He Xie waited at the foot of Lingshan Mountain, which was a full eighty-one days.

He hid by a spring in the west of the bamboo forest, cultivating quietly, and seemed extremely patient.

He didn't know anything about how many bigwigs were on the Lingshan Mountain, and what they said at the Bon meeting, and he was not interested in knowing, he just wanted to weaken his sense of existence as much as possible, and teach this big tree with his back to the West, and practice in the shade.

One of the disgusting things about this world is that many great powers can know everything in the world with a finger pinch, which makes He Xie very insecure.

The good thing is that these bigwigs must know such a person as He Xie and pinch their fingers to calculate his thoughts in order to detect the abnormality of He Xie, a stowaway. If He Xie is low-key enough, and the bigwigs haven't even paid attention to He Xie's existence, he will naturally be safe.

But now, He Xie is a little uncertain. If he had the feeling of being watched by the five bigwigs out of nowhere, it always made him feel a little uneasy.

When the afterglow of the sunset on the eighty-first day gradually disappeared into the sky, a golden light on the spiritual mountain slowly came towards He Xie's side.

He Xie immediately stopped cultivating and rose up.

The golden light approached, and He Xie realized that it was actually a black bear monster.

There is a golden circle of light behind the black bear monster's head, and it is from this circle of light that the golden light emanates.

He Xie's heart suddenly moved, and he sensed a familiar power from this golden light, similar to Qi Neng.

Could it be – merit?

"Bad good brother, bad good brother!" The black bear monster shouted loudly from afar, and there was a kind energy in his voice, which made He Xie a little stunned.

This attitude ...... Something is wrong, isn't it?

Soon, the black bear monster descended the clouds, and when it came to He Xie, he greeted him with a smile.

"Brother Unrighteous and virtuous, let you wait for a long time, this is all a sin for my brother, forgive my sins, forgive my sins!" The black bear monster was full of enthusiasm, and when he came up, he was about to pull He Xie's hand.

A trace of strangeness flashed in He Xie's eyes: "Venerable, you ......"

"Hey!" The black bear monster feigned displeasure, "See you outside, virtuous brother!" What is His Holiness called? If you can afford me, just call me Brother Black! ”

"Brother Black?" He Xie's face was even more strange, and there were some vague guesses in his heart, and he couldn't help but sigh.

Sure enough, the more you worry about something, the more you come.

With this attitude, it's strange if it wasn't the reason why the previous bigwigs paid attention.

"Brother Xian, you and I are really not shallow." The black bear monster took He Xie's hand and said earnestly, "We don't know each other, and we have the love of walking together for tens of thousands of miles, virtuous brother, you said, since you and I have met, have I ever treated you badly?" ”

"Not really." What a heresy.

"That's right!" The black bear monster smiled and said, "You human race has a saying, called draught do not forget to dig wells, virtuous brother, you can't forget when you come, it was my old black who brought you to Lingshan." ”

Why is the evil like smiling but not smiling, this is coerced to repay the favor?

"Let's just be brothers!" The black bear monster's eyes suddenly lit up, "Brother Xian, you don't dislike Brother Hei's vulgarity, right?" ”

"Of course not," He Xie said with a smile, "but brothers are precious to each other, so why should we follow those ordinary people to do this?" Brother Hei, please take care of me in the future. ”

"Oops!" The black bear monster was immediately overjoyed, and agreed repeatedly, "Brother, you are really blessed, do you know that at the Obon meeting, the Mighty King Bodhisattva recommended you in one fell swoop, and the Buddha and his old man promised you a fruit position on the spot, and from now on, you are also my fellow teacher!" ”

"I don't know what the Buddha promised me?" He Xie asked.

"Brother Rong sells it." The black bear monster smiled mysteriously, "Let's go, I'll take you to see the Hercules Bodhisattva first!" ”

As he spoke, he pulled He Xie and walked up the mountain.

He Xie sighed again in his heart, the matter had come to this, and he didn't have much panic and panic, after all, he had made all kinds of plans since he knew what kind of world this was, and this result was not the worst.

The black bear monster was close to He Xie all the way, and He Xie also talked along the way, which can be regarded as asking a little information.

The process of the Obon festival is divided into four steps, starting with the Buddha's lectures, then rewarding merits, then punishing lawlessness, and finally a vegetarian feast.

According to the black bear monster, when the third step was carried out, unlike the previous Bon festivals, this time the Buddha moved his true character and severely punished more than a dozen arhats who violated the rules and precepts, and even a bodhisattva was implicated, and was ordered by the Buddha to face the wall and think for 500 years.

This time, the Buddha especially talked about the issue of incense, which probably means that the management of incense in the whole West is very chaotic now, and some people ignore the teachings for the sake of incense, regard the precepts as nothing, and there are many cases of stealing incense privately, so it is necessary to strengthen supervision.

And the fruit position that He Xie got this time is related to incense.

Thinking of the black bear monster's attitude of being condescending and respectful, He Xie was keenly aware that the position he had obtained was likely to be a position of real power.

But before figuring out what is special about this location, He Xie first has to know the most basic attempt - what is the use of incense?

Originally, he had been holding back this question and didn't ask it, because he was afraid that he would be cowardly and be suspected by the black bear monster, so he planned to wait for the fruit position, and then study it slowly by himself.

But now that he's been noticed, it doesn't matter.

The black bear monster was really surprised when he heard He Xie's question: "Brother Xian doesn't even know this?" ”

He Xie said: "I only know that incense is very important, but I don't know how important it is." ”

"Not only is it very important, if you want to cultivate successfully, incense is simply indispensable!" The black bear monster sighed, "If it weren't for the incense, wouldn't it be nice for me to be a free mountain king?" Why bother into the West......"

Halfway through his words, the black bear monster suddenly stopped talking and shook his head away from the subject.

"Brother Xian, as soon as the incense fire said, it did not appear before the battle of the gods in ancient times, when the heavenly court was first established, the saints appeared, and all the spirits in the world only needed to spit out and cultivate, and they could cultivate to the realm of Taiyi. However, if you want to go one step closer, you need to pour merit from the sky. ”

"It's a pity that the merit is so good? Under the entanglement of cause and effect, even the saints do not dare to take it lightly, and if they are not careful, the merit will become a sin, and if they are not careful, the cultivation is a trivial matter, and if the soul is accidentally scattered, it is a common thing......"

"Later, the four sects all set the Three Realms, and the Heavenly Dao was complete, and it was even more difficult for all the spirits in the world to cultivate, if there was no merit, even the Xuan Immortals would not be able to cultivate. And if you want to gain merit, it is a hundred times more difficult and dangerous than in ancient times. ”

"Later, at the second Pan Tao Meeting, the Four Sects and the Heavenly Court made a rule that incense can be exchanged for merit, of course, our Western religion is called incense and merit, and the three sects of Taoism are called wish power and creation. With incense, you can obtain merit, and with merit, you can cultivate into immortals, you can say how important this incense is! ”