Thunder, lightning, wind, rain, almost screaming unceasingly in his ears, the chaos in his mind, feeling muddleheaded, he could no longer differentiate who exactly he himself was anymore? Only that in the severe pain, he felt waves of wind and rain brushing past, heading towards an unknown place.
Soone seed to be speaking beside him, that voice seed rather unfamiliar, sounded slightly anxious, faintly he heard, He doesnt seem right, quickly co and take a look?
A cold hand road about on his body to check, a mont later a stunned voice said, How did he get such serious injuries?
The person beside angrily said, Superfluous words, with that Zhu Xian sword, do you think
He did not catch the end, because a burst of dizziness hit his head and almost fainted, in his daze, he indistinctly felt the horizon was still rumbling with unceasing sounds of thunders.
The person beside seed taken aback, quickly investigated, that cold sensation from the hand, made him slightly sober, he heard the person urgently said, This is bad, his forehead is burning, Im afraid he is having a high fever
So he was also having a fever?
This was the last thought in Ghost Lis head, after which, he fainted again, there was no more conscious.
A loud sound, shook him awake from his unconsciousness, his first reaction, he thought it was the thunder from the horizon. For so reason, although he was sohow conscious, it was still darkness before him, he struggled to open his eyes and look around but discovered in shock, his own eyes were still shut, unable to be opened.
Following which, a wave of severe pain was felt but it was not from his injured chest, instead from his throat, he subconsciously moved his mouth, making a light and hoarse cry, Water
There seed to be no one around, leaving him lying alone helplessly on the ground, his throat was feeling even more parched, like being on fire. His lips moved slightly, an inexplicable strength ca from his body and he moved his body slightly, the consciousness in his mind, he seed to be more clear-headed.
Ah! Suddenly a voice was heard beside, this voice was different from the usual but he seed to hear it before, sowhat familiar, a surprise tone in the voice said, You are awake, senior brother, quickly co over, he is awaken
Suddenly it beca quiet, imdiately footsteps sound were heard approaching quickly, arriving before Ghost Li. Ghost Li struggled again to open his eyes but for so reason, this ti, the strength in his body seed to vanish, in his daze he saw two figures squatting before him, and behind them, there seed to be more dark figures. As for those peoples faces, he was unable to see them clearly.
Water he whispered again.
This ti, the people around him understood.
Quickly, bring water over, hurry up.
The hurried footsteps, rushing to and fro, the next instant soone ran over, following which a cold hand lifted his head carefully, a bowl-like thing placed beside his lips.
Cold, clear water, touched his dry lips, Ghost Lis face moved and struggled to open his mouth, drank mouthful and mouthful of water. That cooling water entering his throat, like oasis spilling into a dry land, imdiately relieving that pain which seed aflad.
Ghost Li felt relief, imdiately a wave of tiredness, again fell into unconsciousness.
The people beside were surprised, imdiately soone ca over to feel Ghost Lis pulse, the next mont a sigh of relief, said, Its alright, he is too seriously injured and having a fever at the sa ti, his strength is nearly exhausted, right now there is no danger to his life.
Once the words were said, the people around him seed to be relieved, then, soone seed to be watching Ghost Li, gently sighed.
He fell asleep for unknown length of ti, in-between Ghost Li woke up a few tis but each ti he fell unconscious imdiately after waking up, in his mory, he only rembered there was always soone beside him.
In his blurry state, he saw many people, his parents when he was young, his innocent and beautiful senior sister, deeply etched in his heart BiYao, maintaining a distance Lu XueQi and many more, all flashed past before him, once, he even thought that he saw ten years ago Tian Yin Temple FaXiang, FaShan senior brothers, sitting beside him chanting Buddhist mantra.
At that, he smiled bitterly but he himself did not know too, this bitter smile, whether his face revealed it, maybe, eventually it was still an illusion.
Just like, this life turned upside-down, like a dream an illusion!
Why chant mantra for ?
Chanting mantra, what was the use of it?
When Ghost Li was awake montarily, he thought like that quietly in his mind, and then, he fainted again.
[Dong...dong...dong...dong]
A low deep bell seed to reverberate in the horizon, lasting a long ti, waking him from his deep slumber, that deep bell, coming near from afar, slowly, it seed to strike deep into his heart.
For the first ti, he did not have the impulse to open his eyes, quietly lying there like that, not thinking and not caring, where he was now, and in which world?
The boundless universe, at the mont having left with only deep low sounds of bell.
[Dong...dong...dong...dong]
The lodious bells, seed never-ending, continued to strike on. He listened, his breathing peaceful, all of his attention focusing into this peaceful sound, unwilling to leave it again.
For such a long ti, this was the first ti he was lying down with no worries.
Who would know, the days of carrying so much burden, what kind of agony it was?
Just that, this tiny Heaven and Earth, eventually could not last long, sounds of footsteps ca near, walked to where he was, disrupting his thoughts.
The sound of bells striking in his heart, suddenly seed to leave him, in a blink far at the horizon.
Silence, sigh
He slowly, opened his eyes.
Buddha!
This was the first thing he saw when he opened his eyes.
A large Buddha' word, hung on top of the roof, surrounding this word, a circle of golden patterns wrapped around it and then along the periphery, circles of finely-carved five hundred Arhat idols, again ford a huge circle. The arhats were all of the sa sizes but their divine appearances were all different, arranging in rows, extrely proper. Then at the periphery of the big circle was a blue bottom with black edges false ceiling, two chi higher than the circle with the Buddha word in the middle, the painting on it was completely different, it was checkered square, each square one chi, with golden color embroidered border, in it painted Kirin, Phoenix, Golden Dragon, mountain goat and other auspicious Buddhist animals, these patterns, were the sa in each square.
Although he was not an expert in sculptures but with only one look, Ghost Li knew that this was supernaturally fine workmanship. On the roof, inside the inner circle surrounding the Buddha word, hung two golden chains, suspending an altar lamp that never ceased burning, looking up from below, there was a roughly three chi wide copper basin, presumably filled with oil.
Ghost Li frowned and turned his head to look around, the place looked like a ditation room in a temple, the room was quite spacious, standing at the four corners were red painted big pillars, the floor was paved with tiles, the door was made of paulownia wood, a window was opened on both sides of it, painted using the sa red colour, looked extrely dignified. On one side of the wall a painting of Guanyin Bodhisattva holding a vase of clear water, below it a long altar with incense burner, on it there were four plates of offering fruits; pears, apples, tangerines, oranges, before the offering fruits a copper incense burner was placed, three joss sticks were lighted and placed in it, thin smoke tendrils drifted up, diffusing into the air.
The other side of the wall, was where Ghost Li was at. Here a wooden bed was placed, simple and sturdy, there wasnt any more decoration, most likely monks would not be concerned with those things, the room was generally simple, other than what was described, there was only a round table placed in the middle, surrounded with four round stools. The table was black, on it were teapot and tea cups, all made of plain porcelain.
And at this ti, the sound of footsteps had already arrived at the door, the ditation room door creaked opened with a sound of [zhi ya], pushed opened by the person outside, soone strided in. Ghost Li looked at him and was surprised, it was a young monk he had never seen before, he was holding a wooden plate, on it a fresh pot, he did not look over at Ghost Li and went straight to the table in the room, exchanged the pot on the table with the one in his hand.
Who...are you? Ghost Li asked but he had just said the first word, suddenly he felt the pain in his throat, though it was not as burning painful as that ti when he was in a daze but it was still uncomfortable, his voice also imdiately turned hoarse.
Although it was so, it shocked that little monk, he imdiately turned, his actions abrupt, nearly flipping over the wooden plate in his hand.
Ah! You are awake? That little monk was surprised but delight showed in his eyes, he smiled and said, Wait a while, I will call my senior brothers in imdiately.
Speaking, he was about to dash out of the room, Ghost Li spoke to his back, hoarsely asked, Little teacher, I will like to ask, where is this place?
That little monk turned around and smiled, an innocent and delicate expression on his face, said, Here? Here of course is Tian Yin Temple!
Tian Yin Temple!
Ghost Li was dumbfounded, like being hit with lightning. That little monk ran off, most likely to call soone, leaving Ghost Li lying stunned on his back, his mind in a chaos.
Tian Yin Temple
Bewildernt and shock in his heart but for so reason, there was another agonized feeling, surfacing out from the depths of his heart.
Tian Yin Temple...Tian Yin Temple...Pu Zhi
From far voices were heard, at the sa ti footsteps walked towards the room, soone whispered to that little monk, that little monk was obviously young, innocent and bubbly, laughed frequently while replying.
For so reason, hearing those conversations, Ghost Li went into a daze, did not think about his current situation nor the past grudges, right now this mont, for no reason he was envious of this ordinary little monk. With his innocent lively look, maybe he still did not know that the world also has suffering and hatred?
Young and ignorant, but in so many of our years, those were instead the most happiest days?
The footsteps stopped suddenly, just outside the door, soone spoke to the little monk, You dont have to go in, why dont you go now and inform the abbot at the back yard, that Zhang Xiao Fan patron has already awaken.
Little monk laughed and said, Alright. But FaXiang senior brother, you agreed to teach Great Brahman Wisdom, this you cannot go back on your words.
That person outside the door laughed and said, Little fellow, so greedy, I promised you and so will not renege.
The little monk was clearly delighted, [he he] laughed, jumped happily and went off. The wooden door opened, [zhi ya] sound, soone seed to pause, inhaled deeply and then walked in.
It was really FaXiang, and behind him, was that tall and big monk, FaShan.
Wearing a pale blue monk robe, fair clean face, his hands holding prayer beads, FaXiangs appearance, did not seem to change at all these ten years. He unhurriedly walked to where Ghost Li was lying, until when he reached the bed, his eyes t Ghost Li, the two of them, did not speak.
The atmosphere in the room, turned sohow strange, the next mont, FaXiangs lips revealed a trace of smile, clasped his palms together and bowed to Ghost Li, said, Zhang patron, you are awake?
Ghost Lis eyes twitched, suddenly coldly said, My surna is not Zhang, I have long forgotten that na.
FaXiangs countenance did not change, only looked at Ghost Li, after a while lightly said, Whichever na to use naturally will follow ur choice, just that, if you even abandon your surna, did you ever think that you will be letting down your parents who raised you up?
Ghost Lis countenance changed, snorted, and did not speak anymore, turned his head and did not look at him.
FaXiang did not look offended, he with FaShan, looked at this Evil sect evildoer who was spurned by the worlds Good Faction, their eyes were all filled with kindness and gentleness. FaShan moved two stools from the round table behind him, placed beside the bed, quietly said, Senior brother please sit!
FaXiang nodded, sat down on the stool, looked at Ghost Li, said, How is your body feeling now?
Ghost Li, without needing him to ask, actually had already checked his own body, his fractured ribs had all been put back in place and secured with thick bandages, as for his shoulder and other superficial wounds on his body, were all dressed up, although he could still feel pain from his wounds but indistinctly a cool clear sensation could be felt, obviously good dication were applied on his wounds and so had this level of healing effect.
FaXiang was not offended when he did not reply, smiled and said, When you were unconscious, I have already helped to place your bones back, the other superficial wounds are not that serious, just that your internal organs are seriously injured and need to be nursed with great care before you can heal, also fortunately your body is strong, if not even if it was a cultivated person with deep skills, with that kind of heavy wounds, most likely also cannot avoid death.
He paused for a mont, and continued, I guessed that little junior brother of mine also told you! This is Tian Yin Temple, you being here, other than a few of us here in the temple, nobody else in the world knows, so it is very safe. You only need to focus on getting well here will do
Ghost Li suddenly interrupted his words, directly stared at him in the eyes and said, It was all of you who saved ?
FaXiangs smile froze, seed hesitated, turned and glanced at FaShan, FaShan lowered his head, softly chanted.
FaXiang looked back, without hesitation, nodded and said, Yes.
Ghost Li snorted, said, Dont tell you all didnt know, that if Qing Yun sect cos to know what you all have done, what situation will that be?
FaXiang faintly said, Of course I know.
Ghost Li smiled coldly and said, Since then, why do you still go against your teachers wishes and save this Evil sect evil person?
FaXiang glanced at him, for so reason, his eyes looked different.
Ghost Li frowned and said, What are you looking at?
FaXiang smiled, said, How do you know, that I must have defied my teacher to save you?
Ghost Li was stunned, said, What?
FaXiang leisurely said, Qing Yun sect at that ti the seven branches leaders were all extraordinary people, each with their own outstanding skills. The Return of the Wind Valley head Zeng ShuCang is one of them, that day when we fought him, to hold him back and in that short ti disguised and not reveal our own sects skills, this level of ability, I am still not there yet.
Ghost Li stared at FaXiang, stared for a long ti, FaXiang looked back at him, his smile unchanging. After a long ti, Ghost Li suddenly closed his eyes, did not look at FaXiang any longer.
FaXiang nodded, said, You are seriously wounded and still not recovered, need to have more rest.
Ghost Li closed his eyes, suddenly said, Why did you all save ?
FaXiang was silent for a mont, faintly said, This question, I cannot answer you.
Ghost Li took a deep breath, said, Why?
FaXiang quietly chanted, said, You dont have to be anxious, after a few days when your injuries are better, there will be soone who will tell you.
Ghost Li opened his eyes, frowned and said, Who?
FaXiangs lips moved, seed to hesitate but eventually still said, There is no harm telling you, it is our teacher, Tian Yin Temple PuHong Master!
Ghost Li looked nonplussed, a mont later, looking at FaXiangs face, he knew he couldnt get any more answers, heaved a long sigh, laid down and buried his head.
From far the bells tolled leisurely, again faintly traversed over.
[Dong...dong...dong...dong]
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