Chapter 379: The Monk’s Business (5)
There is a river in Yuzhou called Sanhua River.
The river is several miles wide, running across Yuzhou from west to east. There are many flower forests on both sides of the river. Nourished by the earth's energy, the flower forests are ever-blooming all year round, with fresh flowers blooming in turn all year round. Therefore, the river surface is covered with flower petals all year round, hence the name.
In the middle section of Sanhua River, on the mountains to the north of the river, palaces and pavilions are lined up one after another, with tall towers echoing each other in the distance. Pieces of glazed tiles are like flowing clouds in the sky, stretching for hundreds of miles along the river.
This is the Tianwu Palace newly built by Xuanzhen, which is her residence in Yuzhou.
In the middle of the night, the Tianwu Palace was brightly lit, with countless palace maids and eunuchs running around, and no one knew what they were busy with.
To the south of Tianwu Palace, on the bank of Sanhua River, there is a row of docks .
Several huge pleasure boats floated on the river, and the pink lanterns illuminated the river bottom, illuminating countless fish, turtles and crabs.
There were gangplanks connecting the pleasure boats. As the young men and women ran around, they cheered and sang loudly, and the wine cups in their hands were always filled with fine wine.
Some people drank too much and jumped directly into the Sanhua River, flopping around in the river, calling it "fishing for the moon", which immediately attracted countless men and women to laugh loudly, applaud and stomp their feet.
Xuanzhen was dressed in warrior attire, and with a group of children from aristocratic families who were on good terms with him, they were drinking and having fun on the largest pleasure boat in the middle.
In Yuzhou city, she invited all the most popular girls from hundreds of brothels, big and small. Each of them was a charming beauties playing the piano, blowing the flute, or tapping the fisherman's drum, which further highlighted the scene of an extremely romantic and wealthy feast.
In the past few months, Xuanxing has been in high spirits, and his pride has reached the sky.
Yuzhou was extremely wealthy and contributed huge wealth to her.
Xuanxuan's Black Swallow Guard is expanding its size at a rapid pace.
Her influence in the court was growing day by day, and more and more court officials were trying to get close to her, intentionally or unintentionally. Many children of noble families who had been watching from the sidelines also gradually got close to her under the instruction of their elders.
Today, several young men from aristocratic families joined her small group, and Xuanzhen held a grand banquet to welcome the new partners.
"From today on, we will share wealth and honor. If I ever become successful in the future, I will certainly not let you down." Xuanzhen made a big promise to his new and old partners.
She said this very bluntly, without any intention of concealing it.
She clearly told her friends that if she became the emperor of the Xuanyan Immortal Dynasty one day, she would never let her friends down, and that those who followed her would surely be promoted and become rich.
A group of children from aristocratic families cheered in unison and raised their wine cups.
The commotion on their pleasure boat grew louder, and the men and women on the nearby pleasure boats became more and more unrestrained. The guys who were struggling to catch the moon in the Sanhua River also howled and threw huge fish several feet long onto the pleasure boats, which attracted bursts of laughter and scolding.
"Hmm!"
A jade talisman in Xuanzhen's sleeve suddenly cracked and made a sharp sound.
Xuan Xi's expression suddenly changed. She grabbed the jade talisman, probed her soul into it, and then sneered: "Everyone, please follow me. I invite you to watch a good show. Haha, is someone going to teach me a lesson?"
She waved her hand, and several Black Swallow Guard commanders who were standing in the corner of the pleasure boat hurried over.
Xuanzhen whispered a few words of instruction, then took off into the air with a large group of children from aristocratic families, and quickly disappeared into the Tianwu Palace. They came to a specially built hall and stood on the teleportation array in the hall.
The next moment, Xuanzhen appeared in the underground palace of Dajinshan Temple with hundreds of children from noble families with blushing faces and thousands of expert guards.
Several Taoist monks led them around the halls and pavilions and arrived at the northwest corner of the Dajinshan Temple.
Xuanzhen came to Lu Yi, stood on a rockery, and looked outside the wall.
The children of the aristocratic families also looked forward to it, and then all gasped, especially the group of young ladies from the aristocratic families, whose faces were distorted, their eyebrows raised, their eyes turned red and their lips turned white with anger.
Everyone understood what was happening outside the wall .
These men in black , if they could break through the protective formation of Dajinshan Temple, and stuff these naked or disheveled girls who had obviously been raped into a pavilion of Dajinshan Temple, and then if someone could catch the thieves and seize the stolen goods in time, the blame would be firmly placed on Dajinshan Temple and on the head of "Abbot Fahai".
Even, the blame will be directly put on Xuanzhen's head.
Everyone knows that Dajinshan Temple is a temple supported by Xuanxun, and Xuanxun is the backer of Dajinshan Temple.
The monks of Dajinshan Temple harbored evil and committed the evil act of "kidnapping women"...Xuan's reputation was naturally so bad that it would stink even if the wind blew, and his reputation in the court also plummeted.
Xuanxiong was so angry that her face turned black. She pointed at the man in black who was busy outside the wall and said nothing.
"Your Highness, just speak up. The mountain protection formation of Dajinshan Temple is an ancient inheritance that I got from a certain ruin... Although we are separated by a wall, we are thousands of miles away. Even if we laugh and make noise, they won't be able to hear a single sound."
Lu Yu raised his right hand, and with a 'swish~boom', a flash of lightning exploded in his palm, illuminating the area for miles. But outside the wall, the two men in black were still analyzing the formation, muttering in a low voice.
"No matter how much noise we make, they can't hear or see us." Lu Yi smiled proudly.
This mountain-protecting Buddhist formation at Dajin Mountain combines the essence of the mountain-protecting formations at Fangcun Zen Forest and Shuiyue Zen Forest.
Fangcun Zen Temple is best at the art of 'mind and thought'. In a small space, it can contain the vast world. Its formations are subtle and mysterious. Unless one's spiritual cultivation is a hundred times better than Lu Yi, the one who set up the formation, it is impossible to penetrate the mystery of the formation.
The way of changing "virtual and real" in Shuiyue Zen Temple is also extremely terrifying. Similarly, unless you have a spiritual cultivation that is more than a hundred times that of Lu Yu, otherwise, in this formation, what you see is false, and what you hear is all illusion.
The fusion of Fangcun and Shuiyue made Lu Yi's mountain-protecting Buddhist formation, to be honest, insanely powerful.
Not to mention, the hub of this Buddhist formation is the Small Vajra Mount Sumeru, and there are tens of millions of Taoist monks guarding the mountain. Their combined strength makes this formation 'indestructible'!
Therefore, Lu Yi advised Xuanzhen and others to speak freely without any taboos.
Xuanzhen then let out a breath and gestured to the children of several noble families around him.
A young man in gorgeous clothes with a few fish scales hanging on his cuffs took out a glass mirror, which emitted a faint light that enveloped the men in black outside the wall.
Every word and action of these men in black was recorded by the glass mirror.
There were also several young masters and ladies who took out various jade talismans and quickly conveyed what they saw and heard to the adults behind them.
Xuanxun and his colleagues were busy with their work.
Outside the wall, two men in black were also busy. They analyzed for a long time and finally came to a conclusion.
"How afraid is this bald thief of death, or is there really something shameful going on in this temple? Is it necessary to use such a formation for protection? It really adds unnecessary trouble to us." A leading black-clothed man muttered in a low voice: "In the past few hundred years, we have been on so many missions, but this formation is the most difficult one."
Another man in black murmured, "That's right. We are good at assassinating in an instant and making a long journey... this kind of framing... But these girls taste really good. Hehe."
The formation plate that the two people placed on the wall was shining, and the overlapping lotus Vajra Buddha seals inside the wall were flowing like water waves, full of a certain harmonious and tacit rhythm.
As the formation disk rotated, the movement of the Buddha seal inside the wall became increasingly stiff and awkward, until finally a Buddha seal with an area of ten feet in radius solidified in the wall.
"This is the 'Sky-peek Locking Yuan Disk'... and it is a method used by a master of formations at the Grandmaster level." A clever and literary girl beside Xuan Xuan whispered, "This Sky-peek Locking Yuan Disk is specially used to spy on and destroy various mountain protection formations. On the black market, an ordinary Sky-peek Locking Yuan Disk is worth a fortune."
"This kind of Sky-peek Locking Yuan Disk made by a great master of formations is extremely rare. How much is it..." The girl looked at Xuan Xi and whispered, "Probably, it can buy the fiefs of ten or eight princesses."
Xuan's eyes suddenly lit up: "So, I've become rich?"
Lu Yu drooped his eyelids and said calmly: "Catch these men in black and torture them to find out who is behind them. Haha, Princess, you will make a fortune... a windfall!"
Lu Yi clenched his fists until they made a crackling sound: "I will squeeze the marrow out of the mastermind behind them."
A group of young masters and rich ladies shuddered and looked at Lu Yi at the same time.
Well, why do they suddenly feel that Master Fahai is a bit like a bandit who is blocking the road and robbing people at this moment?
"Master Fahai is right. We must squeeze them until they have nothing left." Xuan's face twitched. "If they have a problem with me, they can kill me with their famous swords and knives... This is the method..."
Xuanxun really wanted to curse.
She could understand frame-ups, but using so many abused young girls to frame them was too despicable and dirty... She really wanted to find the mastermind behind this and teach him a lesson.
This was the first time Xuan Xi had encountered such dirty and vile means in her life!
What a ghost!
The two men in black began to input magic power into the Sky-Peeking Locking Yuan Disk.
As the magic power was injected, wisps of faint light continued to emerge from the Sky-Seeing Locking Yuan Plate and began to entwine the Lotus Vajra Buddha Seals within the wall.
After a cup of tea, a man in black muttered, "It's too slow. There are so many girls in the back who need to be accommodated... Use that thing."
Another man in black took a deep breath and said, "It's too expensive... We can't keep the cost down this time... But it's not a loss... Let's use it! Tsk, this is the best thing we have in the bottom of our box."
With a sigh, the man in black took out a black jade talisman that was nine inches long, three inches wide, and about an inch thick.
After reluctantly stroking the jade talisman with countless complex patterns carved on its surface for a while, the man in black carefully placed the talisman on the wall.
A large amount of black light surged, as if a red-hot iron ball was thrown into a pile of snow. The overlapping lotus and diamond seals on the wall suddenly collapsed silently.
