in2ebook Chapter 188: The Rich Jin Whose Soul Was Replaced (33)
Chapter 188: The Rich Jin Whose Soul Was Replaced (33)
After Lan Xin finished speaking, she rushed forward with her bare hands. Seeing this, the young monk swung a stick at Lan Xin without hesitation, trying to knock her down with one move.
The stick came towards Lan Xin with a biting cold wind. The little monk's movements were as fast as lightning, but in Lan Xin's eyes, they looked like slow motion. Lan Xin caught the stick swung by the little monk with her bare hands. With a force, the stick in Lan Xin's hand turned into powder.
"you!"
The young monk couldn't help but show a look of surprise when he saw this. He didn't expect that an ordinary mortal could not only catch his moves, but also destroy his weapon with one hand.
This made him wonder whether Lan Xin was also a cultivator like him.
But there was no spiritual energy fluctuation on Lan Xin's body, and she was just a mortal.
The young monk looked at Lan Xin in confusion, "How...how did you do that?"
"How I did it is none of your business."
Lan Xin didn't like answering people's questions. She looked at the little monk and asked, "I'll return what I just said to you. If you don't want to get hurt, get out of my way!"
Seeing that Lan Xin was determined to enter the small courtyard, the young monk couldn't help but make a bitter face, "Donor, please don't embarrass me. I have already promised Master not to let anyone in. I can't break my promise to Master."
"Besides, there's really nothing interesting to see in the yard. Benefactor, please go back!"
Lan Xin was surprised when the young monk mentioned his master. "Your master? The abbot of this temple is your master?"
It turned out that he was the abbot's direct disciple. She had thought that even the gatekeeper of this temple was not an ordinary mortal.
Upon hearing this, the young monk clasped his hands together, bowed to Lan Xin, and nodded, saying, "Yes, benefactor, the abbot inside is my master."
After Lan Xin showed her that trick just now, the little monk's attitude towards Lan Xin immediately improved a lot, and he no longer had the condescending look he had just shown.
Seeing the young monk's respectful attitude, Lan Xin's tone became much better. She said calmly, "It's okay if you don't go in. Then go in now and call your master out and tell him someone is looking for him."
The young monk shook his head and refused, "No, Master might be practicing right now. If I go in rashly, I'll disturb him."
"Since neither this nor that works, there's nothing more to say."
Lan Xin immediately lost her patience and started fighting with the little monk.
"puff!"
However, after just one short round, the little monk was knocked to the ground by Lan Xin and couldn't get up.
Seeing Lan Xin turned around and walked into the courtyard, the young monk couldn't help but lie on the ground and begged, "Donor, I beg you not to go in."
Lan Xin turned a deaf ear to the little monk's plea. If it weren't for the fact that the little monk had a pure soul, no sins on his body, and was a pure and kind person, she wouldn't have wasted so much time talking to him here.
It’s a pity that this little monk was so stubborn that she was forced to hurt others.
............
In the Buddhist hall in the temple's abbot's courtyard.
When Lan Xin came in, she saw the real owner of the jade bracelet on her hand, the abbot of the temple, who was using the merits and qi from the pilgrims' offerings to transform the black evil power around him.
That's it!
Before she came in, she saw the golden light of merit surrounding the temple and knew that there was a great master in this temple. She was still wondering why this master did not stop the people in his temple from doing such evil things as soul-swapping.
It turns out that this enlightened master and the creator of the soul-changing medium are the same person.
"Why is this donor here?"
Noticing Lan Xin's gaze, the abbot had to temporarily stop practicing.
Lan Xin didn't answer his question directly. Instead, she sat down on the cushion in front of him, looked at his kind face, and asked, "Master, you don't look like a wicked person, but why would you help others harm innocent people?"
"You said that if you didn't help others harm innocent people, you wouldn't be entangled with these karmas, and you wouldn't need to waste all this merit and luck to cleanse your own karma. Why bother?"
Lan Xin couldn't help but shake her head as she spoke, her tone full of regret for the abbot's misguided behavior that was not worth the cost.
but......
No matter how regretful it was, it was impossible to ask Lan Xin to let the abbot go.
After all, in the previous life, if there hadn't been this old bald donkey, the original body wouldn't have died so miserably!
Although this old bald donkey was not the direct perpetrator of violence, he was also the source of the tragedy of the original family.
The abbot of the temple did not refute Lan Xin's words. After all, Lan Xin was telling the truth.
The abbot clasped his hands together, his brows slightly lowered, his expression filled with guilt. "Amitabha! Benefactor, you don't understand, this is fate! I have no choice but to do this!"
actually......
The moment he saw Lan Xin come in, he knew that his fate had come to an end.
"Destiny? Haha... Master, you are an outsider!"
Lan Xin only felt that the guilt in the expression of the old bald donkey in front of her was extremely hypocritical. She did not forget that when she came in just now, the old bald donkey was still trying hard to wash away the sins on his body!
Lan Xin guessed that the purpose of his founding this temple was probably to trade with the pilgrims, using their merits and fortune to wash away his sins of aiding and abetting the evil.
The guilty look he showed to her at this moment must have meant that he knew she would not let him go easily. What's the difference between this and crocodile tears?
Thinking of this, Lan Xin couldn't help but pinch her palms. This kind of person annoyed her the most. If you say he is a good person, he has helped the evil, so he is not good enough. If you say he is a bad person, he has not done any other evil things except helping the male protagonist make the soul-changing pendant and bracelet, so he is not bad enough either.
"I feel guilty!"
The abbot of the temple knew that he could not escape this disaster today, and he was not going to run away. After hearing Lan Xin's words "outsider", he lowered his head in shame.
Lan Xin stood up, lowered her eyes to glance at him, then looked at the towering Buddha statue before her and said coldly, "Since you know you're from the outside, then you should know the consequences of someone from the outside interfering in other people's fates, right?"
"Also, don't you Buddhists believe in cause and effect? Now that I'm here, you should know your retribution is coming. I hope you'll know better and not make me do it myself!"
Upon hearing this, the abbot looked up at the Buddha statue before him, then at Lan Xin. He knelt on the ground, kowtowed three times, and pleaded, "I know I am guilty, and I do not expect you to forgive me. After I have given my final words, I am willing to die in apology!"
"In that case, I'll give you one day!"
Seeing that the old bald man was sensible, Lan Xin did not embarrass him too much. After saying that, she turned around and walked out, at least she didn't have to dirty her hands.
As for what will happen to this old bald donkey after his death, there will be a place where he will be judged.
The next day after Lan Xin returned, she learned that the abbot of the temple had passed away.
Because the temple was quite effective, the abbot's death even became a hot news item.