Chapter 2090: Human Hearts Are Hateful
The Buddhist beads emitted a faint golden light, breaking Fox San's illusion, allowing those people to finally find a way down the mountain. They then ran down the mountain crying, otherwise the piles of corpses would be their fate.

Fox Three, who was hiding nearby, glared and appeared at the intersection down the mountain. He waved his sleeves to sweep those who had escaped back into the mine, and said in a cold voice:

"Where did this bald ass come from? How dare he interfere in my business?"

Pu Ze frowned and stared at the young man in white in front of him. In less than a moment, he was sure that the other party was the monster he had been tracking all the way from Wangshan County. He shouted sternly:
"How dare you, you daring monster, disrupt the order of the human world and harm innocent people! I advise you not to commit murder again and surrender immediately!"

Fox Three felt unlucky when he saw the monk, and became even angrier when he heard the monk's indiscriminate scolding. He twirled the folding fan in his hand and said:
"You are so unreasonable, bald ass. You start by accusing me of committing murder. I have never killed anyone. It is because these people have evil intentions that they kill each other. Moreover, they are not innocent people, but evil executioners."

Pu Ze frowned. Seeing that the monster was talking so coherently, it seemed that there really was a hidden secret. However, even if there was, it was not something a monster like him could interfere with.

So he held the Buddhist beads in his hand and chanted the Buddha's name:
"Amitabha! You don't need to make excuses. Even if these people are guilty, it is not a reason for you to take action. They will kill each other because you used illusion."

Fox San felt that there was no way to communicate with the monk, so he simply didn't waste any more words and attacked with a fan in a flash. Pu Ze also jumped up to meet him. The man and the fox demon began to fight on Mount Laoshan, shaking the earth. Those who were lucky enough to survive to the end cried for their parents and wished they could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

Tao Yao looked at Hu San who was fighting with Pu Ze with concern. Although she thought Hu San was very powerful, she was still worried that he would get hurt.

After all, Fox San was a rookie, and Buddhism had a restraining effect on demon cultivators. In the end, the fan in Fox San's hand was pierced by Pu Ze's Buddhist beads, and he himself was wrapped in a Buddhist scripture, so he had to transform into a three-tailed silver fox.

As soon as Pu Ze held the Buddhist scriptures in his hand, he was grabbed by the wrist by someone who rushed out from the side. Because he was sure that the other party was a mortal, Pu Ze did not attack him. However, the other party bit his wrist holding the Buddhist scriptures hard, causing him to let go in pain. After the page of the Buddhist scriptures fell to the ground, a golden light flashed, and the Silver Fox took the opportunity to escape.

By the time Pu Ze threw out the Buddhist beads to stop her, it was too late. He then shook off the woman who was biting his wrist and frowned:

"Donor, why did you attack this poor monk? Is that monster with you?"

Tao Yao was pushed to the ground, but after she was sure that Hu San had escaped, she wiped the blood from her lips, looked up at Pu Ze and smiled miserably:

"You, a monk, attacked my savior without asking any questions. I naturally cannot let him be caught by you. Besides, he did all these for me. If you want to arrest someone to complete your task, you can just take me back.

But these people deserve to die, they killed my daughter's entire family of nine. My daughter's parents, brothers, nephews and nephews all died in this mine!

Just because my daughter is so beautiful and attracts people’s attention, County Magistrate Han threatened me with the lives of my entire family. Even though I was accidentally rescued, he still refused to let my daughter’s family go. They all deserve to die!!!”

Taoyao's words were so touching that they made her cry blood.

Because Hu San was injured, his concealment technique failed, and Tao Yao's true face was revealed, especially the peach blossom hairpin on her forehead, which made her look even more unlike an ordinary woman. Monk Pu Ze was shocked, as it was the first time he had encountered such a thing.

"Amitabha! I was negligent, please forgive me."

Seeing that the monk in front of her had no intention of pursuing the matter, Tao Yao quickly got up from the ground, turned around and left.

Pu Ze was stunned for a moment and said:
"Donor, if you want to find that monster, don't get too close to him, or he will hurt you."

Tao Yao turned her head and glanced at Pu Ze:
"No! He is not a monster, he is an immortal, the fox immortal who saved me. He protected me all the way and helped me find the remains of my relatives so that I could bury them in peace. The human heart is the most terrifying monster." After saying this, she left Laoshan without looking back.

"Amitabha!"

Pu Ze stared at Tao Yao's back for a while, then went to question those who were sent back to the mine.

Those people had been frightened by the fight between the two sides. They knelt on the ground and recounted all the evil deeds that had happened in the mine. Then they knelt down and begged for mercy, begging Pu Ze to let them go.

Pu Ze brought these people down the mountain and handed them over to the magistrate of Laoshan County. The rest of the matters were not under his control. He finally decided to go look for the fox demon and the girl.

But before he set out, he received a call from the Huguo Temple. The emperor wanted to go to the temple to pray for blessings, and all the monks had to return to the temple.

Pu Ze had no choice but to travel day and night back to Huguo Temple and started to work under the instructions of the abbot.

Pu Ze was responsible for taking care of the portraits of all the successive abbots of Huguo Temple. As a result, when he was sorting out the albums, a scroll fell out. He found that there was no mark on the scroll, so he unfolded it and took a look. The next moment he was stunned.

Because he recognized one of the people in the painting, it was the girl who had seen her traveling with the fox demon not long ago, but he did not recognize the other person.

Pu Ze went to see the abbot with full of questions in his mind and unfolded the scroll for him to see.

The abbot was old, and he squinted his eyes for a long time before saying:
"I thought the painting had been destroyed, but I didn't expect you to find it."

"Abbot, who is the girl in this portrait? Who is the man opposite her?"

The abbot recalled for a while before saying:
“I heard from the previous abbot that the girl under the tree was transformed from the peach tree. She is the guardian tree of Huguo Temple.

The tree was planted by the first abbot when the temple was built. It has a history of thousands of years. The predecessor of Huguo Temple was Puhui Temple.

Because the second emperor of the Qianfeng Dynasty took refuge in Puhui Temple that year, some malicious people wanted to kill him, who was still a prince at the time, in Puhui Temple. Fortunately, the guardian spirit tree took action to save his life and the Puhui Temple.

However, the peach tree was struck by the thunder of heaven's punishment because of its sin of killing, and it died.

Because Puhui Temple protected the Third Prince, after the Third Prince ascended the throne, Puhui Temple was named the Huguo Temple. Emperors of all dynasties would come to the Huguo Temple to pray for blessings after ascending the throne.

At this time, Pu Ze also thought of the dead peach tree at the gate of the temple. He had wondered why the dead tree was not moved away and a new one was planted. Now he understood that it was a symbol that the Huguo Temple was valued by the royal family.

Pu Ze was stunned for a moment, then pointed at the smiling girl in the painting and said:
"Abbot, when I was training outside, I saw a woman who looked exactly like the girl in the painting. The only difference was that she had a lifelike peach blossom on her forehead."

Good night, my dears~

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