Pawn Crossing the River

Whether it is the opinion of the Taoist sect or Zhao Mile, this final battle must be fought. The radical Buddhist sect must be severely hit to dispel their last fantasy, and then peace talks can be concluded.

Then it is still necessary to prepare for war.

But before that, Qi Xuansu wants to take a look at the top-secret file sent by Zhao Mile.

It is said that you cannot know too much about the extraterritorial demons, otherwise you will establish some kind of mysterious connection with the extraterritorial demons, which will bring misfortune at the least, and will attract the attention of the extraterritorial demons, fall into madness, or even die.

But Qi Xuansu doesn't care about this. As for the attention of the extraterritorial demons, he has been watched countless times, and it didn't matter. Too many debts don't worry, too many lice don't itch, let it go.

Anyway, there are obstacles in the human world, and I am not afraid of what "Changshengtian" will do.

Qi Xuansu spent two hours reading the record. To be fair, he knew all the words, but it was difficult to read. There were always strange whispers in his ears. Although he could not do anything to Qi Xuansu, he was disturbed.

This record confirmed many of Qi Xuansu's guesses, including a detailed record of the pilgrimage.

Qi Xuansu personally interrogated Zhao Jiaowu, and Zhao Jiaowu confessed that Xiao Bodhisattva seemed to be very concerned about the Great Snow Mountain Palace.

Qi Xuansu was not surprised that Xiao Bodhisattva was interested in the Great Snow Mountain Palace. The place of pilgrimage was in the Great Snow Mountain, and the baby was born somewhere in the Great Snow Mountain.

Now it seems that Qi Xuansu guessed right.

According to Buddhist records, the monk who participated in the pilgrimage was named Sengwei. He was a famous monk in the history of Buddhism. He once set out from Xijing to Nalanda Temple to seek the true scriptures. He traveled to places such as Bosuo and Borneo, which lasted for thirteen years. This is nothing, but on the way back to Xijing Prefecture, Sengwei encountered an accident and strayed into an unknown place. There were no birds flying above and no animals running below. He looked around and had no idea where to go. There were only dead bones as signs. It was probably the Sea of ​​Death today, but the Sea of ​​Death was vast and the Taoist sect had not explored it carefully. It was hard to say what was inside. It could be an illusion or a cave.

Sengwei accidentally deviated from the original route in the process and walked towards the Great Snow Mountain. He met the shaman Baoerdan of the Shamanism and learned about the pilgrimage from Baoerdan.

This is related to Qi Xuansu's speculation - the pilgrim monks and shamans.

Sengwei and Baoerdan came to the foot of the Great Snow Mountain and joined with the Taoist Sun Jing of the Ancient Taiping Dao, the great Confucian scholar Xie Wen, and the missionary Qiao of the Holy Court Goddess Society, and began this pilgrimage.

Except for Bao Erdan, the rest of the people were participating in the pilgrimage for the first time.

Among the people who made the pilgrimage last time, except for Bao Erdan and another person, no one survived.

There is no detailed record of the specific pilgrimage process, which is probably just a passing mention. I don’t know whether the Buddhist sect is keeping it a secret for the venerable, or Sengwei did not explain it, and the Buddhist sect was also unaware of it. However, the endings of other pilgrims were clearly recorded. Whether it was the real person Sun Jing, the great scholar Xie Wen, or the Western priests, they all died at the end of this pilgrimage, and the cause of death was becoming a sacrifice to "Changshengtian".

In Qi Xuansu's view, the so-called pilgrimage is like a fight, or a trial. The winner can get the reward of "Changshengtian", and the loser will become the food of "Changshengtian".

This is essentially a sacrifice.

According to Sengwei, at the beginning, the sacrifice was not for any purpose, but just to appease "Changshengtian".

I don’t know how many years ago, the aliens appeared above the Great Snow Mountain through a loophole.

The local natives were afraid of the power of "Eternal Heaven" and regarded it as a god. Gradually, a secret sect was formed, independent of Shamanism and Western Buddhism. Under the name of Eternal Heaven, the originally simple sacrifice was mystified and sanctified, and various complicated rituals were added.

Although "Eternal Heaven" could not really come to the world and could only peek at the world through this "small hole", its believers did not disperse. From generation to generation, they repeated the shameful rituals and held bloody sacrifices on the top of the Great Snow Mountain. In order to appease their gods, countless people were buried here.

Later, the nature had changed. These believers did not do this to protect the world. They began to gain benefits from their gods. They called it worship, but in fact they wanted to use the power of "Eternal Heaven" to satisfy their desires. So they did not want "Eternal Heaven" to get out of control. They strictly controlled the rituals and sacrifices, and there were no major problems.

Until this secret was known by others, the Taoist priests from the ancient Taiping Dao and the nearby shamans discovered this secret. With their powerful strength, the Taoist priests and shamans wiped out this secret sect and took over the rituals of "Changshengtian".

Loss of control began here.

In order to grab more, the later ones let go of control and increased the intensity of sacrifice, which led to "Changshengtian" being able to infiltrate more power into the human world. Although it could not really descend on the human world like its peers, it could do a lot of things.

It began to secretly influence those greedy people, magnified their desires, and even made those who intended to grab the power of the extraterritorial demons become puppets and became sacrifices that were sent to the door on their own initiative. The people who participated in the sacrifice were no longer limited to Taoist priests and shamans, but spread like an undercurrent, and even extended to the Western world.

Sengwei was not the first Buddhist to participate in the pilgrimage ceremony, but all the Buddhists before him died, which cut off the "inheritance" of Buddhism and no one knew about the existence of the pilgrimage.

Before Sengwei, such sacrifices had been made countless times, which had already made the power of "Changshengtian" reach a critical point.

Strictly speaking, "Changshengtian" is not lacking in power. Its strength is undoubtedly comparable to that of the Three Tribulations Immortals. Perhaps only a great existence like the Supreme Taoist Ancestor can subdue it. It's just that the increasingly real human world blocked it, so that it could only penetrate slowly. After the powerful force passed through the barriers of the human world, it became weak.

Its whispers that were enough to make the immortals lose their minds became some noises after passing through the thick barriers of the human world, which could only make the pseudo-immortals feel confused.

So "Changshengtian" needs to use sacrifices to cooperate internally and externally to accumulate strength.

When "Changshengtian" has accumulated enough power, it decides to go a step further and send down an offspring.

So it chose a woman, a consort, from the last pilgrims, the woman who knelt down to "Eternal Heaven" and was also the only survivor of this pilgrimage.

It gave this woman a child.

Bao Erdan's pulling Sengwei in may not be a good intention. He may want to use Sengwei as a scapegoat. I don't know if Sengwei is capable or lucky. In short, he did not die, but "won the championship" in one fell swoop. Bao Erdan is more or less shooting himself in the foot, so he can only accept it with a pinch of the nose.

It is also recorded here that it is not that Bao Erdan does not want to snatch the baby, but that the consort decided to give the child to Sengwei, who is also a Buddhist, and Bao Erdan has no choice.

Bao Erdan learned from his mistakes and chose to build the Great Snow Mountain Palace in the Great Snow Mountain, intending to monopolize the pilgrimage. If "Eternal Heaven" is a god, then he wants to be the Pope.

There is a reason why the Great Snow Mountain Palace was built at this time. In the past, "Eternal Heaven" was very powerful, so it was impossible to build a palace. Now that "Changshengtian" has fallen into a deep sleep because he has given a child, he can take the opportunity to build a palace.

However, Baoerdan did not expect that the rapid rise of Taoism and the Central Plains Dynasty would eventually recover the Western Regions, and the Great Snow Mountain Palace would fall into the hands of Taoism again and become the Taoist palace of the Western Regions.

Shamanism launched the Western Region War in the name of retaking the Great Snow Mountain Palace. There is indeed an opportunity for pilgrimage in the Great Snow Mountain Palace. It can no longer be described as a second pilgrimage. I don’t know how many times it has been.

Baoerdan built the Great Snow Mountain Palace to prepare for the "Changshengtian" to continue the pilgrimage when he wakes up. The Great Snow Mountain Palace can be regarded as a place for sacrifice.

As a result, the Great Snow Mountain Palace fell into the hands of Taoism. Because of various inheritance interruptions, Taoism was completely unaware of the secret of pilgrimage, and it may have been hidden by some people with ulterior motives.

It's just that "Changshengtian" couldn't help it. When "Changshengtian" woke up from his slumber, he found that the sacrifices had completely stopped, so he began to take the initiative to attack. This can also explain why "Changshengtian" has not made any moves in the past years, and has only recently started to stir up trouble.

Let's talk about the son of the demon brought back to Buddhism by Cui Wei. Buddhism directly sealed it up and regarded it as a taboo. Even the Lord Buddha did not use this baby. Even the Lord Buddha believed that the demon from outside the domain was a greater threat than Taoism. It was not until Buddhism was defeated again and again and forced into a desperate situation that the radicals of Buddhism used it and gave birth to a pair of twins with the son of the demon as the mother body.

The twins are today's Xiao Bodhisattva and Xiao Monk.

However, the two are still a little different. The elder sister Xiao Bodhisattva has a stronger divinity and a weaker humanity, and is closer to the demon from outside the domain. The younger brother Xiao Monk has a stronger humanity and a weaker divinity, so compared with his sister, Xiao Monk has a bit more fireworks.

Qi Xuansu immediately realized that it was true that Monk Xiao was dead and that Bodhisattva Xiao was seriously injured, but there was a question: what about the son of the demon? As the offspring sent to the human world by "Changshengtian", and also the mother of Monk Xiao and Bodhisattva Xiao, is he still in the human world? If he is still in the human world, is he in Nalanda Temple?

There is no record here.

Just then, Xiao Yin interrupted Qi Xuansu's thoughts: "Old Qi, Old Qi, I want the kind of cicada that can go back to the past."

Qi Xuansu came back to his senses: "That's something in the storybook, how can I have it? And going back to the past is to make up for regrets, do you have any regrets?"

Xiao Yin thought about it, and his eyes turned: "Old Qi, Old Qi, can you plant two dragons in my eyes? I want to fry them and eat them."

Qi Xuansu pretended to be angry and said: "I don't have it either, I'll give you two big slaps, do you want it?"