The Imperial City of the Lotus Kingdom, and the Xiangji Temple of the Ticheng City.

Xiangji Temple is located in the south of the city and the pond, the whole temple sits in the north and faces south, the palaces inside are dotted, the scale is large, the overall pattern is square and atmospheric, all the Buddha statues are made of pure gold, and even all the bricks and tiles, a grass and a tree, are carefully laid out, unique, can be called the model of the royal temple in the history of the Lotus Kingdom.

When the temple holds a major royal festival every year, all the pilgrims who come to worship and pray for blessings are not allowed to enter, and only members of the royal family and civil and military officials can enter, so it is relatively deserted.

Usually it is crowded with people, and the crowd of people who come to visit almost overwhelms the entire temple.

But this is limited to the outer courtyard of the temple, and the inner courtyard is very deserted at any time, because the inner courtyard is next to the famous Bunti Pond in the city of Bingti, which belongs to the place of Buddhist cultivation, and it is also a quiet place for members of the royal family to meditate behind closed doors and participate in meditation.

The saints of each dynasty, when faced with a major decision, will come here alone to meditate for a period of time, every time he leaves, he can always be suddenly enlightened, all the doubts and entanglements in his heart will disappear, after returning to the palace, often make decisions that are just right, won the hearts of the people, and will soon become a beautiful talk of the people in the streets and alleys.

Therefore, for the inner courtyard of this Xiangji Temple, the emperors of all dynasties attached great importance to it, and in their minds, it belonged to the royal holy land and could not be violated by anyone.

After the princess and princess make a mistake, sometimes they will be punished to come here to think about it behind closed doors, which usually has a good effect, that is, after these princes and princesses return to the palace, they will be like a different person, and they will never make the same mistake again in a short period of time, which makes the saint Longyan angry.

Considering that this is a holy place of Buddhism after all, it is not suitable for swords and swords, and the picture of blood splashing three feet appears, so there is never a guard with a knife in this inner courtyard, only some hidden warrior monks guard it all year round, and there has never been a mistake.

And in this inner courtyard, everything is very simple, so simple that the furnishings can be seen everywhere, every furnishing is natural, without any superfluous decoration, everywhere is full of simple Zen, pleasing to the eye, but the heart is like water.

The most breathtaking thing is the only waterhole in the inner courtyard - and the pond.

It is precisely because of this inexplicable miraculous phenomenon that the name of the city is given, and this waterhole is also named the pond.

No one knows why, and there are no ancient books that record the exact origin of this and Titan.

Some are just legends passed on by word of mouth, but millions of years have passed, and such stories are endless, varied, and there are all kinds of stories, and in the end, no one knows which legend is true and which one is made up.

But there is one thing in common, that is, the statement that the golden and Tilian fell from the sky is completely consistent, so the name of the city and the city of Ti Tan has become the only place where everyone has reached a consensus.

Later, after the unification of the Liansheng Kingdom, the first saint who supported it, after traveling throughout the Liansheng Kingdom, finally set the imperial city within a radius of 100 miles where the Lotus Pond was located, and built the Xiangji Temple next to the Lotus Pond as a royal temple.

The original design scheme of this Xiangji Temple is that the entire inner courtyard and outer courtyard of Xiangji Temple are resplendent and luxurious to the extreme.

Unexpectedly, during the construction period, there were always accidents in the inner courtyard, either collapsed, or the workers fell unconscious for no reason, no matter how they investigated, they could not find out the cause.

Even inviting a monk to practice it will not help.

At that time, when the saint had a headache about this matter, he did not expect that night, the saint had a strange dream, in which a blind mother-in-law told him that as long as the simple and unpretentious decoration of the inner courtyard was maintained, and the guards with knives were not arranged, and her cultivation was not disturbed, the temple could naturally be built smoothly.

The next morning, after waking up, after thinking about it, with the idea that it would rather be believed or not, he announced his will in the early dynasty, that is, to redesign the inner courtyard of Xiangji Temple, requiring the most simple Zen beauty.

Although the ministers did not understand why the Holy Lord, who had always admired luxury, had changed the original design intention of the inner courtyard for no reason, especially since the inner courtyard would still be a place for members of the royal family to participate in meditation and repent, and it should be more luxurious, they still did it completely.

Since then, the construction of the inner courtyard has gone very smoothly, and nothing has happened again.

On the day when the Xiangji Temple was finally completed, the Holy Priest held a grand ceremony to worship the heavens in the temple, and stayed in the inner courtyard that night, and that night, the Holy Master dreamed of the blind mother-in-law again.

The blind mother-in-law told the saint that this inner courtyard and Ti Tan are related to the fate of the entire Lotus Sheng Kingdom, and can also change the fortune of the Jun royal family, and hopes that he must protect the inner courtyard and not let idle people and others disturb the gods in Hedi Tan.

He also told him not to let the inner courtyard be murderous and bloody, otherwise it would also bring the disaster of destruction to the Liansheng Kingdom. Even the sword should not be brought into the inner court, otherwise the person brought with it will be plagued by blood.

When the skeptical saint woke up, he didn't mention anything about this blind woman to anyone, because in his heart he didn't fully agree with what the blind woman said in his dream.

Not long after the saint returned to the palace, a princess rejected the marriage he arranged for her because she liked an ordinary royal guard, and she was so excited that she confronted the saint in person.

In a fit of rage, the saint punished the princess to go to the inner courtyard to think about it behind closed doors.

He also sent the royal guard to the frontier to guard the city, and he was never allowed to step into the imperial city for half a step, otherwise he would be beheaded.

Unexpectedly, the princess, who had been thinking behind closed doors in the inner courtyard, didn't think about it for a while, and killed herself with the short sword she had secretly brought in by the pool.

The gushing blood stained the entire Hedi Pond red, and in an instant, the entire Hedi City was full of strong winds, flying sand and rocks, and the entire sky turned into a blood-red haze weather.

When he learned of this sudden bad news and the bad weather in the outbreak area of the Imperial City, the Holy Lord also regretted it, regretting that he had concealed the advice that the blind mother-in-law said.

If he hadn't persecuted his daughter and warned her in advance about the precautions in the inner courtyard of Xiangji Temple, such a tragedy would not have happened.

At that moment, he completely believed what the blind mother-in-law in the dream said to him.

It's a pity that it got to that point, and it was too late to say anything.

Although the saint immediately rushed to the inner courtyard of the Xiangji Temple, quickly disposed of the princess's body, and absorbed the blood and water in the pond as much as possible, he could not change his future fate.

Then an inexplicable blood-colored acid haze broke out in the entire Lotus Kingdom, and those who inhaled the acid mist were unconscious at least and their lives were not guaranteed.

Even the saints in the palace were not spared, and died ten days after the acid smog erupted.

On the occasion of his death, the Holy Lord told His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who was guarding the bedside, and solemnly told His Royal Highness the Crown Prince not to forget this painful lesson at all times, and to pass it on from generation to generation by word of mouth.

After the Holy One finished his confession, he died.

After His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ascended the throne, he deliberately included the inner courtyard of Xiangji Temple in the forbidden land, and idlers were exempted from entering without permission.

It also formulated detailed regulations for the inner courtyard of the Xiangji Temple, which was regarded as strictly following the last wishes of the emperor and strengthening the management of the Xiangji Temple.

Since then, this rule has been continued.

Since then, the story of the blind mother-in-law has begun to spread among the people, and everyone is becoming more and more curious about what happened in the inner courtyard of Xiangji Temple.

There were even some bold people who broke into the inner courtyard of the Xiangji Temple at night to get a glimpse of it, but these people were found dead in the streets and alleys the next day, and even the bodies were mutilated.

When the Holy One learned of this, he was furious, and not only whipped the corpses of those who died violently, but also beheaded them all over the house as a warning!

In this way, it can be regarded as a complete deterrence of those who are ready to move, and no one dares to challenge the royal majesty and trespass into the inner courtyard of Xiangji Temple.

Gradually, people have forgotten about it.

However, one day, when people saw a clever blind mother-in-law on the street, they remembered the tragedy in the inner courtyard of Xiangji Temple.

After a period of secret observation, everyone can finally determine that this elusive blind mother-in-law is from the inner courtyard of Xiangji Temple.

It's just strange that many people clearly saw this blind mother-in-law enter the inner courtyard from afar, but the warrior monk guarding the inner courtyard flatly denied seeing the so-called blind mother-in-law.

Moreover, after receiving the report, the saints of the past dynasties also rushed to the inner courtyard of Xiangji Temple to search, but they failed to find the extremely mysterious blind mother-in-law.

This point also made the kings of the past generations puzzled. I had to think that the so-called blind mother-in-law didn't exist at all.

In this way, hundreds of thousands of years later, when the legend of the blind mother-in-law of Xiangji Temple was already little known, I didn't expect the blind mother-in-law to appear again.

not only appeared, but also publicly stated that he would meet with everyone from time to time, and then answer everyone's doubts.

It's just that her answer is not free, and the person who asks the question needs to give her a gift that can satisfy her, as long as she is satisfied, the question she answers will definitely satisfy the other party.

At first, everyone was not optimistic about this so-called clever blind mother-in-law, but later, as more and more people were fortunate enough to consult her, including the saints, they humbly asked each other for advice, and they were full of praise afterwards, people took this legendary blind mother-in-law seriously.

Perhaps because the blind mother-in-law felt that the time was ripe, she once again publicly stated that in the future, a special contest would be held every year in the inner courtyard of Xiangji Temple, and only certain people could participate.

No swordsman, or anyone who has killed too much, is not allowed to enter.

In this special competition, she will select the most talented person, and then answer three questions from the other party, but when the other party asks three questions and is very satisfied with the blind mother-in-law's answer, she will do one thing for the blind mother-in-law for free, in return.

Since then, the annual special tournament has continued.

It's just that the form of the event is different every year, and this year's contest is a poetry contest, which is limited to scholars.

Since Jun Buyu left the imperial city for a year before returning, he didn't expect that only scholars would be able to enter the inner courtyard this year......