In the desert of the Buddha country, there is a cave in the huge sand dune Buddha cave.

Song Gang and I stood next to the huge broken head of the Buddha statue on the ground, looking at the everlasting lantern still burning in the dust, and our hearts were shocked.

Around this Buddha hall, a group of huge Arhat Bodhisattvas stand. The body is tall, and strangely, the heads of the Arhat Bodhisattvas are all broken.

"How can there be no head, except for the head of this Buddha statue, the rest are gone." Song Gang looked at the headless Arhat Bodhisattva statue in the Buddha hall and said.

"What do you mean that the Buddhas have no heads?" I muttered. "Is it implying that Buddhism has no head? If you come to become a ghost? Otherwise, who has such a deep hatred for Buddhism, and who would have such a high level of skill to destroy Buddhism? ”

Song Gang and I searched in the Buddha hall for a while, but we didn't find anything unusual.

Song Gang said: "If so many sand dunes are all former Buddhist temples, it is understandable that we can't find anything here. ”

I said, "Don't forget that we heard a whimper at the door when we came, if it wasn't for someone doing a ghost, then there must be a passage here, and if the ever-bright light is not extinguished, it must mean that there is air here, otherwise it would have been extinguished long ago." ”

"Then I'll go back to the door and see if the wind is still there." Song Gang said.

After Song Gang finished speaking, he turned around and walked out of the Buddha hall. Walk to the same path where we came.

And I continued to look in this Buddha hall to see if there was any mechanism with the outside world, there was no wind in it, it didn't make sense of reason, I picked up the everlasting lamp on the ground, the candle flame flickered, I blew away the dust on it, and saw the date under the lamp base, the sixty-seventh year of the Buddha's calendar.

"Sixty-seven years of the Buddha's calendar?" I pondered in my heart, in the sixty-seventh year of the Buddhist calendar, it should have been after Wu Zetian's death, but it was still the Tang Dynasty, and this lamp was made at that time. That is to say, at least 67 years after the establishment of the Buddha Kingdom, there has not been that great tribulation.

I don't know what this means, the Buddha Kingdom has always had something to do with the Buddha Caves, it has something to do with the Qianling Tomb of the Tang Dynasty, and it has something to do with the ghost Rulai and Wu Zetian, but I can't figure out the strange things.

A moment later. Song Gang turned back and said, "You can still hear the wind outside, but you can't find the source of the wind." ”

"Let's go out and have a look." I said and walked out with Song Gang, but after just a few steps I felt that something was wrong, this was not the way we came.

I opened my yin and yang eyes and looked at Song Gang, only to realize that this was an old monk in monk's robes, and my divine consciousness was extended. I saw that outside the cave, Song Gang was fighting with many ancient monks at the door, these monks had long hair and long nails, but their faces were rotten.

If you guess correctly, it should be that after some old monks with profound Buddhism were stoned to death, their bodies did not decay in a specific environment, and they began to undergo corpse transformation, causing their hair to grow crazy and their nails to grow out.

The old monk at the moment exudes a faint Buddha nature, but he can't hide the corpse qi on his body, he must be a master.

"Wang Yang, hurry up and come out, there is danger here!" Song Gang shouted outside the cave.

I pretended not to hear, and walked with the old monk until I reached the end, and I saw a small space full of corpses hanging, and some Buddhist vessels and monk's robes were hanging on the wall.

In this space, there were scattered Zen rods and Buddhist wooden fish, and more were bones, and a huge skeleton sat on the top, with a faint green flame in its eyes.

The old monk turned around, and he had returned to his original appearance, and there was no good meat on his face, it was rotten like wood, and it looked withered and hard.

The old monk saw that I was standing calmly in front of him and was not afraid at all, he yelled and pounced on me, I flicked my fingers, and the old monk flew out upside down, now I am the body of the soul, the natural evil demon does not invade, the ghoul is not close, the Buddha nature of the old monk caused him not to completely become a ghoul, so he didn't feel the breath on my body, just wanted to eat me.

People turn into corpses, the most instinctive physiological behavior is to eat, devour flesh and blood to replenish energy, I looked at the old monk and said: "Are you still conscious, what happened back then?" ”

The old monk did not say a word, but struggled and pounced on me again, and I popped my fingers again, pinning him to the wall, and several human ribs were inserted into his hard flesh, nailing him to the wall and unable to move.

My consciousness invaded his brain and found an obscure gray gas in his brain, and I erased the gas from his brain.

The old monk's eyes had decayed, but his stiff expression had obviously regained a bit of clarity, and he looked at me and said, "You are a contemporary Dao Venerable?" ”

I said, "Yes, who were you when you died?" ”

The old monk said: "Old Xuanhai is the host of this Huangyan Temple, I don't know how many years have passed now?" ”

I said, "More than 1,200 years." ”

The old monk Xuanhai said: "I didn't expect that after so many years, thousands of years, the oil has not run out, the lamp has dried up, the sea of bitterness is boundless, and the old man is extremely evil." “

"What the hell is going on in the Buddha Kingdom?" I asked.

The old monk Xuanhai shook his head and said: "I don't know this, when the Buddha Kingdom was established, the Empress Wu migrated a large number of monks to the Buddha Kingdom, and wanted to gather the faith of thousands of monks to establish an unprecedented Yunhai Heavenly Palace." ”

"Yunhai Heavenly Palace?" I wondered in my heart, there has never been any record of Yunhai Heavenly Palace in history.

The old monk Xuanhai said: "At that time, the old man was still young, he was only fifteen years old when he entered the Buddha country, and he became the host of the Huangyan Temple after a few decades, but one day, the news of the death of the martial queen came from the court, and several Buddhist masters discussed together, and wanted to go back to worship and worship, only to know that the passage of the Buddha country was blocked, and no one went out, and no one could say what the specific situation was. ”

"What happened next?" I asked.

The old monk fell into the memory, and said after a while: "The later things are too terrible, the people in the temple will go crazy every day for no reason, bite people indiscriminately, the people of the Buddha country are panicked, and later, the lord of the Buddha country, the Sanzang master passed away, who knew that he actually had a corpse mutiny that day, slaughtered many people, including some great monks, but I was not present at the time, and the specific situation is not very clear, and later, there were signs of manifestation in the Buddha country, saving the common people from fire and water, everyone sought after, and the Buddha followed, If the Buddha said that all the people who commit rebellion are the actions of an incarnation of Maitreya Buddha, and ask everyone to find out the reincarnation of Maitreya Buddha and kill him, and the corpse disease will be cured. ”

"What is this about Maitreya Buddha?" I'm really puzzled.

In Buddhism, the ancient Buddha is called the Buddha of the past, the Buddha of the modern era, the Buddha of Maitreya is the Buddha of the future, and it is rumored in Buddhism that the Buddha of the next Buddha is the Buddha of Maitreya.

Among later scholars, Maitreya's Buddha has always been a controversial existence, because the Buddha is an immortal god, so there is no need for the so-called successor, but the ancient Buddha disappeared and became the master of the Buddha realm, and the successor of the next generation of relics is Maitreya, which itself is somewhat contradictory.

Some scholars believe that Shakyamuni Buddha is the first person in the Buddhist family, and his incarnation is the past, present and future three Buddhas, who are the same person, but the incarnations are different, so they are all immortal, and there is no one who inherits whom.

The dream of immortality has been longed for and pursued by human beings since ancient times, but there is no one who is truly immortal.

The so-called immortality, in a general sense, is to live with heaven and earth, immortal and immortal.

Scientifically speaking, it's growth stagnation.

However, in ancient myths and legends, children born to fairy couples were born immortals, but they are still growing up, and it seems that they can ignore the rules of nature.

Within heaven and earth, whether it is a man, a ghost, a demon or a god, the rules of nature are above everything and the existence of the rules is overridden, and the power that violates the rules, no matter how strong it is, it will be erased by nature, the world is infinite, and against heaven and earth, no one will end well.

And this disaster in the Buddha country began with the struggle for the Buddha's divine position?

I can't figure out what's going on. Circumferential claw carrying.

The old monk Xuanhai shook his head and said: "This old man doesn't know, he only knows that in the disaster of Buddhism, many people died, and the people of the Buddha Kingdom wanted to contact the Empress Wu and let her open the door of the Buddha Kingdom to the outside world, but there was no news for a long time, until the old man died, and he didn't know anything about it." ”