Chapter 3: Disfigurement
The bells rang and the crows quacked.
The shadow of the tower is based on the ancient temple, and the Pure Land Buddha shines.
The Sanskrit sound is in the temple, and the Dharma is in my heart.
Time is like a second, and we must cherish the present.
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The bells rang and the crows quacked.
The monk practiced asceticism, sat in meditation and cleaned.
Regardless of gains and losses, do good deeds as soon as possible.
Time is like a second, and we must cherish the present.
Early in the morning, the suzerain's country of Xijing Guoyou Temple.
A handsome little monk in a robe is mopping the floor with a rag in his hand;
After wiping the floor, the little monk went to sweep the floor, chop wood, and carry water......
When all was done, he let out a long sigh.
In the distance, someone was calling him to eat his morning fast.
The little monk ignored him, went to the room to get some clothes, towels, etc., and went to take a bath.
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After taking a bath, the little monk sat in a shadow of the temple and meditated, and I don't know if he had eaten breakfast.
An old monk came to him. Carrying a long ring ruler on his back.
The old monk and the young monk who was still sitting saluted each other.
The old monk hit the little monk three times in the back with a ring ruler.
Old monk: "Zhu Bao, tomorrow we will start in the morning and do the same practice as today." ”
The little monk said a little angrily: "I don't want this kind of cultivation! I want to cultivate great supernatural powers!"
Old monk: "You don't have a solid foundation, you are impetuous by nature, and now there is no way to enter the cultivation of Douqi!"
The little monk had no choice but to soften his voice and said, "Master, I will do this kind of practice, and I won't be lazy in chanting sutras and reciting Buddha, but please tell me, why can't I justify it at any time, why do you want me to practice closed-mouth meditation?"
The old monk hit him again with a ring ruler and said, "You are too anxious. You can say ordinary things and do ordinary things, but there is no big reason why you need to be so excited. Relying on words only makes you frivolous. Empty words, even if you talk extravagantly, you can't really integrate into your heart. Only after troubles, pains, and sweat can knowledge and truth become your blood and flesh, and can you truly calm down, so that there is no big problem in cultivating Douqi. ”
The little monk began to argue again: "Master, you are not right, knowledge and truth naturally exist, and it has nothing to do with my flesh and blood. What is mutated by my mood is not the truth!"
The old monk was furious: "Shut up for me! You can't hold up the wall!" said the ruler and beat him with a sharp head.
After beating him for a while, the old monk sighed and went back to his residence: "Good materials and beautiful quality are rare in the world, but he was born in the emperor's family." Hey, how can there be such an arrogant teenager who doesn't know whether to live or die, and who can't be convinced!"
After Zhu Bao stayed in Guoyou Temple for more than two months, the old monk didn't seem to notice that there was a golden dragon hidden in his body, so Zhu Bao finally recognized him and called him his master.
As soon as Zhu Bao bowed to him, the old monk became more and more vigorous and presumptuous. What he often does to Zhu Bao on weekdays is to be a donkey to beat and scold, and a cow to call, but he doesn't teach him much about cultivation.
Zhu Bao does not avoid scolding, but he often does not follow when he is told to do things.
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The old monk is known as "Emperor Shituo", and he also calls himself "Emperor of the Ancient Ages", but he is a "saboteur", and he is keen to "join the WTO to assist self-made or rebels, disturb the world, overthrow the original emperor in the chaos, and establish a new emperor". He once incarnated as the black-clothed prime minister of the Central Empire of the Earth Star in the Solar System of the Orion of the Tianhe System, assisted Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and defeated the two million soldiers and horses of nearly 100 million people in the country with a population of 3 million and 300,000 horses in the land of Yandi, and finally won and helped the rebel Zhu Di successfully ascend the throne and become emperor.
Emperor Shituo's soul power is extremely strong, and he has the magical power of knowing fate, but because he has acted unscrupulously for many lifetimes, he has been corrupted and vicious, and he is gradually on the verge of disaster, so he must accumulate more faith merits in this life. The best way to accumulate merit is to hide one's true face, conform to cause and effect, support Yiren'er to become the emperor, and be named a national teacher. Because of the largest number of sentient beings in the human race in the life of each lineage, the emperor Shituo bowed his head to his ears in the world of the suzerain, and worked hard to accumulate small merits and opportunities, and after a few decades, he was successfully entered into the ancestral hall of the suzerain and became the hidden young master who assisted the son of the Yin Sect. There are many Yin Zongzi, and there is more than one Yin Shao Master. After the young master secretly chooses a hidden sect son, he needs to start from the beginning, unless the sect dies for no reason. Emperor Shituo finally chose Zhu Bao, but he didn't expect that although this kid had good materials, he had a stubborn temperament, was impatient and rude, which was quite inconsistent with Emperor Shituo's temperament, which made him feel headache and "unfortunate".
Zhu Bao's character cannot be simply summarized by the word "anxious". He is an intense personality that is extremely static and extremely active. He didn't know what Yin Zongzi said, but he was extremely afraid that this old monk who was a bit of a Taoist would recognize that he was "a demon or possessed by a demon". Because he discovered early on that he had a golden dragon hidden in his body, and he was very fond of demonic atmosphere and general nuclear radiation. He must often go into Mangshan Mountain to absorb the demonic atmosphere, otherwise he will be restless, and sometimes his head will hurt. He thinks it's the dragon in his body that's doing the trick. Once he went into the depths of Mangling, dug out a small handful of blue gems in a dark valley with a strong demonic atmosphere, he was very happy, took it home, took the largest, about centimeters round, and hid in the quilt to take a secret look, the beads can exude a blue glowing demon atmosphere. He thought about it again and again, but he couldn't help it, so he ate the blue bead, and his spirits were lifted immediately, and the headache did not occur for a long time. Since then, he has often gone to Mangling to find these blue beads to eat.
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The old monk probably thought that Zhu Bao's impatient and rude temperament came from the conceit of his beauty, and one day, he took him into a dark room in the temple, circled around, and entered a cave.
After a few more circles in this cave, I came to the depths of the earth. In the vast cave court, there is a mud cellar. Zhu Bao didn't watch out, and was pushed down by the old monk.
The mud cellar was full of a pool of dirty and turbid liquid, like thick phlegm and thick snot.
Zhu Bao was disgusted and hurried to come up, but was beaten down by the old monk again and again.
This mud cellar is extremely deep, and the walls are extremely slippery, Zhu Bao climbed several times, was tossed exhausted, and finally couldn't levitate, and gradually fell deeper and deeper.
Zhu Bao raised his head and scolded: "Old demon monk, old beast, do you want to kill the little master!"
The old monk was scolded so that his head was buzzing, and he scolded him: "You little brute! Useless fellow, you deserve to die! This pool of heavenly essence and earth liquid is transformed by the big demon's bones, flesh, viscera, feces and urine, and it is written in the book I gave you, they can engulf you, and you can also turn them into them with your ability! Whether you live or die is your own business!" In the bottom of his heart, Emperor Shituo really wished that this kid would die like this, so that he could choose another sect that suited his temperament.
When Zhu Bao heard this, he felt even more nauseous, but at this time, he accidentally put turbid liquid in his mouth, which immediately made his stomach squirm violently, vomit non-stop, and vomited out all the overnight meal.
Zhu Bao was really powerless, so he had to stop struggling, calm down, and then continue to sink his body until he submerged his mouth and nose.
Stagnation was extreme, Zhu Bao had to take a mouthful of mucus mixed with his own vomit, endure the nausea, and not vomit out. The fishy liquid entered the esophagus, but the stomach was like a fire. After a while, Zhu Bao felt that the feeling of lack of oxygen was gone, and he regained some energy.
As soon as he regained his strength, Zhu Bao rubbed against the wall and tried to float up, climbed out of the mud cellar, and went to the pool next to him to rinse for a while.
Later, in order to increase his strength, become a Douzun and Dou Emperor as soon as possible, and have the ability to save his relatives, Zhu Bao still came to this pool to soak for a while in accordance with the law and eat a mouthful of "phlegm" liquid every morning, on an empty stomach, and endured nausea. However, before he entered the pool, he still had to vomit for a while, so that he would not dare to eat the food that was difficult to dissolve.
However, after a year or two, Zhu Bao gradually found that the "phlegm" liquid stuck to his face, neck, and ears, and could not be thoroughly cleaned like other parts of his body, and then his skin became thicker and thicker, and his face and ears became bigger and bigger, and the potholes became ugly and scary day after day.
Zhu Bao went to ask Master.
The master glanced at him and said, "Man, you should look like this with a fat head and big ears!"
Zhu Bao knew that the master used a spell to make it bad, and he was very annoyed, and said, "How can you let me go to school in this way!"
The master said: "I'll rent you a good house outside the temple and hire a few teachers, so that you don't have to go to school, and you don't have to change clothes to pick you up every morning and evening." You can also spend more time practicing. ”
Zhu Baocai refused to be killed by him, and said, "No." How can I not go to school?!"
The master said coldly: "If you mess with the teacher again, I will make your face as big as a footwasher!"
Zhu Bao was helpless.
The master said, "This is also your own inability. On this day, the essence can be absorbed by your stomach and intestines, as well as by your skin. When your kung fu arrives, this layer of skin and mud on your face can naturally be absorbed by your ability. ”
Zhu Bao was skeptical, so he had to work hard to restore the appearance of a beautiful son as soon as possible.