Chapter 6: The Search for the Enemy
After leaving the small inn, I looked back at the pine and cypress town that had given birth to me and raised me. I got on the only minibus in the town and embarked on the experience of traveling far away from home.
After three hours of bumpy mountain roads, I came to Fangba Town, the seat of the county seat that governs our township. I came here because there is a big temple in Fangba Town, Pingle Temple, I hope that the monks in the temple can see some clues from the relics of my parents, my grandfather once said that my parents came to Pingle Temple in their lifetime, so I am also quite interested in this temple.
After several inquiries, I came to the door of Pingle Temple, this temple covers an area of about 800 acres, and the whole temple has built dozens of antique buildings from low to high, which is extremely majestic.
As soon as he entered the main hall, a little monk greeted him.
"Donor, are you offering incense or praying for blessings?"
"I'm just going around. I shook my head and preached to the little monk.
The little monk bowed his head and bowed to me, then turned around to leave.
"Hey, little master, may I ask where your older masters are here, I have something to ask them. I stopped the little monk who turned around and asked.
"In the afternoon, the masters all gather together to do their homework, you come with me. After saying that, the little monk led me to the temple.
I followed the steps of the little monk, I don't know how many Buddhist halls I walked, and finally stopped at the door of a large hall without a name, the little monk motioned for me to wait at the door, and then left without looking back.
In the hall, the sound of monks tapping wooden fish and chanting scriptures comes and goes, and the sound of Buddha reverberates. At this time, a thought from my left arm came to my brain, it was from Zuo Yingqiu and his wife, they felt very uneasy, it is no wonder, after all, being in Buddhism, coupled with the collective chanting of monks, it is normal for his husband and wife to feel uneasy.
About an hour later, the monks of Pingle Temple finished chanting, and a group of young monks walked out of the hall quickly. I watched from afar as the monk walked out of the hall, searching for the older ones, who might know better, and finally I fixed my eyes on an older monk and quickly stepped forward to block his way.
"Hello master, I am a villager from Songbai Town, this county, my name is Yang Daoguan, I have a few things here, can you please help me take a look?"
The old monk stared at me unexpectedly and asked, "What is it?"
I opened the package directly on the ground, squatted on the ground and looked at the puzzled old monk, hoping that he could find some clues from the contents of the package, revealing some information about my parents.
The old monk picked up the pages and read them seriously with a frown.
These pages are supposed to be from a certain Taoist text, and I can't tell which one of them is a poor monk. As he spoke, the old monk put the fragments of the book back into the package.
"Then does this ancient jade master know where it comes from?"
I pointed to the ancient jade in the package and looked at the old monk, and after listening to my words, he grabbed the jade bracelet from the package.
"Quit hair, Hugh has to speak!"
When I heard the voice, an old monk in a robe walked out of the hall.
The old monk with the jade bracelet in his hand replied respectfully, "Yes!" and then put down the jade bracelet in his hand and left.
I picked up the ancient jade and faced the old monk wearing a robe at the entrance of the hall, and said, "Master, do you know the origin of this book and jade bracelet?"
Since he said that he was talking about abstinence, he must have known something about my parents.
The old monk ignored the jade bracelet in my hand and picked up the paintbrush from the package. He stared at me and closed his eyes without making a sound, and after a long time he opened his eyes and muttered, "Who are you Yang Qiyi and his wife?"
"It's my parents, master, do you know my parents?"
I was very excited at the moment, because the old monk recognized my parents' relics at a glance, so he should know something about my parents.
"That was more than twenty years ago, when the poor monk met the two of them on a trip to make a marriage, and you were not yet born. ”
The old monk's words instantly made me feel refreshed, because every word in his words told me that he knew my parents! In this way, I could also verify whether my parents were victimized by the demon way.
"Do you know how they were killed, my grandfather said that they may have been killed by the demon Dao, what is the name of the demon Dao?
"That demon Dao has vast magical powers, and has the ability to fly to the heavens and the earth, the poor monk was not able to reach the magic when he was young, and he almost died in the hands of this demon Dao in the process of fighting with him. Between the words, the old monk showed a little anger.
"The master knows the name of this old demon, and the hatred of killing his father is not shared, and I hope that the master will make it clear. ”
The old monk sighed and said to me, "In the course of a conversation with your parents, I learned that his Taoist name is Pochen. ”
"Breaking the dust! When the world has gained the great way?"
I opened my mouth to look at the old monk, and my heart was even more mixed, because I was afraid that I would not be able to avenge my parents' great revenge, grandpa said that the evil spirit, the broken dust, and Nangong Xiangyue were the ones who got the great way in the world, but how could the one who got the great way be the demon way?
"Little donor, do you know that the dust is broken?" the old monk asked with a look of surprise on his white eyebrows.
"I just heard my grandfather say that the three of them are the Great Dao Masters in the world, how can they be demon Dao, Master, are you mistaken. ”
Because in my heart, those who have attained the Dao of Taoism must be decent, and they cannot be evil demons and crooked paths, let alone people who harm my parents.
The old monk looked at me thoughtfully, waved his robe, and motioned for me to take the package and go with him.
I followed the old monk through a few bluestone paths to his room, the old monk's room looked spacious and bright, it was a clean and elegant room. There is a coffee table in the middle of the house, and on each side of the coffee table is a Taishi chair, and the chair is also covered with red cloth chair cushions. On the ground, a circle of sandalwood that was about to burn to ashes still filled his body with its unique light fragrance.
When I got to the room, the old monk made me a cup of tea, handed it to me with one hand, and motioned for me to sit down on the Taishi chair.
"You're right, the three of them, Evil Spirit, Po Chen, and Nangong Xiang Yue are indeed the Great Dao Masters in the world, but among the three Great Dao Masters, only one of the evil spirits is called the Venerable One by the various factions in the rivers and lakes, and he is the leader I respect uprightly. And Pochen and Nangong Xiangyue are the shame of my generation of cultivators, they will not give up in order to achieve their goals, and they have already committed heinous crimes for treachery! If I guessed correctly, the person who killed your parents is very likely to be the demon Dao Pochen. Because when your parents came to visit our temple when they were alive, they personally told the old man that they were being chased and killed by Pochen, and everyone in the rivers and lakes knew that Yang Qiyi and his wife disappeared from this world after the battle between Tianyang and Pochen, and later they were exposed to the fact that they both fell, if they were not harmed by Pochen, who would be?" The old monk stroked his white beard, shook his head and sighed.
I was chased and killed by Po Chen! In the end, I was killed after a vicious fight with Po Chen! Since I was hunted down, then only Po Chen would have the motive to kill my parents.
"What about Nangong Xiangyue, he is a traitor like Pochen, will he kill my parents?"
After thinking about it, although all the evidence points to breaking the dust, it is not impossible for Nangong Xiangyue to be impossible, because my parents must be a jealous hero in my heart, maybe I offended Nangong Xiangyue, the demon way, and caused the disaster of killing, so I don't want to make a conclusion easily.
"Did Daoist Yang inform you about the Baihua murder?"
Seeing that I had doubts about his words, the old monk did not directly answer whether I did it for Nangong Xiangyue, but brought up the Baihua murder case, and he didn't know the real intention of what he said.
"The Hundred Flowers Murder Case, when I was a child, my grandfather did tell me such a story, my grandfather said that there was a big villain who needed ghosts to practice evil arts, and killed tens of thousands of living people in Baihua Town during the Hundred Flowers Festival, so that they all turned into ghosts overnight for their own cultivation. ”
But in my opinion, it was all when my grandfather deliberately made up a story to scare me when I was a few years old.
Could it be that I just reacted after briefly telling the story, is the story my grandfather told me true, and someone really killed tens of thousands of people overnight?
"Where is this a story is the truth at all, the villain in Yang Daochang's mouth is Nangong Xiangyue, and this incident happened in Baihua Town in the north! When the old man arrived that day, he happened to bump into Nangong Xiangyue, Nangong Xiangyue killed too many innocent people overnight, and was resisted by the disciples of the gods and ghosts of Baihua Town, so that too much Taoism was consumed, and the underworld also sent a large number of yin cha to arrest him because he killed too much, but how could Nangong Xiangyue obediently be captured, and the underworld Yin Cha fought viciously in Baihua Town for seven days and seven nights without winning or losing, and finally the Emperor Xudu personally took action, only to capture it and bring it back to the underworld, and since then Nangong Xiangyue has never appeared in the world. And your parents fell after Nangong Xiangyue was captured by the underworld, so Nangong Xiangyue does not have the time to kill your parents, and there is only one person who can do and kill your parents, and that is the Dust Breaking Demon Dao, because your parents' cultivation has long been under the three Dao Masters and above the world, so who can kill your parents above the rivers and lakes?"
After the old monk finished speaking, I was also convinced that it was the Broken Dust Demon Dao who killed my parents, after all, my parents had personally told the old monk that he was chased and killed by the broken dust, and although Nangong Xiang Yue was a great traitor, he was caught by the underworld, and it was impossible to escape easily.
Since I knew that the person who killed my parents was the Demon Dao Pochen, at this time, there was a fierce light in my eyes, and I vowed to find the Demon Dao Pochen and avenge my parents!