I don't know how long it took, but I saw that the moon was approaching the middle of the sky, and in the quiet courtyard, there was a sudden sound of light laughter.

There was a look of joy on the face of the Fa Xiang, a few steps forward, walked to the middle of the small courtyard, looked up at the moon and the moon, only to see the moon dazzling, sprinkled directly on his moon-white monk's robe, straight like frost and snow.

Fa Xiang laughed, turned around, knelt down to Master Puhong, who had been smiling and standing next to him, and saluted, "Thank you Master for your guidance, disciple has understood." ”

Venerable Puhong's eyes were full of relief, and at this moment he looked at the disciple kneeling in front of him, even though he had already cultivated to the realm of pampering and not being shocked, a look of genuine joy appeared on his face. He reached out and gently stroked the top of Faxiang's head, and said three words in a row.

"Good!"

"Good!"

"Good!"

"You are gifted and intelligent, rare in the world, but more importantly, but you have a sense of Buddhism, another layer of wisdom, when we were four brothers, in fact, you Puzhi Uncle is the most intelligent, but unfortunately although he is smart, but he has taken the wrong path, delayed Buddhism, vainly asked for what immortality, and finally ended up with an unbearable end, you can understand today, it is your blessing, but also the blessing of my Tianyin Temple!"

Fa Xiang was stunned, looked up at Venerable Puhong, and said, "Master, what do you mean by this, the disciple doesn't quite understand?" ”

Master Puhong shook his head, first stretched out his hand to help the Fa Xiang up, and then the joy on his face gradually faded, and said lightly: "Over the years, the teacher has been dragging on mundane affairs day and night, so that the Buddhist understanding has stagnated, but in vain when this worldly name is vain, half a lifetime of fighting, can not give up, when your uncle Puzhi died, as a teacher will have a hidden heart, helpless no one under the door, in the face of this ancestor foundation, although it is a thing outside the body, but can not be easily abandoned, now with you, as a teacher can rest assured." ”

Fa Xiang was shocked, his face was pale, and he knelt down again when he had just stood up, and said hurriedly: "Teacher, what are you talking about, how can Tianyin Temple leave you, not to mention that the disciples must accompany the teacher day and night, listen to the teachings, but ask the teacher not to abandon the disciples and the people of Tianyin Temple and go into hiding!" ”

After that, he prostrated more than once.

Master Puhong laughed, then sighed, pulled the Fa Xiang up, and sighed: "Idiot, idiot, how can there be an indispensable banquet in the world? However, the matter of returning to seclusion for the teacher is not urgent, it can be achieved in the near future, and you don't have to worry, you have to settle everything properly, and I can rest assured. ”

Fa Xiang had tears in his eyes, but after all, he knew that Venerable Puhong's desire to retreat was unstoppable, but fortunately, as the teacher said, although he had a heart, he had not yet seen the urgency, and when he had the opportunity in the future, he would persuade the teacher well.

Thinking of this, he stopped his tears and stood aside.

Master Puhong looked up at the sky, and saw that the moonlight was transparent, clear and beautiful, and he looked at it for a long time, and suddenly said, "Let's go in and see the little benefactor!" ”

Fa Xiang was stunned for a moment and said, "What? ”

Master Puhong said lightly: "Right and wrong, grievances and hatreds, no matter what, there will be a result after all. ”

With that, he said no more, and walked towards the hut, and Faxiang slowly followed behind him, looking at the door that was getting closer and closer, and somehow, his heart became a little nervous.

It's been a day and a night, in there, facing Uncle Puzhi, what did Ghost Li do?

What will he do?

The answer appeared in front of them the moment they lifted the curtain and pushed open the wooden door and gently entered the room.

Inside the empty room, the silver light of the "Jade Ice Tray" still flashed.

Nothing, nothing happened!

Pu Zhi's Dharma body was still sitting on the jade ice plate, and opposite him, Ghost Li, or Zhang Xiaofan, was sitting cross-legged, with his back to Pu Hong and the Dharma Minister, silently staring at Pu Zhi's face in the faint light.

Master Pu Hong took a deep breath and was about to speak, when he suddenly felt movement behind him, and turned his head to look, but it was the Fa Xiang who gently pulled his sleeve robe, and after seeing Master Pu Hong turn his head, he gestured with his eyes and went down to the ghost.

Master Puhong turned his head to look at it, and couldn't help frowning, only to see that nothing had changed in this room, except on the ground where the ghost was sitting cross-legged, the green brick floor within three feet of the surrounding area was cracked, and dense cracks crawled all over the ground around him, the closer to his body, the denser the cracks became, and when he was within a foot in front of him, all the green bricks were no longer cracked, but completely powdered.

On this day and night, no one knows what happened to Ghost Li, and perhaps, no one will ever know.

Venerable Puhong slowly walked up to Ghost Li, glanced at the ground in front of him, and said in a calm voice, "Donor, you have been here for a day and a night, can you think clearly?" ”

Ghost Li slowly took his gaze back from Pu Zhifa, and looked at Master Pu Hong, Master Pu Hong's heart was shocked, only to see that Ghost Li's face was pale and tired, although he had only sat here for a day and a night, he seemed to have the vicissitudes of life in his face, and had experienced a hundred years of life.

The Venerable Master Puhong joined together and chanted softly, "Amitabha! ”

Ghost Li slowly stood up, but halfway up, his body trembled suddenly, and he was a little unstable, Fa Xiang and Pu Hong both frowned, and when Fa Xiang wanted to step forward to help, Ghost Li had already regained his footing, inhaled deeply, and then stood up straight again, facing Master Pu Hong.

His body was weak at first glance, but for some reason, at this moment, he seemed to be as burly and stoic as Mount Meru.

"Master—" his voice was a little hoarse.

The Venerable Master Puhong joined hands and said, "Yes, what does the little benefactor command?" ”

"The dead are buried in peace, and you will make him... Master Puzhi's Dharma Body was cremated and buried! ”

After a while, Master Puhong sighed, as if embarrassed, and said in a low voice, "Donor, have you seen it?" ”

Ghost Li smiled miserably, glanced at Pu Zhi who was sitting in the faint light, the muscles on his face were tense and relaxed, and said slowly: "I had only one night with this master, but I once knelt down in front of him, and willingly kowtowed to him, calling him 'Master', he saved me and harmed me, but without him there would be no me, the dead are gone, although I am not a disciple of Buddhism, I also know that Buddhism values reincarnation the most, and he refuses to go into the ground when he dies, so I know that he regret......s it in his heart."

The cold aura faintly emanated from his hand, and Master Puhong and Fa Xiang felt it almost at the same time, that surging strange demonic power.

"The blood devouring bead demon power is fierce, I have felt it all these years, and I can understand the reason for it somewhat."

With that, Ghost Li slowly turned around and walked towards the door, coughing from time to time in a hoarse voice.

When the Venerable Master Puhong was behind him when he was the same as the Dharma, he recited the Buddha in front of his back, and the Venerable Master Puhong immediately said: "The little donor is kind-hearted and touching, and the old man is here to thank the donor for the deceased junior brother Pu Zhi, and the old man will follow the instructions of the donor, and later he will perform the Dharma to cremate the Dharma body of the junior brother and bury him, but I don't know if the donor has anything else to explain before this?" ”

Ghost Li had already walked to the door at this moment, and his hand was stretched out towards the door, but after a moment, he paused, and the whole person seemed to freeze there.

Neither the Venerable Puhong nor the Faxiang knew his intentions, and they only looked at him for a while and did not speak.

Ghost Li slowly turned around, and once again saw the old and slightly pained face.

This face, he has only seen twice in his life, more than ten years of time, all came to his heart in an instant, but in the end, after all, only that stormy night, he smiled kindly and peacefully in front of him.

Whether he is a ghost or Zhang Xiaofan, who knows?

And who cares?

"Poof!"

The man, right at the door, knelt down at the remains of the Dharma Body who was sitting on the shimmering jade disc and was in pain for a lifetime, just like the young man back then, and kowtowed three times uprightly, and then he raised his head, solemnly, with a deep and inexhaustible pain on his face, and said, "Master! ……”

……

Silence!

"Master, you... Rest in peace! ”

He whispered, then stood up, said no more, turned to open the door, and walked out.

The cultivation path is like Puhong and Faxiang, and he was stunned for a while, just watching the ghost Li walk out of this hut.

In the silence, the Fa Xiang sighed and said, "He, he really has great wisdom and great mercy!" What a strange man in the world, Amitabha..."

Master Puhong turned around, looked at Pu Zhi's Dharma body, and after a while, he said, "Senior brother, you can finally be safe... Hey? ”

Master Pu Hong exclaimed in surprise with a slight surprise, which made Fa Xiang also take aback, and hurriedly followed Master Puhong's gaze, and his body was suddenly shocked, and his face was full of surprise.

I saw that the Puzhi Dharma Body sitting on the jade ice plate had changed at this moment, and in the silver-white glimmer like frost and snow, the Puzhi Dharma Body turned into powder like sand and gravel, and little by little it turned into sand and dust that was almost invisible to the naked eye, and slowly fell.

And on top of his old face, somehow, the original trace of pain disappeared, and instead seemed to show a smile of relief.

Seeing that the weathering speed was getting faster and faster, and the whole body was about to disappear, Master Puhong had tears in the corners of his eyes, and said, "Senior brother, junior brother, your wish has been fulfilled, and Senior Brother is happy for you." From now on, the sea of Buddha is boundless, you can do it yourself! ”

The Puzhi Dharma Body quickly weathered, and finally all of it turned into white dust, slowly falling from the silvery-white light emitted by the jade ice tray in mid-air.

It was also at this time that after the jade ice tray took on the dust, the magic weapon suddenly flourished, and in the closed hut, there was suddenly an inexplicable force, blowing the wind.

In the distance, there seems to be a Buddhist Sanskrit singing, which comes slowly.

The light of the jade ice disc became brighter and brighter, and the wind speed in the hut became faster and faster, and the robes of Puhong and Fa Xiang were all scraped and hunted, and the two looked at each other in shock.

Suddenly, there was a light and sharp roar on the jade ice plate, and the millilight skyrocketed, and countless dust was soaked in the frost and snow-like shimmer, flying out in all directions, booming, and bursting out immediately!

"Boom!"

The dust was flying, and then it was covered by a huge dazzling light, and the walls around this hut were instantly destroyed by the strange brilliance of the jade ice disk, leaving no trace, only to see the moon shining high, clear and bright like snow, reflecting the peak of this mountain, lonely world, there is such a strange scene.

The jade ice disc slowly rose from the spot in a flash of light, and next to this strange treasure, silver-white powder and dust flew away, as if there was a spirit following it.

In the courtyard outside the original house, Ghost Li stood silently in it, looking up at the sky, his face full of tears.

The jade ice disc flew on its own, flying around Ghost Li's body three times, and finally stopped in front of Ghost Li.

Ghost stared at the little bit of smoke and dust, clenched his teeth, and could barely help himself.

Subsequently, in that almost solidified light, in the bleak and beautiful night of heaven and earth, the jade ice disc made a soft sound, like breaking ice and cutting snow, and the clear sound echoed, in front of the ghost, this strange treasure of heaven and earth also turned into countless powder and dust, shining in the moonlight, like falling snow, brilliant and dazzling.

In the distance, the mountain wind blew, and countless smoke and dust drifted up with the wind, fluttering and splattering in mid-air, carried away by the wind, and finally gradually disappeared...

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