda, while my Hu family guards the Linglong Pagoda itself." ”
Nie Qingqing nodded, agreeing with Hu Yixue's words.
"The second question is whether the Linglong Pagoda is really in the middle of the desert. ”
"Yes," said Hu Yixue, "the legend says so," he laughed, but I had never seen one. ”
Han Chuang frowned and said, "Wasn't the Linglong Pagoda born?"
"Born?" Hu Yixue smiled, sneering and cold, "If you think it is born, then it can be counted as birth," he looked at Nie Qingqing and said with a sneering smile: "Your self-defeating father wanted to use his own means to win the pagoda, but ended up in a tragic end, I don't understand why you still care about his footsteps, is the treasure in the pagoda so important to your Nie family?"
Nie Qingqing shook his head and said, "I don't care about the treasures in the pagoda at all. ”
Hu Yixue sneered: "If you lie, no one will not care about treasures." ”
Nie Qingqing said: "But I don't care. ”
Hu Yixue said: "Then why do you want to go in." ”
Nie Qingqing lowered his head and did not speak.
Hu Yixue laughed out loud and said mockingly: "I said it right? Many people say very good things in front of people, but only you know the truth of those words, you are a shameful person, you know how to be ashamed of telling lies, and some people are hum." ”
His gaze swept over the monk beside him, still looking light, sipping the liquor to himself, as if nothing could interrupt his movements.
Nie Qingqing didn't explain, but Han Chuang never slandered her.
"Qingqing is right, we don't want to covet the treasures in the Linglong Pagoda. Han Chuang said, "Treasures are of no use to us. ”
Hu Yixue scoffed at Han Chuang's words, and the education he received since he was a child told him that human beings are greedy, and no one is not greedy, but there are more or less greedy, some big and some small.
"Don't pretend, even if you say you want a treasure, no one will do anything to you," Hu Yixue glanced at Monk Bu and sneered, "Don't you also have a bodyguard?"
"No, no," the monk finally spoke, "the monk is not a bodyguard. ”
Hu Yixue sneered: "You are not a bodyguard, but you are doing the thing of a bodyguard." ”
The monk clasped his hands together and pious twice, "No, no." "It's not so much a denial as a feeble argument.
Hu Yixue sneered: "If you see it, your bodyguard is very honest." ”
Han Chuang smiled bitterly: "How do you want me to believe it?"
Hu Yixue said: "No matter what you say, I won't believe it, there is no cat in this world who doesn't steal, and there is no one who doesn't covet treasures." ”
"That's enough!" Nie Qingqing interrupted Hu Yixue's words, "I don't know what you think, but I said that we don't mean to covet treasures, so we don't mean that, we want to enter the Linglong Pagoda for my father." ”
She held her head high and met Hu Yixue's gaze without avoiding it, Hu Yixue looked at the stubborn eyes of the girl in front of her, couldn't help but be stunned, and said, "For his eyes?"
Nie Qingqing said softly: "Yes, it's for his eyes." She lowered her head again and said, "Although he has used me and may not really regard me as his daughter, he has always been my father, and I don't want him to be blind for the rest of his life." ”
Hu Yixue fell silent, as if chewing on Nie Qingqing's words. After a long time, he said, "If that's the case, you really have to go to the Linglong Pagoda." ”
After a pause, he continued: "Although I didn't see how your father was injured, I can probably guess one or two, he must have wanted to use his spiritual power to control the pagoda, but he was injured by the sword qi of the pagoda, and the spiritual consciousness injury is not an ordinary injury, and it is necessary to supplement the medicine of spiritual consciousness, this medicine may only be used in the Linglong Pagoda in the entire southeast region." ”
He paused, and then said, "That's how your father persuaded you to take the risk?"
Nie Qingqing said: "Yes, as a child, you should take risks for your parents. ”
Hu Yixue frowned, and said in his mouth: "It's not good, it's not good, it's not good." ”
Han Chuang said, "Why is it bad?"
Hu Yixue said: "My Hu family's task is to protect the Linglong Pagoda, but you two have a reason to enter the pagoda, it seems that we are destined to be enemies." ”
As he spoke, he stared at Han Chuang with a hostile gaze: "You young man is my fierce rival, but I can remind you that I am not the most powerful in the Hu family, if the Hu family elder makes a move, you will die." ”
Han Chuang frowned slightly, and said, "What kind of cultivation is the elder of the Hu family. ”
Hu Yixue sneered: "Do you think I will tell you?" After a pause, he said: "Even if you tell you, it's useless, your strength is too poor, and if the elder wants to kill you, it's as easy as pinching an ant to death." ”
The voice of the monk sounded again: "No, no, no, it's not good to kill." He took a sip of wine and said vaguely.
Hu Yixue's face showed an embarrassed expression, and said, "I forgot, you still have bodyguards." As he spoke, his gaze fixed on the face of the unmonk.
He added, "By the way, don't be a monk, how did you know the two of them?" ”
The monk folded his hands and said with a smile: "Don't say, don't say." ”
Hu Yixue sneered, turned his head to Han Chuang and said, "You say, how did you meet?"
Han Chuang smiled, only feeling that Hu Yixue's cheerful personality was quite his appetite, but it was a pity that the two were destined to be enemies, but at this moment, in this closed division world surrounded by tents, there was no such thing as an enemy.
Those who can enter the tent are considered friends, but not necessarily when they get out of the tent.
Han Chuang replied with a smile: "I saw him in the ring in Yunzhou, a very special monk. ”
The monk also laughed, but this smile was somewhat reluctant, I originally wanted to stop you, but after seeing you, I changed my mind. ”
"Why?" asked Han Chuang with interest.
The monk smiled mysteriously and said, "Don't say, don't say." ”
Han Chuang suddenly understood the reason why the corners of the monk's mouth showed a wry smile, and it was undoubtedly difficult to hide a secret. Especially if others already know that you are hiding it.
Nie Qingqing suddenly raised his head, brushed the hair in front of his forehead, and said, "Then let's put it another way, don't be a monk, which side are you on." ”
"Which side?" the monk couldn't have hazy eyes, as if he was already a little drunk.
"Does it matter?"
"Of course. Nie Qingqing said with a smile.
The monk sighed softly, only sighed, and after a while, he spoke, "I'm on your side." ”
Hu Yixue frowned and said, "Then we are enemies." ”
The monk shook his head and said, "Not necessarily an enemy. ”
Hu Yixue sneered twice and said, "Do you want to persuade them to leave?"
Han Chuang and Nie Qingqing glanced at each other and said seriously, "No matter what, we won't leave." ”
Hu Yixue smiled compassionately: "If you don't leave, you'll die, aren't you going to leave?"
Han Chuang said: "You can't kill me." ”
Hu Yixue hurriedly said: "I can't kill you, but others can kill you, and some people can kill you." Don't think that you can fight against a martial artist who has just entered the contemplation period and be able to run rampant, let alone the whole world, even if the southeast region is big, it is not what you can imagine. ”
Han Chuang clenched the wine glass hard and put it down for a long time.
"No matter how difficult it is, I have settled on the Linglong Pagoda, but I can promise you that I will only take the medicine that treats Qingqing's father, and I will not move anything else. ”
Hu Yixue laughed, suddenly smiled, and stared at Han Chuang's eyes.
"Do you think you've done it?"
"There's nothing you can't do. ”
"At that time, it's not about whether you can control your greed, it's just that you can't help yourself, you should have some experience. ”
Han Chuang fell silent, as if chewing Hu Yixue's words, Hu Yixue didn't continue, but sat aside, pouring wine one after another, waiting for Han Chuang's answer.
One minute
Two minutes
Many minutes passed, and Han Chuang suddenly raised his head, and instead of nodding as Hu Yixue imagined, he shook his head firmly.
"I know what I'm doing, and I don't need you to remind me. ”
Hu Yixue's face sank, and he said in a deep voice: "Is this a declaration of war?"
Han Chuang smiled and said, "If you say yes, then you are." ”
A wisp of murderous aura bloomed from Hu Yixue's body: "Do you know where my name comes from." ”
"I don't know. Han Chuang shook his head.
Hu Yixue sneered: "I, Hu Yixue, took out the sword, I want to get blood, but the sword is not bloody, because it is unknown, my sword is not stained with blood today." ”
Han Chuang stared at Hu Yixue and smiled, and said, "In this tent, I don't want to fight you, we will be the enemy after we go out." ”
Hu Yixue was silent, and after a long time, he said, "Do you know what else is in that tower besides the treasure?"
"I don't know," Han Chuang shook his head, and at the same time pricked up his ears, at this moment, if he knew a little more information about the Linglong Pagoda, he would have a little more assurance of his safety after entering the pagoda.
Hu Yixue said: "Linglong Pagoda was originally a humane holy weapon, which was condensed by the humane sage Lao Tzu from the popularity of heaven and earth, and then Lao Tzu disappeared, and the pagoda remained in the world. ”
Han Chuang frowned and asked, "Why did you stay in the human world?"
Hu Yixue smiled slightly and said, "You also understand?"
"Understand what?"
"Understand why it's here. ”
Han Chuang shook his head and said, "I don't understand." ”
Hu Yixue smiled: "It turns out that the Nie family has forgotten"
Han Chuang glanced at Nie Qingqing, and saw Nie Qingqing shaking his head with a wry smile, and said, "If it weren't for you, I might not know about the Linglong Pagoda, Daddy has never told me about these things before, I'm afraid I don't know more than you." ”
Hu Yixue answered: "Your father is an ambitious person, if I were you, I would definitely not help him restore his eyes, without his eyes, he can still live, after regaining his sight, I'm afraid he will do even more crazy things." ”
Nie Qingqing sighed and said, "How could I not know this," she raised her head, her ordinary face showed a bitter expression, and her beautiful eyes bloomed with tears, "But he is my father, I have to do this." ”
Hu Yixue sighed and said: "Okay, I'll tell you some things about the Linglong Pagoda, the pagoda is divided into seven layers, and each layer has a difficulty to pass, don't ask me what the difficulty is, I don't know." ”
Han Chuang and Nie Qingqing nodded at the same time.
Hu Yixue continued: "If you pass the first six levels, you must be careful in the seventh level, the seventh level suppresses the human demons, no matter how flattering it is, you can't let it out." ”
Han Chuang said confusedly: "Isn't the heart demon a demonic barrier that exists in the hearts of human beings, how can it be locked in the Linglong Pagoda?"
Hu Yixue showed a disdainful expression: "What kind of heart demon is the current heart demon, the heart demon in ancient times is the great enemy of mankind, almost every cultivator is entangled with the heart demon in his life, and if there is a slight mistake, it will be doomed; ”
Han Chuang smiled: "Don't worry, I may not need it at all, but the seventh level, maybe the medicine to treat Qingqing's father will be available in the first level." ”
At this moment, the monk suddenly interjected: "You have to go up to the seventh floor." ”
Han Chuang stared at Monk Bu with a puzzled gaze and said, "Why?"
Monk Bu let out a long sigh and said, "That's why I came to the Southeast Region from the Northern Sea. Have you ever heard of the Beihai Zen Temple?"
Han Chuang and Nie Qingqing glanced at each other, and Gu saw the doubt in each other's eyes.
The discordant monk sighed and said, "It's normal for you not to know, the Southeast Domain is just a small domain after all," he pointed at Nie Qingqing and said, "But your father must know about the Beihai Zen Monastery, because the ancestors of the Nie family are the monks of the Beihai Zen Monastery." ”
"What you said is true?" Nie Qingqing stared at the monk with a shocked expression.
The discordant monk nodded and said, "Naturally, it's true." ”
At this time, Hu Yixue was shocked, stared at the eyes of the monk, and said: "Obediently, Beihai Zen Monastery is one of the four major sects in the world, and it is known as the first Buddhist sect, you are actually a monk of Beihai Zen Monastery, you have to do it, it's really amazing." ”
The monk smiled bitterly and said: "The monks of the Beihai Zen Monastery are nothing remarkable, they also have two eyes and one nose, and they are also helpless about this matter. ”
Han Chuang said, "What's the matter?" and his keen sense told him that it was related to him.
I heard the monk say, "The purpose of my coming here is to suppress the demons in the pagoda. ”
Hu Yixue laughed and said: "I said monk, don't brag, I admit that you are powerful, but you can't do this kind of thing to suppress the heart demon, besides, the heart demon has been suppressed in the Linglong Pagoda." ”
The monk sighed and said: "It seems that your Hu family only knows one and does not know the other. ”
Hu Yixue raised his eyebrows and said softly: "Then I want to know." ”
The monk said: "When Lao Tzu set up humanity, cast into a pagoda, thought that the popularity of the Linglong Pagoda suppressed the demons, and afterwards there was a saying, although the Linglong Pagoda is powerful, but it can only suppress the demons for 5,000 years, after 5,000 years, the demons should be reborn, leaving sentient beings, and then Lao Tzu accepted three amazing disciples, respectively, taught them three cultivation methods of Buddhism and Taoism, among which the disciples who had to preach Buddhism were the founders of my Beihai Zen Monastery. ”
The monk paused, stared at Han Chuang's eyes, and continued: "I don't know about the other two, before the death of the enlightened master, he made a grand wish, willing to suppress the demons in his heart, so he turned his body into a Buddha bone relic with great karma, and only waited for three thousand years to come, and the Buddha bone relics were placed on the seventh floor of the Linglong Pagoda, so as to ensure the peace of the world for another two thousand years." ”
Han Chuang said, "Then you can't come here, monk?"
Monk Bu smiled bitterly: "Don't come here to suppress the demons in your heart. ”
Han Chuang said with a smile: "Then you go and talk to the Evil Moon Sect's Sikong Blood to explain that it is powerful, and then enter the tower to suppress it." ”
Hearing this, the bitterness on the monk's face was even worse, and he only heard him say: "I have tried it a long time ago, but I can't enter the Linglong Pagoda." ”
Han Chuang was surprised, "Why? Are you over thirty years old?" His face was somewhat strange. Unless the monk is an old man who never gets old, he looks like he is about twenty years old at most, and how can he be thirty years old.
Monk Bu smiled bitterly: "It's not a matter of age, it's a matter of exercises." ”
Han Chuang said, "What's wrong with the exercises?"
The monk said: "I once went to the Linglong Pagoda, and the demons in the pagoda have awakened, and I felt the Buddhist exercises in my body, and immediately blocked the entire pagoda, I can't enter at all, so how can I suppress it." ”
Han Chuang shook his head and pointed at himself, "So you asked me to help you suppress the demons in your heart?"
The monk said: "That's right, only Brother Han is the most suitable candidate." ”
Han Chuang hurriedly shook his head and said, "I won't go, whoever I love will go, I just went to this troubled water, who knows if the danger is dangerous." ”
The monk said: "Don't worry, the little monk guarantees absolute safety." ”
Han Chuang scoffed, "You haven't even been in, how can you ensure safety." ”
The monk said: "The little monk can give you three Buddha beads, which can help you save the day outside the tower." ”
Han Chuang shook his head and said, "That's not possible, there are many people entering the tower, why choose me." ”