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Chapter 142: Ruined Taoist Temple
Shen Siyuan looked at the broken walls covered by weeds in front of him and put Ruan Hongzhuang down from his arms.

As soon as Ruan Hongzhuang's feet touched the ground, she fell down. Fortunately, Shen Siyuan was quick and caught her.

"My legs are a little weak, but it will be fine in a while."

Ruan Hongzhuang's cheeks turned red, and she didn't know whether she was afraid or excited.

Shen Siyuan reached out and picked her up again, then found a stone nearby and put her on it.

Then he turned around and looked back the way he came.

"What's wrong? What are you looking at?" Ruan Hongzhuang, who had recovered, asked curiously.

"It's difficult for me to walk on this road. How do you think Lin Jianming and his wife got here?" Shen Siyuan asked.

Ruan Hongzhuang was also surprised when she heard this, and then she said without hesitation: "This is almost impossible."

Not to mention anything else, just halfway down the road, there is a road that is almost ninety degrees vertical, and the foothold carved out on the stone wall is about the size of a palm.

What kind of nice guy would take a hiking date with his girlfriend on a path like this?

"Dou Dou, Xiao Yue..." Shen Siyuan waved at the void.

Then two gusts of cold wind fell from the sky, and Xiaoyue and Doudou appeared in front of them.

"You guys stay here with Sister Ruan, I'll go over there and take a look." Shen Siyuan said.

"Okay." Doudou agreed most straightforwardly.

Xiaoyue nodded silently, then walked over and sat down next to Ruan Hongzhuang.

Shen Siyuan turned and walked towards the ruins of the Taoist temple. Ruan Hongzhuang couldn't help but remind him, "Be careful."

"Don't worry, everything's okay." Shen Siyuan turned around and smiled.

Then continue walking forward and you will soon arrive at Chaotian Temple.

The buildings of Chaotian Temple have basically collapsed. There are traces of fire on one wall. It seems that the old lady did not lie. This Taoist temple must have been destroyed by fire.

Suddenly Shen Siyuan felt something under his feet. He pushed aside the thorns and weeds and saw a broken plaque. Most of it had rotted away, but the words "Tianguan" could still be vaguely seen.

The Chaotian Temple also enshrines the Three Pure Ones, but the heads of the Jade Pure One Yuanshi Tianzun and the Upper Pure One Lingbao Tianzun are missing, and their bodies are full of holes made by snakes and rats.

Only the Taiqing Daode Tianzun was still intact, but it was covered with traces of burns. As for some small gods and statues next to it, they had long been shattered into rubble.

Seeing the dilapidated Taoist temple in front of him, Shen Siyuan suddenly thought of the Tingfeng Temple in his hometown, with the same statues of the Three Pure Ones, and the same dilapidated state.

Shen Siyuan searched everywhere but found nothing.

So he walked out of the Taoist temple, came to Ruan Hongzhuang, took out a bottle of mineral water and handed it to her.

"I need to practice meditation for a while, please wait here."

"it is good."

Ruan Hongzhuang took the water handed to her and was somewhat curious about where he got it from.

Shen Siyuan also reminded Xiaoyue and Doudou not to go near the Taoist temple without his permission.

The two little guys naturally agreed, so Shen Siyuan returned to the Taoist temple and found a dry place to sit down.

Then he started to operate the Earth Mother Magnetism in his body. Since he found nothing on the ground, he tried to see if there was anything hidden underground.

The Earth's magnetic field can sense objects buried underground, which is somewhat similar to the principle of a metal detector.

As the magnetic field in Shen Siyuan's body attracted the earth's magnetic field, all the surrounding scenes were reflected in Shen Siyuan's consciousness in a special way.

It is like an abstract painting without color, filled with various ripples, repelling and attracting each other, some strong and some weak. And these ripples form a huge picture, which is the electromagnetic wave generated by the ubiquitous magnetic field.

If Shen Siyuan successfully practices the "Five Elements Magnetic Sword", he can use this ubiquitous magnetic field to perform magnetic escape, and travel thousands of miles in an instant.

At this moment, the picture in his mind began to fluctuate abnormally, and after a twist, it showed another scene.

Shen Siyuan quickly opened his eyes, but found that the scene in front of him had changed drastically. There were no broken walls or ruins. In front of him was an ancient Taoist temple.

At this time, he was sitting cross-legged on a large rock in front of the Taoist temple. There were clusters of flowers and vigorous pines and cypresses all around him. There was curling smoke from the Taoist temple. It was a great place to practice Taoism.

Shen Siyuan was surprised, but he still got down from the rock and walked towards the Taoist temple.

Looking up, I saw three big characters "Chaotian Temple" on the plaque above the door, with the characters written in vigorous and powerful style.

"Is anyone there?" Shen Siyuan reached out and knocked on the half-open door.

But no one answered. Shen Siyuan knocked a few more times. Seeing that there was really no one there, he pushed the door open and walked in.

What comes into view is a small courtyard, which is very neat. There is a small pond on the right, a stone table and stone chairs on the left, and a huge ginkgo tree next to it.

"Excuse me, is anyone there?" Shen Siyuan shouted again while standing in the yard.

But still no one answered.

So Shen Siyuan walked towards the temple while looking around carefully.

Everything around was very similar to what Lin Jianming and his wife had described. They said the temple was not big, with only three rooms, and that was indeed the case.

Apart from the main hall, the Sanqing Hall, there are only two cramped side rooms on the left and right, one probably serving as a kitchen and the other as a bedroom.

Shen Siyuan first walked towards the kitchen because he saw smoke coming from the kitchen.

But when he entered the kitchen, he found that there was fire in the stove and rice on the stove, but there was no one there.

"How strange." Shen Siyuan murmured in a low voice.

Could it be that all this is just an illusion?

Shen Siyuan touched the stove and could clearly feel the remaining warmth on his fingertips.

So Shen Siyuan walked out of the kitchen, entered the main hall, and came to another ear room, but the room was empty, without any signs of anyone living there, and everything seemed strange.

Shen Siyuan stood in the courtyard and thought for a while before slowly walking into the main hall, the Sanqing Hall.

But the Three Pure Ones were seen sitting cross-legged on a high platform, with smiles on their lips and kind eyes.

There is only one incense burner on the altar, and the smoke from the incense burner is curling up like auspicious clouds.

Shen Siyuan saw a cushion under the altar, so he knelt on the ground and worshipped the Three Pure Ones.

But when he looked up, he saw that a golden bell had appeared on the altar.

The upper end of the bell handle is called a sword, and is in the shape of a "mountain". This is the Sanqing Bell, also known as the Emperor Bell, the Dharma Bell, the Dharma Bell, and the Bell Book.

Ling's body is covered with talismans, densely packed and as small as tadpoles, looking very complicated.

Shen Siyuan reached out and picked up the Sanqing Bell. There was a ding sound, which was extremely pleasant and crisp, making people feel refreshed and clear-headed.

But with this sound, the surrounding scene instantly disappeared and turned into ruins again.

He, who had originally been sitting cross-legged on the stone, now stood in front of the broken statue of the Three Pure Ones again. Everything just now seemed like an illusion.

But the golden Sanqing Bell in his hand told him that nothing could be faked.

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