Kaifeng county soldiers blocked the gate of Shaolin Temple, piled up firewood and grass, and was about to set fire to the temple, when suddenly saw a monk trembling and climbing the ladder to the room, shouting from afar: "This temple Taoist Zen master, please keep and speak." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

The county keeper replied, either hurry up and open the temple gate and surrender, or prepare to destroy the temple with the temple, what else is there to say? The imperial court has issued an edict, and there is no room for you to bargain!

When the monk heard this, he shouted again: "In this case, please come close and surrender." ”

The county guard sat on his horse, surrounded by soldiers, and said, "I am here, so I can come and surrender, why do I need to come close?"

"The soldiers are on the side, the firewood is in front, the door cannot be opened, please retreat temporarily. ”

The county guard said that there was some truth in this, okay, then let the soldiers retreat half an arrow one after another, and see if the bald donkeys were faking their landing or trying to delay time - even if it was useless to delay time, would anyone else be able to save you?

The soldiers were ordered to retreat, and then the temple gate was quietly opened, and they saw a young monk, wearing Dharma robes, leading four or five monks in cloth clothes, slowly walking out. The county guard saw that this was not the abbot monk-"Who are you?"

The monk slowly approached a few steps and saluted: "I believe in my way, and I am too respectful for the first time." ”

"Why can't Seng Can?"

The Taoist monk, that is, Wei Wencheng, asked loudly: "Master Can's envoy asked me, why is it that Taishou is now vainly mobilizing troops, killing monks, and besieging the temple to accumulate salaries?"

The county guard said that you didn't ask knowingly - "The court has a decree to dismiss the Buddha and destroy the temple!"

"I didn't hear the edict, and I didn't dare to obey my orders. ”

The county guard said that you want to die, understand, well, I have done enough for you. Immediately he drew his will from his bosom and read it aloud. Wei Wencheng tilted his head slightly, listened attentively, and waited until the county guard finished reciting, then he smiled slightly: "I don't know why the imperial court ordered this mess?"

What does the county guard mean by "chaotic life"? The edict clearly reads: "The rule of the country is not in the floating map. Tang Yu has no Buddha and the country is safe, and Qi Liang has a temple and is lost. The Great Zhou Dynasty is lucky, and the transformation of Tang Yu is far away, and it is advisable to leave the end of Qi Liang's ......"

Wei Wencheng said with a smile: "The words of this Shu County Duke are also ......" I have heard of this, it was Wei Yuansong who said to the emperor - "However, the Son of Heaven wants to destroy my sect, not because of the loss of Qi Liang, but because of the Zuo Er of the Great Zhou." Now Jialan is full of prefectures and counties, floating slaughter all over the countryside, monks do not do farming and weaving, monasteries are widely based on acres of fields, then the national labor is scarce, taxes and benefits are less, such as insects eat the roots, and it will be abolished over time, so it is necessary to do the things that destroy the Buddha. ”

Wei Wencheng shook his head: "How dare we resist? However, the monks of the temple have not been engaged in cultivation and weaving for a long time, even if they are dismissed, they cannot make up households, such as my teacher, who is over sixty years old, even if he has a haircut, what good will it do to the country? Hu will not allow him to escape?"

The county guard nodded, and said that although the edict required all monks to be vulgar, it was really not a matter of letting go of a few old monks-after all, the monk was highly respected, and he didn't dare to offend too much-"That is, if you want to indulge the monk alone?"

Wei Wencheng said: "The seventeen old monks in the temple, please indulge in all of them; the classics of the sect, please allow them to take them; the building of Jialan is not easy, it can be collected as a county property, please do not destroy it." If you keep these three things, the temple will present the deeds, and the acres of mountains and forests will be dedicated to the state; ”

The county guard sneered and said that you have too many conditions, do you think that I don't dare to really burn the temple? In fact, he really doesn't dare too much, but it's just a gesture, but the monks don't push people too much.

Wei Wencheng said with a smile: "Taishou is to burn the temple, ruins, Hu Yi is in the county, that is, to burn the monks, scorched skin and bones, Hu Yi is in the country, the inheritance of Taoism, since because of its nature, people's hearts are born, there must be gods and spirits, so as to give birth to ears." I think that the act of destroying the Buddha will be difficult to last for a long time, and the seeds must be preserved, so that the Great Zhou will not be weaker than Qi and Chen. And because he is too scheming, he thinks that there is really no Buddha in the world, and he thinks that he has no retribution for creating karma?"

The county guard glared and said Do you dare to threaten me?!

Wei Wencheng said how dare he: "Even if I see the holy miracles of Buddhism too much, I know that although the edict cannot be violated, the punishment cannot be passed." ”

As he spoke, he reached out and pointed behind his back. The county guard took a closer look, and only then did he realize that the monks who had come out had already caged all the firewood piled up at the entrance of the temple in one place. He was in a daze, and he didn't understand what the monks wanted to do, so he saw Wei Wencheng turn around and take a step, and then went to the pyre, and then sat down.

"My fate in this world is over, that is, I should pass away, and let the Taishou see the holy miracles of Buddhism. ”

Before the county guard and the others could react, a monk stepped forward with tears in his eyes and lit the pyre with a torch. The county guard was still sneering, and said in his heart Do you think that self-immolation in front of me will allow me to dispel the idea of burning the temple, and let me wait?

Suddenly, in the flames, Wei Wencheng's body trembled slightly, and then a pale golden light was emitted around him, and then this golden light gathered at the top door, and with a "whoosh" sound, it soared into the sky, so frightened that several soldiers directly threw away the weapons in their hands, knelt down and worshiped devoutly - after all, many of them believed in Buddhism. The county guard himself almost turned over and fell from his horse, trembling and holding the saddle bridge, looking closely, only to see a golden light bathed in mid-air, and a statue of a Buddha appeared, holding a golden flower in his hand, and bowing his head slightly.

At this time, the county guard was completely stupid - although his faith was not pious, he had also believed in Buddhism in the past, upholding the traditional virtues of the Chinese, and had always believed in ghosts and gods, so he originally wanted to settle this incident peacefully. After all, the Shaolin Temple has a great cause and a strong reputation, if it really destroys the temple and burns the monks, I am afraid that the people in the county and even the big families will complain about themselves from now on, which will make it difficult to implement the decree. So don't look at this county guard's eyebrows and angry eyes, it seems that he won't back down a step, but in fact, it's just a gesture for the sake of talking about conditions.

Seeing that the vast majority of the soldiers had already knelt down, and the monks at the gate of the temple also knelt on the ground, and listened to the neat and loud sound of chanting coming from the Shaolin Temple, he couldn't help but tremble, and hurriedly rolled the saddle and dismounted, picked up his clothes and bowed down, and said: "Obey the Buddha's decree, please forgive me for my sorrows!"

The Buddha statue nodded again, and a voice sounded in the county guard's mind: "If you forgive a person's life, you should be blessed; After the words ended, even the golden light with the Buddha statue quietly disappeared. The county guard raised his head and looked at the pyre again, only to see that the flames were empty, and Wei Wencheng's body was no longer visible.

This really frightened the county guard, so he had to comply with Wei Wencheng's conditions and allow seventeen old monks, including Seng Can and Tan Lin, to leave the Shaolin Temple safely with a large number of scriptures. Shaolin Temple also dedicated the house deed and land deed, and the rest of the monks returned to their hometowns and went to the national household registration......

According to Wei Wencheng's instructions, Seng Can crossed south to the Chen Dynasty and went to Guangfu'an, where Wei Wencheng had stayed, to live in seclusion, and later moved to the nearby Sikong Mountain, where he was reborn in the tenth year of the Sui Dynasty, and was stationed in the valley temple in the north of the Xijiang River. Two years later, a fourteen-year-old novice came to seek the Dharma, and the monk looked at him as if he looked like Wei Wencheng, counted the days, and suspected that he was the reincarnation of Wei Wencheng, so he accepted him as a disciple and named him "Daoxin".

This Daoxin is the real four ancestors of Zen Buddhism, and the five ancestors Hongren are passed on, and Hongren is divided into Shenxiu and the sixth ancestor Huineng...... But this Zen sect has never returned to Shaolin Temple since.

Shaolin Temple was restored in the second year of the elephant six years later, and Emperor Jing of the Northern Zhou Dynasty changed its name to "Zhiyu Temple" - because the Zhiyu Temple in Chang'an City was under the nose of Yuwen Yong, it could not survive at all, and it had already been completely destroyed in the turmoil of destroying Buddhism. In the following year, Yang Jian usurped the Zhou Dynasty and established the Sui Dynasty, which restored the original name of Shaolin to the Zhiyu Temple......

Tan Lin first escaped back to Dinglin Temple in Bears Ears Mountain, immediately dismissed the monks, offered the property, and then fled south to Chen. He couldn't tell people that one of his arms was cut off by officers and soldiers, but he only said that he was robbed by Yunyou, so he was called the "armless forest".

Regardless of the future for the time being, Wei Wencheng pretended to sit in the fire, and showed his golden body, after shocking the Kaifeng County Guard, he followed the golden light, trampled on the void, and went straight to the White Mountain in the northeast - that is, the Changbai Mountain in the later generations. For more than one day, when he reached the top of the mountain, Qu Mofeng was waiting for him here, and when he met, he asked, "Is your dust fate over?"

Wei Wencheng bowed and saluted: "It's done." ”

He was wandering in the human soul before, and he followed Qu Mofeng to learn the Fa on the top of the mountain, and his progress was very fast. This is because Qu Mofeng's realm is relatively high-at least much stronger than those monks and Taoists in the mortal world--the Master is easy to produce high-level disciples; A few years later, seeing the Dao method of the Void Demon Lord's lineage, Wei Wencheng had almost learned it, and Qu Mofeng asked the other souls to return to their places and summon the rest of his souls and physical bodies.

By the way, he also said: "If there is nothing to do in the mortal world, it can be done." ”

In fact, the Void Demon Lord's faction is based on destroying the world, so why do they love the mortal world? But it is only a matter of minutes to destroy the mortal world—of course, this is their own judgment, and the false world system will not sit back and watch the destruction of the human world—but they must guard against the interference of the gods and Buddhas of the heavens. Gods and Buddhas were born because of mortal beliefs, and they also exist because of mortal beliefs, if the mortal world really perishes, then all the worlds will be on the verge of destruction. Therefore, the main energy of the demon lord is in the sky, and he can't care about mortal things for the time being.

After all, if you kill all the gods and Buddhas, then the mortal world will destroy itself.

The reason why Qu Mofeng wanted Wei Wencheng to become a mortal mortal fate is that only if he has no concern, the Taoism is easy to improve, and secondly, through daily contact, he found that Wei Wencheng still seems to have a love for the mortal world, and if he wants him to destroy the world, the psychological hurdle is not easy to overcome. Qu Mo sealed his heart and said that I was originally a mortal, and I can completely understand your thoughts......

But in fact, he thought about it, Wei Wen is not a person in this world, so why does he love this world? It's just that after all, he has been in the mortal world for so many years, and he has a lot of acquaintances, so he really can't make up his mind to take the initiative to attack mortals-just like facing an unintelligent NPC in a video game, as long as it involves the relevant plot, some people are reluctant to kill it, and they can save it. If he wants to fight the gods and Buddhas, he will not have any psychological burden, as for the gods and Buddhas are destroyed, there is no guarantee in the mortal world, after all, there is a layer of separation, even if he can think so far intellectually, he will not be emotionally burdened.

Therefore, Wei Wencheng returned to his soul, and finally helped Shaolin Temple, and then flew to Baishan with his body and soul. Qu Mofeng said to him: "Now my lord is preaching the Fa widely, or he will attack the immortal Buddha, you should cultivate carefully, and do not lose your good time." "It is said that the Void Demon Lord is quite powerful, and all the gods and Buddhas in the sky are not his opponents, but the problem is that the two fists are difficult to defeat the four hands after all, and there are thousands of cultivators of the Buddha and Dao families, and the Demon Lord alone can't beat it at all. So he had to temporarily hide in the world, secretly search for henchmen, and occasionally raid a few lone immortals, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas - for example, Shangcheng Gong, who was forced to reincarnate before......

Now that the Demon Lord's wings are getting fuller and fuller, and it seems that the Armageddon will begin soon, Qu Mofeng asked Wei Wencheng to step up his cultivation - the human soul that you cultivated before must now be cultivated together with the rest of the soul and the physical body, so as not to miss the opportunity to serve the Demon Lord.

Then he smiled and pointed at Wei Wencheng: "You can take off your clothes." "Change your dress, stop pretending to be a monk.

Wei Wencheng immediately took off his Pilu hat, and then moved as he wished, his hair swished out, and in an instant it was more than an inch long, combed it twice, and combed it into a part, and the robe on his body naturally faded, and the monk's robe became a Taoist robe.

In fact, the Void Demon Lord's faction does not have any special requirements for clothing, and in general, it is biased, that is because the Demon Lord is a Taoist priest before "understanding" - in fact, before being possessed by the power of nature, so he habitually grows his hair and cranes, if he was a monk in the past, maybe now he has to shave his head from top to bottom...... Wei Wencheng simply took advantage of this opportunity, his long hair was gone, and his bun was not tied, so he felt that his head was clean and refreshing, but it was indescribably happy.

Just "transformed", I suddenly heard a shout from afar: "Senior brother, save me!" Immediately, a black gas came straight to the top of the mountain, and when he arrived at the cover of Qumo, a human figure appeared, a Qing Jun scribe in his forties. Wei Wencheng looked at it fixedly, and recognized it, isn't this Uncle Shi?

It is said that the demon lord accepted a total of four big disciples - Wei Wencheng could have ranked fifth, but he was directly sent to the next generation - they were Qu Mofeng, Zhong Aihua, Cai Zhi and Louis. Wei Wencheng had only seen Qu Mofeng and Louis - he was still slandering at the time, is your name Chinese or French? Is it Louis XIV or the hapless sixteen - and now it is this Louis Louis Uncle who is coming.

Before Qu Mofeng could ask Louie what was going on, he saw a colorful glow appear in the sky, and then the four gods stepped into the air. I saw that these four gods were two men and two women, each with their own heads, wearing golden armor, holding a four-foot long sword, one by one twisting their eyebrows and angry eyes, extremely fierce.

I heard Louie gasp and say: "I am chasing and killing for Liuding Liujia, but I have no choice but to take refuge in my senior brother!"

When Wei Wencheng heard this, he couldn't help but be surprised.