Chapter 271: The Past (2)
Feng Zhen brewed his emotions for a long time, and then he told the past.
He is indeed the founder of the Compassion School, and this goes back two hundred years. At that time, he had just married Dan, but suddenly encountered an accident, became a loose cultivator and went to another country, and suffered a lot, and the future of the originally confident immortal cultivator was bleak.
During an expedition, he was plotted by his companions, and his meridians were broken and he was trapped in a strange place. It was a flat grassland, and the grassland was littered with many huge stones, each carved with various expressions similar to those of people. He was trapped among the rocks and couldn't get out.
He vowed to take revenge, and with great perseverance, he slowly recovered a lot. Because he could only be accompanied by those stones all day, he accidentally discovered that the expressions carved on the stones had special rules, and relying on those rules and clues, he finally walked out of the stone formation.
But behind the stone formation, it was still not a place he was familiar with, but a small valley with beautiful scenery. Yes, the valley. When he was in the stone henge, he clearly saw that the surrounding area was a grassland, but out of the stone henge, it was a valley.
There was a simple thatched hut in the valley, and although it had all kinds of daily necessities, it had no owner. His old wounds were not healed, so he took up residence in the thatched hut for the time being. Broken meridians are extremely serious injuries, and even if they are healed, it will be difficult to return to their original state, and it will even affect their future cultivation.
Therefore, Feng Zhen's road to recovery was not smooth, and he was often impetuous. But for some reason, whenever he was particularly impatient, he would calm down as soon as he walked into the room next to him.
Noticing this, he rummaged through the room for a long time. Sure enough, I found a notebook, a note left by a person who claimed to be a disciple of Buddhism.
Buddhism, for ordinary monks, is a somewhat mysterious place, leaving a very good impression on the world, and all Buddhist disciples are admired. Feng Zhen also wanted to enter Buddhism to practice, but Buddhism never openly accepted disciples.
Although he had never heard of Buddhism and lay disciples, he looked at the notebook and felt inexplicably true and reliable. And as long as the handwriting is placed on his side, it can make him settle down and recuperate. Something like that. It can't be an evil thing, he thought.
Feng Zhen seemed to have found new hope, studied the notebook seriously, and gradually changed his cultivation method according to the notebook. To his surprise. Three months later. The wounds on his body were healed, and then he believed in this notebook even more, and since then he has been practicing carefully.
"Did that notebook mention the origin and whereabouts of lay disciples?" Hear it here. Mo Qiu couldn't help but ask curiously. Yes, Buddhism did have lay disciples, but that was a long, long time ago, and even in the materials of the sect opening to the outside world, this history was never mentioned, so Mo Qiu was also very curious.
Feng Zhen shook his head and replied, "No, that handbook only records the method of cultivation and some insights, except for the word 'compassion' written on the cover, there are no other words that have nothing to do with cultivation. Compassion was the name he later borrowed when he recruited believers.
Since then, he has been deeply aware that he has received the inheritance of Buddhist lay disciples, and he wholeheartedly followed the instructions in his notebook, recruited believers everywhere, spread Buddhist teachings, and tried to influence more people, and he did get many followers. He began to spread the exercises in his notebook, which were not a secret and should be taught and encouraged as long as others had the heart to practice.
At that time, Feng Zhen never felt that there was anything wrong with this, let alone found that the principles recorded in the handbook were not consistent with the principles of doing things in Mount Meru today, and at that time he only felt that such selfless thoughts would never be fake.
He gradually became famous, and the master in the door personally came to the door, apologized solemnly to him, and planned to welcome him back to the sect.
"Reality and ...... They were all my senior brothers in the sect back then, and the person who chased and killed us just now was my uncle, and later I changed my name to Master. Feng Zhen sighed lightly, the so-called unpredictable world is like this.
After he returned to the sect, he gave this note to "Master", his former teacher.
He kept in mind the teachings of the handwritten notes, and hoped that Shibo, as the head of the sect, would carry forward the teachings of Buddhism. Uncle Shi renamed the sect as the Compassion Sect, and the people he brought back merged with the original sect and became a well-known sect in the neighborhood.
"Maybe you won't believe it, but in the beginning, we never did anything bad, and we never tarnished the reputation of Buddhism." Feng Zhen smiled self-deprecatingly. At that time, the Compassion School was just an ordinary sect that borrowed the shell of Buddhist lay disciples.
Mo Qiu nodded, expressing his belief in Feng Zhen's words, because if they had ruined the reputation of the sect from the beginning, I am afraid that they would have been wiped out long ago, and they would never have been allowed to continue to grow for a hundred years. Moreover, listening to the thoughts in the notes described by Feng Zhen, he was shocked. If that note is true, then what happened back then that made Buddhism what it is now?
After that, Feng Zhen cultivated carefully, and spent almost all of his time in retreat for decades, so he missed the changes in the sect.
When he reached the late stage of Jiedan, he only felt that the sect was very strange, there were a lot fewer people, and the previous prosperous scene was gone, and there were only two or three kittens scattered in the door. He didn't know what was going on, but when he saw that the sect was so deserted, he went out to spread the "true meaning of Buddhism" and tried to re-prosper the sect, and Song Xiao and Yuan Yuan and others were invited by him to join at that time.
"As for why Master became what he was later, I also learned from Shisui's mouth." In fact, Shi Sui is the real first apprentice of the master, after Feng Zhen's master died, he was bullied by the people in the door and kicked out of the sect, and later the master found him, so he solemnly said that he wanted to accept the apprentice again, he respected the master, so he apprenticed, because of the advantage of cultivation and age, he became the senior brother of Shi Sui.
Because of Shisui's special identity, he knows better. According to him, this notebook is like a pillow sent to the master when he is sleepy, and it is just in time.
When Master Shi Sui was young, he traveled in Jiang Li's spiritual world and obtained an evil method through the Heavenly Gate, which was mentioned by Shi Sui to Jingli, which was basically to create a body with strong integration, and then gradually break away from this body and realize the process of spiritual cultivation.
And this evil method, if it is a person who cultivates the Buddhist exercises, the success rate will be even higher. Because, according to the evil method, other exercises are sharp knives, and only the Buddhist exercises are gentle drizzles and have the tolerance of all rivers. Feng Zhen's layman's notebook appeared in time.
After decades of study, Master Shi Sui began to practice.
"What happened later, you should also be able to think that after that, the old ghost began to do all kinds of experiments like crazy, and most of the disciples in the sect failed to escape. Until the Sumeru Mountain Precept Hall learned of this and came to clean up the ......" (to be continued.) )