Chapter 357: Aragaragi Calendar's Redemption
It is true that Shi Qingyi does have a wonderful memory, which is similar to predicting the future, however, just like the popular RPG game strategy in that memory, Shi Qingyi is just a large framework that can predict the historical trajectory, and the details of it, because they have long been deeply buried under the mud and sand of the long river of time, many things, Shi Qingyi will not know because of this.
- The evil king has disappeared since then, even Shi Qingyi and Shi Qingxuan, and his sons and daughters have not been able to detect his traces, maybe one day in the future, he will die in obscurity in an unknown place! However, even so, the story of the evil king is far from over.
The fourth ancestor of Zen Buddhism, Daoxin, may indeed have the reputation of a wise man in the eyes of people, because when facing the young Shi Zhixuan who came to steal the master from the Demon Gate, this famous Buddhist monk actually failed to detect the profound martial arts of the Demon Gate hidden in this seemingly extremely talented disciple - no, maybe Master Daoxin has noticed the abnormality of this disciple, but he is confident in the supremacy of his own cultivation method, and can subdue some demons in the world, so even if he is obviously born in the evil sect, The young demon disciples who wanted to come and plot against each other were all carefully taught.
Moreover, with the talent of the evil king in his youth, he was so amazingly talented, even the demon gate that has been inherited for thousands of years has been impressed, and he has established his position as the leader of the next generation of the demon gate early. The insight of the four ancestors of Zen Buddhism is naturally far away from the many elders of the Demon Gate who have been torn apart by infighting and secular suppression, so they understand more that although the world is big, they want to find a perfect mantle to inherit. But how difficult and unattainable it is, therefore, in fact, the young evil king Shi Zhixuan, who was able to be carefully taught by the four ancestors of Zen Buddhism, was actually educated by the four ancestors as his mantle.
Therefore, Master Daoxin did not hesitate to teach all his Dharma cultivation to this disciple who was highly expected by him, and actively recommended this disciple to his friends, Master Jiaxiang of the Three Treatises Sect. The wisdom master of Tiantai Sect, the Venerable Emperor of Huayan Sect, wants to gather the Dharma of the most famous Buddhist monk in the world, wash away the demonic nature of this disciple, so as to take refuge in my Buddha and achieve positive results!
It's just a pity that all the efforts made by Master Daoxin for this turned out to be just wishful thinking on his part. The nature of the evil king is free and arrogant, and it was in the demon gate that he seemed to have a limitless future at that time. In addition, there is a confidant like Zhu Yuyan, an outstanding heir of the Yin Sect, who is accompanied by him, unless his head is kicked stupidly by a donkey, the evil king will choose to give up everything and escape into the empty door.
However, even if Master Daoxin's hard work was in vain, everything he did for this disciple who came to steal the master was not in vain. Because, in the future, he became a generation of demonic giants who made the world fearful, but the evil king Shi Zhixuan has always admired this teacher, which is not only a correct affirmation of this teacher's cultivation path, but also an admiration for this teacher's noble morality. It's just a pity that Master Daoxin is late, and the evil king's body has already been deeply branded with the Demon Gate, and this is not something that Master Daoxin can cut off with his own efforts alone!
Therefore, the future evil king Shi Zhixuan can only become the evil king Shi Zhixuan of the Demon Gate, but he cannot become the great virtuous monk of the Buddhist Sect - until, after his life is shattered, and even his spirit is in trouble because of incomparable pain......
The Four Ancestors Daoxin, because he was extremely hopeful that the evil king would escape, so he had to pass on his mantle to another disciple in extreme disappointment, that disciple, the Four Ancestors Daoxin was not very optimistic, but when the young evil king Shi Zhixuan fled, only this disciple could inherit the mantle of the four ancestors of Zen Buddhism......
And this disciple is called Hongnin, that is, the five ancestors of Zen Buddhism who are respected by later generations.
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Decades later, after the death of the four ancestors of Zen Buddhism, the life of his disciple Hongren is about to come to an end, and at this time, in Shaolin Zen Buddhism and all Buddhist sects, it is recognized that the person who can inherit the mantle of Hongren is his outstanding disciple, the intelligent and loyal monk Shenxiu, however, Shenxiu himself is not psychologically prepared for such a major event as inheriting the Taoist system of Zen Buddhism. Although it shows the profound Buddhist cultivation of this high monk, it also shows the timidity of Shenxiu in inheriting the lineage of Zen Buddhism. And it is precisely because of this that Hongren has not passed on the mantle of Zen Buddhism to the hands of Shenxiu. Until, after a foreign monk came to Shaolin Temple, he saw Shenxiu's famous verse.
This foreign monk is Huineng, because he is illiterate, so in fact, he only knew the true meaning of the verse made by Shenxiu after hearing others recite it, but after that, Huineng did not praise as much as others, but on the contrary, in the next moment, he immediately spoke, and made another-for-tat verse in response to Shenxiu's verse - "Bodhi has no tree, the mirror is not a platform, there is nothing originally, where to stir up dust." Then, ask the people in the neighborhood to help you copy the verse and put it near the verse written by Shenxiu......
So, Huineng and the poem he made a sensation in the entire Shaolin Zen Buddhism, even the five ancestors who were close to death Hongren couldn't help but come forward and meet this really extraordinary, but really a little bold little monk, and then, Hongren learned from Huineng that he had experienced the life experience before.
Huineng was born in the south, his father died a long time ago, his family was poor and sold vegetables for a living, one day, on the way home, Huineng happened to hear someone reciting the Buddhist scriptures "Diamond Sutra" so he had a comprehension, and refused to leave for a long time, this is the first time Huineng came into contact with Buddhist classics, and since then, he has become attached to Buddhism.
It can be said that the mysterious layman who recited the "Diamond Sutra" is Huineng's enlightenment teacher, and it is indeed he who led Huineng into the door of Buddhist practice, and opened Huineng's firm heart to the Buddha, however, it is such a teacher, but he did not teach Huineng the ability to read, because according to the words of the layman, it is the way of heaven and earth to the truth, and there is no obstacle to writing. In the end, it will be easier to go astray. It was also under the guidance of this Huineng enlightenment teacher that Huineng finally decided to devote himself to Buddhism and Zen Buddhism, and worshiped the five ancestors of Zen Buddhism, Hongren, as his teacher!
So after such a conversation, the Fifth Patriarch Hongren finally determined that the mysterious layman was his senior brother who was once famous but not tolerated by the righteous path of the world, and Huineng, without a doubt, was the successor of that senior brother's Buddhist cultivation.
Whether it is on talent or wisdom, Hongren knows that he can never be compared with the amazing and brilliant senior brother, and therefore, although he was able to inherit the mantle of the fourth ancestor of the master, he has never been proud of it, but he regrets all the time that the senior brother did not inherit the mantle of the master, so at this time, when the heir of the senior brother came to him, and showed a Buddhist talent far beyond his proud protégé, the fifth ancestor Hongren couldn't help but be moved.
So, after a careful investigation in secret, when Hongren finally determined that Huineng was indeed dedicated to the Buddha and had a pure mind, he finally decided to hand over the mantle of the Zen inheritance of Buddhism to Huineng to inherit......
――Huineng is the sixth ancestor of Zen Buddhism! It's just that at that time, because most of the new generation of disciples in Zen Buddhism were interested in Shenxiu, the five ancestors Hongren was afraid that someone would plot against Huineng because of resentment, so after secretly handing over the inheritance token to Huineng, he immediately asked Huineng to go away incognito, and after that, the five ancestors passed away because the time limit had arrived.
Because of this incident, Zen Buddhism was split, Huineng went to Lingnan to found the Shaolin Temple South Sect, and Shenxiu inherited the ancestral court of Songshan Shaolin Temple, known as the Shaolin North Sect, when Shenxiu was there, because Shenxiu's outstanding Buddhist cultivation and supreme wisdom were indeed heartbreaking, Shaolin North Sect was once brilliant to the extreme, however, when Shenxiu passed away more than 100 years later, the power of the North Sect declined, and eventually, it was replaced by the Shaolin South Sect created by the six ancestors Huineng...... (To be continued......)