Chapter 573 (1/2)
Chapter 573: 573
Chapter 573: Unpredictable Future
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Ning Que woke up before dawn .
He opened his eyes and fell into a long silence while looking at a few spiders weaving webs on the beams . Knowing Sangsang could be cured indeed cheered him up, but he always felt that something would happen . It might be the three games of chess on Wa Mountain, especially what they saw in the illusion of the chessboard .
What alarmed him most was the Buddhist carriage . He didn't understand why the bigwig from the Xuankong Temple came to the Wa mountain . After all, it was an Unknown Place to the outside world .
The cultivators who came to the Yue Laan Hungry Ghost Festival didn't leave last night . Quni Madi and the president of Commandment Yard at the Xuankong Temple stayed at the Lanke Temple .
Ning Que had decided they must keep away from the cultivators, especially the bigwig from the Xuankong Temple before Sangsang was cured . His dangerous chilhood hunting experiences at Min Mountain had brought him an instinctive habit . If you could not locate the danger in the forest, you'd better stay away from it .
There were footsteps outside the Buddhist room .
Ning Que glanced at the sleeping Sangsang, then quietly got up, dressed, and walked out of the room .
The morning light was s.h.i.+ning . The old temple was exceptionally beautiful in the autumn fog .
Master Qishan stood beside the stone bal.u.s.ters in a thick cotton coat . He was still shaking because of the coldness . Looking at the temples and towers, he said, ”Nothing has changed for decades . ”
He had lived in seclusion at Wa mountain for half his life . He did not leave the mountain since the Lotus' b.l.o.o.d.y conspiracy decades ago . Now, looking at the familiar yet strange temple, he sighed with emotion .
Ning Que stood beside the master and said while looking at the looming front hall, ”Yesterday, Sangsang spent at least decades in the chessboard . She told me nothing, but I know it must be very painful . ”
Master Qishan said, ”She is not a normal girl, so she wasn't in as much pain as you think . ”
Ning Que asked, ”Did Buddha really leave the chessboard in the world? What does our experience in the chessboard mean?”
Master Qishan said, ”It was indeed the Buddha's relic . As for the world in the chessboard, you can see it as an illusion created by the Buddha's supreme power, or a possible future . ”
Hearing the master's reply, Ning Que fell into a long silence, and then asked, ”Is that the future of me and Sangsang?”
Master Qishan looked into the distance in the fog and said, ”The future one can see is no longer the future . ”
Ning Que said, ”Is it possible to change the future?”
Master Qishan looked at Ning Que's eyes and said kindly, ”Since it is a possible future, it's not settled . Why can't we change it?”
Ning Que seemed to realize something and continued, ”They say you can see the future . Is that because of the chessboard which gives you the power to help people avoid misfortune and answer their doubts?”
Master Qishan laughed and said, ”The Buddha may be able to see the future . How can I, a mortal, see it? And even if you could, when you see the future, the future will be influenced by your gazing . How can it be the same future as before?”
Ning Que answered, ”It sounds complicated . ”
Master Qishan did not make any further explanations and continued, ”So, if someone wants to see the future like what Li Qingshan, the Nation Master of Tang Empire, the Great Divine Priest of Revelation and I have done, he can only secretly take a look at the chaotic future from a distance in fear . ”
”Because it is only then that we mortals won't influence the world of chaos, but be swallowed up by the chaotic future . ”
Master Qishan said with emotion, ”But if we try to see the future more carefully and clearly, the future we see may be false and we will bear a more severe punishment from the heaven . It is said that the Great Divine Priest of Revelation went to Chang'an City last spring and foresaw that Sangsang in the Old Brush Pen Shop would come back to the West-Hill Divine Palace three years later . The Priest almost went blind from looking . ”
Ning Que became serious . He had only learned what the Priest had to pay to see Sangsang's future today .
”No wonder the Priest agreed to my three-year promise . ”
He suddenly thought of something and frowned, then he said, ”The future might not be true, but since the Priest had paid a big price for seeing Sangsang's future, he must have some confidence about it . ”
Master Qishan sighed and said, ”For some reason, I have some doubts about the future he saw, but as you said, I have to believe what he saw . That's why I'm so confused . ”
What kind of future could it be that even the Priest and Master Qishan could not see? Where was Sangsang's future? What would happen to her?
Looking at the heavy fog, Ning Que patted the bal.u.s.ter and said, ”I still don't understand . ”
Seeing the future was like peeking at the secret of the heavens . Even bigwigs such as the Great Divine Priest of Revelation, Master Qishan or Li Qingshan could not confirm that they really understood what they had seen, let alone Ning Que .
But Ning Que did not care . Since the Priest had foreseen that Sangsang would come back to West-Hill three years later, she should have been cured then .
As long as Sangsang could live, any future was acceptable to him .