Chapter Thirty-Seven: Shifting Shapes
Zheng Yan felt dizzy for a while, his consciousness was torn apart, shattered into an unknown number of pieces, very painful, and he couldn't give birth to the idea of convergence! Is this the bad influence that the Dingzhen monk said? Will he really become an idiot? No, it will cause trouble for Yingyue Xinluo!
Suddenly, the fragments of consciousness began to gather, converging towards a woman in white who suddenly appeared, it was Yingyue! Zheng Yan finally breathed a sigh of relief, it's always good to have you. Ying Yue opened her arms, and the next moment she gently hugged Zheng Yan into her arms, her smile was still so sweet, her eyes were full of love, and she kissed her gently, Zheng Yan suddenly felt very shy, Ying Yue had never kissed herself like this!
"Amitabha", a huge Buddha voice came, Ying Yue suddenly began to slowly dissipate, and finally the warm fragrance on his lips disappeared Zheng Yan was full of loss for a while, a little annoyed by the Buddha sound, and then saw the Dingzhen monk sitting with his eyes closed in front of him, how could his eyes be full of golden light? Looking around in confusion, it turned out that he was wrapped in a Buddha's golden body, and then there were all kinds of ghosts outside, opening his teeth and dancing claws to scratch this golden body.
The golden body began to melt into Zheng Yan's body, and white light emitted out, and countless yin spirits began to scream and flee frantically, it was really that Zheng Yan's yang energy was too strong now, and the yin spirits were burned while running, making a "sneer" sound, and the Dingzhen monk pointed at Zheng Yan's eyebrows, and Zheng Yan's vigorous yang energy began to converge and return.
"Has anything changed, or is there any special feeling?", Monk Dingzhen asked curiously.
Zheng Yan felt a little embarrassed for a while, it was true that there was no change, and he didn't feel anything, he thought about it and asked curiously, "Did there be a banshee named 'Jingfeng' in the Nine Heavenly Demons under Lu Yin's seat back then?" Mu Hanyang gave me a chance to meet that woman, and finally the woman rushed over, I don't know what happened, by the way, why did his divine thoughts react to me? It's been more than 2,000 years, and it doesn't make sense to recognize people now, right? And he seems to know that it will be the Zheng clan who will be influenced by his divine thoughts", Zheng Yan was full of questions,
Dingzhen smiled and said, "Let's talk about it one by one, first of all, about the woman called 'Jingfeng', there is indeed such a person, named Mu Jingfeng, there is still a legend of her during the Millennium War, but I don't know where she is now, and she may have soared, after all, it was already the realm of heavenly demons two thousand years ago, and it is said that this woman has the bloodline of the phoenix, but she was abandoned by her parents because she was snow-white when she was born, and was adopted by a crow spirit in the Taihua Mountains, this crow spirit is Mu Hanyang's mother, if Mu Jingfeng is still alive, she may still be in Taihua",
Zheng Yan felt a little anxious in his heart, just as the monk Dingzhen said, whether it is cultivation or talent, this woman named Mu Jingfeng is very likely to have indeed soared, and the things entrusted by Mu Hanyang are estimated to be yellow, speaking of which, this woman actually has the same name as Sister Jingfeng, wait, Sister Pingyang, won't it? The two of them have not dealt with each other for so many years, it can't be because of the influence of their names? After all, Mu Jingfeng lost her lover under Pingyang Pass two thousand years ago.
Monk Dingzhen naturally didn't know Zheng Yan's nonsense, and continued, "As for why Mu Hanyang's divine thoughts reacted to you, this old man can't say, it's true that he is waiting for the Zheng clan, but as far as the old man knows, there are five Zheng clan people who have come here in the past three hundred years, but none of them have appeared in today's scene, maybe it's fate, no matter how good a person is, it is impossible for a person who understands the mysteries to see the specific things two thousand years later."
"In short, thank you Gongzi for untying the knot in the patriarch's heart, and also helping Mu Hanyang to have a result, his fate is over, although it is not my Buddha protector, but it is undoubtedly my Pure Ring Temple protector, so I still have to thank Gongzi."
Zheng Yan hurriedly waved his hand, just don't let himself compensate for the destruction of the statue.
Just as the two were sitting in the side hall chatting, two people came up from the hill outside the temple, and one of the young women saw that the light face of the ginkgo forest behind them suddenly became vivid, and she couldn't help but let out a soft sigh, "It's so beautiful!"
The old man next to him was carrying something wrapped in a flower cloth, like a pipa, and said with a smile, "The pink peach blossoms and ginkgo biloba gold leaves in the Jingjie Temple are very famous, but it's a pity that they can't be seen in one season."
The woman smiled playfully and said, "The peach is dying, scorching its bloom, it should be splendid in the spring, the apricot is clear, the charm is graceful, and the autumn complements it best",
The old man smiled kindly and said softly, "Legend has it that among the goblins who followed the demon king Lu Yin, there was a peach demon who had attained the Tao for many years and a ginkgo demon who had also practiced well, they were originally a husband and wife, but the demon king was defeated, and the husband and wife were both killed here, so they turned into these two peach forests and ginkgo forests."
The woman's face was full of pity and sadness, and then she said hatefully, "The surname Zheng is the worst."
The old man shook his head helplessly, looking at the temple under the mound with some worry, and the woman looked at it in her eyes and chuckled, "Grandpa will also worry about the safety of others?"
The old man shook his head and said softly, "The Pure Land of Buddhism, it shouldn't be stained with blood."
The woman pursed her lips quietly.
Outside the Jingjie Temple, a graceful woman in colorful clothes walked out, with a slender waist and hips, and a beautiful muscle, and more special is that she actually held a pink flower umbrella, the pattern on the umbrella surface is a rare oleander, the autumn rain has stopped last night, although there are still a lot of lead clouds in the sky now, but basically it will not rain anymore, and the woman's behavior is a little peculiar.
The woman walked to the door and leaned the flower umbrella on her shoulder, revealing a delicate face that is rare here, the corners of her mouth turned up to make the whole person more charming, raised her hand and knocked on the temple door, the color sleeves faded, revealing a bright wrist like frost and snow, white dazzling, with some weirdness.
Juechen opened the door and saw the woman outside the door, his pupils couldn't help but tighten, and he hesitated for a moment and asked, "What's the matter with the girl?"
The woman looked aggrieved and said softly, "Little woman Luo Hongliang, I was going to Pingyang with my family, I was attacked by bandits on the road three days ago and separated from my family, and now I am living in the wilderness, hungry and cold, I want to rest in your temple, I wonder if the master can make it convenient?"
Juechen said seriously, "Please forgive me, my temple does not accept women, if you need to eat the little monk to fetch it for the girl, after eating there is a village about ten miles to the east, the girl can go there to rest, if the physical strength is no problem, then go ten miles east is the post road, there are often Xuanwu cavalry patrols, I want to protect the girl's safety, the girl don't use charm anymore, the little monk still has this concentration",
The woman was a little embarrassed, and smiled helplessly, "You monk is incomprehensible, most women in the world are poor people, can't you be a monk and have a little pity?
A golden body suddenly appeared on Juechen's body, the branches were bounced open, and the woman's face changed and she floated back.
Suddenly walked into the Buddhist hall a young man in purple, the man was moderate, ordinary and slightly smaller, completely the appearance of a passerby, if it weren't for this gorgeous purple brocade suit, no one would have looked at it; followed by a graceful woman wearing a cyan suit, if Juechen was here, he would definitely find that the woman's face was exactly the same as the woman called Luo Hongliang at the door, just a cold one and a little charming, the woman in Tsing Yi also held a green umbrella in her hand, but she didn't hold it like the woman at the door.
The old monk sitting on the threshold of the side hall was originally drowsy, but after the two walked into the Buddhist hall, he slowly raised his eyelids and looked at the visitor with some scarelessness.
The man in purple stood with his hands in his hands and looked at the side hall with a smile, the woman in Tsing Yi had already pulled out a thin sword from the handle of the umbrella and stabbed straight towards the old monk on the threshold, the old monk's face did not change, but he spit out the word "shapeshift", and the next moment the three of them appeared in the courtyard, the man in purple finally changed his face and began to look at the old monk seriously,
The old monk held the broom and said a word without hurrying, "change the shadow", and the next moment two people appeared out of thin air in the open space between the two sides, a man and a woman, and the two people on the opposite side were the same, and the ornaments were the same, and the atmosphere was very strange for a while.
Zheng Yan, who witnessed the whole process, was a little surprised and couldn't close his mouth, and muttered, "I thought this magic power was just a legend."
The monk Dingzhen on the side smiled and said, "Senior Brother Ding'an also realized it by chance, I thought that with the knowledge of the son, I should have seen it."
Zheng Yan shook his head and said, "I always hide this kind of mysterious supernatural power, saying that I want us to explore it ourselves."
Dingzhen thought about it and nodded, "It should be so, the supernatural power is not more than the exercises, it is more about the need for the practitioner to understand it himself, extracted from the Tao, if you see too much of others, you may form a stereotype, not everyone can easily break the stereotype, even if it is broken, it will be affected, and can not make a more meaningful breakthrough, the Zheng family can stand for three thousand years, it may lie in the pride of their own broken boat",
Zheng Yan said with a smile, "It is also because there will always be ups and downs, no more than those families that have been inherited for a longer time, although it has been gentle, it has never reached the point of being in a desperate situation",
Dingzhen shook his head and said, "The world has metabolism, and it has come and gone from ancient to modern, although Lao Wei has not seen the families that Gongzi said, but he can also imagine their dullness and even coldness, and the cost of maintaining vitality for a long time is very large, and the Taoist retreat is long for a hundred years or as short as decades, and many people can't get out of the test for a lifetime, what is the benefit to the world?
Zheng Yan thought for a while and said softly, "It's really boring enough, the abbot is a monk who wants Hongchen to prosper, but...", I didn't know how to describe it for a while,
The monk Dingzhen smiled and said, "The monk and the world are like fish and water, the more prosperous the world, the more smooth the monk's path, but everything has a degree",
When the two spoke, the four people in the courtyard were already fighting together, two of the same men in purple were opponents of each other, and their subordinates were all killing moves, showing the style of high-level killers, and the same was true for the two women in green clothes, and the old monk had already opened a golden canopy for the four of them, so that the battle that should have been electric and flint could only be limited to the realm of ten zhang square.
Juechen at the door just resisted the branches and flower umbrellas of the woman in colored clothes, and never took the initiative to attack, when the old monk suddenly appeared between the two of them when he was in a stalemate, and the next moment the woman in colored clothes also entered the golden canopy, and the opponent was also "himself", and soon the three of them fell into a bitter battle, and after a while they were already scarred, even if they were mutually reinforced, they could not cooperate with each other.
The abbot of Dingzhen has returned to the side hall, only Zheng Yan who is standing at the door of the Buddha hall under the canopy in the courtyard carefully watched the battle of the three of them, Juechen is standing at the door and facing outwards as if waiting for someone, the old monk has begun to sweep up the fallen leaves in the courtyard.
The young woman on the mound not far away was full of anxiety, seeing that the grandfather next to her had been indifferent and a little annoyed, but she knew that her grandfather was not the kind of person who could easily talk and move, so she had to sulk in her life.
The old man looked at his granddaughter and said helplessly, "This mission was originally just to deal with those employers, followed by those two, or three, why have you not done it?" In order to let us experience this eighth prince, or grandpa has already run away with you, and has been bumped into by that Zheng Nanzhu before, can you let us go if you don't suffer a little hardship or sell some strength? Don't worry, have you ever seen a monk kill someone?" Ma Le and the Luo sisters have good qualifications, and they can grow up quickly after more tricks with masters, grandpa knows that you are close to Ma Le, and he doesn't like him to revolve around the Luo sisters, grandpa said something you don't like to hear, be a killer, you must not find a peer as a partner, in addition, Ma Le obviously wants to take the two sisters together, and if you are tired of playing and kick it away, you will be impetuous, arrogant, and arrogant, you will not be tempered, and sooner or later you will have to suffer,
The young woman's mouth snorted coldly, but her face changed.
The three of them were transferred from the temple to the outside of the gate, already covered in blood and dying, and the gate was closed by Juechen.
A man wrapped in a black robe appeared on the mound, and the old man with the pipa on his back instantly protected his granddaughter behind him.
The black-robed man said indifferently, "Take your people away, Zheng Nanzhu and Taifeng are coming, I won't stop them if they want to kill you when the time comes, and I will remind you again, the list of Yunke's twelve Tiangang killers has long been lying in the file division of Sedum Prison and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, next time I think of Da Zhou, it's best to send your earth demons and human killers",
The old man didn't think about whether the black-robed man said "don't stop" was unstoppable or unwilling to stop, as long as he knew that this person would not deal with himself and his granddaughter now, as for the list, it was unexpected, he bowed and wrapped his granddaughter and quickly walked towards the gate of the temple, and then flew away to the west with the four of them,
The black-robed man glanced at Zheng Yan, who was standing in the courtyard and talking to the sweeping old man, and his originally indifferent eyes under the face towel were a little surprised and thoughtful.
Zheng Yan didn't ask the old monk about the shape-shifting magic he had just cast, he first thanked him, and then asked about the repair of the damaged floor tiles, the old monk explained that he was going to a small brick kiln behind the temple to re-fire some bricks, Zheng Yan wanted to help, Juechen walked out of the hut at the door, followed by a delicate little novice, about twelve or thirteen years old, saying that he asked Jue Lin to take Zheng Yan there.
The little novice is called Jue Lone, quiet and solemn all the time with his hands folded, looking very monk-like, and so on with Zheng Yan out of the backyard on the original form revealed, jumping up and throwing his arms, while laughing and Zheng Yan said about burning bricks, Zheng Yan smiled and asked a lot of questions, the little monk is very lively, there are questions to answer and intersperse some daily trivial things, I want to come to usually few people come, it is a lively age, no matter how the ancient Buddha is green all day long, it is difficult to erase the innocent nature, which reminds Zheng Yan of his younger brothers.
The two went out of the backyard and took two baskets by the way, and then turned straight to the south, walked about a mile or more to a mud pond within a radius of two or three miles, Jue Lin said that they wanted to dig glue, so the two took off their shoes and rolled up their trouser legs and went down to the mud pond, Jue Lin first dug out a piece for Zheng Yan to remember the texture, and then went their own way.
Now the ground has not frozen, the mud pond is cold and biting and the suction force is very great, Zheng Yan saw Jue Lone's relaxed appearance and asked him curiously what he usually practiced, and Ji Lone said that it was chanting scriptures and boxing. actually didn't cultivate the true yuan again, Zheng Yan could only think that this kid probably did these jobs a lot.
After a while, the little monk approached Zheng Yan and asked him to see the cement in the basket, Zheng Yan found that there was actually a one-foot-long loach, and then the two looked at each other and smiled, and after a while, they walked back with a basket full of cement, a basket of cement was at least more than 300 catties, Zheng Yan was not surprised by the strength of Jue Lone, but he was interested in the material of the basket, which was obviously an ordinary bamboo basket, was it a depiction of the formation or a spell?
Follow behind Jue Lin while talking and exploring the basket, before I can figure it out, I arrived at the brick kiln, a clearing, two small kilns and two huts, first hide the four loaches, and then spread the mud to the open space, Jue Lin said that it will be dried until it is dried, Zheng Yan looked at the weather, and I am afraid that it will not work if I want to dry these two baskets of mud for three or five days, I was going to leave tomorrow, I smiled and said that there is a good sun in the room, but it is about to enter winter, and I can prepare more if I can prepare more.
Jue Lin took out a basket of dried cement from a hut, extremely delicate, it is said that it was repeatedly kneaded and sifted with a fine sieve;
Zheng Yan sighed a little that the monks of this temple would live, and the next thing was to prepare firewood, there were prepared pine branches, but it was not enough, Jue Lin said that he was just going to prune the peach branches to prepare for the winter, so the two of them took scissors to the peach forest and began to work again, Jue Lin thought about how to grill fish for a while, how to steal seasoning from Senior Brother Juese,
I remember that Juechen said that the ginkgo forest next to it is the place where the monks of the Jingjie Temple passed away, and there are also a few relics pagodas in the peach forest, this little monk really dares to say.
Looking at the cheerful appearance of the little monk, Zheng Yan suddenly had some enlightenment, joy, is to extract the simplest satisfaction from the complicated life, and cultivation is to extract the most direct touch from the chaotic perception;
The premise is to see the performance and stick to the heart of the Dao.