Chapter 7 Getting the Right Fruit in the Mist Sits the Red Lotus in the Fire

The Dharma King Sumeru, who founded the lineage of the 'Great Sumeru Temple', is a famous monk of great virtue in the Middle Ages of Buddhism, and the legal system he left behind, whether it is Zen martial arts or supernatural powers, alchemy, utensils, etc., all have an orthodox inheritance.

As the backbone of the younger generation of the Great Sumeru Temple, Shi Juewu is naturally quite valuable, and the brocade bag tied around his waist is called the 'mustard seed bag', which is taken from the allusion of the Buddhist scriptures that 'the Sumeru Mountain can be hidden in the meson', which looks like it is only a foot long, but it can actually fit the whole small half of the room.

In addition, there is another white cloth bag tied next to the mustard seed bag, called the 'human ding bag', which is made by imitating the famous Buddha 'human pocket' of the future Buddha, Maitreya Dazun, which can be filled with living things and immortal for many years, which is very magical.

At this time, since the enlightenment has returned to the west, the treasures left behind will naturally belong to the thirty-three.

I saw that after he untied the mustard seed bag and the human ding bag, he carefully searched the body of the enlightened person, and when he saw that there was nothing else, he let the body sink into the water, and climbed ashore naked.

After tying the temporarily useless human ding bag around his neck, he sat on the wet mud by the pond for thirty-three plates, unsealed the mustard seed bag, reached in, first took out bottles of pills and jade dew and placed them beside him, and then took out a jade box, a few Buddha treasures, many gold ingots, silver nuggets and other miscellaneous items.

After looking at all the gains, he fiddled with the Buddha treasures in front of him a few times, and saw that with his strength at the moment, he couldn't use it at all, and muttered regretfully in his mouth, "Whether you can escape from this barbaric island in the future depends on the mantle left by the ancient master and these Buddha treasures." Carefully put all the treasures back into the mustard seed bag,

After that, Thirty-Three picked up the gold and silver in his footsteps, and muttered: "According to legend, gold and silver in the mortal world can be exchanged for everything, and after escaping from the island, if you want to live a good life, you have to rely on them. The gold ingots, silver nuggets and other miscellaneous items were also put back into the mustard seed bag.

At this time, only the glass bottle and jade box containing the elixir and jade dew were left on the edge of the pool.

Thirty-three opened the box, and saw that there was a booklet made of silk cloth folded inside, and when he picked it up, he saw that there were several golden characters on the cover, and he couldn't help blurting out: "It's actually this exercise..."

As he spoke, he opened the silk book, flipped through it from beginning to end, and found that the recorded Xuan Gong was very wonderful, dividing the human body into eight parts: tendons, bones, skin, blood, marrow, viscera, skull, and **, each with its own special exercises, which were tempered at nine levels.

Those who are at the peak simply have the ability of the body to drive the mountains and the sea, and take the power of the sun and the moon.

It is a pity that the fragments of the enlightenment only record all the exercises of the first and second layers, the third layer only includes the techniques of refining the muscles, bones, and skin, and the fourth layer only contains the method of washing the marrow, and the rest are all lacking.

Thirty-three since he got the bone bowl and often made dragons and elephant visualizations, his wisdom has become far better than ordinary people, and he wrote down all the pictures and texts of the "Eight or Nine Xuangong Fragments" once and again, so after regretting it for a while, he put the scroll back into the jade box and put it in the mustard seed bag.

Then he took a look at a large pile of glass bottles close at hand, picked them up and opened them one by one, picked out the Do'er pills, green light dew, Breguet pills, etc. that he knew, and fed the rest to the fish in the middle of the pond to distinguish whether it was poisonous or not, and finally stored all the non-toxic pills and jade dew back in the mustard seed bag, and the poisonous things were buried deep in the ground.

After doing all this, Thirty-three carefully washed his body with the help of the pool water, grabbed the mustard seed bag in one hand and the bone bowl in the other, and said to himself, "People are naked, and they go naked, and I am now naked to worship the great master, wouldn't it be more honest." According to the indescribable guidance that rose in my mind from the beginning of entering Shandong, I walked into a fork in the road in the north of the pond.

In the darkness, he walked along the downward ramp for a whole day, feeling the heat and humidity coming, and couldn't help but drink a few drops of green dew to quench his thirst.

Walking forward again, the damp and hot air became heavier and heavier, and the thirty-three strong held on to their spirits, struggling to persevere, until they were about to lose their support, and finally saw a hazy red light floating in the distance, as if they had reached the end of the road.

With the last of his strength, he gritted his teeth soaking wet, rushed to the place where the red light emerged, and actually came out of the cave, and saw an incredible magnificent spectacle burst into his eyes.

In the thick fog, a deep black stone path with a width of several feet and a length of hundreds of feet separated a long underground river that was flowing endlessly and had no end in sight from the endless sea of fire formed by the underground magma.

In the center of the stone road, on the rock layer of the earth's crust that is as high as 1,000 zhang, a deep crack penetrates a ray of heavenly light, reflecting on the circumference of one side, naturally formed, like a red crystal in full bloom, emitting a faint red light.

Looking at the crystal red lotus from afar, thirty-three eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but chant a Buddha verse in his mouth, "Yesterday I even proved the Bodhi fruit, and today I sit in the red lotus in the fire!" Ecstatically walked up the stone path.

On one side is the cold river, on the other side is the scorching sea of fire, he staggered forward in the mist, it took half an hour to finally come to the red lotus, but unfortunately he climbed the crystal with difficulty, and after looking for a while, he found that there were no corpses, relics, monk's robes, or robes.

If it was someone else, I was afraid that I would be extremely disappointed at this time, but Thirty-three was not discouraged, frowned, sat cross-legged on the red lotus, felt the green dew and swallowed a few drops in a row, and thought about it calmly.

As soon as he settled down, he suddenly felt the sound of the river flowing in his ears, the sound of the sea of fire steaming, as if it had another meaning, a flash of spiritual light flashed in his heart, and Thirty-three suddenly realized: "The great virtue of the ancients, seeking great freedom, often taking heaven and earth as a room, the sun and the moon as lights, and the mountains, lakes and seas as clothes."

Is this mantle, the bowl is his own skull, and the clothes are afraid that this sea of fire, the river, the mountain wall and other things underground. ”

After guessing this joint, Thirty-three Changchang breathed a sigh of relief, rested for a while, swallowed many qi-nourishing pills in one go, and then closed his eyes, buckled the bone bowl upside down on the ceiling cover, and performed the only meditation method he could do, wiping the lotus platform.

Cutting off the distracting thoughts one by one, and gradually a murmuring voice sounded in his ears, "Shakyamuni Dazun has attained the right fruit and obtained ten thousand laws, cultivating and incarnating into nine deities, one is said to be a great day, two is said to be a dark day, and three days are angry Ming King Bodhisattva... These seven are all human portraits, and there are two foreign Taoist law ministers, called the mighty heavenly dragon and the wisdom treasure elephant..."

The Buddhist scripture that is recited in this murmur is called "Dragon Elephant Root Sutra", and if there is the word "root", it must be a great positive fruit, and the inheritance of great magical powers is undoubted, and it is natural to listen to the thirty-three as if you were fascinated.

I don't know how long it took, after he wrote down all the scriptures, he instinctively opened his eyes, and saw that in the mountains, among the clouds and mist, a dragon and a dragon were soaring and running, the texture of the mountain wall left and right, the boundless river in front of him, and the waves flowing through the volcano, all turned into mysterious magic seals, and fell into his eyes bit by bit.

Without thinking or knowing, the thirty-three hands knotted each other, and began to involuntarily imitate those Dharma seals to form hand seals, and at the same time, their minds naturally evolved from the Buddhist scriptures they had just written down, and all kinds of mysterious mental methods evolved.

Seeing that he had passed on to the Great Virtue Law System extremely smoothly, he didn't expect that after just forming a few handprints, Thirty-three's body, which could have been regarded as quite fat, had lost weight at a speed visible to the naked eye, and after a while, his bulging cheeks were towering and his cheekbones were towering, and he had become skinny and bone-like.

In fact, this is not surprising, the practice of Buddhism is originally heavy on the soul and neglects the body, and the ancient inheritance is even more so, so the most widely circulated sentence in the world will be, 'The body is originally a stinky skin, and it is made of rafts to cross the sea of suffering'.

In addition, the foundation of Zen martial arts in Thirty-three is too shallow, and his physique is only slightly stronger than that of ordinary people, and it is impossible to practice the "Dragon Elephant Root Sutra" in one fell swoop.