Weak in affinity talent? Female ghosts are eager to give hints.

absurd!

The scene before my eyes was utterly absurd!

An Lan felt like her worldview was about to explode!

Good guy!

How could your entire temple perform a ritual while [Liaoye] was asleep?

No?

What are you going to do?

Does this mean that [Liaoye] should remain completely naive and innocent?

(Tsk...)

(Looks like... there's still a lot to explore here...)

(Perhaps everything about the temple is also connected to another world...)

An Lan pondered to herself as the nuns in the courtyard had already dispersed.

Sounds also came from the direction of the Mahavira Hall.

"Form is not different from emptiness, emptiness is not different from form..."

"..."

The solemn chanting of sutras rang out once again.

It's as if nothing ever happened...

Only...

After glancing around furtively, a nun quietly opened the door to the meditation room and slipped inside!

"Oh?"

An Lan narrowed her eyes, and after noticing that there were no nuns around, she quickly followed along the corridor.

Inside the house, another strange sound of dancing footsteps rang out!

"..."

An Lan hid in the corner of the door and peered inside.

Good guy!

This is not as simple as a "meditation room"!

On the wall of the room stood a huge wooden Buddha statue.

Buddha?

To be precise, he's not Buddha!

An Lan had never seen a Buddha like this before!

It was a Buddha statue standing on a lotus flower. One side depicted a muscular man, bald and bare-chested, with bulging muscles in his thighs. The other side showed a long-haired, delicate woman in a long robe...

At once...

It looks very strange!

It seems to have masculinized one side of a person while making them more feminine...

(Is this supposed to be Buddha?)

An Lan stared at the Buddha statue for a while before noticing a line of text inscribed on its base: "Heaven and hell are but a thought away! Good and evil, right and wrong, I await you..."

"Tick-tock...tick-tock..."

As you look at the statue, the Buddha's chest suddenly cracks open, and drops of black blood seep out!

"Grass!"

An Lan couldn't help but curse.

Instantly!

The center of the Buddha statue split open, and more blood flowed out.

"The true Buddha! The true Buddha has manifested!"

"The true Buddha has manifested!"

"..."

The nun, who was still dancing, suddenly stopped and knelt and bowed before the Buddha statue: "I, Liu Xiao'ai, have done good deeds all my life. If I hadn't been forced by circumstances, I wouldn't have killed someone to save my life!"

"Living Buddha above, I humbly beseech you to bestow blessings upon me and spare me from suffering!"

"Spare me from disaster and illness!"

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

Despite her head being stained with black blood from the ground, the nun continued to kowtow.

An Lan stood to the side, her face darkening as she listened.

Good guy!

Murder and escape?

You're a fucking murderer!

What kind of nun are you?

and also!

You're already like this!

How dare you beg for a life free from illness and disaster?

The more An Lan listened, the more outrageous it seemed. She inexplicably recalled the words of the male monk from before: "My intention was to help you find peace! I never imagined it would be like the farmer and the snake!"

"hiss--"

"Could it be... that the male monk also helped some criminals back then?"

"..."

As An Lan was thinking this, she saw the wooden carving begin to vibrate rapidly.

The faces of the man and woman in the wood carving are distorted, their eyes wide open, as if they are waiting for something.

Because it hadn't arrived yet, the black blood from the laceration on his chest flowed even faster!

"True Buddha! True Buddha!"

The nun clearly knew nothing and kept kowtowing and begging, her face contorted with madness!

however!

"Bang!!!"

next moment!

Something seemed to have exploded in the nun's trouser pocket!

After a hissing sound, she hurriedly pulled something out of her pants and looked inside! It was a sachet... the sachet was broken, and the long hair inside was still burning...

As her long hair burned away, the nun's body seemed to shrink, rapidly withering away!

"Well!"

"Ugh!!!"

"Buzz—"

After her body withered to a certain extent, the space around the nun trembled, and she vanished from the meditation room...

On the wood carving, the face of the strange Buddha slowly returned to normal.

The blood... also stopped flowing...

An Lan gazed at this scene, then at the remaining broken sachet on the ground, her eyes calm.

"Just as I expected..."

"really!"

"Without the sachets, these nuns would be instantly sucked into [another dimension]..."

"That dance just now wasn't some living Buddha appearing; it was just [Bi Lian] taking the [fragrance sachets] from those people... She's carrying out a planned and selective sacrifice?!"

"But... is [Liaoye] such a supermodel? Why is it that her hair can block this strange Buddha?"

"..."

Stroking the sachet in her arms, An Lan confirmed her guess, her expression turning grave as she began to examine the [meditation room]. Now it was almost certain—the relationship between [Karma Clearing] and [Other Dimension] was far too interconnected!

After scanning the vicinity of the meditation room, An Lan noticed that something seemed to be hidden under the strange Buddha's futon, which was bulging.

Upon closer inspection, lifting the prayer mat revealed a dense array of sachets underneath!

"Tsk—"

Frowning, An Lan took the four sachets, restored everything to its original state, and quickly left the meditation room...

......

the other side.

"Buzzing—"

"Buzzing—"

Because they didn't have the [fragrance sachet], Long Ao's group of four... no, to be precise, six people, all appeared before a sea of ​​blood amidst a sudden, earth-shaking tremor.

"Puff puff puff—"

The overflowing blood-soaked waters pounded against the shore, and in the center of the sea, a house floating on the water could be vaguely seen, swaying with the waves.

"Where...where am I?"

"Is it another dimension behind the Zen temple?"

Long Ao looked around and was drawn to a stone statue on the shore.

The stone statue was strangely shaped, half-male and half-female, standing on a lotus flower. The man's side remained silent, his hands forming Buddhist prayer gestures, while the woman's side smiled radiantly, her fingers lightly caressing the man's face...

"this..."

"What the hell is that sculpture?"

Jiang Lai couldn't help but mutter something to himself. Zhao Kuo took two steps forward, just about to touch the statue.

"Clatter!"

suddenly!

Without warning, a crack appeared in the center of the statue, and black blood kept seeping out of the crack, as if it were very angry.

"Puff puff puff—"

"puff--"

As it bled, strange splashing sounds came from the direction of the sea, like four objects falling into the water!

Heaven or hell, the difference between good and evil is but a thought; I'll be waiting for you...

Blood seeped out and condensed into a line of large characters on the Buddha statue.

The group of people were stunned for a moment as they watched this scene.

"This... Captain, what should we do now?"

"This area seems to consist of nothing but the sea of ​​blood, except for the shore, right?"

Wen Lan looked around the sea of ​​blood and surprisingly spotted the outline of a small wooden boat in one corner. She hurriedly went forward and pushed the boat directly into the sea.

"Splash—"

The wooden boat hovered on the water, constantly being pushed backward by the waves.

Long Ao looked at the wooden boat, but hesitated to say that he wanted to get on. His gaze unconsciously drifted towards Shadi and the other two.

Reversing cause and effect

[Current Ambition: To safely find "clues" before disappearing from the alternate dimension!]

[The price: Anlan and Liaoye's relationship progressed further.]

"ha?!"

"What the hell is this price to pay?!"

Seeing the "reversing cause and effect" prompt, Long Ao was completely dumbfounded!

No!

Is this price you're paying right?

His lips twitched.

Since Long Ao didn't make a move, Kshatriya didn't dare to either. He turned to look at the Brahman, who also began to stroke the crystal ball.

"Buzz—"

This time, a streak of interwoven stars appeared on the surface of the sphere.

Chaotic and disorderly, intertwined and confusing.

The Brahmin stared for a long time, still unable to process what he was seeing: "This is... the Great Thousand Worlds? An illusion? It means the Great Thousand Worlds contain many possibilities, but they are all illusions of the mind..."

"What do you mean?"

"Does that mean everything we're seeing now is fake?"

The Kshatriya muttered something, and the Brahmin shook his head: "I...I don't know either...It's possible that what we're about to see is just our imagination?!"

"That..."

"..."

"..."

There was a long silence on the shore.

Finally, Zhao Kuo scratched his head in frustration: "Alright, alright! Stop this damn pretense of you being wary of me and me being wary of you! If we don't find the item by the time it's due, aren't we all going to die anyway?"

"How about this!"

"I'll stay, Long Ao, Jiang Lai, and you! Shadi Li, you stay with us on the shore too!"

"Only Wen Lan and the Brahmin are allowed to board that wooden boat!"

"Do you understand?"

"In the end, who gets what is entirely up to the two of them; we won't interfere!"

"Kshatriya, do you have a problem with that?"

"this--"

When Zhao Kuo's opinion was brought to Kshatriya, he hesitated for a long time and felt it was not a good idea.

Can...

The more he hesitated, the closer he got to the strange chanting of scriptures. He wasn't confident he could withstand it. But what if... he had sent the Brahmin away?

It doesn't seem like I'm at a disadvantage to be fighting three against one!

"never mind..."

"If we can't get any more clues... we'll probably be at their mercy..."

"Can!"

"Brahmin, you go!"

"If they dare to make a move, I won't hesitate to fight to the death!"

The Kshatriya looked at the Brahmin, who nodded and immediately jumped onto the boat.

After glancing at the Brahman, Wen Lan also boarded the other end of the wooden boat.

Since the wooden boat had no oars, the two of them could only crouch on it and quickly glide towards the water, using their hands for support!

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh—"

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh—"

The small boat swayed gently, and after swimming only a few dozen meters, a crimson mist appeared ahead, enveloping the two of them! The stilted house, which had seemed not far away before, became increasingly hazy...