Ye Qing rummaged through his pockets but couldn't find the Buddha's Relic anywhere. Could it have fallen sowhere?
Just as Ye Qing was about to return to the stone corridor to search, he suddenly noticed the black flowers in the stone chamber beginning to move.
Ye Qing had been wondering how these black flowers appeared. Could they be mobile? Now, seeing the black flowers start to move, Ye Qing was imdiately intrigued and didn't have ti to worry about the Buddha's Relic. Instead, he closely observed the black flowers, wanting to understand what was happening with them.
Those black flowers slowly swayed, beginning to fold in their own unique way. The stems and flower heads folded backward, while the roots rose slowly. The slender leaves on the stems fell to the ground, subsequently supporting the entire flower, resembling four legs.
Once this transformation was complete, the roots of these flowers lifted upward, facing forward. Suddenly, the roots opened wide, as if the bud had suddenly blossod. The roots spread open to reveal sothing round, appearing like a face.
Seeing this, Ye Qing nearly gasped in shock. What erged from the roots indeed resembled a face, complete with eyes, a mouth, and tendrils, looking much like a small insect. The slender leaves appeared to be legs, supporting the plant. The thick stem seed to form the body of this insect, while the rear swung black flowers now curled like a bud, hanging behind the stem, resembling a rather large tail!
After transforming into this form, those slender leaves touching the ground started to shift like legs, silently leaving the area and entering the stone corridor. During this period, Ye Qing stared in amazent at everything, completely forgetting what he was supposed to do.
It was only then that Ye Qing understood the aning of the blood-written words soone had left before. In those words was the character for 'insect,' which Ye Qing hadn't understood at the ti. Now, he finally comprehended it. That character referred to these black flowers, which transford into a monstrously mobile insect. Truly bizarre! Was this the Instantaneous Blossom? But was it a plant or an animal? Instantaneous Blossom turned out to be a mobile insect?
Ye Qing was filled with shock, and it took him a long ti to regain his senses. By that ti, the black flowers in the stone chamber had vanished, leaving only the lifeless body of Wan Yan Yong. Wan Yan Yong lost his life here, ultimately gaining nothing. Until his death, he never understood what had happened, nor the peculiar nature of the Instantaneous Blossom.
Taking a deep breath, Ye Qing turned and walked back into the stone corridor to take another look at the black flowers. However, the corridor now lay empty, not a trace of the flowers in sight, as if they had never appeared.
Unable to find the black flowers, Ye Qing did not persist. He turned on his flashlight and began searching the corridor for the Buddha's Relic. Yet, despite his lengthy search, he found nothing. The Buddha's Relic seed to have vanished into thin air, leaving Ye Qing puzzled.
Earlier, he distinctly rembered having the Buddha's Relic and placing it in his pocket. During this ti, only Wan Yan Yong had entered the stone chamber, and no one else. So where could the Buddha's Relic have gone? This was incredibly strange.
After mulling over the situation, Ye Qing still could not figure out where the Buddha's Relic had disappeared to. Since he couldn't find it, he decided not to dwell on the matter. Heading back into the stone chamber, he picked up a silk cloth from the ground. This cloth ca from the wooden box that held the Buddha's Relic and was inscribed with writing, though he didn't know what it said.
Though the cloth had been stored for a considerable ti, it had been kept preserved within the compartnt of the wooden box and showed no decay. The writing on it was clear. Ye Qing read through it carefully and finally understood the origins of the Buddha's Relic.
It turned out that the Buddha's Relic was sothing the Master of Du Wang inadvertently acquired from an ancient temple after erging invincible from the Heaven Earth Man Three Gates. At the ti, the Master of Du Wang was unparalleled, a supre force. However, upon obtaining the Buddha's Relic, he was unknowingly influenced by Buddhist powers. From then on, he carried the Buddha's Relic with him and ca to Mount Duwang, establishing the Doomsday Sect. He dramatically changed his forr ruthless persona, setting down rules for the Doomsday Sect: any wrongdoers entering the sect would not have their past misdeeds pursued. The intent was to promote the Buddhist ideal of conversion and the philosophy of laying down arms to beco a Buddha imdiately.
Knowing his end was near, the Master of Du Wang wanted to hand over the Buddha's Relic to a highly skilled Buddhist master. However, at that ti, Xiaolin Temple was lacking in capable individuals, and handing the relic over to them might not safeguard it and could bring disaster instead. If soone with ulterior motives obtained the Buddha's Relic, it would be an unnecessary catastrophe. Thus, the Master of Du Wang left the Buddha's Relic in his tomb and set up chanisms to test those who entered. Only soone from the Buddhist Sect could obtain the relic, and it required soone who practiced the Vajra Indestructible Body; otherwise, they would perish under the Instantaneous Blossom.
The Master of Du Wang's intention was to protect the Buddha's Relic. Only those from the Buddhist Sect who had practiced the Vajra Indestructible Body could take it, ensuring that only top experts, capable of safeguarding the relic, could acquire it. That was his main reason!
Understanding the intention behind the chanisms, Ye Qing admired the Master of Du Wang even more. For a person to set such a clever chanism to protect the Buddha's Relic even in dying monts was indeed extraordinary!
Looking further, Ye Qing found another line of small characters at the bottom of the silk cloth. Studying it carefully, he saw it was just a sigh—ti to attend the appointnt. A warning to future generations: do not enter the Heaven Earth Man Three Gates!
The mont Ye Qing read this line, his heart skipped a beat, reminding him of an earlier encounter with the Divine Doctor, An Shiping. At that ti, Divine Doctor An Shiping had claid to have an appointnt to attend, staying in Shenchuan City only briefly before leaving. Additionally, he also warned against entering the Heaven Earth Man Three Gates. Here, the Master of Du Wang left similar words: to attend an appointnt and advise others against entering the Heaven Earth Man Three Gates. Why were their words so similar?
Moreover, there was no body within the coffin of the Master of Du Wang. Where had his remains gone?
Ye Qing took a deep breath, observing the empty coffin, feeling the situation was highly unusual. Two individuals who had entered the Heaven Earth Man Three Gates both spoke of attending an appointnt and warned others not to enter the gates. What sort of appointnt was it? Were they both keeping the sa appointnt? Having entered Heaven Earth Man Three Gates and achieved the status of a Supre, why did they then advise others against entering?
Ye Qing was filled with questions. Yet, after scrutinizing the silk cloth multiple tis, he found nothing more. The cloth contained limited information about the Buddha's Relic and ended with the Master of Du Wang's sigh, leaving no clues, making it impossible to decipher what the Master was referring to.
"Heaven Earth Man Three Gates?" Ye Qing murmured, holding the silk cloth with a slight frown, "What exactly is inside? Why do those who entered later advise against it? So many strive to enter, yet those who have been inside seem to hold such an attitude?"
The darkness of the stone chamber remained silent. No one could answer Ye Qing's questions, nor could anyone resolve his doubts. After pondering for a long while without an answer, Ye Qing finally gave up. The information he had about the Heaven Earth Man Three Gates was too scarce to deduce what lay within. It seed only by gathering more information could the truth be unveiled.
Ye Qing once more searched the stone chamber for the Buddha's Relic, but ultimately found nothing. Helplessly, he left the fad instrunts he had acquired in the stone chamber. These fad instrunts were useless on the outside for the ti being, and if Du Canglang took them, it would be a loss. Storing the fad instrunts in the stone chamber ensured they couldn't be taken by others. If Ye Qing ever had the chance, he could return to retrieve them. After all, he realized he could easily access the stone corridor.
As for the secret manuals, Ye Qing left several, only pocketing three of the smallest ones, which were thin and hard to detect, convenient to carry out.
Once everything was arranged, Ye Qing lifted Wan Yan Yong's body and moved it into the stone corridor. Although Wan Yan Yong was deceased, Ye Qing didn't want his remains tainting the stone chamber.
(Two chapters owed from before have been added tonight.)
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