Rotten Ke Temple,

On the tower of the city,

Several Xu characters embroidered with black dragon patterns were inserted on the city tower, and thousands of monks in cloth clothes around the banner fell in a pool of blood, their eyes were not closed but they looked up at the sky, and the last look in their eyes was not frightened, but doubts, doubts about the collapse of faith in their hearts, the so-called death is not blind, because there are regrets in their hearts.

"Something that has been believed in for most of my life. ”

"Yes, I still can't shelter you. ”

"It's ridiculous......"

The captain kicked down hard, and with the force of the shock, he suddenly pulled out a narrow cold knife from the abdomen of the corpse, and looked at the blood bubbles that kept spitting out the mouth of the monk opposite, and said softly.

"Maybe the little monk is not pious enough......"

The monk on the other side fell to the ground and said in the official language of the foot-skimming, still smiling on his face until death, this kind of monk is the most devout monk in the monastery, and the most brainwashed group, His Holiness Rinpoche seems to have never stopped controlling his mind since he took charge of the monastery.

"The afterlife. ”

"The little monk must be more devout in practicing Buddhism!"

When the young monk fell to the ground, his eyes happened to meet the giant Buddha's head that had been split by Xu Xian, and the Buddha's lowered eyes, his smile became more and more gentle, and finally he closed his eyes with a smile.

"It's all raised by my father's mother. ”

"Filial piety to my father, isn't it good for my wife and children to have a hot kang head?"

"Why bother to lose your life for this heavenly thing for no reason?"

"These people don't know how to grow this brain. ”

The rugged man with a scumbag face got up and looked around, and there was no longer a standing monk who said loudly, for these exotic monks, there was not much sympathy and pity, but it seemed that they were just stupid in the way of the country.

"Tick, tick, tick......"

The warm blood that kept pouring out of the corpse snaked down the city wall and fell to the ground in a ticking hole, and the smell of blood wafted in the air.

An old soldier from Liangzhou stationed under the city gate felt the warmth on his face, stretched out his hand to wipe it, looked at the viscous blood on his fingertips, subconsciously put it in his mouth, and tasted it.

"It turns out that the blood of this monk is also so fishy......"

The old man of Liangzhou smacked his lips and said, the blood of this devout Buddha is not as sweet as he imagined, he looked up at the blood that was still seeping down in the cracks of the masonry, and finally sighed.

......

Under the West Exit,

The sound of people from all walks of life in the small countries of the Western Regions is endless, and more than ten small countries closest to Xiling County have rushed to the battlefield, and even many small countries have poured out.

Under the pass, all kinds of flags were scattered everywhere, and even more than a thousand soldiers and horses of the small country had been wiped out, and the banners had fallen into the dust and trampled by the soldiers who had refilled them.

The fall of the Rotten Ke Temple,

It means that the extremely stable situation in the Western Regions will no longer exist, and those small countries with only three or five cities and no more than a few thousand soldiers will no longer exist in that situation.

There was a lord of a small country, holding a sword and a pestle on top of the corpse under the city tower, looking at the corpses piled up around him, and finally looking up at the direction of the Rotten Ke Temple, he suddenly pushed the corpse away, looked at the guards at the pass, shouted, and launched a charge again.

"Poof......

This is the dull sound of arrows piercing through the body,

The former allied condor archers on the castle tower,

Expressionless from the new arrow,

"Buzz ......"

The longbow shook slightly, the cluster of arrows came out of the eye socket through the back of the head, and the down at the end of the tail shook slightly, reaping the life of the enemy leader on the battlefield with an expressionless face.

......

"Hoo ......"

"Finally retreated......

Looking at the remnants of the defeated soldiers retreating under the city tower, the lord of Qu Xianguo was paralyzed behind the battlements, panting heavily, looking at the city tower was also full of the corpses of the warriors under his command, his expression was inexplicably a little trance, he still underestimated the explosive power of those small countries when they were dying, and it had only been a long time for Qu Xianguo to have killed two or three thousand warriors.

And on the horizon,

The enemy was still surging like a tide, and the remaining vanguards of the Western Regions powers had already set foot on the territory of Xikou Pass, and if you looked closely, the cavalry ranks were mixed with nobles and members of the royal family.

The Ranke Temple has taken root in this land for 1,500 years......

originally thought that he had pulled Ruoqiang and Khotan, and the two countries had done everything right, but now he realized that he still underestimated the influence of the Langke Temple.

"Knock, knock, knock, knock......"

There was the sound of iron horses stomping on the ground, and the dust on the pass was falling down, and the cavalry on the horizon was already near.

"Heh......"

The lord of Qu Xianguo looked at the iron horse in various clothes that was getting closer and closer, a bitter smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he turned around to look at the two lords beside him.

Can you really resist the coalition forces of these forty or so countries?

Maybe it is also a good choice to get out of the way of this road and this western pass, and let them go to the Rotten Ke Temple, while they and others only need to sit and reap the benefits of the fisherman.

"Apa. ”

"After today. ”

"Our entire Qu Xianguo has completely broken free from that shackle!"

"Do you want to put a new pair of chains from the East on them with your own hands?"

The woman in the Western Regions in military uniform understood the flickering sound in her Apa eyes, the sharp scimitar in her hand, and the blood dripping, and in a trance, she recalled the smiling young man in her mind, and I don't know why whenever I think of his handsome face, I will shudder inexplicably in the depths of my heart.

In the words of the Western Regions, she always felt that there was a fierce beast hidden under his thin body, and once it was released, it would devour the entire Western Regions, and she would even rather face the Rotten Ke Temple alone than be the enemy of the young man.

"Dolma, there are not many warriors under Apa anymore......"

"As long as I'm not dead!"

"They will not be able to step through this western pass. ”

The woman in the Western Regions in military uniform said softly, the scimitar in her hand was raised, and she silently walked to the edge of the city wall, stood on the battlements, looked at the cavalry below, and did not retreat for half a step.

"Apa!"

"Trust me, you don't want to face that person's wrath......"

......

Inside the Rotten Ke Temple,

Looking down from the sky,

The ground is full of broken walls and ruins,

As far as the eye can see, there are collapsed palaces, as well as collapsed boulders, and broken wooden pillars, the lords and nobles who are alive in those temples, kneeling and praying, but the butcher knife still fell without the slightest hesitation, and when he fell to the ground, he just looked at the direction of Xikou Pass in a daze, I don't know why now, there has been such a big movement, and there is still no soldier to arrive.

Your Highness,

Above the huge cracks,

The corpse that has been lying on the ground,

are all slaves who have been seeking Buddha in the Western Regions for a long time,

The young man held the Spring Breeze Knife and looked at the underground space below silently, the expression on his face became more and more solemn, and the hand holding the long knife became more and more stiff.

Because the "beasts" that poured out of the ground seemed to be unable to see the end, and there were already thousands of corpses, but they still did not know what fear was.

"Master Lonely, how many slaves are there in this underworld?"

The young man looked at the pair of scarlet eyes and said softly.

"Your Highness, look. ”

The old monk pulled out a heavy book out of nowhere.

"Hoo ......"

"This is the slave sacrificed by the nations for nearly a hundred years. ”

The old monk blew away the dust on the cover, gently opened the page with his dry fingers, and then stood beside the young man and softly interpreted the Sanskrit on the top in the official dialect of the great cadre.

"The 1409th year of the Rotten Keli Temple,"

"There are 732 slaves of the Dayue clan, 12 taels of gold and 3,100 taels of silver, and 397 slaves of the last country, 180 taels of gold, 1,800 taels of silver, and dozens ......of magic weapons."

The young man looked at the extremely detailed accounts on the paper seal, and only felt that every Sanskrit text was stained with blood, and the words "cannibalism" were revealed between the lines, which recorded the wealth gathered in the Western Regions for more than 1,500 years, and also the blood and tears of thousands of slave believers in the 53rd Western Regions, and there were more than ten volumes of this kind of extremely thick account book.

"The Guru reads the last page directly. ”

The young man said softly.

"The 1,532nd year of the establishment of the Rotten Ke Temple. ”

"Quxian paid 1,278 slaves, 800 taels of gold, 32,581 taels of silver, not counting treasures, 2,591 slaves of Ruoqiang, not counting gold and silver, and 5,000 taels of gold and 86,400 ......taels of silver, excluding the slaves of Khotan."

"The wealth accumulated by the Rotten Ke Temple for more than 1,500 years, in addition to a large amount of annual consumption, is also the top of the three or five years of taxation. ”

"Although the Western Regions are barren, all the barrenness is gathered together, and it is enough for the soil under our feet to flow with honey. ”

The old monk looked at the barren land outside the temple and said softly, but the final result was that the Rotten Ke Temple had squeezed out the entire Western Regions, but the wealth was shelved and piled up in the temple, and no half of it was fed back to this land.

"As for the people who are still alive in the Ranke Temple, there should be a total of 67,321 people, including more than 60,000 slaves from the underground world......

The old monk gently closed the pages of the book and looked at the countless slaves below and said, "There are millions of bones buried in this underground world for 1,500 years, if it weren't for the monks who carry these corpses out every once in a while, I am afraid that the corpses buried under this rotten Ke Temple are far better than the bones buried in any battlefield, and the so-called mass graves are really a little small compared to the "living pits" in this underground world.

"Hasn't anyone thought about running away?"

The young man said softly.

"A long, long time ago, there was a ......"

"But then there was no ......"

The old monk pointed to the dark depths of the earth,

There is a fine light in the young man's eyes,

Looking again,

There were countless shackles and rusty chains on the far border, and there were countless white bones, and even the white ribs could be seen to be inscribed with countless Sanskrit inscriptions, and even after death they were still atoning for their actions.

The young man's mind came to mind with great speed, the frightened look on those slaves when they ran away and were caught, the despair when they were shackled, the sore spot when they were pierced through the flesh, and the last hope in their eyes was extinguished when the monks cut open the rotten flesh with the ordination knife and carved Sanskrit words on the bones with the carving knife.

"They've been tamed. ”

The old monk said in an extremely calm tone,

"In the Rotten Ke Temple, as long as they understand the Buddha and knock the Buddha, they can live, at least there is a mouthful of food, maybe in our eyes this is not alive, but at least they are not dead. ”

"It is not unreasonable for the Western Regions to be called a barbarian land by the Central Plains countries, the earliest slaves in this land are the products of tribal warfare, when Lianhuasheng first came to the Western Regions, there were far more than fifty-three kingdoms, among which chaos and fighting continued, and when it was time to settle down, there were only fifty-three kingdoms left. ”

"And the first group of slaves who built temples were all tribal people who were wiped out in countless wars, and at that time, they might still be able to call them human beings, at least they had thoughts and knew how to resist, but gradually they became numb and compromised. ”

"Since that time they have become beasts. ”

"Tamed beasts. ”

The old monk's dry and ghostly face had a hint of sighing.

"And where did the later slaves come from?"

"Later slaves are the children sold by the lowest people of various countries, rogues, prisoners, or savage tribes plundered from far away, the people of small western countries, in short, countless suffering people are sent to this rotten Ke temple every year. ”

They will slowly be assimilated by the rest of the underworld, and it seems that a tradition has been formed, and the old people will bring the new people to adapt to the underground environment, and they will also give up the identity of "human". ”

"In this environment, even the bravest warriors in the Western Regions will not be long before they become like this, because their minds have been distorted, and they have gradually chosen to accept it, and the giant Buddha that exists only in the underground world has become their ideological sustenance. ”

"Since this life can only be like this, then there is only prayer for the next life, always thinking that after death, I can enter the Western Elysium, but who knows, where does the Bliss come from?"

"They may know, but they don't want to believe it, but in short, for whatever reason, they have ended up putting everything on the ethereal Buddha, and they have become the most crazy believers!"

"The same is true of the 60,000 people who preceded it. ”

......

The young man took a deep breath.

But I always feel that something is blocked in my chest,

I can't swallow this breath,

......

"Ridiculous, isn't it?"

The young man chuckled and held the Spring Breeze Knife in his hand.

"Reality is always more ridiculous than you think, isn't it?"

The old monk is so opposed.

"It's also ......"

"The world is far more absurd than we think. ”

The young man smiled abruptly,

With a little helplessness in the smile, and sarcasm,

"What happens if I put them away?"

The young man looked at the fallen corpses around him and said softly, he originally thought that he had killed enough, but compared to the rest of the people, it was tantamount to a drop in the ocean.

And letting them go may be the best ending, because they have no hatred with themselves at the beginning, but they don't have the energy to continue to keep these tamed beasts in captivity.

"Released them?"

The old monk was not too surprised by the words of the young man, because in his impression, the young man was never a person to kill, although he killed a lot of people, but they were all purposeful, and now this group of people seems to have no meaning to kill.

That's right, there's no point in even killing it,

It's sad......

"Maybe there will be an extra group of beasts in this vast land......"

"Don't you even qualify to be a slave again?"

"Slaves are useful, they can build cities, they can build roads, they can graze cattle, they can serve as dead soldiers......"

"But it is difficult for them to even stand up, they do not know anything but to bow down and buckle their heads, and there is not a nobleman, and the lord of the kingdom will waste a grain of grain because of them. ”

"If it had been in the early days of war,"

"Maybe they'll also become food itself,"

The term "two-legged sheep", I think His Royal Highness has also heard of it, at least it has the value of "being eaten", but now it has no value, or the meaning of existence. ”

The naked words of the old monk made the Liangzhou iron horsemen who were cleaning the battlefield behind him feel a burst of cold to the bone, and even the young man with cold eyebrows was subconsciously frowning.

"And where do they end?"

The young man looked up at the sky above the Rotten Ke Temple,

The smile is full of sarcasm,

Both to yourself and to this fucking world......

"Destination ......"

"Maybe ......"

The old monk paused,

"Death may be the best destination......

"The Buddha said that a bowl of water, 84,000 insects,"

"If you don't keep this mantra, it's like eating the flesh of living beings. ”

"Those who believe in Buddhism drink water for fear of killing,"

"And why?"

"The lives and deaths of tens of thousands of people are so lightly stated by the guru?"

The young man thought of something in a trance,

His eyes burned and he looked at the old monk who was silent.

"Again, that's the answer. ”

"The old monk only believes in the Buddha, and the Buddha in the heart tells me,"

"Death is the greatest mercy for them, not for the sake of the heavenly Buddhas, the Buddhas of the scriptures, who cruelly let them live as beasts when they say they don't kill. ”

The old monk is dry like a ghost, and his smile is like a spring breeze.

......

The young man was silent for a long time,

"It seems that the guru is really enlightened!"

finally

The young man's brows furrowed.

"Your Highness is really testing me?"

The old monk is the opposite,

"Yes. ”

"Because this hall really doesn't want that one day in the future, there will be a rotten Ke temple in this world, and this hall is thinking about it, the master has this ability, and this hall is not willing to take this risk. ”

The young man nodded.

"His Royal Highness's teachings, the old monk has written them down. ”

The old monk nodded.

"Actually, sometimes the temple thinks that he is quite hypocritical. ”

The young man said abruptly.

"There are a lot of teachers. ”

"I also got the answer I wanted from my guru. ”

"In addition to the reason for the talent, there is also the idea that I can relieve the guilt of that distraction when I end their lives......

"The main hall seems to have played the role of an executioner from the beginning, regardless of the burial, there has never been a shortage of people like this in history, and this kind of people have a common problem, that is, if they kill too much, they will become cold-blooded, and they will sit high in the position closest to the sky and take this world for granted, thinking that it should be like this. ”

"But I don't want to be so cold-blooded, because the world is fucked up enough, full of cold, death, despair, injustice......"

"The world should be a ...... that has changed"

"But many things are ...... that have been ingrained for thousands of years"

"The more I experienced, the more I didn't know if I could do it, after all, I was a person with a cold nature, but I didn't mind changing this world without conflicting with what I did. ”

The young man laughed to himself.

"Hasn't Your Highness already begun to change the world?"

"The old monk still remembers that on the way from Lingyin Temple to Wudang Mountain, he heard a scholar from Qianguo mention a sentence to open a peaceful ...... for all generations."

Later, he learned that this sentence was engraved by His Royal Highness with a sword in Lishan Academy, and His Royal Highness already had this heart, and with His Royal Highness's ability, he wanted to change this world in a short time. ”

The old monk said with a gentle smile.

"Your Highness has already begun, hasn't it?"

"The imperial examination is a beginning. ”

"There is still a long time in the future, if the old monk can return to the East in his lifetime, I look forward to the old monk being able to see the changes that His Highness wants. ”

"I'm looking forward to ...... too"

......

Outside the Rotten Ke Temple,

The young man turned over and got on his horse, and the iron behind him was like a dragon, accompanied by billowing smoke and dust, and the embroidered black dragon pattern slowly disappeared on the horizon and headed east.

The temple behind him has been turned into a sea of fire, and this fire will burn all the traces, scriptures, statues, and temples of the temple......

Beyond the monstrous fire,

A shriveled figure is walking towards the far west.