Chapter 394: Yin and Yang
Chapter 394: Yin and Yang
By the Yingchou Gorge, the evil dragon's huge body as big as a mountain froze in mid-air, its eyes widened almost popping out of its sockets as it stared at the five-colored light flowing around Xu Qing, and the dragon blood under its scales seemed to be frozen.
Just now, when Xu Qing raised his hand and waved lightly, five streaks of red, green, yellow, white and black tore through the underworld and drew out the stream water. The scene kept replaying in its mind - the chaotic aura wrapped in that light was clearly exactly the same as the divine bird that tore through chaos in ancient legends.
"Innate five-color divine light!"
The roar from the evil dragon's throat caused the huge rocks beside the stream to collapse one after another. The dragon's tail unconsciously swept across the cliff, leaving behind three bottomless gullies.
It suddenly remembered the record in the dragon clan's classics: the phoenix gave birth to the peacock and the big peng. The peacock swallowed the Buddha into his stomach and became the Great Bright King, while the big peng fed on the dragon clan and could swallow the entire universe in one gulp.
The light flowing around Xu Qing's body at this moment was exactly the same as the five-colored divine light in the legend that could suppress the heavens. This made it feel cold on its back, and the cold sweat seeping out from between its scales dripped into the stream, actually exploding into bursts of black mist on the rock wall that had drained the bitter sea water.
When the thin black divine dog swaggered past in the void, the evil dragon even forgot to threaten him.
It was not until Xu Qing's figure disappeared into the depths of the mist that it woke up from its dream. In a trance, it seemed to hear a clear whisper in its ear: "Don't worry, Lord Dragon, I don't eat dragon meat!"
The sound was like the morning bell and evening drum, which startled the huge dragon head and caused it to shake violently. The strong wind it stirred up up the ancient trees on the shore by their roots.
After coming to its senses, the evil dragon hurriedly dived into the bottom of the stream. Its huge body stirred up whirlpools at the bottom of the water, but the drained water was restored at a speed visible to the naked eye - the restriction set by Bodhisattva Guanyin had the characteristic of "no increase or decrease".
At this time, ripples appeared in the restriction, which continuously brought the bitter sea water in from the void.
At the bottom of the dark ravine, the evil dragon curled up into a ball, its horns pressed against the rock wall and wailed. It knew that letting Xu Qing go would mean missing an opportunity to break the ban, and it might take several epochs before it could see the light of day again. Its claws scratched the rock wall unconsciously, leaving deep claw marks, which were the testimony of its unwillingness.
"Master, I didn't expect you to have the innate five-colored divine light!" The thin black divine dog ran madly to catch up with Xu Qing, with the Netherworld Ghost Vine that it had just caught still stuck between its canine teeth, and its amber vertical pupils were full of shock.
It shook off the Yellow Spring mud on its body and tore at Xu Qing's Taoist robe with its front paws. "This kind of ancient magical power may not even be seen by the Ten Kings of Hell!"
Xu Qing stood with his hands behind his back, with five-colored lights lingering on his fingertips. Hearing this, he smiled faintly and said, "Can't the Lord God notice it?"
The thin black divine dog drooped its ears and swept the ground with its tail weakly: "The power of the five elements, when my body was at its peak, I might be able to sense it, but now..."
Its voice gradually weakened, and it looked at its current body with a trace of loneliness in its eyes.
But he quickly pulled himself together again, and his claws dug sparks on the ground: "But with the Taoist's Five-Colored Divine Light, even if we meet the Golden-Haired Howler and his Purple-Gold Bell, we will still be able to fight!"
"Golden-haired roar, purple-gold bell?" Xu Qing shook his sleeves slightly.
"That golden-haired roar is no ordinary monster!" The thin black divine dog lowered its voice, and the surrounding Yellow Spring mist suddenly surged, as if startled by its words, "It was originally a golden light fairy under the seat of the Taoist Patriarch Shangqing. It was subdued by the Bodhisattva Guanyin with the Three Lights Divine Water and became a mount. The purple gold bell was even refined by the Taoist Patriarch Taiqing himself in the Eight Diagrams Furnace. Once it is sacrificed..."
The thin black divine dog suddenly stopped, and its claws left three scorch marks on the ground. "Wind, fire, and smoke all came out at the same time. The wind can blow away the soul, and the fire can burn the indestructible body. The smoke even contains 9981 soul-bewitching spells. The Monkey King had used them before!"
Xu Qing stroked the jade pendant on his waist, and five-colored divine light circulated around his body, refining all the yellow spring mist that was attacking him.
He smiled calmly, knowing:
On the path of cultivation, a slight mistake can lead to a huge error. Since Jin Guangxian has become a mount, there is no possibility for him to reach the top.
He looked at the Fengdu Ghost Town looming in the distance.
After a while, the man and the dog had reached the Huangquan Canyon behind Yingchou Gorge.
At the entrance of the valley hung a curtain made of thousands of bones, and the Yellow Spring water at the bottom of the valley was like boiling iron, surging with countless twisted souls.
As soon as Xu Qing approached, he felt a stabbing pain in his sea of consciousness. The vengeful spirits floating in the underworld shrieked, and the sound waves turned into substantial chains that entangled his soul.
"Break!" Xu Qing uttered a word lightly, and the five-colored divine light turned into a pillar of light that shot straight into the sky.
The bitter sea water just collected in Yingchoujian poured down from the light, like an upside-down river in the sky.
The water of Bitter Sea glows with a faint blue fluorescence, and every drop of it carries the sufferings of all living beings throughout their lifetimes. The moment it collides with the resentful spirits in the Yellow Spring Water, the entire canyon is swept by huge waves.
The resentful spirits were soaked in the bitter sea water, and the love, hatred, separation and death of their previous lives came flooding back like a tide. They struggled madly in severe pain, and their screams shook the rock walls of the canyon, causing them to drop rubble.
The thin black divine dog spewed out dark fire from its mouth, burning any approaching evil spirits into dust.
Above the canyon, the mist of the Yellow Spring and the steam of the bitter sea intertwined to form a strange vortex. Xu Qing looked at this chaotic scene, and the five-colored light in his eyes became brighter and brighter.
Suddenly, the sky suddenly split open with seven-treasure light.
The golden-haired beast descended on a purple cloud, with three golden bells jingling around its neck.
The monster's entire body was like molten gold, with a lion's head and dragon horns. It opened its mouth and uttered a clear Taoist voice: "I didn't expect that Lü Dongbin's disciples would actually learn the magical powers of the Peacock King."
As it spoke, the first purple gold bell vibrated in response.
Instantly, the wind howled, stirring Xu Qing's soul, and the protective aura crumbled bit by bit. He crossed his brows with his fingers like a sword, and a five-colored divine light shot up from the Niwan Palace, condensing into a canopy of five elements rotating in the void.
"Li fire gives birth to Kun earth, Kan water moistens Xun wood - turn!" Xu Qing stepped on the eight trigrams, and the green wood transformed by divine light grew wildly in the wind, and in a blink of an eye, a towering barrier was built on both sides of the Yellow Springs.
The vengeful spirits in the underworld were blown up by the wind, and crashed into the Jiamu barrier, instantly turning into flying phosphorous flames.
Upon seeing this, Jin Guangxian threw out the second golden bell, which emitted a sky-burning flame.
This fire was no ordinary fire. It was the Six Ding Divine Fire that had been forged in the Bagua Furnace to burn the Dinghai Shenzhen. Wherever it passed, space was distorted and even the Yellow Spring Water was evaporated into scarlet blood mist.
"Come on!" Xu Qing laughed, and the five-colored canopy rolled down.
The northern Xuanming true water derived from the innate water avenue collided with the divine fire, and the shadows of the blue dragon and white tiger appeared in the steaming clouds.
The thin black divine dog took the opportunity to leap into the clouds, its body suddenly increased a hundred times in size, and its fangs and teeth tore open the auspicious clouds that protected the Golden Light Immortal.
When the third golden bell rang, chaos suddenly arose between heaven and earth.
Thousands of illusions appeared in the billowing poisonous smoke. His heart was slightly shaken, and suddenly the barking of the thin black divine dog sounded in his ears: "Master, wake up quickly! This is the resentment of the unfinished elixir in the Bagua furnace!"
The five-colored divine light suddenly condensed like a thread, and Xu Qing put his fingers together and wrote "Huang Ting" in the void.
The golden scripture penetrated the poisonous fog and shone on the golden hoop on Jin Guangxian's head, which had transformed into the Guanyin restriction. The monster immediately wailed and rolled over, and the purple gold bells clanged to the ground.
“So that’s how it is.” Xu Qing took the golden bell from mid-air and saw the Sanskrit words “Om Mani Padme Hum” engraved on the inside. This is the six-syllable mantra of Infinite Light, or Amitabha Buddha.
At this moment, the Yellow Spring water suddenly parted to the sides, revealing the white bones under the riverbed. The thin black divine dog's nose twitched, and suddenly it stood up: "This... This is the remains of the Venerable Golden Winged Dapeng!"
Xu Qing looked intently and saw a hundred-foot-long gilded skeleton with blue and black tail feathers inserted in it, symbolizing wind and thunder.
There was a glass relic embedded in the skull of the corpse.
The black divine dog also saw the colored glaze relic and said in horror, "The relic of the ancient Buddha Dipankara, Taoist priest..."
Before it finished speaking, Xu Qing understood what the thin black divine dog meant. It wanted Xu Qing to get the relic.
It turns out that there are three lamps between heaven and earth, one is the Precious Lotus Lamp of Queen Nuwa, one is the Eight Scenery Palace Lamp, and the last one is the coffin lamp of the ancient Buddha Rāhula.
This colored glaze relic is the coffin lamp.
Xu Qing stared at it for a moment but did not take the relic.
He suddenly looked forward.
A black cloud came over like a mountain or sea. Not long after, a demon king with thick eyebrows and big eyes came to the side of the golden-haired roar and said with a big smile: "Ah Huang, how could you be bullied like this by a young man?"
"Black Bear, stop talking nonsense. This kid has mastered the Five-Colored Divine Light of the Peacock King. You are no match for him."
The Black Bear Demon King looked at Xu Qing and said, "Boy, do you really have to cross Yinshan Mountain today?"
"It's okay to come tomorrow. I'm not in a hurry." Xu Qing smiled.
Upon hearing this, the Black Bear Demon King couldn't help but laugh, "Interesting, interesting."
The golden-haired man roared, "Black Bear, are you going to take action or not? Anyway, I have already taken action."
The Black Bear Demon King glanced at it and said, "Ah Huang, you weren't letting the water out just now, were you?"
The golden-haired roared angrily, "You know how powerful this five-colored divine light is, so stop slandering me."
The Black Bear Demon King rubbed his fists and said, "This is not the first time you have not put in any effort."
The golden-haired tiger remained silent.
The Black Bear Demon King continued to look at Xu Qing, "Boy, the Five-Colored Divine Light is indeed powerful, but I am born with divine power and am not afraid of your Five Elements Confinement. Let's change to a literary fight."
Xu Qing smiled: "What does Wen Dou say?"
Black Bear Demon King: "I will recite the Heart Sutra once. If you still don't change your mind after I finish reciting it, you will win."
The thin black divine dog transmitted the message: "Master, the Heart Sutra was passed down by Zen Master Wuchao. It contains the fundamental mystery of Buddhism. You must be careful."
However, it did not persuade Xu Qing to fight the black bear directly.
Because this fellow's physical combat power is almost as good as that of Qingyuan Miaodao Zhenjun. He is a rare strong man in the Three Realms and Six Paths who does not rely on magic weapons and weapons.
If Xu Qing fights him with his original spirit, he will definitely suffer a loss.
Hearing this, Xu Qing said softly, "Then let's do as Daoist Brother Black Bear says."
The Black Bear Demon King smiled slightly, "I don't like fighting in my life. It's really great that we can be so friendly."
As soon as it finished speaking, it clasped its bear paws together, which were like a palm leaf fan.
Xu Qing suddenly discovered that the Buddhist beads on his wrist were made of bodhi tree seeds. As the sound of the Buddhist chanting sounded, the Yellow Springs Valley was covered with udumbia flowers, and the golden scriptures floating from the stamens intertwined in the air to form the shape of a brocade robe.
"When Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva was practicing the profound Prajnaparamita..."
As the first word came out, the five-colored divine light in Xu Qingni’s palace suddenly stagnated.
The thin black divine dog suddenly howled towards the sky, and the howl was mixed with a terrifying pressure far beyond its current cultivation level: "Master, be careful! This Sanskrit chant is tampering with cause and effect!"
But it was too late, Xu Qing saw double images in front of his eyes.
A Bodhi pagoda was hung in the Yellow Springs Canyon at some point, and countless resentful spirits were losing their hostility in the Buddha's light.
"Seeing that the five aggregates are empty, one can overcome all suffering."
The black bear demon's chanting became more solemn, and with each sentence it chanted, a golden lotus appeared under its feet. Xu Qing was shocked to find that his Taoist robe was fading, and the five-colored divine light was actually turning into the seven treasures of Buddhism.
He smiled calmly, as if he had expected it.
And deep in Xu Qing’s soul, the innate Taiyi Dao seed was flowing endlessly.
Under the mysterious rhythm of Taoism, the skeleton of Dapeng at the bottom of Huangquan Canyon suddenly vibrated, and its blue-black tail feathers shot out, spreading out its wings that covered the sky behind Xu Qing.
At this moment, all of Xu Qingyuan's spirit's yin and yang energies were poured into the sky-covering wings that activated the wind and thunder.
It turned out that Xu Qing had already used his Taiyi numerology to figure out the magical uses of the skeleton.
At the same time, Xu Qing slashed his palm with his fingers. The blood containing the innate five elements sprinkled on the glazed relic, and the coffin lamp suddenly lit up with a faint blue flame.
This light illuminated the three thousand worlds and burned holes in the Black Bear Demon's Buddhist robes.
The golden-haired beast suddenly jumped up, and the purple-gold bell transformed into a Samadhi Fire Wheel and crashed into the coffin lamp.
The thin black divine dog transformed into a three-headed, six-armed Dharma image, with its six paws each holding a mourning stick, a soul-calling banner, or other underworld implements, and it forcibly held up the fire wheel.
The rock walls of the canyon peeled off in the collision, revealing the densely packed stone carvings of the Diamond Sutra inside.
Countless scriptures like the grains of sand in the Ganges transformed into layers of barriers, locking up Xu Qing and his Zhatian wings.
Xu Qing stood with his hands behind his back, reading the scriptures quietly.
On the other side, the thin black god dog and the golden-haired tiger were fighting to a standstill.
At this moment, the thin black divine dog exerted a strength far beyond its current body, and the gray and white color in its eyes became more and more intense.
Seeing this, Golden Haired Howler said, "Black Dog, for the sake of Ksitigarbha, I won't fight you to the death. It's his good fortune that the boy can come out."
The black divine dog said: "Golden Hair, why do you have to work so hard for the Bodhisattva Guanyin? Just help me this time. When I find my master, I will save him from this calamity that will never end."
Golden Haired Howler sneered, "Where can I escape to in this sea of suffering in this world?"
The black divine dog: "You have brought shame to the Jie Sect."
The golden-haired roar felt painful when he heard this, and said, "What do you know..."
One black and one yellow, the two divine beasts are confronting each other passionately.
Xu Qing, on the other hand, was in a relaxed mood.
The text of the Diamond Sutra is truly the most wonderful in the world.
On the other hand, since it is the Heart Sutra, its ability to restrain the primordial spirit is truly unique in the three realms and six paths.
Xu Qing was trapped in the scripture barrier and couldn't find a way to escape for the time being.
But he not only possesses the magic of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements, but also has the innate Taiyi Dao seed in his body.
His eyes were like a chaotic hole, constantly absorbing the essence of the scriptures and injecting them into the Taiyi Dao Seed. The innate Taiyi Dao operated silently, and gradually, the essence of the Diamond Sutra was like melting snow, pouring into Xu Qing's heart.
However, things did not go as smoothly as Xu Qing had imagined.
As the Heart Sutra was digested by his Etheric Dao Seed, a lotus flower silently blossomed in the depths of Xu Qing's soul.
There was actually an image of Avalokitesvara sitting on a lotus inside.
(End of this chapter)