958 Shadow and Bell (2/2)

Because he was very curious. For humans, it was the most powerful emotion to be able to overcome fear.

Ning Que saw the shadow on the wall again.

He was no longer reading the Buddhist Scriptures by the table. The candles on the table were already extinguished, and the stars above the temple were covered by clouds. The room was dark, but the shadow was still there.

It was not his shadow. Then whose shadow was it?

Looking at the shadow, Ning Que was silent for quite a while and then walked to the wall.

His footsteps were heavy and his expression was solemn.

Walking to the wall, he observed it for a long time in silence. He even reached out and touched it, only to find that there was nothing strange about this shadow. It was just a normal shadow which could be seen but not be touched.

The trees, the sun and the mountains all have their own shadows. Then whose shadow is this? How can there be a shadow that exists by itself in the world? Ning Que thought for a while and then sat before the shadow with his legs crossed.

It wasn't until then did he find that it was his own shadow, for it looked exactly the same as his figure.

He didn't notice that the shadow seemed to be cultivating with the legs crossed when he sat by the desk before.

It suddenly occurred to him that he once saw a shadow on a stone wall in the depths of the cliff cave in the Xuankong Temple.

That was the shadow of Master Lian Sheng.

Is it possible that I have already reached the state that Lian Sheng had mastered? Ning Que was surprised. He sat on the lotus seat and formed Emblematic Gesture in his Ocean of Consciousness, and started to cultivate Buddha Dharma.

He was worried that the shadow would fade away and wanted to strengthen it.

In only an instant, he entered the meditation state in which he forgot himself and all the things around him.

What shocked him was that the shadow on the wall began to move! No longer crossing its legs, the shadow stood up on the wall, raised its arms to the top of its head, as if it was holding up something very heavy. No, the shadow seemed to be trying to break through the sky!

But the sky was too heavy, so the shadow did not succeed. And it began to hold its head and twist its body into different strange shapes, as if it was in severe pain.

The shadow continued to struggle, looking like a black flame that was burning on the white wall and bursting into flames. It looked like that the shadow was performing a weird dance and was inviting the whole world to dance with it!

Ning Que looked at the shadow who was struggling in pain, and somehow he could understand its pain. What made him feel cold was that he could sense extreme unwillingness and anger which was so desperate that the whole world would be weeping over it.

Ning Que was hit by grievance and sadness, then bursted into tears.

At this moment, a bell came from the White Tower Temple.

The evening course should be over by now, then why is there a bell coming from the temple?

The bell was so melodious that it can calm everyone's minds.

Listening to the bell, Ning Que gradually became calm.

The shadow on the wall also became calm, but an instant later, it began to struggle again. And its struggle was even crazier and more violent due to the bell!

Then there was a loud noise!

It wasn't the bell in the temple, but the voice in Ning Que's mind. He felt that in his head, there was someone swinging a sharp axe into his skull!

An indescribable pain spread from his head to his body. He turned extremely pale, and his lips began to tremble. The pain was so severe that he couldn't make a sound!

The bell stopped, and it was very quiet everywhere.

But the bell in Ning Que's head was still going on, and the axe kept chopping his skull as if it was trying to cut his head open. He kept clutching is head and rolling on the ground due to the severe pain!

What is happening?

Because of the intense pain, his sweat drenched his clothes. Due to the trance, he did not realize that deep down in his Ocean of Consciousness, there were several fragments of consciousness that became extremely bright, as if they were going to explode.

His only remaining consciousness was to find the person who kept swinging the axe in his head. He wanted to kill that person and release himself from the terrible pain!

He climbed to the wall, looked at the shadow which was still struggling crazily, then pulled out the iron cutlass and used all his strength to attack the shadow. He knew that all this must be related to the shadow, so he had to hack it!

The iron cutlass fell on the wall, causing the dust to rise and the bricks to fly around. But the shadow was still there, in front of his eyes.

At this moment, a bell suddenly came from the high sky above the temple.

The bell fell into the meditation room, and also fell on his body and heart.

The bell was another large axe.

Someone was swinging the axe in his head.

Someone was swinging the axe in the sky.

Curling up in the corner, he turned pale and his eyes were full of pain, as if he would die at any moment.

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