Chapter 26: The Strange Painting of the Tower
Facing Wu Jixing and the others who came over, Pan Long smiled slightly and greeted him.
He deliberately didn't look at Xiao Cui, who was walking next to Wu Jixing, but he still couldn't help but look at it twice-when an overly beautiful woman walked towards you, if you didn't even look twice, then you were not only a matter of high morality, maybe your aesthetics were also very different from ordinary people.
Pan Long's aesthetics are normal, so he can't help but look at them twice after all.
Xiao Cui obviously noticed his gaze, and this excessively beautiful little woman smiled slightly, not particularly shy, but a little proud.
She has always had full confidence in her beauty.
A woman's beauty has always been a very powerful weapon. Although she never planned to use this weapon, Wu Jixing hated the practice of using this "weapon" - in her opinion, even if a woman only had the idea of using this "weapon", this life would be over, and it would not be worth mentioning.
She even hated others for admiring her beauty.
But that was Wu Jixing's idea, and Xiao Cui himself still likes others to appreciate his beauty.
Especially those who are particularly good, and even better if they are particularly good men.
This is the instinct of living beings, just as men are often extra energetic when they are gazed at by beautiful women, women are actually similar.
This time, it was still Wu Jixing who spoke first: "I didn't expect Pan Daxia to also have a relationship with the Buddha." Wu has known Master Tianxiong for almost ten years, and it is the first time he has seen his old man take the initiative to give scriptures to others. ”
Pan Long was slightly stunned in his heart, feeling a little weird.
This Martial Star Miss Wu has twice called herself androgynous or even masculine, which is really uncommon.
Could it be ...... She hates her feminine identity and wants to be a man?
Maybe that's possible, right?
He thought for a moment in his heart, and said with a smile: "Pan himself is also a little surprised, everyone is ignorant, but Tianxiong Zen Master gave me Buddhist scriptures, I really deserve it." ”
The two exchanged a few words, and Wu Jixing left with his entourage. Pan Long thought that she would try to talk to him more, but he was a little surprised that she was so decisive.
He felt that he could no longer understand the woman's thoughts.
If it weren't for sneaking around and eavesdropping on her conversation with her subordinates before, he would never have imagined that Wu Jixing would actually want Xiao Cui to marry him - just by watching the conversation twice, everyone was clearly meeting in Pingshui, just saying a few words, which can be regarded as acquaintance.
These organizations are the bosses, and their thoughts are really deep!
After completing the set goal, Pan Long didn't bother to visit any more temples. He said that he wanted to go back to study the Buddhist scriptures, and after shaking his body, he disappeared in front of everyone's eyes and sneaked away again.
As for what others think...... It's nothing more than "Pan Long is very cautious and never lets others know where he is staying" and the like.
There's nothing wrong with that, making others feel cautious can at least dispel many people's thoughts of plotting against themselves, and it can save a lot of trouble.
If everyone thinks that they are impulsive and reckless, then there will be at least several times more people who want to calculate themselves, and even if he has three heads and six arms, he will not be able to cope with it.
He left Guangling City directly, and came to the nearby mountains, turning into the appearance of the White Tiger Star, searching for medicinal herbs in the mountains and wilderness.
At lunchtime, "White Tiger Star" went down the mountain, ate dry food in a pavilion by the side of the road, and happened to meet a few foot merchants.
One of the merchants was unlucky, twisting his ankle and limping while he was on his way. The White Tiger was ugly, but in fact he was quite kind, and made him a splint with a twig and a freshly picked herb before turning away.
After these merchants return to Guangling City, will they tell them about their encounter with the White Tiger Star? Pan Long felt that he should be.
And that's what he wants.
With these few people as witnesses, it can be proved that the White Tiger Star was indeed collecting medicine in the mountains. And because of saving people, he didn't have enough medicine, so he had to continue to collect medicine.
And then, "Pan Long" can naturally appear again.
Not long after lunch, Pan Long appeared outside the famous Dongling Pagoda in Guangling City.
This Dongling Pagoda has a total of 33 floors and is the tallest pagoda in Guangling. Unlike ordinary pagodas, this is a Taoist tower. It is said that in the past, there was a Taoist chief in Yangzhou, who was not angry that the monks always built pagodas, so he was determined to build the highest pagoda in the world. It took him decades to finally invite many talented people to help build this Dongling Pagoda.
With a height of more than 30 zhang, this tower is not only the tallest tower in Gwangneung, but also a famous tower in the whole of Kyushu. The entire body of the pagoda is completely built of masonry, and each stone is engraved with Taoist sigils. It is said that there are still hidden in the true transmission of the magic method left by several sages of the Taoist sect in the past, and if future generations can understand it, they can ascend to the sky in one step, go straight to the realm of heaven and man, and walk to the edge of immortality.
Is this legend true or not? No one knows. But over the years, there has indeed been more than one Taoist disciple who has practiced in the pagoda, and there are many people who have achieved great things later.
From this point of view, perhaps the legend about this East Spirit Pagoda is not made up randomly.
Pan Long had heard the story of the Dongling Pagoda in the north, and at that time he had also imagined that he would one day come to the Dongling Pagoda, and suddenly comprehend the secret method left by the predecessors, and then directly stepped into the realm of real people and became a great master in the world.
Many years passed in a blink of an eye, and when he actually came to the front of this tower, he found that his mood was very calm, not only did he not have any excitement, but he also did not have the slightest eagerness.
Maybe there is really a secret legend left by the master of the Dao Sect in the Dongling Pagoda, but he doesn't need to look at it to know that it must have nothing to do with him.
After all, he had already learned the Confucian mind method from Master Bi Lingkong, and unless those Daomen masters were stupid, he should not teach the true secret method of Daomen to a Confucian disciple.
During the Warring States Period, the relationship between Confucianism and Taoism was not good at all.
Bi Lingkong said that the Daomen Taiqing Patriarch was a person who didn't care about anything, but the Nanhua Patriarch had argued with Confucianism several times back then, from the development of lip and sword to real sword and real gun, more than once.
Nanhua Patriarch's "sit and forget the formless", "butterfly I am no different", "heaven and earth are ruthless" and other wonderful methods, the end is wonderful, amazingly powerful. Fortunately, the Confucian master's fists were also strong, and everyone clashed several times, but the final result was that each other's noses were blue and swollen, but they couldn't win or lose.
The battle between the immortals, if they didn't really want to wear each other down or suppress each other, then it would be pretty much the same.
Pan Long stood outside the tower, thinking for a moment, and then walked towards the famous huge tower of Great Xia.
Ordinary stupas have stairs inside, and they go up one by one. This Dongling Pagoda is different, the staircase is not inside the tower, but outside the tower. If you go up the stairs, you can reach the top of the tower, but you can't get to the inside of the tower.
To access the interior of the tower, it is naturally necessary to enter the door.
The door on the ground floor is open, and when you enter the door, you can see paintings on the walls on both sides. The painting is a famous allusion to the Daomen - the Four Holy Buddhas.
Legend has it that there were once four great sages in the Daomen, who were profound in cultivation and strong in mana, but they were one step short of the door and were never allowed to live forever. Later, the four saints saw that the years were long, and the days were coming to an end, and finally put themselves into Buddhism, absorbing the strengths of the two families, and finally took the last step and cultivated into immortality, which is the four great sages of Buddhism, Manjushri, Puxian, Cihang, and Fear of Staying.
This is widely circulated among the Taoist sects, but the Buddhist sects dismiss it - the four sages mentioned in the story are all characters from the Tianxiong Dynasty. At that time, Buddhism and Taoism were only a prototype, and even whether they could be regarded as a prototype had to be put a question mark.
Whether it was the Taiqing ancestor of the Daomen or the Shakyamuni of the Buddhism, they were not born at that time.
Something so long, who knows if it's true or not?
The four great sages mentioned in the story have been away from the world for many years. Unless they are found to testify, who can be sure which method they are cultivating?
But Daomen insisted on this statement, and it has been preaching it.
Dongling Pagoda is a Daomen pagoda, and it is not surprising that there are murals of the four holy Buddhas in it.
Pan Long has seen the paintings on the four walls, and feels that the level of these paintings is honestly quite average, and the only merit is that the use of color is very ingenious and bold.
Although it is daytime, the lighting conditions inside the tower are not as good as outside, and the scenery is a little dim. But the red and green colors make up for this shortcoming, allowing people to clearly understand the content of the painting.
He looked at it for a while, and suddenly his heart moved, and he vaguely felt that there seemed to be something hidden in the painting.
He continued to watch, his eyes swept over the mural little by little, and finally saw the clue.
On one of the paintings, in the scene of Cihang's sanctification and the congratulations of the Heavenly Maiden, in addition to the Great Sage of Cihang and the celestial maidens who came to congratulate, there are also several scholars who probe their brains.
This is weird!
These murals are about the time of the Tianxiong Dynasty, when people were dressed in rough clothes, and even mixed demons and demons did not distinguish between each other. But the clothes of those scholars were clearly the long shirts and headscarves that Pan Long was familiar with, and one of the scholars was holding a book in his hand.
If you look closely, you can vaguely see on the page of the book, "Therefore, there are many people who can take care of a house but can't take care of the world, and those who can't take care of a house and can take care of the world, and they haven't heard of it." It's easier said than ......"
This is an article from the Great Xia era!
Pan Long became more and more puzzled, and didn't understand why this mural painted a few scholars from the Daxia era, watching the events of the Tianxiong period - could it be that the person who painted this mural was related to Zhao Sheng and Wen Chao, playing with the concept of "crossing"?
He shook his head and said secretly, "This painter is really a bit boring. ”
Just as he was about to walk away, a story suddenly came to mind.
That's the story he saw before he traveled through it, about a scholar who saw a mural in a temple, and there were many fairies living in the courtyard, and then somehow, he actually got into the mural and lived with a fairy for a while.
Later, the scholar left the mural, and when he looked back, the mural was still the same, but the fairy who had married him in the first place on the mural had changed from a girl's dress to a woman's costume.
Could it be ...... Is this a similar situation?
Curious, he leaned closer to the mural to take a closer look.
As he looked closely, he suddenly felt the light around him change, suddenly dimmed, and then brightened again.
Immediately afterward, he smelled the rich aroma and heard the graceful singing.
"Sure enough!" Pan Long sighed, looking around, and the scene he saw was really similar to the inside of the mural.
He didn't care about the Cihang Great Sage who was slowly transforming in the lotus pond and turning from a mortal into an immortal Buddha - if he thought about it, he knew that it must be fake, so he didn't want to look at it. He ignored the celestial maidens who flew around the Great Sage of Cihang, singing songs and scattering flower petals. Instead, he walked directly towards the few scholars who were hiding in the corner, looking around, looking terrified.
"What are you doing, how did you get into the mural?" he asked.
Those scholars were not short in stature, but at the moment they were trying to shrink themselves into a ball, eager to turn into balls and shrink into corners, so that no one could see them.
Seeing him come over to ask, these people were a little scared at first, but after hearing his words, they were stunned for a moment, showing a look of surprise in disbelief.
"This hero, you are also a person outside the mural?" A scholar with a slight beard couldn't help but ask, "What year is it outside the mural?"
Pan Long frowned: "Now it is the reign of Emperor Renchen, the twenty-ninth Son of Heaven of the Great Xia Dynasty. He has reached the twenty-first year of his reign, and the Chinese New Year is not far away. ”
The scholar showed a look of shock: "What?!It's the time of Emperor Renchen?!"
"That's right. ”
"But...... But...... It's a person from the era of Emperor Wuzi!" The scholar's expression was a little panicked, "Why is it that in a blink of an eye, even the Son of Heaven has changed four places?"
Pan Long didn't know how to answer, so he had to look at the other scholars: "You are also from the era of Emperor Wuzi?"
The scholars nodded their heads again and again, looking very uneasy.
From Emperor Wuzi to Emperor Renchen, almost one hundred and fifty years have passed. Not to mention that a few scholars seem to be just ordinary people, even if they are innate masters, they have lived for so long, they have exhausted their yang life, and they should die of old age.
"I ...... I entered this mural, and I felt that it had not been a few days, how could it have been so many years......" The short-bearded scholar muttered to himself, "The parents, wives and children at home must no longer be alive." It's my family, and I don't know if it's still alive...... This...... This...... It's like a dream!"
His face became more and more gray, but slowly it turned red and green, and then the red and green color gradually solidified on his face, and even his expression froze, and the whole person froze there, motionless.
It's like ...... It became like a scene in a painting.