Bai Yujing

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Those who have never been to Baiyujing may find it hard to imagine how prosperous this heavenly palace over Kyushu is.

Lin Yan walked on the pure white and flawless jade stairs, and every ten steps, there were about eight descendants from the Immortal Palace chanting:

"Welcome Your Highness the Third Highness to return to Beijing—"

The voice line is neat and not like human voice, elegant and ethereal like smoke and illusion.

Surrounded by silk-like celestial music, countless music workers change jobs in shifts, and it is necessary to ensure that the celestial music in the Tiangong never stops.

Shenxiao Jiangque, Xuanxiao Dantai, carved beams and painted buildings, are magnificent, soft and quiet clouds and smoke surround every palace city, lifelike sculptures can be seen everywhere, and none of the twelve floors and five cities are stained with dust.

The three of them were detained temporarily, and when Lin Yan returned to the bedroom, servants and maids would serve him to bathe, burn incense and pray, comb his hair, change into pure white and flawless palace clothes, and put on a gorgeous and complicated silver crown.

Every step she took, the silver curtain shook slightly, and the gold and silver embroidery thread on the palace clothes shone with complicated stars.

When he saw the person in front of him, he saluted first, then handed over the jade slips, and said in a loud voice: "Father is on top, and my sons and ministers come to reply to the order."

After hearing his report, the Emperor of Heaven lifted him up and closed the palace door. "Opening the door is the ruler and subject, closing the door is father and son." The man with fine lines in the corners of his eyes brought Lin Yan to the inner room, where there were a variety of dishes on the table.

"Eat and talk."

Many people couldn't believe that his father, the most honorable ruler of the entire Three Realms, His Majesty the Heavenly Emperor, who was frightened by others, was actually a very easy-going person in front of him, just like the father and son of ordinary people, not what the world says "Tianjia" No father and son' appearance.

Even the problem of being greedy and gluttonous in the human world has been brought to heaven.

"My son, let's eat with you." Lin Yan said persistently when he saw him holding the bowl.

The Emperor of Heaven looked at him with some surprise, "You didn't want to learn how to use chopsticks before, and you didn't have much interest in these mortal foods. How come you are willing to eat with me after going to the world?" He finished speaking, as if he didn't wait at all. The meaning of Lin Yan's answer, while asking himself, he answered: "It must be the exquisite food in the world, which moved my son, so I said, there is no one who doesn't like food."

Lin Yan seemed to have gotten used to the usual way of speaking of the Emperor of Heaven, upon hearing this, he just smiled lightly and took the chopsticks handed over by the maid beside him.

"Although common food affects cultivation, it doesn't matter if you eat it once or twice," said the Emperor of Heaven, "I know my son is diligent in cultivation." He personally served Lin Yan with food, and then said, "It's okay to rest and indulge once in a while."

Lin Yan's mother died young, and he was the youngest son, and his two elder brothers died young, so the Emperor of Heaven treated him, and he played the strict father and the loving mother all by himself.

When he was a strict father, he would single-handedly subdue Mr. Jieshi. When he was a loving mother, he would always care about him. When he was young, he would do everything by himself and love him to the extreme.

So he chewed the delicious food along with the Emperor of Heaven, and replied: "Yes."

The two of them shared a lot of gossip. When the Emperor of Heaven and Lin Yan were together, he always liked to talk about the past when he took a few high-ranking disciples to seek immortals and ask questions. If the human race can no longer find a way to become immortal, extermination will no longer be sensational.

When it comes to Penglai's Taoism and the first construction of the Tiangong, he is often so excited that he can't speak.

He always talked tirelessly, and Lin Yan listened tirelessly.

"If it weren't for my five master disciples at that time...I'm afraid I would have turned into a bone of bones before I arrived in Penglai." Every time the Emperor of Heaven mentioned the past, he no longer called himself "Zhen" and put down his bowl and chopsticks. , seemed to be at the place where emotions were agitated, shook his head and said: "The six of my master and apprentice were originally in love with Jin Jian, sharing joys and sorrows, but Bisang betrayed Bai Yujing, and now Jieshi has committed such a heinous crime..."

He patted Lin Yan's shoulder, lowered his eyes dejectedly, as if his hair had suddenly blossomed, "Does my son know that my heart hurts?"

"Father..." Lin Yan held his hand and was about to speak, but the Heavenly Emperor waved his hand to signal him not to comfort him.

After a long silence, the Emperor of Heaven said to him: "Forget it, Mr. Jieshi has the full power to my son to judge this matter. I don't want to take care of it anymore, so I will treat it as a master-student relationship."

"In addition to this, there are your internal injuries." He took Lin Yan's pulse, "You were also seriously injured this time. My son was born in a golden house and a jade palace. Can you not be greedy for life and afraid of death, and entangled in flesh and blood injuries?" , that's good, but you can't be negligent."

"My son understands."

"As for after cooking..."

"My son will ask for punishment on his own."

He trespassed on the Shen Xing Prison and the library. Although Tu Yuexian wrote aggressively after hearing about Jieshi Jun's case and told him that he had decided to keep it a secret for him, even if the Emperor of Heaven didn't know, he knew it in his heart, and Shen Xing Prison couldn't hide it. , Trespassing into these forbidden places without permission, even if he is in a hurry to investigate the case, he must be punished.

He also had expected this before bidding farewell to Shi Tianqing.

The Emperor of Heaven thought for a while, and said, "Since you found out the Jieshi meritorious service, I will punish you to contemplate behind closed doors in the palace for 100 years."

Lin Yan lowered his head slightly and said, "Your servant is punished."

After talking with the Emperor of Heaven and eating, he went back to his dormitory to adjust his breath, but three uncles and masters came to visit him one after another. Xixie greeted him a few words and brought some elixir. He gave him a volume of Buddhist scriptures.

After Lin Yan flipped through the Buddhist scriptures casually, he opened the cabinet on the bookshelf and put the Buddhist scriptures in.

There is a whole box of Buddhist scriptures neatly arranged in the golden nanmu cabinet, all of which were gifts from Mr. Luochuan.

From his first birthday party to the present, whenever it is a rare prayer festival, or a full-year birthday, the uncles next to him always give gifts according to his age in different ways. Only Luo Chuan, no need to guess, knows every day What he sent back was Buddhist scriptures.

When he was young, he also asked: "My uncle knows that there are no Buddhas in the world, so why do we need to copy Buddhist scriptures?"

Mr. Luochuan told him, "I don't want a Buddha in the world, but I want a Buddha in my heart."

"What if you have a Buddha in your heart?"

"No dust."

Lin Yan put away the Buddhist scriptures, closed the heavy wooden box again, and heard laughter from outside, "Your Highness, you are back."

Hearing the unique sound of wearing a gold and stone ring, he knew that the person who came was his master——Jun Fengqi.

He didn't know when he took off the silver bracelet on his wrist, and put on five rings on his fingertips. He still wore the silver bell, and when he fiddled with his hair, it made a crisp sound.

"Master." He bowed to Feng Qi, and Feng Qi also bowed to him, "See Your Highness Third."

Lin Yan asked him to sit down, and then he heard Feng Xi say: "I heard that you alone restrained Wen Han and the third senior brother?" He put his hands together and said with a smile: "As expected of my apprentice, you are really powerful."

Regardless of the defected Bisang, among the other four disciples of His Majesty the Emperor of Heaven, Feng Qi is the weakest, and it is almost known to everyone.

Lin Yan didn't contradict him when he heard the words, but just looked at him with a smile, so Feng Qi finally felt guilty, touched his nose self-consciously, seeing that there was still a broken chess set on the table, he hurriedly changed the subject. As he made a gesture to drop a chess piece, he couldn't help but murmur: "Your Highness doesn't even have the heart to respect the teacher."

He originally wanted to use Wen Han as an example, but he thought about Mr. Jieshi, so he kept silent again.

Lin Yan wanted to ask him, "What does Master think about Mr. Jieshi?"

"The third senior brother made a mistake for a while... In the end, almost all his spiritual power was lost, and it can be regarded as reincarnation of karma. The law of heaven is clear, and retribution is not good." Feng Qijun had a cold smile on his face.

"When I was in Youming, I deeply felt that the residents of Youming were very afraid of the immortal officials. The passage before Yong'an asked Jieshi Jun's spell also made me realize something." Lin Yan dropped a son, his eyes locked on Feng Qi, "Master Zun, what do you mean by heavenly dignity?"

Feng Qi looked at him with great interest, and repeated his words, "Heaven is superior or inferior?"

"For example, in the eyes of Xianjun, what is a monster who lives alone, what is a ghost with meager spiritual power? What is a person who has no power to restrain a chicken... What is it?"

"Monsters and ghosts have their own spiritual power. The strong ones have already been registered and entered Baiyujing to serve as immortal officials. They are also gods and cannot be killed at will. The only ones who can be killed by immortal kings are weak people who do not want to make progress."

"Besides, before Baiyujing was built, if it weren't for ghosts, why would the world be so poor? As for people—"

Feng Qi glanced at him, "The current situation of the Emperor of Heaven is inseparable from the support of the previous mortal monarchs. Therefore, when the Emperor of Heaven established Baiyujing, he made a rule that those who work in Baiyujing must not rely on their own spiritual power to kill them." Kill mortals, otherwise the bloodstains in their souls will never be washed away forever, and they will no longer be able to enter Bai Yujing's Heavenly Gate. And if ghosts kill people, after the Baiyujing immortal officials find out, they will personally execute the ghosts who caused harm to the world."

"Because the spiritual power is far superior to the demons, can they be killed at will? So what is the difference between the demons with weak spiritual power in today's protoss and the demons in the past?" Lin Yan chuckled and looked at the chessboard. , "And the human race..."

"Xianjun doesn't have to kill people himself, there are thousands of ways to take people's lives."

He raised his eyes suddenly, and a cold light flashed in his eyes, as if there was a sword intent.

"Your Highness," Feng Qijun met his gaze without moving, and blindly dropped a piece with a smile, pointing to the chessboard, "You lost."

Lin Yan stood up, waved the chess game away, and looked at Feng Qi steadfastly.

A pair of master and apprentice confronted each other indoors, and no one made a sound.

Until the long-standing silence was broken by the boy who came to deliver the news, Lin Yan turned his head to look, and heard him panicked: "Mr. Wenhan put the spirit-transforming stone card on his heart after waking up, saying that he wants to see His Highness!"

Lin Yan was startled suddenly, and rushed to the prison with the boy.Feng Qi leisurely looked at Lin Yan's leaving back, stood up slowly, the silver bell rang crisply, and he gently stroked the silver ring between his fingers.

When Lin Yan arrived, Wen Han was sitting curled up in a corner. Even the sky prison in Bai Yujing was built of pure white jade, clean and spotless, and the dark smoke from the Hua Lingshi brand lingered around Wen Han's heart, black and white.

Wen Han is no better than Liu Ren, he is now a fairy body with spiritual power to protect his body, so he will not be in danger of dying in a short time, but the stone tablet is embedded in his heart, like a hundred ants and a thousand insects gnawing on him, the pain is unbearable.

His eyes were red, his hair was in a mess, and he was still dressed in red, but the brilliance in his eyes had faded. In his arms lay the haggard Mr. Jieshi. Even when Lin Yan came, he did not let go.

Lin Yan glanced at Mr. Jieshi who had his eyes closed tightly, raised his head slightly to stop the soreness in the corners of his eyes, and then tried his best to suppress the emotions in his heart.

In the fierce battle with Mr. Jieshi before, he could only force himself to forget all his emotions, so that he could open and close in the battle without being disturbed by emotions, but he always remembered:

That was also the uncle who had accompanied him for more than a thousand years since he was a child.

Seeing him coming, Wen Han forced a forced smile, "You're here."

A master and a servant look at each other across the prison, which is hard to remember, but a few months ago, they left Bai Yujing in high spirits together to hunt down the traitor and demon lord Bisang.

Lin Yan's eyes reflected the Spirit Transformation Stone in his heart, and he lowered his eyes, unable to bear to look again.

After a long time, Wen Han finally spoke in a hoarse voice, "His Royal Highness, Master is now unconscious and has low spiritual power. Wen Han also asked himself to turn into a spirit stone tablet to punish and atone for Master's sin. Please let Master go no matter what. Respect a life."

Even though he had been brought back to Bai Yujing, he still did not give up.

"What if I don't agree?" Lin Yan asked.

Wen Han wanted to smile, but was interrupted by the pain, so he had to give up struggling, and slowly raised his palm full of spiritual energy to his heart, knelt down on the ground, "Wen Han is guilty."

His lips were hooked in a lonely way, and his sword eyebrows were furrowed, obviously in unbearable pain.

"To this day, I threaten you with my life and our past friendship. If you insist on executing Master immediately, Wen Han will die in front of you."

"Master treats me like a father and a brother, forgive me... for threatening Your Highness so despicably"

"Just like a father like a brother?" Lin Yan asked suddenly.

Wen Han's eyes trembled slightly when he heard this, bit his lower lip and said:

"It is my duty to protect Bai Yujing, and protecting His Highness is to practice Wenhan's belief in this life."

"You can protect the master..." He lifted his chin, looked straight at Lin Yan, his eyes were red, "It is the meaning of my existence."

"I will never forget Shizun's blood-stained hands, nor will I forgive him, but if Shizun is dead, Wenhan doesn't have to exist anymore," he said.

"I am very grateful to Your Highness," the young man raised his head:

"But for Master, I can betray anyone."

"Even including... myself."

He spoke in a soft voice, appearing feeble because of the pain, but inexplicably, Lin Yan felt that the voice was very loud, hammering heavily on his heart.

He saw Wenhan lowering his head, smoothing Jieshi Jun's still frowning eyebrows little by little, and he looked at Jieshi Jun with complicated and silent eyes. For the first time, Lin Yan felt that Wen Han's face always looked immature. The face gave birth to many other temperaments.

As if naturally, the appearance of a child faded away.

Lin Yan suddenly realized that Wen Han he knew was dead.

Or, he never really knew Wen Han.