To go to the country of Miao, you have to go all the way from Nanping City to the south, if you take the land route, you have to go over the mountains and mountains, if you take the waterway, it will take more than 30 days, and if you go by land, it will take more than 20 days to rush over day and night, and you can't rush too quickly in the case of maintaining the team's combat strength, if it's okay for three or five days, the rapid march of more than 20 days will make the team collapse, even if it's a Daning soldier.

Shen Leng's choice was to take the waterway, and the most important thing was to take the waterway through the Saints City.

The city of saints is not an isolated island, it is still hundreds of miles away from the coast of Qiuli, and the city of saints is named after the Temple of the Holy Temple, and the origin of this city has a lot to do with the Temple of the Peacock King.

Many, many years ago, a nun in the Western Regions ran away because she was dissatisfied with the Great Thundering Temple, and went to seek to establish the scriptures, and finally was known as the Peacock King, and spent her life building the Peacock King Temple, not only in the quest for establishment, dozens of surrounding countries of all sizes have great respect for the Peacock King Temple, and it has been called one of the three holy places of Zen Buddhism two hundred years ago.

It is rumored that the Peacock King was originally a woman in the Central Plains, believing in Zen Buddhism, and her wish when she was young was to worship the Great Thundering Temple, but when she went through a lot of hardships to the Great Thundering Temple in the Western Regions, she found that this Zen holy land was not what she imagined, Zen Ancestor said that all things are equal, but where there is a woman in the Western Regions and what status, in the Western Regions, the man cheats but a sheep is punished, but the woman will be executed.

The woman did not have the right to study, nor did she have the right to engage in any profession, so she was surprised and frightened why there was such an inequality in the birthplace of Zen Buddhism. The respect for women is even far inferior to that of the Central Plains.

So she asked the Great Thundering Temple with questions, wanting to ask for an answer, but when she arrived outside the Great Thundering Temple, she found that she couldn't enter at all, because the Great Thundering Temple has rules and does not accept women.

She stood outside the Great Thundering Temple and asked loudly: "Even in my Central Plains Zen Sect, the tired place still allows women to practice meditation, why is the holy land not allowed?" ”

No one paid attention to her, so she kept asking.

Over time, the little monk who swept the floor outside the Great Thundering Temple persuaded her to leave, and the little monk said: "Many, many years ago, there was a woman who also wanted to participate in Zen and enter the religion, but the Zen ancestor did not allow it, and she also asked why it was not allowed as you asked, the Zen ancestor said that women have five turbidities and eight evils, and they are born with an impure body, so they can not practice meditation directly, and they should practice good fortune first, and only in the next life can they participate in Zen enlightenment, and then she knelt in front of the Zen ancestor and prayed, and the Zen ancestor read her sincerity, so she made an exception and allowed her to enter the Dharma, but set up a few rules, if you can do it, I will go to ask for the host for you." ”

She asked what the rules were, and the little monk replied: "Back then, the Zen ancestor said that even the hundred-year-old female nun should get up to greet the new little monk who holds the precepts, and the female nun should not say that the male monk is wrong, but the male monk can say that the female nun is not right, and the female nun cannot be in the same temple with the monk......

Before the little monk finished speaking, she turned around and left: "This is not the Zen Buddhism in my heart. ”

She left the Great Thundering Temple, and did not plan to return to the Central Plains, but has been traveling in the Western Regions, preaching what she thinks of Zen law, the first point is equality, women and men are the same, should be born with the qualification to become a Zen disciple, but her remarks were rejected by the locals, and even once almost besieged to death, but there are also believers to follow, after she completely died to the Western Regions, she took eighteen believers who followed her across the ocean to Qiuli, at that time Qiuli had not yet established a country, this place was still a semi-barbaric place.

Later, there was a monk from the Western Regions to find her, the two sat and debated Zen for two days and two nights, the monk turned out to be from the Great Thundering Temple, after hearing about her, he specially came to her, just to persuade her, let her know that her words and deeds are wrong, but after debating for two days and two nights, he was quite admiring her, but he was not convinced, so he did not return to the Western Regions, but began to lecture and preach in another place, at that time because of these two people, Zen believers were divided into two camps, one side supported the Peacock King Temple, While supporting him and calling him a holy monk, he said that if a monk becomes holy, he can only be a Zen ancestor alone, so he calls himself a saint, and the place where he lectures is built into a holy temple, and then gradually forms a city, that is, a city of saints.

After passing through the Saints City, he can go to sea after a hundred miles, Shen Leng chose to take this road to go to the Saints City to see, he just wanted to know if the senior monk who was now presiding over the Holy Temple in the Saints City was the old emperor of the Rilang Kingdom.

Outside the saint city, Shen Leng ordered five thousand soldiers to camp, he only took a dozen personal soldiers to the city gate, the saints inside and outside the city have believers spontaneously come to guard, because of the special saints city, so even if the emperor was so brutal as the original did not dare to intrude, there was no defender in the city, and then the country was destroyed, a group of about seven or eight thousand people fled to the city of saints, Daning soldiers chased after them, and the words of the host came out in the temple, so the believers opened the city gate and let the defeated soldiers enter the city.

Since then, the city of Saints has been garrisoned by tens of thousands of believers.

Shen Leng Zonggou, who was dressed in iron armor, arrived outside the city gate, and the people inside and outside the city were all nervous, although only Ning Jun only came with a dozen people, but they were like a great enemy.

The gates of the city were immediately closed, and the bows and arrows in the hands of the believers and soldiers on the city walls were all aimed at them, but they did not dare to shoot easily.

Shen Leng got off the dog outside the city gate, looked around, waved his hand and ordered people to set up a small pavilion outside the city gate, he didn't talk to the people who asked for it, nor did he call the door, but just sat in the pavilion outside the city gate with a knife.

One sat for half a day, until the night, someone in the city came out and asked Shen Leng why he came, Shen Leng did not answer, the person who came waited outside the pavilion for an hour, Shen Leng never said a word, and the person had to return to the city angrily.

Shen Leng didn't leave at night, someone came to attack at night, inside and outside the pavilion, Shen Leng killed more than 100 people, and did not collect the corpses, allowing the corpses to be stained with blood.

At dawn, the city gate opened, and an old monk walked out barefoot, followed by countless people who wanted to be established.

Summerhouse.

The old monk walked in front of Shen Leng and leaned over slightly to salute, and then walked to Shen Leng and sat down cross-legged, he didn't speak, just sat opposite Shen Leng.

He didn't speak, he didn't speak, he sat for half a day.

At noon, Shen Leng asked people to take dry food and water and put them in front of the old monk, after he ate, he slept against the gazebo, the old monk looked at the food in front of him and was silent for a long time, and then asked: "Why did the general come?" ”

Shen Leng opened his eyes and looked at the old monk, looking like a master, but he muttered in his heart that he almost suffocated me, and finally I won.

Shen Leng sat up straight and looked at the old monk, but still didn't speak.

The old monk asked, "Since the general has mercy, and even an old man like me doesn't want me to suffer and starve, why do you kill people like hemp?" After killing, you don't collect the body? ”

Shen Leng finally spoke: "Self-inflicted." ”

The old monk raised the corners of his eyebrows: "The general is angry." ”

Shen Leng asked, "That's the one I took the initiative to kill?" ”

The old monk kept his mouth shut.

Shen sneered: "They came to kill me, if I don't fight back, I will be killed by them, I killed them, and the great monk said I was wrong?" ”

"If the general doesn't come, why should they die?"

"All beings are equal in the four seas, and everyone in the land of the four seas can come and go, I didn't come to kill people, nor did I go to the city, I just wanted to sit here and feel the call of Zen, but he came to kill me, why can't I kill him?"

The old monk asked, "If the general brings a knife to the palace forbidden city, someone will also come to kill the general." ”

Shen Leng asked: "So the great monk thinks that this saint city is no different from the imperial palace, and also thinks that the great monk is no different from the emperor?" ”

The old monk looked at Shen Leng: "General, this is sophistry. ”

Shen Leng: "I didn't want to argue with you, it was the great monk who came by himself." ”

The old monk shook his head: "The general's heart to win is too strong, and he must be tired and hard to win every word, and he must be tired and hard." ”

Shen replied with a sneer: "There is hard work, but it is better than the defeated person." ”

The old monk frowned: "A person like the general is riddled with mundane things, if there is no important matter, he will not stay outside the city, if there is no important matter, he will not wait for me to come out, if the general has something to say, why not say it directly?" ”

Shen Leng said earnestly: "Your family has come to beat my family." ”

He leaned forward slightly: "I'm just passing by, by the way, let's see what this saint city is like, and when I finish beating your family and come to beat you again, the road will be familiar, so I won't have to waste time." ”

The old monk's face changed: "What does the general mean?" ”

Shen Leng said: "If you are really the old emperor of the Rilang country, then I can congratulate you, your son ordered to gather 200,000 troops to invade the land of the original country, ready to welcome you back to China, the 200,000 army Koubian, should have killed many of my soldiers, and also killed many of my Daning people, just as I sat here and did nothing but someone came to kill me, I sat here and there were people to kill, I killed them and I still felt wronged, so I can only kill back to feel fair, If I am killed by your people when I enter your house, then it is also fair, and if the great monk has anything to say to your son, you may as well tell me and tell him when I break through the capital of the Rilang Kingdom. ”

The old monk's face was already a little difficult to look at: "Does the general think that I asked them to come?" ”

"It makes no difference."

Shen Leng said: "You didn't let them come, they came." ”

The old monk was silent for a long time, beckoned, and a disciple came over, he ordered to take pen and ink, wrote something on his white monk's robe, and then tore off the monk's robe and handed it to Shen Leng: "The general can bring this letter over, hoping to prevent the lives from being ruined." ”

Shen Leng laughed, looked at the dress, and didn't answer.

"Great monk, can a letter of yours stop a war, can a letter of yours stop people's hearts?"

The old monk sighed: "The general is fighting in all directions, and I can't stop people like the general." ”

Shen Leng shook his head: "Great monk, if one day many people sit together to discuss one thing, everyone has heavy troops, and no one can convince anyone, so they are ready to fight, at this time, the great monk, you stand up and persuade them not to use the sword soldiers lightly, do they listen?" ”

The great monk did not speak.

Shen Leng said again: "But if I stand up and say that no one is allowed to fight, and whoever beats me will kill whom, will they still dare to fight?" ”

The great monk still did not speak.

Shen Leng put away the letter written by the old monk: "I'm leaving, the great monk think about it, if I can make the eight thousand remnants in the city put down the knives in their hands before I come back, I won't fight the saints city when I come back, if they don't want to, the great monk don't blame me, I can only try my best not to disturb the purity of the monks, there are not only eight thousand remnants in this city, there are many people with weapons, armed people, shouldn't be serious Zen disciples, right?" ”

Shen Leng stood up: "Seriously, the great monk, a letter from you may be able to make the 200,000 troops of the Rilang Kingdom retreat, and the great monk may save 100,000 people inside and outside the saint city with a word, my name is Shen Leng, the great monk can remember, I destroyed the Bohai Sea, and slaughtered a city after city, just because I was disobedient, and I also said at that time, the armed person died." ”

He left the pavilion, walked a few steps and turned back to the old monk and asked, "Great monk, you are walking barefoot to tell the world that the earth is not dirty?" If so, when you enter the gazebo, you avoid the blood on the ground, do you feel bloody? Or do you feel that the earth is stained with blood? ”

The old monk was stunned.

After a moment of silence, he replied, "The earth is not dirty, and neither is the blood." ”

Shen Leng shook his head: "What the heart thinks may not be stopped, it is for greed, but greed is different from greed, the great monk is greedy to save people, it is really clean, my greed is really not clean, so I walk with shoes on, and I step on the ground and blood." ”

He walked on his feet.