Chapter 584: Biting People Along the Internet Cable (23)

"..."

At this moment, Chijiao felt somewhat bewildered.

He watched as the Faith Power rose from the top of Ma Jiu's head, flew toward the outside of Heaven, and then quickly flew back, falling into her body.

To tell the truth, he did not understand.

Because he was worried about alerting the other party prematurely, he had deliberately ignored the situation on Ma Jiu's side; he had considered many scenarios, but he had never imagined a scene like this.

The devout Believer prayed frantically, while the deity being worshipped impatiently batted the faith back time and time again.

Huh?

This, is this right?

Chijiao's first reaction was that the other party had already discovered his presence and was putting on a performance for him.

But after he carefully sensed it for a while, he discovered that the other party did not seem to have noticed his concealment at all.

So, did the other party really not want this Faith Power?

As soon as the thought appeared, Chijiao shook his head, feeling it was somewhat unrealistic; how could anyone give it up?

He was unwilling to believe it, but the situation was right before his eyes, and he had to believe it.

And after observing carefully, he made a new discovery.

The other party did not want this Faith Power, only symbolically accepting the small portion that truly could not be returned; that part only accounted for one percent of the total Faith Power.

The remaining ninety-nine percent of the Faith Power returned to Ma Jiu, and after being purified by the deity, the effect of that Faith Power became even more obvious, manifesting directly on her body and making her constitution increasingly healthy.

This created an interesting situation.

The Believer prayed to the deity, the deity did not want it and casually batted the prayer back, but the Believer did not know this, and the batted-back faith, after being purified, was equivalent to a favor bestowed by the deity, acting directly upon the Believer.

Thus, the Believer, feeling they had received divine grace, felt they were being looked after by the deity, their faith became even more devout, and they began another cycle... it just kept going round and round like this.

"Uh..."

The corners of the monk Chijiao's mouth twitched, and for a moment, he did not know what to say.

After a long while, he sighed to himself: "What... what kind of business is this?"

"Holy Monk?" Ma Yao, who was waiting beside him, blinked his eyes; he had not expected the first sentence the Holy Monk said after his silence to be like this, which made him feel very uneasy, and he hurriedly asked: "What did you discover? Is my mother's condition very bad?"

"No, she is very well, very well indeed." Chijiao did not know how to explain it to this child...

Should he tell him: your mother was not only not harvested by that Fox Immortal, but on the contrary, she was constantly freeloading off the other party, unintentionally using the other party as a purification machine for Faith Power...

"My mother is very well?" Ma Yao was stunned; could it be that the Fox Immortal was really a kind deity? Had he misunderstood the other party before?

If that were the case, would the Fox Immortal be angry? Would she blame his mother because of this?

"Let's go back first. Since the other party does not seem to have any malice, I will go and have a chat with them." The monk Chijiao ignored what the child was struggling with; he decided to have a frank chat with the other party himself.

From the existing intelligence, it seemed the other party really was just helping out when they saw an injustice, destroying a Ghost temple and saving Ma Jiu, only to be remembered by her and passively become the Fox Immortal in her mouth.

Chijiao felt that someone capable of such actions was at least not evil, and compared to other existences hidden in the Western Desert, there might be a possibility of them becoming an ally.

Chijiao wanted to overthrow the current rule of the Western Desert; he understood that relying on his own strength alone was not enough, and he needed to find more allies, to find some like-minded people to do it with him.

Regardless of whether the other party accepted, he had to try to lobby them.

"How could it be like this? Is His state so poor? This..."

The monk Chijiao's brows were tightly locked, his expression somewhat regretful and also somewhat hurt.

Just now, when his main body returned to the vicinity of the carriage, the monk Chijiao directly borrowed the way Ma Jiu prayed to also learn from her and pray to that "Fox Immortal," extending his goodwill.

He should have succeeded; that Fox Immortal had detected his presence at the first moment.

However, the other party immediately made a move that the monk Chijiao had not expected... the moment the other party felt his prayer, they directly cut off his perception and directly placed a Restriction on his prayer permissions.

They directly silenced him!

"... There's no need to be so careful, right?" Chijiao could not help but mutter to himself; the other party's overreaction really left him somewhat bewildered.

The other side was simply too cautious.

Chijiao understood that the other party's situation might not be that good, that they were somewhat weak after just recovering and did not want someone of the same level to discover their true strength, but such an overreaction still made him feel a bit hurt.

"This poor monk has accumulated virtue and done good for two lifetimes and once sat on the throne of a Buddha; when have I ever done evil? When have I ever been guarded against like this?"

He felt very wronged, feeling that the other party had completely misunderstood him.

The monk Chijiao tried a few more times, but the results were all like stones sinking into the sea, with absolutely no response; the other party simply hid themselves, not letting him discover anything.

That Fox Immortal did not forbid Ma Jiu from continuing to pray to them, but the path on his side had been completely and thoroughly blocked.

Should he force a connection? Given the other party's current weak state, he should have a way to overpower them...

"... Heh." After struggling for a while, Chijiao suddenly laughed, shook his head helplessly, and felt that his previous thought was truly somewhat impulsive.

Since the other party did not want to be exposed, why should he force them?

The other party was a good person, and a good person should not be forced like this.

"Benefactor, this poor monk understands your meaning; I will not force a probe again in the future."

Chijiao finally sent a message to that Fox Immortal; he knew the other party could hear it: "However, since you are also in the Western Desert, we will meet sooner or later."

"I hope that by then, you will not be so flustered."

The monk Chijiao felt that he had shown his goodwill and had also given the other party plenty of safe space.

But he overlooked one point: many times, others cannot fully understand his meaning.

That was what he thought, but these words, falling into the ears of others, took on another layer of meaning.

"We will meet sooner or later... this bald guy is threatening me, right!?"

At this moment, the "Fox Immortal" far on the other side of the Western Desert was cursing and muttering: "No, how did this bald guy chase me here? I've already run into the desert, why are you still chasing? Are you really that much of a persistent ghost?"

"And, you guy looks like Kratos, and you come up and tell me I have a predestined affinity with you... affinity with your big head!"

"Also, why are you, this guy, praying along like a ghost? Shut up, shut up, just mute him! Can't let this guy talk anymore!"

Ren Yidao did not know what exactly the Chijiao monk wanted to obtain from him, but he did not care much either; the other party's persistent tracking, however, made him feel somewhat apprehensive.

"Let's talk about it when we meet!"

"You chase me; if you catch me, I'll listen to what you actually want to do."

"But if you can't catch me, then forget it!"

Moreover, Ren Yidao was quite disgusted by this method of suddenly making contact with him, as it would make him recall the phone calls that would suddenly come in while he was working in his past life, causing his heart to skip a beat.

Ugh!

He had already made up his mind: if the other party still refused to give up and wanted to harass him in this way, he would teach the other party a painful lesson!

……

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"To think there is a lingering aura." Zen Master Qinghuai arrived at the already destroyed palace of Venerable Qingzhan.

"To be this arrogant!"

He had originally thought that he would return empty-handed this time, but he did not expect to truly discover the other party's lingering aura here.

After the other party slaughtered his offspring, they did nothing else and left in a high-profile manner, not making any attempt to cover their tracks at all, as if they were waiting for him to arrive just to mock him.

However, the killer only left their own aura here; the trail after they left was difficult to track.

"Fear? No, they took others away from here, a group of women... Heh!" Zen Master Qinghuai let out an angry snort, the ferocity in his eyes intensifying, "To actually kill my son just to save those lowly cultivation vessels!"

The murderer did not care about their own aura, but they had carefully wiped away the traces of the others.

"Do you think you can stop me with this?"

Zen Master Qinghuai sat cross-legged directly in that pool of blackened flesh and blood, used his fingers to pick up his son's flesh and blood, and smeared it onto his tongue.

He chewed the fishy, foul-smelling flesh slowly, the Prayer Beads in his hand twisting rapidly; he was forcibly divining the secrets of Heaven.

The other party killed his offspring and has a great Causality with him; coupled with the fact that the other party arrogantly left their own aura behind, wanting to find them... is not difficult!

Soon, under Zen Master Qinghuai's divination, he successfully established a faint connection with the other party.

"I see you!!! I will... *cough*!!!" But the very next instant after Zen Master Qinghuai made contact with the other party, he opened his eyes wide, coughed up a mouthful of blood, and said in horror: "What is that!!?"

In that very moment, just as he was preparing to pinpoint the other party, a scene appeared before Zen Master Qinghuai's eyes.

He saw a withered tree towering into the clouds; on this tree, he seemed to see Buddha light, saw countless Buddhas dancing, and felt that he was so insignificant.

And coiled on the tree was a red-eyed flood dragon as large as a mountain range, which glanced at him indifferently after noticing him, and then spat a dragon breath like thick fog at him.

His Divine Soul was directly annihilated in the thick fog, with no power to resist.

"Damn it! What exactly is that!?"

What exactly is that tree? And what is that flood dragon?

"Buddha light... Bodhi tree? But isn't the precious Bodhi tree in the hands of the Fozhu? It has been constantly watered with essence blood, and is already about to turn into a blood Bodhi."

The clue was broken.

The other party indeed had their own trump cards and possessed great Causality, making it impossible for him to investigate easily.

Zen Master Qinghuai was furious to the point of madness, but he had not gone completely insane; he did not want to experience that kind of encounter again.

"... No, I don't believe it." After a moment of silence, Zen Master Qinghuai quickly pulled himself together, "I don't believe that everyone around you can have such karmic connection!"

Since he could not directly calculate the other party's location, he could still divine others.

"You shouldn't have, you really shouldn't have gone to save that group of Cauldron!"

With the previous experience, Zen Master Qinghuai learned his lesson this time; he did not directly divine the scope of the cultivation vessel right away, but instead indirectly divined people related to the cultivation vessel.

Their relatives, acquaintances, even enemies...

Venerable Qingzhan had thousands of cultivation vessels, but many of the people involved were mortals who had long since died, so the associated karmic connection was not particularly large.

At the beginning, it was normal; Zen Master Qinghuai saw many karmic connections related to the cultivation vessels, all of whom harbored malice toward Venerable Qingzhan.

He identified and excluded those auras one by one; just as there were fewer than a hundred left and he thought he was about to succeed, he touched one of the inconspicuous Causalities.

The next instant, a scene appeared before his eyes once again.

"Again!!?"

And this time, even though Zen Master Qinghuai was prepared, he was still shocked, because the situation before him was even more terrifying and astonishing.

He saw a huge bright moon hanging high in the sky, and under that bright moonlight, there was a giant white fox as tall as Heaven, staring gloomily in his direction.

!!!

What kind of ghost is this again!?

Zen Master Qinghuai was horrified and was about to forcibly cut off the divination, but he did not expect that the other party seemed to have anticipated it long ago and had already cut off his retreat in advance!

Just as Zen Master Qinghuai was looking for a way to escape, he faintly heard an illusory voice.

"He's here again! Demon Moon! Bite him!"

"Hmm? Wait, that doesn't seem right?"

"Doesn't seem to be the same one... Hey, forget it!"

"Bite him too!!!"