Chapter three hundred and eighty second stone man
Ding Xing settled the affairs of the gong faction and embarked on the journey back to Tiandong.
When he crossed the Jiusu Snow Field of the Sea a hundred years ago, he used the spiritual guidance of the Yuezhi Gate to leave three teleportation directions in Tiandong, namely the Xingteng River in the Demon Realm, the Binghua Mountain in the Navy Kingdom and the Yumaijian in the Yuezhi Kingdom.
If he uses the beacon wheel to start long-distance teleportation, he can return to his hometown in an instant.
But he didn't do that.
Ding Xiaozhi and Hongboer were always wandering away. He was worried and decided to find these two little guys first, and then go back.
However, he had no clues in his hands, so he decided to use the old method of the past to conduct a carpet-style search using the "Golden Que Sacrifice Formation".
There are six immortal cultivation worlds in Duxing Continent. With Ding Xing’s current Purple Mansion Cultivation, it will not take long to travel the entire continent.
He started looking for it from the Golden Eye Buddha Realm. He thought he would not get anything, but who knew that he had just searched for half a month and had news that excited him.
This day.
He passed through a small kingdom called "博hong" and opened the "Golden Que Formation" according to the convention. As a result, he locked Ding Xiaozhi's traces in one fell swoop, inside the "Five Burial Forest" in the south of the "博搚搚" of the Kingdom of Exorcine.
This Five Burial Forest is actually quite originated. It is full of miasma and is mostly home to five poisonous insects and demons. Since ancient times, there have been countless pedestrians who have died in the mouth of insects, so it was named "Five Burial Forest" by the locals.
There are many mountains with rich spiritual energy located in the forest, which were once circled as a private territory by a sect called the "Five Poisons Sect".
Ding Xing is not unfamiliar with the Five Poison Sect. In the past, he first arrived at Duanjin Valley and followed Yan Wuque to explore the ruins of the archery Taoist temple. During this period, he talked about the four archery beast corpses unearthed from the site. The corpse of the moon beast fell into the hands of the monks of the Five Poison Sect.
The Five Poison Sect is the beast-controlling sect, and the toad demon slaves they raise are the most powerful. Toads generally absorb the essence of moonlight to temper the demon body. The corpse of the moon beast is most suitable for toad demons to devour. This is also the reason why the Five Poison Sect participates in robbing the corpse of the moon beast.
However, Yan Wuque also said at that time that the Five Poison Sect had been destroyed hundreds of years ago, and the current "Five Burial Forest" was taken for itself by several immortal cultivators.
Ding Xing couldn't help but wonder whether Ding Xiaozhi's traces appeared in the old territory of the Five Poison Sect had anything to do with the corpse of the moon beast?
He was going to go and find out.
Who knew that when he passed through the royal city of Hongguo, he accidentally encountered something strange. He was curious and stayed in the royal city for half a day.
There is a temple in the royal city that happens to be holding a prayer ceremony.
According to the saying, the Dharma will not be surprising. After all, almost all the hundreds of kingdoms in the territory of Golden Eye Buddha worship Buddha.
After Ding Xing left Duanjin Valley, such Dharma Assembly was held regularly in every mortal city he passed by. But what surprised Ding Xing was that the temple he encountered this time was quite special. The Buddhist statues worshipped in the courtyard were actually called "The Venerable of Chishen".
Who is the Lord Chicheng?
Yan Chicheng, the pioneer of Jinshanyuan!
When Ding Xing first entered the city, he first heard the name of "Chichen Venerable". He thought it was a duplicate name, but when he went to the temple himself and watched the Buddha statue of "Chichen Venerable", he found that the appearance of the Buddha statue was exactly the same as Yan Chicheng.
This puzzled Ding Xing.
Since Yan Chicheng died in the pursuit of monk Xiyue, his life experience has long been destroyed in the years. Anyway, there was no temple that worshipped him before.
Although there is a statue of Chicheng Buddha erected in the Jinjing courtyard, there is no Yan Chicheng's incense god position. This temple only worships the Wheel-turning Buddha. In order to draw a clear line with the palace guarding the palace, the people of the courtyard deliberately forgot and ignored Yan Chicheng.
Looking at the entire Golden Eye Buddha Realm, only Ding Xing, a direct disciple of Xiyue Wenzong, understands Yan Chicheng's life experience, and the other monks have no reason to worship Yan Chicheng.
But Yan Chicheng appeared in the "Qihongguo". Who erected the Buddha statue for Yan Chicheng?
‘Is it related to that golden boy?’
Ding Xing guessed in his heart.
Since Ding Xiaozhi is hiding in the "Five Burial Forest" south of the royal city, then Jin Tong should be there. This senior Jin Tong is the chapel boy under Yan Chicheng's seat. It would be reasonable to say that he was secretly offering incense to Yan Chicheng.
But the collapse of the Chicheng Buddha statue was caused by the Golden Boy. If it were really a nostalgic monster, it would definitely not have destroyed the only Buddha statue that Yan Chicheng left in the world.
Ding Xing can't figure out the relationship between this for the time being.
In order to find out the truth, at night, he went to the temple again and prepared to ask the abbot who was worshiping the "Sincerity Venerable" behind the scenes.
The abbot is a practitioner, and his cultivation is in the middle stage of the mysterious fetus. He didn't know what accident he encountered, so he left the royal city at night and headed straight for the "Five Burial Forest".
Anyway, Ding Xing's destination was this dense forest, so he did not intercept the abbot, but followed him all the way.
At midnight, the abbot walked into a valley full of torches.
More than twenty Buddhist practitioners gathered in this valley, and they were almost the same as those of the abbot, regardless of their clothes or their cultivation.
At this moment, they were facing a seven-story stone pagoda, standing quietly with their heads down.
In front of the pagoda, a young man with a gloomy face sat cross-legged. His cultivation level had reached the early stage of the Golden Elixir and was also the Buddhist practitioner with the strongest magic power present.
Ding Xing secretly looked at the appearance of the young monk, feeling familiar, but for a while, he couldn't remember where he had seen it.
There was also a monster who looked like a human being, sitting next to the young monk. He said he was like a human because he had human torso characteristics and said that he was not human because of his skin patchwork of stones. Except for his eyes, he was still flesh and blood, the rest were all stones.
With Ding Xing's experience, he actually couldn't see through the background of this monster. Is it a human cultivator? Or is it just a stone puppet?
When Ding Xing was thinking, the abbot had already passed through the crowd and came to the young monk, holding his palms and bowing: "I'm Ruhui, I've seen Master Yichen!"
"There is no vain!" The young monk suddenly shook his sleeves and said neatly: "You are the only one left. Since you have already arrived, then start discussing the matter! I will accompany my master to the life and death barrier, ranging from three to five months to three to five years. I will assign your respective responsibilities in advance. During this period, we don't have to meet. If you have any pressure, I will report to me when the master comes out of seclusion!"
"Affect the Master's Buddha's order!" More than twenty monks in front of the pagoda responded together.
Next, they began to discuss the temple. It turned out that the more than 20 people were all abbots, and each of them presided over a Buddhist temple. These temples seemed to be all built by young monks, but were only entrusted to them to manage.
The core issue they discussed was how to make the incense of "The Reincarnation of the Reincarnation" become more and more prosperous.
In terms of details, Ding Xing didn't pay attention to it. He kept thinking about the title of "Master Yichen".
When Ding Xing first met the young monk, he felt familiar with him, as if he had met the young monk somewhere. It was not until the abbot called him "Master Yichen" that Ding Xing suddenly remembered that the young monk was somewhat similar to the young monk Yichen in Qingchun Temple in the past.
Now, more than two years have passed since Ding Xing met the young monk Yichen last time. At that time, the young monk Yichen was only a ten-year-old child, and his appearance has changed a lot, which has led to Ding Xing not being able to recognize him at first sight.
Since the little monk Yichen appears here, is the stone man beside him Master Changyuan?
Ding Xing looked at it intently and found that the stone man happened to be missing a right arm.
When Mohe in Binghua Mountain first appeared, Ding Xing sneaked into the Mohe barrier to look for ancient wine. At that time, he met Master Changyuan. The two of them joined hands to kill the old demon Huaitong. After the war, Master Changyuan broke his right arm and moved to Xinye Oasis in the Tiandong Desert, where he created Qingchun Temple and took the little monk Yichen as his disciple.
According to common sense, this pair of masters and apprentices should be in Tiandong, so how could they come to the realm of Golden Eye Buddha?
Ding Xing carefully measured and found that except for the stone skin, the other characteristics of the stone man were all consistent with Master Changyuan, but what was wrong with him that he actually turned his body into a stone body.
Chapter completed!