Volume 13 Kenshin Chapter 21 Poverty and Happiness
The temple is actually a small temple, and its scale is smaller than the Dragon Temple when Wu Xie first arrived in Kumho County, and it is probably on the same level as the Three Mountains Temple outside Wujiaji Town.
Of course, the Sanshan Temple has long become a historical relic, and many young people who are curious about Jishihou will come here to see the traces of the immortal fighting method, although they can see, there is only a broken wall and a small temple built next to the ruins, and the wall of the small temple is a mural painted by Wu Xie with spells, which vividly reproduces the scene of the three people of the Royal Dragon Sect who broke the Sanshan Temple and hunted down the Sanshan Dao people.
Wujiaji is now quite prosperous, and the area has expanded a lot, but the area of Sanshanguan remains the same. This is what Wu Xie specially advised, not for anything else, just for a little nostalgia, and by the way, to leave some legends about the fairy fate to future generations.
Perhaps many years later, among the young people who come to visit, there will also be people who will rise to the heart of the Tao, which is another good story.
Compared with the Sanshan Temple, which only had a main hall, a wing room, and a firewood room, the Anshan Temple is slightly larger. Although there is only one main hall and only one firewood room, there are four side rooms, as well as a quiet room and a small square.
Not far from the temple, there is a small forest, and there is a row of simple wooden houses in the forest. Wu Xie saw someone practicing martial arts in the forest from afar, and he thought that they were the lay disciples of the Anqiao Temple.
Naturally, there are only monks living in the temple, a total of three people. Master of Doom, Master of the Sky and Master of the Carry.
Master Wataru is a great virtuous monk, because he was seriously injured in the battle of the stars, and is currently in retreat for most of the time, and the daily work of the temple is in charge of his junior disciple Master Wakukong.
Master Dukong is an acquaintance of Wu Jie, this monk who worshipped Jiang'an before becoming a monk is a master of martial arts, and in addition to practicing, his favorite thing is to make all kinds of instruments. However, he has no interest in weapons or anything, and is mainly interested in researching and making civilian and medical equipment.
Before Master Du Er retreated, he often came to Qingyang Mountain to find Jiang'an to drink tea and chat, and the two also designed some small things that were quite helpful to people's livelihood from time to time. For example, the three-stack box, which is very popular among healers, is their invention.
When Wu Xie had not yet entered the Qingyang Temple, he once studied medicine with Master Wataku and Master Jiang'an, and Master Wataku made the first microscope in this world with extraordinary skill, thus verifying the existence of bacteria.
Later, they integrated germs, epidemic prevention, and treatment and other times, and edited and published a book on old bacteria, the editor-in-chief of that book was Wu Jie, and Shogishi and Watsuku were co-authors. The book was an instant hit and soon spread throughout Kyushu, and even doctors in the Far West had to study the Kyushu script so that they could study this epoch-making work in the history of medicine.
Because of the bacteriological theory, Wu Jie, Jiang'an, and Dukong all gained a great merit. Among them, the editor-in-chief Wu Xie naturally obtained the most, and the microscope to verify the bacteriological theory also obtained a lot. As a Buddhist disciple, Dukong condensed into a golden body with this merit, and stepped from the early stage of refining to the realm of the late stage of refining in one fell swoop.
Such a great leap forward will naturally bring hidden dangers, so in the following decades, Dukong spent most of his time wandering, while doing good deeds and accumulating virtues, while slowly understanding. It took him almost forty years to travel almost all over Kyushu, leaving behind many legendary stories and fully stabilizing his realm.
If the situation allows, in fact, he still wants to continue to travel. But an accident caused Master Dukong to end his wandering and return to the Poor Temple.
His senior brother Master Du Er fought fiercely with Han De, the sect leader of the Demon Gate Beast Demon Sect, in the battle of picking stars, although the old monk who had no quarrel with the world was superb, but the skill of fighting and killing was a step behind, and he was defeated by Han De's extremely condensed beast king's battle qi, and returned seriously injured.
Of course, Han De didn't get any benefits, no matter how big his ability was, he couldn't change the disadvantage in the number of masters on both sides. After defeating Master Doo, before he could catch his breath, he was surrounded by the trio of Excalibur of the White Emperor Pavilion. The sword is crazy, the swordsmith Bai Qingyan, the sword idiot Fei Donglin, and the three masters who have returned the Dan and six turns to sacrifice the divine sword at the same time. If he hadn't taken the opportunity to immediately cast the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Dafa, he used his legs and one arm to turn into three blood rays of light to block the three divine swords, and he took the opportunity to flee, but he was afraid that he would fall on the spot immediately.
After returning from the Nine Heavens, Master Do'er began to retreat and heal. Naturally, he could no longer preside over the affairs of the temple during this retreat, so Master Wataku had to come back early and take on this responsibility.
"Huh? Didn't you say that there were three masters in the temple? Wu Xie listened to Jiang An's introduction and asked with some curiosity, "There is also a ferry master, can't he temporarily take over the work of the abbot?" ”
Shogan's face suddenly became ugly, it was the kind of person who seemed to have said something that shouldn't be said, and he was embarrassed but didn't know how to hide it.
Wu Xie sighed and didn't ask.
Everyone has their own secrets, and the masters of the Temple of Poor are no exception. He asked himself if he couldn't talk about deep friendship with the three masters, and of course he couldn't ask any further.
For Shogishi's visit, Master Wataru seemed very happy. He entertained this old friend very warmly, although he was limited to the precepts and could not entertain with big fish and meat, but he took out a lot of rare spiritual fruits.
"These things aren't ordinary, don't you keep them for alchemy?" Jiang An looked at a fruit as white as frost and snow, shaped like an apricot, and said with a smile, "This is the fruit of the snow epiphany, which can be reconciled and left the kan, if it is added at the time of alchemy, it can fuse the various elixirs that originally conflicted with medicinal properties I remember that there is one. The dragon and tiger adjust the pill, you need to use it as a medicine, isn't it a pity to eat it like this? ”
"Although the dragon and tiger temper the pill is good, it is not what we Buddhist disciples should pursue. Snow Epiphany bears fruit once every twenty years, and it is not necessarily particularly rare, and it is just right to entertain friends If it bears fruit once in hundreds of years, I am really reluctant. ”
Master Dukong's straightforwardness caused Jiang Jian and Wu Xie to laugh together.
After laughing and laughing, eating and eating, Jiang Kishi opened his mouth and got down to business. However, his tone was still very tight, and he didn't say a word about Wu Jie's origin, only that the real person in charge had something important, and he had to let Wu Xie meet Master Du'er face to face and explain it in person.
Wataku frowned and groaned.
After a while, he said, "Brother, you know the truth, since my senior brother retreated to recuperate from his injuries, our Anjian Temple has almost withdrawn from the rivers and lakes and closed its doors to visitors......
"With the prestige of the Master of Watara, there are some things that he must come forward with."
"But...... Let's tell you the truth, my senior brother is very seriously injured, and his golden body is already broken. Now he is just relying on many years of merit and underground spiritual veins to maintain a true yuan of penance, if he is lucky, he can survive and reshape the golden body, and he can live a little longer; If you're unlucky...... I'm afraid that sitting down is right in front of me. ”
Dukong's expression was a little depressed, and Wu Xie and Jiang'an were shocked by the news he broke and looked at each other blankly.
Things have turned out beyond their expectations
Although Master Dukong didn't say it explicitly, they all knew the meaning of Master Du'e at the moment of healing, and if he disturbed his retreat, they were afraid that he would fail to heal. And if the healing failed, this virtuous monk was afraid that he would sit on the spot
When he was in distress, a thick aroma suddenly came from the guest room, and in the aroma, an old voice said slowly: "Wu Jie, come to see me in the quiet room." ”
Wataku was shocked, jumped up regardless of his manners, and shouted, "Senior brother"
"Buddhist disciples, you have to hold one to do things. Edge, word. Now that the fate has arrived, even if you close your eyes and pretend not to see, what's the point?
Wataku hesitated for a moment, sighed deeply, and lowered his head.
"Obey the Abbot's Law"
Then, he took Wu Xie and Jiang An, walked through the small courtyard, passed through the simple but shrouded in warm Buddha light, and came to the quiet room at the back of the main hall.
This ashram is the only extravagant thing in the entire Poor Temple. Although it looks like an ordinary wooden house from the outside, the wood used is actually an extremely expensive thousand-year-old spirit wood, and it is refined by the secret method of Buddhism, and there are 13,600 Buddhist Dharma seals on each spirit wood, forming a complete set of mandala array. And all the spiritual trees are combined, but it is the Sumeru Mountain Array that Buddhism claims to be "within easy reach is the Great Thousand Worlds Realm".
This formation incorporates the spiritual veins of the earth below, which can not only avoid the destruction of the spiritual veins by the enemy, but also continuously nourish the spiritual veins. From the first generation of the presiding master of poverty more than 3,000 years ago to the present, after the blessing of generation after generation, the small spiritual vein under the temple that was originally very ordinary has grown into a large spiritual vein that is quite famous in the entire Kyushu world. Even the land that had taken hundreds of miles in a radius had gone from barren to fertile.
The effect of cultivating and healing in this wooden house is naturally beyond imagination, but even so, Master Doom's injuries have not improved.
Before coming to the wooden house, Wu Xie saw a young monk looking at him very unkindly.
This monk is extremely handsome, and has an indescribable charm aura, which is completely at the level of the calamity that makes women blush and scream, and makes men angry and roar, and assumes that men can also use this word.
Wu Xie had no doubt that if he was willing to smile, he would definitely be able to kill most of the women in the world.
But now, there was no smile on his face, but full of sadness and anger, a pair of peach blossom eyes were staring at Wu Xie deadly, and his eyes were almost bursting with flames.
Wu Xie believed that if his gaze could turn into a knife, he would definitely have been cut into meat sauce.
"Ferry, let him in." Master Doom's voice came, "Idiot, after so many years, haven't you woken up yet?" ”
It turned out that this outrageously handsome monk was the most of the three masters of Anqiao Temple, and when he saw him, Wu Xie understood why Master Dukong had to come back.
This ferrymaster's cultivation is not bad, and his cultivation in the middle stage of refining is enough to support a temple. But his appearance is really ...... Wu Xie thought about it again and again, and could only come to a conclusion that "it is not suitable to be a monk".
Hearing Master Du'er's words, Master Duche hesitated for a moment, but still walked to the side, so that Wu Xie could push the door in.
Wu Xie smiled apologetically at him, then slowly walked to the door, took a deep breath, and pushed open the door of the wooden house.
"Junior Wu Jie, meet the monk of Doom"