Chapter 15: Apprenticeship to the Black Nest
Zhang Xiaofan recited the spell given to him by Marshal Tianpeng, and the nine-toothed nail rake immediately turned into a four-inch bracelet and was worn on his hand.
Since Marshal Tianpeng's primordial spirit has run away, this pig demon is full of surging qi and blood, but it can't be wasted.
Zhang Xiaofan very simply lifted the body of the pig demon and came to the village with a snort.
In the village, there were more than 30 families, and when they saw that the pig demon who had just run away was held above the head by an eight-foot man, and carried it back, they were amazed and rushed over to take a look.
"This strong man, I don't know where he came from?" An old man came trembling and looked at his wrinkled skin, and he was afraid that he would not live for a few years.
"I am a wandering swordsman, and when I saw that there were people in Guibao Land, I came to ask for a glass of water. By the way, I killed a pig demon on the road and barbecued," Zhang Xiaofan laughed, pretending to be a chivalrous hero.
The old man was not suspicious, and thanked him: "The strong man is mighty, this pig demon was still wreaking havoc in my village in the morning, I didn't expect this to be removed by the strong man, it is really a great luck for my Li Jiazhuang." ”
The villagers of a village were all happy, beating gongs and drums, and welcomed Zhang Xiaofan into the village to rest.
Zhang Xiaofan took out the nine-tooth nail rake, turned it into a cow ear sharp knife, brushed it a few times, and gave the pig demon disembowelment and bones, and gave everything he didn't like to eat to the villagers, and more than ten catties of essence and blood, Zhang Xiaofan left it for himself.
That night, staying at the village chief's house, that is, the old man's house, Zhang Xiaofan roasted all the pork by himself and swallowed it in one go.
Zhang Xiaofan began to retreat after eating pork, and after a month, he came out of the customs, and the soybean-sized knot pill finally has a little golden light, and it is not far from Jindan Dacheng.
"It's a pity! Pity! ”
Zhang opened his mouth to put the golden pill in his abdomen, Zhang Xiaofan used his heart to contact the nine-tooth nail rake, and after the tempering of the Danhuo, it was driven to be more wishful.
The entry into the realm in a month is so great, it is completely dependent on the pig demon's qi and blood demon power. Now that there is no pork to supplement himself, Zhang Xiaofan suddenly regretted that he should have asked Marshal Tianpeng for a cultivation technique.
Now I can only rely on a copy of "Nine Turns of Xuangong" to grope forward.
At the end of the retreat, Zhang Xiaofan left the door and saw the old village chief holding a dry tobacco pouch, smoking non-stop.
"Village chief, do you have something to look for me?"
Zhang Xiaofan could see at a glance that this old man's face was embarrassed, and it seemed that this problem was not small.
"Strongman, to tell you the truth, our village is called Wusi Tibetan Country, which is the land of the setting of the moon, more than ten years ago, the heavens and the earth changed color, and suddenly there was a monster on a nearby mountain, and he paid tribute to the villages around us every day. There are thirty nearby cities, and each city needs to pay a tribute to a boy and a virgin every month. ”
When the old man said this, he wept emotionally, and his voice was sad: "Then the lord of the city will send this offering to our surrounding villages, and within a year, each village will hand it in. Now more than 20 children in my village have been eaten by the monster. ”
"It's a man-eating demon again!"
Zhang Xiaofan was furious when he heard this, but thinking that his strength was probably difficult to deal with even an ordinary little demon, I was afraid that he really couldn't help much.
"Yes, I don't know if the strong man has the magic to help us get rid of this monster," the old village chief burst into tears and looked sad.
It's a pity that Zhang Xiaofan can only refuse politely, after all, he knows his own strength, and after thinking about it, he said: "Village chief, it's not that I refuse to help, that monster must have a thousand-year-old Taoism after listening to your description." And I've only been cultivating for a few decades now, so how can I be his opponent. Why don't I go back to Middle-earth and visit the famous mountains. If you're lucky, maybe you can find some helpers and get rid of the demon again, what do you think? ”
The old village chief blinked his eyes, sighed, and left discouraged.
Zhang Xiaofan has decades of experience, so naturally he will not easily change his mind because of the village chief's disappointed expression, and the village chief has not described the strength of the monster to himself at all, and he is now just a small qi practitioner who has just entered the Jindan stage.
Since he couldn't help these people, Zhang Xiaofan very simply directly controlled the nine-tooth nail rake, turned into a silver light, and fled directly.
Just when Zhang Xiaofan left, from a nearby mountain peak, a white-haired giant demon suddenly flew out, looking like a girl and a man, mighty and extraordinary, and landed in the village, and the village chief of the village hurriedly walked out tremblingly.
"Lord Demon King, the Qi Practitioner from Middle Earth is in my house," where is the village chief still half sad at the moment, he is completely a traitorous villain.
"Very good, very good," the white-haired giant demon giggled, particularly infiltrating, the village chief was originally eager to make meritorious contributions, and ordered the letter incense given by the demon king, and suddenly felt that he might have made a big mistake.
The demon king didn't give him a chance to regret it, he turned around and roared, the village was only three hundred steps in a radius, and it was swept by a black wind, and the wooden houses fell one after another, and the people inside shouted horses, and they were swept by the black wind and flew towards the distant mountain peaks.
"Why is that?"
Before he died, the village chief only had time to let out a cry.
Only the white-haired giant demon bit off his head and washed away a piece of blood, and then he laughed strangely: "A mortal almost helped the king provoke an immortal, and if he doesn't eat you, can he still raise your eyeless thing......
Just when the white-haired giant demon took the breath left by Marshal Tianpeng as Zhang Xiaofan's breath, Zhang Xiaofan himself had already driven the nine-toothed nail rake over the mountains, landed on a cypress tree, and bowed to a Buddha.
The cypress tree is like a tower-shaped, there is firewood and grass to make the outfit, the vines are mixed with color, it is evergreen all the year round, the elk and the green luan surround the amphibious, and the crane and the white elephant cross their necks and sing for a long time.
Green, such a large nest; The fragrance is pervasive, and there are masters in the family.
The Zen master called himself Wuchao, and this realm is the border of Wusi Tibet, according to folk customs, this area is the place where the moon rests. The name of the Wuchao Zen Master shows his true face, which actually means that he is the god of the moon.
The Taoist god of the moon has Xihe in front and Yue'e in the back. And the god of the moon in Buddhism is the famous Bodhisattva of the moonlight.
The god of the moon is no surprise that he is a female bodhisattva.
The Moonlight Bodhisattva and the Sunlight Bodhisattva, as well as the Medicine King Buddha, are known as the three eastern saints of the Buddha realm, which means that the three of them are in the east of Xiniu Hezhou. Today, the Tibetan State of Wusi is located on the eastern edge of Xiniuhezhou, which meets this condition.
Zhang Xiaofan bowed head-on, and it was this moonlight Bodhisattva that he worshipped.
"Who are you, and why do you worship me?"
Now it is still daylight, and it is not the turn of this Wuchao Zen master to be on duty, so he is still resting in his firewood and grass nest, knowing that Zhang Xiaofan is coming from afar, but he doesn't want to see it, after all, this is just a small Middle-earth monk, and he can't look down on it at all.
"The disciple's surname is Zhang, his name is Xiaofan, he is from Middle Earth, he originally traveled all over the world, and he planned to meet a famous teacher, and after practicing, it is convenient to subdue demons and eliminate demons. When I meet a Bodhisattva today, I know that it is the creation that has come. So I don't dare not worship," Zhang Xiaofan said again, this is the etiquette learned in the fairy palace of "The King of Kung Fu".
When the Wuchao Zen Master heard Zhang Xiaofan's words, he was calculating for a long time in his heart, and was suddenly taken aback, and found that he couldn't calculate the origin of the man in front of him, and was secretly surprised: he has been famous for a long time, and as one of the three saints of the East in the Buddha world, his cultivation is not shocking, which is also rare in the world. Unexpectedly, the man under the tree couldn't even see through it, either someone was covering up the heavenly opportunity for him, or this was an outsider who jumped out of the way of heaven.
When the gods were in the Great War, there was a tribulation outsider who fell into the teachings, known as Yunzhongzi, with profound fortune, and others suffered three disasters and six tribulations, but this Yunzhongzi survived a catastrophe lightly, envying countless others.
"Well, since you and I met, it was also fate, and I accepted you as a disciple, but you have to keep in mind the rules in the door. If you violate it, even if you run to ten days and nine places, the teacher will have a way to find you and poke your bones and ashes! ”
Since Wuchao Zen Master noticed that Zhang Xiaofan was different, he naturally did not want to let him go, so he immediately accepted Zhang Xiaofan as his disciple, and talked about the three precepts and six taboos in the door: "Quit greed, abstain from delusion, abstain from wantonness, and avoid onions, ginger, garlic, geese, dogs, and turtles." ”
The six taboos in the back are things in food, Zhang Xiaofan only needs to pay attention to it in the future, but the three precepts in front: greed, delusion, and wanton are all things that go up to the heart.
The Wuchao Zen Master also said, "I have the [Mahaprajnaparamita Heart Sutra], a total of 54 sentences, 27 crosses, often recited, and my heart is at ease. ”
Zhang Xiaofan didn't expect that he would be treated with Tang Seng, so he quickly memorized it carefully, and he was diligent in remembering the fifty-four sentences, and he recited it silently, and he had taken root, and he would never forget it.
When Wuchao Zen Master taught the gist of the Heart Sutra again, Zhang Xiaofan raised his questions one by one, and before he knew it, it was sunset in the west, and it was time for this Wuchao Zen Master to go on a parade, so that his new apprentice went to rest first, and he stepped into the stars, and ran the heavenly reincarnation with the stars.
The Makprajnaparamita Heart Sutra is also called the Paramita Heart Sutra, which is a transliteration.
The original meaning of 'Magaprajnaparamita' is the meaning of Cihang Pudu.
It's just that Cihang is synonymous with Guanyin, and this Wuchao Zen master disdains to use the name of Guanyin, and simply uses transliteration to be famous for his Heart Sutra.
In fact, this is the Moonlight Bodhisattva's version of the [Cihang Pudu Heart Sutra].
Knowing what this thing is, it is much easier to understand the meaning of it, which mainly talks about the method of Buddhist Mahayana teachings, the practice is simple, even ordinary people only need to recite a thousand times, they will have their own experience, often recited, even in the face of stones, you can understand some truths.
Zhang Xiaofan has the cultivation method of "Nine Turns Xuangong", and now he has this [Paramita Heart Sutra] to maintain his state of mind, and his cultivation is naturally a thousand miles a day. In just a hundred years, under the teaching of Wuchao Zen Master, he has reached the realm of the golden body Arhat, that is, the true immortal period of Taoism, and the Nine Turns Xuangong has also reached the second level, and it has made some progress.
"The master leads the door, and the cultivation is personal. Apprentice, your cultivation is already ready to become a teacher, so let's go," Zen Master Wuchao's teaching to Zhang Xiaofan over the years can be regarded as hard work, but he has never been able to detect the difference between Zhang Xiaofan.
The only doubt is that this apprentice rescued Marshal Tianpeng, the second disciple of the golden cicada scheduled by the Buddha, and now Tang Seng still lacks an apprentice, and now his apprentice does not fill in this pit, I am afraid that he will have to have a dispute with Guanyin Bodhisattva.
In that case, just let him go to the world and have a look, and it will be up to him to be created.
Zhang Xiaofan has practiced for a hundred years, and unconsciously has developed a master-apprentice relationship with Wuchao Zen Master, not that he admires the master, but that this Zen master occasionally changes his true body and travels all over the world.
This Wuchao Zen Master naturally has nothing cute now, but once he turns into a moonlight bodhisattva, he will wear Yingluo, dressed up with flowers and branches, cherry lips and bright lips, delicate cheeks, phoenix eyes with majesty, a black and green silk beautiful and supple, as for the figure, needless to say, the skin is as white as jade, and every move has great charm.
If this moonlight bodhisattva is not amazing, Zhang Xiaofan feels that this is not a bodhisattva, but a wealthy young woman.
"Go ahead! Go ahead! ”
The old Zen master didn't know what was dirty in his apprentice's heart, and if he knew, he would be afraid of death with a slap, and where would he accept him as an apprentice.