My enemies became my companions

Chapter 558 Ancient Temple (Two in One)

Longhu Mountain and the White Lotus Sect have both set off. The flames formed a long line that shuttled through the night. Chen Yi stood on this side of the hill and could see it clearly.

He held Donggong Ruoshu's hand and stared at the white tower that he had been paying attention to for a long time.

The flowers and plants are fresh, the petals are falling in all colors, and the White Pagoda is shrouded in tranquility.

Chen Yi was about to step forward again when his eyes suddenly became cold and lightning-fast, and his hand was already on the hilt of the knife.

A wisp of green smoke floated over and landed on the ground. It was the Fox Fairy.

Chen Yi took his hand off the hilt of the knife.

"Are you going to the tower?" As soon as the Fox Fairy arrived, she looked Chen Yi in the eye and asked.

Chen Yi nodded slightly. The White Lotus Sect and Longhu Mountain had already found the location of the tower, and they would definitely enter the white tower.

He had seen the tower a long time ago and was curious about what was inside. After all, he had not found Donggong Ruoshu and Yin Tingxue, nor the Taisha Sword and the flying sword, not to mention the warriors in the market.

Since the Holy Emperor has closed the palace gates and refused to see visitors, we cannot force our way in now. We can only go to the tower and see what's going on.

Seeing his affirmative answer, the Fox Fairy Lady looked a little surprised, and after hesitating for a moment, she said, "I don't recommend you go."

"Why?" Chen Yi asked back, "Do you know what's inside?"

"I don't know, but they have warned me many times not to go into the tower, and I have never overstepped the line." After the Fox Fairy finished speaking, she was silent for a while, as if she was hesitating whether to continue.

Chen Yi was not impatient at all, but waited slowly.

After a long while, the Fox Fairy sighed and said, "When I first came here, I followed a disciple from Longhu Mountain. I protected him along the way, and like everyone else who visited this place for the first time, I was treated well by them.

During this period, we paid a visit to the Holy Emperor, and then stayed here for several days, and also noticed the tower.

They accidentally noticed that our eyes were not right and warned us not to go over.

But people can't help their curiosity, and so can monsters. I approached the edge of the tower with the Taoist priest, and heard a voice inside calling me, "Mom, Mom." I almost stepped into it, but luckily I was pulled back. But he...he was not so lucky. He went in and didn't come out for many days. In order to save him, I had no choice but to beg the Holy Emperor. After the Holy Emperor entered the tower, he only found a painted skin...

After that, I had no choice but to return to Longhu Mountain with this painted skin, and then I fell seriously ill.

Chen Yi listened carefully. Although the Fox Fairy Lady's narration was very vague, he still caught a noteworthy detail from it. He asked, "You... were entertained by the people from Longhu Mountain. Are you also a Taoist couple?"

The Fox Fairy Lady's eyes did not show the shame and anger of a young girl, but the eyes of an old woman talking about the painful past. She said, "At that time, I did secretly marry him..." After that, as if to avoid being too sad, she joked, "It seems that this tower hates deep love the most."

Yin Weiying beside him didn't care when the words fell into her ears. She was cultivating the Supreme Forgetfulness of Love and her feelings for Chen Yi had never been shallow. When she ascended to become an immortal in the future, she might just laugh when talking about the past. Even though they were in love today, when they reached heaven and became immortal lovers, it would probably be just a status.

But less than half an hour later, she became worried again. It was true that she was not deeply in love, but no one in the world loved him more deeply than him.

Chen Yi fell into deep thought. According to what the fox fairy said, there was some kind of living creature hidden in this tower. And unlike these fairies, it was quite hostile to sentient beings?

Chen Yi thought of Zhou Yitang and his heart tightened slightly.

It's hard to say, everything is just speculation...

"Since you really want to go, I won't stop you. I will try my best to keep it secret from them." The Fox Fairy Queen seemed to see the determination in his eyes.

Chen Yi thanked him casually, then took Donggong Ruoshu's hand and strode towards the White Pagoda.

They went away in the distance, with the eaves of the white pagoda separated from the flowers and plants, and their delicate shadows were stretched out and cast. From a distance, they looked unusually bright, like a Buddhist pavilion hidden behind the clouds in a landscape painting.

The two were stunned by the beauty for a moment and stood still. She listened to the fox fairy describing the strangeness of the place. She thought it would be a devil's cave, but she didn't expect it to be so... quiet and beautiful.

Suddenly, a breeze blew by, bringing with it tiny sparks. Chen Yi turned his eyes to the side and saw Taoist priests and their disciples carrying torches entering the room one after another. All the White Lotus Sect from Mount Longhu had arrived.

In the firelight, Qing Yuan's face just happened to pass by...

...............

There is a different world inside the tower.

After that group of people went in, Chen Yi led Donggong Ruoshou inside. At first, the corridor was narrow, only allowing two or three people to pass side by side. After walking a few steps, they felt that the space was suddenly open.

The tower before them seemed to compress the vast space into its interior, as if they were not walking into a tower but into another world.

This tower is not the kind of tower that you can climb to the top of. Instead, it is solid on top and hollow on the bottom, as if it is suppressing something. People walk down along the road and sink into the empty underground space.

Chen Yi followed the footsteps of the people from Longhu Mountain and the White Lotus Sect, and kept walking.

Suddenly my hand was pulled twice.

Chen Yi turned his head and saw a timid face.

Donggong Ruoshu asked: "Do we...really want to follow him in?"

"Are you afraid of it?"

"I'm a little scared. After all, the fox fairy made it sound so dangerous." Yin Weiying was already used to this kind of tone. "Aren't we husband and wife?"

Chen Yi thought of Zhou Yitang, followed quickly, and said casually: "Fortunately, we are not so deeply in love."

Yin Weiying raised his eyebrows slightly. That was true. She possessed Donggong Ruoshu. Chen Yi didn't know who she was, but it sounded a little weird...

She paused for a long moment and then said, "What if... we become in love after entering the tower?"

"Don't worry, it's impossible."

Yin Weiying's eyebrows were raised secretly. He was just an ordinary man, and he thought she was obedient to him. He didn't know that no one knew who was controlling whom. However, seeing that he was so anxious, he tolerated him for a while, and then he knew he was wrong.

Just imagine, when she sacrificed herself in front of him, the past suddenly flowed through her heart, and she realized that all the things she had said in the past were inadvertently engraved with deep affection... As the thought flashed through her mind, Yin Weiying felt inexplicably excited and a little reluctant when he thought of his heartbroken expression.

In front.

Along the way, both the Taoists and the White Lotus Sect members were very nervous at first, but the road became wider and wider, and the journey became smoother and smoother. Not to mention the dangers that they had thought at the beginning, they didn't even see any unusual changes.

What I saw before my eyes were scenes that could not be more ordinary. The darkness and gloom needed to be illuminated by fire, and the emptiness and silence needed to be embellished by footsteps. Occasionally, I could see mottled murals on the surrounding walls, but that was all.

Everything seemed so normal.

The only problem is...

Huang Duren kept asking, "You didn't see him?"

Zhao Xuan paused and said, "I thought he was with you."

Chen Yi seemed to be closer to the White Lotus Sect, and he was also a traitor who had committed many evil deeds. It was natural for him to follow the White Lotus Sect. However, the confusion among the saints of the White Lotus Sect gave him the answer.

This makes people suspicious.

It was he who persuaded the two parties to cooperate and search for the tower, but when they entered the tower, he was not there at all.

But they had already entered the tower, so there was no point in going out to look for anyone else. Otherwise, if someone got there first, all their efforts would be in vain.

"Forget about him, let's keep going. Let's go as far as we can today." After a while, Zhao Hun said.

So they kept moving forward, slowly going down the wide road. The stone walls continued to extend in all directions, and the space seemed to be expanding. Originally, the firelight from the people on both sides could illuminate most of the area, but now it could only illuminate about five or six tenths. After a while, it could only illuminate two or three people.

Faced with the increasingly wide space, they became smaller and smaller, like ants walking on a plate. However, as the space expanded, the scene remained unchanged, still so empty and silent, with a gloomy atmosphere pressing down on the team.

The team could not help but hear the sound of small talk, starting with two or three female cultivators chattering, and then the chatter gradually expanded.

"Why didn't Chen Yi come?"

"I don't know. Maybe he got scared when the time came." "Tsk, I thought he was so powerful. People like him are all useless."

When women start chatting, they always have no idea when to start, when to end, and when they are in the mood, they have no idea when to stop.

"Look at his reputation, he might be no good." The beautiful female cultivator said angrily.

At this time, another female cultivator said, "You can't say that. He has a reputation for being ugly. Do you remember that picture? He has a pointed chin, a monkey-like face, and an ugly head. I was scared when I first saw it."

"Who knows, maybe he's really that ugly. People in Jianghu all know how to disguise themselves."

"Yes, yes. Otherwise, how can we say that he is a toad trying to eat swan meat and marrying up to the goddess Taihua?"

"Haha, then it seems like you are really a toad."

………The voices of you and me echoed in this underground space, discussing all kinds of gossip about Captain Chen.

Yin Weiying was terrified when he heard this.

She clearly remembered that those wanted portraits that were posted all over the world and widely publicized were all the work of her father, King Jing.

When he was a captain of the Western Factory, he had always had a grudge with Prince Jing's Mansion. Prince Jing never liked this son-in-law, but he accepted him reluctantly because he saw that the two were Taoist companions. Chen Yi was wanted by the whole country, so it was easy to hide him by painting him with an ugly face, but it was hard to say that there was no resentment in the portrait.

The voice floated back and forth, Chen Yi's face was gloomy, he just took a deep breath and murmured: "Yin Weiying..."

The nun shuddered and almost raised her hands in surrender subconsciously.

But he suddenly came to his senses and remembered that his real body was not here at all. Yin Weiying calmed down and asked in surprise after a while: "Yin...Yin Weiying...who is it?"

Chen Yi paused, turned around and saw her coming over, looking at him with worry on her face.

She asked cautiously: "You...you are not having an affair with someone else, are you..."

Chen Yi paused for a moment.

For some unknown reason, I felt like the news had leaked out accidentally and I had been caught cheating.

Seeing that his face was slightly stiff, and he looked a little embarrassed and at a loss, Yin Weiying laughed secretly. He rarely got humiliated in front of her. If he didn't take this opportunity to smile, when would he?

But Chen Yi was silent for a long time, and then slowly explained: "It's not anyone, just a Taoist nun friend of mine."

Yin Weiying's eyes widened and his smiling face froze in an instant.

Damn, the boomerang hit me in the face.

Even though she knew he was just pretending to be nice, she was still angry when he said that. However, she could only hold back her anger temporarily and swallow her anger. She forced herself to remain calm and said with a harmless face, "Oh, it seems I misunderstood you."

"Well, you misunderstood me."

"…sorry."

"You're welcome."

Hearing his infuriating "you're welcome", the nun stomped her feet angrily and said, "You little golden boy, just wait for me."

The female cultivators' discussions became louder and louder, finally forcing Zhao Hun to speak up and stop them, warning everyone not to let their guard down, as this was not some blessed place.

The sounds gradually faded away, leaving only the sounds of footsteps and breathing, mixed with the crackling of sparks.

I don’t know how long it took, but these boring sounds were interspersed with some abrupt "rustling" sounds, echoing from far away to near.

"There is a hidden river." Someone kept saying.

It was an underground river with fast-flowing water, several meters wide. A steep slope appeared in front of them, and the underground river continued to flow downwards. If one fell into the water by accident, he would be washed away to pieces.

Fortunately, a stone bridge was built across the underground river.

The stone bridge arched over the underground river. It was unkempt and felt steady when stepped on, like a work of nature. Everyone slowly crossed the stone bridge and slowly reached the other side.

Walk a few dozen steps again.

"That is……"

As soon as the words fell, they stopped. This was the first time they saw a different scene since entering the White Tower.

That is an ancient temple.

There is an ancient temple quietly located deep in front, with green lamps, ancient Buddhas and tiny lights.

After a while, everyone came back to their senses from their astonishment. In the space under the white tower, there was actually an ancient temple. It gave people the feeling of a boat carved on a walnut. No matter how knowledgeable one was, one would be stunned for a moment when seeing it for the first time.

"Yes, it's really that! It's getting closer, the vacuum hometown is getting closer!"

The first sounds were from the White Lotus sect members. They seemed to have confirmed a prophecy. They screamed and screamed in excitement, reciting simple and repetitive scriptures.

Zhao Xun came back to his senses and asked, "Do you know this place?"

"I know, of course I know. The legend is true. To enter the Vacuum Hometown, you must first pass through the Temple of the Mother of No Birth. We are here, we are really here..."

The usually calm Zi Cihang was so excited that he was incoherent, and the excitement of the other White Lotus members was evident.

Zhao Hu stepped back a few steps. Since these White Lotus Sect members were so excited, he would protect them in front of him.

Although Chen Yi was surprised, he did not rush to get closer. Since these people from the White Lotus Sect and Longhu Mountain were more surprised than him, he would protect them all in front of him.

The White Lotus Sect members took the lead, pushed open the door, and entered the ancient temple.

The ancient temple was silent. After crossing the gate, there were no familiar Four Heavenly Kings on both sides. When I got inside, I saw a vigorous and sturdy ancient Bodhi tree standing in the center. In this underground space without sunlight, the ancient tree was fifty or six feet tall, and its lush branches and leaves sparkled with a green luster, like a beautiful jade.

Compared with the empty and wide scene before, this ancient temple is completely different. It is full of ancient charm and brings the tranquility and desolation of endless history. It does not seem like a scene from the human world. It gives people a kind of momentum that makes people look up.

Everyone felt a sense of awe and slowly looked around the ancient temple. It had been abandoned for who knows how long, and its structure was completely different from the temples seen today. There were not so many Buddha statues, Bodhisattva statues, and Arhat statues. There was only a stone Buddha standing in the main hall. Apart from that, there was nothing else, exuding endless Zen meaning.

Compared to the Taoists' curiosity and surprise, the White Lotus sect members' reaction was almost fanatical. They not only knelt on the ground and kowtowed, but also kowtowed and recited the sect's scriptures in an unimaginable pious posture.

The Taoists had no choice but to stay away from them and wait for them to calm down.

After an unknown amount of time, the frenzy finally subsided. Zhao Hun was about to step forward to ask a question, but Zi Cihang took the lead and stepped forward.

"It's getting late, so let's rest here." Zi Cihang panted, suppressing his excitement.

".What does this mean?" Zhao Hun calculated the time. It was indeed a good time. They also wanted to take a rest, but they didn't want to stay in this ancient temple.

Zi Cihang was unwilling to explain further, and said in a fanatical tone: "We can't leave. We must stay here for a night, otherwise we can't enter Zhenkong Hometown. If you want to leave, go by yourselves."

"What are you talking about?" Zhao Hun immediately started arguing.

But after arguing for a long time, this group of White Lotus sect members refused to leave. Zhao Hu was helpless. He really didn't dare to let them, the Taoists from Longhu Mountain, go forward alone. Not only would they be helping the White Lotus sect to explore the way, but they would also expose their backs to others.

So they had no choice but to rest here.

Zhao Xuan comforted everyone, "It's okay, just rest here for a while, nothing will happen, we will leave early tomorrow morning."

however,
that night,

Someone died accidentally.

(End of this chapter)