After a while, Hou Xibai left the deserted village in despair.

Since ancient times, amorous people have always been ruthlessly hurt, and this time will naturally be no exception.

From the moment she decided to sacrifice herself to feed the devil, Concubine Xuan had already abandoned the small love between men and women, and what filled her heart was the great love for the people in the world.

Maybe one day, she will understand that the love of men and women is included in the great love, and the love of all beings is love, and there is no difference between big and small.

In fact, in essence, monks can be regarded as the most selfish group of people in the world.

But when this kind of selfishness extends outward, it embraces the people, things, and things around ......, and even encompasses one's own nation, one's own country, world, and universe.

To regard all of these things as a part of "me", such an existence is equivalent to the "Tao", independent and unchanging, unchangeable, and transcendent from all eons of heaven and earth.

Some people call this kind of selfishness "great love", which is infinite love for all beings, heaven and earth, and the universe.

Don't talk nonsense, let's get down to business.

Since ancient times, the road into Bashu has been known for its difficulty, because it is surrounded by mountains, heavy mountains, high mountains and deep valleys. In the meantime, the great river is like a belt, and the rivers are connected, which is not only magnificent, but also dangerous and difficult.

On the way into Sichuan, the land route must pass through the winding mountain plank road on Da Lou Mountain and Daba Mountain, and the waterway has the Three Gorges natural risk. Therefore, no matter how chaotic the place outside Sichuan is, as long as it can be called the king according to Sichuan, with its dense rivers, and there is a Dujiangyan artesian irrigation system, agriculture is developed, it will be able to temporarily get a partial situation, so that it has the reputation of "the country of abundance".

Although Shu County is dominated by the Han nationality, it is inhabited by more than 40 other Qiang, Yi and other ethnic minorities, which is very rich in local customs.

The county seat where Ji Ning and his entourage settled is Shangyong City in the north of Fangling County, which is one of the major stations of the main route to Shu County.

Nominally, control of the city fell into the hands of Zhu Cang, but in reality it was controlled by a combination of Sui officials and local gangs, so it was fortunate that it was not ravaged by Zhu Cang's Garuda army, and was only exploited to a limited extent.

Ji Ning has traveled all the way, and all the counties and counties that have been broken by the Garuda army are uninhabited, and they are full of white bones, like ghost domains.

Among the heroes of the world's uprisings, if you talk about cruelty, no one can surpass Zhu Cang.

The Garuda army plundered the place, and killed people for food when the military rations were insufficient, and the brutality of the soldiers in its army was unparalleled in the world.

The night was deep, Ji Ning pushed the door out, and saw You Niaoti waiting outside the door, and there was a woman in red who was as beautiful as a flower and her eyes were rolling wildly.

"Sect Master, this woman is Zhu Mei. Zhu Cang will be able to catch up with Shangyong outside the city tomorrow. You Niaoti said.

Zhu Mei is the daughter of Zhu Cang, with countless faces, and she is suspicious and jealous. Therefore, the masters of the rivers and lakes call it "poisonous spider".

Capture Zhu Mei, if you abolish one of Zhu Can's arms, because this woman is Zhu Can's brainchild.

After Ji Ning glanced at Zhu Mei for a few moments, he turned around and walked into the room next to him, walked out with a bearded girl in one hand, and said, "Send them all to Jiangdu." ”

You Nitori should claim "yes", hold the two women in both hands, and leave immediately.

At dawn, in the forest path outside Shangyong City, a middle-aged man with a panicked and frightened face was galloping across his horse.

This person is of medium stature, with an ordinary appearance, a smooth and beardless face, and his eyes are shining with cold light between opening and closing. It is the famous "King of Garuda" Zhu Cang.

After galloping on the road for a while, Zhu Cang suddenly flew up from his horse, landed lightly on the tall trees on the side of the road, and fled to the depths of the woods by stepping on the branches.

After walking out of the woods, Zhu Cang, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly stopped.

I saw that in the middle of the path ahead, Ji Ning was looking at the sky with his hands in his hands, standing like a big mountain.

Zhu Cang's heart sank.

Ji Ning didn't look back, his voice came faintly, and said: "Garuda is said to be a kind of divine bird recorded in the Buddhist scriptures, with a violent personality, specializing in eating dragons and snakes, and was later subdued by the Buddha and merged into the Eight Divisions of the Heavenly Dragon. ”

Although he didn't turn around when he spoke, for Zhu Cang, a feeling of being "watched" by a wild beast rose in his heart, and he couldn't breathe well, and his mind was very depressed.

Ji Ning's voice continued to sound, "Zhu Cang, how does it taste to eat human flesh?" ”

Zhu Cang's face was pale, and after taking a deep breath, he stepped forward and said with a smile: "You don't eat human flesh, how can you know the beauty of human flesh?" ”

His palms slowly clenched into claws, approaching Ji Ning step by step.

"Boom!"

The sound of the exchange of energy exploded, and the blood in Zhu Cang's mouth, who was shocked by Ji Ning's protective body, spurted wildly, leaning on a tree and gasping, he looked at Ji Ning and said, "Who is Your Excellency?" ”

Ji Ning slowly walked towards Zhu Cang and said, "Great Sui National Teacher, Zixu." You proclaim yourself the king of Garuda, but I don't know what it has to do with Buddhism? ”

Zhu Cang avoided answering, "hehe" and smiled: "National teacher, do you know what human flesh tastes like?" ”

Ji Ning said: "I would like to hear about it." ”

Zhu Cang said with an intoxicated face: "If you eat a baby, you have to roast, if you eat a woman, you have to put it on a steamer, and the elderly must fry it, so that it can be delicious." ”

He sighed, and then said, "If a drunkard eats pork on sake lees, if he eats a baby like a roast pig, the rest of the people, all kinds of tastes are difficult to describe. Of all kinds of meat in the world, human flesh should be the first. ”

Ji Ning shook his head and said: "Birds and beasts still don't eat their kinds, but Your Excellency cannibalizes people, compared to the disaster of Wuhu, although it is not as good, but it is not inferior." ”

Zhu Cang laughed and said: "In the world of life, if the dream is empty, like the morning dew, killing people is to save people, and if you can enter my belly, you will enter the spiritual mountain." ”

His voice grew lower and lower, and his face seemed to have a radiant glow, a look of peace and serenity, without the slightest fear.

Ji Ning looked up at the rising sun in the east and whispered, "A good one to put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the ground." ”

More than ten days later, in the evening, outside the city of Chengdu.

Ji Ning, Shi Fei Xuan, and Wan Wan passed through a dense forest of ancient cypress towering to the sky and bamboo trees and onions, and suddenly saw the red wall in front of them, the pagoda was in the sky, and the temple tower was majestic and tall, so they knew the place.

This is an ancient temple with a history of 145 years, the Great Stone Temple.

From the mountain gate hall, followed by the palace of the king of heaven, the hall of the seven Buddhas, the hall of the great majesty, the building of the scriptures, etc., the hall is heavy, magnificent and magnificent.

Regardless of doors, windows, eaves, arches, are carved with feathers, flowers and other ornaments. On the ridge of the temple, strange birds and beasts are molded, lifelike.

Next to the main hall in a group, a tall tower rises among thousands of bamboo trees, which is extraordinarily imposing.

There are long corridors between the halls, and the large stone pillars on the left and right are symmetrical, and after a while, Ji Ning and the three of them have come to the ultimate goal of this trip - Luohan Hall.

I saw that the statues in the main hall are listed, divided into two groups, the center is dozens of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, with the thousand-handed Guanyin in the heart of the hall is the most eye-catching, not only the treasure is solemn, and because the shape of each hand and the magic instrument held are not the same, people give birth to the feeling of the vast supernatural power, the magic power is boundless.

The five hundred Arhats are arranged on all sides, facing the statue in the center, forming a vertical and horizontal lane. Coming here is like being in another world of gods and Buddhas that is different from reality.

The statue next to him is in the yellow glow of the sunset that penetrates, the shape is delicate and exquisite, the color is gorgeous, whether it is standing and leaning, sitting and lying, all have different postures, like a real person, the expression is vivid, and the illusion is like the truth.

When Ji Ning came to the Thousand Hands Guanyin Seat, surrounded by rows of Arhat Buddha statues, as if he was trapped in a maze under the statues, the feeling was really not something that could be described in words.