Cheng Kun laughed out loud and mentioned, “Kong Wen’s whole physique is smeared with butter and lard, as quickly as he met the hearth, he would flip into charcoal instantly. Hong Shui Flag can save the Damo Corridor, they can not save the Outdated Fangzhang.”

From the waist of the hill immediately got here a voice, “If Hong Shui Flag failed, there may be nonetheless Hou Tu Flag.” It was Fan Yao’s voice. He had simply completed talking when he appeared with Hou Tu Flag Chief, Yan Yuan, on the height, every holding the hand of an outdated monk strolling between them. It was none aside from the Shaolin Temple Abbot, Kong Wen. Nevertheless, the three males’s garments had been scorched; their eyebrows had been partially burned. They seemed battered and exhausted.

Kong Zhi rushed ahead to embrace Kong Wen. “Shixiong,” he referred to as out, “Are you properly? Shidi is incompetent, I’m responsible and deserve ten thousand deaths.”

Kong Wen smiled and mentioned, “If not due to these Fan Shizhu [benevolent master, donor] and Yan Shizhu got here out from the tunnel, you and I must say goodbye to one another at present.”

Kong Zhi was astonished. “The Ming Cult’s Hou Tu Flag’s means to dig tunnels is divine.” He bowed deeply to Fan Yao and Yan Yuan to precise his gratitude, after which mentioned, “Fan Shizhu, Laoseng [old monk – referring to self] was impolite and offensive to you; please forgive me. Laoseng doesn’t dare to go to the appointment on the Wan An Temple of Dadu.”

When a Wulin character made an appointment for a martial artwork competitors and ate his personal phrases by not displaying up, the lack of face he would expertise could be ten thousand instances worse than if he misplaced due to inferior talent. Kong Zhi was endlessly grateful towards Fan Yao for risking his life in saving his Shixiong’s life; therefore he was prepared to interrupt his personal promise. These two males admired one another to start with. After this incident, their respect for one another grew. Any further, they turned the easiest of mates.

Turned out Cheng Kun had made a complete association upfront. On the eve of the Nice Heroes Meeting, he caught Kong Wen off guard and sealed his acupoint, and held him prisoner contained in the Damo Corridor. The Corridor was stuffed with sulfur, firewood and different flammable materials. Then he assigned his trusted aides to face guard. He coerced Kong Zhi to do every thing he commanded, or else he would set the hearth and burn Kong Wen to his dying. When issues didn’t end up the best way he deliberate later, when every thing didn’t occur as he anticipated, when he believed his plan had failed fully, he issued an order to his cronies to set the hearth as his final gambit to ‘break the cauldrons and sink the boats’. He hoped that when the gang of heroes and monks had been busy laying aside the hearth, his cronies might need an opportunity to assist him escape down the mountain.

Unexpectedly, Yang Xiao and the Ming Cult military arrived on the Shaoshi Peak just a few days early. The Hou Tu Flag was instantly ordered to dig a tunnel towards the Shaolin Temple, initially, it was to rescue Xie Xun, however Xie Xun was not imprisoned contained in the Temple in any respect.

Because the Hou Tu Flag individuals seemed in all places with no avail, they took the chance to erase the writing on the again of the sixteen Luohan photos. In a while, after Zhang Wuji and Zhou Zhiruo battled the Jin Gang Fu Mo Quan, and Cheng Kun’s actual id was revealed and he was confronted in entrance of Kong Zhi and all people else, Zhao Min and Yang Xiao instantly guessed via his plan.

After a brief dialogue, they requested Fan Yao to guide Hong Shui and Hou Tu, two Flags, to infiltrate the Temple and discover Kong Wen. Nevertheless, Cheng Kun’s association was extraordinarily thorough and ominous; sulfur and firewood had been piled excessive inside and out of doors the Damo Corridor. As quickly as a fireplace was ignited, the Corridor caught in a blazing inferno, burning 5 Hou Tu Flag disciples to their deaths. Fan Yao and Yan Yuan moved shortly via the smoke and hearth to rescue Kong Wen. Nonetheless, the three of them suffered some burns on their garments, hair and eyebrows. If not for the tunnel, they’d not escape and could be buried underneath the burning corridor.

Damo Corridor, in addition to a number of adjoining buildings, suffered heavy damages from the hearth. Happily the hearth didn’t unfold additional, the Da Xiong Bao Dian [great heroic precious hall], the library, the Luohan Corridor, and different essential locations didn’t endure any injury.

After a brief dialogue, Kong Wen and Kong Zhi issued an order for Cheng Kun and his followers to be detained within the rear corridor, ready for additional directions. Cheng Kun had been staying within the Shaolin Temple for fairly a very long time, he had made lots of mates and gathered fairly a little bit of followers, however because the chief was apprehended and the Abbot escaped from hazard, Cheng Kun’s supporters realized their trigger was misplaced. They didn’t supply any resistance and had been led down the height by the monks, underneath the management of the Luohan Corridor’s chief monk, with their head hung low in dejection.

Zhang Wuji got here close to Xie Xun and will solely name out, “Yifu!” whereas tears streaming down his face like rain.

“Foolish Baby!” Xie Xun laughed, “Your Yifu is enlightened by the three eminent monks and has handed via to nice awakenings. My lifetime of crimes have been resolved, each single one among them. You have to be very completely satisfied for me, why would you be grieving? Why would you’re feeling sorry that I misplaced my martial artwork talent? Would you like me to make use of it to do evil once more sooner or later?”

Zhang Wuji couldn’t consider something to reply, however there was ache in his coronary heart; he referred to as out once more, “Yifu!”

Xie Xun went towards Kong Wen and kneeled down saying, “Disciple’s sin is grave, I hope for Fangzhang to supply a shelter by taking me underneath your discipleship.”

Kong Wen had not answered when Du E mentioned, “Come, let Laoseng take you as my disciple.”

Xie Xun mentioned, “Disciple doesn’t dare to hope for such luck.” He requested Kong Wen to be his grasp, as a result of then he could be a ‘Yuan’ technology disciple. If he entered Du E tutelage, then he would have a ‘Kong’ technology rank, which was on the identical degree of seniority with Kong Wen and Kong Zhi, two martial brothers.

“Garbage!” Du E barked, “‘Kong’ is empty, ‘Yuan’ can also be empty. I’d have thought that you just’d perceive it by now!”

Xie Xun was startled, however he understood instantly. Grasp-disciple relationship was a mere distinction of the Buddhist title; it was all illusory for Buddhist followers. Thereupon, he recited a Buddhist verse, “Grasp is empty, disciple is empty, no guilt no accountability, no advantage no benefit!”

Du E laughed out loud and mentioned, “Shanzai, shanzai! You’ve turn out to be a disciple of our faculty, but you’re nonetheless referred to as Xie Xun. Do you perceive?”

“Disciple understands,” Xie Xun replied, “Xie Xun is ox dung. Every part is however a shadow, the physique doesn’t exist, not to mention a reputation?”

Xie Xun was expert in each pen and sword [orig. ‘wen wu cuan cai’], there wasn’t any ‘zhu zi bai jia’ [lit. many sages, hundred schools, a general term for all the pre-Han schools of thought] he didn’t pry into. With slightly enlightenment from Du E, he turned conscious of the important which means of Buddhism. Henceforth he entered Buddhism and finally turned an eminent monk himself.

“Enter the remaining, enter the remaining!” Du E mentioned, “Solely by comprehending the best way one will keep away from satan’s traps!” Taking Xie Xun by the hand, he went down the height unhurriedly with Du Jie and Du Nan following behind.