Chapter Thirty-Eight: Bodhi Originally Has No Tree
When Ji Hongxiang woke up, as soon as she opened her eyes, her whole body immediately trembled, and she took a few steps back with her hands in embarrassment, shocked and frightened in her heart!
The surroundings were pitch black, the ground was wet, and there were many broken human limbs lying horizontally!
All the things before were replayed in her mind, and she shuddered!
Those alluring riches are clearly traps! And those ...... All those who took possession of the treasure because of greed for a moment ended up with five horses and corpses!
She hurriedly took out a jade talisman from the Qiankun bag. This is a special type of spatial talisman that can be teleported out of the Vault as soon as it is used immediately in a dangerous and emergency situation. She injected aura into the jade talisman, the jade talisman lay quietly in the palm of her hand, she made persistent efforts to increase the output of the aura, the jade talisman suddenly moved, and then with a "bang", it fell apart in front of her eyes!
Ji Hong's makeup was dumbfounded.
"Teleportation Jade Talisman...... Actually ruined? β
Just as she was surprised, a man's voice suddenly sounded behind her: "It looks like we're trapped here!" β
Ji Hongxiang turned her head suddenly, and saw a young man in a linen-colored kudzu robe, sitting on the ground casually, seeing that she looked over, and waved at her with a smile.
β¦β¦ In other words, it's obviously a very bad situation, why is it so relaxed?
In this strange and dead place, there are only two living people!
The young man stood up, patted the corner of his clothes, and stretched out his hand towards Ji Hongxiang: "I'm Ah Ming, a member of the XX Sect, what is your name, girl?" β
I didn't hear what kind of Ji Hongjiao was in the XX sect, but she could guess that it was probably one of the many small factions from a third party, and the young man in front of him looked like he was in his early twenties, but he had just refined qi at the seventh level, so it could be seen that his qualifications were not very good. As for the other party's title, Ji Hongxiang is still a little uncomfortable, she is a fifteen-year-old girl who is disguised this time, how to say that she is also an adult.
didn't care about the etiquette between men and women, Ji Hongxiang put her hand on it, was pulled up by him, straightened her appearance, and said, "Call me...... Just make up red, I'm from the Qianyun Sect and his party. Do you know how long we've been here? β
Ah Ming shook his head: "I don't know, I just woke up." β
Ji Hongxiang had to endure the nausea, picked up the nearest severed hand to her, and pinched it. The whole arm is already cold, the muscles are stiff, and the fracture is not neat, as if it has been vigorously torn apart, and the skin is slightly involuted, indicating that it ...... This hand was torn alive!
"About an hour and a half to two hours." Ji Hongxiang said, she looked around the ghostly surroundings with solemn eyes, and said, "Everyone is torn alive!" β
Ah Ming also heard the meaning of her words, "This secret realm should be a place of hidden treasures, how can there be such a cruel and terrible trap?" And-" He took a closer look at those limbs: "The power to tear them should come from those spiritual stones and spiritual springs and other objects that everyone saw just now, those things seem to contain a strange retrograde aura, once a person touches it, it will be invaded by the reverse aura, and it won't take long for the meridians to flow backwards, the acupuncture points will skyrocket, and the body will explode and die in an instant!" β
The two looked at each other, and they both saw the uneasiness in each other's eyes.
"It seems that this trip to the secret realm is not simple."
Knowing that there would be no way out if they continued to stay, the two decided to take a look around first and look for a way out.
In this space, the darkness is obscure, and the monk's vision cannot see farther, only a mass of empty darkness, as if endless, without beginning and end.
The ground was wet, and there was a sticky touch when stepping on it, and the footsteps of the two of them continued to echo in this empty area.
Ji Hongxiang suddenly said: "We seem to have walked into a narrow place. β
It was still dark in the distance, and he couldn't see anything, but Amin couldn't agree with it: "Yes." The sound of our footsteps is already echoing louder and louder, perhaps...... We walked into a place surrounded by walls, but unfortunately we couldn't see it well in the distance. β
His words suddenly stopped, and Ji Hongmakeup also stopped.
In front of them, suddenly a wall appeared.
At the same time as they stopped, a strong light emitted from the wall, and the two subconsciously closed their eyes, and when they opened them again, the wall in front of them was gone, replaced by an abyss! Looking back, there is a stone wall behind you!
They are caught between the stone wall and the abyss, and there is no way back!
Ji Hongxiang stood on the edge, stretched her neck to look, a cold wind suddenly lifted her sideburns, she shivered, and immediately took a step back.
"Something is wrong with this wind!"
Ah Ming stretched out his hand and probed: "There is cold poison in this wind, you can't stay here for a long time!" His gaze fell on a stone bridge above the abyss.
The stone bridge is long and narrow, and there is no end in sight, and the bridge deck is extremely narrow, which can only accommodate half the sole of an adult's feet! From a distance, it looks like a thin white line hanging over the abyss.
"W-This isn't going to be for us to cross this bridge, is it?!" Ji Hongxiang couldn't help but raise her voice. The bridge is narrow, the key is that it is not flat! Undulating and rugged!
No matter how good your balance is, you can't guarantee that you will walk through it intact!
"And I always feelβ"
There was a sudden sound on the bridge deck, and a small pebble was blown off the bridge by the wind from the abyss, falling a few feet away, cracking open with a bang, and disappearing in ashes!
"βit's dangerous!"
Ji Hongxiang finished the remaining half of the sentence in a daze.
Ah Ming nodded: "The most important thing is that our current spiritual power is imprisoned for unknown reasons!" β
Ji Hong's makeup works with spiritual power, and sure enough!
"So what do we do now?" She subconsciously looked at the young man beside her, for some reason, this man gave her a reliable feelingβif he could have been a little more nervous.
Armin smiled slightly, stomped his foot, and then took a step back.
Only then did Ji Hongxiang realize that there were ten words engraved on the ground where they were standing.
Bodhi has no tree,
Nor is Spiegel a platform.
"What is this? Is it a hint? Ji Hongxiang read the above verses, "I remember that this seems to be talking about Buddhism, and there are two sentences below that are 'there is nothing in the first place, where to stir up dust'." β
She squatted down and frowned: "But the question is, what does this poem have to do with this bridge?" I don't understand the Dharma at all! Could it be that there is some mechanism? "Knock here, hit there, but the words are still words, and there is no change at all.
Seeing Ji Hong's makeup like this, Ah Ming couldn't help but smile: "Why work in vain? All we have to do is follow the instructions in this poem. β
"Where are the instructions?"
"'Bodhi has no tree, the mirror is not a platform, there is nothing originally, where can it stir up dust', this is the verse of the Zen holy monk, which is to teach the disciples to practice Buddhism to be clear-minded, not to be attached, not to be confused by external objects."
"You mean, we can't be fooled by the treacherous abyss and narrow stone bridges, but they're not that dangerous?" Ji Hongxiang said, she looked at the stone bridge, and said: "Actually, maybe this just gives us a sense of psychological fear, if there is no abyss below as a reference, maybe, it is not so difficult." So, let's just go straight up? β
"No, no!" Amin shook his head and smiled meaningfully.
"So what the hell is to do?"
Ah Ming mysteriously approached Ji Hongxiang.
"Close your eyes and go!"