Bab 21: Returning the Artifacts
Editor: Henyee Translations
Time passed quickly. Four days later.
A voice came from the Celestial Master Residence of Dragon Tiger Mountain.
"Xuan Yin, let them send the Dharma artifacts up the mountain."
After making those Mica people kneel at the foot of the mountain for four days, the Celestial Master finally asked them to step into Dragon Tiger Mountain.
In the Three Pure Hall, Xuan Yin received the order from the Celestial Master. He nodded and walked down the mountain.
At the entrance of the Dragon Tiger Mountain, Cade was still lying there with a pale face, and his condition was deteriorating day by day.
Cade's parents were sweating profusely.
After kneeling here for four days, they were almost at their limit.
Cade's parents were on the verge of despair. They could see stars in their vision as if they were about to collapse.
At this moment, a figure walked down the mountain and stood in front of them.
Cade's parents looked up. This person was dressed in a red Daoist robe and was looking down at them.
Cade's parents were overjoyed and asked, "You must be the Celestial Master of Dragon Tiger Mountain, right? We're here to apologize on behalf of our stupid son!"
The Daoist priest in red shook his head. "I'm not the Celestial Master. I'm Xuan Yin, the deputy of the Dragon Tiger Mountain. I'm under the orders of the Celestial Master to let you send the Dharma artifacts back to the mountain."
"Can we go up the mountain now?"
Cade's parents were overjoyed. They knelt here for four days to repent and let Dragon Tiger Mountain see their sincerity.
Initially, they thought that there was no hope, but Xuan Yin appeared and told them that they could go up the mountain.
How great!
Although they had knelt here for four days, at least the Dragon Tiger Mountain had finally eased up a little. Cade's parents felt that it was worth it.
The Dragon Tiger Mountain's attitude had softened, which meant that their son still had hope.
They wanted to get up from the ground and climb up the mountain.
However, as soon as they got up, they felt a numbing pain in their knees.
After all, he had been kneeling for a few days. Although they had rested halfway, they lost all feeling in their legs when they suddenly got up.
Seeing Cade's parents were unable to get up, Xuan Yin said, "I think you should rest here for a while. The mountain path is very long. You can go up after you've rested!"
After saying that, Xuan Yin turned around and returned to Dragon Tiger Mountain.
How would Cade's parents dare to rest?
After stretching his legs briefly, he quickly climbed up the Dragon Tiger Mountain step by step with a pain that was like needles pricking his feet.
Cade's parents were still carrying their son on a stretcher, so it was very strenuous for them to climb the mountain.
More than five hours later, they reached the mountaintop.
At this moment, there were already a few red-robed and yellow-robed Daoist priests waiting in front of the Three Pure Hall.
Seeing that the Mica people had arrived,
Among the red-robed Daoist priests, Xuan Chong, who was the oldest, said, "The thieves should kneel in front of the Three Pure Hall. Greet the Three Pure Ones and the Celestial Master. Only then can they enter the hall and return the Dharma artifacts!"
Cade's parents had knelt at the foot of the mountain for four days and were qualified to go up the Dragon Tiger Mountain.
But…
That wasn't the end.
The thieves had gone up Dragon Tiger Mountain, but they still didn't have the right to enter the Three Pure Hall. To do that, they had to kneel again.
They had to pay their respects to the Three Pure Ones before kneeling to the Celestial Master.
They could only enter after that.
Cade's parents didn't dare to be presumptuous, and they kowtowed one by one in front of the hall.
Then, Xuan Chong led the group into the hall.
Entering the hall, they saw the statues and nameplates of the Three Pure One.
Xuan Chong pointed at the futons in front of them.
"Kneel to the Three Pure Ones again to atone for your sins."
After entering the Three Pure Hall, they still had to kneel to the Three Pure Ones. It was to tell the three gods that they knew their mistake.
After that, they would kneel to Celestial Master Zhang Daoling, the founder of the sect.
After all, they had stolen from the Dragon Tiger Mountain.
After paying their respects to the Three Pure Ones, they would have to kneel to Zhang Daoling.
After that was done, there were also many other Daoist gods.
Daoism had Three Pure Ones, Four Royal Lords, and Five Elderly Lords.
There were also Five Thunder Monarchs, the Four Deities, the Five Marshals of the Thunder Tribe, the Six Star Lords of the Southern Dipper, the Seven Star Lords of the Northern Dipper, the Nine Luminaries Star Lords, the Twenty-Eight Mansions, the Thirty-Six Heavenly Dippers, the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends, the Sixty Deities of Years, and so on.
Daoism had an endless string of deities.
There were as many as the stars in the sky. There were statues one after another. They broke the law of Dragon Tiger Mountain. Now that they were here to ask for forgiveness, they had to take turns worshiping those statues.
Cade's parents and the group of Mica people repented to each deity in turn.
Many reporters felt tired just watching them.
After all, there were too many statues. Their knees would feel wasted even if they knelt only once in front of each statue.
However, they had no choice. Cade had gone too far.
They had it coming.
By the time they had paid respect to all the statues, Cade's parents and the group of Mica people were already drenched in sweat, and their legs were weak.
Only then did Xuan Yin ask them to return all the Dharma artifacts and secret books they had stolen from Dragon Tiger Mountain.
All the lost treasures were recovered.
At this moment, a purple-robed figure walked in unhurriedly from outside the Three Pure Hall.
Qin Yang calculated with his divination in the Celestial Master Residence and knew that they should have finished paying their respects to the statues right about now, so he came down.
"Celestial Master!"
"Celestial Master!"
"Celestial Master!"
As soon as Qin Yang arrived, all the red-robed and yellow-robed Daoist priests in the Three Pure Hall made way for him with respectful expressions.
Cade's parents looked at Qin Yang, who was wearing a purple robe, and they saw how different he was from the others.
This person must be the Celestial Master of Dragon Tiger Mountain!
Cade's parents hurriedly said, "Celestial Master, please save my son."
Qin Yang ignored them.
He walked past the two of them and came to the stretcher on the ground.
As soon as Qin Yang stepped into the Three Pure Hall, he saw Cade who was still lying on the stretcher.
Cade was no longer as arrogant as he was in the live broadcast.
Lying on the stretcher, he looked like a dead man.
Moreover, his face was gray, and he was extremely weak.
In the past few days, it seemed that the four evil spirits who had escaped from the Demon Subduing Hall had been torturing him.
His Yang energy was almost completely drained.
Qin Yang had warned the four demons not to kill anyone, or he would punish them.
Hence, even after so many days, Cade was still breathing. Had it not been for the warning, he would have been long dead.
Qin Yang looked at the half-dead Cade.
He lifted a leg and stomped on the ground beside Cade's ear.
BANG!
One stomp was enough to shock the gods and devils!
Qin Yang shouted in a low voice, "Come out!"
In the next second, a chilly wind blew around Cade's body.
Four gray shadows were sent flying out of his body.
They were the four-thousand-year-old ghosts that had escaped from the Demon Subduing Hall.
They had possessed Cade's body, constantly absorbing his fear, resentment, and Yin and Yang energy.
That was why he had always been so weak.
And now, they were sent flying by the Celestial Master's stomp.
When the four malicious ghosts saw Qin Yang, they looked like rats that had seen a cat.
The Red Ghost King said, "Celestial Master, greetings!"
The Head Slayer Ghost said "Celestial Master, please don't kill us. We followed your order. We didn't kill anyone the entire time and didn't even run away. We've obediently returned to the Dragon Tiger Mountain…"
-- Hadiah diterima