Chapter 20: Cause and Effect
When Jiang Yun returned from Wuxiang Courtyard to enter the Abbot's Courtyard, he saw Mao Xiang meditating under the locust tree in the courtyard, his body was covered with a thin layer of cold snowflakes, he should have been sitting here alone for a long time.
Jiang Yun has always been curious about what kind of tribulation a person goes through to change from reading poetry and books to a monk who has shaved off 3,000 hairs.
Mao Xiang noticed that someone was approaching him, and he hurriedly opened his eyes and found that it was Jiang Yun, so he stood up and saluted, but did not dust off the snow on his body.
Although Jiang Yun is younger than Mao Xiang, he is older than Mao Xiang, so Mao Xiang will hold a disciple ceremony every time he sees Jiang Yun.
Jiang Yun looked at Mao Xiang, who was now shaved and burned his ring scars, and said, "I heard that Senior Brother Abbot said that you used to be a rich son of the Ming Kingdom, and you also won the meritorious examination?" ”
"Yes." He doesn't shy away from this.
"Then why do you want to come to Shaolin Temple to practice?"
Mao Xiang didn't answer Jiang Yun's words immediately, but his eyes became dilated, as if he was in a deep memory.
Mao Xiang was originally from Yangzhou Mansion in the Ming Kingdom, and his father had no talent for cultivation, but he served as an official in the Ming State to the judge.
When he reached the age of six, he found that he had no talent for cultivation like his father, so he spent all his thoughts on studying in order to pursue a career in the future.
When he was sixteen years old, he went to Yingtianfu to take the imperial examination and met Dong Xiaowan. The two soon fell in love, and at the same time, they also obtained the status of a person in the imperial examination.
At this time, Hui Ke passed by Yingtianfu, saw Mao Xiang, saw that he was a person with a Buddha heart, felt that he was very Buddha, and had the heart to accept him as a disciple.
In fact, in the bottom of Mao Xiang's heart, he still wanted to be a cultivator. But now he has won the promotion, the most important thing is because of his love with Dong Xiaowan, so he can't give up, and it is impossible to abandon Dong Xiaowan to become a monk in order to go to Shaolin Temple to practice.
Hui Ke knew that he couldn't force this, so he handed over a jade slip to Mao Xiang, and told him that if in the future, but the red dust in his heart, he could come directly to Shaolin Temple to find himself.
and left a set of Buddhist exercises for Mao Xiang to practice by himself.
In this way, Mao Xiang and Hui Ke formed a Buddhist relationship.
In the following time, Mao Xiang and Dong Xiaowan lived happily and soon got married, and Mao Xiang also became an official in the Ming Kingdom, but the good times did not last long.
In order to break through the shackles, Zhu Yuanzhang had no intention of state affairs, and passed the throne to his grandson Zhu Yunwen, intending to break through to the Void God Realm.
As a result, the Ming Kingdom was in turmoil, Zhu Yuanzhang's fourth son, Zhu Di, raised troops to appease, and captured Yingtianfu, the capital of the Ming State at that time, in order to seize the throne.
After the success of Zhu Di's Jingjing Battle, in order to stabilize the situation and restore the people's support, all the officials such as Mao Xiang were recalled.
Because the situation was still a little turbulent at that time, Dong Xiaowan was left in his hometown Yangzhou Mansion and went to Yingtianfu alone.
Less than half a month after Maoxiang left, the barbarian Jurchen tribe raided Yangzhou Mansion. After Mao Xiang learned the news, he hurriedly rushed home like falling into an ice cellar, and found that the entire Yangzhou Mansion had been poisoned and emptied, and most of the women had been taken away by the Jurchen tribe of the barbarians, and Dong Xiaowan was among them.
Mao Xiang was grief-stricken and wanted to rescue Dong Xiaowan, but he begged everywhere and had no way, so he had to come to Shaolin Temple and ask Hui Ke to worship his subordinates.
Hui Ke didn't know when he appeared next to Jiang Yun and Mao Xiang, and when he saw Mao Xiang's eyes full of murderous intentions, he said: "Buddhism is all about cause and effect, if you can't let go of hatred in your heart, in the end, everything will only harm yourself." ”
Hui Ke also knew that it would be difficult to get Mao Xiang to let go of all the hatred in his heart immediately, so he asked him to return to his meditation room and copy the "Meditation Mantra" a thousand times.
Hui Ke turned around again and said to Jiang Yun: "Although Mao Xiang's talent for cultivation is not high, he has a Buddha heart. It shows that he is very close to the Buddha, and all the suffering he is experiencing now is just tempering him. ”
Jiang Yun doesn't think so, he thinks that people should spit on what they should spit on and love what they should love. Maybe it's because I don't have a Buddha mind, so I can't feel the cause and effect that Hui Ke said.
After Jiang Yun returned to his meditation room, he abandoned all the distractions in his heart and began to devote himself to cultivation again.
After this examination and competition, Jiang Yun felt that his hard work during this period of time was not in vain.
But when Jiang Yun told Jiang Yufeng how he had won three victories in this assessment competition, Jiang Yufeng scoffed.
Instead, he sneered: "If you can't even win this small assessment competition, my Demon Clan's Purple Sky Yao Demon Dragon has long disappeared in this world." With your current cultivation of the Transformation God Realm, and the Shaolin Temple's "Yijin Sutra", you can not fall behind the opponents of the Nine Levels of the Transformation God Realm, this is the performance that my demon clan should have, and you are still far from it. ”
Jiang Yun was choked by what Jiang Yufeng said, and he was suddenly speechless, not knowing what to say.
Bodhidoro next to him smiled dumbly, and said to Jiang Yufeng: "Is my Buddhist disciple so unbearable?" ”
Jiang Yufeng shook his head and said seriously: "Buddha, you are still very respectable with your old Bodhi, as for the rest of your Shaolin Temple, don't say it." ”
Bodhidoro was not angry, and brushed the one hundred and eight prayer beads that naturally fell from his neck, brushed them with both hands, and said to Jiang Yufeng: "The seventy-year Buddha seal ceremony is about to begin, and when the time comes, the golden body of the old man Buddha will appear, and the last hidden danger of your use of the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Dafa will be completely eliminated." ”
Speaking of the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Dafa, Jiang Yufeng's purple eyes flickered non-stop, and there seemed to be a woman smiling brightly in the depths of his pupils.
"No need, in fact, the sequelae of the Heavenly Demon's Disintegration Dafa are no longer in the slightest hindrance to me now. Old Bodhi, you also know that yesterday the clan sent someone to find me, and the old ancestor wants me to return to Dragon Valley as soon as possible, and I plan to go back tomorrow. ”
"Senior Jiang, why are you in a hurry? You can't stay two more days so that the boy can serve one or two. Jiang Yun heard Jiang Yufeng say that he was going to return to the Dragon Valley of the Demon Clan.
In fact, in the past six months, Jiang Yun has been able to integrate the dragon snatcher, which is inseparable from Jiang Yufeng's guidance. As for how to cultivate and use the Demon Purple Sky Yao Demon Dragon Spirit God, there are few people in this world who know more than Jiang Yufeng.
Jiang Yufeng smiled and said indifferently: "You must put away your piece of purple ancient jade, if you come to the Qin Kingdom in the future and go to the palace to show the purple jade, someone will naturally take you to Dragon Valley to see me." ”
Ever since Jiang Yufeng knew that Jiang Yun had this piece of purple jade, he could be sure that Jiang Yun was the child of the eldest brother and the princess of the Song Kingdom.
This is also why Jiang Yufeng is willing to guide Jiang Yun in his cultivation, and even teach Jiang Yun the first three styles of the Demon Clan's inheritance skill "Purple Tianyao Demon Technique", so that Jiang Yun can go to Dragon Valley one day in the future to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors.
The real direct bloodline of the demon clan is getting less and less, and Jiang Yufeng's heart is extremely hesitant when he thinks of this.