"Boom!"

In the early morning after the Buddha viewing meeting, the first bell rang in the Pure Industry Temple.

The branches of the ginkgo tree in the backyard no longer have a few golden leaves, and its golden yellow is given to the ground.

The morning exercise in the temple has begun, and all the rooms are busy.

In front of the side door of the temple, all the disciples in the sweeping room stood in a row, and in front of them stood an old man and a young man.

"Master's kindness, the disciple can't repay it. Jingye looked at the master in front of him with red eyes and said in a trembling voice.

"Taking care of yourself is to repay the kindness to the teacher. You have to bring the wooden bead bracelet that you gave to your teacher, and remember not to take it off. Also, reviewing the mantras every day will be of great benefit to your Buddhist skills. Master Jinghai smiled slightly, and did not forget to remind. Although the voice is caring, it is more about the love for the little apprentice.

"I will live up to my master's orders!" Jingye imprinted every word that the master said in his heart, and looked at the master's old appearance without squinting, and he replied heavily.

"Little junior brother, if there are too many, the senior brothers will not say anything. You must take good care of yourself, come back often, and if you encounter difficulties that cannot be solved, come to your brothers. At this time, the second senior brother Jingchen stood up and said softly with red eyes. He is the strictest person in all of them for purification, and he is also the one who cares about him the most. But at this point, there wasn't much he could do.

"In the past five years, thank you brothers for taking care of me!" The voice kept vibrating.

"Plop. ”

Facing the master and the brothers, Jingye knelt down, and then bowed down.

"Senior brother!" Seeing this, all the senior brothers were uncomfortable.

"Knock, knock, knock!"

"Master, senior brother, Jingye is gone!" After three bows, Jingye got up and looked at them and said in a deep voice.

"Go ahead. "Master Jinghai's two words are gentle, I don't know how heavy they are at this time. Although it is not life and death, who can watch their children face this world alone in the future.

Jingye turned around abruptly and strode away. He was afraid that if he didn't leave, he wouldn't have the courage to leave.

The figure that is gradually moving away is like a distant bell. The figure in front of the door also stood for a long time, looking ahead.

Since then, there has been no pure industry monk in the Pure Industry Temple, cleaning the golden place in the backyard.

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The season is gradually entering late autumn, and the woods on the mountain are mostly dry, but they are still evergreen from a distance, but they do not enter the mountain forest, and there is no close-up view.

Dressed in gray cloth and carrying a small burden, he walked in the mountains. He did not carry a weapon, nor did he hang Buddhist beads, except for the wooden bead bracelet on his left hand.

According to the rules, expelled monks are not allowed to take anything that belongs to the temple. But after all, Jingye is a disciple of the sweeping house, and these rules are not too strict with him. However, what Jingye didn't know was that the news of his expulsion would become an after-dinner chat among the people in Chang'an City from today onwards. It wasn't a big deal, he never cared about that. Expulsion is equivalent to forced repatriation, and there are not a few monks who have been expelled from the world. The only thing that makes people feel a headache is that wherever you go, you will be looked at by others twice, and the mouth of this world is very annoying.

The journey down the mountain is long, but it won't take long for pure karma. In a hurry, he soon came to the foot of the mountain, only a hundred meters away from the city gate.

"It's going down. The familiar ethereal voice suddenly remembered in the ears of Pure Industry.

When Pure Karma heard this, he knew that the Nine Sages were behind him. Looking back, sure enough, the handsome Nine Sages stood on a large rock very close to him, smiling at himself.

"I've seen the Nine Sages. "Jingye originally wanted to hold his palm and perform the Buddha ceremony, but after thinking about it, he still leaned over and hugged his fists.

"Well, yes, the way you look now, except for the lack of hair, I'm very happy with everything else. How is it, how does it feel to be suddenly unbound by the Qing rules?" the Nine Sages tapped lightly at their feet, and came to the pure industry with a smile.

"I didn't feel anything, I just suddenly felt bright. I have a matter that I have not been clear, and I hope that the nine sages will point it out. Jingye shook his head, looked at the Nine Sages and said. Although he said that he didn't feel anything, from the moment he stepped out of the temple gate, I felt that there was a seal or shackle in the depths of my soul, broken.

Say. ”

"I've never met a sage, why did my predecessors have to help me a few times?" Pure karma has always been very strange, although he may have been unintentional when he saved himself for the first time, but yesterday's action was really deliberate, a sage with an incomparably noble status, why is it so?

"Master Pure Sea didn't tell you that you were asked to come to the academy to practice?"

"Master said. Jingye looked downward and said softly, he felt sad when he thought of Master.

"Then do you know why he asked you to come to the academy to practice?" The Nine Sages glanced at the pure karma with a look of expression that became a little sad, and said softly.

Jingye was silent for a while and said, "Enter the world to practice." "He can't tell the Nine Sages to take revenge for his convenience.

"It's kind of one of the goals, but it's not the main thing. To enter the academy to practice, you must first become an ordinary disciple of the academy. You can only be admitted to the hospital and seek your own teacher only if you have passed various assessments and finally have an excellent ranking. To put it simply, you came to the academy to apprentice!" The Nine Sages thought for a while and said, he has always been free and easy in the academy, he does not interfere in anything, and he probably only has an impression of the affairs of the academy.

"What does the sage mean, is it for me to worship you as a teacher?" Hearing this, he understood the meaning of the Nine Sages in an instant, and it turned out that he wanted to accept himself as an apprentice.

"Yes, this seat sees that your qualifications are good, and you meet the conditions of the heir of this seat, otherwise this seat will save you twice, and you will really be panicked. The Nine Sages said with satisfaction, this kid finally understood.

"I refuse. Just when the Nine Sages were still quite beautiful in their hearts, the three words of Pure Industry suddenly made the Nine Sages not know what to say in an instant.

"Good boy... Do you know what you're talking about!" The Nine Sages were very unhappy in their hearts because of the refusal of Pure Karma, what kind of identity do I have? You dare to refuse me in front of me! Looking at how many people in the entire Tang Kingdom want to ask for their own guidance, it is as difficult as picking stars from the sky, you are better to reject me directly!

"I'm sorry Sage, but I already have a Master, so I can't be apprenticed here. Pure Karma knew that he would offend the terrible sage in front of him, but he still had to say it. How can one disciple have two masters?

"Foolish, foolish. How do you cultivate the Buddha's mind, and what about your wisdom roots? Cultivate all the way, and the one who reaches the level is the teacher. If you have only one master in your life, I dare say that you will not achieve anything in this life at all! In the path of cultivation, there are thousands of paths, and people have their strengths and rulers. What you have to learn is everyone's strengths!" The Nine Sages listened to the words of Pure Karma again, it was a rage, they tossed a lot, and they were about to deceive this kid, which is good, you kid is a dead brain.

"Uh... Isn't it unfilial piety for an apprentice to worship two masters? Jingye was scolded by the Nine Sages, and he was also a little embarrassed, he really didn't expect that the Nine Sages in front of him with an extraordinary temperament, handsome and elegant, would be like a shrew scolding the street at the moment because of himself.

"Unfilial piety is that you worship the master, but you are ashamed of the master, disappoint the master, and embark on a crooked path. What does it have to do with how many masters you have worshipped? Each master has his own strengths and weaknesses, and you, as an apprentice, should learn from each other's strengths and complement each other's weaknesses and follow the rules of the master's door. If you still feel guilty about worshipping other masters, then you should go back to the Pure Industry Temple and ask Master Pure Sea now to see how he answers. The Nine Sages also realized that they were a little excited, and endured to suppress the anger in their hearts, trying their best to keep themselves from losing their grace.

"That's not necessary, how can the words of the Sage be unreasonable! Then I have entered the academy, as long as I defeat the others, I can worship the Sage as a teacher?"

Jingye had already guessed in his heart that his master and the nine sages must have reached an agreement, otherwise how could one push me away and the other pick me up.

"Don't think too easily, the Sage Academy is not as simple as you think, in addition to the Tang Kingdom, outstanding young monks from all over the world will also come to the Academy. If you want to stand out at the end, it's very difficult. And you remember, there are a total of nine sages in the academy, and there is also a dean, you can't trust anyone except me, no matter what they say to you, you can't listen to anything!" The nine sages glanced at the pure karma, and couldn't help but feel a little funny in their hearts, this kid really thought that this road was very simple? But at the end of the Nine Sages' words, they were very serious.

"Why is this?" Pure Karma frowned, except for the Nine Sages, he couldn't trust anyone else? Pure Karma was puzzled, weren't they all sages?

"When you officially worship me as a teacher, I will naturally tell you. Remember, what you want to do, you need to have a lot of power in your hands! Your current enemy is already targeting you, so you don't have much time to waste. On the way down, be careful with yourself, wait for you in the academy for the teacher, prospective apprentice, don't let the teacher down. The Nine Sages didn't answer the question of Pure Karma, but just looked at the city of Chang'an, and then the figure of the Nine Sages disappeared in front of Pure Karma, leaving only their own ethereal voices.

"Huh, prospective apprentice? Jingye exhaled, a little amused by the character of the Nine Sages, compared to those old-fashioned people, he liked the temperament of the Nine Sages.

After sighing about the cultivation of the Nine Sages, Pure Ye saw that there was a small brown burden left on the stone where the Nine Sages were standing.

Pure karma stepped forward, took off the burden and opened it. Inside was a lot of silver and a blue ring, and a note.

When I opened the note, there was a paragraph left inside: Boy, there is a fee for signing up for the academy, which is five hundred taels, which is enough for you to sign up and buy some of your own items. There is also this thunder ring, there is a room in the ring, you use your spiritual power to urge the thunder ring, you can store the items, this is as a gift from me to you. Boy, don't let me lose my money, or I'll slap you to death!

"Heh, this word... It's ugly. However, the greeting gift is atmospheric enough. Since you believe in me so much, I won't disgrace you no matter what I say. Jingye smiled, his luck was really good.

With the ring and the burden hanging around his waist, Jingye strode towards the city gate. The pure karma of not using this kind of ring habitually does his usual actions, but he doesn't know his habits, and he has planted a cause.

After bidding farewell on the mountain, the sixteen-year-old young man stepped into this dusty world for the first time since entering the temple. He didn't know what his future would bring, now he just wanted to know who killed that Hualou opera and where the body was.

He held a glimmer of hope in his arms and entered Chang'an.