Chapter 21: Awakening

"Roar" Yuan Lou let out a low roar, looking at the square golden light mask around it, at this time it had regained its senses, and its limbs were intact, only a few scars on its chest told about what happened before, there was only one bookshelf around, there were many books on it, I couldn't remember how I got here, the memory in my mind was intermittent, and I wanted to leave here, but as soon as I touched the golden light mask, the light mask was golden and bright, mixed with a faint Buddha sound, as if a flame was burning itself, raised my right palm and looked at it, five fingers were scorched, this is the consequence of touching the light mask before, if it wasn't for the retreat in time, I'm afraid the whole palm is no longer there, and the perception told it that it wanted to force through the gold coverand he will die.

"Squeak" "Squeak" The squeak sound of the wooden staircase, a monk in a white monk's robe walked up, with a round face and big ears, a straight nose and a square mouth, bright and wise eyes, and a peaceful breath came to his face, "Donor, the poor monk knows a little about beast language" The voice was gentle, looking at Yuanlou's murderous eyes.

"Human, who are you and why did you save me" Yuan Lou was slightly stunned when he heard the monk speak fluent beast language, and then roared at him.

"Poor monk Xuanzhu, from a very distant place, all the way west, go thousands of miles, see all things, cross all things, do ten thousand rites, eternal proof of the avenue, that is, to meet, is fate, I help each other" Xuanzhu put his hands together.

"Then why are you imprisoning me" Yuan Lou looked at Xuanzhu coldly with a face full of disbelief.

"Donor, it's not that the poor monk doesn't let the donor come out, but the donor's own heart doesn't want to come out, all living beings have Buddha nature, I believe that if the donor can let go, he can naturally come out" Xuanzhu whispered.

"Nonsense, what do I put down, let me out quickly" Yuan Lou roared angrily, and a strong anger poured out of his body.

"If the donor goes out like this, I'm afraid that I will soon be in danger and my life will be in danger," Xuanzhu smiled.

"My life and death have nothing to do with you, you just need to let me out" stared at Xuanzhu with dead eyes, if his eyes could kill, Xuanzhu would already be full of holes.

"This matter still needs to rely on the donor himself, maybe the bookshelf behind you can help you, I hope the donor can come out as soon as possible" After speaking, Xuanzhu turned around and went downstairs.

"Come back, let me out" Yuan Lou saw Xuanzhu go downstairs, in a hurry, stepped forward and shouted, but still did not dare to approach, a little frightened looked at the golden cover, for a moment, Xuanzhu disappeared, saw the useless Yuan Lou lying on the ground, looking at a surface pit above, like a walnut-like golden beads floating in the air, a steady stream of golden aura, mixed with a faint Buddha sound, even the golden cover did not dare to touch the Yuan Lou even more dare not touch the bead, the gold cover outside the table put his own storage bag, but can only look at but can not touch, just lie down for three days, the heart is calmใ€‚

A slight cry appeared, Yuan Lou looked sideways, and saw a white mouse appear, holding a small bag in his mouth, crawling to Yuan Lou, his mouth was loosened, the bag slid down, wild fruits of different colors fell out, and a fruity fragrance came to his face, and the white mouse looked at Yuan Lou, turned around and climbed out of the golden cover.

"Huh" Yuan Lou was surprised, obviously felt that the white mouse had no cultivation at all, but just ignored the golden cover and climbed out, grabbed the fruit on the ground, checked it, threw it into his mouth and ate it, sat cross-legged and waited for three days, and finally waited for the white mouse to crawl in again, threw down a small bag, and when he turned around to leave, Yuan Lou opened his eyes and grabbed it, only to see that there was no trace of fear in the round eyes of the white mouse, and looked at Yuan Lou with some doubts in his clear eyes, and gently pinched the body of the white mouse, turned over and over without finding out the reason, and let go of the white mouse, the white mouse turned around twice and climbed out of the golden cover, Yuan Lou frowned, and suddenly remembered Xuanzhu's words, got up and came to the bookshelf, the entire bookshelf was densely packed with books, and he took out a book called Buddha Xuantonglu.

Spring goes to autumn, two years pass in the blink of an eye, in the two-story pavilion in the valley, Yuan Lou looked at the books in his hand, the blue book front four golden characters, Da Xuan Tonglu, at this time Yuan Lou's eyes are irritable long gone, black and white, just like the deep pool of water, very calm, during this time, Xuanzhu has not also appeared.

The familiar cry came, and the white rat ran in with a bag in his mouth, put down the bag a few times and climbed to Yuanlou's shoulder, and also read a book like Yuanlou, stretching out his little paws from time to time to point in the void, looking very cute.

Looking at the dancing white mouse, a smile flashed in Yuan Lou's calm eyes, and the anger on his body was long gone, no killing, no right and wrong for more than two years, with the help of the golden beads on his head, Yuan Lou felt that he was really different from before, and he understood what his father said to him, although he didn't know if he had put it down like Xuanzhu said, but the golden light mask before the meeting, Yuan Lou was no longer afraid, and if he wanted to at this moment, he could go out.

Just when one big and one small beast were reading, there was a sound of clanging footsteps on the wooden staircase, Yuan Lou stopped his movements, looked towards the staircase, and for a moment, Xuanzhu in a white robe appeared outside the golden cover, looking at Yuan Lou and smiling slightly, "It seems that the donor can already come out by himself."

"If you know how to let go, maybe you can only know how to face it, master, I may not be able to really let go" Yuan Lou said indifferently, "Providence is clear, I am self-evident, some things, even if I let go, I have to do it."

Xuanzhu looked at Yuanlou for a moment, and clasped his hands together, "It seems that this is the reason why there is still a trace of murderous aura on the donor."

"If the master has also experienced the killing of his loved ones and the extermination of the clan, maybe there will be murderous aura in his body," Yuan Lou put the books back on the bookshelf and said calmly.

"How does the donor know that the poor monk has not experienced it?" Xuanzhu asked Yuan Lou rhetorically.

"Master, ...... you" Yuan Lou was slightly stunned and wondered.

"I have seen it with my own eyes, the big demon is angry, the corpse is floating for thousands of miles, the blood is flowing like a river, and my closest relatives are among them" Xuanzhu clasped his hands together, "Donor, cultivate immortals are cruel, go against the sky, I hope the donor will keep his heart, the end of the world seems to be far away, but it is just a distance to turn around, life and death are always impermanent, but also an arc of numerology of reincarnation, if you can let go, you can be detached, the poor monk is all about this, both to travel far away, farewell, the bead will be sent to the donor, I hope it will help" After speaking, Xuanzhu turned around and went downstairs.

"Master Xuanzhu, for saving your life, Yuanlou is grateful" Yuanlou called out to Xuanzhu and bowed to him.

"The donor is polite, if there is fate, we will meet again" After speaking, he went downstairs without stopping.

"Can you really put it down" Yuan Lou looked in the direction of Xuanzhu, muttered to himself, stretched out his right palm, grabbed the void, the golden bead aura converged, and flew into the palm, at this time the bead could only make Yuan Lou feel a little tingling in his palm, observed for a while, and couldn't see the origin of the bead, turned his palm over, put it into the storage bag, walked to the bookshelf, raised his hand, put away all the books, turned around and went downstairs.

Out of the pavilion, see that Xuanzhu is no longer there, look around the valley, surrounded by ancient trees, covered by white fog above, it is a good hiding place, lightly grabbed the white mouse on the shoulder, and put it on the ground, "Parasitic mayfly in the heaven and earth, a millet in the sea, I am powerless to protect you, if I don't die, I am lucky to enter the high level, turn into a human body, have the power of self-preservation, I will come back and take you out, take care" After speaking, Yuanlou turned into a black shadow out of the valley, stayed for a while, and ran in the direction of the west side.

There was a hint of confusion in the white mouse's clear eyes, and when he saw Yuanlou turn into a black shadow and leave, a trace of anxiety flashed in his eyes, and he chased after him, but when he chased out of the valley, he was no longer there, and he was anxiously spinning in place.

In the valley, high in the air above, Xuanzhu stood in the air with his hands behind his back, looking calmly at the direction of Yuanlou running in his eyes and muttering: "White Tiger Flag", half a sound, a gust of wind blew, Xuanzhu's figure was blown away, and at the same time, the white rat also disappeared.

The sun went west, and Yuanlou, who had been running wildly for several hours, stopped, raised his eyes and looked around, surrounded by countless towering trees, obstructing the line of sight, and a thick voice came, Yuanlou must have rushed towards the place where the sound came.

In the cave, a cracked mountain armor is rotating around a black stone bear, and on the stone platform behind the black stone bear, a delicate blue flower grows, and the surrounding faint water vapor, the black stone bear stands upright, and its heavy palms are slapped at the cracked mountain armor, and the flexible cracked mountain armor jumps up and down, dodging the palms, "boom" The palm of the hand slapped the ground cracked, the whole cave trembled, at the same time, the cracked mountain armor on the side, flew up, jumped on the bear's back while the black stone bear bent over, the claws flashed with demonic power to the neck of the black bear, a roar, the black stone bear slammed left and right, reached out to grab the crack mountain armor behind, but no matter how hard the black stone bear tried, the crack mountain armor grabbed its neck, shrunk its body in the scale armor on its back, tea kung fu, the black stone bear's movements became smaller and smaller, there was blood everywhere, and gradually lay on the ground motionless.

The cracked mountain armor that stretched out its head, saw that the black stone bear under him had not moved, stretched out his other paw, and poked it a few times before climbing down the body of the black stone bear, with a joy in his eyes, he walked towards the blue flower, just arrived at the stone platform, turned around suddenly, swept a boulder on the ground with his tail, and flew towards the entrance of the cave with his tail.

"Huh" Yuan Lou looked at the flying boulder and sighed lightly, smashed the flying boulder with one punch, and walked into the cave, "You don't have to be nervous, I won't rob you, I didn't expect you to be able to find me in the middle of the spirit" Yuan Lou looked at the nervous Split Mountain Jia and said calmly.

Split Mountain Jia's eyes rolled, and he turned around and swallowed the blue flower in one gulp, "Fellow Daoist, since you don't want this flower, why do you hide at the door."

"I want to know where this is, do you know which direction the ghost land is?" Yuan Lou entered the cave and looked around.

"You want Soul Solidifying Grass" Crack Mountain Armor asked.

"Do you know the Soul Solidifying Grass," Yuan Lou asked rhetorically.

"Of course, when I came out this time, I also wanted to cultivate to the later stage, and then go to the ghost land, find a soul solid grass and return to the clan, and go to the human race after splitting the soul" Split Mountain Jia looked at Yuan Lou and explained, shaking his head and thinking, "This place is thousands of miles away from the ghost land, there are not only demon clans on the road, maybe you can also meet the human race, why don't we go together, and take care of each other."

"Are you all so familiar with the Split Mountain Armor Clan" Yuan Lou looked at the Split Mountain Armor, remembered Chen Shan in the dungeon, and smiled slightly.

"Why do you say that" Cracked Mountain Armor wondered, walked over to the black bear, and bit it on the arm.

"You actually drink blood?" Yuan Lou was slightly startled.

After a moment, the cracked mountain armor raised his head, his face was covered with blood, and he shook his head, "What should I do if I don't drink if I don't drink the lack of resources."

"Lead the way" Yuan Lou thought about it, and then was relieved.

Three days later, Yuan Lou sat on a reef by the lake to close his mind, and the crack mountain armor under the reef was fighting with a crocodile, only to see the crocodile covered in black scale armor, the head was red, a huge mouth swept left and right, and the tail behind him was drawn down with demonic power, forcing the crack mountain armor to retreat again and again for a while.

"Ding" a soft sound, the lake ripples, bigger and bigger, another crocodile showed its head, looked at the cracked mountain armor on the shore, opened its mouth and spit out a column of water, the water column hit the back of the crack mountain armor very fast, about to fly a few feet away, the crocodile on the shore was slightly stunned, and then opened its big mouth to bite the cracked mountain armor not far away, suddenly a black shadow fell from the sky, "touch" the crocodile also flew out a few zhang away, fell to the ground, Yuan Lou's figure appeared in front of the crack mountain armor, looking at the crocodile that wanted to come out of the water and said, " It was it that attacked first, we have no intention of fighting, and there are still things to do, if it is entangled, Hugh blames me for being welcome", after speaking, the Ziyuan Sword flew out and floated in Yuan Lou's hand.

"Knock" countless small splashes, the crocodile on the shore who got up to attack heard the sound, paused, turned around and climbed into the lake and disappeared, while the crocodile in the water stopped screaming, kept staring at Yuan Lou, and dived into the water for a moment to disappear.

"Fellow Daoist, that crocodile is in the late stage of Lingkai like you, you still have magic weapons, why don't you kill them" The Split Mountain Armor stood up, and a few pieces of scale armor on his back were shattered, and blood remained.

"This kind of crocodile is called a red-headed crocodile, the classics record that they are group monsters, if they are leading out more powerful, it will be troublesome, let's go" Yuan Lou saw that the red-headed crocodile had disappeared, turned around and explained to the cracked mountain armor, just about to leave, he heard the woman's laughter coming, "Terran monk, hide" The words fell and grabbed the cracked mountain armor, jumped a few times, and hid behind a reef.

The laughter came from far and near, "Two senior brothers, there is a lake here, why don't we take a break" A woman with heavy makeup and beautiful face, a white robe with a layer of tulle, a bumpy figure, and a coquettish voice.

"Okay, since Senior Sister Geng Qing is tired, then let's take a rest" A young man with a mustache in front of him heard this, stopped, looked at Geng Qing and smiled slightly, "I'll help Senior Sister" After speaking, he stepped forward to hug Geng Qing's willow waist.

"Zheng Gao, take your dirty hands away" Another young man with a horse's face turned around, strode to Geng Qing's side, and knocked off the hand on Geng Qing's waist.

"Ma Chen, what are you doing" Zheng Gao's face turned angry and said sharply.

When Geng Qing saw that the two were going to quarrel again, she laughed and persuaded, "Okay, you two have quarreled all the way, let's go, let's go rest" After speaking, he took the arms of the two and walked towards the river.

"No, junior sister, you can't stay here, I've been here, there are a lot of red-headed crocodiles in that lake, specializing in attacking monks or demon beasts in the past, and we're about to go to the ghost land ahead, let's go to the edge and rest" Ma Chen stopped Geng Qing who was about to leave.

"Senior brother, do you really know where the Soul Solid Grass is?, the Yin Soul of the Ghost Land is very powerful," Geng Qing had a worried look on his face.

"Don't worry, junior sister, I found it when I came last time, the place is very hidden, there are no powerful yin spirits around, and it is not deep into the ghost land, do the math, the soul solid grass should also be fully mature" There was a hint of pride on Ma Chen's face.

"Then I'll rely on Senior Brother" Geng Qing whispered softly, wrapping Ma Chen's arm and rubbing back and forth.

"Don't worry, junior sister, I will definitely help you get the Soul Solid Grass" Feeling the softness coming from his arm, Ma Chen burst into flames and swore an oath.

"Okay, let's go" Geng Qing smiled and pulled Ma Chen forward, turning around and urging, "Senior Brother Zheng Gao, let's go."

"Hmph" Zheng Gao looked at Ma Chen's back and snorted coldly, touched his beard, "It's here."

The three of them went away, and Yuan Lou and Split Mountain Jia behind the reef walked out, "Two late stages, one mid-stage peak" Yuan Lou's eyes narrowed slightly, and he asked sideways, "Have you ever been to the ghost land."

"No, I just know this place," Splitshangar shook his head.

"Okay, keep up with them, don't get too close, just follow me" After speaking, Yuan Lou's breath converged, if there was nothing, he turned into a black shadow and chased it, Yuan Lou's breath collection technique has been successfully cultivated to the first floor, and the second layer can only be cultivated after the spirit base period, and then there is no record, and the breath collection technique obtained is a remnant.