Chapter 21: The Loneliness of Practice

But a hand on her shoulder instantly quieted her.

"My sister is still young and can't stand the cold of the night, so I hope I can make a small fire."

After speaking, before the coffin in front of him could respond, Gu Li's calf was kicked.

Although this kick was not painful for his physique, but he was kicked by this little girl for some reason, Gu Li was also a little depressed, and stretched out his hand to rub Lin Sihan's little head, signaling her to be quieter.

Lin Sihan slapped Gu Li's hand away with a dark face, kicked him again, skimmed his little head and didn't speak.

Seeing that the little girl seemed to be angry, Gu Li glanced at her and stood quietly in front of the coffin and waited.

After a minute, the coffin finally sounded a soft knock.

boom

Gu Li gently patted Lin Sihan's shoulder, pulled her to his side, and led her to a corner and said, "People have agreed that we will stay here for one night, let's go to that corner over there." ”

Hearing Gu Li's words, Lin Sihan turned his head to look at the two incense sticks, and found that the incense floated straight upward, and then floated into the coffin, as if it was sucked in by the contents inside.

With Gu Li beside him, facing the contents of the big coffin, Lin Sihan didn't have the idea of being afraid, but looked at it thoughtfully.

"Gu Li, this is different, isn't it?"

Using spiritual power to sweep the dust in this corner to the open space outside, Gu Li turned back to Lin Sihan and smiled: "Well, it's different. ”

"To be honest, this is the first time I have encountered the spiritual objects mentioned in the classics."

"Spirits?" Lin Sihan opened his mouth in surprise, looked back at the black and even slightly faded coffin, and said in a low voice: "Isn't it a corpse that lives inside?" ”

"Well, I guess it's a corpse." Gu Li looked at the little girl's serious little face with some distress, thought for a while and said, "Feel it yourself." ”

After finishing speaking, he put his hand on Lin Sihan's back, and a small wisp of spiritual power flowed into her body through the palm of his hand.

The petite body shook slightly, and Lin Sihan instantly felt that his surroundings had changed.

There seemed to be a faint sound chanting Buddhist scriptures inside the silent temple, full of peace and tranquility, and the slightly terrifying black coffin seemed to have a glimmer of light lingering inside, and the stars were scattered around the temple from the inside out.

"Isn't it beautiful?"

The whispering voice pulled her back to reality, and when Lin Sihan, who woke up, looked around again, she found that it was still the same as before, as if everything she saw and heard just now was a fantasy.

No! That's not a fantasy, it's another mysterious world!

Like the boy sitting next to her, it was as if a world was separating her from him.

"Well, it's beautiful, I've never seen such a beautiful view." Lin Sihan nodded seriously, and said in a fluctuating tone: "This is obviously a terrifying environment, but after watching the scene just now, I feel very relieved. ”

"Isn't there a good saying? You don't have to look at the surface to see things. Gu Li listened to the soft Zen sound in his ears and sighed: "Who would have thought that a corpse would also become a spiritual object? ”

After seeing the hideous horror of those corpses, Lin Sihan had only one thought about those dead corpses, that is, those who came back to life were monsters.

But the scene just now touched her heart, obviously it was also a dead corpse, but this corpse gave her the feeling of facing a gentle monk chanting with his eyes closed.

"Don't think about it anymore, I'm going to pick up some dry firewood and come back to make a fire, will you go with me or stay here?"

Gu Li stood up and put the cloth bag long sword on the ground.

"I'll go with you."

"It's so dark at night, can you afford to see the road?"

"Gu Li, why are you so long-winded!"

“...”

...

In the end, Gu Li walked out of the temple with the long sword and Lin Sihan, came to the surroundings to find some dry firewood, and caught two poisonous snakes that paraded at night by the way.

Although Lin Sihan repeatedly said that it would be fine for him to eat dry cakes, Gu Li ignored her at all, and after a series of operations on skinning and bloodletting, he inserted it with a branch.

Squatting outside the temple gate and starting a fire to roast snake meat.

"Gu Li, why don't we go inside and roast it?" Lin Sihan listened to the wolf roar in the distance, and couldn't help but get closer to Gu Li, and said with smart eyes vigilantly looking at the darkness around him.

"This is the temple, if I'm not mistaken, the spirit corpse inside should be a spirit after the death of a high-ranking monk." Gu Li's Lingwei shook slightly, and said calmly after scaring away all the mosquitoes flying around.

"People have three calamities and nine tribulations, and they are riddled with sins, so they naturally have merit and protection."

Turning his head and seeing that Lin Sihan was listening to himself attentively, Gu Li flipped over the snake meat and continued: "You also saw the light emitted from that spirit corpse just now, right?" That should be the manifestation of merit, it is estimated that he helped many people during his lifetime, so he will become a corpse spirit after death. ”

"Merit manifests only after death?" Lin Sihan was stunned for a moment, and said suspiciously: "Isn't there no merit to protect people when they are alive?" ”

"Yes, but when a person is alive, merit will not manifest, unless there is too much merit, which directly condenses the golden light of the body." Thinking of the classics he had seen before, Gu Li smiled bitterly: "Don't underestimate the golden light of the body, the people who have the golden light of the body are not something I can mess with." ”

"Listen to you say that, people with the golden light of the body are very powerful?" Lin Sihan blinked, tilted his little head slightly, and asked.

"Let me tell you this, if you have condensed the golden light of the body protection in this life because you have done too many good deeds in your previous life, then if I make a move on you now, do you believe that there will be a heavenly thunder slashing on me in the next second?" Gu Li pointed to the night sky, smiled and said, "It's not so much that they are powerful, but that they are favored by the Heavenly Dao." ”

Heaven?

Lin Sihan raised her head and looked at the night sky thoughtfully, she only believed in science before, but this encounter made her see another world, a world full of mystery and strangeness.

"Gu Li, you teach me to practice."

"Don't teach, you don't have that talent."

Looking at the little girl with puffed cheeks, Gu Li handed her the roasted snake meat sprinkled with spices and said, "Not everyone has the qualifications to practice. ”

"And cultivation is not just a matter of having qualifications, there are also tests of character and mind."

"Would you rather walk alone in the dark world all day long and face evil things one after another?"

"Can you endure loneliness and the consciousness of facing a life-and-death crisis alone?"

"Can you give up the prosperity and live an ordinary life?"

...

Listening to Gu Li's calm words, Lin Sihan's thoughts that had just risen slowly dissipated.

As he said, not everyone wanders alone in the darkness like him, enduring loneliness, slaying evil creatures day after day.