The ear-piercing sound of door-knocking reverberated throughout the Boiled Snow Temple.
The sound traveled far in the dead of the night, passing through the temple doors to reach the three halls, all the way to the Hall of Great Strength. Naturally, the Buddhist cultivators inside heard the sound but their abbot had just issued a handwritten decree that the temple would be closed for ten years and that no one was allowed to leave or enter.
The knocking continued for a while before finally stopping.
The female disciples of the Pavilion of Wind and Thunder looked flabbergasted. "Could the monks of the Boiled Snow Temple be deaf? Even if they're dead asleep, how could the noise not wake them?"
"Senior Sister, could the monks be in meditation?" Qian Shuheng guessed.
"It's not like they're meditating behind closed doors. Their ears still function! Do you screen out all noise when you meditate?" his Senior Sister retort
Hearing the voice coming from behind the temple doors. The disciples of the Pavilion of Wind and Thunder all fell into silence, including the agitated Guan Shuheng. Lei Tianyou told them to come to Boiled Snow Temple because Grandmaster Yunxia was here. He believed that their relationship would be able to buy them several days of shelter. However, Grandmaster Yunxia was dead and that linkage could be considered as completely broken. How else could they open the temple doors? Moreover, the little monk had made it clear that the temple would be sealed off for ten years and no guests would be entertained. The temple wouldn't get involved in any affairs of the Cultivation World either. This could be considered an act of isolation from the outside world in order to focus on their cultivation. Perhaps, they were wholeheartedly trying to shun the world. Endless darkness. Ice-cold stillness. Wh
There was a small courtyard overrun with withered grass in the dilapidated Guandi temple. Ye Que stomped his feet lightly, producing a wave of Sword Qi that cut off all the withered grass. He unleashed another wave of Sword Qi and the snow was swept to the sides, leaving a small, empty ground in the courtyard. There was no shortage of firewood in the mountain, so Guan Shuheng was able to swiftly return with a great harvest. The pile of firewood formed a three-meter-tall wooden pagoda. What started as burning embers soon became a bonfire as tall as a human. Even though it was snowing, the blaze was strong and exuberant. With Guan Shuheng feeding the fire with a continuous supply of firewood, the temperature inside the Guandi temple gradually rose. When Red Bean was in the Boiled Snow Temple, she purposefully looked out for food. It was impossible to find any meat there, but she managed to find quite a lot of sweet potatoes and a small bag of
It was a snowing atop Mount Cicada in Northern You and yet drizzling in a hidden valley in the southern region. Inside the pitch-black darkness that enveloped the valley, a black-robed old man was playing a game of Chinese chess with a young child with pleated pigtails. In front of them was a chessboard covered partially in black pieces and partially in white pieces, with a blood-red line on it. It was a board that was a whopping ten feet in size. The black-robed old man lowered his head to look at the stone pieces on the board that were scattered like stars in the sky. He looked like he had sunken into a long period of reflection. The young child that sat cross-legged across him didn't disturb him. He held his chin, looking somewhat disinterested. This game wasn't your typical game of Chinese chess. The stone pieces pre-arranged on the board were all the same color and translucent. Every time the old man touched the pieces, th
The people in black robes who had traversed a great distance to be here were known as Cao Xue and Xie Yi respectively. The leader of the armed youths who broke into the Guandi Temple was known as Chen Chenchen. Those in black were practitioners that had just stepped on the demonic path. They did not come from the Mountain Valley of Pure Blackness but had come in support of their kinds who were implanted in the Truth Cultivation sects. The armed youths were from Broken King Gorge. It might have been coincidence or fate that the Gorge was being attacked from the outside and within while the Pavilion of Wind and Thunder was attacked unexpectedly by Ye Yunhai. Within half a day's time, rivers of blood were flowing from Broken King Gorge. Only a few young disciples with low levels of cultivation emerged eventually. This was because the Gorge was located very close to Zen Mountain. In fact, they were only separated by one cliff. As s
Xie Yi was a Buddhist cultivator before he became a devil cultivator, and he was also halfway at Formless Realm level. After seeing that Ye Que was merely at beginning Starburst Realm level, he believed that he would win easily. He had not expected to meet someone more than his match, however. No matter how tough the defense of the Impenetrable Defense of Three Deities was, it was no match for the River Soldier. Coupled with Ye Que's gold python of Divine Energy and the Bone Crunching 13 Blades of Thunder, it was logical and expected that the was able to slay Xie Yi. Furthermore, in his previous life, Ye Que had fought against monks from the Temple of Six Buddhas as a disciple of the Qingqiu Sword Sect. In fact, he even defeated their reclusive Buddha while he was at Apocalypse Realm strength. Even if Xie Yi had true Formless Realm level strength, Ye Que was confident of slaying him, much less when he was just halfway through it. Ye Que gave
The young men and women in Guandi Temple were enjoying game meat. The night grew darker. The snow storm continued. The blankets provided by the Boiled Snow Temple were indeed warm. The young men and young women who had spent their entire day fleeing for their lives were huddled together, wrapping themselves tightly in the blankets. Regardless of their level of cultivation, they were unable to keep warm by mobilizing their True Energy alone, with the exception of Ye Que and Red Bean, whose cultivation level was up a notch from the rest. While they lived in a Cultivation World where dog ate dog, they were by no means novices. Something unexpected must have happened since Ye Que had come back way past the expected time of his return and Cao Xue was nowhere to be seen. However, no one would be so silly as to raise the question now. Regardless of their origins, Ye Que was the one with the greatest voice within this small temple.
They traveled southwards towards Luoyang. After all, it was the Divine Capital as well as the capital city of the most powerful empire in the entire human world. This fact had crossed the mind of the group of young cultivators. They were certain that even if the devil were to take over the entire You Prefecture, it was impossible for it to invade Luoyang any time soon. Apart from Tang, even the entire Cultivation World would be against the idea. Tang would be the only one who had the ability to organize all the sect in the Divine Land to gather at one place to discuss a plan to clean up the place to be free of demons and the devil, and the only place they could gather together was Luoyang. In other words, the young disciples in Guandi Temple were left with no other choice. As much as they want to live on, their only way out was to follow Ye Que wherever he went. At the very least, they needed to get out of Northern You. He was
Zen Mountain was illuminated by the predawn light. It was the moment just before sunrise, the atmosphere was filled with the chilly air before dawn broke, and the grey crystallized snow was covered with a fresh layer of white frost. Two early larks were chirping their songs in the half-lit sky. At the horizon where the Zen Mountain met the sky, there was an enormous morning start hanging in high in the sky, staring down at the world below like a lone eye. The vast universe seemed to be holding its breath while it listened to the orchestra of the living creatures. A layer of thin and mysterious light hovered over the entire land. The temperature in Northern You after the snowfall had fallen even lower, such that a splash of water could turn it to ice immediately. At this moment, there were ten horses and two carriages traveling southwards on the small path which connected the You Prefecture and the Qing Prefecture.