Chapter 130: Sleepless Night, Wish Xiuyan Goodbye

A strange sense of time and space confusion filled my mind.

The world is spinning.

Shi Potian felt as if he had fallen into a bottomless abyss. His consciousness was in a trance for a while, and when he regained consciousness, everything in front of him was completely different.

The overwhelming avalanche disappeared, the towering snow-capped mountains disappeared, the clear blue sky disappeared, and the people around me disappeared.

Instead, there was a dilapidated and desolate forest, with weeds and yellow leaves growing at the foot, and the sunset glow that had not yet completely dissipated and the waning moon that had just risen on the horizon.

Shi Potian was stunned for a moment before he remembered what had happened.

In order to save his master, his mistress, his younger sister, and those people from the martial arts world, he first tried to use his protective qi to block the avalanche. When he found that his protective qi was about to fail, he concentrated all his qi and hit the snow wave, and then…

Suddenly a crack appeared in front of him, bursting out with a dazzling light and sucking him in.

Shi Potian opened his eyes wide, his face full of disbelief. Everything he experienced was extremely similar to the “breaking the cage, shattering the void” imagined in the Sweeping Monk’s handwriting.

The only difference is that in the description of the Sweeping Monk, after breaking the void, one will become an immortal or a Buddha and go to heaven, but this is obviously not the case here.

“I don’t know how Master and his wife are doing now…”

Shi Potian sighed deeply, feeling worried, but he also knew that worrying was useless, so he quickly calmed down, sat down cross-legged, and started practicing the “Sunflower Manual”.

In just a moment, Shi Potian was sure that he had really come to another world——

The “Sunflower Manual” is about refining the righteous energy between heaven and earth into one’s own true energy.

He clearly felt that the righteous energy of this world was much richer than that of the original world, and the speed and amount of energy flowing into his body were several times greater than before.

He was caught off guard and almost couldn’t control his righteous energy.

The benefit of this is that the efficiency of his breathing practice has increased by more than ten times.

One week, two weeks, three weeks…

The righteous energy continuously poured into the body, circulated along the meridians, and finally returned to the dantian, and white mist emerged from the top of the head.

Not knowing whether it was because of the experience of life and death or because of the broken void, Shi Potian vaguely felt that some changes had taken place in his body, but he couldn’t tell what the changes were, and his martial arts were on the verge of a breakthrough.

But, he tried several times, and was always a little short of it, as if something was missing.

Shi Potian was not a person who was obsessed with martial arts, so he did not force it. He stood up, jumped to the top of the tree, circulated his true energy, raised his five senses to the extreme, and looked around.

Soon, he found a temple on the east side of the forest.

Shi Potian was delighted, thinking that he could finally find someone to ask about the situation, so he used his lightness skills and rushed towards the temple.

In a moment, we arrived at the temple gate.

However, the scene before him disappointed him greatly.

The door of the temple was half-open and there were weeds growing inside.

The red paint on the door was peeling and mottled, and the plaque above it was crooked, as if it would fall off at any time. It was covered with cobwebs and dust, and only the word “Lanruo” could be vaguely recognized.

It had obviously been abandoned for a long time.

Shi Potian pushed the door and walked in. The main hall and pagoda inside were very magnificently built, but only half of the Buddha statue was left in the hall, and weeds were taller than people. It seemed that no one had been here for a long time.

Walking along the corridor into the backyard, you can see clumps of bamboo as thick as a handful growing in the east corner. There is a large pond under the steps with a pavilion on top. The pond is full of wild lotus flowers.

The doors of the monks’ quarters on the east and west sides were ajar, except for the room on the south side, which had its door tightly closed. The entrance was also clean, without fallen leaves or dust, as if someone was living inside. “Is anyone there?”

Shi Potian walked forward and knocked on the door, but there was no movement from inside.

I pricked up my ears and listened carefully, but there was no sound of any breathing.

“Are you out?”

Shi Potian did not rush in. Instead, he turned around and looked at the monks’ quarters on both sides. He found that although they were covered with dust and cobwebs, they were not only complete with tables and chairs, but even had kettles, tea bowls, washbasins, and bronze mirrors.

It was as if the original monk had suddenly encountered some accident and fled the Lanruo Temple in a hurry, leaving all the other things behind.

Shi Potian felt a little strange, but didn’t think much about it. He tore off a piece of rag, fetched some water from the yard, wiped the tables, chairs and bed briefly, and lay down on them, with a lot of thoughts in his mind.

He was worried about the safety of Yue Buqun and others, and was also worried about how to get back.

I tossed and turned for an unknown amount of time before I finally fell into a drowsy sleep.

Suddenly, in my sleep, I heard a gust of wind, and the doors and windows opened and closed with banging sounds.

Shi Potian opened his eyes, got up from the bed, moved a chair beside him, and was about to block the door when another gust of wind blew and the door opened wide.

Under the moonlight, a young girl walked slowly in the corridor.

The girl looked to be about seventeen or eighteen years old. She was wearing a translucent white gauze dress, as if she was in smoke and fog. Her black hair was like a waterfall, and her facial features were exquisite.

“It’s hard to sleep on a moonlit night, I wish I could have a good relationship with you.” The girl opened her cherry lips slightly, her voice soft and sweet.

Shi Potian was surprised when he heard the familiar words. When he realized the meaning of the words, his surprise turned into fear. He dropped the chair in his hand and stepped back several steps, shaking his hands desperately, “Don’t come over here! I don’t have any money!”

But he thought of what Yue Lingshan had said to him when they passed by Qun Yuyuan in Hengshan City.

“Big Brother, this kind of place is called a brothel. Those women who seduce you as soon as they meet are prostitutes. Although most of them are forced, there are few good people in such places. If you dare to enter such a place and have any unclear relationship with them, my father will break your legs, and I will never talk to you again.”

“Ah?! Junior Sister, what if they insist on talking to me? What should I do?”

“Just say you have no money! If you have no money, they will ignore you!”

The girl was startled, but soon realized what Shi Potian meant. She was a little annoyed, but she showed a charming smile on her face and said delicately, “Sir, you are wrong. I am not a prostitute.”

Shi Potian asked: “Aren’t you a prostitute?”

The girl smiled and said, “Of course not. I am the concubine of Mr. Mao from nearby. My surname is Nie and my given name is Xiaoqian.”

Shi Potian scratched his head, puzzled: “Miss Nie, why do you do the same thing as a prostitute?”

Nie Xiaoqian said, “What do you mean, sir? Prostitutes sell their bodies and want to charge you money. I don’t want your money. I am doing this voluntarily.”

Shi Potian suddenly realized: “Oh, I understand. Prostitutes are forced, and you are the one who is committing humiliation.”

Nie Xiaoqian’s expression froze, a dark aura filled her face, a ferocious look flashed across her face, her hands in her sleeves suddenly turned into claws, but she quickly retracted them, forced a smile, and said, “Young master, you’re joking.” She flipped her right hand, took out a piece of Rakshasa bone, turned it into a gold ingot, and was about to throw it on the ground to lure Shi Potian into the trap.

Suddenly, there was a clanging sound of weapons colliding outside.

Nie Xiaoqian paused as she thought of her grandmother’s warning. She looked at Shi Potian deeply and floated backwards.

Seeing that Nie Xiaoqian’s feet were not touching the ground and her whole body seemed to be flying on the wind, Shi Potian opened his eyes wide and exclaimed in amazement: “What an amazing martial art! Miss Nie, you…” Before he could finish his words, Nie Xiaoqian disappeared from his sight.

(End of this chapter)