My enemies became my companions

Chapter 160 He Became a Mother
"...Mom, please don't leave. I feel so uncomfortable..."

He pressed Yin Tingxue's hot forehead and touched her soft lips, and couldn't help but think of her last words before she went to bed.

When she makes a request to herself, she always asks "is it okay?", but to her mother...she doesn't need to ask so much.

Chen Yi looked at her sleeping face silently, not knowing what to say.

The pottery jar was broken, the maple tree was cut down, and the stone Buddha was moved away...

It turned out that with every step the girl took, she lost a step in the world.

She is the daughter of Yintai Temple, but Yintai Temple seems to have become an empty shell.

Chen Yi suddenly realized that he was the only one left in the girl's world.

When the flowers fell in an instant, she hugged him and called him "Mom". It was like this then and it was like this just now. It seemed that when she was helpless, she regarded herself as her mother.

A sudden sadness filled Chen Yi's heart. How come she thinks I'm her mother?

"…Have I, a person like me, become her mother?"

Chen Yi had complicated feelings, a feeling that was indescribable.

He took a deep breath and suddenly felt someone looking at him from behind. He turned around and found it was Zhou Yitang.

"Master, I..."

Chen Yi paused, shook his head helplessly and said:
"I don't know what to say."

"You're a mother?"

She asked calmly.

Chen Yi was stunned by her directness, and then he could only shrug his shoulders and said with a smile:

"Is this considered being a mother? She was just helpless for a moment and treated me as her closest person."

"Do not."

"Do not?"

Zhou Yitang looked at Yin Tingxue with complicated eyes, as if he had caught something and was thinking about something.

Chen Yi naturally understood the woman's attainments in Taoism. She would never speak without a purpose, so he asked:
"Am I a mother? Or... Yin Tingxue's? I was originally her husband, but she treated me as her mother?"

"If you keep teasing her like this, it won't be like this."

Zhou Yitang's voice was flat.

Chen Yi didn't know whether her words were a compliment or a criticism.

"But this is you."

She smiled, a rare smile.

Chen Yi did not say anything, but stroked Yin Tingxue's delicate brow. He never thought that she would be so fragile, so fragile that she regarded him, the person she feared and hated the most, as her mother.

He looked around at the surroundings. There was nothing on the lotus seat. Only the stump of the original maple tree was left. Sister Bodhisattva and Aunt Maple, perhaps they did not exist at all. They were just illusions created by a girl who was afraid of loneliness.

Chen Yi let out a long breath and scratched the back of his head.

Zhou Yitang stepped into the temple, half squatted, then stood up, made hand seals, and walked around Yin Tingxue.

After walking around once, she frowned slightly and then walked back around once.

"what happened?"

Chen Yi asked.

"She seemed to be realizing it just now."

"What do you understand?"

"Zen."

"What Zen?"

“The Zen of the Four Elements being empty.”

Master Tongxuan glanced at the sleeping daughter of King Xiang and continued:
"You ruined her fate."

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"He ruined my daughter's fate."

Three hundred miles away from the capital, in a smoke-filled medicine shop, white steam from boiling medicine rose in the early winter. A middle-aged woman with her hair tied up in a white towel paused as she fanned the fire.

Tongbei Shenyuan heard this incomprehensible sentence and scratched his head like a monkey.

"What do you mean, sister?" Zhang Xuqu asked. The woman just smiled and said calmly, "Have you heard about the Demon Lord Po Xun Rao Buddha?"

"I know my sister is a Buddhist. I believe in Buddhism too, but I am a rough person and I have never heard of many things."

Zhang Xuqu said with a smile.

"In the past, the Buddha attained enlightenment under the Bodhi tree. The demon king, Mara, saw him and came to harass the Buddha, but the Buddha remained unmoved."

The woman slowly told a distant story.
"Until the demon king Mara mentioned the end of the Dharma era, he would seize the Buddha's land, put on the Buddha's monk's robes, and destroy the Buddha's Dharma. At this time, the Buddha shed tears."

As she spoke, the woman opened the lid of the medicine bottle, scooped out a bowl of medicine soup, and poured it to Zhang Xuqu.

Tongbei Shenyuan accepted it calmly. He was entrusted by the Broken Swordsman to go all the way to Dayu, but he never expected to be attacked by his enemies on the way. In the end, he was injured and had to rest outside the pharmacy in this small town.

After Zhang Xuqu finished drinking, a figure slowly walked up behind him.

He turned around suddenly and found that it was a man wearing a bamboo hat and carrying a sword at his waist.

Silently, he approached the distance where even a child could be killed with one strike of the sword.

Zhang Xuqu let out a breath and said:
"It seems that no matter how good my Qinggong is, I can't be much faster."

"You were just being held back."

"Yes, I met that crazy sutra master on the way, and... he seemed to be going to the Hehuan Sect as well."

After hearing this, the Broken Swordsman did not even frown, and said calmly:
"It doesn't matter. He can't block the road."

"What about the Yinjianshan Sword Armor?"

Zhang Xuqu asked suddenly.

The Broken Swordsman frowned and twisted his brows together. This was very rare for him.
"She won't be my enemy."

"Why did I hear that Yinjian Mountain had something to do with this?"

"The man surnamed Tang has been expelled from Yinjian Mountain."

The Broken Swordsman paused for a moment, then sneered:
"Jianjia has nothing to do with this matter. You don't have to persuade me to turn back."

Zhang Xuqu drank up the bitter medicine soup, exhaled a few times and said:

"I'm just afraid of being killed by your aftermath."

The woman looked at these two men of extraordinary origins, but did not show any surprise.

The swordsman in the bamboo hat noticed that she seemed to have something to say.

"Ma'am, do you have anything to say?"

"I heard that there is a person who is becoming famous in the capital."

"Who?"

"My surname is Chen, my given name is Yi, and my courtesy name is Zunming." The woman continued slowly.

Zhang Xu said: "It seems that this is what my sister said, the person who is destined to marry sister Rao's daughter, then I have no choice but to accept it."

The woman said: "I heard that his sword is extremely fast, so fast that it can cut through the wind and rain."

Zhang Xuqu put down the bowl of soup and said with a smile: "I believe he is very fast, but not fast enough."

“Why not fast enough?”

"You can't be faster than my Qinggong." Tongbei Shenyuan said in a calm tone, as if it was a matter of course.

Everyone in the martial arts world knows that Tongbei Shenyuan's light work is faster than the west wind, and he has the reputation of stepping on swallows with both feet without letting them fall. It is even rumored that his steps are faster than the sword of the sixth-fastest swordsman in the world.

The swordsmen in the bamboo hats all believed that Zhang Xuqu was fast enough, but not faster than his own swords, because he was the Broken Swordsman.

The woman smiled slightly, took the soup bowl, and wiped it gently with a cloth.

The two set off again shortly afterwards and disappeared outside the pharmacy.

The woman wiped it slowly, muttering to herself:
"Originally, Tingxue wanted to attain the status of a Bodhisattva, but unfortunately he disturbed Daozi's chess game first, and then disturbed my fate."

He put on my monk's robes, destroyed my righteous Dharma, and became like me...

Click.

The soup bowl had cracked at some point.

The woman saw this, laughed out loud, and sighed:

"Alas, I still haven't practiced enough."

(End of this chapter)