The villain is soft and clingy [Transmigration Book]

Baihetang arranged three rooms, one for Xia Zhitao and Jinli, one for the two senior brothers, and Master Zheng Luoyi arranged to go to the room alone.

Everyone rested separately, and the next morning, when the sky was still dim, they were woken up by Bai Hetang attendant knocking on the door mercilessly.

He said that he had to do the "morning ceremony" and dragged all the disciples into the main hall.

Jin Li was very dissatisfied with this, and whispered to Xia Zhitao, "It's not even dawn yet, being a big-headed ghost's morning ritual, can't we let us sleep well!"

Xia Zhitao rubbed her sleepy eyes, feeling hopeless: "Don't push me, I'll squint for a while."

The two senior brothers were also yawning continuously, only Master Zheng Luoyi, with his green clothes neat and dignified, had already stood up for a long time.

He looked at the stumbling disciples, and coaxed softly: "I have wronged everyone today, I will go and talk to the hall master tomorrow."

Xia Zhitao was curious: "Master, when did you get up?"

Zheng Luoyi said in a warm voice: "Sleep on the third watch and wake up on the fourth watch. People who practice Taoism don't need to sleep too much. I often meditate all night to absorb spiritual energy."

Xia Zhitao made a calculation in his heart, dare to love Master, who sleeps more than eleven or two o'clock every night, and wakes up at two or three o'clock in the morning.

Qin Minghe was dressed in white with black patterns, and had already been waiting for several people in the lobby, beside him stood Qin Shu in light blue and white.

With a white pistil stuck in his hair, Qin Shu greeted everyone with blessings, and said softly, "Master Yuwan, disciples, good morning."

Do as the Romans do, since they have come to the White Crane Hall, they have to follow the rules of the White Crane Hall, and the morning ceremony is naturally unavoidable.

Disciple Yashan followed the crowd in a daze. First he burned incense and sat quietly in the bamboo room, then knelt for a long while beside the endless cold pool, and then was forced to enter the narrow bathing pool, where he bathed and changed his clothes.

After all the tossing, everyone was pressured to do this and that, and they were exhausted.Finally reaching the last step of the morning ceremony, they followed Baihetang to a spacious hall.

The lobby is extremely spacious, the floor is covered with dark bamboo and wood, painted to deep red above the high hall, and countless slender wind bells hang down.

Dense and numerous, like rain pouring down.

Jin Li was hidden behind Xia Zhitao, and muttered feebly, "Who am I, where am I, what do I have for lunch? How long is the morning ceremony at the White Crane Hall?"

"This is the Hall of Sound and Rain," Zheng Luoyi explained softly, "The White Crane Morning Ceremony is divided into four sections, and this is the last link."

"The first morning ceremony is 'dream', lighting three knots of light bamboo and burning incense, sitting together, and introspecting myself in the silence; the other is 'shadow', watching the reflection of the cold pool, and purifying the six roots—"

Before Zheng Luo Yi finished speaking, Jin Li couldn't hold back, covered her mouth, and yawned big.

Her expression was dull, and her voice was depressed: "...Master, I don't understand, can I talk about it before going to bed next time?"

"It's fine for you to relax, but don't disturb others." Zheng Luoyi smiled helplessly, "The morning ritual is extremely important to the Baihe clan, and it is an excellent time to restore clarity and practice oneself."

"Incense is a dream, and the cold pond is a shadow," Xia Zhitao murmured in a low voice, thinking, "If Jing's body is 'Lu', then what we have to face next is 'Electricity'?"

The gatha says: "It is like a dream and bubbles, like dew and like electricity." ①

Floating fiber optic mist, reflections in water, morning dew drops, and cracking lightning in the sky are all fleeting and illusory things.Birth and death, all kinds of reincarnation, are the principles of all things.

Xia Zhitao has never studied these things before, she just feels that being forced to get up early is very sad, being pushed around is very aggrieved, and now she has to be shocked in this "Sound and Rain Hall"...

What a broken place!Can't stay anymore!

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Fortunately, the fourth step of the Morning Ceremony is not really electrifying people. With the sound of recitation, many wind bells hanging on the dome also shake, like sand drums, and the sound is full of ears.

Fengduo moves with the chanting, the pitch moves down and the pitch rises, overlapping and undulating like waves. Looking from a distance, it really feels like "heavy rain, thunder and lightning".

Xia Zhitao couldn't help but take a second look, wondering what kind of device was used to control the "rain", and it turned out to be a sound transmission.

It really deserves to be an ancient black technology.

If you listen carefully, amidst the uniform reading, you can also hear the faint beating of drums in the background, like the roar of thunder, which makes your heart beat.

The louder the recitation, the more numerous Fengduo catered to it, making it noisy and chaotic.Everyone knelt and sat in the middle of the lobby, closing their eyes, as if they were in the middle of a thunderstorm night.

The rain was turbulent, and the thunder was surging. It seemed that a thin electric arc flashed suddenly, and the sky and the earth were suddenly brightened.

As the chanting becomes weaker, the rain stops and the wind stops, everything is silent, all sounds are suppressed, and it returns to nothingness.

"... so quiet."

In the silence, Jin Li's whisper was particularly piercing, "Why is there no sound, what are we going to do now?"

Xia Zhitao shrugged, saying that she didn't know either,

Qin Minghe glanced at them displeasedly, and stood up from the front of Gaotang.

Holding three sticks of bamboo incense, he respectfully inserted it into the incense burner, and said: "Everyone, please stand up."

Following Qin Minghe's lead, all the Baihe people stood up together, with their hands folded and their backs in front of them, their spines straight and their expressions extremely pious.

"I swear by the name of the white crane."

"Think less, have few passions, do not kill, do not steal, do not greed, do not get angry, do not do any evil, have a clear state of mind, do not give birth to lust..."②③

After reciting eloquently for a long time, Jin Li's eyes were blurred, and she nodded her head. If Xia Zhitao hadn't helped her, she would have been able to lie down on the ground amidst the sound of reciting, and fell asleep.

The morning ritual precepts are too long, Xia Zhitao has listened to most of them, and can sum them all up in one sentence:

Can't think about anything, can't do anything.

Whether it is life or thoughts, they are extremely dull, like stagnant water, and there is no hope for living. This life is too bitter.

But since he chose this way, as an outsider, she can't comment on it, at most she can complain silently in her heart.

After the morning ceremony, the white cranes had to sit still for half a jet lag. Zheng Luoyi saw the disciples sleepy and sleepy, so he had to get up and leave, dragging them out of the hall.

"The hall master asked us to wait in the side hall for a while," Zheng Luo Yi said, "we will discuss about Qin Feng master later."

He paused for a moment, his expression was low, and his voice was full of bitterness, "I hope there will be a result."

Although this journey can be said to be full of ups and downs, but after a careful calculation, it is only more than a month since Master Qin left the crowd.

Xia Zhitao quietly leaned over and said in a low voice, "Peak Master Zheng, I have something to ask you."

Zheng Luo Yi suppressed his lonely look, and smiled lightly at Xia Zhitao: "But it's okay to say."

Xia Zhitao said: "Just now when I heard Baihe's precepts, I felt something strange: one of them is 'do not kill evil', right?"

Zheng Luoyi nodded: "In order to maintain the balance and stability of the illusion and the formation, the Baihe clan must ensure clear consciousness, less emotion and desire, and not be affected by the illusion."

"——Therefore, any act of killing and cruelty is strictly prohibited, even if the other party is a person who cannot be punished, you must never do it."

Xia Zhitao felt a little strange, such rules made sense in the modern age with a complete judicial system and social security system.

But in this fantasy world where the strong are respected and there are no rules and regulations, this precept of "not killing evil" will inevitably put Bai Hetang at a disadvantage.

Xia Zhitao couldn't help asking: "Is it okay to kill the formation?"

"—especially the killing array."

Zheng Luoyi tightened his fingers, and said solemnly: "Once someone discovers that someone has created a killing formation, at least he will be expelled from the clan, and at worst, he will be imprisoned in the illusion formation forever."

Xia Zhitao frowned, suddenly thought of something.

The precepts of Baihetang only stipulate that one's life should not be taken, but it is acquiesced to imprison one's spiritual consciousness in the illusion, just like life imprisonment.

This way you can't survive, you can't die, torture your mind like a blunt knife grinds your bones, it's better to kill someone with one knife.

Xia Zhitao considered for a moment, then asked cautiously: "But our Yashan's Nanke Ballad is an eternal battle, right?"

Zheng Luo Yi laughed: "You just wanted to ask this question just now, with such a big detour?"

...still found it.

Xia Zhitao smiled embarrassedly, nodded, and took it as her acquiescence.

Zheng Luoyi explained: "The Nanke ballad was written by Qi Zidong Immortal Venerable. As a white deer to ward off evil, she is not a member of the Baihe tribe, so naturally she does not need to obey the precepts."

After working for a long time, the one who created the eternal killing array, a halo fairy with a customer service accent of a certain treasure, turned out to have nothing to do with Baihetang at all.

Xia Zhitao breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank you, Master, for your answer."

Thinking about it carefully, in fact, Yashan also has similar rules, such as not interfering in mortal affairs, not taking action against mortals who are not practicing Taoism, and so on.

But compared to the level of strictness, Yashan has to relax a lot. As long as he doesn't make any big mistakes such as colluding with the leader of the Demon Cult or flirting, there is still room for negotiation.

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After about half an hour, the morning ceremony was finally over.

Qin Shu tidied up his sleeves, pushed open the wooden door of the side hall, and was about to say hello to a few people, when the smile suddenly froze on his face.

Except for Zheng Luoyi, who was reading a book with his head bowed, the other Yashan disciples were sitting upright, slumped on chairs like salted fish.

Jin Li passed out on the wooden table, while the other three were playing cards.A team of two senior brothers still couldn't beat the opponent Xia Zhitao alone, but after a few rounds, they had already lost all their chips.

Xia Zhitao, calm and calm, hummed a ditty, and took all the improvised "chips", piled up beside him like a hill.

When Qin Shu came in, the three of them were startled.

The brothers frantically collected the cards, Xia Zhitao stuffed the winning chips into the storage ring, and pushed Jinli hard, abruptly waking him up from his dream.

"What, what's the matter?!" Jin Li opened his eyes suddenly, panicking, "Junior Sister, what are you pushing me for? The White Crane Hall has collapsed or the leader is here?!"

Qin Shu: "..."

Xia Zhitao really admired Baihetang's self-cultivation, so he didn't get angry at Qin Shu for messing around like this, and stood politely at the door, waiting for them to tidy up before walking in gently.

"I'm sorry to keep everyone waiting," Qin Shu bent down, his voice full of apology, "The morning ceremony takes less time than before."

Zheng Luo Yi said: "It doesn't have to be like this, we are the ones who bother you, the disciples are causing you trouble..."

He glanced at the four disciples who were standing in unison behind him, with serious expressions, pretending that nothing happened just now, and sighed helplessly.

Qin Shu pursed his lips and smiled, the smile was very thin and floated on his pale pupils.The white crane attendant standing behind opened the door, she turned her body slightly, and said politely: "Everyone, please come with me."

Different from the gloom when going to the morning ceremony, the sky was already bright at that time, and the hot white light entered from the dome, making the room bright and clear.

Qin Shu led the way ahead, while the white crane guards stood behind, all dressed in white, with gloomy expressions, which made Xia Zhitao feel a little uncomfortable.

"I'm sure you've already seen the place I'm going to now," Qin Shudao, "it's the place I visited once just now during the second step of the Morning Ceremony."

The second part of the morning ceremony is "shadow". At that time, everyone knelt and sat beside a deep cold pool for a long time.

The pool beside me is extremely deep, vast and boundless, hidden in the thick and heavy fog, without knowing the source or where to go.

The surrounding air is full of cold air, which is creepy.And the most strange thing is that if you probe to look, you will find that the pool water does not reflect any image, it is empty, only a piece of plain black color remains.

Because of its strange characteristics, the Baihe family named this pond "Wuxiangtan", which also happened to correspond to the eight-character gatha.

"All appearances are false."④

When the few people arrived, Qin Minghe was half-kneeling in front of the deep pool, with his back to the crowd, unable to see his expression clearly.Holding a white feather lantern in his arms, he was bending down to place the lantern on the water.

The pool of water was originally dead and silent, but the moment it touched the lantern, it seemed to come alive, slowly flowing, and pulling the dimly lit lantern into the white mist little by little.

Just when it was about to be completely engulfed by the white mist, the water suddenly swirled rapidly, colliding with the lantern and pushing it back to the shore.

"哐——" There was a loud noise, and the white feather lantern slammed into the bluestone by the pool. The wooden frame couldn't bear the huge impact, and it was smashed to pieces.

Qin Minghe's breathing was stagnant.

Jin Li was taken aback, tugged at Xia Zhitao's arm, and whispered, "What's going on here?"

The lantern was completely shattered, all the wooden skeletons were broken, and the white feather gauze paper was torn open several wide openings, and it was easy to see inside.

"What's going on? What's going on?!"

Qin Minghe roared angrily, ignoring the surprised expressions of the people behind him, he pulled the guards beside him over.

He grabbed the other party's collar, with a contorted expression, and asked sharply: "What's going on, what have you done - why is there nothing in the lantern?!"

"Master, I don't know," the man replied with difficulty breathing, "When I checked the lantern last night, it was absolutely true that the bones were still there..."

Qin Minghe questioned: "You'd better give me a reasonable explanation, why not now?!"

The guard was trembling and could only shake his head constantly, crying that he didn't know, maybe someone replaced the lantern containing the remains during the ceremony this morning.

Qin Minghe threw the man on the ground violently, gritted his teeth and reprimanded him: "You can't do such a small thing well, what use are you for!"

The guard got up tremblingly, knelt on the ground, bent down and kowtowed, begging intermittently: "Master, please forgive me, I know my mistake, please punish me as you like, as long as you don't trap me in the illusion..."

"Trash, a bunch of useless trash!!"

Qin Minghe was furious, and roared, "Come on! Search the inside and outside of the Baihe Hall, I still can't believe it, someone dares to play such dirty tricks under my nose!"

With a glance, he happened to see everyone in Yashan, furious, and ordered: "Especially a few 'guests' from Yashan, take them down for me and lock them up carefully!"

The Zhengdao Alliance adheres to the principle of mutual help and mutual assistance, and the different forces have always been harmonious and friendly.But Qin Minghe's words clearly placed Yashan and the others on the hostile side.

The attendants of the White Crane Hall looked at each other, wondering whether they should obey the hall master's order.

Yashan is the largest sect in the world, and its status is so important that Baihetang can't afford to offend, not to mention that among the five people in front of them, apart from the four inner disciples, Zheng Luoyi, one of the thirteen peak masters, is also there. .

Qin Shu was terrified, stepped forward quickly, and knelt down in front of Qin Minghe: "My lord, you must not—"

Before he could finish speaking, Qin Shu was slapped to the ground with a "slap".

The black hair fell to the shoulders, and the white clothes were covered with dust.She covered her cheeks in a daze, her eyes were flushed, and her voice trembled: "Father, Daddy?"

"When is it your turn to educate me?" Qin Minghe withdrew his hand, wiped his finger bones vigorously, and ordered in a cold voice, "Put Yashan down for me, and don't release him until the bones are found."

"No, don't," Qin Shu shook his head, barely climbed a few steps on the ground, and begged bitterly, "Master, you can't be against...you can't be against Yashan..."

Qin Minghe's voice was fierce, and he was so cruel to his own daughter.The two senior brothers in Yashan were annoyed, and they were about to make a move, but they were stopped.

Zheng Luoyi stood in front of them, pressed down his saber lightly, shook his head, and said softly: "I can't get out of the formation."

——That's right, the formation of Baihetang is unpredictable and treacherous. If there is no one to guide the way, I am afraid that I will never be able to go out.

In other words, if it was outside, Zheng Luoyi would not let the disciples suffer the slightest grievance, but now they are still in the formation, controlled by others, and can only submit temporarily.

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Qin Shu clenched his five fingers and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, but no matter how much he begged, it was useless.

Qin Minghe seemed to be determined, and he decided that the five people in Yashan were the most suspected, and he insisted on imprisoning them all.

Zheng Luo Yi gave a few words to his disciples, then walked forward slowly, helped Qin Shu who was crying, and said to her in a low voice: "Don't worry."

He raised his head to face Qin Minghe, his gentle smile disappeared, replaced by a strange and indifferent expression.

Zheng Luoyi said in a cold voice, "Master, I will naturally try my best to cooperate with you, but if you try to attack my disciple Yashan indiscriminately, then don't blame me for fighting with swords."

Zheng Luoyi has always been weak in writing and soft-spoken, Xia Zhitao almost forgot, in fact, the other party is also one of the masters of Yashan Mountain, no matter where his strength is, he is outstanding.

锦漓感动地拽住了夏知桃衣袖，深情道：“罗衣麻麻，我们爱你！加油，揍他！往脸上揍！”

Zheng Luoyi: "..."

He ignored Qin Minghe's displeasure, strode back to the disciples, supported one of his shoulders, and said, "Let's go, let's go back to the room and wait."

All the disciples did not suspect him, and followed Zheng Luoyi in unison, while a group of white crane guards surrounded them respectfully, not as if they were imprisoning a suspect, but as if they were escorting a royal relative.

Qin Shu helped a few people adjust their rooms. They were placed under house arrest in a small courtyard with a spacious hall and five different rooms, so that they would not be too far apart.

She was apologetic and kept apologizing: "Peak Master, I'm sorry, I wronged you to stay in the room for a few days, I will try to persuade father."

Zheng Luo Yi said warmly: "Miss Qin, don't worry, as I said just now, we will try our best to cooperate with you."

Qin Shu heaved a sigh of relief, and carefully instructed the gate guards to "not be rude" and "treat each other with courtesy" and so on, before leaving reluctantly.

Qin Minghe, the current hall master of Baihetang, has a moody temperament and unpredictable thoughts. Since he doesn't trust the people of Yashan, they don't bother to please them.

Everyone stayed in the house, and three meals a day were delivered, and all kinds of needs were readily available.In addition to not being able to go out, eating and playing, it is more comfortable than Yashan.

However, I thought it would not take long to come out, but this wait was a full three days.

On the evening of the fourth day, when Zheng Luoyi gathered his disciples in the living room to discuss the itinerary, someone knocked on the wooden door.

There were a few soft "knock knocks", and a shadow formed on the screen window of the wooden door. Someone leaned on the door and begged in a low voice: "Feng, Peak Master, please open the door."

The voice was mixed with weak crying, as if he was extremely frightened, trembling involuntarily.

Just as Luo Yi got up and opened the wooden door, Qin Shu walked in slowly. She lowered her head, her thin fingers were tucked into her clothes, and she was constantly wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes.

Qin Shu's condition was really not very good, his spotless white clothes were covered with mud, and his exposed neck and wrists were covered with bruises, bloodstained and shocking.

Her eyes were flushed, and her voice was so low that she couldn't hear clearly, Nuonuo said: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to disturb you, but I really have nothing to do."

Zheng Luo Yi looked at her covered with scars, his brows darkened a little, and he said, "What's going on?"

"The hall master was furious because of the loss of the bones, scolded hundreds of guards, and sent nearly ten innocent people into the illusion," Qin Shu cried, "Only you can help me, please."

She was born thin, with a gentle appearance, soft and weak, and begged for help in a low voice, which made everyone present feel a little bit unbearable and wanted to complain about her.

...except for Xia Zhitao.

Seeing that the brothers were ready to help out of righteous indignation, Zheng Luo Yi also hesitated, Xia Zhitao stepped forward, gently pushed the master away, and then supported Qin Shu by himself.

"Young hall master, we are extremely sorry for what happened, and if necessary, we will help you with all our strength."

Xia Zhitao supported Qin Shu, then stood aside with his hands behind his back, and said in a flat voice, "But before that, please be honest with us."

Qin Shu timidly said: "What are these words? I have never concealed—"

Xia Zhitao interrupted her directly, with a smile that was not a smile: "Young hall master, do you really know nothing about Zhang Kuang and Lingtong, or are you pretending to be deaf and dumb, playing tricks?"

Qin Shu took a few steps back, with tears rolling in his eyes, he sobbed, "What do you mean?"

Xia Zhitao smiled: "I don't like to cover up, so please don't blame me for being outspoken."

"Baihetang has always been thoughtful and thoughtful, and it's the one who rejects heresies most of all, and only believes in people in the hall."

"But this road, firstly, all the maps were replaced, and the road was deliberately led into the demon forest. Even the carefully guarded Soul Gathering Feather Lantern can be stolen and replaced."

The smile on Xia Zhitao's face gradually faded, she observed Qin Shu's expression, her voice was cold:

"Some people know that they are crazy and don't like being judged by money, but they deliberately cross the bottom line again and again; knowing that Lingtong hates Yashan deeply, they expose our identities."

"—What on earth do you want to do?"

The author has something to say: Zhang Kuang: Since the beginning of this article, I have taken a serious and responsible attitude, superb acting skills, flexible switching of size and size, hard work and hard work, and this is the first time that I have been offline for a whole chapter. I will break this down tomorrow The theater is smashed.

【The author shivering while holding an orange cat】

Don't panic, don't be afraid, I'm the author of Sweet Articles! !The White Crane chapter is finished in the manuscript box, and more will be released in the next few days. There will be some things that happened in the past that everyone is curious about, and Taotao will perform "How to Molest the Demon Cult Leader", which is very sweet rest assured! !

【Quote】

①: From the "Diamond Sutra" "All conditioned dharmas are like dreams and bubbles, like dew and electricity, and should be viewed as such."

②: Excerpt adapted from "Ten Commandments" "Do not kill, do not steal, do not commit adultery, do not lie, do not speak harshly, do not speak frivolously, do not be greedy, do not be angry, and do not be foolish"

③: An excerpt adapted from the "Diamond Sutra" "Should be pure mind like this. Don't live in color to give birth to mind."

④: From the "Diamond Sutra" "All appearances are illusory. If you see all appearances and non-appearances, you will see the Tathagata."