The God and Buddha are actually me

What is the name of the abbot of Baiyun Temple?

If Yue Ling hadn't suddenly asked this question, Zhang Jiuyang might not have realized the weirdness of it.

Was his soul affected?

No, the soul was protected by the Tiandun sword intent and didn't feel anything unusual. There was only one possibility, that the whole world had a problem.

The cause is the result!

A flash of lightning flashed in Zhang Jiuyang's mind, and he looked at Yue Ling, and they could understand the meaning of each other's eyes.

The real cause of the abbot's death was not that his head was cut off, but... the cause and effect!

Just like the Prajna monk back then, he began to be gradually forgotten by the world and disappeared in the long river of history.

And the effect is even more terrible than that of the Prajna monk back then!

You know, although the Prajna monk was forgotten by the world, the real people in the six realms could still remember him, but the abbot had just passed away, and Zhang Jiuyang had already begun to forget his name.

This shows that the murderer not only killed the abbot by reversing the cause and effect, but also surpassed the Prajna monk in this magical power!

These clues all point to the same person...

After a long silence, Zhang Jiuyang said in a deep voice: "I finally understand."

Yue Ling asked in confusion: "What do you understand?"

"Do you remember the "Five Hundred Arhats Demon Suppression Picture"?

Zhang Jiuyang sighed: "The Tianlong Arhat in it pointed to the sky before his death, as if he was performing some kind of magic, but in fact, he was leaving the last clue. The person who broke through... is Tianzun!"

It's a pity that the clues left by Tianlong Arhat were too obscure, and no one could understand it at the time. It was not until Yue Ling mentioned the abbot that Zhang Jiuyang deduced that the murderer was Tianzun from the reversal of the cause and effect, and then deduced the intention of Tianlong Arhat.

"Fortunately, you have a sharp mind and noticed the weirdness of the abbot, otherwise we don't know how many detours we would have taken."

Zhang Jiuyang was somewhat fortunate.

Yue Ling shook her head and said, "I didn't think of it suddenly, but someone reminded me secretly."

Zhang Jiuyang was startled and said, "Secretly reminded?"

Yue Ling nodded, then took out a bronze mirror and handed it to Zhang Jiuyang. Someone wrote a sentence on the brass mirror in blood.

"Do you still remember the abbot's name?"

Although it was written in blood, the handwriting was simple and Zen-like.

"I was practicing in the room and suddenly noticed something strange. I looked around with my eyes and finally found this bronze mirror."

"The bronze mirror itself is nothing special. It is not a magic weapon or an evil object. But the strange thing is that when I first entered the room, out of habit, I carefully checked every corner of the room. This bronze mirror is clean and there is no text on it."

"It is only ten feet away from where I practice. How could someone write on it at such a close distance without my spiritual perception?"

Zhang Jiuyang's eyes condensed. What Yue Ling said made a lot of sense.

You know, she has been through hundreds of battles and fought her way out of a pile of dead bodies. Not to mention practicing, she would be alert even when sleeping.

Zhang Jiuyang looked at the bronze mirror in his hand, his eyes solemn, and said: "There are only two possibilities."

"The first is that someone sneaked into your room quietly and left this sentence on the bronze mirror in front of you."

Yue Ling frowned and said: "Impossible, unless that person has the eighth realm of cultivation, even if it is the seventh realm, it is impossible not to alarm me."

She still has this confidence.

"Well, each of the eighth realms is rare, and the world is rare. Tianzun should be in this realm, but he himself is the murderer. There is no reason to remind you that my senior brother has not returned from the Black Heaven Realm, and it is impossible for him..."

"So this assumption is unlikely, and the more likely is the second situation."

Zhang Jiuyang raised the bronze mirror in the moonlight, looked at the mirror carefully, and said in a concentrated voice: "These words suddenly appeared by themselves..."

Yue Ling was stunned.

"It sounds a bit absurd, but I think it's very likely. Maybe on the other side of the mirror, someone is casting a spell and writing to give you some hints."

This kind of magic is not non-existent, but it's extremely rare.

"Whoever it is, it seems to be kind to us and wants to guide us to find out the truth. If it weren't for this sentence, I wouldn't realize that it was the breaking of cause and effect that really killed the abbot!"

Yue Ling looked up at the deep night around him and sighed: "It is worthy of being a thousand-year-old temple and the ancestral home of Zen Buddhism. It is indeed a place where dragons and crouching tigers are hidden and there are many secrets."

"Let me keep the mirror first. We have found out that the murderer is Tianzun. The most urgent task is to find out the purpose of Tianzun's intrusion into the holy land!"

Talking about this, Zhang Jiuyang's expression was very solemn.

Tianzun has always been aloof, as if he is a god, watching from the sidelines, and he is unmoved even if one of the ten heavenly stems dies.

To Zhang Jiuyang, he seems to be a spectator forever, overlooking all living beings.

But this time, Tianzun actually came down in person, with a very clear purpose, and went straight to the holy land of Baiyun Temple. If Tongji had not been attracted by the movement of Shigu Town, he would probably have died here.

If Tianzun is really Zhuge Qixing, then every move of the other party is worth paying special attention to. After all, Zhuge Zhizhi is known as the first person in Daqian in 600 years.

"It seems that I must go to that holy land quickly!"

Fighting with Zhuge Qixing, who is the wisest person in the world, is already difficult and dangerous. If there is also information asymmetry, it is just a way to die.

Yue Ling nodded and said, "Can what you just asked the fat monk to do help Tongji make up his mind to take us into the holy land?"

"It should be possible, but the premise is that it can't be exposed."

Zhang Jiuyang thought for a while and said, "Where is Tongji now?"

"In the back hall, guarding the spirit of his senior brother."

"Then let's go over and take a look. On the one hand, we can hold him back so that the Painted Skin Operation can go smoothly, and on the other hand, we can take another look at the abbot."

Yue Ling knew him very well and said, "Do you want to see the residual image in those eyes again?"

Zhang Jiuyang nodded and said, "Yes, although my spiritual official's heavenly eye can't see it completely, I still have some gains. It's just that there are so many people in the hall today that I didn't say it."

Yue Ling's eyes lit up and said, "What did you see?"

"The residual image in the pupil doesn't seem to cover the face, and that's why Abbot Tonghui is so shocked, as if he saw a person who would never appear."

Yue Ling's breathing fell into a brief stagnation.

"You mean, the Heavenly Venerable took off his mask in front of the abbot and revealed his true face?"

"Yes."

Instantly, Yue Ling's eyes became exceptionally bright, like morning stars.

Although they have basically confirmed that the Heavenly Venerable is Zhuge Qixing, for such a major event, hearing is false, seeing is true.

If you can decipher the residual image in the pupil and see the true face of the Heavenly Venerable, then you can make a final decision!

Zhuge Qixing was once her hero. In fact, until now, with so many clues, she still feels a little unreal about the fact that the Heavenly Venerable may be Zhuge Qixing.

If it can be finally confirmed, it will also be a relief for her.

Zhang Jiuyang's eyes are deep. In fact, he has a guess in his heart that he has not said, that is, in addition to Zhuge Qixing, the Heavenly Venerable may also be another person, a person he also suspects but has no evidence.

There is no evidence, or even no clues, just a bold assumption and intuition deep in his heart.

So he also wants to personally unveil the mysterious veil of the Heavenly Venerable and see the true face under the mask. Who is he?

…

The funeral hall.

The abbot’s body was lying in the coffin, with only a faint red line on his neck. The coffin had not yet been closed, but his face was normal, as if he was asleep.

Even if the body of a Six Realm Immortal had not specially practiced the art of horizontal training and body building, it was still extraordinary after being cleansed by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Even after death, mosquitoes and demons could not land on him, and demons could not invade him.

Tongji and the other leaders sat cross-legged on the ground, turning the Buddhist beads, beating the wooden fish, and chanting the "Rebirth Sutra" to pray for their brother.

According to the rules of Baiyun Temple, they need to chant the Rebirth Sutra for three consecutive days before they can close the coffin and cremate it, and finally send the burned relics to the pagoda for worship.

In this way, they can be considered liberated and reborn in the Western Paradise.

But the most painful thing for a cultivator is that Tongji knows what it means to be completely scattered and have no soul. He also knows that there has been a problem in the Western Paradise for a long time, and the Buddhas have not responded to them for a long time.

Senior brother is completely dead, without even the chance of reincarnation, and his lifelong practice is ruined.

This is why he hates the murderer so much. As long as Senior Brother can still keep his soul, he will have a way to make him live again.

"Master Tongji, I am Zhang Jiuyang and my wife are here to visit. Please come out and see me."

Zhang Jiuyang did not enter the door, but quietly sent a message to Tongji.

Tongji frowned, thinking that Zhang Jiuyang and Yue Ling were here to force him to make a decision quickly, and he felt a little unhappy.

Thousands of years of temple rules are not something he can break just by thinking about it. The two of them do not understand the difficulties in this.

He originally planned to refuse and concentrate on chanting sutras for Senior Brother to transcend, but at this time Zhang Jiuyang's voice continued to ring in his ears.

"The case has made significant progress. Who is the murderer?"

Boom!

Tongji stood up suddenly, surprising the other leaders, and the chanting was briefly interrupted.

"You continue, I'll be back soon."

Although it was only a few steps away, Tongji seemed to be impatient even for this little distance, and directly used the Buddhist escape technique, and his figure flashed in front of Zhang Jiuyang and Yue Ling.

"Who is the murderer?"

He asked word by word, his voice full of suppressed murderous intent, and the powerful momentum made the bamboo forest in the yard rustle and almost bend.

"Master Tongji, I wonder if you have heard of the Huangquan organization?"

Zhang Jiuyang cast a soundproof spell and asked.

"Huangquan..."

Tongji's eyes condensed, and he said: "I have heard that the Huangquan case is the biggest unsolved case in your Imperial Observatory. Every demon in Huangquan has a very high level of cultivation, extremely cruel methods, and strange whereabouts."

"Not long ago, Qingzhou had a ghost king who massacred the city. His name was Yanluo, who was the evil spirit in Huangquan. I have heard of his evil reputation in the temple thousands of miles away."

Hearing this, Zhang Jiuyang coughed and looked a little embarrassed.

Although it was only a year ago, it seems very far away now. At that time, he relied on a fierce force to kill out.

"Master Tongji is basically right. Huangquan is an organization, or an alliance. Every member in it is a six-level existence. For example, Yanluo you just mentioned, and the mountain king of Tongtian Mountain Range are all members of this organization."

After a pause, Zhang Jiuyang said word by word: "And such a strong man... There are ten in Huangquan, known as the Ten Heavenly Stems."

Tongji was shocked.

He had indeed heard of Huangquan's name, but he had never thought that Huangquan's strength was so strong. Ten great demons with the cultivation level of the sixth realm?

There were only a dozen cultivators in the sixth realm in the entire Daqian. Huangquan's strength was so terrifying?

"You Qintianjian...are you fighting with them?"

Tongji looked at Yue Ling with a trace of disbelief in his eyes.

How did Qintianjian fight with such a behemoth and persist until now?

"To be precise, the sixth realm is just the threshold to join Huangquan. The head of Huangquan is called Tianzun. This person's strength is unfathomable, at least the seventh realm..."

Zhang Jiuyang didn't dare to say it was the eighth realm, for fear of scaring Tongji, which might have a counterproductive effect.

"You mean, the murderer who killed my senior brother is Tianzun?"

Tongji frowned and said, "Do you have any evidence?"

It's no wonder that he didn't trust it. It was really that Zhang Jiuyang and Yue Ling investigated the case too quickly. There was no clue during the day, and the murderer was found at night.

It sounded like he was being lied to.

Tongji was not stupid. On the contrary, no one who could reach the sixth realm was stupid. His first reaction was that Zhang Jiuyang and Yue Ling wanted to use this incident to win over Baiyun Temple to deal with Huangquan together.

If there was no solid evidence, he would never believe it.

Yue Ling was so smart that she had seen through his worries and said lightly: "The bright and clear will not see villains. We, the Imperial Observatory, will fight to the end until the last drop of blood is shed even if there is no help from any sect."

Tongji hurriedly wanted to explain, but was interrupted by her coldly.

"You want evidence, then I will give you evidence. Do you still remember the abbot's Dharma name?"

"Senior brother's Dharma name is Tonghui, what's wrong?"

Tongji asked in confusion.

Zhang Jiuyang patted Yue Ling's hand and smiled, "Master Tongji and the abbot have a very heavy karma, so naturally it is not as quick as ours. So, let me ask."

"Master Tongji, can you still remember the things you did with the abbot when you were young?"

"Is this related to the investigation?"

"Of course."

Although Tongji didn't understand, he still began to recall carefully and then told it.

"I was picked up by my master when I was nine years old. I was dirty all over. It was my senior brother who took me to bathe and put on clean clothes for me. By the way, he often took me to--"

Tongji's voice suddenly stopped, and there was a trace of doubt in his eyes.

What did my senior brother take me to do?

He could clearly feel that the incident made him remember it very deeply and liked it very much, but no matter how hard he thought, he couldn't think of it.

It was as if a piece of his memory had been wiped away.

"It seems that you finally realized that this is the law of reversing cause and effect. Your senior brother died first in this technique and then was beheaded."

"The murderer wanted to erase the cause and effect of the abbot because... the abbot saw his true face."

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