In the scorching sun and the yellow sand, a lonely figure was slowly trudging, it was a monk, dressed in the monk's usual dress worn by monks in Middle-earth, and from the heavy footsteps and the dusty face of the traveler, the monk had undoubtedly walked for a long time, and was exhausted at this time.

However, the monk could not stop to do any rest, at this time he was deep in this sea of death sand, not only the food had already been eaten, but even the water was also very little, the monk knew that once stopped, then he himself would never be able to leave this territory of death alive!

"Can't give up! As long as you keep walking, you will definitely be able to leave this sea of sand! In his heart, the monk said this to himself more than once. However, without food and no water supply, after a few days, the monk who had reached the limit of his body and spirit finally could no longer hold on, so after falling to the ground again due to weakness, the monk was never able to stand up again.

"Am I going to die?" At this moment, the monk thought in his heart that there was nothing to fear about death, and the monk was a Buddhist disciple, because he did not have any fear of death, but he could not complete the grand wish he had made in this life, but it was the biggest regret in the monk's heart at this time.

At the moment before the last consciousness fell into a coma, the monk's eyes were still full of yellow sand, spreading endlessly into the distance, as if there were no boundaries......

The monk fell quietly in the endless desert of Hanhai, and if no one found out, then soon, he would be turned into a dried corpse due to exposure to the scorching sun, and then buried by the yellow sand brought by the wind. Eventually, he disappeared without a trace, unable to be found by anyone, however, the monk was lucky, for shortly after he fell to the ground, there was a slight sound of camel bells. I saw a white figure leading a camel slowly from a distance, and then I saw the monk lying unconscious on the road!

Seeing the monk who fell to the ground, the white figure stopped his steps and observed carefully for a moment, and then, after finally confirming that the monk was not dead, the white figure stepped forward and fed some water to the unconscious monk, and then. He put the monk on the back of the camel he brought, led the camel, and the white figure continued to walk forward again......

During the day, the desert is hot enough to cook a raw egg, but at night, the temperature plummets, and the extremely low temperature makes travelers have to wear extremely thick clothing to protect against the cold. Coupled with the biting cold winds that are customary at night in the desert, the night is for travelers walking in the desert. But it's also a hell with a harsh environment.

The monk also woke up at night, and because of the great overdraft of his physical strength before, the monk's body at this time was extremely weak, looking up at the bright stars in the sky in the wind and sand. At this time, the monk suddenly had an unreal and illusory feeling in his heart!

Looking around, the monk realized that the position he was in at this time was the back of a sand dune. At night, the wind of the desert was blocked by the sand dunes, making a loud whining sound, however, it could not affect the travelers on the back side of the dunes, and not far from the monk, a white figure was sitting near a bonfire, at this time, it was also looking in the direction where the monk was!

"You're awake!" A soft voice said.

The monk's heart suddenly moved: "Thank you for the life-saving grace of the female benefactor!" The monk said, "If it weren't for the donor, I'm afraid I would have been buried in this sea of sand, and I wouldn't be able to survive!" The monk said, his voice was very sincere, for it was, but when the white figure heard this, he only let out a slight laugh, and then there was no sound.

The monk looked at the other party, wanting to carefully look at the appearance of this life-saving benefactor, however, to his disappointment, the clothes that the person was wearing were the unique clothes of women in the Western Regions, and a wide white robe covered this person from head to toe, without a trace of skin exposed, so that the monk could not learn more information from it except for hearing from the other party's voice, that the other party was a woman and came from Middle-earth.

"I don't know why the female benefactor appeared alone in this desert?" After looking at the white figure for a long time, the monk finally couldn't bear it anymore and asked. Then, he looked at the figure, but found that a shallow smile appeared in the other party's eyes, and then, the soft voice sounded again: "The monk's words are a little unreasonable, aren't you yourself alone, and walking alone in this sea of sand?" ”

In the endless sea of sand, the harsh natural environment of the journey has created a forbidden area of life that is inaccessible, and therefore, when the lonely travelers trek here, the encounter with the same desert traveler is often not a sincere treatment and help like a friend, but full of suspicion and vigilance, and then, a large part of the outcome is the robbery and robbery of the jungle, after all, in this inaccessible forbidden area of life, all the laws of the world, are non-existent, here, all everything, All follow the laws of nature, which are equal, but cruel.

Therefore, travelers who meet in the sea of sand are not allowed to ask about the origin and destination of their temporary companions. This is an unwritten rule in the desert.

However, for such an unwritten agreement, the monk has never heard of it at all, and it is, after all, the previous monk has never traveled in the desert, and his trip, from Guanzhong to the west, is also the first time to enter the desert, not to mention that those in the desert do not understand the human geography at all, that is, the mastery of various skills to survive in the desert, is also completely close to nothing, no wonder, he will be so almost unprepared, Those who do not travel with the merchants, walk alone in the Hanhai Desert full of deadly dangers, and then, as a matter of course, are trapped to death by the endless desert, if not lucky to encounter the lonely white figure, the fate of the monk. Of course, you can only die in this sea of sand!

The monk doesn't know the way to survive in these deserts, and besides, he is dedicated to cultivating Buddhism, and he has never had any selfish thoughts in his heart, therefore. I don't feel like there's anything I can't say to the world. In addition, the person who asked him was his savior, so the next moment, the monk calmly said where he came from, where he went, and the great dream he wanted to accomplish!

"My name is Xuanzang, just an ordinary monk in Chang'an City, but after studying Buddhist scriptures for many years, I found that there are too many disagreements and mistakes in the existing classics of Buddhism. Therefore, I made a grand wish in front of the Buddha, and I wish to reach Tianzhu, the birthplace of my Buddha, thousands of miles away, in order to obtain the original scriptures and restore the true meaning of Buddhism! ”

In Xuanzang's mouth, he is just an ordinary disciple of Buddhism, and what he is doing is just one thing that every Buddhist disciple should do, so when he said such a thing. He doesn't take credit for it, however. Such words could not hide the white figure who had been sitting there quietly, after all, the distance between Tianzhu and Middle-earth was more than thousands of miles, and what kind of difficulties would be encountered in it. It is even more unpredictable in advance, it can be seen that although the monk has no long things, his belief in his heart is extremely firm, and although the monk is young at this time. But he has been able to understand the Dharma and see the many mistakes in the Buddhist texts of Middle-earth, so there is no doubt that this dusty and tired young monk in front of him has an extremely brilliant understanding of the Dharma, and can be called a generation of senior monks of the new generation of Buddhism?

Then, I heard the voice of the white figure sound again: "It turns out that Your Excellency is a master who has cultivated the Dharma to a high level, but he has lost his eyes and lost his manners. At such a young age, I already know the Dharma, and I have a firm belief in promoting my Buddha, so I think that although I am limited by my age and the master is in Middle-earth, he will definitely not be an unknown person, right? A gentle female voice said.

"A little shallow reputation, not worth mentioning!" Xuanzang said modestly.

In fact, as early as in Middle Earth, Xuanzang has been famous because of his genius in Buddhism, and even became the guest of His Majesty Li Shimin today, however, Li Shimin, an iron-blooded emperor who unified the whole country with martial arts, does not attach much importance to Buddhism, the reason why he is particularly blue-eyed to Xuanzang, in fact, is because of Xuanzang's talent, therefore, this iron-blooded emperor once privately admonished Xuanzang, asking him to return home, and then enter the court as an official, but, was rejected by Xuanzang.

Of course, Xuanzang would not tell the white figure in front of him, in fact, his trip to Tianzhu this time was actually disobeying the emperor's order and fleeing from Middle-earth without permission.

It turned out that Xuanzang had already had the idea of leaving Middle-earth to go to Tianzhu to seek the true scriptures a long time ago, and made various plans for this, but these plans were all died because of the intervention of His Majesty Li Shimin, Li Shimin loved Xuanzang's talent, so he never gave up the solicitation of Xuanzang, so when he heard that Xuanzang wanted to leave Middle-earth and go to Tianzhu, which was thousands of miles away, he immediately rejected Xuanzang's request.

Xuanzang is also helpless about this, after all, the passes stationed in Chang'an to the Western Regions are in the hands of the Tang army, and if you want to pass through these passes, you must have a customs clearance document issued by the imperial court, otherwise you will not be allowed to pass, therefore, although Xuanzang's dream is ambitious, but at that time, it was helpless!

It should be said that Li Shimin's detention of Xuanzang certainly has his selfish side, and he hopes that Xuanzang will change his mind in the future and serve himself, however, from China to Tianzhu all the way, all the way to Tianzhu, all the way away, the hardships that need to be experienced, not to mention the thousands, Li Shimin's approach is actually out of the consideration of protecting talents, and he does not want this talented young man to give his life in vain in the journey with an unknown future! It's just that for Xuanzang, a young man with firm beliefs, there is nothing that can stop his pursuit of ideals, so Li Shimin's methods ultimately failed!

Just when Xuanzang was helpless, the opportunity fell from the sky, in the summer of the second year of Li Shimin's accession to the throne, the center of the empire in Guanzhong, a serious drought broke out again, for four months, there was not a trace of raindrops in the sky, the seedlings in the fields were all scorched, and a great famine was about to break out on the land of Guanzhong!

Li Shimin and his subordinates quickly adjusted the country's policy: ordering other grain-producing areas of the empire to quickly mobilize grain from Guanzhong. At the same time, the pass was opened and the refugees were allowed to leave Guanzhong to beg for food, so that on the large and small roads leading from Guanzhong to the outside world, the refugees left their homeland in an orderly manner. In order to survive, he went to other places other than the land of Guanzhong, and Xuanzang, when the imperial court was unable to take care of himself in response to the famine, he was mixed with the refugee group after disguising himself, and then passed through those passes in a daze, so as to leave Middle-earth and march towards Tianzhu, the holy land in his mind......

Xuanzang's preparation was extremely hasty, without any back-to-back plan and no guide. Even Xuanzang's own understanding of the customs and characters, language and geography of the Western Regions is extremely poor, and because he has been worried that there will be cavalry from the Tang Dynasty to chase after him, Xuanzang can't even wait to travel with the merchants, so he hurriedly embarked on the journey alone, so that he almost died in the sea of sand! Until, saved by the white figure in front of him.

A lonely trek all the way. makes Xuanzang's desire for companions become extremely strong, so. He would talk to the other party so warmly, and hoped that the other party could respond to him in the same way, however, to Xuanzang's disappointment, the white figure opposite was not a person he liked to talk to. Therefore, even though Xuanzang said a lot, but most of the time, that figure just listened like that, and rarely spoke.

was rescued from a near-death state, and Xuanzang's physical condition was actually very poor. So soon, he was already feeling tired again.

"Take a good rest!" Seeing this, the white figure said to him, "Tomorrow morning, we will continue to hurry!" "There are many dangers in the desert, so the best thing to do is to get out of such a forbidden area as soon as possible!

However, such words were a burst of vigilance in Xuanzang's heart: "So, where is the donor's plan to take the poor monk?" Xuanzang was afraid of the Tang Dynasty pursuers who might come to chase after him, so he naturally didn't want the other party to bring him back to the place where he had set out, the starting point in the east of this desert. But immediately, he already knew that that such thoughts were actually just thinking too much about himself.

Because the other party answered his question like this: "Keep going west, until you are escorted out of this desert, Master!" ”

So close to the fire, Xuanzang quickly fell asleep, since escaping from Guanzhong, due to fear and the difficulty of trekking on the road, Xuanzang has not been able to get a chance to sleep peacefully. So now, although he has been in a coma for a short time, his spirit is still very tired, and he still needs a lot of sleep! And that white figure guarded his side, although he didn't even know his face, but for some reason, he was able to make Xuanzang believe in her heart. Xuanzang fell asleep like this, but the white figure kept sitting next to the bonfire, as if he was not sleeping!

With the unique whining wind roar in the desert, in this inaccessible forbidden area of life, a pair of pale green thief eyes quietly approached the place where the two camped in the dark night, it was a wild wolf that had been wandering in the desert for an unknown amount of time, and at this time, seeing that the prey seemed to be completely defenseless, he gradually took advantage of the cover of the night to approach his prey!

What Xuanzang didn't know was that not long after he stepped into this desert and fell into the predicament of lack of food and water, a vicious wolf had quietly followed him, wanting to turn Xuanzang into food in his belly, so in the next few days, the lone wolf quietly followed behind Xuanzang, but Xuanzang, who was in a hurry, knew nothing.

It should be said that Xuanzang is lucky, because what he encountered was only a lone wolf, not a wolf colony, you must know that when wolves appear in groups on the grassland, their fierce and cruel grassland overlord image is often chilled by the herdsmen on the grassland. However, when the wolf leaves the grassland and its own tribe and becomes a lone wolf wandering in the desert Gobi, the nature of the lone wolf will be exposed at this time!

The nature of a lone wolf is cowardice and cunning!

Therefore, even in the end, Xuanzang's body was already in an extremely weak state, and this lone wolf did not launch an attack on Xuanzang, it was still quietly lurking behind Xuanzang, waiting for the other party to die naturally in the harsh environment of the desert, so as to get the prey effortlessly!

This lone wolf is not the first time to hunt humans, it has already had many experience in hunting humans, and it has long been familiar with hunting again, but this time, when it was about to achieve its goal, there was a little accident: the prey that was already in its own bag actually encountered the same kind, so as to get the protection of the other party, so that the hard work of this beast for several days was wasted!

Survival in the desert is extremely cruel, whether it is for humans, or other creatures, in order to track Xuanzang, the lone wolf has not eaten for several days, at this time the lone wolf is actually extremely tired, therefore, even with its own senses, it can feel that the new human is not good, but hunger prompts it to go on an adventure, in order to try to regain its own prey from the other party's hands!

The lone wolf approached the two of them quietly, and then, with the eyes of the white figure, the figure who was sitting motionless by the fire, but at this time he had turned around, and was looking at the lone wolf who was slowly after all, and did not make any other movements, but that gaze, somehow with a deterrent that shocked the souls of all living beings, made the lone wolf only in that moment, all the hair on his body burst up. At the same time, he also stopped his quiet progress! Then, in the next moment, the hungry lone wolf turned around violently and fled quickly into the distance, and soon disappeared into the darkness around him, and no more sound came out!

The white figure has been looking at the direction of the lone wolf's escape, and there has been no change for a long time, until I don't know how long later, in the distant wind, there is a faint sound of a lone wolf whimpering, and the white figure seems to sigh slightly without a trace, and sits back on the side of the fire......

I don't know how long it took, but with a dazzling ray of sunlight piercing into his eyes, the white figure finally stood up again and raised his eyes to look east.

It's dawn! (To be continued......)

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