Chapter 177 Small Cracks
Chapter 177 Small Cracks
"No wonder he is so naughty outside, it turns out it's because you spoil him." Qin Baiqing pursed her nose and looked away angrily.
She finally understood why An Shi was always so fearless.
It turns out that this is how the Bodhi Temple disciplines people. They are even more protective of their children than I am, and they are reluctant to even lock me up in a small dark room!
"Thank you for making this special trip, I'll take you two for a visit."
"No, no, no, we have other important things to do!" Qin Baiqing refused seriously and talked about business, "We are here to find bad guys!"
Then he found the talisman that the nunnery used to attack him.
The origin of the talisman paper could not be revealed, only its purpose of confinement could be discerned. What she wanted to show Zhu Fu was the aura in it that was no different from the pollution on the Qiankun Terrace.
"Have you ever seen anything like this in the Bodhi Temple?" she asked, holding out her hand.
"This is..." Zhu Fu recognized it almost instantly, and said solemnly and confusedly, "This is the contaminated impurity in the illusion at the beginning, and the aura is exactly the same as this one."
"Yes! Is there one in Bodhi Temple?"
"Actually, even if you didn't come to me, I would still invite you to come to Bodhi Temple." Zhu Fu sighed in shame.
"When I first saw you purifying the Qiankun Platform in the illusion, I had this idea, but I never found the right opportunity. I didn't expect you to find me first."
"Have you really seen pollution in the temple?" Qin Baiqing put away the talisman paper and looked at Feng Budu.
Isn’t it said that... this kind of impurity only appears in the cracks between heaven and earth?
The only contaminated Qiankuntai was sealed by Sanqing Palace thousands of years ago. Later, it cleansed itself of the contamination and there was no possibility of leakage. Why is there sudden contamination in the current cultivation world?
And from what Zhu Fu said, the pollution in the Bodhi Temple did not appear suddenly recently, but has been going on for a long time?
"At some point in time, a tiny crack suddenly appeared in the temple. No one paid attention to it at first, but later, pollution suddenly began to appear. The abbots and elders had no choice but to pay attention to it. It has been many years since then."
Zhu Fu led the way and took the two of them towards the crack. The deeper they went, the more Buddhist practitioners they met on the road.
Passing by the pagoda forest, a group of disciples who were gaining enlightenment there came towards them. When they saw Zhu Fu and the other two, they stopped, stepped aside to make way, lowered their heads, closed their eyes, and chanted the Buddha's name in a low voice.
"Meet Uncle Master Zhu Fu."
The voices came one after another. Qin Baiqing looked at them curiously and saw that they seemed to be particularly respectful to Zhu Fu, and she herself was also treated preferentially.
This was the first time she had taken advantage of someone else, and she found it extremely strange.
The monks watched the three people with their eyes and noses, and then stood up and left until they were far away. The sound of chanting, coming from nowhere, echoed in the pagoda forest, accompanied by the sound of wind blowing freely through the pagoda, making the Bodhi Temple seem more unlike the human world, as if they had accidentally entered a pure place untainted by the mundane world.
Along the way, no matter whether it was a young novice monk of the same age as Qin Baiqing or an old monk who had accomplished great deeds, they all stopped when they saw Zhu Fu. They addressed him differently, but without exception, they were extremely respectful.
"How strange," Qin Baiqing couldn't help but be curious. She glanced at Zhu Fu, who was not showing off, and asked, "You seem to have a very high status. Why do they respect you so much?"
You know, I don’t even have this kind of treatment in Xinghai Sect!
Qin Baiqing was really jealous and had to know how Zhu Fu did it.
"Your identity is not ordinary?" Feng Budu felt something and asked the same question.
"It's just that my cultivation is higher. Thanks to my fellow disciples' kindness, I can't bear any heavy burden." He shook his head slowly, denying their speculation. "So that's how it is. My cultivation will also become very high in the future." Qin Baiqing nodded solemnly, and became more determined to practice well.
But Feng Budu did not respond and sneered in his heart.
When it comes to pollution, lower-level disciples may not realize the seriousness of the situation, but higher-ups will know the dangers of pollution at a glance and will never show it to others easily, let alone the fact that the sect has been leaking the secret of pollution for many years.
Especially in the holy places of Buddhism, the emergence of pollution is a serious crisis that shakes the foundation of the temple. If he was an ordinary little monk, how could he know these hidden things.
"Are we almost there?" Qin Baiqing had seen enough of the Bodhi Temple and began to urge them.
"It's almost there. It's behind the pagoda, and there are elders from the sect guarding it." Zhu Fu thought of something else and added:
"This crack has been around for a long time. Every five hundred years, some impurities will be produced from the crack, but fortunately, there are not many of them. After they appear, they are collected by the elders and suppressed with relics. No accidents have occurred over the years."
That is why the cultivation world has been unaware of the existence of such a crack in the Bodhi Temple for so many years.
After walking deeper into the pagoda, there was no sign of cracks, but Qin Baiqing had already keenly noticed something unusual.
She raised her eyes and looked into the depths of the pagoda surrounded by many Buddha statues. She felt a familiar breath from there, which was exactly the same as the dark breath she had felt when she was close to the pollution.
Just getting close made them feel uncomfortable, as if the cold and sticky pollution penetrated the suppression and eroded towards them.
But after getting closer, Qin Baiqing paused, looked around vigilantly and thought: "The aura here is not pure, there is the aura of living people around, someone has been nearby."
"Is it your elder?" she asked Xiang Zhufu.
There are tiny cracks between the stone walls, and now it is quiet as if it is asleep. However, judging from the signs of strict suppression and sealing around it, it is obvious that the Bodhi Temple attaches great importance to it.
Not only were pagodas specially built to cover up its smell, but there were also relics of eminent monks guarding it at all times to guard against the polluting fumes that would only emerge once every five hundred years.
"Have you suppressed all the pollution here?" Qin Baiqing looked around curiously. "It's all in the pagoda... No wonder the smell is so strong. I don't like it."
The smell of pollution is unpleasant.
"If we talk about people who have appeared here recently, it's only the elders who are in charge of guarding the sect and An Shi," Zhu Fu sighed sadly and shook his head, "He is not a bad person. He has become what he is now because of the pollution."
"Ever since Anshi was contaminated with impurities, the sect has been helpless and unable to do anything about the pollution in his body. This is why we have to watch Anshi become what he is now... The temple feels guilty about him."
"So that's why you spoil him?" Qin Baiqing understood.
"No wonder you have to swallow your anger while he is acting as an evil monk outside. It turns out you are not in the right." However, imagine if someone dared to slander the reputation of Xinghai Sect outside, Qin Baiqing would decisively beat the other person to a pulp.
"Not only that," Feng Budu gestured to Qin Baiqing, "someone else came here during this period."
The two of them looked at each other, and Qin Baiqing reacted quickly. He immediately decided to take action with a stern look, and the attack came to a majestic stone statue in the blink of an eye.
The stone statue changed its shape and turned into a human figure to dodge Qin Baiqing's attack.
(End of this chapter)