Chapter 44: A Monk, a Conversation
Copper kettle, long sword, tin staff.
The three of them are like comrades who have been on the battlefield for a long time, they have the same heart, complement each other, and the power of their joint efforts is like the birth of a true god, and the evil spirits are all strangled by the three of them.
The copper kettle is closed, the long sword is put into the sheath, and the tin staff is light. The dark shadow gradually faded, and the scorching sun finally came to the fore, like a crescent moon. The dim earth gradually cleared, and the sun came to the world again, ending the nightmare.
The days are round, and the light is as bright as ever, but people's faces are whiter than the sun, and the blood red on the ground lingers, as if covered with a red veil. This short time as a dark day is so long in people's hearts. On this day, there must be a nightmare in everyone's nightmare, and I am afraid that I will not be able to forget it for the rest of my life.
Yun Feng raised his eyes and saw that there was a mess, people holding their wounds and wailing, mutilated corpses, in different postures, and people standing in the pile of corpses at a loss like walking corpses. The previous darkness hid the tragic image, but at this time, it was naked and public, and some people with poor psychological tolerance immediately vomited.
According to later statistics, nearly 1,000 people died in the Golden City alone on the day of the Requiem Festival.
"Brother......
"Brother......
A little girl, about eight or nine years old, walked blankly, calling out to her brother, but there was no response. She stumbled and tripped over corpses several times. Her eyes were large and beautiful, but they seemed to be covered with a layer of mist, and when she got up, she first groped for her cane on the ground, and she was supposed to be blind.
This scene made Yun Feng sad, he had not been able to save the uncle before, and he hated himself for not being able to do anything. For this little girl, blindness may not be so cruel as not to see such a miserable scene, and only pray that her brother will not be among the mountains of corpses.
"Squeak......
The destructive power of the evil spirits was now in full swing, and the streets were littered with rubble, and the buildings on both sides seemed to have been burned by war. There is only a corner of the sign of a liquor store left, and the supporting handle is crumbling and creaking.
A gust of wind blew, and the rod finally broke free from its restraints and fell straight down, and the little girl continued to walk forward, and was about to be smashed!
"Bang!"
It was impossible to take the little girl away, leaving Yun Feng with not many options, but he did not hesitate at all, and rushed forward with an arrow step, slamming into the rod that had just fallen, and with a muffled sound, the splint in his hand suddenly cracked.
The thick handle of the bowl finally shifted half an inch under this impact, grazing the little girl's shoulder and smashing it down. There was a puff of smoke and dust on the ground, and the little girl stood stunned, not knowing what was happening, and swept it with her cane, as if she understood something.
The survivors were so frightened that they scattered like a flock of frightened birds. By the time Yunfeng tried to look for her again, the girl had already disappeared.
"Xiao Nan, it's okay. On the street corner, the boy lovingly touched his sister to see if she was hurt.
"Brother, I'm fine. The girl smiled brightly, like sunshine.
This makes the teenager blame himself even more. He wanted to take his sister out today to feel the excitement, although she couldn't see it, but she could still hear, smell, touch, and describe those prosperous scenes to her.
As in the past.
In the chaos, he and his sister were accidentally scattered by the crowd, and the screams and falling lives around him made him fall into an ice cave, and he searched like crazy, so that his arm was torn apart when he was entangled with the evil spirit. If something happens to his sister, what courage does he have to live.
"No matter what the cost, I will heal your eyes. The boy swore in his heart.
He hated it but had to describe the world over and over again, although his sister said that it was already beautiful, but he knew her vision, and he was willing to give everything for this dream.
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On the snow peak, seven white-clothed teenagers stood quietly, the cold wind was biting, unmoved.
An old man stroked his white beard, wore a purple and gold crown, his eyebrows were as cold as snow, and looked at the seven people expectantly: "The evil spirit is in the world, there will be great disasters in the world, you and others are going down the mountain this time, it is really adhering to the responsibility of saving the world, finding out the source of evil obstacles, and you must not lose the face of the teacher." ”
"The disciple will definitely live up to the trust of the master!" The seven people are like snow on the mountain peak, white and cold.
The white-bearded old man waved his coat, and seven ancient long swords appeared in front of the seven people one by one, and the latter's cold face finally faded, and his eyes were like fire and blazing.
"Now I will pass on the Seven Swords to you, and I hope you will show their might. ”
"Obey the teacher's orders. The seven people bit their fingers, and the wind and snow wrapped the blood droplets, like red amber, hitting the sword body, and the flying swords rose into the air, entangled and competing with each other, and the sword reverberated to the top of the snow peak.
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There is no light in the stone room, but there is light of its own.
Several old men sat cross-legged on the stone bench, and their breaths were connected as one, as if they were one person. And this man, for the mountains, for the air, for the stone benches, and even for a spider, weaved a thick web on the head of an old man.
"Hoo ......"
Several people opened their eyes together, but they didn't see their lips move, but they heard a mixed sound echo: "The evil spirit has reappeared in the world, I am afraid that it will indicate the unknown, and you will get out of the customs in advance." ”
A shadow sat quietly in the center of the stone plate, and in the outer ring, a snake tail was faintly visible.
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The night sky twinkles, but instead of stars, it is a requiem lamp.
This was originally a prayer lamp used to soothe the spirits of the deceased. Tonight, I don't know how much more than in previous years, like a vast star, occupying the entire night sky.
"What a beautiful picture, but it's a pity that it's ......" Chen Ming didn't say any more, for those who lost their loved ones, the requiem lamp is probably the only support in their hearts.
Every orange lamp means that there was once a living life. Regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, the golden city is always prosperous, and it is silent tonight.
The residence is a little deserted, it seems that there are many people missing in one day, usually every time Yunfeng comes back, the second junior at the front desk will greet him, but this time he didn't see his figure, and for a while Yunfeng felt that there seemed to be something missing.
Yuan Yuan looked out the window, thoughtfully, a white crane passed through the lantern in the sky and stood on the windowsill.
Yuan Yuan untied the bamboo slip, spread out the note and said, "Granny Hua asked us to go back to the academy, and besides, Senior Brother has a task and will not come back for the time being." ”
There is no need to be clear, several people understand in their hearts that Zhu Zhiyong's task at this time may be related to the appearance of evil spirits.
In order to commemorate the victims of the Requiem Festival, the Black Gold List Qualifying Tournament was postponed for two months. In addition to the invasion of Shire by Yan Kingdom and the cancellation of three tournaments, this is the first time that the black and gold list has postponed the start.
"I'll go back to the Starfall Empire tomorrow. The room was a little depressed, and Chen Ming broke the silence first.
Except for Yun Feng, several others in Dongxu Academy were all from all over the mainland, and Chen Ming was from one of the three major empires, the Starfall Empire. This evil spirit rebellion has affected the entire Underworld Continent, and even if the three major empires are strong, they have not been spared.
"Me too. "Shen Jiuli's hometown is the Dongyi tribe, and it has some relationship with Yunfeng, because his Xuanbing carriage was built by Uncle Jing when he went to the Dongyi tribe.
"I always thought that evil spirits were just legends. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Shen Jiuli would have thought that the evil spirits were only in ancient books, and people had just fabricated them.
"Actually, evil spirits have always existed. ”
Across the desk, sat a young monk with a bronze tin staff beside him.
An ancient yellowed book was opened, and the evil spirit encountered today jumped on the paper, and Yun Feng recognized the annotation below as Sanskrit, and couldn't help but guess that the other party was from the temple of the Pusheng Dani country.
"Man has three souls: heaven, earth, and life, his heavenly soul is in the heavenly palace, the earth soul is in hell, and the soul of life is in his body. The age of the little monk is almost the same as that of Yunfeng, but he already has the air of a high-ranking monk, and his conversation is as smooth as autumn water: "After death, the seven spirits first dissipate, and finally the soul leaves, and then karma will be used as a reference for him to go to heaven or hell." In any case, the soul will not be able to disturb the human race after leaving the body, and the evil spirit will be sent to the hell of loneliness, suffering from loneliness. ”
This is the Buddhist interpretation of evil spirits, which is different from the folk saying, Yun Feng has seen it in Buddhist scriptures, and he asked: "If this is the case, why do evil spirits enter the world, or can they enter the world?"
According to Buddhism, since evil spirits have been sent to a lonely hell, they should not be able to escape, not to mention that hell is not on the same plane as the human world, so how can they enter the human world.
"Between the lonely hell and the human world, there is a passage of the dead that connects each other. The little monk said, "Now the situation is still unclear, whether it is a problem with the undead passage." If so, then the world is only afraid of endless disasters. ”
A heavy atmosphere spread in the room, and if the passage of the undead was loosened, it would definitely be a catastrophe of twilight, and if the strength of the cultivation world was gathered, it might not be able to defeat it. For the common people who have no cultivation, it is tantamount to a one-sided massacre, and the casualties will be ten million times more tragic than today.
"Have you heard of the catastrophe fifteen years ago?" said the little monk, very quietly.
Yunfeng has no memory of this. They are all fifteen or sixteen years old, fifteen years ago or not born, or just young and ignorant of unknown things, but looking at the little monk's expression, if there is really a catastrophe, it must be earth-shattering, and it should be recorded, but Yunfeng has never heard of it.
"You mean the opening of the undead passage that year?" Unlike Yun Feng, Yuan Yuan and the others seemed to have heard of this, and any of them had entered the cultivation world earlier than Yun Feng, and it was not surprising that they knew many secrets that Yun Feng had never heard of.
Although Yuan Yuan frolicked with Chen Ming and Shen Jiuli on weekdays, he always gave people a sense of being confident and unhurried, and it was rare to get serious when talking about this matter at this time: "I have also heard some rumors, it is rumored that there was a gap in the channel of the undead, evil spirits surged, and the cultivation world worked together to suppress it, comparable to the battle of the ancient demon gods, I don't know how many peerless powerhouses fell, and the gap was sealed." ”
The room fell silent again. Yun Feng felt that he was an ignorant rookie, he thought that he had read a lot of books, but he found that many things were not in the books, especially the cultivation of things. Reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles, it seems that many things can only be experienced by yourself.
"Send you. Just as the clouds were in a trance, the monk handed him a Buddhist bead.
"Why?" Yun Feng didn't understand, the few people present should count him as the lowest and most inconspicuous, but why he gave the Buddha beads to himself.
"No, it's just that I gave it to the little girl today. The little monk said, and the reason seemed simple and sufficient.
Yunfeng looked at the Buddha beads in front of him, the texture was clear, moist and simple.
"Thank you. Yunfeng took the Buddha beads, and there was a warmth. Although a Buddha bead is not precious, but as the saying goes, there must be a demon when things go wrong, and it is his own will to save the little girl, and he does not seek any return, but since the other party is from that temple, the Buddha beads may be useful in the future, don't do it in vain.
"Yun Ji. Yun Feng found that he had been chatting for so long, and he didn't know the other party's name.
"Heart slave. The monk said.
"Chen Ming. ”
"Shen Jiuli. ”
"I know you. Yuan Yuan just wanted to report to his family, but Xinnu said first.
"My master said that there are not many people who can give up. The heart slave looked approvingly, his clothes were very old, with many patches, but they were clean and tidy, "I'm not talking about the kind of thing that you don't need, but the kind of courage that gives up what you are most precious and what you are best at for the sake of your heart's desire." ”
At first, when he heard that the other party knew him, Yuan Yuan was stunned, if someone else said this, he would definitely have to snort in front of Chen Ming and the others, but after listening to Xinnu's words, he just smiled and said: "Thanks to the compliment, this is not a realm, it's just a child's original vision." ”
Xinnu was not satisfied with this answer, and said: "Actually, what you are pursuing is my Buddha Dao, why don't you enter my door?"
With the light of today's heart slave tin staff, Yuan Yuan has already guessed his identity, and there are not many cultivators in the world who are looking forward to stepping into that temple gate, so Yuan Yuan understands how rare it is to be invited by the other party, but from the beginning, he decided to go his own way: "Buddhism's cloud 'all laws are one', if you have compassion, where is it not a Pudu creature, you say yes?"
"What Master said is indeed true. The heart slave was ashamed and said, "Everything is fate, but I haven't realized it yet." ”
The conversation between the two fell in Yun Feng's heart, feeling like a master's discussion of Zen, enlightening and ignorant. Xinnu knew the name of Yuan Yuan also surprised Yun Feng, he knew that Dongxu Academy was all extraordinary, but after all, Xinnu was from that temple, how many people in the Netherworld could make him pay attention?
Following.
Chen Ming and Shen Jiuli each returned to their hometowns, and Xinnu said goodbye, only Yunfeng and Yuan Yuan returned to the academy.
They walked quickly, and in less than two hours they reached the green mountain maple tree. The figure flashed, and then disappeared.
The two of them didn't see that long before they took a step, a lively girl had entered the academy. If Yunfeng sees it, maybe it may not fall off the cliff, because this girl is the woman who "looked at Mei to quench his thirst" that day.