Through the ringing of the bell of the whole temple of Nanzong Temple, the cultivation disciples of the whole temple, except for those who have important affairs, all rushed to the front of the Daxiong Treasure Hall as quickly as possible.

In front of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, there are warrior monks who maintain order have already prepared, and the pilgrim donors in the hall are invited out of the hall, and many pilgrim donors who want to come to the incense to pay tribute are led to other places.

When Yifeng and the others arrived, there was already a bustling crowd in the Daxiong Treasure Hall, and at a glance, I was afraid that there were thousands of people. The cultivation disciples on the Spiritual Cultivation Peak were all arranged in the order of the Seven Great Elders' Houses, and they were in the center.

If it is a cultivator who has been assigned to other peaks of Lingyun Mountain to perform tasks or be responsible for daily affairs, they will stand on both sides with the mountain peaks as the difference.

The five Buddhas in the Daxiong Treasure Hall are as immovable as a mountain, the vast golden body shows that the Dharma is boundless, and there is a temporary row of low wooden platforms in front of the central Da Ri Rulai, paved with a red carpet.

The abbot master, master Zhiran, Lifa, and Elder Liyu that Yifeng knew all stood on the stage with solemn expressions.

In addition, there are also the elders of the four major classes such as the first seat in the temple, the eight deacons and elders such as the superintendent, the Zhike, the monk, and the Vena, and so on.

Breathing and breathing, Yifeng found that the cultivation of these elders was amazingly profound, not only shocking the disciples, but also showing the profound heritage of Nanzong Temple.

There is also a kind old monk next to Master Abbot, presumably it is Master Hong, who is respected by Benxuan's master, and when Yifeng stays on him for a moment, he also looks at Yifeng intentionally or unintentionally.

Because among the seven elders' houses, only the Erran Courtyard has the smallest number of people, and with the Honchang monk, there are only five people, but there is a large area for them in the Daxiong Treasure Hall, and the Honjo monk leads Yifeng and others to stand over.

To the right of the wind is Master Hong's Hongguang Temple, and the one standing at the front is, of course, this Xuan.

At this time, he was also like his master, looking at Yifeng and the others from time to time, his eyes were warm and his demeanor was solemn, but Yifeng always felt that his gaze fell more on Xiugu.

To the left of Yifeng is the Fa Xiang Academy, standing at the head of the Fa Xiang Academy's disciple team is the Ben Yuan monk, at this moment he does not dare to wear a big red robe, but the sleeves and necklines of the silver and white monk's robe are embroidered with golden swastikas, and the golden hanging beads and dark green prayer beads are also very eye-catching, but the Ben Yuan monk didn't care, seeing Yifeng and the others enter the queue, he pouted and sneered at them.

Lined up to the left are the disciples of the other Elders' Houses, and Yuxiu Yuan is on the far left of the Seven Elders' Houses.

Monk Benchang has obviously been accustomed to all kinds of eyes next to him, and the small number of people in the courtyard has long been known to everyone, and when various ceremonies were held before, he was basically the only one, and today there are four junior brothers and sisters behind him, which is already good!

Thinking of this, the monk subconsciously smiled innocently.

The peaks of each academy began to count the number of people, and there should be some people who did not arrive, and the disciples took the opportunity to whisper under the stage.

The fire monkey couldn't bear it anymore, and asked Monk Benchang softly: "We have too few people in the courtyard, Senior Brother Benchang, how did you survive before?"

Monk Benchang smiled and said, "Before, when every ceremony needed to be carried out by a disciple representative, I was the chosen one, and there was no one else!

The fire monkey pursed his lips and whispered "phew".

Senior Brother Ben Chang didn't care, he paused, and sighed happily: "But it's different now, Senior Brother has you!"

He looked at the four junior brothers and sisters behind him with a smile in his eyes, and the fire monkey shook his body with disgust: "Oh, senior brother Benchang, you are normal, my goosebumps are going to fall to the ground!"

After a while, the fire monkey asked again: "I always thought that Nanzong Temple was so big, claiming to have 100,000 monks, how can I say that there are at least 10,000 cultivation disciples, how can it seem that there are only 1,000 people now?"

Yifeng and Xiugu Shuli also looked at Monk Benchang when they heard this, and it seemed that they were also curious.

Monk Benchang shook his head and said, "You really think about the cultivation world too simply. ”

As soon as he said this, they suddenly became curious. They had more or less heard of the essence of Nanzong Temple before, but they had gone to too few places, and they knew very little about the cultivation world of the entire Great Martial Kingdom, what was the cultivation world like?

Ben Chang saw their curiosity, thought for a moment, sorted out his thoughts, and said:

"All cultivators must meet certain qualifications, and like Buddhism, they need to open up two spaces, and give birth to wisdom roots, and only when the heaven and earth aura absorbed by the cultivation of the exercises nourishes the body, can there be an ultimate goal and a destination. The quality of Huigen's qualifications directly determines the future of Buddhist practitioners. Confucianism and Taoism will also have corresponding cultivation thresholds. ”

"But no matter what kind of cultivation threshold you have, it's not something that mortals can reach. Cultivators with natural qualifications are originally not one in a hundred or even one in a thousand, so in this way, among the 100,000 monks in Nanzong Temple, there are already more than a thousand cultivation disciples. ”

Fire Monkey, Yifeng and the others nodded, but Senior Brother Ben Chang continued: "There are far more than that, there are many causes and effects that are beyond the reach of human power.

"For example, there are some people who are born with cultivation qualifications, but they are born ordinary and drown in the mediocrity of the mundane world all their lives, and they have qualifications but do not know it, and they have no opportunity to come into contact with cultivation; there are some cultivators who will die in various struggles and wars, and there are many cultivators who cannot escape birth, old age, sickness and death, and so on.

"Counting all kinds of causes and effects, there are very few people who can really embark on the path of cultivation, and it is not a lie to say that it is one in a thousand. To really count it, among the 100,000 monks in Nanzong Temple, a hundred cultivators are considered good.

"The people who can stand in this Daxiong Treasure Hall are at least the most elite disciples of Nanzong Temple, and they are even rarer, but there are still thousands of them, we are already very lucky!"

Yifeng and the others were all fascinated by it, and Xiu Gu asked curiously, "Can cultivators also get sick, isn't it a long lifespan?"

Monk Benchang sighed and said, "Of course, ordinary cultivators can't escape the great cause and effect of birth, old age, sickness and death. If a cultivator does not cultivate properly and goes astray, he will not only get sick, but he will even die.

"As for Shouyuan, until one has cultivated to reach the third realm of cultivators, such as the Mahayana realm of Buddhism, there will be no essential change in the number of longevity.

"No matter how well the body cultivates, if it can't break through the bottleneck of the third realm, the body will slowly age, and even if you cultivate the exercises to nourish the body, you can't resist this aging of the body. The body will slowly not be able to absorb the aura of heaven and earth, and people will also come to an end, and at most they will not live for more than two hundred years. This is the Great Avenue of Heaven and Earth. ”

Yifeng sighed with emotion in his heart, he had always thought that even if a cultivator would not live forever, it should be easy to live for five or six hundred years, but he didn't expect that the cultivator would still be like a mortal after all, slowly dying out.

The Great Dao of Heaven and Earth was so cruel and ruthless and tenacious, with his current vision, he couldn't imagine how the Meditation and Silence Gong would destroy the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, or even rebuild the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.

The person who created this exercise is worthy of being a Buddha, and if he goes against the sky like this, the faster he will cultivate, but the annihilation and annihilation will inevitably be faster!

The fire monkey asked, "Is that if you cultivate to the third realm, you can live forever?"

Monk Benchang shook his head and said solemnly: "Unless you become a saint and ascend to immortality and become a Buddha, you can't truly achieve eternal life." Generally, it is very difficult for a person in this realm to reach the age of 300.

"Even the last two realms of the Mahayana realm of my Buddha's path: the realm of the Buddha and the realm of the Buddha, can only achieve immortality of the soul, and it is difficult to retain the physical body, so there is no real immortality.

"The people who can cultivate to this realm are all truly chosen people, they are the top of the pagoda of the cultivation realm, and countless cultivators are out of reach!"

Monk Ben Chang's tone changed, and he smiled and said, "After all, this matter is still too far away from you, so don't worry too much." Speaking of the cultivators who returned to Nanzong Temple, after so many complicated factors were screened, did they feel that there were already a lot of cultivators in Nanzong Temple now?"

Yifeng and the senior brothers couldn't help but nod.

Ben Chang continued: "Actually, it's more than that. The elders who came today are only a small part of them, if you add the large number of elders of Nanzong Temple, as well as the monks who hold important positions and can't get out, such as the monks guarding the Stele Forest Peak, the Red Luo Tiangang Array outside the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, the Zen Leaf Lock Autumn Array, and the Dharma Protector monks who can see and see the invisible array, plus the monks who travel out, there are at least thousands of people. ”

He sighed with emotion: "Two thousand cultivators, what a profound and powerful foundation this Nanzong Temple has! This temple's disciple academy is already very strict in accepting apprentices, even if the innate cultivation qualifications are already very difficult, but the spiritual cultivation peak disciple academy has unwritten rules, and those with poor qualifications will generally not accept them.

"Because every disciple will spend a huge amount of cultivation resources to cultivate, another layer will be screened and removed. The two thousand cultivators of Nanzong Temple can be said to be one in a hundred among the already very rare cultivators!"

Yifeng nodded violently, and only now did he really feel the strength of Nanzong Temple more deeply through the courtyards of the five peaks of Lingyun Mountain of Nanzong Temple and the glorious appearance of all living beings.

At the end, Monk Benchang seemed to whisper to himself: "It is precisely because of this that Senior Brother I will be looked down upon by the junior brothers and sisters of the other disciples' institutes, I am okay if I am bullied, but Senior Brother, I am ashamed of my master and you." ”

Yifeng, Xiugu, Fire Monkey and Shuli suddenly shook their heads violently.