466 Disabusing (2/2)
Ye Su's palm fell on the desk, shaking slightly. It seemed to be powerless, but in fact, it contained the supreme power and state of this legendary cultivator of Haotian Taoism.
With this upset sigh, countless cracks appeared on the table and they spread toward the table legs. Then, cracks also appeared on the bluestone floor and they spread to the corners. They went up along the wall. The bright window paper began to break. In the end, cracks came to the beams and pillars.
The desktop broke into hundreds of small pieces of wood and fell to the ground. The legs of the table cracked into thinner wood pieces and also fell to the ground. The cracks in the bluestone floor gradually became deeper, like a black abyss. The wall coverings were peeled off, and the window paper was broken. The beams and pillars were twisted and broke down.
The table was broken and fell down.
The floor cracked.
The wall fell down.
The beam was broken.
With the sound of a crash, this remote house in the Taoist temple collapsed like building blocks. Smoke and dust filled the air as those cracks continued to spread outwards, and all other buildings in the Taoist temple were broken into pieces.
All the buildings in the Taoist temple collapsed into smoke and dust. Fortunately, those cracks that destroyed the wall were extremely amazing. They cut the hard and heavy construction materials to pieces, and when the buildings fell down, they followed some pattern that could not be identified and didn't kill the people inside them.
The air after a bout of rain was very fresh. At this time, the little Taoist temple was filled with dust and littered with ruins. The skinny Taoist and two child Taoists were covered in dust, and climbed up from the ruins. They covered their noses with their sleeve and coughed constantly. They looked extremely miserable.
Ye Su stood silently between the broken bricks and wood, and he was surrounded by dust and gravel. However, his face and clothes were still clean and free from any dust.
If he was willing, when he took the ladder and repaired the roof, he could be covered with rain and mud.
If he was unwilling, even it was full of mud and rain, none of it could even touch a small part of his clothes.
”You are my sister, after all. Don't push me to kill you.”
Ye Su looked at the Ye Hongyu and calmly said, ”If you still insist on standing in front of me with such a stubborn gesture, I really don't know what will happen next.”
Ye Hongyu wiped off the dirt and tears on her face and glared at him. She said hatefully, ”Brother, I will be more powerful than you one day. By then, you will never be able to kill me. I will stand in front of you again, and I will still insist on taking back what should belong to you.”
After saying this, she turned away and left the little Taoist temple.
Ye Su looked at her back and watched her disappearing outside the little Taoist temple. He was silent.
”What the hell happened?”
The skinny Taoist stamped and hit his chest with his fists painfully. He looked at the ruins of the little Taoist temple and started to tremble, because he remembered his savings and effort for decades and his experience of raising funds like a beggar to build this temple. His voice was full of sorrow.
Ye Su slightly frowned and looked back at him and said, ”I'll give you some money to build a new Taoist temple for you.”
”Is this about money? Is this about money?”
The skinny Taoist was full of grief and anger. He clutched his taoist robe tightly, trying to avoid death due to heartache. He yelled and said with a dry voice, ”Every brick in this Taoist temple was bought and brought back by my own hands. I know their original position. And now, I have nothing. I forgot their original position. Is this about money? These were my life! How can they be brought back?”
Ye Su looked at the bricks and blocks that were cut into extremely small pieces in front of him. After a brief silence, he said, ”You are right. New bricks can only build a new Taoist temple. When the old one was destroyed, it will not come back. There has never been something called rebirth in this world. There is only new life.”
After saying this, his face became slightly stiff and stood in the ruins, unmoving.
Ye Su did not know why this ruined Taoist temple could give such a feeling and make him say what he had said subconsciously.
He only knew that since he traveled to countries to find a way to pass the test of life and death, his own state had grown and become harmonious. His state, which had gradually become calmer like a mountain, after the previous tremors, showed the signs of becoming loose again.
How could the skinny Taoist know Ye Su's situation at this time? The skinny Taoist looked at Ye Su's silence and thought that Ye Su did not want to get into trouble, and grew angrier. He wiped away the tears and took the child Taoists to the ruins to rescue some useful things.
The collapse of the Taoist temple made a loud sound. The local residents rushed over and looked at the ruins. People whispered and returned to their homes to get tools to help.
Many of the residents' houses had been damaged by rainstorms, but they felt that the skinny Taoist was old and weak, and the child Taoists were young and powerless. So, they postponed their own business and came to help the skinny Taoist.
The previously tragic Taoist temple had suddenly become a lively construction site. Although there was no way to rebuild a Taoist temple in a short time, the working loud songs, laughter and the sound of work seemed to foretell that in the near future, the Taoist temple would become what it was.
The skinny Taoist wiped his tears, bowed with hands folded in front to express his thanks, a sincere smile stretched on his face.
It was already dawn.
Ye Su woke up from his meditation. He watched as the ordinary folks busied themselves around him. He looked at the smile on their faces, and thought about those words that the skinny Taoist had said.
The skinny Taoist walked over to Ye Su and took a look at his eyes and tried to curse at him, but did not dare to do it subconsciously. He thought about Ye Su's words after the Taoist temple collapsed. He rubbed his hands nervously and asked, ”You are really willing to pay?”
Ye Su looked at him and said seriously, ”If you want, I can build a Divine Hall for you.”
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