Chapter 15: The Oil Lamp, the Bell and the Old Man
From the time he went up the mountain, Cheng Zijin asked Ma Xiaoyang to perform the magic of the gods, one is because in this kind of dense forest in the mountains, there are many obstacles, and it is difficult to perform the magic of the gods, but because of this difficulty, it is the best whetstone for exercise, and the other is that the magic of the gods is one of the ways to control the operation of the qi veins, and it also has the effect of hiding the breath and converging the divine sense.
From the mountain down to the mountain, the two walked for an hour, the more they walked the mountain wind, all the way to the top of the mountain, the ears were full of whirring mountain wind, there was no light on the mountain, except for a few perennial oil lamps in the temple, it was pitch black, and someone asked, there are so many monks and Taoists on the mountain, do they not turn on the lights at night? In fact, the more formal temple Taoism, in addition to special days, the more standardized the work and rest, Buddhism has the saying of the morning bell and dusk drum, that is, the schedule of work and rest, ring the bell in the morning to do the morning class, the evening drum on the rest, all the nightlife is not, this is also one of the manifestations of strict self-discipline, Taoism is similar, the morning class and evening class is the day's work and rest time, so the more formal temple Taoism, the more quiet the night to go, although Xiangshan is not a famous mountain and river, Buddhism holy land, but here also abide by this ancient and profound rules.
On the top of the mountain, because there is no light source, so when you look up, it seems that the Milky Way is close at hand, so Li Bai has a poem, which writes that "the dangerous building is 100 feet high, and you can pick the stars with your hands." I dare not raise my voice, for fear of frightening the people in heaven. "Here, the dilapidated building is replaced by a peak, and the artistic conception is the same.
"It's so beautiful, I've never seen such stars!" Ma Xiaoyang looked at the pure starry sky in the sky, and suddenly felt so relaxed, he wanted to look at it like this.
"You humans were fine before, but now you make a mess of the environment, such stars, I have looked at them for hundreds of years, since birth, and you have lived for more than 20 years, it is the first time to see them, do you say this is sad!" Cheng Zijin said.
"Don't talk about cool words, hundreds of years ago, you were not allowed to walk for half a year from the capital to my house, but now it takes three hours, what do you have to do!"
"I won't tell you, I can't tell you about it anyway!"
"It's a good word, you have the ability to throw away the love you bought yesterday, that thing has an impact on the environment from production to use!"
"You're unreasonable!"
"Big fox, this is not good!"
"I'm not poor with you, look, the front is the Fuxian Bodhisattva Temple, so far away, I feel that there seems to be something in it, it's not easy to mess with, I'm not healed now, many means can't be used, and the demonic control is not so impeccable, borrow the incense burner and the oil lamp, you go yourself, I'm here to give you a look!"
"What Yamashita said is very powerful, okay, you guard here, I'll go back as much as I can!"
"Remember, start quickly, whether you succeed or not, just leave with one blow, don't stay!" Cheng Zijin had to admonish again.
"Got it" Ma Xiaoyang nodded, then put on a hat, mask, gloves, cat waist, and touched the temple from the place where the lights were not shining.
Cheng Zijin was waiting on the side, and suddenly, a big bell in the square next to the temple began to ring without wind. Forget about the ring, as soon as it sounds, a Buddha light brush appears, turning into a circle and scattering.
"Damn, Ma Xiaoyang, I'll kill you sooner or later!" Cheng Zijin saw the aperture appear, and ran away, but no matter how fast he ran, it was not as fast as the aperture, but in an instant, Cheng Zijin was directly hit by the aperture, and the white light flashed and disappeared.
What is Ma Xiaoyang doing, he is still in the main hall at this time, in fact, everything went smoothly at the beginning, sneaked in, and no one was on duty in the main hall, entered the main hall, saw many incense burners and oil lamps, what to do, take the oldest one, perform the magic of the gods, an arrow step to the incense burner, grab the hand, lock the demon tower cover, swish, the incense burner in the middle was sucked in, so the re-application, towards the middle of the bland oil lamp grabbing, the accident appeared.
The oil lamp in his hand seems to be long on the base, no matter how hard he uses it, he can't pick it up, and when he touches the oil lamp, it seems to be on it, and he can't take it down, at this moment, the bell in the square began to ring, and the accompanying Buddha light touched Ma Xiaoyang, and the peach charm on his chest snapped, and turned into a piece of fly ash, and the peach charm turned into fly ash with a mask and hat.
"Holy!" As long as you are not a fool, you know that the situation is not right now, Ma Xiaoyang is in a hurry, sacrifices the root of heaven and earth, and picks a stick according to the oil lamp, which is strange to say, a stick is firmly hit with the oil lamp, but the right hand holding the root of heaven and earth feels soft and does not focus at all, and the oil lamp is also under this stick, and it is taken down from the altar, but in the blink of an eye, when Ma Xiaoyang was still in a daze, the second bell rang, and the visible Buddha light brush swept towards Ma Xiaoyang, Ma Xiaoyang did not react, the lock demon tower took the initiative to fly out to protect the master, blocking behind Ma Xiaoyang, but just like that, when Ma Xiaoyang reacted, he was already beaten a foot away and hit the wall, a mouthful of blood came out without money.
When Ma Xiaoyang waited desperately for the third bell to ring, the bell did not ring, but an old man's voice came.
"Why did you steal this oil lamp!" Ma Xiaoyang looked up, an ordinary old man, his clothes were old but not dirty, his hair was gray but not messy, and he asked with a compassionate face.
"There is a demon to be born, I will use the oil lamp to set up a formation to lead the sky to fire and eliminate the demon!" Ma Xiaoyang said as critically as he poured beans.
"Oh, then you can take it and return it when you're done," the old man glanced at Ma Xiaoyang, and then said with a smile.
"Huh?" Ma Xiaoyang was confused by this reversal.
"By the way, is that little fox on the other side of the mountain beam with you? It's a little injured, you can wait to go down the mountain and take care of it!"
"Little fox?!" Ma Xiaoyang was stunned for a moment, and then realized that it might be Cheng Zijin.
"Thank you, senior, after using up the oil lamp, you must return it, but I don't know what the predecessor is called!"
"No name, others call me old man, just call me old man!"
"Well, thank you, senior! Farewell!" Ma Xiaoyang saluted and hurriedly retreated, thinking that he would be a big boss without a name.
At the moment when Ma Xiaoyang walked out of the hall, it was just a flicker of the oil lamp, and the old man disappeared quietly, as if he had never appeared, as if he had never appeared, the wind blew, and Ma Xiaoyang vomited blood on the ground and disappeared without a trace.
Ma Xiaoyang endured his injuries and trotted all the way, and went to the place where he was separated from Cheng Zijin to see, how could there be Cheng Zijin, shouted at the top of his voice, and suddenly Cheng Zijin's voice came weakly from under his feet.
"Don't call the soul, I finally ran out, call someone again, don't run with me yet" Ma Xia Yang looked down, the snow-white foxes were curled up together, and he ran just now, and he was worried about the safety of Cheng Zijin, so he didn't look carefully, and thought it was a stone.
"Cheng Zijin, what's the matter with you!" Ma Xia asked, but his hand didn't stop, and he hurriedly picked up Cheng Zijin.
"What else is going on, I was beaten back to my original form by the Buddha's light, what is that, my mana has been imprisoned, and I have been beaten back to my original form for the first time in many years!" Cheng Zijin asked.
"I don't know, I'll go back and tell you, you're okay with other injuries!" while saying and running, before running out, someone came out to check, although there was no Buddha light, but the big bell still glowed with golden light, the first people shouted Bodhisattva apparition, and then shouted more people, and soon, people in the middle of the mountain were woken up.
"It's okay to have other injuries, I said Ma Xiaoyang, I don't know what to say about you, can you not make such a big battle every time, the previous time was just a little tree demon, but you passed on the Nuwa exercises, and caused a catastrophe, this time it's just just a random temple to steal an oil lamp and incense burner, you are actually about to make the Buddha's light shine, red half of the sky, can you let me heal the wound quietly!" Cheng Zijin was frightened this time, he was a big demon during the tribulation period, and no one knew how to make a move.
According to Cheng Zijin's thoughts, this Xiangshan is famous in these counties, but it is not a famous mountain and river, even if there are monks, they can't go there, but they steal an incense burner casually, and actually make such a big battle, they have no room to fight back, so they are two or two enemies, don't you don't know how to die, how can this make Cheng Zijin not afraid. Even when the world was at the peak of cultivation, it was rare to see this kind of power, how could the aura of heaven and earth dissipate, and in the era of the end of the law, such a person appeared.