Chapter 137: Holy Monk

As soon as Xing Chi appeared, the scene fell silent for a moment.

Afterward, everyone stopped talking and stood up one after another, bowing to Xing Chi as juniors.

"Master."

"Master Xing Chi."

Xing Chi started walking the Ordinary Jianghu in his twenties and had been doing so for nearly seventy years.

In these seventy years, he had done good, eliminated evil, saved people, and killed people, but he had never done a single wrong thing.

The era name of the Great Ming had changed four times, and four emperors had been changed. Ordinary Jianghu people came and went, changing seven or eight batches. Almost every Ordinary Jianghu person, before stepping into the Ordinary Jianghu, would be told by their master.

"Master Xing Chi of Shaolin is the most virtuous and highly respected holy monk in the Ordinary Jianghu."

"If there is any major event in the Ordinary Jianghu that cannot be solved in the future, go to Shaolin and find Master Xing Chi."

"If you have no way to heaven and no door to enter the earth, go find Master Xing Chi to preside over justice."

Seniority, virtue, Wu Gong, deeds—if one wanted to find a "perfect person" in the Ordinary Jianghu, besides Xing Chi, there was no second person to think of.

Xing Chi turned around, Yong Jie supported him, and he returned the salute to everyone one by one.

He no longer had the robustness of three days ago, and that "Jin Gang" physique that exceeded common sense had already become withered.

He could no longer walk on his own.

Xing Chi was going to die.

Generally speaking, those above the Peak Realm who had completed the path, unless they possessed other incomplete realms, would not fall into the Five Decays of Heaven and Man.

But Xing Chi relied on Shaolin's foundation, took an evil path, and forcibly pushed "Jin Gang" to a level beyond perfection, so how could he not pay the price?

Li Miao had also thought about saving him and had checked his body and meridians.

Xing Chi's body could no longer be considered a "human"; his muscles and bones had gradually solidified, and his true energy had turned into some kind of extremely concentrated gelatinous substance, constantly piercing every inch of his meridians and tearing every internal organ.

And this true energy could not break through his "Jin Gang" skin and flesh, so it trapped all the blood inside Xing Chi's body.

Therefore, his face looked normal.

It could be said that since the battle with Ji Tianrui, Xing Chi had been experiencing pain far exceeding the Five Decays of Heaven and Man, a "death by a thousand cuts."

For this situation, the Jia Yi Divine Art was useless.

Li Miao only had one way.

His "biological welding" Wu Gong that cured Liu Baiyun might be able to cut off limbs and internal organs from villains and graft them onto Xing Chi.

Li Miao mentioned this method to Xing Chi, and Xing Chi smiled and refused.

"Killing life to prolong life is like the demonic path."

"I have lived my whole life cautiously, walking on thin ice, and finally managed to be a good monk. If I do such a thing at the end, wouldn't it ruin these ninety-plus years of cultivation?"

"Cause and effect, rise and fall, are all karma. I should just let go of this stinking skin and go see the Buddha I believed in my whole life."

Li Miao could only respect Xing Chi's choice.

Back to the present, everyone had been busy bowing their heads to salute Xing Chi.

When they raised their heads and saw Xing Chi's appearance, they were all shocked and lost their color.

"Master!"

"Master Xing Chi!"

"This! This!"

It wasn't just panic; some people even shed tears before they could speak, sobbing uncontrollably.

The Ming Sect attacked the mountain gate, Xing Chi suddenly wanted to step down, and even waited only three days, not waiting for those major sects with real weight to come and pay respects.

Generally speaking, it was easy to deduce that Xing Chi might have an accident.

But, there was truly not a single person who thought Xing Chi would die.

How could he die?

Besieging Bright Peak, the Ming Sect ignited a mountain fire, Xing Chi rushed into the fire alone to save the trapped Ordinary Jianghu people, and Xing Chi didn't die.

Disaster in Fujian, Xing Chi exhausted his true energy several times, was nearly drained, and let out his own rations to the disaster-stricken people, not eating for nearly a month, withered and exhausted, and Xing Chi didn't die.

Luliu Tower ran rampant in the ordinary martial arts world, exterminating the entire Cangjian Mountain Villa, Xing Chi traveled five hundred miles day and night to the mountain, protected the villa master's orphan daughter on the mountain peak, resisted the siege of hundreds of killers from Luliu Tower for three days, bathed in blood, and finally dragged it until the ordinary martial arts world righteous path returned to support, and Xing Chi still didn't die.

Going up the mountain, going down the mountain, eliminating evil, saving people—these things, some were even forgotten as time passed.

Xing Chi was always there, in the Ordinary Jianghu.

Ordinary Jianghu people had long regarded him as a kind of faith belonging exclusively to Ordinary Jianghu people.

As if as long as he was still there, this Ordinary Jianghu still had justice, still had a reliance when there was no way to heaven and no door to enter the earth, still had a righteous path that could be sincerely entrusted and completely believed in.

If it was said that Xing Chi believed in Buddha, then the Buddha in the hearts of Ordinary Jianghu people was Xing Chi.

Seeing Xing Chi like this, everyone felt as if the sky had collapsed.

"This, this!"

Sect Leader Xiao, who was still thinking about arguing with Li Miao, no longer had the heart to compete for jealousy, stammering, his hands clenched into fists, tears flowing from his eyes.

When he first entered the Ordinary Jianghu, he provoked a master who was both righteous and evil.

According to Ordinary Jianghu rules, it was his fault at the time. Although it was a bit excessive for that person to want his life, firstly that person's Wu Gong was too high, and secondly, he was at fault first, so no one stood up for him.

With no way out, he found Xing Chi, who was saving disaster victims nearby at the time.

Xing Chi took him to find that master, lowered his head and apologized, and said a few words.

"Young Hero Xiao is still young, and perhaps he will save many lives in the future."

"I practice Buddhism and lack merit the most; why not let me repay this debt for him."

"In the future, the lives he saves will all be counted as my merit."

"The Ordinary Jianghu road is long, and there are many obstacles. Too many people take the wrong step because of a single thought."

"I should pull him up and give him a chance to make up for it."

After saying this, Xing Chi slapped himself and was immediately seriously injured, spitting blood.

That master then wrote off the grudge with Sect Leader Xiao.

Although Sect Leader Xiao still couldn't change his temper and always did some stubborn and childish things, he firmly remembered Xing Chi's words.

Since that day, every time Sect Leader Xiao saved someone, he would send a letter to Xing Chi.

Saying that the young hero Xiao of that year had repaid a portion of merit to Master Xing Chi.

Xing Chi would also return a letter, writing a word of encouragement.

So Sect Leader Xiao continued to save people and continued to write letters.

Many people present had similar experiences.

The square, which was very lively just a moment ago, suddenly echoed with sobbing sounds, and many Ordinary Jianghu people who usually put on airs couldn't hold their weapons, dropping them on the ground and covering their faces to cry.

"Ma, Master, is there, is there any way?"

Sect Leader Xiao asked tremblingly.

Xing Chi smiled, and this smile made Sect Leader Xiao stunned for a moment.

Xing Chi's teeth had already fallen out quite a bit.

Cultivating to the Peak Realm, one already had a bit of the charm of seeing the divine without being damaged, and would not appear with the appearance of death like sparse hair and loose teeth until death.

"I have disturbed everyone."

"I originally wanted to talk to everyone about this later, but my skin bag is breaking too fast and can't support the scene anymore."

Xing Chi said a few words and seemed unable to support himself. After a while, he continued.

"Today, besides wanting to pass the position to my inferior disciple."

"I really do want to tell everyone."

"I am going to enter Nirvana."

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