940 One Green Pear Through Five-Hundred Years (2/2)

Ning Que felt that the chessboard in his hand was much heavier than it was a minute ago. Anyone would have had the same feeling after finding out that they were carrying the world after Buddha's nirvana, which was also Buddha's coffin.

”Knowing that Buddha is in it, why are we still planning to go in?” He was restless.

Sangsang said, ”I came here to kill Buddha. Of course I should follow the trace.”

Ning Que was about to say something, before something entered his mouth. The fragrant, sweet, and delicious pear juice flowed into his stomach. He ate the green pear just like that.

What's done was done. He ate the pear. Things that had already happened cannot be changed. He accepted the cruel reality very shortly, and then walked to the green tree on the side of the cliff.

”What are you up to?” Sangsang asked.

Ning Que was trying to reach a pear and said, ”You haven't eaten one.”

Sangsang said, ”I do not have to. I have entered the chessboard once, so it is my world too.”

After saying that, an extra chess piece was found between her fingers.

Years ago, she and Master Qi Shan played the last round of the three Wa Mountain games in Lanke Mountain. The master asked her to choose a side, and she chose the black without any hesitation, which made the Master sigh.

Two years ago, the chess piece in her hand became white in the Wilderness. The Headmaster of the Academy in the carriage observed that, and the universe changed its color later on. The Headmaster knew all the causes and effects. Then he took her and Ning Que to start the long trip in the human world, in order to make arrangements ahead of Haotian's advent to the human world.

That chess piece had always been in Sangsang's hand. At this point, it was hard to tell what color it should be, as it was continuously changing from black to white and then white to black. It was like the G.o.d's will, impossible to be predicted.

Ning Que looked at the chess piece in her hand and recalled a lot of memories. He held the chessboard in silence.

She put the chess piece on the chessboard.

No sound or wind.

Ning Que and Sangsang had disappeared from the cliff plateau.

The chessboard stayed in the air for a while, and then fell on the cliff plateau. Drops of of rainfall splashed.

Rainfall flowed out from the side of the cliff formed several giant waterfalls, rolling down with thundering torrents.

Free from the blockage of the lord's prowess, the White Tower far from Chaoyang City cracked the sky and fell, and then heavily hit the chessboard. With another blare, it was recoiled towards the old temple behind the cliff.

The old temple was shattered into ruins. The road to the cave on the cliff was blocked by the White Tower.

The chessboard was sprung several times on the cliff plateau, and then became static, stirring up a very soft breeze.

A breeze pa.s.sed by and the green tree by the side of the cliff wobbled for a while. Numerous green pears falling down.

Before the White Tower bursted out of the clouds, a large volume of water came from Chaoyang City, as if a rainstorm had flushed the cliff plateau. Nevertheless, the green pears couldn't be knocked out then. Now, the green pears were falling down like rainfalls in the wake of the refres.h.i.+ng breeze.

Tap, tap, tap, tap. Accompanied by the rainfall-like noises, green pears dropped to the cliff plateau, macerated by the rainwater. In a blink of an eye, all of them were vibrated into juice, only with hundreds of pear cores left.

These pear cores were swirled by the breeze, and fell down alongside the huge waterfalls to the abyss down the mount, with no trace at all.

The pear tree was planted by Buddha years ago. It blossomed every five-hundred years, and ripened five days later. Once they touch the ground, they become oak.u.m and fade away without any traces.

Over countless years, only three green pears were left in Xuankong Temple.

When he left Xuankong Temple, Master Qi Shan took all the three pears with him to the human world. It was because he was the b.a.s.t.a.r.d of the first-generation Scripture Chief Monk that no punishment was implemented.

The first green pear was used by Master Qi Shan to treat tens of thousands of victims of epidemics after natural disasters. Because of this, his meditative mind was compromised from being absolutely null to disabled.

The second green pear was used by Master Qi Shan to convert Prince Lian Sheng, who realized the truth through isolation and meditation by the pear tree on the side of the cliff. It can be said that it was his fate or predestined to be a Buddhist.

The third green pear was shared and eaten by Sangsang and Ning Que, which revealed Sangsang's true ident.i.ty to the master. After that, the human world fell into a fugitive journey to get away from a bloodbath of disaster.

Five-hundred years later, the pear flowers on the green tree were in blossom and bore hundreds of green fruits in Xuankong Temple. Only one fruit survived and was eaten by Ning Que. This time it was a relatively simple thing to decide.

This green pear tree would decide one's life or death — the life and death of Haotian and Buddha.

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