Ruins of the past

Looking at the words conveyed in the seeker's eyes, Chu Qiguang thought to himself: 'Are the monks of Vajra Temple possessed by demons? ’

He continued to look at the text on the page.

Chu Qiguang still remembered the page on the second floor that he read last time. It was someone who collected the cultivation diaries of the monks of the Vajra Temple and pointed out that the cultivation of the Vajra Temple had gone against common sense.

The last time he saw it was this monk watching the Sumeru Mountain King Sutra and heard the call of 'Nan'anheluo'an'an'ya', which means 'the place where all the Buddhas are, the infinite wisdom and fire' Buried here'.

The picture Chu Qiguang looked at this time was still densely packed with records.

But the beginning is no longer the follow-up to that diary, but the evaluation of the person who collected the diary.

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It can be seen from the monk's diary that the practice at Vajra Temple has deviated from common sense.

Whether it is auditory hallucinations or hallucinations about the Buddha, it shows that they are on the way to becoming possessed.

The mantra at the end of the diary comes from the Great Compassion Mantra Sutra of Maha Buddhism.

The Vajra Temple may have tried to seek help from the Mahasect, but judging from the results, this only accelerated their tragedy.

We try to find the source of this tragedy.

Unfortunately, the dragon clan's rampage in the Central Plains resulted in the destruction of a large amount of data.

Until the Cheng family in Jianghua County, Dianzhou, had their home confiscated due to the salt smuggling case, local officers and soldiers found the sealed classics from the secret room of Cheng's library.

Some of the correspondence records revealed some clues about the changes in Vajra Temple.

It was the 105th year of Dragon Clan Cholera in the Central Plains. The first large-scale demon infection incident in history occurred in this year.

And in the next year... Taizu (Taizu of the Han Dynasty) is about to raise an army to drive out the Dragon Clan.

On the eve of the large-scale outbreak of magic dye, there were frequent letters between a Cheng clan member and a monk from the Vajra Temple.

The monk described to him some of the abnormalities in the temple at that time, as well as his dreams.

When first reading these records, all readers experienced the same dream as the monk.

This shows that the demonic contamination that first broke out in the Vajra Temple can be spread through language and writing.

After repeated attempts, we excerpted some of the least harmful content to illustrate the anomalies in Vajra Temple at that time.

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Chu Qiguang continued to read and found that most of the following were fragments of letters, which were sent to the Cheng family by a monk named Kongchen.

Based on the fragments of these letters, it seems that we can outline the weird appearance of the Vajra Temple at that time.

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Brother Cheng, you have been away from Xishan for many days. How are you back?

I have been in the temple for many days, and it is still as peaceful as the last time we came.

My soul seems to have been cleansed in this snowy mountain.

I will practice here for three years.

I look forward to continuing to talk about Buddhism and Taoism with you next time.

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Recently, my senior brother told me about the strange dreams he has been having.

He always said that someone was chasing him in his dream.

He spoke vividly and seemed to remember every detail clearly.

I guessed that this might be some kind of vision in a dream, or that something happened to a villager down the mountain.

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Brother Cheng, it’s a bit strange to say that I often have nightmares at night recently.

There is always a deformed weirdo whose appearance I can’t explain chasing me in my dreams.

Until the moment I woke up, the feeling of fear still lingered.

This strange dream is the same as what my senior brother told me. Could it be that something happened at the foot of the mountain? Did I also see it in my dream?

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I seemed to see that deformed man in the abbot's room.

What the hell is that... I have never seen such a horrific, deformed, twisted person.

His hands were longer than his legs, his eyes were white, and he had a strange fishy smell.

But the abbot said that I saw it wrong. Did I really see it wrong?

Maybe, how could things in dreams appear in the temple.

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When I woke up that day, I found that weird man sitting on the bedside, staring at me with his wide white eyes.

Traces of yellow-green mucus continued to fall from his body.

But when I escaped from the room and invited other monks, the weirdo was nowhere to be seen.

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Brother Cheng, what I said before made you laugh.

Since that night, I meditated and meditated with the abbot every day, and I never had any nightmares again.

Everything is getting better and better, and I have never felt so peaceful.

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Something strange is going on.

I saw with my own eyes a monk's eyes turned pure white and his hands were covered with fish scales.

I told the abbot what had happened, but he was unwilling to admit it. He only said that I had inner demons and that I had seen hallucinations.

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There are more and more deformed monsters in the temple.

Didn’t the abbot and other monks see it?

Why doesn't anyone believe me?

Those weirdos always look at me with pure white eyes, they know I can see them.

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There has been constant banging on the door these past few nights.

Someone is outside trying to open my door.

They were outside watching me.

I didn't dare to open the door and look, so I could only pretend to be asleep.

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Even the abbot's chest was covered with fish scales, and the stench on his body was like dead fish in a pond.

They banged on my door every night.

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Brother Cheng, I will not sit still and wait for death.

I decided to kill the abbot.

Then you will know that I am not lying.

Something terrible is happening.

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Chu Qiguang quickly looked through a large number of letter fragments, and seemed to be able to imagine a person gradually going crazy.

According to the investigators' records, they found a large amount of yellow-green mucus on the last letter, and the writing in it could no longer be read clearly.

As for the monk's outcome, they had no way of knowing, but they thought he was completely possessed.

Then Chu Qiguang looked at the last paragraph on the page.

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The changes in the Vajra Temple, like many other sects, also occurred in the 105th year after the Dragon Clan brought chaos to the Central Plains.

They all experienced large-scale demon contamination incidents that year, and most of these demon contaminations were horribly contagious.

Countless powerful people went crazy that year, and countless inheritances were cut off as a result.

Later, a large-scale demon dyeing incident also occurred in the Dragon Clan.

With the fall of the top experts on both sides, Taizu rose from the mortal world, led his troops to repel the Dragon Clan, and established the Han Dynasty.

It was probably from that time that the cultivation practice at Vajra Temple went astray, and got deeper and deeper.

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Tick...tick...

Chu Qiguang looked at the yellow-green mucus dripping on the table in front of him. He suddenly raised his head, only to find that there was nothing in front of him.

Then a flash of white flashed from the corner of his eye, as if something had rushed over.

Just as Chu Qiguang wanted to look away, he felt a heat in his chest, and the contents of the pages in his memory had completely disappeared.

A wave of gifts then surged out, and a whole range of martial arts emerged in Chu Qiguang's mind.

Chu Qiguang saw that the Sumeru Mountain King Sutra, the Sky Demon Foundation Building Technique, and the Immortal Seal Technique were still gray in color, but he could choose the Hunyuan Taiyi Demonic Technique.

So he directly chose this hard skill to practice horizontally.

The next moment he felt a burning heat spread throughout his body.

Although there was no difference at all on the surface, Chu Qiguang could feel that his physical body had made great progress, and the Hunyuan Taiyi Demonic Skill had officially entered the third level.