Cold Clouds

Chapter 229: Interrogation and Buddhist Practice

Lin Xiaoxiao returned to Medicine King Valley, and her resentment dissipated a little.

What on earth was that octopus? It was so powerful... Lin Xiaoxiao frowned and thought as she sat in the rocking chair.

She is the master of the upright sect, so naturally she has to be responsible for the upright people. One elder was seriously injured, and another elder was cut into two pieces on the spot. The upper half of his body could not be found and could not be saved.

Damn it, this is simply a disgrace to her! Lin Xiaoxiao gritted her teeth and walked into the room where the prisoners were held. The spiritual power and demonic energy in these prisoners were completely sealed, and now they were just a group of mortals with strong vitality.

"Hey, you guys..." Lin Xiaoxiao sat in front of several red-robed high priests and Black King Hall cadres and said in a cold voice, "Tell us everything you know, or you will die."

Silence, still silence.

"Okay, you have guts," Lin Xiaoxiao smiled, pointing at the red-robed high priest who was closest to her and said, "Then let's start with you. Who told you to be closer to me..."

"What...what are you going to do?" The red-robed high priest asked in horror. He didn't feel good.

"You'll know soon..." Lin Xiaoxiao took out a dagger and smiled.

"Hey, what's in that room? Why are there so many screams?" Jiuyao pointed at the room where Lin Xiaoxiao was torturing the prisoners and asked Mu Yingxiao next to him.

Mu Ying smiled and took a bite of the fruit and said, "Over there, that's where Lin Xiaoxiao put the prisoners."

"Isn't she afraid of being punished by God for abusing the prisoners?" Jiuyao asked doubtfully.

"Heh, do you think she looks like she's afraid of the law of nature?" Mu Yingxiao shrugged. "And there's no need to worry about cause and effect. Those people are all evil. I wouldn't be surprised if Lin Xiaoxiao killed them right after getting the news."

After a long time, the screams stopped. Lin Xiaoxiao stood in front of the captives and patted the "skeleton" who was still hanging on to his breath and barely alive. She sighed: "Fortunately, I have practiced before. This second time is not bad."

"Okay, let me ask you again," Lin Xiaoxiao looked at the captives, "Do you want to live like this forever, or do you want to be whole and sound?"

The captives collapsed to the ground looking at the pieces of meat all over the ground, and their eyes were filled with fear when they looked at Lin Xiaoxiao.

What kind of person is this? He was tortured to death with thousands of cuts, and still kept alive with elixirs... Is Lin Xiaoxiao a devil? Absolutely a devil! ?

They have done many evil things in their lives and finally met Lin Xiaoxiao.

"Hurry up, I'm very impatient now..." Lin Xiaoxiao's face was dark as she played with the dagger in her hand, "Do you want me to cut them one by one? Okay..."

“Ah...Ahhh!! Ahhhhh!!!” The red-robed high priest, who had turned into a skeleton, shouted hoarsely.

Lin Xiaoxiao leaned over and said, "What's wrong? Does it hurt? Don't move, it might break~"

"Ah...Ah...Ah!" The skeleton-robed high priest in red seemed to be struggling, shaking his body, and it was unknown what he wanted to express.

"Hmm? What do you want to say?" Lin Xiaoxiao looked at the shaking skeleton of the red-robed high priest and asked tentatively.

"Ah! Ahhhhh!" The skeleton-robed high priest nodded desperately.

"You're a good kid if you know your mistakes and correct them," Lin Xiaoxiao stuffed a pill into the mouth of the skeleton red-robed high priest and said with a smile, "Go ahead."

The flesh and blood grew back, and the red-robed high priest, who was originally a skeleton dripping with blood, regained his physical body in an instant.

"Puha, Puha...Ah--Ah! I can speak, I can..." The red-robed high priest was ecstatic, and Lin Xiaoxiao raised her hand to signal him to shut up.

"Okay, tell me quickly, I don't have much patience." The dagger was still in Lin Xiaoxiao's hand. Lin Xiaoxiao looked up and down, sizing up the high priest.

“Yes… yes…” The red-robed high priest swallowed his saliva. Although faith was important, he felt that living was more important now. “The Black King’s Palace is cooperating with our Demon God Cult, saying that they want to work together to plan to kill you…”

"I know about this. Tell me more details," Lin Xiaoxiao waved her hand, and then, as if she suddenly remembered something, she spoke to the other prisoners, "Oh, by the way, if the information you say is the same as what the previous person said, make it into a skeleton as well."

"Ah?" / "What!?" / "I... I want to say it!" / "Get out of the way, I'll go first!"

The scene suddenly became chaotic, and Lin Xiaoxiao coughed, and then it became quiet again.

"Follow the order. Those who break the rules will be made into skeletons." Lin Xiaoxiao sneered and signaled the high priest in red to speak first.

"The Black King's Palace said that they are going to resurrect the Kraken sealed in the Arctic ice field... On the way, they will take a short rest at the Demon God Cult's base in the Ten Thousand Poison Forest..." The red-robed high priest spoke weakly while looking at the dagger in Lin Xiaoxiao's hand, glanced at the fellow cult members next to him, and did not speak again.

It turns out that the giant octopus is a Kraken. The ecology of this world is really rich and colorful.

"Well~Okay, next one." Lin Xiaoxiao pointed to another high priest in red.

"There are three undercover agents in Fengxue Tower, namely Elder Wu Yun, Elder Luo Ding, and Elder Xiao Yunlong," the red-robed high priest spoke very quickly, "and Elder Xinyu in Yingxiang Hall, in..."

It’s not bad to catch twelve undercover elders at once.

Next, Lin Xiaoxiao clicked on them one by one.

"I have the map of the Demon God Cult's strongholds!"/"Xiao Yunlong has a large shield that is said to be indestructible. I know its weakness."/"Lu Ruochi is now looking for cult members who can serve as allies. The ones who are willing to join are the Three Demons of Handan and the Seven Evils of the East Sea."/"I know the locations of all the strongholds of the Black King's Palace except the headquarters in the East Continent!"

……

Half an hour later, Lin Xiaoxiao had finally squeezed out all the intelligence value from the captives. She smiled with satisfaction, then put her hand on the head of the red-robed high priest who had appeared at the beginning.

The red-robed high priest revealed a trace of confusion in his eyes, and then he collapsed all of a sudden.

"This space has been filled with poison. As long as I activate it, you will die immediately without any protection from your cultivation." Lin Xiaoxiao explained calmly and walked in front of the second high priest.

"You... didn't you say you would let us go?!" The high priest stared at Lin Xiaoxiao, his eyes bloodshot.

"That was the beginning, right? Can you please repeat the conditions I stated the second time?" Lin Xiaoxiao sneered.

The second time? The second time... The high priest muttered to himself, gradually coming to his senses: "Do you want to live like this forever, or..."

"Completely."

"Yes," Lin Xiaoxiao put her hand on the head of the high priest, "Isn't his body very intact?"

"I gave you a chance at the beginning~ You can't blame me~ So that's it," Lin Xiaoxiao said with a smile, "Bye~"

There was one more intact corpse.

……

After dealing with the prisoners, Lin Xiaoxiao took the recording stone and hurriedly began the operation to wipe out the traitors.

Are you asking Lin Xiaoxiao if she is not afraid of alerting the enemy? Don't worry, she has also announced the locations of the Demon God Cult and the Black King Palace. Even if there are remnants, they will stay at the Black King Palace headquarters in the East Continent.

Lu Ruochi had long realized that the captives might expose his whereabouts, and that Lin Xiaoxiao would definitely start a sweep as soon as possible, so he took Kraken directly to the East Continent headquarters early in the morning. Gradually, remnants of the Demon God Cult and other strongholds of the Black King's Palace came to the headquarters under his guidance, but the scale was far less than at the beginning.

For example, at the beginning the total number of people on both sides was 1+1=2, but now it is only 0.1.

Lin Xiaoxiao doesn't care what happens to these evil cultivators. They will die sooner or later due to the karma they owe her. She is just getting rid of harm to the people.

Now Lu Ruochi is worried all day long. After all, he doesn't know whether Lin Xiaoxiao has found a way to deal with this situation.

Unfortunately, Lin Xiaoxiao doesn't have this method. The remnants who left spiritual marks will be directly killed by Lu Ruochi. She really has no good solution, which is a pity.

However, it is also good to suppress the Black King Palace and the Demon Cult. Now it is time to concentrate on studying those rare things we got before.

First of all, there were those martial arts books dug out from Shen Qiyun’s grave.

"Thousand Needle Technique"? Lin Xiaoxiao looked at the box of needles and thread in silence for a moment. At first, she thought that it was really just an embroidery needle. Later, when she found out that it was a magic weapon, she was wondering who had the time to turn an embroidery needle into a magic weapon... It turned out to be a man with unique skills in using strange weapons.

"Dragon Blade", "Cloud Destroying Palm", "Body of Hundred Poisons", "Iron Block", "King's Dominance", "Mary Sue Die", "Pure Love Number One in the World", "Minotaur Killing Slash", "The Eternal Number One Domineering Heaven Killing Fist", "Armstrong Cyclone Acceleration Jet Armstrong Cannon"...

What the hell are these things!? I won’t talk about the others, but the last one is definitely wrong, right? These are actually exercises...

Lin Xiaoxiao frowned and pondered for a long time before making a decision—"Iron Block" must not be learned anyway.

Lin Xiaoxiao sighed and took out the "Mindless Lotus Lamp" that Kun Yue had given her before, which was said to contain Buddhist techniques. This thing seemed to be the most reliable no matter how she looked at it.

Lin Xiaoxiao held the "Heartless Lotus Lantern" and looked at it for a long time. She couldn't probe it with her mental power, and she didn't know how to use it... Could it be that she had refined it? No... She couldn't act rashly. What if she failed?

Lin Xiaoxiao held the "Heartless Lotus Lamp" in her hand, but didn't know how to start, so she called Mu Yingxiao and others over.

“I don’t know.”/“Never heard of it.”/“Greek milk~” Mu Yingxiao, Jiuyao, and Ye Yuxie all gave the same answer, that is, they just didn’t know.

Lin Xiaoxiao frowned. Could it be that this thing fell into her hands? Although this lamp looked good and could be used as a decoration, she felt itchy when she thought that there was a technique inside.

"I might know how to open it." Mo Lun stared at the Wuxin Lotus Lamp for a while and spoke tentatively.

"What?" This was really a pleasant surprise. Lin Xiaoxiao didn't have much hope at first, but Mo Lun actually had a way.

"I once had some contact with a cultivator who practiced Buddhist magic. He once said that if you encounter a lotus lantern with red jade on it, it must contain a high-level Buddhist technique. You can open it by showing the Buddhist heritage."

"But..." Mo Lun looked at Lin Xiaoxiao, and what he wanted to express was self-evident.

This Wuxin Lotus Lamp is the only Buddhist inheritance they currently possess.

What should I do? The problem was solved, but now another problem came up. Lin Xiaoxiao's brows, which had just relaxed, furrowed again.

Where can I find a Buddhist tradition that I can learn right away? This thing has disappeared in the underworld...

Lin Xiaoxiao pondered for a moment, and suddenly an idea flashed in her mind. She thought of a method that might be effective.

According to Zhen Yuanzi's words, the gods worshipped by the entire universe are unified, and Buddhism, which has been assimilated into Chinese culture, is also included, right?

Then...are Buddhist scriptures also universally applicable?

Lin Xiaoxiao touched her chin, recalling the passages from the Buddhist scriptures that she still remembered.

"Uh... When Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva practiced the profound Prajna Paramita, he saw that the five aggregates are empty..." Lin Xiaoxiao herself never thought that the Buddhist scriptures she copied for relaxation in her previous life would actually come in handy one day.

Although I stopped copying half of it and forgot a lot... I still remember the beginning part, and it was obvious that this outrageous-sounding method seemed to work, because the lotus lantern was slowly opening.

When Lin Xiaoxiao's brain was about to be emptied of all her memories, the Wuxin Lotus Lamp finally opened completely, and a gentle golden light slowly entered Lin Xiaoxiao's brain.

"Faith, Aspiration and Recitation"? What is that? Lin Xiaoxiao was puzzled for a moment, and then studied it carefully.

Make a statue of yourself, and then do good deeds to satisfy the wishes of believers? After completing the initial practice, you can hear the requests heard by the statue? The more "faith", "wish" and "recitation" you collect, the stronger your body will be, and you can make a golden body... ah? It's so troublesome, and you have to make a statue... Forget it, just do the initial practice first.

The initial practice is not difficult, and you will be good at it after two or three days of practice.

So Lin Xiaoxiao was woken up in the middle of the night.

"Lord God of Burning Sins, here is the sacrifice, please listen to my request..."/"Lord God of Burning Sins, please give me strength..."/"Lord God of Burning Sins..."

Damn it, I'm going to have insomnia. Lin Xiaoxiao stood up in a daze. She woke up in shock from her dying dream. The god turned out to be herself?

No, that statue is also her? Who are you calling a dead martial art? Does that thing look like her at all except that it's also standing?

Lin Xiaoxiao was mumbling about this as she walked out the door. Ye Yuxie heard it and said, "I modified the statue for you. Now it looks exactly like you. Am I good to you?"

Lin Xiaoxiao was silent for a moment, her eyes twitching.

"Thank you, Uncle."

Lin Xiaoxiao had never thought that she would have to get up so late at night to work overtime. "God listens to the wishes of all living beings." In the initial stage of practicing "Faith, Wish and Recitation," it is impossible not to listen to prayers. Only after some progress in practice can one choose not to listen.

I have to practice this thing quickly. God also needs to rest, and Lin Xiaoxiao also needs to sleep.

When Lin Xiaoxiao returned to Yaowang Valley, several hours had passed. Ye Yuxie had finished reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms and was now reading Dream of the Red Chamber.

"Are you back?" Ye Yuxie looked up at Lin Xiaoxiao, then lowered his head again to concentrate on reading.

"You are really at ease," Lin Xiaoxiao rolled her eyes and sat on the rocking chair. She was no longer sleepy, so she sat next to Ye Yuxie and started chatting with her, "Where did you see?"

"Chapter 72," Ye Yuxie turned to the next page, "What kind of petitions are they?"

"Revenge, blah blah. Most of the problems will be solved once we figure out the situation," Lin Xiaoxiao shrugged. "Song Hanyun said he was going to train, so why hasn't he come back yet?"

"What? Are you worried now?" Ye Yuxie made a deer sound beside her, and Lin Xiaoxiao glared at her.

"Okay, don't worry, nothing will happen. It's not like you can't sense it..." Ye Yuxie spread his hands and said, "It's just that the place is a little far and a little troublesome."

Lin Xiaoxiao curled her lips. If it weren’t for you, would she let Song Hanyun go out alone?

Two days before Lin Xiaoxiao returned, Song Hanyun finished teaching swordsmanship to the disciples of Fengxue Tower, and then asked Ye Yuxie if there were any good places in the East Continent for training.

Although Ye Yuxie didn't know, he easily got the news by pretending to be Lin Xiaoxiao. It was a bit difficult to be told not to make the training ground unusable...

Anyway, in the end Song Hanyun went directly to the most dangerous training place.

Because of this, Lin Xiaoxiao would complain to Ye Yuxie every few days.

"If you're worried, just go and take a look." Ye Yuxie said.

"He wants to go on the trial alone, and I don't want to disturb him." Lin Xiaoxiao muttered, took the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" and started reading.

"If you don't want to interfere with his trial, why don't you just watch from the side and not get caught? Isn't it better not to participate?" Ye Yuxie smiled and said, "Go ahead. At worst, I can help you watch over here."

"..." Lin Xiaoxiao covered her face with the Classic of Mountains and Seas, "No."

Haha, what an awkward feeling~ Ye Yuxie didn't continue speaking and just read quietly beside him.