Chapter XXII, Tasks and Blood,

Songjia Village, Xining Township, Baima County, Qingzhou, Liangguo. On this morning, the wind and the sun were beautiful, Gu Jianping said goodbye to the teaching talent Jing Keshou, and walked in the direction of the White Horse Temple.

After a few days of recuperation, Gu Jianping also recovered almost completely, and he also knew that the gang of thieves who killed his predecessor and those merchants had been arrested and sentenced by the government. Gu Jianping did not return the silver taels obtained from the merchant's corpse to their families, although this would inevitably bear the cause and effect, but he had his own arrangements to calculate it.

From the memory of the monk's remnant soul in his mind, Gu Jianping understood the identity of his body, first of all, the name of the Buddhist family is Mingde, and he is the apprentice of the elder Yuantong monk of Qingyan Temple in Qingyan County, Anzhou, and this time he came here to the White Horse Temple to borrow a Buddhist scripture scroll back.

According to the history of this world, Buddhism came from the west, and it was two white-clothed monks who preached all the way with a white horse carrying scriptures, and the white horse and the white-clothed monk first appeared in the place where it was renamed Baima County later.

Buddhism started from this place, gradually spread to the Central Plains, and finally took Songshan as the main altar, and although the White Horse Temple was the starting place, but because of the local avoidance, inconvenient transportation, and various problems such as economic population, it gradually declined, and then experienced many disasters, the temple was destroyed, and many original scriptures disappeared.

However, as the saying goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and although the White Horse Temple has declined, it has much more scriptures than the Qingyan Temple where Gu Jianping is located, which was later newly built.

By sorting out his memories and finding out the news, in addition to the identity task, Gu Jianping also learned more about the cultivation of this world, first of all, this world has different cultivation systems, exercises, and cultivators with extraordinary powers, but on the surface, their power level is very low, and secondly, the cultivation resources in this world are very scarce, of course, relatively speaking, there are few demons and monsters, and the common people are safer.

Speaking of the practice system, according to memory and rumors in the market, it is mainly divided into Taoism, martial artists, Confucianists, Buddhism, and witch shamans.

Among them, Buddhism is the most familiar to Gu Jianping and is also practicing, monks, Toutuo, Wukong, wisdom, King Kong, crossing difficulties, and crossing misfortunes, these are seven great realms, each of which is divided into threefold. At this moment, Gu Jianping, a monk of Mingde, is a monk.

From the age of eight to enlightenment, ten years of practice to the triple of Sangha, it seems that there is not much progress, but in fact, in this time when the cultivation resources are scarce, it is already good, even the most powerful geniuses in the Songshan Leiyin Temple of the main altar of Buddhism are only the head of the two, Gu Jianping's master Yuantong monk is also only the head of the three, and in this realm has not made progress for twenty years.

It was precisely like this, Gu Jianping knew that because of the lack of cultivation resources and the aura of heaven and earth, the most powerful cultivator in this world was nothing more than the Zhang Tianshi of the Daomen, which was equivalent to the Vajra realm of the Buddhist Sect.

While walking, Gu Jianping thought about the Buddhist cultivation methods in this world, and compared them with the Buddhist scriptures seen in the heavens and all worlds.

The Buddhism exercises in this world are complicated, but the realm is seven, step by step is more difficult than one step, starting from the monks, first of all, the thousands of volumes of scriptures are the monks must memorize this realm, and when the scriptures are memorized, you can have some of your own insights and comprehension, and you can cultivate the unique Buddha light and power of Buddhism

The beginning of this realm is not only the recitation of scriptures and the cultivation of the spiritual realm, but also the physical cultivation is carried out at the same time, and it is precisely because of this that Buddhist practitioners in this realm will begin to travel the world and undergo the tempering of the body and mind.

Wukong realm: Wukong, that is, the four are empty for the influence of Buddhism, and sometimes can experience one or two of the Heavenly Dao Buddhism, the mana is transcendent, feasible empty and cloudy, and the perception of all things is natural.

Realm of Wisdom: "The Four Great Ones Are All Empty, All Are Illusory" Buddhist cultivators who have reached this realm can transcend all things, transcend all dharmas, transcend their own bodies, and achieve emptiness and inaction, which can be described as great wisdom.

Vajra realm: Vajra, the protector of Buddhism, this also shows that he is a high-level Buddhist cultivator in this realm. Self-cultivation is not only powerful, but also can protect the Buddhism and Dharma, cultivate to the highest level of this realm, the Dharma is hidden in the heart, the natural mana is boundless, and the sea of law is endless. When you cast your power, you should have the foundation of all things,

Crossing the realm of difficulty: All the laws are natural, and there should be difficulties in the heart, but if this realm is forced by the demons in the heart, and those who cannot be enlightened will be difficult to correct.

Crossing the realm of misfortune: the way of heaven and nature. The way of Buddhism is the way of heaven in front of us. Buddhism, Taoism, and Heavenly Dao are integrated into one, and the body is the Tao.

The White Horse Temple is only sixty miles away from the previous village, and it stands to reason that it can be reached before the afternoon, but first, the mountain road is rugged, and secondly, the terrain is not familiar with Gu Jianping's first visit. It took me most of the day to get here before the sun went down.

Standing outside the temple gate, looking at the closed temple gate and the silent environment, Gu Jianping felt an abnormal aura, the former Buddhist gate holy land was not only full of decay at this moment, but also faintly mixed with the smell of killing and blood.

Monks in this world will cultivate supernatural powers, and fighting is a common thing, so it is common sense for low-level Buddhist cultivators to carry a blade with them, at this moment, Gu Jianping is holding a short knife that can be hidden in his boots, first climbed to a nearby tall tree to observe for a while, and found that there was no blood stain in the huge temple, not to mention people, even a corpse, and he was full of doubts in his heart.

The closer he got to the temple, the stronger the smell of evil qi and blood, Gu Jianping had a guess in his heart, as a monk who was swollen in the temple, he naturally knew that the place in the temple was usually both secret and able to hide many people.

After some searching, Gu Jianping finally found the special hiding place of the White Horse Temple, and before he could push open the hidden iron door, a bloody aura as thick as a substance came to his face.

What's the situation, Gu Jianping was taken aback and jumped back, only to see a bloody hand stretched out from the pile of corpses in front of him.

After a moment of calmness, Gu Jianping helped the owner of the bloody hand up, and then let him sit and rest for a while, the white-haired old monk completely sobered up, he opened his mouth, and did not make a sound for a long time, Gu Jianping patted his head and said with self-blame

"Oh, I'm sorry, Master, I'm going to get some water. “

After losing too much blood and being in a coma for a long time, under such a dry mouth, he naturally opened his mouth and couldn't make a sound, Gu Jianping found a kettle from the few remaining rooms in the temple that were still intact, and hurriedly fed the old monk.

"Master, I am Monk Mingde, the apprentice of Elder Yuantong of Qingyan Temple, and I want to ask what is going on here. Seeing that the old monk woke up, he quickly asked

I saw that the old monk sighed, took out a thin ring from his mouth, and handed it to Gu Jianping with great preciousness

"I know your intention, this is the Sumeru ring, which is the treasure of all the scriptures and exercises of my White Horse Temple, you managed to bring it to the main altar of Songshan Buddhism and handed it over to the empty abbot. There is one more thing, you come over and I will tell you in detail. ”

Seeing the old monk looking so kind and weak, Gu Jianping did not doubt him, and approached, by the way, he wanted to support the old monk who was sitting on an unstable stool.

That's when the mutation happened.