Chapter 243: Visiting Hanguang Temple Again

After coming out of the palace, Di Renjie was still a little dazed, with a look of disbelief and inexplicable confusion.

His eyes were filled with shock and confusion. He shook his head involuntarily and muttered to himself, "I have known the emperor for decades, and I have never seen her lose her composure like this. It is unbelievable..."

"What is the identity of the mysterious man in the prison car? What is his connection with the snake spirit that makes the emperor so afraid of him?" Di Renjie's thoughts were like surging waves, difficult to calm down.

Zhao Ji followed behind Di Renjie and said slowly: "The emperor has locked this mysterious person in Hanguang Temple. Yuan Fang was ordered to follow Jingkong in Hanguang Temple. Maybe he will gain something!"

Upon hearing this, Di Renjie's eyes flashed with a hint of smile: "The emperor has strictly ordered us not to investigate this matter any further..."

Zhao Ji laughed when he heard this: "Can you really bear to ignore this matter?"

Di Renjie also laughed: "Chengyuan knows me, there is no time to lose, let's rush to Hanguang Temple and meet Yuanfang now!"
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Inside the Hanguang Temple, Li Yuanfang sneaked into the temple and followed behind Jingkong.

It didn't take long for Li Yuanfang to discover that there was something wrong with Jingkong. He was a good monk on duty, but he didn't care about the affairs of the temple and just wandered around the temple.

This was natural. As they were preparing to withdraw, Jingkong was too lazy to continue pretending to be the monk on duty.

He communicated with many monks, and his every move did not seem like communication between monks on duty, but rather like a meeting between members of a secret organization.

Li Yuanfang saw all of this and made some guesses about Jingkong's identity.

After tossing and turning in the temple for a long time, Jingkong finally walked cautiously towards a side hall.

On the way to the side hall, the man looked left and right, extremely cautiously, obviously hiding a secret in his heart.

When Jingkong entered the hall, Li Yuanfang was about to follow him in, but Jingkong suddenly turned around, opened the door and looked out.

Li Yuanfang hurriedly flew to the roof of the hall and was not discovered.

Jingkong muttered to himself, seemingly dissatisfied with his own suspicion, and then closed the door.

After waiting for a long time, Li Yuanfang bravely sneaked into the hall quietly, but found that the hall was already empty and Jingkong had disappeared out of thin air.

The furnishings in the hall are similar to those in other halls, even simpler, and empty.

Li Yuanfang turned over several cushions, moved several incense burners, and even tried around the Buddha statue, but found nothing. There was no trace of any mechanism around.

Just as he was sighing helplessly, an idea suddenly came to his mind and he decided to turn to Jingkong's monk's room.

As the monk on duty in the temple, Jingkong's room, like the abbot's, has its own door and house.

Li Yuanfang had seen Jingkong come in and out several times, so he recognized him and found the place without much effort.

As soon as he entered the empty monk's room, Li Yuanfang's eyes were first attracted by a pile of messy straw paper.

There were too many pieces of toilet paper, but Jingkong didn't seem to care much about them and just piled them together.

He walked forward and flipped through it carefully, only to see a bunch of messy scribbles and many geometric shapes on it, like a heavenly book.

"What is this?" A big question mark flashed across Li Yuanfang's head.

Since he couldn't understand it, Li Yuanfang began searching other places in the room.

Drawing on his previous experience in the magic power room, his eyes naturally fell on Jingkong's pillow and bed.

Not long after, he found a jade token with the inscription: Wu Quanzhong, the officer on duty at the Inner Guard Palace...

Li Yuanfang immediately took a breath of cold air: "Internal Guard!"

Just as he was deep in thought, he heard faint footsteps approaching from outside the door. Someone was coming!
Without time to think, Li Yuanfang put the token back to its original place, restored everything, and then somehow hid a few pieces of manuscript paper on his body, and then hid on the beam.

Then, Jingkong came in humming a little tune: "Li ge lang ge li ge lang..."

You can see that he is in a good mood.

Li Yuanfang looked down from the beam and found that Jingkong had brought a brazier in. He put all the piles of straw paper into the brazier, lit it on fire, and filled it one by one.

Suddenly, smoke filled the room, causing Li Yuanfang, who was hiding on the beam, to cough as if he was suffocating.

Li Yuanfang had to cover his mouth and nose and try his best to endure it.

Jingkong himself was choking and coughing, but he had no intention of opening the window.

Just when Li Yuanfang was about to be unable to bear the smoke, there was a knock on the door.

Jingkong hurried to the door, leaned against it with his back and asked, "Who is it?"

"It's me, Faming. The abbot wants you to come over!" the person outside the door answered.

Jingkong asked again, in an extremely impatient tone: "What could the abbot do?"

Fa Ming quickly replied: "It's Lord Di, General Zhao, and that girl is back again!"

Jingkong was startled and coughed: "You go first and tell them I'll be there soon!"

"Yes!" There was another sound of footsteps outside the door, gradually moving away.

Jingkong turned around, frowned, and quickly picked up the basin of water in the room to put out the fire, and hid the basin under the bed.

Then he opened the window to ventilate the room, but closed the door and left in a hurry.

Only then did Li Yuanfang jump down from the beam and watch Jingkong walk away.

He sneered, and decided to stop pretending, searching the empty room.

But after leaving the meditation room, Jingkong did not go directly to see the abbot and Di Renjie, but went to see another monk.

"Send a message to His Majesty immediately and tell him that Di Renjie has returned to Hanguang Temple again. He seems to have discovered the secret of the temple. Go quickly!"
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However, Zhao Ji, Di Renjie and Ruyan disguised themselves and returned to Hanguang Temple, feeling the weird atmosphere all the way.

Many monks no longer look like monks, and there are no pilgrims in the temples at all.

Di Renjie and his two companions disguised themselves as pilgrims, but they were unable to hide their tracks and ended up being like lice on the monk's head - it was obvious.

The abbot soon came out to greet him after being informed by the little monk: "Amitabha, why did you come back to Hanguang Temple?"

Seeing this, Di Renjie simply got straight to the point: "Master Abbot, I came here incognito today to ask you something. Did any guards come to the temple last night?"

The abbot was immediately startled, and swallowed his saliva and said, "My Lord, what...what inner guards, I don't know, I don't know!"

How could this level of psychological quality be hidden from Di Renjie?

Di Renjie smiled and said, "The Buddha said, there is no self, no person, no sentient being, and no life. The abbot is in the Buddhist sect, so he should get rid of the traces of worldly appearances. Aren't you ashamed of lying like this?"

The abbot raised his head and said, "Master, Buddhist disciples leave the world to pursue their aspirations and do not attach themselves to worldly matters. Why are you questioning me about worldly matters?"

Di Renjie said again: "Without any worries, there is no fear and no upside-down dreams. Since there are no worries, how can worldly affairs make you obsessed with the appearance of the world? What's the harm in talking about it?"

The abbot sighed and said, "King Goli will cut all the monks with his bloody sword. How can I be free from worries? I hope you will forgive me."

Di Renjie looked puzzled and asked, "There are only you and me here now, why are you afraid of King Goli?"

Zhao Ji looked around and whispered in Di Renjie's ear, "There's someone watching us. It's a monk."

Di Renjie was suddenly startled and quickly glanced around and nodded slightly.

"Well, since the abbot is unwilling to speak clearly, we will not force him. I wonder where Master Jingkong is?" Di Renjie asked again.

The abbot finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Please wait a moment, sir. I will send someone to invite Jingkong here."

(End of this chapter)