It is said that one morning, when the novices in the Temple of Mercy and Grace got up early to sweep the courtyard, they found that eight senior elders were kneeling at the entrance of the temple, each with a wooden fish in front of them, knocking and chanting something vigorously.

It seems to be a scripture, but it is different from the scriptures recited in the monasteries on weekdays.

The novices usually don't dare to look at these elders from afar, but at this time, where do they dare to come forward to ask, they only dare to stand up.

After a while, I saw that the voices of the eight elders seemed to be getting higher and higher, and sometimes they were elongated, and sometimes they kowtowed in unison, and the scene was very strange.

So I hurried back to report to the master on duty.

When the master on duty heard how to dare to be lazy, he hurriedly ran to the corner of the hall to watch for a while, and then hurriedly reported to the prison again.

The prison court reported to the abbot.

By the time the abbot arrived, the eight elders had finished chanting and were standing up on their own.

The ritual has also changed from the usual folded palms to the bow of the hands.

When the abbot went to call for the Dharma of several people, they did not respond. Instead, it went straight inward.

These eight people are very polite on weekdays, and they are even more respectful to the abbot.

The behavior of several people today was really beyond the abbot's expectations.

In the next few days, the behavior of several people was even more grotesque.

The whole day was full of people, and the spoken language changed from Amitabha Buddha to the immeasurable Heavenly Venerable.

Every morning and evening, eight people went to the temple on time to recite some scriptures that no one could understand.

After a few days, the temple has been boiling, and various opinions are different.

Some people say that they fell for demons, some people say that they collided with the Buddha and were punished, and some people say that several people have not had much time and have been hooked away from their souls. And there is a momentum of more and more terrifying.

For a while, the news did not go away, and even the pilgrims who came to offer incense did not dare to enter the temple, and the incense decreased by seven or eight tenths for a while.

The abbot is well-informed, and after a few times, he heard that what several people were reciting was the Taoist "Eight Great Divine Mantras"!

However, a few people never answered with others, and if they wanted to ask something, they couldn't even ask.

The abbot managed to find several Taoist scriptures of different sects in the morning and evening from several Taoist temples, and compared them one by one according to the recitations of several people. In the end, it was determined that what several people were reciting was "Dragon and Tiger Mountain is a morning and evening class"!

The major schools of Taoism have their own morning and evening lessons, except for the eight great mantras at the beginning, the content of each sect's morning and evening lessons is different. Because each sect has different practice methods, the gods enshrined are also different. The content of the morning and evening classes is the treasures and scriptures of various gods, each with its own merits.

There are also morning and evening sutras in Buddhism, but the content is the treasure of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of Buddhism, and they all have the same magic.

The significance of the morning and evening classes is that the disciples can get used to nature, memorize and recite the treasures of the sect, and at the same time, they can sincerely respect them, so that they can imperceptibly feel the core theories and contents of the sect culture.

It is of great significance for raising awareness and cultivating oneself.

Once the root cause had been found, he immediately contacted the Heavenly Master Mansion of Longhu Mountain. It was a matter of relations between the two religions, and the Heavenly Master's Mansion attached great importance to it after hearing about it. He quickly sent Gao Gong forward.

Before leaving, the Heavenly Master solemnly explained to the three high masters, and if the soul of the Taoist disciple was troubled, he would ambush or persuade him to retreat. If it is a demon, it will be punished immediately, without the slightest hesitation!

The three of them received the order and hurried to Tiantai Mountain in Zhejiang.

From Longhu Mountain to Tiantai Mountain, the interval is only 365 kilometers. Five hours later, the three of them arrived at the Temple of Mercy and Grace.

The abbot of the Temple of Mercy and Grace personally greeted him at the mountain gate, and then entered the temple to explain the situation in detail.

The three high masters came this time because they were sent by the Heavenly Master, so they didn't dare to stay for a moment. After the abbot finished speaking, he was led directly by the abbot to the meditation room where the eight people were.

When he came to the door, he did not push the door in. The three of them are slightly in formation, and stand in front of and behind according to the shape of the pin. The head of the Gao Gong Luo Hydro Dao held the Heavenly Master token with both hands, and said loudly: "Heavenly Master Edict! Eight quick to receive the decree!"

I could only hear a sound in the meditation room, and the door creaked open.

After opening the door, he carefully looked at the three people in Han robes in front of the door, and then saw the Heavenly Master Token.

In fright, several people looked at each other, and the one who opened the door nodded to the back, only to see eight people kneeling down neatly, and said in unison: "Disciple respectfully listens to the decree!"

At this time, the monks outside the door were all dumbfounded. The eight elders, who didn't want to be cold for many days, were so respectful to the Heavenly Master's orders.

Luo Shui Zhengse said: "In accordance with the decree of the Heavenly Master, I will ask you questions, and you must play according to the truth, and you must not be deceived!"

The man who opened the door replied, "Yes!"

"Where did you come from, and what are you doing here?"

"Since we came up from the debate meeting, these bald donkeys have deceived people too much, they will only quibble and confuse the public, and Kublai Khan's men are also secretly manipulating, we are really uneasy, so we will go to their Buddhist monastery and see who is strong and who is weak!"

The three Gao Gong are all top masters in Taoism, people who are thorough in the world, and they are all rich in knowledge. As soon as a few key words came out, Luo Shuidao immediately thought of the Buddhist debate hundreds of years ago, and asked, "Do you know what year it is now?"

"This year's Wuwu, the sixth year of Baoyou, the eighth year of Gehan"

Note: In the sixth year of Baoyou, it was the eighth year of Meng Ke Khan (1258 Wuwu year), Meng Ge, his brother Kublai Khan and the general Wuliang Hetai attacked the Southern Song Dynasty in three ways. He personally led the main force to conquer Sichuan, and the following year, during the attack on Hezhou (now Hechuan District, Chongqing), he was seriously injured by the Southern Song Dynasty's Diaoyu City defense weapon (see "Marco Polo's Travels" and Ming Wanli's "Hezhou Chronicles"), and died on the Diaoyu Mountain in the east of Hechuan on the 27th day of the seventh lunar month.

It seems that this is true. The ancients did not have a Gregorian calendar, and they all used the country name to year, such as the 40th year of Kangxi, the 5th year of Qianlong and so on.

It was not until 1912, after the Xinhai Revolution, that the national ** began to use the AD chronology.

Luo Shuidao said: "Your soul has been sealed in your body for a long time, and you don't know the years. Now, 770 years have passed since the sixth year of Baoyu!"

As soon as these words came out, several people were shocked, as if it was just yesterday for them, and they didn't think that more than 700 years had passed.

"You wait for the heart of the way. It's just that today's Buddhism and Taoism are a family, and the grievances and grievances in history have long been melted away with time. Lao Ziyun: The husband and things are numerous, and they return to their roots. This matter has long been a thing of the past. ”

"You can leave quickly, and there will be no more turmoil. ”

After hearing this, the eight people groaned for a long time, and the leader wanted to speak, but he wanted to stop.

After a long time, the leader said to the seven people behind him: "Since the Heavenly Master's decree, we have to obey the order, let's go." ”

The context between the words was quite cold, and the rest of the people didn't say much, nodding yes.

As soon as a few people surrendered their hands to Luo Shuidao and the other three high masters, the eight elders collapsed to the ground at once.