Act 47 The Church of the Holy Breath
Originally, Xing Chen thought that it would take two or three days to get things done, but the fact was that the search was going faster than he expected.
The reason is not that the places with the sacred atmosphere are too easy to find, on the contrary, it is really that the few locations that Xing Chen and they have circled are too easy to exclude, and they only need to turn around to know that the road is definitely not suitable, which saves a lot of time.
At the beginning, Xing Chen and Jiang Xinying went to a Buddhist temple, in the mouth of their seven aunts and eight aunts, it was a quite spiritual temple, but when Xing Chen and they really arrived at the temple, they found that although the temple was built with high atmosphere, the Buddha statues inside were also brilliant, but the monks in the temple were not so much monks as extras who didn't know where to pull in. In addition to these few movie lines back and forth, even the names of several classic works of Buddhism cannot be named. But as soon as the matter of incense money and fortune-telling was mentioned, those monks immediately turned into top experts, and the sales pitches were like the Yellow River flooding out of control.
It doesn't hurt to deceive others with these nonsense, but for Xing Chen and Jiang Xinying, who are involved in the Heavenly God Game, they are nothing. Facing Xing Chen and Jiang Xinying, who were not moved at all after spending a long time on saliva, the two "masters" who were in charge of receiving them were obviously tired, so they borrowed an excuse and turned around and ran to talk to a few aunts not far away. Relying on the superior hearing strengthened by the attributes of the Heavenly God Game, Xing Chen clearly heard the monk muttering "poor ghost" in his mouth when he turned his head.
Xing Chen, who was already suspicious of this temple built in the scenic spot, naturally turned his head and left, the piety of the monks here is undoubted, but they are not the Buddha but the soft sister coin.
The second stop is a Taoist temple not far from the temple. This Taoist temple is said to have a lot of origins, but once again disappointed Xing Chen - the Taoist temple has become a museum, not to mention the priests, even there are few people who visit, except for a person wearing a Taoist robe to watch the door, there are only Xing Chen and Jiang Xinying, and on the windowsill of the guard's room, a sign of "fortune telling, 100 yuan at a time" stands impressively.
The sacred atmosphere Xing Chen didn't feel it for half a minute, Xiao Suo and dilapidated were everywhere.
Immediately afterwards, Xing Chen and Jiang Xinying went to a church again, and Xing Chen couldn't tell whether it was Catholicism or Protestantism, but he only knew that people here believed in God.
This is where Xing Chen has the most high hopes, because compared with temples and Taoist temples that have been almost completely commercialized, the purpose of Western churches is the closest to the essence of faith.
It's just that the scene here is even more shocking than the previous two - as soon as he entered the door, Xing Chen saw a group of aunts sitting around the church like an elderly activity center singing hymns in praise of God.
Originally, Xing Chen had also heard some church choirs sing in the movie, no matter what the level was, at least there was a solemn atmosphere in it.
But the Chinese version of the hymn sung by this group of aunts turned Xing Chen to the ground, and this song is a quarter of a beat faster, and it is the most dazzling national style! It is said that the Chinese nation has the strongest assimilation ability in the world, and it is true that it does not deceive me!
Not to mention sitting here and feeling any sacred atmosphere, even if he stayed for a while, Xing Chen felt awkward, naturally, this place was also excluded.
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"With such a big place as Qibei City, can't you find a place with a holy atmosphere!?"
Sitting in KFC and gnawing on the barbecue burger, Xing Chen looked depressed, and he worked all afternoon to turn around the places he could think of, but he couldn't find the places he needed, and he couldn't think of any places that met the requirements.
"How about we go find a pyramid scheme den? The people there are absolutely religious! Jiang Xinying joked.
"The people there are indeed devout to the point of being fanatics, but the monks in the Buddhist temple we went to for the first time are no worse than them? The devotion to money is in the bones. Xing Chen shrugged his shoulders, "To be honest, do you know that there is anything else in the Dao?" I don't want to have to go to the city every time I use this breastplate, that would be too much trouble. ”
After thinking about it for a while, Jiang Xinying really let her come up with a place.
"Isn't there a European and American enterprise park in the high-tech zone, I heard that there is a church there, which was made up by foreigners, and specially invited a foreign pastor, and on weekdays, those foreigners from foreign companies will go to that church to pray, we can go there to see, at least you won't hear the most dazzling national style there."
"The Church of the Foreigner...... I could have given it another try. ”
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Aston Martin, who had given himself with a dark trace, came to the church that Jiang Xinying said.
If it weren't for careful observation, Xing Chen would hardly have found this place, a cross hung at the door of a bland small building, and that's it, compared to the temple he had been to in the first place, it was simply shabby.
Pushing the door in, there was no one in the church at this time, it was empty, but the things in the church were quite complete, and the statue of Christ under the broken glass also had a solemn atmosphere.
"How?" Jiang Xinying turned her head to look at Xing Chen.
"I don't know how to do it, at least it's a little more reliable than the previous ones, I'll try it."
Xing Chen sat straight on the bench at the back to prepare to meditate and try it, although he didn't understand how to meditate specifically, but it was always good to watch too much TV, so he took off his shoes and meditated cross-legged as if he was looking.
Jiang Xinying immediately glanced at Xing Chen.
"What's wrong?" Xing Chen was puzzled.
"This is the church!"
"Huh!? Sao Rui Sao. ”
Xing Chen smiled awkwardly, pretending to be a Buddha under the nose of Brother Ye, this is really discordant, fortunately the pastor is not there, otherwise he would definitely think that he is here to play the field.
Changing his posture to a prayerful appearance, Xing Chen closed his eyes and tried to enter a state of emptiness. I don't know if Lu Dao really has the same foundation as a magician or something else after adding his intelligence and spiritual attributes, in short, Xing Chen easily touched the threshold of the mysterious and mysterious meditation in the novel and movie, and it didn't take much effort at all.
After entering the meditative state, Xing Chen could obviously feel that his almost depleted ability value was recovering rapidly, and it was extremely comfortable, this feeling was something he had never experienced before, and soon, Xing Chen was immersed in a meditative state.