After a while, Master Hong came back to his senses and looked at Yifeng and Benqian.

Ben Qian was still holding Yifeng's hand at this time, and when she saw Master Hong's eyes that seemed to be smiling, she blushed and quickly let go.

Master Lihong smiled kindly: "Yifeng, Senior Brother Abbot is waiting for you, go to the Abbot's Courtyard of Chaofo Peak!"

After he finished speaking, he looked at Ben Qian and smiled.

Ben Qian whispered a word of disgust, lowered her head and ran back to the Erran Disciple's Courtyard.

Yifeng said: "Uncle Hong, are you here to call me?"

Master Lihong walked up to him, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "I'll go with you." I had been staying in the Abbot's Courtyard last night, but today my most important and last disciple is going down the mountain. I'll come back to see him off. ”

The two of them walked as they talked, and Yifeng frowned and asked, "Is there almost no one in Lingxiu Peak now, and even your disciples have already left?"

Master Lihong still smiled faintly, nodded and said: "Everyone has their own ambitions, and when they come, they gather, and when they end, they disperse." If they have a relationship with the Buddha, they will return to the Buddha path one day. What's the matter if you're not here?"

The two walked towards the Buddha Peak, and the road was quiet, and the bustling avenue in the past was now gone.

On both sides of the avenue, countless courtyards, and hundreds of shrines are deserted, occasionally see one or two monks holding brooms, unhurriedly sweeping the stone steps of the courtyard, even more empty and lonely temple.

Yifeng wrinkled his brows, looking at all the scenes in his eyes, and couldn't help but be a little disheartened.

In the past, there were 100,000 monks and hundreds of thousands of pilgrims and believers every day, and the huge temple was full of people, but now there are only one or two sweeping monks.

The vitality and heritage of Nanzong Temple seemed to be drained overnight, turning into a bloated, large, useless and stiff shell, like a pile of rocks lying stiff in the barren mountains and mountains.

Yifeng asked, "Uncle Hong, how many people are left in Nanzong Temple now?"

Master Lihong said: "Yesterday, there were still 5,000 monks left, and when they acted with the monk corps at the Du'e Bridge, hundreds of them were killed and wounded. After seeing the methods of Taiqingmen, nearly three thousand escaped overnight, and now there are only one or two thousand monks left, and there are only five or six elders left.

"There are still two thousand monks, and the elder of the law suggested that the monks should be directly transferred into the temple to guard, in case of accidents, and now these monks are staying in various places on the main peak, and practicing exercises in the square in front of the Daxiong Treasure Hall during the day. ”

Yifeng thought for a while and said, "Those key places in the temple, such as the secret realm and the magic circle in the direction of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, are the monks guarding still there?"

Master Lihong said: "They are all still there, they are all selected from the best disciples of the Spirit Peak, they guard the Buddhist monks in the most important place of Nanzong Temple, needless to say, the belief in cultivating Buddha is much firmer than ordinary people." ”

Yifeng nodded and said: "That's good, if you want to say that the most important place in Nanzong Temple is the Scripture Pavilion and the Secret Realm, as long as these two places are not lost, Nanzong Temple will have the opportunity to rise at any time." ”

Master Lihong agreed, and said: "Indeed, the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion of Nanzong Temple can be said to be the largest storage place for Buddhist scriptures and exercises and supernatural secrets in addition to Beizong Temple. In these Buddhist scriptures, there is a vast world of Buddhism. With these things, the root of the Buddha path is there. ”

Yifeng nodded and said, "Master Ran once gave me a lecture on the Fa and mentioned this. The foundation of a religion lies not in people, but in the doctrinal scriptures. They are the most important vehicle for countless religious ancestors to comprehend and perfect the teachings for thousands of years.

"Doctrinal ideas cannot remain in the minds of people forever, but must have a medium to record and disseminate them, so that they can be widely known, interpreted, understood, and accepted.

"No matter how important a person is, he can't recite all the Dharma on his own, but books and scriptures can. ”

Master Lihong nodded: "Therefore, Confucianism has the saying of 'continuing to learn for the sake of the saints', Buddhism and Taoism use this to 'promote the wonderful law', and Taoism also has peerless classics such as "Yi" and "Tao Te Ching", and the Yin and Yang Five Planetary Techniques and so on come from this.

"Everything has to do with books and classics. It can be said that books and classics are the lifeblood of a religion. ”

Master Liao Hong sighed: "Fortunately, Emperor Wu has not ordered the burning of Buddhist scriptures, otherwise it would be a fundamental erasure of Buddhism." The death of the Buddhist monks, as well as the latecomers, the destruction of the Buddhist scriptures, could not be rebuilt after thousands of years. ”

As he spoke, he came to the abbot's house.

The abbot's courtyard is also quiet, the monks who originally came to guard the courtyard gate have long disappeared, and no one even cares about the courtyard gate, the courtyard door is wide open, and people can enter and exit at will.

Yifeng and Master Ryo Hong seemed to feel the same way, shook their heads together, and walked into the abbot's courtyard.

As soon as he entered the courtyard gate, Yifeng immediately felt that there were still a pair of eyes staring at him, but at this time, he was no longer the little monk who shyly followed behind his senior brothers and sisters.

With his current cultivation, he can hard-catch the strength of the top powerhouse of the Taiqing realm, such as the Taiqing Sect Ancestor Yantian Master, and he can already stand out in the second realm of the cultivation world.

Yifeng quickly ran the exercises, poured mana into his eyes, searched quickly, and immediately saw a divine beast in the corner of the abbot's courtyard, his whole body was fiery red, and the texture on his body was the same as that of the Lingyun Beast in the Hidden Scripture Pavilion.

It is now hidden in an invisible corner of the courtyard, and it seems to be like a spirit cloud beast, and it also has mysterious magical powers.

When Ichikaze saw it, it seemed to sense Ichikaze's gaze as well, and instantly became vigilant, roaring in that corner.

Its voice was thick and majestic, two puffs of crimson smoke erupted from its two nostrils with red gold stripes, and three giant eyes glowed with golden light, staring at the wind tightly.

Yifeng had seen so many divine beasts and beasts, and even Senior Brother Fire Monkey was a star beast, so he didn't care at this time, smiled, and walked towards the meditation room where the abbot saw them at the beginning.

Master Lihong looked at Yifeng with admiration, as far as he knew, this golden cloud beast guarded the abbot's courtyard and the Chaofo Peak, and ordinary people basically couldn't see it.

However, it can keenly sense whether all the people who come to the Buddha Peak have bad intentions, and it is very spiritual.

But in the same way, it is also very hot-tempered, and if anyone sees it, it will definitely be attacked by it, but it is so strange that many people cannot see it.

Therefore, there are only a few people who can see it when they come to the Buddha Peak, and they are all familiar people, so they have been safe for so many years, only the last time the fire monkey came, it was too risky, so it caused the wrath of the Golden Cloud Beast.

Now Yifeng saw the Golden Cloud Beast with his body supernatural powers, but it didn't attack angrily, which was really a rare thing.

Perhaps, it also has a hunch that this young monk in front of him will be the most important person in Nanzong Temple in the future!

Master Abbot heard the roar of the Golden Cloud Beast, and hurriedly walked out of the door, only to see that it was Yifeng and Master Hong, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

Elder Lifa and several elders who didn't know each other behind him also breathed a sigh of relief, and it seemed that they were nervous, as if they were discussing something important.

Master Abbot said: "It turned out to be you, and now there is a golden cloud beast guarding the gate of Buddha Peak, I thought someone would offend." It didn't attack you, did it?"

Yifeng smiled, "I saw it, it was whirring there, but it didn't attack us." ”

Master Abbot looked at it and said, "It's good if you don't attack, its strength is not lower than that of Elder Fa, if it attacks you, it will be a mess." ”

Yifeng looked at Elder Fa, who was obviously dissatisfied with Master Abbot's statement, but he couldn't say it, his face was displeased, and his aggrieved appearance was quite funny.

Master Abbot said: "Then let's talk about it first, it's important to discuss things." ”

Master Lihong asked, "Senior Brother Abbot, is there any new news?"

Master Abbot nodded, and said with a serious face: "Although the eyeliner we scattered in the Nanzong Temple within a radius of a hundred miles has been almost destroyed by the Yunzhou Legion, there are still people who have sent back the news.

"As Zhan Yanzhang said, the commander of the Junzhou Zuo Yulin Army, Ba Dunhou, led an army of 100,000 into Yunzhou, and the goal was the Buddhist uprising in all parts of Yunzhou.

"According to reliable sources, the Marquis of Badun divided 50,000 troops to Lu Tiesheng to suppress the rebellion of the victims and the Buddhist uprising, and he led 50,000 Yulin troops to Nanzong Temple, I am afraid that Zhan Yanzhang will also be with him at that time. ”

Master Hong, who had always been calm, couldn't help frowning: "What are they doing here? Our Nanzong Temple has completely complied with Emperor Wu's Golden Dragon Order, even with the addition of monks, there are only four or five thousand monks in the whole temple now. The courtyards and temples in the temple are more than human, and they have not been completed like this, what do they want to do?"

Master Abbot's face darkened: "Because Martial Emperor Wei Yu has issued three golden dragon orders again!"

"What?!"

Ichikaze and Master Hiroshi exclaimed at the same time.