CH 81

"Ha~ha~" Li Huowang, who was covered in sweat, was panting with his hands on his knees.

Li Huowang had already been climbing for two hours and still hadn't arrived.

The nunnery was much higher than he had imagined.

He struggled to lift his head and found that the winding dirt road seemed to have no end, stretching up all the way.

Li Huowang gritted his teeth and grabbed the vine beside him to continue climbing.

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When his legs were painfully sore from climbing, he finally saw the mountain gate of An Ci nunnery.

Wiping the sweat from his chin with the back of his hand, Li Huowang subconsciously looked at the couplets on both sides of the mountain gate.

To his surprise, he couldn't understand the couplets of this nunnery at all.

It wasn't because of Danyang Zi that Li Huowang forgot how to read these characters, but because the appearance of these characters was very strange.

The appearance of these characters was in the form of a long rhombus-shaped "duo" character, with the upper right part higher than the lower left part. The italicized characters looked like oracle bone inscriptions, with many familiar traces of Chinese characters.

"Are these... characters? Or something else?" Li Huowang walked to the side and touched them with his hand after being puzzled.

After carefully examining them for a while, he walked towards the nunnery.

But after walking in, the words that Li Huowang had prepared in his heart had no target.

Because there was not a single person in the square overgrown with weeds, which was in stark contrast to the crowded scene in Zhengde Temple.

"Is anyone here?" Li Huowang's voice echoed back and forth in the square, but still no one appeared.

Looking around, Li Huowang walked towards the main hall in front of him. There was no incense in the hall, but it was not dark at all because it was leaking. The slanting sunlight shone in and illuminated everything inside.

The Buddha statue in the center of the main hall was also covered in dust and cobwebs.

If it weren't for the lotus-shaped sitting platform, Li Huowang would have almost not recognized it as a Buddha statue.

"Did I get it wrong? This nunnery looks completely abandoned."

Just as Li Huowang was thinking about this, a slight snoring sound caught his attention.

Following the sound slowly, behind the Buddha statue, he saw a big lump moving up and down.

As he approached, he realized that it was not a lump, but the fat belly of a fat nun sticking out from her clothes.

She lay on the cold ground, snoring with her mouth open, and a sour and stinky smell wafted over.

Black clothes, fat, dirty, these all matched up. The person in front of him was the nun of An Ci nunnery, whether she was a good person or not, Li Huowang didn't know for the time being, but with her current appearance, even a bad person wouldn't want to have too much contact with her.

"This master, Xuan Yang from Qingfeng View has urgent matters to discuss." Li Huowang raised his voice and bowed to the fat nun.

But the snoring of the fat nun showed no signs of stopping. She didn't wake up at all.

"Is she pretending to be asleep?" Li Huowang took a step forward, and his voice became even louder. "This master! Xuan Yang from Qingfeng View has urgent matters to discuss!!" However, there was still no response.Li Huowang was about to shout in her ear, but the strong stench from her body pushed him back. The smell was so pungent that it was unbearable. Before Li Huowang could think of another way, the fat nun suddenly sat up, trembling. She rubbed the eye boogers from Huang Jingjing's eyes and walked unsteadily towards the side door. "Oh, it's time for dinner, time for dinner."

"This master, Xuan Yang of Qingfeng Temple has urgent matters to discuss!"

This time, Li Huowang was not ignored. The fat nun was startled, and her triple chin trembled with her. "You scared me, why do you walk without making any sound?"

Li Huowang stood there with a conflicted expression. He was no longer concerned whether these people were plotting against him, but whether this nun had a way to deal with Danyang Zi.

"Go burn incense yourself! Don't delay my meal!" The fat nun said coldly and continued to walk inside with her elephant-like legs.

Li Huowang didn't say anything and followed her inside. The whole nunnery was large but also dilapidated. The Buddha statue in the main hall was rotten, and the Buddha statue in the side hall was even worse. Some of the doors still had words on them, but they were the same as the words on the entrance.

"Master, what is this word?" Li Huowang asked.

"Women's script, of course you don't understand. This kind of script is only passed down to women, not men."

Although the question was answered, the nun seemed very impatient and walked straight ahead.

Looking at the increasingly unfamiliar environment, Li Huowang continued to follow without hesitation. Everything here should be real, without the strange feeling of a hospital. Whether it was because he had eaten too much of the Black Tai Sui or had been in a hallucination for too long, other hallucinations were of no use to him. Even if they worked, he could easily distinguish them.

After wandering around for a while, Li Huowang followed the fat nun to a house with a chimney. There were other people inside, and the strong stench indicated that they were all nuns. Watching the fat nun rush in with shining eyes, Li Huowang furrowed his brows and took a deep breath, pinching his nose and enduring the pungent smell as he followed her in.

As soon as he entered the house, the sound of smacking, swallowing, and chewing quickly entered his ears. Li Huowang almost thought he had entered a pigsty. A group of black-clad fat nuns were gathered around a big black pot, eating with their hands without chopsticks or bowls.

They ate so deliciously that even Li Huowang, a living person standing here, had no reaction. As for what they were eating, Li Huowang could barely distinguish that it was a kind of fried rice with vegetable leaves.

Li Huowang, with a red face from holding his breath, opened his mouth to breathe and felt that the smell in the room was a bit irritating to his throat.His action finally caught someone's attention, a plump nun who had just finished her meal. She sucked on her fingers and gave up her seat to Li Huowang.

"Do you want to eat vegetarian? Two hundred copper coins per person."

Hearing that she wanted money, Li Huowang was not angry but happy. "No need, but there's something I need the master's help with." He threw a gold bean over.

"Gold!" The plump nun excitedly stuffed the gold beans into her mouth, chewed them with her yellow teeth, confirmed they were real, and then spat them out into her hand mixed with saliva and vegetable leaves.

"Do you want to buy a pig? How many do you want? Say it! The pigs in our temple are the fattest."

Seeing the other person approaching, Li Huowang took a step back.

"No, I heard that the masters in An Ci Temple are profound and mysterious, so I came here to ask for their help to remove evil spirits."

"Hahaha~! Aren't you a Taoist yourself? You're asking a nun to help you remove evil spirits? Hahaha~!"

As if the laughter was contagious, the other nuns in the room laughed too, and even Li Huowang couldn't help but laugh in the end.

"Hahaha~!!"