The Dharma Cave is far away from the Shaolin Temple, and of course it is not called the Dharma Cave at this time. It's hard to find a cave like this in a mountain with similar views. If it weren't for Shi Xin's previous life to visit the Shaolin Temple, it would have been really difficult.

After climbing the mountain for a while, I finally reached my destination.

Dharma Cave is a cave more than two zhang deep, from a distance, the black and swarthy cave mouth is abruptly embedded in the mountain, very strange.

"Haven't you been here before, how can you be so familiar with the terrain here?"

Zhou Tai didn't have this suspicion at first, but he saw that Shi Xin looked up from time to time to identify the direction, and when he was sure, he buried his head in the mountains and forests and ran forward, as if there was a familiar mountain road under his feet leading him forward. Zhou Tai couldn't help but be curious, and finally asked.

Shi Xin walked with him to the Dharma Cave and laughed to hide his embarrassment, "How have you ever been here, as Youping said, I was attracted by the Buddha nature of the cave." ”

Zhou Tai was shocked, "The master's degree of study of the Dharma is really amazing, why do we need to find Master Puci again, just let the lord personally guide me." ”

Suddenly, I heard a Buddha call in front of me: "Amitabha, is what Sect Master Shi said true?"

An old figure of the dragon bell walked out of the Dharma Cave, although the footsteps of the walking were faltering, but they suddenly came to Shi Xin and Zhou Tai, staring at the two of them with cloudy eyes and smiling.

With sparse and curly white hair, hooked nose and deep eyes, who is it not the old monk Puci?

The three of them hadn't seen each other for two years, and they were very happy, and Shi Xin and Zhou Tana bowed their heads.

"Master don't come unharmed, Shi Xin (Zhou Tai) is polite!"

"Unharmed, unharmed!" Pu Ci helped the two of them up, and as soon as his hand touched Shi Xin, his body suddenly shook, and he asked in surprise, "Sect Master Shi has already risen to the middle of the ninth rank, how can he be so fast?" and then turned to Zhou Tai, "You have also reached the peak of the eighth rank." ”

Shi Xin and Zhou Tai nodded, and by the way, they made their intentions clear.

"Please guide the maze!"

Zhou Taigang stood up and bowed to Puci again.

Puci has always admired and loved Zhou Tai from the bottom of his heart, and it is more of a responsibility to Shi Xin.

Emperor Liu Hong respected him as a generation of senior monks during his lifetime, and has always been good friends with him, providing a lot of convenience for the development of White Horse Temple in Luoyang. Therefore, under Liu Hong's kind invitation, Pu Ci injected two different body true qi into Shi Xin before the crossing. From the day he was injected, he knew clearly that it would be difficult to separate from Shi Xin in the future, as long as something happened to him, there would be no reason.

Later, in the chaos in the palace, Shi Ziyi's family was slaughtered, and Puci also inquired about Shi Xin's whereabouts through multiple channels. It's just that the sneak attack came too suddenly, and Shi Wei took Shi Xin all the way to the north secretly, avoiding the eyes and ears of the imperial court, and also avoiding Puci, who only learned the truth from Zhang Rang's mouth later.

Originally, according to Puci's temperament, he really hated this kind of interest relationship between himself and Liu Hong, but as the presiding officer of the White Horse Temple at that time, he had to use the power of the imperial court to develop Buddhism. For this reason, he did not show too much liking for Shi Xin, who was born as a "big prince", more out of responsibility.

Puci's nature is tranquil, no desires, no desires, and his greatest preference in life is to study Buddhism, so he is most close to Zhou Tai, which is related to his faithful and pure, sincere and honest character, and because Zhou Tai has a "Buddha fate".

Regarding Zhou Tai's "Buddha fate", he has his own set of standards for judgment, and others cannot know. But Zhou Tai did get many benefits from him. At present, the most profound internal and external skills, as well as the talent "Demon Circle", are all derived from Buddhism, and they are all related to universal compassion.

Hearing that Zhou Tai wanted to use Buddhism as an opportunity to ascend to the ninth rank, Puci's cloudy eyes lit up, and he said with joy: "Master Zhou really has the wisdom of Buddhism, and he actually thought of starting from Buddhism and breaking through the limit. Not bad, not bad!"

Shi Xin said secretly: Obviously I came up with it, but this old man couldn't help but put it on Zhou Tai......

It's just that he won't say these words, so he only smiled and said, "Then bother the master and help Zhou Tai think of a way." ”

"Well, come with me. After saying that, he turned around and entered the Dharma Cave.

Shi Xin deliberately asked as he walked, "Master, what is the name of this cave, and why did you choose this place as a place of retreat?"

Pu Ci didn't look back, and said lightly: "Didn't you just say that you were attracted by the Buddha nature in the cave? ”

Shi Xin sneered: "The younger generation is just quick to talk for a while, with my cultivation, how can I have the ability to comprehend the Buddha nature here?"

Pu Ci suddenly stopped, turned his head and looked at Shi Xin curiously: "It's rare for Sect Master Shi to be so humble...... However, there is no need to be presumptuous, judging from the talent you have shown, there is a wisdom that is beyond the times. Even if your Dharma is not profound, you have enough mental height to understand the more advanced Dharma. "The Seven Realms

Shi Xin's heart pounded when he was stared at by Puci's burning gaze, and he didn't know what he meant by "wisdom beyond the times".

Could it be that this old man has noticed something unusual? Suspect that I am from time travel? How is it possible, unless he also came from time travel.

Shi Xin suddenly had an idea, why not use Tianyantong to see the talent attributes of the old monk Puci?

At a glance, a reminder came from the divine sense: "I'm sorry, with the current level of your Tianyantong, you can't view the target's information yet." ”

Shi smiled hard, knowing that his cultivation was high, but he was so high that he was ten rank.

He suddenly remembered that in addition to Pu Ci, there were two other tenth-rank pulse masters he knew: Yu Zhenzi and Zuo Ci. It is not difficult to imagine that Zhang Daoling and Yu Ji must have reached the tenth level, which means that there are at least five people in the world who are better than him.

"There is really a sky outside the sky, and there are people outside the people. I don't know if Nanhua Lao Xian is still alive? He is the master of Zhang Daoling and others, and compared to him, he is even more nothing. ”

Thinking of this, Shi Xin suddenly felt that there was a long way to go in his cultivation, and his attitude towards Puci became humble. Of course, Puci will not be a person who crosses over, in fact, this is very easy to distinguish, just look at his usual style of doing things.

The three of them entered the Dharma Cave, and the further they walked in, the cooler it became. This coolness is different from ordinary caves, and at the same time, it exudes a calming temperament, and even if someone with a distraught mind comes in, the mood will become calm.

Shi Xin even thought that if he ascended to the leyline in the Dharma Cave, would he even have a lower infestation of demons? If this was the case, Zhou Tai would be in the right place.

The layout in the Dharma Cave couldn't be simpler, just a bed and a bowl of water. The bare walls of the cave did not even have torches, and were lit only by the faint light coming from the entrance of the cave.

After entering the Dharma Cave, Puci became silent, went straight to the bed, sat facing the wall, still did not say a word, and then bent his legs, made the Mida seal with both hands, looked down with his eyes, and his five hearts turned to the sky, and gradually entered a state of concentration.

Shi Xin's heart froze, "Facing the wall?"

He had to think of the legend of "Bodhidharma Facing the Wall". The Zen patriarch Bodhidharma of later generations faced the wall in this cave for nine years, and it was passed down as a beautiful talk.

In later generations, someone did a similar experiment, called the Black Room Confinement Experiment. Shut a normal person in a secluded and closed room and let him live alone. At first, of course, nothing will happen, but after a while people will talk to themselves. After an hour or two, I get tired of talking to myself and lie down to rest. Because the environment is so quiet, I can't sleep and I will be cranky. Immediately after that, the person will gradually become agitated, will yell and even break down, crying loudly. In the end, I lost myself and had illusions, and few people could withstand four days.

It is conceivable how much perseverance and wisdom it takes to face the wall for nine years like this.

The experiment I just mentioned was at least free to move around the room, but there were very few places where Dharma could move around except for the normal movement of his hands and feet in the cave, as well as the necessary physiological activities.

Looking at Puci's appearance, he has been facing the wall here for a while, and with his ability to endure his temperament, even if he has no achievements, he is already very admirable.

The two didn't know what Puci was planning, so they looked at each other and sat down in the same way. There was a quiet and peaceful atmosphere in the air, and there was no embarrassment in the room of three sober living people.

After a long while, Shi Xin noticed an imperceptible change in Puci's breathing, and his mind moved slightly, and he couldn't help but open his eyes to check.

"Sect Master Shi, are you waking up so soon?" Puci's old voice suddenly came.

As soon as he said this, Shi Xin couldn't help but look at Zhou Tai next to him. His face was calm, his breath was long, and he didn't even move his eyelids. Puci's words didn't even wake him up.

"Sect Master Shi, you are very smart and can learn everything quickly. But learning the Dharma doesn't require wisdom, it just depends on whether you have the root of wisdom and the Buddha's affinity. ”

Since he couldn't wake up Zhou Tai, Shi Xin simply spoke: "Master, I don't agree with what you said. As the saying goes, if we only pay attention to the root of wisdom and the Buddha's affinity, it is equivalent to rejecting some people from the door and not giving us the opportunity to comprehend the wonderful sound of the Dharma. ”

Pu Ci smiled softly, "Sect Master Shi has misunderstood, my Buddha naturally hopes that more people will participate in the Dharma." But when do you ask yourself, do you really believe in the Dharma? Do you ever really comprehend the Dharma with your heart, except when you think only about big things? From the Diamond Sutra to the Arhat Mind, when did you not come for the purpose of increasing your cultivation? What you don't know is that this is a bit of putting the cart before the horse. You must know that the inner strength and the Dharma complement each other, and if you only have the purpose of increasing your cultivation, you will never be able to reach the double limit of the Dharma and your cultivation. ”

Shi Xin was speechless for a moment. He really hadn't thought about it yet, but if someone had asked him before, do you believe in the Dharma? But since he crossed over to this world, became a pulse master, and saw Nuwa and the Ghost King with his own eyes, he had to believe that there were really gods in this other world.

Since there are Chinese gods, it is not completely impossible for Tianzhu to have a full heaven of gods and Buddhas. This provides a factual basis for the Dharma.

I only heard Pu Ci continue: "Zhou Tai is different from you. From the first time he came into contact with the Diamond Sutra, he was in awe of the Dharma, and he believed in the Dharma from the bottom of his heart. "Believe" is the beginning of understanding all academics, you can't even "believe", how profound can you talk about?"

Puci's words were like a slap in the head, and Shi Xin was stunned.