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Chapter 106, Lu Yue + Bronze Tripod + Marinade = Cooking
The moment Lu Yue jumped in, the stone statue suddenly shook.

In a trance, Lu Yue felt a cold touch on his skin, which was neither stone nor soil, but instead revealed a unique metallic texture.

Lu Yue half-crouched in it. In fact, this place could only accommodate a normal person. Now that he was squeezed in with the ascetic monk, it seemed much more crowded for a moment.

I reached out and touched the walls. They were as hard as iron, and echoes appeared from their light taps.

This is not a tunnel, it seems to be the inside of a bronze vessel.

Lu Yue stared around and found that there were many scratches on the inside of the bronze vessel. These were not animal scratches, but human scratches, as if someone had been trapped inside and was struggling constantly.

This internal structure...is the bronze tripod that was previously placed in the main hall.

Lu Yue also discovered that this was a low-level magic weapon, and it gave him a similar feeling to the carpenter's hammer of the Gongshu lineage that he had destroyed.

At this moment, footsteps were heard outside.

Through the gap in the bronze tripod, Lu Yue vaguely saw a figure.

He was dressed in rags and had messy hair, and was indeed dressed like a madman. Moreover, this madman was the one who had peeped at him in Chaoge City during the day.

However, Lu Yue still felt that this person was very familiar. He was not just the madman who was spying on him, but should have another identity.

After entering the temple, the man did not wander around. Instead, he came to the well outside the main hall and threw down a wooden bucket to fetch water.

Why does it feel like this madman is familiar with everything here?

At this time, Lu Yue discovered that the ascetic monk beside him had not made any movement from beginning to end, and although he was clearly dressed in rags like a beggar, he did not emit any bad smell.

When he reached out and touched the ascetic monk, he found that his body was ice-cold.

he died?
Lu Yue was stunned.

From being led into the temple by the other party, and then hiding in the secret passage.

Lu Yue has always been suspicious of the other party's intentions.

It is normal to have doubts when you are away from home and have never met someone before.

But no one expected that the ascetic monk actually died.

What normal person would risk his or her life for a conspiracy?

Am I judging others by my own mean standards?

As he was thinking, Lu Yue suddenly felt that the crowded space was much more spacious.

The ascetic monk's body actually shriveled up.

Lu Yue reached out his hand again and pulled out something.

That's star anise!!!
Lu Yue pulled open the ascetic monk's clothes and found a bag of marinade.

A trick? An illusion? A way of escaping from the shell? A transformation into a fairy, a remnant of the marinade?
In an instant, many thoughts emerged in Lu Yue's mind.

wrong!

This marinade packet should have been sucked in by the relics.

When Lu Yue looked outside through the gap, he found that the madman who was fetching water outside stopped in front of the bronze tripod. He turned out to be an ascetic monk.

Lu Yue frowned. He had indeed seen the ascetic monk seriously injured just now. This was true. So what was going on?

"Master, you are not dead?" Lu Yue tried to shout.

"Young man, you've finally been fooled." Outside the bronze tripod, the ascetic monk held a wooden barrel in his hand, with a strange arc at the corner of his mouth. The smile was neither a smile nor a smile, and it was a bit eerie.

Lu Yue: “…”

The other party had intervened by luring himself into the tunnel under the Buddha statue, no... it was a bronze tripod. In this case, the strange knocking on the door before was also a trick of the other party.

"I don't understand, why did you do that?"

"You'll find out later."

The ascetic monk picked up the wooden bucket and began to add water into the bronze tripod through the gap.

Water, people, marinade...

These three things together are obvious and need no further explanation.

The bronze tripod was also a cooking pot in ancient times.

This ascetic monk was planning to cook Lu Yue.

Inside the bronze tripod, Lu Yue saw a gap as thick as his wrist and wanted to reach out and push open the lid, but even with the strength he had gained from tempering his body, he still couldn't push it open.

"Donor, it's useless. Have you read Journey to the West? In that story, the furnace where Taishang Laojun refined Sun Wukong had holes on all four sides. Guess why Sun Wukong couldn't escape."

"This is a magical tool."

Lu Yue didn't care and asked about another thing.

"I saw you enter the secret passage with serious injuries. How did you get out?"

This is also the only thing that Lu Yue can't understand.

The sadhu did not answer, but went to the well to fetch water again.

A bucket of water cannot fill the bronze tripod.

"Can you answer my question?"

"I'm going to die anyway, can you let me be a clear-headed ghost?"

"If I were you, I would definitely reveal everything. Such a perfect plan would be meaningless if no one appreciated it. Just think about it, watching someone being hit both mentally and physically, isn't it a pleasure?"

But no matter how Lu Yue tempted him, the ascetic monk was like a taciturn person.

"Are you sure you don't want to answer?"

The ascetic monk brought another bucket of water and was about to pour it into the bronze tripod, when he suddenly saw an octagonal being thrown out from the gap.

"Although I can't leave, I can throw out this bag of marinade. From now on, I ask you one question at a time. If you answer incorrectly or deliberately conceal something, I will throw out one of the marinade. Master, do you think you can still eat it without seasoning?"

The ascetic monk froze, and the wooden barrel fell to the ground. He was so confused by the handling of the food "Lu Yue" that his brain was unable to process for a while.

"First question, is what you just said to me true? Answer in three seconds."

One second...two seconds...three seconds...

Seeing no answer, Lu Yue immediately grabbed a handful of fragrant fruits and threw them out.

"It's true." The ascetic monk looked grim, and quickly got on the ground to collect the fragrant fruits. Through the gap, Lu Yue could see the cherishment in the other's eyes.

That being said, the ruins did change two months ago.

There are some crazy people here too.

"Are you the madman you are talking about?" Lu Yue continued to ask.

"I'm not crazy!!!! I'm not crazy!!!!" the ascetic became hysterical.

It’s confirmed, the ascetic is one of the lunatics.

"Okay, you're not crazy. Let's move on to the next topic. There are many people who entered Chaoge City in the same batch. Why are you following me?"

"You killed those ancients. The rules of the ruins do not allow it. I will also reward you if I kill you. Besides, you are so tender and delicate..."

Lu Yue: “…”

The rules of this relic are becoming more and more like a game.

Killing an NPC will not only result in your being banned, but also result in a wanted warrant being issued.

"Since you followed me during the day, you must have seen me selling food. Why didn't you steal the food and eat...people instead?"

"Because if I eat your heart, I can become a god."

The sadhu’s answer was horrifying.

"Who told you that?"

“God told me.”

"Which god?"

"God is God, God has always been in my mind, who is God... God is us... I am God..." The ascetic monk was mentally disturbed, as if his brain was overloaded and about to explode.

Seeing that the other party was not in a good state, Lu Yue quickly changed the subject: "Let me change the subject. How did you escape?"

This time the ascetic paused for a few seconds without answering, as if some secrets were involved. But seeing Lu Yue continuously throwing spices out, he lay on the ground to pick them up with a painful look on his face.

"The one that was seriously injured just now was only one of my six roots."

"Six senses?" Lu Yue's ears moved slightly.

He learned about the so-called six senses from the ascetic monk.

The six roots refer to the six sense organs in Buddhism, namely eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind. These six roots are extremely prone to greed, troubles and even sin.

Therefore, Buddhism advocates the purity of the six senses, that is, to keep the six senses free from external temptations and maintain inner peace and purity.

The ascetic's abilities are related to the legendary six senses.

The six senses can be materialized and become incarnations that are neither human nor ghost.

No wonder I didn’t notice the trick. It turned out that only one of the opponent’s six senses was seriously injured. This Buddhist method is indeed very special.

Outside, the ascetic monk continued to add water while talking, then took down the plaque of the main hall and started chopping wood.

It seemed as if Lu Yue must be cooked today.

"I heard that this lineage of ascetics is strong-willed and often practices hard, but now it seems that they are not doing so well. Aren't you afraid that the Buddha will blame you for doing this?"

"Buddha, what does Buddha know? I haven't eaten for two months. Where was my Buddha then?" The ascetic monk roared like a wild beast.

"What does Buddha smell like?"

This ascetic monk is completely crazy.

Lu Yue grabbed a handful of peppercorns and shook them towards the gap.

"I saw an inn, a butcher, and a vegetable market in Chaoge City during the day, but I couldn't find any food. Is this related to this?"

The ascetic came back to his senses from some kind of hysteria, and explained with concern for the stewed vegetables: "Two months ago, the rules of the ruins changed, and most of the food in the city disappeared. Do you know why so many people believe in the news of becoming a god? Because we have no way."

"The concentration of spiritual energy has dropped, and I can't find the node of the ruins to leave. Those ancients can live without food, but we can't live without food. It's not only for becoming a god, but also for survival. I have been hungry for two months."

"Do you know what a person who has been hungry for two months can do?" The ascetic monk had a ferocious look on his face, with a hungry wolf's light in his eyes.

When a transcendent person first awakens, he continuously absorbs spiritual energy to expand the divine storage in his body, advancing to the first to ninth levels of the divine storage, among which the fourth and seventh levels of the divine storage are thresholds.

Entering the fourth level of Shenzang means truly stepping into the extraordinary. In theory, one is no longer afraid of any hot weapons, and can rely solely on absorbing spiritual energy to replenish the body's energy and achieve long-term fasting.

But if you can't get over it, you are still a mortal body, and the body consumes a lot of energy. This is also the reason why low-level extraordinary people have increased appetite.

If a low-level transcendent does not eat for two months, he will definitely starve to death.

Not to mention the mental disorder that comes with starvation.

Therefore, it is impossible for the ascetic monk to have not eaten for two months. Moreover, the other party had mentioned before that most of the food disappeared, which proved that there was a small amount of food in Chaoge City.

“Why did the food disappear two months ago?”

"I do not know."

Lu Yue threw the peppercorns out and hit the ascetic monk in the face.

"I really do not know."

Lu Yue continued to throw out.

Star anise, cardamom, bay leaves, cinnamon, fennel, licorice, pepper, cloves, tangerine peel, white cardamom, sand ginger, gardenia...

"Enough, keep throwing. I have practiced hardship for most of my life, and I can't eat white food." The ascetic monk was completely furious. He suddenly lit the firewood and threw it under the bronze tripod.

In an instant, the cauldron fell silent, leaving only the blazing flames underneath.

The ascetic stared ahead greedily, the firelight dancing on his face, illuminating that eerie and terrifying face.

"By the way, Master, regarding the question you just asked me about why Sun Wukong didn't come out of the Bagua furnace, do you know what happened afterwards?"

Dharma!

Burst!

With a loud bang, the bronze tripod exploded, fragments flew everywhere, and a four-meter-tall Dharma image appeared.

"You can't just read half of a book, Master. Let me help you kill the six roots!"

I checked and strictly speaking, water is not food, so the presence of water in the ruins is not the same as the disappearance of food before.

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(End of this chapter)