CHAPTER XLIII

The bright moonlight was tightly locked outdoors, and the dark meditation hall was flickering with two green lights.

Dan Tongzi knelt in the center of the hall in a daze, his body was bloody, and his wounds didn't even have time to be treated.

Kneeling behind him was Qing Yunzi.

Neither of them said a word.

After a long time, the door was pushed open, and Su Bodhi strode in.

The white robe on his body was stained with blood, and his face was full of anger, and he walked to his place and sat down.

The two apprentices bowed and kowtowed without a word.

"Do you have anything to say?" said Su Bodhi as he looked at Dan Tongzi coldly.

"The disciple is at fault. Dan Tongzi bowed his head and said.

"Say, what's wrong!" Su Bodhi grabbed the bamboo slip beside him and slammed it on the floor.

A crisp sound echoed through the hall.

A pair of old eyes were half-squinted, staring indifferently at Dan Tongzi, who didn't dare to look up.

Dan Tongzi hesitated, not knowing how to speak.

Seeing this situation, Qingyunzi had to open his mouth: "Master, this matter ......"

"Did I ask you?" Su Bodhi glared at Qingyunzi.

Qingyunzi was startled, so he had to slowly lower his head and bow down.

After thinking for a long time, Dan Tongzi swallowed his saliva, straightened up and said, "That monkey wants to break into the Hidden Scripture Pavilion at night, so he ......"

"So you want to kill him?!"

Before he finished speaking, he saw Su Bodhi grab the inkstone on the low table and smash it directly.

This hand was not fast, but Dan Tongzi didn't dare to dodge.

The inkstone smashed on his forehead and shattered into two pieces.

A wisp of blood slowly slid down his forehead.

"Disciple...... Don't dare to ......" Without wiping the blood off his forehead, Dan Tongzi lowered his head and whispered.

"Don't you dare?"

Dan Tongzi didn't dare to speak anymore.

The atmosphere in the hall suddenly became a little colder.

Qing Yunzi pursed his lips, coughed dryly, and said, "Master, Senior Brother Dantong is so angry, if it weren't for that, how could he draw his sword and point at Senior Brother?"

Su Bodhi sneered: "Are you angry? Let a girl lead her nose with two sentences, are you a cultivator and Taoist cultivator confused?

Dan Tongzi hurriedly buried his head: "The disciple doesn't dare!"

The blood on his forehead splattered on the floor and seeped into the crevices.

"Don't you dare, don't dare? A few days ago, those Taoist disciples made a fuss, and you were my disciples, and all your cultivation was taught by your teacher. I didn't expect you to follow you to the muddy waters, and lower your value! Ignorance! Extremely ignorance!"

"Master......"

"Don't call me a master! I don't have an apprentice like you! What have you learned after cultivating immortals and seeking the Tao for so many years? Cultivating this kind of mind! Can a cultivator not cultivate his mind?"

The hall was so quiet that only the heavy gasps of Subodhi remained.

Qingyunzi knew that Su Bodhi was really angry, he was angry that Dan Tongzi drew his sword against his disciple, and he was even more angry that Dan Tongzi actually drew his sword because he was provoked.

Yang Chan's hand is to slap Su Bodhi's face.

Slowly opening his mouth, Qingyunzi said, "Master, it's all because of me at this time." If it weren't for me...... Senior Brother will not be with Senior Brother Wukong...... If the master wants to punish him, please punish me. ”

"Hmph!" Su Bodhi turned his face sideways and didn't look back: "You are also a person from the God Realm, I see that your heart has not changed for so many years, and it is still the same as the broken official who first came to the temple." To say that you are stubborn is to be promoted, to put it bluntly, you just don't have a long brain! Even your obsessive Wukong junior brother is better than you! I don't want to talk about being a teacher, think about it yourself. I can't think clearly, don't cultivate this immortal!"

After saying that, Su Bodhi shook his sleeves and stood up, stared at Dan Tongzi and said, "Tonight, you and the two of you will kneel here until dawn, facing the wall and thinking." Dantong, punish you to copy the twenty-four chapters of the Tao Te Ching a thousand times tomorrow, if you can't finish copying, don't come to see me again!"

"Yes. The two bowed respectfully.

......

108,000 miles away, Huaguo Mountain.

In the starry night, two figures, an old man and a young man, quietly appeared in the sky.

Dressed in a yellow gossip robe, wearing a golden hair crown, holding a dust, white hair, long beard, and kind eyes, the old man was followed by a purple-clothed Taoist boy.

This is like Taishang Laojun and his boy.

Glancing at the silent woods below, Taishang Laojun's eyes narrowed slightly: "This is here, the source of the sudden crack in the Heavenly Dao." ”

After saying that, he seemed to sense something again, turned around and flew to the side, and the purple-clothed Taoist boy hurriedly followed.

After a while, the two of them had quietly landed in a canyon.

As soon as his toes touched the ground, Taishang Laojun took a few steps forward, stood still, closed his eyes, and opened them again, his originally dark eyes had turned silver!

With these silver eyes, he swept around the dark canyon in the moonlight, and when he reached out and grabbed it, a yellow-brown mist was sucked into his palm.

Handing over the dust in his hand to the boy on the side, Taishang Laojun rubbed the yellow-brown mist with both hands, and pondered carefully.

"Master, what is this?" the boy couldn't help but ask curiously.

"The wandering spirit, the wandering spirit of a tiger. Taishang Laojun rubbed his hands, and the fog dissipated in an instant, silently: "Before the end of Yang's life, he has died, and the underworld will not accept it, so he can only become a wandering spirit without belonging to wander in the place where he was alive." This wandering spirit must have existed for some years, and its memories have dissipated, and it is impossible to read anything. ”

Anyway, Taishang stamped his feet.

After a while, a figure with a silver light suddenly appeared on the ground, a short and fat old man dressed as an outsider, hunchbacked, and wearing a cane.

When the old man saw Taishang, he quickly knelt down and kowtowed in shock.

"Old decay, see Taishang Laojun!"

"Are you the land here?" asked Taishang Laojun, stroking his long beard.

"Qi Laojun, the old decay is the land of Huaguo Mountain. ”

"The old man asked you, how did this wandering spirit before he died, what happened to him, and how did he die?"

The land lord raised his head, thought for a moment, and replied: "Qi Qi Laojun, this wandering spirit was originally a tiger, about twelve years ago, the boulder on the top of the mountain suddenly cracked, and a stone monkey was born. This tiger was killed by the stone monkey. ”

"Stone monkey?" Taishang raised his head and stroked his long beard for a moment, and then asked, "That stone monkey is now in the mountains?"

The land lord shook his head slightly: "That stone monkey has gone to sea eleven years ago, and has not returned since. Where exactly it went, I don't know. ”

"Oh?" Taishang stretched out his hand and pinched his fingers, and suddenly fell into deep thought: "No, I'll go to sea at this time......"

After a long time, he sighed and said, "You can go." ”

"Yes. "The land bows down and says goodbye.

I saw that Taishang and the boy arrived at the town that had been abandoned by famine in a blink of an eye.

Ten years have passed, and the withered woods are now full of life, but the people who fled the famine have not yet returned, and they are still dilapidated and uninhabited.

Not noticing the lonely grave on the hillside, the two of them flew straight past and landed in front of an abandoned wooden house.

Reaching out again, a gray mist fell into his hand.

After thinking about it carefully, Taishang sighed again: "It's like this again." ”

Rubbing the wandering spirit in his hand, Taishang stomped his feet and called out the land.

The tall and thin land lord who was as thin as a bamboo pole saluted respectfully and said, "Old man greets Lao Jun." ”

"Let me ask you, how did that wandering spirit die just now?"

The land lord replied: "That wandering spirit was originally a hunter here, and eleven years ago, it was killed by a stone monkey passing by. It's just that the yang life is not over, and the underworld is not collected, so you can only wander here. ”

"It's a stone monkey again, it seems that the source can't be wrong. Taishang sighed.

After sighing, Taishang turned around and wanted to leave, as if he felt something again, turned around and asked, "That stone monkey only killed this hunter here, and did not hurt other creatures?"

The land lord thought about it carefully and replied, "No." ”

"It's better if not. With that, Taishang and the boy flew up in the air and continued westward.

......

The three-star cave of the oblique moon, and Su Bodhi in the moonlit corridor was suddenly startled and looked towards the east.

"What should have come has come after all. ”