Chapter 63: The Legend
With four or five students and assistants, Expert Yan quickly turned the things in the Scripture Pavilion upside down.
The things that are really valuable for many years have already been confiscated by the Special Cases Administration Bureau in the repeated inspections, and what is left behind is either just notes that have nothing to do with the practice, or various versions of the scriptures that have been collected from various sources in the temple after the policy has been relaxed in the past few years.
The Abbot's previous mention of Master Yansu's receipt satisfies both of these conditions.
Sun Yang quietly asked the hall master, this Master Yansu passed away two years ago at the age of ninety-two. For Longju Temple, he can be said to be one of the few remaining elders. But he was not a monk of Longju Temple before, but a monk in a lower courtyard of Longju Temple. When Emperor Taizu Gao destroyed the Buddha and destroyed the Tao, he was sentenced to four years of re-education through labor, and after being released from prison, he was forced to return to the world, and only returned to the temple when Daxia decided to restore Longju Temple into a tourist attraction. But he never told anyone else who he really was, and it wasn't until after his death that the deacons at the temple discovered that he had left a note while sorting through his belongings, which recorded his own life and some miscellaneous things about Ryukoma Temple.
His handwriting was sloppy and somewhat illegible, and many of his notes were old and illegible due to improper preservation, making them even more difficult to read.
Fortunately, the temple had already organized people to sort out a considerable part of it before, so that they would not be forced to study these things.
They divided Gen Yansu's notes into several large sections, the most of which were the experiences of studying Buddhist scriptures over the years, followed by his own life, and then the bits and pieces about Ryuju Temple.
Sun Yan repeatedly confirmed to the master monk that Master Yansu should not have any mana, and the temples rebuilt in Great Xia in the past ten years are almost the same, and the Special Case Administration does not prohibit them from studying Buddhist scriptures, but once it involves real magic, it is still severely punished.
Why are loose cultivators like Master Lu and Cao Daoping more free? Sun Yang speculated that this was probably because they believed that the influence and inheritance ability of scattered cultivation were limited, and once religions and temples were released, with the resources in their hands, they could easily form a force and threaten the authority of the Special Case Administration.
They quickly found something about Lingyun Tower from the messy and meaningless content.
But Gen Yan Su didn't know much, he was not the kind of child who had the talent to walk on the path of cultivation, so he did not have the opportunity to be selected to practice in the main temple of Ryuju Temple, but stayed in the lower courtyard. In his complicated and chaotic notes, he only mentioned it a few times intermittently, when he was a novice, he once heard an uncle from the academy tell the legendary stories of the academy, one of which was about the Lingyun Tower.
It is said that at the end of the Five Dynasties, because of the perennial conquest, Yuzhou, as the main battlefield, has reached the point where there are no people for thousands of miles, and countless dead people are hurriedly buried, or discarded on the roadside at will, and sometimes, even reduced to food for other people.
Such a troubled era lasted for nearly a hundred years, and at that time, the Beibi Mountain was full of large and small graves, almost all of which were ownerless and lonely graves. These people were angry, and there was originally Longju Temple to suppress near Bishan, but after Zhou Shizong Chai Rong destroyed the Buddha, there was no longer any power to suppress them, and as a result, not long after Song Taizu usurped the throne, under the effect of countless ghosts and grievances in Bishan, a ghost king was produced.
The Zhou and Song dynasties were both built in Bianliang, only a few hundred miles away from the mountain, and it is conceivable that such a ghost appeared in such a close distance, which caused a great shock to the nascent Song Dynasty. Song Taizu personally ordered 7749 monks to gather and set up a large array of King Kong demons, and finally suppressed the ghost king. In order to prevent it from getting out of trouble and causing disaster to the world, they opened the Shakya Relic Pagoda, invited out the Buddha's true body relics enshrined in it, and suppressed the ghost king of the mountain under it, and two eminent monks volunteered to sanctify in the flesh and entered the pagoda together to suppress it.
Since then, Longju Temple has been listed as one of the royal temples of the Great Song Dynasty, and there is a Song Dynasty, which is extremely respected.
There are many things in the notes that are obviously grossly exaggerated, and they resemble the plot of the popular Ming Dynasty Zhiwei, and it is easy to feel that these are legendary tales told by adults to children, and are not even listed in the category of useful documents by the monks in charge of sorting them out. But now that something like this has happened, the authenticity of the story suddenly comes to the fore.
"Zhou Shizong's destruction of Buddha must be there, Longju Temple, as a big temple in the Luoyi area, must occupy a lot of fields and population, and it should be difficult to escape." Expert Yan analyzed it carefully. "The matter of the Ghost King...... That's a bit discounted, at least in the information we collected, we haven't seen any records of ghost kings in the Bishan area. As for the seventy-seven forty-nine monks, what Vajra Demon Array, it is simply a story. ”
"But the suppression with the relics of the Buddha's true body should be true, and the flesh of two monks entered the pagoda...... Something like this is not entirely impossible. He continued to look through the records. It is very common to sit in the Buddha in the flesh, but generally speaking, it takes a lot of time from the death of a monk to the transformation of a Buddha statue, some as long as three or four years. According to him, I have heard of such a statement that I walked into a pagoda and sat down and became a Buddha. ”
"There's nothing impossible about it." Sun Yang said.
If it is considered purely from a scientific point of view, such a statement is certainly not unscientific, but the power of the Song Dynasty sect has not been weakened by the invasion of the northern nomadic witch cult and demon clan, and of course it cannot be considered in today's concept.
However, this kind of discussion did not really help them solve the problem, and it was not easy for the little novice to be able to record the matter decades later, but what they needed was something more concrete, otherwise it would be impossible to deal with it in a targeted manner.
"If the opponent is really a ghost king, does the Yuzhou Bureau have a way to deal with it?" Sun Yang asked.
Expert Yan shook his head with a pale face, not only the Yuzhou Bureau, but even if he gathered the strength of several surrounding provinces, he might not be able to solve it.
This kind of thing has always been the weak point of the Special Crimes Administration, and for those tangible monsters they can use bombs, bombs, and more powerful bombs to destroy them, but how to do it with this invisible and powerful being?
"Delay it as long as you can!" Sun Yang sighed. How powerful the Ghost King is, perhaps no one here knows better than him. What's even worse is that even if they are all at the level of the ghost king, the gap between the big ghost king and the little ghost king is very different.
If the main points in this story are true, then what kind of existence should a ghost king who can alarm characters like Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin?
"I'll have to get away for a while." He found Jiang Ying again. "Deputy Director Jiang, please send Xiaowei to me, I must complete the matter at hand as soon as possible, which should help solve the problem."
Jiang Ying scoffed at Sun Yang's statement, in his opinion, this was to feel the danger and prepare to run away. But firstly, Sun Yang was not his subordinate, secondly, this source of danger was also discovered by Sun Yang and notified them in time, and thirdly, Sun Yang was still Long Qingting's subordinate......
"Okay~~ But you must not give me ......" He stopped in the middle of his words. This place was indeed discovered by Sun Yang and Xiaowei, but if the cause of the problem was to be pressed on the two of them, even Jiang Ying herself was a little unreasonable.
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Lu Xiaoling closed her eyes on the bed and breathed, and Zhao Qiuniang was disdainful of her cultivation method.
It's still too early, neither the mall nor the nightclub has yet to open, she said as she flipped through a fashion magazine and shook her head. "The aura is so weak now, you still use this method to cultivate? No wonder you're so weak! Do you want me to teach you something profound? I'm not proficient, but I'm at least 10 percent better than the one you're using now. ”
Lu Xiaoling ignored her, but she was suddenly stunned for a moment, and then walked to the window.
This is the most prosperous area of Luoyi, surrounded by high-rise buildings, so that she can't see the sky in the distance, but she has a faint feeling that someone who is important to her is calling her name.