Chapter 27 Twenty-seventh Black Star in the Cold Night

The Zen courtyard is quiet and elegant because there are bamboos in the courtyard. bamboo forest. A courtyard with bamboo forests always makes people feel extraordinarily elegant. Especially at dusk, when the wind blows the bamboo leaves, the sound is like waves. Ye Kai was wandering in front of the bamboo forest. "If I had known that there was such a quiet place in Chang'an City, I would have lived here too." He sighed, "Not many people seem to know about this place." He was not talking to himself alone, he was speaking to Kuzhu. Bitter bamboo is the Zhike monk of Shifang Zhulin Temple.

As the name suggests, he is as clear and thin as bamboo, and although he has no flesh, he is not vulgar. He is arguing with a smile: "Although there are not many benefactors in this small temple, they are not too few." Ye laughed. From the outside to here, he has not seen a person offering incense and rejoicing, and the meditation room in the courtyard is also silent. Ku Zhu said: "These seven meditation rooms are all guest rooms, so they were not empty in the first place." Ye Kai said: "Oh?" Ku Zhu said: "Before last night, there were several benefactors living here, all of whom were very elegant."

Ye Kai said: "What about now?" Kuzhu sighed and said, "Now everyone has arrived at Daxiangguo Temple." Ye Kai said: "They all left last night?" Kuzhu nodded, and said, "As soon as the white benefactor wearing the straw hat came, everyone else left." Ye Kai said: "He drove them away." Kuzhu smiled wryly: "He didn't drive people away, but once he came, others couldn't live anymore." Ye Kai said: "Why?" Kuzhu sighed again, a strange expression suddenly appeared on his clear face. He didn't answer Ye Kai's words directly, but murmured: "I'll take you to his room to have a look, and you will understand."

The four walls of the meditation room are deserted, and there is nothing, neither tables, chairs, nor beds. In such a large meditation room, there are only two nails, one on the left wall and the other on the opposite side. Ye Kai couldn't help laughing again. Now he really understands why others can't live here anymore. "Even I can't live." He smiled and said, "I'm neither a fly nor a dragonfly. I can't sleep on a nail." Kuzhu said: "There are two nails here." Ye Kai said: "There seems to be no difference between two nails and one nail."

Kuzhu said: "There is a difference." Ye Kai said: "I can't see the difference." Kuzhu said: "But you should have imagined it." Ye Kai said: "Oh?" Kuzhu said: "Two nails can hang a rope." Ye Kai still didn't understand: "What's the use of the rope?" Kuzhu said: "You can hang clothes on the rope, and you can also sleep on it." Ye Kai said: "That Bai benefactor wearing a straw hat sleeps on a rope at night?" Kuzhu said: "And it's a very thin rope." Ye Kai was stunned. If a person likes to sleep on a rope, he not only has a weird temper, but his martial arts must also be weird.

Kuzhu said: "This room is not empty." Ye Kai said: "Oh?" Kuzhu said: "There are not only tables and beds here, but also many geckos." Ye Kai said: "The tables and chairs are what he wants to move out." Kuzhu said: "Not bad." Ye Kai said, "Where's the gecko?" Ku Zhu showed that strange expression again, and said, "He has eaten all the geckos." Ye Kai was stunned again. This person not only likes to wear straw hats in winter, sleep on ropes, but also likes to eat geckos. Even Ye Kai had never seen such a weird person.

He couldn't help showing the same expression as Kuzhu, and said with a wry smile: "It seems that his appetite is not large, and he can eat a few geckos to be full." Kuzhu said: "Of course he eats other things besides geckos." Ye Kai said: "What to eat?" Kuzhu said: "The benefactors who live here usually seldom go out at night." Ye Kai said: "Oh?" Kuzhu said: "Because there are snakes outside, poisonous snakes." Ye Kai said in amazement: "He also ate up the snake." Kuzhu said: "Besides snakes, there are also centipedes."

Ye Kai smiled bitterly: "It turns out that his appetite is not small." Kuzhu said: "So I'm already worried about one thing." Ye Kai said: "What's the matter?" Kuzhu sighed, and said, "If he eats up all the geckos and poisonous snakes here, what will he eat then?" Ye Kai couldn't help laughing and said: "Are you afraid that he will eat you?" Kuzhu sighed, but before he could speak, he suddenly heard a person say coldly: "Sometimes I eat people, but I rarely eat monks." The wind is blowing, and the sun is already sinking. Doesn't the Zen courtyard at dusk always look extraordinarily lonely and cold?

Not only is it cold in this monastery, but it also seems to have an indescribably chilling and strange meaning. Because a person suddenly appeared in the yard. A man in a straw hat. In this extremely cold weather, he was actually wearing a very thin white kudzu linen jacket, and the straw hat on his head was even more strange in shape, which looked like a bamboo basket for fishing. He wore it very low, covering almost all of his face, only showing a thin mouth, which was always closed tightly when he was not speaking, as if it had been cut by a blade. Ye Kai suddenly smiled. The more others can't laugh, the more he wants to laugh.

He smiled and said, "Do you rarely eat monks? Or never?" The man in white wearing a straw hat said coldly: "I usually only eat one kind of person." Ye Kai said: "What kind of person?" The man in white said: "Damn it." Ye Kai smiled bitterly: "There is indeed a kind of person in this world who is like a poisonous snake. If you don't want to be eaten by him, you must eat him first." "But there are not many people who are really damned." "Not many." Ye Kai said: "Then why don't you eat something that is easier to find like everyone else."

The man in white asked, "What do you eat?" Ye Kaidao: "I eat pork, but also beef, especially braised pork. Stir-fried shredded beef with shallots is also good." The man in white suddenly said: "Zhang San is a vicious and cunning villain, and Li Si is an honest and hard-working gentleman. If these two people insist on you killing one of them, who would you kill?" Ye Kai said: "Zhang San." The man in white said: "Now you are killing Li Si." Ye Kai said: "Have I killed Li Si?" The man in white nodded. Ye Kai smiled bitterly: "It's a pity that I don't even know where his people are." The man in white said: "You should know that he is in your stomach." Ye Kai didn't understand.What the man in white said was really confusing and inexplicable. The man in white sneered, "It's the snake that is poisonous, not the cow. You killed the cow. After you killed it, you buried its corpse in your stomach." Ye Kai only felt that his stomach was fermenting, and he almost couldn't help but vomit. There is indeed beef in his stomach, the beef he ate at noon today must not be fully digested. But the next time someone invites him to eat beef, he will definitely find it hard to swallow it. The man in white stared at him through the straw hat, and said, "Now do you understand what I mean?" Ye Kai sighed, and said with a wry smile: "Your words don't sound completely unreasonable." The man in white said: "Have you never heard of this truth?" Ye Kai laughed and said, "I haven't even thought about it." ——Bury the carcass of the cow in the stomach, it's really hard for him to think of such a thing. The man in white said: "It seems that although you are not an honest and hardworking gentleman, you are not a vicious and despicable villain either." Ye Kai said: "Can you see that?" The man in white said: "It's because I can see that you are still alive." Ye Kai said: "What about you? What kind of person are you?" The man in white said, "Can't you see?" Ye Kai smiled and said, "Of course your surname is not really Bai." The man in white admitted. Ye Kai said: "You are from Qingcheng." The man in white didn't deny it either. Ye Kai stared at him, and slowly said: "It is said that in Qingcheng Mountain, there is an expert named Mo Jiuxing." The man in white interrupted him, and said coldly: "You seem to know a lot." Ye Kai smiled and said, "Although it's not too much, it's not too little." The man in white said: "It's a pity that you don't know what you should know." Ye Kai said: "Oh?" The man in white said: "Do you know who Dorjia is?" Ye Kai said: "I don't know." The man in white said, "Do you know who Potala is?" Ye Kai sighed again, and said, "It seems that I really don't know much." The man in white said, "Do you want to meet them?" Ye Kai said: "Can I see them?" The man in white said: "As long as you are willing to wait here, you will be able to see it." Ye Kai's eyes lit up. Of course he is willing to wait here, "Even if I have to wait for three days and three nights, I am willing." The man in white said: "You don't have to wait for three days and three nights, you just happened to come." Ye Kai lifted his spirits and said, "Could it be that they will come here today?" The man in white said coldly: "Since you are willing to wait, you don't need to ask any more questions. If you don't want to wait, no one will keep you." Ye Kai immediately closed his mouth, but his eyes opened wider. He was not a talkative person. The man in white suddenly said: "The monk shouldn't talk too much." Bitter Bamboo lowered its head. The man in white said: "You monk talk too much." Ku Zhu also closed his mouth, not daring to say a word. The man in white said: "A monk should not only know when to close his mouth, but also know when to close his eyes." Kuzhu immediately closed his eyes, groped his way out. Ye Kai couldn't help laughing and said: "It seems that he is indeed a very sensible monk." The man in white said: "There is only one kind of monk who is truly ignorant." Ye Kai said: "What kind?" The man in white said: "Damn monk." Ye Kai laughed again, and said: "From your point of view, there seem to be only two types of people in the world." The man in white said: "There are only two kinds in the first place, one should not die, and the other should die." Ye Kai said: "What kind of person is coming tonight?" The man in white said: "Damn it." night. The man in white used a small wooden bottle and sprinkled a layer of silver powder on the ground, like dust. But when the starlight rose, the dust also began to flash silver light. Ye Kai laughed and said, "Are you going to eat this yard tonight, so sprinkle some pepper on it first." The man in white said coldly: "You talk too much." Ye Kai said: "Oh?" The man in white said: "You also laugh too much." Ye Kai laughed and said, "That's just because I have seen one thing." The man in white asked, "What's the matter?" Ye Kai said: "I can see that you are not a very cold person. Sometimes you want to smile in your heart, but you just barely hold it back." The man in white said: "Why should I hold back?" Ye Kai said: "Because you want others to be afraid of you." The man in white turned around and opened the window. After a long time, he said slowly, "What else did you see?" Ye Kai said with a smile: "If you let me see your face, I will be able to see many things." The man in white suddenly turned his head and lifted his straw hat. His face was no different from others, but he had nine more stars than others. Nine dark stars. In the winter night, the few stars in the sky are always very far away and very bright. The star on the face of the man in white was colder and brighter. Nine stars were arranged in a strange and mysterious pattern on his face, and each star was nailed into the flesh like a nail. Ye Kai sighed and said, "Are you punishing yourself?" The man in white actually nodded and said, "Everyone is guilty." Ye Kai said: "Are you no exception?" The man in white said: "I am also human." Ye Kai said: "What is your crime?" The man in white said: "I just wish I could kill all the vicious and despicable villains in this world." Ye Kai sighed: "This can't be regarded as your crime, the punishment you received is too severe." The man in white said: "If you meet someone with a more serious crime, these nine stars are a sharp weapon for killing people." Ye Kai said: "A sharp weapon for killing people?" The man in white said, "Can't you see?" Ye Kai shook his head, smiled wryly and said, "I didn't even think about it." The man in white covered his face with the straw hat again, and said coldly: "There are not many people who can see my face, and even fewer can live." Ye Kai said: "Do you have only five stars on your face?" The man in white nodded again. Ye Kaidao: "Why did five stars become nine stars?" The man in white said: "Because there are more and more sinners in the world, my sins are also getting heavier." Ye Kaidao: "So Mo Wuxing became Mo Jiuxing." The man in white said: "Now there is no Mo Wuxing, only Mo Jiuxing." Ye Kai said: "It's no wonder she made a mistake." Mo Jiuxing asked, "Who is she?" Ye Kai smiled and said, "Can't you guess?" Mo Jiuxing said: "Is it Shangguan Xiaoxian?" Ye Kai said: "You also know her?" Mo Jiuxing sneered. Ye Kai said: "Do you know what kind of person she is?" Mo Jiuxing said: "I'm here to kill people this time, three people." Ye Kai said: "Is she also one of them?" Mo Jiuxing said: "She was originally." Ye Kai said: "What about now?" Mo Jiuxing said: "Now I realize that there are many people in this world who are more damned than her." Ye Kai said: "Which ones are the most damned?" Mo Jiuxing said: "Dorjia and Potala." Ye Kai sighed again, and said, "It may not be easy to kill these two people." Mo Jiuxing said: "I didn't intend to go back alive." He continued slowly: "As long as there is one of the four heavenly kings in the Devil's religion alive, I will never return to Qingcheng." Ye Kai said: "But even if you kill them two, there are still two alive." Mo Jiuxing said, "Not anymore." Ye Kai said: "Why is there no more?" Mo Jiuxing said: "Pan Chabana has died in Guo Ding's hands." Ye Kai said, "Where's Dierbu?" Mo Jiuxing suddenly took out a jade token from his body and threw it to Ye Kai.On the crystal-clear and flawless jade tablet, there is engraved a demon god holding a chime of wisdom. "This is Dierbu's amulet. When he was alive, he always carried it with him." "How did it happen to you now?" Mo Jiuxing said coldly, "Because he is already dead." Ye Kai moved, "You killed him?" Mo Jiuxing nodded. Ye Kai said: "Where did you meet him?" Mo Jiuxing said, "Outside Chang'an City." Ye Kai said: "He also went down the magic mountain?" Mo Jiuxing said: "Their magic mountain is in the void. Wherever their people are, that's their magic mountain." Ye Kaidao: "So now their magic mountain is in Chang'an City?" Mo Jiuxing said: "If their people don't die, within ninety-nine or eighty-one days, this Chang'an city will become a demon city." Ye Kai lost his voice: "Magic City?" Mo Jiuxing said: "There are also two types of people in the Demon Cult." Ye Kai said: "Which two kinds?" Mo Jiuxing said: "One is the disciples of their demon sect, and the other is the dead." Ye Kai exhaled and said, "Fortunately, you have discovered their secret." Mo Jiuxing said proudly: "For me, there are no secrets in this world." Ye Kai sighed: "You do know a lot." Mo Jiuxing admitted. Ye Kai said: "I'm just wondering, how do you know so many things, you are a hermit who doesn't go out of the mountain." Mo Jiuxing said: "You are wrong." Ye Kai said: "Oh?" Mo Jiuxing said: "The spirit of the Mo family is not from the world, but from the world. In order to meet the needs of others, the Mo family's children have always been willing to fight their heels and use swords and axes." Ye Kai looked at him with respect in his eyes.Although this man looks cold and weird, he actually has a kind and great heart.There are not many people in this world who can truly sacrifice themselves for others, and Ye Kai has always respected such people the most. There are no lamps in the meditation room.Mo Jiuxing's straw hat kept shining brightly, but he didn't know if it was his eyes or the murderous star. He stared at Ye Kai, and suddenly said: "I have known you for a long time." Ye Kai said: "Oh?" Mo Jiuxing said: "Your surname is Ye, and your name is Ye Kai." Ye Kai smiled and said, "Konoha's leaf, open happily." Mo Jiuxing said, "Are you always happy?" Ye Kai said: "Because I rarely think about those unhappy things." Mo Jiuxing said: "It is said that your throwing knife is now the best in the world." Ye Kai smiled wryly: "I've heard people say that too, so my troubles are always number one in the world." In terms of troubles, few people can match him. Mo Jiuxing was silent, and after a long time, he said slowly: "One day I will know." Ye Kai said: "Know what?" Mo Jiuxing said: "Is your throwing knife the best in the world?" Ye Kai sighed: "If you really want to know, I will have one more trouble." Mo Jiuxing said: "You don't want to see if my star can kill people?" Ye Kai said: "I don't want to." Mo Jiuxing said, "Why?" Ye Kai said: "Because we are already friends." Mo Jiuxing sneered, "I'm afraid you have too many friends." Ye Kai said: "Having more friends is better than having no friends." Mo Jiuxing said: "Maybe it's because you have more friends than others, so you have more troubles than others." Ye Kai said: "More trouble is better than no trouble." Mo Jiuxing said, "Oh?" Ye Kai said: "Because there is only one kind of person who really has no troubles." Mo Jiuxing said: "Dead?" Ye Kai smiled and nodded, suddenly there was a "boom", a big hole was broken in the short wall in the yard, Shi Shiran walked in alone with his hands behind his back.