I am an immortal in heaven and earth

Chapter 368 Great Cause

Chen Liuxian listened to their chattering and felt it was noisy, but didn't know how to refute. He wanted to say something, but he could sense their resentment. It was like an old lady who had been dissatisfied with everything for years. If he opened his mouth one more word, he was afraid that he would be criticized ten or a hundred times. So he simply kept silent.

Three women make a drama, not to mention that the three of them have been demoted to monsters by Xu Jia for more than three years. Most people have some mental problems. Although they are cultivators, they have hardly tempered their minds. They feel aggrieved and may not think they are wrong.

Elder Xianhuan was already in her nineties a few years ago, and now she has just turned 100, but she still looks like a woman in her fifties or sixties, with only a few white hairs. She practices tantra internally and Vinaya externally, and has always set strict precepts for herself. Since she entered the temple, she has truly been wholeheartedly leading the monks to pursue higher Buddhist truths.

Seeing Elder Xianhuan, the old hen Fenglei Taoist also felt a little more respect for him. She saw that this elder had already achieved success. Although he had not entered the Bodhisattva Vehicle, he had entered the Arhat Vehicle. He just had not yet achieved perfect nirvana.

Elder Xianhuan saw Xu Jia's talisman and sighed, "He is used to ordering people around. A few days ago, he was practicing Xiao Naihe, so he sent the old monk around. Before that, he sent another little snake to me."

"Come follow me." She walked up the small mountain path step by step. The road was smoothed by the monks themselves. There was a natural spring halfway up the slope, where the monks drew water. Occasionally, servants from wealthy families would come here to draw water.

But now that the big families have split up their properties and distributed the land equally, this spring has become neglected.

Behind a patch of bamboo, there is a stupa. The stupa is not small, with eight sides and seven floors. It contains the monks' relics, scriptures from when the temple was first built, and some ritual instruments.

There is also a space in the stupa which is used for retreat and meditation. One can practice facing the wall. In addition, there are three underground palaces. The lowest underground palace is where Buddhist treasures are placed. The remaining two floors, the second floor is where the virtual treasures are placed. There are also a large number of gold, gems, and jade Buddha statues, but they are all for deceiving people. All of these combined are not as precious as the Buddhist treasures on the third floor.

As for the first level of the underground palace, it is purely a confined space, and is sometimes used for rituals.

This stupa is a relic of the former Ksitigarbha Temple. The temple was built here to suppress a forest of corpses.

Liu Ruyan has been in the underground palace of the stupa for three years and could do nothing but practice silently. He practiced the skills of the Lishan School. The Lishan School worships the Lishan Mother, who calls herself Dou Mu Yuanjun, the mother of Ziwei Emperor, and also pretends to be Nuwa.

But in fact, she is a foreign god, the Great Brahma god from the Western Regions. However, this is none of Xu Jia's business, and Xu Jia is not a moralist. As long as she doesn't interfere with me, he will have no grudges against me. He will not say that your Taoist lineage is not clean and you should get out of here!
Why is there a disaster here? The only reason is that their love disaster is getting more and more serious. It just so happens that Xu Jia and Chen Liuxian have a master-disciple relationship, so it is easy for him to be deceived. Naturally, he has to prepare and make plans early.

Sensing her lover outside whom she had not seen for three years, Liu Ruyan stopped practicing, feeling mixed emotions. She had listened to Buddhism for three years, and it should be said that anyone with some wisdom, when being suppressed and extremely frustrated, would inevitably be drawn into Buddhist thoughts to seek comfort.

She and Chen Liuxian are bound together for three lives and three worlds, and there will be no good results in three lives, just like fate. This is the cause and there will be consequences. She had selfish thoughts before, so that she could survive the catastrophe of becoming an immortal, ignore Chen Liuxian's life and death, be a threshold, and even absorb his past life's cultivation. But now she has figured it out, if she wants to play with others, others may have chosen her long ago, so why do she want to play with them?
He is a ninth-level immortal. Before coming to the mortal world, didn’t he make any arrangements for his future?
When she thinks of a good thing, she eliminates an evil. As the saying goes, men are cautious and serious about women, and will not miss the bad. If it is true love, how can it be impossible to achieve the right result in three lifetimes? If it is not true love, it is a sinful debt of love. You owe me, and I owe you.

After thinking for herself, she came to a realization. At that moment, Chen Liuxian was outside the stupa. Although she could not see him, she could understand his thoughts.

After all, it is not like the White Snake and Xu Xian in the Legend of the White Snake. The reality makes everyone go their separate ways and seek their own future. If the fate is missed, it is missed. It is not the right person, the right time, and the right place. It is not the right fate. This third life cannot be forced, and there will be no good ending.

"Ruyan, I'm here to rescue you out of the tower." Chen Liuxian pasted the talisman on the tower, and the tower door emitted light, revealing the scene inside. Liu Ruyan had a human body and a snake tail, with a green lamp and an ancient Buddha in front of her. Her black hair was as long as her whole body, and her face was pale, giving a feeling of the broken beauty of a married woman.

"Liu Xian, are you willing to come with me? Let's leave here, leave Yushan County, leave Jiangnan West Road, and go back to Lishan Sect."

Liu Ruyan's eyes were filled with tears as she asked expectantly, "You have also entered the practice of cultivation. We will become a pair of immortal lovers, living together and flying together. No one can separate us."

Chen Liuxian opened his mouth, not knowing what to say. He did not dare to look into Liu Ruyan's eyes. After a long while, with a look of gradual disappointment on his face, he said, "I am currently carrying out a great cause, something that no one has successfully accomplished in the past thousands of years. I do not want to leave like this. Ruyan, why don't you come with me and do it."

"I don't understand." Liu Ruyan sighed, "My heart is not broad, I don't care about the people, my love is selfish, possessive, and all-inclusive. I have always been determined to choose only you, are you willing to be determined for me once? Just for me, if you were the emperor, you could love the country and not the beauty, but you are not. They can still accomplish a great cause without you, but without you, I will be destroyed."

Liu Ruyan's great calamity as an earthly immortal is the calamity of love. After being trapped under the tower for three years, the tension has begun to loosen, but how to overcome it remains to be considered.

For a moment, Chen Liuxian wanted to agree, just like Tang Monk facing the Queen of the Kingdom of Women, but he thought of the smiling faces of the three or four-year-old children facing him, and the old man who took out the treasured snacks from his home, pulled him into the inner room, took his pulse and chatted with him, and he thought of the respectful eyes of many apprentices who called him teacher.

"They need me too." Chen Liuxian said, "This is a special career. Ruyan, Master Xu is not a bad guy as you think. He has good intentions. He is right. We should have great love."

"Great love does not require sacrificing small love. Besides, love is love, there is no distinction between big and small. You have changed your mind." Liu Ruyan sighed and walked towards the three people from Lishan Sect: "Senior Sister, Master, let's go."

"Liu Xian, I'll wait for you to come find me."

(End of this chapter)