Chapter 286: The Mutilated Seated Statue
"What are you doing here?"
After a while, Zhou Huawen finally closed his mouth and muttered.
"Leave it alone, let's go along. ”
Situ Meiqiong gave an order, and the big man led the Snow Mastiff King to take the lead and rushed out, and everyone clenched the weapons in their hands and followed forward.
Ning Hao didn't care about Zhang Dingguan's struggle on his shoulder at all, ran madly to the end of the road, and put down Zhang Dingguandao,
"This is a crossroads, which one should I take?"
Zhang Dingguan stabilized his mood and pointed to the passage in front of him,
"This underground palace is very neatly repaired, and the place leading to the main hall is a straight road. But don't go back to those forks in the road, and if you take a random turn in those roads, you may be lost in them forever. ”
"Don't give Lao Tzu nonsense, now let's find out the single cheeks first, and then see if we can save Yu Fei and Yuedaoren. As for the Buddha's top relic, I'll talk about it later. ”
Ning Hao was really anxious at this time, and Shan Ying saved Zhou Huawen's life. Although others have their own selfish intentions to join the special team. Anyway, I'm helping myself, so why should I bear it?
What's more, she still has her own dualistic external aura. If it disappears, Lin Xuechu's life will also be finished at the age of thirty. Those eighteen poses, but there is no place to perform.
"Master Hao, let's go straight. They disappeared within a few minutes, most likely by the Buddha hidden in the hall, and must have been taken to the temple in the middle, and the white jade seated Buddha was offered in the middle of the sacrifice. ”
Zhang Dingguan frowned, as if he had a headache when he thought of that place.
"Ma Dan, don't say it sooner. ”
Ning Hao put Zhang Dingguan on his shoulders again and ran towards the front road. Ten minutes later, another intersection appeared in front of me.
"Show the way. Ning Hao slapped Zhang Dingguan on the head.
"Master Hao, go straight. Can you let me down, I'll run after you. Zhang Dingguan's intestines were about to be broken, and he couldn't help but beg Ning Hao.
"Don't talk nonsense, you're running too slow. ”
Yongdao was still far away, Ning Hao was holding Zhang Dingguan's waist with one hand and holding the Broken Soul Knife with the other, guarding against danger ahead. If that kind of beast-haired monster appears, it will be greeted directly with the broken sword that blows out the hair and breaks the hair.
After another crossroads, a red light appeared at the end of the corridor, and a huge space appeared in the distance inside the gate at the end of the corridor.
"Master Hao, stop. Don't make too much noise. Zhang Dingguan looked up at the red light in front of him and let out a low hoarse cry.
Ning Hao saw the ground, threw down Zhang Dingguan, and tiptoed towards the gate.
As we got closer, the situation inside the gate slowly fell into view.
The temple is twenty meters high, except for a hole at the top, and the dome is embedded with red crystalline stones. It was these stones that emitted a red glow that illuminated the entire temple. The four walls are painted with red paint for all living beings to worship the Buddha, depicting every scene of the Buddha from birth to Nirvana.
Along the walls on both sides of the gate, there are thousands of sculptures of various arhats, bodhisattvas, and saints.
It appears to be carved out of stone, and is also covered in red paint. I don't know how many years have passed, but the paint still glows a faint red in the underground temple.
Then the ground of the temple is one meter lower, and the steps go around the hall, and there are various stone carvings of Bodhisattvas and Arhats two meters high, and the total number is not much less than the previous one.
There are still one meter of stairs down, but all of them are kneeling stone carvings of various beings, each only one meter high.
There are not only monks and mortals of various professions, but also all kinds of exotic beasts and mortal livestock. One of them is a variety of aquatic creatures in rivers, seas, rivers and lakes, and the first is a variety of birds and birds...... It contains almost all living beings in the human world.
And these creatures all bowed down to the middle of the main hall, bowing their heads, and the sculptures were extremely expressive.
In the middle of the main hall, there is a flat land of nearly 500 square meters, and the central stone platform is about three meters high, and there is a half-meter-high white jade statue of Sakyamuni.
Sitting like a white jade, flat on the knee of the palm, there is a middle finger although it is also very crystalline, but there are still some black and yellow things, as if it is bone.
If you look closely, there are two openings in the arm bones, as if waiting to be embedded with something. At the skull, a dark yellow relic like jade is radiating a magnificent light.
Ning Hao's footsteps had already walked to the gate, and at this time, the statue of the white jade Shakyamuni could be seen more clearly. There are vacancies in many bony parts of the body, some of which have been embedded with yellow bone beads, but more of them are honeycomb-like cavities, which appear quite imperfect.
The whole hall feels quite dignified and a little messy.
It took such a huge amount of manpower and material resources to create this kind of hall that gave people a very discordant feeling. Ning Hao was quite contemptuous of the aesthetic taste of the builders.
"Hao Ye, don't go any further, there are hundreds of Buddha Lishi kneeling under the statue of Shakyamuni all the year round, which alarmed them, and we can only run back immediately. ”
Zhang Dingguan was behind Ning Hao, and his voice was almost inaudible.
Ning Hao didn't hear what he was muttering, and his eyes were still fixed on the white jade statue. What did the man who built this temple mean?
Since it cost so much money to build the temple, it has provided an extremely mutilated and incomplete white jade statue.
Is this a sign of respect for the Buddha, or is it blasphemy?
Ning Hao turned around and said softly, "The Buddha sitting statue in the middle was carved by a 205 master? Do the people who modify this place have an opinion about Shakyamuni?"
Zhang Dingguan glanced at Ning Hao in a daze, and said in a low voice,
"Master Hao, this sitting statue is not only not broken, but it is simply ingenious. I dare say that there is no one in the world who can carve such a wonderful seated statue in the world. And the people who built this temple simply revered the Buddha to the extreme. ”
Ning Hao turned his head to look at him, then turned back to look at the statue, shook his head and said,
"With my aesthetics, I really can't see how clever this sitting statue is. ”
"Master Hao, the Buddha was nirvana under the twin trees. A total of one skull, two arm bones, and a middle finger bone relic were left. In addition, there are 8,400 bead-shaped relics. Do you see the middle finger of the statue? And the bone beads that are embedded in it. Each of these is a treasure of Buddhism. Only one is needed to make believers go crazy, compete for worship, and worship for life. ”
Zhang Dingguan talked eloquently, and pointed to the white jade statue and continued,
"The vacancies on those white jade statues should have left empty seats for all the Buddha's relics. The builders of this temple wanted to gather all the Buddha's relics and reshape the body of Shakyamuni. ”
Ning Hao looked at the finger bone relics fixedly, and then looked at the bone bead real body relics, and finally his eyes stayed on the supreme Buddha top relics, and his heart was surging.
It looks like what Zhang Dingguan said.
The vacancy left by each relic is tightly sealed, and it is indeed ingenious. And the builder of this temple, in order to reshape the Buddha's Dharma body, is really painstakingly to the extreme.
"In that year, Emperor Ashoka collected Buddha relics and built 84,000 pagodas to make offerings. The mind and money spent by this man are also more than those of Ashoka. ”
Zhang Dingguan sighed in a low voice, as if he had a respectful heart for this statue of the Buddha's Dharma body, and he didn't dare to offend.
"Sitting on the top of the statue's head, that Buddha top relic is real, right?" Ning Hao said in a deep voice.
Zhang Dingguan took a breath and said in a low voice, "There will definitely be no fake, you see that Haoguang, can it be imitated?"
Ning Hao touched his trouser pocket, and inside was the piece that Li Xianming stuffed into him. I secretly think that you know a fart, Li Xianming has already found a master to imitate a piece, and it should be as glorious as this Buddha's top relic.
Scanning the surroundings of the temple, there was still no shadow of the eight warriors and the single cheek. They're definitely on a fork in the road!
Ning Hao was anxious, and took two steps forward, preparing to go down first to get the Buddha top relic.
"Hao Ye don't!"
With Zhang Dingguan's shout, Ning Hao's eyes had already seen the bottom of the sitting statue. There were hundreds of people kneeling around the platform, the kind of Buddha Lux seen in the corridor.
Ning Hao's footsteps had already alarmed them, and at this time, the beast hair on the Buddha's body stood up, and he had all raised his bare head, and he looked at Ning Hao in unison.
The pale human cheeks of the Buddha Lux were shriveled and emaciated, with only a layer of skin left against the bones of his face.
The eyeballs in the hundred and ten pairs of blood-red eyes had dried up, and Ning Hao suddenly shot out a poisonous light.