Tang Ao is now in pain and happy, when he was just accepted as a disciple by Master Xuyan, Tang Ao was happy from the bottom of his heart, feeling that he finally had a relative to rely on.

He didn't know that his relatives were sometimes the ones he hated the most.

When he saw Master Xuyan again, Tang Ao realized that a more arduous journey had just begun.

For Tang Ao, he is very yearning for fist and foot kung fu, dancing guns and sticks, Xuyan didn't mention a word, but took out the four treasures of the study to teach thousand-character texts, hundreds of family names and other enlightenment knowledge.

Tang Ao had heard of these things, when he was in the west of Chang'an City, the soldiers in long robes paraded the streets across horses, and the scene was very lively.

Tang Ao also picked up a few pennies of happy money! Could it be that Master Xuyan wants to train him to be a showman, a jinshi?

Literacy and hyphenation are very difficult for Tang Ao, and every time he learns two words, he scratches his ears and cheeks like sitting on pins and needles.

Whenever this happens, Xuyan will break off the newly peeled white shoots of the willow trees in the yard and whip them on the palm of Tang Ao's hand, and Tang Ao will snort in pain.

What's even more uncomfortable is still to come, every night, Master Xuyan will bring a set of needles, and while knocking and beating on Tang Ao's body, he will pierce the golden needles into Tang Ao's body.

The taste is like countless ants biting on the body, burrowing in the flesh, and the itching is unbearable, which can be described in words.

Master Xuyan said that this is to condition Tang Ao's body, whenever Tang Ao can't bear to cry and cry out in pain.

Master Xuyan would always take out caramel or fruit from his body like a trick, and coaxed Tang Ao to smile.

The only thing that made Tang Ao happy was the food that followed Master Xuyan, the vegetarian dishes for three meals a day were very exquisite, the staple food was either polished rice or white flour steamed buns, and occasionally he could eat a boiled egg.

Whenever he ate, Tang Ao felt very happy, and gradually understood that Master Xuyan treated him really well, even though he didn't like to read and learn calligraphy, he also forced himself to study hard.

There is one thing that Tang Ao is very strange, that is, he no longer dreams, originally wanted to dig some delicious plant rhizomes for Master Xuyan in his dreams, and he deliberately slept in a daze several times, and fell asleep, but there was no dream.

Three months later, under the conditioning of Master Xuyan and the nourishment of the sumptuous food, Tang Ao's whole person was refreshed, not only fatter, but also more ruddy than when he first arrived at the Shenghua Temple.

Today's Tang Ao is more than 1,000 literate, and while teaching more advanced knowledge, Master Xuyan gave Tang Ao a copy of the Diamond Sutra, and said with a serious expression: "Tang Ao, in addition to daily homework, study more Buddhist scriptures, which can completely cure your dreamy problem." ”

Tang Ao admired Master Xuyan even more: "Master, how do you know that I often dream? I haven't dreamed for a long time, did Master cure me? ”

Xu Yan opened the Diamond Sutra, pointed to one of the passages and said: "All the ways to do things, such as dreams, illusions, bubbles, shadows, such as dew and electricity, should be viewed as such, Tang Ao!" Everything in the world is like a dream, an illusion and a bubble, you are now taking refuge in my Buddhism, blessed by the Buddha's precious light, dreams, naturally, there is no more. ”

Tang Ao seemed to understand whether he understood or not, and he was still a little uncomfortable in his heart, although every time he dreamed, he would face the dilemma of messing up and difficult to deal with, but he really wanted to dig a few pieces of the rhizome in his dream for Master Xuyan, it was really sweet!

Half a year has passed, Tang Ao's height has increased by more than a head, and he looks like he is seven or eight years old, although he is wearing a light brown monk's robe, he has not shaved his ordination, combed his balled head, and his white face and star-like eyes give people the feeling of a beautiful young man.

On this day, Tang Ao got up early in the morning and picked some lettuce and dug up some bamboo shoots in the ravine outside the Shenghua Temple.

When the sky was bright, Tang Ao came to the kitchen of the Miscellaneous Servant Palace, made a bowl of soup with these two wild vegetables, and carefully carried it to Master Xuyan's meditation room.

Master Xuyan, who has always been physically tough, contracted the wind chill for some reason, Tang Ao was very worried, remembered the sweating home remedies circulating in the West Market, and learned to make such a bowl of soup.

Looking at Xuyan, whose face was gloomy, Tang Ao called softly: "Master, get up and drink some hot soup!" ”

Xu Yan snorted twice and struggled to sit up, because of the deep sunken eye sockets, his gaze at Tang Ao looked a little weird.

A bowl of hot soup entered his stomach, and Xuyan's face was slightly ruddy: "Tang Ao, being a teacher is just an accidental cold, and it is not in the way, don't dig wild vegetables in the future, you have three long and two short, don't you regret being a teacher?" ”

Tang Ao Nuonuo said yes, took the empty bowl and was about to leave, Xu Yan waved his hand to let Tang Ao sit aside, and took out a small porcelain bottle with white crystal from under the pillow, as well as a book with a shabby and quaint cover.

"As a teacher, I can't condition your body these days, here are some medicines, remember to take them three times a day, one pill each time, don't forget."

"Master, my body is already well, I went to dig wild vegetables this morning, and I didn't have any breath after climbing several mountains!"

Tang Ao didn't forget to think about his body when he saw that Xuyan was sick, and when he saw that his body was weak, his heart was touched, and his eyes couldn't help but be a little moist.

Xuyan stuffed the small porcelain bottle into Tang Ao's hand and advised: "Do things from the beginning to the end, how can you give up halfway!" Don't forget to take medicine, there is also a scripture here, memorize it proficiently, and after the teacher is cured, you will be examined. ”

The elder didn't dare to resign, Tang Ao took the porcelain vase and scriptures, bowed and left Master Xuyan's meditation room.

As a disciple of Xuyan, Tang Ao has a separate meditation room in the Shenghua Temple, although it is small and cramped, it is very clean by Tang Ao.

Tang Ao looked at the small porcelain bottle in his hand, and without the slightest hesitation, poured out a pill the size of a soybean and stuffed it into his mouth.

The taste of the pill was slightly bitter, and it melted in his mouth, Tang Ao immediately felt a cool breath penetrating his heart, and the whole person's spirit was lifted, smash it, smash it, and smash it, and endure it so that he didn't pour out another pill and eat it.

Tang Ao then picked up the simple scripture on the cover, there were several ancient seal characters on the cover, carefully identified, and his little face couldn't help but show a surprised expression.

"Taishang Guardian Heavenly Child Sutra".

The scripture book that Master Xuyan gave him was not a Buddhist scripture, but a Taoist scripture, it couldn't be a mistake, right?

Turning the title page, the content is still in ancient seal characters, Tang Ao read it very hard, so he simply took out a pen and paper and copied the scriptures in italics, and read it much more smoothly.

The whole scripture is only more than 1,000 words, and Tang Ao has memorized it by heart after reading it several times, but he does not understand the meaning of the scripture.

But adhering to the teachings of Master Xuyan, keeping in mind the truth of reading a book a hundred times, I read it silently from morning to night, and I still don't understand the content, but my body can't stand it.

Tang Ao felt dizzy, picked up the small porcelain bottle at the head of the bed, poured out a pill and swallowed it, this time there was no half of the cool air, but the chest and abdomen were hot and unbearable.

A pinprick-like stream of heat poured out of it, and the pain gradually deepened, and the whole body seemed to be about to burst, and then the eyes went black and lost consciousness.

The door of the meditation room creaked open, and Xu Yan tiptoed into Tang Ao's meditation room, looking at Tang Ao who was lying on the ground, his face was flushed, his eyes were full of green light, how could he still have the slightest compassion.

Xu Yan picked up Tang Ao and looked at Tang Ao's gaze, as if he was staring at a rare treasure, and like a beast staring at the most delicious food in the world: "Sure enough, it's you, it's not in vain that I've been waiting here for many years, good apprentice, I take great pains for my teacher, I hope you won't let me down." ”

Xuyan stretched out his palm and patted it lightly on Tang Ao's body, every time his palm fell, the moment he touched Tang Ao, there was a faint light flickering, and there seemed to be countless fireflies flying in the reflected meditation room.

After Xu Yan slapped Tang Ao's whole body, his forehead was sweaty, but the expression on his face became more and more satisfied, and he muttered to himself: "Give me a little more time, it's soon, it's fast!" ”

"Who?" Xuhiko looked back at the window, and the window made a snapping sound, and Xuhiko walked out and found that it was a small novice from the Miscellaneous Servant Palace.

Xiao Shami trembled, and the scene of peeping just now made his legs weak, so that he was blocked by Xuyan, and said in a trembling voice: "Master Xuyan...... I ......"

"What do you see?" Xuyan's questioning voice is like a cold wind in winter, and it makes people get goosebumps all over their bodies when they hear it.

Xiao Shami hurriedly shook his hands: "No, I didn't see anything, I just went to the thatched house and passed by here." ”

Xuhiko approached Xiao Shami, and a smile appeared on his frozen face: "It doesn't matter if you see it or not." ”

Xuhiko's hand stroked the top of Xiao Shami's head, and the palm of his hand suddenly lit up with a blue light, and Xiao Shami's face showed great horror, and his facial features were immediately distorted, and he wanted to shout but couldn't make a sound no matter what.

The two people changed several times in the interplay of light and shadow, the air fluctuated, and a strange scene happened.

Xuyan stayed in place, and the little novice disappeared, if he was seen, he would be frightened and scattered, thinking that he had hit the evil ****.

Xu Yan looked at the palm of his hand where the blue light dissipated indifferently, shook his head slightly, and whispered: "Still can't be completely controlled, there are too many deviations, how did Tang Ao do it?" ”

The preoccupied Xuyan looked at Tang Ao's meditation room, turned around and returned to his residence, and touched lightly behind a Buddha statue, and the wall parted to reveal a door, and the steps meandered down.

Xuyan closed the secret door and went all the way down, the light in front of him became brighter and brighter, the dazzling eyes of the gold, Xuyan waved his palm continuously, and after shooting a few blue lights, the light in the secret room finally softened.

If Tang Ao was here, he would definitely scream and be shocked to death, because what illuminated the secret room was a golden corpse, which was the one that Tang Ao had pushed into the moat with all his might a few years ago.

The corpse is like a sculpture, the skin and flesh are no different from the living, the source of the light is the skin of the corpse, on the clothes, the handwriting that appears from time to time, it is the "Taishang Guardian Tiantong Sutra" that Tang Ao has read and recited, but the overall number of words is three times that of the scriptures in Tang Ao's hand.

Xuhiko sat cross-legged in front of the golden corpse, silently reciting the scriptures in his mouth, and a stream of heat flowed out from his chest and abdomen, and after half an hour, he circulated throughout his body, and so on, until the heat flow circulated nine times, reaching the limit that Xuhiko could bear, and then Xuhiko stopped reciting the scriptures.