Zhiguang Master stepped forward to check, but the man was already seriously injured and died, and he had no life to breathe, so he had to recite the Buddha's name. After comforting the woman, she dug a pit on the spot and buried the thief, and then she put her husband's body in a donkey cart and escorted them down the mountain.

That night, he asked Zhiguang Master: "The head of the five precepts, isn't it not to kill?"

"If a bodhisattva who has settled in the pure precepts sees that a thief wants to kill sentient beings and create uninterrupted karma, and he cannot bear the great suffering of this evil thief after his death, and he cuts off his life with compassion, he immediately opens the vow of killing. ”

"Well, that's right. ”

More than half a year of wandering time to make this person and a demon friendship more solid, this day they came to the Yicheng boundary, at that time Yicheng was just a small county town, Zhiguang Shi to the populated place will stay for a few days, one is to promote the Dharma, the other is to practice medicine, the local people have a headache and brain fever heard that there is a big monk free clinic that will come to see, after leaving some dry food snacks to Zhiguang teacher.

This time was no exception, and the fox was waiting for him on the hill outside the village, and Zhiguang returned to the mountain every evening. On the third day, an old man saw a doctor and saw that Master Zhiguang was going back to the mountain again, so he couldn't help asking, "Where does Master live these days?"

Master Zhiguang smiled while packing up his things: "I travel around, as long as there is a tile to cover my body, I can rest, there is a pavilion on this mountain, I rest there at night." ”

"How can this be done, if the master doesn't dislike it, it is better to stay in my house for a while than to sleep in the open. ”

"It's okay, it's summer, it's not cold, I can hide even if it's raining, and I have friends waiting for me. ”

The old man hesitated, but still dissuaded: "Master, you might as well ask your friend to go to my house together, this mountain is not peaceful." ”

The wise master heard the meaning of the old man's words, "Oh, it's not peaceful, but there are bandits?"

"That's not it, there used to be, but now I'm afraid that even bandits don't dare to go up the mountain and fall into the grass. ”

"My husband has something to say, please say it in person, but it doesn't hurt to say it. ”

The old man sighed, "Alas, on this mountain, it seems to be a monster." ”

Master Zhiguang raised his eyebrows, if someone told him a year ago that there were monsters on the mountain, he would still be suspicious. But now that he has been friends with a monster for more than half a year, he naturally knows that the monster thing is not a rumor.

The old man said: "A year ago, someone found that there were dead people on the mountain, and the death was terrible, and at that time they only thought it was a wild beast, and the county also organized people to go up the mountain to find and drive away, but in addition to wild boars, there were no fierce beasts on the mountain. ”

"I went up the mountain to find it twice without success, thinking it was a passing beast, but not long after, someone died tragically in the mountain, which made people even more afraid, and everyone easily did not dare to go up the mountain. Fortunately, we still have fields and rivers, but we don't rely on the mountains to live. ”

"But there is a road on the mountain, but it cannot be avoided, or else you have to take another road, and then you will have to go around in a big circle. Therefore, the people of this county have to walk in groups if they want to take that road, and they will never dare to rush at night when the day is noon. ”

"But the people in our county know it, but the people who come from other places don't know, so they can still find dead bodies on the mountain, and then everyone discovers the pattern, for example, when someone dies, most of them are at the time of the full moon. Therefore, the county ordered people to set up signs in the places on both sides of the mountain, only that there are fierce beasts in the mountain to eat people, and do not walk on the night of the full moon. ”

Master Zhiguang nodded, "Well, I did see that sign a few days ago, and I thought it was strange how the beast had to do with the full moon. ”

"Actually, it was the county order that didn't say it explicitly, they were scholars, and they didn't say anything, so they were just beasts. Actually, someone has seen the man-eating beast, which resembles a sheep, and you say, "Can a sheep eat people?" But the sheep has four big horns, and not only that, but it is full of sharp teeth and red eyes, which is not what a monster can be. ”

"Did someone really see it, or did someone else make it up?"

"There was a real person who saw that at first he was a man from out of town, and he traveled in a group, but his companion was killed by a monster, and he fled to us in a hurry to save his life, and told us about the appearance of the monster. Later, some people saw that although the images they said were different every time, the characteristics I just said were all the same, so it could not be made up. ”

"In this way, there really are man-eating monsters in the mountains. ”

"Indeed, today is the fifteenth day, and it coincides with the night of the full moon, so I persuaded the master to go to my house for a while, no matter what, it is not easy to spend these two days in the mountains. ”

Master Zhiguang nodded, "The old donor's caring heart, the poor monk accepted it, so I will go to inform my friends on the mountain, and go down the mountain tonight to find another place to spend the night, and I will no longer disturb the old donor." ”

"It's... That's fine, as long as you don't spend the night in the mountains, the master can find a convenient place for himself. ”

After the two parted, Zhiguang Master went up the mountain with a small bag on his back, in fact, he didn't plan to take the fox down the mountain, but he had the heart to meet the monster in the old man's mouth for a while, if it could be subdued, it would be regarded as a harm to Yicheng.

What's more, there is a monster here, where will there be monsters to find his trouble, and it is too late to dodge.

By the time Zhiguang Shi rushed back to the pavilion in the mountains, it was already the end of the day, and Xu Xu had gone out to hunt for food, and had not yet returned. Master Zhiguang lit a fire, and he himself chanted and meditated by the fire. About half an hour later, Master Zhiguang heard movement outside, "Are you back?"

There was no answer from the outside. Master Zhiguang stood up and reached out to take the Qi Mei stick. This sentence is a secret word for him and the, if it is convenient, the wise master will ask so. And if it is inconvenient, the wise master will say, "You wait for a while, I still have a guest." ”

He can speak human words, and when he hears the words of Master Zhiguang, he will also reply, "It's me." Or, "Okay." Others will not be suspicious. But there is no reply from the outside at the moment, and it can be seen that it is not a ruthlessness, thinking of the monster that the old man said, the wise master also has to be careful.

I saw a black shadow come out of the bushes outside the pavilion, although it was still not clear, but as soon as the night light hit, four large pan horns fell in the eyes of Zhiguang Master. His heart tightened, and he only said that the old man was not scolding me, and the monster was really here.

When the monster showed its form, it was indeed a sheep, but it had four large horns, and it looked quite powerful. And beneath the slightly twitching lips are two rows of cold and sharp canine teeth. The monster salivated at the corners of its mouth, and its blood-red eyes stared at the people in the pavilion.

Zhiguang immediately put on a posture, and said in his heart that if it dared to come in, then I would have to fight with it. But after thinking about it, since this thing is a monster, and Bao Buqi can understand people's words like a fox, if I can persuade him to be good, wouldn't it also be a merit?

So he said, "Your Excellency is a monster?"

The sheep didn't talk, and Master Zhiguang said, "Can Your Excellency understand me?"

The sheep moved, its front hooves touched the ground, and its hind hooves dug the soil, clearly preparing to attack. Zhiguang Shi's heart is unlucky, it seems that this monster is just a fierce beast, and he doesn't have much intelligence, so I'm afraid that he is just treating himself as dinner at the moment.

The monster rushed towards the pavilion with a swoop, and the wise master steadied his plate, raised his stick high, and when the monster rushed closer, he slammed the stick towards its low corner. But at this moment, the Qi Mei stick broke in response, and it shook the Zhiguang Division's mouth in pain.

Fortunately, he had flashed aside at the critical moment, and the monster was hit with a stick, but he only shook the sawdust on his head, and pushed it towards the master of Zhiguang again. Master Zhi had to use his flexible body to flicker and move, and he was almost hit by it several times.

After a few rounds of maneuvering like this, Zhiguang Master was already a little out of breath, and he had the heart to come up with the pavilion to escape, but when he thought about it, he couldn't beat it with his foot strength. Second, the pavilion itself restricts the movement of the monsters, and if you go out, you can't even flash if you want to.

The monster had good physical strength, but it was dodged by Zhiguang several times, but it hit the wall instead, which added to its violentness, so it simply stopped diving, but pointed at Zhiguang with a horn, and slowly forced him into a corner.

Zhiguang Shi had no way to retreat, so he simply grabbed the corner with both hands and wanted to press it to the ground, but even if Zhiguang Division's strength was not weak, he could only fight a draw with this monster, and both sides were deadlocked, but as time passed, Zhiguang Shi knew that he would definitely lose.

Just when Zhiguang felt that he couldn't hold it anymore, the monster screamed and shook his head violently, but threw Zhiguang aside to the side. Seeing that the monster was about to come over again, he heard an angry roar, and then a yellow shadow rushed into the pavilion, which was the fox.

Standing in front of Master Zhiguang, the fox slammed its front paws and slapped the monster against the wall with just one palm. Then he rushed up and fired his bow left and right, until the monster was paralyzed on the ground and unable to fight again. The fox opened its bloody mouth and was about to bite down on the monster's throat.

Master Zhiguang said softly: "Stop." It has no power to fight back, so let's not kill it first. ”

After staying for a long time, he didn't care, and after confirming that the monster was indeed powerless to fight back, he walked over, "Why did you provoke the earth mole for no reason." ”

Master Zhiguang smiled bitterly: "Where have I provoked it, it has been a disaster in this mountain for more than a year, and when I went up the mountain in the evening, there were old men to dissuade me, but I think that since you are here, you and I will join forces to subdue it, and it can be regarded as a good deed for the people of Yicheng." ”

"Where they joined forces, it was clear that I defeated them. ”

"If I don't go up the mountain, how can it show up for you to fight?"

Fox thought for a moment, "Reasonable, in this way, it can be regarded as a team." But why didn't you let me end it? You also said that killing for the sake of eliminating harm is not killing. ”

"No, the thief does evil, but the heart is evil, and he will get rid of it. And it is instinct for a beast to do evil, and it is food in the eyes of man or beast, and have I not been your food too?

There is no mistake